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  • 2 weeks ago | grizzlybeardiaries.substack.com | Julius Strauss

    Sitting in a small plane weaving between B.C.’s Purcell Mountains, Ukrainian veteran Ivan Maruniak said he felt joy for the first time in two years. “This is the place where you don’t feel danger, and you don’t expect danger,” he said through a translator. Mr. Maruniak was one of a half-dozen Ukrainian veterans and combat medics invited by former war correspondent Julius Strauss to a remote location in the B.C. Interior for some peace of mind.

  • Mar 18, 2025 | cepa.org | Julius Strauss |Ruth Deyermond |Mila Tanghe |Marija Golubeva

    It makes for haunting viewing.  A Russian soldier, almost certainly a 32-year-old father-of-two-daughters called Oleg Yakovlev from the city of Saratov, shouts “Film me! Film me!” as a Ukrainian captive, one of six who have surrendered, walks slowly away from him. As a member of his squad films, Yakovlev raises his Kalashnikov assault rifle and riddles the unarmed Ukrainian with bullets.

  • Mar 11, 2025 | thespectator.com | Gavin Mortimer |Adrian Pascu-Tulbure |Julius Strauss |Roger Kimball

    Violence broke out in Bucharest on Sunday evening after Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau disqualified Cǎlin Georgescu from running in May’s re-run presidential election.

  • Mar 8, 2025 | grizzlybeardiaries.substack.com | Julius Strauss

    Apologies for my long silence. I'd like to say that after my four-part magnum opus on bears in Romania in December I had said all there was to say about bears, at least for a while. But the truth is more prosaic. There has simply been so much going on in the world that I have been struggling to keep up with my Back to the Front newsletter covering Ukraine, Russia, Europe and, increasingly and by necessity, Donald Trump.

  • Mar 3, 2025 | cepa.org | Elisabeth Braw |Edward Lucas |Julius Strauss |Dan Rice

    Haltbakk Bunkers didn’t mince words. The Norwegian company, which supplies fuel to ships, including US Navy vessels, was so upset by the treatment Volodymyr Zelenskyy received in the Oval Office on February 28 that it announced a boycott of the US military. Of course, the US military has no role in Donald Trump’s and JD Vance’s on-camera attack on Zelenskyy, and likewise, the vast majority of US businesses similarly play no role in enabling Trump’s and Vance’s treatment of Ukraine.

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