Authored by Mike Shedlock via MishTalk.com,
Angela Merkel would like her CDU/CSU to have an outright majority. That does not look possible according to the latest German Election Opinion Polls.
Her second preferred choice, a coalition with FDP is not looking very likely either. Is another “Grand Coalition” in the works?
Coalition Math
Authored by Nima Gholam Ali Pour via The Gatestone Institute,
Authored by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,
Confirming reports that first floated several months ago, the Telegraph reports that South Korea is preparing to send special forces units into Pyongyang to conduct a "clinical strike" - searching for, and taking out Kim Jong-un and his closest advisers, in the event that North Korea should start a conventional war. The plan is among the revisions being made to South Korea's latest strategy for dealing with an attack from the North.
Authored by Curt Mills via The National Interest,
With Steve Bannon out of the White House, regrets are abounding in some corners of the right over how President Trump staffed his administration.
As a candidate Donald Trump excoriated his party’s reigning orthodoxies. As president, however, he is running a fairly conventional administration in his first seven months, at least in the policy realm. What happened to making America great again?