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The United States will abandon trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal unless there are clear signs a truce can be reached, the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, has now warned. Rubio said the US wanted to help end the war but would move on if there were no signs of progress. “We’re not…
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“Mr. Churchill says, Mr. Johnson says, and Mr. Starmer says, ‘We have to fight this bloody battle to the bitter end’ …” (Adapted from Mr. Churchill Says by Ray Davies) It seems that Britain is intent on prolonging the war in Ukraine that the United States, under President Trump, is attempting to wind down. It…
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Once upon a time, in a land far away, a land of which few had even heard, there lived a jester. Some people from other lands one day told this jester he was really a king. They gave him all the things that a king has – billions of dollars, an army and audiences with…
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Did you know that President Trump is not a maverick and is simply returning the United States to the foreign policy of its founding fathers? Thomas Jefferson, in his inaugural address of 1801, defined US foreign policy as “peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations – entangling alliances with none.” In his Farewell Address,…
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Did you know that President Trump is cancelling the New World Order the US proclaimed in the 1990s – starting with the last and most disastrous of its projects, the advance into the Ukraine? President Trump and his revolutionary band (Marco Rubio, Mike Waltz, Steve Witkoff, General Kellogg and Pete Hegseth) have hit the ground…
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According to those who want Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian, President Trump has threatened President Putin: make a deal or else! More likely this is a piece of political theatrics that the Russian President understands well and will respond to positively, knowing what it is all about. This is what Trump actually said,…
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President Bashar al Assad has gone, but the problem of governing the state of Syria remains. The Western media (and its alternatives in the Western alt-media) have described the fall of President Assad as an “overthrowing.” It was nothing of the sort. Assad was not overthrown. He was, in fact, fired. The circumstances of the…
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On occasion I have been asked to comment about events or affairs in countries that I know little about. I have always respectfully declined to talk about things I have not read about or studied from a historical perspective. We really should not comment on things we don’t know about. In recent years there has…
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George Friedman has always been an outsider within the US foreign policy establishment. Some would say he is not part of the establishment at all, since the Council on Foreign Relations has barely tolerated mention of his name over the past couple of decades. One presumes this is because Friedman has resisted the constraints that…
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On 15 October the Sunday Times reported that “five former British Defence Secretaries and the ex-Prime Minister Boris Johnson have urged Sir Keir Starmer to supply Ukraine with long range Storm Shadow missiles to strike deep inside Russia, even without US backing.” This joint statement was preceded by a week or so of high-profile media…
