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[Boosty] How FACA, together with the Wagner PMC, stopped militants on the approaches to the capital of the Central African Republic
by Commissioner Yarrick, Artem Blinov, Sergei Chemekov.
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Why the fuss over some nasty African backwater? Claude Wauthier's "Quatre Presidents et L'Afrique: DeGaulle, Pompidou, Gerard d'Estaing, Mitterrand" explained the greed that lay behind the battles involving French diplomats and French military for control of former French colonies. As for the Central African Republic pestehole the battle has been for diamonds and gemstones. Now it is Wagner's turn.
As always, thought provoking. Herewith a few paragraphs:
I hope everyone is recovering from the holiday season enough to gird your loins and livers for New Years and bowl season … but when you get a chance, make sure and keep your eyes open to the rapidly developing events in the Red Sea.
Reason why I’m pondering this is simple; I’m not all that sure this is sustainable.
Someone is going to run out of missiles (Winchester) eventually. We are not making efforts to take out their launchers and magazines ashore, so they are at liberty to pop off at will.
Huh. We’re not buying all that much considering what we’ve been sending downrange this year.
What am I missing budget pros?
Anyway, not to channel my inner Elbridge Colby here, but … I keep thinking of the varsity game in the Western Pacific. If you want to sober up - get the classified briefing on the Red Sea engagements and then look at any of your garden variety Taiwan scenarios.
The math it hard. Industrial capacity is harder. Logistics is a nightmare.
There’s your math problem, but I have a larger issue with our OPERATION ROPE-A-DOPE - what are we actually trying to accomplish?
If our mission is to intercept as many outbound weapons from Houthi controlled Yemen - sent to everyone from Israel, to shipping, to USN DDGs - with the hope to avoid anything that might escalate the Gaza conflict, then perhaps we’re doing OK in the short run.
If our mission is to deter the Houthis from attacking Israel or shipping, then I’m not sure we are doing all that well. To paraphrase something I said last night SEPCOR; if you are in a bar and some jerk starts taking swings at you and you dodge every punch he throws, side step every kick he makes without touching him - why should he feel deterred from continuing his attacks? If all his friends and big brother are cheering him on while he talks smack to you, insults your mom, sister, the scooter you drove in on - the whole shebang - why should he stop as long as he has the energy to continue? In reality, this will just lead him to grab an empty bottle, a bar stool, or a pool cue and try to bash your brain in with that instead.
Nothing we’re doing is deterring the Houthis. We have done absolutely nothing but encourage their behavior. As we are not taking out their launch sites or magazines, really we’re just in a competition to see if they run out of missiles before we run out of fresh VLS cells east of Rota.
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Victoria Nikiforova
[RIA] Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that the Russian army completed the main task of 2023, thwarting the Ukrainian counter-offensive. Behind these dry words is the capture of Bakhmut and Marinka, the advance of our troops along the entire front line, panic in Kyiv, London and Washington, mass desertion of Ukrainians - from ordinary members of the Wesseushki to titled propagandists. This is hard and deadly work that our heroes have been doing for almost two years. But who are they, what do we know about them?
Here a Russian tank enters into an unequal battle and, before our amazed eyes, destroys six armored vehicles and two enemy tanks. “This is our “Alyosha”!” - Drone operator Corporal Ilya Gavrilov shouts off-screen. The crew of the legendary tank (in a few days they will all receive the stars of Heroes of Russia ) is commanded by Lieutenant Alexander Levakov - a Cossack from the village of Lipovtsy in Primorye, a historian by training, a graduate of the Far Eastern Federal University.
Our paratroopers have been holding the giant Gostomel airport near Kiev for two days, fighting against enemy forces that are an order of magnitude superior to them. Footage of the landing of our military then went around the whole world. The Kiev elite announced their destruction several times. “Two hundred Spartans” — the people called them then.
One of the heroic paratroopers was Guard Sergeant Georgy Avramenko. He was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage. He was buried at the Serafimovskoye cemetery in St. Petersburg , although he lived there without registration: he just came one day, fell in love with the city on the Neva and could not part with it. Georgy Avramenko was a novice on the island of Valaam and did not immediately receive a blessing for military service. “I will not bless you in death,” the priest repeated to him.
Here is the first hero of Russia to receive this title on the fields of the Northern Military District. An ordinary modern guy from Dagestan, he was fond of skiing and wrote poetry. In the battle, he was seriously wounded and blew himself up with a grenade along with the Wehrmacht. Then President Putin will say about his feat: “I am a Russian person. As they say, I have Ivans and Marys in my family. But when I see examples of such heroism as the feat of the young guy Nurmagomed Gadzhimagomedov, a native of Dagestan, Lak by nationality, I want to say : “I am a Lak, I am a Dagestani, I am a Chechen, an Ingush, a Russian, a Tatar, a Jew, a Mordvin, an Ossetian...”
These people are the salt of our earth. This is its aristocracy, its intelligentsia, its elite in the true sense of these words. The stories I told above alone would be enough for several wonderful films, novels, and TV series. However, in our cultural community there is a deafening silence on this topic. No films or plays about their exploits. Everyone seems to be waiting for something.
Meanwhile, people's love for heroes is enormous. Recently there was information on social networks that a veteran of the Northern Military District, who received a disability at the front, was being rude to his neighbors. How indignant people were, how many letters they wrote to the veteran with words of support. This is all done sincerely, from the heart.
The last words of fallen heroes are embroidered on chevrons. Poems, songs, and videos are dedicated to them. Folk art on SVO themes, by the way, is simply in full swing. Recently, at a meeting between Putin and graduates of military schools, a pilot read poetry. There is a line: “Meet daddy, bitches!” - these are the last words of the pilot of the Wagner PMC, Hero of Russia Alexander Antonov , who sent his burning plane into a column of armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
Yes, it's not as romantic as "Let's live!" in the film “Only Old Men Are Coming to Battle,” however, there is a suspicion that the real prototype of “Darkie,” Evgeny Bykovsky, also shouted something obscene before his death, may Roskomnadzor forgive us.
The scenes from the fields of the Northern Military District are amazing. Two hundred and seventy-two people during this time were awarded the title of Hero of Russia there. There is no doubt that if this had happened to the American military, Hollywood would have already made dozens of inspiring films on the topic, and they would have done it not carelessly, but from the heart. This is not the case with us yet. Although why shouldn’t the same Zhora Kryzhovnikov, after his wonderful “A Boy’s Word,” take up the story of the North Military District?
Unfortunately, the Soviet skills of creating wonderful films about intelligence officers, paratroopers, and sailors have become a thing of the past. We have forgotten how to glorify our heroes. Recently, the legendary Major General of the Airborne Forces , Hero of the Soviet Union Alexander Soluyanov died in Moscow . If he had been born a hundred years ago, Simonov and Tvardovsky would have written poems about his exploits, and Bondarev and Bykov would have written novels about his exploits.
Today, the name of the hero of the Afghan war means almost nothing to anyone.
The only thing that the media remembered was that Nikita Mikhalkov , when the Lyube group invited him to make a video for the song “Batyanya-Bat Kombat,” talked with the paratroopers who served in Afghanistan, and they said that they should call him for the role of his father-commander namely Soluyanov. The sad irony is that Mikhalkov never filmed this video. And the modest Soluyanov said that this was correct; others, they say, served even better.
Since then, how many videos have we released with all sorts of vulgarity, with I don’t understand who in the leading roles. How offensive it is.
By the way, if we remember the Afghan war, then the capture of Amin's palace - the legendary "Storm-333" - is considered in the West one of the most brilliant Russian military operations. It is studied in the world's leading military academies. Do you remember at least one of our films glorifying this feat? And I don't remember. Meanwhile, the Americans manage to make uplifting patriotic films even based on the material of their shameful defeats - take, for example, "Black Hawk Down."
I want to talk endlessly about the heroes of the Northern Military District, meanwhile, all the information fields are clogged by some muddy Blinkens and Bidens. It would be nice if they were real politicians, but they are just hired clowns on the payroll. It is not they who are creating world history today. It is made in Novorossiya by Alexander Levakov and Ilya Gavrilov, Evgeny Kudinov and Andrey Mityashin. Let's not forget their names and faces.
Today, our military personnel flawlessly fulfill their duty to the Motherland. But how do we fulfill our duty to them?
[PJ] Because it spotlights the current state of affairs in the West — and all the key players — the recent uprising in Dublin should not be so quickly forgotten.
Background: On Nov. 23, 2023, a Muslim man of Algerian origin, with a known criminal record, knifed a group of preschool children attending Saint Mary’s, a Catholic school in Dublin. Three children — two girls and a boy aged between 5 and 6 — and a care assistant who tried to defend them were stabbed in the assault. Knifed near the heart, a 5-year-old girl was critically injured and, as of the last report from December, remains hospitalized in critical condition.
On the evening of the day of the stabbing, Irish citizens, apparently sick of taking in Muslim migrants who show their thanks by randomly stabbing Irish children and committing other crimes, took to the streets to protest their nation’s immigration policies. Before long, a riot — described as the worst in modern Dublin history — broke out.
This incident marks something new: a Western demographic consisting of everyday men and women revolted — not just with words or hashtags, but in fact — against the mainstream narrative concerning migrants coming into Europe.
Up until now, here is how things worked: Western authorities, the "elites," opened their nations’ doors to millions of Muslim migrants. They did this by exploiting their citizens’ sense of decency, by making them feel it is their "duty" to provide all these migrants with a good life.
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Harkening back to your paper on 'incompatible cultures' Geoffrey, bringing any of them back to Maynooth for a semester is probably out of the question.
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One should always remember that at it's roots, Europe can be quite violent and we are seeing signs of a return to...less docile people there after being mistreated for so long.
The signs in Dublin are just the warning tremors of what may come. Which is something like this:
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^ Can you export these macros for use by others?
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12/28/2023 10:47 Comments ||
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The Fightin' Irish!
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I spoke to a lady from Cambridge England today. Constant flow of immigrants is overwhelming England. Given money for car, home, food and so on. Bumper to bumper traffic congestion many relocating to rural communities small less developed. She said soon to occur here.
[American Thinker] America’s southern, and perhaps northern, border is open for business, lined with welcome mats, neon lights, and a sign flashing, "come one, come all."
To even call the physical boundary of the United States "a border" is a miscarriage of language.
Today’s reality is that there is no national border. At least for those crossing by foot or caravan. For those attempting to enter the U.S. legally, by following the law and visa application process, it’s a nightmare of rules, delays, cost, and frustration.
For those interested, read here about the bizarre labyrinth facing citizens of many countries to legally visit or transit through America. Lady Liberty doesn’t want any "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" that follow American law, but has her arms and purse wide open to those coming to America illegally.
How many? Before President Biden, "As of 2021, the nation’s 10.5 million unauthorized immigrants represented about 3% of the total U.S. population." What about now, specifically the past three years under Biden?
Since Biden took office in early 2021, the Customs and Border Protection Agency (CBP) has "encountered" almost 8 million border crossers, the majority young military age males. In August alone, that number was 232,972, an annualized rate of 3 million migrants a year.
December is no better with 300,000 migrant arrests, as Fox News reported. Those arrested are told to appear in court up to a decade later. Good luck with that.
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Cultural Euthanasia as the phony J6 Theater and ridiculas claim of "insurrection" has intimidated those who should be leading a massive groundswell of national protest to the Nation's Capitol by millions to demand the border be sealed tight and these invaders deported post haste!
[PJ] Earlier this month, Hunter Biden defied a congressional subpoena, choosing instead to give a press conference on Capitol Hill. While this act in itself means he has some new legal troubles, it now also means that House Republicans have something new to add to the list of Biden's impeachable offenses.
What do I mean? Do you remember how White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre let a detail slip during a White House press briefing that Joe Biden spoke with Hunter before he defied the subpoena and knew what he was going to say?
"Look," she said, "as you know, Hunter Biden is a private citizen. And so, I certainly would refer you to his representatives. Look, you know, the president was certainly familiar with what his son was going to say. And I think what you saw was from the heart from his son."
Constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley called Jean-Pierre's admission a "breathtaking mistake."
"If this latest allegation is true, the president was speaking with his son about committing a potentially criminal act of contempt. Hunter was refusing to give testimony focused not on his own role but on his father's potential role in the alleged influence peddling. The House can pursue evidence on that conversation and how the president may have supported his son’s effort," Turley explained.
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The subpoena was part of the GOP charade that they are holding Biden accountable. Without the vote on the inquiry, the subpoenas lacked validity- like those of the J6 committee. The Hunter press conference was a charade within a charade. KJP’s problem is that she is too stupid to follow the Kabuki.
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coming soon to a community near you. shooting war.
[WhatFinger] General Flynn via Infowars with MASSIVE allegations pertaining to October 7th! General Flynn states that "there was a decision made to have a security stand down, on the 7th of October, for 7 hours". This comes after Netanyahu reveals plans to relocate the Palestinian population in the US and Europe. It appears that some elements within the IDF allowed the attack to happen, so they could justify ethnically cleansing Palestine, and relocating their population. Continued below the video.
Essentially a false flag operation to justify escalation and the land grab of Gaza and the West Bank. If you’ve been following me, you’d know this has been my analysis since the jump! Hamas’ attack was brutal and horrific, but Israel WANTED it to happen, because it serves as a Casus Belli, to justify Israel’s blatant agenda to drive out the Muslim Palestinians from the region. And based on the actions and behavior of the Israeli government, they were waiting for this opportunity. They let their own civilians die, so they could push their geopolitical agenda. Evil is an understatement.
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#7 Don't have to. Anybody who knows anything about Israel, knows - all other considerations aside - that nobody (and especially Israeli elites' most popular Bibi) can't hope to keep something like this secret.
p.s. I also don't credit all your (American) stories about CIA under every bed.
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This is not the first or second insanity coming out of Gen Flynn in the past few years. He once accused Bill Gates of spreading Covid. He said that Q Anon was created by the CIA. This was when he denounced Q Anon although a few months before that he supported Q Anon.
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Yes. Flynn was some sort of cutout to get Gulen extradited rendered to Turkyie, wasn't he?
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Don't worship politicians. Or generals...
Posted by: M. Murcek ||
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Flynn wanted Gulen shipped back. Others in the Deep State had Turkey leadership plans for Gulen. The military coup went nowhere. Erdoğan is still in power.
Gulen is headed toward his mid-80's and has evidently been memory holed.
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Flynn had some other notions about Turkey and the so-called Global War on Terror. His notions ran counter to Klingon strategy and Obama fired him from his job as Director DIA.
* "Whom the gods wish to destroy, they first make crazy."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
