Fast Takes: Ugly turn on Ukraine, lefties promoting terror and other commentary

“Weakening Ukraine’s defenses while Russia batters its cities is a disgraceful way for the Trump administration to pursue peace,” thunders The Washington Post’s editorial board.The “restrictions on Ukraine’s satellite communications” didn’t impact its operations deep in Russia, which don’t rely on Starshield; instead, they only “disrupted missions against Russian military positions and supply lines inside Ukraine’s territory.

Worse, they hobbled interceptor drones protecting Ukrainian population centers,” enabling Russian attacks that “left at least 600,000 people without electricity.” With Europe already looking to OK “a satellite manufacturing venture intended to challenge SpaceX,” this shows major “strategic myopia,” as “the White House could hardly have supplied a better argument for friendly governments to prioritize standing up competitors to U.S.firms.”“Fergie Chambers, the radical American political activist with a $250 million inheritance” has “been fighting extradition to the U.S.

ever since ” his arrest this summer “in Spain on charges of providing financial support to internationaal terrorist groups,” note Jay Solomon & Leonel Caraciki at The Free Press.“Why is the Trump administration so determined to get him back?” Per “Spanish court documents obtained by The Free Press,” Chambers is accused of “conspiring with Iran” to “support Hamas and possibly other terrorist activities backed by Tehran.” Those allegedly include terror group Palestine Action — and “the Trump administration’s pursuit of Chambers is part of a wider crackdown on groups that officials believe have foreign funding or ties to international terrorist groups” such as Neville Roy Singham. “Casual observers might view the growing popular opposition to Flock Safety” and the automatic-license-plate readers it operates as “an isolated issue,” yet “the movement is heavily influenced by ideological acti...