AMBASSADOR ANATOLY ANTONOV HAS RETURNED TO RUSSIA, HIS DIPLOMATIC MISSION OFFICIALLY “CONCLUDED”

Ambassador Antonov had served as Russia’s top diplomat to the United States since 2017. Prior to this assignment, he had served in a number of senior positions in both the Foreign and Defense Ministries, including as Russia’s senior arms control negotiator for the New START treaty. The confluence of knowledge about America and arms control made Ambassador Antonov the right man at the right time for the job…if only America cared as much about diplomacy as Russia did.

Instead, Ambassador Antonov spent seven years largely ignored by American officials and diplomats. His Herculean efforts to promote better relations with the US were drowned out by the cacophony of Russophobia promoted by those he had hoped to win over.

I got to know Ambassador Antonov in the last two years of his assignment. He invited me to a series of private lunches, where we discussed our mutual passion for arms control and how to make US-Russian friendship a reality. He also invited me to a number of official functions at the Russian Embassy, where I got to observe him ply his trade as Russia’s senior cultural representative. I am proud to call the Ambassador friend.

I know he was frustrated by the failure of his American counterparts and colleagues to accept the hand of friendship he had offered them. When we last met, on the sidelines of a piano concert celebrating the music of the great Russian composer, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, he had just issued a warning to the US government that escalation in Ukraine could lead to nuclear war. The pain in his eyes over what would be his last official act was palpable.

When (or if, given the harsh reality of our present circumstances) the history of this phase of US-Russian relations is written, Ambassador Antonov’s tenure in Washington, DC will go down as one of the greatest diplomatic failures of the United States, a missed opportunity to take advantage of a good hearted, intelligent and knowledgeable man who sincerely wanted better relations between our two nations—a stance which reflected the official position of the country he represented. That the United States ignored and/rejected Ambassador Antonov’s extended hand is one of the great tragedies of our time.

I am proud that when his hand was offered to me, I shook it. I only wish those in a position to make policy had done the same.

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BEIRUT BURNS
Interview for MOATS with George Galloway Ep 384

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⁣REAL AMERICANS STAND FOR THE CONSTITUTION

Not foreign parasites who suck the lifeblood of our nation in order to sustain their murderous existence.

Israel stands for genocide.

America supposedly stands for life.

Israel is an apartheid state.

America supposedly stands for liberty.

Israel aggressively targets innocent women and children.

America supposedly stands for the pursuit of happiness.

In short, if you stand with Israel, you cannot be an American.

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⁣Just a reminder of how it all started:

THE OCTOBER 7 HAMAS ASSAULT ON ISRAEL

There is a truism that I often cite when discussing the various analytical approaches to assessing the wide variety of geopolitical problems facing the world today—you can’t solve a problem unless you first properly define it. The gist of the argument is quite simple—any solution which has nothing to do with the problem involved is, literally, no solution at all.

Israel has characterized the attack carried out by Hamas on the various Israeli military bases and militarized settlements, or Kibbutz, which in their totality comprised an important part of the Gaza barrier system, as a massive act of terrorism, likening it to the September 11, 2001 terror attacks against the United States.

The problem with the Israeli claims is that they are demonstrably false or misleading. Nearly a third of the Israeli casualties consisted of military, security, and police officers. Moreover, it turns out that the number one killer of Israelis on October 7 wasn’t Hamas or other Palestinian factions, but the Israeli military itself. Recently released video shows Israeli Apache helicopters indiscriminately firing on Israeli civilians trying to flee the Supernova Sukkot Gathering held in the open desert near Kibbutz Re’im, the pilots unable to distinguish between the civilians and the Hamas fighters.

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THE MIDDLE EAST ONE YEAR AFTER OCTOBER 7TH 2023
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WE'VE KILLED FAR MORE ARABS THAN ISRAEL EVER HAS
From an interview for Judging Freedom

The United States is fully capable of killing Arabs anytime, anyplace.

We never hesitate to kill Arabs. We don't need Israel to kill Arabs.

What we need Israel to do is create a force of instability in the region.

It's easy to kill Arabs; we do it on a daily basis.

We can starve them to death; we can blow them up with bombs – we've done it.

We've killed millions of Arabs – far more Arabs have died because of the United States than because of Israel.

We kill Arabs better than anybody in the world; we've proven that, and we can prove it again if we want to.

[Why have we killed Arabs?]

Because we don't care about them; they're not people to us.

Look at the terms we use – we call them 'ragheads,' we call them 'sand... you know what.' We speak of them derisively.

We disrespect their religion; we have no appreciation for their culture, and we don't view them as human beings, whether they live far away or even here at home.

How many Americans have actually gone out to a mosque to meet the local imam and speak to his followers?

How many Americans have actually reached out to a Palestinian-American community or a Syrian-American community to say, 'Hey, we'd like to get to know you more'?

I have. I've been invited into their homes, to restaurants, to sit down and break bread with them.

These are amazing people. These are human beings.

And once you realize that, you realize how evil our policy is towards the Middle East, because we treat them like human animals – just like the Israelis do.

Madeleine Albright didn't blink when she was told that U.S. sanctions killed 500,000 – half a million – Iraqi children. And she said that was a price we were willing to pay.

That tells you everything you need to know about how the United States views Arabs.

When we're willing to tolerate the death by starvation and disease of half a million Iraqi children to fulfill our policy objectives, it means we have no regard for Arab life.

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⁣IRAN WILL DESTROY ISRAEL’S CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE

When Israel has no electricity or running water, it is finished as a nation.

By the way…Iran has more than enough missiles to accomplish its mission.

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I’m trying to keep an open mind.

To remind myself that the threat from nuclear war outweighs all other considerations.

But the pandering to a genocidal apartheid state by both Democrats and Republicans negates both of their candidates on a moral basis.

Maybe Trump will stop a nuclear war with Russia.

Maybe.

But only a viable third party can break the duopoly that governs America today.

A duopoly that has sold the American soul to Zionism.

Jill Stein has a moral compass.

She won’t be President.

But if enough people vote for her, maybe — if we survive — there will be a President who isn’t from the duopoly.

Get Jill above 5%.

And save America.

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ONE YEAR OF WAR: ANALYSIS OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP.199 Highlight

▫️The Danger Has to be Eliminated

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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP.200 Highlight

▫️Iran is Out-Thinking Their Opponents — Professor Marandi

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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP.200 Highlight

▫️Iran Will Continue to Escalate to Defend Itself — Professor Marandi

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⁣ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 201

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⁣LARRY JOHNSON: ANSWERS QUESTIONS ON MILITARY WAR CONFLICT
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ISRAEL'S TOTAL DEFEAT AGAINST IRAN AND HEZBOLLAH IMMINENT?
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⁣THE FALL OF ISRAEL

A year ago, Israel was sitting in the catbird seat. Today, it stares into the face of its demise.

I have previously written about Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, calling it “the most successful military raid of this century.”

I have described the Hamas action as a military operation, while Israel and its allies have called it a terrorist action on the scale of what transpired against the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

“The difference between the two terms,” I noted,

“is night and day — by labeling the events of October 7 as acts of terrorism, Israel transfers blame for the huge losses away from its military, security, and intelligence services, and onto Hamas. If Israel were, however, to acknowledge that what Hamas did was in fact a raid — a military operation — then the competency of the Israeli military, security, and intelligence services would be called into question, as would the political leadership responsible for overseeing and directing their operations.”

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MISSILES, PLANES, AND SHIPS
Interview for Garland Nixon

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THE US DOESN'T NEED A WAR AGAINST IRAN
Interview for Gegenpol

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⁣For those of you who are trying to learn more about Iran’s nuclear program, and the role played by Donald Trump in ending the Iran nuclear deal, I wrote a book just for you.

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