Either rubles are getting hard to come by and his gas and oil oligarchs are raisin’ hell, or Vlad the Invader has topped off all the tanks of China and India and has no place left to sell, but...
You know, if I was Vladimir Putin, I'd execute a bunch of generals and aides, claim to the nation that they lied their asses off about how bad they were fucking up, and call it a day.
But he can't....
Ian Bremmer is a Stanford educated political scientist and the founder of the Eurasia Group, a political risk management consulting firm that specializes in that part of the world where Saturday’s tempest in a teapot semi-revolt by The Wagner...
Tomorrow, in response to the war atrocities in Bucha, the US, presumably followed by the EU are announcing a new tranche of sanctions. And already the pissing and moaning is starting. What?! More sanctions? For Crissakes what's left to...
So now it appears that Vlad the Imp may finally be getting ready to take the plunge and invade the Ukraine. Or maybe not. Nobody has a clue as to what Putin is actually thinking, although they're all sure...
Vladimir Putin doesn't have his puppet to laugh at and chat with on the phone at will. Now he's got Joe Biden, who called him a "killer" last month, and that led to the recall of Russian ambassador Anatoly...
God works in mysterious ways, or so we are told, but Donald Trump does not. Although he believes that he is on a par with the deity just mentioned, as you will see below. You've probably heard about Trump's...
Look, let's step back from the Ukraine war for a moment, and look at what may be a root cause. One way or another Putin has been in power for more than 20 years now. Even when the Russian...
Following a trail of crumbs isn't the least bit difficult when loaves of bread are being thrown in the street so people can trip over them. Usually a divorce of a first year congressman doesn't become a national security...
A clearly rattled and unsettled Vladimir Putin took to the airwaves yet again today, to give another long, rambling, almost incoherent speech reminiscent of a Trump rally. And in doing so, he gave psychologists and psychiatrists years of data...
