Dave DeCamp at Antiwar.com reports…
Last week, the House Foreign Affairs Committee grilled Michael Pack, who President Trump recently appointed to head the US government’s state propaganda arm, the US Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
By Paul Robinson
The sudden collapse of the USSR in 1991 created many weak countries without a unifying national identity and a strong central state. Yet conflicts will continue until the world is willing to recognize the realities on the ground.
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Greece, Cyprus push Turkey through EU Summit conclusions
https://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2020/10/02/greece-cyprus-turkey-euco-eu-summit/
By Paul Antonopoulos | October 2, 2020
-by Reese Erlich In a surprise ceremony on Wednesday, embattled President Alyaksandr Lukashenko was reportedly sworn in for a sixth term after Belarus’s contested elections in August.
Via Cyprus Mail (https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/09/23/christodoulides-cyprus-did-not-veto-eu-sanctions-on-belarus/)…
Nicosia did not decide to veto an EU decision to impose sanctions against Belarus unless the bloc also took action against Turkey, Foreign Minister Nicos Christodoulides said on Wednesday.
Cyprus did, however, insist that the agreement at foreign ministers’ level on the discussion of both issues be implemented, he said.
Press TV – September 22, 2020
A new battalion of US military forces, equipped with tanks and other armored vehicles, is to be deployed to Lithuania in November and will remain there until next June, the country’s defense minister says.
Lithuania’s Defense Minister Raimundas Karoblis made the announcement on Tuesday, though he said the deployment was “not connected at all to the situation in Belarus.”
By Paul Antonopoulos | September 22, 2020
She’s the latest in a long line of feted ‘opposition leaders’ selected by the United States and its allies, this time from Belarus.
Situation in Belarus has divided people not only in Belarus but in neighboring countries as well. Thus, the question of whether Lithuania should take up leadership in shaping Belarus-targeted EU policy arises through people having different views on things.
