This is the time to see if the Republican Party stands for more than staying in power. Republicans have certainly voiced their preference for a strong national defense and security. Caution around Russian aggression was something they spoke of extensively. It’s why it’s so odd how there’s been almost no Republican response to the Russian interference in the 2016 election. The Hill newspaper quoted House […]

Interesting timing. US intelligence reports say that Russia has deployed SSC-8 missiles — intermediate-range nuclear cruise missiles — violating the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty. The Obama administration warned Russia that deploying the then-developmental Russian SSC-X-8 missiles would violate the treaty, signed by President Ronald Regan and Mikhail Gorbachev. I wonder if it was Russia or the US intelligence community that decided now was […]

The New York Times writes about Democrats pushing for a fuller accounting: Democrats Demand: What Did the President Know and When Did He Know It? I’m feeling twitchy. Trump cannot brook anything like this. He can’t answer, and he can’t back down on anything, ever. How desperate will he become?

I wonder what today’s distraction will be? Yesterday, National Security Adviser Michael Flynn resigned after the Washington Post revealed that the Trump administration had already been warned that he was lying so badly he’d opened himself to Russian blackmail. Flynn had lied that he wasn’t offering the Russians concessions. I still want to know what he traded them for. So do other people, presumably. Flynn fell […]

Just got the news that National Security Advisor Michael Flynn has just resigned. Good of him to fall on his sword, I suppose, but it doesn’t even lessen my questions: Who was Flynn working with inside the administration? Trump remains the most likely figure. What were they trading for the reduced sanctions? Was the coordination connected to the Russian election interference?