Posted on 12/10/2015 9:06:18 PM PST by amorphous
” We see lots of new equipment in the media, but most of their stuff is old, broken, and they don’t have enough spare parts. They don’t have the professional military we do and their junior leaders and officers are still afraid to make decisions (a necessity in combat).”
Talking of the US or Russia? Russia is doing fine.
Their leaders are bombing ISIS and Syrian rebels. Ours are not.
Our leaders are funding the F-35, which doesn’t fly combat missions. They are funding bombs that are exploding all over Syria.
This isn’t 1990, so your comments are dated.
Yes, absolutely. They were idealistically minded leftist communists who had made several visits to the USSR; and yet the KGB decided, that come Revolution, or drastic changes in political structure of India - they will have to go.
ED GRIFFIN:
Why is that?
YURI BEZMENOV:
Because they know too much. Simply, because, you see the useful idiots; the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of Soviet or Communist or Socialist or whatever system; when they get disillusioned, they become the worst enemies. That’s why my KGB instructors specifically made the point, “never bother with leftists, forget about these political prostitutes - aim higher” this was my instruction. Try to get into, uh, large circulation, established conservative media. Reach filthy rich movie makers, intellectuals in so-called academic circles. Cynical, ego-centric people who can look into your eyes with angelic expression and tell you a lie. This are the most recruitable people; people who lack moral principals - who are either too greedy or too, uh, suffer from self-importance, uh, they feel that they matter a lot. Uh, these are the people who KGB wanted very much to recruit.
ED GRIFFIN:
But to eliminate the others; to execute the others, don’t they serve some purpose - wouldn’t they be the one’s to rely on?
YURI BEZMENOV:
No they serve purpose only [up] to the stage of destabilization of a nation. For example, your leftists in [the] United States; all these professors and all these beautiful civil rights defenders. They are instrumental in the process of the subversion; only to destabilize a nation. When the job is completed, they are not needed anymore. They know too much. Some of them, when they get disillusioned - when they see that Marxist-Leninist come to power. Obviously they get offended; they think that THEY will come to power. That will never happen, of course; they will be lined up against the wall and shot. But they may turn into the most bitter enemies of Marxist-Leninists when they come to power; and that’s what happened in Nicaragua. You remember most of these former Marxist-Leninists were either put to prison or one of them split and now he’s working against the Sandinistas
It is possible that Putin looks to employ nukes on a relatively small scale in this conflict. The ‘paper tiger’ becomes a lion and joins the exclusive club now occupied by the US. ISIS provides a perfect target for nukes— no one would defend them.
Of course, the likelihood of escalation from there is exponential.
After the Islamic State group, the extremist organization that controls large parts of Iraq and Syria, took responsibility for the slaughter in Paris Friday night, many people may be confused about the name of the group, which has several different iterations. The terrorists are known variously as ISIS, ISIL, the Islamic State and Daesh -- so what's the difference?
Islamic State: This is the English version of what the terror group calls itself. It also claims to be a caliphate, which is a state ruled by a caliph, which is Arabic for "successor," meaning successor to the Islamic Prophet Muhammad. The last generally acknowledged Muslim caliphate was the Ottoman Empire, which ended in 1923. Many governments and media refuse to use this name because it gives the group legitimacy as a state and a representative of Islam.
ISIS: The militant group, which began as the Iraqi branch of al Qaeda during the U.S. occupation, gained this name after it invaded Syria in 2013. ISIS is short for "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria," or "Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham," which is an old Arabic term for the area.
ISIL: ISIL translates to "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant." The Levant is a geographical term that refers to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean -- Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Jordan. It’s the term the U.S. government uses since the "Levant" is apparently a better translation for al-Sham, the Arabic name for the region.
Daesh: This is a term the militant group hates. French President François Hollande has used it since the attacks Friday, and first used it in September 2014. It’s an Arabic acronym for "al-Dawla al-Islamiya fi al-Iraq wa al-Sham." It can sometimes be spelled DAIISH, Da'esh or Daech, a popular French version. The hacktivist group Anonymous and President Barack Obama have used the term since the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris.
Thanks to Arabic wordplay, it could also be an insult. "Depending on how it is conjugated in Arabic, it can mean anything from 'to trample down and crush' to 'a bigot who imposes his view on others,'" Boston Globe writer Zeba Khan reported in October 2014. ISIS threatened "to cut the tongue of anyone who publicly used the acronym Daesh, instead of referring to the group by its full name," the Associated Press wrote in September 2014.
http://www.ibtimes.com/isil-isis-islamic-state-daesh-whats-difference-2187131
Obama's use of ISIL taunts Israel in a language Muslims understand. The state of Israel didn't exist during the period of time the word "Levant", which represents that area of the world, came into use.
Actually he died in 1993 in Windsor, Canada. May he rest in peace. He has left a fine legacy.
I've read a little Solzhenitzen (sp?) years ago.
And goodness knows, "palaeos" (being sedevacantists, Feenyites, and Rushdoonyian "reconstructionists") think that's a bad thing.
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