Because bashing Russia is now fashionable and socially acceptable, even among the left.

He also ignored the fact that most of Russian mobile missiles are now on mobile platforms, so in theory it should be difficult to track, target and destroy all those missiles. Moreover, Russia now is producing the nuclear capable Kalibr missile which can be launched at targets in Europe and at sea basically from any…

As Odin wrote, Russia is worried more about the policy of regime change in every neighboring country aiming to replace a fairly moderate government with an outright hostile government and then bringing in the NATO bases. That’s just as provocative as it gets. As for the size of the American military, this doesn’t…

The simole truth is that the US outclassed Russia long ago and everyone knows it.

Aren’t most of Russian land-based launchers now on mobile platforms?

Right as Russia ramps up its military efforts and invades sovereign nations.

Russia has a huge fleet of long range bombers that can reach and strike pretty much any target in the world.

Your argument is certainly true. Not only in Iraq, but also in Syria. As we have seen in most wars since the 1990-1991 Gulf war, the primary war of the modern day is an asymmetric war where an army with lots of armored vehicles, and possibly with aircraft, is fighting an infantry of insurgents armed only with light…

The idea that Iran is the “biggest state sponsor of terrorism” was born after a huge brainstorm at pro-Israel pro-Neocon think tanks. I mean seriously, after 9/11, and after the Wahabisation and Islamization of places like Pakistan, the Russian Caucasus, many African countries, and many parts of the Middle East, we…

Iran has license for production of a T-72 variant. This thing indeed looks like a T-72 with a different turret. I guess it’s a stopgap project to copy the T-90 by local mean until the sanctions are lifted so Iran can buy T-90.

It turns out Leopard 2 tanks can explode and their turrets can fly away, just like on the T-72 variants. I think Foxtrotalpha has missed the episodes about “burning Leopards” in Syria. It’s not the latest model, but still quite telling:

So Trump is incompetent and stupid, as most lefties allege, and yet he and his campaign were competent enough to beat all of Republican residential candidates, against most of the odds and against his party’s will, and then he beat Hillary Clinton, whose presidency we were told was an inevitability for the last 15…

In a lot of countries there exists a policy of rotating their ambassadors in order to prevent those ambassadors from getty too cozy with the host state or with the local non-government interests.

Trump is gutting the State Department budget for very obvious reasons, because the state department was the spearhead of the neocon and liberal interventionist policies of “regime change” under Clinton, Bush, and Obama. The state department has become too affluent and too independent from the White House.

The State Department has become too strong and too free to run its own politics abroad without president’s approval or involvement. The State Department is now basically the spearhead of the neocon and liberal interventionist “regime change” policies all over the world. No wonder Trump is going to behead, and then…

I agree with you. I thought that Huntsman was a fine presidential candidate and I think he is a fine pick to be an ambassador to Russia. He was the only republican within the 2012 race I thought I could vote for. Too bad, the hyper-partisan right buried him together with all others who did not adhere to the strict…

I am surprised how much criticism the Huntsman pick gets. He is actually an experienced diplomat, and moreover, he is a Republican who is not hyper partisan. That we know from his 2012 presidential bid, when he accused the republicans for being wrong on issues such as the “Obamacare”.

I am sorry, but you are certainly wrong if you believe that naming Condi Rice the USA ambassador in Russia could serve president Trump’s goal of improving relations with Russia. She is a neocon squared, and she had a whole lot of harsh lies to say about Russia during the 2008 South Ossetia war.

Out of those 49 days of his presidency, Trump has probably spent almost 48 days on fighting the deep state within the CIA and FBI, and on fighting the liberals sabotage of his presidency in the name of punishing Russians, with its alleged associates, for their alleged (but still not proved) interference in the USA…

Putin may also want sanctions lifted over its annexation of Ukraine, which would make Trump look weak and give the appearance that Washington will forsake Kyiv’s defense of its territorial integrity.