by drjmcurtis | Jan 22, 2022
President Joe Biden, 79, has demonstrated he’s overmatched trying to deal with 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin when it comes to the Ukraine situation. Biden has huffed-and-puffed, threatening Putin with crippling economic sanctions, sending the...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 21, 2022
British Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss, 46, stepped into the public stage, blasting Russia and China for exporting dictatorship around the world. Truss, who delivers a speech a speech at the Lowy Institute in Australia, pulled no punches saying the free world must...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 21, 2022
Meeting in Geneva today for some high-stakes diplomacy, 59-year-old Secretary of State Antony Blinken and 72-year-old Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met face-to-face to try to de-fuse tensions in Ukraine. Russian officials have difficulty digesting all the...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 20, 2022
China continues to assert territorial control in the South China Sea over international waters, freedom of navigation on the open seas, complaining about the USS Benfold conducting freedom of navigation operation [FONOP] in the South China Sea. China didn’t like when...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 20, 2022
Russia announced today new naval exercises in several parts of the world, sending a loud message to 79-year-old President Joe Biden and 63-year-old European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen that Moscow won’t be intimidated by the West’s constant threats of...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 19, 2022
Today’s Ukraine crisis is attributable to a Feb. 22, 2014 CIA-backed coup while 69-year-old Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted the Sochi Winter Olympics. Pro-Western separatists led by 50-year-old Kiev Mayor Vitali Klitsckko toppled the duly elected,...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 18, 2022
Pfizer announced today that it’s new anti-viral oral drug Paxlovid has been effective in clinical trials in preventing the replication of the Omicron variant, a positive sign for anyone trying to reduce the variant’s adverse effects. “Taken together, these in vitro...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 17, 2022
Russia’s 72-year-old Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that Moscow was losing patience with the West after last week’s attempt at diplomacy in Geneva, where U.S. officials essentially rejected Moscow’s demands for legal guarantees that Ukraine would be part of...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 17, 2022
One the anniversary of 45-year-old Russian dissident Alexi Navalny’s arrest after returning to Moscow following Novichok poisoning, 74-year-old European Union Foreign Policy Chief Josep Borrell called for Russian President Vladimir Putin to release him from his...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 16, 2022
Far after the American media establishment denounced former President Donald Trump, 81-year-old venerable emeritus American journalist Ted Koppel questioned how the journalism industry crossed into the opinion side to denounce Trump’s reelection bid. Koppel has no...