Prisoner exchanges with foreign adversaries can be dicey propositions. The Biden Administration actually rigged a deal with Russia to exchange a Russian drug dealer for a young American who was in jail on trumped-up charges. Trevor Reed is happy to be home, but he is not happy that fellow AmericansContinue Reading
The National Basketball Association has a large following in China. That is not news. It was news, though, when a general manager openly supported the freedom movement in Hong Kong. That caused a rift that was healed recently with little to no fanfare. “On the eve of the current NBAContinue Reading
Since its inception, the chosen “enemy” of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the reason for its existence, has been a nuclear Russia. In the good old days of the Soviet Union, the bogeyman was known as that rather than Holy Mother Russia, but the enemy was defined as easternContinue Reading
Even with the Biden Administration bumbling their way through foreign policy, the world still watches what Washington does and reacts. Take the nation of China, which has been threatening to invade Taiwan for years. After the Biden camp slapped pretty harsh sanctions on Russia for invading Ukraine, the Chinese areContinue Reading
With all that is going on acting as shiny red balls to be followed, it’s easy to forget that the United States and Russia are somewhat tenuous adversaries. The Russian government still has American political prisoners, and the United States is still holding Russian nationals for various reasons including drugContinue Reading
It has become a wash, rinse, repeat sort of cycle. A few cases of illness are reported to be coronavirus or COVID and all of a sudden totalitarian measures are put into place by local governments to “stop the spread,” which, of course, only works so long as is politicallyContinue Reading
This week, the nation of Israel announced that it has a new defense weapon that can shoot down drones and other incoming projectiles meant to do harm and cause destruction. The announcement was made via a professionally made video that demonstrates the capacity of the weapon without giving away tooContinue Reading
Russia has been blamed for one thing after another in the political arena for years. More often than not the blame turns out to be a smokescreen of some sort. However, according to a recent report from the Gatestone Institute, it turns out that money from Russia is being usedContinue Reading
The internet hacking collective that calls itself “Anonymous” is taking credit for leaking out the personal details of over one hundred thousand Russian soldiers supposedly fighting in Ukraine. Names, dates of birth, addresses, and even passport numbers were included in the major hack of Russian data. It comes after AnonymousContinue Reading
The west’s isolation of Russia is so pervasive that even retailers not in Russia are refusing to sell to Russian tourists. Recently, wealthy Russians on vacation in the Middle East were refused service by a big-name designer all for the crime of simply being Russian. Wealthy Moscow socialites fleeing theContinue Reading
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