Putin just crossed a NATO red line. What will NATO do now? fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-night-pu…

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is an abhorrent act. I'm glad to see so many of the people who disagreed most vehemently with him strongly - liberals, Democrats, etc. -- condemn the killing. Political assassinations are an unacceptable, pernicious, dangerous threat to society.

For first time in NATO’s history its forces just fought enemy targets in the sovereign airspace of a member country. Fighter jets struck Russian military drones over Poland. Putin is testing NATO. If it doesn't respond, worse is coming. fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-night-pu…

Poland rejects Trump’s claim that Putin attack on NATO was accidental open.substack.com/pub/fridainsig…

The temperature keeps rising. When will the pot boil over? open.substack.com/pub/fridainsig…

Subscribers is 99 countries. fridainsight.substack.com

Hello #Ukraine!

Putin is acting on the assassination of Charlie Kirk fridainsight.substack.com/p/putins-take-…

"the Trump administration last April shut down the office responsible for tracking and countering disinformation from Russia, China, Iran and terrorist groups, the State Department’s Counter Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub."

European efforts to keep Trump from abandoning Ukraine have so far proven largely successful. But there is a dark cloud on the horizon, Frida Ghitis writes. worldpoliticsreview.com/europe-ukraine…

The killing of Charlie Kirk -- and especially its aftermath -- are yet another gift to Putin and the enemies of democracy. fridainsight.substack.com/p/putins-take-…

What Putin thinks about Charlie Kirk’s killing. — and much more here: fridainsight.substack.com

The U.S. is not alone, the far right is surging in Europe fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-far-righ…

Last May, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency designated the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, party as a “confirmed extremist” threat to the country’s democratic order. It is now polling in 1st place, ahead of the center-right CDU of Chancellor Merz fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-far-righ…

Europe’s Far Right Has the Wind in Its Sails Again fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-far-righ…

He’s test driving a new lie

I wonder how Chief Justice John Roberts feels about the court under his leadership. This is how history will remember his tenure.

Zelensky marks the anniversary of the massacre at Babyn Yar, a ravine on the outskirts of Kyiv, where the Nazis and their collaborators slaughtered 33,000 Ukrainian Jews in two days. Tens of thousands more were murdered there over the following years.

A humiliating defeat for Putin and a victory democracy, by the woman who already beat him twice. fridainsight.substack.com/p/the-woman-wh…