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Mohamad Safa@mhdksafa

Stop saying history will judge them, judge Israel now. With ICC judges.

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Kenneth Roth@KenRoth

International Criminal Court judges refuse to be bow to Trump’s sanctions as he tries to exempt Israeli and American officials from the rule of law: “We are not going to be intimidated.”

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The Invisible Enemy

A War With No Sides

The world is not how you view it. Israel armed the enemy it now fights; the real reason for America‘a strikes is bigger than you can imagine.

For decades, a clear blueprint has guided Israel’s approach to the Middle East: the creation of a dominant Jewish state encompassing vastly expanded territory, referred to as “Greater Israel”, by weakening, fragmenting, and neutralizing surrounding Arab states. This vision is not fringe speculation; it is articulated in explicit policy documents and public revelations spanning from the 1980s to the post 9/11 era.

The foundational text is Oded Yinon’s 1982 article “A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties.”Yinon, a former Israeli Foreign Ministry official, argued that Israel’s survival required the dissolution of existing Arab states into smaller, ethnically and religiously divided husks of their former nations. He described Egypt as a “corpse” to be dismembered, Jordan as ripe for Palestinian takeover, Iraq as a prime target for internal religious and tribal fragmentation, for fomenting division and hostility among Shiite, Sunni, Kurdish, Syria as vulnerable to ethnic breakup, and Lebanon already in chaos as a model to be followed. The goal was to transform the region into a collection of weak mini-states unable to challenge Israel, allowing it to emerge as the unchallenged regional superpower with new borders “from the Nile to the Euphrates.”

This line of thinking was formalized for Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996 with the policy paper “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm”, drafted by a study group led by Jewish American neocons like Richard Perle, Douglas Feith, David Wurmser, and others with the Project for the New American Century (PNAC). Think about that for a moment: American government officials, from the Bush administration, writing policy for an Israeli Prime Minister. Ask yourself: where does their loyalty belong and who were they really working for, America or Israel? Written for Netanyahu as he assumed office, the report urged Israel to abandon the Oslo peace process, reject land-for-peace formulas, and instead pursue aggressive regime-change policies against hostile neighbors, starting with Syria and Iraq, while cultivating alliances with Jordan and Turkey. It emphasized preemptive military action and leveraging U.S. support to reshape the region in Israel’s favor.

https://www.dougfeith.com/docs/Clean_Break.pdf

Four years later, in September 2000, the same PNAC network produced a second major policy document titled “Rebuilding America’s Defenses: Strategy, Forces, and Resources For a New Century.” This report advocated for sustained American global military dominance, with emphasis on expanding a long-term U.S. force posture in the Middle East. It called for a broad “revolution in military affairs” where they blatantly said: “the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor.”

The full report is available here:

https://resistir.info/livros/rebuilding_americas_defenses.pdf

Take a moment to consider the chronology here. Both of these foundational papers, the 1996 “A Clean Break” strategy written directly for Netanyahu and the 2000 “Rebuilding America’s Defenses” report, were produced before the attacks of September 11.

The entire sequence of wars, beginning with Iraq had already been written on paper years earlier. The same group of neocons then followed up the year before 9/11 with a call for a profound and “revolutionary” transformation of U.S. military posture in the Middle East, (ostensibly fighting Israel’s enemies for them), a transformation they noted would likely proceed slowly unless accelerated by a major “catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor.”

The Iraq war, and the wars that followed, were already planned on paper before 9/11.

*The implications and connections outlined above extend far deeper than the scope of this article permits, but if you wish to pursue the thread further, take some time to examine the documented activities and circumstances surrounding ‘Urban Moving Systems’, the “Dancing Israelis” and the family history of Michael Chertoff, who set them free.

The most public revelation came from retired U.S. General Wesley Clark in 2007. Clark recounted being shown a classified Pentagon memo shortly after 9/11 outlining plans to “take out seven countries in five years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing it off with Iran.” The sequence closely mirrored the Yinon and Clean Break frameworks: dismantle Arab/Muslim states one by one, culminating in Iran as the final obstacle to unchallenged Israeli dominance in the Middle East.

Despite this aggressive roadmap, Israel has a documented history of arming or indirectly supporting terrorist groups and adversaries it publicly condemns. It is well known the CIA and MI6 orchestrated the coup that overthrew democratically elected Prime Minister Mohammed Mosaddegh, (who had nationalized the country’s oil industry), and consolidated absolute power into the hands of the Shah. The Shah then became one of Israel’s primary oil suppliers, while entering a 50/50 joint venture with Israel in the Eilat-Ashkelon trans-Israeli pipeline. He also maintained discreet Israeli military and intelligence ties, with Mossad helping to establish and train Iran’s SAVAK secret police. After decades in power, the Shah publicly criticized the influence of the Jewish lobby in the U.S. with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes, and his usefulness had run its course. He was overthrown just three years later. How convenient. After the “Islamic Revolution”, Israel nationalized Iran’s 50% stake in the Eilat-Ashkelon pipeline company, taking 100% of the profits ever since.

Just one year after the 1979 “Islamic Revolution”, even before the Iran-Contra affair, Israel supplied Iran with weapons during the Iran-Iraq War, to prevent an Iraqi victory that could threaten Israel. Israel has also tolerated, funded or armed terrorist groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS factions, mujahideen networks linked to Al Qaeda, and even Hamas, (initially cultivated as a counterweight to secular PLO). Always with a stated justification, of course. These actions follow a classic divide and rule pattern: arm one enemy to weaken another, then manage the resulting chaos.

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP90-00965R000504340006-3.pdf

Adding even more layers to this apparent contradiction is the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), finalized in 2015. Under the deal, Iran was permitted to retain its uranium enrichment program and infrastructure, including the ability to stockpile and import hundreds of tons of natural uranium while the agreement was in force. The deal included explicit sunset clauses that began expiring after 10 to 15 years, meaning many of the most restrictive limits on centrifuge numbers, enrichment levels (capped at 3.67% for the duration), and stockpile sizes would automatically lift, allowing Iran to legally resume advanced enrichment and potentially race toward weapons-grade material without violating the agreement. Additionally, the JCPOA delivered massive sanctions relief estimated in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars over time, freeing up Iranian oil revenues and frozen assets that could be redirected toward any priority the regime chose. Compounding the financial windfall was the 2016 delivery of $1.7 billion in cash (euros, Swiss francs, and other currencies physically stacked on wooden pallets) as a settlement of a pre-1979 arms deal debt; this cash component was explained away because banking sanctions made wire transfers impossible, but Obama literally had the presidential authority to temporarily override sanctions and wire the money directly, which he had already done before. The only reason cash would have been sent instead is because it would be impossible to audit and trace where it ultimately went. Couldn’t the funds return in the form of political donations or massive donations to institutes and foundations? This all coincided precisely with the release of American hostages, (a mere cover), EU sanctions relief and the implementation of the JCPOA itself. To make matters worse, the Iran deal was kept from Congress and placed at the highest level of classification. Meaning, a U.S. Senator could not review the deal but other foreign powers could.

On top of all this, Iran also received uranium through the Uranium One scandal. Uranium One, a Canadian company with mining rights in the U.S., was sold to Rosatom, Russia’s state owned atomic energy corporation. The deal required approvals from U.S. agencies under the Obama administration, including the State Department, then led by Hillary Clinton. During the approval process, the Clinton Foundation received donations from individuals and entities linked to Uranium One and Rosatom. All of this happened under the Obama administration.

These provisions stand in stark contrast to President Obama’s simultaneous record of providing Israel with more military aid than any previous American president, a level of support that continued and was later surpassed under Biden, (widely known to be a senile puppet of Obama.) Obama is the one who raised annual aid to Israel to $3.8 billion a year. Obama’s chief of staff during this period was Rahm Emanuel, the son of a former Irgun fighter, (the Irgun being the Zionist paramilitary Jewish terrorist organization active in the 1940s, that was later absorbed into the IDF). This creates a profound surface-level contradiction: an administration that publicly positioned itself as restraining Iran’s nuclear ambitions through diplomacy was simultaneously empowering Iran with natural uranium access, future breakout pathways via sunset clauses, and billions in sanctions relief and cash, all while extending unprecedented military backing to Israel and placing a direct descendant of Irgun lineage at the center of White House decision-making.

The optics of Obama functioning as a pro-Iran asset versus the greatest friend Israel has ever had, in terms of aid, become difficult to reconcile without a deeper framework, one which considers that public alliances and enmities are largely false theatre and really controlled by the same hidden power structure. This framework would see the same hidden hand enabled Iran’s nuclear proliferation by laundering it through the Obama administration, which was portrayed as a Muslim Brotherhood aligned Iran asset, thereby keeping its hands clean.

Yet despite all of this Machiavellian scheming, Iran does possess weapons-usable material today. As of the IAEA’s last verification, Iran held 440.9 kg of uranium enriched up to 60% U-235 (432.9 kg confirmed). At 60%, this is highly enriched uranium, classified by the IAEA as “direct-use” for nuclear explosives. Physics modeling shows as little as 40–60 kg of 60% uranium metal can produce a crude implosion designs, too big to fit on a missile, but mobile enough that it could be delivered with a storage container. The step to 90% weapons-grade is quick. Iran’s advanced cascades at Fordow could yield enough for one bomb in under a week and multiple in 1–3 weeks. Assembling a functional weapon from the existing 60% stockpile: 3–8 months. President Trump’s Operation Midnight Hammer strikes entombed most of it at Isfahan tunnels; ongoing Operation Epic Fury targets remnants, but the material remains buried, unmonitored, and in Iranian hands.

https://www.iaea.org/sites/default/files/documents/gov2025-50.pdf

This reality directly contradicts Iran’s official religious and civilian assurances. The now deceased Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was in power since 1989 has long cited a personal ‘fatwa’ (religious edict) declaring nuclear weapons ‘haram’ (forbidden under Islam.) However, the fatwa only became publicly emphasized immediately after Iran’s structured nuclear weapons program, known as the AMAD Plan, was halted in late 2003 under intense international pressure following the U.S. invasion of Iraq and IAEA scrutiny. The AMAD program itself operated under Khamenei’s leadership and included warhead design, high-explosive testing, and integration with ballistic missiles. It was not shut down because of the fatwa; the fatwa emerged as the public narrative only after external forces forced the halt.

Iran’s stated justification for producing 60% enriched uranium, that it is needed for nuclear propulsion in future ships or submarines, also fails basic scrutiny. Iran has no operational nuclear-powered naval vessels, no prototypes under construction, no announced shipyard conversion plans, and no publicly shared reactor blueprints or fuel specifications for such a program. The claim was first made in 2021, shortly after a suspected sabotage incident at Natanz, and has been repeated without any technical follow through. No non-nuclear weapon state has ever pursued 60% enrichment solely for naval propulsion without clear evidence of an actual program. The only comparable case is Brazil, which has a declared naval nuclear submarine project with actual prototypes and uses far lower enrichment levels while remaining fully transparent with the IAEA. In all fairness, Iran has been publicly cooperative with the IAEA over the last decade, (unlike Israel, who has never signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty), but Iran’s enrichment to 60% far exceeds any credible civilian naval need and is well into the range that provides over 90% of the separative work required to reach weapons-grade material.

Iran’s assurance that the entire program remains exclusively peaceful and compliant with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty does not hold up when weighed against the full context: the AMAD nuclear weapons program halted only by external pressure, the conveniently timed fatwa, the absence of any tangible naval propulsion infrastructure despite years of claims, the highly enriched uranium at 60%, (which is completely unnecessary for power reactors at 3–5% or even advanced research reactors), the massive stockpile accumulation far beyond civilian requirements, and the documented history of concealment and undeclared sites. When this full picture is taken into account, along with the Yinon/Clean Break expansionist roadmap and Israel’s own history of arming terrorist groups and adversaries as a pretext for war, Obama blatantly aiding Iran’s nuclear weapon’s program, the civilian narrative Iran offers appears as diplomatic cover rather than genuine intent. These are the same assurances JFK rejected from Israel, claims that their nuclear program was merely for “peaceful purposes only”, as he repeatedly demanded inspections.

Even as Israel’s long-term strategic documents reveal a calculated plan for regional hegemony that has unfolded over decades, with Iran as its final target, the fact remains that Iran possesses a very real and immediate nuclear capability. This is not a Bush neocon WMD lie. The 60% enriched uranium stockpile exists, it has no plausible civilian justification, and Iran’s openly hostile posture toward the United States cannot be dismissed. While Israel has a documented history of arming adversaries and terrorist groups when it suited its divide and rule objectives, that history does not negate the present danger posed by the terrorist groups or adversaries Israel, (and the CIA), has armed or funded, including Iran. The threat of Iran’s nuclear program is genuine and required action, even if the larger geopolitical chessboard is far more complex than the public narrative suggests. It’s almost never what it seems to be on the surface.

Making sense of these layered contradictions requires stepping outside conventional surface level analysis. One needs only to look at the Rothschild family’s well documented history of funding both sides of major wars to begin grasping the deeper dynamic at play. This raises an uncomfortable question for Americans: where exactly does that leave us in this conflict? Many voters supported President Trump in a landslide precisely because he promised to end endless wars and keep the United States out of new Middle East entanglements. History shows he mostly followed through on that pledge, ending multiple conflicts and insisting on direct negotiations with Iran, even as Netanyahu openly opposed the effort. When Israel launched strikes against Iran in June, derailing those ongoing talks, President Trump allowed the two sides to fight for twelve days, until Israel was nearly out of air-defense missiles and facing an existential crisis. Only then did he intervene, striking Iran’s nuclear facilities and forcing a ceasefire.

What many still do not fully appreciate is the nuclear dimension that makes this situation uniquely dangerous. Israel possesses an undeclared nuclear arsenal, built in part with material stolen from the United States, a fact corroborated in recently declassified JFK files. President Kennedy had been actively working to halt Israel’s nuclear program and to force the ‘AZC’ Israel lobby, (which later became AIPAC), to register as a foreign agent. He was assassinated before either effort could succeed.

Declassified reports from the CIA, FBI, and GAO confirm that 200–600 pounds of highly enriched uranium disappeared from the NUMEC plant in Apollo, Pennsylvania, in the mid 1960s. The facility’s owner, Zalman Shapiro, had deep Zionist ties and active contracts with Israel. In 1976, CIA Deputy Director Carl Duckett concluded that the missing highly enriched uranium had been diverted to Israel’s nuclear weapons program.

Visits to by Israeli officials, including Rafi Eitan, (who later ran the Jonathan Pollard Israeli spy operation), immediately raised red flags. Circumstantial evidence, including soil samples and NUMEC’s unusually heavy losses, pointed to theft or diversion.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon later hinted at their underlying protocol when he stated, “We are much more important than Americans think. We can take the Middle East with us whenever we go.” A strategic advisory group known as Project Daniel, which counseled Sharon, openly discussed enhancing deterrence through nuclear mutually assured destruction, the doctrine commonly known as the “Samson Option,” which is a term reportedly coined by David Ben-Gurion and other early Israeli leaders. Whether people are prepared to confront it or not, this is the reality President Trump has to navigate. And it extends far beyond the Samson Option itself: not only has the global mafia controlling this foreign entity entrenched itself into the highest echelons of U.S. institutional power, but Israeli companies have deeply embedded themselves inside America’s critical infrastructure, from cyber systems to communications, energy grids, finance, and ports.

It is essential to recognize that, in an era when nuclear weapons have rendered direct kinetic conflict between major powers virtually impossible, statecraft has evolved into the domain of information operations and irregular warfare. If two nuclear armed nations that appear to be allies are in fact engaged in a deeper, clandestine struggle, normal diplomatic relations and public posturing would be deliberately maintained as camouflage. Governments have historically used backchannels in different situations, most famously the one President Kennedy employed with the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis, to de-escalate between openly hostile adversaries while preserving plausible deniability. That was a government-to-government channel between declared opponents. What is unprecedentedis the use of unofficial online forums as a direct backchannel from U.S. military intelligence to the American public, about an internal struggle against a hidden power structure. This backchannel did happen, and it was the first of its kind in American history. It was as unprecedented as a populist outsider like President Trump being elected, and it happened during his first administration. It operated through anonymous online platforms, employing cryptic, deniable messaging consistent with established psychological operations doctrine. This approach bypassed compromised corporate media, reached a large enough segment of the population to disseminate information irregularly, and avoided any breach of classification statutes. That backchannel was Q.

Q has been shown through hundreds of documented, mathematically impossible coincidences, (known as “Q proofs”), to have coordinated directly with President Trump. It functioned as an information campaign to convey messages and context that a sitting president could not state openly, for reasons that should seem obvious. Q was a communication vector originating from Military Intelligence and the NSA, explicitly targeting the CIA, Mossad, and the Rothschild financial-intelligence structure that controls them. This explains why Edward Snowden was activated to attack only the NSA, despite spending the majority of his career at the CIA. Ask yourself: why leak information exclusively about the NSA after only a brief time there, yet never target any CIA programs despite spending the majority of his career inside that agency? Because just as we became more trackable and surveilled, so did they.

Snowden was paraded by the establishment media as a hero and continually trotted out as a featured speaker, while Julian Assange was ruthlessly villainized and simply disappeared from coverage once the news cycle moved on. This should tell you everything.

Meanwhile, the international manhunt for Edward Snowden was led by the NSA’s secretive elite counterintelligence unit, the “Q Group.”

https://www.cnn.com/videos/bestoftv/2013/06/11/lead-manhunt-for-nsa-leaker-edward-snowden.cnn

This detail was publicly reported by CNN in 2013, a full four years before the first Q drops ever appeared. When the Q operation later surfaced, CNN had to then awkwardly deny Q’s legitimacy, despite having already confirmed their existence years earlier.

It is ultimately up to each reader to examine the material and decide for themselves whether Q was benevolent or nefarious. What cannot be disputed is that dismissing it outright without personal study is to accept secondhand narratives rather than making your own assessment based on the primary source itself.

In other words: drawing conclusions about Q based on blind denial, assumptions, or simply parroting the opinions of others — without ever studying the material for yourself — is the same sheep mentality as face diaper liberals.

The intention of this article is to make sense of unfolding events through the framework laid out in the Q posts. Its aim is not to prove Q’s authenticity; there’s already a vast body of evidence establishing that elsewhere. For one compelling Q proof example, check this out:

https://x.com/kagdrogo/status/1828590195035512912?s=46

For a short film walking through a bunch more, see here:

https://x.com/realmrtruthbomb/status/2010906630658134020?s=46

The fact is, because Q was a verified backchannel proven to be coordinating directly with President Trump, anyone who has not studied the material remains under-informed about President Trump’s ultimate mission. No matter how familiar one may be with his past associations or current public alignments, especially relating to Israel, any assessment of Trump will remain largely incomplete until the full scope of the Q material and tactics of irregular warfare are taken into account.

People often claim Q is a modern adaptation of “Operation Trust,” a Soviet-era Bolshevik ploy designed to pacify and neutralize dissent. However, this comparison falls apart for those who have thoroughly examined the posts. Rather than serving as a controlled opposition to pacify the base, Q was a catalyst that significantly accelerated the understanding of the overall MAGA movement by heightening public awareness of entrenched global power structures, the New World Order and the Rothschilds’ global banking mafia, the very topics that President Trump is constrained from addressing openly.

Central to this positive effect was the role of Q in fostering widespread engagement in the information war, mobilizing Americans to counter the lies of the establishment, which proved especially effective during the planned fake pandemic and lockdowns. Q repeatedly told people “Now is not the time to be complacent” and “Do not mistake this backchannel [tool] as a means to be complacent.” General Flynn, who the drops said to follow closely, encouraged supporters to move beyond information warfare solely in the digital space and actively participate in the civic process at the local level, including involvement in elections, school boards, city councils, and community governance. This happened on an enormous scale of historic proportions. Q represented a multi-front strategy that mobilized individuals to take concrete actions across various domains, ultimately proving beneficial for humanity by promoting vigilance, participation, and resistance to authoritarian agendas.

The single biggest reason for my unshakable confidence in President Trump, among countless others, is that I’ve known about the coming scamdemic since 2007. I spent over 15 years living in the mountains, learning wilderness survival, and preparing to evade the quarantine camps they had planned for us. Most people still have no idea what Trump stopped from happening: it was never meant to end with temporary lockdowns and an optional vaccine. The majority who only woke up to the NWO in 2020 will never understand, and that includes most of the loudest critics accusing Q of being “Op Trust.” That’s why I collaborated with my friend David Sorensen from StopWorldControl on this documentary explaining how Operation Warp Speed stopped the FEMA depopulation camps:

https://x.com/kagdrogo/status/1852879056800219283?s=46.

Both President Trump and Don Jr. have affirmed this by reposting or liking my posts saying so.

The overarching theme across the Q drops describes a meticulously planned, military intelligence led global take down operation aimed at systematically dismantling a deeply entrenched international control structure. A centuries old global crime syndicate operating under the Rothschild banking mafia, elite blackmail and trafficking operations (exemplified by Epstein), engineered political and social chaos (funded and orchestrated by George Soros), through open border policies, color revolutions, and captured elements within governments and intelligence agencies, including former Saudi alliances with the Clintons, Bush-era neocons, and the Israeli deep state.

Many major world events were foreshadowed by Q in cryptic references that only later became clear after the events transpired. The pattern first became visible in the mass arrests of the 2017 Saudi purge, (a major realignment in which many neocon-aligned Saudi Princes were arrested), and then even more close to home, during Epstein’s arrest. Q referred to this pattern as “future proves past,” a mechanism that served as ongoing verification for those following the posts that the operation was real, coordinated with President Trump, and unfolding through deliberate, phased actions on the world stage. The moves were designed to systematically remove the supporting structures of the global mafia so that the final, most protected piece could eventually be isolated and neutralized without triggering global catastrophe.

“Those who cannot understand that we cannot simply start arresting w/o first ensuring the safety & well-being of the population, shifting the narrative, removing those in DC through resignation to ensure success, defeating ISIS/MS13 to prevent fail-safes, freezing assets to remove network-to-network abilities, kill off COC to prevent top-down comms/org, etc etc. should not be participating in discussions.”

• Excerpt from drop 725

The framework conveyed in the Q posts presents public enemies such as Israel versus Iran or past U.S. administrations versus the so-called “axis of evil” as largely staged theater orchestrated by a hidden power structure centered on Rothschild financial and intel agency control, with Israel serving as its primary geopolitical keystone. The identity of Israel as the keystone is revealed only indirectly, through elusive, roundabout Socratic questions and cryptic references, precisely because openly stating classified data points like this would violate national security statutes, in addition to jeopardizing operational security. But it was conveyed for those who really looked.

For example, in one of the intelligence drops, Q posed a series of direct questions about the Iran nuclear deal. The relevant lines read:

“What if Iran created a classified ‘satellite’ Nuclear facility in Northern Syria?

What if the program never ceased?

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What if U1 material ended up in Syria?

What would be the primary purpose?

SUM OF ALL FEARS.

In the movie, where did the material come from?

What country?”

(Drop #1306, April 30, 2018).

The reader is expected to connect the reference to the film, The Sum of All Fears, in which the nuclear material originates from Israel, (a lost Israeli nuclear bomb dating back to the 1973 Yom Kippur War.) Q immediately followed up with a confirmation in Drop #1307, posted just hours later:

“Knowing what you know now re: Israel disclosure moments ago.

Authentic.”

These drops were posted on the exact same day that Netanyahu held his televised press conference revealing the Mossad-seized Iranian nuclear archive. The inference here would be that Israel, under Netanyahu, (along with Obama, the CIA and the U.S. deep state), covertly assisted Iran in building an undeclared nuclear site on Syrian soil, while publicly railing against Iran’s nuclear program. This would make Israel’s opposition theatrical, a managed “enemy” dynamic designed to justify endless conflict, arms sales, intelligence budgets and geopolitical maneuvering.

The entire public spectacle of Netanyahu’s dramatic archive reveal, Israeli strikes on Syrian/Iranian targets, U.S. pressure through the JCPOA, becomes a scripted distraction. The real game is hidden collaboration that keeps the “threat” alive for both sides.

In this view, Israel publicly condemns and strikes Iranian nuclear targets while covertly assisting the program’s expansion in other areas. The purpose is to create and perpetually maintain a credible threat. This manufactured threat justifies decades of massive U.S. military aid to Israel, ballooning intelligence budgets, repeated regional wars, and heightened domestic surveillance and control measures in both countries. The 60% enriched uranium stockpile, the remnants of the AMAD weapons program, and any hidden satellite sites are not accidents of rogue Iranian ambition; they were deliberately seeded and allowed to develop as part of managed proliferation. The threat must look real enough to sustain the geopolitical justification, but never so real that it escapes control.

The apex of the power structure, as described in the Q posts, is the Rothschild mafia. Q referred to the Rothschilds as having world wide government control. The Rothschilds notably had a central role in establishing the modern state of Israel, including historical influence over both sides of the Balfour Declaration, through banking leverage in the City of London, (exerted on both British and Zionist sides of the deal), and even direct funding of Israel’s Supreme Court building, (complete with overt all-seeing-eye symbolism.) The Rothschild dynasty also had operational control of the Epstein blackmail and intelligence network. Epstein himself told associates “I represent the Rothschilds,” and his web intertwined with senior Israeli officials, Mossad-adjacent figures, and Iran-Contra arms brokers such as Adnan Khashoggi operating in the same network.

Q exposed the Epstein operation years in depth before it entered mainstream awareness, referencing his private island temple, (before most people even knew there was a temple), and specifically mentioned underground torture facilities beneath it, a detail that was later corroborated in declassified Epstein files.

History shows that, despite early interactions with him, President Trump publicly criticized Epstein and his island as early as 2015, well before the story gained widespread attention. Court documents prove Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago years before his arrest. called the police about Epstein and was the only person to enthusiastically help the victims’ prosecutor without needing to be deposed. More importantly, Epstein was arrested during Trump’s administration, along with Ghislaine Maxwell and other high-profile figures associated with these networks, like Jean-Luc Brunel, Peter Nygard, NXIVM network, Clare Bronfman, Keith Raniere, Allison Mack, etc.

Trump’s public reluctance to release the full Epstein files can be understood as a deliberate form of reverse psychology, a modern application of the Streisand Effect designed to generate intense media scrutiny and force the story into the open on the media’s own airtime. Trump has employed this tactic for years: baiting outlets into covering stories they would otherwise avoid. The same networks that had shielded Epstein for decades and dismissed any suggestion of a global trafficking ring connected to the highest levels of power were compelled to provide wall to wall coverage, believing they could weaponize the story against Trump. By appearing to resist disclosure, the narrative received far greater attention than a standard release ever would have.

The result has been significant. Even Trump’s harshest critics on the left are now openly discussing Pizzagate, and it has become a well established and widely accepted fact that Epstein operated as an asset of Israeli intelligence on behalf of the Rothschild financial structure that was instrumental in the founding of Israel itself. What was once dismissed as an “antisemitic conspiracy theory” can no longer be waved away.

This development is especially noteworthy given the unique status Q has assigned to Israel in the operational sequence. In the only direct reference to Israel prior to the drops discussed above, Q stated:

“We are saving Israel for last.

Very specific reason not mentioned a single time.”

Q employed a chess metaphor to delineate the phases of the operation: the king is not captured until every supporting pawn, knight, bishop, and rook has been removed from the board. In this framework, Israel, and the Rothschild axis behind it, functions as the king, the final piece that can only be isolated once the entire supporting structure has been dismantled.

Also notable in that post is the question:

“Do emotions affect critical thinking?

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Add: how do you set the stage [board] re: public opinion [optics]?”

These lines are telling. Criticism of Israeli government policy has long triggered intense emotional reactions and accusations of antisemitism, making rational discussion nearly impossible. This dynamic is compounded by the Rothschild-commissioned Scofield Bible, which reshaped Christian scripture to portray the modern state of Israel as the fulfillment of Biblical prophecy, giving rise to an entirely new religion: Christian Zionism and dispensationalism. Such deeply embedded religious and cultural programming can override logic, which is why shifting public perception on this issue must be handled with extreme care.

We already know Israel’s nuclear Samson Option makes it a uniquely dangerous actor. Dealing with public opinion presents an entirely separate challenge. The last ten years, and the lockdown era in particular, have shown how resistant people can be to information that contradicts long held beliefs. Opinions about Israel are fused with religious conviction and decades of cultural conditioning, making them among the most difficult to reframe. Israel has historically been shielded from criticism through aggressively enforced narratives, allowing its government to operate with impunity in the shadows.

This is likely why Q stated, “they are being forced into the light for all to see.” It is no accident that the events of the last three years have produced the widest disenchantment with the state of Israel in modern history. The blatant stand down order on October 7 and Israel’s murderous campaign in Gaza was so extreme that it shook even some of the most ardent supporters from their unconditional loyalty. At the same time, cutting off U.S. military aid to a nuclear-armed state with a mutually assured destruction doctrine carries catastrophic risks. Tragically, it wasn’t possible to simply cut funding, even during the Gaza massacres, without risking serious global catastrophe. Yet President Trump was ultimately able to finally force a tentative ceasefire in Gaza once again against Netanyahu’s wishes while laying the foundations for a Palestinian state.

Trump’s overt pro-Israel stance can be recognized as a pragmatic political necessity even within the Q drops’ framework of portraying Israel as the “king” saved for last in a global takedown operation. (This is not to suggest President Trump does not support the ordinary Israeli people or regular, non supremacist, Jewish people, as people are not their corrupt governments and religious institutions.) Despite Q’s emphasis on methodical isolation of this final target to avoid catastrophic fallout, Trump’s public alignment serves as essential cover and leverage in the real world U.S. political landscape. A core reason is the composition of his voter base: evangelicals and Protestants, who comprise a significant majority of Republican supporters (estimated at 60-70% in recent polls), hold the deep-rooted, unconditional support for Israel mentioned earlier. Alienating this demographic by distancing from Israeli government leaders could fracture his coalition, erode turnout in key swing states, and undermine grassroots funding and activism critical for elections and policy pushes.

Additionally, Trump requires as much cooperation as possible from the Republican side of an occupied Congress. This is vital for advancing domestic priorities such as immigration reforms, eliminating voter fraud, tax cuts, judicial appointments, etc. Without their buy in, votes on these issues would stall, as seen in historical precedents, even against Trump himself with RussiaGate and the CIA spying on him. Furthermore, diplomacy is with nuclear armed nations is just the reality of the world.

This echoes Q’s warnings about emotions clouding judgement, understanding warfare tactics, strategy and the need for flawless optics until the final battle. In essence, this stance bought time, preserved alliances, and ensured operational space without triggering premature collapse from within the entire coalition side of the system.

Trump himself said he’s been “preparing for this moment his entire life.” In a campaign speech, he also said “in my former life, I was an insider, and i knew what it’s like and i still know what it’s like to be an insider. It’s not bad. Now I’m being punished for leaving the ‘Special Club’ and revealing to you the terrible things that are going on… with our country. Because I used to be part of the club, I’m the only one that can fix it.”

The cabal knew from the moment Trump descended the golden escalator in 2015 that he was a defector from the “Special Club” because he was not selected, not groomed, and not compromised through the normal Epstein style pipelines. That’s why they immediately activated their entire media and government apparatus against him. Who do you think controls the media and government? Declassified files now confirm Epstein’s coordination with establishment politicians’ efforts to sabotage Trump. The files also show Epstein was already conspiring against Trump because he knew Trump was the one who reported him to the authorities.

This public stance was not intended to deceive the Rothschild mafia and their intelligence assets. They who already understood his position and monitored the Q drops in real time, (which was why Q said disinformation is necessary to throw off the enemy.) Instead, it was calibrated to ease and secure the cooperation of lower and mid-tier actors embedded in governments and an occupied Congress.

By projecting unwavering loyalty through a few public concessions and diplomatic breakthroughs, Trump keeps these influential players reassured and compliant on domestic legislation, immigration reform, and anti-fraud initiatives, preventing uncontainable sabotage and unified resistance that could derail the operation before its endgame is complete.

These optics was are upheld all while Trump had Epstein & associates arrested, pulled troops from Syria and cut CIA funding for proxy groups designed to overthrow Assad, (which finally succeeded under Biden), destroyed the cabal’s ISIS proxy, exposed the fake news media propaganda arm of the CIA, secured the border, directly opposing one world government, opposed vax mandates, limiting usury, creditcard rates at 10%, bans BlackRock from buying homes, ended the FEMA quarantine camps, appointed RFK Jr to HHS, removed mercury from vaccines, reduced *optional* childhood vaccine schedule from 72 to 11, creates a new food pyramid emphasizing meat and destroying their dream of us eating bugs, and shattering their dream of a ‘Great Reset.’

Q repeatedly emphasized that “sometimes you cannot tell the public the truth. You must show them.” This principle foreshadowed the stolen election and the visible failures of the Biden administration, and it appears to apply equally to the depth of the Israel lobby’s entrenchment in America. By allowing the lobby’s influence to be displayed front and center, the public has been shown the reality rather than told. We are now seeing an unprecedented mainstream awareness of this issue, across the isle of both right and left, as Israel’s support in America rapidly diminishes everyday. This was anticipated, a phenomena that Q referred to as ‘the Great Awakening.’

“Sometimes you can’t TELL the public the truth.

YOU MUST SHOW THEM.

A deeply entrenched enemy who controls the vast majority of communications is only defeated by……….

Game theory.”

— Drop #4024, April 30, 2020.

“Only when evil is forced into the light can we defeat it.

Only when they can no longer operate in the [shadows] can people see the truth for themselves.

Only when people see the truth [for themselves] will people understand the true nature of their deception.

Seeing is Believing.

Sometimes you can’t tell the public the truth.

YOU MUST SHOW THEM.”

• Excerpt from drop #4461

President Trump has at times appeared to egg on and encourage the very optics that critics decry. Actions that seem controversial on the surface, such as the “antisemitism” executive orders citing the IHRA definition, (a definition that is overly broad and completely ridiculous, going so far as calling the Bible antisemitic.) The executive orders have been seen as special treatment or a First Amendment violation. In reality, the orders explicitly state that “agencies shall not diminish or infringe upon any rights protected under Federal Law or under the First Amendment.” Although it absolutely does appear as special treatment, upon full examination, the executive orders are a ‘nothing burger’ that merely ensure existing law is upheld against violence or stalking. Their practical effect has been limited to communist indoctrination camps, known as Ivy League schools, and non-citizen foreign students on visas who participated in protests, while affiliated with subversive communist groups, a category already barred under longstanding immigration law,

(https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-f-chapter-3.)

USCIS policy guidance states clearly: “Membership in or affiliation with the Communist Party is inconsistent and incompatible with the Naturalization Oath of Allegiance to the United States of America, which includes pledging to ‘support and defend the Constitution and laws of the United States.’” This is banned for a good reason, as stated in the Communist Control Act of 1954, signed by President Eisenhower: “…the Communist Party of the United States, although purportedly a political party, is in fact an instrumentality of a conspiracy to overthrow the Government of the United States. It constitutes an authoritarian dictatorship within a republic, demanding for itself the rights and privileges accorded to political parties, but denying to all others the liberties guaranteed by the Constitution.”

Furthermore, hosting visas for people who may also harbor resentment against the United States is clearly a national security risk, no matter how much one may agree with some of their opinions on Israel. These deportations were a win-win: by drawing intense media focus to these measures, Trump has spotlighted the very influence he is accused of protecting, forcing a broader conversation about foreign lobbying power in American politics.

After “We are saving Israel for last”, the line “Very specific reason not mentioned a single time” stands out sharply when read alongside Drop 190:

“USA vs. Necessary to cut strings from foreign bad actors.

Necessary to form WW alliances to defeat.”

The opponent is notably not mentioned. Instead, we stare at a glaring blank line that only later becomes clear: it refers to the one “not mentioned a single time.” That unnamed opponent is Israel, the final chess piece on the board in this global game of RISK.

The idea of world wide alliances was already seen in the realignment of Saudi Arabia following the 2017 purge. It was one of the first major Q proofs, as the drops had foreshadowed this event before hand. This reality was also recently reinforced by President Trump’s declaration of Saudi Arabia as a major non-NATO ally and the largest arms deal in history, including F-35 jets, a massive shift in regional power dynamics away from emphasis on Israel.

Adding to these “WW alliances”, North Korea’s strings were cut early, after Saudi Arabia, with Kim Jong Un moving from controlled actor to direct negotiating partner with Trump. Q stated very early on, in drop 29, that “NK is not being run by Kim, he’s an actor in the play. Who is the director? The truth would sound so outrageous most Americans would riot, revolt, reject, etc.” Later, in drop 888, Q made it clear that strings were cut, when they said:

“Thank you Kim.

Deal made.

Clowns out.

Strings cut.

We took control.

Iran next.”

Q

Consider the enormity of a country like North Korea, widely seen as an enemy,now realigned with President Trump’s world wide alliance. This is a paradigm shattering reversal from normal public perception. Q’s phrase “Iran next” in this drop marks the next major piece on the board to have strings cut. Months later, on the same day that President Trump withdrew from the Obama-era Iran nuclear deal, Q declared:

“Today, EVIL lost control / leverage of Iran.

Today, POTUS took control of Iran.

Today, w/ pending sanctions and military action(s), POTUS will gain more ammunition / intel against THEM.”

The phrase “Evil lost control of Iran” directly identifies the global power structure that once controlled Iran. The capitalized “THEM” implies POTUS will gain ammunition / intel against Iran’s controllers, not merely the regime itself. Q continued to repeat “Iran next”, because the operation is multi-phased.

Early on, before this, Q asked in drop 140: “What if China, Russia and others are coordinating w/ POTUS to eliminate the NWO?” This stands in stark contrast with mainstream understanding, yet anyone who followed the Q drops understands that China and Russia have aligned as covert allies. President Trump often signals this reality, even openly stating recently that he is coordinating with Xi and Putin on worldwide nuclear disarmament. Should they succeed, it would essentially mean defusing the Samson Option, fulfilling JFK’s mission to stop Israel from having nuclear weapons and stopping world wide proliferation. As Q stated:

“RIP JFK – we will succeed.”

This leaves us with a critical question remaining in drop 140: who are the ‘others’ are in the line “China, Russia and others.” We already know Saudi Arabia and North Korea are in the fold. Yet China and Russia notoriously have a strong financial and military alliance with Iran, creating an apparent paradox. In recent years they have armed Iran to the teeth with advanced artillery and technology amidst its war with Israel, even as Iran called for a world wide alliance against Israel.

What are we to make of these developments within the framework given to us by Q? Was Netanyahu baited into his own hubris to attack a heavily armed Iran, no longer under the safe control of its former handlers, while the U.S. strikes nuclear threat and regime hardliners?

Was Russia and China supplying Iran with just enough arms and intelligence to erode Israel’s conventional posture, while the United States simultaneously dismantles Iran’s remaining nuclear threat?

The public continues to perceive “U.S. and Israel versus Iran,” but, according to Q, the real underlying coordination operates among the alliance partners.

The conflict unfolds across multiple fronts with no clear public sides, deliberately leveraging one compromised adversary against the other to exhaust cabal proxies and advance the endgame without risking uncontrolled nuclear escalation.

I am not comfortable speculating on those dynamics further amid active war and the tragic loss of American service members, so these remain open questions for each of us to reflect on privately.

Trump had initially removed Israel’s pretext to drag us into war with Iran the first time by entombing Iran’s nuclear material in Operation Midnight Hammer. Israel once again struck Iran in the middle of President Trump’s ongoing negotiations, derailing the process yet again. We’ve heard conflicting reports from Secretary of State and President Trump himself regarding who forced whose hand. U.S. military positioning around Iran during those talks may have served as both a failsafe against proliferation and a means to contain Israeli aggression. Trump has openly stated his desire to secure Iran’s oil, yet Israel bombed a refinery, poisoning civilian areas with toxic debris and directly sabotaging those plans. Contrast that with the U.S. strike on Kharg Island, where Trump ensured the oil facilities remained untouched. The moral compasses at play could not be more different.

Tragically, a girl’s school was bombed but it was in fact directly across from an IRGC base. The video evidence of a U.S. Tomahawk missile striking a nearby base shows the school had already been hit, so there is still no conclusive proof it was the U.S. We’ve seen these same actions for years from Israel in Gaza. Did Israel do this too? The DoW says the incident is still under investigation.

We are left with an enemy on both sides of the conflict: a nuclear-armed state that must be contained, steered and kept complacent, and a hostile proxy whose nuclear wildcard must be eliminated first.

The truth is none of us know what is going on, and we aren’t meant to. We are all just trying to see through the fog of war. Q made clear that less than ten have the full picture, and only three are non military. This would imply even a majority of the administration don’t know the full picture either and operate on a need to know basis. This might explain some of the questionable associations we occasionally see orbiting.

There is a very old military tactic called ‘Defense in Depth’ that also applies to modern, unconventional and asymmetric warfare.

This is what the blackpilled fail to understand.

Counter intelligence operations rarely look like confrontation. Sometimes it looks like invitation. Infiltration is mapped. Networks are turned. Infiltrators become become defectors. The terrain itself becomes the weapon.

You let the enemy walk right in. You feed them bad intel. You dangle an easy target, someone who looks corruptible. A defector and informant who shares intimate history with the enemy. You map the whole network while they think they’re winning. This is Defense in Depth.

Offensive counter intelligence operations can include allowing and facilitating the infiltration of agents from a hostile nation, even under public veneer of alliance, to monitor activities, feed disinformation, map out and identify networks, or disrupt operations through irregular tactics like deception, and controlled exploitation. This can even extend to placing or allowing hostile agents into military ranks, intel agencies, or administrative positions, to turn their presence into an advantage.

The goal is to transform a liability into a strategic asset, by using double agents (turned spies who appear loyal to the enemy but work for you) or honeypots (decoys designed to attract and ensnare adversaries).

The Art of War, which advocates using disinformation agents to confuse enemies, by blending truth and falsehoods, has evolved into modern counterintelligence doctrines. These tactics are useful in asymmetric or hybrid conflicts, where outright confrontation is undesirable, and public perceptions of alliance, diplomatic joint ventures, or shared interests, provide cover for hostility.

How could this apply to a scenario where the terrain has already been infiltrated for decades?

“You can count the people who have the full picture on two hands.

Of those (less than 10 people) only three are non-military.”

LESS THAN TEN.

“Outside of a potential operator who has been dialed-in w/ orders (specific to his/her mission) nobody else has this information.”

Looks can be deceiving.

This is irregular warfare.

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Novara Media@novaramedia

“Even George Orwell could not have made this up.”

Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and former special advisor to the UN Secretary-General, has hit out at countries that falsely called Iran’s retaliatory attacks against the US “unprovoked.”

Speaking at a government-hosted forum in Malaysia, he said nations that made this claim – despite the fact that the US and Israel attacked first – were not “sovereign” because they host US military bases.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2036830693083213996

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How the Chechen miracle kick-started the Russian ‘Path of Redemption’

In early 2024, I traveled to Chechnya, where I met with people who once fought a bitter war against Moscow, but are now the country’s fiercest defenders.

Scott Ritter

Mar 26, 2026

The Author (left) with the Head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov (right)

Over the course of 24 days – from December 28 to January 20 – I was able to take in the sights and sounds of Moscow and Saint Petersburg, as these two cities celebrated both the New Year and Russian Orthodox Christmas (I also got to experience the freezing cold of the Russian winter, which was very much part of the experience!)

I viewed my winter sojourn in Russia as an extension of the journey I began in May 2023, when I embarked on a mission of trying to discover the country’s essence in a manner that could be made discernible to my fellow Americans as sort of an antidote to the poison of Russophobia. The combined experiences of observing the Christmas Eve service hosted by Kirill, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in the center of Moscow and watching Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker performed live in St. Petersburg’s renowned Mikhailosky Theatre on Christmas Day, January 7, helped ground me in the importance of family and culture in the lives of the Russian people.

Russia’s mettle, however, can’t be measured by its social and cultural accomplishments alone. The true test of a people comes only when the foundation of their society is threatened, and the nation is called upon to rally together in its collective defense. Amidst all the holiday celebration and fanfare that I witnessed there lurked an underlying reality that Russia was very much a nation at war. This war was defined in the mindset of those people I met not so much in terms of a Russian-Ukrainian conflict as it was an existential struggle between Russia and the collective West – led by the US – in which Ukraine is being used as a proxy.

Let there be no doubt, everyone I spoke with about this conflict was weary. They wanted the fighting to end, and to be able to get on with their lives. But they were all likewise united in their conviction that the war could only end in a Russian victory that resolved once and for all the issues that underpinned the current conflict – blocking NATO expansion into Ukraine, eliminating a Ukrainian armed force that has become a de facto extension of NATO military power, and the extermination of the odious ideology of Ukrainian ultra-nationalism as defined by the legacy of Stepan Bandera and the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists.

To a person, the Russians I spoke with were insistent that the time for compromise had long passed and that, given the investment in blood and treasure that Moscow had made to date, there is no alternative to a decisive victory. Yes, the Russian people are tired, but they also understand that the war is a necessary evil which has to be endured all the way to a final comprehensive victory if there is ever to be a chance of a lasting peace. I was able to glimpse the character of the Russian people during the portions of my sojourn to Russia that took me out of its two largest metropolitan centers, and to the south of the country – into what I have come to call the “Russian Path of Redemption” – Chechnya, Crimea, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, and Lugansk.

Redemption is the action of saving or being saved from sin, error, or evil. In the case of Russia’s conflict with Kiev, the six named territories all play a role that precisely matches this definition. Of them, Chechnya stands out as having no geographic, historic, ethic, religious, or political connection with Ukraine. And yet it is with Chechnya that the Russian Path of Redemption begins.

It was the scene of two bloody wars between Moscow and separatists fought between 1994 and the early 2000s (with the final counter-guerilla operations concluding in 2009) that killed tens of thousands of people. The fighting that transpired was bloody and ruthless; little mercy was shown by either side. By 2002, Chechnya’s capital city, Grozny, had been completely leveled.

The rancor and bitterness produced by a conflict that witnessed so much violence between people with different religions, cultures, and languages made the notion of reconciliation all but impossible to imagine. Add to this was the fact that the Chechens possessed a history that lent itself to prejudice and resentment against the Russians, even without the horrors of the two wars. The exile of the Chechen people by Joseph Stalin’s Soviet government during the Second World War saw nearly 610,000 Chechen and Ingush forcibly evicted from their homes and relocated to Central Asia, where nearly a quarter of them died due to poor conditions. The survivors were allowed to return to their homeland in 1957, following Nikita Khrushchev’s reforms. But the resentment generated by the years of suffering was passed down through the generations that followed.

And yet, despite all the negative energy generated by the tragic history of Russian-Chechen relations, the two peoples have found a pathway to peace and prosperity. A visitor to Grozny today is greeted by a city that has been completely rebuilt from the ruins, a place where Russians and Chechens live side-by-side in peace, respectful of their respective linguistic, cultural, and religious differences. I call this transformation “the Chechen miracle”, and yet divine intervention had nothing to do with it. Instead, the Chechen and Russian people were blessed by the leadership of two remarkable men – Russian President Vladimir Putin, and the Chief Mufti (religious leader) of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, Akhmad Kadyrov – who realized that continued violence would only hurt the people they were tasked with serving, and that the best chance for peace was for the two to sit down a talk in an effort to find a pathway to peace.

They succeeded.

Today, throughout the Chechen Republic, the visages of Vladimir Putin and Akhmad Kadyrov can be seen on display, side-by-side, in recognition of the role both men played in overcoming the history of violence, mistrust, and resentment that had defined the relationship, and instead forging a new path forward governed by the notion of mutual respect and shared prosperity. The success of their joint work is manifest in the fact that while the Chechen people today maintain their distinct identity, defined in large part by the Muslim faith, they very much identify themselves as being part of the Russian Federation, something that was unthinkable back in the 1990’s when they fought for independence from Russia.

While in Chechnya, I had the opportunity to meet with several prominent Chechen figures, including former deputy interior minister Apti Alaudinov, State Duma member Adam Delimkhanov, chairman of the Chechen republican parliament Magomed Daudov, and the head of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. What these four individuals all had in common was that, at some point in their lives, they had taken up arms against Russia. But they were also united in the fact that, at some point during their resistance against Russia during the Second Chechen War, they realized that the cause of an independent Chechen Republic had been hijacked by foreign jihadists whose passion for violence had superseded any logical notion of Chechen nationalism, and instead created the conditions where continued conflict threatened to consume the Chechen people.

“We have witnessed for ourselves how outside parties sought to infect us with their foreign ideology in order to further their larger struggle against Russia,” I was told. “We ended up realizing that the best way to protect ourselves from being destroyed by these foreign agents was to align ourselves with Russia. In doing so, we discovered that the Russians shared our same desire to live in peace, free from outside manipulation. This is why we have made fighting alongside Russia in the Special Military Operation such a high priority. We see in the Banderist forces in Ukraine the same evil that we saw in the foreign jihadists who came to fight in Chechnya. We worked with Russia to destroy this evil back in the early 2000’s, and today we are working with our Russian brothers to destroy the same evil as it has been manifested in Ukraine.”

Actions speak louder than words. Daudov was responsible for organizing, training, and dispatching formations of Chechen fighters to the Donbass, where they played a central role in the liberation of Lugansk, the siege of Mariupol, and in the heavy fighting that took place in Zaporozhye and Donetsk. Delemkhanov commanded Chechen forces in Mariupol, and Alaudinov was given command of joint Russian-Chechen forces in Lugansk, where the courage and commitment of the Chechen soldiers played a major role in Russia’s battlefield victories. In conversations over lunch, Ramzan Kadyrov underscored the narrative described by each of these Chechen leaders – that the Chechens considered themselves to be part of the Russian nation and would willingly sacrifice themselves in defense of Russia. And, as if to drive this point home, Ramzan Kadyrov invited me to join him on stage after lunch as he addressed the 25,000-strong Grozny garrison about the conflict in Ukraine.

If someone had suggested in 2002 that there would come a time in the not-to-distant future where 25,000 Chechen warriors could be assembled in Grozny not for the purpose of fighting against the Russians, but instead fighting side-by-side with the Russians against a common enemy, they would have been dismissed as delusional. And yet I bore personal witness to this very phenomenon, watching in amazement as Ramzan Kadyrov exhorted these heavily armed men to fight for the memory of his father, for their faith, and for the cause of greater Russia.

The Chechen miracle is the living manifestation of Russian redemption.

(This article was originally published in RT on February 4, 2024. I am in currently in Grozny conducting interviews in support of a documentary film, Inside Chechnya, I hope to release sometime this summer. This project, and others like it, are made possible by the generous donations of those who support my work. Thank you.)

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