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Hamas’ gift to Vladimir Putin
Politico ^
| October 10, 2023
| JAMIE DETTMER AND CHRISTIAN OLIVER
Posted on 10/10/2023 4:41:28 AM PDT by Timber Rattler
Hamas’ brutal assault against Israel came on Vladimir Putin’s birthday.
Such a catastrophic security shock in the Middle East was probably a welcome surprise for a Russian president whose strategic priority is to divert Western support and attention away from Ukraine. A massive conflagration in Israel risks doing exactly that.
The big question is how much credit to give the Kremlin for the perfect storm of mounting crises — in Israel, Kosovo, the Caucasus and Africa — that are rearing up on America and Europe. For many, it’s tempting to see Putin as a mastermind or puppetmaster, stirring up more conflicts than the West can cope with.
(snip)
“This was probably the best birthday gift for Putin. The attack against Israel will divide attention, given the natural U.S. focus on Israel,” an EU diplomat said.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.eu ...
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Israel; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: angrybidenstooges; angryneocons; angryrussostooges; asteamingpile; bidenswar; cialies; hamas; iransfriendputin; iransfriendrussia; itsallaboutukraine; leftwing; looksquirrel; politico; putin; putinfansragebelow; smellslikebullshit; ukraine; warisgoodbusiness; zeeperpropaganda
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Classic KGB strategy of starting more wars than the West can handle at once. Putin's been trying hard in the Balkans and has succeeded in the Middle East.
To: Timber Rattler
If it comes from Politico, we can assume that it is merely more Marxist propaganda.
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posted on
10/10/2023 4:49:01 AM PDT
by
RoosterRedux
(A person who seeks the truth with a strong bias will never find it. He will only confirm his bias.)
To: Timber Rattler
don’t forget the Russian propagandists’ Jew-hatred ... look at the way they jump all over Zelensky, who is Jewish
notice also, that Putin has also been very careful NOT to say that a sovereign country, like Israel, has the absolute right to defend itself from external attacks
probably because then he’d have to admit Ukraine has the right to defend itself from the Russo-Nazis
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posted on
10/10/2023 4:49:01 AM PDT
by
canuck_conservative
(there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
To: Timber Rattler
Joke Biden did more to help Hamas the Putin could ever do. Blaming Putin let's Biden off the hook for his stupid policies. Will you blame Putin when the terrorist attack us in America? Putin didn't let thousands of people to cross our border. That was Biden. Wonder why Biden finished the wall in Yuma?
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posted on
10/10/2023 4:49:56 AM PDT
by
Rdct29
(The Democrats Are The New Nazi Party )
To: canuck_conservative
I can say this because I am Jewish. You are an idiot
To: Timber Rattler
For many, it’s tempting to see Putin as a mastermind or puppetmaster, stirring up more conflicts than the West can cope with. “Tempting” is the wrong word to use here. For many, blaming Putin for everything wrong in the world is part of a craven, calculated political agenda driven by globalists who are hell-bent on maintaining a state of perpetual warfare in as many places as possible.
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posted on
10/10/2023 4:54:48 AM PDT
by
Alberta's Child
(If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
To: hollywood12345
Russia treats Hamas like a country
ignore the terrorist-coddling at your peril
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posted on
10/10/2023 4:55:24 AM PDT
by
canuck_conservative
(there would be no more need for NATO, if Russia could just stop attacking its neighbors)
To: Timber Rattler
Politico. No thanks and no more money to Ukraine.
There are lots of bad guys in the world even in our own country. One person does not get to be used as the universal bad guy. China is even more involved.
In this case, it is to further the neocon desire in Ukraine and to diminish the terror situations in Israel and potentially in America which have worsened through treachery and neglect in our own ranks in favor of this nonsense in Ukraine.
We have to take care of our own house now and Ukraine will have to sit down and end the debacle for the sake of their remaining population.
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posted on
10/10/2023 4:55:25 AM PDT
by
dforest
To: Timber Rattler
Politico and the Democrats - Like Hillary says, Putin has to be behind it.
To: Timber Rattler
china
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posted on
10/10/2023 4:58:11 AM PDT
by
z3n
(Kakistocracy)
To: iontheball
“Politico and the Democrats - Like Hillary says, Putin has to be behind it.”
Spoken by one of the worlds worst humans, maybe even worse than Putin because she is inept with no talent.
What would they ever do to justify their treachery if they didn’t have the convenient use of Putin.
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:00:41 AM PDT
by
dforest
To: Timber Rattler
The coverage of the attacks by Hamas against the Israeli people is extensive, but have you paused to notice a very peculiar dynamic?
As familiar to most news consumers, various media war correspondents are embedded throughout the Israel and Gaza region. Flak jackets and helmets are worn by CNN, BBC, Fox News and all the international agencies who are covering the Israeli War. All of that footage is common and familiar.
Television streams are lit up with the continuing coverage and the audience is brought in live to the fight, despite the dangers and the military combat that is taking place throughout the area. Brave war correspondents are doing what they do, showing the public exactly what is happening on the ground as the fighting continues.
Yet, the extensive footage triggers a reminder of something….
The war in Ukraine has been raging for 20 months, and not once, not even one single time, did we see simultaneous international war correspondents delivering their reporting, showing action on the front lines, donning their protective gear and taking the audience toward the battles in a similar fashion.
The contrast between the War in Israel and the “War” in Ukraine could not be starker when viewed through the prism of what a real combat war looks like.
Why is that?
You know the answer to that question.
You might not want to absorb the truth behind this stark reality, but the war in Ukraine is an intelligence war, a creation of the U.S. State Department, CIA, and allied intelligence networks.
All of the information coming from the Ukraine War doesn’t come complete with accompanying war correspondents to give context to the statements made by the military officials on the ground in Ukraine, because there isn’t any way to connect to something that just doesn’t exist.
The “War” in Ukraine is World War Reddit. A war carried out and advanced by the intelligence system that created it. As the night life and dance festivals in Kiev continue, it would be challenging for the international war correspondents, the actual media, to deliver broadcast ground reports from Ukraine without using green screens and fabricated livestreams.
That’s why we have never seen them.
The Ukraine War is an intelligence operation, and with it comes the need for high control over the propaganda to support it. It would be troublesome for those carrying out the Ukraine operation if people were brought into the “fight” by media. Worse still, it would be very challenging to retain support for an intelligence operation, if the American and global population realized it is propaganda.
We’ve seen more footage of the war inside Israel in 48 hours than we have seen inside Ukraine in two years.
Carry on….
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:10:10 AM PDT
by
Bratch
To: Bratch
The war in Ukraine has been raging for 20 months, and not once, not even one single time, did we see simultaneous international war correspondents delivering their reporting, showing action on the front lines Moronic, lots of foreign (French, German, etc) reporting. Reporters working for Fox News were killed in Ukraine.
Comparing the two wars is idiocy. I doubt there are many western reporters in Gaza City right now, for good reason, and the ones in Israel are pretty safe. Massive shelling by both sides in Ukraine makes reporting from the front lines incredibly dangerous.
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:13:58 AM PDT
by
tlozo
( Better to Die on Your Feet than Live on Your Knees )
To: canuck_conservative
don’t forget the Russian propagandists’ Jew-hatred ... look at the way they jump all over Zelensky, who is JewishWasn't it your Canada that stood and applauded a Nazi last week?
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:18:40 AM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: Bratch
You have exposed your extremely narrow views and general ignorance.
There are lots of reports directly from Ukraine by all the various nations news outlets.
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:19:46 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
To: Timber Rattler
All of you need to STOP with the stupid russian/ukraine connections to this.
Reality is plain & simple (because i spent all day so far driving elderly people to FUNERALS of their family here)
THE SECURITY ESTABLISHMENT HERE FAILED MISERABLY
GRADE: F-
An old acquaintance from my youth inquired about my familys well being. Read my response and read it damn well people:
“
Wow! Thank you XXXX. Thankfully my family and I are safe, but the situation was/is very bad. A massacre of epic proportions and a complete systematic utter failure of the security forces and their leadership. They failed completely and the southern border got overrun in over 20 locations. The civilian death toll will be over 1000 when all said and done. a couple of kibbutzim were pretty much wiped out. They wiped out the police station in Sderot.
I will leave this as a very shtark warning of what happens when you have an unsecured border, an incompetent security establishment, and policies that are not in touch with the reality on the ground.
One day you wake up and realize that the invasion is 100% real—just like I did on Saturday.
Israel is the canary in the coal mine for what we have known as great Western Civilization.
This will be a game changer, no doubt. but we will win.
I also hope and pray for the USA and the greatness it has bestowed upon the world. The USA is also under attack from many fronts “
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:22:15 AM PDT
by
Jaysin
(Trump can’t be beat, unless the democrats cheat)
To: JonPreston; canuck_conservative
And that secular non practicing Jew Zelensky and his non Jew wife were clapping with much gusto for the Nazi butcher.
Zelensky isn’t even as Jewish as a cafeteria Catholic is Catholic. At least they stick to the fish on Friday, well sometimes they do.
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:25:27 AM PDT
by
dforest
To: Bratch
Given people were getting Ukraine War fatigue/tired of the US spending millions on it, the timing of this recent conflict is....curious.
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:25:55 AM PDT
by
piusv
(Francis didn't start the Fire)
To: dforest
Baldedascious blather having no merit at all
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:27:26 AM PDT
by
bert
( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Joe Biden is a kleptocrat)
To: Timber Rattler
Russia! Russia! Russia!
The left tried to remove a President with the Russia hoax. They used a telephone call to Ukraine to impeach Trump. The Russian boogeyman is used over and over again. Is it any surprise that Russia is now linked to Hamas and the horrific attack against Israel?
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice and more shame on me.
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posted on
10/10/2023 5:29:00 AM PDT
by
kabar
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