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That is what they all say: Let us go to war to bring about Peace. It is like killing to make life worth living.
Peter Koenig
25 April 2025
War for Peace has never worked in the history of mankind. Those who say War is Peace, know it is a lie. Those who say it, also never go to war. They plan wars – they force young people to the front and fight their wars for naught. Sorry. Not for naught, for profit and power for those who are planning these wars for Peace.
These young men and women propagandized and brainwashed to believe that war makes Peace, help the war industry making profit from killing. They bathe death in a sea of gold. Death is sacrifice, death is shiny, death is good for Peace.
One may legitimately ask, why are people at large still going along?
Propaganda, is certainly one reason. Massive propaganda. Propaganda never talks about killing, about the thousands, millions of deaths wars bring about – no. Wars bring Peace and tranquility.
People at large – the YOUs and the MEs – we want a quiet, peaceful life in harmony, where our children can grow up without fear. And if the media tell them, this WAR is for Peace – after this war there are no more wars – this is the war of all wars – leading to PEACE, their wish for peace is so immense, so deep. they believe it.
So, once more they tolerate the misery, the indiscriminate killing, bombing of humans. Our brothers and sisters are being slaughtered in the name of Peace.
Take the Zionists
They are convinced to be the Chosen People. They have captured Israel, way before Israel was created on stolen Palestinian land – the story has been recorded at nauseatum – but not by the mainstream media – to become the Greater Israel in control of most of the Middle Eastern natural resources, predominantly oil and gas.
Alternatively, will Peace look the other way? [04]
Peace will call for War to protect its integrity
The God of Zion, Yahweh, the God of Israel, will overcome us all – in the Name of Peace. He is part of the “Chosenness” of the People of Zion.
Therefore, Iran must go too. They are the stumbling block to Peace. Muslims and gentiles, who do not bend to Zion, are enemies of Peace.
Once they, the omni-present Zionists, have reached that goal, PEACE for all, they and the (western) world will live in Peace. Because Zionist-Israel will peacefully reign over good and evil – and distribute life-economy sustaining energy to the world as they see fit.
Before reaching this noble goal – Peace for All, massive killing and slaughtering is necessary – in the name of Peace, supported by the warrior leaders for Peace, called the United States and Europe.
Peace be with us. Peace is the objective of War.
Peace costs money. The United States has within the last two years allocated about 200 billion dollars for Peace, supplying Ukraine with weaponry and cash – so they can fight and kill for Peace. This is money from the tax-payers. From the very people who only want Peace, for living in Peace.
They are not saying NO to the allocation of their money for killing to eventually live in Peace. Killing and atrocities are intermediary stages for Peace.
The US Congress has just allocated another 95 billion dollars to Ukraine and Israel – to continue killing themselves and each other into the final stages of Peace. Still, people in the name of Peace do not say NO, as in NO, do not give our money for slaughtering more people – they may hope Peace will come and engulf them all.
Otherwise, it is not fathomable that they let their money being transferred into guns and tanks and bombs – so they may kill – working towards Peace.
The final eternal Peace.
We all want Peace.
But we know Peace does not come without war, so we are told, and so we believe – for generations after generations, after generations. For societies after societies, after ever more societies; and ultimately, for civilizations, after civilizations, after endless civilizations – war will bring Peace. It has always been that way. And it will stay that way, as long as humanity exists.
Unless humanity breaks some rules, seeing Peace not as the result of wars, but as an end in it-self. – Forget it. That would be a dream. Warriors for Peace do not dream.
Rules must be followed. So, we are told. And we MUST believe. We, the People, MUST always believe the higher echelons, our leaders, because we elected them, we gave them our trust, we delegated them our authority, and now we must give them our money, so they will lead us to Peace via wars.
The US government has made its choice in favor of war, siding with evil and supporting fascism, the Russian Ambassador to Washington, Anatoly Antonov, recently said.
He commented on the latest massive American military aid package for Ukraine.
US President Joe Biden just signed a US$95-billion foreign-aid package, including $61 billion for Ukraine and some US$ 26 billion for Israel and US$ 8 billion for Taiwan. The US Congress voted overwhelmingly for the US$ 61 billion for Ukraine – as Peace in this part of the world is of high priority.
And not to be shamed, Congress also voted an additional US$ 9 billion for humanitarian aid for civilians in Gaza and other war zones. Of course, humanitarian aid is the grease that lubricates first war and then Peace.
Biden added that within hours the US will send weapons and military equipment to Ukraine. Most likely they will do the same for Israel. Maybe for Taiwan too. Because war with Taiwan over China can turn the world around – into a huge camp of Peace.
What the Russian Ambassador got wrong is that these are not weapons of evil, but weapons for Peace.
For heaven’s sake, they are not weapons of mass destruction, they are weapons for building true Peace.
Both Ukraine and Zionist Israel are shooting, bombing, ravaging, and killing their way to Peace.
If this puts the world on the brink of a direct clash between nuclear powers, it means that a final mushroom cloud, or several of them, may bring final Peace to the world. Just in case, if there is no other way to Peace, nuclear may be the way.
We must never forget, no matter how much killing, slaughtering, burning, destruction war MUST bring to finally reach Peace – it’s all worth it. Because this rotting, warring world must be destroyed to be rebuilt in PEACE. No worries, BlackRock is there to help.
And rebuilt it will be, by all those who generously plan war for Peace – but for the safety of future Peace, they stay clear of war. Of course, who else would rebuild the world into Peace, if not the thinkers and shakers of this world?
Those who finance wars, the Military Industrial complex the BlackRocks et al, they know it. That is why they finance wars. They will never stand in the way of wars, nor in the front line of wars, but they are ready to rebuild the devastated world into a glowing new world of Peace.
The world needs these people, generous thinkers of Peace for humanity.
They know what they are doing. We must believe them and support their efforts, equally generously with our tax money. Nothing is more important than war and killing for Peace.
And yes, before its forgotten or overseen, let us remember that the Biden Administration sacrifices the lives of ordinary people for the insatiable but generous war industry which helps us find the way towards Peace.
All great Peace-loving nations must bring sacrifice, lest Peace may not prosper, nor prevail and last. We are talking about sustainable Peace.
People of this world, let us continue vouching for war as Peace is our ultimate goal. Our minds are strong. If we can make war – we must be able to see through the haze that war will make Peace.
Amen.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020)
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
La Russie a utilisé son veto de l’ONU au Conseil de sécurité (CS) et a bloqué un projet préparé par
L’article La Russie bloque au Conseil de sécurité un projet de résolution américain sur le non-déploiement d’armes nucléaires dans l’espace est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
The Multipolar Alliance closes ranks against common foes. There’s always a reaction. Time to cut the Puppeteer’s Strings. Security and BRICS planning, crafted around China’s Global Security Initiative, appear the foci.
“Hidden from sight, evil plays,
Pulling strings in unseen ways.
Like puppets, we dance to its tune,
Under the sun, the stars, the moon.
Each string, a lie, a deceit,
Moving us with invisible feet.
Controlled, guided, without a clue,
Of the hands that guide what we do.
Yet when the strings are finally cut,
We see the path from the rut.
The puppeteer’s game, at last revealed,
In the light, the truth unsealed.”
— Maya Anthony
BRICS security chiefs meet in St. Petersburg. Security Council chairman Nikolay Patrushev met with his Chinese counterpart Chen Wenqing on the sidelines of the 12th International Security Summit of Russia … Representatives from over 100 nations are in attendance, including the security chiefs of Iran, India, Brazil, South Africa and Iraq. |media|
April 25
@Russian MFA:
Briefing by Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova (Moscow, April 18, 2024)
Terrorist attacks by Ukrainian neo-Nazis against Russian medical workers
#Ukraine #KievRegimeCrimes
With obsessive cruelty, fighters from the Ukrainian Armed Forces hunt down the medical workers who are helping the victims of shelling attacks and target them in an attempt to destroy them and prevent them from saving civilians.
Hospitals, outpatient clinics, rural health posts and other medical buildings in the DPR and LPR, as well as the Belgorod, Bryansk, Zaporozhye, Kursk, and Kherson regions, regularly come under fire from neo-Nazis.
We are not going to leave the above crimes unpunished. The perpetrators will be identified and held accountable to the full extent of the law.
Remind you of Gaza?? The same MO by similar imperial proxies, both commanded by the same USUK general staff…
#BRICS2024
On April 22-23, Moscow hosted a meeting of BRICS Sherpas/Sous-sherpas, chaired by Deputy Foreign Minister, Russia’s Sherpa in BRICS Sergey Ryabkov. The participants of the meeting discussed current issues on the agenda of the Russian year in BRICS, including the implementation of decisions adopted at the Johannesburg Summit on August 22-24, 2023.
Russia’s representatives also informed the participants regarding the ongoing preparations for the upcoming BRICS Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, scheduled to take place in Nizhny Novgorod on June 10-11, 2024.
This upcoming June meeting is of UTMOST importance, setting the agenda for the October Summit of Heads of State. Organizing current and aspirant members is like herding cats. With the overt Imperial war on BRICS, this is an additional reason May is expected to be red-hot against Russia/BRICS, in order to lower the needed security climate to focus on planning the fair multipolar future.
@Strategika51:
All of a sudden, AIPAC, the Jewish Anti-Defamation League, Netanyahu and the entire global Zionist movement are alarmed by what is currently happening on the campuses of some US universities.
“Anti-Semitic mobs have invaded major US universities. We are seeing this exponential rise in anti-Semitism throughout America and Western societies, as Israel attempts to defend itself against terrorist genocide.”
Statement by Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister.
What is both remarkable and paradoxical is that the noisy anti-Zionism that was widespread in the countries of the so-called Global South and even some former Eastern Bloc countries during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, has now spread to America and deserted its former territories.
The global Zionist movement attributes this “rise in anti-Semitism” in America to the Chinese social network Tik Tok and consequently wants to ban it, but the phenomenon is far more complex and is reported in unprecedented degrees having broken all historical records in Japan, China, both Koreas, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Central Asia, South America and Africa.
@Intel Slava Z:
The United States admits that the Russian Federation may have new tactical successes in Ukraine in the coming weeks – White House.
Why does Iran behave the way it does? What geopolitical strategy drives her? What are the secret origins of how the Iranian leadership sees the world? Parables of mountain climbing, wrestling and highways in Persian history..
The IRGC’s Operation ‘True Promise,’ much like the Palestinian Al-Aqsa Flood before it, is poised to be recorded in history as a pivotal, perhaps even terminal, moment for the brief history of the Israeli occupation state…
By Khalil Harb at The Cradle.
The ‘Isfahan incident’: a nail in Israel’s coffin
Tel Aviv’s underwhelming military counter to Iran’s 13 April military strike has destroyed decades of Israel’s carefully cultivated deterrence posture.
Iran’s Operation True Promise strikes on 13 April have reopened the deep wounds Israel incurred during Hamas’ 7 October attack. While Operation Al-Aqsa Flood shook the occupation state’s security bubble at its core, a single night of Iranian rockets and drones left Israelis straggling to hold on to even a sliver of their famed deterrence posture.
As military spokesman for Hamas’ Qassam Brigades Abu Obeida succinctly highlighted in his 23 April speech:
Iran’s response, in its size and nature, established new rules and confused the enemy’s calculations.
This is the region’s new status quo. And Israel’s mysterious ‘Isfahan attack’ has done nothing to shake Iran’s confidence. In short, the alleged Israeli counter has reaffirmed the regional view – militarily, at least – that Tehran has checkmated Tel Aviv and rewritten the rules of engagement.
After years of provocations, and for the first time in its history, Iran has launched a direct offensive against Israel, confidently claiming that it utilized only a fraction of its military capabilities – many of these “obsolete” missiles within its fast-evolving arsenal.
Iran targeted Israel’s key Nevatim and Ramon air bases precisely, despite the spectacular display of lights from intercepted decoy explosions that lit up the skies. Many, quick to judge, misinterpreted the massive salvo as a sign of a broader strategic offensive from the Unity of Fronts – the Resistance alliance that poses a multi-front dilemma for Tel Aviv – aimed at devastating Israel in one blow.
A slap in the face
In fact, Iran conducted the operation alone, which makes the seriousness of Iran’s “slap” all the more significant.
The night of the Iranian missile attack also demonstrated the limits of Iranian patience and Tehran’s strategic shift from caution to calculated aggression, necessitating the intervention of three western nuclear powers and the “Arab fig leaf,” Jordan, to counteract the assault.
The Iranians backed their military actions with public statements and shared images of their commanders orchestrating the operations. Conversely, Israel’s response to the events in Isfahan was ambiguous and poorly communicated, with only sporadic information leaking to the US and Israeli press in a feeble attempt to project resolve.
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian mocked the Israeli response in an interview with NBC News, where he dismissed the Israeli drones as trivial, likening them to “toys that our children play with.”
Israel’s ‘ridiculous’ comeback
Israel’s military counter is now widely perceived as a dud, derided even within Israel itself by figures such as Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, who describes it as “ridiculous.”
Despite Tel Aviv’s formidable military arsenal, which includes undeclared nuclear weapons, and its historical posture as a reliable western ally in the region, the events of 13 April have exposed gaping vulnerabilities in its ability to respond to credible threats, especially from Iran.
This ineffectiveness was highlighted amidst the symbolism of Isfahan – home to Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility – where Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has long positioned himself as a stalwart against Iran’s nuclear ambitions, appeared uncharacteristically passive.
The Israeli PM’s lack of any tangible response was a departure from his usual hyperbole, painting a picture of Israel as unprepared and hesitant – retreating rather than confronting.
Furthermore, Iran’s nuclear program has paradoxically also emerged as a potent tool in Tehran’s strategic arsenal. The explicit warning from the Islamic Republic about possibly revising its nuclear doctrine in response to an escalated Israeli threat suggests a bold new stance, despite Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s fatwa (Islamic decree) against nuclear arms.
“On the Road to Quds”: Artwork depicts a Qassam Brigades paratrooper & motorcycle fighter armed with Al-Yassin 105, a Hezbollah fighter firing an anti-tank missile, a drone of the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, and Yemeni ballistic missiles all converging on Al-Quds. The sunken British ship “Rubymar” is included off the Yemeni shore.
Is Israeli deterrence dead?
The Isfahan incident did little to bolster Israel’s deterrence posture, which has been eroding since Al-Aqsa Flood and further weakened by Hezbollah’s operations in the north and Iran’s True Promise. These events have deeply impacted the Israeli psyche, challenging the foundational sense of security that underpins the Zionist vision of a “secure Jewish state” established on the lands of Palestine.
Against this backdrop, the conventional rules of engagement that have long governed regional interactions are being re-evaluated. Iran’s bold moves – despite US and Israeli warnings – signal a recalibration of power dynamics, indicating a potentially transformative period in West Asian geopolitics.
The Israeli response, both present and future, must now consider the possibility of a united front from the Axis of Resistance if it chooses to escalate further. This adds a layer of complexity to any military planning against Iran, likely prompting Israel to revert to its characteristic approach of covert operations. These may involve sabotage or targeted assassinations attributed to local agents rather than direct military strikes.
Meanwhile, the US, amid its own internal political issues and upcoming elections in November, is likely to play a dual role. It will monitor its ally’s actions closely while trying to moderate the regional tensions to prevent any significant escalation that could destabilize its broader strategic interests.
A point of no return
Today, it is Iran – not the US, not Israel, and certainly not the Isfahan attack – which has restabilized the regional balance, even temporarily, pending the crystallization of the new rules of engagement.
Tel Aviv’s counterstrike tried hard to mitigate the possibility of any further Iranian retaliation – especially as Tehran’s next move would likely come without warning, involve Iran’s superior missiles, and potentially the mobilization of Iranian allies toward Israel’s borders.
The Axis of Resistance was happy to allow their Iranian ally to take center stage on 13 April and exact revenge for Israel’s miscalculated 1 April bombing of Iran’s diplomatic mission in Damascus. Any further bold moves from Tel Aviv would ensure that the Axis would activate on every front to swarm Israel.
So, for the moment, Tel Aviv does not dare to compromise Iran’s security directly, instead turning their impotent rage toward vulnerable Rafah, where over a million Palestinian civilians are stranded without food, shelter, and water.
The Hebrew media is already spinning for all its worth, promoting Tel Aviv’s “gains” from demonstrating restraint against Iran – whether from last week’s UN Security Council veto of a Palestinian state or the new $26 billion aid package the US Congress just approved for Israel, or obtaining White House support for the occupation army’s Rafah invasion.
Dr Hussein al-Musawi, the spokesman for the Iraqi Harakat al-Nujaba, tells The Cradle that Israel has, in effect, received a blank check for bad behavior from Washington:
It is not surprising that the US supports and defends Israel, regardless of its violation of international norms, and this undoubtedly embarrasses the Iraqi government, which seeks to take a clear position on the US military presence in Iraq.
For these and many other reasons, Israeli leaders are now acutely aware that any overtly aggressive action will not go unnoticed in the current geopolitical climate. The region is embroiled in what could be described as a ‘mini-international-regional war,’ characterized by intermittent flare-ups and periods of relative calm.
True Promise, much like Al-Aqsa Flood before it, is poised to be recorded in history as a pivotal, perhaps even terminal, moment for the brief history of the Israeli occupation state, which now finds itself more isolated than ever and facing an increasingly uncertain future.
Le 24 avril, le secrétaire d’État américain Antony Blinken entamera sa visite de trois jours en Chine. Selon le Département
L’article Blinken en visite de trois jours en Chine est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
Garland Nixon interviews Laith Marouf — Tuesday’s West Asia update.
Israel (and the combined West) can’t go left.
Iran’s exposure of western air defenses was exploited by Lebanese Hezbollah in the last 48 hours. Send swarms of drones to saturate ADs, followed by the pinpoint kamikaze drones/missiles..
Zionists have switched from direct Iran confrontation (for now) to the non-state actors, starting a spade of Hezbollah assassinations in last week and resuming culling Palestinians, in their fine traditional style.
Hezbollah has matched the raised intensity of attacks — jumping to obliterate command bases 25-30 km from the border with high-value targets (at least one general admitted killed, see Salon)
Israel has been totally defeated on all fronts, including intelligence gathering, with secret commands being taken down several times, including those skulking in arab-israeli community centers used as human shields (!). The only remaining card remains: drag in USUK somehow, but now to save their necks from Hezbollah
a tit-for-tat liquidation of Israeli/Hezbollah commanders is underway in last week, with Hezbollah having acquired unprecedented up-to-date surveillance capability of enemy movements, in addition to precision projectiles.
the zionists, supported to the hilt by western elites, will continue to perpetuate massacres and abominations against Palestinians, until physically stopped by the Resistance. That is the only recourse left.
The masks have been dropped by combined West. This war will continue, and intensify, through at least the US Elections.. (he doesn’t anticipate inclusion of Iran again as a direct front, until after elections)
There was a feeble, symbolic response by Israel on Isfahan, driven by US fear of repercussions, given severe depletion in 404. Most likely they used a few quadcopter drones hoisted by MEK terrorists from within Iran, given their ranges.
… instability in CONUS will be driven by fuel prices … and continuing student protests which will continue as Genocide in Palestine will certainly continue, in echoes of Vietnam, with similar hit pieces by the national guard (NG) to soon play their knuckle-dragger roles… the chaos and agony of West Asia comes home.. and will those NG really turn their guns on their own class?? 
Sunni-Shiite shism, carefully curated by Anglo-Zionists since 2006 Hezbollah victory over Zion, is now kaput. Billions upon billions invested in Hate between sects was exposed by the Shiite led Resistance being sole members coming to defense of Sunni Hamas and Palestinians. The Lie was exposed. Youth are now immunized against these divide et impera lies. The totering criminal compradore regimes are more exposed than ever. The Sunni street can not be tricked now to join a crusade against Iran or Hezbollah or Houthis or Iraqi Resistance — seeing who the real enemies are. The Empire is bereft and isolated in the region.
The Victories of Russia and China will happen in Palestine. As with Napolean and Hitler, obsession over defeating Russia has severely weakened USUK in West Asia, critical center of global trade and commodities and silk/maritime roads…..
Soleimani’s genius: Bury yourself 70m and you cannot be touched by a casualty-averse Empire with insufficient boots. This has been the secret strategy (in addition to cheap tech precision dronification, patience and attrition warfare) to outlast and beat the Last Satanic Empire, as exemplified by Yemen.
Yemen’s gift to mankind: its resolute chokehold over the Bab El Mandeb has sped up the fall of the thalassocratic Anglo-Zionist Empire.
Geography largely determines fate. Sea-based will lose out to land-based that is immovable. The owners and friends of the Holy Land will move the World (take that Mackinder! This is the real Heartland), not those who in senseless futility went to die in the rich black soil of Novorossiya
The Cradle of Civilization, the Triangle between Iraq, Egypt and Yemen, were the land-based empires and powers. As the USUK collapses, this region will regain its traditional heft and role in relations of nations, as China has regained hers in last decades
Yemen, Iran and the West Asian Axis of Resistance have got China’s back in applying commensurate pressure on USUK’s SLOCs if the deranged dare to shut down Malacca and SCS… China has defeated USUK without a single battle
The bluster of USUK has been called by Iran, shown to be weaker than a spider’s web, which will lead to further dominos toppling in Korea, Monroe-lands, etc…
Le Kremlin a accueilli les négociations entre le président russe Vladimir Poutine et son homologue azerbaïdjanais Ilham Aliyev, arrivés à
L’article Poutine reçoit Aliyev au Kremlin est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
Le 22 avril, des exercices entre les États-Unis et les Philippines ont débuté près de Taïwan. Les militaires doivent pratiquer
L’article Les États-Unis lancent des exercices militaires en mer de Chine méridionale en vue de protéger Taiwan est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
As the Ukraine expires, urgent moves are afoot to raise new “Anti-Russias” to maintain Forever Wars on Russia in the European direction. France and Romania make moves
Editorial at KATEHON.COM.
The draft law that the Romanian Ministry of Defense just introduced for allowing the armed forces to deploy abroad in defense of their country’s compatriots raises very serious questions about Bucharest’s geopolitical intentions. The neighboring countries of Moldova and Ukraine have Romanian minorities within them, some of whom have Romanian citizenship such as the 1.3 million in the first-mentioned. Parts of both of them also used to constitute so-called “Greater Romania” during the interwar period.
The polity included all of modern-day Moldova apart from its unrecognized separatist Transnistrian region as well as Ukraine’s Budjak and Northern Bukovina regions. During World War II, Romania also participated in the Nazis’ Operation Barbarossa and occupied Odessa Oblast, which was ruled as the “Transnistria Governorate”. That historically Russian city is also at the center of speculation about France’s geopolitical plans nowadays too.
President Emmanuel Macron claimed in late February during a meeting with EU leaders in Paris that a conventional military intervention in Ukraine cannot be “ruled out”, later specifying that his country could take the lead in this respect if Russia advances on Kiev once again or moves on Odessa. France already has troops and tanks in Romania and even signed a security pact with Moldova last month. It’s therefore already positioned to conventionally intervene in Ukraine if the decision is made.
Romania has emerged as a crucial conduit for NATO arms to Ukraine over the past two years to complement routes through Poland, which have become blocked in recent months as a result of farmers’ protests in response to Brussels’ “Green Deal” and the influx of cheap and low-quality Ukrainian grain. Arms and equipment are sent to Greece and then pass through Bulgaria and Romania en route to Western Ukraine. The “Moldova Highway” that’s being built in Romania will facilitate this flow.
Romanian President Klaus Iohannis said in mid-March that “Troops cannot be sent to Ukraine under NATO’s mandate because Ukraine is not a NATO ally. But in general, if Ukraine has bilateral agreements with a certain state in any sphere, these issues are a matter of bilateral relations. Romania will not send soldiers to Ukraine.” Reading between the lines, he essentially signaled that a so-called “coalition of the willing” could intervene there instead of it being a formal NATO mission.
As was earlier written, France is already positioned to conventionally do so via its troops and tanks in Romania if the decision is made. Although Iohannis said that “Romania will not send soldiers to Ukraine”, that was before the pro-Western Balkan Insight drew attention to Bucharest’s growing religious dispute with Kiev. Their article titled “Religious Rivalry Threatens Romania-Ukraine’s Close Partnership” was published at the end of last month and is very relevant in light of the latest draft law being tabled.
In brief, the Romanian Orthodox Church announced its support in late February for a separate church for ethnic Romanians in Ukraine. Most of them belong to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and not Kiev’s newly created schismatic “Orthodox Church of Ukraine”, and they’ve since come under pressure following a serious of “suspicious incidents” for refusing to defect to that false religious body. The proposed separate church is apparently designed to protect them from further harassment.
The unspoken intent is for ethnic Romanians to physically distance themselves from the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and thus avoid more fascist attacks against the latter’s congregation, which Ukrainian radicals carry out due to the former’s ties with the Moscow Patriarchate. The model that could be employed would emulate that which was already applied towards the Moldovan Orthodox Church in basically bribing priests to defect towards that country’s newly created autonomous local diocese.
If the ethnic Romanians’ request to register their proposed religious entity is denied by Kiev and more “suspicious incidents” follow as punishment for their refusal to defect towards its false religious body, then a Romanian military intervention in defense of its compatriots there also can’t be ruled out either. Most live in modern-day Chernivsti Oblast but there’s still a small community in southern Odessa Region’s Budjak region as well, which overlap with the land previously controlled by interwar Romania.
The likelihood of Romania unilaterally intervening in Ukraine is low, let alone intervening only in that country and not in Moldova where a much larger percentage of the local population holds Romanian passports. Therefore, if any military intervention occurs, it’ll probably be a joint operation with France. Paris would try to seize control of the Black Sea coast around Odessa while Romania would seize Budjak and Chernivsti Oblast, or at least the mostly Romanian-inhabited parts of those regions.
The trigger for this scenario could be a Russian military breakthrough across the front lines sometime later this year that would then serve as the pretext for France to lead a “coalition of the willing” of at least itself and Romania to raise the costs of Russia potentially crossing the Dnieper River. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu warned his French counterpart in a conversation on Wednesday that intervening in Ukraine could cause problems for France itself, thus hinting at immediate retaliation.
That likely isn’t a bluff either since Russia already killed several dozen French mercenaries in Kharkov in late January so the precedent has been established proving that it could also act against French troops too. In fact, some or perhaps even all of those mercenaries might have even been undercover members of the French military, the possibility of which might explain Macron’s reluctance to follow through on late February’s threat since he fears a humiliating military defeat in that event.
Nevertheless, if he decides to go through with it anyhow irrespective of whether it’s intended to preempt the previously mentioned trigger for this scenario or occurs immediately afterwards, then Romania would probably join France in those two Ukrainian regions and Moldova as well. The casus belli that Bucharest could rely on for intervening in Ukraine might be its growing religious dispute with Kiev while the Moldovan dimension could be attributed to alleged Russian threats from Transnistria.
Russia has previously bombed Ukrainian military targets in Budjak’s southernmost Danuban region like the town of Izmail so it would probably also bomb any Romanian military units that deploy there too. Furthermore, if Russia’s peacekeepers in Transnistria are attacked, blockaded, or threatened by Romania and/or France, then that could also prompt Russia to attack the aggressors in Moldova and possibly within Romania itself, which would amount to strikes within NATO territory for self-defense reasons.
Bucharest’s plans to rebuild “Greater Romania”, arguably in joint partnership with France to a large degree, are therefore fraught with danger and should be reconsidered by responsible policymakers. World War III could be sparked by miscalculation since the escalation cycle could easily spiral out of control in that scenario. If the Ministry of Defense’s draft law passes, then Bucharest would regard itself as having the subjectively defined legal pretext for risking this, which raises the chances of a wider war.
Les pays de l’UE envisagent d’inclure une interdiction sur la fourniture de gaz naturel liquéfié (GNL) dans le 14e paquet
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L’administration du président américain Joseph Biden a remporté des succès majeurs. Elle a réussi à convaincre la Chambre des représentants
L’article L’aide américaine à l’Ukraine approuvée est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
Le 21 avril à Moscou, quatre forces politiques moldaves ont annoncé la création d’un bloc au nom ambitieux de «
L’article L’opposition moldave s’unit à Moscou est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
The Lamp unto Mankind on the Shining City of the Hill – the Menorah of Apocalypse, AKA US House of Representatives…
The World-Enders Edition.
“Evil wears many a face,
In every time, in every place.
Not just in strangers, but in friends,
In its form, the norm bends.
Sometimes open, sometimes hidden,
In places expected, or forbidden.
In each guise, a different tale,
In each form, a different veil.
But in recognizing its many masks,
We equip ourselves for the tasks.
To face evil, in all its ways,
In our actions, in our days.”
— Maya Anthony
April 24
@Sputnik Africa:
Russia invites all interested states to North-South transport corridor project, Putin says
”The North-South transport corridor should become an example of the widest international cooperation, we are talking about the formation of new logistics routes in order to accelerate the economic and social development of the countries of Eurasia and the global south,” Putin said at a meeting with Russia’s Baikal-Amur Mainline veterans.
The Russian president also emphasized that Russia “invites all interested states to participate in this project.”
A new batch of US Abrams tanks has been spotted in Moscow. In shops in the Russian capital, in the dessert section, among the usual cakes there is now a chocolate “Abrams Tank.” For just 759 rubles (less than $9), a cake can be bought in the shape of a destroyed US main battle tank. |video|
US should think of its responsibility in Ukraine crisis, Chinese diplomat says
”The US should really think of its responsibility in the Ukraine crisis, not to add fuel to the flame, not to use it as an opportunity to benefit itself,” China Central Television quoted a spokesperson for the Department of North American and Oceanian Affairs at the Chinese Foreign Ministry.
The spokesperson added that the Ukraine crisis is not an issue between China and the United States, and Washington should not turn it into a bilateral issue.
”The Ukraine issue is not an issue between China and the US; the American side should not turn it into an issue between China and the US,” he noted.
What is the point of Lil Blinkie going to Beijing now? His main risible crutch is swept out from under him …
Using frozen Russian assets to finance Ukraine “will just destroy the world economy,” the Chairwoman of the Russian Upper House says
Such a move will “destroy confidence in the [western] world economy,” Valentina Matvienko told Sputnik in an interview.
Moscow has already prepared a “draft law” for such a case, the official said, adding that the Europeans are afraid to “lose more” than Russia.
Decoupling, dedollarization, and fleeing western “havens” is furious underway, at their own hands too
“Historic” move: creating the African Credit Rating Agency (CRA) allows “shaping narrative” on risk and investment, expert says
The creation of a continental credit rating agency by the African Union (AU) is “historic,” as the existing system for assessing the creditworthiness of countries is “flawed” and “unfair” and thus negatively impacted the growth of African countries.
”The AU’s decision to establish an African CRA is historic, and this move was made by the [African Union] AU, as African countries have continuously received unfair credit ratings as a result of a very biased and a very flawed system. This system has had a negative impact on the growth and development of African nations,” Etsehiwot Negash Kebret, Development Finance Advisor at Development Reimagined consultancy told Sputnik Africa.
He explained that international CRAs use variables such as inflation rate, a country’s history of defaults and its level of economic development, which inevitably puts African countries at a disadvantage and therefore makes financing more expensive for them.
Thus, the African CRA can help “shape the narrative around risk and investment,” thereby helping to increase investor confidence and unlock greater funding volumes.
Terrorism remains one of most serious threats of 21st century, Russian President Putin says. The purpose of terrorist attacks, backed by intel services of some states, is to undermine constitutional foundations and destabilize sovereign states, Putin noted.
Russia is ready for close cooperation with all interested partners in ensuring global and regional security, the Russian leader added.
Main world events by the morning of April 24:
The Senegalese President called for a reevaluation of EU relations to create a fairer global order reflecting “the realities of the modern world”at a meeting in Dakar with the head of the European Council, Charles Michel;
Russian anti-air defense forces intercepted and destroyed eight Ukrainian UAVs over the territories of the Russian Kursk, Belgorod, Voronezh, and Smolensk regions during the night, according to the Russian MoD;
North Korea is sending an economic delegation to Iran, the country’s state media reports;
The NATO exercises starting on April 26 in Finland, in close proximity to the Russian-Finnish border, have a provocative nature, the official spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zakharova says;
The President of Brazil will take part in the BRICS summit in Kazan, the ambassador to Russia said
Sri Lanka is planning to join BRICS+, the Ambassador to the Russia says
Russia is impeding the UN from using sanctions to meddle in intra-African affairs, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said
@DDGeopolitics:
Athens may transfer Patriot PAC-3 anti-aircraft missile systems to Ukraine, subject to financial compensation from the United States, as well as guarantees that Turkey will not attack Greece.
The Greek information portal pronews writes about this.
!!! The Greek elites appear as suicidal as the Armenian, and led by as traitorous. Keep in mind Orthodox prophecies regarding the imminent Turk attack on Greece, to close the Bosphorus and force Russia’s hand. Why should Russia come to the defense of such crazed current Greeks??
Xi Jinping to visit Belgrade in May on 25th anniversary of US bombing of Chinese embassy.
April 23
RT:
“US-led West on verge of causing nuclear war – Lavrov.”
The three Western nuclear powers are among the chief sponsors of the Kiev regime and main organizers of provocations against Russia, the foreign minister has said
“Putin sends message to Russian Jews.“
“The Russian president has extended his best wishes for the Passover holiday… Passover is a major Jewish holiday that commemorates the liberation and exodus of the Israelites from Egypt. This year, Passover begins at sundown on April 22 and ends on April 30.”
“Germany arrests citizens on suspicion of spying for China.“
“Beijing has dismissed the allegations as an attempted smear campaign”
Apparently, negotiations between the Celestial Emperor and the Liverwurst Reichskanzler did NOT go well. Let’s see how the blunt Blinkie instrument fares….
Russian MFA:
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova’s response to a question from the Rossiya Segodnya news agency regarding Polish President Andrzej Duda’s statement on the readiness to deploy US nuclear weapons on Polish territory.
Question: In an interview with Fakt, Polish President Andrzej Duda said that the Polish authorities are ready to accept the deployment of US nuclear weapons on their territory. How would you comment on this?
Maria Zakharova: Such provocative statements by the Polish leadership are not new. The Polish authorities have long made no secret of their ambitions to “snuggle up” to the US nuclear weapons deployed in Europe and have been actively weaving them into their deeply hostile policy towards Russia.
It is clearly not enough for Poland that it is already a member of NATO, which arbitrarily positions itself as a “nuclear alliance.” Moreover, Warsaw is intensively involved in the practice of the so-called “joint nuclear missions” of the North Atlantic bloc as a state that provides direct support to such operations.
All this together leads to the fact that in our own military planning we treat Poland with special attention and in view of the threats that arise for Russia with the involvement of this country. The Polish factor was certainly also taken into account by us and our Belarusian friends in taking additional measures to strengthen the security of the Union State.
However, Warsaw seems to be maniacally seeking to attract even more attention from military planners in the Russian General Staff. It is not difficult to assume that in the event US nuclear weapons appear on Polish territory, the relevant facilities will immediately be added to the list of legitimate targets for engagement in a situation of direct military confrontation with NATO.
@Strategika51:
CNRS: In March 2020, France was one of twenty countries to adopt the strictest containment rules to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Historian and sociologist Nicolas Mariot examines this experiment of mass obedience.
A mass obedience experiment …
[We shall shortly see the efficacy of the training of the new Dr. Pavlov.. all that “Swiss finishing school” comportment, including a gag, strap, leathers, and primly separated distancing, will be called upon quite shortly. Watch the endless videos of Ukie “military recruitment,” which woulda made blush the 18th Century Imperial British dragooneers for the Royal Navy!]
Statement by the Russian Defense Minister:
The total losses of the Ukrainian armed forces since the start of the special military operation amount to almost half a million servicemen. [quite conservative, based on what could count on frontlines.. less inhibited mention 1-2 M genocided by West]
Russian troops have the initiative along the entire line of contact and are pushing the enemy out of the occupied lines.
The NATO force group near the borders of the Russian Federation comprises up to 33,000 troops, around 300 tanks and over 800 other armored fighting vehicles.
Russian armed forces will increase the intensity of attacks against Western logistics centers and weapons storage bases in Ukraine.
Russian forces liberated Pervomaiskoye, Bogdanovka and Novomikhailovka in Donetsk PR, extending the zone of control to Berdychi and Georgievka.
In 2024, the first units of the new-generation S-500 anti-aircraft missile system will enter service with space defense forces. The military will receive them in two forms: long-range anti-aircraft missile systems and missile defense systems.
According to partially confirmed reports, Romania has requested the deployment of more US and NATO air defense batteries on its territory due to its total inability to intercept Russian missiles and drones.
This is only part of the story. In reality, the Romanian government, one of the most corrupt in existence, is afraid of a Russian reaction after the loss of a Russian Tupolev Tu-22M3 strategic bomber last week.
[Yup. Loose-sphinctered abject vassals panic WAY too late, AFTER their suicide is already in motion. As the Great Poem admonishes them, and against the same foe:
“… Theirs not to make reply,
Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die.
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.”]
April 22
RT: “The approval of a large aid package for Ukraine by the US House of Representatives is the same as funding terrorism, according to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
In a post on her Telegram channel on Saturday, Zakharova said that the potential allocation of further military assistance to Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan would only aggravate the crisis in the world.”
Evangelical/Christian Zionism (and being bought, as in compradore Kenya) plays a role in many Africans’ support for zionism. However the live Genocide since Oct 07 has done wonders to seriously inform and calibrate towards reality. The grassroots “non-elite” and the youth, as everywhere, are different now
Very interesting predictive messaging by this Christian Zionist tool! Goes fast at 1.75x speed. 4 major events in 40 days, with Iran’s first direct blows on Zion being the first. China, “the red Dragon” involves the second. Interesting Lil Blinkie is about to follow in the Liverwurst’s steps to Beijing. The Fallen are about to provoke the Celestial Empire..
Note he speaks from Turkey, the Eye of the Hurricane. One of the 4 in 40, about to be turned against Russia and Iran? Not hard to predict these when one works for the Beast! May is a major month. A torrent of unholy activity. One of the 4 appears to be the Bretton Woods System.. “Conversation is all about monetary systems…” will the western Ponzi be collapsed, say due to triggered closure of Hormuz, due to another forced reaction from Iran? It can conveniently be blamed on Iran, as deindustrialization and high cost of living in Europe was blamed on Russia.
@ejmalrai:
Abu Johnson al-Amriki @SpeakerJohnson
Retweet: “Fatwa from US spiritual leader, Mike Johnson: “Bible says we must stand with Israel.”” |video|
April 21
@Dmitry Medvedev:
No one doubted that American legislators would approve “help” to a gang of neo-Nazis. It was a vote of joyful US bastards:
a) for the continuation of the civil war of the divided people of our previously united country;
b) for maximizing the number of victims of this war.
We, of course, will win, despite the 61 billion bloody dollars that will mainly go down the throat of their insatiable military-industrial complex. Strength and Truth are behind us.
But taking into account the Russophobic decision that took place, I cannot with all sincerity help but wish the United States to plunge into a new civil war as quickly as possible. Which, I hope, will be radically different from the war between North and South in the 19th century and will be waged using aircraft, tanks, artillery, MLRS, all types of missiles and other weapons. And which will finally lead to the inglorious collapse of the vile evil empire of the 21st century – the United States of America.
@Hamas/Tsahal:
The United States opposes Palestine becoming a full member of the United Nations.
In favor of the resolution presented by Algeria to admit Palestine to the UN and the request of Palestine’s permanent observer to Guterres to review the membership application already submitted in 2011, 12 members voted.
There were only two abstentions and the United States voted against. Washington’s vote against it as a permanent member of the Security Council rendered the proposal null and void.
Washington had also threatened to “withdraw” North American funding from the UN if it allowed Palestine to fully join.
The United States is currently the largest contributor to the UN: last year alone it donated more than $18 billion.
The US House of Representatives passes a bill providing an additional $26.4 billion in aid to Israel.
Prime Minister Netanyahu says US military aid to his country “demonstrates strong bipartisan support for Israel and defends Western civilization.”
@Intel Slava Z:
China’s first commercial Ku-band phased array radar satellite, Taijing 4-03, has photographed the main US Navy base in San Diego.
The bill on the transfer of frozen assets of the Russian Federation to Ukraine gains the required number of votes for adoption by the US House of Representatives
@DDGeopolitics:
A new 10-station metro line will be built in Moscow – the Rublevo-Arkhangelskaya line. It is to be completed by 2030.
Around the same time the US restores that bridge in Maryland
“Political” Absurdity Knows no Limits. The US blocks full UN membership for Palestine – and US Congress passes law depriving Palestine of freedom of speech
Peter Koenig
19 April 2024
Palestine applied to become a full-fledged United Nations member. On 18 April 2024, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) voted on the request.
The United States single-handedly vetoed Palestine from full UN membership, thereby blocking the world body’s recognition of a Palestinian State.
The vote in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor, the US opposed and two abstentions, the UK and Switzerland.
What is largely called Palestine, has since 2012 a non-member observer status. An application for full membership with voting rights must be approved by the UN Security Council and two-thirds of the General Assembly.
The Palestinian Authority slams the US veto as an “aggression”, calling it “unfair, immoral, and unjustified.” – This benign statement is far from reflecting the truth behind blocking the UN-recognized statehood of Palestine. The truth is that Washington under the Democrats led by Biden supports the Zionists thrive for exterminating Palestinians and eliminating the State of Palestine.
Simultaneously with the US veto, a bill requesting additional US$ 26 billion weapons and budget support for Israel reached the US House Floor. The Biden Administration, widely supported by its European puppet leaders, wants more Palestinians killed – especially Gazan inhabitants, or rather prisoners, need to be exterminated, killed by bombs, gunned down, starved to death – and the survivors eventually expulsed – to where?
Probably the Sinai desert, where Egypt already built semi-clandestinely – for sure in agreement with Israel – tent cities to accommodate at least some of the expulsed Palestinians.
Imagine! Who will feed them? Who provides health services and facilities? – Simply, the Zionist intent is to let them slowly and miserably perish.
That is the Zionist extermination plan. In civilized language called “ethnic cleansing”.
The latter, of course, is a crime rather than an absurdity.
Here is absurdity driven to extreme. On Wednesday, 17 April, the US House of Representatives passed a Resolution, condemning the chanting of the phrase “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
Genocidal Congress representatives, either Zionists, or American Congress People coerced by Zionists, are such maniacs that they will not allow the Gaza-imprisoned Palestinians chanting their wish for freedom of their land “From the Jordan River to the Med-Sea, We, Palestine, shall be free”.
If nothing else, the Resolution is a breach on Freedom of Speech, as per the US Constitution’s First Amendment:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The Resolution passed Wednesday is a blatant attempt to abridge the freedom of speech.
It is reminiscent of book burning in the not-too-distant past. Yes, humanity is progressing – fast – but backwards. In more ways than one.
The supporters of the Resolution claim that the chant is “antisemitic”, even though the word Jew never appears in it. It only claims or wishes freedom for Palestine.
Whoever the Congress person was introducing this abhorrently idiotic and contradictory bill – no names shall be named – his or her brain-power was sadly reduced to the size of a chick-bean. Maybe through the multiple-boostered vaxxes?
Looking back at almost forgotten history, on 13 December, 1993, then U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, signed the Oslo Peace Accords. These accords, which have the force of U.S. Law, specified that Israel would withdraw from Gaza and the Palestinian West Bank by 1997 and turn their governance over to the Palestine Authority, that is, the State of Palestine.
Remember the famous 1993 picture of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Chairman Yasser Arafat shaking hands on the White House lawn, both embraced by Bill Clinton.
 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin (left) and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat (right) shake hands at the White House in front of President Bill Clinton in September 1993. The new play OSLO is a dramatization of events that led to a historic agreement.
David Ake/AFP/Getty Images |
The Oslo Agreements proposed a two-state solution. Had they been implemented then; Palestine would indeed be free from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
However, Netanyahu, leader of the far-right Likud party, never had any intentions to implement the Oslo Accords. He then, as today, played his dirty games of deception, of lying to the public, by letting the Accords being negotiated and signed.
An independent Palestine would have meant that Palestine would sovereignly own the natural resources on or under her soil, especially water resources. Of the combined Palestine Israel territory, pre-1967 borders, some 80% of all water resources belong to Palestine.
This was not acceptable to Israel. Today, Israel is almost in full control of all the water, often building Jewish settlements on or by Palestinian groundwater- and surface water springs.
Here is a testimony, how Netanyahu boasts about manipulating America and derailing the Oslo Peace Process.
The Oslo Agreements were signed by one of Netanyahu’s predecessors, Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, witnessed and approved by then US President Bill Clinton.
It is not only absurd but an outright criminal act to pass a Zionist-pushed bill in the US Congress that forbids a chant of freedom, which has a full legal basis, the signed Oslo Agreements.
As it looks now, Zionist-Israel does not need a US Law, that prohibits the interpretation “From the (Jordan) River to the Sea, Palestine shall be Free”. Zionist-Israel does whatever she wants, irrespective of signed documents and international laws. They are overtaken by the “rules-based order”.
The would-be sovereign State of Palestine was never allowed the freedom Israel and the PLO signed for in 1993.
See this full report.
The tyrant of then, who is the tyrant of today, Netanyahu, has blocked that freedom for Palestine, with the western world support – largely coerced – by the all-powerful international Zionist lobby.
Netanyahu and his cohorts are doing whatever they can with their indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank to wipe out Palestine. However, the way it looks today, with worldwide support for Israel ever-more waning – about 90% of worldwide populations are backing Palestine – Israel may wipe herself off the map.
This concept is echoed ever more around the world. That might indeed be the best outcome – political suicide for a Zionist Israel.
Negotiations could then start for a non-Zionist Israel, an Israel for honest Jews; along and side-by-side with a sovereign Palestine. Equal rights and equal sovereignty shall reign.
Winning a war is insignificant. Everywhere in the world. Wars and conflicts divide. Not only the warriors, but also the public at large, as publicity drives them to take sides.
What counts is not winning, but PEACE.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020)
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
An early glimpse how the air defenses of the combined Genociders were breached. Jon Elmer takes a look at the Iranian missile counterstrike against Israel.
“You can hear Palestinians in the West Bank underneath these missiles… cheering the Saturday Night LIVE.”
Two short videos.
Jeudi, lors d’un vote au Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU, les États-Unis ont opposé leur veto et bloqué un projet
L’article L’adhésion de la Palestine à l’Onu bloquée uniquement par les États-Unis au Conseil de sécurité est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
Depuis 2023, l’Afrique est devenue une destination d’exportation plus importante pour la Russie que l’Amérique du Nord et l’Amérique du
L’article Les exportations russes vers l’Afrique dépassent désormais celles vers les deux Amériques est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
when is it no longer “safe” ?? A free article by Elijah Magnier. Presciently published 2-3 days PRIOR to the Iranian retaliation. Iran moved from Patience to direct Power. Henceforth, there will be consequences for Zio-USUK, as in Novorossiya!
By Elijah J Magnier on 11/04/2024.
In a calculated move of retaliation, Iran has decided to respond to Israel’s actions by earmarking several targets from its extensive list for initial and, if deemed necessary, subsequent more destructive reprisals. Reliable sources reveal that Iran’s strategic planning includes the Israeli Chief of Staff’s headquarters among the range of potential targets. This decision is a direct consequence of Israel’s targeted assassinations of Iranian generals on Monday, 1 April 2024, which targeted the Iranian diplomatic consulate in Damascus, Syria. This attack destroyed the consulate and the death of seven senior Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) officers, including a brigadier general and general, his second in command. In the light of these events, Iran has vowed to retaliate.
Hezbollah, an ally of Iran, proposed a joint attack on Israel. However, reliable Iranian sources report that Sayyed Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, rejected the proposal. Sayyed Khamenei’s refusal is based on a desire to prevent harm to Iran’s allies and a belief that retaliation should be an exclusively Iranian response, especially after the attack on its diplomatic consulate. The purpose of Iran’s planned retaliation is not necessarily to effectively harm Israel by destroying its diplomatic mission but to send a warning. This serves as a deterrent message to Israel and the international community to refrain from similar actions in the future. Iran’s strategy is not aimed at escalating the situation into a wider conflict unless Israel retaliates. Instead, Iran is trying to navigate out of the position it has been placed in by Israel’s actions against its diplomatically and legally protected consulate in Syria.
Israel’s conduct violates essential norms protecting the inviolability of diplomatic premises and representatives, as enshrined in the Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961), the Convention on Consular Relations (1963), and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes against Internationally Protected Persons, including Diplomatic Agents (1973).
Invoking Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, which sanctions the right of individual or collective self-defence in response to an armed attack against a UN member state, Iran is in a position to retaliate against Israel without the option of restraint. This stance is based on the need to protect its diplomatic missions around the world. Iran has notified the United States of its intention to retaliate by international legal frameworks while at the same time preparing for possible further escalation by Israel by preparing additional countermeasures in the event of significant Israeli retaliation.
Delaying a retaliatory strike does not put Iran at a disadvantage, as strategic depth and patience define its approach to conflict. This stance emphasises that time serves Iran’s interests by allowing it to respond to any aggression in a calculated manner and by draining Israel’s resources and nerves in anticipation of Iranian retaliation. The notion that the explicit intent of a “damaging strike” would typically come from the “Axis of Resistance” that aims to underscore a strategy of surprise and direct engagement. On the other hand, Iran’s primary goal isn’t just tit-for-tat but to prevent future provocations and maintain established limits of engagement.
Iran’s decision-making process is not hasty or impulsive but deliberate and methodical. It is based on a thorough assessment of the immediate facts, strategic evaluations, and broader implications on the regional and international stage. This approach instils confidence, as it shows that Iran’s actions are not driven by the clamour of public opinion on social media but by a complete understanding of the potential consequences.
The leadership’s emphasis on strengthening the resilience of the Iranian people, increasing national enthusiasm, and reinforcing ideological cohesion is not just a prelude to military action but a testament to Iran’s commitment to its citizens. The Iranian leadership considers this internal fortification more important than the act of retaliation itself, highlighting the depth of their commitment.
The symbolic gesture of Sayyed Khamenei appearing with a Russian Dragunov semi-automatic sniper rifle during the Eid al-Fitr sermon, an action usually reserved for Friday sermons, is a deliberate display of readiness for conflict. This act is not just a message of defensiveness but a declaration of Iran’s readiness and resolve, reinforcing its strategic position and ideological steadfastness.
In sum, Iran is a nation that approaches the prospect of conflict with caution, strategic planning and a deep-seated commitment to preserving its sovereignty and principles rather than being swayed by external pressures or immediate provocations.
‘Operation Faithful Promise’ written in a red rocket
Iran’s measures
Iran has upgraded security measures around more than 91 Iranian sites deemed ‘sensitive’ as a defensive measure. These measures included its infrastructure, nuclear facilities and military installations, underlining its comprehensive approach to hardening its critical infrastructure against potential Israeli threats. This strategy appears to mirror tactics seen elsewhere, including by Israel and highlights a trend towards multi-layered defence systems that combine physical interception measures with electronic warfare capabilities.
Indeed, Iran’s deployment of anti-aircraft and interceptor missiles at critical sites, including nuclear facilities and military bases, represents a direct approach to countering air threats such as human-crewed aircraft, drones and missiles. These systems range from short-range air defence (SHORAD) systems designed to engage targets at lower altitudes to advanced long-range missile defence systems capable of intercepting high-altitude threats and fighter jets.
Furthermore, the Iranian deployment of GPS jamming systems throughout Iran indicates a significant emphasis on countering precision-guided munitions and navigation-dependent drones and missiles. By degrading the accuracy of GPS-guided weapons, Iran aims to reduce the effectiveness of potential attacks on its territory, particularly on sites critical to its national security and infrastructure. GPS jamming can create a defensive buffer, making planning and executing air strikes more challenging.
By publicly demonstrating the enhancement of its defensive capabilities, Iran seeks to deter potential adversaries from considering direct attacks by projecting a willingness to defend its critical assets. This move reflects the ongoing technology race in military capabilities, where corresponding improvements match advances in offensive weapon systems in defensive technologies. Also, strengthening Iran’s defensive posture may have implications for regional security dynamics, potentially affecting the calculus of NATO, Israel and other regional actors regarding their security strategies and policies.
Using GPS jamming on a national scale highlights the growing importance of electronic warfare in modern defence strategies. It not only complicates adversaries’ operational environment but also represents an investment in non-kinetic means of warfare.
(L): Il Papa kisses the Ring ; (R): Christian Zionist former Vice Prez Pence at Christians United for Israel (CUFI)
Israel measures
Israel’s approach to missile defence is indeed multi-layered and highly sophisticated, designed to counter a wide range of threats from short-range rockets to medium-range ballistic missiles. This defence strategy includes several key components to provide a comprehensive shield. In addition, the involvement of NATO, particularly with naval assets equipped with missile interceptors, provides an international dimension to regional missile defence efforts.
Israel’s missile defence architecture consists of several layers, each designed to engage different types of threats at various ranges and altitudes:
Iron Dome: Primarily aimed at intercepting short-range rockets and artillery shells. It is known to have been effective in intercepting projectiles from Gaza.
David’s Sling: Targets medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles, filling the gap between the Iron Dome and Arrow systems.
Arrow 2 and Arrow 3 systems: Designed to intercept ballistic missiles at high altitudes, including outside the Earth’s atmosphere, providing a last line of defence against long-range threats.
Role of Patriot Missiles in Israel’s Air Defense: Israel’s inclusion of the Patriot missile system in its air defence arsenal is a significant component of its multi-layered defence strategy aimed at countering various aerial threats. Initially developed by the United States, the Patriot missile system is designed to detect, track, and engage incoming ballistic missiles at high altitudes, as well as aircraft and drones.
GPS jamming and non-GPS-guided threats: The Israeli army uses GPS jamming to mitigate the threat posed by precision-guided munitions, including missiles and drones that rely on GPS for navigation. By jamming or spoofing GPS signals, defenders can degrade the accuracy of incoming threats, potentially diverting them from their intended targets. However, as noted above, not all missiles and drones deployed by Iran and its allies rely on GPS for guidance. Many systems may use alternative navigation methods, such as inertial guidance, which uses gyroscopes and accelerometers to maintain a course without external references. Others may use Terrain Contour Matching (TERCOM) or optical or radar-based homing technologies that are not susceptible to GPS jamming.
Furthermore, NATO’s deployment of missile interceptors around Israel and in the Red Sea and the Mediterranean demonstrates a high level of cooperation and commitment to Israel’s defence. These ships will likely be equipped with Aegis combat systems capable of tracking and shooting down enemy missiles and aircraft, enhancing Israel’s national missile defence capabilities.
(L): Display of satellite rockets, Khorramshahr missile, and Qiyam-1 missile in the national day parade, 11.02.2024 ; (R): Iran’s missile strikes against Mossad & terrorist targets in Iraq and Syria, 15.01.2024
Countermeasures
However, missile guidance systems, especially those used by countries such as Iran and its allies (Hezbollah, Iraqi Resistance), have evolved to incorporate a variety of technologies aimed at improving accuracy and reliability while evading countermeasures. One such technology is using gyroscopes in the missile’s guidance system. Let’s look at the basics of how these systems work, their advantages and their potential limitations.
A gyroscope in a missile guidance system performs a critical function: it provides inertial navigation data. This means that it can measure and maintain the orientation and angular velocity of the missile without external references. It tells the rocket whether it has rolled, pitched or yawed during flight and by how much.
How it works? A gyroscope maintains its orientation using the principle of angular momentum. In the context of missile guidance, it can provide a stable reference that indicates the missile’s orientation relative to the Earth’s surface. By integrating data from gyroscopes with accelerometers (which measure acceleration), the missile’s inertial navigation system (INS) can calculate its position, orientation and velocity without needing external references such as GPS.
One of the main advantages of using a gyroscopic guidance system is its independence from external signals such as GPS. This makes the missile less susceptible to jamming and spoofing techniques, which are common electronic countermeasures used to disrupt the guidance of GPS-guided weapons. Relying on an internal guidance system allows the missile to be guided to its target even in environments where GPS signals are compromised.
Gyroscopes make missiles more resistant to jamming and spoofing. They do not rely on external updates and can operate in GPS-denied environments. When combined with accelerometers in an INS, gyroscopes can provide precise navigation capabilities.
However, Inertial navigation systems, including gyroscopes, can accumulate errors over time. The longer the missile is in flight, the greater the potential error in its calculated position. Thus, implementing a robust gyroscopic guidance system can be complex and expensive compared to simpler GPS-based systems. Still, it is necessary when facing an advanced enemy with a GPS jamming system. Gyroscopic missile guidance systems offer significant advantages regarding autonomy and resistance to electronic countermeasures, making them particularly useful for countries such as Iran that can anticipate GPS jamming techniques.
Legal approach
The attack on the consulate of a nation, which caused both material damage and fatalities, is a severe violation of international norms, in particular the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, which stipulates the inviolability of diplomatic premises and the protection of diplomatic personnel. In response, Iran lodged a formal protest with the United Nations, highlighting the international condemnation by entities such as the United Arab Emirates, the members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (except Bahrain), Russia and China, all of which emphasised the sanctity of diplomatic premises and condemned the violation of these principles.
The collective condemnation by the 121 countries of the Non-Aligned Movement demonstrates global solidarity with Iran and highlights the significant geopolitical implications of disregarding diplomatic norms. Yet the Western response has been muted, with minimal public condemnation, reflecting a polarised global perspective on the incident.
Iran’s efforts to rally international support to isolate Israel diplomatically, coupled with Israeli Minister Benny Gantz’s call for a coalition against Iran, reflect the complex global dynamics at play. Iran is criticising the United States, Britain and France for not supporting a UN Security Council condemnation of the Israeli attack on its consulate in Damascus, which Iran blames on US-supplied weapons. This position is being portrayed as a tacit endorsement of the aggression, risking further instability in West Asia. Iran asserts its right to seek legal redress and retaliation under international law for this affront.
In solidarity, Ansar Allah in Yemen and Hezbollah in Lebanon expressed their unwavering support for Iran and condemned the attack on the consulate. The support of Iran’s powerful allies was manifested during Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian’s talks in Muscat, Oman, which focused on sending the right message and soft warning to the US administration to remain neutral.
Since 7 October, the United States has already sent four indirect messages to Iran, urging Tehran to remain in control and not to be provoked into joining Netanyahu’s conflict. The messages stressed that the US administration would do everything in its power to contain the conflict. However, Iran perceives that the US has not lived up to its commitments and points to Israel’s actions, which have further antagonised Iran, including the destruction of its consulate in Damascus, as evidence of this failure.
Iran is aware that the US will not abandon Israel, just as Israel and the US know that Iran’s main allies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen will stand by it. This mutual recognition is what led Israel’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to believe that he could carry out a strike on the Iranian consulate with impunity and expect no retaliation from Iran.
The US is limited to intercepting missiles and drones aimed at Israel and using its diplomatic clout to defuse tensions and prevent Israel from escalating the situation, given the potential for full-scale conflict. The prospect of the US becoming embroiled in a Middle East conflict, especially one it could start but find difficult to end, is particularly unappealing as President Joe Biden faces a presidential election in two months. The US administration, already unhappy with Israel’s conduct in the Gaza conflict, is putting pressure on Netanyahu to cease hostilities and facilitate humanitarian aid. As a result, there is little appetite for escalation, which could only benefit Netanyahu by prolonging his tenure and aiding his domestic political survival while significantly undermining Biden’s re-election ambitions. This precarious situation encourages all parties to remain vigilant and avoid Netanyahu’s potentially dangerous strategies, especially as he faces declining domestic and regional support due to various failures.
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One might ask, was this “out-of-control” situation planned and prepared by the Zionist-dominated west?
Peter Koenig
17 April 2024
Israel’s Minister of War, Joav Galant, told his troops the Iranian attack was not successful; that of about hundred drones and rockets, Israel downed them all but four, thanks to our good preparation. This is a lie on many levels.
Both Netanyahu and Galant expressed their determination to retaliate, after a well-thought-out plan. Netanyahu qualified, it needs to be a “clever response”.
Likewise, army chief Halevi is crystal clear in his attempt of launching a response for Iran’s retaliation attack on Israel, but he does not want to cause a war.
The Israeli Cabinet is also “mulling” over what they call a “political offensive” – whatever that may mean.
Interesting though, is that both sides, Israel and Iran, do not seem to want war, or better a HOT WAR, where sable rattling could surreptitiously convert into a mushroom cloud. They know, when NATO gets involved, Russia and China may get involved – and then – the sky is open and Armageddon is on the table – or, rather, all over Mother Earth.
If indeed, Israel goes ahead with such a counter-attack, however benign or non-benign it may be, it is like giving Biden the finger. Because, according to the latest news, Biden backtracked from his earlier limitless commitment to support Israel and to always fight for Israel’s security. Biden’s “back-stoppers” must have told him otherwise: “America is not going to war with Iran for Israel.” – Israel – you are on your own, so to speak.
That was a smart decision. Will they stick to it? The US is divided. There are the Zionists, who so far have called the shots in Washington and in the Pentagon. But the balance is gradually shifting in favor of the more level-headed thinkers, those who do not want to risk WWIII which could become nuclear – and global.
Similar messages of “caution” seem to emanate from British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, a strong supporter of Zionism. He called Benjamin Netanyahu, suggesting prudence in any further action he may take. An escalation – that could spin out of control, is in nobody’s interest.
Nevertheless, PM Sunak assured Netanyahu of UK’s support to “guarantee Israel’s security”.
If this sounds like a game of words, probably it is a game of words. Maybe hiding a surprise – and perhaps during the days of “thinking about prudence”, something much bigger may be under preparation. Knowing the Israel-Zionist’s own supremacy concept, they will not let the Iranian attack, even if well justified, go unanswered.
Just to refresh memories, because they are systematically wiped out by the bought mainstream media: Iran launched a measured, but well calculated retaliation attack on Israeli military targets in the early morning hours of 14 April. The drone and ICBM missile assault of some 300 projectiles was a response for Israel’s unprovoked attack of 1 April on Iran’s Consulate in Damascus, leaving 7 people dead, including 2 high ranking Iranian military officers.
By the multitude of rockets Iran fired on Israel in sequence, first the drones than the missiles, Iran suppressed Israel’s and their allies air defense system that concentrated on intercepting drones and was unable to intercept the subsequently launched hypersonic missiles.
Tehran having entered a new stage of political and military stature beyond the Middle Eastern boundaries, had to react to Israel’s Damascus provocation of 1 April, in terms of a clear message, “Don’t mess with Iran – or else”.
Iran, now militarily speaking, one of the three key members of the newly ten BRICS nations, must assure the west that sanctions and threats and random unprovoked attacks will not cut it anymore.
The 14 April attack by Iran, was not just a retaliatory strike, but established a new order, depriving Israel of her absolute impunity, which until recently had been guaranteed by the US.
Important to note is, that Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Commander-in-Chief, Hossein Salami, said that from now on, if Israel attacks the interests of Iran and Iranian citizens, Tehran will strike it again (RT – 16 April 2024).
This means, that if Israel now hits back, Iran will not just swallow whatever Israel does to harm Iran. And there is the danger – a real risk of escalation out of control.
One might ask, was this “out-of-control” situation planned and prepared by the Zionist-dominated west?
Let us not forget, whatever Zionist-Israel does in pursuit of her ultimate goal, the establishment of Greater Israel, is to control the Middle East’s inexhaustible energy resources.
Achieving Greater Israel depends very much on Israel conquering Iran, not only because Iran is literally in “command” of the oil and gas rich Middle East, but also, a Greater Israel needs control over the Strait of Hormuz, now controlled by Iran.
Currently about 30% or more of the world’s total oil and gas consumption is shipped through the Strait of Hormuz. See this
With a Greater Israel, the bulk of Middle Eastern hydrocarbons would be under Zionist-Israeli control — and, with the Strait of Hormuz under Israeli control, shipments of the energy resources, how much and to whom, would be under Zionist command.
Not to forget, Zionist-Israel is already in the process of appropriating the enormous gas reserves off-shore of Gaza – conservatively estimated already some 20 years ago at about a trillion cubic-feet, worth between 2 and 3 billion dollars, depending on the market price. And as we know, he, who controls the resource, decides its “market” price.
An updated assessment of the Gaza off-shore reserves may be exponentially higher. Of course, kept secret, given the current war and expropriation scenario by Zionist-Israel.
The huge port that is rumored to be planned just outside Gaza – maybe construction has already begun, has little to do with food delivery to Gaza (certainly not), or “exporting” the remaining Gazans to unknown destinations.
Much more likely will this be the port for handling the Gaza off-shore hydrocarbons through a yet to be built (but planned since 1971) Ben-Gurion Canal, all the way to the Red Sea. The new canal, would probably bankrupt the Suez Canal, possession of Egypt, an Arab state.
The Suez Canal is already suffering due to lack of transshipments of at least 20 European countries, who are afraid the Yemeni-Houthi attacks on US and Israeli controlled merchandise vessels could also target their ships.
’Twas the night afore Armageddon
This Big Picture vision speaks for Israel not letting go. From their point of view, they MUST conquer Iran. The Zionists may be so blinded by their delusion of “grandeur”, that they may not see the Mushroom Cloud that may wipe them out along with much of the rest of the world.
The reality is that Iran is no longer alone. Iran wants to make sure that their power and presence is accounted for by Israel, the US, its European vassals, and the west at large – because they are now a member of the new BRICS which is not just an economic association.
Their membership of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) – a strategic and economic Chinese agency – protects them from outside attacks, the same way NATO members are protected. Attack one NATO member you attack them all.
Attack One BRICS state, you attack them all.
Retaliation in the case of an attack on Iran can come from all or selected members of the ten BRICS countries, especially from Russia and China; which would pretty much mean WWIII.
This may be the reason for Iran’s relatively benign retaliation against Israel. It was a warning.
Iran does not want war. They may follow the Tao philosophy, as expressed by Sun Tzu in ancient times, “To fight 100 battles and win 100 battles is not the height of skill. The best way to win is not to fight at all.” This is Iran’s strategy. Its strike against Israel was not so much a military response as a grandmaster’s move in a big chess game. And the game is not over yet (RT, 16 April 2024).
May President Putin’s words resonate and be taken seriously, “I hope WWIII can be avoided” – meaning that an Israeli assault on Iran would not remain unanswered by Russia – which would bring in NATO – and WWIII could explode overnight.
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Peter Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former Senior Economist at the World Bank and the World Health Organization (WHO), where he worked for over 30 years around the world. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed; and co-author of Cynthia McKinney’s book “When China Sneezes: From the Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis” (Clarity Press – November 1, 2020)
Peter is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG).
He is also a non-resident Senior Fellow of the Chongyang Institute of Renmin University, Beijing.
‘Anything that was good and true about Western civilization is preserved and thriving in Russia.’ And after a millennium of playing catch-up, she now has the dominant military heft and osmotic alliance with Iran and China to help craft new civilizational calculations.
By Pepe Escobar at Sputnik International.
A Holy of the Holies was shattered in the Holy Land as Iran staged a quite measured, heavily choreographed response to the Israeli terror attack against its consulate/ambassador residence in Damascus, a de facto evisceration of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic immunity.
This game-changer will directly interfere on how the Anglo-American system manages its simultaneous conflagration with Russia, China and Iran – three top BRICS members.
The key problem is escalations are already built in – and will be hard to remove. The Total Cancel War against Russia; the genocide in Gaza – with its explicit policy masterfully decoded by Prof. Michael Hudson; and the decoupling/shaping the terrain against China won’t simply vanish – as all communication bridges with the Global Majority keep being torched.
Yet the Iranian message indeed establishes a “New Equation” – as Tehran christened it, and prefigures many other surprises to come from West Asia.
Iran wanted to – and did send – a clear message. New equation: if the biblical psychopathic entity keeps attacking Iranian interests, from henceforth it will be counter-attacked inside Israel. All that in a matter of “seconds” – as the Security Council in Tehran has already cleared all the procedures.
Escalation though seems inevitable. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak: “Netanyahu is influenced by his [fundamentalist] political partners to go into an escalation so he can hold onto power and accelerate the coming of the Messiah.”
Compare it to Iranian President Raisi: “The smallest act against Tehran’s interests will be met with a massive, extensive, and painful response against all its operations.”
(L) July 2019: IRGC Aerospace Force General Amirali Hajizadeh in a meeting with his Russian counterpart General “Armageddon” Surovikin before the Russia-Ukraine war: ‘Help us build our aerospace command force, and I will help you build Russia’s drone command force’ [01] [02] ; (R) April 10, 2024: After Imam Khamenei said Israel must be punished, a subtle smile appeared on the face of General Hajizadeh. [03] ; April 17, 2024: [04]
For Tehran, regulating the intensity of the clash in West Asia between Israel and the Axis of Resistance while simultaneously establishing strategic deterrence to replace “strategic patience” was a matter of launching a triple wave: a drone swarm opening the path for cruise missiles and ballistic missiles.
The performance of the much-vaunted Iron Dome, Arrow-3 and David’s Sling – aided by F-35 fighter jets and the US and the UK naval force – was not exactly stellar. There’s no video of the “outer-layer” Arrow-3 system shooting down anything in space.
At least 9 ballistic missiles penetrated the dense Israeli defense network and hit the Nevatim and Ramon bases. Israel is absolutely mum on the fate of its Golan Heights intel installation – hit by cruise missiles.
Amidst classic fog of war, it’s irrelevant whether Tehran launched hundreds or dozens of drones and missiles. Regardless of NATOstan media hype, what’s proven beyond the shadow of a doubt is that the supposedly “invincible” Israeli defense maze – ranging from US-made AD/ABM systems to Israeli knockoffs – is helpless in real war against a technologically advanced adversary.
What was accomplished by a single operation did raise quite a few professional eyebrows. Iran forced Israel to furiously deplete its stock of interceptors and spend at least $1.35 billion – while having its escalatory dominance and deterrence strategy completely shattered.
The psychological blow was even fiercer.
What if Iran had unleashed a series of strikes without a generous previous warning lasting several days? What if US, UK, France and – traitorous – Jordan were not ready for coordinated defense? (The – startling – fact they were all directly dispensing firepower on Tel Aviv’s behalf was not analyzed at all). What if Iran had hit serious industrial and infrastructural targets?
Establishing an Equation Without Disturbing a Pivot
Predictably, there has been less than zero debate across NATOstan about the sudden collapse of the Fortress Israel Myth – which underpins the larger myth of Zionism offering Impregnable Security for those living in Israel. No more. This narrative spin is D.O.A.
Iran, for its part, could not care less about what NATOstan spins. The shift towards the New Equation in fact was generous enough to offer Tel Aviv a de-escalation escape route – which will not be taken, at Israel’s peril.
For Tel Aviv, everything that happened so far spells out Strategic Defeat across the spectrum: in Gaza, in Lebanon, with the economy tanking, totally losing legitimacy around the world, and now with the added painful loss of deterrence.
All eyes are now on what may happen next: will it finally become clear whether the Hegemon prevails or whether Israel runs the “wag the dog” show?
It’s essential to consider the Russia-China strategic partnership view. The consensus among Chinese scholars is that the Hegemon prefers not to commit too many resources to West Asia, as this would affect the – already collapsing – Project Ukraine and the strategic planning to counter China in the Asia-Pacific.
When it comes to Russia, President Raisi personally called President Putin and they discussed all relevant details over the phone. Cool, calm and collected.
Additionally, later this week Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani – who said Iran will respond “within seconds” to any new Israeli attack – visits Moscow for the Conference on Nonproliferation and will also meet with the top echelons of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
It’s quite remarkable that Iran managed to establish the New Equation without disturbing its own pivot to Eurasia – after the collapse of the 2015 nuclear deal – while protecting the complex framework engaged in the defense of Palestine.
The Hegemon’s options are dire. They run from being eventually expelled from West Asia and the Persian Gulf to an unwinnable existential clash against three civilization-states – Russia, China, Iran.
What’s left as the number one feasible scenario is a carefully calculated retreat to an easily controlled backyard: Latin America, especially South America, manipulating new, convenient, sovereign-deprived asset Argentina.
And of course maintaining control over a de-industrialized and sovereignty-deprived Europe.
That does not change the fact that US power projection on the wane, globally, is the way the wind is blowing. The Straussian neocon psycho-dementia is unsustainable. The question is whether they can be progressively purged from the US power structure before they attempt to plunge the Global Majority into their irrational depths of doom.
And Don’t Forget the New BRICS Equation
By contrast, on the Global Majority front, over 40 nations want to join BRICS – and counting, according to the head of the Russian Council Committee on International Affairs, Grigory Karasin.
After a meeting of the chairmen of the international affairs committees of BRICS Parliaments last week in Moscow, Karasin noted how many BRICS member-nations understand that they should not rush to create a rigid charter, “seeing how counterproductive and even provocative the European Union is acting.” The name of the game is flexibility.
Alastair Crooke has touched on a key theme that runs through my new book, Eurasia v. NATOstan: “Anything that was good and true about Western civilization is preserved and thriving in Russia. This is the unspoken insight that so infuriates the western elites. And it is also why, in part, BRICS states so evidently look to Russia for leadership.”
The New Equation established by Iran, a sovereign BRICS member, will do wonders to solidify this – multilateral, multicultural – state of cooperation as the Empire and its “aircraft carrier” in West Asia, except in the covert ops department, are increasingly reduced to the role of a paper tiger.
Les États-Unis ont l’intention d’introduire prochainement de nouvelles sanctions contre l’Iran dans le contexte de son attaque contre Israël, a
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The Russia-Iran Strategic Partnership Edition.
A Poem..
Duma Deputy Chairman Piotr Tolstoy, on top of his competence and gallantly carrying THAT name, is also fluent in French:
His poem, in English:
“In the garden of friendship blooms the noble cause,
Hand in hand, the hearts in osmosis.
Every gesture, every word sows hope,
Illuminates the shadows, removes darkness.
United, our dreams weave a sweeter tomorrow.”
Added translation: Russia supporting Iran – way beyond BRICS+ and SCO ties – mirroring Israel’s position on country 404.
Salon updates on West Asia boiler: https://globalsouth.co/globalsouthforum/topic/west-asia-front-thread-18-april-2024/
April 20
@DDGeopolitics:
Estonia will win the war with Russia, said the head of the Estonian Defense Forces, General Martin Herem, at a meeting of the Presidium of the Academy of Sciences, ERR reports…
“The result of the Russian attack will be our military victory – 20,000 dead on their side and only 1,000 on ours,” he said.
This fella was given The Good Stuff. Wehrmacht-grade chemistry courses through his <<Rapturous>> circulatory system! Sayonara Balts — you won’t be even a speed bump for the Red Army that comes. And this time, they will never leave
THIS IS HUGE!!!!!!
BREAKING: Ambassador of Iran to Serbia, His Excellency Rashid Hasan Pour Baei said in his interview that the WAR CRIME that happened in Srebrenica and that presentation of the Serbs as genocidal is absolutely FALSE and with political intentions. He said that those who initiated that UN resolution committed more genocides than anyone else.
Thank you Iran we love you Iran!!!! |video|
Ooof! Apply cold water to that burn.
Iranians mock the Israeli response: The aftermath of the sweeping Israeli attack on Iran.
@ResistanceTrench
10/10 for propaganda creativity. Hands down.
Via: @Marwa_OsmanLB |video|
@Sputnik Africa:
Main world events in last day:
Russian military forces destroyed the operational command post of the Ukrainian forces “North”, reports the Russian MoD;
Ukrainian forces once again attacked the training center of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Station; a Ukrainian drone was neutralized over the roof of the building, reported the press service of the station;
Kiev must provide itself with manpower, stated the NATO Secretary General, and reminded that a law was just passed expanding the age range for mobilization;
In the US and Europe, there are growing concerns that Russia could break through the front line in Ukraine and achieve significant gains in the coming weeks, Western media reports;
Iran has identified the location of “all of Israel’s nuclear sites” and is ready to strike them at any moment in case of Tel Aviv’s aggression, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) cautioned;
Britain has added the IRGC Navy and the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Iran to its sanctions list;
The authorities of Argentina have applied for cooperation with NATO as a global partner, announced the head of the country’s Ministry of Defense.
Russia is ready for negotiations, but unlike the Istanbul case, it will not pause military actions during the negotiations, Russian FM Lavrov says in an interview with Sputnik;
The G7 will continue to work on using frozen Russian assets for the benefit of Kiev, according to a statement following a meeting of the Foreign Ministers;
In the event of the confiscation of Russian assets by the West, Moscow will be guided by the principle of reciprocity, which provides for the right to take countermeasures, stated Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova;
Major Russian transport holding proposes construction of continental railways in Africa
The proposed tracks are expected to run from Ethiopia to the western coast of Africa, according to Russia’s largest transport and logistics holding, Delo Group.
The company is currently assessing whether it would be more advantageous to build a segment of the trans-African route between Egypt and South Africa or to route it through the Central African Republic with connecting points.
Sergey Shishkarev, the founder of Delo Group, told the Russian media that the railway would aid in revitalizing transportation, including exports, and bolster the economies of the countries in the region.
This is HUGE. The biggest impediment to Africa’s development (outside of western plundering and sabotage) has been lack of internal access and connectivity to outside world. Russia here proposes to build a complete E-W line and/or N-S line.. “Build them and They will come…”
Imperial Germany (Berlin-Baghdad) and Russia (trans-Siberian) were targeted for destruction by the Anglo-American Empire and vassals in WW1 in part for their railroad connectivity corridors serving as the first “belt & road” to modernize and connect the World-Island (Afro-Asia). Russia and China are targeted today for exact same reasons. Thalassocracia at eternal war on Tellucracia and Global Majority.. More just below..
Russia discusses launch of direct flights to Zimbabwe, Namibia, other countries
In addition to the two African countries, Russia is negotiating direct flights to a number of South American countries, as well as charter flights to North Korea, Maya Lomidze, Executive Director of the Association of Tour Operators in Russia (ATOR), told Sputnik.
”The Ministry of Economic Development is actively negotiating the opening of direct air routes with various countries. Since the beginning of the year, there have been repeated plans for the possible launch of flights to Zimbabwe, Namibia, some South American countries. There were even plans to organize charter flights to North Korea. But it is difficult to say which of these will actually materialize,” she said.
Last month it was revealed that talks were underway to launch direct flights between Russia and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Indonesia and the Philippines in 2024.
Geological exploration on Russia’s Kola Peninsula has revealed significant lithium reserves, says Andrey Chibis, governor of Russia’s Murmansk region. Russia could become one of the top three countries in the world in terms of reserves of the precious metal, he added.
American troops in Niger do not receive any help from the US, which at the same time hides the true essence of diplomatic relations with the African country, US congressman says
The US military is not receiving medical supplies and is in imminent danger if an agreement is not reached between the US and Niger by the end of the month, Matthew Gaetz told the media. He noted that the Biden administration is engaged in a mass concealment of information and urgently needs to bring the troops home.
Earlier, the US media published a letter sent to the country’s Congress by a senior US Air Force officer stationed in Niger, where he expressed concern about the actions of the US embassy in the African country, which he said were complicating the withdrawal of US troops. According to the soldier, the American mission deliberately concealed intelligence information in order to maintain the appearance of good relations between the two countries.
Last month, Niger broke off a military agreement with the US that saw a US drone base set up in the north of the African country. Explaining their decision, Niger’s military authorities said that the agreement had been imposed on the country and was not in the interests of the people.
There is preliminary intel the US agreed to withdraw from Niger today…….
Chad reportedly threatens to end agreement governing US military presence in country
The Chadian government sent a letter to the US defense attaché last week, threatening to cancel an agreement regarding the US military presence in Chad, US media reported on Thursday, citing four US sources.
The letter ordered the US to remove personnel from the French base in N’Djamena, although it did not explicitly demand the US military to leave Chad.
Chad specifically raised the presence of a US Special Operations Task Force at the base, but all US military personnel in Chad are located in N’Djamena.
A US official reportedly said that there are fewer than 100 US troops in Chad.
Oh, Boy! It’s turning into a tagteam against the West. Chad is neighbor of Niger, and prospective applicant to join the new Sahelian Junta confederation called L’Alliance des États du Sahel (AES). Chad is at heart of the Sahel, and a militant nation with feared military throughout Africa, and currently hosts most of the remaining troops of Frenchie in Afrique……. Nemesis has arrived
Sputnik Donbass correspondent has died at the age of 64, his wife Lyudmila confirmed to Sputnik.
Bentley went missing in Donetsk on April 8, following a Ukrainian artillery attack on the city’s Petrovsky district. Four days later, the DPR Ministry of Internal Affairs put him on a missing persons list.
Bentley, who was born and raised in the United States, arrived to the Donbass in 2014 to help the fledgling local militias resist Ukrainian occupation. From 2014 to 2017, he served in the Sut Vremeni ( lit. “Essence of Time”) combat unit, Vostok Battalion and Khan special forces battalion. He took part in some of the most heated battles during the early stage of the Donbass conflict, including Donetsk Airport, Spartak, Avdeyevka, and Yasinovataya.
After retiring from military service, Bentleу turned to humanitarian aid work and journalism. He converted to Russian Orthodox Christianity and in 2021 received Russian citizenship. Bentley began contributing to Sputnik International in October 2023, publishing numerous video reports and columns that provided Westerners with an inside look at life in the Donbass.
April 19
RUSSIA WALKED OUT of United Nations Security Council before ISRAEL’S speech. |video|
“US blocks Palestine’s UN membership bid”
America was the sole Security Council member to vote against the resolution
The US has vetoed a UN Security Council resolution that would have paved a way for Palestine to become a member of the world body. Palestine is currently a “permanent observer state” at the UN that participates in many meetings but does not have voting rights.
The draft resolution debated on Thursday contained a recommendation to the UN General Assembly to hold a vote on updating Palestine’s status within the organization. The document was rejected with 12 votes in favor, one against, and two abstentions.
US Alternative Representative for Special Political Affairs Robert Wood said that “there are unresolved questions as to whether [Palestine] meets the criteria to be considered a state.” He argued that Palestine cannot be admitted to the UN as long as the militant group Hamas controls Gaza.
Speaking at the Security Council, Russian Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia said that the vote had shown that “for Washington, [the Palestinians] do not deserve to have their own state.”
“Today’s use of the veto by the US delegation is a hopeless attempt to stop the inevitable course of history. The results of the vote, where Washington was practically in complete isolation, speak for themselves,” Nebenzia said.
RT: “Google fires anti-Israel employees.“ The employees were ousted after staging sit-ins at the company’s offices
@Strategika51:
Google has just fired 28 of its employees who protested against a military agreement between Google and the Israeli army. Other employees were arrested by US police.
We already reported a few years ago that Google is increasingly a company integrated with the military-industrial complex and the joint American-Israeli intelligence community.
This fact is well known, but neither China nor Russia has tried to completely rid themselves of Google’s empire.
@IntelRepublic: GOOGLE FIRES 28 ANTI-ISRAEL EMPLOYEES – protesting the genocide in Gaza is apparently antisemitic. The employees staged a sit-in at several offices to protest a joint $1.2 billion contract between Google & Amazon to provide artificial intelligence and cloud services to the Israeli government.
@Hamas/Tsahal:
48 countries that signed a joint statement condemning the Iranian attack on Israel:
Albania
Argentina
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Bulgaria
Canada
Croatia
Cyprus
Czechia
Denmark
Ecuador
Estonia
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Japan
Latvia
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Malta
Moldova
Monaco
Montenegro
Netherlands
New Zealand
Norway
Micronesia
Palau
Papua New Guinea
Poland
Portugal
Republic of Korea
Romania
Slovakia
Slovenia
Spain
Sweden
Ukraine
United Kingdom
United States
These are the brave four-dozen, strapped into the bowels of the Titanic, in contempt of International Law and civilized norms and pro-Genocide. At this point, after COVID, 404 aggression, Palestinian Genocide, endless Lies, etc.. they have NO excuse. They suicide themselves against the civilizational-states and Global Majority…….. alea iacta est
Saudi Arabia has publicly acknowledged its involvement in helping the newly formed regional military coalition to defend Israel against Iranian attacks. The statement references a KAN News article detailing Saudi Arabia’s participation in the joint defensive military operation, which successfully countered an Iranian attack on Israel.
April 18
Russia calls for UN sanctions against the apartheid state ! The legal game advances
@sputnik_africa:
UN Security Council must consider sanctions against Israel “without delay,” Russian envoy to UN says.
The Jewish state has ignored a Security Council resolution calling for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip during the holy month of Ramadan, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the UN, Vasily Nebenzya, said.
”We would like to remind you that non-compliance with binding Security Council resolutions should lead to the imposition of sanctions against violators,” he pointed out.
@DDGeopolitics: The West condemns only one of those…
@Sputnik Africa:
Anguish at the pump? Why sanctions or military action against Iran could backfire on US and allies
Market observers caution that if the most recent spat between Iran and Israel escalates into a larger regional confrontation, oil prices may rise. Prices may rise further if the Biden administration imposes additional sanctions on Iran’s oil exports, according to experts.
On the eve of Iran’s retaliatory strike on Israel, oil prices spiked, but slightly backtracked in the aftermath of Tehran’s attack. On Monday, Brent retreated 0.9%, while West Texas Intermediate (WTI) was down 0.8%.
”The impact of Iran’s attack on oil prices was hardly noticeable for the simple reason that the flow of oil from the Gulf region hasn’t been disrupted,” Dr. Mamdouh G. Salameh, an international oil economist and a global energy expert, explained to Sputnik.
Brazil considers it possible to use national currencies for trade within BRICS and is actively discussing this issue, the Minister of Finance said
Tasting inequality from the cradle: Nestle adds sugar to baby food sold in low-income countries
Switzerland’s Nestle, the world’s largest food producer, includes sugar and honey in their infant milk and cereal products sold in many economically disadvantaged nations, which goes against international standards that are designed to avoid obesity and chronic diseases, the research found.
Public Eye, a Swiss investigative organization, examined 115 products sold in Nestle’s main markets in Africa, Asia and Latin America and at least 108 of them (94%) contained added sugar in the form of sucrose or honey.
However, in Nestle’s primary European markets, formulas for babies between six months and one year do not contain any added sugar.
Moreover, in 2022, the World Health Organization advocated for a prohibition on added sugars and sweeteners in food products for kids under the age of three, urging industry to “be proactive” and “support public health goals” by reformulating baby products. However, Nestle appears to be ignoring these appeals.
Russian MFA:
[Russia’s Washington] Ambassador Anatoly Antonov’s answer to a media question
: Dear Ambassador Antonov, how could you comment on the U.S.-Philippines military exercises Salaknib 24 taking place these days? According to statements made by the U.S. Army, as part of the exercises, elements of the Typhon intermediate-range missile system were airlifted from State of Washington, USA to Luzon?
Anatoly Antonov: The Pentagon’s public demonstration of its capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region for the rapid deployment of missile weapons previously banned under the INF Treaty raises deep concern. The U.S. side is bringing an entire class of destabilizing weapons out of the shadows to ensure its military superiority over opponents.
Such steps represent another powerful blow to strategic stability. Asia has already accumulated a lot of «hot» material, and the region is rapidly militarizing. The United States is purposefully escalating the level of military confrontation and fueling hotbeds of tension. They are creating new closed groupings and military-political alliances in the Asia-Pacific region. Thus, Washington is trying to return the world to the darkest times of the Cold War and balancing on the brink of a nuclear conflict.
The deployment of intermediate-range missiles by the Pentagon will be a dark day for international security. Let me remind you that the unilateral moratorium on the deployment of INF, declared by Russia, has clear conditions: we will not deploy such systems until similar U.S.-made systems appear in any region of the world.
We urge the United States not to open Pandora’s Box and follow our country’s example by taking all necessary steps to ensure global stability and predictability. Otherwise, all responsibility for a new surge of tension in the world will fall on Washington.
April 17
Ali Bagheri Kani meeting Qassem Soleimani
Tomorrow, the same Iranian deputy foreign minister who two days ago said, “Iran will respond within seconds in case of a new attack by Israel,” will be in Moscow. Meanwhile, much vain huffing and puffing in the media, as Anglo-Zionists figure out the best way to commit an emphatic, ostentatious suicide — befitting their Exceptional station.
@Sputnik Africa:
Iran Deputy Foreign Minister to visit Moscow on April 18-20, Russian Foreign Ministry says
“On April 18-20, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Bagheri Kani will be in Moscow on a visit to participate in the Moscow Conference on Nonproliferation,” the ministry told Sputnik.
Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister is expected to hold several meetings with the leadership of the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, the ministry added.
@Middle East Spectator: Engrained in history, Arab traitors.
@DDGeopolitics:
There is currently a fire at the US Army’s ammunition plant in Scranton Pennsylvania.
This is where much of the United States’ conventional artillery ammunition is manufactured.
Before anyone says ‘Russian sabotage’ just remember the state of the plant per the picture in this post.
[An already aging MIC workforce, and inadequate capacity to the overstretched ambition, now loses precious factory space…]
A family from Russian Saratov found their grandmother in Avdeevka – they’d lost contact with her back in 2014!
The granddaughter saw her grandmother Lyudmila in the footage from the liberated town, and the volunteers helped organize their reunion. |video|
@Sputnik Africa:
Three more African countries withdraw J&J baby syrup after toxicity reports
Drug regulators in Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Tanzania have announced the recall of a shipment of Benylin baby syrup made by the US-based Johnson & Johnson unit Kenvue, following similar actions by South Africa and Nigeria over alleged toxicity.
Nigeria’s health authority found dangerously high levels of diethylene glycol in children’s cough syrup last week, a toxic substance that can cause severe symptoms including abdominal pain, vomiting, and kidney injury, potentially leading to death.
Johnson & Johnson has previously faced scrutiny in Africa for the alleged harmful effects of its products. Last year, Rwanda’s FDA recalled the company’s baby powder over cancer risk concerns.
Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Israel were not conducted alone. Strategic partners Russia and China have Tehran’s back, and their role in West Asia’s conflict will only grow if the US doesn’t keep Israel in check.
By Pepe Escobar at The Cradle.
A little over 48 hours before Iran’s aerial message to Israel across the skies of West Asia, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov confirmed, on the record, what so far had been, at best, hush-hush diplomatic talk:
The Russian side keeps in contact with Iranian partners on the situation in the Middle East after the Israeli strike on the Iranian consulate in Syria.
Ryabkov added, “We stay in constant touch [with Iran]. New in-depth discussions on the whole range of issues related to the Middle East are also expected in the near future in BRICS.”
He then sketched The Big Picture:
Connivance with Israeli actions in the Middle East, which are at the core of Washington’s policy, is in many ways becoming the root cause of new tragedies.
Here, concisely, we had Russia’s top diplomatic coordinator with BRICS – in the year of the multipolar organization’s Russian presidency – indirectly messaging that Russia has Iran’s back. Iran, it should be noted, just became a full-fledged BRICS+ member in January.
Iran’s aerial message this weekend confirmed this in practice: their missile guidance systems used the Chinese Beidou satellite navigation system as well as the Russian GLONASS system.
This is Russia–China intel leading from behind and a graphic example of BRICS+ on the move.
Ryabkov’s “we stay in constant touch” plus the satellite navigation intel confirms the deeply interlocked cooperation between the Russia–China strategic partnership and their mutual strategic partner Iran. Based on vast experience in Ukraine, Moscow knew that the biblical psychopathic genocidal entity would keep escalating if Iran only continued to exercise “strategic patience.”
The morphing of “strategic patience” into a new strategic balance had to take some time – including high-level exchanges with the Russian side. After all, the risk remained that the Israeli attack against the Iranian consulate/ambassador’s residence in Damascus could well prove to be the 2024 remix of the killing of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Marco Polo with elephants and camels arriving at Hormuz on the Gulf of Persia from India – Boucicaut Master
And don’t forget the Strait of Hormuz
Tehran did manage to upend the massive Western psychological operations aimed at pushing it into a strategic misstep.
Iran started with a misdirecting masterstroke. As US–Israeli fear porn went off the charts, fueled by dodgy western “intel,” the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) made a quick sideways move, seizing an Israeli-owned container ship near the Strait of Hormuz.
That was an eminently elegant manoeuvre – reminding the collective west of Tehran’s hold on the Strait of Hormuz, a fact immeasurably more dangerous to the whole western economic house of cards than any limited strike on their “aircraft carrier” in West Asia. That did happen anyway.
And once again, with a degree of elegance. Unlike that ‘moral’ army specialized in killing women, children, and the elderly and bombing hospitals, mosques, schools, universities, and humanitarian convoys, the Iranian attack targeted key Israeli military sites such as the Nevatim and Ramon airbases in the Negev and an intel center in the occupied Golan Heights – the three centers used by Tel Aviv in its strike on Iran’s Damascus consulate.
This was a highly choreographed show. Multiple early warning signs gifted Tel Aviv with plenty of time to profit from US intel and evacuate fighter jets and personnel, which was duly followed by a plethora of US military radars coordinating the defense strategy.
It was American firepower that smashed the bulk of what may have been a swarm of 185 Shahed-136 drones – using everything from ship-mounted air defense to fighter jets. The rest was shot down over Jordan by The Little King’s military – the Arab street will never forget his treachery – and then by dozens of Israeli jets.
Israel’s defenses were de facto saturated by the suicide drone-ballistic missile combo. On the ballistic missile front, several pierced the dense maze of Israel’s air defenses, with Israel officially claiming nine successful hits – interestingly enough, all of them hitting super relevant military targets.
The whole show had the budget of a mega blockbuster. For Israel – without even counting the price of US, UK, and Israeli jets – just the multi-layered interception system set it back at least $1.35 billion, according to an Israeli official. Iranian military sources tally the cost of their drone and missile salvos at only $35 million – 2.5 percent of Tel Aviv’s expenditure – made with full indigenous technology.
A mural in Palestine Square, Tehran, reads in Hebrew: “The next slap will be harsher”
A new West Asian chessboard
It took only a few hours for Iran to finally metastasize strategic patience into serious deterrence, sending an extremely powerful and multi-layered message to its adversaries and masterfully changing the game across the whole West Asian chessboard.
Were the biblical psychopaths to engage in a real Hot War against Iran, there’s no chance in hell Tel Aviv can intercept hundreds of Iranian missiles – the state-of-the-art ones excluded from the current show – without an early warning mechanism spread over several days. Without the Pentagon’s umbrella of weaponry and funds, Israeli defense is unsustainable.
It will be fascinating to see what lessons Moscow will glean from this profusion of lights in the West Asian sky, its sly eyes taking in the frantic Israeli, political, and military scene as the heat continues to rise on the slowly boiling – and now screaming – frog.
As for the US, a West Asian war – one it hasn’t scripted itself – does not suit its immediate interests, as an old-school Deep State stalwart confirmed by email:
That could permanently end the area as an oil-producing region and astronomically raise the oil price to levels that will crash the world financial structure. It is conceivable that the United States banking system could similarly collapse if the oil price rises to $900 a barrel should Middle East oil be cut off or destroyed.
It’s no wonder that the Biden combo, days before the Iranian response, was frantically begging Beijing, Riyadh, and Ankara, among others, to hold Tehran back. The Iranians might have even agreed – had the UN Security Council imposed a permanent ceasefire in Gaza to calm the regional storm. Washington was mute.
The question now is whether it will remain mute. Mohammad Bagheri, chief of the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, went straight to the point:
We have conveyed a message to America through the Swiss Embassy that American bases will become a military target if they are used in future aggressive actions of the Zionist regime. We will consider this as aggression and will act accordingly.
The US dilemma is confirmed by former Pentagon analyst Michael Maloof:
We have got some 35 bases that surround Iran, and they thereby become vulnerable. They were meant to be a deterrence. Clearly, deterrence is no longer on the table here. Now they become the American’ Achilles heel’ because of their vulnerabilities to attack.
All bets are off on how the US–Israel combo will adapt to the new Iranian-crafted deterrence reality. What remains, for the historic moment, is the pregnant-with-meaning aerial show of Muslim Iran singlehandedly unleashing hundreds of drones and missiles on Israel, a feat feted all across the lands of Islam. And especially by the battered Arab street, subjugated by decrepit monarchies that keep doing business with Israel over the dead bodies of the Palestinians of Gaza.
Le Japon a décidé de conserver ses parts dans les projets Sakhalin-1 et Sakhalin-2 car il les considère comme importants
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Iran’s Retaliation: Implications of the Attack on Israel | Syriana Analysis W/ Mohammad Marandi
Join us as we explore the recent unprecedented Iranian attack on Israel, which consisted of a wave of drones and missiles launched in retaliation for an attack on the Iranian consulate in Syria. Dr. Mohammad Marandi, a Professor at the University of Tehran, provides insights on the implications of this attack.
“The era of strategic patience is over.” As with Bears forced to awaken over Genocide in Novorossiya, it is active deterrence from now on.
Israel, Gaza and West Bank should be seen as the global blueprint for basically how to financialize genocide and destruction. Palestinians will either emigrate or be killed. Exodus or Annihilation.
By Pepe Escobar at Strategic Culture Foundation.
In what can be considered the most crucial podcast of 2024 so far, Professor Michael Hudson – the author of seminal works such as Super-Imperialism and the recent The Collapse of Antiquity , among others – clinically lays down the essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast live 24/7 to the whole planet.
In an email exchange, Prof. Hudson detailed he’s now essentially “spilling the beans” about how, “50 years ago when I worked at the Hudson Institute with Herman Kahn [the model for Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove], Israeli Mossad members were being trained, including Uzi Arad. I made two international trips with him, and he outlined to me pretty much what has happened today. He became head of Mossad and is now Netanhayu’s advisor.”
Prof. Hudson shows how “the basic Gaza plan is how Kahn designed the Vietnam War’s division into sectors, with canals cutting off each village, as the Israelis are doing to Palestinians. Also already at time, Kahn pinpointed Balochistan as the area to foment disruption in Iran and the rest of the region.”
It’s not by accident that Balochistan has been CIA jewel territory for decades, and recently with the added incentive of the disruption by any means necessary of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) – a key connectivity node of the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).
Prof. Hudson then connects the major dots: “As I understand it, what the U.S. is doing with Israel is a dress rehearsal for it to move on to Iran and the South China Sea. As you know, there is no Plan B in American strategy for a very good reason: If anyone criticize Plan A, they’re considered not to be a team player (or even Putin’s Puppet), so critics have to leave when they see that they won’t be promoted. That’s why U.S. strategists won’t stop and re-think what they’re doing.”
Isolate them in strategic hamlets, then kill them
In our email exchange, Prof. Hudson remarked “this is basically what I said” in reference to the podcast with Ania K, drawing on his notes (here is the full, revised transcript). Fasten your seat belts: unvarnished truth is more lethal than a hypersonic missile hit.
On the Zionist military strategy in Gaza:
“My background in the 1970s at Hudson Institute with Uzi Arad and other Mossad trainees. My field was BoP, but I sat in on many meetings discussing military strategy, and I flew to Asia twice with Uzi and got to know him.
The U.S./Israeli strategy in Gaza is based in many ways on Herman Kahn’s plan that was carried out in Vietnam in the 1960s.
Herman’s focus was systems analysis. Start by defining the overall aim and then, how do we achieve it?
First, isolate them in Strategic Hamlets. Gaza has been carved up into districts, requiring electronic passes for entry from one sector to another, or into Jewish Israel to work.
First thing: kill them. Ideally by bombing, because that minimizes domestic casualties for your army.
The genocide that we are seeing today is the explicit policy of Israel’s founders: the idea of “a land without a people” means a land without non-Jewish people. They were to be driven out – starting even before the official founding of Israel, in the first Nakba, the Arab holocaust.
Two Israeli Prime Ministers were members of the Stern Gang of terrorists. They escaped from their British jail and joined to found Israel.
What we are seeing today is the Final Solution to this plan. It also dovetails into U.S. desires to control the Middle East and its oil reserves. For U.S. diplomacy, the Middle East IS (in caps) oil. And ISIS is part of America’s foreign legion since it was first organized in Afghanistan to fight the Russians.
That is why Israeli policy has been coordinated with the U.S.. Israel is the main U.S. client oligarchy in the Middle East. Mossad does most handling of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, and wherever else the U.S. may send ISIS terrorists. Terrorism and even the present genocide is central to U.S. geopolitics.
But as the U.S. learned in the Vietnam War, populations protest and vote against the President who supervises this war. Lyndon Johnson couldn’t make a public appearance without crowds chanting. He had to sneak out the side entrance of hotels where he was speaking.
To prevent an embarrassment such as Seymour Hersh describing the My Lai massacre, you block journalists from the battlefield. If they are there, you kill them. The Biden-Netanyahu team has targeted journalists in particular.
So the ideal is to kill the population passively, to minimize visible bombing. And the line of least resistance is to starve the population. That has been Israeli policy since 2008.”
And don’t forget to starve them
Prof. Hudson makes a direct reference to a Sara Roy piece in The New York Review of Books, citing a cable from the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv to the Secretary of State on November 3rd, 2008. The cable reads, “As part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed to [embassy officials] on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gazan economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge.”
That has led, according to Prof. Hudson, to Israel “destroying fishing boats and greenhouses of Gaza to deprive it from feeding itself.
Next, it has joined with the United States to block United Nations food aid and that of other countries. The U.S. quickly withdrew from the UN relief agency as soon as hostilities began, doing so immediately after the ICJ finding of plausible genocide. It was the major funder of this agency. The hope was that this would set back its activities.
Israel simply stopped letting food aid in. It set up long, long lines of inspections, that is, an excuse to slow the trucks to just 20% of their pre-Oct. 7 rate – from a normal rate of 500 a day to just 112. In addition to blocking trucks, Israel has targeted aid workers – about one a day.
The United States sought to avoid being condemned by pretending to build a wharf to unload food by sea. The intention was that by the time the wharf was built, Gaza’s population would be starved out.”
Biden and Netanyahu as war criminals
Prof. Hudson succinctly draws the key connection in the whole tragedy: “The U.S. is trying to blame one person, Netanyahu. But that has been Israeli policy since 1947. And it is U.S. policy. Everything that is occurring since October 2, when the Al-Aqsa mosque was raided by Israeli settlers, leading to Hamas’s [Al-Aqsa Flood] retaliation on October 7, was closely coordinated with the Biden administration. All the bombs that have been dropped, month after month, as well as blocking United Nations aid.
The U.S. aim is to prevent Gaza from having the offshore gas rights that would help finance their own prosperity and that of other Islamic groups that the United States views as enemies. And to show the neighboring countries what will be done to them, just as the U.S. has done to Libya just before Gaza. The bottom line is that Biden and his advisors are just as much war criminals as is Netanyahu.”
Prof. Hudson stresses how “the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Blinken and other U.S. officials have said the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling of genocide and calling for it to stop is Non-Binding. Then, Blinken has just said that no genocide is taking place.
The U.S. aim of all this is to end the rule of international law as represented by the UN. It is to be replaced by the U.S. ‘rules-based order,’ with no rules published.
The intention is to make the U.S. immune to any opposition to its policies based on legal principles of international law or local laws. A totally free hand – chaos.
U.S. diplomats have looked forward and seen that the rest of the world is seeing to withdraw from the U.S. and European NATO orbit.
To cope with this irreversible movement, the U.S. is trying to de-tooth it by wiping away all remaining traces of the international rules that underlay the UN’s founding, and indeed the Westphalian principle back in 1648 of non-interference in the affairs of other countries.
The actual effect, as usual, is just the opposite of what the U.S. intended. The rest of the world is being forced to create its own New UN, along with a new IMF, new World Bank, new International Court at the Hague and other organizations controlled by the U.S..
So the world’s protest against the Israeli genocide in Gaza and the West Bank – don’t forget the West Bank – is the emotional and moral catalyst to creating a new multipolar geopolitical order for the Global Majority.”
Disappear or die
The key question remains: what will happen to Gaza and the Palestinians. Prof. Hudson’s judgement is ominously realistic: “As Alastair Crooke has explained, there now cannot be any two-state solution in Israel. It has to be either all Israeli or all Palestinian. And the way it looks now is all-Israeli – the dream from the outset in 1947 of a land without non-Jewish people.
Gaza will still be there geographically, along with its gas rights in the Mediterranean. But it will be emptied out, and occupied by the Israelis.”
On who would “help” to rebuild Gaza, there are a few solid takers already: “Turkish building companies, Saudi Arabia financing developments, UAE, American investors – maybe Blackstone. It will be foreign investment. If you look at the fact that the foreign investors of all these countries are looking for what they can get out of the genocide against Palestinians, you realize why there’s no opposition to the genocide.”
Prof. Hudson’s final verdict on “the great benefit to the U.S.” is that “no claims can be brought against the U.S. – and against any of the warfare and regime change that it is planning for Iran, China, Russia and for what has been done in Africa and Latin America.
Israel, Gaza and West Bank should be seen as an opening of the New Cold War. A plan for basically how to financialize genocide and destruction. Palestinians will either emigrate or be killed. That has been the announced policy for over a decade.”
Le prix des métaux non ferreux à la Bourse des métaux de Londres (LME) a fortement bondi dans la nuit
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Prof. Hudson discusses his early career with Herman Kahn (the real Dr. Strangelove) alongside Mossad agents.
The roots of current annihilation of Palestinians lies in alliance between Anglo-Americans and Zionists, an alliance of convenience.
An agreed Grand Strategy, developed from lessons of Vietnam, includes targeted assassination of journalists to minimize exposure of extermination; destruction of hospitals to expedite the same; targeting of aid workers, UNRWA, green houses, farms, stores warehouses, fishing boats, etc.. to ensure comprehensive civilian starvation — and so on.
A systematic planning designed decades ago, steadily implemented piecemeal, and waiting for the right opportunity to roll out en masse “to tip over” the captive Palestinian population into absolute collapse.
Key point: USUK is not a hostage to messianic Judaism. The Empire actively ensures and supports implementation of the Policy at all levels. The merciless de-arabization ethnic cleansing objective of the zionists is supported at all costs, both to ensure the hegemonic proxy survival of the settler state (“our aircraft carrier”) and to introduce Chaos into the entire world, rolling back the modern International Law derived from post-Westphalian Treaty norms. And there is no Plan B.
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TRANSCRIPT
Gaza: The Strategic Imperative
By Michael Sunday, April 14, 2024
PROF. MICHAEL HUDSON, THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF GAZA. – Ania K
ANIA: Hello, everyone. Welcome back to my channel. Today I have with me for the fourth time, I’m still counting, a very, very special guest, one of the best professors in economics and financial analysts in the world. And I’m very glad we are reconnecting with Professor Hudson again.
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Also, Professor Hudson’s three links. You have the website (michael-hudson.com), Patreon (patreon.com/michaelhudson), and all the books that Professor Hudson has published so far, you can order. It’s all the way down below this live stream. I’m sure this video will bring you immense value, and I would like you to hit this like, because it helps other people to see it, since YouTube recommends videos with a lot of likes. Leave the comments and also share the video, because the knowledge that you will be hearing today, it’s priceless.
Welcome back, Professor Hudson. Thank you so much for joining me today for this conversation.
MICHAEL HUDSON: Thanks for having me back again.
ANIA: And I would like to say to the audience as well that this video is dedicated to what is taking place, especially in Gaza and Israel. Of course, we will address other countries related to this situation, but Professor Hudson has sent me a very in-depth email after our last live stream a week ago, also on Friday, and we actually decided after we ended that live stream to have this particular topic to be the main topic of this video. So, I give this to you, Professor Hudson, where would you like to start this conversation, please?
MICHAEL HUDSON: I think I should start with my own background, because 50 years ago, in 1974, I was working with the Hudson Institute, with Herman Kahn, and my colleagues there were a number of Mossad agents who were being trained. Uzi Arad was there, and he became the head of Mossad and is currently the main advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu.
So, all of what is happening today was discussed 50 years ago, not only with the Israelis, but with many of the U.S. defense people, because I was with the Hudson Institute, which was a national security agency, because I’d written Super Imperialism, and I was a balance of payments expert, and the Defense Department used my book Super Imperialism not as an expose, but a how-to-do-it book. And they brought me there as a specialist in the balance of payments. Herman brought me back and forth to the White House to meet with cabinet members and to discuss the balance of payments. He also brought me to the War College and to the Air Force think tanks.
So, all of what is happening now was described a long time ago, and Herman was known as a futurist. He was Dr. Strangelove in the movie. That was all based for him on his theories of atomic war, but he was also the main theorist behind Vietnam. And nobody seems to have noticed that what is happening in Gaza and the West Bank now is all based on what was the U.S. strategy during the Vietnam War. And it was based on the “strategic hamlets” idea, the fact that you could cut back, you could just divide all of Vietnam into little parts, having guards at all the transition points from one part to another. Everything that Israel is doing to the Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere throughout Israel was all pioneered in Vietnam.
And Herman had me meet with some of the generals there to explain it. And I think I mentioned I flew to Asia twice with Uzi Arad. We had a chance to [get to] know each other very much. And I could see that the intention from the very beginning was to get rid of the Palestinians and indeed to use Israel as the basis for U.S. control of Near Eastern oil. That was the constant discussion of that from the American point of view. It was Israel as a part of the oil.
So, Herman’s analysis was on systems analysis. You define the overall aim and then you work backward. How do you do it? Well, you can see what the Israeli policy is today. First of all, you isolate the Palestinians and strategic hamlets. That’s what Gaza had already been turned into for the last 15 years. It’s been carved up into districts requiring electronic passes from one sector to another to go into Israel, to go to Jerusalem, or to go to Israel for jobs to work.
The aim all along has been to kill them. Or first of all, to make life so unpleasant for them that they’ll emigrate. That’s the easy way. Why would anyone want to stay in Gaza when what’s happening to them is what’s happening today? You’re going to leave. But if they don’t leave, you’re going to have to kill them, ideally by bombing because that minimizes the domestic casualties. Israel doesn’t want its soldiers to die any more than Americans do. So, the American form of war, as it was in Vietnam, is bombing them. You don’t want person-to-person contact because people fighting for their lives and liberty tend to be better fighters because for them it’s really essential. For the others, they’re just doing soldier’s work.
So, the genocide that you’re seeing today is an explicit policy, and that was a policy of the forefathers, the founders of Israel. The idea of a land without people was a land without Arabs in it, the land without non-Jewish people. That’s really what it meant. They were to be driven out starting even before the official funding of Israel, the first Nakba, the Arab Holocaust. And the two of the Israeli prime ministers were members of the Stern gang of terrorists. The terrorists became the rulers of Israel. They escaped from British jail and they joined to found Israel. So, what you’re seeing today is the final solution to this plan. And the founders of Israel were so obsessed with the Nazis, essentially, they wanted to do to them what they did to us, is how they explained it to people.
For the United States, what they wanted was the oil reserves in the Middle East. And again and again, I heard the phrase, ‘you’re our landed aircraft carrier in Israel’. Uzi Arad, the future Mossad head, would be very uncomfortable at this because he wanted Israel to be run by the Israelis. But they realized that for Israel to get by with the money that it needed for its balance of payments, it had to be in a partnership with the United States.
So, what you’re seeing today isn’t simply the work of one man, of Benjamin Netanyahu. It’s the work of the team that President Biden has put together. It’s the team of Jake Sullivan, the National Security Advisor, Lincoln, and the whole deep state, the whole neocon group behind them, Victoria Nuland, and everyone. They’re all self-proclaimed Zionists. And they’ve gone over this plan for essentially America’s domination of the Near East for decade after decade.
But as the United States learned in the Vietnam War, populations protest, and the U.S. population protested against the Vietnam War. What the Biden administration wants to avoid is the situation that President Johnson had in 1968. Any hotel, any building that he went to, to give a speech for his re-election campaign, there were crowds shouting, LBJ, LBJ, how many kids did you kill today? President Johnson had to take the servants entrance to get away from the press so that nobody would see what he was doing. And essentially, he went on television and resigned.
Well, to prevent this kind of embarrassment, and to prevent the embarrassment of journalists who were doing all this, Seymour Hersh described the [Mai Lai] massacre, and that helped inflame the opposition to Johnson. Well, President Biden, who’s approved Netanyahu’s plan, the first people you have to kill are the journalists. If you’re going to permit genocide, you have to realize that you don’t want the domestic U.S. population or the rest of the world to oppose the U.S. and Israel. You kill the journalists. And for the last, ever since the October 2nd Al-Aqsa event, you’ve had one journalist per week killed in Israel. That’s part of it.
The other people you don’t want, if you’re going to bomb them, you have to start by bombing the hospitals and all of the key centers. That also was part of the idea of the Vietnam War. How do you destroy a population? This was all worked out in the 1970s, when people were trying to use systems analysis to think, how do you work back and see what you need? And the idea, if you bomb a population, you can’t really hide that, even if you kill the journalists. How do you kill a population passively? So you minimize the visible bombing. Well, the line of least resistance is to starve them. And that’s been the Jewish, the Israeli policy since 2008.
You had a piece by Sarah Roy in the New York Review, citing a cable from 2008, from Tel Aviv to the embassy saying, as part of their overall embargo plan against Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed to the embassy officials on multiple occasions that they intend to keep the Gaza economy on the brink of collapse without quite pushing it over the edge. Well, now they’re pushing it over the edge.
And so Israel has been especially focusing after the journalists, after the hospitals, you bomb the greenhouses, you bomb the trees, you sink the fishing boats that have supplied food to the population. And then you aim at fighting the United Nations relief people.
And you’ve read, obviously, the whole news of the last week has been the attack on the seven food providers that were not Arabs. And this was, again, from a systems analyst point, this is exactly what the textbook says to do strategically. If you can make a very conspicuous bombing of aid people, then you will have other aid suppliers afraid to go, because they think, well, if these people, aid suppliers, are just shot at, then we would be too.
Well, the United States is fully behind this. And to help starve the Gazan people, Biden immediately, right after the ICJ finding of plausible genocide, withdrew all funding from the United Nations relief agencies. The idea, again, the hope was to prevent the United Nations from having the money to supply food.
So when the United States is now trying to blame one person, and Biden goes on a television recorded call with Netanyahu saying, please be humane when you’re dropping your bombs, do it in a humane way. That’s purely for domestic consumption. It’s amazing how nakedly hypocritical all this.
And ever since the Al-Aqsa Mosque was raided by Israeli settlers on October 2, leading to Hamas’s Al-Aqsa Flood retaliation on October 7, it was closely coordinated with the Biden administration. All the bombs have been dropped day after day, week after week, with the whole of the US. And Biden has said on a number of occasions, the Palestinians are enemies.
So I think I want to make it clear that this is not simply an Israeli war against Hamas. It’s an American-backed Israeli war. Each of them have their own objectives. Israel’s objective is to have a land without non-Jewish population. And America’s aim is to have Israel acting as the local coordinator, as it has been coordinating the work with ISIS and the ISIS commanders to turn them against targets provided by the United States.
Basically, that’s the duopoly that’s been created.
And I think Alastair Crooke has cited Trita Parsi, one of the Israeli political leaders, saying the objective really in all this, of Israel’s conflict and Biden’s acquiescence to it, is that Israel is engaged in a deliberate and systematic effort to destroy existing laws and norms about warfare. And that’s really it.
You have people, you have reporters, such as Pepe Escobar, saying that the United States is a chaos agent. But there’s a logic in this. The United States is looking forward to what it’s going to be doing in the Near East, in Ukraine, and especially in the China Sea and Taiwan. Looking forward, the United States says, how do we prevent other nations moving against us in the international court or suing or somehow putting sanctions against us? Israel is the test case, not simply for what’s happening there in Israel and Palestine itself, but against anything that the United States will be doing through the rest of the world.
That’s why the U.S. ambassador to the U.N., echoed by Lincoln and other U.S. officials, said there’s no court of justice ruling against genocide, that it was a non-binding ruling. Well, of course it was binding, but it has no means of enforcement. And both Lincoln and yesterday, the head of the army said, there is no genocide taking place in Gaza. Well, what that means is you have to go to a court, and that’s going to take years and years. And by the time the court case is over and there’s any judgment of reparations due, then you’re going to, by then the Gazans will all be dead. So the U.S. aim is to end the rule of international law that is why the United Nations was founded in 1945.
And in fact, this international law goes way back to 1648 with the peace of Westphalia in Germany to end the 30 years war. All the European nations agreed not to interfere with the internal affairs of other countries. Well, that also was part of the United Nations principle.
And yet you have the United States explicitly advocating regime change in other countries, and most specifically in Russia and throughout the Middle East. So if you can end the whole kind of rule of law, then there’s really no alternative to the United States rules-based order, which means we can do whatever we want, chaos.
And if you look at what’s happening in Gaza is facilitating a transition from a orderly world of the United Nations to chaos, then you’re going to understand basically what the whole, the big picture, the long range picture that’s been put in place really over a series of decades. That’s why the United States, and the United States has no plan B. It only has the plan A to do this. It’s not taking into account the counter reactions and the feedback. Maybe we can discuss that a little later. I’d better leave the questions up to you.
ANIA: Thank you. You actually have already answered many of my questions in that intro, but I want to ask you this now. I will jump a little bit now. I have a question about something that you wrote to me in your email.
I believe looking at many, many situations that are taking place in the world, that sometimes all you really need to do is to follow the money and it will give you a lot of answers. So as you said in your email that, let me check, where is it? The Israeli developers already are planning to turn Gaza into luxury beachfront properties.
So let me ask you here, Professor Hudson, What is really the main goal for Israel’s existence? And in this case, is this really about their luxurious properties, oil? What else is this region really about? Why is it so crucial?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, it’s not just about beach properties. It’s what’s off the beach, the gas, the natural gas that they’ve discovered right offshore the Mediterranean that belongs to Gaza. So the Israelis are after the gas.
But your basic question, you’d sent me a list of questions you were going to go through. And I think if you keep to that sequence, it’s good. What you’re really asking is, you know, what’s the main goal for Israel’s existence? And I think if people don’t really, their sense of justice is so strong that they can’t believe what the original goal was. And the initial goal in the 19th century was formed in a period where Europe was anti-Semitic. The most anti-Semitic part of all was Ukraine. If you read Leon Trotsky’s autobiography of growing up in Odessa, he described the pogroms there. And so the Zionists, the first wave of Zionists, were looking for how can the Jewish people escape from this anti-Semitism.
Here’s the problem. By 1947, when Israel was formed, anti-Semitism was passé. Most Jews in the United States, certainly who I grew up with, they were all assimilated. Of course, they had well wishes for Israel. There was very little talk of the Arabs. But you had two arms of Judaism.
The one arm were the people who remembered with a vengeance what was done for them against them in Ukraine and Russia, and especially by Hitler and the Holocaust. They wanted to be separate and to have just to be protected.
But most of the Jewish population in America and Europe was thoroughly assimilated. And the last thing they wanted was to be separate. They wanted just the opposite. They wanted anti-Semitism to end.
But the Zionists who were in charge of Israel, the Stern Gang leaders, were obsessed with the old antagonisms. And in a way, they were obsessed with Nazism and said, well, we want to do to them what they did to us.
And again, the idea of a land without a people meant a land— we intend to make Israel into a land without non-Jewish people. That’s what a land without people, their slogan, meant. And from the very beginning, they started by driving Arabs out of Palestine, destroying their olive trees, destroying their orchards, taking their houses, and just killing them. That’s why the English threw them in jail before turning around and said, well, it’s true that we’ve thrown all the leaders in jail, but let’s recognize Israel and make Israel a whole country to do what these leaders that we were before throwing in jail were doing.
ANIA: Thank you.
You said also in your email that ISIS is part of America’s foreign legion. Can you please elaborate on that?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, ISIS was organized originally to fight in Afghanistan against the Russians. And al-Qaeda, which was the parent of ISIS, was simply the roster of people who were willing to fight under the U.S. command.
Well, part of al-Qaeda turned against America on 9-11, but most, especially the Sunni followers of Wahhabi theology, were very eager to fight against the Shiites. Islam is divided into two parts, the Sunni Islam of Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Republics, and much of the Near East, and the Shiites from Iran and maybe half of Iraq and parts of Syria also.
So you had these two sectarian groups fighting each other, and the United States provided the funding and the organization to them and essentially delegated to Israel much of the organization of organizing ISIS to fight against Assad, to fight against whomever the United States designated as our enemies, meaning we want to take their oil lands. America has taken Iraqi oil and won’t leave, is taking Syrian oil and won’t leave.
So essentially, the U.S. has used ISIS to fight against all of the Shiites on the theory that the Shiite Islam is all controlled by Iran, and they want to essentially wipe out the Shiites as they’re doing in Gaza, even though I think the Palestinians are mainly Sunni, but you should think of the ISIS as America’s foreign legion. They’ve hired them, they pay them, and they recruit from them.
You’ve just seen in what happened in Russia from the Ukrainians, Oregon recruited Sunni terrorists from Tajikistan. You’ve seen the United States trying to use ISIS to recruit, to fight in Russia’s southern periphery in Central Asia and to fight in the Uyghur territories of Xinjiang in Western China. They’re using ISIS to try to essentially attack the integrity of China, Russia, and Syria and any other area where the United States wants a regime change to put in the usual client oligarchy.
ANIA: So interesting, and they sell it under the description that this is the enemy and terrorist, and they are founding it. And the public is still buying this, Professor Hudson. How is this possible?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, this is hypocritical. Everybody throughout the world is appalled by the cruelty and the barbarism of ISIS. The United States is not going to come right out and say, hey, that’s us that they’re fighting. We’re directing ISIS from the presidential office. We love ISIS.
Well, Biden loves ISIS, and Blinken loves ISIS, and the entire neocons, the CIA loves ISIS because they’re all running it, but they can’t say it to the American public. They have to pretend just like they’re pretending with Netanyahu that, oh my heavens, look at [what] ISIS is doing. We’ve really got to fight against it.
And for instance, when it put in the white helmets in ISIS, these were the American supplied public relations unit to essentially do false propaganda, false images, make false flag attacks. All of these false flag attacks, all of the white helmets and the propaganda has all been coordinated by the United States.
ANIA: I want to ask you now a question that to some extent you actually answered already. Does Israel make any independent decisions that are not consulted with the United States in regards to bombing Gaza?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, the question is, what is the United States or what do you mean by the United States? They don’t need official approval. There’s already a broad agreement in principle. Do whatever you have to do.
The United States has given them a free hand saying, we’re not going to interfere. You’re our managers on site. Just as you’re managing ISIS, you can manage certainly your own country. The U.S. has given blanket approval for Israel’s genocide. That’s why it says there’s no genocide there.
And it shares the aim of extending the war to fight Iran. Again and again, what Netanyahu is saying, we’re not going to be safe until we defeat Iran. Well, the United States has, that’s America, that’s the neocon plan outlined in the 1990s. It was spelled out, I think, by General Petraeus of first Afghanistan, then Iraq, then Syria, and then Iran. All of this was worked out from the beginning. The United States is trying to figure out, how do we do it?
Well, there’s a general expectation that one way to do it is to have Israel mount a false flag attack, something Iran does that is so bad that Israel retaliates and then, as it just bombed the Iranian embassy in Syria, that Iran is going to then do something to Israel and the United States will come to protect our Israeli brothers and world peace and prevent the genocide that the Gazans are trying to do against Israel and that Iran is trying to do against the rest of the world and bomb Iran.
Back in 1970s, there were discussions of what do you do? What will Iran do to fight back? Well, there’s one thing that Iran can do, that it doesn’t have to bomb American troops in Syria or Iraq. It doesn’t have to bomb Israel. All it has to do is sink a ship in the Strait of Hormuz. That’s the big strait. You’ve seen what happened, what the Houthis have done with the Red Sea. The big traffic is the Strait of Hormuz. That’s where Saudi Arabian oil and we could call it the oil gulf. It’s called the Persian Gulf, but it’s really the oil gulf. That’s where all the oil trade is. If you sink a ship or two in the oil gulf, that’s going to push oil prices way, way up because that’s going to cut most of the world off for as long as Iran wants from the Middle Eastern oil supply.
Well, that’s what really terrifies Biden because he’s pretending that there’s no inflation in the United States and that the economy is quite heavy. The inflation that would follow from Iran sinking a ship in Hormuz will essentially be crowning the American opposition to Biden, which is growing.
It’s one thing to be against genocide and killing people, but much more important is if your gas prices go up, the American people think that that’s really much more important than the fact of genocide and crimes against humanity. That’s really what is frightening the US.
The question is right now, how do they make the Israeli provocation against Iran— an excuse for the United States to come in with all of NATO’s and European support and somehow prevent Iran from having the power to close down the Straits of Hormuz. That’s what they’re trying to figure out now. I don’t know what they’re going to do, but when Blinken has said, Israel has not broken any rules. It’s all okay. What the United States really is [saying], if they can get away with this, they can say there are really no rules at all for the whole world. We can do whatever we want. Right now is coming to a peak. It’s the follow-up that was all thought in advance of the whole Israeli movement against Gaza.
ANIA: Thank you, Professor Hudson.
Next question that is about targeting civilians, journalists, and workers. Again, you’ve addressed this already, but I will ask you this. Why is the Israeli army targeting all those groups?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, it’s targeting everyone. It’s targeting all civilians because it wants a land without Palestinian people. It’s targeting the most critical people necessary for a Gazan society to survive. It targets the journalists because it doesn’t want the world to see what it’s doing, because Israel has already lost its standing in the world. The United States tells them, especially, you’ve got to kill the journalists because if you don’t kill them, we, the Biden administration, are going to look bad. We already have the Americans turning against the war.
There’s only one anti-war candidate running in the presidential elections for this November. That’s Jill Stein. Every other candidate is completely backing Israel in the war, but the American people, the majority of Americans look at what’s happening in Israel as genocide and as a crime against humanity. They’re not going to vote for Biden. Biden is going to lose the election or certainly not win it. It may go into the House of Representatives if nobody wins it.
In order to drive the rest of the Gazan populations out, you have to, number one, get rid of the journalists. Number two, you want to get rid of the hospitals. As you’re bombing the people, a lot of them are going to get injured. You want all the injured people from the bombs to die. For that, you have to bomb the hospitals. You especially have to target the doctors for killing. Not only will there not be doctors to heal the wounded people, but other doctors, doctors without borders from other countries, will be afraid to go into Gaza because if you go there, you know that if you’re a food worker bringing aid or a doctor or an aid worker, you’re going to get shot because you’re at the top of the target list.
ANIA: It’s horrible. Just listening to this, you know, it’s very hard to…
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, imagine how I used to feel sitting in meetings and all of this was just said as if this is part of a game and this is how we’re planning it all out. All of this was what was discussed. How do we do evil? I mean, this…
ANIA: Yeah, but those are not humans to me. They are not humans to me.
MICHAEL HUDSON: That’s right.
ANIA: Soulless beings that are not humans. That’s all I say here.
Professor Hudson, next question is about those Israeli developers who, as you said in your email, are already planning to turn Gaza into luxury beachfront properties. So what do you really know about this? They are already planning this? Like they have plans for those properties?
MICHAEL HUDSON: The Americans made a start. They began by building docks. You not only want beachfront property, you want docks for the buyers to have a place to tie up their yachts or their sailboats.
And so the United States is building these piers. One reason it’s doing it is it can pretend that it can say, we’re not building the piers for Israeli property owners to have yachts, we’re going to deliver food. But by the time we finish building the piers, there’ll be no more Gazans. I mean, that’s the whole point. By building the piers, they’ve enabled Israel to prevent the food trucks from coming in from the south. So building the piers is a means of pretending to help without doing anything at all to help actually [deliver] food to Israel.
So yes, all throughout the news, there have been statements by the Israeli real estate companies saying, Gaza could have been a nice place to live if there weren’t Arabs in it. And now if we can clear the land of Arabs, make it a land without those people, then this is a wonderful property. And it has natural gas to help the Israeli balance of payments. So the whole idea is to make this a center of Israel luxury development.
ANIA: Again, absolutely disgusting to me, just listening to this. I want to ask you now about, were Gaza [to cease] to exist completely, what will happen to all the Palestinians who survived?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, the land is going to be there, and it’ll be beachfront property. Alastair Crooke has been, I think, the clearest writer. He was one of the negotiators between Israel and the Palestinians. He’s explained that there cannot be a two-state solution anymore.
The Israelis say, we are going to kill all of the Palestinians. The Palestinians say, well, we can’t exist with the Israelis, and we have to defend ourselves. If we don’t kill them, they’re going to kill us. So Israel has to be either Palestinian or Israeli. It can’t be both. That is ended forever. So anyone who talks of a two-state solution, they’re just not looking it up.
So the question is, how is Gaza going to exist? Either it’s going to be all Israeli, and the Gazans will be forced to flee. The Israelis want them to flee by boats and to be sunk, most of them will be sunk in the Mediterranean, just like after America and France destroyed Libya. The Libyans tried to flee in boats, and they were sunk.
So either they will drown, or they will somehow work their way into a prison camp that Egypt and its leader is setting up for Gazan refugees. And then the Gazans will somehow try to gain entry into Europe or other countries. So you can expect a huge influx of Gazans into Europe.
Some people have suggested, well, now that Ukraine is turning into a land without a people, maybe either the Gazans can turn Ukraine over to the Palestinians, or we could give it to the Israelis, saying, well, this is your ancestral land, this is where all of the pogroms that started Zionism began. Now you can go back and there are no more Ukrainians. They have programs against you. Maybe the Israelis should go to Ukraine. One population or the other has to emigrate.
Well, Israelis already have been losing a huge chunk of their population, especially their working age population, especially those who have jobs in information technology or highly paying jobs. So, you’re already seeing a population outflow.
So, Gaza will exist geographically, but we have no idea about what is going to be the demographic composition.
And I think the Israeli Defense Forces Chief, Herzi Halevi, said just last Sunday that Israel, he announced Israel knows how to handle Iran, just as they’re handling Gaza, that they’ve prepared for this. They have good defensive systems. And he said, we are operating and cooperating with the USA and strategic problems partners in this region. So, the US is going to be putting pressure on Egypt to expand the concentration camps that it’s setting up and to pressure the Europeans. Maybe so many Germans are leaving their country now that there’s no more work for them. Maybe the Palestinians will go to Germany and other European countries, and wherever they can find some kind of refuge.
America was willing to give the Jewish population refuge as long as the Jewish population served European imperialist aims of controlling the Near Eastern oil. But what can Palestine offer to be protected? If the Palestinians don’t have anything to offer the Europeans or the Americans, their governments simply do not care. They’ve done absolutely nothing to protect the Palestinians because they don’t care if there’s no money in it for them. And the Arab countries with money, the Saudi Arabians, the United Arab Republics have not really lifted a hand to help this. Even though a large labor force in Saudi Arabia is already Palestinian, they don’t need more Palestinians there. So, that’s basically what’s happening.
ANIA: Thank you, Professor Hudson. You know, before I ask you my last question, you know, people’s beliefs that the governments care about them. This is the most… I don’t understand how people can still believe that any government really cares about them in the world, looking at the situation like this. It’s heartbreaking. Just listening to what you said is a lot for me to take in.
The last question is when the bombing will stop and who is going to rebuild Gaza Strip?
MICHAEL HUDSON: Well, the bombing will stop when there are no more Palestinians to bomb. Israel doesn’t have the money to rebuild it or the intention of rebuilding. And even if Israel wants to rebuild it with nice homes all the way to the beachfront, who is going to do the building?
Well, already Israel has made a deal with India to get a lot of Indian construction workers from the poorest provinces of India coming over there. But again, who’s going to pay them? You can give them work permits, but the answer is who will pay them will be the contractors who are given the contracts to rebuild homes and offices and the new Israeli compound in Gaza, unless the world works and says, no, the Israelis have to give back all the land and it’s Israel that will be a minority under a Palestinian government.
You cannot have an Israeli government that is over the whole region because its policy is to kill the Palestinians. So I don’t see that, again, you can’t have a two-state solution. It doesn’t look like anyone’s supporting the Palestinians right now.
Who would help rebuild it? Well, the Turkish builders might come in and build it. Other Middle Easterners would rebuild it. Saudi Arabia could finance huge developments there. The United Arab Republics could buy land. American investors, maybe Blackstone could help develop there, but it’ll be foreign investment.
And if you look at the fact that the foreign investors of all these countries are looking for what they can get out of the genocide against Palestinians, you realize why there’s no real opposition to the genocide that’s taking place.
And the great benefit to the U.S. of all this is that as a result of this absence of any kind of the moral feeling that you’ve just expressed, no claims can be brought against the United States for any of the warfare, any of the regime change, interference that it’s planning for Iran, China, Russia, and as it’s been doing in Africa and Latin America. So Israel and Gaza and the West Bank should be seen, I think, as an opening of the new Cold War. And whatever you see happening in Gaza after the Gazans are driven out, you see this is really the plan for what the United States wants to do in China, in Russia, in Africa, in the whole rest of the world. You’re seeing a plan for basically how to financialize and make money out of genocide and the destruction of society. And in order to do that, you have to prevent anything like the United Nations of having any authority at all.
And the irony in all this is that the United States is creating just the opposite of what it wanted to do. I mean, obviously, while this is happening in Gaza, most of the global majority that we’ve spoken before, the world outside of NATO, America and Europe, are appalled. And the only way of stopping what’s happening in Gaza happening in the rest of the world is to create an alternative to the United Nations, an alternative to the World Bank, to the IMF, an alternative to all the organizations that the United States has controlled to turn the whole rest of the world into Gaza, if it can.
ANIA: Dr. Hudson, Professor Hudson, I want to thank you for coming back. I want to thank you for telling me after our last live stream to address this, because you shared it with me and with the audience. And I really hope that you will spread this video, guys, you will share it.
So I personally believe that we are fighting evil. And the way that I feel I am in a small way contributing to this is to trying to seek the truth and bring people who have knowledge and understanding and can share the facts and the truth with the world. Because if you don’t know what you’re fighting against, what you’re fighting with, then you’re like Don Quixote. You have to know what is the problem. And I am immensely grateful for guests like yourself to be on my channel and to share your knowledge with the audience. I can only imagine knowing all of this, what you shared with us today, living with this for so many years and watching the [unfolding] of those events in the world. For someone who has feelings and emotions, it’s very hard to bear. I can only imagine. So thank you for your contribution.
MICHAEL HUDSON: I’m on your show, Ania, because you see that this is evil, and it is evil.
ANIA: Yes. Thank you so much. I know you have to go. And I want to invite you again, of course, in the near future. Hopefully, you find time for our next conversation. To everyone who’s watching, make sure to check all the links to Professor Hudson that are already attached down below this live stream. And like I said, please share the video. Hit this like. It’s free of charge, and it helps the channel also. And more people can hear this information in the world. Thank you, everyone. And until next time.
Forgive the young man, radiant and exuding like the Sun. We were all firebreathers once. He doesn’t realize this is round one. Last night, the messianic midgets received the biggest gift of their foreshortened lives; they will run with it now, fully suiciding USUK and the demented Old Order….
War Update with Jon Elmer at The Electronic Intifada
Jon Elmer details the complex resistance ambush that chased the Israeli military from Khan Younis. Nora Barrows-Friedman, Asa Winstanley, Ali Abunimah and Jon Elmer of The Electronic Intifada were joined by independent investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein, on the day 187 livestream.
the main discussion begins around 30 min; the preamble is worthwhile too. He discusses the first glimmers of dawning realization of absolute defeat in the messianic madmen — a Haaretz article from yesterday (paywall). Nothing new to the “Reality-based” but the limits appear to have been reached in saner liberal quarters — beyond the cope of drugs, hedonism and mindless chest-thumping.
What happens when conventional means are no longer sufficient, effective attrition and siege have been laid, and one’s sugar daddy is shown to be a naked, flaccid and geriatric dementia-patient long denied admittance to the padded sanitary homes for the criminally insane?? We are about to find out…….
Israel Has Been Defeated – a Total Defeat
The war’s aims won’t be achieved,
the hostages won’t be returned through military pressure,
security won’t be restored
Israel’s international ostracism won’t end
Des spécialistes militaires russes sont arrivés au Niger, où ils formeront l’armée nigériane. C’est ce qu’a rapporté la Radiotélévision du
L’article Une centaine d’instructeurs militaires russes est arrivée au Niger est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
Le président biélorusse Alexandre Loukachenko, lors d’une réunion avec son homologue russe Vladimir Poutine, a déclaré que si Minsk pouvait
L’article En visite diplomatique, Loukachenko rappelle le soutien de Minsk à Moscou pour le processus de paix en Ukraine est apparu en premier sur STRATPOL.
Biblical Psychopaths Edition.
Tip-toeing to the Ledge of discordant chords, and beyond?? International norms, conventions, laws shredded. Lil Blinkie signals defeated 404 will join NATO. The Terrified, Reheated Franco-British Suez Corpses breathe: “If Ukraine loses, we all lose.” Brinkmanship is duly redefined – even quasi-crazy Nixon would have called it quits ages ago. Anybody Home?? How far will the chessboard be crashed by those pining for the Event Horizon??
April 13
We remain in the moment of anticipation. Iran keeps the pot simmering and the zionazi Alliance of Evil on tenderhooks, further fatally exposing the total commitment of the West, especially USUK, for the genocidal messianic midgets. The West Bank is detonating. The Straits of Hormuz is being activated gently gently, and a nervous Brent crude is already around $90/bbl. Will the sorry Ukies be the only Exceptionals in Da Dark in the coming months????
@Strategika51:
Elon Musk meets Javier Milei.
There used to be public jesters at fairs. Now they’re in power or have great power. |video|
The United States urgently transfers more than 15 McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle fighter jets from the UK to the Middle East, puts its B-52H, B1B and B2 strategic bombers on alert, and deploys batteries of anti-missile systems in Jordan and occupied Palestine to ward off any Iranian attack on Israel.
And the Iranian psychological warfare soap opera continues, gradually escalating, combining threats and videos with a fairly explicit message. For the time being, this campaign is causing great panic within the Zionist regime and its allies. |video|
CentCom commander General Michael Erik Kurilla, described by Yoav Gallant as a “true friend of Israel”, went so far as to assure Israelis that Washington will use nuclear weapons to protect the genocidal artificial entity stuck in West Asia.
Observe the real human rat facing Kurilla against the backdrop of an attack drone.
The United States is prepared to sacrifice everything for Israel. That’s what we knew all along.
Macron’s disastrous manipulation. Macron, officially, is sending an entire regiment of our armies to the [404] slaughterhouse, in a theater of operations where they will have absolutely no chance of emerging unscathed.
Zionist settlers armed by Ithmar BenGhvir have just launched several attacks on Palestinian villages in the West Bank, opening up a de facto new front.
Attacks by armed settlers spread to other West Bank towns and villages.
Palestinians call to take up arms and counter the attacks.
The armed settlers are supported by the Israeli police and army.
Reminiscent of an ancient Greek tragedy.
Palestinian Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, calls on West Bank residents to resist attacks by armed settlers.
An Israeli drone shot down and another Skylark captured south of Khan Younes, Gaza Strip.
An Israeli drone shot down in Southern Lebanon.
Official Iranian news agency IRNA:
The container ship MCS ARIES has been detained and will be towed to Iranian territorial waters.
Revolutionary Guards forces intercepted and detained the container ship MCS ARIES while conducting a military landing operation near the Strait of Hormuz.
The vessel (IMO 9857169, MMSI 255806335), built in 2020 and flying the Portuguese flag (Madeira), was operated by ZODIAC, owned by Israeli businessman Eyal Ofer.
According to Intel sources, the Zodiac Maritime company, owned by the Ofer family, is known to have been used on several occasions to transport elite Israeli units throughout the region to carry out assassinations in the United Arab Emirates and Iran. The killers never pass through airports, but sneak onto container ships as illegal migrants or seamen with forged passports and shipping documents from little-known countries.
Iran seems to have sent Washington a message. If the latter intervenes to defend the Zionist entity, the strategic Strait of Hormuz, through which 21% of the world’s oil transits, will be closed.
April 12
Russia’s Lotos signals intelligence satellite, part of the Liana project.
“French navy prepares for war – admiral.” France has shifted its naval posture from intercepting drug traffickers and poachers to training for a conventional war, Rear Admiral Jacques Mallard has told Politico…
…“We’re moving from a world where we were pretty free to do as we pleased to one where we feel threatened on a more regular basis,” Mallard said. “We now train for other missions, in particular what we call high-intensity warfare.”
“Naval combat is becoming increasingly likely,” he said…
You cannot fix Stupid! They ran from Houthis and want to take on Russia??! Floating Tombs will be targeted with ease (Liana and her sisters) and sunk anywhere on the Seven Seas.
@Arab_Africa:
The Rector of St. Petersburg State University and the Minister of Higher Education of Mali signed a cooperation agreement
This was reported by the official channel of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University.
Rector of St. Petersburg State University Nikolay Kropachev and the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of Mali Bourema Kansaye signed a cooperation agreement.
The parties agreed to create joint online courses and educational programs to increase the number of specialists who know the national language of Mali.
The parties also agreed to organize expeditions for St. Petersburg State University students and to open a representative office of St. Petersburg State University in the Republic of Mali.
Political parties are suspended in Mali
On April 10, the head of Mali, Colonel Assimi Goita, issued a decree suspending the activities of political parties and associations of a political nature throughout the country until further notice.
The decision is aimed at putting an end to the ongoing political unrest that is harming the country’s stability and development.
“The activities of political parties and the activities of associations of a political nature throughout the country are suspended until further notice for reasons of security and public order,” says the resolution adopted by the Council of Ministers.
Russian military specialists arrived in Niger
On the evening of April 10, an IL-76 military-technical vehicle with Russian military specialists on board arrived at the airport in the capital of Niger, Niamey.
The Russian military will train local armed forces and provide assistance in the fight against terrorism.
It is worth noting that the American contingent has not yet left this African country, despite the demand of the official, and by the way, recognized by the United States, authorities.
Local television clarified that the Russian military delivered the latest generation air defense systems to Niger, which Niger purchased from Russia under previously concluded contracts. |video| |video 02|
Western-style fascist “demokracy,” stirred with remotely added color-coup spices, is coming to an end. Africa is a new laboratory for this endeavor. Somewhere, a delighted Uncle Patrushev hums hymns and welcomes dawns of an age of “informational hygiene.” Next step, after the liberal cancer is excised: bottom-up Chinese-style democracy, with African characteristics, of course
The chutzpah! Two war criminals, of nations both implicated back then too, and both involved in several ongoing genocides, attend a memorial at the scene of the crime. Lady Macbeth on LSD.
@Strategika51:
The head of the Palestinian Hamas political bureau abroad, Ismayil Haniyé, was visiting wounded Palestinians from Gaza in a hospital in Doha, Qatar when he was informed of Israel’s murder of three of his children and three of his grandchildren in Gaza.
The Zionist media and their Arab relays have always maintained maniacally, hysterically and obsessively that Haniyé’s children live a luxurious life abroad, while they share the daily lives of the besieged, starving and bombed populations in Gaza.
A US official says Iran’s retaliation is likely to be greater this time, but not enough to drag the US into an open war against Iran.
This is becoming as ambiguous as a Chinese puzzle…
The bottom line is that the US is prepared to unleash a global nuclear holocaust to defend Israel.
April 11
@Dmitry Medvedev:
“The conflict in Ukraine will end once the US Congress votes to provide new support to Kyiv,” Biden said.
One could remember for the hundredth time about the old man’s dementia and his son’s corruption. About the interests of the American military-industrial complex and the influence of the deep state. About the war between Democrats and conservatives and the clinch between the states and the US federal government.
But I’ll tell you something else. Biden’s statement is absolutely evil . For he said: “Kill each other further. The more people die, the better. I want as many deaths as possible…”
Truly, “and I looked, and behold, a pale horse, and on it a rider whose name was “death”; and hell followed him” (Revelation of the Apostle John the Theologian (Apocalypse) 6:8).
Therefore, the sooner the rider on the pale horse takes Joseph Robinett Biden with him, the better it will be for our suffering world…
Commander of the USS John McCain firing his rifle with the optic on backwards.
The scope is also covered. pic.twitter.com/nVzj1LUS1F
— Sputnik (@SputnikInt) April 10, 2024
@Sputnik Africa:
The graves of US mercenaries who died in Ukraine appear at the cemeteries of the US
Grady Kurpasi, a 50-year-old retired marine, died two months after the commencement of the special military operation. Sputnik’s correspondent reported that he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, one of the most famous cemeteries in the United States, near Washington;
Ian Tortorici, a deceased mercenary who served with the Foreign Legion of Ukraine, died during the Russian assault in Kramatorsk. Despite passing away far from his home country, he was buried with full military honors;
Another dead mercenary is US citizen Dane Partridge, an Iraq War veteran who joined the fight on the side of Kiev early on in the special military operation. He was wounded, and he died a few months later. He left his wife and five children, and was buried in Idaho;
Buried in the states of California and Texas are two other Americans who also participated in the fighting: Bryan Young and Paul Kim.
According to the Russian Defense Ministry, over 1,100 US citizens took part in the Ukraine conflict, with nearly 500 of them reportedly killed.
Moscow rejects any dialogue with Washington on cybersecurity. “There can be no dialogue with a country that seeks to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
@DDGeopolitics:
The BRICS delegations will meet in Moscow on April 16-17 to discuss issues related to information security – Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Zelensky visited Kharkov. The end is near 
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@Arab_Africa:
The Sahel Union gave Chad the green light to join the alliance
Experts predict that Chad could soon become a member of the Union of Sahel Countries (AES), which currently includes Niger, Burkina Faso and Mali. The reason for such assumptions was the April 2 visit of a Chadian delegation led by the ministers of economy and civil aviation to Niger and their meeting with the head of the Military Council of Niger, Abdurrahman Chiani. Chad’s Minister of Economy, Mahamat Assuyuti Abakar, during the meeting conveyed a message from Transitional President Mahamat Déby about Chad’s desire to strengthen its partnership with Niger in various fields.
On April 3, the Chadian delegation also visited Burkina Faso, where they met with Ibrahim Traore (the interim head of the country). After visiting Burkina Faso, the Chadian delegation traveled to Bamako, the capital of Mali, and met with Colonel Asimi Goita, the transitional head of state. All leaders received Deby’s message of commitment to strengthening collaboration.
A senior Mali government official said the purpose of the Chadian delegation’s visit was to discuss Chad’s membership of the AES, which Assimi Goita welcomed enthusiastically, calling it a positive step reflecting the Déby government’s efforts to break free of French dependence and protect national borders. The same official added that Brigadier General Abdurrahaman Ciani had in turn given Chad his consent to join the AES.
The Sahel Alliance is a coalition that emphasizes military and economic partnership. Members pledge to improve the security of trade routes and invest in projects related to energy, agriculture, water resources and other common interests. The alliance proposes creating a joint airline, launching major initiatives such as a local nuclear power plant, creating a fund to finance energy research and investment projects, and developing an overall industrialization plan.
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Impossible not to see the writing on the wall – not to mention the painting…
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