veteranstoday--2020-08-23--Yet More Nonsense About Russia

Yet More Nonsense About Russia

The MSM have fallen for it again !
Poor old President Putin , a nice man with respect , is being blamed for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in Omsk .
Navalny , who has a couple of bees in his bonnet about corruption and Vladimir Putin being some sort of autocrat , posed no threat at all to the President , who is enormously popular and has just had a resounding referendum victory .
Unlike say Boris Johnson he is also hugely competent .
The idea that he ordered the poisoning of a nonentity like Navalny is absurd , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ are implying .
For the benefit of Cold War warriors like Sky News the Cold War ended thirty years ago .
Modern Russia is a democracy and Vladimir Putin is her elected President .
Moreover Russia is a potential friend and ally .
She is particularly well-disposed towards Britain .
The elephant in the room is Germany .
The MSM are subject to the insidious influence of the powerful propaganda section of the DVD in Dachau , which goes all the way back to the wartime Propaganda Ministry run by our community partner @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rupert ‘ von ’ Murdoch understand this and know better than to upset Germany .
President Putin is a patriot and bitterly opposed by Germany .
Political assassination of opponents , with a view to the President being blamed , is a standard German tactic .
The DVD know that the tame Western media will swallow whatever rubbish is put in front of them .
The propaganda section also understands that the Western media have low ethical values , no offense intended , and are quite happy to sacrifice Russian lives .
Each @ @ @ @ @ @ @ did it ’ false flag they encourage the DVD to murder someone else .
Poor Anna Politkovskaya was probably the first victim , whacked by Russian organised crime at the DVD ’ s behest .
She had a bee in her bonnet about alleged Russian war crimes in Chechnya , where the Russian security forces have in fact performed superbly , in difficult conditions .
The Russian counter-insurgency effort there has in effect been her main contribution to the Global War on Terror .
Of course the odd Russian squaddie has got tanked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and done something silly , but nothing that you wouldn ’ t see in Nottingham on a bad Saturday night .
Some of what Navalno has been saying about corruption makes sense .
However the biggest corruption issue in Russia involves oligarchs allowed by Germany to participate in her offshore high-yield trading programs .
They are not illegal , but the vast profits generated offshore are concealed from the Russian taxman and distortion of the money supply inflates the inflation rate .
I couldn ’ t name a recent British Prime Minister more @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s wildly popular because he ’ s hard-working , knows what he ’ s doing , hasn ’ t raided the Russian treasury and is hugely patriotic .
The fact that the EU haven ’ t got a leader to match him is their fault , not his .
I don ’ t have a problem with Navalny having been poisoned .
I have a huge problem with the idea that President Putin ordered it .
He simply had no motive .
He was bound to be blamed in the West and had @ @ @ @ @ @ @ a nutter like Alexi Navalny .
The Navalny poisoning has allowed anti-Russian elements in the media ( basically everybody except Russia Today , who are nice people even if they won ’ t have me on ) to dredge up every hysterical allegation against Russia going back to 2006 .
That was the year that former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko managed to top himself with the antidote to polonium , Prussian Blue .
The whole scheme was dreamt up by a bent clown called Boris Berezovsky , Litvinenko ’ s employer , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
Litvinenko was persuaded to swallow both polonium and the antidote .
Prussian Blue can be the deadlier of the two substances – basically you only take it if you ’ ve already ingested some polonium .
The whole ludicrous scheme came to grief and Litvinenko snuffed it , triggering a massive cover-up in Britain .
I ’ m sorry to say that a judge was roped in to join the cover-up , Britain ’ s judiciary having less integrity these days than Russia ’ s , sadly .
( Basically the modern @ @ @ @ @ @ @ decency and fairness , whilst the modern Russian judiciary operates to old-fashioned British standards . )
Berezovsky never got over the loss of his friend and very properly topped himself in 2013 , triggering another silly round of conspiracy theories .
Litvinenko ’ s cause of death was peritonitis , triggered by a breach of his lower intestine , with secondary radiation poisoning .
Period , as you chaps say !
The MSM are dredging this up as well .
As I have previously reported in these pages Germany ’ s UK operation @ @ @ @ @ @ @ bright idea of administering some BX nerve agent to Colonel Skripal and his daughter in the beautiful city of Salisbury in Wiltshire and pretending it was novichok , a deadly Soviet-era nerve agent .
They weren ’ t the first to come up with the idea .
The scriptwriters of the entertaining 2002 Cold War drama , The Sum Of All Fears , based on the late Tom Clancy ’ s novel of the same name , got there first .
The movie features a mad Austrian megalomaniac , who for the avoidance @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Kissinger , who organises a novichok attack in Chechnya with a view to the Kremlin being blamed .
The megalomaniac then blows up Baltimore and everybody notices because the president , superbly played by James Cromwell , was watching a ball-game in Baltimore at the time .
I ’ m not suggesting that dear old Henry Kissinger isn ’ t a megalomaniac of course , but he ’ s certainly not mad , indeed he ’ s the nicest megalomaniac I ’ ve ever had dealings with , if he will permit me @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not nearly as nice , no offense intended .
Staying with The Sum Of All Fears , the scriptwriters got several things right , by the way – the nuke to fear is the one smuggled into a city , the scenario Major-General Sergun of the GRU and I were faced with in 2012 .
They also understood that weapons-grade plutonium gives off a unique signature .
Since the signature of the stolen Russian warheads infiltrated by the DVD into East London in 2012 would by definition have been Russian the danger was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to persuade the wartime allies to wipe each other out in a nuclear exchange .
The scriptwriters got several things wrong however , including the idea that Chechnya is a separate country from Russia .
Chechnya was and remains a province of the Russian Federation and is sovereign Russian soil .
The Sum Of All Fears was the first Tom Clancy novel that I read , incidentally .
I well recall buying it in a bookstore at Chicago ’ s Union Station in 1991 shortly before boarding AMTRAK ’ s California Zephyr .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ , CA , and even flying first class my luggage allowance hadn ‘ t allowed me to bring a bunch of books over from England .
It was a very pleasant journey , although the nice African-American sleeping car attendant , if that is not a tautology , seemed a bit taken aback when I asked if I needed to dress for dinner !
( I discovered that very few diners wear a tuxedo in AMTRAK dining cars . )
I ’ d never heard of Tom Clancy , but I found his @ @ @ @ @ @ @ he became one of my favorite authors .
I was appalled by his murder in 2013 and would hate to think that it was because the Correa/COREA Group were worried that we were scheduled to meet .
( He was murdered the night I flew into Baltimore for a US Naval Institute conference at Annapolis , MD . )
Tom was a member of USNI , so far as I know , ( they published his first book , The Hunt For Red October ) , but he wasn ’ t expected to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ due to my colleagues at VT for exposing the lie that the agent used at Salisbury was novichok .
Novichok was used in a later attack , the murder of Dawn Sturgess , in July 2018 , but that was a small amount supplied by DSTL Porton Down .
Possibly rattled by VT ’ s exposures , GO2 seem to have thought that they needed to kill someone – anyone – with some actual novichok .
The idea that two professional Russian military intelligence officers would solemnly board a South West Railways train @ @ @ @ @ @ @ enough nerve agent to wipe out a small town , travel down to Salisbury and murder a Russian defector who had been released in an agreed spy-swap , is ridiculous .
Tom wouldn ’ t have dared put it in one of his novels , for fear at being laughed at .
There doesn ’ t seem to be any limit to the gullibility of the media when it comes to Russia .
The accusation that President Putin ordered the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over the Ukraine was equally hysterical @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pages at the time the plane was actually shot down in a combined operation by the Ukrainian Air Force and the Chinese PLA Air Force . )
There is no excuse for any intelligence professional falling for the idea that President Putin ordered the poisoning of Alexei Navalny .
The good news is that they can do wonderful things with paranoia these days and there is hope that the journalists pedalling this nonsense will be able to make complete recoveries .
There is similar hysteria over the election result in Belarus , which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ won a convincing win because he was the best candidate .
He is pro-Russian , but what ’ s wrong with that ?
Belarus used to be called White Russia , after all .
The MSM have persuaded themselves that opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has been ‘ exiled ’ to Lithuania , which is nonsense .
She chose to go there , possibly fearing arrest by Belarus ’ s efficient KDB , who will doubtless be investigating the possibility of links between the opposition and the DVD .
Tikhanovskaya ’ s husband was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ There is no reason to suppose that his arrest was politically motivated – neither the Crown Prosecution Service nor the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York ( SDNY ) was involved .
German ambitions to dominate Belarus go back a long way , long before their 1941 invasion .
Eastern European politics can be very nasty .
A lot of those whingeing about Presidents Putin and Lukashenko haven ’ t forgiven Russia for hammering Germany in World War II .
Unlike Minsk they don ’ t do human rights in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the office of the US Attorney for SDNY .
Steve Bannon ’ s arrest on a yacht off the coast of Connecticut on Thursday on politically motivated fraud charges was a real shocker .
It would serve the US Attorney right if he applied for asylum in Britain .
The charges are a crock , and I ’ m not just saying that because Steve gets a copy of my column ( hi Steve ! )
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SDNY are clearly backing Joe Biden in November and the charges were very obviously designed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they will be dropped after the election .
I assume SDNY ’ s strategy is to carry on making offensive media comments , on the basis that they ’ re more likely to win a trial by media than a trial by jury .
Had the charges been brought earlier there was a risk that the case might have been thrown out before the election .
Steve Bannon ’ s arrest raises serious counter-intelligence concerns .
Aside from the Democrats those with most to gain are the Mexican drug cartels and the DVD @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have long followed a policy of flooding America with dangerous narcotics .
( Our community partner the Hun tried the same thing with the British Expeditionary Force in World War I and again with US forces in Vietnam . )
The Wall poses a serious threat to that strategy .
It is legitimate to ask whether any cartel cash has found its way into SDNY or the federal judiciary .
We know that the DoJ are corrupt , no offense intended , and that the federal judiciary are highly politicised .
President Trump @ @ @ @ @ @ @ acting US Attorney for SDNY , who needs a real smack .
There ’ s no point asking the FBI to investigate SDNY .
That would be like asking the Gestapo ’ s inspector-general to investigate allegations of anti-semitism , or for that matter , the Labour Party .
The Intelligence Community needs to step up to the plate .
Strauss was implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal , the DVD ’ s operation to embarrass the great President Reagan .
( She was then a junior prosecutor in SDNY , who were tasked @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigation . )
It ’ s not enough for Steve Bannon to be cleared .
All those involved in this scandal should be arrested themselves .
Time for SDNY , who were happy to take no action over the brutal murder of German operative Jeffrey Epstein last August and have run a smear campaign against a Prince of the Blood Royal , to feel the heat .
Of course by that I don ’ t mean that their office should be torched – I mean that they should be held to account for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ don ’ t share the MSM ’ s enthusiasm for Joe Biden ’ s gloomy acceptance speech .
Like the MSM themselves he has been exaggerating the crisis triggered by China ’ s accidental release of its Covid-19 bio-weapon .
As I and others have reported there ’ s been a cure for Covid-19 all along and a vaccine is just around the corner .
Indeed Russia already seems to have developed one , which may explain the timing of the apparent German decision to poison Alexei Navalny .
You don ’ t @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coming across as a depressive , no offense intended .
Joe Biden has any number of reasons to feel depressed , indeed if I were a Democrat I ’ d be depressed .
At least his speechwriter didn ’ t copy this speech from Neil Kinnock !
Apologies to any readers who have been trying to reach me by email without success .
I ’ ve been having major problems with Thunderbird , so much so that in desperation I ’ ve switched to Outlook !
If you ’ ve failed to reach @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
I normally respond to polite enquiries .
( If you ’ re a nutter , don ’ t bother ! )

The MSM have fallen for it again! Poor old President Putin, a nice man with respect, is being blamed for the poisoning of Alexei Navalny in Omsk. Navalny, who has a couple of bees in his bonnet about corruption and Vladimir Putin being some sort of autocrat, posed no threat at all to the President, who is enormously popular and has just had a resounding referendum victory.
Unlike say Boris Johnson he is also hugely competent. The idea that he ordered the poisoning of a nonentity like Navalny is absurd, but that’s what the MSM are implying.
For the benefit of Cold War warriors like Sky News the Cold War ended thirty years ago. Modern Russia is a democracy and Vladimir Putin is her elected President. Moreover Russia is a potential friend and ally. She is particularly well-disposed towards Britain.
The elephant in the room is Germany. The MSM are subject to the insidious influence of the powerful propaganda section of the DVD in Dachau, which goes all the way back to the wartime Propaganda Ministry run by our community partner Dr Goebbels. Major media players like Rupert ‘von’ Murdoch understand this and know better than to upset Germany.
President Putin is a patriot and bitterly opposed by Germany. Political assassination of opponents, with a view to the President being blamed, is a standard German tactic. The DVD know that the tame Western media will swallow whatever rubbish is put in front of them.
The propaganda section also understands that the Western media have low ethical values, no offense intended, and are quite happy to sacrifice Russian lives. Each time they fall for the ‘Putin did it’ false flag they encourage the DVD to murder someone else.
Anna Politkovskaya
Poor Anna Politkovskaya was probably the first victim, whacked by Russian organised crime at the DVD’s behest. She had a bee in her bonnet about alleged Russian war crimes in Chechnya, where the Russian security forces have in fact performed superbly, in difficult conditions.
The Russian counter-insurgency effort there has in effect been her main contribution to the Global War on Terror. Of course the odd Russian squaddie has got tanked up on the odd bottle of vodka and done something silly, but nothing that you wouldn’t see in Nottingham on a bad Saturday night.
Some of what Navalno has been saying about corruption makes sense. However the biggest corruption issue in Russia involves oligarchs allowed by Germany to participate in her offshore high-yield trading programs. They are not illegal, but the vast profits generated offshore are concealed from the Russian taxman and distortion of the money supply inflates the inflation rate.
I couldn’t name a recent British Prime Minister more honest than Vladimir Putin. He’s wildly popular because he’s hard-working, knows what he’s doing, hasn’t raided the Russian treasury and is hugely patriotic. The fact that the EU haven’t got a leader to match him is their fault, not his.
I don’t have a problem with Navalny having been poisoned. I have a huge problem with the idea that President Putin ordered it. He simply had no motive. He was bound to be blamed in the West and had nothing whatsoever to gain from knocking off a nutter like Alexi Navalny.
Lt-Col Litvinenko
The Navalny poisoning has allowed anti-Russian elements in the media (basically everybody except Russia Today, who are nice people even if they won’t have me on) to dredge up every hysterical allegation against Russia going back to 2006. That was the year that former Russian intelligence officer Alexander Litvinenko managed to top himself with the antidote to polonium, Prussian Blue.
The whole scheme was dreamt up by a bent clown called Boris Berezovsky, Litvinenko’s employer, who wanted to embarrass poor old Pooters. Litvinenko was persuaded to swallow both polonium and the antidote. Prussian Blue can be the deadlier of the two substances – basically you only take it if you’ve already ingested some polonium.
The whole ludicrous scheme came to grief and Litvinenko snuffed it, triggering a massive cover-up in Britain. I’m sorry to say that a judge was roped in to join the cover-up, Britain’s judiciary having less integrity these days than Russia’s, sadly. (Basically the modern British judiciary operates to Soviet standards of decency and fairness, whilst the modern Russian judiciary operates to old-fashioned British standards.)
Berezovsky never got over the loss of his friend and very properly topped himself in 2013, triggering another silly round of conspiracy theories. Litvinenko’s cause of death was peritonitis, triggered by a breach of his lower intestine, with secondary radiation poisoning. Period, as you chaps say!
Salisbury
The MSM are dredging this up as well. As I have previously reported in these pages Germany’s UK operation, GO2, came up with the bright idea of administering some BX nerve agent to Colonel Skripal and his daughter in the beautiful city of Salisbury in Wiltshire and pretending it was novichok, a deadly Soviet-era nerve agent.
They weren’t the first to come up with the idea. The scriptwriters of the entertaining 2002 Cold War drama, The Sum Of All Fears, based on the late Tom Clancy’s novel of the same name, got there first. The movie features a mad Austrian megalomaniac, who for the avoidance of doubt was not modelled on Henry Kissinger, who organises a novichok attack in Chechnya with a view to the Kremlin being blamed. The megalomaniac then blows up Baltimore and everybody notices because the president, superbly played by James Cromwell, was watching a ball-game in Baltimore at the time.
I’m not suggesting that dear old Henry Kissinger isn’t a megalomaniac of course, but he’s certainly not mad, indeed he’s the nicest megalomaniac I’ve ever had dealings with, if he will permit me to say so. Tony Blair is not nearly as nice, no offense intended.
Staying with The Sum Of All Fears, the scriptwriters got several things right, by the way – the nuke to fear is the one smuggled into a city, the scenario Major-General Sergun of the GRU and I were faced with in 2012. They also understood that weapons-grade plutonium gives off a unique signature. Since the signature of the stolen Russian warheads infiltrated by the DVD into East London in 2012 would by definition have been Russian the danger was doubled. The Germans have long tried to persuade the wartime allies to wipe each other out in a nuclear exchange.
The scriptwriters got several things wrong however, including the idea that Chechnya is a separate country from Russia. Chechnya was and remains a province of the Russian Federation and is sovereign Russian soil.
Tom Clancy – one of the greatest thriller writers of all time.
The Sum Of All Fears was the first Tom Clancy novel that I read, incidentally. I well recall buying it in a bookstore at Chicago’s Union Station in 1991 shortly before boarding AMTRAK’s California Zephyr. It was a long haul to Oakland, CA, and even flying first class my luggage allowance hadn‘t allowed me to bring a bunch of books over from England.
It was a very pleasant journey, although the nice African-American sleeping car attendant, if that is not a tautology, seemed a bit taken aback when I asked if I needed to dress for dinner! (I discovered that very few diners wear a tuxedo in AMTRAK dining cars.)
I’d never heard of Tom Clancy, but I found his book to be an absorbing read and he became one of my favorite authors. I was appalled by his murder in 2013 and would hate to think that it was because the Correa/COREA Group were worried that we were scheduled to meet. (He was murdered the night I flew into Baltimore for a US Naval Institute conference at Annapolis, MD.) Tom was a member of USNI, so far as I know, (they published his first book, The Hunt For Red October), but he wasn’t expected to attend the conference.
Huge credit is due to my colleagues at VT for exposing the lie that the agent used at Salisbury was novichok. Novichok was used in a later attack, the murder of Dawn Sturgess, in July 2018, but that was a small amount supplied by DSTL Porton Down. Possibly rattled by VT’s exposures, GO2 seem to have thought that they needed to kill someone – anyone – with some actual novichok.
The idea that two professional Russian military intelligence officers would solemnly board a South West Railways train at Waterloo Station in London. carrying enough nerve agent to wipe out a small town, travel down to Salisbury and murder a Russian defector who had been released in an agreed spy-swap, is ridiculous. Tom wouldn’t have dared put it in one of his novels, for fear at being laughed at.
There doesn’t seem to be any limit to the gullibility of the media when it comes to Russia. The accusation that President Putin ordered the shooting down of Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 over the Ukraine was equally hysterical. (As I demonstrated on these pages at the time the plane was actually shot down in a combined operation by the Ukrainian Air Force and the Chinese PLA Air Force.)
There is no excuse for any intelligence professional falling for the idea that President Putin ordered the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. The good news is that they can do wonderful things with paranoia these days and there is hope that the journalists pedalling this nonsense will be able to make complete recoveries.
Belarus
There is similar hysteria over the election result in Belarus, which the Germans lost. President Alexander Lukashenko won a convincing win because he was the best candidate. He is pro-Russian, but what’s wrong with that? Belarus used to be called White Russia, after all.
The MSM have persuaded themselves that opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has been ‘exiled’ to Lithuania, which is nonsense. She chose to go there, possibly fearing arrest by Belarus’s efficient KDB, who will doubtless be investigating the possibility of links between the opposition and the DVD. Tikhanovskaya’s husband was very properly arrested on May 29th. There is no reason to suppose that his arrest was politically motivated – neither the Crown Prosecution Service nor the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) was involved.
German ambitions to dominate Belarus go back a long way, long before their 1941 invasion. Eastern European politics can be very nasty. A lot of those whingeing about Presidents Putin and Lukashenko haven’t forgiven Russia for hammering Germany in World War II.
Steve Bannon, smartly dressed as usual.
Steve Bannon
Unlike Minsk they don’t do human rights in New York, at any rate not in the office of the US Attorney for SDNY. Steve Bannon’s arrest on a yacht off the coast of Connecticut on Thursday on politically motivated fraud charges was a real shocker. It would serve the US Attorney right if he applied for asylum in Britain.
The charges are a crock, and I’m not just saying that because Steve gets a copy of my column (hi Steve!). SDNY are clearly backing Joe Biden in November and the charges were very obviously designed to embarrass the President. I imagine they will be dropped after the election. I assume SDNY’s strategy is to carry on making offensive media comments, on the basis that they’re more likely to win a trial by media than a trial by jury. Had the charges been brought earlier there was a risk that the case might have been thrown out before the election.
Steve Bannon’s arrest raises serious counter-intelligence concerns. Aside from the Democrats those with most to gain are the Mexican drug cartels and the DVD, who sit behind the cartels and have long followed a policy of flooding America with dangerous narcotics. (Our community partner the Hun tried the same thing with the British Expeditionary Force in World War I and again with US forces in Vietnam.) The Wall poses a serious threat to that strategy.
It is legitimate to ask whether any cartel cash has found its way into SDNY or the federal judiciary. We know that the DoJ are corrupt, no offense intended, and that the federal judiciary are highly politicised.
President Trump should now fire Audrey Strauss, the acting US Attorney for SDNY, who needs a real smack. There’s no point asking the FBI to investigate SDNY. That would be like asking the Gestapo’s inspector-general to investigate allegations of anti-semitism, or for that matter, the Labour Party.
The Intelligence Community needs to step up to the plate. Strauss was implicated in the Iran-Contra scandal, the DVD’s operation to embarrass the great President Reagan. (She was then a junior prosecutor in SDNY, who were tasked by the Germans with conducting a fake investigation.)
It’s not enough for Steve Bannon to be cleared. All those involved in this scandal should be arrested themselves. Time for SDNY, who were happy to take no action over the brutal murder of German operative Jeffrey Epstein last August and have run a smear campaign against a Prince of the Blood Royal, to feel the heat. Of course by that I don’t mean that their office should be torched – I mean that they should be held to account for their crimes against public justice.
Presidential Race
I don’t share the MSM’s enthusiasm for Joe Biden’s gloomy acceptance speech. Like the MSM themselves he has been exaggerating the crisis triggered by China’s accidental release of its Covid-19 bio-weapon. As I and others have reported there’s been a cure for Covid-19 all along and a vaccine is just around the corner. Indeed Russia already seems to have developed one, which may explain the timing of the apparent German decision to poison Alexei Navalny.
You don’t win elections by being gloomy, or coming across as a depressive, no offense intended. Joe Biden has any number of reasons to feel depressed, indeed if I were a Democrat I’d be depressed. At least his speechwriter didn’t copy this speech from Neil Kinnock!
Emails
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veteranstoday--2020-08-23--Was Qassem Soleimani Killed to avenge Saudi Oil Installations Attack?

A joint American-Israeli program [ 1 ] , involving a series of short-of-war clandestine strikes , aimed at taking out the most prominent generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps ( IRGC ) and targeting Iran ’ s power stations , industrial infrastructure , and missile and nuclear facilities has been going on since early this year when commander of IRGC ’ s Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in a US airstrike at Baghdad airport on January 3 .
As the US presidential race is heating up , the pace and sophistication of subversive attacks in Iran is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ mysterious explosions ” were reported at a missile and explosives storage facility at Parchin military base on June 26 , at power stations in the cities of Shiraz and Ahvaz , a “ mysterious fire ” at Bushehr port on July 15 destroying seven ships , and a massive explosion at the Natanz nuclear site on July 2 that has reportedly set back Iran ’ s nuclear program by at least two years .
Besides whipping up nationalist sentiment among America ’ s conservative electorate on the eve of US presidential election @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the subversive attacks appears to be to avenge a string of audacious attacks mounted by Iran-backed forces against the US strategic interests in the Persian Gulf that brought the US and Iran to the brink of full-scale war in September last year .
In addition to planting limpet mines on oil tankers off the coast of the UAE in May last year and the subsequent downing of the US surveillance drone in the Persian Gulf by Iran , the brazen attack on the Abqaiq petroleum facility and the Khurais oil field in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 14 was the third major attack in the Persian Gulf against the assets of Washington and its regional clients .
That the UAE had forewarning about imminent attacks is proved by the fact that weeks before the attacks , it recalled forces from Yemen battling the Houthi rebels and redeployed them to man the UAE ’ s territorial borders .
Nevertheless , a puerile prank like planting limpet mines on oil tankers can be overlooked but major provocations like downing a $ 200-million Global Hawk surveillance aircraft and mounting a drone and missile @ @ @ @ @ @ @ crippled its oil-processing functions for weeks could have had serious repercussions .
The September 14 attack on the Abqaiq petroleum facility in eastern Saudi Arabia was an apocalypse for the global oil industry because it processes five million barrels crude oil per day , more than half of Saudi Arabia ’ s total oil production .
The subversive attack sent jitters across the global markets and the oil price surged 15 % , the biggest spike witnessed in three decades since the First Gulf War when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990 , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ days after industrialized nations released their strategic oil reserves .
In order to bring home the significance of the Persian Gulf ’ s oil in the energy-starved industrialized world , here are a few stats from the OPEC data : Saudi Arabia has the world ’ s largest proven crude oil reserves of 265 billion barrels and its daily oil production is 10 million barrels ; Iran and Iraq each has 150 billion barrels reserves and has the capacity to produce 5 million barrels per day each ; while UAE and Kuwait each @ @ @ @ @ @ @ 3 million barrels per day each ; thus , all the littoral states of the Persian Gulf , together , hold 788 billion barrels , more than half of world ’ s 1477 billion barrels proven oil reserves .
Not surprisingly , more than 35,000 American troops have currently been deployed in the military bases and aircraft carriers in the oil-rich Persian Gulf in accordance with the Carter Doctrine of 1980 , which states : “ Let our position be absolutely clear : an attempt by any outside force to gain control of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America , and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary , including military force.
” It bears mentioning that alongside deploying several thousand American troops , additional aircraft squadrons and Patriot missile batteries in Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the Abqaiq attack , several interventionist hawks in Washington invoked the Carter Doctrine as a ground for mounting retaliatory strikes against Iran .
The last year ’ s acts of subversion in the Persian Gulf should be viewed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cold War that has begun after the Ukrainian crisis in 2014 when Russia occupied the Crimean peninsula and Washington imposed sanctions against Russia .
The Kremlin ’ s immediate response to the escalation by Washington was that it jumped into the fray in Syria in September 2015 , after a clandestine visit to Moscow by General Qassem Soleimani , the commander of the IRGC ’ s Quds Force .
When Russia deployed its forces and military hardware to Syria in September 2015 , the militant proxies of Washington and its regional clients were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ between Damascus and the Alawite heartland of coastal Latakia , which could have led to the imminent downfall of the Assad government .
With the help of Russian air power , the Syrian government has since reclaimed most of Syria ’ s territory from the insurgents , excluding Idlib in the northwest occupied by the Turkish-backed militants and Deir al-Zor and the Kurdish-held areas in the east , thus inflicting a humiliating defeat on Washington and its regional clients .
Notwithstanding , following the brazen attack on the Abqaiq petroleum facility and the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Saudi Arabia on September 14 , orchestrated protests erupted in Iran-allied countries Lebanon and Iraq from October to December last year .
Lebanese American journalist Rania Khalek has documented for The Gray Zone [ 2 ] the US-backed political forces spearheaded the “ color revolution ” in Lebanon , where Iran-backed resistance group Hezbollah was part of the coalition government .
Following the massive explosion at the Beirut Port on August 4 killing 180 people and wounding nearly 6,000 , the shaky , six-month-long coalition government of Hassan al-Diab resigned on August @ @ @ @ @ @ @ through the US occupation from 2003 to 2011 and is known to have US sympathizers in the Kurdish-held north and the Shia-majority south of the country , where the Western oil majors operate and dispense largesse among local chieftains of myriad clans and tribes .
Using the patronage network , the US successfully ousted former Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi and appointed American stooge Mustafa al-Kadhimi in his stead in May .
The purpose of destabilizing governments in Iran-allied countries obviously was to deter Iran from mounting subversive attacks in strategically important @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , though , Iran itself is immune to foreign-backed political demonstrations as it does not have any imperialist collaborators on the ground , besides a fringe militant group Mujahideen-e-Khalq ( MEK ) funded by the US , France and Israel , though it did witness large-scale protests in November last year .
The proximate cause of the November 15 protests in Iran was steep rise in petrol prices by the Rouhani government , dubbed as “ sabotage ” by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei .
The worst-hit region was Khuzestan province in southwest Iran @ @ @ @ @ @ @ known to have grievances against Tehran and susceptible to infiltration by imperialist stooges .
Finally , a word about the venerated commander of IRGC ’ s Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani who was assassinated in a US airstrike at Baghdad airport on January 3 .
Soleimani was the trusted lieutenant of Iran ’ s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and the main liaison with Russia .
Not only did he instigate Russia to strike at Washington ’ s Achilles heel in Syria ’ s proxy war but he was also the main architect of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ petroleum facility and the Khurais oil field in the oil-rich Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia .
Alongside deploying several thousand American troops and additional aircraft squadrons and Patriot missile batteries in Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the Abqaiq attack , Washington also took out its most fearsome nemesis General Soleimani in January , and now it can freely stage subversive attacks in Iran and allied countries without the fear of reprisals .
It ’ s pertinent to note that Trump initially rejected [ 3 ] the Pentagon ’ s option to assassinate @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the fear of full-scale confrontation with Iran , and authorized airstrikes on an Iran-backed militia group in Iraq instead .
But after the rocket attack at the US embassy in Baghdad by Iran-backed forces , Trump succumbed to pressure from the American deep state , led by the powerful national security bureaucracies of the Pentagon and the State Department , which had a score to settle with General Soleimani for giving the global power a bloody nose in Syria ’ s proxy war .
[ 1 ] Long-Planned and Bigger Than Thought : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ : Nauman Sadiq is an Islamabad-based attorney , columnist and geopolitical analyst focused on the politics of Af-Pak and Middle East regions , neocolonialism and petro-imperialism .

…by Nauman Sadiq for VT Islamabad
A joint American-Israeli program [1], involving a series of short-of-war clandestine strikes, aimed at taking out the most prominent generals of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and targeting Iran’s power stations, industrial infrastructure, and missile and nuclear facilities has been going on since early this year when commander of IRGC’s Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani was assassinated in a US airstrike at Baghdad airport on January 3.
As the US presidential race is heating up, the pace and sophistication of subversive attacks in Iran is picking up simultaneously.
Since June, “mysterious explosions” were reported at a missile and explosives storage facility at Parchin military base on June 26, at power stations in the cities of Shiraz and Ahvaz, a “mysterious fire” at Bushehr port on July 15 destroying seven ships, and a massive explosion at the Natanz nuclear site on July 2 that has reportedly set back Iran’s nuclear program by at least two years.
Besides whipping up nationalist sentiment among America’s conservative electorate on the eve of US presidential election slated for November, another purpose of the subversive attacks appears to be to avenge a string of audacious attacks mounted by Iran-backed forces against the US strategic interests in the Persian Gulf that brought the US and Iran to the brink of full-scale war in September last year.
In addition to planting limpet mines on oil tankers off the coast of the UAE in May last year and the subsequent downing of the US surveillance drone in the Persian Gulf by Iran, the brazen attack on the Abqaiq petroleum facility and the Khurais oil field in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia on September 14 was the third major attack in the Persian Gulf against the assets of Washington and its regional clients.
That the UAE had forewarning about imminent attacks is proved by the fact that weeks before the attacks, it recalled forces from Yemen battling the Houthi rebels and redeployed them to man the UAE’s territorial borders.
Nevertheless, a puerile prank like planting limpet mines on oil tankers can be overlooked but major provocations like downing a $200-million Global Hawk surveillance aircraft and mounting a drone and missile attack on the Abqaiq petroleum facility that crippled its oil-processing functions for weeks could have had serious repercussions.
The September 14 attack on the Abqaiq petroleum facility in eastern Saudi Arabia was an apocalypse for the global oil industry because it processes five million barrels crude oil per day, more than half of Saudi Arabia’s total oil production.
The subversive attack sent jitters across the global markets and the oil price surged 15%, the biggest spike witnessed in three decades since the First Gulf War when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990, though the oil price was eased within days after industrialized nations released their strategic oil reserves.
In order to bring home the significance of the Persian Gulf’s oil in the energy-starved industrialized world, here are a few stats from the OPEC data: Saudi Arabia has the world’s largest proven crude oil reserves of 265 billion barrels and its daily oil production is 10 million barrels; Iran and Iraq each has 150 billion barrels reserves and has the capacity to produce 5 million barrels per day each; while UAE and Kuwait each has 100 billion barrels reserves and produces 3 million barrels per day each; thus, all the littoral states of the Persian Gulf, together, hold 788 billion barrels, more than half of world’s 1477 billion barrels proven oil reserves.
Not surprisingly, more than 35,000 American troops have currently been deployed in the military bases and aircraft carriers in the oil-rich Persian Gulf in accordance with the Carter Doctrine of 1980, which states:
“Let our position be absolutely clear: an attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.”
It bears mentioning that alongside deploying several thousand American troops, additional aircraft squadrons and Patriot missile batteries in Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the Abqaiq attack, several interventionist hawks in Washington invoked the Carter Doctrine as a ground for mounting retaliatory strikes against Iran.
The last year’s acts of subversion in the Persian Gulf should be viewed in the broader backdrop of the New Cold War that has begun after the Ukrainian crisis in 2014 when Russia occupied the Crimean peninsula and Washington imposed sanctions against Russia.
The Kremlin’s immediate response to the escalation by Washington was that it jumped into the fray in Syria in September 2015, after a clandestine visit to Moscow by General Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the IRGC’s Quds Force. When Russia deployed its forces and military hardware to Syria in September 2015, the militant proxies of Washington and its regional clients were on the verge of drawing a wedge between Damascus and the Alawite heartland of coastal Latakia, which could have led to the imminent downfall of the Assad government.
With the help of Russian air power, the Syrian government has since reclaimed most of Syria’s territory from the insurgents, excluding Idlib in the northwest occupied by the Turkish-backed militants and Deir al-Zor and the Kurdish-held areas in the east, thus inflicting a humiliating defeat on Washington and its regional clients.
Notwithstanding, following the brazen attack on the Abqaiq petroleum facility and the Khurais oil field in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia on September 14, orchestrated protests erupted in Iran-allied countries Lebanon and Iraq from October to December last year.
Lebanese American journalist Rania Khalek has documented for The Gray Zone [2] the US-backed political forces spearheaded the “color revolution” in Lebanon, where Iran-backed resistance group Hezbollah was part of the coalition government. Following the massive explosion at the Beirut Port on August 4 killing 180 people and wounding nearly 6,000, the shaky, six-month-long coalition government of Hassan al-Diab resigned on August 10.
Similarly, Iraq has been through the US occupation from 2003 to 2011 and is known to have US sympathizers in the Kurdish-held north and the Shia-majority south of the country, where the Western oil majors operate and dispense largesse among local chieftains of myriad clans and tribes.
Using the patronage network, the US successfully ousted former Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi and appointed American stooge Mustafa al-Kadhimi in his stead in May. The purpose of destabilizing governments in Iran-allied countries obviously was to deter Iran from mounting subversive attacks in strategically important Persian Gulf.
Unlike Lebanon and Iraq, though, Iran itself is immune to foreign-backed political demonstrations as it does not have any imperialist collaborators on the ground, besides a fringe militant group Mujahideen-e-Khalq (MEK) funded by the US, France and Israel, though it did witness large-scale protests in November last year.
The proximate cause of the November 15 protests in Iran was steep rise in petrol prices by the Rouhani government, dubbed as “sabotage” by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The worst-hit region was Khuzestan province in southwest Iran which is home to large Arab minority known to have grievances against Tehran and susceptible to infiltration by imperialist stooges.
Finally, a word about the venerated commander of IRGC’s Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani who was assassinated in a US airstrike at Baghdad airport on January 3. Soleimani was the trusted lieutenant of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei and the main liaison with Russia.
Not only did he instigate Russia to strike at Washington’s Achilles heel in Syria’s proxy war but he was also the main architect of the audacious September 14 attacks at Abqaiq petroleum facility and the Khurais oil field in the oil-rich Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
Alongside deploying several thousand American troops and additional aircraft squadrons and Patriot missile batteries in Saudi Arabia in the aftermath of the Abqaiq attack, Washington also took out its most fearsome nemesis General Soleimani in January, and now it can freely stage subversive attacks in Iran and allied countries without the fear of reprisals.
It’s pertinent to note that Trump initially rejected [3] the Pentagon’s option to assassinate General Soleimani on December 28 due to the fear of full-scale confrontation with Iran, and authorized airstrikes on an Iran-backed militia group in Iraq instead.
But after the rocket attack at the US embassy in Baghdad by Iran-backed forces, Trump succumbed to pressure from the American deep state, led by the powerful national security bureaucracies of the Pentagon and the State Department, which had a score to settle with General Soleimani for giving the global power a bloody nose in Syria’s proxy war.
Footnotes:
[1] Long-Planned and Bigger Than Thought: Strike on Iran’s Nuclear Program:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/10/world/middleeast/iran-nuclear-trump.html
[2] US-backed parties have infiltrated Lebanon’s protests:
https://thegrayzone.com/2019/12/11/us-parties-lebanon-protests-pushing-country-war-roadblocks/
[3] Trump initially rejected the Pentagon’s option to assassinate General Soleimani:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/04/us/politics/trump-suleimani.html
About the author:
Nauman Sadiq is an Islamabad-based attorney, columnist and geopolitical analyst focused on the politics of Af-Pak and Middle East regions, neocolonialism and petro-imperialism.


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With the United Nations arms embargo on Iran set to expire in October , US officials and media have speculated that Tehran may buy Russian military hardware , including the S-400 , once UN restrictions are lifted .
Iran already has some advanced air defence capabilities of its own , including a system which downed a $ 220 million US drone in 2019 .
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Gen. Amir Hatami has inspected the S-400 Triumf ( NATO reporting name SA-21 Growler ) air defence system during his visit to Russia for the ARMY-2000 military expo outside Moscow .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ place Sunday , shows Hatami and other members of the Iranian delegation speaking to Russian officials , with the defence minister briefed on the S-400 ’ s systems features and principles of operation .
In addition to the S-400 , the delegation also took a look at the Pantsir S1E combined medium-range surface-to-air missile system and anti-aircraft artillery system .
The defence minister checked out the Kamov KA-226T utility helicopter , and reportedly made inquiries regarding the Sukhoi Su-30 fighter as well .
During his trip , Hatami held talks with senior Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
In addition , the minister met with Iranian Border Police forces which arrived in Russia to compete in the 6th International Army Games , which are being held concurrently with ARMY-2020 .
Earlier this month , Breaking Defense speculated that recent joint US and Israeli F-35 drills aimed at improving survivability against “ sophisticated enemy air defences ” may have been aimed in part to deal with the contingency of advanced Russian air defence systems being sold to Iran .
Last month , Kasem Jalali , Iran ’ s ambassador to Russia @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purchase of Russian weapons to “ enhance its defence capabilities , ” and pointed to Moscow as a partner that has “ always been by our side in times of trouble ” .
Jalali did not specify what sorts of defence equipment Tehran is interested in .
© AP PHOTO / EBRAHIM NOROOZI US Media Reveals American , Israeli Plans to Fight S-400s If They End Up in Iran In late 2019 , the Defence Intelligence Agency issued an assessment suggesting that Iran may be interested in buying S-400s , K-300P Bastion coastal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ T-90 main battle tanks once the UN arms embargo expires on October 18 .
Iran ’ s defence ministry has made strides in the creation of advanced military equipment of its own in recent years .
Last year , the Khordad-3 air defence system produced by Iran Aviation Industries Organisation shot down a $ 220 million Northrop Grumman Global Hawk surveillance drone over Iranian airspace in the Strait of Hormuz .
The same year , Tehran ordered the Bavar-373 air defence system , described as an Iranian analogue to the S-300 with characteristics @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be put into production .

With the United Nations arms embargo on Iran set to expire in October, US officials and media have speculated that Tehran may buy Russian military hardware, including the S-400, once UN restrictions are lifted.
Iran already has some advanced air defence capabilities of its own, including a system which downed a $220 million US drone in 2019.
Iranian Defence Minister Brig. Gen. Amir Hatami has inspected the S-400 Triumf (NATO reporting name SA-21 Growler) air defence system during his visit to Russia for the ARMY-2000 military expo outside Moscow.
Footage of the visit, which took place Sunday, shows Hatami and other members of the Iranian delegation speaking to Russian officials, with the defence minister briefed on the S-400’s systems features and principles of operation. In addition to the S-400, the delegation also took a look at the Pantsir S1E combined medium-range surface-to-air missile system and anti-aircraft artillery system.
The defence minister checked out the Kamov KA-226T utility helicopter, and reportedly made inquiries regarding the Sukhoi Su-30 fighter as well.
During his trip, Hatami held talks with senior Russian officials, including Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu. In addition, the minister met with Iranian Border Police forces which arrived in Russia to compete in the 6th International Army Games, which are being held concurrently with ARMY-2020.
Earlier this month, Breaking Defense speculated that recent joint US and Israeli F-35 drills aimed at improving survivability against “sophisticated enemy air defences” may have been aimed in part to deal with the contingency of advanced Russian air defence systems being sold to Iran.
Last month, Kasem Jalali, Iran’s ambassador to Russia, confirmed that Tehran was considering the purchase of Russian weapons to “enhance its defence capabilities,” and pointed to Moscow as a partner that has “always been by our side in times of trouble”. Jalali did not specify what sorts of defence equipment Tehran is interested in.
© AP PHOTO / EBRAHIM NOROOZI
US Media Reveals American, Israeli Plans to Fight S-400s If They End Up in Iran
In late 2019, the Defence Intelligence Agency issued an assessment suggesting that Iran may be interested in buying S-400s, K-300P Bastion coastal defence systems, Su-30 fighter jets and T-90 main battle tanks once the UN arms embargo expires on October 18.
Iran’s defence ministry has made strides in the creation of advanced military equipment of its own in recent years. Last year, the Khordad-3 air defence system produced by Iran Aviation Industries Organisation shot down a $220 million Northrop Grumman Global Hawk surveillance drone over Iranian airspace in the Strait of Hormuz. The same year, Tehran ordered the Bavar-373 air defence system, described as an Iranian analogue to the S-300 with characteristics superior to the US Patriot, to be put into production.


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veteranstoday--2020-08-24--Interview: Russia, Belarus and Georgia with VT Bureau Chief Jeff Silverman

• What is going in Belarus , how the situation may impact the Georgian reality ?
It is not difficult to understand what is going on in Belarus , especially having watched from a front-row seat to events in Georgia in 1991 , 2004 , Rose Revolution and in 2008 , and then seeing the same events repeat in Ukraine in 2014 .
One only needs to review the Domino Effect of post-Soviet countries and so-called popular regime change in the wake of the Arab Spring .
There were no “ spontaneous knee jerk ” mass meetings in response to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ than a free and fair election .
Everything was planned , and like Georgia , with the help of outside influences , like NED , the so-called US-funded National Endowment for Democracy ; it has little whatsoever to do with its claimed goals .
Belarus is more than a convenient distraction than actually newsworthy ; it is an outpost of a system running on autopilot , right smack in the middle of Europe .
However , the location is great , especially to “ pick up ” where the US left off , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Biden gets elected in November .
And if that happens , Georgians can expect another conflict with Russia or more aggressive efforts to bring about a change in the current government , in both instances , it will be operated and funded by outside forces ; I am talking about the US and the West .
Thus , my analysis begins with the fact that Belarus & Russia are military allies , and this is not going to be a fake Color Revolution with Victoria Nuland passing out cookies , as she did @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Belarus is absolutely essential for Russia ’ s security .
We should also ponder upon the timing of this fanfare over a less-than-a-fair and free election .
Just look around and you can see that countries like Turkey , Azerbaijan , and Georgia , also have dismal human rights record , reports of unfair elections , and the now low level of democracy .
Nothing is said by the West , at least directly , and blind eyes are turned ( and even tightly shut ) .
For now , Belarus is like @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , and other chickens will take notice it and begin to peck it , and if not stopped , they will peck it to death .
• Pre-election period in Georgia , UNM , Europeans ( Bokeria ) and Georgian Dream – what are the chances ?
During pre-election period in Georgia , The Georgian Dream retains its position as the strongest contender , however , the US government is now working very hard , ( with the help of new US Ambassador and US-funded NGOs ) to overthrow this government .
Certain @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump , want to replace the Georgian Dream , as this party and its leadership have too much of a balanced foreign policy between Russia and the US/NATO .
The US is too closely connected with the leftovers of the UNM .
Such a cozy relationship presents a National Security Threat ; and so much so , it could threaten Statehood and the very continued existence of Georgia as an independent country .
Which one would support USA 3 .
Saakashvili- Giorgi Vashadze .
saakashvili admitted vashadze could be good prime-minister , after @ @ @ @ @ @ @ be good but now he supports the dark side .
4 Russia and USA impacts on georgian elections There is no multi-party democracy in Georgia , as they are basically all one gang , out for themselves , and these new parities are calling themselves different , mostly to distance themselves from the shadow and bad smell of Saakashvili and his minions .
And if the former president will say that Vashadze would make a good PM , this means he is a threat to Saakashvili and is Saakashvili is trying to give @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the eyes of the West .
All those in the former government , Dreamers and UNM , directly or indirectly , and all other shades of political parties , need to get the hell out of politics .
There is no future for this country as long as they “ these parties ” continue playing their selfish and greedy games .
Let the new generation come alone , and let the old gang step aside and go to hell .
It would be good to buy them a one-way ticket to faraway places—and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ politicians that we know only too well will support anyone who would give them money—even the Chinese , Iranians or Turks .
What about your situation now that you will not be working with the Ministry of Education this year ?
I will be able to devote more time to my writing and political investigations and start writing and give more detailed interviews .
I got into trouble over my last statements about the newly-appointed US Ambassador , her dirty past , and actually why she was sent to Georgia .
Also , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ purpose of the Georgian president , being set up as a scapegoat .
I told things that were too truthful , and the Ministry of Education got pressured as a result .
Some of my former graduate students have asked me to advise them in how to take control of the political situation in this country and to help get rid of all the political bastards that I have mentioned , and to do it themselves , and not with foreign or fake NGO assistance .
I think I may devote my attention @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Georgian and Russian literature , as now I am living in a small village near Lagodkehi , farming , and enjoying my retirement years .
It is rewarding to be able to look at the world and Georgia with open eyes .
One must know how this country has managed to survive to understand the Georgian reality .
One thing I have learned , by living and seeing with my own eyes and based on my love of history , Georgia ’ s greatest enemies are within , and not from outside .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ is for the most part the enemy of the people .
They are not reformers , not democrats , and not true Georgians .
It is interesting how the same players who were involved in Ukraine are now working to bring Freedom to Belarus .
It is interesting to note how Georgian Facebook pages , such as Georgian Wanderers , which are a platform for organizing protests , get deleted in the name of going against Facebook ’ s community standards when information about a web seminar on the sociology of protests get @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Embassy , which has close ties to Poland are allowed to go unchallenged .
It is not hard to line the ducks up , as adding to hysteria opens the door to capitalize on raw emotions for one ’ s vested interests .
The protests in Belarus are continuing , it is not a question of whether Lukashenko won , but the question is about “ by what percentage ” , While it may come as a surprise to most westerners , President Alexander Lukashenko has the situation only too well under control @ @ @ @ @ @ @ usual suspects are back at work , trying to take advantage of the general dissatisfaction with the government , and the direction the country has been going towards for a while.
, However , there is no denying that the Lukashenko government has its obvious faults because of which some amount of discontent was brewing , but then that stands true for all governments .
At the same time , the Lukashenko government still remains the only constructive political power in Belarus .
What ’ s noteworthy , according to some well-followed pundits @ @ @ @ @ @ @ arch enemy in Orwell ’ s 1984 , “ is the high level of organization behind the protests that makes it exquisitely dubious for them to be “ accidental ” and homegrown .
It is for this reason , and based on the previous track record of regime change , or efforts in that direction in other former Soviet Republics that President Alexander Lukashenko is right when he claims that “ outside aggression had been committed against Belarus.
” There is little doubt that aggression is being carried out against Belarus , and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in the shadows , by those who see an opportunity there – Lithuania , Latvia and Ukraine , under the guidance of Poland .
This alliance has not been able to get much traction elsewhere , as in Georgia , for betting on the wrong horse as they did with Georgian president Saakashvili over the years .
He proved to be much of a liability and “ mental case.
” It is for this reason this likely alliance sees Belarus as a way to get back in the game and get at Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the Trump administration , as a matter of policy , are too preoccupied with other fires at present , and most of these being domestic , especially in the case of Germany and France .
With the crackdown on the yellow vest in France , it is not an opportune time to be preaching “ do what I say and not what I do.
” Thus , few real players in the EU are interested or have the means to heat up this situation any hotter than it already is .
This leaves @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Europe , and especially for poking the bear , and the point of the stick will be much sharper should the democrats get the White House back .
But can events be compared to a fruit vendor setting himself on fire out of protest over corruption in the market in Tunisia ten years ago ?
And even if successful , by Western Standards , what will be the short-term to immediate results for the people and the region ?
The same may come close to happening in the US after the November @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with a joke that is popular in many former USSR countries , “ why are there no revolutions in the USA , [ punch line ] , as there are no American Embassies there .
”

Interview, Jeffrey Silverman, Georgian Bureau Chief, VT, On-line American-based Journals for Clandestine Services.
It is not difficult to understand what is going on in Belarus, especially having watched from a front-row seat to events in Georgia in 1991, 2004, Rose Revolution and in 2008, and then seeing the same events repeat in Ukraine in 2014. One only needs to review the Domino Effect of post-Soviet countries and so-called popular regime change in the wake of the Arab Spring. There were no “spontaneous knee jerk” mass meetings in response to what was “most likely” less than a free and fair election. Everything was planned, and like Georgia, with the help of outside influences, like NED, the so-called US-funded National Endowment for Democracy; it has little whatsoever to do with its claimed goals.
Belarus is more than a convenient distraction than actually newsworthy; it is an outpost of a system running on autopilot, right smack in the middle of Europe. However, the location is great, especially to “pick up” where the US left off, in Ukraine, and especially if Joe Biden gets elected in November. And if that happens, Georgians can expect another conflict with Russia or more aggressive efforts to bring about a change in the current government, in both instances, it will be operated and funded by outside forces; I am talking about the US and the West.
Thus, my analysis begins with the fact that Belarus & Russia are military allies, and this is not going to be a fake Color Revolution with Victoria Nuland passing out cookies, as she did in Ukraine. A non-NATO-controlled or manipulated Belarus is absolutely essential for Russia’s security. We should also ponder upon the timing of this fanfare over a less-than-a-fair and free election. Just look around and you can see that countries like Turkey, Azerbaijan, and Georgia, also have dismal human rights record, reports of unfair elections, and the now low level of democracy. Nothing is said by the West, at least directly, and blind eyes are turned (and even tightly shut).
For now, Belarus is like a chicken with a speck of blood, and other chickens will take notice it and begin to peck it, and if not stopped, they will peck it to death.
Pre-election period in Georgia, UNM, Europeans (Bokeria) and Georgian Dream – what are the chances?
During pre-election period in Georgia, The Georgian Dream retains its position as the strongest contender, however, the US government is now working very hard, (with the help of new US Ambassador and US-funded NGOs) to overthrow this government.
Certain powers in the US, not Donald Trump, want to replace the Georgian Dream, as this party and its leadership have too much of a balanced foreign policy between Russia and the US/NATO. The US is too closely connected with the leftovers of the UNM. Such a cozy relationship presents a National Security Threat; and so much so, it could threaten Statehood and the very continued existence of Georgia as an independent country.
Which one would support USA 3. Saakashvili- Giorgi Vashadze. saakashvili admitted vashadze could be good prime-minister, after that he also said : he could be good but now he supports the dark side. 4 Russia and USA impacts on georgian elections
There is no multi-party democracy in Georgia, as they are basically all one gang, out for themselves, and these new parities are calling themselves different, mostly to distance themselves from the shadow and bad smell of Saakashvili and his minions. And if the former president will say that Vashadze would make a good PM, this means he is a threat to Saakashvili and is Saakashvili is trying to give him a kiss of political death in the eyes of the West.
All those in the former government, Dreamers and UNM, directly or indirectly, and all other shades of political parties, need to get the hell out of politics. There is no future for this country as long as they “these parties” continue playing their selfish and greedy games. Let the new generation come alone, and let the old gang step aside and go to hell.
It would be good to buy them a one-way ticket to faraway places—and ensure they never come back. The politicians that we know only too well will support anyone who would give them money—even the Chinese, Iranians or Turks.
What about your situation now that you will not be working with the Ministry of Education this year?
I will be able to devote more time to my writing and political investigations and start writing and give more detailed interviews. I got into trouble over my last statements about the newly-appointed US Ambassador, her dirty past, and actually why she was sent to Georgia. Also, I made some candid comments about the purpose of the Georgian president, being set up as a scapegoat. I told things that were too truthful, and the Ministry of Education got pressured as a result.
Some of my former graduate students have asked me to advise them in how to take control of the political situation in this country and to help get rid of all the political bastards that I have mentioned, and to do it themselves, and not with foreign or fake NGO assistance.
I think I may devote my attention to this, and reading, especially Georgian and Russian literature, as now I am living in a small village near Lagodkehi, farming, and enjoying my retirement years. It is rewarding to be able to look at the world and Georgia with open eyes. One must know how this country has managed to survive to understand the Georgian reality. One thing I have learned, by living and seeing with my own eyes and based on my love of history, Georgia’s greatest enemies are within, and not from outside.
The current political class in this country is for the most part the enemy of the people. They are not reformers, not democrats, and not true Georgians.
Belarus Freedom, Georgian Solidarity
It is interesting how the same players who were involved in Ukraine are now working to bring Freedom to Belarus. It is interesting to note how Georgian Facebook pages, such as Georgian Wanderers, which are a platform for organizing protests, get deleted in the name of going against Facebook’s community standards when information about a web seminar on the sociology of protests get shared, but posts from the Lithuanian Embassy, which has close ties to Poland are allowed to go unchallenged. It is not hard to line the ducks up, as adding to hysteria opens the door to capitalize on raw emotions for one’s vested interests.
The protests in Belarus are continuing, it is not a question of whether Lukashenko won, but the question is about “by what percentage”, While it may come as a surprise to most westerners, President Alexander Lukashenko has the situation only too well under control. It goes without saying, the usual suspects are back at work, trying to take advantage of the general dissatisfaction with the government, and the direction the country has been going towards for a while., However, there is no denying that the Lukashenko government has its obvious faults because of which some amount of discontent was brewing, but then that stands true for all governments. At the same time, the Lukashenko government still remains the only constructive political power in Belarus.
What’s noteworthy, according to some well-followed pundits, who share the name of the arch enemy in Orwell’s 1984, “is the high level of organization behind the protests that makes it exquisitely dubious for them to be “accidental” and homegrown. It is for this reason, and based on the previous track record of regime change, or efforts in that direction in other former Soviet Republics that President Alexander Lukashenko is right when he claims that “outside aggression had been committed against Belarus.”
There is little doubt that aggression is being carried out against Belarus, and besides the US State Department and NED in the shadows, by those who see an opportunity there – Lithuania, Latvia and Ukraine, under the guidance of Poland. This alliance has not been able to get much traction elsewhere, as in Georgia, for betting on the wrong horse as they did with Georgian president Saakashvili over the years. He proved to be much of a liability and “mental case.” It is for this reason this likely alliance sees Belarus as a way to get back in the game and get at Russian indirectly.
However, the EU and the Trump administration, as a matter of policy, are too preoccupied with other fires at present, and most of these being domestic, especially in the case of Germany and France. With the crackdown on the yellow vest in France, it is not an opportune time to be preaching “do what I say and not what I do.” Thus, few real players in the EU are interested or have the means to heat up this situation any hotter than it already is.
This leaves Poland as the proxy of US policy in Europe, and especially for poking the bear, and the point of the stick will be much sharper should the democrats get the White House back.
But can events be compared to a fruit vendor setting himself on fire out of protest over corruption in the market in Tunisia ten years ago? And even if successful, by Western Standards, what will be the short-term to immediate results for the people and the region? The same may come close to happening in the US after the November presidential elections. Let’s end with a joke that is popular in many former USSR countries, “why are there no revolutions in the USA, [punch line], as there are no American Embassies there.”