2024 will prove to be a defining year for the world. Expect a long and difficult battle in Ukraine. Expect more fractures in the attention of the West. With this in mind, we offer our wish list of New Years’ Resolutions for the people and leadership of Ukraine.

American leaders take an oath to defend the Constitution, and thus America, against enemies foreign and domestic. The America First movement of 1939 emphasized domestic to the exclusion of foreign and it projected weakness which led to war.

It’s an epic pot calling the kettle black moment, Moscow claims religious persecution from Kyiv. But what is really happening, and who is the actual fox in the henhouse?

UNBROKEN, the safe haven providing treatment, prosthesis, and rehabilitation to Ukrainians torn apart by war.

Cemeteries filled with the Ukrainian fallen are becoming places of mourning and healing.

Two Jews. Both descendants of victims of Nazi atrocities. Both Ashkenazi Jews. Both leaders of their nation. Both focused on Russia, but with very different strategies.

Zelensky and Netanyahu.

Last night I spoke with a dear Israeli-American friend who traveled from the United States to Israel on October 7, to join family for her brother’s wedding. It was a long anticipated moment of beauty as members of this Jewish dynasty gathered from around the world on the high holiday of Simchat Torah, in their homeland of Israel to celebrate the birth of a new family. Nothing went as expected.

Imagery that was once meant to inspire awe now serves as a reminder of Soviet oppression.

A week of missile strikes on infrastructure, grain storage, and Orthodox Cathedrals in the port city of Odessa.

Today is the 500th day of Ukraine refusing to bend the knee to Russian occupiers of February 24, 2022 . Five hundred days and Ukraine stands. Few in the West believed it possible. Yet she stands. Stronger. More resolved. More unified. More defiant.

In the head-spinning span of less than 24 hours, an armed rebellion was launched in Russia when an army of Wagner mercenaries captured the city of Rostov, began a “justice” march to overthrow opponents in Moscow, were declared traitors engaged in “mutiny” by Putin, stepped down and turned back, hours later pardoned by Putin, and their leader offered safe passage into Belarus. Trouble for Putin averted? Far from it. Here is our analysis.

Just hours after the explosion of the Nova Kakhovka Dam, the former FOX contributor accused Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before an audience now in excess of 110 million Twitter viewers, of responsibility for this “act of terrorism,” but failed to support his incendiary accusation.

He almost walked right into them. The Russian soldiers were halfway through bites, eating a meal in a scantly fortified position when Ivan approached them underneath the cover of some trees on the frontline of battle in Ukraine.

If you have been following the Russian invasion of Ukraine like most of Europe and the West, “counter offensive” is a phrase that has become a byword in the last weeks and months. You can hardly turn the news on without speculation as to where and when it will take place, and to what degree Ukrainian forces will be successful in dealing the Russian army a defeat.

Ukraine is now the most landmine infested country in the world, surpassing Afghanistan and Syria. Ryan Hendrickson with Tip of the Spear is working tirelessly to do something about that.

The message of Chunnukah 2022 is not lost on Ukranian Jews and Christians who, against all odds, are following their Jewish president to oppose one of the strongest armies in the world. It is not lost to those who saw the Russians bomb the memorial of BabiYar, where 100,000 men, women and children were executed. Nor is it lost on the few remaining survivors of Stalin’s Holodomor who must once again endure Russian atrocities.