It is not anymore about whether one would ever get affected by a gun assault in America; it is about when and how you’d run out of luck and become the victim of one such mass shooting. — Pro-life hypocrisy in America tells a tale of saving fetuses on the one hand and, on the other, letting their school children die at the hands of lunatic gunmen, unable to pass a bill that can lead to preventing similar attacks on children and others in the future. Instead, Republicans…

Anti-abortion laws are sheer contempt for the basic rights of women. — Who made men the curator of the reality of women? They pick and choose their matters and play with them with utter carelessness and elisions. …

Disguising and tampering with the past by the Kremlin continue to disrupt not only Ukraine’s present but also Russia’s. — Putin’s elements lie in the “twisted historical roots that produce the evil flower of violence, seeded again and again” — words by Nadine Gordimer to describe the nature of fanaticism in a book named, ‘How to Cure a Fanatic’ by Amos Oz. …

Ideological dissidence between Western and Eastern Ukraine has always allowed Russia and others to take advantage of the ‘now war-torn’ nation. — I must admit that Putin has quickened my interest in authoritarian governments; however, the doubts and questions that linger, or rather plague my mind regarding what is real and fake, are just awfully annoying. And that’s the reason why I would refrain from making judgments in this write-up. Nonetheless, my…

We are currently writing history filled with distortions, falsifications, and acts that lack contrition. It consists of both committing and befogging us from the most heinous crime called genocide. The word “genocide” disheartens my spirit and adjures dreadful visions of horror and devastation against those mercilessly wiped off. So much…

Ukraine’s sovereignty is a direct threat to Putin’s power at home, and its invasion would validate his control over the region and within. — Why is Putin so interested in invading Ukraine without having been, even slightly, instigated by them? Even though America and Europe are doing what they can to increase Russia’s stakes in it in order to deter Putin from invading its democratic neighbor — from raising the cost of war, militarily…

George Kennan, in his famous ‘long telegram’ to the secretary of state, while explaining how to deal with Russia’s schemes based on disinformation, wrote, “Much depends on health and vigor of our own society. World communism is like malignant parasite which feeds only on diseased tissue.. …

Ukraine must arm itself not just with weapons but also with better democratic tools to counter Russia. — If there is one thing autocrats absolutely despise, it is freedom. Democracy generates freedom, and therefore it is one of the principal targets of authoritarian rulers. What makes Putin go after Ukraine? It does not even have nuclear weapons and does not propound a serious strategic threat to Russia? The…

Does justice against fomenting a national crisis of that level lie in these judgments? Or do we need to grind harder to decode authoritarianism and puzzle out of it? — It is one thing to be authoritarian and another to be conservative. Authoritarianism and conservatism do not necessarily overlap. Or, as Anne Applebaum explains it, "there is nothing right-wing or left-wing about this instinct at all.” This write-up is not about authoritarians but about those who play a significant part…