"...Trump also understood that the American people are tired after 19 years of terrorist wars that have more in common with a carnival whack-a-mole game. Despite Trump's hyperbole, he has been very cautious in using military force."
"Robert O'Brien has cleaned out the NSC. ... persons throughout the National Security bureaucracy, including DOD and CIA, are being emptied. This is a prelude. When prosecutor John Durham starts dropping indictments expect the screaming to intensify."
"...during his short and successful tenure as Secretary of State for Defence, Gavin Williamson announced the sensible decision that three of the lower specification Batch 1 OPVs would be kept on in service in anticipation of our leaving the EU."
"Homosexual relations were decriminalized in Russia in 1993, and the nation declassified it as a mental illness in 1999. Under an unofficial “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, gay people are also allowed to serve in the Russian military."
"Many in the mainstream media continue to try to convince us that this virus is not much more dangerous than the common flu, but if that is true then why is our military taking such a dramatic step?"
"The Department of Health and Human Services asked the Pentagon for quarantine space in case beds fill up at other coronavirus centers around the country, according to a DOD statement."
"Donald Trump’s erratic rule has certainly dismayed many of his former supporters, but the Democratic Party is offering nothing but another helping of ... establishment war against the world."
"These weapons are thought to be stored across 11 U.S. states, with the vast majority residing in New Mexico, Washington, and Georgia."
"...starting in December 1935, Jews in Germany were prevented from obtaining shooting licenses, because authorities believed that to allow them to do so would "endanger the German population"."
"Please shoulder your pens!"
"The capital city of Baghdad was rocked by protests on Friday, as an estimated 200,000 demonstrators marched for the ouster of American troops from the country in al-Hurriyah Square near the main university, as anti-Iraqi government protesters maintained their vigil in Tahrir Square."
Rex Tillerson: "That’s not why they put on a uniform and go out and die… They do it to protect our freedom."
Trump "was factually correct. We defeated the Japanese and German armies in four years. Here we are entering our 19th year of a meaningless war in Afghanistan..."
"We are leaving the EU. Why on earth would there be any ‘as if’ for any EU directive?"
"Dmitri Medvedev was replaced by somebody that no one (other than Russian tax specialists) had ever heard of: Mikhail Vladimirovich Mishustin."
"So, Boris Johnson has now won the election with a very comfortable majority ... Corbyn has lost decisively, and Jo Swinson was not even re-elected."
"We the people" have been saddled with a government that is no longer friendly to freedom...
"The Iranians have restarted their nuclear program, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pledged that Iran will never be allowed to finish it."
"Even so, I seriously doubt the IRGC made a special effort to not kill or injure Americans. Although it was not the primary objective of the strike, they certainly wouldn’t have cried over our casualties."
"Gold hit $1620 last night before sliding back a tad."
"Already, the FAA has contacted test sites, drone companies and companies that have received authorization to operate drones in the affected areas. But the agency has not been able to determine who is flying the aircraft, spokesman Ian Gregor said in a statement Monday."
The problem for Iran is that they do not have a "hundred times harder" option that allows for the survival of the regime.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio said they would be protecting key locations from ‘any attempt by Iran or its terrorist allies to retaliate against the U.S.’ ‘We have to assume this action puts us in a de facto state of war,’ he told a press conference on Friday.
They come in the night: Drones — lots of them — flying in precise formations over the Colorado and Nebraska prairie. Why are they there?