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Donald Trump has reached a low-point among allies overseas. (Photo: NYI Collage)

Trump Overseas: Not Only Disliked, But Fears He’s Selling Out Europe to Putin

Keith GirardDecember 18, 2025

Donald Trump brags about his standing overseas, but the most steadfast U.S. allies are distancing themselves from the president...

FOREIGN POLICYNATIONAL SECURITYPOLITICS

Elon Musk's name has surface in the Epstein files. (Photo: Steve Jurvetson)

Musk Epstein Ties Renew Questions About Possible Russian Recruitment Efforts, ‘Kompromat’

Keith GirardSeptember 26, 2025

Elon Musk was part of sex trafficking pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's ring of friends or associates at at time when Russia may have been attempting to "blackmail" and recruit him as an agent of influence....

ADMINISTRATIONPOLITICSSpy vs Spy

Ukrainian tanks on maneuvers in conflict with Russia.

Trump Sudden Russia, Ukraine Reversal Aimed at Countering ‘Kompromat’ Reports; Is He Gaslighting?

Keith GirardSeptember 23, 2025

Donald Trump made an abrupt and radical departure on Russia and Ukraine today (Sept. 23) seemingly shifting his view of the war in Ukraine's favor....

ADMINISTRATIONDEFENSEPOLITICSSpy vs Spy

Sen JD Vance (R-Ohio) has been branded a Putin Puppet for opposing U.S. aid to Ukraine.

GOP Lawmakers Who Block Ukraine Aid Are ‘Disgraceful’ and ‘Grotesque’ Putin Puppets

Keith GirardDecember 12, 2023

"I think it’s disgraceful. I think it’s grotesque,” says Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance.. He's right, but not in the way he thinks....

COMMENTARYCONGRESSPOLITICS

Russian President Vladimir Putin bragged about the decline of America under Trump. (Photo: Getty)

GOP Plays ‘Useful Idiot’ in Putin Intense Ukraine Disinformation War

Keith GirardNovember 30, 2023

Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s is counting on a wild card in its invasion of Ukraine –Republican sympathizers in Congress. ...

CONGRESSPOLITICSPOLITICSWORLD

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is turning into a brutal war of attrition. (Photo: Mvs.gov.ua)

Is Elon Musk Tilting Twitter to Russia in Ukraine War With Shadow Bans, Suspensions, Blocks?

Keith GirardDecember 22, 2022

Elon Musk appears to be tilting the social media site Twitter toward Russia in the Ukraine War. ...

CULTUREMEDIAWORLD

Ukraine Offensive Stalled, Russia Faces Possible Army Collapse, Putin Ouster, Expert Says

Keith GirardMarch 14, 2022

Russian forces in Ukraine are largely stalled outside all major cities after 20 days of fighting, raising the possibility the invasion may collapse and end in defeat for Vladimir Putin....

BREAKING NEWSPOLITICS

Putin Launches Ukraine Terror War; UN Charter Compels Intervention

Keith GirardFebruary 28, 2022

The United Nations must intervene, starting with a no-fly zone and aerial attacks, if Vladimir Putin continues to commit widespread attrocities against Ukrainian civilians. ...

BREAKING NEWSCRIME

Vladimir Putin Must Face War Crimes Charges For Ukraine Invasion

Keith GirardFebruary 17, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin must be charged with war crimes if he launches an invasion of Ukraine that results in widespread death and destruction....

CRIME

U.S. air power must be deployed to create a no-fly zone over Ukraine. (Photo: Getty)

Ukraine: A Russian Invasion Must be Met by US Air Power

Keith GirardDecember 13, 2021

The second-largest country by area in Europe after Russia is under a dire threat of a full-scale military invasion at the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin....

DEFENSE

Are Fox News Talking Heads Russian Agents? New CIA Report Points to Kremlin Media Connection

Keith GirardMarch 16, 2021

Fox News Tucker Carlson, Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity have been the biggest purveyors of Russian propaganda (Photos: Gage Skidmore) Fox News talking heads-- particularly Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham--follow a remarkably simi...

CULTUREMEDIA

Donald Trump Sells Out Western Democracy, Putin Declares Propaganda Victory

Keith GirardApril 14, 2019

Donald Trump’s reckless, disjointed foreign policy has played right into the hands of Russian President Vladimir Putin, leading his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to declare today that “the Western, liberal model of society is dying.”...

FOREIGN POLICY

Russian Sex Worker Anastasia Vashukevich, 28, May Be Victim of Trump-Russia Set Up

Keith GirardJanuary 25, 2019

Anastasia Vashukevich arrest in Thailand and subsequent arrest in Russia on prostitution charges may be an elaborate set up by powerful forces in Moscow to keep her from revealing possible details about Russian collusion with the Donald Trump campaign during the 2016 election, a Russian anti-corruption activist asserts....

NATIONAL SECURITY

Was ‘Little Fish’ Anastasia Vashukevich, 28, Arrested in Kremlin Set Up?

Keith GirardJanuary 24, 2019

The arrest in Thailand of Anastasia Vashukevich may have been a set up by powerful forces in Moscow to keep her from revealing possible details about Russian collusion with Donald Trump campaign during the 2016 electio...

POLITICS

Russian agent Maria Butina knew the way to the heart--and soul-- of the NRA and old-fart Republicans--guns and sex. (Photo: Instagram)

Maria Butina Mixed Sex, Guns to Woo NRA, GOP (18 Photos)

Keith GirardDecember 14, 2018

Maria Butina very calculatedly used a “guns ‘n tits” strategy to build influence among Republican Party operatives and their biggest GOP constituent group, the National Rifle Association. Her spy craft could have been culled from a John le Carré novel....

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