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The Art of the Deal has effectively been neocon-ised into a tool for enlarging American power – and there is nothing of earlier ‘mutual advantage’ to be heard of, or to be seen, these days.

Where the Russia-China alliance has an advantage is that it is a new type of alliance that allows the two countries to pursue their national interests while also creating space for each other.

Getting out of Afghanistan is a lot harder than getting in and the US military appears to be mired in a conflict where it is most engaged in avoiding defeat.

The neocons, with their doctrine of American Exceptionalism are always ready for an intervention and their justification is always the same: "American moral leadership."

The clueless poseurs and policymaking clowns in Washington risk setting off a terminal catastrophe for their own people and the entire world, Martin Sieff writes.

The American millenarian ‘myth’, then and now, was (and is), rooted in the fervent belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States, ‘the New Jerusalem’, to represent humanity’s best hope for a utopian future.

Iran, like Venezuela, Russia and China will not negotiate with someone who has nothing to offer except the back of his hand.

Trump, who appears to have no Latin America policy apart from punishing “socialist” Cuba and Venezuela, persists in his support of a military incursion as a possible option, citing Reagan-era interventions in Panama and Grenada as success stories.

Merkel had to accept her defeat if only to try and live another day. She won’t go quietly and will hold back any progress she can on border security and normalization of relations with Russia.

The “unofficial CIA” is where “plausible deniability” for US intelligence actions is of paramount importance.