An email from the UN’s global communications department, reported that employees have been told to refer to the fighting as a “conflict” or “military offensive.”

By: Seth Cropsey – wsj.com – March 9, 2022 The Russian invasion of Ukraine has inaugurated a new era of political competition but not a new cold war. The American people and their leaders need to prepare for a new kind of geopolitical competition—more intense, more dangerous and more aggressive than anything since World War II. Bismarck, Metternich and Louis XIV’s world...

CIA Director William Burns says Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has fallen far short of Vladimir Putin’s expectations. Burns now predicts weeks of “ugly” fighting for control of Ukraine’s cities.  

For more than 40 years, the environmentalist movement has been warning that global warming is the result of mankind’s burning of fossil fuels and poses an “existential threat” to human life.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – March 6, 2022 American politicians are suddenly scrambling to ban the U.S. purchase of Russian oil, and the Biden Administration seems likely to go along. Too bad this is a largely symbolic gesture that ducks the main issue: whether to sanction all Russian energy exports. Oil and gas revenue makes up about half...

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.