Month: March 2017

NATO Summit of Bucharest – A Declaration of War

Former Dutch FM and NATO SG De Hoop Scheffer Once again astonished by yesterday’s interview in Dutch paper AD. Jaap is a Brussels hardliner, was rejected by the Christian Democrats as their leader, was succeeded by Jan...

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Russia, U.S., Cold War II

Interesting article entitled “Active Measures” just out today in The New Yorker about Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. It opens with a description of the way that the head of the KGB in 1982 ordered...

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Military Top Brass Wants Money for State

What was I saying about Donald Trump going too hard after the State Department? Oh, yes, that’s right, I was saying that it was going to split the Republicans and would create a big bipartisan opposition in the Senate....

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What Trump Could Learn from Reagan

I generally avoid Rush Limbaugh like the plague, but I decided to take a look at his take on the Jeff Sessions controversy. Part of what he says is very predictable and basically unhinged, but other parts are roughly accurate....

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