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The end of America's love affair with the Middle East

Tawfiq Rabahi
Middle Easts Monitor
Wed, 27 Jan 2021 12:26 UTC
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© Zaid Al-Obeidi/AFP/Getty ImagesUS troops in Iraq, March 30, 2020
I do not know whether the decline of Washington's interest in the Arab world and its problems will be a curse or a blessing. Only time will tell, but it is a fact that we are looking at the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf moving down the Biden administration's list of priorities. The "special" relationship between the two sides is changing; this could be the end of America's love affair with the region.

There are several reasons for this new reality. Some are linked to the Arab countries, while others have no relation to the Arabs and do not affect them directly.

America's interest in the region began in the first half of the 20th century, but was really established post-Second World War in connection with two things: oil and Israel. US interest increased in the latter part of the century with the emergence of other, no less important, variables: Iran and its military and strategic ambitions; political Islam and its influence on the streets; and some elements of the latter turning to violence and cross-border terrorism.
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First week of his presidency, Joe Biden tosses women, unions and the American people under the globalist bus

Robert Bridge
Strategic Culture Foundation
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
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© APPresident Joe Biden signs EOs • January 20, 2021
Anything that remotely promotes the interest of the nation will be ostracized as racist and working to the advantage of white supremacist tendencies.

In a brutal display of presidential powers that would have made Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un green with envy, Joe Biden rammed through a raft of pro-globalist executive orders just hours after being sworn in as president.

For those U.S. voters who were more obsessed with removing Donald Trump than seriously questioning who or what would replace him, they got their answer shortly after Biden made it through his locked-down inauguration where the soldiers outnumbered the guests by a margin one would not expect to find during a democratic pageant.

Following a subdued masked ball and strained photo ops, Biden was whisked from the Capitol straight to the Oval Office where he was tasked with signing off on executive orders - 17 in fact, followed up later by a baker's dozen. The swiftness of the bureaucratic blitzkrieg, impressive for a 78-year-old president who campaigned mostly from his basement, was as shocking as what the 46th POTUS put in motion. In a matter of minutes, and without a precious drop of democratic debate, Biden diverted the future course of America forever.


Comment: Blindsiding the public on day one. Was there a choice? At one point, it seemed there was. A majority of American voters thought so as well.



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Foreign troops to stay in Afghanistan beyond May deadline say NATO sources

Rupam Jain, Charlotte Greenfield
Yahoo News
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 05:06 UTC
US soldiers
© File PhotoUS soldiers at Afghan National Army base, Logar Province, Afghanistan
International troops plan to stay in Afghanistan beyond the May deadline envisaged by the insurgent Taliban's deal with the United States, four senior NATO officials said, a move that could escalate tensions with the Taliban demanding full withdrawal. On condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter, one of the officials told Reuters:
"There will be no full withdrawal by allies by April-end. Conditions have not been met. And with the new U.S. administration, there will be tweaks in the policy, the sense of hasty withdrawal which was prevalent will be addressed and we could see a much more calculated exit strategy."
The administration of then-President Donald Trump signed an agreement with the Taliban early last year calling for the withdrawal of all foreign troops by May in return for the insurgents fulfilling certain security guarantees.

Trump hailed the accord - which did not include the Afghan government - as the end of two decades of war. He reduced U.S. troops to 2,500 by this month, the fewest since 2001.

Plans on what will happen after April are now being considered and likely to be a top issue at a key NATO meeting in February, the NATO sources said. The positions of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization are becoming increasingly important after the alliance was sidelined by Trump, diplomats and experts say.
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Dr. Fauci contradicts 'double-maskers': Debunks rage he had fueled within the same week

Kyle Becker
Becker News
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00 UTC
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It was a short-lived fascination for the Fauci fanboys and girls: Double-mask, no, triple mask, no quadruple mask — it could save a life!

Here is a sample of the latest stupidity. Due to the latest strains of COVID-19, we may need to put on more masks, or something. Behold:
It has led some public health experts, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden on COVID-19, to recommend layering up on masks or opting for a more protective N95 mask when going out in public.

Masks cover the mouth and nose to limit respiratory droplets and virus particles from getting in or out, Fauci, who also is the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, explained on NBC's "Today" show.

Comment: Fauci has well proven himself to be a crazy-making agent of chaos. Thanks to him we can probably look forward to many more statements that add to the stress and authoritarian mandates of the Covid-hysteria for the foreseeable future.

More on Faustian Fauci:

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Germany rejects France's call to halt construction on Nord Stream 2 pipeline over Navalny detention


RT
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 16:09 UTC
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© Reuters / Stine JacobsenFILE PHOTO: Specialists work onboard the Allseas' deep sea pipe laying ship Solitaire to prepare pipes for Nord Stream 2 pipeline in the Baltic Sea, September 13, 2019
Germany said it plans to complete the Russian-led Nord Stream 2 offshore gas pipeline project despite opposition from France over Moscow's jailing of opposition figure Alexey Navalny.

The stance of the German government "has not changed" in recent days, deputy government spokeswoman Martina Fietz said on Monday in Berlin, after France's secretary of state for Europe Clément Beaune asked Germany to halt the project.

A spokesman for Germany's Federal Foreign Office in Berlin told Die Welt that although the project is going ahead, the German government was aware of the French position and having a "very close exchange" with Paris on the pipeline issue.

Comment: The West is really reaching with that one:

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Ahead of trip to IDF long-range strike HQ, Gantz warns Israel can't rule out attack on nuclear Iran

lya Tsukanov
Sputnik
Mon, 01 Feb 2021 15:12 UTC
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© CC BY-SA 3.0 / טל ענבר / Shavit 3rd stage
On Sunday, Israeli Defence Minister and alternating Prime Minister Benny Gantz paid a visit to Depth Corps, the highly secretive Israel Defence Force (IDF) command charged with carrying out extraterritorial operations beyond Israel's borders and deep inside enemy territory.

Benny Gantz has warned that Tel Aviv continues to reserve the right to resort to military action against Iran over the country's alleged nuclear ambitions.
"The IDF and Israel's defence establishment are holding onto the option of taking action against Iran's nuclear project if that is what has to be done," Gantz said, speaking to Alghad, an Egyptian television channel, in an interview that aired Sunday.
"I hope that it doesn't come to that," the defence minister and Blue and White Party leader added, while suggesting that Tehran's "support of terrorism, of Hezbollah, and of the Houthis demands action."

"Israel has a clear objective: that Iran not be nuclear. It's not just an Israeli interest. It's first and foremost a global and regional interest," Gantz suggested. "A nuclear Iran would lead to a nuclear arms race throughout the Middle East. The regime is fundamentalist and radical and ultimately wants to obtain nuclear capability not just to have it, but primarily for the leverage it would give them in nuclear deterrence," he added.


Comment: Gantz is correct there. Iran correctly perceives Israel's own not-so-secret nuclear arsenal as a threat. But that doesn't mean Iran would just go nuts and nuke Israel once it has the capability to do so:

Alleged Threat of Iranian Nukes is Hysterical Nonsense Because Iran Doesn't Have a Death Wish


Comment: See also:

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The destructive plan behind the Biden Russia agenda

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
Victoria nuland
The new Biden Administration has from day one made it clear it will adopt a hostile and aggressive policy against the Russian Federation of Vladimir Putin. The policy behind this stance has nothing to do with any foul deeds Putin's Russia may or may not have committed against the West. It has nothing to do with absurd allegations that Putin had pro-US dissident Alexei Navalny poisoned with the ultra-deadly Novichok nerve agent. In has to do with a far deeper agenda of the globalist Powers That Be. That agenda is what is being advanced now.

The Cabinet choices of Joe Biden reveal much. His key foreign policy picks-Tony Blinken as Secretary of State and Victoria Nuland as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs; Bill Burns as CIA head; Jake Sullivan as National Security Advisor; Avril Haines as Director of National Intelligence — all are from the Obama-Biden Administration and all have worked closely together. As well, all see Russia, not China, as the prime security threat to the United States' global hegemony.

As candidate, Joe Biden stated this often. His key foreign policy choices underscore that the focus with the Biden Administration, regardless how fit Biden himself is, will shift from the China threats to that of Putin's Russia. Biden's CIA head, Bill Burns, is a former Ambassador to Moscow and was Deputy Secretary of State during the Obama CIA coup d'etat in Ukraine in 2014. Notably, when Burns left State in November 2014 he was succeeded by Tony Blinken, now Secretary of State. Blinken reportedly formulated the US State Department response to Russia's Crimea annexation.
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'Loud & unmasked': Democratic rep moves office citing 'safety' concerns after accusing GOP upstart Taylor Greene of 'berating' her


RT
Sat, 30 Jan 2021 01:45 UTC
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene
© Reuters / Joshua RobertsRepublican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene walks through the US Capitol as Democrats debate one article of impeachment against then-president Donald Trump, in Washington, DC.
Democratic Rep. Cori Bush said she was forced to move her office for her own safety after Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene allegedly "berated" her on Capitol Hill, a charge the GOP upstart has emphatically denied.

Bush (Missouri) said in a Friday Twitter post that Taylor Greene and her staff "berated" her "in a hallway" in the Capitol earlier this month, adding "I'm moving my office away from hers for my team's safety."


Comment: What is with Democrat representatives grossly exaggerating the "threats" from the Republican counterparts? First AOC says Ted Cruz tried to murder her and now Cori Bush is saying she's moving offices for her safety? Is it all a show or are these people really possessed by an unreasonable fear of people who have different political leanings?

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Conservatives must now draw a line in the sand and stop the "Great Reset"

Brandon Smith
Alt-Market.us
Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
Bieden Schwab
There are many millions of Americans today in the post-election environment that feel uneasy about the fate of the country given the rise of a Biden presidency. And though I understand why this tension exists, I want to offer a possible "silver lining"; a different way of looking at the situation:

With Biden in the White House, there is no longer any ambiguity about what conservatives (and some of the more courageous moderates) need to do and need to accomplish. Now we know where we stand, and now the stakes are clear.

With Trump in office, a lot of liberty minded people became a little too comfortable, to the point that they were inactive. They actually believed the system could be repaired and corruption ended from within, and without much effort on our part beyond our votes. Trump made many conservatives lazy.

Then there was the Q-anon-sense floating around on the web which also misled some freedom activists into thinking that people much higher placed or "smarter" than us were fighting the good fight behind the scenes and that the globalists would be swept up in a grand 4D chess maneuver. This was a fantasy; it was never going to happen. Finally, everyone knows this and we can get on with the business of fighting the real battles ahead.

Comment: Or take another tried and true approach: MindMatters: Interview with Rod Dreher: How to Survive the Coming Soft Totalitarianism

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The Miseducation of Antony Blinken - Biden's neocon pick for Secretary of State

Kenny MacDonald
The Libertarian Institute
Wed, 27 Jan 2021 00:00 UTC
Antony Blinken
On January 19th, the U.S. Senate held confirmation hearings for Joe Biden's Secretary of State nominee Antony Blinken. Blinken has a reputation on both sides of the aisle for being exceptionally qualified for the job of America's top diplomat, which is surprising considering he was on the wrong side of every major foreign policy blunder of the last 20 years; Iraq, Libya, and Syria.

When Senator Rand Paul asked Antony Blinken what lessons he has learned from his disastrous foreign policy record in Libya and Syria, Blinken replied that after "some hard thinking" he's proud that he has done "everything we possibly can to make sure that diplomacy is the first answer, not the last answer, and that war and conflict is our last resort."

Of course war is the last resort. Even the most hawkish war criminals would agree that war is the last resort. But the question is, war is the last resort to accomplish what? If war is the last resort to get a country to fully capitulate to Washington's demands then eventually the U.S. will be at war with everyone. To Blinken, war as the last resort can only be understood in the same way a mugger considers shooting his victim as a last resort to stealing their wallet.

Comment: Antony Blinken: Another delusional warhawk in the Biden administration who is hell-bent and committed to chaos and destruction:

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