February 21, 2024

Putin’s Attack Satellites: Could They Be a Reality?

On Thursday, February 15, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters that Russia is developing space-based attack capability using nuclear weapons.  Putin has been intimating the development of just such a weapon since at...

August 9, 2021

Where was the US Navy when Iran Took Over the Strait of Hormuz?

Neither Congress, nor President Biden, nor even the U.S. Navy has registered interest in the following alarming developments in the Gulf of Arabia, first reported by Israeli intelligence. On Tuesday, August 3, at least six ships off the coast of t...

May 14, 2021

CDC Education Guidelines are a Disaster for Children

The latest CDC guidelines for education will put America’s children even further behind the rest of the world in basic learning.  Teachers have long known how important it is for children to learn together.  After ordering schools clo...

May 3, 2021

Russia and China School Biden on Infrastructure

Both the Russians and the Chinese expect Biden's economic plans to flop.  The Russian papers have latched onto the steep price tag.  The Chinese wonder why Biden seeks to undermine American economic development. Rossiya Seg...

April 26, 2021

Does Biden Really Want War with Russia?

A basic rule of international relations is that you do not impose sanctions without an end state in mind.  You also need to be able to muster strong international support by providing clear proof of the charges you are bringing.  ...

April 18, 2021

Russians Say COVID Came from an American Lab in China. Is It True?

Burning questions remain regarding the COVID epidemic.  Where did it come from?  How did it spread?  Who is responsible?  The key question is whether we are dealing with the release, accidental or not, of a lab...

April 5, 2021

Biden's Big Climate Conference Looking Expensive and Useless

The Biden administration is desperate to demonstrate global leadership.  President Biden has settled upon climate change as the ideal issue with which to be seen in command of the world.  He has decided to lead a "climate sum...

March 22, 2021

When Biden Insulted Putin on National TV

On March 16, Biden admitted on national television that he considers Vladimir Putin a killer.  Added to a growing litany of provocations that Putin deeply resents, this straw just might be sufficient to prompt President Putin to take steps....

March 7, 2021

Putin's Former Chief of Staff Calls Trump a Champion against New World Order

Sergey Ivanov, Vladimir Putin's former chief of staff, currently on the Russian Federation Security Council, has weighed in on the "historical scale of the personality and achievements of President Donald Trump" in an op-ed for Eurasia ...

February 27, 2021

Navalny vs. Putin: The Next Round

Alexei Navalny has been getting under Putin’s skin for a long time, and recently things came to a head.  In January 2021, the Navalny Channel on YouTube featured the protest film, Dvorets dlya Putina: Istoriya Samoy Bol’shoy Bzyatki ...

February 21, 2021

While Biden waffles, Kurdistan heats up

President Biden's appointment of Brett McGurk as the National Security Council's Coordinator for the Middle East has already caused alarm in Turkey.  McGurk is considered a staunch critic of the Turkish government's Middle East ...

February 14, 2021

What Russians Are Saying about Biden's Pick for CIA Director

When William Burns's candidacy for head of the CIA was announced in February, Director Sergei Naryshkin of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service, the SVR, had this to say: "William Burns is a person with quite a deep knowledge and experi...

February 8, 2021

A Look at What the Russian Media Think of Joe Biden

Bear in mind two things.  First of all, many Russians recall the 1980s, when their country was ruled by decrepit, aging Politburo hacks, hastening the demise of the Soviet Union.  Those same Russians also recall the 1990s, when th...

February 3, 2021

A Closer Look at the Alexei Navalny Case

The Russians have a centuries-long tradition of government corruption. During the 1990s there was one brief moment during which democratic reforms were attempted, but they failed. By 2000, with the rise of Vladimir Putin, Russia returned to its bad o...

January 29, 2021

Off to a Bad START: Putin Schools Biden with One Phone Call

According to Russian news service Ria Novosti, on Tuesday, the presidents of the Russian Federation and the United States, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, held a telephone conversation.  During the conversation, Biden and Putin agreed to a five-ye...