Numerous and widespread reports are coming in saying the country of Turkeye is massing a very large number of troops on the border of Syria and that a full scale invasion is "imminent." | Syria is now defenseless after President Bashar Assad resigned and left the country last week. In that week, the country of Israel has been intentionally bombing all Syrian military bases, military air assets, and has sunk the entire Syrian navy which was all in port. Syria is now completely defenseless; hence the "brave" Turks are ready to invade. ● According to President Trump, the entity which caused terrorist groups like Hayat Tahrir al-Sham HTS, the Syrian National Army (a terror group, not the real army) and others to topple President Assad was, Türkiye. ● Turk President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan apparently hires, trains, equips, pays, and controls vast groups of Muslim head-choppers in the Middle East, and used them to overthrow the government of Syria. Erdoğan reportedly ordered the regular Turkish Army to use electronic warfare against the Syrian Army, to prevent the Syrian Army from communicating while the HTS terrorists were advancing!

The US, Israel, and Turkey have all been bombing Syria in the wake of the regime change that ousted Assad | US Central Command (CENTCOM) said Monday that its forces launched airstrikes in Syria, claiming the attacks targeted ISIS camps and killed 12 ISIS fighters. ● CENTCOM said in a press release that the strikes “were conducted as part of the ongoing mission to disrupt, degrade, and defeat ISIS, preventing the terrorist group from conducting external operations and to ensure that ISIS does not seek opportunities to reconstitute in central Syria.” ● It said the airstrikes were launched against targets in areas previously controlled by Russia and the previous government of Bashar al-Assad, who fled the country following the takeover of Damascus by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, an offshoot of al-Qaeda. ● Since Assad’s downfall, the US, Turkey, and Israel have all been bombing Syria. On December 8, the day Assad fled, the US launched heavy airstrikes in Syria, saying it hit 75 ISIS-related targets.

■ Israeli Airstrikes on Western Syria Cause Massive Blast (Antiwar)

Kathryn Shihadah | Essential facts and stats about the Hamas-Gaza-Israel war: The current situation in Gaza and Israel did not come out of the blue. Critical background left out of U.S news | On Oct 7, the resistance group Hamas did not invade a peace-loving country. To Israelis, it may have felt tranquil and carefree – they were dancing, raising families on tree-lined streets, planning vacations abroad. Palestinians are pretty much invisible, locked as they are behind high concrete walls and electrified, fortified, barbed wire barriers. ■ Israelis have never experienced the kind of invasion they got that day. The roles are usually reversed. This time some Palestinians were killing, kidnapping, and causing panic, trauma, and unconscionable violence. Usually it is some Israeli soldiers and settlers that perpetrate such acts. ■ The Israelis’ experience – and that of their loved ones – is real and significant. ■ But many of us are dismissing Gazans’ experience out of hand. ■ If we believe in equality, in the presence of the imago dei in everyone, we ought to be troubled by this. Are Israeli sins forgivable, but Palestinian sins somehow unforgivable?

On Sunday, December 15, 2024, day 436 of the Israeli assault against the entire civilian population of 2.2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, Israeli forces continued their relentless bombardment of Palestinian civilians. | 11 Palestinians were killed and several injured as a result of the Israeli occupation bombing two houses in the Shuja’iyya neighborhood and the Nuseirat camp east of Gaza City and in the central Gaza Strip. ● A Wafa news correspondent reported that six Palestinians were killed, including children, and others were injured in an Israeli occupation bombing that targeted the Al-Qarm family’s house on Al-Beltaji Street in Al-Shuja’iyya neighborhood, east of Gaza City. ● The correspondent added that five citizens were killed, including a child, in addition to 13 others being injured, as a result of the occupation’s bombing that targeted a house in the vicinity of the Qassam Cemetery in the Nuseirat camp, in the central Gaza Strip.

■ Nearly 1 million Palestinians in Gaza face winter without shelter – Day 436 (If Americans Knew)

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova praises the slain Head of Russian Chemical Defense Forces for his tireless efforts to expose Western wrongdoing, particularly NATO provocations and US biolab operations, in Syria and Ukraine. | Lt. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the head of the Troops of Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense of the Russian armed forces, was killed in an explosion in Moscow earlier on Tuesday. A criminal investigation has been launched in connection with the incident according to the Russian Investigative Committee. The explosion on Ryazanskiy Prospekt reportedly killed two people, both military personnel, Kirillov and his assistant.

■ Russia’s Medvedev threatens punishment over attack on senior general Kirillov (TASS)
■ Key Revelations Slain Gen. Kirillov Exposed About Pentagon’s Biolabs Scheme (Sputnik)
■ General Igor Kirillov and His Assistant Killed in Moscow Blast (Sputnik)
■ What we know about Russia’s chemical defense chief killed in Moscow blast (RT)
■ FACTBOX: Key details about the attack on Russia’s nuclear defense chief in Moscow (TASS)
■ Those involved in the terrorist attack against General Kirillov were named (kp.ru)
✅ "Ребята, давайте вы все умрёте!": России пора сменить дискурс в обращениях к Западу (Елена Панина)

Chrystia Freeland has officially resigned from her cabinet position, triggering a series of responses and calls for the prime minister to follow her example. | Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, Chrystia Freeland, resigned amidst escalating tensions with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau over the economic challenges that Donald Trump’s “America First” policies posed. ● Freeland stepped down on Monday, only hours before she was set to release the country’s first economic plan ahead of the upcoming change in Washington's leadership, according to The Guardian. This left Trudeau without a key ally in his cabinet. ● Since Trump was elected for his second term, the deputy prime minister mobilized and has been preparing a team of Canadian officials to face the challenges that could arise with the arrival of the new president.