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Brian Cloughley
British and Australian armies’ veteran, former deputy head of the UN military mission in Kashmir and Australian defense attaché in Pakistan
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No matter what opinions may be held of Washington’s policies under the erratic Trump, these will always have influence in Europe’s capitals.
In the past four years there has been much debate concerning the pros and cons of Brexit, and not all discussion was courteous or constructive.
Irrespective of Trump’s blatant attempt to get Volodymyr Zelensky to dish the dirt on the Biden family, Washington’s main objective is to support any country that opposes Russia.
Tell that to those who gathered at the Berlin conference to try to find a way forward from the tragic catastrophe created by the NATO dimwits.
The innocent widows and orphans are on the conscience of the world, but the drone attacks will continue.
Nato is floundering in the Middle East, and the best thing it could do would be to withdraw its military forces from the region.
As the Middle East lurches to deeper chaos, the light has shifted from the countless millions of other people deserving attention and compassion.
Iraq is close to collapse and the Iraqi people’s displays of dissatisfaction with their government are essentially domestic.
The man who now heads the UK government goes to show that you can fool and deceive an awful lot of people for an awful lot of the time.
The Afghanistan Papers make it clear that that there were “explicit and sustained efforts by the US government to deliberately mislead the public.”