soryang

He’s phony all right, almost everything about him.

Frankly, i’m not going to waste my time listening to the hearings. But I did read an article on this question which interested me more than the alleged substantive content.

Washington (CNN)US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland’s cell phone call to President Donald Trump from a restaurant in Ukraine this summer appears to be a…

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Sounds like hearsay on hearsay. What he does summit phone calls on speaker phone? Video of the call in the crypt or whatever you call the TS crypto room? Yeah, sure why not!

So the deal Yanukovych wouldn’t sign had a clause in it committing to Ukraine to NATO?   That was a an obvious non-starter.  But Yanukovych had already agreed to early elections and Obama was happy with that, but someone decided to overthrow his government anyway.   It makes you wonder who runs US foreign policy.  Great interview.

Exactly.  ++++++++++

It was reported that the Chinese representative involved with the paralympics had objected on one occasion when the subject came up. The Chinese government officially hasn’t taken a position. During the Beijing Olympics in 2008, the Japanese foreign ministry advised Japanese spectators and tourists not to display the rising sun flag because it…[Read more]

Because Abe is making Japan great again. It’s part of a campaign of historical denial and revisionism intended to lead to a return to the heritage of Meiji imperialism. Ultimately removal of restrictions on the offensive military operations in the Constitution are to be amended away. The US and UK support this move just as they supported the…[Read more]

I think drumpf in his own incoherent way may have been referring to the Conoco gas fields, and oil production facilities in Kusham near Deir al Zour. The US conducted a major engagement here in Feb. 2018 carried out mostly by US aircraft and Kurdish ground forces. It said the engagement was directed against IS forces who had in prior years been…[Read more]

Preliminary report indicates launch site near Sunchon NK

Sunchŏn
순천시
South Pyongan Do
North Korea

Sunchon city is about 40 miles north of Pyongyang. The guess is that these two projectiles were launched from a mobile large sized army ballistic missile launcher. In terms of range that would make them short range ballistic missiles from a strate…[Read more]

As far as I know, this is the first published public statement of Kim Yong Chol, since the debacle at Hanoi.   It really isn’t a good sign.   He was held incommunicado for a while after, reputedly for health reasons.  Then he appeared with the State Affairs Committee in published photo, in April.   Also in a plenary party central committee meetin…[Read more]

“Land of the free.” It takes a SWAT team to arrest a journalist.

Col. David Maxwell, USA Ret., opinion on this subject re: last year’s military cost sharing negotiations:

..Trump seems not to recognize that the ROK makes significant contributions to its own defense. In 2017, 2.7 percent of its GDP went to defense — a higher percentage than any member of NATO except the U.S. Furthermore, the ROK’s 2018 def…

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