by Dave Patterson | Mar 17, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Are President Vladimir Putin’s public threats about using nuclear weapons credible? The prudent answer is that whenever the leader of Russia talks about using nuclear weapons, his words must be taken seriously. Publicly, the Biden administration tends to downplay such...
by Dave Patterson | Mar 1, 2024 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Russian President Vladimir Putin sponsored an outreach to Palestinian terrorists. Does Russia really need Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and 14 other Palestinian Liberation Organization members as pals? Apparently, the Russian president believes he does. On...
by Dave Patterson | Feb 29, 2024 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
Hungary has agreed to Sweden joining NATO. But what about other former nations of the old Soviet Union? Ukraine has been clamoring to join since it was put on the shortlist for the alliance at the 2008 Bucharest Summit. And, just as in Ukraine, Russia’s threatening...
by Dave Patterson | Feb 28, 2024 | Articles, Military Affairs, Opinion
In a gratuitous gesture of peace through weakness, less than two years ago, Vice President Kamala Harris announced the US would stop its anti-satellite test program. Even though China and Russia have such a program and other nations are working toward an...
by Dave Patterson | Feb 27, 2024 | Articles, Opinion, Politics
President Joe Biden threatened crippling economic sanctions if Russia invaded Ukraine. Then Russia invaded Ukraine. The administration imposed a spate of economic sanctions in response – but Russia continued its invasion and subsequent war against Ukraine. Though the...