August 08 US Democrats finally have something to celebrate. President Joe Biden emerged from a prolonged period of isolation due to Covid-19 right as a massive $430 billion climate, energy and tax bill that was critical to his domestic agenda was passed by the Senate yesterday. His party was disciplined in just getting it done, showingContinue reading “2nd week of August 2022 by Bloomberg”
Tag Archives: Eastern Europe
Has Ukraine become a Symbol of ‘Freedom’
The West with the U.S.A. decided to do everything they can to help the Ukrainians bring this war to an end on the possible terms as quickly as possible.
Cold War over and back again to bring a war in Ukraine as the end of the liberal world order
Rather than a distressing violation of the post-Cold War norm, the Russian invasion of Ukraine that started at the end of February 2022, feels like a decisive end to the era that Bush proclaimed on the White House Lawn.
Putin Lies And Manipulates History To Gain Domestic And International Support For His Military Buildup On The Ukrainian Border
Originally posted on Joyce O’Day:
Photo by author: Joyce O’Day. In his July 12, 2021, article, “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians,” Vladimir Putin provides a thorough, yet slanted, account of Ukrainian/Russian relations. I discovered this article in a comment made by Erik Reich, DC to the story by Lauren Elizabeth, “What’s…
Putin and Xi form a new axis against Nato
As the West shores up their own strategies as conflict looms so is the East. Russia has turned to China to request its backing. President Xi has given his support to Putin’s demands and promised to defend each other’s interests against America.
Are we shambling into WWIII?
Originally posted on ShamblingApocalypse.com:
World War I started with the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand by Serbian extremists. This shows that even in the beginning of the 20th century the world was so interconnected that an assassination in Bosnia could lead to a world war. Of course this happened because there was great tension…
Russia reacting to attempts to break ‘strategic parity’
Russia has said it is freezing ties with Nato after relations between the two plunged to a new low over a spying row.
Some View on the World 