Five in Ten 2/20/23: Escalation in Ukraine

Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin are scheduled to make important speeches tomorrow about the war in Ukraine, one year to the day after Putin’s announcement that Russia recognized the independence of the breakaway regions of eastern Ukraine.

5) VP Harris announces US has “formally determined” that Russia is guilty of crimes against humanity; 4) Biden, Putin speeches could signal a dangerous escalation of the war in Ukraine; 3) US ambassador to Israel literally refers to Benjamin Netanyahu and his justice minister as children; 2) Publishing experts alarmed at picture books pushing transgender ideas on children as young as three; 1) Counter-terror group in UK flags sitcoms, Lord of the Rings, and the works of William Shakespeare as “key texts” for “white nationalists/supremacists.”