Last week’s posts on Moon of Alabama:
- November 26 – Russia Blocks Ukrainian Navy From Militarizing The Sea of Azov – Updated
- November 27 – Ukraine – Poroshenko Launched Clash With Russia To Gain Dictatorial Powers – He Failed
A former German Foreign Minister, Siegmar Gabriel, warned that the Ukraine is trying to pull others into its war:
“I think we should not let Ukraine draw us into a war, and Ukraine tried to do that,” Gabriel said in an interview, voicing concerns over the situation in the Sea of Azov.
Robert Fisk has the same concern expressed in the above piece and an earlier one. It is Trump’s Middle East policy, build around Saudi Arabia, that will bring him down:
So I have a prediction. If the Trump regime collapses – for regime it is – I suspect it will not be his frolics with the Russians which destroy it. Nor his corruption, nor his domestic lies. Nor his misogyny. Nor his anti-immigrant racism. Nor his obvious mental instability, though this clearly connects him to his friends in the Arab world. The Middle East has already got its coils into the White House. Trump is a friend of a highly dangerous state called Saudi Arabia. He has adopted Israeli foreign policy as his own, including the ownership of Jerusalem and wholehearted support for Israel’s illegal colonisation of Palestinian Arab land. He has torn up a solemn treaty with Iran. He has joined the Sunni side in its sectarian war with the Shias of the Middle East, in Iran, in Lebanon, in Syria, in Bahrain and, of course, in Saudi Arabia itself.
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[T]he Arabs and Muslims who live in territory which many of the American supporters call the holy land may well decide his future; after all, he thinks he can decide theirs.
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