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Vivek Grover : Degradation of Modern Diplomacy: The Case of Spain and Argentina
Written by Vivek GROVER
For the last month, Argentina President Javier Milei and Spain Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez have been involved in a public spat involving the latter’s wife, corruption scandals, drug addiction allegations, and loud accusations of authoritarianism. The level of tensions has gotten so high that Spain permanently recalled its Ambassador in the Latin American country and has threatened to cut diplomatic relations.
A few weeks ago, Milei attended the Viva24 Forum — an international gathering of far-right parties. The list of participants also included Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, as well as French far-right leader Marine Le Pen, etc. Standing just a few kilometers away from the Moncloa Palace — the official residence of Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez — Milei made headlines attacking the latter’s wife for being “corrupt”. His speech was referencing the recent corruption scandal, in which Begoña Gomez allegedly used her business connections to enrich herself and her family while Sánchez has been Prime Minister.
It is no wonder such a blatant violation of diplomatic etiquette and basic decency angered Sánchez and the whole Spanish government. Within hours of Milei’s attack, Spain recalled its ambassador and Albares slammed the visiting president’s “insult”. Spain’s Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares said that this incident had no precedents in the history of diplomacy and constituted a clear “violation of the principle of non-interference in the affairs of sovereign states”. He added that Spain was going “to take all appropriate measures in defence of its security, sovereignty, and dignity”. Sánchez himself demanded “public apologies” from Argentina’s President.
However, Javier Milei refused, hitting back at Sánchez by calling him a “laughing stock of Europe”. “He attacked me in every way possible, and when I responded in the abstract with an example, he felt targeted and used every state apparatus to respond, to the detriment of a beautiful relationship between the peoples of Spain and Argentina,” Milei told local television station LN+. He added that it is Sánchez who should apologize for the fact that over the last few months Spain’s socialist government has regularly called Milei a “drug addict,” a “mentally ill person,” an “authoritarian leader”, and “a threat to democracy”. This way both leaders and both governments have been involved in a kind of “circus diplomacy”, whereby both acted like clowns to the detriment of the Spanish and Argentinian people’s interests.
Spanish companies, including banks BBVA and Banco Santander and Zara-owner Inditez, the world’s biggest fashion retailers, are the second largest investors in Argentina behind US enterprises. This diplomatic spat can prove to have significant consequences for the well-being of Argentina and give a powerful blow to Spanish companies’ interests in the country. Spanish companies invest over $15 billion a year in Argentina and Pedro Sánchez has already hinted at the fact that they will be advised to invest their capital elsewhere.
The real question is, why has all of this begun? The answer lies in the European Parliament elections. In a couple of weeks, Europeans will go to polling stations to cast their votes for beautiful pictures they see on TV screens, newspapers and social media. For the last month, Spanish far-right party Vox has been using the figure of Milei, popular in Spanish-language media, to discredit the socialist bloc headed by Sánchez. Socialists are trying to counteract these attacks, trying to show that the ultra-right has gone crazy. As a result, diplomacy becomes subordinated to the interests of certain political groups, thereby national interests take a secondary role.
When Sánchez and Milei took office, they placed their hands on the Constitutions of their countries and swore an oath to protect the well-being of their people. As a result, the well-being of the Spanish and Argentinian peoples in this situation was replaced by the personal interests of Javier Milei and Pedro Sánchez and the political movements that they represent. Western democracy often turns diplomacy into clowning and politicians into clowns who desperately cling to any opportunity to gain votes in the upcoming elections, without thinking about further consequences. This is the biggest danger to democracy and the biggest danger that democracy brings to societies around the world.
FREEDOM FIGHTERS HIT JEWISH TERROR STRONGHOLDS (VIDS)
Hezbollah’s Military Media released on June 4 videos documenting recent attacks by the group against the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF).
In the first attack, which took place on May 13, Hezbollah fighters targeted a room in the Birket Riche site where Israeli troops were gathered using an Iranian-made Almas-3 anti-tank guided missile (ATGM). Two troops were apparently killed or wounded in the attack despite Israel not announcing losses at the time.
The second video shows an attack with what appears to be Iranian-made Falaq heavy rockets that targeted the Dovev barracks on May 24.
The third video shows an interesting attack from May 31 during which Hezbollah fighters fired a salvo of unguided rockets at the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights to locate an Iron Dome air defense site within the al-Zaoura base only to then target the launcher with a suicide drone armed with rockets that appears to be a copy of the Iranian-made Ababil-2.
The footage shows at least one Iron Dome launcher in al-Zaoura on fire. At the time of the attack, the IDF admitted losses without providing any details.
The last video shows Hezbollah fighters targeting a house occupied by Israeli troops in the settlement of Metula with what appears to be an Iranian-made Toophan ATGM.
Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip last October, Hezbollah and its allies began launching near-daily attacks against the IDF from southern Lebanon in support of the Hamas Movement and other armed factions in the Palestinian enclave.
The border clashes have so far resulted in ten civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of at least 14 IDF soldiers and reservists. On the Lebanese side, more than 400 people have been killed, including 312 fighters of Hezbollah and at least 80 civilians.
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Kremlin: Western Troops in Ukraine Have ‘No Immunity’ from Russian Strikes
The comments were a warning to France as it’s planning to deploy troops to Ukraine to train Ukrainian forcesby Dave DeCamp
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The Kremlin warned on Tuesday that there will be “no immunity” from Russian strikes for Western troops deployed to Ukraine to train Ukrainian forces, a warning that comes as France is planning a deployment.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov made the comments in response to an op-ed by Lee Hockstader that was published in The Washington Post on Monday.
Hockstader wrote that Russian President Vladimir Putin “might see hitting French troops, if Russian forces can locate them, not only as a way to expose Western divisions but also as a chance to humiliate [French President] Macron, now among the most hawkishly anti-Russian Western leaders.”
According to RT, Peskov said, “The fact is that any instructors who are involved in training the military of the Ukrainian regime do not have any immunity. And it doesn’t matter whether they are French or not.”
According to a report from Reuters, France might announce its plans to deploy a few hundred military trainers to Ukraine following a meeting between Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on June 7.
All the talk about a potential French deployment has highlighted the fact that there is already a small number of NATO special operations troops inside Ukraine (97 as of March 2023). Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov warned Tuesday that there were already indications French trainers may be in the country and said they were legitimate targets.
“As for the issue of French instructors, I have grounds to think and there are quite a few specific facts that they are already working in Ukraine. Regardless of whether they are considered to be servicemen from the French armed forces or … simply mercenaries, they represent a legitimate target for our armed forces,” Lavrov said.
NATO Developing ‘Land Corridors’ To Rush US Troops to Frontlines in Event of War With Russia
The alliance began drawing up plans for war with Russia in 2023
NATO is developing multiple “land corridors” to rush US troops and armored vehicles to the frontlines of a potential future ground war with Russia in Eastern Europe, The Telegraph reported on Tuesday.
Current NATO plans involve US troops landing in ports in the Netherlands and then transported through Germany to Poland, but the alliance is looking to expand the potential routes for US troops to reach the borders of Russia and Ukraine.
Officials told The Telegraph that they want US troops to be able to travel through five different corridors:
- Landing in the Netherlands and traveling through Germany to reach Poland
- Landing in Italy to travel through Slovenia and Slovakia to reach Hungary
- Landing in Greece to travel through Bulgaria to reach Romania
- Landing in Turkey to travel through Bulgaria to reach Romania
- Landing in Norway to travel through Sweden to reach Finland
The Telegraph report said that under the NATO plan, US troops and vehicles traveling through these countries would not be restricted by local laws, so they could travel quickly. The report said France has complained about its tanks being stuck at foreign borders while trying to deploy to Romania due to bureaucratic processes.
Starting in 2023, NATO has been working on war plans for a potential future conflict with Russia for the first time since the Cold War. The alliance is planning for a possible ground war with Russia despite the obvious risk of any direct NATO-Russia clash quickly escalating into a nuclear exchange.
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The West is already at war with Russia but its leaders can’t wake up from a dream
Is NATO planning something big in Ukraine? Are we on the cusp now of WWIII really breaking out since the U.S. has now backed the idea that Ukraine can fire missiles beyond its borders into Russia?
Is NATO planning something big in Ukraine? Are we on the cusp now of WWIII really breaking out since the U.S. has now backed the idea that Ukraine can fire missiles beyond its borders into Russia?
The news that President Joe Biden has given the go-ahead for long-range missiles to be fired into Russia should be worrying for a number of reasons. The dangerous game of escalation that the West is playing will have a breaking point in the not too distant future. The question is whether the West really understands how Putin thinks as it is presently betting on no retaliation from Russia, which is not only erroneous but very, very dangerous. Recent missile strikes into Russian territory destroyed two radar installations which western press refuse to report. The significance of this strike is important as the more Ukraine loses on the battlefield, the more desperate its tactics, egged on by western leaders who still think that their stake in the war is minimal. Although just recently Germany’s leader Scholz did a U-turn at a conference in Berlin with French President Macron — in backing the missile strikes into Russia plan — the truth is that officially NATO does not support the plan, which is why the UK is doing it independently using Storm Shadows operated by SAS soldiers.
This has been going on for months and so in many respects the news that the U.S. has authorised the practice could be taken lightly. What’s new? Or, more to the point, is Ukraine going to use longer-range U.S. missiles to keep up with such strikes like the radar stations? Does it have enough missiles in stock is also an important question.
With this strategy in play, we are looking in all scenarios at the slow demise of NATO as the more that such strikes occur, the more it is evident that NATO is a defunct organisation and only really a talk shop at best. NATO members are divided on an overall strategy with Ukraine and so member states do their own thing. If we see more of these strikes, the pressure on Putin to react will be overwhelming but when that time comes, he will practice and eye-for-an-eye strategy and strike the equivalent military installations within Europe or at least Ukraine’s drones operating in the Black Sea. This will be a shock for the West. It will take some days for such a strike to be seen for what it is: a warning. The message will be the escalation game has its limits and you’ve gone over a line.
But are the recent reports of a new offensive in the planning from NATO genuine? Probably not. Just like the reports of Putin wanting to negotiate a peace deal now. Both fake news are part of a strategy of panic from the Biden administration which really needs some sort of victory in Ukraine to present to the American people. Yet all of the aces are with Putin and he doesn’t seem to be showing any signs of falling into these traps. Putin has been pretty consistent in how he sees any kind of peace deal. Denazification, demilitarisation and no deal on NATO membership. The reasons why peace talks are a mere figment of the imagination of western journalists who sink to new lows is that the West cannot entertain any of these requests and has taken so much control of the media that its leaders are starting to believe their own BS. The fourth requirement also of Putin’s is that he can’t negotiate peace with a leader in the Ukraine who no longer has legitimacy as a president. One wonders how long the West can continue to kick up a fuss about that one.
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JEWISH ‘FECES THROWING’ SQUATTER GANGS ATTACK AL-AQSA MOSQUE AS ‘FLAG MARCH’
MPs join hundreds of far-right squatters raiding mosque, as confrontations take place during notorious rally through occupied East Jerusalem
Hundreds of Israelis have stormed Al-Aqsa Mosque, under heavy protection from Israeli police, ahead of the far-right annual “flag march” through occupied East Jerusalem.
Around 800 Israelis raided the mosque on Wednesday morning, entering through the Moroccan Gate, according to a report by Wafa news agency.
They took provocative tours of the compound, and were joined by rabbis and politicians, including Israeli minister Yitzhak Wasserlauf, lawmaker Yitzhak Kreuzer and Moshe Feiglin, a far-right former MP.
The Israelis performed Jewish rituals near al-Qattanin market and Bab al-Qattanin (The Cotton Merchants’ Gate), one of the main entrances to the mosque’s courtyards.
Al-Aqsa Mosque is an Islamic site where unsolicited visits, prayers and rituals by non-Muslims are forbidden, according to decades-long international agreements.
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Israeli groups, in coordination with authorities, have long violated the delicate arrangement and facilitated raids of the site, where they have then performed prayers and religious rituals.
Israeli troops regularly empty the mosque of Palestinians outside of the five daily prayers to facilitate these daily incursions.
The flag march, which is part of the Jerusalem Day holiday commemorating the occupation of the city in 1967, is a far-right parade associated with violence against Palestinians and the “display of incitement, Jewish dominance, and racism”, according to Israeli NGO Ir Amim.
Over 3,000 Israeli security officers have been deployed in East Jerusalem for the event, setting up military checkpoints on several main roads.
The march passes through Muslim-majority neighbourhoods in East Jerusalem’s Old City.
On Wednesday afternoon, a large number of Israeli settlers began to arrive in the vicinity of Damascus Gate in the Old City.
There were confrontations with Palestinian shop owners, after the settlers urged them to close their shops. Israeli police arrived at the scene and ordered everyone to disperse.
Settlers threw stones and bottles at Palestinians, and chanted inflammatory slogans, including “death to Arabs” and “Muhammad is dead”.
Palestinian photographer Ghassan Eid was wounded during the confrontations.
Israeli lawmakers and ministers are due to participate in the march, including far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir.
The Islamic Christian Commission for Supporting Jerusalem and the Holy Sanctities warned of the dangers of an Israeli escalation at Al-Aqsa, and called on Palestinians to confront settlers storming the site.
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