In a December interview, Germany’s former Chancellor Angela Merkel admitted that the Minsk agreement was not a peace deal, but a ruse to buy time for Ukraine to arm itself for the current proxy war between NATO and Russia.
Reversing a statement he made Monday, President Biden is sending a precision rocket artillery system to Ukraine on the condition that it not be used against targets inside Russia. The problem is that the US has very little control over weapons in Ukraine.Continue Reading
MORE THAN a dozen mysterious deaths in the U.K. linked to Russia have been ignored (at least publicly) by the British government. The latest has led a member of the House of Lords to accuse the administration of Prime Minister Theresa May of failing to protect a prominent nuclear scientist.Continue Reading
I’ve used the word neo-Ottoman to describe Turkey’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan before, but it’s only just hit me how accurate that is.Continue Reading
Dr. Timothy Furnish, a scholar of Islamic history, discusses his new book Sects, Lies, and the Caliphate, and explains why the goals of the Islamic State aren’t a new thing, but a return to time-honored Muslim values.Continue Reading