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Moscow to rearm all Northern Fleet units with S-400s to create anti-missile dome over Russian Arctic

RT
Sun, 08 Dec 2019 22:22 UTC

The anti-aircraft regiment of Russia's Northern Fleet will be equipped with state-of-the-art S-400 air defense systems in the next few years to create an anti-missile dome able to thwart any enemy incursion, the Russian Navy said.

Russian anti-aircraft missile forces and radio-technical troops stationed in the Arctic are going through a comprehensive rearmament process, which will see Russia's most advanced long-range air defense missile system being delivered to them, Vice Admiral Alexander Moiseev, the commander of Russia's Northern Fleet, said on Sunday.

All Russian military units in the region are set to be equipped with S-400s "over the coming years," he noted. The build-up will protect the Russian part of the Arctic with what Moiseev called "a de facto anti-missile dome," effectively impenetrable for any type of weaponry, including enemy aircraft, cruise and ballistic missiles.

Comment: The US is working towards weaponizing space, so it's not too presumptuous of Russia to work towards defending its positions in the Arctic.

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Israel threatens Iran "Syria will become your Vietnam" as it refuses to rule out pre-emptive strike

RT
Mon, 09 Dec 2019 10:21 UTC

© Reuters / Israel Ministry of Defense
Israel's U.S.-backed Arrow-3 ballistic missile shield is seen during a series of live interception tests over Alaska, U.S., July 28, 2019

Ramping up his war-mongering rhetoric, Israel's defense chief has said Syria can become Iran's 'Vietnam' and vowed to prevent Tehran from gaining a foothold there. It comes after Tel Aviv threatened Iran with a pre-emptive strike.

Israel, which is making incursions into Syria on almost a daily basis, pummeling the war-ravaged country with missiles under the pretext of targeting "Iranian positions" there, has warned Iran against establishing "a ring of fire" around Israel, vowing retaliation.

"It is no secret that Iran is trying to establish a ring of fire around our country, it is already based in Lebanon and is trying to establish in Syria, Gaza and more," hawkish Israeli Defense Minister Naftali Bennett claimed, speaking at a conference on Sunday.

Noting that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) would "work tirelessly" to fend off the alleged "Iranian threat," Bennett said that it's high time Israel moves from defense to offense.

"We need to move from containment to attack"

Comment: When you steal something from its rightful owners whom you proceed to imprison and murder for years, you end up living in fear and paranoia that one day it will be taken from you, or that the world community will bring justice upon you for your crimes against humanity. So how do you respond? You arm yourself to the teeth and attack whoever you perceive as a threat to your illegal and villainous existence. And that's Israel's foreign policy in a nutshell.

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The pro-Israel lobby is on the decline; let's help it on its way

Asa Winstanley
Middle East Monitor
Sat, 30 Nov 2019 09:02 UTC

© Hasan Esen/Anadolu Agency
A small group holding Israeli flags were holding a counter protest as hundreds of protesters gather in front of the Israeli Embassy in central London in solidarity with Palestinian people in London, United Kingdom on 30 March 2019

A lot has been written about the pro-Israel, anti-Palestinian lobby over the years. Many take the view that the US and Britain have their foreign policy dictated to them by Israel and its influential lobby groups in the West.

I don't intend to revisit the whole debate over the lobby in this column, but I've written before about how I consider this to be an inaccurate view, born of an essentially conservative worldview. It is a view that starts with the assumption that American and British foreign policies are essentially benign, and that the pro-Israel lobby has somehow corrupted them.

On the other hand, there are those on the left who hold to the equally mistaken view that to even use the term "pro-Israel lobby" is a conspiracy theory or (even more outrageously) anti-Semitic. This is, quite plainly, nonsense.

Many countries have powerful, well-funded and impressively connected lobbies working to promote their interests in Western capitals. Israel is no different in that regard. The pro-Israel lobby obviously exists, is well-funded, and has a significant impact on British political life.

Comment: While it may be that it is on the decline, it still maintains a strong hold in the US. See also:

Behind the drama at the NATO summit

James Corbett
Corbett Report
Sat, 07 Dec 2019 02:12 UTC

Unlike a lot of other North Atlantic Treaty Organization summits, you might actually have seen some mainstream news coverage of the group's 70th anniversary meeting that just wrapped up in London this week. But if you did see such coverage, it was probably limited to discussing the theatrics and fireworks surrounding the event rather than the meat and potatoes of the discussion itself and what it pretends for the future of global geopolitics.

It's not hard to understand why this happens. The tabloid fodder of leaders insulting other leaders (both on and off mic) is both easier to understand and more entertaining than serious discussion of weighty geopolitical matters. But, as I recently pointed out on #PropagandaWatch, the most important information is often hidden under a cloak of bureaucracy and legalese.

So today let's explore what really happened at this week's NATO summit, and what it can tell us about the elitists' plans for their long-coveted New World Order.

Russia-Ukraine fallout won't threaten security of EU gas supply - study

Tsvetana Paraskova
Oil Price
Sun, 08 Dec 2019 16:30 UTC

Even if Russia and Ukraine were to fail to reach an agreement on the natural gas transit through Ukraine onto Europe, the security of gas supply in the European Union (EU) will not be materially threatened, the Institute of Energy Economics (EWI) at the University of Cologne said in a study on Wednesday.

The current ten-year gas transit agreement between Russia and Ukraine expires on December 31, 2019. The parties need to reach a new agreement by that date to set the terms of deliveries of Russian gas to Europe via Ukraine's territory.

Russia has been building pipelines to Europe and Turkey that bypass Ukraine — TurkStream and Nord Stream 2. Ukraine, for its part, is a key transit country for Russian gas westwards to Europe and relies on the gas transit fees.

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Video shows Israel's Iron Dome intercepting 2 rockets, IDF claims 'fired from Gaza at civilians' - UPDATE: Bibi hints at Gaza ground operation

Sputnik
Sat, 07 Dec 2019 22:07 UTC

On 29 November, the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) said that a rocket was fired from Gaza "at Israeli civilians", noting that it was the fourth launch that week. Following the attack, the IDF conducted a retaliatory air strike against a Hamas military post in Gaza.

Air-raid sirens were activated in the Gaza Strip and Sderot on Saturday, according to the Israel Defence Forces. The IDF said that three rockets were fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel, noting that two of the rockets were intercepted by the Iron Dome Aerial Defence System.

Twitter users shared videos allegedly showing the moment when the Iron Dome intercepted the rockets.

Comment: More details from Sputnik:

The IDF said that, in responding to the launch of the rockets from the Gaza Strip, its fighter jets, along with attack helicopters, "struck a number of Hamas terror targets in Gaza".

According to the IDF, among the targets were "warehouses, offices and security posts" claimed to belong to Hamas.

"A military position of the naval force of the Hamas terror organization in the northern Gaza Strip has been destroyed", the IDF statement added.

The IDF stated that Hamas "is responsible for what is happening in and out of the Gaza Strip and it will have consequences for actions against Israeli citizens".

Putin and the 'Biden Memorial Pipeline'

F. William Engdahl
New Eastern Outlook
Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC

In early 2014 Washington staged a blatant coup d'etat in Ukraine breaking the historic relationship with Russia and setting the stage for the subsequent NATO demonization of Russia. The one in charge for the Obama Administration of the Ukraine coup was then-Vice President Joe Biden. Today a bizarre Democrat impeachment attempt aimed at President Donald Trump has curiously enough put the spotlight on the dubious role that Joe Biden played in Ukraine affairs in 2014 and after. That Biden-steered coup had the unintended effect of causing a 180 degree geopolitical pivot of Moscow from West to East. The opening of a massive new gas pipeline now is only one of those unintended consequences.

On December 2, Russian President Vladimir Putin participated in the official opening of the Power of Siberia natural gas pipeline to Asia, servicing the growing China gas market. It met the planned deadline punctually, to the month. This marked the first Russian pipeline gas deliveries to China. In a videolink with China President Xi Jinping, Putin remarked, "This step is bringing Russian-Chinese strategic cooperation in energy to a whole new level." Xi called it "a milestone project for the bilateral energy cooperation."

Pelosi's love, everyone's tragedy

Tom Luongo
Gold Goats 'n Guns
Fri, 06 Dec 2019 00:00 UTC

Nancy Pelosi is a bitch. And in saying that I'm actually being sexist against female dogs, since every one of them I've ever met is a higher quality individual than Pelosi.

So, my apologies to dogs everywhere.

Just when you thought this power-mad harpy couldn't sink any lower she responds to a simple question from a reporter with the kind of lame, stuttering virtue-signaling that has become her signature move, to attack when confronted with the truth.

This screed is a masterclass in diversion and doublespeak. Her self-righteous anger is a dead giveaway that she was lying about her motivations for proceeding with this impeachment while scolding the CSPAN reporter who asked the question like he was an impudent child.

Russian DM Shoigu: Relations with NATO are 'degrading every day'

RFE/RL
Sun, 08 Dec 2019 14:24 UTC

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu has suggested that relations between Moscow and NATO are "not just halted but...degrading every day," citing a falloff that began "about five years ago."

Shoigu was responding to a question about Moscow's currently rocky relations with the transatlantic military alliance on Rossiya 1's weekend show on December 8.

"About five years ago, we had rather active cooperation in Brussels. We had our representative there," Shoigu said. "[Today] our partners are pulling out of more and more agreements, clearly along with the Americans. And the security space is getting increasingly narrow."

Neither the TASS nor the Interfax report that quoted Shoigu made any mention of Russia's 2014 illegal annexation of Ukraine, which sparked tough Western sanctions and many blame for the decline in the relationship.

Comment: Crimea was not illegally annexed. It was a Crimean population decision by vote.

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N. Korea conducted a 'very important test' at a 'closed' missile site - a warning to the US?

Mark Moore
New York Post
Sun, 08 Dec 2019 08:46 UTC

North Korea conducted a "very important test" at a long-range missile launch site that the reclusive regime had promised to close as part of nuclear weapons talks with the United States, state media reported on Sunday.

The development comes as Pyongyang has warned it would seek a "new path" with the stalled denuclearization talks if the US fails to make major concessions by the end of the year, according to KCNA, the Korean Central News Agency.

The test occurred Saturday at the Sohae Satellite Launching Ground and will have an "important effect on changing the strategic position of (North Korea) once again in the near future," a spokesman for the North's Academy of National Defense Science said in a statement carried by KCNA.

North Korean President Kim Jong-un agreed to dismantle the Sohae facility during talks with President Trump in Singapore last year, but reports in March said it was being restored.

North Korea didn't elaborate on what the test included.

Comment: RT, 8/12/2019: Trump's response

President Donald Trump has insisted that the US will stick to its goal of denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.

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Puppet Masters

Moscow to rearm all Northern Fleet units with S-400s to create anti-missile dome over Russian Arctic

Israel threatens Iran "Syria will become your Vietnam" as it refuses to rule out pre-emptive strike

The pro-Israel lobby is on the decline; let's help it on its way

Behind the drama at the NATO summit

Russia-Ukraine fallout won't threaten security of EU gas supply - study

Video shows Israel's Iron Dome intercepting 2 rockets, IDF claims 'fired from Gaza at civilians' - UPDATE: Bibi hints at Gaza ground operation

Putin and the 'Biden Memorial Pipeline'

Pelosi's love, everyone's tragedy

Russian DM Shoigu: Relations with NATO are 'degrading every day'

N. Korea conducted a 'very important test' at a 'closed' missile site - a warning to the US?

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