Keep your eye on Mother Russia. A mere 24 hours after Russian expert Bob Amsterdam was being interviewed on Air America Tuesday about how hard Russia is working in Venezuela to help Hugo Chavez destabilize the region-- selling $5 billion in arms to the Venezuelans (which Chavez has now sold to terrorists in Colombia) and helping Hugo play Honduras like a harp-- along comes the Washington Post and New York Times story today that Russia is circling us with nuclear subs. Pretty cheeky on Putin’s part, just as people are splashing in the surf off Nantucket and other East Coast summer spots and enjoying their family vacations. It’s a bit disheartening to think that Igor might be watching them and God knows what else through his periscope. Of course, the rather dilapidated Russian subs have accumulated so much rust on their hulls while rotting in harbors up near the North Pole, that there is considerable US concern the subs’ nuclear fuel tanks might drop right through their rusted hulls, leaking radioactive material into the water, contaminating the seas and seeping right under the Polar cap into our waters. Still, rusty and decrepit subs or not, this is rather aggressive behavior on the part of the Russians that hasn’t been seen in more than 15 years. And, with Russian arms now flowing through Venezuela to the Colombian terrorists, the FARC ( Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) as detailed on the front page of the New York Times on Monday, there should be alarm bells going off at the State Department-- especially now that Ahmadinejad has just been sworn back into power in Iran. Ahmadinejad is also a close ally of Chavez. In fact, both are working hand in hand to create a “counter lasso” in Central and South America in case Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear sites. Said Amsterdam on the Lionel show, “If the US throws a rope around Iran, he’ll throw one around the US… Iran is doing metastases…working not just to expand its power, but to put itself in position to strike the US if we decide to strike them.” Add to this unpleasant stew Russia, a country aggrieved that the US is trying to expand NATO to include former Soviet territories, and you have “Russia’s playing with Chavez as a way to intervene if the US were to add Georgia to NATO.” Chavez, who is soon to make his 7th trip to Moscow, is happy to join in the anti-American chess match. Here’s a problem: Noone is covering Russia’s bad behavior much. As soon as President Obama left Moscow, the Russians became very aggressive, even driving missiles around a Ukranian city, scaring the Ukranians to death, and now they’re snooping underwater on Americans. Since the US press is paying more attention to Michael Jackson’s poor little children than to writing about Russia's new hostility and the terrorist training camps in Latin America, perhaps it’s time to start reading the British, French and German press who cover the real news, before it’s too late.