Headline News 03/03/2018

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New Russian Weapons a result of unstable American World Order

America takes advantage of atrocities in Ghouta to further its own policies

Burmese forces deploy on Bangladeshi border in pursuit of Rohingya Muslims

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New Russian Weapons a result of unstable American World Order

According to the New York Times:

President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia threatened the West with a new generation of nuclear weapons Thursday, including what he described as an “invincible” intercontinental cruise missile and a nuclear torpedo that could outsmart all American defenses.

The presentation by Mr. Putin, which included animation videos depicting multiple warheads aimed at Florida, where President Trump often stays at his Mar-a-Lago resort, sharply escalated the military invective in the tense relationship between the United States and Russia, which has led to predictions of a costly new nuclear arms race.

While Mr. Putin may have been bluffing about these weapons, as some experts suggested, he cleverly focused on a vulnerability of American-designed defenses: They are based on the assumption that enemy nuclear missiles fly high and can be destroyed well before they reach their targets.

The new class of Russian weapons, he said, travel low, stealthily, far and fast — too fast for defenders to react.

It has been less than three decades since the end of the Cold War and Russia is again threatening Western security. In fact the reason for this lies in Western policy dynamics and, in particular, American strategic concepts. America appears to have inherited British balance of power thinking which constantly sought to encourage the weaker power to confront the stronger power. The inevitable long-term consequence of British policy is general global instability as was witnessed in the two world wars.

America could have used the end of the Cold War to pacify Russia, welcome it into the Western-led international community and encourage European countries to develop strong peaceful links with their Russian neighbour. But deep-seated rivalry between Western powers led America to tacitly encourage Russian aggression against Europe while publicly encouraging Europe to pursue a path of confrontation with Russia.

America does not deserve to be the global superpower. The world experienced a millennium of general harmony and stability when Islam dominated international affairs and the Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) State remained its superpower. Wars were limited and exceptional events and arms races were almost unheard of. The world will only return to peace and justice when the dominance of the secular materialist Capitalist imperialist Western powers is displaced by the re-established righteous Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) State that will implement Islam within the state and carry its light to the entire world.

America takes advantage of atrocities in Ghouta to further its own policies

As the world remains in shock over the scale of atrocities committed by the Assad regime in Ghouta, America has chosen to use this calamity to further its own objectives in Syria, which require balancing Assad and the Russian and Iranian forces with other elements including the Kurds and the Turks. So on the one hand America is confronting Assad; according to Reuters:

In one of the deadliest offensives of the war, government air strikes and bombardment have killed hundreds of people over 12 days in eastern Ghouta, an area of besieged towns and farms that is the last major rebel-controlled area near the capital.

U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to the leaders of France and Germany about the situation on Friday. France said President Emmanuel Macron and Trump agreed to work together to implement a U.N.-backed ceasefire that has failed to stop the onslaught, and called on Russia to get Damascus to abide by it.

The U.N. Security Council on Saturday called for a 30-day countrywide truce. Russia, which backs the Syrian government in the war, has instead called for daily humanitarian ceasefires from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. (0700 GMT to 1200 GMT).

However, at the same time America’s agent Erdogan has pushed Turkey to enter Syria; according to another Reuters report:

Turkish warplanes attacked pro-Syrian government forces overnight, killing at least 17 people in a village in the north of the Afrin region in northwestern Syria, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Friday.

The dead included three members of the Syrian Kurdish YPG force, while the rest came from militias that support President Bashar al-Assad and entered Afrin last week to help repel a Turkish offensive, the Observatory said.

America is playing a complex game in Syria at the expense of the lives of the Syrian people and using its allies and agents as it pleases. This manipulation from afar, or ‘leadership from behind’, as it was said of Obama, only indicates America weakness, not American strength. When will the world realise this truth?

Burmese forces deploy on Bangladeshi border in pursuit of Rohingya Muslims

Not content with driving out the Rohingya Muslims of Burma, now known as Myanmar, the Burmese military has now been seen amassing on the Bangladeshi border. According to BBC News:

Bangladesh has told neighbouring Myanmar to pull back its troops from their shared border, where thousands of Rohingya refugees have sheltered.

More than 5,000 people have been living on a narrow strip of land between the two countries since some 700,000 Rohingya fled the burning of their homes in Myanmar last year.

On Thursday, a large number of Myanmar soldiers appeared at the border fence.

Bangladesh has summoned the Myanmar ambassador over the situation.

Rohingya refugees fled their homes in Rakhine late last year, amid what the Myanmar government said was a military crackdown on militant groups. But reports quickly emerged of widespread human rights violations, killings, and the burning of civilian villages.

The United Nations has labelled Myanmar's actions as "ethnic cleansing" and said it cannot rule out considering it an act of genocide. In its wake, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya fled across the border to Bangladesh.

It is the timidity of the Bangladeshi leadership that has led Myanmar to dare to deploy its army in this fashion. Unfortunately the armies of Muslims are generally only used against their own people, or in the paid service of United Nations ‘peacekeeping’ missions. Under Islam, the foreign disbeliever could not dare to take any step against Muslims. The dignity, honour and lives of Muslims will not be secured until the Muslim Ummah re-establishes the righteous Islamic Khilafah (Caliphate) State on the method of the Prophet (saw) that will implement Islam and secure the Ummah from the evil of the foreign disbeliever.