This week Russia started naval combat exercises with their friends in Caracas. This is the first time the Russin\an Navy has been in Caribbean waters since the end of The Cold War. One has to ask, what’s with all the aggression from Russia lately? Perhaps it’s not aggression but posturing. I think what all the [...]

It seems T.S. Eliot was wrong, at least for the Georgians—August is the cruelest month. Let’s take stock of what the Russians call Operation “Scorched Earth,” their invasion of South Ossetia and Georgia.