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Conrad Black: The end of Ukraine war is coming

Whatever happened in the Trump-Putin meeting, just after this column was written, we are finally getting close to the only satisfactory end to the awful Ukraine war. President Donald Trump deserves credit for being the only western statesman who audibly made the point that the West had two objectives in this war. Of course, Russia could not be permitted to occupy and reabsorb Ukraine. If it had done so, it would in one stroke have regained the largest single piece of what it had lost in its total defeat in the Cold War, which caused the disintegration of the Soviet Union, the collapse of international communism, (and the realignment of the left of the world as spontaneous environmental militants attacking capitalism from a new angle in the name of saving the planet). Ukraine is next to Russia itself the largest and most strategically important component of the former USSR. Apart from being a strategic disaster and a terrible injustice to Ukraine, the Russian conquest of Ukraine would have exposed the Western Alliance as a paper tiger that no aggressive state need take seriously. Read More
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J.D. Tuccille: Europe’s censors threaten free speech around the globe

Last week, while visiting the U.K., United States Vice-President JD Vance warned Foreign Secretary David Lammy that his country’s government shouldn’t proceed down the “very dark path” of restricting speech. This week, the U.S. State Department released its latest reports on human rights practices around the world, calling out several European countries, particularly France, Germany, and the U.K., for “serious restrictions on freedom of expression” as well as growing antisemitic violence.   Read More
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Sex and the City costume designer shines in own film

Quick — name the five best costume designers in television. OK, the three best. Still can’t get there? We’re not surprised. There’s arguably only one costume designer who’s changed the visual language of television in the last quarter-century and become a household name in the process: Patricia Field. Read More
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