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President Putin’s state of the nation address to the Federal Assembly in Moscow this week was an extraordinary affair. While heavily focused on domestic social and economic development, Putin noted, predictably, the US decision to pull out of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty and clearly outlined the red lines in regard to possible consequences of the move.

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Is it 1:0, 2:0, or 1:1? Who the heck knows. India says it downed a Pakistani F-16 that was part of a 3-plane bombing run against an Indian airbase in a dogfight, at the loss of one of its own MiG-21s.

Thats after Pakistan said it had shot down two Indian MiG-21s that were on a bombing run in Kashmir against Jaish-e-Mohammed at no losses on its side.

India claimed its Kashmir bombing run was a great success killing 300 terrorists, but Pakistanis showed off footage of bomb damage on a hillside forest and claimed that except one local civilian no one had been hurt.

We cant imagine Haley knows much about either building airplanes, or running a company in the private sector so this is payment for services rendered:

One of the first things people notice about Russian churches is that they have no pews.

Russians are famous for standing for hours on end during their long, long services. While usual services are 2-3 hours, services during Great Lent and in monasteries span up to 6 hours. For most of that time, most of the congregation is standing upright.

Tucker Carlson of FoxNews has been putting out great stuff for the last year, and we know not everyone catches his show, so we’re keeping you posted when we see something interesting.

Watch this space for more, as long as the Tuck keeps it up.

With US-Russia relations deteriorating rapidly in the aftermath of the collapse of the INF nuclear arms treaty, which prompted Russias Vladimir Putin to slam the US for "demolishing" global security, Russian state television listed U.S.

The most immense and dangerous public scandal in American history is finally cracking open like a ripe pomegranate. The broad swath of the Trump-hating media that has participated in what has amounted to an unconstitutional attempt to overthrow the government are reduced to reporting the events and revelations of the scandal in which they have been complicit, in a po-faced ho-hum manner to impart to the misinformed public that this is as routine as stock market fluctuations or the burning of an American flag in Tehran.

For a variety of reasons, I have been spending a fair amount of time with A.I. Solzhenitsyn, the great Russian writer who died in 2008. I am working through a collection of his writings and have been watching videos on his life along with detailed interviews.

If any man lived through the maelstrom of the 20th century, it was he. Born in 1918 to a pious, Orthodox family, he was raised by a single mother, his father having died in an accident six months before Solzhenitsyn’s birth.