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Bizarro Earth

The Middle East is on the brink of a full-scale war

Fyodor Lukyanov
RT
Wed, 02 Oct 2024 14:03 UTC
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© Baz Ratner/APIsraeli tanks in a staging area in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon • October 1, 2024
All the major players are poking each other, but there is no desire to cross the Rubicon.

One year after Hamas' infamous attack on Israel, the Middle East seems to have returned to its eternal state: a hotbed of acute conflict, with waves of tension. Outside observers can only look on in horror, while experts shrug their shoulders. That's how it was, that's how it will be. How is the current crisis different from previous ones in the region, you might ask? Well, without pretending to have a deep understanding, let us note what is striking from the outside.

Patron-client relationships are changing, both between regional powers and major external actors. The most obvious is the status of the United States. The current White House administration does not have a clear and consistent line; it's just plugging holes and putting out new fires. The US does not need high-profile events in the Middle East right now, its priorities are different. Contacts with key players are inconsistent, and relations with the Gulf monarchies, and even more so with Iran, are volatile. But Washington's actions are based on a fundamental contradiction that cannot be resolved, and it has to do with Israel.

Comment: No one wants it? The kingpins of war are all balancing on the same trip wire. It only takes one.

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No Entry

Russia could ban export of vital resources to West


RT
Mon, 30 Sep 2024 10:39 UTC
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© Pavel Lviv/SputnikRussian manufacturing
The sanctions could affect the supply of commodities in high demand globally, Aleksandr Novak has said.

Russia could shut off the flow of strategically important resources to countries it deems unfriendly, according to Deputy Prime Minister Aleksandr Novak, as the government contemplates countermeasures to Western sanctions. The ban could include a "large list of products that are in high demand on global markets," Novak told reporters on the sidelines of Russian Energy Week on Thursday.

While the minister did not specify the exact products, it is widely expected that a list would include so-called transition metals, in particular uranium, nickel, and titanium.

According to the deputy PM, the Russian government is analyzing the feasibility of the restrictions to ensure domestic industries would not be hit by limiting the supply and will continue to develop.

"There is a specific analysis of the situation on world markets and Russia's opportunities. Relevant proposals will be prepared in the near future," Novak stated.

The possibility was first voiced by Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier this month.

Comment: Frenemies with benefits need watch their step. The theme of 'war' has many variations.

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Attention

Washington pushes China into Russia's arms, pushes Iran into Russia's arms

Gilbert Doctorow
gilbertdoctorow.com
Wed, 02 Oct 2024 19:10 UTC
China, Russia & Iranian Flags
© nationalinterest.org
All discussion in the Washington foreign policy establishment on how the Ukrainian war has pushed Russia into China's arms and made it a 'junior partner' is utter nonsense. My contention is that a hubristic U.S. foreign policy that pays no attention to what adversaries are saying because that is 'disinformation' has pushed China into Russia's arms.

This took time to achieve: two years plus of the Special Military Operation, to be precise. And this is not due just to blunders of the incompetents manning the top posts in the National Security Council and the State Department. No, the bipartisan majority in Congress has also enabled the incoming disaster for U.S. global standing by its full-voiced approval of punitive sanctions on Chinese goods and approval of what constitute kinetic war plans against Beijing as well as the formation of a military alliance directed against China in its neighborhood.

The handwriting is on the wall. Beijing must support the new robust nuclear doctrine of Russia to ensure its neighbor's victory over the U.S.-led coalition supporting Ukraine.

By the same token, unqualified U.S. support, including active participation in Israel's latest atrocities in Lebanon that resulted in the death of Hezbollah's high command has pushed Iran into Russia's arms. The liberal-minded new president of Iran has reversed his recently declared readiness for dialogue with the signatories of the now suspended Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on nuclear arms. We saw the proof of that yesterday when Iran moved from wait-and-see mode into retaliatory mode for the humiliations Israel has inflicted on the Axis of Resistance. One hundred eighty ballistic missiles were fired at Israeli military targets and it would appear that they got through both the Iron Dome and air defenses provided by the U.S. fleet and by French anti-aircraft systems.
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Arrow Up

Austria's Freedom Party scores historic victory in national elections

Tyler Durden
Zero Hedge
Mon, 30 Sep 2024 05:45 UTC
kickl austria elections
Less than a month after a crushing loss for Germany's ruling coalition saw the the first victory for a German right-wing party since World War II, Austria's right-wing Freedom Party scored a historic victory of its own on Sunday, winning the most votes in the country's national election for the first time after the eurosceptic party campaigned on mass deportation, cracking down on illegal immigration, and halting aid to the giant money laundromat that is Ukraine.
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And, just like after AfD's stunning success on September 1 which was met with a full-court press from establishment parties to prevent it from ruling, so Austria's traditional political powers have pledged to block the conservative Freedom Party from forming a government, marking the latest effort to stem the rising tide of populism in Europe.
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Star of David

Israel's ideology of genocide 'must be confronted and stopped'

Jeffrey D. Sachs
The Unz Review
Mon, 30 Sep 2024 17:41 UTC
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© Michael Kappeler/dpaIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the United General Assembly and shows maps of the Middle East on September 27, 2023.
Israel's violent extremists now in control of its government believe that Israel has the Biblical license, indeed a religious mandate, to destroy the Palestinian people.

When Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the podium at the U.N. General Assembly last week, dozens of governments walked out of the chamber. The global opprobrium of Netanyahu and his government is due to Israel's depraved violence against its Arab neighbors. Netanyahu purveys a fundamentalist ideology that has turned Israel into the most violent nation in the world.


Israel's fundamentalist credo holds that Palestinians have no right whatsoever to their own nation. The Israeli Knesset recently passed a declaration rejecting a Palestinian State in what the Knesset calls The Land of Israel, meaning the land west of the Jordan River.

Comment: Sachs is a gentle soul, and his desire for two peoples to live in peace is admirable. But so long as the crazies are in charge of the illegitimate state of "Israel", it's a pipe dream. "De-zionizing" and eliminating that pernicious ideology from Judaism, is as important as de-nazifying Ukraine.

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Big Bomb

Iran missile attack: what we learned last night

Alex Krainer
Alex Krainer's TrendCompass
Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:30 UTC
Mindless march to World War 3 may have hit a brick wall yesterday.
Missile of Iran
© Alex Krainer's TrendCompass
During the night of 2nd October 2024, Iran unleashed their operation "True Promise 2," launching between 200 and 400 ballistic missiles into Israel. As the video footage coming from Israel has shown, many of these missiles reached their targets inflicting extensive damage on the ground. Apparently, some offshore gas platforms were also struck. Claims and counterclaims are a bit all over the place at the moment: Israelis have claimed that the Iranian attack failed and that most of the missiles were intercepted. Netanyahu's aide Hananya Naftali even tweeted a "BRAVO" to Israel's aerial defence systems for intercepting "nearly all the missiles."

But the footage from last night gives a very different impression; it corroborates those who claimed that many missiles hit their targets. A few of the videos also confirm that the Iranians do indeed possess hypersonic missiles. We also know now that these have a long range and seem accurate enough. This lesson alone could be a game changer.
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Sherlock

The Latest Chemical Weapons False Flag Scare In Syria Is Suspiciously Timed

Andrew Korybko
korybko.substack.com
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 21:40 UTC
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It's possible that this scenario was speedily devised sometime in the past month after the aerial phase of the latest Israeli-Lebanese War began.

Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) warned on Tuesday that some NATO countries and Ukraine are preparing a chemical weapons false flag provocation in Syria so as to discredit Russia in the Global South. They specified that "The plan of the operation envisages the militants dropping a mined container with chlorine from a UAV during strikes by the Syrian Armed Forces and the Russian Aerospace Forces on terrorist groups' positions in the Idlib de-escalation zone", which the White Helmets will then film.

The timing is suspicious since it coincides with the start of Israel's ground operation in Lebanon. Syria isn't any stranger to chemical weapons false flags so the latest one could have been cooked up in a jiffy by building upon the experience obtained in all the prior ones. It's therefore possible that this scenario was speedily devised sometime in the past month after the aerial phase of the latest Israeli-Lebanese War began. The goal of this provocation might thus be to expand the scope of regional conflict.
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Big Bomb

Dozens of Iranian ballistic missile impacts reported after nearly 200 are launched at Israel; answer for murder of Nasarallah

Ronny Reyes and Steven Vago
New York Post
Tue, 01 Oct 2024 20:04 UTC
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© ReutersIran launches missile attack against Israel October 1.2024
An Iranian ballistic missile barrage overwhelmed Israel's defenses — with dozens of strikes seen on Tel Aviv and other population centers Tuesday night.

Nearly 200 ballistic missiles were launched at the Jewish state, authorities said.

Footage of the harrowing barrage shows numerous missiles hitting Israel and exploding in a fiery blaze within the span of 10 seconds, local KANN News reports.

Comment: More footage. Iron Dome was only able to stop 20 percent of the salvos.







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Star of David

Israel's short-lived glory celebrated by kneejerk polemicists

Simplicius
simplicius76.substack.com
Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:00 UTC
NasNet
© AP/Times of Israel/Times of India/KJNHassan Nasrallah • Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel finally succeeded in killing the Secretary General of Hezbollah Hassan Nasrallah to almost orgiastic ecstasies in the West. Many are now celebrating that Israel has achieved an 'extraordinary decapitation' of Hezbollah's entire leadership in sequence: first "eliminating" the low echelon footsoldiers via the pager attack, then higher ups with radios and Hollywood-like missile strikes, all the way up to a final decapitating attack on the top heads themselves.

This is meant to be an unprecedented show of precision and planning the likes of which the world has never seen before. Israel admitted the pager attack itself took 15 years to plan, setting up shell companies within shell companies, and even having those companies actually produce and ship real products for several years in order to first build up a reputation of authenticity for them, so they would be entrusted when the time came to distribute the lethal devices.

And what did they get for 15 years' worth of work and planning? There isn't a single shred of evidence I'm aware of that the attack took any real Hezbollah members out. All I saw were hospitals soaked in the blood of civilian casualties and collateral, and oceans of Hasbarah dreck claiming legions of Hezbollah were washed away by the Zionist's supremacy.

Comment: Comparisons reveal the reality of Israel's 'triumphs'.

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Arrow Up

BRICS to admit a dozen new members - Belarus


RT
Mon, 30 Sep 2024 06:17 UTC
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© Maxim Bogodvid/RIA Novosti/brics-russia2024.ruMeeting of BRICS+ communications ministers • Innopolis, Tatarstan, Russia • September 27, 2024
Foreign Minister Maksim Ryzhenkov has expressed hope that his country's membership application will be approved.

The next wave of BRICS expansion will be announced at the group's annual summit in the Russian city of Kazan in October, Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov has claimed.

Speaking on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, Ryzhenkov predicted that BRICS could add at least ten new members, while expressing optimism that his own country's application for membership will be approved.

Ryzhenkov told RIA Novosti:
"The first wave of enlargement, as we all expect - those who have submitted such applications - will take place at the Kazan summit. Russia is formulating the list of these countries that will be in the first wave of enlargement."
As the current holder of the BRICS chairmanship, Russia will host the group's annual summit in Kazan from October 22 to 24. Earlier this month, Belarusian First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Lukashevich said his country is in the first pool of BRICS candidates, along with Algeria, Bangladesh, Bahrain, Bolivia, Venezuela, Vietnam, Cuba, Honduras, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Morocco, Nigeria, Palestine, Senegal, and Thailand.

Comment: Good will, new monetary mechanisms, cooperation...a future with hope.

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