A round of applause for U.S. President Joe Biden: he has just touched down in Ukraine in a show of support for a nation that has truly suffered like no other in the 21st century.

The whole reason why the Mainstream Media and allied accounts on social media are overdosing on this cheap “copium” is because they know very well that tougher days are ahead for their side considering NATO’s military-industrial crisis, the sanctions’ failure, and Russia’s likely capture of Artyomovsk/“Bakhmut”. Kiev’s supporters urgently need a proverbial shot in the arm to keep their morale alive amidst the series of impending setbacks that are poised to afflict the Golden Billion’s proxies in the coming future.

The three nuclear powers in NATO have different views on how to address the war in Ukraine.

Anti-war advocates from left and right converged at the Lincoln Memorial Sunday to protest the “war machine.” Watch

Outcry Across the Political Spectrum To Stop War Funding.

In every city in Russia and Ukraine there are monuments to past wars and the millions who were sacrificed to the ambitions of leaders who chose to realize their objectives with guns, bombs, and bayonets. With brutal battles raging now in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s meaningless war against Ukraine, many of those monuments in Russian towns and cities have borne silent witness to opposition to the war and its attendant atrocities. In a country where open defiance of the government has become dangerous, people protest with flowers placed stealthily at the feet of Taras Shevchenko or Nikolai Gogol. The so-called “flower protests” are testimony that there exists, and has always existed, another Russia in opposition to official Russia.

Matthew Dal Santo’s ‘Russia, Ukraine, and the West’s Empire of Secularization’ appears in the winter issue of Telos journal (Winter 2022, no. 201). What follows below are excerpts from the much longer article. Dal Santo has set himself an ambitious task, that of explaining, in light of the process of secularization, the philosophical meaning and ’higher causality’ of the conflict between Russia and the West taking place today in Ukraine. The resulting analysis has produced a particularly valuable philosophical reflection on the present war.

Kyiv calls for fighter jets after Germany agrees to allow the deployment of Leopard 2 tanks.

The liberal method of transposing its values to foreign policy has hit the buffers, despite Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s Sisyphusian demands

In Kherson, battle-hardened troops are prepared for the worst