Hebron under siege: IDF surrounds city, arrests terror suspects

Hebron under siege: IDF surrounds city, arrests six terror suspects

Israel National News

A preliminary investigation of the bombs that exploded Friday night in Gush Etzion did not contain standard explosives but were both powerful and included gas tanks.

Details of the event investigation reveal that the terrorist who reached Carmei Tzur exploited the fact that the security guard opened the settlement gate to inspect the car, at which point the terrorist forced his way inside. After the attack, IDF forces arrested six wanted individuals in Hebron and imposed a military blockade on the city.

Israeli forces suspect that alongside the two car bombs that originated from Hebron and traveled on Route 60 in Gush Etzion, there was a third car bomb that has not yet been located.

The initial investigation details also reveal that the two terrorists killed last night are Mohammad Ehsan Yakin Marka and Zahdi Nadal Tawfik Abu Afifa, both in their twenties. They are apparently not known to the security forces, and no background or organizational affiliation is evident for them.

Palestinian Arabs report arrests of suspects in Hebron identified with Hamas, from where the terrorists emerged Friday night. During IDF operations early Saturday morning in Hebron, an explosives laboratory was discovered, which was destroyed by IDF forces. Israeli forces have since withdrawn from the city.

Initial details indicate that the terrorist broke through the guard post with a booby-trapped vehicle and tried to run over the security guard. A security patrolman in the settlement engaged them, collided his vehicle with the terrorist's vehicle, and opened fire. The booby-trapped vehicle exploded, and the terrorist inside was also killed.

In the first attack, a 24-year-old combat officer was moderately injured and a 34-year-old reserve officer was lightly injured. They were hit by unintended fire from Israeli forces. In Carmei Tzur, a 28-year-old security patrol officer was lightly injured due to the collision with the terrorist's vehicle. He was evacuated to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center and later discharged home.

Gush Etzion Brigade Commander Col. Gal Rich, who was called to the scene, was also very lightly injured in his hand and continued to handle the event.

S China Sea Flashpoint: Philippines Accuses China Of 'Intentionally Ramming' Coast Guard Vessel

South China Sea Flashpoint: Philippines Accuses China Of "Intentionally Ramming" Coast Guard Vessel

TYLER DURDEN

Tensions are rising in the highly contested South China Sea, where China's increasing aggression towards the Philippines could be pushing the world dangerously closer to a potential flashpoint for the next major conflict. 

In a press conference, Philippine Coast Guard Commodore Jay Tarriela showed footage of Chinese Coast Guard vessel 5202 intentionally ramming the Philippine Coast Guard vessel BRP Teresa Magbanua. 

Tarriela said the Magbanua was initially surrounded by several Chinese maritime forces and militia vessels "in different areas that are proximate to the anchored Philippine Coast Guard vessel."

It's important to note that the Philippines and China accused each other of ramming each other's vessels. That's how Western corporate media outlets penned their notes on the incident this morning.

Chinese state-run Global Times wrote on X that it was actually the Philippine ship that "deliberately rammed into the Chinese ship 5205 in an unprofessional and dangerous manner." 

Gordon Chang, author of The Coming Collapse of China, warned on X...

China is trying to start a war at #SabinaShoal or some other location in the #SouthChinaSea. That war, if it comes, will be fought on our soil as #Chinese operatives launch attacks on infrastructure and military installations. Be ready to defend your communities.

This afternoon, the Chinese Coast Guard vessel deliberately rammed and collided with the BRP Teresa Magbanua three times, despite no provocation from the Philippine Coast Guard.

The lessons from past trigger points of conflicts should serve as a cautionary tale for Washington politicians. Political elites in Washington must de-escalate the situation or risk another war as conflicts rage in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.

The Path To A Global Government:

GLOBAL GOVERMENT – The Path Ahead

Austrian Peter

TRYING TO DECIPHER THE PATH AHEAD BECOMES MORE DIFFICULT BY THE DAY. We are purposefully bombarded with misinformation, disinformation, and propaganda by the ruling class, designed to distract us from their real purpose, real agenda, and real plans to imprison us in their techno-gulag, eating zee bugs in our container-sized hovels, using our government issued CBDCs to subsist, unless we dared to question the approved narrative resulting in our social credit rating dropping into the domestic terrorist zone and getting us banned and shunned from society.

This is the New World Order that the Davos crowd has designed and will implement as the Great Reset, if they succeed in retaining and increasing control over the US and the rest of the Western World in the next six months.

Club of Rome and Council for the Human Future roundtable outlines a pathway towards a one world government by revising the United Nations Charter, along with an agenda to voluntarily reduce 75% of the human population, to create a global truth commission, and to establish an earth system currency.

On August 1, 2024 the Club of Rome and the Council for the Human Future published a report on a Roundtable discussion they co-hosted in July. Roundtable Final Report-4888122 – Roundtable Final Report-4888122.pdf

The report [above], “Roundtable on the Human Future: A World Call to Action on the Multiple Crises Now Enfolding Humanity,” says that “all human life could be extinguished” in the mid-to-latter half of the 21st Century due to climate change, overpopulation, new pandemics, misinformation, nuclear proliferation, and other perceived threats.

One solution proposed by Global Governance Forum executive director Augusto Lopez-Claros was “to boost the UN´s democratic legitimacy” by rewriting the UN Charter in order to give the unelected globalist body more power, authority, and jurisdiction over sovereign nations.

Lopez-Claros is a former chief economist at the World Economic Forum (WEF), and he has held high-level positions at the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

“Create an Earth System Council, giving the UN system the capacity to pass binding legislation to protect our planetary environmental system and the common goods it provides, with necessary enforcement mechanisms” According to Lopez-Claros,

“We move on towards a potentially catastrophic future of accelerating climate change, the continued unravelling of our nuclear order, rising and destructive nationalisms, and an economic paradigm that no longer delivers prosperity for all in a way that does not create social divisions and does not undermine the foundations of democracy.”

• He said that our current: “system of international cooperation is no longer fit for purpose; it struggles to cope with the multiple unresolved crises that we face, often because it lacks the appropriate jurisdiction.”

• Therefore, he and the ‘Global Governance Forum’ propose reforms to the UN Charter, such as establishing: “a UN of states and peoples through the creation of a Parliamentary Assembly,” and an “Earth System Council” that would have the authority “to pass binding legislation,” along with “necessary enforcement measures.”  “Move to a UN of states and peoples through the creation of a Parliamentary Assembly, as a complement to the General Assembly and to boost the UN´s democratic legitimacy.”

Augusto Lopez-Claros, Roundtable on the Human Future: A World Call to Action, July 2024: “One starting point and a project in which we have been engaged during the last two years is to put forward a detailed vision of what a new UN Charter would look like, to reflect the needs of the 21st century,” said Lopez-Claros. 

• To create an ‘Earth System Council’, giving the UN system the capacity to pass binding legislation to protect our planetary environmental system and the common goods it provides, with necessary enforcement mechanisms.

• To empower the UN to meaningfully advance disarmament globally and help create a conducive environment…

• To bring about a new system to fund the UN, that provides a reliable, de-politicised, independent revenue stream, not unlike that in place already for several decades in the European Union.

• “Imagination can open the door to great ideas such as questioning underlying assumptions, like the role of state sovereignty in a world of global interdependence”

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Tomorrow’s Election in Eastern Germany Shows AfD Surging - Globalist Parties’ ‘Firewall’ To Isolate the Right Wingers Is Crumbling

Tomorrow’s Election in Eastern Germany Shows AfD Surging, as the Globalist Parties’ ‘Firewall’ To Isolate the Right Wingers Is Crumbling

By Paul Serran 

In the run-up to tomorrow’s state elections in the Eastern part of Germany, the mainstream globalist parties and the media are aligned in a panic over the population’s preference for the right wing AfD party, endlessly plotting ways to keep them out of power.

Politico reported:

“Ahead of three state elections across eastern Germany this September — including in Saxony and Thuringia this Sunday — the once-fringe party is polling first or close to first in all contests. That success is due to the party’s increasingly deep roots in small towns across the east like Großschirma, where in municipal and European Parliament elections in June, the AfD won around half the local vote, illustrating the extent to which it has become the dominant political power in the area.

The fact that so many voters in eastern Germany are increasingly embracing the far right points to the core issue underlying the divide: a stark loss of trust in the mainstream parties, institutions and the media. In the state of Saxony alone, only 41 percent of people are satisfied with the functioning of their democracy, according to a survey commissioned by the state government. Only one in ten people said they trust political parties, and only 15 percent said they trust the media.”

The AfD party has grown by embedding itself in the local level, where it has common-sense policies that normalize their existence away from the caricature of itself painted by the globalist goons.

Its strategy is to begin winning in municipalities and state parliaments. allowing it to eventually expand to the highest levels of national government.

AfD’s surge in support comes despite the persecution it suffers from state-level domestic intelligence authorities.

These agencies have classified AfD’s branches in Saxony and Thuringia as ‘extremist organizations aiming to undermine German democracy’.

But the truth is that in small German towns, AfD is ‘a banal fact of life’.

The globalist have no alternative than to try to impose a Brandmauer(firewall), around the party, refusing to include them in coalition governments.

Due to the AfD’s popularity in local politics across the east, the firewall has in many ways already fallen. Between 2019 and 2023, there were more than 120 cases of cooperation in local government between the AfD and mainstream parties, most often with the CDU, according to a recent study published by the progressive Rosa Luxemburg Foundation.”

As things stand now, AfD is poised to become the strongest party for the first time in at least two state elections.

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Military Deployed To Hotel/Shelters in New York?

Military Deployed to Guard Hotel in New York at ‘Request of the State Officials’: Report

Jim Hᴏft

Military personnel were reportedly deployed to guard the Wolcott Hotel in Manhattan at the request of state officials.

On Tuesday, citizen journalist Crowd the Source captured footage of military stationed outside The Wolcott Hotel.

The Wolcott Hotel, located on West 31st Street in New York City, has recently been converted into a mega-shelter for migrants.

This transformation was confirmed by a report from the New York Post, which revealed that the hotel, once a bustling hub for tourists, has indefinitely closed its doors to regular guests back in 2023 due to the ongoing migrant crisis and concerns about the COVID-19 Delta variant.

“It is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that the Wolcott Hotel will be closed to transient hotel guests indefinitely,” the Wolcott Hotel website said.

“With the current Delta variant and uncertainty when travel will return, I feel this is the best course of action for the hotel and her employees for the near future.”

Crowd the Source captured footage showing uniformed military personnel stationed outside the hotel.

In the video, he can be heard questioning the presence of the military at a civilian hotel, asking, “Is the army turning this thing into a migrant shelter? Why are you guys here? It’s a hotel. Why is the army at this hotel?”

One of the soldiers responded bluntly, stating, “We’re here at the request of the State of New York.”

This revelation set off alarm bells for Crowd the Source and many of his followers.

He continued to press the issue, asking, “State of New York has put the army into hotels? What the hell is that about? This is a public hotel, right? What is the Army doing in this hotel? Have you guys taken over this hotel? What is it. What the hell on army doing taking over civilian hotels in the middle of New York City?”

One of the hotel staff confronted the journalist, insisting that he stop recording. Undeterred, Crowd the Source voiced his concerns directly to his audience, questioning the motives behind the military’s presence.

“I can’t record. So this is what I’m talking about, people. Do you think those guys are there to help you or me? What is going on?”

Crowd the Source went back to the hotel and observed that U.S. military personnel had vacated the Wolcott Hotel shortly after the incident went viral.

The Gateway Pundit has reached out to the management of the Wolcott Hotel and the office of Governor Kathy Hochul for comment regarding the military presence at the hotel. At the time of publication, we have not yet received a response.

Klaus Schwab says WEF will unleash “an era of shock events” to bring about a globalist NWO

Klaus Schwab says WEF will unleash “an era of shock events” to bring about a globalist NWO

Ethan Huff

Now that the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) “pandemic” is over, the World Economic Forum (WEF) is shifting gears with plans to unleash “an era of shock events” that will catalyze the transition to a globalist-led new world order (NWO).

The WEF is warning the world about this coming shock event era to prepare everyone for the horrors that are slated to come next, including the reduction of the United States from global superpower to just another globalist-controlled third-world dystopia.

“Since the pandemic eased, the reality is we haven’t had enduring global leadership on much, and it’s hard to imagine that changing soon,” the WEF says about how the existing political landscape is crumbling. “This is partly because superpowers are terribly burdened with global wars and domestic challenges.”

The WEF’s solution to this is of course a transition from individual nation-states to a global governance scheme where all countries of the world are controlled from the top down, pyramid style.

Since 2024 is another election year, the WEF is also focused on that. The threat of “disinformation” spreading during “the biggest election year in history” means that the world needs a global censorship scheme both online and in the streets, according to the WEF.

“People have fought back in all political systems, driven by a conviction that there must be a better, more effective way to govern,” the WEF says.

“In most countries, even after their vote, citizens will continue to challenge their leaders, questioning whether they have the capacity to tackle our many post-pandemic risks.”

Reading between the lines, the WEF is basically saying that civil unrest is on the rise due to the policies it helped implement that have tyrannized We the People and left people angry and demanding answers. Rather than quit the tyranny train, the WEF wants to amplify it with plans to crush any uprising or rebellion before it gets the chance to take hold.

More people than ever are mentally ill due to destructive globalism

The WEF fully recognizes that its globalist agenda is destroying people’s minds, leaving hundreds of millions if not billions of people with ever-worsening mental illness. The mental health crisis worsened considerably as a result of the COVID “pandemic” and all the government tyranny that came with it.

There is a “new type of anxiety,” the WEF says, that is “leading to a sense of alienation that makes it hard to function and even suicide. Much of this is being driven by things like climate change hysteria, constant fearmongering about an economic collapse or global crisis, and newfound claims that upwards of 50 percent of the existing human employee population being replaced by artificial intelligence (AI) robots over the next several years.

As for the other “shock events” that the WEF is foretelling, these include the threat of:

1) A new global extremist group emerging to ignite chaos around the world
2) A new cyber ‘pandemic” that takes down the internet and possibly all things electronic
3) Global warming disasters that lay waste to entire societies and their economies

The WEF predicts that while the world is “distracted with multiple major wars and leadership in decline,” the globalists will catalyze a “new extremist group” to install as the world’s new age governing body, along with a “new phase of terrorism” to keep people scared and in check.

“The massive global IT outage in July 2024 led to $5.4 billion in damages,” says Martin Armstrong, writing for Armstrong Economics. “Was that a test?”

“The forum warns that we should expect a ‘grander scale’ of cyber-attacks that will attack BANKS, hospitals, and retailers and lead to a halt in worldwide services. Flights will be impacted and the people will be forced to stay in place.”

Heavy clashes in Jenin; 6 suspects held in IDF Hebron sweeps after car bombings

Heavy clashes in Jenin; 6 suspects held in IDF Hebron sweeps after car bombings

 Times of Israel is liveblogging Saturday

Explosive-laden drone from Lebanon hits near northern community, no injuries

Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad praise West Bank car bombings

Terror group Hamas issues a statement praising what it called a “double heroic operation” after two car bombs exploded in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank late last night, in what security officials believed was a coordinated attack. Two Palestinian terrorists involved in the attacks were killed by troops at the scene.

Hamas says it “is a clear message that resistance will remain striking, prolonged and sustained as long as the brutal occupation’s aggression and targeting of our people and land continue.”

The group, however, does not claim direct responsibility for the attacks.

Hamas ally Islamic Jihad similarly says it “congratulates” the perpetrators of what it called a “coordinated attack.”

IDF says ongoing West Bank raid now focused on Jenin

The IDF’s ongoing major operation in the northern West Bank is now largely focusing on the Jenin area, after raids in Tulkarem and Far’a concluded.

Troops this morning raided the Jenin’s refugee camp, where they neutralized dozens of explosive devices that were planted along the roads, according to the military.

There have been fierce clashes between IDF troops and Palestinian gunmen in the Jenin area this morning.

So far amid the major operation launched earlier this week, the IDF says troops have killed at least 26 gunmen and detained another 30 wanted Palestinians.

IDF detains 6 for involvement in attacks, says no fear of additional car bomb

Israeli forces have detained six Palestinians who are suspected to have been involved in last night’s dual car bombing attacks in the West Bank.

Their connection to the attacks in the Gush Etzion area is being looked into.

The IDF has meanwhile encircled Hebron and towns in the area, where the two terrorists came from, as it searches for additional suspects and investigates the attack.

This morning, troops demolished a bomb-making lab in Hebron.

Car bombers identified as Palestinians from Hebron

IDF says Gaza airstrike hit terror cell planting explosives in buildings

Heavy clashes between IDF, Palestinian gunmen reported in Jenin

Palestinian media report heavy clashes between gunmen and Israeli troops in the West Bank city of Jenin this morning.

The IDF has been carrying out a major raid in the northern West Bank since early Wednesday.

Further details are not immediately available.

IDF, Shin Bet believe Friday night West Bank bomb attacks were coordinated

The IDF and Shin Bet believe that the two Palestinian terrorists who attempted to carry out concurrent car bombing attacks in the Gush Etzion area of the West Bank last night were coordinated.

The two terrorists set out together from the Hebron area and headed toward the Etzion settlement bloc to carry out the attack at two locations, according to the initial probe.

One car bomb was set off at a gas station at the Gush Etzion junction, while the second terrorist breached the Karmei Tzur settlement and his car exploded there.

Both terrorists were killed. Their identities and affiliations are not immediately known.

At the gas station, a soldier was moderately wounded and a reservist officer who is the head of a local security team was lightly hurt as troops opened fire at the terrorist. The commander of the IDF’s Etzion Regional Brigade, Col. Gal Rich, was also lightly hurt but did not require hospitalization.

BRICS: India To Use Cryptocurrency For Trade, Abandon US Dollar

BRICS: India To Use Cryptocurrency For Trade, Abandon US Dollar

Jaxon Gaines

As the BRICS bloc turns to alternative payment systems to ditch the US dollar, India is considering using cryptocurrency for trade. The country already completed its first crude oil transaction with the UAE using local currencies. The transaction was integrated within the XRP Ledger System CryptoTradingFund (CTF): a big step for India towards further crypto integration.

Ever since Russia legalized crypto payments, all eyes were on how that would integrate into its prominent economic alliance. With the bloc’s payment system on the way, digital assets could play a huge role. BRICS crypto payments could be key in overtaking the US dollar, and India could be one of the first to turn to crypto entirely in trade.

The Reserve Bank of India’s Governor Shaktikanta Das is advocating for a plug-and-play system to enhance cross-border payment efficiency and CBDC interoperability. At a recent conference, RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das said that maximum efficiency gains in such initiatives would come from ensuring interoperability as a key design element. “We can overcome this challenge by developing a plug-and-play system that allows replicability while also maintaining the sovereignty of respective countries.”

While the legacy payment systems should be able to connect to each other, and so should the CBDC systems, Das pointed out that one country’s legacy system should also be interoperable with another country’s CBDC. Thus, India and China connecting their digital currencies could be a major step for BRICS towards full use of the CBDCs.

The BRICS bloc has previously discussed cryptocurrency and CBDCs playing a part in trade within the group. China is currently developing a CBDC system that could work alongside the BRICS de-dollarization initiative. Furthermore, the incoming BRICS payment system could also introduce blockchain technology infrastructure. In turn, that could facilitate even greater crypto adoption amid alliance trading.

Ukrainian military blames Zelensky for battlefield setbacks

Ukrainian military blames Zelensky for battlefield setbacks

RT

Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky has reportedly come under a “barrage of criticism” from his own soldiers, lawmakers and military analysts after Russian forces managed to make rapid advances in Donbass and push back Kiev’s troops, the Financial Times claimed on Friday.

According to the UK outlet, due to Kiev’s incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region earlier this month, which involved the redeployment of thousands of Ukraine’s most battle-hardened troops, many of its forces fighting in the Russian Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) have ended up being stretched thin and have been struggling to hold their ground.

This week, Ukraine’s front line in the region was breached by Russian forces who have been closing in on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk in the west of the DPR, which represents one of the key rail and road junctions in the region. Frontelligence Insight, a Ukrainian analytical group cited by the FT, say the loss of the city would be a serious blow to the Ukrainian military’s logistics.

The current situation on the edge of Pokrovsk has been described as a “complete defensive failure” for the Ukrainian military, according to Alexander Kovalenko, a military analyst at the Kiev-based Information Resistance group.

Other military experts, including those within the Deep State group, which is said to have ties to Ukraine’s defense ministry, have described the situation on the front line as “complete chaos,” stating that Russian forces have been advancing more rapidly in the region since Kiev launched its incursion on August 6 than in the months before.

Kiev’s troops have also been sharing their frustration with Zelensky and his commanders, with one serviceman being quoted by the FT as saying that he has “never seen anything like this” and that “everything is falling apart so quickly.” 

Zhenya, who serves within Ukraine’s 93rd Mechanized Brigade and fought in the 10-month-long battle for Artemovsk last year, reportedly warned that “Pokrovsk will fall much faster than Bakhmut did,” according to the British outlet.

Meanwhile, Zelensky himself has described the situation on the front line near Pokrovsk as “extremely difficult.” His top commander, Aleksandr Syrsky, has also admitted that Kiev’s gambit in Kursk had failed to force Russia to divert its troops from Pokrovsk, as Moscow refused to take the bait.

According to the latest figures from the Russian Defense Ministry, Kiev’s incursion has cost Ukraine more than 7,800 service members, 75 tanks, and more than 500 armored vehicles.

Russia Opens Criminal Terrorism Case After Ukraine's Belgorod Region Attacked With U.S. Supplied Missiles

Ukrainian cluster bomb attack on Belgorod kills five – governor

RT

Five civilians have been killed and 37 wounded, including six children, in a Ukrainian missile attack on Russia’s Belgorod Region, regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov has said.

Belgorod is north of Kharkov, Ukraine's second city. It has endured frequent attacks by long-range Ukrainian artillery, which often fire projectiles supplied by NATO.

“Our air defense system worked over Belgorod and several targets were shot down as they approached the city,” Gladkov said on Telegram on Friday evening. “To our great sorrow, one person died as a result of a direct hit on a passenger car.”

In addition to the vehicle, an apartment building and several commercial buildings were struck, Gladkov said.

The governor later updated the death toll to five.

“One woman and four men died on the spot from their injuries before the ambulances arrived,” he said. Among the injured, seven adults and three children are in serious condition.

According to Gladkov, the attack was carried out with cluster munitions launched by the Vampire multiple-launch rocket system. The same weapon, provided to Ukraine by the Czech Republic, was used in the Christmas market massacre last December, when 25 Russian civilians were killed and 100 more wounded by Ukrainian cluster munitions.

The attack also caused property damage to three apartment buildings in the city, as well as two commercial buildings. Two houses in the nearby village of Dubovoye were set on fire by the incoming missiles, but it was quickly extinguished by emergency services.

Russian Investigative Committee Opens Criminal Case After Ukraine's Belgorod Region Attack

Sputnik

 Russia has opened a criminal case on terrorism charges in connection with the attack by Ukrainian armed forces on the city of Belgorod and the Belgorod Region, which resulted in the deaths of five individuals, the Russian Investigative Committee said on Saturday.

"A criminal case has been initiated regarding the terrorist attack by Ukrainian armed formations on the city of Belgorod and the Belgorod Region. The main investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has opened a criminal case under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorist act) regarding the attack on the city of Belgorod and the Belgorod Region, which resulted in the deaths of five civilians and injuries to at least 46 people, including seven minors, with civilian infrastructure facilities damaged," the investigative committee said on Telegram.

On Friday evening, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said air defenses worked over Belgorod and the surrounding region, several air targets were shot down near the city. Later, he reported that the shelling had been carried out from the Vampire multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS).

UPDATED: Ukraine Attacks Belgorod, Russia with U.S. - Supplied Rockets

H Turner

An intense rocket attack on the Russian city of Belgorod by Ukrainian Nazis has killed at least 4 civilians, wounded 12 more, and caused extensive damage to civilian infrastructure.

The city of Belgorod is completely civilian; there are no military bases, airports, storage warehouses or other facilities.  The attack was designed to be against civilians!

Parts of Belgorod are burning right now

This attack comes after reports began surfacing in the US, CLAIMING (not yet verified) the US has granted permission for Ukraine to attack interior Russia, with U.S.-Supplied weapons.   

One weapons system which is being specifically mentioned in these reports, is the HIMARS with ATACMS long-range missiles.   Of course, these particular weapons require in-flight guidance from . . . . . U.S. military satellites.

So if the U.S. is now allowing Ukraine to select targets and have U.S. satellites guide the weapons to those targets, the Russian Foreign Ministry says this makes the US an active party to the conflict.

Italy, today, took the exact opposite position.  Italy opposes strikes on Russia using Its weapons.
Italy firmly maintains that the weapons provided to Ukraine can only be used for defense on its own territory. 

This statement was made by Italy's Foreign Minister, Antonio Tajani, during a meeting in Brussels.

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– Slovakia and Hungary also refused to approve Ukraine's strikes on Russia with Western weapons.

 DEAD LAID ON ASPHALT, HOMES AND VEHICLES ON FIRE, PIERCED WITH SHRAPNEL, as quiet night in Belgorod (pre-war Russia) turns into a turbulent nightmarish inferno.

Ukraine attacks a kindergarten, shopping malls, parking lots, and residential houses with NATO-supplied Vampire rockets filled with widely-banned cluster munitions.

Even civilian passenger buses were hit by shrapnel:

At least 5 civilians murdered, including women, despite efforts of paramedics to save them, 37 injured, including 6 children, 3 of whom in serious condition along with 7 adults, according to preliminary info.

Ukrainian strike obliterates civilian car in Belgorod (VIDEOS)

RT

The deadly Ukrainian shelling of the Russian city of Belgorod on Friday was recorded in multiple videos, with one disturbing dashcam clip showing the exact moment a projectile struck a civilian car, ripping it apart.

Belgorod and its suburbs were hit by missile strikes using cluster munitions on Friday evening, killing at least five people and injuring over three dozen, according to officials.

The devastating attack was captured on a dashboard camera as a passing car came under direct fire. The driver was killed instantly, while the passenger reportedly managed to survive with severe burns.

More blasts are visible further down the road as the driver who recorded the video escaped the scene after yet another projectile struck just meters away from his vehicle, according to the footage, which was originally shared by the Russian military blogger who goes by the name Dva Mayora.

Another dramatic video from the scene, shared by the Telegram channel SHOT, shows the chaos and destruction caused by the attack as eyewitnesses rushed to offer help and attempted to extinguish the flames with fire extinguishers.

The Russian city of Belgorod is located less than 80km (50 miles) north of Kharkov, Ukraine’s second-largest city. It has endured frequent attacks from long-range Ukrainian artillery, which often fires projectiles supplied by NATO.

According to regional governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, the latest attack was carried out using cluster munitions launched from the Vampire multiple-launch rocket system. Another video clip shared by SHOT appears to support this assessment, showing multiple blasts close together in security camera footage.

Globalists Are Trying To Escalate The Ukraine War Into WWIII Before The US Election

Globalists Are Trying To Escalate The Ukraine War Into WWIII Before The US Election

 Brandon Smith

The purpose of NATO involvement in the Ukraine War has, to me, always appeared obvious. Ukraine has nothing to do with the interests of the western public, nothing to do with the security of Europe and nothing to do with the economic advancement of the United States. Yet, NATO and the globalists have been politically interfering in the region since at least 2014 and preparing the ground for an eventual war with Russia.

To be clear, I don’t favor Russia any more than I favor Ukraine. The Kremlin has long had its own ties to the globalists, as I have outlined in numerous articles. How deep those ties go is up for debate – Maybe the honeymoon is over and Russia is truly done trying to get a seat at the globalist table. What I do know is that western elites want a world war and they have done everything in their power to start one.

Look at it this way: What if you were to make a list of all the covert and overt NATO operations in Ukraine and then flipped script? What if Russia was pursuing all the same agendas of destabilization, control and arms proliferation in Mexico (as the Soviets did in Cuba in the 1960s)?  If the US invaded Mexico preemptively it would be completely understandable.

Whether or not Putin is acting in the best interests of Russia doesn’t really matter. The war was inevitable anyway because NATO made sure it was impossible to avoid. But what purpose does such a proxy war serve? Well, it doesn’t serve much purpose at all…unless the goal is to instigate a wider world war between the East and the West. In that scenario the globalists benefit greatly.

They get a scapegoat for the economic collapse they’ve already set in motion. They multiply the global fear factor and make the public desperate for the political elites to step in and solve all their problems. And, they can get rid of their domestic enemies (conservatives and patriots) by accusing them of “working with Russia” to undermine the war effort if they dare to rebel against unconstitutional mandates.

Beyond that, they also get an opportunity to send young men (who might rebel) off to the meat grinder in Ukraine so that there’s no new generation of freedom fighters to deal with. World War III is a win-win-win for the Davos crowd, as long as it doesn’t go full-on nuclear holocaust and wipe out their carefully crafted surveillance states.

But how do they turn the proxy war into a world war without looking like the bad guys? That’s the trick, isn’t it?

The proxy (in this case, Ukraine) would have to take actions that provoke Russia into an explosive outburst. Russia would have to utilize tactics or weaponry that puts a vast number of civilians at risk, requiring greater NATO involvement and perhaps even UN intervention. They need Russia to level a major city containing hundreds of thousands of civilians. They need Russia to drop MOABs or nukes. They need a dramatic war crime; otherwise, the western public is not going to support boots on the ground or agree to a military draft.

Popular support for monetary and military aid in Ukraine is waning quickly and Ukraine knows they are about to lose. The Kursk offensive looks like an act of desperation triggered by this reality.

The Kursk region has almost no modern strategic value. It’s a rural agricultural area with a limited industrial base. It does have natural gas pipelines that send energy to Europe, but that doesn’t help Ukraine. They’re already in trouble with Germany for blowing up the Nordstream pipeline. There is also a nuclear power plant in the area but it’s too far away for Ukraine’s troops to seize it (They could try to destroy it with drones and cause a nuclear incident, but this would have to be done covertly without Ukraine taking direct credit).

Mainstream strategists argue that the Kursk operation was designed to force Russia to move crack troops away from the Donbas front where they are making impressive gains. This would allegedly slow down Russia’s attrition based offensive and change the direction of the war. But if that was the plan, it failed miserably.

Ukraine’s troops in Kursk have reportedly been contained. Using NATO-style maneuver tactics to invade Kursk has also done nothing to slow Russia’s advance as they are now primed to take the key city of Toretsk. They are also approaching Pokrovsk (the main staging ground for Ukraine’s forces in the east). These areas are heavily defended with long term entrenchments, but Russia is rolling right through them. The lines beyond these cities are thin or non-existent. Ukraine would immediately be forced to negotiate a cease fire.

Russia also launched the largest missile and drone strikes of the war in fifteen Ukrainian oblasts, causing even greater disruptions to utilities. This proves two things: The Russian military has NOT been diminished or crippled and they still have ample long range ordnance, despite what NATO officials originally claimed

There’s a reason why Kursk was so lightly defended by Russia – It’s not worth anything to Ukraine in terms of winning the war. That said, I would like to offer an alternative theory on why Ukraine made such a move…

Long range strikes into Russia, I believe, will set in motion more Russian strikes on major cities in the west of Ukraine where the majority of the population lives. These areas have gone largely untouched during the duration of the war. Putin, despite what the media claims, has been careful to limit the targeting of larger civilian centers. That will end if NATO missiles hit Russian cities.

Kursk may have been an attempt to embarrass Russia into wild strikes on civilian targets, thereby giving NATO a reason to intervene. That’s one theory. Another theory is that the Kursk operation is designed to convince western policy makers and the public that there will be no nuclear repercussions; that Putin is all bluster and Ukraine should be given more advanced tools to bomb Moscow.

This narrative is largely promoted by the Atlantic Council, a globalist think-tank with ties to the World Economic Forum and the “Three Seas Initiative.” The Atlantic Council directly advises the Ukrainian government on all aspect of the war, including strategy through their Eurasian Center.  They also advise NATO through their Scowcroft Center. As their website notes:

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