⁣Hotel California.

I lived in Turkey at the time. My Father was in the Air Force. The Turks had put all sorts of restrictions on us because of the Cyprus situation. One was that goods normally available in the military exchanges were not allowed in Turkey—including vinyl records.

Someone flew to Germany and brought this album back with them.

I wore it out on my record player.

My parents went insane as I played it over and over again.

This record defined me for a full year, until we moved to Germany and I discovered Bruce Springsteen.

But that’s another story.

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MUNICH. DEMONSTRATION OF PEACE
Interview for KlardenkenTV

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THE LITHUANIAN WAR MACHINE AGAINST RUSSIA
Interview for ekspertai. TV

02:30 On Lithuania's security.
04:00 German Brigade in Lithuania.
09:55 Commander of the Lithuanian Armed and the need to fight against Russia.
16:55 Lithuania and withdrawal from Arms Control treaties.
21:45 Lithuanian European Commissioner for Space and war with Russia.
28:25 Lithuanian R. Lopata: „Russia is terrorist state. Russian citizens are also terrorists“.
32:50 Rheinmetall ammunition plant in Lithuania.
36:50 Lithuania Leads NATO in Spending.
42:55 Trump's conversation with Putin and Lithuania.

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IS THE WEST DEAD?
Interview for Consortium News

A phone call between the U.S. and Russian presidents, a remark by Trump to cut military spending by half, an address at NATO HQ by the new U.S. secretary of defense, a provocative speech by the U.S. vice president at the Munich Security Conference, the beginning of U.S.-Russia peace talks without Ukraine or Europe and U.S.-Russian discussions on lifting sanctions this week has left the Western World spinning. Is the Post-War Alliance Doomed? Is the West Dead?

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TRUMP AND NUCLEAR WEAPONS
Interview for Judging Freedom

01:47 Questions about Donald Trump and nuclear disarmament.
10:50 Participation of Europeans and Ukrainians in the negotiations.
16:25 Relations between Trump and Netanyahu.
25:06 New alliance.

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⁣TRUMP’S MUNICH STRATEGY

Lately I have been asked to try and make sense of Donald Trump and the first three weeks of his presidency.

And, more specifically, to comment on the drama that unfolded in Munich these past few days.

As I stumble through the mental gymnastics of trying to explain the unexplainable, my brain takes me to the classic Francis Ford Coppola film, Apocalypse Now, and the character of the “unnamed photojournalist” played in manic fashion by Dennis Hopper.

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TRUMP REMOVES EUROPE FROM THE TABLE. WHAT IS YOUR PRICE?
Interview for Gegenpol

00:11 Phone call between Trump and Putin.
11:03 Trump and EU.
18:26 Political persecution.

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⁣US-MEXICO CARTEL WARS

US President Donald Trump, in one of his first actions after being sworn in on Jan. 20, signed an executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as “foreign terrorist organizations.”

Answering reporters’ questions after signing the executive order designating Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, Trump was asked if he would be sending US Special Operations forces into Mexico to fight the cartels. “Could happen,” the president responded cryptically. “Stranger things have happened.”

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⁣THE INDIRECT APPROACH

“Throughout the ages, effective results in war have rarely been attained unless the approach has had such indirectness as to ensure the opponent’s unreadiness to meet it…In strategy, the longest way round is often the shortest way home.”

B. H. Liddell Hart, Strategy

The indirect approach has guided me throughout my life.

First and foremost, it is the approach that produces the best results, because it reduces the friction between opposing forces that generates the greatest damage.

It also requires a deeper understanding of the capabilities and objectives of both parties to a conflict, so that a better understanding of the relative strengths and weaknesses can be had.

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⁣VASILY GOLOBORODKO’S NIGHTMARE

As a fan of the Ukrainian television series, Servant of the People, I can’t help but be struck by the irony of an actor who played a president transitioning into an actor who became a president. Scripts, however, are one thing. Reality is something completely different.

And Volodymyr Zelensky’s last scene, unlike the character of Vasily Goloborodko he played in the series, will not have a happy ending, but rather be the stuff of nightmares.

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