The media is gloating today over the “failed” Trump/Kim summit. Was the summit really a failure? If so, who is at fault? The media and pundits as usual get it wrong. It was both a success and a failure, but not for the reasons they are reporting. Tune in to today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report for our reasoning:
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
An excellent 13-minute video on America’s wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Libya, Syria, etc. Featuring Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), and Cato Institute Fellow Emma Ashford. Produced by Free The People.
While all eyes are on the Trump/Kim talks in Hanoi, the US Administration is continuing peace talks with Afghanistan’s Taliban in Qatar. Will the US withdraw all troops from Afghanistan in exchange for Taliban promises to keep fighting ISIS and al-Qaeda? On today’s Ron Paul Liberty Report:
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
The weekend stand-off between the US aid trucks on the Colombian side of the border and the Venezuelan government did not go quite as planned by the US. The aid did not get through, the military did not defect, and US-selected “president” Guaido was nowhere to be seen. But the aid trucks did catch fire in Colombia and Washington is blaming Maduro. Do they have any evidence? Or is this a false flag?
Reprinted from The Ron Paul Institute for Peace & Prosperity.
A Road Map for peace between the two Koreas now exists. An agreement signed by both countries on September 19, 2018, provides a model that President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un may follow at Hanoi. The agreement, in turn, is similar to the Road Map that normalized relations between the United States and Vietnam.
The Korean Road Map provides detailed goals to implement the Panmunjom Agreement of April 2018: (1) secession of all hostile acts, (2) transformation of the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) into a Peace Zone, (3) neutralizing the maritime boundary into a peace zone, (4) increased contacts, exchanges, and visits, (5) and a revitalized institutional framework for consultation between the two military forces.
A step-by-step process of mutual cooperation within the DMZ, which separates North from South Korea, was then established: (1) withdrawal of all guard posts, (2) withdrawal of all firearms, (3) joint recovery of soldiers missing in action, (4) minesweeping, (5) a joint road.
By the end of October, most steps were completed. Some 5,700 persons crossed the joint road during 2018. A train passed from South Korea to the northern border of North Korea to determine where repairs are needed.
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Sundays in Russia, like Sundays in most of the Western world, are usually not news generating days. However, today Moscow broke that rule and provided Russia-watchers with a couple of very weighty international affairs developments that I will analyze in this article on Japan and in another article later today on what the termination of the INF Treaty will mean for Russian military doctrine, namely reaching for the Holy Grail of a first strike, a decapitating strike capability against the United States in the foreseeable future.
What these two developments today have in common is how the very harsh messages are being delivered: not by the head of state, Vladimir Putin, but by members of his inner circle, his Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for the knockout blow on Japanese expectations of a peace treaty so long as Shinzo Abe is prime minister, and the head of news on Russian broadcasting, Dmitry Kiselyov, as regards the detailed explanation of Russian plans for arms deployment following the end of the INF Treaty.
