Outside the Beltway

A few stories to consider.

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

The International Energy Agency forecast is gloomy for Putin and company.

A brilliant national security leader is gone too soon.

Three-and-a-half years and almost 6 million tax dollars have produced nothing.

The collaboration has been even more robust than advertised.

He’s using a tool he denounced as cruel to deal with a humanitarian crisis.

They’re hitting civilian targets partly because they can’t hit military ones.

Putin is committing war crimes in retaliation for an attack on a legitimate military target.

Things are not going well in the special military operation.

The threat is not idle and the options for responding are not good.

Can the unsustainable be sustained?

A phony annexation doesn’t hide that he’s badly losing his illegal war.

Eighteen HIMARS and what do you get? Years older and deeper in debt.

The CIA warned of his months ago but the Biden administration is being cautious.

Autocrats facing defeat have all kinds of counterproductive, dangerous ideas.

The Russian leader may be looking over his shoulder after imposing a draft.

Putin provides an example for a Politics 101 class.

Democratic backsliding appears to be spreading to another European country.

Makin’ his way the only way he knows how, that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.

As one does when one is confident of one’s policy choices.

What once seemed to be ‘saying the quiet part out loud’ is now administration policy.

There’s plenty of reason for optimism.

It’s much bigger than it appears.

Russian forces have been forced out of two logistical support hubs.

The last Soviet leader is gone at 91.

Stuff from last week and over the weekend that might be of interest.

The bloody conflict could go on for months, if not years.

After decades of exporting American jobs, corporations are bringing them home.

From a WaPo piece on the FSB and Ukraine.

That’s some catch, that Catch-22.

A 2020 blowout has long been presumed. But maybe it won’t happen.

The U.S. average is under $4 for the first time in months.

The former President and his supporters are crying “weaponization of the justice system.”

Instead of a clenched fist of support, it was a big middle finger to Sweden and Finland.

Moscow is playing a very strange game.

The competition is slowly ratcheting up.

Normalcy is not a bad thing.

Not only has the war changed, but so have the combatants.

The economy, it turns out, is complicated.

An embarrassing photo demonstrates the perils of leading the free world.

What is the right measure of success for the Committee investigating the Capitol riot?

The 79-year-old will be 80 on his next birthday.

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

Japan’s longest-serving prime minister was killed at a campaign rally. He was 67.

Remarkably, he had contact information on there!

The Western alliance is getting stronger in the face of Russian aggression.

What happens if Ukraine can’t achieve complete victory?

He’s underwater and not going to take it anymore.