‘The Russian threat’ to security and democracy helps to keep unity over the holidays

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned of the consequences of an arms build-up in an exclusive interview with Swiss public television.

We have seen a number of biblical quotes recently referring to events in connection with the conflict in Ukraine, most notably within the last few days when Dmitry Medvedev quoted from Psalms 58:10 regarding the fate he believes will await Europe.

On December 6th, Romania’s constitutional court made an extraordinary decision to inexplicably overturn first round results of the country’s November 24th presidential election. Conveniently, the ruling was made mere days before a runoff that, according to polls, would’ve seen upstart outsider Calin Georgescu win via landslide. In the process, citizens of all NATO member states were provided with a particularly pitiless, real-time crash course on what could now happen in their own countries, should the ‘wrong’ candidates be elected fair and square.

The State Department’s Global Engagement Center called out Moscow and Beijing for disinformation efforts. But the pro-Trump GOP said it became politicized.

Once in a great while, a diplomatic memorandum—the outline of a proposed change in policy sent from a foreign service officer to his political masters back in Washington—has momentous impact. The most famous of these is George Kennan’s “Long Telegram” of February 1946, which urged “a long-term patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.”

There was a time when I assumed that the Biden Administration was ignoring the intelligence and insisted on propagating what I call, the Russian Myth aka RM. The theology of RM insists that:

Heralded as a hero in Western media, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has allowed foreign private interests to steal his country’s best land

I did a virtual sit-down with Scott Horton of AntiWar.com last Wednesday to discuss his new book, Provoked.

How did Vladimir Putin rise into power? What is the truth about Vladimir Putin? Not many people know the story of how Putin came into power, but the US government made a colossal mistake after the fall of the Soviet Union, paving way for a leader like Putin to rise up into power. In today’s video we break down what went wrong, how Putin rose, and what happens next in Russia