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Prigozhin plane crash, domestic and external actors

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Window of Opportunity for Peace is Closing - John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen

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ASSAD’S VANISHED WMD

By Alexander Mercouris

We are soon approaching the first anniversary of the fall of Bashar Al-Assad’s Baathist government in Syria.

Assad himself and his family are in exile somewhere in Russia, probably in Moscow. As widely reported in the media the man whose Jihadi militia overthrew him and who is now Syria’s interim President - Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, aka ‘Abu Mohammad al-Julani - also recently visited Moscow where he had a very friendly meeting with Assad’s friend and erstwhile protector President Putin of Russia. The Kremlin has published the opening comments Putin and al-Sharaa made at the start of the meeting http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/78213.

Most of the commentary about al-Sharaa’s visit to Moscow has centred on the future of the Russian bases. Here I will briefly state my own view, which is that most commentary is getting this topic the wrong way round, assuming that it is the Russians who want to remain, whereas the reality is that it is al-Sharaa who is trying to persuade the ...

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The Trump administration's Ukraine 'policy' - if it can be dignified with that name - is descending into chaos, with a telephone conversation between Lavrov and Rubio described initially as 'constructive' now spoken of as a 'disaster', and with a summit meeting in Budapest which Trump himself almost certainly proposed alternatively on and off again, so that the Hungarians are now anxiously trying to find out what is actually going on.

Trump himself seems not to know his own policy, agreeing with Putin in Alaska that a ceasefire is unworkable and saying so in writing, telling Zelensky on Friday to withdraw from Donbass or be 'destroyed', and then just hours later appearing to call off a summit with Putin because the Russians won't agree to the very ceasefire he agreed with them in Alaska was unworkable.

I know there are some people who see some strategy here. I am finding it increasingly impossible to do so. To me it looks more like the bewildered responses of a confused old man in a...

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A quick commentary on the "Piss Summit"
I might not be able to upload much more or do lives for a while

My Fellow Duranianss.

Yes, it's happened again. I have been assaulted by a vicious Malware Bot Virus or whatever 911 Socks is and this thing is bad ! 

However I wanted to give you a "peace" of my mind concerning the "Piece" or piss, as Elensky calls it, as this thing fell to pieces before it even happened.

Coincidentally on the very SAME DAY  this crap happened Saudi Arabia DROPPED the US Petrodollar as a buying currency and NO ONE absolutely NO ONE is talking about this fact anywhere !!!

 

Hope to see you all asap.

 

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September 29, 2023
Locals Community Private Telegram Messaging

Locals will be sunsetting the private messaging feature throughout the Locals website. In order to keep our private messaging active we have created a private Telegram messaging group called 'The Duran Locals.'

This is a private channel open only to our Locals subscriber community. In the private Telegram group you can send a message to the group or a private message to Alex or Alexander via a direct Telegram message. 

You can access Telegram for web, desktop or mobile here: https://telegram.org/

The link for this Telegram group is below (can be viewed by community subscribers).

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