Intelligence Round Table on Ukraine and U.S. Intelligence
Ray McGovern and I discussed with Judge Napolitano the war in Ukraine and the recent declassification of alleged intelligence.
Ray McGovern and I discussed with Judge Napolitano the war in Ukraine and the recent declassification of alleged intelligence.
The Biden Administration declassified a U.S.
My old friend and business partner, John Moynihan, filed a whistleblower complaint with the Department of Justice Inspector General’s Office on November 28 alleging that Jack Smith, the Special Prosecutor pursuing Donald Trump, was engaged in an extortion scheme while he was working at the International Court of Justice.
The two-part Washington Post report on the failed Ukraine counter-offensive was written primarily to blame Ukraine for the debacle and exonerate the United States.
This two-part series in the Washington Post is a must-read because of what it tells the reader about the abysmal performance of the White House and the Department of Defense.
The blame game about who lost Ukraine is starting.
The news out of Ukraine late today is dire for Volodomyr Zelenksy.
This is a follow up to my previous piece describing how the United States and NATO sabotaged the peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in March 2022.
The map above shows two key areas — Avdiivka (which is about the red dot titled “winter storm) and Kleshcheyevka (which is on the western outskirts of Bakhmut that sits just below the tag “Museum”) — that Ukraine has been clinging to tenaciously for more than 9 years.
Powerline Crippled in Odessa The last week of November is setting up to be a pivotal week in Ukraine’s futile effort to fend off the Russian military.
Kudos to Andrei Martyanov for highlighting an article I missed — Bad history makes for bad policy on Ukraine — by Robert English.
Joe Scarborough and Richard Haass I realize this is a bit of old news, but recent comments by Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Richard Haass, long-term diplomat and former head of the Council on Foreign Relations, bear revisiting.
Car Bomb in Northern Ireland — THIS IS NOT FROM THE U.S.
If you are looking for more evidence of the panic that has seized the Washington foreign policy elite then the latest offering by Richard Haas and Charles Kupchan is a slam dunk.
This week’s “No Shit Analysis” award goes to Eugene B.
We now know that the United States played the primary role in sabotaging the March 29, 2022 tentative peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine thanks to the recently published article by Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat, HOW THE CHANCE WAS LOST FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT OF THE UKRAINE WAR — AND THE WEST WANTED TO CONTINUE THE WAR INSTEAD.
Ukrainian Colonel Roman Chervinsky A hilarious story last week in the Washington Post claiming that a rogue Ukrainian Colonel — one of Zaluzhny’s boys — was the skipper of the SS Minnow that destroyed the Nord Stream Pipeline in September 2022.
While the world’s attention is focused on the war raging between Israel and Hamas, the military confrontation between the United States and Hezbollah is heating up.
There are several pieces on reporting on the death by grenade of a senior aide to General Valeri Zaluzhny, Ukraine’s Commander of the Armed Forces.
Some pretty disturbing images are coming out of Ukraine.
This piece of graffiti that appeared in Kiev captures the essence of the moment.
The Western public, especially the Americans, while focused intensely on the Israeli war with Hamas, is paying little attention to what China and Russia are doing in the region to support Iran.
Andrei Martyanov always is very generous in his reactions to my posts and often highlights them.
China’s Special Envoy on Middle East Zhai Jun met the envoys of Arab states in Beijing at the latter’s request for a group meeting to discuss the grave situation in Gaza, Beijing, October 13, 2023 In the forty six years since the Six Day War between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the United States has dominated the diplomatic agenda in the Middle East.
It is one thing to drop bombs or artillery on a population without air defense or counter-battery units.
A good friend of mine, who retired from U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command aka INSCOM, and I had a long chat today about “intelligence failures” while puffing on a couple of fine stogies.
It is astonishing how quickly Western attention shifted from the war in Ukraine to the war in Israel.
There is a meme circulating accusing Bibi Netanyahu of having advance knowledge of the Hamas attack.
The Gaza Strip is the home base of Hamas, but there is not a single specific location in Gaza that can be targeted and destroyed in order to bring an end to Hamas.
With world attention riveted on Israel battling fiercely to repel attacks by Hamas and Hezbollah, little notice is being paid to the setbacks Ukraine is suffering at the hands of Russia forces.
I sat down today with former Fox News reporter, Clayton Morris, to discuss disturbing reports of Ukrainian troops being drugged.
Normally I shy away from discussing the political kabuki theater of Washington, DC.
Helmuth von Moltke, a 19th Century German Field Marshall, is credited with the aphorism, “no plan survives contact with the enemy”. The essence of his observation is this — no matter how meticulously you plan a military operation, you must be prepared to adjust on the fly based on what is happening on the battlefield.
BoJo the Clown Ignorance does not make this a wonderful world.
America, like a strung out crack addict, is in desperate need of an intervention.
While driving down the road today listening to Alexander Mercouris I suddenly realized that the United States and NATO have been pursuing a JENGA strategy against Russia.
Yaroslav Hunka, the 98 year old former member of a Nazi SS Division, detonated a public relations bomb with his Friday appearance before the Canadian Parliament and it is continuing to set off secondary and tertiary explosions.
A few months ago I wrote a piece on the Nazi heritage of Chrystia Freeland, the Deputy Prime Minister of Canada.
For a crusty, old, demented codger, Biden is doing the political equivalent of a gymnastics floor exercise.
Ben Hodges was not a good general and he is doing an even worse job as a pundit in his dotage.
We are seeing the classic signs of the growing discontent within some key sectors of the military and intelligence bureaucracy over the Biden policy towards Ukraine (I will touch on those in a minute), but the Biden national security team continues to stridently insist insist it will back Ukraine to the bitter end.
If you have not figured it out by now, Government is like Kabuki theater — i.e., it is an event characterized more by showmanship than by content.
I have had several people flag a recent article in 1945 by Daniel Davis.
The reports are piling up — just like Ukrainian corpses — of Ukraine’s massive losses on the battlefield.
Last week retired General David Petraeus was interviewed by three reporters from the Telegraph and asserted that Russian forces could “crumble” in the face of the Ukrainian counteroffensive.
In the aftermath of the staged American NAZI protest in Orlando, Florida a couple of weeks ago, one of the prominent shouters of hate, Mr.
If you have some genuine information about Nazis in Ukraine, YouTube will prevent you from posting.
No, we do not discuss 9-11 and the various conspiracy theories.
European racism and revanchism is alive and well and toxic as ever.
When the the G20 aka Group of 20 was created in 1999, the United States was the big dog at the table and saw this new entity as another forum/tool giving Washington more de facto control over the international financial system — created in the aftermath of World War II in order to coordinate international economic policy with the the U.S.