Austerity’s Silver Lining – Arms Race Update
A couple of headlines this morning got me thinking that the West’s embrace of austerity might not be all bad. Of course it’s probably just wishful thinking. The first article…
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Meanwhile, In Our Vast, Undefended North…
The latest issue of Foreign Policy magazine is devoted to espionage, spying, and the magazine reports that today’s Ground Zero of spying is the Arctic. For the countries that border…
Putin Signs Military Pact with Argentina
Well this is bound to piss off David Cameron. Badboy Vlad Putin has inked a military pact with Argentine president Christina Fernandez backing her country against Britain over the Falkland…
You’ll Never See Vlad Putin the Same Way Again
If there’s one guy who doesn’t get any slack from the Western media, it’s Russian strongman, Vlad Putin. We vilify Putin at every turn and, while he certainly brings some…
Okay, Canada. Prepare To Be Probed.
What a moment to be stuck with a navy so horribly neglected that it can’t put a single task force to sea. Now that the Harper government has left us…
Bangin’ that Old War Drum, Again.
Maybe it’s because they’re still smarting from getting their asses handed to them in Iraq and Afghanistan, maybe not. Either way it’s getting a bit embarrassing listening to Western military…
Ukraine: Minsk deal includes de facto federation
Three powerful leaders and one powerless one gathered around a table in Minsk, negotiating a ceasefire agreement for war-torn Ukraine. The negotiations took a surprising turn when the four leaders…
A Big Deal With Low Confidence – Ukraine
Angela Merkel and Francoise Hollande seem to have pulled it off – a peace deal to end the civil war in Ukraine. What no one is even asking is if…
Are We Really Willing to Go To War over Ukraine?
Would you be okay if it was your kids in uniform going off to a shooting war with the Russians over Ukraine? The whole idea seems fantastic, ridiculous. We tend…
Banging the War Drums
If you thought you had heard the last of insanely bellicose Anders Fogh “Foggy” Rasmussen when his term as NATO secretary-general lapsed, you were wrong. He’s back and he’s talking…
Vlad Putin – NATO’s Essential Enemy
Vlad Putin has given NATO – well, nothing less than a reason to exist a little longer. With the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO was a headless chicken, running…
Obama Comes Clean. Putin Didn’t Plot to Seize Crimea.
Go Ahead, Pick One. Oh my, my, what comes out of the mouth of that man! The Western narrative we’ve been force fed by liars like Harper and his collaborators…
Is Raul Castro’s Cuba the First Big Winner in Cold War II?
Now that Washington and Havana appear to be on the road to kissing and making up, it’s worth considering whether the timing is really that spontaneous? Cuba was always the…
Let’s Hope We Know What We’re Doing.
It’s hard to know what we really wanted. When the West slammed Russia with sanction piled upon sanction were we seeking retribution over Moscow’s aggression toward Ukraine or were we…
Arms Race Update – US to Spend a Trillion Dollars on Upgrading Nukes
US Defense Secretary, Chuck Hagel, put it bluntly. “No other mission we have is more important.“ The mission Hagel was referring to was a trillion-dollar, 30-year programme to upgrade America’s…
Harper Chasing Votes Down Under
His supposedly blunt message to Vladimir Putin reveals how Steve Harper really knows how to work a room when there’s an election in the offing. Walking up to Putin at…
PM to Putant: ‘Get out of Ukriant’
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-harper-at-g20-tells-vladimir-putin-to-get-out-of-ukraine-1.2836382
PM to Putant: ‘Get out of Ukriant’
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-harper-at-g20-tells-vladimir-putin-to-get-out-of-ukraine-1.2836382
PM to Putant: ‘Get out of Ukriant’
Satire inspired by this headline: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/stephen-harper-at-g20-tells-vladimir-putin-to-get-out-of-ukraine-1.2836382
A Word of Warning to NATO from Finland
Finland isn’t impressed with NATO’s anti-Moscow attitude. President Sauli Niinisto will be taking that message to a conference in Helsinki on Thursday with David Cameron and the leaders of the…