[Lou Rockwell] There is something epoch-changing happening across the planet. What seems to be unfolding around us is nothing less than an ongoing collapse of the world’s globalist regime.
The first clear sign that something truly big may be happening was the historic comeback and victory of Donald Trump in last November’s election.
Eight weeks later the Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced his resignation.
It now appears increasingly likely that in the coming weeks we will see the fall of ruling governments and coalitions in Austria, Germany, France, and Britain. Others, such as Romania, are likely to follow.
The globalist puppets and technocrats that run these western governments are losing their grip even as we speak. The pool of popular discontent filled to the brim by the self-serving actions of the globalist elite is boiling over. And now they are being roundly booted out by the populist movements across the world.
Here are some of the sufferings and depredations the global elites have inflicted upon the masses in recent years:
Covid lockdowns
Covid vaccine mandates
Unfettered immigration
Cronyism and government corruption
Inflation
Out-of-control government spending
Falling real wages
Endless warmongering
Imposition of LGBT and transexual agendas
Racism against native populations
Widening wealth disparities
Attacks on traditional western values and Christianity
Political correctness
Widespread censorship
Demonization and cancellation of those seeking redress of rightful grievance
Up until now the global elitists have been largely successful in keeping the lid on popular discontent stemming from the above. This they managed by demonization and cancellation of objectors and by imposition of a highly efficient censorship regime by means of which they controlled mainstream discourse.
More than 100 left-wing economists signed a letter in 2023 warning that Javier Milei's agenda would be disastrous for Argentina. Has any group of people... (1/2)
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Having guys buying cases of 3d printer spools, 80% lowers, discounted upper parts and etc. Any published "official" counts are a joke as to what is really out there.
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The extreme left's ideology of progressive socialism has managed to dominate the West. The watermelon comparison is absolutely accurate—beneath the green and rainbow exterior lie the old bad red ideals. And sometimes, life writes unbelievable stories.
There, at the helm of Great Britain, once the cradle of modern democracy and personal freedom, stands a cold-blooded figure who continues to lead his country into leftist hell, even though a socialist multicultural intersectional paradise was promised.
In his youth, he was active in SSM. His SSM Socialist Self-Management (SSM) was a small ultra-left Trotskyist group that operated in the 1980s on the borderline of libertarian left, eco-socialism, feminism, and the "official" Trotsky legacy, publishing the Socialist Alternatives magazine. In 1986, he even became close with the Czechslovak's very own SSM, the Socialist Youth Union.
SUMMER 1986
A hot summer evening in Cheb. A group of young people laughs over a beer in a garden restaurant. Among them sits young Keir Starmer, hair dishevelled, shirt unbuttoned, his third pint of Pilsner in front of him. Czech girls from the local SSM branch teach him basic Czech phrases, which he then comically mangles while they giggle and cling to him. Catching a Westerner would be something...
"Comrade from Britain, how do you like it here?" asks one of the SSM functionaries, a State Security agent, putting an arm around his shoulders.
The whole table erupts in laughter. The official program of the visit is cleaning the memorial in Lidice, which has long been forgotten.
Later that night, the whole group moves to an SSM member's apartment. Forbidden Lou Reed plays on the record player. Someone pulls out a guitar. In drunkenness, Keir even attempts to listen to a Czechoslovak song he learned that afternoon.
"This is socialism," young Starmer thinks through an alcoholic haze, watching his new friends dance to Western music in an apartment full of official socialist posters. "Young people enjoying life."
AUTUMN 2024
A foggy morning in London. Sir Keir Starmer, in a perfectly fitted suit, walks past a row of security cameras into his office, importantly carrying papers. On his desk is a report about the latest arrests for "harmful posts" on social media.
"How many this week?" he asks his assistant. "Seventy-three, sir."
Starmer nods. The system works exactly as it should. Britain in 2024 is a country of perfect surveillance: cameras on every corner, social media monitoring, and preventive arrests of potential "disturbers of order."
The TV shows news about another protest, which was quickly "calmed" by the police. Footage shows young protesters being dragged into police vans. Some are the age he was during that summer in Prague.
In the evening, he sits at home with a glass of whisky. For a brief moment, he remembers that night in the Cheb apartment, Lou Reed on the record player, the laughter of Czech girls, that freedom of pretense when everyone knew they were playing a game but enjoyed it.
Now, there's no pretending anymore. The system is efficient, direct, and uncompromising. There is no pretence, no double lives, just pure, cold, omnipresent digital control.
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If this doesn't make you blood boil, you aren't paying attention. LA Department of Water and Power, which can't keep the hydrants filled or manage the water supply, had mid-level supervisors making $800,000 a year! Rampant corruption
“A large reservoir in Pacific Palisades that is part of the Los Angeles water supply system was out of use when a ferocious wildfire destroyed thousands of homes and other structures nearby.
Officials told The Times that the Santa Ynez Reservoir had been closed for repairs to its cover, leaving a 117 million gallon water storage complex empty in the heart of the Palisades.
The revelation comes among growing questions about why firefighters ran out of water while battling the blaze. Numerous fire hydrants in higher-elevation streets of the Palisades went dry, leaving firefighters struggling with low water pressure as they combated the flames.
” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-01-10/as-flames-raged-in-palisades-a-key-reservoir-nearby-was-offline
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#1 That's Calif for you. Most of those positions would be classified as exempt under the Fair Labor and Standards Act, which means no overtime just salaried. It's all grift looting the tax base.
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The Greensburg Tornado, and Starbuck's Fire (2017 look it up) property owners had to foot the bill to clean up and brin their property up to code before they were eligible for FEMA money.
That is, if FEMA has any money after being milked for Illegals.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump was officially sentenced in the New York hush money case involving porn star Stormy Daniels, putting him on track to become the first convicted felon to be sworn in as President of the United States.
The President-elect, 78, appeared virtually for his hearing on Friday in Manhattan Criminal Court where Judge Juan Merchan sentenced him to an unconditional discharge.
The 'no-penalty' sentence, which finalizes his criminal conviction of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records from his trial in May, means the incoming president will avoid jail time, hefty fines, and probation.
Although a slap on the wrist, it will go on his permanent record and make him the first American president to take the White House as a convicted felon when he is sworn in on January 20.
It was a show trial, and everyone knows it. Congrats, guys, you’re going to be in law courses and PoliSci text books for the next couple of centuries as an example of what not to do.
Speaking to the court via Zoom before learning his fate, Trump described the proceedings as a 'very terrible experience' and claimed it was a case Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg never wanted to bring.
'This has been a political witch hunt, it was done to damage my reputation so I would lose the election,' he said, sitting alongside his attorney Todd Blanche.
'The people of our country got to see this first hand and voted, I won and got the largest number of votes of any Republican candidate in history.'
Trump also attacked his former fixer and a key witness in the case Michael Cohen, calling him a 'totally discredited person.'
He added: 'I'm innocent, I did nothing wrong. The business records were extremely accurate, it was done by an accountant who gave very credible testimony.
'With all that's happening in our country today, with the city burning to the ground... with all of the problems going on... I got indicted over calling a legal expense a legal expense.
'I think it's an embarrassment to New York,' he continued.
Explaining his decision, Judge Merchan called it 'the only lawful sentence' the court could impose 'without encroaching on the highest office of the land'.
'The legal protections afforded to the office of the President have been laid out by our founders, the conditions, and the United States Supreme Court,' he added.
'The considerable indeed extraordinary legal protections afforded by the chief executive is a fact that overrides all others'.
The judge, however, noted that the protections of the Presidency 'are not a mitigating factor' for the crime.
'They do not reduce the seriousness of the crime or justifies its commission in any way. One power they do not provide is the power to erase a jury verdict.
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WTF? Does SCOTUS have its head up its ass. Wasn't it just back in July that they came up with their POTUS immunity ruling. A lot of inconsistencies in the court.
Judge Juan Merchan is conflicted. Kangaroo court w/show trial with Soros backed Prosecutor.
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NOW the appeals for trial errors and hackery can go forward
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#2 -- A point to consider is that judges have to pay federal taxes like anyone else. Which means they have to file tax returns. Which can be audited. Not that Trump would order such a thing at 12:01 on January 20th.
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Trump and his opponents both seem to missing a point in this.
Now that Trump has been sentenced to no time in jail he may not be re-sentenced in 2029 (and the original conviction may be appealed). If the sentencing had been postponed to 2029, he could have faced jail time and Trump could not have appealed). So, to my way of thinking, the Trump lawyers should not have asked for a postponement and the anti Trump lawyers should have.
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Trump faked 'em out.
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Plus now he can appeal the ruling and the appeals court has already hinted they will overturn this garbage.
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So, to my way of thinking, the Trump lawyers should not have asked for a postponement and the anti Trump lawyers should have.
If I understand this correctly, Trump got a better outcome despite not getting what he "wanted". I don't buy into all the 4D chess stuff, but given that The Other Side will automatically oppose whatever Trump does, you have got to wonder if this was a plan.
From what I have read, the decision by Roberts & Co hinged on the fact that the judge said he was going with unconditional discharge. My only surprise is that the judge did not pull a fast one and give him time.
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If Merchan would have given him jail time it would have been stayed by a higher court within an hour, then Merchan would have been cited for misbehavior.
But, yes, now that the sentence has been pronounced, Trump's team can proceed with appeals. And yes, if the sentencing would have been postponed (as Trump's lawyers wanted), the sentencing could not have been appealed. Furthermore, if the sentencing was postponed, a future court could consider all kinds pronouncement by Trump during the Trump presidency as detrimental and given him a jail sentence.
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[REGNUM] The figure of Empress Catherine the Great, first installed in Odessa in 1900 and restored in 2007, was demolished three years ago, as was the monument to the military leader Alexander Suvorov. As part of “decolonization” and “cleansing Ukraine of traces of its imperial past.” But, as in all such cases, the demolition left an ideological void.
Because the construction of the city of Odessa in 1794 became possible as a result of the Treaty of Jassy, which ended more than two hundred years of Russian-Turkish wars. Ukraine simply had nothing to replace the treaty concluded on January 9, 1792 between the All-Russian Empire and the Sublime Ottoman Porte following the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1791: a permanent Ukrainian population appeared in the Northern Black Sea region only with the beginning of Russia's development of this deserted land.
And the contribution of the Zaporozhian Cossacks, to whom a modern myth attributes the founding of a certain settlement "long before Catherine", consists primarily of participating in battles against the Turks in the Russian service. And nothing more, no matter what anyone says.
THE EMPRESS'S FIRST CAMPAIGN
For Catherine II, this was already the second war with the Turks, and it all began long before: the Ottoman Empire sought to repeat the success of the Roman Empire. The Black Sea was already internal Turkish, the Mediterranean and Red Seas almost became so, the Turks had access to the Caspian, under them was North Africa and part of Persia (including modern Syria and Iraq), Greece, the Balkans and, of course, the entire Caucasus.
The Porte was striving for Western Europe, and only the unsuccessful siege of Vienna, in the defense of which, by the way, the Zaporozhian Cossacks who served the Polish king took part, broke the Turkish onslaught. But still, not a single European power, including Russia, could single-handedly win a battle against the world's first army until the 1770s.
That is why there is a monument to Catherine, because only with her accession to the Russian throne was it possible to change the “tradition” of the invincibility of the Ottomans.
In general, only the victory of Russian arms in the first of Catherine's Turkish wars and the signing of the Küçük Kaynarca Peace Treaty in 1774 forced the Ottoman government to officially recognize the Russian ruler's title of empress, equal in status to the title of Ottoman padishah, something the Sultan's court had long refused even to Peter I.
The city of Azov, the steppe lands between the Southern Bug and the Dnieper (eastern Yedisan), including the fortress of Kinburn, passed to the Russian Empire, and ownership of Kerch and the nearby fortress of Yeni-Kale was confirmed. The weakened Crimean Khanate, which had drunk a fair amount of blood over the past centuries, was recognized as independent and not interfering in the affairs of either Russia or Turkey.
Russian ships were allowed free passage through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, as well as the Danube River. Yes, in fact, the Black Sea Fleet appeared under the decree of 1783, initially created as the Sevastopol squadron from the Azov and Dnieper military flotillas, participants in the First Turkish War.
At the same time, the Russian army left Bessarabia, the principality of Wallachia and the Principality of Moldavia, which for a time returned to the hands of Constantinople. And the war, full of brilliant victories, such as the Battle of Chesma and the Battle of the Fortress of Kagul, became the beginning of the brilliant career of Count Suvorov.
But the fruits of the first major victory did not last long. Moreover, inspired by it, Russia annulled the articles of the treaties concerning the independence of Crimea in 1783. The Crimean Khanate was annexed to the empire, which Turkey did not like at all. In Europe, an active offensive policy was also being conducted, the uprising of the lordly confederates in Podolia, who had promised Turkey its "historical lands" as a prize for support, was crushed, the first partition of Poland took place, which excited the English and French.
So the Second Turkish War, which began in 1787, was already a "joint product" of Anglo-French political intrigues with Turkish military power. Accordingly, on the other hand, a Russian-Austrian military alliance arose, which Turkey learned about too late.
THE BLOW THAT BROKE THE EMPIRE
During the campaign, which lasted for four years, Suvorov's military star flared up in the military firmament along with the commanders of the young Black Sea Fleet - Rear Admiral Nikolai Mordvinov, the Montenegrin Rear Admiral Marko Voynovich and the great Fyodor Ushakov, who has already been canonized in our time.
Russian troops took the fortresses of Ochakov and Izmail with great success, the Turkish campaigns on Bender and Ackerman failed, and a decisive battle was fought at Rymnik, for which Suvorov received the prefix Rymniksky to his surname.
The sailors smashed the Turkish fleet in battles in the Dnieper-Bug estuary, near Zmeiny Island, near Tendra Spit and Cape Kaliakra. Upon learning of the fall of Ochakov, the Empress wrote to the commander of the troops, Field Marshal Grigory Potemkin :
“Taking you by the ears with both hands, I mentally kiss you, my dear friend… With the greatest recognition I accept the zeal and diligence of the troops you lead, from the highest to the lowest ranks… I greatly regret the brave men who were killed; the illnesses and wounds of the wounded are sensitive to me; I regret it and pray to God for their healing. I ask everyone to express my recognition and gratitude on my behalf…”
The bodies of the Russian officers who died during the Ochakov assault were, by order of Prince Potemkin, transported to one of the new cities of the Russian Black Sea region - Kherson - and buried within the fence of the Church of St. Great Martyr Catherine. Here in 1791 the prince himself was buried, having also managed to found the city of Yekaterinoslav, conceived as the center of Novorossiya and the third capital of the Russian Empire after Moscow and St. Petersburg. Today it is known as Dnepr and the unrecognized capital of telephone scammers.
Well, Sultan Selim III, who replaced his predecessor who died from the upheavals, was forced to make peace: for Turkey this was a complete defeat.
The Treaty of Jassy secured Crimea and Ochakov for Russia and moved the border between the two empires to the Dniester River in the west and the Kuban River in the east. By the beginning of the 19th century, these borders would expand, having crossed the Dniester and annexed Bessarabia, Russia would reach the Prut and the Danube, and beyond the Caucasus Mountains, Orthodox Georgia would join it, claims to which Türkiye had renounced precisely under the Treaty of Jassy.
As for Iasi, now one of the largest cities in Romania and an important transport hub, in the old days the settlement belonged to the ancient Moldavian Principality and was closely connected with Russia. As early as the 14th century, there was a significant Russian community here, which is why it is mentioned in several chronicle documents as " Yasii Torg on the Prut River". In 1711, in Iasi, the Moldavian ruler Dimitrie Cantemir swore allegiance to our country and became the first Russian orientalist, an adviser to Peter I on eastern issues.
Before the start of the "Potemkin" Russo-Turkish War, there was a Russian vice-consul in Iasi; during the war, Potemkin made Iasi his "campaign capital", and after the end of the hostilities, the Russian consulate was again located in its usual place; the city became part of Romania only in the middle of the 19th century.
The long struggle for access to the Black Sea ended with an intermediate major success - Russia will have to prove its right to own these lands more than once, including in our days. But one thing is unshakable and indisputable: if not for almost 350 years of efforts, there would be no Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia or Armenia on the world map. Bulgaria and Romania would probably remain Turkish possessions, and the fate of Serbia, Montenegro and Greece would be very controversial.
But if in most cases we are talking about long-inhabited lands that had their own statehood, then the wild Black Sea steppes were conquered and first developed by Russia, which founded cities here and built a new economy. And the right to own them was paid for in full with the blood of Russian soldiers and sailors.
[Free Press] The first job of the government is to keep people safe. Failing that, its job is to show that someone is in charge when crisis erupts. On 9/11, there was nothing then—Mayor Rudy Giuliani could do to keep the World Trade Center from falling. Yet he became, in that long-ago era, the most popular person in America by staying on the scene and leading at his city’s moment of greatest danger.
That brings us to the fires in Los Angeles—the most devastating in the history of the city, with a reported 27,000 acres burned and the fires mostly uncontained. There, authorities have failed not only at protecting its residents but at inspiring confidence that they had the situation in hand.
We start with Mayor Karen Bass. As the Palisades fire began to consume wide swaths of America’s second-largest city, she was in Ghana to watch the inauguration of that country’s new president.
Bass left Los Angeles on Saturday—two days after the National Weather Service warned that strong winds and "extreme fire weather conditions" would soon threaten the city. On Sunday, the NWS announced a fire weather watch. By Monday, the warnings had become much more urgent, with the NWS tweeting in all-caps that "A LIFE-THREATENING, DESTRUCTIVE, Widespread Windstorm" would hit L.A. imminently.
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California wildfires: Police shoot down celebrities floating arson theories
Well there you go; arsonists.
Starting to hear trembles of casualties.
"Climate change exacerbates the issue."
It's like something they have to say, like in a hostage video. On the other hand, in a way, what was semi-arid desert has become sprawling urban. Like a few years back in Kansas City they opened a whole neighborhood up, tens of $millions in investments, and a couple years later one of those three year storms came through and flooded the whole place. Ends up they built in a historical flood plane.
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Gonna be wild watching those Always Blue celebrities come to terms with the consequences of their actions. Perfect opportunity for them to sack off to the UK where the filming is subsidized and groomer gangs are already established.
Box of doughnuts newsome shows his scum and exempts them from the red tape to try to keep the prestige. Everyone else, good luck.
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#12 viewing the images of Palisades with full developments of ashes, I suspect the entire district population will show up as voting Donk in the next elections.
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BREAKING NEWSLA Fire Chief is dismissed by Mayor Karen Bass after lashing out over department cuts as deadly blazes devastate city
READ MORE: LA's water chief 'knew about empty reservoir and broken hydrants
[Mises Wire] The passing of former President Jimmy Carter has brought out the accolades for his post-presidential years, but not as much for his actual performance as president. As the New York Times editorialized:
There’s no predicting history’s verdict. Up to now, Jimmy Carter, who died on Sunday at age 100 in Plains, Ga., has been judged to be a middle-of-the-pack president, his one term in office remembered for circumstances and events that simply overwhelmed him: the seizure in Iran of 52 American hostages, the bungled attempt to rescue them, the gasoline lines, inflation, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Yet he is also considered one of America’s greatest ex-presidents, for using the residual star power of his office to help his successors and his country as a peacemaker, backstage diplomat, human rights champion, monitor of free elections and advocate for the homeless while finding time to write poetry and, by his own example, providing the best possible case for traditional religious values.
Yes, the NYT later mentioned briefly that Carter began the process to deregulate gasoline and oil prices, but for the most part, the accolades from the progressive side of American politics have concentrated on his activities after he left Washington. Others praise his progressive measures and support for solar energy, but fail to understand how important his economic legacy really was.
I alluded to that fact in a Mises Wire piece I wrote 24 years ago praising the Carter presidency for its deregulation efforts, but even then I did not fully understand the impacts of his deregulation efforts. Furthermore, I overestimated the commitment of Republicans to deregulation, especially given their enthusiasm for tariffs and the Jones Act, which is one of the worst laws on the books, economically speaking.
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I'm sure the survivors people of Venezuela appreciate his validation of the election of communist take over of their country, in order to avoid violence.
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"Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter (in black), visiting the Camp Cemetery in 1972, when he was still governor of the U.S. state of Georgia, one of the remaining states of the Confederacy (Fraternity of American Descent)"
[Bee] President-elect Donald Trump and former President Barack Obama were just separated from their seats together at the Carter funeral for goofing off, snickering, and generally disruptive behavior.
According to Jill Biden, the pair had been asked to stop talking together, as it was disturbing the somber atmosphere of the funeral. When the two presidents ignored her, she was forced to take matters into her own hands and sit the pair at opposite ends of a pew.
"Believe me, we weren't disrupting anything at all," Trump reportedly complained, as Obama obediently went to take his seat at the other end of the pew. "I'm the quietest person at this funeral. So quiet — you'd never even know I'm here, because I'm grieving so much. Mucho quiet. Now, if you want to talk about disruption, Jill, how about the smells that have been drifting up from your husband's seat? Why don't you make him go sit somewhere else? Sad! Unfair!"
The separation seems to have worked, as Jill Biden only had to turn around once or twice to give Trump a firm, hard stare as he whispered a conversation with Melania.
At publishing time, Obama and Trump had been reprimanded again after Jill caught Obama flinging a spitball at Hillary and Trump flicking Kamala's ear.
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[IsraelTimes] Behrouz Esbati says now-ousted Syrian leader refused multiple requests to let Iran-backed militias attack from country after October 7; acknowledges regime’s fall a ‘very big blow’
Iran’s former top general in Syria has revealed that Tehran pushed the since-deposed Syrian leader Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad Terror of Aleppo ... to open an additional front against Israel as it battled terror groups Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... and Hezbollah over the past 15 months.
In a recording cited by the New York Times
...which still proudly claims Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... on Wednesday, Brig. Gen. Behrouz Esbati said ties with Assad had been strained prior to the Syrian regime’s collapse at the beginning of December, over his refusal to let Iran-backed militias open a new front against Israel from Syria.
Iran ...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate JewsZionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol... had presented Assad with detailed plans to use Iranian resources in Syria to attack Israel, but despite multiple requests, he refused to let them go ahead, Esbati said.
Esbati spoke last week at a Tehran mosque, and his comments were reported in Iranian media on Monday, the NY Times said. In other remarks, Esbati acknowledged that the Islamic Theocratic Republic was "defeated very badly" by the fall of Assad, despite Iranian leaders’ repeated efforts to downplay the matter.
He also was said to play down the notion of Iran again directly attacking Israel and accused Russia of shutting down radar systems in Syria during alleged Israeli attacks on Iranian resources.
The fall of the Assad regime came amid an ongoing war in the Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response... Strip that began on October 7, 2023, when the Iran-backed Paleostinian terror group Hamas led thousands of forces of Evil to attack Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapping 251.
The next day Hezbollah began attacking along Israel’s northern border. That conflict also spiraled into an open war that ended with a fragile ceasefire at the end of November after Israel largely decimated Hezbollah’s leadership and resources.
In addition, other Iranian proxies, such as militias in Iraq and Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... ’s Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... s rebels, have also fired missiles and drones at Israel since the Gaza war started.
Despite the ostensible refusal of Assad to sanction the opening of a Syrian front with Israel, there were several rocket attacks from Iran-backed groups in Syria at northern Israel in the past 15 months, though apparently not at the scale Iran had sought. Such attacks had also occurred from time to time before the war started.
Hezbollah fired thousands of rockets at Israel during the same period.
Days after the battered Hezbollah agreed to a ceasefire in late November, the Assad regime fell, marking two major strategic setbacks for Iran. Hamas, too, has been greatly diminished by the war in Gaza, with many senior figures killed, including two of its long-time leaders.
Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah are all avowed to destroy Israel.
"I don’t consider losing Syria something to be proud of," Esbati said "We were defeated and defeated very badly. We took a very big blow and it’s been very difficult."
For decades, Iran and Syria were key strategic allies. Tehran used Syria to supply its proxy Hezbollah terror group in Leb ...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration.... with weaponry, and Iranian military advisers as well as Hezbollah helped the Assad regime battle Lions of Islam during the country’s prolonged civil war.
But in December rebel forces surged across Syria and ended the Assad regime’s 50-year rule. Since then, the new government has sought to reassure the world that it seeks regional stability and has opened channels of communication with several Western nations, while also talking to Iran.
Esbati accused Russia of saying it was bombing rebel forces in Syria when it was in fact dropping munitions on open fields. He further claimed that over the past year, as Israel allegedly stepped up bombing a campaign on Iranian resources in Syria, the Russians "turned off radars," enabling the strikes.
According to the report, Esbati oversaw Iran’s military operations in Syria and worked closely with the country’s ministers, defense officials, and Russian generals. Moscow was also an ally of the Assad regime and provided military support, including significant air power, during the civil war.
Israel has acknowledged carrying out hundreds of aerial raids on Iranian targets in Syria but generally does not comment on specific attacks.
In light of the heavy Russian presence in Syria, Israel in September 2015 set up a mechanism with Moscow — involving work groups led by the deputy chiefs of both militaries — to avoid conflicts and potentially fatal misunderstandings.
Despite Assad’s ouster, Esbati said Tehran will still look for ways to enlist fighters in Syria regardless of who runs the country.
"We can activate all the networks we have worked with over the years," he was quoted as saying. "We can activate the social layers that our guys lived among for years; we can be active in social media and we can form resistance cells."
"Now we can operate there as we do in other international arenas, and we have already started."
The report noted that Iran faces public and political opposition in Syria, as well as Israeli warnings that it will act to destroy any Iranian military buildup.
Esbati’s speech at the Valiasr Mosque in central Tehran was titled "Answering Questions about Syria’s Collapse."
During a question and answer session, Esbati said that Iran was not planning to again attack Israel, as it did twice last year.
"The situation" at the moment means another attack is not realistic, the report cited Esbati as saying. Across the Middle East, multiple arenas are waiting to see what steps the incoming administration of US President-elect Donald Trump ...His ancestors didn't own any slaves... will take after he takes office on January 20.
Esbati also explained why Iran did not directly attack US military bases in the area, saying that would only bring a larger retaliation from the US and its allies. Esbati noted that some Iranian missiles would not escape US air defense systems.
Nonetheless, he offered his listeners assurances that Iran was still the dominant force in the region, the report said.
An Iranian member of the powerful Revolutionary Guards who worked in the past as a strategist in Iraq, where Iran also wields control over powerful militias, told The Times that Tehran has held meetings on forming a Syria strategy. Though no policy has been decided, there is agreement that chaos would benefit Iran.
Fighting over the past 15 months also drew in Iran directly when it fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel in April and October last year. Both attacks were largely thwarted by Israeli air defenses in cooperation with the US and its regional allies.
Following the second attack, Israel carried out widespread strikes on Iran for the first time, pounding its air defense systems and rocket manufacturing capabilities.
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With the introduction of the internet, many people have lost their beliefs in God, I wonder if that is happening in the mid-east also. The only reason for the Iranian terrorists is the need for money to feed and clothe the family’s of the terrorists. Cut off the bucks and they collapse! Why do you think COVID was being developed? If the CCP can find one piece of DNA in a particular race that ours doesn’t posses the we can eradicate that race.
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...being an advantage of a mongrel population that generally doesn't give a $hit about 'purity'. If its all mixed up, its harder to find something unique in the general population.
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I wonder if that is happening in the mid-east also.
Yes. Nobody is more cynical about religion than those living under a totalitarian Moslem government. Also among those who moved to the West. However, to say so aloud is to invite Death to walk alongside you, so people mostly don’t.
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