Polish drone incident an attempt to escalate Ukraine conflict

Polish drone incident an attempt to escalate Ukraine conflict – Finnish politician (VIDEO)

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Recent allegations of a Russian “drone incursion” into Poland benefited both Brussels and Kiev by potentially escalating the Ukraine conflict, Euroskeptic Finnish politician Armando Mema has claimed.

In an interview with RT on Monday, Mema argued that the incident served the EU’s interests by justifying a “tremendous” increase in military spending and reinforcing the alleged “Russian threat.”

He described Brussels’ rhetoric as “dangerous” and expressed doubt that Moscow was behind the episode.

”I don’t think personally it is Russia that sent the drones into Poland. I think this is a desperate attempt by the [Ukraine’s Vladimir] Zelensky regime to escalate” and take the conflict to “another level,” said Mema, a former candidate for the European Parliament and a member of Finland’s national conservative Freedom Alliance party.

Poland has claimed its military tracked at least 19 violations of its airspace by Russian drones, calling the incursions “deliberate” and “unprecedented.” European leaders, including Finnish President Alexander Stubb, have pledged solidarity with Warsaw.

Moscow rejected the accusations, insisting that Poland’s claims lacked evidence and were being hyped up by what it called the “European party of war.”

NATO ‘de facto’ at war with Russia – Kremlin

NATO ‘de facto’ at war with Russia – Kremlin

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NATO is de facto at war with Russia, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said. According to him, the support the military bloc provides to Ukraine makes it a party to the conflict. 

Peskov’s remarks came in response to a statement by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, who questioned the idea of security guarantees for Ukraine that would involve NATO troops.

Sikorski argued that Kiev’s Western backers are wary of a direct confrontation with Russia, which has repeatedly rejected any Western military presence in Ukraine, whether as peacekeepers or otherwise. Peskov countered that the US-led military bloc is already involved.

“NATO is at war with Russia. It is obvious and does not require any additional proof,” he said on Monday. “NATO is de facto involved in this war. NATO provides both indirect and direct support to the Kiev regime. Therefore, it can be said with absolute certainty that NATO is at war with Russia.”

At least 41 countries have contributed to Ukraine’s war effort since the conflict escalated in February 2022, either through military, humanitarian, or financial assistance, according to Germany’s Kiel Institute. Most of the support has come from NATO members, with 29 of its 32 states providing funding, as well as weapons systems ranging from armored vehicles, artillery, aircraft, and air defense to drones, missiles, and other equipment.

The US-led military bloc has also been pushing for increased militarization in response to what officials describe as the ‘Russian threat’, pledging to raise defense spending among European NATO members to 5% of GDP. Several officials have claimed that Russia could attack member states once the Ukraine conflict is resolved.

Moscow has dismissed the claims as nonsense, accusing the West of stoking Russophobia to justify soaring military budgets and distract from domestic problems. It has stressed that NATO expansion toward Russia’s borders was one of the main causes of the conflict, and insists that any settlement with Kiev must account for Russia’s security by guaranteeing Ukrainian demilitarization and neutral, non-nuclear status.

NAOMI WOLF: A flash of light—In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination

NAOMI WOLF: A flash of light—In the wake of Charlie Kirk's assassination

Naomi Wolf

I do not wish to talk about any abstract meanings around this young man’s murder, at the expense of remembering and honoring the fact that this was a real young man with a real grieving young family, really mourned by real friends and loved ones, many of whom are suffering around me and Brian right now.

I never want insensitively to treat someone’s real lost life, someone’s real murdered loved one, as a symbol.

But having said that, I do feel that this murder is also having national metaphysical consequences.

I feel that his death, or rather his murder, so public, so brutal, so iconic, so traumatic to witness — as President Kennedy’s public murder was so traumatic to another generation to witness — has already changed us forever.

I feel that this young man’s murder acted as a kind of flash of light, revealing us in X Ray to the world; our souls, our moral health or illness.

Some of us are grieving; half the country, half of much of the rest of the world, is grieving. We are not just grieving a lost life of someone that many feel was a special, remarkably gifted young leader; we are also grieving the world of civility for which Kirk advocated; the world of peaceful dissent in which we still thought we lived most of the time, in the West; in which no one is shot for his or her beliefs and no one celebrates publicly the murder of others for his or her beliefs.

But in the flash of the X Ray of Kirk’s murder, we saw that we are living in two worlds; as my friend Ora Nadrich has said, perhaps there are two dimensions already existing side by side on this single planet.

Everyone I know — on the grieving side of America, anyway — has been having strange sleep disturbances. At first, after the assassination, we could not sleep; now we are exhausted, sleeping at every chance we can get.

But it also seems as if we are spinning — exhaustingly — upwards; closer to the Source of Light. Doesn’t it? Everything seems to be vibrating — for half the country anyway — at a higher vibration; the not-needed, the stupid, the silly, the distracting, is shedding; falling away.

Don’t you feel it? The time for vacillating has passed.

The sheep are separating from the goats.

We can live under this new sky in a state of blessing.

But also, there is the other world, on this planet; a negative, brutal world.

The other half of America, of the planet, is unmoved by this tragedy, or worse. Online it seems that a single demon - a mocking, laughing demon with darting, glowing eyes — has split into a thousand bodies and it is celebrating this young man’s death.

I don’t even understand how this is possible: the same ugly, distorted expression of glee, the same hideous grin, is manifesting in a twenty-one-year old blonde girl in a Southern town who posts online celebrating Kirk’s death; a gay man walking his dog on the Upper West Side of Manhattan; a suburban middle-class woman with a bob haircut on a sidewalk in Seattle; a grey-templed college professor in Michigan; and so on, and so on; all celebrating, in exactly the same tone, the same words. How is that possible? They repeat what sounds like a talking point: “I don’t care.” “I have no empathy.”

Is it a hex? Paid influencers? A script? It is utterly frightening, to see so many human-looking beings boast publicly of being, literally, sociopaths.

I think of the passages in the Gospels of Mark 5, Luke 8:26-39 and Matthew 8:28-34, in which Jesus encounters a demon-haunted man “in the region of the Gerasenes”; Jesus asks the demon its name and the reply is “My name is Legion, for we are many.” “Legion” is the Roman term for about 2000 solders. When Jesus cast out the demons, they entered a herd of pigs, who rushed into the sea and were drowned.

I recall as I scroll through these mocking faces, the descriptions from 400 years of exorcism literature of “mocking” demonic entities. I never knew what that really meant til now. But I am unnerved, terrified, really, seeing something I cannot explain rationally: the possession of many different people from completely different backgrounds across the country, by the same demon.

So we are peeling away from one another. What will emerge? I do not know, but there will be more clarity.

Maybe this is part of what Jesus meant when he said “The Kingdom of Heaven is near.” I’ve written about how “karov”, the word used for “near” in the one Hebrew gospel, the Gospel of Matthew of unknown dating — is both a verb and an adjective: the Kingdom of Heaven (in Hebrew, also “of the Sky”) is both drawing near (literally “nearing”) toward you continually, and is already in place: near to you.

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Watch: Drone Erupts Over Israel's Southern Airport, Now Under Repeat Attack

Watch: Drone Erupts Over Israel's Southern Airport, Now Under Repeat Attack

 TYLER DURDEN

This weekend saw a lot of drone action out of Yemen against Israel. This included Houthi military leadership claiming that three drones struck Ramon Airport in the southern city of Eilat, while a fourth allegedly hit a military installation in the Negev region.

The Houthis claimed all drones successfully reached their targets, but dramatic footage was published from Israel of the inbound drone attack, with at least one being blown up during a daytime raid - perhaps contradicting the Houthi claims. For example, below is the moment a Houthi drone erupts over near Ramon Airport.

Israeli media indicated that sirens were activated in the nearby town of Be'er Ora following the launch of an interceptor missile by the Iron Dome system, which successfully destroyed the large UAV, still leaving concerns over falling debris.

Israeli leadership did not acknowledge any destructive drone impact at Ramon. This is unlike last week, where there was clear damage left at the southern airport, after at least one drone made it past Israel's anti-air defenses.

The airport has since opened up after making repairs, only to see itself once again come under Houthi assault. An elderly man had been injured in that prior attack.

Israel's YNet on Sunday reported that "four days after the strike on Ramon Airport and less than 24 hours after the Israeli military bombed Houthi targets in Yemen, the rebels are continuing to launch drones toward Israel."

Last Wednesday say another IDF retaliatory attack on Yemen, which it said were Houthi military camps where operatives were gathered, as well as a strike the headquarters of the terror group’s propaganda division, and a fuel depot. Scores were reported injured and killed in this latest aerial raid.

Meanwhile, Al Jazeera points out that last week Israel attacked six countries, among them Qatar (targeting the Hamas leaders in Doha) - which is a first. 

"The attack was part of a wider wave of Israeli strikes extending beyond its immediate borders, and marked the sixth country attacked in just 72 hours and the seventh since the start of this year," the publicationwrites.

This included strikes on Lebanon and Syria as well, at a moment Washington is pressuring the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah. But so long as the Israeli strikes on south Lebanon continue, Hezbollah says it is not gong to disarm. The Houthis are also refusing to relent in their Gaza-related aggression on Israel and in the Red Sea.

White House Plans Security Boost On Civil Terrorism Fears

White House Plans Security Boost On Civil Terrorism Fears As FBI Investigates Revolutionary Leftist Groups In Kirk Assassination

TYLER DURDEN

The Trump administration has sounded the alarm on what we've openly described as "civil terrorism" -  revolutionary left-wing political violence - following the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. In a sign of urgency, the White House requested an extra $58 million in security funding for the executive and judicial branches, according to a Bloomberg News report.

Here's the threat landscape:

• Kill-List Risks: Kirk's assassination should be interpreted by America First leaders and thought leaders as the potential beginning of a sequential campaign of targeted political violence. The message is obvious: revolutionary armed Marxist radicals won't stop at Kirk. 

• Overnight Federal Response: The FBI disclosed, as per Axios, that agents have opened investigations into leftist groups believed to have had prior knowledge of the attack. No names were released, but the admission marks a significant concern among investigators. Hence, the White House's move to request $58 million security boost. 

• Organized Conspiracy In Kirk's Assassination? GPS-based research flagged by analyst Tony Seruga suggests as many as a dozen co-conspirators may have been involved - raising the odds of a coordinated network rather than a lone-wolf incident.

More detail on the White House's request for a $58 million security boost for top officials (via Bloomberg):

The request to include the extra funding in an upcoming stopgap bill comes ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline when the current federal spending law runs out. Punchbowl News first reported on the funding request.

The administration also signaled support for expanding resources to safeguard lawmakers, though it left the specifics of that decision to the legislative branch, the outlet reported.

Before the assassination of Kirk, we had already assessed and warned of an emerging radical leftist threat environment with potential threat risks to the Trump administration, America First leadership, and individuals holding any opposing viewpoints to those of the left. There were some indicators of escalation visible well in advance, suggesting that the attack on Kirk could be part of a broader wave and a new era of civil terrorism, versus what was previously thought as an isolated event:

The Axios report did not provide names of the radical leftist groups under investigation in Utah. Still, there is suspicion surrounding multiple groups, including "Armed Queers Salt Lake City" and the "Socialist Rifle Association."

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