Americas

On the evening of August 11, my companion and I were watching a Russian series about World War Two, Staying Alive, dealing with the first days of the Nazi invasion of the USSR in 1941. It’s an excellent dramatic work depicting the reality of the war and what it meant for the Soviet people. I highly recommend it. You can find it on the Internet. But what, you may ask, has this to do with anything?

Fellow Kremlin footsoldiers and sturdy Russophiles stand ready to be whopped by the Liberal Order’s new queen bee, Kamala Harris, should the worst come to worst. One way or another, four-fifths of humanity will weep or rejoice over the next U.S. presidential election. Here’s the latest.

From the ongoing US involvement in Ukraine, to an enduring US military presence in the Middle East, and growing US-Chinese tensions in the Asia-Pacific region, regardless of who controls the US Congress and regardless of who sits in the White House, these conflicts continue forward – often with a Democratic president setting the stage for his Republican successor, and vice versa.