Seems a bit hawkish.
“So if you want to talk about a nation that could pose an existential threat to the United States, I’d have to point to Russia.”
via Russia is top threat to national security, US general says – BBC News.
Seems a bit hawkish.
“So if you want to talk about a nation that could pose an existential threat to the United States, I’d have to point to Russia.”
via Russia is top threat to national security, US general says – BBC News.
Considering what else is going on in the world, this is highly relevant. Although he resigned in April, I’m sure policy underwent little change. That may no longer be the case.
Former Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal died on Thursday, two Saudi sources said, two months after he was replaced following 40 years in the job.
via Former Saudi foreign minister dies: Saudi sources | Top News | Reuters.
Didn’t realize this, but I guess NATO dropped diplomatic ties with Russia on April 1, 2014. I don’t think that was an April Fool’s Day joke.
“We have decided to suspend all practical civilian and military cooperation between NATO and Russia.”
http://www.nato.int/nrc-website/en/articles/20140327-announcement/index.html

I cloned them as private repos. Let’s see if GitHub tries to delete them.
More to come…
Been watching this all day. In the last 45 minutes the Shanghai Composite SHCOMP is down around ~5%.
Chinese stocks plunged rapidly out of the Wednesday open, with the Shanghai Composite Index SHCOMP, -4.66% starting down 7% and extending the loss to 8.2%, before recovering slightly to 4.8%.
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