The new era of peace that was the promise of the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War with Russia never materialized. Perhaps we should have known better. Perhaps we let our hope for a better world cloud our judgment. Whatever went wrong, and regardless of our misinterpretation of those initially hopeful events, we find the U.S. now perhaps closer to armed conflict with Russia than we have since those tension-filled years of the Cold War. In fact, some are comparing the current situation with Syria with the Cuban Missile Crisis, a disquieting comparison if there ever was one.
Continuing the “connect the dots” project we started on page one, we can now add one more unwelcome piece of news to the puzzle:
Russia is ordering all of its officials to fly home any relatives living abroad amid heightened tensions over the prospect of global war, it has been claimed.
Politicians and high-ranking figures are said to have received a warning from president Vladimir Putin to bring their loved-ones home to the ‘Motherland’, according to local media.
Could we find perhaps a bit more bad news in this story? No problem.
It comes after Putin cancelled a planned visit to France amid a furious row over Moscow’s role in the Syrian conflict and just days after it emerged the Kremlin had moved nuclear-capable missiles nearer to the Polish border.
And it even gets worse:
But Russian political analyst Stanislav Belkovsky is quoted by the Daily Star as saying: ‘This is all part of the package of measures to prepare elites to some ‘big war’.’
The folks in Poland are justifiably getting a bit nervous:
Just days ago, it was reported that Russia had moved nuclear-capable missiles near to the Polish border as tensions escalated between the world’s largest nation and the West.
The Iskander missiles sent to Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave on the Baltic Sea between Nato members Poland and Lithuania, are now within range of major Western cities including Berlin.
Polish officials – whose capital Warsaw is potentially threatened – have described the move as of the ‘highest concern’.
Well, at least the escalating conflict has a humorous moment:
Meanwhile, the top advisor to US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has said the FBI is investigating Russia’s possible role in hacking thousands of his personal emails.
Hillary Clinton is accusing someone of irregularities with email. Does it get any better than that? We could never make that one up.
Those who are discussing the need to reduce the potential for military conflict with Russia would include presidential hopeful Donald Trump, although that’s a thin reed to rely on, especially since his election chances are uncertain. And anyway, the current administration has plenty of time to ramp up a conflict before it leaves office.
We also found some anti-war talk in the British Parliament that offers some nice contrast to the aggressive talk coming from Obama and Clinton, although you can never be sure how sincere these folks are or where they’ll go with their talk:
Earlier this week British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson waded into the row, calling for anti-war campaigners to protest outside the Russian embassy in London.
Johnson said the ‘wells of outrage are growing exhausted’ and anti-war groups were not expressing sufficient outrage at the conflict in Aleppo.
‘Where is the Stop the War Coalition at the moment? Where are they?’ he said during a parliamentary debate.
It seems unlikely that there are many Americans who are prepared to risk nuclear war with Russia over Syria. Any chance of getting this idea across to the Obama administration?
Source: The Daily Mail
excellent format with the attributions on page 1, real story on page 2
Truth And$#%&!@*
VOTE WISE TRUMP!
This is exactly why “WE THE PEOPLE” do not want to live under the dictatorship of Socialism or Communism – which is exactly what’s going to happen if Hillary gets elected.
•”WE THE PEOPLE’S” government will no longer exist.
•We are losing our constitutional rights and freedoms on a daily basis.
•We are taxed to death, which keeps the taxpayers from honestly experiencing prosperity
•We are forced to use a government healthcare plan thats imploding. The people who can’t afford the insurance are being penalized
•So, the IRS takes the penalties out of “WE THE PEOPLE’S” income tax refunds! Money owed to us! Money people count on from year to year. What sense does that make? Where is that money going to? Who has to account for it?
•The government healthcare plan was based on lies and shoved down the throats of “WE THE PEOPLE”.
•In the past, when people received the refunds – due them. People would go out shopping and spend their refunds – which put money back into the economy
• It’s just another good example of how our current administration is trying to keep the working class from getting ahead. Our government plans to make the working class dependant on them. It worked for a lot of our African Americans, for decades.
•The government keeps taking and taking and has very little to show for it. Look around and tell me our infrastructure is top of the line.
•Can “WE THE PEOPLE”, honestly say that we feel safe living in our own country, where we are now forced (because of this administrations failed foreign policies) to fight our enemies here on our own soil??
Our current administration invites tens of thousands of these people from foreign Arab nations (who despise Americans and our way of life), to live here in the USA.
•The taxpayers are paying for their flights here
•Giving them money once they reach the US
•Giving them free housing
•Free medical and dental care
•Free education
•Free food
• Plus building mosques to accommodate them.
We have a ‘do nothing’ Congress, which doesn’t have the courage to stand up for “WE THE PEOPLE” and our best interests. Its all about them!!! I think our elected officials have forgotten who pays their salaries!!
The corruption in “WE THE PEOPLE’S ” government is massive. The taxpayers are the ones who are literally killing themselves, because we are the ones being forced to pay for the corruption. Not only are we paying monetarily for it, we are the one suffering just to survive.
I thought it was a parents job to leave this world in better shape, than it was when we were growing up.
Sadly, our current administration failed us. This is NOT the hope and change that was promised.
•This country is so divided – more-so now, than ever before.
•”WE THE PEOPLE”, no longer have any trust or respect for any of our elected officials, because we can’t believe anything that comes out of their mouths.
They lie, steal, make back door deals, favor the elites, big corporations, wall street baffoons, financial institutions….. (btw, I wonder if the current administration will have anything to say about who is appointed the next CEO for Wells Fargo), takes billions of dollars from foreign arab nations (most of them who would rather behead us than look at us), sells and trades weapons to hostile nations or radical Islamic terrorists – which are then used to kill our brave men and women in uniform.
Who in the world would secretly have a private email server installed (in the basement of her private residence), after being appointed Sec. of State – Who then, sends and receives top secret / classified emails using this unsecured server?
Who would risk our national security for her convenience? Comey stated there was no evidence that proved the server had been compromised. My thought – there was no evidence to prove that the unsecured server hadn’t been compromised!!!
Is this the type of person “WE THE PEOPLE” want to lead our country?
•To protect us from all foriegn or domestic enemies?
•To get our economy back on track (without more stimulus packages) or putting even more burden on the taxpayers.
•To secure our boarders and deal with our immigration issues?
,•Implement a new healthcare plan that is actually affordable and will benefit the working class?
•To rebuild our infrastructure, that should have been done years ago.
• To honestly unite this great nation we live in.
•Build up our Defense Department.
•Take care of our veterans by revamping the entire medical system, so that every vet gets the necessary care they were promised, and in a timely manner.
•Take care of our men and women in harm’s way, by suppling them with the necessary weapons they need to protect themselves, while accomplishing their mission.
•Negotiate a realistic pay scale for all of our armed forces.
•Get to the bottom of the massive fraud within our government and actually hold people accountable – instead of being one of the greedy ring leaders to further your own agenda.
•Weed out the people who do not follow the rule of law.
Hillary has been a part of the problem for decades. She’s will never EVER do what’s in the best interest of “WE THE PEOPLE”. If she did, she would lose her power, her income, her prestige, and influence with the devil himself – George Soros.
When the US starts another war in Europe, Russia and China are going to end life as we know it. We are going to get our$#%&!@*pushed in and we will deserve it. I’ll fight but not for any dumb$#%&!@*citizens that deserve what’s coming.
Payback..George Soros, who owns Hillary Clinton, is wanted by Russia, so God little child Hillary. Follows daddy’s orders.
Money won’t have value, ammo will be the gold standard.