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  1. Pinned Tweet
    18 Dec 2018

    The waged an undeclared war against through terrorists and rejectionist states. Since the end of the Cold War, Russia has retained alliances with such actors, notably , and sees Israel as an extension of America, the "Main Adversary".

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  2. 4 minutes ago

    Deleted a tweet on a statement from the Russians that was, shock of all shocks, untrue. Teach me for a lack of scepticism πŸ™ˆ

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    3 hours ago

    Marx’ın dΓΌnyaya bΔ±raktığı miras: Kronstadt KatliamΔ± Holodomor BΓΌyΓΌk Temizlik Katyn KΔ±yΔ±mΔ± 1956 Budapeşte 1968 Prag KΔ±zΔ±l Khmerler ... Daha da sayarΔ±m ama takatim yok.

    Marx'ın kendisini geçtim, dūnyaya bıraktığı mirasın yanında embriyo terk aşamasında olan adamların âzgūvenine hayranım..
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    4 hours ago

    Was an honor to appear with the formidable on this explainer on Watch below!

    ISIS has seen the defeat of its physical caliphate and the death of its leader, Baghdadi. But as both and explain in this WSJ video, the ISIS ideology remains and a global resurgence is already underway.
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  5. 4 hours ago

    Very interesting. The figure praised by this "" operative, Maysar al-Jaburi (Abu Mariya al-Qahtani), was part of the advanced guard for when it expanded into in 2011, before siding with Al-Qaeda.

    Interesting tidbit from this piece on : - 1 of 2 long-time Ahrar al-Sharqiyeh leaders, Abu…
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  6. 4 hours ago

    The farcical Adrian Darya 1 saga ends as everyone knew it would, with delivering its oil to .

    Two tankers conducted ship-to-ship transfers with Iran's Adrian Darya 1 to move its oil to Syria, according to research from of 1)
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  7. 4 hours ago

    : General Haftar's forces have imprisoned several hundred Islamist militants at the Gernada prison. Ostensibly there to contain the spread of jihadi ideology, one takes leave to doubt this warlord will do better than the regimes that preceded him.

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  8. 4 hours ago

    Gaafar al-Wazer, 24, lied on his application for a student visa about his ties to the -backed /. Inter alia, he was found posing with a weapon, in military fatigues, under the caption, "Death to all Americans, especially Jews".

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  9. 4 hours ago

    Newly released telephone intercepts make clear how direct was the control of 's special service ( and ) over the separatist forces in eastern who shot down the civilian airliner in 2014.

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  10. 4 hours ago

    "Today, the Kremlin is focused less on the political promise of youth and their co-optation and more on the political threat they pose," viewing them as naive pawns of outside threats to , states and radical groups. for .

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    5 hours ago

    New ISIS Bayah images from North Baghdad, . Reasonably well armed with 4x M16A4/A2, some with camo wrap. The status weapon in the hands of the cell leader is the standout however- a Sig Sauer M400 11.5" carbine, commonly seized from ISOF. Cheap chinese optic however.

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  12. 5 hours ago

    Malignant clown.

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    Tucker Carlson: β€œIf we’re really being honest here, Russia poses no threat to the United States at all”
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  13. 5 hours ago

    The Defense Secretary being unaware that his Department's proxy force (the /) supplies oil to the / system's war machine in violation of U.S. sanctions seems like a little bit of an issue. In many ways it is worse if he is telling the truth.

    I followed up and asked Esper isn’t it true that the Kurds are selling the oil to the Assad regime right now? He said he doesn’t know how the Syrian oil market works.
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  14. 5 hours ago

    It remains difficult to stomach all these new-found hawks because it is so blatantly political. Most of them were soft on until 2016, and nearly all of them would have, or actually did, minimise the danger of the , when Moscow was an actual global threat.

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  15. 5 hours ago

    Release it, and eliminate this silly political point about "What is Boris hiding?" But in general this " interference" stuff is tiresome. The only effective counter is deterrence, which requires defence spending. Let's see that advocated, and what you want sacrificed.

    BREAKING: The Bureau of Investigative Journalism has launched an urgent legal challenge aimed at forcing the government to publish the report examining alleged Russian interference in British politics …
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    6 hours ago

    Pro- forces launched a sizable ground attack in SE this AM, targeting territories south of Marat al-Numan, reportedly capturing 2 villages: al-Weibdeh & Tel Khaznah. Meanwhile, airstrikes & barrel bombs in Kafranbel, Hazarin, Zarzour,, Marat Hurmah & Sheikh Mustafa.

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    12 hours ago

    I’m now positive that people who claim to have seen aliens have actually just seen baby owls.

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    8 hours ago

    Three brothers are dead and three bright lights extinguished in the town of in . Basel, Hamada and Zakour Al-Othman the men who ran the sports stadium and brought life and happiness to the area were killed last night in barrel bombs by regime helicopters.

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    10 hours ago

    Benjamin Disraeli would be so proud

    The Tories have more support among working-class voters than the upper classes, poll shows
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  20. 7 hours ago

    There are so many ways of opposing 's BARIS PINARI operation. That it has "dimmed prospects for peace" in isn't one of them. (As just a factual matter, "terrorized the population" is incorrect, too, based on the best data we have.)

    Turkey’s Erdogan prepares to meet w/ Trump at the WH today, just weeks after launching an invasion into northeast Syria that has terrorized the population, strengthened Assad’s grip on power, and dimmed prospects for peace. W/ …
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    19 hours ago

    Well, apparently left Washington with something more than a photo-op. "Sen. Lindsey Graham blocked a resolution on Wednesday that would have formally recognized the Ottoman Empire's genocide against the Armenian people. "

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    Nov 13

    *NEW* study from Behavioral Threat Assessment Center "Lone Offender Terrorism in the United States 1972-2015"

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  23. 18 hours ago

    The Soviet active measures against Israel and world Jewry included exploiting Meir Kahane, a bombing in New York as part of an effort to stir up animosity between black and Jewish populations, a bizarre incident in…
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  24. 18 hours ago

    The intelligence agency that actually did try to stir up tension between Jews against blacks in America was the , part of their unhinged antisemitism ("anti-Zionism"). Fabricated racialist letters from the JDL in New York, even orchestrated a false-flag bombing.

    Bernie’s Jewish critics defending Jewish particularism are the heirs of FBI agents allying with Kahane against the Black Panthers is a take
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    Nov 13

    In a breathtakingly perverse propaganda stunt, Damascus stages a concert in a prison--and forces prisoners to participate

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    20 hours ago

    Three Assad loyalists including a captain was killed in the eastern countryside of Daraa during an attack on a checkpoint while small demonstrations against Iran & Hezbollah continue in the western countryside of Daraa in southern .

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  27. 18 hours ago

    Having failed at retribution for 's attack on ARAMCO, the U.S. now withdraws attribution. "Humiliating" doesn't even begin to cover this.

    The US has completely walked back its assertion that the attacks were launched by Iran or from Iran. SecDef saying they were merely "sponsored" by Iran…
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    Nov 12

    Roundtable: The Future of the Foreign Fighters Problem

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  29. 19 hours ago

    The death of Baghdadi: How ISIS used al-Qaeda’s mistakes to grow a caliphate One note: there is no way the IS spokesman, Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, was ever in the running to ABB's successor.

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    Nov 12

    Peak Russian text exchange between Prigozhin operatives in Africa: β€œDo you think that we’re disgracing our country? Or devaluing her name?” β€œIf you think about it,” she replied, β€œthe whole planet is disgraced. Not the planet, precisely, but humanity.”

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  31. 19 hours ago

    It seems overwhelmingly likely Kayla Mueller was deliberately murdered by , and has always seemed so - from the moment they announced her death and tried to blame it on . But these details about why, the circumstances, Abu Hassan, etc. - very sceptical of all that.

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  32. 19 hours ago

    Al-Baghdadi's real name (Ibrahim al-Badri) had been known since late 2010 after a relative of IS(I)'s first emir who had been serving as security chief was rounded up, and Al-Adnani's name (Taha Falaha) was known from mid-2014. Mueller was killed in February 2015.

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  33. 19 hours ago

    "ISIS operatives killed Ms. Mueller because she knew the identities of Mr. al-Baghdadi [seriously, "Mr."?] and of Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, ... and could be a security risk for them, according to Umm Sayyaf, the wife of a close al-Baghdadi associate." This makes no sense.

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  34. 19 hours ago

    Kayla Mueller was ordered "executed" by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, according to Nasrin Ibrahim (Umm Sayyaf), the wife of Fathi al-Tunisi, and therefore was not killed in an airstrike by as has claimed [unconvincingly] since 2015. Bit of an issue ...

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    24 hours ago

    A little while ago, the German police stopped me and told me very politely and respectfully that one of the signs on my car was put incorrectly. Frankly,after 5 years in Germany, I still have fear of the police because of what we've suffered from the bloody baath regime for years

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    Nov 11

    This Veterans Day, Afghan war veterans are calling for an end to the longest war in U.S. history. Their harrowing stories from the battlefield shed light on what they see as an unwinnable conflict in a foreign land.

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  37. 20 hours ago

    has complained about extraditing Alexei Burkov to the , says it damages bilateral relations. Burkov is hacker who scammed $20m+ in a credit card and other fraud schemes from Americans 2009 to c. 2013.

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  38. 22 hours ago

    That ... could have gone worse? 's "only friendly reporters" jest at the outset of the presser and his asking Hilal Kaplan if she worked for the Turkish government were probably the most 😬😬😬 moments. But otherwise it, well, we've had worse.

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  39. 22 hours ago

    tried to outline the various political forces within the population at the end. He seemed best briefed, can't imagine why, on the fact there are millions of in , considerable numbers of whom vote AKP, and that Ankara has good relations with .

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  40. 22 hours ago

    Erdogan added at the end of his section that he returned the letter.

    Asked about the "don't be a fool!" letter Trump sent to him, essentially dodges it, saying that the letter was raised during the meeting, then pivots to the "" leader, the terrorist Ferhat Abdi Shahin ["Gener…
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  41. 22 hours ago

    Asked about the "don't be a fool!" letter Trump sent to him, essentially dodges it, saying that the letter was raised during the meeting, then pivots to the "" leader, the terrorist Ferhat Abdi Shahin ["General Mazlum"], says US, nor , should engage him.

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