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There's no freedom without national sovereignty.
What will probably happen if there is no agreement between Russia and the new Syrian authorities on the presence of Russian bases on Syrian soil:
1_ diplomatic ties to be completely severed
2_ all groups who seized power together with HTS will also be recognized as terrorist organizations, this means that in order to defend Russian national security there will constantly be Russian missile strikes on jihadists bases, houses and any other facility they use to store weapons, probably just with the use of Kinzhals and Kalibrs if it won't be possible to deploy fighter jets anymore.
3_ no trade relations with Syria, including in energy field and grain deliveries.
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The new strikes on Ukraine have greatly affected the interests of Rinat Akhmetov, most likely this is the final blow to his DTEK.
Margin call has been activated on the securities and collateral of the group of companies, and this is a risk that in the near future Akhmetov will lose control of a large stake in his once empire.
Emergency shutdowns of electricity, water and heat in Ukraine have already begun. Due to frosts in some parts of the country, outages will continue until spring. The wear of the power system is already critical. The heat outages will start too.
The entire railway of Ukraine has switched to diesel locomotives, and in large cities, starting on Monday, the contact networks of trams and trolleybuses will be disconnected.
The metro will work only in Kiev with blackouts and for the most part, as a bomb shelter.
Zelensky is well aware that he himself provoked this attack on energy infrastructure facilities. The strikes will continue further, as now there has been a response to the launches of ATACMS on our territory.
The response for the UAV raid on Kapustin Yar and the launches in Taganrog is still ahead.
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The White House refused today to call on Israel to halt its invasion of Syria. Since Assad’s ouster, Israel has moved to occupy land twice the size of Gaza on its eastern border, moving in and beyond a UN-patrolled buffer zone, in violation of the 1974 armistice.
Asked John Kirby, on Syria, if US will ask Israel to withdraw its troops
John Kirby: Ongoing discussions, Israelis say it’s temporary.
John Kirby “I’d leave it to the Israelis to speak to their military operations.”
⚡️Emmanuel Macron appoints Francois Bayrou as new prime minister
Bayrou is the head of the centrist pro-EU European Democratic Party. Earlier this year, Bayrou was cleared by a tribunal for the misuse of EU public funds - embezzled to help his party - due to a lack of evidence.
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❗🇷🇺The Russian army cleans the Kurakhovo cauldron: the flag is raised over the settlement of Vesely Gai!
As we can see, our fighters are calmly moving through the streets and putting a flag in the center of the village, which confirms their confident control over the settlement.
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❗️A Syrian Scorecard: Key Factions and Their Backers
1. Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
- Background: HTS, formerly al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, has emerged as the dominant force in northwestern and central Syria, and is currently forming an Islamic government based on Sharia Law.
- Backers: Turkey, Qatar, CIA
- Goals: Establish an Islamic state under its control and secure pragmatic alliances to strengthen its position.
2. Remnants of the Assad Regime
- Background: After the regime’s collapse, remnants of Assad’s military, Alawite loyalists, and affiliated militias maintain control over very limited territories, particularly in coastal areas like Latakia and parts of Tartous.
- Backers: In theory Iran and Russia, though in practice not clear to what extent
- Goals: Maintain footholds for potential resurgence or protect remaining strongholds.
3. Opposition Forces (FSA/SNA and Rebel Groups)
- Background: Turkish-backed opposition groups, including the rebranded Syrian National Army (SNA), played a key role in Assad’s downfall and now control areas in northern Syria.
- Backers: Turkey, Qatar, US State Department, CIA
- Goals: Secure power in liberated areas and counter HTS’s dominance.
4. Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - Kurds
- Background: The Kurdish-led SDF controls northeastern Syria and remains focused on maintaining autonomy while combating ISIS.
- Backers: US Pentagon, European Allies
- Goals: Preserve Kurdish self-rule and resist Turkish military incursions.
5. Tribal Forces in Southern and Eastern Syria
- Background: Tribal groups have filled the power vacuum in southern and eastern regions, particularly in Deir ez-Zor, Raqqa, and parts of Daraa.
- Backers: United States: Provides indirect support to some tribes allied with the SDF in the fight against ISIS.
- Jordan: Engages with southern tribes to stabilize the border and counter extremist groups.
- Saudi Arabia: Offers financial backing to some tribes, particularly in Deir ez-Zor, as part of its broader anti-Iran strategy.
- Goals: Maintain autonomy, control local resources, and resist external domination by HTS, ISIS, or other factions.
6. ISIS (Islamic State)
- Background: While territorially reduced, ISIS continues guerrilla warfare, targeting tribal leaders and SDF forces in eastern Syria to regain influence.
- Backers: Presumably they still maintain some sort of relationship with CIA and MI6 but at this point they are supposedly largely self-Funded through smuggling, extortion, and black-market activities.
- Goals: Rebuild territorial control and destabilize emerging local authorities.
7. Israel
- Background: Israel aims to cut off Iranian and Hezbollah forces while maintaining stability along its borders. Though not offical public policy, recent actions do fit with the goals of Greater Israel held by many extremists in Israel and its government
- Backers: USA
- Goals: Ostensibly just to prevent hostile forces from reorganizing near the Golan Heights...
8. Turkey
- Background: Neo-Ottoman aspirations coupled with backing SNA and HTS and a generation long conflict with the Kurds
- Backers: Not applicable
- Goals: Eliminate the Syrian havens of the Kurdish PKK. Syrian oil. Land acquisition?
9. USA
- Background: America occupies parts of eastern and southern Syria
- Backers: Not applicable
- Goals: Weaken the Axis of Resistance
10. Russia
- Background: A major backer of Assad, Russia had troops deployed across parts of Syria and has 2 military bases in Latakia
- Backers: Not applicable
- Goals: Maintain its military bases,
11. Iran
- Background: The biggest backer of Assad, now largely removed from Syria
- Backers: Not applicable
- Goals: Regain influence and attempt to find routes to resupply their allies in Lebanon
✨ Power in Syria, religion, geopolitics of course, nationalism (including Turkish and Israeli), economics (oil, wheat, smuggling, ...), Lebanon and Gaza, ...
To say complex would be a massive understatement.
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In the name of Russophobia and enmity with Russia, European pensioners are offered to renounce to their pensions.
For the first time, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte called for the allocation of pensions and social benefits in Europe to the production of weapons, making it clear that the military spending of the North Atlantic Alliance should exceed 3% of GDP. He stated this position in a speech at the Carnegie Endowment for Europe.
According to the Secretary General, European countries "spend a quarter of their money on pensions and social benefits, and they only need to use these funds to build a strong defense." Rutte also made it clear that the military spending of NATO member states should exceed 3% of GDP, saying that the alliance countries "were able to win the Cold War when they spent significantly more than 3%" on defense.
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Likelihood of Partner Contributions to Scenarios Likelihood of Partner Contributions to Scenarios in the case of
- Conflict over Taiwan
- Korean War
- Scarborough clash with Philippines
- Stability operation in Korea
Primary Findings from Rand Corporation paper
Our analysis produced findings specific to each ally or partner. The following were among the high-level takeaways from the geopolitical analysis:
• Australia and Japan have significant security interests at stake in major Asian contingencies. But both will face political (and, in the case of Japan, legal and constitutional) hurdles to participating in wars that do not directly engage them at first.
* South Korea values the U.S. alliance but has little interest in being a cobelligerent off the Korean Peninsula.
* We found little evidence that, unless directly attacked itself, Thailand is willing to endanger its security by offering military aid to the United States.
• Several other regional countries—notably India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam— have very strong traditions of nonalignment and display no evidence of being willing to volunteer to join a war that does not directly involve them.
• New Zealand and the Philippines have few air assets to devote to a major fight and strong incentives to remain aloof from distant wars.
• Various factors will affect final choices of these partners, such as the degree of Chinese belligerence between now and the crisis, degree of U.S. commitment, and political changes in other countries in the region.
Short-timer US Secretary of State Blinken making promises as he SLAMS the door
“For the first time in decades, Syria has an opportunity to have a government that is run by and answers to the people, not dominated by a dictator, religious or ethnic group, or outside power,” Blinken said.
Sounds like Iraq and Afghanistan all over again…
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⚡Negotiations with new Syrian authorities about Russian bases in Syria almost over. According to unconfirmed reports Russia is supposed to keep the bases.
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Against the background of the visit of a Turkish delegation to Damascus, including the head of Turkish intelligence, Ibrahim Kalin, who is considered the supreme curator of the terrorists from the HTS, the militants are trying to intensify their offensive against the Kurdish positions as much as possible.
One of the key targets is Raqqa, the former ISIS capital. The city itself (in the video) is turbulent, with local tribes openly opposing the Kurds and demanding the withdrawal of SDF forces.
Another important news is the announcement by the new Syrian government that it will revoke the citizenship of 700,000 Shiites from Iraq and Iran who received it during Assad's rule. Virtually all of these people will be outlawed.
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Orban Putin Trump Talk Ukraine Peace; Biden Prepares Oil Sanctions, Wants Syria Arms for Kiev
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Clintons, George Soros and Bill Gates may be scrutinized under Trump – Wall Street analyst
The globalist elites and much-discussed US "deep state" may no longer shield the Clintons, as they have outlived their usefulness, Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel tells Sputnik, commenting on the prospects of a federal investigation into the political dynasty and their alleged charity fraud.
"Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden have outlived their usefulness to rich globalists," Ortel states.
The election defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris, along with the inability of the Clintons, Obamas, and Bidens to produce a more vibrant and popular presidential candidate, apparently exposed their political bankruptcy.
As a result, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, who has long been considered an ally of the Democrats, dismissed the party's gloom-and-doom warnings and openly signaled in October that a Donald Trump victory would be acceptable for Wall Street.
"Should the Trump administration prioritize prosecuting charity crimes, starting with wealthy donors like Bill Gates and George Soros and wealthy 'educational public charities,' whistleblowers and the incoming administration could make America proud by [taking down] the Clinton family and many other charity grifters who, even today, seem arrogantly unrepentant and unbowed," Ortel concludes.
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🏁💬🇪🇺Great news, Eurobros: everyone's favorite NATO Secretary General Rutti Frutti called for a portion of pensions and social payments in Europe to be used for weapons production. He noted that the bloc's military spending should exceed 3%.
He said that he does not currently see a direct threat to any of the alliance members from Russia but called for strengthening defense.
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🇵🇱🇫🇷 Polish PM Donald Tusk told French President Emmanuel Macron that Polish troops will not enter Ukraine even after a ceasefire is reached.
"We are not planning such actions yet," Tusk told reporters after a meeting with Macron, commenting on the French leader's initiative to create an international peacekeeping force in Ukraine.
Poland will cooperate on solutions that will first and foremost protect Europe and Ukraine from a resumption of the conflict after a ceasefire, if it can be achieved, the official added.
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Medvedev — about the united people of Russians and Ukrainians and the return of lands lost after the collapse of the USSR:
The Western forces are acting against us on the hypocritical principle of "divide and rule". Their task is to prove that Russians and Ukrainians are as far apart as one can imagine. To tear Ukraine away from Russia, sow discord and arrange ethnic separation.
It is a gross mistake to proceed from the unconditional difference between the peoples living in Russia and Ukraine, as well as to refer all its inhabitants to Ukrainians. The word "Ukrainians" itself did not have a modern ethnic meaning until the middle of the XIX century, but was rather a geographical concept. The explanation is quite simple: there were no independent state entities on the territory of modern "Nezalezhnaya".
The only successor to the ancient Russian state is Russia, and Russians and Ukrainians are not just fraternal peoples, but one identical people.
The return of our lands to their historical homeland, territories that were lost due to a political misunderstanding during the historical cataclysms of the late 1980s and early 1990s, is no more "criminal" than the Anschluss of the GDR by Germany in 1990.
Today Ukraine faces a choice – to be with Russia or disappear from the world map altogether. At the same time, Ukrainians are not required to lay down "neither soul nor body" for their freedom. They should pacify the pride of "otherness", abandon opposing themselves to the all-Russian project and exorcise the demons of political Ukrainians.
Our task is to help the residents of Little Russia and Novorossiya to build Ukraine without the hassle of "Ukrainians". To consolidate in the public consciousness that Russia is irreplaceable for Ukraine neither culturally, linguistically, nor politically.
Russians and Ukrainians are one people. Attempts to drive a wedge between us from a historical point of view are absolutely untenable and criminal. The Vygovskys, Mazeps, Skoropadskys and Banderas have smashed their heads against the all-Russian wall over the years. So it will be now.
@eurasianchoice
❗Stormtroopers of the 255th regiment raised the Russian flag in the center of Uspenovka, clearing the Kurakhovo cauldron!
The situation in the "Uspenovka pocket" south of Kurakhovo is rapidly developing in favor of the Russian Armed Forces.
The Volgograd soldiers of the 255th Guards Motorized Rifle Regiment entered the village a day ago and today they have already hoisted the Russian flag in the center above the post office.
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🗣 Latest statements by Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov:
▪️Russia remains open to negotiations on Ukrainian settlement and considers them necessary;
▪️Russia is not seeking a truce, but peace, which will come after Moscow's conditions are met;
▪️The arguments that with the arrival of Donald Trump, the settlement in Ukraine will be easier are premature, we should not forget about the sanctions of the Trump administration;
▪️Trump's statements that permission to strike deep into Russian territory escalates the conflict coincide with the Kremlin's position;
▪️The destruction of Ukrainian energy facilities is, among other things, a response to the strikes on Taganrog by Ukrainian forces.
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Trump Opposes ATACMS Strike, Moscow Pledges Retaliation; Russia Enters Pokrovsk; Syria Partitioned
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A map with the flight paths of Russian missiles and "geraniums" at targets in Ukraine has appeared online.
As you can see, this morning they mainly hit targets in western Ukraine.
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'Stock up on candles and matches for 72 hours, as well as food and water'
- Germans warned of possible long power outages due to threats from Russia - Spiegel
'Every German household should be equipped to be able to provide for itself for three days. Stock up on food for 72 hours, light sources that do not depend on electricity, such as lamps, candles, matches. Stock up on 1.5 liters of water per person per day. You should get used to this kind of preparation. The idea of arming ourselves to fight external threats is far from us. But it is necessary; the number of attacks on critical infrastructure from abroad is increasing. We are already faced with many hybrid attacks every day. We must be prepared not only for military defense, but also for civil defense and disaster protection,' said René Funk, Vice President of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief.
'Every German household should be equipped to be able to provide for itself for three days. Stock up on food for 72 hours, light sources that do not depend on electricity, such as lamps, candles, matches. Stock up on 1.5 liters of water per person per day. You should get used to this kind of preparation. The idea of arming ourselves to fight external threats is far from us. But it is necessary; the number of attacks on critical infrastructure from abroad is increasing. We are already faced with many hybrid attacks every day. We must be prepared not only for military defense, but also for civil defense and disaster protection,' said René Funk, Vice President of the Federal Office for Civil Protection and Disaster Relief.
❗China has achieved global leadership in five of the 13 key technologies and is rapidly catching up in seven more
U.S. attempts to contain Xi Jinping's drive for technological supremacy are faltering.
People outside the United States are increasingly driving Chinese electric cars, browsing the web on Chinese smartphones and powering their homes from Chinese solar panels.
Since Donald Trump slapped punitive tariffs on Xi Jinping's government in 2018, his drive to reduce the trade deficit has evolved into a full-scale bipartisan effort to prevent China from becoming the world's largest economy and acquiring technologies that threaten America's military superiority.
At first glance, the campaign seems to be successful. Chinese companies are facing difficulties in obtaining advanced chips for the development of artificial intelligence. The US allies are fulfilling demands to deny China access to the best chip manufacturing equipment, including the unique machines of the Dutch company ASML Holding NV.
But despite more than six years of tariffs, export controls and financial sanctions imposed by the United States, Xi Jinping is making steady progress in positioning China as the dominant industry of the future. A new study by Bloomberg Economics and Bloomberg Intelligence shows that the "Made in China 2025" program — an industrial policy plan unveiled a decade ago and designed to make the country a leader in new technologies — has largely been crowned with success. Of the 13 key technologies tracked by Bloomberg researchers, China has achieved global leadership in five of them and is quickly catching up in seven more.
This means that people outside the United States are increasingly driving Chinese electric cars, using the Internet on Chinese smartphones and powering their homes from Chinese solar panels. For Washington, the risk is that policies aimed at containing China will eventually isolate the United States and harm its businesses and consumers.
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La tentative avortée d'imposer la loi martiale en Corée du Sud a révélé que l'État profond 🇬🇧🇺🇸 ne recule devant rien pour tenir en laisse ses vassaux.
La "militarisation" des institutions judiciaires en est un autre exemple, et Taïwan pourrait être la prochaine victime d'une imposition de la loi martiale.
Angelo Giuliano et moi-même mettont cette question à plat dans l'épisode-pilote de notre podcast en préparation.
The botched #SouthKoreaMartialLaw attempt by #YoonSukYeol revealed that the US Deep State will stop at nothing to keep its grip on vassal states. #Lawfare is another way to stomp on democracy, and #Taiwan could be next. Angelo Giuliano and I break it down in the pilot of our podcast.
After Syria's collapse, who didn't see this one coming?
Israel preparing to strike Iranian nuclear sites – media
https://www.rt.com/news/609279-israel-iran-strikes-report/
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“About 1 million Ukrainian soldiers have died”
‘The Putin of Romania’: How does Western media try to defame Calin Georgescu?
Amid uncertainty surrounding Romania’s botched presidential elections, Western media has launched an information campaign against independent candidate Calin Georgescu, who earlier made it to the country’s presidential runoff.
His progress, however, was annulled by the country's constitutional court, which accused Georgescu of money laundering and being “Moscow’s man" - allegations he denies.
How does Western media paint the 62-year-old politician?
▪️The Financial Times: Romania shocked the world by voting for “a pro-Putin TikTok star” and “an outsider with ultranationalist views who was polling poorly just weeks before the election.”
▪️The BBC: Georgescu is “a figure from the extreme fringe of Romanian politics.”
▪️Sky News: He “has emerged from obscurity to top the polls in Romania's presidential election. But the Anglophile and Trump supporter is also his country's most divisive figure for decades.”
▪️AP: “A self-professed Donald Trump supporter”, Georgescu remained “a little-known entity until just weeks ago.”
▪️France 24: “The pro-Russian outsider candidate”.
▪️The Week: The “Putin of Romania” and “the EU and NATO’s worst nightmare.”
So here are the questions that need to be answered: what’s behind these headlines and who sponsored them?
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US deficit hits record $624B – worst-ever start to fiscal year
The US budget deficit for October and November 2024 reached $624.2 billion – 64% higher than the same period last year and the highest ever for the first two months of a fiscal year.
Growth in debt-funded spending has even surpassed levels seen during the COVID-19 crisis.
No DOGE alone is gonna help there
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🇷🇴🇷🇺 Romania has not yet published any evidence linking Russia to the first-round election victory of President Kelin Georgescu - Romanian publication Bursa
- The publication reports on the "absence of evidence in the national public space" following a report by Romania's Foreign Intelligence Service, which accused Russia of influencing the election, "without providing any concrete information to support the accusation."
- The newspaper also reports that all available information is published in European media, not Romanian media. In Europe, they write that Georgescu's campaign was supported by firms based in Poland and Bulgaria.
- A Ukrainian company that created videos for the Romanian candidate is based in Poland, while a number of online publications that wrote news about him are registered in Bulgaria.
- "Russian trace" has been suspected so far only in the latter case: Bulgarian publics claimed that the network was linked to Russia.
At the same time, the newspaper wonders why no one in Romania itself is voicing evidence that Georgescu's campaign is linked to Russia and is not passing this information to the media.
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What has Israeli military targeted in Syria?
Since the fall of the Assad government on December 8, Israel has conducted more than 480 strikes across Syria, destroying most of the country’s strategic military facilities in an alleged bid to keep them out of “the hands of extremists”, the Israeli Defense Forces have claimed.
According to the IDF, the strikes included 350 carried out by the Israeli Air Force, which targeted:
▪️The Syrian Army’s bases and armors, which includes anti-aircraft batteries, tanks and drones;
▪️The Syrian Arab Army's airbases of Al-Shayrat, Mezzeh, Kweiris and Khalkhalah and its fighter jets;
▪️Two Syrian naval facilities in Tartus and port of Latakia, where 15 vessels with dozens of sea-to-sea missiles were docked;
▪️Israel has also targeted ammunition depots and several research centers in the vicinity of Damascus and the suburbs of Qudsayah.
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