if still here, can anon repost the Kash Patel referring to Q post from LB?
it was deleted LB for some reason
think it was a twitter post
tyvm
good point, but Columbo only had one:
Terrorists enter Syrian president’s palace in Aleppo (VIDEO)
HTS jihadists stormed the lavish residence amid their ongoing offensive against government forces
Video footage has emerged showing jihadist gunmen roaming the halls of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s palace in Aleppo. Insurgents stormed into the city in a surprise offensive on Thursday.
The Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS) terrorist group and allied militias attacked government-controlled territory in northern Syria on Wednesday, entering Aleppo the following day as the Syrian military scrambled to regroup and launch a counteroffensive. By Saturday, the Syrian General Command acknowledged that the army had lost dozens of service members, but said that HTS fighters had failed to establish fixed positions amid relentless airstrikes by Syrian and Russian warplanes.
A video purportedly filmed by HTS members and shared on social media on Sunday showed the militants entering the Presidential Guest Palace in Aleppo. The jihadists could be seen wandering through darkened dining rooms and climbing a marble staircase to reach the palace’s upper levels.
The palace appeared to have been unoccupied before the video was filmed. Although the Syrian government regained full control of Aleppo in 2016 and held the city until this week, Assad uses numerous residences, and at the time the video was filmed, was meeting with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi in Damascus some 350km to the south.
Araghchi pledged that Tehran would provide all necessary support to help Assad’s forces defeat the insurgency. “The Syrian army will once again beat these terrorist groups as in the past,” he told Iran’s IRNA state news agency before the meeting.
According to reports by both pro- and anti-Assad Telegram channels, Iranian military advisers and volunteers entered Syria on Saturday and are currently helping the Syrian army organize a counteroffensive from the city of Hama, around 80km south of Aleppo.
On Sunday, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency said that the army “was able to secure a number of areas” around Hama and inflict significant casualties on the terrorist force, without providing further details. On Saturday, Syrian officials estimated HTS losses at around 1,000 fighters.
Before adopting its current name in 2017, Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham was known as Jabhat al-Nusra. Indirectly armed by the US and formerly backed by Türkiye, Jabhat al-Nusra was one of the main factions opposing Bashar Assad’s government during the Syrian Civil War. Russia intervened in the conflict in 2015, helping Assad retake much of the country from Jabhat al-Nusra, Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS), and dozens of US-supported armed groups termed “moderate rebels” by Washington.
https://www.rt.com/news/608524-syria-terrorists-palace-aleppo/
https://x.com/amansouraja/status/1863254033047196127
Ukrainian military desertions skyrocketing – FT
Some 60,000 soldiers have reportedly been prosecuted for leaving their positions this year
More than twice as many Ukrainian soldiers have been charged with desertion this year than in 2022 and 2023 combined, the Financial Times has reported. The spike in desertions has hampered Kiev’s ability to replenish its thinned-out ranks.
Ukrainian prosecutors opened 60,000 cases against deserters between January and October of this year, the British newspaper reported on Saturday, noting that those convicted face prison terms of up to 12 years.
For some of these men, desertion is seen as the only way of getting off the front lines to rest. Ukrainian lawmakers dropped a provision from a bill earlier this year that would have allowed the country’s longest-serving conscripts to be demobilized in the coming months, and service members told the Financial Times that the Ukrainian Armed Forces (UAF) lacks the manpower to give troops shorter four-week rotations off the front lines for rest and retraining.
”They’re just killing them, instead of letting them rehabilitate and rest,” one officer told the newspaper.
Those killed are replaced by ill-trained and unfit draftees. In an earlier article, Ukrainian commanders told the Financial Times that on some busy sectors of the front, 50 to 70% of these new conscripts are killed or wounded within days of starting their first rotation. Those who survive often go AWOL as soon as they can, the newspaper reported.
Some choose to desert while at training camps in NATO countries. An anonymous Polish security source told the Financial Times that around 12 Ukrainian men abscond from training centers in Poland every month.
Earlier this week, a Ukrainian MP told the Associated Press that as many as 200,000 soldiers may have deserted since the conflict with Russia escalated in 2022.
There are around 350,000 active-duty soldiers in the UAF, although heavy losses – more than half a million since February 2022, according to the Russian Defense Ministry – have seen the country’s longest-serving soldiers replaced first by almost a dozen NATO-trained divisions, and then, after these divisions were chewed up during last year’s disastrous counteroffensive, by unwilling conscripts.
READ MORE: Ukraine ‘will lose the war’ – former foreign minister
Press-ganged off the streets and dragged out of nightclubs to serve, these draftees include the blind, the deaf, and the mentally handicapped, according to recent media reports and testimony from Ukrainian lawmakers.
”Men who are the right age for the military draft are scared to walk freely in the street,” one draft-dodger told The Telegraph earlier this week. A recruiter concurred, telling the newspaper that approaching a potential conscript is often “like dealing with a cornered rat.”
The UAF is seeking to recruit around 160,000 new soldiers in the coming months. To reach this target, the US has begun pushing the Ukrainian government to lower the minimum draft age to 18, down from 25, the Associated Press reported on Wednesday.
https://www.rt.com/russia/608510-ukraine-desertion-losses-troops/
Democrat California Senator Says State Has ‘No Obligation’ to Help ICE Identify or Deport Illegal Aliens
California Sen. Alex Padilla, a Democrat, said the state has “no obligation” to assist Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) with the identification or deportation of illegal aliens.
Sen. Padilla discussed the issue on Sunday’s Face the Nation episode.
“No state government, not Texas, not California, not any state in the nation has a constitutional authority to impose federal immigration law that is the responsibility of the Federal Government,” Padilla said.
“We’re not going to utilize state and local resources to do the federal government’s job for them,” Padilla added.
The liberal politician claimed that it was a safety issue.
“California is the most populous state in the nation, the most diverse state in the nation, home to more immigrants than any state in the nation, and the last thing you want to do is have immigrants who are victims of crime afraid to come forward to report that crime,” he said. “The last thing you want is immigrants who may be witnesses to crime to be afraid to come forward and share any information that they have in the investigation and prosecution of crimes.”
“Let the federal government do the federal government’s job, but have state and local officials do the state and local officials job,” he continued. “There doesn’t have to be a conflict unless that’s what Trump wants.”
Incoming Border Czar Tom Homan has warned that he will double manpower in “sanctuary cities” and areas that interfere or push back against the Trump administration’s deportation operation.
Homan warned on Friday’s episode of Fox News Channel’s Hannity, “if these sanctuary states and cities keep pushing back, I’ll have the extra resources to double manpower in those sanctuary cities. Because if we can’t arrest the bad guy in the jail with one agent, it means I’ve got to send a whole team out into the field to find this person, and, for officer safety reasons, we need a whole team, rather than just one person.”
In November, Homan suggested that criminal illegal aliens and gang members should self-deport because “we know who you are, and we’re gonna come and find you.”
“While we’re out prioritizing the public safety threats and national security threats, if you wanna self-deport, you should self-deport because, again, we know who you are, and we’re gonna come and find you,” Homan asserted.
“So if you wanna self-deport, that’s fine,” Homan continued. “But criminals and gang members, they get no favors from this administration. You came to this country illegally, which is a crime. You committed crimes against United States citizens, some heinous crimes. You get no grace period. So we’re coming for you.”
Making himself very clear, Homan said that those who have not committed crimes beyond their illegal border crossing can “put everything in order” and “leave with their family all together.”
Asked about the logistics of the deportations, Homan said criminals would be “put on an airplane” to their country of origin.
TOM HOMAN: “Criminals and gang members get no grace period. While we’re going after the criminals, if you want to self deport, you can self deport, that’s fine. It would allow you to get your affairs in order, which is reasonable. We know who you are, and we’re going to come… pic.twitter.com/4i1VNLw0Ou
— Autism Capital (@AutismCapital) November 12, 2024
For those who have not committed additional crimes, Homan said, “They found their way across the world to come to the greatest nation on earth, and they can find their way home. Either that, or I can give them a free airline ticket.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/12/democrat-california-senator-says-state-has-no-obligation/
https://youtu.be/yaU4Ps-hUhE
Well the Free Syrian Army (the rebels) are being supported by the US and NATO. They are staging a color revolution, so that pretty much confirms it.
Has there ever been a color revolution that wasn't CIA?
Pardon me
Watch, hilldawg gets it before everybody else.
Clearly it was already on her mind…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rBr_WLQsFc
That would be frustration as hell trying to get anything done there.
Imagine needing to travel a little to buy something.
It doesn't seem like a single country when there are 11 languages spoken there.
*frustrating
The way around hunter's pardons is to charge him for all of the things that he has not been charged with yet.
Think about the wealth of information on the laptop.
Prosecutors have only scratched the surface at this point.
This won't matter.
Jenius