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Issues involving Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin talking to Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in May 2001. In the center between them is another Russian oligarch, Mikhail Fridman. Wikimedia Commons / Kremlin.ru Russia represents … Read More
Iranian Emad IRBM at launch Photo Credit: Wikimedia commons/Tasnimnews/Mohammad Agah Much has been said recently about President Trump’s decertification of Iran’s compliance to the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the JCPOA. … Read More
Vladimir Putin, President (for life?) of the Russian Federation DailyPnut.com While Democrats continue to obsess over imaginary connections between Donald Trump and the Russian Federation, they seem to pay little … Read More
Progressive conspiracy theorists. (c) Can Stock Photo / Frostie Even now, despite the lack of any shred of evidence, Democrats and their media allies are pushing the meme that Donald … Read More
Revolutionary Images: Lessons to be avoided like the plague! Left: A barricade erected by revolutionaries in Moscow, 1905. Wikimedia Commons / Imperial War Museum Right: People’s Liberation Army entering Beijing, … Read More
Aspects of U.S. Foreign Relations Top (Left to Right): U.S. Army soldiers in Ramadi, August 2006 Wikimedia Commons / Air Force Tech Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock Container ship from … Read More
United Nations Headquarters in New York City Wikimedia Commons / Neptuul Very little divides American citizens more than questions about how the U.S. should interact with other nations. This has always … Read More
Secretary of State Designate Rex Tillerson, then ExxonMobil CEO, with President Vladimir Putin of the Russian Federation on April 16, 2012 Wikimedia Commons / premier.gov.ru The Democratic Party has found … Read More
The flags of bitter enemies: Iran left, Saudi Arabia right Wikimedia Commons Sometime in the middle of this last November, someone, almost certainly the Islamic Republic of Iran, conducted destructive … Read More
President Obama meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria and ISIS, September 29, 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru No American president in my lifetime has had a foreign policy that … Read More
Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton take the stage at the third and final Presidential debate. The differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on foreign policy appear to be more … Read More
Russia and its western “Near Abroad” Map courtesy of Google Maps Russia is becoming a major danger to the rest of the world on a par with ISIS because of their “Russian … Read More
The headquarters for the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) at Lubyanka Square in Moscow in the same building that used to be the HQ of the KGB. Wikimedia Commons/NVO There … Read More
On top, Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on January 23, 2016. On bottom, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani meeting with Russian President Vladimir … Read More
The North Face of Two World Trade Center (south tower) immediately after being struck by United Airlines Flight 175. Wikimedia Commons/Robert on Flickr It has been fifteen years to the … Read More
Moscow Victory Day Parade, 2015 Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru Russia is having increasingly difficult economic problems, as was discussed in my last post. A large part of the reason for that can … Read More
Constant Russian per capita GDP in 2010 US dollars (Blue curve) and its percent change from a year earlier (red curve). Image Credit: St. Louis Federal Reserve District Bank/FRED Data … Read More
Der Russische Führer, Vladimir Putin Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru ANDERS ÅSLUND has become an indispensable analyst of that “riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma”, as Sir Winston Churchill … Read More
The Moscow Kremlin, the working residence of the President of Russia. Wikimedia Commons/Минеева Ю. (Julmin) (retouched by Surendil) Will Adolph Hitler and Benito Mussolini have the last laugh on history? There seems … Read More
U.S. Army soldiers in Ramadi, August 2006 Wikimedia Commons/Air Force Tech Sgt. Jeremy T. Lock One of the major reasons for the weakening of U.S. alliances has been the decay … Read More
People’s Liberation Army contingent at 2015 Moscow Victory Day Parade Wikimedia Commons/Kremlin.ru Probing of the U.S. alliance periphery is being done by more than just Russia and ISIS. In my … Read More
YAL-1A airborne laser in flight with the mirror unstowed Photo Credit:Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Missile Defense Agency This is the third post in a series on the threat of Chinese and Russian … Read More
Hypersonic reentry of an HGV Image Credit: Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) In my last post I wrote about the unique threat against U.S. national security posed by the … Read More
Deployment of U.S. Falcon Hypersonic Technology Vehicle (HTV2) AFP Photo/Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DARPA) While Obama’s administration is cutting back on defense spending and futuristic defense development programs, both … Read More
Ottoman depiction of the siege of Vienna by Muslim forces in 1529. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons/”Istanbul”, Hachette, Collection “Voir” (PD-Art) It is rapidly becoming obvious to a number of people that … Read More
The European Parliament in Strasbourg, France Wikimedia Commons/Diliff With the three recent jihadist attacks on Brussels and Paris, Europe has been given a wake-up notice … Read More
Sukhoi Su-24M: Russian workhorse in Syria Wikimedia Commons/Alexander Mishin, © A. Mishin If you have been paying much attention to what is going on in the Middle East, you … Read More
Vladimir Putin, President of the Russian Federation, aboard battle cruiser Pyotr Velikiy, flagship of the Russian Northern Fleet Photo courtesy of www.kremlin.ru Many who lived through the decay and fall … Read More
U.S. troops near Siauliai Zuokniai, Lithuania, April 26, 2014 Photo Credit: AFP/Petras Malukas The U.S. and our NATO alliance are now facing the consequences of a weak … Read More
