March 8, 2019 – Astute News

March 8, 2019

India and Pakistan on the Brink: A Nuclear Nightmare in Southeast Asia

With last week’s U.S.-North Korea summit in Hanoi, Congressional Democrats’ revolt against President Donald Trump’s state of emergency and Michael Cohen’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee; you may have missed the news that the Indian Air Force launched airstrikes against targets in Pakistan. This was quietly one of the dangerous crises of the post–Cold War era. On February 26,...

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March 8, 2019

Mike Pompeo’s War Warning to China

As President Trump flew home from his Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, Mike Pompeo peeled off and flew to Manila. And there the Secretary of State made a startling declaration. Any armed attack by China on a Philippine ship or plane in the South China Sea, he told the Philippine government, will be treated as an attack on an...

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March 8, 2019

India’s Ruling Party Just Implied That the Opposition’s Dissent Is Treasonous

A chilling development just took place in the self-professed “world’s largest democracy” after the ruling party’s Finance Minister implied that the opposition’s political dissident is treasonous after prominent figures began publicly questioning the government’s official narrative over the Pulwama attack and the subsequent “surgical strike” that it claimed to have carried out against Pakistan. Speaking Truth To Power Less than...

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March 8, 2019

The Decision to Go to War

An analysis of various wars and conflicts of the current century shows that the decisions of the military-political leadership of these states were made on the basis of geopolitical, political, military and technical goals, along with different tasks and phases of hostilities, but the main thing was to achieve a surprise attack. Second Lebanese The Israeli leadership designated the main...

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March 8, 2019

Zarif Returns to Politics and Soleimani to His Maps

It is quite normal that the Iranian Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif is not the only decision maker on foreign policy because the Islamic Republic is in a constant war-like situation with surrounding Middle Eastern countries and the west. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad Bin Salman’s decisionto move the battle to Iran and the aggressive US embargo has put the country on a...

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March 8, 2019

The UK Debunked a Myth About Hezbollah, But Still Shouldn’t Have Banned It

The UK just voted to ban Hezbollah’s political wing after the British Home Secretary announced his country’s intent to do so. News about this initiative generated a flurry of responses across social media, ranging from those on the pro-Israeli side of the spectrum lauding it while those who align with the “Resistance” strongly condemned it. Many people also voiced concerns...

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March 8, 2019

The Congo Might See the World’s First “Zombie” Outbreak

Unknown attackers recently torched Ebola treatment centers in the Congo twice in one week. The incidents occurred last Sunday and Wednesday in the conflict-wracked eastern part of the country and were apparently in response to some locals’ suspicions that international aid workers are up to no good. Reuters wrote about this trend last September in a piece that described how...

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March 8, 2019

Mapping the American War on Terror: Now in 80 Countries, It Couldn’t Be More Global

In September 2001, the Bush administration launched the “Global War on Terror.” Though “global” has long since been dropped from the name, as it turns out, they weren’t kidding. When I first set out to map all the places in the world where the United States is still fighting terrorism so many years later, I didn’t think it would be...

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Daily Archive: March 8, 2019

India and Pakistan on the Brink: A Nuclear Nightmare in Southeast Asia

Mike Pompeo’s War Warning to China

India’s Ruling Party Just Implied That the Opposition’s Dissent Is Treasonous

The Decision to Go to War

Zarif Returns to Politics and Soleimani to His Maps

The UK Debunked a Myth About Hezbollah, But Still Shouldn’t Have Banned It

The Congo Might See the World’s First “Zombie” Outbreak

Mapping the American War on Terror: Now in 80 Countries, It Couldn’t Be More Global