August 17, 2018 – Astute News

August 17, 2018

The Infowar Phase of the US’ Hybrid War on One Belt–One Road

The US’ Hybrid War on OBOR doesn’t stop at the military phase but importantly continues into the informational domain in order to undermine China’s New Silk Roads through the planting of Trumpist “time bombs” in strategic transit states that can only be neutralized by a comprehensive perception management strategy that breaks from the centralized model that Beijing is known for....

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August 17, 2018

Riding on Qatari Wings, Multipolarity Arrives in the Middle East

Trust Turkey’s Recep Erdogan to have had a game plan when he challenged the Trump administration and promised that the latter will regret its “unilateralist” policies. Some pundits thought Russia and China have been inciting him and are lurking in the shadows to escort Erdogan to a brave new world. Others fancied that the Eurasian integration processes would now take...

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August 17, 2018

Trump’s Sanctions on Iran Dig Deeper Grave for US Forces in Afghanistan

The dramatic, and seemingly unstoppable, surge of Taliban offensives across Afghanistan is proof that the US is fast becoming the latest foreign power to succumb to failure in a land known for for being the “graveyard of empires”. But unlike past empires defeated in Afghanistan, the US stands out as singularly contributing to its own ill-fate through excessive blundering and...

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August 17, 2018

Canada vs. Saudi Arabia: Illusions and Reality

The Canadian government finds itself caught in a dilemma of its own making, skewered on the spear of its own hypocrisy, and left to dangle in the wind by its supposed allies, as a result of its demand that Saudi Arabia release a woman who criticised the Saudi women’s rights policies. There has been all sorts of frenzied analysis in...

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August 17, 2018

America the Punitive

There has been a dramatic shift in how the United States government carries out its business internationally. Admittedly, Washington has had a tendency to employ force to get what it has wanted ever since 9/11, but it also sometimes recognized that other countries had legitimate interests and accepted there was a place for diplomacy to resolve issues short of armed...

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August 17, 2018

Smearing, Libelling, Intimidating: How Jeremy Corbyn’s Detractors are Plotting to Take Him Down

Every day you log on, you ask yourself how much dirtier the campaign to unseat Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party is going to get, how much lower his enemies are going to sink. And each day they surpass themselves in the race to the gutter of British politics. Last week, Britain’s three Jewish newspapers, who usually feud...

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August 17, 2018

Bargaining Around the Horn: Ethiopia and Eritrea Reconciled Through the Soviet Naval Base in Berbera

The alliance of the UAE and Egypt is expanding its zone of influence in the Horn of Africa, including the establishment of Ethiopian-Eritrean relations. There is a noticeable Emirati influence in Ethiopia, where they compete with the Qatar-Turkey alliance. Saudi Arabia, being a rival of the UAE and Egypt, supports them in the region against Qatar. The Kingdom of Saudi...

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August 17, 2018

Trump to Netanyahu: Palestinians Must be Completely Conquered

The Washington correspondent of Israel’s Haaretz newspaper, Amir Tibon, headlined on the night of Tuesday, August 14, “Trump Administration Wants to See a Gaza Cease-fire ‘With or Without the Palestinian Authority’,” and he reported that, “The Trump administration wants to see a long-term cease-fire in Gaza, with or without the support of the Palestinian Authority, a spokesperson for the White...

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Daily Archive: August 17, 2018

The Infowar Phase of the US’ Hybrid War on One Belt–One Road

Riding on Qatari Wings, Multipolarity Arrives in the Middle East

Trump’s Sanctions on Iran Dig Deeper Grave for US Forces in Afghanistan

Canada vs. Saudi Arabia: Illusions and Reality

America the Punitive

Smearing, Libelling, Intimidating: How Jeremy Corbyn’s Detractors are Plotting to Take Him Down

Bargaining Around the Horn: Ethiopia and Eritrea Reconciled Through the Soviet Naval Base in Berbera

Trump to Netanyahu: Palestinians Must be Completely Conquered