"Europe is prosperous and treats America like a patsy. Let it stand on its own...A good model is that of Sweden, which cooperates with NATO on some matters and not on others."
For four nights straight, there have been riots between African migrants and the French police in the city of Nantes. The riots began after the police stopped and shot an alleged criminal, named Abubakar - initially claiming it was self-defense, then later admitting it was an accident.
"... the Russian ogre is the health of the military/industrial/intelligence/think tank complex. So even a rapprochement – to say nothing of peace – with Russia is an existential threat to the Deep State; it would necessarily pull the fiscal pins right out from under the hideous $800 billion per year defense, intelligence and foreign aid apparatus."
"With never-Trump conservatives bailing on the GOP and crying out for the Party of Pelosi to save us, some painful truths need to be restated... The Republican Party of Bush I and II, of Bob Dole and John McCain, is history. It’s not coming back."
"Trump and Putin are likely to discuss the tricky situation in southern Syria when they meet; while the US president says he wants US forces back home, the CIA, Pentagon and Israel may be happier to see them stay so the war-torn state remains unstable..."
"President Dodon is embroiled in a 'deep state' civil war in which the Atlanticist elements of his permanent military, intelligence, and diplomatic bureaucracies are trying to sabotage his pro-Eurasian 'balancing' act with Russia in order to streamline the country’s admission to the EU and NATO,"
"...had the Declaration of Independence been written today, it would have rendered its signers terrorists, resulting in them being placed on a government watch list, targeted for surveillance of their activities and correspondence, and potentially arrested, held indefinitely, stripped of their rights and labeled enemy combatants. The danger is real."
Here’s a simple rule of thumb, which helps understand NATO’s behavior: Every time the US-led bloc accuses Russia of doing something you know it's doing it itself.
"President Trump is absolutely not the "unpredictable" character so often described. Quite the contrary... [he] is preparing a reorganisation of international relations. This change will operate through a complete and sudden upheaval directed against the interests of the transnational ruling class."
