Новости за 13.04.2018

Further evidence that Zuckerberg either: 1) has obvious blind spots in his ability to think straight, or 2) has low personal integrity and honor, or 3) some unpleasant combination of the two.

Marko Marjanović has been a Russia Insider deputy editor since Nov' 2014 and a major force in the creation of its product for that entire time. You may want to bookmark his after-hours project Checkpoint Asia or follow it on Facebook.

The author is a prominent American social critic, blogger, and podcaster, and one of our all-time favorite pessimists. We carry his articles regularly on RI. His writing on Russia-gate has been highly entertaining.

Orlov is one of our favorite essayists on Russia and all sorts of other things. He moved to the US as a child, and lives in the Boston area.

“Why in the world we would be willing to sacrifice even one of our sons or daughters who will be sent over [to Syria]?” asked Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin during a Tuesday interview with SiriusXM host Rebecca Mansour for Breitbart News Tonight.

This is over. Trump will not bomb.

Sarah Palin, Pat Buchanan, Anne Coulter, Carlson, Alex Jones, the Alt-Right, - are all blasting the idea as ridiculous. That is Trump's political lifeline.

Here's the latest from Tuckers show last night. Cohen says this is most scared he's been since the Cuban missle crisis, an event he is old enough to remember. He explains that the US has been waging 'political, economic, and diplomatic war' against Russia for 10 years now, and the mood in Moscow is: 'We have had enough'. Читать дальше...

Syria’s Assad government allegedly used chemical weapons, and the usual suspects—the ever-egregious Lindsey Graham and John McCain, of course, along with many others—are urging President Donald Trump to wage war on Damascus. Yet even if Syria is responsible for such an attack, in practice there is little that Washington can and should do.

Marko Marjanović has been a Russia Insider deputy editor since Nov' 2014 and a major force in the creation of its product for that entire time. You may want to bookmark his after hours project Checkpoint Asia or follow it on Facebook or Twitter.

The US President Donald Trump’s fateful decision on a military strike against Syria is imminent and it will impact not only Syria’s future and Middle Eastern politics but also the US’ capacity to impose its global hegemony in the emergent world order.

We detailed yesterday the fact that satellite images showed 11 Russian warships leaving the Syrian port of Tartus. The market initially kneejerked higher on the basis of the belief this was a 'withdrawal' or backing-down of tensions, but, as we noted, it was anything but - and now a Russian lawmaker has confirmed this was more offense than defense.

Russian Armed Forces Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov has warned that Russia would respond to any US military strike flowing from a false flag chemical weapons attack blamed on the Syrian government and Russia. So what's the big deal? The general made the warning nearly a month ago…