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In fact, reports are that Trump’s announcement of his decision to withdraw triggered explosions within hours: Syria on Tuesday said Israel carried out an attack on a military base south of Damascus, which was used by Iranian forces. … The [Israeli] military said it identified what it said was unusual movements of Iranian forces in… Read more.
Scoring macabre political points is the only goal Western powers can accomplish by bombing Syria. This is why I’ve been decrying it for years. In fact, when Western commentators hailed Russian President Vladimir Putin for joining this priapic orgy of bombing in 2015, I wailed in “Bombing ISIS Smacks of Masturbatory Violence,” November 18, 2015.… Read more.
President Vladimir Putin shocked the world in 2006 when he ordered a hit on former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko. The shock was not that he ordered it, but that he had it done on British soil. After all, this was right under the noses of the then home secretary, Theresa May, and vaunted Scotland Yard… Read more.
The world had come to expect only North Korean President Kim Jong-un to bluster about nuclear strikes. Then came US President Donald Trump blustering about raining down nuclear “fire and fury.” And now comes Russian President Vladimir Putin blustering about this: Russia has tested an array of new strategic nuclear weapons that can’t be intercepted,… Read more.
President Trump was obliged to hold a joint press conference when Australian Prime Minister Malcom Turnbull visited the White House on Friday. This gave reporters an increasingly rare opportunity to question him in a formal setting. I feared they would waste the two questions Trump allowed to ask redundant ones about the Russia investigation. Therefore,… 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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has gone to extreme lengths over the years to burnish his he-man image. I duly ridiculed him in commentaries like “Hail Putin,” December 3, 2007, “Putin’s Photo-Op Flop,” October 20, 2010, and “Putin’s Divorce Dents Public Armor,” June 12, 2013, which includes this abiding observation: Putin has become an international laughingstock… Read more.
Foremost, with all the humbug about Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, bear in mind that American President Donald J. Trump might be a bigger danger to Westerner democracies. Putin must be laughing at his dumb luck. After all, he could never have imagined having an American president who seems almost as hell-bent as he is… Read more.
With Roger Ailes still the chief operating pimp. Fox News is still reeling from the allegations of sexual harassment against Ailes and other network honchos that caused Megyn Kelly to jump ship in January. Now she’s moving on. She debuts on NBC this Sunday, and seems poised to get off with a bang. This, because… Read more.
President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russia had information that the United States was planning to launch new missile strikes on Syria, and that there were plans to fake chemicals weapons attacks there. ‘We have information that a similar provocation is being prepared … in other parts of Syria including in the southern Damascus… Read more.
