Breaking with a lot of the EU, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo delivered a clear joint statement on the humanitarian crisis that is unfolding at the hands of Israel.
I have yet to vet this. However how utterly noble the attempt to help these soldiers. I can not image how hard it is to accept that maybe some of these you want to help were not wanting to be there, but some might have been in units that murdered helpless civilians, raped men, women, and yes children of both genders. How tempting to just turn and walk out of those rooms. Hugs.
Robert DeRose(False Dimitri IV)
Bureau of Sleight-of-Hand and Lightning AttacksNov 18
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(Content Warning) Ukrainians Clearing the Ruins of a Village Recently Vacated by Russian Troops Stumble Apon an Unspeakable Horror(Updated)
Ukrainians Searching a House Finds This in the Basement
A Basement Full of Dead and Dying Russian Soldiers Completely Abandoned by Their Own. Some are bloodied and barely alive. There are chest compressions frantically going on in the background. There are Dead Russian Soldiers laying everywhere. It is a disgrace, and these people could have been evacuated in a matter of hours.
The videos below are a before and after the initial discovery, with a Russian soldier appearing to make contact with the approaching Ukrainians and make them aware of the roughly 10–20 dead, dying and wounded in the basement below.
Instead, A group of 7 Ukrainian soldiers, completely unprepared for such a thing, are left to deal with all of this. Tasked with saving and the evacuation of the same people who were sent there to annihilate their very existence, which in itself is no new.
In the video above, a Ukrainian soldier tries to assist a Russian soldier who is bleeding out only to find his useless torniquet sealed to his uniform. with the man appearing to beyond help, and unwilling to risk exposure to HIV, they press on.
(Content Warning)Two Russian Soldiers Steal Their Friends Vest and Instantly Pay With Their Life + Ukrainians Break Out the Auto-Grenade Launchers During an Intense Assault. Incredible Footage from a Machine Gunner, Cluster Munitions Shred Russian Assault Group in the Middle of the Night, Black Friday Drops and More. It’s Been an Incredible Day or Two, So Let’s Get This Started!! Did That Just Happen?? Incredible New Footage from a Ukrainian Assault Group New Footage from a Ukrainian Machine Gunner on the Front Lines Near Bakhmut We archive tens of thousands of videos, photos, maps, documents in a way that is easily accessible to an English speaking audience. Message me for more information. WKRSED. Ukrainian Artillery Shreds Russian Assault Group Before it Even Started Black Friday Drops Um… Is that Drone Carrying What I Think it Is? Follow our Space on Quora for regular updates and a massive backlog of content from the last two years. We also run a Space about The Ukrainian Air Force and Russian KIA Database.
(Content Warning) Hundreds of Dead Russian Soldiers Litter the Grounds Around the Bombed-Out Ruins of the Ukrainian City of Avdviika as the Kremlin Continues to Dump Endless Human and Materiel Resorces into Capturing a Destroyed 5th Tier Ukrainian City After Failing to Do So for the Last 9 Years New Drone Footage from Over Adiivka New Drone Footage (INSANE Detonation)Russian Soldiers Send an APC Full of Mines at Ukrainian Lines Even more horrific drone footage from above the wastelands surrounding the city show the hundreds of lives wasted on endless waves of overloaded armored vehicles becoming bogged down out in the open plains, just to be annihilated repeatedly by Ukrainian artillery, Drone strikes and ATGMs. ATGM Smashes into Russian APC Insane Footage of A Massive Russian Armored Assault is Completely Destroyed Smashing Russian APCs with ATGMs It is unclear what the actual goal is. The total encirclement of the Ukrainians who are deeply entrenched in and around the general area and are well supplied and often rotated and reinforced has never had any real strategic value, and they will permit Russia to waste as many of their best remaining troops and equipment for as long as they wish. Incredible Footage of a Failed Russian Assault at Dawn Another Failed Russian Assault Incredible Footage of Multiple Russian MRLS Detonations Not even Mother Russia can birth enough criminals and low-lifes willing to throw endless amounts of their worthless existence into the hot steel of a Ukrainian artillery shell and the wet Russian shaped holes that they leave.
Notice how Bibi says they have to hit Palestinians hard and relentlessly. Notice he doesn’t want to even slow down to get the hostages. It is all about hurting Palestinians and taking Gaza. Then when asked how the world will see Israel, Bibi dismisses. So what he says. When asked about the US he mocks the US, talked about how he took on Bill Clinton, how he manipulated the US congress, how he sabotaged the Oslo Accords. He said that The US did not matter, he could make the US do anything he wanted. That is how the Israeli government sees the US and we are to give them 14 billion more dollars with no strings attached. No Fucking Way! Hugs. Scottie
While it won’t end the larger conflict, a major hostage exchange is on the brink of being approved.
This video details how many Palestinian children are being held in Israeli military prisons with no charges, it shows clearly how much of an open air prison every Palestinian lives under in the current situation. The abuses of the Palestinians is beyond belief now. Hugs. Scottie
Former President Trump’s allies are pre-screening the ideologies of thousands of potentialfoot soldiers, as part of an unprecedented operation to centralize and expand his power at every level of the U.S. government if he wins in 2024, officials involved in the effort tell Axios.
Why it matters: Hundreds of people are spending tens of millions of dollars to install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists across government to rip off the restraints imposed on the previous 46 presidents.
The screening for ready-to-serve loyalists has already begun, driven in part by artificial intelligence from tech giant Oracle, contracted for the project.
Social media histories are already being plumbed.
What’s happening: When Trump took office in 2017, he included many conventional Republicans in his Cabinet and key positions. Those officials often curtailed his behavior and power.
Trump himself spends little time plotting governing plans. But he is well aware of a highly coordinated campaign to be ready to jam government offices with loyalists willing to stretch traditional boundaries.
If Trump were to win, thousands of Trump-first loyalists would be ready for legal, judicial, defense, regulatory and domestic policy jobs. His inner circle plans to purge anyone viewed as hostile to the hard-edged, authoritarian-sounding plans he calls “Agenda 47.”
The people leading these efforts aren’t figures like Rudy Giuliani. They’re smart, experienced people, many with very unconventional and elastic views of presidential power and traditional rule of law.
Behind the scenes: The government-in-waiting is being orchestrated by the Heritage Foundation’s well-funded Project 2025, which already has published a 920-page policy book from 400+ contributors. Think of it as a transition team set in motion years in advance.
Heritage president Kevin Roberts tells us his apparatus is “orders of magnitude” bigger than anything ever assembled for a party out of power.
The policy series, “Mandate for Leadership,” dates back to the 1980s. But Paul Dans, director of Project 2025, told us: “Never before has the entire movement … banded together to construct a comprehensive plan to deconstruct the out-of-touch and weaponized administrative state.”
Trump insiders relish rebuilding the team with purists. But the truth is, they have no choice: Many more-traditional Republicans quit the first administration in frustration or were fired by tweet. And some former advisers are talking to prosecutors or are charged with crimes.
The Trump campaign tells us no outside group speaks for him: “The campaign’s Agenda47 is the only official comprehensive and detailed look at what President Trump will do when he returns to the White House. … While the campaign is appreciative of any effort to provide suggestions about a second term, the campaign is not collaborating with them.”
Questions for Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 applicants. Screenshot via Project 2025 website
How it works: The most elaborate part of the pre-transition machine is a résumé-collection project that drills down more on political philosophy than on experience, education or other credentials.
Applicants are asked to “name one person, past or present, who has most influenced the development of your political philosophy” — and to do the same with a book.
Another query: “Name one living public policy figure whom you greatly admire and why.”
We’re told immense, intense attention will be given to the social-media histories of anyone being considered for top jobs. Those queasy about testing the limits of Trump’s power will get flagged and rejected.
Reality check: Technically, this apparatus will be inherited by any Republican nominee — Heritage officials tell us they’ve briefed the campaigns of Trump, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley.
But this is undeniably a Trump-driven operation. The biggest tell: Johnny McEntee — one of Trump’s closest White House aides, and his most fervent internal loyalty enforcer — is a senior adviser to Project 2025.
One of the most powerful architects is Stephen Miller, a top West Wing adviser for the Trump administration. Miller is charting an even harder line on legal and immigration policy than last time. While he maps a White House return, he’s president of America First Legal, which vows to fight “lawless executive actions and the Radical Left.”
Between the lines: Trump doesn’t hide his intentions. It’s important to tune out the theatrical language that drives social media and cable TV, and focus intently on the directional guidance of his second term.
He’s telling us exactly what he intends to do — like it or loathe it. And this time, he’ll have prefabbed institutional muscle to turn pugilistic words into policies and action from the get-go.
Here’s what the early days of a second Trump presidency would look like, based on his words and our conversations with Trump insiders:
His top obsession will be the Justice Department, the FBI and the intelligence community — all of which he thinks conspired to investigate him, thwart him, screw him. He’s been very clear that he’s willing to unleash these agencies against political enemies.
The next priority will be the Department of Homeland Security and the border, with plans to erect sprawling detention camps, “scour the country for unauthorized immigrants,” and “deport people by the millions per year,” The New York Times reports. We’re told Trump’s top criterion for immigration officials will be whoever promises to be most aggressive. Trump has told allies he’s confident the Supreme Court will back his most draconian moves.
As first reported by Jonathan Swan for Axios last year, a key tool for Trump’s “revenge term” would be the use of Schedule F personnel powers to wipe out employment protections for tens of thousands of civil servants across the federal government. Trump allies want a deep and wide purge of the professional staff that often serves across new administrations.
Officials close to the Pentagon tell us they’re worried about a plan, articulated by former Trump official Russ Vought in the Heritage document, to direct the National Security Council to “rigorously review all general and flag officer promotions to prioritize the core roles and responsibilities of the military over social engineering and non-defense related matters, including climate change, critical race theory [and] manufactured extremism.” Indeed, the Trump allies see obstacles to remove at every level of every agency.
The bottom line: This Trump-allied machine has the most power over the formation of a potential future government of any group in U.S. history. Trump, if elected, will leverage it to do things with government that none of us has seen in our lifetime.
“Behind the Curtain” is a column by Axios CEO Jim VandeHei and co-founder Mike Allen, based on regular conversations with White House and congressional leaders, CEOs and top technologists.
Robert DeRose(False Dimitri IV)Bureau of Sleight-of-Hand and Lightning AttacksNov 18
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