☝️ 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?

💠 @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

☝️FYI, if interested in predictive programming regarding the Medical Cartel CEO killer, who may be a pun on another killer on a bigger level.
(just first 30min, goes fast @2.0x speed)

Dr. Anthony Stephen Luigi, 2nd Chief Medical Advisor to the President, awarded Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2020). Grandparents from Sicily and Naples, respectively..

Also Damascus is really gonna get the Gaza treatment now, again per more satanic mockery of biblical verse.

☝️ 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] 

💠 @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.”

💠@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”]

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.

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