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WARSAW, Poland -- Do unarmed protestors who risk their lives to replace murderous and corrupt regimes with law-based, liberal democracies deserve our support or not? For simple folk like you and me, this is not one of life's more demanding ethical conundrums. But then again, you and I are no match for some of the great brains at Britain's Guardian newspaper, who -- along with like minded members of the international left -- are currently mounting something approaching a hate campaign against the brave men and women fighting for democracy in Ukraine, and indeed against their predecessors across eastern Europe...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to send 'millions' of Syrians to EuropeCredit: EPA Speaking to his party, Erdogan warned he would "open the gates" to spark a new refugee crisis if the EU dared to call 'Operation Peace Spring' an "invasion." "Hey EU, wake up. I say it again: if you try to frame our operation there as an invasion, our task is simple: we will open the gates and send 3.6m migrants to you," he said. He added that ISIS prisoners held by Kurdish forces would be kept in jail or returned to home countries willing to take them....

Television pictures of revolutions can make them seem like a spectator sport. Having Vitali Klitschko, the world heavyweight boxing champion, playing a starring role in the events in Kiev reinforces that impression. But the implosion of the Ukrainian state in the last 48 hours is a political earthquake. Chaos in Kiev could set off a tsunami that will toss Western Europe from its moorings too. It is a mistake to think we are watching from a safe distance. Maybe Ukraine is as foreign to the British people today as it was when an obscure crisis on its southern coast in...

A human-rights group that defends dictators DURING the cold war, the leafy streets of north Oxford were a hotbed of anti-communism. Dons had close links to dissident and émigré outfits and spent their holidays enjoying the frisson of semi-clandestine trips behind the Iron Curtain to help subvert the evil empire. Now, at the Oxford-based British Helsinki Human Rights Group (BHHRG), some veterans of that struggle are playing a rather different role: noisily defending a grim lot of east European politicians against the imperialism of western do-gooders. At first sight it seems baffling. Characters such as Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Alexander...