Palestine, Syria, US, Ukraine/Russia, BRICS

2025 is looking a lot like 2024

Jan 09, 2025

Published: 2025-01-09

Genocide, Annexation & Ethnic Cleansing

Israel's army are running ethnic cleansing operations in Gaza (for 459 days), the West Bank (with some help from the Palestinian Authority) and southern Syria. The daily murder of children in Gaza is already a hell, no matter what Trump threatens.

The US State Department, under self-declared Zionist Anthony Blinken, has finally declared that there is a Genocide occurring in the region. Blinken chose Sudan, just across the Red Sea from Israel/Palestine, demonstrating the political rather than legal nature of the State Department's use of the term.

In Syria, Israel's army's operations are both annexation and ethnic cleansing. Buildings and orchards have been destroyed, residents driven from their homes and communities. The Zionist military "today controls the dams that supply 40 percent of Syria’s potable and agricultural water" and is

constructing 13 permanent military bases in the newly occupied Syrian territories, putting in concrete emplacements and building or improving fenced roads between them. It is building gun emplacements around dams.

[Craig Murray]

In Syria's north Turkish backed militias are warring with US backed Kurdish militia's over territory and resources, with water again being a focus.

The newly re-branded Wahhabi HTS "government" in Damascus is facilitating:

incidents of beatings and summary executions of non-Sunnis; that the “democratic revolution” will start to think about an election only in four years’ time; that women judges have all been dismissed; that starting Monday there are official Sharia patrols on the streets of Damascus “advising” women to cover their hair, and that for the first time, also starting yesterday, the hijab is official compulsory uniform in most Syrian state schools.

The West's media, who were there to usher in the "reformed" Jihadists have largely left. An exception, French journalist Sylvain Mercadier, was captured by the armed Zionists, blindfolded, beaten and detained illegally for hours. The Zionists stole his digital storage and warned that he was "too close" to their operations.

President-elect Trump has repeated his bellicose remarks, ignoring his campaign pledge to not take the US into more foreign wars. He has threatened to annex Greenland (from NATO member Denmark) and the Panama canal from "Monroe doctrine" western-hemispheric neighbour, Panama.

The Obama appointee allowed to be voted for to run the US empire, Biden, has been out to lunch all along. The narrative managers at US commercial media came clean on the cognitive decline, just as Biden was about the leave office, and called it a scoop.

If one had ever given credence to the mendacious MSM, how shafted would one feel by that "scoop"?

NATO versus Russia

On the ground in Kursk and across the fronts in Ukraine, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU), aided by US targeted, precision missiles being fired into Russia, are still folding.

The AFU invasion of Russia in Kursk has collapsed back to where it started around Sudzha. A recent proclaimed "offensive" in Kursk, supposedly meant to impress Trump envoy Kellogg, got smacked down hard by the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (AFRF). Dima reported that the AFRF knew when it was going to happen, where and with which forces. The result was a predictable debacle, with even more dead Ukrainian soldiers and destroyed NATO hardware. Given that this has been a consistent result during the war over the entire last year, it must be seen as US/UK/Ukrainian policy.

North of Kupiansk, the AFRF has crossed the Oskol river to create a new beachhead in northern Kharkiv.

Further south, the AFRF's months earlier advance to the eastern bank of the lower Oskol has swelled. The AFRF is advancing southwards across the entire line from the Oskol to Lugansk.

Progress has been non-existent for the AFRF around Siversk for a year. The Russian General in charge of the front was sacked and replaced a couple of months ago. Some progress has begun there for the AFRF, but remains minor.

Further south, the AFRF has now well in excess of 50% of Chasiv Yar, a town which has been contested for a year. The AFU's defence of it has been impressive against the AFRF's advantages in munitions and forces.

Continuing south, the AFRF has almost completed the capture of Toretsk, another city which has been contested for a year. Its capture is significant in that it is likely to form the eastern edge of a new cauldron which the AFRF are possibly attempting to build by pushing north, to the east of Pokrovsk.

The AFRF advances in southern Donetsk remain rapid and frankly, astonishing. The AFRF chose not to attack the city of Pokrovsk, but from its outskirts deny its use as a major logistics center. The AFRF has swept all before it from south of Pokrovsk right up to it, and to its west. The AFRF now has options before it, including open fields with no defensive lines, in southern Donetsk running west into Dnipropetrovsk and further west above (north of) the east-west defensive lines in Zaporozhye.

The lines in Kherson have been static for many months.

Political Developments

Dmitri Trenin, a respected Russian foreign policy specialist, has begun advocating a potential post-conflict architecture in Ukraine for Russia.

BRICS

Indonesia, a nation of 280 million with extensive mineral and agricultural resources and a rich cultural history, has accepted an invitation to become a full BRICS member.