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

Who plays in the "Bunny Friend Playground"? The groundhogs. To address the bottom line, and as always IMVHSPO (in my very humble and strictly personal opinion).  Russia and Russian military eventually will be (and have to be) admitted into the Western sphere of influences, powers and alliances, to which Russia belonged historically and culturally, if only, always and highly ambivalently, with "mysterious Russian soul's" artful rending of peasant garments and gnashing of sharp noble teeth, endless  erasianistic conflicts , Orthodox Byzantine and unorthodox Marxist cries and prolonged and the most sincere  moanings .  But we do not know when and how it will happen.  To proceed with this process now and under the current circumstances, under the aura of "emergency", with  Putin's  Russia,  which  is essentially a criminal enterprise  masking as a state, (in the opinion of great many, if not all Russia watchers), is equivalent to surrendering t

New Poll Finds Americans Increasingly Distrust Federal Government   by webdesk@voanews.com (VOA News):  According to a Pew Research Center  survey  released Monday, only 19 percent of Americans trust the government “always or most of the time.” This is in stark contrast to just 15 years ago, in the wake of the September 11th attacks, when 60 percent of Americans said they trusted the government. Since then trust has been steadily eroding in the face of the Iraq War and the economic uncertainty. A mere 20 percent described government-run programs as well-run. The survey also suggests that some of the cynicism may be driven by the influence of money on political campaigns, with 76 percent of respondents saying money “has a greater influence on politics and elected officials today than in the past." Sixty-four percent said the amount of money it takes to run for president "discourages many good candidates from running." "Bunny Friend Playground":