Outside the Beltway

The leveling of Bakhmut is the latest Russian atrocity.

He’s turned Russia from a G-8 member to an international pariah.

Leaked intelligence intercepts take us inside the Ukrainian war room.

CNN gave the former Liar in Chief a huuuge platform.

The Pope is siding with evil.

A weird twist to the online leak story.

Sanctions and a costly war are taking their toll.

The Russian leader’s status as an international pariah is cemented.

As memory of the Cold War fades, so does support for American primacy.

A wrongheaded if longstanding position.

Many in the Global South see the war very differently than we in the West.

Putin is losing but no one is winning.

And this time, we mean it.

An object lesson on the challenges of alliance politics.

A controversial artillery round is being used effectively against Russian forces.

Russia is humiliated but not defeated. Ukraine is winning but at a very high price.

A 34-year CIA officer’s thoughts.

President Biden is being pressured to face the music after the midterms.

The attack at the Pelosi house should surprise no one.

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

The collaboration has been even more robust than advertised.

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.

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.

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.

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

Foreign policy makes strange bedfellows.

The Democrats have lots of problems. Salesmanship is pretty far down the list.

A diplomatic nightmare brewing since last week is now upon us.

The Biden Administration is constantly bragging about its actions against Russia. Is that wise?

A splendid idea but why stop there?

The Pope is indeed Catholic. The rest is up for debate.

Crises tend to be distracting.

A fascinating report from the WSJ.

Another morale booster for the good guys.

Whether deliberate or another ‘gaffe,’ he’s likely right.

Intellectuals are fleeing as Soviet-style censorship returns.

Western powers may be at odds with the people doing the fighting and dying.

Evidence of mass atrocities across Ukraine continues to mount.

The only way to save our freedom is to destroy it.