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Burns & Moore spoke at an unprecedented joint public event in London…
CIA Director William Burns and Richard Moore, the head of the UK’s MI6 foreign intelligence agency, spoke at an unprecedented joint public event in London on Saturday, where they praised Ukraine’s invasion of Russia’s Kursk Oblast. Moore said the Kursk invasion was “typically audacious and bold on the part of the Ukrainians, to try and change the game” and said it had “brought the war home to ordinary Russians.” Burns said the operation in Kursk was a “significant tactical achievement” that boosted morale in Ukraine. While the fighting continues in Kursk, Russian forces have been making more rapid gains in Ukraine’s Donbas region since the invasion was launched.
Ukraine-Russia talks fell apart after Kiev asked foreign backers for advice, the former US deputy secretary of state has said
The US, UK and other backers of Ukraine told Kiev to reject the deal reached at the 2022 Istanbul peace talks with Russia, former US under secretary of state Victoria Nuland has said. In an interview with Russian journalist Mikhail Zygar, former editor-in-chief of the liberal news channel Dozhd, which aired on Thursday, Nuland was asked to comment on reports that the peace process between Moscow and Kiev in late March and early April 2022 collapsed after then-British Prime Minister Boris Johnson traveled to Ukraine and told Vladimir Zelensky to keep fighting.
At least ten UAVs were shot down while approaching the Russian capital overnight
Russian air defenses thwarted a Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow during the night, according to the city’s mayor, Sergey Sobyanin. Preliminary reports indicate there were no casualties or damage on the ground. The first UAV was intercepted in the Lyubertsy district on the outskirts of the Russian capital, the official stated on Telegram around 2:30am on Tuesday. Fifteen minutes later, Sobyanin reported that two more drones were shot down in the Ramensky district southeast of Moscow. He noted that falling debris did not cause any casualties or damage, stating that emergency services were working at the sites.
The drone crashed right into the middle of the building. One person was injured. The drone crashed into an apartment on the ninth floor, resulting in destroyed windows & more…
Kiev’s forces started deploying a new weapon in recent weeks: a drone jury rigged to spray incendiary substance on the ground below, potentially starting fires and inflicting damage on both personnel and military hardware.
While Western media outlets claim that the Ukrainian so-called “dragon drones” are using a mixture of aluminum powder and iron oxide, also known as thermite, Russian military analyst Alexei Leonkov suggests that the drones likely carry “pyrogel mixtures” that are more effective than the powder mixtures. “Usually, these kind of mixtures were used during combat in woodlands to start multiple fires and smoke out guerrillas,” Leonkov, who is also editor of Arsenal Otechestva (Arsenal of the Fatherland) magazine, tells Sputnik. “The Americans, for example, used them in Vietnam, and they were also used in other wars.”
WASHINGTON (Sputnik) – It is dangerous for the United States to attempt an undeclared war with Russia via Ukraine, former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union Jack Matlock said in an interview with the Schiller Institute.
“It seems to me that it is extremely dangerous to attempt what is, in effect, an undeclared war against a nuclear armed power, which perceives, rightly or wrongly, that its sovereignty and even its political existence are being threatened,” Matlock said in the interview, conducted on September 3 and released on Monday. Such a situation could result in a nuclear exchange between the United States and Russia because of mistakes, Matlock said.
The United States cannot confirm reports that Iran had supplied Russia with ballistic missiles, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Monday.
A senior Iranian official denied the reports earlier on Monday, describing them as “psychological warfare.” A European Union spokesperson described the information as “credible.”
Without China’s consent, transferring Belarusian Polonez-M systems to Russia, whose performance we recall, will not be possible. It is one of the most advanced weapons of the Lukashenko regime, recently tested in combat readiness tests.
The newspaper South China Morning Post examined Belarusian weapons. As highlighted in its pages, the Polonez-M systems have much in common with China. They were not only prepared in cooperation with Chinese engineers, but Chinese-made missiles were also used in the launchers. For this reason, any potential transfer of Polonez-M systems into Russian hands would require Beijing’s consent. Despite the tense relations between Beijing and the West, its issuance is currently out of the question.
The US and China have agreed to expand military-to-military contact and hold a second round of talks on artificial intelligence (AI) cooperation, even as disagreements on core issues remain.
A possible call between US President Joe Biden and his counterpart Xi Jinping “in the coming weeks” was also discussed between US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and China’s top diplomat Wang Yi at their two-day talks in Beijing which ended on Aug 28. Both sides agreed to maintain high-level exchanges, while continuing to cooperate in areas such as drug control, law enforcement, climate change and the repatriation of illegal immigrants, according to official statements from both sides.
White House is considering changing the status of the mission in Haiti to a UN Peacekeeping force.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken recently traveled to Haiti to show support for the US-backed government and Kenyan police in their struggle for legitimacy. As the Kenyans have been unable to take Port-au-Prince from the gangs and paramilitary groups, the White House is considering changing the status of the mission in Haiti to a UN Peacekeeping force. According to the Washington Post, Blinken’s trip to Haiti is an “unusual attempt to boost the country’s interim leader and deliver a message of support for a US-backed international policing mission that has so far failed to make a significant impact.”
There are violent clashes between El Mayo supporters and groups loyal to El Chapo.
With the recent AfD victory in Thuringia and strong showing in Saxony, the German Globalist mainstream parties are in a panic, scrambling to counter the relentless surging of the rightwing forces in the country.
And it’s not like they don’t know what’s wrong with their policies and in what way they differ from what the population really wants – they are just not prepared to abandon the Brussels line in favor of some common sense for a change. But they now have to at least pretend to do it, to try and stop AfD from growing before it’s too late. So now, Germany’s deeply unpopular government has announced plans to impose ‘temporary’ tighter controls at all of the country’s land borders.
Hafiz Saad Hussain Rizvi, who styles himself the “Emir of Pakistan’s Largest Religio-Political Organization,” the Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) party, and Muhammed Ashraf Asif Jalali, an imam linked to the TLP, have been convicted of inciting Muslims to murder Dutch populist leader Geert Wilders. Rizvi and Jalali, tried in absentia in the Netherlands, received four-year and 14-year sentences, respectively.
Wilders, whose Party for Freedom (PVV) is the largest in the Netherlands and incorporated into its new anti-mass migration government, was put under an Islamic fatwa by Jalali in 2018. This was sparked by Wilders’, a longtime critic of Islam, organizing a ‘Draw Mohammed’ contest, which had to be abandoned due to jihadist threats. Rizvi called for Wilders’s assassination at a press conference the same year.
It is remarkable how many well-informed conservative foreign policy strategists have never even heard of the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM).
Even those who closely follow immigration and border issues rarely understand the role PRM plays in accommodating and promoting the worldwide movement of illegal migrants. PRM should not be confused with State’s Bureau of Consular Affairs, which is in charge of issuing visas to foreigners to enter the United States and is known in Foggy Bottom as “CA.” Because so many interest groups constantly want more visas to be issued, CA gets its fair share of scrutiny from the media, lobbyists, and members of Congress. The PRM bureau has nothing to do with visas, and so it often flies under the conservative policy radar.
Kamala Harris states on a 2019 American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) candidate questionnaire that she supports taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries for illegal immigrants held in detainment facilities and other federal prisoners.
In addition, the 2024 Democratic Party’s presidential nominee said she supports radical cuts to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) funding as well as severely restricting the agency’s ability to operate and detain illegal immigrants. “Our immigrant detention system is out of control, and I believe we must end the unfair incarceration of thousands of individuals, families and children,” Harris wrote responding to the questionnaire. She added: “I was one of the first Senators after President Trump was elected to advocate for a decrease in funding to ICE.
As The Gateway Pundit reported, livid citizens confronted local officials during a recent City Commission meeting in Springfield, Ohio. They accused them of ignoring revolting crimes being committed by Haitian migrants against innocent animals in their town.
One resident recalled witnessing Haitians “grabbing up ducks by their necks, decapitating them, and walking off with them to eat.” Others revealed how the massive influx of immigrants, thanks to border czar Kamala Harris, has drained Springfield’s resources and turned a once-safe city into a crime-ridden hell. One Springfield resident even claimed she spotted a cat hanging from a branch and being carved up for food by Haitian immigrants.
Michael Snyder’s Substack
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A 2021 video of Kamala Harris bragging about allowing tens of thousands of Haitians into the US is making the rounds amid reports the migrants are wreaking havoc on Springfield, Ohio.
More than 20,000 Haitians are now living in Springfield, Ohio and the residents are fed up. Springfield has a population of about 60,000 people and Haitians now make up 25% of the population. Democrats want to take back Ohio so they have flooded parts of the state with Haitians and other illegal migrants. The City of Springfield held a City Commission meeting last week and angry residents went off on them for doing nothing about the Haitians wreaking havoc on the community and draining resources.
One particular grocery store in NYC has a rising theft problem. As with all theft in our city, some will excuse it as an act of desperation on the part of someone who is hungry, while others blame it on laws that protect criminals. Complicating matters is the fact that this particular grocery store is one block from one of the city’s largest shelters for asylum seekers…
Kamala Harris’s 2024 presidential campaign has finally launched a policies section on its campaign website, nearly 50 days after Joe Biden dropped his re-election bid—making Harris the presumptive Democratic Party nominee— and less than 60 days before the November election.
The Harris policy agenda is mostly vague platitudes, though what details it does offer appear to be heavily borrowed from both Biden and former President Donald J. Trump. Absent from the policy website are some of the more radical proposals that Harris campaigned on during the 2020 Democratic Party’s presidential primary, including radical climate regulations, abolishing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), and slashing police funding. However, the campaign still pushes several far-left plans buried under political platitudes.
