Sid Miller is a Republican candidate for Texas Agriculture Commissioner At the same time Barack Obama is rightfully criticizing Vladimir Putin for his outrageous and unlawful land grabs in Crimea, he is presiding over an equally outrageous and unlawful land
Brussels, April 01 (QNA) -NATO foreign ministers have agreed to suspend all practical civilian and military co-operation with Russia. In a strongly worded statement, they condemned Russia’s “illegal” annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region and praised the Ukrainian government’s “restraint”. Moscow
Russian president Vladimir Putin has just increased by over forty percent the price of natural gas Russia supplies to Ukraine. This isn’t the first time Putin has used energy as a weapon against Ukraine and others. We should be doing
There is never a good time to lose a man of the caliber, character, and vision of James R. Schlesinger. As it happens, however, the nation he loved and served for decades with such distinction is in particular need of
On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Monday, Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK), ranking member of the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee, made an appearance to express his disapproval of the elimination of the A-10 Warthog and the Tomahawk and Hellfire missiles
According to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian President Vladimir Putin said he will move some troops away from Ukraine’s border. The West has been pressuring Putin to do this for almost a month. There is no consensus as to how
Russian President Vladimir Putin informed German Chancellor Angela Merkel Monday about the partial withdrawal of troops he ordered from a region on the border with Ukraine, her office said. dlc/jmm
We know who Nigel Farage is sympathetic towards when it comes to the European Union leaders and Vladimir Putin. In fact, I’ve had some stick for basically agreeing with him for the past few months on these very pages. (Hint:
Nigel Farage has said that Vladimir Putin is the world leader he most admires, just days after sparking a political row after claiming the EU had “blood on its hands” over its handling of the Ukraine crisis. Speaking to GQ
Crimean Tatars feared for their safety when Crimea voiced allegiance to Russia after Ukraine ousted Russia-backed president Viktor Yanukovych on February 22. Their fears grew when Russia increased its presence and they realized Crimea would be annexed. To ease these
Former presidential advisor and political commentator David Gergen laid out the case for why the “thug” Russian President Vladimir Putin has “played his cards pretty shrewdly and pretty successfully” in the Ukraine crisis, saying he has the Crimea region “basically
The European Union (EU) – obsessed with climate change, cutting carbon emissions and saving polar bears – may have been hoist by its own foreign policy petard. Vladimir Putin’s threat to cut off natural gas supplies which supply 30 percent
Now that Crimea is a member of the Russian Federation, others are expressing their desire to be annexed by Russia. But it is not only people in Europe. A person just known as S.V. started a petition for Alaska to
Former KGB colonel and Russian President Vladimir Putin (aka Vlad the Invader) initiated a phone call with the Commander-in-Chief yesterday to discuss diplomatic solutions to the Ukrainian crisis. Crimea was apparently not mentioned, giving the impression that that train has left
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On Friday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said that Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “KGB thug” whose goal is to go as far as he can to reassemble the former Soviet Union. “I don’t think Putin is a complicated man,”
Thirty-five years ago, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. The president of the United States at the time, Jimmy Carter, had spent years appeasing the Kremlin and hollowing out the U.S. military. He responded by reversing those failed policies. For over
Ron Fournier, usually a dependable Barack Obama acolyte, has attacked the President in the National Journal this week for his apparent indifference to Vladimir Putin’s motivations as he seizes Crimea. Fournier writes: On a playground or in a bar, the
The United States Intelligence community once again claims the chances of Russia invading eastern Ukraine are high because President Vladimir Putin moved more troops to the border. “The thinking in the U.S. government is that the likelihood of a major
Major German industrial company Siemens voiced support for ties with Russia despite the economic and diplomatic tensions between Moscow and the West. CEO Joe Kaeser visited Russia President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow to reassure him Siemens will not
Action star Steven Seagal is officially endorsing Russia’s annexation of Crimea, calling Russian leader Vladimir Putin like a “brother” to him. Seagal went further, dubbing U.S. foreign policy in the region “idiotic” and saying mainstream media outlets are promoting President
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says Russia will set up its own payment system to rival Visa and MasterCard. The move comes barely a week after the two companies suspended services to Russian banks which were directly and
Nigel Farage, leader of UKIP, has accused the European Union of having “blood on its hands” over it’s handling of the crisis in Crimea. He also accused the government of allowing the EU to pursue an “imperialist, expansionist” agenda, provoking
Vladimir Putin’s popularity is cresting again in his native Russia, according to the independent Levada Center. His approval rating now stands at 80%, with only 18% of Russians disapproving. The last time Putin was so popular in Russia was in 2008,
President Barack Obama gave a speech in Brussels, Belgium on Wednesday. During that speech, he offered his thoughts on the current turmoil in the Ukraine involving Russia and its annexation of the Crimean peninsula. Obama argued this wasn’t Cold War
