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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 6.
- Russia’s invasion of Ukraine signals a new era of energy geopolitics
- Analysis: As Russia avoids energy sanctions, oil majors flee but TotalEnergies stays
- Analysis: The War in Ukraine Holds a Warning for the World Order (“The multinational response shows that liberalism has some life left. But waning U.S. power and rising authoritarianism remain formidable challenges.”)
- Putin Escalates Threats as Russia Presses Attack
- Biden rises to the moment as Ukraine makes battle against autocracy real
- ‘Fastest growing refugee crisis in Europe since World War II’
- War Exposes Europe’s Failure to Heed Warnings Over Russian Gas
- Putin Warns Ukraine as Safe-Passage Plans Descend Into Chaos
- Brace for More Russian Plot Twists, Geopolitical Strategist Says
- War in Ukraine: Zelensky urges Ukrainians to go on the offensive (“You need to go out and drive this evil out of our cities”)
- U.S. and allies quietly prepare for a Ukrainian government-in-exile and a long insurgency
- Allies Focus on Security of Zelensky and Other Ukraine Leaders
- Russian war in world’s ‘breadbasket’ threatens food supply
- Ukraine tries to evacuate city under weeklong Russian attack
- Ukraine Resumes Evacuations as Russia Presses Offensive
- Zelensky pleads for fighter jets and Russian oil embargo in call with senators
- Russia’s Ukraine invasion could be a global economic ‘game changer’
- Dire Conditions in Besieged City as Food and Water Run Low
- US works with Poland to provide Ukraine with fighter jets
- Ukrainian President Asks Congress to Help Secure Russian-Made Jet Fighters
- Visa and Mastercard Suspend Their Operations in Russia
- Defiant Putin warns the west: your sanctions are akin to an act of war
- Yes, Ukrainians Are Heroic But Putin’s Ready to Unleash Hell
- Tens of thousands join rallies around the world in support of Ukraine
- ‘Reckless ignorance’: Senators criticised for sharing photos of Zelensky during call after being asked not to (“Democratic Rep Dean Phillips slammed Republican Senators Steve Daines and Marco Rubio for their ‘appalling and reckless ignorance”)
- Scattered corpses. A rain of rockets. A week inside Russia’s war against Ukraine
- RFE/RL Suspends Operations In Russia Following Kremlin Attacks
- Two GOP senators share photos of Zelenskyy during call after being asked not to by Ukraine
- U.S. Officials Travel to Venezuela, a Russia Ally, as the West Isolates Putin (“The trip is the highest-level visit by American officials to Caracas in years, driven by a desire to separate Russia from its remaining Latin American allies.”)
- Blinken Arrives in Poland to Gauge Additional US Aid for Ukraine
- Volodymyr Zelensky Leads the Defense of Ukraine with His Voice (“At the most consequential hour in Europe since the collapse of the Soviet Union, a comedian has assumed the role of Winston Churchill.”)
- ‘We Have to Run’: Inside the Exodus of Moscow
- Putin says Ukraine’s future in doubt as cease-fires collapse
- Russia’s invasion prompts more assertive foreign policy from Japan
- Right-Wing Ultra-Nationalists Are Putin’s Useful Idiots
- Ukraine’s military adapts tactics after enduring Russia’s initial invasion (“An outgunned but resilient Ukrainian military is adopting a two-prong strategy in the face of a flawed but fierce Russian assault, relying on hit-and-run tactics and the fortification of major cities”)
- Putin Picked the Wrong Country to Mess With
- The third round of talks between the Russian and Ukrainian delegations will begin on Monday
- Israeli PM meets Putin in Moscow, then speaks with Zelenskiy by phone
- People Are Booking Airbnbs in Ukraine as a Way to Send Aid
- Ukrainians around the world aren’t just protesting -we’re fighting an information war
- ‘I Just Can’t Stand By’: American Veterans Join the Fight in Ukraine
- Twitter bans over 100 accounts that pushed #IStandWithPutin
- Putin’s full-scale information war got a key assist from Donald Trump and right-wing media (“Thanks to his skills at the influence game, Putin knew how to ‘soften up the enemy’ — and get a swath of the American public cheering for him.”)
- Putin and Doomsday: The Far Right’s Fascination With the Apocalypse (“Fox News, the evangelical fringe, and the right wing have been peddling ‘End Times’ thinking for decades. Armageddon has become a backdrop now that Russia has invaded Ukraine.”)
- Gen. Mark Milley: Why no-fly in Ukraine is a no-go
- Germany To Russia: We’re ‘Kinda Experts’ On Nazism, And Russia Isn’t Fighting It (“‘What Russia is doing in Ukraine is slaughtering innocent children, women and men for its own gain,’ the German Embassy in South Africa tweeted.”)
- Russian demand for sanctions relief threatens Iran nuclear talks
- Pence says GOP has no place for Putin ‘apologists’ in veiled swipe at Trump (Back in 2016, Pence himself praised Putin!)
- The Memo: GOP can’t settle on Ukraine message
- Trump has been on Putin’s side in Ukraine’s struggle against Russia
- How the Manhattan D.A.’s Investigation Into Donald Trump Unraveled
- Trump’s private schedule reveals no plans for him to join 6 January march
- A landmark verdict in the George Floyd case confirms that police must stop crimes by fellow officers
- Texans overwhelmingly traveled out-of-state to get abortions after ban took effect
- ‘I Am Deeply Gay’: SNL’s McKinnon Rips Florida Anti-Gay Bill
- ‘People’s Convoy’ plans to slowly loop around the Beltway on Sunday
- Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Says Donald Trump Was a “Would-Be Dictator Who Tried to Seize Power,” Trashed Alliances, Cozied Up to Dictators Like Putin (Sen. Kaine: “there is this weird fascination that we see on the Republican side – not all Republicans, but some – with the dictatorial authoritarians”)
- Video: Sen. Tim Kaine Explains Why “No-Fly Zone” Could Lead to “much broader war which we are trying to avoid” (Kaine also says Ukrainian military aid package will be $5-$8 billion, with “mixture” of weapons “most potent in helping the Ukrainian defense force”)
- Bill from Donald McEachin would give $3 million annually to preserving Black cemeteries
- Video: In Speech to the Dark-Money-Fueled, Trump-Judges “Federalist Society,” Youngkin (Falsely) Claims the Greatest Threat to Our Democracy Comes More From “Cancel Culture” Than From “Tyrants” Like Putin (Youngkin also brags, “I signed into law bipartisan legislation resolving the mask war in favor of parents”)
- What’s in a word? Youngkin takes aim at ‘equity’
- Virginia’s bills to lure Commanders could offer unlimited tax dollars for ‘mini-city’ (“Virginia’s House and Senate bills have broad language and no monetary cap for funding the potential Commanders stadium complex. ‘It’s an endless gravy train of subsidies,’ one expert said.” Absolutely absurd.)
- Is Virginia About to Give Dan Snyder a Blank Check? Current Legislation Constitutes an “Endless Gravy Train of Subsidies” (“I think they should call it the ‘Snyder City authority.’”)
- Essential and Overlooked: How decades of inaction failed Virginia’s Latinos during COVID
- Editorial: Preserve access to police records (“The state Senate should reject a proposal to undo a law that provides citizen access to inactive criminal case files.”)
- Opinion: Virginians want more support for schools. Legislators should listen.
- Sullivan: Who’s the snowflake now? (“The governor glibly claims that he is not trying to change history, hide our history, or keep teachers from teaching all our history. But if that is so, don’t we have to engage our kids, and let them explore the inevitable questions that we want them to have?”)
- Mask decisions largely now up to personal preference in Hampton Roads as mandates expire
- CASEY: On civility and the recent uproar on Montgomery County’s school board
- Do opponents of Botetourt County wind farm live too far away to sue?
- Editorial: Richmond’s guaranteed income model has historic roots
- State Police monitor trucker convoy on Virginia highways
- D.C.-area forecast: Record warmth possible today and tomorrow, with some wind and showers
