February 26, 2020 – Astute News

February 26, 2020

India’s Geopolitical Pivot Is Complete After Trump’s Successful Visit

India’s gradual geopolitical pivot towards the US — hitherto deceptively disguised as “multi-aligning” between Great Powers — is complete after Trump’s successful visit, during which time the two countries agreed to a $3 billion arms deal and a memorandum of understanding on boosting energy ties, prompting Prime Minister Modi to proudly declare that they had just established a “comprehensive global...

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February 26, 2020

Erdogan Calls Kremlin to Bail Him From His Idlib Fiasco, Pitiless Putin Lines Up Behind His Military

The Russian and Syrian general staffs and their men have been doing to the Turks what no one has achieved in the Middle East since 1917. So the Sultan has called the Tsar – three times this month so far; in January, once by telephone, twice in face-to-face meetings; and twice by telephone in December. Every time the telephone rings,...

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February 26, 2020

Sabotaging Kabul’s Multipolar Revolution With China and Russia

Nineteen years after September 11, 2001 and 17 years after launching its war against the Taliban in Afghanistan, the U.S. seems ready to cut a deal with the Taliban in order to freeze out its Eurasian rivals. The central government in Kabul has in recent years granted a leading role to Moscow and Beijing in efforts to pacify the country...

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February 26, 2020

Turkey’s Request for U.S. Patriot Missiles to Pressure Russia in Syria Will Not Work

Ankara’s statements about an imminent military operation in Syria and the Turkish authorities’ request for Washington to supply them with U.S.-made Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems are just Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan‘s manoeuvres to leverage against Russia that his country may be returning to the NATO camp. With Turkey supporting and backing jihadists against the Syrian Army in Idlib, the...

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February 26, 2020

RussiaGate Claims Its Next Victim – Bernie Sanders

Bernie Sanders is done. He had a chance to help effect the changes needed to keep the United States from sinking into political depravity. But he blew that chance. At the first sign of push back by the intelligence agencies Bernie rolled over like my five pound rat terrier, Ginnie, who’s literally scared of her own shadow. After more than...

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February 26, 2020

USA’s “Middle Eastern Vietnam”

The United States lost the Vietnam War forty five years ago. By carrying out air strikes against the North and deploying US troops in the South, Washington hoped to weaken North Vietnam’s economy. The war saw some of the most intense aerial bombardment in the history of humankind. From 1964 to 1973, the United States Air Force dropped approximately 7.7...

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February 26, 2020

Bolivia: Anatomy of a CIA Coup

Last November a horrifying coup took place overthrowing the socialist government of Bolivia and the nation’s first indigenous president Evo Morales. It was a textbook example of a CIA coup recalling the dark days of Operation Condor when the US installed military dictatorships throughout the region to insure they could be looted by american corporations. Bolivia is now ruled by...

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February 26, 2020

Fat Women Are Not a National Priority

Good work, Democrats! In the Las Vegas debate, you blasted every target but Donald Trump. Instead of quivering in his Gucci loafers, the man who would be king was left dancing on air. The man who should have been king, newcomer Mike Bloomberg, was left looking like a beaten-up cigar store Indian. He had not prepped for the debate and...

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Daily Archive: February 26, 2020

India’s Geopolitical Pivot Is Complete After Trump’s Successful Visit

Erdogan Calls Kremlin to Bail Him From His Idlib Fiasco, Pitiless Putin Lines Up Behind His Military

Sabotaging Kabul’s Multipolar Revolution With China and Russia

Turkey’s Request for U.S. Patriot Missiles to Pressure Russia in Syria Will Not Work

RussiaGate Claims Its Next Victim – Bernie Sanders

USA’s “Middle Eastern Vietnam”

Bolivia: Anatomy of a CIA Coup

Fat Women Are Not a National Priority