Ukraine's Sluggish Counteroffensive Raises Questions About U.S. Support
Should the U.S. continue to bankroll the counteroffensive?
Should the U.S. continue to bankroll the counteroffensive?
The program extends the successful Uniting for Ukraine policy to migrants fleeing Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Haiti.
Washington is doing a poor job of monitoring whether the weapons it sends to Ukraine are ending up in the right hands.
The chance of open U.S.-Russia conflict really would increase if Ukraine were admitted to NATO.
Progressive Democrats' opposition to sending cluster bombs to Ukraine is welcome. Their arguments apply to much of the military aid the U.S. is sending the country.
NATO could increase its "ready" troops from 40,000 to 300,000. That isn't certain to make us safer.
Participants included Prof. Adam Cox (NYU), David Bier (Cato), Kit Taintor (Welcome.US), and myself.
Feudal-style squabbling with the control of nuclear weapons at stake.
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The definition excludes a vast range of people fleeing horrific violence and oppression.
The bill would grant permanent residency rights to many thousands of Ukrainians who have entered the US since 2014. But its exact scope is unclear.
The bipartisan legislation would grant permanent residency and work rights to some 400,000 refugees from Venezuela's brutal socialist dictatorship.
There’s no neat and clean way to fight a war, even for victims of aggression.
Participants include Prof. Adam Cox (NYU), David Bier (Cato), Kit Taintor (Welcome.US), and myself.
Projections of huge savings are making the rounds. Nothing could be further from the truth.
A new study by the conservative Manhattan Institute concludes that the expansion of private sponsorship parole to migrants from Cuba, Nicaragua, Haiti and Venezuela has reduced illegal migration across the southern border by about 98,000 per month.
The Pentagon’s “accounting error” will allow President Joe Biden to send an extra $3 billion in military aid to Ukraine without congressional approval. Was this deliberate?
He's not wrong about that.
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The policy will protect thousands of Afghan refugees against imminent prospect of deportation. Same should be done for Ukrainians and others admitted to US using the parole power. But a permanent solution to this problem requires Congress to pass an adjustment act.
It has been reprinted (with permission) by the Cato Institute.
This can easily be accomplished by Congess enacting an adjustment act.
That doesn't mean Russia is right. It means we're being honest about how much the U.S. is involved.
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He made it prior to being sentenced to 25 years in prison for speaking out against Vladimir Putin's war on Ukraine.
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While escalation is not inevitable, it’s still a risk having any U.S. boots on the ground.
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Does Ukraine face an existential risk? Does it matter?
Are we stumbling into disaster? Again?
The charge is the crime of illegal kidnapping and deportation of Ukrainian children.
It's an impressive achievement. But we can do much more. Canada's much greater openness to immigration is an indication of what's possible.
What we did for Ukrainians, we could do for other migrants too.
DeSantis' foreign policy seems to be defined by a simple rule: Whatever Democrats do is wrong, but whatever Republicans do is right.
While a conservative skepticism toward military aggression would be welcome, Republican standard-bearers are all too happy to sign off on war powers in other ways.
A compilation of my work on this topic, on the one-year anniversary of the start of Vladimir Putin's attempt to conquer Ukraine.
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What was a local conflict is shaping up as a battle between alliances.
After one year, whatever morale boost Biden’s visit provided won’t necessarily have concrete, strategic effects in Ukraine.
Giving recent Ukrainian refugees the right to permanent residency in the US will avert potential tragedy for them, and benefit the US economy.
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