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…
Maj. Gen. Roman Polko, a former commander of a Polish special forces unit, issued a warning following the high-stakes Tuesday meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and President Joe Biden: “We truly are on the edge of war,” he said….
On Friday, President Biden said that the border crisis was of “great concern.” Unfortunately, he wasn’t referring to the crisis he created on our southern border but the one on the border between Poland and Belarus. He said that those…
When you think about it, the phony claim that, in 2013, former President Donald Trump cavorted with prostitutes in the Moscow Ritz-Carlton who urinated in front of him on a bed once used by former President Barack Obama and his…
The supposed anxieties of the ruling class about “foreign interference” in the 2016 election never extended to the most obvious source of it, Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer paid by the Hillary Clinton campaign to smear Donald Trump….
When strong leaders of nations meet, the outcome can’t always be forecast. When Ronald Reagan met with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986, he suddenly walked out on Gorbachev because the Russian demanded that he include ballistic missile defenses in any future…
President Biden returned from his meetings with G7 and NATO leaders and his summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to near-universal praise from the media and adulatory comments from his staff. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said, “I really…
As Joe Biden stumbled on the world stage, spouting utter nonsense, a remark of Robert Gates, the former defense secretary under Obama, came to mind: “I think he [Biden] has been wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national…
On June 14, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin referred to Russia’s “strategic partnership” with China. Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recently described Sino-Russian relations as a “comprehensive partnership” characterized by “strategic interaction.” In March of this year, the Global Times,…
