Unafraid, Bi-partisan, Uphold U.S. and Freedom

 
  “Waltz Me Around Again Willy!”

This old song comes to mind while assessing the 9-page letter, full of threats, unwarranted accusations and pathetic demands, sent to  President-elect Donald Trump by…

I am deeply offended by the lies being told by the US Government – and more specifically, by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with the explicit approval of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) and the President – with respect to the Russians…

The US is concentrating on the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the Baltic States and the Scandinavia region to segregate Russia. The US is, also, focusing on Asia-Pacific to contain China. America, and Its NATO allies, gave an end to the combat operations in Afghanistan and pulled back their combat forces in order to protect the Middle East Europe and…

Egypt is arguably the most volatile country in the Maghreb area, barring Libya, presently. Ever since the three decades of “reign” of former president Hosni Mubarak have come to an abrupt end in 2011, the country has been facing the challenges – and instability – that naturally follow such a radical change in the political…

Those, mostly in Japan, who expected that the two leaders would, at one stroke, resolve the decades-old territorial dispute, were disappointed. In another disappointment, Putin politely declined to bathe with Abe in Nagato’s famed hot springs, subtly signaling that Russia-Japan relations have not yet matured sufficiently for such an intimacy to…

Unafraid, Bi-partisan; Uphold U.S. and Freedom
 
If the Battle for Mosul is any indication, the overwhelming force now being used against ISIS will not be a knockout punch.  As in Aleppo, it may give the west only a Phyrrhic victory.
 
We can have all the firepower in the world, but they have several great advantages we lack. First…

On December 1, Abishur Prakash launched a groundbreaking new book called “Next Geopolitics: The Future of World Affairs (Technology).” It looks at how new technologies like robotics, embryo editing, and food cloning will transform world affairs. Russia is featured multiple times in the book for its advances in artificial intelligence and…

After the adoption of UN Security Council Resolutions 2270 of March 2, 2016 and 2321 of November 30, 2016, there appear many assumptions about North Korean collapse in near future. Experts in the West consider this collapse as probable and even very close. 
 
Supposedly, the economic hardships from sanctions will cause social unrest and…

Donald Trump will make amends with the CIA once his handpicked director, Mike Pompeo, takes over the intelligence agency.
Until then, Trump’s reported aversion to CIA security briefings will only intensify, following publication of a CIA assessment that Russia meddled in Trump’s favor during the election campaign by hacking Democratic…

The story of how Russia won the (First) Russo-American Cyberwar because American President Barack Obama did not fight back and failed to protect America’s democracy from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s well-orchestrated, wide-ranging cyberassault, part of Russia’s wider war on Western democracy
 


By Brian E…

It is now fair to say that the case of Syria and Ukraine clearly exposed fallacy of thinking that US, and in broader sense the West, relations with Russia have improved in any shape or form since the end of the Cold War era, as we are currently witnessing significant moment in the human history when these very ties have plunged to levels unseen since…

 
If your taste is for political satire, you will find a veritable banquet in Alexander J. Motyl's, "Vovochka; The True Confessions of Vladimir Putin's Best Friend and Confidant," written with tongue-in-cheek and in an original new voice. There is one caveat.
 
Professor Motyl, who teaches at Rutgers University in Newark…