On May 9th of every year, Russia celebrates Victory Day, marking the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945. There’s a military parade, and patriotic speeches (details here). CNBC noted (here), “Moscow usually uses the high-profile event in Moscow to show off its military hardware, parading mass[...]
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Putin would drink DeSantis’s milkshake
“In his yearlong battle with Disney,” CNN says (here), “Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has repeatedly leaned on the element of surprise in his attempts to outmaneuver the entertainment giant and its army of executives, high-priced lawyers and politically connected lobbyists.” �[...]
October 9th, 2022 - 9:12 pm § in Russia
Putin’s faux outrage
“Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday called the attack that damaged the huge bridge connecting Russia to its annexed territory of Crimea ‘a terrorist act’ masterminded by Ukrainian special services,” Huffington Post reported on October 9, 2022 (read story here). Terror[...]
October 2nd, 2022 - 11:06 pm § in Russia
What might happen if Putin goes nuclear
While there’s no sign right now of Russian preparations to use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine, U.S. and NATO officials are taking Putin’s latest threats “very seriously.” A Russian ex-oligarch who knows Putin well predicts he’ll try to turn things around with the 3[...]
September 30th, 2022 - 11:20 pm § in Russia
Putin can’t do anything right
What the heck is Putin celebrating? He’s losing his war. His conscription scheme is chaos, and Russians are fleeing the country. He doesn’t have control of the Ukrainian territory he annexed, and his Nordstream pipeline sabotage is backfiring. Nothing is going right for him. He hasnR[...]
September 27th, 2022 - 2:28 am § in Russia
Will Putin suffer the tsar’s fate?
Tsar Nicholas II, the guy who was shot in a shabby cellar along with his entire family, was warned by his advisers not to assume personal command of the Russian army. If he did, they said, and the war was lost, he would be blamed. Well, we know how that turned out (watch video here). […][...]
August 25th, 2022 - 12:48 am § in Donald Trump, Russia
Putin hates the Magnitsky Act and that’s why the Trump Tower meeting happened
The Mueller Report, you will recall, said, “While this report does not conclude that [Trump] committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.” But no charges were brought, and then-Attorney General Barr tried to bury it. It’s in the news again because, “The Department of Justice (D[...]
Putin likely will survive; what should America do?
The Russian people are being forced to live in a dreamland, whether they want to or not, in which Putin’s aggression against Ukraine is a “sacred” duty of “defending the Motherland” and those supporting Ukraine are “international terrorist gangs.” Moreover, [...]
June 7th, 2022 - 12:32 am § in Foreign Affairs, Russia
Understanding Putin’s Russia (video)
This 39-minute video is very up-to-date (as of June 2022) and explains what drives Putin’s thought process and wars. It’s the work of a Dallas YouTuber named Joseph Pisenti (profile here), who’s also a book author (here). If he has a c.v. (degrees, etc.), beyond describing himself [...]
Is Putin planning to blow himself up?
Ahead of Russia’s Victory Day, which that country celebrates with a giant military parade on May 9 of every year to commemorate Nazi Germany’s surrender, it was thought that Putin would declare victory in the besieged city of Mariupol, declare war against Ukraine (upgrading the current &[...]