By Brad Reed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine is not getting the uniform backing on state media networks that greeted the 2014 annexation of Crimea. The Daily Beast’s Julia Davis reports that the crippling economic sanctions are causing some second thoughts even among television personalities who normally give the government their full backing. […]
Twelve days into his invasion of Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has “no sustainable political endgame,” the heads of U.S. intelligence agencies told Congress in a somber assessment Tuesday. That military reality means even greater humanitarian costs lie ahead, they said. “Putin is angry and frustrated right now,” Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns told […]
By War News Updates Editor Tom Z. Collina, Defense One: Will Russia Go Nuclear? Probably not, but that ultimately depends on factors out of our control, including Putin himself. President Joe Biden had a quick answer when he was asked on Monday whether Americans should be concerned about nuclear war. “No,” he said. Well, […]