Amid escalating tensions, NATO is preparing to deploy approximately 4,000 troops to Russia’s western border Robert Work, the US Deputy Secretary of Defense announced the Western military escalation on Russia’s border, which he claims is in response to Russia conducting ‘extraordinarily provocative’ military exercises inside their own borders near the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. Meanwhile, EUCOM Chief, U.S.
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has compared the People’s Republic of China to a rapist and has vowed to turn the situation around. Referring to China’s high number of exports relative to the U.S., Trump said: “We can’t continue to allow China to rape our country, and that’s what they’re doing” CNN reports: Trump has repeatedly accused China of manipulating its currency to make its exports more competitive on the global market and has claimed that China is “killing” the U.S. on trade.
It has been a busy weekend for mostly negative newsflow.
A popular Iranian newspaper has called on the government to intercept US cargo ships stationed in the Persian Gulf in retaliation to America freezing Iran’s assets. Kayhan newspaper urged the government to take action, after Iran’s appeal to the UN to stop US violations of state immunity and seizure of assets fell on deaf ears. Presstv.com reports: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote to UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to ask him to intervene with his “good offices,” but the United Nations said it would intervene should both parties request it.