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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with President Joe Biden in August, the White House announced Wednesday amid renewed arguments about the Nord Stream 2 pipeline between Russia and Germany. The meeting, scheduled for Aug. 30, comes amid rising tensions over the pipeline, which Zelensky says threatens to cut Ukraine out of the regional energy…

In one sense, this headline is really wrong. What you are about to see is a human being, beloved by God, in a terribly humiliating state of hysteria that is being billboarded all over the world. Anybody who has ever visited such an emotional state knows it is not good at all. We portray it…

https://www.mideastdiscourse.com/2021/07/16/russia-ready-to-face-turkey-in-idlib-conflict/ Steven Sahiounie, journalist and political commentator Idlib sits ready for battle. The last terrorist controlled area is waiting for imminent military action.  The small agricultural province, full of olive trees and terrorists, sits poised to spring into action. The former Al Qaeda affiliate in Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is heavily armed, and has depended on…

A lot of people I personally know have been down with COVID-19. At least one has died, and it is somewhat amazing to consider that so many people I know have come down with the Koof and so many others have been untouched by it. I know a lot of others who have never been…

A delegation of the Taliban terror group met with representatives of the Russian foreign ministry in Moscow, where one delegate claimed the Taliban currently controls about “85 percent of Afghanistan’s territory,” Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Friday. The Taliban, a jihadist terror group based in Afghanistan, controls roughly “85 percent of Afghanistan’s territory,” Taliban delegate Shahabuddin Delawar…

Tomorrow, Wednesday, the Kazakh capital, “Nur-Sultan”, will host the 16th round of the Astana track talks on Syria. A diplomatic source stated that the Syrian state will participate in the conference along with the three guarantor countries, “Russia”, “Iran” and “Turkey”, in addition to the presence of a delegation from the Syrian opposition, and the…

The rhetoric about COVID-19 vaccine reached its highest level of fervor yet on Monday, July 5th, when the Chairman for the Department of External Relations of the Russian Orthodox Church publicly stated this: Those who refuse to be vaccinated against Covid-19 are committing a sin they will have to repent for the rest of their…

The Republican National Committee (RNC) is denying a report that a Russian government-linked group hacked its servers last week. Bloomberg reported Tuesday that the group APT 29, also known as Cozy Bear, hacked the RNC’s servers. In response, Republican Party communications director Danielle Alvarez tweeted that the story was “not true.” This is not true.…

On Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Hallie Jackson Reports,” Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA) argued the U.S. needs “to move more swiftly,” in the cyber realm and that President Joe Biden “is waiting for the appropriate moment” to respond to recent cyberattacks that she believes were carried out with the blessing of Vladimir Putin. Speier said, “I…

The half-month that has passed since the historic meeting of the leaders of Russia and the United States of America, Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden, has not been marked by the beginning of a process of detente in relations between the two superpowers, despite the parties’ declared commitment to preventing a nuclear conflict. On the…