Azerbaijan has designs to annex the Zangezur Corridor (a slither of Armenian territory separating Azerbaijan and Turkey) which Iran has vehemently opposed.
Most interesting is that Lavrov recently stated that Russia considers Armenia to be a member of the CSTO. This of course means genuine mutual defence of Internationally recognised territorial integrity (unlike Karabakh which was never defined).
I recently watched a program on spy planes, it was produced in the early 90s for the Discovery Channel, therefore long before Iranians (!) hijacked four commercial passenger jets and flew them into WTC 1 and 2 (and 7!), and the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania.
Anyhow, the program highlighted how the US deployed SR-71s in 1973 to overfly Egyptian and Israeli positions in the Sinai, and share the photographs with Russia and Egypt and Syria and Israel, to cool things down.
Analyst: One of the things that we spotted was SCUD missiles and at the same time we saw that the Israelis were pulling some of their Jericho missiles out of their igloos so now the escalation was that it could go nuclear.
Narrator: As the Israelis threatened nuclear escalation, both Americans and Soviets seek to lower the flame on what is soon called the October War. Just days before the assault, Soviet premier Brezhnev had secretly launched a satellite to monitor events and aid his Egyptian allies. In response, President Richard Nixon soon orders American SR-71s to prepare for missions of their own.
Former CIA Director Colby: And in that situation we wanted to know exactly where the Egyptian forces were and where the Israeli forces were because Mr. Brezhnev had written a message to President Nixon saying "look you've got to stop the Israelis; we should go in together, Russians and Americans." But we didn't want Russians in the Middle East. But then Mr. Brezhnev added the point "either you come in with me or I'll go in alone." And that was when we said "no you are not going in alone."
Later, we are told "images taken by American spy planes help create a trust between Egyptians and Israelis, that eventually leads to the Camp David Peace Accords of 1976."
***
I note that Israel never signed the NPT, and does not allow for monitoring of their programs and facilities by the IAEA. But Iran did.
A question: so many Israelis are Russian or descended therefrom. To what extent does Russia support Zionism, because it has to or because it wants to? From MyJewishLearning,
Immigrants from the FSU now make up 15% of the Israeli population, and they have transformed Israeli society. Most of the immigrants who arrived from the FSU were urban and well-educated. As a result, they have made invaluable contributions to Israeli society, particularly in the cultural, scientific, high-tech, medical, and education fields. One in four staff members at Israel’s universities now are native Russian speakers, with an even higher concentration in the sciences.
From 2009 Jpost,
The nearly one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union who have come to Israel since 1989 "rescued" the country and should be considered "one of the greatest miracles that happened to the state," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the cabinet on Sunday.
The fact that Netanyahu regards Russian Jews that way should tell you all you need to know, that as well as the article being in the JPost. While Alastair Crooke focuses on the radicalism of Middle Eastern Jews, it's well known--as I've pointed out in the past--that Russian Jews are among the most radical elements in Israeli society. This has always been the case. It's not coincidence that Jabotinsky was so radical, or that Smotrich is descended from Ukrainian/Russian Jews.
Zionism Wasn't Always Racist. The Trouble Began When Russians Took Over ...
May 9, 2025 In practice, the calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits.
1. The "creator" of "Hebrew culture" in the Palestine colonial project was Arthur Ruppin, born & educated in Germany; prize-winning eugenecist who applied his eugenic theories to "selecting human material" for the "new Jew" to people the colony. Ruppin never learned to speak Hebrew; in ~1910 he built TelAviv in a fashion to appeal to German Jews. The early institutional foundations of Project Israel were German. https://shorturl.at/v6wCa
I don't know how to find out -- best I can assess is that most of the leadership class in Israel is NOT German but East European. Many, many German Jews who had been in Israel have returned to Germany. https://www.jpr.org.uk/countries/how-many-jews-in-germany
2. From the beginning, zionism was a project clamored for by East European Jews who had a beef with Russia. (Why, then, is Germany the villain? Jews were happy enough in Germany that they had to be 'persuaded' to leave, not unlike what Avi Shlaim narrates about Iraqi Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJJiZlXOi0 )
3. Very many of the Russian "Jews" that Sharansky spoke out so forcefully to "liberate" from Russia are not Jewish at all, they were underemployed Russians who saw opportunity in Israel.
Am listening to the Shlaim interview. Very interesting.
Speaking of Russians in Israel, apparently some fraction can't get married there or get buried there, because even if you had a Jewish grandparent for Aliyah, your mother wasn't Jewish, sorry. Millet system. Convert, or fly to another country to get married there, and then Israel will register it when you return.
Want to get gay-married? Not in Tel Aviv. Gotta fly, and then Israel will register it when you return. Maybe you can get gay-buried there if your mother was Jewish?
Isnt talking about election interference a rather monstrous hypocrisy as the US is the gold medallist at it as well as colour revolutions which is election creating interference but that's what hegemons do so I spose ok then just no evil China.
Ok of course, I don't delved sooo deep in to your internal political machinations so maybe you could elaborate in another post. Thanks once again for your super condensed informative posts rounding up the alt media.
Gilbert Doctorow w/ Andrew Napolitano, regarding Azerbaijani vocal discontent with Russia: Doctorow said it's because of "Russia's bad behavior," particularly regarding Russia's failure to respond or apologize or compensate for a plane shot down .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnusdxbXzp0
Doctorow did not mention the presence of Mossad in Azerbaijan, nor what Douglas MacGregor spelled out quite clearly as the AngloZionist(Israeli) determination to sunder Iran's Azeri population.
If I recall correctly, Khamenei is Azeri, as is Pezeshkian.
A bus driver in Shiraz explained to me the "pecking order" of ethnic groups in Iran: He was Lor -- the bottom of the totem pole. Persians are on top, Azeris closer to top than bottom; Baluchis and Bakhtiari are closer to bottom: Bakhtiari are internally migrating shepherds and weavers, very colorful. Don't know where Iranian Arabs fit in, probably below Azeris but above Baluchis -- just a guess.
Doctorow is conservative who happened to do business in Russia, he follows TV talk shows to gauge the pulse when show is run by Kremlin mouth piece though his reports on his visits to Russia are interesting. He thinks also Trump is a master statesman and has a completely devised plan of action but likes to confuse people hence his erratic methods. Yeah right sure.
How dare Ukraine steal Israel's weaponry! Trump also claims that he's negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. That gives a nice little window for Israel to receive those diverted arms flows from Uncle Shmuel and to rebuild for Iran: The Rematch. As for Azerbaijan, it looks like they are going to be on the receiving end of a nasty surprise from Uncle Vlad.
As always a great roundup which ties all together, thank you Mark.
Azerbaijan has designs to annex the Zangezur Corridor (a slither of Armenian territory separating Azerbaijan and Turkey) which Iran has vehemently opposed.
Most interesting is that Lavrov recently stated that Russia considers Armenia to be a member of the CSTO. This of course means genuine mutual defence of Internationally recognised territorial integrity (unlike Karabakh which was never defined).
https://news.az/news/russia-s-lavrov-says-armenia-remains-csto-member-must-fulfill-all-duties
https://www.turkishminute.com/2025/06/13/iran-says-it-foiled-attempt-to-establish-land-route-linking-azerbaijan-to-turkey-through-armenia/amp/
But the Armenian government acts as if it's not a CSTO member, preferring to flirt with Turkey and NATO.
I recently watched a program on spy planes, it was produced in the early 90s for the Discovery Channel, therefore long before Iranians (!) hijacked four commercial passenger jets and flew them into WTC 1 and 2 (and 7!), and the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania.
Anyhow, the program highlighted how the US deployed SR-71s in 1973 to overfly Egyptian and Israeli positions in the Sinai, and share the photographs with Russia and Egypt and Syria and Israel, to cool things down.
Analyst: One of the things that we spotted was SCUD missiles and at the same time we saw that the Israelis were pulling some of their Jericho missiles out of their igloos so now the escalation was that it could go nuclear.
Narrator: As the Israelis threatened nuclear escalation, both Americans and Soviets seek to lower the flame on what is soon called the October War. Just days before the assault, Soviet premier Brezhnev had secretly launched a satellite to monitor events and aid his Egyptian allies. In response, President Richard Nixon soon orders American SR-71s to prepare for missions of their own.
Former CIA Director Colby: And in that situation we wanted to know exactly where the Egyptian forces were and where the Israeli forces were because Mr. Brezhnev had written a message to President Nixon saying "look you've got to stop the Israelis; we should go in together, Russians and Americans." But we didn't want Russians in the Middle East. But then Mr. Brezhnev added the point "either you come in with me or I'll go in alone." And that was when we said "no you are not going in alone."
Later, we are told "images taken by American spy planes help create a trust between Egyptians and Israelis, that eventually leads to the Camp David Peace Accords of 1976."
***
I note that Israel never signed the NPT, and does not allow for monitoring of their programs and facilities by the IAEA. But Iran did.
A question: so many Israelis are Russian or descended therefrom. To what extent does Russia support Zionism, because it has to or because it wants to? From MyJewishLearning,
Immigrants from the FSU now make up 15% of the Israeli population, and they have transformed Israeli society. Most of the immigrants who arrived from the FSU were urban and well-educated. As a result, they have made invaluable contributions to Israeli society, particularly in the cultural, scientific, high-tech, medical, and education fields. One in four staff members at Israel’s universities now are native Russian speakers, with an even higher concentration in the sciences.
From 2009 Jpost,
The nearly one million immigrants from the former Soviet Union who have come to Israel since 1989 "rescued" the country and should be considered "one of the greatest miracles that happened to the state," Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the cabinet on Sunday.
https://www.jpost.com/israel/netanyahu-20-years-after-iron-curtain-collapsed-its-clear-russian-speaking-aliya-rescued-the-state-of-israel-154040
The fact that Netanyahu regards Russian Jews that way should tell you all you need to know, that as well as the article being in the JPost. While Alastair Crooke focuses on the radicalism of Middle Eastern Jews, it's well known--as I've pointed out in the past--that Russian Jews are among the most radical elements in Israeli society. This has always been the case. It's not coincidence that Jabotinsky was so radical, or that Smotrich is descended from Ukrainian/Russian Jews.
Haaretz
https://www.haaretz.com › israel-news › 2025-05-09 › ty-article-opinion › .highlight › zionism-wasnt-always-racist-trouble-began-when-russians-took-over › 00000196-b32b-d9bf-a1b6-fbab7f260000
Zionism Wasn't Always Racist. The Trouble Began When Russians Took Over ...
May 9, 2025 In practice, the calamitous turning point of Israel's political culture occurred when the Zionist movement was taken over by the Russian political sect, particularly those from the Second Aliya (the 1904-1914 wave of Jewish immigration to Palestine). Russian culture possesses noble aspects and achieved intellectual and cultural summits.
1. The "creator" of "Hebrew culture" in the Palestine colonial project was Arthur Ruppin, born & educated in Germany; prize-winning eugenecist who applied his eugenic theories to "selecting human material" for the "new Jew" to people the colony. Ruppin never learned to speak Hebrew; in ~1910 he built TelAviv in a fashion to appeal to German Jews. The early institutional foundations of Project Israel were German. https://shorturl.at/v6wCa
I don't know how to find out -- best I can assess is that most of the leadership class in Israel is NOT German but East European. Many, many German Jews who had been in Israel have returned to Germany. https://www.jpr.org.uk/countries/how-many-jews-in-germany
2. From the beginning, zionism was a project clamored for by East European Jews who had a beef with Russia. (Why, then, is Germany the villain? Jews were happy enough in Germany that they had to be 'persuaded' to leave, not unlike what Avi Shlaim narrates about Iraqi Jews https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMJJiZlXOi0 )
3. Very many of the Russian "Jews" that Sharansky spoke out so forcefully to "liberate" from Russia are not Jewish at all, they were underemployed Russians who saw opportunity in Israel.
No pogroms on the Jews in Germany but shtetls suffered many in Russia's steppes. Maybe by Cossacks and not Russians??
Am listening to the Shlaim interview. Very interesting.
Speaking of Russians in Israel, apparently some fraction can't get married there or get buried there, because even if you had a Jewish grandparent for Aliyah, your mother wasn't Jewish, sorry. Millet system. Convert, or fly to another country to get married there, and then Israel will register it when you return.
Want to get gay-married? Not in Tel Aviv. Gotta fly, and then Israel will register it when you return. Maybe you can get gay-buried there if your mother was Jewish?
https://mondoweiss.net/2018/08/married-governing-happiness/
At a guess I'd say that Wray got a wink, a nod, and a go ahead on this from the ruling class. Could be explosive.
Douglas Macgregor @DougAMacgregor
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BREAKING: FBI blocked probe into Chinese election interference [now proven true] because it would "contradict Director Wray's testimony" to Congress.
These people are criminals.
Isnt talking about election interference a rather monstrous hypocrisy as the US is the gold medallist at it as well as colour revolutions which is election creating interference but that's what hegemons do so I spose ok then just no evil China.
Yes, of course, but the point is that this could have major implications for US internal politics.
Ok of course, I don't delved sooo deep in to your internal political machinations so maybe you could elaborate in another post. Thanks once again for your super condensed informative posts rounding up the alt media.
Douglas Macgregor: America’s New Long War
https://youtu.be/MpzGp9GH5v4
Mac talks at considerable length about Azerbaijan and South Caucasus..
Gilbert Doctorow w/ Andrew Napolitano, regarding Azerbaijani vocal discontent with Russia: Doctorow said it's because of "Russia's bad behavior," particularly regarding Russia's failure to respond or apologize or compensate for a plane shot down .... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnusdxbXzp0
Doctorow did not mention the presence of Mossad in Azerbaijan, nor what Douglas MacGregor spelled out quite clearly as the AngloZionist(Israeli) determination to sunder Iran's Azeri population.
If I recall correctly, Khamenei is Azeri, as is Pezeshkian.
A bus driver in Shiraz explained to me the "pecking order" of ethnic groups in Iran: He was Lor -- the bottom of the totem pole. Persians are on top, Azeris closer to top than bottom; Baluchis and Bakhtiari are closer to bottom: Bakhtiari are internally migrating shepherds and weavers, very colorful. Don't know where Iranian Arabs fit in, probably below Azeris but above Baluchis -- just a guess.
Doctorow is conservative who happened to do business in Russia, he follows TV talk shows to gauge the pulse when show is run by Kremlin mouth piece though his reports on his visits to Russia are interesting. He thinks also Trump is a master statesman and has a completely devised plan of action but likes to confuse people hence his erratic methods. Yeah right sure.
I heard that and kept waiting for Doc to mention the CIA-MI6 meddlers…but nothing.
I've mostly given up listening to Doctorow.
Correct has is a Trump apologist etc ultra conservative Zanon Kremlin worshipper and proselytiser mouthpiece.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7i7e_8CjU&t=1405s
https://x.com/i/status/1940220370696774067
How dare Ukraine steal Israel's weaponry! Trump also claims that he's negotiating a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. That gives a nice little window for Israel to receive those diverted arms flows from Uncle Shmuel and to rebuild for Iran: The Rematch. As for Azerbaijan, it looks like they are going to be on the receiving end of a nasty surprise from Uncle Vlad.
HA! Take from one Jewish Nationalist and give to another - (something about stealing from Peter to pay Paul?)