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Pentagon Reports: US talks on missile defense cooperation with India

Washington : Pentagon reported that the Trump Administration has discussed potential missile defense cooperation with India as part of efforts to further strengthen bilateral strategic partnership. He told that New Delhi is a key element in the India-US Pacific Strategy.

India has ordered a $5 billion order from Russia to buy the S-400 air defense system, with which the US has publicly expressed dissatisfaction with it. In view of this, the Pentagon’s announcement is significant in the 81-page ‘Missile Defense Review’ report released by President Donald Trump.

Dangers arising from offensive missile capabilities are no longer limited to a few parts of the world. There are now several countries in South Asia that are developing advanced and diverse range of ballistic and cruise missile capabilities.

The Pentagon report said that in this context, the US has discussed potential missile defense cooperation with India. India is emerging as a major defense partner and an important element of our Indo-Pacific strategy. Russia and China’s missile development projects have been identified as a major threat to the US. No further information was given about America’s potential missile defense cooperation.

America has shown its reluctance to offer India its missile defense system. India had approached America many years ago and expressed its desire to achieve its missile defense system, especially the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System (THAD).

The previous Obama administration was unwilling to share its advanced missile defense system with India, after which New Delhi had bought it from Russia. Under the Indo-Pacific Strategy of the Trump Administration, India seems more inclined towards selling its missile defense system. In this regard, talks have already begun in both the countries.

US 2017 National Security Strategy says, we will deepen our strategic partnership with India and we welcome the security of the Indian Ocean and its role of leadership in the wider region. This strategy is mentioned in the Pentagon report.

The Missile Defense Review Report states that the foundation of America’s security and diplomacy in the Indian Pacific region is strong relations with Japan, South Korea and Australia, with its strong bilateral relations and countries like India.

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US Denial of Sovereignty – Unipolarism Laid Bare “With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half. ~ Otto von Bismark, Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs from the 1860s until 1890. American Unipolarism may seem like a Trump-inspired creation, but it has deeper roots. As a concept, Unipolarism was created long before Trump took center stage. He has just taken it to a new level, telling country after country that if they do not do what he says, he will punish them via a variety of sanction tools, or even military force if he so desires. Paul Wolfowitz, in his infamous 1992 Defense Planning Guidance paper, promoted the need for Washington to “account sufficiently for the interests of the advanced industrial nations to discourage them from challenging our [US] leadership or seeking to overturn the established economic and political order.” How ironic to watch Trump take a wrecking ball to the established economic order with his sanctions jihad, as he raises the bar for chaos theory. Unipolarism comes out of the closet From The Guardian back in 2007 we have, “The problem with the US hegemony is that it’s hegemonic, not that it’s American.” The Guardian went on to say, “The intervention in Iraq has strengthened the very forces of extremism and violence it was meant to weaken, with the result that we are in much greater danger.” Recently, we saw sudden mass uprisings in Iraq timed with the start of their big religious pilgrimage, apparently because Iraq had been working to get trade with Syria cranked up again, and with militarily wiping out the last remnants of ISIS in the border areas. Historically, these demonstrations have happened in July during the summer heat, and so, the smell of another regime overthrow effort is in the Iraqi air. President Putin characterized the hegemony issue in his 2007 historic Munich Security Conference address, which has become a classic, where he stated that the unipolar model is inherently flawed, “…Because it concentrates power in ways that are unhealthy and undemocratic…The United States, in contrast, is in favor of interference in other countries on principle: because it seeks a Unipolar world, with a single democratic system, and considers itself the final authority as to which regime a country should have and how it should run its affairs”. Syria is still unipolarism’s ground zero? Putin’s words are as true today as they were twelve years ago. But now we have the king of unipolarism with us in Mr. Trump having taken his flamboyant reality TV show style into the Whitehouse, issuing orders about who must do what, or else suffer the consequences. Today Trump casually stated that, … “While we only had 50 soldiers remaining in that section of Syria, and they have been removed, any unforced or unnecessary fighting by Turkey will be devastating to their economy and to their very fragile currency,” Turkey has its own unipolar game going on in Syria The Turkish Air Force bombed the Rabia border crossing in Syria’s Hasakah Province, the main Kurdish supply line for war materials that have been going into the SDF Kurds from US bases inside Iraq. Mr. Trump stated today that those supplies, along with paying the Kurds, had cost a huge amount of money. Turkey claims it has been shelling People’s Protection Units (YPG) in al-Malikiyh town, northern Hasakah. The Kurds of course have put in a quick call to Damascus − the expected, “Hey, we made a big mistake, the Americans are leaving us to be pounded by the Turkish Army, we want to come back.” They claim to have contacted Russia for possible support in fighting off the pending Turkish offensive against them. This “second” Trump Syrian pullout is as confusing as the first one There is confusion about what areas the US pullout extends to. The US troops that had been patrolling around the north Syrian border could be shuffled over to Deir Ezzor province; for how long we don’t know, because the Russians and Syrians are building a bridge at Deir Ezzor. So, the troop movements there would indicate Trump is not bringing them home as he stated initially. The Pentagon says it was caught totally by surprise and the Russians have indicated that new with the Syrian Constitutional Committee set up that all parties must avoid any actions that would impede their work. The US’ low-key British partners in the SDF area said they only learned about the pullout from the mainstream news, and then had to scramble to get their people out − although Trump said, “I consulted everybody, I always consult people.” Some of Trump’s language indicated a complete pullout; but we don’t really know, because not even Trump may know. And we know from experience, he can change his mind in a minute. Can Damascus maintain control of recaptured territory and confront Turkey? Since the first phase of the SAA campaign to retake Idlib and taking back all of northern Hama, no major efforts have been made to go further north. It seemed strange for the Syrian Arab Army and Russians to stop their combined efforts, as they have been an effective team. Recent Idlib fighting has centered around destroying jihadi war infrastructure and also trying to push those in the West farther away from the Russian airbase. I had been thinking that Damascus wanted to save its combat forces and was waiting to see what was going to happen with the Turkey-US shotgun marriage in north Syria, and how long it would last. It ended today. The tactical combat map in Syria has been shifting. As Netanyahu struggles to stay out of jail on corruption charges, IDF bombing raids into Syria have dropped off. Even the commercial Syria-Iraq border crossing at al-Bakumal opened last week; it has not been bombed by “unknown forces”, despite the Iranians rebuilding their base just a few miles east of the crossing after two earlier precision drone strikes. The US supervised terror at the Al-Tanf refugee camp on the Jordan border should be internationally sanctioned. US jihadi proxies ruthlessly exploit the refugees there − stealing their humanitarian aid, charging them for water − all while performing light infantry patrol duty for their US masters who seem to stay inside the wire. ISIS cells have infiltrated back into the Daraa area south of Damascus, the scene of endless bloody fighting. They are launching IED attacks on road traffic there once again, killing Syrian soldiers. A partial list of unipolar target updates US economic sanctions extend to Asia, where India is threatened with US sanctions if it proceeds with its purchase of a Russian S400 system, a sanction which seem off the rails because after what happened to the Saudi Aramco facilities, who would want to bet their lives on the US Patriot system? Merkel has been told repeatedly by Trump that Germany should walk away from the new Russian Nordstream 2 gas pipeline, despite the fact its economy has almost flat-lined. Keeping gas prices low with a dependable supply is not a luxury for the Germans, but an economic national security. Venezuela remains economically encircled by a South American version of a Gulf-states coalition, in which members pledge to take a targeted country down. Despite claims by the US that civilians are not being targeted, they have been dying due to shortages of medicals supplies that US sanctions block via payment restrictions. North Korea is getting tired of the song and dance show that US negotiators are doing, saying that no progress is being made and the US delegation just seems to be putting on a show so Trump can get more brinkmanship press coverage. We all expected from the beginning that the only feasible way for any North Korea de-escalation was for the US to ease of sanctions in stages reciprocating NK’s denuclearization steps. To date we are still stuck on stupid with Trump’s position that NK must dismantle its entire nuclear program before ANY sanctions are removed. North Korea would never do that, hence, we seem to have a fake negotiation going on. Libya continues to be carved up like a pizza via a number of countries supporting mercenary groups fighting the Tripoli government. Some suspect that the internal Libyan turmoil is kept cooking to distract it from hunting down all the Libyan wealth stolen after Gaddafi went down. In Hong Kong, the smell of the CIA is in the streets, as civilian protesters display some of the creative mayhem talents that you would expect of trained Special Ops military people creating regime change circumstances. Iraq is looking into a repeat of the Madain coup in Ukraine where mercenary snipers were brought in to shoot both police and protesters during their recent violent protests. Iraqi police were only firing rubber bullets so who shot the protesters? Qatar is losing its big US airbase, and − you guessed it! − is sanctioned by the US. Fortunately, Qatar does not need the income from the base lease. Can you imagine what a hoot it would be if Qatar leased the base to Iran to use, and then Trump had to own that during next year’s election season? Trump has doubled-down on the EU with new sanctions − and legal ones, too − because the World Trade Organization approved them due to the EU having subsidized the AirBus flight program to the detriment of Boeing. Regardless of the WTO’s approval, the EU has declared it will roll out counter sanctions. Trump’s claim to have complete immunity gets sanctioned by US Appeals Court Trump’s own personal ‘sovereignty’ is at risk, since an appeals court threw out his case to stop the New York State Attorney General obtaining eight years of the Trump organization’s tax returns. Insiders say the current Ukraine impeachment effort will pale in comparison to what is expected to be in those returns. Mr. Trump has been busy with his Twitter, denouncing Democratic leaders as traitors and asking China to investigate Mr. Biden, then claiming there is nothing wrong with that. China has responded that it would not investigate, so it will probably get more sanctions. Mitt Romney is already being mentioned as a Republican primary challenger to “save the Republican party” from destruction by Trump’s free wheeling actions. We are going to see an incredible political battle fought in the US, while Trump’s geopolitical one rages on in tandem.

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Bloodless Purge in Saudi Arabia, Yemenis Fire Another Missile at Riyadh

"Saudi air defense forces said on Friday they had intercepted a ballistic missile that was fired from Yemen in the northeast of the Saudi capital, according to media reports. Al Jazeera has reported that Yemen's Houthi rebels have claimed responsibility for the attack, saying they launched the Burkan 2-H missile that covered a distance of 500 kilometers from the Saudi-Yemeni border before being intercepted. Prior to that, reports of a blast at the King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh emerged. Social media users have said that pieces of a missile crashed onto the airport."  -- https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201711041058820630-houthis-ballistic-missile-riyadh/

Why is MBS Acting Now to Shake Up the Kingdom, Shore Up the Crown Prince's Authority? The Houthis have a history of launching missile attacks with impeccable timing, including insider or signals intelligence revealing rocket strikes when troops are concentrated at facilities inside Yemen or near the war torn nation's long and porous border with the Kingdom. Since 2015, the Saudis have managed to keep the extent of their killed, wounded and missing in action out of the Western press, but their PR/think tank flacks and Washington lobbyists have proven less successful at blaming the Houthis and Yemeni resistance for a humanitarian catastrophe. Cholera is widespread in Yemen as is malnutrition in what was before 2015 was already the poorest and most food insecure state in the Arab world. Both in the U.S. and UK, the role of massive Western arms sales to the Kingdom in fueling the conflict has come under criticism from human rights organizations, along with the Royal Saudi Air Force's bombing of civilians.

From Weak Oil Prices to Bloated Subsidies and Military Expenditures: The Enormous Socio-Economic Pressures on the Saudi Kingdom

As we've argued here at RogueMoney, the recent and unprecedented visit by a crowned Saudi King to Moscow was a sign of Riyadh's desperation to extricate itself from the Yemen quagmire, as well as maintain oil price agreements with the Russians. The shift towards diversifying the Kingdom's massive NATO arms buying spree to include Moscow's superb S400 air defense systems is another marker of desperate times for the (out)House of Saud. For many months, as Bloomberg has reported, Moscow's crude has been steadily supplanting Saudi oil in the critical Chinese market. Recent deals by the Kingdom to purchase shares of refineries in China have not reversed the trend of steadily eroding market share.

As reported earlier this year by Team RogueMoney's Mideast correspondent The Prince, the young Crown Prince's ambitious agenda to IPO the Kingdom's crown jewel Aramco and usher in a less oil-dependent, Dubai-style future for the Saudi people has stalled. The construction of MBS proposed mega city on the Red Sea coast, not far as missiles fly from the Yemen war zone, is likely a pipe dream until the conflict can be settled. The Kingdom is likely twenty years too late to follow in the footsteps of the UAE, and its foreign labor-dependent and somewhat pampered population is unsuited for manufacturing, whether skilled or unskilled.

MBS has sought to shake things up by raising fuel duties on what had previously been heavily subsidized gasoline, and recently announced a return to 'moderate Islam' after decades of the Sauds supported the terrorism-promoting Wahhabist sect. The Saudis feud with gas rich regional rival Qatar has fizzled out, and quiet diplomacy appears underway via Egypt, Turkey and other mutual partners of Riyadh and Doha to save face, after Saudi bullying of the Qataris predictably failed. To demonstrate its turn from the 8th to 21st century, the Kingdom sought positive publicity by allowing (veiled and fully covered) women to drive and attend sporting events in gender segregated seating sections. However, as the Russian Analyst reported in December 2015, the Kingdom's long term financial outlook is far more grim than widely acknowledged. Where Does the Tottering Saudi Kingdom Go From Here? The Question Team RogueMoney Will Be Addressing in the Coming Week

Desperation and defeat, can either motivate MBS and his father's advisers to change course and continue their petrodollar-dumping pivot eastward, or double down on what hasn't worked: full spectrum confrontation with Iran and its proxies from the Levant to Yemen. It remains to be seen if the resignation of Saudi-financed Lebanese politician Saad Hariri announced just after visiting the Kingdom is part of the stage-setting for a second Israel-Hezbollah War. Certainly, the Saudi Goliath's humiliations at the hands of Yemeni Davids must give Israel pause about committing too much to prop up a weak Arabian (peninsula) horse. Nonetheless, the Hariri resignation coinciding with a rapid consolidation of power by MBS, coming a week after President Trump's son in law Jared Kushner reportedly visited Saudi Arabia, will fuel speculation that the White House and Riyadh are coordinating their next move/s. And RM's W the Intelligence Insider is not the only person who is warning these political shakeups may be clearing the decks for the next effort to achieve a solution to the region's problems by military means...