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The story of the meeting between Donald Trump Junior and the lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya on 9th June 2016 has now taken a further twist with the disclosure that the lobbyist Rinat Akhmetshin accompanied Veselnitskaya to the meeting.
Some sections of the media are trying to find something sinister in Akhmetshin’s presence at the meeting.  He is being called a ‘lobbyist’ working on behalf of Russian interests to oppose the Magnitsky Act and a “former Soviet counter-intelligence official”.
Akhmetshin is a US citizen.

David Cicilline, a Democrat congressman from Rhode Island was Tucker Carlson’s latest victim, and once again showed the stupidity of US politicians and the ridiculous nature of the fake news Russian election meddling story.
For David Cicilline, the smoking gun(s) that proves Russia meddled in the US elections are…
1. Russia stole hacked emails
2. Russia using internet bots to spread those emails, and…
3. RT spreading those emails to viewers

A couple of weeks ago the Russian Defence Ministry circulated reports that the leader of ISIS and its self-styled ‘Caliph’ – the man who previously called himself Ibrahim Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi – had been killed in a Russian air strike on a building in Raqqa where a number of top ISIS commanders where holding a meeting.
The Russians have since claimed that as well as Al-Baghdadi thirty other top ISIS commanders and 300 ISIS fighters were also killed in the air strike.

Yesterday Sean Hannity had the first one-on-one interview with Donald Trump Jr., allowing the POTUS’ son to explain the 20 minute meeting with a Russian lawyer who is not even connected to the Kremlin, under her own admission.

Yesterday The Duran reported on a bizarre interview between Tucker Carlson and Fox News contributor Ralph Peters, where the retired Lt. Col. suggested that Tucker was a Nazi sympathizer, for suggesting that Russia and the US should work together to fight ISIS.

Donald Trump has given his interview about his meeting with Vladimir Putin. Trump explained that both leaders are similar in that they put the interests of their respective countries above that of all others. Trump said that in spite of this leading to some disagreements, that his good personal feel about Putin means that two nuclear superpowers should cooperate whenever possible and have good relations in spite of any disagreements.

Russia’s Foreign Minsiter Sergey Lavrov has slammed the lack of coordination of civilian evacuations in Mosul which contrasts sharply with the humanitarian corridors through which Russia evacuated civilians during the Battle of Aleppo in Syria during late 2016. East Aleppo’s humanitarian corridors were also used to supply locals starved by terrorists with essential food and medical supplies.

As Russia threatens to expel US diplomats from the Russian Federation in retaliation for the still unresolved and unatoned for expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats and embassy workers (including chefs) and the seizure of Russian property in the US by order of Barack Obama in his last month in office, the biggest question is not why but why now?

Over the years, Russia has fought more wars against Turkey than any other country, even more than Poland. Likewise, between 1904 and 1905 Russia fought a war with Japan whose devastating outcome for Russia lead to a destabilising revolution at home. Russia’s relations with Japan did not get much better as the century rolled on. The Soviet Union was on the opposite side of the Second World War vis-a-vis Japan and territorial disputes over the Kuril Islands remain unresolved into the 21st century.

With many in Damascus increasingly confident that Syria will win the war against the terrorists who have invaded their country, focus is starting to gradually shift to re-building Syria’s damaged infrastructure. China is set to be the key player in this respect and preparations to increase China’s business ties to Syria are already in the works.