In mid-December, at the same time Russian troops were massing on Russia’s border with Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sent a draft treaty to NATO proposing severe limitations on what NATO can do in its members who have joined…
Russian President Vladimir Putin scored major propaganda points in his over four-hour annual press conference this week. He turned attention away from Russia’s invasion of Crimea, support of Russian separatists in the Donbas region (Donbas), and troop buildup on Ukraine’s…
How does he do it? Vladimir Putin, that is. With only the world’s 11th-biggest GDP, he has the third-most powerful military, on which he spent $67 billion in 2020. With which he bullies and invades neighbors and ties down NATO as a whole and…
Last week Vladimir Putin’s Russia issued a series of demands to NATO that go far beyond what it has already demanded of President Biden in talks about Russia’s intention to conquer the rest of Ukraine. Russians didn’t invent paranoia but…
No amount of spin-doctoring by the White House, no false dichotomy of complete withdrawal or escalation, no disingenuous blaming of the Trump administration, no conflating disaster with courage, and no emotional appeal to stop the “forever war” can alter reality:…
Charles Wiley, a 95-year-old World War II veteran, with over 65 years experience as a foreign/military correspondent and lecturer, says: I’m against the United States being the policeman of the world. I’m against a policy of nation building. Unfortunately, our country followed…
The Taliban now effectively control Afghanistan. They have forced women and girls into marriages on their path to taking over the country. Meanwhile, world leaders — from Joe Biden to Boris Johnson to Justin Trudeau — have turned away from…
Afghanistan and Iraq are vastly different. Afghanistan has been dominated by feuding warlords for many centuries, without a central and respected writ of authority. Iraq, as an integral part of the Levant, has been a nation-state actor connected to much…
President Joe Biden has finished making the rounds of Europe, with the objective of convincing the Europeans that we still love them. Like many a jilted beau, they took “the Trump experience” hard. The former president almost brought them to…
