Putin and Russian foreign policy goals

Putin and Russian foreign policy goals

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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With his electoral win as President for the fourth term in modern Russia in a highly dramatic manner unheard in democratic poll history, President Putin would feel in total control of the country’s system and opposition.

At the very outset it needs to be stressed that Putn does not believe in western ideas of democracy of ruing a nation for maximum of two terms and stand down from entertaining further political ambitions.

Unless the previous Presidency polls in Russia, the election this time around was fairly predictable as people longed to see Putin making Russian presidency stronger. Unlike the self-boast claims of highly inflammable and erratic US President Donald Trump about “USA first” – as if USA had never pursed that policy before him and advanced interests of the world, Putin never made such foolish statements but strictly pursued “Russia first” policy vehemently. One achievement is the recovering the Crimea region from Ukraine by ignoring all objections of USA and allies. Now Russia dictates terms to USA in Syria.

Putin could claim that he is fulfilling the demands of the people wanting    a strong presidency that only he can provide. Like in Saudi Arabia the rulers just  do not entrain  extreme  experiments to make a sea change in the system for the  anti-royal  fringes to remove the  kingdom and establish their own dictatorship with US-Israeli backing in the name of so-called democracy, Russia also is keen  their system is not dismantled as per the designs of anti-Islamic forces. Moreover, the West suspects President Putin might revert Russia back to Soviet era system that would upset entire agenda of the West that after having succeeded in a big way, into eventual jeopardy. They keep calculating the post-Putin Russia but Putin still remains in full control.

A lively debate is on in the West and elsewhere about Putin’s’ new foreign policy if any. Obviously, President Putin would choose his course very carefully and he is quite capable of that.

Russia, like any other big nation, has its own fancies about its place in the world but the world turned out to be more unpredictable and complicated than many Russians thought.

True, Russian economy received a jolt in the form of economic terrorism from USA and EU known as “sanctions” on account of Crimea annexation.

Apparently, Russian leadership did not expect the West to introduce strong sanctions after Crimea and to stick with them for years though Russian action is final. However, China compensated the Kremlin for the huge economic loss in Western investments and trade deficits.

President Putin may have expected Hillary Clinton to win the US elections and become a tough anti-Russian president but the election of Donald Trump gave some hope so improvement in bilateral ties. Russia expected fanatic Donald Trump to become a soft Russia-friendly president. Russia did not expect the EU to sudden collapse under the weight of its own in internal contradictions at the wake of Brexit.

Arguably Trump has an unshakeable belief that he is uniquely positioned to defuse a dangerous standoff with Moscow by courting Putin.

Trump congratulated Putin on his election victory, and spoke in an upbeat manner about talks he hoped to hold with him soon, billing their meeting rather like a Reagan-Gorbachev summit from the 1980s. This is the latest example of his unusual deference to Putin, following the 2016 election in which US intelligence agencies assessed the Russians intervened on his behalf. But the White House says that Russia assaulted American democracy, used a nerve agent in an attack on the soil of its closest ally, Britain, and just held an election that cannot be judged free and fair. Yet the President did not bring up any of those issues during a telephone chat with Putin, White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said.

An innocent looking Barack Obama did it in 2012 by greeting Putin, as he tried to keep his Russia “reset” strategy alive. But any interactions between Trump and Putin are closely watched given the special counsel investigation into Russian election meddling.

Putin meanwhile is one of the groups of autocrats and global strongmen that Trump seems to admire — an odd quirk in an American President who often appears tougher on allies than US foes, except that he promotes aggressively the Zionist expansionist agenda in Palestine against the UN demand to promote Palestine and International Law condemning all Zionist crimes against humanity. . .

Russia expects Ukraine to collapse under the weight of its unreformed economy, corruption and unruly political passions because US support for East European nation with communist background is not genuine.

Putin expects the settlement in Syria, where Russian military plays important role to help Assad stay alive and kicking while Syrians keep dying for him, to be a lot easier now.

Russian foreign policy predictions have occasioned a lively foreign policy debate in Moscow as well – on the meaning of Donald Trump, on the fate of the European Union, on what to expect from China, from Near Abroad, on what next in Syria and Donbas.

There has been a constant demand from liberals – both foreign policy thinkers and economic technocrats – to improve the relations with the West for purposefully advancing its national interest, starting possibly from stabilizing the situation in Donbas. They fail to recognize the fact the USA opposes any better ties with Russia and China. The processes of dismantling of mighty Soviet Union and Socialist system in the entire east Europe, braking down of Berlin Wall, etc were enacted by Michael Gorbachev in order to improve relationship with USA and Europe but alas only USA won the Cold war and Eastern Europe and made Russia feel for the loss of great nation status.

Yet, former finance minister Alexei Kudrin succinctly argues, “if we want our economy to grow, and grow smartly, we need to improve the relations with the West.” The West remains the best source for modernisation. The need for technocratic modernisation – the need to master the world of artificial intelligence, blockchains and other 21st century wonders – seems to be understood also by President Putin, at least intellectually, if not passionately.

 

Stabilization in Donbas, according to this camp, is the best place to start. Progress there would help to restart the relations with the European Union, and that might be of help at a time when the relations with the US are deadlocked because Russia has become a domestic issue in the US.

 

However, most of Russians see though the American-Israeli straggles to belittle Russia and simply oppose and even hate USA ad Western civilization. Then this dovetails with a foreign policy argument that holds that Russian foreign policy is overstretched and would benefit from ending a few conflicts.

 

The other camp in Moscow, thus, remains skeptical. They fear the West will view ‘concessions’ from Russia as a sign of weakness; or that rapprochement with the West would make Russia’s non-Western allies – from Iran to China – fear Russian ‘betrayal’.

 

Iran has already experienced such treatment in its relations with Russia in the 1990s and early 2000s, when Moscow used Tehran as a mere bargaining chip in its relationship with the USA. The same way USA used Pakistan a tool to improve relations with China after its success in misusing Islamabad to gain access to petrodollars n Arab world.

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However, the sceptical camp is being advised by the West to agree on one crucial point: foreign policy indeed needs to change. Saudi Arabia is also following their footsteps without having any idea about the long term outcomes

 

Anti-Russia rhetoric and tactics continue to work in the west. They also work in the Middle East, where Russia now effectively owns the conflict in Syria and, to stay on top of the diplomatic process, it needs effective relations with all regional powers. They do not work in the West, because there, Donald Trump is now the disruptor-in-chief; and an unpredictable one at that. But USA is keen to see that the primitively anti-Western rhetoric and tactics that centre on disruption do not work anymore in Moscow. This requires predictable behavior. Surprise invasions have done their job, done it well in Moscow’s eyes – but their time seems to be far from over.

 

Such was the state of the debate when, in the afternoon of March 4, a former GRU employee and British double agent Sergei Skripal was found unconscious on the bench in Salisbury, poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok, the only known earlier producer of which was USSR/Russia. But now any country could produce and sell. Israel is known for such mischievous endeavors and USA diplomatically supports all secret Zionist operations.

 

UK quickly blames on Russia and personally on Putin as their usual strategy. This crime remains puzzling. Murders of exchanged spies – as Skripal was – have not been part of Moscow’s behavior so far. Was the only aim to kill a traitor? In that case, most other means would have been simpler than nerve agent.

 

UK might have expected a poor show by Puitn in the presidency poll. The domestic political incentives are likely. Could it have been indeed ordered by President Putin – with full knowledge of international implications? Or was it the job of some powerful Russian agencies without Putin’s knowledge, or maybe sanctioned only in very broad terms? In that case, will the Kremlin manage to distance itself from them, and do so with the level of publicity that would satisfy the West?

 

Such questions are raised in the West. No one knows for sure who does what.

 

Of course the issue is just starting point for Putn to just ignore and move on further with prudent foreign policy goals to remobilize entire anti-West and anti-West world to fight colonialism capitalism, imperialism, fascism and US brand Zionism.

The inconsistency in the Trump regime’s approach to Russia adds to uncertainty about how the West will respond to Putin’s growing willingness to exercise power beyond his borders.

Western policy toward Russia is not going to change dramatically for years. .

By shuffling the team members, Trump looks for opportunities to p advance the unilateral America to impose its military prowess on the world stage.

Russian voters are right: only President Putn can do that and assure peace prosperity for entire world. .

India RSS-BJP fascist duo challenges judiciary over Babri Mosque judgment!

India  RSS-BJP fascist duo challenges judiciary over Babri Mosque judgment!

 – Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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The poisonous RSS-BJP fascist forces continue to dictate terms to India, its media lords and voters. They say everything in India must be done according their fanatic tastes. They have already begun attacking and killing Muslims over issues that are merely fictitious. The attacks and lynching are being committed against Muslims in order to terrorize both Muslims and Hindu voters.  That makes the Hindu voters vulnerable to choose only the BJP type arrogant parties as Hindus, interestingly, become scared of powerless Muslims.

 

That is the victory of the RSS-BJP fanatics.  For their existence, blooming and controlling the nation the Hindutva guys should be grateful to the Congress party and Indian state. Even many Congress and communist people sport the “Sanyasi kaavi “ dress to let the Hindu voters identify them also as  Hindutva supporters. Muslims have no maturity to decode the  symbolic Hindu actions of the politics .

 

Thanks to the continuous support from Congress and other fanatic parties pretending to be secular, the BJP and RSS have become very strong in India.

 

The poisonous and racist RSS and BJP contuse to destroy the benefits of freedom India got from Britishers.

 

These fascist forces think that India belongs exclusively to them only and Muslims and others including the real and normal positively thinking Hindus have no right n the country and these fanatic Zionist Hindutva nuts are eager to push India into darkness once again.

 

The  Hindu communal duo RSS-BJP has mobilized the extremist Hindus- that were used by them to dismantle the historic Babri Mosque in 1992,  to object to the judiciary to ant genuine judgment on the ghastly destruction of national historic monument called Babri Mosque in favor of truth by being on the side of Babri Mosque and against Hindutva which considers returning the historic Babri mosque back to its owners the Muslims, would amount to insulting the Hindutva fascist forces led by RSS-BJP duo.

 

BJP-RSS calculates that if they could mobilize Hindu mobs against Babri mosque belonging to the minority Muslims, the Apex Court which has reserved its judgment, would change the verdict to promote Hindutva as Indian judicial ideology. The Modi regime must be busy in   arm-twisting the judges to write a pro-Hindutva judgment because, they argue, as once Hindu criminals are punished that would be extremely bad for RSS-BJP Hindutva political trade in the country.

 

The ultra fanatic RSS-BJP-VHP trio has been provoking the nation and judiciary with all Indian Hindutva agitations called ”Rath yatra” central to anti-Islam politics for Hindu votes.

 

The Modi government is exploiting the weak AIADMK government in  Tamil Nadu to push through its BJP agenda which, after flourishing  on  profitable alliance with both DMK and AIADMK in poll politics, got back to zero  sum as both the  Dravidian parties have decided not to promote Hindutva forces in the state to  poison the Tamil minds. However,  the ruling AIADMK government granted permission to the RSS-BJP “Rath yatra” to pass through gaining support for Hindutva ideology as the extra “patriotic” terror.

 

Tamil Nadu government should have denied permission to RSS-BJP for the “Rath yatra” which is essentially anti-national, anti-constitutional and anti-secular nation. Promotion of Hindutva moorings in the state would make the ruling AIADMK stable or strong, but rather it would be weakened sooner or later.

 

Opposition DMK acting president and opposition leader in the Assembly MK Stalin, who had urged the state government to not allow the yatra inside Tamil Nadu to ensure peace, staged a walkout in the state Assembly over the issue. Stalin had released a statement saying the rath yatra, if allowed in Tamil Nadu, will disturb communal harmony and peace in the state. He had also said that allowing the yatra would be contempt of court as the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute case is pending before a Constitution Bench of Supreme Court. He added that the move by the VHP can also been seen as a pressure tactic.

 

Hitting out at Chief Minister Palaniswami, Stalin had said that the AIADMK leader had given the nod to the yatra to protect his government and chief ministership.  Following their call for protest, section 144 was enforced in Tirunelveli. area with immediate effect, and would remain imposed till March 23.

 

The 39-day Ram Rajya Rath Yatra was flagged off from Ayodhya in February and is slated to end in Rameswaram on March 25. While initially Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was expected to flag it off, but he skipped.

 

The yatra wherein the assassins of Babri Mosque and Muslims are participating is being carried on a special wooden carved Rath (chariot), depicting design and replica of the proposed Lord Ram temple in Ayodhya.

 

BJP is keen to use the Babri Mosque issue for the next general poll in 2019.

 

Senior actors like Kamal Hasan and Rajinikanth who claims to be politicians in Tamil Nadu have not made any remarks about Hindutva criminalization of Indian politics and its efforts to stage a comeback in Tamil Nadu.

 

Obviously, these actors have no interest in the future of the state and people but only want to make political wealth out of pathetic existence of Tamils. Rajnikanth is eager to be accepted by Tamils as their god at par with fake fixer in sports, cricketer Sachin Tendulkar.

 

The BJP is interested in Hindu vote banks in Karnataka where the next general poll is due and BJP is eager to take back the government from the Congress party. That is reason why the Modi government continues to ignore the orders of Supreme Court to institute Kaveri board to regulate Cauvery water flow from Karnataka to Tamil Nadu.

 

The national outfits BJP and Congress continue to maintaining their secret links and make many thinkers and critics of RSS disappear.

 

However r, people see through the Hindutva game plans and put the Congress on life saving medication for its arrogance and harms done to the nation and BJP is being already rejected by the people of India.

 

Certainly, the BJP without any genuine concern for the people would fall into the dust bin in due course.  The way the Congress party has been shifted to waste bin clearly shows the ultra fanatic BJP would also be in a worse position in due course.

 

Indians would reject all brands of fanaticism in due course

 

Very recently  the ruling BJP has shockingly lost  the bypolls in a few states where  the third front parties have won the seats, making it clear that BJP would be out for its pure gimmicks, while Congress party lost deposit amounts. India hates Congress as well as BJP. That is the Indian verdict.

 

The Congress and its so-called secular allies with tacit RSS links have made the RSS-BJP powerful. While RSS used to support the Congress party, giving an edge in the polls, now they directly promote the Hindutva parties like the lynching BJP.

 

Both Congress party and BJP advanced India’s sovereign interest that includes containing Indian Muslims, harming the genuine interest of Muslim  in jobs where they face maximum troubles from Hindu bosses  and eventually quit jobs and seek voluntary retirement but Indian regime pursue the policy further to deny even pensions to Muslims.

 

Leaders of Congress and other parties are annoyed now with the Modi government not for misgovernance or not fulfilling the premises offered to the people but for not allowing them also to take away parts of profits as their own due share. The Congress regime let other parties also to loot and share the profits of the Indian government but the BJP government is choosy about whom to allow taking away resources.

 

The Congress is being attacked by BJP government for being dependent on one dynasty. This assault has to be parried and that is why it is being showcased that Congress had a range of leaders and it is not run by only one dynasty.

 

The BJP exploited ht split in the erstwhile Janata Party experiment and formed the BJP by taking away big chuck of Janata party workers and leaders, offering them posts. Now the BJP offers huge money and posts to anyone seeking to enter the BJP outfit. But the Congress party did not have to do even that it  took advantage of  the then Congress freedom struggle launched by Mahatma Gondi who had rightly advised Nehru to disband the freedom moment known as Congress and launch a new party for  the independent India but Nehru and friends wanitng to rule andejnoy life  rejected the Gandhian advice and wanted to use the popularity of Gandhi and the freedom movement for the elections.

 

But people have turned the Congress party that has grown the worst corrupt outfit and national shame. .

 

The poisonously dangerous agenda of RSS-BJP that destabilizes secular democracy as the base principle of India should be dealt with as a priority issue. Of course people would deal with it but only in due course and meanwhile the judiciary should put an end to poisonous fanaticism and hate politics of Hindutva forces and save India from the anti-National forces pretending to be “patriotic”.

 

Today the pseudo patriotic and criminal elements of RSS-BJP targets Indians in India in the name of patriotism.

 

Indian judiciary needs to take note of this trend and end the national criminal fanaticism.

Why does America not want to end occupation of Afghanistan, its state terror operations?

Why does America not want to end occupation of Afghanistan, its state terror operations? 

-DR. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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At the outset it should be clear to the keen observers on intentional politics that ending terror war in Afghanistan would automatically lead to a chain flow of similar actions in other occupied Muslim nations. That would create essential background for peace in the world.

In simple language the answer is that America does not want to quit Afghanistan for “strategic reasons”.

It is a fact that USA determines, decides and guides policies for entire globe directly, including its foes Russia, China, Iran and others indirectly. Regional tensions owe their continuation entirely to the efforts of USA. Washington controls both Indi and Pakistan in South Asia as much as it manipulates the policy of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. Iran is also pursuing exactly what USA wants.

The launch, prolongation and end of terror wars depend entirely on USA. War on Afghanistan, launched by Bush Jr. and prolonged by Obama is still going on under Trump who also does not want to end the NATO state terrorism in Afghanistan. Before Bush Jr, his daddy Bush Sr. launched his war on Iraq in order to continue to controlling the energy resources and Bush Jr. just continued his father’s war in Iraq and extended it to other Muslim nations to drink Islamic blood.

So the question if USA would end its longest war in Afghanistan as a reply to Russian demand for dismantling of NATO appears to be an irresolvable puzzle.

True, Afghanistan, like Pakistan and Iraq, Libya and Syria, is destabilized and USA decides what the Pakistani regime and military must or must not do. . Unknown to the broader public, Afghanistan has significant oil, natural gas and strategic raw material resources, not to mention opium, a multibillion dollar industry which feeds America’s illegal heroin market. These mineral reserves include huge veins of iron, copper, cobalt, gold and lithium, which is a strategic raw material used in the production of high tech batteries for laptops, cell phones and electric cars.

Much before he assumed power at the White House, Trump began ringing terror bell. Americans just got rid of  Democrats led by ultra hawkish Hillary Clinton who sought  to make Israel an abnormal super power in West Asia to terror-gaze on Arab and Persian lands. She ha sno sympathy for the Palestinian children whom the fascist Zionist military keeps killing but also calls them terrorists while Israel that occupies and terrorizes Palestinians is called the “victim” who face extinction.

Clinton, true to her imperialist mindset, has no sympathy for Palestine women and children and she only promotes the ongoing criminality by Israel.

 

US war not on terror but on Islam

 

Certainly USA and its strategic allies fight against Islam and Muslims.

Today the terror wars going on are a purely permanent anti-Islamic war. No one needs to doubt that.

When Bush Jr. launched war on terror he indeed meant a permanent war on Islam but since he sought the support of many Muslim nations like Saudi led Gulf nations, Pakistan and Turkey, in his war on Islam, he very tactfully concealed the truth under “war on terror”.  That approach was successful as the Muslim nations continued to support US terror war on Islam and energy rich Islamic world and global Muslim populations have been slashed to a level of US liking to make anti-Islamic media lords enjoy with their success.

As the leading traders in terror or fascist goods, USA and Israel feel safe  and why should then they go for international peace when they launched the attacks on Islamic world to create insecurity and tensions in the Islamic world?

US Presidents take notes from the Neocon experts who ask them to proceed with terror wars for energy and route resources, slashing of Muslim populations, among many other reasons, including saving NATO from getting dismantled.

The decision of the Trump regime to extend the terror warn Afghanistan further by adding more troops, like the very act of Sept-11 hoax and invasion of the nation of  brave Afghans,  has got two major reasons:  economics and politics.

It should be self-evident that the war against Afghanistan and the broader war on terror, like every war that the US has engaged in since the end of World War II, is as much a war about race and white supremacy as was the Civil War.

The fact that the terror war of NATO was presided over for eight years by the first African American president, who in his last year in office dropped 26,171 bombs exclusively over populations of people of color) does not alter the fact that it is a racist war but anti-Islamic one.

The terrorism operations have dismissed the  crimes taking place in the USA a a regular basis dominated by the US culture silence  guns. The violence that is seen in American streets is a direct and inevitable result of the violence of the county’s wars outside.

The Obama regime’s determinations that any male 14 years or older found dead in a drone strike zone is a “combatant” makes crimes insignificant in the society. Media blast the terror news in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, etc. The consequence of these naughty policies is the summary killings of innocent young men without identity as to who they are and where they live, in American cities as well as in places far way.

The racial profiling that results in the killings of unarmed black citizens by American police, even under black Obama,  is the domestic expression of surveillance by drones of the “patterns of behavior” that trigger the “signature strike” executions of countless people of color in NATO wars abroad..

A nation which continues year after year to spend more and more tax money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.

There is no serious discussion of racism in the United States today, or of providing healthcare and education and basic human services that does not address the ever expanding cost of the present war.

 

From destruction to nation-building in Afghanistan

Afghanistan has natural resources. The implication of Trump’s resolve is to plunder and steal Afghanistan’s mineral riches to finance the “reconstruction” of a country destroyed by the USA and its allies after 16 years of war, i.e.  “War reparations” paid to the aggressor nation?  An internal 2007 Pentagon memo, suggests that Afghanistan could become the “Saudi Arabia of lithium.”  What this 2007 report does not mention is that this resource base has been known to both Russia Soviet Union and China going back to the 1970s. While the Afghan government of President Ashraf Ghani has called upon President Donald Trump to promote US investments in mining, including lithium, China is in the forefront in developing projects in mining and energy as well as pipeline projects and transport corridors.

Right-wing strategists were not the only ones praising Trump’s Afghanistan surge. Their neoconservative counterparts in Congress were similarly enthused. Hard-line hawk John McCain—to whom Democratic lawmakers just gave a standing ovation—likewise “commended President Trump for taking a big step in the right direction with the new strategy for Afghanistan,” and called for Trump to “conduct himself as a wartime commander-in-chief.”

In coverage that was more balanced in cosmetics, albeit not political substance, CNN portrayed the speech as a largely welcome development, framing it as a matter of the collective good: “Trump to Ask Americans to Trust Him on Afghanistan.”

Just weeks before, the Trump administration had been openly acknowledging the US war in Afghanistan was at least partly motivated by access to the large South Asian nation’s “vast mineral wealth,” nearly $1 trillion in untapped mineral deposits “The speech will test the President’s capacity to convince Americans that he has settled on the right course of action on a major national security issue, and to unify the nation around it,” wrote CNN‘s Stephen Collinson.

The Afghanistan address, Collinson added, “Represents a chance for Trump to leverage the symbolism of his office to stabilize a presidency that has threatened to spin out of control over the last two weeks.” Escalating war could help Trump “stake out a more conventional presidential posture.”

A handful of journalists, joked that Trump is being complimented as “presidential” simply for reading from a teleprompter:

Importantly, some media outlets highlighted Trump’s hypocrisy, drawing attention to the fact that he had campaigned—albeit inconsistently—on a pledge to withdraw from foreign wars, not to ramp them up

Yet the contrasts between the punditry’s response to Trump’s Afghanistan’s speech and its outrage in July, when the president ended a CIA program that had for years strengthened ISIS, Al Qaeda and other extremist groups in Syria are extremely stark.

One cannot help but observe that, when Trump is unpopular, he can miraculously reverse his fortunes by supporting a war. Trump no doubt understands that after, say, refusing to condemn neo-Nazis and drawing a ludicrous false equivalence between racist fascism and the antiracist resistance to fascism, he need only wrap himself in US military might and pundits—even ones who excoriated him mere days before—will suddenly praise him as a “presidential” imperial leader.

A very few journalists deserve credit for using the term “presidential” in its literal sense, not as a euphemistic stand-in. “If Donald Trump sounded presidential on Afghanistan, it is because he is repeating his predecessors’ mistakes.” “TBH, pledging thousands of troops to Afghanistan *is* the most presidential thing Trump has done. And I mean that in the worst way possible.”

After all, waging war in Afghanistan is a tried-and-true American tradition, going back to President Ronald Reagan’s 1983 Oval Office meeting with the mujahideen and the lionization of “anti-Soviet warrior” Osama bin Laden

Trump is indeed continuing a trajectory established by numerous presidents before him. Corporate media could do a far better job of interrogating whether or not that’s a good thing.

TBH, pledging thousands of troops to Afghanistan *is* the most presidential thing Trump has done. And I mean that in the worst way possible.

 

Enter Trump

While ratcheting up another US war somewhere, the far-right US president Donald Trump in a speech on August 21 did an about-face, announcing that the war in Afghanistan, which for years he has harshly condemned, will be seeing another surge in its 16th year.

Trump did not reveal many specifics, but reports suggest his administration will deploy 4,000 more soldiers to the country in addition to the roughly 8,400 US troops and 5,000 other NATO forces already there. Like clockwork, experts responded to the news by rushing to praise Trump for his “presidential” decision. There is nothing quite as presidential as expanding an unending war that has left many thousands of Muslim civilians dead.

The response from the commentariat echoes similar proclamations just four months ago, immediately lionizing Trump for launching 59 Tomahawk missiles at a Syrian air base in April (in an attack that effectively helped ISIS).

At the time, of 47 major US newspaper editorials on the strike, just one opposed it. Trump’s rocket attack was even sexualized by MSNBC‘s Brian Williams. This time, in response to another military escalation, pundits were more aware, even self-critical, of the cartoonishness of reflexively praising presidential violence. But they did it anyway.

Terror policy was common for both Bush and Obama and it may not be different under Trump. Trump’s Presidential Afghanistan Speech.

Miller, who directed Afghanistan and Pakistan policy on the National Security Council for both George W. Bush and Barack Obama, declared that Trump’s address “was one of Donald Trump’s finest moments as president.” “Trump’s nationalism, which I otherwise find objectionable, has led him to a keener and better appreciation of how to speak about war than Obama,” Miller added (a palpable demonstration of the intersection of the far right and establishment center that has been dubbed with tongue in cheek the fish hook theory).

Washington think tanks, replete with revolving doors between the US government and so-called civil society, were likewise enthused.

Retired Gen. John Allen oversaw the war in Afghanistan from 2011 until 2013 before moving to Brookings, praising Trump’s reversal. “Our new leader made the presidential call,” “Donald Trump Making Afghanistan and America Safer” and “Donald Trump Makes Right Moves in Afghanistan.”  “We would especially commend Trump for making a difficult and very presidential decision about future American policy,” crooned O’Hanlon and Allen.

Trump’s Afghanistan speech “was quite good.” it “seems a pretty conventionally hawkish policy,” and wrote of “the unifying potential of Trump’s nationalism.”  “It’s hard not to seem presidential when giving a speech like this,” Lowry continued. “If Trump had done nothing but give teleprompter speeches since his inauguration, he’d be about 10 points higher in the polls.”

Some of the most fanatic neoconservatives are warming to Trump. Proud self-declared “American imperialist” Max Boot, who excoriated Trump during his presidential campaign, came out swinging in his defense in the pages of the US newspaper of record. “

Very cool and cunning cruelty! Indeed! Only a super power can do that. Only the anti-Islamic media lords can propagate anti-Islamism, Islamophobia to encourage the NATO and allied militaries to keep killing Muslims mercilessly, without any sympathy for humanity.

Credit must be given to the power minds of Americans and Israelis. America has succeeded in its objectives:  slashing of Islamic populations, terrorizing Muslims, weakening and destabilizing Muslims ad their nations, looting the wealth of energy rich Arab nations whose leaders keep their wealth in western capitals, and present Muslims as terrorists and Islam as a terrorist religion.

Very cool indeed!

Afghanistan and Trump phenomenon

 

Now it is the domestic-foreign war of US presidents personally and collectively with the backup of global anti-Islamic media lords. Obama fought the war for Bush Jr. as well. In 1967, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. noted: “If the nations of Asia, Latin America and Africa are strong and free, the black man in America will be safe and secure and free to live in dignity and self-respect.”. But black Obama after becoming free began attacking African nations.

Trump calls for escalation of the war in Afghanistan. Why? Is it part of the Western war on Islam, or “Global War on Terrorism”, going after the bad guys, or is it something else?

Trump is on a racist rant. His speech on August 21 calling for more war is hate speech, pure and simple.

President Trump announced that the 17 year old war in Afghanistan will go on pretty much as it has- a permanent NATO war. And the establishment fearing Trump would call for ending the terror wars breathed a sigh of relief.

Trump’s tolerance of the use and celebration of overt symbols and slogans associated with hatred, slavery, anti-Semitism and genocide offended all but his most fanatical base. Members of his own party, many who had stood by Trump through other scandals, took steps to distance themselves from his statements, if not from Trump himself.

When that war began in October of 2001, Vice-President Richard Cheney suggested that the US would eventually take it to forty to fifty other nations, an expanding war that he predicted “may never end” but would “become a permanent part of the way we live.” Like Cheney, Trump also urges Americans to set aside the issues that divide us and unite behind an ‘endless war of aggression’ against a people (Muslims) who never meant us harm.

Trump said to general applause, the healing balm that should bring Americans together, will be a continuing “commitment” to prolong a seventeen year old war. His primetime address on the war maybe meant for the national unity that he had seemed in the days before and after to disdain: “Loyalty to our nation demands loyalty to one another.” Obviously Trump has borrowed the hated-idea from fanatic nations like Israel and India.

Today few seem to pose that question—the reason being perhaps less that people don’t see this war as a mistake, than because they can’t imagine that there will ever be a last soldier to die in it.

In the name of terrorism, anti-terrorism, counter insurgency etc, USA and it anti-Islamic allies kill only Muslims and use Muslim rulers, leaders and agents also to kill Muslims.

 

War for business 

 

 

The US military bases are there to assert US control over Afghanistan’s mineral wealth. According to Foreign Affairs, “there are more U.S. military forces deployed there Afghanistan than to any other active combat zone”, the official mandate of which is “to go after” the Taliban, Al Qaeda and ISIS as part of the “Global war on Terrorism”.

 

Why so many military bases? Why the additional forces sent in by Trump?

George W. Bush, not only started this seemingly endless war as a response to an act of terrorism, but also another one in Iraq that, if anything, was an even greater travesty than this one. Barack Obama then not only kept Mullen on—along with Bush Defense Secretary Robert Gates—but increased American troop levels in Afghanistan at a point when (if he is half as smart as his supporters think he is) he had to know he was sending them on a fool’s errand.

Nor is the current willingness to risk the lives of American military personnel in pursuit of quixotic policy goals confined to the Trump Mad House. Strategists have noted the similarities between Trump’s plans and the proposals of former Vice President Joe Biden, currently said to be contemplating another presidential run in 2020. Likewise, Obama Administration assistant secretary of defense Derek Chollet has allowed that, “To be honest,” the Trump plan is “probably pretty close to what a Hillary Clinton would do.” And let’s face it, while Bernie Sanders has occasionally indicated a desire to alter the direction of U.S. foreign policy, he too has offered few specifics about breaking with the course of the last decade and a half.

The unspoken objective of US military presence in Afghanistan is to keep the Chinese out, i.e hinder China from establishing trade and investments relations with Afghanistan.  More generally, the establishment of military bases in Afghanistan on China’s Western border is part of a broader process of military encirclement of the People’s Republic of China i.e naval deployments in the South China Sea, military facilities in Guam, South Korea, Okinawa, Jeju Island, etc.

 

 

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US arms and global terrorism

-DR. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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The USA is top dealer in terror goods and sells them to both developed and developing nations. It sells advanced and high precision terror gds to the western powers and gifts them to Israel to fuel crisis in West Asia, while it sells ordinary, unused and outdated terror gods to third world countries with conditions.  The US economy thrives on the sale of terror goods to the “needy” and it wants perpetual crises everywhere so that its terror goods are needed by most countries, including arms thirsty and favors seeking India.

When the USA – world’s only superpower as well as top veto member – deals in terror goods all other military powers also follow its footsteps, making huge profits for financing terrorism operations globally.

As the super power controlling entire universe almost single handedly with support from its allies and terror partners, American ruling class does not want to end the terror war in Afghanistan that was started in 2001 on the fake charge of terrorist attack in USA by one strong ‘super man’ called Osama bin Laden, who worked as CIA operative, went to New York airport, took away not one but three aeroplanes and hit the targets of his choice.

Remember USA has the finest surveillance system in the world along with global CIA network, and a long bearded man could do all this is obviously a big, rather crude joke on educated America and world.  There is no real threat to USA and its allies like Israel but they pretend to be innocent powers and claim to be terror victims.

Very cool!

17 year old US led NATO terror war on Afghanistan is nowhere near the end and there is no hope the USA would soon conclude the terror wars.  After Obama’s escalation, trump is also making surges in US forces occupying Afghanistan.

Scheming and operation are the hallmark of US foreign policy while terrorism is the key tool it successfully employs along with its secret ally Israel to terrorize the world.

Sixteen years on into what the USA proudly launched the “War on Terror” – a civilizational war on Islam- a few things have become clear.

From a military point of view, Americans have established the fact that when their military invades other countries, even if they may not be able to win, they cannot be driven out militarily—seemingly they can stay endlessly.

And on the political side, Americans with huge man-military-missile terror  power, can’t lose—which is to say that no president can or will acknowledge the obvious fact that whatever merit sending troops to Afghanistan may or may not have once had, the interests of the nation are not well served by their continued deployment there.

And so the state terror forces must stay on, seemingly endlessly to accelerate the war and tensions.  When he was an anti-Vietnam War protestor, former Secretary of State John Kerry once famously asked, “How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?”

Curiously enough, there has been a simmering conflict launched by anti-Islamic forces and nations that spread the word of hatred for Islam and Muslims. This global gang led by USA and Israel has involved all religions, including some Muslims who hate and fear Islam for its strict laws for human survival. NATO fascism along with its non-Nato allies jointly works to target Islam and also to terrorize, dehumanize and demoralize the humanity.

Even feeble attempts  by the public calling for the USA to cut American losses in what is already the longest war in American history has not reached the hard core strategists in Washington and their ruling masters. Unfortunately, however, the Pentagon experts and their media comrades in anti-Islam war want the war tog on endlessly as any end would reduced the self-importance of US power and therefore ask  Trump to send more troops to Afghanistan to “create political capital” and “better leverage” in the negotiations with the government, Pakistan and Taliban, among other stackers.

USA searches and invents more and more reasons to continue o terror wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere. In other words, these new troops—along with all of the old ones—are designed to be pawns in a geopolitical game seeking “good behavior” and “certain standards” from Pakistan and Afghanistan so that USA could openly admit: “we can’t kill our way to victory.” .

If Donald Trump has been good for one thing—and granted that’s a big “if”—it’s that he’s almost single-handedly revived political protest in this country. If all of those people absolutely fed up and appalled with his antics would turn their attention toward the disastrous military policy over which he now presides, we’d have the makings of a major antiwar movement. So, if you hate the Donald, please hate his war.

Was slashing of Islamic population and looting resources of Islamic world and destabilizing of Islamizing Afghanistan and energy rich Arab world globally alone the cause of the Sept-11 hoax in USA that was secretly engineered by the strategists of USA-Israel terror twins and meticulously executed by their pre-paid agents?

If Generals Lee and Jackson of the 19th century who served under Confederate President Jefferson Davis in the cause of slavery and white supremacy deserve the censure of history and the scorn of every person of good will, much more the NATO generals who serve the hateful and vile agenda of Trump and his predecessors.

To give Trump his due, one truth that he told in his celebrated speech is that those “who slaughter innocent people will find no glory in this life or the next. They are nothing but thugs and criminals and predators, and that’s right—losers.” That means the NATO forces forefeet their right for honors in this life or the next.

The makings of a major antiwar movement in USA are at infant stage as the regime in Washington uses its power to weaken that mass movement. Ending wars would invariably end regional conflicts. The US people are absolutely fed up and already appalled with President Trump’s antics so early but they are not encouraged to turn their attention toward the disastrous pro-Zionist US military policy over which he now presides.

Those thousands of good people who took to the streets to denounce the celebration of terror wars, racism and hate in its archaic and discredited forms need to seek the courage to demand an end to them in its present, most virulent form. Together Americans and other peoples of NATO countries need to demand a US withdrawal from Afghanistan and reparations for all the nations that have suffered US aggression in the so-called War on Terror.

End of occupation and genocides in Afghanistan would mean dawn of peaceful environment for development and prosperity. The discredited institutions of slavery, capitalism, fascism, Nazism, Zionism, racism and fanaticism need to be dismantled for creating a peaceful environment for development and prosperity. It is doubtful if they would die down on their own as a natural phenomenon in the near future. It is quite possible nuclearized Israel would be beggar state once again.

There are, however, manifestations of hatred and racism that continue to be tolerated and celebrated even in the most polite, progressive and politically correct venues and these need be called out as well.

Pakistan’s National Assembly has passed a resolution dismissing US President Donald Trump’s South Asia policy and condemned his accusations that Islamabad was prolonging the war in Afghanistan. The resolution was adopted unanimously after the Speaker presented it on the floor. The House denounces the complete disregard of Pakistan’s sacrifices by the USA.

Speaking before the Assembly, Asif urged the government to consider postponing any visits by US delegations to Pakistan or by Pakistani officials to the United States and closing off “ground and air lines of communication through Pakistan”.

On Sunday, Pakistan’s foreign office announced that it had postponed a visit by US acting Assistant Secretary of State Alice Wells to discuss Washington’s new Afghan policy, but at the time did not provide a reason.

Trump accused Pakistan of harboring “agents of chaos” and providing safe havens to militant groups waging an insurgency against the US-backed government in Kabul.

Pakistani officials bristle at what they say is a lack of respect from Washington for the country’s sacrifices in the war against militancy and its successes against groups like Al Qaeda, Islamic State or the Pakistani Taliban.

Pakistan estimates there have been 70,000 Pakistani casualties in militant attacks since it joined the US war on terror after the 11 September, 2001, attacks on the United States.

Successive US administrations have struggled with how to deal with nuclear-armed Pakistan. Washington fumes about inaction against the Taliban, but Pakistan has been helpful on other counterterrorism efforts, including against Al Qaeda and Islamic State.

The United States also has no choice but to use Pakistani roads to resupply its troops in landlocked Afghanistan. US officials worry that if Pakistan becomes an active foe, it could further destabilize Afghanistan and endanger US soldiers.

“Afghanistan, the US and its allies should close their borders to leaders of terrorist, militant groups carrying out acts of terrorism against Pakistan,” Asif told the Assembly. He added that Pakistan was concerned about Islamic State flourishing in Afghan provinces bordering Pakistan.

Pakistani officials and media have also raged about Trump’s calls for India’s increased involvement in Afghanistan.

Asif termed an increased role for New Delhi in Kabul “highly detrimental to regional stability” and accused India of supporting terrorism and “destabilizing politics in the region”.

In response to warnings that Washington might cut aid to Pakistan, Asif rejected the importance of American dollars, saying that Pakistan has lost more than $123 billion to terrorism since the 11 September attacks.

Any effort to isolate Pakistan would face problems from China, which has deepened political and military ties with Islamabad and invested nearly $60 billion in infrastructure in Pakistan.

The relationship between Islamabad and Washington has endured periods of extreme strain during the past decade, especially after Al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden was found and killed by US Special Forces in Pakistan in a 2011 raid.

 

Investigate- Indo South African cricket match fixing to remove Prez Jacob Zuma?

Investigate- Indo South African cricket match fixing to remove Prez Jacob Zuma?

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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Cricket is fake sport where right from the toss literally everything is fixed with the agenda of obtaining desired outcomes.  Big money change hands even as fanatic spectators watch the cricketism matches.

Can cricketers also play politics? Why not? Can they be used to bring down a government by making them underplay deliberately? Have Indian and South African teams played for the down fall of president Zuma?

Apparently the removal of South African Prez Jacob Zuma was the target of Indo-South African cricket teams, though there are no authenticated reports in this regard.  Cricket mafias and core media keep the secret deals very close and dear to them.

Outcomes of cricket matches are linked to the same other issues. South African President has been forced to resign because S by visiting India

So PM Modi is safe for now.

South African President was removed because they lost cricket series to India.

Cricket match fixing, South Africa debacle and President Zuma removal

Cricket match fixing in South Africa had been fixed to remove President Zuma with a deliberate debacle.

South Africa has to offer one 100 to one of Indian players!

That is the Indian cricketism, IPL rule.

Indo-South African ed several times But Indian circlet board BCCI and its SA version seem to have fixed the ODI in favor of India. So, SA bowlers are weak and carefree to offer at east one full 100 to a top batboy, if the top ones fail

then next persons in order would get it – even Dhoni could hope for it if others fail.

Once agreements are made South African IPL fellows must oblige India team whether India plays in India or abroad.

Not just that. SA bowlers should not attack poor Indian batboys and let them all shine, Indian wickets cannot be taken by A as per rule and Indian batboys would throw away their wicket on their own volition when they want.

Only error can make an Indian wicket fall. SA wont target Indian wickets, stumps, etc.

As per the agreements, SA bowlers should not trouble Indian batboys so that they make as many fake records as possible.

Are not Indians in South Africa smart enough?

In fact, Indian cricket team has forced SA President Zuma to resign from presidency after he was removed from power. That is because their cricket team deliberately lost to visiting Indian team of Guptas. ..

Indian PM Modi should feel relieved that they are playing in SA to oust him from power and let Zuma go to hell as he has ruled many years.  But IPL and ISL etc must be on course to get him also out. .

 

Interestingly, both teams are now busy playing another format T20 India playing with same players. PM and finance minister deliberately deny other young players chances to serve their country Mother India by being in at least one format.

Will PM Modi be kind to consider their inner voice?

After all what would India do with all such fake records and false rankings in cricket in all formats? If Indian regime provides the youngsters to come to play for the nation by replacing old/senior guys who have played for 5 years that would be good for the nation and people.

Mafias cannot be allowed control cricket team composition. Corruption and huge cash flow in BCCI is a reason for all wrong decisions being taken there.

Interestingly, cricket board I kept outside the purview of sports ministry because India wants to promote corruption in cricket independent of corruption in government and elsewhere. Now we know how some big guys have looted the India bank money with the government supporting their causes as being a part of global capitalism to fund imperialism and terror wars.

Already India has asked SA to bowl first and offer at least 200 runs in 2o overs without targeting the stumps. And South African fraud shave obliged Indian regime and BCCI.

Like Sri Lanka, South Africans are very reliable and trust worthy team with kind bowlers who would go all out to promote India batboys with big scores and they themselves deliberately lose and add insult to their nation.

So What?

It is between two nations and they relate cricketism with regime change.  After tremendous success of India in South Africa, now Australia is happily going to there to make merry with 100s and 200s and 50s, etc and make new bogus records.

Meanwhile, there should be a investigation on the question if Indo South African cricket match fixing has taken place to remove Prez Jacob Zuma. If yes, that is a very serious matter because fake cricketers have taken into hands the issue of regime change. Government brokers and cricket mafias jointly decide the matter of removal of a ruler.

Zionist Israel: Fascist Netanyahu likely to be punished for serious fraudulence!

Zionist Israel: Fascist Netanyahu likely to be punished for serious fraudulence!

– Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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Zionism says Israel promotes and does not –and should not- punish Jews.

Ever since Israel was imposed on Palestine by USA and allies that had won the WW II, the Zionist system took every care of Jews being imported primarily from Europe and Russia. Possibly, the Isreali courts refused to punish the criminal Jews and punished only Arabs and others, while Israeli regime refused to accept the International Law as the basis for all international disputes. Israel considers only its own Zionist laws as genuine and rejects all other laws simply as “anti-Semitist”.

The Israeli leader is mired in two separate corruption investigations. The first, known as Case 1000, revolves around him allegedly accepting luxury gifts worth tens of thousands of dollars from an Israeli-American billionaire. The second, which is referred to as Case 2000, is focused on his rumored deal with the influential Yedioth newspaper for better coverage in return for a crackdown on its rival outlet. Netanyahu, who denies all the allegations, is likely to face charges in the first probe, Israeli media reported last week.

Whether or not Israel would punish its top criminal leaders and frauds remains a trillion dollar question and similarly the Israeli courts run by illegal settler judges might not put Zionist fascist Netanyahu whose palms are stained with Palestinians blood, for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

For years, while Israel takes away the taxes of Palestine, Israeli political outfits loot the resources of Israel and take huge bribes from abroad in return for favors even form USA. Israeli leaders and rulers have exploited the tensed situation around in their own financial favors by misusing economic deals from within and across the globe where corporate lords like Ratan Tata of India give plenty of money to rulers- now Netanyahu.

The Israeli police recommended that PM B Netanyahu be charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, casting a pall over the future of a tenacious leader who has become almost synonymous with his country. The announcement instantly raised doubts about his ability to stay in office.

 

Graft investigation

The Israeli police accused Netanyahu of accepting nearly $300,000 in gifts over 10 years. Israeli police recommended that the state indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on charges of bribery and corruption. Unlike his military crimes in Palestine and Arab world, his economic corruption may not have anything to do with violating international law and the human rights but fate of Palestinians affected badly because of his corrupt career as the powerful PM.

 

Concluding a yearlong graft investigation, the police recommended that  Netanyahu face prosecution in two corruption cases: a gifts-for-favors affair known as Case 1000, and a second scandal, called Case 2000, in which Mr. Netanyahu is suspected of back-room dealings with Arnon Mozes, publisher of the popular newspaper Yediot Aharonot, to ensure more favorable coverage. According to the police, expensive cigars, jewelry and pink champagne flowed into the prime minister’s official Jerusalem residence in quantities sufficient to stock a small cocktail lounge. The generous patrons included Arnon Milchan, the Israeli movie producer, and James Packer, an Australian billionaire.

Police also recommended that the state indict Mozes as well as billionaire Arnon Milchan, a Hollywood producer and former Israeli intelligence operative who allegedly gave Netanyahu gifts with the intention of bribing him. Haaretz published a graphic outlining the investigations. Case 1000 refers to claims that the prime minister accepted “lavish gifts,” and Case 2000 refers to the purported deal with the newspaper publisher.

The recommendation comes as part of ongoing probes into allegations that Netanyahu “improperly accepted expensive gifts from different businessmen” including from Indian corporate lord Ratan Tata who is among the top Indians seeking Bharatrna award- Indian nation’s top civilian honor – for  his ‘work’ and “negotiated with publisher Arnon ‘Noni’ Mozes for favorable coverage of himself in Yediot Aharonot in exchange for support of a bill to weaken Israel Hayom, the largest circulation Hebrew-language paper and Yediot’s biggest competitor

Governments can do anything illegal, immoral and improper in promoting their favorites.

Criminal cum fraud Netanyahu deserves merciless punishment for his crimes against humanity by killing the besieged Palestinians, including their little children and with his corruption records he should be hanged without any mercy shown to him.  But can that a happen when his associate Trump is still alive.

 

The gifts and allegations

Netanyahu, who has been prime minister for nine straight years, and his family have become embroiled in a series of scandals in recent months.

Recordings recently emerged of his wife, Sara, screaming at an aide, while separate recordings emerged of his eldest son, Yair, on a drunken night out at a series of Tel Aviv strip clubs while traveling around in a taxpayer-funded government car with a government-funded bodyguard.

It follows reports that the bribe investigations have entered their final stages. It also comes immediately after the meeting on the recommendations, chaired by the police chief, recommend indicting Netanyahu in at least one of the corruption probes.

Netanyahu is involved in two separate criminal investigations, known as Case 1000 and Case 2000. In Case 1000, Netanyahu is suspected of having received gifts from businessmen overseas totaling 1 million shekels (approximately $280,000), including cigars, champagne, jewelry and more, from 2007 through 2016. The case has focused primarily on Netanyahu’s relationship with Israeli billionaire and Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan.

The case 2000 centres on an allegation that Netanyahu asked the publisher of an Israeli newspaper, Yediot Aharonot, for positive coverage in exchange for help in reining in a rival publication. The second allegation centres on a claim that Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister since 2009, received gifts worth at least a million shekels ($283,000; £204,000) from Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan and other supporters.

In a statement, police said there was sufficient evidence to indict Netanyahu in the first case, known as File 1000, for accepting bribes, fraud and breach of trust. It said Netanyahu had accepted gifts valued at 750,000 shekels ($214,000) from Milchan, and 250,000 shekels (or $71,000) from Packer. The gifts from Milchan reportedly included expensive cigars and champagne. Netanyahu reportedly was recorded asking Arnon Mozes, the publisher of the Yediot Ahronot daily, for positive coverage in exchange for reining in a free pro-Netanyahu daily that had cut into Yediot’s business.

In exchange for the “gifts”, Netanyahu tried to advance a tax break that would have benefited Milchan. The Israeli PM worked to advance the extension of the tax waiver for returning citizens over 10 years, a benefit that has a considerable economic value for Milchan, the police statement said.

In exchange for more favorable coverage, Netanyahu promised to hamper the circulation of a rival newspaper, in recordings obtained by police. “In his framework, what was discussed was the assistance of Mozes to Netanyahu in establishing his stature as PM through positive coverage in Yedioth Ahronoth that, in return for the PM assisting Mozes in advancing economic interests of Yedioth Ahronoth by an initiative to block the strengthening of Israel Hayom,” the police statement said.

Police said that in return, Netanyahu had operated on Milchan’s behalf on US visa matters, legislating a tax break and connecting him with an Indian businessman. It said he also helped Milchan, an Israeli producer whose credits include “Pretty Woman,” ″12 Years a Slave” and “JFK,” in the Israeli media market.

The Jerusalem Post says the gifts included champagne and cigars, and were given in exchange for help getting Milchan a US visa. Milchan, the producer of films including Fight Club, Gone Girl and The Revenant, should face bribery charges, police said.

As the police investigation gained steam in recent months, Netanyahu has claimed to be a victim of an overaggressive police force and a media witchhunt.

Israeli police recommended that Benjamin Netanyahu be indicted on bribery and breach of trust charges in a pair of corruption cases, dealing an embarrassing blow to the embattled prime minister that is likely to fuel calls for him to step down. Police said there was sufficient evidence to charge both Milchan and Mozes with bribery. There was no immediate comment from either man.

The recommendations marked a dramatic ending to a months-long investigation into allegations that Netanyahu accepted gifts from Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan and Australian billionaire James Packer, and suspicions that Netanyahu offered to give preferential treatment to a newspaper publisher in exchange for favorable coverage.

Among those caught up in the shipping investigation are David Shimron,  Netanyahu’s personal lawyer and second cousin, and Yitzhak Molcho,  Netanyahu’s lifelong friend and close adviser, whom he has sent on his most delicate diplomatic missions since the 1990s.  Molcho and Shimron are partners in a law firm as well as brothers-in-law.

Another possible case may be brewing over suspicions of the exchange of benefits in return for favorable media coverage between Netanyahu and a close friend who owns Bezeq, Israel’s telecommunications giant.

Israeli police say that Netanyahu should be charged over alleged bribery cases. A police statement said there was enough evidence to indict Netanyahu for bribery, fraud and breach of trust in two separate cases.

 

Zionist denial

Netanyahu has not been anxious to resign run away to avoid further embarrassment because he is sure of US support through the President Trump and he is damn sure of staying in power.

While Netanyahu has vehemently denied the allegations and publicly attacked the credibility of Israeli Police Commissioner Inspector General Roni Alsheich, observers have praised the indictment recommendations while also noting that these alleged crimes are not the worst of which he’s been accused—pointing to Israel’s ongoing occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip as well as its treatment of Palestinians, which have elicited demands that the prime minister be tried for war crimes at the International Criminal Court.

Netanyahu’s relationship with US President Trump—who, last year, provoked international outrage by recognizing Jerusalem and the capital of Israel—and drew comparisons the US probe, led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, into allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russian operatives to influence the 2016 election and obstructed justice.

Police say they have enough evidence to indict Milchan on charges of bribery. MK Yair Lapid, a Netanyahu’s chief rival who served as finance minister during this period and was called to testify during the investigation, called on Netanyahu to step down. “Even if the law does not require the Prime Minister to resign, someone who has committed crimes and has such serious accusations against them, many of which he does not deny, cannot continue to serve as PM with responsibility for the security and well-being of Israel’s citizens,” Lapid said.

Milchan fired back at police, insisting he and Netanyahu have been friends since long before the period under investigation. “The recommendation disregards indisputable basic facts including — the ties between Milchan and Netanyahu started in the early years of 2000, when a military boss Netanyahu had no government role. This connection was characterized by friendship between the two and their families. In this framework, “gifts” were given from time to time by Mr. Milchan to the Netanyahu family with no business interest,” said Milchan’s lawyer.

Most Jews call bribes the Jewish leaders and rulers receive as gifts.

Both Netanyahu and Mozes have said these were not serious discussions; rather, they each claim they were trying to expose the other’s lack of trustworthiness. In a statement to Israeli media, the lawyer for Mozes said, “The cases against him will be closed.” As expected, Netanyahu has repeatedly proclaimed his innocence, insisting that investigators will find he did nothing wrong. Police say there is enough evidence to indict Mozes on charges of offering bribes.

The Israeli leader has long been fighting with the country’s law enforcement over Police Commissioner Roni Alsheikh’s decision to proceed with the publication. Last week, after Alsheikh alleged that certain “powerful” elements are trying to compromise the investigation into Netanyahu by collecting information on the officers involved, the Israeli PM called the claims “delusional and false insinuations

 

Jewish stubbornness

Netanyahu is stubborn, bold and damn sure nothing would happen to him. “Over the years, I have been the subject of at least 15 enquiries and investigations,” he said in his TV address. “Some have ended with thunderous police recommendations like those of tonight. All of those attempts resulted in nothing, and this time again they will come to nothing.”

In his TV address, Netanyahu said that his entire three-decade political career, which included serving as Israel’s ambassador to the U.N., a stint at prime minister in the 1990s and a series of Cabinet posts, were meant only to serve the Israeli public. He acknowledged aiding Milchan with his visa issues, but said Milchan had done much for Israel and noted that the late Shimon Peres had also been close with Milchan. He also said that over the years he had taken decisions that hurt Milchan’s business interests in Israel. He said all the allegations over the years against him had one goal: “to topple me from government.” He said past scandals had all “ended with nothing” and “this time as well they will end with nothing.”

At the same time, the PM attempted to downplay the impact of the looming police report on the attorney general’s final decision, adding “we don’t attach any importance to the recommendations, the value of which everyone now understands.”

Netanyahu said the allegations were baseless and that he would continue as prime minister. The allegations, he said, “will end with nothing”. Netanyahu has said the scandals are all the work of media out to get him.

His coalition partners, so far, have backed him, saying they will not take down the government over a police conclusion. According to a police statement published, authorities found evidence of “accepting bribes, fraud, and breach of trust.”

Israeli media say Netanyahu has been questioned by investigators at least seven times. Israel’s Channel 10 reported in December that Packer told investigators he gave the prime minister and his wife Sara gifts. Police say Netanyahu is also suspected of fraud and breach of trust in a case involving Australian billionaire James Packer.

But while the petition was still being processed, Netanyahu appeared to distance himself from the move. Speaking on Israeli television, Netanyahu said he would continue to rule Israel in his assigned role.

Yossi Fuchs, right wing attorney who filed the appeal, did not hide the fact that the petition’s imminent aim was to shield the embattled Israeli leader from a public backlash that may result from the publication of the report. He argued that the attorney general will not be able to stay impartial amid such outcry and will be forced to take the side of the police.

Gradually some ministers have stopped endorsing his crimes.

Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a bitter rival of Netanyahu, called on him to suspend himself and for the coalition to appoint a replacement on Wednesday morning. “The depth of corruption is horrifying,” Barak said. “This does not look like nothing. This looks like bribery.”

Shrewd Zionist criminal

Basically criminal minded, Netanyahu has murdered several Palestinians to stay in power. .

The 68-year-old is in his second stint as prime minister, and has served in the role for a total of 12 years. He has faced a number of allegations in his time in office. After his first term as prime minister two decades ago, police recommended that he and Sara face criminal charges for keeping official gifts that should have been handed over to the state. The charges were later dropped. In July 2015, the couple was accused of charging the government for the services of a contractor who did private work for them. The charges were later dropped.

Netanyahu angrily rejected the accusations, which included accepting nearly $300,000 in gifts from a pair of billionaires. He accused police of being on a witch hunt, vowed to remain in office and even seek re-election. In an effort to deflect blame, Netanyahu has lashed out, attacking the police, the media, the opposition and the left in rallies and on social media. He has often called the investigations against him “fake news,” echoing the language of President Donald Trump.

Netanyahu, who has emerged as one of President Trump’s most ardent allies, is serving his third consecutive term since his election in 2009 and his fourth overall since the 1990s. If he were to remain in the post through July 2019, it would set a record for total time in office, surpassing that of the state’s founder, David Ben-Gurion.

Netanyahu has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and has vowed to fight on, saying that no police recommendation would prompt his resignation. His longevity attests to his political agility and to his perfection of a campaigning and governing style in which he casts his political foes and critics as enemies of the broader body politic.

Though he has formed previous governing coalitions with those to his left, his current government is often described as the most right-wing and religious in Israel’s history. And he has presided over an increasingly bitter relationship with the Palestinians in the territories Israel has occupied for more than a half-century, whose hopes of soon gaining a state of their own have dwindled as Israeli settlements expand.

Netanyahu has prepared the public for this moment for months, and made strenuous efforts to discredit those investigating him, but he has not prepared Israel or his government for the possibility that he may be unable to continue to lead. He has designated no successor, and no single member of his own coalition has emerged as ready to step into his shoes. Meanwhile, a centrist opposition, led by Yair Lapid of the Yesh Atid party, has been gaining strength.

In a twist straight out of a political thriller, a key witness against Netanyahu, according to Israeli news reports, turned out to be Lapid himself, who had been Netanyahu’s finance minister in a previous coalition.

Netanyahu promoted the extension of a 10-year tax exemption to expatriate Israelis returning to the country, “a benefit that has great economic value for Milchan,” who has long worked in Hollywood. But the Finance Ministry blocked this legislation, saying it was against the national interest and fiscally unsound.

The Israeli law enforcement authorities have handled the cases with great caution, wary of the possibility of bringing down a prime minister who might then be proved not guilty in court, not least with Israel facing increasing security threats on its northern and southern frontiers.

Israel’s constant state of alert has led some critics to argue all the more that a prime minister so focused on fighting his own legal battles cannot be entrusted with fateful decisions of peace and war.

Opposition politicians pounced, demanding that Netanyahu step down, be ousted by his coalition or at least declare himself “incapacitated,” as former Prime Minister Ehud Barak urged on Twitter, calling the police findings “hair-raising.”  The left-leaning Zionist Union party should quit the government.  “If you have a drop of concern for the future, fulfill your obligation. Free Israel from this madness.”

The police recommendations must now be examined by state prosecutors and the attorney general, Avichai Mandelblit, a former military prosecutor and onetime Netanyahu aide.

Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled in the past that government ministers or deputy ministers, once indicted, may not remain in their posts. Whether that principle should also apply to the elected prime minister is an open question.

Last week, Israeli Police Chief Roni Alsheich, in an interview with Israel’s Keshet news channel, said “powerful elements” were “sniffing” around investigators working on the Netanyahu cases.

 

Olmert has some dignity, Netanyahu has nothing!

Netanyahu would be something of a test case as Israel’s first sitting prime minister to be formally charged. His predecessor, Ehud Olmert, announced his resignation in September 2008, a week after the police recommended that he be charged with bribery, breach of trust, money laundering and fraudulent receipt of goods. That case involved an American businessman and a travel-expense scandal from Mr. Olmert’s days as mayor of Jerusalem and minister of industry and trade.

Olmert was eventually convicted in various cases and served 19 months of a 27-month prison sentence. He was released last year.

Pre-empting the police recommendations, Netanyahu told the public to expect them and did his best to minimize their importance. “Any fair-minded person will ask themselves how people who say such delusional things about the prime minister can investigate him objectively and make recommendations in his case without bias” he wrote accusing the police commissioner, Roni Alsheich, of having an agenda. In December, Netanyahu told a gathering of his right-wing Likud Party supporters: “The vast majority of police recommendations end in nothing. Over 60 percent of the police recommendations are thrown in the trash. Over 60 percent of the police recommendations don’t get to an indictment.”

Experts have disputed those figures, however, and the prime minister’s opponents have begun quoting from an interview he gave in 2008, at the height of Olmert’s legal troubles, to turn the tables on Netanyahu.  Describing Olmert as “up to his neck in investigations,” Netanyahu said of his political rival at the time: “He does not have a public or moral mandate to determine such fateful matters for the state of Israel when there is the fear, and I have to say it is real and not without basis, that he will make decisions based on his personal interest in political survival and not based on the national interest.”

In some ways, though, Netanyahu has been here before. During his first term in office, in the late 1990s, the police recommended that he be charged with fraud and breach of trust in a complicated case in which Netanyahu was suspected of acting to appoint an attorney general who would be sympathetic to a minister under investigation for corruption, in return for that minister’s political support. Ultimately, the attorney general closed that case, citing a lack of evidence.

Again, in March 2000, once Netanyahu was out of office, the police recommended that he be charged with bribery, fraud and breach of trust in a case involving his holding on to $100,000 in gifts that were state property and having the state pay for private work on his home. Months later, the attorney general also ordered that case closed.

This time around, the police recruited a state’s witness, Ari Harow, Netanyahu’s former chief of staff and once one of his closest confidants.

 

Netanyahu fixed

The police have also been making headway in other criminal investigations in which Netanyahu has not been named as a subject, but that involve associates from his most inner circle. His wife already faces criminal charges of sneaking $100,000 in catered meals into the prime minister’s residence.

But a potentially far more explosive scandal, called Case 3000, involves a $2 billion deal for the purchase of submarines and missile ships from a German supplier. Critics have described that episode as perhaps the biggest corruption case in Israeli history, touching on deep conflicts of interest and national security.

Projecting aplomb, Netanyahu announced that he would attend a conference of local authorities in Tel Aviv.

Netanyahu, addressing the nation live on television shortly before the police released their findings around 9 p.m., made clear that he would not step down. “I feel a deep obligation to continue to lead Israel in a way that will ensure our future,” he said, before embarking on a 12-minute defense of his conduct. “You know I do everything with only one thing in mind — the good of the country,” he said. “Not for cigars from a friend, not for media coverage, not for anything. Nothing has made me deviate, or will make me deviate, from this sacred mission.”

With a cloud hanging over his head, he could soon find himself facing calls to step aside. During similar circumstances a decade ago, Netanyahu, as opposition leader, urged then-Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to resign during a police investigation, saying a leader “sunk up to his neck in interrogations” could not govern properly.

And Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, whose center-right Kulanu party holds 10 seats in Parliament, giving it the power to sink Netanyahu’s government, signaled just before midnight that he was not prepared to leave the coalition, saying that he would wait for the attorney general’s decision on whether to indict Netanyahu.

A final decision on whether Netanyahu should face charges will come down to the attorney general’s office. A decision could take months to reach. Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said any prime minister who has been charged should not be obliged to resign.

The police statement said that Netanyahu, after receiving gifts, even from Jews coming to settle down  in Israel, pushed for the Milchan Law, which would have ensured that Israelis who return to live in Israel from abroad were exempt from paying taxes for 10 years. The proposal was eventually blocked by the finance ministry.

 

Observation: Netanyahu seeks escape route

Israel’s highest court has given police the go-ahead to publicize indictment recommendations in two long-running corruption investigations into the prime minister. Outrage over the probes led to months of large-scale protests.

The decision gives police the green light to submit their recommendations on the PM’s possible indictment to the attorney general. The highly anticipated release was halted on Sunday due to the petition pending a hearing in court.

Israeli police said there is “sufficient evidence” to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on criminal charges in two corruption cases.

The final decision about whether to file formal charges lies with Mandelblit and is subject to a hearing beforehand with Netanyahu’s lawyers. Reaching that threshold alone could easily take months.

Police will now pass the evidence to the attorney general, who will make a decision on whether or not to indict the Prime Minister. That decision is not expected imminently.

By Israeli law, he is only required to step down if he is convicted and that conviction is upheld through the appeals process to the High Court, a process that could take years.

However, he could face public and political pressure to step down much earlier.

Opinion says if Netanyahu needs to be indicted, the attorney general must make a decision to bring charges against him, but he needs to be able to make that decision without public pressure based on police recommendations

Since the probes were launched in December 2016, they have grown into a source of recurrent public outrage, with thousands of Israelis taking to streets to protest the “Crime Minister” every Saturday.

Late last year, the protest movement was given a boost by Israeli lawmakers, who passed a law aimed at scrapping the procedure of police recommendations to the attorney general. The bill, however, was watered down so that it would not apply to current investigations, including Netanyahu’s.

Netanyahu long ago earned the nickname “the Magician” for his uncanny knack for political endurance, and even his most ardent opponents have been hesitant to write him off.

At what point he might be legally required to step down, short of a final conviction, is likely to be a matter of increasingly heated debate, though public opinion and political pressure could in the end play a decisive role.

When asked whether the USA had any reaction to the police statement, State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said, “The only thing I have to say about that is that the United States has a very strong relationship, not only with PM Netanyahu but also the Israeli government. We’re certainly aware of it, but we consider it to be an internal Israeli matter.”

The next legislative elections are scheduled for November 2019.  Netanyahu heads a fragile coalition, but on television, he appeared confident the allegations would not spur new elections.

it is the favors Netanyahu may have given his wealthy friends in return that could herald his downfall. A formal bribery charge would be by far the most serious outcome, and the most ominous for his political survival.

Hopefully, Israeli system would not provide an escape route for fascist Netanyahu from legal complications to remain unpunished.

US-Russia cooperation in Syria!

US-Russia cooperation in Syria!

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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All UN veto members have a common plan and they move accordingly. USA and Russia, the two very important super powers, have always cooperated in regional problems even during the Cold War era.

Cooperation and confrontation have been the hallmark of Russo-US relations. Russia has once again accused the USA of training terrorists in Syria, this time at a military base in the south of the war-torn country. Moscow has regularly charged that Washington provides cover, if not all-out support, for militant forces fighting against Syria’s regime and civilian population.

In Syria the USA and Russia seem to be working in tandem in Syria to destabilize those Arab nations by attacking select zones without any clash between them in the choice of zones for attack.

Apparently, US-Russian relations in Syria are warmer after Trump’s arrival at White House. Russia says it want sot end its role in Syria but USA is opposed to ending terror wars in West Asia and it has no plan to leave Syria either under Azad or anybody else. USA would not even consider leaving Syria or West Asia for good because there is nothing that could force it to leave the region alone.

More than 6 year-old conflict in Syria that’s killed at least 400,000 people and generated millions of refugees has entered a new phase; with diplomacy taking center stage as fighting subsides. Islamic State has been driven out of its main strongholds, and the two rival blocs that have been combating the jihadists — the Assad-Russia-Iran alliance, and a coalition headed by the USA– are now arguing over the shape of a postwar settlement.

Assad’s departure from power is supposed to be a stated US objective, even if the Trump government is more flexible than its Obama government predecessors in how its provisions are implemented. However, in fact, USA does not want either to kill or remove Assad form power but only wants to destabilize that Arab nation as part of their Arab Spring agenda.

Limiting or even reversing Russian influence in the Middle East continues to be the operative principles guiding the formation of US foreign policy.

Russia’s intervention in the Syrian war in 2015 on the side of Bashar al-Assad has been marred by accusations its Air Force deliberately targeted aid convoys and civilian infrastructure.

Donald Trump’s informal meetings with Vladimir Putin on November 11 on the sidelines of the recent APEC summit in Vietnam may have produced a warm attitude between the two leaders, but some fundamental policy differences between them are hard to overlook. Though the bilateral diplomatic effort has elicited optimism from officials, it does not represent any promising step forward to save tremendous numbers of lives in Syria which has been under siege from foreign forces.

In fact their statement does not provide a workable roadmap for effective American-Russian collaboration and coordination Putin’s spokesman characterized it that it “does not require comments” and is not open to multiple interpretations. The latest statement — another in a long list that have been hailed as groundbreaking efforts to end the fighting in Syria — is really not going to make a difference this time around.

On the one hand, one gets the impression that both super powers are trying stabilizing Syria but on the other, both are destabilizing the Arab nation as per their own plans without any conflicts. However, just as with the agreements reached over Syria during the last year of the Obama government, this latest statement is open to multiple interpretations.

Both sides continue to use vague language and terms deliberately left undefined to accommodate the still considerable divergences between Washington and Moscow over Syria’s future. While both sides agree on the necessity of fighting ISIS, Moscow has a much broader definition of who constitutes “associates” of ISIS — in order to encompass some of the groups that the United States views as legitimate opposition to the Assad regime. Both sides concur foreign fighters should leave, but are the Iranian Al-Quds units of the Revolutionary Guard or Hezbollah combatants permitted to remain at the invitation of the government in Damascus?

The statement heralds an imminent shift in the trajectory of US-Russia relations. The statement builds on previous modest steps that Russia and the USA have achieved: the use of de-escalation zones and limited cease-fires to tap down fighting; the continuation of deconfliction efforts to ensure that USA-Russian-backed forces don’t engage in direct clashes; the agreement to work with Jordan to stabilize southern Syria and maintain tenuous truces between pro- and anti-regime forces; and the ostensible support for the complete destruction of the Islamic State and getting a post-conflict political reconciliation process underway.

It’s only the Geneva talks that can lead to a sustainable settlement, the US officials said. A separate Russian-led process is pointless unless it contributes to that goal, and looks instead like a quick-fix arrangement to leave Assad in power and get someone else to foot the bill for reconstruction, they argued.

The flaw in that approach, the White House contends, is that Assad lacks the means to control the territory that’s nominally back under his control, while his main allies can’t afford to pick up a bill for reconstruction that may total several hundred billion dollars. Syria under Assad remains cut off from the world economy and subject to sanctions by the UN, USA and European Union. America and its EU allies are in agreement that there shouldn’t be any international funding for rebuilding in the Assad-controlled part of Syria, the officials said.

The question of Assad’s future has overshadowed all other sticking points in the Syrian talks, and has already caused a breakdown at the latest round in Geneva. The USA and its European and Arab partners have spent years insisting on his departure. Yet as Russian support swung the war in the Syrian president’s favor, the ‘Assad-must-go’ coalition was left without any obvious means of making that happen.

Moreover, while Russia keeps open the possibility that Assad could be re-elected as president of a post-war Syria, the United States finds it inconceivable that, in any free and fair election, Assad could win a majority of the ballots cast.

Also, the statement never mentions the “Syria National Dialogue Conference” that Moscow has now postponed until next month. The conference represents the Kremlin’s efforts, along with its partners in the Middle East, to define the “acceptable” members of the Syrian political constellation who could be brought into some sort of power-sharing agreement.

At the same time, some of those who will not be invited to or would not take part in the planned conference in Sochi are precisely the political forces that the United States hopes would play a leading role in a post-war Syria.

Meanwhile, although Trump may be prepared to accept a cooperative role for Russia in charting Syria’s future, he has almost no political support for this position in the USA — either within his own national security establishment or from Congress.

The USA will not passively “sign on” to decisions on Syria reached largely by the trilateral dialogue by Russia-Iran-Turkey— yet Russia, in turn, is not going to yield the gains that its air power has won for the Assad regime on the battlefield. The joint statement is important because it recognizes the crucial task of preventing any sort of clash between Moscow and Washington in Syria. It sends a clear message to the military establishments of both countries to take the steps necessary to avoid any accidents.

 

Last week, Israel carried out an air strike on a military base near Damascus. USA asks Israel to intervene and kill some Syrians on its behalf, ostensibly to help push back against Iranian influence. The US officials said it’s a priority to stop Iran and its proxies from entrenching in Syria and posing a threat to American allies, though they wouldn’t go into detail about how that can be achieved. Topping that list is Israel, which says it’s ready to take military action of its own to combat Iran’s growing clout in the neighboring country., according to Arab media.

 

NATO-Russia relations deteriorated in 2014 when the alliance decided to suspend cooperation with Moscow over the Ukrainian crisis that was triggered by the coup in Kiev.

 

Meanwhile, number of NATO troops near Russian borders tripled Since 2012: Russia

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on 22 December that NATO has doubled the number of its military drills since 2012 in the vicinity of Russia’s borders, adding that Moscow is scrutinizing the exercises.  Sergei said that the US missile defense system in Europe has been brought to the level of “initial operational readiness.” The number of the bloc’s servicemen deployed near Russian borders has grown from 10 to 40 thousand in three years, he added. While the bloc conducted 282 military exercises near Russia’s borders in 2014, in 2017 the number of drills grew to 548. He also said that the NATO member-states have intensified their surveillance operations near Russia. “We resolutely suppress any attempts to violate the Russian air and sea borders,” the Minister of Defense added.

 

Shoigu has added that the Russian military is determined to keep the pace of modernizing hardware and acquiring new equipment next year. The armed forces will receive 10 S-400 missile systems and put in service 11 Yars missile systems.  “The share of modern weapons in the Russian army should grow to 61 percent by the end of 2018, including 82 percent in the strategic nuclear forces, 46 percent in the land forces, 74 percent in the aerospace forces, 55 percent in the navy.”

 

Its latest effort backfired last month when Russia’s Defense Ministry attached video game footage as “irrefutable evidence” of its claims. “According to space and other types of surveillance data, there are militant units inside a US base in Tanf, Syria. They are, in fact, training there,” General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces, said in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid.

ISIS is a terrorist organization banned in Russia. Gerasimov cited a BBC report about a secret US-led coalition deal to let hundreds of Islamic State (ISIS) fighters escape their former stronghold of Raqqa in October. He estimated around 350 of these fighters were in the Tanf base in southern Syria and 750 more at another base in a Kurdish-held region in the northeast.  “They are de-facto IS. But, after they are worked on, they change colors and rename themselves the ‘New Syrian Army,’ or otherwise,” Gerasimov said. The USA has not yet responded to Russia’s latest accusations.

Meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin signed an agreement with Syria which will give the Russian military access to an airbase on the Mediterranean for another half a century. According to the document published on the official government website, Russia will continue to lease the Khmeimim Air Base, in the Latakia province, until at least 2066. The Syrian government conceded to lend the base in Latakia province free of charge.

Hosting the leaders of Iran and Turkey at the Black Sea resort of Sochi last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared there’s a “real chance” to end the war, saying “the militants in Syria have been dealt a decisive blow.” Russia’s intervention in the war two years ago turned the tide of the conflict in Assad’s favor.

Putin plans to invite all Syrian factions to a congress in Sochi early next year. Meanwhile, United Nations-brokered talks in Geneva — which have been underway since the civil war’s early years, though they’ve produced few results — resumed last week.

The Syrian conflict is likely to drag on and could reignite into full-scale civil war as long as President Bashar al-Assad remains in power, despite efforts by Russia to paint the conflict as winding down, according to White House officials. The Syrian faction including America’s Kurdish allies controls the largest amount of territory, besides Assad’s government.

The Syrian army is barely able to reimpose authority on territory it has recaptured, even with military support from Russia and Iran, while Assad’s allies can’t afford to rebuild the country. As the war against Islamic State winds down, some US troops are set to stay on to help the Kurds consolidate their gains.

Declarations of victory by Assad’s backers are premature, three White House officials said in a briefing for reporters. They spoke on condition of anonymity to share internal government assessments of the conflict.

UNSC that can reign in USA and other powers forcing them to mind their own business is silent and only promotes the military interests of veto member states.

Political cricketism: India’s joint IPL cricketism looks paying off

Political cricketism: India’s joint IPL cricketism looks paying off

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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India is now making itself in India perhaps in a big way with the help of paid cricketers from abroad.  .

 

In its strenuous efforts to promote Indian prestige, by hook or crook, India has finally managed to bring the international cricket to its own regional level. BCCI dictates its terms to regional teams in India as to would be given 100s and which batboys should be promoted for national team etc.

 

Now BCCI ( has been able to dictate its IPL terms to all teams and individual players from abroad to play in India where foreign teams must play Indian schemes according to Indian wishes and requirements at a given point of time, like on the eve of Presidential distribution of national awards so that favorites of media lords and mafia get big awards.

 

Already BCCI and corporate lords have recommended a big award to Doni so that he cold retie happily enjoy his billions. Kolhi also badly wants a fine bhartratana.

 

MPs and ministers and even PM and president must be watching the matches with folded hands in favor of Indian batboys.

 

After all, cricketers hope promotion of black money and money laundering internationally.

 

Getting foreign players and commentators are extra paid to promote Indian cause and Indian team and individual player so that corporate mafia that sponsor cricket tournaments would force Indian regime to offer these cricketer fakes national awards in preference to genuine Indians who as social workers, public and political figures, scientists, others leaders contribute for their nation building selflessness services.

 

Sri Lanka after offering a quick 100 to Indian skipper koli in the first test, now in the second test, it offered an easy 200 runs to him obviously as a gift for Indian kindness by not taking any military action agonist Lankan military crimes against Indian Tamils who fish in their traditional zones of fishing.

 

Sri Lankan military keeps attacking Tamil fishermen and confiscate their boats and nets, puts Indians in their jails.

 

Unfortunately, Indian government, which should have taken the issue seriously and as the first step warned Colombo of punitive action as it does with Pakistan, seems to have secret understanding with Lankan regime for targeting Tamils.

 

Interestingly, not only Lankan military attacks Indian Tamils one sea but even Indian military has also begun attacks on the, already killing some of the on the sea.

 

That is the devastating policy of India. Tamils in Tamil nadu have reason to fear if India and Lanka would begin a joint military exercise targeting Tamils in India and Lanka. That is what Colombo seeks form India as its PM keeps visiting Indian temples more as a show than any serious religious intent. .

 

Interestingly, Lankan PM Wickramasinghe keeps visiting India and offer money in famous temples. India knows that it only a trick, a drama to keep Indian regime in good humors. That is enough for frantic Hindutva BJP government.  Fanaticism brings India closer to Sri Lanka.

 

That is called political cricketism being advanced by India and Lanka.
Interestingly, as Sri Lankans collapsing in their bating after letting Indian batboys like Koli shine with more than 600 runs, expected return favors from India but Indians cannot do that.
After shining with 600 score Indians just finished them not giving even one 50 to anyone, including SL captain Chandimal who had hoped for a good 100 from India as a return favor.

 

Poor Lankans- are they so fools or there is a reason for that submission?

 

In fact, Indians enjoy that strategy of getting big scores and rerunning nothing back to the guests. That is Indian way of doing things.
Why only sri Lanka, in fact any foreign player of Indian IPL willingly promote India in India.

 

India seeking name by all means wants only that and only that way.
Who is more cunning and cleverer- India or Sri Lanka?

 

West Asia: Is Fatah-Hamas unity genuine?

 

West Asia: Is Fatah-Hamas unity genuine?

-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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When after fighting for over 10 y long years that made Israel happy and USA fully satisfied, the Fatah and Hamas in Palestine finally decided in early October – and before a proper unity agreement was signed in Cairo on 12 October, world felt the sigh of great relief that now on Palestinians would not kill each other as part of greater design of fascist Zionist regime in West Asia.

After over one month, now one suspects if the unity agreement between Fatah and Hamas in Palestine mediated by Egypt- a close ally of Israel has and put in place the Rafah error blockade to block the movements of Palestinians in Gaza Strip, as part of Zionist-Egyptian control of entire Palestine, not just the Gaza Strip- is genuine and can withstand the pressure tactics of USA-Israel terror twins in the region.

As their loud demand, USA and Israel want Hamas to be “disarmed” so that Fatah can destroy them. One of the key stumbling blocks for Palestinian unity, therefore, is the question of Hamas’ military wing; the Qassam Brigades which Fatah has asked the Hamas to dismantle. Fearing that Abbas could easily be coerced by Israel-US duo to completely weaken the Islamic movement, Hamas has objected to dismantling of its military wing until such time  truly  cooperation takes roots in PLO but also agreed that it will coordinate any military action with Abbas’ Fatah movement but rejected out of hand dismantling the Qassam Brigades.

Palestine could consider the Qassam Brigades as being a part of its defense infrastructure Why not? That will obviously allay the fears and mutual suspicions in Hamas camp of Fatah-Israel-US intentions. In fact, so fierce were disagreements that Egyptian mediators convinced both parties to postpone talks on the issue for later.

So fierce were disagreements that Egyptian mediators convinced both parties to postpone talks on the issue for later in order to reach the preliminary agreement.

Indeed, the signs for reconciliation so far don’t look great. Hamas has done most of the running, rounding up Salafi militants and building a buffer zone for Egypt, dismantling its administrative committee to hand over governance duties to the Ramallah-based government, which has also taken over charge of crossing into and out of Gaza, though Israel would continue to oversee everything in Palestine until a soverign Palestine state comes into existence.  The day may not be far way for that.

But in return for all these important services, Hamas has so far received nothing. There has been no opening of crossings, the sine qua non of any agreement. And Abbas is still refusing to lift sanctions on Gaza that were imposed back in April and which plunged Gaza ever deeper into crisis.

Cooperation between Hamas and Fatah is absolutely necessary for the successful completion of formalities of UN full membership and  launch of  Palestine state as an independent nation. They should not let Satans (USA and Israel) interfere with heir  state formation and change their lives.

Already Hamas has agreed to disband its own government elected by the Palestinians 10 years ago. After the election of the Hams as the ruling party, Israel and USA used Fatah to launch a civil war to oust the Hamas government and weak the movement. It is because of US-Israel-Fatah nexus that Hamas always created obstructions to the bogus peace talks conducted by Israel on US tricks.

Like Israel, USA is also looking for opportunities to see that the remaining Palestinians are killed and their lands confiscated for proliferation of illegal settlements inside Palestine.

Jews foolishly say God has promised them their land in Mideast. Did  God speak to them directly or by phone? Did God give anything in writing about the Promised Land deal? Did god ask them to kill all Palestinians and confiscate their lands for illegal expansionist projects in Palestine? Possibly, some big frauds might have bluffed to their forefathers about the “promised land”.

Maybe some rich Jewish ruler had mischievously spread the rumors that God met  ho and promised him  a special Israeli land but now Jewish community itself is misguided to target Palestinians as  revenge for the oppressive policies of Europe against Jews last centuries

How can the Jews kill the children of Palestine? Did God ask the Jews to drink the blood of children of Palestinians as a revenge for somebody else’s crimes or as medicine for devilish problems they suffer from?

The notorious UNSC has no answer!

Israelis are liars, frauds and criminals as Israel itself is a rogue state following the footsteps of top imperialist USA pursuing fascism in its worst form.

If Jews have got anything in writing from God on “Promised Lands”, they must quickly produce it at the UN, ICJ and ICC for verification. If proved, Palestinians would quit their  lands for Israeli occupation and go to Arab world, Turkey, Pakistan, and other Muslim nations to live happily and in peace by productively contributing to the overall development of Islamic world, strengthening Islamic faith.

Hawkish Trump-Netanyahu duo badly wants to destabilize Iran so that Israel is “secure” and the monsters seek the assistance of Saudi Arabia for that.  Saudi Arabia is also responding to the anti-civilization conspiracy of  USA-Israeli  fascists.

As such Palestinians, like the Myanmar Muslims, are historically the most persecuted humans without dignity without a proper nation as their nation is being jointly occupied by Israel, USA and UK.

Quite likely, Jews would then feel secure in those western “civilized” countries once again and they would not have to face the”existential threat” from the Palestinians.  .

And, on the contrary, if Netanyahu the hawkish ruler of Israel does not possess any such documents signed by God to the effect of promising “Lands for Israel”, then,  he must order the Israeli Jews return march past to Europe. Russia and USA from where the bulks of Jews had migrated to Palestine to occupy and make Israel as their home state of Jews.

The eventual departure of Isreali Jews from Palestine would mark the dawn of new era in West Asia as Palestinians would live real masters of their lands without fear of Zionist criminals. USA would stop meddling in the affairs of West Asia as if they care for democracy.  .

Otherwise Israel must end its war on Palestine and Islam. Dirty American terror goods embolden the criminal Israelis to attack the defenseless Palestinians on regular basis in order to expand their illegal territories acquired by using US terror goods and misusing US veto.

Apparently, Hindutva and Zionism have hidden links on fake claims.  Hindutva leaders say god Ram lived in Ayodhya. In fact, Ram is the chief protagonist and positive hero of a historic novel Ramayana that was imbibed by some Hindu leaders as the basis of their religion which is more open and more adaptable than any other religions of the world. But today,  the politically greedy Hindus seeking to outsmart the Congress party has converted the humane religion into a political weapon targeting Islam, Muslims, Mosques, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Kashmir etc to grab power in Hindu majority India. They have made inroads in areas where Congress thrived thanks to solid Muslim votes.

India buys terror goods even from Israel as if its own production of them is not enough and all the arms being bought, though UN and directly, from regional markets are not sufficient to attack the defenseless Kashmiris who fight for their sovereignty from Indian military yoke. .

Indian nationalism is not Hindutva which an ugly version of Hinduism but secularism and democracy- both are alien to Hindutva ideology meant o garner Hindu votes. Similar politics is being conducted in Israel where Islam is treated as a terrorist religion and Palestinians are targeted for their blood and lands so that Jews are happy while the hawkish Jewish leaders continue to misrule the essentially anti-Islamic nation-a close ally of USA.

Israel is eagerly seeking to attack Iran and wants Saudi Arabia to initiate the step of  launch of missiles targeting Iran so that it could do the “needful” to wind up the West Asia of Muslim nations with military backing of Zionist America now controlled by  a Jewish son in law of  an arrogant and erratic US President Donald Trump who, after the tacit support of Obama for Iran, has sworn to attack Iran in order to make  Israel the support power of West Asia with  illegal WMD, supplied illegally by USA without informing  the Un, UNSC,  IAEA.

USA says Israel targeting Islam and Arabs can have WMD but Iran cannot have that privilege-why? It does not want the Arab world to use the nuclear facility of Iran for defense purposes. Both USA and Israel give the Saudi rulers Zionist poison in beautiful glass but Saudi kingdom is also ready to taste that in the name of Zionism and US fascism, hoping that by consuming the poison it could destroy Iran- a fellow Islamic nation.

Enemies of Islam, pretending to be the great ‘democrats”, are now emerging as the close ally of Saudi led Gulf States.

Unfortunately, in its outsized fear of Iran, Riyadh has in effect made common cause with Israel – for whom Iran has been a constant thorn in the side –and at a propitious time for both. After former US President Barack Obama’s attempt at defusing world tensions with Iran through the 2015 nuclear deal – over the heads of Israeli and congressional opposition – Trump has walked the opposite direction.

US-Israeli strategy is welcome in Riyadh that seeks to make Iran less important and does not mind if Iran is also attacked and destabilized  like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, giving entire Islamic world an amalgam of failed nations.

If however, Saudi Arabia thinks it would be safe after the fall of Iran, it is mistaken baldy. In fact the target of anti-Islamic nations led by Israel and USA, among their allies like India, Sri Lanka, etc,   is not Iran but Saudi Arabia- here Islam took birth and now the cradle of Islamic civilization.

What USA-Israeli twins try to do is to generate hatred especially in Islamic world for Saudi Arabia and Islam so that it would be easy for them to invade and destroy Saudi Arabia along with the Holy sites of Islam.

In case Riyadh and its Sunni Arab leaders think the USA and Israel and their allies love Saud kingdom, they are the worst fools the world has seen.

Unfortunately, in it’s what looks like an insane fight against Iran, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf nations seem to have lost sight of the Palestine issue and have conveniently forgotten about the fate of Palestinians.

Do they also believe what the Isreali Jews continued to bluff about their “promised lands”?

Netanyahu, the incumbent fanatic PM of Israel hose hands are soaked in Palestinian blood, looks smart, in smart suit and American English but he is indeed a big criminal too who, as the Israeli policy, tries to be very close to a confused Trump through the latter’s Jewish son in law. He may or may not go but his successor would not be a genuine leader to end the Zionist crimes in Palestine.  .

If so, later, Israel, backed by all anti-Islamic nations led by USA and Germany, would conveniently extend their version of “promised lands” to include Saudi Arabia as well!

Prevention is better than cure, it is said.

USA for diplomacy with North Korea, both direct and indirect!

USA for diplomacy with North Korea, both direct and indirect!
-Dr. Abdul Ruff Colachal

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Even while threatening North Korea with punitive measures against its insistence and stubbornness for nukes, the US super power apparently is quietly pursuing direct diplomacy with North Korea to avert tensions.

Despite US President Donald Trump’s public assertion that such talks are a waste of time, he nonetheless is eager to try diplomacy.

North Korea this year conducted its sixth and most powerful nuclear detonation and has test-fired a volley of missiles, including intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) that, if perfected, could in theory reach the United States mainland. The possibility that Pyongyang may be closer to attaching a nuclear warhead to an ICBM has alarmed the Trump administration, which in April unveiled a policy of “maximum pressure and engagement” that has so far failed to deter North Korea.

A White House official said that using the so-called “New York channel,” Joseph Yun, US negotiator with North Korea, has been in contact with diplomats at Pyongyang’s United Nations mission, at a time when an exchange of bellicose insults between Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has fueled fears of military conflict.

The New York channel is one of the few conduits the United States has for communicating with North Korea, which has itself made clear it has little interest in serious talks before it develops a nuclear-tipped missile capable of hitting the continental United States.

While in an arrogant tone US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Oct. 17 said he would continue “diplomatic efforts … until the first bomb drops,” the official’s comments were the clearest sign the USA was directly discussing issues beyond the release of American prisoners, despite Trump having dismissed direct talks as pointless.

There is no sign, however, that the behind-the-scenes communications have improved a relationship vexed by North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests, the death of US university student Otto Warmbier days after his release by Pyongyang in June and the detention of three other Americans.

Word of quiet engagement with Pyongyang comes despite Trump’s comments, North Korea’s weapons advances and suggestions by some US and South Korean officials that Yun’s interactions with North Koreans had been reined in. “It has not been limited at all, both (in) frequency and substance,” said the senior State Department official.

Among the points that Yun has made to his North Korean interlocutors is to “stop testing” nuclear bombs and missiles, the official said.

Besides, USA is also pushing China for talks with its ally North Korea and bring it to the negotiating table.  In Beijing, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said China welcomed any dialogue between the USA and North Korea. “We encourage North Korea and the United States to carry out engagement and dialogue,” Hua told reporters, adding that she hoped talks could help return the issue to a diplomatic track for resolution.

China says it will work with South Korea towards denuclearization on Korean peninsula. China and South Korea will work towards denuclearization on the Korean peninsula, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

China and South Korea will continue to use diplomatic means to address the Korean peninsula issue, according to the statement. The statement came following a meeting in Beijing on Tuesday between Lee Do-hoon, South Korea’s representative for six-party nuclear talks, and his Chinese counterpart, Kong Xuanyou.

Meanwhile, the NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has urged all UN members to fully and transparently implement sanctions against North Korea, which he said has emerged as a global threat.  Earlier, speaking at the United Nations on Sept. 19, Trump vowed to “totally destroy” North Korea if it threatened the United States or its allies, raising anxieties about the possibility of military conflict.

Twelve days later, after Tillerson said Washington was probing for a diplomatic opening, Trump said on Twitter that his chief diplomat was “wasting his time trying to negotiate with Little Rocket Man” – his mocking nickname for the North Korean leader.

Democratic US senators introduced a bill they said would prevent Trump from launching a nuclear first strike on North Korea on his own, highlighting the issue days before the Republican’s first presidential trip to Asia.

A high-ranking North Korean defector said in Washington that he backed the Trump government’s policy of pressuring Pyongyang through sanctions, coupled with “maximum engagement” with the leadership and increased efforts to get information into North Korea to educate its people. “I strongly believe in the use of soft power before taking any military actions,” Thae Yong Ho, chief of mission at Pyongyang’s embassy in London until he defected in 2016, told the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The last high-level contact between Yun and the North Koreans was when he traveled to North Korea in June to secure the release of Warmbier, who died shortly after he returned home in a coma, the State Department official said.

The Trump regime has demanded North Korea release three other US citizens: missionary Kim Dong Chul and academics Tony Kim and Kim Hak Song.     Warmbier’s death was a factor in the chilling of U.S.-North Korean contacts around that time but the biggest impact came from Pyongyang’s stepped-up testing, the official said.

The official said, however, that “the preferred endpoint is not a war but some kind of diplomatic settlement” and suggestions that Washington is setting up a binary choice for Pyongyang to capitulate diplomatically or military action were “misleading.” Diplomacy, the official said, “has a lot more room to go.” But Trump’s threats against North Korea are believed to have complicated diplomatic efforts.

Korea-China move to improve ties

Meanwhile, the United States said it welcomes South Korea and China’s decision to improve their ties despite a dispute over missile defense. Heather Nauert, spokeswoman for the State Department, said the move paves the way for greater stability in a region rattled by North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. “We certainly welcome that China and the Republic of Korea would have a closer relationship,” she said during a regular press briefing. “We tend to think that that is a good thing for the region, and especially, the regional instability, and the worldwide instability that (North Korea) poses.”

 

Seoul and Beijing announced that they had agreed to “expeditiously bring exchanges and cooperation in all areas back onto a normal track.” The joint statement came after more than a year of tension over South Korea’s decision to deploy the THAAD US missile defense system on its soil.

Beijing argues the system poses a threat to its security interests, while the allies insist it is a purely defensive measure aimed at deterring the North.
“In terms of THAAD, nothing has changed from our position on that. It was an alliance decision on the part of the US and the Republic of Korea,” Nauert said. “One of our priorities is not only keeping our own people safe, but keeping our allies safe.”

Asked whether the agreement reflects a change in Beijing’s stance on Pyongyang, she said, “China, I think, is certainly coming around and recognizing the threat that (North Korea) poses.”

 

Iran and North Korea are the two nations on which USA focuses. Iran’s defense capabilities are not negotiable, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Wednesday in remarks made previously but which now come amid increased pressure from the US government over Tehran’s ballistic missile program.

Zionist nuke bully

USA wants only its terror ally Israel to have nukes, obtained from Washington secretly and WMD could be used for threatening and bullying Iran and Arab nations. Israel considers itself as  the sole super power of West Asia on the strength of  the illegally obtained WMD. That is the reasons why USA and Israel do not want Iran to have its own legitimate  WMD.

Ties between Iran and the United States have deteriorated under U.S. President Donald Trump and suffered another deep blow two weeks ago when he decided not to certify that Tehran is complying with a 2015 nuclear pact and warning he might ultimately terminate it.

Iran has reacted defiantly, dismissing Trump’s demands for the pact to be toughened up. Last week, Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, the most powerful military force in the country, said its ballistic missile program would accelerate despite U.S. and European Union pressure to suspend it. “The defense capabilities and strength of the country are not negotiable or up for haggling,” Khamenei was cited as saying at a ceremony at the Imam Ali army officer’s academy in Tehran, according to state media.

The ramping up of rhetoric on both sides has raised the specter of a possible military confrontation between the two countries. In recent months, small boats from the Revolutionary Guards navy have swarmed close to American warships in the Gulf, prompting the U.S. navy to fire flares and warning shots.

Under the landmark 2015 deal between Iran and world powers, the Islamic Republic agreed to curbs on its nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of a number of sanctions.

The US Senate is considering new legislation which could lead to Washington restoring sanctions on Iran should it test a ballistic missile able to carry a warhead or bar nuclear inspectors from any sites.

In response, Khamenei said last week that Tehran would stick to the nuclear accord with world powers as long as the other signatories respected it, but would “shred” the deal if Washington pulled out.

USA says Taliban increases influence, territory in Afghanistan

All these terror war sand threats to emerging nuclear powers by the USA began with the US invasion of Islamizing Afghanistan following the September -11 1hoax.  The trends of invasion for energy reserves and gold reserves, and killing Muslims, continue unabated.

USA could not destroy the Taliban and Al Qaeda and they are powerful in Afghanistan.  USA does not want to destroy the terror gangs as they, created by US-Israel duo in the first place, are seen useful and convenient tools to advance imperialist objectives of America.

The Taliban has increased the amount of territory it has influence over or controls in Afghanistan in the past six months, a U.S. watchdog agency reported on Tuesday, as the militant group has stepped up attacks in recent weeks.

As of August, 13 percent of the 407 districts in Afghanistan were under Taliban control or influence, compared with 11 percent in February, according to a report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, or SIGAR. That means an additional 700,000 people now live in districts where the Taliban has at least some influence. The updated figures are a sign of the deteriorating security situation in the war-torn country, even as the United States has committed several thousand more troops.

The gains being made by the Taliban and a spate of recent attacks underscore worries about Afghan security forces’ ability to deal with a relentless insurgency that they have struggled to contain since most foreign troops left at the end of 2014. In total, about 43 percent of Afghanistan’s districts are either under Taliban control or being contested, three percent higher than six months ago, SIGAR said.

US forces in Afghanistan also withheld certain data on the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces, the report said, including “casualties, personnel strength, attrition, and the operational readiness of equipment.” “In a significant development this quarter, US Forces-Afghanistan (USFOR-A) classified or otherwise restricted information SIGAR has until now publicly reported,” the report said.

Afghanistan’s worsening security situation was highlighted on October 31 when a suicide bomber in the capital killed as many as eight people.

Obviously, USA has no plans to quit Afghanistan now or in the near future.

Indian government should respect national awards by choosing only genius persons for them – and not gamblers, mutual fixers!

Indian government should respect national awards by choosing only genius persons for them – and not gamblers, mutual fixers!

 

The republic Day is fast approaching s all needy persons push their candidatures for top national awards for their “services” to Indian nation. Compote lords and their mafia guys must be busying managing the awards for their favorites, leaving honesty to winds. Money bags go on getting exchanged by the concerned for the purposes. The greedy entertainers, extracurricular people, cricketers, sports people go all-out to get as many awards as possible

Indian regime as a law does not comfier any sincere or serious persons in professions life  teachers, scholars,  ministers, governors, MLAs, MPs, collectors, Governors, CMs, military personnel, police, intelligence wing personnel, judges, who have made significant contribution to the nation. By giving awards to them, the society would in due course get honest and hard working MLAs, MPs, authors, ministers, governors,  ministers, police, intelligence officers In fact, corruption could be contained significantly. .

In fact the rulers have no time to consider them for national awards that are reserved for cricketers and entertainers. India media deliberately promote their favorite batboys who make maximum money d for national awards

All thee entertainers have their own awards in the respective fields but the national Padma awards are not meant for them. They are for serous people and not for school dropouts .

One really wonders as to why Indian regime and military solute cricket batboys who make 100s and 50s on mutual understanding with opponents. Top military posts are gifted to hem freely for managing the show at the crease.

Cricketers continue to play life time and they are every  wherein all formats and fix matches for 50s and 100s,etc. kolhi, Doni, etc are everywhere in all formats? Why don’t they choose one of the formats and play/ That way new players would get chances to play international games. But these batboy frauds want to amass 50s and 100s and advertisements and dirty money and national awards.

BCCI promotes only the top players for extra money and they pester the corporate lords and government, ministers, president to offer national awards like bharatratna for  their 100s on mutual fixings If not mafia fixings. .

Government should not take not offer cricket gambling and stop offering national awards that are meant for genius people and not match fixers and gamblers, frauds.

There needs to be a national review commission – a standing committee, to keep reviewing the status of the national awardees and look out for genuine persons for the prestigious awards.  Putting together the recommendations of state governments and  corporate agencies  would not help awarding genius persons.  They find only  entertainers and cricketers.

A nation that respects genius persons would be respected by the world and by its own people. .