This week I am taking a break from the regular storyline I have been working on the past few years to address the war in Ukraine. As you can see, I am mostly interested in the question of neo-Nazis in[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Posts Tagged Russia
Keeping up with recent events related to the TrumpAdmin’s Russia problems has been difficult lately. I started with a response to Trump’s creepy barely-veiled threat to fire Robert Mueller if he dared to investigate Trump family finances (Mueller went ahead[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As of this writing, one of Trump’s lawyers is denying that the president is under investigation for obstruction of justice, contradicting the president’s own tweets (which so far we are expected to treat as official TrumpAdmin word…I think…).Earlier this week[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s always about Bernie Sanders. Or some revival of the 2016 Democratic primary debates. I see a lot of online discussions (if that’s the word) about Russian attempts to influence the election devolve quickly into Hillary-vs-Bernie arguments, because someone can’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Two suicide bombings in Dagestan kill twelve people. As BBCNews reports, the bombings are likely linked to the same group responsible for the Lubyanka bombings two days ago — that is, militants from the North Caucasus region that includes Ingushetia[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
As ever, the promised reduction in nuclear stockpiles is a good thing: The treaty would require each side to reduce deployed strategic nuclear warheads to roughly 1,600, down from 2,200 now, officials have said. It would also oblige each side[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…