INTERVIEW: Trump has lost hold on his empire
A former American soldier looks back on his service, but not on the decay of the objectives. Nato setting up concentration camps. Europe is in terminal crisis. The balaclavaed Black Bloc
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The goal of orchestrated mass migration is to lower wages for the oligarchs who own the industries, it is not and has never been in the interest of the working classes. The 'solidarity' card is and has always been a lie. It also helps that mass migration destroys social bonds so people can be exploited more easily.
October 18, 1942. Adolf Hitler signs one of the most infamous criminal orders of the war, a secret directive commanding that captured Allied commandos be killed without trial, even if they are in uniform, even if they surrender, even if they beg for mercy. The Commando Order tears up the laws of war, and it marks the point where the Western war, too, began sliding toward the lawlessness that already ruled in the east.
The order grew out of Hitler's fury at the growing Allied commando raids, the small, daring strikes by elite raiders against targets along the coast of occupied Europe, sabotage missions, hit-and-run attacks, operations that tied down German troops and embarrassed the regime. Hitler claimed, as a pretext, that the commandos fought like gangsters and had mistreated prisoners, and he decided to answer them with terror.
The directive was blunt and merciless. Captured commandos and raiders were to be "slaughtered to the last man," killed on the spot or handed over to the SD, the SS security service, for execution. It explicitly denied them the protections that the laws of war, the Geneva Conventions, guaranteed to prisoners. It did not matter if they were in proper uniform. It did not matter if they had surrendered honorably in combat. They were to be killed anyway, and any German officer who failed to carry this out, or who spared such prisoners, was himself to be considered guilty of an offense. Only a dozen copies were distributed, with a note that it was not to be circulated in writing, a sure sign that everyone involved knew it was criminal.
And it was carried out. In the years that followed, captured Allied commandos, and also some paratroopers and special forces, were murdered under this order, shot after capture, sometimes after interrogation and torture, men who under any civilized rule of war should have become prisoners. The order became one of the clearest, most documented war crimes of the Western theater, and after the war it was central evidence at Nuremberg, where Keitel and Jodl, the senior officers who transmitted it, were among those condemned partly for their role in it.
It is worth noting, in fairness to the complicated history, that not every German commander obeyed it. Some, including Rommel, the Desert Fox whose own forced death I told you about days ago, are said to have refused to pass it on or carry it out, treating captured commandos as proper prisoners of war. That refusal, by a handful of officers, is part of why Rommel's reputation survived relatively clean, and it shows that even within the German command there were men who knew a plainly criminal order when they saw one.
But the order stood, and most did obey it, and men died because of it. The Commando Order of the 18th is a landmark in the moral collapse of the war. The Eastern Front had been a war of annihilation and atrocity from the start, but the war in the west had retained, for a time, more of the old conventions, prisoners taken, rules broadly observed. This order was Hitler deliberately breaking those rules, commanding the murder of men who surrendered, and it is remembered as one of the explicit, signed crimes for which the leaders of the regime would answer with their lives.
Malignant and ignorant actors are trying to turn what is happening in France into an immigration or Islam issue. But these are demonstrations over the cost of living and lack of future prospects of a generation that has been abandoned by the government. And there is nothing more French than rioting and demonstrating. It is as French as croissants. Stop using this to advance your racist agenda.
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⚡️‼️New report:
Bombshell: Lithuanian Defense Minister Reveals Ukrainian Drones Used in St. Petersburg Attack Came From Polish Airspace
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Did someone in Trump's admin finally started giving him good advice or is this just pre-elections smoke and mirrors?
"With all of the money that Europe is famously giving him [Zelensky], and that Crooked Joe Biden gave him in the past, he doesn’t want to end this war, and probably never did."
Time will tell.
MONOLOGUE: Fear of frying
France is burning. On the anniversary of the firing of the summer palace in Beijing. Europe is smouldering. General Roly Poly tells us we must be ready to sacrifice to keep him in corsets and vintage wine, or whine
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Iran's Army spokesman, Brig. Gen. Akraminia >
US warships "forced to retreat" more than 500 km from the Persian Gulf coast.
New operational plans to push them even further "in the coming days".
"If America leaves the region, the Strait of Hormuz will reopen... If it doesn't leave, we'll expel it."
The most expensive navy in history parked 500 km away.
Have you noticed ???