VP Joe Biden went on TV to talk trash about how we're going to make an example of Russia for their insolence.

"Why haven’t we sent a message yet to Putin,” Chuck Todd, host of the “Meet the Press” show on NBC, asked Joe Biden.

“We are sending a message [to Putin]… We have a capacity to do it, and…”

"He’ll known it?” Todd interfered.

A lot of attention is being paid to the rising tensions between Russia and the U.S. over Syria, and for good reason.
A military confrontation between the two nuclear superpowers is not just stupid and immoral but completely insane. It's like playing Russian Roulette with every chamber loaded.

I don't want to get in the habit of making daily updates about Syria, but events are moving so fast, and they are so important, that I can't ignore them.
It all started with Hasakeh.

Things have changed so much in the region since the attempted coup in Turkey that the regional alliances might be unrecognisable by November at this rate.
The latest flashpoint is in Hasakah.

So, this happened.

The incessant Russia/Putin propaganda we've been subjected to over the last four years along with the aggressive U.S. actions against Russia, i.e., Ukraine regime change, further encroachment of NATO on its borders, sanctions, the U.S. led Syria and Libya wars, etc., have led many to believe a military war with Russia might happen.

On the same day that Putin and Russia were being denounced in Philadelphia, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced plans to meet Vladimir Putin for talks in St. Petersburg.

Yesterday I expressed my disapproval of a particularly nasty e-mail in which DNC CFO Brad Marshall discussed questioning Bernie Sanders’ religious faith as a way to score political points.

This is largely to update some of the news that has happened since then.