Hamas was created and financed with Israeli money because they wanted radical opposition, not moderates like Arafat and Abbas. The assassination of Hamas senior leaders was needed because they might spill the beans on who they were really working for.
Once you understand that, the game becomes clear.
This is just a pause between rounds to allow the "fighters" in this Middle East WWE match to re-hydrate and work out their play-by-play script for the next round.
It wasn't a secret that Israel wanted Hamas in Gaza. There is a video from 2019 I think of Nuttyu asking the UAE to continue the funding. I think WaPo reported on who set Hamas up in 1989.
1989. That's long ago. That doesn't mean they controlled Hamas and definitely doesn't mean that they controlled Hamas in 2023. There are just a few nutcases who claim that Hamas striking back against Israel was secretly Netty's plan, with Hamas being his lackeys. I'd like to drop off these nuts in a camp in Gaza and have them tell the Palestinians that.
I don't believe israel ever wanted to 'control' Hamas. they simply wanted to make certain that the Palestinians were always divided and warring among themselves. It is a common strategy for the US/UK/israel.
You seriously think those Hamas leaders were secretly working for Israel?
Israel gave them money LONG AGO as part of a strategy to counter Fatah. That doesn't mean Israel controls them or even controlled them back then. Drop the conspiracy theory. Absolutely no one agrees with you. Especially not any Palestinians I have known. Don't insult them.
DJT thinks of himself as a boss, and he expects those he appoints to Cabinet positions to carry out *his* agenda, not theirs. The person who’s going to make the Big Decisions about foreign policy, for instance is DJT not somebody else.
Marco Rubio, DJT’s appointee for Secretary of State, has been a severe neocon hawk throughout his entire political career. He has been an outspoken cheerleader for Ukraine, and for our supporting Ukraine, ever since the SMO commenced. What’s interesting today is that Rubio has moderated this view; in fact, he has neutered that view to align better w/ DJT’s too. He delivered a gut-check of the highest order on Project Ukraine before a senate confirmation panel in Washington.
“It should be the official position of the U.S.,” according to Rubio, “that this war must be brought to an end.” Note how transformative a statement like this is in the hallowed halls of power where for the past three years few elected officials had the nerve, let lone the political will, to interrogate the U.S.’s interests in supporting a proxy like Ukraine against a nuclear-armed super power. Washington-speak would not allow it.
Today, however, Rubio sat before an august body and uttered the utterable: the official position of the U.S. should not be to destroy Russia or to weaken Russia or to make sure that Ukraine can retake Crimea—but to bring the war to an end. This is not Rubio speaking. This is *DJT* speaking.
During the entire interregnum The Economist and Bloomberg and the FT have asserted, on the basis of anonymous sources, that DJT would give Ukraine every weapon it wanted if VVP refused to agree to a ceasefire, etc. All of that was speculation—propaganda for driving a slow interregnum news-cycle. It was not real.
Hearing Rubio lay out DJT’s policy objectives regarding Ukraine should leave no one needing to read the tea leaves. Rubio articulated the objective as clearly as one could.
Any resolution of the war will of course include concessions to Russia—if not an outright capitulation altogether—but to have said anything of the sort until this very week was to be tarred as a Putin Apologist or a Kremlin Stooge. For someone as hawkish as Rubio to stand up and boldly state that “the official policy of the U.S. should be that this war must end” would not have been possible had DJT not thumpingly euthanized the Dems and their craven neocon sponsors and their rules-based-hypocrisy on 5 November.
OTAN, so addicted by now to the freedom to hurl ATACMS and Storm Shadows and Scalps into motherland Russia, sees that their drug-of-choice is now in short supply.
OTAN has 4 days to hurl, hurl, hurl away. After that, Common Sense daddy is in da house.
I like what you say - it tickles my ears. However, too many times Trump has said something like this and is then taken into a room by certain 'advisers' and after a while emerges with a changed perspective.
We shall see. I do hope you are right, but forgive me for being highly skeptical at this point. Actions speak far louder than words - I will await the actions.
Indeed, it seems Trump understands that both Ukraine and the Gaza holocaust are millstones around a president's neck. He sees what they did to Biden. (Who of course gave the green light for both.) He does not want that for himself.
Ideally both end quickly so Trump can focus on actually doing something for Americans, such as stop the mass invasion by millions of illegal aliens, or as the Democrats call them, party-saving voters.
Really, who the fuck trusts a word any neocon says? Rubio can and probably will change his story again soon, just like Trump when his goldfish-like attention span is drawn to some new shiny object.
Not a chance, cheetos! This has nothing to do with djt. This is the US military speaking. trump is just their spokesperson/puppet. The US military knows how overextended we are thanks to the Ukraine debacle and the billions in weapons we've provided israel for their ongoing genocide. The US is beyond broke and the west coast is on fire. And then there's CHINAAA! trump will start in on CHINAA and how much of a threat they pose to our "freedom" once he's in office.
trump was put in power to divide the country and he did a brilliant job in his first term. He said he had the best generals and that he has the best brain, yet he managed to f up everything he touched, because that's what he was put in power to do.
This Greenland/Canada/Mexico nonsense is his latest distraction to take everyone's eyes off israel, which he supports 500%. More misdirection by the man who made his living conning everyone who did business with him. The art of the deal should have been called The Art of the Con as that's trumps MO.
The military doesn't care about the US budget, fires or floods or genocides. Generals don't get promoted for being culturally or fiscally conservative, much less, moral.
CHY-NAH isn't going to be anything different than the last time around I don't think.
VVP has observed this through 6 U.S. presidencies--and now DJT's 2nd term will give VVP a front-row seat w/ the 7th.
Like VVP explained to Tucker in their sit-down: "The president and I agree to a deal, but the next day the men in dark suits show up to nullify the deal."
I wonder if President Xi will accept Trump's invitation to his inauguration. It's the first time a foreign leader has been invited to such an event.
Still have to 😆whenever some of Trump's voters think that China will invade the U.S. in some "Red Dawn" scenario. Why would they want to invade us? We're about to break apart as a nation at which time they can just deal with the breakaway states as individual nations.
Besides, like Russia, all of China's military doctrine is based on regional defense. Not conquest or seeking to become a Unipolar Hegemon. China is reputed to have the largest land based missile arsenal in the world. But most of it, along with it's nukes, are short and medium range missiles in the event a war against the U.S. in the South and East China Seas.
Something like only 12-15% of their Nuclear Triad contain ICBMs, SLBMs, etc. that can target the U.S. for the purpose of a counter strike or deterrence. Not intimidation.
I think Rubio has to align with that view because he wants to freeze the war before Ukraine loses much more. He will not get what he wants because Russia will not accept anything less than total capitulation, and the US does not have much to offer.
The U.S. has zero leverage over Russia in Project Ukraine, so a pivot away from the debacle, Joe's Folly, can't come fast enough.
Astute witnesses to the conflict saw the folly by the fall of Mariupol, if not before.
However, an oddity of the past 4 years is that policy makers & those in the public light, as well as just ordinary people, have been condemned as taking a page from the Kremlin Playbook whenever they have deigned to probe or interrogate U.S. interests in Ukraine.
So there was a total speech embargo.
Recall, too, that Dems and other leading lights of the Collective Biden coterie were obligated to hit the blue & yellow propaganda hard and insist on Standing With Ukraine because they did not want the ticket to lose the 2024 presidential election.
How'd that work
With the end of Collective Biden, there's no reason to maintain the ruse. With the end of Collective Biden, it is possible to give voice to pragmatism again.
The shorter the time taken to agree a deal (capitulation, I think), the more likely it is that Trump can fully blame Biden for the war. The longer the war goes on, the more baggage Trump will have to carry.
Russia will accept partial capitulation - I think most pro-Russian commentators agree that they only want to move up to the Dniepr. They have no interest in moving into western Ukraine, where the actual Ukrainians live. They will not even take the capital, I'm sure.
Sadly, they probably won't even take Zhapo City or Kharkov. Knowing Putin, which I think we do by now, he'll be satisfied by only taking Donbass, not caring that on the map that looks small. So we will be stuck with all the pro-Biden commentators bragging that "Ukraine stopped him from taking anything more than Donbass."
I can't really agree with that. Leaving the most fanatical, nationalistic portion of Ukraine intact and based only on an agreement with a non-agreement-capable country is not situation Russia could ever accept. And frankly, I am not convinced that the US and the Western Alliance will be willing to accept what will be considered a defeat - they have no reverse gear. To both sides of the conflict, this war is far greater than Ukraine. It is considered by both sides as an existential struggle - a failing hegemon v a rising multi-polar world - the stakes could not be higher.
Well, whoever the hell replaces Zelensky had better pledge not to join NATO and demand that all Western Forces need to leave Ukraine.
Either that or Russia will have to rain some Oreshniks onto Ukraine and warn Poland, Brussels and London that they will be next.
For now, anytime NATO missiles strike Russia, Moscow should retaliate by hitting positions in Ukraine with concentrations of Western mercs with Thermobaric weapons. Fuck returning the carcasses of these war criminals. Use them for fertilizer.
Well it depends on the meaning of capitulation. I think Western Ukraine might even end up split between Poland and Bulgaria to some extent, but in any case the rump left to remain will be a toothless buffer state. It has to be neutered or destroyed. Nothing else. Rubio wants a freeze because NATO has no arms manufacturing capacity. He wants a frw years to shift Europe into a domestic production EU NATO military zone. Right now there are no factories, no barrels and no ammo. Russia know this so no freeze or pause will be allowed.
While people can change, and can be forced to see the truth on issues, I will always be completely disgusted by Marco Rubio. He is a political prostitute, nothing else.
And of course he says these things about Ukraine only when Trump has made it safe to do so. He took part in all the smearing of Trump as the new Hitler back in 2016.
These Israeli wounded figures do not square with the number of deaths - as Simplicitus points out. However, in some respects it is better for the society if these seriously wounded had died. Their continuing to live is a constant and permanent drain on the resources of the society.
The Palestinians don't have that problem as their hospitals have been destroyed.
I like your point. I was thinking yesterday that Israeli ´society´, because of the loss they suffered and especially with the large number of wounded in front of their eyes, may shiver at the next suggested round of all out war by their leadership. They are not of the same timber of those before them. They appear more and more like ignorant, blind and spoiled children, who know nothing of a real struggle until the current lesson was administered.
The U.S. has conducted a study into its Iraq and Afghanistan veterans (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34238813/ for those interested) and found that a further 20% of deaths (unironically called "Non Battle Deaths" or "Self-Inflicted Injuries") over and above those KIA occur within combat troops.
PTSD is a thing, and has been for as long as there has been war.
You mean like Germany in WWII? After the doctors showed in WWI what modern medicine can achieve and after the war, a broken and bankrupt society had to keep this poor humans alive.
I don't believe anything the Zionists say or write because they have a long history to not honor anything that would jeapordize their ultimate objective. And it's not only "greater Israel" but ultimately the dominance of the entire world. The History of Jews tells a clear tale and it will not change.
A ceasefire is cause to celebrate, and is certainly a feather in Trump's cap. The disappearance of Blinken and Sullivan next week will keep the party energy going. The really dopey thing is that the Israelis keep repeating the same mistakes over and over. I guess being God's chosen doesn't guarantee intelligence.
I am not going to say anything about DT doing a good job and doing what was in the best interest of the world. Nope, because we all know Biden did it haha.
Seriously, to you folks upset and sitting there rubbing your hands together impatiently waiting for DT to screw up again ask yourself this: What kind of American are you? We all know what kind. Donald Trump robs you daily of your big chance for Civil War 2, societal collapse, and your white ethnostate.
And for you folks smart enough to NOT want any of that, understand DT is probably the best hope we got to not end up any of those circumstances including technological enslavement. For now he is our prize fighter.
In his farewell address, Joe warned about the dangerous concentration of wealth & power in the hands of the few. Then he said, “We need to ban members of Congress from trading stock while they’re in Congress.” Were Nancy Antoinette’s ears burning?!!?
There were at least another 2 protest speaches during Blinken's address
""You will forever be known as bloody Blinken, secretary of genocide. You have the blood of thousands of innocent people on your hands," one protester shouted before being led out of the event."
"A protester interrupted the US Secretary of State while he was delivering a foreign policy speech, .... The demonstrator accused him of being a liar and war criminal."
They better use special ink if they want it to dry before Israel starts violating the ceasefire, then uses the Hamas response to justify resuming their Jewish genociding, unless they need a pause to reorganise and refit in preparation for more genociding in Lebanon and Syria.
Agree , Trump's History and his new WAR PLANS are a clear sign than not much will change for the World outside the US. IRAN is perhaps next or at a smaller scale Panama and Greenland ... not to mention Canada or yes, Mexico and Cuba. Nothing will change for us unworthy foreigners in far and near lands. DT has another Label (HOPE) but i don't buy it. It will however be hard to top what the Biden admin left behind.
I think DJT has only one bee in his bonnet: China. He wants all the other problems to vanish as he sees domestic production as the alternative to foreign interests and all the baggage that entails.
A member of the new Trump administration transition committee said:
On his first day in the White House, Donald Trump will sign 100 executive orders that have already been prepared in advance.
Of these, 13 will be dedicated to Iran.
Among them will be a travel ban for those who have applied for visas to Iran and the preparation of the Pentagon's military plans regarding Iran's nuclear program.
These orders are planned to be signed on his first day in office.
I suspect you are correct. Iran is a bone stuck in the throat of the colonialists. It can't be swallowed and it can't be coughed up. It will require surgery.
Within the ME, the theatre of war has simply shifted, as the US neocons, Republican and democrat, now want it to. Quickly, decisively with the change in US regime.
This is reminiscent of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to go fight a tastier, more rewarding war (so it thought) in Ukraine- that went well. Of course the fighting is as ever, through proxies. The western hegemon is incapable of fighting its own wars as in expending blood and guts on any significant scale. It can fund them still, although actually generating the hardware is becoming more of a struggle at an ever more exuberant inflationary cost. But dying on the ground in the grand cause of resource grabs for its own corporations to exploit, not so much.
This is a 'the king (war) is dead, long live the king (war)' moment, as the US-Israeli nut jobs seem to think they can take on Turkey. I have no idea where Trump's head is at with this. We will surely find out.
So where's that hasbara hussy to tell how Is-ra-el is, like, totes winning, guys, and we, like, have to get used to that and be ready because, like, they're totes gonna attack Iran next?
Defeat Iran? The IDF can't even win the war next door!
Now it is Tulsi Gabbard who is finding respectability in order to be confirmed.
“Tulsi Gabbard Says She Now Supports Controversial Surveillance Law. Gabbard had previously criticized Section 702 as enabling the government to ’trample’ upon civil liberties.”
The Trump remaking of America is another example of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s theme in his historical novel, The Leopard, that “things have to change so that they can remain the same
Like their mentor, Zionists are agreement incapable. I imagine this forestalls the Iranian strike-back. What will Ansarallah's position be? I credit Dr. Sachs for speaking for many millions, and credit must begiven to Trump for letting those words fly. There remains much work to do before this conflict can be considered terminated. This might be the beginning to a new beginning.
Can't wait to read it with my morning coffee. Good day to you good Simplicius sir.
>We will wipe out Hamas forever!
>Okay, we didn't wipe them out, but we will never retreat
>Okay, we're withdrawing, but Hamas will never rule Gaza again
>They do
o i am laffin
Hamas was created and financed with Israeli money because they wanted radical opposition, not moderates like Arafat and Abbas. The assassination of Hamas senior leaders was needed because they might spill the beans on who they were really working for.
Once you understand that, the game becomes clear.
This is just a pause between rounds to allow the "fighters" in this Middle East WWE match to re-hydrate and work out their play-by-play script for the next round.
Or maybe, just maybe, the Jews aren't as tough and clever as they constantly try to make themselves out to be.
Don't diminish the OP's commanding yet simplistic Gameball terminology please.
It wasn't a secret that Israel wanted Hamas in Gaza. There is a video from 2019 I think of Nuttyu asking the UAE to continue the funding. I think WaPo reported on who set Hamas up in 1989.
1989. That's long ago. That doesn't mean they controlled Hamas and definitely doesn't mean that they controlled Hamas in 2023. There are just a few nutcases who claim that Hamas striking back against Israel was secretly Netty's plan, with Hamas being his lackeys. I'd like to drop off these nuts in a camp in Gaza and have them tell the Palestinians that.
I don't believe israel ever wanted to 'control' Hamas. they simply wanted to make certain that the Palestinians were always divided and warring among themselves. It is a common strategy for the US/UK/israel.
You seriously think those Hamas leaders were secretly working for Israel?
Israel gave them money LONG AGO as part of a strategy to counter Fatah. That doesn't mean Israel controls them or even controlled them back then. Drop the conspiracy theory. Absolutely no one agrees with you. Especially not any Palestinians I have known. Don't insult them.
You are correct.
DJT thinks of himself as a boss, and he expects those he appoints to Cabinet positions to carry out *his* agenda, not theirs. The person who’s going to make the Big Decisions about foreign policy, for instance is DJT not somebody else.
Marco Rubio, DJT’s appointee for Secretary of State, has been a severe neocon hawk throughout his entire political career. He has been an outspoken cheerleader for Ukraine, and for our supporting Ukraine, ever since the SMO commenced. What’s interesting today is that Rubio has moderated this view; in fact, he has neutered that view to align better w/ DJT’s too. He delivered a gut-check of the highest order on Project Ukraine before a senate confirmation panel in Washington.
“It should be the official position of the U.S.,” according to Rubio, “that this war must be brought to an end.” Note how transformative a statement like this is in the hallowed halls of power where for the past three years few elected officials had the nerve, let lone the political will, to interrogate the U.S.’s interests in supporting a proxy like Ukraine against a nuclear-armed super power. Washington-speak would not allow it.
Today, however, Rubio sat before an august body and uttered the utterable: the official position of the U.S. should not be to destroy Russia or to weaken Russia or to make sure that Ukraine can retake Crimea—but to bring the war to an end. This is not Rubio speaking. This is *DJT* speaking.
During the entire interregnum The Economist and Bloomberg and the FT have asserted, on the basis of anonymous sources, that DJT would give Ukraine every weapon it wanted if VVP refused to agree to a ceasefire, etc. All of that was speculation—propaganda for driving a slow interregnum news-cycle. It was not real.
Hearing Rubio lay out DJT’s policy objectives regarding Ukraine should leave no one needing to read the tea leaves. Rubio articulated the objective as clearly as one could.
Any resolution of the war will of course include concessions to Russia—if not an outright capitulation altogether—but to have said anything of the sort until this very week was to be tarred as a Putin Apologist or a Kremlin Stooge. For someone as hawkish as Rubio to stand up and boldly state that “the official policy of the U.S. should be that this war must end” would not have been possible had DJT not thumpingly euthanized the Dems and their craven neocon sponsors and their rules-based-hypocrisy on 5 November.
OTAN, so addicted by now to the freedom to hurl ATACMS and Storm Shadows and Scalps into motherland Russia, sees that their drug-of-choice is now in short supply.
OTAN has 4 days to hurl, hurl, hurl away. After that, Common Sense daddy is in da house.
I like what you say - it tickles my ears. However, too many times Trump has said something like this and is then taken into a room by certain 'advisers' and after a while emerges with a changed perspective.
We shall see. I do hope you are right, but forgive me for being highly skeptical at this point. Actions speak far louder than words - I will await the actions.
Indeed, it seems Trump understands that both Ukraine and the Gaza holocaust are millstones around a president's neck. He sees what they did to Biden. (Who of course gave the green light for both.) He does not want that for himself.
Ideally both end quickly so Trump can focus on actually doing something for Americans, such as stop the mass invasion by millions of illegal aliens, or as the Democrats call them, party-saving voters.
Sometimes there remains little else but hope.
If you are still impressed by what they say and not by what they really do then you're just a child
Really, who the fuck trusts a word any neocon says? Rubio can and probably will change his story again soon, just like Trump when his goldfish-like attention span is drawn to some new shiny object.
The taste of sour grapes.
Hello Ensign. It is not their words to which I pay attention. For myself, it is how their words stack up against reality that matter.
Indeed.
Not a chance, cheetos! This has nothing to do with djt. This is the US military speaking. trump is just their spokesperson/puppet. The US military knows how overextended we are thanks to the Ukraine debacle and the billions in weapons we've provided israel for their ongoing genocide. The US is beyond broke and the west coast is on fire. And then there's CHINAAA! trump will start in on CHINAA and how much of a threat they pose to our "freedom" once he's in office.
trump was put in power to divide the country and he did a brilliant job in his first term. He said he had the best generals and that he has the best brain, yet he managed to f up everything he touched, because that's what he was put in power to do.
This Greenland/Canada/Mexico nonsense is his latest distraction to take everyone's eyes off israel, which he supports 500%. More misdirection by the man who made his living conning everyone who did business with him. The art of the deal should have been called The Art of the Con as that's trumps MO.
The military doesn't care about the US budget, fires or floods or genocides. Generals don't get promoted for being culturally or fiscally conservative, much less, moral.
CHY-NAH isn't going to be anything different than the last time around I don't think.
Repetition Compulsion incoming.
VVP has observed this through 6 U.S. presidencies--and now DJT's 2nd term will give VVP a front-row seat w/ the 7th.
Like VVP explained to Tucker in their sit-down: "The president and I agree to a deal, but the next day the men in dark suits show up to nullify the deal."
Didn't you just contradict yourself? ;-)
While Trump has done many things to disappoint, it's just childish to write his name without a capital T. Write so you are taken seriously.
I wonder if President Xi will accept Trump's invitation to his inauguration. It's the first time a foreign leader has been invited to such an event.
Still have to 😆whenever some of Trump's voters think that China will invade the U.S. in some "Red Dawn" scenario. Why would they want to invade us? We're about to break apart as a nation at which time they can just deal with the breakaway states as individual nations.
Besides, like Russia, all of China's military doctrine is based on regional defense. Not conquest or seeking to become a Unipolar Hegemon. China is reputed to have the largest land based missile arsenal in the world. But most of it, along with it's nukes, are short and medium range missiles in the event a war against the U.S. in the South and East China Seas.
Something like only 12-15% of their Nuclear Triad contain ICBMs, SLBMs, etc. that can target the U.S. for the purpose of a counter strike or deterrence. Not intimidation.
I think Rubio has to align with that view because he wants to freeze the war before Ukraine loses much more. He will not get what he wants because Russia will not accept anything less than total capitulation, and the US does not have much to offer.
Rubio has to align with Trump's view cuz he was told to articulate that view by Trump.
I wholeheartedly agree with your last sentence.
The U.S. has zero leverage over Russia in Project Ukraine, so a pivot away from the debacle, Joe's Folly, can't come fast enough.
Astute witnesses to the conflict saw the folly by the fall of Mariupol, if not before.
However, an oddity of the past 4 years is that policy makers & those in the public light, as well as just ordinary people, have been condemned as taking a page from the Kremlin Playbook whenever they have deigned to probe or interrogate U.S. interests in Ukraine.
So there was a total speech embargo.
Recall, too, that Dems and other leading lights of the Collective Biden coterie were obligated to hit the blue & yellow propaganda hard and insist on Standing With Ukraine because they did not want the ticket to lose the 2024 presidential election.
How'd that work
With the end of Collective Biden, there's no reason to maintain the ruse. With the end of Collective Biden, it is possible to give voice to pragmatism again.
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It’s a thing: people are as they used to be.
The shorter the time taken to agree a deal (capitulation, I think), the more likely it is that Trump can fully blame Biden for the war. The longer the war goes on, the more baggage Trump will have to carry.
Russia will accept partial capitulation - I think most pro-Russian commentators agree that they only want to move up to the Dniepr. They have no interest in moving into western Ukraine, where the actual Ukrainians live. They will not even take the capital, I'm sure.
Sadly, they probably won't even take Zhapo City or Kharkov. Knowing Putin, which I think we do by now, he'll be satisfied by only taking Donbass, not caring that on the map that looks small. So we will be stuck with all the pro-Biden commentators bragging that "Ukraine stopped him from taking anything more than Donbass."
I can't really agree with that. Leaving the most fanatical, nationalistic portion of Ukraine intact and based only on an agreement with a non-agreement-capable country is not situation Russia could ever accept. And frankly, I am not convinced that the US and the Western Alliance will be willing to accept what will be considered a defeat - they have no reverse gear. To both sides of the conflict, this war is far greater than Ukraine. It is considered by both sides as an existential struggle - a failing hegemon v a rising multi-polar world - the stakes could not be higher.
Well, whoever the hell replaces Zelensky had better pledge not to join NATO and demand that all Western Forces need to leave Ukraine.
Either that or Russia will have to rain some Oreshniks onto Ukraine and warn Poland, Brussels and London that they will be next.
For now, anytime NATO missiles strike Russia, Moscow should retaliate by hitting positions in Ukraine with concentrations of Western mercs with Thermobaric weapons. Fuck returning the carcasses of these war criminals. Use them for fertilizer.
Well it depends on the meaning of capitulation. I think Western Ukraine might even end up split between Poland and Bulgaria to some extent, but in any case the rump left to remain will be a toothless buffer state. It has to be neutered or destroyed. Nothing else. Rubio wants a freeze because NATO has no arms manufacturing capacity. He wants a frw years to shift Europe into a domestic production EU NATO military zone. Right now there are no factories, no barrels and no ammo. Russia know this so no freeze or pause will be allowed.
When I think of an "august body" I think of gravitas, maturity, statesmanship, intellectual debate. I don't think of Rubio or the US Congress.
While people can change, and can be forced to see the truth on issues, I will always be completely disgusted by Marco Rubio. He is a political prostitute, nothing else.
And of course he says these things about Ukraine only when Trump has made it safe to do so. He took part in all the smearing of Trump as the new Hitler back in 2016.
Fock uff you zip douche bag. Israel is a loser rapo state and it will be vanquished
These Israeli wounded figures do not square with the number of deaths - as Simplicitus points out. However, in some respects it is better for the society if these seriously wounded had died. Their continuing to live is a constant and permanent drain on the resources of the society.
The Palestinians don't have that problem as their hospitals have been destroyed.
My apologies for the crudeness of this post.
I like your point. I was thinking yesterday that Israeli ´society´, because of the loss they suffered and especially with the large number of wounded in front of their eyes, may shiver at the next suggested round of all out war by their leadership. They are not of the same timber of those before them. They appear more and more like ignorant, blind and spoiled children, who know nothing of a real struggle until the current lesson was administered.
I wish well to you.
The U.S. has conducted a study into its Iraq and Afghanistan veterans (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34238813/ for those interested) and found that a further 20% of deaths (unironically called "Non Battle Deaths" or "Self-Inflicted Injuries") over and above those KIA occur within combat troops.
PTSD is a thing, and has been for as long as there has been war.
Crude but brutally true.
You mean like Germany in WWII? After the doctors showed in WWI what modern medicine can achieve and after the war, a broken and bankrupt society had to keep this poor humans alive.
I don't believe anything the Zionists say or write because they have a long history to not honor anything that would jeapordize their ultimate objective. And it's not only "greater Israel" but ultimately the dominance of the entire world. The History of Jews tells a clear tale and it will not change.
Millennia of a globally dispersed people with, remarkably, one united and never-changing objective. Yes, history and the Talmud testify.
A ceasefire is cause to celebrate, and is certainly a feather in Trump's cap. The disappearance of Blinken and Sullivan next week will keep the party energy going. The really dopey thing is that the Israelis keep repeating the same mistakes over and over. I guess being God's chosen doesn't guarantee intelligence.
Repetition Compulsion explains this.
Note how *white* Antony B has turned.
Kiev won't be the same without those Blinkie blues
I noticed that. You think it from sun and surf?
I am not going to say anything about DT doing a good job and doing what was in the best interest of the world. Nope, because we all know Biden did it haha.
Seriously, to you folks upset and sitting there rubbing your hands together impatiently waiting for DT to screw up again ask yourself this: What kind of American are you? We all know what kind. Donald Trump robs you daily of your big chance for Civil War 2, societal collapse, and your white ethnostate.
And for you folks smart enough to NOT want any of that, understand DT is probably the best hope we got to not end up any of those circumstances including technological enslavement. For now he is our prize fighter.
In his farewell address, Joe warned about the dangerous concentration of wealth & power in the hands of the few. Then he said, “We need to ban members of Congress from trading stock while they’re in Congress.” Were Nancy Antoinette’s ears burning?!!?
Lol he (JB) wants to ban the insider trading now with a few days left to go too 😂
It's like Eisenhower warning about the MIC, which grew enormously on his watch: "I made this shit sandwich, but you're the ones who get to eat it!"
The speech writers were putting lipstick on a pig. Biden has always been a walking sack of dishonest crap.
Blood-stained Lincoln
I think it was Blinken, not Lincoln.
Last call for Presidential Pardons.
Pay up now, or face the consequences...
The US as a political entity is doomed no matter how many Santa letters you send in to the ballot box.
Another Lucy Football fake deal by Israel. You would think everyone would have learned by now.
They will violate any signed agreement as soon as it suits them. If there is no outside pretext, they will fabricate or false-flag one.
Trump and Netanyahu both know this. Their common financial backer, Miriam Adelson, will tell them when to continue the march to the sea.
Yes. But, the difference is they know they are not in Kansas anymore.
There were at least another 2 protest speaches during Blinken's address
""You will forever be known as bloody Blinken, secretary of genocide. You have the blood of thousands of innocent people on your hands," one protester shouted before being led out of the event."
2 females
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcoQVPrG1n8
A male
"A protester interrupted the US Secretary of State while he was delivering a foreign policy speech, .... The demonstrator accused him of being a liar and war criminal."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lw2tGazmhDM
Antony B was in need of Just For Men after that salvo from the protesters. Touching up the temples won't be enough
The demonstrator was absolutely spot on - that is why he was dragged away .
All of this motley crew should be put on trial for their complicity in the deaths and maiming of tens of thousands of men , women and children .
Will they be ? Of course not .
They better use special ink if they want it to dry before Israel starts violating the ceasefire, then uses the Hamas response to justify resuming their Jewish genociding, unless they need a pause to reorganise and refit in preparation for more genociding in Lebanon and Syria.
How long after the last israeli hostage is released will it take for israel to renege on the deal and continue their genocide? Any wagers?
Agree , Trump's History and his new WAR PLANS are a clear sign than not much will change for the World outside the US. IRAN is perhaps next or at a smaller scale Panama and Greenland ... not to mention Canada or yes, Mexico and Cuba. Nothing will change for us unworthy foreigners in far and near lands. DT has another Label (HOPE) but i don't buy it. It will however be hard to top what the Biden admin left behind.
I think DJT has only one bee in his bonnet: China. He wants all the other problems to vanish as he sees domestic production as the alternative to foreign interests and all the baggage that entails.
A member of the new Trump administration transition committee said:
On his first day in the White House, Donald Trump will sign 100 executive orders that have already been prepared in advance.
Of these, 13 will be dedicated to Iran.
Among them will be a travel ban for those who have applied for visas to Iran and the preparation of the Pentagon's military plans regarding Iran's nuclear program.
These orders are planned to be signed on his first day in office.
crikey (source?)
I suspect you are correct. Iran is a bone stuck in the throat of the colonialists. It can't be swallowed and it can't be coughed up. It will require surgery.
Within the ME, the theatre of war has simply shifted, as the US neocons, Republican and democrat, now want it to. Quickly, decisively with the change in US regime.
This is reminiscent of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan to go fight a tastier, more rewarding war (so it thought) in Ukraine- that went well. Of course the fighting is as ever, through proxies. The western hegemon is incapable of fighting its own wars as in expending blood and guts on any significant scale. It can fund them still, although actually generating the hardware is becoming more of a struggle at an ever more exuberant inflationary cost. But dying on the ground in the grand cause of resource grabs for its own corporations to exploit, not so much.
This is a 'the king (war) is dead, long live the king (war)' moment, as the US-Israeli nut jobs seem to think they can take on Turkey. I have no idea where Trump's head is at with this. We will surely find out.
So where's that hasbara hussy to tell how Is-ra-el is, like, totes winning, guys, and we, like, have to get used to that and be ready because, like, they're totes gonna attack Iran next?
Defeat Iran? The IDF can't even win the war next door!
Add this: The Trump Regime Is Being Defeated Before It Takes Office
perfect assessment of what is coming up in the next 4 years or even less:
a teaser:
Paul Craig Roberts
As I have emphasized in the past two days, “the Trump regime will be tamed before it takes office.”
In the Western World You Become Respectable by Selling Out the People
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/01/12/in-the-western-world-you-become-respectable-by-selling-out-the-people/
Trump Regime Already Backing Off on Pardons for January 6 Supporters of Trump
https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/01/13/trump-regime-already-backing-off-on-pardons-for-january-6-supporters-of-trump/
Now it is Tulsi Gabbard who is finding respectability in order to be confirmed.
“Tulsi Gabbard Says She Now Supports Controversial Surveillance Law. Gabbard had previously criticized Section 702 as enabling the government to ’trample’ upon civil liberties.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-now-supports-controversial-surveillance-law-5789879?autoemail=pcr3%40mac.com&utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_content=&utm_campaign=new&utm_term=
The Trump remaking of America is another example of Giuseppe di Lampedusa’s theme in his historical novel, The Leopard, that “things have to change so that they can remain the same
read all here: https://www.paulcraigroberts.org/2025/01/14/the-trump-regime-is-being-defeated-before-it-takes-office/
Like their mentor, Zionists are agreement incapable. I imagine this forestalls the Iranian strike-back. What will Ansarallah's position be? I credit Dr. Sachs for speaking for many millions, and credit must begiven to Trump for letting those words fly. There remains much work to do before this conflict can be considered terminated. This might be the beginning to a new beginning.