Wife of U.S. soldier detained in Russia says he was having an affair, not involved in 'geopolitical intrigue'
Megan Black said her husband's trip to Russia was "ill-advised" but simply part of an extramarital affair. Black's mother said she thought he had been set up by his girlfriend.
 
 
May 10, 2024, 5:55 AM EDT
By Patrick Smith
The wife of Gordon Black, the American soldier detained on theft charges in Russia, said he traveled there because he was having an affair and was not involved in "geopolitical intrigue."

Megan Black is in the process of divorcing her husband and called on Russian authorities through a statement from her attorney, Brett Pritchard, to release him to provide comfort to their 6-year-old daughter.

She said she had no knowledge of his trip to Vladivostok in eastern Russia until an Army investigation branch official contacted her asking for information on what was at first a missing person inquiry, and only learned about the details of the trip after NBC News broke the story of his detention Monday.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/wife-us-soldier-detained-russia-affair-divorce-gordon-black-girlfriend-rcna151612

Tester confronts Austin over ‘unacceptable’ border crisis in sharp exchange
BY ALEXANDER BOLTON - 05/09/24 3:44 PM ET
 
Sen. Jon Tester (D-Mont.), the chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, confronted Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin over the migrant crisis at the southern border during a sharp exchange on Capitol Hill.

Tester, who is one of the Senate’s most vulnerable incumbents, let Austin know in blunt terms that he’s fed up with the Biden administration’s failure to secure the border, though he also acknowledged Congress’s failure to pass border security reforms is also a problem.


“Look, I’ve repeatedly called upon [Homeland Security] Secretary [Alejandro] Mayorkas and President Biden and Congress to step up and fix what’s going on at the southern border. It’s not sustainable at all, and it’s unacceptable,” he told Austin sternly during a hearing Wednesday.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/4654516-tester-austin-border-crisis-exchange/

Until Biden comes out and announces that his administration will work to eliminate Isreal, his Pro Hamas base will never be appeased

 

May 11, 2024
Benjamin Netanyahu: Not such a bad guy!
By Mike Konrad

In the words of Shakespeare: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.  Such is Benjamin Netanyahu.

Presently, the world press is tearing this man down, but he is arguably the greatest world leader of the past fifty years.

Does he have his faults?  Yes!  Who doesn’t?

But Netanyahu has had to navigate his country’s security through the decades when even his “friends” (Clinton, Bushes 1 & 2, Obama) wanted to enforce policies on Israel that were self-destructive.  And his country had little margin of error if things went wrong.

Soon after he announced a new world order, George Bush, Sr. started pressuring Israel to accept the Oslo process at Madrid in 1991.  The Arabist James Zogby has praised Bush Sr. for doing so.

    “Bush established consequences for bad behavior, and he got results,” said James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute. “It can happen again.”

Bush Sr. was praised for being even-handed between the Arabs and the Israelis, but he was in bed with Arab oil money and interests.  Netanyahu’s so-called “corruption” pales by comparison.

Clinton thought he had brought peace in 1993 with the Oslo Accords.  That was a failure.

Bush Jr. was also part of this Bush-Saudi oil interest.  His administration would later encourage Israel to allow the 2006 elections in Gaza (with the approval of Jimmy Carter) that would get Hamas elected.

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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2024/05/benjamin_netanyahu_not_such_a_bad_guy.html