On the menu today: The Winter Olympics opening ceremony will air on NBC today. On paper, Russia and Belarus are not competing in this year’s games and have been banned for four years, since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. I say “on paper,” because 13 athletes from Russia and seven from Belarus will partake in the Milan Cortina Games, competing as “Individual Neutral Athletes.” At least we know who to root against.
We in the West only hear about Russia sporadically, and that’s somewhat understandable with a big world, a busy news cycle, and a lot of competing geopolitical priorities. But the regime ruled by Vladimir Putin with an iron fist gets up every morning and sets about its work, aiming to maximize its leverage over other countries, undermine ...
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