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The gift from the US that keeps on giving.Russia FeedRussian food production BOOMING thanks to import substitutions, Western sanctions Paul

Important backgrounder. Asia Times From Ankara to Moscow, Eurasia integration is on the move Pepe Escobar

Good backgrounder. Short and to the point. Emphasizes how geopolitics and geostrategy are historically influenced and path-dependent.Asia TimesThe geopolitics beyond the Skripal case Nicos Panayiotides See also Surprisingly good for Newsweek and the US media in general. No scaremongering. Short. NewsweekChina Military Tells Russia 'We've Come to Support You' Against U.S. Tom O'Connor

“At the moment, it’s a game of chicken with no off-ramp,” Tom Pickering, another former US Ambassador to Russia, has said. “And we need to be looking at the off-ramp.” While this piece is mostly about Russia and Putin, this observation about about China is also noteworthy: Regime change may not be being spoken of in terms of China, but the latter fully understands that it is at the top of the Bolton-Pompeo-Trump ‘hit list’, and that its standing as ‘revisionist threat, number one’ enjoys...

Arms race. Others have noted to Asia Unhedged that the US defense establishment’s goal when speaking to lawmakers is to drum up support for more funding. Exaggerating threats, or short comings, instills a sense of urgency for additional investment in arms development. Asia TimesRussia, China eclipse US in hypersonic missiles: Pentagon Asia Unhedged See also Russia Insider Winner of Putin's Name Contest for 'Miracle Weapons' - a 14th c. Christian Monk!Charles Bausman also...

“It’s a strategy of building a wall separating Russia and the European Union. I know from my own experience of work in the European Parliament that the European Union is conducting a real Cold War against Russia,” Le Pen said.... Russia FeedMarine Le Pen: I know the EU is waging a Cold War against Russia – Here’s Why Matfey Shaheen

Arms race on. Defense industry, a euphemism for the military industrial complex, salivates.As DefSec Mattis admits, the US cannot stop an ICBM attack by capabilities that already exists, so new technology doesn't increase the threat. The US strategy is not to counter an attack directly with through deterrence based on the the nuclear triad, or "trident."No matter, huge increases in defense spending are already on the way.The National InterestCould America Stop a Cruise Missile or Hypersonic...

It is a centuries-old practice of the maritime powers [thalassocracy] to "isolate" their enemies with a curtain made of economic sanctions, military encirclement, political and ideological condemnation: in the past, "isolation" or "strangulation" was usually the source of war. The latest developments in Europe are therefore to be looked at with concern: in the United Kingdom, the clumsy poisoning of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was exploited to further exacerbate diplomatic relations...

More information if you are following this closely. The plot thickens.Moon of AlabamaRussian Scientists Explain 'Novichok' - High Time For Britain To Come Clean (Updated) bAlsoRussia Insider30 Questions Journalists Should Be Asking About Skripal CaseRob Slane

On Iraq, the UK’s version of “the facts” was embraced by pretty much all our political establishment and many of our allies – with the honourable exception of the French, the Germans, the late Charles Kennedy and his little band of Lib Dems, and – yes, let it not be forgotten – the leader of today’s Labour opposition, Jeremy Corbyn. It was a version that proved to be disastrously wrong. Yet a combination of Tony Blair’s persuasive powers, naïve acceptance of the need for national unity, and...