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Russian President Vladimir Putin has so cultivated the image of unrivaled strongman that Russians could be forgiven for thinking he can slay dragons with his stare. Hell, listening to Republicans swoon over his leadership, you could be forgiven for thinking they wish Putin were president of the United States. Granted, this swooning probably reflects their partisan/racial hatred… Read more.
Yes folks, he’s at it again…. Vladimir Putin climbed into a three-seat submersible craft Tuesday to check out an ancient sunken ship found recently in the Black Sea off the coast of Crimea — the peninsula annexed by Russia last year from Ukraine… On previous trips deep underwater, Putin has explored the Gulf of Finland… Read more.
There’s no denying the potential triggers inherent in NATO forces conducting military exercises in the Baltic Sea this week. Especially given that Russian forces are more poised than ever to invade Ukraine, and Putin is planning to deploy new intercontinental ballistic missiles. Not to mention that Obama is planning to deploy tanks, armored vehicles, and artillery bases… Read more.
The Fédération Internationale de Football Association (FIFA) is soccer’s international governing body – whose hallowed mission is to govern “For the Good of the Game.” This is why the scandal that has it reeling these days reeks of such betrayal of trust. FIFA president Sepp Blatter has told an emergency meeting of football’s governing body… Read more.
President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian Navy’s Northern Fleet and paratrooper units to go on full alert as part of snap military exercises in the Arctic … to include nearly 40,000 servicemen, 41 warships and 15 submarines. (Reuters, March 16, 2015) A chest-thumping feature of the relationship between nuclear powers (like Russia, China, and the United States) is… Read more.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s year-end press conferences are becoming more like theatre performances every year. In fact, I got the impression watching his three-hour show yesterday that it was worthy of actor Spalding Gray’s four-hour, one-man show, Swimming to Cambodia. Except that, there is probably more truth in Gray’s theatrical script than there ever is… Read more.
Putin lords over a kleptocracy that has fleeced public funds on such an unprecedented scale, it makes the kleptocracies African despots lord over seem petty. (“Ukraine’s (Peaceful) Orange Revolution Turns Red … with Blood,” The iPINIONS Journal, February 25, 2014) President Vladimir Putin sold the Russian people on the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi as… Read more.
Ukraine, a new post-war Germany Ukraine is at the epicenter of a global power struggle reminiscent of historical flashpoints. Russia seems hellbent on mirroring Germany’s aggressive expansionist tactics of 1939. Its ongoing attempt to annex Ukraine is eerily reminiscent of Germany’s annexation of Poland. Russian forces in two armored columns captured a key southeastern coastal town near the Russian border Thursday after… Read more.
Partisan critics routinely cite Obama’s decision to announce a date certain for withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan as evidence of his military incompetence and political naiveté. More to the point, they invariably juxtapose this disregard for Obama with reverential regard for Russian President Vladimir Putin – as if the former is to the latter as… Read more.
Here, in part, is what I wrote about the Yukos Oil company almost 10 years ago, when Russian President Vladimir Putin was confiscating corporate assets and consolidating political power – all in an effort to reign for life as a latter-day Tsar: The Putinization of Russia continues apace, and Papa Joe Stalin must be very… Read more.
