It started with Cuba, but Cuba is resilient, Iran has been under sanction after sanction, but they are keeping afloat.
Libya was a progressive nation, cut off by the vultures in Paris in the name of overthrowing a dictator, but it’s all about oil and Western interests.
Zimbabwe was in Venezuela’s shoes after Mugabe showed the West the middle finger and repossessed white owned lands. They became overnight trillionaires.
Venezuela is here now, with a worthless currency, humanitarian crisis, as the vultures in Washington wait to swoop in and collect oil in exchange for some democracy.
In late 2001 and early 2002, as bin Laden and Zawahiri fled from Afghanistan east into Pakistan, another smaller exodus of al Qaeda leaders went west into Iran. The Iranians detained many of them. For the next nine years they remained there, their status never clear to outsiders. They were not free to leave Iran, but they do not seem to have been full-time prisoners either. The Iranians occasionally hinted that they might be ready to trade these al Qaeda operatives for anti-regime dissidents like the Mujahedin e Khalq group that was captured in Iraq during the 2003 invasion. But no deal ever emerged. Iran may also have found them to be useful hostages—effectively helping to keep al Qaeda from attacking Iranian targets. Washington accused the Iranians of turning a blind eye to the exiles’ support for al Qaeda attacks in both Iraq and Saudi Arabia from their Iranian homes.
Their departure from Iran late last year is as mysterious as their time in country. Some unconfirmed reports have hinted at a prisoner exchange with al Qaeda in Pakistan, which had captured a senior Iranian spy; there may have been a trade with Tehran for the exiles. Another theory: as U.S.-Iranian relations deteriorated in 2010 over Iran’s nuclear program and Tehran’s suppression of dissidence at home, the regime just let the al Qaeda teams leave quietly for Pakistan so they could go back and harass America.
All this is because of the current unipolar world .Once China’s rise is complete and the Yuan becomes a true global currency and the Brussels based SWIFT has a true alternative out of Western reach ,Western sanctions will no longer be effective and that will be the beginning of their decline
You do also know that Mugabe lead a genocide on the opposing Ndebele and killed over 25,000 of them in the 1980s in what was known as the Gukurahundi massacres.
To add insult to injury he then protected his fellow communist Mengistu Haille Mariam the mass murderer of Ethiopia. Mengistu today lives in comfortable exile in Ethiopia.
Mengistu murdered several hundred thousand of his citizens in communist purges during his rise to power. Mengistu stood back and watched as a million Ethiopians starved to death in the 1980s.
Mohamed Amin a Kenyan journalist hid and managed to gain access into Ethiopia and his footage shocked the world leading to the Feed the World campaign.
You do know Mugabe turned a bread basket, Africa’s most food and water secure nation into another African shithole.
You do know Iran supports Hezbollah and Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Militants fighting the Israeli govt.
In 1992 the Iranian govt. struck a truce with Osama bin Laden and allowed Hezbollah to train Al Qaeda militants. Basically Iran birthed modern terrorism.
In fact it was discovered that in the late 90s Iranian agents through Hezbollah gave Osama the intelligence needed to conduct the embassy bombings when he was hiding in Sudan. Osama’s youngest son Hamza bin laden was photographed in 2017 holding a wedding somewhere in Iran where he was being protected. He vows to avenge his father.
The sophisticated truck bombs used by Al qaeda in 98, all that info to assemble those bombs came from Iran via Hezbollah. Osama wanted to replicate the 1983 Beirut Marine barracks suicide bombings conducted by Islamic Jihad Organisation (IJO) an ally of Hezbollah.
Saddam Hussein: God‟s blessings. Good evening. [Pause, people entering the meeting and
greeting Saddam] Welcome. How was your trip? [Pause] God‟s blessings and welcome.
[Inaudible, Saddam whispering with Tariq Aziz]. Are there any other comrades not here yet?
[Inaudible, talking in background]
Saddam Hussein: Taha is traveling?
UM: Yes, Sir.
Saddam Hussein: Today? I thought he was leaving tomorrow. Everyone is traveling! If it
weren‟t for Comrade Izzat we would be in chaos! [Joking] So we are not waiting for any other
comrades? My comrades, in previous meetings we reviewed developments affecting the military
situation and the decision to retake our lands from Iran. We explained to you the military
situation regarding retaking the areas of Zayn al-Qus and Sayf Sa’ad. [Time Stamp: 00:05:00]
We had a number of border posts left but we are still sticking with the position that we decided
to take; taking one piece out of the Iranians at a time so they do not go further than what we want,
dragging both of us into a situation that neither we nor they possibly want so they will know that
the whole situation is strictly within the framework of returning the lands taken by them. We had
a number of posts. I think six or five, Comrade Adnan?
Adnan Khairallah: [Inaudible]
Saddam Hussein: I think six. Six posts that we postponed until now. Today the comrades retook
them. There is one post left and they have a night operation planned for it. Nothing else is left?
Adnan Khairallah: Yes, Sir. Nothing is left.
Saddam Hussein: They were all returned. So tonight - today we can say all of our land extorted
by Iran is back under our sovereignty according to the international borders that are agreed upon
through historical agreements.
UM: What‟s the total area?
Saddam Hussein: The total area for Sayf Sa’ad and Zayn al-Qus is known but I do not know
about the posts area. Maybe the comrades [others] have an idea about it. Zayn al-Qus is about 12
to 14, correct Comrade Adnan?
Adnan Khairallah: Sir, the depth of Zayn al-Qus is from 5 to 6 and the length is 10 to 12
kilometers. The total area [of Zayn al-Qus] is 50 to 60 square kilometers. The total area is about
200-220 [kilometers].
Saddam Hussein: Alright, Sayf Sa’ad is about 120. Anyways, the two areas combined is about
200 kilometer for both places. When we add the other posts… Huh?
If it’s that nonsense of democracy and human rights then you have to wonder why North Korea gets a pass.
North Korea is one of the worst nations on earth but nobody is talking of forcefully changing its leadership. In fact the west pretends that North Korea doesn’t even exist