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Iran hits hard
Iran hits hardThe Media in 4-4-2 - Apr 15, 2024
A look back at the historic Iranian response following the Israeli aggression against its embassy.
Iran responded forcefully to Israeli aggression against its embassy in Damascus by carrying out a historic military operation. This response caught Israel off guard and placed Iran in the history book.
On the night of April 13-14, Iran launched a major offensive on Israeli soil that lasted at least five hours, demonstrating its ability to deploy high-tech Shahed drones and Kheibar missiles capable of traveling more than 1 km. This show of force took the Jewish state by surprise and sowed panic among the population.
This attack comes in response to an Israeli assault on the consular section of the Iranian embassy in Damascus, considered a violation of Iranian sovereign territory. According to Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, this Iranian response is legitimate and in accordance with international law.
According to the Chinese newspaper "Global Times", in response to the failure of international organizations, particularly the UN Security Council, to condemn Israeli attacks on Iranian diplomatic facilities, Iran retaliated using intelligence strategic weapons, missiles and drones to successfully destroy major military targets in Israel.
Western countries condemned the Iranian attack. The United States had asked Iran to immediately stop its attack, but Tehran had not only ignored this request, but also threatened to bomb American bases if the White House intervened.
And a big blow for the Zionist entity, according to CNN, the President of the United States, Joe Biden informed the Israeli Prime Minister, Benyamin Netanyahu by telephone that the United States would not participate in offensive operations against Iran.
For his part, the Deputy Speaker of the Russian State Duma, Pyotr Olegovich Tolstoy, expressed his support for Iran on Twitter by publishing a poem praising the friendship between the two countries and their struggle common for a noble cause.
According to sources from the American television channel ABC, the Iranian attack involved 400 to 500 drones and around 150 missiles. The drones were launched from Iran's western provinces, while the Houthis launched drones from Yemen and missile strikes from Hezbollah units based in Lebanon. The perfect coordination between these countries demonstrated an incredible ability to respond effectively to the Zionist entity, which failed to stop all missiles with its missile defense system, known as Iron Dome.
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NATO and the European “Coup d’Etat”
NATO and the European “Coup d’Etat”Geolintel - April 12, 2024
NATO is trying to carry out a "Coup d'Etat" which aims to destroy our sovereignty to create a supranation under the leadership of Germany. The European Union will not be a political and economic union, it will be placed under the interests of the war economy desired by Washington.
The war for national sovereignty will take place
European Union
The roadmap officially presented by Germany and France on Tuesday, September 19, to simplify the European Union, is the culmination of work carried out by the “Group of 12”, six French experts and six experts. Germans. It is a failure, a real betrayal for the national interests of France. If implemented, it would accelerate the ongoing political collapse of the European Union. Indeed, instead of lucidly drawing lessons from the failure of the method followed since Maastricht – enlargement, federalization, violation of subsidiarity – the Group of 12 comes to the conclusion that to “simplify”, we must continue as forward, and even accelerate.
In terms of form, the fact that the report is only presented in English, and is not available in French or German, demonstrates that this proposal is not addressed to public opinion in the two countries concerned. This is already a bad point, when we claim to reconcile the EU and the people. It demonstrates, either a form of masochism – because communicating in a single language, that of the country which left and weakened the EU, is still interesting from a Freudian point of view – or a demonstration of linguistic and political subjugation of a group which persists in denying its plurality in order to adopt the language of its suzerain power, the United States of America. How sad…
The American vision of Europe: a large commercial space of opportunities for its own economy
On the balance of political forces, the text of the experts is the absolute replica of what Chancellor Scholz proposed, in Prague, on August 29, 2022, and demonstrates at best that France is in an attitude of following towards of Berlin, at worst that it is incapable of having its own vision of Europe. In Prague, Scholz painted the picture of a “geopolitical Europe” destined to expand, a greater Europe, open to the Western Balkans, Ukraine, Moldova, and even Georgia. Laurence Boone, Secretary of State for European Affairs, was quick to declare that the question was no longer whether it should expand, but when. This obviously fits with the American vision which is to make the EU a large commercial area of opportunity for its own economy, whose borders would coincide with those of NATO which would ensure its security. An enclosure, a private preserve.
In substance, finally, the report and the Franco-German proposal are strikingly poor, because they amount to further federalizing the EU, in line with Scholz's proposals: extension of the qualified majority, to which General de Gaulle had opposed; conditionality of federal aid, which amounts to treating Hungary and Poland as pariahs; reduction in the number of commissioners, which de facto eliminates the principle of one commissioner per state; harmonization of national electoral laws, which amounts to subjecting nations to European functioning, as if they were subdivisions of it; mixed chamber of courts and supreme tribunals of the EU, which amounts to initiating the merger of the orders of jurisdiction; increase in the federal budget; establishment of a common debt, that is to say the end of all financial sovereignty.
Instead of simplifying – which was the stated objective – we are seeing a new layer of complexity appear with “quintets” of Council presidencies, citizen participatory processes integrated into procedures composed of… people from outside the EU, new institutions (such as a transparency and probity office).
It is about dissipating the last scraps of national sovereignty. You have to be blind not to understand that each time we have coupled more federalism with more enlargement, public opinion has risen violently. Last time it cost us Britain.
We must stop this madness as quickly as possible. This starts by not renewing Madame von der Leyen, whose mandate which is ending has been catastrophic for France and the EU. This also means inflicting on the Renaissance list, which supports these proposals, the greatest disavowal in the next European elections.
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Europe panics as Trump rises from his political grave
Europe panics as Trump rises from his political graveJacob's Ladder - Apr 11, 2024
Last week was full of twists and turns. It began with the United States Supreme Court's 9-0 condemnation of the use of the 14th Amendment to punish political opponents.
Then the Wicked Witch of kyiv, Vic(Toria) “Cookies” Nuland, was ousted from the State Department after torturing the world for decades with her psychopathy.
Then Donald Trump practically sent Nikki Haley back to his Waffle House near Greenville.
Finally, French President Emmanuel Macron tried to convince the whole world that NATO was ready to send troops to Ukraine. Which ones? Clearly not French troops, who are only good at this point for “going on safari in North Africa,” according to Colonel Doug MacGregor.
And not the British ships either, which don't seem to be able to leave port. I think there is a sort of competition between the failures of the Boeing airlines and the failures of the British ships… but I can also be a conspiracy theorist.
*bong*
No, the answer has always been that it would be American troops in Europe fighting Europe's war that everyone – the UK, Davos and its EU apparatchiks, and US neoconservatives – thought it would be a resounding success in bleeding Russia.
And I'm sure that's exactly how they planned it in their Microsoft Project file at Globalist Central.
This clearly did not happen and it is Ukraine which is in great difficulty today. The truth, which has become rare since the start of the war two years ago, is that Ukraine has always been in great difficulty.
And this led, predictably, to the situation we have today. U.S. support for the Ukraine project is coming to an end, if it hasn't already. And the panic in Europe is palpable.
All this was very predictable if we accepted the framework of a split at the top of the American hierarchy. One faction committed to the Davos vision of the future, which involved a docile, even defeated, United States, and another faction that looked up from their screens and said, “Uh…no.”
It was all obvious about eight months ago, when the big NATO summit in Vilnius ended with groans from then-British Defense Minister Ben Wallace. Wallace was supposed to replace Jens Stoltenberg as NATO Secretary General, but was pushed aside by Joe Biden (JOAH Bii-Den!).
After that, there was no further talk of Ukraine joining NATO. Zelensky returned to kyiv with tears in his eyes after Biden gave him nothing either. Then, in October, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted in a coup by Matt Gaetz and a handful of GOP tax hardliners.
They immediately got new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) to tie any new foreign aid funding to spending cuts and earmarking funds for border security, in as much as the slim majority in Congress would allow.
Since then, Joe Biden has been forced to look under the Pentagon sofas for a few million dollars to send to Ukraine. He found 300 the other day. As bad as the situation is, the fact that it's millions rather than billions should be considered a victory.
The Senate tried to blackmail Johnson with its ridiculous $95 billion aid bill and Johnson simply pressured boss Chuck Schumer by requesting a two-week recess. Today, the best they can hope for is a more modest bill, with a loan/rental clause, without the money being earmarked for “humanitarian aid” – a euphemism for fill the pockets.
And despite his rapprochement with Senate hawks, Johnson continues to use aid to Ukraine as a way to put domestic financing reforms first. Every day of haggling over these issues is another day that spells the end of Project Ukraine, as Russian forces take towns and villages in Western Donbas every day.
Again, this is not an ideal solution, far from it, but it is a Pyrrhic victory.
But this is the situation after last week and it is much better than at the beginning of the year, since this money was already expected six months ago.
Europe is now able to completely remove the mask. Indeed, as the United States slowly withdraws from Ukraine, the EU's calls for America to stay the course are growing louder and more strident.
Remember that in 2022-23, when it looked like the United States was determined to move forward in Ukraine, European leaders like Macron and others were more circumspect. They wanted to give a warning about the dangers of escalation in Ukraine. They were able to appear as moderates in the situation room, while continuing to send billions of euros in aid and weapons, forcing everyone to comply with their demands.
The real event revealing Europe's real position on this war was Hungary's threat to Viktor Orban of complete economic devastation if he did not allow their aid program to continue. 50 billion dollars to pass to the European Council.
Now that all of Nuland's military plans have failed, the Ukrainian army has been destroyed for the third time, and all their attempts to undermine the United States legally and economically (Powell must Pivot!) have failed, Europe is found in blind panic.
“The US Democratic government and EU leaders, as well as the leaders of the largest EU member states, are pro-war governments. Donald Trump is for peace, Hungary is for peace. This difference is the basis of everything”
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Patrushev: the Atlantic Alliance wants to weaken and dismember Russia
Patrushev: the Atlantic Alliance wants to weaken and dismember RussiaRT France - Apr 04, 2024
In an interview published on April 2 ahead of the anniversary of the Atlantic Alliance, the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation criticized its destabilizing role. He spoke barely ten days after the Crocus City Hall attacks, while Moscow has continued to emphasize kyiv's potential complicity.
“I am not going to delve into the bloody history of NATO, but you need to know it to understand that the Alliance has been a constant source of dangers, crises and conflicts for many years,” Nikolai Patrushev said in an interview. in the newspaper Argoumenty i Fakty published on April 2. He was speaking ahead of April 4, the date marking 75 years since the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
The Secretary of the Russian Security Council highlighted NATO's role in compelling its members to "obediently comply with the implementation of economic sanctions, the 'freezing' of financial assets, the practice of espionage, psychological operations, cyberattacks and to join in actions that compromise the systems of government of states in disagreement with the policies of the Anglo-Saxons.
“All NATO policies are based on instructions from Washington,” he continued. Before adding: “[Washington] uses the Alliance to maintain its armed presence in Europe and demonstrate to its satellites its indispensable nature, to ensure the security of this continent.”
The Alliance “is a de facto party to the Ukrainian conflict and actively participates in the organization of neo-Nazi bombings on Russian territories,” Nikolai Patrushev further denounced. Ukraine indeed attempted several incursions into the Russian regions of Kursk and Belgorod in April. These regions are also bombarded almost daily by Ukrainian forces.
The Russian leader added that the Alliance does not “disdain using terrorist organizations for its own benefit.” These words are full of meaning as Moscow suffered a terrorist attack which left 144 dead on March 22.
Nikolai Patrushev, during the same interview, estimated that the fall of the Soviet Union had been for Westerners only a “step” on the path to the “political and economic weakening of Russia”. A weakening explicitly declared by NATO leaders.
The weakening of Russia as a goal of the Alliance
“NATO is systematically strengthening its military potential on our borders,” noted Nikolai Patrushev. According to the Secretary of the Security Council, the ultimate goal of the Alliance would be to “remove Russia from the political map of the world by dismembering it”. He noted that military spending by NATO members reached 50% of global spending in this area, increasing for the ninth consecutive year and exceeding $2023 trillion in 1.
He also claimed that the technique of encouraging Russophobia and scaring European citizens "with a false 'Russian threat'" was an attempt by their leaders to make them forget the growing internal and economic problems they were facing.
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Brilliant strategic attack
Brilliant strategic attackInternational Network - Apr 03, 2024
Lara Logan said mass, for her, the Baltimore bridge affair is a military attack.
I leave this assessment to her, noting however that her arguments are devilishly convincing, and that it is enough to have done a little geostrategy to arrive at the same conclusion as her.
Unlike September 11, it is not the Deep State, US, Israeli or British, which ultimately only knows how to do mass hemoglobin, and the multiple attacks caused by their false noses are only large-scale murders. But for what purpose? Ultimately none, the victims are buried, at best, they are justifications for things already decided.
Here, any slightly informed person can see a very significant shock wave.
“Make no mistake: this was an extraordinary attack in terms of planning, timing and execution.”
“The bridge was built specifically to transport hazardous materials – fuel, diesel, propane gas, nitrogen, highly flammable materials, chemicals and oversized cargo that cannot fit into the tunnels – that the supply chain is now crippled” .
“The structural destruction is probably absolute.”
Obviously, it is something different from the Crocus attack, which, in terms of economic impact, is almost zero, but in terms of remobilization of the Russians, totally counterproductive. In fact, it is a stupid and nasty attack. Not to mention being stupid. If a Russian doubted the need to crush Ukraine and NATO, he no longer doubts it.
So, in the full post, we see an analysis that ultimately cannot be disputed. The port is blocked for a long time, it is strategic and the bridge is strategic in itself. The USA is also devilishly dependent on its ports, with an economy largely refocused by globalization on imports (a lot) and exports (much less), but which have become totally essential, and the central cities and ports (airports too), are the only anchor points of the financial and political system, totally governed by the Democratic Party. The interior has become Trumpist out of necessity and left abandoned.
The message may ultimately be very clear. “We can completely paralyze you in a few accidents”, of which there is no trace, and it must be admitted that it is much more clever than Kalash attacks. Here, the political authorities hasten to say that it is not an attack, in haste, and even if they know nothing about it. This speed is what first made me doubt the serendipity.
On the other hand, what do we have? We want to deliver “hundreds of VABs”, military vehicles 40 years old, which are, at best, totally unsuitable for the battlefield… In fact, these VABs should never have been built or delivered. Built economically, they are not suitable for combat. 6-wheel vehicles, but more expensive, would have been more appropriate.
Obviously, we are sweeping the stock funds, and we are delivering scrap metal. In fact, given the reduction in the size of armies, these old vehicles, obsolete at birth, no longer have any use. If this is how we want the Ukrainians to win…
In terms of infrastructure, in France, we are not much better than in the USA. Anyone who has been to the Paris region has noticed that the RER C was not quite that. And it gets worse. But it's not on the road to the Olympics.
In terms of profound mental deficiency, we are also quite well endowed with certain “comedians” whose humorous nature escapes me a little. Since they are really stupid, they have just put a target on their backs.
On the real economy side, we see the EU collapsing: “European imports of gas and oil down sharply”. The Zécolos will be happy. We also see that the essential oil for transport is falling significantly less (in volume) than gas.
What is essential in Europistan, moreover, reveals American-style differences, between democratic metropolises and the rest of the country, which is increasingly opposed. The value of thermal strainers is falling (“leopard spot” crisis), which affects everyone, and I have also seen people who are very well off economically, stop heating themselves to limit bills. And who wonder when it will stop.
No need, ultimately, to send a Kinzal on a target. A well-trained Chinese-Russian-Iranian-Yemeni-etc. team can very well take control of a ship and send it into trouble. The icing on the cake is that the Western governments can no longer even cry wolf or rather, “attack”.
Afterwards, internal forces of decline take over.
“The Baltimore bridge collapse was an “absolutely brilliant strategic attack” on America’s critical infrastructure – most likely cyber – and our intelligence agencies know it. In terms of information warfare, they simply divided the United States along the Mason Dixon Line, just like during the Civil War.
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Putin vs CIA, Serbia vs NATO, 12 FAB.
Putin vs CIA, Serbia vs NATO, 12 FAB.Stratpol - March 31, 2024
STRATPOL: bulletin n° 179 by Xavier Moreau
01:00 – Economy
The slow decline of coal (Bloomberg)
Russian microelectronics
Mark Rutte in China
Alliance Framatom – Rusatom
Social or military (Wall Street Journal)?
06:45 p.m. – Politico-diplomatic
25 years ago, Serbia's victory against NATO
08:45 – Terrorism
Ukraine: terrorist hideout
Crocus City Hall bombing
18:10 – Empire of lies
Left-wing terrorist jubilation
War of religions
20:05 – Arming
Patriot for all
challenger II
12 FOB/month
22:07 – General military considerations
No war against NATO
The fall of kyiv
Russian summer offensive
General conscription
29:09 – Map of military operations
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The links between the Islamists and the “integral nationalists” of kyiv
The links between the Islamists and the “integral nationalists” of kyivVoltairenet - March 28, 2024
The Moscow attack recalls the links between the Islamists and the “integral nationalists” of kyiv
It matters little whether the attack on the audience at the Crocus City Hall concert in Moscow was prepared by ISIS with or without the Ukrainians: these people are used to working together.
This has been going on for three quarters of a century, but is still not integrated into the collective consciousness: the “integral nationalists” today in power in Kiev work in concert with the Muslim Brotherhood and their militias, under the supervision of the services Anglo-Saxon secrets. Their basic function is to fight against the Russians.
On March 22, 2024, a commando of four fighters attacked the audience of a rock concert at Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk (a northeastern suburb of Moscow), killing 140 people and injuring 115 others. Then he set the building on fire.
The terrorist commando was arrested by the Russians while trying to cross the Ukrainian border and was waiting for them on the other side. They were identified as Tajiks. They admitted to having been recruited via the internet to kill for money. They assured that they had not had contact with their employer. However, a business card with the name Dmytro Yarosh was found on them. Yarosh having been founder of the Pravy Sektor militia, number 2 on the Ukrainian Security Council, then advisor to the head of the armed forces, the Russian authorities immediately accused Ukraine. Yarosh has denied his country's involvement. Seven accomplices were also arrested.
Russian counterterrorism police tortured terrorists and filmed their brutality. Public television showed these images and commented on them. Russian culture is both European and Asian. The Russian people feel no empathy for criminals.
Daesh claimed responsibility for the attack, cutting short accusations of a Russian false flag operation. These terrorists were not fanatics, but professionals. They did not set themselves on fire in public, but fled, like those who attacked Paris and Saint-Denis, killing 130 people, in 2015, notably at the Bataclan rock concert. They therefore did not act out of hatred of Russia, but as part of a military operation whose strategic implications were thought out in advance.
According to US National Security Council spokesperson Adrienne Watson, Islamic State terrorists are solely responsible for this attack. Many commentators have denounced a priori any amalgamation between the Islamic organization and supporters of the kyiv government. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of reflexively attacking Ukraine. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin has maintained his accusations exclusively against kyiv, ignoring Daesh.
Since 2014 and the overthrow of the elected Ukrainian president, we have regularly highlighted the links between integral nationalists and Islamists, and particularly the role of Dmytro Yarosh. The facts speak for themselves. We do not know whether or not the Ukrainians organized this attack, but it is clear that they knew the attackers very well: Ukrainian integral nationalists and jihadists have been fighting together for three-quarters of a century.
• Before World War II, the Muslim Brotherhood formed ties with the Nazis against the British. No wonder, all the anti-colonialist movements of the time (including the Indian MK Gandhi) naturally turned to the side of the Axis in search of an ally. In general, they distanced themselves from it as soon as they had verified their racism on the spot. However, the Brotherhood benefited from subsidies from the Third Reich over the years and retained these links throughout the war. When, at the Liberation, the British and American secret services recovered many Nazi leaders and recycled them into their “cold war” against the Soviets, they also recovered the governance of the Muslim Brotherhood. It was therefore quite natural that the CIA had Gerhard von Mende, the Nazi specialist on Islam in the Soviet Union, work together with Saïd Ramadan, the son-in-law of the founder of the brotherhood. The latter having been responsible for a program on Pakistani public radio, the CIA placed him in Munich at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. There he hosted a program for Soviet Muslims and met there Stepan Bandera, leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN), and his right-hand man, Yaroslav Stetsko, the former Nazi Ukrainian Prime Minister. It was precisely the "Banderists" (described as "Ukrainonazis" by the Kremlin, but calling themselves "integral nationalists") who carried out the coup d'état ("EuroMaidan") of 2014 against the elected Ukrainian president Viktor Yanukovych .
• In the 1970s, the Saudi billionaire Osama Bin Laden participated in the meetings of the World Anti-Communist League of Chiang Kai-Shek and… Yaroslav Stetsko [5]. Osama bin Laden was a member of the Brotherhood and had been trained by the brother of Sayyid Qutb, the Brotherhood strategist and jihad theorist. It was in this context that he was chosen by the United States to become the leader of the mujahideen in Afghanistan against the Soviets.
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Putin's speech following the terrorist attack at Crocus City Hall
The Media in 4-4-2 - March 25, 2024
“No one will be able to sow poisonous seeds of discord in our multi-ethnic society. »
Vladimir Putin, aware of external forces seeking to divide the country, including some Western actors and Israel who seek to blame Muslims, expresses his determination to maintain the unity and cohesion of Russian society. He asserts that no one will be able to sow the seeds of discord, panic and division among the Russian population, which is made up of different ethnicities and cultures. He thus wishes to reassure Russian citizens and encourage them to remain united in the face of adversity.
“Dear Russian citizens!
I am writing to you about a bloody and barbaric terrorist act, the victims of which were dozens of peaceful and innocent people – our compatriots, including children, adolescents and women. Doctors are now fighting for the lives of the victims, those who are in serious condition. I am sure that they will do everything possible, if not impossible, to preserve the life and health of all those injured. Special words of gratitude to paramedics, special forces soldiers, firefighters, rescuers who did everything to save people's lives, remove them from the fire, from the epicenter of fire and smoke and avoid further losses more important.
I cannot ignore the help of ordinary citizens who, in the first minutes after the tragedy, did not remain indifferent and, together with doctors and security officers, provided first aid and transported the victims to hospitals .
We will provide the necessary assistance to all the families whose lives have been affected by a terrible misfortune, to the injured. I express my deep and sincere condolences to all those who have lost a loved one. The entire country, all our people, mourn with you. I declare March 24 a day of national mourning.
In Moscow and its region, as well as in all regions of the country, additional anti-terrorism and anti-sabotage measures have been introduced. The main thing now is to prevent those who are behind this bloodbath from committing a new crime.
As for the investigation into this crime and the results of operational investigative actions, the following can currently be said. The four direct perpetrators of the terrorist attack, all those who shot and killed people, were found and detained. They tried to hide and headed to Ukraine, where, according to preliminary data, a window was open for them from the Ukrainian side to cross the state border. A total of 11 people were arrested. The Federal Security Service of Russia and other law enforcement agencies are working to identify and uncover the entire complicit base of terrorists: those who provided them with transportation, laid out routes of evacuation of the crime scene, prepared caches, caches of weapons and ammunition.
I repeat: investigative and law enforcement agencies will do everything to establish all the details of the crime. But it is already clear that we are facing not just a carefully and cynically planned terrorist attack, but a prepared and organized massacre of peaceful and defenseless people. The criminals decided calmly and deliberately to kill, to shoot at point blank range at our citizens, our children. Just as the Nazis once committed massacres in the occupied territories, they decided to stage a spectacular execution, a bloody act of intimidation.
All perpetrators, organizers and clients of this crime will suffer fair and inevitable punishment. Whoever they are, whoever guides them. I repeat: we will identify and punish all those who are behind the terrorists, who prepared this atrocity, this attack against Russia, against our people.
We know the threat of terrorism. Here we count on interaction with all states that sincerely share our pain and are ready to truly join forces in the fight against the common enemy, international terrorism, in all its manifestations.
Terrorists, murderers and non-humans who do not and cannot have nationality face an unenviable fate: punishment and oblivion. They have no future. Our common duty from now on, to our comrades on the front, to all the citizens of the country, is to be together in a single formation. I believe that it will be so, because no one and nothing will be able to shake our unity and our will, our determination and our courage, the strength of the united Russian people. No one will be able to sow poisonous seeds of discord, panic and discord in our multi-ethnic society.
Russia has repeatedly gone through difficult, sometimes unbearable trials, but has become even stronger. It will be like this from now on. »
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Musk builds vast network of spy satellites
Musk builds vast network of spy satellitesDigital Dawn - March 20, 2024
SpaceX reportedly signed a $1,8 billion contract with US intelligence services in 2021.
Elon Musk's secret Starshield project will allow the US military to track targets and support US and allied ground forces in real time almost anywhere in the world, Reuters reported, sharing new details about the billionaire's dealings with the Pentagon.
SpaceX has launched military satellite prototypes alongside "civilian" payloads on Falcon 9 rockets since at least 2020, before landing a lucrative $1,8 billion contract with the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) in 2021. Reuters wrote on Saturday, citing five anonymous sources familiar with the project.
The vast constellation of low-orbit satellites will be capable of tracking ground targets in real time almost anywhere in the world, the sources said. One boasted that Starshield would ensure “no one can hide” from the US government. Starshield also reportedly aims to be “more resistant to attacks” from rival space powers.
It remains unclear how many Starshield satellites are currently operational or when the system is expected to be fully operational, with SpaceX and the Pentagon ignoring requests for comment from Reuters. The NRO said it was developing "the most capable, diverse and survivable space intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance system the world has ever known," but it declined to comment on SpaceX's role in the project.
SpaceX's CEO has already acknowledged the development of the military alternative to the "civilian" Starlink system, declaring in September that this system would be "owned by the US government" and controlled by the Department of Defense.
“Starlink should be a civilian network, not a combat participant,” Musk said, referring to Ukraine's use of satellites throughout the conflict with Russia.
Musk donated about 20 Starlink terminals to Ukraine shortly after Russia launched its military operation in February 000. Since then, Kiev's troops have relied heavily on the system to maintain communications and operate combat drones along the front line.
While pledging to support Ukraine, Musk has repeatedly stated that he favors a peaceful resolution to the conflict. The billionaire drew the wrath of American authorities after refusing kyiv's request to use the Starlink network to facilitate strikes on the Russian Black Sea fleet. Musk argued that activating Starlink in Crimea would violate US sanctions. In the absence of direct orders from US leaders, SpaceX chose not to violate regulations despite kyiv's request, the tycoon explained.
Earlier this month, US lawmakers reportedly launched another investigation into SpaceX, after Ukraine claimed Russian troops allegedly used the Starlink satellite service on the conflict's front lines. Musk denied the allegations, insisting that "no Starlink was sold directly or indirectly to Russia." The Kremlin also insisted that the Russian military never ordered Starlink terminals.
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Israel prepares to attack Lebanon
Voltairenet - March 18, 2024
Israel is preparing to attack Lebanon, either at the end of Ramadan, in mid-April, or even earlier.
Its objective would be to create a buffer zone in Lebanese territory south of the Litani River, as it had tried in vain to do in 2006. It therefore first engaged in a systematic destruction of all the infrastructure built in this area by Hezbollah for fourteen years.
In order to prevent accusations of war crimes, the IDF dropped leaflets in southern Lebanon. It reads: “Residents of the South, Hezbollah endangers your lives, those of your families and your homes. Hezbollah installs its members and its weapons depots in your neighborhoods.” They can thus argue that they did not target a civilian population, but on the contrary warned them in advance.
Since the start of Operation Iron Sword, the IDF has bombed 4 targets, mainly located in the South, but also in Baalbeck, while avoiding attacking other components of Lebanese society. The Netanyahu government hopes that the country's lack of unity will allow it to gradually destroy the arsenal of the Party of God, without provoking any noticeable reaction. He claims to have already eliminated 500 Shiite fighters. Hezbollah recognizes 300.
IDF Unit 8200 intercepts all Lebanese telephone and internet communications as well as almost all private security cameras. She cross-checks this information and manages to identify almost all of her human and physical targets. This is how it was able, for example, to locate the leader of Hamas opposed to the Muslim Brotherhood, Saleh Al-Arouri, in January and assassinate him.
At the same time, Israel is preparing for a major response from Hezbollah. It has just purchased port facilities in Larnaca (Cyprus) in preparation for the destruction of the port of Haifa. These facilities will, in any case, subsequently be used to establish the transport corridor linking India to Europe, via Israel.
Likewise, numerous underground parking lots have been set up in the north of the Jewish state to accommodate civilians in the event of bombings. In addition to the installation of toilets, ventilation ducts, medicines and furniture, food for two days will be stored there.
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For your safety you will have war!
For your safety you will have war!Insolentiae - March 16, 2024
Professor Trouposol addresses the nation.
Haaaaaa…. in the series Tintin at the Popovs (those who experienced the Cold War and the expressions of the time will understand), our professor Trouposol learnedly explained to us that for our security we had to think about waging war... otherwise we could have war .
As an emeritus member of the 7th company, with Chief Chaudard, on the ground, we have another perception of the situation.
You are sitting down I hope… no because the intro of the great chef is capable of making you fall to the floor!
“You are sitting,” he told reporters. “You wouldn’t rule out getting up at the end of the show”? So the ground troops are the same. So.
War is simple.
Simple as a good valve.
Simple as a “bon mot”.
The textbooks (not the Emmanuels eh) will therefore remember that the Third World War took place because Trouposol, that day did not exclude getting up. You will listen. It's lunar.
A Mozart of strategic ambiguity.
But that's not all…
Then Professor Trouposol explained to us that he produces 100 shells per day and 75 Caesar cannons per year, and I am happy as are our enemies the Russians to learn this. These are useful statistics for winning a war of attrition. Is there no one at the general staff to explain to Tintin at the Elysée that certain figures should not be given? Or we poisoned and he had to tell Professor Trouposol that we were going to release 2025 Caesar cannons from 750. There the Kremlin would have trembled.
Short.
According to Trouposol we must not be cowardly and we must prevent Russia at all costs from winning in Ukraine, which amounts to saying that we must make Russia lose.
If no one accepts at least a little loss then by definition there is no peace or negotiation possible, there is only more war.
Macron does not have the means for this adage. First with our 3 billion debts and we will come back to that, Professor Trouposol du Palais is not strong. Our army can potentially hold a front of 100 to 80km at high intensity for a week. A little short to challenge Russia. Obviously Trouposol's genius idea is to go there "as Europeans" with the other "friends".
So we do not have the wisdom to be strong.
Finally, the spoiled child of the Palace is not wise at all because engaging the army against Russia will require going through Parliament. And no, Macron cannot arrogate to himself the right to decide alone to take France towards war against Russia, in the same way that he cannot have the stupidity to try to make us believe that the interests vital “existential” assets of Europe are threatened in Ukraine. It's wrong. The borders of the European Union are known, also by the Russians. Attacking a member country of the European Union would be a casus belli. We completely agree on that.
Ukraine is not in the European Union. This may be very sad for the Ukrainians, but they are in no way in our vital interests and it is important to say what a potential clash with Russia means. We will not lose 50 or 80 soldiers over 8 years like in Africa. We will lose 50 to 60% of an expeditionary force of 10 men. This is the reality. We will have thousands of deaths, ending with the signing of a peace treaty. Absurd. Without wisdom.
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Requisitions: In what direction do these texts really go?
International Network - March 13, 2024
New articles of the Defense Code resulting from the Military Programming Law of August 2023.
As a foreigner, subject of His British Majesty, Mendelssohn does not have the keys to understanding the overlap of the different Codes and Laws in France.
Since in law, one word will be placed to hide another.
Thus, Mendelssohn invites jurists with qualifications that he does not possess, to dissect for us the interweaving of the legislative texts discussed below.
(In case people without children are tempted to turn a blind eye – Papa Mendelssohn has five, all of them almost old enough to be drafted, without even coming to the point of requisition…)
To open the festivities, some historical reminder lines appearing on an official site:
Requisitions and Compulsory Labor Service – 1943
The turning point of the STO
As German demands continued to intensify, the Vichy government adopted a new requisition system with the law of February 16, 1943 which established the “compulsory labor service” (STO). All young French people born in 1920, 1921 and 1922 declared fit after a medical examination must go to work in Germany for two years. Important warnings are immediately addressed to those who do not obey. The sanctions to which they are exposed are fines ranging from 200 to 100 francs and prison sentences ranging from 000 months to 3 years, likely, in the event of a repeat offense, to be doubled.
France is the only occupied country in Europe where requisitions are not the consequence of German orders but of a law adopted by the French state.
https://www.cheminsdememoire.gouv.fr/1943-les-consequences-du-sto-dans-la-creation-des-maquis
If Mendelssohn understood correctly, the Military Programming Law passed in August 2023 modifies, among other things, the Defense Code. These are therefore the new articles of the Defense Code in question here.
• https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/jorf/article_jo/JORFARTI000047915043
Title I
Requisitions for the needs of defense and national security
Chapter II
General principles
"Art. L. 2212-1.-In the event of a threat, current or foreseeable, weighing on activities essential to the life of the Nation, the protection of the population, the integrity of the territory or the permanence of the institutions of the Republic or likely to justify the implementation of the international commitments of the State in matters of defense, the requisition of any person, natural or legal, and of all the goods and services necessary to meet them may be decided by decree in Council ministers. (…)
Mendelssohn asks:
1) In law, legal certainty requires that the citizen understands what we are talking about. Each term used must therefore be defined without ambiguity.
In the context of this article, what does it mean
- threat
– current
– predictable (within six weeks? six years? six decades?)
– activities essential to the life of the Nation (Leclerc supermarkets? Pharmacies carrying out PCR tests?)
– “threat likely to justify the implementation of the State’s international defense commitments”
There are multiple hierarchical levels of a state's international “commitments.” Furthermore, the term “commitment” is not, unless I am mistaken, a legal term in this specific context.
Are we talking about treaties? Written commitments? Unwritten? Kept secret (presence of “mercenaries” in Ukraine)? Under the radar (military activities of France in Africa)?
Or even one-person agreements between the Micronian and X, such as that of February 16 with the current Ukrainian president1 agreement whose legality is more than uncertain?
(We will soon return to the said bilateral security agreement of February 16: apart from committing billions with tax as a source, thousands of French soldiers and specialists should urgently leave for Ukraine, assuming that France is willing and able to comply with it).
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