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Only a cold-hearted, genocidal maniac (like Chinese President Xi Jinping) could fail to sympathize with the predicament of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, let alone with the looming fate of the Ukrainian people. On the other hand, I suspect I sympathize with both as much as anyone not born in Ukraine possibly could. And I can… Read more.
Russia state-sanctioned doping That Russia runs a state-sanctioned doping program to enhance the performance of its athletes is an open secret. I decried this phenomenon in the blog post “In Putin’s Russia Even Athletics Is a Criminal (Doping) Enterprise” on November 9, 2015. Therefore, nobody should be surprised that Kamila Valieva has the women’s figure skating competition embroiled… Read more.
On Monday, President Biden was caught on a hot mic calling the White House correspondent for Fox News a “stupid son of a bitch.” Within hours, in a very un-Trumpian manner, he called that correspondent and offered a personal apology. But it seems he was still apologizing on Tuesday. Because only that explains the way… 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.
Just weeks ago, Europe was hurling moral indignation at the migrant crisis America allowed to unfold under a bridge near the US-Mexico border in Del Rio, Texas. As it happened, I alluded to Russian mischief in the title to my commentary on that crisis, namely “Er, VP Harris, the Migrants Are Coming, the Migrants Are… Read more.
Episode 47: And May Obey His Orders to Suppress Our Votes Next… Related commentaries: Nicki Minaj… Sowing seeds… Listen.
Episode 44: But This Pawn Is Being Played by Two Masters, Both of Whom Seem Better at Geopolitical Chess Than Biden… Related commentaries: Biden’s foreign policy team… Fate of democracy… Listen.
EU leaders led the world in condemning the president of Belarus for ordering a truly extraordinary caper on Sunday. In a piece on May 24 titled, “A State-Sponsored Skyjacking Can’t Go Unanswered,” the editorial board of The New York Times began its condemnation as follows: _________ Aleksandr Lukashenko, the president of Belarus, has gone too… 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.
And yes, the irony cannot be lost even on Putin that protests are unmasking him at a time when a pandemic is masking everyone else. The following excerpt from the August 29 edition of The Economist explains his unmasking: _________ NOTHING IS AS inspiring as seeing people take to the streets to demand their freedoms… Read more.
