The end of the first Cold War in the late 80th gave Americans a unique historical chance to stop worrying about nuclear war and get a well-deserved Peace Dividend. Instead, not only they lost it, but the talk about the inevitable nuclear WW3 became a routine discussion subject in the government, public, and media circles.

No experience of the failure of policy can shake belief in its excellence, even though foreign adventures drained the treasury and led to imperial decline.

Only an exceptional president could resist the endless war-profiteering of this mammoth war machine; alas, Biden doesn’t even try.

BRUSSELS, Jan 23 (Reuters) – The European Union is unlikely to confiscate Russian central bank assets frozen in Europe, despite G7 plans to discuss the legality of such a move at a meeting in February, senior EU officials said.

Ukraine rebuked the remarks, claiming it won’t give up territory despite the reality on the battlefield

In February 2022, when Russia finally invaded Ukraine to end the terrorist attacks and harassments that had killed 14,000 people in the secessionist provinces of Donetsk and Lugansk over the previous eight years, the Obama administration in Washington and its armchair warrior hero allies in Western Europe eager imposed on Moscow vastly more punitive sanctions than had ever been imposed on Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan or Fascist Italy when they were conquering and raping vast regions of the world in the 1930s.

Russia’s economy defied all expectations in 2023 by not only not collapsing but by being the fastest growing country in Europe by the end of 2023.

America’s leaders are out to lunch as the nation lurches forward into a more dangerous world.

I have often expressed my concern that the lack of proactive action by Putin, Xi, and Iran was maximizing the expansion of Israeli and US aggression in the Middle East and leading to a dangerous confrontation and outbreak of nuclear war. It is the purpose of Israel and Washington to attack Iran.  That is what the Israeli-Hamas-Hezbollah-Washington-Houthis conflict is about.

BRUSSELS, Jan 18 (Reuters) – NATO is launching its largest exercise since the Cold War, rehearsing how U.S. troops could reinforce European allies in countries bordering Russia and on the alliance’s eastern flank if a conflict were to flare up with a “near-peer” adversary.