After The Interview

PreludeOn February 8, 2024 Tucker Carlson interviewed President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. While the interview did not reveal anything new, Mr. Putin did demonstrate detailed knowledge of Russian history, mental agility, and a firm conviction that his understanding of the underlying reasons beneath the Ukrainian conflict is indeed factual. GrievancesIn … Continue reading

The Players

Top Ten Economies, Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP)                                                 Real GDP       Manufacturing     Manufacturing                                     Trillions $            Percent               Trillions $                 United States          20.94                    11                       2.30                          China                        14.72                  27                       3.97                      Japan                        5.05                    20                       1.01 Germany                   3.84                    18                       0.64 United Kingdom        2.08                      9                       0.19 India                          2.66                    14                       0.37 France                       2.63                      9                       0.24 … Continue reading

Reflections

“Misunderstanding of the present grows fatally from ignorance of the past” -Marc Leopold Bloch   1962 – Cold War I The end of Cold War I, widely viewed in the west as proof of the innate superiority of capitalism over communism, led some to believe that the disappearance of ideological … Continue reading

Priorities

May 5, 2018 The Russian/NATO Front On December 26, 1991 the Soviet Union officially dissolved, and the world breathed a collective sigh of relief. With the threat of impending nuclear war all but gone -it was assumed- the whole purpose of NATO necessarily ceased to exist, and for the first … Continue reading

Military Cooperation Between Russia and China

April 3, 2018 While visiting Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe of China emphasized that the firm determination of their armed forces to strengthen strategic cooperation was coordinated directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping.

The Winds of Terminal War

September 8, 2016 Lately, focused on the impending presidential election, Syria, the Ukraine and the South China Sea, American mainstream media have all but ignored climate change. It’s as if there’s a consensus that war will inevitably transform Earth into another Mars long before it broils into another Venus. Why … Continue reading

Resetting U.S.-Russian Relations

February 4, 2016 Henry Kissinger’s speech (original link to https://gorbachovfund.ru is broken) at the Gorbachev Fund in Moscow From 2007 into 2009, Evgeny Primakov and I chaired a group composed of retired senior ministers, high officials, and military leaders from Russia and the United States, including some of you present … Continue reading

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