Olympics

In perhaps the most predictable column of the year, the Wall Street Journal this week featured a column by Walter Russell Mead declaring it's "Time to Increase Defense Spending."

"It’s my position. Like any normal people, I don’t want war."

DOD Report states China sees multiculturalism as an illness overtaking the United States and causing decline.

Fertilizer prices have risen more than 100 percent for all major nutrients required for crop production since September 2020, potentially risking the long-term viability of American farms and further increasing the cost of food to US consumers.

The 2022 Opening Ceremony for the Olympics in Beijing, China resulted in some of the worst ratings in history.

Finland men's ice hockey team coach accused China of not respecting a player's human rights on Sunday as complaints about COVID-19 isolation protocols piled up at the Winter Games.

A Dutch reporter was physically manhandled and forced off the air during a live shot as he covered the Beijing Olympics.

"Any behavior or speech that is against the Olympic spirit, especially against the Chinese laws and regulations are also subject to certain punishment."

Uyghurs call for a boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics due to the genocide of their people by the Chinese government.

On the menu today: Accounts of the phone call between President Biden and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky offer an unnerving portrait of a Ukrainian leader who is in denial about the risk of a full-scale Russian invasion, and an American leader who doesn’t want to send any more weapons, after equipping the Ukrainians to fight a ground war without any air cover.