March 21, 2025

Trump wants peace, Europe wants war

For the record, it was the U.S., starting with Clinton and continuing through Biden, that provoked the Ukrainian tragedy through NATO eastern expansion, the bloodiest military conflict after WWII that could escalate into nuclear WWIII. Trump, duri...

February 22, 2025

Can we revisit Munich’s not-so-great reputation?

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that the German city of Munich is often mentioned with negative connotations. The Beer Hall Putsch on November 8–9, 1923, also known as the Munich Putsch, by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitle...

January 25, 2025

Can Trump make peace with Russia?

Donald Trump’s election victory can genuinely be called a miracle, given the powerful political, financial, judicial, informational, public, and criminal forces that tried not only to prevent it, but also to imprison him for decades or even kil...

December 22, 2024

Trump’s historic chance to bring peace

No matter what you think of Trump, he proved his ability to perform miracles.  The first was on November 8, 2016, when, being a businessman and political novice, he defeated Washington insider, former secretary of state, and former first la...

December 5, 2024

Will Trump really end the Ukraine war in 24 hours?

The list of Trump’s team members is long, so let’s concentrate on a short list of “troika” candidates who deal with foreign affairs and national security, starting with secretary of state Marco Rubio. As vice chai...

September 17, 2024

The Odd Couple decide the fate of humanity

U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken and U.K. foreign secretary David Lammy hinted during their recent joint trip to Kyiv that the U.S. would lift restrictions on Ukraine using long-range missiles to strike deep into Russia.  St...

July 5, 2024

How the debate could end the Ukraine War

The first thing that crossed my mind after watching the Trump-Biden debate was the famous book Ten Days That Shook the World, written by the American journalist John Reed.  In it, he describes the ten days in October 1917 during Russia...

May 29, 2024

How about a highway linking New York and London?

An unusual gathering took place in Washington on May 21, 2024.  At a time when U.S.-Russia relations hit the lowest historical level, when Washington keeps pumping tens of billions of dollars plus huge volumes of all kinds of weapons into i...

May 18, 2024

Time to change the course in Ukraine

The recent statement by the former Joint Chiefs chairman Mark Milley — “We slaughtered people in massive numbers, innocent people who had nothing to do with their government, men, women, and children” — is a rare...

May 2, 2024

A bill to prolong death and destruction

I am speaking of a $95-billion foreign military aid package that includes $61 billion for Ukraine. Speaker Mike Johnson’s turnaround from opponent to supporter of the war in Ukraine raised many eyebrows.  His meeting with Donald Tr...

March 20, 2024

The French president plans a crusade

According to many French, both ordinary folks and politicians, their president Emmanuel Macron could think of nothing crazier to divert attention away from farmers’ problems and increase his low 24% rating.  The leader of the extreme ...

March 10, 2024

Stormclouds over Victoria Nuland’s head

The common opinion, at least in the West, about the starting date of the current crisis that might escalate into nuclear WWIII is February 24, 2022, with Putin’s “unprovoked” invasion of Ukraine.  However, many unbiased obse...

March 1, 2024

Fake news of a Russian apocalypse

On February 14, Ohio Republican Rep. Mike Turner, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement that his panel had “made available to all Members of Congress information concerning a serious national security threat....

December 24, 2023

A Christmas wish list for competent leaders

As America enters the 2024 presidential campaign this time, it is not “the economy, stupid”, but foreign policy that should take precedence, since the list of international conflicts and risks of a doomsday scenario is constantly growing....

December 16, 2023

The legacy of Volodymyr Zelensky

Zelensky’s fame and glory in the West are indisputable, and his rise to celebrity status is remarkable.  The transition from a comedian who played the piano on stage with his pants down to a politician compared by the media to Abraham...

November 29, 2023

Remember when the USA and Russia were friends?

Before the start of Russia-Ukraine war in February 2022, former energy secretary Ernest J. Moniz and Senator Sam Nunn co-authored an article in the September/October issue of Foreign Affairs explaining that the risk of nuclear use has become disturbi...

October 30, 2023

20 years ago, Biden got it right

During the September 28, 2023, hearing on “The Basis for an Impeachment Inquiry of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.,” House Committee on Oversight and Accountability chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) detailed how overwhelming evidence shows Pres...

October 24, 2023

5 lies our government wants us to believe

America once proudly honored the “rule of law,” but nowadays, it looks more and more like the “rule of lies” would be a more appropriate definition.  I am speaking here not necessarily about “lying Joe,” ...

September 30, 2023

Cast Down from Media Olympus

The New York Times and the Washington Post have long been considered America's journalistic icons, ably representing the professionalism and integrity of their calling, and deserving their places on the Olympic media peak. ...

August 11, 2023

Clearing the Fog of 'Unprovoked' War

These days, saying Russia's war in Ukraine is "unprovoked" is a must.  There are some notable exceptions from a few American "dissidents," who say Russia was provoked, but their opinions are dismissed at best or subm...