Category: Foreign Policy

Let’s see…the US Senate recently passed a bill titled Ukraine Democracy Defense Lend-Lease Act of 2022 essentially on a voice vote of 100 – 0. Unanimous. This is modeled on a WWII program that provided weapons to the allies fighting Hitler before the United States entered the war. Given the…

Cancelling his intense truck safety inspections at the Texas/Mexico border…an originally purported move to stop smuggling of drugs and humans…Texas Governor Greg Abbot announced that he had negotiated safety agreements with four Mexican border states. So, is an American governor actually allowed to negotiate foreign policy with foreign governments? OR…

I have been carrying this around in my back pocket for a while, but let’s get it out there today! Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Sunday Germany would sharply increase its spending on defence to more than 2% of its economic output in one of a series of policy shifts…

This whole thing could have been avoided. If President Joe Biden had simply stuck to his script instead of getting emotionally involved…he wouldn’t have given Vladimir Putin another log on his fire of paranoia and a legitimate talking point against the United States. But Biden did it: “For God’s sake,…

So far he’s managed to take it back: to 1945…the end of WWII. And he’s committed dozens of war crimes to accomplish that.

Well, for most western thinkers that would be the default distance between our nations. But remember back in 2008 when then GOP Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her home? Yes, we all laughed. But the nugget of truth in this outlandish statement is Russia…

Representative Glenn Grothman (R WI)! Today the U.S. House of Representatives voted to revoke Russia’s favored trading partner status with the United States. It was nearly unanimous with the final vote of 424 to 8. Eight Representatives who couldn’t find it in themselves to vote in favor of Democracy. Eight…

A week or so ago, Senator Lindsey Graham (R SC) suggested that someone in the ruling elite of Russia should assassinate Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the time something in the back of my mind triggered a response that said, is this a violation of the Geneva Convention? Well, I…

This isn’t an original post but key points from a Washington Post article titled: Five vile things Trump did to Zelensky and Ukraine that you forgot about. If this is behind a paywall and you can’t see it, let me know and I’ll fill in more detail. But in the…

I assume he was referring to the Ukrainian Army but I suggest that the Russian Army should take note of the request…they can probably end the war more quickly by action in Moscow than Kyiv.