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One day after a US spy plane had to take "evasive action" over the East China Sea after a Chinese fighter jet showed off its Top Gun skills and appeared 90 meters in front of the interloper, a US Navy patrol ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian vessel near the northern Arabian Gulf on Tuesday after the vessel came within 150 yards (137 meters).

#BREAKING: #US navy ship fires warning shots toward #Iranian vessel after it comes within 150 yards in northern #ArabianGulf: US official pic.twitter.com/WKTan9fYeO

Iraqi Leader Says Iraq Needs Russia Not US

Nouri al-Maliki, the puppet that Washington put in office in Iraq after destroying the country said yesterday: “we would like Russia to have a substantial presence in our country, both politically and militarily.”

In his talks with Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, earlier Monday, al-Maliki stressed that a Russian presence in Iraq would bring the balance which couldn’t be “undermined in a political sense in favor of any external party.”

After sliding to 3 month lows on "car cartel" concerns yesterday, European stocks have rebounded after three days of declines, while oil extended gains after Saudi export cuts, with Brent rising above $49 and WTI just shy of $47. Asian stocks fell while S&P futures rose 0.2% to 2,473, putting yesterday's GOOGL drop on plunging Costs-Per-Click in the rearview mirror.

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The rolling tantrum from the left against President Trump has stumbled into absurd territory. In a bill unveiled last week and co-sponsored by 28 House Democrats - led by Rep. Steve Cohen, who looks dead on the inside, H. Res 456 "Objecting to the conduct of the President of the United States," details how mean and unpresidential Donald Trump has been.

Authored by Ivan Eland via The Strategic Culture Foundation,

During his campaign for the presidency, Donald Trump touted his nationalist “America First” foreign policy, which implied that he wanted to stay out of foreign brushfire wars. Even before that, he tweeted his disapproval of American involvement of the Afghan War.