Commentary by Russian military journalist is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] "I can't say whether I called Vladimir Putin after I was elected. It's just inappropriate. The reason I don't want to discuss it is because as a negotiator, I first come up with a very good plan to help. But when I start laying out that plan, it often turns out to be almost useless.
The war in Ukraine would never have happened if I had been President. It would never have happened. I had a meeting recently with a group of government officials. They came and briefed me, and I'm not exaggerating, that the number of soldiers who have died in the last month is staggering - both Russians and Ukrainians. The numbers are about equal. You know, I know a lot of people say the opposite, but they are about equal. The number of dead young soldiers lying in fields all over the country is staggering. It's crazy what's happening.
It's crazy. I strongly disagree with launching missiles hundreds of miles into Russia. Why are we doing that? We're only fueling this war and we are making it worse. This should not have happened. Now they are producing not only missiles but other types of weapons. I think this is a very big mistake. But the level of death is unacceptable, and I am talking about both sides. It is better for both sides if this stops.
I want to come to an agreement, and the only way to do that is to not give in. You know what I mean, right? In my opinion, you cannot reach an agreement if you go back on your word. And I disagree with all this because it should never have happened. Putin would never have invaded Ukraine if I were President, for many reasons.
First of all, they raised the price of oil. When the price of oil went up, it was profitable for him, and the price of oil had to go down. If the price had gone down, the war would not have started, at least for economic reasons. But when the price reaches 80, 85, 90 dollars a barrel... I mean, he made money, he made a lot of money. I'm not saying it's good because he suffered too, but they keep moving forward. You know, this is war, this is tragedy. This is death, which is much worse than anyone can imagine. When the real numbers come out, you won't believe your eyes."
(c) Agent Donald.
Don't have any illusions about peace talks with Trump.
Two leaders who put their own country first. It should be clarifying.
Writer Daniel Greenfield has a wickedly sly sense of humour.
[IsraelNationalNews] In a stunning win for freedom, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Sunni terrorist organization defeated the Assad regime and its Shiite terrorist groups to take over Syria. HTS is led by Abu Mohammed al-Jawlani, a Saudi former associate of the caliph of ISIS who has a $10 million reward on his head from the U.S. while Assad was supported by Hezbollah, whose leaders had multi-million dollar rewards on their heads until Israel killed them (but didn’t collect the money.)
Assad was backed by the Shiite terror state of Iran while HTS is backed by the Sunni terror state of Turkey. Geopolitical experts say that Sunni Islamists defeating Shiite Islamists to rule the pile of rubble that’s left of Syria is the biggest win for human freedom since the Muslim Brotherhood took over Egypt and parts of North Africa (before being ousted from Egypt and some other parts of the region) in the freedom phenomenon known as the Arab Spring.
The media broadcast scenes of Jihadists praising Allah for helping them defeat the other Jihadists who also praise Allah (but not in the right way)
*Snicker*
and liberating political prisoners to shortly replace them with other political prisoners (assuming that they even bother taking political prisoners or any kind of prisoners.) Talks are underway between the terrorists of the former regime with the terrorists of the current regime to see if they can work it out.
And maybe just focus on killing Christians, Jews and other infidels.
Some might suspect that a former ISIS associate tied to Al Qaeda (who admittedly turned on his former group to lead another Jihadist organization) taking over a country would be bad news. But they’re clearly bad people who don’t realize that Al-Jawlani is a changed man, an austere religious scholar
…oh dear. That’s never good…
who underwent a makeover courtesy of Queer Eye for the Syrian Guy and now, in the words of the BBC, wears a "more western style wardrobe". At least if you count rocking Zelensky’s military fatigue hand-me-downs as looking like a regular western warlord.
The Biden administration has already made contact with the terrorist organization led by a man on whose head is a $10 million reward to offer to rebuild Syria just in time for the next civil war. Publicly, the administration has already taken credit for helping defeat Assad by insisting that the Israelis must stop attacking Hezbollah at once. Had the Israelis listened, Assad would still be in power. But the Biden administration was surely using reverse psychology and by threatening Israel with an arms embargo was really getting the Israelis to fight even harder.
Or at least that’s the story that National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan is going with.
While the world (or at least the parts of it that completely forgot about the Arab Spring) rejoices, the Israeli government which (for all its failings) has more sense than the State Department or a headless chicken, has begun bombing what’s left of Syria’s rocket factories and chemical warfare plants that Secretary of State John Kerry (despite promising Obama) somehow never got around to making sure that Vladimir Putin would dismantle and put away in cold storage.
The Israelis are also expanding their presence in Mt. Hermon and building their own security zone because they trust Syria’s new terrorist masters as much as they trusted the old.
What Jerusalem knows and Foggy Bottom has yet to learn is that the Middle East is a bunch of tribal factions, warlords and gangs pretending to be countries, but despite the flags, anthems, UN memberships, World Bank positions and invites to climate change summits, are all some version of Al-Jawlani bouncing between ISIS, Al Qaeda and a new governing coalition.
Over a thousand years of Islam comes down to some guy with a beard uniting a few key families with whose backing he then seizes a bunch of cities that used to belong to long lost great civilizations, and then his men settle down to some murdering, looting and raping while thanking Allah for the privilege of a mission to kill, loot and rape the world. Or die trying.
The stationary bandit theory isn’t some abstraction in the Middle East: it’s everyday reality.
As we all should have learned in the last generation, every Arab Muslim country is one inflationary spiral away from some guy with a ’nom de guerre’ or ’kunya’ riding into town on a pickup truck with 300 fellow bandits and becoming the new government in Allah’s name.
Georgetown idiots with PhDs then cheer as statues of the old dictator are toppled as if Damascus, Cairo, Baghdad, Tripoli or Tunis were Prague, Berlin or any city where democracy means more than ’my tribe has more guns than your tribe’. The old Pharaohs (not to mention Caesars) would tear down each other’s monuments too. That didn’t make old Tutankhamen a liberator or a democrat. At least not the kind who is acceptable outside Chicago.
Assad heading off to shop at Moscow’s GUM for more luxury handbags is no great loss and his replacement by other terrorists is no great gain. At least not for us. Or likely for Syria’s Christians. Or Israel. Or really anyone else except members of the new regime.
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They will strike in the US soon. Trump will then release the Kraken on them again. Biden like Obama was infiltrated by Iranian interests. This undercut the effectiveness of our response to Iranian and ISIS provocations. If the special forces is utilized correctly without being tethered to some globalist nation building baloney, there will be no terrorist threat in the MiddleEast in short order.
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