North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned that Russia was covertly working to undermine European and U.S. fossil fuel production.

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – March 3, 2022 During the First World War, the British public took to booing dachshunds in the street — or so I was told as a boy. I always thought this was probably untrue, but I am now beginning to wonder. In the last 48 hours, I have read that “the International...

While the long-promised ‘swift and severe’ sanctions from the U.S. and its allies took a while to arrive, they are battering the Russian economy.

By: Therese Shaheen – nationalreview.com – February  27, 2022 In Beijing, the two leaders stood together, in a show of diplomacy and convenience, against a common superpower foe. There are many unresolved issues between them, but it seems clear there is enough shared interest in holding the third power in check that the meeting was worth the risks. This may describe...

The casual speculation about Vladimir Putin’s mental state has become more serious.

By: Mark Antonio Wright – nationalreview.com – February 24, 2022 The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has begun. The Ukrainians appear to be fighting hard in the east of their country near Kharkiv, a city of more than a million people, where the bulk of the Ukrainian army and its best units have so far slowed a Russian mechanized advance from...

By: Mark Antonio Wright – nationalreview.com – February 24, 2022 The Russian war of aggression against Ukraine has begun. The Ukrainians appear to be fighting hard in the east of their country near Kharkiv, a city of more than a million people, where the bulk of the Ukrainian army and its best units have so far slowed a Russian mechanized advance from...

By Dr. Jim Denison – denisonforum.org/daily-article – February 24, 2022 Russian forces invaded Ukraine by land, air, and sea overnight in the largest attack by one nation against another in Europe since World War II.

In The Daily Article for February 23, 2022, Dr. Jim Denison considers why Russia seeks to invade Ukraine and Vladimir Putin’s “endgame.”

For those trying to keep up with fast-moving events in Ukraine, it may be helpful to consider some lessons of history.