Editorial
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EDITORIAL: Grandma Has $669 Left, and They're Still Telling Her to Tighten Her Belt
The other day I was on the road with my wife and my mother-in-law. Traffic was crawling. And we drove past the encampments.
EDITORIAL: The West Must Choose Now or Fade Within a Decade
There comes a moment in the life of a civilization when diagnosis is no longer enough. The figures are on the table. The official…
EDITORIAL: The Netherlands reaches for the chequebook while Europe fights over Putin’s phone
The Netherlands pays. Europe fights over the telephone receiver. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky thanks The Hague for €500 million in military aid. The sum…
EDITORIAL: Two hours of diesel for sanctions, Donald Trump’s bad bargain
A tanker. Forty thousand tons. Russian diesel. Bound for New York. Enough to cover barely two hours of American demand, analyst Ieva Miyares calculates.
EDITORIAL: It's Not the Taxes. It's What We Get for Them.
You hear it every election cycle, in every tavern, in every comment section. And it is not false. The question was never whether we…
EDITORIAL: Putin wants a final deal and signs it with 21 missiles on Kyiv
Putin wants a final deal. He said so on television. Not a short pause. A full settlement. Nothing less.
EDITORIAL: Peskov names the “price” Ukraine will pay. Arm its sky before Putin’s spring
On September 28, speaking in Moscow, Dmitry Peskov warned that Ukraine would have to “pay a price for the actions that have taken place…
EDITORIAL: American taxpayers pay for a 2024 ad the White House only stripped of its logo
Between two football games, on September 26 and 27, a president walks alone down a hallway and promises the “final battle.”
EDITORIAL: Trump wants Russian refineries spared, and Kyiv must hold its cards while the Kremlin refuses
Donald Trump told reporters on September 27 that he had asked Volodymyr Zelensky to “take it easy” on Russian refineries. We say no.