@_kruptos You clearly have never been in northern Canada. Yes, there are no roads, but there are thousands of remote villages with massive ATV trail networks and boat networks. All of those fire regions are accessible by humans.
People saying Lindsey Graham was a nice guy. Useful to clarify: everyone behaves sociably in the right context. Hitler did. Stalin did. Outside mental hospitals that’s just how things are. I also met Graham. He was sociable having a drink at the AEI or the Cosmos Club… And?
Huge claim from former FSB director Nikolai Patrushev, who says that Osama bin Laden was a US “agent” and was later eliminated only when he began compromising American intelligence services.
He says Russia once helped the CIA locate Osama bin Laden and that the US then refused to strike him.
Patrushev adds that the presidents of Russia and the US [presumably Putin and George W Bush, given he headed the FSBfrom 1999-2008] had agreed an operation to “eliminate” bin Laden, with roles assigned to both services: “On one side, the CIA, on the other, the FSB.”
According to him, the Americans asked Russia to place a beacon at bin Laden’s location because “they were sure we couldn’t carry it out, [but] we carried it out,” Patrushev said.
“We completed the assignment,” Patrushev claims. “We installed the beacon they gave us and said, please, you can verify it.”
He says Moscow told the US bin Laden would remain at that location for three months.
“They didn't dare. They didn't strike.”
Patrushev says he later confronted CIA director George Tenet: “You asked us. We didn't ask you. And you did nothing.”
Then comes the real kicker from Patrushev: “We know that he was their agent, they used him for as long as it suited them. Then, when he became a liability, they eliminated him, as we all saw on screen.”
This is the second part of my series on South Korea and the Iran war. I argue that liberalism in South Korea is now hegemonic.
Given the world-historical importance of the war, I am expanding the series to five parts. Part three will soon be published.
https://t.co/p7wL0y3AzO
🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin:
ABD, Rusya ile Avrupa'yı bu çatışmaya kasten sürükledi. Bu bakımdan amaçlarına ulaştılar; aramıza ve Avrupa ile aramıza bir takoz soktular. Şimdi ise bu çatışmanın mali yükünü Avrupalıların omuzlarına yüklüyorlar.
Bugün Avrupa'daki omurgasız ve iradesiz siyasetçi kuşağı, medyada, ekonomide ve siyasette ABD'ye olan ezici bağımlılıkları nedeniyle buna karşı koyamıyor.
Herhangi bir büyük medya kuruluşunu yakından incelediğinizde, nihai yararlanıcısının çoğu zaman bir Amerikan fonu olduğunu görürsünüz.
Okyanusun ötesindeki ABD istihbarat kurumları, destekçilerini daha öğrencilik yıllarında işe alıyor, onları yetiştiriyor ve zamanla Avrupa ülkelerinin siyasi yönetim kademelerine taşıyor.
1% of people account for 63% of all violent crimes.
0.2% of people ever commit murder, and **67% of all murders**are committed by people with prior arrests
You can literally just fix crime by not tolerating people who show a history of being destructive to society.
"I think we need to give the Gulf states more credit. This is not simply Saudi, Qatari or Emirati money pumping billions into Washington and buying people. It is not like that.
If you are MAGA, if you believe in America First, the Gulf lobby’s narrative resonates. It says: we want stability, we want growth, we will put money into your economy, and we will allow your companies to come over and make money in the Gulf and the wider region.
The Gulf states are willing to underwrite American policies. After all, all the bases in the Gulf are paid for by the locals, by the Gulfies. They are not paid for by US taxpayers. The Gulf states are willing to buy American jets and weapons. They are injecting cash into American AI companies. They are willing to support American power where they can. They are net contributors to American power
By contrast, Israel is a net consumer of US power. It drains US power. It sucks money out of the US economy and from US taxpayers."