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Russian deputy defense minister Yunus-Bek Evkurov visits a Russian soldier who lost his leg in Ukraine and tells him: “I hope you’ll get back on your feet”. The facial expression on the young man says it all. “My life is over and for what”?

Elon Musk's satellites are connecting Ukraine with the internet. Starlink was conceived as a civilian program — but Ukraine's military can also use it to guide drones and strike Russian tanks and positions. Just after Russia's invasion began in late February, Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Mykhailo Fedorov took to Twitter to ask US billionaire Elon Musk to activate his Starlink satellites for use in Ukraine. Musk swiftly tweeted his response: "Starlink service is now active in Ukraine. More terminals en route." Soon after, a number of terminals and powerful batteries arrived in Ukraine. Others soon followed. Fedorov took to Twitter...

... After the attacks by Islamic terrorists on September 11, 2001, America’s hubris manifested itself in an effort to spread democracy to the world, but in the first instances to Afghanistan and Iraq. ... The George W. Bush administration rightly responded to attacks on our country by hunting down the terrorists responsible and retaliating against some of the regimes that supported the terrorists. But then it got carried away and launched a Wilsonian crusade for democracy. ... As President Reagan's U.N. Ambassador and trusted adviser, Jeane Kirkpatrick was one of the intellectual architects of our victory in the Cold War....

This sort of Republican leadership is a no-squish zone. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis won in 2018 over Andrew Gillum by just 32,000 votes, or four-tenths of one percentage point. Very, very close in a big purple state. Since that victory, DeSantis has endured relentless attacks on every conceivable issue, nonissue, and fake issue. National outlets such as “60 Minutes” and state publications in every market gaslighted the public and often flat-out lied about DeSantis, from the number of COVID deaths and transgenderism in schools to the fictional “don’t say gay” bill. Late-night former comedians, Hollywooders, corporate cowards, and the White...

It’s been rightly said that “he who holds the gold makes the rules.”After World War 2, the US had the largest gold reserves in the world, by far. Along with winning the war, this let the US reconstruct the global monetary system around the dollar.The new system, created at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944, tied the currencies of virtually every country in the world to the US dollar through a fixed exchange rate. It also tied the US dollar to gold at a fixed rate of $35 per ounce.The dollar was said to be “as good as gold.”The Bretton...

He came, he saw, he confused. Joe Biden’s call-to-arms speech in Poland was long on soaring rhetoric about the virtues of democracy but woefully short on what more the West will do to help Ukraine defeat the Russian invasion. But by the time he got to the finish, most of that was forgotten. What mattered most and what will be remembered for a long time was a single line the president of the United States said about the president of Russia: “For God’s sake, this man cannot remain in power.” In the context of the speech and the slaughter of...

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen reminded us of something everyone seems to have forgotten when she said “being a refugee is temporary.” Frederiksen made the comments after Denmark passed a law giving Ukrainian refugees the right to work, education and social welfare. “Being a refugee is temporary, so you have to return and help build up your homeland when you get the opportunity. It gives us the opportunity to help other refugees,” Frederiksen said. Denmark has been one of the toughest countries in Europe when it comes to strict immigration policies that are protected from being abused by “refugees” who...

By LIZ O'RIORDAN FOR THE MAIL ON SUNDAY PUBLISHED: 18:01 EDT, 26 March 2022 | UPDATED: 03:11 EDT, 27 March 2022 The first time I saw CPR being performed was on TV. I was in my teens – it was probably the American medical drama ER. Maybe it was Casualty. There would always be a frantic scene of a medic pumping away at a patient whose heart had stopped. Someone would rush in with defibrillator paddles. Someone else would yell 'CLEAR!' Years later, as a fledgling doctor working on a crash team on hospital wards, I got to see it...

The Democrats are destroying lives, and I think it is on purpose. A gruesome crime of murder occurred in New Orleans this week. Four black teens, ages 15-17, walking down a sidewalk, decided to push a 73-year-old white lady, Linda Frickey, out of her car and go for a joyride. As one of these teens pushed the pedal to the metal, the lady’s arm got caught in her seat belt strap. While all four teenagers were in the car, this lady was hanging out of her car being dragged in the street, that is until her body broke off from...

At the very end of the video, you can see all new Russian prisoners here are systematically shot in the legs by the Ukrainian military. Unit, Location and date not identified yet. Disturbing content

When MasterCard and the United Nations have joined forces, you know bad news is on the horizon. Auto manufacturers, companies, and governments increasingly have the power to track our every movement and prevent us from driving our own vehicles. Supposedly democratic governments can lock us down or even freeze our bank accounts on a whim (see also "Canada" and "Trudeau"). In this increasingly dystopian world, large multinational corporations are working hand-in-glove with said governments to reshape society in their preferred image, garden-variety citizens be damned. To that end, MasterCard and the United Nations have joined forces to produce a credit...

The Biden Administration is considering implementation of digital money. Before anything like that happens, a constitutional amendment is necessary to protect the citizenry from abuse. The Biden Administration is considering implementation of digital money. This transition has some time urgency, because the Chinese consider digital money to be a financial opportunity by which they can displace the U.S. dollar as the world’s reserve currency. There are tremendous advantages being the world’s reserve currency, so this is a matter of national interest. Any transition to digital money poses a challenge to liberty. For example, the Chinese consider digital money to be...

Last week, a candidate, standing for appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States of America, who was under consideration specifically because she is a woman, refused to provide a definition for the word, "woman," when asked for one.

A spiritual emptiness on the left allows leftists to criticize haters even as they are the superior haters. When Governor Gavin Newsom disappeared for a few weeks after receiving a COVID shot, the public worried: was he alive? His wife did not like this curiosity. You might think citizens have a right to know where their leaders are. Nope. She viewed the nosy public as haters. Mrs. Newsom posted: "When someone cancels something, maybe they're just in the office working; maybe in their free time they're at home with their family, at their kids' sports matches, or dining out with...

PARIS (AP) — Without Russian help, climate scientists worry how they’ll keep up their important work of documenting warming in the Arctic. Europe’s space agency is wrestling with how its planned Mars rover might survive freezing nights on the Red Planet without its Russian heating unit. And what of the world’s quest for carbon-free energy if 35 nations cooperating on an experimental fusion-power reactor in France can’t ship vital components from Russia? In scientific fields with profound implications for mankind’s future and knowledge, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is causing a swift and broad decaying of relationships and...

The Supreme Court deals the congressional enemies of Donald Trump a setback. It seems to me that the point of the superpartisan congressional January 6 Commission is to tar former president Donald Trump with inciting a riot (“insurrection” for the hyperbolic), an issue they raised and lost in the second impeachment battle. Perhaps they hope to persuade the Department of Justice to institute some cooked-up criminal charges against him for his comments on January 6. If I’m right about their objective, this week the Supreme Court in an unanimous opinion seems to have dealt them a setback. The Trump remarks...

French President Emmanuel Macron has warned against verbal "escalation" with Moscow after his US counterpart Joe Biden described Russian President Vladimir Putin as a "butcher." "I would not use those words," Macron said in an interview with broadcaster France 3. The French president stressed that "everything must be done to stop the situation from escalating" if there is to be any hope in stopping Russia's war in Ukraine. Macron told France 3 he saw his task as "achieving first a cease-fire and then the total withdrawal of (Russian) troops by diplomatic means. If we want to do that, we can't...

BERLIN (AP) — Before Russia’s war in Ukraine, Europe’s most pressing energy policy goal was reducing carbon emissions that cause climate change. Now, officials are fixated on rapidly reducing the continent’s reliance on Russian oil and natural gas — and that means friction between security and climate goals, at least in the short term. To wean itself from Russian energy supplies as quickly as possible, Europe will need to burn more coal and build more pipelines and terminals to import fossil fuels from elsewhere. This dramatic shift comes amid soaring fuel costs for motorists, homeowners and businesses, and as political...

The Talk Shows March 27th, 2022 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows:FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Guest anchor John Roberts: Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.); Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Fremont); ambassador to NATO Julianne Smith. Panel: Turd Blossum Karl Rove; Gillian Turner; Chad Pergram; “Party on, Wayne!” Marie Harf. MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Hosted by Chuck U. Toad: Ukrainian Ambassador to the U.S. Oksana Markarova; Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio); Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.). Panel: Yamiche Alcindor; Stephen Hayes; Jeh Johnson; Susan Page, USA Today—just another easily forgotten group of angry Leftists slinging anti-American balderdash. FACE THE NATION (CBS):...

DUMAS, Ark. — At least one person is dead and 27 people are injured after a shooting happened at a car show in Dumas, Arkansas on Saturday. According to officials, the shooting began around 7:15 p.m. when multiple people reportedly fired into the crowd. Police say that children were injured during the shooting. At least five people were taken by helicopter to hospitals in the area. One person has been arrested in connection to the shooting, but police are still searching for others who may have been involved. The Arkansas State Police are assisting the Dumas Police Department in the...