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US and Russia discuss ‘end of war by Easter’

The Times, February 17, 2025

The last piece of Magog!

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Marco Rubio, the US secretary of state, held talks with his Russian counterpart on Tuesday as Ukrainian fears deepen about President Trump’s strategy for a permanent peace. Rubio met Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister, in Riyadh. Also arriving in the Saudi capital — tellingly, as far as Ukraine is concerned — was Kirill Dmitriev, Russia’s sovereign wealth chief, who held talks with American officials on strengthening economic co-operation between Moscow and Washington. The Trump administration is reported to have set itself an ambitious target of Easter, which is just over two months away, to finalise a ceasefire deal for the three-year conflict.

A deadline is not a plan, however, and the only details that emerged publicly during the Munich security conference last week were demands for Europe to prepare potential peacekeeping forces. The Times also reported on Monday the US had drawn up a deal giving it rights over half of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, oil and gas as a payback for the cost of American aid, which Kyiv refused to sign because it contained no specific security guarantees.

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Saudi Arabia became the host of a meeting few could envisage. America and Russia alone – sat around a negotiating table – discussing how to end the war in Ukraine. Ukraine and Europe were both absent. The two main world powers were there to decide Ukraine’s fate. The difficulty for Ukraine was that Trump outlined before the talks even began that they would need to give up the land Russia had taken and would never be able to join NATO. Putin was all smiles on the Russian national TV as this is exactly what he wanted. A Ukraine under Russian influence, not in NATO, a weakened Western Alliance and time to rebuild his army. Putin will walk away with the last piece of Magog.

Bible Quote

And the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,  Son of man, set thy face against Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him,  And say, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I am against thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal: (Ezekiel 38:1-2)

 

 

Weekly World Watch, Andy Walton

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  1. Risk of accidental war with Russia highest in decades, general warns
  2. Britain warns Russia over Ukraine
  3. A blistering attack on Europe’s leaders

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Additional reading

  1. PM warns Vladimir Putin against ‘tragic mistake’ as tensions rise with Ukraine
  2. Russia invades Ukraine: A dark day for Europe
  3. Putin lays out his demands in Turkish phone call
  4. By the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: A new world order
  5. Russia waging a hybrid war of subversion
  6. Putin offers ceasefire if Ukraine gives up annexed regions and Nato ambition
  7. Concerning peace talks for Ukraine
  8. 2nd half of February American farces
  9. Liz Truss does not see any evidence the Russians are withdrawing from border regions near Ukraine
  10. ‘Army of Europe’ needed to challenge Russia, says Zelensky
  11. US and Russia rewrite history as Ukraine sidelined

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Russia-Iran axis is fomenting war in the Middle East

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Daily Telegraph, October 9, 2023

Russia and Iran, united by mutual geopolitical, military and economic interests as well as a determination to oppose US influence, have good reason to destabilise the Middle East by enabling Palestinian aggression against Israel at this particular time. Iran wants to disrupt Israel’s burgeoning relationships with Arab countries and especially diplomatic normalisation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which appeared to be drawing closer in the days before this war. That might now be put on hold with Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Salman likely fearful of Arab street protests as Israel is forced to defend its people, probably with a ground offensive into Gaza. For Russia, a key element of Putin’s strategy is to wear down the vital Western support that has helped keep Ukraine in the fight, and to open up division among donor nations. Moscow sees violence in the Middle East as an effective way to divert US political bandwidth from the Ukraine war, as well as military resources.

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The Russia-Iran axis symbolises a growing challenge for the West as emerging totalitarian alliances work to undermine the democratic order. For Russia, a key element of Putin’s strategy is to wear down Western support that has helped keep Ukraine in the fight, and to open up division among donor nations. Moscow sees violence in the Middle East as an effective way to divert US political bandwidth from the Ukraine war, as well as military resources.

The Bible says that Russia and Iran will be allied against Israel. We can see how everything is aligning as God said it would. Surely current events are what we have been waiting for for so long. We watch to see if the inner ring war develops….

Bible Quote

And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:  (Ezekiel 38:4-5)

Weekly World Watch, Andy Walton

 

 

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Putin affirms ‘unwavering support for the Palestinians’

Could it be that we are living in the Last Days

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Additional reading

  1. Russian government has the power to shut down any sort of organisation they do not like
  2. The decline in Israel-Russia ties
  3. Under pressure in Ukraine, Putin lashes out at US in Syria
  4. You stopped a civil war, Putin tells his forces
  5. US/UK send navy ships and planes to support Israel
  6. Russians shunned and made silent
  7. Dissident Voice: Pro-Israel and Ukraine Groups Use Identity Politics to Attack Free Speech
  8. Israeli Leaders Say ‘Now Is Time for War’ and Vow to Wipe Hamas ‘Off the Face of the Earth’
  9. Horror for a cornered people

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Dailymail: Back in the Arab League after 12 years, Syria urges group to invest in war-torn country

Sorry, this post had to be reblogged on Some View on the World

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By Associated Press.

Syria on Monday called on Arab countries to invest in the war-torn nation, now again a member of the Arab League. The appeal from Syria’s economy and trade minister came during an economic conference in Saudi Arabia, ahead of a league summit in the kingdom.

The 22-member Arab League agreed earlier this month to reinstate Syria, ending a 12-year suspension and taking another step toward bringing Syrian President Bashar Assad, a long-time regional pariah, back into the fold.

However, crippling Western sanctions against Assad´s government remain in place and could prevent oil-rich Arab countries from rushing to invest in Syria – or lead to a quick release of reconstruction funds in the war-battered country.

“We invite you to participate in investing in Syria, where there are important opportunities and promising horizons,” said the Syrian minister, Mohammed Samer al-Khalil, as he addressed the opening session of the…

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The Fall of Kabul: The Return of the Taliban

To remember:

  • Mohammed Omar Afghan mullah (cleric) and mujahid commander who led the Taliban and founded the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in 1996.
  • Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second largest city after Kabul, located in the south of the country on the Arghandab River, at an elevation of 1,010 m (3,310 ft).
  • 2001 destruction of two giant Buddhas in Bamiyan by the all male group Taliban = lack of respect by the Taliban for historical &  cultural heritage of Afghanistan.
  • February 2020, Trump administration + Taliban signed historic deal in Doha, Qatar > 14-month timetable for America & NATO allies to withdraw all of its forces from Afghanistan. > Taliban agreed not to allow al-Qaeda or any extremist group to operate in the areas they control.
  • Since 2001 the war forced 2.7 million Afghans to flee their homes mostly to Iran, Pakistan and Europe.
  • United States of America Defense Department states > war- fighting costs over the years in Afghanistan total $815.7 billion; from food for troops to fuel; to Humvees, weapons and ammunition; from tanks to amoured vehicles to aircraft carriers to airstrikes.
  • Taliban = not strong in area of human rights or women’s right. impose strict limitations on women’s bodies & their human rights + women treated as possession of men
  • women are not allowed to dance in public, => bachas (boys), as young as 12, usually orphans or from very poor families, can be made to dance in women’s clothing + they are often sexually abused = bachabaze = playing with boys
  • Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) = second largest inter-governmental organization after the United Nations, + collective voice of Muslim world to ensure & safeguard their interest on economic socio and political areas

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“Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”- John F. Kennedy.

We have all seen the stunning and alarming images on our television; hundreds of Afghans both men and women running alongside a U.S. Air Force C-17 transport plane as it moves down a runway of the Hamid Karzai International airport in Kabul, Afghanistan. The script was not supposed to end like this. The Taliban have moved with fighting speed to control Afghanistan. The United States of American trained Afghan security forces hardly resisted the Taliban. This military maneuvering by the Taliban has led many to wonder whether or not the United States and her allies miscalculated the capacity and capabilities of the Taliban. Many will view the surrender of Kabul as well as the other provinces in Afghanistan with some suspicion especially since the former president Ashraf Ghani fled before Kabul fell to the Taliban. A significant…

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From the Ramadan into the eid


This year once more Daesh (IS-ISIS-ISIL) proved how much they take the mickey of the holy writings and how they drag their feet at the Koran/Quran and Islam teaching.

Daesh calls for attacks on the West during RamadanThe Ramadan did not seem to be a sacred period for them. They did not mind even to go stronger and to bomb even more places where many Muslims were together.

Normally the ninth lunar month of the Islamic year brings a period of reflection and a period of ṣawm (fasting). In that period abstinence from food, liquids, smoking, and sexual intercourse between the hours of sunrise and sunset should be on the minds of every faithful Muslim. According to the holy scriptures of Islam fasting must be undertaken with spiritual intent (niyyah ), and this intent must be renewed each day before dawn. Mean-spirited words, and thoughts and deeds such as slander, lying, and covetousness negate the value of fasting. So we can wonder what has gone on in the minds of those jihad fighters who did not mind killing many innocent people in this last month.

In May ISIS had announced plans for a series of deadly attacks in Europe and America during this year holy Islamic holiday of Ramadan.

“Ramadan, the month of conquest and jihad. Get prepared, be ready… to make it a month of calamity everywhere for the non-believers…especially for the fighters and supporters of the caliphate in Europe and America,”

said the message in a  31-minute audio clip distributed on Twitter via accounts that usually post the terrorists’ updates, suggesting attacks on military and civilian targets.

“If one of you hoped to reach the Islamic State, we wish we were in your place to punish the Crusaders day and night,”

al Adnani said. He also acknowledged that the terrorist group had suffered a severe hit in recent attacks from the anti-IS coalition but assured viewers that in the end, the group would prevail.

“Defeat is the loss of will and the desire to fight,”

the video announced, explaining that the group would not be deterred even if they lose their strongholds Raqqa and Mosul.

Isis in Raqqa

Members loyal to the Islamic State wave flags as they drive around Raqqa (Reuters)

Four days before the football festival Euro 2016 Europe was warned and took the alert serious, after the attacks in Paris and Brussels. Though Jews and Christians were particularly singled out as targets for lone wolf attacks during the holiday, which took place from June 6 to July 5 we could imagine the fighters also looking for targets in Islamic countries and in those which sought to co-operate with Europe.

Only if there is a threat to health the fast may be broken. But he jihad fighters don’t give a rip to the prescriptions fo their so called prophet. They couldn’t care less if with their actions in this holy moth several religious Muslims were killed. Probably they are very much convinced that they do not need an observance of the fast because they do not need receiving pardon for past sins. For them there seems to be no reason to create empathy with the plight of the hungry, and it looks like they find they need no self-control and endurance of deprivation.

As usual that what they themselves do not keep, they do not others to do and as such they frightened all those who even would try not to keep the Ramadan. They crucified and flogged “a number of civilians” in Deir ez-Zor province for breaking the daily fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Local media activist Yassir al-Farhan told ARA News:

The ISIS-led Hisba Police arrested 11 people in Mayadeen for breaking the Ramadan fast. They were flogged with 50 lashes each, and then crucified in the market square downtown. Hundreds of people witnessed the brutal punishment. ISIS is trying to terrorise the people through conducting such punishments in public.

The godless agents of chaos known as Daesh have killed hundreds this week across the world.

  • Fifty dead in Istanbul;
  • twenty in Dhaka, Bangladesh;
  • a horrifying two hundred killed in Baghdad on Friday
  • and now an unknown number in Saudi Arabia.

They just continued to spread their spurs of cruelty and destruction in the week leading up to the end of Ramadan, when the festival of Eid is celebrated around the world. Many of the victims in Baghdad’s marketplace bombings were women and children, buying gifts for their families to be given on Eid.

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Al-Masjid an-Nabawī (Arabic: المسجد النبوي‎‎; Prophet’s Mosque)

Before the end of Ramadan whilst many were preparing the three-day festival of prayer and feasting known as ʿAl Id-Fitr or Eid-ul-Fitr. ISIS had a very weird idea about the sweets to be offered to the Muslim community. On July the 4th the terrorists of Daesh (ISIS/ISIL/IS) have proven once and for all that they are nothing but nihilistic sadists with triple bombings in Saudi Arabia. A suicide bomber exploded at the Al-Masjid an-Nabawī – or the Prophet’s Mosque, in the Saudi city of Medina, killing at least four and injuring many more. Bombings also hit mosques in the cities of Qatif and Jeddah. The bombing at the Prophet’s Mosque in the city of Medina was the third attack to hit the kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Monday, following blasts in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah and in the city Qatif. The mosque, which is also known as Al-Masjid an-Nabawi, is located in what was traditionally the centre of Medina, with many hotels and old markets nearby. It is a major pilgrimage site due to its connections to the life of Muhammad and is especially visited by pilgrims from around the world during the final days of the fasting month of Ramadan.

The mosque is considered to be Islam’s second holiest site after the Sacred Mosque, or Masjid-al-Haram, which surrounds the Kaaba in the city of Mecca, so you could wonder why those who claim to fight in name of Allah and his prophet brought ravage to this sacred site.

“There are no more red lines left for terrorists to cross. Sunnis, Shiites [Shias] will both remain victims unless we stand united as one.”

wrote Iran’s Foreign Minister Javed Zarif on Twitter.

HH Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed.pngMohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, tweeted:

“It’s time we work together to save our religion from these deadly criminal gangs.”

Many who went doing their shopping in the mainly Shia area of Bagdad, for the sugar feast, did find an end between the 165 dead and more than 200 injured, some being badly burned.

The death toll is expected to rise after blasts

Bomb blasts in Baghdad, Iraq, having killed at least 165

The bombing in Karrada is the deadliest in Iraq this year and comes a week after Iraqi security forces recaptured the city of Falluja from Islamic State (IS) militants.

Families were out shopping when the bomb blasted

Police confirmed at least 15 children and six policemen are among the dead after the blast, which struck close to midnight, from a ‘refrigerator van’ packed with explosives.

The explosion caused sparked a huge fire on the main street in which several buildings, including the popular al-Hadi Centre, were badly damaged. It followed a week after Iraqi security forces recaptured the city of Fallujah from Daesh, leaving Mosul as the only Iraqi city under the control of the extremists.

Ramzan – the holy month for Muslims around the world has finally ended and we are just as excited to celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr or Feast of Fast-Breaking or the Lesser Feast as everyone else. In Belgium for many Tuesday the 5th was the day of feast, whilst the Gulf Arab countries have announced that the Eid al-Fitr festival to be celebrated on July 6, after failing to sight the moon that marks the start of the three-day festival. (The starting day of Eid varies every year and from country to country depending on geographical location.)

In a fresh alert issued by PIB, Government has announced that all Central Government Administrative Offices will not remain closed July the 6th, on account of Eid-ul-Fitr. Instead, the holiday would be observed on July 7. The decision has been taken by the government after several Muslim clerics and geographical experts have predicted that the Eid moon will not be sighted today.

Since Indian Muslims follow the lunar calendar, the sighting of monsoon determines the end of Ramadan. If the monsoon is sighted today, then it would be a 29-day Ramadan, else the 30th fast would be kept tomorrow. The state of Kerala is expected to observe the most important festival for the Muslim community tomorrow.

In Belgium there is no problem for people getting free on this religious holiday. In the United States many Islamic businesses and organizations may alter their business hours during on Eid al-Fitr. Some Muslim groups in the United States campaign for schools in some parts of the country to allocate Eid al-Fitr as a day off without being penalized on Eid al-Fitr. For example, the Coalition for Muslim School Holidays, which is a group of more than 80 religious and ethnic organizations, have been lobbying to have the two Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha designated as days off in New York City schools.

 

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Please find to read:

  1. ‘Get ready’ ISIS announce plans to launch Ramadan attacks on Europe and America
  2. ISIS jihadis who killed 20 people in Bangladesh cafe known to police
  3. Baghdad terror attack: Car bombs kill ‘at least’ 130 in Iraq
  4. Isis encourages more attacks during Ramadan in latest audio message
  5. Daesh-affiliated militants in Indonesia arrested for planning Ramadan attack
  6. ISIS Crucifies Civilians for Breaking Ramadan Fast in Syria
  7. Saudi Arabia: Bombings target Medina and Qatif mosques
  8. Breaking: ISIS Bombs The Prophet’s Tomb In Medina, Second Holiest Site In Islam
  9. Baghdad death toll rises to 165 after Islamic State carries out deadly attacks in Iraq
  10. Baghdad suicide bombings claimed by Daesh kill at least 200, injure dozens
  11. Daesh bombings in Syrian government strongholds kill 80
  12. Eid al-Fitr: Saudi Arabia declares Wednesday first day
  13. Eid 2016: Eid-ul-Fitr is likely not to be celebrated tomorrow, Government cancels public holiday
  14. Eid al-Fitr in the United States

Syrian and ISIS forces have been fighting for control of the country

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Too Young To Fight?

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Additional reading

  1. Al-Fatiha [The Opening] Süra 1: 4-7 Merciful Lord of the Creation to show us the right path
  2. Not true or True Catholicism and True Islam
  3. Religious Practices around the world

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Further reading

  1. Ramadan
  2. Ramadan Kareem!
  3. Ramadan ’16
  4. Ramadan diary: day 30
  5. The Terror of Karrada
  6. Bombing in Madinah
  7. Eid Makeup Tutorial 2016
  8. Break Your Fast Due To Moon-Sighting
  9. Henna
  10. Karachis Security measures for EID
  11. ISIS child slave forced to fight for ‘Caliphate Cubs’ BLOWN UP after playing with grenade
  12. Eid ul-Fitr: Returning to Our Original Nature
  13. Eid al Fitr 2016 (1437H)
  14. ‘Eid Al-Fitr Prayer for 1437 AH – Details
  15. The first thing we will do on the day of Eid is to lower our gaze.
  16. Making up the missed ‘Eid Prayer
  17. Making Up The Missed ‘Eid Prayer – Shaykh ‘AbdulQaadir al-Junayd
  18. Praying Two Rak`ahs Upon Returning From The `Eid Prayer – Hasan Hadith
  19. The evening of Eid
  20. It is a Sunnah action to go to the ‘Eid prayer area walking – Shaykh ‘AbdulQaadir al-Junayd
  21. The Description of The Eid prayer, Number of Rakats and The Eid Takbirs : Shaykh ibn Uthaymeen
  22. Eid Mubarak to all
  23. The Wisdom Behind Praying the Eid Prayer In The Musallaa – Shaykh al-Albaani
  24. Praying ‘Eid in the Musallaa is the Sunnah – Shaykh al Albaani
  25. Celebrate Eid in Style
  26. 8 Things you do only on Eid Day!
  27. Miraath Publications ‘Eid Fawa’id cards
  28. ♥ Happy Eid Mubarak ♥
  29. Eid Mubarak 1
  30. Eid Mubarak 2
  31. Eid Mubarak! 3
  32. Travels in the North: Day 13
  33. “Muslims Are Terrorists!”
  34. E festa sia…

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