What the BRICS plus Germany are really up to? — Winston Churchill once said, “I feel lonely without a war.” He also badly missed the loss of empire. Churchill’s successor – the ‘Empire of Chaos’ – now faces the same quandary. Some wars – as in Ukraine, by proxy – are not going so well : RT Op-Edge

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Obama Will Receive The President Of Afghanistan At The White House In March : Former CIA contractor and World Bank employee,brought to you by Puppets r US

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Will 'Mistress Europe' Show the American the Door : In 1949, among the ashes of the Second World War, the US set up the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO). Despite its grandiloquent, chivalrous public profession of "alliance" the real purpose of NATO was to "keep the Americans in, the Russians out, and the Germans down". Those are the unguarded words of the first NATO secretary-general, Lord Ismay : Information Clearing House - ICH

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China Just Sided With Russia Over The Ukraine Conflict | "The United States is unwilling to see its presence in any part of the world being weakened, but the fact is its resources are limited, and it will be to some extent hard work to sustain its influence in external affairs." Especially if and when China decides to send a few peacekeepers of its own into Ukraine. You know - just to make sure US influence in external affairs isn't "sustained" too much : Zero Hedge

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Vladimir Putin's approval rating? Now at a whopping 86% taken 26/2/2015 - Henry Hale, an international affairs professor at The George Washington University specializing in Russian politics, said on the whole, the polls reflect the reality on the ground of popular support for Putin : CNN.com

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