Geopolitical Developments: Middle East, Russia

What really should be the big story today is that Turkey has formally requested admission to BRICS:

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Turkey has formally asked to join the BRICS.

Turkey Bids to Join BRICS in Push to Build Alliances Beyond West

From finance.yahoo.com

6:04 AM · Sep 2, 2024

As the article makes clear, Turkey realizes that it will never be able to take economic advantage of its strategic location if it allows membership in NATO to dictate opposition to the very countries—Russia, China, Iran—that could transform Turkey into an international crossroads for commerce. By the very terms of that scenario, Turkey’s distancing from NATO will increase, which will have serious consequences for Anglo-Zionist power projection in the entire West Asia region. This is a major setback for the Anglo-Zionists and comes at a time when Turkic Azerbaijan is also pivoting toward Russia and China and Turkey is establishing closer ties with Iran.

Speaking of which …

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Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov on the Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement with Iran:

"Very soon, Russia and Iran will complete the preparation of the agreement, and only technical details remain"

(The agreement could lead to further collaboration on Military technology or Intelligence sharing)

5:01 AM · Sep 2, 2024

Placing all this in the context of Putin’s very methodical approach to global strategy, we can see that Russia is developing a web of strategic relationships that will place ever increasing pressure on the Anglo-Zionist military presence from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf. Also notable is the contrast in the Russian diplomatic approach with the imperial approach of the Anglo-Zionists. The Russian view is that they win when other countries advance their true interests through commerce and cooperation. The Anglo-Zionist approach rests upon domination through military means and through leveraging King Dollar to exert pressure for compliance with Anglo-Zionist demands. This is a serious defeat for the Anglo-Zionists. It should be clear why Putin has counselled patience to Iran. By strengthening strategic relationships and positioning, victory can be achieved without disastrous wars.

In the meantime, Israel continues to press for a major regional war that would involve direct US participation. You may have heard of an “American hostage” dying in Gaza, amid Israeli military ops? In fact, that was not an American hostage—the young man was an Israeli citizen who had served in the Israeli military. That’s a big difference, in my view, yet Zhou is now saying “Hamas will pay” for his death. The American election is settling into a pattern of a competition for Jewish campaign contributions. The death of this dual citizen—who, as I understand it, has lived in Israel from the age of 8—is also a benefit to Netanyahu in terms of maintaining sympathy for his genocide among older Americans.

At the same time, Netanyahu’s military invasion of Palestine’s West Bank is clearly designed as an escalatory provocation. The hoped for result is an escalation on the part of Hezbollah but, more particularly, Iran. Iran’s strategy of patience—as counselled by its strategic partners Russia and China—is clearly working against Anglo-Zionist plans. The Anglo-Zionists know that Americans are not interested in another major war, this time involving US personnel on the front line. How this plays out between now and November remains to be seen. Israel has no interest in waiting, but the Dems definitely do, as the Zhou regime’s policies in Palestine are deeply unpopular with the party’s base. The GOPers, meanwhile, hope to be able to simply snipe from the sidelines—not a terribly honorable or forward looking position, but one that will satisfy their oldster base.

Now, for those who may question the connection between Netanyahu’s quest for Jewish Supremacy in the wider Middle East and the war in Ukraine, and beyond Israeli military support for Ukraine against Russia, Danny Davis—in the middle of an excellent video—presents what I can safely generalize as the Jewish View on the war on Russia (allowing for the minority anti-Zionist Jews—we’re talking about the dominant perspective here). Here’s the video link, cued up:

Ukrainians Flee - Russia Storms Pokrovsk

DD: Here's some of the thinking from some of the key people in the West that shows you how we are continuously and remain unwilling to acknowledge what's going on on the ground, in reality. Here is a former White House adviser (to Pence) on Fox News this weekend:

Jacob Olidort: I think it absolutely must be part of a strategic plan that we have, not only for achieving an end state as I mentioned just now and a path for achieving it, but far less discussed is for the ‘day after.’ Look, after this war ends--which you know it will end at some point--Ukraine will be rightfully armed to the teeth with American and Allied technology, and we want it to to continue to serve as a deterrent against a major strategic adversary [Russia], and we want at the same time to ensure that our technology is protected from landing in the wrong hands. So we absolutely must give Ukraine what it needs to achieve victory and must make that be a part of a broader strategy, not only for the end state of ending the war but also the 'day after' that. And I should just add one thing. You know, doing that—even announcing that there are ‘day after’ discussions taking place—not only would that allay many Americans' reasonable questions about the direction of our assistance, but actually could serve as a meaningful deterrent itself. Just that announcement.

DD: Oh my God! I could not believe when I saw that video! I had to watch it a couple of times to see maybe I misunderstood what he said. That is as delusional as it gets. You're saying that now--two and a half years into the war--we need to figure out what what our objectives are supposed to be?

Who is Jacob Olidort—beyond having been an adviser to Pence as VP? He was formerly Director of Research at JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense and Strategy. JINSA, you ask? That would be the Jewish Institute for National Security of America. Huh! Who knew there was a specifically Jewish perspective on American national security? But it seems there is—or maybe that’s a bit of gaslighting for what’s really going on. Here’s Olidort’s JINSA page. Just from the first page listing his publicaations, you can see his obsessions:

Campus Protests Embolden Terrorist Groups

RealClearDefense - August 8, 2024

A Peace to Delay War: How Diplomacy Can End Hezbollah’s War of Choice

RealClearDefense - July 6, 2024

In Syria, the US Must Prioritize Countering Iran

The Defense Post - June 28, 2024

We Got Islamism Wrong

RealClearDefense - June 28, 2024

Can Iran Be Coerced?

The National Interest - June 25, 2024

Trust me, you can flip through all five pages of his publications and it’s all the same. But he has strong views on Russia—and, in fact, JINSA takes positions on all sorts of things. All from an Israel centric perspective. Which is to say, from a Jewish centric perspective. If you have any doubts, the JINSA Wikipedia page linked above makes fascinating reading, illustrating how deeply embedded JINSA and its operatives are into the very warp and woof of Deep State policy making and—not to put too fine a point on it—governance of America. For example:

In the late 1980s, JINSA underwent a profound repurposing of mission which, although retaining the interest in maintaining and strengthening the U.S.–Israeli defense relationship, widened its focus to general U.S. defense and foreign policy, …

Shoshana Bryen was JINSA's executive director from 1989 to 1991. She was credited with transforming JINSA from a small think tank into a major player in the conservative scene in Washington, D.C. …

In 2012, JINSA launched the Latino-Jewish Alliance to engage the U.S. Latino community on Israeli defense and security topics.^[5]

Yeah, you can file that one under ‘leaving no stone unturned.’

Policy positions

One of JINSA's main goals is to cement strong military cooperation between Israel and the United States by working with the American defense establishment.^[5] It emphasizes strong U.S. military capabilities and close military cooperation between Israel and the United States.^[8]

JINSA is considered one of the most prominent and leading conservative think tanks, known for its hawkish foreign policy views.^[5][7] …

Since 2018, JINSA has advocated for a U.S.-Israel mutual defense pact.^[9] In July 2019, JINSA created a draft treaty,^[10] which was discussed during a December 2019 meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed a draft of such an agreement that was originally proposed by JINSA.^[11] In September 2023, JINA renewed its campaign to a defense pact.^[9]

On March 20, 2023, JINSA issued an open letter, first appearing in The Hill, signed by 44 retired U.S. generals and admirals calling on the White House and Congress to "immediately provide Israel with the advanced weapons it needs to deter and prevent a nuclear Iran."^[12]

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JINSA has supported Azerbaijan in its war against Armenia as a means to weaken Iran, regardless of accusations of ethnic cleansing of Armenians by Azerbaijan (see Flight of Nagorno-Karabakh Armenians), nor their genocidal rhetoric towards Armenia. JINSA president Michael Makovsky has stated in a conversation with the Azerbaijani ambassador to the United States: "Whatever it's worth, at JINSA, we believe that America has stronger strategic ties with Azerbaijan."^[15]

File that under ‘Armenians are expendable.’ And why not? Ukrainians are expendable, too, and there are a lot more of them than there are Armenians. Lots of peoples are expendable, just not Chosen People. I think I get that, but I’m just unsure how that fits into the “National Security of America” that JINSA espouses.

Programs

JINSA organizes trips of U.S. military officers, retired U.S. military flag and general officers, and students at U.S. military academies to Israel.^[8] … According to The Nation,^[6] "JINSA facilitates meetings between Israeli officials and the still-influential US flag officers, who, upon their return to the States, happily write op-eds and sign letters and advertisements championing the Likudnik line."

More than 200 retired admirals and generals, including … have participated in the trips over the last 21 years. Participation in the program makes no requirements of the invitees to make statements, form opinions or maintain any further relationship with JINSA, yet many trip alums have participated more than once, …

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Homeland Security Program

In 2002 JINSA initiated a program called LEEP (Law Enforcement Exchange Program) aimed at exchanging counter-terrorism experience and tactics between U.S. law enforcement agencies and their counterparts in the Israeli National Police.^[18] The primary focus of the program is to bring U.S. law enforcement executives (police chiefs, sheriffs, etc.) to Israel for an intensive program aimed at educating U.S. officials on techniques for countering domestic terrorism in the United States.^[19] From 2002 to 2020 over 200 U.S. federal, state, county and municipal law enforcement executives have been enrolled in the program, involving visits to Israel, together with thousands of US security personnel attending conferences where visiting Israeli experts have spoken.^[20] According to Max Blumenthal in his book The Management of Savagery, JINSA has claimed that it has overseen the training of over 9,000 US police officials by Israeli-led experts.^[21] Blumenthal cited one US enforcement superintendent in 2004 these exchanges changed the way Homeland Security was being organized in New Jersey.^[21] The US-Israeli anthropologist, Jeff Halper co-founder of ICAHD and supporter of the BDS movement, in an article for Mondoweiss criticized these programmes, as based on military techniques developed to control the Palestinians in the Israeli occupied territories, as threatening to lead to an 'Israelization' of American police forces and a concomitant 'Palestinization' of the American people.^[18]