While we were all watching coverage of Queen Elizabeth II’s death, the Ukrainian army was taking back towns occupied by Russian troops. Here is a taste of Anne Applebaum’s recent piece at The Atlantic: But even though the fighting may […]
Russian invasion of Ukraine (2022)
18 members of the House of Representatives vote against Finland and Sweden joining NATO
Finland and Sweden want protection against Vladimir Putin’s Russia. As we have seen in Ukraine, Putin has expansion on his mind and both Scandinavian nations border Russia. When a NATO nation is invaded, all of the other NATO nations are […]
Archivists are hard at work trying to save Ukraine’s digital history
Here is Ally Markovich at “Berkeleyside”: When Russia launched its war on Ukraine six weeks ago, a frenzied attempt to save the country’s cultural heritage from destruction began: Religious artifacts were moved underground to secret bunkers in Ukrainian cities. But […]
Genocide
Here is Eugene Finkel of Johns Hopkins University: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, visibly shaken by evidence of the Russian military’s atrocities against Ukrainian citizens in the recently liberated suburbs of Kyiv, on Sunday condemned the slaughter as genocide. The Biden administration has […]
Charlie Kirk is not the only one creating watchlists and encouraging students to record their teachers. Putin is also doing it.
Charlie Kirk and his gang at Turning Point USA are not the only ones encouraging students to record teachers and create watchlists of unpatriotic educators . So is Vladimir Putin and his Russian henchmen. Here is Jeanne Whalen at The […]
Pope Francis expresses solidarity with the people of Ukraine
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The GOP anti-Ukraine caucus
There members of the Congress who love Russia. Here is William Saletan at The Bulwark: After years of defending a pro-Putin American president and dismissing Russia’s interference in American elections, Republicans have returned to their old shtick: accusing Democrats of […]
Rod Dreher says that America has “few champions” like Viktor Orban, but Florida governor Ron DeSantis gives him “hope”
We covered this yesterday, but Dreher continues to drool all over of the pro-Putin/anti-Zelensky Hungarian president. Here is a taste of his post: “Viktor Organ or Joe Biden?: We cultural conservatives in America have very few champions like Orban. Maybe […]
Even the devil can quote scripture
Shakespeare was right in the “The Merchant of Venice.” In a Hitler-like rally in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, the site of the 2018 World Cup final, Russian president Vladimir Putin told a gathered crowd of reportedly 200,000 (according to Moscow Police) […]
Debunking the Ukrainian biolabs myth promoted by Charlie Kirk and Eric Metaxas
Watch Metaxas and Kirk talk about the potential of Ukrainian biolabs that might be creating bioweapons and coronaviruses. This is how fear-mongering works. Kirk says that he can’t be sure about such biolabs, but that does not stop him from […]
I guess this is one way of opposing Putin
From the city of Plano, TX: Thanks to Shane Claiborne for posting this on Twitter.
More books to help us understand the Russia-Ukraine war
Harvard University Press offers seven: Stanislav Aseyev, In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas Volodymyr Rafeyenko, Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love Serhii Plokhy, The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present Yuri Kostenko, Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History Karel C. […]
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to Congress
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Report: Russian government tells its media to puff Tucker Carlson
David Corn of the progressive magazine Mother Jones is reporting that the Russian government has urged media outlets in the country to feature clips of Tucker Carlson. Here is Corn: On March 3, as Russian military forces bombed Ukrainian cities […]
Christian leaders write an open letter to Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill
The letter, was initiated by Jim Wallis of Georgetown University’s Center on Faith and Justice, asks the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to “use your voice and profound influence to call for an end to the hostilities and war […]
Andrew Sullivan on the post-liberal Right’s Putin problem
Earlier this week at Current I wrote about the conservative nationalists who love Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and (to a lesser extent to be sure) Russian president Vladimir Putin. These critics of American liberalism are in a tough spot these […]
What is happening these days on Russian TV?
A lot of pro-Putin propaganda. Olga Khazan is watching so we don’t have to. Here is a taste of her recent piece at The Atlantic: To get a sense of what Russians are told about the war, I fired up […]
Madison Cawthorn calls Zelensky a “thug” and the Ukrainian government “incredibly evil” and “woke”
The North Carolina congressmen is playing the “Ukraine is woke” card. Watch: I wrote this morning about the “two things can be true at the same time” approach that many Americans, including conservative commentator Rod Dreher, is taking toward the […]
Nikki Haley’s “foolish, self-serving, and pernicious” comments about the Putin invasion of Ukraine
In case you missed it, former South Carolina governor and Trump U.N. Secretary Nikki Haley is tweeting and talking. In this video she seems like she is running for president against Biden: In an interview with Chuck Todd on Meet […]
What scares Putin the most?
Here is John Nichols at The Nation: A courageous anti-war movement has developed in Russia, filling the streets of cities across the country with demonstrations against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. OVD-Info, an independent media project on […]