The Well Run Dry

This will be a short post.  I am trying to get my weekly schedule under control.  However, there is continuing news about the Russian invasi...

The New York Times recently ran an opinion piece by a Mr. Christopher Caldwell who chided the Biden administration for "escalating&qu...

It appears finally that the West is going to get off the dime and send Ukraine the heavy weapons it needs to defeat the Russian invasion of ...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine seems to have evolved into a war of attrition.  On the one hand is Putin's Russia, the revanchist monste...

Russia's unprovoked invasion of Ukraine has netted some impressive losses for Russia.  Among those losses are up to 17,000 Russian troop...

The geopolitical events of the last month have shown how foolish it has been for the free nations of the world to allow themselves to be hoo...

So...Russia has finally decided to go through with their invasion of Ukraine.  This is Russia's punishment of Ukraine for being Ukraine ...

Sunshine go away today I don't feel much like dancin' Some man's gone, he's tried to run my life He don't know what he&#...

As regular readers of this blog know well, from October 2017 until a few weeks ago, I took a break from writing posts in order to focus on t...

At the end of my last post, I promised to discuss how the concept of the Third Rome and Russian Orthodoxy have influenced and guided Russian...

(Some readers may be wondering why my last two posts (as well as the next two or three) are taking a trip down the path of Russian and Byzan...

As noted in my last post, blogger Olga Doroshenko very nicely sketched out a description of national narcissism as applied to Russia.  She ...

Over the last seven or eight months, as I have tried to make sense of the changes (and attempted changes) which major players have wrought i...

We humans all have a common tendency, namely, the desire to arrange our surroundings to our liking and personal tastes.  The trouble comes w...