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Russian Government Efforts To Promote Mideast Peace Ignored By American Media

The American media has been running with the border security conflict news story between Georgia and Russia the last few days and unfortunately inspiring new Cold War tensions as a result. Perhaps even the slight surge of support for John...

Posted on August 23, 2008 9:16 PM

Bush-McCain Policies Towards Russia Only Promise A Dangerous Arms Race

The decision by President Bush to send 10 Patriot missiles and about 100 U.S. soldiers to Poland is a dangerous escalation of the rapidly worsening relations with Russia since their military actions in Georgia. For months now, the Bush Administration...

Posted on August 18, 2008 9:14 AM

Putin's Russia, Border Security & The Russian Press

Interestingly on the official Russian government-controlled news website, VOICE OF RUSSIA, the news appears to be dominated by Olympic coverage of Sochi hosting the 2014 Winter Olympics. You have to do a little search to find news about the big...

Posted on August 14, 2008 3:52 PM

Russia's Latest War Could Impact The U.S.

Motorists this week could wake up to some sharply increased oil prices once again as war between Russia and the much smaller pro-Western Republic of Georgia worsens and impacts nearby oil supplies to Europe and the U.S. And the pro-Western...

Posted on August 12, 2008 9:11 AM

Future Oil Wars

Increasingly, these world power rivals of the U.S., all united by oil will draw in other anti-U.S. states and create a dangerous axis of anti-American oil powers and states that hate the U.S. And as oil prices still hover near record levels, the amount of vast income generated will only help to fuel the purchase or building of new and more dangerous military hardware by these anti-American oil states.

Posted on July 23, 2008 12:10 PM

Cuban Nuclear Crisis II

The shared Cold War mentality of both Bush and McCain to support the building of a tiny $3.5 billion dollar antimissile defense shield program in Poland and the Czech Republic could result in Russia staging strategic nuclear bombers in Cuba,...

Posted on July 22, 2008 6:55 PM

New Russian Government Quickly Moving to Build Anti-U.S. and Western Alliances

Foreign policy is certainly one of the weakest areas of the Bush Administration leadership, and the new Russian government of President Dmitry Medvedev has been taking full advantage of this weakness to aggressively court anti-American, anti-Western and nonaligned states into a number of new treaties and partnerships within just the last few days, while the Bush Administration has completely failed to attempt to warm relations with the new Russian government and head off this new movement against U.S. influence.

Posted on May 24, 2008 3:15 PM

A Constructive View On Russia Required From The Candidates

The remaining presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain will need to offer some sort of constructive foreign policy to deal with the new Russian government of President Dmitry Medvedev at some point. Medvedev has never held elective office before,...

Posted on May 7, 2008 6:22 PM

Russia's New Leader, "Medveda - Whatever" Wins Tomorrow's Election with 72% of the Vote

Bush on Wednesday at a press conference, with Prime Minister Topolanek of the Czech Republic. "If some of these countries develop a weapon that's capable of developing a nuclear warhead, free nations, nations such as Russia, do not want to...

Posted on March 1, 2008 10:30 AM

Putin Continues To Ramp Up Old Cold War Tensions Despite Booming Russian Economy

Despite a recent boom in the Russian economy, especially due to rising oil prices increasing the value of Russian oil revenues, Russian President Vladimir Putin continues to ramp up the same old Cold War type tensions between Russia and the...

Posted on January 24, 2008 9:15 AM

Russians Told: Vote for Putin's Party ... or Else

If ever a person has been fooled it is Bush, and how he has been so easily led down 'the rose garden path' by Putin, aided by the soothing and cooing words of the insufferable Condi Rice...Her specialty, apart from...

Posted on December 2, 2007 8:00 PM

A Flow Of Russian Arms Into Iraq Creates A New Cold War Environment

Russia seems to be increasing its supply of lethal arms into the Iraq mess as a means to hasten the U.S. withdrawal, and for Russia to gain more regional influence over the huge oil assets of Iraq. It appears to...

Posted on September 9, 2007 8:55 AM

Search For Arctic Oil Spurs New U.S./Russia Tensions

A recent new low key conflict between the U.S. and Russia has emerged where Russian research ships and submarines are actively looking for evidence of both oil in the North Pole Arctic region as well as land mass evidence that...

Posted on August 20, 2007 6:00 AM

Russian Long-Range Bombers Challenging Close To U.S. Territory

Russia's air force is engaged in a new and alarming pattern of provocative military exercises by flying long range bombers with live cruise missiles very close to U.S. territory in Alaska and Guam according to both American and Canadian defense...

Posted on August 14, 2007 3:00 PM

The Final Frontier: The Weaponization Of Space

As the U.S. struggles in a low tech war in Iraq, military contractors, scientists and Pentagon experts work diligently on the next possible war, this time to be fought from outer space. And even as a gentleman's agreement has existed...

Posted on August 6, 2007 5:34 PM

Hugo Chavez Hopes To Imprint U.S./Russian Relations

International mischief maker, Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, is hoping once again to leave his own little sour imprint on U.S./Russian relations as some form of a little international gremlin who hopes to be the tail that can wag the dog....

Posted on July 3, 2007 12:00 PM

Is Russia Our Enemy?

Slate commentary: A president tends to make categorical statements only when his truth is in doubt. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." "I am not a crook." "The state of the union is sound." Thus, on...

Posted on June 8, 2007 6:00 PM

Russia's PRAVDA Running Tough Opinion Of Washington Today

As relations between the U.S. and Russia steadily worsen, Russia's PRAVDA is running a very tough opinion feature today that clearly illustrates where bilateral relations seem to be heading. The feature views Washington as "the center of the Axis Of...

Posted on June 6, 2007 12:42 PM

Buchanan: How the West Lost Russia

Real Clear Politics commentary: Within three years, the Berlin Wall had come down, the puppet regimes of Eastern Europe had been swept away, Germany was reunited, the Red Army had gone home, the Soviet Empire had vanished and the Soviet...

Posted on June 5, 2007 6:00 PM

Putin Threatens to Target Europe

MSNBC story: "If the American nuclear potential grows in European territory, we have to give ourselves new targets in Europe," Putin said, according to Corriere. "It is up to our military to define these targets, in addition to defining the...

Posted on June 4, 2007 4:00 PM

Bush Will Meet With Putin To Slow New Cold War

With relations clearly worsening between the U.S. and Putin's Russian government, Bush will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Maine July 1st and 2nd. But whether this will slow the steady movement towards a new Cold War certainly remains...

Posted on June 1, 2007 10:00 AM

Can Bush Avoid A New Cold War With Russia?

On Thursday, Bush has made new overture towards President Vladimir Putin of Russia in an attempt to slow the steady slide towards a new Cold War status between the two nations. Dr. Condoleezza Rice will also visit Moscow next month,...

Posted on May 15, 2007 6:00 AM

Russia's Putin Compares Bush to Hitler

Here's an item I missed last week -- Russian President Vladimir Putin comparing Bush to Hitler: Putin's statement at a Victory Day parade on Red Square on Wednesday was artfully phrased to be both blunt and vague -- but political...

Posted on May 14, 2007 12:15 PM

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