theduran--2020-02-06--Turkey Threatens Retaliation against Russia and Syria if they attack Al Qaeda in Syria’s Idlib Provi

Turkey Threatens Retaliation against Russia and Syria if they attack Al Qaeda in Syria’s Idlib Province

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech on February 5th to his AKP islamist Party , that if Syrian troops or Russian planes attack Al Qaeda in Syria ’ s Idlib Province , then Turkey will be at war against Syria and Russia .
If that happens , then Turkey , as a member of the NATO alliance , could call in U.S. and allied forces to join Turkey ’ s war against Syria and against Russia , in that part of Syria .
Here is one news report of this , from Syria ’ s Voltairenet : Speaking @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his ruling Justice and Development Party ( AKP ) , Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said : [ In Voltairenet ’ s original French version : Erdoğan a désigné sous l ’ expression « éléments amis » les membres des milices turkmènes formant l ’ « Armée nationale syrienne » ( Jaych al-Watani as-Suri ) et ceux d ’ Al-Qaeda ayant fait alliance avec des groupes locaux pour former l ’ Organisation de Libération du Levant ( Hayat Tahrir al-Cham ) . ]
“ Any ground or air attack against our troops or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ will be met with a response without any warning regardless of its origin .
No one can object to our exercising our right to do so given the inability to guarantee the security of our troops in Idlib.
” Turkey , whose army invaded northern Syria , had four Russian FSB officers killed in Aleppo by “ friendly elements ” on 1 February and engaged in a deadly clash on 2 and 3 February with the Syrian army in Idlib .
It received support from the United States on 4 February , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ against Russia in Ukraine .
President Erdoğan designates as “ friendly elements ” both the Turkmen militia linked to the Gray Wolves and the Al-Qaeda jihadists .
Turkey ’ s Grey Wolves organization is fascist , nationalist , far-right , and xenophobic , advocating a Turkey that is of , by , and for , only ethnic Turks , and expelling everyone else .
Affiliated with it in Syria are the Syrian Turkman Brigades It is an ethnically terrorist organization .
Al-Qaeda , and its Syrian affiliate al-Nusra or Hayat Tahrir al-Sham , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The United States has been backing Al-Qaeda in Syria so as to overthrow and replace Syria ’ s secular Government by a fundamentalist-Sunni government ; and , therefore , if Turkey will be inviting America back into Syria to defend Al Qaeda in Syria and Turk-allied fascists in Syria , the United States would be on Al-Qaeda ’ s side and also on Turkish fascists ’ side there , in Syria ’ s Idlib Province , against Russia and Syria .
Erdogan ’ s statement on February 5th can also be seen @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s TRT World , titled “ Erdogan warns Syrian regime forces to withdraw from Idlib posts ” which is accompanied by English-language translation of it , here : “ During our phone call last night , I told Mr ( Vladimir ) Putin that the ( Syrian ) regime must withdraw to the limits of the Sochi agreement in Idlib , meaning behind our observation posts .
Any ground or air assault on our soldiers or on the friendly elements we are working with [ the Turkish fascists and the Sunni jihadists @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of its source .
Since the safety of our soldiers in the Idlib region [ which is Syrian territory ] can not be ensured , nobody can question us for exercising our right to do this [ i.e.
, to seize permanently that province of Syria ] .
” The TRT video also says : “ The US also condemned the Syrian regime ’ s attacks on Idlib , and some US officials stated their support for Turkey .
Secretary Pompeo [ 9:19 PM Feb 2020 .4 ] : “ The U.S. stands @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the aftermath of the mortar attack by Assad regime forces on Turkish observation posts .
This is a grave escalation .
The Assad regime , Russia , Iran , and Hizballah ’ s ruthless actions [ trying to exterminate both Al Qaeda and the Turkish fascists in Syria ’ s Idlib Province ] are preventing the establishment of a ceasefire.
” So : Erdogan made this statement on February 5th after having already received the U.S. assurance that America will go to war against Russia if Russia defends Syria ’ s troops @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s Idlib Province of Al-Qaeda and of pro-Turkish fascists .
The TRT video continues by citing U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham at “ 8:42 PM Feb 2020 .5 ” saying : “ Appreciate Turkey pushing back against Assad & Russia when it comes stopping the slaughter in Idlib .
… All options are on the table.
” This means that nuclear war with Russia is on the table .
The background behind this , so that it can be understood , is given in two previous reports from me , which now follow @ @ @ @ @ @ @ most heavily pro-jihadist province , Idlib , to adjoining Turkey , which claims to have 30,000 troops there and is planning to add 20,000 more , World War III will probably happen soon , and here is why : Russia ’ s troops are in Syria at the invitation of Syria ’ s Government and they have provided crucial assistance to restore the Government ’ s control over areas that the jihadists ( sometimes called “ Radical Islamic Terrorists ” or otherwise ) had seized .
Consequently , unlike the Turks and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Russia is instead a defender of Syria , and is committed to doing there only what the Syrian Government authorizes it to do and what Russia is willing to do there .
Right now , the Trump Administration has committed itself to prohibiting Syria ( and its allies ) from retaking control of Idlib , which is the only province that was more than 90 % in favor of Al Qaeda and of ISIS and against the Government at the start of the ‘ civil war ’ in Syria .
Idlib is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ all of the surviving jihadists in Syria have sought refuge there — and the Government freely has bussed them there in order to minimize the amount of “ human shield ” hostage-taking by them in the other provinces .
Countless innocent lives were saved this way .
Both Democratic and Republican U.S. federal officials and former officials are overwhelmingly supportive of U.S. President Trump ’ s newly announced determination to prohibit Syria from retaking control of that heavily jihadist province , and they state such things about Idlib as : It has become @ @ @ @ @ @ @ hardcore jihadists who were not prepared to settle for some of the forced agreements that took place , the forced surrenders that took place elsewhere .
… Where do people go when they ’ ve reached the last place that they can go ?
What ’ s the refuge after the last refuge ?
That ’ s the tragedy that they face .
That happened to be an Obama Administration official expressing support for the jihadists , and when he was asked by his interviewer “ Did the world fail Syria ?
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , there ’ s no doubt about it .
I mean , the first person who failed Syria was President Assad himself.
” The U.S. Government in 2003 said that Saddam Hussein had failed Iraq and so America and its allies invaded and occupied there in 2003 ; and then America and its allies said that Muammar Qaddafi had failed Libyans and so invaded and occupied there in 2011 ; but , unlike Syria ’ s President Bashar al-Assad , neither of those two heads-of-state was backed by Russia , and Assad is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between him and those others .
But the U.S. Government still demands ‘ victory ’ there ; and , so , the world stands at the brink of WW III , the war to end all wars and ( unlike its two predecessors ) to end ourselves .
Therefore , unless Assad will simply hand Idlib over to adjoining Turkey , there will be war between the U.S. and Russia over Idlib .
Since neither side will publicly admit its defeat in that U.S.-Russia war , the loser in it will naturally invade @ @ @ @ @ @ @ whether the U.S. or Russia will be the first to do that ( go nuclear ) , each of the two sides will still be able to annihilate the other after the other ’ s sudden blitz nuclear attack ; and the end-result will be not only an unprecedentedly nuclear-contaminated planet , but a nuclear winter following it , in which agriculture will collapse , and the survivors will wish that they weren ’ t .
The way for the plan to avert that outcome to be carried out would be : Assad @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the complaints from the U.S. Government and from the United Nations and from the Turkish Government , Syria will give up Idlib province , and will construct on the border between it and the adjoining areas of Syria , a DMZ or De-Militarized Zone , so that not only will the residents in Idlib be safe from any attack by Syria and its allies ( such as America and its allies have been demanding ) , but Syrians — in all the others of Syria ’ s provinces — will likewise be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ jihadists that have concentrated themselves in Idlib .
This way , Turkey ’ s President Erdogan can safely keep his 50,000 troops in Idlib if he wishes ; America ’ s President Trump can claim victory in Syria and finally fulfill his long-promised intention to end the U.S. occupation of ( most of the jihadist-controlled ) parts of Syria ( which they ’ ve occupied ) , and maybe WW III can be avoided , or , at least , postponed , maybe even so that people living today won ’ t be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If this peaceful path to ending the prelude to WW III — to avoiding the jump off a nuclear cliff — succeeds , then the world will be able to continue debating who was right and who was wrong in all of this .
But , otherwise , that debate will simply be terminated by the war itself , and everyone will end up losing .
Here is how these and associated matters are being taught to school students in the United States .
It ’ s a magazine that ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the U.S. to teach them the ‘ history ’ behind these current events , though it conflicts with the actual history behind them : but , of course , those children won ’ t know that history , because it ’ s not being taught to them .
As I recommended in a post on September 10th , Russia ’ s President Vladimir Putin and Turkey ’ s President Tayyip Erdogan jointly announced on September 17th in Tehran , “ We ’ ve agreed to create a demilitarized zone between the government troops @ @ @ @ @ @ @ zone will be 15-20km wide , ” which compares to the Korean DMZ ’ s 4-km width .
I had had in mind the Korean experience , but obviously Putin and Erdogan are much better-informed about the situation than I am , and they have chosen a DMZ that ’ s four to five times wider .
In any case , the consequences of such a decision will be momentous , unless U.S. President Donald Trump is so determined for there to be World War III as to stop at nothing in order @ @ @ @ @ @ @ what Russia does or doesn ’ t do .
[ UPDATE ON 1 JUNE 2019 : Putin was the ultimate decider at the Tehran Conference ( an event the U.S. ’ news ’ -media ignored ) .
According to a Russian video misdated 30 March 2018 but probably a year later , “ Soloviev ’ s Exclusive Interview with President Putin ” ( at 7:55 ) , “ After meeting with Assad , Putin held phone negotiations with the key players of the Middle East policy .
At 20:50 with the President of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with the King of Saudi Arabia Al Saud , at 22:00 with the President of Egypt al-Sisi , at 22:05 with the Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu .
On the next day a groundbreaking meeting took place .
Leaders of Iran , Turkey and Russia discuss the situation in Syria and its future .
On one side of the table is USA ’ s sworn enemy Iran [ Rouhani ] , on the other side sits Turkey [ Erdogan ] , the USA ’ s NATO partner , and , the third is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” So : the decisions reached by the three were to be based also on the inputs from the prior 4 : Assad , Trump , Saud , Sisi , and Netanyahu . ]
What the Putin-Erdogan DMZ decision means is that the 50,000 Turkish troops who now are occupying Idlib province of Syria will take control over that land , and will thus have the responsibility over the largest concentration of jihadists anywhere on the planet : Idlib .
It contains the surviving Syrian Al Qaeda and ISIS fighters , including all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the Syrian Army rather than be shot dead on the spot by Government forces .
For its part , the U.S. Government , backed by its allies and supported in this by high officials of the United Nations , had repeatedly threatened that if there occurs any chemical-weapons attack , or even any claimed chemical-weapons attack , inside Idlib , the U.S. and its allies will instantaneously blame the Syrian Government and bomb Syria , and will shoot down the planes of Syria and of Russia that oppose this bombing-campaign to conquer @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Government .
The U.S. has announced its determination to protect what one high U.S. official — who is endorsing what Trump is doing there — calls “ the largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 9/11.
” He admits it , but he wants to protect them from being bombed by Syria and by Russia .
During recent weeks , the U.S. military has increasingly said that even if the jihadists they ’ ve been assisting to assemble the materials for a chemical-weapons attack fail to carry it out or to stage one , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to destroy the jihadists ( which the U.S. side calls ‘ rebels ’ ) in Idlib will be met with overwhelming U.S.-and-allied firepower .
That would spark WW III , because whichever side — Russia or U.S. — loses in the Syrian battlefield will nuclear-blitz-attack the other side so as to have the lesser damage from the nuclear war and thus ( in military terms ) ‘ win ’ WW III , because the blitz-attack will destroy many of the opposite side ’ s retaliatory weapons .
In a nuclear war , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ considerable advantage — reducing the number of weapons the other side can launch .
If , on the other hand , the DMZ-plan works , then Turkey ’ s forces will be responsible for vetting any of Idlib ’ s residents who try to leave , in order to prohibit jihadists and their supporters from leaving .
Once that task ( filtering out the non-dangerous inhabitants and retaining in Idlib only the jihadists and their supporters ) is done , the entire world might be consulted on whether to exterminate the remaining residents @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the countries from which they came or to other countries .
Presumably , no country would want those ‘ refugees ’ .
That would answer the question .
America ’ s Arab allies , the oil monarchies such as the Sauds who own Saudi Arabia and the Thanis who own Qatar , and which have funded Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood , would then be put on a spot , because if they say “ Exterminate them !
” then their clergy who have provided the moral imprimatur upon those families @ @ @ @ @ @ @ either be in rebellion or else will themselves become overthrown either by their own followers or else by their monarch — overthrown from below or from above .
Alternatively , after Turkey ’ s forces in Idlib will have allowed release from Idlib of all who will be allowed out , Syria ’ s and Russia ’ s bombers will simply go in and slaughter the then-surrounded jihadists and take upon themselves the responsibility for that , regardless of what the leaders of the U.S. and its allied governments might say .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , there were missile-attacks “ from the sea ” against several Syrian cities ; and those attacks could have come from either Israel ’ s or America ’ s ships , or from other U.S.-allied ships .
Russian Television bannered , “ Russian plane disappears from radars during Israeli attack on Syria ’ s Latakia – MoD ” and reported : A Russian military Il-20 aircraft with 14 service members on board went off the radars during an attack by four Israeli jets on Syria ’ s Latakia province , the Russian Defense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Khmeimim Air Base “ lost contact ” with the aircraft on Wednesday evening , during the attack of Israeli F-16 fighters on Latakia , said the MOD .
Russian radars also registered the launch of missiles from a French frigate in the Mediterranean on the evening of September 17 .
… The attack on Latakia came just hours after Russia and Turkey negotiated a partial demilitarization of the Idlib province If the missiles were authorized by President Trump , then WW III has already begun in its pre-nuclear stage .
However , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s Netanyahu , and/or by France ’ s Macron , without U.S. authorization , then the U.S. President might respond to them by siding against that aggressor ( s ) ( and also against what he used to call “ Radical Islamic Terrorists ” ) , so as to prevent a nuclear war .
Late on September 17th , Al Masdar News bannered “ NATO warships move towards Syrian coast ” and reported “ The NATO flotilla cruising off the Syrian coast reportedly consists of a Dutch frigate , the De Ruyter @ @ @ @ @ @ @ de Quebec , and a Greek cruiser , the Elli.
” Al Qaeda and ISIS have influential protectors .
Ultimately , the decision will be U.S. President Trump ’ s as to whether he is willing to subject the planet to WW III and to its following nuclear winter and consequent die-off of agriculture and of everyone , in order to ‘ win ’ a nuclear war , such as America ’ s aristocracy has especially championed since the year 2006 .
The nuclear-victory concept is called “ Nuclear Primacy ” — the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ win a nuclear war against Russia , instead of to prevent a nuclear war .
That concept ’ s predecessor , the “ Mutually Assured Destruction ” or “ M.A.D.
” meta-strategy , predominated even in the U.S. until 2006 .
Trump will have to decide whether the purpose of America ’ s nuclear-weapons stockpiles is to prevent WW III , or is to win WW III .
In Russia , the purpose has always been to have nuclear weapons in order to prevent WW III .
But America ’ s President will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ultimate decision on this .
And Idlib might be the spark .
Netanyahu or Macron might be wanting to drag the U.S. into war even against Russia , but the final decision will be Trump ’ s .
The ultimate question is : How far will the U.S. go in order to continue the U.S. dollar as being the overwhelmingly dominant global currency ?
CONCLUSION : The agreement which was reached between Putin , Rouhani , and Erdogan , in Tehran , on 10 September 2018 , was never published , but the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ would hold the jihadists in Idlib until Idlib was no longer receiving much press in The West , and then Russian planes and Syrian troops would blitz-exterminate the tens of thousands of jihadists there , so the problem would be resolved .
However , apparently Erdogan double-crossed both Putin and Rouhani and determined to take Idlib as Turkey ’ s own territory .
Putin and Assad refused to allow that .
Turkey now is receiving America ’ s backing to do it .
Furthermore , Erdogan has now declared Al Qaeda in Syria @ @ @ @ @ @ @ working with.
” And even during the U.S. Presidency of Barack Obama , the U.S. was protecting Al-Qaeda in Syria .
Trump is , on this matter , carrying out Obama ’ s policy there .
Rather than abandon that policy , Trump appears now to be willing to go to nuclear war against Russia in order to enforce that policy there , in the most-heavily-jihadist place on Earth , to protect Idlib ’ s jihadists and to defeat America ’ s ‘ enemies ’ .
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author @ @ @ @ @ @ @ re Not Even Close : The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records , 1910-2010 , and of CHRIST ’ S VENTRILOQUISTS : The Event that Created Christianity .

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Eric Zuesse
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in a speech on February 5th to his AKP islamist Party, that if Syrian troops or Russian planes attack Al Qaeda in Syria’s Idlib Province, then Turkey will be at war against Syria and Russia. If that happens, then Turkey, as a member of the NATO alliance, could call in U.S. and allied forces to join Turkey’s war against Syria and against Russia, in that part of Syria.
Here is one news report of this, from Syria’s Voltairenet:
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https://www.voltairenet.org/article209153.html
Turkey threatens Syria and indirectly Russia
VOLTAIRE NETWORK | 5 FEBRUARY 2020
Speaking on 5 February 2020 before members of his ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said:
[In Voltairenet’s original French version: Erdoğan a désigné sous l’expression « éléments amis » les membres des milices turkmènes formant l’« Armée nationale syrienne » (Jaych al-Watani as-Suri) et ceux d’Al-Qaeda ayant fait alliance avec des groupes locaux pour former l’Organisation de Libération du Levant (Hayat Tahrir al-Cham).]
“Any ground or air attack against our troops or the friendly elements with whom we work will be met with a response without any warning regardless of its origin. No one can object to our exercising our right to do so given the inability to guarantee the security of our troops in Idlib.”
Turkey, whose army invaded northern Syria, had four Russian FSB officers killed in Aleppo by “friendly elements” on 1 February and engaged in a deadly clash on 2 and 3 February with the Syrian army in Idlib. It received support from the United States on 4 February, the day the Turkish President revved up provocations against Russia in Ukraine.
President Erdoğan designates as “friendly elements” both the Turkmen militia linked to the Gray Wolves and the Al-Qaeda jihadists.
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Turkey’s Grey Wolves organization is fascist, nationalist, far-right, and xenophobic, advocating a Turkey that is of, by, and for, only ethnic Turks, and expelling everyone else. Affiliated with it in Syria are the Syrian Turkman Brigades It is an ethnically terrorist organization. Al-Qaeda, and its Syrian affiliate al-Nusra or Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, are an extremist Sunni Muslim terrorist organization. The United States has been backing Al-Qaeda in Syria so as to overthrow and replace Syria’s secular Government by a fundamentalist-Sunni government; and, therefore, if Turkey will be inviting America back into Syria to defend Al Qaeda in Syria and Turk-allied fascists in Syria, the United States would be on Al-Qaeda’s side and also on Turkish fascists’ side there, in Syria’s Idlib Province, against Russia and Syria.
Erdogan’s statement on February 5th can also be seen and heard in a video from Turkey’s TRT World, titled “Erdogan warns Syrian regime forces to withdraw from Idlib posts” which is accompanied by English-language translation of it, here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqV4oG1Xr44&feature=emb_logo
The English-language translation says:
“During our phone call last night, I told Mr (Vladimir) Putin that the (Syrian) regime must withdraw to the limits of the Sochi agreement in Idlib, meaning behind our observation posts. Any ground or air assault on our soldiers or on the friendly elements we are working with [the Turkish fascists and the Sunni jihadists] will be avenged in kind regardless of its source. Since the safety of our soldiers in the Idlib region [which is Syrian territory] cannot be ensured, nobody can question us for exercising our right to do this [i.e., to seize permanently that province of Syria].”
The TRT video also says:
“The US also condemned the Syrian regime’s attacks on Idlib, and some US officials stated their support for Turkey. Secretary Pompeo [9:19 PM Feb 2020 .4]: “The U.S. stands by our @NATO Ally #Turkey in the aftermath of the mortar attack by Assad regime forces on Turkish observation posts. This is a grave escalation. The Assad regime, Russia, Iran, and Hizballah’s ruthless actions [trying to exterminate both Al Qaeda and the Turkish fascists in Syria’s Idlib Province] are preventing the establishment of a ceasefire.”
So: Erdogan made this statement on February 5th after having already received the U.S. assurance that America will go to war against Russia if Russia defends Syria’s troops who are trying to rid Syria’s Idlib Province of Al-Qaeda and of pro-Turkish fascists.
The TRT video continues by citing U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham at “8:42 PM Feb 2020 .5” saying: “Appreciate Turkey pushing back against Assad & Russia when it comes stopping the slaughter in Idlib. … All options are on the table.” This means that nuclear war with Russia is on the table.
The background behind this, so that it can be understood, is given in two previous reports from me, which now follow:
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Prelude to World War III
Posted on September 10, 2018
Eric Zuesse
Unless Syria will simply hand its most heavily pro-jihadist province, Idlib, to adjoining Turkey, which claims to have 30,000 troops there and is planning to add 20,000 more, World War III will probably happen soon, and here is why:
Russia’s troops are in Syria at the invitation of Syria’s Government and they have provided crucial assistance to restore the Government’s control over areas that the jihadists (sometimes called “Radical Islamic Terrorists” or otherwise) had seized. Consequently, unlike the Turks and the Americans, who are invaders of Syria, Russia is instead a defender of Syria, and is committed to doing there only what the Syrian Government authorizes it to do and what Russia is willing to do there.
Right now, the Trump Administration has committed itself to prohibiting Syria (and its allies) from retaking control of Idlib, which is the only province that was more than 90% in favor of Al Qaeda and of ISIS and against the Government at the start of the ‘civil war’ in Syria. Idlib is even more pro-jihadist now, because almost all of the surviving jihadists in Syria have sought refuge there — and the Government freely has bussed them there in order to minimize the amount of “human shield” hostage-taking by them in the other provinces. Countless innocent lives were saved this way.
Both Democratic and Republican U.S. federal officials and former officials are overwhelmingly supportive of U.S. President Trump’s newly announced determination to prohibit Syria from retaking control of that heavily jihadist province, and they state such things about Idlib as:
It has become a dumping ground for some of the hardcore jihadists who were not prepared to settle for some of the forced agreements that took place, the forced surrenders that took place elsewhere. … Where do people go when they’ve reached the last place that they can go? What’s the refuge after the last refuge? That’s the tragedy that they face.
That happened to be an Obama Administration official expressing support for the jihadists, and when he was asked by his interviewer “Did the world fail Syria?” he answered “Sure. I mean, there’s no doubt about it. I mean, the first person who failed Syria was President Assad himself.”
The U.S. Government in 2003 said that Saddam Hussein had failed Iraq and so America and its allies invaded and occupied there in 2003; and then America and its allies said that Muammar Qaddafi had failed Libyans and so invaded and occupied there in 2011; but, unlike Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, neither of those two heads-of-state was backed by Russia, and Assad is. That’s the main difference between him and those others. But the U.S. Government still demands ‘victory’ there; and, so, the world stands at the brink of WW III, the war to end all wars and (unlike its two predecessors) to end ourselves.
Therefore, unless Assad will simply hand Idlib over to adjoining Turkey, there will be war between the U.S. and Russia over Idlib. Since neither side will publicly admit its defeat in that U.S.-Russia war, the loser in it will naturally invade the other; and, regardless of whether the U.S. or Russia will be the first to do that (go nuclear), each of the two sides will still be able to annihilate the other after the other’s sudden blitz nuclear attack; and the end-result will be not only an unprecedentedly nuclear-contaminated planet, but a nuclear winter following it, in which agriculture will collapse, and the survivors will wish that they weren’t.
The way for the plan to avert that outcome to be carried out would be:
Assad and Putin both will announce that due to the complaints from the U.S. Government and from the United Nations and from the Turkish Government, Syria will give up Idlib province, and will construct on the border between it and the adjoining areas of Syria, a DMZ or De-Militarized Zone, so that not only will the residents in Idlib be safe from any attack by Syria and its allies (such as America and its allies have been demanding), but Syrians — in all the others of Syria’s provinces — will likewise be safe against any continued attacks by the jihadists that have concentrated themselves in Idlib.
This way, Turkey’s President Erdogan can safely keep his 50,000 troops in Idlib if he wishes; America’s President Trump can claim victory in Syria and finally fulfill his long-promised intention to end the U.S. occupation of (most of the jihadist-controlled) parts of Syria (which they’ve occupied), and maybe WW III can be avoided, or, at least, postponed, maybe even so that people living today won’t be dying-off from WW III and its after-effects.
If this peaceful path to ending the prelude to WW III — to avoiding the jump off a nuclear cliff — succeeds, then the world will be able to continue debating who was right and who was wrong in all of this. But, otherwise, that debate will simply be terminated by the war itself, and everyone will end up losing.
Here is how these and associated matters are being taught to school students in the United States. It’s a magazine that’s handed out free to school students in the U.S. to teach them the ‘history’ behind these current events, though it conflicts with the actual history behind them: but, of course, those children won’t know that history, because it’s not being taught to them.
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Putin and Erdogan Plan Syria-Idlib DMZ as I Recommended.
Posted on September 17, 2018
Eric Zuesse
As I recommended in a post on September 10th, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan jointly announced on September 17th in Tehran, “We’ve agreed to create a demilitarized zone between the government troops and militants before October 15. The zone will be 15-20km wide,” which compares to the Korean DMZ’s 4-km width. I had had in mind the Korean experience, but obviously Putin and Erdogan are much better-informed about the situation than I am, and they have chosen a DMZ that’s four to five times wider. In any case, the consequences of such a decision will be momentous, unless U.S. President Donald Trump is so determined for there to be World War III as to stop at nothing in order to force it to happen no matter what Russia does or doesn’t do.
[UPDATE ON 1 JUNE 2019: Putin was the ultimate decider at the Tehran Conference (an event the U.S.’news’-media ignored). According to a Russian video misdated 30 March 2018 but probably a year later, “Soloviev’s Exclusive Interview with President Putin” (at 7:55), “After meeting with Assad, Putin held phone negotiations with the key players of the Middle East policy. At 20:50 with the President of the USA Donald Trump, at 21:20 with the King of Saudi Arabia Al Saud, at 22:00 with the President of Egypt al-Sisi, at 22:05 with the Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu. On the next day a groundbreaking meeting took place. Leaders of Iran, Turkey and Russia discuss the situation in Syria and its future. On one side of the table is USA’s sworn enemy Iran [Rouhani], on the other side sits Turkey [Erdogan], the USA’s NATO partner, and, the third is Russia [Putin and Lavrov].” So: the decisions reached by the three were to be based also on the inputs from the prior 4: Assad, Trump, Saud, Sisi, and Netanyahu.]
What the Putin-Erdogan DMZ decision means is that the 50,000 Turkish troops who now are occupying Idlib province of Syria will take control over that land, and will thus have the responsibility over the largest concentration of jihadists anywhere on the planet: Idlib. It contains the surviving Syrian Al Qaeda and ISIS fighters, including all of the ones throughout Syria who surrendered to the Syrian Army rather than be shot dead on the spot by Government forces.
For its part, the U.S. Government, backed by its allies and supported in this by high officials of the United Nations, had repeatedly threatened that if there occurs any chemical-weapons attack, or even any claimed chemical-weapons attack, inside Idlib, the U.S. and its allies will instantaneously blame the Syrian Government and bomb Syria, and will shoot down the planes of Syria and of Russia that oppose this bombing-campaign to conquer or ‘liberate’ Syria from its Government. The U.S. has announced its determination to protect what one high U.S. official — who is endorsing what Trump is doing there — calls “the largest Al Qaeda safe haven since 9/11.” He admits it, but he wants to protect them from being bombed by Syria and by Russia.
During recent weeks, the U.S. military has increasingly said that even if the jihadists they’ve been assisting to assemble the materials for a chemical-weapons attack fail to carry it out or to stage one, any attempt by Syrian and Russian forces to destroy the jihadists (which the U.S. side calls ‘rebels’) in Idlib will be met with overwhelming U.S.-and-allied firepower. That would spark WW III, because whichever side — Russia or U.S. — loses in the Syrian battlefield will nuclear-blitz-attack the other side so as to have the lesser damage from the nuclear war and thus (in military terms) ‘win’ WW III, because the blitz-attack will destroy many of the opposite side’s retaliatory weapons. In a nuclear war, the first side to attack will have a considerable advantage — reducing the number of weapons the other side can launch.
If, on the other hand, the DMZ-plan works, then Turkey’s forces will be responsible for vetting any of Idlib’s residents who try to leave, in order to prohibit jihadists and their supporters from leaving. Once that task (filtering out the non-dangerous inhabitants and retaining in Idlib only the jihadists and their supporters) is done, the entire world might be consulted on whether to exterminate the remaining residents or to set them free to return to the countries from which they came or to other countries. Presumably, no country would want those ‘refugees’. That would answer the question.
America’s Arab allies, the oil monarchies such as the Sauds who own Saudi Arabia and the Thanis who own Qatar, and which have funded Al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood, would then be put on a spot, because if they say “Exterminate them!” then their clergy who have provided the moral imprimatur upon those families’ ownership of those nations, will either be in rebellion or else will themselves become overthrown either by their own followers or else by their monarch — overthrown from below or from above.
Alternatively, after Turkey’s forces in Idlib will have allowed release from Idlib of all who will be allowed out, Syria’s and Russia’s bombers will simply go in and slaughter the then-surrounded jihadists and take upon themselves the responsibility for that, regardless of what the leaders of the U.S. and its allied governments might say.
On the night of September 17th in Syria, there were missile-attacks “from the sea” against several Syrian cities; and those attacks could have come from either Israel’s or America’s ships, or from other U.S.-allied ships. Russian Television bannered, “Russian plane disappears from radars during Israeli attack on Syria’s Latakia – MoD” and reported:
A Russian military Il-20 aircraft with 14 service members on board went off the radars during an attack by four Israeli jets on Syria’s Latakia province, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Air traffic controllers at the Khmeimim Air Base “lost contact” with the aircraft on Wednesday evening, during the attack of Israeli F-16 fighters on Latakia, said the MOD.
Russian radars also registered the launch of missiles from a French frigate in the Mediterranean on the evening of September 17. …
The attack on Latakia came just hours after Russia and Turkey negotiated a partial demilitarization of the Idlib province
If the missiles were authorized by President Trump, then WW III has already begun in its pre-nuclear stage. However, if the attacks were launched by Israel’s Netanyahu, and/or by France’s Macron, without U.S. authorization, then the U.S. President might respond to them by siding against that aggressor(s) (and also against what he used to call “Radical Islamic Terrorists”), so as to prevent a nuclear war.
Late on September 17th, Al Masdar News bannered “NATO warships move towards Syrian coast” and reported “The NATO flotilla cruising off the Syrian coast reportedly consists of a Dutch frigate, the De Ruyter, a Canadian frigate, the Ville de Quebec, and a Greek cruiser, the Elli.” Al Qaeda and ISIS have influential protectors.
Ultimately, the decision will be U.S. President Trump’s as to whether he is willing to subject the planet to WW III and to its following nuclear winter and consequent die-off of agriculture and of everyone, in order to ‘win’ a nuclear war, such as America’s aristocracy has especially championed since the year 2006. The nuclear-victory concept is called “Nuclear Primacy” — the use of nuclear weapons so as to win a nuclear war against Russia, instead of to prevent a nuclear war. That concept’s predecessor, the “Mutually Assured Destruction” or “M.A.D.” meta-strategy, predominated even in the U.S. until 2006. Trump will have to decide whether the purpose of America’s nuclear-weapons stockpiles is to prevent WW III, or is to win WW III.
In Russia, the purpose has always been to have nuclear weapons in order to prevent WW III. But America’s President will be the person who will make the ultimate decision on this. And Idlib might be the spark. Netanyahu or Macron might be wanting to drag the U.S. into war even against Russia, but the final decision will be Trump’s.
The ultimate question is: How far will the U.S. go in order to continue the U.S. dollar as being the overwhelmingly dominant global currency?
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CONCLUSION: The agreement which was reached between Putin, Rouhani, and Erdogan, in Tehran, on 10 September 2018, was never published, but the presumption behind it was clearly that Turkey would hold the jihadists in Idlib until Idlib was no longer receiving much press in The West, and then Russian planes and Syrian troops would blitz-exterminate the tens of thousands of jihadists there, so the problem would be resolved. However, apparently Erdogan double-crossed both Putin and Rouhani and determined to take Idlib as Turkey’s own territory. Putin and Assad refused to allow that. Turkey now is receiving America’s backing to do it. Furthermore, Erdogan has now declared Al Qaeda in Syria to be “friendly elements we are working with.” And even during the U.S. Presidency of Barack Obama, the U.S. was protecting Al-Qaeda in Syria. Trump is, on this matter, carrying out Obama’s policy there. Rather than abandon that policy, Trump appears now to be willing to go to nuclear war against Russia in order to enforce that policy there, in the most-heavily-jihadist place on Earth, to protect Idlib’s jihadists and to defeat America’s ‘enemies’.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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theduran--2020-02-06--Syrian Army’s Offensive in Idlib Deepens Rift Between Russia and Turkey

Submitted by InfoBrics , authored by Paul Antonopoulos , Research Fellow at the Center for Syncretic Studies… Major strains are appearing in Russian-Turkish relations , particularly over the Syrian Army ’ s latest offensive against Turkish-backed jihadists in Idlib and Russia ’ s non-agreeance with Turkey ’ s support for the Muslim Brotherhood government based in the Libyan capital of Tripoli .
Last week Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a massive outburst against Russia that has since only escalated .
At the heights of relations , according to a November 2018 INR poll , 51 % of Turks viewed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ published on Sunday by Turkey ’ s Daily Sabah found that only 16 % of Turks trust Russia with the so-called mistrust because of Moscow ’ s Syria and Libya position .
Ankara-based research company Metropoll ’ s latest survey published on Monday found that Erdoğan ’ s approval rating dropped to 41.9 % in January from 43.7 % in December .
With Turkey ’ s economy continuing to decline , Erdoğan is attempting to distract the Turkish public with ultra nationalist rhetoric with threats of invading Libya , more areas of Syria @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s eastern Aegean islands .
However , the constant state of war threats is proving unpopular with the majority of Turks .
Although the aggression against the four aforementioned countries is related to the ambition of a neo-Ottoman Empire , Erdoğan ’ s growing frustration became evident when he said during his visit to Ukraine on Monday that Turkey does not recognize Crimea ’ s reunion with Russia , and emphasized that his country is “ closely ” monitoring the situation of Crimea ’ s Tatar Turks , who Turkish-state run Anadolu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ rule .
Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitriy Peskov hit back at the claims saying “ We can ’ t agree with what is being said in this context .
We have repeatedly said that any concerns regarding Crimean Tatars are groundless .
President [ of Russia Vladimir ] Putin explained the real state of things [ to the Turkish leader ] more than once.
” Turkey uses Turkish minorities to serve its interests , whether it be by propping up the Muslim Brotherhood government in Tripoli that is led by ethnic Turk Fayez al-Sarraj , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ using the Turkish minority in Cyprus as a casus belli for invading 37 % of the island in 1974 , or using the Turkish minority in Greece ’ s Thrace traditional region to make groundless claims of persecution – and it appears Erdoğan will use the Tartars to attack Russia ’ s so-called treatment of minorities .
In a matter of days , polls have revealed a declining Russian popularity in Turkey , the Tartars to be used against Russia in soft power plays , and also , rising tensions over the Syrian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Idlib .
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a joint press conference with South Sudan ’ s Foreign Minister Avut Deng Achuil on January 28 that “ Militants from armed groups should stop contacts with terrorists in any way , and the terrorists should give up because there will be no mercy for them.
” This quote of “ no mercy ” came with Erdoğan ’ s anger as the terrorists are backed and supported by Turkey .
Events came to a zenith on Sunday when at least eight Turkish soldiers acting @ @ @ @ @ @ @ least another dozen wounded by the Syrian Army .
Although Erdoğan quickly stated that Turkey responded by killing at least 70 Syrian Army soldiers , the Russian military were quick to rule out that Turkish jets were used as Erdoğan had claimed and the Syrian military outright denied any Syrian soldiers were killed .
A war of words also erupted between Turkey and Russia after Sunday ’ s incident with Russia saying it received no reports from the Turkish military that it was moving its soldiers so that such an attack could be @ @ @ @ @ @ @ notified the Russian military .
Although U.S.-Turkish relations have been strained because of Turkey ’ s continual defiance of Washington in favour of Russia , Secretary Mike Pompeo wasted no time to take opportunity at the emerging rift in relations between the two Eurasian countries by saying on Twitter that “ The U.S. stands by our NATO Ally Turkey in the aftermath of the mortar attack by Assad regime forces on Turkish observation posts.
” With Turkey always closely aligning with the West for the entirety of its history except for the past @ @ @ @ @ @ @ woo Erdoğan back into its fold .
The U.S. sees eye to eye with Turkey in overthrowing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and tolerates Erdoğan ’ s threats of war against Libya .
This could see Ankara improve its relations with Washington as Putin is refusing to withdraw his support for Assad .
Although Erdoğan threatened war with Syria yesterday if it did not withdraw its military by the end of February to positions it held some weeks ago before the newest operation against Turkish-backed terrorists in Idlib began , the Syrian Army with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the threats .
Could this be what brings a final fracture in the short-lived strategic Russo-Turkish relations ?
This remains to be seen , but this possibility can ’ t be excluded .

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Submitted by InfoBrics, authored by Paul Antonopoulos, Research Fellow at the Center for Syncretic Studies…
Major strains are appearing in Russian-Turkish relations, particularly over the Syrian Army’s latest offensive against Turkish-backed jihadists in Idlib and Russia’s non-agreeance with Turkey’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood government based in the Libyan capital of Tripoli. Last week Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made a massive outburst against Russia that has since only escalated. At the heights of relations, according to a November 2018 INR poll, 51% of Turks viewed Russia favourably. However, a poll published on Sunday by Turkey’s Daily Sabah found that only 16% of Turks trust Russia with the so-called mistrust because of Moscow’s Syria and Libya position.
Ankara-based research company Metropoll’s latest survey published on Monday found that Erdoğan’s approval rating dropped to 41.9% in January from 43.7% in December. With Turkey’s economy continuing to decline, Erdoğan is attempting to distract the Turkish public with ultra nationalist rhetoric with threats of invading Libya, more areas of Syria, the rest of Cyprus and Greece’s eastern Aegean islands. However, the constant state of war threats is proving unpopular with the majority of Turks.
Although the aggression against the four aforementioned countries is related to the ambition of a neo-Ottoman Empire, Erdoğan’s growing frustration became evident when he said during his visit to Ukraine on Monday that Turkey does not recognize Crimea’s reunion with Russia, and emphasized that his country is “closely” monitoring the situation of Crimea’s Tatar Turks, who Turkish-state run Anadolu Agency claim are facing persecution under Russian rule.
Kremlin Spokesperson Dmitriy Peskov hit back at the claims saying “We can’t agree with what is being said in this context. We have repeatedly said that any concerns regarding Crimean Tatars are groundless. President [of Russia Vladimir] Putin explained the real state of things [to the Turkish leader] more than once.” Turkey uses Turkish minorities to serve its interests, whether it be by propping up the Muslim Brotherhood government in Tripoli that is led by ethnic Turk Fayez al-Sarraj, supporting Turkmen jihadists in northern Syria, using the Turkish minority in Cyprus as a casus belli for invading 37% of the island in 1974, or using the Turkish minority in Greece’s Thrace traditional region to make groundless claims of persecution – and it appears Erdoğan will use the Tartars to attack Russia’s so-called treatment of minorities.
In a matter of days, polls have revealed a declining Russian popularity in Turkey, the Tartars to be used against Russia in soft power plays, and also, rising tensions over the Syrian Army’s operation against jihadists in Idlib. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a joint press conference with South Sudan’s Foreign Minister Avut Deng Achuil on January 28 that “Militants from armed groups should stop contacts with terrorists in any way, and the terrorists should give up because there will be no mercy for them.” This quote of “no mercy” came with Erdoğan’s anger as the terrorists are backed and supported by Turkey.
Events came to a zenith on Sunday when at least eight Turkish soldiers acting illegally in Idlib were killed and at least another dozen wounded by the Syrian Army. Although Erdoğan quickly stated that Turkey responded by killing at least 70 Syrian Army soldiers, the Russian military were quick to rule out that Turkish jets were used as Erdoğan had claimed and the Syrian military outright denied any Syrian soldiers were killed. A war of words also erupted between Turkey and Russia after Sunday’s incident with Russia saying it received no reports from the Turkish military that it was moving its soldiers so that such an attack could be avoided, with Turkey claiming it had notified the Russian military.
Although U.S.-Turkish relations have been strained because of Turkey’s continual defiance of Washington in favour of Russia, Secretary Mike Pompeo wasted no time to take opportunity at the emerging rift in relations between the two Eurasian countries by saying on Twitter that “The U.S. stands by our NATO Ally Turkey in the aftermath of the mortar attack by Assad regime forces on Turkish observation posts.” With Turkey always closely aligning with the West for the entirety of its history except for the past three years, Pompeo is attempting to woo Erdoğan back into its fold.
The U.S. sees eye to eye with Turkey in overthrowing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and tolerates Erdoğan’s threats of war against Libya. This could see Ankara improve its relations with Washington as Putin is refusing to withdraw his support for Assad. Although Erdoğan threatened war with Syria yesterday if it did not withdraw its military by the end of February to positions it held some weeks ago before the newest operation against Turkish-backed terrorists in Idlib began, the Syrian Army with Russian support is unlikely to relent to the threats. Could this be what brings a final fracture in the short-lived strategic Russo-Turkish relations? This remains to be seen, but this possibility can’t be excluded.
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theduran--2020-02-06--Trump’s State of the Union address: half MAGA rally, half Resistance Protest, full-on reality TV dra

Trump’s State of the Union address: half MAGA rally, half Resistance Protest, full-on reality TV drama

Submitted by InfoBrics , authored by Sarah Abed , independent journalist and analyst… Tuesday ’ s State of the Union dubbed “ the launching of the great American comeback ” came just a day after the Iowa caucuses in the 2020 presidential election and a day before Trump was acquitted of both articles of impeachment by the Senate .
What could best be described as a reality TV drama on steroids , part MAGA rally and part Resistance protest with several theatrical performances that tugged at the heart strings and others that took exploitation and emotional manipulation to another level @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a little something for everyone .
The most talked about incident , however , was when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi proceeded to rip a copy of President Trump ’ s speech while still on camera , as soon as he had finished his hour and a half long annual address .
In what could be described as a wrestling match between the opposing parties US political divide was on full display for the world to mock .
Pelosi ’ s attempts to downplay or justify her actions by saying “ it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the alternatives ” , didn ’ t do much to stifle the bipartisan condemnation she received .
The disgraced 79-year-old Democratic leader ’ s bold nonverbal message speaks more of her inability to effectively handle the pressures that come with this coveted position than any sort of resistance message she was hoping to send to the Left .
Some have even called for her to resign as House Speaker .
On Wednesday , US President Donald J. Trump became the third US president in history to be impeached by the House and acquitted @ @ @ @ @ @ @ process and almost guaranteeing him a second term , the president was acquitted during the Senate trial on both articles of impeachment .
The only Republican that voted in favor of convicting President Trump was Mitt Romney of Utah .
Romney is also the only Senator in US history to vote to remove a president from his own party in an impeachment trial .
Romney voted “ guilty ” on article 1 , for abuse of power , and “ not guilty ” on article 2 , for obstruction of Congress .
On @ @ @ @ @ @ @ supports a lot of what President Trump has done but his promise before God was to apply impartial justice and to put his feelings and political biases aside .
What did Romney benefit from his vote ?
Nothing , aside from maybe a little favor with the liberals .
After two months of what Trump referred to as a “ witch hunt ” , the fact-finding and closed-door depositions were followed by public hearings in December .
Now with the acquittal a disgraceful chapter in the Democratic Party ’ s book has closed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ being forced out of office before his term is over .
Democrats have essentially gifted Trump his next presidency on a silver platter .
One can ’ t help but wonder how incredibly inept and poorly executed their plans have been since the 2016 election .
The “ he is not my president ” crowd led by the white coat mafia is spiteful and undeniably biased .
These individuals wouldn ’ t dare criticize the previous administrations many faults , some of which led us into wars that have cost millions of people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the current administrations every word and deed , and regardless if it ’ s to the nations benefit or not , they will trash it .
The left claims to be working in the best interest of the average American but has essentially created the perfect storm which not only gives President Trump ’ s his highest job approval ratings since he took office in 2017 , which according to Gallup polls has risen to 49 % but inflates his already enormous ego .
Why is it that war crimes and crimes against @ @ @ @ @ @ @ administration never warrant a mention ?
If Democrats had a just bone in their body , they would have named and shamed previous President ’ s just as they have done to the current administration but that ’ s never going to happen .
It ’ s hard to tell what ’ s worse , the Left who is blinded by hate and is willing to burn the country down to get rid of President Trump or the Right which considers Trump their Lord and Savior and chooses to live in ignorant bliss @ @ @ @ @ @ @ his administration dish out .
Anyone who hasn ’ t been brainwashed into thinking either of the two parties have our best interest at heart can see that both parties are flawed and suffer from the inability to effectively discern fact from fiction or put biases aside and focus on America first .
However , in this political circus , at least since 2016 till 2024 it looks like the Republicans are on top and the Democrats , by their own doing , are digging themselves into a deeper grave by the day @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and Right can ’ t agree on anything would be an exaggeration .
During the State of the Union address there were a few nauseating moments where both sides seemed in sync .
One such rare show of solidarity came when both sides eagerly applauded the failed US-puppet Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido .
Guaido isn ’ t the legitimate president of Venezuela , but like a scene out of a zombie movie , President Trump introduced the stiff CIA-backed puppet and the crowd went wild with applause .
Braindead attendees rose in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Had Guaido and his US sponsors not failed miserably to unseat President Nicholas Maduro , Guaido wouldn ’ t currently be on tour trying to garner support leading him to the White House .
If the Left truly cared about the US ’ s domestic and foreign policies and wanted to bring about any meaningful change , they need to bring more to the table than just boycotts and protests , to be taken seriously .

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Submitted by InfoBrics, authored by Sarah Abed, independent journalist and analyst…
Tuesday’s State of the Union dubbed “the launching of the great American comeback” came just a day after the Iowa caucuses in the 2020 presidential election and a day before Trump was acquitted of both articles of impeachment by the Senate. What could best be described as a reality TV drama on steroids, part MAGA rally and part Resistance protest with several theatrical performances that tugged at the heart strings and others that took exploitation and emotional manipulation to another level, this year’s SOTU had a little something for everyone.
The most talked about incident, however, was when Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi proceeded to rip a copy of President Trump’s speech while still on camera, as soon as he had finished his hour and a half long annual address. In what could be described as a wrestling match between the opposing parties US political divide was on full display for the world to mock.
Pelosi’s attempts to downplay or justify her actions by saying “it was the courteous thing to do considering the alternatives”, didn’t do much to stifle the bipartisan condemnation she received. The disgraced 79-year-old Democratic leader’s bold nonverbal message speaks more of her inability to effectively handle the pressures that come with this coveted position than any sort of resistance message she was hoping to send to the Left. Some have even called for her to resign as House Speaker.
On Wednesday, US President Donald J. Trump became the third US president in history to be impeached by the House and acquitted by the Senate. Ending the impeachment process and almost guaranteeing him a second term, the president was acquitted during the Senate trial on both articles of impeachment.
The only Republican that voted in favor of convicting President Trump was Mitt Romney of Utah. Romney is also the only Senator in US history to vote to remove a president from his own party in an impeachment trial. Romney voted “guilty” on article 1, for abuse of power, and “not guilty” on article 2, for obstruction of Congress. On the Senate floor Romney said that he supports a lot of what President Trump has done but his promise before God was to apply impartial justice and to put his feelings and political biases aside. What did Romney benefit from his vote? Nothing, aside from maybe a little favor with the liberals.
After two months of what Trump referred to as a “witch hunt”, the fact-finding and closed-door depositions were followed by public hearings in December. Now with the acquittal a disgraceful chapter in the Democratic Party’s book has closed and with it any chance of Trump being forced out of office before his term is over.
Democrats have essentially gifted Trump his next presidency on a silver platter. One can’t help but wonder how incredibly inept and poorly executed their plans have been since the 2016 election. The “he is not my president” crowd led by the white coat mafia is spiteful and undeniably biased. These individuals wouldn’t dare criticize the previous administrations many faults, some of which led us into wars that have cost millions of people their lives but they will eagerly scrutinize the current administrations every word and deed, and regardless if it’s to the nations benefit or not, they will trash it.
The left claims to be working in the best interest of the average American but has essentially created the perfect storm which not only gives President Trump’s his highest job approval ratings since he took office in 2017, which according to Gallup polls has risen to 49% but inflates his already enormous ego. Why is it that war crimes and crimes against humanity which were committed by the Obama administration never warrant a mention? If Democrats had a just bone in their body, they would have named and shamed previous President’s just as they have done to the current administration but that’s never going to happen.
It’s hard to tell what’s worse, the Left who is blinded by hate and is willing to burn the country down to get rid of President Trump or the Right which considers Trump their Lord and Savior and chooses to live in ignorant bliss and blindly accepts whatever Emperor Trump and his administration dish out.
Anyone who hasn’t been brainwashed into thinking either of the two parties have our best interest at heart can see that both parties are flawed and suffer from the inability to effectively discern fact from fiction or put biases aside and focus on America first.
However, in this political circus, at least since 2016 till 2024 it looks like the Republicans are on top and the Democrats, by their own doing, are digging themselves into a deeper grave by the day.
Now to say that the Left and Right can’t agree on anything would be an exaggeration. During the State of the Union address there were a few nauseating moments where both sides seemed in sync. One such rare show of solidarity came when both sides eagerly applauded the failed US-puppet Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido. Guaido isn’t the legitimate president of Venezuela, but like a scene out of a zombie movie, President Trump introduced the stiff CIA-backed puppet and the crowd went wild with applause. Braindead attendees rose in unison to give him a standing ovation. Had Guaido and his US sponsors not failed miserably to unseat President Nicholas Maduro, Guaido wouldn’t currently be on tour trying to garner support leading him to the White House.
If the Left truly cared about the US’s domestic and foreign policies and wanted to bring about any meaningful change, they need to bring more to the table than just boycotts and protests, to be taken seriously.
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theduran--2020-02-06--3 years of dossier-impeach lies & Pelosi calls SOTU “a manifesto of mistruths” (Video)

The Duran ’ s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss US President Trump ’ s State of the Union speech .
Once again the US President scored a big win , and Nancy Pelosi looked like a spoiled child when , at the end of Trump ’ s speech , Pelosi stood and tore up her copy of the remarks he had handed her .
Pelosi later told reporters it was “ the courteous thing to do , considering the alternative.
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi ( D-Calif. ) on Wednesday trashed President Trump ’ s raucous State of the Union address while huddling with rank-and-file Democrats , and explained why she dramatically ripped up his speech as he wrapped up his remarks .
“ He shredded the truth so I shredded his speech , ” Pelosi told House Democrats during a closed-door caucus meeting , according to sources in the room .
Like she did the night before , she called his 90-minute address “ a manifesto of mistruths.
” “ You are supposed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Union , ” Pelosi continued , “ not the State of your alleged mind.
” Trump , Pelosi said , “ disrespected ” the House chamber and used it as a “ backdrop for a reality show… to give a speech that had no connection with reality.
” Wednesday ’ s private remarks marked the first time Pelosi had addressed the Tuesday night incident to House Democrats .
Pelosi said she had not planned to tear up Trump ’ s speech , but she felt “ liberated ” when she did so .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ he entered the chamber and ascended the dais , appeared to snub Pelosi by ignoring her extended hand .
“ I didn ’ t go in there to tear up the speech , and I didn ’ t even care that he didn ’ t shake my hand .
In fact , who cares ?
” Pelosi told her caucus , according to sources in the room .
“ But I ’ m a speed reader , so … I went like this through the speech .
So I knew that it was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ it was a pack of lies , but I thought , ‘ Well , let ’ s see how it goes.
’ “ About a quarter through it I thought , ‘ You know – he ’ s selling a bill of goods like a snake oil salesman .
We can not let this stand , ’ ” she said .
“ So , somewhere along the way realizing what was coming , I started to stack my papers in a way that were tear-able.
” Democrats rallied behind Pelosi and her gesture @ @ @ @ @ @ @ standing ovation in the meeting , lawmakers said .
“ She ripped it from top to bottom , ” said Rep. Lois Frankel ( D-Fla. ) , speaking metaphorically of Pelosi skewering Trump ’ s speech .
Democrats were still fuming at Trump on Wednesday morning .
They were furious not only about Trump insulting Pelosi in her own chamber , but also about his claims that he alone had fixed the economy and reversed what he called years of “ American decline.
” Democrats griped that Trump had tried to erase from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ President Obama , who had inherited a financial crisis from his GOP predecessor .
Republicans directed their fury at Pelosi .
Some called for her to be censured , something that would never happen since her party controls the chamber .
Vice President Mike Pence , a former House colleague who stood next to Pelosi as she tore pages of the speech into pieces , described it as “ a new low.
” “ Speaker Pelosi had a tantrum .
She disgraced herself .
She dishonored the House , ” Republican Conference Chair @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at a GOP leadership news conference Wednesday morning .
“ She showed once again she is an embarrassment and she is unfit for office.
” But Democrats blamed Trump ’ s apparent snub at the beginning for setting the tone .
“ I think the president came for a campaign rally and his actions indicated he did not want to bring the country together .
He wanted to count on division in order to get reelected , ” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett ( D-Texas ) .
The passive-aggressive exchanges between the president and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a day when the Senate — after a weeks-long impeachment trial — will vote mostly along party lines to acquit Trump .
Until Tuesday night , Trump and Pelosi had not seen each other since a contentious mid-October meeting at the White House on Syria in which the two traded insults .
At that point , the House was only a few weeks into its impeachment inquiry .
The tensions have only deepened since Pelosi presided over the House votes in December to impeach Trump over his efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In the Wednesday gathering , Pelosi also individually thanked by name the seven Democratic impeachment managers , including lead prosecutor Rep. Adam Schiff ( D-Calif. ) .
They , too , received a standing ovation .
One of those managers , Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries ( D-N.Y. ) , one of the party ’ s top messengers , defended the Speaker ’ s actions after the meeting .
“ As far as I ’ m concerned , a shredder wasn ’ t available and she did what she needed to do @ @ @ @ @ @

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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss US President Trump’s State of the Union speech.
Once again the US President scored a big win, and Nancy Pelosi looked like a spoiled child when, at the end of Trump’s speech, Pelosi stood and tore up her copy of the remarks he had handed her.
Pelosi later told reporters it was “the courteous thing to do, considering the alternative.”
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Wednesday trashed President Trump’s raucous State of the Union address while huddling with rank-and-file Democrats, and explained why she dramatically ripped up his speech as he wrapped up his remarks.
“He shredded the truth so I shredded his speech,” Pelosi told House Democrats during a closed-door caucus meeting, according to sources in the room. Like she did the night before, she called his 90-minute address “a manifesto of mistruths.”
“You are supposed to talk about the State of the Union,” Pelosi continued, “not the State of your alleged mind.”
Trump, Pelosi said, “disrespected” the House chamber and used it as a “backdrop for a reality show… to give a speech that had no connection with reality.”
Wednesday’s private remarks marked the first time Pelosi had addressed the Tuesday night incident to House Democrats. Pelosi said she had not planned to tear up Trump’s speech, but she felt “liberated” when she did so. Her actions came after Trump, as he entered the chamber and ascended the dais, appeared to snub Pelosi by ignoring her extended hand.
“I didn’t go in there to tear up the speech, and I didn’t even care that he didn’t shake my hand. In fact, who cares?” Pelosi told her caucus, according to sources in the room. “But I’m a speed reader, so … I went like this through the speech. So I knew that it was a pack of lies. I knew it was a pack of lies, but I thought, ‘Well, let’s see how it goes.’
“About a quarter through it I thought, ‘You know – he’s selling a bill of goods like a snake oil salesman. We cannot let this stand,’” she said. “So, somewhere along the way realizing what was coming, I started to stack my papers in a way that were tear-able.”
Democrats rallied behind Pelosi and her gesture the night before, erupting in a standing ovation in the meeting, lawmakers said.
“She ripped it from top to bottom,” said Rep. Lois Frankel (D-Fla.), speaking metaphorically of Pelosi skewering Trump’s speech.
Democrats were still fuming at Trump on Wednesday morning. They were furious not only about Trump insulting Pelosi in her own chamber, but also about his claims that he alone had fixed the economy and reversed what he called years of “American decline.”
Democrats griped that Trump had tried to erase from history eight years of economic growth under President Obama, who had inherited a financial crisis from his GOP predecessor.
Republicans directed their fury at Pelosi. Some called for her to be censured, something that would never happen since her party controls the chamber. Vice President Mike Pence, a former House colleague who stood next to Pelosi as she tore pages of the speech into pieces, described it as “a new low.”
“Speaker Pelosi had a tantrum. She disgraced herself. She dishonored the House,” Republican Conference Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said at a GOP leadership news conference Wednesday morning. “She showed once again she is an embarrassment and she is unfit for office.”
But Democrats blamed Trump’s apparent snub at the beginning for setting the tone.
“I think the president came for a campaign rally and his actions indicated he did not want to bring the country together. He wanted to count on division in order to get reelected,” said Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Texas).
The passive-aggressive exchanges between the president and Speaker have only inflamed partisan tensions on a day when the Senate — after a weeks-long impeachment trial — will vote mostly along party lines to acquit Trump.
Until Tuesday night, Trump and Pelosi had not seen each other since a contentious mid-October meeting at the White House on Syria in which the two traded insults. At that point, the House was only a few weeks into its impeachment inquiry.
The tensions have only deepened since Pelosi presided over the House votes in December to impeach Trump over his efforts to pressure the Ukrainian government to open investigations into his political opponents.
In the Wednesday gathering, Pelosi also individually thanked by name the seven Democratic impeachment managers, including lead prosecutor Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.). They, too, received a standing ovation.
One of those managers, Democratic Caucus Chairman Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), one of the party’s top messengers, defended the Speaker’s actions after the meeting.
“As far as I’m concerned, a shredder wasn’t available and she did what she needed to do,” Jeffries told reporters.
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theduran--2020-02-06--Buzzfeed gets Zerohedge suspended from Twitter over coronavirus post (Video)

The Duran ’ s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Twitter ’ s suspension of the Zerohedge account after a Buzzfeed activist/journalist reported the financial-news site to the social network , for allegedly doxing a Chinese scientist connected to coronavirus research , in a recent article .
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Twitter Inc has banned financial market website Zero Hedge from the social media platform after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Hedge said it received a notification from Twitter on Friday , accusing it of violating the social media company ’ s “ rules against abuse and harassment.
” The move against the website came as the coronavirus has stoked a wave of anti-China sentiment around the globe .
Hoaxes have spread widely online , promoted by conspiracy theorists and exacerbated by a dearth of information from the cordoned-off zone around China ’ s central city of Wuhan , where the outbreak began .
Twitter confirmed to Reuters on Sunday Zero Hedge ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suspended for violating “ platform manipulation policy ” .
The account had 670,000 followers as of its suspension .
A fresh Twitter account set up in the last two days with the same profile picture as the banned account and a link to the Zero Hedge website already has more than 11,000 followers .
Zero Hedge said that the new account was not operated by them and they “ have no idea who is operating it ” .
The website , which covers mostly finance and economics-related news , posts articles using the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ played by Brad Pitt in the movie “ Fight Club ” .
Social media companies , including Twitter and Facebook have pledged to take down accounts that spread misinformation about the virus .
The coronavirus has killed more than 300 people in China , and more than two dozen other countries have confirmed cases of the virus .
Zero Hedge said it initially thought the suspension was triggered by an article it published on Friday about the makeup of the coronavirus .
But it suggested it later learned Twitter had received a complaint @ @ @ @ @ @ @ separate article .
BuzzFeed said Zero Hedge had released the personal information of a scientist from Wuhan in an article that made allegations about coronavirus having been concocted “ as a bioweapon.
” The article was titled “ Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic ?
” BuzzFeed did not immediately respond to a request for comment .

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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Twitter’s suspension of the Zerohedge account after a Buzzfeed activist/journalist reported the financial-news site to the social network, for allegedly doxing a Chinese scientist connected to coronavirus research, in a recent article.
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Twitter Inc has banned financial market website Zero Hedge from the social media platform after it published an article linking a Chinese scientist to the outbreak of the fast-spreading coronavirus last week.
Zero Hedge said it received a notification from Twitter on Friday, accusing it of violating the social media company’s “rules against abuse and harassment.”
The move against the website came as the coronavirus has stoked a wave of anti-China sentiment around the globe. Hoaxes have spread widely online, promoted by conspiracy theorists and exacerbated by a dearth of information from the cordoned-off zone around China’s central city of Wuhan, where the outbreak began.
Twitter confirmed to Reuters on Sunday Zero Hedge’s account on its platform had been permanently suspended for violating “platform manipulation policy”. The account had 670,000 followers as of its suspension.
A fresh Twitter account set up in the last two days with the same profile picture as the banned account and a link to the Zero Hedge website already has more than 11,000 followers.
Zero Hedge said that the new account was not operated by them and they “have no idea who is operating it”.
The website, which covers mostly finance and economics-related news, posts articles using the pseudonym Tyler Durden, a fictional character played by Brad Pitt in the movie “Fight Club”.
Social media companies, including Twitter and Facebook have pledged to take down accounts that spread misinformation about the virus.
The coronavirus has killed more than 300 people in China, and more than two dozen other countries have confirmed cases of the virus.
Zero Hedge said it initially thought the suspension was triggered by an article it published on Friday about the makeup of the coronavirus. But it suggested it later learned Twitter had received a complaint from online news website BuzzFeed over a separate article.
BuzzFeed said Zero Hedge had released the personal information of a scientist from Wuhan in an article that made allegations about coronavirus having been concocted “as a bioweapon.” The article was titled “Is This The Man Behind The Global Coronavirus Pandemic?”
BuzzFeed did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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theduran--2020-02-07--The Democrats’ Open Borders Conspiracy

The Democrats’ Open Borders Conspiracy

The hatred of certain so-called progressive Democrats for America , especially white America , is a subject hardly worth debating .
This is best summed up in a nutshell with Hillary Clinton ’ s now infamous “ basket of deplorables ” quote , which meant in effect anyone who doesn ’ t vote “ for me ” is a bigot .
While like Elizabeth Warren , Mrs Clinton has a well-deserved reputation for speaking with forked tongue , Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez ( pictured ) and her fellow travellers mean what they say .
And not only are they intent on bringing @ @ @ @ @ @ @ way there .
Recently , Tucker Carlson broadcast a thirteen and a half minute segment on the New Way Forward Act and related issues .
This pending bill has received almost no publicity , he said .
You don ’ t have to listen to Tucker ’ s rant , you can read the bill yourself .
H.R .
5383 purports to be a bill to “ reform the process for enforcing the immigration laws of the United States , and for other purposes ” .
Introduced last October , it would , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ any sort of control over the people allowed to enter the United States .
For example , paragraph ( 6 ) says there will be special rules for VULNERABLE PERSONS AND PRIMARY CAREGIVERS , and vulnerable means ?
Anyone under 21 or over 60 ; anyone – presumably any woman – who is pregnant ; anyone who identifies as lesbian , gay ( presumably homosexual ) , bisexual , transgender , or intersex ; a victim or witness of a crime ( including dropping litter ? )
; who has filed a nonfrivolous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ court ; who has a serious mental or physical illness or disability ( give us your poor , your wretched , and your defectives ) ; who has been determined by an asylum officer in an interview conducted under section 235 ( b ) ( 1 ) ( B ) to have a credible fear of persecution or a reasonable fear of persecution ; who has limited English language proficiency and is not provided access to appropriate and meaningful language services in a timely fashion .
Finally , anyone who has been determined @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Homeland Security to be experiencing severe trauma or to be a survivor of torture or gender-based violence , based on information obtained during intake , from the alien ’ s attorney or legal service provider , or through credible self-reporting .
That last category alone would lead to the admission of almost anyone because it is a standard ploy of female illegal immigrants to claim they were raped by soldiers or police officers in their own countries .
The purposes of Titles VI and VII of the bill are stated candidly to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ those actually deported the right to “ come home ” .
And if you oppose any of the above you can only be racist , right ?
No other country on Earth has or would attempt to introduce such a bill , although Western Europe has been going down the same route for decades .
The New Way Forward Act is not simply laughable , it is insane , and further proof as if further proof were needed that if Donald Trump is not re-elected later this year , America will be finished @

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The hatred of certain so-called progressive Democrats for America, especially white America, is a subject hardly worth debating. This is best summed up in a nutshell with Hillary Clinton’s now infamous “basket of deplorables” quote, which meant in effect anyone who doesn’t vote “for me” is a bigot.
While like Elizabeth Warren, Mrs Clinton has a well-deserved reputation for speaking with forked tongue, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (pictured) and her fellow travellers mean what they say. And not only are they intent on bringing it about, but they are half way there.
Recently, Tucker Carlson broadcast a thirteen and a half minute segment on the New Way Forward Act and related issues. This pending bill has received almost no publicity, he said. You don’t have to listen to Tucker’s rant, you can read the bill yourself. H.R. 5383 purports to be a bill to “reform the process for enforcing the immigration laws of the United States, and for other purposes”.
Introduced last December, it would, if passed as drafted, virtually abolish any sort of control over the people allowed to enter the United States. For example, paragraph (6) says there will be special rules for VULNERABLE PERSONS AND PRIMARY CAREGIVERS, and vulnerable means?
Anyone under 21 or over 60; anyone – presumably any woman – who is pregnant; anyone who identifies as lesbian, gay (presumably homosexual), bisexual, transgender, or intersex; a victim or witness of a crime (including dropping litter?); who has filed a nonfrivolous civil rights claim in Federal or State court; who has a serious mental or physical illness or disability (give us your poor, your wretched, and your defectives); who has been determined by an asylum officer in an interview conducted under section 235(b)(1)(B) to have a credible fear of persecution or a reasonable fear of persecution; who has limited English language proficiency and is not provided access to appropriate and meaningful language services in a timely fashion. Finally, anyone who has been determined by an immigration judge or the Secretary of Homeland Security to be experiencing severe trauma or to be a survivor of torture or gender-based violence, based on information obtained during intake, from the alien’s attorney or legal service provider, or through credible self-reporting.
That last category alone would lead to the admission of almost anyone because it is a standard ploy of female illegal immigrants to claim they were raped by soldiers or police officers in their own countries.
The purposes of Titles VI and VII of the bill are stated candidly to repeal migration criminal laws and to give those actually deported the right to “come home”.
And if you oppose any of the above you can only be racist, right? No other country on Earth has or would attempt to introduce such a bill, although Western Europe has been going down the same route for decades.
The New Way Forward Act is not simply laughable, it is insane, and further proof as if further proof were needed that if Donald Trump is not re-elected later this year, America will be finished.
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theduran--2020-02-07--Trump calls out Pelosi and Pierre Delecto (Video)

The Duran ’ s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss US President Trump ’ s Thursday annual National Prayer Breakfast speech and acquittal press conference , where Trump called out the hypocrisy , corruption and fake faith of Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney aka .
Pierre Delecto .
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US President Donald Trump took a veiled swipe at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the sole Republican senator to vote for his removal , Mitt Romney @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to justify “ doing what they know is wrong.
” Trump avoided calling the sanctimonious pair out by name during the annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday , but everyone listening seemed to know which “ very dishonest and corrupt people ” he was referring to with his accusations of rank religious hypocrisy .
“ I don ’ t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong , ” the president said .
“ Nor do I like people who say , ‘ I pray for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that ’ s not so.
” Romney made Democrats swoon , after the Senate voted to acquit Trump with a heavily religious-toned speech in which he equated voting to convict the president on the charge of ‘ abuse of power ’ to fulfilling his duties “ before God , ” though his own party was none too pleased with his decision .
The Utah senator , a Mormon , has referenced his religion repeatedly in justifying his opposition to Trump .
Pelosi has said she “ prays for ” Trump “ all the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ appearances and her speech-ripping antics earlier this week – that she “ doesn ’ t hate anybody.
” Pelosi , who was present at the prayer breakfast , did not interact with Trump , though she reportedly clapped when he was introduced .
Trump is due to make his official address in response to the previous day ’ s impeachment vote later on Thursday .
The acquittal came as a surprise to few , given Republican control of the Senate , but the partisan rancor that spawned the inquiry in September is unlikely @ @ @ @ @

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The Duran’s Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss US President Trump’s Thursday annual National Prayer Breakfast speech and acquittal press conference, where Trump called out the hypocrisy, corruption and fake faith of Nancy Pelosi and Mitt Romney aka. Pierre Delecto.
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Via RT…
US President Donald Trump took a veiled swipe at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the sole Republican senator to vote for his removal, Mitt Romney, slamming those who use their faith to justify “doing what they know is wrong.”
Trump avoided calling the sanctimonious pair out by name during the annual National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, but everyone listening seemed to know which “very dishonest and corrupt people” he was referring to with his accusations of rank religious hypocrisy.
President Trump: "I don't like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor do I like people who say 'I pray for you' when they know that that's not so. So many people have been hurt and we can't let that go on."#NationalPrayerBreakfast pic.twitter.com/79XCLpD7GP — CSPAN (@cspan) February 6, 2020
“I don’t like people who use their faith as justification for doing what they know is wrong,” the president said. “Nor do I like people who say, ‘I pray for you,’ when they know that that’s not so.”
They know what they are doing is wrong but they put themselves far ahead of our great country.
Romney made Democrats swoon, after the Senate voted to acquit Trump with a heavily religious-toned speech in which he equated voting to convict the president on the charge of ‘abuse of power’ to fulfilling his duties “before God,” though his own party was none too pleased with his decision. The Utah senator, a Mormon, has referenced his religion repeatedly in justifying his opposition to Trump. Pelosi has said she “prays for” Trump “all the time,” insisting – despite outward appearances and her speech-ripping antics earlier this week – that she “doesn’t hate anybody.”
Pelosi, who was present at the prayer breakfast, did not interact with Trump, though she reportedly clapped when he was introduced.
Trump is due to make his official address in response to the previous day’s impeachment vote later on Thursday. The acquittal came as a surprise to few, given Republican control of the Senate, but the partisan rancor that spawned the inquiry in September is unlikely to dissipate anytime soon.
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