A Decade of War Lies Crescendo Amid the New ‘Red Scare’

by Josh Everson | March 11, 2022

It’s tragically comic, but the new wave of Americans’ interest in U.S. foreign policy, characterized by blue and yellow profile pics and bans of Russian vodka, cats, and Tchaikovsky, has this writer actually longing for Americans’ famously steadfast apathy of years gone by. Whereas, Americans once were unified in their utter disinterest bordering on discontent for the victims of its foreign policy, today Americans on both sides of the aisle are unified against “the Red Menace” and in the need for a humanitarian intervention to save Ukraine.

A Decade of War Lies Crescendo Amid the New ‘Red Scare’

Putin’s Nuclear Threat

The disconnect between the Western and Russian narratives in the current conflict could prove fatal to the world, writes Scott Ritter.

Vladimir Putin is a madman. He’s lost it. At least that is what the leaders of the West would like you to believe. According to their narrative, Putin — isolated, alone, confused, and angry at the unfolding military disaster Russia was undergoing in Ukraine — lashed out, ostensibly threatening the entire world with nuclear annihilation.

Putin’s Nuclear Threat

Ukraine lawmakers call on NATO to impose no-fly zone over Ukraine

Ukraine lawmakers call on NATO to impose no-fly zone over Ukraine

If NATO imposed a no-fly zone over Ukraine, it would effectively mean that the bloc’s members, including the US and UK, would be authorized to shoot down any Russian aircraft that enter Ukrainian airspace. Both the US and UK have sent military aid to Ukraine but have so far declined to send troops into the country.