Tag: President Vladimir Putin

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…

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One of the points that Russian President Vladimir Putin was supposedly concerned about was the spread of NATO to nations that border Russia. Besides his desire to re-acquire the Soviet empire, he says that he feels that NATO is a threat to Russian independence. You may parse those sentiments anyway…

Several weeks ago, the New York Times, published an article outlining intelligence reports that Russia was offering bounties to the Afghan Taliban for killing American soldiers. Other media outlets and apparently foreign intelligence agencies corroborated the reports. What was the first response from the White House? Well nobody briefed the…

President Ronald Reagan would never have spoken at the Berlin Wall Vladimir Putin would be the current premier of the Soviet Union President Donald Trump couldn’t run amok in the Ukraine So apparently Nikita Khrushchev interfered with out 2016 election

Sometimes this actually amazes me. But Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell just tweeted about Vladimir Putin’s meddling in the 2016 American Presidential elections…something he ignored at the time. And of course he’s placing the blame on the Obama administration for not acting fast enough or tough enough. And at this…

The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty was signed by then President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev in 1987. It banned land based intermediate missiles with ranges of 311 to 3,420 miles. Both nations already have missiles in this range that can be launched from air craft and naval vessels….