[AlAhram] al-Ahram Weekly looks at Erdogan’s unfolding game of nations
The day before he officially recognised the Armenian genocide, which is commemorated on 24 April, US President Joe The Big Guy Biden ...46th president of the U.S. We hold these truths to be self-evident. All men and women created ... by the — you know — you know, the thing... called Ottoman Turkish President His Enormity, Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First
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...Recep Bey, may the fleas of a thousand camels infest his armpits, has figured out that we were serious about not giving him any new toys unless he got rid of the S-400s. One can reasonably assume that he was going to get a cut of whatever 'official' spending Turkey was going to do on the F-35 so he's losing that income stream, and I have no doubt that certain gentlemen with Russian accents are making it clear that he made a deal to buy another batch of -400s...and you need to keep your promises, Recep Bey.
So - let me make a suggestion.
A quiet meeting in Istanbul (not Constantinople) to arrange for a series of C-17 flights between the US and Turkey. When the C-17s land, they will load up a complete set of S-400 launchers, radars, tech orders, and missiles. They will fly back here, then return to Turkey with a complete set of PATRIOT launchers, radars, and missiles. We'll trade them one for one, and when the last of the S-400 gear has gone, we can talk about the F-35.
On the understanding, of course, that if we even think that you're letting unauthorized personnel get access to the PATRIOTS, we land on you with both feet.
Mike
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President Biden, back when he still had working memory, loathed Mr. Erdogan, who has been doing his very best to revive the Ottoman empire while eradicating competing domestic power centers like the Turkish army and the Gulenists, many of whom still sit in Turkish prisons, their wealth confiscated as booty. On the foreign front he’s been doing his bit to expand Turkish power and influence, too, including killing off the Kurds at home, in Iraq, and in Syria; confiscating Gulenist schools and businesses around the world; and moving Turkic paramilitaries from Syria to fronts in Libya and Nagorno-Karabakh, for which the local clients get to pay Turkey in gold. Not to mention continued Turkish agitation against Greece, Cypress, and Israel.
Why on earth should we extend a helping hand to lift Turkey out of the deep hole they’ve dug for themselves using shovels of bile, hate, and greed?
[Western Journal] According to Fox News host Mark Levin, the Democrats are going to keep supporting Joint Chiefs of Staff head Gen. Mark Milley because they don’t want any backlash for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
In an appearance on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show Friday night, Levin said Pelosi played "a key role in" undermining civilian control of the military under former President Donald Trump via a call she made to Milley in the days after the Capitol incursion.
While the details of the call were disclosed for the first time in excerpts from Bob Woodward and Robert Costa’s forthcoming book "Peril," Pelosi had announced the conversation shortly after it happened on Jan. 8, saying in a letter to House Democrats she’d discussed "precautions for preventing an unstable president from initiating military hostilities or accessing the launch codes and ordering a nuclear strike."
CNN reported Woodward and Costa obtained a transcript of the call.
"What I’m saying to you is that if they couldn’t even stop him from an assault on the Capitol, who even knows what else he may do?" Pelosi, who is second in line for the presidency behind Vice President Kamala Harris, said during the call, according to the book. "And is there anybody in charge at the White House who was doing anything but kissing his fat butt all over this?
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Sorry, Mark. We sorta had that figured out already. All the people who think Levin is the shizzle, tell me why things are still going the way they are with all his insight available.
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tell me why things are still going the way they are
Because Republicans are the draped crape paper ribbons on the Democratic agenda podium.
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[American Greatness] he United States should be at its pinnacle of strength. It still produces more goods and services than any other nation—China included, which has a population over four times as large. Its fuel and food industries are globally preeminent, as are its graduate science, computer, engineering, medical, and technology university programs. Its constitution is the oldest of current free nations. And the U.S. military is by far the best funded in the world. And yet something has gone terribly wrong within America, from the southern border to Afghanistan.
The inexplicable in Afghanistan—surrendering Bagram Air Base in the middle of the night, abandoning tens of billions of dollars of military equipment to the Taliban, and forsaking both trapped Americans and loyalist Afghans—has now become the new Biden model of inattention and incompetence.
Or to put it another way, when we seek to implant our culture abroad, do we instead come to emulate what we are trying to change?
COVID CHAOS
Take COVID-19. Joe Biden in 2020 (along with Kamala Harris) trashed Trump’s impending Operation Warp Speed vaccinations. Then, after inauguration, Biden falsely claimed no one had been vaccinated until his ascension (in fact, 1million a day were being vaccinated before he assumed office). Then again, Biden claimed ad nauseam that he didn’t believe in mandates to force the new and largely experimental vaccinations on the public. Then, once more, he promised that they were so effective and so many Americans had received vaccines that by July 4 the country would return to a virtual pre-COVID normality.
Then came the delta variant and his self-created disaster in Afghanistan.
To divert his attention away from the Afghan morass, Biden weirdly focused on an equally confused new presidential COVID-19 mandate, seeking to subject federal employees, soldiers, and employees of larger firms to mandatory vaccinations—right as the contagious delta variant seemed to be slowly tapering off, given the millions who have either been vaxxed, have developed natural immunity, or both.
[American Spectator] In a just world, if the reporting of Bob Woodward and Robert Costa in their new book Peril is accurate, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark A. Milley would be sharpening his ceremonial sword and planning seppuku. Woodward and Costa have reported that Milley circumvented the chain of command and made unauthorized calls to CCP Gen. Li Zuocheng.
If Woodward and Costa got the story wrong, however, they should be the ones sharpening their swords. Although more reliable than most in Big Media, Woodward has reported many stories of questionable accuracy over the years. There was the dubious "potted plant" signal for the equally dubious "Deep Throat," the imaginative deathbed confession of CIA Director William Casey, and the misinterpreted "slam dunk" quote by former CIA Director George Tenet among others.
More troubling than what Woodward may have misreported is what he did not report at all. Like so many of his colleagues, he has repeatedly betrayed the American public by ignoring stories of major consequence. As it happens, his single greatest oversight involves China, specifically its role in the 1996 presidential election.
Woodward was not lacking opportunity. He wrote a book about the 1996 election, The Choice, and had better access to key players than any reporter in Washington. Yet somehow he failed to mention that Chinese interests bought and paid for President Bill Clinton’s victory over Bob Dole. To miss the most striking feature of a campaign he covered in depth suggests not incompetence on Woodward’s part, but complicity.
There was a lot to miss. In the way of background, the Democrats got drubbed in the 1994 mid-terms and blamed Clinton for the losses. The media were as dismayed as the Democrats. Historians tracing the date of their shift from a tolerable bias to an intolerable corruption should look to this election and the two years that followed. Few reporters wanted to give the scary new House Speaker Newt Gingrich a Republican president, and many did what they had to do to prevent it. Woodward was among them.
With an approval rating at a dangerously low 45 percent, Clinton was looking at a one-term presidency. If he were to have any chance in 1996, he would have to raise money, lots of it. With the financially strapped DNC hesitant to pony up, he and Hillary promptly headed to the one place that welcomed his business, the Riady crime family HQ in Indonesia.
The ethnically Chinese Riadys, Mochtar and son James, had started investing in Clinton while he was still governor of Arkansas. More than once they bailed him out during the 1992 campaign and not just for the sport of it. In 1994, Clinton paid his Chinese loan sharks some of their vig by getting their "man in America," John Huang, a job in the Commerce Department. In May of that same year, Clinton paid more of it by "delinking" human rights from the renewal of China’s most favored nation status.
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Woodward is probably as bad or worse of a drooling stupe than Bidet. Washington DC deserves them both, as it has cultivated them. They are also roundly deserved by their fans and admirers.
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[WND] Former President Donald Trump theorized this week that alleged traitor Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is being protected by the Biden administration because he knows too much about last month's disaster in Afghanistan.
Milley allegedly twice called a high-ranking Chinese military official during Trump’s final months in office to warn him about Trump’s alleged mental state. That’s a claim being published in a new book called "Peril" from Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa.
Trump shredded Milley in a statement released earlier this week over the claim. On Wednesday, he floated the possibility that Milley only has a job at this point because he knows too much about President Joe Biden’s chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan.
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Harold Macmillan was once asked what the most troubling problem of his Prime Ministership was. ‘Events, my dear boy, events,’
Anyone who is all in on the deep state never losing doesn't really understand chance.
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ChiComs almost certainly are blackmailing Hunter Biden's dad.
Remember that Hunter & The Big Guy were up to their eyeballs in baksheesh via their Chinese military front-company partner. And of course the Chinese have all the disgusting, twisted and incriminating videos, emails and texts from Hunter Biden's laptop.
The Bidens are walking national security risks. Easy pickings for the Chinese.
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The last few days Biden has been clawing his way to the right. I think he realizes the lefties surrounding him are turning out to be losers and their mistakes are sinking him.
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed [ENGLISH.AAWSAT] It is not easy to forget that terrible day, and even after 20 years it is still disturbing and frightening that it can happen again anywhere in the world, and dreadfully replicable.
Two decades later, the number of al-Qaeda gunnies has increased, their areas of deployment have expanded, recruitment continues, and their weapons have evolved. They are in training camps in Afghanistan, Syria, Iraq, Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... Continued on Page 49
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If it happens it's because an (alleged) majority voted for it. Make sure you tell you neighbors with Bidet signs "You voted for this" when it happens.
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Um, this isn't hard.
We were not surprised. Read what the AQ and ISIS leaders are saying...they mean it. OBL told everyone what he was going to do and he did it. Target the leaders and financiers that yap about attacking the US.
Agree on the AQ as an idea...Be aware of the literature given out by the mosques here in the states...if Wahab or Ibn al Taimiyyah are the scholars they follow, then that area will live perpetually one minute away from a terrorist attack.
We need to build the lawfare capability to win - we need the authorities established up front to respond...the AUMFs, the law of war needs to be expanded to deal with ununiformed enemy combatants, test what we have in the Military Commissions and fix the problems in the law, and make sure our federal laws support. Do this now rather than sit around and complain about what we don't have when it happens again.
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Hopefully I'm wrong and all their successes are classified but it doesn't seem that our intelligence services and military leaders have improved at all since 9/11.
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Oh, it will happen. And afterwards the PTB will be upset to find a lack of inclination to 'step up' from the population at large.
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Ref #5: Hopefully I'm wrong and all their successes are classified but it doesn't seem that our intelligence services and military leaders have improved at all since 9/11.
You are "wrong" about nothing, with the possible exception of the date.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...46th president of the U.S. 
[Western Journal] According to Fox News host Mark Levin, the Democrats are going to keep supporting Joint Chiefs of Staff head Gen. Mark Milley because they don’t want any backlash for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Extremely difficult to gain access to the Secret Service presidential motor pool driver's detail. Other measures must be utilized. 
[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] It is not easy to forget that terrible day, and even after 20 years it is still disturbing and frightening that it can happen again anywhere in the world, and dreadfully replicable.
Ref #5: Hopefully I'm wrong and all their successes are classified but it doesn't seem that our intelligence services and military leaders have improved at all since 9/11. 
