And the North Macedonians. They were once world conquerors but they are not as well-known today as Greece. Think Alexander; he was a Macedonian. In fact, “North Macedonia” is a name that the Russians opposed because it led to a peaceful compromise with Greece (and the threat of regional unity)…

One in five Fox viewers says they now have less trust in Fox. This is a huge deal. “How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again,” said Mark Twain back in 1906. This has been modernized today in…

We have been here before. History gives us a way to forecast Russia’s future, as the reign of state control again erodes the country’s ability to move forward. These events have happened back in 1991, when Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev was faced with a coup by Soviet security forces. But…

As the guillotine of history slices down on Trump, its blade etched “first former president to face a criminal charge”, Republicans are warning their own followers not to take Trump’s appeals for violence seriously. …

Michael Korvig and Michael Spavor, known as the “two Michaels,” returned to Canada after spending over 1000 days detained in China. Their story is a harrowing example of China’s human rights violations and its willingness to use people as a tool for geopolitical gain. It is also a story of…

According to a two-and-a-half minute recording released yesterday by Ukrainian intelligence, two Russian soldiers discussed mass desertions in a phone call. They revealed that 119 of their comrades had fled the front line. Many of them were evidently tracked down and 70 of them were hit with criminal charges, while…

Right after China’s President Xi Jinping left Moscow after talks about the war in Ukraine, he set up a new meeting of Central Asian countries to poach a huge region away from Russia. You could see the cards line up after Russia scored ZERO on Xi’s plan to end the…

No one else on Medium will give a darn out this, so I thought I’d step forward and say that in Canada it’s a pretty big deal so I’d bringing it to your attention. President Biden is visiting Ottawa for two days. It says a lot about friendship that we…

The recapture of the city of Kherson by Ukrainian on — appropriately — Remembrance Day, 2022, was too late to save the city’s priceless heritage. Russian troops and civilian assistants systematically plundered thousands of valuable artifacts and artworks from two museums, a cathedral, and a national archive in Kherson, before…