southfront--2020-06-19--U.S. Africa Command Releases New Photos Of ‘Russian’ Warplanes In Libya

On June 18 , the U.S. Africa Command ( AFRICOM ) released new photos of what it claimed to be “ Russian ” warplanes deployed in Libya .
The photos show a Su-24 attack aircraft and a Mig-29 fighter aircraft in the al-Jufra Air Base , in central Libya .
The base is controlled by the Libyan National Army ( LNA ) .
Forces of the UAE , a key regional ally of the U.S , are reportedly present in the base .
The AFRICOM claims that 14 MiG-29s and several Su-24s were flown from Russia to Syria , then @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The U.S. argues that Russia sent warplanes to Libya to provide air support for private military contractors ( PMCs ) fighting for the LNA .
Brig .
Gen. Gering went on to claim that the “ Russian ” warplanes in al-Jufra are being flown by “ inexperienced , non-state PMC mercenaries.
” The AFRICOM has been leading a media campaign accusing Russia of intervening in Libya for a few weeks .
In spite of these claims , not a single “ Russian airstrike ” has been reported in Libya so far .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ belong to the Russian Aerospace Forces was presented by the AFRICOM .
While the U.S. is panicking over the supposed Russian intervention in Libya , it continues to turn a blind eye to Turkey ’ s incursion in the country ’ s war .
In the past few months , Ankara deployed loads of weapons and 14,000 Syrian militants in Libya to support the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord .
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On June 18, the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) released new photos of what it claimed to be “Russian” warplanes deployed in Libya.
The photos show a Su-24 attack aircraft and a Mig-29 fighter aircraft in the al-Jufra Air Base, in central Libya. The base is controlled by the Libyan National Army (LNA). Forces of the UAE, a key regional ally of the U.S, are reportedly present in the base.
NEWS: New evidence of Russian aircraft active in Libyan airspace (1 of 3)
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“#Russia‘s sustained involvement in #Libya increases the violence and delays a political solution.” – BG Gering, director of operations
Release: https://t.co/g3PYHBDCOC
Photos: https://t.co/ftYyEeX1GQ pic.twitter.com/G34ILYIJvM — US AFRICOM (@USAfricaCommand) June 18, 2020
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The Spoon Rest is a Russian-made, mobile early warning radar system designed to provide tactical support to military activities, used when deployed for tactical combat operations. Russian aircraft delivered to Libya in late May are being actively flown in Libya. pic.twitter.com/zaqcZH4jIS — US AFRICOM (@USAfricaCommand) June 18, 2020
The AFRICOM claims that 14 MiG-29s and several Su-24s were flown from Russia to Syria, then to the al-Jufra Air Base in Libya. The U.S. argues that Russia sent warplanes to Libya to provide air support for private military contractors (PMCs) fighting for the LNA.
“Russia’s sustained involvement in Libya increases the violence and delays a political solution,” said U.S. Marine Corps Brig. Gen. Bradford Gering, USAFRICOM director of operations. “Russia continues to push for a strategic foothold on NATO’s southern flank and this is at the expense of innocent Libyan lives.”
Brig. Gen. Gering went on to claim that the “Russian” warplanes in al-Jufra are being flown by “inexperienced, non-state PMC mercenaries.”
The AFRICOM has been leading a media campaign accusing Russia of intervening in Libya for a few weeks. In spite of these claims, not a single “Russian airstrike” has been reported in Libya so far. No solid evidence proving that these warplanes belong to the Russian Aerospace Forces was presented by the AFRICOM.
While the U.S. is panicking over the supposed Russian intervention in Libya, it continues to turn a blind eye to Turkey’s incursion in the country’s war. In the past few months, Ankara deployed loads of weapons and 14,000 Syrian militants in Libya to support the Tripoli-based Government of National Accord.
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southfront--2020-06-19--Turkish Forces Conduct Patrol On M4 Highway In Greater Idlib Without Russian Participation

On June 18 , Turkish forces conducted a patrol on the M4 highway in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater @ @ @ @ @ Police didn ’ t take part in the patrol , which set off from town @ @ @ @ @ .
Turkish forces managed to reach the town of Kafir in the countryside of the @ @ @ @ @ In the course of the new patrol , Turkish forces passed through checkpoints of al-Qaeda-affiliated @ @ @ @ @ terrorists .
Opposition sources claimed that Russian forces didn ’ t take part in the @ @ @ @ @ that targeted one of their armored vehicles during the last joint patrol , which took @ @ @ @ @ The Turkish patrol was likely carried out to scout and secure the M4 ahead of @ @ @ @ @ the Russian Military Police .
Ankara is committed to open the highway under the March @ @ @ @ @ Any safety issues or delays could jeopardize the agreement .
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On June 18, Turkish forces conducted a patrol on the M4 highway in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib.
The Russian Military Police didn’t take part in the patrol, which set off from town of Tronba in south Idlib. Turkish forces managed to reach the town of Kafir in the countryside of the city of Jisr al-Shughur.
In the course of the new patrol, Turkish forces passed through checkpoints of al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham terrorists.
أبطال هيئة تحرير الشام يقومون بحماية الدوريات الروسية والتركية.. أذكر أن أبطال هيئة تحرير الشام قد عاهدوا أن لا تمر هذه الدوريات إلى على جثثهم فكيف تمر هذه الدوريات اليوم؟! وأذكر أيضاً أنهم قاموا بزرع مسامير على طريق ال 4m هل ما زالت المسامير بخير؟ Q pic.twitter.com/BI7OLCwRAM — هادي دعدوع (@VFKH1m4QQdnSWbz) June 18, 2020
Opposition sources claimed that Russian forces didn’t take part in the patrol due to the attack that targeted one of their armored vehicles during the last joint patrol, which took place two days ago.
The Turkish patrol was likely carried out to scout and secure the M4 ahead of an upcoming joint patrol with the Russian Military Police. Ankara is committed to open the highway under the March 5 agreement with Russia. Any safety issues or delays could jeopardize the agreement.
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southfront--2020-06-19--Status And Development Of US Military Biological Projects

Originally appeared at Foreign Military Review # 3 2019 , translated by AlexD exclusively for SouthFront The U.S. military and political leadership ( MPL ) has consistently declared in international forums the punctual implementation of the “ Convention on the Prohibition of the Development , Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological ( Biological ) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction ” ( hereinafter , the Convention or BTWC ) .
The convention was approved by the UN General Assembly in 1971 , entered into force in 1975 , and is open-ended .
According to foreign and Russian biologists , a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of a control and inspection mechanism for the implementation of its main provisions by the participating countries .
At the same time , the U.S. MPL is avoiding the participation in the development of this mechanism and signing the relevant protocol proposed by Russia .
In addition , the American leadership , through its extensive biological-military activities , had deliberately committed serious violations of the Convention , which should be considered as a departure from international law .
The results of the analysis of foreign and Russian information materials , statements of former @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Giorgadze and assessments of annual reports of the U.S. State Department by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation allow to draw conclusions about systematic violations of the basic provisions of the Convention and the creation of biological ( bacteriological ) weapons in this country by the U.S. leadership .
The medical and biological activities of the U.S. military department on the perimeter of the Russian borders pose a serious threat to the security of Russia and other states .
The locations of biological laboratories , according to foreign and Russian @ @ @ @ @ @ @ many of them are located in areas adjacent to Russia and China and are a constant source of biological threats to these states .
In the former republics of the USSR , the Pentagon has funded the operation and development of new microbiological laboratories .
More than 30 U.S.-controlled laboratories with a high level of biological protection are currently being upgraded , which is also confirmed by official UN data .
Their capabilities make it possible to conduct a full range of studies with agents of extremely dangerous infectious diseases .
The content @ @ @ @ @ @ @ new types of biological attack agents with predetermined pathogenic properties may be produced .
According to foreign information sources , basic U.S. Central Reference Laboratories ( CRLs ) , supplemented by a network of zonal stations , operate in the Ukraine and Georgia .
In addition , under an agreement between its Ministry of Health and the U.S. Department of Defense , the Ukraine has laboratories for the study of highly dangerous infections .
There is one laboratory in each of the cities of Kiev , Odessa , Kherson , Ternopil , Uzhgorod @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two laboratories in Dnepropetrovsk and three in Lvov .
Georgia has a number of biological facilities controlled by the Pentagon : the National Center for Infectious Disease Control and the Institute of Microbiology , Virology and Bacteriophages ; the Richard Lugar Laboratory for Public Health Research on the outskirts of Tbilisi ( Alekseevka village ) ; and modernised regional sanitary epidemiological stations .
The head of Rospotrebnadzor , chief state sanitary doctor of Russia Anna Popova , in late 2018 said that the Pentagon planned to organise a laboratory in Simferopol under the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ experiments on people and creation of biological weapons .
This is confirmed by the discovery of 46 rodent internal organ samples , 104 ectoparasite pools , and 105 human blood serum samples prepared for shipment to the United States on the peninsula in the former Soviet anti-plague station .
According to her , American laboratories located near Russia ’ s borders in the post-Soviet space can artificially change viruses .
Thus , in the summer of 2018 a group of Russian tourists returned from Georgia in serious condition due to an acute intestinal @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Rospotrebnadzor scientists found out that such variant of the pathogen is not described and is not presented among the known data .
According to their data , insects capable of transmitting dangerous viruses to people are being brought to Georgia by drones from the USA .
The well-known American centre R. Lugar in Georgia , which was previously accused of testing toxic chemicals on local residents under the guise of treatment , is engaged in this work .
Former UN member of the Biological Weapons Commission Ihor Nikulin said the Americans in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In recent years , outbreaks of measles , hepatitis , tuberculosis , rabies and other infectious diseases have increased in the country .
Only in 2017 , tens of thousands of Ukrainians died from infections .
Meanwhile , viruses are often spread using drones and insects .
The implementation of the U.S. programme “ Allied Insects ” began in 2016 .
The number of biological laboratories built or upgraded by the United States in the former Soviet Union is increasing .
There are ten of them in Kazakhstan , the same number in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ in Armenia .
Russia is almost completely surrounded by biological laboratories .
All over the world , Washington has 200 laboratories .
It is possible that the outbreak of Ebola in Africa , which took the lives of 10 thousand people , is associated with the Americans ’ experiments .
It is important to note that Washington declares exclusively the civilian purpose of the activities of these facilities , allegedly in the interests of ensuring the biological security of the republics .
It is stated that , with the participation of American military @ @ @ @ @ @ @ pathogens that are particularly dangerous .
According to foreign and Russian experts , these laboratories are used for purposes hostile to Russia and other countries .
There is an increase in uncontrolled covert and sudden intervention in the field of biosecurity of states with the following tasks : putting under control the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the post-Soviet republics and the work carried out in them with pathogens ; data collection on infectious diseases and export of national collections with strains of pathogens that can fight the effects of vaccines and are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ territorial microorganisms to create a new generation of highly effective offensive biological weapons against Russia , Iran and China ; conducting sabotage operations aimed at causing damage to the economy ( destruction of livestock , discrediting state products on world markets , etc . )
and human potential as a result of reduced immunity and ability to reproduce ; testing on the ground of biological agents , increasing their virulence , tracking the ways and methods of their distribution ; increasing the dependence of Russia , China and Iran on the products of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ develop medicines for diseases artificially synthesized or modified using the CRL network and circumventing the restrictions regulated by the articles of the BTWC .
The Ukraine , Georgia , Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan handed over their collections of pathogens of dangerous diseases and combat strains of microorganisms created in the former USSR to the Americans .
The Pentagon ’ s research into ethnically based differences in people ’ s susceptibility to dangerous diseases is dangerous .
This opens up the possibility of obtaining ( by genetic modification the forms of pathogenic microorganisms ) such @ @ @ @ @ @ @ population of the Russian Federation and other countries will have no natural immunity , and the available medical means of protection may prove ineffective .
It is known that the Pentagon has repeatedly sent viable anthrax agents to 195 recipients in 12 countries where well-known laboratories have been built in recent years in violation of all accepted standards .
For example , a “ live ” recipe was intentionally sent to the Republic of Korea as part of an alleged test of the integrated biological assessment system , and the US subsequently stated @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
The specifics of their creation and functioning are confirmed by the hostile aims and objectives of these laboratories : – All facilities are being built at the Pentagon ’ s expense , not the ministries of health of the states .
According to foreign experts , the financing of their activities in the period from 2017 to 2019 will amount to about 1 billion dollars , and only in 2019 , in accordance with the budget request of the US administration , more than 197 million dollars will be allocated for the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Such significant costs can be justified by the possibility of placing expensive dual-use equipment .
– The experience of using such facilities by the Americans shows that they are removed from national control and operate in a closed mode .
– Laboratories are staffed by foreign personnel with diplomatic immunity .
– The directors of the facilities , as a rule , are appointed persons loyal to the Pentagon ’ s military or intelligence personnel .
– The CRLs are located in cities or in close proximity to major cities ( Odessa , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ( Odessa ) , airports ( Tbilisi ) , or in earthquake-prone areas ( Almaty ) .
From the point of view of security their positions are extremely vulnerable .
Data published by former Minister of State Security of Georgia I. Giogadze on the activities of the United States at the R. Lugar Center for Public Health Research received an important international response .
It should be emphasized that these materials were thoroughly studies by the command of the Russian Armed Forces and used at a briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defence @ @ @ @ @ @ @ materials of I. Giorgadze ’ s website “ Georgia yesterday , today , tomorrow ” , in 2018 , a new eight-story administrative and laboratory building was built on the territory adjacent to the R. Lugar centre .
Two floors of the new building are completely dedicated to the medical research unit , which is a branch of the W. Reed U.S. Army Research Institute .
It is known that this military unit of the army is engaged in the study of particularly dangerous infectious diseases .
The American and Georgian authorities are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and direction of projects implemented in the centre .
The Pentagon is trying to introduce the same camouflaged military medical and biological facilities in other republics of the former USSR .
The documents indicate that Washington ’ s priority research list includes potential biological weapons agents : agent of tularemia , anthrax , brucellosis , dengue fever , Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and other diseases transmitted by blood-sucking arthropods .
The Pentagon is particularly interested in atypical forms of plague , which are being searched for in pockets throughout Georgia , including in the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ I. Giorgadze ’ s data , Georgian specialists are restricted in moving around the centre , do not have the right to get acquainted with American documents , and do not have information about the Pentagon ’ s closed laboratory developments .
At the same time , US military biologists working at the centre have diplomatic immunity .
For them , the notification nature of transporting biomaterials through deep channels is implemented without checks and declaring them before local supervisory authorities .
Thus , this protection allows the members of the Armed Forces @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and to fulfill the orders of its government in circumvention of the Georgian legislation .
In addition , Washington secured financial support from London and Berlin for the R. Lugar centre , facilitated its partnerships with major scientific research institutions such as the UK DEO ’ s Science and Technology Laboratory and the Institute of Microbiology of the Bundeswehr , as well as the R. Koch Institute , B. Nocht Tropical Medicine and F. Leffler Veterinary Medicine ( all in Germany ) .
Giorgadze ’ s information draws attention to the use of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ spread infected insects in the air and various types of capsules for the delivery of chemical and biological formations .
The possibility of equipping the capsules with tranquilisers , poisonous , radioactive and narcotic substances and pathogens of infectious diseases is shown .
Materials on the results of the conducted research on the impact of an unknown drug on Georgian citizens , which resulted in the death of more than 160 people were made public .
There are reasons to believe that the R. Lugar centre has conducted tests of a highly toxic @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lethality .
The published data point out that the collection and export abroad of biological materials of Russian citizens with undeclared purposes represents a threat to the security of the Russian Federation .
As part of the Genographic Project , American companies collected clinical material on monoethnoses from the North Caucasus , the Far East and the Ural regions .
Thus , the U.S. military and pollical leadership , violating the basic provisions of the BTWC , is developing its military and biological activities and , under the guise of implementing protective or @ @ @ @ @ @ @ build its military and biological potential .
Contrary to its international obligations , the U.S. has retained national legislation that allows for work in the field of bacteriological ( biological ) weapons .
In particular , the ratification of the 1925 Geneva protocol “ For the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating , Poisonous or Other Gases , and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare ” by the United States attached a number of notes allowing the retaliatory use of chemical and toxin weapons .
According to the U.S. Federal Act “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act ” ( the “ Patriot Act ” ) , research in the fileld of creating bacteriological ( biological ) weapons is allowed with the authorisation of the American government .
At the same time , participants in such research are not criminally liable for developing such weapons .
The While House , offering supposedly charitable assistance in the sanitary and epidemiological field , concurrently increases the potential for covert and sudden intervention in the development of the situation in the field of biosecurity , not @ @ @ @ @ @ @ also far beyond their borders .
In conclusion , it is important to cite the statements made by the President of the Russian Federation , Vladimir Putin , at the XVth annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club , after reviewing the information materials on the implementation of the BTWC by the United States : “ Reports of the development of biological weapons are alarming .
I can ’ t judge how reliable the data of the former Minister of State Security of Georgia is .
These developments are very dangerous and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ genetics .
We can talk about drugs that selectively affect a person in accordance with their belonging to a certain ethnic group .
If someone is going to develop such things , they should understand that others will do it as well .
To prevent these problems , the international community should sit down at the negotiating table and develop common rules of conduct in this extremely sensitive area.
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Originally appeared at Foreign Military Review #3 2019, translated by AlexD exclusively for SouthFront
The U.S. military and political leadership (MPL) has consistently declared in international forums the punctual implementation of the “Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production and Stockpiling of Bacteriological (Biological) and Toxin Weapons and on Their Destruction” (hereinafter, the Convention or BTWC). The convention was approved by the UN General Assembly in 1971, entered into force in 1975, and is open-ended.
According to foreign and Russian biologists, a disadvantage of the BTWC is the lack of a control and inspection mechanism for the implementation of its main provisions by the participating countries. At the same time, the U.S. MPL is avoiding the participation in the development of this mechanism and signing the relevant protocol proposed by Russia. In addition, the American leadership, through its extensive biological-military activities, had deliberately committed serious violations of the Convention, which should be considered as a departure from international law.
The results of the analysis of foreign and Russian information materials, statements of former Minister of State Security of Georgia I. Giorgadze and assessments of annual reports of the U.S. State Department by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation allow to draw conclusions about systematic violations of the basic provisions of the Convention and the creation of biological (bacteriological) weapons in this country by the U.S. leadership.
The medical and biological activities of the U.S. military department on the perimeter of the Russian borders pose a serious threat to the security of Russia and other states. The locations of biological laboratories, according to foreign and Russian experts, have been chosen so that many of them are located in areas adjacent to Russia and China and are a constant source of biological threats to these states. In the former republics of the USSR, the Pentagon has funded the operation and development of new microbiological laboratories. More than 30 U.S.-controlled laboratories with a high level of biological protection are currently being upgraded, which is also confirmed by official UN data. Their capabilities make it possible to conduct a full range of studies with agents of extremely dangerous infectious diseases.
The content of most of the work indicates that new types of biological attack agents with predetermined pathogenic properties may be produced.
According to foreign information sources, basic U.S. Central Reference Laboratories (CRLs), supplemented by a network of zonal stations, operate in the Ukraine and Georgia. In addition, under an agreement between its Ministry of Health and the U.S. Department of Defense, the Ukraine has laboratories for the study of highly dangerous infections. There is one laboratory in each of the cities of Kiev, Odessa, Kherson, Ternopil, Uzhgorod, Vinnitsa, Kharkov and Lugansk, two laboratories in Dnepropetrovsk and three in Lvov.
Georgia has a number of biological facilities controlled by the Pentagon: the National Center for Infectious Disease Control and the Institute of Microbiology, Virology and Bacteriophages; the Richard Lugar Laboratory for Public Health Research on the outskirts of Tbilisi (Alekseevka village); and modernised regional sanitary epidemiological stations.
The head of Rospotrebnadzor, chief state sanitary doctor of Russia Anna Popova, in late 2018 said that the Pentagon planned to organise a laboratory in Simferopol under the guise of a medical centre to conduct experiments on people and creation of biological weapons. This is confirmed by the discovery of 46 rodent internal organ samples, 104 ectoparasite pools, and 105 human blood serum samples prepared for shipment to the United States on the peninsula in the former Soviet anti-plague station.
According to her, American laboratories located near Russia’s borders in the post-Soviet space can artificially change viruses. Thus, in the summer of 2018 a group of Russian tourists returned from Georgia in serious condition due to an acute intestinal infection.
Having studied the pathogen, Rospotrebnadzor scientists found out that such variant of the pathogen is not described and is not presented among the known data. According to their data, insects capable of transmitting dangerous viruses to people are being brought to Georgia by drones from the USA. The well-known American centre R. Lugar in Georgia, which was previously accused of testing toxic chemicals on local residents under the guise of treatment, is engaged in this work.
Former UN member of the Biological Weapons Commission Ihor Nikulin said the Americans in the Ukraine are also testing questionable vaccines. In recent years, outbreaks of measles, hepatitis, tuberculosis, rabies and other infectious diseases have increased in the country. Only in 2017, tens of thousands of Ukrainians died from infections. Meanwhile, viruses are often spread using drones and insects. The implementation of the U.S. programme “Allied Insects” began in 2016.
The number of biological laboratories built or upgraded by the United States in the former Soviet Union is increasing. There are ten of them in Kazakhstan, the same number in Georgia, eight in Azerbaijan and seven in Armenia.
Russia is almost completely surrounded by biological laboratories.
All over the world, Washington has 200 laboratories. It is possible that the outbreak of Ebola in Africa, which took the lives of 10 thousand people, is associated with the Americans’ experiments.
It is important to note that Washington declares exclusively the civilian purpose of the activities of these facilities, allegedly in the interests of ensuring the biological security of the republics. It is stated that, with the participation of American military biologists, these laboratories conduct research on pathogens that are particularly dangerous.
According to foreign and Russian experts, these laboratories are used for purposes hostile to Russia and other countries. There is an increase in uncontrolled covert and sudden intervention in the field of biosecurity of states with the following tasks: putting under control the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the post-Soviet republics and the work carried out in them with pathogens; data collection on infectious diseases and export of national collections with strains of pathogens that can fight the effects of vaccines and are resistant to antibiotics; collecting information about territorial microorganisms to create a new generation of highly effective offensive biological weapons against Russia, Iran and China; conducting sabotage operations aimed at causing damage to the economy (destruction of livestock, discrediting state products on world markets, etc.) and human potential as a result of reduced immunity and ability to reproduce; testing on the ground of biological agents, increasing their virulence, tracking the ways and methods of their distribution; increasing the dependence of Russia, China and Iran on the products of the Western pharmaceutical industry in order to develop medicines for diseases artificially synthesized or modified using the CRL network and circumventing the restrictions regulated by the articles of the BTWC.
The Ukraine, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan handed over their collections of pathogens of dangerous diseases and combat strains of microorganisms created in the former USSR to the Americans.
The Pentagon’s research into ethnically based differences in people’s susceptibility to dangerous diseases is dangerous. This opens up the possibility of obtaining (by genetic modification the forms of pathogenic microorganisms) such biological affective agents, to which the population of the Russian Federation and other countries will have no natural immunity, and the available medical means of protection may prove ineffective.
It is known that the Pentagon has repeatedly sent viable anthrax agents to 195 recipients in 12 countries where well-known laboratories have been built in recent years in violation of all accepted standards. For example, a “live” recipe was intentionally sent to the Republic of Korea as part of an alleged test of the integrated biological assessment system, and the US subsequently stated that the mailing was made in error.
The specifics of their creation and functioning are confirmed by the hostile aims and objectives of these laboratories:
– All facilities are being built at the Pentagon’s expense, not the ministries of health of the states. According to foreign experts, the financing of their activities in the period from 2017 to 2019 will amount to about 1 billion dollars, and only in 2019, in accordance with the budget request of the US administration, more than 197 million dollars will be allocated for the implementation of research and military-technical projects. Such significant costs can be justified by the possibility of placing expensive dual-use equipment.
– The experience of using such facilities by the Americans shows that they are removed from national control and operate in a closed mode.
– Laboratories are staffed by foreign personnel with diplomatic immunity.
– The directors of the facilities, as a rule, are appointed persons loyal to the Pentagon’s military or intelligence personnel.
– The CRLs are located in cities or in close proximity to major cities (Odessa, Kharkov, Almaty), near seaports (Odessa), airports (Tbilisi), or in earthquake-prone areas (Almaty). From the point of view of security their positions are extremely vulnerable.
Data published by former Minister of State Security of Georgia I. Giogadze on the activities of the United States at the R. Lugar Center for Public Health Research received an important international response. It should be emphasized that these materials were thoroughly studies by the command of the Russian Armed Forces and used at a briefing of the Russian Ministry of Defence in October 2018.
According to the materials of I. Giorgadze’s website “Georgia yesterday, today, tomorrow”, in 2018, a new eight-story administrative and laboratory building was built on the territory adjacent to the R. Lugar centre. Two floors of the new building are completely dedicated to the medical research unit, which is a branch of the W. Reed U.S. Army Research Institute. It is known that this military unit of the army is engaged in the study of particularly dangerous infectious diseases. The American and Georgian authorities are taking measures to conceal the true nature and direction of projects implemented in the centre. The Pentagon is trying to introduce the same camouflaged military medical and biological facilities in other republics of the former USSR.
The documents indicate that Washington’s priority research list includes potential biological weapons agents: agent of tularemia, anthrax, brucellosis, dengue fever, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and other diseases transmitted by blood-sucking arthropods. The Pentagon is particularly interested in atypical forms of plague, which are being searched for in pockets throughout Georgia, including in the immediate vicinity of Russia.
According to I. Giorgadze’s data, Georgian specialists are restricted in moving around the centre, do not have the right to get acquainted with American documents, and do not have information about the Pentagon’s closed laboratory developments. At the same time, US military biologists working at the centre have diplomatic immunity. For them, the notification nature of transporting biomaterials through deep channels is implemented without checks and declaring them before local supervisory authorities.
Thus, this protection allows the members of the Armed Forces of the United States to solve problems and to fulfill the orders of its government in circumvention of the Georgian legislation. In addition, Washington secured financial support from London and Berlin for the R. Lugar centre, facilitated its partnerships with major scientific research institutions such as the UK DEO’s Science and Technology Laboratory and the Institute of Microbiology of the Bundeswehr, as well as the R. Koch Institute, B. Nocht Tropical Medicine and F. Leffler Veterinary Medicine (all in Germany).
Giorgadze’s information draws attention to the use of unmanned aerial vehicles by the Americans to spread infected insects in the air and various types of capsules for the delivery of chemical and biological formations. The possibility of equipping the capsules with tranquilisers, poisonous, radioactive and narcotic substances and pathogens of infectious diseases is shown.
Materials on the results of the conducted research on the impact of an unknown drug on Georgian citizens, which resulted in the death of more than 160 people were made public. There are reasons to believe that the R. Lugar centre has conducted tests of a highly toxic chemical preparation or biological agent with high lethality.
The published data point out that the collection and export abroad of biological materials of Russian citizens with undeclared purposes represents a threat to the security of the Russian Federation.
As part of the Genographic Project, American companies collected clinical material on monoethnoses from the North Caucasus, the Far East and the Ural regions.
Thus, the U.S. military and pollical leadership, violating the basic provisions of the BTWC, is developing its military and biological activities and, under the guise of implementing protective or other peaceful research, is continuing to build its military and biological potential. Contrary to its international obligations, the U.S. has retained national legislation that allows for work in the field of bacteriological (biological) weapons. In particular, the ratification of the 1925 Geneva protocol “For the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare” by the United States attached a number of notes allowing the retaliatory use of chemical and toxin weapons.
According to the U.S. Federal Act “Uniting and Strengthening American by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act” (the “Patriot Act”), research in the fileld of creating bacteriological (biological) weapons is allowed with the authorisation of the American government. At the same time, participants in such research are not criminally liable for developing such weapons. The While House, offering supposedly charitable assistance in the sanitary and epidemiological field, concurrently increases the potential for covert and sudden intervention in the development of the situation in the field of biosecurity, not only in the post-Soviet states, but also far beyond their borders.
In conclusion, it is important to cite the statements made by the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, at the XVth annual meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club, after reviewing the information materials on the implementation of the BTWC by the United States: “Reports of the development of biological weapons are alarming. I can’t judge how reliable the data of the former Minister of State Security of Georgia is. These developments are very dangerous and are associated with the latest advances in genetics. We can talk about drugs that selectively affect a person in accordance with their belonging to a certain ethnic group. If someone is going to develop such things, they should understand that others will do it as well. To prevent these problems, the international community should sit down at the negotiating table and develop common rules of conduct in this extremely sensitive area.”
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southfront--2020-06-19--Fifteen Syrian Service Members Killed, Injured In New Eastern Hama Attack

Early on June 18 , ISIS terrorists launched an attack on positions of the Syrian Arab Army ( SAA ) in the eastern Hama countryside .
The attack targeted checkpoints of the army near the town of Ithriyah , which is located on a key trade road linking the northern city of Aleppo with Hama .
According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ( SOHR ) , six Syrian service members were killed and nine others were injured in the attack .
Pro-government sources said that at least five terrorists were killed .
“ This attack is the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ten days , meaning that the Islamic State is stepping up its attacks within a new area , which is the Aleppo-Hama-Raqqa triangle , ” the monitoring group said in a report .
Following the attack , the SAA deployed fresh reinforcements near Ithriyah .
Several sources also reported that Russian warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on ISIS ’ hideouts in eastern Hama .
The SAA and its allies recently conducted a series of successful security operation in eastern Homs , southern Raqqa and western Deir Ezzor .
Apparently these efforts @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to southeastern and eastern Hama .
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Early on June 18, ISIS terrorists launched an attack on positions of the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) in the eastern Hama countryside.
The attack targeted checkpoints of the army near the town of Ithriyah, which is located on a key trade road linking the northern city of Aleppo with Hama.
According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), six Syrian service members were killed and nine others were injured in the attack. Pro-government sources said that at least five terrorists were killed.
“This attack is the fifth of its kind in less than ten days, meaning that the Islamic State is stepping up its attacks within a new area, which is the Aleppo-Hama-Raqqa triangle,” the monitoring group said in a report.
Following the attack, the SAA deployed fresh reinforcements near Ithriyah. Several sources also reported that Russian warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes on ISIS’ hideouts in eastern Hama.
The SAA and its allies recently conducted a series of successful security operation in eastern Homs, southern Raqqa and western Deir Ezzor. Apparently these efforts forced the remaining ISIS terrorists to flee to southeastern and eastern Hama.
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southfront--2020-06-19--In Photos: French Nuclear Submarine Burned To Ashes Following Incident At Toulon Port

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On June 12, fire broke out onboard the French Navy’s Ruby-class nuclear submarine Perle docked at the Mediterranean port of Toulon. Photos from the site show that the submarine in fact burned to ashes and barely can be restored.
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southfront--2020-06-19--Syrian Army Repels Large ISIS Attack Near Ithriyah

At least 6 soldiers were killed and 9 others were injured in an ISIS attack on a Syrian Army checkpoint near the town of Ithriyah , located on the Hama-Aleppo road .
According to pro-government sources , at least 5 ISIS members were killed in the clashes .
Regular ISIS attacks in desert areas in central Syria are a serious problem for Syrian government forces .
During the past few weeks , the army and its allies completed a series of combing operations against ISIS cells in eastern Homs , southern Raqqa and western Deir Ezzor .
It seems that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ shift its focus towards eastern Hama .
Nonetheless , there is little doubt that as soon as the Syrian military sends units hunting down ISIS cells along the Palmyra-Deir Ezzor road to the Itriyah area , ISIS attacks in the Deir Ezzor countryside will resume once again .
The Damascus government will likely continue lacking resources to clear the entire desert of ISIS cells as long as it needs to keep large forces on the contact line with the Turkish Army and its proxies in Greater Idlib , near the region of Afrin @ @ @ @ @ @ @ groups are not only waging a never-ending propaganda war against the Damascus government , but also find time for regular infighting .
On June 17 , Hayat Tahrir al-Sham arrested Abu Salah al-Uzbeki , the founder and former leader of the Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad terrorist group , which consists mostly of ethnic Uzbeks .
Al-Uzbeki and two of his bodyguards were captured by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham forces near the city of Idlib on June 17 .
The reason for tensions is that Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad recently distanced itself from @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with Ansar al-Din , another al-Qaeda-linked group .
Earlier this month , Ansar al-Din and several other medium and small groups created a new coalition – Fa Ithbatu .
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham may have considered this move as an attempt to challenge its dominant position among the so-called moderate opposition .
Usbat al-Tha ’ ireen , an Iraqi pro-Iranian group formed earlier in 2020 , released a new video claiming responsibility for a series of attacks on US forces and facilities across Iraq .
In the video entitled “ Victory Comes With Patience @ @ @ @ @ @ @ June 8 , it shelled Camp Taji damaging a C-130 military transport aircraft of the US Air Force ; • On June 11 , it launched rockets at the US embassy in Baghdad ’ s Green Zone ; • On June 16 , it launched rockets at the US-operated military section of Baghdad International Airport .
Usbat al-Tha ’ ireen is the group that killed 3 US-led coalition personnel with a rocket strike on Camp Taji on March 11 .
Nonetheless , its claims about the damaging of the C-130 aircraft belonging to @ @ @ @ @ @ @

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At least 6 soldiers were killed and 9 others were injured in an ISIS attack on a Syrian Army checkpoint near the town of Ithriyah, located on the Hama-Aleppo road. According to pro-government sources, at least 5 ISIS members were killed in the clashes.
Regular ISIS attacks in desert areas in central Syria are a serious problem for Syrian government forces. During the past few weeks, the army and its allies completed a series of combing operations against ISIS cells in eastern Homs, southern Raqqa and western Deir Ezzor. It seems that these efforts forced the terrorist group to shift its focus towards eastern Hama.
Nonetheless, there is little doubt that as soon as the Syrian military sends units hunting down ISIS cells along the Palmyra-Deir Ezzor road to the Itriyah area, ISIS attacks in the Deir Ezzor countryside will resume once again.
The Damascus government will likely continue lacking resources to clear the entire desert of ISIS cells as long as it needs to keep large forces on the contact line with the Turkish Army and its proxies in Greater Idlib, near the region of Afrin and in northeastern Syria.
Idlib militant groups are not only waging a never-ending propaganda war against the Damascus government, but also find time for regular infighting.
On June 17, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham arrested Abu Salah al-Uzbeki, the founder and former leader of the Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad terrorist group, which consists mostly of ethnic Uzbeks. Al-Uzbeki and two of his bodyguards were captured by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham forces near the city of Idlib on June 17. The reason for tensions is that Katibat al Tawhid wal Jihad recently distanced itself from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and signed a pact with Ansar al-Din, another al-Qaeda-linked group. Earlier this month, Ansar al-Din and several other medium and small groups created a new coalition – Fa Ithbatu. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham may have considered this move as an attempt to challenge its dominant position among the so-called moderate opposition.
Usbat al-Tha’ireen, an Iraqi pro-Iranian group formed earlier in 2020, released a new video claiming responsibility for a series of attacks on US forces and facilities across Iraq.
In the video entitled “Victory Comes With Patience” it claimed that:
On June 8, it shelled Camp Taji damaging a C-130 military transport aircraft of the US Air Force;
On June 11, it launched rockets at the US embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone;
On June 16, it launched rockets at the US-operated military section of Baghdad International Airport.
Usbat al-Tha’ireen is the group that killed 3 US-led coalition personnel with a rocket strike on Camp Taji on March 11. Nonetheless, its claims about the damaging of the C-130 aircraft belonging to US military can hardly been verified.
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southfront--2020-06-19--ISIS Cells Carried Out 39 Attacks In Northeast Syria During Last 30 Days – Report

ISIS cells in northeast Syria increased their attacks in the last 30 days despite the recent operations by the Syrian Democratic Forces ( SDF ) and the U.S.-led coalition , the Syrian Observatory or Human Rights ( SOHR ) reported on June 19 .
The UK-based monitoring group revealed that the terrorist group carried out at least 39 operations between March 19 and June 19 .
The operations included bombings , shootings and executions .
As a result of ISIS attacks , 22 personnel of the SDF and 6 civilians , including a woman and two children , were killed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ coalition and the SDF eliminated a number of ISIS commanders in northeast Syria during a series of special operations .
Between June 4 and 10 , the coalition and the SDF launched a large-scale security operation in the southern al-Hasakah countryside and the southeastern Deir Ezzor countryside .
More than 100 suspects were arrested .
After the large-scale operation , the SDF security forces launched an operation to secure and reorganize the notorious al-Hawl Camp in eastern al-Hasakah .
Despite this , the ISIS influence in Syria ’ s northeastern region , especially @ @ @ @ @ @ @ growiing .
The U.S.-led coalition and the SDF will have to make more efforts to address this threat .
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ISIS cells in northeast Syria increased their attacks in the last 30 days despite the recent operations by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the U.S.-led coalition, the Syrian Observatory or Human Rights (SOHR) reported on June 19.
The UK-based monitoring group revealed that the terrorist group carried out at least 39 operations between March 19 and June 19. The operations included bombings, shootings and executions. As a result of ISIS attacks, 22 personnel of the SDF and 6 civilians, including a woman and two children, were killed.
Earlier this year, the U.S.-led coalition and the SDF eliminated a number of ISIS commanders in northeast Syria during a series of special operations.
Between June 4 and 10, the coalition and the SDF launched a large-scale security operation in the southern al-Hasakah countryside and the southeastern Deir Ezzor countryside. More than 100 suspects were arrested.
After the large-scale operation, the SDF security forces launched an operation to secure and reorganize the notorious al-Hawl Camp in eastern al-Hasakah.
“Security operations of the international coalition and the SDF did not succeed in curbing the Islamic State in any way, many of these operations even witnessed random arrests,” the SOHR’s report reads.
Despite this, the ISIS influence in Syria’s northeastern region, especially in southeast Deir Ezzor, has been growiing. The U.S.-led coalition and the SDF will have to make more efforts to address this threat.
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southfront--2020-06-19--YouTube’s New Clumsy Attempt To Justify Censorship Of SouthFront

The story with the censorship of SouthFront on YouTube continues developing .
More than 1.5 months since the censorship of SouthFront on YouTube , the YouTube staff has been ignoring SouthFront rejecting requests to provide at least some kind of formal reason behind this decision .
However , in mid-June , YouTube finally invented some formal explanation for its illegal decision to censor SouthFront .
Now , YouTube claims that SouthFront ’ s main channel was terminated because of “ repeated or severe violations ” of YouTube Community Guidelines , including “ spam , scams or commercially deceptive content ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ YouTube somehow promoted spam , scams or deceptive content is a blatant lie .
HINT : On May 1 , YouTube terminated all of South Front ’ s channels , with approximately 170,000 subscribers .
The main YouTube channel in English had over 152,000 subscribers , 1,900 uploaded videos and approximately 60 million views .
The termination of our channels occurred without any warnings or notifications and regardless of the fact that our YouTube channels had zero active strikes .
We immediately appealed this decision and during the next weeks repeatedly requested YouTube @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , no real answers have been provided until now .
On June 16 , YouTube requested us to provide him links to SouthFront channels , which were terminated ( like YouTube Support Team can not get these links by itself ) : On June 18 , YouTube finally invented a formal explantion for its unjustified decision to censor SouthFront by claiming that our main YouTube channel with over 152,000 subscribers was promoting “ spam , scams or commercially deceptive content ” : However , this claim goes contrary to YouTube ’ s official @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Community Guidelines strikes or any other strikes on the channel .
On May 3 , YouTube Support Team officially confirmed this fact in its own email saying that there were “ no reasons ” to terminate SouthFront ’ s channel : We emphasized this in our answer to YouTube ’ s new claims : We eagerly await the further development of this situation .
How would YouTube try to explain this act of illegal censorship next time ?
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The story with the censorship of SouthFront on YouTube continues developing.
More than 1.5 months since the censorship of SouthFront on YouTube, the YouTube staff has been ignoring SouthFront rejecting requests to provide at least some kind of formal reason behind this decision. However, in mid-June, YouTube finally invented some formal explanation for its illegal decision to censor SouthFront.
Now, YouTube claims that SouthFront’s main channel was terminated because of “repeated or severe violations” of YouTube Community Guidelines, including “spam, scams or commercially deceptive content”. The claim that SouthFront content on YouTube somehow promoted spam, scams or deceptive content is a blatant lie.
HINT: On May 1, YouTube terminated all of South Front’s channels, with approximately 170,000 subscribers. The main YouTube channel in English had over 152,000 subscribers, 1,900 uploaded videos and approximately 60 million views. The termination of our channels occurred without any warnings or notifications and regardless of the fact that our YouTube channels had zero active strikes. We immediately appealed this decision and during the next weeks repeatedly requested YouTube to explain reasons behind it. However, no real answers have been provided until now.
A summary of the recent events:
On June 16, YouTube requested us to provide him links to SouthFront channels, which were terminated (like YouTube Support Team cannot get these links by itself):
SouthFront provided all the requested information:
On June 18, YouTube finally invented a formal explantion for its unjustified decision to censor SouthFront by claiming that our main YouTube channel with over 152,000 subscribers was promoting “spam, scams or commercially deceptive content”:
However, this claim goes contrary to YouTube’s official data itself. There was zero YouTube Community Guidelines strikes or any other strikes on the channel.
On May 3, YouTube Support Team officially confirmed this fact in its own email saying that there were “no reasons” to terminate SouthFront’s channel:
We emphasized this in our answer to YouTube’s new claims:
We eagerly await the further development of this situation. How would YouTube try to explain this act of illegal censorship next time?
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southfront--2020-06-19--Newly-Formed Idlib Militant Coalition Carries Out First Attack On Syrian Army

On June 19 , the newly-formed Fa Ithbatu militant coalition in Greater Idlib carried out its first attack on the Syrian Arab Army ( SAA ) .
According to several opposition sources , the terrorists destroyed a bulldozer of the SAA while it was building fortifications near the town of Tanjarah in the northwestern countryside of Hama .
The bulldozer was targeted with an anti-tank guided missile .
In what appears to be a response to the attack , the SAA artillery pounded militnats ’ positions around the town of Benin in southern Idlib .
The Fa Ithbatu coalition was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , Ansar al-Din , Ansar al-Islam , Liwa al-Muqatlin al-Ansar and Tansiqiyat al-Jihad .
Fa Ithbatu succeeded the so-called wa-Harid al-Mu ’ minin coalition .
Horas al-Din , Ansar al-Din , Ansar al-Islam are affiliated with al-Qaeda .
Liwa al-Muqatlin al-Ansar and Tansiqiyat al-Jihad , on the other side , were formed by defectors from Hay ’ at Tahrir al-Sham ( HTS ) .
The coalition was apparently established to sabotage the March 5 Russian-Turkish agreement as well as to challenge HTS ’ authority in Greater Idlib .
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On June 19, the newly-formed Fa Ithbatu militant coalition in Greater Idlib carried out its first attack on the Syrian Arab Army (SAA).
According to several opposition sources, the terrorists destroyed a bulldozer of the SAA while it was building fortifications near the town of Tanjarah in the northwestern countryside of Hama. The bulldozer was targeted with an anti-tank guided missile.
In what appears to be a response to the attack, the SAA artillery pounded militnats’ positions around the town of Benin in southern Idlib.
The Fa Ithbatu coalition was formed on June 12 by Horas al-Din, Ansar al-Din, Ansar al-Islam, Liwa al-Muqatlin al-Ansar and Tansiqiyat al-Jihad. Fa Ithbatu succeeded the so-called wa-Harid al-Mu’minin coalition.
Horas al-Din, Ansar al-Din, Ansar al-Islam are affiliated with al-Qaeda. Liwa al-Muqatlin al-Ansar and Tansiqiyat al-Jihad, on the other side, were formed by defectors from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).
The coalition was apparently established to sabotage the March 5 Russian-Turkish agreement as well as to challenge HTS’ authority in Greater Idlib.
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southfront--2020-06-19--UAE-Backed Separatists Seized Largest Town On Yemen’s Socotra Island (Videos, Photos)

On June 19 , forces of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council ( STC ) captured Socotra island ’ s municipal area following a short battle with forces of the Aden-based Saudi-backed government .
The battle , which began in the early morning , saw the use of heavy weapons by STC forces .
After resisting for a few hours , Saudi-backed forces withdrew from the municipal area that is located in the island ’ s largest town , Hadiboh .
A day earlier , Saudi forces , which were deployed in Socotra as guarantor , withdrew from a key checkpoint @ @ @ @ @ @ @ is located a few meter away from the municipal council that was captured by the STC .
This was the fourth such an attack by the STC on Saudi-backed forces in Socotra .
The Saudi-led coalition is yet to comment on the issue .
The UAE has been working to establish a lasting influence in Socotra since the beginning of the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in 2015 .
The UAE first tried to win the hearts and minds of the locals by channeling investments and aid to the island .
Now , Abu @ @ @ @ @ @ @ its influence in the island in a more aggressive manner .
The Saudi-backed Yemeni government and the Houthis both warned in the past that the UAE is planning to annex the island .
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On June 19, forces of the UAE-backed Southern Transitional Council (STC) captured Socotra island’s municipal area following a short battle with forces of the Aden-based Saudi-backed government.
The battle, which began in the early morning, saw the use of heavy weapons by STC forces. After resisting for a few hours, Saudi-backed forces withdrew from the municipal area that is located in the island’s largest town, Hadiboh.
A day earlier, Saudi forces, which were deployed in Socotra as guarantor, withdrew from a key checkpoint in Hadiboh. The forces’ headquarters is located a few meter away from the municipal council that was captured by the STC.
المجلس الانتقالي الجنوبي يرفع أعلام “الانفصال” على المبان الحكومية في “حديبو” عاصمة أرخبيل سقطرى pic.twitter.com/7PbbbFsuI4 — يمن مونيتور (@YeMonitor) June 19, 2020
الله أكبر…
مبنى محافظة سقطرى حديبو تم تحريره من مليشيات حزب الإصلاح الإرهابي… pic.twitter.com/TVoSB4AiDD — أفنااان… (@afnan66555) June 19, 2020
بعد استكمال السيطره علئ حديبو عاصمة ارخبيل سقطره مندوب التالف في سقطره يقول ليسة هناك حاضنه شعبيه للشرعيه وغالب ابناء سقطره يناصرون الانتقالي والقوات السقطريه تعلن ولاءها للانتقالي pic.twitter.com/9M8XbeRRAk — محمد سيف النقيب (@sXsq4J3QZacHbJN) June 19, 2020
Rafat Al-Shukili, head of the STC in Socotra, told AFP that the new attack was launched to “clear the capital [Hadiboh] from terrorists’ remnants.”
This was the fourth such an attack by the STC on Saudi-backed forces in Socotra. The Saudi-led coalition is yet to comment on the issue.
The UAE has been working to establish a lasting influence in Socotra since the beginning of the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in 2015. The UAE first tried to win the hearts and minds of the locals by channeling investments and aid to the island. Now, Abu Dhabi is using STC forces to strengthen its influence in the island in a more aggressive manner.
The Saudi-backed Yemeni government and the Houthis both warned in the past that the UAE is planning to annex the island.
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southfront--2020-06-19--Journalist Abducted, Assaulted & Robbed In Syria’s Greater Idlib (Photos)

Late on June 18 , Mustafa al-Khalaf , a journalist working as correspondent for Turkey-based Syria TV was abducted in @ @ @ @ @ Greater Idlib .
Zaman al-Wsl , a pro-opposition outlet , said al-Khalaf was abducted by @ @ @ @ @ driving his car on the Ma ’ arrat Misrin-Idlib road .
The gunmen tied up @ @ @ @ @ assaulted him for several hours .
Al-Khalaf ’ s car , phone , camera , @ @ @ @ @ of money he was carrying were stolen by the gunmen , who eventually ditched him @ @ @ @ @ ’ arrat Misrin .
Following the incident , al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay ’ at Tahrir al-Sham ( @ @ @ @ @ forces on all roads in Greater Idlib .
These security forces themselves assaulted pro-opposition journalists @ @ @ @ @ Russian-Turkish patrol on the M4 highway a few weeks ago .
The journalists were beaten @ @ @ @ @ equipment were destroyed .
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Late on June 18, Mustafa al-Khalaf, a journalist working as correspondent for Turkey-based Syria TV was abducted in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib.
Zaman al-Wsl, a pro-opposition outlet, said al-Khalaf was abducted by unidentified gunmen as he was driving his car on the Ma’arrat Misrin-Idlib road. The gunmen tied up the journalist and then violently assaulted him for several hours.
Al-Khalaf’s car, phone, camera, personal handgun and an amount of money he was carrying were stolen by the gunmen, who eventually ditched him near the town of Ma’arrat Misrin.
#إدلب تعرض الإعلامي الإرهابي مصطفى الخلف أبو زياد، مراسل تلفزيون سوريا التابع لعصابات الإرهاب، لعملية تشليح وضرب مبرح، داخل مدينة إدلب..???? pic.twitter.com/gCu00rpSxL — Muhammad Alyounes (@mhmdalywns56) June 19, 2020
?تَعرض الصحفي “مصطفى الخلف” مراسل تلفزيون سوريا، ليلة أمس بالاعتداء والخطف والضرب والسرقة من قبل مُسلّحين مجهولين بالقرب من مدينة #إدلب. pic.twitter.com/yGi6lhuOif — عبدالرحمن للإعلام (@abdulrhman570) June 19, 2020
Following the incident, al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) deployed additional security forces on all roads in Greater Idlib.
These security forces themselves assaulted pro-opposition journalists that were covering the 16th Russian-Turkish patrol on the M4 highway a few weeks ago. The journalists were beaten up and some of their equipment were destroyed.
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southfront--2020-06-19--Over 2,600 Turkish-Backed Syrian Militants Have Returned From Libya – Report

More than 2,600 Turkish-backed Syrian militants have returned from Libya where they were fighting for the Government of National Accord ( GNA ) , the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ( SOHR ) reported on June 19 .
At least 12,100 Syrian militants are still present in Libya .
According to the SOHR , Turkey is now working to deploy even more militants there .
More than 1,800 Syrians are currently receiving military training in camps inside Turkey ahead of deployment .
The SOHR also revealed that 300 Syrian militants fighting in GNA forces are minors , between the ages @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these minors were recruited by the Turkish-backed Sultan Murad Division .
Despite the relative calm in Libya , the remaining Syrian militants there are still taking part in combat operations .
In the last few days , at least 17 were killed .
This raised the number of Syrians killed while fighting in Libya to 417 .
The deployment of Syrian militants in Libya boosted the offensive capabilities of GNA forces , enabling them to make gains in northwest Libya .
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More than 2,600 Turkish-backed Syrian militants have returned from Libya where they were fighting for the Government of National Accord (GNA), the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported on June 19.
“The returnees have received all of their financial entitlements after the recent advance by GNA forces in Libya,” the monitoring group’s report reads.
At least 12,100 Syrian militants are still present in Libya. According to the SOHR, Turkey is now working to deploy even more militants there. More than 1,800 Syrians are currently receiving military training in camps inside Turkey ahead of deployment.
The SOHR also revealed that 300 Syrian militants fighting in GNA forces are minors, between the ages of 14 and 18. Most of these minors were recruited by the Turkish-backed Sultan Murad Division.
Despite the relative calm in Libya, the remaining Syrian militants there are still taking part in combat operations. In the last few days, at least 17 were killed. This raised the number of Syrians killed while fighting in Libya to 417.
The deployment of Syrian militants in Libya boosted the offensive capabilities of GNA forces, enabling them to make gains in northwest Libya.
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southfront--2020-06-19--Kiev Releases Video Showing Heavy Strikes On Positions Of DPR Forces

Talking of Ukraine , does anybody remember the Cookie Monsters , Nuland and McCain ?
Well , one is down @ @ @ @ @ is Nuland upto ?
Working for the Albright Foundation ‘ the death of 500,000 Iraq @ @ @ @ @ well worth the price ’ Maddie .
What is she trying to get going ?
@ @ @ @ @ Moscow .
Well , it worked in Ukraine and she believes by hitting into the @ @ @ @ @ who live in the villages , outside Moscow , well , they would be stupid @ @ @ @ @ Maidan .
I wonder how that will work out ?
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Media accounts affilated with forces of the Kiev regime released a video showing heavy strikes on positions of the self-defense forces of the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in eastern Ukraine. The incident reportedly took place near Bahmutka. The video shows destruction of the supposed KAMAZ vehicle with ammunition. Pro-Kiev sources also claim that the strikes destroyed 2 mortars of the DPR.
Despite the formal ceasefire regime in eastern Ukraine, pro-Kiev forces regularly violate it shelling territories controlled by the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics.
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southfront--2020-06-19--Foreign Jihadists In Greater Idlib Stress Support To HTS In New Statement

Foreign Jihadists in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib stressed their support for al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay ’ at Tahrir al-Sham @ @ @ @ @ joint statement released on June 18 .
In the joint statement , the jihadists praised @ @ @ @ @ religion and serving Mujahedeen ” as well as for “ preserving security ” and “ @ @ @ @ @ Islamic law ] .
” The jihadists noted in their statement that the group is @ @ @ @ @ statement was signed by many prominent terrorists , including leaders in HTS ’ own ranks @ @ @ @ @ as well as the following groups : The statement was clearly meant to support HTS @ @ @ @ @ ‘ more radical ’ al-Qaeda-affiliated factions in Greater Idlib .
HTS is now involved in @ @ @ @ @ and Ansar al-Din .
Both groups and defectors from HTS formed a new operations room @ @ @ @ @ month .
HTS apparently sees this as a threat .
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Foreign Jihadists in the northwestern Syrian region of Greater Idlib stressed their support for al-Qaeda-affiliated Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) in a joint statement released on June 18.
In the joint statement, the jihadists praised HTS for “supporting the religion and serving Mujahedeen” as well as for “preserving security” and “implementing Shari’a [Islamic law].” The jihadists noted in their statement that the group is not faultless.
“Supporting Hay’at is not a claim to infallibility or immunity to mistakes, nor a favorite a faction or a bigotry to a tribe,” the statement reads.
The unusual statement was signed by many prominent terrorists, including leaders in HTS’ own ranks like Abu al-Harith al-Masri, as well as the following groups:
The Turkistan Islamic Party [Uyghur jihadists];
Jama’at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad [Uzbek jihadists];
Liwa al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar [Caucasian jihadists];
Sham al-Islam [Moroccan jihadists];
Jzazrawiat al-Hay’at [Saudi jihadists];
Tajiki Jamat [Tajiki jihadists];
Muhajree Ahl al-Sunnah Min Iran [Iranian jihadists];
Jamat al-Alban [Albanian jihadists];
Jamat al-Maldives [Maldivians jihadists].
The statement was clearly meant to support HTS which is being criticized by ‘more radical’ al-Qaeda-affiliated factions in Greater Idlib.
HTS is now involved in conflicts with both Horas al-Din and Ansar al-Din. Both groups and defectors from HTS formed a new operations room in Greater Idlib earlier this month. HTS apparently sees this as a threat.
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southfront--2020-06-19--The Saker: “What Kind of “Popular Revolution” Is This?!”

Written by The Saker ; Originally appeared at The Unz Review I have to say that I am amazed that so many folks on the Left seem to think that the current riots in the US are a spontaneous rebellion against police violence , systemic racism , and history of persecution and exploitation of Blacks and Indians , etc .
As for the violence , looting and riots – they are either excused as a result of some kind of righteous wrath or blamed on “ infiltrators ” .
In I tried to show how the Democrats and the US @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to use them against Trump ’ s bid for reelection .
I accompanied the article with a carefully staged photo-op of US Democrats “ taking a knee ” in solidarity ( as if the leaders of the Democratic Party gave a hoot about Blacks or poor US Americans ! )
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What I did not mention was how the US ( and even trans-national ) corporate world backed these riots to the hilt .
Here are just a few examples of this : And it is not only in the USA .
Check @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up to : All those of us who thought that the corporate world was all about money , that the corporate “ culture ” had all the signs of severe psychopathy and that billionaires did not give a damn about the poor and the oppressed , but now we know better : we thought of them as evil 1 % ers , and it turns out that there are kind , highly principled people , who care about injustice and freedom and who truly feel bad , very very bad , for all @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you really buy this ?
These are not small mom-and-pop stores where ethics and kindness still exist .
These are the very corporations who benefited most from all the inequalities , injustice , violence and imperial wars of aggression and it would be truly pollyannish to think that these corporations and their CEOs suddenly grew a conscience ( the exact same applies to the leadership of the Democratic Party , of course ! )
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So let ’ s go back to the basics : corporations are about money , that is a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to present a “ human face ” , but this is nothing more than a marketing trick destined to create consumer loyalty .
Now I don ’ t believe for one second that the mega-corporations listed above expect to make much money from supporting the riots , at least not in a direct way .
Nor do I believe that these corporations are trying to impersonate a conscience because they fear a Black consumer boycott ( what was true in is not true today , if only because of the completely different scale @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not money – what is at stake here ?
Specifically , the US deep state – at a major faction within that deep state – is clearly desperate to get rid of Trump ( and for the right reasons , of which there are plenty ) .
There are plenty of signs that illustrate that Trump is even losing control of the Executive , including on what is a key issue – restoring law and order – or the US Ambassador to South Korea voicing support for BLM ( I consider that these @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Commander in Chief border on treason ) .
Needless to say , the immediately began dreaming about , and calling for , a military revolt against Trump .
Last but not least , we now have a “ free zone ” in Seattle , the notorious Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone , “ CHAZ ” aka “ CHOP ” where , among other “ curiosities ” , Whites are told to give 10 bucks to a Black person .
This means that until law and order are restored to what is now the CHAZ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ sovereignty over a part of one of its cities .
That is a “ black eye ” for any US President who , after all , is the leader of the Executive branch of government and the Commander in Chief of a military supposed ( in theory only , of course ) to defend the United States against all enemies .
What do all of these developments have in common ?
They are designed to show that Trump has lost control of the country and that all good and decent people now stand @ @ @ @ @ @ @ major problems with this plan .
For one thing , this is all completely illegal .
What began as a typical race riot is now openly turning into sedition .
The second major problem of this plan is that it relies on what I call a “ coalition of minorities ” to achieve its goal , it is therefore ignoring the will of the majority of the people .
This can backfire , especially if the chaos and violence continue to spread .
Next , there is the “ Golem/Frankenstein ” issue : @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wildfire than to contain or suppress it .
Nancy Pelosi might be dumb enough to think that she and her gang can control the likes of , but history shows that when the state abdicates its monopoly on violence , anarchy ensues .
By the way , it is important to note here that Trump , at least so far , has not taken the bait and has not used federal forces to reimpose law and order in Seattle , Atlanta or elsewhere .
He must realize that liberating the so-called CHAZ might @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to be plenty of weapons inside the CHAZ ) and that the Democrats are dreaming about blaming him for a bloodbath .
Trump ’ s strategy , at least so far , appears to let the lawlessness continue and blame the Democrats for it .
While Trump ’ s strategy makes sense , it also is inherently very dangerous because if the state can not reimpose law and order , then all sorts of “ volunteers ” might decide to give it a shot ( literally ) .
Check out this headline “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ On July 4th “ .
Whether these bikers will actually try to take over the CHAZ or not , even the fact that they are preparing to do so shows , yet again , that the state has lost its monopoly on violence .
Finally , this strategy to oust Trump by means of lawlessness and anarchy could greatly contribute to the breakup of the United States , if not , then at least .
How ?
For one thing , the United States is a big country , not only in terms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ socio-economic and even cultural terms .
Some US states have a large Black population , others much less .
But they all mostly watch the same news media .
Which means that when there are race riots in , say , Los Angeles or Baltimore , the people who live in states like Montana or the Dakotas feel that it is their country which is threatened .
Coincidentally ( or not ? )
, these mostly White states happen to have a large part of their population as , Hillary ’ s famous @ @ @ @ @ @ @ these states “ flyover states ” .
It also happens that civilians in these states own a large number of firearms and know how to use them .
The same applies to different locations within any one state .
Take California for example , which many view as being very liberal , progressive .
Well , that might be true for many cities in California , but as soon as you enter rural California , the prevailing culture changes rather dramatically .
The same urban vs rural dichotomy also exists in many other @ @ @ @ @ @ @ here is the following one : some parts of the United States can collapse and become zones of total lawlessness while others will “ circle the wagons ” and take whatever measures are needed to protect themselves and their way of life .
This does not mean that the US , as a country , will break-up into several successor states .
That could only happen much further down the road , but it does mean that different areas of the country could start facing the crisis autonomously and even possibly in direct @ @ @ @ @ @ @ happens , poverty and violence typically sharply rise .
There are already reports of vigilantism in New Mexico ( interestingly , in this case the authorities did send in the cops ) .
In his seminal article “ ” ( an absolute for any person wanting to understand what is taking place today ! )
Ron Unz makes a very interesting observation : In other words , the larger the Black minority , the more likely Whites will vote Republican .
Of course , one can dismiss this by saying that these Whites @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not help either because it begs the question of why Whites do not become racists when living next to Hispanics and Asians , but do so when they live near Blacks .
The explanation is in Ron ’ s article : “ local urban crime rates in America seem to be almost entirely explained by the local racial distribution ” ( please see the charts in Ron ’ s article for the data supporting this conclusion ) .
This makes for a potentially very explosive mix , especially in a time when police @ @ @ @ @ @ @ demotion .
being fired or even criminal charges for using “ excessive force ” against any Black suspect ( yes , US cops often do use excessive force , but the solution here is not to paralyze the police forces , lest the civilians feel like they need to defend themselves .
Conclusion : this is no popular revolution at all It is undeniable that a major chuck of the US ruling classes have decided to support the BLM movement and the riots it instigates .
Furthermore , these US ruling classes have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just like the Republicans have been destroying the AngloZionist empire on the international scene , the Democrats have been destroying the United States from within .
Far from being a real popular protest movement , the BLM movement is a tool in the hands of one faction of the US deep state against another faction .
A lot of Trump nominees/appointees are now seeing the writing on the wall and are betraying their boss in order to switch sides and abandon what they see as a sinking ship .
My personal feeling is @ @ @ @ @ @ @ much of a coward to fight his political enemies ( if he had any spine , it would have shown at the time when Trump betrayed Flynn only a month into his presidency ) .
History , however , shows that a political vacuum can not last very long .
In Russia the chaos lasted from February to November 1917 , at which point the Bolsheviks ( who were a relatively small party ) easily seized power and , following a bloody civil war , restored their version of law and order .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ civil war taking place in the USA , but some kind of coup is , I think , a very real possibility .
This is especially true considering that most Democrats will never accept a Trump reelection while most Republicans will never accept a Biden presidency .
This is a case of “ not my president ” powerfully backfiring on its creators .
Those of us who live in the US better prepare for a very dangerous and difficult year !

Written by The Saker; Originally appeared at The Unz Review
I have to say that I am amazed that so many folks on the Left seem to think that the current riots in the US are a spontaneous rebellion against police violence, systemic racism, and history of persecution and exploitation of Blacks and Indians, etc. As for the violence, looting and riots – they are either excused as a result of some kind of righteous wrath or blamed on “infiltrators”. In my previous article I tried to show how the Democrats and the US media tried to instrumentalize these riots and to use them against Trump’s bid for reelection. I accompanied the article with a carefully staged photo-op of US Democrats “taking a knee” in solidarity (as if the leaders of the Democratic Party gave a hoot about Blacks or poor US Americans!).
What I did not mention was how the US (and even trans-national) corporate world backed these riots to the hilt. Here are just a few examples of this:
YouTube:
Amazon, Bank of America & Sephora:
And it is not only in the USA. Check out what Adidas in Germany has been up to:
and finally, my personal super-favorite:
Jamie Dimon and the JP Morgan Chase Bank:
All those of us who thought that the corporate world was all about money, that the corporate “culture” had all the signs of severe psychopathy and that billionaires did not give a damn about the poor and the oppressed, but now we know better: we thought of them as evil 1%ers, and it turns out that there are kind, highly principled people, who care about injustice and freedom and who truly feel bad, very very bad, for all the injustices done to Blacks!
Do you really buy this?
I sure don’t!
These are not small mom-and-pop stores where ethics and kindness still exist. These are the very corporations who benefited most from all the inequalities, injustice, violence and imperial wars of aggression and it would be truly pollyannish to think that these corporations and their CEOs suddenly grew a conscience (the exact same applies to the leadership of the Democratic Party, of course!).
So let’s go back to the basics: corporations are about money, that is a truism. Yes, sometimes corporations try to present a “human face”, but this is nothing more than a marketing trick destined to create consumer loyalty. Now I don’t believe for one second that the mega-corporations listed above expect to make much money from supporting the riots, at least not in a direct way. Nor do I believe that these corporations are trying to impersonate a conscience because they fear a Black consumer boycott (what was true in Tuskegee in the late 1950s is not true today, if only because of the completely different scale of the protests).
So if not money – what is at stake here?
Power.
Specifically, the US deep state – at a major faction within that deep state – is clearly desperate to get rid of Trump (and not for the right reasons, of which there are plenty).
There are plenty of signs that illustrate that Trump is even losing control of the Executive, including Secretary Esper contradicting Trump on what is a key issue – restoring law and order – or the US Ambassador to South Korea voicing support for BLM (I consider that these actions by top officials against their own Commander in Chief border on treason). Needless to say, the pro-Dems neo-libs at Slate immediately began dreaming about, and calling for, a military revolt against Trump.
Last but not least, we now have a “free zone” in Seattle, the notorious Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, “CHAZ” aka “CHOP” where, among other “curiosities”, Whites are told to give 10 bucks to a Black person . This means that until law and order are restored to what is now the CHAZ, the United States has lost its sovereignty over a part of one of its cities. That is a “black eye” for any US President who, after all, is the leader of the Executive branch of government and the Commander in Chief of a military supposed (in theory only, of course) to defend the United States against all enemies.
What do all of these developments have in common?
They are designed to show that Trump has lost control of the country and that all good and decent people now stand united against him.
There are several major problems with this plan.
For one thing, this is all completely illegal. What began as a typical race riot is now openly turning into sedition.
The second major problem of this plan is that it relies on what I call a “coalition of minorities” to achieve its goal, it is therefore ignoring the will of the majority of the people. This can backfire, especially if the chaos and violence continue to spread.
Next, there is the “Golem/Frankenstein” issue: it is much easier to launch a wildfire than to contain or suppress it. Nancy Pelosi might be dumb enough to think that she and her gang can control the likes of Raz Simone , but history shows that when the state abdicates its monopoly on violence, anarchy ensues.
By the way, it is important to note here that Trump, at least so far, has not taken the bait and has not used federal forces to reimpose law and order in Seattle, Atlanta or elsewhere.
He must realize that liberating the so-called CHAZ might result in a bloodbath (there appear to be plenty of weapons inside the CHAZ) and that the Democrats are dreaming about blaming him for a bloodbath. Trump’s strategy, at least so far, appears to let the lawlessness continue and blame the Democrats for it.
While Trump’s strategy makes sense, it also is inherently very dangerous because if the state cannot reimpose law and order, then all sorts of “volunteers” might decide to give it a shot (literally). Check out this headline “ Bikers For Trump Organizing to Retake Seattle On July 4th “. Whether these bikers will actually try to take over the CHAZ or not, even the fact that they are preparing to do so shows, yet again, that the state has lost its monopoly on violence.
Finally, this strategy to oust Trump by means of lawlessness and anarchy could greatly contribute to the breakup of the United States, if not de jure, then at least de facto. How?
For one thing, the United States is a big country, not only in terms of geographical size, but also in socio-economic and even cultural terms. Some US states have a large Black population, others much less. But they all mostly watch the same news media. Which means that when there are race riots in, say, Los Angeles or Baltimore, the people who live in states like Montana or the Dakotas feel that it is their country which is threatened. Coincidentally (or not?), these mostly White states happen to have a large part of their population as, Hillary’s famous “deplorables”. Some liberals call these states “flyover states”. It also happens that civilians in these states own a large number of firearms and know how to use them.
The same applies to different locations within any one state. Take California for example, which many view as being very liberal, progressive. Well, that might be true for many cities in California, but as soon as you enter rural California, the prevailing culture changes rather dramatically. The same urban vs rural dichotomy also exists in many other states, including Florida.
The risk here is the following one: some parts of the United States can collapse and become zones of total lawlessness while others will “circle the wagons” and take whatever measures are needed to protect themselves and their way of life.
This does not mean that the US, as a country, will break-up into several successor states. That could only happen much further down the road, but it does mean that different areas of the country could start facing the crisis autonomously and even possibly in direct violation of US laws. When that happens, poverty and violence typically sharply rise. There are already reports of vigilantism in New Mexico (interestingly, in this case the authorities did send in the cops).
In his seminal article “ Race and Crime in America ” (an absolute MUST READfor any person wanting to understand what is taking place today!) Ron Unz makes a very interesting observation:
“The empirical fact is that presence or absence of large numbers of Hispanics or Asians in a given state seems to have virtually no impact upon white voting patterns. Meanwhile, there exists a strong relationship between the size of a state’s black population and the likelihood that local whites will favor the Republicans”.
In other words, the larger the Black minority, the more likely Whites will vote Republican. Of course, one can dismiss this by saying that these Whites are all racists, but that does not help either because it begs the question of why Whites do not become racists when living next to Hispanics and Asians, but do so when they live near Blacks. The explanation is in Ron’s article: “local urban crime rates in America seem to be almost entirely explained by the local racial distribution” (please see the charts in Ron’s article for the data supporting this conclusion).
This makes for a potentially very explosive mix, especially in a time when police officers now risk a reprimand, a demotion. being fired or even criminal charges for using “excessive force” against any Black suspect (yes, US cops often do use excessive force, but the solution here is not to paralyze the police forces, lest the civilians feel like they need to defend themselves.
As I have said it many times, I don’t believe that the term “race” has a scientific basis, nor do concepts such as “Black” or “White”. This does not mean that they don’t have a political meaning, especially in a country which is obsessed by race issues (yes, one can obsess about non-existing things). In the US most people self-identify with a color, thus to them this is something very real. For example, the figures used in Ron Unz’ article are based upon these concepts understood sociologically, not biologically, and this is the only reason why I use them too, though somewhat reluctantly, I will admit.
Conclusion: this is no popular revolution at all
It is undeniable that a major chuck of the US ruling classes have decided to support the BLM movement and the riots it instigates. Furthermore, these US ruling classes have instrumentalized these riots in a transparent attempt to prevent a Trump reelection in November . And just like the Republicans have been destroying the AngloZionist empire on the international scene, the Democrats have been destroying the United States from within. Far from being a real popular protest movement, the BLM movement is a tool in the hands of one faction of the US deep state against another faction. A lot of Trump nominees/appointees are now seeing the writing on the wall and are betraying their boss in order to switch sides and abandon what they see as a sinking ship.
My personal feeling is that Trump is too weak and too much of a coward to fight his political enemies (if he had any spine, it would have shown at the time when Trump betrayed Flynn only a month into his presidency). History, however, shows that a political vacuum cannot last very long. In Russia the chaos lasted from February to November 1917, at which point the Bolsheviks (who were a relatively small party) easily seized power and, following a bloody civil war, restored their version of law and order. I still don’t see a civil war taking place in the USA, but some kind of coup is, I think, a very real possibility. This is especially true considering that most Democrats will never accept a Trump reelection while most Republicans will never accept a Biden presidency. This is a case of “not my president” powerfully backfiring on its creators.
Those of us who live in the US better prepare for a very dangerous and difficult year!


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southfront--2020-06-20--Syrian Army, Turkish Forces Clash With Each Other In Northern Al-Hasakah

On June 20 , heavy clashes broke out between the Syrian Arab Army ( SAA ) and Turkish-backed militants in @ @ @ @ @ According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ( SOHR ) , the clashes took @ @ @ @ @ Umm Ushbah and al-Asadiyah in the early hours of the morning .
Prior to the @ @ @ @ @ shelled the town of Qubur al-Qrajina next to Umm Ushbah and al-Asadiyah .
The three @ @ @ @ @ town of Tell Tamr , where Russian forces are known to be deployed .
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On June 20, heavy clashes broke out between the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) and Turkish-backed militants in the northern al-Hasakah countryside.
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the clashes took place near the towns of Umm Ushbah and al-Asadiyah in the early hours of the morning.
“No information about casualties has been received, thus far,” the London-based monitoring group said in its report.
Prior to the clashes, the Turkish military shelled the town of Qubur al-Qrajina next to Umm Ushbah and al-Asadiyah. The three towns are located near the town of Tell Tamr, where Russian forces are known to be deployed.
Earlier this week, the Turkish military and its proxies deployed large reinforcements north and northwest of Tell Tamr in northern al-Hasakah.
The recent clashes expose the fragile nature of the ceasefire in northeastern Syria. A serious confrontation could soon take place in the region, if Turkish forces continue to carry out provocations against the SAA and Kurdish forces.
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