even John Bachelor's podcast notices how Obama abandoned the Philippines when China started to grab our fishing grounds in the West Philippine Sea.
Australia, New Zealand, ASEAN, and the US, as well as India, should now be thinking that their failure to build a robust policy on the South China Sea, to prevent de facto PRC control of it, was a mistake. Even support for the ROC’s far more legitimate claims to the Nine-Dash Line islands and shoals of the South China Sea — quite apart from strenuously supporting the claims of the Philippines, Malaysia, Vietnam, Brunei, etc. — would have paid better strategic dividends than the inept handling the US position in Asia by the Barack Obama Administration, which Beijing exploited rapidly.
and that doesn't even include the Obama administration's interference in our elections. I had to laugh: Duterte's quip the ambassador tasked to do this was a "gay son of a whore" got more publicity than the actual fact of the interference.
oh by the way: last June we signed a mutual defense pact with Russia.
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here the Twitter/facebook/social media are anti Duterte, as is the church (after all, Tagle is running for Pope).
However, the small businesses and tricycle drivers still have their "Duterte for president" signs up, so it looks like ordinary folks aren't following the orders of the elites here.
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They finally figured out that the "russia! Russia! RUSSIA!" controversy was funded by the Democrats. Well Duh.
BBC reports.
key point:
There have been plenty of accusations, on both sides of ideological divide, that the FBI has become politicised. Stories like this won't help diminish those concerns.
Summary of the scandal.
key point:
Yet here we have the realization that the Clinton campaign, the DNC, and the FBI all worked wittingly or unwittingly with Russians to affect the results of the 2016 election. ....Worse, these efforts perverted our justice system by ... spawning a massive, sprawling, limitless probe over RussiaSigh.
This goes beyond "dirty politics" or even illegal dirty tricks a la the "watergate" burglars.
the corruption of the FBI to destroy political opponents is a real danger to democracy.This is Obama trying to destroy Trump, so the MSM sort of went along. But do you really want Trumpieboy to go after his enemies this way, using the power of the FBI to destroy his enemies instead of tweets?
the problem? Most of the stuff came after the election: Hillary wanted revenge and used this to delegitimize Trump, using the FBI to do this.
Think "attempted coup by the deep state".
No, I have no idea if this is true, but it will be seen as such by a lot of folks.
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AustinBay has a long report on Niger.
West African nations are willing to fight the terrorists, but need help. Given France's military assets in the region and American commitments in Syria and Iraq, the Obama Administration concluded that a small, focused military effort providing training assistance and logistics and intelligence support was an appropriate response.
General Dunford's press conference tells me that he thinks that conclusion was correct. It also says the Trump Administration agreed with the Obama Administration's goals in the region. However, that isn't a point domestic hysterics want to hear.
Italics mine.
That's because the "domestic hysterics" don't care about Africans killed by terrorists, because they want to remove Trump, and any story will do.
As for ignorance of the war there: This is because they don't bother to read the BBC or AlJ where they could find good summaries about what is going on.
BBC notes 4000 French and 12 thousand UN troops are involved. (plus locals).
the US was sent there to help Nigeria and nearby countries to fight the BokuHarem:
Full report of that conflict here.
2 million refugees, 2000 teachers killed and schools destroyed, 5 million of locals in that area facing starvation, and the "good guys" are corrupt.
notice that part about France's military assets? They have been working with the Sahel governments for quite awhile: ALJ reports on that HERE.
think tribal civil wars.
part of the backstory is the tribal civil war in Libya.
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