US and Ukraine - Non Lethal Support - Ukraine Crisis

Telegraph: Reports " US to increase military aid to Ukraine including Humvees and drones..Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, says Britain also planning to increase its assistance "

Lets Get Real:

This is good support from the US, it helps Ukraine defend itself but without it being called lethal support, the Russians will complain, they always do, the aid will help the Ukraine forces at the front, they will have humvees for the transport of troops and they can keep an eye on the Russian bear through its drones.   The most important action was the sending of tanks to the Baltic States, this shows that NATO will support its members should they come under threat.   There have been critics of Obama's foreign policy, on this one the Oval more or less is following the right path.   One just worries about the Russians, they see Obama as weak and thus could try something in either East Ukraine or in the Baltics.   The US and the UK need to keep an eye on Eastern Europe, there could be further trouble in this region. 

AP Sues the US State Department - 2016 Race

CNN - Politics: Reports " The Associated Press filed a lawsuit against the State Department on Wednesday to obtain email correspondence and other information from Hillary Clinton's tenure as secretary of state. "

Lets Get Real:

This the start of the legal process, it can be expected that the House Select Committee will also sue the State Department for ALL of the Clinton records, this will force State either to go back to the Clintons or a Judge will have to order the Clintons to hand over the server.   The Clintons are making of a mess of this, they should just hand over the server, one can HOPE that the Clintons have not broken the law, they would hardly hand over a server that would cause problems for them down the line.   This has the smell of a Richard Nixon stunt,  but lets be fair, there are no charges against Hillary Clinton at this moment, but its smells and give a bad impression.   The Clintons will get through this even if others get tarnished.  This blog stated that should the Clintons have deleted their emails there would be trouble, the campaign is hardly toast, but the toaster is on, and the toast, that is the campaign could get burned. 

More on the Clinton Email scandal - 2016 Race

Guardian: Reports " In a statement released after a press conference intended to end a week-long controversy, Clinton’s office said that she did not preserve 31,830 of the 62,320 emails she sent and received while serving as Barack Obama’s secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. "

Lets Get Real:

Either Hillary Clinton is a email addict or she is hiding something, over a four year period would you get over thirty thousand personal emails, and lets recall the Clinton email was secret, its not like she was getting spam as know one was suppose to know about its existence.  The worry for Democrats is IF Hillary Clinton is forced to have over her server will there be any official emails that were deleted without a copy being held by the US State Department.  This is heading for a full House vote to get the server and will the Obama US Justice Department do its job or slow walk the process up to the 2016 election.   The Republicans and even some Democrats smell blood in the water, the Clintons should get through this, but luck does not last forever, even the Clintons have to face the music at times. 

Greek threats to take German Assets - Euro Crisis

BBC News: Reports " The Greek government has threatened to seize German property as compensation for a Nazi atrocity in World War Two. "

Lets Get Real:

The Greeks are losing the plot, even if they understood plot at the start, without Britain standing alone in 1940 we  would find a VERY different Europe.   The modern Germany taxpayer should not pay for the War Guilt of their great grandfathers, guilt lasts for some limited time, and the Greeks created this mess, they think the European tax payer should fund their welfare state, well the kind answer is get lost, the Greeks have to be taught the value of money, if that means them out of the Euro, so let it be, the Romans said beware of Greeks bearing gifts, they had a point.