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L. Todd Wood

L. Todd Wood, a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, flew special operations helicopters supporting SEAL Team 6, Delta Force and others. After leaving the military, he pursued his other passion, finance, spending 18 years on Wall Street trading emerging market debt, and later, writing. The first of his many thrillers is "Currency." Todd is a contributor to Fox Business, Newsmax TV, Moscow Times, the New York Post, the National Review, Zero Hedge and others. For more information about L. Todd Wood, visit LToddWood.com.

Articles by L. Todd Wood

A Trump Tower in Moscow would be an unacceptable stain on Russian pride. (Associated Press)

Donald Trump’s Russia relations open, honest

Since I spend a great deal of time in Moscow, I thought I'd attempt to shed some light on how things work there and how Republican candidate Donald Trump's past interactions with the Russian business community might affect future relations. The leftist media has had a field day with the subject of Mr. Trump and his ties to the Kremlin, most of it conjecture and disinformation, disseminated with glee.

August 4, 2016
President Barack Obama speaks about the release of Americans by Iran, Sunday, Jan. 17, 2016, in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama, the Muslim terrorist financier

Deep down inside, we all have known if for a long time haven't we, that the Obama administration is financing and enabling terror? We have known for a long time he is an Islamist with jihadist sympathies. Why else would he have not destroyed ISIS?

August 3, 2016
In this May 7, 2012, file photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, Haiyang Shiyou oil rig, the first deep-water drilling rig developed in China by the China National Offshore Oil Corp., is pictured at 320 kilometers (200 miles) southeast of Hong Kong in the South China Sea. (Jin Liangkuai/Xinhua News Agency via AP, File)

China wants to ‘bloody nose’ of U.S. in South China Sea

Elements of the People's Liberation Army of China pressed Chinese President Xi Xinping for a stronger, military response to the ruling of The Hague tribunal on the South China Sea which said that China's claims to the islands were baseless.

August 1, 2016
China's Defense Ministry spokesman Yang Yujun holds up a report on China's Military Strategy during a press conference at the State Council Information Office in Beijing, China, Tuesday, May 26, 2015. China’s military on Tuesday compared its controversial island-building in the South China Sea to ordinary construction such as road-building going on elsewhere in the country, trying to deflect criticism over an issue seen as inflaming tensions in the region. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)

China, Russia throw down gauntlet in South China Sea

China and Russia will hold "routine" naval exercises in the South China Sea in September, China's Defense Ministry said on Thursday, adding that the drills were aimed at strengthening their cooperation and were not aimed at any other country, reports Reuters.

July 28, 2016
Top left to right; South Korea's Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, stand behind, left to right front; Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida, India Minister External Foreign Affair general V.K. Singh, China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and Australia's Foreign Minister Julie Bishop as they wait for a group photo during the 6th East Asia Summit Foreign Minister's meeting in Vientiane, Laos, Tuesday, July 26, 2016. (AP photo/Sakchai Lalit)

N. Korea threatens ‘terrible price’ for US sanctions push

North Korea threatened to restart nuclear tests on the Peninsula after Secretary of State John Kerry called for tightening sanctions on the rogue regime. North Korea has continued to conduct ballistic missile tests in defiance of United Nations mandates. These tests are alarming American allies in the region.

July 26, 2016
FILE - In this Wednesday, Oct. 29, 1997 file photo Mikhail Kalashnikov shows a model of his world-famous AK-47 assault rifle at home in the Ural Mountain city of Izhevsk, 1000 km (625 miles) east of Moscow. (AP Photo/Vladimir Vyatkin, File) **FILE**

As war subsides in Ukraine, arms merchants take advantage

Even though deaths in East Ukraine have started to ratchet back up again as the Minsk peace accords barely hold back the fighting, the conflict has largely subsided from the all-out war between pro-Russian rebels and the Ukrainian armed forces that raged last year. This reduction in fighting in Donbass has allowed arms merchants to turn Ukraine into an anything goes arms bazaar that has consequences for anti-terror and crime prevention world wide.

July 25, 2016
Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump walk on stage to greet Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana during the third day session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Wednesday, July 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Should Ukraine be worried about Trump?

Much has been written about Donald Trump's foreign policy — or what the media wants to say is Mr. Trump's foreign policy. The truth is, no one really knows exactly what Mr. Trump will do in the geopolitical arena as president of the United States, except to say that he will put America first.

July 21, 2016
Ali Larijani

Iran: Confronting U.S. is only choice

In light of continued Iranian ballistic missile tests and other provocative behaviors, the United Nations issued its first bi-annual report which stated Iran was not following the "spirit" of the nuclear agreement signed last year.

July 20, 2016
South Korean protesters hold signs during a rally denouncing a plan to deploy an advanced U.S. missile defense system called Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, near U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea, Tuesday, July 19, 2016. North Korea on Tuesday fired three ballistic missiles into its eastern sea in an apparent protest of South Korea's decision to allow the deployment of an advanced U.S. missile defense system in the country, Seoul officials said. The letters read "Stop, to deploy the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD." (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man)

N. Korea fires 3 ballistic missiles into sea, no one cares

In a sign of how far the national security failures of the Obama administration have increased the normalcy of threatening behavior by our adversaries, Stalinist North Korea launched three ballistic missiles into the sea yesterday and the world shrugged.

July 19, 2016
This Oct. 27, 2004 photo, shows the interior of the Arak heavy water production facility in Arak, 360 kms southwest of Tehran, Iran. A document obtained by The Associated Press Monday, July 18, 2016, says key nuclear restrictions on Iran will ease in a little more than a decade, halving the time Tehran would need to build a bomb if it chose to do so. The document says that 11 to 13 years into the 15-year agreement, Iran can replace the 5,060 inefficient centrifuges it now uses to enrich uranium with up to 3,500 advanced machines. (AP Photo/Fars News Agancy, File)

Secret Iran nuke docs allow Iran to get bomb in few years

Secret documents obtained by the Associated Press that were attached to last year's nuclear "deal" with Iran will allow the Islamic theocracy to get nuclear weapons in half the time stated by the Obama administration, in about 10 years.

July 18, 2016
In this Tuesday, July 12, 2016 photo, workers chat near a map of South China Sea on display at a maritime defense educational facility in Nanjing in east China's Jiangsu province. China blamed the Philippines for stirring up trouble and issued a policy paper Wednesday calling the islands in the South China Sea its "inherent territory," a day after an international tribunal said China had no legal basis for its expansive claims. (Chinatopix via AP)

China threatens air defense zone in South China Sea

An air defense zone or ADIZ is airspace that a country declares it will protect militarily in order to defend the airspace it considers "sovereign." After the U.N. tribunal ruling that China's claim to the South China Sea has no legal basis, a senior Chinese official has declared that the communist country can and will set up such a zone "if threatened" in the disputed region.

July 13, 2016
President Barack Obama speaks in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. **FILE (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Having won the Cold War, U.S. now losing the long war

"'You know, you never beat us on the battlefield," I told my North Vietnamese counterpart during negotiations in Hanoi a week before the fall of Saigon. He pondered that remark a moment and then replied, "That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.'"

July 7, 2016
Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses the audience at the United Russia party congress which is being held three months ahead of parliamentary elections, in Moscow, Russia, Monday, June 27, 2016. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, Pool) ** FILE **

NATO member Turkey sells out to Vladimir Putin

It seems that Russian President Vladimir Putin gave Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan an offer he couldn't refuse. Turkey has been keen to please its new Russian Godfather after Russia turned the screws economically and militarily on NATO's southern flank. Putin militarized Armenia on Turkey's border with the Caucasus and shut off Turkish imports.

July 4, 2016