
A woman wears make up in the colors of the Ukrainian flag protesting against Russian invasion of Ukraine in front of Brandenburg gate on February 24, 2022 in Berlin, Germany. (Photo by Hannibal Hanschke/Getty Images)
Happy Sunday (and remember to reset your clocks).
ICYMI, our team has been hard at work covering events in Ukraine. Weāve drawn on some of the countryās foremost experts and most thoughtful commentators, including General Mark Hertling, Garry Kasparov, Clint Watts, Eric Edelman, Eliot Cohen, David Frum, Kori Schake, Tom Nichols, David Kramer, Stephen Peter Rosen, and Rachel Vindman.
Throughout the war, we have also offered daily commentary from our own team, and from contributors with deep knowledge of both Ukraine and Russia.
So, I thought it would be worthwhile to give you a sample of the best of our commentary. because it says a lot about who we are and what we are doing at the Bulwark.
This is only a partial list, and does not include all of our extensive, daily newsletter coverage, in The Triad and Morning Shots ā or the podcasts and livestreams that are usually reserved for Bulwark+ members.
I hope you find our coverage valuable; and if you do, please consider joining us at Bulwark+ (if you have not already done so)⦠because we have a lot more to come.
Bulwark Articles:
We began here last December: āWar in Europe Could Be Imminent. Hereās Everything You Need to Know,ā By Ben Parker
āThe Ghosts of Kyiv and the Shadow of War,ā By Natalia Antonova
āDispatch from Kyiv: Fear, Frustration, and Fatalism,ā By Vladislav Davidzon
āPutinās War,ā By Bill Kristol
āWhat You Need to Understand About the Road Ahead,ā Jonathan V. Last
āTrumpās Despicable, Disgraceful, and Un-American Response To Putinās Evil,ā By Tim Miller
āThe Real Reasons Putin Feels Threatened by NATO,ā By TomÔŔ KlvaÅa
āShame On Those Who Defended Trumpās āPerfect Callā,ā By Amanda Carpenter
āWhat Changed Germanyās Mind,ā By Mitchell A. Orenstein
āWhat NATO Should Do Now,ā By Eric Edelman and Daniel Fata
āPutinās Bogus Blame-NATO Excuse,ā By Cathy Young
āOld Ukraine Is Gone. Ukrainians Carry On.ā By Natalia Antonova
āTaiwan and China Keep Eyes on Ukraine,ā By Michael Mazza
āUkraineās Unexpected Hero,ā By Tim Miller
āReality Comes Knocking,ā By Corbin Barthold
āThe U.S. Is Not at War, But Its Civil Society Is Mobilizing Against Russia,ā By Ben Parker
āPutin and the Nuclear End Game,ā By Stephen Peter Rosen
āPaths That Would Eventually Lead to American Involvement to Help Protect Ukraine,ā By Kori Schake
āWhy NATO Canāt Move Into the Black Sea and Save Odessa,ā By Ben Parker
āBlaming the Ukraine Invasion on ⦠the Gays?ā By Cathy Young
āPutin in a Box,ā By Jonathan V. Last
āWhat the Ukrainians Are Fighting For,ā By David J. Kramer
āWhat Putin Cares About Most,ā By John Agresto
āNikki Haleyās Hypocrisy and Faux Outrage Over Ukraine,ā By William Saletan
āThank God Trump Isnāt President Right Now,ā By Mona Charen
Bulwark Podcasts:
General Mark Hertling: Why the Russians Will Lose
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Garry Kasparov: Putin Is a Merchant of Doubt
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Clint Watts: What Is Putinās Offramp?
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Tom Nichols: Putin, Unhinged and in a Bubble
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Rachel Vindman: The GOP Enablers Brought Us to This Moment
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A Week Where Decades Happened (with Kori Schake)
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Bill Kristol: MAGA Turns Anti Anti-Putin
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Amb. Eric Edelman: Why Are We Deterring Ourselves?
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Also check out Sonny Bunchās excellent podcast on āA Crucial Film to Understand Ukraineās Struggle,ā and our āShield of the Republicā podcast with Eliot Cohen and Eric Edelman.
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Bulwark + members can also access The Secret Podcast (Tuesdays with Mona Charen and Charlie Sykes and Fridays with Sarah Longwell and JVLāoff the leash and uncensored.) And⦠The Next Level Podcast (The future of politics, with Sarah Longwell, Tim Miller, and Jonathan V. Last.)
Setting the record straight
On Friday, the Jerusalem Post carried this story: āBennett advises Zelensky to surrender to Russia, Zelensky refuses.ā I tweeted that out, and asked: āWTF, Israel?ā
On Saturday morning I got this email (and identical DM):
Hello Charlie,
My name is Keren Hajioff and Iām Prime Minister Bennettās spokesperson.
You were right to be shocked by the recent report you tweeted, because it is shockingly untrue. I think youāll find it helpful to get a response from us.
Sources in the Israeli Prime Ministerās Office:
This report isnāt just inaccurate but patently false.
At no point did PM Bennett advise President Zelensky to take a deal from Putin ā because no such deal was offered to Israel for us to be able to do so.
PM Bennett has at no point told Zelensky how to act nor does he have any intention to.
The dialogue between Bennett and Zelensky is good and the option of a mediation meeting in Jerusalem has been raised.
Prime Minister Bennett is focused on one thing: stopping the bloodshed and suffering in Ukraine.
I hope this helps.
(Iāve since deleted my original tweet and posted the comment from the Israeli PMās office.)
We Get Mail
Keep your rants, raves, laurels, and darts coming cjaysykes@gmail.com. And, remember that all Bulwark + members can comment on any Morning Shots.
Hey Charlie,
First, I want to say how much I enjoy The Bulwark. I stumbled across it in the early part of 2020 and found it great as a former Republican who stopped being one in 2016. I worked from 2013-2018 in the Missouri House of Representatives and the mileu of crazy and wild-eyed conspiracy mongers is par for the course in the Show-Me state.
We have term-limits here in Missouri and each election is a scrape at the bottom of the barrel from the deepest parts of rural Missouri. Through session after session, I listened to elected officials talk about āblack helicoptersā, how the United Nations was going to take over the country, and any number of rank racists and anti-everything but conservative white evangelical tirades. Each year became progressively worse until I left.
Being an outsider now, the absolute depravity of the place knows no bounds. Just look up some of the current state senators, Bob Onder (a doctor) and Mike Moon, who make some of the worst of the worst nationally seem tame. The rot is deep in Missouri, and they push forward with the proud willful ignorance of the long ago āKnow Nothing Party.ā
I spent years writing policy papers and legislative analysis as a non-partisan staffer where even facts and evidence were shunned because the most ignorant among them thought they held the truth because they read it on Breitbart or Fox News. The motto that is engraved on that building is āSalus populi suprema lex estoā which means āThe welfare of the people is the supreme law.ā A joke in that place if there ever was one.
Anyway, I know Hawley is a constant topic of conversation, but he is but the tip of the crazy from Missouri.
Thank you,
Jarad M. Perry, MPA
So my Trumpy neighbor was astonished at how many of the Russian people believe Putin's lies. I wanted to punch him.
I spoke too soon. Just came back from walking the dog, lo and behold two Trump 2024 banners are back up on the garage. The kicker is there is a Ukrainian flag right below the other banners. What a effing hypocrite! Can't these people recognize that Trump tried to shake down the newly elected president of Ukraine not unlike a mob boss looking for a favor? They keep putting his first impeachment in a memory hole. You're right they are intellectually lazy.