According to a recent survey, 46% of participants do not doubt that the military confrontation will occur next year.
As a comparison, in 2017, only 5% of the US military expected an armed conflict, while 50% discarded a war scenario and 4% did not respond.
As for the most likely enemies, US soldiers mostly mentioned Russia and China. Respectively, 72% and 69% of those interviewed chose these two countries....
Fort Russ News
Paul Antonopoulos
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Urging the world community to prefer dialogue over pressure, he suggested: “Colonial-era diktat and coercion should be sent into the archive or the dustbin of history.”
RT
Moscow ‘ready for larger-scale provocations’ by the West, says Lavrov
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Translation: Russia is upping its military preparedness.
TASS
Russia not considering military response to western sanctions, PM says
The Geopolitics of the Khashoggi Murder
Graham E. Fuller | adjunct professor of history at Simon Fraser University, formerly vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA, and a former senior political scientist at RAND Corp.
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As we follow the lurid news about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, it’s important to realize that this ugly incident represents just a small piece of the much bigger geopolitical game playing itself out in the Gulf….Graham E. Fuller
The Geopolitics of the Khashoggi Murder
Graham E. Fuller | adjunct professor of history at Simon Fraser University, formerly vice chairman of the National Intelligence Council at the CIA, and a former senior political scientist at RAND Corp.
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Intel Today
Former CIA Director Mike Morell : “CIA Needs Help and Time to Understand Saudi Missing Journalist Case.” Where is Pompeo Crack Team?
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As elite US special operations fighters, they had years of specialized training by the US military to protect America. But now they were working for a different master: a private US company that had been hired by the United Arab Emirates, a tiny desert monarchy on the Persian Gulf.
On that night, December 29, 2015, their job was to carry out an assassination.
Their armed attack, described to BuzzFeed News by two of its participants and corroborated by drone surveillance footage, was the first operation in a startling for-profit venture. For months in war-torn Yemen, some of America’s most highly trained soldiers worked on a mercenary mission of murky legality to kill prominent clerics and Islamist political figures....
The company that hired the soldiers and carried out the attack is Spear Operations Group, incorporated in Delaware and founded by Abraham Golan, a charismatic Hungarian Israeli security contractor who lives outside of Pittsburgh. He led the team’s strike against Mayo....
Golan said that during his company’s months-long engagement in Yemen, his team was responsible for a number of the war’s high-profile assassinations, though he declined to specify which ones. He argued that the US needs an assassination program similar to the model he deployed. “I just want there to be a debate,” he said. “Maybe I’m a monster. Maybe I should be in jail. Maybe I’m a bad guy. But I’m right.”...See also
A member of the 15-man team suspected in the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has died in an accident back in Saudi Arabia, according to Turkish media, prompting suspicion of a cover up.RT
Suspected member of Khashoggi ‘hit-team’ dies in mysterious ‘traffic accident’ in Saudi Arabia
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A Middle East Monarchy Hired American Ex-Soldiers To Kill Its Political Enemies. This Could Be The Future Of War
Aram Roston
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“Strange as it seems, it’s a result of globalization. There are entire communities dedicated to it in the social media online. It all started with well-known tragedies in schools in the US. Young mentally unstable people invent false heroes for themselves,” Russian leader said as he attended a Valdai Club plenary session in the Russian southern city of Sochi.
The striking resemblance between how the Kerch shooter was dressed and the outfit used by one of the 1999 shooting in Columbine can hardly be overlooked. The Russian investigators are yet to confirm whether the violence in Russia was inspired by the notorious American incident.…RT
Kerch college shooting ‘result of globalization’, it all started in American schools – Putin
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If any nation decides to attack Russia with nuclear weapons, it may end life on Earth; but unlike the aggressors, the Russians are sure to go to heaven, President Vladimir Putin has said.RT
“Any aggressor should know that retribution will be inevitable and he will be destroyed. And since we will be the victims of his aggression, we will be going to heaven as martyrs. They will simply drop dead, won’t even have time to repent,” Putin said during a session of the Valdai Club in Sochi....
After nuclear holocaust, we’ll go to heaven as martyrs; attackers will die as sinners – Putin
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As I stated not for once and I will continue to press my point in the next book--any talk about "economy" outside the military power geopolitical framework is an exercise in pseudo-intellectual masturbation and unicorn doctrine-mongering, and that is precisely what most economists have degree in.…
...trying to convey these things to humanities "educated" products of liberal economics is virtually impossible...
Reminiscence of the Future
Andrei Martyanov
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This is the area where the traditional Roman Catholic world and the traditional Orthodox world intersect. The article is long and detailed but it gives an idea of the forces involved in this area, where the US is completely naive and ignorant of its history. If the Middle East is a snake pit, this is a hornet's nest.
The Vineyard of the Saker
How the Vatican Is Preparing to Launch a Religious War in Ukraine with the Help of the Constantinople Patriarchate and the Uniats
Aleksandr Voznesensky
Translated by Ollie Richardson and Angelina Siard
Scientists Warn World Facing Major Famine, Could "Lead To Severe Shocks To Global Food System"
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Researchers from Washington State University have published a new report of the Great Drought, the most destructive known drought of the past 800 years - and how it sparked the Global Famine that claimed the lives of 50 million people. The scientists warn that the Earth's current warming climate could spark a similar drought, but even worse.
One of the lead researchers, Deepti Singh, a professor in WSU's School of the Environment, used rainfall records and climate reconstruction models to characterize the environmental conditions leading up to the Great Drought, a period in the mid-1870s known for widespread crop failures across Asia, Brazil, and Africa. The drought was connected to the most extreme manifestation of the El Nino supercycle ever recorded.…
The release of the study came days before the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that global warming could cause intense droughts, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people....Zero Hedge
Scientists Warn World Facing Major Famine, Could "Lead To Severe Shocks To Global Food System"
Tyler Durden
Carrier killer? That would be a game-changer.
Russia surpassed rivals with precise hypersonic weapons & will deploy more within months – Putin
Carrier killer? That would be a game-changer.
Flying at hypersonic speed poses a number of challenges in material sciences and engineering due to the high temperature and pressure affecting the vehicle. Russia has applied its technologies to develop a hypersonic cruise missile called Kinzhal, already in use with the military. It is presumed to be a countermeasure to aircraft carrier strike groups, the backbone of the US’ ability to project military power worldwide. Putin said Russia is ahead of other nations in terms of hypersonic weapons....RT
Russia surpassed rivals with precise hypersonic weapons & will deploy more within months – Putin
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Liberal society has gone off the rails, it's now anything goes.
Putin's right, we are evil, depraved, narccistic, selfish, and mad. With only consumerist values and hardly any spiritual ones.
The Russians look at their moderate conservative society with fondness, they definitely don't want we've got.
“Any aggressor should know that retribution will be inevitable and he will be destroyed. And since we will be the victims of his aggression, we will be going to heaven as martyrs. They will simply drop dead, won’t even have time to repent,” Putin said during a session of the Valdai Club in Sochi....
Good show! Putin shows he can "out crazy the crazies" who are likely to be religious hypocrites anyway. Not that religious belief is crazy but it sure beats materialism wrt to bluffing (or not) wrt to politics.
In other words, it's not "godless Communists" that the crazies in Washington wish to destroy but fellow Christians.
How that's going to fly in the "Bible Belt"?
Not well, for sure.
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