Once feared Russian dictator Vladmir Putin has had a bad week.  He's not winning the war in Ukraine which means he's losing.  South Africa has remained in his corner and initially was prepared to ignore a warrant from the...
Today President Biden held a conference call with the four leaders of France, Italy, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Or as I like to call them, the senior partnership of NATO. And never for better reason. Because President Biden is going...
baha breaking news may be my first choice to source a breaking news story, but it is where I saw it first reported and seem reputable so I’ll cite them here. Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny died in penal...
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,...
Chris Christie said about Trump just today, "For some reason, drama and chaos follow him wherever he goes. Well folks, that’s like the arsonist saying, ‘For some reason burning buildings follow me wherever I go.’" There might be a...
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...
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...
Wonders never cease. Russian mouthpiece/Putin Fluffer Tucker Carlson was pretty smug with his interview with ole Val Putin. Pootie seemed to have Tuckwad spellbound. Even Trump never got so many softballs from Carlson. He expected to be feted with...
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...
Let me qualify that. Give them what they want within reason. For instance, there's no good reason for the US or NATO to enforce a no fly zone. Russian forces are on the run, disorganized, demoralized, and most of the damage to Ukrainian...

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