Author: Patrick Houck

Patrick Houck is an avid political enthusiast based out of the Washington, D.C. metro area. His expertise is in campaigns and the use of targeted messaging to persuade voters. When not combing through the latest news, you can find him enjoying the company of family and friends or pursuing his love of photography.

A top ally of besieged Russian leader Vladimir Putin wants Moscow to go scorched earth on Ukraine. Literally. Stopping just short of calling for a nuclear holocaust, Ramzan Kadyrov, head of the Chechen Republic and a lieutenant general in the Russian military, urged Putin to use “low-yield nuclear weapons” on Ukraine after the Kremlin’s latest defeat. The latest setback for Russian forces came in Donetsk Oblast, one day after Putin’s illegal annexation of the partially occupied Ukrainian region. In a move universally condemned by the international community, Putin formalized the annexation of four Ukrainian oblasts (administrative divisions comparable to a…

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