There are several big issues that are circling the Russian news agencies: One is Russia joining NATO and the next is that the US and Russia are currently negotiating a successor to the START nuclear disarmament treaty.Lavrov the Russian Foreign Minister has always made it clear that NATO is the "hind end of a donkey" and he was given normative support for this thinking recently: Madeleine Albright, secretary of state under former President Bill Clinton and currently involved in the... Full Story

Looks like the NATO visit and hoopla last week did not make much of an impression with Russia: NATO doesn't recognize agreement on deployment of Russian military bases in Abkhazia, said Carmen Romero, NATO representative.NATO calls on Russia to withdraw its armed forces at the positions they used to stay in up to August 7th 2008, and let foreign monitors in the territory of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.Romero highlighted the Alliance believes these two regions the inalienable parts of Georgia,... Full Story

The president of the unrecognized republic of Transdniester said they never asked for, but would not mind hosting, Russian Iskander missile complexes to counterbalance US ABMs in Romania.“In fact we never requested anything as our armed forces are sufficient,” said Transdniester’s President Igor Smirnov on Monday during his visit to Moscow for talks on bilateral relations.At the same he mentioned that the unrecognized republic would not mind hosting Russia’s Iskander... Full Story

Watch the video! No really watch the video then come back... This really is an unbelievable video and is chocked full of surprises for NATO lovers! NATO has done a 180 degree turn around on Russia... Now is it a real stance? Or is it a face of a dying organization that really needs Russia to become part of the game so that it can prolong NATO's viability in the worlds eyes? Madeleine Albright does help give it some credibility and her speech was very good and sounded sincere. Does she... Full Story

I have been posting about the fact that Russia wanted to buy a French made Mistral-class amphibious assault ship! I have posted about the fact that the French agreed to sell said ship to Russia! Now we get to post about France having to defend her decision on why she sold the ship to Russia: French President - Sarkozy told U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates at a brief meeting on Monday that in his opinion the sale did not pose a military problem because Russia should be treated as a real... Full Story

NATO Wants Russia to believe: "NATO is not an enemy of Russia," NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in an interview on the sidelines of a security conference in Munich. Russia does not believe NATO: President Dmitry Medvedev signed into approval his country's new military doctrine Friday. The doctrine identifies one of the "main external threats of war" as NATO's expansion east to Russia's borders, and it sees U.S. plans to create an anti-missile shield in Europe as a concern... Full Story

Speaking at Herzliya conference, a former chairman of the NATO Military Committee Naumann claimed that in half an hour NATO forces will obliterate any country which have used nuclear weapons against another country. C’mon, no way. Obama cannot even decide on bombing North Korean and Iranian nuclear facilities which pose clear and present danger of nuclear terrorism, and are we to believe that he would wipe out Tehran or Pyongyang with millions of people allegedly held hostage by their... Full Story

It is fun to watch the Western world get their faces all twisted up in a tissy when Russia does things that are considered bad and evil by Western standards. Even when it is the West that helps do these evil things... What am I talking about? The proposed sale of the French navy's 23,700-ton Mistral-class amphibious assault ship to Russia by a NATO country, France! This seems to me to be more of a chess game tactic by Putin to obtain a vessel. The actuality is Russia does needs the ship to... Full Story

While most Americans are completely unaware of the fact that Ukraine is not only facing its worst financial crisis since its official inception, but Sunday's election is being sold to its citizens as their only chance at fixing this crisis.  Likewise, Americans are most likely oblivious to the fact that the current government is a puppet government installed by the USA.  Unfortunately for the USA, and much more so for Ukraine, the puppet in charge was so inept that America could do... Full Story

With civilian casualties escalating in Afghanistan and American troops dying in ever greater number, it is difficult to ignore the parallels between this war and the Vietnam war almost half a century ago.  This never ending war has been condemned by many of America's military strategists with claims that it is an unwinnable war and the USA will eventually be forced to withdraw with no victory in sight.  Barack Obama disagrees with this, but so far his policies haven't instilled a... Full Story