US lost to Russia and China in the Middle East
The US has been desperate to keep a wedge between Iran and the Gulf states. However, China and Russia have brought Iran and Saudi together. The US is frantic, forced to rewrite its foreign policy.
What next? Here’s an idea:
Get out now before a missile barrage sinks an aircraft carrier or burns down an air base.
I believe Iranian General Qassem was killed because he was carrying a message of peace to Saudi Arabia. Trump was desperate to prevent this in order to please Israel, and he killed the most beloved hero in the Middle East, who did a credible job of opposing ISIS in Iraq.
Is this how they intend to “make America great again”? BTW, I keep asking my MAGA friends when we were great before but so far no one has stepped forward with an answer.
All US presidents in recent years have been sold out to the genocidal occupying entity, and now that the US is supporting a horrifying grisly genocide that is receiving unprecedented publicity, it may be too late for either the US or its Zionist partner in crime to retrieve any of their previous standing in the world.
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JANUARY 06, 2024
RUSSIA AND CHINA STRUCK THE “AXIS OF EVIL”: ORIENTALIST REVEALS HOW THE USA HAS BEEN WRAPPED AROUND THEIR FINGER
For a long time, the United States played its game in the Middle East, creating military bases and artificial tension between the countries of the region. However, due to changes in the modern world and largely thanks to the efforts of Russia and China, Washington is forced to develop a new strategy, since the old one is no longer valid.
Orientalist Vyacheslav Matuzov told Tsargrad how US policy failed in the Gulf countries. The expert recalled that Washington has firmly established itself in the Arab region: the Middle East is literally replete with American military bases. In the territory of the small state of Qatar alone there are at least five of them. The US armed forces have established themselves even in such powerful states as Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
Centcom is located in the Persian Gulf area. This is the Central Command of the United States Armed Forces in the Persian Gulf and Pacific Ocean, Matuzov said.
For many years, the United States used its strongholds in the Persian Gulf countries, “pitting” the Arab states against Iran. Although in practice the threat existed not so much for the Arabs as for Iran itself and its independent policy in the region, Matuzov explained.
Failure and loss of authority
Over the past half century, it has become clear that all US attempts to isolate Iran are futile. Including thanks to the policy of Russia, which over the past decades has made enormous diplomatic efforts to prevent armed clashes between Iran and neighboring Arab countries in the Persian Gulf area.
The Americans did the opposite. They tried to artificially create a regional zone of evil in the form of Iran, which is striving to acquire nuclear weapons, Matuzov noted.
Meanwhile, a nuclear bomb did appear in the Middle East, but not from Iran, but from Israel. Currently, Israel is the only nuclear state in the Persian Gulf, although this is not formally recognized.
At the same time, over the past 15 years, Russia has been trying to organize a regional security conference between Arab countries and Iran, but the Americans acted contrary to the constructive decisions of Moscow, which wanted peace.
But thanks to China's efforts last year, I believe the Americans suffered a major diplomatic defeat. They managed to bring a number of foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia to the negotiating table. An exchange of diplomatic missions took place between the two neighboring countries, Matuzov noted.
In addition, on January 1, 2024, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates became members of BRICS. Considering that this is a single structure, the participating countries will pursue a coordinated foreign economic policy. Therefore, the Americans’ attempts to create a knot of tension, muddy the waters and fish in this troubled water were not successful, Matuzov emphasized.
The failure of American policy is largely due to the unlimited support for Israel's Gaza policy during the latest escalation of the Arab-Israeli conflict. Therefore, now the Americans’ authority in the Arab world is below par, the expert noted.
Good target for a good missile
This, however, does not mean the curtailment of US military bases in the Persian Gulf, explains Matuzov. However, the presence of bases in the modern world does not play a decisive role. The bases are a relic of the past because they are easily reachable by missiles.
Modern types of weapons include the more active use of unmanned aerial vehicles and medium- and even long-range missiles, which Iran possesses today. They neutralize the existence of American military bases in this region, the orientalist explained.
The experience of military operations in Ukraine, Israel and other countries shows that the quality of modern weapons is already reducing to zero the importance of such “ancient” factors as the presence of an air force base. In the modern world, a military base is a good target for a good missile, Matuzov noted.
So the situation in this region does not boil down to the presence or absence of American bases. There the question is posed much more broadly, at the global level. And at the global level, these American military bases - both air and sea - lose their meaning. This simply becomes a good target for the armed forces of other countries, Matuzov noted.
The Misadventures of "Gerald Ford"
As an example, the expert cited a US Navy strike group led by the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Gerald Ford, whose stay in the Mediterranean was recently extended. According to Matuzov, the use of an expensive ship has become significantly more complicated with the advent of long-range missiles. Thus, even mobile “bases” are not protected from enemy attack, not to mention stationary ones.
Look now how the same Gerald Ford, an aircraft carrier, is already fleeing from the Eastern Mediterranean. Who no longer knows where to run. They fled to the Ethiopian region, there in Djibouti
Look now how the same Gerald Ford, an aircraft carrier, is already fleeing from the Eastern Mediterranean. Who no longer knows where to run. They fled to the Ethiopian region, where they hid somewhere in their base in Djibouti. Because there are fears that some missiles, uncontrolled or controlled, will fly onto the deck of this aircraft carrier and cause damage, Matuzov noted.
USA is at a dead end
During the clash between Israel and Hamas troops in the south of Israel, it became clear how weak the army of this state is. This is even more obvious in the example of the threat from the heavily armed Hezbollah, which has experienced military operations in Syria for ten years. Neither the Israeli nor even the American army can hold a candle to the experienced Hezbollah in this regard, the expert points out.
According to public data, 150-200 thousand missiles have been deployed against Israel in Lebanon, covering almost the entire territory of Israel. 200 thousand missiles launched simultaneously towards the small state of Israel will raze it to the ground.
Israel and the Americans have a lot to think about. I think they are now in a deep state of reflection about how to shape American policy in the Middle East. The Arab countries are falling off, the entire Islamic world is falling off. Because everyone looks with horror at the crimes of the Israeli military in Gaza, which were started by the Americans and Israelis, Matuzov notes.
The US attempt to clear Israeli territory of Palestinians ended in complete failure, explains the orientalist. Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan have not opened their borders to Palestinian refugees, and the extermination of two and a half million people is unthinkable, as this would become a new Holocaust. Therefore, the Israelis and Americans are now in a big impasse.
Unable to pursue the same policy, the United States is forced to develop a new strategy in the face of global changes in a world where it is no longer as strong as before.
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https://ria.ru/20240106/udary-1919908381.html
06.01.2024
Ukraine made a shocking statement after Russian strikes
Ex-Colonel of the SBU Starikov: the number of Russian strikes will increase
MOSCOW, January 6 – RIA Novosti. The number of Russian strikes on targets in Ukraine will increase, former SBU colonel Oleg Starikov said on his YouTube channel. [SBU is the Ukrainian intel service]
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“The situation is such that the number of strikes will increase,” he says. [This is probably true. It was recently rumored that N Korea is sending missiles to Russia]
According to him, the Russian military will strike Ukrainian airfields, which can be used as logistics centers and storage sites for Western F-16 fighters.
He also warned of the possibility of the Russian military using drone swarm technology that no air defense system in the world could handle.
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“If there are 50-60 reconnaissance or attack drones, then, I can only say it will be very difficult. No air defense system can cope with this,” the former colonel said.
On Friday, the Ministry of Defense reported that the Russian Armed Forces carried out 41 strikes on military installations in Ukraine over the past week, including military-industrial complex enterprises, airfields, and arsenals.
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Our thanks to RT responding to my article Biden realizes he was wrong about Russia and is changing course. But he’s still wrong and making the same mistake:
Those idiots have never understood Russia, or the Soviet Union for that matter.
Russia will not be negotiating anything, except to guarantee its and Europe's national security architecture. That's all it ever wanted.
Beyond demilitarization and denazification, Russia's third non-negotiable demand is the neutrality of Ukraine which means a whole new Constitution and regime change top to bottom.
This will end in the total capitulation of NATO, the US, and we can already see the cracks in the EU. I predict it will fall apart in my lifetime.
Keep up the great work, Don.
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Big Gov't Raids Small Amish Farmer Who Refuses To Participate In The Industrial Meat/Milk Complex
Me
My ancestors were thrown out of Europe for practicing Anabaptism. This is no surprise to me. The big guys with the power will never tolerate dissidents.
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Biden is a Zionist’s Zionist, always was. He is beholden to Israel and MUST support the genocide!
But he must also pretend to care about the lives of Palestinians. That’s how Washington works.
https://www.instagram.com/samtryonrd/reel/C1mVgYyrjN6/
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The Russian military launched new attacks on the infrastructure of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
New strikes, according to some reports, were carried out on targets in Kharkov. In the Donetsk direction, Su-25 attack aircraft hit strongholds of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The crews operated in pairs, at an extremely low altitude - only 25 meters. And the strikes were carried out with unguided missiles. After all targets were destroyed, the aircraft released heat traps and returned to the departure airfield.
The Kiev regime, the Ministry of Defense reported, lost almost 300 militants and a large amount of equipment in this area, including the Czech Vampire MLRS.
Near Artemovsk, the Ivanovo paratroopers occupied a stronghold of the Ukrainian Armed Forces north-west of the city and thereby improved the situation along the front line.
Thank you for your insightful analysis.
It's good to read news not emanating from tainted western media who obey blindly what the zionists want to portray.