Politics

The Russian infantry’s weapon of choice for hazardous missions is the Uranus 9 Military robot. Russia Insider reports: Deadly Russian War Robots Are Now Reality (Video) The war in Syria has served as a magnificent laboratory for research and testing. Benefits gained have not been limited to equipment developed years ago but hitherto never tested in combat, but also to experiment with new kinds of technology in a real-world, battlefield environment.

The state of New Mexico have introduced a new law that protects children from being forced to take psychiatric drugs from the government, in defiance to the federal government’s plan to conduct mandatory mental health screening for all teenagers.  Despite the big push by the Obama administration to force ‘depression screening’ on all U.S. teenagers, New Mexico’s refusal to implement the program may inspire other states to follow suit.

In the wake of the terrorist attacks that left nearly two dozen killed and some 100 people injured, officials in Brussels (not to mention presidential candidates in the US) are wondering whether police in Belgium should have tortured Salah Abdeslam last weekend.

To let Donald Trump and others tell it, torturing Abdeslam would likely have yielded valuable information that may well have prevented the attacks that left some 34 people dead last week. 

The U.S. military are going to deploy thousands of troops to the Russian border in an effort to protect NATO’s eastern borders from “aggressive Russia”. Around 4,500 soldiers armed with 250 tanks, Bradley Fighting Vehicles, Paladin self-propelled howitzers, and over 1,700 vehicles will station themselves at the border in the biggest deployment of its kind since the end of the Cold War. Vice News reports: They will conduct military exercises across Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Bulgaria, and Hungary, according to a statement from US European Command.

China have invoked Article 9 of the Sino-Russian Treaty of Friendship (FCT) notifying Russia that they have begun offensive/defensive military movements to protect national interests – including the deployment of a flotilla of attack submarines to the west coast of America.  China’s announcement comes just one day after President Xi Jinping warned President Obama that the two countries were perilously close to war: “China will firmly safeguard the sovereignty and related rights in the South China Sea and will not accept any freedom of navigation as an excuse to undermine China’s sovereignty