I am speaking about a $95-billion foreign military aid package that included $61 billion for Ukraine. Speaker Mike Johnson’s turnaround from opponent to supporter of the war in Ukraine raised many eyebrows. His meeting with Trump in advance of this announcement added intrigue and speculations about the reasons for this sudden change of heart.

Our guest for this episode is Michael Vlahos, a writer, a historian of military strategy and history, and author of the book Fighting Identity: Sacred War and World Change. Over several decades, he has taught war and strategy at Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Naval War College, and has conducted strategic analysis for Johns Hopkins Applied Physic Laboratory. He is a weekly contributor to The John Batchelor Show, and has been publishing articles in major magazines and journals for as long as I’ve known him for 25 years as of this September. He is a non-resident fellow at the Institute for Peace and Diplomacy, and you can read his most recent work in Compact Magazine and Agon.

With the U.S. unable to compete in the EV market and desperate in Ukraine, the Secretary of State traveled to China to talk at Beijing for his domestic audience.

“What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” — Ecclesiastes 1:9

The Democrats and the Republicans are outdoing each other to prove who can get us to World War III fastest. Joe Biden and the Congressional Democrats are making a convincing bid to be the leading warmongers.

The President Refuses to Negotiate an End to the Carnage in Ukraine; It’s Now Up to Congress to Jump-Start the Peace Process by Taking a Radical First Step

The first episode of Kelley’s new podcast, Trip The Beltway Fantastic, featured a discussion of progressive foreign policy and the anti-war movement in the age of Russia-gate and Trump with Katrina vanden Heuvel and James Carden.

How will the passage of the latest US aid bill to Ukraine effect developments on the ground? Lieven discusses with the BBC.

The video investigation explores how Boris Berezovsky and Roman Abramovich looted Russia during the 1990s and who facilitated their endeavors. How did the nation’s primary TV channel fall into the hands of an oligarch? How could a president grant an oil company to oligarch with a single decree?

We are about to celebrate the 79th anniversary of Elbe Day, the great joyous meeting between elements of the US Ninth Army commanded by General William Simpson and the First Ukrainian Front of Marshall Ivan Konev on the banks of the Elbe on April 25 1945.