A spokesman for the Yemeni Houthi terrorist organization identified the Panamanian-flagged, Chinese-owned-and-operatedΒ Huang PuΒ as one of several ships it attempted to bomb in the past 24 hours, incorrectly identifying it as "British."
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Nicaragua authorized the establishment of a Russian-built and operated "Instruction Center" for the "reengineering" of the Nicaraguan police.
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The top spokesman for the Taliban regime of Afghanistan, Zabihullah Mujahid, repeated the terrorist organization's claims on Monday that the Islamic State Khorasan Province (ISIS-K), the jihadists' Afghan affiliate, had been "significantly weakened" in the country under Taliban rule.
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The head of Russia'sΒ Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed on Tuesday that America, Britain, and Ukraine conspired to execute the slaughter of nearly 140 people at a concert hall in the suburbs of Moscow on Friday.
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The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) on Monday passed a non-binding resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
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The Islamic State claimed responsibility for a deadly ambush on a military convoy in Niger, in which 23 soldiers were killed and 17 wounded.
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Putin addressed Friday's terrorist attack that killed at least 137, saying for the first time it was the work of "radical Islamists".Β
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Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova published an outraged screed on Sunday claiming that the American government was "bailing out" Ukraine by blaming the Islamic State terrorist organization for the massacre of overΒ 130 people at a concert hall outside of Moscow on Friday.
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French President Emmanuel Macron said he has offered Russia βincreased cooperationβ to combat terrorism in the wake of the Moscow terror attack.
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The Chinese state propagandaΒ Global TimesΒ newspaper blamed President Joe Biden's disastrous extension of the 20-year Afghan war and subsequent Taliban conquest of Kabul for creating the conditions to allow a harrowing terrorist attack in Moscow on Friday, which the Islamic State claimed responsibility for.
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Dmitry Medvedev, the former president now better known for regularly threatening to drop nuclear bombs on the West says terror suspects must be liquidated.
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France raised its terror threat warning to its highest level on Sunday evening in the wake of the suspected ISIS attack on a Moscow concert hall that left at least 137 dead.
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Ukraine's military claimed to have hit two Russian Black Sea Fleet warships near Crimea as well as having struck a communications centre in Sevastopol.
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Russia launched its third massive missile attack on Ukraine in the past four days, and the second to target the capital of Kyiv.
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It is widely believed that Joe Bidenβs anti-Israel, pro-Hamas policy is driven by his desperate need to carry Michigan if he is to have any hope of re-election. That seems like a reasonable assumption, although, to be fair, it is also possible that he shares his old bossβs anti-Israel animus. But here is another one:
Scoop: The US has urged Ukraine to halt attacks on Russiaβs energy infrastructure, warning senior SBU and GUR officials that drone strikes risk driving up global oil prices and provoking retaliation.
w/ @hallbenjamin @felschwartz @mylesmccormick_ https://t.co/DRussu4cAs via @FTβ Christopher Miller (@ChristopherJM) March 22, 2024
Bidenβs team knows that Americans have had about all the Bidenflation they can stand, and a spike in energy prices between now and November could well doom Joeβs chances. Would Biden be willing to throw the Ukrainians under the bus, along with the Israelis, to improve his odds? I think we all know the answer to that one.
Antonio Graceffo
Reporting from inside the war zone in Myanmar/Burma
Americans are sick of solving the worldβs problems, and many are fed up with funding Ukraine. However, the war in Myanmar/Burma is a just cause, and the locals are willing to do all the fighting if America would give them some surface-to-air missiles (SAMs) like the FIM-92 Stinger to counter Russian and Chinese helicopters and aircraft.
The war in Myanmar has been ongoing since 1948, with ethnic resistance armies fighting against the military junta. Three years ago, the junta allowed a popular election, which was won in a landslide by the National League for Democracy (NLD). Shortly afterward, the military invalidated the election, seized control of the government, and arrested elected members of parliament. The generals then began an unprecedented campaign of repression, extrajudicial killing, arbitrary detention, and terror.
In previous decades, the violence was largely focused on the ethnic minorities, who collectively comprise about half the population of the country. This time around, the government basically declared war on everyone, from school teachers and journalists to human rights activists and religious leadersβanyone who they saw as a threat. For the first time, large numbers of the Burman majority fled the cities to join the ethnic resistance armies fighting in the jungles.
David Eubanks, leader of the Free Burma Rangers (FBR), who has spent more than 25 years in this war, said, βThere is a new unity in Burma against the dictators. The people are fighting for a free, democratic, and federal government where the ethnics will have rights. And that unity cuts across social, political, economic, ethnic, religious, racial, ideological, and tribal lines. And that is a unity I have never seen beforeβBurmans working with ethnics, ethnics working with ethnics.β
Although I have been in and out of Burma and Thailand over the years, my own experience with the war spans 20 years. I can attest to Eubanksβ observation: nearly all of the ethnic minorities are working together now, and most notably, they have been joined by Burmans, who also recognize that all of the people of Burma are victims.
A few of the ethnic armies, like the Karen and the Shan, have been fighting almost since the war began, so they have more experience. Some of the resistance armies are better equipped than others, but none have the airpower, armor, artillery, and troop numbers of the Tatmadaw, the juntaβs army.
Presently, I am working with the Karenni, an ethnic group of about 400,000 people, about 75% of whom have been displaced. Like many Burmese who had hoped and waited patiently for better days, the 2021 coup was the last straw, which sucked the Karenni into the war. They were ill-equipped, inexperienced, untrained, and disorganized. But they are learning fast, and they are motivated by seeing their families, their villages, their homes, and their people murdered, gang-raped, and burned alive.
A battalion commander of the Karenni Army (KA) told me, βThe Tatmadaw is better equipped, but we have better hearts.β
In violation of international sanctions, the Tatmadaw receives financial support from China and has helicopters and aircraft, small arms, mortars, artillery, and armor from both Russia and China. The ethnic resistance armies do not receive any major support from the international community. The airstrikes are the biggest problem for the resistance. Everyone I talked to, from the lowest soldier to the high-ranking officers, government officials, and even housewives and religious leaders, told me, βWe need something to shoot down the planes. Please tell the Americans to send us weapons against airstrikes.β
Taking inventory in the armory at Karenni Army (KA) post, the weapons were less than state-of-the-art. There were cheap knockoffs of American weapons that would stop working fairly quickly. The best weapons were the ones left over from the Vietnam War, and those were completely shot out and rattling. But the Karenni are hill people, and they know how to fight and survive in the jungle.
American soldiers are used to having choppers or convoys bring them their chow and resupply. The Karenni only have what they carry. U.S. soldiers take things like ration packs, meals ready to eat (MRE), for granted. Karenni soldiers carry rice in their backpacks, and the only way to eat it is to stop, make a fire, and boil it for thirty minutes. In combat, they donβt usually have thirty minutes, so they donβt eat.
Also, how much rice can you possibly carry on your back? They go out for weeks at a time, humping up and down the mountains, and when they get hit with airstrikes, all they can do is go to ground and take cover.
Eubanks described the air attacks: βChinese jet fighters come three at a time. Aircraft drop 500-pound bombs, 200-pound bombs, and 50-pound bombsβ¦ Then there are the attack helicopters, firing cannons and machine guns.β The craziest thing he talked about was the Chinese Y12 transports: βwhich they use to drop cassettes of 81mm mortars out the back, like eight at a time, 12 at a time sometimes hand dropping them one by one. And thatβll fly over you for four hours, dropping mortars on you.β
While Burma is a Buddhist-majority country, about half of the Karenni are Christian. They ask that Americans and the world pray for them, send humanitarian aid for their displaced civilians, send surface-to-air missiles, and provide recognition to the National Unity Government (NUG), the government in exile.
Additionally, they need the world community to pressure China and Russia into ceasing their support for the generals.
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Members of the Karenni Army take part in a graduation ceremony for military trainees in October 2021 (KNPP/Facebook)
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Karenni Army (KA) weapons, photo by Antonio Graceffo
Vladimir Putin vowed to punish those behind a "barbaric terrorist attack" on a Moscow concert hall and claimed four gunmen were captured trying to flee to Ukraine.
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Russia unleashed one of its most devastating attacks on Ukraine's electric sector on Friday in retaliation for recent strikes inside Russia.
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Russia on Saturday said it had arrested 11 people -- including four gunmen -- over the attack on a Moscow concert hall claimed by ISIS.
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The Ukraine "special military operation" is a "de facto" war, Russia admitted for the first time, while blaming the West for the escalation.
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The Biden Administration attempted to pass a resolution at the United Nations Security Council on Friday that tried to pressure Israel into accepting a temporary ceasefire in Gaza -- and Russia and China vetoed it anyway.
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A terrorist attack on the Crocus City concert hall and mall in Moscow, Russia, on Friday night that has reportedly not concluded at press time has left "over 100 casualties," the Russian outlet RT reported.
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The Ukrainian government is reportedly considering an end to its βInternational Sponsors of Warβ blacklist, which lists major companies that are passively funding the Russian invasion by continuing to do business in Russia, because China and France strongly object to the naming and shaming of their corporations.
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Trump warned Europe of being too dependent on Russia. He warned NATO that they were not spending enough on defense. And now, both of his warnings have proved correct.
Furthermore, he argued that if NATO does not step up its defense spending, the cost will be passed on to American taxpayers, and it has. Not only has the defense of a lazy, ungrateful, smirking, effeminate Europe been passed on to Americans, in the form of tax money being shipped to Kyiv, but Americans are also paying in the form of higher oil prices.
In a 2018 headline from The Washington Post, βTrump accused Germany of becoming βtotally dependentβ on Russian energy at the U.N. The Germans just smirked.β
The story goes on to report that after Trump said: βGermany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course. Here in the Western Hemisphere, we are committed to maintaining our independence from the encroachment of expansionist foreign powers.β The delegates laughed at him, and the German representative smirked.
At the time, Trump detractors applauded the story, focusing solely on the part where delegates lowered themselves to laughing at the president of the United States.
The incident was widely shared across social media, serving as supposed evidence that Trump was not a good leader. However, his warnings have since proven to be true.
Trump demanded that NATO spend more on defense, threatening to shift US defense priorities away from Europe if they didnβt comply. At the time, only two or three NATO members were meeting their 2% of GDP spending requirement.
Trump argued that Europe was leaving the US to foot the bill, as the US provided about 70% of the total funding for the then 30-member group. NPR claimed to have debunked this assertion, citing the absence of an actual tab or written ledger.
However, this semantic counterargument overlooks the fundamental point that the US has been footing the bill for Europeβs defense for 70 years, all while facing criticism from Europe for its perceived militancy and warmongering stance.
Europe outsourced their defense to the US and then criticized the US for its large defense budget. These countries canβt even defend themselves, while the US has to spend enough to defend the free world.
Europe has always criticized the US for its lack of socialized medicine and higher education. Essentially, by hiding beneath the US nuclear defense umbrella, they were able to channel their defense budgets into healthcare and education.
Not only did Europe refuse to spend the agreed-upon percentage, but they were also funneling money to Russia through energy purchases. At the NATO summit, Trump emphasized, βWe have to talk about the billions and billions of dollars that are being paid to the country weβre supposed to be protecting you against.β
Every dollar Putin receives is money that could be used to purchase weapons to threaten Europe. And given Europeβs reluctance to defend itself, the US is obligated to match Russia dollar-for-dollar.
In order to protect Europe from Russia, the US has to outspend Russia, which is being funded by Europe.
At a recent campaign rally, Trump stated that, as far as he was concerned, Moscow could do whatever it wanted to NATO allies who refused to meet defense spending requirements.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg criticized Trump, stating that such comments βundermine all of our security, including that of the U.S.β However, the secretaryβs response overlooks the fact that NATO allies are freeloading and forcing US taxpayers to fund their defense.
The European allies donβt want Trump back in office because he called them out on their refusal to defend themselves. However, in addition to holding them accountable, Trump also kept Putin and Xi Jinping in check.
Some Democrats and mainstream media have accused Trump of being a Russian asset because he and Putin understood one another. However, the Ukraine invasion occurred under Biden, not Trump.
Trump faced similar criticism for his relationship with Saudi Arabia, but Saudi Arabia is the USβs primary ally in countering Iran in the Middle East. Biden, on the other hand, referred to Saudi Arabia as a βpariah,β and now the Middle East is exploding in Iran-backed violence.
Trump warned them, but they dismissed his words because they were triggered by his tweets. They also didnβt appreciate being held accountable for their actions.
Now, Ukraine has been invaded, the Middle East is engulfed in violence, shipping through the Red Sea is disrupted, Somali pirates are back in action, gasoline prices are up, inflation is up, and the risk of a world war is increasing. Despite all this, Democrats claim victory because the angry tweets have stopped.
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Josef Stalin died on this day in 1953. In his sleep; so, like Lenin, Mao and Castro, and unlike Hitler, Mussolini and Ceausescu, he never paid a price for his crimes. The Victims of Communism remember:
Stalin died on this day in 1953.
He left behind a legacy of terror, famine, and mass murder.
Remember the victims. pic.twitter.com/HUBBYUZMwh
β Victims of Communism (@VoCommunism) March 5, 2024
Stalin ranks second only to Mao among historyβs worst mass murderers. Those who knew him best understood how evil he was: his wife committed suicide and his daughter defected to America. Stalinβs malignant legacy lives on, as Russia has never fully emerged from his dark shadow. It is unfortunate that he wasnβt strung up like Mussolini or shot like Ceausescu. At this point, all we can do is revile him.