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.
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Carlson Interviewing Putin Shows That Trump Has Normalized Treason
Carlson interviewing Putin reflects the new (Trumpian) norm Alas, we live in an America that now blithely tolerates treason. Only that explains American Tucker Carlson traveling to Moscow to interview America’s foreign enemy No. 1, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, has interviewed President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, the Kremlin… Read more.
Trudeau Accuses Modi of Murder, Khashoggi style
Trudeau accuses Modi of murder Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just shocked the world. He announced that Canada’s security services had “credible evidence” that Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered this hit: ON THE EVENING of June 18th Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Canadian Sikh leader whom India considered a terrorist, was sitting in his truck in a… Read more.
G20 Summit India: More About Schmoozing Than Anything Else
I’ve argued for years that annual G20 summits are much ado about nothing. But I’ve always recognized their one politically redeeming value. That used to be the opportunity for the world’s political power brokers to forge collegial relationships. Even that illusion has crumbled. G20 Summit India President Putin is AWOL. But he has been for years. This year, Russia’s genocidal… Read more.
North Korea Is Meeting Russia to Supply Weapons from China
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.
Zelensky Was the Skunk at NATO Summit
Prigozhin’s Coup Outs Putin as Weak and Scared
China’s Xi Speaks with Zelensky – as a Feint for Putin and Himself
Chinese President Xi Jinping finally spoke with Zelensky today. But he only did so as a feint to help Russian President Vladimir Putin and himself. Yet everyone is reacting as if Xi offered Zelensky a credible peace plan. A plan, that is, that will make Ukraine’s looming counteroffensive unnecessary. But nothing could be further from the… Read more.
Xi’s State Visit to Russia Showed Limits to ‘Friendship Without Limits’
Putin hoped Xi’s state visit to Russia would reinforce their “friendship without limits.” He wanted Xi to agree to supply weapons to help him wage his genocidal war in Ukraine. But Xi has been limiting his support to little more than parroting Putin’s propaganda. Xi’s state visit to Russia And who can blame Putin? After… Read more.
Russian Fighter Jet Downs US Drone – Proving It Can Menace US With Impunity.
Russian pilots have been menacing US pilots and unmanned drones for years. And they’ve been doing so with reckless abandon and impunity. So this comes as no surprise: Russia downs US drone The Kremlin said it would try to retrieve the wreckage of the surveillance drone, which the Biden administration said was crashed in international… Read more.