Time and time again, we play right into the Machiavellian plots that Vladimir Putin has laid for us and until we stop making “own goals,” we will never be free of the disruption he drives to maintain Russia’s prominence. Putin’s strategy to remain in power, despite his poor performance growing…

Watching one year ago as insurgents stormed the Capital with the goal of overturning a national election was just another parallel to so much of what I witnessed as a war zone correspondent in the 1980’s and 90’s. Its an age old strategy for authoritarian strongmen to obtain or retain…