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We are in daily touch with friends and family in Russia, and can confirm that this is entirely true. Russian have joined Twitter and subscribed to Trump's feed, in the millions!, in order to receive advance notice before the Donald launches the big one. Russian social media is going bonkers. They are dumbfounded with what it going on.

There are at least two European nations who remember that when it gets cold in the winter, there is one country they call to provide the natural gas they need for heating.

Michael Savage is the very heart of the Trump base, as is paleocon Pat Buchanan. Very damaging to Trump. He is in big trouble.

The author is a prominent American Christian conservative who was a presidential candidate for the paleoconservative Constitution Party in 2008, when he was endorsed by Ron Paul.  

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THE CIVIL WAR in Syria began in 2011 and escalated for five years during the Obama presidency, yet Barack Obama — despite demands from leaders of both parties and think tanks across the spectrum — never once bombed Syrian government targets.

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While a U.S. Carrier Strike Group makes its way to the Mediterranean, and amid reports of US and French fighter jets buzzing around the skies over Syria, the BBC reports that UK Prime Minister Theresa May is "ready to join military action against the Assad regime in Syria without first seeking Parliamentary consent." 

The Russians must now learn from their Syrian wards. Learn the bitter-tasting lesson of strategic endurance. Of stoically absorbing “humiliation” rather than drawing an overwhelmingly powerful, psycho enemy further in. Eight times the Syrians were massacred unprovoked by US forces — not once did they attempt to strike back and draw American blood in turn. — Because as satisfying as it would be in the short term it would ultimately prove counter-productive for the goal so many of them have died for. Читать дальше...

Just over a month ago, I posed the following question, after Vladimir Putin unveiled Russia’s new weapons systems, which was a response to Washington’s reckless tearing up of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM) in 2002, which had guaranteed international security for 30 years: