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Ukraine war: The West’s ‘Thin Red Line’
“For now, Ukraine is ground zero in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against the West” — but, warn Mark Toth & Jonathan Sweet at The Hill, if Russia wins, whether “on the battlefield or at the negotiating table,” Europe’s “thin red line in Eastern Europe will become even thinner.” The threat is now; Europe needs to step up, especially with Trump waffling on his support for Ukraine. “London and Brussels” must understand: They’re “asking 39 million Ukrainians to defend the European continent” from Putin. But “340 million Americans need to understand this too. For now, it is Europe’s thin red line in Ukraine, but if Ukraine falls, Europe will become our thin red line, and potentially we will find ourselves in harm’s way.”
Middle East watch: Egypt’s ‘Do-Nothing’ Plan
Commentary’s Seth Mandel is furious that “Cairo has been, and continues to be, an impediment to a solution to the Palestinian element of the Arab-Israeli conflict.” If the Israel-Hamas war resumes, “Egypt will once again have the chance to play a constructive role by allowing temporary Palestinian resettlement so that Israel can end Hamas once and for all.” But it won’t, because Egypt prefers to “complain about Israel and the lack of a two-state solution.” The plan Egypt and its Arab partners released “is a white flag” surrender to “Hamas and its associated Iranian proxy goon squads” — and essentially does nothing. Bottom line: “Egypt doesn’t care what happens as long as it happens to someone else.”
Liberal: Trump Should Rein in DOGE
President Trump has only been in office a six weeks, but The Liberal Patriot’s Ruy Teixeira argues that the “drive to trim government” via his Department of Government Efficiency is already “falling short” — by going too far. “Nothing makes voters more nervous than the possibility that entitlements — Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security — will be interfered with by DOGE’s actions or Trump’s future plans.” So it’s “not surprising” voters’ “enthusiasm for DOGE, [Elon] Musk and the actually-existing project of overhauling government (as opposed to the theory) is rapidly ebbing.” Trump should remember his “mandate was to shake up the system by pursuing popular priorities Democrats were ignoring, especially on illegal immigration” — not “to do whatever excites his base the most.”
From the right: Don’s ‘Impossible’ Border Win
President Trump’s chief accomplishment, ending the border crisis, “wasn’t supposed to be possible under existing law,” according to former President Joe Biden, his allies and the media, recalls Mark Krikorian at Commonplace. Yet Trump did it “in just a few weeks,” as “apprehensions of illegal aliens at the southern border fell” 90% in February. This “happened because the Trump administration reversed Biden’s policies,” ending catch-and-release and the CBP One app. Another factor: “Prospective illegal aliens must also be deterred by the realization that if they somehow slip past the Border Patrol, ICE will be waiting for them in the interior.” “There’s still more to do, but it turns out that ending the mass migration crisis wasn’t that difficult after all — you just needed to want to do it.”
Culture critic: Tech & Families vs. the State
“For all the talk of technology and the state, there should be much more talk about the other institution that is perpetually at war with it: the institution of the family,” contends Katherine Boyle at The Free Press. “There is no greater decentralized authority than that of the family” — and the tech sector, too, needs “the freedom that comes from ensuring that no central authority can ever control, stifle, or break the long arc of creation and innovation.” “It’s in the best interest of both tech and the family” to ally, but there’s “nothing that focuses us more on the future” than a family, “because no company can compete” with its longevity; it’s “built” for “scale, for infinity, that will continue long after we’ve left this earth.”
— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board