Tag: Mike Pompeo

Joachim Hagopian, President-Elect Trump’s WWIII Train Wreck Incoming

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Joachim Hagopian Since June this year, NATO has amassed a half million troops on high readiness along the Russian border, as both a show of force in case World War III’s Western front breaks out, but more apt to act as an albeit weak and hollow pressure on Russia to want to make concessions to end the Ukraine conflict, according to the November 12th Chinese website inf.news. With Russia pushing Ukraine forces steadily in retreat along the frontline in recent weeks, the Kremlin remains in the driver’s seat in its war of attrition Kiev is losing,…

Doug Bandow, Trump Must Understand a War With Iran Would Be Hell

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by Doug Bandow Key point: The entire Middle East could go up in flames. Sixteen years ago, the George W. Bush administration manipulated intelligence to scare the public into backing an aggressive war against Iraq. The smoking gun mushroom clouds that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice warned against didn’t exist, but the invasion long desired by neoconservatives and other hawks proceeded. Liberated Iraqis rejected U.S. plans to create an American puppet state on the Euphrates and the aftermath turned into a humanitarian and geopolitical catastrophe which continues to roil the Middle East. Thousands…

Dmitry Orlov, Why Must Venezuela be Destroyed?

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Dmitry Orlov  Last week Trump, his VP Mike Pence, US State Dept. director Mike Pompeo and Trump’s national security advisor John Bolton, plus a bunch of Central American countries that are pretty much US colonies and don’t have foreign policies of their own, synchronously announced that Venezuela has a new president: a virtual non-entity named Juan Guaidó, who was never even a candidate for that office, but who was sorta-kinda trained for this job in the US. Guaidó appeared at a rally in Caracas, flanked by a tiny claque of…