Multiple times on this site over the last three years, I have advocated for an immediate ceasefire in Ukraine.

I have argued that Americans were well within our rights to ask hard and needed questions about the various tripwires littering the battlefields in Ukraine, which could trigger World War III; the background and connections of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky; strict accountability for the hundreds of billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars shoveled into the country by the Biden-Harris administration; off-shore bank accounts; if regime change in Russia was the ultimate goal, with Ukraine being used as a proxy; and the more than 1 million human beings killed or wounded in that war.

So many seemed unwilling to pose these questions. Why?

Since the outbreak of the war, it has seemed that “journalism” partially disappeared as many of the “news” reports about the war began with “Ukraine says …” or “Zelensky says …” News editors and journalists are human. Humans have biases. That said, the professional and ethical standards of journalists should override such biases.

Unfortunately, as we saw when then-businessman Donald Trump first declared his intention to run for president and a number of journalists quickly identified themselves as part of the “resistance” against him, ethics and professionalism can be put to the side based upon ideology, personal animus or a mob mentality. But at what cost to the actual truth and the welfare of our nation?

The same question........

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