How his presidency might help end the war in Ukraine

Of course, one can criticize Donald Trump endlessly and for a good reason, but there is one thing that even his harshest critics and haters cannot deny. Donald Trump has not started a single war during his first presidential term.

Trudy Rubin’s June 30th interview with President Zelensky, published in the Philadelphia Inquirer, left out some salient details about how Zelensky intends to move his peace plan forward. These have been highlighted in the Ukrainian press, and might be of interest to others.

The masses demand illusions, and cannot do without them. Sigmund Freud

The incredible and undeniable outcome of the debate between outgoing President Joe Biden and his Republican rival Donald Trump. In all likelihood, a month from now – certainly before the Democratic National Convention in Chicago (August 19-22) – Biden will have been eased out of the White House, and a caretaker president will be warming the seat for the next putative national leader.

“In the West you have no idea….” says the opening voice of a man telling of the joys of Russian songs, picking mushrooms in the forests, laughter in the baths…” In other ways, “Patriots,” written by British playwright Peter Morgan and directed by Rubert Goold, on Broadway after a successful run in London, is based on Brits and Americans having “no idea” of the story it tells. It makes it possible for Morgan to mix fact and propaganda, even in a careless moment admitting as much. So, to find out what was true, I relied on the biography “Putin” by Philip Short, former correspondent for the BBC in Moscow, and acknowledged as the most important book dealing with the characters and period of the play.

The Russians are livid, but it barely even makes the news here

The longer the war in Eastern Europe continues between Russia and Ukraine and the more provocations that occur worldwide, the closer the entire world becomes to “flirting with nuclear disaster,” two nuclear analysts warn in a new editorial.

The chances of an atomic catastrophe are low but they aren’t zero

The question is, what benefits, your safety or big business?