I think the following article is significant as a signal of the ongoing and future rift of MAGA geopolitics from that of the globalist Uniparty.
Kushner can be construed as an infinitely more sophisticated version of Hunter Biden.
I would definitely welcome Ric Grenell as Secretary of State or Defense; and, this has nothing to do with his gayness. The man is grade-A MAGA and brilliant.
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Kushner’s Deal with Pro-Russia Serbs Raises Hackles
Belgrade development, joined by former Trump envoy Ric Grenell, includes a memorial to “victims of NATO aggression”
MICHAEL ISIKOFF
JUN 5
After weathering criticism over its reliance on a gusher of Saudi cash, Jared Kushner’s investment fund made its first big splash last month when it announced it had signed a $500 million deal with the Serbian government to develop a high end real estate project in downtown Belgrade on the site of a bombed down army building destroyed during the 1999 Kosovo war.
Jared Kushner’s Saudi investment deal provoked scorn. His project with pro-Russia Serbian leader Vučić also has a troubling element (AFP via Getty Images) .
But the fine print of the deal includes a commitment that seems destined to stir up even more international controversy: a pledge by Kushner’s firm, Affinity Partners, to construct a “memorial dedicated to all the victims of NATO aggression”— an allusion to the U.S.-backed bombing campaign that brought the Serbian government of Slobodan Milosevic to its knees a quarter century ago in response to its relentless campaign of repression and savage massacres of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.
Among those exercised over the Kushner deal is retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who served as NATO Supreme Allied Commander during the war.
While he has no objection to a U.S. firm investing in Serbia, the planned revisionist memorial—officially proclaiming America’s adversary in the war to have been a victim of “aggression”— “is worse than a reversal” of U.S. policies in the region, said Clark in an interview with SpyTalk. “It’s a betrayal of the United States, its policies and the brave diplomats and airmen who did what they could to stop Serb ethnic cleansing.”
Just as concerning as the whitewashing of Serbian war crimes, Clark said, is the just announced deal between Kushner’s firm and the Serbian government of Aleksander Vučić, a pro-Russian hardliner who once served as minister of information in Milosevic’s government. The memorial project needs to be viewed in a wider geopolitical context: It serves the Kremlin’s core interests in undermining NATO at a time the alliance is engaged in resisting Russian aggression in Ukraine.
“This is part of a broader Russian intelligence movement to split, discredit and weaken NATO,” Clark said. “It’s Russian imperial pushback…Should Kushner participate in this? Of course he should not.”
Neither Kushner nor representatives of his Miami-based firm responded to requests for comment. But the remarks by Clark are likely to draw further attention to a project that has generated strong criticism from Serbian opposition leaders as well as questions about potential conflicts of interest if Kushner’s father in law, Donald Trump (for whom he is once again raising money) is elected president in November.
Former NATO Commander Gen. Wesley Clark says Kushner “should not” make a deal that includes an anti-NATO memorial. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson)
Those questions have intensified in recent weeks in light of the reported role in the Belgrade deal of Richard Grenell, Trump’s former U.S. ambassador to Germany and acting director of national intelligence, who has forged close ties to Serbian officials and made no secret of his hopes of becoming secretary of state in a second Trump administration.
The New York Times recently reported that Grenell is a partner of Kushner’s in the proposed $500 million project, which includes plans to build a luxury hotel, retail space and 1,500 residential units on the bombed out site of the former Serbian Army headquarters pulverized by NATO forces under Clark’s command in 1999.
He was quoted by the Times as saying he saw the project—an earlier version of which he pushed during a period he also served as Trump’s special envoy to the region—as promoting “healing” between the U.S. and Serbia. (Efforts to reach Grenell for comment for this story were unsuccessful.)
Grenell and Vučić at a Belgrade news conferemce in Jan. 2020. The former Trump envoy and acting DNI has shown an affinity for the pro-Russian Serbs. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)
Kushner’s post-White House dealings have drawn considerable scrutiny ever since it was disclosed that his newly created overseas investment firm had gotten the bulk of its funding, $2 billion, from the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund—a lucrative money source that critics charged was a payoff for Kushner’s efforts to protect Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Salman (MBS) in the aftermath of the murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi. (That charge has been somewhat mitigated by more recent developments in which the administration of President Biden, who once vowed to make Saudi Arabia a “pariah” state, has cultivated MBS in hopes of forging a security agreement that includes a peace deal with Israel. )
But it is the Kushner firm’s agreement to construct the memorial with its language about NATO aggression that got Clark’s ire. NATO’s bombing of Serbia, which commenced in March, 1999, he said, was the culmination of a “years long effort” by the U.S.-European alliance to stop relentless attacks on Kosovo villages and towns by the then-Serbian government of Milosevic, once known as “the Butcher of the Balkans,” who died in a United Nations detention cell in The Hague in 2006 while on trial for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
“There was no NATO aggression,” said Clark. The war was a response “to an ethnic cleansing policy that was started in the late 1980’s by Milosevic. Determined to stamp out Kosovo separatists rebelling against Serbian repression, Serbian forces would “surround a village, then send in the paramilitary, taking women and raping them, shooting families.” At one point, Clark said, he recalled meeting with Milosevic during an all-night session in Belgrade in 1998, in which he quoted the Serbian leader as saying, “we know how to deal with these people.”
Isikoff?
Really?
The Department of Defense’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, or CDAO, leveraged its marketplace for fast-tracking the acquisition of innovative technologies to award Silicon Valley-based Palantir a contract to develop a data-sharing ecosystem — a tool that will help the Pentagon with its connect-everything initiative.
CDAO announced last Thursday that the ecosystem — known as Open Data and Applications Government-owned Interoperable Repositories, or Open DAGIR — will enable the Department of Defense to scale its use of data, analytics and artificial intelligence capabilities through greater collaboration with private sector partners.
Palantir said it received a $33 million prototype Other Transaction award from CDAO “to rapidly and securely onboard third-party vendor and government capabilities into the government-owned, Palantir-operated data environment to meet priority combatant command digital needs.”
The contract was awarded through CDAO’s Tradewinds Solution Marketplace, which allows private firms of all sizes to pitch DOD their AI, machine learning and data capabilities through five minute infomercial-style videos. Once companies are accepted into the marketplace, Pentagon components can search the platform to view videos of solutions from industry partners. Companies, in turn, are able to access post-competition, readily awardable contracts.
Hmmm. Right after he attended Bilderberg...
An important set of allegations, with world wide implications.
A timely piece given the summer battle immediately ahead is to kill off Trump’s presidency and massage 💆♂️ the antiquated hatred for Russia.
To stoke the flame for a proper war against Russia, over their daring and deadly serious operation to defend and secure their own western border from US-NATO encroachments, could run more smoothly if Trump is put down in jail, and Kushner’s lawful but bold buy in Serbia can be made a crime from top to bottom.
Anti-Trump Isikoff is seen quoting anti-Russia and anti-Trump General Wesley Clark remarking in something called SPYTALK.
How Perfect.
🔥 “This is part of a broader Russian intelligence movement to split, discredit and weaken NATO,” Clark said. “It’s Russian imperial pushback… Should Kushner participate in this? Of course he should not.” 🔥
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YES. That it IS.. And long overdue. We are only now learning that NATO has formed a HEGEMONIC operation of Leninist communism, using a modern and less bloody tactic than war— the Colour Revolutions.
I think we lose this battle of informing American’s ideology issues.
The appalling loss and low esteem for learning world history is long entrenched.
Never giving neither Russia nor Israel a political break since very roughly, the mid-1940’s, is embedded in the American psyche.
Only the Christian faith has retained sympathy for Israel, and the glory of Russia defeating to their own death, the NAZIS, in that brutal Lenningrad winter, is looong forgotten.
I feel sorry for us.
Rita