The U.S. and Global Security Review - Blog by Michael Novakhov

The building of trust between the American and Russian militaries is the mutual complaint, the key element, and a solvable, in due time, problem. Gen. Flynn might be very helpful in finding a reciprocal solution. Invite Shoigu , Gerasimov , and Korobov for a friendly visit to Washington, Pentagon , and the DIA , and receive them well, as the potential allies; start establishing good working relations with them and others. These relations have the autonomous value and will produce the mutually beneficial impact. Gen. Mattis , as a soldier-philosopher, soldier-thinker appreciates the complexity of the broad outlook, which includes many and various vectors and variables. The building of this trust will take time, the gingerly, careful romantic tango , and a lot of good will from the both sides; and it is worth all these efforts, patience, persistence, and determination. It Takes Two to Tango - Louis Armstrong The Tango - Scent of a Woman (4/8) Movie CLIP (1992) HD

" Unpresidented " Question to Mr. Trump:  Dear Donald: Did Putin make some of your cabinet selections and send them to you by courier ? It looks very much like his style and his hand. 

The GRU: Putin’s No-Longer-So-Secret Weapon MICHAEL WEISS 12.31.16 12:15 AM ET Long regarded as the understudy of the infamous KGB and its successor services, Russian military intelligence is now front and center in the Moscow-Washington showdown. It says something about the ingrained rivalry between the various fiefdoms of Russian espionage that the founder of Soviet military intelligence, Leon Trotsky, had an ice-ax driven into his head in Mexico by an agent of Stalin’s foreign intelligence service. Ever since, in the long dark history of Soviet and Russian spookery the military’s Main Intelligence Directorate, or GRU, has been overshadowed by a succession of more powerful, famous and infamous organizations known by a succession of acronyms, most famously as the KGB and, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the FSB and SVR. But on Thursday the GRU suddenly emerged from the shadows when the waning Obama administration imposed sanctions on the four top