by drjmcurtis | Apr 7, 2022
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-Calif.), 82, planned visit to Taiwan prompted a stern warning from Beijing that visiting Taipei would have severe consequences on U.S.-Chinese relations, already strained to the breaking point. While Pelosi’s visit was not confirmed, it...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 7, 2022
Begging for more lethal weapons from the U.S. and NATO, Ukraine’s 40-year-old Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba urged NATO in the strongest possible terms to give Ukraine more modern military hardware to fight the Russian Federation. Kuleba mentions nothing about...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 6, 2022
President Joe Biden, 79, likes to boast about his coalition against 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine, getting the European Union [EU] to join in on crippling economic sanctions. But Biden tried to get China and India to join in condemning...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 6, 2022
Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, 75, told the House Financial Services Committee today that the Ukraine War could have “enormous economic repercussions in Ukraine and beyond,” talking about the 7% inflation rate happen in the U.S. and European Union [EU]. Central...
by drjmcurtis | Apr 5, 2022
Former Russian oligarch Mihhail Khordorkovsky, 58, once head of Yukos Oil Company and Russia’s richest man, speaks from experience after running afoul with 69-ytear-old Russian President Vladimir Putin. Khordorkovsky spent 10 years in a Siberian gulag for dissident...