Machiavelli counseled, "never do an enemy a small injury." Ralph Waldo Emerson rendered the same thought as, "never strike a king unless you are sure you shall kill him." The coup plotters in Turkey can ponder these aphorisms from their cells while they await their potentially grisly fates.
The human cost of the Crimean takeover;
An exodus of intellectual capital
Russia's bridge to nowhere;
Playing fast and loose with New START
Before the nuclear deal between Iran and the countries of the P5+1 (the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, China, France and Germany) was concluded a year ago today, the true extent of the compromise struck over Iran's nuclear ambitions wasn't yet publicly known.
CCP threatens tighter regulations on media;
China’
s first high-orbit imaging satellite operational