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The Turkish deputy prime minister has called on the German government to increase its military involvement in Syria. During an interview with German newspaper Die Welt, Mehmet Simsek claimed that the move could result in stemming the flow of refugees into Europe. “If Germany and others want to stop the influx of refugees, they must stop the bombings by Syrian and Russian forces against the Syrian opposition” Simsek said. During the interview Simsek also argued that the resignation of Syrian President Bashar Assad is an essential precondition for the peace in Syria..

United States and her NATO allies are working with Turkey, Saudi Arabia,Qatar, Kurdish forces and militant jihadist terrorists in Syria and Iraq to create a ‘safe zone’ for terrorists which will become a ‘Sunnistan’ canton for the Islamic State, according to geopolitical analyst Patrick Henningsen. John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the UN, who is a staunch neocon and an Israeli lobby ‘scholar’ for the American Enterprise Institute, once said: To Defeat ISIS, Create a Sunni State.

Tony Blair has said that Britain should be part of the proposed EU army and stay in the union despite the efforts of  “backward-looking” Euroskeptics to withdraw Writing in Newsweek magazine, the former Brutish prime minister said there has never been a stronger need for European unity and that the EU must bind together and ignore those who are “forever looking backward to break the union asunder.” RT reports: Blair said the rise of China and India as major global powers meant the balance of global power may shift.

Among the presidential candidates of the Republican Party and their foreign policy leaders on Capitol Hill the cry is almost universal:

Barack Obama has no strategy for winning the war on ISIS.

This criticism, however, sounds strange coming from a party that controls Congress but has yet to devise its own strategy, or even to authorize the use of U.S. military force in Syria.

Congress has punted. And compared to the cacophony from Republican ranks, Barack Obama sounds like Prince Bismarck.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has named the date he plans to release proof that the US government and intelligence agencies were responsible for the “controlled demolition” of the World Trade Centre in the 9/11 attacks. Like a boxer confident in his own strength, Putin has been absorbing pressure from the US and biding his time, waiting for the right moment to strike. The evidence is so explosive he knows he only has to hit once.