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  • President Trump denies ties to Venezuelan attack with 2 US men jailed (Pres Added)

    05/05/2020 2:39:47 PM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 17 replies
    AP ^ | 5/5/2020 | BY SCOTT SMITH AND JOSHUA GOODMAN / ASSOCIATED PRESS
    CARACAS, Venezuela — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that the United States had nothing to do with an alleged incursion into Venezuela that landed two U.S. citizens behind bars in the crisis-stricken South American nation. Trump said he had just learned of the detention of the pair, accused by Venezuela of being mercenaries. Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said they were part of an operation to kill him that was backed by neighboring Colombia and the United States. “Whatever it is, we’ll let you know,” Trump told reporters in Washington before departing from the White House to Arizona. “But it has...
  • Russian troops to help Venezuela search for members of failed incursion - report

    05/09/2020 12:14:28 PM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 18 replies
    Reuteurs ^ | MAY 8, 2020 | reuteurs
    Russian soldiers are operating drones over Venezuela as part of a search operation for members of a paramilitary force that led a botched invasion this week, local media reported on Friday, citing deleted tweets from a state military command centre. At least eight Russian special forces members will be “operating drones to run search and patrol operations” near La Guaira, the coastal state just north of Caracas, Venezuela’s capital, according to a report from local news outlet El Nacional. It posted a screenshot of a tweet it said was later deleted on Thursday from the profile of the military command,...
  • Trump's envoy Ric Grenel just returned from Venezuela with 6 Americans held prisoner there

    01/31/2025 8:44:15 PM PST · by FLT-bird · 44 replies
    There's a new Sheriff in town. Trump is not Biden and everybody knows it. see link
  • MASS GRAVE Bodies of 12 beheaded white expats found tied up under a tree after ISIS hotel massacre in Mozambique

    04/10/2021 12:55:26 PM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 37 replies
    https://www.the-sun.com ^ | Apr 9 2021 | Imogen Braddick
    THE bodies of 12 beheaded expats have been found tied up under a mango tree in northern Mozambique after they tried to to flee an ISIS massacre. Dozens of innocent people, including children, were ruthlessly killed when terrorist militants went on the rampage in the key industrial town of Palma. Pedro da Silva, commander of the police station in the nearby village of Quitunda, said the bodies of the expats had since been buried in a mass grave, according to reports. "In total there were 12. They were all foreigners, I don’t know what nationality, but they were all white,"...
  • North Korea To Deploy More Soldiers to Ukraine After Reported Deaths: Seoul

    10/08/2024 6:19:11 PM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 27 replies
    msn via newsweek ^ | 10.8.24 | Maya Mehrara
    It is "highly likely" North Korea will send more troops to fight for Russia in Ukraine, said Seoul's defense minister, commenting on reports of North Korean soldiers dying near Donetsk last week. Kim Yong-hyun said: "The issue of deploying regular troops is highly likely, due to the mutual agreements that resemble a military alliance between Russia and North Korea." South Korea's defense minister added deaths could be expected, saying: "We assess that the occurrence of casualties among North Korean officers and soldiers in Ukraine is highly likely, considering various circumstances."
  • Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu seen for first time since attempted Wagner coup

    06/25/2023 11:33:36 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 5 replies
    Sky News ^ | Monday 26 June 2023
    There has been no word from either the Russian president or the Wagner Group boss since the insurrection was abruptly called off after a deal was brokered by Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko. Russia's defence minister has been seen in public for the first time since Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin stood down his group of rebel mercenaries. In the first piece of footage released since the aborted Wagner group mutiny over the weekend, Sergei Shoigu was seen visiting Russian troops involved in Moscow's military operation in Ukraine. It remains unclear when and where the footage released by state news agency RIA...
  • A Private Military

    10/25/2017 4:58:25 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 15 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | October 25, 2017 | John Stossel
    We've fought in Afghanistan for 16 years now. Are we making progress? After 9/11, we invaded, overthrew the Taliban, killed Osama Bin Laden and -- stayed. Afghanistan is now America's longest war, ever. President Trump's solution? He'll send several thousand more soldiers. Erik Prince says he has a better idea -- fight terrorists with only 2,000 American Special Operations personnel, plus "a contractor force" of 6,000. Prince is the founder of Blackwater, the private military contractor. The military uses contractors to provide security, deliver mail, rescue soldiers and more. Private contractors often do jobs well, for much less than the...
  • Video: Here’s the US military’s secret new ‘Dream Chaser’ space plane

    09/16/2022 1:37:30 PM PDT · by Roman_War_Criminal · 67 replies
    American Military News ^ | 9/13/22 | Liz George
    As soon as 2023, the United States military could have a new spacecraft to transport troops to space and low Earth orbit locations anywhere in the world within three hours. Colorado-based aerospace company Sierra Space announced Sept. 8, 2022 that it signed a research and development contract with the U.S. Transportation Command to develop options to transport military crews and cargo around the world using the “Dream Chaser” space plane. The Dream Chaser space plane is a 7-passenger winged shuttle-like plane that launches to space on a rocket and flies back to Earth, landing on a runway. It’s designed to...
  • Cuba exposes Russian human trafficking ring for military recruitment

    09/05/2023 7:49:47 AM PDT · by DUMBGRUNT · 12 replies
    Politico ^ | 5 sept 2023 | LAURA HÜLSEMANN
    The Cuban government has exposed a Russian trafficking operation used to lure Cubans into the war against Ukraine, Cuban authorities announced Monday. “The Ministry of the Interior has detected and is working to neutralize and dismantle a human trafficking network operating from Russia to incorporate Cuban citizens living there, and even some from Cuba, into the military forces participating in war operations in Ukraine,” the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs said Monday. The authorities are taking legal actions against the traffickers, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez said on X (formerly Twitter) on Tuesday.
  • Wagner Boss's Plane Was Deliberately Downed, US Officials Believe

    08/24/2023 12:38:49 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 33 replies
    Free Beacon ^ | August 23, 2023 | by Phil Stewart and Idrees Ali
    U.S. officials told media outlets on Thursday that they believe the plane presumed to be carrying mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin was deliberately taken down, though there was some disagreement as to how exactly the plane was destroyed. Russian air authorities have said Prigozhin, his right-hand man Dmitry Utkin, and eight other people were on the private plane that crashed with no survivors north of Moscow on Wednesday. Two U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told Reuters that it was likely a surface-to-air missile originating from inside Russia shot down the plane. The officials stressed that the information was...
  • Russia asked to explain how Zambian student jailed in Moscow wound up dead on Ukraine battlefield

    11/16/2022 4:13:24 AM PST · by canuck_conservative · 75 replies
    Reuters / National Post ^ | Nov. 15, 2022 | Chris Mfula
    The Zambian student was serving a jail sentence at a medium security prison on the outskirts of Moscow after being convicted of contravening Russian law, Kakubo said, without specifying the offense that occurred in April 2020. “The Zambian government has requested the Russian authorities to urgently provide information on the circumstances under which a Zambian citizen, serving a prison sentence in Moscow, could have been recruited to fight in Ukraine,” Kakubo said. It was not clear how the prisoner was recruited and by whom.... ussia’s defense ministry did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the circumstances of...
  • Here's What Ended the Anti-Putin Coup

    06/24/2023 8:53:39 PM PDT · by SeekAndFind · 55 replies
    Townhall ^ | 06/24/2023 | Matt Vespa
    If this is the end of the coup attempt, talk about anti-climactic. Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of Wagner Group, a Kremlin-backed mercenary army, seemed poised to create a political crisis when his troops began to march north toward Moscow from southern Russia. They had reportedly seized some cities in the Lipetsk province. Putin reportedly fled Moscow earlier this morning while security forces were on high alert. Most of Russia’s forces are bogged down in Ukraine, which made this situation more perilous for Putin and his allies. Prigozhin has close ties to the Russian president, nicknamed “Putin’s chef,” due to his catering...
  • Steve Cortes Announces He Took “National Spokesman” Job (Money) From DeSantis PAC, Now Supports Ron DeSantis

    05/10/2023 8:13:13 AM PDT · by SoConPubbie · 38 replies
    The Last Refuge ^ | May 9, 2023 | Sundance
    Do not let these transparently corrupt political grifters like Republican strategist Steve Cortes raise your blood pressure; instead, mock them mercilessly wherever and whenever you see them.Former Trump ally Steve Cortes announced today he has taken a job with the Never Back Down PAC that supports Florida Governor Ron DeSantis. As a result, he is reversing all his prior points of advocacy to endorse Ron DeSantis for 2024.[Pictured left, Cortes with fellow grifting scumbags John Cardillo and Matthew Tyrmand (the architect of the Project Veritas attack on O’Keefe) as they attend a pro-Desantis effort earlier this year.]The shallow character of...
  • Kremlin moves to rein in Russian mercenary boss Prigozhin

    02/13/2023 12:36:00 PM PST · by marcusmaximus · 33 replies
    XM News ^ | 2/13/2023 | Reuters
    His private army is pushing hard to give Russia a battlefield win in Ukraine, but mounting evidence suggests the Kremlin has moved to curb what it sees as the excessive political clout of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of Russia's Wagner mercenary group. Prigozhin, a 61-year-old ex-convict, has grabbed headlines in recent months over his bloody role in Ukraine and is sometimes portrayed in the West as a real-life James Bond villain. Shaven-headed and fond of coarse language, he has made a splash in Russian-language media too where he has revelled in being sanctioned by the West, publicly insulted Russia's top military...
  • Armed Forces liquidated well-known "Wagnerian" Orlov, known under pseudonym Mazaev.

    06/24/2022 12:24:02 PM PDT · by UMCRevMom@aol.com · 13 replies
    The armed forces have destroyed a militant who previously killed people in Syria and Libya and wrote the book "#theyarenotthere". As Censor.NET reports about it with reference to the "Myrotvorets" center. According to the Center, the pro-Kremlin mercenary is the author of the autobiographical book "#theyrenotthere", which tells about his participation in hostilities in Ukraine, Syria, and Libya. "Orlov was so eager for fame that until the last day he posted photos and videos of his participation in the fighting in Ukraine, while merging the dispositions of orcs in the Donbas. Using even these data, the Ukraine Armed Forces...
  • Russian troops deploy to Mali’s Timbuktu after French exit

    01/08/2022 9:45:29 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 28 replies
    aljazeera. ^ | 7 Jan 2022
    Mali’s army spokesperson has said Russian soldiers have deployed to the northern city of Timbuktu to train Malian forces at a base vacated by French troops last month amid persistent insecurity in a country where large swaths of territory are out of the government’s control. The Malian government said late last year that “Russian trainers” had arrived in the country, but Bamako and Moscow have so far provided few details on the deployment, including on how many soldiers are involved or the Russian troops’ precise mission. On December 23, a group of Western countries led by former colonial power France,...
  • An ex-member of one of the world's most dangerous mercenary groups has gone public

    06/21/2022 2:15:14 PM PDT · by Widget Jr · 38 replies
    National Public Radio, All things Considered. ^ | June 6, 2022 | Eleanor Beardsley
    PARIS — Marat Gabidullin's face is lined from years of exposure to the elements, and his hair is thinning. But at 56, he has the trim physique and muscular arms of a man 30 years younger. He wears a chunky ring bearing the image of a skull.The skull is the symbol of the Wagner Group — a private Russian mercenary force believed to be financed by an oligarch with close ties to President Vladimir Putin. The group is fighting alongside the Russian army in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region. And it's widely believed that at least some of the "little green...
  • The Bay of Pigs Epilogue: Humiliating Che Guevara and John Kerry

    04/30/2022 2:52:53 AM PDT · by Kaslin · 21 replies
    Townhall.com ^ | April 30, 2022 | humberto Fontova
    “Those Cuban-CIA men (Bay of Pigs vets) were as tough, dedicated and impetuous a group of soldiers as I’ve ever had the honor of commanding,” wrote legendary anti-communist mercenary “Mad Mike” Hoare, commander of the “Wild Geese,” in his book Congo Mercenary. ''This is the history of a failure,'' said the oddly frank opening lines of Che Guevara’s Congo Dairies. “I stood above Che Guevara, my boots near his head, just as Che had once stood over my dear friend and fellow 2506 Brigade member, Nestor Pino. ‘We're going to kill you all," Che said to Pino.’ Now, the situation...
  • The Trump administration just confirmed the US military killed 'hundreds' of Russians in lopsided fight in Syria (2018)

    03/03/2022 12:29:50 PM PST · by Az Joe · 30 replies
    Business Insider ^ | 04/12/2018 | Alex Lockie
    This is how Trump handled Russians. Mike Pompeo, the head of the CIA and President Donald Trump's nominee for secretary of state, confirmed on Thursday that the US military killed hundreds of Russians in an intense fight in Syria. The US had previously only confirmed killing 100 or so pro-Syrian regime forces, but multiple outlets reported the number was as high as 300 and that the soldiers were Russian military contractors.
  • Belarus deploys troops to border with Russia over invasion concerns

    08/03/2020 10:42:36 PM PDT · by RomanSoldier19 · 8 replies
    https://ednews.net/e ^ | 8/3/2020 | daily news
    The Novaya Gazeta newspaper has shared a short video showing a convoy of military trucks and armored vehicles moving towards the Russian border. Official Minsk fears that Russia may take advantage of the instability in the country and carry out the Ukrainian scenario to occupy part of the territories ahead of August’s presidential election. The state-controlled Belta news agency said last week that Belarus has arrested dozens of Russian mercenaries after receiving information that more than 200 fighters had entered the country to destabilize it before a presidential election. The mercenaries worked for Wagner, Russia’s best-known private military contractor