Week in Review: Berlin Attack, China’s Drone Theft, Iraq Concedes to Iran, America Sidelined in Syria, and Much More

Week in Review: Berlin Attack, China’s Drone Theft, Iraq Concedes to Iran, America Sidelined in Syria, and Much More

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Week in Review: Berlin Attack, China’s Drone Theft, Iraq Concedes to Iran, America Sidelined in Syria, and Much More

All you need to know about everything in the news this week

December 24, 2016

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Highlights:

Berlin attack

  • One analyst characterized the December 19 Berlin terrorist attack that killed 12 people and injured 48 as Germany’s 9/11.
  • If it is indeed Germany’s 9/11, howbeit on a much smaller scale, how will the terror-stricken nation respond?

    • Iran’s control over the Iraqi-Syrian border

  • The Iranian-directed Shiite militias, known as Popular Mobilization Units (pmu), are reportedly seeking deployment to maintain the Iraq-Syria border.
  • “This raises several questions,” wrote Al Monitor. One of those questions is: “Is this demand part of the plan to secure the route Iran wants to establish from its border with Iraq all the way to the Syrian-Iraqi border?”
  • In a 2003 article titled “Is Iraq About to Fall to Iran?,” Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote: “[T]hough the current U.S. administration is vowing not to allow an Iranian-style theocracy to gain hold in Iraq, there are also signs in the way it is rebuilding the country that show a fundamental lack of political will to see this pledge through. Perhaps it will not be during the term of the current president, but the Bible shows that America will fail to contain Iran the way it hopes to.”

    • China: Stealing all it can before January 20?

  • Last week, a Chinese naval vessel seized an underwater United States drone that was operating in the South China Sea.
  • U.S. President-elect Donald Trump responded by tweeting: “China steals United States Navy research drone in international waters—rips it out of water and takes it to China in unprecedented act.”
  • The National Review wrote on December 20 that the incident suggests “Beijing is seizing all the territory it can—while it can.”
  • As Mr. Flurry wrote in the July Trumpet, China’s increasingly belligerent behavior is “steering the world toward war.”

    • America: Missing in Syrian peace talks

  • For 18 months, the United States has tried desperately to corral international players to bring an end to the Syrian Civil War.
  • Its efforts have largely fallen flat.
  • This week, three of the most important players in Syria—Iran, Turkey and Russia—met to discuss Syria’s future.
  • The United States wasn’t even invited.

    • CNN fans hatred toward police

  • “cnn is making a desperate pitch to further inflame the ideological war on cops while it still has a sympathetic ear in the White House,” wrote political commentator and author Heather MacDonald.
  • “The cnn website is promoting a laughably incomplete study of police use of fatal force ….” The study was incomplete because it did not factor in crime rates, and it has the overall effect of mischaracterizing law enforcement officials.
  • We wrote in our April Trumpet: “The nation’s police are being undermined in ways that will prove devastating to our cities in particular.”

    • Other news:

  • Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a speech on Thursday recapping his country’s 2016 military accomplishments, saying it is the most powerful on Earth but urging the nation to boost its nuclear arsenals.
  • Following the Berlin attack, United States President-elect Donald Trump said he stands by his plan to ban immigrants from high-risk countries from entering the United States. “I’ve been proven to be right,” he said. “One-hundred-percent correct.”

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