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Ukraine will have to trade land for peace - EU state's president


RT
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 20:57 UTC
Pellegrini
© UnknownSlovak President Peter Pellegrini
A "realistic" ceasefire deal will involve some territorial losses for Kiev, Peter Pellegrini has said.

The Ukraine conflict will not be resolved until Kiev accepts some "partial territorial losses," Slovak President Peter Pellegrini has said. Pellegrini and Prime Minister Robert Fico have both called on Russia and Ukraine to enter immediate peace talks.

Speaking to Slovakia's STVR broadcaster on Sunday, Pellegrini said that daily updates from the front line have convinced him that Ukraine cannot hope to achieve its territorial goals - the return of Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, Zaporozhye and Crimea - by force. He told the network:
"When it comes to peace, I believe that we need to remain realistic. Today, probably no sane person in Europe believes that it will be possible to achieve peace without some partial territorial losses for Ukraine."
The president then called on Ukraine and Russia to sit down at the negotiating table as soon as possible.

Comment: Ukraine has yet to acknowledge reality. Without doing so, there is no 'come to reason' moment in the forceable future.

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Israel wants to 'expand' through Golan occupation - Türkiye


RT
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:16 UTC
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© Saeed Qaq/Getty ImagesAn Israeli military vehicle on a patrol mission in the Golan Heights
The Jewish state's actions in Syria are "a source of grave concern," Ankara has said.

Türkiye has condemned Israel after it said it intends to double the number of Jewish settlements in the occupied Golan Heights in order to fend off "potential threats."

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) invaded the buffer zone between Syria and the Golan Heights earlier this month, following the collapse of the government of Bashar Assad in Damascus to Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS) and other militant groups.

On Sunday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that his cabinet had approved a plan to expand the Jewish population in the illegally occupied area, saying that doing so is vital for Israel's security.

"We will continue to hold onto it, cause it to blossom, and settle in it," Netanyahu said of the Golan Heights.

Comment: Israel is a focused predator. In comparison, Turkey is a fly in the ointment. Each wants something it doesn't have.

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Chechen leader vows revenge after Ukrainian drone strike


RT
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 20:36 UTC
Kadyrov
© Kiril Zykov/Sputnik/KJNHead of Russia's Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov
The capital of the Muslim-majority Russian region has seen a second drone attack in a week.

Three drones attacked the city of Grozny in Russia's Chechen Republic on Sunday. It was the second attack on the southern republic in a week.

There were no casualties, with air defenses shooting down two enemy UAVs, according to local leader Ramzan Kadyrov. The third one fell on the premises of the Akhmat Grozny riot police battalion under Russia's National Guard.

Kadyrov warned on his Telegram channel:
"The next time you come up with the idea of hitting the Chechen Republic with drones, keep in mind that we will carry out selective strikes on places where the Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel gather. As for morale, such attempts only strengthen our faith in victory and the will to quickly rout the enemy."
Kadyrov said that after the strike, he gave the Russian military the locations of Ukrainian troops. According to him, two Iskander missiles neutralized 200 soldiers of the Ukrainian armed forces in an attack on one of the facilities in the city of Kharkov at noon.
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SOTT Focus: NewsReal: New Jersey Drones: Alien Invasion, Mass Hysteria, or US Govt Tech Test?


Sott.net
Mon, 16 Dec 2024 13:51 UTC
ufos drones new jersey newsreal
© Sott.net
As much as we may 'want to believe', it's probably just the US govt lying again!

This week on NewsReal, we discuss the spate of 'UFO-drone' videos and reports coming out of the US Northeast, primarily over the state of New Jersey. Is this a classic 'UFO flap'? Or are the flashing lights and 'plane-like' design of these 'UFOs' pointing to man-made origins? The US govt is being very coy about the phenomenon, so for now Joe & Niall are going with 'US military test'...

In the second hour they discuss the catastrophe for the 'Axis of Resistance' in Syria, the obliteration of democracy in Romania, the 'color revolution' in Georgia and a host of other recent efforts by the Empire to 'lock everything down', apparently because Trump is coming and it's imperative that he enter his second presidency with 'certain facts on the ground'.


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Flashback President Bashar al-Assad: "It's our right to defend our country against any kind of invasion"


Geostrategic Media
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
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© Geostrategic MediaSyrian President Bashar al-Assad
Damascus, SANA - President Bashar al-Assad gave an interview to RTP TV channel (Portugal).

Following is the full text:

Question 1: Mr. President, let's start with Aleppo if you don't mind. There are still thousands of civilians trapped, trying to survive in a sort of sub-human conditions in the middle of a deluge of bombs. Why do you think that they refused to get out?

President Assad: The part that you mention in Aleppo, what they call it the eastern part, is occupied by the terrorists for the last three years, and they have been using the civilians as human shields. From our side, from our part as government, we have two missions: the first one is to fight those terrorists to liberate that area and the civilians from those terrorists, and at the same time to try to find a solution to evacuate that area from those terrorists if they accept, let's say, what you call it reconciliation option, in which they either give up their armaments for amnesty, or they leave that area. The other thing we did as government is to open gates for the civilians to leave that area, and at the same time for the humanitarian convoys and help to go through those gates inside that part of Aleppo, but the terrorists publicly refused any solution, so they wanted to keep the situation as it is.

Question 2: But Mr. President, aren't you using the jihadists to discredit all the oppositions at the eyes of the national and international public opinion, and in the end to try to wipe them all out?

President Assad: No, we cannot do that for a very simple reason: because we've been dealing with this kind of terrorism since the fifties, since the Muslim Brotherhood came to Syria at that time, and we learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it's like a scorpion; it will bite you someday. So, we cannot use jihadists because it's like shooting yourself in the foot. They're going to be against you sooner or later. This is in a pragmatic way, but if you think as value, we wouldn't do it. Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.

Comment: Though Bashar al-Assad's presidency has apparently ended, this past interview offers his clarifications as to reasoning and handling of the Syrian crisis and geopolitical decisions thereafter. He is impressive.

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Poland doesn't want Ukraine to join the EU, and neither do other subsidized EU states

Ian Proud
Strategic Culture Foundation
Thu, 12 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
DudaZel
© Justin Tallis/AFP/Sarah Meyssonnier/Reuters/Getty Images/KJNPolish President Andrzej Duda • Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky
Ukraine is too poor to join Europe on equal terms.

Since late 2013, when the Ukraine crisis first erupted, the British government has insisted that we need to support Ukrainian people in making a 'European choice'. Setting aside the irony that the UK chose to leave the EU in 2016, many Brits might still consider it a good choice. I'm pro-European, possibly because I grew up in Germany during the height of the cold war, the son of a working-class British soldier. In my view, Britain gained considerable economic, social and cultural benefit, as a sovereign nation, within a wider peaceable European community of five hundred million people.

What has never been clear to me is why, in 'choosing' Europe, Ukraine should cut its ties with Russia. When Britain joined the European Economic Community in 1971, our country was not asked to cut off our relationship with the USA. We could be friends with Europeans and Americans.

I don't think most people in Ukraine, whether they are native Ukrainian or Russian speakers, would have chosen to lose half a million men and women to death or injury in a war with Russia. Or twenty percent of their land, or seventy percent of their power generation and most of their heating during bitterly cold winters. Or for the Ukrainian economy to be smaller than it was in 2008 and unlikely to return to pre-war levels until after 2030.

At the heart of this so-called European choice is a simple, unavoidable reality:
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Russia defended its Syrian ally despite Al Qaeda's seige

Lucas Leiroz
Strategic Culture Foundation
Sat, 14 Dec 2024 00:00 UTC
Flags
© Hussein Malla/APMasked opposition fighter carries a flag of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham • Umayyad Mosque • old walled city of Damascus, Syria • Dec. 10, 2024
Moscow took all possible measures to prevent the fall of Assad's government, but local conditions played in favor of the terrorists' advance.

Bashar Al Assad's government has collapsed, and the Syrian Arab Republic no longer exists. Despite having some advantage over HTS terrorists (formerly the Al Nusra Front, a local branch of Al Qaeda), the Syrian Army failed to stop their advance, leading to the fall of the capital and a regime change. Thanks to Russian support, Assad and his family were spared, and the Syrian president has already been granted asylum in Moscow.

On social media, pro-Western propagandists and anti-Russian groups have been pushing the narrative that Assad's defeat is "Russia's fault." Rumors about a supposed "deal" between Russia, Israel, and Turkey to allow Syria's fall have been circulating, but these are baseless claims.

It is essential to understand that Assad's downfall was the result of a coup, not a military defeat.
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Macron ally François Bayrou appointed new French prime minister


The Guardian
Fri, 13 Dec 2024 06:46 UTC
Bayrou
© Jean-Francois Minier/AFPNewly appointed French Prime Minister Francois Bayrou
Veteran centrist is the fourth French prime minister this year as country struggles with growing political crisis. From farmer to premier: who is François Bayrou, the new French PM?

François Bayrou, a veteran centrist and ally of president Emmanuel Macron, has been appointed French prime minister, after last week's historic vote of no-confidence ended the beleaguered and short-lived minority coalition of the rightwing Michel Barnier.

Taking office, Bayrou said he recognised the serious problem of public debt in France and the need for parliament to agree a budget. He said the task was so mountainous it was like politically climbing the Himalayas. He said he wanted to break down the "glass wall" between politicians and voters who had lost trust. There was a need to reconcile France and fight discrimination, he said during a handover ceremony with his predecessor.

Bayrou, 73, is the leader of the centrist MoDem party and a political heavyweight from south-western France who calls himself a "man of the countryside". A former education minister, and mayor of the south-western town of Pau, he has been an ally and close confidente to Emmanuel Macron since he swept to power in 2017.

Comment: Fourth time the charm? The continuing build-up of resentments take immediate effect!

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South Korean parliament votes to impeach president

Raphael Rashid, Justin McCurry
The Guardian
Sat, 14 Dec 2024 05:45 UTC
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© UnknownSouth Korea impeachment protest • over a million South Koreans sign petition
South Korea's parliament has voted to impeach the president, Yoon Suk Yeol, almost two weeks after his short-lived declaration of martial law plunged the country into its worst political crisis for decades.

In dramatic scenes at the national assembly in Seoul, 204 lawmakers voted for an opposition motion to impeach Yoon, while an estimated 200,000 protesters outside demanded he be thrown out of office.

Saturday was the second opportunity in a week the assembly's lawmakers had to begin the process of ousting Yoon, whose approval ratings have plummeted to 11%. To succeed, the opposition parties, which together control 192 seats, needed at least eight members of Yoon's People Power party (PPP) to vote in favour to reach the required two-thirds majority of 200 in the 300-seat chamber.

In the end, 12 PPP members were willing to throw their support behind impeachment.
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Operative Marc Elias's law firm linked to network of Dem super PACs behind deceptive text message campaign

Chuck Ross
Washington Free Beacon
Sun, 15 Dec 2024 15:11 UTC
Democrat operative Marc Elias
© Wikimedia CommonsDemocrat operative Marc Elias
Super PAC network sent texts with inaccurate polling place information and voter registration data

The law firm of Democratic fixer and election denier Marc Elias is linked to a network of super PACs whose deceptive text messages infuriated and baffled voters across the country, a Washington Free Beacon review has found.

Evidence for Impact, a dark money group that Elias's law firm formed earlier this year, contributed $2 million in September to a super PAC called Voters of These 50 States of America. The super PAC, which was formed in August, is the lone funder of the super PACs AllVote, MaxVote, VoteWin, and Coconut Brat PAC, according to campaign finance records.

Comment: Slimy Marc Elias has a long, sordid history as a Democrat fixer, going right back to Killary. If there's ever a lawyer that deserves disbarment, it's this guy.

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