Assad and Family Are in Moscow.

Moscow confirms.

Бывший президент Сирии Башар Асад вместе с семьей находится в Москве, где ему предоставлено убежище по гуманитарным соображениям, сообщил источник в Кремле.

Translation: Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his family are in Moscow, where he has been granted asylum for humanitarian reasons, a Kremlin source said.

 

This Is A Real Wowser.

The United States is, obviously, run by the Ukrainian diaspora. The name of one of the "concerned officials" has become known and he is:

In his testimony in the House impeachment inquiry Tuesday, Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, is expected to describe his concerns with how the Trump administration handled Ukraine policy and with a July call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy. "In the Spring of 2019, I became aware of outside influencers promoting a false narrative of Ukraine inconsistent with the consensus views of the interagency," he says in his prepared opening remarks, which were obtained by NPR. "This narrative was harmful to U.S. government policy. While my interagency colleagues and I were becoming increasingly optimistic on Ukraine's prospects, this alternative narrative undermined U.S. government efforts to expand cooperation with Ukraine."

And who this Lt.Colonel Vindman really is? Get a load of this! I cannot emphasize strongly enough what a madhouse this whole situation is. I will omit here any speculations or, for that matter, legitimate assumptions I know will be true, but I will just say this: this explains a lot, I mean a lot, in the madness which is called US foreign policy. If Canada's foreign policy is openly subverted by Canada's Ukrainian diaspora with a very heavy Banderista element present in it, hence rabid Russophobia and ignoring of Neo-nazism. Now, the United States has a whole family working deep in the US National Security apparatus who decided, unsurprisingly, in favor of any policy which sabotages any Russian-American contacts and improvement of relations. 

Hm, what does this remind me of? Ah, Polish, Romanian and other Eastern European diasporas in the US which played a crucial role in NATO expansion, thus ensuring that West will not have normal relations with Russia. 

Ukraine, destabilized by the Obama's admin and now turned into a hammer against Russia, granted poor and mentally unstable, is just another step in both American and Ukrainian Russophobia. Now, once this Ukrainian (most likely Jewish) family with the US citizenship is exposed as being deep inside US National Security establishment and close to POTUS the scenario becomes evident. As this Vindman himself states:

          The Geopolitical Importance of Ukraine

Since 2008, Russia has manifested an overtly aggressive foreign policy, leveraging military power and employing hybrid warfare to achieve its objectives of regional hegemony and global influence. Absent a deterrent to dissuade Russia from such aggression, there is an increased risk of further confrontations with the West. In this situation, a strong and independent Ukraine is critical to U.S. national security interests because Ukraine is a frontline state and a bulwark against Russian aggression. In spite of being under assault from Russia for more than five years, Ukraine has taken major steps towards integrating with the West. The U.S. government policy community's view is that the election of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the promise of reforms to eliminate corruption will lock in Ukraine's Western-leaning trajectory, and allow Ukraine to realize its dream of a vibrant democracy and economic prosperity.

I hope you understand now, that the United States is ungovernable entity entirely corrupted by the external ethnic, from predominantly Jewish AIPAC neo-cons, to Gulfies to Ukraine, influences--all in some form are present through lobbies to direct positions (Victoria Nuland, anyone?) in government. They are also people detached from reality, as testimony of this "American" officer demonstrates. Here is a conclusion of this "strategist".

The United States and Ukraine are and must remain strategic partners, working together to realize the shared vision of a stable, prosperous, and democratic Ukraine that is integrated into the Euro-Atlantic community. Our partnership is rooted in the idea that free citizens should be able to exercise their democratic rights, choose their own destiny, and live in peace. It has been a great honor to serve the American people and a privilege to work in the White House and on the National Security Council. I hope to continue to serve and advance America's national security interests.

I guess, at this stage the United States deserves everything what comes to it. Having people who drive the US towards direct conflict with Russia in US "national security" is a first sign of mental degeneration of US political, military and intelligence institutions. Did I mention that Mr. Vindman... ah, read it yourself:

When I joined the White House's National Security Council ("NSC"), I reported to Dr. Fiona Hill, who in turn reported to John Bolton, the National Security Advisor.

That doesn't require any additional elaborations. At this stage, after this "revelations" about who and how shapes US foreign so called policy, it becomes clear that the United States caught rabid disease of insanity from Ukraine, but I think it is all for the better for the rest of the world, especially Eurasia, which will be protected from the Empire which is imploding as I type this. The United States has no credibility left no matter what administration, the patients are now fully in charge of the asylum. But then again, there are no other people out there, just the ones who we can observe openly and that is a real wowser.  

UPDATE. Ah, Arctic Fox gave me link to NYT on Mr. Vindman, but it was behind pay-wall and I am not paying a dime of my money to this NY rag, but then I heard Laura Ingram commenting on this issue a lo and behold: buried in NYT piece on this American "hero" is the information that this dude advised Ukrainians on how best deal with Rudi Guliani. WTF? This is the guy who serves in NSC staffer position, two steps in command away from National Security Advisor. Wow! I am not 100% sure about espionage charge but isn't there a real conflict of interests for a person who has the highest security clearance allowed in the land? At least that should be a red flag, but since we are getting fuller and fuller, and curioser and curioser, picture of RussiaGate which transformed into the UkraineGate, I wonder when the wrap up will start? Somebody must go behind bars, it is clear now.

Colonel Lang Had It With Trump, And Other Business.

Colonel Lang tried to stay calm but even he had it with collection of maroons aka Trump Administration.  

Trumpy!  These stiffs are losers!  Losers!  They lost in Iraq!  Remember!  You say you like to win.  These guys are losers.  Keeping these losers will just drag you down!  You always dump losers like these.  Remember!  Where did you get these stiffs?  Who pushed them off on you?  Get rid of them losers too! Bolton torpedoed your deal with your friend Kim!  Remember.  Is he trying to torpedo your deal with China? You know that you  have to make some kind of deal with Russia and the great judomaster.  Is Bolton trying to screw that up ? The three stooges.  Ah, no, Pompey the Magnificent is missing from the group mug shot.   Trumpster! You should dump these guys, AND the crews who gave us the messes in Ukraine, Syria, Gaza, the Golan Heights, Kushner's deal of the century, and the coming good deal in Lebanon.Get some new ones.  You can't let little people losers drag you down.

I long ago simply resigned myself to the fact that nothing short of all out war (I mean within US proper) can change the situation with US elites consistently producing human and professional trash which then occupies top positions in American political structure. The level of degeneracy is simply off the scale and continues to break records. Look at the faces, BTW. 

Per Bolton, he is a very special case of uber-neocon and exceptionalist who, probably, given his not very large frame, was beaten in school without trying to fight back and now he is settling accounts with his pathetic cowardly self by trying to bully those, he thinks, can not hit back. There is a definite mental pathology there. I will omit discussing here other possibilities. As The Hill reports:

Michael McCarthy, a professor at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, likened the recent posturing by administration officials to being "in a position where they believe it’s time to get a win for Trump." "They’re doubling down, but they’re working on what doubling down means besides increasing sanctions pressure," McCarthy said. "We’re in a gray zone between the saber rattling and action, and I think we’re going to stay there for the foreseeable future." But inaction is unlikely to satisfy Bolton, Posner said, even if it sets up a showdown with Trump. Bolton will likely "find another reason for military intervention," he said. "If that happens, I think that Trump will back off because he knows that’s a losing proposition."

Patients truly are in charge of the asylum. So, will Trumpy kick these dangerous morons out or is he really content with lunatics running his national security and foreign policy, or, rather, lack thereof. How about dropping Bolton with Elliott Abrams with the SEAL team into Venezuelan jungles or at the Iranian shores--let them lead by example. 

Paul Craig Roberts penned an excellent piece:

Now white people in America are to be stripped of their history, because white history traumatizes preferred minorities. At George Washington High School in northern California an historic mural depicting the school’s namesake has been declared offensive.      

PCR explains eloquently what will come, I can too. It is worth reading and contemplating.  

Meanwhile Pepe Escobar explains some key facts about BRI (formerly known as OBOR).

Scores of nations across the Global South, as well as some aspiring to developed world status, have adopted the Chinese investment and development model over financing from Washington or Brussels for three very simple reasons: no strings attached, no one-size-fits-all straitjacket, and no interference in their internal affairs.

Ahh, here are some other news on this issue: