Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
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[ColonelCassad] How fast things are happening.
Only recently he wrote how terrorists from JNIM threaten to sue Russia, which does not allow them to organize a jihad and sends military advisers and PMCs to West Africa, as "suddenly" Western analytical the center picks up this theme and begins to expand the Overton Window on the topic of which terrorists and against whom it is worth doing business.
As soon as the terrible, terrible Russians began to show interest in the "African Afghanistan" in the person of Mali and offer Bamako their help, as in the main lobbyists of the wars (https://t.me/rybar/21786) NATO represented by think-tank International Crisis Group rolled out analytics (https://t.me/strana_tuaregov/431) on the topic "Is it possible to have a dialogue with the Al-Qaeda branch in Mali?"
We are talking about the Jabhat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin (JNIM) group, with which both the official authorities and the contingent of Operation Barkhan are fighting.
On February 5, 2021, the International Crisis Group called (https://t.me/rybar/16548) the US authorities to revise the classification of the Syrian "Hayat Tahrir al-Sham" as terrorists and establish a dialogue. If in the case of HTS the formal severing of ties between the international terrorist organization Al-Qaeda and the former Jabhat al-Nusra played into the hands, in Mali the main lobbyists of NATO's wars went further.
The author of the analytical channel In the country of the Tuareg @strana_tuaregov tells in detail (https://t.me/strana_tuaregov/431) about the main proposals of the think-tank:
- start a dialogue with terrorists on the territory of a third country - for example, in Algeria, Qatar, Mauritania or Norway with Switzerland;
- terrorists need to open a political office and form a negotiating committee;
- France needs to stop being stubborn and hold off military operations for the duration of the negotiations;
- The Jabhat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin group needs to officially break with al-Qaeda.
Apparently, the International Crisis Group was commissioned to study public opinion after the Taliban came to power in Afghanistan. NPOs have to find out in which states are ready to put up with terrorists and under what conditions.
It is difficult to explain such proposals by other reasons.
Thick hint that if you are friends with terrorists against Russians, then a lot is possible.
If you look in general, it looks like preparation for the recruitment of the next "sons of bitches" that will be required at various theaters in the framework of the new Cold War against China and the Russian Federation.
PS. After numerous complaints from France to the EU and NATO about the fact that it was being kicked out of Mali (plak-plak), the EU imposed sanctions against the Wagner PMC and its leader, Colonel Utkin, for "human rights violations" in Sudan, CAR, Ukraine. Libya, Syria and Mozambique. Also introduced separate sanctions against the leadership of Mali "for obstructing a democratic transition."
It is clear that this is all due to the fact that the Russians are settling in Mali, and the French were asked to leave from there.
"Democracy in Mali is in danger. I will complain to Brussels!" Hence the sanctions hysteria to somehow console Macron, who lost two countries in the French sphere of influence during his term. Of course, Wagner will continue to operate in Africa, as its success is the best advertisement for local governments,
Ironically, during Haftar's offensive against Tripoli, Wagner and France were on the same side, since both Russian PMCs and France were involved in supporting Haftar. And there France was never embarrassed by such a neighborhood, because France was not concerned about "human rights in Libya" but about the expulsion of "friend Recep" from destroyed Libya, with which the "Total" corporation had oil contracts (guaranteed by Haftar), which could have gone to dust if Erdogan had captured Cyrenaica (but thanks to the work of PMCs and Russian military assistance, as well as Egypt's threats to enter the war, the plans of the "friend of Recep" did not come true).
Commentary from Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin
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[ColonelCassad] In China today, mourning events are held to mark the next anniversary of the Nanjing massacre, when the troops of the Japanese Empire captured Nanjing in the winter of 1937 and massacred more than 300,000 civilians and prisoners of war.
In principle, already on this story in stories about "samurai honor" and the like, one can put an end to it.
Today, a country that did something similar in the Second World War and which it lost while still under American occupation, dares to open its mouth again over the Chinese rights to Taiwan and the Russian rights to the Kuril Islands.
Japan should be reminded of this more often to remember how and why she parted with the Kuril Islands and not only with them. Otherwise, she doesn't want to make peace.
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There are those in Japan who tell a different version of this story. Those who were massacred, they say, were not civilians but Chiang Kai-shek's soldiers who had shed their uniforms in a cowardly attempt to avoid fighting.
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Some of that may be true but vintage images fromthe era of bayoneted women and children in piles gives a lie to any idea that rhe Japanese Army acted in a civilised manner.
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Japanese chauvinists have a long history of denying the facts of their nation's culpability for the Nanking Massacre and other atrocities which were too much for even their Nazi allies:
"so brutal were the Japanese in Nanking that even the Nazis in the city were shocked. John Rabe, a German businessman who led the local Nazi party, joined other foreigners in working tirelessly to save the innocent from slaughter by creating a safety zone where some 250,000 civilians found shelter...."
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Japanese chauvinists have a long history of denying the facts of their nation's culpability for the Nanking Massacre and other atrocities which were too much for even their Nazi allies:
Actually, they did apologize for their war in China, but Mao, Chinese leader at the time, said there was no need. Because of the Japanese invasion Mao's kommies were able to gain power in the end.
It is worth noting at this point that the Chinese nationalists did nearly all the fighting and dying, but it was Mao's kommies that wound up winning.
"The US does not want to open a consulate merely to have a place for diplomatic connections with the PA [Palestinian Authority]. If that is all they wanted, they could easily do this by opening a mission in Abu Dis or Ramallah -- where most other countries conduct their relations with the PA... the purpose of opening the consulate is to recognize Palestinian claims to Jerusalem." — Eugene Kontorovitch, professor, George Mason University, Antonin Scalia School of Law, Israel Hayom, December 5, 2021.
The 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations states that "a consular post may be established in the territory of the receiving State only with that State's consent". In other words, reopening the consulate may be done only with the consent of the Israeli government.
All this cannot be dissociated from the general hostile attitude of the Biden administration towards Israel from the moment it came to power.
Earlier in March, an internal memo from the US State Department was leaked to The National, a daily newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The National reported that "The Biden administration memo recommends voicing US principles on achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace under a two-state solution framework 'based on the 1967 lines'".
The author of the memo is Hady Amr, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs and Press and Public Diplomacy in the Biden administration, and also in charge of US negotiations with Israel and Palestinian organizations. It is hard to imagine that Amr was chosen as an "honest broker". Amr has a long history of anti-Israeli activities.
Amr also is the lead author of a report published by the Brookings Institution in December 2018 in which some proposals are made that could be regarded as disturbing. The report says that the United States must "reconnect" with Hamas, a fundamentalist terrorist group; seek "to create a Palestinian unity government integrating Hamas", and "compel Israel to make major concessions", even if it may "endanger Israel". The report never defines Hamas as a terrorist group, and never says that Hamas's goal is to destroy Israel. The report adds, "should Israel prove uncooperative with American efforts, the United States could signal it will move ahead anyway."
The behavior of the Biden administration towards Israel is all the more worrying in that at the same time, it places itself in a weak position regarding negotiations with Iran and seems ready to make a deal with the mullahs' regime at any price, in a resolution that has already been called "less for less", or, worse, "less for more".
An Israeli diplomatic service briefing recently announced the Biden administration is ready to accept a deal with Iran that includes only two elements: the removal of all international sanctions still imposed on Iran, and Iran's pledge to stop enriching uranium, which would mean that Iran's nuclear program would remain intact and that Iran's regional destabilization actions, including its threats against Israel, could continue.
Two days before the current negotiations began, chief Iranian Army spokesman Brigadier General Abolfazl Shekarchi said to the Iran Students News Agency (ISNA) that Israel's annihilation is his country's "greatest ideal before us and the greatest goal we pursue."
Iran claims, truthfully or not, that it already has enough enriched uranium to produce a nuclear warhead on short notice. On November 8, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh, announced that Iran will only agree to sign a deal with the US if all sanctions are unconditionally lifted. "Either we agree on everything, or we agree on nothing," he said.
The US Biden Administration seems.... at a time finally of peace, deliberately acting to destabilize not only Israel's new coalition government but, more importantly, the entire region. The United States seems once again to be igniting, on the heels of its failure in Afghanistan, yet a second, unnecessary disruption, with all the carnage, global damage and pandemonium that will result. Those two historic upheavals will be the legacies of the Biden Administration. If Biden is looking for yet another disaster to notch on his belt, this is it.
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Certainly not a shooting war. That might be embarrassing.
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Biden has been anti Israel for a long time. He' is taking up where his boss Obama left off. Trump almost derailed this agenda.
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Biden has been obsessed with Israel since at least 1982. Menachem Begin delivered an epic bitch-slapping to Biden when, as a junior Senator, that vile and posturing piece of shit tried to threaten Begin -- literally pounding the table in the Senate.
JPost's recounting of the famous incident is worth re-posting, both to show the great dignity of Menachem Begin and the squalid and spineless piece of shit that is Joe Biden:
In 1982, prime minister Menachem Begin testified in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Then-senator Joseph Biden told Begin that US aid to Israel could be cut off if actions in the West Bank did not cease.
Menachem Begin responded, “Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history.
"Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.”
Senator Joseph Biden slammed on the dais, clearly angry with what Begin was saying.
Menachem Begin continued, “This desk is designed for writing, not for fists. Don’t threaten us with slashing aid. Do you think that because the US lends us money it is entitled to impose on us what we must do?
"We are grateful for the assistance we have received, but we are not to be threatened. I am a proud Jew. Three-thousand years of culture are behind me, and you will not frighten me with threats. Take note: we do not want a single soldier of yours to die for us.”
IOW: F-off, you disgusting excuse for a human being
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No, he is at war with the majority of the American people, many of whom did not vote for this poufy perv, and his socialist/communistic, dictatorial, illegal, unconstitutional policies and directives.
His direction vis-a-vis Israel is a subset thereof.
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