🇸🇾🇷🇺🇹🇷 The Foreign Ministers of Turkey and Syria are due to meet in Moscow. This is the highest level meeting between the two countries who have been on opposite sides of the U.S.-NATO war on Syria for regime change since 2011.

The outcome of that meeting, and the expected follow-up meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, may form the basis for the recovery of Syria, circumventing the UN resolution 2254, which has failed to produce results.

The U.S. has lost the war, but has used armed militias to remain occupying parts of Syria, and to impose a stalemate which prevents a peaceful solution and recovery for Syria. America is no longer the only superpower, and decisions made in the new Middle East no longer depend on orders from the U.S. State Department.

The meetings and realignments between Syria and Turkey, mediated by Russia, may produce lasting changes in the Middle East 🌍✨

💬 Read more by Steven Sahiounie

#Syria #MiddleEast #Turkey #Russia

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🇷🇸 This is a sorrowful story of a Serbian man whose 42 tonnes of wine 🍷🍷🍷 were brutally seized Wild West cowboy style from him by Albanians from Serbian Kosovo and Metohija in December 2022.

💬 By Tatiana Obrenović

#Kosovo #Serbia #KosovoIsSerbia #КосовојеСрбија #KosovojeSrbija

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🌏 NATO today has progressed to war with Russia in a battlespace, which in 2023, may or may not stay limited to Ukraine.

Simply put the point is that the shift to ‘War’ (whether incremental or not) marks a fundamental transition from which there is no going back to ab initio — ‘war economies’ in essence, are structurally different to the ‘normal’ from which the West began, and to which it has grown accustomed over recent decades.

A war society — even if only partly mobilised — thinks and acts structurally differently from peacetime society.

War is not about gentlemanly conduct… either. Empathy for others is its first casualty — the latter being a requirement for sustaining a fighting spirit.

Yet, the carefully curated fiction in Europe and the US continues that nothing really has, or will ‘change’: we are in a temporary ‘blip’. That’s all💥

The China-Russia axis are lighting the fires of a structural insurrection against the West across much of the Rest of World. Its fires are aimed at ‘boiling the frog slowly’ — not just that of the dollar hegemony, but also that of a now uncompetitive western economy.

💬 Alastair Crooke writes

#Europe #West #China #Russia #war #energy #crisis

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🛡 The Russian military industry in 2022 switched to the unprecedented work pace to be able to deliver the needed weaponry for the special military operation.

At the same time, the hard work on prospective patterns of armament, which is mercifully not used at present yet 🔐

💬 Read more by Natasha Wright

#Russia #military #Arctic #nuclearweapons #RussianArmy

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Confession of a CIA Agent: They gave us millions to dismember Yugoslavia – The Greanville Post
https://www.greanvillepost.com/2015/11/29/108895/

Baer is a limited hangout specialist. He only discloses CIA "secrets" that everyone with a brain is already aware of. Here he is telling only part of the Yugoslavia story - which was an American/German op.

🤥 All the years of hysterical shrieking about Russian trolls interfering in US democracy and corrupting the fragile little minds of Americans — a narrative that has been used to drum up support for internet censorship and ever-increasing US government involvement in the regulation of online speech — was false 🥸

💬 By Caitlin Johnstone

#MSM #propaganda #MassMedia #fakenews

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The triumph of bureaucracy over the human spirit...

🪖🦅 German-made tanks, the Panzer Leopard 2, are to be deployed in Ukraine in a war that is increasingly becoming an open confrontation between the U.S.-led NATO alliance and Russia.

What is abundantly clear is that the United States and its NATO allies are coordinating a larger-scale involvement in the war in Ukraine against Russia. They are marching in lockstep.

The conflict in Ukraine was sown in 2014 by the U.S. and NATO-backed coup against democracy and the subsequent weaponizing of a NeoNazi regime. But the seeds for that were borne from a more evil fruit that goes all the way back to the Second World War and Nazi Germany’s failed conquest of the Soviet Union.

The imperial designs of the Third Reich and its expansionist “lebensraum” have been inherited by the U.S.-led NATO axis 💢

The deployment of Leopard tanks – in place of Panzer Tigers – trundling towards Russia is a visceral sign of antecedent and of who stands on the right side of history.

💬 Read more in this week’s Editorial

#Ukraine #NATO #war

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🇺🇸🇦🇫 Deadly night raids. Faulty U.S. intelligence. A “classified” war loophole 💢

Reporter Lynzy Billing’s investigation offers an unprecedented insight into the civilian casualties of Afghanistan’s Zero Units.

#Afghanistan #UnitedStates #war

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📇 Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. So famously begins Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, one of the world’s greatest fictional works which is a much better read than Spare, Prince Harry’s best selling moan fest.

In that one sentence, Tolstoy echoes the old French proverb that happy people have no history, les gens heureux n’ont pas d’histoire and the more famous Chinese curse — may you live in interesting times — suggesting that the spicier one’s life is, the worse it is.

Happy the nun who is happy with her cloistered life and happy the coked up Prince, who does not get his rocks off by flying to Afghanistan to murder, from a helicopter far above, dozens of the locals 🇬🇧 but who is, instead, happy with his own lot and the simple love and acceptance of those around him.

This is at the core of Tolstoy’s great work, just as it is totally absent from Harry’s.

💬 Read more by Declan Hayes

#PrinceHarry #UK

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🌀 It is understandably the source of some confusion as to how a former high-level Trotskyist became the founder of the neo-conservative movement; with the Trotskyists calling him a traitor to his kind, and the neo-conservatives describing it as an almost road to Damascus conversion in ideology. However, the truth of the matter is that it is neither.

That is, James Burnham never changed his beliefs and convictions at any point during his journey through Trotskyism, OSS/CIA intelligence to neo-conservatism, although he may have backstabbed many along the way. He was also a key member of the Office for Policy Coordination (OPC) Psychological Warfare branch and participated in Operation Gladio through this function, including his work with the CIA’s Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF).

This chapter will discuss the relevance of these anomalies and how all these seemingly contradictory brandings were in fact consistent with the particular assignment Burnham had devoted his life to.

💬 By Cynthia Chung

📝 A detailed study of James Burnham’s ideology and career are of importance due to what they so transparently reflect as a conscious policy that came from the corridors of British and American intelligence, which is essential to understanding the times we find ourselves presently living in.

#Conservatism #Fascism #Ideology

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🌐 Nobody with an IQ over room temperature will expect Davos this week to discuss any aspect of the NATO vs. Eurasia existential war seriously.

Have fun with the Davos freak show 🤡

💬 Pepe Escobar writes

#Capitalism #Davos #Globalism #GreatReset #KlausSchwab

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🦅 The United States-led military bloc is a party to the conflict in Ukraine against Russia. In short, NATO is at war with Russia 💢 So, why is Russia limiting its military targets to Ukrainian territory?

Moscow has said repeatedly that the proxy war in Ukraine between NATO and Russia has become increasingly evident from the United States and its allies pumping up to $100 billion of weaponry into the former Soviet republic. There can be no illusions about the situation.

NATO’s participation has become increasingly deeper and more concerted. Not so long ago, the U.S. was at pains to emphasize its military aid was “defensive only” and “non-lethal”. NATO member Germany was formerly ridiculed for limiting its equipment to “helmets”.

Now the United States and its allies are supplying longer-range rockets, Patriot anti-aircraft systems that could shoot down Russian fighter jets in Russian airspace, as well as delivering main battle tanks.

If Moscow does nothing except issue warnings to NATO that are ignored or derided, it seems inevitable that the NATO powers will continue to escalate 💢

Has the time come for Russia to use “military-technical measures” against NATO members?

💬 Read more by Finian Cunningham

#NATO #Russia #Ukraine #UnitedStates

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🇱🇾 The greatest cover up since JKF – The Lockerbie bombing – might be coming apart at the seams, Martin Jay writes.

#CIA #Libya #Terrorism #UnitedStates

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❌ There is considerable method in NATO’s madness, the same madness that sees Julian Assange incarcerated and Gaza, Syria and far too many civilians and soldiers being bombed on a regular basis.

💬 Declan Hayes writes

#NATO #protests

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