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Maybe we should be more concerned about Australia and a bunch less about Iran! Another image of what is and has happened… I guess it is true!
Damn country is on fire…
You wanna imagine if Europe and or America was burning like that. Australia is not heavily populated, but if this was America, the whole east coast would be in flames, Canada would be in flames also and the Mexico border would be gone…
I was flabbergasted when I focused on what is happening down there…
WtR
So Iraq says:
In the resolution adopted at the emergency session of Iraq’s Council of Representatives, the lawmakers said the “government must work to end the presence of any foreign troops in the republic and to cancel work under the security agreement with the international anti-terrorism coalition.” The resolution says, in particular, that “the government must take practical steps to ban any foreign troop presence, to prohibit them from using the country’s airspace and to revoke the request for assistance from the
Source: US disappointed by Iraqi MPs voting to end foreign troops presence – spokesperson – World – TASS
Trump says:
“We have a very extraordinarily expensive air base that’s there. It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time. We’re not leaving unless they pay us back for it,” he told reporters.
Source: Trump Doubles Down on Striking Cultural Sites in Iran | Time
Pompeo says:
“The prime minister is the acting prime minister…he’s under enormous threats from the very Iranian leadership that we are pushing back against,” Pompeo said. “We’re confident the Iraqi people want the United States to continue to be there.”
Source: Iraq parliament calls for end of U.S. troop presence after Soleimani death
I say: (“At least Pompeo sounds intelligent.”)
Iraq will need help from many other countries support to get the US to leave. The US invaded many years ago and will not leave without a fight….Iran and Iraq both need serious countries to band together and help them. The time is right to end the reign of terror that the USA Government has been slapping a good portion of the world with since starting illegal wars over terrorism….What happened recently with Iran and the assassination of Qasem Soleimani is naught but a one of tens of thousands of illegal actions that the US has endowed upon the world…
Therefore, Russia, China, The EU and many more need to stand united for once and tell the USA to quietly leave Iraq and Iran alone, plus stop the disinformation against half the world…
Except you and I both know that the US could careless what anyone else thinks and that is a big issue!
Russia and China have been very quiet. I am wondering what they are up to? Now the Chinese and Russian forums are gossiping like old babushkas on a front yard bench sitting session….but the Kremlin and PRC are silent for the most part…
Hmm…
WtR
Just some things I am digging up through friends and such. Starts with info from @syriankhabar and ends with info from Trump still Tweeting and making huge threats. Twitter is not the place to conduct negotiations, but it is the place to destroy relationships…
My suggestion to Iran is not threaten the “Rabid Tweeter in Chief” called Trump…
https://en.tgchannels.org/channel/syriankhabar
✴️محتوای پیام دردناک ایران به آمریکا
🔸محتوای پیام ایران به طرف آمریکایی داده به گونهای بوده که مقامات آمریکایی را دچار وحشت شدیدی کرده است. هر چند هنوز از ابعاد این پیام اطلاعی ندارم اما به نظر میرسد آمریکاییها به شکل کامل اعتماد بنفس خود را از دست دادهاند، خبرهایی که به وسیله واسطهها به سمت تهران در طول ساعتهای گذشته به گوش رسیده بیانگر آن است که مقامات کاخ سفید پس از این اشتباه راهبردی، هر کسی که فکر میکنند با ایران کوچکترین ارتباطی داشته و دارد و می تواند به مقامات ایرانی دسترسی داشته باشد متوسل شدند تا پاسخی که قرار است دریافت کنند در همان ابعاد و نه بیشتر باشد!!
🔸اما اگر قرار است ابعاد این پاسخ مشخص گردد باید رئیس ستاد مشترک، فرمانده نیروی دریایی و هوایی و بالاتر از آن شخص ترامپ که دستور این ترور را صادر کرده است کشته شوند تا با هم برابر شویم (البته که باز هم نخواهیم شد) و این چیزی است که آمریکاییها خودشان بهتر می دانند. وزیر امور خارجه آمریکا در طول ساعتهای گذشته به همراه سایر مقامات این کشور یک نبرد رسانهای را شروع کردند تا به زعم خود تصمیم مقامات ایران را تحت تاثیر قرار دهند!! ولی آنچه به عنوان پیام سفارت سوئیس از طرف ایرانیها برای آنها فرستاد تمام برآوردهای آنها را نقش بر آب کرد.
🔸دونالد ترامپ که در سیاست خارجی خودش به بنبست خورده بود و کنگره او را به جرم خیانت فراخوانده بود تا محاکمه اش کند، از سوی دیگر در آستانه انتخابات نمی دانست باید چگونه صحنه بازی را عوض کند دست یک قمار خطرناک زد، این قمار آن اندازه خطرناک بوده که در آمریکا هیچکس حاضر به پذیرش مسئولیت آن نیست و ترامپ تحت فشار سیاسیون مخالف خود ناچار شده شخصاً مسئولیت این اقدام جنون آمیز را برعهده بگیرد. ترامپ یک قمار را شروع کرده که سعی می کند با تهدید و فشار و همچنین التماس و رایزنی و حتا با دادن امتیازهای مختلف از آن فرار کند. خودش بهتر میداند که آنچه درباره مذاکره و گفتوگو با ایران میگوید جز تحقیر بیش از پیش خودش نیست.
🔸هنوز از متن مذاکرات وزیر خارجه آمریکا با همتای روسی خبری منتشر نشده اما او در گفتگویی با رئیس جمهور مفلوک عراق گفته که خواستار افزایش تنش نیست! و عراق نباید محلی برای تنش آفرینی باشد!! این اقدامات مقامات مختلف آمریکایی که شامل پمپئو، برایان هوک مارک اسپ و حتی سناتورهای نفتخواری مانند لیندزی گراهام می شود، در واقع تهدید ناشی از ترس را نشان می دهد. لیندزی گراهام وقتی سهمیه اش از نفت سوریه را گرفت، اینگونه طرفدار ترامپ شده است. منافعی او در چاههای نفت سوریه و عراق دارد که بعدها مشخص خواهد شد که چه پیمانکارانی وابسته به این جانور بی شاخ و دم هستند.
🔸در کاخ سفید همه از وحشت احتمالی هدف قرار گرفتن یکی از پایگاه های این کشور در عراق که صدها نظامی در آن به سر میبرند توسط موشکهای زمین به زمین ایران خواب راحت ندارند. آنها به خوبی می دانند که اگر همزمان یکصد فروند موشک به این پایگاهها اصابت کند هیچ چیزی از آن باقی نخواهد ماند و تلفاتی که به نظامیان آمریکایی وارد خواهد شد همه به پای حماقت ترامپ نوشته می شود. بنابراین بادام با گفتن این واژه که دنبال جنگ نیست و می خواسته با این اقدام جلوی جنگ را بگیرد در حقیقت دارد کلاه سر خودش می گذارد.
K.J
@syriankhabar
Content of Iran’s painful message to America
The content of Iran’s message to the US has been so intense that it has frightened American officials. Although I am not aware of the magnitude of the message yet, Americans seem to have completely lost their confidence in themselves, the news that has been heard by the intermediaries in Tehran over the past few hours indicates that White House officials have since this strategically mistake, asking anyone who has the slightest connection to Iran and can reach out to Iranian officials to ask Iran to respond their aggression in the same dimension and no more !!
But if the magnitude of this response is to be determined, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Navy and Air Commander and even Trump who ordered the assassination must be killed in order to equalize the crime(of course it won’t) and This is what Americans know better. During the past few hours, the US Secretary of State, along with other officials in the country, has launched an infowar to influence the decision of the Iranian authorities! But the message that Iran sent back via the Swiss embassy to the American government undermined all Trump gang’s plot.
Donald Trump, who had been stalled in his foreign policy and had been convicted of treason by Congress, that the Congress is trying to prosecute him, did not know how to change the game on the eve of the election and risked playing a dangerous gamble. It is so dangerous that no one in America is willing to accept responsibility, and Trump, under the pressure of his opposition, has been forced to personally take responsibility for this heinous act. Trump has started a gamble that tries to escape with threats and pressure, as well as begging and consulting, even by offering concessions. He knows that what he says about negotiating with Iran is nothing more than humiliating himself.
The US Secretary of State’s talks with his Russian counterpart have not yet been released, but he has said in an interview with the beleaguered Iraqi president that he does not want tensions to rise! And Iraq should not be a place for tension! The actions of various US officials, including Pompeo, Brian Hook Mark Spar, and even oil senators such as Lindsay Graham, actually show the extent of fear. Lindsey Graham has become a pro-Trump when he took his quota of Syrian oil. His interests in the oil fields of Syria and Iraq will later determine which contractors are connected to this hornless and tailless beast(Graham).
In the White House, everyone is scared of the potential target bases in Iraq, where hundreds of troops are stationed. They know very well that if one hundred missiles hit these bases at the same time, nothing will be left behind, and the casualties that will be inflicted on American troops will all be attributed to Trump’s stupidity. So, by saying the word that he was not seeking war and wanted to stop the war by doing so, he was actually fooling himself
K.J.
Telegram channel: @syriankhabar
🔳ترس و وحشت در سخنرانی ترامپ
پیام قدرتمندانه ایران اینگونه صدای رئیسجمهور آمریکا را لرزش واداشت… ترامپ چهار دقیقه و ۱۱ ثانیه در مورد دستور ترور سپهبد سلیمانی و سایر همراهانش صحبت کرد و در تمام طول این ۴ دقیقه نتوانست بر اعصابش مسلط باشد و صدایش نلرزد. خوب گوش کنید که چگونه پیام ایران زنگها را در کاخ سفید به صدا درآورده است. به زودی برای شما خواهم نوشت ایران چه پیامی به آمریکاییها داده که اینگونه به هم ریخته اند.
نه خبری از سر تکان دادن ترامپ است و نه خبری از شانه تکان دادن و نه خبری از بستن چشمان و سر بالا گرفتن هنگام سخنرانی. ترامپ تازه فهمیده بلانسبت چه …. خورده است.
@syriankhabar
Fear and fury in Trump’s speech
Iran’s powerful message shook the voice of the American president in such a way … Trump spoke for four minutes and 2 seconds about the assassination of Lieutenant General Soleimani and his companions, and he could not control his nerves all this time. Listen well to how Iran’s message has sounded the bells at the White House. Soon, I will write to you what kind of message Iran has given to the Americans who have messed up like this.
There is no shaking of Trump’s head, no shaking of his shoulder, no closing eyes and a high-pitched speech. Trump has just figured out what he ate.
Telegram channel: @ syriankhabar
Now our Commander and Tweeter is on Twitter and Twitting (threatening) away…
….targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2020
Maybe and I just think maybe, it would be a good idea to put Trump and his twitter fingers off of Twitter? Children need to be grounded once in awhile and this is a good time….unless we really badly desire and need that, “War with Iran”…
He already started that War with Iran, now he is egging it on…
I think Trump and his Neocons have done enough for today!
WtR
Tidbit and Interesting: Trump accused Obama of wanting to do a war with Iran…
So maybe, just maybe Trump is doing what he accused Obama of?
Nah Trump would not do that, just like Obama would not do that, just like Bush would not do that…
I turned to Svetochka and said, “Putin is pissed, I do not know why, but he is pissed. Look at his eyes!”
Then I wrote a small article early the next day. On New Year Day…
Now we know what he had wind of, America going full retard…
Never go full retard, the USA Assassinated Qassim Suleimani, in Iraq…
But really, no one dreamed that someone would be assassinated by the USA in another countries (Iraq) airport and someone who was invited to be in Iraq. Someone who was in Iraq as a friend to Iraq and to his people; General Soleimani was in Baghdad on an official visit to attend the funeral of the Iraqis murdered by the US on the 29th.
Let that sink in…
Now we are lying through our teeth to act like this was a good thing. Is it? Not in my book…
This video of Senator Graham says it all and it is nothing but flagrant lies, well except the part about his desires to attack Iran and destroy and destroy and that means kill Iranians young and old. We have already started evacuating Americans from Iraq, because we acted the fool. As always with War, our media is complaisant…
Blow Back is never fun and it is never right away. No one has anything to loose when they wait and watch to see when you let your guard down and yes, America will let its guard down..
Even an empire cannot control the long-term effects of its policies. That is the essence of blowback.
-Chalmers Johnson
Being that America is very divided about literally all subjects. They are divided about this also. Some dance in the streets and others look over their shoulder to find if the boogeyman is watching…
And that my readers is our future. We have started another war all based on lies and more lies…
I suspect Iran will take its time and carefully plan a reciprocation options, and that response may not be clear and unambiguous, and it might be multifaceted and done over staggered periods of time. Right now they are in mourning….and they are now very united!
Gotta run…
WtR
The USA just tried real hard to start a war with Iran and they might have just succeeded….
Are you ready?
Breaking News: The U.S. confirmed it was behind the strike that killed the powerful Iranian commander Qassim Suleimani, a major escalation in a conflict with Iran https://t.co/NzSYmTMsZ6
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 3, 2020
So we did it! We assassinated the number two Iranian official while in Iraq, as he was an invited guest!
Right now the way I see it; many, too many Americans are cheerleading and desiring a war with Iran & are dancing over their own and over your children’s graves…
Commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, was killed by the rocket fire near the Baghdad International Airport, Al Arabiya and Sky News broadcasters reported on Friday. The United States carried out on Friday strikes on two Iran-linked targets in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the Reuters news agency reported, citing unnamed US officials.
Mahdi and Soleimani were in Iraq to negotiate with the Americans. The US knew where they were. It was a coward and cold blooded calculated act of ambush to provoke Iran…
Now that is what I call opening a can of worms and you will not get the lid back on very easily…
Never go full retard…
And that my friends is exactly what America just did!
WtR
I guess this Tweet says it about as good as it gets and at least someone sees the truth:
Worried for our city + our nation. Without the approval of Congress, the US Government effectively declared war on Iran tonight. The American people had no say in the matter, despite voting time + again to stop endless wars + bring our troops home. This one will not end soon.
— Mayor Bill de Blasio (@NYCMayor) January 3, 2020
Took Sveta to the train station and she will go spend the next few days with her mother. I encourage her to go see her mother as often as she can. When you start on the road to almost 90 years old. Family needs to check in and be constantly watching to make sure that all is good. Sveta’s mother is doing great and I want Sveta to spend as much time as she can with her….it is important when you got a good mom who worked all her life to raise a good girl…
Sveta’s mother’s husband and Sveta’s dad died when Sveta was very young and it was up to her mom to be dad and mother at the same time…
Not many can say that their mother in-law is wonderful and I can say that…
If you got a mom who is special, give her a hug today…
It is snowing like crazy and I had a perfect walk. Went to Globus, ate breakfast, grabbed some groceries and walked in a winter wonderland…
What more could a bear ask for?
WtR
You could see something was on Putin’s mind as he started the New Years speech…
Something bad is going to happen in the world and now I wait to see what will happen. I told Sveta, “Something is wrong, look at his eyes and his facial expressions!”
2020 is going to get rough…
WtR
It is Russian Christmas and also the New Year. Svetochka and I would like to thank all the readers for the patronage of our blog…
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You can kind of see what drives my posting. I post what people read. The low point in readership was when I was in the Tiny Russian Village for a few years. People did not care about how wonderful a Tiny Russian Village was… 🙁
Therefore, have a nice New Year and I will be back in a few days and start posting again…
WtR
Warning heavy data article. Lots of videos and bigger files at that:
Ded Moroz and Snegurochka (Who they are is below at end of article.) met many of our kids in the complex and gave out treats and gifts. What a happy bunch of little tykes…
Sorry the server seems to be very slow lately, but it is safer on our server and they (bad people) will not be able to remove it easily. YouTube is destroying too many videos lately….We have to use what we can to get the info out…
Then I caught Ded Moroz and Snegurochka running home after doing their job. They ran to the building across the way and I guess that is their home. Never knew that Ded Moroz and Snegurochka live in our complex? 😉
Then as I walked this morning I found my favorite light worms, as I call them. They were crawling around a tree and I just love them…
Russian Christmas is almost here…
Ded Moroz and Snegurochka are:
Ded Moroz is accompanied by Snegurochka (Russian: Снегурочка, «Snow Maiden»), his granddaughter and helper, who wears long silver-blue robes and a furry cap or a snowflake-like crown. She is a unique attribute of Ded Moroz, since similar characters in other cultures don’t have a female companion.
Source: Ded Moroz. Local Lore — Russian Arts Guide
Now you might have learned something new?
Went and picked up some food for making Svetochka a special New Years dinner. No it is a surprise for her and since she reads this blog, no info to keep it a surprise…
Globus was packed and being wiped out of stock. Yesterday when I was there in the morning, it was crammed pack full and I mean isles even full down the middle of stock. Employees running around like chickens with their heads cut off and this morning; it was worse except everyone and their brothers were buying the scraps. The employees looked like they have been beat with a silly stick and just wished everyone would go home…
Fork lifts actually running around the store dropping off pallets of stock and the back stock room was almost empty & ten trucks outside waiting to unload. It truly was a madhouse and is conductive of the state of affairs in the Russian economy. Going gangbusters and not slowing down…
Stores all along my walk are open very early and they still cannot keep up. Russians are notorious for waiting until the last minute to do Christmas shopping and it shows today…
That is enough for today…
WtR
Just walking around this morning. Crispy cold and snowing slightly. We have been blessed this end of 2019, very little snow and not very cold. I have seen three years like this since coming to Russia 14 years ago. This weather usually means that January and February and March will be brutal as all get out…
I will take what I can get and be glad….as the Russians are happy that the snow is not two foot deep yet…
Then I was thinking as I walked…
Sveta and I miss Ajman. It really was a fantastic place. We are talking about going back and do some shopping for really good deals…
WtR