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Section: The Daily Signal (USA)

    What a No First Use Policy Would Mean for Global Security
    Sep13

    What a No First Use Policy Would Mean for Global Security

    As the clock is ticking, President Barack Obama is striving to cement his legacy in the realm of nuclear weapons policy. In the past, the president has suggested his nuclear policy goal would be a “no first use” policy—a plan many experts as well as U.S. allies continue to meet with skepticism and resistance. While recent reports indicate Obama...

    How Georgia Could Boost American Interests
    Sep13

    How Georgia Could Boost American Interests

    My small country of Georgia lies at the crossroads of Europe and Asia. It also lies at the intersection of many of America’s most vital interests in this increasingly important region. Georgia is connected by geography to the Black Sea and to the West’s NATO allies that border it. Georgia shares another important border with...

    15 Years After 9/11, My Generation’s War Hasn’t Ended Yet
    Sep09

    15 Years After 9/11, My Generation’s War Hasn’t Ended Yet

    KYIV, Ukraine—My brother Drew, a former Air Force captain, told me one of the worst stories I’ve yet to hear from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was riding in a convoy from Bagram Air Base to Kabul during a deployment to Afghanistan in August 2010. This particularly dangerous stretch of road was known as “suicide alley” due to the...

    Journalists Caught in the Crossfire of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict
    Sep08

    Journalists Caught in the Crossfire of the Ukraine-Russia Conflict

    KYIV, Ukraine—There is a memorial to murdered Ukrainian journalists on Khreshchatyk, Kyiv’s central boulevard. It’s a simple, nondescript metal plaque flanked by flowers on the side of a building. Some of the names are faded now, worn down by the years and the elements. The names date from 1992, the first year after Ukraine gained its...

    2 Years Ago, I Thought the War in Ukraine Was Over. I Was Wrong.
    Sep02

    2 Years Ago, I Thought the War in Ukraine Was Over. I Was Wrong.

    KYIV, Ukraine—Two years ago, on Sept. 5, 2014, the Ukraine war’s first cease-fire went into effect. For a brief moment, the guns fell silent along the front lines in Ukraine’s embattled southeastern Donbas region. These areas included the outskirts of the southern port city of Mariupol, where Ukrainian and combined Russian-separatist...

    Russia’s Military Exercises Fuel Fears of Continued Aggression
    Aug31

    Russia’s Military Exercises Fuel Fears of Continued Aggression

    KYIV, Ukraine—As the late summer weather begins to cool, Russian military exercises have kept the tensions hot in Ukraine and across Eastern Europe. Periodic flare-ups in the ongoing war in Ukraine’s embattled Donbas region this summer have renewed fears of a full-on Russian invasion and spurred an unprecedented post-Cold War redeployment...

    ‘The War Won’t Be Over Soon’: Ukraine’s Long Fight Against Russia for Freedom
    Aug22

    ‘The War Won’t Be Over Soon’: Ukraine’s Long Fight Against Russia for Freedom

    MARIUPOL, Ukraine— For more than two years, Ukraine’s military has been fighting a ground war against a combined force of pro-Russian separatists and Russian regulars in the Donbas, Ukraine’s embattled southeastern territory. As Ukraine prepares for the 25th anniversary of its independence from the Soviet Union this Wednesday, the...

    This Olympic Star Could Signal Big Change in Women’s Sports
    Aug19

    This Olympic Star Could Signal Big Change in Women’s Sports

    A star athlete poised to win gold in the women’s 800-meter race at the Rio Olympics has sparked an ethics debate over gender and sex in competitive sports. “Semenya has been nearly unbeatable, prompting speculation that she had been suppressing her testosterone with medication.”—@SITimLayden @SInowe Caster Semenya, of South Africa, has her...

    After Crimea ‘Incursions,’ Russia and Ukraine Step Back From All-Out War
    Aug17

    After Crimea ‘Incursions,’ Russia and Ukraine Step Back From All-Out War

    KYIV, Ukraine—In a familiar cycle of brinksmanship, Russia and Ukraine once again edged toward the brink of open war last week, only for the bellicose rhetoric and military posturing to dissipate rapidly, leaving the conflict in eastern Ukraine no closer to a long-term solution. Russia’s successor spy agency to the KGB, the Federal Security...

    ‘I Thought You’d Forgotten’: Visiting My Friend, a Wounded Ukrainian Soldier
    Aug12

    ‘I Thought You’d Forgotten’: Visiting My Friend, a Wounded Ukrainian Soldier

    KYIV, Ukraine—There were three beds in the hospital room. Two were empty and in the middle bed was my friend Nemo. He was naked except for a white sheet haphazardly draped over his crotch. A mess of tubes extruded from his chest and torso. A long bandage went down his abdomen where the surgeons had opened him up. His legs were like a Jackson...