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Is North Korea Preparing for War? – HotAir

NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has a new column today highlighting something else to worry about. He points to a recent analysis of North Korea by two individuals with decades of expertise on the subject. Their names are Robert Carlin and Siegfried Hecker: I’ve seen many false alarms since I began covering and visiting North […]

‘We Will Not Look Backwards’ – HotAir

Taiwan just said no to “reunification” or you could argue that Taiwan just said yes to war. China has been making threats for weeks that this election was a vote between peace and war. Peace on China’s terms meant electing the Beijing-friendly KMT Party so that reunification with the mainland could be negotiated. War, according […]

‘Everyone Over There is a Terrorist’ – HotAir

An understandably bitter declaration, considering everything Mia Schem endured at the hands of Hamas — and its collaborators in Gaza. In Schem’s recounting of her weeks in captivity after her kidnapping on October 7, the terrorism goes well beyond the formal ranks of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Schem, whose cause became an international story […]

Ukraine Must Give Up Territory to End War – HotAir

It can be simultaneously true that Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression is just and that Ukraine will not be able to achieve the objective of completely beating back Russian advances into its territory. The Biden Administration seems to be slowly realizing that the hard realities on the ground will likely prevent the long arc of […]

The Latest Billionaire Bails on Harvard – HotAir

In case you’ve never heard of Len Blavatnik (more properly, Sir Leonard Valentinovich Blavatnik), he is a Ukrainian-born businessman and a noted philanthropist. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his philanthropy work in 2017. He is also Jewish. When his family emigrated to the United States in 1978, he studied engineering at Columbia […]