September 4, 2019 – Astute News

September 4, 2019

Russia’s Using India to Cash In on the US’ Anti-Iranian Sanctions

India’s compliance with the US’ unilateral anti-Iranian sanctions has made it eager to cut more energy deals with Russia in response, which can’t help but please the Kremlin since it also adds a renewed impetus to New Delhi’s interest in investing in its partner’s underdeveloped Arctic and Far East regions. The US and its GCC allies have been the primary...

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September 4, 2019

US Slaps New Tariffs on China; One Minute Later China Retaliates

The biggest reason for last week’s torrid stock market rally was rekindled “optimism” that the escalating trade war between the US and China may be on the verge of another ceasefire following phone conversations, fake as they may have been, between the US and Chinese side. This translated into speculation that a new round of tariffs increases slated for this...

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September 4, 2019

Our Least Finest Hour: Britain is in the Grip of Mass Hysteria

Eighty years ago this week, Britain declared war on Nazi Germany. Within months, we stood alone with the Hitlerite hordes, at the Channel ports, preparing to invade us. Our people then kept calm and carried on. “Children queued in parks for their gas masks, men were digging air-raid shelters,” I heard several eyewitnesses tell the BBC this week. One family,...

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September 4, 2019

Merkel’s in Beijing, Pence is in Poland

A senior Polish official explained to me recently why his country couldn’t accept American demands to exclude Huawei from Poland’s buildout of 5G broadband. During the early 2010s, the United States ignored Poland entirely, but Huawei made a long-term commitment, and built the country’s entire telecommunications infrastructure. To exclude Huawei at this point would be disruptive as well as prohibitively...

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September 4, 2019

America Loses Asia-Pacific as Full Spectrum Dominance Continues to Fail

Always working a little harder than most to stay a step below reality, US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper made especially candid remarks this week that America’s INF pullout was timed for a targeting of forces against China. Speaking to Fox on August 21st, Esper said: “We want to make sure that we, as we need to, have the capability...

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September 4, 2019

Israel’s Many Wars

Two years ago I wrote an article entitled “America’s Jews Are Driving America’s Wars.” Though I made clear in the piece that I was writing about specific, identifiable Jews who fund and staff the think-tanks and foundations that make up the Israel Lobby, I was immediately fired by the Editor of The American Conservative (TAC) magazine and website, a timid...

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September 4, 2019

The West Oppressed the Third World for so Long that It Became Third World Itself

Many have already noticed: The US really, really doesn’t feel like the world leader, or even as a ‘first world country’. Of course, I write that sarcastically, as I detest expressions like ‘first world’, and the ‘third world’. But readers know what I mean. Bridges, subways, inner cities, everything is crumbling, falling apart. When I used to live in New...

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September 4, 2019

The Twilight of the Global Order

We live in an era of hyperbole, in which gripping accounts of monumental triumphs and devastating disasters take precedence over realistic discussions of incremental progress and gradual erosion. But in international relations, as in anything, crises and breakthroughs are only part of the story; if we fail also to notice less sensational trends, we may well find ourselves in serious...

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Daily Archive: September 4, 2019

Russia’s Using India to Cash In on the US’ Anti-Iranian Sanctions

US Slaps New Tariffs on China; One Minute Later China Retaliates

Our Least Finest Hour: Britain is in the Grip of Mass Hysteria

Merkel’s in Beijing, Pence is in Poland

America Loses Asia-Pacific as Full Spectrum Dominance Continues to Fail

Israel’s Many Wars

The West Oppressed the Third World for so Long that It Became Third World Itself

The Twilight of the Global Order