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The Biden administration’s latest sanctions and criminal charges against Russia for election interference are déjà vu all over again. Since 2016, the US has been slapping Russia with sanctions like a drunk at a piñata party — wildly swinging, hoping to hit something. Yet, the Russians are still at it, manipulating US public opinion to… Read more.
For China, to help, or not to help Russia: that is the question. It can help Ukraine defend itself against Russia’s genocidal invasion. And, by doing so, it would join the civilized world. Or it can help Russia take Ukraine. But, by doing so, it would suffer sanctions and boycotts. This, like those that have… Read more.
Ukraine is begging NATO to enforce a no-fly zone to help it fend off Russian bombs. Short of that, it’s begging for fighter jets. But NATO leaders fear both would escalate the War in Ukraine into World War III . Therefore, NATO is refusing. For obvious reasons, refusing to enforce a no-fly zone makes sense.… Read more.
I published a podcast episode on the Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 26. I noted the farcical way a manifestly paranoid Russian President Vladimir Putin was trying to assassin proof his life. More to the point, though, I pleaded for Western leaders to sanction Putin and the oligarchs. Because they are the enemy, not… Read more.
Donald Trump famously invited TV cameras to watch his cabinet secretaries say what an honor it will be to serve him, the country be damned. Vladimir Putin showed his former puppet yesterday that real strongmen instill fear more than finagle flattery. He invited TV cameras to watch his spy chief and other national security advisers… Read more.
Most commentators hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin as a disruptive genius for cyberattacking the 2016 US presidential election. This, because Putin made clear that he did so to get Donald Trump elected – presumably to do his bidding. But I warned that Putin was in for a rude awakening. Case in point is the following… Read more.
I stood with fellow students in the early 1980s in calling on corporations and governments to cripple South Africa’s Apartheid regime with boycotts, divestments, and sanctions (BDS). We were trying to force democratic reforms that would grant civil rights to the country’s historically oppressed blacks. I could not have been prouder. But I knew that… Read more.
I am pooped. What’s more, I risk permanent damage to my already failing eyesight if I watch another event. Never mind the irony that my addictive interest in watching healthy people compete is making me unhealthy. Frankly, I deserve a gold medal — not just for watching so many events but for writing so many… Read more.
Much is being made in Washington today about a classified Republican memo. It reportedly delineates all kinds of trumped-up allegations of FBI misconduct and bias – all aimed at discrediting congressional and special investigations into how (and why) Russia helped Donald Trump get elected president of the United States. With all due respect to that… Read more.
Much has been made of the way Russian President Vladimir Putin meddled to get Donald Trump elected president of the United States. The prevailing view – in both Russia and the United States – was that a grateful or compromised Trump would do Putin’s bidding. The great expectation in this respect was that Trump would… Read more.
