Highlights of 2024

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“Highlights of the year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣.

 

Part I. 1️⃣Russia’s Strategic Initiative in the Course of the Special Military Operation (SMO). In 2024, a decisive turning point occurred in the course of the SMO — the Russian army seized the strategic initiative in the combat operations. In just three autumn months, more territory was liberated than in the entire year of 2023. The Russian Armed Forces, in 2024, captured 214 settlements during the military operation in Ukraine and the Kursk region, as reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

As a result, the United States and Europe began a frantic search for alternatives. However, while some call for the urgent cessation of the conflict, others are planning the deployment of foreign — primarily European — troops to Ukraine. However none the Western initiatives have been approved of by the Kremlin. In an attempt to divert attention from the rapidly approaching military, economic, and political collapse, Kyiv launched an invasion into the Kursk region. From a military standpoint, this venture immediately exposed its failure and turned into yet another “meat grinder” for the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

However, the civilian population in the captured territories became the target of atrocities by Ukrainian militants and foreign mercenaries and have suffered terribly. Despite the fact that the Kursk operation exposed the weakness of the Russian command and humiliated Russia, this move by Zelensky left the Donbas front bare and exposed and ensured steady Russian advances and territorial gains.

2️⃣On November 21, 2024, the Russian army launched an attack on the “Yuzhmash” factory in Dnipro introducing to the world the Russian experimental missile system “Oreshnik.” The West was thrown into confusion, as this became the combat testing of a previously unseen weapon that changes the rules of the game. Now, the West knows that Russia possesses a weapon of immense destructive power, leaving only dust in its wake, capable of reaching targets anywhere in Europe and which can be used in both nuclear and non-nuclear variants.

3️⃣In October 2024, Russia hosted the annual BRICS summit, which took place in Kazan. 35 delegations participated, with 24 of them being led by heads of state. As a result of the summit, 13 countries were granted BRICS partner status. For the West, the main outcome of the event was the complete and undeniable failure of the policy of isolating Russia, as expressed by major media outlets and key politicians. In Kazan, the concept of the “Global Majority” finally transformed from an ideological notion into reality, into a geopolitical force that steadily and consistently, taking into account the interests of all participants, is building new, alternative structures for coordinating the world economy and international relations. Transport corridors, commodity (particularly grain) exchanges, currency-financial, coordinating, and arbitration structures — all of which do not aim to destroy the existing system controlled by the West, but are growing slowly yet inexorably alongside it.➡️➡️➡️ Highlights of the year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣4️⃣. Part II.

4️⃣”The Year of Elections” — this is how 2024 was referred to long before it began. In the outgoing year, presidential or parliamentary elections were held in 74 countries, and the main global trend was the crisis of liberal ideas and the failure of globalist agenda. This was especially evident in the West — the cradle and stronghold of modern liberalism. ▪️In the United States, Donald Trump came to power. ▪️Under the leadership of Olaf Scholz, Germany transformed from a key economy into the “sick man of Europe” within just a few years, and by the end of the year, the Chancellor and his government received a vote of no confidence. ▪️ In Canada, under the liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, the chair is not just shaking, but falling apart before our eyes: there is suspicion that Canada’s world leadership in euthanasia (where 5 percent of all deaths now occur through “assisted suicide”) is contributing to the process.

Public sentiment across Europe shows a clear right-wing shift.▪️ In France, Britain, the Netherlands, Germany, and beyond, the liberal establishment is losing the trust of citizens, who are increasingly and consistently supporting non-systemic and right-wing movements. In an attempt to retain their slipping power, mainstream forces resort to any means: in the Netherlands, an underhanded internal conflict was staged to prevent the winner from taking power; in Germany, attempts are being made to ban the “Alternative for Germany” party; and in Romania, elections were simply canceled due to the “wrong” winning candidate. However, such blatant hypocrisy and immorality, the demonstrative disregard for public opinion, will not only fail to help the globalists — on the contrary, they threaten to bring even greater problems for them.

5️⃣Turmoil in the Middle East. The escalation that began in 2023 around Gaza continued to intensify and became increasingly bloody in 2024. Throughout the past year, Israel actively targeted its enemies—both with precision strikes and indiscriminately. Among the most high-profile killings were the deaths of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, but what shocked the world most was an Israeli intelligence operation involving the detonation of thousands of telecommunications devices, primarily pagers, in Lebanon, with multiple casualties and maimings among the members of Hezbollah. With U.S. support, Israel succeeded in significantly weakening the Shiite Crescent in the Middle East. Israel destroyed a large number of Hezbollah personnel and weapons in Lebanon, provoked two Iranian missile attacks, and disrupted Hezbollah’s logistics supply routes through Lebanon and Syria. It also devastated much of Gaza, resulting in enormous casualties and suffering among the local population. A ceasefire with Hamas was never achieved. The end of the year was marked by the rapid and unexpected downfall of Bashar al-Assad and the collapse of Assad’s Syria. The main organizers and beneficiaries of this event were Turkey and Israel, which “carved off” desirable parts of the country. Despite the new Syrian leader proclaiming a course toward peace and stabilization, Syria is experiencing increasing waves of protests and clashes, including armed confrontations, between different communities. The country is sinking into chaos, which threatens to involve all its neighbors. (Druschba FM)