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‘We are scared but we are ready’
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TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Feb 10, 2022
NEAR KYIV, Ukraine — In a snow-covered forest one hour outside Kyiv, I am watching 250 Ukrainian civilians train to defend their capital if the Russia...
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America’s worst ally
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RICH LOWRY 
Jan 26, 2022
President Joe Biden’s press conference last week was atrocious, but one of his worst missteps amounted to telling the truth about Germany, if not by n...
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Putin is only pretending to be crazy on Ukraine
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ELI LAKE Tribune News Service 
Dec 29, 2021
Watching Vladimir Putin Thursday at his year-end press conference, one is tempted to ask whether the Russian president has gone mad. Here is a man lea...
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Putin wants to ‘renegotiate the 1990s’
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Dec 21, 2021
Thirty years ago this month, the Soviet Union collapsed, and Ukraine broke away from Moscow’s control. Russian President Vladimir Putin has never gott...
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Vladimir Putin shouldn’t be a right-wing hero
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RICH LOWRY 
Dec 11, 2021
No CPAC invitation will be in the offing anytime soon, but Vladimir Putin has picked up admirers on the populist right, here and abroad, that he doesn...
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Russia testing West’s resolve
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Dec 08, 2021
Vladimir Putin wants the world to forget what happened in 2014. That’s the year he amassed troops at the Ukraine border to assist Russian-backed separ...
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Biden wants China focus; Putin has another idea
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DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Nov 30, 2021
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden arrived in the White House 10 months ago with two top foreign policy priorities: He wanted to rebuild the alliances h...
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National divorce is a poisonously stupid idea
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RICH LOWRY 
Oct 09, 2021
Divorce usually isn’t a good idea, and that’s especially true of a nearly 250-year-old continental nation. A cadre of apocalyptic writers on the right...
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Cruz not helping on Russia
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Sep 22, 2021
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is right to be concerned about a soon-to-be-operational Russian gas pipeline. He’s wrong to obstruct U.S. diplomacy over it. For m...
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Russian and Iranian proxy forces are baffling the US
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HAL BRANDS Tribune News Service 
Jul 28, 2021
What do rocket strikes by Shiite militias in Iraq, ransomware attacks on targets in the U.S., and Russia’s use of mercenaries on battlefields in the M...
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Russian and Iranian proxy forces are baffling the US
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HAL BRANDS Tribune News Service 
Jul 28, 2021
What do rocket strikes by Shiite militias in Iraq, ransomware attacks on targets in the U.S., and Russia’s use of mercenaries on battlefields in the M...
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Can Russia’s Putin shift into legacy rethink?
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MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Jun 22, 2021
Let’s start our instant analysis of this week’s Biden-Putin summit not with the big-news headline, but the bottom line: The instant analysis of this G...
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The Biden-Putin summit: No lovefest, no illusions
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TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Jun 21, 2021
Rate the U.S.-Russia summit in Geneva as a success for President Joe Biden. If you want to understand why, just look at what Vladimir Putin said back ...
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FDR? Biden channels LBJ
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JAMES JAY CARAFANO Tribune News Service 
May 01, 2021
President Joe Biden’s address to Congress focused rather heavily on domestic matters, particularly his $2.3 trillion “infrastructure” package. We didn...
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Speak up for Alexei Navalny
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Apr 01, 2021
The government of Canada has imposed sanctions on nine high-ranking Russian officials for “gross and systematic human rights abuses.” The most promine...
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