PATRICK LAWRENCE: All Unquiet on the Ukrainian Front
The Europeans have run out of postures and gestures in the way of performative statecraft, and the Russians see no point in indulging them any further. Sometimes wars have occasions that can be read — immediately, soon or in time…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Zionism on the Upper East Side
What has lately transpired in the New York of Zohran Mamdani is a very direct extension of the impunity that encourages and protects the Israeli terror machine in Gaza and the West Bank. We watch in horror from afar as…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Desperation Row
Reflecting Volodymyr Zelensky’s confidence that the Trumpster would oblige him, he, Zelensky, actually visited Raytheon, the Tomahawk’s maker, before his session at the White House. What a big game Volodymyr Zelensky talked before his latest little while in the Oval…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The War Dept’s War on Media
The Pentagon’s new restrictions will bar correspondents covering the American military from covering the American military, as the Trump regime attempts to exert full-spectrum control over media. It should be evident by now to anyone paying even casual attention that exerting…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: A Nation of Narcissists
Narcissism is the open-and-shut condition of the elites who fashion and execute American foreign policy. And they are utterly incapable of seeing their country as it is. All those malign authoritarians, more than 20 of them, who gathered in Tianjin…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: ‘Completely & Totally Obliterated’
The Iraq invasion and the bombing of Iran are acts of desperation — the conduct of a wounded, uncertain nation that went on the defensive when the Twin Towers went down and history arrived on its shores. I have heard many…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Blinded to Syria
I do not know anyone who was not shocked by the lightning speed with which Damascus fell to expensively armed jihadist militias last weekend. I know very few people who do not understand that another domino has just fallen in the…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: US Endgame in Ukraine — War Without End, Amen
What happens when a powerful nation cannot afford to lose a war it has already lost? It is now two and a half years since Moscow sent two draft treaties, one to Washington, one to NATO in Brussels, as the…
Patrick Lawrence: This Isn’t Fascism
Political confusion and deluded notions of fascism colored Max Azzarello’s tragic death by self-immolation. On April 19, just as a court in Lower Manhattan finished selecting a jury to hear the farcical “hush money” case against Donald Trump, a 37-year-old…
WATCH: Premiere of ‘The World This Week’
CN Live! is launching a new series, The World This Week. WATCH THE REPLAY from Saturday’s first episode with guest Patrick Lawrence on Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine and Greenland. Host: Joe Lauria Guest: Patrick Lawrence Producer: Cathy Vogan