Russia, Iran and China send signals to the genocide-supporting US
Interestingly, the 3 allies have invited fourth countries to participate if they so desire. Theoretically, the Houthis could join. That could be a game changer. Like “don’t mess with our little pal.
What would Biden do then?
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Это могут быть не "учения": Россия и Иран посылают США тревожные сигналы (tsargrad.tv)
THIS MAY NOT BE AN "EXERCISE": RUSSIA AND IRAN SEND WARNING SIGNALS TO US
Russia, Iran and China will once again hold joint naval exercises. A year later, the navies of the three countries will meet in the Arabian Sea. During this time, many events have occurred that make the West look at the maneuvers of the Big Three with apprehension. A global war is at stake. Read more in this piece from Tsargrad.
Iran - Russia - China: military fist
Iranian Navy Commander Shahram Irani announced on February 5 that Russia, Iran and China will hold joint naval exercises by the end of March to ensure regional security and promote common interests. Irani also noted that some other states have been invited to the exercise.
We also invite other countries to take part in the naval exercises of Iran, China and Russia, which will take place before the end of March, he was quoted as saying by the Tasnim agency.
In 2023, the trilateral exercises of Russia, China and Iran “Maritime Security Belt - 2023” were held in the Arabian Sea from March 16 to 17.
Russia was represented by a detachment of ships of the Northern Fleet consisting of the medium sea tanker Kama and the frigate Admiral Gorshkov, a carrier of Zircon hypersonic missiles. According to the Ministry of Defense, during the exercises joint maneuvering was practiced, as well as artillery firing at different times of the day.
The factor of peaceful deterrence. What has changed in a year?
A year later, the importance of such exercises has only increased, and at the same time, relations between the countries have strengthened. Russia's foreign policy reorientation towards the Islamic world, Iran's retention of the status of a regional power and escalation in the Middle East - all these factors seem to hint that we are watching the gradual and inevitable formation of some kind of "alliance against America", because Iran, like China, needs strong allies in the confrontation with the United States. [Context: Russia is rated no. 1 militarily, while China ranks #3 after the US. Further, China has the largest navy in the world. Does it still seem wise to be provoking China and Russia as we do? And since these two major powers are partners with Iran, does it really seem smart to be threatening to attack Iran? Especially since Iran opposes Washington’s support of Israeli genocide on the Palestinians while all three of these powers agree that the genocide must stop]
In terms of changes over the current year, the tense situation in the Arabian Sea and the entire Middle East should be noted first of all, says international political scientist Timur Shafir.
This cannot be ignored. If Russia, Iran and China took part in last year’s exercises, this year other countries are also invited to join the big three. And Russia, and Iran, and China, which geographically belongs to different regions, are interested in maintaining peace in the Middle East and developing regional ties. The three countries show that they have their finger on the pulse. This is also a demonstration that there will be no actions in the region that provoke other countries, either the Arab region or the American fleet, Shafir opined in a conversation with Tsargrad.
Shafir stressed that the exercises involving Russia, Iran and China can be viewed from the point of view of peaceful deterrence.
“Especially if you look at what was practiced in previous exercises. And there they practiced not only shooting at air targets, but also elements ranging from providing assistance to ships in distress, up to the release of hostages. These exercises are the case when such an element of paradox can be used - military exercises as a factor in maintaining peace,” our interlocutor concluded.
Show of presence
Political scientist, expert at the Financial University under the Russian Government Ruslan Safarov noted that trilateral naval exercises primarily mean that Russia and China are able to ensure their presence in the region.
Here this is a clear indication that there are other forces, in addition to the US and British Navies that are now attacking Yemen, and they come with other goals. This is extremely important given the position in the Persian Gulf. In addition, this is a demonstration that there are forces in the world capable of ensuring the security of this region, Safarov said in a comment to Tsargrad.
The main threat is Russia
At the same time, the exercises of Russia, China and Iran will likely be of a restrained nature, while the North Atlantic Alliance hopes to prove its readiness for self-defense.
On February 1, NATO began the main stage of its largest exercise since the Cold War - Steadfast Defender 2024. Moscow has already called these maneuvers a threat to Russia’s security. [Yes, the difference between the NATO drills and the trilateral ones is that the former are being held right at the Russian border while the latter are being held in the Arabian Sea far from the hot spots of the Red Sea, the Aden Sea and the Mandeb Strait.
Since 1988, NATO has not conducted an exercise larger than this. More than 90 thousand representatives of all military branches from 31 countries of the alliance will participate in Steadfast Defender 2024. It is planned to use more than 50 ships, more than 80 fighters, helicopters and drones and about 1.1 thousand combat vehicles. The exercises will take place throughout Europe and will last until May 31. The maneuvers will affect the territories of Great Britain, Hungary, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Finland, Sweden, and Estonia.
Preparing for global war
Great Britain and its allies should prepare for a global war with Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, which could begin in 5 years, said the head of the Kingdom's Ministry of Defense Grant Shapps. He called on “all democratic countries of the world” to increase defense spending, and also called Russia “a bellicose auto.” Great Britain and its allies should prepare for a global war with Russia, China, Iran and North Korea, which could begin in 5 years, said the head of the Kingdom's Ministry of Defense Grant Shapps. He called on "all democracies in the world" to increase defense spending, and also called Russia a "belligerent authoritarian state."
NATO continues to seek justification for its expansion, pushing the Russian-Ukrainian conflict towards a world war. The organization's Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has repeatedly called China a "challenge" for the North Atlantic Alliance. At the same time, the US plans to deploy nuclear weapons in the UK for the first time in 15 years, because “the threat from Russia is growing.” It is worth noting that these two countries are members of the NATO nuclear club.
Britain is trying to drag Russia into a major large-scale conflict in order to break into the big leagues. Now there is a feeling that London is trying to pit everyone against each other. The likelihood of a global conflict is higher than ever, shared Ruslan Safarov.
Tasnim News Agency report: Iran-China-Russia Naval Drill to Include More States in 2024 - Politics news - Tasnim News Agency
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My interview yesterday with award winning film maker Regis Tremblay
Regis kindly asked me to do a show with him, always a pleasure.
Regis asked me about something I had thought of revealing some time ago, namely, where I find my information on air strikes. I originally had never bothered explaining this because it would be a little complicated for a non reader of Russian, but here is what I told Regis.
First, I type the following search phrase into the English side of the Google Translate site, which I set to translate into Russian:
[today’s date, including the year], russian missile and drone strikes in ukraine [The site does not distinguish between caps and non caps]
(Yes, I could type the Russian in my browser without using Google Translate, but I have never mastered the Russian keyboard and it would be slow going)
Then I copy the Russian search text obtained and paste it into my Yandex browser. If I use a Western browser, such as Chrome, I get a completely different set of results, all slanted against Russia – yes, even the searches are rigged! For example, it will bring up mostly titles of articles about Ukrainian strikes on Russia, and hits at BBC’s Russian language site, which will stress reports of Ukrainian origin which claim that the Russian strike hit civilian areas or killed civilians. However, Ukraine lies and says that Ukrainian air defense missiles that stray onto civilian infrastructure are Russian missiles deliberately intended to kill civilians. The Russians never do this. They target military targets (although once in a while a civilian may get in the way and get hit). In these cases, the article may be accompanied by photos showing rather slight damage, whereas Russian missiles generally cause massive damage. This is a give-away. But BBC slants its reports against Russia. So anyway, you need to use Yandex. Just type Yandex into your search engine. You can do a Yandex search without subscribing to the site. However, it you do not read Russian fluently, you will have to laboriously paste the findings into a Google Translate site set for translation from Russian to English. If you are game for this, you can open up a whole new world for yourself. Either that or subscribe to my channel.
Here's Regis’ whole show:
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Excerpt
Strikes on Ukraine
Krivoy Rog (addition) – in addition to substations, the “Shaheds” struck a fuel and energy complex facility. The population is in panic - the fire is huge, it lasted all night.
[Normally, Russian reports call their drones Geran or Geran-2, and this name refers strictly to a Russian-made drone. However, Ukrainian reports invariably call these Shaheds, which are Iranian-made drones. The Ukrainians know that the US has tried to ban Iranian weapons being sold to Russia, so there is a political angle here. Really, though, even Russian war reporters publicly speculate whether these drones are Russian or Iranian because the Geran bears a striking resemblance to the Shahed. I have no further opinion on this, but at any rate, the ties between Russia and Iran are tight and it is good for Western elites to be aware of this when contemplating a possible strike on Iran. I suspect that a strike on Iran would be met with some sort of Russian response]
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Missile attacks on Ukraine today, 02/06/2024: explosions occurred in a number of regions last night
02/06/2024
Missile strikes on Ukraine today, 02/06/2024: explosions occurred in a number of regions last night. They were the result of targeted missile strikes and drone strikes. All the details at this point are in this N4k article.
Explosion reported in the Nikolaev oblast
The Ukrainian TV channel 5 several hours ago in its official Telegram channel reported an explosion in the Nikolaev oblast of Ukraine.
“An explosion was heard in the Nikolaev oblast,” says the message, cited by the OSN publication.
As of now, there is no information about which specific object was hit.
In Ukraine, explosions were reported in Kyiv-controlled Kherson
Explosions occurred in the city of Kherson, controlled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was reported by the Ukrainian online publication Strana.ua.
“Explosions are reported in Kherson,” the message said.
More detailed information about the causes and other details of the explosion is unknown. At the same time, an air raid warning was not announced in the part of the Kherson oblast controlled by Kyiv. [It is fairly common for air strikes on Ukraine not to be preceded by air raid warnings. Especially in the case of ballistic missile strikes, in some cases the missile travels so fast that there is no way a warning can be issued in time – although warnings may also be based on the presence of missile-launching aircraft being spotted over areas outside of Ukraine, eg, Belarus or the Black Sea.]
There were no comments from the Russian Ministry of Defense on this matter.
Several powerful explosions were recorded in the Kharkov oblast
Explosions occurred in the Kharkov oblast of Ukraine. This was reported in the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian publication “Mirror of the Week”.
“Kharkov... they are reporting explosions in the region,” the report clarifies, as cited by Gazeta.Ru.
According to the online map of the Ukrainian Ministry of Digital Transformation, an air raid alert has been declared in the Kharkov, Poltava and Sumy oblasts.
Explosions occurred near Kharkov - Rogov
Updated information has appeared about a series of explosions in the Kharkov oblast of Ukraine. It is also known that an air raid alarm is sounding in the oblast.
“In the Nazi-occupied Kharkov oblast and the nearest suburb of Kharkov, two waves of explosions were heard. The first at about 03:18 and the second at about 03:33. Details later,” Vladimir Rogov, a member of the Main Council of the Zaporozhye oblast, wrote in his Telegram channel.
Let us recall that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have been striking critical infrastructure in Ukraine since October 10, 2022, after the involvement of Ukrainian special services in the terrorist attack on the Crimean Bridge on October 8, 2022 was established.
In this regard, an air raid alert is announced daily in the regions of Ukraine or throughout the country.
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Our thanks to RH for this:
Tue 2/6/2024 3:50 AM
I know this does not pertain to America as such but, could it be one of the reasons that America has had so much trouble since 1948 ? and we don't know it? We have been sold a bill of goods and threatened since then by the anti-Semites and Zionists (most don't have a clue what a Semite is in the first place yet, they continue the mantra).
Who was it that said if you tell a lie often enough, eventually it will be perceived as truth?
The world has been held hostage with this lie.
All the best, RH
P.S.
Malachi 1:4 Whereas Edom (Esau, Jacobs twin brother) saith, We are impoverished, but we will return and build the desolate places; thus saith the LORD of hosts, They shall build, but I will throw down; and they shall call them, The border of wickedness, and, The people against whom the LORD hath indignation for ever.
Revelation 2:9 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan.
Revelation 3:9 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.... (the true Israelites)
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If you have time, you can listen to Alexander Mercouris’ 1 hr 23 min talk:
If you don’t have a lot of time, here is our translation of a summary of the talk, with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://ria.ru/20240129/ukraina-1924220573.html
Ria Novosti summarizes valuable report by Alexander Mercouris on the advances of Russian forces in Ukraine.
"Cruel losses." The West has revealed that Russia is undermining Ukraine
Expert Mercouris: Russia undermines the artillery crews of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the front
© RIA Novosti / Grigory Sysoev
MOSCOW, January 29 – RIA Novosti. The Russian army undermines the artillery installations of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and keeps the enemy in the dark about its military plans, British analyst Alexander Merkouris said in his blog on YouTube.
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“The strategy is to make the Ukrainian Armed Forces guess about the true plans of the Russian military. <...> At the same time, they continue to knock out Ukrainian artillery positions and inflict severe losses on enemy personnel,” the expert said.
Earlier, Mercouris reported that strikes by Russian heavy flamethrower systems (TOS) "Solntsepek" put Ukrainian units to flight near Kharkov.
After the major failure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' summer counter-offensive, Russian troops took the initiative in the fighting. At the end of December, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin that units of the Armed Forces had completely liberated Marinka in the DPR. In January, the Russian military liberated the village of Krakhmalnoye and the village of Tabaevka in the Kharkov oblast.
[This is very bad news for Ukraine, which has made almost no advances at the front in recent months, while Russia continues advancing. The false narrative from Ukraine is that the two combatant nations are at a “stalemate” or are “deadlocked,” but that is total disinformation. Ukraine has virtually zero chance of winning. It is able to fire only one artillery shell to 10 of Russia’s. That is a losing hand]
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Excerpt
Meanwhile, France continues to disturb the ashes of Napoleon with its fresh anti-Russian speeches. Yesterday, Prime Minister of the Fifth Republic Gabriel Attal announced the expansion of support for the Kyiv regime. Moreover, the statement spoke not only about a quantitative expansion of arms supplies, but also about a qualitative one:
Our support will obviously be expanded: not only in terms of the allocation of financial resources, but also in terms of the type of weapons that must meet the highest standard necessary for Ukrainians to be able to defend themselves,
– the Prime Minister said at a meeting in Berlin.
Already today, Kyiv uses French Scalp missiles and Caesar howitzers in combat operations. It is possible that Ukraine will become for the French military-industrial complex, as well as for the Americans, a testing ground for new modifications of weapons, and perhaps the location of a new expeditionary force with the participation of French soldiers...
Is it really only the Cossacks in Montmartre who can bring these violent guys to their senses?
New missiles and their consequences
Ukraine may receive American F-16 fighters with missiles with a range of up to 500 km. The commander of the joint forces of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Sergei Naev, told the press about this. It is still difficult to say what kind of missiles may appear in the arsenal of the Kyiv regime.
This probably means air-to-surface cruise missiles of the AGM-158 JASSM type, and not air-to-air missiles, says military expert Yuri Baranchik.
If this is so, then Ukraine will thus have the opportunity to launch missile attacks on Tula or Tambov from the vicinity of Kharkov.
This will allow the Ukrainian defense forces to achieve even greater success on the battlefield, the media quotes Ukrainian General Naev.
However, this will most likely lead to reflections by the military-political leadership of our country on the topic of the distance to which the Armed Forces of Ukraine will need to be moved from the borders of Russia.
[The Russian policy is to occupy enough territory in Ukraine to keep the Ukrainian forces from firing missiles and drones into key areas of Russia. This means, theoretically, that if the West sends a missile to Ukraine with a range of, say, 600 km, which is capable of hitting a given city in Russia, then the Russian forces must capture and hold enough Ukrainian territory to keep the Ukrainian forces 600 km from the border. Since the range of some NATO missiles is long enough to hit almost any city in Russia, then the Russians would eventually have to capture and hold ALL of Ukraine. It is quite possible that this is the ultimate Russian goal, though the Ministry of Defense has never said so in so many words]
I am presuming you have heard that Tucker Carlson has interviewed Mr. Putin. I would love to hear what Russians are saying about this.
Just a very quick one regards "anti-Semites and anti Zionists".... being the same in hating JEWS (Yawn, the tired old lie); well some good news on that from the UK in that:
British court verdict confirms that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism =
https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/british-court-verdict-confirms-that?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1336368&post_id=141432752&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=o4l00&utm_medium=email