The US has some decent dissident commentators, but most fail in foreign policy
Many Americans with above average intelligence are drawn to Americentric alernative commentators who generally make sense. But when these folks stray into foreign policy, their ignorance shows.
Air strikes in Ukraine
The following is a translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://ria.ru/20240107/ukraina-1920067535.html
1/07/2024
"The most powerful." General revealed what Russia blew up in Ukraine
General Krivonos: Ukraine lost its most powerful missiles after a strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces
Sergey Krivonos - RIA Novosti, 1920, 01/07/2024
MOSCOW, January 7 – RIA Novosti. Ukraine, as a result of a missile strike by the Russian Aerospace Forces, lost enterprises that could have produced the most powerful missiles in the country, retired General of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Sergei Krivonos said on the YouTube channel “News Factory”.
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“Our government leaks data (on the Internet - editor’s note) about enterprises that were capable of producing powerful weapons, these enterprises suffer enormous damage, and no one is responsible for this,” the expert fumed.
According to him, Kyiv officials dream only of winning elections and staying in their offices.
"What kind of victory in the war can we talk about?" - the general asked.
Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that recently 50 group and one massive strike with high-precision weapons and drones have been carried out on the territory of Ukraine. The targets were military-industrial complex facilities, military airfields, arsenals, and military locations. All designated objects were hit, the department specified.
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
North Military District news for January 7: Avdeevka is surrounded, hundreds of “two hundredths” [200 is code for KIAs] near Artemovsk, powerful incineration of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, a breakthrough of the Russian Armed Forces at Sinkovka, Kiev was denied Patriot, when the North Military District ends, a summary of military operations from the front in Ukraine, military chronicles and the latest news of the special operation on map from 01/07/2024
01/07/2024
[The headlines below show that the so-called “stalemate” or “deadlock” claimed by Kiev and spoken of in Western msm is a lie. The Russians are advancing everywhere, and on top of that, daily air strikes are demoralizing Kiev. The reason the Zelensky and Biden regimes want you to think there is a deadlock is that they are advancing the phony narrative that this war could end in a “negotiated settlement,” with Ukraine giving up some territory in exchange for a peace. It’s all predicated on the nonsense that Russia is tired of fighting and will be glad to get it over with. No, the tired side is KIEV, not Moscow. Kiev lost roughly ½ million people dead]
Encirclement of Avdeevka today: summary of military operations in the Avdeevka direction and the latest news
Fogs and rains did not help the militants: military chronicle in the Zaporozhye direction
Burning out the Armed Forces of Ukraine near Novomikhailovka: the offensive of the Russian Armed Forces in the Donetsk direction [Russia waited a long time to go on the offensive. It wisely waited until the enemy was diminished in personnel numbers and arms] 200 “two hundredths” in the Artemovsk direction: the situation at the front today [meaning: there are 200 Ukrainian KIAs in the Artemovsk area]
Terny and Yampolovka in the Krasnolimansky direction are almost ours: expert forecasts
Breakthrough at Sinkovka in the Kupyansk direction: the enemy suffered serious losses
Sacrifice to Biden in Krynki does not work: the situation in the Kherson direction
Western media: Kyiv should not count on the Patriot air defense system
Zelensky will have to wait another six months for the F-16
Focus: Putin united Russia
Encirclement of Avdeevka today: summary of military operations in the Avdeevka direction and the latest news [This is the biggest news. We recall that Avdeevka was the main stronghold from which the Ukronazis fired on civilians in the Donetsk People’s Republic starting in 2014 when the Obama regime took over the reins of power in Kiev. At that point, Ukraine lost all sovereignty because it became a US puppet and took its orders from Washington. And yet, the LYING Western media kept up a constant barrage of the lie that Ukraine was fighting for its “sovereignty.” Millions of Westerners still believe this fiction today, but the Ukrainian people – especially the men whom they are trying to conscript – no longer harbor illusions. They KNOW they are being sent to the meatgrinder to die for a corrupt home regime and a criminal foreign regime. The situation is ripe for a revolt.]
The Russian Armed Forces are putting pressure on the enemy on the flanks and are approaching the culmination of the main task in this area - the encirclement of the militant garrison in Avdeevka. Our attack aircraft were able to push out the nationalists in many directions. Here is the news from the Northern Military District from the Avdeevsky direction for January 7 reported by the Rybar Telegram channel:
“Russian troops were able to advance and strengthen positions on the northern flank at Petrovsky and along forest plantations towards Novobakhmutovka.”
According to the channel, the Russian army is pressing on the militants in the Vodyanoye area. Our army non-stop bombards militants with all possible calibers, from 120-mm mortars to FAB-500 [Aerial bombs]. “Solntsepok” are used, which incinerate militants with thermobaric munitions.
Fire support facilitates the advancement of our forces in the direction of Ocheretino, Novokalinovo, Berdychi and Petrovsky. At the same time, the militants themselves have an acute shortage of 152 and 155 mm shells. This was reported by the Spanish publication El Pais with reference to the commander of the nationalists of the 47th Mechanized Infantry Brigade. The nationalist said that the arsenals of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in Avdiivka are empty.
At the same time, Russian troops receive sufficient amounts of ammunition, because Russia has set up shell production. El Pais reports that even bread stores produce shells and quadcopters for the Russian army. Let us note that this is true: one caring owner of a bakery in Russia equipped a line for the production of shells and UAVs for the needs of the army
Map of the northeastern district in the Avdeevsk direction. Latest special operation news on the map. Source - Rybar
It is important that frosts have arrived in Ukraine. The soil has hardened, making it easier to supply the militant garrison [Ukrinian] in Avdievka. On the other hand, it will be easier for our attack aircraft to attack positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces with armored vehicles.
The Russian army focused on encircling and capturing N. villages Berdychi and Petrovskoye. If the assault operations are successful, the Ukrainian Armed Forces group in Avdeevka will find itself in an operational environment: Russian troops will take under fire control the only road along which the militants are supplied. The enemy General Staff understands this very well, so they throw all their strength into holding Berdychi. Nevertheless, our attack aircraft are advancing towards Petrovsk. The encirclement is getting closer!
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https://www.osw.waw.pl/en/publikacje/osw-commentary/2023-07-11/ukraine-face-a-demographic-catastrophe
July 11, 2023: 8.2 million people left Ukraine in first months of war.
There were 500K disabled military 2.7 million civilians,
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The following are the words and thoughts of Clayton Morris, of Redacted. I enjoy his video show a lot and usually agree with him. Clayton focuses on issues that interest most Westerners and his views are common sense, logical and reasonable for the most part. I get the impression his philosophy is libertarian-leaning, which is not disagreeable to most Westerners. He has a huge following.
Many keen observers with above average intelligence are drawn to the Clayton Morris types of commentators.
However, when these folks stray into foreign policy, they may often show a distinct Amerocentric viewpoint that looks askance on countries out of step with US government Neocon policies. On the one hand, they seem to understand the Russians and the Chinese. But on the other hand, their minds snap like rubber bands back to stereotypes, such as the following (my reactions are in the usual bold and [brackets]):
If you want to surrender your freedom to an unelected global body that wants to track your every purchase and move and let them grade your life with a score, like the brainwashed Chinese have allowed their tyrannical CCP dictatorship to do, go LIVE there.
[That struck me as really nasty for the easy-going nice guy Clayton Morris. His last three words show he thinks Chinese life is unbearable. I once made it a point to interact with the Chinese in their native language. I regularly asked them how they liked life in China and how their economy was doing. They were almost ALL enthusiastic about their country. Actually, I would LOVE to live in China. Their cities are clean and filled with amenities most Americans don’t enjoy. I often link to shows on Jeff Brown’s sites (both Jeff and I LOVE China): https://chinarising.puntopress.com/2023/12/19/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-chinese-people-with-photos-explained-china-rising-radio-sinoland-231217/
https://chinarising.puntopress.com/]
Back to Clayton:
I despise them; I despise George Soros and I can't wait for people to realize how much he is an agent of the Chinese plan to take down America, [There is only ONE country that is trying to take down America, and that is the US. Morris says his piece but doesn’t provide a single detail showing how China is trying to “take down America” or what would be the motives for doing so. I ONLY see the opposite: a Neocon-infested criminal enterprise in Washington trying to take down China and also inadvertently taking down America. Trump is one of the most important agents in this anti-China campaign, but none of these Sinophobes even TRY to explain why they hate and fear China. If Morris is able to explain his reasons for fearing China, he needs to get busy and write an article on this. But could it be he is only jumping on the Trump bandwagon to connect with more readers?] but what kind of world do we live in, when you can't trust a non-binary, pink-haired broke communist student, who thinks Osama Bin-Laden is Mother Teresa reincarnated, because enough Russian bots on Tik Tok told her as much? [What in hell is Morris talking about??]
https://redacted.inc/newsletter/road-rage-december-18-2023/
The Israeli publication Haaretz says that the IDJ has “dropped the restraint in Gaza.” It further presents the worry that this unrestrained killing will turn Israel into Russia 2.0.
[So Morris thinks Russia has no rules of warfare and just indiscriminately kills people for no reason at all? What about Ukraine, Mr. Morris? Are they the good guys?
All I can say is: Clayton Morris needs a course in Russian history and its reasons for fearing Nazism. And he needs to know that the Kiev regime commemorates the birthday of the known Nazi and Hitler collaborator Stepan Bandera. That in itself should pique his curiosity about who has been provoked and who did the provoking in Donbass, for example.
More than anything, Morris – and the average American -- needs to do an in-depth study of how the Kiev regime lies shamefully about Russia and how the US regime’s journalists unquestioningly pick up the “news” from Kiev and regurgitate it in their media – while ignoring all Russian reports – and reports these lies as Gospel truth.
Finally, I want to point out how most Trump fans have a dim view of China that is not based on facts. Broadly speaking, both parties ignore the real bread and butter issues that relate to our real lives. We have no affordable medical care, our economy is being dragged down with inflation and unemployment, to the extent that big cities have tent cities in them, with working people who live on the streets, BUT we are told that our biggest problems are foreign enemies. It is sad when major influences like Morris help spread this BS. America can never be expected to heal as long as important influencers spread nonsense.
China and Russia and Iran have stolen your job. Washington is fighting these evil countries but we need you to vote Democrat to defeat the evil Russians, or you need to vote for Trump to defeat the evil Chinese.
And then we will become great again, like we were back in … (Oh, when was that again??)]
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/rebellion666/albums/72177720313878853
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https://jpstillwater.blogspot.com/2024/01/both-economically-and-morally-israel-is.html
Both economically and morally, Israel is a failed state
Iran doesn't need to go to war with the Zionists, covering Tel Aviv with a rain of missiles and drones. It is enough that the entire world is so pissed off with Netanyahu and his immoral murderous crew that they are boycotting Israel economically.
Israel is a small country. Can it really afford to have no trading partners in China, Russia, South America, Africa and Europe? I think not. Netanyahu clearly needs to think twice before continuing to try to start a war with Iran.
In addition, if it were not for the support of AIPAC, American neo-cons and those Evil Globalist Bastards, Israel would have been bankrupt 50 years ago.
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We now have president Genocide Joe. Imagine a president Know-Nothing Nikki
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/call-for-genocide-nikki-haley-tells-netanyahu-finish-them/
Nikki Haley not only supports Israel, she literally HATES Palestinian children and wants more of them DEAD!
“I say this to Prime Minister (Benjamin) Netanyahu: Finish them. Finish them. Hamas did this. You know Iran is behind it. Finish them.”
‘Call for Genocide’
Palestinian author and journalist, Ramzy Baroud has described Haley’s comments as “an outright call for genocide.”
“Haley epitomizes the stereotypical politician, who would not mind igniting wars to rise to the top,” he said, and “here she smells an opportunity to rally rightwing extremists in the US behind her, purely for political reasons.”
“But to call on Netanyahu to carry out blatant genocide against Palestinians in the besieged, impoverished and most crowded region in the world, is horrific beyond belief,” he added.
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No, Mr. Netanyahu, the REAL animals are NOT the Palestinians, they’re YOU and YOUR men!
Israeli soldiers torture and humiliate female and male Gazan prisoners
Remember, the crimes against humanity of Hitler’s henchmen and henchladies in the concentration camps were all hushed up, censored in the press. The world did NOT see photos of the torture and killing.
But the whole world has seen photos and videos of the horrors perpetrated by the Israeli ghouls and the world now stands for Palestine. This is a trend and it’s irreversible.
Only a minority of fanatical pro-Israel (eg, “Christian” Zionist) nutjobs and politicians in the US and UK continue to spew their poisonous slogan “I stand with Israel.”
https://israelpalestinenews.org/israels-torture-and-humiliation-of-female-and-male-gazan-prisoners/
“Female prisoners were transported in cages, subjected to strip searches, left without covers, and forced to sleep on the bare floor
“Their clothes were stained with blood. Most were bleeding from their hands, as the plastic ties had been tightly tied around their wrists for days
“An 80-year-old woman who suffers from Alzheimers and a pregnant woman were deprived of medical care.”
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Israeli soldiers subjected male prisoners to electric shocks, burned their skin with lighters, spat in their mouths, and deprived them of sleep, food, and access to bathrooms until they defecated on themselves
Many were tied to a fence for hours, handcuffed, and blindfolded for most of the day
Some testified to having been beaten all over their bodies and having cigarettes extinguished on their necks or backs
Several people are known to have died as a result of being held in these conditions
Two articles below:
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https://israelpalestinenews.org/children-gaza-dying-every-way-possible-day-91/
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Sorry, I can’t supply the URL of this excerpt. The FBI is in the business of censoring Middle Eastern web sites that differ too radically from what you are allowed to know. You have a right to read this, but your government hates freedom of communication, and it hates the Constitution.
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
After the closure of Bab al-Mandab, there was a 50% increase in the cost of shipping from Asia to Israel
After the start of the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7 and its economic repercussions, which placed an additional burden on the Zionist economy, and the war expenses were estimated at 200 billion shekels, the decline in purchasing power, the increase in banks’ allocations for credit losses seven-fold, and the damage to the construction and high-technology sectors. The Yemeni armed forces carried out military operations against Zionist ships in the Red Sea to constitute an additional challenge in terms of the financial and economic burdens of the occupying entity, which has a single port on the Red Sea at “Eilat” (Umm al-Rashrash). This port is considered one of the most important vital interests of the entity, and it is the largest port for importing cars, as 44% of all vehicles arriving in Israel go there.
While experts have estimated that the Yemeni threats led to an increase in the prices of various goods, including basic food supplies, in the occupation entity [Many Arab writers refuse to use the word “Israel”], due to the scarcity of goods in the market resulting from the high cost of sea freight, including risk insurance, alternatives to sea freight are very expensive and the Israeli economy cannot afford them at all long-term. According to El Shachem, vice president of international shipping at the Israeli company UPS, “there is an increase of between 40% and 50% in sailing and shipping prices from Asia to Israel,” adding that “most shipping companies have already announced that they will unload the goods in European ports and then transport them on smaller ships to Israel, which will also increase costs,” he explained, explaining that “consumers may not feel this yet, but shipping companies will pass this cost on to the consumer.” Describing the Yemeni army’s attacks in the Red Sea as “The tsunami wave began in Bab al-Mandab and will reach Israel.” The volume of imports coming from the East to the entity [Israel] is about 350 billion shekels, equivalent to 95 billion dollars annually, and it is expected that the Yemeni blockade in the Red Sea will raise this number by 3 percent, or approximately three billion dollars, added to the initial cost before the siege.
The Zionist National Security Center predicted in one of its studies in 2021 that Yemen would attack Zionist ships in the Red Sea, restricting them, and the impact this would have on the occupying entity’s large and important commercial relations with China, according to researcher Muhammad Hassan Suwaidan, who quoted data published by the Zionist shipping company to track Freighters: Shipping costs from China to the Israeli port of Ashdod increased by 9-14 percent in the last two weeks of October. According to the company’s head of research, Judah Levin, the increase in shipping costs between Israeli ports and China after the outbreak of war “is already affecting all goods arriving in Israel from China, the prices of which have begun to rise.” The importance of this rise comes from the fact that China is currently Israel's largest trading partner overseas, as the percentage of Israeli imports from China via sea exclusively reaches 20% of Israel's total sea imports. Hence, it can be said that what Yemen is doing today in terms of preventing ships heading to the entity from passing through the Bab al-Mandab Strait constitutes a threat to Israeli national security.
The Al-Aqsa Flood operation brought about a series of regional and global changes, and the Yemeni engagement - like the Iraqi and Lebanese military engagement - had economic repercussions on the occupying entity that prompted it to take measures with the aim of mitigating them. These measures are consistent with the aspirations of some countries with which it is affiliated to establish strong economic and political relations. Yemeni military targeting in the Red Sea is limited to Zionist ships and those whose commercial activities are shared with the occupying entity, and does not intend, by any means, to harm any Arab country or coastal state in the Red Sea as long as it does not target Yemen with military action on land or sea, and the Yemeni government is betting on implementing this. The Western, American and Zionist presence in the Red Sea and the region is an explosive and weakening factor for it, and any additional military escalation in the Red Sea will increase the economic, military and political pressure on the occupying entity, which is what the United States is working to prevent while hoping not be drawn into scenarios that tighten the siege on the Zionists or create subsequent political and military complications stimulate the entry of new parties into the existing confrontation.
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Saturday 06 January 2024
Israeli assassinations: elements of success and failure to achieve goals
In a series of 4 episodes shown earlier by the Hebrew Channel 13, about the history and feasibility of the policy of assassinations, it is stated that the entity is “the only country in which the prime minister orders the execution of a person without it being reported back to anyone or whose decision is supervised by a parliamentary oversight committee.” In this context, the series talked about the slogan “Israel’s long hand,” on which assassinations have been based since the establishment of the occupying entity. The series concludes by saying that these assassinations were nothing but the birth of new [enemy] leaders who are more influential and powerful. In addition, it constitutes damage to the entity’s image in international opinion.
Therefore, assassination crimes are part of the Israeli security strategy, and they gained momentum with the establishment of “Israel” in 1948, as its history was filled with massacres and liquidations that targeted many Palestinian leaders and opponents of the Zionist project at home and abroad. In this report, we present the elements and backgrounds of the Israeli security success, which aims to achieve the direct goal of security work, and complicate the paths of progress of the factions, whether at the level of accumulation of deterrence or strength, in addition to targeting the popular incubator of resistance.
Elements of security success:
- Agents: Agents are very active in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank due to the ease of recruitment as a result of the proximity between their residents and the entity, and as a result of the pressure exerted by the enemy on them, either through threats or money, etc. Therefore, agents greatly assist the entity by communicating information regarding resistance movements to it.
- Reconnaissance aircraft and drones: These means capture the movements of factions in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank through photographic and video techniques, in addition to wire and wireless eavesdropping devices.
- Cyber: The temporary entity possesses an advanced cyber system, through which it works to penetrate all electronic devices, which allows it to obtain the necessary information about the factions and their movements.
- Security teams: Through controlled infiltration operations, the entity, through its specialized security teams, penetrates the incubating factions in the West Bank and Gaza in order to directly detect actions and movements.
- Eavesdropping: Through many advanced means connected either to warplanes, drones, naval battleships, or other technological means, the entity seeks, through all of the above, to collect sufficient information for itself through eavesdropping and sensor devices.
Background of security success:
Based on the above, the backgrounds for Israeli security success can be determined as follows:
- Advanced intelligence services.
- The narrow geographical area in which the factions are located in Gaza and the West Bank makes it difficult to conceal their movements well.
- The difficulty of movement among the factions as a result of the almost permanent Israeli surveillance, relying on the methods mentioned above.
- High-level coordination between the enemy’s army and intelligence services, accumulating targets in the information bank and relying heavily on the intersection of abundantly available information.
Evaluation
Given the course of the ongoing conflict between the resistance factions in the Gaza Strip and the interim entity [I think this term means that the author and all right-thinking Arabs expects Israel eventually to disappear], the latter carried out many security actions, the most prominent of which were the assassinations of faction leaders. The enemy carried out these assassinations based on its assessment that the assassinated figure was the one posing the threat to the entity, which means that getting rid of him would deter the factions from moving against the entity. However, after each faction leader is assassinated, another person takes his place to complete what the one before him started, and the occupation resumes the assassination by killing the new person. Examples of this are many, including the assassination of the leader “Bahaa or Al-Atta,” and after him. Commander Tayseer Al-Jaabari, and today the assassination of Sheikh Saleh Al-Arouri, but none of these security operations exhausted the resistance factions in terms of the renewed human cadre after each operation.
Therefore, the objectives of this operation were achieved in terms of assassinating the targeted person, but the resistance has proven in the past and present, which confirms what will happen in the future, that security actions will not stop its movements and accumulation of power or dissuade it from the conflict, and therefore the security actions of the temporary entity are ineffective in affecting the paths of conflict
Therefore, based on the goals expected to be achieved as a result of the security actions, the enemy only achieved the direct goal of the operation (assassination), while the paths of progress of the factions and the accumulation of deterrence and strength remained in place, and the behavior of the factions was not changed as they continued to respond to the enemy’s operations under a popular incubator. A supporter whose steadfastness increases after every assassination and targeting.
Writer: Editorial room
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Thanks again. Just one comment.. where you state the following:
"More than anything, Morris – and the average American -- needs to do an in-depth study of how the Kiev regime lies shamefully about Russia and how the US regime’s journalists unquestioningly pick up the “news” from Kiev and regurgitate it in their media – while ignoring all Russian reports – and reports these lies as Gospel truth." ...
Mainly regards the statement that "Kiev regime lies shamefully" ... Kiev are puppets, BBC Media Action seem to be in charge, see what you think .. the pre-written stories go into the whole "Western World"; especially those from the 5 eyes, and all "allies as well".
https://www.ukcolumn.org/search?keywords=BBC+Media+Action