RichardPearce comments

The simple reality is that those who can't see that the scofflaw regime is committing genocide against Palestinians are suffering from the same thing that those who couldn't see that Chauvin committed murder against Floyd George.

They'll scream that the Holocaust justifies it, but it doesn't because the people who have been victims of the genocide, all the way back to the beginning all thise decades ago did NOT commit the Holocaust.

They'll scream that October 7th justifies it, but of course it doesn't because what the scofflaw regime had done to Palestinians BEFORE October 7th was worse than what happened on October 7th EVEN IF YOU ignore how much of October 7th was 'friendly fire' and how much of it was, like 'babies torn from incubators by Saddam Hussein's troops', easily debunked.

What's interesting is how, according to American news, friendly country's democracy crises like this one, the South Korean one etc, and the 'brutality' with which unfriendly countries put down efforts to create a crisis by refusing to accept the results of elections and the legitimacy of democratically elected governments are all somehow Russia's fault.

Of course, by next year, similar situations will all somehow be China's fault, too.

Russia knows that a 'Revolution of Indignity' could be in the making, where Western Ukrainians overthrow Zelensky and put in place someone who will do what Zelensky campaigned on doing, acting in the best interests of Ukraine rather than Washington, becoming the interface between the EU and BRICS with good relations with both.

Russia remembers how the perception of a war that 'could have been won' lay at the heart of Germany starting WW2 and so such a forced end that Trump is proposing merely sets the stage for a reprise of Obama's Folly whenever Washington thinks it could successfully seize control of the agricultural and industrial heartland of what used to be a united peaceful Ukraine.

Love how the scofflaw regime's position is 'if you don't let us kill whoever we want, whenever we want, we'll kill MORE OF YOU'

But while Biden hasn't (yet) ordered American troops to openly attack Iran, it seems likely Trump will grant the scofflaw regime's most fervent wish.

Of course, there's a saying 'be careful what you wish for.' and we could be about to see why.

The irony is that the decision by the terrorists to make another play for 'legitimacy' may backfire completely.

At the time these cities were liberated from their pockets of control (events marked by celebrations amongst the civilians) nobody was willing to cross the red lines of the unprovoked, illegal invasion and occupation forces of the US government.

But the past few years have put a significant dent in the capacity (and blown a giant hole in the reputation) of the American military.

Now, the American government would scream about it being illegal and immoral and tantamount to being an active participant if China and Iran were to supply a significant amount of advanced weaponry to the legitimate, internationally recognized, democratically elected Syrian government, because the American government is shameless when it comes to hypocrisy but with so much of its vast weapons storage sites full of empty warehouses, whether they can shield even their illegal bases, let alone the territory around them, is questionable.

Especially given that Trump is going to have to slash the American military budget to mitigate the inflation his 'tariffs' will cause.

On the subject of the scofflaw regime's hatred of even Palestinian livestock

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3946020/

Yes, they hate Palestinian cows

Unfortunately no matter how thoroughly a scofflaw regime claim is debunked, it becomes 'unchallengeable fact' in our 'independent media' almost immediately.

Oh, and seeing as there is no 'border' where non-Jewish Palestinians are not the majority of the legal population of Israel, with the PERSONAL right to return inside those borders that no collective agreement extinguishes, the fantasy of a 'two state solution' only works if genocide is successfully carried out.

Seeing as BRICS has a policy against participating in the 'American sanctions' game anymore, trade in BRICS state currencies, have been steadily shedding greenback reserves and debts, all he's doing is drawing attention to how shaky the 'mighty dollar' has become.

Not only will his tariffs violate existing agreements (meaning ICJ rulings that will haunt America's economy for decades) and crash the American economy (imports become more expensive immediately, building domestic capacity takes years) but are going to incentivize a veritable stampede of countries wanting to become member states (needing to get approved by Russia, China, and Iran) or at least 'associate state' status.

You'd think someone who tried the same sort of thing 'personally' only to have to be rescued by the Sauds would understand the outcome.

Funny how ISIS magically becomes 'insurgents' when they attack the DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT OF SYRIA (sure the people who deem the scofflaw regime and the Azovian regime 'democracies' will insist that there is no way Syria is a democracy despite, well, the facts, and the definition of that term fitting the Syrian government as well as a secondhand suit, but fitting those other 2 regimes as well as a child's doll's dress would fit Arnold Schwartzenegger) rather than 'terrorists', 'extremists', or 'militants'.

Did the illegally invading and occupying American forces supply them weapons, or Netanyahu?

It is worthy of note that one of the first acts of the scofflaw regime, all those decades ago, was to demand everyone under its control give up their ID papers so it could alter their recorded history.

Everyone who's papers indicated they'd been born in Palestine were issued new papers, showing their birthplace as 'Jew' or 'Arab'.

That's how far back the 'former' terrorists (who now called themselves the Israeli Defense Forces) and the racist regime have been trying to erase Palestine from existence (aka the Crime of Genocide)

It is also interesting that they didn't differentiate between Muslim and Christians, which gives the lie to the problem somehow being rooted in 'radical Islamism'.

The problem is rooted in ZIONISM.

There's a very big hole in the claim that a 'two state solution' is possible.

The individual right of the Refugees to return to the places they've been kept from returning to by the scofflaw regime through military violence, illegal detainment (aka kidnapping) because they tried to exercise their individual human rights are NOT something that can be eliminated by a collective deal with the PA, or Hamas.

All the pretence about there being some magical border that would make 'Israel' a 'Jewish majority state' that wouldn't make the most fractal gerrymandered 'voting district' in the US seem to be 4 straight lines is just that, pretence.

As is the statement that a place that denies voting rights to enough of its legal population that the clear majority ethnic group is reduced to a minority of the electorate is 'a democracy'.

PS, fans of Louis Bujold's Vor series got a glimpse of what the scofflaw regime's claims about 'not blocking food aid from Gaza' really are rooted in, the main hero Miles encounters it in a POW camp where the 'bad guys' are 'allowing the POWs to access their own medics', but accessing a doctor who has no instruments or supplies, well...

So NB is admitting that the thousands of Palestinians that Netanyahu had had kidnapped and was holding hostage by October 6th 2023 constituted war crimes, and the Palestinian response of October 7th was SELF DEFENSE.

Indeed that's what the US and the scofflaw regime were, and are, afraid the ICC would/will find...and what history will, too.

Read the UNIFIL reports to get a picture of who's the more trustworthy narrator of events in the period since THIS ceasefire was announced (it's also the more trustworthy narrator for the events in the period since the previous ceasefire and the new one)

And read the PCHRGaza reports too.

Biden seems to be focused on one thing, making sure Trump and the Republicans 'eat' the loss for Obama's Folly the way Biden and the Democrats had to 'eat' the loss for Bush's invasion of Afghanistan.

Given the scofflaw regime's inability to abide by ceasefire deals, and it's (and it's most determined foreign backer's) contempt for international laws, well, we might HEAR news reports that the ceasefire is holding, but it might be a good idea to check the UNIFIL reports.

The unrest was NOT 'triggered by' the Gaza Uprising, the unrest AND the Gaza Uprising were triggered by the scofflaw regime's ongoing Crimes Against Humanity, including deadly attacks on, kidnapping of, and unrelenting oppression against Palestinians (see the PCHRGaza reports for the period if you doubt those things were happening, includes dates, names, and acts) and the scofflaw regime's refusal to abide by the previous ceasefire deal with Lebanon (see the UNIFIL reports for the period) as well as scofflaw regime attacks on Syria, and Iran.

That the narrative of the coverage runs counter to the facts is easily confirmed, which begs the question why the media's fact checking process hasn't caught it for decades.

Like the 'imminent ceasefire' between the scofflaw regime and Palestine, the 'imminent ceasefire' between the scofflaw regime and Lebanon is likely to be nothing but propaganda aimed at thwarting efforts to end support for the scofflaw regime's slaughter of civilians.

The problem is that the scofflaw regime isn't even pretending it would abide by such a deal, no matter how much these deals favor it, partly because they would open the door to domestic investigations of how many Jewish civilians it slaughtered and claimed were killed by Palestinians, partly because it would open the door to a corruption charge against its leader, and partly because it would allow the White Bloc media to admit how many civilians, and how few 'militants' the scofflaw regime has killed in Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon, and rob the censorship of how many scofflaw militants, and how few civilians, were killed in the Gaza Uprising and the events that followed.

Funny how some people don't understand that there was 'no universal snapback of sanctions' because Iran DID NOT, AND STILL HASN'T violated the JCPOA

prompting Tehran to violate the pact's nuclear limits

That is the impression we are supposed to have, but not an accurate description. Those limits that exceeded the NNPT limits were ALWAYS only conditional on the other measures in the agreement being met, just like the lifting of 'sanctions' were. And the clauses that would have allowed any American President to 'reimpose' the sanctions IF Iran had violated ANY terms of the agreement also allowed Iran to 'snap back' to the regular NNPT limits, which they did after showing great tolerance over the failure of the US, even under Biden, to meet the terms regarding 'sanctions relief'.

So, 'we' somehow didn't escalate by allowing Zelensky more freedom in his weapons choices, but when Russia responded by adding freedom to its commanders in their weapons choices, THAT was escalation.

Of course, that makes sense to 'us', but 'we' are less than 1/3 of the world. And while that didn't matter last century, because 'we' were so much more powerful it didn't matter what 'they' thought, that power gap has shrunk to the point where what 'they' think matters, even as we refuse to acknowledge it.

It seems there are some people who haven't read the PCHRGaza reports for the 'period of relative calm' before the Gaza Uprising.

Well, maybe they haven't, or maybe they have and are hoping you never will.

Because if you did, your opinion of the people who make counterfactual statements like 'Israel doesn't kidnap people' etc would be pretty harsh.

The thing is that now every country that supplies weapons, ammunition, money, etc to Israel is, at best, on the same moral level as China, Iran, and North Korea IF you see the accusations that they're supplying weapons etc to Russia.

And that's BEFORE Trump has taken office again.

In a couple months, when America tries to lecture other countries from the moral high ground, what do you think the vast majority of the world's reaction will be?

But, wasn't the purpose of first giving the Azovians all those missiles, and then giving them free rein on how to use them supposed to allow them to ADVANCE making the giving of them a supply of banned under international law landmines to 'slow the Russian advance' (aka the Azovian retreat) pointless.

It says everything that now the scofflaw regime is openly stating that it considers 'ceasefires' to ban the OTHER side from firing, even in retaliation/self defense, while letting it keep firing.

I mean, it was an open secret that it did so (as in its opening fire days, hours, even minutes after basically every such deal was documented in the public record, but somehow remained secret from the American media and politicians) but now it isn't even pretending.

Read the UNIFIL reports.

Read the PCHRGaza reports.

When the friends of a scofflaw regime start accusing another country of 'attempts to undermine global security', well, irony doesn't seem an adequate word to convey what's happening.

Well, with right wingers blocking the attempts on resolving wars, taxing the people who simply dodge national taxes, and dealing with the environment, that leaves food. That it is a bit of a slap at America (overthrowing the last democratically elected government a united peaceful Ukraine had, backing the scofflaw regime, both caused food insecurities/famine, as has America's robbing...oops 'sanctioning' Venezuela, Cuba) though the arrogant ignorance and self deception of people like Biden means they don't really recognize that.

I wonder being shuffled off to the side at APEC prompted him to go 'dark'?

Anyone want to bet this 'gamechanger' isn't going to be as ineffective as the Kursk invasion, the Spring Offensive, the tanks etc?

Someone might want to remind Musk that the sort of people who Twitter reached in Brazil voted for Bolsanaro, and the only way he won was by getting Lula locked up and literally silenced on phony charges.

On the other hand, Brazil is not trying to suppress TikTok the way that the places where Twitter has influence are, so Musk's not going to be anywhere near as effective at 'interfering with democracy' in Brazil (or Russia, China, South Africa, Iran... as he was in the US.

The Ukrainian President who turned on his domestic supporters (who thought they'd voted for someone committed to stopping the west's war on the east, resuming friendly relations with Russia, and would tell the EU that they'd have to accept a Ukraine that was friendly with all its neighbors) is saying he's just as willing to turn on his foreign backers.

Zelensky and Trump are cut from the same cloth.

The US under Biden was protectionist, aggressive, but, in the end, stalemated or defeated.

Under Trump, everything will be 'turned up to eleven', including the end result.