Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Tag: Vladimir Putin

How Putin’s skill-set shows up Trump’s. One’s a calculating, thuggish, earth-jolting...

Their personalities and very different strengths and weaknesses will determine their fate and final standing.

To reduce Putin’s power, ditch oil and gas

In response to Putin's invasion of Ukraine, the U.S. needs to pivot to renewables.

No Pasaran: Ukraine 2022

Vladimir Putin is the Franco of today, and Ukraine must become the graveyard of Putinism.

Mad Vlad? Russia’s senseless, brutal ‘intervention’ in Ukraine

Will a war in Europe make more people wake up to the real costs of militarism, even when they are asked to sacrifice themselves, loved ones or fellow citizens by their own leaders in the name of patriotism?

Putin’s cold, cold strategy

Sure, Putin still has a lot of fight in him. But ultimately: he’s a dead autocrat walking.

“We’ve been attacked!”

Women and trauma in the Trump-Putin era.

Putin proposes, Trump disposes

Since the Cold War, the U.S. and Russia have experienced unexpected reversals in fortune. Are we next in line for post-imperial decline?

TrumPutin: Who’s tired of winning now?

We don’t know exactly how much Moscow spent supporting influence operations to impact the U.K. and U.S. elections in 2016, but it seems hard to overstate how good the Kremlin’s return has been on what Western intelligence agencies believe was a relatively modest investment.

Durbin calls for Senate hearings to probe ‘serious questions’ about why...

"When he takes the interpreter's notes and wants to destroy them so no one can see what was said, and the written transcript... it raises serious questions about the relationship between this president and Putin."

Syria: Here’s what it’s all about; the underlying reasons for this...

So here’s a message for Trump: in addition to Syria get out of Iraq, get out of Afghanistan, and get out of the entire Middle East where this current government, with an overly aggressive foreign policy, never did belong and had no right to be.

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