PreludeOn February 8, 2024 Tucker Carlson interviewed President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. While the interview did not reveal anything new, Mr. Putin did demonstrate detailed knowledge of Russian history, mental agility, and a firm conviction that his understanding of the underlying reasons beneath the Ukrainian conflict is indeed factual. GrievancesIn … Continue reading
Category Archives: Russia
The Players
Top Ten Economies, Real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) Real GDP Manufacturing Manufacturing Trillions $ Percent Trillions $ United States 20.94 11 2.30 China 14.72 27 3.97 Japan 5.05 20 1.01 Germany 3.84 18 0.64 United Kingdom 2.08 9 0.19 India 2.66 14 0.37 France 2.63 9 0.24 … Continue reading
Russia Test-Fires Hypersonic Missile From Submarine
October 4, 2021 The Russian Defense Ministry said a Zircon hypersonic missile was successfully launched in the Barents Sea. It has already been repeatedly test-fired from a navy frigate, but this is a first from a submarine. The missile reportedly flies at nine times the speed of sound and has … Continue reading
Russia Withdraws from Open Skies Treaty
June 7, 2021 Following U.S. withdrawal from this treaty last month, Russia has now followed followed suit.
Reflections
“Misunderstanding of the present grows fatally from ignorance of the past” -Marc Leopold Bloch 1962 – Cold War I The end of Cold War I, widely viewed in the west as proof of the innate superiority of capitalism over communism, led some to believe that the disappearance of ideological … Continue reading
Priorities
May 5, 2018 The Russian/NATO Front On December 26, 1991 the Soviet Union officially dissolved, and the world breathed a collective sigh of relief. With the threat of impending nuclear war all but gone -it was assumed- the whole purpose of NATO necessarily ceased to exist, and for the first … Continue reading
Military Cooperation Between Russia and China
April 3, 2018 While visiting Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu, Defense Minister Wei Fenghe of China emphasized that the firm determination of their armed forces to strengthen strategic cooperation was coordinated directly with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Winds of Terminal War
September 8, 2016 Lately, focused on the impending presidential election, Syria, the Ukraine and the South China Sea, American mainstream media have all but ignored climate change. It’s as if there’s a consensus that war will inevitably transform Earth into another Mars long before it broils into another Venus. Why … Continue reading
Resetting U.S.-Russian Relations
February 4, 2016 Henry Kissinger’s speech (original link to https://gorbachovfund.ru is broken) at the Gorbachev Fund in Moscow From 2007 into 2009, Evgeny Primakov and I chaired a group composed of retired senior ministers, high officials, and military leaders from Russia and the United States, including some of you present … Continue reading