Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Russia. Show all posts
Friday, October 6, 2023

Unexpected Ukraine/Russia developments

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I don't know that anyone predicted this. The head of the Wagner group (the Russian mercenaries) had been loud in his criticism for a whi...
Wednesday, June 21, 2023

June interesting links

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The Wagner group commander ranted about the war, supplies, and Russian military leadership as he proclaimed victory in a Ukrainian city.  R...
Sunday, October 27, 2019

Turkey, Syria, the Kurds, and Trump

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In the midst of the whistleblower scandal, Trump announced a total withdrawal of US troops from Syria. I haven't followed the whole Syri...
Saturday, July 13, 2019

July links

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Tangled mess. A knitting site has banned political discussions due to animosity between Trump supporters and opponents. I sympathize. Mayb...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Brain dump on the Mueller report

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I wrote how the Mueller report contained no big surprises--most everything had already been reported fairly accurately in the MSM. So what a...
Friday, August 17, 2018

August links

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Alex Jones banned. The conspiracy theorist that Trump loves has been suspended on a bunch of major social media sites. A good article that...
Monday, June 18, 2018

June links

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This has been an interesting month. Real things are happening. The long-awaited Inspect General's report about the FBI has been released...
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Thursday, May 3, 2018

May links: cleaning up from April

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Korean peace?   Don't be too hopeful  yet. North Korea has pattern of reneging, or getting stubborn. Syrian peacce?  The role  France ...
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Monday, December 18, 2017

December links 2

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Sexual harassment in foreign policy circles. Dan Drezner, a smart, wonkish political writer, asks women in foreign policy circles what hurd...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

November links

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I lost a bunch of links, and had a bunch more before the two bombshells of the DNC paying for the Steele dossier and being totally under Cli...
Wednesday, August 30, 2017

Interesting links again

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How to lose your job at Google. Write a memo about how Google is mishandling diversity issues and has an intolerant leftist bias. While th...
Sunday, August 13, 2017

Cleaning the White House

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I'm a bit late on this story, though it's still relevant and may be relevant for a while to come. Like Kelly, Trump's new chief ...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Short: Blame Obama for Russian interference?

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When I first heard this talking point, I thought the Trump camp had gone nuts. Why would anyone blame Obama when Trump was the one complimen...
Sunday, June 18, 2017

Catching up on even more links

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Russian operations. This article states the case that there is some evidence, a bit of evidence, of collusion. So the claim that there...
Tuesday, June 6, 2017

More links - even more interesting

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Unmasking unmasking. Republicans are trying to shift the attention on Russian election interference to the unmasking of names in intelligen...
Sunday, May 21, 2017

So many links

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I have too many links to do justice to each of them, so I'll just blast out a post and save them for posterity. The obligation to list...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017

Various Trump links

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Trump is dominating the news even more now than when he was campaigning. There was a spot of good news today. His pick for top national secu...
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Thursday, February 2, 2017

Russia infiltrates American blog

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I find stories of Russian hackers believable, but it's even scarier that Russian have targeted my favorite political blog. (It's my ...
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Saturday, November 28, 2015

Downed Russian plane cools cries for war

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After the attacks in Paris, conservatives were complaining how lackadaisical Obama is in fighting ISIS. So what did the conservatives say af...
Monday, October 12, 2015

Hillary being stupid on Syria

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I think I'm hitting my limit with Hillary. She is making one pandering bad decision after another. This time it's calling for a no...
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