US defense doctrine: destroy potential challengers but ignore defense
This doctrine is not defense and is a dangerous provocation. The antidote is the Sino-Russian idea of the multipolar world order, which is rapidly replacing US hegemony, the unipolar world order.
Here’s your daily air strike update for Jan 22, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://dzen.ru/a/Za4HCcrQA0RX_omF
On the night of 21-22, the Russian army attacked Ukrainian military facilities
Jan 22, 2024
On the night of January 21-22, the Russian Armed Forces carried out a new series of attacks on the rear areas controlled by Kyiv. Again, kamikaze drones called "Geran-2" were used, heading for the target from the Black Sea. An air raid alert was announced in the southern regions, primarily the Mykolaiv and Odesa oblasts.
According to the latest data, several explosions occurred in Odesa and the surrounding area. It is believed that Russian drones attacked the port area of the city, causing significant damage to infrastructure actively used by the Ukrainian armed forces. An attack was also carried out on the airfield and port infrastructure in the Mykolaiv region.
Subsequently, the Ukrainian authorities sounded the alarm in the territories of Dnipropetrovsk, Cherkasy, Kirovohrad and Poltava oblasts. Strikes are reported at the places where enemy troops are stationed in this city.
There is also information about a series of explosions in Konstantinovka, Donetsk People's Republic, which is still controlled by Ukrainian formations. The strikes were carried out on weapons depots and units of Ukraine, which the command was going to transfer to Chasiv Yar.
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The msn homepage this morning, Jan 22, 2024, made it look like Russia was losing in Ukraine.
Remember, however, that almost all news from the Ukraine war in the West is just a verbatim translation from the Ukrainian press, which tries desperately to portray the Ukrainian side as winning even when it is not. As long as the West continues to copy-paste Ukraine and ignore the many Russian reports, you will continue being surprised by the final outcomes.
My msn page comes up in Spanish because I am in Panama, but here is a translation of the news in English with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Russian Attacks Stall In Ukraine
Russian troops have been carrying out an intense attack on defensive positions around Avdivka (Ukraine) for months. A video recorded with a drone by the Ukrainian 110th Mechanized Brigade showed what one of the largest Russian attacks in October was like. The footage revealed Russian attack tactics, including the use of smoke bombs and armored vehicles. [They may have used smoke bombs, but the author omits reporting that they also use FAB glide bombs, which wipe out massive numbers of troops in one strike] Despite an attempt to gain a foothold at Stepove with 50 tanks and about 500 soldiers, the Russian attack failed. Ukrainian artillery successfully engages the attackers, knocking out several enemy tanks. For its part, the Russian offensive appears not to be progressing as planned. Although we do not have real-time figures on casualties, the brigade has announced the publication of a second video on the military situation after the attack.
Just after copying this text, I went back in to see if I could find it in English, even doing a search, and it had disappeared – in both languages. The Russian report below provides a clue as to why it disappeared. It was total BS made up in Ukraine and exported to our incompetent journos.
You will recall that the genocidal shelling of Donbass after 2014 came mostly from Avdiivka, the most heavily fortified stronghold in Europe. Once Russian forces break through all the fortifications and rout the Ukronazis, it is expected that the Russians will be able to get better control of the shelling of Donbass.
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://dzen.ru/a/Za4qYFJL_ms0gEPn
The Russian Armed Forces advanced overnight in Avdiivka and reached new lines of Ukrainian defense
Jan 22, 2-24
The continuation of successful offensive operations in Avdiivka by the Russian army continues. [Oh, so it didn’t stall?? Guess that’s why man pulled that “news” story] On the morning of January 22, it became known about the new results of the so-called southern advance, where as soon as the recreational complex "Tsarskaya Okhota" was taken under the control of the assault forces in the course of stubborn fighting, later the advance groups reached Chernyshevsky and Sportivnaya streets, by the end of the evening of January 21 they had safely passed them, thereby already gaining a foothold next to the building of the "Avdiivka Youth Union".
Similarly, with the achievements of the Russian side, the "gray zone" began to move, spreading to the western ends of Hrushevsky Street, partially "touching" the T-05-05 Donetsk-Avdiivka highway.
Due to the not very easy situation for the defenders, who did not expect the imminent and unexpected entry of the advanced units of the Russian Armed Forces into the city, Ukrainian units are hastily trying to erect a new line of defense next to the railway and equip fresh firing points in the private sector. However, the latter is unlikely to help to hold out for as long as they’d like, since there are no civilians here, and the Russian side will therefore not limit itself in the right to use heavy aviation or ground weapons, making maximal used of gliding FABs [massive bombs weighing 500, 1000 or 1500 kg] or thermobaric ammunition for MLRS Solntsepek. [OMG, some of the Ukrainian troops will be incinerated! https://www.newsweek.com/russia-solntsepek-tos-1a-thermobaric-weapons-launcher-1792465. A reader commented: “Let me explain some open details of the weapon.
First of all the square of the demolition is about 36 acre in all. It seems in this square all the exist troops and equipment will be destructed at 3000C. No one of underground objects have any chance to live” This may be the only weapon that can overcome the heavy fortifications at Avdiivka.]
Yesterday it became known, according to Ukrainian servicemen holding the line in the suburbs of Donetsk, that night groups of Russian special forces are already reconnoitring potential targets for front-line bombers and heavy flamethrower systems with subsequent operational destruction.
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US defense doctrine: destroy potential challengers
This doctrine, obviously, is not defense, and it is a provocation that seriously endangers world peace. The antidote is the Sino-Russian idea of the multipolar world order, which is rapidly replacing the old concept of US hegemony.
Defending US dominance (hegemony) is not defense, it is provocation, and, needless to say, provoking nuclear powers poses a threat to the US. Yet the US “defense” doctrine focuses solely on the maintenance of US hegemony.
The second runner-up in the GOP primaries after Trump is Nikki Haley, whose anti-Russia rhetoric is legendary. And Trump himself chose this loose canon as his ambassador to the UN!
That should tell you all you need to know about the people who run the show in Washington. Fortunately, Trump himself is not a Russia hater, but he surrounded himself with Russophobes, like John Bolton and the above-mentioned Haley, in the White House.
Back in September of 2022, I wrote a piece on the US defense doctrine, and I decided to give my current readers the opportunity to see it again, or for the first time in many cases. My updates are in bold and in [brackets]:
THERE IS NO ACTUALLY DEFENSIVE ARMY IN THE US-LED WEST / Air strike update for Sept 22, 2023 (substack.com)
THERE IS NO ACTUALLY DEFENSIVE ARMY IN THE US- WEST, NOT EVEN NATO
And there is no real Department of Defense. The department is dedicated to preserving hegemony, not defending anyone!
Some people might assume that NATO and the US armed forces started out with the mission of defending their respective territories and then experienced mission drift and began focusing on tightening their grip on hegemony, or world domination.
Actually, though, if we look back at the statements of the founders of these organizations, we are surprised to find that hegemony was always their focus.
It needs to be clarified that the US armed forces and NATO are not separate entities. NATO was set up by Europeans but was soon subjected to US control as a way of controlling Europe militarily and is a wholly owned subsidiary, so to speak, of the US federal government.
Therefore, we can safely consider the founders of the US armed forces to be identical to the founders of NATO and we might – mistakenly – take the original mission as set forth in the US Constitution to be the mission of NATO, except that the defense mission established in that document would, of course, be extended to all of Europe, and that mission is defined in Article 4, Section 4, to whit:
The United States shall guarantee to every state a republican form of government and shall protect each of them against invasion
That’s how it started out, but that was before mission creep. [One of] the first move[s] in the creep direction was the plan to bomb 66 Russian cities, which as you can imagine, would have been almost total genocide against the Russian people. [And this despite the fact that the Soviet Union almost single-handedly won WW II for us!]
The plan is described in minute detail here thanks to the investigative work of Michel Chossudovsky. One source I consulted claimed that the plan was just a bluff and that the fissionable material for such a massive project was not available at the time. However, the declassified documents provided by Chossudovsky make it clear that the planners were going for the jugular and would have eventually gone through with the plan. However, The Soviets developed their own bomb in 1949 and that may have been why the plan was, mercifully, scrapped.
And, [in typical American fashion], President Truman dragged God – kicking and screaming I imagine – into the question of whether genocide can be moral:
On August 9, 1945, on the day the second atomic bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, President Truman, in a radio address to the American people, concluded that God is on the side of America with regard to the use of nuclear weapons and that “He May guide us to use it [atomic bomb] in His ways and His purposes”.
This was the spiritual precursor to the idea of using genocide in Korea and Vietnam to “stop the spread of godless communism.”
The Evangelical church [but also the Catholic Church] has always been an ally of the Pentagon and has always blasphemously hidden behind God to do its dirty work.
So now, thanks to a grotesquely distorted interpretation of the Bible, the US had the excuse and the materiel for the coming mission creep that would kill millions of people around the globe.
The mission creep just kept growing like a cancer.
The newly appointed first secretary general of NATO said upon his appointment in 1952 that the purpose of the alliance was to “keep Russia out, America in and Germany down.”
Note: not a word about defense. And when NATO in 1999, bombed Belgrade which was neither a threat nor an enemy, it became crystal clear that the alliance was not defensive.
The US armed forces after WWII, also never fought in defense of the US or its allies.
And then, as if to clarify that it was not there to defend anyone, the US Defense Department adopted the so-called Wolfowitz Doctrine as its official military doctrine:
The first draft of the document was so inflammatory that it was later amended. But this first draft tells us what was on the mind of the twisted under secretary of [so-called] defense:
Our first objective is to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere, that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union. This is a dominant consideration underlying the new regional defense strategy and requires that we endeavor to prevent any hostile power from dominating a region whose resources would, under consolidated control, be sufficient to generate global power.
Again, no mention of actual defense. I see “prevent,” but the Founders did not envision preventive wars. [Since the founding of the US] It’s always been about hegemony. It’s always been about trampling on the original intent.
And now, as if to spit in the eye of the Founders, both the US and NATO have literally given away the bulk of their weapons. Instead of defending their turf, they expended their forces by instigating a war in another country and they’re still doing the prevention thing against Russia. In so doing, they have succeeded in de-industrializing Germany and hence the rest of Europe and are slowly weakening the US economy as well and encouraging the BRICS+ to de-dollarize world trade.
All of this has the ultimate consequence of destroying US and NATO defenses. Which were never defensive in the first place.
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Did you know If you oppose Israeli crimes, you are an anti-Semite?
This is part of West-think, and it is dangerous! Palestine is being wiped out due to this simplistic view of the world that dominates both the US grassroots and the Washington elites.
Nikki Haley promotes this viewpoint and is second only to Trump in the primaries. She also hates Russia. A Haley presidency is unthinkable but a LOT of Americans think she is on the money!
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Another fine essay by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson: "Guilt by Decryption", and CWG author Matt Ehret adds Part 5 to his recently posted cycle.
JAN 22
Another fine essay by Dr. T.P. Wilkinson, fully referenced for further study: "Guilt by Decryption".
Carl Jung’s Gnostic Revival, Abraxas, and the 20th Century Cult of Mithra (part 5)
Matt’s cycle has already garnered over 10,000 visitors in less than five days. What are you waiting for?
A virtuous China Writers' Group circle of knowledge and understanding: Kwan Lee introduces and shares a masterpiece by Matt Ehret. A four-course meal for the mind. Enjoy the feast!
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Our thanks to WD and RT for this:
A brilliantly researched and important article everyone with an open mind and who seeks Justice & Peace should read.
https://en.interaffairs.ru/article/russophobia-the-roots-and-the-crown/
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Israel Apartheid, Occupation & Settlers’ COLONIALISM OF PALESTINE
Israel’s War on Palestine, Day 108: Israel is systematically obliterating Gaza, section by section.
As Israeli forces surround yet another hospital in Gaza, Hamas releases a letter clarifying its motives behind the October 7 attack, reiterating the Palestinian demand for the right to self-determination.
25,295+ killed* and at least 63,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
387+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Israel revises its estimated October 7 death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
532 Israeli soldiers killed since October 7, and at least 3,221 injured.**
*This figure was confirmed by Gaza’s Ministry of Health on January 22. Some rights groups put the death toll number higher than 32,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.
UNOCHA: Only 15 bakeries still operational across Gaza, none in north.
UNOCHA: Approximately 1.7 million internally displaced people in Gaza.
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor: Israel killed 94 professors in Gaza since October 7.
Palestine Red Crescent Society: Israeli tanks near al-Amal City Hospital in Khan Younis, all contact with PRCS team in area lost.
Palestine Red Crescent Society: Israel besieges ambulance center in Khan Younis, prevents lifesaving movement.
Israeli forces destroy entire neighborhood in Khan Younis via demolition, after soldier takes selfie with explosives.
Two Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanon by Israeli drone strike.
Palestinian Ministry of Health: 190 Palesitnains killed and 34 injured in the last 48 hours.
Hamas publishes 16-page report to “clarify” background and dynamics of October 7 surprise attack.
Israelis protest outside Netanyahu home, demand return of Israeli captives.
Wall Street Journal reports Hamas fighters remain resilient and have enough ammunition to fight for months.
Israel approves the transfer of Palestinian Authority tax revenues through Norway, first time since October.
Israeli forces demolish Nasr and Abdul Qadir al-Qawasmi’s apartments in Hebron.
Gaza's Health Ministry says the Palestinian death toll in Gaza from over three months of war between Israel and the territory’s Hamas rulers has soared past 25,000. At least 178 bodies were brought to Gaza's hospitals in 24 hours along with nearly 300 wounded people, according to a Health Ministry spokesperson.
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Here is a paragraph from a newsletter sent out by Redacted’s Clayton Morris:
Civilizations and cultures are colliding again. Communist and authoritarian regimes in China, Russia, and Venezuela are teaming up with religious and secular dictatorships in North Korea, Iran, and some African nations to subvert the global order.
The same newsletter purports to be on line here 🚨 Fore! - January 22 2024 - Redacted, but It’s not the same version. Morris seems to have two personalities, one that badmouths Washington’s designated baddies and one that is more lenient toward them. Is this political?
He’s worried about China, Russia and Venezuela “teaming up with religious and secular dictatorships” but his own country is teaming up with Nazis in Ukraine and Zionazi genocidaires in the ME. And he misses the whole point of the multipolar world order, where each country is sovereign and the US has no right to interfere in anyone’s internal affairs. And that is the formula for peace. But on his video show, he interviews personalities like Douglas MacGregor, who never badmouth Russia, for example, so how many Clayton Morrises are there?
Just to set the record straight, Russia is not a dictatorship and it is not communist, so not sure how it fits into this list. All of the countries Morris lists as baddies are the movers and shakers behind the de-dollarization effort, the BRICS and the multipolar world order that is moving quickly to demolish the hegemon responsible for all major wars in the last century or so.
The above statement by Morris sounds a lot like President Milei of Argentina.
Milei is a self-proclaimed libertarian who wants to cut ties with China and replace them with ties to the US, one of the least stable economically whose wars are causing it world-record indebtedness.
Picture it: one of the poorest countries in the world refusing to trade with arguably the richest country in the world that is gaining ascendency everywhere and is successfully replacing the US dollar with its own and other local currencies in its international trade.
Are Russophobia and Sinophobia what libertarians believe in?
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Our thanks to JS for this:
We went to the ADL's Anti-Semitism Conference and Saw Palestine Activists Compared to Neo-Nazis
Anti-Semitism is indeed on the rise. So what does the Anti Defamation League focus on at their annual conference on anti-Semitism? Palestinians and “oppressed minorities.” BT's Kei Pritsker went to the ADL's conference where Palestinian activists were compared to Neo-Nazi murderers.
[Video: 16 m]
Posted by BreakThrough News, Jan 25, 2023
TRANSCRIPT EXCERPTS:
The next panel I went to was dedicated solely to whether or not criticism of Israel can be differentiated from antisemitism. On this panel the moderator came up with all kinds of scenarios where the panelists were supposed to decide whether certain criticisms of Israel were antisemitic or legitimate.
So, is it possible to not be antisemitic while criticizing Israel? Apparently not! Every single scenario presented to the panelists was called antisemitic and while I could go through each of the different scenarios the most memorable was that opposing weapons transfers to Israel was antisemitic.
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This conference was explicitly targeted at middle school and high school students who got in for free. [Its] goal is to prepare … children before they ever get to the college campus on how to deal with antisemitism and anti-Zionism in practice.
This meant that you had incredibly young people who are highly impressionable hearing this completely biased definition of antisemitism from people they saw as absolute authorities.
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In 1967, the ADL compared the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee [SNCC] to a black version of the KKK because of its support for Palestine. To this day the ADL still conditions its support for Black Liberation movements on whether or not they support Israel.
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In 2016 the ADL denounced the Black Lives Matter movement after BLM released a policy platform criticizing Israel.
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White supremacists correctly see Israel as a racist Jewish supremacist State. They celebrate the European colonization of Palestine for the same reason they celebrate Europe's conquest of the Americas, and they admire the way the state of Israel has made the indigenous Arabs a subjugated class on their own land. But for the ADL, supporting a country admired by white supremacists for being a model ethno-state is apparently not a contradiction.
Likewise Israel’s consistent support for white supremacist ethno-states also didn't seem to register as a cause for concern for the self-proclaimed antisemitism watchdog. Israel was one of the few countries in the world to recognize the legitimacy of apartheid South Africa. Initially Israel was hostile towards South Africa because so many leading figures in the South African government supported the Nazis, but it eventually got over it as Israel realized that it had far more in common with South Africa as a fellow apartheid state than they had differences.
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Israel also played a major role in arming Rhodesia the former British settler colony and apartheid state that occupied present-day Zimbabwe. While Israel publicly condemned Rhodesia, privately Israel was pouring weapons into Rhodesia in a desperate attempt to prop up the apartheid regime which like South Africa couldn't buy weapons due to international sanctions.
Israel gave Rhodesia the license to manufacture the infamous Israeli Uzi submachine gun which Rhodesians renamed the Rhuzi and exclusively sold it to its white citizens. Israel also used private companies to hide sales of Bell 205 helicopters to Rhodesia using apartheid South Africa as a supply route. These helicopters, which were being converted into gunships, were the single most important weapon in the Rhodesian government's war against African liberation fighters, and it was Israel who helped them acquire them.
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Israel still helps give cover to white supremacists outside of its own territory. In December, Israel welcomed a delegation from the Ukrainian Azov Battalion, a special forces detachment in the Ukrainian military most known for its support for Nazism.
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Israeli politicians and soldiers happily met with these antisemites. Since the war in Ukraine began, Western governments and media outlets have been working overtime to downplay the Azov Battalion's clear ties to Nazism. Instead of condemning the Western media's attempt to whitewash the Azov Battalion, the ADL obediently followed this trend by rewriting its own understanding of the Battalion.
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The fact of the matter is the ADL is nothing more than a well-funded PR campaign for a rogue apartheid state that's lost all international legitimacy. The increasingly desperate rhetoric coming from the ADL reflects an increasingly desperate situation for a country trying to maintain colonialism in a world that 1 will no longer accept it.
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Iraqi resistance targets two American bases in northern Syria – Yemen Press Agency (ypagency.net)
Iraqi resistance targets two American bases in northern Syria
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IRAQ, Jan. 22 (YPA) The Iraqi Islamic Resistance targeted with drones the American occupation forces present at the Al-Omar and Al-Shaddadi field bases in the countryside of Deir ez-Zor and Al-Hasakah, northern Syria.
The resistance said in a statement that the attack is part of support for Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in response to the massacres committed by the usurping Zionist entity against the Palestinians.
On Sunday, the Iraqi resistance targeted with missiles the American forces located at the Ain al-Asad base in Anbar Governorate, west of the country.
The US army admitted that 70 soldiers were injured as a result of attacks on its bases in Syria and Iraq.
Thanks for republishing from this end. I keep waiting for Russia to take control of Avdiivka, so we can do a celebratory show. I'm getting impatient.
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