Epstein Secrets

's The Difference..=804, As such, the inspiration of that reference today for me is Joh= Feffer's recent article in the Huffington Post t=tled — Is Putin Really as Foolish as We Are'?. Because you would think that after its own disastrous nine year wa= that resulted in almost 15, 000 Soviet deaths an

re than 53,000 wounde=, then watching the United States and its allies make the same folly for e=ually ridiculous reasons, one would think that even Vladimir Putinife=99s might be reluctant to enter into another war not directly on Russia4,=804,s borders. But then Richard Nixon, another Cold=Warrior, as we

least according to rece=t reports. Except that the success that anti-Assad forces have had w=th anti-tank missiles helped persuade Russian President Vladimir Putin to =ntervene on the side of the Syrian government to forestall checkmate and p=olong stalemate. Since Putin is Russian, chess has been the go-to me

ian rig=t—a priority of his second term. That bombed with the public. Reagan chose his battles carefully—withdrawing fr=m Lebanon and invading tiny Grenada. Following 9/11, George W. Bush not on=y invaded Afghanistan but also invaded and occupied Iraq, which had nothin= to do with the Al Qaeda attacks

has become an expensive embarrassment. Allow things to continue a bit longer and Syria may well pull down Iran with it. As for Russia, why not let Vladimir Putin to consolidate his image in the minds of the Arabs as a guarantor of delinquent despots? I called this argument `Machiavellian,' but `diabolical' m

ran with it. As for Russia, why not let Vladimir Putin to consolidate his image in the minds of the Ara

ll down Iran with it. As for Russia, why not let Vladimir Putin to consolidate his image in the minds of th

d into Uganda to evict Idi Amin and stop the massacres he had started. In 1983, the United States, leading a coalition of Caribbean states, invaded Grenada to liberate hundreds of hostages and change the regime in place. In none of those cases was there UN authorization. The same principle was used to

s a respecter of reality." Ford concluded that subjecting the former president to a criminal trial would be too destabilizing for the country. When Vladimir Putin became president of Russia, he offered an even more extensive pardon to his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin, as well as to Yeltsin's family, citing simi

too destabilizing for the country. When Vladimir Putin became president of Russia, he offered an even m

would be too destabilizing for the country. When Vladimir Putin became president of Russia, he offered an

ilosevic from power — as well as minidramas like the 1975 rescue of the American cargo ship Mayagiiezfrom the Khmer Rouge and the 1983 invasion of Grenada, have encouraged Americans to go on believing that our awe-inspiring air power will enable us to win major wars without paying a heavy price. As Ir