Category Archives: Russia

Ilya Lozovsky: I’m a Russian-born American Jew. My people’s rejection of Syrian refugees breaks my heart.

He can’t conceive that there might be any other perspective but his own. Any other viewpoint is bigoted and racist. From the WP comments section: * Maybe it’s because no one thinks or ever thought that the Jewish refugees from … Continue reading

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Russia’s Moral Framework and Why It Matters

From The National Interest: Russia’s moral framework, particularly as it applies to contemporary Russian foreign policy, differs markedly from that of the West. While post-Soviet Russia has no guiding ideology, it does argue that certain values, if adopted as shared … Continue reading

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Let Putin Have His Way In Syria

Steve Chapman writes: Vladimir Putin is having a field day in the Middle East. He has sent Russian planes to bomb rebels in Syria. He has reached an intelligence-sharing agreement with Syria, Iran and Iraq. At the U.N. Monday, he … Continue reading

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Take the Russian Gift Horse’s gift and run like hell to North America

Michael Scheuer writes: One has to be amazed at the number of chances to save itself that America keeps encountering and refusing to grasp and exploit in the Arab world. We were safely out of Iraq when Obama and the … Continue reading

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Jews & Putin

Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin seems Jew-friendly to me (particularly to Chabad), but it is interesting that most of his enemies in Russia are Jewish. I doubt that most Jews in Russia oppose him. I am not exactly sure why so … Continue reading

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