Vladmir Putin

  • There is a reason this image makes people recoil. It is not because it is rude, or partisan, or unfair. It is because it collapses decades of denial into a single, unavoidable truth, much of the world’s current instability can be traced back to leaders who have stayed far too long, learned nothing new, and

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  • Once upon a time, Donald Trump looked at Vladimir Putin the way a high school sophomore looks at the quarterback who just threw him a wink across the locker room. It was all admiration, projection, and just a touch of dangerous fantasy. Trump thought he’d found in Putin a kindred spirit another “strong man” who

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  •   Trump’s Glorious Failure in Ukraine In the wake of the attack this past weekend where Russia attacked a government building in Kyiv, it has become ruthlessly clear that, Donald Trump who once promised that only he could bring “peace through strength” Has failed rather gloriously. Trump swaggered across campaign stages claiming that he and

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