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Thursday, 15 June
00:34
You Have No Idea Thank Fake News "IndyWatch Feed World"
QUESTION: Hi,
Russia seems so far to lose the war in Ukraine with relatively low
tech weaponry. How do you see things turnaround according to
Socrates?
What cards do they have left?
Russian Airforce has been rather inactive so far? Nukes?
Scary and dangerous world with war mongers all over the political
landscape.
Best Regards,
JH
REPLY: Russia is not losing the war. That is all propaganda from the US/Ukraine to keep the money flowing. I have reported before that a few French soldiers who had volunteered to help Ukraine left in disgust. They were creating war crimes shooting prisoners, and torturing others, but they were selling US weapons on the black market. Even the Canadian sniper known as Wali returned to the horror stories of Ukrainian soldiers and corruption. As one returning mercenary put it that Ukraine is a corrupt fucked up society.
You have no idea what is really going on. Only after the fact when all the missing weapons during the Afghanistan War were appearing on the black market in the United States did Obama finally wake up to the real shit-show and why Washington loves endless wars they steal money from everywhere. Then CNN only reported all the missing weapons that somehow never made it to Afghanistan
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Wednesday, 14 June
00:25
Talk World Radio: Matthew Hoh on Making Peace in Ukraine "IndyWatch Feed War"
By Talk World Radio, June 13, 2023
This is the June 28 Episode, published early.
AUDIO:
Talk World Radio is recorded on Zoom.
Here is this weeks video and all the videos on Youtube.
VIDEO:
This week on Talk World Radio were talking with Matthew Hoh, who has been a Senior Fellow with the Center for International Policy since 2010. In 2009, Matthew resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan with the State Department over the American escalation of the war. Prior to his assignment in Afghanistan, Matthew took part in the American occupation of Iraq; first in 2004-5 in Salah ad Din Province with a State Department reconstruction and governance team and then in 2006-7 in Anbar Province as a Marine Corps company commander. When not deployed, Matthew worked on Afghanistan and Iraq war policy and operations issues at the Pentagon and State Department from...
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Tuesday, 13 June
19:59
The Persian Gulf: A failure of US policy "IndyWatch Feed Asia"
Washington, true to its fanatical mania for acting as the worlds policeman, has announced that it is sending more troops to the Persian Gulf in response to Irans lawful seizure of tankers that were passing through the strategic Strait of Hormuz. As the White House Press secretary John Kirby put it in a peremptory briefing: The Department of Defense will be making a series of moves to bolster our defensive posture in the Persian Gulf. To read this one cannot help but wonder at the geographical awareness of the current generation of US politicians, if they really think, given the distance between the Persian Gulf and the US, that the latter feels threatened by some other country in that region. In all the various places where the Pentagon has defensive positions in Europe, in the Persian Gulf, in the Pacific Basin, in Ukraine those restless Yankees are sowing death and destruction in order to protect someone. The question is, who? The world has seen how the US protects itself and other countries when the heroic US Army rushed to get out of Afghanistan without a twinge of remorse.
As a representative of the United States Fifth Fleet based in Bahrein announced, the Fleet is working with regional allies and partners to increase the rotation of ships and aircraft patrolling in the Strait of Hormuz. In a statement to Reuters, Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of the Fifth Fleet, insisted, dogmatically, and with little attention to political reality, that Irans unwarranted, irresponsible and unlawful seizure and harassment of merchant vessels must stop. And a representative of the United States Central Command, which controls US forces in the Middle East from its headquarters in Florida, confirmed that the US is discussing various options for pacifying the situation in the Strait with regional partners. In practice, all these discussions end up having the same result sending more American GIs to US bases, which are spreading like cockroaches in a number of different Gulf nations.
As this author has reported earlier, Iran briefly seized two tankers in this region, and also claimed that it had forced a...
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Monday, 12 June
14:02
Mike Pence The Neocon GOP Presidential Candidate "IndyWatch Feed World"
Former Vice President Mike Pence plans to run in the 2024 US Presidential Election with the goal of pushing the nation into a global conflict. Part of his rhetoric is bashing former President Trump for having diplomatic relations with Russia, despite working under him for four years. If elected, Pence said he plans to offer unlimited support to Ukraine to defeat Russia.
Pence criticized Bidens handling of the war. Unlike DeSantis and Trump who criticized Biden for abandoning America First policies and providing Ukraine with a blank check, Pence believes Biden has not done enough to fight Russian aggression. Biden has been slow in providing military resources to Ukraine, Pence stated in a recent CNN town hall interview. At this point, the only thing America has not offered Ukraine is troops directly on the ground. He wants to completely end all diplomatic ties with Russia and expel all Russian diplomats from America.
Although Mike Pence never served in the military, he has spoken at West Point numerous times and told the troops to prepare to fight his coming wars. The Washington Post released an article in 2019 entitled Mike Pence Predicts War Everywhere in a Few Years. Here is the alarming speech he gave at West Point in May of that year:
It is a virtual certainty that you will fight on a battlefield for America at some point in your life. You will lead soldiers in combat. It will happen. Some of you will join the fight against radical Islamic terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq. Some of you will join the fight on the Korean Peninsula and in the Indo-Pacific, where North Korea continues to threaten the peace, and an increasingly militarized China challenges our presence in the region. Some of you will join the fight in Europe, where an aggressive Russia seeks to redraw international boundaries by force. And some of you may even be called upon to serve in this hemisphere. And when that day comes, I know you will move to the sound of the guns and do your duty, and you will fight, and you will win. The American people expect nothing less. So, wherever youre called, I urge you to take what you learned here and put it into practice. Put your armor on, so that when not if that day comes, youll be able to stand you...
Sunday, 11 June
04:29
Taliban sharply reduces opium cultivation in Afghanistan "IndyWatch Feed World"
The Taliban appears to have sharply reduced opium cultivation in Afghanistan, the world's largest producer of the illicit drug. In April 2022, the militant group banned the cultivation, production, and trafficking of all illicit narcotics. Annual opium cultivation has dropped by as much as 80 percent compared to last year, according to new research by David Mansfield, a leading expert on Afghanistan's drugs trade who worked with Alcis, a British firm specializing in satellite analysis. Mansfield said the Taliban had "exceeded expectations and reduced poppy cultivation to levels not seen since 2001," when the militant group was ousted from power by the U.S.-led invasion. Around 80 percent of the opium produced in Afghanistan comes from the southern province of Helmand. Mansfield said satellite imagery appeared to show that in Helmand "poppy cultivation has fallen from more than 120,000 hectares in 2022 to less than 1,000 hectares in 2023."