Moment the RuAF hit Turkish troops. Rebels immediately drop their weapons to record with their phones. Only person with rifle in hand is a Turkish soldier yelling at them to get back in cover.
https://twitter.com/hocmountain/status/1230651770126376961
Locust swarm in Saudi Arabia today #Khobar
https://tass.com/politics/1122885
Putin, Erdogan to hold phone talks on evening of February 21, Kremlin confirms
MOSCOW, February 21. /TASS/. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan will have a telephone conversation on the evening of February 21, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov informed TASS.
"Yes, I confirm the telephone conversation. It is planned this evening," he said, commenting on the Turkish president’s statement regarding plans to hold talks with Putin at 6 pm Moscow time on Friday.
Erdogan earlier told CNN Turk TV channel that he planned to hold a phone call with the Russian president to discuss the situation in Syria’s Idlib.
"Putin and I will hold talks over the phone today at 18:00 [same as Moscow time — TASS], which will form Turkey’s position on Syria’s Idlib," Erdogan said.
According to the Turkish president, "the current events in Idlib can only be considered war." He added that 150 Syrian soldiers were killed when the Turkish Armed Forces were forced to return fire.
The Turkish president revealed that French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered Putin to hold a four-party summit on Syria on March 5 in Istanbul. However, according to Erdogan, the Russian leader has not given his consent yet.
>https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/miami-beach/article240436961.html
After fatal plunge from Fisher Island ferry, women found embracing in back of sunken car
Afra graduated from the University of Miami in May 1985 with an English degree. One of her passions was Kristi House, a nonprofit that advocates to end child abuse and child sex trafficking and also provides services to victims and their families.
She became involved with the nonprofit in 2002 as a volunteer, helping to plan the nonprofit’s annual “Touch a Heart” gala dinner — its primary fundraiser — for more than a decade. In November 2012, she took on one of three co-chair roles for the fundraiser, which helped raise $500,000 for child victims of sexual abuse that year, according to the organization.
>Obama will be first
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/conspiracy-theories-abound-michael-hastings-death-article-1.1377392
https://themikerothschild.com/2020/02/19/qanon-durham-investigation/
“Help Me, Obi-Wan Durham…You’re Our Only Hope”
The QAnon conspiracy theory is a road that leads nowhere, with the only off-ramps leading to other roads that lead nowhere. It’s a constant stream of lofty promises and predictions that fizzle out, constantly kicking the can of a “great awakening” or “storm” of mass arrests down to another day – a day always coming “soon” or “next week” or some unspecified time that’s “about to happen.”
How much longer can this go on before a disgruntled Q believer decides to start the “great awakening” themselves? I have a feeling we’re about to find out, thanks to the one last reasonable hope that the QAnon movement has of the “deep state” being swept aside: the investigation by US Attorney John Durham into potential abuses by the FBI and DOJ during the Mueller investigation.
>shockwave
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don't eat the spicy playdoh
sssuper
>Semtex
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4408455.stm
4 April, 2005
French police are questioning several people after seizing 100kg (220lb) of Semtex explosive hidden in a lorry in the northern town of Hazebrouck.
The operation on Saturday was part of an investigation into organised crime. The plastic explosive was allegedly bound for Paris.
Hazebrouck lies 30km (20 miles) from the Channel port of Calais and is also near the Belgian border.
Semtex - a Czech-made explosive - has been used by various terrorist groups.
The French prosecutor's office said it believed the Semtex seized on Saturday was to be divided up and sold to criminal gangs, rather than to terrorists, Reuters reported.
No details about the suspects were released.
Observers say Semtex can be hard to detect and as little as 250g can bring down an airliner.
Semtex: Invented in 1966 in former Czechoslovakia
Oh no.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/18/james-comey-bill-barr-justice-should-be-blind/
Collins reacts to Trump considering him for Director of National Intelligence
https://old.reddit.com/r/syriancivilwar/comments/f7akco/syrian_rebels_killed_a_saa_fighter_after_it_they/
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/macron-broke-the-nuclear-taboo-poland-rebuffs-frances-play-for-european-independence-from-us
https://outline.com/RfeWvD
Macron ‘broke the nuclear taboo’: Poland rebuffs France’s play for European independence from US
MUNICH — French President Emmanuel Macron sees his country’s nuclear arsenal as a military key to political leadership in the European Union, according to U.S. and European officials.
“We can say that he broke [the] nuclear taboo, to a certain extent, which is a serious thing for societies to remind that there is such a thing like nuclear threats,” Polish Foreign Minister Jacek Czaputowicz told the Washington Examiner in an exclusive interview after the Munich Security Conference. “Everybody knows there are nuclear weapons, but we do not talk about that. You start to talk; you want to show something."
The full scope of Macron’s ambition remains unclear, but he has invoked France’s nuclear weapons repeatedly in the weeks since the United Kingdom left the EU. He returned to that theme on Saturday, touting the value of that arsenal in political disputes with the United States, such as the fissure between Washington and European capitals over the value of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal.
“We have to create our own capability that bestows credibility on us, so that we can protect ourselves and that we can be able to act,” Macron said during a question-and-answer session at the conference. “If we do not have the ability to act, then in foreign policy, we will not be credible, especially with regards to the United States.”
The French leader offered that exhortation to explain why he believes that “our nuclear forces … strengthen the security of Europe through their very existence, and they have, in this sense, a truly European dimension,” as he put it in a major Feb. 7 speech.
Macron emphasized to the European assembly that he is offering “to conduct joint exercises” involving France’s nuclear weapons, even though Paris refuses to participate in such exercises with NATO, which relies on the American nuclear arsenal.
“We can … talk about U.S. nuclear assets but not about British or French nuclear assets because it always had to go through the United States,” he said before calling for cooperation with Germany in particular. “I know this debate is not easy in Germany, but I do believe that we have to conduct a calm debate, a level-headed debate, so we can not always have to go through the United States. No. We have to think in a European way as well.”
Berlin's hesitance to yield to Paris the kind of political leadership that would come with dependence on a French nuclear umbrella might undercut Macron's attempt to establish a new "strategic culture" in Europe.
"The German establishment is quite divided in responding to the reality that in the EU, France is today after Brexit the only nuclear power," NATO Deputy Secretary-General Mircea Geoana said during a recent Washington Examiner interview. "I think there is a long, long way between having these capabilities and eventually offering them. But when it comes to NATO, I think the U.S. nuclear deterrence is the only active policy."
Czaputowicz, allowing that “France might contribute to common security,” echoed Geoana.
“From our perspective, of course, transatlantic relations are the only guarantor for our security,” he said, noting that the American arsenal is the only one big enough “to create a real deterrence for the Russians.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chillum_(pipe)
https://www.defensenews.com/opinion/commentary/2020/02/20/poland-is-becoming-americas-key-nato-ally/
Poland is becoming America’s key NATO ally
Following Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and invasion of eastern Ukraine, the U.S. began a process of returning military forces to Europe and pressing its NATO allies to increase their defense expenditures and armed forces. More than 20 years after the end of the Cold War, many issues that were assumed to be settled needed to be readdressed. Where would additional U.S. forces be deployed? Which NATO allies could be counted on to up their defense game? How could NATO best protect its eastern flank abutting Russia?
Increasingly, the answer to many of these questions is Poland.
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, NATO essentially stopped worrying about deterring high-end threats, and many members reduced their defense budgets as a result. U.S. ground forces in Europe declined to just two relatively weak brigade combat teams. Other NATO countries ended conscription, shrunk their military establishments and allowed much of their equipment to age badly. In addition, NATO stopped practicing many of the maneuvers that would be critical to an effective defense of Europe, such as the movement of large-scale reinforcement throughout the continent.
West Germany was once the centerpiece of NATO’s anti-Soviet defense and host to hundreds of thousands of U.S. and Allied forces. Today that role is increasingly assumed by Poland, one of the most stalwart members of the alliance. It is one of only six countries to meet NATO’s goal of spending 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense, has welcomed U.S. forces returning to Europe, and has undertaken a serious and sustained program of military modernization.
As part of the overall global buildup of U.S. military capabilities, the U.S. Army has begun rotational deployments of an armored brigade combat team, or ABCT, to Poland. Last year, the Pentagon decided to expand this effort with a forward-deployed division headquarters, pre-positioned equipment for a second ABCT, logistics units and an MQ-9 Reaper drone squadron located in that country.
Over time, the plan is to create the infrastructure to support the rotational deployment of two ABCTs, plus additional combat enablers, including both aviation forces and long-range fires.
Just last week, the U.S. Army decided to reactivate its V Corps and return part of it to an as-yet undetermined location in Europe. It would make tremendous sense to locate that corps headquarters in Poland alongside the majority of U.S. Army forces operating in Europe. It would also be an important symbolic step, as V Corps was one of two heavy formations positioned in Germany for most of the Cold War. Most importantly, deploying a corps helps ensure that the U.S. Army can conduct an effective defense against large-sale conventional aggression.
Poland is more than just a good host for U.S. forces. It has committed to spending billions of dollars to create the infrastructure to support the additional U.S. deployments.
No NATO ally has done more to improve its defensive posture and to support the return of U.S. forces to Europe than Poland. In addition to meeting its 2 percent obligation, Poland has taken seriously the need to upgrade and replace aging Cold War-era Soviet equipment with modern Western systems.
Last year, Warsaw issued a new Technical Modernization Plan for 2026 that commits to spending nearly $50 billion on fifth-generation fighter jets, UAVs, assault helicopters, short-range rockets, submarines and cybersecurity.
Poland is an important purchaser of U.S. military equipment. Warsaw plans on acquiring up to eight Patriot air defense batteries. Since the end of the Cold War, the Polish Air Force has been transitioning from Soviet-era platforms to largely U.S.-made aircraft, beginning with the acquisition of 48 F-16s.
In January, Poland signed a multibillion-dollar deal to purchase 32 F-35A fighter jets, thereby vaulting itself into the ranks of NATO’s premier air forces.
Given the presence of U.S. armored formations in Poland, Warsaw should consider acquiring the M-1 Abrams to replace its obsolescent Russian-made tanks.
Poland will be a major host for NATO’s largest modern-day military exercises. Defender 2020 will deploy a full U.S. heavy division of more than 20,000 troops in Europe, including an entire brigade combat team and their personnel. This force will then conduct complex maneuvers in Poland alongside allied formations. Defender 2020 is intended to test all the capabilities, policies and procedures related to the rapid reinforcement of NATO.
Geography dictates that Poland play a leading role in NATO’s defense plans. Warsaw recognizes its place as the centerpiece of the alliance’s defense line vis-a-vis Russia. But Poland is much more than a passive player. It wants to punch at or even above its weight among NATO members. The U.S. government should do whatever it can to help the Polish military reach its modernization objectives.
How else are they going to liberate the American concentration camps from the Orange dictator if not for Syrian rebels wearing UN-Turkish uniforms. Right?
https://twitter.com/wheelwatcha/status/1230655405564596224
https://twitter.com/LonelyEarsClub/status/1230647765522239488
https://twitter.com/Karhma_Kahzi/status/1230655155189755905
https://twitter.com/RegardsCandice/status/1230655836600590336