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Step Aside Russia: Pence Accuses China Of “Meddling In American Democracy”
Step Aside Russia: Pence Accuses China Of “Meddling In American Democracy” Update: Highlights from Pence’s speech (via Bloomberg): *PENCE SAYS TRUMP HAS MADE RELATIONSHIP WITH CHINA `A PRIORITY’ *PENCE: CHINA USING WHOLE-OF-GOVT APPROACH TO INFLUENCE U.S. *PENCE: HOPE THAT FREEDOM IN CHINA WOULD EXPAND WENT UNFULFILLED *PENCE: CHINA USING STOLEN TECH TO TURN PLOWSHARES INTO […]
US Openly Threatens Russia with War: Goodbye Diplomacy, Hello Stone Age
US Openly Threatens Russia with War: Goodbye Diplomacy, Hello Stone Age US Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison is a highly placed diplomat. Her words, whatever they may be, are official, which includes the ultimatums and threats that have become the language increasingly used by US diplomats to implement the policy of forceful persuasion or […]
America and Russia, Part One: Stirrings in the Borderlands
America and Russia, Part One: Stirrings in the Borderlands To my mind, one of the main sources of collective stupidity in modern American society is our pervasive bad habit of short-term thinking. It’s embarrassingly rare for anyone in American public life to stop and say aloud, “Hold it. What’s going to happen if we keep […]
Chinese Imports Of US Crude Have “Totally Stopped” As Tariff Threats Persist
Chinese Imports Of US Crude Have “Totally Stopped” As Tariff Threats Persist It has been roughly two months since China threatened to impose a 25% tariff on US energy imports (it eventually went back on those threats), and less than two weeks since the latest round of tariffs has been implemented. But even as China […]
US Sanctions Against Russia Are “A Colossal Strategic Mistake”, Putin Warns
US Sanctions Against Russia Are “A Colossal Strategic Mistake”, Putin Warns As Russia is preparing plans to wean its banking system off the dollar, advancing a trend of de-dollarization among the US’s largest economic and geopolitical rivals, Russian President Vladimir Putin accused Washington of making a “colossal” but “typical” mistake by exploiting the dominance of […]
Putin: Trump Is To Blame For Higher Oil Prices
Putin: Trump Is To Blame For Higher Oil Prices Just hours after President Trump implicitly threatened Saudi Arabia with a withdrawal of military protection (a threat that was possibly inspired by OPEC+ ignoring Trump’s demands to raise production at its Algiers meeting last month) Russian President Vladimir Putin said out loud what many oil traders […]
Oil Slides After Russia, Saudi Arabia Agree To Boost Output: Report
Oil Slides After Russia, Saudi Arabia Agree To Boost Output: Report Rumors that Saudi Arabia might raise oil production spread across financial media last week, prompting representatives of the Kingdom to eventually step in and confirm that the Kingdom planned to ramp up production to try and compensate for the expected hole in global supply […]
US Threatens To Destroy Russian Nuclear-Capable Missile System If Necessary
US Threatens To Destroy Russian Nuclear-Capable Missile System If Necessary U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchison on Tuesday warned that the U.S. could be forced to “take out” missiles Russia is developing that violate a Cold War-era treaty. If completed, the 9M729 Russian missile system could give it the capability to launch a missile […]
US Switching to Ukraine as Location to Start World War III Against Russia
US Switching to Ukraine as Location to Start World War III Against Russia The United States Government is now treating Ukraine as if it were a NATO member, and on September 27th donated to Ukraine two warships for use against Russia. This is the latest indication that the US is switching to Ukraine as the locale to […]
Moscow On US Idea To Block Russian Trade: Naval Blockade Would Mean WAR
Moscow On US Idea To Block Russian Trade: Naval Blockade Would Mean WAR In a new report, United States Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke suggested the US could use the Navy to block Russian energy from hitting Middle East markets. But the head of the Russian Senate’s Information Policy Committee, Aleksey Pushkov, said that […]
US Hints At Naval Blockade Of Russian Energy Exports Which Moscow Warns Would Be “An Act Of War”
US Hints At Naval Blockade Of Russian Energy Exports Which Moscow Warns Would Be “An Act Of War” In a interview about fracking and the implications of making the United States less dependent on foreign sources of energy, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke told the Washington Examiner that the US Navy has the ability to blockade Russia from controlling […]
Fragility of Middle East alliances becomes ever more apparent
Fragility of Middle East alliances becomes ever more apparent Three recent developments lay bare the fragility of Middle Eastern alliances and a rebalancing of their priorities: the Russian-Turkish compromise on an assault on the rebel-held Syrian region of Idlib, the fate of troubled Abu Dhabi airline Ettihad, and battles over reconstruction of Syria. These developments […]
Russia, China Slam United States Over “Baseless Accusations Of Interference” And International Bullying
Russia, China Slam United States Over “Baseless Accusations Of Interference” And International Bullying Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov vehemently denied US charges of election interference in a speech at the United Nations on Friday – slamming Washington and its international relations. “Baseless accusations of interference in the domestic affairs of particular countries are made while simultaneously engaging […]
Washington’s Sanctions Machine
Washington’s Sanctions Machine Perhaps it is Donald Trump’s business background that leads him to believe that if you inflict enough economic pain on someone they will ultimately surrender and agree to do whatever you want. Though that approach might well work in New York real estate, it is not a certain path to success in […]
EU, UK, Russia and China Join Together to Dodge US Sanctions on Iran
EU, UK, Russia and China Join Together to Dodge US Sanctions on Iran The UN General Assembly (UNGA) in New York is a place where world leaders are able to hold important meetings behind closed doors. Russia, China, the UK, Germany, France, and the EU seized that opportunity on Sept. 24 to achieve a real […]
