March 12, 2019 – Astute News

March 12, 2019

CENTCOM Is Taking S-CPEC+ Real Seriously

The Commander of US Central Command (CENTCOM) told the House Armed Services Committee just how “concerned” he is about China projecting its Silk Road influence from Gwadar to Africa through S-CPEC+ and consequently establishing a permanent naval presence in the western end of the Afro-Asian Ocean. CPEC is increasingly being appreciated as the game-changing geostrategic megaproject that it is after...

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March 12, 2019

For 4 Years Mullah Omar Hid Right Next to a 1000-Man US Military Base in Afghanistan

All the while the Americans claimed the ex-Taliban leader, whom they had a $10 million reward out on, was in Pakistan. As military engineers built the base, Mullah Omar decided it was time to move. With Ustaz’s help, he and Jabbar Omari relocated to Siuray, a district around twenty miles southeast of Qalat. After 2001, it had become part of...

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March 12, 2019

US Is Playing Both India & Pakistan, In More Ways Than One

As India and Pakistan iron out a few significant differences after a near brush with each other’s militaries, the US has been quietly enacting a trade war strategy against India, a key ally of Washington. The India-Pakistan conflict has revealed an incredibly ugly side of the Middle East’s regional geopolitics. What I mean is, if you thought it was ugly...

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March 12, 2019

Is a War With Iran on the Horizon?

Here’s the foreign policy question of questions in 2019: Are President Donald Trump, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, all severely weakened at home and with few allies abroad, reckless enough to set off a war with Iran? Could military actions designed to be limited — say, a heightening of the Israeli bombing of...

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March 12, 2019

Removing “Arab” from the Syrian Arab Republic Would “Balkanize” the Country

The Syrian Kurds are committed to changing their country’s name. One of the group’s representatives told Sputnik that they insist on changing the constitutional name of the Syrian Arab Republic to the “Syrian Republic” so as to supposedly make the post-war country more inclusive for minorities, implying credence to the pre-war smears that the ruling Baath Party enforced a policy of...

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March 12, 2019

“Lights Out!” Did Trump and His Neocons Recycle Bush-Era Plan to Knock Out Venezuela’s Power Grid?

For nearly four days, much of Venezuela has been without power, bringing the country’s embattled economy to a near standstill. Though power is now returning, the outage saw U.S. officials and politicians blame the Venezuelan government for the crisis while officials in Caracas accused the U.S. of conducting “sabotage” and launching cyberattacks that targeted its civilian power grid as well...

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March 12, 2019

Geostrategy After the Deadlock in US-North-Korean Relations

George Friedman, the head of the ‘private CIA’ firm Stratfor, issued a report on March 5th, “After Hanoi: North Korea, the US and Japan”, and it said: The strategy since World War II, built on the assumption that US conventional forces can defeat any foe and pacify the country, is being abandoned. And in the case of the Hanoi talks, the...

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March 12, 2019

Will Trump’s Hawks Dare to Risk Israel?

It was the eleventh, and perhaps the most important meeting between President Putin and PM Netanyahu on 27 February, writes the well-informed journalist, Elijah Magnier: “The Israeli visitor heard clearly from his host that Moscow has no leverage to ask Iran to leave – or, to stop the flow of weapons to Damascus … Moscow [also] informed Tel Aviv about Damascus’s determination to respond to...

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Daily Archive: March 12, 2019

CENTCOM Is Taking S-CPEC+ Real Seriously

For 4 Years Mullah Omar Hid Right Next to a 1000-Man US Military Base in Afghanistan

US Is Playing Both India & Pakistan, In More Ways Than One

Is a War With Iran on the Horizon?

Removing “Arab” from the Syrian Arab Republic Would “Balkanize” the Country

“Lights Out!” Did Trump and His Neocons Recycle Bush-Era Plan to Knock Out Venezuela’s Power Grid?

Geostrategy After the Deadlock in US-North-Korean Relations

Will Trump’s Hawks Dare to Risk Israel?