Look, don't get me wrong. I'm uber glad that Russia and the Ukraine are talking. When you have two opposing modern armies slaughtering each other on the battlefield, especially an urban battlefield, Talking is always better than not talking....
Nikita Khrushchev famously slapped his loafer on the podium of the United Nations and exclaimed, "We will bury you!" That was some moment in world diplomacy, coming during the Cold War and at a time when people were building...
Ya know, the more time I've spent covering Putin in first the lead up to this crisis, and now the war itself, I have learned by necessity than I ever wanted to know. And in doing so, I discovered...
It finally happened, it finally happened, it finally happened. I'm slightly mad  Queen  I'm going slightly mad
I'm sitting here listening to the coverage on MSNBC of Putin asking China for military equipment to send into Ukraine, and I still...
I love it when things come together. I have written a couple of times that Biden has run strategic rings around Putin, first by aggressively declassifying information and releasing it to the world in the run up the war,...
Finally an explanation for Russia's piss poor military performance in the Ukraine, and provided by no less that former US 4 star General Barry McCaffrey. And the funny thing is, I had written about one part of it more...
You know, I think it's becoming clear that Vladimir Putin is losing his shit. If I personally had drawn up the battle plans for an invasion of an innocent neighboring country, and it was a rolling disaster, I'd be...
I do not write this blithely. I have spent days watching, looking at, evaluating, and analyzing everything I could find about not only the Russia-Ukraine conflict, but Vladimir Putin himself. And I have come to a conclusion.
Ever since Trump...
This is almost too stupid to be true, but it is what it is. As you all know, I'm an old fart, and I remember quite a lot of shit. And going all the way back to the days...
Here we are, starting the third week of Russia's unprovoked invasion into Ukraine, and nothing so far has really surprised me.
As I have written previously, Putin waited too long, lost his edge of surprise, lost his bullshit excuses to...
