I don’t think Tucker Carlson got what he bargained for in this interview. The interview ran about two hours but most of that was made up of Putin’s rambling answers that sometimes went on for 10-20 minutes. To his credit, Carlson started at the most obvious starting point for a discussion with Putin, which is […]
Tucker Carlson has announced he’ll be interviewing Vladimir Putin soon in a video designed to garner attention for the effort. But like a lot of things Carlson says these days, some of it is pure and obvious bunk. Take for instance his claim about being the first western journalist to bother interviewing Putin. Speaking of […]
It can be simultaneously true that Ukraine’s fight against Russian aggression is just and that Ukraine will not be able to achieve the objective of completely beating back Russian advances into its territory. The Biden Administration seems to be slowly realizing that the hard realities on the ground will likely prevent the long arc of […]
Since the early part of December, nobody seemed to know where imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny (or Alexei) was. He failed to show up for a scheduled hearing and his attorney had reportedly been unable to reach him. Given the recent spate of incidents where critics of Vladimir Putin have accidentally fallen out of […]
By now I am sure you know of my fondness for public statuary and civic embellishments that adorn cities. They give an insight to the soul, if not of everyone in society at least those with power. The zeitgeist of the time if you will. The above is a fresh piece of art in a […]
To Valery Gerasimov et al may they rot in hell I am the very model of a Russian Major GeneralMy standing in the battlefield in growing quite untenable My forces, though equipped and given orders unequivocal Did not expect the fight to be remotely this reciprocal. I used to have a tank brigade but now […]
What can any of us do in the face of Putin’s flagrant fascism his total disinterest in human rights? Some like an old friend in Edinburgh who married a Ukrainian girl many years ago is desperately engaged in getting the parents of her friend out to safety. Others like Ray Baxter, a friend who is […]
“Ukraine remains the only country in history to voluntarily give up its nuclear weapons. It surrendered an arsenal of around 5,000 missiles and bombs in 1994 in exchange for security guarantees from Russia and the West”. Source BBC Do you remember when we all thought, what with those staunch agreements and cast iron promises from […]
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