US President Donald Trump has declared victory over Daesh in Syria. After historic victories against ISIS, it’s time to bring our great young people home! pic.twitter.com/xoNjFzQFTp — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2018 The American media has contacted sources at the Pentagon who have confirmed their readiness to withdraw troops from Syria. According to the Bloomberg agency, Trump has ...
Descending from the first cattle ever to see North America, brought there by Columbus and the doom-bearing sailors under his command, the Texas longhorn is widely-known as a symbol of that state. The longhorns inspire the symbolism of the University of Texas football team, also called “the Longhorns.” These drought-resistant and gentle-natured beasts (the cattle I mean, not the student-athletes) ...
From the beginning of his presidential campaign in 2016, Donald Trump created an important shift in political rhetoric regarding immigration. The shift coincided with a protectionist turn on economic matters including reviewing trade agreements with China, Mexico, Canada, and Europe, which he said were harmful to the American people, even if they were beneficial for elite groups and corporations (Time, ...
Jair Bolsonaro’s victory in Brazil and US President Donald Trump’s rush to congratulate the like-minded President-elect, has triggered a debate on the rise of “Trumpism” in Latin American politics. Bolsonaro’s win is important at least for two reasons: first, Brazil is the largest economy in South America and the eighth largest in the world; and second, for the first time ...
The subject of the Ukrainian provocation in the Kerch Strait continues to be at the center of the international agenda. Experts from all over the world agree that tensions are intensifying, however, there are different points of view concerning what pushed Ukraine to conduct such a provocation in the first place. Many analysts call the action a political move from ...
“Even during the periods of alliance there has been a complicated state of simultaneous alliance and struggle. If we do not study the particular features of both aspects of the contradiction, we shall fail to understand not only the relations of each party with the other forces, but also the relations between the two parties.” Mao Zedong, On Contradiction (1937) ...
Midterm elections took place Tuesday in the United States. While the Democrats managed to take the majority in the House, the Republicans maintained their control over the Senate. Donald Trump turned out to be correct when he predicted that his name would appear in all the headlines during the midterms elections; even if the election directly concerned members of the ...
1)Democrats won the House, while Republicans managed to hold on to power in the Senate. After almost 10 years in the shade, the democrats now have their hands on the real levers of political power. What follows will be a difficult test for the Trump presidency. 2) The main candidate for the post of Speaker of the House is 78-year-old ...
Why Saudi Arabia will get away with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi Despite the absurdity of such allegations, there are people, among them is US President Donald Trump, who believe the version presented by the Saudi authorities… likely not because they are actually that gullible, but because it is profitable to agree. The time and place The killing of Khashoggi ...