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NATO is still infighting over sending weapons to Ukraine. It began with stinger missiles. This, even though Ukraine needed them to take out Russian tanks. That has been the case with practically every weapon Ukraine has pleaded for. Infighting over sending fighter jets has been most enduring in this respect. Now NATO is infighting over… Read more.
Much is being made about explosions that sent Russians scurrying from their beach cabanas on the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea on Tuesday. Ukraine claims they resulted from the derring-do of its Special Forces – who infiltrated behind enemy lines and blew up a Russian military airbase. But red-faced Russia insists the explosions resulted from nothing… Read more.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky made US history this morning. He became the first world leader to address a joint session of Congress virtually. As the Post reported, he zoomed into Washington to plead for increased aid to help Ukraine fend off Russia’s genocidal invasion: ________ Zelensky renewed his plea for air support to protect the… Read more.
President Biden and other NATO leaders have been talking about Article 5 a lot lately. That, of course, is The Three Musketeers-like article which says that an attack on one NATO member is an attack on all. Moreover, that such an attack would trigger a one-for-all-and-all-for-one retaliation. That’s why the public squabbling among NATO members… 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.
Chess grandmaster -cum- political dissident Garry Kasparov is generally recognized as every bit the authority on Russia today that political dissident Andrey Sakharov was on the old Soviet Union. Therefore, when Kasparov speaks about Vladimir Putin’s maneuvers, everyone in Washington listens. No doubt this was the case last week when Kasparov made a rare appearance… Read more.
Since last November, pundits have been commenting on the buildup of Russian troops on the Ukrainian border as if Russia were poised to mount the kind of blitzkrieg invasion of Ukraine that Germany mounted to invade Poland in 1939. To be fair, though, no less an authority than The Washington Post gave credence to their… Read more.
For the past 16 years, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has been the most powerful woman in the world. Yet the only thing most people outside Germany know about her impressive rule is what they saw of her interaction with the world’s most powerful men. And even then, three viral images probably account for much of… Read more.
On Friday, White House doctors and advisers convinced President Trump that his bout of Covid-19 was so severe, he had to be helicoptered to Walter Reed Medical Center for intensive care. Trust me, this inflicted such a blow to his ego, they probably had to threaten to withhold his oxygen tubes to get him to… Read more.
Donald Trump is an irrepressible buffoon. This is why even frenemies like Russian President Vladimir Putin – who see him as a “useful idiot” – must continually laugh at him behind his back. But nothing betrays what little respect Trump commands on the world stage quite like his allies doing the same. Donald Trump departed… Read more.
