Bernie’s foreign policy, based on his website, is at best vague. That worries me but, what I can tell from his history, would very much serve Putin’s interests. Even where Bernie’s stands have been ones I shared of the last 50 years 2021, is not the 1960s. Isolationism, opposit[...]
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Trump on North Korea, Syria, Iran, Crimea ??????
The media seem to have missed something … the State of the Union speech on Tuesday somehow did not mention the massive diplomatic failures in Korea, Iran, Syria, Yemen, the universal rejection of Kushner’s Plan to make Palestine go away, our abandonment of all nuclear treaties and …[...]
July 3rd, 2019 - 10:02 am § in Russia
Red Oktober Comes in July
The Russian authorities say an explosion on a Russian submarine , within Russian territorial waters has killed 14 sailors. The submarine is identified as AS-12 (nicknamed LOSHARIK). President Putin said seven of the 14 were captains and that two of the dead had received high military honors[...]
The US Navy is Flunking the Polar Test of Global Warming
While Trump touts spending billions of dollars to build more F35 fighter jets, he seems not to understand even the basics of our military needs. After all, won’t global warming make the ice breakers obsolete? Seems like our opponents get a different message. As the poles melt, the Russia[...]
TRUMP GIVES GREAT SPEECH IN RIYADH
I was impressed.[...]
Being Black in Putin’s Russia
Black skin remains extremely rare in Russia. One estimate says that there are between 40,000 and 70,000 Russians of full or mixed-African heritage. Kevin O’Flynn, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Image 1: “African-Russians activists demonstrate in a march against racism in the Volga city of Niz[...]
MiG Crashes Off of Russia’s Antique Aircraft Carrier
A Russian MiG-29k jet just crashed during its debut off the Syrian coast The jet crashed in the Mediterranean Sea while trying to land on Russia’s sole aircraft carrier, the Russian Ministry of Defense said Monday in a statement. As Russia’s lone aircraft carrier and the Russian navy’s flagshi[...]
The Incorporation of Russia and China
Putin Proposes State Corporate Structure Modeled After China After Vladimir Putin hinted at his September 5 Bloomberg interview that he might not run for presidency in 2018 and suggested that the next leader should be “fairly young” but “mature” [Note 1], pundits are now guessing his success[...]
Fascists Across World Celebrate Trump, Russia Admits It has Worked With Trump
The horror over Trump is that he is part of movementd we have seen before. The movement, called fascism under Mussolini and populism uder Hugo Chavez, is misunderstood because of Hitler’s version that conflated racism with state corporatism and nationalism. Mussolini’s fascism, the o[...]