Originally posted August 20, 2015. For over a decade, Alexander Dugin has been an adviser to Vladimir Putin and the Kremlin on geopolitical matters. Dugin is one of the best-known writers and political commentators in post Soviet Russia, having been active in politics there since the 1980’s. According to Dugin, the 21st century will be […]
Second Cold War on the Horizon?
Are you aware that NATO troops including a battalion of Germans are on the move? Pat Buchanan explains what both Putin and NATO are up to and asks why. Friday, Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work announced that 4,000 NATO troops, including two U.S. battalions, will be moved into Poland and the Baltic States, right […]
U.S. One Last Chance
Originally posted September 29, 2015. Michael Scheuer, former CIA bin Laden unit chief writes, “by sheer and unmerited good fortune, the United States has one last chance to pack up and voluntarily get out of the Arab world lock, stock, and barrel, before we are disgracefully driven out by the mujahedin. Safely back in North […]
Who Is Our Ally—Putin or Erdogan?
Pat Buchanan asks, ”But in this war against “radical Islamic terrorism,” who is the real ally: Erdogan, who has been aiding and abetting Islamic jihadists in Syria, or Putin, who has been bombing them?” Mr. Buchanan also wonders, “What do we do should Erdogan provoke a Russian attack on his aircraft, and then invoke Article […]
Almost 2 Million without Power
A state of emergency has been declared in Crimea as almost two million people are without power after pylons, supplying energy to Crimea, are blown up reports the WSJ: Russia’s Energy Ministry said almost two million people had been left without power. The local energy ministry said that between 20% and 30% of the peninsula […]
Putin’s Objective in Syria
Vladimir Putin intends to secure Russia’s Mediterranean naval facility in Tartus, Syria. Putin recognizes that his natural allies are the Assad regime the Iranians (Shia) and the Shia militias (like Hezbollah). Putin can rely on these groups to fight on the ground to help extinguish ISIS and potentially save the Alawites in the process. He […]
The “Crackpots Club”
Pat Buchanan looks at recent commentary from leading Republicans relative to ISIS, Syria and Vladimir Putin. Mitt Romney writes in Sunday’s Washington Post: We must wage the war to defeat the enemy. … (Obama) must call in the best military minds from the United States and NATO, actually listen to what they have to say and […]
Putin’s Quagmire in Ukraine
It’s not going as planned in Ukraine for Russia’s Vladimir Putin. As has so often been the case in the past for Russian interventions (and not unlike for the U.S.), Russia now finds itself in a costly and debilitating quagmire. Here NPR outlines the view from Foreign Policy: “Militarily, it is a stalemate. … Economically, the […]
Meet Russian Biker-Gang Leader Alexander Zaldostanov
Putin Indicts U.S. Foreign Policy
Vladimir Putin took to the floor of the U.N. for an address on a U.S. foreign policy that, as Pat Buchanan notes, “has produced a series of disasters in the Middle East that we did not need the Russian leader to describe for us.” From Putin: “An aggressive foreign interference has resulted in a brazen […]