NATO Squirms Over Pakistan
NATO led a growing chorus of international concern Tuesday by warning that a truce between the government of Pakistan and Taliban militants in a restive region near the Afghan border risks giving the...
View ArticleNew Road For Afghanistan
America has signalled a radical new initiative to bring the Taliban into the Afghan political process as part of growing efforts to achieve a peaceful resolution to the war in Afghanistan. The US...
View ArticleWhy Afghanistan?
Do I like being redundant? Nope….and eventually someone somewhere will have an answer…….after 10 years you would think that someone would have an answer……. I have asked this question over and...
View ArticleWhat If There Is A Stalemate?
Inkwell Institute Middle East desk We all have an opinion on the situation that has developed in Libya…..I have made my views known (go to search and type in Libya…if interested) and I have even asked...
View ArticleBrothers With Arms
College of Political Knowledge Subject: Middle East No, Irene…all is NOT well in the Middle East! And NO….it has not gone away! There is a discussion or even a debate going on about the possibility...
View ArticleWhat Is The UK Doing?
Inkwell Institute Middles East Desk NO! This is NOT a post about some royal wedding! Once again, if I am mistaken I hope that my friend and reader Quin of Quintessential Havoc (my blogroll will take...
View ArticleDammit! I Told You So!
Let me see Casey Anthony walks……Murdoch get grilled…….Harry Potter is over……..and a partridge in a pear tree…….and with all that Libya is still going on….go figure……you would not know it by the...
View ArticleWhat Is Going On In Ukraine?
Inkwell Institute Eurasian Desk There is so much more going on with the situation in Ukraine than we are privy to at this point….but a little research and there comes a picture that is not at all...
View ArticleNATO Flexes Its Muscle
Geopolitics is interesting stuff……but only if one cares to see what the rest of humanity is up to these days…….I will stick with geopolitical stuff because it is a damn site more interesting that the...
View ArticleEuropean “Rapid Reaction” Force
Inkwell Institute European Desk The world has been distracted by so many situations being thrown out there and the media gets to pick and choose what the American audience gets to see and...
View ArticleWhat Happened To The Hysteria?
Do you remember back in the Spring and Summer when all the world was jumping through hoops because of Russia’s advance into Ukrainian territory? The world went batcrap crazy….NATO was predicting that...
View ArticleTurkey Is a Bad Ally by Ivan Eland — Antiwar.com
The conflict with ISIS rages on….the US has put together a sterling list of part-time allies and among these is one of NATO’s “strongest members…..Turkey. But this “strong” ally seems to be playing...
View ArticleThe Reality and Myth of Ukrainian Neutrality | World Affairs Journal
While Americans have been sidetracked with the end of the world by snow……and just how much air is in their balls…..and some random golfer looses a tooth….the Ukraine has been inching closer to all out...
View ArticleUkraine: The Beginning
While you were shoveling snow or worrying about which group of overpaid athletes would win the prestigious game……the conflict in Ukraine keeps getting worse and worse…..but yet Americans shrug it off....
View ArticleShould We Or Should We Not…..Arm Ukraine?
There is a debate raging in the halls of Congress, the White House and around the world…….should Ukraine been armed to meet the threats from Putin’s Russia. The US is increasingly leaning towards the...
View ArticleWhat Of Ukraine?
For some reason this conflict is less important than the Oscars……people are dying, there is destruction and there is politics……the MSM is just NOT interested in this situation unless it is some...
View ArticleMacedonia: Europe’s Camel Doesn’t Want To Be A Domino | New Eastern Outlook
Does anyone remember Clinton’s War? That would be Bill not Hil………let me help…. The year is 1992 and hostilities break out In a former Yugoslav state of Bosnia…….it lasted until 1995 and some say it...
View ArticleUkraine And The World
While most everyone else is watching the carrying ons in the Congress and states I have been watching Ukraine and the situation the West is setting up for itself….. Russia is playing a talking...
View ArticleWith Friends Like These…..We Are Screwed!
The big international news is that of Turkey and its lousy foreign policy and that of Saudi Arabia and its decimation of Yemen, al in the name of religion….. We are fighting war after war….and we have...
View ArticleThe coming war with Russia?
Breaking News! The Saga of Brady’s Balls is over! May the country return to sanity now? 2016 is an election that is focused on foreign policy and yet all the talk is about ISIS and China with...
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