The speaker of the Duma (Russian lower house of parliament), Sergei Naryshkin, published an article in the government daily Rossiyskaya Gazeta this week (August 9), making dark predictions about August and attacking the United States for being a global menace. The month of August, he writes, has traditionally featured evil happenings and wars in the past, and these could occur again soon because of US “provocations.” Naryshkin recalls the “provocations” that sparked World War I (August 1914), the nuclear bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki (August 1945), fighting in Dagestan (August 1999) that began the Second Chechen war, as well …read more
Source: The Jamestown Foundation