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  • What military action occurred while Bill Clinton was president?

    06/23/2025 5:26:51 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 10 replies
    the gunzone ^ | November 8, 2024 | by Gary McCloud
    Military Actions During the Clinton Presidency (1993-2001) The presidency of Bill Clinton, spanning from 1993 to 2001, was a period of significant military intervention despite the end of the Cold War. The United States engaged in several key operations, most notably in the Balkans (Bosnia and Kosovo), Somalia, Iraq, and Sudan/Afghanistan utilizing air power, ground forces, and cruise missile strikes. .. Key Military Operations Under Clinton... The initial U.S. involvement in Somalia predates Clinton, beginning under President George H.W. Bush with Operation Restore Hope in 1992 to alleviate a severe famine. However, under Clinton, the mission transitioned to UNOSOM II...
  • Hezbollah’s Dirty Secret: Why It Won’t Join Iran’s War

    06/22/2025 4:23:55 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 10 replies
    jfeed.com ^ | JUN 21, 2025 | Eli Gotthelf
    ...while Iran takes hit after hit, one major actor remains conspicuously silent: Hezbollah. Is that surprising? Not entirely. But this silence, especially now, when Iran is under unprecedented pressure, points to something deeper: Hezbollah is trapped in a brutal strategic Catch-22 — perhaps the deadliest in its history. If it joins the war — it risks total annihilation by Israel.If it abstains — it risks losing the Iranian patron that underwrites its very existence... Hezbollah isn’t just an ally of Iran. It’s its creation. Since 1982, the IRGC has poured everything into the group: training, weapons, money, and ideology. Every...
  • Clinton Slams Netanyahu While Iran Bombs Israeli Cities | WATCH

    06/22/2025 3:55:23 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 31 replies
    jfeed.com ^ | JUN 21, 2025 | Gila Isaacson
    Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, speaking today (Saturday), called for urgent efforts to defuse the escalating Israel-Iran war, criticizing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s motives and highlighting the devastating civilian toll. In remarks made during a public event, Clinton suggested that Netanyahu’s aggressive stance against Iran is partly driven by a desire to remain in power, stating, “Mr. Netanyahu has long wanted to fight Iran, because that way he can stay in office forever and ever.” Clinton urged de-escalation, expressing hope that President Donald Trump and other leaders would work to calm the situation. “I think we should be trying...
  • Obama’s Final Drone Strike Data

    06/22/2025 3:44:20 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 4 replies
    Council on Foreign Relations. ^ | January 20, 2017 | Micah Zenko
    As Donald Trump assumes office today, he inherits a targeted killing program that has been the cornerstone of U.S. counterterrorism strategy over the past eight years. On January 23, 2009, just three days into his presidency, President Obama authorized his first kinetic military action: two drone strikes, three hours apart, in Waziristan, Pakistan, that killed as many as twenty civilians. Two terms and 540 strikes later, Obama leaves the White House after having vastly expanding and normalizing the use of armed drones for counterterrorism and close air support operations in non-battlefield settings—namely Yemen, Pakistan, and Somalia. Throughout his presidency, I...
  • BOOM! Trump Flattens Iran’s Nukes in Daring Strike — “Fordow is Gone”

    06/21/2025 5:46:39 PM PDT · by daniel1212 · 244 replies
    jfeed.com ^ | JUN 21, 2025 | Eli Gotthelf
    In a bold show of force, U.S. jets flattened Iran's key nuclear sites overnight — delivering a crippling blow to Tehran's atomic ambitions and sending a clear message: the West will not tolerate nuclear terror. In a stunning and historic move, U.S. President Donald J. Trump confirmed early Sunday morning that American forces carried out a large-scale airstrike targeting three of Iran's most guarded nuclear facilities: Fordow, Natanz, and Esfahan. The operation, described by senior Israeli intelligence officials as "a strategic masterstroke," comes after weeks of escalating tension between Iran and Israel, during which Tehran launched multiple missile barrages into...
  • “We Had One Last Shot — We Took It”: IDF Chief Reveals Israel’s Last-Minute Total War Order

    06/21/2025 5:47:26 AM PDT · by daniel1212 · 22 replies
    jfeed ^ | JUN 20, 2025 | Yair Kleinbaum
    Dramatic revelations confirm that the launching of a full-scale military campaign against Iran was made "at the last possible moment" - under growing pressure from intelligence warnings. Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir addressed the Security Cabinet on the eve of the attack, presenting the final operational plans. Several cabinet members reportedly heard the details for the first time during that meeting.... Security officials estimate Iran currently possesses around 2,000 ballistic missiles capable of reaching Israel’s home front - a figure that could have doubled within a year due to Iran's accelerating production. Another major achievement has been the...
  • OPINIONDershowitz: Iran Declared War on the United States — casus belli — on numerous occasions against the United States.

    06/17/2025 7:07:27 PM PDT · by daniel1212 · 37 replies
    newsmax ^ | Alan Dershowitz
    Most recently it was responsible for critically injuring an American soldier. Since Hamas' attack Oct. 7 attack on Israel, estimates run as high as 100 Iranian-backed attacks across the Mideast on U.S. bases, ships, and service personnel. Iran has acted through its surrogates and proxies, including the Houthis, Iraqi militia, Hezbollah, and others. Under the laws of war an act of war can be committed by the principal nation itself — which in this case is Iran, or surrogates acting on its behalf — with its approval or support. There can be no doubt, both as a matter of law...
  • The End of Neoconservatism

    05/26/2025 8:53:30 PM PDT · by EnderWiggin1970 · 50 replies
    The American Conservative ^ | 5/26/25 | Peter Van Buren
    In what can be called a victory speech over failed neoconservative foreign policy, President Donald Trump proclaimed the end of 30-some years of existing foreign policy in the Mideast. The ideology dragged the U.S. through pointless wars from Libya to Yemen is now dead. At an investment conference in Riyadh, in a speech little-commented on by the mainstream media, Trump said, “In the end, the so-called nation builders wrecked far more nations than they built. And the interventionalists [sic] were intervening in complex societies that they did not even understand.” For the first time since the First Gulf War in...
  • Will Patel and Bongino investigate this massive FBI scandal that nobody’s talking about?

    04/19/2025 8:15:32 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 40 replies
    Revolver News ^ | April 17, 2025 | Staff
    Charles McGonigal may be the most corrupt FBI official in modern history—and yet somehow, his name has barely made a blip on the radar. This wasn’t some mid-level pencil-pusher. McGonigal was one of the top counterintelligence agents at the FBI’s New York field office. He was directly involved in the bureau’s most sensitive operations, including the infamous “Crossfire Hurricane” probe into (phony) Trump–Russia “collusion.” And after that whole fraudulent mess, it turns out that he was secretly taking money from a Kremlin-linked oligarch and helping shake down Albanian oligarchs on the side. You can’t make this up, right? Now here...
  • BREAKING: Conor McGregor announces run for president of Ireland

    03/20/2025 12:52:36 PM PDT · by Macho MAGA Man · 44 replies
    Jack Posobiec on Twitter X ^ | March 20, 2025 | Jack Posobiec
    Jack Poso 🇺🇸 @JackPosobiec BREAKING: Conor McGregor announces run for president of Ireland From humanevents.com 2:42 PM · Mar 20, 2025
  • French MEP Torches EU Elites: 'Trump Fixes Problems, You Create Them' (Video)

    03/11/2025 5:38:46 AM PDT · by george76 · 7 replies
    RAIR Foundation ^ | March 10, 2025 | Amy Mek
    In a fiery speech before the European Parliament, French MEP Virginie Joron (National Rally) delivered a brutal critique of the bloated, self-serving bureaucracy in Brussels, contrasting it with Donald Trump’s decisive leadership. The conservative politician exposed the EU’s wasteful spending, its ideological crusades, and its relentless war on free speech—all while ordinary Europeans suffer under the weight of failed policies. Joron began by declaring what European leaders refuse to admit: Trump, in just one day, accomplished more for his people than Brussels has in fifty years. While EU elites drown in mountains of paper, producing meaningless policies, Trump made real...
  • Pentagon ran secret anti-vax campaign to undermine China during pandemic

    06/14/2024 4:57:24 PM PDT · by blueplum · 4 replies
    Reuters ^ | 14 Jun 2024 | By CHRIS BING and JOEL SCHECTMAN
    The U.S. military launched a clandestine program amid the COVID crisis to discredit China’s Sinovac inoculation – payback for Beijing’s efforts to blame Washington for the pandemic. One target: the Filipino public. Health experts say the gambit was indefensible and put innocent lives at risk.... ...The clandestine operation has not been previously reported. It aimed to sow doubt about the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other life-saving aid that was being supplied by China, a Reuters investigation found. Through phony internet accounts meant to impersonate Filipinos, the military’s propaganda efforts morphed into an anti-vax campaign.....
  • Ukraine’s counter-offensive is failing, with no easy fixes

    07/21/2023 11:22:24 PM PDT · by AmericaFirst101 · 60 replies
    The UK Telegraph ^ | July 21, 2023 | Richard Kemp
    With no significant breakthrough after six weeks, it is worth asking whether Ukraine’s counter-offensive can ever succeed, for it certainly doesn’t look to be succeeding now. (clip) The question to be asked is: are the Ukrainians prepared – militarily, politically, financially – to carry out months and potentially years of these (frontal assault) attacks to penetrate 1914-18 style defensive belts of tank traps, barbed wire, minefields, bunkers and trench lines? The UK Ministry of Defence has described these Russian fortifications as “some of the most extensive systems of military defensive works seen anywhere in the world”. (clip) Ukraine is already...
  • Chile’s Conservative Parties to Lead Constitution Rewrite

    05/08/2023 9:10:42 AM PDT · by CFW · 15 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 5/8/23 | Tom Phillips
    Chile: major blow to president as far right triumphs in key constitution vote Chile’s far right has won an emphatic victory in a vote to select the committee that will rewrite its dictatorship-era constitution, after José Antonio Kast’s Republican party secured 22 of its 50 seats in a major blow to the progressive president Gabriel Boric. Boric beat Kast, an ultra-conservative lawyer often compared to Brazil’s former leader Jair Bolsonaro, in the 2021 presidential election. But on Sunday night it was Kast who was celebrating after 35% of voters backed Republicanos, the extreme-right party he founded in 2019. “This is...
  • What the Neocons Got Wrong - And How the Iraq War Taught Me About the Limits of American Power

    03/11/2023 5:45:38 AM PST · by JonPreston · 99 replies
    Foreign Affairs ^ | 3/10/23 | Max Boot
    Shortly after September 11, 2001, I became known as a “neoconservative.” The term was a bit puzzling, because I wasn’t new to conservatism; I had been on the right ever since I could remember. But the “neocon” label came to be used after 9/11 to denote a particular strain of conservatism that placed human rights and democracy promotion at the forefront of U.S. foreign policy. This was a very different mindset from the realpolitik approach of such Republicans as President Dwight Eisouenhower, President Richard Nixon, and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and it had a natural appeal to someone like...
  • Why I can’t say anything about Ilhan Omar

    02/05/2023 10:02:49 AM PST · by Eleutheria5 · 19 replies
    Arutz Sheva ^ | 5/2/23 | Jack Engelhard
    Truth is, I shouldn’t be writing anything about Ilhan Omar, because I lack journalistic distance and detachment on this topic. The problem is…I can’t stand this squirrel who wormed her way in from Somalia and who now personifies everything that is wrong with America…and whose remarks against Jews and Israel affect us all in the most negative and harmful ways. As a member of Congress, her hateful comments travel far and wide and are taken seriously, often by the wrong people. Which means that I can’t be fair, nor objective, nor reasonable to this person who by herself stinks up...
  • House removes Ilhan Omar from Foreign Affairs Committee in party-line vote

    02/02/2023 10:28:56 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 74 replies
    The House passed a resolution to remove progressive Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) from her position on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs in a party-line vote on Wednesday. Top Republicans had vowed to remove her from the panel, citing her inflammatory remarks made in 2019 about Israel, with the Minnesota Democrat having suggested politicians who support the Jewish state are motivated by campaign dollars — remarks that were slammed as antisemitic by members on both sides of the aisle. The House ultimately voted 218-211, with one Republican — Rep. David Joyce (R-OH), a member of the Ethics Committee — voting...
  • The GOP must stop being gracious winners: Boot Ilhan Omar from the House Foreign Affairs Committee. No more Marquess of Queensberry rules

    01/30/2023 8:15:53 AM PST · by SeekAndFind · 16 replies
    American Thinker ^ | 01/30/2023 | Rajan Laad
    A few days back, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) formally removed Rep. Adam Schiff and Rep. Eric Swalwell from the House Intelligence Committee.This was the right move by McCarthy.Both Schiff and Swalwell are slippery characters.Swalwell had a long association or affair with a Chinese spy while Schiff's activity promoted the Steele dossier that led to the amplification of the Trump-Russia collusion hoax, and eventually the Mueller Probe.Schiff reacted, like all Democrats do, by calling the GOP a party of white nationalists and anti-Semites.McCarthy also plans to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee.Omar is a known anti-Semite who...
  • GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) is a no vote on denying Ilhan Omar seat on Foreign Affairs Committee

    01/24/2023 7:43:24 PM PST · by SeekAndFind · 57 replies
    Hotair ^ | 01/24/2023 | Karen Townsend
    Rep. Victoria Spartz (R-IN) is going to vote no on the decision to deny Democrat Rep. Ilhan Omar a seat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. She announced her opposition to Kevin McCarthy’s push to remove three Democrats from committees on Tuesday. It’s all about consistency for her. She said it was wrong for Pelosi to remove Republicans from committees and it is wrong for McCarthy to do the same.“Two wrongs do not make a right. Speaker Pelosi took unprecedented actions last Congress to remove Reps. Greene and Gosar from their committees without proper due process. Speaker McCarthy is taking...
  • United States Delegation Arrives in Venezuela

    06/28/2022 7:23:45 AM PDT · by Ebenezer · 32 replies
    NotiUno.com (Spanish-language news brief) ^ | June 28, 2022 | NotiUno.com
    (Translation) A delegation from the United States government arrived in Venezuela to deal with several items of a bilateral agenda and continue talks that began in March with Caracas, President Nicolás Maduro announced. According to the information, National Assembly President Jorge Rodríguez welcomed "an important delegation from the government of the United States that has arrived in Venezuela" and works "to give continuity to relations, to the bilateral agenda," Maduro announced on the state-run VTV [television] channel.