He couldn’t have prevented the years of low oil prices and cheap gas that gutted oil company profits. (For example, Exxon’s profit dropped from $32.5 billion in 2014 to $7.8 billion in 2018, and the company lost $22.4 billion in 2020.) That was engineered by Saudi Arabia to kill off the [...]
Archive for the ‘Russia’ Category
July 7th, 2022 - 12:28 am § in Russia
Are tanks obsolete?
Western military leaders say they’re not, and explain the Russians’ problem in Ukraine is they don’t know how to use them. That’s why their advance on Kyiv failed. The Russian army is better at handling artillery, which is how they’re pushing back the Ukrainians in Donb[...]
Russian traffic stops video (English translation NSFW)
Don’t like our cops? It could be worse, you know … Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 6th, 2022 - 12:11 pm § in Russia
Russia proposes Alaskan referendum
A Russian Duma official proposes holding a referendum for Alaskans to decide whether they want to be part of Russia or America (see story here). The Duma is their legislative body, similar to Congress. I say, “Go for it.” Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
July 5th, 2022 - 11:23 am § in Russia
Russian thieves
Looting and pillaging like 4th century barbarians, Russia is pretending grain they didn’t grow, harvested from land they don’t own, somehow belongs to them. Read story here. Update: Turkey released the ship and its cargo despite Ukraine’s protests. Read story here. Photo: Turkey ha[...]
Book Review: “The Fourth Man,” the hunt for a CIA mole who got away
If you like spy stories, check out this non-fiction book (get it here) about CIA spycatchers and double agents, written by an ex-CIA officer (he cleared its contents with the Agency). It’s not dense or tedious; it’s fun to read. “The Fourth Man” is a newly released book (publ[...]
Greene wants U.S. out of NATO, but that’s a bad idea
Does she have any good ones? Rep. Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) tweeted yesterday the U.S. leave NATO and should stop supporting Ukraine (see tweet below). Raw Story played this story by saying, “Greene says it’s time to let Putin win” (see story here). That’s not exactly accu[...]
Who’s to blame for inflation?
Republicans will tell you Biden is. Mark Zandi, a respected economist (bio here), breaks it down in the chart at left. Isn’t it obvious this is all Biden’s fault? Let’s go through it item-by-item. Russian invasion of Ukraine That’s 3.5% right there, and Biden admits it contr[...]
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 21st, 2022 - 2:24 pm § in Russia
Will Russia execute Americans?
U.S. women’s basketball star and Olympian athlete Brittney Griner (photo, left) went to Russia to supplement her income by playing for a Russian team (see story here). She was arrested at the Moscow airport because, Russian officials claim, they found hashish oil in her luggage. Russia insists[...]