War

Former aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Igor Ivanov, says that the risk of WWIII is higher than at any other time in history. According to The Daily Star: Only this January, some of the world’s top boffins kept the dreaded “Doomsday Clock” positioned at three minutes to midnight – its closest to armageddon in 20 years. Looming war between the West and other nuclear powers such as Russia and China was a chief reason. And Mr Ivanov agrees that this horrific scenario is possible.

As the US and countries across the globe continue the slow but steady march toward an all-out global war, it is important to remember that one of the worst wars in history – the Vietnam war – was initiated by the U.S. government based on a massive lie. On the 50th anniversary of the war in Vietnam in 2014,The Guardian newspaper published an exclusive report expose on the secrets and lies the US Government hid about the Vietnam war. The bone-chilling report set over 50-years ago is as relevant now than ever.

The long awaited battle to retake Mosul from the Islamic State/ISIL/ISIS is proving difficult for the Iraqi army. The Daily Caller reports: Iraqi troops once again fled from a key battle for Mosul, the Islamic State’s headquarters in northern Iraq, as they began a long awaited offensive late last month to retake the city. “The Iraqi Army commenced an assault on ISIS strongholds around Mosul, but when ISIS fired back, the Iraqi Army ran away and the assaults ended,” a western defense specialist based in Iraq told Fox News.

Islamist rebel groups shot down their second Syrian plane in a month on Tuesday using advanced Surface-to-Air Missiles. Inquiries are being made into how these advance weapons keep falling into the hands of terrorist groups such as al-Nusra and Daesh. American weaponry is finding its way through Turkey into terrorist hands in Syria, while Saudi Arabia bankrolls the project and provides spiritual support. Sputnik reports: ​On Tuesday, Islamist rebels shot down a Syrian plane, the second such incident in less than a month, and captured the pilots.

Submitted by Angela Borozna via OrientalReview.org,

Do Russians want another war? If you are Russian, you would be surprised by the question. Why would anyone want war (hot or cold)? But if you are an American, and grew up fearing ‘bad Russians’ such question does not surprise you a bit. After all, the whole Cold War was based on the main assumption – Russians/Soviets want war!