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Arguably, protests in Russia are like snowballs in Hell. This is why I’ve written so many commentaries over the years hailing democratic rebels with a lost cause. For example, I refer you to “Putinization: President Putin Reforming Russia in His Own Image,” March 25, 2005 “Vladimir Putin Sends Political Dissident Mikhail Khodorkovsky Off to the… Read more.
United States intelligence officers and Special Operations forces in Afghanistan alerted their superiors as early as January to a suspected Russian plot to pay bounties to the Taliban to kill American troops in Afghanistan. … Mr. Trump defended himself by denying the Times report that he had been briefed on the intelligence, expanding on a… Read more.
I wrote “Putin and MbS Used COVID-19 to Shutdown US Oil Producers. And Trump Was All Too Happy to Collude” a month ago today. In it I argued that Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MbS) were playing chess with American President Donald Trump – who seemed incapable even… Read more.
When President Trump began threatening to overthrow Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, here is how I ridiculed him in “Cry for Venezuela,” March 4, 2019: Trump is offering [opposition leader Juan Guaido] little more than trademark bluster with his saber-rattling rhetoric. He clearly does not have the cojones to launch military intervention to remove Maduro; you… Read more.
No doubt you recall the viral video which shows Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yucking it up with British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, and French President Emmanuel Macron at President Trump’s expense. The occasion was a reception at the 2019 NATO summit in London. They were all laughing at the… Read more.
There’s no denying that Russian President Vladimir Putin interfered in the 2016 presidential campaign to help Donald Trump. Only that explains why Trump keeps acting like Putin’s useful idiot. And yes, Trump is really that stupid and transparent. Trump is Putin’s useful idiot Of course, Putin keeps playing the coy mastermind who pulled off that electoral feat. He started mere days… Read more.
President Trump is notoriously thin-skinned. And nothing gets under it quite like observations that he’s behaving just like his predecessor, Barack Obama. Yet there’s no denying that he’s behaving towards Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro just as Obama did towards Syrian President Bashir al-Assad. No doubt you recall Obama declaring that Assad must go: The future… Read more.
Donald Trump is making his first visit to Britain today as president of the United States. More to the point, this is the second stop on what could be the most consequential foreign trip of his presidency. It began at a NATO summit in Brussels on Wednesday and will end with a Putin summit in… Read more.
No doubt there was more media hype this time about a potential upset. But Turkish strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s reelection was as guaranteed on Sunday as Russian strongman Vladimir Putin’s was on Sunday, March 18. Turkey’s long-standing leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a new five-year term after securing outright victory in the first round… Read more.
The first matches of the FIFA World Cup kick off a week today. But, if I were half the international “influencer” Kim Kardashian has become, those matches would be kicking off not in Russia but in England or France. Perhaps you’re aware that President Vladimir Putin has turned Russia into a rogue state by, among… Read more.
