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In June, the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) released a report highlighting the impact of Houthi attacks on commercial shipping in the Red Sea. The report is a devastating account of Washington's failure to protect critical transit corridors in one of the world's most important waterways. The Biden administration's makeshift naval coalition, dubbed Operation Prosperity Guardian, has not only been unable to ensure safe passage for commercial carriers in the Red Sea, it's actually made matters worse. The Houthis have fine-tuned their military operations while adding more lethal weapons to their arsenal. In short, the Houthis have shown that a disparate group of militants can impose costly penalties on their enemies by implementing asymmetrical strategies that undermine the "rules-based order". Here's an excerpt from the DIA's report:The Houthis have agreed to end their attacks on commercial traffic in the Red Sea if Israel allows the delivery of humanitarian aid to the Palestinians. This is not just a reasonable proposal, it's a policy that is supported by the vast majority of people around the world.
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Canada, the U.S., Great Britain and Kuwait have all warned its citizens in Lebanon to evacuate.
The impending war is caused because Israel refuses to a ceasefire in Gaza. Hezbollah says they will continue to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians of Gaza as the continuing genocide is perpetrated by Israel, but as soon as a ceasefire begins, Hezbollah's response will cease.
Hezbollah is a Lebanese resistance group which is heavily armed. Most experts agree that the military might of Hezbollah and Israel are quite comparable on many levels, but Israel has air superiority.
© Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty ImagesEmmanuel Macron said on Monday, June 24, 2024, the far-left France Unbowed and Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally both pursued divisive policies that stoked tensions between communities. |
French President Emmanuel Macron warned Monday that a victory for the far left or the far right in this month's snap election could spark "civil war."
Macron said the far-left France Unbowed and Marine Le Pen's far-right National Rally both pursued divisive policies that stoked tensions between communities.
The far right's answer to insecurity "reduces people to their religion or their origin" and therefore "pushes people towards civil war," he said in an interview Monday with the podcast Generation Do It Yourself.
Comment: The YouTube video of Colonel Douglas MacGregor mentioned above, has been taken down. And other of his most recent YT interviews with Danny Haiphong, Judge Napolitano also appear to have been deleted or banned as well. We wonder why.
Here, however, is a second hand re-publishing of a recent analysis concerning Russia's capabilities, and the West's stupidity:
© URS FLUEELER/POOL/AFP via Getty ImagesTurkish Minister of Foreign Affairs Hakan Fidan attends the plenary session of the summit on peace in Ukraine, at the luxury Burgenstock resort, near Lucerne, on June 15, 2024. The top Turkish diplomat's warning on Monday came less than a week after Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah's threats toward Cyprus.
"We frequently see in intelligence reports that certain countries use the Greek Cypriot Administration of Southern Cyprus as a base, particularly for operations in Gaza," Fidan told Turkey's HaberTurk television in an exclusive interview. He didn't clarify the nature of intelligence reports.
"When you become a part of the ongoing wars in the Middle East, this fire will come and find you too," Fidan added. "And as we share the same geography, it will then come and hit us too. Our advice to them is to stay away from the conflict."
Turkey doesn't recognize the EU-member Republic of Cyprus on the island, which has been ethnically divided between Turkish and Greek Cypriots since a Greek military coup and Turkey's ensuing military intervention in 1974. The breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is only recognized by Ankara.
Comment: Clearly Turkey has its own bias and agenda with regards to Cyprus, and note that it only recently severed its own economic relations with Israel, however it seems quite reasonable to highlight that Cyprus is indeed being used as a base to facilitate Israel's ongoing genocide, and possibly the looming war on Lebanon, and this puts Cyprus and its people in harms way if/when Israel and the West choose to spread this conflict.
It would seem that Cyprus' representatives are well aware of this fact, and the recent comments from it's President were possibly intended to allay Turkey's concerns; as much as they are able, of course:
- Cyprus PM says 'we will not participate in any war', after Hezbollah warns that aiding an Israeli attack on Lebanon would have repercussions
- US sends USS Eisenhower to Med, USS Roosevelt to Middle East, amidst Israel's threat to launch war on Hezbollah in Lebanon
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Four missiles were intercepted by air defenses, while a fifth deviated from its trajectory and detonated its cluster warhead over the busy Black Sea beach, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.
When RIA asked the Pentagon about the use of US supplied weapons in the strike on Sunday, an official replied, "we have seen the reports and have nothing to say."
Comment: Kiev is so delusional that they actually believe that the innocent civilians who they bombed aren't innocent at all, because to the Zelensky team all the people of Crimea are "occupiers" of Ukrainian land. Nevermind that the people of Crimea voted to join the Russian Federation. That's inconsequential to the terrorists in Kiev. Here's what Zelensky's top aide, Mikhail Podoliak, actually spoke out loud with a straight face about the attack:
"There are not and cannot be any 'beaches', 'tourist zones' and other fictitious signs of 'peaceful life' in Crimea," he wrote. "Crimea is definitely a foreign territory occupied by Russia, where hostilities are taking place, a full-scale war is ongoing."The Russian envoy to the US made it clear that this would not have been done without US involvement:
"Crimea is also a large military camp and warehouse, with hundreds of direct military targets, which the Russians cynically try to mask and cover with their own civilians," he continued, adding that these civilians are considered "occupiers" by Kiev.
The Kremlin described the attack as an act of "terrorism," and argued that the US bears equal responsibility for the deaths. "Cluster munitions in ATACMS missiles cannot be launched without the participation of American specialists and support from US intelligence," Russia's envoy to the US, Anatoly Antonov, stated. "It is no coincidence that enemy drones are circling over the Black Sea almost every day."This is basically a wartime act from the US against Russia. If there weren't clear heads working at the top of the Russian government, the world could already be in a world war and potentially a nuclear standoff. Russian ministry officials have already stated the the "bloody atrocity" will "not go unpunished."
Ex-US politician Ron Paul, an longtime outspoken critic of US foreign interventions, pointed out the obvious by saying Russia has no real option other than to retaliate in some way. He's correct, the internal pressure to respond will be extreme as there are likely a great deal of Russians who are very angry about this attack.
Another American lawmaker, Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, condemned the attack and took the side that the majority of Americans have - that the US should not be involved in any of these foreign interventions:
"The only border our American military should be defending is our own border," Greene wrote on X (formerly Twitter).Despite what the vast majority of people in the country want, the US leaders do the opposite. Anyone paying attention with two neurons firing should be able to see clearly that there is no longer a democracy in America. It's a dictatorship.
Orban's vehicle was being escorted through the German city of Stuttgart when a driver collided with the motorcycle killing one police officer and severely injuring another.
The incident occured this morning while Orban was on his way to the airport this morning after attending the Hungary v Scotland Euros match at the Stuttgart Arena - which saw Scotland eliminated from the championship.
The driver, allegedly a 69-year-old woman behind the wheel BMW, collided with a Stuttgart traffic police officer on a motorcycle that was escorting the world leader.
Comment: Whilst accidents do happen, given the spike in threats and assassination attempts against those evidently opposing the West's nefarious agendas, alongside known technologies that can be used to exert a chaotic influence on people, it's not unreasonable to be suspicious about this incident. More so considering Germany's rather central, albeit subservient, role, in the war on peace.
Notably, just over 10 days ago: Convoy carrying Mexico's next president crashes, killing 1 aide
The other related incidents from just the past two months or so:
- Saudi king hospitalised for 2nd time, follows rumours of assassination attempt on prince
- Was Israeli intelligence behind death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi?
- 'You're next': Man arrested for threatening Serbia's President Vucic on social media
- Slovakian government suspects gunman who attempted to assassinate PM Robert Fico 'was not working alone
- Turkey thwarts ANOTHER coup attempt, Interior Minister vows justice after 'plot against president Erdogan'
© Sputnik / Gavriil GrigorovRussian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia's offer for a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine conflict is a realistic way to end the hostilities, but the West is simply ignoring it, President Vladimir Putin has said.
In a keynote foreign policy speech earlier this month, the Russian leader promised to order a ceasefire if Ukraine vows not to seek membership in NATO and withdraws its troops from all territories claimed by Russia. Kiev immediately rejected the proposal.
In an address to an international forum hosted by Russia this week, Putin said his offer should be carefully considered by interested parties.
"Unlike many Western politicians who didn't even bother to get to the core of the initiative we proposed, participants of this forum, I expect, will study it thoughtfully and rationally and will see that it gives a real opportunity to stop the conflict and move to its political-diplomatic resolution," a written welcome message from Putin said, as read on Tuesday by his foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov.
Comment: See also:
- Russia and the DPRK: Traditions of Friendship and Cooperation Through the Years
- Putin's 'war' to re-shape the American Zeitgeist
- Terrorist attacks in southern Russia: What we know so far
- Beach in Crimea hit by Ukraine with US ATACMS, 5 dead, 124 injured - Russia says US 'primarily responsible'
- NewsReal: Israel-Hezbollah On The Brink As Putin Visits North Korea
- NATO 'moving into Asia' - Putin
- "The train has left the station and no one can stop it." Europe will be at war with Russia - Serbia's president A. Vucic
© RALF HIRSCHBERGER / AFPGerman Chancellor Olaf Scholz looks on before the recording of the traditional summer interview with German public broadcaster ARD, near the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany on June 23, 2024.
Many Germans are not happy with their country's support for Ukraine in its conflict with Russia, which is causing ratings for the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) to plummet in many regions, Chancellor Olaf Scholz has acknowledged.
In an interview with the ARD broadcaster on Sunday, Scholz, whose party recently suffered a major setback in the European parliamentary elections, commented on the fact that the SPD had as little as 7% support in some parts of eastern Germany, which has traditionally been more positively predisposed toward Russia.
"Something is going on there," the chancellor said, adding that there is "no way around it."He acknowledged that the poor support for the SPD stemmed, among other things, from the fact that "many people do not agree with the support for Ukraine and the sanctions against Russia. This is also reflected in the election results," Scholz stated. "There is no alternative to changing that."
Comment: As long as EU countries are led by vassals of the USA and Anglo-Saxon globalists rather than true leaders, the EU will continue to decline in every aspect. There are always alternatives and choices, but current EU leaders have made the worst choices possible.
Comment: See also:
- 'A sulky liver sausage': Germany demands expulsion of Ukraine's ambassador for insulting Chancellor
- 'Putin didn't threaten me or Germany' - Chancellor Scholz rejects Bojo's claims of Russia threat
- Germany will 'never' place troops in Ukraine - Scholz
- Germany's Scholz implies British troops operating long-range missiles INSIDE Ukraine, is slammed by counterparts for intel-leak
- Germany promises more weapons to Ukraine after accusation they've been 'holding back' - US won't give Ukraine weapons to attack Russia
Comment: Macron hates being the leader of France. It means he is supposed to pay attention to the peons (gah!) he rules over. "Jupiter" came to the conclusion that it was better to put the cat among the pigeons, lose, and then land a cushy job within the EU aristocracy.
France discovers 'Jupiter' Macron isn't a leader but a petulant boy-king