ukraine

As bad as Ukraine is, it’s likely to get worse
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Mar 07, 2022
Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin spent 90 minutes on the phone with French President Emmanuel Macron, who asked him to declare a cease-fire...
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RTS for March 3
News, Round the Square
Mar 03, 2022
UKRAINE: The situation with Russia and the Ukraine has moved reader F. Carloni to pen a poem. “ Oh you sons across the Urals Why do you cross the froz...
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China faces stark choice
Opinion, Сolumns
Mar 02, 2022
Delegate after delegate came up to the rostrum Monday at a special session of the United Nations General Assembly and condemned Russia’s invasion of U...
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Nationalism’s finest hour
Opinion, Сolumns
RICH LOWRY 
Mar 02, 2022
If anyone had any doubt that Ukraine has its own national identity, the early days of the Russian invasion should have eliminated it. There’s been the...
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Why Belarus helps Russia
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN The Philadelphia Inquirer 
Mar 02, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (TNS) — On Monday, Russian and Ukrainian delegations met for talks on Ukraine’s border with Belarus — one sign of how Vladimir Putin has ...
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Thompson, Pa. senators condemn invasion of Ukraine
News, PA State News
Jim Eckstrom jeckstrom@oleantimesherald.com 
Feb 24, 2022
U.S. Rep. Glenn Thompson said Thursday that Russia’s president is responsible for an “unwarranted and unprompted unilateral attack” upon Ukraine, whic...
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Biden must hit Putin harder with sanctions now
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Feb 24, 2022
Any illusions about Vladimir Putin’s objectives should have vanished on Monday, when Russia invaded Ukraine for the second time in a decade. The Russi...
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Lithuanians give warning
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Feb 18, 2022
VILNIUS, Lithuania — The military and political games Vladimir Putin is playing with all of Europe will continue, whether Moscow invades Ukraine or no...
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Putin has a way out
Opinion, Сolumns
DOYLE McMANUS Tribune News Service 
Feb 08, 2022
When Russia’s Vladimir Putin massed 100,000 troops on Ukraine’s borders, the United States and its European allies responded with a hastily assembled ...
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Vladimir Putin’s off-ramp
Opinion, Сolumns
MARTIN SCHRAM Tribune News Service 
Feb 08, 2022
Wars and military escalations breed clichés that are exclusive, yet elusive. So the Vietnam War’s best and brightest spent a decade chasing their illu...
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America’s worst ally
Opinion, Сolumns
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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The authoritarian world Xi and Vlad hope to create
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Jan 24, 2022
I intended this column to focus on Elizabeth Economy’s important new book, “The World According to China,” which describes Xi Jinping’s vision for Chi...
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Can NATO stop Putin’s dreams without war?
Opinion, Сolumns
TRUDY RUBIN Tribune News Service 
Jan 12, 2022
This week, Western nations have been trying to rebuff Russia’s threats to invade Ukraine for the second time in eight years. The talks between the Uni...
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