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Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ukraine. Show all posts
Sunday, February 18, 2024
Ukraine And Russia: A History Lession
"Although few Americans paid much attention at the time, the events of February 18, 2014, in Ukraine would turn out to be a linchpin in how the United States ended up where it is a decade later."
Saturday, January 7, 2023
Why It's Important To Help Ukraine
" - - - I guess over the holidays a lot of people talked with family members and their parents, or whomever and they had things to say about the amount of money the United States was spending on Ukraine and wanted to know what the U.S was getting out of it. - - - First, on the other side of this, when Ukraine emerges from the other side of this war, it is going to be an economic power, a big one, if, at the end of the war, it is aligned with Europe. That's good for the United States. It's good for NATO. - - - "
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Tuesday, May 3, 2022
A Different Take On Russia V. Ukraine
"Noting that many democracies—including Brazil, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Mexico, and South Africa—have been reluctant to join the Western campaign to sanction and isolate Russia, CNN's Fareed Zakaria argues it's better to cast Russia's war as a challenge to rules and norms in the global order, not to democracy as a form of governance."
Don't cast the war in Ukraine as a showdown with autocracy
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Thursday, March 31, 2022
War Crimes
"The State Department and President Biden have both declared that Russian President Vladimir Putin has committed war crimes in Ukraine. What are the rules of war? What constitutes a war crime? And what consequences might Putin face for the brutality of his invasion?
"Heather and Joanne look back at the centuries-long quest by world leaders and humanitarians to regulate violence in wartime, from General George Washington’s rules of civility during the Revolutionary War, to Abraham Lincoln’s use of the Lieber Code during the Civil War, to the development of the Geneva Conventions."
"Heather and Joanne look back at the centuries-long quest by world leaders and humanitarians to regulate violence in wartime, from General George Washington’s rules of civility during the Revolutionary War, to Abraham Lincoln’s use of the Lieber Code during the Civil War, to the development of the Geneva Conventions."
With the Russian atrocities happening in Ukraine, the age-old phrase "War Crimes" is front-and-center. Click on the link below for an enlightening podcast on the subject:
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