One official said the incident happened deep inside the eastern Syria deconfliction zone, where Russian troops generally should not be present. [As determined by Americans who are in Syria illegally to begin with.]
In the most violent skirmish in months between U.S. and Russian forces in Syria, a vehicle collision in the eastern part of the war-torn country left American troops with concussions, two U.S. officials said Wednesday.
One official said Russian vehicles sideswiped a light-armored U.S. military vehicle, injuring four Americans. The official said two Russian helicopters flew above the Americans, and one of the aircraft was within about 70 feet the vehicle.
While there have been several other recent incidents between the American and Russian troops who all patrol in eastern Syria, officials described this one as the most serious. U.S. troops are usually accompanied by members of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces.
Both officials spoke on condition of anonymity to provide details of the incident that were not yet made public. One official said the incident happened deep inside the eastern Syria deconfliction zone, where Russian troops generally should not be present. [As determined by Americans who are in Syria illegally to begin with.]
The officials said the incident is being discussed by senior officials from both countries who routinely work to prevent conflicts between troops in that area. U.S. and Russian commanders have frequent conversations to try and avoid contact between their troops there.
Russian permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzia said the US draft resolution on extending the United Nationsâ arms embargo on Iran has no chance of succeeding.
Russia and China have already voiced their opposition to the draft resolution.
âThis resolution has very sad prospects. I mean, they just do not exist,â Nebenzia said in an open online interview on Thursday, Sputnik reported.
China âstrategic accordâ could give Iran $400 billion boost, up military ties https://t.co/ql1F90eM0t
â The Times of Israel (@TimesofIsrael) July 12, 2020
According to the diplomat, Russia told the US as soon as the latter started working on the resolution that it has âabsolutely no chance of being adopted.â
âThe adoption of such a resolution would put an end to the JCPOA. It is clear that Iran will never accept that, and it has the right to do so,â Nebenzia added.
In June, the United States introduced a draft resolution at the UN Security Council to extend the arms embargo on Iran before it expires in mid-October.
Baloney about the 2-state solution. Everybody knows that was never happening, but I like Russia calling out “israel” on the annexation. I don’t recall Russia raising a voice when it comes to Palestine matters… or so few that I missed it. Anyway, in the long run, “israel” will be exterminated one way or another because it does not deserve to exist, and it will not be worthwhile to preserve it.
All settlements are illegal under international law.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334 of 2016 states that Israel’s settlement activity constitutes a “flagrant violation” of international law and has “no legal validity”. It demands that Israel stop such activity and fulfill its obligations as an occupying power under the Fourth Geneva Convention.
Russia has confirmed its rejection of Israelâs plans to annex parts of the occupied West Bank, stressing that this would undermine the settlement of the conflict on the basis of a two-state solution, and especially the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.
Russiaâs Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a statement yesterday that Moscow and other countries that support the two-state solution share Palestinian concerns that the implementation of these plans may undermine the prospects of the establishment of an independent, viable and integrated Palestinian state.
The National Office for the Defence of Land and Resistance of Settlement in Palestine has warned that Israeli occupation authorities continue to implement their plans to annex settlements in the occupied West Bank, including in Jerusalem, and take preliminary steps to extend the occupationâs sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and the area to the north of the Dead Sea.
According to the data of the Negotiations Affairs Department of the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), approximately 51.6 per cent of the occupied West Bank is under Israeli control.
There were more than 150 settlements and 128 illegal outposts in the occupied West Bank at the end of 2019 in addition to 15 illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem. They were home to 670,000 settlers.
All settlements are illegal under international law.
Israelâs main concern is the ability to conceal itself. Its exposure weakens it. Once exposed, Israel faces questions about its legitimacy, its methods, its purposes. Israel does not want to be held accountable. It wants absolute freedom to reproduce itself and amass power. pic.twitter.com/tcjMhpfLQb
It really doesn’t matter who, it doesn’t matter if we like them or not. What’s needed is a balance of power in the world.
The balance of power theory in international relations suggests that states may secure their survival by preventing any one state from gaining enough military power to dominate all others.[1] If one state becomes much stronger, the theory predicts it will take advantage of its weaker neighbors, thereby driving them to unite in a defensive coalition. Some realists maintain that a balance-of-power system is more stable than one with a dominant state, as aggression is unprofitable when there is equilibrium of power between rival coalitions.[1]
This is going to bring hell on earth for all of us, but it does feel great to see the system that brought us such things as child trannies, endless wars, multiculturalism, feminism and Rise of Skywalker finally ending.
And it is poetic that it is ending in a nonsensical panic over
Russia is sending a plane filled with medical equipment to the United States to help fight the coronavirus following a phone conversation between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday.
The Russian Embassy Tuesday posted on its social media channels that âRussia may send a plane with medical equipment and protection gear to the United States already on Tuesday,â citing the Russian news agency TASS.
 Reuters later reported that Russian state TV was saying the flight had taken off early Wednesday morning.
This comes after Trump indicated, without much context, that Russia was sending some sort of medical aid in his Monday coronavirus task force briefing.
âAnd I have to say, weâve had great relationships with a lot of countries,â Trump said. âChina sent us some stuff, which was terrific.
 Russia sent us a very, very large planeload of things, medical equipment, which was very nice.â
The American governmentâs âaidâ regime was the symbol of its global dominance. Now it is the one receiving aid. And Russia is going to get a lot more opportunities for this.
They have made the decision to not completely collapse their economy. And due to the sanctions that have been going on since 2014, as well as the nature of Russia, their economy is not unstable in the way the US economy is unstable.
They also do not have tens of millions of brown people to create endless chaos in their country if something goes wrong.
You people wanted to keep the cold war going, and you turned a victory into a loss.
The jig is up.
It will be so much fun to watch the realization set in among the media class of just what they have done.
The time of it mattering if they donât like Russia, or donât like something else, or want a war in Syria or Iran, or want more child trannies â that is all over.
Nothing they say is going to matter anymore.
Bonus video
William Powell Lear was an American inventor and businessman. He is best known for founding the Lear Jet Corporation, a manufacturer of business jets. He also invented the battery eliminator for the B battery, and developed the 8-track cartridge, an audio tape system.
Concerned About Nuclear Weapons Potential, John F. Kennedy Pushed for Inspection of Israel Nuclear Facilities, unaware that no one has such authority over the Jews. All the actors (Kennedy was against their interests) beyond them worked under the authority of the Jews. LBJ, Bush, Dulles and all the people working under their authority. So I believe Lear on this topic.
In the past weeks the Kremlin has shown itâs willing to punch back as well as take drastic necessary defensive action in the face of Washington sanctions at a moment America is preoccupied and made more vulnerable by the coronavirus threat â first by dumping OPEC+ and MbS, effectively declaring war on US shale â and now by taking aggressive measures to insulate Russiaâs state-controlled Rosneft.
On Saturday Rosneft announced it has sold off all its Venezuelan oil assets to an unnamed Russian state entity. âThe government of the Russian Federation has acquired assets in Venezuela from Rosneft. A company 100% owned by the Russian Federation has become the owner,â Russiaâs TASS said.
A company statement framed the move as key to protecting shareholdersâ interests at a moment the Trump administration ramps up pressure on Maduro and external entities still doing business with Caracas.
Itâs been widely reported that Rosneft has explored exit options since early 2019 when Venezuelan assets continued rapidly losing money, leading to worsened current operating conditions.
âAs a result of the concluded agreement all assets and trading operations of Rosneft in Venezuela and/or connected with Venezuela will be disposed of, terminated or liquidated,â Rosneft said.
 âWe took this decision in the interests of our shareholders, as a publicly traded international company,â Rosneft spokesman Mikhail Leontyev further told TASS.
 âAnd we have a right to expect, indeed, that the US regulators fulfill their public promises.â
On Thursday the White House went so far as to issue a $15 million bounty on Maduro and his inner circle over drug trafficking charges, amid sweeping indictments against what Washington dubbed a vast narco-state criminal enterprise orchestrated by the regime.
 It appears Rosneft took note of Trumpâs willingness to press his economic war on Venezuela further even as the United States now leads the world in numbers of confirmed coronavirus cases, which threatens to decimate an economy still on âpauseâ and extreme uncertainty still on the horizon.
All of this follows in mid-February the US slapping new sanctions on Rosneft Trading SA, a unit of Rosneft, and the companyâs executive Didier Casimiro, accusing it of being the âprimary culpritâ of a campaign to evade Washingtonâs pressure campaign on the Maduro government.
 But the sanctions stopped just short of naming parent company Rosneft, though the Trump administration long accused it of âactively evading sanctions â engaging in ruses, engaging in deception.â
Bloomberg observed that âThe fight over Venezuela fits into a much larger geopolitical battle between Trump and Vladimir Putin, with both turning to oil as the weapon of choice.â And the report further cited Russiaâs ambassador to Venezuela, Sergey Melik-Magdasarov, as saying:
âDonât worry! This is about Rosneftâs assets being transferred to Russiaâs government directly. We keep moving forward together!,â he [Amb. Melik-Magdasarov] said, in a message that also posted on the embassy website.
The assets include Rosneftâs stakes in local upstream companies Petromonagas, Petroperija, Boqueron, Petromiranda and Petrovictoria, as well as oil-service, commercial and trading units.
The Russian Federation controls Rosneft with just over 50% of its shares, while BP Plc is the second-largest shareholder with 19.75%, and Qatarâs QH Oil Investments owns 18.93%.
Rosneftâs position has long been that US sanctions are illegal and that its own operations in Venezuela are commercial in nature, not political, after in prior months the companyâs cooperation with state-run PDVSA became an âopen secretâ.
The ultimate strategy behind Saturdayâs dramatic announcement is as yet uncertain, it should be noted:
But Russ Dallen, head of Caracas Capital Markets brokerage, cautioned that itâs too early to know for sure whether the move is intended to bolster Maduro.
âWe donât know whether the new state entity is a cemetery corporation, where companies go to die, or whether the Russians are simply doing it to take Rosneft â which is their crown jewel and provides a large portion of Russiaâs income â out of the way of sanctions and Putin will use the new company to continue to help Maduro,â he said.
Rosneft has emerged as one of PDVSAâs closest joint venture partners, being crucial as a heavy lifter keeping Venezuelan oil afloat at a moment Washington tries to strangle and blockade the socialist stateâs industry.
While Cuba, China, and Venezuela â countries targeted by US economic warfare â are helping the world contain the coronavirus outbreak, Washington itself is working overtime to monopolize any potential treatments, so it can profit from them.
The sanctions that the United States has imposed on dozens of countries around the world, in an attempt to overthrow their independent governments, have only made the global coronavirus pandemic worse.
But at the same time, some of these nations targeted by US economic warfare have taken the lead in the effort to contain the Covid-19 outbreak.
In fact, the local government in the north of Italy, a member of the European Union and NATO, has officially requested medical help from China, Cuba, and Venezuela â all countries demonized by the United States and EU, which in turn have provided Italy with little support.
The Italian government lamented that ânot a single EU countryâ has responded to its request for medical equipment â unlike China, which immediately helped.
And it is not just Italy; Britain has also relied on Cuba to help it battle the contagious virus.
The northern Italian region of Lombardy has been particularly hard hit by coronavirus, with tens of thousands of cases and more than 1,000 deaths. The pandemic has devastated the region, which is the richest and most populous area in the country.
On March 15, Italy recorded 368 new deaths in just one day â more than the deadliest day in Wuhan, China, which successfully contained the virus.
In response to the crisis, Lombardyâs government requested that China, Cuba, and Venezuela send doctors and other medical personnel to help to contain the outbreak.
âWe are in touch with Cuba, Venezuela, and China, who have made doctors available,â said Lombardyâs health minister, Giulio Gallera, in a press conference.
Havanaâs embassy declared âCuban solidarity with Italy,â and Cubaâs Foreign Affairs Ministry published a notice confirming Galleraâs request and announcing it will be sending âCuban personnel specialized in dealing with contagious diseases.â
The local government in the major Italian city Milan has also relied on shipments of medical equipment from China.
European Union abandons Italy, after pushing privatization of health systems
The European Union, on the other hand, has left Italy out to dry.
Italyâs ambassador to the EU, Maurizio Massari, published an op-ed noting that his country requested support through the bodyâs Mechanism of Civil Protection, seeking medical equipment to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
âBut, unfortunately, not a single EU country responded to the Commissionâs call. Only China responded bilaterally,â Massari wrote.
In fact the European Union has done the opposite of help. The European Commission, which leads the EU, called on member states to cut medical spending and privatize health services at least 63 times between 2011 to 2018.
The EUâs obsession with cutting and privatizing state institutions has greatly weakened the continentâs health infrastructure, making it much more susceptible to deadly pandemics like coronavirus.
Britain relies on Cuban help to dock coronavirus-infected ship
Cuba has been under an illegal US embargo since 1960 â which every country in the world (excluding Israel) votes to denounce each year at the United Nations. But this blockade has not stopped the small country from developing the best health system in all of Latin America.
Even the United Kingdom, one of the richest countries on the planet, has relied on Cuban help to contain the coronavirus.
The British government asked numerous countries in the Caribbean to let the cruise ship MS Braemar dock in their port, after there were several reports of coronavirus among its more than 1,000 passengers.
CNN noted that âBritish officials launched an intense diplomatic effort to find a country willing to take theâ infected ship, but were rejected by Barbados and the Bahamas.
On March 16, Cuba agreed to assist Britain, offering to dock the MS Braemar in a Cuban port and help fly the passengers back to the UK.
Cubaâs Foreign Affairs Ministry declared in a statement, âThese are times of solidarity, of understanding health as a human right, of strengthening international cooperation to face our common challenges, values that are key to the humanist practices of the Revolution and of our people.â
US fights for control of potential coronavirus treatment and vaccine
While Cuba, China, and Venezuela â countries targeted by US economic warfare â are helping the world contain the coronavirus outbreak, Washington itself is working overtime to monopolize any potential treatments, so it can profit from them.
A California-based pharmaceutical corporation, Gilead Sciences, has developed an experimental drug that medical experts think could potentially treat coronavirus.
The Chinese governmentâs Wuhan Institute of Virology applied for a patent so it can produce this drug, which is called remdesivir. But the US company has been fighting tooth and nail to prevent Beijing from being able to manufacture it.
The US government has also tried to bribe a German medical company that may be on the verge of developing a coronavirus vaccine.
President Donald Trump reportedly offered âlarge sums of moneyâ to the German firm, CureVac, so that the United States could have exclusive rights to the treatment â which it could then sell to the rest of the world.
US sanctions prevent Venezuela and Iran from importing medicine and medical equipment
And while the Trump administration and US pharmaceutical companies are seeking to profit from the coronavirus pandemic, Washington is doubling down on its destructive economic warfare.
Venezuelaâs attorney general, Tarek William Saab, gave a press conference denouncing Washington for preventing Caracas from buying medicine and medical equipment that would help it fight Covid-19.
âIt is ethically unacceptable that such sanctions be maintained against Venezuela,â Saab said. He called on Colombia and Brazil to stop their coup attempts against Caracas and to instead work together to contain the virus.
US sanctions have also greatly hindered Iranâs effort to fight Covid-19. Hundreds of Iranians have died, with thousands more affected, and Washington has prevented the country from buying much-needed medicine and medical equipment.
Iranâs foreign minister, Javad Zarif, denounced the US sanctions as a form of âmedical terrorism.â
âEfforts to fight COVID19 pandemic in Iran have been severely hampered by US sanctions,â Zarif added. âIt is IMMORAL to let a bully kill innocents.â
In a letter to Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres, Zarif called on the United Nations and member states to ignore the âinhuman US sanctionsâ on Iran and push for them to be lifted.
China has also forcefully spoken out against the US sanctions on Venezuela and Iran.
In a press conference on March 13, a spokesman for Chinaâs Foreign Affairs Ministry, Geng Shuang, condemned Washingtonâs blockade of Caracas.
âAt a crucial moment in which the governments and peoples of all countries are fighting together against the epidemic of a new coronavirus, the American side, however, is determined to continue shaking the stick of sanctions against Venezuela, which is going against the minimum spirit of humanity,â the Geng said.
The Chinese government spokesperson likewise denounced US sanctions on Iran.
Noting that Beijing had sent a team of medical experts to help Iran contain Covid-19, the Foreign Affairs Ministry added, âWe urge the US to immediately lift unilateral sanction on Iran. Continued sanction is against humanitarianism and hampers Iranâs epidemic response.â
European Union abandons Italy, after pushing privatization of health systems
The European Union, on the other hand, has left Italy out to dry.
Italyâs ambassador to the EU, Maurizio Massari, published an op-ed noting that his country requested support through the bodyâs Mechanism of Civil Protection, seeking medical equipment to contain the coronavirus outbreak.
âBut, unfortunately, not a single EU country responded to the Commissionâs call. Only China responded bilaterally,â Massari wrote.
In fact the European Union has done the opposite of help. The European Commission, which leads the EU, called on member states to cut medical spending and privatize health services at least 63 times between 2011 to 2018.
The EUâs obsession with cutting and privatizing state institutions has greatly weakened the continentâs health infrastructure, making it much more susceptible to deadly pandemics like coronavirus.
Britain relies on Cuban help to dock coronavirus-infected ship
Cuba has been under an illegal US embargo since 1960 â which every country in the world (excluding Israel) votes to denounce each year at the United Nations. But this blockade has not stopped the small country from developing the best health system in all of Latin America.
Even the United Kingdom, one of the richest countries on the planet, has relied on Cuban help to contain the coronavirus.
The British government asked numerous countries in the Caribbean to let the cruise ship MS Braemar dock in their port, after there were several reports of coronavirus among its more than 1,000 passengers.
CNN noted that âBritish officials launched an intense diplomatic effort to find a country willing to take theâ infected ship, but were rejected by Barbados and the Bahamas.
On March 16, Cuba agreed to assist Britain, offering to dock the MS Braemar in a Cuban port and help fly the passengers back to the UK.
Cubaâs Foreign Affairs Ministry declared in a statement, âThese are times of solidarity, of understanding health as a human right, of strengthening international cooperation to face our common challenges, values that are key to the humanist practices of the Revolution and of our people.â
US fights for control of potential coronavirus treatment and vaccine
While Cuba, China, and Venezuela â countries targeted by US economic warfare â are helping the world contain the coronavirus outbreak, Washington itself is working overtime to monopolize any potential treatments, so it can profit from them.
A California-based pharmaceutical corporation, Gilead Sciences, has developed an experimental drug that medical experts think could potentially treat coronavirus.
The Chinese governmentâs Wuhan Institute of Virology applied for a patent so it can produce this drug, which is called remdesivir. But the US company has been fighting tooth and nail to prevent Beijing from being able to manufacture it.
The US government has also tried to bribe a German medical company that may be on the verge of developing a coronavirus vaccine.
President Donald Trump reportedly offered âlarge sums of moneyâ to the German firm, CureVac, so that the United States could have exclusive rights to the treatment â which it could then sell to the rest of the world.
US sanctions prevent Venezuela and Iran from importing medicine and medical equipment
And while the Trump administration and US pharmaceutical companies are seeking to profit from the coronavirus pandemic, Washington is doubling down on its destructive economic warfare.
Venezuelaâs attorney general, Tarek William Saab, gave a press conference denouncing Washington for preventing Caracas from buying medicine and medical equipment that would help it fight Covid-19.
âIt is ethically unacceptable that such sanctions be maintained against Venezuela,â Saab said. He called on Colombia and Brazil to stop their coup attempts against Caracas and to instead work together to contain the virus.
US sanctions have also greatly hindered Iranâs effort to fight Covid-19. Hundreds of Iranians have died, with thousands more affected, and Washington has prevented the country from buying much-needed medicine and medical equipment.
Iranâs foreign minister, Javad Zarif, denounced the US sanctions as a form of âmedical terrorism.â
âEfforts to fight COVID19 pandemic in Iran have been severely hampered by US sanctions,â Zarif added. âIt is IMMORAL to let a bully kill innocents.â
In a letter to Secretary-General AntĂłnio Guterres, Zarif called on the United Nations and member states to ignore the âinhuman US sanctionsâ on Iran and push for them to be lifted.
China has also forcefully spoken out against the US sanctions on Venezuela and Iran.
In a press conference on March 13, a spokesman for Chinaâs Foreign Affairs Ministry, Geng Shuang, condemned Washingtonâs blockade of Caracas.
âAt a crucial moment in which the governments and peoples of all countries are fighting together against the epidemic of a new coronavirus, the American side, however, is determined to continue shaking the stick of sanctions against Venezuela, which is going against the minimum spirit of humanity,â the Geng said.
The Chinese government spokesperson likewise denounced US sanctions on Iran.
Noting that Beijing had sent a team of medical experts to help Iran contain Covid-19, the Foreign Affairs Ministry added, âWe urge the US to immediately lift unilateral sanction on Iran. Continued sanction is against humanitarianism and hampers Iranâs epidemic response.â
With united Europe MIA in its Covid-19 response, worst-hit nations turn to ‘evil’ Russia & China for help
And thank heavens for Russia and China, because if either Italy or Spain had been looking to the EU â or the USA for that matter â for real, on-the-ground assistance that would enable them to simply stop people dying in their thousands in overcrowded hospitals, then they would have found themselves waiting in vain.
Iran rejects Trump’s virus aid offer: “The American leaders are liars, manipulators, impudent and greedy … They are charlatans,” he said, also labeling them “absolutely ruthless” and “terrorists”. The American proposals “to help us with medicines and treatments, provided we ask for them, are strange”, he said, noting that the United States itself suffers from “a horrible shortage not only of disease prevention equipment but also of medicines”.*
Brussels has all but abandoned them to their fates, so is it any wonder that Italy, Spain and other European countries have turned to Moscow and Beijing for meaningful support in terms of expert advice and medical supplies?
When this coronavirus pandemic has passed and the nations of the European Union are counting the cost of decimated populations, shattered public health infrastructures and economic meltdowns, one thing is certain: the dynamics within the bloc will have changed forever.
Before the global outbreak of this killer virus, Russia and China were always the Westâs undisputed bogeymen. Troublemakers, always up to mischief, playing dangerous geopolitical games intended to undermine Western democracies and divide allies in the EU and NATO.
The Chinese are not seeking to destroy Americansâ way of life. The Chinese accept fundamental aspects of our capitalist marketplace, and they have similar interests in halting climate change, fighting terrorists, and combating pandemics. China should be regarded as a serious rival as well as a crucial partner.
Many in the Western mainstream media are addicted to a daily fix of either Russian or Chinese conspiracy, so they probably donât appreciate the irony here. Because things have changed.
In a big way.
Itâs largely due to the generosity of these two âtricksyâ outsider superpowers that some European nations, fully paid-up, long-term members of the EU, have even a remote chance of getting to grips with the immense public health demands caused by the outbreak of the coronavirus.
And thank heavens for that, because if either Italy or Spain had been looking to the EU â or the USA for that matter â for real, on-the-ground assistance that would enable them to simply stop people dying in their thousands in overcrowded hospitals, then they would have found themselves waiting in vain.
Sure, the ECB weighed in only last week, with an unprecedented fiscal bazooka aimed at reducing the economic impact that is being caused by the virus (ar at least by the measures governments are taking to try to stop it). But thatâs fighting the virus in one manner only, very much after the fact and certainly not on the frontline.
This significance of that fiscal help will only really be apparent once the health crisis is over and the full, disastrous economic consequences are realized. And the fact that it is far from over right now is what needs immediate attention, like providing more medical staff, personal protection gear, ventilators, hospitals and, obviously, a vaccine.
But the message from Brussels to Italy, Spain and other EU members is clear: in dealing with the pandemic and the thousands of dead citizens it leaves in its wake, you are on your own.
The EUâs abject hopelessness and indifference started to become clear some weeks back in the face of the escalating virus, when the export beyond national borders of facemasks and medical equipment was banned by some EU members, including Germany.
Russia mocks Americaâs âumpteenthâ report of Baghdadiâs death claiming thereâs no evidence the ISIS leader was killed. Apparently the underwear DNA was not convincing. AND officials in Russia also claimed there were no recorded airstrikes in the Idlib zone on Saturday when the operation was said to have taken place.
They stole his underwear for DNA
RUSSIA has sneered at claims that ISIS monster Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was killed in a fiery raid – mocking Donald Trump’s announcement as the “umpteenth” such report of his death.
The US president said Baghdadi “died like a dog” when he blew himself up in a tunnel as he fled US special forces at the weekend.
Top CIA officials openly admit, Al-Qaeda is a total and complete fabrication, never having existed at any time.
Mr Trump said the ISIS chief â who became the worldâs most wanted man â died “crying, whimpering and screaming and bringing three kids with him”.
Hailing Saturday nightâs operation as an âunbelievable successâ he called it a âgreat night for the US and for the world” as they had brought the “world’s greater terrorist leader to justice”.
But, Russia’s defense bosses downplayed the victory, saying they were skeptical about his announcement.
Russian state-operated news agency, RIA, quoted Major-General Igor Konashenkov saying: “The Russian Ministry of Defense does not have reliable information on the operation by US servicemen… on yet another ‘elimination’ of former IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.”
Trump was also mocked by Konstantin Kosachyov, chairman of upper house of parliament’s foreign affairs committee.
Last respects have been paid to al-Baghdadi at least five times in the past.
Konstantin Kosachyov, Foreign Affairs Spokesman, Russia
He told Interfax news agency: “Last respects have been paid to al-Baghdadi at least five times in the past.
“(Also) countering terrorism is a much more difficult task than the physical destruction of its leaders, even the most irreconcilable.”
Officials in Russia also claimed there were no recorded airstrikes in the Idlib zone on Saturday when the operation was said to have taken place.
Trump said US military helicopters flew “very low” over territory controlled by Russian and Syrian forces before landing at Baghdadi’s compound in the village of Barisha.
However Russia said the ministry was unaware of “any alleged assistance to the passage of American aircraft into the airspace of the Idlib de-escalation zone during this operation.”
Military bosses said that the ISIS chief’s presence in that area would be unlikely because the territory is controlled either by the Syrian government or by an al-Qaeda affiliate that is an IS rival.
IRAN ALSO MOCKS TRUMP
Trump’s announcement was also scoffed at in Iran.
Iran’s Information Minister, Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, mocked Saturday’s raid on Twitter, saying, “not a big deal, You just killed your creature” – accusing the US, its longtime foe, of creating ISIS.
And Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei tweeted: “The killing of Baghdadi will not end Daesh (Islamic State) and its ideology … which was created and flourished with the help of regional petrodollars.”
Meanwhile, in Afghanistan an ISIS fighter told a Reuters reporter that he suspected news of Baghdadi’s death was fake.
The militant, who identified himself as just Shaheen, said: “If the US really killed him, they should show the evidence, show the body.
“But let’s say he was killed, it wouldn’t matter.
“Our struggle is not for Baghdadi, our struggle against the infidels is for Allah.”
oops wrong photo, this was the bin-Laden raid
This is the Al-Baghdadi raid.
âWe have been working together with the CIA to track Al-Baghdadi and monitor him closely,â Polat Can, a senior SDF official posted on his Twitter account.
One interesting fact was yet to be revealed, as SDF said it needed evidence to prove Al-Baghdadiâs identity.
I got his underwear!
âOur own source, who had been able to reach Al-Baghdadi, brought Al-Baghdadiâs underwear to conduct a DNA test and make sure (100%) that the person in question was Al-Baghdadi himself,â he added.
ISIS == ISRAELI SECRET INTELLIGENCE SERVICE. The former employee at US National Security Agency (NSA), Edward Snowden, has revealed that the British and American intelligence and the Mossad worked together to create the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
We’re just back to that we already know: everything is a farce.
 According to D. Sheehan, Russiagate was a distraction while Trump, Putin and some oligarchs plot to create an oil monopoly in the Western world. Capturing this oil source is dependent on climate change to melt the Arctic shelf where the oil is. And lots of other shenanigans and players. Funky Trump blackmail videos. I love the history that goes into all of this…The retelling of the story of Howard Hughes and the sweat on Nixon’s brow in the Kennedy debate to William barr dose a real good job catching people unfamiliar with the subject matter.
Daniel P. Sheehan is a Constitutional and public interest lawyer, public speaker, political activist and educator. Over the last forty-five years he has participated in numerous legal cases of public interest, including the Pentagon Papers Case, the Watergate Break-In Case, the Silkwood Case, the Greensboro massacre Case, the La Penca bombing Case and others.
In The Peoples Advocate, Sheehan details âthe inside storyâ of over a dozen historically significant American legal cases of the 20th Century, all of which he litigated. The remarkable cases covered in the book include both The Pentagon Papers Case in 1971 and The Watergate Burglary Case in 1973.
In addition, Sheehan served as the Chief Attorney on The Karen Silkwood Case in 1976, which revealed the CIAâs Israeli Desk had been smuggling 98% bomb-grade plutonium to the State of Israel and to Iran.
Smuggled Bomb Grade Plutonium Went to ĺIsraelĺ (3 min) “Israel” is always somewhere.
In 1984, he was the Chief Trial Counsel on The American Sanctuary Movement Case, establishing the right of American church workers to provide assistance to Central American political refugees fleeing Guatemalan and Salvadorian âdeath squads.â
His involvement with the sanctuary movement ultimately led to Sheehanâs famous Iran/Contra Federal Civil Racketeering Case against the Reagan/Bush Administration, which he investigated, initiated, filed, and then litigated. The resulting âIran/Contra Scandalâ nearly brought down that Administration, leading Congress to consider the impeachment of over a dozen of the top-ranking officials of the Reagan/Bush Administration.
The Peoples Advocate is the âreal storyâ of these and many other historic American cases, told from the unique point of view of a central lawyer.
JFK Assassination Convenient Deaths
1963 – 1976
In the three year period following the assassination many witnesses died – mostly of unnatural causes. Many rumors crawling around about the high death rate during these years. They are supported by the mostly suspicious circumstances the victims died under. For a unknown shooter or even shooters, all these deaths have on thing in common: they are very convenient to those assassins since these witnesses took their knowledge with them into the grave. But see yourself and decide whether these deaths are purely coincidently:
Date
Name
Connection with case
Cause of death
11/63
Karyn Kupicinet
Tv host’s daughter who was overheard telling of JFK’s death prior to 11/22/63
Murdered
12/63
Jack Zangretti
Expressed foreknowledge of Ruby shooting Oswald
Gunshot Victim
2/64
Eddy Benavides
Lookalike brother to Tippit shooting witness, Domingo Benavides
Gunshot to head
2/64
Betty MacDonald*
Former Ruby employee who alibied Warren Reynolds shooting suspect.
Suicide by hanging in Dallas Jail
3/64
Bill Chesher
Thought to have information linking Oswald and Ruby
Heart attack
3/64
Hank Killam*
Husband of Ruby employee, knew Oswald acquaintance
Throat cut
4/64
Bill Hunter*
Reporter who was in Ruby’s apartment on 11/24/63
Accidental shooting by policeman
5/64
Gary Underhill*
CIA agent who claimed Agency was involved
Gunshot in head ruled suicide
5/64
Hugh Ward*
Private investigator working with Guy Banister and David Ferrie
Plane crash in Mexico
5/64
DeLesseps Morrison*
New Orleans Mayor
Passenger in Ward’s plane
8/64
Teresa Norton*
Ruby employee
Fatally shot
6/64
Guy Banister*
x-FBI agent in New Orleans connected to Ferrie, CIA, Carlos Marcello & Oswald
Heart attack
9/64
Jim Koethe*
Reporter who was in Ruby’s apartment on 11/24/63
Blow to neck
9/64
C.D. Jackson
“Life” magazine senior Vice-president who bought Zapruder film and locked it away
Unknown
10/64
Mary Pinchot
JFK “special” friend whose diary was taken by CIA chief James Angleton after her death
Murdered
1/65
Paul Mandal
“Life” writer who told of JFK turning to rear when shot in throat
Cancer
3/65
Tom Howard*
Ruby’s first lawyer, was in Ruby’s apartment on 11/24/63
Heart attack
5/65
Maurice Gatlin*
Pilot for Guy Banister
Fatal fall
8/65
Mona B. Saenz*
Texas Employment clerk who interviewed Oswald
Hit by Dallas bus
?/65
David Goldstein
Dallasite who helped FBI trace Oswald’s pistol
Natural causes
9/65
Rose Cheramie*
Knew of assassination in advance, told of riding to Dallas with Cubans
Hit/run victim
11/65
Dorothy Kilgallen*
Columnist who had private interview with Ruby, pledged to “break” JFK case
Drug overdose
11/65
Mrs. Earl Smith*
Close friend to Dorothy Kilgallen, died two daysafter columnist, may have kept Kilgallen’s notes
Cause unknown
12/65
William Whaley*
Cab driver who reportedly drove Oswald to Oak Cliff (The only Dallas taxi driver to die on duty)
Motor collision
1966
Judge Joe Brown
Presided over Ruby’s trial
Heart attack
1966
Karen “Little Lynn” Carlin*
Ruby employee who last talked with Ruby before Oswald shooting
Gunshot victim
1/66
Earlene Roberts
Oswald’s landlady
Heart attack
2/66
Albert Bogard*
Car salesman who said Oswald test drove new car
Suicide
6/66
Capt. Frank Martin
Dallas policeman who witnessed Oswald slaying, told Warren Commission “there’s a lot to be said but probably be better if I don’t say it”
John Bolton announced that the US will freeze Venezuelan assets and block oil payments for Venezuelan oil imports to the US. This would not only be illegal, but would also be yet another crippling blow to the country, says Mark Weisbrot #VenezuelaCouphttps://t.co/wg5wB9SWEp
Guiadoâs constitutional claim to the presidency of Venezuela was a scheme cooked up in collusion with Washington, made in the USA, with Secretary of State Pompeo, John Bolton and Sen. Marco Rubio signing on, and President Trump signing off. This was Plan A.
But if Plan A does not succeed, and Maduro, with Americaâs prestige on the line, defies our demand that he yield, what do we do then? What is Plan B?
âAssad must go!â said Barack Obama. Well, Assad is still there â and Obama is gone.
âRussia has become the major power broker in the Middle Eastâ
Propping up Assad was a message to the West that leaders cannot be deposed by outside force â an attempt that Putin is believed to fear the West is trying to orchestrate in Russia. The military campaign was also a way for Russia to reestablish influence in the Middle East, show off its reconstituted military might and help brand itself a resurgent great power.
The losers are scurrying around to different places, different battles, battles they can win, perhaps.
Little by little, the partisans of the Cebrowski doctrine are advancing their pawns. If they must cease creating wars in the Greater Middle East for Israel, theyâll just turn around and inflame the Caribbean Basin. Above all, the Pentagon is planning to assassinate an elected head of state, ruin his country, and undermine the unity of Latin-America. Not cool.
“If they withdraw from Afghanistan it will not have a security impact because in the last 4 1/2 years the Afghans have been in full control,” Ghani’s spokesman, Haroon Chakhansuri, said via social media… Haha, US hasn’t won anything there…
The US Air Force is condemned to defeat if it confronts the Syrian Arab Army, which now has in its possession Russian anti-air materials, the best in the world. The USâs only viable option is to leave, sparing itself any humiliation. History is repeating itself.
Once before, in Iraq, the United States had used Kurdish combatants, promising them a State before letting them be massacred by Saddam Hussein. Today the US lets other Kurds to whom it has also promised a State, face up to Turkey alone. _ In a few months the war will be over. After eight years of fighting and tens of thousands of Islamist mercenaries being sacrificed, ZIO-Natoâs dream of destroying Syriaâs state structures will have failed.
States addressed in the Report as the instigators of war crimes are the imperialist states and their
collaborationists which we are used to see where there is war in the World.
A week ago, two S-300 rocket missiles were deployed in Deir Ez-zor, in East Syria. Immediately after, the intensity of the US-led coalition flights decreased by 80% in North East Syria. Since 18 September 2018, the Israeli Air Force has not carried out any more raids in Syriaâs airspace.
A delegation from the Israeli army, led by General Major Aharon Haliva (Head of Operations), went to Moscow for talks with Major General Vasily Trushin (Joint Chief of Operations of the Russian Army). Relations between the two armies have deteriorated after the destruction of the Russian airplane IL-20 during the attack on Syrian targets near the Russian air base of Hmeymim by the Israeli F-16.
The Israeli delegation went to Moscow because it had not succeeded in finding the gaps in the no fly zone, imposed by the new system of Syrian Defense delivered by Russia. The Israelis thought they could coax the Russians to obtain the security codes for Syrian missiles. Russia, quite clearly, refused to give these codes to them.
What are the elements of the automatized management of the Syrian air space that prevent the Israelis and Americans from acting? Syria has received 6 to 8 S-300/PMU2 missiles, with an action range of 250 km. The missiles guarantee the security of planes and Syrian military land targets. However, they are not the most important element.
Management is assured by the automatized management system, Polyana D4M1. The role of the automatized management system is a necessary interface for the Syrian air units and anti-Air Defense apparatus to work at the same time. Polyana D4M1 can cover an area of 800 km2, following 500 air targets and ballistic missiles and establishing 250 of them. It is thanks to the Polyana D4M1 that command centres of the army of the Syrian Air Force also receive external information from the Russian airplane A-50U (AWACS) and Russian satellites of surveillance.
The memory of the Polyana D4M1 computer servers stock the radar imprint of all the air targets including the cruise missiles and the allegedly âinvisibleâ F-35 plane.
When an air target is detected by a radar in Syria, the automatized system Polyana D4M1 posts information for all the detection radars and systems for guiding planes and Syrian and Russian anti-air artillery. Once identified, the air targets are automatically assigned to be struck down. This automatized system ensures that the oldest Syrian missiles of the Soviet era (S-200, S-75, S-125, etc.) become almost as precise as the S-300 missile.
The Polyana D4M1 network also includes the following: ⢠the Krasukha-4 for jamming the radars on the ground ⢠AWACS aircrafts ⢠reconnaissance planes with or without pilots.
The network also uses the Zhitel R-330ZH systems for interfering with NAVSTAR (GPS), the apparatus of navigation. This equips the means of attack (planes, helicopters, cruise missiles, guided bombs, etc.).
What is the consequence of Russia implementing the automatized management of the Syrian air space?
The US military air bases in Syria consist essentially of troops for special operations. By this we mean a light infantry, without any armour or support. They could not therefore ward off any land attack carried out by the Syrian army supported by the Air Force. Having understood that the US Air Force will not be able to pass the Syrian anti-air barrage without unacceptable losses, any US intervention becomes inappropriate.
This is why the US has just announced that it will start to withdraw 2,000 soldiers from Syria [1]. At the same time, Turkey, supported by Russia, is getting ready to launch a new offensive against the YPG in Northern Syria. These new circumstances ensure the Syrian Army will fight on the side of Turkey. The YPG, trained and supported by the United States, is quickly losing all the territories that it had taken from the Islamic State which itself had taken from Syria.
The truth is, Israelis are no longer preoccupied with the matter. They’re otherwise engaged; they’re making money; they’re enjoying the rays of late summer. A watching world may still see their country as being defined by the blood feud with the Arabs whose families used to live on this land and whether that conflict can be negotiated away, but Israelis say they have moved on.
Israel has also maintained that only the US can mediate the conflict. (US has seen 45 years of failure.)
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday said that Russia was willing to mediate between Israel and the Palestinians, and that stability in the region could not be reached until the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was resolved.
âIt is impossible to create stability in the Middle East, including in Libya and Iraq, without a solution to the oldest regional problem, the Palestinian problem,â said Lavrov, who was on a two-day trip to Rome.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Friday said that Russia was willing to mediate between Israel and the Palestinians, and that stability in the region could not be reached until the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was resolved.
âIt is impossible to create stability in the Middle East, including in Libya and Iraq, without a solution to the oldest regional problem, the Palestinian problem,â said Lavrov, who was on a two-day trip to Rome.
âWe support the need for a resumption of direct talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians. We confirm again our offer from several years ago to host a meeting between the Israeli and Palestinian leaders in Russia without any preconditions,â he said.
The offer came as relations between the Palestinians and the US, the traditional Mideast peace mediators, are at an all-time low.
The Trump administrationâs plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace is expected to be rolled out in the coming months.
But the plan is unlikely to be welcome by either side, especially with the Palestinian Authority boycotting the Trump administration since its recognition last December of Jerusalem as the Israeli capital. The PA has vowed to oppose the âdeal of the century.â Israelâs shaky right-wing coalition government, meantime, is down to a majority of just 61 in the 120 seat Knesset after Avigdor Liberman resigned as defense minister to protest last weekâs Gaza ceasefire.
On Wednesday, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said that she would counsel the American leader that any such proposal was âa waste of time.â
âI think that the gap between the Palestinians and the Israelis is much too big to be bridged,â she said in an English-language interview on stage at the Jerusalem Post diplomatic conference. She added: âI think personally itâs a waste of time. Although I want peace like anyone else, I think Iâm just more realistic. And I know that in the current future, it is impossible.â
Trump was set to hold a meeting with top advisers this week to review his administrationâs peace plan and discuss the timing for its release, according to a television report on Sunday.
The meeting was to be attended by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, National Security Adviser John Bolton, Trumpâs senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as Middle East peace envoy Jason Greenblatt, the Channel 10 report said. US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman traveled to Washington, DC, to attend the meeting as well.
US officials told the news channel that Trump wants to see the plan rolled out by February, but his advisers favored taking a more cautious approach, in light of the political crisis that engulfed Israel over the past week, and the razor-thin 61-seat parliamentary majority that the Netanyahu government now holds.
Although the Trump administration has been touting its peace plan for months, details of it have been scant, and the Palestinians have vowed not to cooperate with US efforts.
Israel has also maintained that only the US can mediate the conflict.
