The New Era of Great Power Competition.

The post Cold War period was an interlude between the norm of state rivalries, instigating internal unrest, and plentiful wars. In relative scale at least. Perhaps greater than a state rivalry, there exists transcendent geostrategic strife between Anglo-Saxon and Russian civilization for the past two centuries. From the Great Game to the Cold War. Ironically, the deadly World Wars spurred short-lived alliances between them to remove anyone else from their monopoly on history.

The Post-Soviet space is the battlefield of where the third wave of this civilizational war has made landfall. Main idea of this is to create a headache for the Russians where they face peril every step of the way in their revanchist crusade to reclaim fallen lands. The old borders have become boundaries designed to contain wars for the soul of nationhood. History has restarted, now is the time where acts of heroism blend into myth and legend.

🇮🇶 🇺🇸 🇷🇺 Mysterious US Military Movements in Iraq... Syria a Possible Target

Photos of US military convoys moving in separate cities are circulating on the local media in Iraq amid reports that the Shiite factions are “aware of an imminent operation, and have been asked to avoid escalation.”

However, Major General Yahya Rasool, spokesman for the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, denied in a televised statement any US military movements.

In turn, a government official told Asharq Al-Awsat that the alleged movements “are limited to locations outside the Iraqi border.”

But three Iraqi figures, including a leader in an armed faction stationed in northwestern Iraq, told Asharq Al-Awsat that the US was repositioning its troops in the region, in preparation for a military operation outside Iraq.

The leader noted that the armed factions believe that the strategic objective of the operation was to “change the rules of engagement with the Russians in Syria.”

📎 Aawsat

Saskatchewan has always had a rich Christian identity. From the discovery of the continent by Leif Erikson, a Christian European, to Henry Kelsey, a European man who first discovered what is modern day Saskatchewan, we have always had Christian roots, tradition and values. Anyone who has spent a day in the great plains has witnessed the endless fields interrupted only by small towns and their steapled churches.

In 2011, a survey showed that 72% of Saskatchewan residents identified as Christian, it is clear that the faith is a core aspect of the identity of Saskatchewan residents and has been the greatest influence in the development of the province. In the modern day, when things seem so dystopian and disconnected from reality, we aim to seek guidance from men who built this province rather than those who seek to tear it down.

Psalms 139:19-24

"Surely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God:
Depart from me therefore, ye bloody men.
For they speak against thee wickedly,
And thine enemies take thy name in vain.
Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee?
And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred:
I count them mine enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart:
Try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting."

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🇺🇸 🇦🇺 🇮🇩 The Staff Sgt. Robert T. Kuroda - LSV 7, loaded with Australian armored vehicles and equipment enroute to Indonesia for Garuda Shield.

📎 U.S. Army Pacific