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** Let Ukraine Bomb Russia ([link removed])
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by Con Coughlin • August 6, 2023 at 5:00 am
* The Ukrainian military's growing willingness to attack targets inside Russian territory is causing deep unease among some of Kyiv's Western allies, especially in Washington, where the Biden administration seems obsessed with preventing the Ukrainians from taking any action that might upset Putin.
* While the White House has been reluctantly persuaded to give the go-ahead for Kyiv to be provided this equipment, the Biden administration remains reluctant to provide any kit that the Ukrainians could use to attack targets inside Russia.
* Biden's failure to provide Ukraine with the weapons it requires to prevail on the battlefield, including the ability to attack targets inside Russian territory, demonstrates a fundamental lack of understanding of what is at stake in this dreadful conflict, namely the future security of the Western alliance.
* A Ukrainian victory would not only inflict a devastating defeat on Putin and his authoritarian regime, it would send a signal to other autocratic regimes that they threaten the West and allies, such as Taiwan, at their peril.
* Another concern that is inhibiting the Biden administration's handling of the Ukraine crisis are fears that if Putin is removed from power, he could be replaced by an ultra-nationalist who would make the threat Russia poses to global security even worse -- an eventuality that is bound to happen at some point and, to a strong US government, should probably be irrelevant.
* There are also concerns about Moscow's constant threats to revert to nuclear weapons, even though this nothing more than a dangerous bluff on the part of the Kremlin, as China – among others – has made it clear it would not tolerate the use of such weapons. And without Chinese backing, Russia's predicament would be far worse.
* Rather than exploring the possibility of negotiating a peace deal with Moscow, one that would inevitably betray Ukraine's sovereign integrity, Biden should be redoubling Washington's efforts to make sure that Putin's chances of surviving in power once the war is over are non-existent.

Ukraine's ability to launch attacks deep within Russian territory are vital if the Ukrainian military's counteroffensive is to stand any chance of liberating its territory from Russian occupation. Pictured: Police officers block off an area around a damaged office block of the Moscow International Business Center following a reported Ukrainian drone attack in Moscow, Russia on July 30, 2023. (Photo by Alexander Nemenov/AFP via Getty Images)

Ukraine's ability to launch attacks deep within Russian territory are vital if the Ukrainian military's counteroffensive is to stand any chance of liberating its territory from Russian occupation.

In recent days, Ukraine has launched a series of drone attacks against Russian targets, including two drone strikes against a skyscraper in central Moscow and an attempted drone strike against Russian naval ships in the Black Sea.

The skyscraper, which houses teams from Russia's Ministry of Economic Development, Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media, and Ministry of Industry and Trade, was the target of drone strikes on two consecutive days.

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** The Left: What Is Left of It? ([link removed])
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by Amir Taheri • August 6, 2023 at 4:00 am
* Today, we have no extreme right or far-right parties in Europe; we only have "populist" parties that have established themselves as parties of government in more than half of the European Union. Solidly based social democratic regimes in such places as Scandinavia and Finland have been dethroned by coalitions led by "populist" parties.

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Since the 1980s, European political parties such as the Alliance for the Future of Austria, founded by Jörg Haider, and the National Front, founded by Jean-Marie Le Pen, have broadened their electoral base and forced their opponents, that is to say the traditional social democratic left and conservative right, to drop the labels they had used against them. The label "extreme right" became "far-right" and, currently, replaced by "populist."

Today, we have no extreme right or far-right parties in Europe; we only have "populist" parties that have established themselves as parties of government in more than half of the European Union. Solidly based social democratic regimes in such places as Scandinavia and Finland have been dethroned by coalitions led by "populist" parties.

Similar coalitions are in power in Estonia, Greece, Italy, Poland and Slovakia.

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