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Excellent synopsis. Thanks.
One of my roles in this lifetime is to be a spoiler. I’m destined to spoil the war fun and games; although the warrior in me enjoys them.
December 7 is a pivotal date to remember; you know, Pearl Harbor and all. Don’t you love all that drama and intrigue? A war-monger’s wet dream.
Here’s the spoiler. The day of infamy is sandwiched between a couple of blind dates. December 6 is the feast of Saint Nicholas aka Santa Claus. You know the story which dates back to the Roman Empire (the God of War be praised) and the Council of Nicea in 325 where Nicholas punched a heretic. In other words a day for children who may or may not turn out to be terrorists for Rome’s successor empire.
The second spoiler. Listen up. December 8 is the feast of the Immaculate Conception of the Mother of God, the blessed Virgin Mary. (Saints be praised) which also goes back to the Roman times. All roads do lead to Rome, even now in the minds of war planners.
So there you have it. Two book-ends. A children’s feast of stockings full of candy or coal. A holy woman’s feast of love and sex. Two support columns for a row of war books stretching from here to the moon and back.
To top it off, this is the beginning of Advent when the Savior comes to save us from wars inside and out.
Hollywood cannot beat the real world drama of modern myth. Blood by hundred barrel lots is spilled to defend or attack jet ideas. And they say the mind doesn’t matter.
To add salt to the stew, I’ve invented my own version of the big story of life at The Love Government.
What has all this to do with the vineyard of sakers at this momentous time? Well, in one well timed and spaced word: Love. Ah, there’s the rub between a vineyard of sakers and a junkyard of suckers.
It’s not about war and peace in the final turkey shoot but about war and love aka the war on love which started long before the Roman Empire. The big headline story started long ago before any empires. It was an emporium of love in our lexicon and a garden of eden in theirs, the longest story ever untold.
“Of war and peace the truth just twists
All except when ‘neath the trees of Eden
The sparrow sings: there are no kings
Inside the Gates of Eden
And there are no truths
Outside the Gates of Eden”
-The Poet
“Joy was beside herself, ecstatic, outstanding, standing outside of whatever was standing in her way. She was up early, like a child on Chrestmass morning.”
-The Lover @ thelovegovernment.com
“The Empire never ended.” –Phillip K. Dick, one of my favorite heterdox authors.
In my attempt to unscramble your rhetoric, Mr. Leary, I should first point out that calendar dates have been transposed in honor of astronomical data, so the good bishop of Myra is celebrated by the old Julian calendar of his day thirteen days later than Gregorian style Dec 6, on (Gregorian style) Dec 19.
I’ll also put forth that very little is actually known of his life, though tradition supplies many instances of good works. We may feel free to doubt the current version of his opposition to the Arian beliefs – I for one had never heard it until you mentioned it. Here is what Orthodox wiki has to say:
“Nicholas was noted for his defense of Orthodoxy against the Arians. He is reputed to have been present at the Council of Nicea, but his name does not appear among any documents from that era. He died in Myra on December 6 in a year uncertain, but between 342 and 352.”
I’m a strong believer in tradition – for some reason Christmas is under attack, as are Christians all over the world. I do not remember Christ ever saying “Blessed are the warmakers”. He did say “Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the sons of God.”
The conception was on Dec 8? I did not know that.
Wouldn’t that put Christmas Day on August 8? ;-)
“Then (the bombers – approx. PB) passed back along the border (you know who)), accompanied by 9 fighters. Three 16-x (F-16 – approx. PB) … we tried to escort, but sdrisnuli … ”
Russian fighters drove the Turkish F-16 raised to protect terrorists from the Russian bombers videoconferencing
“Russian Spring” reports with reference to certain volunteer “Engineer”, which has no connection with the armed forces of the Russian Federation, in the sky of Syria were intercepted by three Turkish aircraft scrambled to accompany Russian bombers. Apparently it is a Tu-160.
Meanwhile, according to the source, Turkish F-16s were even unable to work at the height at which there was a Tu-160.
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Global War: The Front Lines-
Stretching 1500 miles, from Syria, to Crimea, to Novorossiya, to Poland and the Baltic principalities.
Syria, and Eastern Europe are the major confrontation points between world Zionist/American imperialism and the anti-fascist alliance of Russia, Syria Iran, Iraq, Lebanon’s Hezbollah, and the Palestinian people.
Key points to consider:
1. The struggle in Syria goes well, as President Assad’s armies liberate more of their country from the -Zionist/American Terrorist Armies.
[We do not wish to hear any more prattle about the fictional ‘Arab Islamic Terrorists.’ They are as real as the absurd notion that Hollywood Obomber is the “President of the United States.” The terrorists are the Zionist Americans, with a smattering of troops from the Zionist puppets in the Middle East added for ethnic flavoring, as one adds salt and pepper to his supper. If one wants to find Arabs in motion, count the millions of displaced from the destroyed nations of the Middle East, who are carefully directed north, or those living in Refugee Camps.]
2. In Europe, the Zionist American puppet nation, Poland’s choreographed request for Zio-American Nukes to be based in its territory, is a Christmas gift for Russia. The only appropriate Russian response to such a dangerous terrorist initiative (to place hostile nuclear weapons on Russia’s border), is to – Liberate the Russian peoples of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Look at a map. The sooner this is done, the better for the Russian people, and the free peoples of this planet. Twenty thousand Russian Marines, each, should accomplish the task, almost painlessly, and within 24 hours. The imperialists must understand that there are consequences for their aggression. For the Russian leaders to do anything less, is suicidal.
Some Georgian puppets have stated a desire to join NATO. Same solution.
Russia is now strong enough to reunite its still splintered nation. If they do so soon, (this week at the latest), their new strength will enable them to rescue the Yugoslavian peoples, and even Greece, from the Zio-American imperialists. Strength leads to more strength. The stronger Russia is, the more likely will be the prevalence of world peace.
Always save the best for last:
3. The French “National Front” political party, led by Congresswoman Marine Le Pen, has just won sweeping electoral victories throughout France. Her victory is many sided, and intentionally obfuscated by the bought media. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-35025846
The BBC prestitutes insist that her political alliance is “far-right.” In truth, it is only somewhat conservative. And the old “right” “left” labels are misleading, and highly inaccurate, and highly unhelpful, in 2015, (it has been said: that it is not important if you are right, or left, but whether you are right or wrong).
Much of the so-called political ‘Right,’ in America, as well as Europe, is a mix of libertarian, anti imperialist, anti-zionist, patriotic, religious, and anti-war advocacies, – – – which contrasts with the so-called political ‘Left,’ that supports, the Zionist Land Thieves, a 1 World Zionist imperialist New World Order, which necessitates the destruction of National Sovereignty, and with that, the destruction of Democratically elected governments, including that of the United States in 1963, and culminates in the liquidation of entire nations, and a sporting of a pro-militarist culture, with the concurrent slaughter of millions of humans (more than 6 million since the end of WW II – 1945 – your Real Holocaust). Recall the Napalm, Agent Orange, Phoenix Programs in Vietnam, and Indonesia, and the ongoing liquidation of the Guatemalan native peoples, and the complete occupation of Mexico (with the imprisonment of its 125 million people, who are ruled by a brutal drug marketing and mass murdering neo-Nazi American terrorist occupation force (and puppet Quisling government).
Marine Le Pen, who, unlike her father, has kissed up to the Zionist oligarchs, and, as with her father, has been perceived as insensitive to France’s African citizens, won her election campaign by (pay attention here), by advocating Solidarity with and support for the Russian Nation of Vladimir Putin, and with the Syrian Nation of Bashar Al-Assad in their efforts to defeat the terrorists. Read her latest speeches (all over the internet).
To emphasize this point is worth its own paragraphs:
Marine Le Pen, and her National Front, pasted with the old definition of “far-right,” won their election with the advocacy of political and military unity with the Russian and Syrian governments in the struggle against world terrorism (and by translation in the struggle for World Peace). The National Front advocates an anti-imperialist, anti-NATO, anti-American, and anti-Zionist policy. Additionally, Le Pen’s National front supports the recovery of France’s National Sovereignty.
Marine Le Pen’s National front would help save the Arabian Nation of Syria, whereas France’s socialists are helping their Zionist american masters to destroy yet another Middle eastern nation, that of Syria. [Do you see the difference?] The French people are increasingly supporting these progressive initiatives of the National Front. And although Dieudonné, and Alain Soral (with his Equality and Reconciliation effort), both of ‘leftish’ political upbringings, have their differences with the Le Pens, their essential goals are converging.
Throughout America, with the Ron Paul and Edward Snowden phenomenons, and over Europe, decent anti-imperialists are popping up in the most unlikely places, as the French and Norwegian and Swedish and Greek socialists (Syriza) decline into the trashheap of history.
For the Democratic Republics!
I agree with Mr. Antonsen’s observations. President Putin cannot continue to deploy statesmanship with the expectation that reason and sensibility will succeed and overcome the western hegemony. Delays only give further time to US/NATO/ISIS Inc. to prepare a greater and perhaps devastating attack against Russia.
Putin cannot be afraid to confront his own people with the reality that war is coming and it will be long and bloody. You can be assured the U.S. believes they will win convincingly to the point where their MSM propagandists have not yet broached the subject with the American people. The neocons are counting on the shock of war to ramp up the nationalism and enlist to die overseas in the Middle East.
However the Pentagon does not comprehend what the U.S. mainland will look like when the eastern seaboard is destroyed by a massive counterattack from Russia. The war will end in the U.S., not in Eastern Europe.
Sorry, Mr. Antonsen, but you have this exactly backward.
I don’t know what country you live in. I am in the US and I can tell you with absolute certainty that it is the right in the US that is a mix of libertarian, pro-imperialist, pro–zionist, pseudo-patriotic, fanatically religious, supporters of Zionist land thieves, and pro-war advocacies, and all rest of your list.
It is what is left of the left (from liberals to socialists) in the US that opposes these atrocities.
And the idea that it was the left that carried out the assassination of Pres. Kennedy is just ludicrous.
Jack,
I just finished explaining the uselessness of the political labels, “left,” and “right.” Surely you read that part.
I never wrote, said, or hinted that the “left” assassinated JFK and overthrew the American Republic. I did accuse the “World Zionist imperialist New World Order” of that crime. Read it again!
The neo-Nazi triggermen on November 22, 1963, were an alliance of MOSSAD, and CIA, with imperialists of the Zio-American Military Financial Complex. There is Mark Lane’s “Rush to Judgement,” and Coup d’etat in America, by Weberman – to begin your search. None implicate the “left.”
You might also peruse the website of Ron Paul, who is clearly the leader of America’s libertarian right. He is regularly featured on Russian media, along with Edward Snowden, who has no roots with the so-called ‘left.’ Ron Paul has repeatedly advocated that – all American soldiers be brought home (to the USA). Do you know any leftist, or socialist Congressmen who hold an equivalent position?
Then read the last dozen speeches of Marine Le Pen, or more. The American ‘socialist and liberal left’ are the strongest supporters of Traitor and imperialist stooge and mass murderer Obomber, and the Clintons. They are campaigning for them now. “Socialist” Sanders has voted to fund both wars against Iraq, the one against Afghanistan, and to fund the genocidal Zionist state against the Palestinian people, among his other crimes. Oh! yes! Do you believe that only the Bushes are responsible for their evil, plus evil of the 8 years of Clinton, the 7 of Obomber?
Or are you referring to “what is left of the left” comprising a few government maintained ‘Marxist Lemonist’ sects?
I certainly do not “have this exactly backward, and you don’t have this completely forward.”
For the Democratic Republics!
Regarding Libertarians,
You’re wrong Jack, it’s the libertarians that have taken the most courageous stance against war and intervention. The left has been cowardly and apologists for anything Hillary does or anything the Obama state dept does. It’s also the Libertarians that have pushed for decriminalization of minor felonies and drug use as well as leading a crusade against police violence and reduction in civili liberties. Meanwhile the cowardly left help empower the police state by calling for gun control (how stupid).
Jack
There is essentially no non-zionist left in the usa. You lot made sure of that.
Peter,
Re: Le Pen and your ‘dreams’
What causes you to trust what falls from the right side of Le Pen’s mouth and ignore what comes from the left?
I read your comments and you are way too smart to be so tragically foolish.
Le Pen is a creation of the French ‘deep state.’ Her first big speech, perfectly calibrated and occurring only moments after the Paris false flag, was a massive call for the militarization of French society.
What difference does it make if her excuse for fascism and militarization is pro Russian or pro NATO? Is not Hollande using exactly the same tactic to blunder his way back into the MER and the semi-relevance so desperately craved by the French slave race?
Meanwhile she has absolutely f**king nothing to say about the total Nazification of France in the hours, days and weeks since this unquestionably staged event.
Potential opponents of the regime are being arrested in the THOUSANDS, including environmentalists and anti Zionists while protesting in the streets will get you arrested or possibly gunned down by police. This is the
atmosphere in which Le Pen is prospering and that is because this is the plan!
More to the general point, when Ron Paul began winning the completely phoney Republican nomination sweepstakes and was almost immediately shut down, the same way as Trump is only a few years later —
WHAT did he say?
The answer is NOTHING because he had no intention of fighting to win precisely because he, like Le Pen, is a tool of the establishment who infrequently and always very meekly mumbles blah blah blah (lest he should draw too much attention to himself or the issue) about Israel or gun control and all the Republican-tards cheer along and then dutifully vote Bush, McCain or whomever to block an equally despicable Democrat-tard.
You finish each of your (often good) comments as if you were a warlock chanting a spell with your now famous catch phrase:
Imagine
Seriously — wtf are you working at here?
Are you trying to cast a spell on your audience?
Is there something I would understand better if I stopped thinking critically?
So yeah let’s ‘imagine’ what it’s like to fall under an idiot spell which causes our thinking to STOP and be replaced with extreme credulousness on behalf of whatever false opposition muppet you or people like you fall for over and over and OVER again.
“What causes you to trust what falls from the right side of Le Pen’s mouth and ignore what comes from the left?”
Because he is a Trotskyist?
Which has always been the role of the Trotskyites?
The reaction.
Discredit and dismantle the left at a time when the neoliberal establishment is in crisis because the masks are falling and the citizens wake up to the audacity of those who believe themselves in absolute impunity.
In any case, I suppose that Mr. Antonsen, when does it so bad, speaks of the “American left”, which is no longer than an oxymoron.
Yes. Good point Elsi. He is possibly using a tactic to keep us divided, perhaps unconsciously if we give him the benefit of doubt.
Reminds me of something you said (I believe it was you) regarding our need to mobilize a coherent opposition.
Step 1 must be —
Both the Left and Right need to cleanse themselves of the Trotskyte anti-coagulent Borg drone nanoprobes and only then come together on the issues which we agree upon.
Imagine that!
People could come together with the sole objective of destroying oligarchical power without allowing any of the usual ideological errata to undermine our primary goal.
And NO, I do not mean the oligarch sponsered Fourth Political Heidiggerean-boogeratti non-solution solution as presently (and quite cynically) conceived by Alexander Dugin, Joaquin Flores, Morris Herman (Morris 108) and their main sponser Russian 5th columnist Konstantin Malofeev of Marshall Capital Partners.
Every decision, policy, proposal, etc. which remained perfectly focussed on the target would be a good solution for all empathic human beings, including Left, Right or other perspectives which correctly reject this totally useless and destructive frame for political calculation (an insight on which the Fourth Political theory-controlled opposition movement is partly based).
Anyone who couldn’t get past their exclusively Left/Right ideological interpretations would be excluded as a matter of course. This is absolutely necessary if we are ever to form a core Resistance that is immune to the tricks commonly used by elites.
Moreover this grouping would naturally imitate the winning strategy of Russia.
Whenever Russia is confronted by the false choices offered by the West (what some of us refer to as Putin habitually playing chess against the red/black dichotomy game of checkers played by the West) they have demonstrated an uncanny ability to determine a logical and non-divisive response which does not undermine Russia’s fundamental goal, i.e. dimunization of AngloZionist oligarchal power.
Some will say this is a recipe for stagnation or ineffectiveness but done correctly it could help us form the basis of a proper and united resistance to Zionist Supremacism in all its forms.
C I eh?
I learn much from the frank discussions we have on this forum (I refer to all the participants). As individuals we see things differently, and this website allows discussion in depth.
Who is the Trotskyist? His assassination by Stalin’s killers, in obvious agreement with the USA, which at the time, 1940, refused Trotsky entry, therefore leaving him stranded in the weak semi-colonial nation of Mexico was an act of terror. Why was Trotsky assassinated? Who decided? If Trotsky was an imperialist agent, why was he not protected by the imperialists?
I met artist and one of the Mexican Communist leaders, who first tried to assassinate Trotsky, Siquieros, as he was released from prison. The second attempt, by another Stalinist, Mercader, succeeded. What were they afraid of?
I do not agree with the core of Trotsky’s political direction, but he was refused entry to the USA, and murdered for some reason. What was he doing that the American government, and Stalin’s government did not like? Do they have the right to assassinate? Trotsky, Juares, Lennon, and Kennedy, and Malcolm X, and ML King, and Lumumba, and thousands of others were murdered.
For me, the fact that Trotsky was assassinated, is proof that he was one of us, and not one of them.
I hope the popular support for the Le Pens helps to weaken the Zionist American control over France. Should she become the President of France, can she do worse damage than the socialist Syriza in Greece? The Le Pen family has a long and mixed political history, dating from at least the 1930s. They may serve to unsettle the imperialists.
I may be wrong; and it would be the first time.
I would prefer a Mass uprising in France by hundreds of thousands of Well Armed and disciplined Anarchists, who intend to continue the work of Buenaventura Durruti, but must hope for the best. I have a high regard for Dieudonné and his many thousands of supporters, as well as for Alain Soral. We may get lucky, something good may happen. Look at the Russian Air Corps in Syria.
Who would have thought? What daring courage! What fire!
I am not sectarian, and will march with any who oppose imperialism, while I will carry my own banner.
The toughest task for Americans, such as myself, is to restore our Republic, restore America’s Sovereignty, and bring the Zionist American terrorists, and their puppets to justice. Leonidas had an easier task.
In Friendship with all who appreciate the Saker website.
For the Democratic Republics!
“For me, the fact that Trotsky was assassinated, is proof that he was one of us, and not one of them.”
Alexander Litvinenko was also assassinated and, clearly, was not one of us, in fact was one of Berezovsky.
elsi,
The difference is in who refused Trotsky asylum – the imperialist American Government, and who assassinated Trotsky, the Stalinist Government (on direct orders – most likely of Djugashvili himself), of the USSR.
The Facts are key to understanding all political issues. We are debating an old wound. A wound that became mortal in 1940.
The more important issues of the day are where we must spend most of our time.
I am an Anarchist. Trotsky opposed anarchists. I am not a sectarian. Read some of Trotsky’s speeches when he was elected President of the St. Petersburg Soviet in 1905. He had his moments.
Check out Durruti when you have time.
I also greatly admire Vladimir Putin. He has performed miracles. He needs help from the rest of us.
Support the Democratic Republics!
Dear Paul,
Most of what you wrote seems to fit the landscape except a point you wrote about Marine Le Pen: she is not anti-imperialistic at all -she openly supports French colonial interventions, theft and exploitation in Africa (she’s ok with colonialism that benefits France). Her only beef with colonialism is when it’s being done to her own country by either the EU, Germany or the US. This makes her a flying unprincipled opportunistic hypocrite. Her support for Assad has no basis in morality, but is predicated on the practicality of how most efficiently to keep those unwanted Arabs out of her country. Her treatment of her father whether staged or not gives one insight into her bad character. (if staged she’s a manipulating con-artist & liar, if not staged, she’s a backstabbing opportunist that would throw her own father -who gave her everything- under the bus, —> either way she comes across as evil.)
Exactly!
This next gambit by the braindead Poles was exactly what was expected soon or by now to counter the very scenario mentioned here yesterday–all Russia has to do (assuming it’s not onside with the one-worlders) is station SRBMs, range 1000 km flight time 5-7 minutes at most, in Kaliningrad to point at the known troublemakers’ hidey holes.
So this is simply NATO’s reply to that.
I can’t wait for the Poles to send in that armored column under the pretense of setting up a Polish protectorate.
Meanwhile, we wait for either the next mythical sighting of the Swedish ‘Flying Dutchman’= Russian sub, or the next Hitler parody video up on u-tube:
“Hitler thrilled to learn Russia has taken in the Frenchies as allies”.
2. In Europe, the Zionist American puppet nation, Poland’s choreographed request for Zio-American Nukes to be based in its territory, is a Christmas gift for Russia. The only appropriate Russian response to such a dangerous terrorist initiative (to place hostile nuclear weapons on Russia’s border), is to – Liberate the Russian peoples of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
» Poland’s choreographed request for Zio-American Nukes to be based in its territory … «
Despite all the choreography, Nuclear Weapons don’t work (comment of mine on another page on this blog).
» Liberate the Russian peoples of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. «
Hmm … I don’t think Russia is unhappy about having large ethnic footholds in these countries. As for “liberating”, the peoples on the Baltic shores and their languages predate Russian civilization. You don’t seriously think they want to be “liberated” once again, do you? It would be cultural arrogance, to say the least.
This topic could go onto any link or forum. MSM print media is comatose, but over 99% of it hasn’t had any real independent investigative reporters work worth printing for the past quarter century & more.
DEC 7
Downsizing the News Staff; Downsizing Quality and Credibility
The corporation also announced it was eliminating health coverage for future retirees and was freezing all pensions. Management told the public there would be no loss of quality, but it’s hard to believe those claims when the same management sliced photo editors, designers, writers, and several fact-checkers from the payroll.
The same day Murdoch terminated 9 percent of his staff, the owners of the Philadelphia Inquirer and Daily News fired 46 journalists, leaving only one copyeditor at the Daily News. A month earlier, the Los Angeles Times cut about 10 percent of its news room staff. The Chicago Sun-Times fired all its 28 photographers, including one who won the Pulitzer Prize, and is relying upon lower-paid freelancers and wire services.
The New Orleans Times-Picayune, which won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of Hurricane Katrina, plans to cut one-fifth of its news staff. Beginning in 2012, executive management in Cleveland reduced the newspaper from a daily to three times a week and fired staffers at that time. The Times–Picayune isn’t the only newspaper to have downsized its newsroom and reduced frequency. Among metro dailies that are now printed only three or four days a week are the Detroit Free Press and Detroit News, the Seattle-Post-Intelligencer, the Cleveland Plain-Dealer, the Syracuse Advance-Standard, and the Harrisburg Patriot-News.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article53235.html
Year by year, kilometer by kilometer, the U.S. moves into position to surround and attack Russia to the point where she can’t defend herself militarily and economically. It is so clear that no veil of deception can hide the inevitable. This has been the plan in place since the fall of the USSR in 1991.
Economic sanctions are imposed by the U.S. on Russia to weaken and soften the resolve of her people. Why? To prepare a military attack on Russia.
Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland admitted to spending 5 billion dollars to install a western puppet regime in the Ukraine led by the fascist, Poroshenko. Why? To prepare a military attack on Russia.
The Turkish president deliberately ordered the shooting down of a Russian bomber inside Syria with the help of the U.S. to provoke a military response from Putin. That didn’t happen. The US has seduced other eastern European nations with money to join NATO, the latest being Montenegro. Now Erdogan has sent Turkish troops into Iraq to coordinate with ISIS Inc. to lay further claim to Iraqi oil resources and protect the ISIS Inc. revenue stream to keep funding the chaos. The Russians are fighting ISIS Inc. in Syria along with the SAA (“Syrian Arab Army”) and the U.S./NATO coalition refuses to coordinate their military assets with Russia to defeat ISIS. Why? To prepare a military attack on Russia.
The latest aggression by the U.S. is the bombing of SAA positions in Syria. This attack was not an ‘accident’, it was a deliberate provocation to test the mettle of President Putin to use the AA S300/S400 systems against any aircraft (i.e., U.S. coalition ) that fly combat missions inside Syrian airspace without clearance from the Syrian government and the Russian military .
The defining curiosity at this pivotal moment is this: WHAT WILL PUTIN DO? Will he stop the west from providing support indirectly or directly to their ISIS proxy or will the Russians capitulate and ultimately abandon the Syrian nation? If Russia does not take a stand now in Syria regardless of the outcome it will be an of cowardice and make the deaths of the Russian pilot and marine soldier meaningless.
President Putin must confront Obama directly and tell him point blank that if the U.S. coalition continues to fly inside Syria without permission from Bashar Assad’s government then such acts will be considered hostile and threaten Russian military personnel who are legally in country fighting a war. The aircraft will be repelled by any means necessary regardless of what national emblem is displayed on the wings and fuselage of those planes including the UK, Turkey and the U.S.
If war is what the U.S. wants then so be it. But it is ridiculous at this juncture to hope, to cajole, to pray that commonsense will prevail. President Putin and his administration cannot continue to believe the U.S. are rational men and seek only peace. The peace the west wants is ultimately the greater ‘piece ‘ of Russia’s wealth and the subjugation of her people.
Agree with you.
Yes, may be it is time to punish the bullies…
Agreed, though I would note that the plan to encircle Russia goes back even further than 1991. Already this was the unspoken plan during the so-called Cold War. During the 1950s and 1960s, the numerous US plans for a pre-emptive nuclear strike were part of this. Russia is not the Soviet Union and Putin is a very different sort of politician, but the Western strategy is remarkably similar. When you read about the Western policies of “containment” and “rollback” against the Cold War Eastern bloc, I think you’ll find continuity with what we are seeing today. At present, it’s about “rollback”.
Next, as for what Putin “must” do, I am persuaded by the Saker’s analysis — and I’m looking forward to more soon! — that Putin and Lavrov no longer believe they are dealing with people who are “rational men [who] seek only peace”. In public, of course they have meetings with Western leaders and say “our partners” and speak of working together, but clearly they know these people are not to be trusted.
I understand your frustration at this situation and desire to just end the nice talk get on with the hostilities (“If war is what the U.S. wants then so be it.”), but any escalation could be extremely dangerous and will cost many lives. As South Front explains in this latest Foreign Policy Diary, a large scale nuclear conflict is a possible scenario. So if, as you emphasize, the U.S./NATO leadership is irrational and seeks only war, is that really what we should give them?
The Russia bear and the SAA et al. cannot defeat ISIS Inc. with the U.S./NATO coalition wolves biting her hind legs and the nape of her neck. She must swat the coalition hard and break its back before continuing on with destroying the terrorists in Syria. So if it comes down to clearing the skies of western aggression then it must be done. We all know Washington wants to turn Syria into a barbarous wasteland like Iraq and Libya where any power can sweep in and steal the natural resources and eviscerate the last remnants of an ancient culture as a spoil of war.
Putin must establish supremacy of the Syrian airspace firmly and decisively in order to be victorious in battle. He cannot show any trepidation or reluctance, he must have faith that what he orders the Russian military to do is necessary and just to protect Russian sovereignty in the future. This will be Putin’s finest hour as commander-in-chief if he has the courage to see it through and I believe he will. I do not see any other option as this war in Syria must be won no matter what bluster or threats the U.S. makes to the world.
Vladimir the Resolute must make the correct choice because to save Syria is to save Russia.
I understand your reasoning, but if Russia swats the coalition hard, won’t that be used as a pretense to further escalate and bring the full military force of NATO to bear in Syria? On that point, I fully agree with you that Washington wants to turn Syria into the next Iraq or Libya. That is and has been the plan for years now. They are just looking for the pretense to do this. They will distort facts, just as they did before. Like you, I wonder why Russia and Syria haven’t yet declared an official no-fly zone that they back by force (a.k.a. S-300s), but clearly they have a reason.
The NATO game is to keep needling and provoking Russia until there is a retaliatory attack, and then NATO will pretend that it is naked aggression by Putin. They will pretend that they did nothing. It’s childish, really. “Ooooh, he hit me!” But this game has been played out over and over for years now. E.g., France participates in hundreds of air strikes against targets in Iraq and Syria for months, and then when blowback arrives in Paris, Hollande acts like it was a completely unprovoked aggression.
This is a very dangerous game, and we should not underestimate the power of the Western media to spin any attack against NATO countries as “unprovoked aggression”. What we are seeing now is part of the process of “manufacturing consent”. NATO and the Western medias are spinning a series of “incidents” in which Russia is made to appear an aggressor: “invasion” of Crimea; support for the Donbass; the MH 17 shoot-down; the Su-24 “invading Turkish airspace” shoot-down; etc. You, I, and other readers of this blog know the MSM accounts of these events are a form of propaganda, but the majority of people in the NATO countries do not. They live completely inside the world painted by these medias, they don’t read or follow independent media, and so they gullibly believe what they are told by the MSM. They will thus give their “consent” to precisely the escalation that NATO wants.
The first battle line is not between NATO and Russia, it’s between the NATO member-states, their MICs, and their citizens. The most important opposition to their goals is domestic. It’s from all the people who are not onboard in their plans for WWIII. People like Corbyn in the UK, for example. So they need to first win the consent of their citizens and for that they are trying to paint a picture of “unprovoked aggression”. That’s what they are working on now.
In this situation, I would say that Russia needs to really step up the information war. I am thankful for wonderful sites like this, where informed people wish to discuss and debate, but it will take a lot more money, resources, and media infrastructure to reach a mass audience.
Russia and the SAA are not going to overcome this monumental quest with sensible rhetoric or try to appeal to a higher intelligence or wave the olive branch so that a great council of western coalition leaders may convene and decide to talk, to speculate and agree to disagree all while the ongoing destruction of Syria continues unabated. Perhaps your position of focus lacks the clarity of the overwhelming fact that ISIS leadership is not sitting at the table of regional dialogue for the vary simple reason they are the gang of criminals and thugs paid by the western hegemony to eat the flesh of Syria like vultures while the bodies pile up and putrefy in the sun.
Ponder this question: why is Russia in Syria fighting this war; is it for economic interests or to protect her naval base at Tartus? It made sense when Russia did not get involved in Africa when Libya was destroyed. But now the painful realization is the Russian Federation can see the hubris of the western powers have evolved their long term strategy against Russia by engaging mercenaries to fight regional wars close to Russian sovereignty. We see that in Donbass in Eastern Ukraine and the disruption of daily life in the newly formed Republic of Crimea.
The time for diplomacy is over, the writing on the flaming shield of battle cannot be refuted any longer; the U.S. has covertly declared a military war with Russia, if not on her borders then certainly in Syria. The intimation that patience is a virtue and we must wait and give every chance to allow world opinion or the belief past agreements of international law will give pause to Washington and sway the U.S. or shame it like Putin did to Erdogan is folly.
The war against Russia has started, it is here, in the present and in the ancient land of Syria. The only thing that is going to stop the U.S. is to repel them now while Russia, the SAA, et al. have momentum. To stall is to die a death of a thousand cuts and that is not the historical legacy of a great nation and her people.
Pokethe Truth, of course the Zionazi attack on the Syrian Army was deliberate. They have now lied about it with their usual psychopathic flair, blaming the Russians. As their predecessor recommended, ‘When lying, tell a Big Lie’. They want retaliation so that they can launch a devastating attack on Syria, Libya-style, to bring about the regime change to their jihadist mates that has been the plan all along. If none transpires, they will invent one, Gulf of Tonkin, Saddam’s WMD etc, fashion.
As we are dealing with evil, death-worshiping, psychopaths, easily the most Evil group ever in human history, there is NO hope of compromise or a peaceful conclusion. The Evil Ones seem determined on war to destroy Russia and China, and the lying vermin in their MSM propaganda sewer are growing ever more hysterical in their war and bloodlusts. Prospects are grim.
Nice study.
I’ve a short question?
Who’s fighter plane will fall next ? at least most probability?
Thanks.
I guess this report is very interesting but, unfortunately, for a non-native English speaker (I’m Spanish) this is barely intelligible, phonetically speaking. Certainly better than the previous Russian? narrator, but still not exactly up to broadcast standards.
I must clarify that I only understand English when spoken very neatly by people with particularly good pronunciations (my fault). But perhaps you should consider reworking your videos for better phonetic clarity. I bet that there’s a lot of people around the world who would like to listen to your reports but has the same difficulties I have.
I agree with you (I gave up watching other videos before for this reason…). Perhaps somebody speaking a more vivid English could help – intonation is important.
I am a native Brit and also find these commentaries difficult to follow so you have my empathy! My solution (which may not make it any easier for you) is to download the video from Youtube using any of the numerous download extensions available in Firefox, load it into VLC player and set the play speed to around 0.8x normal. To enable the variable speed feature in VLC select View>Status Bar and it will appear bottom right. This also gives me more time to study the images as I am not up to modern TV viewing speeds!
The same problem here, Eva, as fellow Spanish, if it´s any consolation. To me it is difficult not only because of the pronunciation but also for the speed the broadcaster talks. The next sitrep after this one, where the broadcaster is a woman, I find it easier to understand.
But I guess that is my problem. I always found also difficut to understand Saker´s podcasts being the best for me to understand the British accent.
American-English speaker here, and I also find these reports difficult to understand. I really do appreciate the work that is going into these reports — the montage and graphics are really great; very impressive —, but it would be easier to follow the voice over if the speech were a bit slower.
Another possibility would be to include subtitles. I don’t mean the auto-generated ones from YouTube, but actual subtitles posted with the video. I know it’s a bit more work, but it would really help make these sitreps easier to follow.
BTW, there is a very nice free subtitle editor here: http://www.nikse.dk/subtitleedit/ I’ve used this app and it’s really simple and actually pretty easy to add subs to a five-minute video.
South Front Escalation in Syria: By George, you’ve got it ! And behind door 3 is: A Sunni statelet carved from Iraqi and Syrian territories, a NATO member Kurdistan in ex Northern Iraq, and probably a bit left over for a Syria if it is able to beat back Jordan and Saudi Arabia from its Southern borders. Now ships are steaming towards Syria where two seemingly cooperative yet hostile alliances are trying to “help”. What a total mess. The key is to hold, secure and maintain the northern border with Turkey. Cauldron? more like a swirling whirlpool of hell
As one looks at the political scene in France — especially with regard to the Syrian issue — what becomes spectacularly clear is the utter bankruptcy of the entire political “Left/Right” paradigm. Charlie Hebdo, Hollande, and BHL all claim some alleged radical/progressive/socialist credentials; yet they are the most backward, despicable scum which contemporary France has on offer. Ardent, fully committed Zio-trash in the service of The Chosen Ones, stripping France ever more of her civil liberties.
Marine Le Pen, by contrast, has no such credentials which seems to be a very good thing indeed. Reading and hearing her views on the Syrian issue makes you wonder how long she will be allowed to keep going, given the steadily increasing lawlessness of ZIonazi rule in France (Soral, Dieudonné, False Flag terrorist stunts, etc.)
France, however, is no exception — it’s just the most convincing example of what the Western political “Left” and, ultimately, Marxism truly represent: Worldwide ZIonist supremacy and Bankster tyranny as a guarantee for welfare and social peace in Western Europe and North America. Small wonder that Russia, Syria, China, North Korea, and Iran evoke such hatred among Western Marxists, “revolutionaries”, and “anti-authoritarians”, forever siding with the imperialist bourgeoisie on the most contrived pretexts.
What makes these times so interesting is the fact that the Bankster Mafia has decided to trash the Western middle classes and labour aristocracies; in other words to go in for a showdown with the solid, dependable mass base of the entire system, “Left” and “Right” adherents alike. To Western Leftists, this could have been a great opportunity for recruitment and successful propaganda but, usually, it has not been so. Not too big a surprise really since they simply don’t want to see Western imperialism defeated. Imperialist defeat would mean they’d have to put aside faggot worship and anti-authoritarianism, focusing instead on their own sheer survival — a hell of a lot more boring, supposedly. But, as they are about to find out, their cretininsm will not be rewarded anymore.
Pertinent observations. Excellent analysis of the dishonest, self-lying, hypocrite leftie mindset as commonly found in Germany, France, and possibly many more European countries.
The stupid left/right intellectual hamster wheel of democracy needs to be understood as the trap that it is to keep the people meaninglessly divided so the elite can run things.
“In a letter to the UN security council and secretary general Ban Ki-moon, Syria accused the coalition of targeting an army camp in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor on Sunday, killing three soldiers and wounding 13.
The foreign ministry letter condemned the attack as “a flagrant aggression”.
I knew it wouldn’t take the duplicitous bast*rds long to start showing their true intentions in Syria, this incident happened yesterday and the vile excuses for human beings are denying it saying they bombed a location 55km away from the Syrian army camp.
The citizens of the west must be absolutely stupid and dead in the brain to allow their consent for this gross violation of international law and crime against humanity to be manipulated by their corrupt “leaders” and will deserve everything that is coming their way.
Latest Thug Life:Turkey episode
Zaman daily columnists Mümtazer Türköne and Sevgi Akarçeşme have been subpoenaed to testify before a prosecutor at the Bakırköy Courthouse in İstanbul over charges of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
According to the letters sent from the Bakırköy Public Prosecutor’s Office dated Dec. 4, which reached Akarçeşme and Türköne on Monday, the two columnists were asked to testify within seven days with the necessary documents and evidence to vindicate themselves.
Zaman columnists to testify in court over insulting President Erdoğan
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_zaman-columnists-to-testify-in-court-over-insulting-president-erdogan_406357.html
Well made summary of the situation in Syrak and how it could unfold.
Very informative. Thank You !!
— What is happening now is more or less a repeat of the gulf war and the Iran-Iraq war happening at the same time, with a more likely potential for a new thirty years war. What all of these countries have in common is that they are in no position to wage a costly war, except maybe Iran. For all of the bluster you’ll hear about how ISIS needs to be “wiped out,” you’ll never hear anything realistic about what it will cost. If hot air and blood lust was a currency
— Russia can launch all the sorties they want with dubious self aggrandizing claims of their effects, but they can’t keep their market from tanking. Nor can they keep a few people from bringing Crimea, and by extension mainland Russia, to its knees by knocking over a few power poles. Russia is defending Assad for the same reason the Americans defend Saudi Arabia, with both regimes having little difference. Russia has been *very* lucky that ISIS has not been attacking their energy and electrical infrastructure, though it may be in the works. If Russia gets more involved, ISIS may have their own “dead hand” for Russia.
— France will continue to launch impotent push button bombing raids against ISIS while their economy continues to worsen by their own hand. Le Pen’s desire to strip whatever is left of France and hand it over to its ultra corrupt and just as ineffective security apparatus is laughable. The spectacle of them talking about “freedom and democracy” while they cripple themselves with a self-imposed military dictatorship is even more pathetic than the Americans. At this point, all nations should at least make a bit of effort to not take ISIS bait. Cheese, sausages, bic lighters, foul comics, and anti freeze wine will only get them so far in their quest to pillage other countries for actual resources. If it wasn’t for Russia being too nice to them, they would have froze to death already.
— Britain again tries to to convince the world that it is militarily relevant when it isn’t. They, like France will launch air raids and pound dirt and easily replaceable ISIS assets. Don’t expect them to last for too long except for maybe a “show of force” capacity. Emphasis on show. The British have followed the Americans every step in their failed wars, and their military is in similar pitiful shape. Not much to expect from a desolate Island ruled by foul, inbred, child raping monarchs, with a population that seems to have no problem with that.
— ISIS is in a full feigned retreat in an effort to draw in the fragmented coalition. It’s like watching the gulf and Iraq war again. They (before having a formalized banner) had no problem defeating the American and British occupation with far less resources than they have now. They will likely manage the damage done by air strikes and get more recruits as a result. So far their retaliatory attacks against Russia, Paris, etc, have only been successful because of the reaction they provoked. The attacks themselves were insignificant. If ISIS copies other militants like MEND and starts launching similar attacks, they will be unbelievably dangerous.
— The Americans are defeated and are only capable of Russian-style air strikes, but probably with more errors. The details of the US military’s disposition clearly shows a military burning itself out. Meanwhile, the American economy only exists by taking on more debt, their infrastructure is held together with tape and chewing gum, and the population is commiting suicide and overdosing on drugs. Right after they’re done handing over whatevers left of their wealth to their corporate/government masters. As they turn 25 percent of the world’s resources into garbage, the number one export, along with low grade petroleum products and toxic GMO food that no one wants; they are the most disposable nation on earth. Their failings are quite entertaining.
— Turkey is an ultra corrupt gangster state that is fine with buying oil from ISIS; they don’t seem to care that ISIS wants to destroy them. As far as ISIS is concerned, they’re happy to sell stolen oil and use the proceeds to attack Turkey later. They are fully exploiting their NATO membership in order to do what they got caught doing. America is afraid to hurt their feelings just like the Saudis and Israelis.
–Kurds continue to decline in all aspects and any military “gains,” as they like to refer to them as, have been due to the credit of American and Russian airstrikes. Their fighters aren’t being paid, their receiving their training from the pathetic German military, and they are only good at walking into areas that have been destroyed by airstrikes. They’ll take a few pictures, loot, rape and pillage the locals, and that’s about it. This is the same story with SAA, FSA, and Shia militias. However, the kurds sell Israel up to two thirds of its oil and cannot exist without their customer’s support. Should they fall, Israel will have massive problems.
— Saudi continues to lose its war against Yemen and will not get any better. Their internal purges will be to no avail. And their high tech border fence project will be another maginot line. Who ever ends up taking Saudi arabia intact will have unlimited loot. ISIS has already attacked them on multiple occasions but appears to have refrained recently, except for a few Mosque bombings.
Your commentary provides a bleak outlook for defeating ISIS/ISIL and other terrorist organizations. Essentially what I read from you is there is no hope and the world should just accept that terrorism will grow and reign over the earth because Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior who died on the cross to cleanse my soul from mortal sin and the work of Muhammad the man and great prophet of Islam will succumb to the Devil.
Oh ye of little faith step aside and let real men do the work necessary to restore our faith in humanity. Russia will triumph, her cause is not based on material profit or loss but on a deeper connection to the history of her people who have suffered under the whip of communism that tried to sweep Christianity from their minds and bend them to the will of the State. She is brave, more than any other for the land gave birth to men who have not forgotten how evil always tempts the weak with material things and convenience of life if only they will sacrifice their souls, just a little.
There is a reason why the current leadership of the Russian Federation has evolved to this point. It is the time of pivot, either towards the luminosity of man’s salvation or to lick the hand of Satan and live in the black void forever. We choose the light, we will fight together as true Christians alongside the Islamic faithful in our never ending struggle to defeat Lucifer and should blood be spilled then it is to our glory in heaven that we make such holy sacrifice.
Verily I say to you our faiths give us the spiritual strength to persevere and no man and no Prince of Darkness shall overcome the Logos.
Here is Marine Le Pen giving Merkel and Hollande a mouthful at the European Parliament last October. I like how she tells them off, and what she is saying is clearly very hard for them to swallow. Subtitled in English. Watch and learn before you dismiss Le Pen so completely.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDY8Mr8QIuM
Many thanks.
You saw what I saw.
She gave a brilliant speech, even denouncing the USA, & Merkel (to her face), & called Hollande-Merkel’s assistant.
Marine Le Pen is breathing fire.
Absolument splendide — je lui lève mon chapeau!
Hilarious to watch the Hunchback and her sidekick totally sickened by hearing the plain, simple truth about their God-awful European Union. Over to you, dear apologists of “European values” of whatever political stripes.
EU is on one hand a volunteer slave for the Americans, as if that isn’t disgraceful enough. But then they have to rape and pillage someone else’s land all over the world in order to merely exist. And then make an economy centered around overrated food products and over priced industrial machinery. Without Russian and ME energy, EU would be extinct. WIthout African minerals and energy, EU would be extinct. And with all those dark skinned folks slaving away to make the deliveries to the EU, they’d be extinct
That’s all you need to know for European values: begging for slavery and enslaving someone else. Just like the Americans but at least the Americans are an overt pile of fat, GMO, diseased indebted mutants with exceptional master race fantasies. It’s obvious. I find the pathetic appeal to some vague value system that never existed to be slightly more disgusting that the Americans. If being ruled by inbred, child raping monarchs and existing as a medieval theme park, with the population voting for it, then I suppose that counts as a value.
“If being ruled by inbred, child raping monarchs and existing as a medieval theme park, with the population voting for it, then I suppose that counts as a value.”
You nailed it!