Qatari royal invested ~$50M in pro #Trump network #Newsmax
Before & after the investment, snr newsroom ldrs urged Newsmax staff to soften coverage of #Qatar, current & fmr employees said
A member of the Qatari royal family invested ~$50 million in Newsmax, acc/to docs & representatives for the #FarRight#media co & the royal, in a moment of acute #MiddleEast tensions during the #Trump admin.
The investment bolstered a key #ConservativeMedia outlet…when #Qatar was facing intense diplomatic pressure…& seeking allies in the #UnitedStates. At the time of the investment, a coalition of countries led by #SaudiArabia & the #UAE had established a diplomatic & economic #blockade against Qatar, accusing it of supporting #terrorist grps across the #MiddleEast. Qatar had counted on its relationship w/the #US for protection,but #Trump initially sided w/its regional rivals, praising them in 2017…
Russian Telegram channels shifting blame of #Moscow#terrorist attack to Ukraine. Putin says: ”whoever did it”, even if ISIS already claimed responsibility publicly.
Ruskij standart.
With somewhere around half of the Russian population ready to believe Ukraine is behind all the evil in the world, confirmation bias takes care of the rest.
My guess: They knew the attack by ISIS was coming, they let it happen, and got ready to blame it on Ukraine.
#Putin is weakened politically and above all militarily
2 For years has been rumored that #Muslims in #Russia
(almost 50% of the pop.) dream creating a #Caliphate in Russia (#Kadyrov) #Chechens (Muslims) have unfinished business with Putin
Putin CANNOT support #Ukraine#invasion and an internal conflict at the same time
NOT enough men power
This is the ideal moment to attack Putin and carve a piece of territories
Putin can't stop it.
The Russian FSB claims four suspected shooters were detained in the Bryansk region within a few hours of each other. The weapons that were used during the attack on the Crocus City Hall in Moscow, were prepared in advance in a cache. After the attack, the shooters intended to cross the border of the Russian Federation and Ukraine and had relevant contacts on the Ukrainian side.
The bigger #terrorist is always a government. For example...
From 1994 to March 2024, I counted 2069 killed by #Hamas, using Israeli sources and inflating the total.
In the same period, using the most conservative figures, I counted 45,186 killed by #IDF.
The top U.S. #intelligence ofcl on Mon warned that the #war in #Gaza could embolden #terrorist groups, which are aligned in their opposition to the #UnitedStates for its support of #Israel.
“The crisis has galvanized #violence by a range of actors around the world. And while it is too early to tell, it is likely that the Gaza conflict will have a generational impact on #terrorism,” #ODNI#AvrilHaines, told an annual hearing on #GlobalSecurity#threats.
The Oct 7 attack on #Israel by #Hamas has inspired fresh threats to the #UnitedStates by #alQaeda & #ISIS-affiliated groups, #AvrilHaines said, while #Iran-backed militant groups have used “the conflict as an opportunity to pursue their own agenda” against the United States. “And we have seen how it is inspiring individuals to conduct acts of #antisemitism & #Islamophobic#terror worldwide,” she added.
#Trump Says Little on #Gaza, & Nothing About What He’d Do Differently
In the ~5 months since #Hamas invaded #Israel on #Oct7, igniting the most divisive #ForeignPolicy crisis of #Biden’s presidency, Trump has said noticeably little about the subj.
#Trump has offered no substantive criticisms of Biden’s response to the #Hamas invasion & #Israel’s retaliation in #Gaza. Instead, he has pinned the blame for the entire crisis on #Biden’s “weakness,” in the same way he often does when #violence or #tragedy occurs.
It is unimaginable that in a pre-Trump #Republican Party, the standard-bearer would have had so little to say about a major #terrorist attack against Israel & a broadening regional #conflict in the middle of a presidential campaign.
The dead bird accepts money from terrorist. The same people who are promoting racists, authoritarians, bigots and outright neo-Nazis are also promoting terrorism?
Terrorists Are Paying for Check Marks on dead bird, Report Says. The report shows that x has accepted payments for subscriptions from entities barred from doing business in the United States, a potential violation of sanctions.
It is illegal, it is unethical, it is entirely on-brand for Elon Musk — and the fact that shitter is now furiously backpedaling underscores again it's dangerously unsafe for him to be a social media platform owner.
White House #POTUS to be briefed on 'national security threat' is about Russia wanting nuclear weapon in space: Sullivan made clear that he had initiated the meeting with the Gang of Eight scheduled for Thursday.
The Dept of Homeland Security identified white nationalists as the most significant domestic terrorist threat within the US. Findings highlight the significance of white nationalists as a persistent and lethal threat within the US.
1.Threat Assessment: White supremacy extremism accounted for more fatal attacks in the US than any other domestic violent extremist group.White supremacists caused the majority of related deaths, accounting for 40 of 48 fatalities.
DHS concluded that white supremacists aka Republicans remain the most persistent & lethal threat within the homeland.
The intelligence community emphasized that narratives related to election lies aka #TheBigLie, the violent breach of the Capitol & conspiracy theories promoting violence spur domestic violent extremists to engage in violence. Small groups of extremists, radicalized independently online, pose significant challenges. Racially motivated extremists & militia groups present the most lethal threat across the US.
Iranian-backed militias have attacked US troops more than 170 times w/ drone, missile, rocket in the #middleeast, injuring hundreds, and killing three.
US troops that participated in our US response to Iranian-backed terror. There are many service persons not shown. Know that freedom is not free.
This short vid made me smile having "been here, done that" flight planning, mission prep, briefing, flight line, pre-flight & mission. Love this. Video copyright Emma Anderson USAF.
It can also be true that screaming #genocide will never make you an expert on international #law or the #genevaconventions but rather, a sucker for #terrorist propaganda.