March 6, 2020 – Astute News

March 6, 2020

India and Iran Aren’t Too Happy About the Afghan Peace Deal

India and Iran are the only two governments in the world which didn’t welcome the US-Taliban peace deal because they both realize the enormity of what they stand to lose by America’s pragmatic rapprochement with the same organization that it blames for facilitating the 9/11 terrorist attacks, but neither of them can really do much to spoil the peace process...

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March 6, 2020

Erdogan Loses the Battle, But the War Is Far From Over

Following 6 hours of grueling negotiations, including direct negotiations between Putin and Erdogan, the parties have finally agreed to the following: A ceasefire will begin at midnight. Russia and Turkey will jointly patrol the M4 highway (M5 now belongs to Damascus). A 6km buffer zone will have to be created and enforced on each side of M4 by the March...

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March 6, 2020

Showdown in Idlib: Master Statesman Putin Averts War with Combative Erdogan

The media has done a poor job of explaining what’s actually taking place in Idlib Province in Syria. That’s unfortunate, but the facts are pretty clear. A year and a half ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan made a deal in Sochi. No one twisted Erdogan’s arm to sign the agreement or pressured him in...

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March 6, 2020

Erdogan or Erdo-gone in Turkey?

“Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad”— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “Prometheus” It looks like Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is headed for the political gallows a lot quicker than I ever thought. His offensive in Idlib has bogged down. And a day before he’s scheduled to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow Erdogan Turkish parliament degrades...

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March 6, 2020

Trump Puts Taliban Deal Back On Track

A mini mutiny in Kabul against the US-Taliban deal has been nipped in the bud and it should sound warning bells in Washington that the real threat to peacemaking in Afghanistan comes from one principal source — the interest groups that monopolise state agencies and are loathe to transfer power. Isolating the Kabul cliques amidst the country’s hopeless fragmentation becomes...

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March 6, 2020

Erdogan and Putin: The End of the Affair

Traditionally, there are two danger zones for Russian foreign policy. The first is when Russia is too weak and the West dismisses its national interest as irrelevant. This lasted for the first two decades in the life of the Russian Federation. It began with the Kosovo war, Nato’s eastern expansion, the US decision to withdraw from the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 2001 and its...

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March 6, 2020

China’s Coronavirus: A Shocking Update. Did The Virus Originate in the US?

The Western media quickly took the stage and laid out the official narrative for the outbreak of the new coronavirus which appeared to have begun in China, claiming it to have originated with animals at a wet market in Wuhan. In fact the origin was for a long time unknown but it appears likely now, according to Chinese and Japanese...

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March 6, 2020

The Multipolar Alliance Induces Rumpelstiltskin’s Self-Destruction

There are several versions of the old German folk tale of Rumpelstiltskin. The story begins with greedy king who is told by a foolish old miller that a young girl (the miller’s daughter) had the ability to spin hay into gold. When the poor girl is locked into a tower with bales of straw, a loom and orders to transform...

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Daily Archive: March 6, 2020

India and Iran Aren’t Too Happy About the Afghan Peace Deal

Erdogan Loses the Battle, But the War Is Far From Over

Showdown in Idlib: Master Statesman Putin Averts War with Combative Erdogan

Erdogan or Erdo-gone in Turkey?

Trump Puts Taliban Deal Back On Track

Erdogan and Putin: The End of the Affair

China’s Coronavirus: A Shocking Update. Did The Virus Originate in the US?

The Multipolar Alliance Induces Rumpelstiltskin’s Self-Destruction