There can no longer be much doubt that the West is fighting a proxy war with Russia. The goal is not simply to defend Ukraine’s territory and safeguard its sovereignty, but to “see Russia weakened” – in the words of U.S. defence secretary Lloyd Austin (a former board member of Raytheon Technologies).
In a previous post, I reported what the former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO said in a recent interview with the New York Times: “I think we are in a proxy war with Russia. We are using the Ukrainians as our proxy forces”. Since then, several U.S. politicians have confirmed this is a proxy war.
On 2nd May, Democratic Congressman Jason Crow tweeted: “The United States is not interested in stalemates. We are not interested in going back to the status quo. The United States is in this to win it and we will stand with Ukraine until victory is won.”
Speaking to Fox News on May 6th, Democratic Congressman Seth Moulton explained: “At the end of the day, we’ve got to realise we’re at war. And we’re not just at war to support Ukraine. We’re fundamentally at war – although somewhat through a proxy – with Russia. And it’s important that we win.”
Then on May 11th, Republican Congressman Dan Crenshaw tweeted, in defence of his decision to approve the latest $40 billion aid package: “Yeah, because investing in the destruction of our adversary’s military, without losing a single American troop, strikes me as a good idea. You should feel the same.”
This has very serious implications. If the West’s aim is to “see Russia weakened”, that means prolonging the war, rather than finding a diplomatic solution as soon as possible. It means more lives lost, more buildings reduced to rubble, and more chances for accidents or missteps that lead to nuclear escalation.
Even the ‘mainstream’ media is waking up. Yesterday, the New York Times ran a piece arguing that “the United States and its allies have greatly increased the danger of an even larger conflict”. The author observing, “Indefinite protraction of the war, as in Syria, is too dangerous with nuclear-armed participants.”
And the Washington Post ran a similar piece. Noting the West’s approach “may carry extraordinary, underappreciated risk”, the authors warn that “Putin could turn to unconventional weapons, including low-yield nuclear weapons, to stave off defeat”.
The fact that influential newspapers like the New York Times and the Washington Post are airing scepticism about the West’s increasingly reckless approach is, of course, welcome. But is it too late to avoid a protracted war?
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“Why are so many stars’ kids trans and non-binary?”
If there’s a problem with the child, its because there’s a problem with the parent.
Do celebrities often ingest harmful chemicals? Do bears etc. etc……
‘This suggests childhood trauma is associated with greater Psychotic-Like Experiences (PLEs) in young people who use cannabis, which may be linked with an increased susceptibility to the dysphoric/paranoid subjective effects when using the drug.
Childhood trauma should be addressed early in young people who use cannabis to mitigate the psychosis-associated harms of the drug.’
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0920996421004084
Correct
Paul Joseph Watson has an interesting take – LGBT+ kids as fashion accessories, like handbag dogs, vegan cats, botox lips…(scroll through the irritating ad at 3 – 5m). Indoctrinated child abuse.
https://rumble.com/v4p0ulw-well-this-is-interesting..html
Some say the real reason is that the Illuminati require celebrities to “pay” for the wealth and fame the Illuminati have given them, by taking some kind of action supporting one of the Globalist agendas to “educate” the public. By miscegenation, for example, either marrying non-Europeans, or adopting Third World children, or forcing their biological sons and daughters to dress like the opposite sex, or doing so themselves, or mothers draping themselves over their sons implying incest, or fathers doing the same to daughters. These “duties” are in addition to attending the regular ritual “gatherings”, such as Bohemian Grove, or as in the movie “Eyes Wide Shut”. Remember that photo of the Beatles with plastic babies dripping in blood as symbolic sacrifices. There was also one of Tom Hanks grinning while holding a plastic blood-soaked baby.
Eeeuuwww. I had heard of rumours – isn’t Mel Gibson being ‘cancelled’ for raising similar sorts of issues? But jeez – sacrificing your kids like that. Beyond evil.
Oh thanks for that information about Mel Gibson— I hadn’t heard that.
They don’t usually sacrifice their own kids, just the children of others, and some have said captive women are used to breed children in secret for sacrifices. It makes you wonder what happened to the four babies birthed by British girl Anna Ruston:
British girl kidnapped and held as sex slave for 13 years by rapist who SOLD her four babies – Mirror Online
British girl held captive as sex slave by Asian cabbie for 13 years | Metro News
All very sinister but a simpler explanation is that those who pose are impressionable idiots who like to follow the mad crowd and show off in public.
Even more stupid are the fans who like to be ‘influenced’ by some moron because they lack intelligence to form their own ideas about anything under the sun.
There’s an amusing film called ‘Idiocracy’ set in a dystopian future and it seems that we’re well on course to get there.
Bingo!
It’s clearly a fashion or trend the parents want to follow as much as the kiddies.
Are there any real grownups in the world of showbiz?
Asylum seeker raped a girl after deportation was blocked by cabin crew”
I hope the virtuous fools are proud of their actions. Actually, thinking about it, they probably are.
If the cabin crew of that plane who refused to let the nasty SOB be deported had any sense of honour, honesty or remorse for their criminal stupidity, they would take pains to personally apologise to the rape victim.
They probably won’t because every one of them is a self-righteous, braindead leftard who will be full of excuses for their action. But there are no excuses.
And if they did try to say sorry, the rape victim would be perfectly justified in spitting in their faces.
“Ukraine’s frontline is collapsing – and Britain may soon be at war”
I’ve lost track. Who will we be fighting.? Have the doomsayers got a map.?
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“Iran is about to start a nuclear world war – and the West is determined to lose” I get the impression that the Telegraph actually wants war. All we need is an article about China and we have a full set.
How do you reach that conclusion?
“The regime needs to be punished for its monstrous war-mongering”
The Telegraph is saying the UK deserves it.
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“Iran is about to start a nuclear world war – and the West is determined to lose”
Iran couldn’t even get its drones into Israeli airspace. Is anyone else getting a feeling of deja vu about ‘Weapons of Mass Destruction’..?
Seven ballistic missiles got through.
‘Iran has increased its production rate of highly enriched uranium (HEU). This development is consistent with……….assessment that Iran has developed a nuclear program that it intends to use to produce a nuclear arsenal.’
Critical threat
No civilian targets were hit and no people were killed. The Iranians gave several hours warning of the attack.It was symbolic – a warning of what could be achieved if the Israelis made another attack on Iranian property like the one on their Beirut consulate.
Correct. Ballistic missiles got through.
Shortly, if not already, Iran will have nuclear warheads for those missiles.
And Israel already has nuclear warheads and delivery systems…..
Whyever would Iran want nuclear weapons exploding a few hundred miles away from themselves, edspecially since prevailing winds are generally from the Med. They may be many things but bent on self-destruction is not one of them.
The Iranian leadership have nuclear bunkers.
Do you really think they care about anyone else?
‘Islam is a religion of blood……..Islam grew with blood. The great Prophet of Islam had the Quran in one hand and a sword in the other: the sword to destroy the traitors and the Quran to guide. The Quran was the guide to those who could be guided. The sword was for the heads of traitors who could not be guided. We are not afraid of blood.’
Khomeini
Well, yes, I think they do care, at least as much as the West cared about the Iraqis and the occupants of a number of Balkan states.
You are entitled to your opinion.
With regard to religious leaders, I doubt many will share it.
Well said – and not said often enough. Too many people are afraid to look at izlam for what it is – the wickedest and most destructive cult on earth, past, present and future.
Unless the West takes action to control izlam and get the extremists out of our countries, we are heading for disaster.
It is no use relying on ‘the peaceful majority’. The peaceful majority have never prevented wars or neutralised enemies within.
Nonetheless, I have heard one estimate that Israel used up around a billion dollars worth of air defence missiles in countering that attack.
Actually, I heard on the morning-after news that a 7 year old girl was killed. But I have not seen or heard a follow-up since.
What sort of idiots downtick a post that simply offers information and an opportunity to chime in if they know something to add?
Downtickers should be named & shamed for pointless negativity.
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All of those sophisticated munitions have a limited shelf life so would have required replacement within the near future.
U.S. and European production of air defence systems has been ramping up since mid 2022.
The training provided will have been invaluable.
Copium
Be careful, buddy:
‘When his wife, a prominent Russian Instagram influencer, was threatened with years of imprisonment………Alexei Blinovsky opted for what seemed the most viable means to secure her freedom in Russia today: he joined Vladimir Putin’s military campaign in Ukraine…….a get-out-of-jail card for those deemed to have wronged the Kremlin.’
Don’t be so ridiculous.
One good turn deserves another……
Honestly, reading your posts on war is like listening to a government propaganda announcement. You’re perfectly entitled to your opinions of course, and I’ll respect that, but I want to ask you an honest question. You seem to wholeheartedly believe that the West is completely innocent in any conflict i.e. West good, rest of world bad. Simple. You appear to hold this rather naïve view whilst surely knowing that the Iraq ‘war’ was nothing to do with WMD (to name just one immoral conflict explained by morals). My question is this: why do you question your government on many things but refuse to question your government on war? I’m genuinely intrigued.
You have clearly not been paying attention.
My comments almost invariably contain quotes, references, supporting evidence.
You have not noticed that responses to my comments rarely, if ever, contain any evidence.
Take this, for example:
‘…today Georgia, tomorrow Ukraine, the Baltic States the day after tomorrow, and then perhaps the time will come for my country, Poland!’
President Lech Kaczyński August 2008
How prescient was that. We should pay attention to those closer to the action than we are.
I do not believe that the West is always innocent. That would just be plain silly.
Regarding the cold war, I am a long time student and, up to a point, a ‘revisionist’.
I question the British Government’s stance on defence on a regular basis.
I supported Blair on nothing, particularly not his Iraq policy once it became clear that the WMD ‘evidence’ was fabricated.
I believe in peace through deterrence. You do not. That is the main difference between myself and many others on this site.
Let’s break down your wholly nonsensical reply – one which has a far more combative tone than my question (which was a genuine one).
Quite what makes you believe that is unclear. My question was a simple one – one you’ve completely failed to answer. I’ve been paying enough attention to your posts to know you’ve swallowed the approved war narrative hook, line and sinker. And I’ve paid enough attention to know that you now seem to be trolling the other contributors on this site. Not sure what you get from that to be honest.
Correct, they don’t. Which simply makes your black and white opinion even more ridiculous. Your comments do, however, contain a myopic, naive, opinion on who the good guys and the bad guys are.
So, why do 100% of your posts on conflict directly oppose that statement?
Ughh. Really? Question how? That they are not doing enough to stand up to the ‘bad guys’? I can’t remember seeing any post of yours, with respect war, that questions if the West’s supposed intentions are honest.
Again, ughhh? Peace through deterrence would be to not provoke. Something you don’t seem able to consider. Again, I cannot remember seeing any of your posts that support a move away from combat and towards negotiation. As for your comment “you do not”, how do you know what I support? You’ve made a kneejerk reaction and used an ad hominem attack to defend a flimsy position that you can’t calmy explain.
Last post on this – I know how this’ll go, and have better things to do with my time.
Very defensive.
That you have not been paying attention is a simple observation based on your lack of awareness regarding my previous posts. Any combativeness is plainly in the eye of the beholder.
If no evidence is ever presented to challenge my opinions, naturally I will continue to hold them. Why would I not?
I state in my response that I did not agree with Blair on anything and that, regarding the Cold War, I hold certain ‘revisionist’ views. Clearly you have no idea what that means if you still think that I agree ‘100%’ that the West is always innocent.
Peace through deterrence means having a deterrent. With regard to a nuclear peer, it means having a conventional deterrent. We do not possess a credible conventional deterrent. That is the provocation….and that is where I differ with so many on here.
From your superficial response, I doubt that you even bothered to read my previous post in full, so I will not labour the point.
You enjoy the sound of your own voice to much not to reappear.
I doubt many will be holding their breath.
“wholly nonsensical reply”
It’s possibly the most incoherent account on here. This is why I think it is a bot or a kid using AI (it quickly resorts to childish insults) so might as well be a bot.
Given the anti-Russian stance, it may be a Ukrainian teenager who has a choice to be an online influencer or join the UK Euthanasia Programme for Ukrainians – in which case they have my sympathy.
Yet another unevidenced and entirely pointless comment from you.
Why not give yourself a bit of a lie down, a nice cup of tea, until you have something constructive and interesting, evidenced, to say?
I think it’s a kid. Has all the markers.
It didn’t take long. What a remarkably stupid, self indulgent, comment.
These kinds of comments lower the tone and are most unpleasant.
If you believe in peace by deterrence, then you will understand why Iran wants nuclear weapons when its bellicose near neighbour already has them.
Obviously; particularly since Putin’s two invasions of Ukraine have already demonstrated that Western security assurances to countries without nuclear weapons, and security assurances to those with nuclear warheads to convince them to surrender them, are worthless.
Since you are so keen on evidence, can you highlight any comment that Putin has made about use of nuclear weapons in the context of Ukraine in any circumstances other than in response to an attack on Russian territory.
This does indeed make the reassurances worthless since the only circumstances that nuclear war will imperil Russia’s opponents is if the West makes a first strike.
Putin talking about use of nuclear weapons in the context of Ukraine.
“Asked in an interview with Russian state television released early Wednesday if he has ever considered using battlefield nuclear weapons in Ukraine, Putin responded that there has been no need for that.”
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-putin-nuclear-weapons-82ced2419d93ae733161b56fbd9b477d
I wonder (not really) why you missed out this bit:
‘The Russian leader has repeatedly talked about his readiness to use nuclear weapons since launching a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022. The most recent such threat came in his state-of-the-nation address last month, when he warned the West that deepening its involvement in the fighting in Ukraine would risk a nuclear war.’
Your reference
Sounds as if there was an unspoken ‘YET’ implied there.
You don’t really understand how this debate thing works, do you?
Let me try and help you out.
I make an evidenced comment.
You respond with contrary evidence…and so on until the readership here have enough evidence to make up their own minds, one way or another.
See? Very straightforward.
Now, regarding nuclear deterrence, you have completely missed the point.
Britain and the U.S. gave Ukraine security assurances regarding its territorial integrity in 1994 in return for Ukraine’s surrender of the nuclear warheads in its possession.
Putin invaded Ukraine in 2014 and again in 2022, making the U.S./U.K. security assurances worthless. Consequently Iran is unlikely to accept any similar assurances and will, therefore, proceed with developing a nuclear warhead, nuclear proliferation, thanks to the adventurist expansionism of Putin and the pusillanimity of Western leadership.
As for Putin’s own comments regarding use of nuclear weapons:
‘The strategic nuclear forces are on full combat alert and the ability to use them is assured……(Western nations) must realise that we also have weapons that can hit targets on their territory. All this really threatens a conflict with the use of nuclear weapons and the destruction of civilisation. Don’t they get that?!’
Putin 29 Feb. 2024
He leaves it to others to be more explicit:
‘Attempts to restore Russia’s 1991 borders will lead only to one thing – a global war with Western countries with the use of our entire strategic (nuclear) arsenal against Kyiv, Berlin, London, and Washington. And against all other beautiful historic places that have long been included in the flight targets of our nuclear triad’
Deputy Chairman, Security Council of the Russian Federation
18 Feb. 2024
It is irrelevant whether anyone believes that the West was or is completely innocent in any conflict.
Basically, two men were responsible for dragging the USA and the UK into the second Iraq war: Bush & Blair. Many, many commentators and ordinary people in the UK tried to dissuade Blair but he was too gung-ho and stupid to listen. Which is why he will never be forgiven for all the people he killed.
Does that make all the populations in the West guilty and oblige them to be sitting targets for whatever enemy wants to wipe us out?
Many Iranians hate the mad mullahs as much as we do and would like see them gone. But the peaceful majority never make the decisions. No one wants to kill innocent Iranians. But if the mullahs give the order to attack us, we are justified in retaliating.
The same applies to Israel – they were attacked by Hamas and Iran and are right to retaliate.
As Hamas has found, its not the smartest thing to go up against someone far better equipped militarily than you are. How stupid are the leaders of Iran exactly..?
Apparently, very stupid indeed:
‘Raisi is just a blank space masquerading as a human. He disappears into the background, going days or months without making news. His eyes are always blank, and he seems to always regret his physical presence in any place he’s inhabiting at the moment. He has problems communicating with people whenever he’s not on a script, giving non-sequitur answers to questions.
I am certain that he didn’t want to be president and was pushed to this position by others. He clearly has no ambition and always seems lost.
This lack of personality and ideology is what makes him acceptable to all conservatives, who share nothing but hostility to the US and to the Iranian moderates.’
‘When he became president, he created a team of economic officials who couldn’t see eye to eye at all, including populists and free market absolutists and people with idiosyncratic views. More than a year later, no one knows what his administration’s economic strategy or even worldview might be. The man simply knows nothing about the economy and is not interested in learning.
The same is true about foreign policy. Our minister of foreign affairs is a moderate who’s interested in reviving the nuclear deal – while his deputy, the chief negotiator, is the most extreme enemy of the nuclear deal. Again, I’d challenge anyone to describe a coherent doctrine when it comes to this administration.’
‘Ebrahim Raisi is the epitome of the concept of the banality of evil. He sleepwalked through committing a massacre, sending thousands of people to their deaths only by applying a simple formula given to him by his superior. He spent three decades in the judiciary applying the conservative reading of Sharia law, thoughtlessly and automatically.’
Kaveh Mousavi
Oh dear!
They’re in thrall to izlam – that’s how stupid they are.
Air defence systems are very expensive to operate, in some ways when Iran sent so much stuff towards Israel it may have been more aimed at depleting Israel’s air defence systems as mcsh as causing direct damage. How many Patriot type air defence missiles are there in the world? are they being used up faster than they can be replaced?
It is a very basic unsophisticated strategy but if you fire enough dodgy old stuff at a Country, eventually that Country will use up all its expensive sophisticated air defence systems shooting them down and thus be left vulnerable.
“‘Despite two victories, I fear we’ll never beat the woke nightmare’
It will never die out, because the concept of fairness and equality (despite achieving it by being unfair and inequitable to the majority) will still be appealing to some. However, the further it develops, the more ridiculous it becomes and it has over-reached itself beyond all sense. I fear that we will have to wait for 51% of the population to fully realise that Climate is a scam, (and de-bundle it from the ‘virtue’ multi-pack) before we discover our real courage with Woke and chuck it out.
Well I couldn’t read that Telegraph article above because it’s behind another stupid paywall, but with regards to the whole feminism thing I would be interested to hear what the point of it is nowadays, because as far as I can determine it’s now a completely obsolete concept. I used to subscribe to it donkey’s years ago, when it was just to do with equality for women, but women’s rights have been realised for years now. I think I’m several editions behind and have no idea what it stands for anymore. Everybody, regardless of the box you tick, has human and equal rights here in the West, at least on paper. We’re certainly seeing many examples of the abuses of these on a daily basis, as well as the inconsistencies within the law in upholding various citizens’ rights. When push comes to shove it isn’t just women having their rights abused or overlooked is it, it’s everybody’s.
If women insist on wearing the ‘feminist’ label then they do better to turn their ‘feministing’ sights to Muslim countries, where abuse and inequality of women is the cultural norm, because that’s where your hated ‘patriarchy’ is, and the oppressors sure as hell aren’t white. But I would argue that this label is no longer necessary because everything now falls under ‘human rights’ abuses. Women and girls being humans, after all.
The silence of the so-called ‘feminists’ after 7th Oct was deafening, and when Israeli/Jewish women were reporting witnessing or experiencing rape they weren’t believed, based purely on their nationality. The women’s rights groups demonstrated both antisemitism and support for terrorists. Absolutely disgusting. What we’re seeing with the whole trans thing, again, some people are speaking up, fair enough, but how many so-called feminists have done a complete 180 and are now supporting the abuse of female sex-based rights? It’s absolutely barmy and these complicit traitors should be totally ashamed of themselves.
Anyways, had to get that off my chest before I hit the road, but if anyone wants to tell me what ‘feminism’ now stands for and what relevance it has nowadays then I’m all ears because I think it’s out dated and unnecessary. We should be united in opposing our common enemy ( who come in both genders, enough with the blame game ), not embracing division and further fragmentation of society.
I refuse to pay for a subscription for the Telegraph since they permanently banned me from commenting after I made entirely reasonable comments about mRNA vaccination. Anyway this sorts the problem out:
https://www.removepaywall.com/
Thank you. Yes I think Aethelred and others have shared similar sites to get around paywalls in the past, then I immediately forget them. I tend not to bother just out of principle because I think it’s a bit silly for DS to share so many articles that we can’t get easy access to, and when you do get to read them they’re nothing special in the end, as with the feminist one above, and you can usually find the same info elsewhere, sans paywall.
But thanks again, I shall remember that site no probs, I think.
Absolutely spot on. Feminism gave itself a stinking name when it became exclusively leftard, anti-Semitic and terrorist-supporting.
Back in the 90s I tried to raise support from ‘feminist’ colleagues to campaign against FGM in this and other countries. NONE of them would help because, ‘It’s their cultcha, innit.’ Yeah, it’s OK to mutilate little girls and women’s sexual organs if it’s the men’s preferred cultcha, you morons.
Too many ‘feminists’ cannot even be trusted these days to support XX women against XY impostors.
Ukraine’s frontline is collapsing – and Britain may soon be at war
‘Russia will launch a “big” offensive in June 2024 with the aim of seizing all of Luhansk and Donetsk oblasts.’
If that works and Lukashenko permits another move on Kyiv, then the Suwalki Corridor (Polish territory) is next.
Somehow we don’t see it, but others saw this coming years ago.
‘Today Georgia, tomorrow Ukraine, the day after tomorrow the Baltic states, and then, perhaps, the time will come for my country, Poland.’
Polish President, Lech Kaczyński, August 2008
Iran is about to start a nuclear world war – and the West is determined to lose
Yep.
‘Iran has increased its production rate of highly enriched uranium (HEU)………..Iran has developed a nuclear program that it intends to use to produce a nuclear arsenal.’
How do we know what happens if the Iranian threat is not confronted? We simply look at the conduct of Iranian proxies:
‘The Houthis claimed on April 7 that they conducted two attacks targeting two commercial ships in the Indian Ocean and the Arabian Sea. The Houthis have expressed an aspiration to expand their attacks targeting Israeli shipping in the Indian Ocean and around the Cape of Good Hope.’
So that bit of deterrence worked well…….not.
But none of this involves Britain, does it? Hmmm…..the U.S. has also agreed to this:
‘Argentina has solidified an agreement to procure 24 F-16 fighter jets from Denmark, announced President Javier Milei……Defense Minister Luis Petri hailed the acquisition as Argentina’s most significant military aeronautical procurement since 1983. Deliveries of the aircraft, along with military equipment from the U.S., are scheduled to commence by the end of this year and extend through 2025.’
https://www.defensehere.com/en/best-purchase-since-1983-argentina-buys-24-f-16-fighter-jets-from-denmark
What to do?
We know what to do. We’ve done it before.
‘The Royal Navy led Anglo-Dutch Bombardment of Algiers in 1816. The British and their Dutch allies defeated the Barbary Pirates. The Barbary Pirates were forced to free 3,000 slaves and sign a treaty committing to the end of the slave trade in white Europeans.’
‘The Cold War really ended by December 1988…….what happened after that was “clean-up diplomacy.”
‘The story of the human race is war,’ wrote Winston Churchill. ‘Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending.’
‘The same belief-that war remains the default option of our civilisation-underlay the policy triumphs of Helmut Kohl in the 1980s and 1990s: the deployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles and the euro. The peace movement disagreed on everything else, but it shared with Kohl, Reagan and Thatcher the assumption that war was inevitable unless there was positive action to prevent it. These leaders, whose lives were marked by the second world war, have now gone.’
We’re going to need another one………
As Churchill also said, in 1940
‘Ou est le masse de manouevre?’
Gamelin replied: ‘Aucune!’
“Iranian proxies” is a throw-away line with very little actual evidence other than what the Yanks have manufactured.
There is a little encampment that I have visited on a number of occasions on a hill across the Arabian Sea from Iran. It once had an Iranian flag flying over it, perhaps fifty years ago. In that country, the irrigation system in the mountains was built by Persian engineers circa 1500 years ago when the area was a province of Persia. That province contained much of Yemen.
So Iranian support for the Shi’ite Houthis against the Sunni Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is unsurprising:
‘The UN found evidence that Iran continued to ship weapons, including ballistic missile components, to the Houthis after examining seized weapons shipments on land or at sea in Yemen.
UN experts also identified Mohammed Halas Mohammed Bishara as the leader of the Houthi maritime smuggling organization.
They were granted access to components of Quds ballistic missiles and drones captured by the UK navy in the Gulf of Oman in January 2023 aboard two stateless vessels moving from Iranian beaches into Oman.
“The seizure of Quds components by the British Royal Navy supports the panel’s assessment that the missiles continue to be smuggled in parts from abroad and that final assembly takes place in Houthi-controlled areas,” said the report.
Yemeni authorities also permitted UN experts to inspect a shipment of 52 launch containers containing 9M133 Kornet anti-tank guided missiles that had been concealed inside four huge power generators and confiscated at the country’s Shahn border crossing with Oman.
“The panel maintains its long-held position that some of the seized weapons — such as the anti-tank guided missiles seized on the Omani border — have technical characteristics and markings consistent with those manufactured in Iran,” the report revealed.’
December 2021- Nov. 30, 2022, UN Security Council expert report
But think of the Barbary Pirates and how they had to give up their slaves. Then think of how David Cameron fixed that by helping reintroduce slavery into North Africa. Then think of what Churchill said, as if it matters. Those promoting war will always find a reason and go hundreds of years out their way to do so.
I’m sure that comment makes sense to you.
“Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell charged in connection with embezzlement of funds from SNP”
Soft option for the police! Don’t want to make political bigwigs look bad now do they?
Zelensky will be a legitimate leader of Ukraine only until the end of May. This bastion of democracy (sic) has failed to hold elections to elect a legitimate president and Z’s term runs out in a few weeks.
This does rather make a hole in the logic of the West about defending democracy. Hamish de Bretton-Warmonger fails to mention this (I have to assume this as the article is paywalled).
The Ukrainian people reportedly prefer General Valerii Zaluzhnyi, which is why Zelensky sacked him, but gave him an office job to avoid a revolt.
“Asylum seeker raped a girl after deportation was blocked by cabin crew”
Sit that cabin crew down in a room with that raped girl and her parents and ask them to explain to them why that raping bast£#d is more important than their 15 year old daughter!
Good idea. It seems to me that the most effective punishment for criminals would be for the police to tie the b*stard to a fixed chair in the middle of a room, instruct the victim’s unarmed family members waiting outside the door that they will have 5-10 minutes to inflict their own punishment on the criminal, shouting, screaming and beating the criminal as much as they want without actually killing or mutilating him/her/it. The police will stand guard outside the door until the 5-10 minutes is up. That seems true justice to me.
“Smacking back in the dock”
There’s a BIG difference between smacking and beating! How are you going to police this? By looking for bruises on the child? In that case it’s beating and we already have laws against this! But it’s quite alright to manipulate young kids into body mutilation in the name of gender? Id sooner stick with just smacking!
“‘Despite two victories, I fear we’ll never beat the woke nightmare’”
We will if we recognise that Wokeness originates in Communism, and educate our children accordingly, as a great leader hated by the Globalists has just taken bold steps to do:
DeSantis signs bill to roll out communism lessons in Florida public schools (msn.com)
Please see also the podcast by James Lindsay:
“Antonio Gramsci, Cultural Marxism, Wokeness, and Leninism 4.0 – New Discourses
Lindsay says, “If you want to understand the present moment, especially how similar Wokeness seems to Mao’s Cultural Revolution, you have to understand the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci.
“Gramsci identifies that the “cultural hegemony” of Western cultures prevented communism from having any chance of taking root, so he recommended a strategy that seeks to tear apart and capture major cultural institutions, including religion, family, education, media, and law. Mao understood this clearly and used it to devastating effect. The same thing is happening throughout the West today. Join James Lindsay as he explains the thought and relevance of Antonio Gramsci in today’s Woke movement, which he aptly brands “Leninism 4.0.””
Real education about an enemy ideology is desperately needed. People have such short memories and little historical knowledge.
“…how ‘science’ works nowadays. It isn’t the search for truth. It is all about propaganda supporting the government narrative so they don’t lose their jobs and funding. No critical thinking.”
STEVE KIRSCH APR 19
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