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By Selwyn Duke “Whoever tries to impede us, let alone create threats for our country and its people, must know that the Russian response will be immediate and lead to the consequences you have never seen in history.” So said Russian president Vladimir Putin mere minutes before launching the invasion of Ukraine. Three days later,…

By Selwyn Duke Vladimir Putin may be winning the war on the ground in Ukraine, but he’s losing the propaganda war abroad and at home. So says a national security expert who also warns of what would turn the Russian leader’s home-front public-relations fortunes around: NATO involvement in the conflict. In fact, states Tom Nichols, a professor…

By Selwyn Duke How much should people be paid for a product that doesn’t sell? According to those upset about the Russians’ arrest of basketball player Brittney Griner, oodles of money is the answer — if that unmarketable product happens to be the WNBA. In fact, say these critics, that Griner is charged with “large-scale…

By Selwyn Duke Though Dr. Anthony Fauci perhaps fancies himself a god, he nonetheless had to accept that omnipresence would elude him and settle for mere media ubiquity. But even this has now changed, as the man whose last name means “jaws” has disappeared from mainstream media like a baby elephant seal down a Great…

By Selwyn Duke War rages in Ukraine after the largest invasion in Europe since WWII, and some American politicians suggest establishing a no-fly zone that would have us shooting at nuclear-armed Russia’s planes. But, never fear, Kamala Harris was on the case, conducting “diplomacy with our allies.” If this doesn’t exactly comfort you, you’re not…

By Selwyn Duke My appearance begins at 1:09:45. We discussed, among other things, how the expansion of NATO helped create the Ukraine situation. 

By Selwyn Duke There’s a certain “strategic blunder of potentially epic proportions” that the West is making, wrote cold warrior and Russia expert George F. Kennan decades ago. It will lead to “a new Cold War” with Russia, he also predicted, “probably ending in a hot one.” That new Cold War came. And now the…

By Selwyn Duke My appearance begins at 7:52, but the host provides a good introduction starting at approximately 6:30.  Note: To fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab." BML-Feb22-2022-Hr3

By Selwyn Duke I was on the second hour of the show. My appearance begins at 52:20. Note: To fast-forward to my segment, you must right-click on the in-line MP3 player below and then click "Open link in new tab." Talkback-02-25-2022

By Selwyn Duke Around New Year’s, an American insurance company executive sounded an alarm. We’re seeing the highest non-COVID death rates in his business’ history, he said, with numbers so bad that it’s worse than “a one-in-200-year catastrophe.” Now a German health insurer has weighed in, issuing findings that can explain this phenomenon and point…