A great man, and tremendous debater, once advised us: Be hard on the opposition's ideas, easy on personalities, and silent on appearances. The president of the United States spoke the other night, in another State of the Union address, which really should be discontinued as a yearly project. But in some years 1930, 1942, 2002 come to mind the nation might need a president to speak from a podium before Congress in early March. Just to let the rest of us know that somebody has the reins. This may be one of those years.
For those trying to keep up with the fast-moving events in Ukraine, it may be helpful to consider some lessons of history. Mistakes made in the past week, added onto
For those trying to keep up with the fast-moving events in Ukraine, it may be helpful to consider some lessons of history. Mistakes made in the past week, added onto
For those trying to keep up with the fast-moving events in Ukraine, it may be helpful to consider some lessons of history. Mistakes made in the past week, added onto developments covering the last two or three centuries, have left the United States and its European allies in particular the largest of them, Germany unable to prevent President Vladimir Putin's Russia from absorbing an as yet undetermined part of a theoretically independent Ukraine.