I have no doubt that Russia used cyber warfare against the United States during the 2016 U.S presidential election. I mean special counsel Robert Mueller indicted them and all, so it must be true. But, so did China, North Korea and Iran over the last decade.
The European Union has long criticized its East European members — the former Soviet satellites Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic — for alleged "authoritarian" tendencies. The George Soros-backed, open-borders policy favored by Western European leaders has long been a sore point between East and West, with East European leaders refusing to admit millions of economic migrants from the Middle East and other world crisis spots whom they see as a threat to their security, culture and identity as a people.
The seething rage coming from Obamaland is palpable -- President Trump has withdrawn from the Iran deal, Barack Obama's signature achievement.
The Russia probe is not about Trump. It is about shielding the public from knowing the extent to which Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton weakened the country and profited in the process.
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reported this week asylum applications by Russian citizens in the United States hit a 24-year high in 2017, jumping nearly 40 percent from the previous year and continuing an upward march that began after Vladimir Putin began his second run as president in 2012.
We all remember the schoolyard bully who terrorized you and your friends and that moment of truth when you had to fight him or her. Most likely, just the thought of someone standing up to them was enough to send them scurrying to find some other weaker friend to pick on. This is exactly the situation we find ourselves in when it comes to Iran.
So now the Democrats have sued the Trump campaign, Russia and WikiLeaks over supposed "collusion" during the 2016 presidential election. But even as President Trump's critics accuse him of going easy on the Kremlin, the hits from the White House toward Moscow just keep on coming.
This week, Vladimir Uglev was run over by a car in Russia. Most likely you have never heard of Vlad. However, the attempt on his life is significant.
On Wednesday, Russian news agency TASS quoted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov who called on all countries to do their utmost in order to preserve and implement the Iran nuclear deal.
There were high hopes in Ukraine after the 2014 Maidan Revolution, where "people power" put a pro-Russian president to flight.
Chinese President Xi Jinping is worried. The Donald has his number.
Iran's military capability -- from Baghdad to Beirut -- is very real, very dangerous and on the rise.
Media pundits and the McCain-Lindsey Team are crowing with delight about how President Trump "emboldened" Syrian President Bashar Assad to again deploy chemical weapons against civilians, when POTUS raised the trial balloon of leaving Syria. However, they are missing the real point.
Russia doesn't make much, but they do make really good weapons. In fact, one of the purposes of Russian involvement in the civil war in Syria, in addition to preserving Russian influence in the region, was to promote Russian military technology.
But those promoting the "Putin must have something on Trump" narrative ought to look at the actual national security consequences of the Obama presidency.
China has long been throwing large sums of money around Africa, and other developing regions, in an effort to expand Chinese influence across the world. But its courting of Djibouti is particularly concerning for U.S. security interests.
What is happening right now in Israel, on the Gaza border, is not persecution of the so-called Palestinians.
As the Kremlin basked in the afterglow of President Vladimir Putin's re-election victory, a devastating fire touched a long-dormant nerve in the Russian people.
Conservative circles and the talking heads have railed against the recent $1.3 trillion spending bill with good reason.
John Bolton and Mike Pompeo have a mountain of problems on their plate in their newly appointed positions.
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