Author’s note: when I wrote this, I was confident Clinton would win but still worried about the chance of a…
Obama’s final State of the Union speech exemplified him and his presidency, both strengths and weaknesses. In the end, Obama’s…
With its focus on national security, the mid-December Republican debate, though a month past, can still serve as a stark…
Happy Risky New Year If people thought 2015 was bad, 2016 shows no sign of letting on up on risk. The…
2015 was a tough year, but not altogether bad… Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse January 4, 2016 By Brian E. Frydenborg…
In the wake of Turkey’s downing of a Russian military jet that violated its airspace and Russia’s resulting casualties, tensions…
By intervening squarely on the side of Shiite Bashar al-Assad against his own mainly Sunni people and the entire Sunni…
Grading Obama on what has—and has not—been done by his administration regarding the Syrian Civil War Originally published on LinkedIn…
Top ten political and foreign policy lessons from Game of Thrones, or, how Game of Thrones can rescue us from…
Author’s note: three-quarters of a year later, Giuliani is still Trump’s point man on Russia and has not been asked…
How an Entrepreneurial Russian Sex-Worker Further Exposed Team Trump’s Love Affair with Team Putin (Russian/Русский перевод) Author’s note: the odyssey…
Former Trump campaign advisor and Russophile Carter Page may seem goofy, delusional, and unimportant, but he is right smack-dab in…
Whether Trump is impeached or remains in office, Putin has already won Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse December 29, 2017 By Brian E.…
After Monday’s New York Times piece on Trump business partner and associate Felix Sater’s efforts that began at least in November, 2015, to…
(Russian/Русский перевод) Perhaps the main problem with coverage of Trump’s Russia ties is that many of the various actors’ less…