President Putin has said that Donald Trump predicted the murder of US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia two days ago in a private letter dated 12 February. In the letter, the American billionaire predicted the death of Scalia, suggesting it was going to be a politically motivated murder.
Since the start of the global war on terror following the 9/11 attacks of 2001 in New York, there has been an increased demand for mercenaries and the private military/security industry has boomed. The U.K. leads the lucrative global private military industry with Britain being the ‘mercenary kingpin’, according to a report by the charity group ‘War on Want’ for the Guardian newspaper.
The Syrian Arab Army (SAA) along with their allies are pushing into ISIS territory and the terrorists are in full retreat. Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes took rebel ground near Aleppo and now have their sights set on Raqqa.
On Saturday, the geopolitical world was shocked when Turkey began shelling Aleppo, where the Syrian opposition has its back against the wall in the face of an aggressive advance by Hezbollah and the IRGC supported, of course, by Russian airstrikes.
To be sure, everyone knew Ankara and Riyadh would have to do something quick if they wanted to preserve the rebellion. Their proxies are being rolled up rapidly by Hassan Nasrallah’s army and Vladimir Putin’s air force juggernaut. But few expected the escalation would come so quickly.
Dan McCarthy comments on the significance of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing on Saturday:
Scalia was the embodiment of conservative opposition to the liberal jurisprudence of the ’60s and ’70s, and that opposition was the glue that held the conservative movement together over the last 40 years, as the end of the Cold War and the waning electoral power of welfare liberalism attenuated other sources of unity.