First Blog

What does old Vlad do late at night when his day is done? Make out with beautiful women? Cross-dress? Write in his dear diary? Read reports from his generals?   Plot against Trump?   Nyet! Nyet! Nyet! He locks the door to his bedroom and gets out his special equipment.   First, he downs a tumbler of Vodka. Then he applies over his lip an enormous mustache. Stripping to the skin, he puts on an oversized Bolshevik people’s revolution suit.   He then grabs some sheets of paper and with a red-inked pen, and smiling he begins to write enemy names upon it.   Yes, he is pretending to be his personal hero, Joseph Stalin.   No one dares knock on Vlad's door late at night. You see, even tyrants have role models.

So let Angela Merkel make natural gas deals with Russia, personified by Vladimir Putin. Long term, it can only help the USA.  If she can pull the EU toward deals with Russia, then her own and the fundamental EU distrust of Russia can and will likely grow. Poor Angela, with her big pinkish balloon of a globalist world popped, must remain relevant. Historically, Russia has always had an imperial attitude toward every other country, but who cared. For the West, they were too far east to matter; for the East they were too far west.  Sure, they were cozy with France more than a century ago, mostly because the rich needed a cool place to shop. For a few decades in the last century, they enjoyed the power to exert power, their only emotion. Russia, in fact, does not know how to be a friend; even their “friends” don’t like them and certainly don’t trust them. With a Russia-Germany gas deal in place, the Russians, communist or imperialist, will eventually squeeze the busy, mostly har