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The White Interest In Syria

Putin Has Betrayed and Abandoned Syria

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By Ruri Skywalker; sent  by Rolo Slavski.

But then so has everyone else as well.

Where have I been these past few days? Shouldn’t I have been taking a victory lap and screaming, “I was right!” and “I told you so!” this whole time?

Well, yes … yes, I should have.

But I was busy doing some cramming and studying on the topic. See, I had followed Syria closely a decade ago, but dropped the whole thing out of disgust when the fighting was concluded with nothing being resolved. Everything devolved into yet another cover-up and a conspiracy caper, which I admit that I wasn’t equipped to understand at the time. Like many, I believed the lives that the Kremlin and Tehran propagandists were spreading about how Iran and Russia had saved Syria.

In fact, the entire narrative around Syria is actually very important to understand because that is when we really saw the ZAnon + AssasAnon + TehranAnon propaganda get trotted out to explain away Assad’s defeat by the so-called rebel groups and Russia and Iran’s complicity in partitioning Syria. Now though, with the benefit of a decade under my belt, I think I have a pretty good read on what is going on. This article will explain what happened then and what is happening now in very simple and easy-to-understand terms. I haven’t seen anyone else provide such an overview.

First, we should cover the latest updates: the big one is that Assad might already be dead at the time of me writing this article. There are reports that his plane was shot down. Either way, he was apparently in the process of fleeing Damascus, which, like the other cities, fell without a shot to the “rebels”. The entire Syrian army appears to have just disbanded. The videos on Twitter over the last week have been crazy. The latest info drop is with the rebels storming the airport without encountering resistance. It is all over for Assad’s Syria. The end of an era.

And we’ve got some new memes coming out about our brave lion Bashar al-Assad:

But I don’t want to talk about Assad and his Potemkin government and country too for that matter. Let’s talk about how Russia (and Iran) betrayed him instead.

The Planned Demolition of Syria

First off, rumors that Putin is fleeing the two bases that Russia set up in the region — Tartus and Khmeimin.

I don’t want to toot my own horn too much, but, well …

In contrast, chances are, most of the shills who are claiming that Assad has lured the Turkish rebels into a brilliant trap by surrendering major cities without a fight do not even understand themselves what is going on. They simply read from a script, so perhaps we should be understanding of their plight. Because the cope that has been put out over the last week has been absolute off the charts.

The real interesting stuff is happening behind the screaming headlines and the denial and the cope. It is very possible that Moscow is not only simply losing Syria, but actually helping Syria be taken. This increases the order of the magnitude of the betrayal substantially. We can break down the betrayal into tiers:

Tier 1: Moscow and Tehran and Damascus were simply taken by surprise, too weak to do anything (INCOMPETENCE)

Tier 2: Moscow and Tehran pulled support for Damascus even though they knew what was coming (WITHDRAWAL)

Tier 3: Moscow and/or Tehran turned against Damascus and sided with the Satanist-Globalist-Analists (BETRAYAL)

All three tiers are actually betrayals, but you get the point I am making, I hope. Like, for example, the reports about the Russian airforce bombing SAA and Iranian bases for some reason.

— 🇷🇺/🇸🇾/🇮🇷 NEW: Russian aviation begins bombing SAA / Iranian weapons storage & production facilities across Syria, to prevent material falling into the hands of HTS

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This is kind of a big deal, and I haven’t seen anyone else teasing out the implications.

But we can easily prove that Tier 2 (WITHDRAWAL) is a lock. Like, that is the baseline understanding that the facts as we have them now prove without any reservations. We know at least that this was a Tier 2 event. Not one battle was fought for the cities of Syria.

— ❗️🇸🇾 NEW: ‘Generals of the SAA ordered their units to withdraw from Homs without the approval of Assad, after contacting Gulf states and Western mediators’ – Damascus-based media outlet ‘Sawt al-Aasimah’

This simply does not happen in a real war.

All the evidence points towards a pre-planned and controlled handover of the Syrian state. In these entire 10 days, I have not seen a single battle. I don’t know by whom, but this was 100% orchestrated.

So, again, this was all planned and executed to ensure a rapid overthrow of the Assad government. Now, the more interesting question is trying to figure out who in the Axis of Resistance collaborated with the enemy and to what extent. That’s really all that there is left to do here. Obviously, Moscow did not provide any military support over the last two weeks. Nor did Tehran. And the SAA appears to have rebelled against Assad. However, it is unclear who the real traitor is here. It is possible that the military or elements in the military were rebelling initially to prevent this takeover plan from being carried out.

This is speculation on my part, and I admit that.

But there were old Ba’athist hardliners in the military who were against Assad because of his coziness with his esteemed Western partners in the early days. They probably had enough of him. That is, at least, what many Russian analysts are saying:

The military leaders do not want to fight for Bashar al-Assad, his soldiers and, apparently, since he did not want to address the population of Syria, neither did he. And yet, relatively recently, there were elections, and 95.19% of the population voted for him. This often happens.

Curiously, Assad was supposed to give an emergency address that was instead done by the head of the army, who promised to defend Damascus and claimed that the rebels were being destroyed. Another piece to the puzzle, perhaps.

Finally, in some parts of SAA controlled Syria, they simply cut direct deals with the rebels, like in Derah, to surrender the town in exchange for being allowed a withdrawal. What happens to the SAA now, I wonder? Will they be reformed like the Iraqis were by the Israels and the Gulf States and the Americans into a new ISIS-type muzzrat terror group to be used against Iran next?

We will see.

Assad the Asset (of the West)

The problem of popularity wasn’t necessarily that Assad is/was an Alawite and that the majority of the country is not. The problem is that Assad was really hated by most Syrians for looting the country so thoroughly with his crime clan and the heavy-handed repression that his secret police and paramilitary squads employed to keep the “peace”. Maybe the mild-mannered and meek Assad had nothing to do with the looting and racketeering and terror, but he simply couldn’t do anything to stop the Alawite and Damascus-based business mafias monopolizing everything and extort the population. The only problem with that version of the story is that Assad has been in power for almost a quarter of a century and had the firm political legacy of his father behind him. And yet, this didn’t seem to help. Nor was he ever ideologically opposed to the West in any way. Like Putin, he often begged to be forgiven and let back in the club. Everything was on the table:

Remember: Assad got his start in power as a Western asset, a Liberalizer (like Putin) who deliberately adopted policies to weaken his country and their standing in the region. One of his early betrayals was the withdrawal of Syria from Lebanon. Before that, he helped Bush in his war against Saddam Hussein and the dismantling of the old Ba’athist network in Iraq. Assad also let the CIA set up terrorist training camps in Syria, as well as the infamous black prison extra-rendition torture sites that they were running all over the region. In no small part, they were interrogating old Arab nationalist officers and trying to get them to turn and run these new terrorist groups that they were setting up all over the Middle East. I leave you with this clip of Assad at the Arab League laughing at Ghadaffi warning that Washington will murder all of the Arab leaders assembled in the room if they do not band together.

There is a lot more that can be said about Assad and his disastrous, downright treacherous management of Syria, but we will get back on track and focus on the Russia connection instead for today. I hope someone else will cover that story because I run the Slavland Chronicles here, not the Swarthland Chronicles and I have my hands full trying to explain the full depth of Putin’s treachery without also taking on the entire lore of the swarthlands.

To anyone who wants to dig deeper on this topic though, you have to start as far back as his father Hafez, at least, and then compare and contrast what went down during these two periods of rule.

 

To really get an understanding of the situation though, you need to study the immediate post-Ottoman period and the rise of Arab nationalism in the region and the Anglo-Israeli effort to destroy it using radical Abrahamism (Jewish and Christian Zionism, Islamic Fundamentalism).

Anyway.

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The Turkish SMO

The “SMO” nature of this war immediately jumps out. Many Russian commentators are comparing and contrasting this SMO to the other, ongoing on in Ukraine and Russia.

What is happening in Syria is a tragedy. And not only for the Syrians, but also for Russia.

But it should be noted that this can be called a healthy person’s SVO.

If we translate the words of a colleague who wrote about Syria (https://t.me/zhivoff/18333) into the realities of the SVO, it will turn out like this:

😀Kiev is in operational encirclement… They take everything almost without a fight. The tragic end of Ukrainian oligarchs and the clan of their protege Zelensky. The situation is developing so quickly that Ukraine’s allies do not have time to react… 😀

— isn’t this what our “bosses” were counting on when they started the SVO? But dreams are one thing, and reality is something completely different, as it turned out.

The only difference between the SMOs is that it worked for Turkey and friends and didn’t work for Russia, which is what the sarcastic poster is pointing out.

Why though!?

Well, first of all, the push on Kiev was not a feint as we have been told, but an HTS-style SMO with the goal of achieving a political coup. And it succeeded, actually. The took some heavy losses, sure, but they got the job done and took the positions that they were supposed to reach in time. However, instead of actually claiming the victory or doing something kinetic with the soldiers parked outside of Kiev, Putin signed a treacherous agreement with Zelensky, bequeathing Donbass to Ukraine again in exchange for more economic and political power being transferred to the Donbass mafia clans and promises not to join NATO. Sensing this weakness, Boris Johnson and other NATO leaders convinced Kiev to trash the agreement and fight a real war.

Putin had revealed himself to be totally craven by a) squandering the SMO b) asking for very weak terms and c) not setting up any guarantees/insurance and d) failing to take many cities in the SMO.

We’ve talked about the first three points ad nauseum on the blog at this point, so let’s focus on point d instead. How is that Aleppo and Homs and Hama and Damascus were taken without a shot? Simple: agents were deployed to these cities ahead of time to open the gates of these cities. The southern military grouping in Ukraine succeeded with their task and took Kherson without firing a shot this way. It simply involves either assassinating or bribing or coercing locals military commanders to not put up a fight. In contrast, Kharkov was a failure that turned into a trap for Russian troops who rolled into the city thinking that the fix was in only to be fired upon. Similar results were reported in all the other major cities. The reason why this aspect of the SMO is not discussed is because of ZAnon propaganda that waved these failures away as being part of a brilliant maneuver to lure NATO into a prolonged war in Donbass. They really really really don’t want people asking questions about what went down in those early days.

Because, who was in charge of opening the gates to these cities?

Why, that would be the FSB, of course, which was tasked with “SMOing” Ukraine via the 5th Service department:

Can I At Least ASK The Question? Who Planned the Special Military Operation?

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November 14, 2022
Can I At Least ASK The Question? Who Planned the Special Military Operation?

Let’s go back in time and remember what was happening and being discussed not so many months ago.

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And Ukraine as a whole was put in the hands of Surkov, who ended up falling out of grace with Putin soon after. Remember: Strelkov even specifically pointed the finger at Surkov in his famous “39 Questions” for which he was sent to prison by Putin. More on Surkov here:

The Saga of Surkov and the “Generation P(utin)” Conspiracy

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August 13, 2023
The Saga of Surkov and the "Generation P(utin)" Conspiracy

A Stalker asked me to write about Surkov the other day. And then a commenter shared some information about this personality, and then as I was writing this, someone messaged me on Telegram talking about Surkov too! How fortuitous and eerie … a true synchronicity. The stars have aligned, clearly and they compel me to take this rare opportunity, at the pr…

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But what were Putin’s goals in Syria in the first place? Perhaps now we can re-examine the reason that Russia was even there? Yes, now that it is too late, perhaps people are ready to listen.

The Russian Plan to Partition Syria

The sad reality is that Syria was already partitioned in 2016. a united Syria was a fig leaf put over a corpse. By Moscow and Tehran and Ankara that is. Despite this, we were told that Putin and the mullahs had “saved” Syria, despite the fact that they had actually just cut a deal with the terrorist and rebels and Israelis (but I repeat myself) to occupy different parts of the country and simply not shoot at each other. A deal that the Israelis often violated, I might add, and to which Putin would only shrug as another Russian serviceman was sent in a bodybag to be buried at home. After Putin’s “saving”, the only thing that remained to be done in Syria was to formalize this partition. Perhaps we need a refresher on what happened in 2016 before we dive into that part though. Nikola Mikovich had a good write-up on it. Here:

Russia got involved in the Syrian Civil War only in September 2015, when Assad’s Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was on the verge of collapse. In February of that year, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the Minsk Agreements, effectively putting the Donbas war, which had broken out in the spring of 2014, “on hold”.

One month earlier, pro-Russian rebels were amid a military offensive, and the Ukrainian military was on the verge of collapse. But Putin decided to freeze the conflict and focus on Syria instead.

In October 2016, former Russian general Leonid Ivashov explained on Russian state-owned Channel One that the Kremlin’s engagement in the Syrian conflict was “critical to prevent the construction of the Quatar-Turkey pipeline, which would be catastrophic for Gazprom”.

Besides that, in the war-torn Middle Eastern country, Russia and the United States reportedly had the same opponent – the Islamic State (IS). The SAA would have had difficulty defeating the IS if it hadn’t been for Russia and the Wagner Group. In 2015-2016, Russian forces, along with Hezbollah and other Iran-affiliated groups, also played an important role in the battle for Aleppo, significant parts of which were under the control of the Western-backed Syrian militias.

Indeed, Moscow and Tehran helped Assad stabilise the situation in Syria. The conflict was put “on hold” in 2020 when the last significant battles occurred. After that, Russia began preparing to invade Ukraine, while anti-Assad rebels, strongly backed by Turkey, used the “break” to consolidate, rearm, and continue with what they see as the Syrian revolution. The SAA apparently did nothing to prepare for another round of fighting.

2024 Russia is bogged down in Ukraine, with no strategic goals achieved. Hezbollah was defeated by Israel, whose military killed not only the group’s entire leadership but also dozens of top Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders in Syria.

The Wagner Group, following the murder of its founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been integrated into the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardiya), with some of its elements deployed to Africa. Assad, therefore, is unlikely to be able to count on its help either.

His SAA seems to be on its own against well-armed and highly motivated Turkey-backed rebel forces. There are, however, two things that can prevent further falls in SAA-controlled cities. This time, it is Iran, rather than Russia, that could play a pivotal role in a new stage of the Syrian Civil War.

[NOTE: Iran ended up pulling out all support.]

If Assad survives politically and biologically, it will likely be due to Tehran’s support. However, whether Iran has the capacity and political will to help the Syrian leader remains highly uncertain.

Also, a potential deal between Putin and the West could halt the rebels’ offensive, although that does not mean the SAA will recapture Aleppo or any other vital cities it has lost in the past few days. In other words, Putin would have to make serious concessions to the United States and its allies in Ukraine to be allowed to “save face” in Syria. But how likely is such an outcome?

Assad’s defeat would automatically signify Moscow’s defeat. If the Western-backed rebels seize power in Damascus, Russia will have to immediately shut down its Khmeimim Air Base in the Latakia area and the naval facility in Tartus. Since Russia and Syria have no land connection, the Kremlin would be forced to ask NATO member Turkey for permission to allow its vessels to pass through the Bosporus and Dardanelles on their way back to Russia.

To get the green light from Ankara, Putin may have to make concessions to his “friend”, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. But that’s not all. On their way through the Black Sea, Russian vessels would become an easy target for the Ukrainian military.

All of the Kremlin’s choices seem difficult. To avoid another large-scale humiliation, whether in Ukraine or Syria, Putin will have to pay a heavy price. Since reaching deals with the West (and then accusing his Western partners of “deceiving him” and “leading him by the nose”) seems to be the core of his reign, he is likely to try to use his old strategy: making painful concessions to the West and selling it to his audience as another “geopolitical victory.”

Syria and Bashar al-Assad could quickly become the most significant “collateral damage” of Putin’s approach. Given that Russia is not in a position to seriously help Damascus unless Iran intervenes, Assad will have a hard time stopping the rebels’ offensive. As a result, Russia could eventually lose Syria as an ally.

Pro-Kremlin analysts and propagandists have already started blaming Assad and the SAA for “not learning the lessons” from the Ukraine war and preparing for another round of fighting against Western-backed rebels. In reality, Assad is not an autonomous actor but a leader who remains utterly dependent on Moscow and Tehran. Therefore, for everything happening in Assad-controlled parts of Syria, Russia and Iran, as his significant sponsors, bear full responsibility.

Quite aware of that, many pro-Assad Syrians have already started blaming the Kremlin for the role it is playing in their country. They are unhappy about the fact that Moscow never prevents Israel from bombing SAA positions. Now that militants from the Jabhat al-Nusra group are advancing toward Hama, speculations in Syria are growing that Russia might betray Assad, which would have dramatic consequences for the Alawites, Christians, and other minorities in the Middle Eastern country.

One thing is for sure: under the current geopolitical circumstances, where Russia repeatedly shows weakness and suffers humiliation, it cannot have both Ukraine and Syria. It remains to be seen what Putin will decide to sacrifice. Maybe both?

Grim stuff.

But Putin betrayed Syria in 2016 already with the “peace” deal they tied to force through. Putin would even go so far as to bomb the SAA and Wagner when they started making too much progress against ISIS and other terrorist groups. Well, at least Shoigu did anyway.

Maybe Prigozhin Was Telling the Truth About the Russian MoD?

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Maybe Prigozhin Was Telling the Truth About the Russian MoD?

An interesting account of the battle of Kasham in Syria has come to light recently. The American soldiers who took part in the clash with Assad’s troops and Wagner shared their side of the story and added some hitherto unheard details to their account. This particular line in the story, which you should read in its entirety because it is interesting, re…

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Before even that though, in 2015, Putin was already arming Syrian rebels in their fight against ISIS. Here:

“I will particularly note that the work by our aviation group helps unite the efforts of Syrian government forces and the Free Syrian Army. Currently, its different units have over 5,000 people, and just like the regular forces, they are conducting offensive operations against terrorists in the provinces of Homs, Hama, Aleppo and Raqqa. In addition, we support them from the air, same as we do with the Syrian army, assisting them with weapons, ammunition and materials.”

Which … in retrospect, is rather strange if you are claiming that the SAA is the only legitimate military authority in the region and fighting to ensure the territorial sovereignty and oneness of the Syrian Arab Republic. Putin put direct pressure on Assad to back off and not fight the rebel groups that Moscow and Washington and Ankara (and others) were playing footsie with under the table. He did this by cutting off military support for the SAA, forcing Assad to negotiation and make concessions. It was, of course, spun as a great “peace” gesture by 5D Putin.

Putin probably got this whole strategy from Macron, who also armed pretty much all of the rebel groups at various points ostensibly to fight ISIS as well. Here:

“During my recent visit to Paris, the President of France, Mr Hollande, voiced an interesting idea that he thought is worth a try, namely, to have President Assad’s government troops join forces with the Free Syrian Army. True, we do not know yet where this army is and who heads it, but if we take the view that these people are part of the healthy opposition, if it were possible to have them join in the fight against terrorist organisations such as ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra and others, this would help pave the way to a future political settlement in Syria.”

For their part, Putin and friends were rather honest when they insisted that they were actually just in Syria to fight “terrorism” not to do any of that other stuff that propagandists claimed that they were secretly planning on doing. ISIS turned out to be very useful to everyone involved because it gave them a propaganda carte blanche to just do whatever and say it was an anti-ISIS emergency measure that had to be done. That is how Putin justified the Free Syrian Army (rebels fighting for the partition of Syria and the overthrow of Assad) calling in Russian air strikes. Here:

And here’s VVP boasting about how the FSA was calling in RF airstrikes:

“We have even worked together with the Free Syrian Army (FSA). The Russian aviation has conducted several strikes on the targets identified by the FSA. We excluded areas, which had been indicated by FSA commanders as being under their control. By the way, this fact proves once again that we are not bombing the so‑called moderate opposition or the civilian population.”

So it shouldn’t be surprising to learn that Putin was trying to force Assad to sign the formalized partition of Syria once you understand that Putin armed and supported the FSA and was cooperating with NATO (even taking advice!) while in Syria.

The treaty was downright treasonous, and so even Assad couldn’t sign it.

 

did a very detailed analysis of the document almost a decade about. The analysis is prescient, but it is also very long, so I cannot reproduce it in full here. The full link is here. There are a lot of interesting details in the Putin-written document.

But, essentially, Putin wanted to impose decentralization, allow for the Golan Heights to be given up to Israel, Kurdish autonomy, bribes to non-ISIS rebels, hate speech legislation, disavowing the Ba’ath nationalism project, introduce the authority of the ICC, grant immunity to key politicians, Assad stepping down after his term is up, and some other interesting ideas. This was all probably proposed to then present to his handlers in Washington as proof of what a useful guy Putin was for them and their agenda. Perhaps Putin wanted to “trade” Syria for Ukraine as some analysts have pointed out. Putin always holds up his end of the bargain, but the West never does though. In the case of Syria though, Assad dug his heels in and refused to allow Putin to partition Syria and present it with a bow to Washington. Of course, the proles and peasants are told that Putin went in to save the Christians!!! and fulfill the BRICS prophecies or something, so they won’t bother to read the link, naturally.

I bring this all up explain why Syria was already defacto partitioned and why Putin may have left Assad out to dry. Here are the possible options so far:

  1. Putin was upset at Assad for not signing the new constitution, embarrassing him in front of his handlers in Langley
  2. Putin was offered a better deal by Turkey
  3. Putin successfully “traded” Syria for something else which we will hear about in the coming weeks
  4. Putin had no reason for preventing the oil and gas pipeline in Syria any more because Nord Stream II was bombed
  5. Putin was offered a better deal by Israel
  6. Putin is in such a weak position that he simply fled

Or maybe this is all a clever patriotic trap?

The Next Domino to Fall

Well, let’s just get the obvious out of the way. Gaza never stood a chance and didn’t put up much of a fight anyway. Those same lying liars who claimed all those wonderful things about the Axis of Resistance and the Lion of Damascus were all claiming that the Gazan fighters had destroyed the IDF advance several times over, forcing them to retreat disgracefully. None of that true, and if you don’t see why this narrative is absurd, then you are very very stupid. How is a glorified open-air prison camp supposed to fight off one of the most advanced and psychotic militaries in the world? Especially when they weren’t getting any support from any Muslim brethren nations? But whatever.

Point being: Gaza is cooked to perfection. Stick a fork in it and turn it over because they are DONE.

Meanwhile, Hezbollah surrendered South Lebanon to the IDF. And, well, Syria has now been taken by Israeli allies, the HTS forces who are run out of Ankara, Turkey. Hezbollah’s chief came out and said that, “without Syria, Palestine is lost”. I think we can take this to mean that he is predicting that the IDF sets its sights on the West Bank next. With Hezbollah, Assad, and Hamas out of they way, they might set their eyes on a bigger target next though: Iran. We will see.

There is no “Axis of Resistance” though.

An “Axis of Impotence”, maybe.

Putin has sent more weapons to Turkey than they have to the SAA or Iran. Turkey has S-400s, while Iran doesn’t. If the Americans and Israelies start bombing Iran, there won’t be much to stop them. There were rumors and fake news stories of air defense being sent from Moscow to Tehran for years now, true. But this isn’t happening and the people who say this don’t understand the close ties that Putin and his oligarchs have with Tel-Aviv and Ankara, who would never allow Putin to arm Tehran ahead of their attacks.

But hey, why bother speculating about this?

It doesn’t matter how many times that the doomer/blackpilled/pessimist position is proven right, people will still refuse to accept the next prediction as valid or at least possible and given in good faith. Instead, they will simply call people speaking difficult truths CIA-Satanists!!! and then spend the next few months pretending that Putin has cleverly defeated the Satanists in Syria. The Axis of Resistance aren’t any good at fighting or de-dollarizing or decolonizing, but they are really really good at pretending that they are.

The Black Colonel makes a prediction on this front:

I think that now there will be bravura reports from Russian media and leaders about the huge victory of the Russian Federation in Syria. Apparently, a VICTORY PARADE on Red Square awaits us after all!

Now we are waiting for a delegation of respected partners from Hayat Tahrir al-Sham at the next St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Moreover, the business of producing captagon should not depend on a change of ownership on that side.

Of course, it will be interesting to observe the turn of our propaganda in explaining what happened. So that Russia’s victory is not questioned. It will be difficult, but we believe in it, we will find a way to cope.

They’ve been claiming that the fall of Aleppo was a social media psyop for the last week now. No, really. Here is what they were saying less than 8 hours ago:

I bring this all up to mock these people, yes. But I also want to explain once and for all that these people are not your friends. They lie to cover for their bosses’ betrayals. You do not become a better person by believing in lies. This might be difficult for many Abrahamists to hear, I know, but believing in nice-sounding lies about good guys defeating immoral Satan-Nazi-Anal guys doesn’t make you a better person.

It just makes you even more of a gullible chump than you already are.

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Oh, by the way, I think some of you on-the-fence guys should support my blog financially now. I’ve been saying that Syria, Lebanon, Iran, Hamas, would fold like cheap suits for like a year now. I will be proven right about Iran as well. And then we can have a discussion about China as well.

But only if you support the blog NOW.

How many people had the guts to really stick their necks out there and sound the alarm about Putin and his friends in the #Resistance? Not many. The real victim in all of this is me, frankly.

Well, and the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who are about to have an even harder time now than they’ve been having under Assad’s kleptocrat government. Not to worry though, chances are you’ll meet many of these Syrian refugees and many other Syrian refugees from all over Africa and Central Asia and China that will be moved into your neighborhood in the coming months in the name of Tolerance Abrahamic Antifa Jesus Values. I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that Putin has decided to import another couple of hundred thousand Arabs as well! It is simply the moral Christian thing to do, you see?

In fact, our brave resistance leaders are so moral and Christlike that they literally don’t even fight back.

Brings a tear to my eye, it does.

JTA and the NYTimes: What the fall of Bashar Assad in Syria means for Israel

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Rania Khalek, a journalist who has expressed sympathy for Iranian aims and criticized the Syrian rebels, tweeted, “The resistance axis era is over. Regionally Israel/US won this battle and we have to recognize that and reflect internally on why and how.”

On the other hand:

The group that has led the offensive is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham or HTS, an Islamist organization that evolved out of the Nusra Front, a group that was affiliated with the terror group Al-Qaeda and with the Islamic State. A standard piece of that ideology is opposition to Israel.

“In terms of HTS’ stance on Israel, they’ve always been for the Palestinian cause,” said Aaron Zelin, a senior research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who wrote a book on HTS called “The Age of Political Jihadism.” Zelin said HTS has celebrated Hamas attacks on Israel for years, including the Oct. 7 invasion, and has praised the Hamas leaders Israel has killed.

NYTimes:

the fall of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, a longtime ally of Iran, is seen in Israel as the crowning consequence of its yearlong campaign against Iran and its interests, even if it is also tinged with uncertainty about what comes next.

Without Israel’s blows against Hezbollah and Iran, Israeli analysts and leaders say, Syria’s rebels might not have dared revive their rebellion against Mr. al-Assad. And Iran and Hezbollah, which had propped up his regime for a decade, might have been better placed to save him.

Mr. al-Assad’s collapse “is the direct result of our forceful action against Hezbollah and Iran, Assad’s main supporters,” Mr. Netanyahu said as he toured the Golan Heights on Sunday, a territory that Israel captured from Syria in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war.

Israeli leaders are broadcasting optimism about the fall of Assad, a brutal dictator and key Iranian ally, while girding themselves for the ascension of the jihadist-linked group that toppled him. …

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the main opposition alliance, has been fighting Hezbollah and its Iranian allies in Syria for years and is unlikely to allow Iran to continue to use Syria as a thoroughfare for arms deliveries to Lebanon. Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the leader of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, said in an address in Damascus on Sunday that the Assad regime had brought many ills upon Syria and had allowed the country to become “a farm for Iranian greed.”

But Hayat Tahrir al-Sham is also a hard-line Islamist group with no love for the Jewish state. Abu Mohammad al-Jolani is a nom de guerre derived from the Arabic word for the Golan Heights. …

And the rebels’ main foreign backer, Turkey, has been strongly critical of Israel’s actions in Gaza — leading to unease in Israel about the prospect of a Turkey-backed government controlling one of Israel’s northern borders. …

“Iran is more dangerous now,” said Benny Gantz, Israel’s former defense minister, in comments distributed by his spokesman. “A nuclear breakout in response to these developments is a realistic option.” …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and other Israeli officials at the Syrian border on Dec. 8, 2024. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right) and other Israeli officials at the Syrian border on Dec. 8, 2024. (Koby Gideon/Israeli Government Press Office)
JTA:

Syrian dictator Bashar Assad has fled the country and his government has fallen to rebels, a swift and stunning collapse after more than a decade of civil war.

The country is now enveloped in joy and turmoil as hundreds of thousands of refugees stream home, political prisoners go free and Syrians — along with the rest of the world — wonder what’s next.

Also wrapped up in uncertainty: Syria’s neighbor and longtime adversary, Israel. Assad’s fall came after several of his regional partners have been weakened in Israel’s multi-front war, which began with Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, invasion.

Israeli troops entered a buffer zone with Syria over the weekend and its planes have reportedly begun bombing Syrian chemical weapons facilities and other targets in Damascus, the capital.

Events are still unfolding rapidly in Syria and the region. But in the immediate wake of Assad’s ouster, here’s what this means for Israel.

Oct. 7 likely contributed to Assad’s downfall.

To remain in power during the Syrian civil war, Assad relied on several allies — including Hezbollah, Iran and Russia.

Now, those allies have been weakened or are fighting elsewhere. Russia, which shored up Assad in 2015 at a key moment in the civil war, has focused its firepower on Ukraine since invading that country nearly three years ago.

Hezbollah, the Lebanese terror group that is also funded by Iran, sent thousands of its fighters to Syria to battle on Assad’s behalf.

Following Hamas’ invasion of Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Hezbollah began shelling Israel’s northern border area. That conflict escalated sharply a few months ago and ended with a ceasefire two weeks ago, after Israel destroyed much of Hezbollah’s capabilities and leadership.

Iran, too, has engaged in a few rounds of direct conflict with Israel, during which Israel bombed its air defenses.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Assad’s defeat “the direct result of our forceful action against Hezbollah and Iran, Assad’s main supporters.” President-elect Donald Trump, too, credited “Israel and its fighting success” contributing to the chain of events.

Another Iranian ally is down.

Iran is widely seen as Israel’s chief adversary, and it funded and coordinated extensive efforts in the region to counter Israel.  For Israel, Assad’s ouster means that yet another node of Iran’s so-called regional “Axis of Resistance” has been taken out.

But since Oct. 7, that alliance has been decimated. Its members include:

  • Hamas, the Gaza-based terror group that has been all but destroyed after 14 months of war with Israel.
  • Hezbollah, which has suffered a heavy blow in its conflict with Israel.
  • The Houthis, a Yemeni terror group that has also bombed Israel and been hit with airstrikes from a multinational coalition.
  • Assad in Syria, who is now deposed.

To both sympathizers and opponents, Assad’s downfall is a huge setback for Iran and its regional influence.

“Iran has suffered a strategic defeat with the fall of Assad,” tweeted Dennis Ross, a veteran former U.S. government official focused on the Middle East. He wrote that Iran’s “ring of fire around Israel is gone.”

He also noted that Iran transferred weapons to Hezbollah via Syria, which could now be impossible.“Without the Syrian land/air bridge, it can’t easily rebuild a defeated Hezbollah. Its enormous investment in Syria has gone down the drain,” he wrote.

Rania Khalek, a journalist who has expressed sympathy for Iranian aims and criticized the Syrian rebels, tweeted, “The resistance axis era is over. Regionally Israel/US won this battle and we have to recognize that and reflect internally on why and how.”

Israeli parliamentary opposition leader Yair Lapid called for Israel to take the opportunity of a teetering Iran to “work toward a diplomatic achievement” that will work toward Israel’s interests in Gaza and the West Bank.

The victorious rebel group is no friend of Israel’s — but has taken a pragmatic turn.

That doesn’t mean the rebels are an ally of Israel. The group that has led the offensive is Hayat Tahrir al-Sham or HTS, an Islamist organization that evolved out of the Nusra Front, a group that was affiliated with the terror group Al-Qaeda and with the Islamic State. A standard piece of that ideology is opposition to Israel.

“In terms of HTS’ stance on Israel, they’ve always been for the Palestinian cause,” said Aaron Zelin, a senior research fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy who wrote a book on HTS called “The Age of Political Jihadism.” Zelin said HTS has celebrated Hamas attacks on Israel for years, including the Oct. 7 invasion, and has praised the Hamas leaders Israel has killed.

The group’s leader goes by the nom de guerre Abu Mohammad al-Jolani. The name indicates that the family of Jolani, 42, is from the Golan, the region that Israel captured from Syria in 1967 and later annexed. Zelin said Jolani’s father was originally from the Golan before moving to Damascus and Saudi Arabia, where Jolani was born.

That history has led to some trepidation in Israel.

“The events in Syria are far from a reason for celebration,” tweeted Amichai Chikli, the right-wing Israeli Diaspora affairs minister. “Despite the rebranding of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham… the bottom line is that most of Syria is now controlled by a subsidiary of al-Qaeda and ISIS.”

He added, “We can’t let the jihadists establish themselves next to our towns.”

Zelin, however, has documented a turn toward pragmatism by HTS. He called the group “somewhat pragmatic” and added, “I think that starting some with Israel would be suicidal from their perspective.”

A statement by HTS that Zelin posted to social media said the group was focused on “construction and progress” within Syria. The group added, “Liberated Syria looks forward to strengthening its relations with all brotherly and friendly countries on the basis of mutual respect and common interests.”

A rusting tank on a hill in the Golan Heights overlooking Syria is a vestige of an earlier war. The area last saw serious fighting during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. (Uriel Heilman)

A rusting tank on a hill in the Golan Heights overlooking Syria is a vestige of an earlier war. The area last saw serious fighting during the 1973 Yom Kippur War. (Uriel Heilman)

Israel and Syria haven’t fought for half a century — and probably won’t start now.

That’s one reason why, despite instability and violence on yet another one of its borders, Israel likely will not find itself at war with whomever takes power in Syria. The countries haven’t fought a major conflict since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, though Israel has bombed weapons shipments to Hezbollah in Syria numerous times.

Right now, the future of Syria’s government is unclear, different rebel groups control different areas and military positions have been abandoned. In response, Netanyahu said, Israeli forces have entered the buffer zone between the two countries “to take action against possible threats.”

He said that Israel wants “neighborly relations and peaceful relations with the new forces emerging in Syria” if possible. He added, “The Syrian army abandoned its positions. We gave the Israeli army the order to take over these positions to ensure that no hostile force embeds itself right next to the border of Israel. This is a temporary defensive position until a suitable arrangement is found.”

In a statement, the Israeli military said that the presence of troops in the buffer zone doesn’t mean that Israel is getting involved in whatever fighting is to come. “We emphasize that the IDF is not interfering with the internal events in Syria,” it said.

Constantin von Hoffmeister: Georgescu, Codreanu, and the Machinery of Erasure

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TOO has posted several articles referencing Codreanu. Note in particular: “Corneliu Codreanu’s The Prison Notes Republished” and “Communism In Romania: The Anti-Humans by Dumitru Bacu.” Yet another indication that the globalist establishment throughout Europe rejects democracy when it leads to the wrong conclusions.

Constantin von Hoffmeister

Ion Antonescu and Corneliu Zelea Codreanu are heroes through whom national history lived and spoke, and through whom it still speaks today — unlike the lackeys of globalist powers who temporarily rule Romania.

— Călin Georgescu, November 2020

Călin Georgescu sat on the narrow wooden bench, the smell of damp paper and mildew thick in the air. The courtroom was unlit, save for the flicker of an ancient bulb at its farthest end. He clutched a newspaper tightly in his hands, the ink smudging onto his fingers. The headline blared in a typeface too large to ignore: “Election Cancelled: Russian Meddling Confirmed.”

The words on the page made no sense. He had won the election. The people had spoken. Yet here he sat, summoned to this nameless court, waiting for a judgment that had already been pronounced in every newspaper, every broadcast, every conversation he had overheard since dawn. A faceless authority had decreed his victory void, and now he awaited his fate, although he already knew the outcome.

The air in the courtroom seemed heavier than it should have been, as though it carried the weight of accusations that had been uttered long before Georgescu entered. The wooden bench was polished smooth by countless bodies before him, each waiting for his own judgment, his own erasure. Across the room, the three judges sat elevated and distant, their faces obscured by the dim light that fell unevenly from the single flickering bulb. The space was neither large nor small; it expanded and contracted with Georgescu’s breath, a distortion he could neither explain nor ignore. Outside, the muffled din of a city in restless indifference hummed like static, while inside, the silence was suffocating. It was in this silence that Georgescu’s mind turned inward, towards the crowds shouting his name.

Each cry, each raised fist, had seemed to carry the ghost of something older, something undeniable. Corneliu Zelea Codreanu (1899-1938) — the Captain. The name hovered in the background of Georgescu’s memory, unavoidable, commanding. At first, he had only alluded to it, a stray remark here, a fleeting reference there. But as his campaign surged, so too did the insistence of the people, as though they had always been waiting for someone to resurrect the myth. And had he not obliged? The chants, the slogans — they were not his invention. They had risen unbidden from the collective longing of a fractured nation.

Codreanu’s image, burned into the collective consciousness of those who still believed in Romanian sovereignty, haunted Georgescu more than he cared to admit. A man born not into power but into an almost biblical sense of mission, Codreanu had spoken of Romania’s wounds as though he could feel them in his own flesh. The founding of the Legion of the Archangel Michael, a movement that blended Orthodox Christianity and radical nationalism, was not just an act of politics; it was an act of faith, a challenge hurled at a world he saw as corrupt beyond redemption. At his trial, Codreanu had stood unbowed, his voice calm and certain as he faced the machinery of a state that viewed him as a contagion to be eradicated. They said he had conspired, that he was dangerous, that his ideas would tear the nation apart, although it was the state itself that had rotted from within. And when they finally silenced him, it was done not with dignity but with cowardice, in the back of a truck, under cover of darkness. Georgescu knew these details well, too well. They pressed against his mind now as the judges spoke of “foreign interference” and “threats to democracy,” the words heavy with the weight of inevitability.

Codreanu had died strangled by a system that feared him, and now, decades later, that same system seemed to breathe anew, ready to devour Georgescu in its ceaseless grind. The room felt smaller suddenly, its walls leaning in, its shadows growing thicker. Georgescu wondered, as the judges’ words dissolved into a dull hum, if this was how the Captain had felt in his final moments: caught in a labyrinth of accusations, unable to find the way out.

The judges’ bench loomed above him, although there were no three judges, only a speakerphone from which a voice emanated — calm, detached, and yet vaguely menacing.

“Călin Georgescu,” the voice intoned, “the court has reviewed the findings. Russian interference has been proven beyond a doubt. Your campaign benefited from illegal operations designed to destabilize our democratic system.”

“I had nothing to do with it,” Georgescu said, his words drowned out, swallowed by the oppressive air. “The people chose me. Their will cannot be silenced.”

“It can and must,” the voice replied. “Democracy is not the tyranny of the uninformed. It is the safeguarding of our shared truth.”

The phrase hung in the air — “our shared truth.” It sounded like something from a pamphlet he had once read, something written in doublespeak. The absurdity of it struck him, but he said nothing. He was unsure whether his silence was from fear or resignation.

The evidence against him, the voice said, was incontrovertible. Thousands of TikTok accounts, fake profiles amplified by algorithms, had supposedly elevated his campaign. Videos of his speeches had gone viral overnight, accompanied by patriotic music. “Moscow’s fingerprints are all over it,” the voice claimed. Georgescu wondered whether the court could see that he had neither orchestrated nor controlled these events. Or perhaps the court did see, and it simply did not matter.

As the speakerphone droned on, he felt the walls closing in. The room seemed to shrink, the ceiling pressing down on him. He thought of Codreanu again, standing defiant before his captors. “We will not perish,” the Captain had once said, “because we will not surrender.” But those words felt empty now, here in this room where surrender had already been imposed, where the machinery of the system had crushed any semblance of resistance before it could take root.

When the voice finally ceased, it left an eerie silence. Two suited men appeared and motioned for him to leave. The trial, if it could be called that, was over. No sentence had been pronounced, yet the punishment was clear. The election was annulled. His name would fade into obscurity, his supporters labeled as dupes or traitors. He would be reduced to a footnote, if that.

As he walked out into the gray, overcast afternoon, Georgescu felt a strange sensation in his chest. Not despair — he had passed beyond that — but a profound emptiness, as if the part of him that had believed in the possibility of change had been surgically removed. The world around him moved on, indifferent. The people in the streets hurried about their business, unaware or uninterested in the decision that had just been made.

Above him, a giant screen flickered to life. A news anchor’s face filled the frame, smiling mechanically. “Democracy has been preserved,” the anchor declared. “The people are safe from foreign interference.” Beneath the anchor’s image, a scrolling ticker read: “Election results invalidated. Trust in the system at an all-time high.”

Georgescu stopped and stared at the screen. For a moment, he thought he could hear the faint chants of the crowds from his rallies, their voices rising like a tide, only to dissipate into the wind. And then he turned and walked away, his figure swallowed by the city’s merciless gray.

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Tucker’s interview with Sergey Lavrov

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Tucker’s interview with Lavrov is important given the Biden administration’s very dangerous recent escalations. The full interview is here  and on X, linked below. There is no transcript so I thought this summary from ZeroHedge would be worthwhile. Notice in the section on Syria that Lavrov notes that some have suggested Israel’s involvement, motivated by distracting from what they are doing in Gaza. I think it’s far more than that. Israel has been bombing Syria for years in opposition to Assad’s regime. Lavrov also notes that Israel has killed far more Palestinian civilians in one year (~45,000) than have been killed in the entire 10 years of the conflict since the coup of 2014.

Tucker Carlson first unveiled Wednesday that he had traveled to Moscow to interview Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and the full interview has subsequently been published Thursday night.

Among the most important messages conveyed was directed by Lavrov toward Washington and its allies, which “must understand that we would be ready to use any means not to allow them to succeed in what they call strategic defeat of Russia.” [In other words, the Ukraine war is existential for Russia in the sense that they feel they cannot lose it without also losing their sovereignty and place in the world. Any and all means will be used to this end.]

And referencing Russia’s recent use of its Oreshnik hypersonic missile, Lavrov expressed hope that Kiev’s backers took “seriously” the new weapon, for which Russia says there is no defense, as Moscow remains ready to use “any means” to defend itself. “We are sending signals and we hope that the last one, a couple of weeks ago, the signal with the new weapons system called Oreshnik… was taken seriously,” Lavrov emphasized. Full interview:

The very opening question posed by Tucker got straight to the main point which is surely on the minds of many viewers:

Tucker Carlson: Minister Lavrov, thank you for doing this. Do you believe the United States and Russia are at war with each other right now?

Sergey Lavrov: I wouldn’t say so. And in any case, this is not what we want. We would like to have normal relations with all our neighbors, of course, but generally with all countries especially with the great country like the United States. And President Vladimir Putin repeatedly expressed his respect for the American people, for the American history, for the American achievements in the world, and we don’t see any reason why Russia and the United States cannot cooperate for the sake of the universe.

Tucker Carlson: But the United States is funding a conflict that you’re involved in, of course, and now is allowing attacks on Russia itself. So that doesn’t constitute war?

Sergey Lavrov: Well, we officially are not at war. But what is going on in Ukraine is that some people call it hybrid war. I would call it hybrid war as well, but it is obvious that the Ukrainians would not be able to do what they’re doing with long-range modern weapons without direct participation of the American servicemen. And this is dangerous, no doubt about this.

We don’t want to aggravate the situation, but since ATACMS and other long-range weapons are being used against mainland Russia as it were, we are sending signals. We hope that the last one, a couple of weeks ago, the signal with the new weapon system called Oreshnik was taken seriously.

In the context of these statements he invoked the undesired and catastrophic possibility of the standoff between Russia and NATO entering nuclear territory:

“The message which we wanted to sell in testing, in real action, this hyper sonic system is that we will be ready to do anything to defend our legitimate interest. We hate even to think about war with the United States which will take nuclear character… [but] since some people in Washington … seem to be not very capable to understand [Russia’s interests], we will send additional messages if they don’t draw necessary conclusions.”

And other interesting moment came when the top Russian diplomat outlined his country’s motives in Ukraine vs. Washington’s…

“They fight to maintain global hegemony over every region, while we fight for our legitimate security interests. Senator Lindsey Graham even said Ukraine’s rare earth metals must not be left to Russia—openly admitting their goal is resource exploitation. They support a regime willing to give away natural and human resources. We fight for the people whose ancestors built and developed these lands for centuries.”

“In any case, this is not what we wanted,” he elsewhere said on the question of war. “We would like to have normal relations with all our neighbors—but generally, with all countries, especially a great country like the United States.”

…”We don’t see any reason why Russia and the United States cannot cooperate together for the sake of the universe,” Lavrov emphasized in a key moment.

* * *

Some highlights…

“An Invitation to Disaster”: Sergey Lavrov commented on talk of a limited exchange of nuclear strikes between the US and Russia in the interview…

Escalation fears… the central question

Russia’s real key condition for lasting peace in Ukraine

Biden administration is seeking to leave as big a mess at it can for incoming Trump administration

The permanence of the Russia-China alliance in the face of Washington aggression

Cooperation for the sake of the peace of the universe

Continue by watching the full interview here.

Doc Drops COVID Truth Bombs: “Everything Was A Lie From The Beginning…”

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Via The Burning Platform,

Dr. Richard Urso shares some truth bombs about COVID-19, vaccines, lockdowns, masks…

“Everything was a lie from the beginning. The asymptomatic people don’t transmit. Kids were not harbingers of the disease. They don’t actually, they’re like a break on the disease. Lockdowns were a farce. Masks don’t work.”

“I tell people, I joke sometimes I say masks do work. A lot like bathing suits work to keep pee out of the pool. They’re not very effective. So that’s one of those things that, you know, it was a farce. Pretty much everything they said was a farce. I know we’re still recovering from it. Just yesterday we walked into a pharmacy and they were advertising COVID-19 vaccines.”

“Well if you want to destroy your immune system, take a COVID-19 vaccine. It will destroy your immune system. It distributes widely in your body. It can’t be broken down because it’s a genetically modified RNA. There are contaminants, process-related impurities, what I usually call them, but contaminants for most people, that they haven’t gotten out of the vaccines.”

“The drug that I invented took eight years for us to get the process-related impurities out. It’s hard to do and I knew this would be a problem early on when they were trying to push this so fast because nobody had ever made these vaccines in anything bigger than a blender. What we had is found is even worse.”

“They put an SV40 promoter in the vaccine, Pfizer did, that [is] actually well known for the last five decades to bind P53 to Guardian the genome and cause cancers. They know that. We just kept them in the head of the Human Genome Project [which?] did this discovery with a few other molecular biologists.”

“This is really big news because the contaminants and the impurities in the vaccine are very dangerous and there’s design flaws like I just pointed out. Wide distribution to the brain, the bone marrow, the ovaries, the testes and long term production six months or more in the last study that we did. So there’s a lot to talk about. Do not get the vaccines unless you just want a crummy immune system. ”

“I think the main thing is these vaccines are dangerous. They have process-related impurities. They cause cancer, strokes, heart attacks. The data is in 40% more deaths in 2021 between 18 to 64. This is just data we can’t ignore, so please stay away from the vaccines.”

Elder Rape Is a Strength!

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Yet another example of how importing the Third World wrecks everything

As part of the Biden administration’s push to make everything worse and more expensive, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) — not to be confused with Congress, which writes the laws because we live in a democracy ha ha ha — issued a prospective rule requiring nursing homes to hire more staff.

Because who better to determine the staffing needs of the country’s 15,000 nursing homes than Chiquita Brooks-LaSure, Biden’s CMS administrator? Also supporting the new rule are “patient advocates,” i.e. the Service Employees International Union, looking to increase its membership rolls.

Chiquita Brooks-LaSure

Fortunately, The New York Times reports, President-elect Donald Trump is expected to repeal the Biden staffing mandates.

Also fortunately, I have a much better idea! Like Brooks-LaSure, my expertise does not come from running nursing homes. It comes from reading the news.

Such as …

In 2018, hardworking Kenyan immigrant Billy Chemirmir enriched elderly nursing home patients in Texas by allegedly murdering at least 22 of them and stealing their jewelry. (Who will care for the elderly without mass third world immigration?) He was convicted in the first two trials and then killed in prison.

The year prior, Ethiopian immigrant Adeladilew A. Mekonen got 25 years after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting two patients at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center in Portland, Oregon, women aged 89 and 94. (By the way, why is an Ethiopian living in Portland?)

Third world immigrants are hard workers, though. Liberian George Kpingbah was a ripe old 77, but still managed to rape an elderly Alzheimer’s patient at the Walker Methodist Health Center in Minneapolis. This guy is a walking TV commercial for Cialis.

At the 2015 sentencing hearing, Kpingbah’s lawyer sought leniency on the grounds that the perp had “devoted much of his life to ensuring that his three daughters migrated to America,” as The Minnesota Star Tribune put it.

How can we ever thank you, Mr. Kpingbah?

In 2017, Parkpoom Seesangrit — you’ll never believe it, but yup, another immigrant — was convicted of raping a 69-year-old dementia patient at the East Longmeadow Skilled Nursing Center in Massachusetts. When the Thai national was caught by a nurse, he said, “I know I’m in trouble. This looks bad.”

Like so many immigrants, Seesangrit created another job right here in America: He needed a Thai interpreter at his trial. (Turns out our country is fairly bristling with Thais.)

In 2013, nursing assistant Antonio Nieto was convicted of sexually assaulting three female patients, aged 59, 73 and 93, in a Broomfield, Colorado, nursing home. In accordance with the Times Style Guide, the media refused to reveal where Nieto was from, but his lawyer said English was his second language and he needed a Spanish-language interpreter in court, so: Latin America.

In 2018, Ghanaian immigrant Fode Doukoure pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 74-year-old woman after placing an anesthesia-soaked rag over her mouth.

May I speak with the people who hired these guys? The ones who thought cheap labor was worth placing men from raging rape cultures in charge of weak, elderly Alzheimer’s patients?

Why are you crying, Grandma? Hey! Where’s your diamond-encrusted brooch?

The media would sooner praise MAGA than admit that most of the world outside of the West is a cesspool of child rape, gang rape, elder rape, torture rape, goat rape, AIDS, multidrug-resistant gonorrhea and so on. But it’s not an impenetrable mystery, and when you’re hiring employees to work with helpless dementia patients, it’s kind of important to understand this aspect of non-Western culture.

I will briefly mention some suggestive facts about only the countries mentioned here, a subject I cover in detail in “Adios, America!”

Mass rape was a regular feature of Liberia’s 14-year civil war, as it is in most wars on the Dark Continent — also in response to minor skirmishes, celebrations, election seasons and filming a music video.

Kenya’s three-month election season, for example, features mass rapes committed by police, ordinary Kenyans and militia groups. (And you thought our elections were bad.)

During the two-year conflict in Tigray, Ethiopia, government forces raped hundreds of women, in front of friends and family, holding some as sex slaves for repeated gang rapes, sometimes inserting large nails, gravel, metal and plastic shrapnel into their victims’ vaginas, among other things. (On the plus side, none of them were fat-shamed or made to feel unheard.)

Thailand is ranked among the top 10 countries for violence against women and girls. Last year, 11 Thai police officers were charged with gang-raping a 14-year-old girl.

The Inter-American Children’s Institute reports that Latin America is second only to Asia in the sexual exploitation of women and children, who are “seen as objects instead of human beings with rights and freedoms.”

In 2018, naive British teenagers paid 1,200 pounds apiece to go on a class trip to “volunteer” in … Ghana. Whereupon armed Ghanaian and Nigerian men broke into their compound, beat and robbed the males and raped the girls and their female teacher for three hours, finally leaving at around 4 a.m.

Contra Brooks-LaSure, the last thing nursing homes need is more Kenyans, Ethiopians, Liberians, Thais and Latin Americans. What’s really needed is fewer rapes.

Here’s something useful Dr. Mehmet Oz could do at CMS that would create no additional paperwork or regulatory burden for nursing homes: Investigate every one of these monstrous crimes and widely publish the names and incomes of the facility owners and operators who thought the abuse of elderly Americans was a small price to pay for all that cheap foreign labor.

 

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