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A beyond sobering new Security Council (SC) report circulating in the Kremlin today states that within 24-hours of the Northern Fleet’s newest and most powerful warship the Admiral Gorshkov and its escort flotilla entering the Caribbean Sea from the Panama Canal at the very doorstep of the United States on 17 June after sailing halfway around the world, President Donald Trump, yesterday, on 18 June, ousted his acting Defense Secretary and sent his Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the headquarters of the US Central Command (CENTCOM)—wherePompeo directly confronted its commander US Naval-Marine General Kenneth McKenzie [Note: US Marines are land force of the US Navy]—a confrontation that Pompeo emerged from and saw him declaring that “US forces in the Persian Gulf are just there as a deterrent” and his further stating that “Trump doesn’t want war with Iran”—after which Trump began a “major power shift” at the Pentagon putting the US Army in control. […]

President Putin has ordered the immediate deployment to the Kaliningrad Oblast of the dreaded supersonic nuclear-capable Iskander mobile ballistic missile system and the feared S-400 air missile defence system as a “direct response” to President Obama joining with Ukraine as one of only 3 nations in the entire world to vote against the United Nations resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism. [Note: Some words and/or phrases appearing in quotes in this report are English language approximations of Russian words/phrases having no exact counterpart.] […]