Новости за 14.01.2019

On top of the graceful Baltit Fort, overlooking the Hunza Valley’s Shangri-La-style splendor, it’s impossible not to feel dizzy at the view: an overwhelming collision of millennia of geology and centuries of history.

A new Politico/Morning Consult poll has found that there is much more support for ongoing military occupations among Democrats surveyed than Republicans.

Even the neo-con warmongers’ house journal The Guardian, furious at Trump’s attempts to pull US troops out of Syria, in producing a map to illustrate its point, could only produce one single, uncertain, very short pen stroke to describe the minute strip of territory it claims ISIS still control on the Iraqi border.

Excellent living conditions are not limited to the big Russian cities like Moscow and Saint Petersburg. The organization SuperJob conducted studies on roads and found that distant provinces like Tyumen and Naberezhnye Chelny have superior infrastructure relative to the Megacities.

Remember when the War on Terror ended and the War on Populism began? That’s OK, no one else does.

A new level of “fact checking” and “fake news” counter attacks are coming. This time, however, it won’t just be on Facebook or Twitter or Google, it will be internet and device wide. This fact checking service is being sold to the public under the name “NewsGuard” but the only thing it appears to be guarding is the establishment.

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The West is rotting!
Yes, maybe, but what a nice smell…

-Old Soviet joke

More symbiosis in (for the time-being) Kurdish-held Northern Syria now that Americans have definitely given up on the initial goal of toppling the Assad government with a jihadi battering ram and the consolation goal of partitioning Syria using the leftist Kurdish YPG militia both:

The expectations were high that 2019 would be a pivotal year in Russo-Japanese relations. President Vladimir Putin may visit Japan for the G20 summit in June and there has been speculation that Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe aims to sign a peace treaty at that time, bringing the World War II hostility between the two powers to a formal end.

At the close of 2018, President Donald Trump announced that American troops were being withdrawn from Syria.

The US military has announced that the process of withdrawing the estimated 2,000 US troops in Syria has officially begun. They say there will be no specifics reported on numbers or timelines because of “operational security.”