Israel eta NATO zale estatu guztiak Palestinaren aurka (4)

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US President Harry Truman (1945-1953) stands next to a map showing the State of Palestine.

Israel is not real.

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I SWEAR TO BE LOYAL TO THE GOVERNMENT OF PALESTINE” SIGNED BY ISRAELIS WHEN EMIGRATING FROM EUROPE IN THE 1930s

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Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis@DrLoupis

Jacob Rothschild: “My family created Israel

Israel is a fake state created by evil globalists.?￰゚ヌᄆ

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1835237143465119783

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UN General Assembly overwhelmingly calls for end of Israeli occupation

Read the resolutions text here: https://www.un.org/unispal/icj-and-question-of-palestine/

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Vian ibrahim@vian_ib

@Robert_Martin72

erabiltzaileari erantzuten

You should watch this. Look how diabolical this is. Where is #ICC #ICJ and @UN? Where is the Western media?

To hell with human rights and fake equality. They are all plastic, they have no human values.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839094660695839134

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This Israeli ambassador called for the destruction of every building in Gaza.

This easily violates the 1948 Genocide Convention’s prohibition of the public incitement of genocide.

But Labour invited her to their ‘Friends of Israel’ reception, and posed with her. Vile!

Aipamena

Tzipi Hotovely@TzipiHotovely

ira. 25

Thank you so much to our dear friends at @_LFI for such a warm welcome in Liverpool, and for standing in solidarity with the Israeli people. Am Yisrael Chai!!

Irudia

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If this isn’t Genocide, what is?

Israeli occupation forces sent a truck to the Red Cross filled with 80 dead bodies of Palestinians they have killed.

The Palestinian Health Ministry said they have no information on where the 80 bodies came from, with no identification and no names provided.

The bodies were transported in a dump truck; they are decomposed and unidentifiable.

Israeli occupation forces killed them in cold blood and treated their bodies like garbage.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza refused to receive the bodies – their organs were stolen and their bodies dissected and empty.

The Ministry of Health in Gaza issued this statement:

“With the arrival of a container containing approximately 88 bodies from the Israeli occupation, without any data or information indicating the identity of their owners or the places where they were recovered, the Palestinian Ministry of Health has suspended the procedures for receiving the container until all data and information about these bodies are completed so that their families can identify them.

The Ministry of Health calls on the Red Cross to carry out its duties in accordance with the internationally applicable protocol regarding the receipt and delivery of bodies, while bringing data and details of each body in terms of names, ages, and the areas from which these bodies were taken. We also emphasize the necessity of receiving the bodies according to humanitarian and international standards and in a manner that preserves rights to maintain the dignity of these bodies.”

This is Horrific.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839006048125915529

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Alan MacLeod@AlanRMacLeod

Fixed this headline for you, @guardian

Irudia

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Serbian President Vucic:

Soon, there will be events to mark the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp. Those who liberated it, and they were Russians, will not be invited. I assume that those who created this camp will be invited.

In our world, everything is, how can I say this so that it doesn’t sound rude, perverted, or very strange.

Irudia

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History Hub@HistoryHubb

@DD_Geopolitics

erabiltzaileari erantzuten

“Glory to the #Soviet troops who raised the banner of victory over #Berlin!” Brandenburg Gate, #Berlin, #Germany

Irudia

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Tiberius@ecomarxi

Never forget that Biden/Harris spent 1/4 billion to build a temporary pier under the guise of supplying humanitarian aid, committed war crimes and a massacre by hiding soldiers in the aid, then left the people in Gaza dying of thirst and hunger.

This is your ‘lesser evil.’

Irudia

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Chay Bowes@BowesChay

The grim reality of NATOs Proxy War against Russia. 19 year old boys dying for Von Der Leyen and the Dictator Zelensky.

Irudia

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This is brilliant

Chinese star Gao Xiaosong was brought on a propaganda trip to Israel, where on a visit to a kibbutz they tried to bullshit him that this was a perfect example of communism. https://x.com/abierkhatib/st/abierkhatib/status/1839018627967725965/video/1

And then he started asking questions… leading him to conclude it was nothing like communism but more akin to the system in ancient Rome where you had a small number of citizens who could vote with “a lot of slaves around them”.

The chutzpah of trying to bullshit the Chinese on communism.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839107716306055435

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ADAM@AdameMedia

Israeli soldiers beat up a Palestinian child.

As if they want to tear him apart.

This is what brutal apartheid and occupation looks like.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839036554963988557

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I STAND WITH LEBANON AGAINST ZIONIST TERRORISTS!

I REPEAT: ISRAEL IS A TERRORIST STATE

Praying for everyone in Lebanon who were just targeted by the satanic Zionists.

Irudia

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700,000 Dead, a country sold to vast corporations, the population fled, the economy crippled, Vast endemic corruption

What’s left is a Dictatorship, completely dependent on foreign charity and “Aid” rinsed from NATO countries terrified of inevitable defeat in a War they started

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839046513651233102

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Every time Israel decides to commit a genocide, U.S sends ships and aircraft carriers to the Middle East.

Clearly, America is telling Israel to exterminate innocent civilians , and they will stand with the Israeli military if resistance respond.

Fuck Zionists.

Pray for Lebanon

Irudia

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Zlatti71@Zlatti_71

“Why don’t you want to negotiate with Russia? What’s the problem?”

  • Zelensky fled from a Russian journalist at the UN building.

    For the first time in a long while, a Russian journalist managed to get close to Zelensky. Valentin Bogdanov caught him at the UN building and asked why Kiev is refusing negotiations.

    “What’s the problem with having a conversation or a call?” the journalist inquired.

    Zelensky did not respond and quickly ran away from the uncomfortable questions, accompanied by his security team.

    http://T.me/ukraine_watch

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839054295465148782

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Howard Beckett

Starmer is the man who agreed Israel could cut off water, food and electricity from Gaza

Israel knows he is on their side.

No more words:

Stop selling Israel arms

Boycott Israeli goods

Get behind Hague arrest warrants.

Actions not words.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839029139996815604

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Israel isn’t winning in Gaza as Hamas target Israeli military vehicles near Rafah:

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839214965128839487

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Mariam Barghouti مريم البرغوثي@MariamBarghouti

While bombing both Lebanon and Gaza, the Israeli army continues attacking cities in the West Bank, today the Israeli army returns to Jenin, in the north and persists in the destruction of the civilian infrastructure on the city.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1838919335479292151

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BREAKING: ?￰゚ヌᄎ Vladimir Putin: “We will use NUCLEAR weapons if a mass enemy missile or UAV is launched towards Russia, or when these weapons cross into Russian territory”

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839036040423547089

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BRICS News@BRICSinfo

JUST IN: NATO prepares plan for “huge number of casualties” in case of WW3 scenario with Russia, Daily Mail reports.

Irudia

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Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa

You know what else died in Gaza and Lebanon? The myth of western humanity.

I never want to hear any western leader ever talk about human rights.

Irudia

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State of Palestine@Palestine_UN

?￰゚ヌᄌ?￰゚ヌᆰ Prime Minister Alexander De Croo: “Over 15.000 people in Gaza need prosthetics because of lost limbs. 10.000 of these victims are children. Where is the human dignity in all this?”

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839053945051693284

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In this debate on @PiersUncensored, I remind two Israel apologists that their state’s foundational commitment to regional supremacy is the impediment to peace.

This is why even an Israeli Foreign Minister admitted that if he were Palestinian, he would have rejected Israel’s so-called “generous” peace offer of July 2000.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839045415657669021

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Gaza Notifications@gazanotice

In the courtyard of Nasser Medical Complex, ambulances bombed by Israel are displayed as evidence of a war crime.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1838884422281580674

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The drama of our era isn’t just that the West is led by psychopaths who are marching us to the apocalypse, but that they’ve succeeded in demobilising politics to such an extent that this is happening in the absence of virtual any public resistance…

Irudia

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Medvedev:

The event we’ve all been waiting for…

Russia’s president has outlined approaches to updating our country’s nuclear doctrine. The main changes are as follows:

1. Aggression against Russia by a non-nuclear State, but with the support or participation of a nuclear-armed country, will be considered a joint attack. It is clear to everyone which countries we are talking about.

2. To the joy of Poland and numerous NATO pygmies, equivalent nuclear protection will be established for our closest ally, Belarus.

3. Under certain conditions, a massive launch of enemy air power, including airplanes, missiles, and UAVs, resulting in a violation of our border may be justification for the use of nuclear weapons. Something to reflect upon for not only the rotten neo-Nazi regime, but also all the enemies of Russia who are pushing the world towards a nuclear catastrophe.

It is clear that every situation that could constitute grounds for a nuclear response should be evaluated in conjunction with other factors, and any decision to use nuclear weapons must be made by the Supreme Commander-in-Chief. However, this change in our country’s guidelines for using nuclear weapons, in and of itself, may cool the ardor of those of our opponents who have not yet lost their sense of self-preservation. As for the dim-witted, only the Roman maxim remains: caelo tonantem credidimus Jovem Regnare …”

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Al Jazeera English@AJEnglish

The US’s top diplomat Antony Blinken is facing calls for his resignation over allegations he lied to Congress about Israeli forces blocking US aid for besieged Gaza.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1838999264640331851

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Yes

Aipamena

PeterSweden@PeterSweden7

ira. 25

George Soros is buying 200 radio stations.

Bill Gates had donated over $319 million to the mainstream media, including the BBC. You have to realize something. The media is propaganda.

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Whitehall officials and ministers connive with the BBC and the press during wars, to promote ‘propaganda’ to domestic and foreign audiences, declassified files show.

‘Propaganda material will need to be disseminated’

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Chay Bowes@BowesChay

“Aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state, is proposed to be considered as their joint attack on the Russian Federation.”

Vladimir Putin describes changes to Russias “Nuclear Doctrine” agreed today.

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ADAM@AdameMedia

Never forget.

Irudia

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Owen Jones@owenjonesjourno

This raises bigger much questions than clothesgate.

Labour got a £4m donations from a hedge fund linked to fossil fuels in the Cayman Islands, timed to avoid it being reported before election day.

They just appointed a climate envoy… directly linked to the hedge fund.

Aipamena

Interesting. Labour’s new climate envoy Rachel Kyte is co-chair of climate advisory board of Quadrature Climate Foundation, linked to Quadrature hedge fund based in the Cayman Islands which invests in fossil fuel firms. Quadrature gave Labour £4m on 28 May, at the start of the election campaign, a fact which only emerged a week ago:

https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/20

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The algorithm won’t like this one

We know who the enemy of peace is. And unfortunately, he has a name. He’s Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu!”

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839141073152532501

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Remember when Israeli terrorists dressed up as doctors and executed teenagers in a hospital bed?

To be clear this is a war crime that is punishable by execution. And the irony is they accused Hamas of militarising hospitals.

Irudia

Irudia

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Pelham@Resist_05

After two assassination attempts by white Americans, Trump says we have to blow up Iran and it kill 92 MILLION IRANIANS… to keep *him safe*…

This babbling old fool should be in a MENTAL INSTITUTION, not in the Oval Office.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839086995991409018

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DD Geopolitics@DD_Geopolitics

?￰゚ヌᄌ?￰゚ヌᄎ Ukraine is a private military company of the U.S., funded by 50 Western countries, according to Serbian sniper Dejan Berić (callsign “Deki”), who joined the DPR forces back in 2014.

Irudia

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JUST IN: ?￰゚ヌᄎ Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says the situation in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip merely confirms that the US as a “problem solver” only exacerbates conflicts across the world.

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Look at this graph to see how Gaza has changed everything.

Israel is emboldened to carry out indiscriminate slaughter in Lebanon after almost a year of live-streamed genocide—backed fully by the U.S.—with zero consequences.

Irudia

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BREAKING: President Putin introduced the amendments of Russia’s nuclear doctrine under which:

☢️Aggression against Russia by any non-nuclear state, but with the participation or support of a nuclear state, will be perceived as their joint attack on the Russian Federation.

☢️Russia will consider the possibility of usage nuclear weapon after receiving reliable information about the massive launch of means of aerospace attack, including strategic or tactical aircraft, cruise missiles, drones, hypersonic and other aircraft.

Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons in the event of aggression against Belarus, as a part of the Union state.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1838997806373048374

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Jordan’s King Abdullah tells the UN that to ignore Israel’s crimes against humanity is to destroy international law:

In the absence of global accountability repeated horrors are normalised, threatening to create a future where anything is permitted.”

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839034732656439694

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Rania@umyaznemo

From day 1, the Zionists goal has been very clear : land theft, displacement, occupation, suppression, oppression, and ethnic cleansing.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1838902276208914595

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BREAKING :

At the UN today, the President of Honduras accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinian people, and urged that ‘Lebanon must not become another Gaza Strip.’

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1838997278431842326

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JUST IN: ?￰゚ヌᄎ Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says BRICS countries must play a role in reforming the current state of the world

Bideoa:https://x.com/i/status/1838975545234632910

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Khalissee@Kahlissee

This is how Barbaric Zionism is.

Israeli Forces deliberately stopped paramedics from saving a life and then…they ATTACKED the patient.

Palestinian lives are meaningless for them.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1839053883370336618

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Green Party presidential candidate @DrJillStein

@AOC, who accused Stein of “showing up once every four years” with no serious plan for change.

“We don’t go away between presidential elections. What goes away is the media coverage,” says Stein

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1838939618953113837

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Kerry Burgess@KerryBurgess

Just stop America. Stop killing people in other countries.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1838673306955976790

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Robert Martin @Robert_Martin72

For fucks sake!?!

? Israel sent a truck filled with the decomposed bodies of nearly 90 Palestinians to Gaza on Wednesday, which the territory’s health ministry refused to bury, citing Israel’s failure to discloses details about who they are and where they were killed.

The Palestinian Ministry of Health, which has worked tirelessly to treat wounded Palestinians and get humanitarian assistance into the enclave, said in a statement that it was refusing to accept the latest arrivals after the Israeli military sent them without providing “their names, ages, genders, or the areas in which they were killed and kidnapped”.

Iyad Qadeeh, a media official at the Ministry of Health, said that Wednesday’s arrival was the fifth time that authorities had received a truck load of unidentified corpses.

Read more: https://middleeasteye.net/news/israel-se

Irudia

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Dimitri Lascaris@dimitrilascaris

Israel’s genocidal regime has killed two Canadians in Lebanon. Based on prior experience, Canada’s government will do absolutely nothing to hold Israel accountable and will continue to ships weapons to Israel. Israel has a license to kill Canadians. #Lebanon #cdnpoli

Irudia

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Maria Zakharova:

Borrell: “If Ukrainians “surrender to the violation of the integrity of their state”, this will become a “good example” for the aggressor, who will want to “repeat this again and again”

A final question for Borrell: does this logic apply to Serbia, from which the West cut off the historical territory of Kosovo?

We are waiting together with the Serbs for a response from Brussels.”

Irudia

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Red Collective@RedCollectiveUK

Fucking hell.

In this 1986 interview, @netanyahu claims it is “terrorism” to kill the “wives and children” of enemy officers or other civilians. Since 7/10 alone, that very same Nazi has led the slaughter of 50,000+ Palestinians.

By his own definition, Netanyahu is a terrorist.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/1838955761579254123

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PRIORITY: FOR THE PRESIDENT: Exactly 20 months ago we Veteran Intelligence Professionals warned you it would not be possible to BOTH defeat Russia in Ukraine AND avoid WWIII. Putin made that clear yesterday. Please ponder this, as you prepare for Zelensky.

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Leopards vs. the Russian Bear

(https://original.antiwar.com/veteran-intelligence-professionals-for-sanity2/2023/01/25/leopards-vs-the-russian-bear/)

by Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity Posted on January 26, 2023

ALERT MEMORANDUM FOR: The President
FROM: VETERAN INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS FOR SANITY (VIPS)
SUBJECT: Leopards vs. the Russian Bear

Decisions in an Intelligence Vacuum

Dear President Biden:

We are aware that the just-reported decision to send Abrams tanks to Ukraine responds to Berlin’s coy insistence that “you go first.” Now Leopard tanks from Germany and other allies will also be sent. Trouble is that those few that make it into Ukraine will be late to the party.

What your advisers should have told you is that none of the newly promised weaponry will stop Russia from defeating what’s left of the Ukrainian army. If you have been told otherwise, replace your intelligence and military advisers with competent professionals – the sooner the better.

Poorly Served

It has long been clear that you have not been adequately briefed on two issues of major importance: (1) the war in Ukraine, and (2) the strategic partnership between Russia and China. We chose this genre of “ALERT MEMORANDUM” because we want to prepare you for a major shock. Russia’s winter offensive is about to roll over the Ukrainian army. At that point, unwelcome choices will have to be made. Off-ramps must be sought – again, the sooner the better.

Your intelligence advisers seem blissfully unaware of what is coming. Still less do they appear able to offer you options to head off further disaster for Ukraine without still more dangerous escalation. As for China, the partnership with Russia is now so close that there is now a risk of a two-front war with two strong nuclear powers strongly supporting each other against the U.S.

Escalation Dominance

President Obama conceded, in a 2016 interview with The Atlantic, that Russia has escalation dominance in Ukraine, adding that Ukraine is a core interest of Russia but not of the US Thus, he warned, “we have to be very clear about what our core interests are and what we are willing to go to war for.” Moreover, Obama’s warning came several years before the Russia-China entente took the solid shape it enjoys today.

Several of us undersigned were intelligence officers during Vietnam 55 years ago, when the Vietnamese Communists mounted a fierce country-wide offensive at Tet (late Jan. – early Feb. 1968). Earlier, smiley-face intelligence reporting from the military in Saigon left policymakers totally unprepared for the debacle. Recrimination was so widespread and bitter that President Johnson announced the following month that he would not run again for president.

VIPs’ Record on ‘Fixed’ (Corrupted) Intelligence

Twenty years ago, before the US/UK attack on Iraq, we warned President George W. Bush repeatedly that ‘justification’ for such an attack was based on false intelligence. (See, for example, “Today’s Speech By Secretary Powell At The UN” and “Iraq Intel: Forgery, Hyperbole, Half-Truth.”) Five years later, the Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller, releasing the bipartisan conclusions of a 5-year committee investigation, summed them up with these words:

“In making the case for war, the [Bush] Administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when in reality it was unsubstantiated, contradicted, or even non-existent.”

Nonexistent’! Ponder that. Manufactured, fraudulent. In our Feb. 5, 2003 Memo on Secretary of State Colin Powell’s speech, we warned that the unintended consequences of an attack on Iraq were likely to be catastrophic. We also urged President Bush to widen the circle of his advisers “beyond those clearly bent on a war for which we see no compelling reason.”

President Biden, please consider widening your circle now. Bring in new blood, with proven experience and the ability to weigh things dispassionately and understand the perspectives of other countries.

Ukraine: No Compelling Reason

The issuances of your current top intelligence advisers rival those of Bush’s and Cheney’s fixers in disingenuousness. Their statements run from dishonest to naïve (see below). They betray a woeful lack of understanding of Russia’s strategic concerns and its determination to use its formidable military power to meet perceived external threats. The statements also reflect abysmal ignorance regarding how US behavior has led willy-nilly to a profound shift in the world correlation of forces in favor of Russia and China – to include making them military allies in all but name.

CIA Director William Burns was to be the proverbial ‘adult in the room.’ And yet we hear him promoting the notion that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was “unprovoked.” Burns was US ambassador 15 years ago when Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the US what to expect if Ukraine became a member of NATO. To his credit – back then – in a Feb. 1, 2008 cable to Washington titled “Nyet Means Nyet: NATO Enlargement Redlines,” Ambassador Burns reported:

NATO enlargement, particularly to Ukraine, remains ‘an emotional and neuralgic’ issue for Russia, but strategic policy considerations also underlie strong opposition to NATO membership … . “In Ukraine, these include fears that the issue could potentially split the country in two, leading to violence or even, some claim, civil war, which would force Russia to decide whether to intervene.”

So much for “unprovoked.”

Intelligence Illusions

A review of statements made last month by CIA Director William Burns and National Intelligence Director Avril Haines turned up the following:

On Ukraine:

“What we see, at least at CIA, is a reduced tempo in fighting … as winter sets in. The Russian military is badly battered now.” (WB)

“We’re seeing kind of a reduced tempo … and sort of a slow-down … And we expect that likely to be what we see in the coming months. … And then once you get past winter … what will the counteroffensive look like … we actually have a fair amount of skepticism as to whether or not the Russians will be, in fact, prepared for that. … I think more optimistically for the Ukrainians in that timeframe.” (AH)

“We see shortages of ammunition … They [the Russians] are quite quickly [burning through military stockpiles of munition] … I mean it’s pretty extraordinary and our own sense is that they are not capable of indigenously producing what they are expending at this stage … their precision munitions are running out much faster.” (AH)

On China:

“Well, I think Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin have formed a pretty close partnership over recent years. A few weeks before Putin launched his invasion in Ukraine, when they met at the Winter Olympics in Beijing, they proclaimed a friendship without limits. There actually are some limits to that partnership … (WB)

Comment: In VIPs’s view, more important by far is that Putin got XI Jinping’s tacit approval for invading Ukraine when the Beijing Olympics were over. Whatever “limits” Burns has in mind pale in significance compared with XI’s willingness to give Putin, essentially, a waiver on China’s bedrock Westphalian principle of non-interference.

“China continues to play sort of both sides of this game, right? I mean they are continuing to work with Russia on a variety of things. They continue to do things like have meetings. … We don’t see anything that is determinative of military assistance. But there are things on the margins that concern us.” (AH)

Comment: On the margins? The tectonic shift to a two-against-one in the triangular superpower correlation of forces is deemed “on the margins” – not worth mentioning?

Putin: This Is Simply Crazy

Speaking on Oct. 27 at the Valdai International Discussion Club, President Putin questioned the sanity of those who would “spoil relations with China at the same time they are supplying billions-worth of weapons to Ukraine in a fight against Russia.

Frankly, I do not know why they are doing this. … Are they sane? It seems that this runs completely counter to common sense and logic … This is simply crazy. … Such irrational actions are rooted in arrogance and a sense of impunity.”

An Off-Ramp on Ukraine?

Also at Valdai on Oct. 27, Putin dropped a broad hint that, as the Russian army moves west, Moscow might agree to halt before taking Odessa, in return for concessions from US/NATO/Ukraine. A coy Hungarian journalist told Putin he was planning to visit Odessa. “Should I apply for a Russian or Ukrainian visa two years from now?” he asked.

We wonder if your advisers have told you of these remarks by Putin in response. (A missed opportunity?)

Odessa can be an apple of discord, a symbol of conflict resolution, and a symbol of finding some kind of solution to everything that is happening now. It is not a question of Russia. We have said many times that we are ready to negotiate … But the leaders of the Kiev regime have decided not to continue negotiations with the Russian Federation. It is true that the final word belongs to those who implement this policy in Washington. It is very easy for them to solve this problem: to send the appropriate signal to Kiev that they should change their position and seek a peaceful solution to these problems. And that will do it.

We don’t think Russia wants to occupy all, perhaps not even most, of Ukraine. In return for flexibility on the part of Washington/Kiev, we suggest the Russians might consider stopping their advance at the Dniepr River and try to arrange talks to create some kind of demilitarized zone from Odessa northward roughly along the Dniepr. This would leave Ukraine with access to the sea. It may not be too late to follow up on Putin’s late-October hint at Valdai. What’s to lose?

All possible off-ramps should be explored seriously. The alternatives are all quite grim.

Bottom Line

Russia is not only determined to prevail but has the means to prevail in Ukraine – the infusion of arms form the West notwithstanding. Paraphrasing President Obama, Russia sees an existential threat in Ukraine, while Ukraine poses no serious threat to the US It is a fact of life that nuclear powers do not tolerate existential threats on their border. And there is zero evidence to support the charge that “after Ukraine, Putin will go after other European countries.” The old Soviet Union is dead and gone. R.I.P.

Nor can Putin be dismissed as paranoid. He has heard from the lips of US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin:

“One of the US’s goals in Ukraine is to see a weakened Russia.The US is ready to move heaven and earth to help Ukraine win the war against Russia.”

Can the US achieve Austin’s goal? Not without using nuclear weapons.

Thus, there is a large conceptual – and exceptionally dangerous – disconnect. Simply stated, it is not possible to “win the war against Russia” AND avoid WWIII. It is downright scary that Defense Secretary Austin may think it possible. In any case, the Kremlin has to assume he thinks so. It is a very dangerous delusion.

FOR THE STEERING GROUP,
VETERAN INTELLIGENCE PROFESSIONALS FOR SANITY (VIPs)

  • Richard H. Black, Senator of Virginia, 13th District; Colonel US Army (ret.); former Chief, Criminal Law Division, Office of the Judge Advocate General, the Pentagon (associate VIPS)
  • Bogdan Dzakovic, former Team Leader of Federal Air Marshals and Red Team, FAA Security, (ret.) (associate VIPS)
  • Graham E. Fuller, Vice-Chair, National Intelligence Council (ret.)
  • Philip Giraldi, CIA, Operations Officer (ret.)
  • Matthew Hoh, former Capt., USMC, Iraq and Foreign Service Officer, Afghanistan (associate VIPS)
  • Larry C. Johnson, former CIA and State Department Counter Terrorism officer
  • John Kiriakou, former CIA Counterterrorism Officer and former senior investigator, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  • Karen Kwiatkowski, former Lt. Col., US Air Force (ret.), at Office of Secretary of Defense watching the manufacture of lies on Iraq, 2001-2003
  • Ray McGovern, former US Army infantry/intelligence officer & CIA analyst; CIA Presidential briefer (ret.)
  • Elizabeth Murray, former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for the Near East, National Intelligence Council & CIA political analyst (ret.)
  • Pedro Israel Orta, former CIA and Intelligence Community (Inspector General) officer
  • Todd E. Pierce, MAJ, US Army Judge Advocate (ret.)
  • Scott Ritter, former MAJ, USMC; former UN Weapons Inspector, Iraq
  • Coleen Rowley, FBI Special Agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel (ret.)
  • Lawrence Wilkerson, Colonel (USA, ret.), Distinguished Visiting Professor, College of William and Mary (associate VIPS)
  • Sarah G. Wilton, CDR, USNR, (ret.); Defense Intelligence Agency (ret.)
  • Robert Wing, former Foreign Service Officer (associate VIPS)
  • Ann Wright, retired U.S. Army reserve colonel and former U.S. diplomat who resigned in 2003 in opposition to the Iraq War

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