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Melissa Eddy / New York Times:
Germany puts a stop to Nord Stream 2, a key Russian natural gas pipeline. — Germany halted certification of the pipeline linking the country to Russia in response to the Kremlin's recognition of two separatist regions in Ukraine. — Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday that Germany …
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Lili Bayer / Politico:
EU, UK leaders vow sanctions over Putin's recognition of breakaway Ukraine regions — Leaders from the European Union and the United Kingdom vowed Monday to impose sanctions over Russian President Vladimir Putin's decision to recognize two separatist regions in eastern Ukraine as independent.
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New York Times:
Wooing Allies, Publicizing Putin's Plans: Inside Biden's Race to Prevent War — President Biden made three critical decisions about how to handle Russia's provocations, aiming to prevent armed conflict in Ukraine. — WASHINGTON — In a series of top-secret meetings last October …
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David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Surprising cracks, if small ones, appear in Kremlin support for Putin on Ukraine — President Vladimir Putin presented a theatrical justification for war with Ukraine on Monday, but initial Russian military actions along the border were limited — and there seemed to be a few small cracks …
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Politico:
As Putin sends troops into Donbas, White House avoids the ‘I’ word — Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered troops into the breakaway Luhansk and Donetsk regions Monday night, following his decision earlier in the day to recognize those regions as independent republics, and no longer part of Ukraine.
Joseph R. Biden Jr / The White House:
Executive Order on Blocking Property of Certain Persons and Prohibiting Certain Transactions With Respect to Continued Russian Efforts to Undermine the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine … By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States …
Senator Ted Cruz:
Sen. Cruz Issues Statement after Putin Escalates Aggression Against Ukraine and Deploys Troops
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Lucy Fisher / Telegraph:
Oligarchs lobby Foreign Office in bid to avoid sanctions
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BBC:
Five banks and three wealthy Russians hit by UK sanctions
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Daniel W. Drezner / Washington Post:
The lose-lose outcome in Ukraine … Monday was a busy day for Vladimir Putin. First he convened a bizarrely scripted security council meeting of the Russian Federation to discuss the situation in Ukraine. One reporter described the debate as “like a Netflix drama” in which some of Putin's lackeys fumbled the script.
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Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Putin Chooses a Forever War — Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a long speech full of heavy sighs and dark grievances, made clear today that he has chosen war. He went to war against Ukraine in 2014; now he has declared war against the international order of the past 30 years.
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Stephen Fidler / Wall Street Journal:
Putin's Endgame: Unravel the Post-Cold War Agreements That Humiliated Russia — Moscow's military forces threaten Ukraine, but the bigger prize is restoration of Russia's sphere of influence stretching through Eastern Europe — The world's attention is on eastern Ukraine, where Moscow's forces circle.
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Walter Russell Mead / Wall Street Journal:
Why Putin Is Outfoxing the West — Russia's president is willing to take risks his opponents would never consider. — As Western leaders struggle to respond to Vladimir Putin's unexpectedly dramatic challenge to the post-Cold War order in Europe, the record so far is mixed.
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Robert Kagan / Washington Post:
What we can expect after Putin's conquest of Ukraine
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Shaun Walker / The Guardian:
Putin's absurd, angry spectacle will be a turning point in his long reign
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Mary Louise Kelly / NPR:
Why Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons — and what that means in an invasion by Russia
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Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
The West has a ‘united’ but failing Ukraine strategy
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Burgess Everett / Politico:
Rick Scott pushes own GOP agenda as McConnell holds off — Senate Republican leaders have no plans to release an alternative agenda as they try to win back the majority this fall. So Rick Scott is pursuing his own plan. — The Florida Republican senator is devising a conservative blueprint …
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Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Canadian truckers' COVID ‘freedom’ fight is absurd next to Ukraine's struggle with Russia — Canadian truckers are fighting for the right to shun a lifesaving vaccine while Ukrainians are fighting for their lives. … There's nothing like a real crisis to expose the folly of one that's fake …
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Daniel Dale / CNN:
Fact check: Debunking more false Fox claims about the Canadian convoy protests
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Rob Gillies / Associated Press:
Canada lawmakers extend emergency powers for truck protests
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New York Times:
The Long Crusade of Clarence and Ginni Thomas — The Supreme Court justice and his wife battled for years for a more conservative America. New reporting shows how far she was willing to go after Donald Trump's 2020 election loss. — The call to action was titled “Election Results and Legal Battles: What Now?”
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Bloomberg:
U.S. Orders Personnel Out of Ukraine on Threat From Russia — The U.S. evacuated State Department personnel and embassy operations from Ukraine to Poland on Monday, amid fears that security conditions could deteriorate following Russian President Vladimir Putin's recognition of two separatist regions in the eastern part of the country.
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Michael R. Bloomberg / Bloomberg:
San Francisco Shows Democrats Have a Seismic Challenge Ahead — The political earthquake that just occurred in San Francisco should be a dire warning to the national Democratic Party, because the same fault line stretches across the country and the tremors are only increasing.
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Sara Fischer / Axios:
Democrats tune out national news during Biden era — A new poll from Gallup and the Knight Foundation finds that younger Democrats are driving a huge decline in national news consumption in the U.S. — Why it matters: It marks the first time since the study began in early 2018 …
Fox News:
Bob Beckel, former co-host of ‘The Five,’ dead at 73 — The Democratic strategist was a founding co-host of the long-running Fox News show — Sean Hannity reflects on the life of Bob Beckel — Bob Beckel, a Democratic strategist and former co-host of “The Five,” has died at age 73.
Apoorva Mandavilli / New York Times:
Got a Covid Booster? You Probably Won't Need Another for a Long Time — A flurry of new studies suggest that several parts of the immune system can mount a sustained, potent response to any coronavirus variant. — As people across the world grapple with the prospect of living …
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