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Putin, Ukraine and The RUBK: Old News Is Current Bad News Jan. 19, 2022
Fail to study the past (history), from energizing grand aspirations to how-it's-done tactics, and yo... Read More
Biden Should Declare NATO Membership Closed Jan. 18, 2022
In 2014, when Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to a U.S.-backed coup that ousted a pro-Rus... Read More
Where Does NATO Enlargement End? Jan. 11, 2022
After the Berlin Wall fell in 1989 and the Warsaw Pact dissolved, the breakup of the USSR began. But... Read More
Russia Is Not the Great Rival; China Is Jan. 04, 2022
While all facts are true, not all facts are relevant. And what are the relevant facts in this crisis... Read More
How Biden and Putin Could End the Ukraine Crisis Dec. 31, 2021
A 19th-century Mexican president once summarized his country's plight: "So far from God, so close to... Read More
Biden's Staring into the Abyss -- and So Are We Dec. 31, 2021
"'Hope' is the thing with feathers / That perches in the soul," wrote Emily Dickinson. "And sore mus... Read More
What To Do About That Russian Ultimatum Dec. 21, 2021
"Get off our front porch. Get out of our front yard. And stay out of our backyard." This might stand... Read More
Ukraine-Taiwan-US National Security Policy Options Dec. 16, 2021
The Biden administration's policy weaknesses and disorganization are the unifying denominator in the... Read More
While Biden Slept: Appeasement and Accommodation Dec. 14, 2021
Speaking to the House of Commons in 1948, Winston Churchill, paraphrasing philosopher George Santaya... Read More
Bright Spot: Adam Schiff Reminds Us There's Daylight After Midnight Dec. 14, 2021
The putsch-pushers and lawbreakers that comprise Trump World despise U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff, showerin... Read More
China and Russia: The Authoritarian-Imperialist Threat To World Peace Dec. 13, 2021
As 2021 ends, Russia threatens to invade Ukraine (eastern Europe) and China threatens to invade Taiw... Read More
Biden's Full Plate -- Ukraine, Taiwan, Tehran Dec. 10, 2021
One day after warning Russian President Vladimir Putin he would face "severe" economic sanctions, "l... Read More
Russia Is Testing Western Military Resolve Over Ukraine's Sovereignty Dec. 08, 2021
Vladimir Putin wants the world to forget what happened in 2014. That's the year he amassed troops at... Read More
Biden's Blindness on Ukraine Fits a US Pattern Dec. 08, 2021
President Joe Biden faces many foreign policy problems, but one involving Equatorial Guinea was not ... Read More
Putin to Biden: Finlandize Ukraine, or We Will Dec. 07, 2021
Either the U.S. and NATO provide us with "legal guarantees" that Ukraine will never join NATO or bec... Read More
Warnings and Threats -- or Bluster and Bluff Oct. 22, 2021
Before the NATO ministerial meeting in Brussels this week, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin took a sid... Read More
Boris Johnson Defies Vladimir Putin's Claim to Crimea Jun. 29, 2021
About that clash between a British destroyer and Russian warplanes and warships in the Black Sea las... Read More
Merkel Flips Off Biden's Protest -- to Buy Putin's Gas May. 25, 2021
When the U.S. created NATO, a primary purpose of the alliance was to serve as a western wall to defe... Read More
Putin & Xi Have Red Lines, Too Apr. 13, 2021
What are Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping up to? In recent days, Russian tanks, artillery, armor, truck... Read More
A Biden Family Special Prosecutor in 2021? Oct. 27, 2020
If Joe Biden loses on Nov. 3, public interest in whether his son Hunter exploited the family name to... Read More
