[GeopoliticalMonitor] As the world observed the second anniversary of the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s takeover of Afghanistan on August 15th, attention has shifted to the changing landscape of terrorism in the region. The two years since Kabul’s fall have raised concerns about the impact on regional stability and security. A complex picture of resurgent murderous Moslem groups, human rights ...which are usually open to widely divergent definitions... abuses, and geopolitical challenges with Afghanistan’s de facto rulers has emerged.
President Biden recently claimed that al-Qaeda is no longer in Afghanistan and that the Taliban is aiding the US in countering terrorism. However, there's no worse danger than telling a mother her baby is ugly... the situation on the ground doesn’t seem to align with this assertion. Biden’s sentiment was echoed by US diplomats following their first official meeting with Taliban representatives in July this year. While the US State Department acknowledged decreased large-scale attacks in Afghanistan, supporting the Taliban’s counterterrorism efforts may be overlooking broader transnational threats.
THE PERCEPTION OF SECURITY IN AFGHANISTAN
The Taliban’s military victory in Afghanistan has emboldened various Death Eater groups in the region, many of which were displaced before 2021. This triumph has granted these groups the freedom to move across the region with complete impunity. According to a report from the UN Sanctions Monitoring Team, al-Qaeda remains active in Afghanistan with an estimated strength of 2,000 fighters, albeit with a discreet presence. In a display of solidarity with al-Qaeda, the Taliban has assigned al-Qaeda members to important administrative and military positions. Notably, Qari Esanhanullah and Agha Hakeem, both al-Qaeda veterans, have been made governors of crucial eastern provinces—Kapisa and Nuristan, respectively. The most disconcerting appointment is that of Tajmir Jawad Hafizallah, who now serves as the Deputy Chief of the Taliban’s Intelligence wing, GDI. Hafizallah’s association with the infamous Kabul Attack Group, a joint special-operations unit led by al-Qaeda and the Haqqani Network with support from Pakistain’s Inter-Services Intelligence ...the Pak military intelligence agency that controls the military -- heads of ISI typically get promoted into the Chief of Army Staff position. It serves as a general command center for favored turban groups such as Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad, tries to influence the politix of neighboring countries, and carries out a (usually) low-level war against India in Kashmir... , is a cause for concern. This elevation alone should prompt the Biden administration to reconsider its stance on Afghanistan.
Similarly, the Afghan branch of the Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISKP) maintains a significant presence in various pockets of Afghanistan’s eastern and northeastern provinces. Established in 2015, this group is notorious for executing large-scale, intricate attacks in urban areas. Their targets encompass religious and ethnic minorities, as well as high-profile Taliban officials. As seen in the targeting of a senior Taliban leader’s funeral service in the northern province of Badakhshan, which resulted in over 30 casualties, including a provincial police chief.
In addition to countering ISKP, the Taliban also contends with resistance forces within Afghanistan. Recently, groups like the National Resistance® Force and the Afghanistan Freedom Front have substantially escalated their operations. Their focus has been on targeting the Taliban’s military infrastructure and eliminating senior Taliban commanders. Despite lacking the necessary operational capabilities to pose a grave threat to the Taliban regime, these groups persist in challenging the Taliban’s narrative of a peaceful Afghanistan.
REGIONAL THREAT LANDSCAPE
Following the fall of Kabul, Pakistain has experienced a notable surge in attacks, primarily attributed to the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistain (TTP), an offshoot of the Taliban. TTP’s operational capabilities have been significantly enhanced and the group has established new support bases as evidenced by attacks extending beyond their traditional strongholds, such as the recent assault on a military garrison in Zhob, Balochistan ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... Province. Moreover, the TTP has successfully united more than 35 fragmented groups and smaller terrorist entities allowing it to diversify targets and escalate kinetic activities within a short timeframe. Despite Taliban disavowals of harboring terrorists, substantial evidence points to the Taliban’s influence over the TTP, including facilitating the movement of TTP leaders across borders. Notably, several senior TTP commanders, starting with the killing of Omar Khorasani, the criminal mastermind behind the 2014 Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistain's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire... Army School Attack, have been killed under mysterious circumstances inside Afghanistan. Additionally, TTP Chief Noor Wali Mehsood made a narrow escape during an attack in Nangarhar The unfortunate Afghan province located adjacent to Mohmand, Kurram, and Khyber Agencies. The capital is Jalalabad. The province was the fief of Younus Khalis after the Soviets departed and one of his sons is the current provincial Taliban commander. Nangarhar is Haqqani country.. province in Afghanistan where he was meeting with the Taliban’s provincial council. The presence of high-ranking TTP operatives in eastern and southeastern Afghanistan sheds light on the Taliban’s connection to the TTP and reveals the TTP’s restructuring with ambitions mirroring the Taliban’s success in Kabul. Concurrently, while the Afghan Taliban’s primary adversary remains the Islamic State’s Afghan affiliate (ISKP), the latter has shifted its focus towards Pakistain. This strategic shift is evident in the escalation of attacks on civilians, as evident in the tragic suicide kaboom in Bajaur district of northwestern Pakistain resulting in over 50 casualties.
Beyond Pakistain, other transnational terrorist groups in Central and South Asia have similarly restructured their ranks and revitalized their operational capacities. A UN report from July highlights that East Turkestan Islamic Movement, a Uighur Death Eater group aspiring to gain control over Xinjiang province in China, has established bases across northern and northeastern Afghanistan. Furthermore, the Taliban has facilitated the transfer of Uighur gunnies from Chinese border areas to different Afghan provinces for training, indicating renewed alliances between the Taliban and various al-Qaeda-affiliated entities. The Afghan Taliban has also relocated more than 200 Tajik gunnies from the al-Qaeda-affiliated Jamaat Ansarullah (JAU) group in Tajikistan to Afghanistan. Additionally, foreign Tajik fighters from JAU have been incorporated into the Afghan Taliban’s ranks.
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The PRC was very aware that in the nineteen eighties Uighurs from western China joined the war against the Soviet invaders. Following that event, the growth of radical Islamic movement in Kashgar and Khotan was recognized by the PRC. Thus the decimation of the Uighur people is seen as a response to the attempted radical Islamization of western China. The Han are ruthless, and the PRC has included the settlement of thousands of Han in the Muslim region. In reality, the Uighur threat has been and is now little more than bluster.
[TheNewEuropean] In April 2022, the Taliban ...Arabic for students... ’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Arkhunzada, announced a ban on the production of drugs, which have earned the terrorist-led group billions of dollars and financed their ultimately successful 20-year war to overthrow Afghanistan’s western-backed government. During that time, the Taliban cornered the global market for heroin and transitioned into methamphetamine, which they also export worldwide.
The ban has reportedly led to a drastic reduction across Afghanistan in the planting of poppy flowers, which produce opium, the raw material for heroin. Satellite imagery is also said to show that many centres of meth production have fallen quiet. Local sources in the major growing regions in Helmand
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The crux: "The Taliban have spent decades building a global monopoly on heroin, dominating the $55-billion-a-year market with almost 100 percent of production. Massive stockpiles of raw opium mean that "Made In Afghanistan" heroin isn’t likely to run out any time soon, though the perception of looming shortages, after the ban announcement, is pushing prices to the stratosphere."
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Eradicate the CIA, designate the cartels as terrorists and finish the wall. That is where I would start. The War on Drugs is a joke with the CIA still around.
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[RIA] For us, the question of victory over the Kyiv regime has never been raised: we will definitely win, and all the goals of the NWO will be achieved sooner or later. But the West, which for many years was preparing an anti-Russian foothold and free "meat" from Ukraine, at the beginning of the NMD was absolutely sure of the imminent and humiliating crushing of Russia with the help of multi-billion dollar aid to Kiev and the supply of a record number of modern weapons.
For quite a long time, the Western media maintained the appearance that the Marquise was doing well, but in the end it became impossible to pull an invisible dress on a naked king, and somewhere in high Washington offices, a decision was recently made to launch Operation Y and prepare their audience for the inevitable outcome.
It is amusing to watch how the narrative in the Western media, which has long been kept in states of "euphoria", "anger" and "denial", before our eyes quickly turns into "acceptance" and "bargaining".
We are already accustomed to the work of the Western media according to a single methodology, and, apparently, over the past two weeks, it has come to everyone, as a result of which most of the leading online publications in Europe and the United States have published publications with very characteristic messages.
The Telegraph :
"The Ukrainian army is running out of soldiers and time is running out";
"A war of attrition plays into the hands of Moscow";
"Lack of manpower could be fatal for Kyiv";
"If Ukraine cannot mobilize more soldiers, the West will no longer be able to help."
The Hill :
"Without the return of Crimea, Ukraine will not be able to achieve a lasting peace";
"President Biden's Opinion: Ukraine Can't Win".
Foreign Policy :
"A slow counteroffensive that did not lead to major breakthroughs leads to negotiations";
"In European capitals and Washington, the idea prevailed that if Kiev was given everything it asked for, then it could return the territories. But this counteroffensive shows that this may not happen";
"American interests in Ukraine are not enough to start a direct war because of them";
"The United States cannot provide Ukraine with what it needs to take back the territories without significant risk to its interests and its economy."
The New Statesman
" Pentagon representatives are beginning to have questions about whether Ukraine can win at all."
Unherd :
"Russia's economy is behaving better than anyone expected under Western sanctions, while European countries try to stifle voter discontent over the rising cost of living";
"American voters are less and less willing to continue to sponsor the defense of Ukraine";
"Both Ukraine and America must compromise."
The icing on the cake was an article under the eloquent title "Why is it almost impossible for Ukraine to win the war now?" where for a Western audience it is laid out on the shelves why this circus needs to be turned off and calmly move on.
First, the US and NATO are more afraid of a war on their territory than of Russia's territorial acquisitions. Russia already controls almost 20 percent of Ukraine's land, and this proportion is likely to increase in the future.
Secondly, Russia has destroyed about 70 percent of Ukraine's infrastructure, and it is almost impossible to restore it.
Thirdly, the Russian army has a large number and significant mobilization potential. She has more than 4000 combat-ready tanks, which are ready to go on the offensive at any moment.
Fourth, Ukraine is running out of soldiers. A huge part of the population fled abroad. After the eighth wave of mobilization, men over 60 are taken to the front.
Fifthly, Russia can emerge from this war not only as a military, but also as a political winner. The current situation and the state of Western support inevitably lead to negotiations.
The final touch to the above revelations may be the evolution of views in the top US military leadership. For example, in January of this year, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces, General Mark Milley, foaming at the mouth, stated that "Ukraine will conduct a significant tactical or front-line operation and liberate as much territory as possible." He had another punched card inserted last week, and now he says that "Ukraine can achieve these goals - perhaps, probably - through some diplomatic means."
We can congratulate the American generals and the authors of the manuals for the Western media on the fact that the obvious is beginning to dawn on them.
But we have bad news for them: while they are slowly preparing their audience for negotiations and "difficult decisions", it may turn out that there will be no one to negotiate in Ukraine, and even if there is someone, then a truce is a topic for discussion will not be accurate.
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According to multiple sources, Ukrainian forces have gained tactically significant ground in western Zaporizhia Oblast, but there is no confirmation if they have completely breached the most challenging series of Russian defensive positions yet. While Ukrainian forces have entered areas where they encountered only Russian logistics groups. It remains to be seen if they can penetrate the Russian heavily fortified positions with its well-trained Russian soldiers. https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-august-26-2023
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Ukrainian troops 'break through toughest Russian lines' Ukrainian forces have broken through the most difficult line of Russian defences in the south and should be able to advance more quickly now, a commander on the southern front has claimed.
“We don’t stop here,” a commander who led some of the troops into Robotyne told Reuters. Kyiv said on Wednesday that its troops had raised the national flag in the settlement of Robotyne in the southern Zaporizhzhia region, about six miles south of the Orikhiv frontline. “Next we have Berdiansk, and then more. I made it clear to my fighters at once: our goal is not Robotyne, our goal is (the Sea of) Azov.”
Reaching the Sea of Azov would sever Russia’s land route between occupied Crimea and Donetsk.
“We have passed the main roads that were mined. We are coming to those lines where we can go (forward). I’m sure we’ll go faster from here,” said the commander, who goes by the nom de guerre “Skala”.
From the V Kontakte page of Historical community "Echo of Perekop"
The best I can figure is that setting of this story is sometime between 1918, at the start of the Russian Civil War and 1925, when Tsaristyn was renamed Stalingrad.
To read a brief history (in English, no less) of Cossacks of the region and how they were nearly wiped out by the nascent Soviet government, click here.
It should be noted that until now information about the Ural army in the headquarters of the commander in chief was very scarce. They knew from rumors about the existence of some kind of army in the Urals: therefore, the Urals. Where exactly was this army, what were its strengths and numbers - questions that the operational part of the headquarters of the Caucasian army could not answer.
Among the measures taken by the command of the Caucasian army for the implementation of such an urgent connection, my trip to the headquarters was still more imaginary than the undoubtedly existing Ural army as a headquarters liaison officer.
In early July, with my batman Semyon Dubov, a captured Red Army soldier who voluntarily and willingly agreed to go with me to the Urals, I left Tsaritsyn. Thus began my search for nothing more and nothing less than an army.
Everything went very well while our boat was sailing on the surface of the Caspian Sea. But then, when it came out at the mouth of the Urals, or rather, into one of the branches of the Ural delta, both banks of which are covered with impenetrable thickets of reeds two human heights, forming a narrow corridor wide of the sleeve, our journey lost all its charm. Here, first of all, we were attacked by an absolutely incredible number of mosquitoes, gadflies, and some third, unfamiliar to me, species of insects. I have never seen anything like it in my life. In addition to this misfortune, due to the complete absence of wind, the sail of the rybnitsa hung hopelessly ... I digressed from the topic. One way or another, by the evening of July 22, the fishmonger moored at the pier of the city of Guryev ...
While we were approaching the pier in the Urals, a hydroplane landed not far from us. I could not even imagine that such a strange bird could fly into the bear's corner - Guryev, just as I could not admit that there was fish in the Urals, the size of which was told to me by my fellow traveler in the fishery, the Ural Colonel P. From him I learned that 10 years ago in the Urals, not far from Guryev, the Cossacks caught a beluga weighing 75 pounds! Probably the first airplane and the 75-pound beluga were extraordinary events in the life of the inhabitants of Guryev. I leave the size of the Ural beluga on the responsibility of my fellow traveler and continue the description of objects and events less remarkable.
So, we are in Guryev, in the Ural region. From conversations with my fellow travelers, most of whom are Ural officers, it became clear to me that the Ural army is not an imaginary, but a real army, even with signs of aviation. From the same fellow travelers, I learned that the headquarters of this army is located in the village of Sakharnaya - 300 miles north of Guryev.
Leaving my orderly with our simple luggage on the pier, for lack of other means of transportation, I went on foot to look for the head of the so-called "Fortified Guryev District" Colonel Nazarov. Why Guryev and its environs, where there were absolutely no signs of fortifications, bore such a formidable name, I find it difficult to say. It seems to me that Colonel Nazarov was simply the commandant of the defenseless Guryev. However, it doesn't matter, it's not about the names.
It was already evening when my short search led me to a small two-story house on the outskirts of the city. The barking of a yard dog warned the owners of the house about the appearance of an inopportune visitor. I was met by a middle-aged man, of average height, in an average, so to speak, suit, in which one can equally mistake a military man for a civilian and vice versa. This average man turned out to be the one I was looking for, that is, the head of the Guryev fortified Army. Apologizing for his after-service, perhaps unobtrusive suit due to the heat, N. G. Nazarov showed me the living room, which was dim due to twilight, where he returned a few minutes later with a lamp in his hand, in a tunic with colonel's shoulder straps. After the questions that interested me, that is, questions concerning the state of affairs at the front, the methods of my movement ..
My master is a natural Uralian. During the evening spent with him, from his stories, I emphasized a lot of information, which later gave me the opportunity to navigate in a new environment for me, complete enough to clearly outline in front of me what the Ural region is in relation to its natural resources, what is the Ural Cossack in relation to its everyday features. The Urals are Old Believers of the most diverse persuasions; religiously fanatics; their fanaticism began to lose its sharpness only after the state recognized freedom of religion in 190712. The Urals not only do not smoke themselves, but generally do not allow this "devilish action" in their homes. The Urals are patriarchal. Uralians wear beards.
The Urals are hospitable and hospitable, but when the guest leaves, the room in which he was received is smoked with incense, and even sanctified. For the guest and any outsider - a special dish, from which the Ural Old Believer will not eat in any case. The image of the Urals is outlined more fully if we add to what has already been said that the Ural Cossack is by nature lazy, by nature a sybarite, by nature a cavalryman. Is it necessary to talk here about the militancy of the Ural Cossack?!
Describing the Ural Power in relation to its natural features, Colonel Nazarov paid special attention to the Urals - the source and guarantee of the well-being of a significant part of the region. Convincing, concrete evidence of such a significance of the Urals appeared during our dinner in the form of sturgeon caviar, fresh and pressed, incomparably transparent, like amber, salmon, sturgeon and beluga, in unlimited quantities.
The Uralian tells about the Urals not simply, but somehow especially lovingly, as about a living beloved creature. This is quite understandable. The Urals or, as the Urals still like to call it, Yaik and Yaik-Gorynych are fabulously rich. For its faithful guard, the Ural Cossack, the Urals provide a completely comfortable existence, not without some comfort.
The Urals, as already mentioned, is fabulously rich in fish. Fishing in the Urals and the northern coast of the Caspian Sea within the region is the main and favorite type of occupation for the Urals: net, net, hook, familiar to us fish - the symbols of these occupations are protected.
The Uralian protects his Yaik from assassination attempts and dangers, from whatever side they threaten him, with extreme forethought.
The Uralets blocked it near Uralsk with the so-called "uchug", that is, with an iron grate along the bottom of the river, and thus attached large breeds of red fish, such as sturgeon, beluga and stellate sturgeon, to the waters of his section of Yaik; protecting Yaik, the Uralian has so far not allowed either navigation in the Urals or a railway along the Urals for fear that the steamboat and steam locomotive will scare the fish ...
Agriculture and cattle breeding are additional, but still not without great importance, types of occupation of the Urals. The vast steppe expanses of the region, its northern part, approximately north of the Kalmykov latitude, especially, provide ample opportunities for the development of these types of occupation, mainly cattle breeding. In the first place - a friend of the Urals, - the horse/
The way of life of the Urals, as already mentioned, is patriarchal.
All household chores - gardening, harvesting hay, caring for domestic animals and poultry, and so on - lies with the Cossack hostess and, mainly, with the Kirghiz laborer. The first of them performs the duties of an administrative nature, the second - of an executive nature. The Uralian is the head of the family, having in his exclusive jurisdiction issues related to the main branch of activity - fishing, in relation to the home organization - legislative power.
The Uralian is a fisherman and a warrior, his wife is the owner. Kyrgyzstan is a living force.
[19Fortyfive] Biden, unfortunately, has been openly appeasing China in the last several months, and that might give Xi the idea that the U.S. would not defend Taiwan, at least before January 20, 2025.
[American Thinker] If only Harrison Floyd’s first name were George. If only he’d been a convicted felon who passed a counterfeit bill, filled himself with illegal drugs, and resisted arrest. If that were the case, he’d have had millions of dollars flowing to him from Hollywood and Democrat politicians, and he’d have been a media hero. However, Harrison Floyd isn’t a thug of color. Instead, he’s a retired Marine vet, living with his family and getting by on his pension. And he’s also a black Trump supporter, which is why he’s rotting in a Fulton County jail.
One of the important things to remember about all this Democrat criminal lawfare against anyone who dared support Donald Trump is that it’s intended to destroy them economically. A great lawyer can cost close to $1,000 per hour (although, if he’s decent, he’ll hand the work to young lawyers and paralegals who will cost $300-$400 an hour). A good lawyer will cost about $400 an hour. A mediocre lawyer will cost about $250 per hour.
What this means for a client is that even a single court appearance on a simple matter (preparing documents, travel time, time spent in the courtroom) can result in a $1,000 to $4,000 bill. On a single complicated motion, you’re looking at $25,000 to $100,000 in legal fees. (Maybe more; I haven’t worked on a big case in about 15 years.)
If you’re rich, you can probably absorb this for years. If you’re middle-class, you can absorb this for months before your savings are exhausted, and you are no longer middle-class. And if you’re poor, you can’t afford this at all. Moreover, the public interest lawyers who line up to represent the George Floyds of this world tend to be leftists. They’re not going to volunteer their services for someone who dared to support Trump.
Post election Persistence Surveillance signals tracking of 250 cell phone pings and 'Patterns of Life' tell a story.
[True The Vote] Hi Friend -
Thank you for your prayers and support this week. We made it through the gauntlet and are stronger for it.
Wanted to share a few quick updates. First, on Monday night we released a new collection of Georgia related documents on Open.Ink. You can check it out here.
Included among the hundreds of documents is a video that shares the story of True the Vote’s experiences in Georgia. This is a story you have not heard and one I regret having to tell. So many bad things have happened to good people - all to coverup the truth of the 2020 election scandal. Here’s the video.
Open.ink will be the storehouse of all our data and research in the days ahead. We had to build a platform we could trust, that wouldn’t be hacked, exploited, or taken offline. And there’s much more to come.
We also had an important hearing on Thursday in one of our lawsuits, Mark Andrews v. True the Vote et al. It was a hearing to debate our Motion for Dismissal. The Federal courthouse was in Atlanta, Georgia, just a few blocks away from the Fulton County jail spectacle. And we’ll be back again soon in the Fair Fight v True the Vote lawsuit, where we’ve been accused of violating what’s referred to as the "KKK Act". For what? For helping Georgia voters submit ineligible voter records to their county election administrators.
It may seem surreal as you read what I write, but for us it’s real life. And it will make us stronger.
Though the swirl of lawsuits and hyper-political drama are ever present, I remain encouraged by the increasing numbers of Americans who are seeing beyond the uniparty and choosing instead to stand up for truth, justice, community, faith, freedom - for the heart of America.
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The drop boxes and fake voters on the rolls enable the industrial cheating. I have yet to hear a rationale for the boxes that makes any sense. Accepting them as a reality is the type of stupidity that we get from Ronna. She shovels caviar and shrimp into her maul while she signs Karl Rove’s paycheck. I need to find a way to fund Republicans that I like without her getting a cut.
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Been shaking my head every time I pass the box that shares space with carts of free-ish trashed donated and de-acquisitioned books in front of our library. Louder than words...
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Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. by Georgy Bovt
[REGNUM] Donald Trump underwent a humiliating arrest procedure at the Fulton County Jail, Georgia. They took a formally necessary (although optional) "prison photo" of the former president. This is the fourth criminal case against Trump. Three others lead at the federal level, but the state of Georgia has its own scores for it.
So far, nothing bad has happened to Trump.
He stayed in prison for about half an hour (the beginning is a dreadful start), and then he was released on bail of 200 thousand dollars, which is gentle for his level of wealth. The bail was required so that he “did not run away to Russia” (no, this is not a joke, such an argument was heard). However, in America it is generally not very common to keep people in a pre-trial detention center until a court verdict on charges of non-violent crimes.
What is Trump accused of?
He and a group of 18 "accomplices" are accused in general of trying to cancel - and change - the results of the 2020 presidential election in the state. The accusation is divided into 13 counts. Among them are violations of state anti-racketeering and corruption laws, incitement to violate the oath of public servants, conspiracy to forge and file false documents, etc.
The prosecution's accusation was confirmed by the Grand Jury (not to be confused with a jury trial).
Such an institution is provided for by the Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution, according to which all criminal charges must go through such a procedure. Unless we are talking about a "deal with justice."
The grand jury usually consists of 16-23 jurors (different states may have their own nuances), the decision on the legitimacy of a criminal charge is approved by a simple majority. This distinguishes it from the verdict of the jury, which in Anglo-Saxon law (including the United States) on criminal offenses must be unanimous (in Russia, the jury delivers a verdict by a simple majority).
The American press wrote that Trump's Republican supporters harassed the jury on social networks and by sending them all sorts of threats. Under Georgia law, the names of jurors cannot be classified.
The logic here is to give the defense the opportunity to “dig into” their background and try to find reasons for a challenge there. For example, the juror suddenly had a previous conviction or he is not a resident (does not live in the territory) of the county.
At the same time, the minutes of the meeting in this state are closed. Unlike, say, the state of New York, where both the minutes themselves and the statements of witnesses before the Grand Jury can be presented to the defense and then used in the course of the main trial.
The Trump case. "Soros" prosecutor violated the rule of American politics
One way or another, the accusation (on 98 pages, just a minute) was approved. This was the intermediate success of two and a half years of hard work by Fulton County Attorney Fanny Willis .
Who is this woman?
Firstly, she is black (like many residents of the district), which is not very good for Trump. It is believed that the 45th president and the Republicans in general have generally bad relations with this category of American citizens.
She has a "speaking biography". Willis was born in California. Her father was a member of the Black Panther Self-Defense Party, a left-wing African American organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the civil rights of the black population. Including with the help of armed struggle, in which the "Panthers" opposed themselves to the teachings of Martin Luther King, an opponent of violent actions.
Her most notorious case at the Fulton County Attorney's Office (she has worked there intermittently for almost 20 years) was the Atlanta Public Schools fraud case (faking public test scores to inflate grades). She secured the conviction of the defendants under the article on racketeering and organized crime. In 2020, she was elected after a hiatus as Fulton County District Attorney (an elective position in the state of Georgia).
Secondly, she is a “Democrat”, which is even worse for Trump, but gives him reason to make counter-charges that this whole process is Biden’s revenge and an element of the election campaign to knock him out of the 2024 presidential race.
"Democratic" does not mean that Willis is in the Democratic Party. In America, since the end of the 19th century, civil servants, judges and prosecutors, among other things, have been forbidden to engage in party and political activities (and there is no party membership in America). However, “party affiliation” is traditionally taken into account there by which administration - Republican or Democratic - a particular judge or prosecutor was nominated.
It was thanks to the efforts of Willis that racketeering and organized crime (according to the so-called RICO, Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, adopted at one time to fight against the mafia), which significantly complicates the charge as a whole, turned out to be among Trump's charges.
According to many lawyers, in this case, affiliation with organized crime is strongly strained, and prosecutor Willis, as indicated above, is not the first time he has resorted to such methods in his practice. The extended application of the RICO Act, while often supported by US legislatures and courts, is seen by many legal scholars as violating a fundamental principle of fairness: criminal laws should clearly inform people about what they can and cannot do.
Meanwhile, in the law against organized crime, there is no clear mention of attempts to cancel or rig elections.
It's also the first time RICO charges have been brought against a former president. For Trump supporters, this is another reason to talk about “political harassment.” After all, if this law is applied on charges of forgery, fraud, etc. the defendant under the laws of the state of Georgia faces not five or six years, but at least 20 years.
In addition, Fulton County is considered "pro-democracy" (the city of Atlanta, which has a large proportion of the black population, is included). Although the state itself until recently was considered "republican", that is, traditionally voting for the RP.
In fact, that's why Trump so counted on the votes of his electors. And when he learned that he had lost a miserable 11,780 votes here, he was so upset that he began to call local authorities with requests like “well, do at least something, it’s probably all rigged, find me these votes.”
Republicans are trying to go on the counterattack.
The local legislature has already launched a process to remove Willis from the post of prosecutor on the grounds that she "acts politically biased," and the black servant of the law herself wants to get into the "celebrity of leftist political forces" with the help of a high-profile case.
By the way, it is quite possible that the Republicans are right in this.
In America, between the judges and the prosecutors, there is nothing worse than accusations that they are politically biased. Is that even accusations of ties with the mafia. Republicans also accuse (or rather, try to identify these violations) Willis of allegedly coordinating her actions with the federal Department of Justice, and also, possibly, using "federal funding."
Both would be a terrible violation and, if it could be proved, would undermine the entire criminal process in the bud. A case brought under state jurisdiction for alleged violation of state laws shall remain solely within state jurisdiction and shall not be subject to any federal influence.
There is a flip side here.
If Trump is convicted at the state level of Georgia and, even worse, imprisoned, then even if he is elected president, he is unlikely to be able to pardon himself. Something else will need to be figured out. Go to the Supreme Court, most likely. Such are the "grimaces of federalism."
However, in the case of Trump, America generally follows untrodden paths, and here, perhaps, there will be something to do (and even more than once) for the Supreme Court, whose decisions, in fact, are of a constitutional (and precedent) nature.
So far, neither the very fact of criminal prosecution (already four), nor conviction, nor even imprisonment by court verdict, in any way legally prevent either Trump's participation in the election campaign, or Trump's victory in it.
So the main calculation of Trump's opponents is to "bury" him under a pile of criminal cases and lawsuits. So that he later “lost on points”, that is, in the elections, and even better - in the primaries in his own party (which is not visible yet). And even better - to have time to send him to prison, from where it will be difficult to conduct an election campaign.
Attorney Willis's tactics contribute to this, as she is set to begin the actual trial of Trump's case as early as October. That is, even before the party primaries.
So far, however, everything that is happening with Trump has not particularly damaged his election campaign. It seems, on the contrary, the more new accusations are made against him, the more united the ranks of his supporters, and more and more new accusations themselves seem to be “devalued”.
It smacks of some kind of judicial-criminal farce. For many, a huge heap of criminal cases really creates the impression of purposeful, moreover, politically motivated, harassment.
New T-shirts with Trump and the slogan "Never give up!" have already gone to the people.
If the primaries in the Republican Party began now, then Trump would take out all eight of his competitors “in one gate”: he is now behind more than half of the Republican voters, the closest competitor, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, is 40 % behind .
None of the party rivals even dare to use the topic of criminal cases in criticism of Trump. Which, in turn, does not even bother to participate in internal party debates. Exactly according to the principle according to which participation in a debate with a deliberately weak opponent only worsens the rating of the leader and unjustifiably increases the rating of this weakling.
What's more, six of Trump's eight presidential contenders have said they would still support him, already in office, if he is found guilty in court but wins the election.
As for the “prison photograph”, which the 45th President of America now has, among the other owners of this “souvenir”, you can still scrape together a couple of quite worthy people. For example, singer Frank Sinatra and the aforementioned anti-racial segregationist Dr. Martin Luther King.
[Dr. Paul Alexander's News Letter] Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria: a Georgian Bolshevik & Soviet Stalin's ruthless chief of security, said "Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”; Garland is US's Lavrentiy! Working with malfeasant people to manufacture crimes against '45', Trump is the man to be taken out; they are manufacturing crimes like Lavrentiy did; they will IMPRISON Trump so you can't vote or KILL him like Prigozhin.
I fear for Trump, I do, I see they are exposing him and doing all to incite whackos in the society to harm Trump; they can’t beat him honestly at the ballot box, they fear him so it appears we are headed the way of Prigozhin, where the state will kill its opponents??? What say you? Am I way off?
We have many Lavrentiy Berias today manufacturing crimes to take out Trump. It is clear now!
But notice the crimes of the Biden et al. family INC remains just talk, no one is doing anything about it and the republicans are just as guilty, they are facilitating the democrats.
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