by drjmcurtis | Jan 2, 2017
Brokering a long-awaited Syrian truce, Dec. 28, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan placed members of the U.N. Security Council on notice that a shaky truce between Turkey and Russia was falling apart. Started March 15, 2015 as...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 1, 2017
Rattling more nerves across the Pacific, 32-year-old reclusive North Korean Leader Kim Jong-un announced New Year’s Day he neared completion of a new Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Already slapped with feckless sanction by the U.N. Security Council, Kim’s marched...
by drjmcurtis | Jan 1, 2017
Spending his final days lashing out at Israel and Russia, 55-year-old President Barack Obama likes to tout his legacy, driving U.S.-Russian relations to the lowest point since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. Obama often points to his greatest legacy, the Affordable...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 30, 2016
Expelling Russian diplomats, slapping Moscow with more sanctions and taking his parting shot at Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Barack Obama showed why he’d be better off playing golf for his last three weeks in office. Pushing U.S.-Russian relations to...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 29, 2016
Lashing out one last time at Israel, 73-year-old Secretary of State John justified the U.S. abstaining Dec. 23 in the U.N. Security Council, voting to officially condemn Israeli settlement building in the so-called Palestinian territories. Kerry went over the deep-end...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 28, 2016
Traveling to the Baltic States and Ukraine, Senate war hawks Sen. John McCain (R-Az) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) hope to sabotage PresIdent-elect Donald Trump’s attempt to reset U.S.-Russian relations. Blaming Russian President Vladimir Putin for hacking the...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 27, 2016
When Russian President Vladimir Putin decided March 1, 2014 to invade Crimea, President Barack Obama saw it as an act of war against the West. Newly minted Western democracies like Poland, Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania convulsed, fearing an imminent Russian takeover....
by drjmcurtis | Dec 26, 2016
Spending six years backing Syrian rebel groups to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, President Barack Obama finally got the truth as Syrian and Russian troops comb through rebel-held territories in East Aleppo. Uncovering mass graves, Russian Maj. Gen. Igor...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 25, 2016
Voting to condemn Israel Dec.23 for building settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, U.S. Amb. Samantha Power on instruction from President Barack Obama abstained from the 14-member Security Council vote. U.N. states buy the Palestinian propaganda that the...
by drjmcurtis | Dec 24, 2016
Closing the book on the Obama years, President Barack Obama took his final shot against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, abstaining from a U.N. Resolution condemning Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Obama never understood or cared...