Merz says there are no more range restrictions on the weapons supplied to Ukraine
BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s new chancellor said Monday that his country and other major allies are no longer imposing any range restrictions on weapons supplied to Ukraine as it fights the Russian invasion.
Friedrich Merz has plunged into diplomatic efforts to try to secure a ceasefire and keep Western support for Ukraine intact since becoming Germany’s leader nearly three weeks ago.
On Monday, he said that “there are no longer any range restrictions for weapons that have been delivered to Ukraine — neither by the British, nor by the French, nor by us, and not by the Americans either.”
“That means Ukraine can also defend itself by, for example, attacking military positions in Russia,” Merz said at a forum organized by WDR public television. “Until a while ago, it couldn’t. … It can now.”
“We call this ‘long-range fire’ in jargon, also supplying Ukraine with weapons that attack military targets in the hinterland,” he added.
This is what they have wanted all along. Who is behind this is surely the same as who was behind WW1 and WW2. I doubt there is any way to turn this around. ABN
Zelensky is manifestly a Jewish Supremist patently intent on killing as many Ukrainian and Russian Christians as he can. Why is he doing that? The Jewish Supremist Bolsheviks mass-murdered Russian and Ukrainian Christians due to hatred, jealousy, and greed for power and wealth. Zelensky probably has similar motives and also he may be denuding Ukraine of Ukrainians so Jewish Supremists can move there from Israel if Israel falls. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine has been a small version of what Russia would have become had Putin not come to power. Zelensky and his ilk in concert with ‘American’ Jewish Supremists goaded Russia into this war. The kickbacks through USAID and other orgs to American politicians is window dressing on a deeper seizure of power through violence in Ukraine. The larger goal appears to be expanding the war to include Europe. And this will lead to the final destruction of European Christians and Western civilization, an oft stated fantasy of Jewish Supremists. ABN
UPDATE: I hope and believe Trump is striving to sideline Jewish Supremist fanatics through diplomacy with the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and others in the region. If Trump and GCC are successful, Israel will no longer be able to goad USA into wars-for-Israel or by themselves seize control of the Middle East and establish their Greater Israel fantasy. Instead, GCC plus others, with US backing, will become a collective hegemon of the Middle East and, ideally, focus on prosperity and peace rather than endless fighting. I know it’s a rough world but odds are not too bad, especially since Israel has lost so much respect and soft power over the past year. ABN
US President Donald Trump has been increasing pressure on Israel over recent days, an anonymous source told The Washington Post on Monday.
“Trump has been letting Israel know ‘we will abandon you if you do not end this war,'” the source added, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.
The increase in pressure from Trump came after Israel called up tens of thousands of reservists and ramped up Gaza bombings, the Washington Post added.
I lost touch with Chanel for a time. Now that I have reconnected, I am very impressed with her analyses. Trump has boldly moved away from war and ideology and replaced them with the connective tissue of peace and prosperity. He is playing the game beautifully and at a level not touched before in the Middle East. If he can fold Iran into this and sideline Israeli hardliners and supremists, he will have created an example the rest of the world may very well follow. As we move into a new age of extremely powerful technology, the old ways of battling for land and money would do well to leave the stage. When humans are able to work much less and spend more time in real thought, they almost all become better people. Advanced robotics will allow that. It is very good that Trump is pursuing peace and prosperity as core values for the future. ABN
TPS = the Transnational Private Sector or global corporate power, which is largely independent from government. GCC = Gulf Cooperation Council. The real situation appears to be Trump has sidelined Israel to cement trade and political relations with the GCC and others in the region. He appears to be doing something similar with Russia by going over Zelensky’s head while also largely ignoring European warmongers. I strongly approve of these policies and hope Trump succeeds with them. His world trade reset also shares this general outline of going to a higher level to completely rearrange lower-level relationships. ABN
Iran’s geopolitical standing has just undergone a seismic shift in Middle East.
For decades, it has wielded outsized influence in the region, projecting power through the axis of resistance, arguably the most powerful proxies in recent existence.
This network of proxies, costing Iran an estimated $10 billion annually, delivered soft power through ideological narratives and hard power through militia operations, positioning Iran as a de facto hegemon.
And the Strait of Hormuz, through which 20% of global oil flows, amplified this leverage, as Iran’s threats to seal the chokepoint deterred direct aggression.
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Abandoning the Axis was a pragmatic bet. BRICS summits and GCC diplomacy offered Iran an exit strategy.
These options meant Iran’s integration into a multipolar order, allowing it to deviate off the collision course it was destined to play out against Israel,
which would have fulfilled the entirety of the neocon chapter in the Middle East.
But instead, BRICS & the GCC indicated to Iran that the cost of its proxies- both financially and diplomatically,
outweighed their returns, as regional convergence favored de-escalation over proxy wars.
This pivot from Iran completely reshaped its geopolitical standing, trading proxy-power influence for pragmatic survival.
The loss of proxies has reduced Iran’s regional clout, but alignment with China and the GCC has unlocked economic lifelines.
In other words, Iran has stepped down as a major player.
Its new position comes at a cost.
A compromised autonomy.
Caught between TPS containment and hegemon vassalization by China, Russia and the GCC.
This downgrade is evident in Iran’s reduced leverage in the region. Its proxy decline has led to a heavy retraction of influence across the levant.
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In saying that, I think Iran played the correct dominant strategy. It has very effectively deviated off a destructive path and deepened relations with the GCC and BRICS alignment.
US President Donald Trump seems to think Israel could ruin his big trip to the Middle East, and it’s causing trouble. Trump appears to want the Middle East to have a respite from war and mass starvation during his trip to the oil-rich Gulf starting on Tuesday. He is signaling that he can leave Israel in the dust if it doesn’t go along for the ride.
Trump’s May 2017 visit to the kingdom during his first term. AFP
“Rift is too strong of a word, but frustration is bubbling,” a senior western official in the region told Middle East Eye.
Several sensitive dossiers are jostling together ahead of Trump’s visit that are irking Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, analysts and diplomats say.
The most consequential file for Trump is the ongoing nuclear talks with Iran, which US Vice President JD Vance said this week have been “so far, so good”.
For months, Trump has scorned Netanyahu on the talks as his closest media allies attack “Mossad agents” trying to hamstring the US leader. By his own admission, Trump even resisted Israeli pressure to launch a preemptive attack on the Islamic Republic.
Investigation of NORAD and its commander Eberhart is warranted, apart from the evidence for lying to Congress. Additional reasons to focus on Eberhart include the following nine facts.
As Commander in Chief of the U.S. Space Command (CINCSPACE), Eberhart was responsible for setting Infocon levels.[19] Infocon is an alert system that defends against attacks on communications networks within the DOD. Just 12 hours before the 9/11 attacks, an order was given to lower Infocon to its least protective level.[20] Setting Infocon at a lower level made it easier for people to hack into or compromise the DOD computer networks, including the air defense system.[21]
As both CINCSPACE and Commander in Chief of NORAD (CINCNORAD), Eberhart was in charge of many of the highly coincidental military exercises (i.e. war games) that were going on that morning.
Eberhart did nothing effective in response to the 9/11 hijackings, despite being present in the military’s teleconference as those hijackings were in progress. He did not order the scrambling of jets, he did not order an escort for Air Force One, and he did not provide leadership.
Eberhart also failed to implement military control over U.S. airspace until well after the attacks were over. Although it was his prerogative to do so, Eberhart did not implement SCATANA, the process of assuming military control over the U.S. airspace, until an hour after the last plane had been destroyed. Eberhart later said that he had waited until it finally became “obvious” to him that a coordinated terrorist attack was underway.[22] He told the 9/11 Commission that, although people were telling him to take control of the airspace earlier, he didn’t feel that the military could “provide traffic de-confliction like the FAA has.”[23]
In the middle of the 9/11 attacks, Eberhart decided to drive between Peterson Air Force Base and NORAD’s Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (CMOC). Normally this 12-mile drive takes 30 minutes but it took Eberhart between 45 minutes and an hour to make the drive that morning. No reason was ever given (or requested) for why Eberhart did not fly directly to CMOC from Peterson, making use of the Cheyenne Mountain helicopter port. Eberhart made conflicting statements about his reasons for making this trip, saying that he stayed for a while at Peterson because he “did not want to lose communication.”[24] Nevertheless, Eberhart lost communication at the most important time by leaving at approximately 9:30 am (EST), when two of the hijacked planes were still flying wildly off-course. His reason for doing this was that things had “quieted down.”[25]
While on his way to the CMOC he was in the U.S. military’s air threat call via cell phone. In this call, at 9:49 am, Eberhart “directed all air sovereignty aircraft to battle stations, fully armed.”[26] Although this might sound like decisive action, the command apparently grounded all interceptor jets that had not yet taken off due to the fact that “battle stations” is a grounded status. Other military leaders later gave orders to actually scramble the jets. And despite his involvement, Eberhart portrayed himself as being out of the loop entirely. For example, he told the 9/11 Commission that he had “no knowledge of the circumstances that initiated the scramble” of fighter jets from Langley AFB and that he had just “recently” been made aware that it happened (in March 2004).[27]
Eberhart failed to explain the multiple changes in the account of 9/11 that were given by NORAD. In fact, he seemed to tell his staff to change the NORAD timeline as much as was needed in order to prevent further questioning about the military’s performance.[28]
For whatever reasons, Eberhart also gave false information about the NORAD response to others. General Richard Myers, acting CJCS that morning, said that Eberhart told him there were “several hijack codes in the system.” Yet none of the four planes had squawked the hijack code on 9/11 and therefore it is not clear how such codes could have been in the system.[29]
NORAD failed to cooperate with the 9/11 Commission. Even as late as March 2004, the Commission was struggling to get basic documents about 9/11 performance from Eberhart’s organization.[30] In some cases, such as with the after-action reports that follow all military actions, the Commission never received the NORAD documents.
Of all these concerns, it is the military exercises that NORAD was conducting on 9/11 that have drawn the most attention from concerned citizens. When questioned about them, Eberhart claimed that the impact of the 9/11 exercises on NORAD’s response was that they “at most cost us 30 seconds.”[31] That was clearly not the case.
This is an excerpt from a longer article. If you are unfamiliar with 9/11 details of this nature, be sure to read the whole article linked above. 9/11 is another USA official myth that many are aware is profoundly false. Exposure of this myth seems to be following the arc of the JFK exposure. A few drips, a few more drips, until it ‘all’ comes out 60 years later, all meaning the final layer of moribund coverup after all crucial evidence has been destroyed. From a conspiracy POV, the strongest evidence of both JFK and 9/11 points to Israeli actors working with CIA actors, if not controlling the entirety of both operations, for the benefit of Israel. ABN
Evan X has made the point for some time that USA controls Israel and will abandon Israel when it is in USA’s interests. It does appear likely that USA is now in the process of discarding Israel and letting the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) become the aggregate hegemon of the Middle East while USA withdraws. USA here actually means the various financial and military groups that control USA, but the basic point is the same. For USA, the next question is: are American Jewish Supremists supporting this or are they being side-swiped? Money and power rule in the world of elite power. It makes sense that Jewish Supremists may back away from Israel, the state, to further their own interests globally and inside USA. If we see a continuing exodus from Israel of wealthy Jews, we may be seeing this plotline playing out. ABN
This is actually what we want to know about. Who was in the videos and who was being blackmailed. I am OK with giving her more time because Trump supports her and the evidence must be voluminous. Most of us, including me, have believed the Epstein tapes have long been destroyed because so many prominent people are implicated. But who knows? Maybe the videos still exist and something will yet come of this. I personally believe Epstein is alive and well, having been squirreled out of prison by Mossad or similar. ABN
The White House is planning to axe thousands jobs at the CIA and other intelligence agencies, officials told members of Congress per The Washington Post.
A person familiar with the plan but not authorized to discuss it publicly also confirmed the changes to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.
The administration plans to reduce the CIA workforce by 1,200 over several years, and cut thousands of positions at the National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies.
The Post reported that the reductions at the CIA include several hundred people who have already opted for early retirement.
The rest of the cuts would be achieved partly through reduced hiring and would not likely necessitate layoffs.
‘These moves are part of a holistic strategy to infuse the Agency with renewed energy, provide opportunities for rising leaders to emerge, and better position CIA to deliver on its mission,’ the agency wrote in the statement.
This is going to be interesting. Does Trump have the courage and power to dismantle the Deep State, which most of us believe is centered in or behind or around the CIA and NSA? The whistleblower in this video claims USA has been infiltrated by a ‘powerful international group’, which controls our government — and that is the reason he is going public with his claims. Some say the powerful group is aliens but others say the whistleblower says outright it’s an international group, not interplanetary or interdimensional. The whistleblower looks and sounds credible but who knows if he is just another Deep State mind-control plant, of which there are many. Others believe the powerful group is some form of international Jewry or that Jews are running cover for an even deeper group. It is a remarkable feature of our time that we still have no idea who was running the Biden administration. Nor do we know how much Ratcliffe or Trump knows about who was running Biden’s admin, or who might be controlling them. How Trump’s actions against the CIA and NSA proceed will be very revealing. They may be nothing more than a psyop cover designed to assuage conspiracy theorists like me. Or they may be real moves by a real president who has real power and knows how to use it. ABN
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