“The Chinese grab for fossil fuels or its military competition for naval control is not a challenge but rather a boost for the US Asia-Pacific –even an overall– posture. Calibrating the contraction of its overseas projection and commitments – some would call it managing the decline of an empire – the US does not fail to…

New threads in the Team Trump/Team Putin tangled web show Manafort and Page linked to each other as part of a Russian plot to control Ukraine and also show a mutual Russian mafia godfather linking them with each other and Trump, providing even deeper and more fertile ground on which to question Trump’s pro-Russia, Pro-Putin positions and their…

After the end of the cold war and end of multi-polar world order many strategists and political analyst believed that is to be the beginning of an end to the long proxy war “the proxy war between the Soviet Union its allies and the US and its allies” in Afghanistan which caused millions of Afghan citizens dead, paralyzed and displaced…

The 2008 US presidential election bolstered the American reputation abroad as Afro-American Barack Obama with humble background was elected the US president. It proved to foreign audiences that the American democracy works perfectly and the American dream evolves. The 2016 US election seems to be not delivering the same or similar message to the world…

                                 Unafraid, Bi-partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom   FBI Director James Comey’s dramatic, deus ex machina before the 2016 election clarifies we are again facing a constitutional crisis as during Watergate. Then, FBI Deputy…

October 1st began what could be one of the more interesting Chairships of the United Nations Security Council, with Russia taking over and being charged with a rather delicate balancing act: between conducting the numerous affairs expected to be covered by any standard Chair of the UNSC and deftly handling the ‘special’ relationship…

Of late American military commanders and defense planners have consistently expressed concern over the rise of Russian military power. They consider this to be both a threat to the United States and a concerted Russian effort to counter US power.
 
While Moscow and Washington do— and should— view each other first and foremost…

As European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker admitted in his annual speech to Members of the European Parliament[i], the European Union is going through an internal existential crisis, caused by the accumulation of several problems, with Brexit being the straw that broke the camel’s back. This situation leaves the Western Balkan states…

                                   Unafraid, Bi-partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom
 
Double October Surprise
 
 
 Donald, you are facing an unprecedented double October surprise. The first is what appears to be the long pre-arranged…

The worst thing about Trump? Globally, people like him and his supporters are everywhere and their politics maddeningly banal, as the ethno-centric politics of hate in the Caucasian Republic of Georgia demonstrate frightening similarities to the same politics in the Unites States of America.
 
By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook…

Can folding a 60 year old U.S.-controlled organization that is a child of the Cold War and the Marshall Plan into the United Nations help stabilize a refugee situation that is spinning out of control, or will it further clog the sclerotic arteries of the crowdfunding system on which the UN under Ban has come to depend?
 
Recently the…

                         Unafraid, Bi-Partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom,   “Situation Serious: We lost the first engagement. Mission: Retake the Initiative!” So said General Colin Powell, NSA to Donald’s favorite president, Ronald Reagan, after his disastrous, first…