Pentagon Discloses Stunning Account of Russia’s Losses
The US military released an estimate of large equipment and personnel losses over the course of the three-month long attack on Ukraine, which is still ongoing. A senior defense official…
Putin Flipflops in Reponse to New NATO Countries
Just a week after the Kremlin’s spokesman said Finland’s acceptance in NATO “definitely” posed a risk, the Russian president said the exact opposite. Putin made the comments at the Collective Security Treaty…
Russia Cuts Off Electricity to Finland As Nation Courts NATO
Finnish transmission system operator Fingrid said in a statement that Russia’s imports only accounted for 10% of its consumption. “The lack of electricity import from Russia will be compensated by importing more…
Graham Wants to Label Russia a State Sponsor of Terrorism, Prosecute Putin
The senator also called for the expansion of NATO to include Finland and Sweden. Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) made the comments on “Fox News Sunday”. “NATO needs to get bigger, not smaller,”…
Analysts ask if China is helping Putin hide his money
One of Vladimir Putin’s long-term strategies for ensuring Russia would not be at the mercy of foreign markets and Western governments was to build huge cash reserves. These reserves, which…
K Street weans itself off Russian money…for now
Official Washington has long been a magnet for foreign money and influence – including plenty of money from dictatorships and their suspect state enterprises. It’s no surprise, then, that Russia…
Nonprofits awash in Russian money
A time-honored way for potentates, corporate baddies, and other unsavory types to show they are really good people who love art, music, education, health, welfare, etc., is for them write…
Oil politics: Biden administration seeks to thaw relationship with Venezuela
The search for new sources of oil to replace the millions of barrels Russian firms produced and sold each day is leading the Biden administrations to extremes. No, Camp Biden…
How the Jones Act enriches Russia
It came as a shock to some folks to learn that the U.S. imports oil from Russia. How could this be? It must be Joe Biden’s fault, right? One of…
Woke investment strategists were investing in…Russia
A growing fad among institutional investors is something called ESG – a strategy where customers’ money is put to work only in companies exhibiting a firm commitment to proper environmental,…