Since Vladimir Putin became president of Russia in 2000, he has been obsessed with how he is portrayed in the Russian media. He purportedly would routinely spend evenings carefully watching how the media covered him personally as well as his actions and policies. From the early days, he took steps to place Kremlin control over […]
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The most recent of a spate of shootings in the United States took place in the small, southwestern town of Uvalde, Texas, where nineteen elementary school children and two teachers were senselessly murdered on May 24, 2022. The gunman was a teenager who bought military grade firearms and as many as 350 rounds of ammunition
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Are you surprised at the extent of resistance by Ukraine in their current war with Russia? It appears to many observers that the Russian Military and Putin Government probably miscalculated the Ukrainian people’s will to resist domination. By taking a look at the last 100 years of the history of Ukrainian-Russian relations we can see
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Mariupol in the Ukraine has made lots of news lately, most of which has been unfortunate owing to Russia’s recent invasion of the Ukraine. Prior to the devastation that has taken place there in the last five weeks, what type of city was Mariupol? Where was Mariupol located? What was so important about it? Founded
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Thanks to the war in the Ukraine and corresponding sanctions, crude oil markets have been roiled worldwide as traders in various parts of the world grapple with sharply higher crude oil prices. The trickle down has hit just about all phases of oil production to the retail level. The mayhem has reached the natural gas
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In Response to the military invasion of neighboring Ukraine, Russia has been sanctioned by numerous countries in an effort to force economic pain on the invaders. As an economic weapon in the face of military action sanctioning is not new—it dates back to 432 BC in Greece. It typically arises when a trading partner of
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With the invasion of the Ukraine by the Russian military, and the corresponding sanctioning by the West, it appears that another Iron Curtain may be falling over Europe bringing with it another cold war. So far, the conflict has been limited to the Ukraine and potentially Belarus from whose territory part of the Russian Invasion
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When World War I ended in November, 1918, Germany’s economy was in a shambles. At the Paris Peace Conference in 1919, Germany was obliged to accept defeat and agree to pay a huge amount of money for reparations primarily to France and Belgium, owing to the great destruction and loss of life inflicted on those
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On December 7, 1941, U.S. naval and military bases at Pearl Harbor in Oahu, Hawaii were attacked by Japanese Naval and Air Forces. The next day, Congress declared war, sending the U.S. headlong into World War II. But was the United States virtually at war before the attack? Neutrality Zone: Although hostilities were taking place
WAS THE UNITED STATES ENGAGED IN WORLD WAR II BEFORE THE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR? Read More »
The supply chains in the U.S. are clogged with merchandise enroute from foreign manufacturers to domestic distributors and retailers. The consequences of this include record-breaking shipping rates, long queues of vessels that must wait over a week to reach a berth in U.S. ports, and logjams at railroad yards. Most of these issues pertain to
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