When Russia attacked Ukraine, “experts” said the country would fall within days. It hasn’t. One reason is that the Russian military wasn’t as effective as people thought. Another is that Ukrainians surprised the world by courageously defending their country.  

This week, First Liberty filed a federal lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order on behalf of several Air Force service members, who were being punished because they requested a legal, religious accommodation to the military vaccine mandate.

Vladimir Putin has warned he will use nuclear weapons against the West if anyone interferes in Ukraine.

War crimes, plain and simple. And horrific. Read it, if you can bear it.

Independent reporter Kassy Dillon traveled to Ukraine earlier this month to see firsthand the impact of the Russia-Ukraine war that has displaced millions and sparked a flood of refugees into western Europe.

Get ready for Putin’s Great Purge of 2022. It won’t be as fierce as Stalin’s in 1937 when 680,000 were executed, 116,000 sent to the gulag, and thousands committed suicide.

By: Jerry Hendrix – nationalreview.com – March 17, 2022 How to correct decades of strategically unserious underspending For 30 years the United States has been fundamentally unserious about its national-security strategy, which was predicated on the assumptions that it had entered Immanuel Kant’s era of “perpetual peace,” that the nation was the lone superpower, and that it would remain so...

By: Kevin D. Williams – nationalreview.com – March 20, 2022 The lesson of the hour: Unfree societies are weak. The allure of strongman nationalist government — Vladimir Putin’s Russia, Xi Jinping’s China, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary, the America that Donald Trump and his acolytes dream of — has always been the promise of power. You can take the word of the...

We should not rehash the past but learn from it — and thereby ensure Putin is defeated now and deterred in the future.

By: Kevin D. Williamson – nationalreview.com – March 11, 2022 About the war in Ukraine: Is the United States a belligerent? The Russians think so. Kremlin spokesreptile Dmitry Peskov says that the United States “definitely has declared economic war against Russia” and promises that the Russian response will be . . . something. We should assume that in this if nothing else the...