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Best of the Web: Escalation: Chief of Russian chemical defense forces assassinated in Moscow blast - UPDATE: Ukraine (NATO) claims responsibility


RT
Tue, 17 Dec 2024 16:30 UTC
Igor Kiríllov
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Protection Troops of the Russian Armed Forces
Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was one of two victims of the explosion near a residential building

Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of Russia's Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces, has been killed along with his deputy in a bomb blast in southeastern Moscow early on Tuesday, officials have confirmed.

The explosion occurred around 6am outside a residential building on Ryazansky Avenue as Kirillov and his aide were leaving the premises to board an official vehicle.

Russian investigators said an improvised explosive device (IED) packed with about 300 grams of TNT was likely attached to an electric scooter near the building's entrance. It was possibly detonated remotely, likely by a radio signal or mobile phone.

Comment:

UPDATE 17/12/2024: France24 reports:
The killing of a senior Russian military official, Igor Kirillov, in Moscow on Tuesday was a "special operation" by Ukraine's SBU security service, a source inside the agency told AFP.

Kirillov is the most senior Russian army official to be targeted on Russian territory, killed with his assistant when an explosive device attached to a scooter went off outside an apartment building in south-eastern Moscow.

"The liquidation of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, chief of the Russian Armed Forces' radiation, chemical and biological defence troops is a special operation by the SBU," the source said.

"Kirillov was a war criminal and an absolutely legitimate target, as he gave orders to use banned chemical weapons against the Ukrainian military," it said.


A straight-up lie. Russia destroyed the last of its stockpiles in 2017, per the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention. The U.S. of course, reneged on the agreement.


Kirillov was on Monday charged in absentia by Ukrainian authorities over alleged war crimes following an investigation by the SBU.

In October, he had been sanctioned by the UK over the suspected use of chemical weapons in Ukraine.

"Such an inglorious end awaits all those who kill Ukrainians. Retribution for war crimes is inevitable," the SBU source said.

It confirmed Kirillov was killed when "a scooter with explosives" detonated as he entered the building on Ryazansky Avenue in Moscow.


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Dominoes

Assad claims he was forced to flee Syria in first statement since rebels toppled his regime

Ronny Reyes
NY Post
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:37 UTC
Bashar al-Assad
© Getty ImagesBashar al-Assad
Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has broken his silence since the fall of his regime, claiming he never intentionally fled to Russia — and blaming his troops for the stunning collapse.

A post Monday on Assad's former Telegram channel claims he merely left the capital on Dec. 8 to meet with Russian forces in the Latakia province "to oversee combat operations" as Syrian rebels stormed Damascus.

Amid the assault, Assad said, he was forced to evacuate among the Russian troops, who took him to Moscow, from where he allegedly still planned to lead.

"At no point during these events did I consider stepping down or seeking refuge, nor was such a proposal made by any individual or party," Assad wrote.

"When the state falls into the hands of terrorism and the ability to make a meaningful contribution is lost, any position becomes void of purpose," he said of his fallen regime.
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Star of David

Best of the Web: Overnight Israeli Strike In Syria So Large It Caused Earthquake

Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:27 UTC

Comment: What was this, a 'tactical' nuke? Israel is almost completely off the leash. The odds of the Jewish State attacking Iran next are good, if only because it's 'on a roll' and hasn't been stopped yet...


israel bomb syria
Days ago Israel began warning that it will use large bunker buster munitions to begin destroying the former Syrian Army's underground missile and weapons storehouses.

This has begun in the overnight hours, with Israeli warplanes pummeling air defense systems and ammunition depots in Damascus and the coastal city of Tartous, near where a Russian naval base is located. The strike on Tartous resulted in the single biggest explosion seen in Syria in years, unleashing a fireball and mushroom cloud so large it led to quick speculation it could have been a tactical nuke (which widespread reports are denying).

The London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) described that Israeli warplanes hit air defense units and "surface-to-surface missile depots" as part of a bid to degrade and disable Syria's military capability. SOHR also called it the "the heaviest strikes" on the region in over a decade.

The Telegraphwrote that "A 3.1 magnitude tremor was reported by the Geographic Survey of Israel's seismology department at 11.49pm on Sunday night in the region of the bombings."
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Red Flag

West pushing Russia beyond 'red line' - Putin


RT
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 11:02 UTC
Putin
© Sergey Bobylev/SputnikRussian President Vladimir Putin
The continued support for Ukraine is aimed at inflicting a "strategic defeat" on Moscow, the president has said.

The West's support for Ukraine is pushing Russia to the point where it cannot help but retaliate, President Vladimir Putin has said, while warning the US against deploying medium-range missiles.

Speaking at a meeting of top Russian Defense Ministry officials on Monday, Putin made the following accusation:
"The US is seeking to weaken our country and inflict a strategic defeat" on Moscow by continuing "to pump a de facto illegitimate ruling regime in Kiev with weapons and money, sending mercenaries and military advisers, thereby encouraging further escalation of the conflict."
Washington is instilling fear in Americans by resorting to "simple tactics," Putin stated.
"They push us to the red line... we begin to respond, and then they frighten their population. The US used the same approach during its rivalry with the Soviet Union."

Comment: Will Putin's rhetoric buy time until mid-January? The wild card is 'Biden'.

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Map

A new geo-political map is unfolding - The end of Syria (and of "Palestine" for now)

Alastair Crooke
Strategic Culture Foundation
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
Assad
© research.sharqforum.orgFormer Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Israelis generally are celebrating their 'victories'. Will this euphoria weigh with U.S. business élites?

Syria has entered the abyss - the demons of al-Qa'eda, ISIS, and the most intransigent elements of the Muslim Brotherhood are circling the skies. There is chaos, looting, fear, and a terrible passion for revenge scalds the blood. Street executions are rife.

Maybe Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) and its leader, Al-Joulani, (following Turkish instruction), thought to control things. But HTS is an umbrella label like Al-Qa'eda, ISIS and An-Nusra, and its factions have already descended into factional fighting. The Syrian 'state' dissolved in the middle of the night; the police and army went home, leaving weapons depots open for the Shebab to loot. The prison doors were flung (or prised) open. Some, no doubt, were political prisoners; but many were not. Some of the most vicious inmates now roam the streets.

The Israelis - within days - totally eviscerated the defence infrastructure of the state in more than 450 air strikes: missile air defences, Syrian air force helicopters and aircraft, the navy and the armouries - all destroyed in the "largest air operation in Israel's history".

Syria no longer exists as a geo-political entity. In the east, Kurdish forces (with U.S. military support) are seizing the oil and agricultural resources of the former state. Erdogan's forces and proxies are engaged in an attempt to crush the Kurdish enclave completely (although the U.S. has now mediated a ceasefire of sorts). And in the southwest, Israeli tanks have seized the Golan and land beyond to within 20 kms of Damascus. In 2015 the Economist magazine wrote:
"Black gold under the Golan: Geologists in Israel think they have found oil - in very tricky territory".
Israeli and American oilmen believe they have discovered a bonanza in this most inconvenient of sites. And a big impediment - Syria - to the West's energy ambitions has just dissipated.
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Top Secret

Dronegate: Trump claims Biden, military "knows what's happening" in NJ skies

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 02:25 UTC
drones circles
Drones over New Jersey
President-elect Donald Trump is poised to spark what we're calling "Dronegate," alleging on Monday afternoon that the Biden administration is fully aware of the mysterious drone sightings over New Jersey. Trump accused the administration of fueling the mass hysteria that has gripped the nation.

Trump told reporters:
"The gov't knows what is happening ... look ... our military knows where they took off from ... and for some reason, they don't want to comment. And I think they would better off commenting on what it is ... our military knows and our president knows ... and for some reason they want to keep people in suspense.

"I can't imagine it was the enemy because if it was the enemy, we would blast it. Something strange is going on and for some reason they don't want to tell the people.

" I decided to cancel my trip to Bedminster (Trump National Golf Club Bedminster)."
He told the press he did not want to comment on the intelligence briefing about the drones.

Comment: UFO: Uninformed Fricking Opinion

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Santa Hat

Santa, please bring me a war for Christmas

James Howard Kunstler
kunstler.com
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
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© www.freepik.comMachine Gun Santa
So, you expected "Joe Biden" to serve up a neat little Christmas-time World War Three, lobbing ATACMS into Russia and all, but instead, surprise surprise, you got The War of the Worlds: mysterious drones hovering on-high over the endless muffler shops, manicure parlors, mafia palazzos, and mosques of New Jersey. But there seems to be more to this than, say, the stunt that Orson Welles pulled in 1938, scaring a few rubes over the radio. This ain't no foolin' around.

It's been going on for weeks. And not just in New Jersey. But around New York City, up the Hudson River Valley above Stewart Airport, over in Massachusetts, down in Pennsylvania, and out in Ohio in the vicinity of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. Howls of "WTF" echo all over the cable news channels. The US government — that is, the twilighting "Joe Biden" admin — plays dumb.
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Star of David

Has Bibi achieved his dream of obliterating the Arab world?

Mike Whitney
The Unz Review
Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
syria occupation
Take a look at the map above. It explains everything.

This is roughly the situation on the ground today. The majority of Syria's landmass is controlled by 5 groups: Al Qaida (HTS), the Kurds (SDF), the IDF (Israel), the Turks, and remnants of the Syrian Army (SAA). Of course, the situation is extremely fluid so some of the territory is likely to change hands in the near future as rival groups fight among themselves. But here's what won't change: A government will not emerge that is capable of stitching together a unified, contiguous, viable centrally-governed Syrian state. That's not going to happen. The various armies are too powerful for any one group to crush the others and reestablish a government that rules all of Syria's previously controlled territory.

Why does that matter?

Because we need to acknowledge that Israel has accomplished what it sought from the very beginning; they not only enlisted allies to help them topple Assad, but they also obliterated the Syrian state. Syria is gone; it no longer exists. And that has been Israel's goal for more than 40 years.
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Eye 1

Neil Oliver: World In Flames!!!

Neil Oliver
YouTube
Wed, 11 Dec 2024 13:50 UTC
Neil Oliver
Neil Oliver
Crime families, Syria, the deep state, dirty tricks & dark talk of false flag events - WHAT NEXT?!?

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Pirates

Best of the Web: Democracy's been cancelled in Romania - and the Free West is as silent as the grave

Peter Hitchens
Daily Mail, UK
Sat, 14 Dec 2024 20:59 UTC
georgescu romania election
Calin Georgescu would have by now become Romania's new president, until his election was illegally canceled by the Western deep state
Democracy's been cancelled in Romania - and the Free West is as silent as the graveIt was about this time of year, 35 years ago, when I set off eastwards from Berlin, full of fear. I was seeking to get into Romania, then an iron Communist tyranny. I finally made it to the capital, Bucharest, as dusk fell on Christmas Eve. The city was by then gripped by a sort of madness.

I was warned to beware of snipers at the entrance to my hotel, and zigzagged ludicrously through the snow with a suitcase in one hand and a typewriter in the other. Nobody sniped, but later I sheltered under my bed while red tracer bullets flew by the window in the square outside.

It was more or less impossible to find out what was going on, though the city's hospitals were full of sad, wounded people, under third-rate Communist healthcare.I went because rumours had been spreading of severe discontent, which exploded on December 21, 1989. The country's Communist leader, Nicolae Ceausescu, was heckled during a speech.

This unthinkable act of bravery by the hecklers started an avalanche that took only four days to sweep the despot to his death - an ugly kangaroo court followed by a so-called 'execution'. This looked more like an assassination to me, when it was shown on Christmas Day on Bucharest TV.
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