By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 24, 2025 The land of the free votes with Russia on a Ukraine war resolution. The United Nations is no great moral arbiter of anything, but at least the United States has tried over the years to have that group of nations recognize the truth about bad actors. That wasn’t the case...

There’s moral equivalence, and then there’s a total moral inversion.

JD Vance, who defended free speech last week in Europe, is the kind of vice president Americans deserve.

By: Dominic Green – wsj.com – February 17, 2025 He confronts a governing class that has abandoned the values America and the Continent share. In Munich, a historic byword for appeasement, Mr. Vance issued a call to arms. The most worrisome threat to Europe, he said, isn’t from Russia or China. It is “the threat from within.” Really, this is a...

By: Catherine Porter and Steven Erianger – nytimes.com – February 17, 2025 The hastily called gathering was part of a flurry of diplomacy expected to center on Ukraine this week as Trump officials prepare to start talks with Russia on their own. The leaders of many of Europe’s biggest countries came to Paris on Monday in an effort to forge...

Herzog tells Fox News US president’s proposal to relocate Gazans is a ‘new idea’ that could cause ‘real change,’ but urges wishes of Egypt, Jordan, other Arab nations be respected Source: Incoming US envoy Huckabee says Trump to bring Mideast change of ‘biblical proportions’ | The Times of Israel

Whether you love or hate what is being said, if you don’t believe in their right to say it you are a totalitarian. Counter speech you dislike with facts, but don’t try to suppress it.

At the Munich Security Conference, J.D. Vance delivered a bold speech challenging European elites on democracy, censorship, and election integrity, defending free speech and citizen rights.

By: The Editorial Board – wsj.com – February 16, 2025 The allies receive bracing, if not always helpful, warnings from the U.S. Start with the Ukraine war. This is the largest military conflict on European soil since 1945, and the Continent’s leaders recognize the stakes for their security. But Mr. Trump’s message is that the U.S. doesn’t care what Europeans...

Hysteria has erupted here and abroad over President Donald Trump’s threats to level trade tariffs against particular countries. Both American and foreign critics blasted them variously as either counterproductive and suicidal or unfair, imperialistic, and xenophobic. Certainly, tariffs are widely hated by doctrinaire economists. They complain that tariffs burden consumers with higher prices to protect weak domestic industries that, shielded...