August 13, 2018 – Astute News

August 13, 2018

Three Routes to Pakistan’s Containment by India and the US

The US-Indian Strategic Partnership aims to “contain” Pakistan in three ways that go beyond the conventional model of fomenting instability within its borders. One of the centerpieces of 21st century geopolitics in the New Cold War has been the US-Indian Strategic Partnership that has been incipiently developing over the past two decades but really took off over the past couple...

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August 13, 2018

The Afghan Quagmire Gets Deeper, Denser and Bloodier

In April 1971 John Kerry, who served gallantly in Vietnam and was later Secretary of State, stood in front of a US Senate Committee and asked “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?” Today, we could do with...

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August 13, 2018

Jordan – Staunch Western Ally – Angry and Confused

Where precisely, is Jordan now? Is it with the West, or with the Arab world? How independent is it, really, and what future lies ahead? Recently, in the middle of the capital city – Amman – several sleek 5-star hotel towers grew towards the sky, including the trendy “W” and Rotana. Dressed to kill women from the Gulf, wearing high...

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August 13, 2018

How Turkey’s Currency Crisis Came to Pass

President Erdogan of Turkey often asserts that ‘foreign powers’ (meaning the U.S.) want to bring him down. He says that the ‘interest lobby’ (meaning (Jewish) bankers), wants to damage Turkey. He is somewhat right on both points. Since last week the Turkish lira is on an extended down-slide. Today alone it lost nearly 20% of its value. It will likely...

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August 13, 2018

Trump’s “Space Force” Is About to Take Off in a Huge Way. Strategic Threat to Russia and China

Popularly derided by critics from the Mainstream and Alternative Medias as a delusional dream of a megalomaniac president, Trump’s Space Force is actually an initiative to be reckoned with and poses the highest degree of strategic threat to Russia and China. Most of the world mocked Trump after he proposed the creation of a US Space Force earlier this year,...

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August 13, 2018

The Twilight of the War

World wars do not only end with a winner and a loser. Their termination defines the contours of a new world. The First World War ended with the defeat of the German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman Empires. The cessation of hostilities was marked by the elaboration of an international organisation, the League of Nations (LN), tasked with abolishing secret diplomacy...

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August 13, 2018

A Decalogue of American Empire-Building: A Dialogue

Introduction Few, if any, believe what they hear and read from leaders and media publicists. Most people choose to ignore the cacophony of voices, vices and virtues. This paper provides a set of theses which purports to lay-out the basis for a dialogue between and among those who choose to abstain from elections with the intent to engage them in...

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August 13, 2018

War or Peace?

American politicians provoke a slew of emotions, from tears of rage to tears of laughter. But perhaps the uppermost emotion is one of pity. With a few honorable exceptions, it is such a pity that the American people are misled by such buffoons. It is such a pity that the American and Russian people — who have so much in common as human beings —...

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Daily Archive: August 13, 2018

Three Routes to Pakistan’s Containment by India and the US

The Afghan Quagmire Gets Deeper, Denser and Bloodier

Jordan – Staunch Western Ally – Angry and Confused

How Turkey’s Currency Crisis Came to Pass

Trump’s “Space Force” Is About to Take Off in a Huge Way. Strategic Threat to Russia and China

The Twilight of the War

A Decalogue of American Empire-Building: A Dialogue

War or Peace?