RITTER LOBBIES AT THE CAPITOL TO AVERT NUCLEAR WAR
By Joe Lauria

Scott Ritter joined Medea Benjamin and Code Pink to urgently lobby members on Capitol Hill to do what they could to stop the U.S. from starting a nuclear war.

Scott Ritter had direct meetings with Rep. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and with staff members of about a dozen other members, including House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), and Reps. Daniel Webster (R-FL), Roger Williams (R-TX), Clay Higgins (R-LA) and Delia Ramirez (D-IL).

With Benjamin, Ritter urged House members to

▫️sign a letter to the U.S. president urging he change course;

▫️co-sponsor a resolution recently introduced that would prevent the firing of U.S. long-range ATACMS into Russia;

▫️hold hearings of the House Intelligence Committee to challenge the intel that Russia is bluffing; and

▫️appeal to members of President-Elect Donald Trump‘s transition team to get Trump to make an immediate statement that after he is sworn in he will order a cessation of ATACMS being fired into Russia.

Such a statement now from Trump, Ritter argued on Capitol Hill, would lessen tension with Moscow over the ATACMS and possibly avert catastrophe.

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REGARDING SYRIA

Stop looking for conspiracy centered on betrayal.

This was never supposed to be anything other than a localized attack in the vicinity of Aleppo.

But when the HTS fighters encountered no resistance, they pushed on.

Everything that unfolded from that point appears to be opportunistic exploitation of the unexplained, and unexplainable, collapse of the Syrian nation.

As Syria collapsed, those nations that had been conspiring against Syria have pounced on the rubble of that nation and declared victory.

Those nations that supported Syria are left to gaze in bewilderment at the evaporation of everything they had worked to achieve over the past decade.

But none of this was planned.

Everyone is reacting.

Which means there is no guaranteed outcome.

Things look good at the moment for Israel and Turkey.

And things certainly look bad for Russia and Iran.

But there are many unknowns lying in ambush for all parties involved.

Because none of this was predicted.

And nobody has a plan for what happens next.

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⁣My vote is on “not”.

Deals of this complexity require the kind of conspiracies that are virtually impossible to exist in the shadows.

There is zero evidence of any collusion between the US and Russia.

I’m a huge fan of incompetence theories.

I see plenty of evidence of incompetence, and zero evidence of conspiracy.

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⁣One of the major questions that arises from this collapse is the future of Palestine.

The potential for the existence of Palestine always hinged on the strategic defeat of Israel.

But Netanyahu appears to have pulled a magic rabbit out of his hat.

As things stand, the Axis of Resistance that made the strategic defeat of Israel possible is in complete shambles.

Syria is gone.

Iran is mute.

Hezbollah is isolated and weakened.

Hamas is on its own.

Israel has suddenly emerged from the bowels of defeat to claim a strategic victory.

If this trajectory remains unchecked, I fear everything the Palestinians fought and sacrificed for since October 7, 2023, will be lost forever.

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THE BLACK FLAG OF ISIS AND AL-QAEDA IN DAMASCUS
Interview for MOATS with George Galloway Ep. 402

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HOW SYRIA FELL
Interview for Judging Freedom

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ASSAD ENDING
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You can't cheer the death of a nation. And that's what happened.

The people of Syria are cheering in the streets right now, but they don't know what they're cheering for.

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⁣THE TRUTH ABOUT SYRIA EXPOSED, PUTIN & IRAN ON HIGH ALERT AS ISRAEL STRIKES
Interview for Danny Haiphong

Live Stream Scheduled for December 10, 2024 at 2:00pm ET

Israel is rolling its tanks into Syria as Turkey seeks to carve up the post-Assad state. How did Syria fall so fast? Is this the end of the Axis of Resistance or a temporary setback? What role will Russia and Iran play in stabilizing the region?

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⁣ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 219

Live Stream Scheduled for December 10, 2024 at 3:00pm ET

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THE FALL OF ASSAD AND ITS CONSEQUENCES IN SYRIA AND BEYOND
Interview for Dialogue Works

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SYRIA TRUTH EXPOSED, PUTIN & IRAN ON HIGH ALERT AS IDF BOMBS DAMASCUS
Interview for Danny Haiphong

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⁣VETERANS DISCUSS THE STRUGGLES OF HOMELESSNESS!
By Stuck In Cali*

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NEOCON MONTH OF CAUSE CHAOS. CAN TRUMP GET UKRAINE DEAL?
Interview for Garland Nixon

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⁣Words.

That’s all you’ve got.

Go shout that on the streets of Gaza.

See how far that gets you.

Prior to October 7, Sinwar knew Israel was closing in on shutting down any hope for a Palestinian State.

Normalized relations with Saudi Arabia would have sealed that deal.

So he launched October 7.

A desperate effort to change the calculus.

The key was the ability for the people of Gaza to outlast the people of Israel.

To wear down Israel, Sinwar needed the Iranian-led Axis of Resistance to carry out a delicately balanced war of attrition with Israel designed to break Israel.

It almost succeeded.

The key was always Hezbollah.

The ability of Hezbollah to engage Israel in a costly war of attrition which never crossed the line into a full scale conflict was what made the Sinwar gambit almost succeed.

Hassan Nasrallah’s leadership was critical.

In the end, Nasrallah’s death at the hands of Israel served as a precursor for the balancing act to fail.

A ceasefire agreement was agreed to so that both Israel and Hezbollah could regroup.

This was not a strategic victory for Israel—far from it.

The potential of renewed fighting was a sword of Damocles hanging over Israel’s head.

But this potential only existed if Hezbollah remained physically connected with Iran.

Syria was the linchpin for this connectivity.

Bashar al-Assad’s Syria.

The loss of Assad’s Syria dealt a huge, perhaps fatal, blow to the Axis of Resistance.

Iran’s ability to meaningfully threaten Israel hinged on Hezbollah acting as a loaded pistol aimed at Israel’s head.

But this pistol depended on the physical connectivity between Iran and Lebanon.

Which means it depended of Assad’s Syria.

Which is now forever lost.

Sinwar’s gambit has failed.

And the Palestine cause has been mortally wounded in the process.

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