Vladimir Putin

CHARBONNEAU – Russia cheers Trump’s plan to control W. Hemisphere

January 8, 2026 // 3 Comments

THE KREMLIN welcomed President Donald Trump’s new National Security Strategy (NSS), released on Dec. 4, 2025. It was dismissed by some as an example of more Trump rant but [Continue]

UKRAINE – Turning down Trump’s ceasefire could cost Russia everything

June 18, 2025 // 2 Comments

By rejecting Trump’s offer, Putin has galvanized Europe and laid bare Russia’s battlefield and financial weaknesses By BRIAN GIESBRECHT Frontier Centre for Public Policy [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Putin’s hypersonic missile dreams in Ukraine

March 31, 2022 // 0 Comments

RUSSIAN PRESIDENT Putin just had to try out his new super-duper missile on Ukraine. While you’re bombing a country into the Stone Age, you might as while play with the new [Continue]

CHARBONNEAU – Ukraine could become the theatre of a proxy war

March 24, 2022 // 1 Comment

DESPITE DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR on the part of President Putin, Russia is no longer a superpower. Putin imagines a restoration of the glorious Soviet Union when it spanned [Continue]

EDITORIAL – Putin’s ban on Kamloops MP is truly a ‘badge of honour’

March 21, 2022 // 2 Comments

An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. IT PROBABLY NEVER CROSSED Kamloops-Thompson-Cariboo MP Frank Caputo’s mind that he’d one day be the target of unfriendly action by the [Continue]

WORLD POLITICS – Can Russia and the United States be allies?

March 28, 2017 // 2 Comments

DURING THE 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump roiled the foreign policy establishment by praising Russian President Vladimir Putin. He suggested it was time for a [Continue]