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Foreign Affairs
Ukraine: Let’s coin a new term for an old tactic, ‘Bolshelinskyism’
Ghosts on the prowl.
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Unyielding
Russian version of Kim Kardashian claims TSA strip-searched her
Famous in Mother Russia for being famous, TV personality and sometime political activist Ksenia Sobchak claims she was strip-searched by…
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Euphrates corridor: Jihadis, and territorial gains, metastasizing
Geographizing the fight.
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Chinese power move in South China Sea: This is big
Mariners and the specialty mariner press know it’s big. But mariners can’t fix this. It will take national policies to…
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If only Obama had drawn Saddam’s red-WMD line?
Does anyone on Earth believe that the Bashir Assad-Syrian-puppet of the terrorist nation of Iran is voluntarily surrendering all of…
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Chinese warship arrives off Syria
How many warships does it take to remove chemical weapons from Syria? One more this week than it took last…
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Israeli security: ‘War war’ returns to the Middle East
One of the peculiar features of the Obama administration has been its apparent belief that it can maneuver against America’s…
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Peace in our time: Belarus, missiles, and the revenge of the ‘Reset’
For whatever reason, peace is not busting out at all over. After months of coyness and denials from Belarusian president…
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Saudi prince tears Obama new one over his indecisive foreign policy
America’s allies in the “moderate” Arab world have been rising up to protest President Obama’s inconsistent foreign policy in the…
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National Security
Enemies say jump, Obama asks how high? Ukraine, other allies at risk
So this what “more flexibility” after his re-election meant. Soon after the newly inaugurated President Barack Obama removed his left…
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Foreign Affairs
Ukrainians not going quietly into that good night
It was a minor blip on the American radar screen when Ukraine’s president, Viktor Yanukovich, announced on 21 November –…
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Bad tidings of sea and air space challenges
“History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.” — Ronald Reagan It made the…
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Russian navy: First port visit to Egypt (among others) in 21 years
Suddenly, even Vladimir Putin looks more attractive. He looks, at least, like he actually intends to fight radical Islamism –…
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Religion
Russian backer gets massive Jesus statue put up in Syria
It’s taller by about a meter than the Christ the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro. On 14 October, Russian…
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Foreign Affairs
Russian bombers fly to Venezuela, Nicaragua during strategic forces exercise
For some reason, the “reset/overcharge” policy of the Obama administration hasn’t induced Russia to take a chill pill on the…
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Economy
Strange but true in the Far East
Now and then, it’s good to check in with the other side of the world. U.S. cabinet secretaries John Kerry…
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Foreign Affairs
Russian navy promises ‘support’ to Nicaragua
… and other news from the brave new world In case you were wondering: no, the former-Soviet navy didn’t use…
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Obama’s Cuban missile crisis
What a coup it would be, for Team Obama to turn two weeks of dithering and squandering American credibility on…
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Syria: Now, the run-up to whatever ‘it’ will or won’t be
What the Senate Foreign Relations Committee has voted to authorize is a military operation not to exceed 90 days in…
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The unbearable passivity of triangulated policies that require 'slam dunk' intelligence
It’s a percussion symphony out there. The drumbeat of stalwart European readiness to strike Syria has become unsteady – boy,…
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The perils of Barack
So here we are. Americans elected Barack Obama, and now he appears to be within a breath of embroiling us…
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Britain taking lead on Syria?
One of these days, the mainstream media will catch up with reality and start reporting things as they are. In…
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Obama on Syria: Low-quality 'jaw-jaw'
It being the silly season in Washington, there had to be a rumor of war. Well, a rumor of a…
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'Moderate' Rouhani misled West; sneaked in centrifuges?
There is a particularly interesting aspect to the video that has recently surfaced, in which Iran’s new president, Hassan Rouhani,…
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Obama wasn’t just wrong about al Qaeda, but about Russia, too
Barack Obama is taking heat, deservedly, for his foolish boast that al Qaeda was “on the run.” Some of his…
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Morsi down, Saudis up in battle for Syria
Mohammed Morsi’s call for holy war in Syria spooked the Egyptian military, and it alarmed the Saudis too. I suspect…
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Egyptian crisis: It’s the 'holy war,' stupid
It took a couple of weeks for the crisis to come to a head. But the origins of the Morsi…
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Foreign Affairs
Ah, the elusive Snowden
What a hoot! The Obama Administration, ruthlessly efficient at targeting Tea Partiers, pro-choice and anti-vote fraud groups, and inquisitive media,…
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