Is it Just Me, or Is the Cold War Getting Warmer?
Am I the only one that fears the US is getting closer to a nuclear war with Russia? Or could it be that everyone else in America believes that a nuclear war is one that we can survive? Or even win?
In some circles, it feels like Americans are looking forward to more hostility. Meanwhile, it seems like every week there is some disturbing new event or announcement that moves us closer to direct conflict.
For example, just last week I read that US intelligence believes that Iran is sending Russia materials to build a drone manufacturing facility east of Moscow, which could be fully operational by next year. They believe the facility will likely be used to build drones for Russia’s war against Ukraine.
Also: Vladimir Putin announced on television last week that Russia will be deploying nuclear weapons to Belarus in July. Belarus, a close ally of Russia, neighbors Ukraine to the north. (They share a 700-mile border.) Russian forces have used Belarus as a staging ground since the beginning of the war.
A 400-Year Prison Sentence for What?
This exoneration story is outrageous in at least three important ways:
- Other than a dubious witness identification (notoriously unreliable), there was no evidence connecting this man to the robbery he was accused of committing, and good evidence that he was not even at the scene of the crime.
- Even if he was the getaway driver for a robbery, how could he have received a 400-year prison sentence for that?
- In this case, it wasn’t the Innocence Project (which I’ve written about many times) that proved the innocence of the accused, but a conviction review office of the state attorney’s office. That, in my experience of reading about false convictions, is very, very rare.
Read the story here.
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