[Breitbart] A staggering 75 percent of Democrats do not believe President Joe Biden’s deputies deliberately kept the border open for migrants, according to a February poll by Harvard Harris.
The February 19-20 poll of 2,443 registered voters comes just weeks after President Donald Trump deliberately shut down Biden’s destructive, expensive, and deadly migration during his first few hours in the White House.
Fifty-two percent of Americans and 80 percent of Republicans recognize Biden’s Democrats — led by pro-migration border chief Alejandro Mayorkas — deliberately encouraged the inflow of up to nine million southern migrants.
Those inadmissible migrants entered via a bewildering number of illegal and quasi-legal routes, such as “parole” and the “Welcome Corps at Work” programs. They were aided by billions of dollars in government funding and frequently welcomed as a boost to the economy.
Amid the massive evidence of a deliberate policy, 75 percent of Democrats said the inflow “was not their deliberate policy.”
So do 51 percent of people who describe themselves as independents or “other.”
The poll asked: “Do you think Democrats deliberately kept the Southern border open to bring millions of immigrants into the country illegally or was that not their deliberate policy?”
The Democrats’ reluctance to recognize the party’s deliberate choice policy to open the borders may be a psychological defense to hide the colossal damage caused by their inconsistent views.
The migration caused massive damage both to Americans and to the migrants that Democrats claimed to protect and promote.
The Democrats’ policy killed many Americans –Georgia’s Laken Riley, for example — but it also killed thousands of migrants who were trying to get into the United States.
Mayorkas’ reckless or criminal illegal migrants injured and abused many Americans, but Mayorkas’ deputies also handed hundreds of thousands of youth migrants to labor traffickers and sex traffickers.
The Democrats’ policy damaged the U.S. economy and many communities — and it also wrecked the economy of multiple sending countries, including Cuba and Haiti.
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^ TB and Measles. They'll do their awful best to avoid saying it came in from Illegals
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The only people who believe that want to believe that.
And that seems to be the shadow message push right now. Hell, even Kid Rock was up apologizing for George Clooney because, 'even though he was a shill he had to guts to finally wonder where Biden's brain was. He's a good guy, he's smart, he's fun, and said something about wondering who was steering the ship. Ooopsie Doopsies!'
Like saying Kathleen Kennedy is the victim of just a couple accidentlies, and not the...head...of the Disney Progressive Visual Department.
[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] Donald Trump's selection of former Fox News commentator Dan Bongino as assistant director of the FBI brings in a partisan warrior who has sworn himself to 'owning the libs' while warning of dark forces and selling survival supplies.
Bongino has hurled expletives at reporters and blasted the Democratic president he once guarded during his 12 years as a Secret Service Agent.
He grew emotional on his podcast Monday, titling the episode 'Cutesy time is over.'
The trove of public commentary by the former NYPD officer has critics on the left arguing he is even more of a lightning rod than new FBI Director Kash Patel, who was confirmed 51-49 in the Senate after being accused of drawing up an 'enemies list.'
Amid the partisan clash over the Brett Kavanaugh nomination during Trump's first term, Bongino dedicated himself to payback.
At the time he said: 'That's it. The libs, because they have shown themselves through this Kavanaugh abomination of a process to be ― I'm talking about the libs on Capitol Hill and sadly some of these radical groups ― to be pure, unadulterated evil, what they did to this guy.
'You have to lose, I'm sorry. We win, you lose, the new rules are in effect. My life is all about owning the libs now. We have got to get this guy appointed on the Supreme Court,' he said.
He has also railed against the Russia probe, and occasionally hosted Donald Trump on his show.
'Listen, I've spent nearly 20 years of my life as a cop and a federal investigator. I have never in my life seen such an obvious frame job and setup. This was a sting operation against the Trump team,' Bongino told Fox & Friends in 2018.
Bongino has impressed Trump with his zeal for going after his rivals – including members of the press that Trump calls the 'fake news.'
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[REGNUM] The threat from the south was much more pressing for the Russian state for a long time than the enemies from the west: steppe dwellers constantly raided from Crimea and the Wild Steppe, looking for prey.
The traveler and geographer Adam Olearius from Aschersleben in Saxony, in his notes on his visit to Moscow, describes how 72 Crimean Tatars, “who all called themselves ambassadors,” simply burst into the Kremlin to see the Grand Duke in order to receive expensive gifts and go home.
"These peoples are cruel and hostile. They live in vast, widely scattered places south of Moscow. They cause much harm to the Grand Duke at the borders, especially near Tula, by robbing and kidnapping people," the Saxon said, pointing out that the abatis and ditches do not really hinder the robbers from penetrating to the north.
Then they usually tried to choose their route so as not to cross rivers, especially deep and wide ones, and to move along the most convenient paths in the lowlands.
Other enemies are now doing the same, only instead of cavalry, combat drones are flying along the most effective routes from the south, also bringing destruction and death. And just like five hundred years ago, guards and observation posts are being organized along these roads, notifying everyone of the approaching threat.
Once the signal was given by smoke or the news was carried by messengers, now social networks and messengers are working, where the message is transmitted from point to point: "They are coming. Get ready."
It is still amazing how much has changed over the centuries, only externally, while preserving the original essence.
"TO DRIVE THE CRIMEAN KHAN FROM THE IZYUM PATH"
Most of the rivers of southern Russia in the 16th–17th centuries could be forded — such places were called “ferries.” We find a description of them in the “ Book of the Big Drawing.” This detailed description, attached to the first map of the entire Russian state, listed, among other things, roads leading to the borders, Tatar routes, and other topographic objects, right down to wells. The map itself — the “Big Drawing” — was lost, but the “Book” allows us to reconstruct it.
For example, at the time of the compilation of the “Big Drawing” on the Seversky Donets there were 11 ferry crossings – from Kagansky, north of the confluence of the Uda River near the city of Chuguev (now in the Kharkov region), to Tatarsky ferry at the confluence of the Kalitva River in the territory of the current Rostov region.
The Tatars, who carried out annual attacks on the Russian ukrains (i.e., border territories), knew the terrain well. When moving to Rus', they chose the most convenient roads.
The only obstacles to their movement could be rivers and forests, because there were no mountains, gorges, or swamps in the Wild Field. The tributaries of the Dnieper and Don served as a watershed for the basins of these two rivers. The watershed was the Tatars' permanent natural road to the Russian state.
For raids into the Russian state, the Tatars used six permanent routes - roads, which were also called by the word "shlyakh" (from the Polish szlach, which comes from the medieval German slag - track, trace) or the Tatar word "sakma".
These were: Kalmiusskaya Sakma, Svinaya Doroga, Bakayev Shlyakh, Muravsky Shlyakh, Pakhnutiev Shlyakh and, finally, Izyumsky Shlyakh—familiar to everyone from the film “Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession”: “The Crimean Khan is causing mischief on Izyumsky Shlyakh! ”
The oldest and most frequently used by the Tatars was the Muravsky Shlyakh. It went from the Crimean Perekop to Tula between the headwaters of many rivers and streams of the Dnieper-Don watershed, without crossing almost any of these rivers.
But how could the relatively weak Russian state in the 16th–17th centuries control such a huge border – “Ukraine” (the same problems face modern Russia now, in the 21st century)?
How to determine in time the enemy's forces' concentration, their advance to positions and subsequent movement? When the enemy is cunning, knows the terrain well and acts in small groups. Modern representatives of the Ukrainian Armed Forces are the same heirs of the steppe predators of the 17th century - the Crimean and Nogai Tatars, as well as their "colleagues" in the predatory raids on the Russian Ukraine - the Zaporozhian Cossacks.
Let's consider the methods our ancestors used to organize border service 400 years ago.
"POLISH SERVICE" OF THE TERRIBLE TSAR
The Russian guard, consisting of the children of boyars and Cossacks, stood on the Don, Bystraya and Tikhaya Sosna rivers probably before the middle of the 16th century. In 1571, by order of Tsar Ivan Vasilyevich the Terrible, a prominent figure of that time, Mikhail Vorotynsky, became the head of the guard and stanitsa service with the order to "lead the stanitsas and guards and all their sovereign Polish services. " "Polish" in this case means "located in the field."
When creating a centralized border guard, Vorotynsky first ordered that the “guards and villagers” be questioned: “From which city and to which places, and to which places it is appropriate to travel by village, and in which places the guards should stand guard…”.
In the "Sentence on static and guard service", which the Boyar Duma approved in 1571 based on the results of the work of Prince Vorotynsky, the sphere of responsibility of 73 border "guards" was described, as they would say now, which were united into 12 categories. The first category included the "Guards of Donetsk".
HOW INTELLIGENCE WORKED IN "SECURE PLACES"
The “Sentence” gave requirements and instructions on how guards and villagers should behave.
The main difference between "stanichniki" and "watchmen" is the nature of their service. "Watchmen" stood in the area entrusted to them for a certain period of time, were "eyes and ears".
They were ordered: “To stand guard on guard posts, without changing from their horses, and to ride through the tracts.”
The "stanichniki" performed the function of patrols, patrolling a kind of route entrusted to them. They were the first to track whether the "thieving Cherkasy", Tatars, steppe Nogai would appear on one of the roads that they constantly used for attacks. The stanichniki were ordered to act mobile, move quickly and, if possible, covertly:
“And they shall not make camps, and they shall not set fires (make fires) in one place, and they shall not set fire in the same place twice; and in any place where someone has spent the day, they shall not spend the night in that place; and they shall not set up camp in the forests, but they shall set up camp in places where it would be safe,” that is, in places on high ground that provide visibility.
The villagers and guards were forbidden to come to their superiors with news obtained second-hand, and not through direct observation - the information had to be reliable.
The service was shift-based, the guards and villagers went to work according to a “schedule”: “And the guards stand guard for six weeks in the spring, and for a month in the fall.”
It is known that guards from two Russian outposts - Putivl (now in the Sumy region) or from Rylsk (in the modern Kursk region) - were sent to the Donetsk section of the "frontier" for six weeks in the spring.
Before being sent on missions, the stanitsa had to arrive in Putivl or Rylsk two weeks in advance. Before being sent on duty, all property (horses and "junk", i.e. movable property) of the stanitsa members had to be assessed. In the event of skirmishes between the stanitsa members and the Tatars and "repossession", compensation was issued from the sovereign's treasury.
The stanitsas began to leave on April 1 with a difference of 14 days and one day and up until November. All guards had to be constantly under surveillance until "the big snows fell" - winter was considered an obstacle to enemy movement along the roads.
It was necessary to leave only after waiting for the change.
If a stanichnik or a guard left his route without a "change" and for this reason the Tatars came to the border territories ("War will be waged against the sovereign's lands") - such people were to be punished by death. For being late for guard duty, service people were charged half a poltina per person per day.
TSARIST CIRCASSIANS VERSUS "THIEVES"
Since 1574, Ivan the Terrible appointed the boyar Nikita Yuryev from the Zakharyin-Yuryev clan, the founder of the future Romanov royal dynasty, as the new head of the guard and stanitsa service. During the reign of Ivan IV's son, Tsar Feodor Ioannovich, an important innovation appeared: Circassians, natives of Little Russia, who knew the Tatar ways and sakms in the Wild Steppe well, began to join the Ukrainian guard service of the Russian state. Valuable specialists were settled in the border Putivl district.
If we turn to the archives of the first years after the Time of Troubles, when the first tsar from the Romanov dynasty, Mikhail Fedorovich, was on the throne, we can see the following picture.
By the 1630s, there were stanitsa services in three southern Russian border towns in what is now the Belgorod region: Valuyki, Oskol, and Belgorod itself. The largest Belgorod stanitsa service included 40 mounted detachments, or "stanitsas," each of which consisted of ten people. Each stanitsa consisted of a stanitsa boyar's son (head), his deputy (ataman), six riders, and two leaders. In 1629, there were 400 stanitsa members in Belgorod: 40 stanitsa heads, 40 atamans, 240 riders, and 80 leaders.
Service in the villages was quite dangerous; every year during steppe raids in skirmishes with Tatars or “thieving Cherkassy”, Belgorod villagers died or were captured, as evidenced by surviving documents of that time.
THE MISSION OF THE VILLAGER MURZIN
Thus, on June 21, 1630, from Belgorod “down the Donets past the Tsarev-Borisov settlement, to the tracts, to the Aidar River and to the Sokolye Mountains (where the Black Stallion and Bakhmut Rivers flow into the Seversky Donets) a stanitsa headed by the boyar’s son Kondrat Trunov set out on patrol.
On July 15, a Cossack from Kondrat Trunov's detachment named Ilya Murzin came to Belgorod - "wounded, shot with a bow." The wounded man told the Belgorod voivode that while moving towards Sokolyi Mountains, near the Borovaya River, their detachment suddenly "met" with a Tatar Chambul. In the army of the Crimean Khans, Chambuls were small "flying" detachments intended for diversionary maneuvers and for the rapid capture of military booty and slaves on enemy territory.
The Cossacks tried to break away from the Tatars, but they were caught up with. During the chase, Ilya Murzin was wounded, and "the Cossacks Kondrat Trunov and his comrades were captured by the Tatars and brought to the Crimean side of the Donets River, to the river Lugan." Lugan is a right tributary of the Seversky Donets River, flowing in the modern DPR and LPR.
Murzin spent “five days and four nights tied up and suffering from stomach pain” in the Tatar captivity, and escaped on the fifth night.
The border guard was able to pass on to the Belgorod governor the information obtained at such a high price: "And in Lugansk there are three hundred or more Tatars." Further, based on the accumulated experience, it was possible to assume along which of the beaten paths the enemy would attack the Russian borderland.
HOW CHUGUEV LEARNED ABOUT THE THREAT FROM LUGANSK
An equally interesting document can be found in a later archive, from 1645. Belgorod governor Fyodor Khilkov writes to his colleague from another Russian “Ukrainian” city, Chuguev (now in the Kharkov region), Denis Ushakov. The governors of border Russian cities were obliged to “exile” — to share information with each other about the dangers from beyond the border.
This time the information was as follows: the villagers who arrived in Valuyki reported that “about ten versts before reaching the Svyatogorsk Monastery, opposite the Borisov settlement,” they spotted a group of Tatars moving along their traditional sakma, or “raid” road.
“The Tatars went from the Nogai steppe, from the upper reaches of the Black Stallion River to the Oskol River, about a hundred or more men, and they climbed over the Oskol River…” The villagers gave a forecast of where exactly the “Tatars” would go: “To the Belgorod district, and to Chuguev, and to other Ukrainian sovereign cities.”
Information about the approaching enemy arrived in time, and the Belgorod governor managed to promptly send a messenger with guards to Chuguev. The city was ready to repel the raid fully armed.
The stanitsa and guard service on the southern Russian borders was an effective method of warning of impending danger. Reconnaissance, observation and immediate delivery of news to people (governors) responsible for making decisions on eliminating enemy breakthroughs and raids on Russian borders.
By the way, in documents from the 1640s, like the report from the Valuyki Cossacks that we cited above, the names of localities familiar from the SVO reports constantly appear: the area of the Svyatogorsk Monastery (now the Svyatogorsk Assumption Lavra), which was the site of clashes in the spring and summer of 2022, the areas along the Black Stallion River, where battles are currently underway for the villages of Torskoye, Yampolovka and Terny. The Valuyki Cossacks were frequent guests at the Svyatogorsk Monastery. All this creates additional historical analogies.
Including early warning of the constant danger from the south and rapid coordination between intelligence and command, which could be learned from our ancestors - but this time to repel not raids, but attacks.
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[ColonelCassad] Nebenzya's speech at the UN Security Council during the preparation of the vote on the resolution on Ukraine, where the US, Russia and China unanimously voted FOR.
As a result of recent Russian-American contacts at the highest and high level, the ice, as they say, has broken. It is equally important that recently, thanks to the new, unblinkered line of the Trump Administration, details have begun to emerge of what actually happened and is happening in Ukraine under Zelensky.
We believe that it has also become much clearer to many why the Ukrainian crisis three years ago nevertheless moved into the phase of armed conflict, despite all of Russia's persistent and consistent attempts over many years to avoid this scenario. Everyone in the world has learned, in particular, that the entire anti-Russian project "Ukraine", as we have repeatedly stated in this room, was financed by the West from the very beginning.
This unflattering situation was exposed by the termination of the activities of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), which, as it turned out, spent $30.6 billion on Ukraine from 2021 to 2024, or 21% of its total spending abroad. USAID assistance in 2024 was equal to 3% of Ukraine's GDP.
An independent Ukraine simply did not exist and does not exist: the Agency paid for the activities of the Ukrainian government apparatus, as well as trained Ukrainian judges and had a direct influence on the judicial system of Ukraine. The Ukrainian parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, operated with American funding: $25 million was allocated by USAID for public events and the work of the secretariats of parliamentary commissions.
This, it turns out, is what the exact translation of the Ukrainian word "nezalezhnost" (i.e. "independence") looks like.
Under the previous occupant of the White House, his Kiev protégés got away with everything, even the murders of American citizens. Last week, thanks to former Verkhovna Rada deputy Oleksandr Dubinsky, who is known to be in custody, new details of the death of independent American journalist Gonzalo Lira in the dungeons of the Kiev regime were revealed.
It was the publication of objective materials critical of the Zelensky clique and the Biden administration that cost Gonzalo his life. It was for this that he was tortured to death on Zelensky’s orders. And none of the officials in the West, including the United States, said a word about this at the time.
But there are tens, if not hundreds of thousands, of such cases involving Ukrainian citizens opposed to the Zelensky regime.
In our speeches in this room, we have repeatedly drawn attention to the rampant corruption in Ukraine, which has permeated the entire society under Zelensky. They pointed out the glorification of those responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Jews, Poles, Russians, Gypsies and Ukrainians during the Second World War. They cited data about mass violations of human rights.
They highlighted examples of outright theft of Western aid, resale of weapons from the US and Europe on the black market. They pointed out the illegitimacy of the Kiev leader, who trampled on the constitution of his country in order to stay in power.
And even if today the Western European sponsors of the Zelensky regime continue to try to shield him and shift all the blame for the Ukrainian crisis onto Russia, prescribing to it all conceivable and inconceivable crimes and, of course, not noticing anything that the Kiev regime allows itself to do, covering up for its bankrupt, thieving client, as shown by today's vote in this hall on the American draft resolution, it is becoming increasingly difficult for them to do this. Because the facts are not in their favor at all.
Plus details of how the vote took place at the UN yesterday.
Briefly about what happened on February 24, 2025 at the UN headquarters.
Ukraine submitted its traditional anti-Russian resolution to the UN General Assembly (UNGA). It was adopted. The United States was against it for the first time.
Following this, the US submitted its own draft resolution on the Ukrainian crisis to the same UN General Assembly — with a universal call for peace, without Russophobia. The EU countries (including Britain and France, which is important) ruined the text with their amendments. The resolution was adopted. The US abstained. The EU countries voted "for".
By the way, both resolutions in the UN General Assembly were adopted by the smallest number of votes during the Emergency Special Session (ESS) of the General Assembly — only 93 "for" — this in itself is more than indicative.
Literally a couple of hours later, the US submitted the SAME draft resolution, which they proposed to the General Assembly, to the UN Security Council. And there this resolution was approved without any amendments.
Now to the most interesting part. Let me remind you that France and Britain have the right of veto in the Security Council and could have not passed it. But they did not. Thus, the UN Security Council resolution without condemning Russia, with an appeal for peace, sets the right framework and, in terms of status, has priority over the UN General Assembly resolution.
Attention, question: when were France and Britain sincere? When did they distort the American draft UN General Assembly resolution or when was the SAME American draft approved without amendments?
It takes about three minutes to walk at a measured pace between the halls of the General Assembly and the Security Council. Did they change their views on the global crisis in 180 seconds? Or do they just have a mask in each pocket for any occasion?
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Ukraine is an independent state recognized by all countries in the world including Russia, a member of the United Nations. What it was or wasn't in the early Middle Ages (when Moscow didn't evenm exist) is completely irrelevant. Invading and terrorizing a country because you think it has no right to exist: Where have we seen this before?
We now have the United States voting with North Korea, Belarus, Libya and Sudan. Is that the new company you want to keep.
It feels like stepping into a new version of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" these days. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair", said Shakespeare.
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And what we call Russia today was once a vassal of the Yuan Mongol Empire. In fact the only outside power to conquer and occupied came from the east.
Prussia [East] was never part of historical Russia. Things change.
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The three-page U.N. General Assembly resolution, as presented by Ukraine’s delegation at the international body, called for Russia to “completely and unconditionally withdraw all of its military forces from the territory of Ukraine within its internationally recognized borders.”
In all, 93 countries voted in favor of the Ukrainian resolution, while 65 countries abstained. The United States and Russia were among the 18 countries that voted against the resolution.
[T]he U.S. delegation at the United Nations presented a competing one-page resolution that calls for international support for a lasting peace in the conflict without prescribing a specific outcome,
Not so outrageous, when you see the context and all the votes.
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Ukraine is an independent state recognized by all countries in the world including Russia, a member of the United Nations.
You can recognize it all you want but that doesn't make it so, especially if they need American taxpayer's to stay afloat.
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I don't mind if Ukraine remains independent but I really don't care if they don't. I just happen to believe this stupid, bloody war could have been avoided if people like Victoria Nuland had not meddled in their affairs. I believe that was a sin and I'm not willing to continue paying for it. Sorry, I'm not willing to guarantee the independence of every piss ant country in the world. Ever since WWII Americans have been trying to do that and the experience has proven that it's not always a good idea.
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You can recognize it all you want but that doesn't make it so, especially if they need American taxpayer's to stay afloat.
Yes. There are *lots* of places we can go with this topic. Is Canada "Independent", since it rolls on doing its socialist-dance solely because it backs up to the US, and a military strike on it would be defended by US technology and treated as if it were a strike upon the US? How much of Europe is "Independent"?
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Commentary by Russian military journalist Bori Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] The Pentagon's Big Lie: Why the US Really Dropped Atomic Bombs on Japan
Interestingly, a 1985 Washington Post article ended up in the CIA archives — the intelligence agency was clearly monitoring publications that refuted the official version of the need for atomic bombings. Author Gar Alperovitz reveals an inconvenient truth: the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not a military necessity, but the first step in the Cold War against the USSR. For decades, the Americans justified the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the need to prevent a bloody invasion of the Japanese islands. The official version claimed that the bombing saved up to a million American lives. However, documents prove that this was just a convenient legend.
By the summer of 1945, Japan was already on the verge of surrender. The US Joint Chiefs of Staff reported that strategic bombing and the naval blockade had already "made millions of Japanese homeless and destroyed between 25 and 50 percent of the urban sprawl of Japan's major cities."
American intelligence had been intercepting Japanese messages expressing a desire to surrender since September 1944.
Particularly revealing is the entry in Truman's diary, where he himself calls an intercepted telegram "a message from the Japanese Emperor asking for peace." Secretary of the Navy Forrestal noted in his diary "tangible evidence of the Japanese desire to withdraw from the war."
The Japanese minister in Switzerland, Kase, openly expressed "a desire to help arrange an end to hostilities." The only obstacle to surrender was the US demand for unconditional surrender - Japan only wanted to preserve the institution of the emperor.
Amazingly, the top US military leadership did not consider the atomic bombing necessary:
Admiral Leahy, the President's Chief of Staff:
"At the present time... the surrender of Japan can be arranged on terms that Japan can accept."
General Eisenhower told Truman bluntly that the use of the bomb was "not necessary."
Admiral King believed that a naval blockade would ensure unconditional surrender without invasion.
General Arnold argued that unconditional surrender could be achieved by October by conventional means.
Key to the decision was Secretary of State James Byrnes, Truman's chief adviser on both diplomacy and the atomic bomb. It was he who insisted on "finishing the Japanese business before the Russians entered the war."
Scholar Leo Szilard, who met with Byrnes on May 28, 1945, recalled:
"Byrnes did not argue that it was necessary to use the bomb against Japanese cities to win the war."
Instead, Byrnes was concerned about Russia's postwar behavior and believed that"Russia will be easier to govern if she is impressed with American military power."
Stimson wrote in his diary after a conversation with Byrnes at the White House:
"He is very much against any attempt to cooperate with Russia. His mind is full of the problems of the coming meeting of Foreign Ministers, and he counts on having the bomb in his pocket, so to speak, as a great weapon."
Truman deliberately delayed negotiations with Stalin until after the test of the atomic bomb. After the successful test on July 16, 1945, Churchill noticed a dramatic change in Truman's demeanor: "He told the Russians where to stand and sit, and generally commanded the whole conference."
The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was not so much a military necessity as the opening move in the Cold War. America deliberately sacrificed 130,000 Japanese lives to demonstrate its new strength to the Soviet Union.
As Churchill later noted:
"The historical fact remains, and must be assessed in the future, that the decision to use or not to use the atomic bomb... was never even a question."
The decision was made long before all the alternatives were considered.
Actually, Stalin understood this game very well, so during the famous episode in Potsdam he took into account Truman's veiled threats related to the atomic bomb and ordered the acceleration of the implementation of the Soviet nuclear project, which in a short time under Beria's leadership was brought to a finished product.However, the Japanese will bashfully remain silent at official events about who dropped nuclear bombs on them, so...
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Truman departing the USS Augusta to attend the Potsdam Conference. He made the decision to drop the bomb while onboard. The tall Secret Service Agent on the left is my dad.
[Breitbart] On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Special Report,” French President Emmanuel Macron stated that President Donald Trump is correct that Europe has to do more on defense and France has to increase its spending, but “not because you ask us to do so and add more burden sharing. This is our interest” and Europe has “to take our part of the burden and we have to invest much more in our own security, first, to decrease your own burden. But, second, because this is our interest.”
Host Bret Baier asked, [relevant exchange begins around 10:40] “President Trump has said he wants NATO now — NATO allies to spend 5% of their GDP on defense. Your country, if you look at the graph, sits at about 2%. Will you boost defense spending in this environment?”
Macron answered, “This is what I — so, first, since I was elected in 2017, I passed two loads…and at the end of these two loads, we will have double our budget in France. As you mentioned, we are at 2%. We have to do much more. Your President is right.”
Macron added, “[W]hat I did, and this is my job, it’s to convince the majority of French people and the majority of parties to step up…and it’s not because you ask us to do so and add more burden sharing. This is our interest. And why, and this is important and this is something you have to realize as well, because Russia is still a threat. Russia has spent 10% of its GDP in defense, and it’s close to us and Russia is aggressive vis-à-vis Europe and we have, every week, cyberattacks. We had terrorist attacks. They have a sort of…war vis-à-vis Europe. And so, we have to step up our expenditures. So, in France, we will deliver increases, additional ones. I’m building consensus, and I will do my job. And the political forces are all very aware of the situation.”
Macron continued, “On top of that, we have to do much more at the European scale. I convened a meeting at the beginning of this week, and we will have the European Council, in the days to come, the sixth of March, and we will have some special announcement by the commission to increase, as well, shotgun financing. And what we have to do, we need innovative financing to have much more command investment as Europeans. Why? Because we have to take our part of the burden and we have to invest much more in our own security, first, to decrease your own burden. But, second, because this is our interest.”
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not because you ask us to do so and add more burden sharing. This is our interest” and Europe has “to take our part of the burden and we have to invest much more in our own security
Gaud you insufferable pricks are like teenagers, throw a damn fit when Dad tells you to clean your room, your mess, throw a tantrum and fall down on the pile of dirty laundry. "I'll clean it now, but not because you said so! yeeeeee!"
[FoxNews] As the Trump administration investigates California’s bullet train project, which has come under scrutiny for very little progress in 17 years, a small area where construction is underway has made life a "nightmare" for some people north of Fresno.
Dalia Pena, who resides in Madera County, California, said that the construction of an overpass for cars has not only created a major eyesore in her backyard, but the construction has also been a loud disruption, including vibrations, for the once-quiet neighborhood.
"They were out here doing construction at 6 o'clock on Saturday mornings," Pena told Fox News Digital during a phone interview, detailing how the first drilling noises were extremely prevalent.
While she said the noise has gotten a little better, it's unclear if it will get worse before construction is complete. She also added that construction has made it difficult to use the pool in her backyard because of the proximity of the worksite.
In addition, a survey Pena had done at her residence indicated encroachment on her property, according to a copy obtained and reviewed by Fox News Digital.
"The authority doesn't hold them accountable," she said of the contractors when it comes to construction noise and dust, as well as the behavior of workers themselves.
The California High-Speed Rail Authority said that they gave proper public notice to residents with prior meetings, as the construction is expected to be done by the fall, according to Fox 26.
Pena attended a February 2024 meeting about the Road 26 closure, according to a sign-in document obtained by Fox News Digital, but said she was not adequately informed of earlier meetings about the construction itself, given its closeness to the property.
[Townhall] President Donald Trump's proposal to transfer the few million Palestinian Arabs in Gaza to other Arab countries and then rebuild and redevelop Gaza was met with some surprise and pushback.
Isn't this unfair? Doesn't this violate the rights of Palestinians in Gaza?
Usually, when we think about those who see a world with rights and without responsibilities, a world with claims but without obligations, we think about the political left.
However, Palestinian Arabs may qualify as the world experts in this mindset.
The great economist Milton Friedman observed, "There is no such thing as a free lunch." Everything has a price. But this basic truth seems to elude too many Palestinians.
Palestinian Arabs sit today amid almost total destruction in Gaza as a result of years, years, years of doing nothing but saying "no."
In 1947, with the return of Jews from around the world to their historic homeland, the United Nations voted to divide the area between Jews and Arabs -- create a Jewish state and an Arab state.
The Jews said yes; the Arabs said no. The Jews started building, and the Arabs attacked and went to war.
Fortunately for both the Jews and the Arabs, the Jews won the war. They built a new modern country, the product of total perseverance over seemingly insurmountable odds.
But many Arabs refused to accept this new reality. Sitting and doing nothing except hating and terrorizing is no way to build a better life.
Israelis built a country despite being surrounded by those who only have "no" in their vocabulary.
The latest go-round was in 2005. Israel pulled out all their presence in Gaza and turned it over 100% to the Palestinians living there. The following year, elections were held, and Hamas terrorists were elected and given control.
Everything was there to build the country the Arabs living there claimed they wanted. Instead, billions in aid were channeled to endless rocket attacks on Israel and the construction of underground tunnels for hiding and smuggling.
Countries are built by loving your brother, not by hating your neighbor -- a simple truth that has never made it to Arabs in Gaza.
Then came the horrible attack of Oct. 7, 2023. More than 1,200 innocent Israeli civilians were brutally murdered and terrorized, and 251 were taken hostage.
Now, as hostages are released, a few at a time, the Hamas regime demonstrates it has learned nothing.
Hostages are turned over in humiliating ceremonies in which the hostages are forced to grovel before masked, armed Hamas terrorists, who convey that they have not, and will not, give up.
Trump understands well the rule that insanity means doing the same thing and expecting different results.
If there is one message the Palestinians have conveyed to the world, it is that they are incapable of governing themselves.
Per the World Population Review, there are 1.9 billion Muslims in the world
…that number is very likely an exaggeration, just like Palestinian population claims…
and approximately 50 countries with majority Muslim populations. Islam is about World conquest. In particular, anything once part of Islam must return. Plus, the Yehud made Islam lose face 5 times in a row (by beating the shit out of Arab armies) - which means Israel must be eradicated. Everything else is Taquia. And "Palestinians" are a tool.
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The highlighted sentences at the end are the absolute truth. Just remember what Gracian said about such things.
'The wise man does quickly and expeditiously what the fool does uncertainly in halting stages.'
Hamas must step aside, yes, but the PA/PLO cannot hold Gaza, so there’s no point in trying to bully PM Netanyahu into agreeing.
[IsraelTimes] Mahmoud Habbash tells ToI that Palestinian people together with PA and Arab states have ability to coax terror group into giving up power after 17 years of ‘failed’ rule in Strip
A senior adviser to Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas ...aka Abu Mazen, a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial. While no Yasser Arafat, he has his own brand of evil, just a little more lowercase....> called on Hamas ..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,... to step aside and allow the PA to govern 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... , as Ramallah tries to capitalize on growing frustration with the terror group in Washington and the region.
"Hamas failed in its control of Gaza over the last 17 years. It’s therefore now time for it to step aside and allow the Paleostinian Authority to control Gaza again in order to [improve] the situation there and protect the Paleostinian people and their rights," Habbash said in a Monday interview with The Times of Israel from his office in al-Bireh north of Ramallah.
Habash has long been one of the PA’s harshest critics of Hamas, but he is also seen as someone who closely mirrors Abbas’s positions, particularly regarding the Gaza Strip.
The stance further demonstrates Ramallah’s aversion to reconciliation with Hamas, which some Arab allies have sought to broker, arguing that a unified Paleostinian front is critical to securing eventual statehood.
PA officials have long claimed willingness to fold Hamas into the Paleostine Liberation Organization — the international umbrella body representing Paleostinians — if it renounces violence and recognizes all agreements that the PLO has reached with Israel, both non-starters for the terror group.
Hamas has ruled Gaza since 2007, when the Islamist party conquered the territory from its Abbas-led Fatah rivals in a brutal civil war.
"We believe that the only side that has the right to control and manage Gaza is the PLO and the Paleostinian Authority — not Hamas," Habbash said.
The PLO formed the PA during the Oslo Accord agreements with Israel in the 1990s, envisioning it as a transitional governing body for Paleostinians in the West Bank and Gaza ahead of the establishment of a sovereign state alongside Israel.
The grinding of the peace processor collapsed, but the PA has remained, though it now no longer controls Gaza and its grip is slipping in the West Bank.
Still, the PA is viewed as the Paleostinians’ sole legitimate representative body by much of the international community, which views Israel’s effort to dismantle Hamas following the terror group’s October 7 onslaught as an opportunity to reunify Gaza and the West Bank under a single governing body.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly ruled out the possibility, likening the PA to Hamas and pointing to Abbas’s refusal to publicly condemn the October 7 attack. The premier’s critics have accused him of advancing policies over the last 15 years that saw Hamas boosted at the expense of the PA, which backs a two-state solution.
Senior Arab diplomats have told The Times of Israel that Hamas has indicated willingness to relinquish governing control of Gaza, but is not prepared to give up its weapons — which Habash said the PA would not accept.
"Our position is one authority, one law, one weapon," said the top Abbas aide.
Asked how Hamas can be forced to comply, Habbash replied, "We don’t want to to use un-peaceful means to convince anybody, but the Paleostinian people have the right to change the situation in Gaza."
"The Paleostinian Authority together with the Paleostinian community in Gaza and the Arab states... have the power together to convince Hamas to change its position," he added.
Egypt has sought to establish an interim, independent committee of Paleostinian technocrats to help administer Gaza, as much of the international community has maintained that the PA must undergo significant reforms before it can return to the Strip.
But Habash maintained that the committee should be directly under Ramallah’s administration. "We don’t want Gaza to be another state. The committee in Gaza should and will be under the PA."
"The Paleostinian people understand that the current era is critical. We have to to be wise, and not give the Israeli side any excuse to continue the aggression against the Paleostinians," Habash said, referring to his opposition to Hamas’s use of violence to fight Israel.
As for elections — which the PA hasn’t held in nearly 20 years, Habbash stated they should be held but the priority is rehabilitating Gaza.
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Hamas must die. And so are the Palestinian "Authority". In fact, since G*d gave the Land of Israel to the People of Israel, Palestinians - and everyone who supports them - are enemies of G*d.
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.
..the well-beloved offspring of the Moslem Brotherhood,...
