“Millions of faithful Muslim from different countries, as they did in previous years, will move at this time to the Iraqi holy city of Karbala.
These pilgrims are intended to commemorate the day of Arbain a religious festival that marks the end of a period of forty days of mourning after the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him), grandson of the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) and third Shiite Imam.(….)
(….) On the day of Ashura, the 10th of the month of Muharram in the year 680 AD, in the hot desert sands of Karbala, Iraq, Imam Hussein (P) and 72 family members, friends and supporters, including his son six months, fell martyrs by the army of Yazid, the second Umayyad caliph, in horrifying circumstances.
For the history of Islam, these events are a highlight that, despite the 14 intervening centuries, the Shiites worldwide each year remember as an epic, like recall with great passion the message conveyed by Imam Hussein (P), who gave his life fighting against tyranny and despotism, in defense of human values like truth, justice and freedom. Eternal and unwavering stance of good to evil and the struggle of humanity against oppression are represented in these ceremonies of Ashura.(….)
(….) Although Arbain is a special and inherent ceremony Shiite, Sunni worshipers, izadíes, Zoroastrians, and Christians also participate in this event, considered one of the largest religious gatherings in the world in terms of number of participants; three times higher than the concentration of Mecca. This ceremony also takes on a distinctive character, supported by the presence of people of different faiths and races who acknowledge the Imam Hussein (P) as a symbol of freedom and sacrifice.(…)
(…) The commemoration of this year’s Arbain is different from other years because it comes amid a rising tide of Islamophobia that has been spreading through the horrendous terrorist activities of different groups, including highlights Daesh. About 20 million people go to Iraq to commemorate this day, despite all the dangers of this Arab country, and despite the bloody and destructive offensive launched by takfiríes terrorist groups, the main enemies of Shiite faithful.
Given the current situation in Iraq and Syria, whose people are massacred daily and almost destroyed by Daesh terrorists as well as the testimonies of the terrorist attacks in different parts of the world, as the most recent ones occurred in France and Lebanon under the name of Islam, this ceremony is an ideal opportunity for the Shiites to show the world the true image of that divine religion which differs entirely from falsehood hoisted by terrorists.(….)
West-funded Russian hacks claim that Russia has not really deployed the S-400 missile system over Syria. Some key radar is allegedly missing. This was done for domestic propaganda reasons, to scare the West etc…
Now I don’t know whether this is true, but it requires consideration.
As for the Donbass front, the news are that the Ukropians are preparing a new attack, which as well all know on this blog is only a matter of time.
Also, on the Syraq front, NATO is using its Turkish/Kurdish proxies to move into territory foremrly occupied by their ISIS proxies.
FortRuss has an article that totally destroys the British media crapola about the S400 not having its radar component.
First, how friggin ridiculous would that be for Russia to put up a defense system without radar?
Second, learn to think and not just to read, folks. And pursue many sources of information on any topic. You will have a better foundation for understanding.
The above Monty Python piece on Anglo-French Ovine Aviation was inspired by that ludicrous joint project of the time of those same two world scavengers – the now defunct supersonic luxury airliner “Concorde”… :-)
Wi-fi missiles. Needs no radar because they are hooked into the Secret Russian satellite navigation and spy system, with electronic war system backup. Just radio up what you want to hit — all encrypted and redundant spread spectrum, of course) and immediately get back the control codes and results of firing, with generated report and coordination components being fed into the central fire control system in the ‘mother ship bunker’ in the Kremlin, where there is an officer sitting at a ‘video game’ console controlling the entire military operation. Obama’s drone system is kid stuff compared to what the Russians have.
That’s the theory I’m staying with until someone tells me I’ve been drinking too much kumis.
The S300 like the S400 are not something like buying a fully loaded car.. You can add in a cd player, usb port, abs, fat rims, sunroof, and a trailer.. Even wiki has a page on it and it is rather complex.. Needs a degree to just be able to operate it. The main thing with the S400 is the MIG31 can use it to attack targets 1000 miles away.. And people report seeing MIG31’s in Syria.. They only have one purpose and that is to shoot down other flying objects. Russia only got like 5 or so upgraded jets so if they sent those to Syria then it is to go with the S400.. It also needs an awacs plane.. But it seems that might also arrive in Syria. At mach 3+ it would be significantly faster than anything it faces and should even be able to outrun most AAM’s fired at it. Only the U2 is faster.. but the U2 cant turn and the MIG31 pretty much cant either..
Not U2, you mean SR-71, blackbird (US designation), GRAU designation for the SR-71 -> “The Flying Drunkard.” aka “The Cowardly-Crow”, “The Trespassing Tramp”, “The Sneaky-Snake”. Mach 3.3 is Max speed.
Artificially limited max speed for the Mig-31 is Mach 2.83, has been flown at Mach 3.0. A production machine of which over 500 were built, could be modified to fly over Mach 3.5 sustained (w extra fuel tanks and reinforced airframe), the SR-71 was a custom built skunkworks product of which only 2-3 were built.
There really is no comparison, the Mig-31 was superior (though uglier) because it was a real production combat plane with durability and multiple mission capability, the SR-71 was a custom prototype with only a single mission type profile (to trespass, spy and run for its life from incoming SAMs).
How likely is it that Russia would have undertaken the cost – and risk – of shipping their latest military hardware over to Syria if they hadn’t accepted they might need to use it?
I gotta agree with your assessment. But not only stupid sheep, sometimes cowardly stupid sheep.
I have a neighbor, directly across the street, that’s such a pathetic and idiotic coward that he’s had loud arguments with this son that he shouldn’t have RT (the news channel) on TV whenever the maid service is in the house because she might report them to the authorities (meanwhile he’s yelling so loud, the whole neighborhood can hear him). Can you believe this idiot? He brings a whole new definition to the terms stupid cowardly selfish wanker. It’s gutless people like this that make totalitarian regimes possible.
That’s the kind of selfish brainless idiots that we have in our society. These are true assholes that have some idea that things aren’t as they seem but are too gutless to even face the truth let alone talk about it.
It’s also the shallowness and selfishness of some in the West that are ok with their governments murdering innocent people in other countries as long as they personally aren’t affected, then no problem. It’s another example where evil selfish behaviour is a virtuous western value.
So the Ukrostanis are planning another attempt at the Darwin Award are they? Prepare for the average IQ of the human race to increase measurably as they die-off under the hail of fire the Donbass will unleash on them.
Ukrostanis is sooo stupid.
By the way the leader of Syria, Assad, seems to be a true leader in the same vein as Putin: Humble, apparently honest, straightforward, competent, sexually normal, and intelligent. That would explain the visceral hatred the morally compromised satraps that “govern” the UK, France, etc. have for Assad. The motive is jealousy and anger that he isnt as filthy and low as they are: his & Putin’s presence serves as a constant reminder of their own self-recognized inadequacies, and this enrages at a deep level them out of uncontrollable jealousy.
Pro-Western terrorists that have received support from the United States or its allies ( as Saudi Arabia ) have turned their guns on each other in a northern corner of Syria,
Full interview of Assad with the Sunday Times (text only), The beginning is about the vote in British parliament for bombing in Syria (the interview was held one day before the vote): http://sana.sy/en/?p=63558
Well, let’s hope there will be an arabic synchronisation soon and, hopefully broadcasted not only in Syria but, e.g., in Iraq or Libya or even Egypt.
And please everybody (europeans and, of course anglosaxons!) notice what Mr. Assad said about the importance of secularism. Multiple times he underlined secularism as the basic principle of the syrian society.
If it’s not for the thievery of oil, the syrian secularism would be the primary reason of turkish diarrhoea [remark for administrators: diarrhoea is not vulgar, it’s the medical term of what should otherwise be spoken out more precisely].
Back to Assad: It’s not the first interview, instead it’s just the last in series of interviews over the last decade. I would be glad to haven someone like him as president/chancellor (instead of the not only in political terms ugly one right now). I would be very glad to have a first lady Assad, sunni or not, i wouldn’t mind.
There is a short video at youtube both (him and her) walking down a shoping street in Paris in summer 2010. That’s when i first thought: the (western media) is lying us about Assad.
For the sake of Syria i do hope both Assads won’t be killed. I wouldn’t be surprised if some day there is an affiliate of (e.g.) Charlie Hebdo in Damascus and the french police would be forced to kill another bunch of assassin and, of course, sorry for that … accidentally killed the syrian president. Maybe not the french but the turkish police? Maybe both?
Syria, Syria, Syria, meantime Biden is in Kiev and UKR is assaulting NAF positions all over the Donbass. Bur we are supposed to believe in the wonderful effects of some mythical agreements called “Minsk”
No, you aren’t to believe in Minsk (2). You ought to believe in the genius idea of Russia fighting a war across all of Ukraine, perhaps triggering some NATO units to join in the war, and accomplishing what?
Russia can barely absorb Crimea with all the problems it has. What is it going to do with a defeated Ukraine, 40 million hungry and angry people trained for 25 years to hate Russia.
Russia is not cash rich and possessing a 4% growth profile right now. It has lost 50% of its oil and gas revenues in petrodollars. It is in recession.
And you want a war for it.
Brilliant. No wonder you post your stuff under Anonymous.
We have discussed Minsk 2 and the trap it is for Kiev, EU, and NATO. That is what it does. It binds them all in a UNSC approved path for federalizing Ukraine, or Ukraine never gets its borders back. It keeps Ukraine out of EU and out of NATO.
Do some research and learn what Minsk 2 does and doesn’t do.
And while you at it, study Russia and Putin closer. They are not going to allow NATO to get closer than Poland, nor are they going to allow Donbass to be destroyed.
And if another full offensive starts, Russia will finish it again. Actually, the best thing to happen would be another Ukie offensive. The militia Army will devastate the nazis.
In English!
This is so important, that these interviews and such is available in English so that Americans (and everyone else who speaks English) has access to the information from the source and do not have to rely on the corporate telling their version of what is said.
Many people won’t hear it, of course, being glued to the TV, but others will and inject some truth into the public conversation. Americans, with their limited language abilities, can become a bit less isolated and dependent on the lies of the empire.
Assad is an independent man of principle. His philosophy is secularism which supports religious freedom. No wonder he is hated by haters of freedom and reason.
Religious fanatics come in many sizes, shapes and colors but they all share mistrust in the mind, and not without reason. The mind can be a killer. The trick is to integrate the mind into the secularism (earth-centrality, naturalism) of love.
A la another thread, I reread Saker’s desert submarine addendum. He mentioned that he is pursuing an advanced degree in patristic theology. I was a Catholic priest and had a crush on the fathers for their Greek education, poetry and mysticism.
I need something more than military and strategic geo-political analyses. It doesn’t feed my soul and leads to paralysis by analysis in my case. But the same is true of the church fathers with their newly discovered Christ Cause.
I follow the war here but without a higher cause it’s a lost cause as far as I’m concerned. Love is the only cause that carries any weight with me. I think love night and day, and like Assad follow my own principles as an independent man, using my mind to its fullest in the interests of love.
I think love, eat no meat, keep no pets, eschew marriage and take no interest. These acts keep my mind clear of the druggists, church and state being the biggest pushers. The mind is a delicate instrument which requires freedom to breathe.
I don’t think Assad the eye surgeon operates according to bible or koran anatomy. He needs to see clearly and so do I. Early in life I chose not to see the painful reality around me and to this day use glasses for reading and typing this.
My mind’s eye is akin to a physical eye. I keep one eye on love and the other on war. I play Billy the Kid freedom which might get me killed because “they don’t want you to be so free.”
“There’s eyes behind the mirrors in empty places
Bullet holes and scars between the spaces
There’s always one more notch and ten more paces
So sleep with one eye open when you slumber
Every little sound just might be thunder
Thunder from the barrel of his gun”
-Bob Dylan
“There’s white and black magic, and then there’s clear magic
Love is clear and clears all difficulties
I happens in a womam’s heart rather than in a man’s head”
-thelovegovernment.com
This came after a Turkish security source said that several hundred Turkish forces had been dispatched to a military base on the outskirts of the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, to provide training for Iraqi soldiers.
Turkish media reported that Ankara is erecting a base in the Bashiqa region of Mosul with 600 soldiers.
The Iraqi prime minister has called on Turkey to immediately withdraw its forces from northern Iraq, calling Ankara’s move “an incursion”.
Crazy times. A few NATO ships are strutting around in the Black Sea, Turkey has invaded Iraq and keeps thumbing its nose at any suggestions of wrongdoing, Ukraine is attacking the Donbass in full force, and France, Germany and UK are in Syria, refusing to tell the Russians where they will be next.
What can possibly go wrong?
“… Syria is an energy war. With the heart of the matter featuring a vicious geopolitical competition between two proposed gas pipelines, it is the ultimate Pipelineistan war, the term I coined long ago for the 21st century imperial energy battlefields
It all started in 2009, when Qatar proposed to Damascus the construction of a pipeline from its own North Field – contiguous with the South Pars field, which belongs to Iran – traversing Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria all the way to Turkey, to supply the EU.
Damascus, instead, chose in 2010 to privilege a competing project, the $10 billion Iran-Iraq-Syria, also know as «Islamic pipeline». …”
…
“… The «Assad must go» obsession in Washington is a multi-headed hydra. It includes breaking a Russia-Iran-Iraq-Syria alliance (now very much in effect as the «4+1» alliance, including Hezbollah, actively fighting all strands of Salafi Jihadism in Syria). But it also includes isolating energy coordination among them, to the benefit of the Gulf petrodollar clients/vassals linked to US energy giants.
Thus Washington’s strategy so far of injecting the proverbial Empire of Chaos logic into Syria; feeding the flames of internal chaos, a pre-planed op by the CIA, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with the endgame being regime change in Damascus.
An Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline is unacceptable in the Beltway not only because US vassals lose, but most of all because in currency war terms it would bypass the petrodollar. Iranian gas from South Pars would be traded in an alternative basket of currencies. …”
… “… What’s certain is that, geo-economically, Syria goes way beyond a civil war; it’s a vicious Pipelineistan power play in a dizzying complex chessboard where the Big Prize will represent a major win in the 21st century energy wars. …”
What is happening in Syria and the whole Muslim world is beyond our imagination. Something sinister is taking place. Who and what is the real agenda behind the slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians, only Allah knows. Why did Russia enter this war, why did that carnage take place in Paris recently, why was the Russian plane brought down by the Turks? So many things are happening simultaneously besides Allah who else can answer the real agenda behind this carnage taking place . Who is Isil and why couldn’t all the so called Western powers defeat them? Why was Russia allowed to join the fray? Nothing makes sense at the moment.
“Arbain distinction between true Islam and the falsehood of Daesh” by Rasoul Goudarzi for HispanTV.
http://hispantv.com/newsdetail/OPINIoN/77304/karbala-arbain-irak-musulmanes-chiitas-imam-hussain
“Millions of faithful Muslim from different countries, as they did in previous years, will move at this time to the Iraqi holy city of Karbala.
These pilgrims are intended to commemorate the day of Arbain a religious festival that marks the end of a period of forty days of mourning after the martyrdom of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him), grandson of the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) and third Shiite Imam.(….)
(….) On the day of Ashura, the 10th of the month of Muharram in the year 680 AD, in the hot desert sands of Karbala, Iraq, Imam Hussein (P) and 72 family members, friends and supporters, including his son six months, fell martyrs by the army of Yazid, the second Umayyad caliph, in horrifying circumstances.
For the history of Islam, these events are a highlight that, despite the 14 intervening centuries, the Shiites worldwide each year remember as an epic, like recall with great passion the message conveyed by Imam Hussein (P), who gave his life fighting against tyranny and despotism, in defense of human values like truth, justice and freedom. Eternal and unwavering stance of good to evil and the struggle of humanity against oppression are represented in these ceremonies of Ashura.(….)
(….) Although Arbain is a special and inherent ceremony Shiite, Sunni worshipers, izadíes, Zoroastrians, and Christians also participate in this event, considered one of the largest religious gatherings in the world in terms of number of participants; three times higher than the concentration of Mecca. This ceremony also takes on a distinctive character, supported by the presence of people of different faiths and races who acknowledge the Imam Hussein (P) as a symbol of freedom and sacrifice.(…)
(…) The commemoration of this year’s Arbain is different from other years because it comes amid a rising tide of Islamophobia that has been spreading through the horrendous terrorist activities of different groups, including highlights Daesh. About 20 million people go to Iraq to commemorate this day, despite all the dangers of this Arab country, and despite the bloody and destructive offensive launched by takfiríes terrorist groups, the main enemies of Shiite faithful.
Given the current situation in Iraq and Syria, whose people are massacred daily and almost destroyed by Daesh terrorists as well as the testimonies of the terrorist attacks in different parts of the world, as the most recent ones occurred in France and Lebanon under the name of Islam, this ceremony is an ideal opportunity for the Shiites to show the world the true image of that divine religion which differs entirely from falsehood hoisted by terrorists.(….)
West-funded Russian hacks claim that Russia has not really deployed the S-400 missile system over Syria. Some key radar is allegedly missing. This was done for domestic propaganda reasons, to scare the West etc…
Now I don’t know whether this is true, but it requires consideration.
As for the Donbass front, the news are that the Ukropians are preparing a new attack, which as well all know on this blog is only a matter of time.
Also, on the Syraq front, NATO is using its Turkish/Kurdish proxies to move into territory foremrly occupied by their ISIS proxies.
FortRuss has an article that totally destroys the British media crapola about the S400 not having its radar component.
First, how friggin ridiculous would that be for Russia to put up a defense system without radar?
Second, learn to think and not just to read, folks. And pursue many sources of information on any topic. You will have a better foundation for understanding.
http://fortruss.blogspot.com/2015/12/sociopath-media-report-rusis-epic-s-400.html
Simple logic works, too. Would Putin bluff and risk another huge loss in Syria?
The West counts on people not thinking, not being logical.
That’s how they rule. Not just the masses being sheep. They are stupid sheep.
“They are stupid sheep.” :-!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQNwrQHa8fg
@ Harold … the clever sheep
The above Monty Python piece on Anglo-French Ovine Aviation was inspired by that ludicrous joint project of the time of those same two world scavengers – the now defunct supersonic luxury airliner “Concorde”… :-)
Here;s my theory…
Wi-fi missiles. Needs no radar because they are hooked into the Secret Russian satellite navigation and spy system, with electronic war system backup. Just radio up what you want to hit — all encrypted and redundant spread spectrum, of course) and immediately get back the control codes and results of firing, with generated report and coordination components being fed into the central fire control system in the ‘mother ship bunker’ in the Kremlin, where there is an officer sitting at a ‘video game’ console controlling the entire military operation. Obama’s drone system is kid stuff compared to what the Russians have.
That’s the theory I’m staying with until someone tells me I’ve been drinking too much kumis.
The S300 like the S400 are not something like buying a fully loaded car.. You can add in a cd player, usb port, abs, fat rims, sunroof, and a trailer.. Even wiki has a page on it and it is rather complex.. Needs a degree to just be able to operate it. The main thing with the S400 is the MIG31 can use it to attack targets 1000 miles away.. And people report seeing MIG31’s in Syria.. They only have one purpose and that is to shoot down other flying objects. Russia only got like 5 or so upgraded jets so if they sent those to Syria then it is to go with the S400.. It also needs an awacs plane.. But it seems that might also arrive in Syria. At mach 3+ it would be significantly faster than anything it faces and should even be able to outrun most AAM’s fired at it. Only the U2 is faster.. but the U2 cant turn and the MIG31 pretty much cant either..
@mmirww
Not U2, you mean SR-71, blackbird (US designation), GRAU designation for the SR-71 -> “The Flying Drunkard.” aka “The Cowardly-Crow”, “The Trespassing Tramp”, “The Sneaky-Snake”. Mach 3.3 is Max speed.
Artificially limited max speed for the Mig-31 is Mach 2.83, has been flown at Mach 3.0. A production machine of which over 500 were built, could be modified to fly over Mach 3.5 sustained (w extra fuel tanks and reinforced airframe), the SR-71 was a custom built skunkworks product of which only 2-3 were built.
There really is no comparison, the Mig-31 was superior (though uglier) because it was a real production combat plane with durability and multiple mission capability, the SR-71 was a custom prototype with only a single mission type profile (to trespass, spy and run for its life from incoming SAMs).
How likely is it that Russia would have undertaken the cost – and risk – of shipping their latest military hardware over to Syria if they hadn’t accepted they might need to use it?
I gotta agree with your assessment. But not only stupid sheep, sometimes cowardly stupid sheep.
I have a neighbor, directly across the street, that’s such a pathetic and idiotic coward that he’s had loud arguments with this son that he shouldn’t have RT (the news channel) on TV whenever the maid service is in the house because she might report them to the authorities (meanwhile he’s yelling so loud, the whole neighborhood can hear him). Can you believe this idiot? He brings a whole new definition to the terms stupid cowardly selfish wanker. It’s gutless people like this that make totalitarian regimes possible.
That’s the kind of selfish brainless idiots that we have in our society. These are true assholes that have some idea that things aren’t as they seem but are too gutless to even face the truth let alone talk about it.
It’s also the shallowness and selfishness of some in the West that are ok with their governments murdering innocent people in other countries as long as they personally aren’t affected, then no problem. It’s another example where evil selfish behaviour is a virtuous western value.
So the Ukrostanis are planning another attempt at the Darwin Award are they? Prepare for the average IQ of the human race to increase measurably as they die-off under the hail of fire the Donbass will unleash on them.
Ukrostanis is sooo stupid.
By the way the leader of Syria, Assad, seems to be a true leader in the same vein as Putin: Humble, apparently honest, straightforward, competent, sexually normal, and intelligent. That would explain the visceral hatred the morally compromised satraps that “govern” the UK, France, etc. have for Assad. The motive is jealousy and anger that he isnt as filthy and low as they are: his & Putin’s presence serves as a constant reminder of their own self-recognized inadequacies, and this enrages at a deep level them out of uncontrollable jealousy.
Pro-Western terrorists that have received support from the United States or its allies ( as Saudi Arabia ) have turned their guns on each other in a northern corner of Syria,
REUTERS
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-syria-turkey-battle-idUSKBN0TP0I220151206
Pleeeeese! Reuters = Thomson/Reuters = rooting for AngloZionists.
Rami AbdulRahman ? a bwitish pensioner….director?..he’s a one man band!…lives outside Coventry in Leicestershire,UK.
He get his script from the UK ‘Foreign & Commonwealth Office’ and his paycheck,re-imbursed by the US treasury,with free as air ‘dollars’.
Full interview of Assad with the Sunday Times (text only), The beginning is about the vote in British parliament for bombing in Syria (the interview was held one day before the vote):
http://sana.sy/en/?p=63558
The interview was “before” the vote. But only printed “after” the vote. That should tell us all we need to know about the MSM.
Well, let’s hope there will be an arabic synchronisation soon and, hopefully broadcasted not only in Syria but, e.g., in Iraq or Libya or even Egypt.
And please everybody (europeans and, of course anglosaxons!) notice what Mr. Assad said about the importance of secularism. Multiple times he underlined secularism as the basic principle of the syrian society.
If it’s not for the thievery of oil, the syrian secularism would be the primary reason of turkish diarrhoea [remark for administrators: diarrhoea is not vulgar, it’s the medical term of what should otherwise be spoken out more precisely].
Back to Assad: It’s not the first interview, instead it’s just the last in series of interviews over the last decade. I would be glad to haven someone like him as president/chancellor (instead of the not only in political terms ugly one right now). I would be very glad to have a first lady Assad, sunni or not, i wouldn’t mind.
There is a short video at youtube both (him and her) walking down a shoping street in Paris in summer 2010. That’s when i first thought: the (western media) is lying us about Assad.
For the sake of Syria i do hope both Assads won’t be killed. I wouldn’t be surprised if some day there is an affiliate of (e.g.) Charlie Hebdo in Damascus and the french police would be forced to kill another bunch of assassin and, of course, sorry for that … accidentally killed the syrian president. Maybe not the french but the turkish police? Maybe both?
Syria, Syria, Syria, meantime Biden is in Kiev and UKR is assaulting NAF positions all over the Donbass. Bur we are supposed to believe in the wonderful effects of some mythical agreements called “Minsk”
No, you aren’t to believe in Minsk (2). You ought to believe in the genius idea of Russia fighting a war across all of Ukraine, perhaps triggering some NATO units to join in the war, and accomplishing what?
Russia can barely absorb Crimea with all the problems it has. What is it going to do with a defeated Ukraine, 40 million hungry and angry people trained for 25 years to hate Russia.
Russia is not cash rich and possessing a 4% growth profile right now. It has lost 50% of its oil and gas revenues in petrodollars. It is in recession.
And you want a war for it.
Brilliant. No wonder you post your stuff under Anonymous.
We have discussed Minsk 2 and the trap it is for Kiev, EU, and NATO. That is what it does. It binds them all in a UNSC approved path for federalizing Ukraine, or Ukraine never gets its borders back. It keeps Ukraine out of EU and out of NATO.
Do some research and learn what Minsk 2 does and doesn’t do.
And while you at it, study Russia and Putin closer. They are not going to allow NATO to get closer than Poland, nor are they going to allow Donbass to be destroyed.
And if another full offensive starts, Russia will finish it again. Actually, the best thing to happen would be another Ukie offensive. The militia Army will devastate the nazis.
@Mats
Well said, impeccable logic. Point by point you nailed it.
In English!
This is so important, that these interviews and such is available in English so that Americans (and everyone else who speaks English) has access to the information from the source and do not have to rely on the corporate telling their version of what is said.
Many people won’t hear it, of course, being glued to the TV, but others will and inject some truth into the public conversation. Americans, with their limited language abilities, can become a bit less isolated and dependent on the lies of the empire.
This is the first time I have heard him speak, and I hope other Americans will too. He and Putin make much more sense than Western leaders.
Assad is an independent man of principle. His philosophy is secularism which supports religious freedom. No wonder he is hated by haters of freedom and reason.
Religious fanatics come in many sizes, shapes and colors but they all share mistrust in the mind, and not without reason. The mind can be a killer. The trick is to integrate the mind into the secularism (earth-centrality, naturalism) of love.
A la another thread, I reread Saker’s desert submarine addendum. He mentioned that he is pursuing an advanced degree in patristic theology. I was a Catholic priest and had a crush on the fathers for their Greek education, poetry and mysticism.
I need something more than military and strategic geo-political analyses. It doesn’t feed my soul and leads to paralysis by analysis in my case. But the same is true of the church fathers with their newly discovered Christ Cause.
I follow the war here but without a higher cause it’s a lost cause as far as I’m concerned. Love is the only cause that carries any weight with me. I think love night and day, and like Assad follow my own principles as an independent man, using my mind to its fullest in the interests of love.
I think love, eat no meat, keep no pets, eschew marriage and take no interest. These acts keep my mind clear of the druggists, church and state being the biggest pushers. The mind is a delicate instrument which requires freedom to breathe.
I don’t think Assad the eye surgeon operates according to bible or koran anatomy. He needs to see clearly and so do I. Early in life I chose not to see the painful reality around me and to this day use glasses for reading and typing this.
My mind’s eye is akin to a physical eye. I keep one eye on love and the other on war. I play Billy the Kid freedom which might get me killed because “they don’t want you to be so free.”
“There’s eyes behind the mirrors in empty places
Bullet holes and scars between the spaces
There’s always one more notch and ten more paces
So sleep with one eye open when you slumber
Every little sound just might be thunder
Thunder from the barrel of his gun”
-Bob Dylan
“There’s white and black magic, and then there’s clear magic
Love is clear and clears all difficulties
I happens in a womam’s heart rather than in a man’s head”
-thelovegovernment.com
Thank you for repeatedly bringing a big picture perspective – a completely different paradigm – to all this
This came after a Turkish security source said that several hundred Turkish forces had been dispatched to a military base on the outskirts of the city of Mosul, the capital of Nineveh province, to provide training for Iraqi soldiers.
Turkish media reported that Ankara is erecting a base in the Bashiqa region of Mosul with 600 soldiers.
The Iraqi prime minister has called on Turkey to immediately withdraw its forces from northern Iraq, calling Ankara’s move “an incursion”.
http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/12/06/440595/Iraq–AlAbad–Peshmerga-Mosul-Bashiqa—
Bashiqa:
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This latest move by Erdogoon is going to be seen in the near future as an even bigger pivot of events than it is now.
About the equivalent to the Poles invading Kaliningrad to set up a Polish protectorate!
Full new discussion topic up today on this over at MofA org forum now.
Crazy times. A few NATO ships are strutting around in the Black Sea, Turkey has invaded Iraq and keeps thumbing its nose at any suggestions of wrongdoing, Ukraine is attacking the Donbass in full force, and France, Germany and UK are in Syria, refusing to tell the Russians where they will be next.
What can possibly go wrong?
“How it originated, how it is maintained and for what is maintained ISIS?” by Mikel Itulaín.
http://miguel-esposiblelapaz.blogspot.com.es/2015/06/como-se-origino-como-se-mantiene-y-para.html
Thanks, excellent! Highly recommended to anyone reading Spanish.
NATO is attacking us on all fronts!
Ukropians have today launched a renewed offensive in Donbass, while the NATO coalition has just struck SAA positions in Deir-Ezzor!
Russia-led alliance under severe pressure now!
Court proceedings and wiretaps have revealed that Turkey has been shelling Syrian Army positions on behalf of fanatic jihadis in Syria.
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/02/turkey-syria-weapons-civil-war-kessab-armenian.html#
Pepe Escobar has just written an analysis of the true reasons behind the Syrian conflict, with the telling title Syria: Ultimate Pipelineistan War, http://www.strategic-culture.org/news/2015/12/07/syria-ultimate-pipelineistan-war.html
Wherein he says, in part:
“… Syria is an energy war. With the heart of the matter featuring a vicious geopolitical competition between two proposed gas pipelines, it is the ultimate Pipelineistan war, the term I coined long ago for the 21st century imperial energy battlefields
It all started in 2009, when Qatar proposed to Damascus the construction of a pipeline from its own North Field – contiguous with the South Pars field, which belongs to Iran – traversing Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria all the way to Turkey, to supply the EU.
Damascus, instead, chose in 2010 to privilege a competing project, the $10 billion Iran-Iraq-Syria, also know as «Islamic pipeline». …”
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“… The «Assad must go» obsession in Washington is a multi-headed hydra. It includes breaking a Russia-Iran-Iraq-Syria alliance (now very much in effect as the «4+1» alliance, including Hezbollah, actively fighting all strands of Salafi Jihadism in Syria). But it also includes isolating energy coordination among them, to the benefit of the Gulf petrodollar clients/vassals linked to US energy giants.
Thus Washington’s strategy so far of injecting the proverbial Empire of Chaos logic into Syria; feeding the flames of internal chaos, a pre-planed op by the CIA, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, with the endgame being regime change in Damascus.
An Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline is unacceptable in the Beltway not only because US vassals lose, but most of all because in currency war terms it would bypass the petrodollar. Iranian gas from South Pars would be traded in an alternative basket of currencies. …”
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“… What’s certain is that, geo-economically, Syria goes way beyond a civil war; it’s a vicious Pipelineistan power play in a dizzying complex chessboard where the Big Prize will represent a major win in the 21st century energy wars. …”
What is happening in Syria and the whole Muslim world is beyond our imagination. Something sinister is taking place. Who and what is the real agenda behind the slaughter of thousands of innocent civilians, only Allah knows. Why did Russia enter this war, why did that carnage take place in Paris recently, why was the Russian plane brought down by the Turks? So many things are happening simultaneously besides Allah who else can answer the real agenda behind this carnage taking place . Who is Isil and why couldn’t all the so called Western powers defeat them? Why was Russia allowed to join the fray? Nothing makes sense at the moment.