Politics

A senior retired NATO general has predicted that Russia will start a world war in exactly a year from now. General Sir Richard Shirreff, who served as Nato’s Deputy Supreme Allied Commander in Europe said that a Russian attack on Estonia, Lithuania or Latvia, which are all Nato members, was a serious possibility and that the West should act now to avert “potential catastrophe”. A Russia insider report: BRACE YOURSELF: Ex-Deputy NATO Commander Predicts Russia Will Start WW3 in May 2017 We’re not kidding, he is actually that specific General Sir Richard Shirreff This is unbelievable.

David Brooks wonders why Hillary Clinton is so unpopular:

There are two paradoxes to her unpopularity. First, she was popular not long ago. As secretary of state she had a 66 percent approval rating. Even as recently as March 2015 her approval rating was at 50 and her disapproval rating was at 39.

It’s only since she launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to impress the American people that she has made herself so strongly disliked.

Sen. Bob Corker met with Donald Trump yesterday:

Sen. Bob Corker, who is rumored to be on Donald Trump’s short list for vice president, said Monday that he had “a good meeting about foreign policy and domestic issues” with the presumptive Republican presidential nominee.

Corker, who said he’d never met with Trump before, downplayed the VP speculation, adding he had no reason to believe he was being considered for the #2 slot.

Submitted by Michael Shedlock via MishTalk.com,

Spain is in political gridlock. The December 2015 election failed to produce a candidate who could put together a coalition. New elections are on June 26.

Supposedly, to “not interfere” with the election process, the European Commission turned a blind eye to the hugely out of control Spanish budget.

The following footage shows Hillary Clinton ‘changing her mind’ on a number of key issues like the same-sex marriage, universal healthcare, links to big banks and foreign policy experience. (Scroll down for video) The Independent reports: The video starts off on same sex marriage, and how Ms Clinton did not publicly support it until 2013. In 2004, she said marriage is “a sacred bond between a man and a woman”.