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...
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North Korea has cancelled talks with South Korea scheduled for later today, and threatened to cancel next month's summit between President Trump and Kim Jong-un over joint U.S.-South Korean military drills, according to South Korean news agency Yonhap.
Why it...
Meghan Markle’s father is not the classiest guy ever. He was un-invited to his own daughter’s wedding for selling photographs to the tabloids and if that wasn’t enough he did a tell all interview on British television recently where...
Mike Pence apparently thought that he could game the Irish with saying a "special prayer" for them and choking up over Ireland being his ancestral home -- wrong. Having been to Ireland and being of Irish descent, I can...
The Civil Reserve Air Fleet was created out of the Berlin Airlift of WWII and that may provide a means for Joe Biden to escalate the evacuation from Afghanistan considerably. This is some good news. Wall Street Journal:
WASHINGTON—The...
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To commemorate Vladimir Putin’s illegal and ultimately ineffectual annexation of four Ukrainian Provinces, considerate New Yorkers came together last night to spruce up the Russian Consulate with a spiffy new coat of blood red paint.
Perhaps they were...
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...
History may not repeat itself but it most certainly rhymes. Get out your Twilight Zone nuclear war episodes, all the more stark and compelling because of their black and white simplicity, because if you listen to Russian media, it's...
Ahhh, ever the statesman. Ever the gracious being, as civilized and courtly in defeat as he is humble in victory. What's that you say? Of whom do we speak? Well, surely not Donald Trump. Here's what he had to...
Mike Pompeo’s opposite number in Russia, Sergei Lavrov, said that charges that Maria Butina is a Russian agent were fabricated and Butina should be released at once. Reuters:
Sergei Lavrov made the comments about Maria Butina in a phone call...
