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[REGNUM] On the night of March 10-11, 2025, the Kiev regime organized the largest raid on Russian territory. Almost 350 drones took off from Ukrainian territory in the direction of Moscow and other cities in Western Russia. As a result, these drones killed three people, almost two dozen were injured. The facades of several residential buildings were also damaged, and several dozen cars were burned.
From a military point of view, this raid can be considered a failure.
" Our air defense systems worked very well - in the end, out of 350 drones, only a few were able to cause damage. Three dead, of course, is an irreparable loss for us, but this is not at all the effect that the Kiev regime initially counted on. In Kiev, they hoped that at least two hundred drones would fly to Moscow and cause a series of explosions in the center of the Russian capital," Andrey Klintsevich, head of the Center for the Study of Military and Political Conflicts, explains to Regnum.
However, on the other hand, even such a modest result will be used by the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, to achieve his two goals and objectives.
NEITHER RUSSIA NOR AMERICA NEEDS THE UKRAINIAN MISSILE
First, to threaten Moscow with escalation. “The strike… was a reminder that, despite the constant attacks on it and the colossal losses, Ukraine can still fight back,” writes the American The New York Times.
This means that it is too early for the Americans to write it off.
Moreover, Washington should have understood this precisely on March 11, when the American delegation, consisting of Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Trump adviser Steven Witkoff, went to the Middle East to meet with Zelensky’s head of the administration Andriy Yermak, and the ministers of foreign affairs and defense Andriy Sybiha and Rustem Umerov.
"Zelensky decided to demonstrate strength before the start of negotiations with the Americans in Saudi Arabia. His goal was to show that Ukrainians are ready to fight. That Ukrainians have the strength and capabilities for this. And this coincides with the recent wave of publications in Western media about the Russian army experiencing difficulties at the front. Zelensky wanted the Americans not to put too much pressure on him regarding concessions to Moscow," RIAC expert Alexey Naumov explains to Regnum.
In the end, the goal was not achieved. At the time of submitting the article, the official results of the Ukrainian-American summit were not known, but, if we are to believe the publications of the Western media, Washington insisted that Zelensky's envoys (who came to the meeting in suits) accept almost all of Russia's demands.
However, this does not mean that the Kiev regime will not make new approaches to the demonstration projectile, especially since it has potential.
"Ukraine has the ability to carry out long-range strikes, and also to increase their number. Now we have seen 350 drones - and before there were 150, 200. Next time there may be 500. And an increase in the salvo will lead to the fact that a greater number of drones will be able to get through to Moscow," Klintsevich notes.
Yes, assembling drones requires money, and a lot of it, and from the point of view of the result, these investments seem illogical.
However, Ukraine can launch more than just drones.
"Using the developments of the Soviet era, they are developing a medium-range ballistic missile. This means that the weight of the warhead will no longer be 20 kilograms, but 500," the expert explains. Another thing is that neither Moscow nor Washington, which knows about Ukraine's readiness to sell weapons and technology to various terrorists, needs the Kiev regime to have such a missile.
SEDUCTION FOR A TRUCE
Zelensky's second goal was to drive Russia into a diplomatic trap.
To achieve this, a two-step plan was implemented: first, a large-scale air strike, and then a public call for the implementation of the British armistice formula - in the air, on the ground and at energy facilities.
“This is an additional signal to Putin that he should also be interested in a ceasefire in the air,” the Ukrainian National Security and Defense Council said.
Zelensky's administration believes that it will succeed with any version of the Russian response. If Moscow agrees to such a truce, the Ukrainian army will breathe a sigh of relief - after all, Russia dominates the air and simply demolishes the fortified areas of the Kyiv regime's troops with the same KABs.
If Moscow refuses, and even delivers a powerful blow of retaliation, then it will be possible to tell the Americans that it is the Kremlin, not Kyiv, that is holding up the peace process. And at the very least, to get Washington to unblock military and economic aid, which the Americans do not formally provide because the head of the Kyiv regime does not demonstrate a desire for peace.
True, here too Ukraine will most likely face embarrassment.
Partly because Moscow is reading Kiev's game and is not going to fall for the Ukrainian bait. "Russia will not react in any sharp or unpredictable way. It will only act as it has been acting all this time," says Alexey Naumov.
Partly because Trump will not react to it either. The American president needs the conflict to end as soon as possible, and at the same time, he is indifferent to Ukrainian interests. Especially in a situation where Zelensky has personally insulted him. Therefore, he is unlikely to play formal games with Kiev.
Well, and of course, Kyiv is in for an embarrassment because with this blow it shot itself in the foot in terms of image.
"This raid is being used by the Russian side precisely to demonstrate the inconsistency of the Ukrainian positions. After all, instead of demonstrating an offensive on the front, which could demonstrate the strength of the Ukrainian army, Kiev is engaged in attacks on urban residential infrastructure that has no military value," Naumov is sure.
In other words, Kyiv is engaged in terrorism and simply seeks to kill as many civilians as possible. That is why the drones carried a new warhead - shrapnel, when steel balls fly apart at the speed of a bullet during an explosion.
This is why the Russian authorities brought OSCE Secretary General Feridun Sinirlioglu, who was visiting Moscow, to the site where one of the drones hit a residential building.
"They showed him the consequences of the attack, and most importantly, they showed him where the Kiev regime was hitting. It is important to understand that we are talking about residential buildings," said the press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov.
Yes, he called for not exaggerating expectations that the OSCE will change its position on the Ukrainian conflict after this. However, on the other hand, the water of facts wears away the ideological stone.
Especially after this stone has become very soft under the new White House administration.
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Note: You haven't accepted the cease-fire, so there isn't one.
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These Regnum folks must be paid by the word.
They are journalists, bless their hearts. 350 drones is a big strike. They must have been saving up. I wonder how many actually made it to their targets.
As a result, these drones killed three people, almost two dozen were injured. The facades of several residential buildings were also damaged, and several dozen cars were burned.
That sounds rather like collateral damage from air defense intercepts. Do we know what the Ukies were shooting at?
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used a gas pipeline to move 800 special ops to Kursk.
The first image that comes to mind is that they poured the troops in at one end and opened the spigot for them to pour out into a bucket at the other, Pliny Black3921, but that can’t possibly be right.
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The German army had a special name for this brutal hand to hand combat in the streets of
Stalingrad, they called it Rattenkrieg; "the war of the rats." German soldiers thought the name was quite
fitting, as the Red Army developed devastating tactics utilizing Stalingrad's sewer system. The Soviets
would send assault squads of about half a dozen men through the sewers behind German lines, peak up
through a manhole and wait for a German column to pass. Then they would open fire with machineguns,
and by the time German soldiers could react, the Soviets hid back in the sewers.8
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[REGNUM] On March 10, the commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) Mazloum Abdi and the head of the transitional government of Syria Ahmed al-Sharaa, who a month ago considered each other rivals and potential adversaries, signed an agreement on the integration of the SDF into the institutions of the transitional government of Syria.
The tactical alliance, which came as a surprise even to a part of the Syrian elite, opened up great opportunities for a “new Syria.” However, it also complicated the already tense relations within yesterday’s “armed opposition.”
"FULL OF OPTIMISM"
The document, which the parties refer to as nothing less than a “historic agreement” (and which the Arab press has even managed to pretentiously dub “eternal peace”), sets out a course for establishing a ceasefire throughout the entire country.
The Syrian Kurds have been promised full respect for their constitutional rights and freedoms, including access for members of parliament from the autonomous region to the legislative process, something the SDF has long fought for.
In response, Kurdish leaders pledged to abandon armed confrontation with Damascus, integrating their units into the national army, and transferring oil and gas fields to the control of the new authorities.
The parties are full of optimism and believe that the signing of the agreement was a major step towards a political solution to the Syrian conflict and overcoming the civil strife inherited from the previous government.
At the same time, the project of a “Syrian Kurdistan” on the Iraqi model, which implies broad autonomy for Kurdish communities, is wisely not being put on the agenda yet – representatives of the SDF understand perfectly well that the new authorities are not ready for such broad gestures, and therefore are defending their rights gradually.
BIG BROTHERS
Shortly before the signing of the agreement between the SDF and the “new Damascus,” Abdi additionally “synchronized watches” with the commander of the US Central Command, Michael Kurilla, receiving his “go-ahead” to form an alliance.
The US, as a long-standing ally (and one of the key sponsors) of the SDF in Syria, has only benefited from this turn of events. Pentagon analysts reasonably assume that the rapprochement of the two major factions will force Turkey to abandon the military operation against Arab-Kurdish forces that it has been threatening for the past months.
Moreover, Ankara will not turn its weapons against its ally in the form of official Damascus, which will allow the Americans to reduce their direct presence on Syrian territory and shift responsibility for stability in the oil-producing regions to the al-Sharaa cabinet.
The Americans are also convinced that the Syrian Kurds have a unique opportunity to exit the conflict with Turkey by demonstrating that there is no threat to Ankara's security. And it must be used as soon as possible.
Moreover, after the “peace appeal” of Abdullah Ocalan, the leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and one of the ideological inspirers of modern Syrian Kurdistan, from a Turkish prison, the prospect of reconciliation between the two long-standing opponents became more real.
PKK supporters are gradually joining this trend, announcing the imminent holding of a general congress, at which the issue of the organization's self-dissolution and the end of armed struggle against Turkey and its allies will be raised.
And although the Kurdish leaders insist that they will make a decision on self-dissolution only on condition of Ocalan’s personal participation, the Syrian branch of the PKK preferred not to wait for the outcome and approached yesterday’s opponents on terms favorable to itself.
THE CIRCLE OF THE DISSATISFIED
The “eternal peace” between the Syrian Kurds and al-Sharaa’s cabinet undoubtedly strengthens the position of the new authorities and somewhat softens the claims of ethno-religious minorities, emphasizing the ability to seek compromises in difficult conditions. And here, al-Sharaa and his supporters are the clear winners of the situation, for whom this is the first major diplomatic victory within the country.
However, even in this interpretation, the new tactical alliance has its critics.
As expected, the pro-Turkish groups that see Abdi's fighters as future enemies were the ones most outraged by Damascus's decision to get closer to the SDF. In particular, the lack of a clause in the agreement on disarming the Kurdish militias caused a storm of criticism.
The commanders of the pro-Turkish groups do not hide the fact that such “frivolity” could “cost dearly” al-Sharaa and the Kurds will sooner or later have to be expelled from strategically important areas by force of arms
Pro-Turkish militants also fear that the "Kurdish sword" will be turned against them by Damascus - as part of a purge of those who disagree with the policies of the new authorities. And a precedent for this has already been partially created.
Al-Sharaa is trying with all its might to shift responsibility for the pogroms in the coastal regions of Syria to “gray” groups (including, for example, the “Al-Sultan Murad Division,” whose commanders are trying to challenge and sabotage any decisions of the Syrian cabinet), as well as to involve SDF commanders in the “search and detention of those responsible” for the massacre in Tartus and Latakia.
It is possible that at some point the command staff of the Division will also be among those guilty.
As for the Kurds themselves, it seems they have not yet fully decided on their position regarding the agreement with the new authorities in Damascus.
The enthusiastic assessments of the Kurdish elites that have filled the airwaves drown out the fears of ordinary residents, but do not dispel them completely. The latter are convinced that the promises made by the Syrian authorities are too shaky and no one guarantees that the next punitive action of the al-Sharaa cabinet will not be directed against Kurdish communities.
But Abdi’s entourage reacts to such pessimistic assessments briefly and extremely transparently: only time will tell how strong the “eternal peace” is.
[TennesseeStar] ‘We’ve Got to Stop This Judicial Resistance’: Craig Huey Offers Solution for Congress to Block Activist Judges from Shutting Down Trump’s Executive Actions
Craig Huey, California refugee and marketing expert, offered a solution that Congress could pursue to bar activist leftist judges from issuing rulings designed to block executive actions made by President Donald Trump.
Since Trump assumed office, many of his executive orders have been blocked from taking effect by rulings issued by district court judges.
For example, Trump’s executive order pausing funding of foreign aid assistance programs was struck down by a single judge, U.S. District Judge Amir H. Ali, last month.
In another example, Trump’s executive order directing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take down webpages promoting gender ideology was also struck down by a single judge, U.S. District Judge John Bates.
Huey said the conduct by the judges ruling to block Trump’s executive actions is “judicial resistance.”
“These judges at a district level are trying to impose their own political ideology on the entire nation,” Huey explained on Tuesday’s edition of The Michael Patrick Leahy Show.
“They are legislating from the bench with their own political ideology. They do not look at the Constitution. They do what they interpret to be the right thing to do in their political, ideological eyes,” Huey added.
Huey said the transformation of the judiciary began under the Obama administration and ramped up during the Biden administration.
“What has happened is that the judiciary has been transformed by Obama, by Biden, where they have cherry picked ideologues. Now, that’s contrary to what Trump has done in appointing strict constructionists who look at the Constitution, look at the law, and whether they agree with it or not, they interpret it. That’s what you want,” Huey said.
“These judicial activists are part of the judicial resistance to stop anything that Trump is doing,” Huey added.
Huey said there are two ways to stop activist judges from overriding executive actions – impeachment and congressional action on restructuring the district court process.
“We’ve got to be able to hold these judges accountable. Again, these are people who are Democrat donors, they go to political rallies. They’re activists in a black suit, and they got a gavel. This is a battle for the soul of America with these judges. So Andy Ogles and several other congressmen are willing to impeach some of these activist judges, and I think that is an incredible spotlight on what is going on in the abuse of the judiciary. That is one thing that can be done,” Huey explained.
“The second thing, we have to take a look at how to restructure this. One district court cannot make a decision for the whole United States. That’s what’s happening. So Congress can reconfigure so that you have, say, three district court judges who have to be in agreement, and then you’d have a fast track way to the Supreme Court,” Huey added.
Huey said he believes restructuring the district courts so that a majority of three district judges must be in agreement to block an executive action is “the most logical way to be able to ensure a judiciary does not abuse its own power.”
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"congressional action on restructuring the district court process." There needs to be a GREAT DEAL more discussion of this in public forums. In 1863 Congress simply abolished the entire DC federal court system and immediately created a substitute federal court system. New federal judges were then appointed to the exclusion of one particularly troublesome one surnamed Merrick. No one was impeached in this action, but it amounted to getting rid of just a single federal judge.
Congress is also able to adjust what kind of cases the lower federal courts can take vs. what must be taken up by the USSC. Again, there's been virtually no public discussion of Congressional powers to change all federal courts below the level of the Supreme Court.
The Mexican drug cartels are a far greater threat to the United States than China, Russia or Iran, says Doug Macgregor. They’ve got Javelin missile systems on our border, and American officials on their payroll.
… (6:54) Why Is Ukraine Dragging Out This War?
(13:10) Benjamin Netanyahu Wants War With Iran
(17:27) Ukraine’s Black Market Arms Dealing
(20:10) Why We Should Be More Worried About Mexico Than Russia or Iran
(22:05) The Mexican Drug Cartel’s Javelin Missiles Systems
(23:11) How Many Have Died in the Ukraine/Russia War?
(27:59) Reacting to the Russian/Ukraine Proposed Ceasefire Deal
(37:45) Can Europe Be Saved?
(40:09) American Politicians on Cartel Payroll
(50:43) Macgregor’s Advice to Trump
(54:11) Should the US Strike a Mineral Deal With Ukraine?
(1:03:19) The Future of Germany
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I would agree with that except that fentanyl comes to us from China via Mexico. I don't believe the Chinese need the money so I must conclude that they want us dead.
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Based upon his other pronouncements, the Ukraine fell over a year ago.
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