Section: News & Summaries

      Putin: Negative Reflection in Western Eyes
      May23

      Putin: Negative Reflection in Western Eyes

      Putin: leader of nationalist Russia, master of “realpolitik” — leverage, punishment, reward — the Boss of bosses, capricious and absolute. Whatever the game, why play one side or the other when you can own the whole board? Medieval Political Absolutism v Modern Democratic Societies KGB Colonel, President, Emperor Putin has taken Russia back the...

      Cast Off By The United States a Decade Ago, Keflavik is Again a Key Lookout
      May07

      Cast Off By The United States a Decade Ago, Keflavik is Again a Key Lookout

      In its Cold War heyday, the tiny town of Keflavik (population 15,129 today) played an outsized role on the world stage as a strategic outpost for the United States and its NATO allies, keeping an eye on Soviet and Russian activities. The Icelandic airbase was home to thousands of US servicemembers and their families. As Moscow-Washington tensions...

      Ukrainian Finance Minister Optimistic About Economic Future
      May02

      Ukrainian Finance Minister Optimistic About Economic Future

      Despite past difficulties, Ukraine’s track record of economic reforms appears to have set the country in the right direction, according to Oleksandr Danylyuk, finance minister of Ukraine. Speaking at the Atlantic Council on April 17, Danylyuk struck an optimistic tone about the coming years in Ukraine as he addressed the economic reforms...

      French President Macron’s Address to the United States Congress, April 25, 2018
      Apr25

      French President Macron’s Address to the United States Congress, April 25, 2018

      Also Relevant 9/11 – http://www.businessinsider.com/exploring-al-qaedas-murky-connection-to-russian-intelligence-2014-6 Reflexive Control Process: “Allahu Akbar Terrorism” -> New Nationalism –> Neo-Feudalism New Threats – New Powers and Criminal States Russian Section Moscow’s Rules — A Module United States of America...

      FTAC: Brief Comment: Optics on Frenemies Moscow and Washington
      Apr16

      FTAC: Brief Comment: Optics on Frenemies Moscow and Washington

      ” . . . they are making a show to other countries . . . “ True. The action taken to forestall additional Chemical Weapons (CW) attacks was conducted as a deliberate and open demonstration of capability (imho) and not as one blow among others launched without warning in the chaos and fury of combat. Russo-American cooperation in “optics” has been...

      FTAC: To a Pakistani On the Image of American Warmongering
      Apr13

      FTAC: To a Pakistani On the Image of American Warmongering

      The Grand Game for Hearts and Minds remains in play between America and Russia. Searching up video title “Five Decades of Lies and Wars” will take you to the prompt for the following text. Background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_measures It was the Soviet Union that poured $1 billion itself into America’s domestic Vietnam Era...

      From Correspondence: 9/11: Moscow’s Phantom Vision –> End of Gaza’s Suffering
      Apr01

      From Correspondence: 9/11: Moscow’s Phantom Vision –> End of Gaza’s Suffering

      “Yes, but there many things that must be explained… the terrorist attack of 9/11 received the support of Saudi Arabia… ???” No, ______, it did not....

      Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Says Salisbury Attack Proves Putin Has ‘No Red Lines’
      Mar23

      Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Says Salisbury Attack Proves Putin Has ‘No Red Lines’

      Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin came to Brussels this week to meet European Union (EU) foreign ministers. He had a dual mission. Klimkin made his usual appeal to his European counterparts for more help for Ukraine, but also asked them to do more to protect themselves from a Kremlin he says has no limits after Vladimir Putin’s...

      Fulani Herdsman Rampage Through Dundu Village, Kwall District, Bassa, Plateau State, Nigeria
      Mar14

      Fulani Herdsman Rampage Through Dundu Village, Kwall District, Bassa, Plateau State, Nigeria

      BackChannels’ source has reported nineteen men, three women, and three children killed by Fulani herdsman Monday night (March 12, 2018) in Dundu Village, Kwall District, Bassa Governate, Plateu State, Nigeria. The attack follows by three days the burning of 50 homes and the killing of two children, twins, and 9 adults in Jos, the capital of...

      On President Trump’s ‘Jerusalem Declaration’
      Dec14

      On President Trump’s ‘Jerusalem Declaration’

      The prompt: opprobrium for much of President Trump’s other actions and utterances with glowing exception for announcing the moving of the American Embassy to Jerusalem. Trump has to respond to internal personal as well as external political pressures. He has to make decisions with those two universes somewhat in balance. The “Jerusalem...