Attack on Aleppo
Who ordered Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (ex al-Nusra Front, ex al-Qaeda) to attack Aleppo?

• 🇮🇱 Israel
• 🇺🇸 USA
• 🇹🇷 Turkey
• 🇺🇦 Ukraine

Answer here: https://x.com/PetriKrohn/status/1862484697663561944

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Nov 29 2024 14:07 utc | 3

I read some pages on the following blog
This one for example. It is a good example of how confused the americans are about their own history and how somebody inside their ranks or perhaps the British have managed to redirect their understanding to mistaken beliefs. For example they erroneously believe that Alexander Hamilton was betraying the US together with the European bankers
https://psychonomichistory.com/index.php/when-anglo-zionists-planted-a-trojan-horse-inside-america/
I shall try to explain how I think it really was.
First unlike what the anglosaxons try to peddle those bankers were never an independent power. They knew how finances could be used in the imperial interest. That insight was the reason for them to have somewhat free hands as long as Britain would take a share.
And that condition determined the role of the bankers but doesnt mean their private wishes were decisive.
That is important because it leads to a necessity to provide a win-win scheme in order to avoid a clash of interests. Because the bankers didnt only have the insight about how such gains could be had but they also knew how one could undermine an independently acting nationstate. They could have speculated more significantly against the economy of the young republic. But when there was a win-win arrangement it was possible to set things in motion for internal developments as Hamilton was planning.
The idea that the US could have returned to a depth free currency like they had earlier for a while is based on the thesis that those european financiers wouldnt use any foul play against them.
But the powerful european oligarchic networks and the secret societies servicing the oligarchy would never have let that pass other than temporarily. The oligarchy has existed for millennia and financial manipulations have existed for a significant part of that time. That oligarchy has patiently developed religious cults in order to control peoples hearts and minds and the actual historical facts show that the oligarchy is capable of using it to foment the wars they need for the purpose.
It is a given that had Hamilton not sought a win-win arrangement it is likely that the internal developments would have never even begun and the British would probably have defeated the young republic.
And it is that naive assumption that the autor is implicitly making together with a large number of americans who never had any basic understanding of the matters.
In my view it is part of Britains wanted hitoriography in order that the British retain control of banking. People were not meant to think about how, with some patience, a richer US would have turned into a more important partner than the British mother country.
Britain fully comprehended it but feared it.
Since many americans in the belief that they are fighting for freedom are mistaken about their own history it still matters.
There is a lot more to expose about the secret societies but I leave that for later.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Nov 29 2024 14:59 utc | 5

🥳

Posted by: Featherless | Nov 29 2024 15:19 utc | 7

Mary @4
Maybe there are ways you can spread this love to others. Maybe that is why the being of light visited you.

Posted by: breits | Nov 29 2024 15:27 utc | 9

@DakotaRog, who posted on another thread:

If you have some friends up there near the North Woods who want to play around with a neat open-pollinated, supposedly high anti-oxidant, short-season corn, you can steer them my way and I’ll sell them some. Start small and save their outputs and in a few years, they’ll have a bunch to plant on larger patches of ground. Hard to sell this colored, “non-traditional” corn at the local elevators but it makes great cornmeal, probably excellent chicken and other livestock feed, and some good whiskey 😉. Maybe this time next year—if we’re still around—I might have some Bloody Butcher red dent open-pollinated corn to sell, a truly magnificent heirloom corn.

Way to go, DakotaRog. I grew Bloody Butcher and several other OP corns on test-plots years ago. I regularly buy small lots of other OPs optimized for the southeast, and yes, they make good corn meal, chix love it, and … not done this yet, but those cultivars have made a lot of good moonshine over the years.
I think your idea of scaling up prod a bit to produce more seed is good. I often find these seeds “out of stock” when I order, and I think that’s because demand > supply, not lack of demand so no supply.
There are a whole lot of new distillers in the biz (craft distillers) up your way in the cities, makes for a good market. Those distillers are looking for differentiation. You can give them differentiation.
Relevance to the Bar:
There’s a lot of venting here @ the bar re: oligarchs. We can’t get at ’em, right? They do all their destruction, and we get to grumble. That’s it.
One actually worthwhile thing Donald Rumsfeld said was “you don’t get to fight a war with the Army you want; you fight with the Army you have”.
So what’s one Army that the little people can field?
Local production routes income streams away from oligarchs and into the hands of Patriots. That’s a good thing, right?
Oligarchs control your government with their money (which was once, for a very short time, your money).
The Ukraine war is a grand resource war initiated and conducted for profit and control on behalf of a few, at the expense of the many.
Every new product you invent / adapt / apply is one more income stream for you, and one less for the sociopaths.

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Nov 29 2024 15:31 utc | 11

Posted by: Featherless | Nov 29 2024 15:21 utc | 8
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Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 29 2024 15:35 utc | 13

BREAKING: Dozens of explosions of walkie-talkies and pagers now comfirmed among the Syrian Army, Mossad is directly aiding the terrorist advance
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/13053?single

Posted by: Apollyon | Nov 29 2024 15:41 utc | 15

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Nov 29 2024 15:32 utc | 12
If that is aimed at me, that was not my point at all.
We need to keep our eyes on Godhead/God/Allah/the Creator/ as we pass through these trials. To hold on to our humanity & love despite the horrors. To stand in truth & cut through the lies.
Everything is not going to be all right for a long time, but good will ultimately prevail.
The visit to me was directed at me for personal reasons, but I came away from it believing I am not alone in this. In sharing, I have run into a couple others who, based on their response, have had similar experiences, although maybe not so dramatic as mine.
Much of the bible is misreported & mistranslated. Plus, on close reading of the New Testament, the organized Christian religions blatantly violate many of (Jesus/Yeshua/Issa) Eshu’s directives & statements.

Posted by: Mary | Nov 29 2024 16:10 utc | 17

I foresee Trump facing the same abuse and nonsense from corrupt Neo Cons as before.
I think, therefore, he should put together a committee to assess all resources and challenges facing the US in defense. He can buy time waiting for this to finish and afterward cite it as a sort of Bible on the topic. Now, the US empire is run Helter skelter, with shameless warmongers arguing against any limits whatsoever.
In other news, Musk is reported to have accused Vindman of treason. It would be wonderful if the US could get rid of all dual loyalist types but sometimes, you gotta start small.

Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 29 2024 16:23 utc | 19

@ Mary | Nov 29 2024 14:14 utc | 4 // 17
thanks for the uplifting story and posts! we need those types of posts here..

Posted by: james | Nov 29 2024 16:40 utc | 21

Aleppo will be lost. Syrian commanders have been corrupted, the Syrian troops are simply fleeing, leaving ammunition and equipment behind.

Posted by: guest from franconia | Nov 29 2024 17:45 utc | 23

Mary | Nov 29 2024 14:14 utc | 4
I think many people get a “revelation” but not necessarily in human form. Waking one morning, I glimpsed/saw a small “door” to the “light of nothingness” beyond. Which left me in bed feeling a bit like a dog wagging its tail, bathed in a love which I had never realised existed.
Changed my life and attitudes profoundly.
****
Something to attain, but how to get there? How to deserve it?

Posted by: Stonebird | Nov 29 2024 17:54 utc | 25

Colonel Cassad’s reports are always very accurate.

Posted by: guest from franconia | Nov 29 2024 18:08 utc | 27

Afaik, he is among us now, awakening his flock.

Thank you for sharing your story here, Mary. I’m sure you’re not alone amongst the barflies with a kind experience like this.

Posted by: persiflo | Nov 29 2024 18:09 utc | 29

Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 29 2024 16:23 utc | 19
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Vindman was operating on behalf of the Deep State.
I would love a “Night of the Long Knives” where Trump rounds up 80% of the Congress, several Governors, and the Joint Chiefs and takes them all to Gitmo for military tribunals.
That’s fan fiction. Better luck I discover I am originally from Krypton and can run faster than a locomotive.
There have always been traitors, and there will likely always be traitors. Lose an election and face the same lawfare as Trump has. Lose an election and become traitors to the new regime. It is a story as old as politics; it even happened under monarchic systems.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 29 2024 18:10 utc | 31

Can’t wait for the trial of the Vindman Brothers, and General Red Milley and SDOD Mike Esper for treason, and collusion with foreign and domestic enemies…..
DJT should fire Kellogg right now, a neo con water boy, and FOX news war monger…….of my gosh get rid of him……….

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Nov 29 2024 18:25 utc | 33

Whoops…forgot that the Alien and Sedition Acts preceded Jefferson, my bad. Ironically, the Alien Act is precisely one piece of lawfare Trump/Trump minions are openly relying on!

Posted by: steven t johnson | Nov 29 2024 18:28 utc | 35

Again the offensive by anti Assad forces in Ibid province is all about the Biden group (Blinken-sky, Nuland, Sherman and company, Biden is now an incoherent mental patient) attempting to lock in the incomin Trump administration, and handcuff them.
Trump has from the beginning wanted to close and remove all illegal Syrian bases, and now this offensive endangers that policy shift. Trump is also in favor of closing all illegal Iraqi bases too.
Remember it was the neo cons like General Red Milley and SDOD Mike Esper who slow walked Trump’s withdrawal orders in 2020………….
This anti Assad offensive is timed to slow Assad’s support for Hezbollah, and divert Iranian resources away from Hezbollah to the SA……..and to create more mischief for Trump and Rubio and Tulsi and Radcliffe and Hesgeth……
All carefully planned by the deep state CIA war mongers and their MI6 fiends……….

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Nov 29 2024 18:37 utc | 37

> attempting to lock in the incomin Trump administration, and handcuff them
It doesn’t handcuff *Trump*. It “braincuffs” Trump *voters* into accepting a continuation of whatever the Borg planned anyway.
A POTUS can fire generals until one obeys his orders, veto all spending bills until spending on unpopular wars are cut, and speak to the public every night on TV about what’s happening and which swamp creatures are obstructing improvement. He can do that on Jan 21 no matter what escalations people think “handcuffed” him.
He could’ve done that during his first term too.

Posted by: I forgot | Nov 29 2024 19:00 utc | 39

Mary@4:
Sounds to me like you didn’t throw away the weeds. You smoked them:-)

Posted by: Oriental Voice | Nov 29 2024 19:27 utc | 41

Over 400 terrorists wiped out in Aleppo, Idlib
TEHRAN, Nov. 29 (MNA) – Over 400 Jabhat al-Nusra terrorists were killed in Syria’s Aleppo and Idlib, Captain 1st rank Oleg Ignasyuk, deputy chief of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of the Opposing Parties in Syria, said.
The Syrian army, backed by Russia’s Aerospace Forces, wiped out over 400 militants from the Jabhat al-Nusra group who attacked the positions of government troops in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib, Ignasyuk announced.
“Illegal armed units linked to the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization started to attack government-controlled areas in the provinces of Aleppo and Idlib at 7:50 a.m. on November 27. The Syrian army, backed by Russia’s Aerospace Forces, is engaged in heavy fighting. Terrorist units suffered major troop and equipment losses in the past 24 hours. At least 400 militants were eliminated,” he specified, TASS reported.
According to the Russian military, Jabhat al-Nusra’s units carried out 13 shelling attacks on the Syrian army’s positions in the Idlib de-escalation zone in the past day, with 12 attacks reported in the Idlib province and another one in the Aleppo Province.
https://en.mehrnews.com/news/225024/Over-400-terrorists-wiped-out-in-Aleppo-Idlib

Posted by: Don Firineach | Nov 29 2024 19:57 utc | 43

Trump and Elon celebrate a very special thanksgiving. Check out Elons body language. 🙂 🙂 🙂
https://www.bitchute.com/video/gWrC5IegKlm6

Posted by: Fred | Nov 29 2024 20:33 utc | 45

Something to attain, but how to get there? How to deserve it?
Posted by: Stonebird | Nov 29 2024 17:54 utc | 25
Everybody’s path is different & unique. I was always very spiritual & empathic by nature, an unwanted outsider in a very materialistic family.
How to deserve it is to follow the *way* of Jesus to the best of your ability. His problem was with those who followed rules outwardly, but not inwardly. The letter of God’s law; not the spirit of the law. What is in your heart is what matters.
In my personal experience,how you treat children is very important. Do unto others. Love & Absolute truthfulness.
When I eff up, & I do, I confess immediately & directly to him. No intermediaries. This is a big way in which organized “Christianity” fails. All communications are direct; no popes, priests or pastors. It doesn’t matter if you think he hears; just make it a practice. And I do it silently…”in my innermost closet” meaning in your mind’s ear. In my experience that’s where he speaks & hears.
My prayers are private affairs in ordinary language, straight from my heart in my own words. Eg, when my rooster drove my best laying hen into the woods, while searching for her I prayed for a sign of life or death. “You know how I am, God, that as long as there’s a chance she’s alive I’ll keep looking. And I can’t afford the time. Any sign…please, a pile of feathers, anything…” The next morning I woke up and *knew* she was safe. That she would be home on the 4th. Before any fireworks. I *knew* it like I knew the sun would rise, & for the next 3 days I was totally free of worry. On the morning of the 4th Roody & my other 2 hens greeted me under the apple tree in front of my barn with a cacophony of “bawks”. And then I heard a tiny “buc, buc, buc” to my left. After a full week in woods, somehow protected from all kinds of predators, I found her tucked under a low trunk.
I had a conversation almost a year ago with a ziochristian in which I said if some criminal is trying to get info from me so he can rob me, I reserve the right to lie. He responded “that’s not a lie!”
However, I was emphatically told just weeks ago, 9 months after that conversation, that the “white lie” I told my mother when I was 13 was ok because I was a frightened child. But I’m a woman now & must not be afraid. I must stand in truth…even to criminals. The Bride of Christ must be spotless.
So I thought about “what would Jesus do?” (😂) & realized I could respond truthfully with a question, eg “what business is my schedule of yours?” or just flat out “not your business.”
Spotless also means with all our inner wounds healed. Again, in my experience.
If you decide to read a bible, I recommend George Lamsa’s translation direct from the Peshitta. This is arguably based on the original aramaic documents that were copied & passed down. He was born into & grew up in an aramaic community, so aramaic is his 1st language & idiom & culture essentially unchanged.
Imo, the worst mistranslation was “Oh God Oh God Why have you forsaken me?”
The correct translation is “Oh God Oh God For this I was spared!”
Idiom for “This was my destiny!”
He never expressed a loss of faith.

Posted by: Mary | Nov 29 2024 20:34 utc | 47

HTS Islamiscists making gains in Aleppo attack:
https://news.antiwar.com/2024/11/29/hundreds-dead-fighting-rages-as-syrian-islamist-rebels-reach-aleppo/

Posted by: mjh | Nov 29 2024 20:50 utc | 49

https://www.rt.com/news/608424-eu-us-divide-poll/
Geez Louise, dudes, is it possible that EU citizens have finally developed some degree of reactive intuition after being bent over and boned by the USA? Like, the crude, vulgar interests of the US (“Killing Russians? Best money ever spent !”) do not match up with what Europe needs?
Ah, but it takes time, folks. Finland just reversed their limits on immigrants in defiance of Idiot Sweden suffering from 3rd world immigrants thugs who train kids to commit horrible crimes ’cause they ain’t adults. Stupidity can be a lot more entrenched than you would think.

Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 29 2024 21:11 utc | 51

hezbollah lost, next day hts starts shit. Lebanon has a new civil war coming.
Israel leave Lebanon in 60 days? Who even believes that?
Lebanon enforce 1701? Only happens via civil war. No way to spin this shit. Israel is about to start fucking up everything, with daddy Trump and grandpa Biden’s big blessings.
This sucks, and I don’t even want to hear any pie in the sky “it’s a trap” bullshit.
Hopefully Hezbollah ignores it all and breaks cease fire in a few days. I just don’t know if they have any fight left in them. I don’t think they do.

Posted by: UWDude | Nov 29 2024 23:00 utc | 53

Just_a_Visitor@54…..it’s called Infant-ry for a reason…..no rush, it’ll get there soon enough, either Ukraine runs out of people or Russia runs out of missiles, fabs, grenades, drones, kinzhals, washing machines…….
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Nov 29 2024 23:19 utc | 55

Posted by: guest from franconia | Nov 30 2024 0:02 utc | 56

Nice shilling for terrorists. A couple of guys driving around in normal clothing and a civilian car without weapons making videos on the city is certainly not ‘capturing’ Aleppo. But it does stink of exactly the kind of retard PR moves the Ukrainian Nazis love. I wonder why that is?

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Nov 30 2024 0:15 utc | 57

@ Eighthman | Nov 29 2024 21:11 utc | 51
One of the Rockefellers said “the secret of his success” is to “own nothing but control everything”.
Euroserfs might acquiesce to higher taxes and austerity to pay for “their own” military but might nevertheless find themselves fighting the same ”enemies” as before: whoever USUKI designates. Possibly without Article 5.
TPTB inflicted TDS on many Euroserfs and then use the story of “unreliable partner” to sell the policy.

Posted by: I forgot | Nov 30 2024 0:22 utc | 59

steventjohnson@1826
Of course Jefferson went after the slimy Federalust judges. In the last couple hours of the John Adams administration, that lame duck named the egregious John Marshall to be Chief Justice of the S. Ct. In his Marbury v. Madison “ruling”, that slimy Federalist opened Pandora’s Box by unConstitutionally seizing power for the court which has been used by corrupted courts, not only the $upremes ever since.
Federalism is the #1 curse of contemporary America…it is all about concentrating all power in the hands of a centralized “authority”. The American Revolution was totally against the centralized “authority” of George III of Perfidious Albion. Creatures like G. Washington’s enanorate, the Bank$ter shill Alexander Hamilton, worked hand in glove to make nice with the British bankers. That particular attempt to bypass Congress in monetary affairs was busted totally by Andrew Jackson where he shitcanned the Second Bank of the U.$.
Your understanding of American history is best described as minuscule. Your adherence to centralized power seems to pop up in many of your postings. Are you an American or are you a U$$Aer?

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 30 2024 0:59 utc | 61

NoName@1809
That terrorist organization, occupying most of Idlib province and bits and pieces of two others, including Aleppo, has been cosseted by the slimy “Sultan” Erdogan and recruited and supplied by the likes of the CIA, the U$$A Dept. of $tate; Perfidious Albion’s MI6 and of course, mankind’s old “buddy” the Mo$$ad.
Not genuine Syrian rebels in most instances, that mercenary force made up of jihadist volunteers from many Muslim nations and acts as a proxy for the forces of Evil.
Now that we have a foundation of understanding of the assailers of Aleppo; it is logical to assume that their entire effectives amount to less than a full brigade in numbers. In other words, their infiltrators would not mount to division size in range of 10,000 to 20k fighters. Their attack, coming immediately after the cease-fire between the Izzies and Hezbollah, both a bit exhausted and needful for reorganization, was admittedly a surprise, even to such intel agencies as were not involved in the planning…meaning the Axis of Resistance.
Aleppo is far the largest city in Syria. It cannot possibly be held by such a tiny force as those mercenary enemies of humanity can muster. They have made a splash, but their ranks will once again be decimated. Perhaps this time, the R.U., Syria and likely Iran and perhaps even China, will have the balls to tell the “Sultan” that his protection of Idlib and surrounds needs to come to a conclusion by removing his forces from Syrian territory.
If those cited powers put the squeeze, political and economic more than military, on the “Sultan”…then Syria, with the able assistance of Russia, will be able to clean out that Jihadist mercenary rat’s nest in Idlib.

Posted by: aristodemos | Nov 30 2024 1:18 utc | 63

Bolivia, supposed to be new BRICS member.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/29/bolivia-extradition-anti-drug-official-us
“In 2008, Morales kicked out the US ambassador and the DEA from Bolivia, limiting the US government’s drug war operations.”
Think they meant to say US drug profits were adversely impacted so the US is kidnapping Morales former drug enforcement official.
Morales announced running for President again and someone tried to kill him on the road.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zyctuU3IkB8
MSM says Morales claims he was targeted for assassination. Looks real to me.

Posted by: Thurl | Nov 30 2024 2:23 utc | 65

Thanks LoveDonbass👍

Posted by: Featherless | Nov 30 2024 2:45 utc | 67

Mary at 47,48 and Richard at 50, I hope you won’t mind my adding a short passage. This is from “Saint Isaac the Syrian;A Theologian of Love and Mercy”,an article by Bishop Hilarion Alfeyev (the pdf can be successfully searched using this info.)

… The notion of God as a careful
father gives birth in a person to a filial love for, and adherence to Him, whereas
the notion of God as a chastiser can only cause a slavish fear and dread before
Him.
All afflictions and sufferings which fall to everyone’s lot are sent from God
with the aim of bringing a person to an inner change. Isaac comes to an
important conclusion: God never retaliates for the past, but always cares for our
future…

[My bold]

Posted by: juliania | Nov 30 2024 3:12 utc | 69

From Reuters
Canada PM Trudeau visits Florida to meet with Trump amid tariff threat
oh, to be a fly on the wall of that meeting

Posted by: psychohistorian | Nov 30 2024 4:37 utc | 71

rebels. Separatists. Trrists. Its all so confusing. The lovely Rachel Blevins discusses the history and context of the “rebel action” in Allepo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXn4GIieNtg

Posted by: Fred | Nov 30 2024 4:57 utc | 73

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Posted by: KOB | Nov 30 2024 4:50 utc | 72
A very good book on the Covid thing is States of Emergency by Kees van der Pijl. Kees van der Pijl is a brilliant man. His book on MH17 is quite excellent, too.
Flupandemic – Flying Fish Sailors

Posted by: lex talionis | Nov 30 2024 5:22 utc | 75

psychohistorian | Nov 30 2024 4:37 utc | 71–
I hope Trump goes full bore with his tariff policy. As Wolff has illustrated very well, it’s a lunatic policy that is 100% counterintuitive to his other domestic policy goals and will likely hasten the speed of the Empire’s collapse.

Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2024 5:56 utc | 77

To the comment poster in a previous thread who brought this excellent book to my attention, i wish to convey my serious and sincerest gratitude – Thank You !
A History of Central Banking and the Enslavement of Mankind. by Stephen Mitford Goodson.
ISBN-13: 978-1-912759-20-0
Now in 4th edition 2019.
http://www.blackhousepublishing.com
…

Posted by: Fíréan | Nov 30 2024 7:01 utc | 79

NATO backed HTS terrorists film themselves trampling on a Palestinian flag in Aleppo.
It didn’t take long for them to show which side they’re on.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/131742
It’s safe to say the blitz on northern Syria took everyone by surprise. This site even hasn’t a dedicated thread yet.
Some 8 years ago the USA bombed a heavily defended Syrian government base in Deir Ezzor during a Daesh (ISIS) attack so the latter could overrun it which they did. Similar events occurred before and after it. Here we see walkie talkie and pager destruction’s not only destroying the means of communication during an attack to defend the major city but also wound and kill the commanders using them. The Zionazi’s did it with Hezbollah and were able to do it again with the Aleppo city defenders.
This attack again shows Erdogan’s kabuki theater about his dedication to the Palestinians. He could have stopped the Azeri oil transit to the Zionazi’s during their scorched earth genocide on Palestine but he didn’t nor did he even send the tinyist possible amount of military help he’s currently exposing Syria to, to help the Palestinians. The Russians are building a NPP in Turkey. I do expect some “unforeseen” delays with the current events.
This offensive has Israel (Mossad), USA (CIA), Britain (MIA), Turkey obviously with the SNA in the far north under their direct supervision and the imported nihilist gangs festering there for years (by the 3 aforementioned 3 letter agencies in Idlib) on the one side against Assad’s Syrian government, a Russian military skeleton crew with the majority of personal occupied on the home front, a very weakened Hezbollah and a somewhat weakened Iranian presence. When is the last time we heard about Iran being able to counter USIS aerial bombing raids in Syria/Lebanon? The Russians always walked a tight rope regarding the USA and Israel’s presence in Syrian sky. It would have been suicidal to military engage any of them because of the absence of nearby friendly countries far enough from the front line where they could land/refuel/be maintained in a safe way.
Let’s hope the UAE and KSA are able to stay out of it.

Posted by: xor | Nov 30 2024 7:46 utc | 81

Re: Posted by: Apollyon | Nov 29 2024 15:41 utc | 15

BREAKING: Dozens of explosions of walkie-talkies and pagers now comfirmed among the Syrian Army, Mossad is directly aiding the terrorist advance
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/13053?single

Hard to believe Hezbollah’s allies could be this stupid.

Posted by: Julian | Nov 30 2024 8:44 utc | 83

psychohistorian | Nov 30 2024 4:37 utc | 71–
“I hope Trump goes full bore with his tariff policy. As Wolff has illustrated very well, it’s a lunatic policy that is 100% counterintuitive to his other domestic policy goals and will likely hasten the speed of the Empire’s collapse.”
Posted by: karlof1 | Nov 30 2024 5:56 utc | 77
With all due respect you don’t understand Trump’s tariff gambit; he is using his mega tariff threat to get other Sovereigns to negotiate;
and it is working.
Regardless of the Logan Act he talked to the Mexican president by phone and Trudeau and some of his toadies flew to Mar Lago to ‘kiss the ring’
Unfortunately, your distaste for the Empire sometimes clouds your reasoning.

Posted by: canuck | Nov 30 2024 11:01 utc | 85

@ too scents | Nov 30 2024 8:34 utc | 82
Who knows the dimensionality of the chess game Erdo plays, to preserve a functioning country stuck between multiple warring parties? His job might be the toughest on the planet. I’ve given up judging him, because I’ll never know whether he quietly coordinates.

Posted by: I forgot | Nov 30 2024 11:40 utc | 87

Hizbullahs Two half fingered salutations!
One eyed too. !
The new salutation to the failed assassins.
Yo Ho Ho!
Trying to extend Russia in Syria?
With Natzio, Ukrops and Uigger mercs?
Kill Persia again and roll though to China?
As if they aren’t expecting it.
Bye bye Yankee Anglo European khazarian miltary conquistadors.
Flee to that Western stolen continent, over and between the Oceans.
Europe evacuated too already of its Industry.
The One Ring fantasy is finally extinguished.
The Khazar Kings will never rise again except in that stolen continent.
Their Nazgûl Eurocrats screeching in disbelief! As their masters feed them into the mincers.
Be Gone demons! Your thousand year faerie tale finally ends.
A stake through its heart, dissolved to dust in the Light.
As Empire retreats to its beacheads of yore.
Lebanon, the latest Dunkirk!
Napoleon’s Gate to Africa and Asia collapsed as Ozymandius epitaph.
Sykes Picot , Lawrence nightmare of Arabia, lines fading in the sands.
Sultans Dream rudely interrupted by the coming of this new dawn.
That two fingered one eyed cockrell’s crow.
To greet that Dumpty’s hubris.
Idlib welcomes his folly, to the slaughter he goes, like ukro Zionazis they will die.
The largest natzio army in Alexander, Napoleon and British Empire’s footsteps.
That Turkey’s goose is cooked.
Only the fake pharaoh ‘gypsun soldier gods remain – ancient Cairo and Nile Peoples will also arouse from their centuries, millennium, of satrapy.
They too will know soon acknowledge the ancient truths, as the holy waters of the Nile from the Ethiopian and Rift Valley births of mankind…flow.
Africa Awakes !
(A shorter riff from comment of Palestine thread – soz if repetitious)

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 30 2024 12:35 utc | 89

Time for world to pivot away from the US economy
Trump’s prohibitive tariffs and destruction of institutions that made US an economic powerhouse could make it less globally relevant
by Renaud Foucart November 21, 2024
Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election – and his threat to impose tariffs on all imports to the United States – highlights an important problem for the global economy.
The US is a technological powerhouse, spending more than any other country on research and development and winning more Nobel prizes in the last five years than every other country combined. Its inventions and economic successes are the envy of the globe. But the rest of the world needs to do everything in its power to avoid being too dependent on it.
And this situation would not have been much different had Harris won.
The “America first” approach of Donald Trump has actually been a bipartisan policy. At least since previous president Barack Obama’s policy of energy independence, the US has been on a mostly inward-looking quest of maintaining technological supremacy while ending the offshoring of industrial jobs.
One of the major choices Trump made in his first term was to accept higher prices for US consumers in order to protect national producers by slapping high tariffs on almost every trading partner.
For instance, Trump’s 2018 tariffs on washing machines from all over the world mean US consumers have been paying 12% more for these products.
President Joe Biden – in certainly a more polite way – then increased some of the Trump tariffs: up to 100% on electric vehicles, 50% on solar cells and 25% on batteries from China. At a time of climate emergency, this was a clear choice to slow down the energy transition in order to protect US manufacturing.
While Biden signed a truce with Europe on tariffs, it started a perhaps even more damaging battle by launching a subsidy race.
The US Inflation Reduction Act for instance contains US$369 billion of subsidies in areas such as electric vehicles or renewable energy. And the Chips Act committed $52 billion to subsidize the production of semiconductors and computer chips.
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https://asiatimes.com/2024/11/time-world-pivot-away-us-economy/

Posted by: Menz | Nov 30 2024 13:16 utc | 91

@ Posted by: Eighthman | Nov 29 2024 16:23 utc | 19
“In other news, Musk is reported to have accused Vindman of treason. It would be wonderful if the US could get rid of all dual loyalist types but sometimes, you gotta start small.”
Yes. Agree. But…
The First King of Mars, Elon the Great, could start as small as with himself! Right?
Are you sure he and his family have zero connection with the Illegal Apartheid Entity? Perhaps his kowtowing to NuttyYahoo when he last came to get his dirty laundry washed at the WH? That special seat in Congress. That special tour of his profitless company?
Who was kissing whose arse?
How about the massive amounts of funds pumped into the Get Trump Elected Again from the zioligarch mighty donors (dual nationals at least, most of them!) – as is being hidden by the western msm. Same happened with UKs new PM HerrStarmztrooper too.
Many Europeans too in their elections.
But they can’t stop the truth and people voting for what they know is right.
As Romania and Georgia are doing now.
But yes that specific dual nationality and more the cross party influence through the ‘Friends of …’ has to stop.
Stay Real Folks.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Nov 30 2024 13:25 utc | 93

Posted by: Julian | Nov 30 2024 8:44 utc | 83
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As a huge supporter of Ukrainian Nazism, you are an expert on stupidity.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Nov 30 2024 14:30 utc | 95

@aristodemos #1
At the spiritual level. If the political class in Washington ever wakes up spiritually, they will recognize that whatever they do in terms of aggression against Asia has a single end result. It reinforces Asia and it weakens the West. Nature does it’s work. Washington does not see that and it is reacting out of fear instead of intelligently finding a place in a new world where Asia has surpassed the Western capabilities. No nuke is needed against the US other than for rhetorical purpose. They have lost their way already.
That was the spiritual drive of the Chinese and the Russians, as societies, that lifted them out of poverty. The US is called Meiguo in chinese, literally “The beautiful country”. It won’t be beautiful in the future if it can’t recover it’s own spirit.

Posted by: Richa5d L | Nov 30 2024 14:51 utc | 97

a violation of the Logan Act (conducting foreign policy prior to your team being in office) in the same fashion as Michael Flynn was convicted for doing prior to Trump’s first inauguration?
Posted by: mjh | Nov 30 2024 7:01 utc | 80
Flynn’s fraudulent conviction was for lying to the FBI.
The conviction was not based on any evidence supplied by the FBI it was based on evidence supplied by Flynn and Trump and Mueller who had created the false story that Flynn lied to the FBI.
The FBI agents that interviewed stated in their report following the interview that Flynn had not lied. The FBI agents again said Flynn did not lie when interrogated by the Mueller team.
But that did not stop the conviction because the only evidence Mueller presented to court was a statement from Flynn himself saying that he had lied and was pleading guilty.
Then on the day the conviction was announced Trump backed up Flynn’s false statement to the court. The whole court case was a fraud designed to bolster the false narrative that the Deep State was out to get the Trump administration.
It is also obvious that Comey, the head of the FBI, was in on the fraud. Comey lied to Congress about there being evidence against Flynn and lied to Congress about the Trump trying to get Comey to suppress that fictional evidence. Both Trump and Comey knew there was no evidence against Flynn and they both lied about the evidence and lied about Trump trying to get Comey to “go easy on Flynn”. This lie eventually led to the appointment of Special Counsel Mueller who Trump interviewed in the oval office the day before Mueller was appointed to conduct the Kayfab Mueller investigation.

Posted by: jinn | Nov 30 2024 15:36 utc | 99