Phil Butler

A policy investigator and analyst, a political scientist and expert on Eastern Europe, he’s an author of the bestseller “Putin’s Praetorians” and other books

Putin Called "Disastrous Space Leader" Tarnishing "Fearless Leader" Persona in the West

The instant news arrived on planet Earth that Russia’s Luna 25 spacecraft had crashed into the moon, and 50,000 Western journalists began overheating their keyboards. Any Russian mishap causes a feeding frenzy at Russophobia propaganda mission control, somewhere deep under the White House. And now, Art Technica has proclaimed Russian President Vladimir Putin “a disastrous space leader.” Meanwhile, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale…

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Lying About Russia: They Award Pulitzers for That, Don't They?

By now, it’s clear to almost everyone that the West versus East policy train wreck we are witnessing is as much about personalities and warped ideals as it is about hard truths, reality, or anything quantifiable. The Western world is a broken rollercoaster of paid or converted geopolitical psychopaths. Here are some of the latest churnings from the Washington asylum, with my comments. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (recognized in the Russian Federation as a foreign media agent). If you listen or read backward, you hear the creepy ghost voices of Russian haters like Zbigniew Brzezinski and sometimes the dearly departed former Arizona Senator John McCain…

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Rusty Tanks, Exchange Rate Hysteria, and Borrowing Like There's No Tomorrow

U.K. tabloids have begun cranking out propaganda about Russia’s ruble “being crushed” this week by the stock markets. The “news” prompted this analyst to dig deeper into where the Russian people stand in 2023 economically. With a significant conflict blazing on their border in war-torn Ukraine, the Russian people are enjoying an economy even better than in 2013, before the Euromaidan and tons of sanctions began being used to hurt the Putin administration and the people…

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Clever Western Leaders to Sanction Russia Until the World Makes the Lists

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Macron's Failures May End in the Ultimate EU Bonfire

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Will the Seas Soon Be Ruled by a BRICS Naval Contingent?

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The Ukraine Mess is Animal Farm in Reverse: Starring Blackrock and Other Pigs

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The American Surveillance State – When Will Big Brother Fall?

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