💠@Strategika51:
⭕ Erdogan has said that, apart from Vladimir Putin, he is one of only two true leaders in the world.
This statement, made after the Grand Sultan had saved the lives of Russian servicemen in Syria, astonished us. We set about reviewing all the world’s current leaders and concluded that Erdogan has a point. We’ll come back to this.
⭕ Members of the Zionist government have been shedding tears of joy since yesterday. Netanyahu, deeply moved, wanted to exploit the divine joy that had fallen on the heads of the enlightened beings making up his war cabinet by appropriating the victory as his own, saying that it was thanks to him and his tireless efforts that the Syria/Assad domino had fallen after more than 50 years of struggle, effort, sacrifice, pain, deprivation and perseverance. At these words, the cabinet’s official rabbi countered that the Eternal has thrown his sword of terror into the hearts of Zion’s enemies. At these words, the lamentations redoubled until the cabinet announced an extension of the military operation in Syria.
[woe to the Arabs at what comes now. They asked for it.]
⭕ The option of a putsch against Assad is confirmed.
⭕ Palestinian fighters from Jenin on the West Bank, on average very young, are congratulating the Syrian rebels, unaware that they have just put an end to a non-functional regime, but the only one that really helped the Palestinians by supplying them with weapons (the North Korean anti-tank rocket launchers in Gaza didn’t land from space). In other words, these resistance fighters are applauding the end of their only support. This is where they stand. Promising.
⭕ Very powerful explosions resulting from non-stop aerial bombardment of military sites in Deraa and Suweida in southern Syria. |media|
⭕ The Syrian Air Force, or more precisely the former Syrian Air Force, has ceased to exist. All military bases and depots are bombed without interruption.
⭕ The Syrian government and military commanders were negotiating in secret with the rebels, and eventually concluded a deal financed by a very wealthy Gulf state. The Russians were not aware of these negotiations. The Syrian army decided to stop fighting and allow the rebels to advance and take power almost without firing a shot. The Prime Minister of Al-Assad’s time has been reappointed. One dictatorship drives out another.

What has changed is that the calculations of one side or the other have become obsolete. Türkiye will give up nothing, and the entity is too frustrated with Syria to miss such an exceptional historic opportunity to dismember it.

For Russia, its role in the Middle East is over. It is already happy that Erdogan is allowing it to save its forces deployed in Syria and allow them to return home via Türkiye and under Turkish protection. The Grand Turk has other scores to settle with the Syrian Kurds, and he’ll need Putin to maneuver smoothly between the two camps.
🔻 C1: That’s exactly what happened. Bashar also ignored Iran’s warnings…
In short, I just feel like he was no longer motivated to govern…
🔻 S51: I don’t think Bashar ignored Iranian warnings. He wasn’t stupid. His army failed him. No one was carrying out his orders anymore.
⭕ Our predictions were confirmed: we said that it would not be the HTS that would reach Damascus first, but the CIA-backed rebels from the south. The facts proved us right.

We also predicted that Israeli forces would reach both Damascus and Beirut before long, as part of the US’s new Middle East policy (the Americans are doing all the work and attributing it to Israel to boost its non-existent “prestige”).

It begins. Zionist tanks are on their way to Deraa.
⭕ Israeli armored forces on their way to the city of Deraa, cradle of the Syrian rebellion in 2011. |media|
[this raises goosebumps. Like watching a helpless babe being strangled in the cradle, or the Spanish Conquistadores landing on the “New World” to suicidal welcome by the natives. Immediately thereafter, lebensraum began to be created as millions were exterminated]
⭕ Headlines that should be on all front pages: “Israel invades Syria”.

Al-Joulani has never criticized or condemned the Zionist entity.

Palestinians supporting the Syrian rebellion are belatedly taking notice. Some of them are beginning to speak of the liquidation of the Palestinian cause.
They have forgotten that it has already been liquidated.
[the Trail of Tears that began in Gaza is spreading worldwide. We humans are so gullible]
⭕ Highly symbolic images: Merkava IV tanks destroy the demarcation line ending the Disengagement Agreement signed on May 31, 1974 between Syria and Israel, bringing about a ceasefire after the fourth war of October 1973.

The entity declared the 50-year-old agreement null and void, as Syria no longer exists.
Syria has been the only country at war with Israel since 1974. |media|
[For all its faults and odious end, the Assad era was the last Bulwark before the flood of the Horde. But don’t cry for the arabs. They funded, cheered, armed Hordes and sent them to breech the last Bulwark. The majority conspired to bring on their own total satanic slavery. They forgot they dealt with even more treacherous supremacists who do not stoop to using useful idiots to conquer the same idiots]
⭕ Representatives of the small French political world in fearful, almost religious adoration in front of their master Elon Musk, the man who is turning the world upside down and making nations disappear.
[this appears the satanic ceremony to reopen the torched Notre Dame, attended by Trump and the Kievan Cokehead]

So….

as we pick up the pieces and study the lessons. After seeing the carpet bombing by the USAF BUFF B-52 bombers last night in Syria, we can confidently say they should have no danger whatsoever inside Iranian airspace.

The Blueprint was rolled out for Syria.

A clever Hybrid War, where the Empire of Illusions instrumentalizes a portion of the population against the other, focusing on the youth and the elite. Using the impoverished and mindwashed youth to overturn the entire cart, plus heavy bribing of the older cadre.

Whilst indecision prevails, and chaos in the streets, and loss of will to defend by the bitterly divided – the Hordes are unleashed. (for preview of Iran, see the shocking thread by Magnier below)

Thereafter, the immediate bombing campaign on the paralyzed suicidal masses to render no possibility of resumption of sovereignty or modern industrial warfare capabilities, rendering Zio-USUK air power supreme over the entire region.

Mop up on the ground to be conducted by Horde, along with continuing starvation siege until sufficient depopulation to render the survivors unimportant  futile resistance.

That appears the Blueprint anyhow, for the hapless arabs and persians. We shall see how many save themselves, and how Armageddon reshuffles the deck.

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ Syria. Control of the territory on the evening of December 8, 2024.

💠@Marx Engels Lenin Institute:
⭕ In years to come the influence of the Gulf oligarchy funded media operations such as Al Jazeera will be seen as something wholly rotten. They mask their service of Arab reaction with their reporting on the crimes of the Israeli regime and this buys them a credibility with which they promote deeply reactionary political forces which render the liberation of Palestine ever more difficult.

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ The Zionist army invests the Syrian town of Qunaytra in the Syrian Golan.
Never before seen.
[plenty of never seen before to come]
⭕ Part of Syria is under Turkish control, another part under US control, and the south is about to be annexed outright by the Zionist entity.

The accounts are good..
⭕ The Islamist tool used by the Empire to slaughter its enemies becomes a bargaining chip for the continuation of the war after use. Zionists have no form of loyalty or gratitude. They have turned against all their benefactors in the past. They will not hesitate to turn against their allies of circumstance.
Erdogan knows this. We’ll see how he goes about it.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ The new #Syria: If the #US recognises us and we respect international law, #Israel can occupy as much Syrian territory as it wants to defend itself and free the hostages in Gaza.

Biden: Got it! Exactly what I want you to show me in the years to come, and don’t worry about my mandate. All presidents will ask you the same thing
⭕ Israel, with the blessing of the #US, is advancing into Syrian territory, expanding its occupation into what it calls a “buffer zone” and occupying more high ground.
⭕ Turkey now has a border with #Israel.
⭕ In 48 hours, #Israel occupied almost twice the seize of #Gaza Strip in #Syria after declaring war on #Damascus.

War declaration: Israel has formally renounced the 1974 Disengagement Agreement with Syria, asserting its intentions to reshape the dynamics along the border.
⭕ When researchers overlook the bickering between Iran and Assad over the past 14 months, they fail to account for how such tensions can lead to theories not rooted in the ideology of the IRGC, governed by its unwavering allegiance to Wali al-Faqih, consistently overrides all other considerations. |THREAD| |Full Thread|
⭕ Israel said its “operation (occupation) in #Syria is temporarily” (for another 100 years or more perhaps?).
⭕ This is what happens between #Iran and Bachar al-Assad for 13 months.
[retweet of his message 16 hours ago:
“أما بعد، فإن الجهاد باب من أبواب الجنة. فمن تركه رغبة عنه ألبسه الله ثوب الذل، وشمله البلاء، ولزمه الصّغار، وسيم الخسف، ومنع النّصف. ألا وإنى قد دعوتكم إلى قتال هؤلاء القوم ليلا ونهارا، وسرا وإعلانا، وقلت لكم: اغزوهم قبل أن يغزوكم، فوالله ما غزى قوم قط فى عقر دارهم إلا ذلوا فتواكلتم وتخاذلتم، وثقل عليكم قولى واتخذتموه وراءكم ظهريّا، حتى شنّت عليكم الغارات.”

So he says the London ophthalmologist with the glamorous family had been trying to capitulate for almost a decade and a half.. but was constrained by bitter geopolitics, his location and heritage, and the older cadre of his father. It is noteworthy this older cadre, esp in military-intel, had been purged recently, and both the Iranians and Russians steadily marginalized for his faithful arab brethren of the Gulf]
🔻 C1: Elijah, do you see anyone from the government side forming a new faction and fighting back against Israel and Turkey? There are many former SAA soldiers out there
🔻 EM: No I don’t. ON the contrary, a peace deal with Israel is not excluded sometime ahead.
🔻 C1: Yes, if Assad had fought back against Israel, he would be still in power but in the end, he did what Erdogan and Netanyahu usually do, he looked out for his own self interests and destroyed his own country in the process.
[I’m sorry to say folks, but like Erdogan breathing fire against Zion whilst trading and supporting them to the hilt, Al Assad caved and sold out under the pressure. And the satanic side timed the open betrayal beautifully. And used to demoralize and crush additionally through the implication of having lost such a central piece without a bullet being essentially fired. This will add years to the liberation of Palestine]
⭕ The fall of Assad is a matter for Syrians to decide, and that chapter is closed. Syrians undeniably have the right to choose their leadership, free from external interference. However, the larger issue now lies in Israel’s exploitation of the situation, seizing the opportunity to occupy additional parts of Syria under the guise of “security concerns” and “right of defence”.

Will Syrians React? Can They?
⭕ Protected under the @UN flag and convoy, Several embassies evacuated #Damascus this morning: #Venezuela, #Chile, #Cuba, #Argentina, #Greece and #Spain. All left #Syria for fear of the unexpected, mainly the Israeli intentions towards the country.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇮🇷✊🇸🇾 Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah told us once what it means to lose Syria.

Hezbollah under Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah’s command pledged all their means to save Syria from the grave danger of terrorism, the party jeopardized everything because they understood what the fall of Syria means for the future of the region. Sadly, we witnessed this day now and we only hope for the better to come. |media|
[the betrayal of Al Assad will go down in the annals of an already storied region. And the cause may be due to insouciance, rather than rank opportunism, and misplaced adherence to “arabism” – the Baath party was a pan-arab and explicitly sectarian and outdated vehicle. The last holders of Baath power in Syria worked to return to the Arab League, and prioritized ties with the Gulf arabs. And were seduced against wiser counsel by persians and Russians and others.

This mistake will not be repeated by the few survivors. As Legion marshalls all mankind without care for creed, race, class, or affiliation – so must the last defenders of liberty and sovereignty. And above all, they must realize this is a spiritual war – which the other side understands quite well and mashals all the dark energy available in the universe]
⭕ Peskov reported that Vladimir Putin personally made the decision to grant political asylum to Assad

He also answered a question about military bases in Syria:

“It is premature to talk about preserving Russian bases in Khmeimim and Tartus; this is a subject for discussion with those who will lead Syria.”
[honorable protection granted to the honorless.. who had betrayed so much shed Russian blood and treasure and decades of trust, handing the center of the entire region over to Legion]

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ Four Zionist mercenaries killed after stepping on an anti-tank mine in southern Lebanon.
[The war continues.. Hezbollah has done its job extremely well. The attrition of Zion, like UkroNazis, means the permanent need of reinforcement by combined West. A bottomless black hole. Indeed, the 200,000,000 prophesied in Eschatology will be sent after this outpost is overrun. And all the betrayals by compradore elites, and local insouciant youth, will not be able to avert that. The Resistance keeps its eye on the ball]
⭕ Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Qalibaf:

Martyr Qassem Soleimani repeatedly stressed to Bashar Assad the necessity of listening to the people.

Qalibaf claims Iran didn’t fight rebel groups in Syria, but rather takfiri/ISIS terrorists.

He says Iran will monitor the practical policies that Syria will adopt, and if they are far from the behavior of ISIS and the entity [Israel], Iran will welcome that.
[Iran, like Russia, well-screwed, tries to make best of absolute crap. Both mouth platitudes of welcoming the newly changed “moderate headchoppers” – but the die is cast. The worst members of Legion, to match UkroNazis, and as relentless and implacable and mindless a foe, is now their neighbor.. a fight comes, either way]
⭕ The Israeli terror army admits to the elimination of 3 soldiers and 12 injuries in the northern Gaza Strip earlier today.
⭕ A Beechcraft King Air 350i linked to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is currently doing Circuits over the City of Erbil in Northern Iraq.

This plane is known that it routinely flies at the same time as the awakening of armed cells affiliated with ISIS

Why did it start to do reconnaissance at this exact time? And will Chaos start soon in iraq just like Syria..?
[as Mr P would say, “yewbetcha”. Give Legion a fingernail, they will take the body. And activation of this location is more for northern Iran, rather than the southern Iraq base of the Iraqi Resistance]
⭕ While everyone’s focused on Syria, Israel continues its strategical endeavour with the Baku regime.

Azerbaijan’s president Aliyev’s personal assistant Hikmet Hajiyev visited Israel & met with the Israeli president inside the Baku embassy, discussing strenghtening bilateral ties.

Behind the scenes, Israel is doing the necessary preparations to increase its influence & presence in Azerbaijan, Iran’s northwestern neighbour. Iran needs to be very careful.
[what demons! One day after Syria fell, the dismemberment of Iran is being plotted and organized.]
⭕ 🇸🇾 | 🇸🇾 The US-backed Kurdish SDF refuses to withdraw from Deir Ezzor for HTS to claim the city, so they began using drones to target the “rebel” forces.

Earlier there were also anti-SDF demonstrations in Deir Ezzor which led to the killing of a civilian.
[the Horde will kick the Kurds out. These foolishly left their mountains to help USUK occupy this arab tribal region… the Janus Kurds have bitter years ahead]

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ The battle for Manbij continues – despite the entry of pro-Turkish militants from the SNA into the city and the capture of its center, the Kurds continue to put up fierce resistance on the outskirts and transfer reinforcements.

The first shots show pro-Turkish militants with a T-55 tank in the center of Manbij and several captured Kurds; the last shots show the Kurds themselves firing from American BearCat and HMMWV armored vehicles on the outskirts of the city.

Turkish artillery and unmanned aircraft provide fire support to the advancing militants.
[Kurds are among biggest losers. All factions that sold out Syria, whether recently or long-term, are paying a price]
⭕ Withdrawal of Russian units from the city of Ain al-Arab (Kobani) in Kurdish-controlled territory.

The frame shows the Tiger , Typhoon-K armored vehicles and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers.

Just recently, all this equipment carried out joint patrols with Turkish partners. But now, after leaving the area with the Kurds, where Russian servicemen were as guarantors of security, there are no longer any restrictions on pro-Turkish militants and the Turkish army.
[Russkie Bear is wise to get the hell out. A free-for-all is in motion. The Passion of the Worst]

💠🌎🛡GEOPOL360🕊🌍:
⭕ 🇬🇧🇸🇾 The UK government is reconsidering the designation of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham as a terrorist organisation, following its role in political change in Syria, according to Minister Pat McFadden.
⭕ 🇸🇾🇪🇺 EU countries are starting to stop granting political asylum to Syrians after the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ A drone, likely from Yemen or Iraq, struck ‘Yavneh,’ north of Ashdod in Israel, without any sirens being activated.
⭕ Hebrew media reports that 8 Israeli soldiers were killed and 18 injured in the past 24 hours

Today, four soldiers were killed and 18 injured when an anti-tank missile struck a truck carrying troops and explosives in Jabalia, northern Gaza.

The death toll from the minefield explosion in ‘Ras al-Naqoura,’ Lebanon, has also risen to four.
[let this comfort: even after submitting the entire combined West and all their compradores in the Four Corners of Earth, decapitating all the leaders and resisting state structures, the messianic jews will never be rid of the continuous terror and attrition of the Islamic Resistance. Before, during, or after Armageddon. And soon after it, they will finish the Abomination off.]
⭕ The Israeli invasion of the new ‘Free Syria’, opponents: None.

Very telling.
⭕ The Kurdish SDF stronghold of Manbij fell to the SNA
⭕ One of the largest Syrian migrant-rights movements in Germany, one day after celebrating the fall of Assad, has called upon the German government to keep Syria registered on the list of ‘unsafe countries’, and are urging German authorities not to send them back
[LOL]
⭕ If you love your ‘Free Syria’ so much, then move back. Simple.

💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇱🇾🇷🇺🇸🇾 Bashar al-Assad’s brother Maher al-Assad arrives with other senior Syrian officers in Benghazi

This was reported by official Libyan sources.

On December 8, a CHAM WINGS plane arrived in the city of Benghazi in eastern Libya, carrying several high-ranking officers of the Syrian Arab Army, including, according to unconfirmed information , Bashar al-Assad’s brother, Maher al-Assad.

Global aviation tracking website FlightAware also confirmed that a plane from Syria landed at Benin airport on December 8.

Local sources also indicated that Syrian officers were transferred to the al-Jofra military base in preparation for their deployment to Russia.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ [cont.]
‼️ Just to reiterate what I have long argued:

The Russians regard their Syrian air and naval bases as strategically imperative assets.
🔻 WS [Dec 02]: In my view, such a development would almost certainly depend upon the passing of Erdogan from the scene.

Until then, the Russians and Iranians will be compelled to prop up Assad and Syria on their own.
🔻 C1: Will I love you but this didn’t age well, Iran/Russia had to take a L on this
🔻 WS: There were Russians, Iranians, and various Axis of Resistance groups ready to join the battle … but the Syrian Army wouldn’t fight, so the plan was aborted. The only “L” goes to the SAA. The Russians and Iranians will preserve their forces to fight another day.
🔻 C2: Where did the SAA end up at? Iraq? How many are they?
🔻 C1: I agree, SAA is what altered the plan. But regardless the regime change is a L. Iran and Russia lost a strategic partner, now we have to see what awaits. Unfortunately it might be LIbya 2.0 I hope I’m wrong
🔻 C2: Erdogan and his whole apparatus were literally saved by Putin in 2016 through early warning.
This is quite sick.
🔻 WS: This is happening all around the world as the power of the reigning hegemon melts away. Old almost-forgotten disputes raise their heads once again to demand justice and restitution.
🔻 C2: I really hope it does. Trump’s rant on Assad’s fall was lies after lies and it kinda shows the situation they’re all in. He also conveniently omitted Turkey’s role. How guilty…
🔻Pleas Lucian:
The general sentiment of mankind is that a man who will not fight for himself, when he has the means of doing so, is not worth being fought for by others, and this sentiment is just. For a man who does not value freedom for himself will never value it for others |THREAD|
⭕ Retweet:
🔻 C1: Everyone seems to assume the deep state planned the Syrian government’s collapse or at least expected it…

What’s the over/under that the past few days took Washington by surprise?
🔻 C2: Probably more likely a deal with Putin/Erdogan than the Bidenites master minding anything
🔻 C3: I agree. Other countries have their plans and intrigues and agendas. Not everything that happens in the world is masterminded (or even understood) by the CIA or other Western intelligence agencies.
🔻 C4: Even if they planned it, it would come as a surprise to most of them
🔻 Armchair Warlord: This was a Turkish operation. I doubt Washington or Tel Aviv were consulted, and given the present likelihood that the Syrian Kurds will be wiped out it’s unlikely that DC would have approved of it had they known.
[disagree. Note the timed coordination with ceasefire in Lebanon, threat by Satanyahoo to Assad.. and such preparations would not have been missed, being months in the making, and visible in air and in monitored aether..]
🔻 WS: I agree, of course.

And my sense of things is that Erdoğan is now living on borrowed time. They’ll let him savor his fleeting triumph for a few days or weeks, and then he will be sent to his eternal reward.
[paradoxically agree here too. Kurds were slotted to expand dramatically (“Rojava”) during the dismemberment process of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. See Col Barnett’s map too.]
🔻 C6: Disagree. I think Washington and Israel were both fully apprised and ready with the talking points we’ve been showered with. Backroom deals were made between all the players. Turkey would never have made this move without Washington’s approval.
🔻 WS: I agree the physical preparations for a Turkish-organized HTS-led assault had to have been observed in great detail for months, by all the major players.

But part of me wonders if the collapse of the Syrian Arab Army was a somewhat spontaneous and largely unforeseen development.
🔻 C7: @imetatronink I think I have this Syria situation figured out. Let’s say you were Turkey and you had broken off diplomatic relations with Israel and wanted to somehow get at them, how would you do it? Sea? Air? Doubtful. Land? Absolutely. I think Erdogan cut a deal with Iran, Assad, Russia, HTS, to get things to this point. Assad was bought off with the genius of this plan. Now that the Turks are clearly the dominant military force, they can now start a Sunni movement to help Palestine. This is all about Gaza and the best way of getting to Israel. Everyone wins in this scenario, the Shiite Muslims are given a respite, and the the Sunni jihadis are given a new target. Russia and Iran are happy to go along with this caper, because both want to see Israel harmed or put in its place, and both need a breather for other fights elsewhere. And to prepare for further activities in the coming years.

I hope I’m making sense. I’ll be able to lay it out better, but a deal was cut. Now the Turks and their Sunni jihadi friends can quite literally close with and take under attack the nation state of Israel. First time. I know I know there are holes in this theory of mine, but double crossing is taken as a given in my world vie
[lay off the drugs, lad]
🔻 WS: Sorry, but I don’t believe for a moment that the Turks, Arabs, and Iranians give a rat’s ass about “Palestine”, or Israel going full Amalek on Gaza.

I expect things to advance from great disorder to greater disorder, in ways unforeseen.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 C1: Russia’s naval deployment in the #Mediterranean on the morning of Dec-07 as reported by #OSINT.

A large demonstration of force took place in Wk49, prior to the departure of Admiral Gorshkov. Click link for further analysis.
https://russianfleetanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/12/russian-forces-in-mediterranean-wk492024.html
🔻 Sal Mercogliano: Really confusing information coming out about the Russian Med squadron based in Syria.

The key issue is that the loss of this base will have ramifications on where Russian ships can be located in the Med with the Turkish Straits closed to them.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Last I heard the squadron was anchored in the Tartus roadstead waiting on developments ashore.

Egypt is a BRICS member and Russia has good military relations with Algeria, so securing alternative basing in the Mediterranean should not be difficult should it become necessary.⬇️

Alternatively, a Russian squadron based on the Iranian coast (another BRICS member and a Russian ally) would be far more threatening to Western interests than one that is effectively isolated in the Eastern Mediterranean with the Dardanelles closed. Such a deployment would turn the Persian Gulf into a Russian lake most of the time and when combined with Chinese deployments in the region would meaningfully contest the Indian Ocean, given the USN’s spotty coverage in the region lately.
🔻 C4: At the end of the day, how important is the Med?
🔻 Armchair Warlord: It’s very important, but if the Russians are going to contest it in a meaningful way they need to, uh… (checks notes) conquer Constantinople first and secure the Dardanelles.
[LOL. Did he check Eschatology? All the Stars align for Russkie Bear]
🔻 C5: I think Libya is already in progress, but that is not as convenient as Tartus, which was a perfect lily pad.

If Russia wants to stay in the Med, they will need to quadruple their defenses and payoffs, and time will be of the essence. Go big or go home.

Maybe Lebanon? Not sure.
[No to both. US Pentagram brass were in Libya recently, anticipating this move. Lebanon is a slave colony]
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Yeah they could also base out of Tobruk or something.
🔻 C6: No foreign military bases are allowed in Iran, it is constitutional.
🔻 C7: LMAO you think Egypt is going to host the next Russian Naval base after this? That’s one of the funniest takes I’ve heard since this started.

Get. Real.
[Indeed. Defeat is an Orphan..]
🔻 C8: I don’t think Iran will allow a Russian base.

They might be allies but a foreign base, no matter how friendly is a loss of sovereignty.
[and not necessary for Iran. Unless it implodes like Syria, Iran cannot be assaulted conventionally without taking the aggressor down, and the region. It doesn’t even need a navy for that. Review Yemen and modern missiles/drones/targeting ISR]
🔻 WS: The more I have pondered the question in the past few days, the more I think the Russians should vacate both Khmeimim and Tartus, and as expeditiously as possible. Your idea of basing them on the Iranian coast of the Gulf of Oman would be a brilliant move.
🔻 C9: Speaking of Iran … how much does this change their calculus? Surely must set them back into a more defensive posture? Is anyone in Tehran losing sleep over this or is there a “good while it lasted” mood abound …?
🔻 WS: If I were Iran, I would continue to operate from a largely defensive posture. Time is on their side.
🔻 C10: If Russia leaves their Syria bases then they won’t have any presence left in Mediterranean sea and would be hard for them to project power.
🔻 WS: The Russians can launch precision strikes against virtually any target in the eastern half of the Mediterranean.
🔻 C11: In case NATO-Russia conflict turns hot, Russia will not be able to defend Khmeimim and Tartus bases. I believe they have had plan to evacuate the bases month ago.
🔻 C12: Fine, if you just want to have no naval presence on the Med. No refueling ships, no rearming ships, no repairing ships.

It’s a long, long slog from Sevastopol, locked inside a NATO lake, to Kaliningrad, also within a NATO lake.
And even further to Murmansk.
🔻 WS: In what sense do you imagine the Baltic and Black seas are “NATO lakes”? I would argue exactly the opposite: that both the Baltic and Black are Russian lakes, just as the Persian Gulf is an Iranian pond.

In an open war, the US Navy could not operate in ANY of those three seas.
⭕ 🔻 C1: Why is Israel now bombing Syria?
🔻 WS: Because they can.
⭕ ‼️ End of Empire Axioms

ALL allegiances are transitory.
⭕ ‼️ Iran Is the Decisive Battlefield

I never cease to amazed by the misplaced idealism and realpolitik naivete of the Russian and Russophile doomer class.

“A single Russian brigade could have saved the day!”, they bitterly weep, like silly little children.

The Russians spent a decade nursing and shielding a hopeless cripple. Now they are engaged in a global war whose scope, stakes, and potential duration are unprecedented in modern times.

Attempting to “win” a war in the Levant at this point in time would be both futile and strategically indecisive.

Let the Turks, Israelis, Americans, and all their transitory friends fight for supremacy on that ancient battlefield.

The advantageous battlefield stretches from the shores of the Caspian Sea to the left bank of the Tigris to the Gulf of Oman.

Rebase the Russian Mediterranean Fleet to the Gulf of Oman; bolster Iranian air defenses and long-range strike capability.

The loss of Syria means absolutely NOTHING absent the defeat of Iran.

The Masters of Empire understand this fact.

They KNOW they cannot fight the Russians in eastern Europe.

They KNOW they cannot fight the Chinese in east Asia.

Therefore, Iran remains the only option.

IRAN IS THE DECISIVE BATTLEFIELD.

If the empire doesn’t choose to fight for hegemony there, there will be no hegemony left to fight for.
🔻 C1: What base in the Gulf of Oman would the Russian fleet rebase to?
🔻 WS: Bandar Beheshti and/or Bandar Abbas.
🔻 C2: If Iran not does not act to save Yemen, which is next in line then it deserves what’s coming.
🔻 C3: This comment you made, is it because you think they will not attack Yemen or because you think is inconsecuential?
🔻 WS: Who is going to attack Yemen, and how?
🔻 C2: Do you think that Shitrael is going to let go off Yemen without doing anything? Aren’t you keeping up with all the statements Israhellis are coming up with 🙅
🔻 WS: Israel is no threat to Yemen.
🔻 C4: Israel alone is a threat to no one but unarmed women and children. The problem is the US.
🔻 C5: But Syria was sadly a battlefield already. But Russia and Iran had put in significant resources over a decade to stabilise it. If they had taken a stand to show seriousness, decisive battlefield would have been postponed as empire will recalibrate it’s assessment of the resistance.
🔻 C6: Iran temporarily lost influence. But Israel created itself new strong enemies on its growing border; Erdogan will face resurgent Kurdish resistance; and while the Empire enjoys its Pyrrhic victory, it will soon realize it gave control to terrorists dwarfing Osama and the Taliban.
🔻 C7: broken tentacles of an octopus grows back-what’s more important is if Iran’s moderate in power considers the West their friends, they’ll be completely f-ed.
🔻 WS: The only meaningful power in Iran is the IRGC.
[Subservient to the Supreme Leader and clerics]

💠@Lebanese News and Updates:
⭕ 🇸🇾 Maher Al-Assad’s wife calls Bachar a traitor who sold the family, embraces the new state.

Bachar did sellout, but not today only, but to Russia first and then decided to finally surrender and leave everyone without even a word or a letter.

Rejected help and ran away after 13 years, abandoning all the Syrians who fought and died for safekeeping the rule he represented.

💠@Strategika51:
⭕ The new masters of what’s left of Syria are in the throes of a psychotic frenzy. It’s reminiscent of Pol Pot, but in a harder version. They believe in urban legends.
⭕ US CentCom confirms that it is indeed the US Air Force that is bombing Syria. CentCom acknowledges 75 targets hit in Syria yesterday.
⭕ Strategic situation of anti-hegemonic powers challenging the Empire’s world disorder after the fall of Syria:

1. People’s Republic of China 🇨🇳: position unchanged. No losses. The pragmatic, calculating China is completely different from the multipolar China that exists only in the minds of certain experts. China is only interested in its own interests, and has not lost a single Yuan as a result of this event, as it has not even invested anything in Syria. Beijing has never cared about Syria, and will continue to pay no attention to this corner of Western Asia as long as its interests are not at stake.
2. the Russian Federation 🇷🇺 has been slightly weakened, but if it keeps its two bases in Syria, it has lost nothing.  Everything will depend on whether the two bases at Tartus and Hmeymim are retained. If so, Russia’s status in the Levant will remain more or less unchanged.
3. Islamic Republic of Iran 🇮🇷: Extremely weakened by the loss of the strategic corridor linking Iran to the Lebanese coast and the border with Iran. Lebanon’s Hezbollah sees its logistical and supply lines totally severed. Iran loses any chance of a military presence in Syria for at least decades to come. Politically, Tehran would not be able to use the expression “Axis of Resistance” again, as this has been de facto dismantled in the form it takes in the Iranian narrative.
4. Lebanese Hezbollah: isolated and cut off from its lines of support in Syria and Iran, the isolation of Lebanese Hezbollah, which is in a very bad position after a disastrous war with the empire in which it lost all its leading cadres and a great deal of manpower, means that Washington and its Zionist lapdog will try in the very short term to finish it off for good.

⭕ Putin knows it, we know it, and you know it perfectly well: for years you’ve been planning the overthrow of the Syrian regime, then claiming that the Islamists are attacking you. You are behind their establishment in Syria, to justify your invasion.”

Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy on X.
⭕ 800 air strikes against the whole of Syria in total silence from the international media.
[what more is there to say after Gaza? Everything is permissible, including during the boomerang phase. Review the fate of the Third Reich after it launched Totalen Krieg]
⭕ We can be criticized for a lot of things, but we are the masters of our subject.
⭕ [Syria is prostrate, ripe for the rape, like Palestine… but don’t cry for me Argentina, Arabia]
⭕ The bearded men of Syria are inherently stupid. Al Joulani is so busy handing out ministries in a country undergoing one of the aerial bombardment campaigns of the last twenty years that he’s not even paying attention to what’s going on around him. What’s the point of taking power in a destroyed country on the verge of being invaded?
Al-Qaeda hand in hand with Zionism. We already knew that. What’s new is that it’s being done so blatantly in front of the whole world.
⭕ And these American-Zionists are bombing a country whose regime has just fallen. You’d think the Assads had been inspiring them with holy terror since 1971, in an attempt to atone for such frustration…
They may claim that these are pre-emptive aerial bombardments, but they’re preparing a propaganda film in which the Zionist entity will play the starring role, like Chuck Norris in one of those bad movies where he’s a one-man invincible army.
⭕ For those who don’t yet know Zionists, they are inveterate cheats and liars. They always say one thing and do another.
Netanyahu claims to be annexing the Syrian Golan Heights.
International law? To hell with it.
Land thieves have no other vocation than to steal other people’s land.
⭕ Very powerful bombs dropped on Damascus last night. The U.S.-Zionist air force seems enraged and engaged in a race against time to destroy all military assets in Syria.
[hang on salafis. Demokracy is messy and stings at the beginning, before the one-way anesthesia takes hold]
⭕ U.S.-Zionist aircraft bomb the surface vessels and harbors of the former Syrian navy in Latakia. |media|
⭕ The destruction of Syrian naval vessels is accompanied by the joyful honking of the dumb rebels who now line the coastline of Latakia.
⭕ Israeli tanks are said to be 15 km from Damascus.
⭕ When you’re dumb, you’re dumb forever.

💠@Fotros Resistance:
⭕Israel also destroyed several Syrian fighter jets, including MiG-29s, today.

Russia had stationed some 20 MiG-29s at Syrian bases. It’s unclear how many have been lost so far …
⭕ 🇸🇾| Meanwhile… Israel continues to destroy any remaining & abandoned military asset above ground with absolute no worry of resistance—as air defenses are offline.

Israel bombed Syrian assets 150 times today, among them were Gazelle SA helicopters, completely gone.

They could’ve atleast land the helis in Iraq …
[this is a prudent campaign by the AZE savages. Not only does it keep the fools permanently down, but it discourages Russkies from ever re-entering these crazed lands]
⭕ This bring me so much pain to see…

People are cheering for a political change but how are you going to go further when Israel is destroying your science facilities, your bases, your defensive capabilities?

Yeah free Syria, congratulations you freed Syria from Assad, so what now? Is baba Erdogan gonna give you the lost planes? Is he going to protect you from Israeli attacks? 🤦🏽‍♂️
⭕Iran condemned Israel’s violent repeated aggression against Syrian infrastructure and the occupation of parts of the Syrian Golan Heights, urging the UNSC to take immediate action to halt the aggression and hold Israel accountable.
⭕ ❗️Israel Broadcoasting Corporation (KAN):

Tel Aviv preparing a heavy attack against Ansarallah in Yemen.
⭕ More than 350 Israeli airstrikes targeting Syrian territory in the past hours, and an Israeli occupation of Syrian territory equivalent to twice the size of the Gaza Strip, and their army is less than 40 km away from the capital Damascus.
[they’ll occupy it now. And note the incremental northern advance is separating Lebanon from Syria. After another Gaza-like Siege for a few years, the Hezbollah front can be reopened on a weakened foe]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Israeli airstrikes on Syria continue, including Damascus and Latakia, destroying virtually all bases and equipment leftover by the Syrian Arab Republic |media|
⭕ More footage of the Israeli airstrikes in Damascus |media|

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ Most of the Syrian jet fighters left over from Syrian army and those captured by HTS and SNA terrorists have been destroyed by Israeli airstrikes.

According to reports, Israel has destroyed all MiG-29 regiments of Syrian army at the airports, along with some radars and weapons depots.

According to Israeli reports in the last 24 hours; It has destroyed almost all the ballistic missile warehouses and Russian air defenses and Iran’s drone manufacturing factories in Syria.
⭕ Israeli soldiers appear to be casually strolling through the border areas in Syria with absolutely no resistance from the new authorities. |media|

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇸🇾 In Aleppo, the military command of the armed opposition terrorists met with the leaders of Christian communities

They want to appear good. We know…
Then, over time, they will all be driven out, God willing, if only by soft force, and not simply slaughtered…
⭕️ 🇺🇦In 2024, the mortality rate in Ukraine is the highest in the world: 18.6 per 1000 people. From January to June inclusive, 87,655 citizens were born in Ukraine, and 250,972 died.

That is, in the coming year, the mortality rate in Ukraine is three times higher than the birth rate.
⭕ Israeli tanks have advanced beyond the buffer zone and are stationed near the settlement of Qatana in southern Syria, Lebanese TV channel Al Mayadeen reports. The settlement is located 21 km from Damascus.

According to Al Mayadeen, Israeli troops entered several villages on the outskirts of Damascus. The Israeli army had previously said that it planned to conduct ground operations only inside the buffer zone, not outside it.

💠@Strategika51:
⭕ Madness seems to have taken hold of the Syrian factions, who are ripping each other to shreds, believing that there are 20 levels of secret underground prisons under the Sednaya penitentiary where even Michael Jackson would still be imprisoned, that the Syrian people are sovereign and will live in the happiness of a fairy-tale paradise, that they don’t need an army or police, that they want to be buddies with everyone… The Syrians talk about everything except the ongoing American-Zionist bombardments, let alone the Zionist annexation of the remaining 1/3 of the Golan Heights…
The rebels don’t give a damn, because they say loud and clear that an Israeli occupation is better than 50 years of Al-Assad dictatorship.
[the passion of the worst has been activated in the Holy Land theatre. The region will really burn now]
⭕ The MOAB or Mother of All Bombs was used to annihilate the former Syrian military base at Chuayrat. The massive explosion was heard 30 km away.
⭕ US Reaper drone shot down in northern Syria.
The US drone offering support to Kurdish armed groups was shot down by Turkish-backed HTS militiamen using a Sol-Air missile captured from the former Syrian army.
⭕ American forces in Syria are on high alert.

They’re playing a solo movie.
⭕ The rebels have set up radio beacons to help the American-Zionist aircraft in their ongoing task of levelling Syria’s former military and economic capabilities. The air campaign is extending its targets beyond purely military objectives, and is currently targeting industrial sites.
⭕ The wife of Maher Al-Assad, brother of Bashar Al-Assad, hails what she calls the “new Syria”, posts the rebels’ new Syrian flag on her Instagram account and writes “despite the one who sold the family and the country.”

Maher Al-Assad, ex-commander of the IVth Division of the former Syrian army, remains unaccounted for.
⭕ Chinese manufacturers have restricted the supply of important drone components to the United States and the European Union, according to Bloomberg.

These restrictions concern motors, batteries, flight control systems and other parts.
⭕ Advanced preparations are underway in Ukraine to definitively transfer all available or remaining public and private assets to Western investors, most notably BlackRock. This is one of the biggest low-hanging fruit ever achieved by the vultures of transnational finance.
⭕ Syrian Turkmen rebels enter a hospital and find wounded border guards from the former Syrian army. They inform them that the army has fled and the regime has fallen, before questioning them whether or not they are soldiers. The first wounded man tells them he has served for five years, while the second says he was a border guard. They are mercilessly shot dead on their beds without further ado. |media|
[Turkmen are Turks imported in Ottoman times, or as it was collapsing before/during/after WW1, into Syria/Iraq, etc, to serve as outposts and future seeds… This appears a season of plenty rain for the Turks. Zio-USUK are eliminating from the air all defensive military and economic potential; Turkics are liquidating the arab manpower. What is done to Syria will exceed Gaza. It ***may*** serve as lesson to the other arabs. Don’t count on it though. Each believes he has a reliable deal with the Anglo-Zionists…]
⭕ Damascus: unknown gunmen murder one of the country’s most eminent chemistry specialists in his home.
Other Syrian scientists are said to have been executed by unknown assailants.
[as in Gaza, and Iran before, the minds will be targeted and exterminated too]
⭕ Asked about the advance of Zionist forces into Syria, HTS chief Al-Joulani first ignored the question, then vaguely asserted that Syria has just freed itself and is celebrating this freedom with the whole world.

The unopposed entry of a few Israeli tanks into the Rif of Damascus seems to pose no problem for the former head of al-Qaeda in Syria, who passed through a US camp in Iraq just like his direct mentor, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi alias Shimon Elliott, an Israeli intelligence agent.
⭕ Erdogan, who launched the rebels on Damascus, did not do so for any Turkish strategic interest but for the interest of his masters. The Sultan’s silence in the face of the American-Zionist aerial bombardments in Syria is very eloquent in this regard.
⭕ If on December 11, 2024, Ali Khamenei does not announce to the world that Iran has nuclear weapons, the country’s fate is to follow Syria.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺 Volgograd, formerly known as Stalingrad, is a major city located in southwestern Russia, on the western bank of the Volga River. It was the site of the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II, which is commemorated by a monumental statue called The Motherland Calls.

☝️ Volgograd is one of the largest tourist attractions in Russia. Today, thousands of visitors come to the city to explore its historical sites and admire the magnificent monuments dedicated to the victims of war.

🏞 The main city landmarks include the Motherland Calls statue, Mamayev Kurgan, the Panorama Museum, the State Historical and Memorial Preserve, the Eternal Flame, the Museum “Pamyat,” the Volgograd Planetarium, and others.

🎥 Watch video to learn more!  |media|
⭕ 🇷🇺💬Russia is close to achieving the goals of the SMO, the Russian military has seized the strategic initiative in all areas, the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Naryshkin said.

At the same time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are on the verge of collapse, and Zelensky’s regime has completely lost its legitimacy and ability to negotiate.

Other statements from the head of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service:

• The West may unleash a global armed conflict with its epicenter in Eurasia. But it is encouraging that more responsible countries have emerged in the world that are able to jointly resist Anglo-Saxon adventures;
• Further escalation will not only not lead to the exhaustion of Russia, but will bring closer the strategic defeat of the West itself;
• People realize that we are not fighting the Kyiv junta, but the collective West, and the price of this confrontation is our freedom and sovereignty;
• The whole world clearly sees the absurdity of attempts to resolve the Ukrainian crisis without Russia’s participation;
• The Anglo-Saxons are losing their nerve – this is indicated by their transition to open terror and attempts to physically eliminate opponents;
• Americans are facing a difficult, dramatic period of internal strife, which, out of habit, will be blamed on the “hand of Moscow.”

⭕ Zionists seize strategic mountain.

Early on in the Zionist aggression against Syria, IOF forces captured the Syrian side Mount Hermon, the highest peak in the country at 2814m (9,232 ft.) Mt. Hermon straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon, so it is a key strategic position in the Zionist war against the two countries.

The most obvious strategic advantage is that the capture of Mt. Herman puts Zionist MLRS batteries within range to shell Damascus. However, given Zionist air dominance this might not even be necessary.

The less obvious benefit is that Mt. Hermon was a major dead zone for Zionist radars, which allowed low flying drones to penetrate their airspace. Now with the summit in hand, the zionists can build a radar station which could sweep down into Lebanon, providing better coverage against future drone attacks.

So far, Assad’s defeat has been an absolute gift for the Zionists.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ Syria no longer has an Air Force or an Air Defense network, virtually all planes, helicopters and AD systems have been destroyed by over 300 Israeli strikes in the past 48 hours

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ The Alawites Syrian declared they stand with the new Sunni-dominated leadership of #Syria.
⭕ Just got this from a contact from inside Sayyeda Zeinab in #Damascus, #Syria where Shia are allowed to in their holy shrine. It reflects the policy of the new rulers in #Syria towards minorities which contradicts #ISIS doctrine.
[For now]
⭕ Israel destroyed all ammunition and missiles warehouses in south of #Syria, crippling all Syrian military capabilities.
⭕ Part 1:
Challenging False Narratives About Syria   |link|
⭕ Israel is destroying every single camp under the control of the Syrian army with the new leaders in power who have not revealed their position against, with or neutral towards Israel.

Soon in my article details of the Israeli intentions behind these unlimited attacks.
⭕ Sorry guys, I’ve been asleep for the last 48 hours, could you send me a link to the UN or any other country condemning Israel’s occupation of Syrian territories and bombing of Syrian locations all over the country?

Thank you very much.
⭕ Israel is reportedly facing a shortage of ammunition and is seeking additional supplies from the US. The intensive bombing campaign in #Syria, targeting hundreds of sites, appears to be taking a toll on Israel’s own military resources.

Perhaps Tel Aviv may consider starting a GoFundMe or a Buy Me a Coffee campaign to raise funds for more bombs and ammunition. After all, ensuring the continuation of an “undisturbed” bombing spree in Syria seems to require all the help it can get.
⭕ Israel attacked #Damascus, #Aleppo and several other provinces overnight. Drones are over the capital of #Syria since Israel declared unilateral war and invaded the country. Israel wants Syria to have AK-47s, which are only useful in infighting, and to seize as much territory as logistically possible.
⭕ While #Israel is bombing and invading the country, @SecBlinken : “Imperative to respect the law and human rights in #Syria.”
⭕ Israel destroyed dozens of Mig-29 and Helicopters that were staring tons of “chemical weapons”. This is why the West support Israel annexing more land, mainly Mont Hermon and Quneitra where Israel was looking for all chemical weapons manufacturers.

No chemical weapons were found so the Israeli search will continue in Syrian territories
⭕ Israel is 25 kilometres from #Damascus, still searching for more chemical weapons.
[They’re under Hunter’s bed — send the Marines!]
⭕ Israel occupation forces reached Qatana (Arabic: قَطَنَا, Qaţanā) a city in southern #Syria, administratively part of the Qatana District of Rif Dimashq, #Damascus Governorate. Qatana has an altitude of 879 meters.
⭕ Israel bombs Qamishli airport and flies over al-Raqqa, provinces under pro-US forces. It seems the US has missed all chemical weapons and depots in the area they control. The world should be grateful that Israel – not the US – can detect chemical weapons anywhere in #Syria.
⭕ No one in #Syria is asking the army to fight back, but to stay at home. #Israel has a perfect scenario where its jets fly over Syria for the first time so the Syrians can see the Israeli jets at close range so they don’t miss the show.

No need to wake up.
⭕ At the rate #Israel is progressing, I might need to brush up on my Hebrew before my next trip to the Middle East.
[Indeed. And wear the little cap when transiting Doha or Dubai]
⭕ Watch this: The moment the new leaders in #Syria say anything against #Israel, they’ll be considered jihadists and the West won’t lift sanctions.

Keep quiet and soon learn to say shalom when Israelis walk in Souk al-hamidiyeh in #Damascus

💠 @geopolitics_live:
⭕ ❗️Key comments by Sergey Naryshkin, director of Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR):

• The West may, in the medium term, try to unleash a global armed conflict, with the epicenter in Eurasia;
• The West is fully prepared to resort to extreme measures to hold on to its dominance;
• The United States is losing the initiative on all fronts, from the Middle East to Asia and Africa, and is suffering outright failures in the post-Soviet domain;
• The Anglo-Saxons have resorted to flagrant terror and attempts to physically eliminate opponents, a prime example of this is the assassination attempt targeting Slovakia’s PM Fico;
• Regarding the threats against Vucic and Orban: Dynamic leaders of the emerging multipolar world are under attack by the Anglo-Saxons;
• According to the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), the post-Soviet realm remains a priority target for attacks by American and British intelligence agencies.

About Russia’s Special Military Operation

• The Ukrainian forces are on the brink of collapse;
• Russia is close to achieving its set goals, the strategic initiative on all fronts belongs to the Russian military;
• The Zelensky regime has completely lost its legitimacy and, as a result, its ability to negotiate;
• The West plans to fight Russia down to the last Ukrainian, and then force the Balts, East Europeans, and Germans to fight in the future;
• Further escalation will not lead to the exhaustion of Russia, as Washington and London believe, rather it will culminate in the strategic defeat of the West itself.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Netanyahu says the Golan Heights to forever remain an integral part of Israel

Israel is actively strengthening its defenses on the Golan Heights amid the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and the capture of a significant part of the country by armed opposition forces.

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the agreement reached shortly after the 1973 Yom Kippur War (also known as the Ramadan War) was no longer valid because the Syrian forces had left their positions. Netanyahu ordered the Israel Defense Forces to occupy the buffer zone.

💬 “The Golan Heights will forever remain an integral part of Israel,” Netanyahu told a press conference.

The fall of al-Assad in Syria was a direct result of Israeli strikes against Lebanese Shia movement Hezbollah and Iran, the Israeli prime minister added.

ℹ️ The Golan Heights is a strategic plateau in southwestern Syria that was captured by Israel from Syria during the Six-Day War in 1967. In 1981, Israel unilaterally annexed the region, a move not recognized internationally. The UN and most countries consider it Syrian territory under Israeli occupation.
⭕ 🇧🇷 Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva had emergency surgery to stop bleeding in his skull, he is currently in ICU, the hospital says

According to a hospital statement shared by the president’s social media accounts, Lula is recuperating in the intensive care unit of a Sao Paulo hospital after the “uneventful” surgery to drain a hematoma, or pooling of blood.

Due to a headache, Lula, 79, visited Hospital Sírio-Libanês in Brasília on Monday evening. He had an intracranial hemorrhage, according to MRI. After that, he was taken to São Paulo’s Hospital Sírio-Libanês for surgery, according to the statement.

☝️☝️ there alotta disinfo here. They correctly attribute the blame to US Caesar sanctions raising despair and internal collapse. But blame Iran for not doing more! Who levied the starvation siege? Why didn’t the Baathist become flexible and reorient to friends, rather than hoping for change from duplicitous “Arab brothers “? Why were huge credit offers from Russians and Chinese refused, and rearming from Russia, and temporary accommodation with Turks to split the enemy camp? And so on. The top blame must go to the old sclerotic Baathists, who’d outlived their era

☝️ Good points. Consider the despair among poor Syrians that they surrendered to such satanic Hordes. This was a thoroughly broken “nation”. It had ceased to be a viable cohesive society capable of even basic self defense.  

💠 “Reports of Syrian soldiers being hunted down and killed in Damascus.

HTS militants entering neighborhoods and going house to house confiscating IDs.

When ISIS entered Mosul with help from Turkiye and Masoud Barzani’s KDP in 2014, they told all the members of the police and army they had nothing to fear if they ‘repent’ and turn themselves in.

Over the next weeks, they carried out several large massacres against the soldiers and police, who were all Sunni Arabs.

Abu Mohammad al-Jolani, who was the Emir of the Islamic State of Iraq in Mosul in 2008 and dispatched to Syria in 2011 by ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is now ruling Damascus.”

https://x.com/WVanwagenen/status/1865726151374630985

💠 @BhadraPunchline:
⭕ Have you heard of ‘Chaos Theory’? Within the visible randomness of complex, chaotic systems, there are inherent repetition, patterns, self-organisation, interconnectedness, self-similarity, and constant feedback loops. No country practises it more adeptly than the US. @Z09752769
[He chides a commentator who wrote,
“The US is the big loser as we’ve created another Libya. The CIA needs to be held accountable and its actions need to be illuminated.”]

💠 @RealPepeEscobar:
⭕ Latest plot twist.

Admitted by the Syrian “legal opposition”.

Looks like the Russian bases are going nowhere.

Not exactly part of the NATO plan, innit?
[They have smarter handlers and messaging this time around. Yet poor Russkie still remains kettled on a reincarnated Saigon, for the move down the road!]

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ The leaders of the United Arab Emirates receive, for the first time, the representative of the Druze community in the Zionist entity, and Syrian Druze are received in the entity. Something is afoot regarding a Druze and Kurdish state in the former Syria.

In the end, Erdogan got carried away for nothing. The flawed alliance between the old regime and the Kurds, which greatly enraged him (if his public statements are anything to go by), was better than the creation of a Kurdish state entity on its southern flank, even though the Turks now lay claim to northern Syria and are talking about granting Turkish nationality to the 3 or 4 million Turkmens and an unknown number of Syrians of Ottoman descent. [nothing personal Turks. The 2006 Pentagon map spelled it out: loss of eastern Anatolia to Kurdistan. You made your bed with Legion.]
⭕ Far from Al-Joulani’s hypocritical speeches about a new Syria open to all, former Syrian soldiers are summarily executed all over Syria.
⭕ Syria open to all… It’s open bar!
No wonder it’s being invaded from all sides.

Except for the poor folks of Greater Syria, there’s a small break in the news as the demons digest Syria and ramp up the Annihilation of Palestinians. We also wait to see what the Iranian supreme leader says tomorrow.. I doubt much. And even nukes won’t prevent what comes to Iran. The Feeding Frenzy is in full force

💠@Strategika51:
⭕ A Zionist soldier (an Israeli Druze) poses on the desk of the former head of Quneitra in the Golan Heights. The Syrian rebels not only welcomed the Israeli forces, but opened the road for them and acted as their guides.
⭕❗️French fighter jets left Chad on Tuesday after the country demanded the withdrawal of the French military contingent, according to French media reports
[this is main French base in Sahel, and a neighbor of Niger. Macron personally hosted its Junta leader at least twice in Paris this year iirc]
⭕ Very difficult times lie ahead for the people of Europe. An implacable dictatorship is being blatantly established. It’s unprecedented: neither the Gestapo nor the Stasi, the Okhrana or the Paris political police have ever reached such a degree of totalitarianism.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ [cont. thread]
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Last I heard the squadron was anchored in the Tartus roadstead waiting on developments ashore. …
🔻 Matt: You both casually speak as if naval bases are a fungible concept. You might as well say why not relocate to Tierra de Fuego?

Tartus is a critical link in Russian naval strategy going back to the 1960s. Sevastopol on the Black Sea can and will be cut off anytime Russia is in conflict with Turkey.

A warm water port on the Medi is immeasurably strategic. Ships can be refueled, rearmed and repaired. Relief crews can be flown in and out. If Turkey cuts off the Black Sea Fleet, Russian warships still have a safe haven on the Med.

Ditto their air force base SE of Latakia. Russian transport planes can fly around Turkish air space, land and refuel, then proceed to bases in Libya and then Central Africa. Losing the air base by Latakia cuts off Russian forces in Africa.

Another advantage to keeping these bases, from the new govt. of Syria’s POV, is it makes them far less likely to be hit by American, NATO or IDF bombers. While 70 or so bombing missions were carried out across Syria over the weekend, the Russian bases were NOT touched.
🔻 WS: Having their Syrian bases has undeniably been an advantage over the past 50 years. But if open war between the US/NATO were to break out, neither Russian bases, nor US/NATO bases, nor surface warships in general would be defensible in the eastern Mediterranean.

Any naval conflict in the region would very likely become “undersea only”. And Russian nuclear-powered subs would be present in force, and pose a potent threat to their undersea counterparts, US/NATO surface warships, and US/NATO bases from Gibraltar to Cyprus.

As for the Black Sea Fleet, it is purpose-built to defend The Black Sea. It doesn’t need to leave.

And, when it comes to the Turkish Straits, I don’t believe the Turks are dumb enough to aggravate the Russians in a war scenario. The Russians can hurt the Turks A LOT more than the Turks could hurt the Russians.

Finally, the small Russian Mediterranean Fleet could very conceivably be temporarily based at Bandar Abbas or Chabahar, and as such, would alter the strategic equations in that important region.
🔻 Matt: Great, Russia gets to sail around in 1/4 of the Black Sea. But they can’t get their warships or subs out unless Turkey lets them.

Ditto Kalingrad and St. Pete. I made this map during the Nord Stream episode.

IOW, Russia cannot get their warships to the open Atlantic unless NATO and Turkey permit them to. Other than from Murmansk. This is why year-round ports like Tartus are critical. As I said elsewhere, you can sink an aircraft carrier, you can’t sink a naval base. Pearl Harbor was back in action soon after Dec. 7, 1941
🔻 WS: Come on, Matt. Be serious. Putting a “NATO” label on all those countries does NOT magically bestow upon them meaningful power.

If one or more of those countries attempted to impede a Russian naval flotilla or cargo ships, then the Russians would step back for a few weeks, blast all the ports, warships, and bases from Finland to Denmark, warn all the little NATO chihuahuas along the way to stand down or else, and every last one of them would agree to the unimpeded passage of Russian shipping.

And remember, the US Navy could simply not operate in the Baltic Sea in the scenario of a war with Russia.

Lastly, if the US/NATO attempts to launch an air campaign against the Russians in a bid to close access to the Atlantic via the Baltic, I am long on record asserting that such an undertaking would prove shockingly disastrous for the empire and its mythical air supremacy.
🔻 C3: Speaking of Iran … how much does this change their calculus? Surely must set them back into a more defensive posture? Is anyone in Tehran losing sleep over this or is there a “good while it lasted” mood abound …?
🔻 Matt: [the industrious mapmaker posted this map as well as an answer, LOL]
🔻 WS: I am very dubious Iranian logistics to Hezbollah will be appreciably diminished … at least not for long.

What capability to interdict Iran/Lebanon supply lines will be enhanced by the fall of Syria to the regional banditry?

Maybe we should ask the Houthi, or the US Navy.
[exactly. This is largely a myth, and contrived justification to savage Syria further. The real reason became clear in last days – to knock back Syria into stone age and occupy it further, among other nefarious plans]
🔻 C4: moreover to the extent the land route through syria was critically compromised, it would have occurred at the start of syrian civil war in 2011: not a few days ago.

that hezbollah’s capabilities have improved with time not degraded, shows the land route’s importance diminished
🔻 C5: 🇷🇺 is still on the board for a Sudanese port (chaos is an opportunity) & is good buddies w/ Eritrea and Somalia. Pulling out Assad was great strategy. Let Israel go nuts in an already failed sandbox while you retreat bloodlessly. Anyone can invade a place, but can they hold it?
🔻 C6: One inmediatly think that that territory is now closed to the Iranians, but is it really?
I just saw Al Jazeera’s interview with Lavrov stated the the west “fish in the caos after the destabilization of a region”.
Can’t two play that game? I think so
[exactly. Deeply impoverished Syrians will help the smuggling. And after the frenzy of toppling the former regime shortly abates, some will remember their responsibilities to the Palestinians and the needs of Hezbollah. This is FAR from over. In fact, after the sick fixation of toppling “Assad” for a half-century, now there should be a fresh and invigorating outlook and recalibration, especially in setting of wasting the crazies and seeing Pax Judaica urinating all over their honor. Very good days ahead, after the rebirth from the Ashes. And I saw an interesting preview of Eschatology today which foresees the Return of Russia to this region, and within 3-9 years in a shocking triumph]
🔻 C7: It looks very much like apart from removing Assad from the equation, much remains in Syria as it was.
[Yep. So do not despair folks. Hezbollah ain’t goin anywhere, no matter how the raving howl and strut. But the Palestinians will be sent on Exodus to Jordan now. continuing their eternal fight from the east bank of the River Jordan, where I last stood five years ago!]
🔻 C8: There is another reading of what happened in Syria: Russia and Iran greenlit Assad’s removal because he was not an effective fighting force. Turkey backed HTS would be much stronger. Israel’s mad bombing of Syrian weapons indicates they don’t consider the new regime friendly.
[Yes, Al Assad was permitted to suicide himself, but not to see the takeover of such beasts. THAT is on Zio-USUK-Turks]
🔻 WS: That is an interesting thesis to consider. And quite a plot twist, if true. 🤔
🔻 C9: Tell me you are clueless about geo-strategical issues without telling me you are clueless about geo-strategical issues.
Sooo the Wahhabi jihadis are just going to let Iranian Shia ship weapons through the country they now run? 🤡
🔻 WS: “the country they now run” 🤣

They’ll never run anything … except amok.

In any case, these people are masters of the arts of clandestine trade. They’ve done it for millennia. They’re doing it as we speak. They’ll be doing more of it come tomorrow. And the day after that, too.
[well said]
⭕ 🧵 I continue to regard the post below as one of my most cogent sets of arguments as to the impossibility of the US to win an overseas war in a non-permissive environment against a peer adversary.

(I welcome well-reasoned rebuttals, but will not suffer incoherent fools or bots.)
📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss
🔻 C1: Just because you say something doesn’t make it an priori fact.
Do you have any evidence at all for a tri-party military alliance between Iran, Russia, and China, let alone one that has something similar to NATO’s Article 5?
🔻 WS: They actually have a bona fide set of bilateral mutual defense pacts. Much better than the silly myth called NATO Article 5.
🔻 C2: You may be correct about the U.S. not winning a war against a peer adversary. But the U.S. has other objectives which apparently have come into fruition like regime change, failed nation states and the destruction of the Axis of Resistance.

From today’s Moon of Alabama
🔻 WS: I think people often make draw premature conclusions in relation to events that have only just begun to play out.
⭕ ‼️ End of Empire Axioms

ALL allegiances are transitory.
🔻 C1: Question, if Russia had not invested this decade in Syria would they be in a better or worse position today?
🔻 WS: In my view, there is no question whatsoever that the Russian reassimilation of Crimea and intervention into Syria were the two primary catalyzing forces for what has now become, a decade later, the almost meteoric resurgence of Russian power and global influence.
[well said. This was the first instance of Russia beating not only the combined West, but almost 100 nations who marched in to topple Al Assad; it accrued tremendous regional respect and helped sway GCC into tentative steps of multipolarity and BRICS. Let this sink in for those who disparage Putin and wail that Syria was a waste. It was in the balance a huge victory]
🔻 C1: something most saying it’s downfall was a strategic defeat for Russia neglect to mention it seems
⭕ [cont. thread]
‼️ Iran Is the Decisive Battlefield
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The loss of Syria means absolutely NOTHING absent the defeat of Iran.

The Masters of Empire understand this fact.

They KNOW they cannot fight the Russians in eastern Europe.

They KNOW they cannot fight the Chinese in east Asia.

Therefore, Iran remains the only option.

IRAN IS THE DECISIVE BATTLEFIELD.

If the empire doesn’t choose to fight for hegemony there, there will be no hegemony left to fight for.
🔻 C1: They might install/open a naval base in the Gulf of Oman, on Iranian soil, we’ll see. But if they have to leave Latakia/Hemnin then the only (theoretical) options for a Mediterranean naval base would be Libya or Egypt.
🔻 WS: There are already imperfect rail lines stretching from St. Petersburg and Shanghai to the southeastern Iranian coast. The routes are being improved as rapidly as possible.

The Russians have a naval base in Djibouti (as does China).

Look at a map and draw your own conclusions.
⭕ Utter nonsense.

The United States has not, for well nigh three-quarters of a century, fought a high-intensity war against a peer adversary. It has not, since 1945, even once achieved strategic victory in a war.

If the US attempts to make war against China, it will be defeated.
[response to:
“Gen. Smith: “The advantage lies with us because our last combat was captured on somebody’s iPhone 14…

The Chinese’ last combat was captured on oil and canvas, and they should not forget that…

I would not undersell the value that our combat experience brings to this fight.”” |media|
🔻 C1: The same can be said for China
🔻 WS: Given the choice, I’ll take China’s cards, thank you.
🔻 C2: The piss wean U.S only attacks defenceless countries who can’t fight back and that’s a fact!
🔻 WS: Except that didn’t even work out against the Yemeni, who chased the USS Brave Sir Robin and its escorts right out of the Red Sea, never to return.
🔻 C3: What’s he referring to? What did we capture on an iPhone 14?

CSG Ike turning around? Are they counting Ukraine?
🔻 C4: There’s a single facility in China producing 1000 tomahawk clones a month.
🔻 WS: There is not a single member of the US military, from the topmost general to the lowliest private who has EVER seen high-intensity warfare where competent adversaries with lots of accurate firepower are raining high-explosive brimstone on their heads.

#NoEasyWarsLeftToFight
🔻 C5: Well yeah…no ground wars of consequence since Vietnam. And it’s not gonna happen on our soil. So I’m not sure we ever would unless we went to defend an ally.
🔻 WS: Couldn’t be done. All the Marine Amphibious Ready Groups are in a state of woeful disrepair. Archaic antiques, one and all.

So where is the war-winning order of battle for the mighty US military?

How you gonna fight Russia, or Iran, or China?
[on CNN and social media]
🔻 C6: Imagine the years of successful combat experience which gave rise to the Humvee.
🔻 WS: I’ve seen a lot of video of what Russian FPV drones do to Humvees (and all other APCs and IFVs) in Ukraine. It’s not a pretty sight.
🔻 C7: I mean talk about being caught up on your own kewl aid. China has leapfrogged the Americans. Minus nuclear strikes, there’s about nothing the latter can do.
🔻 WS: They could show us how to lose an entire carrier strike group in a single afternoon:
🔻 C8: Pentagon can do it if you allow them to spend all fuel in drones and airplanes, circling above the “enemy” for hours and hours.

Is it a war ?
🔻 WS: The lowly Yemeni are the global leaders in shooting down MQ-9 Reaper drones. Their tally is now up to at least 15 of them (Triple Ace status, at $35M each). They’ve also shot down a few F-16s, at least 2 F-15s, and dozens of drones from other countries.
[Hey, be more respectful talkin of my in-laws. They kick ass, an thats what counts lads]
⭕ 🎸 End of the World Blues

Me, I think I’ll just watch it rain
Until the ark breaks loose
I’ll close the door behind me
And sing end of the world blues
⭕ 🎵 A Small Collection of My Amateur Tinkerings
⭕ Here is another one with a similar vibe. Just me strumming a guitar and singing “live”, one take, guitar tuned to DADGAD (gives it that droning effect). All the photos are from my immediate environs.

Ashes in the Wilderness

Don’t be sad comrades.
Sometimes that which we hate has medicine in it..

It seems the whole world is mourning, except for the satanists.

What happened is one of the alternating fortunes of war.
The Resistance was aware it was coming and has contingencies.
Not only will Hezbollah and the Palestinians not be strangled, there were always supply channels and smuggling routes, even in similar dire times in past.

The regime that fell was an anachronism that held the region back.
It was led by a hated minority sect (however irrational this hatred) that prevented the majority of the region coming to the common defense.
Assad may have cut a clean figure, but his police state was odious – they kept fearsome dungeons that even serviced the CIA “rendition” torture before 2011, and maintained much of their repression since.

Now, the coming abject slavery, and understanding that their foolish divisions and catastrophic leadership of arabs by PetroSheikhs and liberals and western lackeys are source of their problems, will do wonders to revitalize the arabs.

God helps those who help themselves.

And the Shia Crescent needs support. They are a minority in the region and cannot do it by themselves. Soon, the Sunnis will get their act together and sincerely join with the persians and others.

What became clear in last days is that the PetroSheikhs, under Anglo-Zionist instruction (being too dumb to dissemble and think it up themselves) have never changed their spots and betrayed the persians and multipolar side. They will pay for it with erasure and return to pre-Sykes-Picot, and at hand of their suzerains. And no one will lift a finger to help them.

Imran Hosein reuploaded an old timely lecture.
In it he goes over the eschatology of what he correctly terms, “the Yankee Jihad.”
Apparently there are Quranic verses that warn of these terrible End Times.

The muslims are explicitly warned from allying with the coming Judeo-Christian alliance, a satanic combination with NATO currently its military wing, when it arose in the future. Never before had jews and christians allied together to such a degree. So it was a predicted unique epoch, termed “Judeo-Christian civilization” in the combined West. This is the locus of the global spiritual battle.

Well it arose in recent centuries. The Muslims are promised torment in this life, and hellfire in the next life, if they join these evil forces.
So the stupid headchoppers who now have their state have a surprise coming to them…

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ But what is the Zionist war minister talking about? He claimed that the Israeli navy destroyed the Syrian navy last night as if there were an adversary. Zionists have a real complex and are too frustrated to reach this point and maintain the illusion that they are waging war on an enemy that no longer exists.
⭕ US transport and attack helicopters near Qalamoun in the greater Damascus region. US special forces landed on the outskirts of Damascus without encountering the slightest resistance.
⭕ And so it goes. History repeats itself.

The rebels in Syria begin summary executions by firing squad. A simple interrogation consisting of two questions, one of which asks whether the victim served in the former Syrian army. A simple nod of the head is all it takes to be shot.

Strangely enough, not a single rebel faction – and there are over a hundred of them, of all known affiliations – has commented on or reacted to the US-Zionist airstrikes.
⭕ “I don’t care if it’s nuclear weapons or something else” – Lukashenko has warned his enemies of an immediate response to any violation of the Belarusian border (🇧🇾).

YT is pushing this. Graham Fuller is one evil dude, a mid-level devil, for sure among the deep state. He was on site in Turkey the night they tried to coup Erdogan last time. He smells a move on the rabid West in Syria..

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕ 🔻 WS: The US shipped at least ~500 ATACMS to Ukraine from late-2023 until now.

The problem is the Russians shot down ~50% of the first couple salvos. And with each subsequent salvo, the interception rate climbed 10% or so. Now it’s 90%+ — not including those destroyed in transit.
🔻 C1: First 200 atacms were given in September 2023 then in January-April 2024 309 was given more. You can see how they successfully helped Ukraine liberate nothing in Ukraine
🔻 WS: For a long stretch earlier this year, the Pentagon demanded ATACMS launches be discontinued, because the success rate had plummeted so low they were embarrassed.

This was publicly stated at the time. They also acknowledged the poor performance of all the NATO GPS-guided PGMs
🔻 C2: ATACMS were already a deprecated munition and haven’t been produced in 20 years.
Can you provide evidence that the pentagon demanded they stop being used?
I’ll wait
⭕🔻 C1: Vladimir Sazhin, a senior researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences: For Tehran, Damascus was a golden stone in the “Axis of Resistance”. A lot depended on the Arab Republic. In particular, it was through it that the main supplies of weapons to Shiite movements throughout the region went. In addition, over the past year, Israel has caused incredible damage to Hezbollah and the Yemeni Houthis. Tel Aviv’s tough and decisive actions have called into question the very fact of the existence of these regional players. Of course, the balance of power in the region has not been shaken in favor of Iran: its influence will steadily fall.
🔻 WS: It never ceases to amaze me how ignorant so many highly educated people are of simple things like geography, demography, industrial output, etc.
[That does appear the Tso and forte of the civilizational-states: they end up winning even as they lose every single PR event and optical narrative]
⭕ 😲 Among my favorite battlefield videos of the Ukraine War, crazy Russian soldiers throwing anti-tank mines through open windows and then running like hell have to rank near the top. |media|
[R they copying Hamas!?]
⭕[cont. Thread]
Utter nonsense.

The United States has not, for well nigh three-quarters of a century, fought a high-intensity war against a peer adversary. It has not, since 1945, even once achieved strategic victory in a war.

If the US attempts to make war against China, it will be defeated.
🔻 C1: Nonsense, you can dispute how much military experience the US gathered in the last century, but you cannot dispute it is on another level when compared with China.
🔻 WS: Silly talk.

There is no current member of any branch of the US military, of any age or rank, that has experienced high-intensity peer-adversary warfare.

Notwithstanding Hollywood myths to the contrary, Americans have never been particularly good at war.
🧵The Myth of Western Military Prowess 
[They haven’t had to be, like little Zion. They’ve operated as part of the Legion hivemind. Factions, informants, sellouts, etc work with them in every land, softening up the next target so that by the time of the active hostilities, it is a near cakewalk. Well it was, up to the civilizational-states.]
🔻 C1: Tell me, if not the US, which country has the most military experience?
🔻 WS: Here at the end of 2024, the Russians indisputably possess the most capable and battle-hardened military on the planet.

But, of course, the Russians have many centuries of high-intensity peer-adversary warfare under their belt
🔻 C1: I’m sorry, you are not serious
🔻 WS: I’m sorry you are irredeemably uninformed. But don’t feel too bad, you’re hardly alone in that respect.
🔻 C2: Plenty of US Military mercenaries or “instructors/advisors” fighting in Ukraine, so they have the experience against peer adversary. Losing the war will be a great lesson to those guys.
🔻 WS: There ain’t near as many as there were. There were a few thousand in spring 2022. The smart ones skedaddled shortly after surviving their first massive Russian artillery barrage.

Now it’s just the kamikazes who have nothing else to live for but the adrenaline rush of battle.
🔻 C2: There are many high ranking NATO officers in a number of command centers in Central and West Ukraine who are guiding Ukraine’s military. Russia has not attacked the command centers for the most part but has said that it would Oreshnik them if US launches more ATACMS.
🔻 WS: The Russians used Iskanders to smoke 5 ATACMS launchers, 40 Americans, and 9 Frenchies back on November 25th, iirc. It was right after the last time they launched ATACMS into Russia.

I doubt we’ll see any more ATACMS / Storm Shadows launched into Russia in this war.
[Why we love our Will. Did you catch how he referred to the French?]
🔻 C1: Thank you for your consideration! Anytime I feel the need to be informed on russian propaganda I’ll come back to you. Have a wonderful day sir
🔻 Free Speech My Ass ☭: So its your contention that the fact that russia has been fighting a high intensity near-peer war for over two years is “russian propaganda”, huh?
🔻 C1: No, just the part where he says this is enough to make Russia the world’s top country in military experience
🔻 Free Speech My Ass ☭: Tell me, who else has done this in the last 30 years?
🔻 C1: Only the US.

In terms of military experience from actual combat zones, the list from higher experience to lower is: 1) US, 2) Russia, 3) Israel, 4) Ukraine, 5) Iran (from it’s proxies), 6) China
🔻 Free Speech My Ass ☭: The US has not fought a war on this level against a near-peer adversary since WW2, Ace.
🔻 C1: Stop repeating this nonsense of “near-peer”, dude. Ukraine is not close to a peer to Russia. What matter is logistics, resources, strategy, technology, morale, armament, ammunition, production rate, maintenance rate, etc etc.
🔻 WS: The Ukrainians were, in early 2022, the largest and best military in Europe. By far. They would have rolled the combined NATO armies to the west.

But that army has long since been destroyed, along with two-and-a-half progressively weaker NATO-armed and trained armies.
🔻 C1: What the US did across the globe in the 90’s and in the 2000’s was more impressive and informative than what Russia is doing now. Plus, Ukraine is a proxy for the US, you know that right? The US is learning from the conflict too, and I would say more successfully than Russia
[These fanboys are seriously pathetic. They’re no different than zionazi roaches currently celebrating their “feats” against Palestinian civilians or the unattended Syrian Navy which was bombed & sunk]
🔻 WS: It’s easy to look “impressive” when no one’s shooting back at you.

But now, there are #NoEasyWarsLeftToFight.

The next war the US gets into will reveal the myth of American military supremacy, and people like you will be dazed and confused by what happens.
🔻 C4: The last time Chinese soldiers fought against something approximating a peer enemy was in 1979, the last time Americans did that was in 1953 (and funnily enough it was the Chinese)
🔻 C5: I’ve said the same thing, macro true I think. Soviet pilots and Americans tangled in Vietnam. But the Soviets were only advising and training.😉
🔻 WS: And very few people realize that the US lost over TEN THOUSAND aircraft to enemy fire in the Vietnam War.
🔻 C6: We attrited the hell outta Vietnamese something like 50,000 to 2 million dead and they still didnt give up and we lost. Ukrainian warriors are tough as nails too so this attrition model I’m not so sure about
🔻 C1: The Economist calculates it as 4:1 to 8:1 to Ukrainians
🔻 WS: The inhabitants of the so-called “western democracies” are the most misinformed and easily propagandized people in human history.

The Economist. 🤣

In the final analysis, the Ukraine War will attest the most disproportionate casualty ratio of any major war in modern times.
🔻 C6: You’re high bro. Use common sense. Russia fires 10x artillery. Has air dominance and launches infinity more glide bombs and missiles blowing up Ukraine fortifications. It’s not quite shooting fish in a barrel but close.
🔻 C2: It’s the Ukrainians getting attritioned. It’s war they can’t win. 2 generations of Ukrainian men died for the US Empire… Now the warmongers want to send their teenagers to the front. Some say over a million dead Ukrainian men. 8 to 1 casualty rate in favor of Russia
🔻 WS: Very few Ukrainian KIAs ever even SAW a Russian soldier previous to being blown to pieces.
🔻 C1: I have no problem believing in a middle term. What is preposterous is you claiming the numbers propagated by the regime are legit
🔻 WS: You have demonstrated beyond all doubt that you are not knowledgeably informed regarding the Ukraine War, major power military strength, or military history. You’re just one of uncounted millions of people who have been indoctrinated by American exceptionalist mythology.
🔻 C7: Our decades long diet of mainstream print and TV news has been extremely detrimental to us
🔻 C1: But you are the one claiming exceptional circumstances for Russia
🔻 WS: The Russian prosecution of this very unique war will be studied admiringly in war colleges for generations to come.

My studied estimate is that the Russians have lost ~60k KIA.

The Ukrainians have lost at least 10x that amount.

It has been a massacre from the very beginning.
🔻 C8: Japan was certain of its victory in 1941 after defeating the Chinese in 1895, the Russians in 1905 and the Germans in 1916.

The US Navy had no real experience any other than some colonial adventures.

Japan turned out wrong.
🔻 WS: Nonsense.

Japan thought no such thing. Almost all the discerning Japanese leaders knew they could not defeat the United States in a war.

Japan opted for war against the US because, from their perspective, they were given no other choice.
[He’s describing the predicament of USUK today, no?]
⭕ This is a great map. It perfectly illustrates what happened in the Korean War.

And this was against an early 1950s Chinese/DPRK army.

2024 is a galaxy of history removed from 1953.
🔻 C1: Abdulreza Faraji-Rad, a former elite Iranian diplomat, detailed how Putin cunningly used Erdogan to foil Washington and Tel-Aviv’s secret joint plans to drag Russia into a protracted and exhausting war in Syria…

I hope you have read it and can share your impressions.
🔻 WS: I have not read it. Link?

As I said from the very first day, there is NO WAY the Russians and Iranians did not see this coming months in advance.

And Erdogan is a sucker for anything that strokes his invidious vanity.

His days will now be prolonged only enough to torment him.
[He must have Sicilian blood. There is glee at the Righteous Punishment of the Sültan to come]
🔻 C1: |link|
🔥Abdulreza Faraji-Rad, a former elite Iranian diplomat, detailed how Putin cunningly used Erdogan to foil Washington and Tel-Aviv’s secret joint plans to drag Russia into a protracted and exhausting war in Syria.

The Syrian gambit

Putin’s recent subtle December Syrian gambit, in which he launched Syrian jihadists directly against Israel and the US by “quickly withdrawing Assad” to Moscow, as analyzed yesterday by prominent Iranian diplomat Abdolrez Faraji-Rad, a well-known advocate of a strong Iranian presence in Syria, did not fall out of the blue, but was the perfect Russian response to Washington and Tel-Aviv’s secret raids around Syria this year.

Israel and the U.S., through the Emirates, began secret negotiations with Assad, and his Syrian backers, this year, promising to “ease Western sanctions against Syria” in exchange for “significant Syrian disengagement” from Iran and Russia. The wily Assadites promised a solution to Syria’s deep economic crisis, which was crushingly undermining their regime, from the talks. But the talks did not escape attention, and someone arranged for information about them to reach Turkey’s Erdogan.

A negotiated reconciliation of the Assads with the Israelis and the Americans, at the expense of the Iranians and Russians, would mark the final line over Turkish ambitions in Syria. So, as expected, Erdogan quickly mobilized his few pro-Turkish Syrian jihadists, and they went on the offensive in late November in what even Israeli intelligence at its outset considered a pure suicide. The attack by pro-Turkish jihadists on the Syrian Assadists was intended by Washington and Tel-Aviv to reignite the bloody Syrian civil war, exhausting all sides, including the Russians and Iranians, in protracted fighting and providing a pretext for continued Israeli campaigns against the Palestinians and Lebanese.

However, despite the expectations of the CIA and Mossad, the attack by Erdogan’s jihadists was quickly successful, as the “Syrian army” surprisingly offered no resistance, and the Iranian guardsmen in Syria resisted mainly by sight, as Tehran sent them no backup.

The result of Putin’s gambit is already shocking. The jihadists are not attacking Russians or Iranians in Syria. But by their rapid advance, a terrified Israel has already begun bombing Syria like mad yesterday, violating a UN resolution and invading treaty-demilitarized Syrian territory, and the Pentagon even sent a few B-52s against the jihadists this afternoon, destroying them with drones and making dramatic power talk. Yet not long ago, Israel was secretly treating jihadists wounded in the fight against the Assads, Russians and Iranians on its territory at the request of the US
[A variant of Marat’s article. More copium? The most likely scenario is a simple fubar, nothing clever. And civilizational-states were done a favor by the avarice and bile of a Legion which shall now devour each other. The power of Judo is using the enemy’s momentum against him. They’ve wanted to capture Syria for the Salafi Horde for at least a half-century (1982 Hama in Syria came soon after salafis were sent to Afghan, among other theatres]
⭕ 🔻 C1: How much of the recent #Bitcoin rally is Biden and Zelensky laundering money before it all ends next month…??
🔻 WS: IMO, it is wishful thinking to believe “it all ends next month”.

In the real world, when a major power wins a big war, they dictate the terms of its cessation. This war will be no exception.

Trump has ZERO leverage to compel a ceasefire in Ukraine. Putin will dictate terms.
🔻 C1: I meant that the Ukraine war ends cause Trump cuts Zelensky off.
🔻 WS: Time will tell. But I suspect Trump will prove to be unable to summarily walk away from a humiliation orders of magnitude worse — and more strategically significant — than the debacle in Afghanistan.

I’ll bet Trump will make a play to “save face” for American prestige.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ The new leaders of #Syria in #Lattakia.
[the black flag of ISIS]
⭕ Following the annexation of additional Syrian territories and the devastating destruction of its navy, air force, and missile warehouses, #Syria remains notably silent, refraining from condemning #Israel.
⭕ News about armed groups breaking and attacking worshipers inside Sayyed Zainab Shia holy shrine in #Damascus is incorrect. A group of armed people walked in but were immediately asked to leave by the new Syrian forces.
⭕🔻 C1: Elijah, what are the chances of the axis of resistance surviving now?
🔻 EM: The resistance is not defeated, not the Axis.
🔻 C2: It appears that, as you predicted in Rania Khalek’s show, Israel wants to restart the war in Lebanon. Will Iran get involved?
[there is a new notice issued today by zionazis to southern Lebanese, including all lands south of the Litani]

💠@Strategika51:
⭕ Al-Joulani and co. reassure Israel that they will never be a source of danger to her and that they will work together for the well-being of what’s left of Syria.
The hooded fellow approves, as do all CIA Ukrainians.
⭕ Assassination in Damascus of Dr. Zahra Homsia, one of Syria’s most eminent scientists. The campaign to assassinate Syrian scientists and experts is too orderly and systematic to be the work of mindless rebels. In general, the murder of scientists and scholars is a specialty exclusive to the Zionist entity.
⭕Qatar’s Al-Jazeera is blatantly manipulating its coverage of events in Syria. It creates themes similar to those that followed the fall of Libya and Iraq to focus attention on divisions and cleavages, while omitting the role of the United States and the Zionist entity.
Qatar is involved in the conflict alongside Washington.
⭕ Lebanon: Samir Geagea, former head of the Phalangists and one of Lebanon’s most pro-US politicians, addresses the Lebanese Hezbollah and tells them that the game is over. He calls on Hezbollah to lay down its arms and hand them over to the Lebanese army.
[this is a fascist Christian sect. Alone, it has scant chance against Hezbollah. But Hezbollah’s gonna be invaded from all sides shortly — zionazis from south and east, salafi Horde from north within Lebanon and NE from Syria, and these fascist freaks in pockets here and there. Hezbollah has a challenge on its hands. But it is stouter and better ground force than all those combined. However NATO owns the sky, and has vast supply chain..]
⭕ Al-Qaeda is becoming a popular and official ally of the Empire.

In fact, it always has been, since it is a 100% creation of the Empire.

Washington is merely formalizing an organic link that many analysts have rightly pointed out while being called conspiracy theorists.

In the end, the biggest conspiracists are within the US Deep State and in Tel Aviv.

Another conspiracy theory proved true. Next!
⭕ Netanyahu believes in numerology. He declared before the Knesset that Israel is fighting a war on seven (7) fronts. No matter how hard we look for these 7 fronts, they don’t add up. The evocation of the number 7 is therefore linked to esoteric and purely Talmudic considerations.
Or is it an inflation of imaginary fronts?
⭕ Washington’s brainless friends are doing a fine job in Syria with summary executions, lynchings and other joyous deeds. An old Syrian air defense officer lynched to death by young terrorists born after 2001.
The empire and the values it wants to impose on the rest of the world. |media|
⭕ No force in the world can make up for the moral defection of an army whose commanders have been corrupted by money from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries.

An army that abandons its weapons is doomed to perish.

The Syrian lesson is even more eloquent than the one that took place in Iraq in 2003.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦 On the first use of a Ukrainian drone-missile and the strike on Taganrog

🔻Last night, the enemy carried out the first attack on “old” Russian territories with operational-tactical ATACMS missiles in a number of six units in a significant period of time.

• There were no Neptune anti-ship missiles, no kamikaze UAVs, and certainly no Peklo drone-missiles, which were recently presented in the so-called Ukraine, in this strike. Only six ATACMS missiles.
• According to our data, it was not possible to shoot down all the missiles over the Taganrog Aviation Scientific and Technical Complex, but it was possible to avoid any damage to the infrastructure. Only automotive equipment in the parking lot was affected.
• The launch was carried out from the Zaporizhia Region, and the flight time was just under two minutes. This object has recently been under close scrutiny of Western intelligence, but they failed to achieve their goal.

❗️As for the Peklo drone-missile, its use was recorded yesterday, but in the Black Sea. One specimen was detected from the Odesa Region, and it was shot down by a MiG-29 of the Black Sea Fleet 120 km southwest of Tarkhankut around 11 am.

So this can be called the first combat use of the Ukrainian “wonder-weapon”, but not very successful, as it is described by the Ukrainian media at the behest of some of our information outlets.
[this is an Oreshnik testing opportunity, as used ATACMS… unless that Iskander sufficed, per new calculations.. ]

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ ❗️ “These are the most dangerous weeks of the Russian-Ukrainian war” – Viktor Orban after a conversation with Putin.
[more threats from Empire – Orban spoke to the Dumpster beforehand, conveying “messages”]

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Physicist Dr. Shadia Habel murdered with her husband in Damascus.
The assassins of this eminent Syrian scientist used the same modus operandi as for the four other Syrian scientists murdered in the last 24 hours: two bullets to the head.

This campaign of assassinations of scientists bears the clear marks of Mossad.
⭕ The Russians are too slow to relax. They hope that a hypothetical new regime will ensure the continuity of their military presence in Tartous and Hmemim. However, the Americans already covet the military port of Tartous and are in the process of contacting the Alawite minority living along the coast to offer them extended autonomy from the rest of Syria in exchange for a US military presence guaranteeing their independence.

The Russians’ wait-and-see attitude could play into their hands.

It is true that the rebels have not attacked the Russian embassy and have refrained from attacking Russian bases, but this is uncertain and could change at any moment.
⭕ Khamenei’s speech, especially the part in which he warns against defeatist rhetoric as a threat to the Iranian nation, is a very poor indicator of Iran’s posture and will encourage his opponents to go further.
⭕ Afghanistan: the Minister for Refugees killed in a bomb explosion in his ministry in central Kabul.
⭕ Israeli parliamentarian Galit Distel Atbrian told Avi Mimran on Radio ‘Kol Chai’: “Anyone who looks at Netanyahu with less materialistic eyes can see God hovering over him. There is no natural or logical explanation for what he is experiencing. In my personal conversations with Netanyahu, we only talk about faith and philosophy.”

“God hovering over Netanyahu”. They are going a bit far though… We will soon have a new philosophical discipline related to divine aerodynamics…
⭕ In Syria, journalists from the Turkish Anadolu Agency and the Qatari Al-Jazeera channel are using the same verbal, graphic and visual elements as those of the allies “liberating” the Nazi concentration camps towards the end of the Second World War. Since yesterday, they have added a means of transport for the “deportees”, an undressing room, another for collecting teeth and more particularly gold teeth, a DDT cleaning room and finally an extermination chamber. They could have added the gas chambers.

Piles of clothes and piles of naked corpses scattered on the concrete floor are shown on a loop and the Syrians no longer think about the US and Israeli aerial bombardments or even the loss of the Golan or Mount Hermon or even Damascus but are increasingly enraged by seeing such images. The pro-US Arab media added their two cents by repeating urban legends such as the one about the presence of 80,000 prisoners in the famous Sednaya prison belonging to the intelligence services of the former defunct regime. It is technically impossible but everyone believed it. The White Helmets (Mi6) even announced that they would give up looking for underground prisons under this prison. Crowd manipulation has reached the level of trance. No matter who occupies the former Syria, no one will care anymore.
⭕ Voices are being raised in Israel to refrain from noisily expressing joy at what is happening in Syria, and to stop mentioning the advance of Israeli forces in that country, so as not to embarrass the new government.
⭕ The most objective assessment possible indicates that the Palestinian liberation struggle no longer has a raison d’être. Nor can the existence of the Arab states of the Middle East from a “nationalist” perspective be justified from a historical point of view. This is the end of Arab nationalism. It ended as it began: a passing anomaly in the long history of a region that has always been part of much larger empires.

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 📹 🇸🇾 Video of destruction of former Syrian President Hafez al-Assad’s grave in Latakia by an armed mob |media|
[remind you of zionazis who also take vicarious pleasure in desecrating and “attacking” graves?]

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇸🇾The Baath Party in Syria has officially suspended its activities. It is worth recalling that the destruction of the Baath Party in Iraq led to the emergence of ISIS. What mutant will be born from the brew of the Syrian civil war – we have yet to find out.
[Arabism, like antecedent political movements in West Asia, is dead.]

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ 🔻🇾🇪 Latest developments in the Al-Aqsa Flood battle: In short, Yemen has not abandoned Gaza, even if the blood reaches above the knees. The occupying Zionists and their despicable supporters should await their turn from proud Yemen.
⭕️ 🔻Maariv Israeli:
The Houthis have decided to continue fighting against Israel at any cost, at least until the fighting in Gaza concludes. [correction: until Siege is lifted on all Palestinians]

— The Houthis’ activity seems particularly noticeable since the ceasefire agreement in Lebanon.
— The main problem in the operation against the Houthis is the inability of Israeli or American actions to deter the Houthis from continuing their activities. Moreover, it appears that these actions are actually accelerating the Houthis’ activities against ships passing through the Bab al-Mandab Strait.

It is important to remember that, certainly in the maritime context, no solution has been found to stop the Houthis’ activities, which have effectively led to the freezing of activity at the Port of Eilat and caused severe damage to Israeli imports from East Asia.

— The Houthis operate from ideological motives and do not have “profit and loss” calculations.
⭕ “For the first time, the settlers’ cameras have documented in such a way and clarity the arrival of the Yemeni drone deep into the enemy’s territory.

Thank you, O Allah.”   |media|
⭕🔻”Make the project known as ‘Greater Israel’ or what the criminal Netanyahu calls ‘Changing the Middle East’ your focal point, and judge matters based on their proximity or distance to its implementation and realization on the ground.

In contrast, there is the project of confrontation and fighting against the Zionist enemy and its American sponsor.

There is no third project because neutrality serves the interests of the first.”
⭕ 🔻I want you to keep this message in mind: Following the arrival of the Secretary-General of the Islamic Jihad Movement, Ziad al-Nakhala, and his deputy, Muhammad al-Hindi, in Cairo in response to an Egyptian invitation to discuss negotiations regarding the deal, it is important to consider that al-Nakhala is the next target for the Zionist entity.

You should be aware that Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey are those facilitating the proximity of the Palestinian leadership under the pretext of negotiations, while the Zionist entity is the one carrying out the elimination of these leaders.
[And they work to divide the Resistance. Palestinian Islamic Jihad is faction closest to Iran]
⭕ 🔻The military spokesperson for the Al-Qassam Brigades, known as Abu Ubaida, will be one of the prominent fighting leaders in Gaza. The issue of the Israeli prisoners will be under his control, as he dictates the terms of resistance.
⭕ We stand with Gaza

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇮🇷⚡️ Iran: IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami:

• Syria was the only country that refused to normalize relations with the Zionist enemy and served as a refuge for resistance and liberation movements.
• We were aware of the movements of militants and extremists in Syria over the past few months.
• We managed to identify potential attack fronts and informed the relevant military and political authorities in Syria, but there was no will for change or war.
• Iran’s power has not declined; if it had, we would not have carried out the “True Promise 1 and 2” operations.
• Some expect the IRGC to fight in the battle instead of the Syrian army, but is it logical for us to fight in another country while that country’s army stands idle?
• The paths to support the Resistance front are open and are not limited to Syria, and circumstances in Syria may change.
  🚩 @ResistanceTrench

[How little so many understand, saying the Resistance has lost and is over! Fools! Syria was a blow, but this was merely one round.]

💠 @S p r i n t e r :
⭕️ Turkish TV is talking about a future map of Turkey’s expansion for 2025, which includes parts of Armenia, Georgia, Greece, Bulgaria, Cyprus, northern parts of Iraq and Syria   |media|

💠 Amore:
⭕ [HTS’s Al Jolani:] “I used to be an ISIS head-chopper wanted by the US State Department but now I’m a harmless woke Jihadi conservative. The hand signal is for the blessed souls who helped me sit and read all these wonderful scholastic books to enlighten me. Even my hair cut improved.”

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ — ✏️ Now it makes sense why Iran never delivered Bavar-373 or 3rd-Khordad Air Defense systems to Syria.

I guess Iran knew that at some point this would’ve happened and there wouldn’t be enough time to evacuate such systems as—in contrary to Russia—Iran does not have actual military bases inside of Syria to store them.

Russia transferred all air defense systems, those scattered outside their bases, to Tartous, where they are kept safe.
⭕ 🇮🇷|🇮🇷 IRGC Commander-in-Chief, Maj. General Salami:

“The last person on the defensive lines in Syria was an IRGC personnel”

Highlights from his speech:

• Contrary to claims, Iran did not lose its regional arms. Salami emphasized, “No, the system has not lost its arms. We are making decisions & taking action based on our internal capacities & capabilities. We have strong political logic for fighting and strong legitimacy for defense.”
• Syria (government) was the only Arab country that had brightest and most significant history in confronting Zionism, they were the only country that rejected all reconciliation plans.
• Takfiris were the West’s deterrent model against the Islamic Republic’s spiritual influence. Around 300,000 Takfiris from across the globe were brought into Syria & Iraq with slogans centered on massacring Shias, destroying shrines and tombs of the Imams.
• Takfiris targeted any tomb that symbolized the religious identity of Muslims, especially Shias. They burned people alive. For instance, in the Speicher massacre in Iraq, nearly 2,000 young Iraqi Air Force cadets were massacred in a single day.
• Over the past 13 years, Iran have worked to make Hezbollah & the Palestinian resistance factions more self-reliant & independent in their logistical support from Iran.
• Illogical for IRGC to replace Syrian army.
• After ISIS situatuon, Syrian army took control of defense lines, and the Syrian gov preferred Iran to reduce its large presence to avoid political propaganda against him.
• Final person to leave the battlefield in Syria was an IRGC officer. Strategies must evolve with circumstances. A static approach cannot address diverse global & regional issues.
• Iran provided intel to Syria’s political & military leadership on takfiri movements prior to their uprising. However, there was a lack of genuine will for change, war, and steadfastness
• Answering a question, to Iran losing its regional influence. He says this is not true. Iran is still capable of supporting its allies. Pathways to support the resistance (Hezbollah & Palestinian resistance) remain open, and not all were depended on Syria. Even there, circumstances may evolve in new directions.

⭕ 🇸🇾🇹🇷🇮🇷| Well This Is Interesting…

Kurdish-led SDF in Syria—a US ally in Syria—used Iranian 358-SAM against a Turkish drone.

The 358-SAM is the same missile used by Hezbollah, AnsarAllah & PMU to shoot down israeli & US drones.
[Events move at a dizzying pace. So hard to keep up. We need at least 36 hours/d.
Yes this is interesting indeed. Iran is arming the Kurds?? No wonder the US is abandoning the Kurds in a hurry and the Turks rush to push them out of Syria into Iraq. Recall the first foreign visit of the new Iranian Prez was to Iraqi Kurdistan, and he is himself of part-Kurd stock… I’ve long said among the coalition which shall invade Anatolia and retake Constantinople will include Kurds, arabs, Iranians….]

💠@Strategika51:
⭕ Everyone is freed in Syria.

– “Are you Kurdish or Arab?” asks the HTS member to one of the two captured young women from Cassad.

– “Arab!” replies the one whose arm is wounded.

The rest is not good to see. |media|
⭕ Revelation: Russia withdrew all S-300 systems from Syria, two weeks before the fall of Damascus.
The former Syrian army had only S-250, S-200, upgraded S-125, Buk and Pantsir S-1 systems.
⭕ French rebels fighting with the Ennosra Front witness the withdrawal of Russian military police forces from northeastern Syria.

These rebels come from the large French suburbs, thanks to the mediation of French intelligence. The latter invariably picks up their widows and orphans and repatriates them to France.

It should be noted that the rebels were given strict orders not to attack Russian forces in Syria, and this order is still respected. |media|
⭕ “It would be preferable, for the future, to divide Syria into five completely separate countries, which would eventually become Bantustans that we could control at any time”.

Basically, the idea has been in the air for quite some time. They did create Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia ex nihilo.
⭕ In the near future, the world will know just how crucial a role Azerbaijan played in destroying what Iran called the Axis of Resistance.
Without Azerbaijan, the empire would not have gone so far in its successes in the Middle East.

☝️ everything’s in motion everywhere, unprecedented in his long lifetime. Chaos. Syria IS a self-imposed trap by Empire. The fatal overextension. China is chortling, seeing a way to prise Europe from Anglo-Zionists. I don’t think they’ll be successful. The Eurocrazy elites are as mindless as salafis, zionazis and other deadenders

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇸🇾 Developments in Syria trigger surge of Islamist groups in northern Lebanon, a source reveals

💬 “Radical groups, which have been active since the beginning of the Syrian crisis in 2011, have started to intensify their activities. They do not need to cross the border, as they have effectively been in Lebanon for a long time,” a Lebanese political source in Tripoli told Sputnik.

The leaders of radical groups in northern Lebanon are in direct contact with Syria’s armed opposition, the source added.

💬 “It is unlikely that one should hope for guarantees from groups with radical views regarding the safety of representatives of other minorities, including in terms of freedom of religion. The fact that they do not obey a single command is dangerous, which has caused disagreements between them, and this situation is concerning,” the source said.

Former Alawite lawmaker from northern Lebanon Ali Darwish told Sputnik that the power shift in Syria has revealed a division in northern Lebanon between supporters of the revolutionaries and their opponents. Despite this, Darwish said that the army and security services had managed to bring the situation under control.
[As anticipated, a northern front using ISIS is being opened against Hezbollah by Legion]
⭕ 🇸🇾 The Baath Party announces suspension of its activities amid a power shift in Syria, ending the 61-year rule

“After analyzing the political, social and economic situation, based on national interests, the leadership has made the following decision: to suspend the actions and activities of the party in all its manifestations until further notice,” the party said in a statement published by Syrian newspaper Al Watan.

The party will transfer all equipment and weapons to police departments, according to the statement.

“All material assets will be transferred to the disposal of the finance ministry under the patronage of the justice ministry,” the statement said.

🔙 The Baath Party was founded in Syria in 1946 and adopted a socialist and national Arab ideology. Party branches emerged in many countries in the region, including Lebanon, Jordan, Libya and Saudi Arabia. It became the ruling party in Syria in 1963, while in Iraq, it remained in power from the mid-1960s until the early 2000s.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕🌐🇪🇺For the first time, the NATO Secretary General called for a portion of pensions and social payments in Europe to be directed towards weapons production, specifying that NATO’s military spending should “exceed 3%.”

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ No official in the new #Syrian leadership condemned #Israel’s occupation of Syrian territory and its advance this morning into Quneitra, where it ordered the evacuation of 10 villages.
⭕ Former Syrian President Bachar al-Assad broke the back of the “axis of resistance” and destroyed the “unity of the theatres”. The resistance in #Lebanon remains strong, the one in Palestine has not been defeated because it is still fighting and #Yemen supports Palestine.
⭕ The information about Assad sharing information with the Mossad about Iranian positions in #Syria is false. Nevertheless, I said he broke the back of the “Axis of the Resistance” for other reasons I’ll write about soon in detail.
⭕ The new Syrian authority controls Manbij and Deirezzour up to al-Qaem on the Iraqi border. The Arab tribes may give up and turn against the US proxy YPG Kurds in north-east #Syria, although the #US says it will not abandon the Kurds who have already raised the new Syrian flag.

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: An increase in USAF surveillance flights in the Persian Gulf, and a suspicious change in their observation patterns
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇮🇷 NEW: Donald Trump is reportedly considering Richard Grenell, his former intelligence chief, for the position of ‘special envoy’ to Iran.
[This Grenell is an open homosexual. He strutted into Berlin as Ambassador with his “wife.” Oh degenerate liberals of Iran – you deserve the typhoon of humiliation that’s arrived] 

☝️ this is a good point, and likely not a coincidence. The escalation to the zionazi rapture with Russia continues, after a pause with ATACMS, now that Syria is out of the game, militarily dismantled and being digested.

IMO, they go for gold next, jumping to Iran then dealing with Arab Resistance in Iraq, Lebanon and Yemen.. that is what is foretold in Eschatology anyhow. And Iran, like Syria, appears internally wracked right now, stuffed with hypocritical traitors. Grim days ahead, not least for us all outside Gaza, with the Doomsday Clock nearly at midnight

💠 @imetatronink:
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ The government of the United States of America has been completely conquered by clueless imbeciles.  |media|
⭕ 🤦‍♂️ Stupid Is As Stupid Does

Just when I was starting to think the US et al. had been “scared straight” by the events of the past few weeks, they launched another small and futile salvo of ATACMS into Russia.
🔻 C1: Do you agree with Alex Krainer that Syria is a trap Russia set up to draw the Empire into a quagmire?
🔻 WS: Alex is a brilliant guy. But my inclination at this point is to doubt any theory that includes this idea in its premise.

My inclination, for now, is to think this was, at its root, a misguided US/Israeli scheme, with Erdogan playing the useful idiot role.

But I may be wrong.
🔻 C1: Alexandr Dugin tweeted the other day that Syria was a trap…. for Erdogan. Dugin has deleted that tweet since.
🔻 WS: [retweets his old one:
🤔 “The more I ponder the possibilities, the more persuaded I become that Erdogan is the mark. He thinks he is in the process of pulling off a brilliant scheme that will make him a living legend. I think it’s more likely his days are numbered and few.”]
🔻 C2: How does the US lose 40 soldiers and not be a scandal?
🔻 C3: Its called ‘casualty laudering’
Some died in a helicopter accident, others during a training mishap & still others in a boating accident (perhaps)
🔻 WS: There have been at least a few hundred American “volunteers” killed in Ukraine since February 2022.

Lots of Poles, British, French, and others as well.
🔻 C1: Very interesting. If Russia set up a trap in Syria, the real mark is likely the US and Israel, not necessarily Erdogan. They could get bogged down in a quagmire of insurgency that might break the back of the Zionist colony and their backers.
🔻 WS: retweets old:
“‼️ Iran Is the Decisive Battlefield I never cease to amazed by the misplaced idealism and realpolitik naivete of the Russian and Russophile doomer class.
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Therefore, Iran remains the only option.

IRAN IS THE DECISIVE BATTLEFIELD.

If the empire doesn’t choose to fight for hegemony there, there will be no hegemony left to fight for.”
🔻 C1: I agree. Iran is the focus but Syria could become a major quagmire that can suck a lot of energy and resources of the US and Israel. It could turn their ‘victory’ over the Assad regime into a nightmare.
🔻 WS: I do not dispute that. I only doubt that the Russians and/or Iranians had some cunning plan to effect a “trap”. I think the Russians and Iranians simply “got out of the way” when they realized what was being cooked up by the other players in the region.
🔻 C1: Brian Berletic’s analysis on Syria. Worth watching   |media|
🔻 C1: Also I don’t see Russia leaving those bases in Syria anytime soon.
🔻 WS: They will stay as long as they believe they can. But they will also have a “rapid skedaddle” plan in place.

The Russians have potent firepower over the eastern Mediterranean from their own territory. Probably sufficient firepower to compensate for the temporary loss of bases.
🔻 C1: True they can reach any target they want in Europe and the ME with mid range hypersonic missiles like the Oreshnik so they don’t really need a base in the Med to project power
🔻 WS: They also have multiple types of long-range air- and sub-launched missiles.

It must always be remembered:

The US/NATO have no meaningful air defenses anywhere in Europe or west Asia.

They themselves have admitted to having no more than 5% coverage of high-value targets
🔻 C1: True. Oreshnik can reach pretty much half of US territory from Ksmchatka. Putin specifically emphasized these hypersonic missiles cannot be stopped by NATO’s missile defense systems. This is why it’s so puzzling that the US keeps crossing Russia’s ATACMs red line.
🔻 C4: Syria was a NATO trap for Russia and Iran, who refused to take the bait. NATO will keep trying elsewhere.
🔻 WS: #NoEasyWarsLeftToFight

And no willing proxies left to fight them.

American blood will be shed in the next stage of #TheLastWorldWar
🔻 C5: Yes, the DC/TH/London nexus will suffer its largest defeat ever..
⭕ 🔻 Senator Mark Kelly:  The F-35 is the most advanced fighter jet in the world with capabilities that are unmatched by any of our adversaries.

I would say that China and Russia are terrified of seeing it above the battlefield, but the truth is they’d never see it before it shot them down

🔻 C1: cc: @imetatronink
🔻 WS: I don’t doubt he genuinely believes it.

The US Senate is filled to overflowing with uninformed blithering imbeciles. They are its defining feature.
⭕ ‼️ Even at this late date, there are many among the western political leadership and policy-directing think-tank class who are in denial of the full-spectrum Russia / China / Iran alliance.

The fools believe they can still “divide and conquer” at will. They can’t and they won’t.
⭕ 📜 All for One and One for All

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel is now 20km from the borders with #Lebanon on the Syrian side crossing at al-Masna’.
⭕ Israel in bombing targets in the Syrian capital #Damascus now.
[1 hour ago. Does he mean non-military targets, as most above ground ones were already bombed?]
⭕ Israel claims is the now fighting on a new front, #Syria, when no Syrian fired a bullet against the advancing occupation forces.
🔻 C1: Isn’t Qatar and Turkey in Damascus now???
🔻 EM: Yes
[The ongoing humiliation and delegitimization of the criminal zionists in charge of the sunni world will be most salutary. Changes of elite coming, as said by Putin. This is the trap the zionazi combined West fell into. They couldn’t resist the golden opportunity and start to immediately savage Syria, even as their demented salafi proxies celebrate!]
⭕ Incredible tyrant and criminal entity: #Israel doesn’t want to allow the transition of power in #Syria and is doing all it can to push the new Syrian leaders to turn their guns against it, even though they have no missiles to fire at it and are busy organising and rebuilding the country. Netanyahu is not only a war criminal but a real danger to humanity.

💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ Attention will soon turn to #Iran.
⭕ Did Syria’s fallen leader Bashar Al-Assad refuse to allow the Axis of Resistance to deploy heavy weaponry from Syrian territory in its confrontation with Israel? Analyst @ejmalrai says yes and explains why on Dispatches with @RaniaKhalek |media|
[The betrayal of the former regime is multifactorial and catastrophic. Apparently most of Hezbollah’s arms and men were in Syria, waiting to open the Golan front to assist Gaza; they were led down the garden path BEFORE the war, and refused to open the front AFTER the war had begun, setting back both Hezbollah and Palestinians..
this a valuable excerpt from longer interview on YT above. ~ 0:45, note the hands position of the clown walking beside Assad. The arabs and persians are currently putty in the hands of the Big Club. Russians and Chinese are wise to get out of this doomed region. After the Ashes, and the thermonuclear obliteration of the West, and the end of the global Big Club, there will be renewal]
🔻 C1: Dear @ejmalrai Is it plausible that leaders of Axis of Résistance in Lebanon and Syria were targeted an murdered by Zionist régime because they were sold out by Assad to Arab Leaders in Gulf?
🔻 EM: No.
⭕ Syria: Quneitra and Suweida are the first to be annexed by #Israel in a show of “self-determination”.
⭕ Israel asked inhabitants in rural Daraa (south of #Syria) to evacuate their villages.
[LOL. these are the same fools who welcomed zionazis and sold out Syria]
⭕ The situation in #Syria is still uncertain. The new rulers said the government is temporarily & they would hold elections in 3 months. This will be challenging for those who won militarily, as Syrians may want a different gov, which they will elect. The process is in its infancy.
⭕ retweet:
The chief of Turkish Intelligence Ibrahim Kalin visiting the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus and being driven around the city by HTS’ leader Mohammed Al Joulani driving the car is aimed to send a clear message of which nation is really in charge over #Syria for the time being.
⭕ I wonder what will happen to the Palestinian organisations based in #Syria?
[what they have coming to them]
⭕ retweet:
Isr*eli media reporting from the heart of Damascus |media|
⭕ All Russian forces pulled out from all positions in #Syria to Hmeymeem air base.
⭕ Israel failed to reshape the Middle East via #Lebanon so it is trying via #Syria while waiting for Trump.

💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 C1: Ciao Will, piccola domanda: would be possible that many “rebels” and militia en Syria be Turkish Army working undercover?
🔻 WS: Dunno. But I doubt it.
🔻 C2: What Ukrainian operated American weapon has done wonders on the battlefield? Definitely not the Abrams, the patriot? Not really
🔻 WS: We’re still waiting …
⭕ 📜 Dictating Terms
You see, unless the fevered folklore of American “alien-derived military super-tech” is true, then the simple fact at this point in time is that the US has precious little credible bargaining power.
🔻 C1: In a world of rational actors working with perfect information all playing the same game
🔻 WS: Yes. It is a VERY dangerous game being played. There is great scope for miscalculation.
⭕ [cont. thread]
‼️ Even at this late date, there are many among the western political leadership and policy-directing think-tank class who are in denial of the full-spectrum Russia / China / Iran alliance.

The fools believe they can still “divide and conquer” at will. They can’t and they won’t.
🔻 C1: I myself still tend to accept this, but after Syria I think it’s incumbent on us to weigh the evidence that these actors are prepared to make painful sacrifices for each other. What has China sacrificed for Russia? Could PRC have done more for Syria? & when they come for Iran?
🔻 WS: We are in an end of empire epoch; irreversibly deep into the process of a global rebalancing of power, and though I deplore the fact that this is the case, the cold hard reality is that the inhabitants of Gaza, Lebanon, Syria … they are all expendable pawns.
⭕ Innovative drone countermeasures are a major investment opportunity. |media|
⭕ 🔻 C1: US to build 47 new military bases in Scandinavia in coming years, per Patrick Hennigsen. That means the US, militarising Europe like never before, plans to make war on Russia. Europeans, the sacrificial lambs in this plot, better wake up. @imetatronink @chinahand @MarkAmesExiled
🔻 WS: And which existing US bases will they shutter to cannibalize the troops and equipment necessary to staff these 47 new military bases?

Because the empire is already acutely overextended; its recruitment greatly diminished; its equipment decrepit; its replenishment deficient.
⭕ retweet:
🔻 C1: Read this thread from an Israeli pilot to understand what Syrians lost. |THREAD|
🔻 C2: @imetatronink Will in your opinion do these land grabs make a difference? Idf is bragging now but will they be able to hold these postures if they proceed with a campaign against Iran? Thx
🔻 WS: The idea that Israel could execute ANY form of ground-based “campaign against Iran” is simply ridiculous. They lack sufficient troops, equipment, and logistical capacity. It could not be done.

And the same goes for the US/Israel working in tandem.
🔻 C3: On paper, Syria was in no danger whatsoever of falling against some terrorists.
It folded like a cheap suit.

Israel thinks there’s a good chance Iran will also fold.
[indeed. They’re counting on it. And may achieve it, in tandem with decapitation..]
🔻 C4: It’s a matter of time and strategy. Why fight Iran directly when others can? With their troops and materiel, an allied Druze-Kurdish statelet in Syria could trigger the fall of the second domino of KRG via the PKK and Talabani’s PUK, followed by Northern Iran via the PJK.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️ Niger authorities reportedly suspend BBC broadcast in the nation for three months
⭕ 🇨🇳🇺🇸 Xi Jinping will not attend Trump’s inauguration, report reveals

On Wednesday, CBS News reported, citing several sources, that Trump had extended an invitation to Xi to attend his inauguration on January 20, 2025. The broadcaster said the president-elect’s inaugural team was planning to invite other foreign guests to the ceremony.

Trump’s invitation reportedly caught Beijing and US allies by surprise.

According to the US State Department, no foreign head of state has ever attended a US presidential inauguration since 1874.
⭕ 📌Major world events by the morning of December 13

• Overnight, 13 Ukrainian drones were destroyed over Russian territory, according to the Russian ministry of defense;
• Massive missile strikes are being launched against Ukraine’s energy facilities, authorities in Ukraine reported;
• The US successfully tested a conventional hypersonic missile, announced the Pentagon;
  [LOL.]
• Donald Trump is considering preemptive airstrikes on Iran to prevent it from developing nuclear weapons, according to The Wall Street Journal.

⭕🇸🇾🇺🇳 Over one million people displaced across Syria since November 27, OCHA says

💬 “Over 1.1 million people – mostly women and children – have now been displaced across Syria, since the escalation of hostilities on 27 November, according to the IDP Taskforce. Nearly 640,000 people fled the Aleppo governorate, 334,000 left Idleb, and 136,000 fled Hama,” the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said.

The Syrian armed opposition captured the capital of Damascus on Sunday. Russian officials said that President Bashar Assad had stepped down after negotiations with participants of the Syrian conflict, and left Syria for Russia, where he was granted asylum.

Mohammed al-Bashir, who ran an Idlib-based administration formed by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and other opposition groups, was named interim prime minister on Tuesday.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel is at 16 km from #Damascus and 21 km from the main highway Damascus – Beirut. The stability in #Syria depends on what Israel wants and what its National Security imposes
⭕ There was no pre-recorded farewell speech from Assad or attempt to explain the catastrophic events. Assad informed the head of his presidential office that he was heading home after work but instead proceeded to the airport with the Russians. He instructed Buthaina Shaaban to come to his residence to draft a speech, but this never materialised.

💠 @Leila Hatoum:
⭕ Ooooooooooo
[Links:
“Israeli media: Israeli calls for Abu Mohammed al-Golani to pray in # Jerusalem in the framework of reconciliation with the Islamic world 😀”]
⭕ Double upaaaaa
[Links:
“Settlers perform Talmudic rituals in the areas occupied by the occupation army inside Syria, amid calls from settlers to establish settlements in those areas”]
⭕ Triple upaaaa
[Links:
“According to the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, the Golani organization has informed the Palestinian resistance factions operating in Syria to lay down their arms, close the training camps, and cancel their military wings operating from Syria,” while maintaining political and charitable work according to the conditions of the Syrian regime”. Syria is flavored with “NATO rebels”.”]

💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇺🇸/🇹🇷 NEW: U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has met with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara.
⭕️ Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi held a meeting with IDF Chief-of-Staff Herzi Halevi in Cairo

In the meeting, Israel reportedly guaranteed to offer assistance and protection to the Sisi regime in the event of an uprising in Egypt. Israel sees Egypt’s current government as a ‘friendly and stable’ regime that poses no direct threat to Israel, according to officials. – Maariv

☝️ iirc, i read the Great Hunter was overcome by a single mosquito which entered through his ear into his cranium and whose buzzing drove him mad.
BTW, there are parallels of the AntiChrist in Nimrod, and his Legion too. At the end, after they’ve somehow defeated Russia/ Axes of Resistance, they’ll hurl “arrows” at the Sky too, and when the arrows return flecked in blood, they’ll declare they’ve defeated the beings in Heaven too. The madness of the messianic. Shortly thereafter, will come a plague sent at them, much much worse than that of mosquitos.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇵🇸 📹 In 1990, Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader at the time, used an intriguing tactic to imply that Israel had ambitions for territorial expansion and would eventually claim “half” of Syria   |media|  [The fix is in for the poor arabs. It was foredained millennia ago. The West needs to be buried. The chosen cemetery is the Holy Land, right alongside the bones of the arabs]

https://gaiusbaltar.substack.com/p/so-what-happened-in-syria

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Iraq is in trouble: Ahmad Ibrahim al-Sha’a, Abu Mohammad al-Joulani, was Mosab al-Zarkawi’s lieutenant and emir of Nineveh during the #US occupation of Iraq and the sectarian war waged by al-Qaeda in Iraq (later ISIS).

How can Iraq establish a relationship with a man who is on Iraq’s most wanted list?
⭕ If you cannot handle the truth, I don’t have time to play mediator for your issues. I am an observer, not a participant.

Assad bears full responsibility for his defeat.

He allowed the Axis of Resistance to crumble—as a united front – but remained as fragmented and isolated factions.

He blocked Iran and Hezbollah from retaliating against Israeli aggression.

The Syrian army failed to fight effectively in Aleppo, Hama, Dara’a, Damascus, and Homs, in that order.

Today, the individual controlling Syria is a former Takfiri emir—a man who has killed US occupation forces and Iraqi officers, Iraqi Sunnis and Shias, as well as Syrian officers and civilians, regardless of sect.

Neither Israel nor the US has any interest in a stable Syria.
⭕ Syria’s $80 billion debt to #Iran poses a significant challenge given the country’s dire economic situation
⭕ Iran’s delivery of 50,000 barrels of oil per day to #Syria to help alleviate Syria’s fuel shortages, critical for transportation, electricity generation, and heating and support the functioning of Syrian industry and agriculture, which rely on consistent energy supplies.

https://karlof1.substack.com/p/why-putin-couldnt-meet-personally

☝️ Dr. Karl is too professional and doesn’t indulge in the speculation we crave. (1) why was Medvedev delegated, (2) what prevented Putin from a secret trip, bolting him to Moscow right now?

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕️ Israel just bombed a target in #Damascus, #Syria. Over 500 Israeli attacks so far on #Syria.
⭕️ 🔻 Syrian Girl: Fact is. The Army didn’t “fail to fight effectively” because they were ordered to surrender without a fight.

Assad hesitated with the cause but that’s probably because of what happened in south Lebanon and Nasrallah.

What about when the Iraqi resistance stopped harassing the US occupation. That was the first hesitation.
🔻 EM: The army ran away. Assad was determined – never hesitated – since the beginning of the war and for 13 months to prevent anyone from firing a bullet against Israel starting from Syria. He refused to respond to Israel’s bombing of Iranian & Hezb positions.
[Good riposte. Assad had been turned or broken even before Hamas launched Al Aqsa Flood.. this was not a recent phenomenon]

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Italy grants citizenship 🇮🇹 to Argentine president 🇦🇷Javier Milei
⭕ US air strikes targeting arms depots in Latakia. Israeli air raids targeting Greater Damascus. Unspecified air raids targeting Misyaf and Qalamoun. The air campaign against what remains of Syria continues.
⭕ According to United Nations estimates, 92% of the Syrian population lives below the poverty line as a result of international sanctions.
⭕ 14.8 million of Syria’s 23.6 million people are considered refugees by the United Nations. Of these, 8 million Syrians have left their country for Western Europe, the Gulf States, North America and Southeast Asia.

The Syrian armed forces, which numbered 480,000 men in 2010, were down to 20,000 by December 2024. According to various estimates, over 260,000 Syrian military personnel of all ranks have fled Syria, heading for Türkiye, Germany, France, Belgium, Italy and Great Britain
⭕ The Syrian generals imprisoned by Bashar Al-Assad were no choirboys. One of them was in charge of supervising the transfer of ammunition and missiles to the Lebanese Hezbollah, and instead of delivering them to their destination, sold the entire shipment to the rebels in Idlib.
Another, in charge of coordinating with the Lebanese Hezbollah, entertained anti-tank mines and delivered names of Lebanese party officials to the Americans in exchange for dollars.
⭕ The Syrian paradox is that, since the fall of the regime, it is the former corrupt who have discovered their human rights activist souls. Worse still, criminals have transformed themselves into human rights defenders, and it is they who shout most in the media about the prisons and the disappeared.
⭕ Palestinian groups invited to lay down their arms and leave Syria as soon as possible by the new government.
Offices hosting Palestinian organizations will be closed. Palestinian refugee camps in Syria will be taken over by force in the event of resistance.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇸🇾At the moment, the security of the outer perimeter of the Russian embassy in Damascus is actually carried out by HTS militants. Moreover, they not only indicate their presence, but also practically take measures to prevent outside militants from approaching the embassy. In Latakia, the situation is similar with bases.

Negotiations with the political leadership of HTS on the future of Russian bases in Syria are ongoing. For now, the situation is in process and there is no final agreement on preservation/withdrawal. Bargaining is underway.

Well, Russian contingents in Syria continue to withdraw to Latakia, and columns with equipment are being recorded in various provinces of Syria.

☝️Mr. Jatras had this SIX years ago

He notes a detail many missed – the area oppostite Idleb had been garrisoned by best Syrian force (25th Tiger Forces) – which was stripped and removed south near Damascus, leaving the area to raw conscripts. The fix was in, step by step over the years..

It’s Bashover, it’s Assadone 😭 🙏

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ⁉️ F-16s Shooting Down Russian Missiles?

“Ukrainian defenses shot down 81 missiles, including 11 cruise missiles that were intercepted by F-16 warplanes provided by Western allies earlier this year, Zelenskyy said.”

There are no Ukrainian F-16 pilots. |link|
🔻 C1: “There are no Ukrainian F-16 pilots.”
There are, rest assured.
🔻 WS: No there aren’t. Not even one. Any F-16s flying combat sorties in Ukraine are, without question, piloted by NATO-affiliated pilots.
🔻 C2: Lindsey Graham admitted as much in this article – “Retired” NATO pilots LOLz |link|
⭕🔻 BRICS News: JUST IN: 🇮🇱🇮🇷 Israel is preparing to strike Iranian nuclear facilities, Russian State Media says.
🔻 Brandon : Well, I told you it was coming to this. @imetatronink
🔻 WS: Tra dire e fare c’è mezzo un mare.
🔻 C2: This was never not going to happen. Israel was not going to sit by and let Iran start building a Nuclear arsenal thus negating the advantage of their own in the region… bad enough that AQ provided Pakistan with the tech.
🔻 WS: I am persuaded of two things in relation to this topic:

1) Iran is already nuclear-capable.

2) Israel cannot destroy Iran’s nuclear facilities. And if they try, they will pay a steep price for their failure.
🔻 Brandon: 1) agreed and I say as much in my book on Iran (the only question is how advanced is their arsenal and, specifically, how reliable are their delivery systems).

2) As I note in that thread, Israel striking Iranian facilities is the trigger for bringing US into war.
🔻 WS: My challenge to the idea that the US could prosecute a “successful” war against Iran remains unchanged:

Describe for me a strategically meaningful objective and a credible order of battle for a US war against Iran.

To my knowledge, no one yet has taken up this challenge.
🔻 Brandon: Well, for starters, they’re going to blitz the bejesus out of suspected WMD facilities. Where we go from there is very in the air. Netanyahu has already tipped his hand in that he’s been making these weird appeals to the Iranian people to rise up, etc., so clear there’s some hope that the Iranians will take care of the heavy lifting for us. But don’t forget about the presence of groups, like MEK, that have long had influence and access to key US leaders (many of whom are coming back into power). There is probably going to be some cockamamie cover regime change attempt at some point, too.
🔻 WS: “blitz the bejesus” is not a credible order of battle.

Describe for me the force structure the US is going to assemble and deploy to accomplish a “blitz” deep into Iran against hardened nuclear facilities deep in the bowels of a mountain, and surrounded by a densely layered air defense system.
🔻 Brandon: Let me think if I want to do this here.
[LOL]
🔻 WS: Doesn’t have to be done here. Make it a formal article. All the better. I very seriously want someone to describe for me a meaningful strategic objective and a credible order of battle for a US military campaign against Iran.
🔻 Dr. Anton: |popcorn|
🔻 Brandon: As of today, I’m out at Nat Interest. Lol
🔻 WS: When one door closes, another opens … or so I’ve heard.
🔻 WS: In an case, even though its focus is primarily on a putative war against Russia, I include Iran in my arguments contained in this article. I submit its essential thesis is equally applicable to a putative US war against Iran.
📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss
⭕🔻 C1: Ridiculous propaganda on NBC tonight

Blame everything on Russia or China

The US ruling class can’t rationalize its own disgusting, violent existence
🔻 WS: The inhabitants of the so-called “western democracies” are, with vanishingly few exceptions, the most easily propagandized people in human history.
🔻 C2: I blame the education system to a large degree. Instead of teaching people critical thinking skills, it’s usually just more propaganda and indoctrination. Multiply that times 2 or 3 generations…
🔻 WS: It amazes me that the overwhelming majority of the student protesters are wearing utterly useless masks, outdoors — for what possible reason I cannot imagine. 🤦‍♂️
[the poor kids are traumatized, from the satanic covid ritual which taught the masses submission. To tolerate muzzling like obedient canines]

⭕ 🔻Jim Jatras:
🇷🇺: “You’d better not attack our territory, or ELSE!”

🇺🇸/NATO: [Hits 🇷🇺]

🇷🇺: “That’s it! We warned you! Take THIS!” [Hits 🇺🇦]

🇺🇸/NATO: [Hits 🇷🇺 again]

🇷🇺: “What! You didn’t learn! You ASKED for it! [Hits 🇺🇦 again]

Wash.
Rinse.
Repeat |link|
🔻Orthodox Reflections: Putin is cautious to a fault. It makes the incessant “war mongering” label leveled against him ironic.
🔻 Jim Jatras: Yes, “…. to a fault” is correct.
🔻 C3: Perhaps Putin is just trying to run out the clock on the Blinken/Biden wackos in the hope of more sanity from the forthcoming Trump administration. However, it seems that these Dr. Strangeloves might strike first anyway if they don’t get the “provocation” they seek.
[Russia and Iran.. up in a tree.. K.I.S.S.I.N.G… being cooked the same way]
🔻 Jim Jatras: Re “…in the hope of more sanity from the forthcoming Trump administration.”

Ah, yeah, well, there’s the other problem…
🔻 WS: Yes … but it also must be taken into account that, since November 21st, the US/NATO have launched a total of 25 missiles (19 ATACMS + 6 Storm Shadow) into Russia, of which only 3 have eluded Russian air defenses. That is an abysmal 88% failure rate — almost comical futility.
[it ain’t the success rate that counts. It is how the poor optics is used against all the civilizational-states, prolonging our agony]
🔻 Warwick Powell | 鲍韶山: Clearing out dud inventory by the looks of it. This is profoundly embarrassing & illuminating. The much-vaunted superior 🤷‍♂️ western military equipment is anything but. High price ≠ combat effectiveness.
🔻 WS: The ATACMS and Storm Shadow / SCALP are coming straight from US operational stockpiles. They are indeed now seen as effectively obsolete against Russia, but they’re US/NATO top shelf weaponry.
📜 Top Shelf
🔻 C5: Quite true. But Putin’s response nonetheless emboldens the West. B/w this and Syria, our rulers believe that they can use proxies to do whatever they want to Russia, and Putin will only retaliate against the proxies, not the West.
🔻 Jim Jatras: Exactly. What 🇷🇺 considers caution & show of strength, US/NATO take as weakness & fear, which spurs them to further escalation.
🔻 C6: maybe Russia doesn’t want to rise to Biden’s bait for retaliation to make Trump’s efforts to negotiate with the Russians more difficult?
🔻 WS: I don’t believe the Russians care one bit, at this point, about Biden, Trump, or any other ridiculous nonsense emanating out of the United States.

The Russians have their own agenda, and they are currently in control of both its pace and the ultimate outcome.
🔻 WS: I submit we are witnessing NOT a manifestation of US/NATO being emboldened to further escalation, but rather the manifestation of US/NATO desperation born of the understanding that losing this big stakes proxy war will mean the end of NATO and the EU as practicable structures.
🔻 Jim Jatras: I think those are 2 sides of the same coin. They’re looking defeat in the face but think they can dissuade 🇷🇺 from imposing that defeat by threatening irrational escalation.
🔻 WS: But Jim, the “defeat” only worsens the longer this goes on.

Time is on Russia’s side. The original Ukrainian army has been comprehensively destroyed. Two and a half cobbled together NATO/AFU armies have been destroyed. European NATO has been effectively demilitarized. The US has long-since been dipping into its own operational stockpiles to “keep the game going” at a barely sustainable level.

Meanwhile, the US has expended LARGE amounts of its stockpiles in Israel, the Levant, and the Red Sea region.

To me, so long as the Americans are willing to keep this going in the ineffectual fashion they have been doing for almost three years, why not let them?!

The US/NATO is being demilitarized piecemeal, while inflicting negligible damage against Russia.

“But muh Russian red lines! The humiliation of permitting US strikes without the immediate gratification of retribution!”

SO WHAT?

The object of war is to destroy the enemy army. That’s precisely what the Russians are doing.

#TheBigAttrition
🔻 C7: Biden’s trying to make things harder for Trump, he’s escalating further, trying to provoke the Russians, he knows Ukraine’s losing badly, he’s so desperate that he’s used the NKorean troop story to justify more aid & more escalation & get SKorea to provide weapons
🔻 Jim Jatras: I agree. But mere fact that more fitting retaliation could force Trump to continue the war shows how empty Moscow’s hope for anything reasonable from him is in the first place.
🔻 WS: What induces you to believe Moscow entertains “hope for anything reasonable” to come from its dealings with the US?

I see no indication whatsoever that the Russians “hope” for any such thing, nor that they are angling for some sort of “easy” resolution to this conflict.
🔻 Jim Jatras:
1. Draft treaties Dec 2021. Rejected.
2. Small force Feb 2022, pullback from Kiev.
3. “Almost” had “deal” Istanbul 2022.
4. Peace offer June 2024.

At every step, invitation to other side to talk. Where’s evidence of serious victory intention? Why bridges still over Dniepr?
[OK. I am disappointed in Mr. Jatras, whose articles I’ve read for a very long time. Why assume the Ultimata or the early force posture or the peace offers were sincere?? Russia knows how to play the game, and has a bunch of rowdy multipolar cats to herd..]
🔻 C7: not sure if Moscow hopes for very much from Trump, tho certainly Putin & Peskov have said a couple of positive things about him. I think the Russians are a far more pragmatic, realistic people than we often give them credit for. (cont)
🔻 Jim Jatras: A lot of them are. Many are all too gullible. VVP has consistently shown himself among the latter
🔻 WS: I vehemently disagree with this interpretation of events over the course of the past quarter century.

I think Putin specifically, and “The Kremlin” in general, have managed their affairs with remarkable wisdom, patience, and strategic acumen.
🔻 Jim Jatras: Yes, we disagree. Even Putin has admitted he fell for the Minsk 2 deception.

Patience, caution, yes. Acumen, wisdom – the jury is out.
🔻 WS: I don’t believe AT ALL that Putin was deceived by either of the Minsk agreements. I am long on record saying so. He was willing to entertain the charade in order to buy time.

The simple reality is that Russia was NOT READY before February 2022 to enter into a war that could quickly evolve into a direct US/Russia conflict.

They were barely ready in February 2022.

But here at the end of 2024, they are an order of magnitude stronger, even as the US/NATO is an order of magnitude weaker.

I cannot apologize for my obstinance on this point, because I honestly cannot conceive of how the Russians could have managed their affairs with any greater success than they have achieved.

They are on the cusp of consummating the single most strategically meaningful military triumph since the end of WW2, and they are doing so in the midst of an unprecedented end of empire epoch, fraught with unprecedented dangers.
🔻 C8: Possibly, but I am more in the camp of Putin wanting the Minsk accords to be enforced and latter when he sent that convoy in the direction of Kiev he thought it would bring people back to the table. His miscalculation is the fact the USA and some NATO countries are run by lunatics.
🔻 WS: What most people neglect to remember is that the primary Russian force was NOT dedicated to the “feint and fix” operation in Kiev, but rather to the Donbass, where the primary Ukrainian force had been concentrated over the course of the previous several months.

Between February and July 2022, the Ukrainian force in the Donbass was effectively wrecked, with the supposedly “elite” force in Mariupol effectively annihilated.

Legendary Marine General Paul K. Van Riper described the matter in detail, as I reported in the August 2022 article linked here:
https://xcancel.com/imetatronink/status/1680392039782023170
🔻 Hungarian Inquirer: I agree, plus They also needed time to prepare for Western monetary warfare (kudos to Nabiullina)
🔻Βατραχομυομαχία: One important thing should be noted. Despite (or maybe because of) his KGB experience, Putin is a firm believer in the international (and domestic) law. Signing both Minsk agreements was not a game for him, but a rational pathway to achieve piece in the region.⬇️

He expected his countersigners to act in good faith and it’s not his fault that they conspired to violate the agreements so brazenly. And another thing – he started as a pro-West liberal. It took years of betrayals to make him into a sober realist that he is slowly becoming now.
🔻 WS: All of this is a post hoc western narrative. In my opinion it bears little if any resemblance to what Putin thought, nor to the actions he was taking all along.
🔻Βατραχομυομαχία: Not exactly. We in Russia view Putin as a softie who procrastinated for too long unnecessarily, out of desire to appear as a reliable partner to his “partners”. Sanctions came anyway, but instead of solving the Ukro problem right then in 2014, he stalled – causing the war.
🔻 Gregorio: Ukraine is still holding the line. Recent event might give them new victory belief.
🔻 WS: What?

The “line” is collapsing everywhere. The casualties since the August kamikaze raid into Kursk have been shocking.

What “recent event” could possibly serve to “give them new victory belief”?
🔻 Gregorio: The Russian defeat in Syria (or it looks like it in media) might embolden them.
🔻 WS: How have the Russians been “defeated”?

And what would it matter if the US feels “emboldened”?

The US/NATO/Israel bloc is, comparatively speaking, an empty shell. They are not capable of prosecuting a month-long campaign, let alone a major war against Iran, or Russia, or China.
🔻Olivia: Gregorio is alluding to the media war. The West still controls the high ground in the battlefield for the mind. They will continue to feel emboldened as long as this is the case, that is, until they are completely and utterly destroyed on the real battlefield.
🔻 Jim Jatras: That’s why the West hopes to bluff Moscow into another phony deal.
And, no, they are not any longer piecemeal destroying NATO. Materially, that’s already been done. Now, they’re just killing off 🇺🇦 manpower while refraining from ending 🇺🇦 state, which would politically doom NATO.
🔻 WS: I simply do not believe the Russians are susceptible to a “phony deal”. They went along with the ridiculous Minsk agreements solely because they weren’t yet ready to fight NATO, if it came to that.

They were buying time.

Now they will dictate terms.
🔻 Jim Jatras: If you or I were in charge of the Kremin, we’d see it exactly that way.

Buy we ain’t.
🔻 WS: Well … this then is our irresolvable point of contention. I perceive “The Kremlin” as much more determined and resolute to achieve their strategic aims than you apparently do.
🔻 Jim Jatras: Who’s saying this?

I don’t rule it out. Many people in Moscow say the same. OTOH, there are still many pro Western liberals in the power center. VVP isn’t a dictator, he’s a balancer.
[and that’s precisely the seam the satanists aim for in all civilizational-states. And shall hit]
⭕🔻S p r i n t e r:
The Times of Israel: We are preparing attacks on Iranian nuclear facilities
THE KEY MOMENT IS THAT SYRIAN AIR DEFENSE IS DISABLED
The Israeli newspaper reports: “Our air force is stepping up preparations for potential strikes on Iran. We have destroyed more than 85 percent of Syria’s air defense systems, which gives our planes and drones complete air superiority.”
🔻 C2: IRGC spokeperson denied recieving S400 from Russia, Iran only has S300. He said our own Air-defence systems are far better than S400.
🔻 Dr. Anton: Is this true up to and including today?
I bet we don’t know.
I also bet Iran has spent this time ensuring (by whatever means) she has excellent AD.
Of course, 🇷🇺 stands ready to support and assist with that process.
🔻 WS: The Russians have NOT given S-400s to Iran, but may operate some of their own in Iran.

Iran has S-300s, Tor, Pantsir, and has also developed its own analogues for those systems.

It was an Iranian-made Buk analogue (3 Khordad) that was used to shoot down the RQ-4 drone in 2019.
🔻 Dr. Anton: Was a collection of the aforementioned which scared off the 🇮🇱 during their attack?
Or…..something as yet unidentified?
🔻 WS: It seems to me the only thing that would have “scared off” the Israelis is that they discovered they were being tracked by a type of radar they did not anticipate.

The Iranians have built their own long-range AD systems, and have apparently developed some excellent radars.
🔻 C2: I am not sure about this being true, but some sources said that Israel saw some super advanced Jamming system by Iran that would cause their fighters to fall, or maybe simple answer would be they feared their fighters getting hit by Iran Air defence in Iraq.
🔻 WS: Losing an F-35 to Iranian AD would have been a strategic (and PR) disaster for not only Israel, but for the US/NATO.

That said, we’re now speeding towards the day when the myth of US “stealth” is going to be shattered by a sobering dose of reality.
📜 Staggering Towards the Abyss
[this will be a consolation for what Iran’s about to experience: it will at least be a confirmed murder-suicide. It is unlikely they’ll collapse like the decrepit Baath regime. In forcing it the old-fashioned way, Iran will do mankind the service of escorting out the Old Order..]
🔻 C2: I would be scared too if I was going to attack an air defence like this. 93% of missiles were intercepted. |media|
🔻 C7: Stephen Bryen is generally one of the least bad MSM military/strategic commentators but his take is that the F-35 proved itself against the S-400 in the second IL attack on Iran, which requires either intentional mis-reading or a perversely selective one.
🔻 WS: Sorry, but although he occasionally puts out something decent, I am not at all a fan of Bryen. I think his sources are consistently suspect, and his analysis is often illogical.

YMMV
🔻 WS: As for the most recent Israeli “attack” on Iran, I am convinced NONE of their aircraft crossed the Tigris into Iran. And there was never any credible, persuasive evidence they hit anything of significant value besides the ancient Hawk system that was probably used as a decoy.
🔻 Dr. Anton: Most of 🇺🇸 thinks their military is virtually invincible. I know, members of my family think like this
🔻 WS: They ARE “invincible” … against adversaries with little or no capability to shoot back.
⭕🔻 Tom Luongo (Head Sneetch): They were always going to ask this ‘sacrifice’ of the people of the EU for the common good of perpetual war with Russia… fought with US money, men, and materiel, of course.

Rutte is whistling past NATO’s graveyard. |media|
🔻 WS: You have to admit it’s impressive they were able to find someone even more stultifying than Stultenberg was.
[another 50-year-old batchelor who was groomed by Herr Klaus Schwab]
⭕ [cont. thread]
🔻 Eve: US to build 47 new military bases in Scandinavia in coming years, per Patrick Hennigsen. That means the US, militarising Europe like never before, plans to make war on Russia. Europeans, the sacrificial lambs in this plot, better wake up. @imetatronink @chinahand @MarkAmesExiled
🔻 WS: And which existing US bases will they shutter to cannibalize the troops and equipment necessary to staff these 47 new military bases?

Because the empire is already acutely overextended; its recruitment greatly diminished; its equipment decrepit; its replenishment deficient.
🔻 C2: They can host forward deployed European NATO soldiers at the Scandinavian frontier bases. Moreover, with the direction the U.S. is going, the kayfabe uniparty police state could institute conscription and martial law (under carefully crafted euphemisms)
🔻 WS: As I have long argued, I am convinced NATO and the EU will be casualties of this war. They will, over the course of the next few years, cease to function as credible political / military / economic alliances. Schisms will arise throughout Europe; allegiances will change.

⭕🔻 Lee Slusher:
Casualty Estimates in Ukraine (and in general)

Estimating casualties, both killed and wounded, is a legitimately difficult analytical problem to solve. Any estimate is necessarily a range based on many sources, each of varying degrees of specificity, veracity, and timeliness.

Those who confidently try to sell particular figures are like the ratings agencies in 2008 that labeled CDOs as AAA when they really contained both good debt and a bunch of slop. Here’s how this really works.

On the far ends of a range are the official numbers from the warring parties. We know these are inaccurate. Combatants have an obvious interest in concealing the true extent of their losses. Then we try to fill in the gaps with other data points:

How many vehicles were destroyed and how many occupants do these typically carry? (Here we often don’t know if the vehicles were full, if the occupants were KIA/WIA, or if they survived unharmed—we guess.)

How many replacements did units receive after engagements?

How many deaths were reported by local media outlets and government offices?

What did field commander X tell his higher headquarters on the “special phone” and did he know others were listening when he said it? (Also, we might not know what commanders Y and Z said.)

What about those “official documents” an informant sold his handler? Were they genuine? Maybe. If so, how recent and comprehensive were they?

What could we glean from the median age of soldiers, and what about those videos of civilians being press-ganged on the streets?

There are other considerations, but you get the point. It’s all over the place. It has to be a range and it has to be one in which we cannot be overconfident. Having said that, here’s my view.

Russia has overmatch in all categories, but especially in ammunition quantities and in the numbers of the most casualty-producing weapons systems. It’s not even close. Then there’s how these things are employed. The Russian army is doing what it does best—it’s an industrial-scale killing machine that patiently encircles and annihilates its enemies all while conducting deep fires throughout the entirety of its enemy’s rear area. Russia will oblige its foe for as long as he is willing to feed men and materiel into a trap, and Ukraine has done this time and again (like in Bakhmut). Also, consider Ukraine’s counteroffensive last year. Russia constructed the so-called “Surovikin Line” with an eye on basic terrain analysis, as any army should. The only avenues of approach available to Ukraine were those that led directly into kill zones, each with a variety of Russian weapons systems already trained on it.

I don’t claim to have an accurate range of casualties for each side, but there is no world in which Russia has suffered greater numbers of casualties than Ukraine. At a minimum, Ukraine must have hundreds of thousands killed and many times that number wounded. Nothing else makes sense. Nothing else adds up. Support either side or none at all—it’s up to you. But this is the ghastly reality, and we should have some questions for the officials who continue to tell us otherwise.
🔻 WS: Great points, Lee.

I would only add that, in my view, there are very often “indirect indicators” that, although they don’t point to precise numbers of things, are very valuable to draw confident conclusions.

I submit that, if the Russians had suffered anything close to the losses attributed to them by Ukrainian and western sources, it would be reflected in the body language, countenance, and public statements of people like Putin, Lavrov, Medvedev, prominent members of the Duma, etc.

Furthermore, if the Russians had hundreds of thousands of casualties, you wouldn’t see the exceptionally high numbers of volunteers — month after month after month. In fact, you’d see demonstrations in the streets of Russian cities.

This is NOT the case. Quite to the contrary. Every “indirect indicator” of Russian casualties points to the conclusion that they have been inordinately LOW.

I continue to be convinced that, when the final tallies are made, it will be seen that this war has produced the most disproportionate casualty ratio of any major war in modern times.
🔻 Lee Slusher: Agree entirely. It will be dramatically lopsided.
🔻 WS: I will add another “indirect indicator” of what is REALLY happening in the Ukraine War:

Other than the subservient NATO/EU vassal states, how are the other major and middle powers of the world acting in relation to the US and Russia?

With few if any exceptions, they are acting as though they understand perfectly well that the US/NATO/EU have been abjectly humiliated by the Russians — militarily, economically, and diplomatically. Defeat across the board.

Everyone wants Russian military hardware; everyone wants Russian oil and gas; everyone wants to court a friendly relationship with the Russia / China / Iran axis. They are ignoring imperial sanctions edicts, and manifestly insulating themselves from what is now widely viewed as an unstable, unpredictable, rapidly declining empire.

These people are not stupid. They know how to read the scoreboard.
🔻 Lee Slusher: Isolation abounds. |link|
⭕ 📜 The Bitter Pill of Decisive Strategic Defeat
🔻 C1: The conflict is part of a global struggle which will unfold during this century. The rational & humane outcome is the Western imperialists coming to their senses & getting over their delusions of exceptionalism & Divine right to dominate the planet
Are they capable of it?
🔻 WS: It’s hard to say how this all ends. But I have a strong suspicion it won’t be “rational and humane”.
⭕ 🔻 BRICS News: 🇷🇺🇺🇦 Russia says “we need not a truce but peace” in Ukraine.
🔻 Brandon: Ok. But let’s take it one step at a time, Vlad. Run before walk and all that jazz
🔻 WS: Few realize Putin is making reference to the very things contained in the December 2021 “Draft Treaty”, and then forcefully reiterated in Putin’s pervasively ignored but eminently important February 21, 2022 speech:

NATO military presence must be rolled back to its 1997 borders.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ People ask if #Iraq will disband the Hashd al-Shaabi.

My answer is: Iraq needs the Hashd al-Shaabi now more than ever, and it won’t disband them because it sees the danger from ISIS as greater than ever.

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ ‼️BREAKING: Another prisoner who was locked up and tortured in [Al Assad’s] Sednaya prison has been freed from captivity.  |media|
[LOL. Actors aren’t what they used to be in the good old days]

💠 @Elena Panina:
⭕ “Sheep for the Shearing!”: Soros’ Man Under Trump Will “Make America Great Again”

The most interesting thing about Scott Bessent (he’s on the left in the photo with his “husband” and supposed son), Trump’s nominee for US Treasury Secretary, is his amazing background. It transparently hints at the springs that made Big Donald give Bessent the key post, originally allegedly promised to Howard Lutnick, co-chair of the Trump-Vance transition team.

▪️ The background of the future US Treasury Secretary is surprising in the sense that he is as far as possible from the image of the “savior of the American economy” as he is portrayed by typical supporters of the Trump camp.

Owner of his own hedge fund and acquaintance of every Wall Street bigwig, Bessent worked for George Soros at Soros Fund Management throughout the 1990s and mid-2010s, rising to head of the London office. He was a key member of the Soros team that played on the collapse of the British pound in 1992 and sank the Japanese yen in 2013. [perfect manager of USD right now!]

Bessent is also a member of the Rockefeller Council on Foreign Relations. He is a graduate of Yale, where he headed the secret Wolf’s Head Society. He is a sponsor of the election campaigns of Democrats Al Gore, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. Finally, he is openly gay, “raising” two “sons” with his “husband”.

After all, this is exactly what a “Make America Great Again!” finance minister should look like, right? Now the purge of the “deep state” in the US will be in full swing!..

▪️ What can we really expect from Mr. Bessent? Exactly that – an attempt to return America to its former greatness. But in a very bloodthirsty way.

Trump described the goals of Janet Yellen’s successor as “increasing U.S. competitiveness, ending unfair trade imbalances , and working to create an economy that puts growth first, especially given our future global energy dominance.”

Bessent himself told The Economist in October how exactly they plan to “correct the imbalances” of the global economy under Trump. It will be tariffs, tariffs and more tariffs. Tariffs “on a global basis” against everyone at once: China, Taiwan, Germany and the rest of Europe. Such large-scale tariffs “must be clearly defined in the form of direct guidance to provide negotiating leverage,” Bessent does not hide.

▪️ In short, it’s time for all weak players, including the US’s geopolitical allies, to “shear the sheep” – and they themselves will be the sheep . Do you want to continue to huddle under the umbrella of security? Pay up. Do you want to trade somehow? Pay up. Do you dream of saving your currency from collapse? Pay up. Are you afraid of ending up in jail yourself? Well… you get the idea.

Thus, by “shearing” yesterday’s “partners” and scraping out the last scraps, it is planned to “make America great again”. The US will, like a vacuum cleaner, suck out the tasty morsels and the last crumbs from the world table, and those who are “not in the house” will definitely be in trouble.

For Russia, this is even good. There are fewer illusions about Trump. Even fewer vain hopes that it will be possible to come to an amicable agreement with an America that is ready to tear apart even yesterday’s friends in order to maintain its hegemony.
⭕️ Atlantic Council: Let’s Keep Russia in Syria — But Under US Control

A very atypical opinion for the Atlantic Council (recognized as undesirable in the Russian Federation) was voiced by Kirsten Fontenrose, who led the development of US policy towards the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf, Yemen, Egypt and Jordan.

Fontenrose proposes to decide the future of Syria not in the usual way – by the will of Washington, but as part of a motley coalition of the US, the EU, China, key Arab states, Turkey and… Russia .

▪️ The reason for such sudden pluralism is the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, banned in Russia) group. Fontenrose does not hide his fears that the further evolution of Syria may not go in the direction the Americans want. And, judging by the readiness to keep Russia in Syria and to lure China, these fears are serious.

The fact is, the expert notes, that HTS is now so popular in Syria that it could easily hold democratic elections – and win. Moreover, Fontenrose practically expresses solidarity with Sergey Lavrov that ” supporting Assad against HTS militants was the choice of the lesser of two evils.”

Fontenrose, of course, does not want to bring Assad back, but to bring a “civilian political opposition” to power in Syria. To do this, she says, Washington must “quickly present a pragmatic plan for the establishment of a transitional government, holding elections and further governance.”

▪️ Thus, the entire “concert of powers” listed above is needed to persuade HTS to “move over” and to do the dirty work for the US. For example, the US cannot provide material support to terrorists, but if someone else (under Washington’s control) finances the future Syria, then everything is fine.

The United States has not had a strategy for Syria in the last four years, Fontenrose admits in closing. If we assume that not only Turkey but also Britain is behind HTS, then a stunning picture emerges: for the first time in decades, the United States is so vulnerable in the Middle East that it is forced, it is scary to say, to negotiate with Russia, China, Turkey and the Gulf monarchies at once .

In general, the multipolar world is in action! Although Fontenrose does not hide the fact that Washington intends to climb to the very top even here in order to control the process.

▪️ What is happening in Syria could indeed become another trigger for major geopolitical changes, and very controversial ones at that. For example, Israel, pursuing its own anti-Iranian interests, has now done us an involuntary favor by managing to strike Syrian weapons depots before Anthony Blinken rushed to Turkey to discuss the transfer of these weapons to Ukraine…

The saying “The East is a delicate matter” is rarely so true.

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Syria has technically ceased to be a country.
Turkish President Erodogan claimed Damascus and Aleppo as part of Turkish territory in a public speech.

Erdogan:
“The cities we call Aleppo, Idlib, Damascus and Raqqa will become our provinces, as will Antep, Hatay and Urfa.”
⭕ Turkish armed forces are entering the former territories of Northern Syria and reinforcing their bridgeheads previously established in Idlib. From the logistics employed, it looks like the Turks are off to stay in Syria for good.
⭕ A new Middle East is taking shape, but it’s not the Middle East of Washington, Moscow or Ankara.
⭕️ Turkish troops penetrate deep into Syria with substantial resources. Half of the aerial bombardments targeting Syrian military targets in the provinces of Latakia and Misyaf were carried out by Turkish air force.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇷🇺📹 Russian RS-24 Yars strategic ballistic missiles on special regime combat patrol

The crews of the Yars [ICBM] mobile ground missile systems are marching up to 100 kilometers. They are performing tasks such as engineering equipment of field positions, organizing camouflage, and ensuring combat security. The servicemen will also practice countering sabotage and reconnaissance groups of an imaginary enemy.  |media|

💠 @BhadraPunchline:
⭕ Macron’s reaches nadir — buries European unity: ties with Italy acrimonious; axis with Germany disintegrated; went to Poland personally canvassing for European deployment to Ukraine, PM Tusk gave him short shrift; Putin puts him in cold storage. All dressed up, nowhere to go!  |media|
⭕ Erdogan openly flaunts Neo-Ottomanism! Syria’s Cannibalisation formally begins. Two predatorial vultures sweeping down: Turkey from North and Israel from South. Damascus can no longer hold the country together, as Blinken comes on neocon mission to pick remains of the carcass …
[Links:
“Erdogan publicly brags about occupying Syria:
“The cities that we call Aleppo, Idlib, Damascus and Raqqa will become our provinces, like Antep, Hatay and Urfa !””]
⭕ HEY, HEY! This is a startling take on the multi-faceted US agenda over Syria’s cannibalisation triggering region-wide anarchy with extremist Jihadi groups as charioteer of geopolitical objectives. Gulf States are full of trepidation. BTW, UAE FM came on unscheduled visit to Delhi  |media|
⭕ retweets:
🔻 Orbán Viktor:  The possibility of a mass prisoner exchange and a Christmas #ceasefire is on the table. It doesn’t matter how it got there; it is there. There are two things to do with it: accept it or reject it. One party has accepted it, while the other has apparently rejected it. But there are still several days until Christmas, let’s hope for the best!
[Russkies accepted; combined West rejected]
🔻 MKB: Sorry to say this, but why double standards about Christmas? PM Orban is one of the staunchest supporters of Netanyahu’s bestial wars – second only to Biden. Why is Christian blood so very precious? Isn’t Islam also one of 3 Abrahamic religions espousing love? @PM_ViktorOrban
⭕ High time for Georgia’s president Zourabichvili, former French diplomat of Georgian origin who served in French foreign service as diplomat until her selection as foreign minister in post-colour revolution Georgia (2004), to return to Paris after a 20-year foreign assignment!
[Links:
“The President of Georgia will lose state security after tomorrow’s elections

This is the decision of the country’s parliament.”]

Scary times. What portals are they opening? The taking of Damascus for the Moshiach has earned them mighty rewards.. but the fat lady ain’t sung yet. Damascus, or a portion, will be retaken by the Resistance soon. The Descent will have an honorable waiting cadre

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Russian troops have successfully stormed the city council building in the city of Kurakhovo in the Donetsk Republic and raised the Russian flag there, a Russian official tells Sputnik

Fighting continues in the city, Vladimir Rogov, chairman of one of the commissions of the Civic Chamber of Russia, said.
[Major milestones being reached. Soon Donbass will be wrapped up. Can you feel the psychic pain and sonic screams of the demonic Losers??]

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🇸🇾| HTS leader Abu al-Jolani:

• “We are not seeking to engage in a conflict with Israel.”
• We are in contact with Western embassies and holding discussions with the UK to restore diplomatic contact in Damascus.
• Our goals are clear [yes—they are very clear actually], and our plans are ready for reconstruction and development in Syria.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Turkey can’t attack the YPG in north-east #Syria while the Kurds there are under US protection. The Russians and the Syrian army tried to cross the Euphrates after ISIS, and the US killed hundreds of them in less than an hour. The Kurds won’t join Damascus without a deal.
⭕ Ahmad al-Shara, aka Abu Mohammad al-Joulanai, said, “We are not engaging in a conflict with Israel”.

This indicates an intention to sign a peace deal between Israel and Syria after negotiation, which will inevitably give birth to domestic resistance.
⭕️ Turkey announced that the Kurds in #Syria are the enemies of the new Syrian government. Israel media said that Ankara would down the Israeli plane supporting the Kurds in northeast Syria.
[How beautiful it would be to see Turks and Zion go at it. Alas, cousin Sültan knows where his bread is buttered]

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Satellite photographs (Maxar) of the only two Russian bases in Syria.

The Russians should flee what used to be called “Syria” before it’s too late.
[They appear to be doing so. It’s a hornet’s nest, where the least evil group intends to use them as hostages for bargaining with Zio-USUK, to be eventually sold & cashiered]
⭕ Elements of the HTS were targeted by former soldiers of the ex-Syrian army near Latakia. 4 dead and wounded.
[Many are saying the rise of a real resistance shouldn’t take long in Syria. And the AZE knows it, being well versed in Eschatology, seen in frenzy to demilitarize and deindustrialize Syria. Yet Greater Syria is blessed and shall inherit]
⭕ Perceiving a weakening of Iranian influence in the region, supporters of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein took up arms again and called for the overthrow of the puppet Iraqi government. These calls are countered by calls to safeguard the country and prevent its demise.
⭕ Türkiye is emerging as the leading regional power in the Middle East.

The Lebanese Hezbollah, a simple non-state organization, absorbed the gigantic shock of the American-Zionist attack with many casualties, but prevented an invasion of Lebanon. From this point of view, the Lebanese Hezbollah’s fighting units demonstrated better organization and infinitely greater determination than the former Syrian army, which chose to throw in its weapons and join the rebellion. The Lebanese Hezbollah has survived blows that very few countries in the world can receive without disappearing completely from the face of the earth. The party will therefore continue to play a key role in Lebanon, but will now have to face up to three fronts.

Another player whose role is now unknown in the Middle East: Russia.

Iraq has become more artificial than when it was created by the British, and is likely to disintegrate at any moment.

Iran has lost its influence, but continues to play a role that has been undermined by the meteoric rise of Türkiye in the Middle East, Central Asia and the Horn of Africa.
⭕ Washington is asking the United Arab Emirates to finance and run a “de-radicalization” program for the surviving populations in the Gaza Strip. This enclave will be handed over to the Palestinian Authority if the latter reforms and accepts an audit by a trumvirate of Arab countries friendly to Washington.
⭕ In other words, it’s a question of reprogramming Gaza’s populations and transforming them.
[Oh Frenchie, ye of little faith. Resistance did not die. And it cannot die, even after they kill most arabs]
⭕ Let’s face it, Al-Joulani is an almost perfect Zelensky look-alike (with a height difference of +22 cm in favor of the Syrian Druze).
⭕ Al-Joulani adopts the same stance as Ankara towards Israel and all issues relating to regional affairs.

💠 @Seyed Mohammad Marandi:
⭕ Netanyahu is universally despised. Hence, his messages to the Iranian people strengthen the Islamic Republic both at home and abroad.

The same is true about Netanyahu and Biden taking credit for the fall of Syria. It makes people more suspicious about Al-Qaeda and its backers
⭕ Erdogan is working to destabilize Asia. But his alliance with Al-Qaeda will probably harm Turkey more than Central Asia or China.
⭕ The Zionist regime continues to bomb Syria’s key infrastructure and defense industries.

So far, Al-Qaeda has no problem with the airstrikes or the land grab
⭕ The Zionist regime continues to violate the “ceasefire” and murder Lebanese citizens.

Today, the regime’s drones murdered a young man driving his car in southern Lebanon.

Western media and Western diplomats are indifferent because they see Lebenese victims as Amalek, too.
⭕ The beginning of mass arrest of Shias in Latakia by Tahrir al-Sham   |media|
⭕ retweet:
The re-emergence of sectarianism in the region, historically stoked by imperial intervention, could be very disruptive to solidarity with Palestinians   |media|
⭕ Erdogan stabbed the Resistance in the back. Those who’ve been deceived by Western and regional propaganda will gradually wake up to reality.

But Erdogan is not Turkey. Even at the height of the dirty war against Syria, Iran preserved its cultural and economic ties with Ankara
⭕️ On @Dialogue_NRA
discussing Syria.

Netanyahu and Biden take credit for the fall of Damascus. They’ve destroyed Syria’s key infrastructure. Meanwhile, Netanyahu has carried out a land grab.

Jolani and Erdogan are being exposed as their impotent allies
⭕️ The forgotten but ongoing genocide.
#GazaHolocaust

No “round two,” whatever that means. It’s an orderly withdrawal.

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ A little forgotten flashback: a Soviet pro-Palestinian poster from the early 80s (before Gorbachev) that reads “Слава мужеству Палестинских Борцов!” (“Let’s salute the courage of the Palestinian fighters!”).
⭕ People in the Middle East are always very receptive to psychological warfare.
The soap opera of “Assad’s terrible massacres” never ends.
It took a retired Turkish admiral to say it wasn’t true for a few minds to wake up from the half-hypnotic, half-hysterical state they were plunged into Syria by the bludgeoning of CNN, Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabya, the holy trinity of lies repeated at a faster rate than a hand-cranked Gatling gun.
⭕ Israeli and US intelligence officials are in Amman to secure the Jordanian regime against a possible uprising.

The Israelis are afraid of a collapse of the Jordanian regime and that of the Palestinian Authority.
⭕ There’s currently a veritable frenzy in Freemasonry circles linking the fall of Damascus to the imminent reconstruction of the accursed Temple. The subject has become hyped since the reopening of the former Notre-Dame cathedral in Paris and the Syrian rebels’ non-combat entry into Damascus.
⭕ An Egyptian talks about the Tel Aviv University of Islamic Studies, founded in 1956 and accepting only Jewish students to the exclusion of all others. This University of Islamic Studies has close links with the Mossad, and trains fake Muslim preachers and “televangelists” who aim for notoriety in the Muslim world in order to propagate new sects and create armed groups and terrorism.

And we naively believed that the Islam of Daech was made in Haifa. In the end, it emanates from Tel Aviv, just like the 140 satellite channels with Muslim religious themes that appeared between 1996 and 2009, before the emergence of religious “influencers” on social networks who propagate nonsensical and totally illogical statements.
⭕ The Notre-Dame ceremony and the strange rituals of rabbis in the [Syrian] buffer zone since occupied by the Israeli army force us to tackle head-on esoteric subjects that go beyond the strict confines of strategic analysis.
⭕ From a strategic point of view, the theme of sectarian warfare between Sunnis and Shiites fueled by the USA and Israel is now reaching the highest levels of corruption, with the emphasis no longer on outdated discourses such as the typical Sunni Caliphate versus the Shiite Imamate, questionable insults and disrespect for major historical figures in Muslim history. Today, American-Zionist psychological warfare deliberately evokes the Umayyad dynasty, to arouse emotion more than anything else and revive memories of Islam’s first schism. Centers of Islamic studies such as those in Tel Aviv, Stanford, Cambridge and certain German institutions, are fully aware of the impact of reactivating primitive Umayyad propaganda prior to the fall of Damascus and its capture by the Abassids in 750 CE. This strategy will not only widen the gap between Shiites and Sunnis, but also create rifts within the Sunni communities themselves on these highly complex and sensitive issues.

American-Zionist psychological warfare is based on a history ignored by most of the population, to create a divide leading to implosion by reactivating fratricidal struggles serving US and Zionist geostrategic interests.
⭕ For the uninitiated, and to simplify matters as much as possible without falling into poor schematization, it should be remembered that the most bitter enemies of the Prophet of Islam converted to Islam and took power after the first four Caliphs (Vicars and Guides). This seizure of power by the Ommeyads, referring to a fearsome clan of the Quraish tribe to which the Prophet belonged, was seen as an injustice by some Muslims. The majority adhered to the view that once they had converted, there was no longer any way to hold them to account, and that only God would judge them for their intentions and actions. Others could not accept what they perceived as tyranny, especially as the Ommeyads had taken over the mode of government of the Eastern Roman Empire and made Damascus their capital. The repression of the Prophet’s descendants and their martyrdom created the first schism in Islam. The followers of Ali and the Prophet’s daughter were to lay the foundations on which Shi’ism would develop before it split into several heresies. A third category, the Khawarej (outlaws), rejected all the others and began to fight against them all.

It is these elements that are currently being taken up by American-Zionist psychological warfare to reshape and totally transform the Middle East.
[these “Khawarej” elements are today considered represented in the desert bedouins, esp KSA, Qatar, and UAE – i.e. the entire GCC, minus Oman. The most extreme of extremists, like the Islamic equivalent of nazis/banderists/western evangelicals.]
⭕ Marshal Khalifa Haftar, the strongman of Cyrenaica in eastern Libya, wants Russian military bases between Tobruk and Benghazi (Libyan media)
[life is stranger than fiction. This CIA stooge raised several sons within walking distance of Langley Virginia!
NB. this Haftar made several trips to Moscow and Gens Yunus-Bek and Armageddon visited him many times.. the Russkies were rerouting from Syria long ago, having read the tea leaves of the hopeless Baath regime..]
⭕ There is deliberate confusion throughout the Middle East, against a backdrop of intense psychological warfare being waged by powerful vectors. Note the deliberate ambiguity of certain actors.

Imperial propaganda is worn to the bone. That of its Arab relays is almost indigent: “discovery of Captagon factories”, “discovery of underground prisons without access codes”, “a famous Tik tokeur plays the role of a supplicant of the regime”, and so on.
It’s all déjà vu.
⭕ Perhaps the beginning of an explanation for these drones over the United States and Germany…😁 |media|
⭕ Note that this is at the level of American propaganda.
⭕ Trump is considering appointing other former porn actresses as US ambassadors to certain vassalized countries.
🔻 C1: Diplomacy at its best. Chabadnik Way of Deal
🔻 C2: In Saudi Arabia? 🤣🤣🤣🤣
DAMN !!!!!! LMAO HAHAHA 🤣 HAHAHA 🤣
🔻 C3: They hope so !
[why not? It was foretold for the Orange Camacho Gang. A veritable bordello, top to bottom, no pun intended]
⭕ It’s hard to understand the real posture of Palestinian Hamas.
Our initial prejudice is not entirely wrong about the MB affiliates.

The other factions of the resistance seem more coherent, despite the immense pressure they face (a massacre every two hours on average).
⭕ An Alawite guerrilla group has emerged in the governorate of Latakia. It does not claim responsibility for its murderous attacks. The HTS sends in its special units (the red bands) to nip it in the bud.
⭕ Turkish aircraft bombed all the water dams in northern Syria.
In the center, US aircraft targeted various sites, while in Deraa and Damascus, Zionist aircraft bombed some sixty locations.
[Syria is truly no more. It will remain prostrate for the foreseeable future — as long as Pax Judaica survives, which won’t be long at all, Thank God]

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺Increased activity of the Russian Armed Forces at the El Dhafra airbase in Libya was recorded by Western satellites immediately after the fall of Bashar al-Assad in Syria and the extremely precarious position of Russian military bases in the country.

It is assumed that if a decision is made about Russia’s final withdrawal from Syria, Libya will become the main logistical point of the Russian presence in Africa.
⭕ 🇺🇸🇷🇺🇸🇾A column of American troops entered Ain al-Arab (Kobani), a former Russian military base.

US troops also occupied former Russian bases in Sarrin and Ain Issa. |media|
[what was that saying, “fools plunge into that which angels fear to tread?”]

☝️ This pipelinestan saga is a red herring. It used to justify messianic grab for lebensraum and to destroy the central state in the Axis of Resistance (geography-wise). Fullstop.

The nefarious actors could care less about Europe, being dismantled and depopulated just as the arabs. And the criminals intend to reach “zero-carbon” in process of deindustrializing mankind through energy starvation; so how could they be sponsoring a new pipeline to the most developed region on earth?

Further, the two who most hate each other in the region are neighboring kin Qatar and KSA – why would the latter permit the former to benefit and transit on its land? Last, the Chaos which has reared in Syria will take at least a generation to quell. So forget about pipelines

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel destroy roads, power lines, water networks and carry out bombardment in Quneitra as an intention to create a buffer zone, violating international laws and #Syria’s sovereignty.
⭕ Assad threw in his lot with MBS/UAE, refused to allow IR/Hezb to use their weapons stored there to fight IL, hoping thereby to get sanctions lifted. Hezb still fought successfully against IL who failed to get south of Litani R. Now he’s gone & HTS seems to want SY to be at peace.

Assad’s Removal and the Fragmentation of the “Axis of Resistance”: Israel Capitalises on His Exit

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ Israeli Air Force launches new strikes on Damascus – reports

Israel has carried out 52 airstrikes on Syrian military sites in Damascus, its surrounding countryside, as well as in Homs, Hama, and Daraa over the past four hours, according to local media.
[This morning, local time]

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕  🇬🇪💬The Secretary General of Georgia’s ruling party, Kakha Kaladze, apologized for nominating Zurabishvili for president in 2018:

I have never spoken about this, but now I will allow myself to apologize to the population for the fact that it was through the efforts of the Georgian Dream that this woman ended up where she is now. A woman who serves not Georgia with hatred and malice, but foreign forces. Thank God that in the new year 2025, it will not be she who will congratulate the citizens of Georgia, but the new president.
⭕ ❗️The German ambassador, who declared the need to establish peace in Ukraine, should first of all address this appeal to the German government, believes the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova.

“We could also call upon the heavenly powers, but I’m not sure that the powers that protect the West are above ground level,” the diplomat quipped.

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ Hamas reported this morning that several Israeli hostages had been killed in new IDF strikes in the Gaza Strip.
Hamas claims that the attacks on the hostage site were targeted.

In Gaza itself, the genocide of the civilian population continues (several dozen civilians are killed every day), as well as battles in the ruins between Hamas and the IDF; despite the fact that Hamas is quite battered by the months-long war, it has so far managed to inflict certain losses on the IDF in urban battles.

💠 “Two Russian oil tankers sinking in Black Sea“

☝️ evangelicals are frothing atm, reinterpreting verse to fit the needs of the moment. No wonder “doors are being opened” in the Vatican too. Much of western Christianity is juiced, after long setbacks of their side against the Axes of Resistance. We can also expect their satanic footsoldiers to really help along “the Signs” by turning Damascus into rubble. This has the added bonus of causing millions to flee “…for a people without a land” to move right in.

💠 @BhadraPunchline:
⭕ Game changer in India-Russia ties and geopolitics oF region. PM Modi is systematically resetting India’s strategic autonomy. From Russian perspective too, this is an affirmation that pivot to Asia will continue as a long-term objective of its energy policies, esp with China-India
⭕️ Death of a colour revolution! Charismatic professional football player (who played Attack – Centre-Forward for Manchester United) Mikhail Kavelashvili, 53, to replace evict EU proxy (& ex-French diplomat) Zourabichvili. Big sigh of relief for Moscow!  |link|
[This continues the theme established by Imran Hosein about rise of Russia, and the checking of Legion/West in the Black Sea region, and indeed worldwide, in consort with most other civilizations. Now it is clear why the Saker had that most VIP session of Jungle Borrell weeping to Madeleine Albright about their losing the global “right to set standards.”]
🔻 C1: Are these the new principles of western democracy? India is criticised for backsliding of democracy by a chorus of western busybodies but the Georgian president determined to cling to power based on a self-defined mandate that rejects the will of the Georgian electorate and seeks to derive legitimacy from “European structures” is seen as preserving democracy.
🔻 MKB: Best solution will be to deport her to France from where she was catapulted to Tbilisi after the CIA’s colour revolution in 2003. Perhaps, she can resume her career in the French foreign service?
⭕ 🔻 C1: Before raising the Soros bogey BJP must answer this simple question: Soros’s Open Society Foundation receives funding from the UN Democracy Fund for 68 projects & India is the fourth-largest donor to this UN fund for the last eight years! How does BJP explain this?
[BJP is Modi’s ruling party in India, currently in fracas with Anglo-Zionists spearheaded by Soros]
🔻 MKB: It only shows how malleable UN agencies are to US wishes / diktats/ pressures. India’s association with this UN fund can be traced to liberal-globalist era of Congress rule when we were delusional US & India were ‘natural allies’ promoting ‘Democracy’. High time for rethink now!
[Congress was India’s main political ruling party since independence from the rotten British Empire. They went full lib-retard after the USSR bit the dust]
⭕ Nothing sinister here. Russia & China are coordinating at highest level as Trump assumes power & expectations are high that peace talks will commence. Beijing treated this as a state visit far beyond protocol norms for a senior official. Conspiracy theories are best avoided.
[Helmer appears to have gone full retard! Is this what Y’all were talking about recently?? This is beneath even him. I haven’t followed his agonies and elaborate agonizing lately. Good decision!]
⭕ GT editorial:
“For some time now, Washington’s approach to China has exhibited a contrast between the competition in high-profile rhetoric in public discourse and closer cooperation in practice… The hawkish stance is increasingly out of sync ..

“The facts prove that the economic interests of China and the US are deeply intertwined… As the Chinese saying goes, “A new year brings new beginnings.” It is hoped that in the coming year, China-US relations can start on a positive note from a new starting point.”  |link|
[LOL. Our celestial emperors are feeling expansive and fiddling their golden oats! Not so fast sonnies. These are messianic times. The Orange Camacho Gang are True Believers. The Drang is still on. And you remain a Big Fat Target]
⭕ Hmm. Traditionally, prisoner exchange creates ‘feel-good’ and is foreplay before Russian-American summits. This overture has come from none other than Sergey Naryshkin following up Lavrov’s remarks to Tucker Carlson
|link|
[Alotta wasted petting and heavy breathing, that’s for sure. See prior advice to our other eager bunnies of the Middle Kingdom]
⭕ ‘Strangers in the night exchanging glances /Wondering in the night / What were the chances … |link|
[The old Ambassador’s an incorrigible romantic, like your’s truly]
⭕ “This experience may be in demand in the future if new regions very close to us appear in our country, because this is possible.” |link|

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ‼️ The Great Drone Invasion

Several times in recent days I have been asked:

“What’s your theory on the mysterious drones seen over New York and New Jersey?”

Here is my universal answer to these queries
[might be nuke-sniffers training or seeding airborne infectious baddies; it also covers “the aliens are coming” base. The dregs of the Empire of Lies & Illusions! Choking on their own fetid narratives]
🔻 Brandon: It’s our stuff. We’ve been experimenting with transmedium drones for a decade. Now we’re testing them en masse.
🔻Anthony Swan: 💯 correct. Current NATO war against Russia should have put this myth of western “superior weapons” to rest.
🔻 Brandon: Most of the stuff that NATO gave to Ukraine was junk.
🔻 WS: That is complete nonsense. Demonstrably untrue in every respect.
📜 Top Shelf
🔻 Brandon: I said “most” for a reason. And, yes, the French AMX-10RC, for instance, fleet that was sent was literal junk. Some of the air defense systems were not. Do not paint with a wide brush. Even the Bradleys are not our best fighting vehicles.
[life would be so much more simple, and bearable I suppose, having a noggin like Brandons..]
🔻 WS: You cherry-picked the single outlier, of which only a handful were sent by the French, and then immediately withdrawn.

What IFV is superior to the Bradley?

Your argument is categorically false.

Did you even read the short article I linked?

Here is the most important part
🔻 WS: Retweets his old:
“‼️ Many believe the US military possesses “super-tech” (possibly alien-derived) that it will unleash on America’s foes if they ever become an annoyance to the interests of the empire.

I am confident this is an American exceptionalist fairy tale”
🔻 C2: These drones are likely some advanced tech which the USN is testing on their own shores and military bases to likely check possible reaction times by local agencies, stress test the drones in various environments and weather conditions. Drones are very clearly man made.
🔻 Brandon: We’ve got transmedium drones. It’s not jingoism. It’s a fact. China is getting them, too.
🔻 WS: Yeah? What do they do? What military advantage derives from these “transmedium drones“?
[LOL. Will! That’s the new optical catch-word; “transmedium” is the new “stealth” or “wunderwaffe.”]
🔻 Brandon: They can traverse undersea and air. And it apparently freaks the denizens of New Jersey out.
🔻 WS: Yes, I understand the meaning of “transmedium“.

What is the military utility of these purported devices?
🔻 Brandon: It just adds another delivery and/or surveillance capability into the toolkit.
🔻 WS: Sounds like the same kind of overpriced / overengineered / unreliable / underperforming novelty platforms the American boutique arms manufacturers have wasted time and money on for many decades.

No doubt the marketing brochures promise it will be a world-beating “game-changer”.
🔻 Brandon: You’re talking to the guy who p*ssed off the aircraft carrier cabal so much that I lost my job over it. So, I’m with you on being skeptical. But that’s the explanation for why they’re building and testing these things.
🔻 WS: But, just to be clear, I don’t believe for a moment that the US military has developed and is operating practical and militarily useful “transmedium” drones.
🔻 Brandon: Well, I think what we’re seeing is that so I guess we’ll have to wait and find out.
🔻 WS: I wanna know what they do underwater. What is their undersea mission? Seriously. What is the point of them being able to submerge?
[ |media| ]
🔻 Brandon: It’s the same reason China is developing that super cavitating torpedo that is launched undersea and then becomes a missile in its terminal phase. It makes the weapon harder to track & harder to evade. Again, whether it’s a decisive advantage or not is questionable.
🔻 WS: Non sequitur.

We’re talking about brightly lit slow-flying drones cruising leisurely at low altitudes.

The physics for an airborne vehicle are completely different than for a submersible vehicle.

Sorry Brandon, but in my view, the whole concept sounds ridiculous and useless.
🔻 Brandon: Fair enough but what I said about China is not a non sequitur at all. It’s the reason militaries are trying to develop transmedium vessels.
🔻 WS: The Chinese torpedo that (purportedly) uses short-duration rocket propulsion to exit the water and strike ships from above is not really demonstrating any revolutionary technology.

In any case, where is the evidence that “militaries are trying to develop transmedium vessels”?
🔻 C3: What if the aliens landed somewhere else….
[now we’re talkin’. My old Sicilian vet roommate who spent hours each day swaying on his high feet watching the X-Files must be in nirvana..]
🔻 WS: The aliens are also converted to the gospel of American exceptionalism. As far as they are concerned, Americans are the only interesting and worthwhile people on the planet.
⭕The F-35 is the Brewster Buffalo of the 21st century, but with a much higher cost and a much lower combat-capable rate.
🔻 WS: ‼️⚡️ F-35: The Endless Comedy of Errors

Few people even realize deliveries of new F-35s have been suspended for the past year.

Why are deliveries suspended?

Because they don’t work properly. 🤣 They have NEVER worked properly.

The F-35B (STOVL version) and the F-35C (carrier version) are particularly problem-ridden.

And now it looks like the earliest possible “fixed-by date” has been pushed well into the 2030s.

The F-35 is not now, and it likely never will be “combat-capable”. Like most US weapons systems, it was made to sell, not to fight.
🔻 C1: The Israelis are very impressed with their F35’s, they literally ripped up the Iranian air defence system on their own.
🔻 WS: Total myth. It did not happen.

Israeli F-35s did not dare for years to overfly Syrian air defenses. They launched stand-off missiles from outside AD coverage areas.

No Israeli F-35s crossed into Iran in the most recent strikes, and did NOT “rip up Iranian AD”.

#TheImaginaryWar
🔻 C1: Real all about it… |Sky Cope|
🔻 C1: The F35 is primarily designed for suppression of enemy air defences, the Israeli’s used them to great effect against Iranian S300 SAM missile batteries.

It’s also a pretty decent air superiority fighter, although that’s not its primary function.
🔻 WS: You have been deceived by propaganda.

Not a single Israeli aircraft of any type crossed from Iraq into Iran. And there has been zero credible evidence that Iranian air defenses incurred any meaningful damage, aside from the antique Hawk system that served as a decoy.
🔻 C1: Ok OK, if you don’t believe the Sky News version here’s the BBC’s reporting of the same event. |BBC Cope|
[Good Lord. We be terminal. Is there any hope for us humans facing the Mindwashing of the Moshiach???]
⭕ I cannot repeat often enough the truth contained in the post below. It focuses on the prospect of war with Russia, but it applies equally to a US war against Iran or China.

The US military is fatally overextended and much weaker and more operationally inept than widely believed.
🧵The Myth of Western Military Prowess
🔻 C1: Germany is also part of the west though , their army was pretty good .
[Bad example buddy. Baaaaaaaad]
🔻 WS: And yet they were comprehensively destroyed by the Russians.
🔻 C2: I follow your argumentation, which to me is very persuasive. But is not the REAL question: Do THEY know what you know? The Wehrmacht‘s quartermaster had figured out well before June 1941 that »Barbarossa« could not work due to lacking logistics. They still started it …
🔻 WS: I have no doubt a few smart people remain in the Pentagon who understand the very real limitations of the US military.

But that doesn’t mean the #EmpireAtAllCosts cult will not prevail in launching a disastrous war against Russia, China, or Iran in the not-so-distant future.
🔻 C3: Romans and Persians getting exhausted from war, only for Arabs to take over. History is repeating itself in slow-motion.
[exactly. Another purpose of this western Drang, even if it doesn’t go nuclear . Zionazis intend to inherit. And they shall, for the mere months of their survival anyway]
🔻 C4: Maybe that’s what it will take to get rid of the criminal enterprise that is the Western Bloc once and for all.
⭕ [cont. thread]
🔻Lee Slusher:
Casualty Estimates in Ukraine (and in general) …
🔻 Анжел Божинов: you wouldn’t see the exceptionally high numbers of volunteers — month after month after month. In fact, you’d see demonstrations in the streets of Russian cities.

You’ve just admitted that you have no clue about Russia and Russians.

1. Russia pays ≈10 median yearly salaries in 1 year just for enlisting the Russian occupational forces in Ukraine. Not to mention payments for WIA and KIA.
2. Russians fully support the invasion, since ≈97% voted for Putin and communists/socialists. There is no notable anti-war movement even abroad, so there will be no protests in Russia. Only a military defeat could spark the unrest and revolts.
[Good God. This could be Ripper’s grandson the way he talks. A mind that is absolutely shut..]
🔻 WS: A NAFO bot spewing typical NAFO nonsense.
⭕ [cont. thread]
‼️ Iran Is the Decisive Battlefield
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The loss of Syria means absolutely NOTHING absent the defeat of Iran.

The Masters of Empire understand this fact.

They KNOW they cannot fight the Russians in eastern Europe.

They KNOW they cannot fight the Chinese in east Asia.

Therefore, Iran remains the only option.

IRAN IS THE DECISIVE BATTLEFIELD.

If the empire doesn’t choose to fight for hegemony there, there will be no hegemony left to fight for.
🔻 C1: Hello W. This is an excellent point. Who will attack Iran, the jihadists? It doesn’t give the strength. Israel? She is exhausted and can’t handle Hamas. EU? He only wants.You have to invade Iran if you want to dominate it. who will do it? Are the forces in balance?
🔻 WS: The US will NEVER attempt a ground invasion of Iran. It would require a million-man army and every piece of equipment, ammo, and aircraft in the entire American inventory.

And even IF such a force could be assembled, it could not be sustained for more than just a few weeks.
⭕ 🎸 Ashes to Ashes

I maintain a collection of what I personally regard as “perfect” songs. They’re mostly really simple. Like this Steve Earle classic: great lyric, three chords, and a harmonica solo. Great minimalist masterpiece.
[why we love Will. Even the song titles are properly attuned to the times]
⭕🔻 C1: Meanwhile, the Telegram channel military observer reports that in Ain al-Arab (Kobani), Sarrin and Ain Issa, US forces would occupy bases evacuated by Russian troops.
🔻 C2: I would say, a great strategic achievement for Turkey and the US.
(don’t know if @imetatronink agrees)
🔻 WS: “strategic achievement”

You keep using those words. I don’t think they mean what you think they mean.
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: While we’re at it, Doris Miller was a war hero and deserves to have his name on a destroyer – but not an aircraft carrier.

If you feel compelled name an aircraft carrier after a black person, Martin Luther King Jr. or Frederick Douglass would be far more appropriate as extraordinarily prominent American political figures.
[Good God. Don’t give the crazies an idea. They would do it in a heartbeat, the same way their spokesmen right now are mostly brown. Imagine using a gunboat named after a principled abolitionist to rape and enslave billions of black, brown, red, white and yellow men… shameless savages]
🔻 WS: USS Frederick Douglass has a nice ring to it.

But it would be a mistake to build more aircraft carriers until their future mission and viability are clearly established.
🔻 C2: Put me down for the USS Thomas Sowell
🔻 WS: Frederick Douglass has been underappreciated and under-honored for far too long. He was an absolutely brilliant man, and a giant among men in his day.
🔻 C3: Maybe start mass producing cheap naval ”drone mothership platforms”? 🤔
[Yeah. And name the first one after another mad leader of another possessed Empire: Xerxes]
⭕🔻 Lord Bebo: 🇷🇺🇺🇦Ukraine has one million men under arms.

Ahahahah

Solders this week just walked in into a position at Pokrovsk, because it was empty. Where are the millions men?

Ohh man
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Ergo why Western leaders are constantly lobbying the Ukrainians to press-gang more troops, I guess.

It’s always been an open question to me whether NATO’s equipment or Ukraine’s men would run out first, I think we’re going to find out that it’s the latter.
🔻 WS: I suspect both things are happening at the same time, and are interrelated.
⭕ 📜 Dictating Terms
🔻 C1: Chatgpt4o trying to offer a conservative’s view of how Trump can end Ukraine War while accepting the validity of @imetatronink’s points:

To address the challenge of ending the Ukraine war as outlined by the military analyst, Trump’s approach should be pragmatic, acknowledging the realities on the ground while leveraging his strengths in negotiation and unconventional diplomacy. Here’s how Trump could potentially chart a course to bring the conflict to an end:

A Multi-Pronged Strategy to End the Ukraine War

Acknowledge Current RealitiesTrump must recognize and publicly admit the military and industrial strength that Russia currently wields, particularly in its own sphere of influence. This acknowledgment is not a concession but a foundation for pragmatic diplomacy. This approach would align with his reputation for calling out failed policies and ineffective narratives.

Shift from Maximalist Demands

The U.S. and NATO must recalibrate their goals to emphasize pragmatic outcomes over ideological imperatives. Instead of insisting on complete Russian withdrawal or Ukraine’s NATO membership, Trump could propose a framework focused on:Neutrality for Ukraine: A legally binding commitment to Ukraine’s neutrality, with security guarantees from major powers.
Autonomy for Donbas and Crimea: Allowing regions under Russian control to retain a degree of autonomy or self-determination, possibly under international monitoring.

Leverage Economic Incentives

Trump’s strength lies in deal-making and economic leverage. He could propose:The phased rollback of sanctions tied to verifiable Russian de-escalation.
Encouragement of international investment in rebuilding Ukraine as a buffer zone, with guarantees that ensure both Western and Russian economic interests are protected.

Divide and Conquer Diplomacy

Exploit existing fissures within Russia’s leadership and oligarchic class by offering targeted incentives. For instance:Quiet assurances that cooperation will lead to protection for specific economic sectors or individuals.
Highlight the costs of prolonged conflict for Russia’s broader strategic goals, especially its relations with China and the Global South.

Strengthen Backchannel Communications

Trump has a history of bypassing traditional diplomatic channels. By establishing direct, informal communication with Putin, he could gauge Russia’s red lines while offering assurances of a deal that allows Putin to save face domestically.

Reframe NATO’s Role

Propose that NATO focus on a broader European security framework that includes Russia as a stakeholder. This could take the form of:A joint European security council to discuss military activities in Eastern Europe.
Moratoriums on NATO exercises near Russian borders in exchange for reciprocal actions.

Public Optics and Rhetoric

Trump excels at shaping public narratives. He could frame this initiative not as capitulation but as a bold move to “restore peace” and “make Europe secure again.” This aligns with his “America First” doctrine by emphasizing reduced U.S. military commitments abroad.

Prepare for Hard Bargains

While presenting the “deal of the century,” Trump must be prepared to offer a credible “stick” alongside the “carrot.” This might include:A temporary surge in U.S. military aid to Ukraine to stabilize the front lines during negotiations.

Implicit threats of broader economic isolation of Russia if talks fail.

Countering Risks and Criticism
Domestically: Presenting this approach as a bold, strategic pivot to save American lives and resources can resonate with his base. Framing the war as a “European problem” reinforces the perception of prioritizing U.S. interests.

Internationally: Trump should engage European allies early, ensuring they see this as a step toward a secure and economically stable Europe, minimizing resistance from NATO hardliners.

Putin’s Calculus: Offering a deal that meets some Russian security concerns while granting tangible economic relief could make continued aggression less attractive for Putin.

Avoiding Escalation: Ensuring that any U.S. or NATO military actions are defensive and clearly framed as deterrence measures will reduce the risk of direct confrontation.

By positioning himself as the ultimate dealmaker and understanding the complex dynamics at play, Trump can craft a bold strategy that aligns with his strengths, addresses Russian concerns, and ensures a peaceful resolution without unnecessary escalation. This path requires humility, pragmatism, and a clear-eyed assessment of what can realistically be achieved.
[LOL. When the demonic Chatgpt makes more sense than the crazies from the basement]
🔻 WS: Now ask “What will new US president Donald Trump do if, as a condition to ending the Ukraine War, Vladimir Putin demands NATO return to its 1997 borders?”
🔻 C1: Chat’s lengthy response:

Trump’s Likely Response

1. Reject Public Concession While Proposing a Face-Saving Compromise

Public Stance: Trump would almost certainly reject the demand outright in public. Agreeing to a rollback of NATO to its 1997 borders would alienate U.S. allies in Central and Eastern Europe, severely damage NATO’s credibility, and risk domestic political backlash.

Private Negotiation: Trump may seek a compromise behind closed doors, offering symbolic or limited de-escalation measures that do not fundamentally weaken NATO’s presence but allow Putin to claim a partial victory. For example:

A freeze on NATO’s further expansion (e.g., Ukraine and Georgia).

A drawdown of NATO forces or military exercises in specific countries close to Russia, such as the Baltic states or Poland, while maintaining existing NATO memberships.

2. Framing NATO Adjustments as “America First”

Trump has long criticized NATO as outdated and disproportionately reliant on U.S. funding. He could frame any negotiated reduction in NATO’s forward posture as a move to save American taxpayer dollars and reduce military commitments abroad while keeping the U.S. “strong at home.”

3. Divide and Pressure NATO Allies

Trump has a history of pressuring NATO allies to align with his vision. He might push NATO members, particularly in Western Europe (Germany, France, and Italy), to consider regional security guarantees or alternative arrangements for Eastern Europe. This could involve:

Bilateral security agreements between the U.S. and key allies outside of NATO’s formal framework.

Greater European defense spending and responsibility for security in Eastern Europe.

4. Economic and Diplomatic Incentives for Russia

To compensate for rejecting a 1997 border rollback, Trump might offer significant economic incentives, such as:

Relaxation of certain sanctions.

Opening avenues for Russian participation in global economic frameworks (e.g., G20 or WTO adjustments).

He would likely emphasize how such deals could benefit Russia’s economy and ensure Putin’s domestic political survival.

5. Explore Strategic Alternatives

Trump might propose a broader security framework outside NATO that includes Russia, similar to the idea of a “European Security Council.” Such a council could focus on mutual arms control, military de-escalation zones, and joint economic projects, allowing both sides to avoid direct confrontation.

6. Leverage China’s Role

Trump could engage China to pressure Russia for a more realistic deal, emphasizing Beijing’s interest in global stability for its economic ambitions. This triangulation could give him additional leverage in negotiations with Putin.

7. Play Hardball Where Necessary

If Putin persists in the 1997 borders demand, Trump might counter with threats of overwhelming economic isolation or military deterrence, emphasizing the high costs of continued aggression.

Trump’s unpredictability could serve as a bargaining tool, as Putin would need to weigh the risk of further U.S. military aid to Ukraine or destabilizing actions against Russian interests globally.

Balancing Domestic and International Risks

1. Domestic Audience: Trump would carefully shape his narrative for domestic consumption, framing any concessions or compromises as pragmatic deals that put “America First.” He would emphasize cost savings, avoiding “endless wars,” and preserving American leadership without unnecessary entanglements.

2. Allied Reactions: While maintaining NATO’s cohesion would be challenging, Trump might rely on personal diplomacy to assuage key allies. He could argue that scaling back certain NATO activities avoids escalating tensions and strengthens Europe’s ability to defend itself.

3. Managing Putin’s Expectations: Trump would likely avoid outright confrontation with Putin, aiming to negotiate a settlement that sidesteps maximalist demands while granting Putin enough symbolic gains to declare victory domestically.
[This is why the civilizational-states, under current configuration, are as doomed as Hezbollah’s old leadership. One cannot outthink and outwit such devilry in each detail. Just hand the red button to Medvedev or Chairman Kim or Ansarullah. Otherwise you’ll be sliced N diced in Hybrid Attrition. And piecemeal as currently occuring in West Asia]
🔻 WS: Interesting …
🔻 C2: Have you listened to JD Vance, or Tulsi Gabbard, or Vivek, or RFK, or Hegseth, discuss Ukraine? Not sure Trump, a consummate realist about power, who likely completely distrusts the Defense “blob”, will “dictate terms” – nor does MAGA expect him to do so.
🔻 WS: So you think Trump and his entourage will assent to Russia’s terms, wash their hands of the whole affair, and walk away?

⭕ 🔻 Armchair Warlord: Clearly a toxic stew of the competency crisis, the woke green agenda, incompetent contract management, and probably corruption.

This isn’t rocket science.
[This thing takes the cake from the F35 or the aptly named BUFF bomber]
🔻 WS: But don’t the “transmedium drones” swarming the eastern seaboard disprove the premises of the “competency crisis”?

Or does extraterrestrial competence not count? 😏
🔻 C2 : Will those drones are antigravity not conventional they use electromagnetic propulsion with which they can levitate hover silently go in air water and deep space and accelerate instantaneously can be used for everything you want they are perfect weapons.
⭕ The destruction of Syria will destabilize the region more in coming years than it already has been for decades — and that’s really saying something.