"In his new book The Return of Great Powers, which comes out Tuesday, reporter Jim Sciutto interviews several of Trump’s former advisers. All of them stressed that Trump regularly lavished praise on authoritarian leaders around the world, calling Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán 'fantastic,' Chinese President Xi Jinping 'brilliant,' and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un an
OK guy.'”
KSA🩸loves #TFG -setting the stage to intervene in Nov’s election -like he did with a smaller test run during the fall of 2022.
KSA said Sun that it'd extend their 1M-barrels-a-day cuts in -acting ‘in coord. with some’ other states *OPEC+ partner RU -also a prod. cut of 471K barrels/day. Putin wants TFG back in the WH, too.
America Last The Right's Century-Long Romance with Foreign Dictators by Jacob Heilbrunn
A leading journalist and public intellectual explains the long, disturbing history behind the American Right's embrace of foreign dictators, from Kaiser Wilhelm and Mussolini to Putin and Orban.
There's about a dozen people in the world, ALL MEN, who are fucjing the rest of us, some ~10 billion strong, over big time! We can't let them win. Are those Mars rockets ready?
Military supplies delivered to Belarus aboard 4 Chinese flights, observers report.
"At the beginning of January, the Belaruski Hajun monitoring group recorded unusual activity by the Chinese cargo airline Air China Cargo at Minsk National Airport. Over a period of four days, the Boeing 747-400F registered B-2476 completed four round-trip flights between Ürümqi (airport code ZWWW) and Minsk (UMMS)...
We have reason to believe that the cargo plane transported military equipment from China to Belarus. The cargo likely bypassed customs clearance and was transshipped out of the airport immediately, as staging the freight in the usual military cargo area would have attracted additional attention with the consignment sitting out in the open."
As I always say, authoritarians tell you what they are going to do. We just don't want to hear it — Ruth Ben-Ghiat #quotes#quote#authoritarians#dictators
"Our partners in NE Syria, like all people, have an inalienable right to resist a genocide. Wars should not be directed against civilian targets. Silence suggests some tacit agreement.
There are about 70,000 ISIS members + families likely to be dumped on US forces when the misguided Syria policy comes crashing down.
Turkey was is and will remain the major source of ISIS and #Hamas support. US IC is playing a very dangerous & dirty game to get one new member in #NATO.
Turkey is a Hamas, Al-#Qaeda & ISIS ally. The US people have an absolute right to know who is selling our security short and people in the administration including those at #CIA#ODNIgov#NSAGov & #StateDept who have compromised our security need to go while their policy errors can still be corrected." -t.h.
As the local elections draw near, we will see more bloodshed and more escalatory rhetoric. You simply do not care about who gets killed in the service of regime preservation
KHRN warns about the imminent execution threat for 9 #Kurdish prisoners of conscience in Iran.