According to reports when it was announced that Fidel Ángel Castro Díaz-Balart AKA "Fidelito" had died, Cuba’s state TV said Fidelito “had taken his own life after suffering with deep depression which doctors had been treating him for over several months”. Fidelito was “said in recent years to have grown weary - both of living in his father's shadow and ...
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Unfortunately, chemical weapons are still being used by the Assad regime in Syria. The last attack which happened on 8th April 2018, killing at least 40 people in the eastern suburbs of Damascus in a town called Douma. That attack was almost exactly a year after a previous attack in the northern Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun.
US intelligence agencies believe that Syria may have ...
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The leading theory about why North Korea participated in the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea is the Kim Jong Un wanted to create propaganda which would indicate he’s not a monster and to improve his country’s image as “a peace-loving nation, the victim of relentless international aggression.” And, he wanted to send a message that his country is cultured and ...
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No, I am not satisfied with Trump’s State of the Union address. For one reason, I personally dislike Trump so much that just hearing his voice makes me sick to my stomach. So, while I did not listen to him, I did read it. Also because Trump lies so much, I don’t believe much of anything he said or says day in and day out. Here is just one example that proves me right and this ...
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No, I do not think the Trump administration is giving signals for the inevitable invasion of North Korea. It was just revealed this week by the so-called “fake news” media that Trump’s Central Intelligence Director, Mike Pompeo, met with Kim Jung Un over the Easter holiday weekend. They discussed details for a possible meeting between Trump and Kim in the near ...
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The answer is in his dreams! He thinks that he will build the wall between the US and Mexico border but Congress has not given him any money other than maybe enough to build a few prototypes. Hopefully, after the US midterm elections in November 2018, there will be even fewer Republicans in Congress and it will be even harder for Trump to get the money.
Trump’s 2019 budget ...
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Well, now that Trump has been elected, theoretically it should be easier to describe not how the US involvement in Syria would change but how it has changed. Unfortunately, if you want to believe in the “fake news” media, Trump has changed his policy on Syria five times in two weeks.
One thing about which Trump has been consistent is his position on the Syrian ...
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I think the key to the US-Mexico relationship is immigration and for President Trump to stop talking and tweeting about having Mexico pay for the border wall. A wall is not needed but Trump and Mexico do need to cooperate on border protection. Trump also needs to try to understand the real issue, which is not only Mexican’s crossing the US-Mexico border, but people fleeing violence from ...
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Putin has made an enormous impact on his country and the world. Before Putin was elected to the Russian presidency in 2000, he told the BBC he “would not rule out” the possibility of joining NATO. Since then however, he has taken a much more aggressive position. As of late October, 2014, NATO states “had scrambled fighter jets to intercept Russian aircraft more than 100 ...
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No, the Pentagon is not the center for foreign policy in the US. The Pentagon is the headquarters for the US Department of Defense (DOD). The mission of DOD is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and to protect the security of our country.
Basically, Foreign policy of the US is the split amongst different governmental structures, involving the President, the Department ...
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