Supporters of the opposition Alliance for the Union of Romanians (AUR) party have taken to the streets in several cities in Romania due to the actions of the authorities and the cancellation of the presidential elections, Romanian publication reported. | AUR supporters were taking part in protests in major cities against the current political authorities, against the cancellation of the elections and against the continuation of the powers of President Klaus Iohannis. Rallies were organized in front of the prefecture buildings, the publication reported.

The West is involved in attempts to stage a color revolution in Serbia by using students, President Aleksandar Vucic said on the air with Happy television.

💬 "Everything they are doing are the color revolution attempts, I have no doubt in that. This is not a problem, we will wait until the last moment when we will have to respond, when they will start forced blocking of highways," the president said.

Vucic added he has information that "foreign agents through their connections passed to certain students" calls to go to major road junctions and block traffic. This is done under control of "foreign instructors," the head of state said.

💬 "We already know who is doing that and how. Some of them come from a number of Western countries and the others from the East, where they did the dirty job for the Western agent network. We will tolerate that until a certain moment and then we will behave in accordance with rules that the state should respect," Vucic added.

Daniel Martindale, a US citizen who voluntarily supplied Russian troops with intelligence while staying in Kiev-controlled areas, sat down with Sputnik to give his thoughts on several pressing international issues, including America's domestic life. | “Since I came to Russia, I can express any of my political opinions and I don't have to fear any repression. It's really nice to be among friends,” US citizen Daniel Martindale - who voluntarily provided Russian forces with intel while staying in Ukraine-controlled areas - told Sputnik. ● Martindale unveiled his critical perspective on the 9/11 terrorist attacks and their broader implications. "A war never starts without someone dying," he told Sputnik, arguing that the attacks marked the beginning of "a war of the US secret services with their buddies from Israel against the populace of the United States."

💬 "When I see something like US secret services like the CIA [Central Intelligence Agency] working together with very possibly Israel's Mossad to murder over 3,000 civilians in the terrorist attacks, so-called terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, I want to know what they're up to. I want to know who they're trying to fight against," Martindale emphasized.

■ THE 9/11 READER. The September 11, 2001 Terror Attacks (09/06/12)

Former Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili dreams of involving her country in a war with Russia, but she will not succeed, authoritative Georgian expert Petre Mamradze told the VZGLYAD newspaper.

💬 “Going to war with Russia is Zurabishvili's idée fixe, a family inheritance,” the expert said. - Remember, her uncle Mikhail Kedia, according to archival documents, collaborated with the Nazis against the USSR.” However, according to him, “Zurabishvili's idea about the necessity of war with Russia will not develop”.

💬 “Now the former president is still very relevant to certain political circles, mainly in the Baltic states, Poland, in the European Parliament, among US congressmen who are engaged in lobbying. “It is being used by forces that really wanted Georgia to open a 'second front', who hoped that forces that were submissive to them would return to power in Georgia, and the pragmatists were overturned,” Petre Mamradze said. “However, time will pass and the bet on her will burst like a soap bubble. She will be marginalized and everyone will see that. Therefore, I believe that Zurabishvili has no chances to return to big politics,” the analyst noted.

The Italian newspaper L'AntiDiplomatico reported that former Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili plans to promote the idea that war with Russia is necessary. The publication notes that the Georgian politician intends to raise this issue at various “academic conferences” as a fellow of the American McCain Institute. The publication points out that Zurabishvili will spread the ideas of the European Union and NATO, which seek to unleash war between Tbilisi and Moscow. (Translation: DeepL (free version))

✅ Zourabichvili, la présidente géorgienne virtuelle rentrée aux Etats-Unis (Karine Bechet-Golovko)

Donald Trump has riled up America's allies and the world with his seemingly outlandish plans to purchase Greenland. But setting aside the bluster and pomp, Trump's approach isn't really all that different from that of his predecessors, international affairs observer Irina Strelnikova says. | The Arctic Strategy published by the Pentagon in mid-2024 outlined Greenland's central role in US plans for the region, and Donald Trump's strategy is merely making a few corrections, Strelnikova, a researcher at Moscow's Higher School of Economics, told Sputnik. ● “The new strategy expressed the need to expand US capabilities for conducting a campaign in the Arctic, particularly in the areas of communications, intelligence, surveillance and interaction with allies and partners,” the observer recalled. 💬 As for Trump's plans, “from the perspective of whether this is really something fundamentally new or unexpected – it’s not. This is just Trump’s standard, peculiar manner of asserting himself,” Strelnikova said.

Encryption prevents Meta from accessing chats, but it is powerless when someone logs directly into a user’s phone, the company’s CEO has said | Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has acknowledged that US authorities, including the CIA, can access WhatsApp messages by remotely logging into users’ devices, effectively bypassing the platform’s end-to-end encryption. ● Speaking on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast on Friday, Zuckerberg explained that while WhatsApp’s encryption prevents Meta from viewing message content, it does not protect against physical access to a user’s phone. ● His comments came in the context of a question by Rogan about Tucker Carlson’s quest to set up an interview with Russian President Vladimir Putin. In February last year, while speaking about finally succeeding in talking to Putin after three years of failed attempts, Carlson blamed the US authorities, namely the NSA and the CIA, for stalling his efforts. According to Carlson, the agencies spied on him by tapping his messages and emails, and leaked his intentions to the media, which “spooked” Moscow from talking to him. Rogan asked Zuckerberg to explain how this could have happened given encryption safeguards that are supposed to protect messages. [...] “What they do is have access to your phone. So it doesn’t matter if anything’s encrypted, they could just see it in plain sight,” he clarified. Zuckerberg mentioned tools such as Pegasus, a spyware developed by the Israeli company NSO Group, which can be covertly installed on mobile phones to access data.

■ US government wanted Facebook to censor Covid-19 memes – Zuckerberg (RT)

■ US Pursues Research Linked to Weapons of Mass Destruction (Sputnik)

Kit Klarenberg | Romania’s outsized geopolitical importance to the Empire can't be clearer. In the weeks since Georgescu’s victory was vetoed, it has been announced that further scores of foreign NATO troops will be dispatched to Bucharest. | On December 6th, Romania’s constitutional court made an extraordinary decision to inexplicably overturn first-round results of the country’s November 24th presidential election. Conveniently, the ruling was made mere days before a runoff that, according to polls, would’ve seen upstart outsider Calin Georgescu win via landslide. In the process, citizens of all NATO member states were provided with a particularly pitiless real-time crash course on what could now happen in their own countries, should the ‘wrong’ candidates be elected fair and square. ■ Georgescu’s stunning victory in the first round caught Romania’s political elite and their Western sponsors off guard, while leaving him the most popular political figure in the country. Campaigning on a traditionalist, nationalist platform, he extolled views some might consider unsavoury, but also advocated nationalisation, and state investment in local industry. Perhaps predictably, the Western media has been quick to smear him as “far-right”, “pro-Putin” and a “conspiracy theorist”, among other now familiar sobriquets commonly levelled at political dissidents.

The Nazi Regime of Ukraine has launched at least EIGHT suicide Drones against civilian apartment Buildings in Kazan; the fifth largest city in Russia. Kazan is about 700km east of Moscow. | In the morning, Ukrainian "Lyuty" drones attacked Kazan. One hit the 37-story residential complex "Lazurnye Nebesa". As a result, a fire broke out. Another drone hit the 23-story residential complex "Manhattan" and a five-story building on Klara Zetkin Street. ● It is worth noting that this is another targeted strike on civilian targets and the first at such a distance. Now people are sitting in the metro until the "Carpet" plan is lifted in Kazan. ● There is nothing surprising about the flights of UAVs like "Lyuty" at such a distance. They fly at an extremely low altitude. Before the flight, they are programmed with the entire route, with the locations of air defense systems and other military facilities. ● Why do you think Western intelligence satellites take pictures of different areas in different parts of Russia every day? Precisely to understand how drones can go around objects and fly to their target. Their low altitude reduces their visibility and detectability. ● Ukraine takes advantage of the fact that Russia’s territory is vast and it is extremely difficult to deploy air defense systems and radars throughout the entire territory in war conditions, so Ukraine sends its drones to strike civilians.

This is what is now taking place inside Syria thanks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and Turkish President Recypt Tayyip Erdogan, jointly overthrowing President Bashar Assad of Syria. These are Christians and Alawites, murdered by Muslim fanatics, that both Israel and Turkeye' assisted in taking power in Syria. Jews and Muslims against Christians. NOW do you see who your true enemies really are? The time for a reckoning - worldwide - draws near.

Ousted Syrian President, Bashar al-Assad, releases a statement clarifying the events leading up to his departure from Syria to Moscow as the regime collapsed. | Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad broke his silence following the collapse of his regime on December 8, releasing a statement detailing his account of the events that unfolded in Syria earlier in December. ● Al-Assad's statement sought to clarify the events leading up to his departure from Syria as armed groups swept the nation amid the collapse of all army positions, leading up to Damascus, and the irrevocable fall of state institutions and their effectiveness. ● Based on the ousted president's statement, which saw a delay in release in light of a communications blackout for security reasons, addressed the circumstances of his departure for Moscow, asserting that it was not previously planned nor was it - alongside seeking refuge abroad - an option presented by him or his entourage. ● It was not until Sunday, December 8, that he left Damascus for Lattakia, to visit a Russian military base to "oversee combat operations." However, the president recalls that it soon became clear that all forces had withdrawn, leaving the final defense line unprotected, while armed groups were simultaneously drone-striking the Hmeimim airbase, prompting Moscow to order an immediate evacuation the same day.

A total of 224 members of the 300-member electoral college cast their votes in favor of Kavelashvili | Mikhail Kavelashvili representing the ruling Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia party was elected on Saturday as the sixth president of Georgia, according to results of the vote count, which was broadcast live on the Georgian parliament's official website. ● A total of 224 members of the 300-member electoral college cast their votes in favor of Kavelashvili, who needed to get two thirds of the votes to win in the first round of the election. ● "According to the results provided by the secretary general [of the Central Election Commission], Mikhail Kavelashvili has been elected president," CEC Chairman Giorgi Kalandarishvili said as he signed the final election protocol. ● Georgia held the presidential election on Saturday, December 14. The country’s new president had been for the first time elected by an electoral college and not through a popular vote. The inauguration ceremony for the new president of Georgia who will be elected for a five-year period, is set for December 29.

■ Georgian Dream Candidate Kavelashvili Elected Georgian President With 224 Votes (MEDIA)
■ Former Man City player elected Georgian president (RT)
■ US Doesn't Need Independent Georgia, Will Foment Coup in Tbilisi (Ekaterina Blinova)

While the militants who have seized power make promises that delight Western journalists, the country is drowning in blood [...] s often happens, the statements issued by the rebels were far from the truth. HTS terrorists and allied opposition groups have already released dozens of videos demonstrating executions of members of Arab-Kurdish forces, Syrian soldiers (even those who surrendered voluntarily), Alawites, and Shiites. In several video clips, militants are seen slitting the throats of their captives. [...] There are videos of the rebels hunting down former soldiers, which they refer to as “patrolling” or “clearing” an area. Mostly, their targets are shot on the spot. In addition, the rebels have published dozens of video messages threatening various minorities and neighboring countries. Some of them claim that the coup in Syria gives them the freedom to destroy Israel and liberate Palestinian territories. [...] Russian-speaking terrorists from the Jaish al-Muhajireen wal-Ansar and Ajnad al-Kavkaz jihadist militant groups, whose former leader and certain members are currently fighting in the Russia-Ukraine conflict on the side of Ukraine, have threatened that their next target will be Russia.

✅ Syrie : nouvelle victoire pour la stratégie du chaos (Le Grand Soir)

🇸🇾🇺🇸 Richard Black, Former Virginia State Senator: Al-Qaeda has always been our proxy force on the ground; they, together with ISIS, have carried out the mission of the United States; we are supporters of al-Qaeda today where they’re bottled up in Idlib Province; we wanted to… pic.twitter.com/CNpnQ8m6ra

— 🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉 (@apocalypseos) November 30, 2024

👉 The unipolar world of the West will not surrender and there are no rules (Hal Turner)

A US Air Force MQ-9 Reaper reconnaissance drone was shot down in Syria earlier this week by the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a US defense official has said. 💬 "The incident was a result of friendly fire from partner forces conducting operations in the region who misidentified the unmanned aircraft as a threat," the official told the Air & Space Forces Magazine. [...] "U.S. forces have recovered appropriate aircraft components and destroyed the remaining portions of the aircraft," the official said. "U.S. Air Forces Central is actively assessing the actions that led to the incident and will adjust tactics, techniques, and procedures to safeguard U.S., coalition, and partner forces and their associated assets."

These are moderates that run Syria now." You've just seen what the reality is; do they look like "moderates" to you? | America, Europe, Israel, Turkey, Saudi Arabia et.al., the three brief videos below demonstrate what YOU have done, by overthrowing President Bashar Al-Assad of Syria. This is who YOU actually are...The HTS Terror group, whom each of the countries above supported, overthrew President Bashar al-Assad of Syria last weekend. Here are just _some_ of the initial results:

 ● Cousin of Bashar Assad HUNG publicly, by crane
 ● Average, everyday Syrians grabbed off the street by HTS, and Machine-gunned to death in public
 ● Wounded Syrian Soldiers, in a hospital, machine-gunned to death in their hospital beds
 ● SURRENDERING Syrian Soldiers, unarmed with hands-up, machine-gunned to death

■ This is just on day one of the new HTS "government" of Syria. Want to laugh? The British government is now fast-tracking the REMOVAL of HTS from the list of Terrorist organizations! That's how degenerate the British government has actually become. You folks in the UK must be so proud. After all, YOU elected these people! The videos above, are the results of your vote.

■ Similar moves are expected in the United States, lead by the US State Department which declared HTS an international terrorist organization, and even promoted a $10 Million Bounty on the head of the HTS Leader, Mohammad al-Jawlani, who the State Department NOW recognizes as the new "Leader" of Syria.

■ So the degeneracy is certainly not limited to the British government, we've got more than our share of degenerates working in the US Government, too. Oh, and they already know, that WE know they've turned over an entire country to these types of people, so our trusted government public servants, are now lying to our face as they tell us

■ "ISIS" To Re-Emerge...From U.S. Camp...in northeastern Syria! Target: Iraq (Hal Turner)
■ The State Department framed Israel's incursion into Syrian territory as 'self-defense' (Antiwar.com)
■ US CENTCOM chief tours occupation bases in Syria, meets Iraqi leaders (Al Mayadeen)
■ US, 'Israel' orchestrated Syria crisis, Resistance steadfast: Khamenai (Al Mayadeen)
■ Le tombeau de l'ancien président syrien Hafez el-Assad incendié (L'Orient-Le Jour)

✅ Syria: New Government takes shape as Israel move in (Kit Knightly)
✅ Regime Change in Syria: Another Step Towards "Greater Israel" (Alan Sabrosky)
✅ What Is Publicly Financed Russian Media Saying About Syria’s Regime Change? (Andrew Korybko)

Bashar al-Assad is no longer the president of Syria after a shocking coup that has left the world wondering: What deal was made behind closed doors? As we wait for answers, Rebranded Al-Qaeda (HTS) has pledged to create a transitional government, and Israel is already ramping up strikes against the Syrian military and expanding its occupation of Syrian territory.

Kevork Almassian, Host of Syriana Analysis, noted that the end of the Syrian Government likely means the end of the "Axis of Resistance," as the new government that takes shape is expected to have the interests of the U.S., Israel and Turkey directly involved, which means cutting off the supply lines to Hezbollah and other groups that support the Palestinian resistance.

■ Biden-Backed Rebels in Syria Takeover Declare Sharia Law in Syria (Hal Turner)
■ Turkey's Offensive vs. #Russia and #Syria - Situation at the Beginning of the Day on 9 Dec 2024️ ("llordofwar")
■ Israeli forces seize towns in Syria’s Quneitra, moving towards Dara’a (PressTV)
■ Israel Has Begun Attacking and Destroying Syria (Hal Turner)
■ Syrian opposition controls city of Tartus hosting Russian base (TASS)
■ "Russians won't be bothered": American general on Tartus base (TsargradTV)
■ Russia Ensures Security of Military Bases in Syria Amid Ongoing Turmoil (Sputnik)
■ US occupation, sanctions ‘source of Syria crisis’: Iran’s ambassador (PressTV)
■ Reuters should retract fake Assad ‘plane crash’ story – Moscow (RT.com)
■ Ex-Syrian President Assad, family in Russia, granted asylum: Kremlin (Al Mayadeen)
■ Syria's president leaves Damascus — media (12/08/24)

✅ U.S. B-52's Bombing Syria Now...Cleaning-up Loose Ends So No One Can Testify (Harold Turner)
✅ Syria - Winners And Losers Or Both (Moon of Alabama)
✅ Israeli Takeover Of Syria (TheBurningPlatform.com/StateoftheNation.info)
✅ Trump Isn’t Telling The Whole Truth About Russia & Syria (Andrew Korybko)

✅ Trump isn't telling the whole truth and neither is anyone else doing so. They're probably saying whatever they've been told, but that's just a tiny fraction of Israel's real agenda: The Promised Land (according to the fanatical Jewish Rabbis). Political & Military Israel agree subserviently to whatever these lunatics want, and they want "Eretz Yisrael", that's including Cyprus and a large part of Türkiye, The Dönmeh, where the Sabbatean Jews are firmly in control since way back. Erdoğan is a traitor, like Jewish Mustafa Kemal Atatürk was before him. It's hard to see what could stop the Jewish lunatics now; it’s there for the taking. (Sources 1+2) - Editor

Israel carried out ground and air military movements in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights in preparation for a possible invasion of southern Syria. | Jordan closed its only passenger and commercial border crossing with Syria, the interior ministry said on 6 December, citing security concerns amid the ongoing extremist invasion of Syria that began over a week ago. ● Jordan News Agency reported that all traffic through Jordan's Jaber crossing into Syrian territory will be banned. However, Jordanians and Jordanian vehicles will be permitted to return to the Kingdom's territory from the other side, Syria's Nassib Crossing. ● Armed extremist groups seeking to invade southern Syria announced on Friday the formation of a new operations room to coordinate a coming assault on Damascus. ● In a statement shared with CNN, the “Southern Operations Room” called on government forces to defect “from the Assad regime's criminal gang” and join the foreign-backed extremists.

Washington has an “ironclad” commitment to bringing the country into the EU and NATO, the Secretary of State has said [sic] | The country’s pro-Western political parties are staging nightly protests in the post-Soviet republic, which have escalated into clashes with the police on multiple occasions, in an attempt to overturn the results of the October elections, which they claim were rigged. ● Blinken demanded the release of detained protesters and that officials be held accountable for police officers “engaging in the unlawful use of force.” On multiple occasions, rally-goers have reportedly fired fireworks at riot police and pelted them with rocks. The officers used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the crowds. Dozens of people on both sides have been reported injured since mid-November.

■ Protest in Georgial’s capital Tbilisi ends peacefully (TASS)
■ NATO, Georgian Mercenaries Sent To Tbilisi For Escalation - VIDEO (12/04/24)

✅ Turmoil in Tbilisi: Why are we seeing violence on the streets of another post-Soviet capital? (Petr Lavrenin)
✅ EU and NATO are attempting to foment a Ukraine-style coup in Georgia (Thomas Fazi)
✅ GEORGIA: “Human Rights NGOs” and the Corruption of Civil Society (Glenn Diesen)

Mass riots organized by the pro-Western opposition and various non-governmental organizations sponsored from abroad have been ongoing in Georgia for six days. Today, the Constitutional Court of Georgia rejected the petition of President Salome Zurabishvili to annul the results of the parliamentary elections. | After the failure of attempts to take control of the parliament building, the protesters turned to pogroms, they set fire to police officers, attacking them with Molotov cocktails and homemade flamethrowers. More than 120 law enforcement officers, who provided security during the riots, were injured. The Georgian Maidan protests have rapidly radicalized and the violent stage of confrontation against the legitimately elected authorities is approaching. ■ Professional provocateurs have been spotted on the streets of Tbilisi. Protesters with guns were seen on the streets. NATO mercenaries from Ukraine are flying to Georgia. A British mercenary Aiden Eslin, who was previously released from Russian captivity, posted a message about his arrival in Georgia. The Georgian Legion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine reported on the transfer of its fighters to Georgia to help the opposition. There is every reason to believe that at any moment militants with weapons will escalate the pogroms and blood will be shed.

✅ EU and NATO are attempting to foment a Ukraine-style coup in Georgia (Thomas Fazi)
✅ GEORGIA: “Human Rights NGOs” and the Corruption of Civil Society (Glenn Diesen)

Glenn Diesen | Organisations operating under the banner of “human rights non-governmental organisations” (NGOs) have become key actors in disseminating war propaganda, intimidating academics, and corrupting civil society. These NGOs act as gatekeepers determining which voices should be elevated and which should be censored and cancelled.

💬 The NGOs staged Georgia’s “Rose Revolution” in 2003 which eventually resulted in war with Russia after the new authorities in Georgia attacked South Ossetia. Recently, the Prime Minister of Georgia cautioned that the US was yet again using NGOs in an effort to topple the government to use his country as a second front against Russia.[5] Georgia’s democratically elected parliament passed a law with an overwhelming majority (83 in favour vs 23 against), for greater transparency over the funding of NGOs. Unsurprisingly, the Western NGOs decided that transparency over funding of NGOs was undemocratic, and it was labelled a “Russian law”. The Western public was fed footage of protests for democratic credibility, and they were reassured that the Georgian Prime Minister was merely a Russian puppet. The US and EU subsequently responded by threatening Georgia with sanctions in the name of “supporting” Georgia’s civil society.

Kit Klarenberg | That foreign actors are involved in sowing the current chaos in Syria couldn’t be more unambiguous, or writ larger. But there’s more. | On November 27th, ultra-extremist militants Hayat Tahrir al-Sham launched a vast offensive in Syria. Within days, the Turkey-backed faction seized significant swaths of Aleppo, the country’s second-largest city, and advances elsewhere continue. While disinformation on the scale and success of HTS’ incursions abounds on social media, establishment news outlets remain a redoubtable source of manipulation and deceit. No context to the current upsurge of violence is provided, although reference has been widely made to supposedly “peaceful” protests in 2011 that produced the decade-long Syrian civil war. ■ According to this narrative, righteous pro-democracy demonstrators were brutally attacked by Syrian authorities for taking a public stand against dictatorship. Yet, the reality of what happened during that fateful time is very different - and amply revealed by the Syrian government’s own internal documents. Namely, records of the Central Crisis Management Cell, created in March 2011 by Damascus to manage official responses to mass rioting that began weeks earlier.

■ Syria stops terrorists from infiltrating Hama province, eliminates dozens of militants (12/01/24)

Activists continue clashing with police in Tbilisi | Pro-EU protests continued on Sunday in Georgia’s capital, Tbilisi, where activists clashed with riot police outside the former Soviet country’s parliament building. ● The demonstrations are backed by a coalition of opposition parties, as well as Georgia’s pro-EU president, Salome Zourabichvili, who called the current government “illegitimate.” She previously claimed that the parliamentary election in October was rigged in favor of the ruling Georgian Dream party. ● The protesters are outraged by the government’s decision to freeze negotiations on joining the EU until 2028. Prime Minister Irakli Kobakzhidze said Georgia should ultimately become a member state, but do so on fair terms. He accused the EU of using the accession talks to “blackmail” Georgia and meddle in its politics.

■ WATCH Pro-EU protesters use ‘fireworks mini-gun’ in Tbilisi (RT.com)
✅ The West Is Ramping Up Its Regime Change Campaign In Georgia (Andrew Korybko)

Protests in the ex-Soviet state continue for the third day following the government’s decision to freeze EU accession talks until 2028 | Washington announced on Saturday the suspension of its strategic partnership with Georgia, condemning the ruling party’s recent decision to freeze EU accession talks until 2028. US State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller has slammed the Georgian Dream party over the move. [...] The Georgian government’s announcement came on Thursday when Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze declared that discussions on joining the EU would not be prioritized until at least 2028. He stated that while Georgia aims to become a member, it should do so under fair conditions, accusing the EU of using the talks to “blackmail” Georgia and meddle in its affairs.

■ French-born Georgian president refuses to leave office (RT.com)
■ Медведев: Грузия быстро движется по украинскому пути в темную бездну (BaltNews.)

The bombing has thwarted the offensive launched by militants on the town of Tel Rifat, RIA Novosti has reported | Syria has launched an airstrike targeting a motorized column of terrorists in the country's northwestern Aleppo Province, RIA Novosti has reported, citing local security sources. The news agency has published aerial footage showing the raid. ■ The strike was ordered in response to a surprise counteroffensive launched by the militants against Syrian troops on Wednesday. Hayat Tahrir-al-Sham (HTS), a terrorist group formerly known as Jabhat al-Nusra and affiliated with Al Qaeda, attacked government-controlled territory in the north of the country on Wednesday alongside a collection of allied militias, breaking a fragile truce brokered by Russia and Türkiye in 2020.

■ Syrian Army issues statement, details situation in Aleppo, Idlib (Al Mayadeen)
■ Turkish professor reveals who is behind the militant offensive in Syria (tsargrad.tv/Pravda-EN)
■ Aleppo airport and major roads closed as Syrian rebel fighters step up attacks (Yahoo)
■ Russia fails to halt Aleppo offensive with war planes diverted to Ukraine (MEE)
■ Russian jets back Syrian counteroffensive – military (RT.com)
■ Syrian Conflict: Massive NATO-Backed Attack on Aleppo | Syriana Analysis (11/29/24)

■ Who is behind the new Syria war flare-up? (Murad Sadygzade)
✅ U.S., Allies Reignite War On Syria (Moon of Alabama)

Syriana Analysis is an independent political commentary channel founded by award-winning journalist Kevork Almassian. With expertise in geopolitics, Almassian's primary objective is to offer informative content that challenges the prevailing narratives of mainstream media. PS: The views and opinions expressed by the guest do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of Syriana Analysis.

■ Syrian Army Eliminates Hundreds of Terrorists in Idlib and Aleppo, Including Foreign Mercenaries (Sputnik)
■ Resurgence of terrorism in Syria ‘American-Zionist plot’ after failure in Lebanon: Iran (PressTV)
■ Syrian Army Launches Counteroffensive in Aleppo, Idlib to Repel Militant Attacks - Reports (Sputnik)
■ Foreign-backed terrorists launch major attack against Syrian Army in Aleppo (11/28/24)

A coalition of foreign-backed terrorist groups and anti-Damascus militants have launched a major attack on the Syrian military positions in the northwestern province of Aleppo, with the Arab country’s army forces engaging in a deadly confrontation to repel the large-scale aggression. | Local media reports said members of the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) terrorist outfit and their allied armed factions overran at least 10 areas under the control of the Syrian military in the west of Aleppo city and the eastern countryside of Idlib on Wednesday. ■ The so-called Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a UK-based monitor, said almost 100 soldiers as well as militants from both sides were killed as a result of the heavy clashes. ■ Activists working with SOHR reported that 44 members of HTS were killed along with 16 members of allied armed militant groups.

✅ The Terrorist Offensive In Aleppo Is Meant To Deliver A Coup De Grace To Syria (Andrew Korybko)

Thomas Fazi | Tbilisi has been ensnared by Nato hypocrisy | Food. Churches. Chacha. This is what Georgia has long been known for. But now this ancient country, flanked by the mountains and the sea in the heart of the Caucasus, is the battleground in a new Not-So-Cold War. Due to its strategic location — it shares a large border with Russia to the north — the country has found itself caught up in the geopolitical power play between the West and Russia. And just like the Euromaidan revolt in Ukraine a decade ago, Georgia’s domestic politics have been framed in Nato circles as an existential fight. On one side sits the Georgian Dream, the allegedly pro-Russian ruling party, in power since 2012. On the other sits the opposition, avowedly pro-Western and pro-EU. ■ Little wonder, then, that last week’s parliamentary elections have turned into a global event. As predicted by the polls, Georgian Dream won by a wide margin, securing over 53% of the vote. The four major opposition coalitions together managed less than 40%. There is no reason to believe that the vote was fixed: despite raising some concerns about pressure on voters, biased media coverage and an environment of political polarisation, independent observers found no evidence of electoral fraud, let alone of Russian interference.

Foreign funding is used for this purpose, Irakli Kobakhidze noted | Unprecedented foreign interference was observed during Georgia’s latest parliamentary elections, Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said. [...] Parliamentary elections were held in Georgia on October 26, employing the widespread use of electronic ballot boxes for the first time. According to the Central Election Commission, the ruling Georgian Dream-Democratic Georgia party got 53.93% of the vote. As the winner it has the right to form the government on its own. Four opposition parties cleared the five-percent threshold: Coalition for Change had 11%, Unity-National Movement — 10.16%, Strong Georgia — 8.8%, and Gakharia for Georgia — 7.76%. ● All opposition parties that have entered parliament refuse to recognize the results of the elections, and so does Georgian president Salome Zourabichvili. According to her, the Central Election Commission data is rigged and in reality the opposition received more votes than the Georgian Dream party and therefore has the majority of seats in parliament.

■ Partial recount in Georgia election ‘confirms ruling party win’ (Hürriyet Daily News)
■ Georgia to recount votes after opposition rejects election loss (10/30/24)
■ Georgia’s pro-Western opposition refuses to accept election defeat (10/28/24)
■ This post-Soviet country is too independent for the West. Punishment is at hand (09/28/24)

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange testified during a Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) hearing, and spoke about his U.K. imprisonment at HM Prison Belmarsh and his plea deal with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). Assange said he chose freedom over justice, stating:

💬 I eventually chose freedom over unrealizable justice, after being detained for years and facing a 175 year sentence with no effective remedy…. Justice for me is now precluded, as the U.S. government insisted in writing into its plea agreement that I cannot file a case at the European Court of Human Rights or even a freedom of information act request over what it did to me as a result of its extradition request. I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration I plead guilty to journalism. I plead guilty to seeking information from a source. I plead guilty to obtaining information from a source. And I plead guilty to informing the public what that information was. I did not plead guilty to anything else.

💬 President Obama’s Justice Department chose not to indict me, recognizing that no crime had been committed. The United States had never before prosecuted a publisher for publishing or obtaining government information. To do so would require a radical and ominous reinterpretation of the US Constitution…. However, in February 2017, the landscape changed dramatically. President Trump had been elected. He appointed two wolves in MAGA hats: Mike Pompeo, a Kansas congressman and former arms industry executive, as CIA Director, and William Barr, a former CIA officer, as US Attorney General…. CIA Director Pompeo launched a campaign of retribution. It is now a matter of public record that under Pompeo’s explicit direction, the CIA drew up plans to kidnap and to assassinate me within the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and authorized going after my European colleagues, subjecting us to theft, hacking attacks, and the planting of false information.