A very good point that no one has mentioned so far. There’s no way that we won’t ..Staffers likely are already collecting material that will make them millions, and be tripping over themselves to be the first to publish. It depends in some degree of course, on how far the vengeful arm of the Dems will reach, and some of those guys may have to go into deep hiding. But we certainly will see what you mention.
The Dems are obviously planning the 1000 year Reich, and we can only hope that the Repubs will get down deep and dirty to counter and overcome them.
In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they gave carte blanche to their “cleaners” (assuming they have them) to dispose of inconvenient Dems. They all do it, we hear of accidental decease of persons who turn out later to have been inconveniently placed, until, supposedly “providence” took a hand. The present and impending situation is THAT serious, making such “extra-curricular” interference almost a necessity.
China looms LARGE….
By the way I have “Edi”t but don’t get “Daily Digest”… Occasionally Edit fails to show. Nothing is perfect……
I am now in my “philosopher pose” It won’t last….
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Well, he didn’t “happen to be”, he was installed because of the result of massive fraud, and “happens to be” is a very disengenuous, off-hand way” of describing the guy, who would never have been President in a1000 years, but for that. I prefer more direct descriptions except when I want to be subtle, and this is becoming more rare as I become less enamoured pf playing with language, preferring to be straight to the point, leaving little to the imagination. The whole scam was a SCAM, a theft, a swindle, a fraudulent lection, aided and abetted by most of those in power, who, because of their very positions, should have been neutral, and in fact were Constitutionally ordered to be so. THEY broke all the Constitutionally installed Laws regarding Elections, as well as their duty on many connected matters.. I refer of course to the SC.
Biden, except for his deeply engrained cunning, is a lot worse than Forrest Gump who, although accidentally where he was and what he became, was very determined and definite when he got down to it and did it well. Biden, on the other hand, if and when, as it usually does, the teleprompter either slows or goes too fast, is at a complete loss, and not much better when it works smoothly-as you point out. Emotionless, his lips hardly move, that shark-like slit in his face, below his nose, seems mainly for appearance, as being an actual human being, rather than a tailor’s dummy. I’m sure he’s medicated to appear more active than his normal more vegitative state.
He did a fine job tripping a few times, once nearly onto his face, when ascending to the plane the other day, then at the top, a senile give-away, a jaunty sort of “double-skip”, to show how active and young he was.
Paul Eidelberg pointed out in the 70s, that detente between Russia (then the Soviet Union) and the US meant more pressure on Israel, but when they were at odds, then the US would support Israel more because the Russians supported the Arabs. Now the other side is the Palestinian Arabs, Iran and it’s proxies such as Hezbollah and the Houthis, and the Arab camp is shifting more towards Israel, so as the Biden regime tilts away from Israel and its Arab allies and towards Iran, that gives an incentive to Russia to fill the void on Israel’s side, as it tried to do against the US for a short time from 1948 on. But, Iran already has alliances with Iran, not to mention Turkey and Syria, in place. Only Iran never compromises at all, in its enmity to Israel even on specific issues. So, it’s hard to say what will happen. China is also in the mix. But, Israel is wise not to put all of its eggs in any one basket.
Iran, Russia and Turkey signal growing alliance
For years, Turkey would say one thing to Moscow and Tehran while telling Washington’s Iran hawks that Turkey was “against Russia and Iran.”
By SETH J. FRANTZMAN MARCH 20, 2021 21:25Email Twitter Facebook fb-messenger
Presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran, Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Vladimir Putin of Russia hold a joint news conference after their meeting in Ankara, Turkey April 4, 2018 (photo credit: UMIT BEKTAS / REUTERS)
Presidents Hassan Rouhani of Iran, Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Vladimir Putin of Russia hold a joint news conference after their meeting in Ankara, Turkey April 4, 2018
(photo credit: UMIT BEKTAS / REUTERS)
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was very content during a trip to Turkey on Friday. He said it was productive and smiled alongside his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu. He said it was a “wonderful” trip where he spoke with his “brother Cavusoglu.”
The trip signals the growing alliance that Turkey and Iran have in the region.
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Zarif said: “As before, constructive engagement on bilateral and regional issues. Ultimate aim: Apply Iran and Turkey’s experience of 400 years of peace to our region. Together, anything is possible.”
Meanwhile Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan took Russia’s side in a growing spat with the US, slamming President Joe Biden who is widely hated by Turkey’s ruling party.
He claimed that Biden’s recent comments about Russian President Vladimir Putin were unacceptable and “not fitting of a president.”
This isn’t just because of the tone of Biden’s comments, in which Biden called Putin a “killer.” Turkey’s president and regime often lashes out at other countries and leaders, belittling and threatening them with insults.
The messaging from Ankara is that Russia and Turkey are growing together as allies and partners. They work together in Syria, Libya and the Caucasus; their goal is to supplant US influence and divide up many areas of the Middle East between themselves.
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They seek to control violence in these areas. For instance, Turkey got the Syrian rebels, who were fighting the Russian-backed Syrian regime, to change their course and fight Kurds so the Syrian regime could prosper. Then Turkey shipped the rebels to fight elsewhere to weaken the rebellion. Ten years after the start of the Syrian conflict, it is mostly Turkey that is responsible for sidelining the rebellion.
Now, enter Iran.
Iran, Turkey and Russia have worked together in the Astana process since 2017 to manage Syria – and they exclude the US. Zarif’s trip to Istanbul is just one of many in which Turkish and Iranian counterparts work together and demonstrate their warm connections.
Turkey wants more trade with Iran via rail links and also wants to work with Tehran in other ways. From Russia, Ankara wants more S-400s and military hardware.
Turkish media illustrated how the relations are growing. Turkish daily Hurriyet reported that “Hakan Fidan, the head of Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization, also attended the meeting, sources from the Foreign Ministry said on condition of anonymity.”
A recent deal between Baghdad and Erbil for the security of the Sinjar province and intensified dialogue between Turkey and Iraq is aimed at curbing the PKK’s (Kurdistan Workers Party) influence in a wider region in northern Iraq and eastern Syria.
MEANWHILE, Turkey, Russia and Qatar issued a joint statement last week following talks between their foreign ministers in Doha, vowing to “defend Syria’s territorial integrity in accordance with the UN Charter,” the report notes.
Iran welcomes “any initiative that eases the pain of Syrian people and achieves stability and peace in this country,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Saeed Khatibzadeh said, stressing that the Astana talks among Ankara, Moscow and Tehran were one of the most successful initiatives to put an end to the Syrian conflict.
A month ago there were rumors that Turkey and Iran might clash in Iraq, but now it appears that the countries have put aside any differences there as well. Turkey wants Iran to help it fight Kurds, which it alleges are part of the PKK.
Ankara is trying to ban opposition parties by labeling them “terrorists” linked to the PKK. The US has expressed concern, but Turkey hopes it can model its authoritarian regime on Russia and Iran. It is learning from Russia how to deal with dissidents – like how Russia dealt with Alexei Navalny.
For many years, Ankara would say one thing to Moscow and Tehran about partnership while telling Washington’s Iran hawks that it was “against Russia and Iran.”
Turkey would mobilize its strong DC lobbyists to push narratives from how Ankara was “fighting terrorism” to how it was challenging Russia and Iran “geopolitically.”
However, the reality was that Turkey was always working closely with Russia and Iran. It invented an imaginary “terrorist” threat from the Kurdish region of Afrin in 2018 to justify an invasion. It even pretended to be fighting ISIS when it was allowing ISIS families to transit from Raqqa to Idlib.
ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was found a few hundred meters from the Turkish border in Idlib. Turkey’s use of its lobbyists to claim it was confronting Iran was only a talking point for the Trump administration.
Even after the administration left, some of those who were close to Turkey continued to push this narrative. But even Turkey is now claiming to distance itself from some Muslim Brotherhood extremist activists in a bid to try to patch things up with Arab states in the region.
This is the long-term goal of Turkey in finding an accommodation with states in the region and bringing together its alliance with Iran and Russia to legitimize its continued occupation of parts of Syria and bases in Iraq.
@ Edgar G.:
I wonder if he will see leaks and autobiographies by disgruntled former staffers discussing the behind the scenes decision making in the Biden administration the way we saw during the Trump administration or if they will refrain out of fear of being cancelled or worse.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
It makes more sense to speak of the Biden administration’s or regime’s policies than Biden’s policies. He’s clearly just an empty suit, not that his policies towards, Israel, the PA, and Iran, were all that different when he had all of his faculties.
@ Edgar G.:
And who, in more than one of the few videos of his public appearances, helplessly asks somebody off camera what he’s supposed to do next.
@ Edgar G.:
Tom Hanks in Forest Gump, I meant to say. There is no longer an edit feature.
@ Edgar G.:
I think “happens to be” works because he is like in “Forest Gump” or Peter Sellers in “Being There.” He just a guy, who could be any guy with dementia, who was installed as president, somehow, and who somehow finds himself in the oval office, and signs whatever is put in front of him by his handler or handlers who remain off camera. Why “Simon Parkes” president?
@ Sebastien Zorn:
A very good point that no one has mentioned so far. There’s no way that we won’t ..Staffers likely are already collecting material that will make them millions, and be tripping over themselves to be the first to publish. It depends in some degree of course, on how far the vengeful arm of the Dems will reach, and some of those guys may have to go into deep hiding. But we certainly will see what you mention.
The Dems are obviously planning the 1000 year Reich, and we can only hope that the Repubs will get down deep and dirty to counter and overcome them.
In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they gave carte blanche to their “cleaners” (assuming they have them) to dispose of inconvenient Dems. They all do it, we hear of accidental decease of persons who turn out later to have been inconveniently placed, until, supposedly “providence” took a hand. The present and impending situation is THAT serious, making such “extra-curricular” interference almost a necessity.
China looms LARGE….
By the way I have “Edi”t but don’t get “Daily Digest”… Occasionally Edit fails to show. Nothing is perfect……
I am now in my “philosopher pose” It won’t last….
@ Sebastien Zorn:
Well, he didn’t “happen to be”, he was installed because of the result of massive fraud, and “happens to be” is a very disengenuous, off-hand way” of describing the guy, who would never have been President in a1000 years, but for that. I prefer more direct descriptions except when I want to be subtle, and this is becoming more rare as I become less enamoured pf playing with language, preferring to be straight to the point, leaving little to the imagination. The whole scam was a SCAM, a theft, a swindle, a fraudulent lection, aided and abetted by most of those in power, who, because of their very positions, should have been neutral, and in fact were Constitutionally ordered to be so. THEY broke all the Constitutionally installed Laws regarding Elections, as well as their duty on many connected matters.. I refer of course to the SC.
Biden, except for his deeply engrained cunning, is a lot worse than Forrest Gump who, although accidentally where he was and what he became, was very determined and definite when he got down to it and did it well. Biden, on the other hand, if and when, as it usually does, the teleprompter either slows or goes too fast, is at a complete loss, and not much better when it works smoothly-as you point out. Emotionless, his lips hardly move, that shark-like slit in his face, below his nose, seems mainly for appearance, as being an actual human being, rather than a tailor’s dummy. I’m sure he’s medicated to appear more active than his normal more vegitative state.
He did a fine job tripping a few times, once nearly onto his face, when ascending to the plane the other day, then at the top, a senile give-away, a jaunty sort of “double-skip”, to show how active and young he was.
Paul Eidelberg pointed out in the 70s, that detente between Russia (then the Soviet Union) and the US meant more pressure on Israel, but when they were at odds, then the US would support Israel more because the Russians supported the Arabs. Now the other side is the Palestinian Arabs, Iran and it’s proxies such as Hezbollah and the Houthis, and the Arab camp is shifting more towards Israel, so as the Biden regime tilts away from Israel and its Arab allies and towards Iran, that gives an incentive to Russia to fill the void on Israel’s side, as it tried to do against the US for a short time from 1948 on. But, Iran already has alliances with Iran, not to mention Turkey and Syria, in place. Only Iran never compromises at all, in its enmity to Israel even on specific issues. So, it’s hard to say what will happen. China is also in the mix. But, Israel is wise not to put all of its eggs in any one basket.
@ Edgar G.:
I wonder if he will see leaks and autobiographies by disgruntled former staffers discussing the behind the scenes decision making in the Biden administration the way we saw during the Trump administration or if they will refrain out of fear of being cancelled or worse.
@ Sebastien Zorn:
It makes more sense to speak of the Biden administration’s or regime’s policies than Biden’s policies. He’s clearly just an empty suit, not that his policies towards, Israel, the PA, and Iran, were all that different when he had all of his faculties.
@ Edgar G.:
And who, in more than one of the few videos of his public appearances, helplessly asks somebody off camera what he’s supposed to do next.
@ Edgar G.:
Tom Hanks in Forest Gump, I meant to say. There is no longer an edit feature.
@ Edgar G.:
I think “happens to be” works because he is like in “Forest Gump” or Peter Sellers in “Being There.” He just a guy, who could be any guy with dementia, who was installed as president, somehow, and who somehow finds himself in the oval office, and signs whatever is put in front of him by his handler or handlers who remain off camera. Why “Simon Parkes” president?
@ Sebastien Zorn:
I like “pseudo-president”,…… “vaguely president”………”asterisked president”….and there are more…..”Simon Parkes president” “Chinagate president”………
. That’s how he should be referred to. Good one.