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...
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...
This is a perfect example of why I take almost anything I get from a pundit, talking head, or media expert with a cow lick size grain of salt. About 7 weeks ago, when Putin invaded the Ukraine, most...
I love this particular descriptive phrase Nikki Haley is using. It's got both a literal and a figurative definition. The literal implies cowardice and the figurative implies that one is simply smitten with another person, swept off their feet,...
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...
"A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest." -- Simon and Garfunkle History will reflect that Crossfire Hurricane, in the final analysis, bore as much relationship to a real investigative report of government institutions as Donald...
Donald Trump lies so often and is allowed to do so with impunity by so-called broadcast journalists, that most of his firehose of falsehoods goes unnoticed. Sadly. But he made a comment during a recent faux town hall which...
I have to hand it to the Rooskies. I have read books, columns, countless words about Donald Trump and his mental issues, but the Kremlin, of all places, nails it to a tee. In preface, the Kremlin bothered to...
Vladimir Putin is a moron. And he's proving it every goddamn day. The entire reason of fighting a land war is to come away with more land. But see, the thing is, the land still has to have some value to it! And...

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