Never mind all those American news reports that Russian drone attacks are successfully weakening Ukraine and frightening Poland. The reality is that Ukraine actually is winning its defensive, existential war, and it just needs the United States to stop tying its hands.

That is the message from perhaps the United States’ most knowledgeable expert on Russia, who happens to be an adoptive New Orleanian of long standing — and he makes a compelling case.

S. Frederick Starr is perhaps best known as the founder and leader of the Louisiana Repertory Jazz Ensemble , as a prolific author on history and culture, as co-founder of the Greater New Orleans Foundation and as a former vice president of Tulane and president of Oberlin College. His academic field and decades of practical experience,

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