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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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And Washington is unwilling and incapable of preventing the slide that will ruin the lives of even more Iraqi citizens.
As with most international affairs, for the Pentagon it’s probably better to stick with the devil you know rather than get used to a new (if old) one.
All that Trump and his people want to do is inflict pain on innocents with the aim of having them rise up against their governing authoritarians.
The Pentagon’s military strategy for the Arctic will increase international tension and inevitably lead to confrontation.
No matter the spin from the Pentagon and what is now appearing in the U.S. media, Trump’s July 29 decision to move troops from Germany had no basis in strategy.
There is no need for Moscow or Beijing to lift a finger. All they need to do is sit back and laugh at the shambles.
Pompeo has probably done more to bond and unify the people of China than has been achieved by any other foreign politician in recent years.
Britain and the U.S. are forever pontificating about human rights, but are entirely selective in their condemnation.
The rift between the West and Russia and China is being deliberately widened, and a New Cold War is breaking out.
Or perhaps it would be more appropriate to describe his attitude as being one of chronic hypocrisy.