MOVING EVER CLOSER TO A FUTURE WORLD CALLED RUSSINIA (as the unintended consequence of present-day actions) The current punitive diplomatic and trade imbroglios with Russia and China are further evidence that the structure of the post-WWII world order, established to
Vladimir Putin
EVER MORE REVELATIONS… (…of possible Russian connections of the venal kind) The latest news disclosing the President’s young son’s positively responding to contacts initiated by Russian operatives, resembles a dripping faucet, which no plumber’s spin-work can fix. It’s just ever
RUSSIA, RUSSIA…RUSSIA… (…fixating on finding a “Russian Connection”) If ever anyone needed further proof that politics, as we practice them here in America, are just as dirty a tit-for-tat game as can be found anywhere else in the world, the
SHORT-SIGHTED PERSPECTIVES CREATE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES (which are…further driving the Russia bear to cozy up to the Chinese dragon…) Both the EU and the US have probably shot themselves in the foot, so to speak, by the way they’ve handled the
OLYMPICS…OLYMPICS… (…allowing for decorous displays of rampant nationalism) The Winter Olympics, at Sochi, in Russia, don’t seem to be generating a lot of excitement, at least so far. The biggest surprise about it all has been the balmy, almost spring-like
CZAR VLADIMIR 1st IS GROWLING (…making like an old Soviet bear wearing red underwear) On the eve of a Big Eight summit conference Russia’s President Putin has bluntly warned everyone not to even think about providing arms to the Syrian