Russia
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A review of the Frontline on PBS from Tuesday night, April 12th
I only saw the program once and it is possible I misconstrued some things and forgot others. If I got some things really wrong, let me know. But here is my summary of this outrageous edition of Frontline: It said it was going to be about Ukraine, so even though I gave up on Frontline… Continue reading
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History vs. Facts on the Ground, and Other Considerations
For the purposes of this piece, I am not going to go into the details of the horrors of this administration and all the ways it has caused all of the problems we are dealing with today that we were spared under the last so very much maligned administration. What I want to consider here,… Continue reading
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February 22, 1980
Forty years ago today, at the 1980 Winter Olympics, the American hockey team, a Cinderella team full of inexperienced kids and coached by an outsider, won an improbable victory over the much favored and far superior team from the USSR. It became known as the “miracle on ice” and it’s still an amazing thing to… Continue reading
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Centennial
Today is the centennial of the man who became the 20th Century’s conscience: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. One of a handful of writers I consider among the best the west has ever produced. For the three volume Gulag Archipelago alone his legacy is guaranteed, but he wrote so much more, especially Cancer Ward and One Day in… Continue reading
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Russia’s Cold War Part Duex
Meanwhile, Obama has been tossing ours out while helping Iran nuke-up, somewhat via Russia… (TWFB) – Russia deployed 153 strategic nuclear warheads over the past year under the New START arms treaty while the U.S. military pared its nuclear forces by 57 warheads, according to State Department figures released last week. The increase in warheads… Continue reading
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The Neo-Cold War is Heating Up…
The U.S. Air Force lit-up the California night sky Saturday night in a test-launch of a (unarmed) Minuteman 3 ICBM missile soaring from Vandenberg Air Force Base northwest of Los Angeles in the direction of the Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands, far into the Pacific Ocean. Russia is seeking to fly surveillance (see ‘spy)… Continue reading
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Turkey Shoots Down Russian Military Plane on the Border with Syria – UPDATED
Well, things are going great over there, eh? This is what happens when you refuse to identify and define your enemy. Putin might be hitting some ISIS areas, but the fact is he’s there to rid Assad of those pesky “rebels” who, more likely than not, are just as extremist as ISIS. UPDATE: Russian rescue… Continue reading
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Report: Cuban General and Troops Join Iranian, Russian and Assad Forces in Syria
Oh, sure, Putin implied his military were going into Syria to fight ISIS. Instead he has set up a defense and offense for tHE Assad regime … wich involves killing anti-Assad rebels that Obama and the Pentagon (I am not saying “we” here) have spent millions of dollars training and arming. It has become Russia’s… Continue reading
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