Sunday, January 30, 2022

WSJ BLOG - JANUARY 30, 2022 - WHERE THE FRIENDS FROM RUSSIA ARE?

New research of the Wall Street Journal shows that the Ukrainians want to be an independent country at this time. 

In the story titled: " In Eastern Ukraine’s Largest City, Pro-Russia Sympathies Wither as War Looms" (Yaroslav Trofimov, January 30, 2022), we can read that "Kharkiv nearly fell to pro-Russian militants in 2014. Now, the city is preparing to fight against a possible invasion." 

This was my blog comment: 

"The threats of President Putin against Ukraine make him the enemy of the Europeans who want to live in peace and prosperity. And Ukrainians will frustrate his goal of rebuilding the Soviet Union."


SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal 

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Saturday, January 29, 2022

WSJ BLOG - JANUARY 28, 2022 - RACE AND GENDER

The Editorial Board of The Wall Street Journal on January 28, 2022, posted “Race, Gender and the Supreme Court”.


In the start of the opinion column, WSJ wrote “Criticism of Biden’s forthcoming black woman nominee isn’t ‘racially tinged.’”


Next, the journalists of the Editorial Board said, “President Biden hasn’t yet chosen his nominee to replace Stephen Breyer on the Supreme Court, but already any criticism is being ruled off-limits by the progressive auditors of political debate.”


My blog comment: “The criteria to select the members of the Supreme Court by race and gender will create more division also inside the top justice institution of the country.!”


SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal

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Friday, January 28, 2022

WSJ BLOG - JANUARY 28, 2022 - UKRAINIANS FIGHT FOR NATIONAL IDENTITY

Today, January 28, 2022, the Wall Street Journal posted very interesting journalistic research about the position of the own Ukrainians about Russia's President Putin's intention to put this country under Moscow’s rules again.

The story with comments and opinions of different citizens of this country was titled “Ukraine’s Growing Sense of National Identity Puts It in Putin’s Crosshairs”. Its author is James Marson. 

After the title, Mr. Marson wrote “Kyiv residents celebrate Ukrainian Unity Day on Jan 22."

This was my blog comment that received a series of ‘LIKED” from other members of the WSJ Community:

"Russians have to learn to respect the own identity of the Ukrainians."


SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal
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Thursday, January 27, 2022

WSJ BLOG - JANUARY 27, 2022 - NOMINATION FOR SUPREME COURT

The Wall Street Journal on January 27, 2022, posted a column titled “Biden Pledges to Nominate Black Woman to Supreme Court” written by Catherine Lucey, Sabrina Siddiqui, and Jess Bravin. 

In one of the first paragraphs of the column, we can read “Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer announced his plan to retire after serving more than two decades on the court. The departure gives President Biden the opportunity to deliver on his promise to nominate the court’s first Black woman.” 

These were my blog comments of this column: 

“The criteria that President Biden is using to nominate the Justice that will cover the vacancy of Stephen Breyer is a discrimination against the best candidates to integrate the U.S. Supreme Court.” 

“From my point of view, the nomination of a new member of the Supreme Court must be for his/her qualifications, never for the genre and color of the skin of the future Justice.”


SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal

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Wednesday, January 26, 2022

WSJ BLOG - JANUARY 26, 2022 - POLICE UNDER THE ATTACK

The Wall Street Journal posted an opinion column of the Editorial Board titled “Assassinating Police in New York” on January 25, 2022.

This column starts with the following statement “Cops are increasingly a target, as two more die in the line of duty.” 

The main subject of the column is the death of a new police officer in New York in recent days.

 

This was my comment posted in the blog sector of the column in the WSJ Online:

 

“During the last few years, social media made an intentional campaign to put down the police as the institution of the enforcement of the law. Now, we see the consequences.”

 

A series of members of the WSJ Community of readers approve my comment with LIKED.

 

SOURCES: The Wall Street Journal

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Tuesday, January 25, 2022

WSJ BLOG COMMENT - JANUARY 25, 2022 - DETERRENCE MESSAGE TO MOSCOW

 


Deterrence Message to Moscow

The U.S. can’t stop a Ukraine invasion, but it can raise the cost.

By 
 WSJ


My last blog comment:



President Putin went very far to return his troops to the garrisons without fight. 

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Monday, January 24, 2022

WSJ BLOG COMMENTS - JANUARY 24, 2022

 

Domingo Trassens

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