Author: Dal Stanton
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2/26/2025 — Will a new Russia reset prove more successful than earlier attempts?
From: Atlantic Council By Leah Nodvin The Trump administration is seeking to reset relations with Russia as part of a comprehensive shift in US foreign policy. While advocates say this reflects changing geopolitical realities, past experience suggests a successful reset may be easier said than done. Since the end of the Cold War, successive United States…
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2/26/2025 — It takes strength to speak the truth in the face of bullies.…
From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv — It takes strength to speak the truth in the face of bullies. It shows weakness and lack of character to make alliances with bullies. Reposting: Piotr Walawender — Today, 🇵🇱Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslav Sikorski appeared before the UN – Ladies and gentlemen, we just heard another speech…
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2/26/2025 — News from Ukraine – Lyuda Betina
From: Lyuda Betina in Belgorod Dnestrovsky (Day 1099) Day after day passes, we thank God for every day of our lives. Life goes on and the war goes on too. We’ve been living like this for exactly three years. The past two weeks have been very difficult. Political turmoil, a worsening flu epidemic, the arrival…
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2/25/2025 — To secure Taiwan, the United States must first secure Ukraine
From: Atlantic Council By Brian Kerg US defense priorities appear to be at a crossroads. Can the United States materially sustain Ukraine in its fight with Russia while preparing for a possible fight with China in defense of Taiwan? There appears to be a competition for resources between two seemingly distinct US foreign policy objectives. But…
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2/25/2025 — The week that shook Europe—and the historic test ahead
From: Atlantic Council By Frederick Kempe Before boarding my flight home from Europe to Washington, DC, I took Finnish President Alexander Stubb’s advice for those unsettled by the transatlantic acrimony surrounding last weekend’s Munich Security Conference. After a Helsinki-style sauna and cold bath at my hotel, I’m ready to process the events of the past week…
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2/25/2025 — Russia’s war against the West will continue until Putin tastes defeat
From: Atlantic Council By Andriy Zagorodnyuk As speculation mounts over possible negotiations to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is important to understand the nature of the war unleashed by Vladimir Putin almost three years ago. Crucially, this is not a conventional war for land that can be resolved by offering limited territorial concessions. Putin’s…
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2/25/2025 — “Putin’s endgame: The stakes beyond Ukraine,” an Atlantic Council documentary
From: Atlantic Council — Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine may be closer to its end than its beginning. How it ends will matter not only for Ukraine, but for the whole of Europe and the wider world. The first-ever documentary from the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, “Putin’s endgame: The stakes beyond Ukraine,” discusses the threat…
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2/25/2025 — Left uncorrected, the posture presented this last week represents the single greatest foreign policy shift in the history of the U.S….
Reposted by Roman Sheremeta — An Open Letter to Mr. Waltz and Mr. Rubio Dear Honorable Sirs, Mr. Waltz, I stood with you in Normandy this last June for the 80th anniversary of D Day. You jumped from a C-47 over Mont Saint-Michel alongside two of my parachutist daughters. Mr. Rubio, I have long respected…
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2/25/2025 — Russia’s War on Ukraine: A Day of Reckoning
From: TransformUkraine.com By Douglas Landro Summary of the Day – February 24, 2025 As Ukraine marks the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion, the global chess match for its future intensifies. European leaders descend on Kyiv in a rare show of solidarity, while Trump negotiates directly with Putin. The battlefield reality—Russian soldiers killed at unprecedented rates…
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2/25/2025 — 2025 is repeating events of 1938 very closely – only the names of countries are different. You all know what happened in 1939 and on, and on till 1945.
From: Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (1098th day) And what does the LORD require of you?To act justly and to love mercyand to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8) We live in a broken world and even for Christians, such values as “justice” and “mercy” seem to fall away in the face of a more…
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