Here’s a report from the besieged city of Mariupol. It’s harrowing. A companion piece to that is here: Former UK veterans affairs minister Johnny Mercer, an erstwhile artillery officer who did three tours in Afghanistan, visited Kyiv/Kiev, and
Continue reading →It’s hard to conclude otherwise. It seems to me quite obvious that if Ukraine had kept its nuclear weapons, Russia would not have attacked it. Or at the very least, Russia would have been far more reluctant to have attacked … Continue reading →
Commenter “physicsguy” writes: Many seem to have forgotten how close the Biden family is to the corruption in Ukraine. I have kept that in mind as I look at the administration’s response. I’m definitely not letting Putin off the hook; … Continue reading →
The Iran Deal and how it relates to Ukraine and to the Middle East in general:
Continue reading →I’ve read a lot about what might be behind this deal, and I’ve even written about what might be behind it (see this as well as this). But I’m still having trouble believing it, because it is so terrible. In … Continue reading →
I think it would be better that way. The latest is this: Biden on Wednesday called Putin a “war criminal” for the first time, upping American rhetoric and jumping ahead of a legal process that can take years. “I think … Continue reading →
Ever since the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, I’ve noticed certain assertions made by some commenters here and around the blogosphere. They are often stated as though they are self-evident truths, unnecessary to document. Most people in the US – … Continue reading →
Both Ukraine and Russia are majority Russian Orthodox countries, and this is relevant because the church is very politically involved and politically influential to a much greater degree than in a country such as the US or in western Europe. … Continue reading →
Yesterday my attention was called to this article, the translation of which (thanks, Google translate) is as follows: Russian journalist and well-known propagandist Vladimir Solovyov said that the Russian Federation will not stop at the war in Ukraine. He said … Continue reading →
With the election of Joe Biden it seems that the time has arrived for all tyrannies to try to accomplish what they’d been putting off for just the right moment. And so we have the looming specter of China actually … Continue reading →
I hope they’re sincere about this: Forty-nine Senate Republicans are threatening to derail the Biden administration’s efforts to secure a new Iran nuclear agreement within the coming days. Any new agreement that “does not have strong bipartisan support in Congress … Continue reading →
One of the reasons for the urgency of the Manhattan Project during World War II was the fear that if the US didn’t develop a nuclear weapon, Germany would. However close or however far Germany may actually have been from … Continue reading →