Scalding rebuke for years of naivety: EDWARD LUCAS, presents damning verdict on Kremlin interference

As I took my seat in the spartan, bug-swept offices of the intelligence and security committee’s anonymous Westminster headquarters in the summer of 2018, my excitement was tempered with trepidation. Since watching the Soviet empire collapse 30 years ago, I had been sounding the alarm about Russia’s reluctance to give up its dreams of empire. … Read more

‘The world’s most overrated General’: Donald Trump slams Jim Mattis following scalding op-ed

Donald Trump is slamming former Defense Secretary James Mattis as the ‘world’s most overrated general’ after the official published a scalding op-ed denouncing the president’s leadership.  Mattis finally broke his silence following his exit from the White House and blasted Trump as a ‘mockery of the Constitution’ in a fiery statement shared Wednesday, but the … Read more