3 Russian advantages over its enemies
These include but are by no means limited to: 1—Hypersonic missiles, 2—Superior electronic warfare systems 3—A strategic partnership with China that could go military.
Russia’s enemies possess no equivalent to any of these benefits.
Russia’s hypersonic Kinzhal missiles just today wiped out Europe’s biggest gas storage site near Lviv (story below in my Air Strike section).
A powerful new electronic warfare system that recently jammed GPS over swathes of Eastern Europe. Putin recently announced a new strategic partnership with China after a visit with his “old friend” Xi Jinping, which veteran geopolitical analyst Ray McGovern calls a strategic alliance. This was Russia and China’s answer to threats of sanctions on Chinese and Russian imports.
In fact it is both countries’ answer to NATO.
We can only guess how Putin might aid his old friend if push came to shove in the Taiwan Strait between Xi and his Old Enemy Joe Biden.
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/05/18/russia-china-two-against-one/
Just this issue of my newsletter alone contains strong clues that Ukraine is hopelessly entangled in a web of it own weaving and will not escape intact.
Here’s your daily air strike update for May 19, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Map of Ukrainian oblasts
HUGE hit on gas storage in western Ukraine
Gas was for Ukraine and western (NATO) partners!
This can be taken as a down payment on retribution for the Biden Nord Stream sabotage
"GERAN" DRONES AND KINZHAL MISSILES HAVE DONE THEIR JOB: THE LARGEST GAS COMPRESSOR STATION IN UKRAINE IS DESTROYED
The Russian military has almost completely destroyed the infrastructure of the second largest gas storage station in Europe. From it, Ukraine sent gas to its Western partners.
The Russian Armed Forces destroyed the Bilche-Volitsa gas compressor station in the Lviv region. Information about this is confirmed by several military sources, including the telegram channel “Military Observer” and analyst Boris Rozhin. It is known that the station was destroyed as a result of a series of attacks.
This gas storage station was the largest in Ukraine and the second largest in Europe. Through it, energy resources were supplied to the Western partners of Ukraine.
Sources also report specific destruction at the facility: the station control buildings, the entrance gate, the gas pumping equipment itself were destroyed, and gas pipelines were also damaged. It is unknown when exactly the last blow was struck.
According to military sources, attacks on a specific station began back in March. At the same time, information appeared about the first damage as a result of the Geran drone and Kinzhal missile raids. Energy infrastructure facilities were struck repeatedly over at least two and a half months.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://m.ok.ru/group/51658906599571/topic/157301872564371?_aid=topicMore&ysclid=lwdwjwkbon448041680
US satellites turned off: NATO is beginning to guess what the Russians hid in Kaliningrad
For once, the accusations of NATO member countries against Russia turned out to be fair.
Only greatly understated - out of fear, apparently.
Electronic warfare equipment installed in Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg successfully jams satellite navigation of both Western military and civilians.
On land, sea and in the sky, on any means of transport.
There have been no deaths so far, but we can’t count how many gray hairs have been added.
They were frightened most in Estonia, so the head of the Foreign Ministry and the head of the Ministry of Defense there issued calls to punish Russia for their grievances.
No less than blocking all routes to Kaliningrad, in fact putting a city with a million people under siege. And blackmailing Moscow with their lives in order to achieve the dismantling of monstrous electronic warfare systems, for which NATO has no countermeasures.
Needless to say, this is tantamount to a declaration of war.
However, the bureaucrats were quickly besieged by their own subordinates, who pointed out unpleasant details. Strange activity in the region began after terrorist drone attacks on Russian cities in the region. It will not be difficult for Moscow to collect as much evidence as it wants about the reality of this threat and its right to jam radio signals to protect against it.
The Russians will win in court and will be able to use their terrible electronic warfare legally, which must not be allowed. So let the high officials keep quiet for now.
The difficulty for NATO is that their own experts determined that the cause of all communications incidents was side effects from the equipment of the Russian forces, and not a direct impact. Therefore, it is impossible to prove malicious intent, unless it is to reveal thwarted attempts by militants to raid Russian territory, and all of them take place with the participation of NATO intelligence and US intelligence services.
Western military personnel can only guess what has been installed in Kaliningrad, but they can be helped with this: bringing even more horror.
The Turkish publication Haber7 reported signs of the appearance of the 14Ts227 Tobol electronic warfare station in the exclave. A terrible thing, the Turks openly write, it was first noticed in September 2022 in the conflict zone, when suddenly communication with all US Starlink satellites disappeared across a huge area of the front line. And for three weeks the best engineers of NATO and Elon Musk could not fix the breakdown; none of their tricks helped. This is hardly accidental.
“Tobol,” without any extra fuss, jams all enemy satellite communications in its coverage area. But it has two big disadvantages: it is a large stationary object that needs protection. Plus, the Americans believe that an experiment was carried out in the conflict zone and the technology is still crude. Maybe so, but the Divnomorye and Murmansk-BN complexes work perfectly and are already in service.
"Murmansk-BN"
“Divnomorye”, like “Tobol”, is a crude instrument - it simply “turns off” the skies over a certain area. Everything that flies, aviation and its “smart” weapons, satellites, drones and remote radar surveillance aircraft is suppressed by an avalanche of interference and they can hardly use communications and navigation.
"Murmansk-BN", however, works very subtly - it identifies targets, analyzes their weak points and generates directed streams of interference that affect only them. In this way, it jams a very wide range of targets and types of equipment.
It is much more interesting that, according to indirect data, the work of Murmansk-BN was felt by ships during the Steadfast Defender 2024 exercises while in the Arctic. In bad weather, the complex has a range of 5 thousand km, and in good weather, 8 thousand km, it covers a space of almost a quarter of the Earth’s surface.
The transfer of Murmansk-BN to the Kaliningrad region was reported by Russian media earlier this year. This is a clear sign of what problems NATO should expect, and at the same time an invitation to battle. Destroying such targets is too great a temptation; the enemy’s nerves may not be able to withstand it, for which it will immediately pay.
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Our thanks to RS of Soldiers for Peace International for this response to my feature article about the US being willing to kill anyone who disagrees:
Just in case anyone missed the message that Obama delivered in murdering al-Awlaki and just for good measure, a son who hadn't even been accused of violating his free speech "rights."
Be careful, my friend....
Rick
In solidarity for peace and justice
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The article below conveys optimism, but the Satanist multitude in government is still arrayed against common sense, morality, conscience, truth, and all things good and decent.
There are serious attempts in legislatures to criminalize speech and conflate anti-Zionism with anti-Semitism. Powerful US officials are vituperating against Palestine, with some influencers demanding that Gaza be nuked and others screaming “kill them all.” Most disturbingly of all are the brainless pronouncements of Donald Trump, who many of his equally brainless followers believe will “save us.” He too has practically called for the Israelis to complete the genocide. Who can assure us that there will still be a Palestinian people after his bloody reign is over?
It would take a wise leader to save the US and bring peace to the world, not a total fool.
‘Do No Harm’: A week in the life of ‘democracy’ and the betrayal of the university student
Generation Z forced the world to stop and respond to the Israeli genocide in Gaza. In return, they are being punished by the same system implicated in the killing.
BY MAUREEN E. RUPRECHT FADEM MAY 18, 2024 1
The City College of New York on the night of the police raid of the campus on April 30, 2024. (Photo: Luigi Morris @luigiwmorris)
THE CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK ON THE NIGHT OF THE POLICE RAID OF THE CAMPUS ON APRIL 30, 2024. (PHOTO: LUIGI MORRIS @LUIGIWMORRIS)
For the first time since October, I started feeling hopeful in the last few weeks. The intervening months, mostly a blur peppered by grief, rage, and speechlessness. Starting April 18, I was thrilled seeing Columbia students stand up for what’s right, then seeing that groundswell expand until by April 25 it reached my teaching school, City University of New York. What a profound honor, witnessing students’ commitment to justice, their clear-eyed condemnation of pitiless slaughter, and their courage. That is leadership. By April 30th I was actually proud—of the students and, as a faculty member for a quarter century, of the university. We weren’t seeing the unconstitutional aggression witnessed at Columbia or UT Austin. We were permitting our encampment to play out; I’d heard tell of administrators meeting with students on their demands.
Gen Z was bringing the political world to its knees because of mass violence it wrongly authorizes, the sun was shining in Gotham City again, and a ‘60’s slogan rang in my ears: “Make Love, Not War.”
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So it’s only a measly 25,000 dead. Can’t be genocide, right?
Establishment lies are so absurd there’s no need to debunk them
Scumbag Jake Sullivan recently claimed there is no genocide in Palestine. The Satanists in Tel Aiv and Washington claim that because these bodies could not be identified, they are not really dead (?). Or perhaps they are all tourists who came to Gaza to enjoy the delicious hummus and pita bread. Sure, we all believe you, Jake.
In a just world, Jake would be hauled before a Nuremberg-style tribunal and found guilty of aiding and abetting a genocide and would be sentenced to life in prison or even execution by hanging. Convicts sentenced at Nuremberg were hanged for less than that.
But we don’t have a just world – or rather we have a world in which the strong in the West control and pervert the justice system to the detriment of the poor and powerless elsewhere. White Anglo-Saxons still rule with an iron fist over the dark-skinned as they always have, for example, in Ghandi’s India, where a crowd of 4000 protesters were gunned down by machine gun fire and the non-whites were subject to tight rule by the Anglo-Saxons who plundered them.
If Jake had been in the White House that day, he’d have declared the machine guns all went off by accident. The thing is, power-crazed sociopaths believe that their underlings are as lame-brained as they are. And there can be no doubt that the White House denizens all need to be locked up in a rubber room for life.
But Friends, there IS a just world out there that has declared war on the unipolar world under Washington’s heel. And this world includes Russia, the world’s strongest military plus China, the world’s largest army and navy. Of course, if the sociopaths who somehow came to power by deceit were halfway intelligent, they would realize the game is over and has been for some time now.
Unpacking the Israeli campaign to deny the Gaza
genocide
A recent media flurry over the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza amounts to nothing more than genocide denial. This campaign to discredit the Gaza health ministry is simply a strategy to allow the Gaza genocide to continue.
BY JONATHAN OFIR MAY 18, 2024 15
People stand by the bodies of victims of Israeli airstrikes outside the morgue of al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on October 12, 2023. (Photo: Naaman Omar/APA Images)
PEOPLE STAND BY THE BODIES OF VICTIMS OF ISRAELI AIRSTRIKES OUTSIDE THE MORGUE OF AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL IN GAZA CITY ON OCTOBER 12, 2023. (PHOTO: NAAMAN OMAR/APA IMAGES)
On Saturday, May 11, the Jerusalem Post under editor Yuval Barnea came out with a sensational headline:
“UN seemingly halves estimate of Gazan women, children killed.”
The article featured two graphics from the UN, one from May 6 and one from May 8, both clearly noting that approximately 35,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, but the second specified that bodies that have been able to be identified were under 25,000. Out of these, the breakdown included 52% women and children, as well as 8% elderly. Earlier on, the UN noted that about 2/3 of fatalities are women and children.
Now, the game of genocide denial has begun.
The supposedly benign Jerusalem Post article quickly moved on to “questions of data accuracy,” citing Israel apologia outlets such as AIPAC’s thinktank the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP), and its January report “that showed major discrepancies in the fatality reports” which suggested “manipulation.” The article also cited Abraham Weiner from Tablet Magazine claiming “fake numbers.”
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Cheap Resistance drone hits Iron Dome launcher
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الأردن في خدمة الأجندة الأميركية! (alkhanadeq.org.lb)
Tuesday 23 April 2024 02:29
Jordan is in the service of the American agenda!
We cannot talk about the role played by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan at this particular stage in isolation from what is happening in Palestine, especially the official role represented by King Abdullah II and the Jordanian government, knowing that the Speaker of the Jordanian People’s Assembly, Ahmed Al-Safadi, had stated on the 17th of Last November, ten days after the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, he said that the Zionists are the killers of innocents, and they are the ones who should be described as ISIS, and he said that they are misleading world opinion with fabricated pictures, videos, and narratives. A weak statement that is not at the level of the event, and includes a lot of caution, especially since he ended it by glorifying the role of the king, who repeatedly warned of the necessity of giving the Palestinians their rights.
But the real position was expressed by the Jordanian people when they announced their anger at the House of Representatives, especially since Parliament was late in responding to the street. There were individual objections from within Parliament to the way the government worked, and this was expressed by MP Khalil Attiya, who wondered about the benefit of the peace agreements and treaties concluded between Jordan and the occupying entity, if they were not effective in such circumstances. He actually called it the occupying entity, and asked: “Why has Jordanian aid not entered Gaza yet? And why is the Jordanian military hospital in Gaza being targeted?”
The questions that Attiya asked still remain today, and after more than six months of aggression and genocidal massacres against the Palestinians in Gaza as well as in the West Bank, the Zionist attacks on the Palestinian camps in the West Bank have doubled, and from this point we can truly ask about the future role that Jordan will play in this field, especially since it extends a helping hand and assistance to the Israelis through the Emirati-Jordanian-Israeli land line, and also openly participated in striking Iranian missiles and drones heading towards Israel in the service of the Americans and the Zionists.
After a historical review of the emergence of the Emirate of Transjordan and its role, which was blessed by Winston Churchill, the British Prime Minister after and during World War II, and in his glorification of Prince Abdullah, who became king in 1949 after playing the suspicious role alongside the Egyptian King Farouk, in understanding the true role of the Emirate. In forming a protection barrier for the new entity “Israel”. Here we cannot resist the temptation to repeat the scandals committed by Prince Abdullah bin Al Hussein by receiving the sum of one billion dollars at the time as a reward for the sale of Palestine, in addition to giving Jordan the right to manage Islamic endowments in Palestine, and abandoning support for the revolutionaries and fighters even with ammunition during the liberation war from the Zionist gangs, and this is what The Mufti Sheikh Amin Al-Husseini exposed him at the time, and Prince Abdullah was not killed during his prayers or his visit to Al-Aqsa. Four days before the declaration of the State of “Israel”, he was having dinner with Golda Meir in Raghadan Palace, and less than a month after Stern and the Haganah committed the terrible Deir Yassin massacre, and it happened on the day The encounter occurred when the Palmach gang occupied Safed on May 11, 1948.
The Kingdom has a hideous history of enabling the Zionists to seize not only historical Palestine, but even the Jordanian Wadi Araba, over which the Zionists have complete authority after the 1994 Wadi Araba Agreement. The agreement restricted Jordan and made it a protective wall for the entity on a 335 km border with Palestine, while Lebanon’s borders, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Information, with northern Palestine are only about 100 km. Can we imagine what these borders could do if they were opened to the resistance and to smuggle medicine, food and weapons to the steadfast and resistant Palestinians in their lands? But instead, Jordan brags about the role of Salma bint Abdullah, the current king, and the Palestinian mother, Queen Rania, in that she brought down four or five marches, in fact, The apple cannot fall far from the tree, according to the English proverb, if the intent of the speech is reached, especially since the mother of the current king is British and he was raised by her.
What is most laughable about the positions of the Jordanian government, which is trying to absorb the anger of the street away from the royal family and the king in Jordan every time it betrays Palestine and its resistance, is what was stated by the Jordanian Foreign Minister, Ayman Al-Safadi, when he said after the Iranian strike on the entity’s [Israel’s] sites and airports that the most important thing is that : “Jordan will not be a battlefield for any regional conflict,” and “We will not allow anyone to turn Jordan into a war zone”! Statements that ignited social media sites, especially among Syrians, and everyone wondered about the suspicious role played by decision-makers in Jordan in the war on Syria since 2011, and the hosting of the joint British-American-Saudi-Israeli intelligence MOQ room and in passing ISIS from Iraq across the southern border to Daraa. Jordan's role in transporting ISIS wounded to Palestine to be treated in occupation field hospitals on the border. Where was Jordan's independence and sovereignty for more than 13 years, and to this day Jordan is still part of the war on Syria, passing money and weapons to the separatists of Suwayda and the Al-Sahja Army [Free Syrian Army] in the east of the Euphrates, the pride of American industry! Safadi's Jordan can open its airspace, according to the agreements, to the planes and missiles of the American bases there, but not to the missiles of the enemies of America and the entity, specifically the missiles of Ahrar al-Yemen, the Iraqi resistance, Iranian missiles and marches, and everyone who stands against the entity in support of Gaza.
Although Abdullah bin Al-Hussein, King of Jordan, Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, President of Egypt, and Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority, had an important meeting between them in April of last year, and the most important content of the meeting, according to what was leaked to the press, was that there was a premeditated Zionist plan, i.e. An Israeli-American plan to displace the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza, news of which was leaked to the two meetings, and therefore the content of the meeting was about what could be done, and the events in Gaza since the day following the Al-Aqsa flood proved the veracity of the leaks. Today, it seems that the Zionist plan has been put on track for implementation, and therefore there is no real American or even Western opposition to the crimes committed by the entity in order to advance this plan, and Jordan’s role is not crystal clear about accepting the displacement of Palestinians to it, even though they publicly reject that. What is required by the Americans and “Israelis” is to displace the people of Gaza to Egypt, and the people of the West Bank, to Jordan, or at least to camps set up within the borders of the two states, far from the borders with Palestine, until God decides something that was already in effect, either through naturalization or immigration to different parts of the world. But it is certain that both Egypt and Jordan are playing the same role they played in 1948.
Jordan follows a "ventilatory" policy by allowing citizens to demonstrate against the Zionist massacres in Gaza, but the leadership represented by the government and the monarchy has followed the same policy since the beginning of the war on Gaza. The masses denounce and demand an end to the massacres and the passage of aid, and the government does the same, and Queen Rania goes out to the Western media for Talk about Palestinian rights and the issue is over. As for the Jordanian government, during its denunciations, it meets with the Americans and the results come as if it is implementing the Zionist demands and needs, and the last of them was not and will not be support for the Zionists by passing goods trucks coming from Dubai to the entity state through the Abu Salem crossing, while it stands idly by when the issue comes to passing food. The medicine is for the Palestinians, and therefore it was not surprising that the Iranian and, before that, the Yemeni missiles and marches were confronted. Here the most important question arises: Jordan’s commitment to the American agenda, to serve whom?
This is happening because Jordan is restricted: by the Wadi Araba Agreement, by the possible nature of the Kingdom and the origin of its existence as a state supporting the entity, by awaiting the forced displacement of the people of the West Bank and other Palestinian areas as a possible alternative country, by its reliance on American bases and on sending military aid from Turkey, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, or ...Azerbaijan if the Palestinians revolt and try to repeat the history of Black September 1970 is also possible. We must take into account that the population of Jordan is 42% of its total number, and that the naturalized Palestinians constitute 42% of its total number, and that the hatred between the naturalized Palestinians and the Jordanians, most of whom are from the tribes, was fueled by the monarchy from the moment the Emirate of Transjordan was formed until today.
Writer:
Abeer Bassam
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The US has two sold-out presidential candidates. AIPAC bought them and paid for them and they both these stooges are loyal to their donor!
Would Trump still keep high support numbers if people fully understood that he wholeheartedly supports the Israeli genocide?
Trump encourages genocide against Palestinians saying “finish the problem”
Kilmeade then asked Trump: “Are you on-board with the way the [Israel Defense Force] is taking the fight to Gaza?”
Trump’s response seemed to suggest that he supported the genocide of people living in Gaza. “You’ve got to finish the problem,” he said.
More here
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Our sincerest thanks to Regis Tremblay for bringing us this interview with Jan Carnogursky. I am pretty sure most of my readers have been concerned about the condition of Robert Fico. I was glad to read recently that his prognosis is good. As Jan told us, he faces another operation and we all wish him the very best!
Dr. Jan Carnogursky, JD, and former Prime Minister of Slovakia joins me to discuss the attempted assassination of the current Prime Minister, Robert Fico. What is the impact on the current government? How are the people in Slovakia reacting to this? We also discussed the fact that Robert Fico, along with Viktor Orban of Hungary, and Alexander Vucic of Serbia all oppose sending more money and weapons to Ukraine, and thus going against the EU, NATO, and the USA.
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https://israelpalestinenews.org/as-aid-dribbles-into-gaza-displacement-and-death-prevail-day-225/
Gazans killed while fetching water, waiting for medical evacuation; just months after arriving in Rafah, massive numbers of people are leaving; Israeli violence in West Bank and East Jerusalem; medical negligence in Israeli prisons; accusations against Meta and WhatsApp for leaking Palestinian info for targeted killings; Israel claims young children are informers; former Mossad leader says Israel is losing the war…
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Palestinian resistance is slowly taking out IDF troops.
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Excellent near-complete sitrep of the war in Ukraine to date. Helpful maps. Some info on Palestine genocide.
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