President Biden’s proxy war against Russia, using US firepower to shed endless Ukraine blood, remains an unrelenting catastrophe for over 8 months.Tens of thousands of Ukrainians are dead or wounded. Millions have fled to safer climes. Ukraine has ceased to...
That was quick.On Monday, 30 House Democrats representing the Congressional Democratic Caucus, sent a letter to President Biden to initiate negotiations to end the Russo Ukraine war. “We urge you to pair the military and economic support the United States has...
October 16, 2002 was a sorrowful day in American history. Twenty years ago today Congress voted an AUMF (Authorization for Use of Military Force) greenlighting the immoral, illegal and criminal Iraq war, begun five months later.Besides a couple hundred thousand Iraqis...
Sometimes top military warriors tell US war presidents the painful truth.That happened yesterday when retired admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under George W. Bush and Barack Obama, urged President Biden to begin negotiations to end...
In a rare mention of foreign policy on the campaign trail, President Biden told a Democratic fundraiser that risk of nuclear war is the highest since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.Biden was referring to Russian President Putin’s threat to use tactical nukes...
Daniel DePetris’ Tribune commentary ‘Forget about diplomacy. Putin’s annexation guarantees a longer war’ is a masterwork in disinformation and misdirection. It frames Russia’s annexation of four Ukrainian regions, Donetsk, Luhansk,...
The Chicago Tribune finally acknowledged one inconvenient truth about the Russo Ukraine war. Outside of the US, Canada and Western Europe, the rest of the world either ignores it, or even supports Russian intervention in Ukraine.Its foreign affairs columnist Daniel...
Russia’s February 24 invasion was an unnecessary, criminal war.But so was America’s 14 year campaign to weaken Russia through proxy war.How? By encouraging NATO membership for Ukraine since back in 2008. Worse, by helping Ukrainian ultranationalists depose...
Its title is long and hyperbolic: “Putin talks menacingly of nukes. These are desperate threats from a despot on the ropes.”Unfortunately, the Trib is engaged in wishful thinking that Ukraine is winning while Russia is losing the Russo Ukraine war. That...
The US is locked in endless proxy war with Russia over Ukraine.The US is locked in rapid escalation with China leading to possible war over Taiwan.The US is locked in a collision course with Iran over their imaginary nuclear program that could blow up the Middle...
