What Is About To Come

The international rally behind Ukraine is certainly something to behold. Yet despite the courage of the Ukrainian people behind their equally brave president, what we are most likely to witness in the upcoming weeks, months and years will present to us a brutality of war not seen in decades.

How Long Can The West Stay Focused On Ukraine?

For years Germany, the fourth largest economy in the world, has played both sides of the American-Russian standoff, both during and after the Cold War. Germany has refused to militarize, choosing instead to rely on America’s nuclear umbrella while at the same time staying on Moscow’s good side. The Nord Stream 2 natural gas pipeline was but the latest symbol of drushba (friendship) between the two as Germany continued to draw 55% of its gas and 45% of its oil from Russia. Blame their geographical proximity and Otto von Bismarck's famous line, “Never cut the link to St. Petersburg.”

Sanction Russia and Belarus by copying the Iran model

Kevin Hassett at National Review has a simple plan to bring Russia and its ally Belarus to their knees.

As Biden sounded the alarm of an impending invasion, he delayed defensive weapons to Ukraine

“The Biden team has been too slow to beef up Ukraine even as Mr. Biden repeatedly served as a crisis broadcaster of a sure invasion,” writes Rowan Scarborough in the Washington Times.

    The administration has offered Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy safe passage out of the war zone only to be rebuffed. “I need ammunition, not a ride,” was the response of the embedded president now standing alongside his compatriots as they fight for the very survival of their country.