Oh, for the good old days of the Soviet Union. America’s foreign policy and goals were clear then: containment and opposition to communist expansion. Nuclear weapons were a deterrent, but […]
Tag: ukraine
Blocking Africans at the Ukraine border is wrong
by Leonard Greene Racism knows no boundaries. If you think bigotry would take a break amid a brutal war with a bully, think again. Because with as much worldwide sympathy […]
Sunflowers for Ukraine: The global fight for democracy
Tucked inside today’s paper, you will find a poster: A field of sunflowers in front of Ukraine’s flag with the words “Let freedom ring” written in the Cyrillic alphabet. This […]
We are all witnesses
by Steven Roberts “Many are calling Russia’s invasion of Ukraine the TikTok war,” reports CNN. New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman announces, “Welcome to World War Wired – the first […]
‘Slava Ukraini’: Morgantown’s Ukrainian community to hold candlelight vigil while war at home burns
Slava Ukraini. “Glory to Ukraine,” in English. For more than 100 years, the above has served as both a battlefield call to arms, and an everyday greeting, for a country […]
Why is Belarus helping Russia invade Ukraine? An explainer on the conflict
by Trudy Rubin On Monday, Russian and Ukrainian delegations met for talks on Ukraine’s border with Belarus — one sign of how Vladimir Putin has swallowed the country of Belarus […]
Does Ukraine have the courage to be a country worth fighting for?
This was going to be a song of praise. Instead, it will be a groan of frustration. In other words, it was going to be a column heralding the titanic […]
Failing to understand evil: Then and now
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the sovereign nation of Ukraine under several pretexts reminds me of Adolf Hitler’s rationale for invading and annexing Sudetenland in 1938 and his invasion […]
Trump’s adulation for Putin gone too far
by LZ Granderson I enjoy reading books about former presidents. One of my favorites is 2012’s “The Presidents Club” by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy. It’s a peek into the […]
We can win this Cold War, too
by Jay Ambrose Some years ago, when I was editor of a now-defunct newspaper in El Paso, Texas, my wife and I bought a house with a deteriorated, spider-filled, filthy, […]
