The US Nuclear Posture Review (NPR), a key nuclear-strategy document that was issued on February 2nd by US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, seems to have benefited from last-minute changes that had been made to it. But it’s still extremely dangerous for the entire world
Tehran has begun highlighting in loud decibel its hitherto-low key voice of disquiet that the United States is transferring the Islamic State fighters from Syria and Iraq, where they have been defeated, to Afghanistan.
Given his history of intolerance, coldness and insensitivity Williamson is hardly the sort of defence minister to engender support and respect from the armed forces, but that factor would not even enter his mind.
It's clearly beyond time for America's "Ignored Abroad" - from St. Croix and Moloka'i to Tutuila and Tinian - to achieve post-colonial status as independent nations free of dictates from Washington and the boorish intentions of resident non-natives from patently foreign places like New York, Florida, Texas, and California.
In the period preceding the World War I how many Europeans suspected that their lives would soon be forever changed – and, for millions of them, ended? The answer is, probably very few, just as few people today care much about the details of international and security affairs.
William Browder is notoriously the man behind the 2012 Magnitsky Act, which exploited Congressional willingness to demonize Russia and has done so much to poison relations between Washington and Moscow.
In March 2013 Trump tweeted “we should leave Afghanistan immediately" and nine months later urged Americans not to “allow our very stupid leaders to sign a deal that keeps us in Afghanistan through 2024”. Who is the stupid leader, now?
If trust and sustainability were the two conditions that allowed for the transition from physical gold to paper currency, it is from this basis that we must start to analyze where we are going and what effects the next economic crisis could have.
One can only imagine with pleasure how Trudeau père, if he were still with us, might berate his son for craven, fatuous behaviour.
Donald Trump was not at the Davos summit last year, but even from a distance of a few thousand kilometres, the US president still managed to overawe many of the forum’s participants. What will happen this time?
