Pierce begins in his piece on abandonment of the INF Treaty in Esquire Magazine reminiscing about his youth, when Europe, The United States and the former Soviet Union bristled with nuclear missiles, but when also it was understood (wink, wink) that a...
Sure, Max is wrong about a lot of things but he’s right about this….
Washington Post
“On Friday, the New York Times reported that “in the days after President Trump fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director, law enforcement officials became so concerned...
Susan Glasser at Politico confirms what many of us suspected all along, that Putin had directed dumbass to invite Boris and Natasha to come for a photo-op in the Oval….
“The chummy White House visit—photos of the president yukking it up with...
Rachel Maddow reported last night that after Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin finished briefing a bipartisan group of House members yesterday about the admin’s decision to drop sanctions against Manafort’s BFF Oleg Deripaska, he complained to reporters about having having to take a...
What is Donald Trump going to do? Even members of his own party think that his new BFF Mohammad Bin Salman is a murderer, saying things like, “There’s no smoking gun. There’s a smoking saw,” after their meeting Tuesday...
Polish President Andrzej Duda visited the White House on Tuesday, and although he was pleased with the visit, many other polish citizens were left less than thrilled. In fact, Trump managed to offend the Poles so deeply that the fallout was...
Vladimir Putin is flexing his military muscles big time for all the world to see. Russia has scheduled the biggest war games exercise since 1981 for next month. Radio Free Europe:
Shoigu was quoted as saying on August 28...
Well, as with so many things in life, it appears that "timing is everything," especially when it comes to tucking your head inside of your shell, and admitting that your signature international diplomatic gambit had come a cropper. Mere...
As Charlie Pierce asks, what does this man have to do to prove to the world he's a Russian agent, puppet, asset, - put on a fur hat and dance the chechotka on the Truman Balconey? It appears that Donald Trump...
However history remembers Donald Trump, it will not be for his grasp of diplomacy, or even geography for that matter. He’s even fuzzy on time zones, impulsively insisting that calls be placed immediately until his aides inform him that...
