Jillian Kay Melchior
Editorial Page Writer at The Wall Street Journal
London-based member of The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board.
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3 weeks ago |
myemail.constantcontact.com | Jillian Kay Melchior |Maggie Haberman |Julian Barnes |Josh Dawsey
Quotes of the Day:“The capacity for the human mind for swallowing nonsense and spewing it forth in violent and repressive action has never yet been plumbed.”– Robert A. Heinlein Revolt în 2100, (Postscript (1953)“Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy and needs feeding.
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3 weeks ago |
wsj.com | Jillian Kay Melchior
The forthcoming miniseries dramatizes a Chinese invasion. The trouble begins on election day, with a bombing that interrupts voting, calls into question the legitimacy of the results, and inflames societal rifts. Concurrently, a People’s Liberation Army Y-8 aircraft goes down in the Taiwan Strait, and Beijing uses search-and-rescue operations as the pretext for a blockade. China also makes a move on an outlying island. War appears imminent. How will Taiwan’s people respond?
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1 month ago |
wsj.com | Jillian Kay Melchior
Putin says he fears NATO, but his troops are all in Ukraine. Vladimir Putin says the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s expansion is one of the “root causes” of the war in Ukraine. Estonians beg to differ. “This narrative that Putin is trying to sell, that NATO is some kind of danger to Russia, this is bull—, sorry,” says Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna. “We understand that, and he knows it as well.”Copyright ©2025 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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2 months ago |
wsj.com | Jillian Kay Melchior
Vladimir Putin wants Ukraine to surrender the southern region of Kherson, along with the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia. The regions’ status is “the central issue in the conflict,” U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff told Tucker Carlson last week. In his efforts to broker a peace in Ukraine, Mr. Witkoff should hear from Kherson’s residents, who have endured life both under Russian occupation and on the front line of the war.
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2 months ago |
jp.wsj.com | Jillian Kay Melchior
【ハリコフ（ウクライナ）】米国とウクライナがロシアとの30日間の停戦案で合意したのを受けて、米国は11日午後、ウクライナに対する軍事支援および情報共有の一時停止を解除した。ドナルド・トランプ米大統領は先週、ウクライナのウォロディミル・ゼレンスキー大統領について、「米国の支援がある限り、和平を望まない」と主張していた。米国は厳しい対応がウクライナに停戦への前向きな姿勢を促したとして自国の戦術を評価するだろう。ロシアはまだ停戦に同意しておらず、マルコ・ルビオ米国務長官は11日、「もし彼らが拒否すれば、残念ながらわれわれは和平への障害が何かを知ることになる」と語った。...
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Steve Witkoff suggested residents of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk and Luhansk had voted to be under Russian rule. But that 2022 referendum was a farce conducted at gunpoint, and here's what Kherson residents told me. https://t.co/gXI87h8Giu
https://t.co/bYycw3QYe5
My latest dispatch, from Kharkiv
Ukraine’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region has further strained Moscow’s war resources and forced the Kremlin to make tough choices about how to use them. The U.S. can build on this momentum, writes @JillianKayM https://t.co/BH71qHMDsb
