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Matt Taibbi talks some sense about unending war, and then warns about the endgame. We’re about to have a very graphic demonstration of the near-total uniformity of the political class when it comes to the military and its role. The war party is ready for a coming-out party. Impeachment and removal is on the table with a Democratic House and a GOP Senate dominated by the bipartisan war party.Rolling StoneWe Know How Trump’s War Game Ends Matt Taibbi

The first cracks appear.SouthFrontUS-Style “Troops Withdrawal”: Pentagon Plans To Keep Special Forces In Syria

President Trump campaigned on lessening U.S. involvement in wars abroad. He wants to get reelected. He does not need a Secretary of Defense that involves him in more wars that have little to none defined purpose. Mattis is an ingrained imperialist. He always asked for more money for the military and for more meddling abroad. One of Mattis' little notice acts as Defense Secretary was a unannounced change in the mission of the Pentagon:For at least two decades, the Department of Defense has...

This is flat nuts… Marx Brothers in Duck Soup nuts. Sic Semper TyrannisJames Jeffrey wants no-fly-zone over Syria… all of Syria TTG

Now, Idlib militants and their supporters around the globe will make an attempt to blame the Assad government for the November 24 incident in Aleppo city. They will likely pretend that “evil Assad” carried out a chemical attack on the government-controlled city in order to accuse the “moderate opposition” of doing this and thus disrupt the peaceful process in the country.First signs of this campaign can already be observed in some MSM reports. For example, in its report on the chemical...

The crazies gets crazier. President Trump seems to have lost control of them, prompting the question, who is the president now anyway.Just as with Iraq and WMD, the New Times and the Washington Post are driving the crazy.The NationMore Cold War Extremism and Crises Stephen F. Cohen | Professor Emeritus of Russian Studies, History, and Politics at New York University and Princeton UniversitySee also As the United States squeezes China economically through an escalating trade war, it is...

Video and transcript. LARRY WILKERSON: I think what we’re seeing here is a resurrection, if you will, of the neoconservative agenda. Syria was to be next. Iran after that, following Iraq of course, the invasion in 2003 which went so haywire that they were unable to follow up quickly with Syria. Well, now we’re back to Syria, but we were back to it with a president who was very reluctant to use major U.S. forces, Barack Obama of course. So, we are looking- we the neoconservatives, John...

The Russian Aerospace Force will support Syrian troops if the Western coalition decides to launch attacks against Syria due to the provocation of the “chemical attacks” in Idlib province, according to Russian Senate International Committee member Oleg Morozov. So there it is. Russia has decided to cross the Rubicon and throw down the gauntlet.  The one thing to be avoided at all costs during the Cold War after the Cuban missile crisis — nuclear power confrontation.  Is Donald Trump...

Good on Jeff Sachs. He has redeemed himself (in two minutes) in my book. Zero Hedge How To Explain The Cause Of The Syrian War In 2 Minutes Tyler Durden

Forget about the Mueller investigation. It is irrelevant. Trump’s Presidency hinges on what he does in Syria in the coming weeks. The choice is unambiguous. Maintain his commitment to non-intervention that spills over into nation building or start acting like George W Bush and Barack Obama. Either Trump meant what he said during the campaign or he was lying. He has no middle ground here. Part of the problem afflicting Donald Trump is his reliance on his media image as a tough, hard nosed...