Category: crisis in Ukraine

Upcoming Live Q&A Webinar: What Is China’s End Game for the Russian-Ukraine War?

As Russia carries out its invasion of Ukraine, the international interests of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) are also coming into focus. Prior to the invasion, the CCP and Russia signed a “no limits” strategic agreement, and the CCP made public its intentions to take Taiwan. Sanctions are now driving Russian businesses to the Chinese…


Ukraine War Inflames Factional Struggles Within CCP Ahead of Important Party Meeting: Analysts

NEW DELHI—Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has intensified factional conflicts within the Chinese Communist Party as maneuvering for influence gathers pace ahead of an important Party meeting later this year, according to sinologists. Over the past days, the Chinese communist leadership gathered in Beijing for its annual “Two Sessions” meetings of the regime’s rubber-stamp legislature and…


Industry Calls on Biden to Lift Moratorium on New Oil, Gas Leases

Domestic producers in the United States welcomed President Joe Biden’s March 8 order banning Russian oil and gas imports but say his muddled energy policies will prolong consumers’ pain at the pump and inhibit efforts to restore American energy independence. “This crisis should be a wake-up call that we need [a] strategic American energy policy…


Newsom Enforces Sanctions Against Russia, Halting State Investments

SACRAMENTO, Calif.—As the war between Russia and Ukraine proceeds, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order on March 4 requiring state agencies and departments to halt investments and financial transactions with Russia while urging businesses in California to follow as well. “The Russian Federation has mounted aggressive, unlawful, and violent actions against Ukraine and its…


Larry Kudlow: How the US Could Gut Russia’s War Chest | CPAC 2022

“When oil prices are low, you don’t hear from Putin. When oil prices are high, that’s how they make their money. That’s all they have. … We’re at $100 a barrel and rising, so Putin has got the money to go into Ukraine.” At the 2022 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), we sat down with…


Ukraine Refugees Flood West as Border Nations Scramble to Organize Aid

Shortly after the first shots were fired on Ukraine during what Russian President Vladimir Putin called “special military operations” on Feb. 24, Ukrainians began fleeing from the front lines and flooded toward the border nations of Poland, Hungary, Moldova, Slovakia, and Romania. The vast majority of Ukrainians evacuating are women and children because of the…


Former White House Physician Says Biden Is Not Cognitively Fit For Office

Dr. Ronny Jackson is a congressman from Texas, a retired Rear Admiral in the U.S. Navy, as well as the former White House doctor to Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump. And during our interview, we discussed the situation in Ukraine, the Truckers convoy, the ballooning national debt, as well as his insight into why 66…


We May Be Losing but at Least We’re Morally Superior

Commentary “Can’t anybody here play this game?” That was the title, supposedly quoting the words of legendary Major League baseball manager Casey Stengel, of Jimmy Breslin’s book about the hapless, 120-game losing, 1962 New York Mets. I think the same words could apply to the American foreign policy establishment in the 45 years since another…


National Security Expert: Threatened by Democracy, Putin Wants to ‘Damage’ Ukraine Not ‘Dominate’

An expert on general U.S. foreign policy and national security, Senior Director Harry Kazianis at the Center for National Interest, said it appears Putin does not want to dominate Ukraine, but rather to damage its military, making it less appealing to the European Union and NATO allies. “I don’t think Putin wants to completely dominate…


Ukraine Tensions Stoke Fears That US Is Shifting Focus Away From Countering China

The brewing crisis between Ukraine and Russia and the United States’ engagement in it has drawn fresh concerns within the Indo-Pacific, a region that Washington has declared as its long-term strategic focus, particularly in countering the Chinese regime. Some experts and U.S. lawmakers fear the crisis in Europe will distract the United States from its…