"Bear in mind, criminals and felons aren’t destroying their guns to show how progressive they are. However, virtue-signaling peddled by the anti-second Amendment mainstream media is being used in an attempt to turn law-abiding gun owners into criminals."
Britain's terrorism watchdog, Max Hill's aim to ban the term "Islamist terrorism" indicates that political correctness is more important to him than strengthening counter-terrorist efforts...
The Navy has deployed the destroyer USS Carney to the Black Sea, where it will join the destroyer USS Ross, in a move that military officials told CNN is intended to "desensitize Russia" to the presence of US military forces in the Black Sea.
The risk is that Russia will interpret what until now was deemed largely as an accident, as an overt act meant to punish Russia by killing its troops - whether legitimate soldiers or mercs - and Putin would have no choice but to respond in kind.
"Think of it as the chicken-or-the-egg question for the ages: Do very real threats to the United States inadvertently benefit the military-industrial complex or does the national security state, by its very nature, conjure up inflated threats to feed that defense machine? "
"...'the resistance' insists on diverting all our collective energy to Russiagate. While the hordes of people buying into this nonsense are being ruthlessly manipulated, the manipulators know exactly what they’e doing...Blaming Russia for all the nation’s problems serves several key purposes for various defenders of the status quo."
A convoy of fighters waving Syrian flags entered the northern Kurdish-held region of Afrin, which Turkey is targeting in a cross-border operation, according to footage on Syrian state TV shows.
While the NATO defense chiefs’ meeting on February 14-15 was full of the usual turgid speeches with opaque meaning to leave one guessing what’s really behind those nice words; the alliance actually took two far-reaching decisions proving a clue to its plans for near future...
Romania’s commitment to increase its defense budget to NATO)target of 2% GDP has spurred the government to approve a $1 billion purchase of American-made M142 HIMARS (High Mobility Artillery Rocket System).
Washington’s primary objective of bombing the pro-government troops on February 7 - that led to dozens of Russian casualties - was to create divisions between the US-backed Kurds and Russia-backed Syrian government...
In a historic first, a poll published on Monday by German newspaper Bild put the anti-immigrant, Alternative for Germany (AfD) party at 16%, showing that they are currently the second most popular political organization in Germany and more popular than Germany's Social Democrats (SPD).
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned the Trump administration not to “play with fire” as he lashed out at the U.S. over what he described as its “provocative” support for Kurds in Syria, while urging US troops in the area of Al-Tanf to "leave immediately."
Confirming that the "enemy of my enemy is my friend", YPG Kurdish fighters in north-western Syria - who recall are backed by the US - have struck a deal with the Russia-backed Assad regime for Syrian forces to enter the Afrin region and repel an ongoing Turkish offensive.
