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The US and the UK are pushing for total war on all fronts

Timur Fomenko
RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 01:31 UTC
Schumer
© Kevin Dietach/Getty Images/AFPSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks after Senate passes foreign aid bill with $95B for Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan
The Iran-Israel clash has served as a catalyst for renewed escalation by Western leaders, and World War III cannot be ruled out.

The events of recent weeks have produced a sudden jolt in Western politics. From a lethargy that was starting to creep into US and western discourse over the Ukraine war, Iran's attack on Israel suddenly seemed to have had the effect of awakening Ronald Reagan from his grave and leading to a surge of neo-conservativism on steroids, on both sides of the Atlantic.

US House Speaker Mike Johnson did a complete 180-degree U-turn and proclaimed himself a "Reagan Republican" passing a series of aid bills for astronomical overseas spending that he had otherwise blocked for months, as he denounced an "axis of evil." Along with that, a proposed TikTok ban bill came out of nowhere too and was quickly signed into law.

Then the UK decided to devote its largest ever aid package to Ukraine, with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak warning of an "axis of authoritarian states" and amplifying ideologically combative rhetoric. At the same time, it was then revealed Biden had sent 300km long range ATACMS missiles to Ukraine despite having pledged not to do so for years, fearing escalation. Finally, EU President Ursula von der Leyen has suddenly dramatically increased economic warfare on China, pushing the European Commission to open probes on scores of Chinese exports. Where exactly did all this come from?

Comment: Western leadership has purposed a one-way ticket to hell. No side trip. No refund. No return.

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Putin did NOT order Alexei Navalny's death, US intelligence believes - sparking fury from the murdered Russian opposition leader's aides

Darren Boyle
Daily Mail
Sat, 27 Apr 2024 08:47 UTC
Navalny
© Getty ImagesAlexei Navalny
U.S. intelligence agencies have determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin probably didn't order opposition politician Alexei Navalny killed at an Arctic prison camp in February, the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday.

Navalny, 47 when he died, was Putin's fiercest domestic critic. His allies, branded extremists by the authorities, accused Putin of having him murdered and have said they will provide proof to back their allegation.

The Kremlin has denied any state involvement. Last month, Putin called Navalny's demise 'sad' and said he had been ready to hand the jailed politician over to the West in a prisoner exchange provided Navalny never return to Russia. Navalny's allies said such talks had been under way.

The Journal, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter, said on Saturday that U.S. intelligence agencies had concluded that Putin probably didn't order Navalny to be killed in February.

Comment: See also:

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Light Sabers

Musk and Sacks slam Washington's 'forever war' Ukraine plan


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:01 UTC
muskSacks
© Business Insider/Getty ImagesElon Musk • David Sacks
The tech billionaires weighed in on the idea of a ten-year aid deal articulated by Vladimir Zelensky.

Two of the America's most influential tech entrepreneurs, Elon Musk and David Sacks, have expressed concern over a security agreement currently in the works between the US and Ukraine.

Former PayPal chief David Sacks took to X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday to warn that the controversial $61 billion in aid to Kiev approved by Washington earlier this month "was just the beginning." He was commenting on a statement made by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, who said that his team and the administration of US President Joe Biden were "working on fixing specific levels of support...for the next ten years, including armed support, financial, political, and joint arms production."

"The next two US presidents won't be able to switch it off," Sacks, who's also the founder of the corporate social network Yammer, wrote on X. In separate posts the entrepreneur went on to mention recent reports that NATO allies were working to "Trump-proof" weapons for Ukraine and claimed that the goal of the current US administration was "to turn Ukraine into a Forever War."

"This is insane. The forever war," Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote in response to Sacks' posts.
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Pep talk on a dark day

James Howard Kunstler
jameshowardkunstler.substack.com
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 00:00 UTC
lanternman
© Charon
"We live in an age of full spectrum deception."
Edward Dowd
You realize, don't you, that what's going on in our country is the collapse not just of an empire, or an economy, but a comprehensive paradigm of human progress. The hallmark of post-war life in Western Civ was supposed to be a return to sanity after the mid-twentieth century fugue of mass psychotic violence. The wish for just and rational order was not entirely pretense. But that was then. Now that we are going medieval on ourselves, the not-so-ironic result will be our literally going medieval, sinking back into a pre-modern existence of darkness, superstition, and penury, grubbing for a mere subsistence in the shadow of scuffling hobgoblins, our achievements lost and forgotten.

What's most appalling is that our governing apparatus is visibly willing that to happen. When Barack Obama warned America to not underestimate Joe Biden's ability to fuck things up, was that some kind of joke? After all, it was Mr. Obama and his fellow blobsters — the cabal of Intel spooks, covert Marxist bureaucrats, lawfare ninjas, globalist megalomaniacs, post-liberal think tankers, weapons grifters, degenerate billionaires, and assorted mentally-ill camp followers — who inflicted Joe Biden on the body politic. And then ran him on the country like some demon algorithm designed to wreck the USA as fast as possible.

Comment: The Kunstler assortment: Questions abound. Answers not so much.

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Attention

The Israel-US game plan for Gaza is staring us in the face

Jonathan Cook
Substack
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 16:58 UTC
The western media is pretending the West's efforts to secure a ceasefire are serious. But a different script has clearly been written in advance.
Gaza Ruins
© Substack
One does not need to be a fortune-teller to understand that the Israel-US game plan for Gaza runs something like this:

1. In public, Biden appears "tough" on Netanyahu, urging him not to "invade" Rafah and pressuring him to allow more "humanitarian aid" into Gaza.

2. But already the White House is preparing the ground to subvert its own messaging. It insists that Israel has offered an "extraordinarily generous" deal to Hamas - one that, Washington suggests, amounts to a ceasefire. It doesn't. According to reports, the best Israel has offered is an undefined "period of sustained calm". Even that promise can't be trusted.

3. If Hamas accepts the "deal" and agrees to return some of the hostages, the bombing eases for a short while but the famine intensifies, justified by Israel's determination for "total victory" against Hamas - something that is impossible to achieve. This will simply delay, for a matter of days or weeks, Israel's move to step 5 below.

4. If, as seems more likely, Hamas rejects the "deal", it will be painted as the intransigent party and blamed for seeking to continue the "war". (Note: This was never a war. Only the West pretends either that you can be at war with a territory you've been occupying for decades, or that Hamas "started the war" with its October 7 attack when Israel has been blockading the enclave, creating despair and incremental malnutrition there, for 17 years.)

Last night US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken moved this script on by stating Hamas was "the only thing standing between the people of Gaza and a ceasefire... They have to decide and they have to decide quickly".
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Report say Israel in quiet panic that ICC could issue arrest warrants against Netanyahu, senior officials

Greg Norman
Fox News
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 16:41 UTC
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© Xinhua via Getty ImagesIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attending a meeting of wartime cabinet at Israeli Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, Israel, on April 14, 2024.
Netanyahu has vowed that the 'ICC will not affect Israel's actions'

Israeli officials are growing concerned that the International Criminal Court could soon issue arrest warrants against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials over charges related to the war in Gaza, reports say.

The court may accuse the senior government figures of pursuing an excessively harsh military response to Hamas' Oct. 7 attacks on Israel and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, the New York Times is reporting, citing Israeli and foreign officials.

The newspaper reports that any warrants issued by the ICC would "probably be seen in much of the world as a humbling moral rebuke" and cited an official as saying that the possibility of them has factored into Israeli decision-making in recent weeks.

Comment: The U.S. will never allow the arrest to happen. If it did, American administrations going back for decades would also be open to prosecution.

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Mr. Potato

'Anti-white' Scottish First Minister quits after disastrous 'hate crime law'

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:16 UTC
Humza Yousaf
© Reuters/Russell CheyneHumza Yousaf speaks at the Scottish National Party (SNP) conference in Glasgow, Scotland, October 10, 2017.
Scotland's leader Humza Yousaf resigned on Monday, quitting as head of the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) after scrapping a coalition agreement with Scotland's Greens. He then failed to secure enough support to survive votes of no confidence against him expected later this week.

Yousaf, born to Pakistani immigrants in Glasgow, built an infamous reputation as a woke activist politician going into the 2023 elections. His rabid pro-immigration stance and consistent arguments in favor of DEI (Diversity, Equity and Inclusion) should have been a red flag to the Scottish public; however, with an increasingly progressive voting population Yousaf narrowly scored a victory. Here is Humza in 2020, giving a speech admonishing the "whiteness" of the Scottish government.

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Broom

US Navy withdraws largest assets from Red Sea


Almasirah
Tue, 30 Apr 2024 14:10 UTC
US Navy warship
The US Navy claimed that the aircraft carrier "USS Dwight D. Eisenhower" and the destroyer "USS Gravely" withdrew from the Red Sea to the eastern Mediterranean and the withdrawal announcement did not include the destroyers "USS Mason" and "USS Philippine Sea" in the Red Sea.

It indicated that the aircraft carrier "USS Dwight D. Eisenhower" and the destroyer "USS Gravely" crossed the Suez Canal today, Friday, to the eastern Mediterranean, after leaving the Red Sea.

The "USNI News" website, affiliated with the US Navy, said that the departure of the aircraft carrier "USS Dwight D. Eisenhower" from the Red Sea leaves the US Central Command area without a strike carrier group or a ready amphibious group for the first time since last October.

Comment: The US Naval Institute reports:
It is unclear how long the two ships will remain in the Med.

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The release did not include the locations of USS Mason (DDG-87) and USS Philippine Sea (CG-58), the other destroyer and cruiser that make up the Ike CSG. Like Gravely, Mason has shot down a number of Houthi missiles and drones as part of the U.S. response in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden. The last time Ike made a port call it was four months ago in Bahrain ahead of its shift to the Red Sea in late December.

Ike is expected to be replaced by the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, which was in the Western Atlantic conducting an exercise, as of Monday, according to USNI News Fleet and Marine Tracker.

The Houthis appeared to slow their Red Sea attacks with a gap between April 16 and April 24. The Yemen-based group has fired anti-ballistic missiles and drones over the Gulf of Aden on April 24 and 25, according to Central Command releases.

It is not clear what led to the pause. Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder referred reporters to the Houthis.


Around April 15th Israel was warning of it's retaliation against Iran, and there was also the proposed Rafah genocide.


"Well, again, in terms of the Houthi mindset, in terms of why they opted to not conduct attacks for a couple of weeks, that's really something best left for them to address," Ryder said during a Thursday press conference. "I would say that regardless, our focus hasn't shifted, which is working with our international partners to ensure the freedom of navigation through the Red Sea."

Houthi leader Abdul-Malik Badruldeen al-Houthi took to Telegram Thursday to highlight the movement of American ships out of the Red Sea.

"The American naval presence has shrunk, and many of its warships have disappeared and have spread to the outskirts of the Red Sea," according to a translation of the Telegram post.
Whilst Western militaries have been humiliated, yet again, and some analysts have commented that missions such as these do necessitate a rest period, could it also be that they're preparing for an escalation of another kind?

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Best of the Web: What comes first, a Rafah invasion or a Netanyahu ousting?

Khalil Harb
The Cradle
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 12:09 UTC
Netanyahu
© The CradleFacing domestic and international pressure for Israel's US-backed Gaza assault, the Biden administration appears poised to throw Netanyahu under the proverbial bus.
In Gaza, a metaphorical "hostage" scenario has emerged, centered on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose political future is being bartered at a steep political price.

Although not physically detained, Netanyahu has been shackled by a complex situation since the 7 October Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, when Palestinian resistance groups took hundreds of soldiers and civilians captive as a bargaining chip.

That operation and Israel's subsequent brutal assault on Gaza has ensnared Netanyahu in a political and strategic quagmire, complicating his position daily and undermining his war objectives.

Internationally, Israel's carefully constructed image has entered pariah status, as accusations of "genocide," "war crimes," and "apartheid" fly liberally around global capital buildings and in mass street protests. This is a language that signals a strategic defeat for Tel Aviv - not at all the 'military victory' Netanyahu had promised his constituents and allies.

Comment: See also: Rafah operation threatens to be a 'disaster for Israel' - Former IDF Major General

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Snakes in Suits

EU leaders 'fooling' people with horror stories about Russia - Kremlin


RT
Mon, 29 Apr 2024 10:51 UTC
Kreml, Moscow
© Sputnik / Natalia Seliverstova
Western rhetoric painting Moscow as a threat is a way of distracting citizens from problems at home, Dmitry Peskov says

Warnings from some EU leaders that Russia could attack other European countries if it prevails in the Ukraine conflict are "horror stories" made up to distract people from domestic problems in their own countries, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

Comment: Since the US has much autonomy at the bases they occupy in various European countries, and have weapon systems that can carry nuclear weapons, denials from officials like the Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorsky and Jens Stoltenberg are of little merit.

1) For the US Government and aligned people, it is of advantage to maintain high tensions in Europe. Besides turning attention away from internal issues, as Peskov suggests, increased defence spendings amounts to more US produced weapons being added to the European shopping carts, and money going away from the EU economies, thus supporting the US economy cannibalizing the European.
2) The EU and NATO have invested much in Ukraine, some countries so much that their identity is becoming fused with the need to keep the fight going.
3) Comparing the Wikis for Enlargement of NATO with Generalplan Ost reveals a few similarities, of which depopulating parts of Eastern Europe is a common result. And would not some of the architects of Operation Barbarossa have applauded the high number of dead descendants of the Soviets?

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