OK, Now I'm starting to get pissed off. I don't know what Vlad the Imp is playing at, but it sure isn't successful warfare. Winston Churchill was a wartime Prime Minister, but he listened to his military advisors and...
OK Mr President. Enough is enough. I have been unwaveringly supportive of your conduct in supporting Ukraine against Russia's unprovoked war crime. And I will continue to do so. But now it's finally long past time to take the...
Even before the first shots were fired in the Ukraine invasion, I have been highly complimentary on the way that Biden has run rings around Putin. He lectured him, he warned him, and he declassified classified documents to show...
Fair Warning. This is going to be a wee different from what you're used to on this subject. Instead of one long article on a single situation, this article is a recap of several relevant events that have happened over...
My many undying thanks to my friend and reader Denis Eliot. In a comment on my recent article on Russia, he replied that he had seen an article that said that Putin had complete control of the special military...
This just keeps getting worse and worse. I have covered this war extensively for you, and I have tried above all things to always be honest, not political or romantic. From where I'm sitting, the war in Ukraine is...
What goes around comes around. Almost immediately following Trump's stolen election in 2016, political analysts concentrating on global democracy started worrying about his unlikely win fueling an already rising wave of far right, neo-fascist popularity throughout Europe, especially in...
God I love it when pure stupid is so purely rewarded. MSNBC just reported that both Finland and Swedem will join NATO sometime early this summer, likely within the next 90 days. And with that will make Russia's position...
No, the title is not pure nationalism, it's not arrogance, and it isn't bluster. Instead, it is based on simple logic, simple math, and recent history., It breaks down into three basic buckets, financing, technology, and experience. Let's break...
Oh. My. God. As I've grown older, I have found that I suffer fools far less gladly then I did when I had more patience. But at the same time, nothing pleases me more in my dotage than seeing...

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