Black Pattern Forming?
“Russia now has a ‘Europe problem’ of lingering, unrealistic ‘geo-political’ ambition,
Alastair Crooke writes.”

Black Pattern Forming?

“A number of serious commentators – one being U.S. Professor Victor Hanson – are warning: “Brace yourself for what’s coming in 2024”. Hansen sees bad omens darkening the future.
Is he exaggerating? Perhaps not…

Netanyahu Outsmarted by ‘Wily’ Biden? No, Biden Is the One Being Played
by Alastair Crooke

Netanyahu Outsmarted by ‘Wily’ Biden? No, Biden Is the One Being Played

“Biden may believe that his ‘long experience’ puts him on the ‘right side’ in judging events, but his experience is drawn from another era…

Ukraine, Palestine, Taiwan. The course to World War and how to stop it
by Dimitris Konstantakopoulos

Ukraine, Palestine, Taiwan. The course to World War and how to stop it

“…It is regrettable that the majority of Western parties and organisations that refer to the left betray their own base and ideology, siding, as in the Ukrainian case, with imperialism. And they do so because the majority of them are controlled, more and more directly, by world financial capital and the Zionist lobbies that are intertwined with it, with the result that they are unable to express a significant part of European and American public opinion, which, despite the pro-Israeli barrage from its media and politicians, is now revolting against the crime in Gaza, a crime that is horribly illuminating the future that the “Totalitarian War Party” is preparing for all humanity if we do not stop it here and now.”

Palestinian Resistance Cannot Be Killed
by Steven Sahiounie

Palestinian Resistance Cannot Be Killed

“… Israel, and America may continue to kill Palestinian resistance leaders, but it will never stop the resistance, because it is a living ideology. The American patriot, Patrick Henry, said “Give me liberty, or give me death.” Those words spoken in 1776 are in the hearts and minds of millions of Palestinians and their supporters, including the University students across America.”

Israel Raids Hospital, Shoots Doctors, Bulldozes Bodies, Lets Dog Maul Wheelchair-Bound Man
by Andrew Anglin
https://dailystormer.in/israel-raids-hospital-shoots-doctors-bulldozes-bodies-lets-dog-maul-wheelchair-bound-man/
“My main argument about the Holocaust has always been “come on, this is cartoonish evil – people don’t act like that.”
However, insofar as Jews are “people,” they are proving wrong my assumption.
The Jews are behaving in a way that is cartoonishly evil. What’s more, while they claimed the German Nazis did all that stuff in secret, the Jews are making a huge public display of this evil…

Day 80: Sad Christmas in Palestine as ‘Israel’ Commits Horrible Massacre in Maghazi
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2008316
“Palestinian Christians are witnessing a somber Christmas in the West Bank city of Bethlehem amid the ongoing Israeli onslaught on Gaza…

GAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 80

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Israel Massacres Hundreds in Central, South Gaza | Ongoing Resistance in Jabaliya, Bureij, Khan Yunis | More US Weapons to Israel – DAY 80

▪️Famine, thirst, genocide, and international neglect define the state of affairs in Gaza on the 80th day of the war.
▪️Relentless Israeli bombardment massacred hundreds of Palestinians in Meghazi, Deir Al-Balah, Bureij, Nuseirat, Khan Yunis and Jabaliya.
▪️Large shipments of US weapons continue to arrive in Israel, as Washington still refuses to call for a ceasefire.
Yet Palestinian Resistance continues to repel advancing Israeli troops throughout Gaza.
▪️According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 20,424 Palestinians have been killed, and 54,036 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7. Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.

🔸Watching the watchdogs: Why the West misinterprets Middle East power shifts:
“Western media, leaders are unable to assess accurately the growing power of the Middle East ‘Axis of Resistance’ due to their deeply held prejudices.”
by Rami G Khouri
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/22/watching-the-watchdogs-why-the-west-misinterprets-middle-east-power-shifts
“In Yemen, there is wisdom,”
goes the medieval Arab saying.
“… Groups within the axis can coordinate across the region and face Israel as a united front
The widespread fear in the West that this latest Israel-Hamas confrontation would spark a full-fledged regional war between the US-Israel and half a dozen Arab-Iranian forces has not materialised. However, neither has the confrontation remained confined to Gaza – it has sparked the first serious coordinated battlefield action by the Axis of Resistance across the region. This reflects Hezbollah’s talk all year of the “unity of fronts”, ie, Axis members now coordinate and assist one another in battle, or between battles, in times of preparation.”

🔸Honey Trap for Israelis and Americans in the Red Sea
by John Helmer

HONEY TRAP FOR ISRAELIS AND AMERICANS IN THE RED SEA

“The Iranian intelligence vessel, MV Behshad, at anchor in the Red Sea, is a honey trap intended to lure both the Israelis and US Navy into an attack, according to Russian and other sources.
The French and Spanish navies appear to anticipate or to know: they have announced they will not operate their warships in the area under US command…

🔸https://johnhelmer.net/russian-identification-of-houti-tanker-target-in-indian-ocean-how-the-western-media-are-protecting-the-israelis/
From the minute after the US Central Command (CENTCOM) and the UK Maritime Trade Organisation (UKMT) learned that the oil tanker MV Chem Pluto had been hit by an exploding drone in the Indian Ocean 1,600 kilometres east of the Red Sea and Yemen coast (lead image, left), they also knew why. Through a joint venture between a Japanese and a Singapore holding company operating through a Dutch management cutout, the vessel is owned by Idan Ofer, an Israeli shipping magnate…

Sir Henry Kissinger: Midwife to New Babylon
by Matthew Ehret
“I was recently asked to develop some thoughts about the role Kissinger played in mis-shaping world history, and just when I was starting to feel like nothing new could be said, it hit me: Kissinger was knighted to the Order of Saint Michael and Saint George by Queen Elizabeth II in 1995. Most people probably didn’t think too deeply about what that meant or what that had to do with the re-creation of the Templar run kingdom of Jerusalem that oversaw the Crusades nearly 1000 years ago… so here goes:”
https://canadianpatriot.org/2023/12/21/sir-henry-kissinger-midwife-to-new-babylon/
“The moment Kissinger’s last breath left his corpse, media commentators lost no time running out the gates, either singing songs of slavish praise about the “great liberal statesman” on one hand or composing devastating critiques of the bloodstained trail of tears Kissinger’s legacy left on the world…

Pentagon’s Operation Prosperity Guardian “Falls Apart” As Spain, Italy, France Reject Request
by TYLER DURDEN
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/pentagons-operation-prosperity-guardian-falls-apart-spain-italy-france-reject-request
Australia is the latest country to reject a request from the United States to send warships to the Red Sea under the command of the Pentagon’s “Operation Prosperity Guardian” 😄

No One Has Really Grokked How Big The Suez/Houthi Gambit Is
by Tom Luongo
https://tomluongo.me/2023/12/21/no-one-grokked-suez-houthi-gambit/
“…So, if you’re Iran and you see:
▪️Weak US leadership in Biden and a vacant speaker
Support for Ukraine failing rapidly.
▪️The Arab oil states standing firm with Russia athwart US/EU sanctions.
China investing in Syria’s reconstruction.
▪️Turkey openly attacking US-backed Kurdish SDF forces over Syrian oil fields.
▪️A cynical landgrab by Azerbaijan to break up the International North-South transport corridor in Armenia
▪️Russia returning to the European gas market via Turkey
▪️Increased influence regionally having re-opened diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia.
❓Wouldn’t you do something to upset the status quo and force a choice on the US but also the rest of the Arab world?

ISRAEL HAS BECOME GAME:
HELL IN THE RED SEA,
HOUTHIS OPEN A NEW FRONT
https://m.tsargrad.tv/articles/izrail-stal-dichju-ad-v-krasnom-more-husity-otkryvajut-novyj-front_933486
“The Middle East has reached a dangerous point. There is no end in sight to the war in Gaza. Clouds are gathering over Lebanon. The Yemeni Houthis closed the Red Sea to Israel, and an American aircraft carrier came to deal with them. In Yemen – mobilization. Malaysia has imposed sanctions on Israel. The United States, Britain, France and Germany have called on their citizens to leave Lebanon, Iraq, Syria and Yemen immediately. Where is everything going, and who will soon remember about Ukraine?

America on the Cusp: 2023-24
by Rostislav Ishchenko
https://ukraina.ru/20231222/1052335726.html
“I have always said that those moments that we consider crucial, as a rule, are not so. A political turnaround is generally impossible in one moment. It is prepared by a whole series of events, begins imperceptibly, and continues long after we have seen and marked it…

GAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 76

GAZA LIVE BLOG: Fierce Fighting in Jabaliya | Gaza Communication Blackout Continues | Massacres in North, South | Israeli Officers Killed – DAY 76

▪️Many Palestinians were reportedly killed in the Jabaliya refugee camp in Israeli shelling and strikes. The Israeli military however is reportedly preventing medics and civil defense workers from reaching the wounded.
▪️Israeli bombardment on various parts of the besieged Strip also continued with hundreds reportedly killed and wounded.
▪️The Israeli army announced the killing of several of its officers and soldiers in fierce fighting in Khan Yunis.
🔻AL-QASSAM BRIGADES:
▪️We targeted an Israeli special force in the Al-Tawam area, north of Gaza City, and clashed with them with heavy machine guns. We confirm the killing of 11 soldiers from the Special Forces, and also announced the detonation of an anti-personnel device in its support force.
▪️Targeted an Israeli force holed up in a building in the Al-Mughraqa area in the central Gaza Strip with an anti-fortified TBG shell.
▪️We bombed crowds of enemy forces penetrating east of the city of Khan Yunis with heavy-caliber mortar shells.

🔻76 Days of Aggression: Gaza Fights Back as Israeli Occupation Continues Assault
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2005533
“…Al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas, carried out a significant operation in the Tal al-Zaatar area in the northern Gaza Strip, resulting in the deaths of 8 Israeli occupation soldiers, according to the Al-Qassam Brigades’ report. The operation, known as Al-Aqsa Flood, was launched by the resistance on October 7th as a direct response to the Israeli occupation’s violations in the occupied Palestinian territories.”

🔻Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi says the world is amazed by the resistance of the Palestinian people against the Israeli regime.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/209811/Palestinians-Resistance-against-Israel-amazed-world
▪️Addressing a large crowd of people in the northern Iranian city of Gorgan on Thursday, Raeisi hailed the resistance of the strong Palestinian people in Gaza in the face of more than two months of unrelenting Israeli assaults.
▪️All in the world are surprised by the power and determination of the young Palestinians, he added, noting that heads of many countries officially acknowledge this power and wonder how the Palestinians have achieved it in a land that is described as the world’s largest open-air prison.
▪️The leader of the Yemeni Ansarullah resistance movement says the country’s armed forces will not hesitate to target US military warships in the Red Sea if Washington and its allies carry out military strikes against Yemen.
▪️The Yemeni information minister in the National Salvation Government has stressed that all Israeli ships passing through the Red Sea are “legitimate targets”.

https://x.com/upholdreality/status/1737112622884077876?s=20

🔸Analysis of the Military Chronicle:
What missiles do the Yemeni Houthis use, and why are they dangerous –
▪️The confrontation between the parties is gradually increasing and theoretically could go into a hot phase with the use of various weapons.
▪️Who are the Houthis ?
The Houthis, also known as Ansar Allah, Ansarullah, Ansarullah, or Ansar Allah, are a Zaydi Shia militant group active in Yemen. In 2014, during a conflict with government forces, they occupied the capital of the country, Sanaa, and since 2015, the Houthis have been fighting against coalition forces of Arab states operating in the country at the request of the Yemeni government. The Houthis in Yemen receive help from Iran. The country supplies them with weapons and equipment and also provides political support. However, the extent of Iranian support for the Houthis is ambiguous, their ties to Iran are not as close as, for example, Hezbollah in Lebanon, and they do not answer to Iranian command. After the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, the Houthis sided with Hamas and threatened Israel with missile attacks. At the same time, the Houthis are actively trying to fire at civilian and military ships of Western countries – the country’s coast is washed by the Indian Ocean and allows the use of weapons both in the Indian Ocean and in the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, through which the most important maritime trade route passes.
▪️What kind of missiles do they have?
The main weapons of the Houthis are ballistic and cruise missiles of Iranian origin with a range of 300-1200 km. The most long-range among them are Toufan (presumably one of the versions of the Iranian Ghadr missile) with a range of 2 thousand km, a ballistic missile on a mobile launcher Burkan 2 with a range of 1.2 thousand km, Zoheir anti-ship missiles (a modified version of the Quds missile with a special radar for targeting radio-contrast targets), as well as a significant amount of loitering ammunition, including Iranian Shahed 136. With these weapons, the Houthis threaten not only to strike Israel for conducting an operation in the Gaza Strip, but also to attack US Navy ships deployed to the Red Sea for protection Israel, as well as in the civil courts of Western states. Container ships Maersk Gibraltar, Alanya and Palatium III have already come under attack in the Red Sea.
▪️How dangerous are Houthi missiles?
Over the past two months, US Navy destroyers’ USS Mason (DDG-87) and USS Carney (DDG-64) have shot down at least 38 Houthi drones and several Houthi missiles in the Red Sea. Yemeni rebels have reportedly stepped up attacks on commercial ships carrying gas and oil through the world’s busiest shipping lanes. It is curious that only Standard Missile-2 missiles are suitable for intercepting high-speed and stealth targets. The latest version of the Block IV rocket costs $2.1 million apiece. This is 100 times more than the cost of the Shahed 136 drones used by the Houthis. Also, new SM-6 (RIM-174 ERAM) missiles with active radar guidance are used to intercept high-speed targets.
▪️Due to the deteriorating security situation off the coast of Yemen, some shipowners have already begun to reduce the volume of transported cargo.

GAZA LIVE BLOG: DAY 75
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/unicef-gaza-children-out-of-water-israel-ready-for-long-term-truce-resistance-engages-israeli-military-at-several-fronts-day-75/
▪️Israeli Channel 12 said that the Israeli government is studying a proposal for a long-term truce in Gaza, though the Palestinian Resistance did not comment on the status of the ongoing indirect negotiations.
▪️Palestine Chronicle correspondent reported that many massacres have taken place overnight and during the early hours of the day in all parts of Gaza.
▪️According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 19,667 Palestinians have been killed and 52,586 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7. Palestinian and international estimates say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
▪️Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim announced on Wednesday that his country has banned all Israeli-flagged cargo ships from docking at its port.
“The Malaysian government decided to block and disallow the Israeli-based shipping company ZIM from docking at any Malaysian port,” Anwar said in a statement.
The statement added that “These restrictions are a response to Israel’s actions that ignore basic humanitarian principles and violate international law through continuous massacres and atrocities against the Palestinians.”
▪️The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, Tor Wennesland, has lamented that as the Gaza crisis continues, the year ends as one of the deadliest in the history of the Middle East conflict.
“I unequivocally condemn the killing of civilians in Gaza – including women and children” – Tor Wennesland

🔻Does Gaza’s Resistance Use Combat Sport Strategy Against Israel?
by Robert Inlakesh
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/does-gazas-resistance-use-combat-sport-strategy-against-israel/
“Palestinian armed groups are known to have trained their soldiers in a variety of martial arts, in order to have them physically prepared to engage in hand-to-hand combat, but how influential have combat sports been on military strategy?
…‘Rope a Dope’ Strategy
“When Hezbollah leader, Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, used his boxing references, mentioning point scoring. and that the Resistance forces had not scored a knockout blow, he explained the strategy that is being employed with great precision…

🔻Sayyed Houthi Confirms Continuing Gaza Support, Warns US against Aggression on Yemen
https://english.almanar.com.lb/2005258
“Head of Yemen’s Ansarullah Movement, Sayyed Abdul-Malik Badreddin Al-Houthi, affirmed on Wednesday that the Yemeni Armed Forces will continue acting in support of the Palestinian people and resistance in face of the Zionist aggression on Gaza.
Sayyed Al-Houthi, on the other hand, warned the US administration of any escalation against Yemen, stressing that, in such a case, the Americans will face a situation harsher than that they faced in Afghanistan and Vietnam…

🔻Israel to eventually surrender to Resistance’s conditions
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/209777/Israel-to-eventually-surrender-to-Resistance-s-conditions
▪️Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Naim Qassem says that the Israeli regime will eventually surrender to the conditions set by the Resistance.
▪️The United States Ain Al-Assad Airbase in Iraq came under a rocket attack on Wednesday.
▪️The Palestinian Resistance forces attacked the central areas of the occupied territories, including the city of Tel Aviv, in response to the crimes committed by the Zionist regime against civilians in the Gaza Strip.

🔸The US starts a new hopeless war
https://m.vz.ru/world/2023/12/20/1245185.html
“A whole coalition is being assembled by the United States for a military operation with a force that threatens all world trade. In fact, Washington has declared a new war thousands of kilometers from its borders. This war is likely to be unsuccessful for America again.
The fact is that the Houthis found an original way to punish Israel for its operation in the Gaza Strip. The Yemenis declared their legal target to be all the vessels that sailed through the Red Sea to Israeli ports and managed to damage several of them, an even capture one.
“The Houthis have become the only force that demonstrates their rejection of Israel’s policy towards the Gaza Strip, not in words, but in deeds. And this raises their reputation in the eyes of Muslims. In addition, the Houthis ‘ combat operations make their opponents understand that the movement is not only alive but also strong. This is important in the context of the ongoing negotiations on ending the war in Yemen between the Houthis and Saudi Arabia,” explains political analyst and Arabist Leonid Isaev…

🔸Forwarded from Ostashko!
▪️🔻The Houthis in Yemen have threatened to attack ships from countries that join the US coalition to protect ships in the Red Sea.
▪️🇾🇪Mobilization has begun in the north of Yemen. They write that fighters will be sent to the Gaza Strip.
💣In parallel to this, information appears about the mining of the waters of Bab el Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea by the Yemeni Houthis.
🇺🇸Obviously, the process started after the activation of the Western fleet in the Middle East and the severing of trade routes by the Yemenis through the Suez Canal.

🔸Forwarded from Older than Edda:
I look at what is happening off the coast of Arabia and think that if the United States managed to get into a war in this region now, it would be an excellent New Year’s gift for us. Losses from complications on the routes of global maritime trade are causing incomparably greater damage to the United States here and now than what is happening in Ukraine (they have yet to reap the problems from this war in the future), and there is an urgent need to respond to the “Yemen crisis.”

So let them drag squadrons and fleets there, both friendly and allied, launch an operation, launch missiles, change the orbits of reconnaissance satellites so as to shoot Yemen in search of launchers and field camps of the Houthis, spend high-precision ammunition there, and ideally also land infantry to the ground.

However, fate is unlikely to give us such a gift, but the mess that is already brewing there is also very, very good. Let’s cheer for beautiful football and the successful use of anti-ship missiles – the Houthis must have them since they have such a range of different ammunition against ground targets.

🔸 Forwarded from Colonelcassad:
▪️Yemen is mobilizing in the face of the threat of attacks from the United States and its satellites. The Houthis’ main trump card is missiles and drones, which, if necessary, can be used to fire not only at ships in the Red Sea but also at Saudi Arabia and the UAE. Effective range allows.
A ground invasion in Yemen is unlikely – more than 5 years of ground war in Yemen hardly promises any significant prospects for a new ground operation that would require tens of thousands of troops.
▪️A more likely scenario involving the US would be airstrikes on Yemen and an increased naval blockade of Yemen. After this, shipping in the Red Sea will most likely cease altogether due to shelling and mines.
▪️✔️The Yemeni Navy began mining the waters of Bab al-Mandeb Strait and the Red Sea after the US, and a coalition of 9 other states announced the imminent start of a military operation against Yemen.
▪️Iran invested in the Houthis for many years and did not allow them to be destroyed. Now, Tehran holds the key to the Red Sea and the Suez Canal.
▪️PS. By the way. Russian tankers are said to be sailing safely through the Red Sea and Suez. This is what good relations with Iran mean.
▪️PS2. The Houthi leader today commented on the threat of a US attack on Yemen, saying. that going to war with the US and Israel was Ansar Allah’s dream from the very beginning. Yemen is ready to start a people’s war against them ✊