April 8, 2019 – Astute News

April 8, 2019

Syria Will Not Liberate the Occupied Golan for Decades to Come

The Syrian state will not be in a position to liberate the occupied Golan for decades to come. US President Donald Trump made a giftof the territory to Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu last month. The move was Trump’s support for Netanyahu’s domestic election campaign; Netanyahu is facing severe accusationsof bribery and corruption. No government in Damascus can regain the occupied Golan in...

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April 8, 2019

Initial Thoughts About the First Round of the Ukrainian Presidential Election

The first round of the Presidential election in the Ukraine took place on April Fool’s Day and it could be tempting to dismiss it all like a big farce which, of course, it was, but, we should not overlook the fact that some very interesting and important events have just taken place. I won’t discuss them all right now, there...

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April 8, 2019

US Withdrawing from Afghanistan? It Lies About That Too!

Now we are being told that the US is finally getting out of Afghanistan, as has long been promised Maybe, just maybe, the forty years of conflict there will be over, and everyone who has had their say about that country might just care enough to make that happen. There is some concern that the US is not negotiating this withdrawal with...

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April 8, 2019

Russia Might End Up Being the Winner of the South Asian Space Race

India surprised the world when it announced the first-ever successful completion of its anti-satellite missile test following reports that it first failed to pull off this impressive feat in February. Responsible members of the international community immediately voiced concern about the implications that this development could have for regional strategic security vis-à-vis Pakistan and its Chinese ally, but no sooner...

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April 8, 2019

EU-China Summit: A New Era for Eurasia

Next week’s EU-China Summit and the subsequent 16+1 gathering a few days later mark a new era for Eurasia where the East is coming to the West with trade and services and not vice-versa like before. The first-mentioned will take place on 9 April in Brussels while the second will commence on the 12th in the Croatian port city of...

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April 8, 2019

Putin-Erdogan Summit: What’s Next for the Two Great Powers?

Turkish President Erdogan’s visit to Russia next week will see the two Great Powers take their strategic partnership to the next level in an increasingly multipolar and complex world. The Turkish leader will arrive in the Russian capital next Monday on 8 April for the upcoming session of the High-Level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council, which is an important but nevertheless routine event...

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April 8, 2019

Rows Mar NATO’s Birthday Bash

In his initial remarks with the NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg at the White House on April 2, US President Donald Trump charged straight into his pet grievance that America “alone accounts for the vast majority of NATO defense spending ’s spending”. Trump failed to congratulate NATO on its 70th birth anniversary. When Stoltenberg’s turn came, he gently reminded Trump of...

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April 8, 2019

The Anti-Semitic Con

With the Putin/Russia Collusion Fairytale debunked, the undeniable cancer of real foreign interference in our government demands an honest airing. Since American politics is mortally corrupt, one might wonder why bother to expose one prime cause of its ethical degeneracy. If the beast is dead, what use is determining what killed it? Well, it isn’t quite dead and we have...

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Daily Archive: April 8, 2019

Syria Will Not Liberate the Occupied Golan for Decades to Come

Initial Thoughts About the First Round of the Ukrainian Presidential Election

US Withdrawing from Afghanistan? It Lies About That Too!

Russia Might End Up Being the Winner of the South Asian Space Race

EU-China Summit: A New Era for Eurasia

Putin-Erdogan Summit: What’s Next for the Two Great Powers?

Rows Mar NATO’s Birthday Bash

The Anti-Semitic Con