That’s a big deal, because over 40% of North Koreans are malnourished, “and 18 percent of children have impaired growth and development due to chronic malnutrition,” Politico says here. The North Korean regime has been helping Putin with his faltering war in Ukraine by supplying we[...]
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Was American still held by Russia “stabbed in the back”?
It was a deal that took more than a year, and intense diplomatic effort, to put together. Russia exchanged 16 foreigners, mostly ordinary people, for 8 Russians who were spies, an assassin, and cybercriminals. It was a lopsided trade in Moscow’s favor, but the only way to bring the 16 detainees ho[...]
July 25th, 2024 - 1:39 pm § in Russia
Moscow’s deadly windows
Her country facing spiraling inflation as the Ukraine war rages on (see story here), a top Russian economist somehow fell out of her Moscow apartment window, Russian media reported Tuesday (story here). Moscow’s windows sure are dangerous. Numerous prominent Russian officials have taken the plung[...]
June 25th, 2024 - 6:53 pm § in America, Biden, China, Donald Trump, Europe, Foreign Affairs, Israel/Palestine, Politics, Republicans, Russia, Saudi Arabia
Is Biden senile?
Let’s figure this out. My raw material is Time magazine’s June 24, 2024, cover story (here). It’s mostly about foreign policy; I can only quote short excerpts, for space and fair use reasons, and encourage you to read the entire article linked above. It begins, “During his 40[...]
Tomorrow marks D-Day, and we’ve learned nothing
June 6, 2024, marks the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landings. We’re now four generations removed from that fateful day, and only a handful of its veterans are still alive to remind us of the lessons America should learn from that war. Before World War 2, America was isolationist, and caught [...]
June 5th, 2024 - 4:15 am § in Russia
Full-length movie: Lenin: The Train (1988). In English
In his 1964 biography, The Life and Death of Lenin, Robert Payne described Lenin as a “specter” whose impact on history “haunts the world.” The Bolshevik revolution was made possible by the German government’s decision in 1917 to smuggle Lenin across Germany in a sealed[...]
June 4th, 2024 - 1:19 pm § in Russia
PHOTOGRAPHY: Soviet housing
Isn’t communism *wonderful*?? Of course, this photo isn’t representative of all Soviet housing; there also were Gulag barracks and leaders’ dachas. But under communist-style equality, where the masses are equally poor, most Russians lived in drab concrete warrens like the one below[...]
Protesting in Russia (video)
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Russian parking rage, part 2 (video)
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Russian parking rage, part 1 (video)
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