Achilles Heel of Autocrats: Their Economy
Achilles with Paris’ arrow in his heel. Photo Credit: Flickr.com/texmex5 The national security outlooks of the United States and Western Europe are beginning to look grim. … Read More
Tag: Russia
Issues involving Russia
A Failed, “Lead From Behind” Foreign Policy (2)
Russian TU-95 bomber intercepted over North Sea/Atlantic Ocean, 29 October 2014 Photo Credit: NATO/RAF The Obama administration has made the world more dangerous for the West by more than just … Read More
Sitrep on Russia’s Syrian Campaign
Russian T-90A Main Battle Tank Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Vitaly V. Kuzman Russian forces are arriving rapidly around the airport the Russians are building just south of the Syrian city of Latakia. Rapidly … Read More
Russian Military Operations in Syria
ISIS soldiers Photo Credit: shiitenews.org Just two days ago I published the post Russia Inside Syria, concerning how Russia appeared to be preparing for … Read More
Russia Inside Syria
Now we learn Russia is building an airbase in Latakia, Syria. Also see here. The United States may be attempting to withdraw from the world, but Russia is expanding to … Read More
American Anti-Missile Defense
With Russia, China, and Iran possibly forming an axis to oppose the United States, and with two of them possessing nuclear weapons and ICBMs, and the third seeking them, it … Read More
Is China a Threat?
Is China a threat to the United States? In two recent posts, The Growing Threat of Russia and The Purposes of Iran, we have noted how China is in a … Read More
The Purposes of Iran
Al Qaeda and ISIS are not the only islamic jihadist organizations to worry about; there is Iran as well. The Washington Times has cited a release from the Iranian Fars … Read More
The Growing Threat of Russia
Vladimir Putin has an itch. An itch for empire. We know the President of Russia considers the breakup of the Soviet Union as the major geopolitical disaster of the 20th century. … Read More
Putin’s Russia and the West
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, in a speech to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, declared that the breakup of the USSR was “the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the twentieth century”, or … Read More
U.S. Army Downsizes
NEWS FLASH! The Obama administration makes good on their “leading from behind” promise by announcing a Reduction In Force (RIF) of the U.S. Army of 40,000 soldiers and 17,000 civilian … Read More
Is Democracy the Best Government? Is It in Danger?
These two questions might seem rather strange, coming from a citizen of the United States. Yet I have been alarmed by a number of blog posts from people on the political Left … Read More
Should We Fight ISIS? (2)
If we do go to war with ISIS, a large national commitment would have to be made in assets, both economic and military, to accomplish the task. Given both our historically … Read More