What really matters is the fact that the leading nations of the EU have joined the global heavyweights — Russia and China — in open defiance of the United States. This is a milestone event.
Now that Putin had saved Erdogan from being killed by Obama, Erdogan is no longer an American stooge. What he is, is whatever secret deals he has secretly committed himself to.
The entire situation has forced Israel into damage control as they attempt to prevent their Russian counterparts from effectively shutting down Syria’s western border.
As the latest attack showed, the West’s actions are a lashing out with no possibility of changing events on the ground or advancing their goals in Syria.
Just as in its relations with Russia, it would serve Britain better to cease posturing and try moderation with China.
Seizing each and every opportunity to emphasize its independence, Kiev is happily playing the role of a marionette being controlled by Washington. All of Ukraine soon will be divided along religious lines just to make it to easier for the US to accomplish its goal of subjugating that nation through a “divide and rule’ policy.
The emerging alliance of the US and the three Eastern Mediterranean states is a force to be reckoned with at a time when NATO is facing serious challenges to its unity.
Trump stole the White House by promising voters he would abandon Obama’s international aggressions, and by, as the new President, instead continuing and even intensifying them.
The ghoulish marketers of death and destruction have finally achieved their nirvana in the Trump administration, Wayne Madsen writes.
A staged “chemical attack” is the way to invent a pretext for using force against Syria and pressing for a rollback of Russia and Iran.
