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Tuesday, June 18, 2024

Who Is The Real Enemy?

Thanks 'MF':





11 comments:

  1. Reading this one.

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    https://open.substack.com/pub/badlands/p/the-difference-between-friend-and?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

    This feature is a follow-up to ‘Who Is the Real Enemy?’

    Way back in 2018, Trump called out a country that has been painted for many decades as a friend of the United States and one of our biggest allies in the “war on terror.”

    Trump began bashing this specific country on Twitter and in the media in order to draw a clear dividing line for the American people.

    Trump drew a line in the sand between a friend and a foe.
    Which country was it?

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  2. Still a young boy in those days. Every Sunday, there will be a copy of the News Sunday Times that my uncle subscribed to since he was still single then and come in the weekend from work from the big city.

    The most dramatic and vivid news to a young impressionable mind was the Jonestown graphic. But do remember Yuri Andropov's name on one of those headline.

    Those days were spent on playing with the neighbours or watching Vic Morrow's Combat.

    Didn't realized will want to read about what exactly happened to those periods.

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    https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/afghanistan-russia-programs/2019-01-29/soviet-invasion-afghanistan-1979-not-trumps-terrorists-nor-zbigs-warm-water-ports

    The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979: Not Trump’s Terrorists, Nor Zbig’s Warm Water Ports

    Declassified Documents Show Moscow’s Fear of an Afghan Flip,

    U.S. Diplomat’s Meeting with Afghan Leader Helped Put Soviets Over the Edge

    Published: Jan 29, 2019
    Briefing Book #
    657
    Edited by Tom Blanton and Svetlana Savranskaya

    For more information, contact:
    202-994-7000 or nsarchiv@gwu.edu

    Subjects
    Cold War – General
    Soviet-U.S. Relations
    Wars and Conflicts
    Regions
    Russia and Former Soviet Union
    South and Southwest Asia
    Events
    Afghanistan – Soviet Occupation, 1979-1989
    Project
    Afghanistan
    Russia Programs

    Washington D.C., January 28, 2019 – President Trump’s claim that the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to get rid of terrorists who were coming over the border is false, according to declassified U.S. and Soviet documents posted today by the National Security Archive at George Washington University.

    Just as false, according to the documents, were the repeated U.S. media assertions at the time, driven by President Carter’s national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, that the Soviet motivation was “the age-long dream of Moscow to have direct access to the Indian Ocean” (Document 8).

    Soviet Politburo documents that first became available in the 1990s show the real Soviet fear was that the head of the Afghan Communist regime, Hafizullah Amin, was about to go over to the Americans. (Egyptian president Anwar Sadat famously flipped in 1972, ejected thousands of Soviet advisers, and became the second largest recipient, after Israel, of U.S. foreign aid.)

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  3. I was wondering, was B.C.C.I. ever or big in Malaysia. Now I understand better...

    Answer below from AI generated with search terms "bank of credit and commercial international, malaysia" and sources from Wikipedia, BNM, Bank Islam...

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    Bank of credit and commercial international, malaysia
    The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was an international bank founded in 1972 by Agha Hasan Abedi, a Pakistani financier. Although the bank was registered in Luxembourg with head offices in Karachi and London, it had a significant presence in Malaysia. At its peak, BCCI had over 400 branches in 78 countries and assets in excess of US$20 billion, making it the seventh largest private bank in the world.

    History in Malaysia

    BCCI had a significant presence in Malaysia, with branches and subsidiaries operating in the country. However, the bank’s operations in Malaysia were severely impacted by the bank’s global financial crisis in the late 1980s and early 1990s. In 1991, the United States’ Acting Comptroller of the Currency Michael J. Hsu stated that “there are strong parallels between FTX and the Bank of Credit and Commerce International – better known in bank regulatory circles as BCCI – which failed in 1991 and led to significant changes in how global banks are supervised.”

    Legacy in Malaysia

    Although BCCI is no longer operational in Malaysia, its legacy continues to be felt in the country’s banking sector. The bank’s failure led to significant changes in how global banks are supervised, and it also led to the establishment of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) in Malaysia to combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

    Other Banks in Malaysia

    Malaysia has a well-established banking sector with a number of commercial banks operating in the country. Some of the major commercial banks in Malaysia include:

    Bank Islam Malaysia Berhad
    United Overseas Bank (Malaysia) Bhd
    OCBC Bank Malaysia
    HSBC Bank Malaysia
    UOB Malaysia
    CIMB Group Holdings Berhad
    RHB Bank Berhad
    Alliance Bank Malaysia Berhad
    Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia
    These banks offer a range of financial services, including personal and corporate banking, investment banking, and Islamic banking.

    AI-generated answer. Please verify critical facts. Learn more

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  4. So the Soviet Union on Afghanistan, and now Russia on Georgia, Chechnya , Ukraine, frequently makes decisions to invade neighbouring countries based on delusional fantasies.

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  5. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan - from the original decision to invade to the subsequent brutal barbaric actions of the occupying Soviet forces against the Afghan population was a terrible disaster.

    You deserve a huge medal from the Russian authorities for your unceasing efforts to whitewash this awful travesty.

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    1. Mfer, u too deserve a huge medal from the Yankee authorities for your unceasing efforts to whitewash those awful travesties under that 20 yrs of Yankee occupation!

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  6. Can see the words foaming out... ;-)

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    https://t.me/bioclandestine/3480

    Scenes from North Korea’s parade for Putin.

    It’s safe to say whose side the DPRK are on for WW3.

    Russia, China, North Korea, India, Saudi Arabia, Brazil, Iran, etc., are all getting very friendly with one another, and Biden’s regime/NATO are entirely to blame.

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    https://t.me/bioclandestine/3476

    Putin arrives in North Korea for the first time since 2000, to meet with Supreme Leader, Kim Jong Un. πŸ‡·πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡°πŸ‡΅

    Western MSM are extremely upset about this meeting, indicating that it is probably significant and something to monitor.

    Putin is greeted with quite the warm welcome.

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  8. In case you are interested. As is.

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    https://open.substack.com/pub/badlands/p/everything-is-connected?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=27ocwo

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  9. MF, alas, I can't allow (unsubstantiated) slander against a GIANT company

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