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Dems cheer Syrian airstrikes but now want to impeach Trump for 'erratic foreign policy'

Alex Christoforou
The Duran
Sat, 15 Apr 2017 12:04 UTC
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© Doug Mills / The New York TimesPresident Donald Trump leaves after making a statement about the American attack on an air base in Syria, at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, April 6, 2017.
Elizabeth Warren asks: "What is the strategy?"

The Democrats cheered Trump on to go on the offensive in Syria. Trump proceeded to launch 59 Tomahawk missilesin retaliation over a false flag chemical incident.

Now after the cheers have subsided from both sides of the aisle, the Democrats are resuming their push to remove Trump from office. This time it's not about Russian collusion, but about foreign policy craziness.

Comment: Further reading: The enemies of Trump and the unholy alliance against American freedom

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Trump 'badly miscalculating' with threats against China & North Korea

Alexander Mercouris
The Duran
Sat, 15 Apr 2017 12:04 UTC
Donald Trump and China flag
© Reuters / Global Look Press
The President thinks he can bluff the Chinese and an attack on North Korea will have only limited consequences. He is wrong on both counts.

As the US navy steams towards the Korean peninsula, North Korea threatens counter-attacks on US bases and on South Korea, and as China warns of war, the unanswered question is whether there is any real strategy behind these moves.

US carrier deployments near the Korean peninsula are hardly new whilst US threats to take unilateral action against North Korea have been made many times before. It is known that the Clinton, George W. Bush and Obama administrations all seriously considered pre-emptive strikes on North Korea, with the Clinton administration in 1994 coming closest. All three previous administrations however in the end pulled back when they assessed that the possible consequences might be a war which would ravage the Korean Peninsula.
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Pyongyang parades new ICBMs and submarine-based missiles in founding leader's honor


RT
Sat, 15 Apr 2017 11:57 UTC
North Korea military parade
© Korean Central Television / RT
Amid regional "military hysteria," North Korea has marked the 105th birth anniversary of its founding leader Kim Il-sung with a military parade in Pyongyang, where it for the first time publicly showcased its submarine-launched ballistic missiles as well as what appears to be a new type of ICBM.

The country's hereditary leader Kim Jong-un, wearing a black suit and white shirt and a tie, welcomed his country's bravest as he addressed thousands of soldiers who took part in the parade honoring his grandfather.

Under the clear sky and to the sound of the military band, dozens of military vehicles and an entire army of soldiers passed through the country's biggest square named in honor of Kim Il-sung, whose 105th birthday is being celebrated on Saturday.
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Propaganda

Obama flew to UK to campaign against Brexit but the hysterical Guardian claims "Putin did it!"

Bryan MacDonald
RT
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 19:42 UTC
Barak obama
© Stefan Wermuth / Reuters
It was the fourth week of April, last year. The Brexit referendum was only two months away, and the campaign was heating up. However, the most recent opinion polls showed 'remain' was on course for a resounding victory.

The ORB company predicted an eight-point margin (51% vs. 43%) and ComRes indicated an eleven percent lead (51% vs 40%).

Doubtlessly confident of success, David Cameron welcomed Barack Obama to England for a three-day visit. The American president saw the European Union as a useful US ally, and his arrival amounted to a campaign event in favor of the United Kingdom's continued membership. It was a very public and unprecedented intervention. And, at a time when Eurocrats themselves were trying to keep some distance, it involved an external leader with no obvious direct stake in the outcome.

Nevertheless, Washington had selfish interests in continued British influence in Brussels. Because, since 1973, the UK had consistently acted as America's voice at the European table. Indeed, it was for that very reason Charles DeGaulle strained to keep London out of the club in his working lifetime. As the legendary French statesman always insisted that Britain would act as a 'Trojan horse' for American interests.

Comment:
putin did it


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US may attack North Korea within 24 hours, North Korea threatens 'merciless' retaliation

Adam Garrie
The Duran
Fri, 14 Apr 2017 00:00 UTC
North Korea
The Pentagon has refused to confirm or deny the speculation.

NBC news has reported that a US strike on North Korea may be imminent. According to the report,
"The U.S. is prepared to launch a preemptive strike with conventional weapons against North Korea should officials become convinced that North Korea is about to follow through with a nuclear weapons test, multiple senior U.S. intelligence officials told NBC News".
This follows speculation that North Korea may test a nuclear weapon to celebrate the 'Day of The Son', the 105th birthday North Korean founder Kim Il-Sung, who was Supreme Leader between 1948 and his death in 1994. The event will occur on the 15th of April.

Comment: Question is: Is Trump behaving 'crazy like a fox' in order to get some of the warmongering heat off of him and 'blend in' better politically to give him time to maneuver - or, has he just gone plain bat-shit crazy. In either case however the Pentagon's rhetoric and recent military buildup around North Korea has reached a white hot fever pitch of emotion and potential catastrophe that we never even saw under Bush or Obama. Is the potential price of Trump either seeming tough or being tough - whatever the case may be - worth it?

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Snakes in Suits

The astounding hubris, incoherence and dysfunction of the Trump administration

John Wight
Sputnik
Thu, 13 Apr 2017 20:23 UTC
Donald Trump
© REUTERS/ Carlos Barria
In decades to come, historians will identify this past week as one of the most seminal in post-war history, placing particular emphasis when they do on the actions of one of the most unstable, unpredictable and capricious presidents ever to occupy the White House.

Prior to his election, those who allowed themselves to believe that Trump's lack of political experience and ideologically-driven worldview were strengths that would go a long way to giving birth to the multipolar world that is long overdue, those people have reason to be nursing a sense of crushing disappointment over the political disaster that is currently unfolding, one that may well translate into a military disaster if allowed to continue on its current trajectory.
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Trilateral meeting: Russian, Iranian, Syrian FMs' talks 'strong message' after US missile attack


Sputnik
Fri, 14 Apr 2017 21:43 UTC
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (C), Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif
© REUTERS/ Sergei KarpukhinRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (C), Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem (R) and Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif attend a news conference in Moscow, Russia, October 28, 2016
The meeting was carried out a week after the reported chemical weapons incident in the province of Idlib and subsequent US cruise missile strike against the Ash Sha'irat airbase.

The suspected chemical weapons incident in Syria's northwestern province on April 4 claimed dozens of lives, including those of children. Blaming the attack on Syria's President Bashar Assad, the United States launched a cruise missile attack on the government airfield in Syria's Homs province overnight on April 6, which left at least two civilians from a nearby village and five Syrian servicemen dead, according to Homs Governor Talal Barazi.

The Syrian government has denied using chemical weapons against its own people and stated it did not possess such weapons.

'Strong Message'

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem called the trilateral meeting a "strong message" after the US missile strike on the airfield.

Comment: See also: Lavrov and Tillerson agree: No future US strikes on Syrian government

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Boris Johnson - Tears of a clown over Syrian deaths

Finian Cunningham
Sputnik
Fri, 14 Apr 2017 13:02 UTC
Boris Johnson
© John Thys/Agence France-Presse(Front row L-R) Denmark's Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen, Canada's Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, Switzerland's Federal Councillor Didier Burkhalter, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, Qatar's Foreign Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Than and Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sabah Al Khalid Al Sabah pose along with other delegates for a group photo during a conference on Syria and the region at the Europa Building in Brussels on April 5, 2016
Boris Johnson, Britain's foreign secretary, likes to clown around, even by his own admission. So much so, it seems, that when news emerged last week of an alleged massacre of children choking from chemical weapons in Syria, Johnson was still up for jolly-good fun.

Take a look at the above picture again. This was taken at a summit in Brussels last week when some 70 nations assembled in the Belgian capital pledging financial aid for war-torn Syria. Britain's top diplomat Boris Johnson was central to the proceedings.

On the very same day, it emerged from Syria that more than 80 people, including dozens of children, were killed in an alleged chemical weapons incident in the town of Khan Shaykhun, Idlib Province. The politicians in Brussels immediately made political capital on the deaths.

Johnson and other Western leaders, including US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, have cited those deaths as "evidence" of Russian "complicity." Western media have been non-stop peddling the claims that Syria and Russia are to blame - without a shred of evidence.

Comment: How did this idiot ever make it into government?

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'Baby-Killing Sarin Bomber' Bashar Assad Negotiates Safe Passage for Thousands of Civilians Trapped in Towns Held by Jihadists

RI Staff
Russia Insider
Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:09 UTC
Bashar Assad
Bashar Assad negotiated safe passage for thousands of civilians trapped in towns held by jihadists. Probably so he can gas them later? Yeah, "Sure".

Someone please text message Nikki Haley on WhatsApp — we need an emergency Security Council meeting right now.

Yes, Assad has done it again: He's "begun a coordinated population swap of tens of thousands of people from four besieged towns".

Comment: Thousands of Syrians were bused out of their towns on Friday in the first stage of a widely criticized population transfer that reflects the relentless segregation of Syrian society along political and sectarian lines.
The coordinated evacuations delivered war-weary fighters and residents from two years of siege and hunger, but moved the country closer to a division of its national population by loyalty and sect.

As diplomacy in Moscow focused on the U.S. airstrikes targeting Syria, more than 2,350 people were bused out of the twin rebel-held towns of Madaya and Zabadani near Damascus, and another 5,000 from the pro-government towns of Foua and Kfraya in the country's north.

"There was no heating, no food, nothing to sustain our lives. We left so that God willing (the siege) may ease on those who remain," said Ahmad Afandar, a 19-year-old evacuee from Madaya whose parents stayed behind.

Madaya and Zabadani, once summer resorts to Damascus, have been shattered under the cruelty of government siege. The two towns rebelled against Damascus' authority in 2011 when demonstrations swept through the country demanding the end of President Bashar Assad's rule.

Residents were reduced to hunting rodents and eating the leaves off trees. Photos of children gaunt with hunger shocked the world and gave new urgency to U.N. relief operations in Syria.


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Damascus admonishes Trump: Look at yourself before calling Assad 'an animal'


RT
Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:00 UTC
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© Manorama Online
The Syrian Foreign Ministry has fired back at Donald Trump - who recently labeled President Bashar Assad "an animal" and "an evil person" - telling the US leader not to measure others by his own image. "If you're an animal yourself, don't think others are the same," Ayman Soussan, Syrian deputy foreign minister, told Sputnik in an interview.

He stressed that Assad "is the president of a sovereign state elected by his people, and it is the Syrian people, not Trump... who should give an assessment of [President Assad]."

On Tuesday, Trump told Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo that "if Russia didn't go in and back this animal [Assad], you wouldn't have a problem right now." Speaking ahead of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson's visit to Moscow earlier this week, Trump maintained that "[Russian President] Putin is backing a person that is truly an evil person [...] I think it's very bad for Russia, I think it's very bad for mankind, it's very bad for this world."



Comment: (British ambassador Matthew Rycroft has just stated that "chemical weapons scientists in the UK have analyzed samples obtained from Khan Sheikhoun and these have tested positive for the nerve agent sarin or a sarin-like substance. The UK therefore shares the US assessment that it is highly likely that the regime was responsible for a sarin attack on Khan Sheikhoun on the 4th of April. There can be no place for Assad in Syria's future.")

Video: Moscow's representative at the UN Security Council blasts his British counterpart using some decidedly undiplomatic language, at a tense session ahead of a vote on a Syria resolution to condemn the alleged use of chemical weapons in Idlib and demand all parties in the conflict provide access for investigation.


Comment: Given the loose rhetoric, anger and actions in the past 10 days, who knows where we'd be now without the Russian and Chinese grownups in the room.

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