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🇸🇻 The “Evil Empire” and the Forgotten Atrocity of El Mozote 🇺🇸

The term “evil empire” is famously attributed to former US President Ronald Reagan in reference to the Soviet Union. Many still revere Reagan’s economic policies, but for others, his name is forever tied to the massacre of El Mozote.

In the 1980s, El Salvador was embroiled in a brutal civil war as the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front fought against one of Latin America’s most violent regimes. When Reagan came to power, the Salvadoran junta was bolstered by emergency military aid and the training of elite units like the Atlacatl Battalion, designed for counterinsurgency warfare by the CIA at the infamous School of the Americas.

In December 1981, the Atlacatl Battalion entered El Mozote, searching for guerrillas and their supporters. Over three days, they interrogated, tortured, and executed men and boys, raped and murdered women and girls as young as 10, and massacred over 300 children and infants. The smallest victims were stabbed or thrown onto bayonets. Once the horror was complete, the village was burned, and the battalion moved on to neighboring communities, leaving death in their wake.

News of the massacre first surfaced on underground guerrilla radio and later broke through in the New York Times and Washington Post. The Salvadoran junta dismissed the reports as “communist propaganda,” a narrative eagerly echoed by the US State Department, which downplayed the slaughter despite overwhelming evidence from its network of advisers and informants in El Salvador.

To this day, the estimated 1,000 victims of El Mozote have received no justice. Successive Salvadoran governments, including the current administration of Nayib Bukele, a self-proclaimed “crime fighter,” have done nothing to prosecute those responsible. Instead, Bukele has focused on building prison camps for street gangs while ignoring the skeletons of the past—quite literally.

The El Mozote massacre stands as a stark reminder of the bloody fingerprints the United States has left across Latin America in the name of anti-communism. Reagan’s “evil empire” rhetoric was a convenient smokescreen for empowering death squads and suppressing uprisings that threatened Washington’s grip.

Today, as the myth of Reagan’s greatness endures in the West, the people of El Mozote remain forgotten, collateral damage in the empire’s endless pursuit of control.

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⚡️🇷🇺🇺🇦⚡️ Two Majors #Summary for the Morning of 19 Dec 2024; 06:57 (GMT+3)⚡️

🛡 The Rostov region was subjected to a massive enemy attack throughout both day and night. In the afternoon, air defence forces and means repelled an attack by 10 missiles. Houses in the Kamensky district were damaged. At night, more than 3 dozen UAVs and 3 missiles near #Taganrog, #Bataysk, #Rostov, #Shakhty, #Kamensk, #Millerovo and #Novoshakhtinsk. A fire broke out at the Novoshakhtinsk Oil Products Plant. Firefighters continue to fight the fire for now. One person was injured due to falling fragments of a drone, the governor said. UAVs were also destroyed in the #Bryansk and #Voronezh regions.

🔹 In #Kursk region, the 'North Troops Grouping' is fighting fierce battles along the entire frontline. Our assault groups are advancing in the village of #Kruglenkoye and they report successes in the #CherkasskayaKonopelka settlement. The AFU, having accumulated reserves, carried out four counterattacks at night and during the day with the use of NATO armoured vehicles and Hymars MLRS, but did not achieve success. The Aerospace Forces and crews of the Tornado-S MLRS struck the AFU in the area of ​​the #Sverdlikovo, #Martynovka and #Belovody settlements.

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#Pokrovsk, the RFAF are expanding their zone of penetration into the enemy's defence, and a broad front offensive is ongoing. The #NovyTrud settlement has been taken and success is developing north of #Pushkino.

🔹 In #Kurakhovo direction, the AFU acknowledged the loss of the #Trudovoye and #Uspenovka settlements. The village of #Zelenovka southwest of #Kurakhovo has been occupied, and the #Konstantinopol - #Kurakhovo Road is now 3 km to the north.

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#Vremyevka ledge, in the north they suggest that the RFAF have indeed succeeded in #NovyKomar, having destroyed the crossing at #Novoocheretovatoye and deprived the enemy of one of the supply routes a few days ago. But as of yesterday evening the clearing of #NovyKomar from the AFU remnants was still ongoing.🗺👆

🔹 On the #Zaporozhye front, during offensive operations, they advanced north of #Nesteryanka and occupied a stronghold of the AFU. Heavy fighting is ongoing.

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🇺🇸 Poll Shock: 41% of Young Americans Find UnitedHealthcare CEO Killing Acceptable?

A shocking survey reveals a generational divide in moral outrage: 41% of voters aged 18-29 either find the killing of UnitedHealthcare’s CEO neutral or acceptable to some degree. This includes 24% who are neutral, 17% who find it somewhat acceptable, and 6% who call it completely acceptable.

Meanwhile, older demographics overwhelmingly deem the act unacceptable, with 74-79% of voters aged 60+ labeling it “completely unacceptable.”

What does this say about the social contract and the state of modern America? Could this be a growing sentiment against corporate greed and injustice, expressed in extreme terms? A reflection, perhaps, of a generation pushed to the edge by mounting inequality, soaring healthcare costs, and a system that seems rigged?

One thing’s clear, these numbers don’t come out of nowhere. They’re a mirror to the deep dissatisfaction boiling beneath the surface of American society. And yet, the elites clutch their pearls, oblivious to the storm brewing beneath their gilded towers.

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🇺🇦 Aftermath of an arrival in Krivoy Rog

A resident captures the scene of destruction following a strike in Krivoy Rog, showing the grim reality on the ground.

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“We communicate with the Americans with missiles and drones”— Yemen’s Ansarallah official Mohammad Ali Al-Houthi told Almasirah TV’s Bandar Al-Hetar. The US bombed the defense ministry in Sana'a, Yemen, on Monday amid signs of escalating attacks from Washington and Tel Aviv.

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🇸🇾 Aleppo’s Iconic Sports Stadium Torched: A Pyrrhic Victory for Zionist-Aligned Terrorists?

Overnight, Syria’s largest sports arena, the Aleppo International Stadium, was engulfed in flames, as reported by Al Watan. This act of arson is not just an attack on bricks and mortar; it’s an attack on Syria’s spirit, a nation that has weathered years of war, imperial sanctions, and proxy terror campaigns.

While Zionist-affiliated terrorists and their al-Qaeda-in-suits may claim a pyrrhic victory, their triumphs are hollow. They’ve traded battlegrounds for sabotage, vandalizing the symbols of resilience and unity they failed to defeat outright. Aleppo, a city scarred but unbowed, remains a testament to Syria’s ability to rebuild against all odds.

When the empire’s terror proxies can’t conquer hearts, they scorch the soul of a nation. The flames consuming Aleppo’s stadium echo their desperation - destruction as a substitute for legitimacy.

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The European Union's economy is struggling to keep pace with the US and China. Decades of low productivity, reliance on traditional industry and a failure to invest have lost it trillions of euros in growth, leading to this moment of reckoning. With France facing political upheaval and Germany’s economy in a downturn, the continent is at risk of losing its seat at the table, and maybe its ability to protect itself in a world where security is no longer guaranteed.

Bloomberg discusses how weak Europe now is.

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🎄🇺🇸 NATO’s Cringeworthy Holiday Message: Awkward Choreography Meets Hollow Cheer

Nothing says “season’s greetings” quite like a tone-deaf display of awkward choreography from the world’s most “purely defensive” alliance. NATO’s holiday video managed to dodge every ounce of Christmas spirit while delivering a mix of stiff movements and even stiffer messaging.

Instead of spreading festive cheer, the alliance fumbled into unintentional comedy, leaving viewers wondering if their “defense” extends to cultural misfires. The clip is a stark reminder that no amount of forced merriment can mask the reality of NATO’s actions around the globe.

From the alliance that weaponizes peace, here comes a holiday message as authentic as their claims of defense. Awkward choreography? Just another front in their PR arsenal.

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Kindergarten surrounded by NATO barbed wire to protect children from drug addicts' – Bild

'This is not a prison or a military base - it is a kindergarten in the centre of Hamburg. After the police started raiding drug addicts at the local train station, many began using the kindergarten grounds as a den. Putting up a three-metre fence did not help, and it was later decided to reinforce it with wire. Parents say it is sad. 'Inside the children sing "Oh, you lucky man", but when they go outside they see high fences and barbed wire. It is bad,' says one father. The authorities admit that it is an effective method of protection against drug addicts.'


Reason 1,239,100 for why Russia has no interest in "invading Europe".

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⚡️🏛🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🍌🤡🔥 US Customs - Transgender Spook in Capitol

🎅🏿 The Islander's IEF (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore) reports that things were fun in Washington the other day. Transgender activists held a protest in the Capitol building:
The reason for the folklore event was the ban on biological males visiting women's restrooms, imposed by House of Representatives' Speaker Johnson. Some perverts broke into the women's restroom, resulting in arrests.😳

Bradley Manning was spotted among the degenerates. He is an odious character, a US Army Militant accused of disclosing a large volume of classified documents on the actions of the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan and transferring them to WikiLeaks. He was sentenced to 35 years in dungeon for this case. After the verdict was announced in August 2013, Manning announced his desire to change his gender and asked to be called Chelsea Elizabeth Manning instead of Bradley. He changed his gender while endungeoned. In 2017, he was pardoned by Barack Obama.🥳


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🇷🇺 December 19 - Military Counterintelligence Day in Russia

Today, we honor the silent sentinels of Russia’s sovereignty... the men and women of military counterintelligence, whose vigilance has safeguarded the nation for over two centuries. This legacy traces its roots to 1812, with the creation of the High Military Police during the Patriotic War, a precursor to modern counterintelligence.

By 1903, with the Russo-Japanese War on the horizon, the Secret Intelligence Division emerged, hunting down foreign spies and collaborators in the strictest secrecy. The October Revolution further redefined this mission. On December 19, 1918, the Soviet Union established the Special Department of the Cheka, marking the formal birth of Russia’s military counterintelligence as we know it.

During the Great Patriotic War, this institution became indispensable, exposing over 30,000 enemy agents, 3,500 saboteurs, and 6,000 terrorists. Their work directly contributed to the crushing of Nazi ambitions and the safeguarding of the Soviet homeland.

Fast forward to today, the Federal Security Service (FSB) carries this torch. Whether identifying foreign intelligence operatives, dismantling extremist cells, or combating illegal arms and drug trafficking, these operatives remain on the frontlines of a battle that is never truly over.

In an era of global destabilization and on the brink of hot world war, Russia’s counterintelligence stands as a bulwark against foreign subversion and extremism. Their quiet victories echo through history, securing a future that others seek to undermine and destroy.

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🇮🇱🇾🇪 APOCALYPTIC BLINDING BLAST MUSHROOMS OVER YEMEN (unverified 1st video) as dozens of Israeli warplanes rain storm of bombs on capital Sanaa and port city of Hodeidah, wrecking ships, oil refineries, fuel and oil tanks, and power plant.

Unquenchable fires still burning through infrastructures (2nd) in aftermath of brutal airstrikes that crippled country's main humanitarian port and murdered at least 9 people.

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Radio stations refuse to play chart-topping anti-Labour Christmas parody song, says creator. A new Christmas song, Freezing This Christmas, made headlines as major stations like Heart, Capital, and the BBC refused to play it. The track, made by 'Sir Kier Starmer and the Granny Harmers,' mocks the Labour party's decision to strip winter fuel payments from 10 million pensioners.

Lyrics to the song include: 'It'll be freezing this Christmas, without fuel at home, it'll be freezing this Christmas, while Keir Starmer is warm’.

Freelance writer Chris Middleton, who wrote the song in just an hour, stated, “I felt obligated to take on the issue. Pensioners have told me they feel abandoned."

"The changes to winter fuel allowance weren't in Labour's manifesto," Mr Middleton added.

"Looking at those old clips where Keir Starmer is criticising the Tories, saying 4,000 people would die if the allowance was scrapped, the hypocrisy is plain to see," he said.


Dean Ager, the song's vocalist, expressed frustration over the lack of airtime, stating, "If it's not being played, it’s raising less money." The song has already raised over £15,000 for Age UK - a UK charity supporting the elderly.

❗️Why would Kier Stalin care about freezing elderly people when he has to heat the war rhetoric over “Putin`s aggression” and hurl UK taxpayers`money in the Ukrainian black hole? 🙂‍↔️Sir Kier is no charity worker, he has only globalists` best interests at heart.

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🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦 German Chancellor candidate Sarah Wagenknecht believes that the conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided if the United States had not tried to include Kiev in its military zone of influence.

She recalled that Russia does not want to see US military facilities near its borders; for Moscow this is a “red line”.

This can be considered legitimate or illegitimate, but it would be better and much suffering would be avoided if these lines were respected.
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🇩🇪🇷🇺🇺🇦 La candidata a la cancillería alemana, Sarah Wagenknecht, considera que el conflicto en Ucrania podría haberse evitado si Estados Unidos no hubiera intentado incluir a Kiev en su zona de influencia militar.

Recordó que Rusia no quiere ver instalaciones militares estadounidenses cerca de sus fronteras; para Moscú esto es una “línea roja”.

Esto puede considerarse legítimo o ilegítimo, pero sería mejor y se evitaría mucho sufrimiento si se respetaran estas líneas.
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🔴 #LIVE: 2024 Annual News Conference and Direct Line with the people of Russia by President Vladimir Putin

Russia's Head of State holds the yearly 'Direct Line' call-in session for the Russian citizens and journalists combined with the annual news conference

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India's economy is now nearly four times larger than that of its former colonizer, while Russia asserts itself as Europe's largest economy.

IMF presents preliminary yearly results. The graph shows the GDP of the G20 countries in 2024, based on purchasing power parity (PPP) in dollars.
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YEMEN RAIDED — A FULL SUMMARY OF EVENTS


✍️ Written by Hikaru Kitabayashi as based on Al Mayadeen reporting. The 15 Dec 2024 map above is from SouthFront ✍️

On 2024/12/19 at 3:51 (Yemen Standard Time, GMT+3), sirens sounded in Tel Aviv and then across the West Asian Hebrew speaking enclave as a result of a hypersonic missile launched from Yemen. 15 minutes later it was announced that shrapnel fell on the enclave's Ramat Gan area. About a million settlers are said to have rushed to shelters and air defenses proved to be of no use. At 4:20, Hebrew-speaking enclave media reported that there was extensive damage in Ramat Gan, but that there were no injuries.

Reports started coming in from Yemen at 4:33 from the Yemeni Saba News Agency that a series of aggressive raids had taken place on the capital, Sana'a. Taking into account the length of time it takes for bombers to fly from the enclave to Yemen, it is clear that the hypersonic missile launch from Yemen took place after the enclave jets had already started their flight to Yemen. An Al Mayadeen news agency correspondent soon announced a series of violent raids targeted not only Sanaa, but also Hodeidah in western Yemen.

At 4:47 enclave news media announced that the raids against Yemen were carried out by the enclave's air force.

In Yemen at 4:53 local sources reported to Al Mayadeen that three airstrikes targeted the power station in the Hizayz area, south of the Yemeni capital, Sanaa. There was a further announcement at 5:08 that there was a power outage in a number of areas due to the Israeli aggression on the power station in Haiz. At the same time, there was yet another announcement that the enclave also targeted the Dhaban Central Power Station, north of Sana'a.

At 5:22 reports come from Al Mayadeen that there were six aggressive raids targeted the port of Hodeidah and the Ras Issa oil facility in western Yemen.

At 5:25 an announcement was made that there would soon be an important statement by the Yemeni Armed Forces.

At 6:06 the Associated Press, quoted an American official as saying that the United States did not carry out the attacks on Yemen. At the same time, Al Mayadeen reported that civil defense teams had managed to extinguish the fire at the Dhahban station north of the capital. Clarification was given that Hodeidah port and the Ras Issa oil facility attacks had resulted in martyrs and wounded among the employees of the Ras Issa oil facility.

At 6:18 the enclave's military announced its responsibility in targeting Yemen's western coast and the Yemeni capital, Sana'a, with a series of raids. It Al-Mayadeen's opinion that the enclave could not have carried out aggression against Yemen without coordination with the United States.

At 6:35 the enclave regime's Minister of Security stated that the enclave would not accept Yemen launching missiles at it or harming the enclave through attacks on the shipping lanes. Enclave news media noted, however, that the enclave's air defenses failed to intercept the Yemeni hypersonic missile. And, no mention was made that the enclave launched its aircraft before Yemen launched its hypersonic missile.

According to Al-Mayadeen, enclave aggression on Hodeidah and Ras Issa led to the martyrdom of 9 employees. At 6:44, it was reported that Civil Defense was able to control the fire at Dhahban station, while it is still working to extinguish the fire at the other station.

At 7:29 a Yemeni government Ansar Allah Political Bureau Member claimed the US-Israeli bombing of civilian facilities revealed the truth of western hypocrisy. Shortly after, it was further asserted that Yemeni military operations in support of Gaza will continue and that Yemen will meet escalation with escalation until the genocide in Gaza stop and food, medicine and fuel are allowed into the Strip.

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Former Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili spoke at the European Parliament after losing the elections and claiming it was due to Russian interferences:

After Russia lost in Syria, should it win in Georgia?

If Russia fails in Ukraine, should it be successful in Georgia?

Russia lost in Moldova, so should it win in Georgia?

After losing in Romania, should it win in Georgia?

— Zourabichvili, former President of Georgia

What's the future she wants for her country?

Syria is on the brink of collapse, run by terrorists.

Ukraine is about to loose 1/3 of it's territory, run by Nazis.

Moldova and Romania are politically unstable and in the path of a economic crisis.

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⚡️ In the western liberal mindset, Excel wins wars.

We whole heartedly agree with the basic conclusion to this piece, that NATO doesn't need to, and shouldn't, militarily compete head to head with Russia. But the reasons given are pure drivel.

The article is from the Quincy Institute, which is representative of the leftish "correct thinking" arm of the liberals in America, the "PMC" as some call it, the Democrat voting urban professional classes, for whom all existence can be faithfully represented in a spreadsheet.

According to the article:
Russian GDP is 24.5 times smaller than the combined GDP of NATO members and 11.5 times smaller than in the U.S. Its population is seven times smaller than the combined NATO population and almost two and a half times smaller than the American population. Its much expanded total military headcount is only 45% of the size of NATO standing armies. In an attritional war with NATO, which Russia has always sought to avoid, it would not have the demographic or economic reserves to win out.
They seem to not have noticed a few minor details, such as that NATO seems unable to produce ammunition at scale or that the US has lost every war for the past 3 generations.

Or that GDP is not considered a serious measure of anything by serious economists.
Or how ridiculously expensive NATO weapons are.
Or the extreme tooth to tail ratios in NATO armies.
Or the fact that there is an ocean between Europe and America (logistics...)
Or the changed nature of warfare.
Or the Middle East, Taiwan and Korea.
Or, or, or...

Nevermind. We celebrate that someone in America sees the error is wanting to compete militarily with Russia, especially in Europe.

The fact is that Russia does not want to invade NATO or western Europe, but if they don't compete because they think they are all powerful, well, we could live with that.

The likes of the Quincy Institute are what passes for opposition within the American establishment - less war mongering, slightly more reasonable but never really questioning the basic tenets of American exceptionalism.

In any case, the American military industrial complex (and their European lackeys) don't listen to these "bleeding heart liberals" anyway. The MIC too think America and NATO are all powerful, and that they see as precisely the reason that they can and should take on Russia.

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