Category: Russia

In the article I wrote the other day…

JCPOA: In an appeal for fairness to Iran

I said that Iran is under many illegal attacks. Now today I will make it clear that a rouge US is now putting Iraq under extreme illegal attacks…

The Trump administration warned Iraq this week that it risks losing access to a critical government bank account if Baghdad kicks out American forces following the U.S. airstrike that killed a top Iranian general, according to Iraqi officials.The State Department warned that the U.S. could shut down Iraq’s access to the country’s central bank account held at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, a move that could jolt Iraq’s already shaky economy, the officials said….

Source: U.S. Warns Iraq It Risks Losing Access to Key Bank Account if Troops Told to Leave – WSJ

I wrote a week ago about Iran and Iraq needing help…

Iraq and Iran need help and NOT from the USA…

Therefore, I am saying it again:

Iran and Iraq both were put under then gun as we say it. Iraq lost important men, along with Iran in the illegal attack to assassinate Qasem Soleimani. It was done in total disregard for life limb and property. Iran and Iraq both need the rest of the world to pull together and put a stop to this rogue Empire that has decided that flaying and slashing is the best way to make friends and keep on top the world…

It is time to start organizing and gathering resources too weather a serious altercation, be it physical, mental and or or financial well being. It is time to sever the strings that are being used antagonistically towards and against many countries by the USA. It has become a serious issue and if we do not start acting like we are a one world in peace?

We will find ourselves a one world under the gun forever…

“What are your choices when someone puts a gun to your head?

What are you talking about? You do what they say or they shoot you.

WRONG. You take the gun, or you pull out a bigger one. Or, you call their bluff. Or, you do any one of a hundred and forty six other things.”

Harvey Specter Suits

We have to something and get it under control…

WtR

People moving into the building I watch go up from day one…

Be nice to be a rich boy. I would buy a whole floor and rent each unit out. This is going to be a goldmine. It is location, location and more location…

This next image is what I found when it started…

Sorry that is it….it was just a fence and a sign…

It is just about completely done and people who have bought are fixing their flats. I would love to get a studio there and spend the winter fixing it up. In Russia you buy the place just a shell. No nothing but concrete walls. I would love to have something like that as a project…

One day I will be a rich boy… 😉

If I were a rich man, Daidle deedle daidle, Daidle daidle deedle daidle dumb..

WtR

Update: (1-11-2020) Iran has investigated her military and found they did it!

A sad day. Preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by Armed Forces:

Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster

Our profound regrets, apologies and condolences to our people, to the families of all victims, and to other affected nations.
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— Javad Zarif (@JZarif) January 11, 2020

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Iran has offered everyone a fair option; send your teams over to participate in the investigation instead of speculating. Morally, legally, wisely it’s incorrect to speculate without proof…

Iran’s Civil Aviation Authority head, Ali Abedzadeh, told CNN the country may need outside help to decode the black box on the Ukrainian airliner because it is damaged. “Generally speaking, Iran has the potential and know-how to decode the black box. Everybody knows that,” he said. However, Abedzadeh said, “the black box of this very Ukrainian Boeing 737 is damaged. Ukrainian Aviation experts arrived here in Tehran today. We had a session with them. From tomorrow they will start decoding the data.”

Source: Iranian official: We may need outside help reading data on black boxes

But yet it seems that some are not waiting for facts…

“All these reports are a psychological warfare against Iran,” government spokesman Ali Rabiei said on Thursday. “All those countries whose citizens were aboard the plane can send representatives and we urge Boeing to send its representative to join the process of investigating the black box.” Foreign ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has meanwhile called on Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to share the intelligence he has claimed to have from “multiple sources” that the plane was shot down by a surface-to-air m

Source: ‘Psychological warfare’: Iran dares Canada & others to show ‘intelligence’ they used to accuse Tehran of downing Ukrainian jet — RT World News

Iran has offered everyone a fair option; send your teams over to participate in the investigation instead of speculating. Morally, legally wisely, it’s incorrect to speculate without proof…

But as Russian have learned that does not stop the west from doing it…

I believe that we will find out the truth, for Iran will make sure we do! Could that bother some people, countries and companies?

WtR

PS: Does anyone find it interesting that Iran is being very open about this. They want everyone who is an expert to come and be part of the investigation. This includes the US and Boeing. They just will not turn the box over to a country that has shown very insistent hate toward them. I do not blame them, at all.

We have been hearing over the years about how, “Iran has gone rogue!”

The term has now been reapplied and the western media is screaming, “Rogue Iran!” Mainly because of said desire to obtain NUKES…

In an appeal for fairness to Iran about Nukes:

I don’t think it logical to express either by emotions and or propaganda that “Iran has gone rogue” without any conditions laid out to start with. Iran, after innumerable dialogues with so called “Western Partners”, became part of what is called the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action) and, according to UN Inspectorates who by the way, were responsible for monitoring said implementation of the JCPOA, Iran faithfully served the agreement and respected what it signed under the JCPOA. The JCPOA is/was made up of:

• China. Wang Yi, Foreign Minister.
• France. Laurent Fabius, Foreign Minister.
• Germany. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• European Union. Federica Mogherini, High Representative.
• Iran. Mohammad Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs.
• Russia. …
• United Kingdom. …
• United States.

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA; Persian: برنامه جامع اقدام مشترک‎, romanized: barnāmeye jāme’e eqdāme moshtarak (برجام, BARJAM)), known commonly as the Iran nuclear deal or Iran deal, is an agreement on the Iranian nuclear program reached in Vienna on July 14, 2015, between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council—China, France, Russia, United Kingdom, United States—plus Germany) together with the European Union.

Source: Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action – Wikipedia

Incidentally, it is also not correct, as is commonly misconceived, to express that the JCPOA was “never signed”. It was recognized under a UN Resolution and so was implemented with the full force of all approved International laws. All members acknowledge this except the USA. (That should tell you something.)

The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) is a detailed, 159-page agreement with five annexes reached by Iran and the P5+1 (China France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) on July 14, 2015. The nuclear deal was endorsed by UN Security Council Resolution 2231, adopted on July 20, 2015. Iran’s compliance with the nuclear-related provisions of the JCPOA will be verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) according to certain requirements set forth in the agreement.

Source: The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) at a Glance | Arms Control Association

The USA then as the only one of the group to do so, at what seems to be at first a pathetic personal whim, rather than any reason for, unilaterally decided to withdraw from the agreement know as the JCPOA and prevented its European “Allies” from continuing with Iran’s JCPOA anti-nuclear commitments after US withdrew for no reason. The JCPOA was a perfectly sound agreement which was exactly fulfilling its purpose of stymieing and actually controlling Iran’s alleged move towards a nuclear weapon capability…

It was not Iran who withdrew. It was not Iran who did not comply. It was not Iran who put pressure on others to get out of the JCPOA. Iran was and really, still is in compliance and so are the other members, except the USA…

Though the rest soon could be history also. Due to extreme pressure from the US…

It is not Iran:

So with all I said in the above paragraphs:

It would it be way more accurate to say that Iran is being coerced into actions that belie the truth of the situation. This situation has also coerced Europe to bend in ways that are extremely against their wishes and what they know as truth…

Therefore to state in propagandized lies that Iran is “Going Rogue” could be simply because for Iran there are no other paths that have been left open for them. Again therefore, In all candor, that path might be the entire “holy grail” that is desired by the USA so as to provide a pretext for more disorganization and degradation in the Middle east…

Therefore, misinformation is ramped up again and again. Everything I stated above can be verified by internet searching and doing some research yourselves. I gave a link to Wikipedia and the Arms Control Association (ACA) website above. This gives the basic ground work for you to familiarize yourself with this good agreement that was tragically dropped by the USA for purposes of only those who actually did it and know and benefit from doing it…

If anyone has gone rogue it is the USA…

And the US seems to be proud of it!

WtR

Factbox: Burisma, the obscure Ukrainian gas company at the heart of U.S. political row
By Reuters
September 25, 2019

Biden family is one sick puppy. Yet, it always has been…

WtR

Took Svetochka to the train station and went on a long walk. Yesterday I walked 24 kilometers (30,000+ steps) and today I am actually kind of sore. I will only walk half that distance today. But I walked and did some thinking as the snow fell…

I am proud of China and Russia:

They allowed Iran to handle the issue that had befallen up on them rather drastically…

Iraq and Iran need help and NOT from the USA…

It was too easy to fall into the trap. The US wants that war and do not even think this is the last of it. The attempts will continue, because we are seeing that there is more than one boss calling the shots. The buck stops all over the place in the US Gov…

Thus, no one gets the blame!

Now we just slapped Iran with more sanctions (Over our lies and deceit.) and they had many cultural centers threatened with destruction and they had a right to respond. It would have been interesting to be in on a meeting in Iran to see what people were saying to do. I am sure that Russia and China were in communication and I think Iran did very good…

Trump tried to start a war by Twitter!

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Canada and Iran took a huge hit with the airline crashing. The issue with that is very tricky. We will never know the real truth and I am afraid that it was just one more attempt at starting a war. At least it did not get used for that purpose and that makes it very interesting. I have seen the list of dead and almost everyone was on their way to Canada after stopping in Ukraine…

Due to how the western press is handling this, you know something that could not happen did and thus we will most likely not find out, unless Iran puts all data as it is on the flight Black Box, online….Iran is smart not to let the west get hold of the Black Box. We all know how that turns out and it never is good for anyone but themselves…

At least it wasn’t 30 seconds after it happened, “Iran Did It!” Like they have done to Russia too many times…

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The images are crystal clear of the missile attacks and they are very pinpoint accurate. It is obvious that they hit what they intended to hit. I have seem many things like this and can see what they did. What they did was tell the US, “Look we can hit anything on that base we feel like and hit it much harder than just a flash bang!”

Images…

and…

This basic attack and the fact they pre-warned gives Iran the highroad in this conflict that the US started…

Iran is saying: We can if we want and could have, but don’t forget we can take out as much as you can with all your hundreds of bases within range of our missiles…

I hope that the Neocons in America wake up before it is too late…

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Interesting that Israel backpedal real quick and threw their hands up and said We didn’t do NUFFIN! Israel realized that even with nukes, Iran was serious and a barrage of conventional missiles would flatten Israel real fast. It would be called winning the war and no one left alive…

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It is not over and one day when America is getting just weak enough, payback will be Hell!

I fought for my country, but now we do not even try to hide our Games of Geopolitics that we are playing and that means we are getting desperate…

It is sad; many like me will never believe anything that our government is saying anymore…

WtR

Again US Neocon actions put us on the brink of war:

Trump has proven that he is walking the Neocon line, but still, like a roller coaster going up and down the track. I do not see Trump as being a strong leader, what I see is he has more than one puppet master and that is where the roller coaster ride comes from…

This time Trump almost Tweeted us into a War! (After attacking Iran in Iraq under false pretenses!) Then we turned 180 and Trump said, “All is well!”

Hey it is just a joke you know? ~~

Now I do not look at all this as, “Cooler heads prevailed! War averted…”

I look at this like, “Why the hell did we start all the crap in the first place?” and then “We never should have been put in this situation to have to avert a war!”

Regardless; Thank God we backed down!

Then Iran gave a subtle message to the USA…

Trump had previously promised a massive retaliation should Iran attack any US personnel or facilities. Surrounded by his national security team, Trump had to back down from that threat, knowing full well that if he were to attack Iran, the Iranian response would be devastating for both the US and its regional allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia and the UAE. The US might be able to inflict unimaginable devastation on Iran, but the cost paid would be unacceptably high.

Source: Iran didn’t want to kill US troops with its strike, it wanted to make point to Trump about its missile tech & resolve. It did that — RT Op-ed

With this small actually insignificant flight of Iranian missiles, we found out that American missile defense systems don’t work. Period, they do not work against Iran missiles. Iran just proved that to the world…

The main thing is Iran seriously demonstrated advanced abilities despite decades of crippling sanctions by the US, has the courage to confront the US and the Iranian government has solid popular support…

Again: It is the US that is isolating itself with her actions as a bully in the world sandbox…

What this situation told the US military is that Iran has the ability to launch missiles at US targets and the US can’t do anything to intercept them. If Iran had not given warning? Well that is why we backed away again, after starting crap again, with another country…

Then to make my case; we just today added more sanctions upon Iran….starting more and more crap against other countries…

Yes we are isolating ourselves, as we sanction the world…

WtR

PS: I want you to realize that this does not mean it will not start again all over. It means for a few hours we have back off. People like me and even many countries have voiced their opinion that what has happened is a bad thing. We have to keep the pressure on, for if we do not and we act like nothing illegal happened, we will find ourselves in a war to end wars…

Now get ready for the next crappy thing to start up. What a way to start a New Year of 2020!

What we did to Iran by killing their General Qasem Soleimani in a illegal set up situation, in Iraq, was never going to be left alone in Iran’s eyes. They waited, had their funeral as per customs in Iran and when done, they attacked. Military installations in Iraq that belong to the USA…

TEHRAN, January 8. /TASS/. The Iranian military delivered another round of missile attacks targeting US military facilities, Tasnim news agency reported. The agency did not specify the exact locations of the new wave of attacks reporting only that they were carried out with the use of missiles.

Source: Iran delivers second round of attacks on US military facilities — Tasnim news agency – World – TASS

Israel has been named as an accessory and Israel is the target against which the retaliation of starting a war with Iran will be ended. We do know that Israel is behind the instigation of said attack against Iran in the first place…

TEHRAN, January 8. /TASS/. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) call Israel an accomplice of the United States in the assassination of ex-commander of IRGC Quds Force General Qasem Soleimani, Fars News Agency reported on Wednesday. “Within the frames of this crime [Soleimani’s assassination] we in no way view Israel separately from the United States,” Fars reported citing a statement from IRGC.

Source: IRGC calls Israel ‘a US accomplice’ in assassination on General Soleimani — Fars news – World – TASS

The US and Israel have been severely compromised in their Intel and or just did not care to check the facts. But assassinating General Qasem Soleimani, a man who is loved by Iranians deeply and a man who is the biggest factor in removing ISIS from Syria. Again ISIS is a US construct….We have congealed the Iranians as one…

If we want 100,000 + missiles to rain on Israel then I guess we will attack Iran back for hitting our illegal military bases in Iraq? We are in Iraq illegally as we are sitting in Syria illegally. In both countries we have built military bases against the countries wishes. Hell in Iraq we built the Mother of all Embassies!

The USA has lost no matter what, its just a question how much good money and moral standing we want to flush away after all the illegal actions we have been doing. Just because you are big enough to beat the little guy up does not make you right!

Iran will launch everything they have at Israel if we try to attack them. There is no missile defense that will come anywhere near being able to stop the onslaught. Israel will be gone. Iran maybe gone also, but in this case they will take Israel with them. I promise you…

Iran holds all the cards, they responded the only way they could, launch a few older missiles, then say don’t retaliate or we expand this to Dubai, Israel as far as their missiles carry. They know we (US) can level the Iran country flat, they understand that and they also know that America is alone in this. We have all heard the bellyaching by the US about how the EU and even NATO are not giving it the, “Rah Rah go America attitude”…

Not to mention Russia and China is in their corner, especially after how Trump has treated China and Russia. Russia and China know that they are next. Plus Europe who much of the US illegal under the table type activity has also been directed at, will work to get the USA out of Middle East forever…

This situation has stared at all of us as we look in the mirror, for our whole lives actually, but my vote and comments never mattered to anyone and I could not stop the chaotic situation that the US seems hell bent on traveling. Just like a drunk who will not let anyone take his keys away…

I wish I had a magic wand, but I don’t and I will say as I have in one form and or another, a thousand thousand times on this blog…

America please just stop the shenanigans and allow the world to heal and get on with life. Please pull our men and women back to families and take care of America first at home…

It is all I can do. I have to say it on this blog. I have to say something or else not be able to live with myself. It does not matter who is right and who is wrong, for all are wrong when it comes to war. Just go home and hug the family people…

WtR

America did ask for this war against Iran, whether we want it our not…

Oops:

A Ukrainian Boeing 737 with 176 passengers and crew on board has crashed after taking off from Iran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran due to technical issues, Tasnim news agency reported on Wednesday morning. The airport has confirmed the crash to Sputnik.

Source: Live Updates: Boeing 737 with 176 People Aboard Crashes After Take-Off from Tehran Airport – Sputnik International

Things are getting interesting real quick!

And oops:

“The initial Iranian response to the assassination of the martyred commander Soleimani has happened. Now it is time for the initial response to the assassination of the martyred commander Muhandis. And because Iraqis are brave and zealous, their response will not be any less than that of Iran’s. That is a promise”, al-Khazali was quoted as saying.

Another letter: (Remember Iraq received one.)

Kuwaiti Defence Minister Ahmad Mansour Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah has stated that he received a letter from the commander of the US Arifjan military camp situated in the country announcing the “imminent withdrawal of all US military forces in three days”, state news agency KUNA reported.

Getting interesting…

Very quiet out as I walked this morning:

The customers in Globus could be counted on one hand. I had a good breakfast and picked up some groceries for the home front. I also met and said good morning to a cop that recognized me as he walked to work this morning and that triggered this post mainly…

Two nights ago I was on one of my long evening walks and found myself in the middle of three cops trying to arrest a guy who was very strung out on drugs. Not alcohol but drugs. It was easy to tell. he was flying higher than a kite…

I had walked around a van and saw a guy break loose from the cops as they tried to get him under control. He ran straight at me and I sidestepped and clotheslined him at chest level so not to kill him. It was actual much more a instinct response and not a response that I thought about. But, he dropped like a wet noodle and screamed bloody murder…

I just pointed at him and kept walking. The young guy I saw this morning was one of the cops and he is the first who responded to handcuff the guy. I heard a thank you (Spasibo) and I wordlessly disappeared to our home…

Being an American, I had no desire to get involved and beat a trail home. Good or bad better to not draw anymore attention to yourself in the world. But…

I was remembered and he smiled at me and said, “Dobroye Utro” and I told him the same…

Wonder what he would think if he realized I was an American?

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But back to Christmas morning:

I got near the big church on the main highway and lines of people already walking to the church. That explains why I was almost alone in Globus. It is the Real Christmas. You know?

The snow was falling and it is about -4 degrees. It was a beautiful morning and very soft feeling temperature wise. It made for a good walk and when hardly anyone is around, it allows me to stop and study things easily. Many days there are so many people it is all you can do just to keep from getting run over. Today though, I could really look around and I liked that…

One thing that has stood out is 5G towers everywhere. I have been wondering why they have been installing so many new cell towers. They are everywhere. This morning it hit me….5G is going full tilt in Moscow, Russia and they have been installing the system for several years as I have seen walking around. Duh…

Sveta is at the grandkids for these last days of the winter holidays and I hope she comes home tomorrow. I miss my sweetpea…

Time to go and get caught up on what the world is doing!

WtR

Really a good article below…

Nowadays, more than a third (39 per cent) of the world’s Christians live in Russia – with around 85 per cent of them choosing to celebrate Christmas in January.

Some Orthodox countries – including Greece, Cyprus and Romania – adopted a revised Julian calendar in 1923, and now celebrate with us on December 25.

Those that celebrate in January include Orthodox Christians in Russia, Ukraine, Israel, Egypt and Bulgaria. Serbia, Belarus, Montenegro, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Georgia and Moldova also all stick to the traditional Orthodox date meaning they are also celebrating today.

Source: Happy Orthodox Christmas Day! What countries celebrate today and why does the date vary around the world?

Merry Christmas Again from Svetochka and Kyle…

WtR