„Die US Army braucht ein Ziel, sie braucht ein größeres Stück vom Budget-Kuchen. Dabei ist es am einfachsten, ein solches Bild zu entwerfen, wie die Russen in unserer Mitte landen und gleichzeitig von beiden unseren Rändern her angreifen werden. Totaler Schwachsinn“, wird ein hochrangiger US-Offizier von Politico zitiert.

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A recording obtained by The Washington Post captures what New York reporters and editors who covered Trump’s early career experienced in the 1970s, ’80s and ’90s: calls from Trump’s Manhattan office that resulted in conversations with “John Miller” or “John Barron” — public-relations men who sound precisely like Trump himself — who indeed are Trump, masquerading as an unusually helpful and boastful advocate for himself, according to the journalists and several of Trump’s top aides.

(15.1.2016) „I think that this much is clear, there was a navigational error of some kind,“ he said at a press conference on Thursday. „All the contributing factors to that we don‘t know yet, and we‘re still talking to those folks, and we‘ll find out more … but they were clearly out of the position that they intended to be in.“

(12.5.2016) Rasch has been relieved of his command duties and reassigned, the Navy said. Although this is the first firing by the Navy regarding the incident, several other sailors received administrative reprimands. The investigation is expected to be finished by the end of the month, and others are likely to be disciplined.

„We considered it appropriate to hold trilateral joint exercises to improve combat readiness and mutual vigilance of the three countries, cooperate in the field of military training in a trilateral format, develop cooperation in the field of cyber security and hold exercises for the protection of oil and gas pipelines,“ the minister said.

The Sahrawi community in Belgium celebrated, Saturday, the 43rd anniversary of the creation of the Front Polisario (10 May 1973), and the triggering of the armed fight for the liberation of Western Sahara, ten days later.

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