The Hill’s Top Opinions: Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Call it Genocide

View Online  Opinion Monday, August 1 ©  AP Good Monday evening. This is Daniel Allott with The Hill's Top Opinions.   With the six-month anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine looming, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba makes a compelling case that Russia's war crimes in Ukraine rise to the level of genocide.     In an op-ed for The Hill, Kuleba argues that the Russian military's crimes against Ukrainian citizens are part of a deliberate campaign to target Ukrainians simply because they're Ukrainians. "Russia's war on Ukraine is not just a war of aggression but a campaign of genocide aimed at destroying Ukrainians as a national group," Kuleba writes.   Kuleba reminds us that President Biden has called Russia's actions in Ukraine "genocide" and urges Congress to pass a resolution recognizing them as such. He also urges Congress to considering establishing a Ukrainian genocide commission, following the example of the U.S. Commission on the Ukraine Famine.   He concludes, "All perpetrators of this genocide must be held accountable. Only then will we all be able to utter the sacred words 'never again' sincerely."   Read Kuleba's op-ed here.   Not subscribed to The Hill's Top Opinions? Sign up here. More on the war in Ukraine Biden is losing the plot on Russia sanctions   Beware of war predictions: Ukraine's outcome is not yet written   How to stop Putin in Ukraine More Top Opinions What to expect from the DOJ's investigation of Donald Trump By ALBERTO GONZALES, former U.S. attorney general Unlike congressional hearings, in a criminal prosecution, the former president will challenge all the evidence that prosecutors hope to present before a jury in a criminal trial. No matter what we may think of Trump's actions on Jan. 6, the picture before 12 open-minded jurors may look quite different once the defense presents its case. Read the op-ed here Democrats across the country can learn from Tim Ryan's success By DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN, Democratic strategist The Democrats' Senate candidate in Ohio, Rep. Tim Ryan, is emerging as a sleeper candidate to flip a solid red seat blue and is arguably becoming a model for the Democratic Party going forward. Ryan is running to the political center and has moved to the right of President Biden and party leadership on key issues like crime and policing, China, trade and the economy. Read the op-ed here Biden cannot give China's Xi the upper hand By LIANCHAO HAN AND BRADLEY THAYER, co-authors of  "Understanding the China Threat." The biggest misconception inherent in Biden's China policy is the premise that China's threats to the U.S. and international liberal order can be eliminated through risk management. Biden and his advisers apparently fail to see that the CCP's treacherous, subversive and violent nature cannot be controlled, or managed or changed. Read the op-ed here If Biden won't cancel student loans, Congress should cancel the interest By JOAN MAYA MAZELIS AND ARIELLE KUPERBERG, university professors If loans remain necessary for some to earn a college degree, removing interest would at least make student debt less insurmountable and less predatory, and allow millions of young adults to start making meaningful progress towards future stability. Read the op-ed here Climate change and the Supreme Court's version of police abolitionism By ANDREW KOPPELMAN, John Paul Stevens Professor of Law at Northwestern University The slogan "abolish the police," embraced by some on the left, is foolish because it focuses on government dysfunction while failing to notice what government is for. The court has now embraced its own form of reckless anarchism — and at the worst possible time. In the midst of deadly plague and worsening climate catastrophe, it has blocked Congress's ability to choose the tools it deems most effective — and left unclear what Congress or the EPA is now allowed to do to protect the human race from impending disaster. Read the op-ed here Quick Takes Los Angeles International Airport Covid-19 outbreak is a microcosm of America   Trump's defamation case against CNN is weak, but may foreshadow his criminal defense   No, Sen. Grassley, the FBI is not corrupted to its core   Webb telescope shows the humility of our cosmic roots Stay Engaged The Hill's Top Opinions is written by Daniel Allott, an opinion editor at The Hill and the author of "On the Road in Trump's America: A Journey Into the Heart of a Divided Nation."   Views expressed by contributors are theirs and not the opinion of The Hill.   Check out The Hill's Opinion section online for the latest. Interested in submitting an op-ed? Click here. If you find this newsletter useful, please consider recommending it to others: thehill.com/opinion.  Privacy Policy  |  Manage Subscriptions  |  Unsubscribe  Sign Up for Other Newsletters 1625 K Street NW, 9th Floor, Washington, DC 20006 © 1998 - 2022 Nexstar Media Inc. | All Rights Reserved.