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Just Remember, Vladimir Putin is Not Our Friend

Jimmie | June 28, 2010 | Comments (0)

Thanks to this link from Professor Reynolds we are reminded that even though the Cold War is over, Vladimir Putin does not deserve out trust. It seems that some things never change. A few moments ago, this breaking story came in from the website of the New York Times. It seems, as this early report [...]

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 [...]

Aw, Who Needs that Whole Senate Ratification Anyhow?

Jimmie | July 5, 2009 | Comments (2)

Errr…is this legal? MOSCOW — With the clock running out on a new US-Russian arms treaty before the previous Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty, or START, expires on December 5, a senior White House official said Sunday said that the difficulty of the task might mean temporarily bypassing the Senate’s constitutional role in ratifying treaties by [...]

Meet Your New Neighbors…Russian Bombers?

Jimmie | March 14, 2009 | Comments (0)

Yikes. Just…yikes. “There are four or five airfields in Cuba with 4,000-meter-long runways, which absolutely suit us,” Maj. Gen. Anatoly Zhikharev told Interfax. Zhikharev, who is the chief of staff of the Russian Air Force’s long-range aviation, said, “If the two chiefs of state display such a political will, we are ready to fly there.” [...]

What, Didn’t We Have a Copy of “Red Dawn” Lying Around?

Jimmie | March 6, 2009 | Comments (4)

This week has put paid to the working theory that somewhere in the Obama administration lurks a foreign policy genius. Monday, we learned that the President sent a letter to the Russians offering them Poland and the Czech Republic if only they’d put in a good word for us to their friends in Tehran. Then, [...]

Will Obama Rehabilitate Bush?

Jimmie | November 29, 2008 | Comments (0)

Victor Davis Hanson takes a look at P-E Obama’s early staffing picks and concludes that the Obama administration may well improve President Bush’s reputation. I think we are slowly (and things of course could change) beginning in retrospect to look back at the outline of one of most profound bait-and-switch campaigns in our political history, [...]

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 [...]

“They didn’t care if it was a house or a military camp…They bombed everything.”

Jimmie | August 26, 2008 | Comments (0)

When it comes to stories about Russia’s invasion of Georgia (such as this one which tells how Russia is trying to make formal what it’s been doing for a long time), reporters make one fundamental mistake that colors their coverage wrongly. I’ve made the same mistake in some conversations I’ve had about Georgia. The mistake [...]