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Dec 2, 2024 | 
jstribune.com | Daniel Runde |Melinda Haring |Daniel Balson |Robert Silverman
Turkish-backed Arab jihadists have taken Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, and are moving on Hama, the former capital of the Muslim Brotherhood-led revolt in 1981-1982. Here is my bottom line upfront – the realistic best option for Syria is survival of the Assad regime, with further weakening of its Iranian support – and following are three observations.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
jstribune.com | Daniel Runde |Ksenia Svetlova |J. Peter Pham |Melinda Haring
Since the US presidential election, friends and supporters have asked us at Razom for Ukraine how we feel about the future of Ukraine. Razom for Ukraine is an American aid and advocacy organization that has delivered more than $100 million in humanitarian assistance since 2022. Razom employs dozens of staff in Ukraine currently on the receiving end of Russian bombardment. We know what’s at stake. In short, our optimism about Ukraine’s future hasn’t changed. Ukraine will prevail in this war.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Paul J. Saunders |Jacob Heilbrunn |Melinda Haring |Curt Mills |Helen Andrews
On September 12, the Center for the National Interest hosted a debate on the question, "Should America continue to support Ukraine?" Melinda Haring and Jacob Heilbrunn argued in support of the proposition, and Helen Andrews and Curt Mills against it. —Melinda Haring is a senior advisor at Razom for Ukraine and a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, where she previously served as the deputy director of the Eurasia Center and editor of the UkraineAlert blog.
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Sep 18, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Melinda Haring |Scott Cullinane |John D. Jameson
In a December 2023 interview with Radio Free Europe, Washington Post foreign affairs columnist David Ignatius said, “Europeans worry whether America [is] reverting to a neo-isolationist, anti-globalist, America-first country.” Rightfully so. Allies across the globe see a chaotic presidential campaign combined with dissension, angry exchanges, and stalled votes in Congress, especially the ones related to military assistance to Ukraine.
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Aug 4, 2024 | 
msn.com | Melinda Haring
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
newsbreak.com | Melinda Haring
The United States and Russia exchanged 24 prisoners Thursday at a moment of terrible tension between the two rivals. After months of ongoing talks, with more than six countries involved in the negotiations, three American citizens and one American green-card holder have been freed in Turkey in the largest prisoner swap since the end of the Cold War.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Melinda Haring
“Without the AFU [Armed Forces of Ukraine], so bad,” Mykolai Sierga sings as he sits on a log in the Lviv region strumming a Martin guitar, surrounded by fifty Ukrainian soldiers. It’s a little after 6 pm, and Ukraine’s recent heat wave means everyone is sweating. As the television and rockstar-turned-war performer strums the refrain, the soldiers, a motley crew of paunchy, middle-aged men in their 30s to 50s, laugh. Kolya’s pale blue eyes scan the audience for clues.
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Jul 3, 2024 | 
nationalinterest.org | Melinda Haring
It’s easy to forget that Ukraine is at war as a frisky dog attempts to jump into the fountain at Stryisky Park in Lviv. Lviv is the largest city in western Ukraine and the former center of the province of the Hapsburg empire known as Galicia, home to peasants and famous Jewish novelists alike. Parents with small children line up for gelato, straining to get some relief from the heat before the bustling shop closes late in the evening.
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Nov 20, 2023 | 
nationalinterest.org | Melinda Haring
The biggest democratic champion isn’t who you think it is: When I graduated from college in 2004, democracy was on the march – or at least it felt like it was. George W. Bush’s lush and inspiring speeches penned by Michael Gerson had a galvanizing effect, not least on yours truly. Minding the zeitgeist, I leapt at the opportunity to work for Freedom House, America’s oldest human rights organization, where we had the biggest booster of democracy since Ronald Reagan in the White House.
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Nov 17, 2023 | 
hksspr.org | by- Olga Rudnieva |Melinda Haring |by- Jenny Wang |Kevin Chen
Food systems play a crucial role in ensuring global food security and good nutrition. However, traditional protein sources such as beef, fish, and plant-based proteins require significant amounts of natural resources – particularly land and water – and contribute significantly to greenhouse gas emissions, accounting for approximately 26% of global emissions.
