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To justify Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin accused the Kyiv government of committing genocide in the Donbas region. Post-invasion, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has alleged that Russian attacks have “shown signs of genocide” and asked the International Criminal Court to investigate. The term genocide is often loosely used like this when the
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in trouble last month because of a series of parties and gatherings in his official residence in Downing Street during the coronavirus lockdowns of 2020 and 2021. Such gatherings were prohibited by law, which many ordinary people were arrested and fined for breaking, and the scandal became known as “Partygate.” The governing
The post-Cold War case for the Trident nuclear missile was never an easy sell in the UK. With no Soviet Union, why continue spending billions of pounds on a nuclear deterrent when it is not clear exactly what was being deterred? Would that money not be better spent on the more immediate needs of the population and put to rest Britain’s nostalgia as a global power, quietly
The United States needs a bold and ambitious Marshall Plan for Afghanistan
After the chaotic Western withdrawal from Afghanistan and the Taliban takeover of Kabul in August last year, hundreds of thousands of people who believed in the West’s promise of a modern, democratic Afghanistan were left behind and at the mercy of Taliban reprisals. The West still owes these people.