What, Me Worry?
Josh Rogin asks NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen if the alliance has any concerns about the proposed sale of several Mistral-class amphibious assault ships by France to the Russian Navy. The answer:
"This is not NATO business, this is a bilateral question between France and Russia," he said, "So as such, NATO is not engaged in this."
As the [...]
Putin Orders Obama Not to Defend America
Why do I have the awful premonition that Barack H. Obama is about to bow deeply from the waist again?
U.S. missile-defense plans are a threat to Russian national security and have slowed down progress on a new arms-control treaty with Washington, Russia’s top military officer said Tuesday.
Gen. Nikolai Makarov said that a revised U.S. plan [...]
Chávez Watch IV
Last week, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Dennis Blair presented the “Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community” to lawmakers on Capitol Hill. While the report notes that Venezuela is “struggling” to deal with the post-2008 drop in oil prices and with production declines, it also outlines a variety of ways in which [...]
Kosovo Sees Continued Infiltration by Islamists
Islamist infiltration of the Albanian-speaking areas in the Balkans began even before the U.S.-led Kosovo intervention of 1999. (The offensive by radical Islam continues in Kosovo has previously been chronicled here, here, here, and here, with attacks focused on moderate Muslim clerics.) The upsurge of armed struggle for Kosovo independence in 1998 was accompanied by the unexpected emergence of Saudi-financed [...]
Hey, Vladimir, Man Up!
Vladimir Putin is worried about global cooling. That’s a reasonable fear, more reasonable than Al Gore’s, but we Minnesotans–here, one of my daughters–show Vladimir the way. Winter is to be enjoyed!
Of course, it’s less enjoyable if you have to shut down because you don’t have any power. Which is especially embarrassing if [...]
Russian Rocket Fail Turns into Nobel Peace Prize Fireworks Display
Just in time for the President’s big speech, as it turns out.
MOSCOW - The failure of a new Russian intercontinental ballistic missile during testing was the cause of spectacular spiraling blue lights in the skies over northern Norway, analysts said Thursday.
Russia’s defense ministry said a Bulava missile was launched Wednesday by a nuclear submarine [...]
