T he Matryoshka, the famous Russian wooden doll which has another smaller doll within it, and yet another, and then another, and so on. Innocuous by itself, the doll represents a type of cultural…
by Brad Cabana
The war in Ukraine is entering its third year. Officially it was meant to end with the Minsk Two agreement, but unofficially it’s heating up if anything. In the first two months…
by Brad Cabana
The more tensions escalate in Syria, the clearer the picture there becomes. This week those tensions escalated dramatically with the downing of a Russian SU-24 bomber, by Turkish F16s, near the border…
by Brad Cabana
It has been just over a month since Russia took the military initiative in Syria. Along with fifty plus combat aircraft and helicopter gunships, Russian naval ships Moskva, Ladny, Pytlivy and Smetlivy…
by Brad Cabana
January, 2011, the Syrian civil war began. Not as an armed conflict, but rather as small protests that grew into large protests against the national government. Nearly five years later the country…
(Photo taken from america.aljazeera.com)
by Brad Cabana
Perhaps the better question is: Is Ukraine a nation-state? It has certainly grown since its inception as a tiny trading post in 1654, but, and this is key, as…