This is too good. pic.twitter.com/UUEy8v49gD

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 16, 2024

That is so funny cronetoo.

It’s crazy out there.  I see some of the telegram channels (Scott Ritter being one) are just closing their commentary as they cannot cope.

Caitlin Johnstone as usual acerbic!

The western political-media class hasn’t been this sympathetic and supportive toward Trump since he bombed Damascus.

I have loaded this up on Daily Chronicles approx five times now, but it disappears.  America is building up quite a vile problem, and it is Christian Zionism.   In addition, Trump is now portrayed as touched by the hand of god almighty himself.

Trump may be Hollywooding it up!

For me it is such a day for your poetry.  Today was my husband’s birthday – first birthday without him since he died.  I thought I would be OK, but oh dear – I fell apart.  I felt pain viscerally – remembrances.

My beloved, my sun, my moon.  Today was a harsh day.  And some very good things happened too.   So I can feel the contrasts of your two lovers.

Thanks Dimitar

I’ve used some while being scathing about NATO today. Thanks!

Let us just ask AHH who is the main squeeze here in the hearty salon.  AHH do you have a way here?  Its nice to have it woven in, but you might be thinking differently.  Over to you my friend.

OK, my thoughts on Orbán and he is now talking to Erdogan to support his peace initiative. I really do not care about the Ukraine. It can fall in the pigpen for all I care. It has to do with in a sense trusting Russia to do the right thing. I care more about the Palestinians.

We see the same play by the west. They speak one thing now, and another thing in a moment. This is absolutely deliberate creating chaos. We can debate if they know it, or not, or if they don’t know what to do and chaos is a natural outflow. You see Netanyahu do this as well. First he likes a peace plan, and then he shoots it down to smithereens. Smoothie had a piece up talking about the war mongering of the US soldiers (NATO as well) and it is the same as the warmongering by the zionist israelis. We may not use the word zionist any longer.

I am, in my heart of hearts beginning to say … Bring it on.

From NATO there is this one woman (Pentagon) that says they will be upping weapons production for years and years and continue making war forever. https://www.rt.com/news/600803-nato-protracted-wars-pentagon/

London is committed to increasing its outlay on defense to 2.5% of GDP, Keir Starmer has said.

And then, somebody says Russia/Ukraine will talk peace by the end of the year.

These people want to spend money that they don’t have but they will pull it out of the pockets of their citizens.

On Orban, he is up one moment and down the next. Here is from Eurasia and Multipolarity Channel:

Orban made a gloomy prediction for Russia and Europe: it will be much worse.

The military train has no brakes, and the driver has gone crazy.
It seems very likely, upon careful consideration, of course, that all this fuss about “pacification” – Orban’s throwing around the world, statements by Bulgaria and Turkey about the need for negotiations and their mediation – they are not really about peace between Russia and Ukraine. Part of Europe has realized that it is being dragged and pushed into a big war, which is becoming almost inevitable.

According to the old and unkind European tradition, Poland is the point of crystallization of the war. Kiev’s representative, former Ukrainian president Zelensky said that the Polish-Ukrainian security agreement signed in Warsaw provides for the possibility of the Polish side intercepting Russian missiles in Ukrainian airspace.

A tactically understandable decision is that the Russian Aerospace Forces have taken out the air defense of Ukraine and those airfields where the F–16 could be based. Now Kiev’s hope is that the Poles will cover the border strip with Poland by 15-20 kilometers (for how long the Polish air defense will last?), and Western fighters can be kept in this strip.

But strategically, this is another step towards dragging NATO into a full–fledged war with Russia. Here, for example, is the assessment of the leader of the French Patriots party, Florian Philippot: “The war in Ukraine is sliding further into a global conflict thanks to this incredible agreement that Zelensky concluded with Donald Tusk – the security agreement signed today in Warsaw allows the Polish army to shoot down Russian missiles and drones in the airspace of Ukraine. It’s called joining the war! On the initiative of that very Europeanist Tusk! Let’s remember that Poland’s membership in the EU and NATO will require us to show solidarity if Poland goes to war with Russia! Let’s urgently stop this madness!”

The Baltic States are not waiting, but preparing. Together with other Baltic countries, Estonia is developing a “drone wall” project to protect airspace. By 2027, Estonia plans to spend 1.3 billion euros to replenish ammunition stocks, including kamikaze drones, long-range artillery, HIMARS complexes and medium-range air defense systems. In 2025, concrete protective bunkers will be installed on the borders with Russia, trenches will be dug, anti-tank weapons, including mines, will be installed. This is the notorious gun that hangs in the first act on the stage.

Orban, who issued a gloomy statement “What lies ahead is much worse than we think,” writes bluntly in his article “European governments in the thick of war”: “Europe is preparing for war. Every day they announce the opening of the next stage on the way to hell. We are showered with this every day: hundreds of billions of euros to Ukraine, the deployment of nuclear weapons in the middle of Europe, the recruitment of our sons into foreign armies, the NATO mission in Ukraine, the sending of European military units to Ukraine. My friends, it feels like a military train has no brakes, and the driver has gone crazy. We have to hit the emergency brake so that at least those who want to can get off the train and not participate in the war.”

It is not difficult to guess who is the driver of this train. Hint: “the driver has gone crazy.” According to Ruslan Kosygin, in 2004, the American military presence in Europe amounted to 100 people and 4 aircraft. In 2023 – 36 thousand people and 92 aircraft. In 2024, 80 thousand were already caught up. Only at the Belarusian border, according to him, a group of 11 thousand American soldiers has been deployed.

Orban is now trying to be the brake on the military train and involve as many European and world leaders as possible in braking. He notices correctly: “Everything is simple for Putin: look at the facts, energy sources, and population. Putin cannot lose. If you look at the soldiers, weapons and technologies that are used in the war, then defeating Russia is a difficult idea to even imagine.

⚡️⭕️ #YEMEN: There is a striking paragraph in the statement of the #Yemeni Armed Forces about carrying out three operations against two American ships and one #Israeli ship.

The paragraph, which appears for the first time in military statements, is directed at Saudi Arabia in… pic.twitter.com/aeAHSk66wL

— Middle East Observer (@ME_Observer_) July 9, 2024

Stupid Show More Button … here is the whole text:

#YEMEN: There is a striking paragraph in the statement of the #Yemeni Armed Forces about carrying out three operations against two American ships and one #Israeli ship.

The paragraph, which appears for the first time in military statements, is directed at Saudi Arabia in the first place, then the #UAE in the second place, and then others.

The paragraph confirms Sana’a’s knowledge of the secrets of what Saudi Arabia is doing, whether in the siege or providing facilities for the Americans in their attacks, and that it is close to implementing a major matter.

The concluding paragraph of the #Sarie statement says: “The #Yemeni armed forces, with the help of God Almighty, are fully prepared and prepared to carry out the required tasks against all parties that support the #Israeli enemy and that target the #Yemeni people and provide military facilities to the American enemy and the #Israeli enemy in targeting the #Yemeni people.”