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Slightly abridged transcription of video, all his references are listed in the "More" section of the video:

International terrorist organizations require a state sponsor. With ISIS, the US is chief among them, always through an intermediary. When they were backing ISIS and Al Queda in Syria it was using its Persian Gulf allies as intermediaries to pass weapons, etc.

6:00 I've cited this many times, the Brookings Institution 2009 paper, "Which Path to Persia? Options for a new American strategy toward Iran." The Brookings Institution is funded in part by the US government (USG) and the largest US corporate and financial institutions.

There's an entire chapter entitled "Inspiring an Insurgency" & the most prominent opposition group is the Mojahedin-e-Khalq (MEK), named as a possible US proxy at the same time they're on the USG list of foreign terrorist organizations. In order to work with them overtly the USG would need to remove them from the terrorist list. And in 2012 after extensive lobbying by people in the foreign policy establishment, that's what they did. This is an example of the USG openly conspiring to use a listed terrorist organization to advance its foreign policy objectives.

10:14 about Russia specifically, the US has used extremists and terrorists against the Soviet Union and then the Russian Federation (RF) for decades: the Mujahideen in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union in 1980s; in 1990s & early 2000s backing Chechen separatists trying to carve Chechnya off from Russian territory; and to this day backing armed militants in Syria fighting Russians and their Syrian and Iranian allies.

11:00 Chechnya connects directly to the Ukraine conflict. The separatist groups were backed by the US and a lot of them trained in Afghanistan by these extremists, essentially Al Queda. Now all of these separatists are in Ukraine fighting with Ukrainian forces.

From Russia Matters, one of these fact check projects meant to reinforce establishment narratives. This is a product of the Harvard Kennedy School Belfer Center, saying the claim that the US supported Chechen separatism in 2004, 2015 and 2017 was "partially correct...no evidence the US provided direct material support." But remember they don't do it directly, they use intermediaries. It does admit that US officials met with the Chechen separatist leader and there were many US voices calling to support the "moderate" separatists even though there were none of these.

Then from Yale University, Yale Global Online, "The Arab Connection to Chechen Conflict" dated 2006. "In 2003 the US State Dept designated 3 Chechen groups affiliated with Shamil Basaev as terrorists alleging they had received millions of dollars from Al Qaeda... Several hundred Chechens were trained in Al Qaeda's Afghan camps and provided with weapons. The Al Qaeda-influenced Al-Ansar mujahideen were considered the fiercest and most organised of the three major groups fighting the Russians in Chechnya. Most of the Chechen suicide attacks — an unknown tactic in this part of the world — were initiated by them." This is the same exact playbook used in Syria operated by the USG.

The rferl piece about Chechens fighting for Ukraine against Russia makes it sound like Chechnya is occupied territory but it's recognized under international law as part of Russia. That's USG policy, to go inside a sovereign nation; find religious, ethnic, political fault lines; widen them; use them to create internal strife to divide and destroy a targeted country. Imperialism 101.

Rand paper from 2019 on extending Russia, with chapters on providing aid to Ukraine and increasing support to the Syrian rebels. These are two armed militant groups fighting Russia to overextend them, this is what they're openly advocating.

it's in Syria and Iraq where ISIS sprung to life and is emanating out of. Let's talk about where they're getting all their weapons, equipment, brand new Toyota pickup trucks. Important article written in 2007 by Seymour Hersh titled "The Redirection":

"To undermine Iran, which is predominantly Shiite, the Bush Administration has decided, in effect, to reconfigure its priorities in the Middle East. In Lebanon, the Administration has cooperated with Saudi Arabia’s government, which is Sunni, in clandestine operations that are intended to weaken Hezbollah, the Shiite organization that is backed by Iran. The U.S. has also taken part in clandestine operations aimed at Iran and its ally Syria. A by-product of these activities has been the bolstering of Sunni extremist groups that espouse a militant vision of Islam and are hostile to America and sympathetic to Al Qaeda."

Come 2011 the internal conflicts in Syria began. This is how it started: In 2012 NYT, CIA aid in steering arms to Syrian opposition ..."being shuttled across Turkish borders through shadow intermediaries including Syria's Muslim Brotherhood and paid for by Turkey, Saudi Arabia and Qatar."

In 2013 NYT, aid from CIA to Syrian rebels expands..."more than 160 military cargo flights by Jordanian, Saudi and Qatari military-style cargo planes... landing at Turkish and Jordanian airports."

20:30 From that to this 2017 WaPo piece, "'Al Queda is eating us': Syrian rebels are losing out to extremists". If the USG and its allies were pouring all this money, etc. into the "moderate rebels", who was giving even more money, etc. to the extremists? The answer is that there never were any "moderate rebels" just as Hersh warned, the plan all along was to unleash Al Queda and ISIS across the region. Their chief state sponsors are the US and its allies, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Jordan.

Here's the BBC's 2018 "Islamic State and the crisis in Iraq and Syria in maps." One of them: "How much territory IS has lost since Jan 2015." What happened in 2015? The Syrian government invited Russia to militarily intervene against ISIS and Al Queda. Russia began attacking the supply lines between ISIS-held territory and their foreign sponsors. The CIA and its allies were shipping weapons to ISIS through Turkey and Jordan. You can see the ratline from Jordan and Turkey to ISIS territory on the map.

23:34 Now let's get back to the US insisting the Moscow terror attack was by ISIS, a geopolitical tool used by state sponsors with the US being the primary one. So the US is actually just pointing back at itself. We can't dismiss the involvement of Ukraine in the attacks, the terrorists were fleeing to Ukraine and it could have been the intermediary as the US has used before.

NYT 2022 article that US believed Ukrainians were behind assassination of Daria Dugina, claiming no involvement or prior knowledge. Maybe that was believable until the revelation by the NYT in Feb 2024, "The Spy War: How the CIA secretly helps Ukraine fight Putin."

I'm going to get into this article extensively because it admits the CIA is working with Ukraine, even training armed units that carry out operations inside Russia. "The partnership is no war-time creation, nor is Ukraine the only beneficiary." What they're saying is that the US has intelligence operators inside Ukraine participating in a war against Russia.

"It took root a decade ago...around 2016 the CIA began training an elite Ukrainian commando force known as Unit 2245...one officer in that unit was Kyril Budanov, now the general leading Ukraine's military intelligence and the CIA also helped train a new generation of spies who operate inside Russia, across Europe and in Cuba and other places where the Russians have a large presence. The relationship is so ingrained that CIA officers remained in a remote location in western Ukraine when the Biden administration US personnel in the weeks before Russia invaded." Remember - "commando forces" use weapons to kill people and blow things up.

Graduates of the CIA's training programs were "to approach potential Russian sources. These graduates then trained sleeper agents on Ukrainian territory meant to launch guerrilla operations in case of occupation."

Then it claims the CIA had red lines, "it wouldn't help Ukraine conduct offensive lethal operations" making a distinction before formal intelligence gathering and "things that go boom." Yet just a few paragraphs before, it was admitted they were training armed commando units to cross the border into Russia and kill people.

Then on Budanov at the time being a rising star in Unit 2245, "he was known for daring operations behind enemy lines and had deep ties to the CIA" - because he was part of the unit being trained by the CIA. They just admitted they're carrying out operations inside Russian territory again.

They sent him to Walter Reed hospital in Maryland "for rehabilitation" after he was shot in the right arm..."Disguised in Russian uniforms, then Lt. Col. Budanov led commandos across a narrow gulf in inflatable speedboats, landing at night in Crimea." Remember, on the referendum in Crimea the vote was overwhelmingly for rejoining Russia, even according to US government-funded polling that's what the people wanted.

"An elite Russian commando unit was waiting for them, the Ukrainians fought back...until plunging into the sea and swimming for hours before regaining Ukrainian-controlled territory."

So the NYT admits all this and accepts uncritically the CIA's claims about red lines and not being involved. They're just doing this to distance themselves from their culpability in using Ukraine as a proxy to fight Russia.

32:41 Daria Dugina isn't the only one killed by the Ukrainian government. Now we see this terrorist attack in Moscow earlier this month that the US insists was ISIS, who they built up in Syria from 2011 onward. I'll wait till the investigation is complete and consider all the information that's provided but the US is clearly the prime suspect considering everything we know.

[–]3andfro 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

ty for these excerpts.