A little bit of everything
In the depths of the ocean, a young submarine officer spent his part of the Cold War on the USS Bluefish (SSN-675), a Sturgeon-class fast-attack submarine built to track and sink Soviet ballistic missile subs.
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Former President Ronald Reagan would be appalled by President Donald Trump’s seemingly friendly foreign policy attitude toward Russia and hostile treatment of U.S. allies such as Ukraine, according to a former advisor to the late president.
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The Ukrainian people have been fighting and dying for three years to send what should be a universal message to Vladamir Putin: Don’t invade and steal property from a free and sovereign nation just because you think that you can get away with it.
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In the nearly four years President Joe Biden has been in office the world has arguably become a more dangerous place than at any other time since the height of the Cold War in the 1960s.
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One of the new owners of The Baltimore Sun, Armstrong Williams, wrote an Op-Ed on March 24 in support of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
“If Nikita Khrushchev could arbitrarily transfer Crimea from Russia to Ukraine in 1954, what’s so terrible about [Russian President Vladimir] Putin reversing that in 2014?” Williams wrote.
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“Today I’m in Washington to strengthen our coalition to defend Ukrainian children, families, our homes, freedom and democracy in the world,” Zelenskyy told reporters as he stood with Biden in the White House’s Oval Office in the afternoon. It was Zelenskyy’s sixth meeting with Biden since the Russian invasion.
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We need our own arsenal of nuclear weapons, more scary than anyone else’s, because “no one wins a nuclear war” and “mutually assured destruction” was the only deterrent to their use.
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The U.S. has largely had a liberal-leaning Supreme Court since the Roe v. Wade decision. Now, for the first time,
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Marking the end of the Cold War, in 1991 members of the Soviet Union broke their 70-year-old empire into 15 independent nations. In 2014, beginning with his invasion of Ukraine, Vladimir Putin began putting the pieces back together again.
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A former colleague and good friend told me a quote, “Just when you think humanity has reached its lowest point, the bottom drops out and you find that there are many, many more bottoms to come.”
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