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Russia, China, and Iran have now formed a de facto military and economic alliance — what they prefer to call a “partnership”.

In the case of Russia and China, a comprehensive full-spectrum partnership has emerged: military, economic, and monetary.

Trade between Russia and China has exploded both quantitatively and qualitatively.

Importantly, trade settlement is overwhelmingly denominated in rubles and renminbi. Use of the dollar and its international mechanisms is being aggressively deprecated.

Russia and China now conduct regular joint naval and air patrols of the western Pacific, from Alaska to the South China Sea.

Russia, China, and Iran conduct regular joint exercises in the Arabian Sea. Those exercises have increased in both scope and frequency in recent years.

Both Russia and China are investing vast sums of capital in Iran, much of it in the energy sector and in ambitious transportation projects aiming to construct fast and efficient trade corridors linking China, Iran, and Russia as primary nodes of Eurasian commerce.

Arms and technology transfers between the three countries have reached unprecedented levels.

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov just concluded several days of talks with Chinese leaders, including both Wang Yi and Xi Jinping. In its report of the talks, the Chinese government’s flagship media organ, Global Times, summarized (in the words of prominent CPC commentator Li Haidong) the current state of the Russia/China relationship:

"China and Russia will not target any third party, but if hegemonic forces threaten China and Russia, or threaten world peace, China and Russia will stand together and fight to protect their own interests and safeguard world peace together.”

It is increasingly evident that Russia, China, and Iran recognize that an attack against any one of them would constitute an existential threat to them all. The strategic interests of all three countries are now inextricably intertwined.

Most importantly, they are united in a single overriding strategic objective: to dismantle the dominion of the long-reigning Anglo-American empire.

Naturally, the rapidly waning global hegemon is not inclined to relinquish its throne without a fight. What form that fight takes remains to be seen. But if the empire attempts to preserve its so-called “rules-based international order” via force of arms, it is essential to understand this incontrovertible reality:

In order for the United States to make war against any ONE of Russia, China, or Iran, it would be necessary to effectively vacate every major US base on the planet in order to concentrate enough military power to undertake the mission.

In a putative war between the United States and Iran, both Russia and China would actively support Iran. I'm not suggesting Russian or Chinese forces would fight alongside Iranians — although that could happen. But it would likely not be necessary. Iran would simply be supplemented with arms and other logistical necessities from both its partners — and quite possibly taken under their nuclear umbrella in an explicit act of deterrence.

Additionally, in consequence of the US weakening its force posture in Europe and the western Pacific in a bid to militarily subdue Iran, Russia and China would be enabled to apply immense pressure to western logistics, trade, and political influence in those regions. This is not to suggest that China would invade Taiwan or Russia would invade the Baltics or Poland. They would need only to exert their dominant influence in what were previously considered to be unassailable American imperial domains in east Asia and Europe.

The empire is stretched so thin and its potential for power projection is so diluted that undertaking even one Big War would be enough to bring the entire house of cards tumbling down.

This is the harsh reality the Masters of Empire are now facing, and no amount of mythologizing about the "limitless" power at their disposal can change it.

There is a vast difference between imagined power and the actual ability to project and sustain power against the adversaries the United States military must now face and defeat in order to prevent or even meaningfully delay the end of American global hegemony.

And, to the extent Russia, China, and Iran are determined to act all for one and one for all, they represent a combination of global military and economic power that cannot be defeated.


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The Ukrainians are itching for a Russian victory!

The west is wasting its money on more [weapons]; Ukraine needs power grid equipment. The Ukrainians are sick to death of war and are collaborating with the Russians to shorten the war and save lives.


Here is your daily air strike update for April 12, 2024

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The latest missiles at the Kiev Thermal Power Plant: Elimination of air defense in Odessa. Fire at the airfield - Nebenzya took the floor

"NEWEST MISSILES AT KIEV TPP [thermal power plant]": ELIMINATION OF AIR DEFENSE IN ODESSA. FIRE AT THE AIRFIELD – NEBENZYA TOOK THE FLOOR

A video of the moment one of the drones hit the critical infrastructure of a thermal power plant is being circulated online. At the same time, it became known that in addition to drones, the “newest X-69 missiles” were used, which are said to be “more terrible than the Kinzhals.” Some targets of the strikes in Odessa became known. An air raid alert was declared in many regions of Ukraine - a military airfield was hit, where previously it was possible to eliminate NATO military personnel. [The X-69 is described as a stealth ground attack cruise missile. It is subsonic but can sneak past air defenses]

Strikes in Odessa

During a series of powerful attacks on a number of regions of Ukraine, kamikaze drones and guided bombs rained down on the enemy’s military and critical infrastructure. A powerful attack on the Odessa oblast destroyed one of the main logistics railway lines, which led to the southern part of the port of Chernomorsk - along this line the enemy equipped part of the military groups with reserves. There were also attacks on the substation in Mirny [Zaporozhye oblast], which cut off power to some of the oblast’s settlements.

However, it became known later that the Russian soldiers had other goals. According to Boris Rozhin, an expert at the Center for Military-Political Journalism, the Russian Aerospace Forces launched a successful strike on the enemy’s air defense position area southwest of the city of Ilyichevsk in the Odessa oblast.

As a result of the strike, one S-300 [air defense] launcher was destroyed, and its ammunition detonated. Another launcher, as well as a 30N6 illumination and guidance radar, were cut by shrapnel and disabled, the expert said.

Kiev TPP

Earlier it the destruction of the “most powerful” power plant in the Kiev oblast, Tripilska Thermal Power Plant, was reported. According to preliminary information, Russian military personnel used Kinzhals and Geran-2 kamikaze drones. A video is even being circulated online, according to the authors, of the first drone hit on a critical infrastructure facility.

However, it became known later that instead of the Kinzhals, Russia could have used a completely different missile, superior to that one in speed, range and power. Information about this was published by the Ukrainian publication Defense Express.

There is no official confirmation from the Ministry of Defense at the moment.

The publication reports that conclusions about the model of the missiles used were made on the basis of debris found at the site of the impact, said Ruslan Ostashko.

Airfield for F-16

On April 12, targeted strikes against enemy military and critical infrastructure facilities continued. After 03:00, an air raid alert was announced in Odessa, Kharkov, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev, Kirovograd, Vinnitsa, Khmelnytsky and Chernivtsioblasts.

According to TV presenter Ruslan Ostashko, explosions were heard in the area of the military airfield in Starokonstantinov.

Explosions were heard in the area of the military airfield of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Starokonstantinov. The object has long become a common target for Russian Gerans. The work of air defenses in the Odessa oblast is also reported, the journalist said.

According to unconfirmed reports, a fire started in the area after the strike.

This is not the first attack on this military facility. [That is an understatement if there ever was one. Just go back over the old issues of donhank.substack for several months and you will see that this airfield is the most frequently attacked by far.]After the previous attack, information began to spread online about the liquidation of NATO troops, as well as Polish engineers servicing European cruise missiles.

It was quite a coincidence that at the time of the last strike at the airfield, the German journalist Röpke said that there were no safe places for F-16 fighters in Ukraine.

It is noteworthy here that it was the Starokonstantinov airfield in the Khmelnitsky oblast that was supposed to receive NATO F-16 aircraft. They turned out to be a nightmare.

[The main problem for the Ukronazis is that the average Ukrainian citizen hates their government, which it realizes is a puppet of Washington and wants to send all the men to the meatgrinder of the front lines. The women in particular are solicitous of the safety of their husbands, boyfriends, brothers and sons. Therefore, not only the traditionally pro-Russian areas but also most others, are full of informants who are eager to have the Russian forces strike the military and allied areas. Westerners are told the opposite – that the Ukrainians are willing to fight to the last man for the sake of “democracy” and “freedom.” It is a CROCK to say the least! Ukrainian citizens line up to send state secrets to the Russian Ministry of Defense. That is why the missile forces know the exact coordinates of large gatherings of military men and equipment, railroad junctions and airfields where the Western-supplied F-16s will be landing.]

Strikes to the energy sector

As Permanent Representative Vasily Nebenzya stated at a recent UN meeting, Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities are a response to Kiev’s attempts to damage facilities in the oil and gas industry of the Russian Federation:

On April 11 alone, the list of damaged energy facilities in Ukraine was at least 10.

The list and extent of destruction of generating infrastructure facilities is impressive:

Tripolye (Kiev oblast). Trypilska Thermal Power Plant.

Kharkov, CHPP-3.

Kharkov, plant named after. Malysheva, workshop No. 510 and building No. 400.

Chuguev (Kharkov oblast). Central warehouse of engineering ammunition of military unit A-2467.

Kharkov, "Turboatom" plant. Foundry shop and KEMZ building.

Stryi (Lviv oblast), gas collection point No. 2.

Susk (Rivne oblast). 1448th Central Artillery Weapons Base.

Chervonograd (Lviv oblast). 72nd separate mechanization battalion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Chervonograd (Lviv oblast), substation "Chervonograd-2" 110/35/6 kV.

Odessa, substation 330/110/10 kV "Usatovo".

At the same time, the American publication The Wall Street Journal believes that “with attacks on the Ukrainian energy sector and, in particular, thermal power plants, Russia is laying the foundation for a new offensive.”

In particular, we are talking about depleting stocks of air defense missiles and drawing the attention of the Ukrainian Armed Forces away from the front line. The successful destruction of power plants in Kharkov, Kiev and Sumy only confirms that the Kiev regime no longer has air defenses, writes TV presenter Ostashko.

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The Secret Zionist Plan to Destroy the Muslim World

Daniel Haqiqatjou

November 8, 2023

The Yinon Plan was first laid out in a 1982 article featured in the Hebrew journal Kivunim

(published by the World Zionist Organization’s department of Information in Jerusalem).

The article was authored by Oded Yinon – a former advisor to Ariel Sharon (an Israeli general who later became prime minister).

The Yinon Plan has played a key role in Zionist foreign policy since the 1980s. The powerful Israel lobby has also successfully pushed the US government into adopting the same plan.

The US government began to implement this plan partially in the 1990s. However, full implementation began in the early 2000s under George W. Bush. The plan still guides American policy to this day.

The basic aim of the Yinon Plan is to fatally weaken Muslim-majority states, especially in the Middle East. This involves promoting religious, sectarian, and ethnic divisions and conflict. Such is to be done within Muslim majority-states (e.g., Lebanon, Iraq, Syria). It is also to be done between these states (e.g., Gulf states versus Iraq, Saudi versus Iran).

It is assumed that Muslim-majority states will become weaker if there is conflict within them and between them. It is expected that these conflicts will cause complete economic ruin, millions of deaths, and tens of millions of refugees.

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US support for ISIS in Syria [US support for ISIS is part of the Yinon Plan described above]

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WASHINGTON D.C. (GPA) – Everyone knows U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East has more to do with destabilization than diplomacy. Whether arming terror states like Israel and Saudi Arabia or flattening entire countries like Libya and Iraq, American intervention is pretty much always a humanitarian disaster. At times, this policy has even included arming ISIS — the very terror group Washington claims to oppose.

The reason for this help is that ISIS assists U.S. foreign policy goals. It is no secret that the U.S. has tried to overthrow the democratically elected Syrian government for years. To further their goals, the U.S. regime has more or less aligned with just about every terrorist group short of ISIS publicly, including Jahbat al-Nusra.

Yet at times this alliance has extended past terror groups fighting under the Free Syrian Army banner. In many situations, the U.S. has seemingly supported ISIS. Whether these instances are mere coincidence or represent a pattern of support is up to you to decide. Below are five strongest instances of the U.S. helping ISIS and other terrorist groups.

1. FIGHTING AS ISIS’S AIR FORCE

There are several instances of the United States providing air support to terrorist groups like ISIS but none quite as obvious — and dire — as Deir Ez Zor in 2016.

In September 2016, the humanitarian situation in the Syrian city of Deir Ez Zor was dire: the largest city in eastern Syria was completely besieged by ISIS fighters. Syrian civilians and soldiers alike were completely dependent upon airlifted supplies to survive. Then, on September 17, U.S. warplanes led British, Danish, and Australian jets on a series of airstrikes against the city’s defenders, the Syrian Arab Army. The air raids lasted about an hour and decimated crucial Syrian Army positions on the mountains that overlook Deir Ez Zor airport. Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the airstrikes killed at least sixty-two Syrian soldiers and injured over 100 more.

Immediately following the airstrikes, ISIS fighters attacked the weakened Syrian troops defending the critical mountains. ISIS ultimately overran positions on the mountains threatening both the airbase and the cities roughly 200,000 residents. These particular airstrikes occurred during a ceasefire between “rebel” and Syrian Arab Army forces. After the strikes, the ceasefire quickly fell apart.

While the U.S. claims the airstrikes were intended to strike ISIS fighters, Russia and Syria see the situation differently. Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s U.N. ambassador said “It is highly suspicious that the US chose to conduct this particular air strike at this time,” adding that the strikes killing Syrian soldiers did not look like a mistake. Syrian President Bashar Assad went so far as to say that the U.S. airstrikes intentionally targeted the Syrian Army.

2. GRANTING SAFE PASSAGE TO ISIS THROUGH A SECRET DEAL

Speaking of ISIS’s siege of Deir Ez-Zor, ISIS fighters were again bolstered there by the now infamous “Raqqa Deal:” a secret agreement between the U.S.-backed Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and ISIS.

Encircled ISIS fighters were transported via trucks through SDF territory to other parts of the country — including Deir Ez-Zor. ISIS fighters left the area with their weapons and “families” including captured sex slaves and children.

While the U.S. and Kurds intended to keep the deal secret for obvious reasons, news quickly broke when disgruntled truck drivers talked to the press. Since they were hired under false pretenses, the truck drivers were quite surprised to discover that their cargo included heavily armed terrorists laden with suicide belts.

According to the U.S. coalition, the SDF granted safe passage out of Raqqa to only 250 ISIS terrorists but this number is more likely than not a boldface lie. Talal Silo, a former commander in the Syrian Democratic Forces, says roughly 4,000 ISIS fighters were bussed out of the city with their families and weapons. Silo also claims that U.S. officials made the decision in consultation with the SDF — contradicting the U.S. narrative that local SDF commanders forced it upon the U.S.

3. SUPPLYING SOPHISTICATED ANTI-TANK WEAPONS TO TERRORIST GROUPS

Of all the weapons in ISIS’s arsenal, perhaps none are more devastating than U.S.-made TOW launchers. These laser-guided anti-tank missiles make it extremely difficult to secure terrorist-controlled areas because they partially negate the big advantage that tanks and armored vehicles provide forces fighting underequipped terrorists. In 2015, an ISIS propaganda video even featured one such TOW launcher destroying a modern Russian Tank.

According to a 2014 Washington Post article, the U.S. provided many of these launchers to the self-described “moderate” rebel groups like Harakat Hazm (or Movement of Steadfastness) which later joined hardline extremist Levant Front. In the case of Harakat Hazm, the group joined the extremist Levant Front just a year after receiving the U.S. TOW launchers. The Levant Front is a broad coalition consisting not of ISIS fighters per se, but still containing fighters under the banner of numerous terrorist organizations within its ranks.

 4. (LIKELY) ARMING TERRORISTS WITH SURFACE-TO-AIR WEAPONS

One of the most devastating weapons available to ISIS and ISIS adjacent forces are MANPADS: shoulder fired anti-aircraft rocket launchers.

Ample video evidence displays fighters of every rebel group from ISIS to al-Qaeda in Syria using such weapons to devastating effect. One video even shows ISIS fighters with U.S.-made Javelin rocket launchers. While it is possible these weapons were simply captured, some evidence points to the weapons being supplied by the U.S.

Many foreign policy experts suggest that the U.S. and its allies have quietly supplied these devastating anti-aircraft weapons to Syrian “rebels.” Such an operation would be relatively easy to cover up as the U.S. has a large amount of Soviet made MANPADS looted from Iraq and Libya.

Fueling suspicions even more, in 2016, the U.S. Congress granted the president legal authority to supply these devastating weapons to “moderate” Syrian rebels. Seeing as how “moderate” rebels has previously included groups such as al-Nusra and al- Qaeda, this new legal authority represents a major escalation.

Since the bill passed, there has been two high profile cases of jihadist forces using MANPADS to shoot down fighter jets.  RT and other non-western news sources have suggested that the

-MANPADS used in the attacks originated from the U.S. although it’s impossible to determine the weapons’ origins from mere terrorist propaganda videos. Very convenient plausible deniability.

5. USING TURKEY AND SAUDI ARABIA AS PROXIES TO FUNNEL SUPPORT TO ISIS

Perhaps the largest and most obscure way that the U.S. helps ISIS and other terror groups is through middlemen like Turkey and Saudi Arabia. The U.S. gives extensive military, intelligence and financial aid to these regimes that then funnel those resources towered ISIS.

During the early days of the ISIS’s rise, Turkey’s open border policy was instrumental to foreign terrorists flooding into Iraq and Syria. In fact, Turkey’s involvement with ISIS runs so deep that in 2016 David Phillips, an ex-State Department and Columbia University researcher, published a comprehensive study on Turkey’s support for ISIS.

The study found evidence of Turkey providing military equipment, transport and logistical assistance, training, medical care to ISIS fighters. But that’s not all. The study determined that Turkey supports ISIS financially through purchasing oil and assisting ISIS recruitment. The report also said Turkish forces fight alongside ISIS fighters (specifically referring to the Battle for Kobani). Phillips attributes all this to the idea that Turkey and ISIS share a common worldview.

Saudi Arabia — another U.S. ally — covertly supports ISIS while publicly opposing the terror group. According to a report by the British government, Saudi Arabia supplied ISIS with major financing. London attempted to bury the report because of the embarrassment it could cause the U.K. government.

Even the neoconservative Brookings Institute admits that “Saudi Arabia’s contribution to Islamist extremism has far outstripped Iran’s.” Hillary Clinton, one of Saudi Arabia’s staunchest supporters in the U.S., has privately admitted that Riyadh supports ISIS.

In a 2014 email published by WikiLeaks, Clinton wrote that “While this military/para-military operation is moving forward [in Syria], we need to use our diplomatic and more traditional intelligence assets to bring pressure on the governments of Qatar and Saudi Arabia, which are providing clandestine financial and logistic support to ISIL [Isis] and other radical Sunni groups in the oblast.”

Clinton of course, was an outspoken advocate of arming “moderate” Syrian rebels.

CONCLUSION

Whether the Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq’s WMD’s, or simple coups, secret operations that destroy entire countries for U.S. interests are as American as apple pie.

Trying to piece together the definitive actions of a government so apt at lying and deception is difficult. But what we do know doesn’t paint a good picture of the U.S. in Syria. No matter how you spin it, the U.S. and its allies are relentlessly employing terrorists to serve America’s own selfish interests

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In order to consolidate the division, SDF occupies homes in Raqqa, Tabqa, and Manbij

SDF members storm Syrian homes


In 2015, the Syrian Democratic Forces [SDF] entered more than 350 villages in Raqqa Governorate, after the Western coalition indiscriminately bombed cities and villages in northeastern Syria, leading to the erasure of entire neighborhoods of Raqqa, before the SDF entered the city and took control of it. Whoever reads the studies that the SDF is trying to publish and pass, as part of an attempt to rewrite the history of the region, such as the attempts of Pierre Robari on the Kurdistan website, who has been trying since 2022 to invent a new history for Raqqa, the Arab city that is located on the eastern bank of the Euphrates River, making it one of the important cities of the area, ie, Syria, which is located within the historically known Arabian Peninsula, which extends between the Euphrates and the Nile.

It is not new for our region to be subjected to more historical deception in order to impose control over it, and the “revolutions” that swept the Arab region were nothing but attempts to re-divide it into sectarian and ethnic cantons in order to facilitate this, according to the proposal and plan of Bernard Lewis since 1954. We are reminded of history. And with the Zionist-American plan, every time we talk about the eastern region of the Syrian Jazira, let us know that the plan continues as long as the American occupation there continues, and that the SDF Kurds, most of whom came from the Qandil Mountains, are an integral part of this plan. They do not share the Kurds of the Arab region’s affiliation with the countries in which they lived in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt.

This information is not only known to the people of the region, and it was published by a study by the Washington Institute on December 5 of last year, entitled “The Rebellion Crisis Facing the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).” Vladimir van Wilgenburg wrote that the SDF entered into an alliance with the United States and was able to enter the country on that day. Raqqa with the support of these forces. It is trying to connect a group of villages in which Kurds are present, and then the SDF reluctantly entered the eastern part of the city of Deir ez-Zor. The writer attributes the reason for sparking the rebellion between the clans last year to “local grievances,” which pose a major challenge to the United States as well as to the SDF in the region. Therefore, what we have been witnessing from an American attack in Deir ez-Zor for about a week, and according to what the situation is described by Beljanbara, is the presence of resistance forces under the name “Lions of the East,” and they stood by the tribes in the recent “rebellion” against the SDF after they arrested Abu Khawla, one of them. Leaders of the Hafil tribe, who supported the SDF forces over the past years, and Washington refuses to deal with him directly at the expense of the SDF, while it deals and talks with his brother who is in Qatar.

What does this mean? Dealing with his brother in Qatar! This means that Washington does not want to deal with or recognize the people and owners of the region who have lived there for thousands, not hundreds, of years. Washington and the SDF accuse the groups that are fighting them of being either supported by Iran or supported by Assad’s forces, just as they do with the Palestinians in Gaza, and with Hamas’s classifications, sometimes of being terrorists and sometimes of being supported by Iran, as part of a dirty policy that seeks to settle strangers and abnormal prospects for the benefit of “Israel’s” security. . Here, we do not want to repeat the role played by the SDF, which is linked to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party and whose leaders came from the Qandil Mountains, according to a Carnegie research published in 2019 written by Elizabeth Tsurkov and Essam Al-Hassan. It seems that the Kurdish leadership was trying to achieve the impossible to hold on to its stronghold in northeastern Syria, because there is a major conflict between Kurdish and Arab interests in the region. After the virtual elimination of ISIS, there is no longer anything that unites the two parties, especially since the SDF, with its Kurdish leadership, wants to control everything, including of course the Syrian oil fields and wheat fields.

The matter does not stop there, as American interests converge with Kurdish interests, and the latter practice a racist policy in which they call an Arab a Bedouin, and treat him as if he were a second-class citizen, marginalizing the Arab majority who are subject, and unfortunately submissive, to the rule of the SDF, and they have a feeling of resentment because they are considered by According to Carnegie, the SDF is not concerned with managing their regions. This is not accurate, as the SDF always tries to deal with the tribes, which it considers ignorant and disorganized, lacking in doctrinal understanding, and dominated by tribal and clan values. The SDF also avoids working with educated people and intellectuals while dealing with them. It practices a kind of disdain and abhorrent racism. Qandil Kurds are mainly villagers and Bedouins organized into the Kurdistan Workers' Party, which is also considered a totalitarian party that does not accept others. According to the Carnegie study, the SDF doubts the ability of the Arabs and Kurds in northeastern Syria, and what the SDF certainly doubts is the Arabs’ desire to secede and form an autonomous administration far from the centralization of the capital. What the SDF wants are allies to support it in preventing the Syrian state from seizing control of the oil and wheat fields, which provide self-financing that has reached the point of greed.

Qandil SDF knows that it is a stranger in Syria. It also cannot deal with educated people and intellectuals because they know that the SDF is part of a settlement occupation in the east of the Syrian Peninsula, while they see themselves as part of the Syrian state that must manage the country, and the military support that the SDF receives from the Americans is not easy in terms of armament and training. It gives it military superiority in the region, especially with open American support, and the Americans do not care about the amount of weapons that the SDF buys as long as it pays for it with Syrian oil revenues. With this weapon, it considers itself the local force that gives itself the right to raid homes and impose conscription on young men in its ranks, which led to the flight of Arab youth from the city of Raqqa and its environs. The SDF then seized the homes of many of them and occupied them, and did as ISIS did during the years 2014-2015. It considers the empty houses to be its property, and it houses those coming from the Qandil Mountains, just as ISIS did, and as Zionism did in Palestine, especially in the territories occupied in 1948.

During a conversation with a journalist in Syria, who requested that his name not be mentioned, at a time when the speaker was astonished by the theft of his house, its evacuation, and the squatting of some members of the Kurdish Autonomous Administration in it, he said, “After the Turkish bombing of Qamishli, there were no safe places left for them, so they headed to Raqqa.” And to the city of Tabqa on the banks of the Euphrates, and from time to time the tribal sheikhs intervene in order to return the houses to their original owners. Among the houses that the SDF occupied without caring about the results of its actions, and whose occupation constitutes a real attack on Syrian sovereignty, is the house of the former Minister of Tourism, Hala Al-Tamer, and the house of the branch director. The former party in Raqqa, Abdul Razzaq Al-Jassem, and Al-Jassem’s house, according to the press source, is empty today.”

At the beginning of the Syrian war, many Syrians in the Damascus countryside, in Dummar and its environs, and in Eastern Ghouta were astonished when militants from ISIS and Al-Nusra or what was called the Free Army entered their homes, especially those that were owned by individuals from different sects, or who were called the Shabiha and the regime’s men from various sects occupied their homes, tampered with them, and stole their property. This is what SDF is doing today in the homes of Arab residents. Is there any difference between the strangers of ISIS and Al-Nusra who came from Dagestan, Pakistan, Turkey, Turkestan, and... and some Arab countries to tamper with the security of Syria and so on? Between the SDF and its leaders who came from Turkey and the Qandil Mountains, some of whom were refugees in Europe due to Kurdish and Iraqi persecution, according to their claim.

After the start of the Iraqi resistance’s strikes on the American occupation sites in Syria, operations that affected both American and Kurdish sites, Abdi Mazloum went to visit Washington on February 9 of this year, 2024. He complained about his forces being exposed to resistance strikes, and we said that the Kurds were scratching their heads. Mazloum also reassured us in a press conference, broadcast from the SDC office in Washington, that America told him that there would be no withdrawal from Syria, neither now nor in the near future. He confirmed that the Turks are targeting the SDF forces with F-16 planes that the Americans recently released. It is an American attempt to win Türkiye more to its side. This falls within the scope of preparation for something, which may be a larger military campaign in northern Syria, and confrontations with the Syrian army and its allies.

It appears from Mazloum’s speech that both the SDF and the Americans are proceeding with all the plans that have been drawn up, and that today the SDF forces are roaming the Syrian desert with the commando forces, formerly ISIS, to actually form what is called the Free Syrian Army, “Al-Sahja”, and to begin missions to take over power. Within this plan was the Syrian army’s bombing of Deir ez-Zor, in which 36 members of the Syrian Arab Army were martyred a few days ago. What America is doing today is that it is dragging the Autonomous Administration south, 30 km away from the Turkish border, and allowing SDF to expand in the western countryside of Deir ez-Zor liberated by the Syrian Arab Army. Confirmed news has spread of the spread of SDF in the Syrian desert, and it seems that the American plan is proceeding apace and not disturbing it. Except for resistance strikes from time to time.

Writer: Abeer Bassam

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Pepe Escobar comes to Normandy and eats like a Chinese emperor!

JEFF J BROWN

APR 12

Pepe Escobar came for a visit in Cherbourg, France. Great company, great food, great conversation. He gave me this amazing gift from Donbas, Russia: a military banner of all the Russian battalions that have adopted a saint (Mark, Luke, James, etc.). Jesus Christ in the center is the image on one of Russia's first flags 1,000 years ago, when the Orthodox church was founded in Crimea, Russia.


We were treated to an incredible meal prepared by our dear friend Evelyne, hands down the best home cooking chef in Normandy! Bon Appétit!

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Just let me say a word about “freedom of religion.” This concept gave us the criminal enterprise we call “Israel” and the current genocide in Gaza.

Religion in China

By Dr. Kwan Lee

https://seektruthfromfacts.org/kwan/divinity-in-china/?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

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The West is finally leaking out the truth about Russian power in Ukraine

Because Ukraine is screaming for more air defenses and the best propaganda is the truth. The problem is, NO known air defense can intercept hypersonic missiles, so more Patriots won’t save Ukraine. Imbecile Zelensky doesn’t know this basic sci-tech fact.

Negotiations is the only answer, but Zelensky wants to go down with the ship and take as many of his fellow Ukrainians with him.

The reporting is still not honest, of course. This journo calls the Russian strikes “heinous,” but no msm report would EVER call the genocidal Israeli attacks on Gaza heinous. Why not?

In fact NO Western reports even mentioned the genocidal attacks by the Ukro-Nazis on Donbass starting in 2014 when the Obama regime took over the reins in Kiev and filled all the power positions with Neo-Nazis. And God forbid any journo would have called the attacks on Donbass “heinous.”

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European Union, Josep Borrell: Israel has turned Gaza into the largest open cemetery in the world

Borrell also added that Gaza before the war was an open prison, and today it has become the largest open cemetery for tens of thousands of people, and it is also a cemetery for many of the most important principles of humanitarian law.

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La Colonisation: French history of death, torture and indescribable violence in the pearl of its evil empire

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La Colonisation: French history of death, torture and indescribable violence in the pearl of its evil empire
Many issues arising from France’s colonial crimes in Algeria have still not been resolved


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Every year, Algeria remembers the colonial crimes committed by France against the Algerian people. The North African country commemorates several such dates throughout the year: February 13 – the day of the first nuclear test, July 5  – Independence Day, November 1 – Revolution Day, which marked the beginning of the eight-year independence war of 1954-1962, and December 11 – the day on which mass demonstrations started in 1960, and were brutally suppressed by French troops.

Algeria’s colonial period lasted for over 130 years, but the nation didn’t give up on its dream of breaking free from colonial oppression. Algeria’s sovereignty was finally recognized in 1962. But independence was won with a great deal of blood. According to official Algerian data, about 1.5 million local residents died in the war with France (1954-1962), about one sixth of the country’s population at the time. 

Addressing the people on the occasion of Independence Day in 2021, Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune recalled that the French colonialists were responsible for the most cruel violence, murder, and destruction in Algeria. Historians estimate that from 1830 to 1962 the colonialists caused the deaths of over five million people, including those who died as a result of contamination from nuclear tests.

In the 1954-1962 war against the National Liberation Front (Le Front de libération nationale, FLN), the French used civilians as hostages and human shields. Historians have documented numerous cases when French colonialists exterminated entire villages. They resorted to electric shock torture, used wells as prisons, threw prisoners from helicopters, and buried people alive in mass graves which the victims were forced to dig for themselves. The European invaders used the most sophisticated and cruel methods of torture.


THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION IN ALGERIA—The 1er REC Training Squadron (led by Captain Vachnadze) arriving in Sidi Bel Abbès in January 1939. It would be assigned to the DCRE. Behind the men is the CIET (Mortars & Radio Operator Training Company).


 
 

The Musée de l’Homme in Paris still houses 18,000 skulls acquired from dependent territories, of which only 500 have been identified, according to French media. Most of these skulls are not publicly exhibited. The skulls of several dozen Algerian resistance fighters have also been kept in the museum since the 19th century.

Fresh legionnaires of the DCRE (Foreign Regiments Joint Depot) during their basic training near Sidi Bel Abbès in July 1940, shortly after the Armistice was signed with Germany. For these men, the Battle of France (May-June 1940) was already over.

France’s colonial crimes affected not only people, but also Algeria’s cultural and historical heritage. During the occupation period from 1830 to 1962, the French transported hundreds of thousands of documents to Paris, including those related to the Ottoman period (1518-1830). Since gaining independence, Algeria has appealed to France to return the archive. But each time when this issue comes up, France says that according to its laws, the documents are considered classified and their disclosure is a threat to national security. 


French intervention

The French invasion of Algeria in 1830 marked the beginning of the European country’s extensive colonization of Asian and African territories. The occupation process stretched on for several decades, as the local population put up an active resistance. 

At the beginning of the 19th century, Algeria remained under the nominal rule of the Ottoman Empire, to which it regularly made tribute payments. However, the country retained much of its independence when it came to external political and commercial contacts. During France’s Italian and Egyptian campaigns (1793-1798) Algeria supplied Paris with wheat on credit. In the following decades, however, France refused to pay the debt, which resulted in major disagreements between the two countries.

In 1827, during one such dispute, Algeria’s Ottoman governor, Hussein Pasha, lost his temper and slapped the French ambassador Pierre Deval with a fly swatter (or a fan, according to other accounts). The King of France, Charles X, used this incident as an excuse to invade Algeria, believing that given the internal instability France was going through, an external military campaign could help rally society around the throne.

In the summer of 1830, a 37,000-strong expeditionary force from Paris arrived near Algiers and soon entered the city. Hussein Pasha capitulated. This victory did not help Charles X, who eventually abdicated, but the French remained in Algeria for the next 132 years.

Abd al-Qadir

Having occupied several Mediterranean ports, the Europeans decided to move inland, but at that point the local Arabs and Berbers, who had previously fought against the Ottoman Empire, put up strong resistance. 

The anti-French movement was led by Abd al-Qadir, the son of the leader of the Qadiriyya, a local Sufi order. In November 1832, he was proclaimed as the emir of the Arab tribes in the west of the country, and united the local population in the fight against the French occupation. Abd al-Qadir was adept at managing territories and conducting guerrilla warfare, and fought against the invaders for 15 years. He became a legendary figure, and his fame spread throughout the Muslim world and Europe.

Abd al-Qadir was very popular among Algerians, since he was considered a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad (i.e. a Sharif) and a true ruler of the faithful. However, resorting to pogroms and the mass extermination of the local population, the French deprived him of the support of many military leaders and turned the course of the war in their favor.

The Algerians paid a heavy price for the resistance – hundreds of thousands died as a result of it. From 1847 to 1852, Abd al-Qadir remained in a French prison, after which he was released and went to live in exile in Damascus, where he died in 1883.

Algérie française: no rights for locals

In the following decades, Algeria was actively colonized, and the colonial territory expanded south. By 1847, there were about 110,000 European settlers in Algeria, and by 1870 this number had doubled.

In 1848, Algeria was declared a territory of France and was designated as its overseas department, with a European Governor-General in charge. The locals became subjects (but not citizens) of France. After the Ottomans were ousted from Algeria and the Abd al-Qadir movement was suppressed, the French had to deal with several other major uprisings in the 19th century, the last of which occurred in 1871-1872.

By the beginning of the 20th century, the French had conquered lands stretching from the Mediterranean Sea to the Sahara. In the 1920s, over 800,000 French settlers resided in Algeria. Three provinces – Oran, Algiers, and Constantine – became French departments. They elected representatives to the French Chamber of Deputies, but only European settlers who backed the interests of Paris could take part in these elections. Algerians did not have the right to vote.

Economic benefits

Economically speaking, the period between 1885-1930 is considered the golden age of French Algeria (and of the entire French Maghreb region). The country’s most important ports and cities were rebuilt and modernized and the agricultural sector was actively developed. Muslims had relative autonomy and retained their religious and cultural institutions.

The demographic boom, facilitated by European achievements in the fields of health and medicine, led to a threefold increase in the population, which reached nine million by the mid-20th century. Out of these, about a million were French colonists who seized about 40% of the cultivated land, which meant the most fertile land in the country belonged to them. 

In other areas of life, there was also inequality between the locals and the colonizers. Local workers were paid less, and about 75% of Algerians remained illiterate. Despite these issues, however, peace lasted in the country for many decades.

Paris derived great economic benefits from its new territories. Algeria occupied a central place among France’s eastern possessions and its location was strategically important since the most convenient routes which connected France with its colonies in West and Central Africa passed through Algeria. 

Fighting for independence

Algerian war collage Wikipedia (click on image for better appreciation)



The largest and bloodiest massacre committed by France in a single day occurred on May 8, 1945, when hundreds of thousands of Algerians took to the streets to celebrate the end of World War II. When people started shouting slogans demanding independence, the colonial forces opened fire on the peaceful protesters. At least 45,000 unarmed demonstrators were killed that day.


The "Paras" arrive. Jean Martin as Col. Matthieu, chief of paratroopers sent to pacify the colony. (Still from G. Pontecorvo's classic, The Battle of Algiers).


Protests broke out in France as well, and were also brutally suppressed. October 17, 1961, went down in history as the day of the “Massacre on the Seine”, or the “Paris pogrom”. On that day, about 60,000 Algerians took to the streets of Paris, demanding an end to the colonization of their country. The French authorities again used firearms against peaceful protesters, many of whom were thrown into the River Seine. The death toll amounted to 1,500, while 800 people went missing, and thousands were detained. 

The working people of Paris demanding an end to the war in Algeria. 1962. Reproduction of a photo from the newspaper L'Humanite. ©  RIA Novosti / Sputnik


However, this did not stop the national liberation movement in Algeria. In November 1954, an alliance of several political organizations formed the National Liberation Front (le Front de Libération Nationale), which headed the armed struggle for independence. Many underground guerrilla groups also sprang up that supported the sovereignty of Algeria. At the end of 1954, they all went into attack, and this marked the beginning of the Algerian War of Independence, which lasted until March 1962.

Paris sent additional military units to Algeria to fight the rebels. An estimated 500,000 to 1.5 million local residents and over 15,000 European servicemen died as a result of the hostilities, which lasted more than seven years.


The people demonstrate against the French



Algerian insurrection: French policeman shot


France won the war on a tactical level, but suffered a political and reputational defeat – its actions drew sharp criticism from its own citizens and the world community.

After negotiations and the signing of the Évian Accords, Algerians held a referendum and almost unanimously voted for independence, which was officially proclaimed on July 5, 1962. 

Demining

After the war, it was necessary to clear the territory of mines. Since Algeria did not have qualified sappers, it requested assistance from European countries (Italy, Sweden, and Germany), but they refused to help. Private companies could not solve the problem either.

It was then that the USSR agreed to help Algeria, free of charge. On July 27, 1963, an agreement was signed between the Soviet leadership and Algeria. Soviet specialists removed about 1.5 million mines in Algeria from 1962 to 1965. 

Nuclear tests

One of the greatest crimes against humanity was the testing of nuclear and chemical weapons of mass destruction, which was carried out by France from 1960 to 1966 in the Sahara Desert in Algeria. 

The first nuclear explosion happened on February 13, 1960, near the town of Zaouit Reggani in southwestern Algeria and was codenamed “Gerboise Bleue”. This experiment launched the process that turned Algeria into France’s nuclear test site. The power of the nuclear bomb was estimated at 60-70 kilotons, which is about four times greater than the bomb dropped by the US on Hiroshima during WWII.

A total of 17 nuclear tests were conducted in Algeria, which led to the death of 42,000 Algerians. Many people became disabled, and the negative impact on the environment and the health of local residents is felt to this day. Algerian authorities are demanding that France hand over maps which show where the radioactive waste from these experiments was disposed of. But to this day, France hasn’t complied. 

France is still there

France suffered a severe blow when it lost its largest African colony, from which it derived great economic benefit. To this day, many problems between the two countries have not been fully resolved, and echoes of imperialism are still evident in their relations. 

Algeria wants France to officially admit its guilt, and take responsibility for the past events. However, in the past 60 years, Paris has never offered an official apology to Algeria, although some of its leaders made certain apologetic statements. Moreover, Algerian leaders often raise the issue of approving a bill which would criminalize the colonial policy of Paris. 

After gaining independence, Algeria faced contradictory emotions – it wanted to put an end to its former dependence on France, but the well-established trade ties, the lack of experienced national government officials, and the military presence stipulated by the Evian Accords ensured the presence of France in Algeria. Moreover, Paris provided the necessary financial assistance and supplied Algeria with essential goods.

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Things changed when Algerian authorities decided to nationalize industrial and energy enterprises in the late 1960s. France’s intervention in the Western Sahara conflict, in which it supported Morocco, and a stop in purchases of Algerian oil, which led to a trade imbalance in the late 1970s, further strained relations between the two countries. However, despite a decline in political relations, economic ties with France– especially those related to the energy sector –  have remained strong throughout the history of independent Algeria.

Four key issues 

In December 2018, Algerian Minister of War Veterans Tayeb Zitouni stated that there are four key issues (the so-called “memory file”) related to the era of imperialism: the archive of documents from the colonial and Ottoman periods, the skulls of resistance fighters which are stored in the Paris Museum, the file of people who went missing during the war of independence, and compensation for the victims of nuclear tests. Zitouni said that addressing these issues is key to ensuring normal relations between France and Algeria. 

In 2020, French President Emmanuel Macron agreed to hand over the remains of 24 Algerian resistance leaders who were killed and then beheaded by French colonial troops prior to the November 1954 revolution. All of them were buried at El Alia cemetery in Algiers. Negotiations continue on the return of other skulls, the number of which is not specified.

In late 2021, new tensions sprang up between France and Algeria. In his days as a presidential candidate, Emmanuel Macron recognized the colonization of Algeria as a crime against humanity. Macron said this on February 16, 2017, during a trip to Algeria. Nevertheless, by the end of his first presidential term, the countries were on the verge of a new diplomatic crisis  – Macron still had not made an official apology for the “mistakes” of the past.

On October 3, 2021, Algeria decided to “immediately recall” its ambassador to France. The reaction was a response to an interview by Macron, published in Le Monde, in which he stated that since gaining independence in 1962, Algeria has lived off “income from history” which is diligently guarded by the military and political authorities, and questioned the existence of the Algerian nation prior to French colonialism. The former colony was insulted by these words.


Monument in Kherrata. ©  Wikipedia



Soon, Algerian authorities took even stricter measures. The next day, Algeria banned French military planes from its airspace. This order is still in force. In 2023, the authorities declined France’s request to open Algerian airspace for French military aircraft heading to Niger, where a military coup had taken place – an event that seriously undermined France’s influence in the region.

In an attempt to improve relations with Algeria, Macron paid a visit to the country in August 2022 and signed a new partnership agreement with President Abdelmajid Tebboune, on cooperation in various fields. However, relations between the countries remain tense. Tebboune was supposed to respond with a similar visit on May 3, 2023, but it has been postponed. The reasons are the same – Algeria is still waiting for France to take action on a number of issues, which are all related to historical memory.


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US Artillery Capabilities Fall Victim to “Profit Over Purpose,” No Solution in Sight

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After decades of waging war against impoverished nations with destitute armies, or no standing armies at all, the US has suddenly found itself in a rapidly changing world where peer and near-peer competitors are outpacing it in military capabilities. Many of these capabilities are showing up on the battlefield in places the US has until recently enjoyed relative military superiority.

One area the US has found itself particularly weak in is artillery. The conflict in Ukraine has revealed a variety of shortcomings regarding not only US artillery capabilities, but those of the collective West.

The recent cancellation of the US Army’s “Extended Range Cannon Artillery” (ERCA) prototype was just the most recent event among several reflecting Washington’s realization that it is falling far behind.

Defense News in a March 12, 2024 article titled, “US Army scraps Extended Range Cannon Artillery prototype effort,” would note:

The U.S. Army is changing its approach to acquiring a long-range artillery capability and scrapping its 58-caliber Extended Range Cannon Artillery prototyping effort, according to the service’s acquisition chief. 

“We concluded the prototyping activity last fall,” Doug Bush told reporters at a March 8 briefing on the fiscal 2025 budget request. “Unfortunately, [it was] not successful enough to go straight into production.” 

The new plan — following an “exhaustive” tactical fires study meant to revalidate elements of the extended-range cannon requirement led by Army Futures Command — is to evaluate existing options from industry this summer “to get a sense of the maturity of those systems.”

The prototypes began suffering from many of the problems Western artillery systems transferred to Ukraine have suffered from, “excessive wear on the gun tube after firing a relatively low number of rounds.” 

Until relatively recently, Western artillery systems were only required to fire relatively low numbers of rounds as part of fire missions targeting irregular militant forces in support of infantry. These missions would take place from static fire bases, well, out of reach of the small arms used by militants. These fire bases existed at the end of well-developed logistical networks capable of supporting artillery crews, both in terms of ammunition and maintenance requirements.

This is in stark contrast to the intense positional fighting seen in Ukraine along the line of contact where guns fire continuously day after day until barrels begin to deform, lose accuracy, and in some cases, fail during firing which includes explosions that can maim or kill gun crews. The intensity of counter-battery operations means that artillery crews cannot easily perform repairs near the line of contact without becoming targets.

Modern Western artillery pieces are simply not designed to meet this rate of fire or perform well in this type of combat environment, especially where well-protected logistical lines no longer exist.

Searching for Flawed Solutions… 

Another Defense News article, “US Army readies new artillery strategy spurred by war in Ukraine,” would indicate the direction the US will attempt to move to address apparent deficiencies of Western artillery systems.

The article noted in particular advances in “propellant” to enable midrange guns to shoot as far as long-range guns. The article also discussed “robotics” in the form of autoloaders for munitions.

Both approaches, however, seem to be continuing in the same misguided direction the US and its NATO allies have moved since the Cold War, over-engineered systems attempting to leverage a technological edge over the quantities of Russian and Chinese arms and ammunition. The problem with this approach is that there no longer is a vast disparity between Western military technology and that of Russia or China.

Both nations are capable of producing high-quality weapon systems in large quantities.

Additionally, as seen in Ukraine, Russia has created long-range counter-battery capabilities like the Lancet kamikaze drone able to find and strike Western artillery systems far beyond the range of Russia’s own artillery systems. Having accurate, longer-range guns does not give the United States the advantage it thinks it will in any potential conflict with Russia or China.

It should be noted that both Russia and China are increasingly transferring these weapons to other nations around the globe, limiting the number of potential targets of Western military aggression.

America’s Fundamentally Flawed Mindset 

Washington’s problems continue to stem from its private industry-dominated military industrial base, which favors profits over purpose and performance, preferring small numbers of expensive weapon systems over large volumes of simple but effective equipment.

After abandoning the US Army’s own ERCA prototype, it is now investigating existing systems like Israel’s Elbit Systems Autonomous Truck Mounted Ordnance System (ATMOS) Iron Sabre, as well as systems produced by the UK’s BAE, France’s Nexter, and others.

Israel’s ATMOS self-propelled artillery system, for example, is operated by nations around the globe, but in single and double-digit numbers.

The problem all of these systems share is the same dependence on over-engineered technology produced by a small supporting industrial capacity incapable of large-scale production. There is a similar deficiency in supplying the large quantities of ammunition required to meet the demands exhibited on the battlefield in Ukraine. CNN, for example, in a March 11, 2024 article would note that Russia alone is producing at least 3 times more artillery ammunition than the US and Europe combined.

No matter how capable any of these systems may be, including additional improvements made as part of the US Army’s ongoing program, if respective military industrial bases are incapable of replacing them faster than they are removed from a future battlefield as they are in Ukraine today, their capabilities will make little difference in any potential conflict’s ultimate outcome.

Modern warfare is shifting as technological disparity closes, meaning that a handful of highly-capable but high-maintenance systems will no longer offer the US and its allies an advantage on the battlefield. Even in the Middle East, local militants are using drones and precision-guided rockets to attrite US military hardware faster than the US can replace it. So far, these incidents have been few and far between. If a large-scale conflict broke out between the US and Iran and Iran’s many allies, US capabilities would quickly suffer attrition and create an operational crisis for US forces.

Despite this reality taking clear shape, US planners still cling to the myth of superior American innovation and the role private industry plays in lending the US this supposed advantage.

A recent US National Defense Industrial Strategy (NDIS) report noted the many shortcomings of the current US military industrial base, many of which the report admitted stemmed from private industry, but insisted that private industry was part of the solution rather than the source of the problem.

Because the US military industrial base is dominated by private industry whom Washington serves, industry profits, not actual capabilities, remains the top priority. As long as this equation persists, the US will continue attempting to solve emerging problems by applying the same flawed mindset that is creating these problems in the first place.


Brian Berletic is a Bangkok-based geopolitical researcher and writer, especially for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.


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