"Why don't we just give Ukraine everything there is to give? For two reasons," he said. "One: There is an entire alliance that is critical to stay with Ukraine, and the idea that we would give Ukraine material that is fundamentally different than is already going there would have a ...
Byline: Joe RILEYWITH every waking minute blighted by blather and posturing about Ukraine, what, we might ask, has happened to far more disturbing coverage from Syria? Apart from some UN table-thumping, it has simply fallen off the chart to make way for the latest political spat.This ...
Ukraine, known as the breadbasket of Europe, was one of the most populous and powerful republics in the former USSR as well as an agricultural engine until it declared independence in 1991, according to theCouncil on Foreign Relations.
Washington, D.C.— Today, U.S. Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) voted against the supplemental funding package that would provide foreign aid to Ukraine, Israel, Palestine, and Taiwan due to the unprecedented spending levels and the bill’s failure to secure our own borders. Senator Barrasso vo...
Maybe we should go to the first of these lessons that we are going to examine. So let me just read you an abbreviated version of what Stoltenberg said was the first lesson is, he said, we have to be willing to pay the price for peace. The more money, the ...
1. Russia Is Escalating the War in Ukraine Trump already faces the prospect of breaking one of his biggest campaign promises, having repeatedly pledged to end that war “before I even become president." Over the summer he saidhe’d do it “in 24 hours,”presumably by declaring a cease-fir...
is an opportunity to do that. Obviously, the situation is stalemated at the strategic level, and the Ukrainians are making some tactical gains. Let's get all in to help them do that. Obviously, the greatest deterrence from Russia ever attacking a NATO country is their defeat in Ukraine. ...
Other pressures have affected prices too, with the cost of dry goods rising sharply in 2022 due to post-Covid supply pressures and the war in Ukraine, along with increasingly expensive energy – which Van Aal said was 2.5 times higher at Lanson this year – and increasing staff salaries, we...
In the two years of semi-occupation and warfare, public libraries in Ukraine have established themselves as actors in state defense. Among the first institutions to reopen after the war began, libraries continue to operate despite a shortage of funds and
but there’s more: Even if member states give their blessing to the scheme being discussed by G7 countries, a requirement to unanimously renew sanctions every six months would give any government in the bloc a chance to halt the scheme, with potentially ugly consequences for Ukraine and western...