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Tuesday, 11 July
05:45
Need more cannon fodder: Ukraine stepping up mercenary recruitment effort "IndyWatch Feed World"
Ukrainian units formed from foreign mercenaries have suffered high battlefield casualties, forcing Kiev to change its approach to finding hired fighters, the Russian Defense Ministry claimed on Monday. In a statement, the ministry alleged that the Ukrainian military command views foreign fighters as cannon fodder, sending them into the riskiest missions and placing them at the back of the line when it comes to the evacuation of injured troops. This has made recruiting fighters in European countries such as Poland much harder for Kiev, the assessment claimed. Ukraine has consequently ramped up efforts to find candidates in other parts of the world, according to the Russian Defense Ministry, which stated that a recruitment drive is underway in Argentina, Brazil, Afghanistan, Iraq, and areas of Syria that are "under American control."
Monday, 10 July
17:14
The graveyard of empires: The top investments as the world order collapses "IndyWatch Feed World"
"You have the watches, but we have the time." The Taliban often referred to this old Afghan saying when discussing their fight against the Americans. Ultimately, they were proven correct. After almost two decades of conflict, an insurgent army from one of the world's poorest nations inflicted a decisive military defeat on the US, the global superpower that upholds the unipolar world order. The US government's total failure in Afghanistan the longest war in American history signifies a crucial moment and turning point in world history. The Soviet Union collapsed about two years after the Red Army was defeated and withdrew from Afghanistan. As we approach the second anniversary of the American retreat, could a similar fate be in store for the US?
17:06
Osama bin Laden The Man Who Died Twice "IndyWatch Feed War"
HenryMakow.com July 9, 2023
In early May 2011, Pieczenik confirmed to Alex Jones that the alleged recent raid on bin Ladens compound was a FABLE because Osama bin Laden had already been dead for the best part of a decade.
by Patrick OCarroll (henrymakow.com)
Death #2, May 2, 2011. Click to enlarge
In 2002, a certification that Osama bin Laden had died in 2001 was given by Dr. Steve Richard Pieczenik MD, an award-winning luminary of Harvard Medical School and a retired official of the US Regimes State Department who served in the regimes of Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and GHW Bush.
Pieczenik stated: As a physician, I knew that CIA physicians treated bin-Laden and that it was on the intelligence roster that bin-Laden had MARFAN SYNDROME.
Pieczenik stated that the US Regime already knew that bin Laden was dead [or as good as dead] before it even launched the Afghanistan Invasion on 7 Oct 2001.
MARFAN SYNDROME is a degenerative genetic disease of the connective tissue for which there is no permanent cure. It shortens the lifespan of the sufferer, and it can cause instant death from the sudden rupture of the aorta.
12:25
An Accident Waiting to Happen: NATO Looks to Asia "IndyWatch Feed War"
Since the end of the Cold War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has distinctly strayed from its original purpose. It has become, almost shamelessly, the vessel and handmaiden of US power, while its burgeoning expansion eastwards has done wonders to upend the applecart of stability.
From that upending, the alliance started bungling. It engaged, without the authorisation of the UN Security Council, in a 78-day bombing campaign of Yugoslavia at least what was left of it ostensibly to protect the lives of Kosovar Albanians. Far from dampening the tinderbox, the Kosovo affair continues to be an explosion in the making.
Members of the alliance also expended material, money and personnel in Afghanistan over the course of two decades, propping up a deeply unpopular, corrupt regime in Kabul while failing to stifle the Taliban. As with previous imperial projects, the venture proved to be a catastrophic failure.
In 2011, NATO again was found wanting in its attack on the regime of Muammar Gaddafi. While it was intended to be an exemplar of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine, the intervention served to eventually topple the doomed Colonel Gaddafi, precipitating the de-facto partitioning of Libya and endangering the very civilians the mission was meant to protect. A continent was thereby destabilised. The true beneficiaries proved to be the tapestry of warring rebel groups characterised by sectarian impulses and a voracious appetite for human rights abuses and war crimes.
The Ukraine War has been another crude lesson in the failings of the NATO project. The constant teasing and wooing of Kyiv as a potential future member never sat well with Moscow and while much can be made of the Russian invasion, no realistic assessment of the wars origins can excise NATO from playing a deep, compromised role.
The alliance is also proving dissonant among its members. Not all are exactly jumping at the chance of admitting Ukraine. German diplomats have revealed that they will block any current moves to join the alliance. Even that old provoking power, the United States, is not entirely sure whether doors should be open to Kyiv. On CNN, President Joe Biden expressed the view that he did not think its ready for membership of NATO. To qualify, Ukraine would have to meet a number of qualifications from democratisation to a whole range of other issues. While hardly proving very alert during the interview (at one point, he confused Ukraine with Russia) he did draw the logical conclusion that bringing Kyiv into an alliance of obligatory collective defence during current hostilities would automatically put NATO at war with Moscow.
With such a spotty, blood speckled record marked...