Section: Gatestone Institute (USA)
Ukraine: Waiting for the Stinger Moment
[W]hen Putin’s invasion of Ukraine came, most analysts still saw war as a short hymn to victory not a long symphony of death in four movements. Heading for its second year, the Ukraine war seems set to become a long symphony of death rather than short …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Turkey: Putin’s Open Door for Harming Western Interests
For Putin, Erdoğan’s friendship is growing ever more important — and vice versa. Turkey has refused to join Western sanctions against Russia over Ukraine, thereby throwing a lifeline to Putin. Turkish skies remain open to Russian airlines and its doors …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Biden’s Arms Package for Ukraine Is Long Overdue
In one of the more damning examples of his indecisive leadership, Biden has seemed to be more concerned about upsetting Russian President Vladimir Putin than confronting the Kremlin’s unprovoked act of aggression against its Ukrainian neighbour. It could …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Ukraine: A Recipe for Appeasement
The paragraph just quoted shows that Kissinger is reluctant to or afraid of saying what he really demands, which is appeasing Russia. The grand old man of American diplomacy claims that the mumbo-jumbo he has just spewed would somehow create “a new …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Iran’s Mullahs: When Will the EU Wake Up?
Does the EU know that the Russian President Vladimir Putin has received huge support for Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine from the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei? Iran has been supplying kamikaze drones to Russia. That is why the Ukrainian …read more Source:: Gatestone...
A Cold Winter for Europe: Blame Strategic Blindness
In 2008, the “flawless democrat” Putin invaded Georgia. The West was shocked. Putin critics… were shocked that the West was shocked. In 2014, Putin invaded the Crimean Peninsula, sovereign Ukrainian territory. The West remained shocked. In February …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Congress Must Increase its Support for Ukraine, Not Cut and Run
[R]educing American support for Kyiv — as some American politicians are suggesting — will not only constitute an unconscionable betrayal of the Ukrainian cause. It will encourage Putin, and allies such as Iran, to conduct further acts of territorial …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Russia and Iran, New “Axis of Evil,” Emboldened by Biden Administration
Despite this escalation [Iran supplying suicide drones to Russia], the European Union would not admit that the Iranian regime was entrenched in the war on Ukraine: EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell wanted “proof”…. Iran’s regime, apparently even …read more Source:: Gatestone...
Russia, Iran’s Mullahs Deepen Ties to Crush Ukraine: Why Is Biden Administration Silent?
In August 2015, Obama spelled out what his deal would accomplish. It is worth a look at it with the benefit of hindsight…. What is striking is that just about everything turned out to be exactly the opposite. A report by Iran’s state-controlled Afkar …read more Source:: Gatestone...
The Need for Real Leadership: The Cost of Not Supporting Ukraine
The difficult reality is that we may never know what would push Putin to make the decision to go nuclear…. The U.S. objective should be to deter him: make the potential cost to him so high that it would be suicidal for him even to try. The clearest and …read more Source:: Gatestone...
