“Nothing in life is more liberating than to fight for a cause larger than yourself, something that encompasses you but is not defined by your existence alone.” @SenJohnMcCain @IRIglobal

Assad’s regime carried out industrial-scale torture & death, orchestrating the killing in a bureaucratic manner akin to that of the Nazis & Stalin’s Russia. “The worst atrocity of the 21st century”

The case for arming Ukraine is a realist one. Putin will only cease fire when his cost-benefit calculation about continuing his war of aggression changes.

Sitting on nearly $300M of frozen Russian assets, Europe holds tremendous leverage over the outcome of this conflict. 🇪🇺 should use those funds to arm and rebuild 🇺🇦. ⁦@RepFrenchHill⁩

Chinese suppliers have been indispensable to sustaining Russia’s war against Ukraine

“We have to, they have to be able to defend themselves. We’re gonna have to send more weapons.” 🇺🇦🇺🇸

RT @LindseyGrahamSC: I very much appreciate President Trump’s efforts to end the bloodbath in Ukraine, but it takes willing partners. Ukra….

An entire generation of Tibetan youth is being taken from their families and brainwashed by the Chinese Communist Party.

Nearly two-thirds of Americans across party lines reject isolationism and want to see 🇺🇸 lead on the world stage. Isolationism has never made our country great. ⁦@mikepompeo⁩

RT @isaacstonefish: This is a massive story that's not getting nearly enough attention: Chinese diplomats had planned to physically attack….

Neglecting soft power is a mistake because it saves having to use hard power. What brought down the Berlin Wall was not an artillery barrage but hammers wielded by people whose minds had been affected by Western soft power. Wise words from the late Joe Nye in ⁦@MonocleMag⁩

.⁦@SenKatieBritt⁩ emphasized the need to maintain the United States’ soft power across the globe. “If we leave a void it will be filled by our adversaries…. I want to make sure that we are in a strong position to combat China.”

RT @benjaminhaddad: La répression de l’opposition en Géorgie, avec l’arrestation et la condamnation de Zurab Japaridze, Nika Melia, Nika Gv….

RT @MilHistNow: On this day in 1917, the first U.S. troops land in France. By the summer of 1918, 10,000 Doughboys will be arriving each da….

New poll by ⁦@ReaganInstitute⁩ shows that—by.a huge margin—Americans want to be engaged in the world & to lead. They believe that is important for trade & prosperity. They want 🇺🇸 to stand for human rights & democracy “whenever possible.” ⁦@KarlRove

“In 1945, 🇺🇸 was the greatest, most lethal military in the history of the world. We had just won World War II. We conquered the Nazis. We conquered Imperial Japan. Five years later, at the outbreak of the Korean War, because of weak civilian and military leadership, we were not.

China is not the future.

Nearly all leaders of 🇬🇪’s pro-Western opposition are now behind bars, as protests continue against the pro-Moscow Georgian Dream ruling party. “They are afraid of us because we are fighting for our country and they see there is big support from society”

Putin’s invasion of #Ukraine has pushed 🇲🇩#Moldova towards the West. According to @IRIglobal’s new poll, 74% of Moldovans say relations with #Russia are bad or very bad — a 26-point increase from our polling before the war. @IRI_Polls

Check out IRI’s #Iran poll from before the shooting started showing how badly out of step Iran’s rulers are with their citizens:

.⁦@stavridisj⁩