Is Putin’s Government Trying to Be a 19th century liberal government in the brutal evil world of the 21st century? I raise this question not only because Putin has been fighting in his gentlemanly way a war on Russian territory in Ukraine for six months longer without yet winning than it took Stalin’s Red Army... Read More

No one is afraid of Russia, not even tiny Moldova. Transnistia is a disputed territory that seceded from Moldova. Washington, having engineered an end to the Russia-Ukraine natural gas transit agreement means energy supply problems for Moldova, the president of which has “demanded that preparations be made for a violent seizure of the power station”... Read More

Vladimir Putin did his annual end-of-the-year marathon press conference this week. Every year, he goes for many hours and allows anyone, including American pigs and callers from wherever, to ask him any question. You’ve never seen a US president do this. There were a lot of interesting bits, but I liked his think about porn.... Read More

As Laura Logan says, American journalism is a bloodsport that massacres truth-tellers. I have been labeled almost every name in the book–conspiracy theorist, Putin agent/dupe, Reagan fascist, anti-semite, holocaust denier, left-wing nutcase, right-wing nutcase, domestic terrorist, racist. Unable to refute my analysis, they call me names. Nevertheless, I find it satisfying when people of statute... Read More

My doubts about Putin’s ability to think strategically go back to 2008. I have always been a defender of Putin in that the aggression is from Washington to Russia, not vice versa, and that Washington, not Putin, is responsible for the conflict in Ukraine. Nevertheless, I had early doubts about Putin’s strategic vision. He spoke... Read More

Quoting Mark Twain, President Vladimir Putin has made his first public statement on Syria during his Direct Line broadcast on Thursday. “Whoever wants to imagine Russia weakened…I want to recall the famous man and writer [Mark Twain], who once said: ‘The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.’” During four and a half hours of... Read More

There is a lot Putin can still do to the Ukraine without needing to go into threats against Europe. Hopefully, he starts doing these things against the Ukraine soon, so he can start threatening Europe. RT: The West’s support for Ukraine is pushing Russia to the point where it cannot help but retaliate, President Vladimir... Read More

In the English-language media markets it is impossible for any journalist, editor, publisher or owner to be more corrupt, more of a liar, more of a fraud, and more of a success at selling all three than Rupert Murdoch. That was until the mass media at which Murdoch excelled were superseded and outread by the... Read More

Many wonder why Putin abandoned Syria after fighting 9 years in Syria’s defense. Putin’s abandonment of Syria might have been influenced by China’s conditional support for Russia in Ukraine. China’s conditions include “no expansion of the battlefield, no escalation of fighting.” These conditions might also explain why Europe and the US have been spared strikes... Read More

The media brothel has presented the HTS terrorist/democratic opposition as Syria’s rescuer promising peace and friendship. But videos emerging reveal a campaign of violence, hangings and machine-gunning of people. It is Muslims killing Muslims, Arabs killing Arabs. The reason Arabs are powerless is that they had rather kill each other than fight against their common... Read More

President Vladimir Putin gave a party rally speech in Moscow on Saturday in which he omitted to mention seven of the eight domestic issues most troubling Russian voters – inflation; high interest-rate caused stagnation in the economy; corruption; low quality education; poor public health care; terrorism; and illegal immigrants. He made an exception for the... Read More

Technically, anything could happen at any time. Aliens could invade. The Iranians could deploy the mothership. It’s all possible, so saying something is possible is not really an argument for or against any particular action. Furthermore: why are heterosexuals never in charge of any of these military or intelligence groups? Are we to believe you... Read More

The latest report is that Israel has carried out 480 air strikes on territory of the former Syria and Israeli troops are moving deeper into the country. Netanyahu claims credit for Syria’s overthrow which he said is “a historic day in the history of the Middle East.” It certainly opens up the Middle East to... Read More

The illustration of power coming out of the barrel of a gun is from a comic book. Contemplating the reality of Russia’s position in Syria, no one in a position to know believes in cartoon captions, the credibility of the gun, or the direction in which the horse is now running. Military sources in Moscow... Read More

Qatar, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Turkey are complaining about Israel’s occupation of parts of what was formerly Syria. Turkey is hypocritical as Turkey has occupied parts of northern Syria for eight years. The US occupies the oil area of what was Syria. The US and UK describe Israel’s occupation as self-defense and temporary. The media,... Read More

Previously: Russia and Iran Couldn’t Have Saved Syria After the fall of Syria, popular game show host Donald Trump claimed on the internet that this had happened because Vladimir Putin stopped supporting Syria. It’s one of the worst internet posts I’ve ever seen. If one wanted to respond to all of that, it would be... Read More

Syria no longer exists. The Russian news service RT reports that Israel has launched the largest attack on Syria in history with Israeli warplanes hitting more than 250 military targets. Other reports put the number at 300. The Israeli Defense Force reports it has destroyed 80% of Syrian military capability. This is after Syria’s fall.... Read More

John Helmer’s December 8 report from Moscow substantiates my conclusion that the Russian government’s inability to acknowledge reality, instead relying on agreements with Russia’s enemies, results in failure . In Ukraine by trying to minimize conflict, the Kremlin maximized conflict. In Syria relying on diplomatic rather than military means resulted in a massive strategic defeat... Read More

As with any big event, there is a lot of nonsense swirling in the narrative around the fall of Syria. Some people are going around claiming that this is a failure of Russia and Iran, that these allies should have swooped in and saved Assad. People are so gay and retarded. Russia was already bombing... Read More

If you see a guy crying outside of the casino, do you run up to him and have a meeting? LOSER rubs off on people. It will rub off on you if you cahoot with LOSERS. RT: Assad screwed this all up. The

Interviewed by Tucker Carlson Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov showed that he and the Russian government are relying on legalistic arguments and the right of self-determination in the UN Charter. In view of the world’s tolerance of Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestine, Lavrov’s legalisms are the weakest possible reed. Lavrov even goes so far as to... Read More

Where have I been these past few days? Shouldn’t I have been taking a victory lap and screaming, “I was right!” and “I told you so!” this whole time? Well, yes … yes, I should have. But I was busy doing some cramming and studying on the topic. See, I had followed Syria closely a... Read More

To seek a deal on Ukraine is to treat the symptom and to ignore a cure. ‘Doomsters’ is an occasional Russian expression used to categorise commentators that only see the ‘dark side to events’ (a vice quite prevalent during the Soviet era). Marat Khairullin, a highly respected Russian military analyst, says, “Today, a network of... Read More

The problem with President Putin is that he never finishes anything. He has let Russia’s conflict with Ukraine, which should have ended in three weeks go on for three years and talks about ending it with negotiations, in which he will again be deceived. He does nothing while the US tries to overthrow the Georgian... Read More