Tuesday, January 31st., 2017
TASS has the best detailed report on the Trump-Putin talk
"...Tackling ISIS will be
the number one goal, which means we can expect a ramp-up of the
half-hearted effort the US has made so far, trying to fight IS a little
bit, while still trying to take Assad down. With the Tripartite group
backing Syrian sovereignty, and even the opposition groups no longer
demanding Assad step down prior to settlement talks, this means the US
can no longer demand such.
The
term “to restore mutually advantageous trade” is confirmation that the
sanctions are going to be history. It’s just a matter of time. I smell
that Exxon wants to get back into the Arctic exploration with Russia,
which it took a big hit on with the sanctions.
And for all that to
happen, the demonization of Russia will have to end. How that will be
done remains to be seen. The best way would be to expose the whole thing
as a hoax, but that opens Pandora’s box that governments actually do
stuff like that..."
Chancellor Merkel's and Minister Schäuble' s bullying economic concept of a “grossly undervalued” euro to "exploit the US and its EU partners" is no different from the Obama-NATO administration's bullying policy to oppress trade and European economy through the economic sanctions against Russia and through NATO's aggressive military expansion right at the European-Russian borders...Both symptoms of an obviously decaying, dark governance , instigating warmongering and socio-economic desolation. Both raising the question of their further actual usefulness in human affairs and forcing forward, on the international-universal stage, their ineluctable obsoleteness. Which is always the case with those who refuse to read the writings on the wall .
Μaria L. Pelekanaki
Chancellor Merkel's and Minister Schäuble' s bullying economic concept of a “grossly undervalued” euro to "exploit the US and its EU partners" is no different from the Obama-NATO administration's bullying policy to oppress trade and European economy through the economic sanctions against Russia and through NATO's aggressive military expansion right at the European-Russian borders...Both symptoms of an obviously decaying, dark governance , instigating warmongering and socio-economic desolation. Both raising the question of their further actual usefulness in human affairs and forcing forward, on the international-universal stage, their ineluctable obsoleteness. Which is always the case with those who refuse to read the writings on the wall .
Μaria L. Pelekanaki
Putin, Trump discuss anti-terrorism coordination, agree to keep in touch
… from TASS, Moscow
The world is waiting to see what these two can do
[ Editor’s Note: Yesterday
we had skimpy reports on the big call, so that was all we had to
report, and saw no point in speculating. I had a feeling the Russians
would divulge more, but it would be delayed a bit while security people
gave their OK on what to release.
My gut feeling was they
surely did not just chit chat for 55 minutes, and this report confirms
that they covered all the issues on the table to get some response from
the other side. The term “creating real coordination” means two teams
are being set up to begin working on all the issues discussed.
Tackling ISIS will be
the number one goal, which means we can expect a ramp-up of the
half-hearted effort the US has made so far, trying to fight IS a little
bit, while still trying to take Assad down. With the Tripartite group
backing Syrian sovereignty, and even the opposition groups no longer
demanding Assad step down prior to settlement talks, this means the US
can no longer demand such.
The
term “to restore mutually advantageous trade” is confirmation that the
sanctions are going to be history. It’s just a matter of time. I smell
that Exxon wants to get back into the Arctic exploration with Russia,
which it took a big hit on with the sanctions.
And for all that to
happen, the demonization of Russia will have to end. How that will be
done remains to be seen. The best way would be to expose the whole thing
as a hoax, but that opens Pandora’s box that governments actually do
stuff like that.
The big risk there is
the public would demand more and more revelations, which past
administrations would not be happy to see, and why they hold as much
blackmail material as they can on all potential disclosers. And if they
don’t have what they need, they just go to the Israelis to get it, if
they have the cash or something to trade… Jim W. Dean ]
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– First published … January 28, 2017 –
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart
Donald Trump discussed a wide range of global and bilateral issues,
including coordination of anti-terrorism efforts, and agreed to keep in
touch during their first phone talk on Saturday evening.
Donald J. Trump
