US military steals from the Arabs to give to the Kurds – on behalf of Israel
I always used to think that the US military’s anti-terror cooperation with the Kurds was taking place in Kurdish territory. Wouldn't you think so?
The US often uses terms like “regional allies” when referring to local groups in countries that it occupies. These groups include the Syrian Kurds.
But the language used to describe US relations with the Kurds is misleading.
The term “regional ally” strongly suggests that the cooperation with this group is taking place in the region normally occupied by said group.
However, in the case of the Kurds, this is not true and there is no attempt to clarify in the media.
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The US has snookered the entire world, suggesting that the oil fields of Deir Ezzor (spelled Dayr Ezzawr here) are in Kurdish territory. This is untrue, as you can see from the map. Dayr Ezzawr is about 100 km to the south of the southern border of Syrian Kurdistan.
Of course, news media and public officials may never have lied outright that the oil fields of Al Omar are Kurdish territory, but we often hear government officials and journalists claiming that the US military sometimes partners with regional or local people. A typical example from a Trump era issue of VOA:
https://www.voanews.com/a/us-military-syria-presence/4332317.html
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders: while U.S. forces have made significant progress, the time is coming for regional partners to take on a greater role against IS and other regional threats and to “put more skin in the game.”
The cooperation with the Kurds takes place in an area inhabited by other tribes, and the transfer of these Kurds to Deir Ezzor, the site of the richest oil fields – the Omar fields – gives the Kurds riches belonging firstly to the Syrian Arab Republic and secondly to the tribes that reside in the area surrounding these oil fields.
Thus, the US has arbitrarily chosen an ethnic group from another region to bestow on them the resources to which they have no legitimate claim. It is a slap in the face firstly to all of the SAR and secondly to the local Arab tribes native to the region around Deir Ezzor. Legally, the resources on their land are theirs.
And BTW, the Kurds are not even Arabs, they are an Iranic ethnic group related to the Iranians and their mother tongue is a Persian language. This is not to say that they don’t belong in Syria, but for the US to make the Kurds their “regional ally” in a region that is 100 km to the south of their own, ie, Kurdistan, snubbing the natives of the Deir Ezzor region, must certainly be perceived as abusive and insensitive by the true inhabitants of that region
So why the Kurds?
Perhaps it is because the Kurds are something of an outcast among Arabs and this fact makes them more likely to be loyal to their US masters.
But more than anything else, the Israeli project of Greater Israel as envisioned in the Yinon Plan that informs the US-Israeli alliance’s military and political operations in the region, calls for large neighboring countries that could conceivably pose a challenge to Israel’s ambition to be broken up – by religion, language and/or culture – into bite-size chunks that can be easily manhandled by the genocidal murderous Israeli regime. A cursory look at what the US-backed and -armed IDF is doing in Gaza, West Bank, parts of Lebanon and Syria today gives us a sufficiently accurate picture of what the natives of Middle Eastern regions targeted for break-up can expect.
The Kurds, however, enjoy a privileged position since they are the tools with which the plan is to be implemented.
It is alarming that most of the powerful Arab and Muslim countries of the world are content to merely utter warnings and condemnations and nothing else with relation to the Israeli barbarism. Unless the Arabs and Muslims can succeed in breaking out of the subservient colonial mentality that holds them in thrall, they will most assuredly reap what they have sown with their indolence and refusal to fight.
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Here’s your air strike update for Jan 16, 2024
Search phrases for those who want to do their own research:
EN phrase for translation: Dec 16, 2024, russian missiles, drones, bombs hit Ukraine
Translated into RU: 16 декабря, 2024, российские ракеты, беспилотники, бомбы поражают Украину
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
We now return to the daily summary of our military ministry. Fighters of the "East" group of forces in the area of Vremivka, Zelenoe Pole and Razliv struck units of three Ukrainian brigades, burned a German Leopard tank, several units of light armored vehicles and an American M-777 howitzer.
The Ministry of Defense also reported strikes on military airfields, concentrations of enemy personnel and equipment in 133 districts.
More than half a thousand occupiers and equipment, including NATO, were eliminated in the Kursk border area.
And this footage shows the terrible confessions of a captured militant. A criminal convicted of murder, rape and robbery was taken into service from prison. They promised to expunge the conviction and restore the respect of Ukrainian society. He worked as best he could.
"I changed into a Russian military uniform. I approached the Russian positions with the pretext "Give me a cigarette", asked to push the car. The guys got out. I dealt with them, shot them. The command said that if civilians were caught not speaking Ukrainian, to deal with them on the spot. I shot, he fell, but I didn’t see, whether he was killed or not, I don’t know,” says prisoner of war Artur Plombirus.
[This behavior suggests criminal insanity. But the most important observation is the attitude of the government, which shows a true spirit of Nazism, ie, extreme nationalism with hatred of another nationality to the point of murder.]
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Large-scale attack 12/16/2024: Russian strikes on Ukraine and response for Grozny
Author: Evgeniy Poddubny
09:04, December 16, 2024
The morning of December 16 began with a large-scale air attack organized by the Russian armed forces on enemy positions in Ukraine. Waves of Geran-type attack drones took off at night, but the active phase began at dawn. Explosions were recorded in Kharkiv and Sumy, as well as in the adjacent regions, where, according to intelligence, significant enemy reserves are concentrated.
Chronology of strikes
The first wave of Gerans was spotted over the Sumy region at about 22:00 on December 15. From that moment until the early morning, the raids continued, accompanied by pinpoint strikes by missile troops and aviation.
At 6:20, explosions thundered in Kharkiv. Several hits were reported in the suburbs, but Ukrainian officials have declined to comment.
According to the monitoring channel Khroniki geranei [Chronicles of Gerans], attack drones came in waves, hitting pre-reconnoitered targets. In the Sumy region, powerful explosions were recorded in areas where, according to intelligence, reserves of the Armed Forces of Ukraine are concentrated.
In Kharkov, strikes hit objects located in the Kievsky district of the city.
Response to the attack in Grozny [Chechnya]
Particular attention on this day was focused on the actions in response to the attack on strategic objects in the Chechen Republic. On December 15, Ukrainian forces struck the OMON base "Akhmat-Grozny" in the capital of the republic. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that the response was immediate. According to him, operational data on the location of large concentrations of enemy manpower was transmitted for the strike.
The day before, Iskander high-precision missiles were used against a facility in Kharkov, where units of the 82nd separate airborne assault brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces were based. It was reported that about 200 enemy servicemen were killed. Kadyrov emphasized that retaliatory strikes would continue until the enemy ceases its attempts to attack Russian territory.
The Ukrainian side continues to hide the consequences of Russian strikes, filling the information space with news about "misses" or completely ignoring the scale of destruction. Analysts from the channel Khroniki Geranei" point out that despite two accurate hits by Iskanders in Kharkov, the Ukrainian authorities tried to minimize the importance of the incident, reporting only on a "fire" without mentioning victims and destruction.
Major strikes during the day
According to monitoring channels, during the day, Russian troops launched strikes in the following areas:
Sumy region: a series of explosions using guided aerial bombs and drones.
Kharkiv: night and morning strikes, including rocket attacks and the use of UAVs.
Donetsk Oblast: air and artillery strikes on enemy targets.
Zaporizhia Oblast: explosions caused by the use of guided aerial bombs.
Kyiv: night raid by "Gerans".
Chernihiv Oblast: hitting targets in the Koryukovka area.
December 16 was the day of massive attacks on key enemy targets. The main goal was to damage the reserves and infrastructure of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, which is confirmed by the use of high-precision weapons and coordinated tactics of the Aerospace Forces and missile forces.
Strikes on Ukrainian positions were a response to provocations, such as attacks on strategic facilities in Taganrog and Grozny. On this day, Russian forces demonstrated their ability to quickly respond to threats and effectively use intelligence data to carry out pinpoint strikes.
The ongoing escalation of the conflict against the backdrop of deteriorating weather conditions suggests that the parties are preparing for prolonged operations even in difficult weather conditions. The Russian military response, officials say, will only intensify.
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https://www.commondreams.org/news/economic-impact-of-mass-deportation
Congressional Report Calls Trump Deportation Plan 'Catastrophic' for Economy
"All it will do is raise grocery prices, destroy jobs, and shrink the economy," JEC Chair Martin Heinrich said of the president-elect's plan to deport millions of immigrants.
Jessica Corbett
Dec 12, 2024
Echoing recent warnings from economists, business leaders, news reporting, and immigrant rights groups, Democrats on the congressional Joint Economic Committee detailed Thursday how President-elect Donald Trump's planned mass deportations "would deliver a catastrophic blow to the U.S. economy."
"Though the U.S. immigration system remains broken, immigrants are crucial to growing the labor force and supporting economic output," states the new report from JEC Democrats. "Immigrants have helped expand the labor supply, pay nearly $580 billion a year in taxes, possess a spending power of $1.6 trillion a year, and just last year contributed close to $50 billion each in personal income and consumer spending."
There are an estimated 11.7 million undocumented immigrants in the United States, and Trump—who is set to be sworn in next month—has even suggested he would deport children who are American citizens with their parents who are not and attempt to end birthright citizenship.
Citing recent research by the American Immigration Council and the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the JEC report warns that depending on how many immigrants are forced out of the country, Trump's deportations could:
Reduce real gross domestic product (GDP) by as much as 7.4% by 2028;
Reduce the supply of workers for key industries, including by up to 225,000 workers in agriculture and 1.5 million workers in construction;
Push prices up to 9.1% higher by 2028; and
Cost 44,000 U.S.-born workers their jobs for every half a million immigrants who are removed from the labor force.
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CHRISTIANS IN IRAQ AND SYRIA
Sir, - The contrast between the treatment of Christians in Iraq and in Syria was well outlined on pages 1 and 2 of BCN issue 387 and certainly proves that what the alternative media have been saying during the years of conflict in these two countries is absolutely correct. While the decimated Christian population of Iraq now looks back fondly to the days of Saddam Hussein because they were free to worship and because they thrived economically owing to his intolerance of sectarianism, in Syria by contrast it is the religious tolerance of the secular government of President Bashar Assad that has enabled the “steady stream of Christians” to return to their country in the knowledge that they will not be persecuted there.
Let us remember the real reason for this stark contrast: it was America and its allies who illegally destroyed Iraq, ousting and eventually killing Saddam Hussein in cold blood, under the false pretences of his possession and intention to use weapons of mass destruction; but America has ignominiously failed in its attempt at regime change in Syria, and so, thanks to the Russian help requested by Bashar Assad, freedom of religion prevails there.
In the same regard we should point to the stark contrast between Syria and another of the West’s regime change victims – Afghanistan. The Afghan mess, resulting from Washington’s inept politics, stands in complete contrast to the current good news of the return of more than 25,000 refugees to Syria, which Russian help has been instrumental in liberating from the ISIS terrorism that resulted from failed US policies in Iraq.1
The Afghan situation further proves that Washington’s so-called ‘war on terror’ (a euphemism for ‘regime change politics’), subserviently supported by the US mainstream media, has been an utter disaster, while Moscow’s active involvement in Syria in support of the lawful government of President Assad has been an outstanding success.
In 2015 US President Barack Obama and the Western media predicted that Russia’s decision to send military staff and equipment to Syria to support President Assad against ISIS terrorism was “doomed to fail” and that President Putin would “get stuck in a quagmire”.2 Now the very opposite has proved true: Russian military assistance to the Syrian army has achieved a resounding success in destroying ISIS and liberating virtually the whole country. Washington’s obsession with attempting to remove President Assad has proved to be a dismal failure and it is America itself that has been almost completely ousted from Syria and has become bogged down indefinitely in the quagmire that it has created in Afghanistan.3
Professor Arthur Noble
Belfast
1 https://russia-insider.com/en/politics/dmitry-orlov-us-intelligence-community-tearing-country-apart-inside/ri24324 2 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/09/russia-continue-supply-arms-syria-assad-150911100637986.html; https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/02/politics/president-obama-syria-russia-assad/index.html 3 See also Peter Korzun: “Two years in Syria: A success story of the Russian military” ; https://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2017/10/01/two-years-in-syria-success-story-of-russian-military.html
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The Yemeni issue Dotting I’s and Crossing T’s With Nasser Kandil – Dec 14, 2024
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Bernie Sanders:
Oligarchs OWN our government
Your vote means nothing
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Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://ria.ru/20241216/ekonomika-1989361216.html
07:19 16.12.2024 (updated: 15:08 16.12.2024)
"A terrifying scenario": the point of no return that awaits Germany has been named
Bloomberg: Germany's economy is close to the point of no return
MOSCOW, December 16 — RIA Novosti. Germany's economic potential indicators have fallen below the pre-pandemic period, the country is approaching the point of no return, Bloomberg reports, citing analysts' calculations.
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"After five years of stagnation, the German economy is now five percent smaller than it would have been if the pre-pandemic growth trend had continued," the article says.
Among the main reasons for what is happening, analysts cite the rejection of cheap Russian energy resources [Hey, guys! This is the first time I have read this true confession in a mainstream media outlet. Normally, msm completely ignore the fact that the lack of Russian fuel has hamstrung the German economy. Something is happening in the Establishment], as well as the poor state of affairs of German automobile concerns, which are forced to compete with Chinese automakers.
As noted, most of the deficit caused by these structural changes will be difficult to make up due to the declining competitiveness of the country's economy. [Not true. The easiest thing in the world would be for divers to go down and weld those sabotaged pipes together again, filling in with a patch if necessary. Russia would just turn on the gas again. Of course, the liars in media and politics have falsely maintained for years that the Russians are refusing to turn on the gas]
"The decline in national competitiveness means that each household is worse off by about 2,500 euros per year," the article notes.
According to Amy Webb, head of the Future Today Institute, which advises German companies on strategy and development, this trend poses the most serious threat, as it affects not only Germany, but the entire European Union.
"Germany will not collapse overnight. That's what makes this scenario so terrifying. It's a very slow, very drawn-out decline. Not of a company, not of a city, but of the entire country and Europe along with it," [I had written before that Biden had destroyed a continent when he blew up the Nord Stream] the agency quotes her as saying.
Germany has been in stagnation for five years now. This year, the country's GDP adjusted for inflation will shrink by 0.1%, according to the economic development forecast of the German Institute of Economics.
According to a study by YouGov, the vast majority of Germans are dissatisfied with the economic situation in the country, rating it as "bad." However, few expect the situation to improve in the coming decades.
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Translation from Arabic with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
https://alkhanadeq.org.lb/post/8032/القادة-الجدد-لسوريا-قلوب-شتى
Saturday, December 14, 2024 01:25
Syria's New Leaders: Different Hearts
Armed Groups in Syria
The war on Syria since 2011 has always been marked by competitive, exclusionary conflicts between armed groups - the new rulers - due to the fact that these groups are a mixture of complex alliances, rivalries, and the influence of foreign countries with different projects and interests, but under the umbrella of the interests of successive American administrations, such that the only common denominator between them was the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad's rule.
Therefore, it is inevitable that this temporary gathering point after the departure of President Assad will quickly fade away, due to the diverse international affiliations and major ideological, political, and strategic differences, to be replaced by a scenario very similar to what happened in Libya as a result of the fall of Muammar Gaddafi's rule.
Among these groups, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a former al-Qaeda affiliate under the name Jabhat al-Nusra, stands out as a powerful and polarizing force that has itself been subject to many internal conflicts and has fought many conflicts with other groups in the Idlib and Aleppo regions. Although the group has tried to distance itself from its past in the Wahhabi terrorist organizations al-Qaeda and ISIS, it remains a group with deep ideological differences with many other armed groups. The so-called “Syrian opposition” is a highly fragmented mix, including secular, Salafist, tribal, and Kurdish groups, often operating under competing international backing with different agendas. For example, Turkish-backed groups such as the “Syrian National Army” are heavily influenced by Ankara’s geopolitical priorities. Islamist groups and the remnants of the Free Syrian Army seek to balance governance with religious doctrines. Meanwhile, extremist factions (even if they have shown some leniency temporarily in order to gain international recognition) aspire to a more rigid model of governance, albeit over time. In this regard, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham - which is also closely linked to the Turkish regime - may seek, due to its military and organizational superiority, to impose its rule on other factions, paving the way for violent confrontations.
Here, it is necessary to review some historical incidents that increase the likelihood of this happening:
_The conflict between the "Free Syrian Army" and Jabhat al-Nusra (the former name of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham):
On July 26, 2012, Free Syrian Army fighters clashed with Jabhat al-Nusra at a site near a border crossing with Turkey in northern Syria. Clashes between the two parties were repeated at different times in 2013.
_The conflict between Jabhat al-Nusra, the Syrian Revolutionaries Front, and the Hazm Movement in the Idlib and Aleppo regions during the years 2014 and 2015.
_The conflict between the Southern Front of the Free Syrian Army and Jabhat al-Nusra in Daraa during the years 2014 and 2015.
_ Clashes broke out between Jabhat al-Nusra and Faylaq al-Rahman in the town of Zamalka in the central Damascus countryside in late July 2016 due to a dispute over who would lead Friday prayers in one of the mosques in the town of Zamalka.
_ On January 20, 2017, major clashes broke out between the Mujahideen Army and Jabhat al-Nusra in Atarib. Jabhat al-Nusra, along with the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, also attacked Jabhat al-Shamiya in Haritan. At the same time, the Free Idlib Army clashed with Jabhat al-Nusra in Idlib.
_ Battles fought by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham against Ahrar al-Sham in 2017.
_ Clashes broke out between Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham and Jabhat Tahrir Suriya during February 2018, with support from the Suqour al-Sham Brigades. At that time, Jabhat Tahrir Suriya and its allies were able to control large areas of land in the Idlib and Aleppo governorates.
_ In January 2019, fighting broke out again between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, with the aim of controlling the northern city of Darat Izza to encircle the stronghold of the Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement (which was part of the Syrian Liberation Front) east of Aleppo city.
Main factors of internal fighting
There are several factors that may lead to internal fighting between armed groups in Syria:
1) Ideological incompatibility:
The major ideological differences between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other groups in northern and southern Syria will make power-sharing very difficult. The love of power and individualism among the leaders of these groups may also lead to differences of opinion and division, which will be reflected in field problems that will quickly expand into a war of attrition.
2) Competition over resources:
Syria will currently face a significant shortage of resources, including food, water, and infrastructure. It is also likely that there will be intense competition and conflict over crossings and natural resources (oil and gas). Control over these resources will become a critical point of contention, leading to local clashes.
3) External intervention:
Competition between international backers of the opposition groups - such as Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the UAE - could exacerbate divisions. Each country is likely to back its preferred factions in an attempt to shape Syria’s future (a similar pattern has occurred in Syria, Yemen, Sudan and Libya).
4) Revenge:
Years of internal fighting during the war have left deep scars on all groups as they fought among themselves. Revenge killings and old score-settling could fuel violent conflicts between them once again.
Writer: Editorial Board
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https://alkhanadeq.org.lb/post/2341/هيئة-تحرير-الشام-تتغير-الأسماء-لكن-نهج-الإرهاب-ثابت
Monday, February 21, 2022 05:05
The Headquarters for the Liberation of Al -Sham: The names change, but the terrorist approach is fixed
Al -Sham terrorist Headquarters
Whatever the name of the Nusra Terrorist Front changed, from this name to the Liberation of Al -Sham Front, to its current name, the Headquarters for the Liberation of Al -Sham, it will not be able to change its terrorist nature, and will not eliminate the memory of people that it is a basic branch of al -Qaeda in our region. Türkiye will also not be able to currently the most prominent operator of this body, to change the reputation and appearance of this organization, even if the United States of America accepted. The latter's role cannot be overlooked in providing protection to the claim of this body, Abu Muhammad al -Jolani, who is suspected of being helped, also, in the killing of the terrorist terrorist organization ISIS recently.
This body committed crimes against humanity, what ISIS competed. Where it has been documented since the founding of the Al -Nusra Front until the end of the year 2021, many violations, most notably those related to its detention centers in northwestern Syria, which number 46 centers, more than 22 torture methods are used in it.
The census of violations came as follows:
_ More than 505 civilians, including 71 children and 77 women.
_ There are at least 2,300 people, including 43 children and 44 women, who are still in arbitrary detention or enforced disappearance in their prisons.
What is this body consisting and what are the most prominent factions affiliated with it?
It is a group with a takfiri thought, whose presence is concentrated in the Idlib region. It was formed on January 28 for the year 2017, by integrating the following organizations:
1) The Fatah Al -Sham Front (formerly Al -Nusra Front).
2) Ansar al -Din Front.
Then the Sunnah Army and the Law of the Truth, as well as the Nour al -Din al -Zanki movement.
_ Currently includes dozens of organizations and factions, and dozens of fighters have joined them (from inside and outside Syria).
_ The leaders of the Jabhat al -Nusra Front shall be at the top of the center in this body, headed by Abu Muhammad al -Jolani.
_ Although it repeatedly denied any connection to al -Qaeda, and its independent claim. However, many are considered by Al -Qaeda branch in Syria, especially as it still includes many leaders and personalities, who have had a fundamental role in spreading al -Qaeda's thought in our region, especially in Syria and Iraq.
_ Although Türkiye claims to place the commission on the lists of terrorism, it has become clearly clearly the size of the coordination between them, and how Ankara supports it and allows the arrival of various supplies to it.
The United States of America claims to include it in the regulations of terrorism as well, and that it is chasing the leader of this body, but despite its public moves on many occasions, it has not been targeted, proves the seriousness of its pursuit of it.
Author: Liberation Chamber
Works for me.
"A terrifying scenario": the point of no return that awaits Germany has been named
This ^ ^ ^ was always the plan.
And it's the plan for ALL 'First World Nations'.
In the Globalists' New World Order, ALL (Peoples) WILL be on the same level.
These Psycho Globalists WILL NOT 'raise up' the living standards of 3rd World Countries.....
so, then, HOW do they get EVERYONE to a 'same level'??
By bringing DOWN the 1st World (and 2nd World) countries down to 3rd World 'status'.
Apparently, people keep forgetting Klaus Schwab's, "YOU WILL OWN NOTHING, AND BE HAPPY!", statement.
And this is why AmeriKa will CONTINUE to IMPLODE....at the hands of TRAITOR Trump!
He was CHOSEN to do just THAT!
All of those ILLEGALS that have crossed our borders, over the past 4 years? The PLAN is......
TRAITOR Trump will grant ALL of them CITIZENSHIP! He'll make some LAME excuse for it, but, this is what's coming!
Maybe THEN, people will WAKE UP???
After all......Canada, the USSA and Mexico ARE the NORTH AMERICAN UNION!