Новости за 22.12.2016

God has to be big enough to embrace an outrageous number of perspectives on reality.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has played a significant role in retaking Aleppo from rebel fighters, a report by an Iranian opposition group says.

Jim W. Dean - This is another Gordon classic, and a challenging read. He does a lot of dot connecting on the current stories, but adds the infamous VT touch of digging back into the roots of who is doing what to whom, and why.

An outrageous international relations incident took place in Ankara on December 19th. The Russian ambassador to Turkey, Andrey Karlov, was assassinated by Mevlut Mert Altintas, a Turkish police officer.

Israel is enraged and lashing out. When Turkey joined Iran and Russia in the recent settlement conferences over Syria, Israel was flattened.

The row between Poland and the European Union has escalated after the EU warned Warsaw that it would remove its voting rights in the EU, if the Polish Government did not roll back controversial changes to its Constitutional Court – a sanction never before exercised in the EU. However, the warning comes two months after the […]

…from SouthFront In the morning on December 21, intense clashes between ISIS and Turkey-led forces resumed in the area of al-Bab. Pro-Turkey militant groups and the Turkish army, supported by the Turkish Air Force, attacked the town hospital and seized the Aqeel Mountain area and set a control over the Aleppo-al-Bab road. 3 Turkish soldiers […]

Killgore never flinched in following his moral compass; or as his Navy vet friends might say, he had his rudder deep in the water, where political whims and winds did not affect his course.

People are now saying that the New World Order ideology is not worth a dime.

This is still a Christian country, as your colleague David Cameron reminded us not so long ago. But you wouldn't think so when non-Christian creeds are given exceptional protection and privileges to smooth their ruffled feathers.

Jim W. Dean - We finally had some response from the US today after the new Iran, Russian, Turkey triparte declaration to move forward on a Syrian resolution themselves.