Author Archives: andrew

Ukraine was conned

Posted on March 28, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban All three signatories to the 1994 Budapest Memorandum promising protection for Ukraine against attack in return for Ukraine abandoning all of its nuclear weapons, have failed to abide by that agreement. The Russian Federation most egregiously by … Continue reading →

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Media fail: The New York Lies that damaged the world

Posted on March 23, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban. “There has been a lot of crowing this week about the fact that the New York Times has finally come clean and admitted Hunter Biden’s laptop saga is not Russian disinformation. It’s real. You don’t say,” writes … Continue reading →

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‘Mean girls’ infer Kimberley Kitching was a liar

Posted on March 22, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban The ‘mean girls’ denying the late Kimberley Kitching’s well documented allegations of bullying is tantamount to calling her a liar – and a scheming one at that. With a letter to Labor frontbencher Richard Marles, letters to … Continue reading →

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Putin’s Playbook – playing Americans for suckers

Posted on March 21, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Perhaps the biggest mistake of the American intel world is to have imagined that Russians think like Americans. They don’t, writes Rebekah Koffler in her authoritative and alarming book Putin’s Playbook – Russia’s Secret Plan to Defeat … Continue reading →

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Nuclear weapons are not like hand guns

Posted on March 18, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Western leaders shrivelled in the face of an undefined threat of escalation by Vladimir Putin, as they tried to tailor their military assistance to Ukraine according to whatever Putin found acceptable. He has nukes! Yes, he has … Continue reading →

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Don’t just stand there…

Posted on March 8, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban The 1994 Budapest Memorandum , states that “Taking into account the commitment of Ukraine to eliminate all nuclear weapons from its territory within a specified period of time” ..the following is agreed: “Article 4. The United States … Continue reading →

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Capitulation complete

Posted on March 6, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban It cannot be any clearer: 141 countries of the world have condemned Russia for its invasion of Ukraine as illegitimate in a vote at the UN General Assembly. And all 141 countries have done nothing to stop … Continue reading →

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Kyiv falls: then what?

Posted on March 2, 2022 by andrew

Andrew L. Urban Taking control of Kyiv is one thing. Taking control of the entire country quite another. But even if Putin wins the invasion of Ukraine, Russia will still not be the grand old Soviet-style empire of which Putin … Continue reading →

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Thugs “R” Us

Posted on February 27, 2022 by andrew

Thugs “R” Us Andrew L. Urban The meeting in Moscow was kept secret. The Soviet leadership had agreed to a low key exchange of views with one of the private policy advisers of the UK’s then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher. … Continue reading →

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The Madness of Crowds expands and continues

Posted on January 3, 2022 by andrew

The Madness of Crowds expands and continues  Douglas Murray’s The Madness of Crowds, is a masterfully argued and fiercely provocative book, in which he seeks to inject some sense into the discussion around this generation’s most complicated issues. He ends … Continue reading →

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