by drjmcurtis | Mar 3, 2021
Driving Russian relations to Cold War lows, the European and Union and United States issued new sanctions over 44-year-old Alexi Navalny’s poisoning and eventual arrest, prosecution and sentencing to two-years-eight-months in a penal colony 62 miles east of Moscow....
by drjmcurtis | Mar 2, 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin had a lot to crow about Nov. 11 when Russia’s Moscow-based Gamaleya Pharmaceuticals launched the Sputnik V vaccine, exactly one month before Pfizer-BioNTech was approved Dec. 11 for emergency use by the U.S. Food and Drug...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 2, 2021
When the 61-year-old Director of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas released a declassified report on the Oct. 2, 2018 murder in Istanbul’s Saudi Embassy, the consensus among U.S. intel agencies was that the hit was ordered by 35-year-old Saudi leader Mohammed bin...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 1, 2021
Resisting an angry media call to sanction Saudi Arabia’s 35-year-old leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 78-year-old President Joe Biden has another big decision what to do with Iran. Biden’s figuring out the 2020 campaign is over, no need to do everything to...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 1, 2021
Showing that there’s some sanity in the White House, 78-year-old President Joe Biden resisted calls to sanction Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman [MBS] for the Oct. 2, 2018 murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi foolishly went to...
by drjmcurtis | Mar 1, 2021
Showing that there’s some sanity in the White House, 78-year-old President Joe Biden resisted calls to sanction Saudi ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman [MBS] for the Oct. 2, 2018 murder of Washington Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. Khashoggi foolishly went to...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 28, 2021
Playing hardball with P5+1, Iran rejected the idea of meeting informally to discus how to restart the July 15, 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action [JCPOA], after former president Donald Trump cancelled U.S. involvement May 8, 2018. Iran plays games as usual, the...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 28, 2021
Complicating 78-year-old Joe Biden’s diplomacy with Iran, Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz reported today the Israeli ship MV Helios Ray was struck with two explosions tearing two holes in the hull in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s 81-year-old Supreme Leader...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 28, 2021
Western powers’ dissident pro-democracy hero 44-year-old Alexi Navalny was transferred to a penal colony 100 kilometers [62 miles] from Moscow to serve out his Feb. 2 sentence for violating probation on an embezzlement charge, Navalny claims is phony. Whatever the...
by drjmcurtis | Feb 27, 2021
Sanction-mania has now swept over the Democrat-controlled House, Senate and White House, putting U.S. national security in peril, with House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) pushing 78-year-old President Joe Biden to sanction 35-year-old Saudi...