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Polish Government Devastated; Freedom Loses a Friend

Jimmie | April 10, 2010 | Comments (2)

Tragedy today in Poland. Polish President Lech Kaczynski was killed early Saturday along with his wife, several top military officials, and the head of the national bank when their plane crashed at a western Russian airport, officials said. “There are no survivors,” said Sergey Antufyev, the governor of Smolensk, where the plane was trying to [...]

Realpolitik is Back in Eastern Europe. When Does the Wall Go Up?

Jimmie | September 17, 2009 | Comments (0)

Hey, Poland? Czech Republic? Remeember how we said you were our allies and we’d stand behind you? Just fooling. You’re not an oppressive tyrant, so no happy diplomacy for you! PRAGUE/WARSAW (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama has told east European states he is backing away from plans for an anti-missile shield there, in a [...]

Global Test Number One for our New President?

Jimmie | November 5, 2008 | Comments (0)

Russian President and Putin-pawn Dmitri Medvedev has announced he’ll deploy nuclear missiles near Poland in response to our agreement with the Poles to employ a missile defense shield there. The missiles will likely be located between Poland and Lithuania, both new US allies who have been growing closer to us while growing farther away from [...]

Is Putin Overreaching?

Jimmie | August 15, 2008 | Comments (0)

Is Russia getting overconfident? Having beaten down Georgia, the Russians have the chance to claim the South Ossetia region, where they’ve been agitating and issuing Georgians Russian passports, for quite a few years. Georgian President Saakashvili has signed a rather weak cease-fire agreement that leaves his country open to further Russian aggression. They have, very [...]