Week in Review: ‘Future’ of U.S. Democrats, Merkel Is Saved, Iran Trains Taliban, Mexico to ‘Hug’ Cartels, and Much More

• After a democratic socialist won a primary in New York, some saw it as a sign the Democrat Party is shifting too far to the left. But the chair of the national party said the winner, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is “the future of our party.”
• Chancellor Angela Merkel was in a bind over immigration that could have cost her the leadership of Germany. But she has negotiated a compromise that put off the day of reckoning—for now.
• Mexico voted in a new president who wants to solve the problem with the drug cartels by softening military options in a strategy he has nicknamed “Hugs Not Bullets.”
• The Taliban in Afghanistan is getting better trained and better armed, thanks to an infusion of support from Iran.
• We’ll also talk about China trying to increase its power to match its rhetoric, Japan’s nervousness over China’s power, and signs that the Iran nuclear deal is in trouble.

Links

• ‘Future’ of U.S. Democrats
• “Democrats Turn to Socialism”
• “Communism in America Today”
• Merkel Is Saved
• “Germany, Migrants and the Big Lie”
• A Strong German Leader Is Imminent
• Iran Trains Taliban
• “Iran Trains the Taliban”
• “The Whirlwind Prophecy”
• China Narrows Gap Between Rhetoric and Power
• TREND: “Why the Trumpet Watches the Rise of China As a Superpower”
• Ezekiel: The End-Time Prophet
• Isaiah’s End-Time Vision
• Mexico to ‘Hug’ Cartels
• “What Does Mexico’s New President Mean for the Drug Cartels?”
• Europe Struggles to Keep the Iran Nuclear Deal
• TREND: “Why the Trumpet Watches Iran and Europe Heading for a Clash of Civilizations”
• Terror in North Africa
• “Watch Algeria!”
• Japanese Navy to Tour South China Sea and the Indian Ocean
• TREND: “Why the Trumpet Watches Japan’s March Toward Militarism”
• Russia and China in Prophecy