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10:55 PM ET, March 6, 2022

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Wall Street Journal:
Russia Recruiting Syrians for Urban Combat in Ukraine, U.S. Officials Say  —  Moscow is looking for help from foreign fighters to take cities including Kyiv  —  WASHINGTON—Moscow is recruiting Syrians skilled in urban combat to fight in Ukraine as Russia's invasion is poised to expand deeper into cities, according to U.S. officials.
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Thomas Grove / Wall Street Journal:
Russia's Military Chief Promised Quick Victory in Ukraine, but Now Faces a Potential Quagmire  —  The close Putin ally modernized Russia's forces, but those troops have run into ferocious Ukrainian resistance  —  When Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the country's nuclear forces …
Discussion: Bloomberg
New York Times:
Inside the U.S. Race to Arm Ukraine Against Russia  —  The United States has walked to the edge of direct conflict with Russia in an operation that is reminiscent of the Berlin airlift of 1948-49, but far more complex.  —  On a snowy tarmac at Amari Air Base in northern Estonia on Sunday morning …
Shadi Hamid / The Atlantic:
There Are Many Things Worse Than American Power  —  If there was any doubt before, the answer is now clear.  Vladimir Putin is showing that a world without American power—or, for that matter, Western power—is not a better world.  —  For the generation of Americans who came of age …
Anton Troianovski / New York Times:
Police Arrest More Than 3,000 People As Protests Grow Across Russia  —  Despite the threat of yearslong prison terms, thousands of Russians joined antiwar rallies across the country on Sunday in a striking show of the pent-up anger in Russian society about President Vladimir V. Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Dear Colleague on Support for Ukraine
Discussion: CNN
Rachael Bade / Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Zelenskyy gets (some) results
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Biden advisers weigh Saudi Arabia trip for more oil  —  President Biden's advisers are discussing a possible visit to Saudi Arabia this spring to help repair relations and convince the Kingdom to pump more oil, Axios has learned. … Biden has chastised Saudi Arabia …
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Officials Meet With Regime in Venezuela, to Discuss Oil Exports to Replace Russia's
Charles Bethea / New Yorker:
Why Did Mark Meadows Register to Vote at an Address Where He Did Not Reside?  —  In September, 2020, Donald Trump's then chief of staff claimed to live in a mobile home in North Carolina.  —  Mark Meadows, who grew up in Florida, moved to North Carolina in the nineteen-eighties and opened Aunt D's, a sandwich shop in Highlands.
Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
Trump muses on war with Russia and praises Kim Jong Un … NEW ORLEANS — Former president Donald Trump mused Saturday to the GOP's top donors that the United States should label its F-22 planes with the Chinese flag and “bomb the s — t out of Russia.”  —  He also praised North Korean …
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Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:   Putin's full-scale information war got a key assist from Donald Trump and right-wing media
CBS News:
Trump renews NATO criticism after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and also says “vote counter” can be more important than candidate
New York Times:
Ukrainian Family's Dash for Safety Ends in Death  —  Russian forces hit a bridge being used by civilians evacuating the fighting in Ukraine.  Four people were killed.  —  IRPIN, Ukraine — The bridge was just a shell of its old self, blown up days earlier by Ukrainian soldiers intent …
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Valerie Hopkins / New York Times:
Ukrainians Find That Relatives in Russia Don't Believe It's a War  —  Many Ukrainians are encountering a confounding and frustrating backlash from family members in Russia who have bought into the official Kremlin messaging.  —  LVIV, Ukraine — Four days after Russia began dropping artillery shells …
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Reuters:
U.S. gasoline prices soar to highest since 2008 on Russia conflict, AAA says  —  U.S. gasoline prices jumped 11% over the past week to the highest since 2008 as global sanctions cripple Russia's ability to export crude oil after its invasion of Ukraine, automobile club AAA said on Sunday.
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Wall Street Journal:   How War in Ukraine Drives Up Inflation at U.S. Farms, Supermarkets, Retailers
CNN:
Rep. Paul Gosar's lengthy ties to White nationalists, pro-Nazi blogger and far-right fringe received little pushback for years  —  Last spring, Republican Rep. Paul Gosar and a small group of volunteers traveled to the southern border city of San Luis, Arizona, to clean up the city's trash.
Discussion: Raw Story
Graeme Wood / The Atlantic:
Of Course Journalists Should Interview Autocrats  —  Anyone who tells you otherwise does not understand the purpose of journalism.  —  About the author: Graeme Wood is a staff writer at The Atlantic and the author of The Way of the Strangers: Encounters With the Islamic State.
Ben Judah / UnHerd:
The Russia we have lost  —  There were a lot of us in Moscow, back then.  Silly, millennial Euro-Brits, trying to be journalists, floating through a boozy world of “hackpack” drinks and Russian liberals.  We were there on cooked visas — fixed in Kyiv — dreamers and weirdos who had OD'd …
Julia Davis / The Daily Beast:
Putin's Henchmen Rage About Getting Trolled With ‘Endless Photos’ of Dead Russian Troops  —  Moscow's top mouthpieces claim they're being tormented with a disturbing flood of text messages and phone calls about the neighboring war in Ukraine.  —  While Russian President Vladimir Putin …
Discussion: Raw Story
Scott Powers / Florida Politics:
Gov. DeSantis spokesperson labels sex ed bill's opponents ‘groomers’  —  Daniella Levine Cava meets with students leaving Sunday for “Proud to Say Gay” rally at the Capitol … Scott Powers  —  Scott Powers is an Orlando-based political journalist with 30+ years' experience …
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Jack Petocz / MoveOn:
Stop Florida's “Don't Say Gay” Bill
Discussion: Florida Politics
Washington Post:
More than 4,500 anti-war protesters arrested in one day in Russia, group says  —  More than 4,500 protesters were arrested Sunday at antiwar demonstrations across Russia, according to the independent human rights organization OVD-Info, as people risked jail time to denounce the nation's war with Ukraine.
Discussion: Meduza.io
New York Times:
Most Women Denied Abortions by Texas Law Got Them Another Way  —  New data suggests overall abortions declined much less than previously known, because women traveled out of state or ordered pills online.  —  The impact of the Texas abortion law was partly offset by trips to out-of-state clinics, and by abortion pills
 
 
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Bill Allison / Bloomberg:
Congress' Police Force Declares Emergency Over Trucker Convoys
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NBC News:
Meet the Press - March 6, 2022
Discussion: Washington Post, RedState and Townhall
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CBS News:
Transcript: Ambassador Kurt Volker on “Face the Nation,” March 6, 2022
Financial Times:
Food crisis looms as Ukrainian wheat shipments grind to halt
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Biden can hope the worst is behind him
Discussion: The Hill, Twitchy, Townhall and Bloomberg
Patrick Kingsley / New York Times:
On Ukraine's Border, Moldovans Wonder: Where Will Putin Stop?
John Harwood / CNN:
Trump has been on Putin's side in Ukraine's long struggle against Russian aggression
 

 
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