“Idealists,” wrote Halford Mackinder in his 1919 geopolitical masterpiece Democratic Ideals and Reality, “are the salt of the earth; without them to move us, society would soon stagnate and civilization fade.” But idealism untempered by an appreciation of human limitations…
Tucker Carlson’s recent, two-hour interview of Vladimir Putin generated massive attention around the world. Carlson deserves credit for the exclusive, although he left the former KGB apparatchik off the hook and looking more like an honest broker than he is…
In the end, the Tucker Carlson interview of Vladimir Putin surprised because it was utterly conventional. No weird forced, barking laughs from Tucker. No wild-eyed proclamations from the Russian president. The interview was two hours of two very smart people…
Tucker Carlson interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin for over two hours. Watch the conversation, at times a filibuster, here. He seems more coherent than our president. At the same time, KGB agents, former and present — whatever the agency currently calls itself —…
Tucker Carlson is visiting Russia, and some are speculating that he is there to interview Russian President Vladimir Putin. On Friday, he was videoed by Russian outlet Sputnik leaving Putin’s headquarters at the Kremlin. “If Tucker does an interview with…
Vladimir Putin’s ambitions to revive the Soviet empire go beyond his war in Ukraine, involving lower-intensity geostrategic moves in various parts of the world producing disturbing results in Africa, where a growing chain of anti-Western military dictatorships controlled by the…
Vladimir Putin has marked the New Year by firing more than 500 missiles “of all types” against Ukraine, hitting Kyiv, Odessa, and most other major cities in recurrent strikes over last weekend in an unprecedented blitz to overwhelm Ukraine’s air…
A new U.S. intelligence estimate says that the war in Ukraine has cost Russia close to 90 percent of its prewar combat power. The Kremlin’s reaction: shrug. The new intelligence assessment says 315,000 Russian personnel have been killed or wounded…
Russian President Vladimir Putin and former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev spoke highly of Henry Kissinger after the former American secretary of state passed away Wednesday at the age of 100 in his Connecticut home. Kissinger was a German-born American diplomat…