IRONY: IS IT RUSSIA THAT’S FALLING APART?

Image courtesy of pixabay.com When Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine began a little more than a year ago, the pundits predicted that unless Ukraine acceded to all of Russia’s territorial demands, the nation would be invaded and dissolved, grafted onto Russia as was Crimea.  Didn’t quite work out that way, did it? As of […]

TWENTY YEARS AFTER WE WENT TO WAR IN IRAQ, WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED?

Twenty years after our ill-fated decision to go to war in Iraq, Yahoo News noted the anniversary. It got me  thinking about whether our current strategy in Ukraine is qualitatively different, and whether we have learned from the disasters in prior wars. I conclude that we have and what we are doing is both necessary […]

RIGHT WING ISOLATIONISM IS NOTHING NEW

                                 RIGHT WING ISOLATIONISM IS NOTHING NEW When WWII broke out, there were a group of Americans determined to prevent any American assistance to the Allies. The membership was almost exclusively right wing Republicans, with a sprinkling of conservative Democrats and […]

ONLY TRAITOROUS AMERICANS SUPPORT PUTIN’S INVASION

Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine Flag of independent Ukraine I can understand Americans don’t want war with Russia and they don’t want American troops in combat. I certainly feel that way, and there are other paths open to combat Putin. But what I cannot understand are those Americans who cheer on Putin and think we should […]