China’s President Xi Jinping is hearing something that he’s not used to hearing. Criticism from some current and former Chinese Communist Party officials regarding China’s support for Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. By refusing to condemn the Ukrainian invasion ...
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine served as a 9/11 style wake-up call to both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the European Union. After years of cutting their defense budgets, downsizing their armed forces, and coming up with every excuse imaginable for not paying for their own ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has publicly stated, “the breakup of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th Century.” Putin’s worldview has three major goals: survival of his regime, the end of American hegemony, and reinstatement of Russia as a world ...
My almost neurotic fascination with America and everything American began when I was just a child. I was born in Egypt and by the time I was a teenager, that fascination became an obsession. Naturally, at that age, all my reasons had nothing to do with democracy. I left my place of birth and ...
Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!” Let’s celebrate winter and the return of snow for skiing, snowshoeing, snow biking, snowmobiling, or running sled dogs! And yet, will this winter bring enough snow? Right now, given the lake effect storms, there is plenty of fresh powder! Yet last ...
This op-ed is in response to a recent letter to the editor written by Robert Blotter who believes at this stage in the pandemic the policy makers have done what they could to control the virus and we should now leave it up to each individual to decide what’s best for them. Like Mr. Blotter ...
