What Did They Know and When Did They Know?
The US has kindly provided (dis)information on this question as to what they knew about the debacle of Prigozhin’s half-day coup attempt on June...
Volodymyr Zelensky: Pathological Hater
Signs of some kind of pathology are surely present from the get-go when we are talking about a Jewish comedian who has chosen to...
Green Lighting Long-Range Missiles, and the Future World Order
Standing Down for Putin?
Mid-week of the week of September 8-14, many analysts, including myself, had expected with a high degree of certainty that the...
Nuclear Threat and Bluff
On the face of it, it would seem that statements from Moscow indicating Russian preparedness to resort to nuclear weapons are numerous. I note...
Making Sense of a Potentially Nuclear Conflict
(Also published at substack.com)
In the ongoing daily struggle to make sense of the conflict, here are my current overall conclusions as to what is...
Diplomatic, Economic and Military Deficits
A statement on Ukraine from the Quad (US, Australia, Japan, and India) seems to reflect India’s continuing irritation with the behavior of the western...
The End of Pluralism and the Decline of Soft Power
“Hitler, Stalin, and Mao all possessed a great deal of soft power in the eyes of their acolytes, but that did not make it...
Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO Part V: From Politics to Propaganda
Previous articles in this series addressed the expansion of NATO, the US government’s refusal to negotiate on further expansion with Russia and its unwillingness...
Imagine There’s No Heaven, Nor NATO USA
Jeffrey Sachs certainly has many interesting things to teach us about the history of Western-Russian relations, particularly around the time of Gorbachev's fateful transition...
Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO Part IV: From War to Peace
This article is Part IV in a series of six addressing the Ukraine war, war propaganda and peace journalism. It is also published in...