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This comes from Mandy O'Brien, a well-known body-language expert. She analyzes Trump's behavior at the Monday cabinet meeting about Syria.

I don’t think I have a reputation for panicking. But I do think that we are now at probably the most dangerous point in world affairs since Russian and NATO troops faced off at Pristina Airport in 1999, if not since the Cold War.

The authoress is very liberal.

Last night Fox’s Tucker Carlson did what may have been the most amazing thing that has ever happened on American television. As the drums of war beat louder than they have in years, Carlson stared right into the camera and did the exact opposite of what every mainstream US pundit is doing right now: he told the truth.

Carlson kept up the pace on his Tuesday evening broadcast, not letting up on exposing the insanity of what most of the media and political class are calling for - a military confrontation with Russia.

Marko Marjanović has been a Russia Insider deputy editor since Nov' 2014 and a major force in the creation of its product for that entire time. You may want to check out his after hours project Checkpoint Asia or follow it on Facebook.

The most heavily defended city in the world is not Washington, DC. It’s Moscow. While the District of Columbia has legions of Secret Service and Homeland Security police defending it, the Russian capital is the only one in the world—that we know of—defended with nuclear-tipped missiles. It’s all the result of an exception built into a forty-four-year-old arms control treaty.

Marko Marjanović has been a Russia Insider deputy editor since Nov' 2014 and a major force in the creation of its product for that entire time. You may want to check out his after hours project Checkpoint Asia or follow it on Facebook.

Informed citizens the world-over collapsed into a mass paroxysm of hysterical laughter upon hearing the news.

Marko Marjanović has been a Russia Insider deputy editor since Nov' 2014 and a major force in the creation of its product for that entire time. You may want to check out his after hours project Checkpoint Asia or follow it on Facebook.

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Marko Marjanović is a Russia Insider deputy editor. Has been since Nov' 2014. You may want to check out his after hours project Checkpoint Asia or follow it on Facebook.

Marko Marjanović is a Russia Insider deputy editor. Has been since Nov' 2014. You may want to check out his after hours project Checkpoint Asia or follow it on Facebook.

Marko Marjanović is a Russia Insider deputy editor. Has been since Nov' 2014. You may want to check out his after hours project Checkpoint Asia or follow it on Facebook.

There is much ambiguity surrounding the alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, said to have taken place late Saturday, but there are a few matters that are clear.

The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG) is being deployed to the Mediterranean Wednesday, where it will join the USS Donald Cook off Syrian territorial waters.

USS Donald Cook (DDG-75), equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles, as well as the Aegis missile defence system, approached the port of Tartus in Syria. The port of Tartus is the location for the logistics base of the Russian Navy. The US destroyer is currently at a distance of 100 km from the port, CNN Turk reports