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Washington Celebrates Al-Qaeda’s Victory in Syria – Kyle Anzalone 12/9/24

Source: Antiwar.com

Washington finally completed its dirty war in Syria. What started as a CIA covert operation to smuggle weapons and jihadists from Libya to Syria has resulted in Syria leader Bashar al-Assad being deposed and replaced by Abu Mohammad al-Julani.

Julani found his way to Damascus by rising through the ranks of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Inspired by the 9/11 attack, he joined AQI to fight against the US during the Iraq war. Julani was a close associate of both AQI leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and founded the al-Qaeda affiliate group Syria in coordination with Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.

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Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service Warned About A 100k-Strong NATO Intervention In Ukraine – Andrew Korybko 11/29/24

Source: korybko.substack.com

NATO might be willing to test Putin’s patience by crossing yet another of Russia’s perceived red lines in spite of its updated nuclear doctrine and new Oreshniks.

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The Five Reasons Why Syria Was Caught By Surprise – Andrew Korybko 11/30/24

Source: korybko.substack.com

The disaster in Aleppo was avoidable and is just as bad as it looks.

The Turkish-backed terrorists’/“rebels’” advance on Aleppo, which was analyzed here, came as a shock to most observers. There was almost half a decade of peace between the March 2020 ceasefire and now, yet practically nothing was done to prepare for this possibility. This was in spite of the front line remaining roughly two dozen kilometers away from Aleppo, which should have reminded Assad of how vulnerable his country’s second city is. Here are the five reasons why Syria was caught by surprise:

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The Terrorist Offensive In Aleppo Is Meant To Deliver A Coup De Grace To Syria – Andrew Korybko 11/28/24

Source: korybko.substack.com

Everything will depend on whether the terrorists are stopped outside of Aleppo; the outcome of any possible battle for that city; and how desperate Assad becomes if he loses control over it and the terrorists advance on Damascus.

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Turkey-Backed Jihadists Eye Hama Next After Capturing Central Aleppo, International Airport – ZeroHedge 11/30/24

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Update(1425ET): After capturing the central and northwestern parts of Aleppo, Syria’s largest northern city, armed jihadist insurgents led by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) are reportedly seeking to take the west-central city of Hama next.

Regional media has cited HTS sources to say they’ve “begun marching towards Hama, successfully capturing six towns and villages in the countryside, including Morek, which lies along an important highway connecting central Syria to the north.” The Syrian government has denied that many of these towns or villages were captured, amid conflicting social media reports.

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Violating His Own Policy, Biden OKs Antipersonnel Mines For Ukraine – ZeroHedge 11/20/24

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Determined to leave an even bloodier legacy, President Biden has violated his own policy and approved the shipment of antipersonnel mines to Ukraine, two US officials have told the Washington Post. The move — which threatens to cause civilian injuries and deaths even after the war ends — comes in the face of months of Russian battlefield success in which its army has posted the fastest pace of territorial gains since 2022.

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12 UK Storm Shadow Missiles Were Fired Into Russia, Local Sources Say – ZeroHedge 11/20/24

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Update(1227ET): More details have emerged of Wednesday’s Storm Shadow missile attack from Ukraine on Russia. This marks the first authorized known use of the long-range weapon in a cross-border attack. Previously the British government restricted use to within the Ukrainian battlespace, in the Donbass for example.

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Leaks Expose Secret British Military Cell Plotting to ‘Keep Ukraine Fighting’ – Kit Klarenberg 11/16/24

Source: TheGrayzone.com

Leaked files show top UK military figures conspired to carry out the Kerch bridge bombing, covertly train “Gladio”-style stay-behind forces in Ukraine, and groom the British public for a drop in living standards caused by the proxy war against Russia.

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Ukraine’s ATACMS Strike On Russia Comes After Putin Lowers Threshold For Nukes – ZeroHedge 11/19/24

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About a day after President Biden authorized Ukraine to use the long-range US-made MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System to strike deeper into Russian territory, a new report suggests that the Ukrainian Armed Forces have hit a military installation in the western Bryansk region. This comes after Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Russia’s nuclear weapons doctrine was changed and signed by President Vladimir Putin, indicating “the use of Western non-nuclear rockets by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against Russia can prompt a nuclear response.”

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‘Escalation Dominance’ and the Prospect of More Than 1,000 Holocausts – Norman Solomon 10/2/24

Source: Antiwar.com

Everything is at stake. Everything is at stake with nuclear weapons.

While working as a nuclear war planner for the Kennedy administration, Daniel Ellsberg was shown a document calculating that a U.S. nuclear attack on communist countries would result in 600 million dead. As he put it later: “A hundred Holocausts.”

That was in 1961.

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What Was A Japanese Spy Doing In Belarus? – Andrew Korybko 9/24/24

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Japan was passing everything along to its Western partners in the implied hopes of them then supporting it more in its own part of the world.

Belarusian media reported earlier this month that their security services busted a Japanese spy. He allegedly entered into a fictitious marriage that helped him legalize his stay in the country, after which he set up a business in Gomel to explain his travels, including to the border. He also taught Japanese. The spy allegedly had over 9,000 photos of roads, bridges, and military facilities and was actively in contact with his embassy. These reports raised a lot of eyebrows since few expected Japan to spy on Belarus.

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Drone Strike On Arsenal Triggers Biggest Explosion On Russian Soil Of The War – ZeroHedge 9/18/24

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An overnight Ukrainian drone attack triggered a massive explosion and large fires in northwestern Russia’s Tver region. Is believed the initial drone strike hit an important Russian weapons stockpile.

“A fire started in Toropets, Tver region, as a result of falling debris from a drone that was repelled by air defense forces,” the Tver regional administration said early Wednesday. The oblast declared a “partial evacuation” due to the large blast and surrounding fires. Social media video showed a huge fireball erupt against the night sky.

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Russia & The West Are Engaged In Political Choreography Over Ukraine’s Use Of Long-Range Weapons – Andrew Korybko 9/15/24

Source: korybko.substack.com

Putin warned last week that letting Ukraine use Western long-range weapons to strike deep inside of Russia “will mean that NATO countries, the United States, and European countries are parties to the war in Ukraine. This will mean their direct involvement in the conflict, and it will clearly change the very essence, the very nature of the conflict dramatically. This will mean that NATO countries – the United States and European countries – are at war with Russia.”

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Suspect in ‘Trump Golf Course Incident’ Recruited for Ukraine’s International Legion – Max Blumenthal 9/15/24

Source: TheGrayzone.com

Before he was caught with an AK-47 on a golf course near Trump, Ryan Routh went to Kiev to fight for Ukraine’s military and recruit for its International Legion. Routh told US media he “had partners meeting with [Ukraine’s Ministry of Defense] every week.”

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Cheney Backs Harris: The War Hawk’s Blessing Reveals Continuity in Foreign Policy – J.D. Hester 9/11/24

Source: Antiwar.com

If there is one eternal rule in Washington, it is that “politics makes for strange bedfellows.” If you were to presume twenty years ago, that former Vice President Dick Cheney would one day endorse a progressive Democrat from California for president, you would be sent to an insane asylum. The idea that a diehard neoconservative and perhaps the biggest war criminal in recent American history would one day endorse someone like Kamala Harris would have been laughable. But due to the prevalence of “Trump derangement syndrome” amongst many neoconservatives, this has become the political reality.

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Five Takeaways From Pakistan’s Latest Anti-Democratic Crackdown – Andrew Korybko 9/10/24

Source: korybko.substack.com

The Establishment fears the power of the Pakistani people.

Tens of thousands of PTI supporters peacefully rallied alongside their MPs outside of Islamabad on Sunday for former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s release from jail, where he’s been held for over a year already on dubious and in some cases outright ridiculous charges. The security services then arrested at least a dozen party leaders the next day, including some MPs from the premises of Parliament itself, in what PTI described as “a slap to the face of an already decimated democracy”. Here’s what it all means:…

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Newest US Aid Package For Ukraine Includes More HIMARS Munitions To Attack Russia – ZeroHedge 8/24/24

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The United States has introduced another new package of military aid to Ukraine, reported to be worth around $125 million, and this time it includes more munitions for HIMARS systems, at a moment Kiev has acknowledged using the missile system inside Russian territory.

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Kursk: Fighting Russia to the Last Ukrainian – Brian Berletic 8/21/24

Source: Journal-NEO.su

In the lead up to the Ukrainian military’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, even Western headlines were dominated by reports of Ukraine’s gradual demise. Ukraine is admittedly suffering arms and ammunition shortages, as well as facing an unsolvable manpower crisis. Russia has been destroying Ukrainian military power faster than Ukraine and its Western sponsors can reconstitute it.

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Why Ukraine is Being Blamed for Nord Stream – Malcom Kyeyune 8/21/24

Source: Unherd.com

To understand the truth about the Nord Stream pipeline, one needs to master a certain form of “Kremlinology”. Everything about it is designed to obfuscate, every strand shrouded in prevarication and deceit.

From the start, the investigation was a textbook cover-up. The Swedish government rushed to secure evidence, citing their putative rights under international law, consciously boxing out any sort of independent, UN-backed inspection. Of course, after gathering all the evidence, the Swedish authorities studiously did exactly nothing, only to then belatedly admit that it actually had no legal right to monopolise the information in the first place.

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Russia Summons US Envoy Over Presence Of American Mercenaries, CNN Crew In Kursk Region – ZeroHedge 8/21/24

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Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned a senior US Embassy official in Moscow in order to protest several issues related to US interference in the Kursk region, which has been scene of heavy fighting since Ukraine’s cross-border incursion kicked off on Aug.6.

Russia condemned “provocative actions” of both American journalists and US mercenaries spotted on Russian territory in the context of the Kursk invasion.

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‘Words Like Slaughter:’ A Comparative Study of The New York Times Reporting in Ukraine and Gaza – Mondoweiss 8/16/24

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An in-depth comparison of The New York Times coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine vs. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza shows how the Times dutifully launders the news to fit the U.S. government’s agenda.

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Ukraine Destroys Key Bridge In Kursk Region Using US-Supplied HIMARS – ZeroHedge 8/17/24

Source: ZeroHedge.com

The Ukrainian government is still proclaiming that its forces are making progress into the southern Russian oblast of Kursk, while the Kremlin has at the same time said its troops destroyed an entire reconnaissance and sabotage group in western Kursk on Friday.

Regardless of which side’s narrative of events are more accurate amid the fog of war, the biggest end of week development has involved the destruction of a key Russian bridge on Friday.

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