Author: James Chamberlin

While there appear to be some good Russian writers uner Putin’s rule, according to Izba Arts, there don’t appear to be any great writers like Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solzhenitsyn, or Pasternak. Putin has been more successful in snuffing out the life of the mind in Russia than previous Tsarist or Communist…

 believe that Ukrainian President Zelenskyy is in danger, and not just from the random missiles and drones that fall on Kyiv each night. If Putin succeeds in taking over Ukraine years after he first attempted to, he will wnt to get rid of Zelenskyy, who is a potential rallying point…

Richard Haass’ Home and Away publication noted the passing of Foreign Service Officer Frank Wisner, and the related diminution of the Foreign Service as an institution. Haass wrote: Frank’s death is not just a personal loss for me, the passing of a friend and colleague I both liked and respected.…

In the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) files, Steve Dachi’s Foreign Service oral history relates the story of his identifying the escaped Nazi Josef Mengele’s corpse in Sao Paulo, Brazil. At that time I was the science officer at the American Embassy in Brasilia, and later visited the…

Shortly after becoming President Trump surrendered to Putin on the terms of the Ukraine war. CNN reported, “Trump offers key concessions to Putin ahead of Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia.” In talks today at the White House, Trump acting as Putin’s representative, tried to get Ze,enskyy to surrender to…

In an interview with Bloomberg, former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers called the current Ukraine negotiations beyond Versailles, the oppressive agreement ending World War I that led to World War II. “For the policy of the United States to be blaming the victim for the aggression and then taking the destroyed, highly indebted…

On a routine UN resolution marking the third anniversary of the start of the Ukraine war, the US opposed a reolution condemning Russia for attacking Ukraine that it had supported in previous years, according to the Washington Post. The US was joined in its opposition to the G-7 sponsored resolution…

Trump and Musk want to to shut down the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau because it was created by ElizabethWarren, whom they hate, before she was a senator. According to Wikipedia: The agency was originally proposed in 2007 by Elizabeth Warren while she was a law professor. The CFPB’s creation was authorized by…

Trump campaigned against the courts that were indicting him before he was elected. He has zero respect for courts, although he used them repeatedly to protect himself when he was in the real estate business. Wikipedia has an entry entitled “Personal and business legal affairs of Donald Trump” It says:…

According to Wired, at least three individuals associated with Palantir or its cofounder Peter Thiel were involved in an online recruiting effort for DOGE late last year, WIRED has learned.