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UK begins resettling White Helmets as “refugees”

Sep 25, 2018 1:06 pm By Robert Spencer

Independent journalists such as Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, and Pearson Sharp, have revealed what the White Helmets are really all about. As Eva Bartlett put it: “They are White Helmets by day and terrorists by night.”

Henrik Raeder Clausen adds: “The most recent example of staging is from the supposed chemical attack in Douma. Here, according to the White Helmets’ own video, we are expected to believe that a cylinder of chlorine gas broke through an iron-reinforced concrete roof without damaging the glassware below. The cylinder then levitated across the room to lie down gently on wooden double bed. The cylinder, still sealed, showed no sign of impact damage from the roof, but did somehow manage to scratch the staircase leading up to the apartment. Neither the cylinder nor its content had caused any harm to the chickens held downstairs, not to mention the supposed victims in the basement of the building….Given these talents, it should be obvious to give the White Helmets an Academy Award. And that actually did take place: In 2017, the White Helmets won the category Documentary (Short Subject).  This 40-minute “documentary” conveniently ignores the presence of Islamist rebels in the Syrian war, not to mention their massive atrocities against Syrian civilians.”

“UK begins ‘resettling’ White Helmets as refugees,” RT, September 25, 2018:

The first Syrian White Helmets have arrived for resettlement to the UK, where officials call them “brave volunteers” and heroes. The group only works in militant-controlled areas and has been seen rubbing shoulders with jihadists.

Members of the group and their families will be settled in the UK under the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme (VPRS), the Home Office announced on Monday.

The White Helmets “saved the lives of thousands of innocent civilians during the Syrian conflict,” said Home Secretary Sajid Javid, adding he was “proud that the UK is resettling these brave individuals and their families and giving them the opportunity to rebuild their lives here.”

“We welcome the first White Helmets to be resettled in the UK,” said Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, calling their actions “true modern day heroism.”

“These brave volunteers have rushed to pull people from the rubble when bombs have rained down on Syria and I’m proud that the UK has led the way in their evacuation and resettlement,” added Hunt.

London has granted asylum to 29 “White Helmets” and up to 70 of their family members, the Daily Telegraph reported. The first family has already arrived, with the rest due next month. The Home Office did not include any numbers in its announcement. Back in July, the UK led efforts to evacuate 98 group members and 324 of their relatives from an enclave in southern Syria, via Israel.

In a sense, the White Helmets are coming home: the group was set up in 2013 by former British intelligence operative James Le Mesurier, and is funded in part by the US and UK governments. Though calling itself the “Syrian civil defense,” the group has operated exclusively in areas controlled by anti-government rebels, among whom is Al-Qaeda affiliate Jabhat al-Nusra, now called Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS).

The government in Damascus flat-out accuses the White Helmets of being terrorists, offering them a choice between surrender and amnesty, or death.

“You have videos and photos of this group’s members holding swords and celebrating the death of Syrian soldiers,” President Bashar Assad told Russian journalists in July.“What more evidence do you need that they are not a humanitarian organization, but a mask used by Al-Qaeda?”…

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  1. Jay says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 1:24 pm

    England is lost! PM Churchill is not resting today! England is giving up its soverignity at the expense of tax paying English citizens! How can Teresa May allow this invasion.?? God save the Queen!

    • Yokel says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 5:58 pm

      One could be forgiven for thinking that Thereson May is on someone else’s payroll!

  2. Older Canadian says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 1:32 pm

    I read in most of Canada’s papers that Trudeau will take in 600 of them. This number apparently included family members. The number of actual white-helmets not stated.

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 4:17 pm

      Chrystia Freeland, Canada’s FM, is the one who spearheaded the Israeli rescue of these white helmets. If you doubt it then do a search on it: Freeland brags about it. CTV ran several stories on it, outlining all the diplomatic efforts by the government of Canada to make it happen.

      Here’s an interesting background story on Freeland. It claims Freeland lied about her family:
      “Canada’s New Foreign Minister Lying About Family’s Ukrainian Nazi Past”
      https://vigile.quebec/articles/canada-s-new-foreign-minister-lying-about-family-s-ukrainian-nazi-past

      In the 2019 election you will have a chance to rid yourself of this incompetent, Freeland, who managed to ruin our trade relationship with the the US.

      • christianblood says

        Sep 25, 2018 at 6:05 pm

        Flavius Claudius Iulianus

        Canada, US, UK, Israel, Netherlands, Denmark, Norway and Western countries are giving hundreds of millions of dollars to this Al-Qaeda linked group known as the “White Helmets” and they do this for two reasons:
        First is the well-documented Western love of islamic jihadists and secondly the West is using this islamist jihadist group for propoganda reasons to demonize Assad and eventually bring about a regime-change in that country! Watch on the video below as the Western-loved Al-Qaeda “White Helmets” wave the black flag of Al-Qaeda and cheer during public executions in Syria!

        • christianblood says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 6:09 pm

          US & Western-funded Al-Qaeda “White Helmets” doing their humanitarian work in Al-Nusra-controlled parts of Syria:

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 6:13 pm

          The main reason is because the naive believe that the White Helmets as a rescue group, like the Red Cross.

      • Older Canadian says

        Sep 26, 2018 at 9:43 am

        Flavius: Thanks for the link. I have passed it on.

        Sure does join some dots to trudeau’s jan 2017 cabinet shuffle, and many other events since then.

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 5:01 pm

      “‘Canada, we need your help’: How diplomats helped rescue the White Helmets”

      https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/canada-we-need-your-help-how-diplomats-helped-rescue-the-white-helmets-1.4093691

      • christianblood says

        Sep 25, 2018 at 6:13 pm

        Trump administrations releases millions of tax-payer dollars to the “White Helmets” recently! More below:

        http://theduran.com/trump-resumes-funding-for-white-helmets/

      • christianblood says

        Sep 25, 2018 at 7:56 pm

        Flavius Claudius Iulianus

        One wonders why the Western world and Israel are so fanatically and so adamantly supportive to this jihadist group known as the “White Helmets” while they totally ignore the plight of Christians and other minorities which is being massacred by their murderous jihadist buddies in the ME? What the hell is wrong with these people???

        • carpediadem says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 3:19 am

          Why aren’t you helping Christians? Very easy to set up groups these days.

          Why did you separate Israel from the “Western countries”?

          I concur with the assessment of White Helmets and find much of the help they’re given puzzling.

        • PJG says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 4:36 am

          Nice of Israel to “rescue” the White helmets, wasn’t it?
          And then to not keep them in Israel but distribute them to the West.
          As a reward for the job they did…as terrorists disguised as “humanitarian’ workers.

        • christianblood says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 8:04 am

          PJG

          +1

        • christianblood says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 8:24 am

          PJG

          After sending many millions of euros to the White Helmets for years, the Netherlands has finally cut off funding to the Al-Qaeda-linked group that operates solely in jihadist-occupied areas of Syria. When will the US, France, Canada, Denmark and the UK do the same?

          https://russia-insider.com/en/netherlands-ends-funding-white-helmets-over-al-qaeda-ties/ri24777?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 10:43 pm

          I see that PJG is ranting about the Jews again. Very disturbing.

          And the implication that Israel has no problem Jihadists at home is, of course, utterly false.

        • PJG says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 11:55 pm

          Israel – the Israeli government – is not “the Jews”.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 5, 2018 at 3:30 pm

          The idea that Israelis are not real Jews is, of course, quite false.

  3. Yokel says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 3:26 pm

    This article seems to be a pretty good demolition job of the “White Helmets”. Is it a reliable outlet?
    https://21stcenturywire.com/2016/09/23/exclusive-the-real-syria-civil-defence-expose-natos-white-helmets-as-terrorist-linked-imposters/

    • livingengine says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 5:43 pm

      Beeley is a Left-wing coo-coo bird but on this topic she has the doc’s. But, for anything else, caveat lector.

      • Yokel says

        Sep 26, 2018 at 4:50 am

        Thanks

    • christianblood says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 6:14 pm

      Yokel

      +1

      • christianblood says

        Sep 25, 2018 at 6:18 pm

        Al-Qaeda “‘White Helmets” wins an Oscar in US Hollywood:

    • yohanan says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 7:06 pm

      no, 21stcentury is a Russian Assad Syrian front organ. Fake news. according to snopes. https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/syrian-rescue-organization-the-white-helmets-are-terrorists/
      >FALSE
      >”On 23 September 2016, the conspiratorial site 21stCenturyWire.com, which essentially serves as a propaganda mouthpiece for Russian and Syrian regime disinformation in the ongoing civil war, reported without any evidence that the volunteer search-and-rescue organization that has come to be known widely as the White Helmets has ties to terrorism.”<

      Robert Spencer cites 3 journalists as sources – Vanessa Beeley, Eva Bartlett, and Pearson Sharp – but CAVEAT, Spencer doesnt list their auspices including 21st cent… Here I credit snopes more than JW. But yes the white helmets may well be terrorists. Syrian civil war has terrorism on both sides. But Assad dictatorship remains beyond the pale of moral support.

      • christianblood says

        Sep 25, 2018 at 7:41 pm

        Yohanan

        (…But yes the white helmets may well be terrorists. Syrian civil war has terrorism on both sides…)

        White Helmets are a propaganda jihadist group affiliated with Al-Nusra terror group which is an Al-Qaeda branch in Syria! In reality, Syrian war is between the UN-recognized legitimate government of Syria and armies of international and local jihadist mercenaries supported, armed and funded by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Qatar, Jordan, USA, UK, Israel, France and other Nato members! The Saudi, Israeli and Western-backed international jihadist mercenaries plan was to topple Assad, plant their black flag in Damascus and then start a murderous religious genocide against Christians, Yazidis, Druzes, Secularists and Alawites in Syria. THANK GOD THEY DID NOT WIN! More on the video below:

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 7:53 pm

          Yet another claim that it is actually the US and Israel who are waging Jihad, while Iran and Hizb’allah are pure as the driven snow. Doesn’t christianblood ever get tired of pushing this tripe?

        • christianblood says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 8:00 pm

          gravenimage

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 8:11 pm

          That video–which christianblood has now posted here scores of times–just shows that the US was foolish in dealing with the appalling Saudis–in much the same way that Russia is foolish in dealing with the appalling Iranians.

          It does not, of course, prove that the US is waging violent Jihad as christianblood pretends.

        • christianblood says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 8:23 pm

          gravenimage

          As proven again and again and again, US and the West are supporting murderous islamic jihadists that are murdering Christians and other minorities around the world and their support to jihadists was indeed going on for decades! Below are pictures of hundreds of Serbian Christian churches and monasteries destroyed and desecrated by the US, Saudi and Western-backed KLA jihadists in Kosovo and Metohija! THE SATANIC, PRO-ISIS US AND WEST ARE ALWAYS IN THE ARSE OF THEIR ISLAMO-FASCIST BUDDIES!

        • carpediadem says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 3:25 am

          Gravenimage, christianblood never wonders why Christian groups don’t want to rescue Christians or even advocate for them.
          He doesn’t want to see that their priority is not Christians, their priority is resettling Muslims for millions of dollars – ie greed – and their constant organisation of hatred gestures against Israel.

          Apart from the very occasional Christian group, the churches and most groups’ priorities are money money money and Jewhatred, Israel hatred, support for jihad against Jews, support for defamation, lies, campaigns and demonstrations against Israel and attacks against Jews.
          Not much h

        • christianblood says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 8:11 am

          carpediadem

          Well-said, carpediadem! Christians are loved by no one! Even the Jews and Israel are helping and supporting the islamic terrorists that are mass-murdering Christians and other minorities in the ME and beyond! Please watch the very disturbing interview below given by a captured ISIS terrorist:

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 11:40 pm

          What tripe–Israel is the *only* place in the region where Christians are safe.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 5, 2018 at 3:36 pm

          carpediadem, you are right that few Christian charities are actually doing much for threatened Christians.

      • Yokel says

        Sep 26, 2018 at 4:57 am

        yohanan,

        Thanks for the words that you expended in support of the “White Helmets”, but your reliance on Snopes pretty much destroys in my eyes anything you said. Snopes are known to be a bunch of left wing liars and apologists hiding behind “fact checking”. They alone probably got the whole “independent fact check” movement the exceedingly low standing it enjoys everywhere except with left wingers.

      • christianblood says

        Sep 26, 2018 at 11:00 am

        Idlib Jihadists Receive Components Of Chemical Weapons From Some European States. More below:

        https://southfront.org/russia-idlib-militants-receive-components-of-chemical-weapons-from-some-european-states/

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 5, 2018 at 3:45 pm

          Muslims have been stealing–and often reselling–weaponry from Infidel states for decades. The implication that Western states are sending Jihadists chemical weapons is not borne out.

  4. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 4:19 pm

    “Swedish Populist Politician’s Home Targeted In Arson Attack”

    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/25/swedish-populist-politicians-home-targeted-arson-attack/

    • christianblood says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 8:14 pm

      gravenimage

      I like to deal with FACTS not with useless, fabricated “Deep State” globalist, neocon propaganda!

      The fact is: According to the (thereligionofpeace.com) there are 33867 deadly islamic terrorist attacks carried out since 9/11 and NOT ONE OF THEM WAS CARRIED OUT BY IRAN OR BY HEZBOLLAH!

      • Wellington says

        Sep 25, 2018 at 8:55 pm

        So, christianblood, let me get this straight. Iran is an OK regime (even though it has many times called for the extinction of Israel, something even the Saudis have not done) and Russia having close relations with it is just fine but the US having close relations with Saudi Arabia is terrible. Is that about it?

        You see, I think both the Saudi regime and Iranian regime stink. Ditto for their proxies, for instance Hezbollah, which Islamic terrorist organization you wrote of it, and I quote, “God bless Hezbollah.”

        The ENTIRE Islamic world is putrid, christianblood, and non-Muslim countries like the US and Russia for reasons of Realpolitik have to often have relations with these skunks. My God, why can’t you just own up to all of this?

        • christianblood says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 10:15 pm

          Wellington

          Iran never attacked Israel, it was rather Israel that attacked Syria over 200 times in the last 18 months alone:

          https://www.yahoo.com/news/israel-says-struck-iranian-targets-syria-200-times-184057643.html

        • carpediadem says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 3:26 am

          He’s a bigoted jerk, that’s why.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 25, 2018 at 9:05 pm

        I’ve listed Shia terror attacks before. That chirstianblood does not consider 9/11 or endless attacks on Israel to be terror is very disturbing.

        • christianblood says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 9:55 pm

          gravenimage

          To give you an example, Israel has illegally attacked Syria 208 times for the past 18 months. What do you call that? Imagine, if it was the Syrian state attacking Israel 208 times over the past 18 months? Along with the US, Saudi Arabia and Nato, Israel also foolishly and wholeheartedly supported the islamic jihadists that are fighting Assad. now, Imagine, if ISIS and Al-Qaeda won the war in Syria and planted their black flag on Damascus and start massacring Christians and other minorities, What do you think the 1.7 million Israeli Sunni muslims in Israel proper would do after seeing that?

          https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-09-04/the-latest-syrian-state-media-report-israeli-airstrikes

        • christianblood says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 9:58 pm

          gravenimage

          My challenge stands: According to the (thereligionofpeace.com) 33867 deadly islamic terrorist attacks have been carried out since 9/11. Show me a single one of them perpetrated or carried out by Iran or Hezbollah???

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 11:48 pm

          christianblood wrote:

          gravenimage

          To give you an example, Israel has illegally attacked Syria 208 times for the past 18 months. What do you call that?
          ………………………

          christianblood, the very article you link to notes that Israel is trying to disrupt weapons transfers to Hizb’allah. Demanding that Israel allow Hizb’allah to arm on her border so that they can attack her is pretty questionable.

          Here’s more on the subject from The Atlantic:

          https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2018/05/israel-strikes-iran/560111/

          More:

          now, Imagine, if ISIS and Al-Qaeda won the war in Syria and planted their black flag on Damascus and start massacring Christians and other minorities, What do you think the 1.7 million Israeli Sunni muslims in Israel proper would do after seeing that?
          ………………………

          Here’s the demand that Israel allow Shia Muslims to attack them because otherwise their Sunni brothers might be even worse.

          Really, Israel doesn’t want *any* Muslims attacking her–or murdering Christians, either. Although you do not like to admit it, Christians are safe in Israel, and always have been.

        • christianblood says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 8:18 am

          gravenimage

          The “Atlantic” is neocon, “deep state” globalist media propaganda wing and anything they say or write is nothing but a fabricated propaganda geared for war and regime-change purposes! Israel herself has admitted and bragged about attacking Syria and violating its sovereignty over 200 times in the past 18 months and that is a FACT! Google it if you wish!

        • christianblood says

          Sep 26, 2018 at 7:21 pm

          thebigW posted

          (…I think Israel is making a big mistake supporting the jihad against Assad (even worse if Israel doesn’t realize it’s a Sunni jihad against Assad)…)

          Well-said! Israel is indeed making a huge mistake in supporting Al-Qaeda and ISIS in Syria! Imagine what 1.7 million Israeli Sunni muslims will do if they see the black flag of Al-Qaeda flying in Damascus!

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 5, 2018 at 4:50 pm

          Hizb’allah has been openly attacking Israel for decades–they don’t deny it. This is not propaganda”. And yes–Israel has been disrupting weapons transfers, as I just noted.

  5. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 4:20 pm

    “French Emergency Workers Don Bulletproof Vests Due to ‘Growing Violence’”

    https://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/09/25/french-emergency-workers-don-bulletproof-vests-due-to-growing-violence/

    • gravenimage says

      Oct 5, 2018 at 4:58 pm

      Just appalling. This never used to be necessary.

  6. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 4:27 pm

    “Open for Business: EU Prepares to Maintain Trade with Iran, Evade U.S. Sanctions”

    https://www.breitbart.com/jerusalem/2018/09/25/open-for-business-eu-prepares-to-maintain-trade-with-iran-evade-u-s-sanctions/

  7. Resistance is not futile says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 4:34 pm

    Britain is not even trying to hide it’s support for islamic terrorists anymore, they literally don’t care.

    • Yokel says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 6:02 pm

      Please remember that what you describe is the attitude of the ruling class. Elections only change who’s turn it is to have their snouts in the trough, policies carry on regardless. We have not yet found our swamp drainer.

  8. Fred Middleton says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 4:38 pm

    Well, the way London is going, they may find it too violent and want to go back.

  9. Wellington says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 5:27 pm

    No good guys in Syria if Muslim. Best to proceed from this assumption.

    But it’s even worse than this, i.e., any alliance with any Muslim group throughout the world, though possibly satisfying a temporary tactical advantage, should be treated the same way as the UK and America aligning with Stalinist Russia during WWII, i.e., sometimes it is necessary to align with one malevolent force against another malevolent force in order to achieve an overall strategic victory.

    But here it should end. NEVER should the malevolent force the forces of freedom might have to briefly align with ever be trusted, let alone be looked upon as something positive. Kurdish Muslims come to mind here as a present example.

    Realpolitik is as applicable to free societies as it is to non-free societies. Actually, and for freedom’s sake, even more applicable. Oh yeah, proceed from this eminently defensible assumption. For the sake of liberty, which Islam, all of Islam, knows nothing about.

    • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 5:36 pm

      “…sometimes it is necessary to align with one malevolent force against another malevolent force in order to achieve an overall strategic victory.”

      I couldn’t disagree more. The moment you dance with the devil, your position is compromised.
      Millions were made supplying Stalin’s military campaign. US history is rightfully mum about it.
      The middle-east is rife with such alliances – and it’s a big, ugly mess.

      • Wellington says

        Sep 25, 2018 at 5:47 pm

        OK, you “couldn’t disagree more.” Then what should the UK and US have done during WWII respecting any kind of alliance with Russia?

        And your “millions were made” comment strikes me as just one more cheap, mostly inaccurate, comment about capitalism. Yes, some 31 billion dollars worth of equipment was sent by the US to Stalin to defeat Hitler. Let’s suppose you were the US President then instead of FDR. What would you have done differently?

        No dodging here, answer the damn question.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 6:01 pm

          Agreed, Wellington. Allying with Stalin was clearly deeply distasteful to Roosevelt and Churchill; it was also quite necessary to defeat Fascism, as history bears out.

        • Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 6:30 pm

          The moment the Americans entered the war, the Germans had lost. Even the Germans knew that; they had no way of outproducing the American economy. (In fact, I believe Hitler lost the war the moment he failed to take prisoner the Brit troops stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk.)
          The Germans were fighting for the best negotiating position for what they hoped would be a negotiated peace.
          The Stalinist would have attacked/countered the Germans irrespective of American aid. And all that aid just help prop up a gulag regime. (Who knows, if the Americans hadn’t supplied the Soviets maybe we wouldn’t have had several generations of the Communist threat hanging over our heads.)

          You can call it “lend-lease” but I call it war profiteering. What did one of your Presidents call the profiteers? I believe he use the term “military-industrial complex” in his warning to the American people.

          Let’s fast forward to the CIA intervention in the Soviet’s Afghanistan fiasco. It created a monster that later turned on the US and took down the twin towers. And that devil is still with us. Don’t dance with the devil.

          Let’s fast forward again to the Yemeni crisis. Yes, at its core it’s a takfiri battle between the Sunnis and the Shias. (Houthis, Iranian, Saudi, American, EU backed, yadda yadda yadda.) But there is plenty of Saudi cash going into the pockets of defense contractor shareholders. I’m all for capitalism but I draw the line at gun running. So don’t dance with the devil.

        • gravenimage says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 6:41 pm

          Flavius, I agree with many of your points–I have long said that we should not ally with any Muslims.

          Re WWII, though, I think it is easy to consider Hitler’s defeat inevitable from this perspective; but it was anything but at the time.

        • Wellington says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 6:59 pm

          Disagree, Flavius. The Germans almost won on the Eastern Front. Minus American aid it is quite arguable they would have. Certainly if no second front had been opened up by the Brits and Americans in North Africa, Sicily, Italy and France, Russia would have been pushed into Siberia interminably.

          Also, don’t forget that WWII was a two-theater war and respecting the Pacific theater America won that war with not much help from others against the most formidable ally of Nazi Germany—Imperial Japan. And then, when WWII was over, the Americans treated a totally conquered Japan with tact and grace under MacArthur, the benevolent treatment of Japan by America having almost no equal in all of history. Or have you missed this too? And do you really, as well, want to look upon the Marshall Plan, the Berlin Airlift, and the creation of NATO, Truman going into Korea in 1950, et al. as nothing more than greedy American capitalists advancing themselves?

          Moreover, I detect from you a “kick-America-first” approach. The aid given to Afghanis in the 1980’s by America MUST be seen in the larger context of the Cold War, which was really WWIII, and respecting which war America lost some battles (e.g. Vietnam) but nonetheless won the overall war. The end of the Soviet Union only helps prove my take here.

          America has made many mistakes—in war and elsewhere. But no polity in history has been on the right side of history for freedom than has been America. I wonder if you grasp this. I don’t think you do.

        • Rarely says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 7:39 pm

          Flavius.
          You clearly need to brush up on WWII history. An Allied victory was anything but a slam dunk until the spectacular success of D-Day and only then because of the USSR’s successes in Eastern Europe. Supplying the USSR may not have been critical to their success but it certainly didn’t hurt.
          The aid didn’t “prop up a Gulag regime” if, as you state, the USSR would have won without the aid. You can’t have it both ways.
          “Lend-Lease” was a program to provide Britain with badly needed ships and had nothing to do with the USSR. Without it the Battle of the Atlantic could have been lost (and Britain along with it) before the US got into the war.
          I agree that the policies in Afghanistan to make trouble for the Soviets backfired big time. It just didn’t look like it at the time. A misreading of the situation not unlike Vietnam.
          I guess that with all their cash the Saudis could get their arms elsewhere — Russia or China, for example. To blame the Yemen War on the US industrial-military complex in any way is idiotic. In a subtle sort of way the US is being blackmailed into selling arms to the Saudis but the higher the price the better.What solution do you envision?

        • christianblood says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 10:02 pm

          Flavius Claudius Iulianus

          (…Let’s fast forward to the CIA intervention in the Soviet’s Afghanistan fiasco. It created a monster that later turned on the US and took down the twin towers…)

          Well-said! Osama Bin-Laden indeed was America’s #1 hero before he turned into her most wanted! More below:

          http://theduran.com/osama-a-hero-turned-most-wanted/

        • christianblood says

          Sep 25, 2018 at 10:11 pm

          Rarely

          Comparing the war in the Eastern front, the war in the so-called Western front was dance in the park!!! Russia lost 27 million souls to push back and defeat the fascist Nazi Germany which was actually supported and included by millions of non-Germanic Western Europeans that volunteered to join the Nazi Germans!

      • Heidi Walter says

        Sep 26, 2018 at 4:01 am

        Wellington, I would recommend to read this about the Marshall Plan and as far as the Berlin Airlift goes, it was necessary and Born out of selfdefence because if Berlin would have fallen to the Communists all of Germany and perhaps Europe would have fallen to them without starting another war to prevent this. This comment is not to say that we are not forever grateful for the sacrifices made by the American and other pilots to ensure the inhabitants of Berlin would not starve or Freeze to death nor be run over by the Communist east. https://mises.org/wire/marshall-plan-isnt-success-story-you-think-it

  10. gravenimage says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 5:46 pm

    UK begins resettling White Helmets as “refugees”
    ………………..

    Given their links to Al Qaida, this is ridiculous. How long before they wage violent Jihad in Britain?

    • PJG says

      Sep 26, 2018 at 5:53 am

      Israel “rescued” them and sent them to us.

      • Rarely says

        Sep 26, 2018 at 10:28 am

        Israel was acting at the request of the US, Britain and Canada. Don’t put this one onto Israel.

  11. Buck Tucker says

    Sep 25, 2018 at 9:05 pm

    Isis in construction helmets

    • christianblood says

      Sep 25, 2018 at 10:04 pm

      No difference between ISIS and Saudi Arabia! See it below:

      https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DnnnOAKWsAE1cN1.jpg

  12. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Sep 26, 2018 at 3:38 am

    Using terrorist groups as aid workers by wicked mithraist christian west is a new tactic. They have been using mithraist christian evangelists as spies disguised as aid workers .The case of pastor Bruston now convicted in Turkey for espionage and aiding in the planning of the failed coup sponsored by treacherous evil United States is of recent . wicked scums of evils!!

    • Rarely says

      Sep 26, 2018 at 10:30 am

      Do you ever make sense?

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 27, 2018 at 11:58 pm

      The vile Ibrahim itace muhammed wrote:

      Using terrorist groups as aid workers by wicked mithraist christian west is a new tactic.
      ………………………….

      The West is not using this group–they were just snowed by them into believing them to be an aid group.

      More:

      They have been using mithraist christian evangelists as spies disguised as aid workers .
      ………………………….

      What is Ibrahim itace muhammed babbling about? There are not “mithraist christian evangelists” in the “White Helmets”.

      More:

      The case of pastor Bruston (sic) now convicted in Turkey for espionage and aiding in the planning of the failed coup sponsored by treacherous evil United States is of recent . wicked scums of evils!!
      ………………………….

      What calumny. Here’s the truth:

      “Turkey: document reveals Pastor Brunson’s real ‘crime’ is ‘Christianization’”

      https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/09/turkey-document-reveals-pastor-brunsons-real-crime-is-christianization

  13. WPM says

    Sep 26, 2018 at 7:00 am

    The story is about the white helmets who are Moslem being resettled in the West .Why is ever Moslem crying out to be given refugee status to be settle in evil “mithraist Christian” west?? If the west is so evil why are all these Moslems flocking and running to come here? Why are no Moslem countries willing to take in there Moslem brothers and sister refugees?? What has” pastor Bruston” done or said that make him a spy .The failed “coup” was a purging of Turkeys top military ,and political leaders who never spoken or have any connection to “pastor Bruston” .If you can find any connection please post it.

    • Norger says

      Sep 27, 2018 at 11:33 pm

      As if a Christian pastor in a 99% Muslim country is in any position to plot a coup. But these kinds of ridiculous conspiracy theories seem to play well in the Islamic world.

      • gravenimage says

        Sep 28, 2018 at 12:01 am

        Yes–this is obvious bullsh*t.

  14. ΙΑΝ says

    Sep 26, 2018 at 1:01 pm

    Everyone should sign the UK government petition against support of the white helmets (just search “White Helmets” in the UK petitions web site)

  15. Jan Disher says

    Sep 26, 2018 at 2:40 pm

    If the war is ending in Syria, why are they refugees?? Is there enough evidence to show that they are really ISIS?? They should NOT be allowed into any country!!

  16. PJG says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 12:06 am

    Carpediadem: all the Christians I know are slavishly devoted to Israel, and from what I hear, US Christians are Israel’s biggest supporters, and they swallow the lies about Assad being a Hitler-like monster.

    • gravenimage says

      Sep 28, 2018 at 12:09 am

      I see that PJG is back, babbling about the Jews again. *Ugh*.

      • PJG says

        Sep 28, 2018 at 7:54 pm

        Gravenimage; grow up.
        I am not “babbling about the Jews”.
        I notice you continually, endlessly “babble” breathlessly about Israel.
        You just sound foolish.
        Presumably you have also swallowed the line about Assad being a monster who gasses babies.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 5, 2018 at 5:11 pm

          No, believing that Israel has the right to defend against Jihad is not babbling.

  17. David, Thailand says

    Sep 27, 2018 at 6:37 am

    The madness of one drives others mad.

  18. Yokel says

    Oct 6, 2018 at 6:18 am

    Been pondering this for a while …
    Not possible to give Afghan interpreters for the British forces residence permits in Britain, even though their lives are clearly and explicitly threatened.
    Very easy to give white helmets residence permits even though they do not appear to have done anything useful for anyone.

    There must be more to emerge …

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