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Russia has warned its citizens they might be “hunted” if they travel to the US or other Western countries. But this warning reeks of projection and gaslighting — now the hallmarks of Russia’s dealings with the West. After all, Russia has turned arresting Americans and other Westerners on trumped-up charges into a cottage industry, using… Read more.
Russia using North Korea’s nuclear playbook Russia and North Korea are the only two nuclear powers whose leaders continually boast about using nukes. That is no coincidence. Russia and North Korea are also the two poorest and most sanctioned among the nine nuclear powers. Both leverage nuclear weapons to compensate for everything from diplomatic isolation to economic stagnation. North… Read more.
North Korea supplying Russia Chinese weapons The X factor in the war in Ukraine is whether China will end up supplying weapons to Russia the way the US is supplying them to Ukraine. I submit that China will not. But it faces an abiding dilemma: China has a geostrategic interest in seeing Russia prevail. But it fears doing… Read more.
Russia is now poised for an invasion of Ukraine – just as North Korea has been for an invasion of South Korea for over 50 years. In fact, Russia’s menacing bully, Vladimir Putin, is just like North Korea’s menacing bully, Kim Jong-un … only with lots of oil and more nukes to leverage his mischief… Read more.
And nobody can deny that it has worked like a charm… Remember that purportedly incriminating call on which he was caught telling the president of Ukraine, “you need to do me a favor, though”? Or the far more incriminating one on which he was caught telling Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, “I just want to… Read more.
Episode 33: Signing Executive Orders to Reverse Trump’s Policies Was Easy… Related commentaries: I picked Biden… rogue nations… Chutzpah!… boycott Olympics… Russian hackers… China Uighurs… Groundhog-day flare up… Neverending story… 1 dead Israeli… Afghanistan… Listen.
Evidently, President Kim Jong-un of North Korea is feeling like a woman scorned. Never mind that he behaved throughout his affair with President Trump like a shrew – too uptight to screw. North Korea accused the U.S. of breaking promises it made at a historic summit two years ago, saying the Trump administration had turned… Read more.
In typical fashion, President Trump mistakenly blamed Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for cutting his cameo in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. In typical fashion, he then projected onto Trudeau the upset over a serious public policy that would cause him (i.e., Trump) to make such a petty personal cut: I guess Justin… Read more.
[S]ince their historic first meeting in Singapore last June, the two leaders have adopted a strategy of playing to each other’s ego with gushing and gratuitous adoration in pursuit of their aims. (The Washington Post, February 25, 2019) They actually take pains to show how much they’re in love. But, after Bradley Cooper and Lady… Read more.
At a rally in West Virginia on Saturday night, Trump announced that, while exchanging letters and holding their summit, he and Kim Jong un “fell in love.” Here in part is how he then tried to justify his schoolgirl crush: Now they’ll say, ‘Donald Trump said they fell in love. … so unpresidential.’ … [I]t’s… Read more.
