The Well Run Dry

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 ...

It's interesting (but hardly surprising) that some of the members of the incoming Republican majority in the U.S. House of Representativ...

Journalists from every nation are now unanimous in their assessment that Russia is losing the war in Ukraine.  There is overwhelming evidenc...

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...

The Russian invasion of Ukraine which began in late February is now in the midst of its fourth month.  This invasion is not some isolated su...

I still have a lot of reading to do in order to prepare my next post in the series on Gene Sharp's book From Dictatorship to Democracy ....

Those who have read my blog over the years know that at present I "own" two cats, and that the reason why these cats live with me ...

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 ...