💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Dr.Snekotron: Update on some of the unreliable rumors about Syria floating everywhere on social media today.
🔻 WS: All of the items you listed suggest a party operating from a position of weakness, not one of strength.

So the question is … why?

What is the real objective here?

And what is the true nature of the weakness that has prompted an immediate appeal to disinfo operations?
🔻 C2: Battlefield Weakness..; Disinform whilst perpetrating a ruse
⭕ Brandon Weichert and I are friendly with each other and agree on multiple points. But few, if any, of our points of agreement can be found in his thread linked below. Nevertheless, I recommend his thread for your consideration as I contemplate my eventual counterarguments to it. |THREAD|
🔻 C1: If I ever see the US beat the Houthis, I’ll maybe consider that the US is capable of regime change in Iran.
🔻 WS: What I think is amazing is that disarming the Yemeni will almost certainly be viewed by the Pentagon as a prerequisite to any major campaign against Iran.

As things currently stand, the Suez canal and the Bab el-Mandeb are effectively closed to US seaborne logistics.
🔻 C2: Really? you see the need to answer the long string of events, that depend on each (or many) in the sequence being correct? 5 sequential events, ea 51% prob 2B correct (0.51^5) = 3.45% chance of being right.

& 1st in sequence is DJT makes Russia a UKR deal it will accept? (<.51%)
🔻 WS: The fact is, a great many people sincerely believe this string of events can be brought to pass. And it increasingly appears the new iteration of US leadership has persuaded themselves this course of action is imperative for the empire to be retained and secured into the future.
🔻 C2: Many people believe that Russian casualties exceed the # Ukr casualties & Russia “already lost the war” & builds weapons using chips from washing machines or that Ukraine is a Democracy. Addressing bogus beliefs, widely shared, are easily rejected.
[it is sad for those captured within hermetically sealed imperial bubbles. And these reinforce the sea of lies unasked, willingly self-inflating delusion out of sheer desperation at what can no longer be countenanced.. The chickens came home to rest in the Empire of Lies & Illusions. The inmates run the Asylum]
🔻 C3: World wars are won in the Middle East, someone said. It’s like in chess, whoever dominates the center, dominates the board. If Iran falls, the multipolar world is in danger and so is the Silk Road project. China and Russia will not leave Iran alone.
🔻 WS: I am inclined to agree.
📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 Ray: I am nobody in particular, but I agree, 92% of Iranian oil goes to China. They are energy challenged, as Japan was in WW2.

The double vice grip is to box Iran in, withering it economically, while simultaneoulsy threatening to strangle China on the energy front.

Their only response would be an overland route to the ME through Pakistan directly into Iran – a Hannibal like achievement but it would put serious numbers of troops on the ground if needed, but unlikely.

I get your points on missiles etc, but there are more weapons than military ones and I guess Trump will deploy them all. American weakness is writ large and in bold under the woke Democrats. However, if Musk and Ramaswamy purge the administrative state and the associated bureaucracy the US could take off, long before 2026, averting the dollar collapse, assuring wavering allies and, under those circumstances it is conceivable that China will have missed its moment.
[somebody tell Ray about the Power of Siberia pipelines and nuclear power plants and Plan Bs.. Iran being essential to China is oversold. The problem of energy security the Japanese suffered is largely solved for this round. And even if not, China is not Fascist Imperial Japan; it will take a step back for 100 steps forward the next year… Iran is about Pax Judaica and local politics. Of using the USUK condom one last time to good effect, even if at total cost to said condom]
🔻 WS: China is not energy-challenged, as Japan was in 1940. There is no meaningful comparison between the two situations.

And while 90%+ of Iranian production goes to China, 90%+ of China’s oil imports come from elsewhere.

The US military could not impose an energy blockade of China.
🔻 Ray: Of the 493 million metric tonnes of oil imported by China in 2023, 263 come from the ME and the US. The physical/military/economic/political domination, or a combination of the above, of the ME by the US would, in a conflict situation, cripple China overnight. The majority of the balance of oil remaining comes from Angola, Brazil, Malaysia and Russia – three of which will fold – leaving Russia, with overland supply routes still, as I understand it, being constructed.

The failure to remove Iran from the board will provide China with the necessary physical beachhead to consolidate its long term security. Hence, IMO, Iran is geostrategically critical for the US.

Whether the US can effect such an outcome given the chaos and well-earned distrust it has sown for the past number of decades and given Iranian, Russian and Chinese missile capabilities remains to be seen, but given the historically pivotal moment facing the US I can’t imagine they have any option but to try to break Iran – by means fair or, more likely, foul.
🔻 WS: I submit the US lacks the power projection capability to blockade Persian Gulf oil exports to China.

And any attempt to do so would put the US at war against Iran, Russia, and China — a war I submit the US could not sustain for more than a few weeks, and could never hope to win.
🔻 Ray: If the submission of Iran is definitively on the table and ME players are convinced of that, I would suggest that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, UAE and Oman would voluntarily side with the US and no blockade would be necessary. A great many in the ME would be glad to be rid of the legacy of the revolution in 1979.

Oil going to China would be diverted to Europe in lieu of Russian supplies (currently discretely re-routed, as I understand it, via India et al) so the ME would remain in business so to speak.

But this would be dependent on whether the US was economically resurgent (I personally believe it will be under Trump) and as a consequence politically resurgent. My belief is that Trump will repeat his approach to Iran – focusing on economically isolating them and trying to break them in that way. But God only knows what Israel has in mind and whether that tail will wag the dog again or whether matters have already gone too far to avoid full conflict – one that, as you say, directly involves China and Russia.
[Ah, he outs himself! Hope dies last among supremacists. Will didn’t bother to respond to these foam-speckled words.. how to explain to MAGA-Man that the desert bedouins are doomed, and either way?? There exist forces within Iraq alone that promised to level the traitorous concubines. And they have the tools to do it.. not to mention Yemen, and Iran itself.

The Moshiach in Dune II promised to nuke the “spice fields.” ALL Persian Gulf oil & gas will shortly cease to flow, in order to finally collapse the global market and the Old Order. This is carved into the very stars. Iran, China, even the arabs are all bystanders of this imperial suicide in motion. The real target is the West, committing seppuku on instructions by one faction, in order to birth the new – Ordo ab Chao. Trump and the Orange Camacho Gang are merely well-oiled belly dancers twirling around the dancing pole; a spectacle to match the crescendo and stage of Disintegration]
🔻 C5: I’m not a Trump supporter; I have no idea what that even means. Just about everything self-contradictory imaginable has come out of his mouth.

He’s a pied piper representing an aligned group of Elites. Obviously they want an internal coup in Iran. Will it happen? Hopefully
🔻 WS: An “internal coup” in Iran must necessarily be predicated upon the decisive defeat and massive reduction of the power of the IRGC — and they will “not go gentle into that good night”.
🔻 Brandon: I am not advocating this. I am forecasting. But I am a huge Trump supporter so it is difficult for me to be critical. As you know.
[LOL. This is the poor man inspiring this thread. Will’s, and our, cherished punching bag]
🔻 C7: nah.. i’ll pass.
not interested in some neocon freakshow.
to entertain any part of this is to rationalize fascist behavior..
think i’ll take my dog for a walk and watch it shit.
which is what i think of Brandon Wiechert’s point of view
⭕ 📜 All for One and One for All
🔻 M.A.G.A. (Make America Go Away!): Russia has no interest in becoming “world cop”. Only a greedy hegemon like America wants that.

An empty cliche sometimes has the power to mislead a simple mind into believing such a thing. Neither Russia nor China has any desire to control the world. I realize that is difficult for an American to understand, but it is clearly true.
🔻 WS: No nation on earth is capable of hegemonic global power projection. The brief dominion of the American Empire was unprecedented; the unique conditions that permitted its rise no longer obtain.

Neither Russia nor China is capable of establishing and sustaining global hegemony.
🔻 C2: And Russia and China are smart enough to not want it.
[this is actually a universal truism, and well before the Greeks and Romans. Only dolts rush in where angels fear to tread. Says alot about Anglo-French-Zionazi elites….]
⭕ I think there is ZERO probability this Turkey/US/Israel-backed “rebel offensive” in Syria came as any surprise to the SAA and the Russians.

The Syrians appear to have deliberately ceded Aleppo to the “rebels”.

Watch closely what develops over the next several days in Syria.
🔻 C1: Why would they cede largest city? My understanding is Syrian Army demobilzed to a large degree and Hezbollah went home…The Empire is letting the dogs out everywhere to stress Russia. Ukraine escalations, Georgia riots/wanna-be coup, Syria jihadis.
🔻 WS: If you understand the object of war, you readily cede a disadvantageous battleground in order to choose a different one that better suits your purposes.
🔻 C2: Not the second largest city. This isn’t swapping a plain to defend a hill instead. Losing a major city is disastrous.
🔻 WS: What is the object of war?
🔻 C2: When you lose your second largest city, you lose every resource in that city, including men that could have been mobilised, war materials, supplies, bases and the contents therein, et al. It’s a rout, not a tactical retreat.
🔻 WS: What is the object of war?
[crickets.. a hint: look at the suffocating sea of flags fluttering over the crowded cemeteries of 404]
🔻 C3: A great way to get rid of a constant thorn in their side would be to let them in, lock them in, and then move in and take them out.
🔻 WS: If you understand the object of war, you readily cede a disadvantageous battleground in order to choose a different one that better suits your purposes.
🔻 C3: How often have we seen the Russians do it in the last few years? Still, I suppose it gives the Western media a win of sorts in the headlines for a day or two.
🔻 C4: I don’t know man seems like too much 5D chess.

Even if they weren’t completely surprised they weren’t ready. It doesn’t look good.
🔻 WS: What is the object of war?
🔻 C4: How is “giving up” Aleppo – the second largest city in Syria with a Citadel on a hill – more advantageous location than Idlib?
🔻 WS: Your question makes no sense to me. Assuming they deliberately abandoned Aleppo, it would suggest they DON’T want to fight there – or at least that they didn’t want to fight a mano-a-mano urban battle there.

In any case, all I said is “Let’s see how things develop.”
🔻 C5: I’m done with the 4D chess explanations
🔻 WS: What “4D chess explanations” are you talking about?

What is the object of war?
🔻graysenior: To inflict massive damage on your enemies which forces them to surrender or die on your terms and at a time of your choosing
🔻 C7: Destroy enemy forces in order to drive him back to negotiations on your terms. Or something like that. Probably more impressive sounding in German, or Chinese, or Latin.
🔻 MAGA (Make America Gay Again): the object of war is to kill all your enemy soldiers so that those who command the enemy comply with your terms of their surrender. the Russians should share with North Korea, Iran, and China the new Oreshnik missile technology.
🔻 C9: Is the attack on Aleppo more a consequence of Biden’s authorization for Ukraine to strike targets within Russia, or of the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon?
🔻 WS: I think it is an extremely underpowered act of desperation that will make headlines for a few weeks, and then rapidly disappear from the news cycle.
[I wish this were true! But we are in the End Game… plot twists a plenty ahead]
⭕ 🤡🌎 There are a great many people who sincerely believe Donald Trump understands markets, global trade, macroeconomics, and currencies.

“Keep using the US dollar, or we’ll destroy it faster!”🤦‍♂️
[in response to:
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand:
The “mighty U.S. dollar” is apparently so “mighty” that you need to threaten countries so they don’t abandon it…

BRICS countries should totally take him to his word and go ahead with this: 100% tariffs on BRICS products would actually further undermine the dollar. It’d reduce demand for it due to reduced trade, and it’d cause significant inflation in the US, also negative for the dollar. This is akin to saying “if you try to undermine the dollar, I’ll do it as well” 😅 ]
🔻 C2: This is precisely the type of bullying tactic that motivates countries to look for an alternative.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: Exactly
🔻 C3: Shhhh! Don’t criticise. Applaud. Let them do the ‘work’. Make america great again guys. ❤️🇺🇸
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: 😅
🔻 C4: Not having access to ‘cheap shit from China’ will do the US good, eventually. It could use a diet, anyway.
🔻 Arnaud Bertrand: “Cheap shit from China”… like Apple products?
🔻 C5: What was your assessment of the international monetary policy of the first Trump admin?
🔻 WS: What “international monetary policy” are you talking about?
🔻 C6: He will unfreeze it AND use this threat against BRICS currency. Carrot and stick will both be used, not only one.

I see a lot of signs that Trump and his core team are very clear about and committed to dismantling the Blob this time. And the swamp creatures kind of revealed themselves during his 4 years out of power.
🔻 WS: Delusional nonsense.

How can Mighty Gulliver be tied down by buzzing mad western lilliputians?? Open a dozen fronts, to throw another dozen staying ropes. Add to our growing list Serbia and Georgia

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇬🇪🇺🇸 On the flights of the American high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft over Georgia

The attempt to organize mass unrest in Tbilisi was surprisingly (not) coincided with the flight of the American high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft U-2S from the [British] Akrotiri air base [Cyprus], which operated over Georgia a few days ago.

It flew over Georgia for several hours and collected the necessary data on the events around. The installed ASARS-2B radar, with which the U-2S was equipped after modernization, allows it to do this at a distance of up to 300-320 km.

Moreover, the U-2S became one of the first American reconnaissance aircraft equipped with artificial intelligence to simplify the collection of intelligence data. This was talked about back in 2020, but they tested it in the Middle East only this year.

❗️Despite the age of this aircraft, it still represents great value for the US Air Force due to its ability to fly at an altitude of up to 21 km. And we believe that, in addition to Georgia, the U-2S also performed other tasks.

For example, it could easily assess the situation in the North Caucasian Federal District, where there are many of our military facilities that are daily in the sights of the space grouping of Western countries.

It also likely conducted surveillance of the northwestern regions of Iran. There, a joint exercise of Azerbaijan and Iran has just begun in the area of the settlement of Aslan Duz. Therefore, the non-standard flight of the U-2S bodes nothing good in the region, not only in the context of the Georgian unrest.
[Its gaze may also reach to Astrakhan’s Kapustin Yar missile range]
⭕️ 🇬🇪 The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia reports that the protest in Tbilisi is taking on a violent character. All available means are being used to disperse it.
⭕️ 🇬🇪❗️ Protesters in Tbilisi set fire to the Georgian parliament building, a TASS correspondent reports.
⭕ 🇬🇪 Protesters near the Georgian parliament are throwing firecrackers at the building, there have been brief fires, and smoke is rising, reports the correspondent of RIA Novosti.
⭕️ 🇬🇪 JUST IN! French-born Georgian President Salome Zourabichvili, also known as the ultimate foreign agent, stated that she will not step down from her position despite the expiration of her mandate, as she considers the parliament “illegitimate.”
⭕️ 🇬🇪 Georgian police has dispersed the Euro-American Fanclub from the area of the parliament building.

~~~

⭕ 🇷🇸 Meanwhile in NATO occupied part of Serbia, Kosovo and Metohija, NATO-backed terrorist continue to gather.
⭕️ 🇷🇸(🇽🇰) Large contingents of so-called Kosovan special forces police are being deployed in Serb-majority Northern Kosovo.
⭕️ 🇷🇸 Video of the collapsed water supply wall that cut off water to Kosovska Mitrovica.

A large number of NATO-backed “Kosovo” security forces and officials are arriving at the scene, which very much smells like a “false flag” to escalate with the Serbs again.
⭕ 🇷🇸 Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić is scheduled to deliver an address to the nation tomorrow at 11:00am local time, regarding the ongoing events in Kosovo.

This offensive, besides basic vindictiveness and hatred against Syrians and working to murder more of them, and another futile attempt to cut off Hezbollah from the land bridge to Iran, appears to be directed at three important psychological targets:

1. to suicide Turkey against the Axis of Resistance and Russia. Turkey is finally coming off the fence. This was guaranteed to happen anyway. And for Russia and Islamic Resistance to openly join hands. It has now exposed Erdogan (the fool was seduced with promise of neo-Ottoman return to Vilayet Syria and Iraq, like their hey days)
2. to humiliate Russia. After their Victory in 404 and unveiling of Oreshkin, this PsyOp, which includes risible videos right now of their troops lynched and killed around Aleppo, is to make them look impotent in West Asia. And this will give pause to the GCC from committing further to BRICS. More delay for the building of multipolar world.
3. to bolster internal zionazi polity, which is despairing after defeats in both Gaza and Lebanon. All zionazi TV channels are running these atrocities and NATO-proxy rapid entrance into Aleppo and elsewhere. It distracts them from their own fate and circumstances. They suck up the dark energy from their satanic fellow-travellers’ transient successes elsewhere. This is same reason they need to continue murdering Palestinians every single day – it gives their side a psychic satisfaction to see dead and dismembered innocents live every single day. How sad for satanists! What a diseased existence, devoid of love, honor, contentedness, or basic inner peace every single day. And reliant on murder and mayhem for self-worth and a night’s good sleep

“Russia could resume nuclear tests – deputy FM”

💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ Why is Al Jazeera busy following false news to support extremist groups in Syria and reporting misleading victories that suggest control over locations, while ignoring coverage of the Syrian Army and its armed forces?

We have informed you that Al Jazeera is a Zionist channel that serves the Zionist agenda in a professional manner.

💠 @Fotros Resistance:
⭕ 🛑|🇸🇾 Syria’s SANA agency: Individuals linked to terrorist groups who were responsible for filming fake scenes in several neighborhoods of Aleppo to give the impression that terrorist groups had taken control of those areas were apprehended.

💠 @Palestinian Commie:
⭕ ❗️The Kremlin:

“Türkiye has violated the Astana and Sochi agreements, and the Syrian Government has the full right to restore security in Aleppo using all types of weapons and methods, and by any means necessary.”

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ The only solution to the conflict in Ukraine is the destruction or complete dismantling of the Ukrainian state, or the disappearance of Ukraine as a nation-state.
As long as the Ukrainian state persists, the conflict will continue and never end.
[Russia knows that. But preserving it to date served purpose of thoroughness of demilitarizing and denazifing the entire rotten NATO apparatus]
⭕ If the Al-Jazeera channel is to be believed, Aleppo, Syria’s second-largest city, is on the verge of falling into the hands of the pro-Atlantic rebellion.
⭕ The code name for the military operation launched by the Syrian rebellion against Syria has been given a proper name: “Netanyahu”.
Rebel leaders claim to have heard Netanyahu’s call, and that they will prevent Syria from supporting the Lebanese Hezbollah once and for all.
⭕ The Syrian National Army (S.N.A.), a rebel military organization backed by Turkish armed forces, has begun to take part in the Aleppo operations.
⭕ In the end, Erdogan was the Empire’s most effective agent. He played the Janus, trying to soften his adversary while at the same time stabbing him in the back. This is the role that the Empire wanted Macron and Johnson to play in relation to certain countries, but it was Erdogan who knew how to play it best.
⭕ The Syrian government insists that it has no relationship whatsoever with Reuters, and that reports of anonymous Syrian army sources having provided Reuters with statements on the situation in Aleppo are false and completely unfounded. According to Damascus, this is psychological warfare and propaganda.
⭕ Israeli TV channels are constantly broadcasting videos of Syrian rebels thanking Israel for bombing Syria, and claiming that it’s thanks to Israeli aerial bombardment that they’re not encountering any resistance.
It’s crude propaganda, but the bigger the better.
⭕ The videos showing the beheadings of Palestinians by Islamist rebel terrorists in Syria are authentic. The Al-Nusra hordes have ordered the beheading of all Palestinians living in Syria.
⭕ There’s been a bit of a flop in the US propaganda apparatus: raving senator Lindsay Graham has been tasked with saying that Trump wants a ceasefire in Gaza and a freeze on the conflict in Ukraine before his inauguration. This means that the United States wants the liquidation, by force, of both issues.
[Dolts! Try and enforce either]
⭕ Telegram accounts affiliated with the Syrian rebellion published photographs of 600 of their fighters killed on the Idleb-Aleppo axis yesterday alone.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Syrian rebels supported by foreign Islamic groups have made a surprising advance into #Aleppo, #Syria, controlling almost half of the city for the first time since 2016.
⭕ The fist line of defence is Hama and no longer Aleppo. #Aleppo and its rural area, Nubbol and Zahra andTal al-Iss are not expected to hold. There were dormant cells in Aleppo and neither #Russia nor Damascus saw what #Turkey was preparing for some time.

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🇸🇾❗️Russia and Syria continue to repel terrorists in Aleppo, Idlib

Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria reported on the joint Russian-Syrian activities against the terrorist offensive in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib.

“The Russian Air Force is carrying out missile and bombing strikes on equipment and personnel of illegal armed groups, command posts, warehouses and artillery positions of terrorists. At least 200 militants have been destroyed over the past 24 hours. The operation to repel the extremists’ aggression continues,” the official briefing said.

Syrian Defense Ministry also reported on the course of the operation. According to its statement, the Syrian Armed Forces continue to reinforce the region with equipment and soldiers to prevent terrorist violations and repel their attacks.

“Dozens of vehicles and armored vehicles were destroyed and seventeen drones were shot down and destroyed,” the statement read.

Sputnik’s correspondent in Aleppo confirms large groups of reinforcements and says that a cautious calm continues in the western districts of Aleppo.
[We may have to tune out for a few days until the hasbara smoke blows away. Even Magnier may be a victim. He says above that half of Aleppo is taken by NATO scum. But Sputnik here indicates they’ve not even entered western Aleppo city. Regardless whether it is taken or not, the back and fro will persist. And the objective this time is to demilitarize, not territory alone]

Thx, very poignant memories raised by Khairullin.

“It should be said that, starting in the 2000s, exercises near the borders of the DPRK have been conducted according to the same basic scenario – the Americans brazenly and demonstratively practiced an attack on North Korea.”

I’ve followed DPRK on and off and remember these exercises. They were not mere sabre-rattling and demonstration of aggression. The satanic bastards staged them during the harvest season (and mayhap during planting too) when all able bodied north Korean men were desperately needed. IOW, to entrench famine in already starving people!

DRPK really suffered along with Russia for many years after 1991, having benefited from Soviet cooperation and largesse for food security. This is why i suspect Putin visited in person, and a constant stream of their leadership every month. Yeltsin’s criminal oligarchs and entire era are a stain on Russia; they’re atoning heavily, including with other abandoned allies such as Cuba, Syria, Yemen, etc….

the sudden uncontrolled demolition of the USSR by the supranational zionazis was an unmitigated catastrophe, and remains still so, for huge swathes of humanity reliant on their anti-imperialist protection and basic resiliency and survival

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ ‼️ Reuters wants everyone to know the Russian Oreshnik missile is no big deal and Putin is just talking tough to sow unfounded fear of imagined Russian military might.

Just a gas station masquerading as a country, with washing machine chips and shovels. |media|
🔻 C1: If it’s a gas station, hats of to the people who run it. First man in space, The Bolshoi Ballet, numerous classical composers, writers and artists essential to what we term the very best of Western civilisation.
🔻 WS: Dostoyevsky’s Grand Inquisitor foresaw it all.
📜 The Grand Inquisitor

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ⚡️Syrian army begins counteroffensive in Aleppo and Idlib

The Syrian army has secured key areas and launched a counteroffensive in the Aleppo and Idlib countryside, targeting sites seized by terrorists in the last two days, reports a Sputnik correspondent.
⭕ ❗️The Russian army has liberated the settlements of Razdolnoye and Vorovskoye in the DPR, the country’s Defense Ministry reports
⭕ 🇳🇦 Namibia orders SpaceX’s Starlink to halt operations in the country

Namibia’s Communications Regulatory Authority (CRAN) ordered to immediately cease operations of the international telecommunications provider due to its unlicensed operation of a satellite internet network.

The CEO of CRAN, Emilia Nghikembua, warned the public not to buy or subscribe to Starlink services, stating that they are illegal. The authority has already confiscated illegal equipment and opened criminal investigations into the matter.

🗣 “CRAN remains committed to enforcing the Communications Act to ensure fair competition, consumer protection, and compliance with regulatory requirements. We urge all service providers to adhere to the legal framework governing the telecommunications sector in Namibia,” she said.

Although Starlink has applied for a license, CRAN stated that the application is still under review. The authority warned that legal action could be taken against anyone using the service and advised the public to avoid importing or using Starlink until a license is granted.

💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕France is moving towards a complete loss of its military presence in the Sahel and West African countries – two countries, Senegal and Chad , announced yesterday in unison that they were severing military contracts with Paris.

Chad’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement informing the public of the rupture of the 2019 defense agreement with France. Senegal has been less blunt, and has not yet been ruptured, but the newly elected young president , Bassirou Diomaye Faye, told AFP that he intends to completely close all French bases in the country.

Faye, by the way. He said that Senegal’s largest trading partner is currently China , so Paris is losing points here too. As of 2020, France accounted for more than 40% of the volume of foreign direct investment and almost 250 companies created in the country.

I will add that there is a French Marine Corps unit operating in Senegal. It is composed primarily of military instructors who arrived here as part of the comprehensive program “Strengthening African Peacekeeping Capabilities” (RECAMP) , a training initiative created in the late 1990s with the participation of France, Great Britain and the United States . According to a decision by the French authorities, the unit’s personnel was to be reduced from 500 to 260 people in 2024. In 2010, France closed its military base in Senegal, but retained an airbase at the Leopold Sedar Senghor International Airport in Dakar. In addition, French military equipment necessary for peacekeeping operations is stationed in the country.
⭕ Niger 🇳🇪 received a new large batch of military equipment from Russia 🇷🇺.

The consignment was received on November 28 by the Chief of the Logistics Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces in the presence of several military personnel.

It was transported by Russian An-124 aircraft.

☝🏽 This acquisition demonstrates “the intensity and reliability of the cooperation between Niger and Russia”, which has been consolidated since the creation of the CNSP, Nigerien Defense notes.

According to the department, regular deliveries of Russian military equipment significantly strengthen the operational capabilities of the Nigerian army. |media|

💠@Strategika51:
⭕ It’s quite striking to witness whole columns of rebel suicide bombers blowing themselves up in series in front of Syrian army positions.
It’s as impressive as watching hordes of zombies blowing themselves up en masse.
The tactic works. Government soldiers are abandoning their positions everywhere.
[yeah it works once, to set off the festivities, like the pager mass terrorism. Then they’re incinerated en masse at a distance..]
⭕ These fanaticized or drugged suicide bombers danced and sang in public to the news of Israeli bombardments of Gaza, southern Lebanon or Syria.
⭕ Thousands of Uzbek and Tajik fighters are pouring into Syrian military positions in north-western Syria.

💠@Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ The Bab al-Mandab channel has received urgent news from a resistance source in northern Gaza, indicating that the fighters of the Al-Qassam Brigades have ambushed a group of Israeli occupation soldiers in a deadly trap. Our resistant source confirms to the Bab al-Mandab channel that the ambush resulted in approximately 20 soldiers killed and others injured, while Israeli military helicopters are currently evacuating the dead and wounded from the scene of the incident.

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇩🇪 In Germany, electricity prices will rise due to a decrease in wind energy production, according to Bloomberg. Forecasts predict that electricity prices will increase by 3% next week.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇷🇺🇷🇺Another day closer to Victory.

“Bandera and Vlasov are faggots’ idols”.

Work brothers! |media|
⭕ ⚡️🇸🇾 Fierce battles have been taking place since the early morning hours between the Syrian Arab Army forces and terrorists in western Aleppo countryside, southwest of Aleppo, east of Idlib, and southeast of Idlib.

Syrian-Russian warplanes continue to bomb terrorist gatherings and headquarters and their supply lines on various axes.
⭕ 🇸🇾🇺🇸 Drones have targeted the American occupation base in the Al-Tanf area, located at the border triangle of Syria, Iraq, and Jordan.
[Good job. Forward!]

Thanks for excellent summary of status to date. Justin and Jon in video above of the ceasefire also consider it a unilateral ceasefire by Zion, forced by desperation.

It may be more subtle. I remember reading Hezbollah saying Nabi Berri, the fellow Shia (Amal movement) and decades-long Speaker of their Parliament, spoke for them since the murder of Nasrallah. And the Zio-USUK cessation was with him and the official Lebanese compradore government. Magnier also considers it a bilateral ceasefire, using this middleman.

The beauty is that Hezbollah publicly has neither accepted nor refused. All fully expect this to be a very short break in war. The ambiguity of Hezbollah’s stance works to add pressure. This forces the west to also keep their forces deployed in the north Palestine / southern Lebanon, preventing a return to finish off Gaza. A treacherous faithless group will expect the other side to betray them too, and so will need to remain on high defense posture, forcing them to self-maintain the Siege of Zion.

So put in another way, and why all celebrate Hezbollah’s Victory — they obtained the cessation for a break needed by all WITHOUT diminishing an iota their support front to Gaza. And most amazing without needing to fire a bullet this time, unlike the preceeding year+.

Meanwhile Yemen and Iraq promise to compensate for drop in Hezbollah’s barrage, not to mention Operation True Promise III en route. Let the hyenas squirm and pretend to flail about in Syria. They remain pinned down as heavily as a week ago

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇫🇮🇪🇪 “We Are Against Russia” – Finland and Estonia consider withdrawing from the Ottawa Treaty to supply anti-personnel mines to Ukraine.  |media|
[And they’re openly reneging on ICC obligations virtue signaling for Zion. The self destruction is impressive to witness.]
⭕ 🇷🇺 Russia is considering designating drones as a separate branch of the armed forces, Putin stated.
⭕❗Putin feels confident. He wet his finger, checked which way the wind was blowing and said, in response to a question about strikes on decision centers in Ukraine: “Today, during the day, everything is possible.” |media|
[Our sniffling & dexterous Piano Man will be traveling alot outside 404 in the near future!]
⭕ 🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 In response to missile strikes deep inside Russia, the Russian Armed Forces targeted locations of Western long-range weapons of the Ukrainian Armed Forces over the course of a week, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported.
⭕ 🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 The Ministry of Defense reported on strikes in response to missile launches by the Kiev regime deep inside Russia:

• On November 25, a strike on the headquarters of the Ukrainian GUR “Kraken” unit in Kharkov destroyed up to 40 foreign specialists, mostly from the United States. An Iskander strike in Odessa destroyed 72 personnel from the combat crews operating the unmanned maritime drones, including 9 French instructors and technical specialists.
• On November 25, Iskander missiles in Sumy region destroyed 5 ATACMS launchers, 2 MLRS launchers, 3 HIMARS rocket artillery launchers, and up to 30 personnel from the combat crews of these launchers.
• On November 25 and 26, Iskander missiles in Odessa region destroyed 2 launchers with experimental “Grom-2” ballistic missiles, as well as a launcher of the Ukrainian “Neptun” anti-ship missile system.
• On November 28, a combined strike was carried out on Ukraine’s defense-industrial complex and energy infrastructure supporting its operation.
• Over the past few days, a total of 100 missiles of various types and 466 “Geran-2” drones were launched.

⭕ ☠️🇨🇦“Suddenly died”

Lieutenant Colonel of the Joint Task Force Ukraine and the Supreme Headquarters of the Allied Commander Europe Kent Miller, who trained the Ukrainian Armed Forces

• The Internet believes that he could have been killed by a Russian strike on mercenary bases and the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
• The Russian Defense Ministry stated: …” On November 25, as a result of a missile strike on the headquarters of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) “Kraken” unit in the city of Kharkov, up to 40 foreign specialists, mainly from the United States, were killed “…
• “It is with heavy hearts that Joint Task Force Ukraine announces the loss of one of our soldiers, Lieutenant Colonel (LCol) Kent Miller,” Canadian authorities said.
• “LCol Miller was serving with Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe as part of Operation UNIFIER when he died of medical complications on November 25, 2024.
• LCol Miller was an engineer officer with 24 years of experience in the Canadian Armed Forces, commanding officer of the 41st Combat Engineer Regiment in Alberta and was assigned to SHAPE as a planner and coordinator.”

[Battlefield surgeons solemnly intone on the highly risky medical complications incurred from involuntarily eating incoming missile fire. Or maybe i heard this on M.A.S.H.??]
⭕ 🇸🇾 At least 400 militants who attacked Syrian government-controlled areas in the Aleppo and Idlib provinces on November 27 have been eliminated, the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria reported.
⭕ 🇮🇷🇸🇾 Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs:

We warn against the resurgence of takfiri groups in Syria and call for decisive actions to prevent the spread of terrorism in the region.

The movements of criminal groups in Syria over the past two days are part of a U.S.-Zionist plan to destabilize Syria.

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel fired a few million dollars anti-air interception missile at a bird, thinking it was a #Hezbollah drone. The Israeli army remains fully deployed and on alert along the border with Lebanon. No forces have been redeployed or withdrawn to other fronts.
⭕ Hezbollah forces are still in position in the south of #Lebanon, metres from the Israeli occupation forces in some villages. They won’t leave until all Israeli invaders withdraw completely.
⭕ Israel violated the cessation of hostilities and bombed a location in #Sidone, south of #Lebanon, claiming it is a Hezbollah depo.