by Dave Patterson | Apr 30, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, International, Opinion
When Putin said, in 2005, the fall of the Soviet Union was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century, the US and NATO should have known the Russian president would try to reclaim the lost power. Despite Moscow’s presently stalled offensive...
by Dave Patterson | Apr 3, 2022 | Articles, Exclusive Member, International, Opinion
The Budapest Memorandum was a statement of “Security Assurances” underpinning Ukraine’s independence and sovereignty after the fall of the Soviet Union. The rise of Kyiv’s government from under the iron boot of the communists was welcomed with...
by Leesa K. Donner | Mar 20, 2022 | Articles, Faith & Religion, Good Reads, Opinion
This week Vladimir Putin attended a public event honoring the eighth anniversary of the Russian annexation of Crimea. Speaking in Luzhniki Stadium to an audience estimated at 50 thousand, the president of Russia stood up and quoted a Scripture from the Gospel of John....
by Dave Patterson | Jan 10, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, International, Opinion
When a president gives shoot-to-kill orders to put down protests by his citizens, as the Russian-backed president of Kazakhstan, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev did recently, it should give the Biden foreign policy team pause. According to Reuters, Tokayev “blamed...
by Dave Patterson | Dec 25, 2021 | Articles, Good Reads, Military Affairs, Opinion
Thirty years ago today, the world received an immeasurably wonderful Christmas gift. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) came to an end as ignominiously as its beginning was bloody. As the hammer-and-sickle flag atop the Kremlin was lowered for the last...