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This week, we’re delighted to welcome Bill Grueskin back into the regular column rotation.

Friends, readers, countrymen: I come today not to bury Newsmax, but to praise it.

Yes, I suspect that many of you don’t share Newsmax’s right-wing slant on the news. Yes, I know the company had to pay more than a hundred million dollars to settle two lawsuits over its conspiracy-fueled coverage of the 2020 election. Yes, I realize that Chris Ruddy, the network’s founder and CEO, once said this about Trump: “We have an editorial policy of being supportive of the president and his policies.”

But put all of that aside for a moment, and look at how the network covers the Ukraine-Russia war. In particular, you should watch how Shelby Wilder , a Newsmax foreign correspondent, has delivered vivid coverage of the conflict to an audience in and around the MAGAverse.

She met with a Ukrainian teenager who told the story of how Russian captors abducted him after a bombing.…