"... Police should consider and reflect upon the community impact of a large-scale [terror] investigation...where many blameless residents will have been inconvenienced if not traumatised by the regular appearance of Police search and arrest teams..."
EU, NATO, and Schengen, oh my!Amidst imminent Brexit and potential changes within NATO, you might be wondering how these organizations fit into the big picture of Europe’s member states...
"For most people in this country, war with either Russia or China is not something to even be remotely concerned about... But the Russians and the Chinese both see things very differently..."
"Any and all forms of opposition to global capitalist ideology, regardless of whether they come from the Left or the Right, are being stigmatized as 'extremism', and thus inextricably linked to 'terrorism'... "
"Almost two decades into the twenty-first century, what we face is not some mildly updated replica of last century’s Cold War, but a new and potentially even more dangerous global predicament..."
“We will have to create a defense belt near Sochi... We will have to spend colossal resources on preventing likely actions by a hypothetical enemy, this is inevitable.”
“The Americans keep on indulging in these games as the actual goal of such games is not to catch Russia in violations, and compel it to abide by the treaty; but to invent a pretext to ruin that treaty – part of its belligerent imperial strategy”.
"We're going to have to recognize if nations are not willing to live by those rules...we're going to have the ability to defend, and the ability to do offense..."
A senior Russian official proposed that his country is seriously considering establishing a military base in Cuba in response to Trump’s plan to quit the INF treaty, predicting that "a new Cuban crisis" could erupt if the US and Russia fail to come to terms.
"The Trump administration’s declared scrapping of a crucial arms control treaty is putting the world on notice of a nuclear war, sooner or later... Any such war is not winnable. It is mutually assured destruction. "
"We want to see everybody around a peace table based on a ceasefire, based on a pullback from the border & then based on ceasing dropping of bombs...you can’t say we’re going to do it sometime in the future. We need to be doing this in the next 30 days"
