Analysis
Thursday, June 23rd 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Andrew E. Kramer and Jason Horowitz NY Times, May 29, 2022 “It was not clear if they were prepared for the Ukrainian counterattack.” Ukrainian soldiers, seeking to spread Russian forces thin, launched a counteroffensive on Sunday in Kherson, the key southern city that Moscow considered so securely under its thumb that it had introduced the […]
Tuesday, June 21st 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Melanie Phillips Israel Today, June 17, 2022 “So does this mean the EU is now changing its attitude to Israel?” People dining this week on the charming terrace at Jerusalem’s King David Hotel were surprised to find at the next table Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission. Given the EU’s long-standing hostility towards […]
Samy Adghimi Washington Post, June 20, 2022 “Le Pen’s promise to reverse a decline in living standards and boost wages found a receptive audience in deprived provincial areas during the presidential campaign.” Only once has France had a far-right government — in the dark days of Nazi occupation during World War II. That lingering association […]
Alexander Brotman Geopolitical Monitor, June 15, 2022 “As is the case with all of Russia’s hybrid warfare and disinformation campaigns, Moscow doesn’t have to offer a valid alternative to the EU, it just has to show that the EU is too cumbersome and unruly to be worth the effort.” As most of the world has […]
Joseph Berger NY Times, June 7, 2022 “Describing the separations in her testimony recounted in the Queens College exhibition, Ms. Geulen spoke of how hard it was “to tear a child away from his mother and not tell her where we were taking him, and to have her cry and cry, ‘Tell me at least, […]
Monday, June 20th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Owen Greene The Conversation, May 26, 2022 “The 2014 Russian annexation of Crimea and intervention in the eastern Donbas region of Ukraine confirmed that Russia no longer accepted previous agreed national boundaries.” Sweden’s application to join Nato in May marks a major shift away from its longstanding position as a neutral state, stretching back to 1812. Yet […]
Robbie Gramer Foreign Policy, June 7, 2022 “The risk of escalation still remains, so it’s prudent for NATO planners to be thinking about what a potential conflict between NATO and Russia could look like.” During his decade and a half at the Pentagon, Christopher Skaluba read countless reports and assessments on the Russian military and […]
Vazha Tavberidze RFE/RL, May 26, 2022 “… now the Baltic Sea will practically become a lake [belonging to] NATO. Russia has a couple of 100 kilometers of shoreline in the Baltic Sea, which is 98 percent surrounded by NATO countries. So Russia’s ability to have any military operations there will be practically zero.” After decades […]
Adam O’Neal WSJ, June 12, 2022 “In late November, or early December, we heard Russians also saying that NATO must not or should not take any more new members. Well, that led to an odd situation.” Finnish President Sauli Niinistö called Vladimir Putin on May 14 to let him know that Finland was applying to join the […]
Friday, June 17th 2022 / Saturday, July 23rd 2022
Ilya Shapiro WSJ, June 6, 2022 “The freedom to speak is no freedom at all if it makes an exception for speech someone finds offensive or counter to some nebulous conception of equity.” After a four-month investigation into a tweet, the Georgetown University Law Center reinstated me last Thursday. But after full consideration of the report I […]
Andrew Lapin and Caleb Guedes-Reed JTA, June 10, 2022 “Bollinger also frequently acted on any perceived anti-Israel activity among Columbia students and faculty, and among universities in general.” The presidents of Harvard and Columbia have both announced plans to step down after the next academic year, part of a larger sea change in elite higher […]
Solveig Lucia Gold Common Sense with Bari Weiss, May 26, 2022 “The head of Joshua’s department condemned Joshua’s words in an email to the entire Princeton Classics community and issued an official statement on the department website, without ever saying a word to Joshua himself.” I decided to apply for early admission to Princeton after sitting in […]
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