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There's no freedom without national sovereignty.
In Austria the Freedom Party (FPÖ) is set for a historic election win (see exit polls) though building a coalition is likely to be difficult, since all other major parties have ruled out working with the FPÖ. The FPÖ called to lift "damaging and pointless" international sanctions against Russia, and opposed sanctions on Russian energy. The party also proposed a complete overhaul of Austria's migration system, and it's precisely this electoral promise that helped the party finish first. @LauraRuHK
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Dzerzhinsk (Toretzk) update.
Our troops are now storming the eastern part of Dzerzhinsk itself. The liberation of the city will significantly reduce the number of attacks on Gorlovka and will allow the offensive to develop, including in the direction of Konstantinovka in the Slavyansk-Kramatorsk agglomeration.
@Boris_rozhin
Who is Hashem Safieddine, Hezbollah’s potential next leader?
After Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut, several media outlets and experts named Hashem Safieddine as Nasrallah’s most likely successor.
What is known about Hashem Safieddine?
🌏 Hashem Safieddine heads the Executive Council, which coordinates Hezbollah's political affairs and civilian activities, including communications, education, health, economics, and trade unions.
🌏 Safieddine also sits on the Jihad Council, which manages the group's military operations.
🌏 Overall, he has been part of Hezbollah's structure since the group's founding in 1982.
Early years and studies
🌏 Safieddine, a maternal cousin of Nasrallah, was born in 1964 in the town of Deir Qanoun En Nahr in southern Lebanon’s Tyre district.
🌏 Just like Nasrallah, Safieddine is recognized as a descendant of the Prophet Muhammad, which grants him the title of sayyed and the right to wear a black turban.
🌏 He studied theology in Iraq and Iran alongside Nasrallah, and was summoned back to Beirut in 1994 to head the Executive Council.
🌏 Safieddine’s son is married to Zeinab Soleimani, the daughter of the late Iranian General Qasem Soleimani.
Prominent statements
Safieddine has appeared openly at political and religious events, as well as funerals of slain Hezbollah fighters. His public statements have reflected the Lebanese group’s commitment to the Palestinian cause.
“Our history, our guns and our rockets are with you. Everything we have is with you,” Safieddine said in October 2023 in Dahiyeh.
Germany: Where Israeli terrorism is celebrated and Palestine solidarity is terrorized | Al Mayadeen English
https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/germany--where-israeli-terrorism-is-celebrated-and-palestine
The Myth of “Russian-Chinese Disinformation” and the U.S. Informational PsyOps — Strategic Culture
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/09/27/myth-russian-chinese-disinformation-and-us-informational-psyops/
Here’s what Putin really meant by updating Russia’s nuclear doctrine — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
https://www.rt.com/russia/604871-russian-nuclear-doctrine-update/
https://sonar21.com/exploding-myths-of-middle-east-terrorism/
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According to Yedioth Ahronoth:
The Zionist army has decided to impose a military blockade on Lebanon, preventing cargo planes coming from Syria and Iran or even repairing the bombed crossings.
Even the bulldozers that will repair the infrastructure at the crossings will be targeted.
While the spokesman for the occupation army issues a warning to the residents of the Bekaa and the southern suburb to stay away from the area and not return.
There are attempts to involve Iran in the Middle East crisis in order to provoke a big war in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says at a press conference at the UNGA.
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❗️Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called Israel's attacks on Lebanon inhumane, adding that the killing of Palestinian civilians with US weapons should be immediately stopped.
Lavrov stated that Russia believes Washington was at the very least aware of Israel's recent attacks on Lebanon.
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If we think about it from a purely military point of view, the latest IDF actions aimed at eliminating Hezbollah's combat wing and the organization's command staff are extremely, even exceptionally effective. They combine both effective sabotage work (the story with the pagers) and purely military strikes using high-precision weapons. Neither Hamas, nor Hezbollah, nor Iran, nor any other Arab state in the region can respond normally to Israel in the presence of two military operations going on in parallel, no matter what threatening statements are made. Whatever anyone says, such an indicatively ruthless attitude towards the enemy, which can be deprived of the main and reserve command and control circuit of such a large organization as Hezbollah in a second with proper preparation, would be a good idea to study and, if necessary, adopt.
@Slavyangrad
Israel's elimination of the Hezbollah Secretary General has been officially confirmed. Now the main question is: how will Iran respond to this, after its main proxy force was beheaded yesterday.
If there is again no response, just like what happened after the assassination of the head of Hamas political wing, Ismail Haniyeh, then this is an extremely negative trend. Then the IDF will simply go to finish off Hezbollah with a roller, which will mean an attempt to occupy Southern Lebanon.
By the way, in connection with the deaths of Hassan Nasrallah and Ismail Haniyeh, the death of Iranian President Ibrahim Raisi in a plane crash now looks very different, although Tehran officially declares its accidental nature. Because the chain is quite definite. So, in April of this year, Iran launched a massive retaliation strike against Israel in response to the attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus.
The damage to the prestige of the Jewish state was enormous and immediately there was talk that Israel was a paper tiger. And now, after five months, we are witnessing a picture when the leaders of Tel Aviv's main opponents, Hamas and Hezbollah, are dead. And the Iranian president, who ordered the retaliation strike, is no longer alive. Now Tehran's image as a strong regional power has been severely tarnished.
Today, the ball is clearly on the Iranian side, and if Iran continues to play passively, its proxies will simply be torn apart, and then they will reach it. In general, this is a confirmation of the well-known truth attributed to Winston Churchill: whoever chooses the latter between war and shame gets both. Tehran did not respond to the murder of Ismail Haniyeh and received the liquidation of Hassan Nasrallah. So it may come to the Ayatollah itself next. From Israel's point of view, such a next step would be logical.
@pintofmind
🇺🇸❌🇪🇺 GOP Lawmakers Sound Alarm On EU's New "Debilitating" Green Policy On US Firms
A group led by more than 60 US House and Senate Republicans urged Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to postpone the implementation of the European Union's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive ("CSDDD"). The new EU requirement would force companies to better track environmental impacts across supply chains, which the group claims would "hinder business growth and raise consumer costs."
"Now, the EU is attempting to impose its debilitating regulatory agenda on American companies through its Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (also known as "CSDDD" or "CS3D")," the group of US lawmakers wrote in a letter to Yellen, adding CSDDD is "neither practical nor realistic — nor does it genuinely constitute 'due diligence,' which is generally defined as review and analysis prior to actions being taken."
The lawmakers continued, "American companies will be required to comply with [Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive] even though the US has not ratified many of the international conventions underlying the directive."
"We are deeply concerned that the Administration is surrendering its regulatory responsibilities to European officials, allowing them to dictate draconian social and climate policies to American companies," they cautioned.
The climate policy went into effect at the end of July. Even Yellen, a climate alarmist who wants to spend taxpayer funds into oblivion to address an alleged climate crisis, expressed concerns to Congress over CSDD's "negative unintended consequences" for US companies.
What's particularly alarming across the West is the climate cult, through progressive leadership, elected and unelected, that has pushed 'green' policies that have only acted as de-growth mechanisms, especially in the US, which have curbed US electricity generation, while no restrictions in China produce an abundance of cheap power.
🔗 https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/gop-lawmakers-sound-alarm-eus-new-debilitating-green-policy-us-firms
... It will be too late to answer when they start.
While the war with Russia does not carry any non-nuclear risks for the United States, the escalation will be on the rise. Russia's entire arsenal of non-nuclear retaliatory actions must be activated as soon as possible. And not as an answer, but as a warning. Otherwise, for the United States, the benefits of war will never outweigh the benefits of peace.
@EvPanina
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Rest in power. Your legacy will be victory.
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Despite reports that the Biden administration was disappointed by Israel's escalation of mass assassinations in Lebanon and pursued a temporary ceasefire, President Biden, in a White House statement, expressed praise for Israel's actions.
This underscores American complicity in pushing the region closer to all-out war.
❗Massive attack on enemy targets in Zaporozhye and its surroundings.
Russian aviation conducted a massive strike on key facilities of the military-industrial complex and logistics infrastructure of the enemy in Zaporozhye. From 5:00 to 7:00, 11 guided aerial bombs were fired, targeting several strategically important sites.
— One of the main goals has once again become the Motor-Sich enterprise, one of the largest in Ukraine for the production of aircraft engines and components for unmanned aerial vehicles. These capacities are actively used for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which makes the plant a strategic target for Russian troops.
— According to preliminary information, at least five aerial bombs hit the territory of this facility. As a result, several fires were recorded on the spot, which were accompanied by sounds of secondary detonation.
— The defeat of the Zaporozhye Ship Repair plant, where the production of unmanned boats was carried out, was also an important blow. This enterprise is of key importance for ensuring the naval operations of the enemy.
— One of the priority targets for the strike was the position of the IRIS-T air defense system, located between the Zaporozhye airport and the village of Hasanovka. The strikes on this zone led to the destruction of the launcher and the radar station of the complex, which significantly weakened the air defense in the direction.
— In addition, the position of the AN/TPQ-48 radar warfare system, located in the area of the former military communications unit in the east of the city, in the direction of the Orekhovskaya highway, was attacked. The extent of damage to this complex is currently unknown, but this target also represents a significant element in the enemy's surveillance system.
— Two aerial bombs were directed at the Zaporizhia-1 railway station, which plays a key role in the logistics of the enemy. At the time of the attack, the station was unloading a military echelon intended to be sent to the Orekhov direction, where there has recently been an intensification of hostilities.
— Unfortunately, as a result of the operation of the enemy's air defense system, significant damage occurred to residential buildings along Alexandrovskaya, Sevastopolskaya and Svyatovladimirskaya streets. The Ukrainian authorities are already actively using these events in the media sphere, trying to cover up their mistakes and create another information campaign aimed at discrediting Russia.
@don_partizan
NATO Prepares For Mass Transport Of Wounded Soldiers In Scenario Of War With Russia | ZeroHedge
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/nato-prepares-mass-transport-wounded-soldiers-scenario-war-russia
Israeli Strikes Displace 140,000 Kids in Lebanon as Netanyahu Vows to Keep Bombing | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/children-displaced-lebanon
Famine in Europe: the real goal of anti-Russian policies — Strategic Culture
https://strategic-culture.su/news/2024/09/28/famine-in-europe-the-real-goal-of-anti-russian-policies/
The West is trying to pressure Russia through Iran, but is it possible? — RT World News
https://www.rt.com/news/604787-us-allies-military-cooperation-russia-iran/
Lessons from the Zionist Playbook
by Alexander Dugin
It is unpleasant to admit, but Israel’s radical decisiveness in ruthlessly destroying its enemies stands in stark contrast, not only to the behavior of those enemies but also to our own approach in dealing with the Kiev regime. Israel acts proactively, and it is now clear that they even provoked Hamas into an attack, which yielded no results for the Resistance at all. Meanwhile, Israel managed to eliminate the leadership of the forces antagonistic to it in the Middle East and easily carried out a large-scale genocide of Gaza’s Palestinians.
Once again, the faster one acts, the more justified they are. Those who act with decisiveness and boldness win. We, on the other hand, are cautious and constantly hesitate. By the way, Iran is also following this path, which leads nowhere. Gaza is gone. Hamas’ leadership is gone. Now Hezbollah’s leadership is gone. And President Raisi of Iran is gone. Even his pager is gone. Yet Zelensky is still here. And Kiev stands as if nothing has happened.
We must either join the game for real or... The second option is something I don’t even want to consider. But in modern warfare, timing, speed, and “dromocracy” decide everything. The Zionists act swiftly, proactively. Boldly. And they win. We should follow their example.
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🇾🇪⚔️🇮🇱 Ansar Allah announced that they attacked Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv with the "Palestine-2" missile while Netanyahu was returning to Israel.
🔴 @DDGeopolitics
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s speech to the General Debate of the 79th session of the UN General Assembly:
🌏 Lavrov condemned Israel's attack on Lebanon as inhumane, stating that Moscow believes Washington was at least aware of preparations for the terrorist act.
🌏 Russia urges countries proposing peace initiatives on Ukraine to address the root causes of the conflict.
🌏 From the UN podium, Lavrov emphasized the futility of "suicidal attempts" to fight for victory against a nuclear power like Russia.
🌏 Russia is not closing itself off from dialogue with the West and has proposed the idea of an architecture of equal and indivisible security in Eurasia.
🌏 The "Pact for the Future," prepared under the UN's auspices, is merely a well-worded declaration developed under Western control without the involvement of all member states.
🌏 It is not too late to breathe new life into the UN, but this can only be achieved by rebuilding trust based on equality – not through out-of-touch summits and declarations.
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The US and the UK are preparing Europe for a suicidal adventure against Russia, stated Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during his speech at the UN General Assembly.
Lavrov also emphasized the futility of "suicidal attempts" to fight for victory against a nuclear power like Russia.
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🇷🇺The Kremlin takes the words about preparations for war with Russia as a reflection of the West's position, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
@ukraine_watch
Liberation of the Kursk Region or Nuclear Armageddon
by Alexander Dugin
Yesterday’s session of the permanent meeting of the Russian Security Council, during which Vladimir Putin announced amendments to our country’s nuclear doctrine (“Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence”), is an extremely important event. The most significant aspect here is the following innovation introduced into the nuclear doctrine: participation in aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, if supported by a nuclear state, will be considered a joint attack on the Russian Federation.
This is a fundamental point, according to which our President, as Supreme Commander-in-Chief, now not only retains the right to use nuclear weapons. In the event that our country is attacked by a non-nuclear state with the support of a nuclear state, he is not only entitled to respond according to the full logic of nuclear deterrence but is obligated to do so.
Now, let us consider: is this about the future or the present? Right now, we are witnessing an act of direct aggression against the Kursk region. An invasion by hostile, non-nuclear Ukraine, supported and directly assisted by a nuclear state. This means a joint act of aggression against the Russian Federation by NATO, the United States, and Ukraine.
Of course, at the same time, there are also four other entities that have reunited with Russia, against which Ukraine is committing aggression. However, in the case of the Kursk region, we now have not only the right but also the obligation to enter into a war with NATO. The same now applies to any encroachment on the territorial integrity of Belarus, our strategic partner in the Union State.
In other words, from the moment the new version of the nuclear doctrine is adopted, it must be acknowledged that Russia is in a state of war with NATO. There is concrete evidence of aggression against Russia by the Ukrainian regime, with the support of a nuclear state. Whether we like it or not, according to our nuclear doctrine, we are now obligated to enter into a full-scale conflict with NATO and the United States.
Let me repeat, this is more than serious. Essentially, we have placed ourselves in a situation where entering into a war is inevitable. And not in hypothetical situations that may arise someday, but in circumstances that are already a well-known fact.
Therefore, today, to prevent a nuclear apocalypse, that is, a direct nuclear confrontation between Russia and NATO, there is only one solution. The immediate withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from the Kursk region. Immediate, because any continued presence there, with the continued support from the US and NATO, is simply the inevitable start of a nuclear war. Not because we decided so but because we have adopted such amendments to our nuclear doctrine.
Yes, of course, many will now try to soften this rigidity. But the essence is that this is no longer just “red lines” but effectively a decision for nuclear Armageddon. In any other documents, including the National Security Strategy, the amendments might still be interpreted differently. But when such a clause is adopted in our nuclear doctrine, we leave ourselves no choice.
Yes, this is a very serious move and a very serious document. What happened yesterday is probably a turning point in history. Because under the current circumstances, we can no longer avoid direct confrontation with NATO.
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Although it would look like it's Iran which is increasingly weakened in the current all out war waged by Israel due to its complete passivity in reality the argument that Turkey is undermined even more by the conflict in the Middle-East is getting more convincing by the day as Ankara is doing absolutely nothing to help the Palestinians other than calling Netanyahu a Nazi which honestly doesn't hurt Netanyahu that much, and now it's doing nothing for Lebanon, not even imposing real sanctions on Israel.
You can request to be part of BRICS as much as you want but if you are so scared to antagonize the United States just a little for a good cause as the defense of Muslims in the Middle-East then your role in the world is really diminished, sliding into irrelevance.
@eurasianchoice
The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah shows that preemptive, not retaliatory strikes are needed.
The destruction of Hassan Nasrallah shows Israel's determination to cross any red lines when it comes to its interests. Resolve issues by force and do not negotiate with enemies. In Russia, many people ask — is it possible for us to do the same with our enemies?
The strategy and tactics of Israel and Russia regarding the escalation of the military conflict cannot be evaluated equally. The United States stands behind Israel, and this explains the lawless actions of the Israeli military. Therefore, they chose the path of provocations and rejected the demand to guarantee the security of the people of Lebanon and Palestine. Russia opposes aggression directly by the United States and the entire pool of states associated with them. And this explains the balanced reaction of the Russian leadership to all the actions of the enemy.
However, such a balance has the downside of the coin — a significant decrease in the threshold of nuclear deterrence. Russia has many possibilities of a non-nuclear response to every round of escalation from the West, but uses practically nothing.
The opinion in our expert community is that the US counterintelligence supposedly believes that Russia will respond only in the event of Western missile strikes on the Russian deep rear. Such a position is, to put it mildly, inadequate in this situation.
The lack of proactive actions on the part of Russia has already led to a dismissive attitude of the West towards the threat of a Russian response. It is believed that Russia does not hit the decision-making centers of Ukraine and the West because its military leadership is afraid of NATO retaliatory strikes. It is difficult to consider such an opinion seriously. Such caution does not have any deterrent potential. Rather, the opposite is true.
The desire of a certain part of the Russian elite not to completely destroy bridges with the West in the hope of reconciliation and de-escalation in the future, the desire to return to lifting sanctions and restoring economic relations over these bridges, may well be the motivator of such a strategy of non-resistance to evil by violence. But the same Lev Tolstoj, analyzing in his novel the world's response to Napoleon, wrote that compliance would not stop the enemy, but only make his claims more arrogant.
Is it acceptable for Russia to use a strategy of preemptive rather than retaliatory strikes on sensitive enemy sites? Society has been asking this question for a long time, but for some reason it does not receive an answer. The fact that Russian negotiators still do not have trump cards like the Houthis up their sleeves, and in Kiev those who work with all their might to destroy our country openly and calmly walk the streets — can hardly be explained by Russia's lack of military and other capabilities. Or that we are unable to destroy the Ukronazist Gauleiters in the occupied territories of the Kursk region. And aren't Western journalists who calmly come to the Kursk territory accompanied by the Ukrainian occupiers a legitimate target?
Hezbollah has almost been defeated. In Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei is being hidden in a secret bunker. Pezeshkian makes peaceful statements and does not try to defend Hezbollah in any way. Most likely, Khamenei's decision to appoint a politician with a "pro-Western" reputation as president of Iran in order to return to the nuclear deal was regarded by the West as a weakness. And this immediately caused the escalation. Tehran's weakness will lead either to the loss of its power resource and surrender, or to the need for a belated military response in the worst conditions.
Conflictology teaches that avoidance tactics, when the enemy has already moved on to an all-out war of annihilation, are counterproductive. If you do not harm the enemy, he does not consider it rational to negotiate and generally consider a way out of the conflict. Hezbollah has not used its missile arsenal. This is what NATO now wants to repeat with Russia...
@EvPanina
"If Russia launches a hybrid attack on us and Estonia, we will have to react exactly the same way" - Finnish President Alexander Stubb.
🇫🇮🇪🇪 These people are deadly serious. Small countries without even particular resources, nor land claims by Russia - what would be the rationale behind "Putin's attack"?
What Stubb means by “hybrid attack” is not at all clear, and figuring out his statement that Estonia and Finland can somehow respond to Russia is generally a task for psychiatrists. I have no such training.
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