BREAKING: 🇺🇲 DONALD TRUMP OFFICIAL STATEMENT ABOUT ASAD AND THE SITUATION IN SYRIA

“Assad is gone. He has fled his country.

His protector, Russia, Russia, Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, was not interested in protecting him any longer. There was no reason for Russia to be there in the first place.

They lost all interest in Syria because of Ukraine, where close to 600,000 Russian soldiers lay wounded or dead, in a war that should never have started, and could go on forever.

Russia and Iran are in a weakened state right now, one because of Ukraine and a bad economy, the other because of Israel and its fighting success.

Likewise, Zelenskyy and Ukraine would like to make a deal and stop the madness. They have ridiculously lost 400,000 soldiers, and many more civilians.

There should be an immediate ceasefire and negotiations should begin. Too many lives are being so needlessly wasted, too many families destroyed, and if it keeps going, it can turn into something much bigger, and far worse.

I know Vladimir well. This is his time to act. China can help. The World is waiting!”

@MegaGeopolitics

From "Russians With Attitude:"
FIVE LESSONS FOR RUSSIA

Doom and gloom are somewhat appropriate, but it is more important to think about the future now. What does the fall of Syria tell us?

1. False Peace is Death. A bad faith ceasefire is a recipe for disaster and after Minsk and Astana should never be repeated. False peace is worse than war, because false peace means you still have to fight the war later, but at a disadvantage. No green busses or green corridors for the enemy, no deescalation zones, no freezing of any lines. The enemy has to be defeated completely: victory is a prerequisite for mercy. Until that is achieved, no ceasefires, only death under FABs.

2. Collapse is always sudden. The Assad regime resisted NATO-Israeli aggression for 13 years. And then it fell in a week. Mistakes, systemic errors and structural attrition accumulate until a critical mass is reached, and at that point the smallest impact will bring down the entire house of cards. Likewise, our current enemy in the main theater will resist stubbornly, until he will not be able to anymore, and then we will see Big Arrows. All our efforts should be focused on damaging the enemy's war-waging capabilities to reach that critical point.

3. Infantry is King. A single full-sized, dependable Russian infantry brigade (or a Ukrainian one, for that matter) would have been able to defeat the Jihadi advance for good. They were completely overstretched and to a large degree their offensive was a bluff that only worked because the SAA didn't even try to resist, they just ran. We had our own experience with a lack of infantry in the SMO -- it led to the Kharkov oblast debacle in fall '22. No matter what anyone says, no matter what technological advances there are, the infantry unit was and remains the central actor of history, upon which all else depends.

4. Empire is secondary to the Nation. There was a loud public debate among patriotic circles in Russia when the intervention in Syria began in 2015. Personally, I was opposed to the intervention because it seemed absurd to me to send Russian men to die in a foreign desert while Russian people are suffering under the yoke of Banderite occupation just across the border. We were told by Kremlin propagandists that "Palmyra is a symbol for all mankind" and the Donbass is just, eh, the Donbass. Whatever. Now, Jihadi dogs will get to loot and destroy all that archaeological treasure of all mankind, and we have to fight for the Donbass, anyway. Was it worth it? I have always been staunchly pro-Assad, but a single square mile of Russian land in Novorossiya means more to me than the entire Middle East. A nation should have its priorities in order.

5. You can't change nature. Some peoples and countries are just unreliable. They will never have stable polities unless compelled by overwhelming force or foreign occupation. They will never build working institutions on their own. You can't just offer them a comprehensive reform package and then shrug when they refuse to implement it. They will always be shitty client states if you work with them within a civilized framework. We know how to work around local particularities in other parts of the world, so we should let Middle East policy also be guided by this knowledge. They are not Warsaw Era-pact allies you can let do things on their own.

"If you ever have any suspicions that you just might be an Alpha, just think about how much your life has in common with King Childeric’s…" https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/the-alphas-of-history

This is a wholesome trend.

"We are looking for middle-grade novels of action, adventures, with BOYS as the main characters. We want excitement, escapades and deeds of derring-do, mystery, and heroism. Stories should be written in clear but intelligent language (we don’t want you to pay any attention to lexile scores), and most of all, they should be FUN!"
https://substack.com/home/post/p-150954380#:~:text=We%20are%20looking,should%20be%20FUN!

JUST IN - Israeli forces seized the buffer zone with Syria: Netanyahu

Israel's Defense Minister Katz added: "PM Netanyahu and I instructed the Israeli military to seize the buffer zone and control points to ensure the protection of all Israeli communities in the Golan Heights."

The buffer zone with Syria divided the countries since their last full-scale war in 1973. Israeli forces have now taken over the Syrian side of Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights.

@disclosetv

"The latest Based Book Sale completed with Amazon reporting a total of 230 Kindle Free E-books and 1851 Kindle Paid E-Books sold to based readers. That’s 2081 total! That doesn’t include sales authors made themselves or through channels outside Amazon, so the actual totals - judging by the reports authors have been sending me - are significantly higher. Here are the number for paid Kindle E-Books we tracked here at the Based Book Sale."

https://basedbooksale.substack.com/p/the-2024-black-friday-wrap-up

"By the end of the war, the U.S. had detained over 400,000 Axis POWs, including Germans, Italians, and Japanese, across approximately 700 camps nationwide. These camps played a significant role in the war effort and had lasting effects on the local communities where they were located."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-152441964

Cover of RadioCraft, February 1930, featuring Heinrich Hertz. Artist: Walter Edward Blythe

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Someone enjoyed the snow! 🦊

National Geographic

Burning the Village to Save the Village

Clown World is systematically destroying its own justifications for its right to govern the nations, as Simplicius observes in the aftermath of the fall of Syria and the failed presidential coup in South Korea: The short-term obsessed West considers the various CIA-sponsored subversions of the democratic processes as “winning”: but have these people given any […]

https://voxday.net/2024/12/09/burning-the-village-to-save-the-village/