Canada Border Services Agency says it helped put two Montreal-based companies with alleged ties to the Russian military on a United States sanctions list. The U.S. Department of Commerce last month added CPUNTO inc. and Electronic Network inc. to a list of entities subject to export controls. Both companies are headquartered in the Montreal borough…
Ukraine War: Two Montreal Companies Sanctioned by US for Alleged Ties to Russia
Questioning Biden’s Ukraine Policy Doesn’t Make You an ‘Isolationist’
Commentary It’s not exactly a sign of a healthy democratic discourse that it’s virtually impossible to ask a critical question about the United States’ role in the Ukraine-Russia conflict without being smeared as a Putin apologist or an “isolationist.” We’ve been bombarded with bromides about a civilizational struggle that pits the forces of autocracy and…
China’s ‘Peace Plan’ Reveals True Intentions
February 28, 2023
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Commentary The history of armed conflict reveals at least one truism: wars are more easily started than concluded. Consider the bloodiest conflict of the 20th century, the Great War. The conflict was at a stalemate for years until the Australian General John Monash engineered a breakthrough at Villers-Bretenneux and Le Hamel. For years, the frontlines…
NATO Expansion Focus of Parliamentary Committee Trip to Europe to Study Ukraine
Expanding the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has become a major focus of Parliament’s foreign affairs committee as it tours several European countries to study the impact of the war in Ukraine, the committee chair said in an interview in Warsaw Sunday. The committee members started their journey in Sweden last week and will end in…
The Ukraine War’s Prelude to What?
Commentary The Ukraine mess is daily looking more like the Spanish Civil War of 1936 to 1939, a meat grinder that took 500,000 lives. That three-year conflict became a savage proxy war and prelude for the belligerents of World War II. The Ukraine battlefield is proving to be a similar laboratory of death. New lethal…
US Worked With China, India to Deter Russia From Using Tactical Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine, Blinken Says
February 23, 2023
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In response to intelligence that Russian President Vladmir Putin was considering nuking Ukraine last spring, the Biden administration worked with China, India, and other nations to coordinate a message of opposition to deter Putin from pushing the button, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Thursday. Speaking to editor-in-chief of Atlantic Magazine Jeffrey Goldberg,…
US Considered Blocking Exports of Taiwanese Microchips to Russia
February 23, 2023
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The United States considered last year blocking the export of Taiwanese microchips to Russia due to its war in Ukraine but ultimately decided against doing so, said U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Feb. 23. “A year ago, we led a coalition of 36 countries to align export controls against Russia,” said Raimondo at an…
British BAE Systems Saw Record Orders in 2022 Due to Ukraine War
February 23, 2023
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The United Kingdom’s largest defense firm experienced record orders as the Russia–Ukraine war boosted military spending in 2022. British defense giant BAE Systems said on Feb. 23 that orders for weapons systems soared last year amid an “elevated threat environment” in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The group is one of the largest builders…
Experts Say America Should Team With Other Nations to Combat High-Tech Threats
The outcome of the Ukraine war will depend on Ukrainian blood and American communications tech, said David Ignatius, a German Marshall Fund board member. Ignatius spoke at a fund discussion on the “Foreign Policy of Technology”, along with diplomat and former U.S. Marine officer Nate Fick. Ukraine is just one of many areas where technology…
The US Needs Quantity and Quality for High Intensity Warfare
Commentary The Biden administration’s decision to provide M1 Abrams main battle tanks to Ukraine follows reports that U.S. support for Ukraine in its war with Russia could hinder America’s ability to fight a war with communist China. Since 2014, the United States has committed to sending Ukraine over $27 billion in military equipment and supplies….
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