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The Hill | Defense Secretary Mark Esper's ominous warning to China | 21-07-20
— "Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday that he has not given orders to pull U.S. troops from South Korea, but did not rule out such a decision in the future.

“I’ve issued no orders to withdraw forces from the Korean Peninsula,” Esper said during a webinar hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

“I will say, though, when I took office, I was clear that I was going to implement the National Defense Strategy. Part and parcel of that means looking at every geographic combatant command and making sure that we are optimized and positioned as well as possible,” he added."

🇺🇸 WSJ | U.S. Is Positioning Military Assets Around Asia to Counter China, Esper Says | 21-07-20
— "The U.S. is equipping and positioning its forces across Asia for a possible confrontation with China, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Tuesday in remarks outlining the military component of the Trump administration’s hardening stance toward Beijing.

Speaking from the Pentagon via videoconference to the London-based International Institute for Strategic Studies, Mr. Esper said the U.S. would continue to send Navy ships into the region to counter China’s expansionary policies, and to sell arms to Taiwan, over which Beijing claims sovereignty.

He said he is open to dialogue and plans to visit China by year’s end. He said he hoped such a trip would “establish the systems necessary for crisis communications and reinforce our intentions to openly compete in the international system in which we all belong.” "

https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-is-positioning-military-assets-around-asia-to-counter-china-esper-says-11595340363

#Archive
— A New Strait Crisis is near?

Link:
— https://archive.vn/9Uf7Z

🔴 Update | Reports indicate a total number of 3 US aircraft carriers caught fire in the last ten days (almost no media coverage)

- July 12: Explosion aboard USS Bonnehome
- July 17: Fire aboard USS Kearsage
- July 20: Fire aboard USS John Kennedy

A series of unexplained "accidents" have also hit a number of US, Israeli, Saudi/UAE industrial centers in the last week (documented in the channel) following a mysterious sabotage attack against Iran's Natanz nuclear facility two weeks ago.

🔴 @Cultures_of_Resistance

Chemical, steel factory fires latest in series of fires, explosions in US - Jerusalem Post

"The fire follows a number of large fires and explosions around the US at industrial and military sites.

Iranian newspapers have discussed possible causes of the fire in San Diego with a number of theories and claims posited, despite no official statements by the US concerning the cause of the fire, according to the Middle East Eye.

Esmail Ghaani, commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force, responded to the fire on the US naval vessel last week, saying 'The US must not accuse others. They themselves lit this fire and it has engulfed them today. We must tell them that this is the answer to your crimes committed by your own elements. God will punish you with your own hands,' according to Mehr."

https://m.jpost.com/international/atlanta-chemical-fire-latest-in-series-of-fires-explosions-in-us-635541

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Map of June-July 2020 accidents/sabotage in Iran. Natanz is included.

Turkish-Mexican crossover episode

Chinese Ambassador to Grenada.

🔗 Zhao Yongchen

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Map from General Al Mismari's Press Conference (LNA) #Libya
Map legend: (Red) weapons (Green) migration (Black) terror (Blue) and gas.

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🇹🇷 TRT World | Turkey's Hagia Sophia ready to open for worship on July 24 | 23-07-20
— "Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has unveiled a name plate outside the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque in Istanbul. On Friday, Muslims will hold prayers inside the mosque for the first time in 86 years.

The UNESCO World Heritage Site was a church for nearly a thousand years after it was built in the sixth century. It then served as a mosque for five hundred years. Shamim Chowdhury reports. "

Martyrdom is returning to the West. The Holy League of 1684 united Catholics and Orthodox against the Turks, now it's time to defend ourselves against the new wave of Christian persecution.

📌 The purpose of this channel will be to draw attention to the plight of Christians in the contemporary West and provide actual solutions and strategies in answer to the now blatant persecution of our faith. Yes, you heard that right. Instead of simply complaining, we aim to actually provide you with useful content which we hope will inspire action from the masses of faithful Christians living across the Occident.

✝️ Our plan of action will mostly revolve around the ideas of organisation and more importantly mobilising in real life. Our actions should start small and decentralised: so building your community, developing a closer bond with your neighbours, getting to know the churches within your area and uniting them (could be through men's groups), have a good understanding of your local area, buy land, show your faith in public, defend your statues and buildings from the deranged Marxists.

🏘 These are just first steps, things you can think about doing right this moment. If you're more ambitious then go further and explore the possibility of forming a commune with like-minded people in the area, perhaps build a grassroots movement within the church.

🧱 Securing our own areas, is an option, as Christian strongholds across the West that can withstand the coming Dark Age that COVID-19 is ushering in. Organisation is crucial, there is no better way to mobilise in defence of the faith than to live near one another.

🤝🏻 This channel will be administered by a team of Eastern Orthodox Christians and Traditional Roman Catholics. Despite the inter-faith cooperation, this is nothing more than a socio-political alliance. There is no ecumenism involved at all.

💯 Most of the channel contributers either own/contribute to other prominent Telegram channels or have had success on YouTube or in journalism, so we've assembled a very solid team. All admins' channels can be found here.

We very much hope you'll enjoy this new project. God bless you all 🙏🏻 @Catholic_Orthodox_Alliance

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🇺🇲🤝🇨🇵 As France, the United States are facing a threat on their vital interests, coming from inside their own land.

📖✍🏻 This is the struggle of the century, the struggle that will shape the millennium.

🌍🗺️💪🏻 And in North-America, as in Europe or France, the key element to take the upper hand are : unity, cooperation, community, self-defence, information.

📌 That's what the last video of @CIG_Telegram is showing.
The only people able to survive a wave of shit and violence, are the ones prepared and organized as grassroot and resilient communities.

🎥👨🏼‍💻 Share information, develop skills, build ties with like-minded people. And you will triumph.

☀️🌱 And over everything else : never lose hope. Things need to get a lot more darker before the light can come back. But it's all part of the story. Be patient and do your part to built ties and autonomy.

💣⏲️ We are just at the begining of this whole era. Things are going to be very hard, very fast. We are not speaking about years but about weeks and months. If you have not started to act proactively yet, put your phone away. You should have at least a backup plan before september 2020. That's not only your right, but that's a duty if you are reading this. Plenty of useful resources are available online for free, you have no excuse.

🗣️ If you don't know where to feel free to join our telegram chat, we can provide basic but useful tips.

👉🏻 So go, right now. Work on the future. You are all settlers building a world that does not exist yet.

Erdogan recites the Quran at the Hagia Sophia just before the first Friday prayers in the ancient building in 86 years.

🔗 Ragip Soylu

Islamic call for prayers (adhan) recited at Hagia Sophia for first Friday prayers since its conversion to a mosque

🔗 Ragip Soylu