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Category Archives: Willy B
Turkey Double Talks Its Way Into Northeastern Syria by Willy B
The Turks have now launched their long threatened military operation in northeast Syria, under the Orwellian name of "Operation Peace Spring." "Our mission is to prevent the creation of a terror corridor across our southern border, and to bring peace … Continue reading
Posted in Syria, Willy B
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Is Bolton Trashing Yet Another Arms Control Agreement?
by Willy B There's been a lot of verbiage lately about the alleged nuclear threat emanating from Russia, often citing Russian President Vladimir Putin's March 1, 2018 address to the Federal Assembly as proof of Russia's malignant intentions. Mark Schneider, … Continue reading
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Yemen Situation Report
by Willy B President Trump’s April 17 veto of the Congressional resolution calling for the ending of US support to the Saudi war in Yemen, it seems, won‛t end the conflict in that country, regardless of what side you’re on. … Continue reading
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Who Does John Bolton Actually Work For? By Willy B
A review of publicly available reporting that I have accumulated in my files over the past two years would suggest that John Bolton's boss is really Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas casino king who has plied the Republican Party with … Continue reading
Is Pentagon Planning To Stay in Syria Despite Trump?
by Willy B Trump may have vacillated on the time line for the US military withdrawal from Syria but the available evidence suggests that he is determined that it will happen. At the same time, elements of the US national … Continue reading
Trump Fought For His Withdrawal For a Year by Willy B
Gareth Porter, in an article published in the American Conservative, definitively shows that Trump's Dec. 19 announcement of the US withdrawal from Syria was, in fact, the end of a fight of at least a year, between Trump on the … Continue reading
Posted in As The Borg Turns, Borg Wars, Middle East, Policy, Politics, Syria, Willy B
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The Shoot Down of the Russian IL-20: Who’s Responsible?
by Willy B All of the facts have yet to be known but the Russian Defense Ministry has little doubt: the Israelis created the conditions by which Syrian air defenses took down a Russian Il-20 electronic intelligence aircraft in the … Continue reading
Will World War III Start This Week?
by Willy B A report posted by the Wall Street Journal, late yesterday, gives reason to ask that question. "President Bashar al-Assad of Syria has approved the use of chlorine gas in an offensive against the country's last major rebel stronghold, … Continue reading
John McCain is Dead by Willy B
Of course, you already know that because the headlines are dominating the news coverage. Most of the coverage is also lionizing him as some kind of hero who defended America from his time as a POW in Vietnam to his … Continue reading
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Syria: A Major Turn of Events In the South
by Willy B Whoever's making US policy in Syria, it's certainly not Nikki Haley. Despite her rabid statement of Friday, in which she declared that "Russia will ultimately bear responsibility for any further escalations in Syria," Russian war planes joined … Continue reading