Week in Review: Russia’s Ukraine Assault, Iran’s Illegal Missile Test, America’s Lawless Protests, and Much More

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Week in Review: Russia’s Ukraine Assault, Iran’s Illegal Missile Test, America’s Lawless Protests, and Much More

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Highlights:

Russia’s ground assault in Ukraine

  • Last weekend, Russian-backed forces unleashed a massive artillery attack in the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka.
  • The timing of the flare-up—coming so soon after U.S. President Donald Trump’s inauguration, and just days after the new president’s first official phone call with Vladimir Putin—strongly suggests that Russia may be testing the new president to see how committed he is to Europe’s defense.
  • Don’t ignore the fighting in Ukraine,” warned Noah Rothman in Commentary magazine.
  • “The often intense violence between Ukrainian troops and Russian-supported forces has … been met with stony silence from a distracted political class in the United States. It would be a grave mistake to ignore this slowly boiling conflict.”
  • How Iranian belligerence will end

  • On Wednesday, the Trump administration put Iran “on notice,” following what national security adviser Mike Flynn described as “recent Iranian actions, including a provocative ballistic missile launch and an attack against a Saudi naval vessel conducted by Iran-supported Houthi militants.”
  • However the United States confronts Iran, Bible prophecy says that there will be a different superpower that will confront Iran once and for all.
  • That power will not even put Iran on notice.
  • Where hysteria over immigration is leading

  • President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily restricting the immigration of refugees coming from seven Muslim countries known for exporting jihadists, lit verbal fires in the media and literal fires in the streets.
  • The overblown, hysterical backlash, the complete distortion by the media, and the grandstanding by politicians and celebrities alike expose the deep divisions within America’s society.
  • Those divisions will be healed, thankfully, but not before America’s coming civil war.
  • Trump Exposes Germany’s exploitation of Europe

  • The Trump administration took another shot at Germany on Tuesday when Peter Navarro, the head of Mr. Trump’s newly created National Trade Council, criticized Berlin for using the euro “to exploit other countries.”
  • According to Mr. Navarro, “a big obstacle to viewing the [Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership] as a bilateral deal is Germany, which continues to exploit other countries in the [European Union] as well as the U.S. with an ‘implicit deutsche mark’ that is grossly undervalued.”
  • The Telegraph’s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard concurred in his article titled “Trump Is Right: Germany Is Running an Illegal Currency Racket
  • “Germany is the planet’s ultimate currency manipulator.”
  • Russia’s military push into the Arctic

  • Russia’s military presence around the Arctic has grown to levels not seen since the collapse of the Soviet Union, according a Reuters report from January 31.
  • Speculation is rife that Moscow will soon possess greater capability and control in the strategic and resource-rich region than the Soviets ever had.
  • In recent years, Russia has established four new Arctic brigade command units, 16 deepwater ports, a new Arctic command, and 14 operational airfields. It is either re-opening or constructing six military facilities.
  • To understand more about the implications of Russia’s military rise, listen to this week’s Trumpet Hour and read our article “Russia’s Attack Signals Dangerous New Era.”
  • Other news:

  • On January 27, one of Hong Kong’s most powerful billionaires was abducted by Chinese security agents. The news affirms fears that Hong Kong is rapidly losing its autonomy to China’s strongman ruler, Xi Jinping.
  • United States President Donald J. Trump nominated Judge Neil M. Gorsuch to fill an 11-month-old vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday night.
  • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised to build a new West Bank settlement “as soon as possible” following the court-ordered demolition of an illegally built settler outpost.
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