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President Obama is a fantastic success

Well, I guess it depends on your definition of success. I’ve argued for years now that my Columbia University classmate, Barack Obama, has a very different definition of “success” than patriotic Americans who love God, country, capitalism and American exceptionalism.…

Russian Forces Inside Ukraine

It is being characterized as an incursion and not an invasion at this point, but whatever you want to call it, one thing is for sure: the Russians are coming. Just days ago, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned…

Don’t Forget About Ukraine

ISIS. ISIS. ISIS. Since the beginning of the ISIS insurgency in Iraq just a few weeks ago, the world’s attention has been focused squarely on containing – and possibly fighting – this dangerous organization. To be sure, the implications of…

Ukrainians Go To The Polls Tomorrow

As Ukrainians go to the polls to elect their president tomorrow the result is not in much doubt: chocolatier and oligarch Petro Poroshenko will almost certainly be the next president of Ukraine. But what is in much graver doubt is…

Putin Is Undermining Ukraine’s Democracy — And Obama Is Letting Him

Vladimir Putin’s disdain for democracy is no secret. He has quashed dissent at home, and the passage on Tuesday of a new “Blogger Law” is only the latest move by the Kremlin to control media and police the internet. As…

Obama Orders New Sanctions Against Russia

After more than a month of threats, the Obama administration ordered travel bans and asset freezes for seven Russian officials, including two said to be in Putin’s inner circle, and froze assets for 17 companies this morning. Thirteen Russian companies…

Unrest Flares In Ukraine Once More

After a few weeks of relative calm in Ukraine, yesterday brought renewed unrest in Eastern Ukraine. There were coordinated demonstrations by thousands of pro-Russian protesters in Donetsk, Kharkiv and Luhansk. For good reason, these protests have reignited fears in Kiev…

With The Annexation Of Crimea, Putin Is Testing Us Again — Will The US Rise To The Challenge?

The United States and the European Union is facing one of their greatest foreign policy challenges in decades. By passing the referendum yesterday and calling for the annexation of Ukraine to the Russian Federation, the voters of Crimea have sent…

With Takeover Of Natural Gas Station, Russia Ratchets Up Tension With Ukraine

Since the protests in Kiev turned bloody weeks ago, there has been one question on my mind: when will Russia invade Ukraine? And now we know the answer: yesterday. On the eve of the secession referendum in Crimea, Putin used…