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Pompeo, Haley Condemn Russian Aggression Against Ukraine
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley have rightly condemned Russia’s recent undue acts of aggression against Ukraine. Monday’s condemnation follows a provocation in the Black Sea the day before, when Russian Federal Security Service border patrol boats attacked and seized three Ukrainian...
We Hear You: Coming to America, Birthright Citizenship, and Climate Alarmism
Editor’s note: The Daily’s Signal’s audience was touched by foreign correspondent Nolan Peterson’s account of his wife’s introduction to America. The issue of birthright citizenship also drew many a comment to lead off this week’s mailbag. Remember to write us at [email protected].—Ken McIntyre Dear Daily...
In Ukraine, the Game and the War Go On
KYIV, Ukraine—The war in Ukraine escalated this week to its most violent levels of the year with Russian artillery and rocket attacks targeting both Ukrainian military forces and civilian settlements along the front lines in eastern Ukraine’s embattled Donbas region. “The Kremlin controls the violence in eastern Ukraine and could bring this...
Russia Makes Bold Move to Try to Solidify Control Over Crimea
KYIV, Ukraine—On Tuesday, Russia’s ongoing conflict against Ukraine flared up once again. This time, however, it wasn’t another Russian artillery or rocket barrage in eastern Ukraine’s embattled Donbas region. Rather, the latest escalation was evidenced by the completion of a bridge across the Kerch Strait connecting the Crimean...
It’s Been 1 Year Since Mueller Began His Investigation. It’s Past Time for It to Wrap Up.
Thursday marks the one-year anniversary of Robert Mueller’s appointment as a special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election and whether the Russian government coordinated its activities with associates of candidate Donald Trump. Over the past year Mueller has managed to spend $10 million in taxpayer...
As Ukraine Grapples With Its Soviet Past and Russia’s Ongoing War in the East, One City Moves On
HORISHNI PLAVNI, Ukraine—The trenches, tanks, artillery, and snipers are only six hours to the east of here by car. The war is always there, as it has been now for more than four years, but there’s hardly any evidence of it in this city of about 52,000 people on the bucolic left bank of the Dnieper River in central Ukraine. On this day, May...
Ukraine Fortifies Its Airwaves Against Russian TV Broadcasts
KYIV, Ukraine—Ukraine has gone to war against Russian propaganda. Last week, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced the deployment of Ukrainian electronic warfare units to jam the transmission of about 40 Russian and pro-Russian television channels in the country’s embattled eastern Donbas region. “We will protect Ukrainians from...
How to Make Putin Pay a High Price for His Aggression
Following a Russian nerve gas attack on British soil, many Western governments have stood in solidarity with the United Kingdom and have expelled Russian diplomats from their countries. And, in the aftermath of a Russian-aided Syrian chemical attack against the Syrian own people, the United States, U.K., and France launched airstrikes against the...
As US-China Trade War Looms, Ukraine Stands to Gain
KYIV, Ukraine—Amid the specter of a looming trade war with the U.S., China is boosting its economic ties with Ukraine. For one, Ukraine has overtaken the U.S. as China’s top corn supplier. Five years ago, the U.S. supplied about 97 percent of Chinese corn imports. In 2017, however, Ukraine accounted for about two-thirds of China’s...
Why the US Must Befriend Hungary’s Populist Leader
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban won a convincing majority in Sunday’s parliamentary election. Even the day before the election, The Guardian was all too pleased to showcase the left’s apoplexy by running the headline, “Hungary’s war on democracy is a war on democracy everywhere.” This has it exactly backward, of course....
