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The whole story is part of the pattern of psychological operations against Russia, and the fact is that the entire exercise was nothing but an absurd charade.

In any international agreement no one ever gets everything they want, but they can get enough to make the enterprise worthwhile.

No, there seems little point to Mr Putin going to the White House – not, at least, until the November US mid-term elections are concluded.

If you think Russia ‘annexed’ Crimea, wait until you see Trump push Putin to securing the land bridge between the Donbass and Crimea. Because that cannot be ruled out here.

The need for Russia to be active is most definitely there, particularly after Trump violated ongoing international norms of no unilateral actions on the issue of the future of Jerusalem.

If past is prologue, the Empire will strike back – hard and dirty.

Mattis’s and Bolton’s mutual accommodation on issues like North Korea and China represent a further move by the Trump administration toward a neo-con policy to the right of that of George W. Bush.

The US aspires to control the tap to the economic development – or its lack thereof – for rivals China, and Asia. And the US could squeeze Russia's revenues in this way, too.

The sabotage undertaken by the European bureaucracy will have the opposite effect and backfire, recounting the results of the West’s foolish efforts to subvert the popular will as seen in places like Syria.

When Memorial Day comes around next year let it again be a commemoration of the horror of war, the death and destruction.