Putins endgame isnt peace, Colorados blow to parents rights and other commentary

“Instead of stopping the killing, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff’s negotiating efforts are accelerating Moscow’s intentional targeting of Ukrainian civilians,” warn Jonathan Sweet & Mark Toth at The Hill.Vladimir Putin doesn’t want “peace as the West envisions it.: Russia has used the “two limited ceasefires” so far “to gain additional advantages on the battlefield.”To stop the Russian assaults, the Ukrainians “need weapons, ammunition, and intelligence,” plus “the ability to prevent ballistic missiles and drones from striking their cities.”Ukraine needs “Team Trump to stop enabling Russia’s continued aggression at the negotiating table.”Instead, Putin “must be stopped” and the Trump administration “must enable Ukraine now.”“Colorado is poised to pass a law that would threaten the custody rights of parents who ‘deadname’ or ‘misgender’ their own children,” which the court would consider “coercive control,” scoffs Jonathan Turley at his Substack.Under the law, “referring to your child’s biological gender or given name or pronoun would now be considered harmful and abusive, inviting a court to take your child away from you as a coercive parent.”In short, the Democratic bill would “require parents to adopt a gender, name, and pronoun that they believe are harmful for their children.”Wow: “Democrats are not just ignoring parental rights but political realities.They will find that this is not a partisan issue.

It is a primal issue.”Despite a “year and a half of sustained fighting and funerals,” a new report ranks Israel in the top 10 countries for happiness, cheer Natan Sharansky & Gil Troy at Tablet.Amid “searing political divisions,” Israelis “remain united culturally.Cherishing family, community, country, and history shapes their faith in the future.”Optimism was once “synonymous with America,” but today “despair afflicts young Americans”; they’ve “lost pride in t...