Excerpts from Financial Times Budanov knows this will be a trying year for Ukraine “To say that everything is fine is not true,” Budanov said when asked about Ukraine’s much-vaunted counteroffensive last year failing to achieve its objectives. “To say that there is a catastrophe is also not true.” Ukraine will still manage to keep […]
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Wanted to follow up on this post, focusing instead on the Iranian strikes on Pakistan Iran hit the Balochistan region. This is an area with separatist ambitions, lots of resource wealth and all sorts of western backed proxies. These groups have been launching attacks within Pakistan and towards Iran. Covered one of the more well […]
Interesting point of view from Joe Macaron. He is suggesting Israel is shifting strategy. I’ve highlighted some interesting points being made https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/israel-shifting-regional-offensive-strategy-against-iran There is an apparent offensive shift in Israel’s regional strategy that began in recent weeks. It can be explained by several factors, including Israel’s motivation to shift focus away from the impasse in […]
CBC Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has informed the United States that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of any postwar scenario, underscoring the deep divisions between the close allies three months into Israel’s assault on Gaza that aims to eliminate the territory’s Hamas rulers The U.S. has called on […]
Yesterday’s post ended on a brief wrap up– To summarize a lengthy report- Iran and Turkey are hitting their enemies. They are hitting the groups that terrorize each nation and it’s people- And these terrorists are allied with US, Israel and UK. My understanding is that strikes continued overnight. Daily Sabah Fighting against terrorism and […]
One of those killed was a Kurdish business man that facilitated smuggled Syrian oil sales to Israel Following his death, many rumors circulated online that the Kurdish businessman used to facilitate oil exports to Israel amid his links to the Mossad. If you’ve followed my work through with the Syrian situation from the beginning, you […]
When a wrong was done to one group of people there is no automatic get out of jail card given that allows for them to engage in behaviour that is murderous against others. Israel is not immune to accusations of ethnic cleansing or genocide because of … history. The Conversation Immune to genocide accusations? Israeli […]
RT Chilean-American blogger Gonzalo Lira has died in a Ukrainian prison, his family said on Friday. Lira, 55 at the time of his death, lived in Kharkov and blogged as ‘CoachRedPill,’ but switched to YouTube commentary after the conflict with Russia escalated in February 2022. He was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) last […]
Bloomberg Benjamin Netanyahu has long been known as the magician of Israeli politics. The nation’s longest-serving prime minister may have faced daily rallies against his plan to weaken the judiciary, presided over the most right-wing and religious government in Israel’s history and been on trial for bribery and fraud. But Israel seemed secure, and Netanyahu […]
I’m getting the impression the US is managing this war on Israel’s behalf. Some of the quotes from Blinken leave one with that impression. Headline- Blinken Urges Israel to Think of Postwar Role That’s not a call to ceasefire. Or a call to reduce civilian casualties. That’s encouraging Israel to make plans for the land […]