Libya

CHECKMATE: 5 ways Russia outwitted the US in one day

Today was the day that the US thought it could break Russia’s partnership with Syria and also with Iran. White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer laid out the goals clearly yesterday. It was America’s ‘duty’ to break Russia away from countries like Syria, Iran and allegedly North Korea. It didn’t happen.
First of all, Russia and Syria are close partners. Secondly, North Korea is not a partner of Russia, but nor does Russia want renewed conflict in the Korean peninsula.

Russian Foreign Ministry Outlines What It Expects From Talks With Tillerson

Sputnik – April 11, 2017 MOSCOW – Moscow hopes for fruitful negotiations with the US state secretary on his visit to Moscow, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday. “In connection with the beginning of today’s working visit to Russia by US Secretary of State R. Tillerson, we would like to note that we are counting on productive negotiations,” the ministry said. Tillerson is visiting […]

Pat Buchanan makes it clear that Trump is no Nixon but he may be Obama 2.0

The list of Trump supporters who have come out publicly to condemn the recent US missile attack on Syria has just got bigger and indeed weightier.
Pat Buchanan who was a strong Trump supporter and particularly in the area of foreign policy, has just authored a piece conveying his dismay over the attack on Syria and its long term implications for the Trump Presidency and for US goals in the Middle East.

Waiting for Godot: Any God-forsaken Sane Sign!

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. Let us not speak well of it either. Let us not speak of it at all. It is true the population has increased.
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot