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The Real Trump Default Is European War with Russia So the Us Can Escalate War with China – the Case of the Arms Supply L...
• April 22, 2025
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In the State Department’s readout of Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s telephone call to NATO Secretary-General, Mark Rutte, Rubio said: “while our nation has been committed to helping end the war, if a clear path to peace does not emerge soon, the United States will step back from efforts to broker peace.” That was last... Read More
The Angels of Deliverance – Are Trump and Witkoff Rolling the Stone Away?
• April 16, 2025
• 1,400 Words • 4 Comments • Reply
It’s Easter for Christians, and President Donald Trump’s message is a religious one. He aims to be one of the angels of deliverance whom the gospels report to have showed themselves at the tomb of Jesus Christ after the crucifixion. Rolling the stone from the entrance to the tomb, and in place of his corpse,... Read More
Strike for Strike in Trump’s Sanctions War
How Australia’s Attack on Rusal’s Alumina in Queensland Has Triggered Russia’s Attack on Rio Tinto’s Copper in...
• April 15, 2025
• 3,300 Words • 1 Comment • Reply
At 10 on Monday morning this week, the official White House log shows that President Donald Trump was preparing himself to greet the President of Salvador who was arriving at the White House door in an hour’s time. But in a tweet Trump composed beforehand, he announced: “The War between Russia and Ukraine is Biden’s... Read More
The Three Steps — Which Way Is Forward, Which Way Is Backward in Russia’s War Fighting, Peace Negotiating Strategy
• April 11, 2025
• 1,700 Words • 16 Comments • Reply
Kirill Dmtiriev (lead image) is the Stanford and Harvard educated official appointed by President Vladimir Putin to persuade American businessmen to invest in the profits to be made from dismantling US economic sanctions against Russia. Today at the Kremlin (April 11), he tried again in fresh talks with Putin and Stephen Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s... Read More
Are President Trump’s Political Chances Longer Than Roman Emperor Heliogabalus (218-222 Ad)? Is Kirill Dmitriev Aiming ...
• April 9, 2025
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According to the official White House schedule, President Donald Trump doesn’t start his day until lunchtime when he sits down with his political heir, Vice President J.D. Vance, at 12:30. He has more lunches with Vance than he receives briefings from his secret services on the threats of his enemies. Trump knows to keep his... Read More
Russia’s Plan to Become a Banana Republic
• April 8, 2025
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Until recently it was impossible to grow bananas in Russia except in the greenhouse of Count Pyotr Sheremetev at Kuskovo. That eighteenth-century establishment was so costly to operate, the fruit was a rarity meant for the tsar’s table, and not too tasty either. More than two hundred years of Russian banana history have elapsed since... Read More
Trump’s Money Shot – Gunners Shot Fires Back
• March 23, 2025
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In Hollywood as in Bollywood, filmmakers and the executive directors representing the production financiers know that the money shot is the climactic moment in the shooting script which is put there to excite the audience, and to persuade the investors there’s money to be made. In porno films, the money shot is the moment of... Read More
When Donald Trump Loses His Temper by Tweet
• March 21, 2025
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“Don’t you ever let me hear this again, or I’ll lose my temper.” That was Lucky Luciano’s (lead image, left) ultimatum to Vito Genovese (right) in 1946 when Luciano was in Havana, Cuba, organizing his business comeback in the US, as Genovese tried persuading him to delegate the operations to himself. “Right now, you work... Read More
Putin Demonstrates How to Telephone a Personality Cult
• March 18, 2025
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President Vladimir Putin has solved the problem of how to conduct telephone calls with Donald Trump’s personality cult. Following Trump’s tweeted claim in the early morning of Tuesday that “many elements of a Final Agreement have been agreed to” the telephone call which took place over two hours of the early Moscow evening, ended without... Read More
The Real Reason for Trump’s Ceasefire – Independent Military Analysis of the Kursk Salient Battles, March 5-14
• March 17, 2025
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NATO infantry operations veteran Major (retd) Mark Takacs (lead image) has published an animated map analysis of the battles between Russian and Ukrainian forces around Sudzha, in the Kursk region, between March 5 and 14. Nothing comparable has been reported by the Russian military bloggers; their US copyists; or the Ukrainian and British propaganda agencies.... Read More
Who Comes Up Trumps — the President of Peace or the President of War?
• March 12, 2025
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There are four outcomes to beware in this game for players, and for kibitzers also. The first is the Observer Effect. This is when the observer gets so close to the target, the target itself is rattled, loses visibility, acts unpredictably. Second is the Confusion Effect when the observer can’t tell the difference between the... Read More
Russia Doesn’t Believe in Carrots or Sticks – It Believes in Time
• March 7, 2025
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President Donald Trump has asked President Vladimir Putin to assist him in arranging a grand Middle East peace deal. This, according to officials leaking to Bloomberg reporters, requires Iran to agree to dismantle its nuclear weapons programme, and also “Iran’s support for its allied groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah in the Middle East.” The... Read More
The Rem War – the Russian State Versus Trump and Musk
• March 6, 2025
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Someone has convinced President Donald Trump of two simple ideas. The first is that because the US auto, aerospace, and artificial intelligence industries are heavily dependent for their supplies of lithium, titanium, and other rare earth minerals (REM) on two enemy states, China and Russia, they should be replaced as quickly as possible by a... Read More
Anti-Imperialism Isn’t Trump Derangement Syndrome
• March 5, 2025
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There is a bedrock of Russian public opinion on how the war in the Ukraine should end. There is also a bedrock of American public opinion on whether President Donald Trump is to be believed when he speaks of ending the war under the new American “Golden Dome” of peace with Russia. Between this rock... Read More
Ready Reckoner for President Donald Trump’s Ukraine War Fighting, War Funding Numbers (Lies)
• March 2, 2025
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During the Oval Office meeting last Friday with Vladimir Zelensky, President Donald Trump said: “We gave you through this stupid president [Biden] $350 billion.” The day before, in Trump’s two press conferences with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on February 27, Trump repeated this number three times over: “And then if you look at the... Read More
Nothing’s Over Bar the Shouting — This Podcast Explains the Warfighting Limits of Trump, Starmer, Zelensky
• February 28, 2025
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Several hours before Vladimir Zelensky arrived at the Oval Office, Nima Alkhorshid led the discussion of each of this week’s negotiations on the Ukraine war by President Donald Trump, and by the only brain in the room, Vice President JD Vance. Click for the hour-long podcast here. Follow the entire Oval Office press conference between... Read More
Short Shrift for Prime Minister Starmer’s Crimean-War Hatred of Russia
• February 27, 2025
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In public, in front of the press, the plan of President Donald Trump on Thursday was to give British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer short shrift. Starmer made it shorter. TRUMP: “You’ve been terrific in our discussions. You are a very tough negotiator, however, and I’m not sure I like that, but that’s okay.” STARMER:... Read More
On the Ukraine Battlefield Who Dares, Wins – Who Leads, Loses
• February 26, 2025
• 700 Words • 3 Comments • Reply
In experiments with minnows, biologists have discovered that after removing the brain of a single minnow and dropping him back into the water, the brainless fish will move erratically, unable to sense the direction of his shoal, but drawing the other minnows to follow him instead. The reason for this, ichthy neurologists believe, is that... Read More
Beating Sisyphus to the Punch — How to Roll Back Us Forces in Europe Without Rolling Back NATO, Without Ukraine
• February 25, 2025
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On December 17, 2021, the Russian Foreign Ministry proposed two treaties of non-aggression and mutual assured security to stop the US and NATO alliance’s road to war against Russia. This was the draft pact with the US; this was the draft pact with NATO. This is how to read them. When the treaty provisions were... Read More
Trump’s Incomprehension — "Thank You, Dear Donald"
• February 24, 2025
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Compos mentis was missing in the Oval Office on Monday morning. French President Emmanuel Macron recognized it, and was so pleased, he repeatedly said: “Thank you, dear Donald”. The answers to press questions given by President Donald Trump, sitting beside Macron, revealed that Trump doesn’t understand what end-of-war terms President Vladimir Putin has announced, nor... Read More
No Ifs, No Buts — Boots on the Ground, Lies on the Ground – Prime Minister Starmer Tells President Trump to Fight Russ...
• February 22, 2025
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Without reservation! No ifs, no buts! When the British Government announced the fabrication that Russia had attacked on British soil with a chemical weapon called Novichok, Keir Starmer, then a Labour Party shadow minister, announced he was sure of the government’s evidence. The attack, Starmer said, “deserves to be condemned by all of us without... Read More
Kasha Is for Eating – Trump Made a Mess in Riyadh, So This Is What Russia Will Do Next
• February 19, 2025
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In this new podcast Nima Alkhorshid takes the record of the Riyadh talks between Russia and the US to the next stage. What has the Russian side just learned of US capabilities, intentions, plans from the performances Secretary of State Marco Rubio, National Security Advisor Michael Waltz, and Steven Witkoff, representative of US money interests... Read More