Showing posts with label Lindsey Graham. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lindsey Graham. Show all posts

Friday, 24 April 2020

Friday, 11 October 2019

Vovan and Lexus strike again


They Got Him’: US Sen. Graham Duped by Russian Pranksters, Calls Kurds ‘Threat’ to Turkey



11 October, 2019

Legendary Russian political pranksters Alexey Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov cold-called US Sen. Lindsey Graham, a close ally of US President Donald Trump, posing as the Turkish defense minister. Graham frankly divulged the administration’s view that US Kurdish allies are a “threat” to Turkey and that Washington sympathizes with Ankara’s concern.

With the Turkish military bombarding Kurdish People’s Protection Unit (YPG) positions in northern Syria amid a US drawback, the Trump administration is coming under almost as heavy fire for abandoning their ostensible allies. 


However, while Trump began to let the mask slip on Wednesday in justifying the withdrawal by listing off US conflicts Kurds didn’t fight in, Graham had already pulled the whole facade off the administration in early August, when Russian pranksters got him to admit how he and Trump felt about the Kurds, believing he was speaking to the Turkish defense minister.
Your YPG Kurdish problem is a big problem,” the South Carolina senator believed he was telling Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar in the early August phone call, a copy of which was obtained by Politico and published Thursday. In reality, Graham was speaking with Stolyarov and Kuznetsov, who’ve pranked every politico from US Rep. Adam Schiff to Washington Examiner journalist Tom Rogan and US Special Representative for Venezuela Elliott Abrams.

I told President Trump that Obama made a huge mistake in relying on the YPG Kurds,” Graham continued. “Everything I worried about has come true, and now we have to make sure Turkey is protected from this threat in Syria. I’m sympathetic to the YPG problem, and so is the president, quite frankly.”

The Kurdish people, between 35 and 45 million strong and spread out across four countries in the Middle East, enjoy a level of autonomy maintained primarily at the tip of a rifle. Turkey has considered their militias and political parties to be terrorist organizations for decades, and their relationships with governments in Syria, Iraq and Iran have been only slightly less hostile, although Iraqi Kurds do enjoy a higher level of legally recognized regional government.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan considers Kurdish organizations in Turkey and Syria to be of the same ilk, accusing the YPG of being in league with the Kurdish Workers Party (PKK), a communist party and Kurdish militia fighting against Ankara since the 1980s. He claims the invasion of eastern Syria that began earlier this week aims to prevent cross-border attacks on Turkish forces, although there’s little evidence that such incursions take place.

The US invaded eastern Syria in 2014, ostensibly in the interests of helping Kurdish militias defeat Daesh, which happened this past Spring. However, while the US occupation of the oil-rich territory kept Turkey from attacking the Kurds, it did so by depriving Damascus of sovereignty within its own borders that it’s entitled to by international law. The Americans never received permission to enter the country.

That wasn’t the end of the pranksters’ antics, though: a few days later, they got Graham back on the phone again by keeping up the Akar charade.
We want a better relationship with Turkey. That’s exactly what he wants,” Graham told the duo about Trump in the second call. He also urged the Anatolian country to rethink its purchase of Russian-made S-400 air defense systems, which had drawn Washington’s ire and gotten Turkey kicked out of the F-35 program. 

And this case involving the Turkish bank, he’s very sensitive to that,” Graham said, referring to a US case involving Reza Zarrab, an Iranian-Turkish gold trader and client of Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, that has become one of many sensitive points between Ankara and Washington. “The president wants to be helpful, within the limits of his power.”
I like President Erdogan,” Graham told the pranksters. “I think President Trump likes President Erdogan. I think he’s a strong man, and we need to deal with strong people."

Graham’s spokesperson, Kevin Bishop, confirmed the call’s authenticity to Politico. “We have been successful in stopping many efforts to prank Senator Graham and the office, but this one slipped through the cracks,” he said. “They got him.”
It’s no secret Senator Graham has often traveled to Turkey and continued to speak with many members of Turkish government, including President Erdogan, about the relationship between our two countries,” Bishop continued. "He has been clear he wants a stronger relationship and often talked about the importance of maintaining peace in northern Syria to prevent the reemergence of ISIS [Daesh].”

"With Turkey’s invasion into northern Syria, the drive for better relations between our two countries has suffered a body blow. Turkey should immediately withdraw their military forces, and America should reinstitute the safe zone concept to keep the peace in the region. Until this is done, Senator Graham will continue to push for severe, biting sanctions against Turkey," he said.
We have to wonder if now Graham will add to his 2015 laundry list of ways to destroy a cell phone?






Friday, 21 June 2019

America's NEW military doctine is to use nuclear weapons!!



Nuclear weapons 

America's new military 

doctrine



Seemorerocks

Image result for dr strangelove riding the bomb


This morning I woke to an article in the Duran saying that America would not attack Iran because "America is a spent force".

Indeed it is and in my mind it makes America more dangerous than ever. A declining power run by madmen is far more likely to use its ultimate weapon.

I don't think that I am the only one with this fear.

I also woke to this tweet by Suzie Dawson:

This is what she was referring to. Spine chilling!!



I have made my own video with this.



America's new military doctrine - nukes


Watching an item from TruNews this morning I stumbled on something I had not come across before.

The US DoD has had this on its website since June 11 until last night, when it was taken down.


Here is the wording of the first page of the document.

My fervent hope is that someone has noticed this and recorded it for posterity.




THE INSPIRATION FOR "DR. STRANGELOVE"

Take note of the quote from Herman Kahn (1923-83)






It will be known by very few that Herman Kahn and his ideas provided the inspiration for the character from the 1960's movie, Dr, Strangelove.


The following two scenes from the movie capture the insanity that is abroad today. Another generation of insane, madmen is sitting in a different situation room an entire generation later.

This people think they can WIN, and that is all that matters.






LINKS


Wars and Rumors of Wars: War Planners and Politicians Convene in White House Over Iran


Graham Responds to Iran Briefing


Jamarl Thomas: Iran Shoots Down Spy Drone, Trump Downplays It, Mainstream Media Wants Trump To Bomb Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adykOv1vf64



"TECHNICAL" DIFFICULTIES

I get the feeling that someone is looking over my shoulder as I put this (and the rest of the blog).

My computer, which had a new certificate of health last week and was working perfectly is back to its old tricks and it only happens when something matters.