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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., is planning to devote much of his energy in the remaining months of his term as Republican leader, as well as the next few years of his term, to ensuring Ukraine is supported as its war with Russia rages on. "It may not be fashionable now, but I’m a Ronald Reagan Republican: peace through strength," the longtime Senate GOP leader said during a speech in Shelbyville, Kentucky, per local outlet the Kentucky Lantern. McConnell has been a proponent of continued support for Ukraine, even after members of his party began to push back.

Hollywood star Sean Penn has turned his righteous anger toward his own side of the political spectrum, slamming fellow leftists who want to end the Ukraine war through a peace deal with Russia. Sean Penn — who is chummy with Ukraine President Volodymr Zelensky — spoke in an interview with Deadline’s Doc Talk podcast. The actor singled out leftists who are calling for peace talks with Russia, saying that could jeopardize Ukraine’s freedom. “How dare we talk about their negotiation?” he demanded, asking Americans how they would feel if somebody seized New York “and your mother and father lived there...

"Hey it's Tucker Carlson. You may have found yourself wondering recently as the world slides closer to nuclear annihilation than at any time in human history why exactly are we at war with Russia? It seems like there's a pretty significant downside to this particular foreign policy decision starting with economic collapse and potentially with extinction. So is there a good reason we're doing it. So many innocent young people have been killed, so many hundreds of billions of dollars have been wasted, some of them from the US Treasury. So what's the point...

Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a speech on June 26 seeking to persuade as many Wagner fighters and leaders as possible to join the Russian military and continue fighting against Ukraine and to cause individuals most loyal to Wagner Group financier Yevgeny Prigozhin to self-identify. Putin continued to denounce the organizers of the armed rebellion as traitors. Putin thanked Russian society and the Russian security forces for defending Russia’s sovereignty and expressed gratitude to Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko for brokering negotiations with the perpetrators of the rebellion. Putin did not name Prigozhin specifically, but Putin’s speech leaves little room for...

Good detail on yesterdays counteroffensive

Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) Monday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends” that the Biden administration’s “blank check policy” on the war in Ukraine was not acceptable. DeSantis said, “They have effectively a blank check policy with no clear strategic objective identified, and these things can escalate. I don’t think it’s in our interest to be getting into a proxy war with China getting involved over things like the borderlands or over Crimea. So I think it would behoove them to identify what is the strategic objective that they are trying to achieve. But just saying it’s an open-ended blank check, that’s...

Senior U.S. officials are advising Ukraine to hold off on launching a major offensive against Russian forces until the latest supply of U.S. weaponry is in place and training has been provided, a senior Biden administration official said on Friday. The official, speaking to a small group of reporters on condition of anonymity, said the United States was holding fast to its decision not to provide Abrams tanks to Ukraine at this time, amid a controversy with Germany over tanks. U.S. talks with Ukraine about any counter-offensive have been in the context of ensuring the Ukrainians devote enough time first...

JUST IN - Ukraine's Zelensky named TIME Person of the Year.

As climate policy moves forward and the world's food and energy supplies implode people will starve and freeze to death. The other week Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic expressed his belief that some people will not make it through next winter. He did not cite climate policy in connection with this... But other factors are in play that give cover as power plants are shut down and farms are closed to prevent cow gas emissions and the list goes on. These factors alone are causing deaths but more deaths will follow as climate policy takes hold. The conflict with Russia over...

A sense of unreality continues to permeate Russia and their claims to annexation of southern Ukraine, and that may be almost literally. Newsweek reports today that the Kremlin added “fake cheers” to Vladimir Putin’s speech on Friday announcing the annexation to sell this glorious nonsense to a Russian audience that has clearly grown tired of the war. And speaking of the audience … Unedited footage from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annexation speech in Moscow on Friday appears to show fake cheers were edited onto clips broadcast on state TV, while reports say that people were bussed in to attend the...

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said on Sunday he is requesting “at least $12 billion” in aid for Ukraine in a stop-gap spending bill. Schumer said during a press conference on Sunday, “Ukraine has made significant advances against Russia in the war, the vicious war that Putin has waged against the Ukrainian people.”

Here we go… It was only a matter of time before the DOJ-NSD architects of the Trump targeting operation came out from the shadows. This is the moment long-time readers of CTH should have been waiting for. For the past five years Mary McCord has been one of a small and select lawfare group organizing the targeting of President Trump. Mary McCord led the support team who created the Carter Page FISA warrant using the Steele Dossier to replace the required ‘Wood’s file’. McCord was the DOJ-NSD official who traveled with DOJ Deputy AG Sally Yates to talk to former...

Baba Yaga is a witch figure who flies around Slavic folk stories...and lives in a hut that stands on chicken legs deep in the woods. Madame Pamita spoke to Religion News Service about Baba Yaga, traditional Slavic magic and how the author is using her magic to support the people of Ukraine amid Russia’s continuing invasion of the country. "In my experience of connecting deeply to her, I see her as a grandmother figure, but a tough grandma, or like a grandma who knows you can do more than you think you can, so she pushes you. In Slavic practices,...

The energy crisis caused by the war in Ukraine disabused many politicians of the notion that the world could make a swift transition to green energy powered by solar, wind and wishful thinking. As food prices skyrocket and the conflict threatens a global food crisis, we need to face another unpopular reality: Organic farming is ineffective, land hungry and very expensive, and it would leave billions hungry if it were embraced world-wide. For years, politicians and the chattering classes have argued that organic farming is the responsible way to feed the world. The European Union pushed last year for members...

Zelenskyy’s remarks came in address to IMF, World Bank Ukraine's president said Thursday that his country needs $7 billion per month to make up for economic losses.Volodymyr Zelenskyy's remarks came in an address to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank meeting via video link.

Ukrainian female tank driver in action. Russia invaded the wrong country. Sound on. Bizarre video of Ukrainian 'tank girl'. I wonder how many books will be written about the role of social media in this conflict. I am also curious if and how social media influences the dynamics of this war. Future military historians have their work cut out for them.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has been the primary international mediator in talks between Russia and Ukraine, The Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing three people familiar with the matter. According to the report, Bennett took on this role following a surprise visit to Moscow on March 5 with back-to-back talks with both leaders as recently as two days ago. The report also said that Ukraine and Russia have made significant progress on a tentative peace plan including ceasefire and Russian withdrawal if Kyiv declares neutrality and accepts limits on its armed forces, according to five people briefed on the talks....

President Biden will host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Aug. 30 and push him to “tackle corruption,” despite claims of corruption in Ukraine involving his own family, the White House said Wednesday. As vice president, Biden led the Obama administration’s Ukraine policy while his son Hunter Biden earned a reported $83,000 per month on the board of Ukrainian energy company Burisma, despite no relevant industry experience.

KYIV, April 30 /Ukrinform/. Ukraine's acting President, Verkhovna Rada Speaker Oleksandr Turchynov has admitted that the authorities do not control the situation in Donetsk region. He said this during a meeting with heads of regional state administrations in Kyiv on Wednesday. "Administrative buildings have been captured in many cities of Donetsk region and in the city of Donetsk. Today the authorities do not control the situation here," Turchynov said. He also noted that the security forces in the region cannot take the situation under control. "The main reason, of course, is that the security structures in these regions - Donetsk...

KYIV, April 29 /Ukrinform/. The law enforcement agencies are not ready to use weapons against those who seize administrative buildings, NSDC Deputy Secretary Viktoria Siumar told reporters on Tuesday in Donetsk. "The threat to life and health is very serious, and we see that in fact the law enforcement agencies are not ready to act, that is to shoot to kill when protecting the objects," Siumar noted. According to her, the terrorists attack telecommunications facilities in large groups, therefore it is difficult to resist. "We, of course, had warned about the dangers of relevant and related plans, gave the addresses...