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U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of trade war with just about everybody is really just a case of Trump negotiating a Chapter 11-style bankruptcy for the United States.  A kinder way of putting it would be to say that the U.S. is revolting against an international system that has looted its people on behalf of globalist oligarchs.  Yet another way of putting it is to say the world is negotiating a replacement for the petro-dollar system.  In any case, we can now expect a lot more shouting and bluster, and possibly even the odd nuke or two, as these negotiations proceed. […]

According to this report, on 18 February 2018, Syrian Arab Army (SAA) forces, under the protection of Russia air forces, began Operation Damascus Steel to retake the Ghouta suburb and countryside surrounding the eastern and southern rim around Damascus from where US-led and supported Islamic terrorists were launching missiles and rockets to indiscriminately kill and main innocent civilians—and whose recapture of would represent the biggest prize for President al-Assad since the full recapture of Aleppo. […]