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Apr 11 2022
News
Russia says it destroyed Ukrainian air defense systems gifted by unidentified European country
Russia’s military on Monday is claiming to have destroyed air defense systems that were "delivered to the Kyiv regime by a European country."
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said in a statement that the four S-300 launchers were hidden in a hanger near the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro and that 25 Ukrainian soldiers were also hit in the strike, according to Reuters
Fox News (Online News)
Apr 02 2021
News
NPR Corrects Claim that Hunter Biden Story Was ‘Discredited’ by Intelligence Community
National Public Radio corrected a claim on Thursday that reports about Hunter Biden’s alleged laptop had been “discredited” by the intelligence community.
“A previous version of this story said U.S. intelligence had discredited the laptop story,” NPR noted. “U.S. intelligence officials have not made a statement to that effect.”
The correction came on a review of Biden’s new
Mediaite
Apr 06 2022
News
Ukraine War Likely to Last Years, Top US Military Officer Says
The top U.S. military officer is warning that the war in Ukraine will likely last years, raising concerns that the world "is becoming more unstable and the potential for significant international conflict between great powers is increasing, not decreasing."
During testimony in front of the House Armed Services Committee on Tuesday, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark
Voice of America (VOA)
Mar 03 2022
News
Former Top Trump Official Argues Biden’s Russia Sanctions Are ‘Half Measures,’ Contain Loopholes
President Joe Biden’s sanctions against Russia are half measures that don’t go nearly as far as sanctions the U.S. has used in the past against Iran and other adversaries, former Trump administration Treasury official Marshall Billingslea stated Wednesday.
Billingslea served under former President Donald Trump as assistant secretary of the Treasury for terrorist financing, and argued
The Daily Caller
Apr 05 2022
Opinion
Media needs to question if Biden is actually clueless about son’s deals
The walls evidently aren’t closing in on President Joe Biden.
Despite the mainstream press finally taking up the sleazy business dealings discussed in e-mails found on Hunter Biden’s laptop, the media’s lack of interest in Joe Biden’s knowledge or involvement in this lucrative part of the family business is palpable.
If President Donald Trump were caught up in similar
Rich Lowry
Aug 20 2020
News
Trump-Russia Redux
“The Trump campaign’s interactions with Russian intelligence services during the 2016 presidential election posed a ‘grave’ counterintelligence threat, a Senate panel concluded Tuesday.” (AP News)
“Former FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith pleaded guilty on Wednesday in federal court to falsifying a document as part of the bureau’s early-stage probe into whether President Donald Trump’s 2016
The Flip Side
Apr 03 2022
News
Rep. Chellie Pingree weighs in on the Ukrainian refugee crisis
Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, returned to the Pine Tree State late last week after a weeklong fact-finding trip that took her to Poland, Moldova, Austria, and Romania.
Along with six other members of the House of Representatives, two Democrats and four Republicans, she got a firsthand look at the largest displacement of people in Europe since World War II.
The numbers are hard
News Center Maine
May 01 2022
Opinion
Everyone Is Starting to Admit Something Frightening About Ukraine
The war between Russia and Ukraine is swiftly evolving into a war between Russia and NATO. In one respect, this is good: It gives Ukraine a higher chance of repelling Moscow’s invasion and even winning. In another respect, it is risky: The wider the war spreads, and the more Russia seems to be losing, the more compelled Vladimir Putin may feel to lash out with extreme violence.
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Slate
Feb 09 2022
News
U.S. deploys troops to Poland to help Americans who are leaving Ukraine
A U.S. official has confirmed with NPR that the White House has approved a plan to help Americans who are leaving in case Ukraine should Russia invade.
No preparations have happened as of yet, but some 1,700 US troops from the 82nd Airborne Corps are being deployed to Poland, and the expectation would be that those troops would assist U.S. citizens who have left Ukraine.
NPR (Online News)
Feb 28 2022
News
US, allies failed to deter Putin. Can tougher measures stop him now?
Deterrence is based on a threat – but can demand patience with measures that take time to be felt. Now escalating fighting in Ukraine is spurring a widespread shift in many nations toward demands for tougher – and more immediate – action.
At a spirited pro-Ukraine rally in New York’s Washington Square Park Sunday, more than one of the dozens of hand-lettered signs implored President Joe
Christian Science Monitor