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Leaked Chinese memo warns war with US "unavoidable" - cites "Thucydides Trap"

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Sat, 07 Jul 2018 16:39 UTC
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A series of leaked internal documents reveal that China's military reforms are aimed at allowing Beijing to "manage a crisis, contain a conflict, win a war" and overtake the United States in military strength, according to the Express.
The leaked documents were published by the Central Military Commission in February for the purpose of spreading President Xi Jinping's "thought on strengthening the armed forces".

If the reforms go ahead, they will lead to heightened tensions with China's neighbouring countries, including Japan, in the East and South China Seas and the US. - Express
"As we open up and expand our national interests beyond borders, we desperately need a comprehensive protection of our own security around the globe," read the leaked documents, which adds that a strong military is the best way to "escape the obsession that war is unavoidable between an emerging power and a ruling hegemony".
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Trump should be commended for meeting with Vladimir Putin

Mary Dejevsky
The Independent
Thu, 28 Jun 2018 16:21 UTC
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Whether you like it or not, Trump won the presidency - and he won on a platform that included trying to thaw relations with Russia

Once upon a time the announcement of a summit meeting between the leaders of two powerful and unpredictable states would have been greeted with relief, even hope. But for the second time this year, the response to such news - in much of the Western world at least - has been almost the opposite.

When the President of the United States met Kim Jong-un earlier this month - he of newly nuclear-capable North Korea - there was widespread concern that Donald Trump would be tricked into betraying vital US and Western interests. He didn't. And the same warnings are being sounded now, before Trump embarks on his first formal summit with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on 16 July - with as little justification.

Comment: The "Donald the Disruptor" has got the Deep State in overdrive.

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Clinton's trolling fail: Delusional Killary mocked for taunting Trump before Putin summit


RT
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:47 UTC
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© Kamil Krzaczynski / ReutersFormer US Secretary of State and failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
Failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton took a shot at President Donald Trump on the eve of his much-anticipated meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, questioning the latter's loyalty. Twitter responded.

"Great World Cup," Clinton tweeted, before deploying a clumsy metaphor to question Trump's loyalty. "Question for President Trump as he meets Putin: Do you know which team you play for?"

Twitter immediately responded. To many, Clinton's tweet was just another example of her bitterness following her shock loss at the ballot box in 2016.

Since losing the election, Clinton has blamed everyone and everything from former President Barack Obama to the Green Party's Jill Stein, to the media and the FBI, to sexism and 'self-hating women' for her loss.

Comment: See also: Ending a downward spiral: Trump-Putin meeting will be a breakthrough regardless of practical outcome

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Roger Stone: This indictment is exoneration

Roger Stone
Stone Cold Truth
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 00:01 UTC
Roger Stone
STATEMENT OF ROGER STONE ON RUSSIAN INDICTMENT

As I testified before the House Intelligence Committee under oath, my 24-word exchange with someone on Twitter claiming to be Guccifer 2.0 is benign based on its content, context, and timing. This exchange is entirely public and provides no evidence of collaboration or collusion with Guccifer 2.0 or anyone else in the alleged hacking of the DNC emails, as well as taking place many weeks after the events described in today's indictment and after Wikileaks had already published the DNC material. The indictment does not allege or even allude that I was part of this alleged hacking nor does it allege or allude to me having anything to do with getting the allegedly hacked material to WikiLeaks.

The indictments announced show I did not conspire with any of the defendants to do the alleged hacking, distribute the allegedly stolen emails or aid them in any way.

Comment: See also:

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Spain's outspoken new foreign minister says Trump has "bad relations with the whole world"


RT
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:46 UTC
josep borrell
Donald Trump's recent remarks suggest he has bad relations with the whole world, the Spanish foreign minister said, hours before the US leader's landmark meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki.

"What I do know is that [Donald] Trump says he does not expect much from the meeting [with Putin] and that relations with Russia are very bad," Josep Borrell said on Monday in reference to the much-anticipated summit between the two world leaders.

The top Spanish official suggested that Trump "seems to have bad relations with the whole world." He said that the US president's statements don't give any impression that he "cares" much about the opinion of the European Union.


Comment: Trump simply cares about getting the best deal for the US and, in his opinion, the EU is getting in the way of that: May says Trump told her to sue the EU over Brexit - But "don't walk away"


Comment: Trump may be obstreperous at times but that's not as important to many in the US who are actually very grateful to finally have a president who's doing his best for his country rather than absolutely acquiescing to the deep state - and Putin respects and shares that sentiment: Also check out SOTT's commentary:
Trump, Brexit, NATO, Russia and Saxaphone Players in Bowler Hats


Trump was a busy man this past week. Calling NATO members out in Brussels and driving a hard bargain with the Brits. In a few days he heads to Russia to meet his arch nemesis Putin, just as Mueller announced the "indictment" of 12 Russians for stealing the election for Trump. All of it, of course, has provoked lots of wailing and gnashing of teeth among the leftist media and ordinary, otherwise rational, people across the Western world. Is any of it justified? Joe analyzes the situation.
As well as SOTT's new show: NewsReal: Trump on Tour! US President Takes Wrecking Ball to NATO & EU, Mueller Indicts Russians

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Ending a downward spiral: Trump-Putin meeting will be a breakthrough regardless of practical outcome


RT
Mon, 16 Jul 2018 13:21 UTC
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© Carlos Barria / Reuters
The US and Russian leaders will meet in an atmosphere of open animosity towards Russia in the West. In this context, the very fact of the meeting, which part of the US establishment sought to derail, could be deemed a success.

A summit between US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, is a much-anticipated event and it is also long overdue. As unhinged Russophobia increasingly grips the West and relations between two of the world's major powers hit a historic low since the Cold War, a meeting between the two leaders might at least slow down the continued slide towards even greater confrontation if not really improve the troubled relations between Moscow and Washington.


The extraordinary circumstances surrounding this meeting make it a sort of victory of proponents of common sense over those who seek to push their own narrow interests at the expense of international relations and, eventually, global security.

Comment: Indeed. Anyone with a critical eye cannot help but find the accusations being thrown around ahead of the summit bizarre, perhaps even comical. However, it stands to reason that any chance of dialogue between the 2 powers that could possibly bring about even a relative 'peace' is a threat to the power structure. The narrative surrounding Russia they've worked so hard to create is on the verge of collapse and we can expect to see them pull out all the stops to maintain their control over it. Imagine, over 20 years of work going down the drain....

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Deep state goes for preemptive strike against Putin-Trump summit as Russiagate fizzles out

Robert Bridge
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:10 UTC
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© WhoWhatWhy
In order to save face over an investigation that has failed to produce a smoking gun regarding charges of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, the US elite have opted to indict Russian intelligence officials for election meddling. Yet the evidence, once again, is missing in action.

Amid harsh criticism at home for its failure to provide proof of Russian collusion in the 2016 presidential election, at the very same time that Trump is preparing to meet with Vladimir Putin for a summit in Helsinki, the US Deep State has resorted to playing spoiler with the most overplayed hand in modern political history: the 'Blame Russia' card.

On Friday, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced indictments against 12 members of Russia's Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff, also known as GRU, for "conspiring to interfere with the 2016 presidential election."

According to the 29-page indictment, the defendants devised fictional online personas to compromise computers affiliated with the Democratic National Committee, as well as Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. The purported 'hack' led to the release of tens of thousands of stolen emails by WikiLeaks. These communications revealed what amounts to criminal behavior on the part of the DNC, including overt bias against Democratic presidential nominee Bernie Sanders in favor of Hillary Clinton, as well as evidence that Clinton was fed the questions to public debates against Donald Trump. Those very serious findings have been sidelined amid the storm known as Russiagate.

The Russian Foreign Ministry vehemently rejected the accusations, saying it was a coordinated effort by "influential political forces in the US that are opposed to the normalization of relations between our countries and have spread open slander for the past two years."

Comment: See also: Special Counsel indicts 12 Russian military officers for hacking state election systems

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SOTT Focus: Grand Deception: Russian Lawmakers' Revolt And The 1993 Constitutional Crisis

Alex Krainer
The Naked Hedgie
Sat, 14 Jul 2018 18:42 UTC
"We created a virtual open shop for thievery at a national level and for capital flight in terms of hundreds of billions of dollars, and the reaping of natural resources and industries on a scale which I doubt has ever taken place in human history." ~ E. Wayne Merry, chief political analyst at the U.S. Embassy in Moscow (1990-1994)
The foregoing article is an excerpt from Chapter 3 of my book Grand Deception: the Truth about Bill Browder, Magnitsky Act and Anti-Russian Sanctions. Part 1 is here.
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Russian democracy had a tough start
Economic reforms and privatization were highly destructive for Russia. They were also achieved outside of the legitimate legal framework. To sidestep the government agencies and circumvent the parliament, Yeltsin's government worked through a network of private agencies and non-governmental organizations set up by Anatoly Chubais, his associates, and their western advisers. One of the most important of these organizations was the Russia Privatization Center (RPC), set up by the HIID and Anatoly Chubais under a presidential decree. RPC's directors were Andrei Schleifer and Chubais himself. Exemplifying corruption and conflicts of private and public interests in Yeltsin's cabinet, Chubais simultaneously headed the private RPC and the government's GKI (Federal Agency for State Property Management). This didn't seem to bother RPC's western sponsors; in addition to a $45 million grant from USAID, RPC obtained $59 million credit from the World Bank, $43 million from European Bank for Reconstruction and Development and further funding from the European Union, Japan and several individual European Governments.1 HIID also helped establish the Federal Commission on Securities, also with USAID's money.
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Best of the Web: Assange RT interview: 'WikiLeaks did not receive Clinton emails from Russian govt'

John Pilger
RT
Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:47 UTC
Julian Assange
© RTJulian Assange
In a John Pilger Special, to be exclusively broadcast by RT on Saturday courtesy of Dartmouth Films, whistleblower Julian Assange categorically denied that the troves of US Democratic Party and Clinton work and staff emails released this year have come from the Russian government.

"The Clinton camp has been able to project a neo-McCarthyist hysteria that Russia is responsible for everything. Hillary Clinton has stated multiple times, falsely, that 17 US intelligence agencies had assessed that Russia was the source of our publications. That's false - we can say that the Russian government is not the source," Assange told the veteran Australian broadcaster as part of a 25-minute John Pilger Special, courtesy of Dartmouth Films.

Assange, who spoke with Pilger at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where he has been for four years, also accused the US presidential candidate of being a pawn of behind-the-scenes interests, and voiced doubts about her physical fitness to take charge of the White House.


"Hillary Clinton is just one person. I actually feel quite sorry for Hillary Clinton as a person, because I see someone who is eaten alive by their ambitions, tormented literally to the point where they become sick - for example faint - as a result of going on, and going with their ambitions. But she represents a whole network of people, and a whole network of relationships with particular states."

Comment: Russia and Wikileaks. All spin and distraction form the real story: the contents of the emails.

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Spain's Foreign Minister: "Whether we like it or not, Russia is back"


Sputnik
Sun, 15 Jul 2018 18:08 UTC
josep borrell
Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said Sunday that Russia has returned to the international arena and wants to become a superpower again.

"Whether we like it or not, Russia is back. [Russian President Vladimir] Putin has huge popularity because he represents a return to the international arena of the [previously] belittled country, a superpower in the past that wants to be like that again. And yes, it has nuclear weapons," Borrell told El Pais newspaper.

He added that Europe had a common stance toward Russia.

Comment: From wheat, gold, oil, advanced weaponry, gas, and even public sporting events with both the winter Olympic games and the recent World Cup; in a relatively short period of time, despite relentless attacks, and with Vladimir Putin at the helm, Russia has worked its way back onto the global scene and holds a position of influence that has the ailing West quite nervous indeed: Also check out SOTT radio's:

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