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![]() Latest Article from Ilan BermanTrump Needs A New 'Maximum Pressure' Policy ... Against RussiaFebruary 5, 2025 • Newsweek When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his war of aggression against neighboring Ukraine in February 2022, it set off an unprecedented wave of Western economic pressure. That "shock and awe" campaign, orchestrated by the Biden administration and U.S. allies in Europe, was designed to ratchet up the costs of the war for the Kremlin via a raft of sanctions and other restrictions designed to isolate Russia from global markets. So far, though, Western pressure has proved to be less than meets the eye. For all of its public rhetoric to the contrary, Europe has failed to meaningfully wean itself off Russian energy, a key strategic vulnerability. In fact, the continent's dependence on Moscow has grown, as European imports of Russian natural gas actually rose from 2023 to 2024. And, despite early optimism about a mass exodus of commercial activity as a result of the war, hundreds of Western businesses (including prominent American firms like Guess, TGI Friday's, and Tupperware) still retain sizable stakes in the Russian market. As a result, although it definitely hasn't thrived, Russia's economy has managed to survive, even growing modestly over the past calendar year. For instance, wages for workers, especially those in the defense sector, have increased, while overall unemployment has decreased. This and other trends have fed official Russian triumphalism that the country will ultimately outlast the West, at least in economic terms. Yet, as the Ukraine conflict nears its third anniversary, evidence is mounting that the bill for the Kremlin's war of choice is finally coming due.
![]() Latest Article from Asaf RomirowskyDeporting pro-terror protestors will restore order to lawless campusesFebruary 1, 2025 • New York Post "It shall be the policy of the United States to combat anti-Semitism vigorously, using all available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence." So states an executive order signed this week by President Trump, allotting all US department and agency heads 60 days to come up with meaningful new ways to fight the rise in anti-Jewish incidents in America. Should these officials need of inspiration, the order also refers to existing immigration laws, which permit the immediate deportation of any resident alien who "endorses or espouses terrorist activity or supports a terrorist organization."
![]() Latest Article from Clifford MayHamas-Israel hostage deal sets dangerous diplomatic precedentJanuary 22, 2025 • The Washington Times As the ceasefire-for-hostages agreement went into effect over the weekend, Hamas terrorists – now wearing uniforms and green headbands, no longer disguising themselves as civilians – ascended from their multimillion-dollar tunnels, held their weapons high, and rode through the streets of Gaza in fully fueled vehicles. Actual civilians also were out on the streets celebrating. In online videos you can see that they're well-fed and energetic. Many have cell phones and some carry fancy cameras. Ask yourself: Do these people look like victims of genocide?
![]() Latest Article from Tevi TroyHollywood should remember what villains really look likeJanuary 17, 2025 • The Washington Examiner In Top Gun: Maverick, Tom Cruise's character must train a team of hotshot pilots to take out a facility in an unnamed country with snow-covered mountains. Were they training for a mission in Switzerland? Hollywood was so wary of having any villains identified in this one that pilots from the generic foreign adversary were literally faceless. Maverick was actually a better film than the original Top Gun —rewatch the original before complaining — but one aspect of the original that far surpassed the sequel was the thrill of seeing Cruise flip the bird to his clearly identified Russian adversaries. ![]() Latest Article from Michael FreundIsrael should annex all of Mount Hermon from SyriaJanuary 10, 2025 • Jerusalem Post Early last month, shortly after the fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, Israel took a step that dramatically altered the strategic landscape of the entire region. Quietly and without any prior indications, the IDF entered the buffer zone on the Golan Heights separating Israel and Syria and liberated the highest peak of Mount Hermon, raising the blue-and-white banner over the tallest mountain in either country. And while Israeli officials were quick to insist that the move was temporary, it would be a grave mistake to forgo this territory. For both strategic and historical reasons, the Jewish state should annex all of the newly acquired parts of Mount Hermon and formally incorporate them into Israel.
![]() Latest Article from Jonathan SchanzerA New Era of Hezbollah DefeatDecember 18, 2024 • Commentary Nothing lasts forever. Hezbollah's self-proclaimed "Era of Victories"—which the group inaugurated after the May 2000 Israeli withdrawal from south Lebanon—appears to have run its course. Its new Secretary-General Naim Qassem just confessed in a televised address that Hezbollah's lifeline through Syria is now gone, thanks to the downfall of the Assad regime.
![]() Latest Article from Judith MillerTrouble in Paradise
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