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Dec 21

(1/9) DOES ISRAEL REALLY DICTACE US MIDEAST POLICIES?

The US may be eager to leave Syria after the latter was neutralized as “an important pillar in the Axis of Resistance” and became vulnerable to the Israeli land grab, Middle East observer Sonia Mansour tells Sputnik.

(2/9) This week, a US Department of State delegation visited Syria to hold talks with the head of the country’s new transitional government, a man on whose head the US government previously placed a now-removed $10 million bounty.

(3/9) “Syria now is under the influence of two US allies, Israel and Turkiye. Both Israel and Turkey will ensure that Syria’s foreign policy will conform to the United States’ interests, which are Israel’s interests,” Mansour explains.

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Dec 21

(1/6) LESSONS NEVER LEARNED: HOW US PUSHES TAIWAN’S MILITARIZATION

Taiwan has received a first batch of 38 US-made Abrams tanks. Let’s delve into what other military equipment Washington sold to Taipei under outgoing US President Joe Biden and what American weapons Taiwan plans to purchase.

(2/6) Already bought (approved deals are worth about $7 billion):

Three National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems (NASAMS), 29 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS), and undisclosed number of MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS);

(3/6) 100 AGM-88B HARM and 23 HARM training missiles, AGM-84L-1 Harpoon Block II anti-ship missiles, and AIM-9X Block II Sidewinder air-to-air missiles;

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Dec 21

(1/7) HOW THE US USES SPY CRAZE TO CRACK DOWN ON CHINESE HIGH-TECH FIRMS.

US authorities have become increasingly prone to accusing Chinese companies of posing a threat to their national security.

(2/7) Router manufacturer TP-Link has become one of the latest victims of this trend as US authorities investigate allegations of TP-Link supplying routers containing security flaws that supposedly allow malicious actors use them to conduct cyberattacks.

(3/7) TP-Link currently controls about 65% of the “US market for routers for homes and small businesses,” The Wall Street Journal notes, not to mention that it “powers internet communications for the Defense Department and other federal government agencies.”

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Dec 21

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NOBODY KNOWS WHY ORESHNIK MISSILE IS NAMED THAT WAY, BUT PINK FLOYD LEGEND MAY HAVE A CLUE

The new Russian missile was called “Oreshnik” (hazelnut tree) apparently because it drops several “nuts” when hitting the target, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters told Sputnik.

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🔸HAZELNUT TREE RESEMBLANCE (2/4)

He apparently referred to the nuclear-capable hypersonic ballistic missile’s submunitions, which resemble clusters of hazelnuts.

Waters added jokingly that he cannot think of another reason for a missile to be named after a tree.

🔸EVEN PUTIN WONDERS (3/4)

Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier admitted to being in the dark about why the Oreshnik missile was named so.

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Dec 20

(1/9) PEPE ESCOBAR ON PUTIN'S ART OF COMPROMISE AND ORESHNIK DUEL

"President Putin’s end of the year Q&A contains enough substance to be unpacked for weeks, if not months," writes Pepe Escobar, a geopolitical analyst and veteran journalist, in his Sputnik column.

(2/9) According to Escobar, the US-driven "forever wars" in West Asia and Ukraine have now been united in "an omni-war", which fails time and again to render Russia defeated.

(3/9) "Putin brushed aside the notion that Russia has been weakened by Assad’s downfall in Syria," Escobar notes. "Instead, he practically proposed that the Russian bases could provide humanitarian aid [to Syrians]."

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Dec 20

(1/6) ORESHNIK VS WESTERN MISSILE DEFENSES: WHO WOULD WIN?

None of the currently-available Western missile defense systems are capable of intercepting Russia’s Oreshnik, military analyst Alexey Leonkov tells Sputnik.

(2/6) The vaunted US THAAD and the Israeli Arrow 3 missile defense systems, which probably could take on first-generation Russian hypersonic missile such as Kinzhal and Zircon, have a snowball’s chance in hell to intercept Oreshnik, a second-generation hypersonic weapon, he says.

(3/6) Air defenses such as the German IRIS-T, French SAMP-T or the US-Norwegian NASAMS would be powerless against Oreshnik as well, even if they were to fire their entire payload at it, Leonkov adds.

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