by John M. Curtis | Dec 29, 2022
Withdrawing its subpoena for 76-year-old former President Donald Trump, the Jan. 6 House Select Committee gave up on its once high hopes of grilling the former president under oath. Trump and his closest cronies thought the Committee was the most biased, one-sided,...
by John M. Curtis | Dec 29, 2022
Ukraine sustained a new round of Russian air strike today targeting key infrastructure in Kiev, Kharkiv, Lviv and other cities in retaliation for Ukraine hitting Dec. 26 a Russian strategic bomber airbase inside Russia. Ukraine’s 40-year-old Foreign Minister Dmytro...
by John M. Curtis | Dec 28, 2022
Signaling that the Ukraine War has gone long enough, 72-year-old Russia Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned about an unnamed Pentagon Report that considered a “decapitation blow” against 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Diplomacy between the U.S. and...
by John M. Curtis | Dec 28, 2022
What happened to the U.S. press and nonpartisan members of Congress watching 80-year-old President Joe Biden endanger U.S. national security to the point that all conventional channels for U.S. foreign policy have been limited to the Western Alliance. Since the Feb....
by John M. Curtis | Dec 27, 2022
Ukraine’s 40-year-old Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba proposed a U.N. peace summit in the next few months, designed to pitch Ukraine’s 10-point for peace, a non-starter with the Russian Federation. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres responded to Kuleba saying he...
by John M. Curtis | Dec 27, 2022
As pressure mounts on Kiev to end the Ukraine War, Ukraine’s 40-year-old Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba told the press that Ukraine wants a peace summit hosted by 73-year-old U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Guterres was quoted recently about the growing...
by John M. Curtis | Dec 26, 2022
Russia’s 72-year-old Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said today that Ukraine knows Russia’s conditions for peace talks, something 70-year-old Russian President said in March. Putin told Ukraine’s 44-year-old President Volodymyr Zelensky that accept Donetsk and Luhansk...
by John M. Curtis | Dec 26, 2022
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, 57, said in a 4,500-word op-ed in Rossiiskaya Gazette newspaper that the only thing keeping the West from attacking the Russian Federation directly was Russia’s nuclear arsenal. Head of Russia’s Security Council, Medvedev...
by John M. Curtis | Dec 25, 2022
Showing the U.S.-Chinese relations at an all-time low, a new Defense Authorization Bill provides new $10 billion out of a $858 billion military budget for Taiwan defense. China expressed “strong dissatisfaction and resolute opposition” to the new Defense Authorization...
by John M. Curtis | Dec 25, 2022
For the second-and-third time in as many days, 70-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin says he wants to negotiate and end to the Ukraine War, meeting the same negative response from Kiev and Washington. U.N. peacekeepers, especially 44-year-old French President...