Trump made it clear that he was "serious" about acquiring Greenland, but Danish PM Mette Frederiksen rejected the idea outright, stating Denmark was not interested in "selling" the mineral-rich island.

A recent phone call between US President Donald Trump and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen regarding Greenland reportedly devolved into a heated 45-minute exchange, with European officials describing the former’s tone as “appalling” and the conversation as “horrendous.” ● According to a report by The Financial Times, Trump made it clear that he was "serious" about acquiring Greenland, but Frederiksen rejected the idea outright, stating Denmark was not interested in “selling” the mineral-rich island. ● After the Danish PM’s firm refusal, Trump became increasingly aggressive and confrontational. Officials said he rebuffed Frederiksen’s offer of closer cooperation and demanded full US control of the self-governing territory.

■ Will Donald Trump invade Greenland? (MoneyWeek)
■ Danes ‘freaked out’ over Trump’s Greenland pressure – FT (RT)
✅ Trump's Greenland Problem (A. Federman)

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he is ready to talk calmly with US President Donald Trump on all areas that are of interest to both countries. [...] Russia can have many points of contact with the US administration, including economic issues, Putin said, adding that Russia and the United States have a lot to talk about on economy and energy issues. [...] Putin remarked that he has always had businesslike and pragmatic relations with Trump, noting that Moscow welcomes Trump's statements about a willingness to work together and remains open to it. [...] The previous administration of US President Joe Biden refused to contact with Russia, and it is not Moscow's fault, Putin noted. Furthermore, Russia has never refused to use the US dollar in foreign trade transactions. Ukraine Crisis | Russia is ready for talks on the Ukraine conflict, but there are issues that need attention, the Russian president added. The problem is that Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky has banned himself from holding peace talks with Russia. [...] Putin added that it was difficult to talk seriously about any dialogue with Kiev while this ban was still in place.

✅ Trump Raises Heat on Russia with Belligerent New Threats (Simplicius)

The directive follows President Donald Trump’s executive order Monday pausing new obligations and disbursements of foreign aid pending review. | Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered an immediate stop to the flow of almost all U.S. foreign assistance Friday pending a review, according to an internal State Department cable obtained by NBC News. ● The directive sent to all consular and diplomatic posts follows President Donald Trump’s executive order Monday pausing new obligations and disbursements of foreign aid pending reviews “for programmatic efficiency and consistency” with U.S. foreign policy, within 90 days of the order. ● The memo stipulates that U.S. departments, agencies and entities “shall not provide foreign assistance funded by or through the Department and USAID without the Secretary of State’s authorization or the authorization of his designee.”

■ USAID freezes projects supporting Ukraine — Reuters (TASS)
■ NATO Has Dumped Almost $200 Billion Into Ukraine (Sputnik)
✅ The US’ 90-Day Suspension Of Foreign Aid Might Counterintuitively Bolster Its Influence (Andrew Korybko)

3rd Brigade Combat Team of 82nd Airborne Division Deploying Toward Mexico Border - Cartels! | The United States just got deadly serious about the Drug Cartels, like the one shown above, in Mexico. The 3rd Brigade Combat Team of the 82nd Airborne Division is deploying from Fort Bragg (a.k.a. Ft. Liberty), North Carolina, toward the Mexico Border. In addition, the 10th Mountain Division from Fort Drum, NY is deploying with them to create a Combat Headquarters location. ● These are COMBAT TROOPS, who are ****NOT*** going for the purpose of "securing the border." These are "Tier 1" Combat troops and THEY are deploying to go after the Drug Cartels. Just today, Mexican Cartel Smugglers opened Fire on American Hikers in California. Armed smugglers shot at hikers near Jacumba Hot Springs. [...] American have had quite enough of incidents like this - and so many more - throughout our nation, because of the Drugs and the Cartels that move them.

"This is not how you should communicate with Russians." WSJ: Putin "shrugs his shoulders" in response to Trump's threats | Russia only "shrugs its shoulders" in response to the US threats of new sanctions, and is ready to conduct military operations in Ukraine for at least another year. Moscow has a clear advantage on the front, which gives it the opportunity not to look at outside influence. This is the conclusion reached by the authors of the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal in their new article.

💬 Trump's Opening Cry To Russia Falls Flat (Moon of Alabama) | Donald Trump: "I’m not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people, and always had a very good relationship with President Putin - and this despite the Radical Left’s Russia, Russia, Russia HOAX. We must never forget that Russia helped us win the Second World War, losing almost 60,000,000 lives in the process. All of that being said, I’m going to do Russia, whose Economy is failing, and President Putin, a very big FAVOR. Settle now, and STOP this ridiculous War! IT’S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE. If we don’t make a “deal,” and soon, I have no other choice but to put high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions on anything being sold by Russia to the United States, and various other participating countries. Let’s get this war, which never would have started if I were President, over with! We can do it the easy way, or the hard way - and the easy way is always better. It’s time to “MAKE A DEAL.” NO MORE LIVES SHOULD BE LOST!!!"

According to Palestine’s health ministry, more than 14,200 people | As many as 212 bodies have been retrieved from under the debris of ruined houses in the Gaza Strips after the ceasefire came into effect, the Al Jazeera television channel reported. ● According to Palestine’s health ministry, more than 14,200 people, including around 5,000 women and children, are reported missing in the enclave. ● Tensions flared up again in the Middle East on October 7 after militants from the Gaza Strip-based radical Palestinian group Hamas launched a surprise incursion on Israeli territory, killing many Israeli kibbutz residents living near the Gaza border and abducting more than 240 Israelis, including women, children and the elderly. Israel declared a total blockade of the Gaza Strip and launched bombardments of the enclave.

According to the Slovak prime minister, foreign "specialists" have already arrived in Slovakia
■ Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has called an emergency meeting of the republic’s Security Council after security services received intelligence about an impending coup d’etat with the involvement of "foreign experts" who helped launch the color revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine, the Dennik N web portal said.
■ Fico stressed that he was ready for anything "but the country cannot be overthrown." According to him, foreign "specialists" have already arrived in Slovakia. He said that attempts to overthrow legitimate authorities may be carried out by organizing street protests and taking over administrative buildings. The session of the Security Council is scheduled for 9 a.m. local time (8 a.m. GMT) on Thursday. Slovak President Peter Pellegrini will also participate.
■ On Wednesday, representatives from Slovakia’s pro-Western opposition parties again introduced a proposal on a vote of no confidence in Fico’s government. They hope that the National Council (unicameral parliament) will vote on this issue within seven days. Earlier, the prime minister himself accused the Progressive Slovakia opposition party of plotting a coup d’etat in the country a la what happened in Ukraine. The prime minister also noted that its representatives place Kiev’s interests above national ones. In their January 17 meeting with Vladimir Zelensky they vowed that, in the event of their victory, the party would support Ukraine’s membership in NATO and send Slovak troops to its territory.

■ Foreign ‘experts’ plotting coup – Slovakia’s Fico (RT)

lsraeli occupation forces detain tens of Palestinians from Azone, east of Qalqilya, in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/oGBIF8L2YW

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) January 20, 2025

■ At least 10 killed, dozens wounded in Israeli attacks across Jenin (Al Jazeera)
■ Netanyahu assures Smotrich of extensive attacks on West Bank if he doesn’t resign (PressTV)

Trump is determined to control peace talks himself, the Wall Street Journal notes | US President Donald Trump has handed his special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg the job of ending the Ukraine conflict in 100 days, the Wall Street Journal reports. According to the newspaper, "dealmaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin will be far more difficult than Trump promised on the campaign trail, when he said he would end the conflict before he took office."

■ Ukraine Was Always Just Anti-Russian 'Battering Ram' to US - Ex-Pentagon Analyst (Sputnik)

Earlier, Aleksandar Vucic admitted that Western intelligence is trying to instigate a revolution in Serbia by igniting protest sentiment among students. | The collective West wants Serbia to introduce sanctions against Russia, that’s why they are pressuring President Aleksandar Vucic via street protests, Elena Ponomareva, an expert on Balkan politics and professor at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, told Sputnik.

💬 “The West is interested in breaking Serbia so that it will introduce sanctions against Russia. In this sense, we can allege that Vucic is also being pressured by street [protests]," she said.

Ponomareva stressed that researchers who study strategies of coups d’état always start with the events that took place in October 2000 in Belgrade when Slobodan Milosevic was toppled. Protest technologies that are now being employed in Serbia – posters, railroad and street blockages – are virtually taken from textbooks on “color revolutions” written by the infamous US researcher Gene Sharp, she added.

■ West involved in attempts to stage ‘color revolution’ in Serbia - Vucic (01/19/25)
■ Serbian president says Russia warns of preparations for Western-backed coup (08/10/24)
■ West preparing for direct military conflict with Russia — Vucic (07/22/24)

Jabalia, northern Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/IQugCcRHGX

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) January 20, 2025

✅ Bibi Assures Israelis That the Genocide Will Resume After 42 Days (Mike Whitney)

The newly sworn-in US president has outlined the priorities for his new term | Donald Trump was sworn in as the 47th president of the United States on Monday. He is only the second president ever to be elected to non-consecutive terms. In his inaugural address, Trump outlined how he intends to create an American “golden age,” touching on issues from energy independence and immigration reform, to ending wars around the world and colonizing Mars. Here are the key takeaways from his speech.

■ DEFENDING WOMEN FROM GENDER IDEOLOGY EXTREMISM AND RESTORING BIOLOGICAL TRUTH TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT (The White House-Executive Order) ■ Trump rolls back transgender rights and DEI (RT)

■ US shuts down Biden-era app that helped Mexican immigrants (RT)
■ Trump signs executive order aimed at ending birthright citizenship (Axios)
■ Trump tests limits of presidential power with Day 1 barrage (Axios)
■ Trump seeks return of US military equipment from Afghan Taliban (Kazakhstan News)
■ Trump Says He Will Designate Mexican Cartels as ‘Terrorist Organizations,’ Vows To ‘Take Back’ Panama Canal
✅ Trump Wants a North American Technate (Sasha Latypova)
✅ Trump Signs Executive Order to Withdraw from the World Health Organization (Nicolas Hulscher, MPH)
✅ From the Dawn of Weaponized Government to President Trump's Promise to Dismantle It (Chris Spencer)

Michael Snyder | What Will You Do When You Can’t Buy Or Sell Anything On The Internet Without Your UN-Mandated Digital Identity Chip? | Imposing mandatory digital identification on every nation on the entire planet has become a primary goal for the global elite. It isn’t going to happen tomorrow, but eventually the plan is to get virtually everyone in the world into the system. If the global elite get their way, a time will come when you will not be able to buy or sell anything on the Internet without logging in with your UN-mandated digital identity chip. You won’t be able to go to school, get a job or open a bank account without your UN-mandated digital identity chip either. In essence, you will become a complete and utter outcast from society.

Tibor Gaspar pointed out that the Russian-Slovak relations focus on, first and foremost, "economic cooperation, development of ties in cultural and sports areas based on the principle of equals" | NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte tries to make everything Russian a bogeyman for the Europeans, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament of Slovakia Tibor Gaspar said in an interview with TASS. 💬 "This is a certain bogeyman for the Europeans," he said, commenting on Rutte’s words that the EU will have to "learn how to speak Russian" in 4-5 years, unless NATO member states refuse to increase their military spending. ● "There was a time in history when we were under the USSR’s influence. Therefore this issue is being used today in a bid to create a negative attitude towards Russia," Gaspar said. ● "We had talks with State Duma Speaker [Vyacheslav Volodin], which could be praised quite highly. He said that relations must be balanced and equal," the official said.

✅ This small European country is defying the Western establishment: How long can it last? (Timofey Bordachev)

■ APPLICATION OF THE CONVENTION ON THE PREVENTION AND PUNISHMENT OF THE CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP (ORDER OF 26 JANUARY 2024) (.pdf) + APPLICATION INSTITUTING PROCEEDINGS (.pdf)
■ THE EXPRESSION OF HATRED FOR GENTILES (Richard Edmondson/Nahida Izzat) (10/04/14)

Royal Air Force surveillance flights over Gaza have relied on technical support from Gama, Declassified has found. | Gama provides “engineering services including design, maintenance and repair” for the RAF’s six-strong fleet of Shadow R1 surveillance planes. ■ Without Gama’s technical support and deep knowledge of the planes, the RAF would have struggled to maintain almost daily surveillance flights over the besieged Palestinian territory since December 2023. ■ These missions were ostensibly to help locate hostages, but have led to concerns that Britain is complicit in Israel’s relentless attacks on Palestinian civilians. ■ Once deployed to Akrotiri in pairs, these small, twin propeller planes have spent around four hours a day flying above Gaza, hoovering up intelligence with their state-of-the-art onboard surveillance systems. ■ The footage and other intercepts can technically be shared live via a satellite link with partners on the ground, raising concerns that Israeli forces may have had real time access to UK surveillance of the battlefield.

NATO has used the incidents to step up its military presence in the Baltic | Recent damage to undersea cables in the Baltic Sea was likely caused by maritime accidents, not by Russian sabotage as many Western officials have alleged, The Washington Post reported on Sunday. ● NATO has used recent incidents to justify an increase in its military presence in the Baltic Sea and launched a new mission called “Baltic Sentry” just last week, a move that ratchets up tensions with Russia. The Guardian reported on Sunday that a NATO naval flotilla has assembled off the coast of Estonia to “protect” undersea infrastructure.

✅ Американская The Washington Post пишет (Мария Захарова)
■ Izvestia: NATO seeks to "inspect" vessels in neutral Baltic waters (01/16/25)

Ben-Gvir's Otzma Yehudit party will carry out the threat it made on Thursday to leave the government if the cease-fire and hostage deal is approved by the cabinet. The minister said he would consider rejoining the coalition if fighting is resumed after the first phase of the agreement | Far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir announced on Saturday his intention to resign from the government and withdraw his party from the coalition on Sunday, in protest of the cabinet's approval of a hostage release and cease-fire deal with Hamas. ● On Thursday, Ben-Gvir threatened to resign if the deal was approved, but said he would consider rejoining the government if fighting resumed after the first phase of the agreement, "to achieve decisive victory and fulfill the war's objectives." His resignation will leave the coalition with 62 members. ● Ben-Gvir said that along with leaving the coalition, ministers Amichai Eliyahu and Yitzhak Wasserlauf will resign from their posts, as well as Tzvika Foghel who serves as chair of the National Security Committee, and MK Yitzhak Kroizer, who will no longer be part of the judicial appointment committee. ● Eliyahu will return to serving as a member of Knesset, and MK Zvi Succot will lose his seat.

■ 'Israel' killed 194 journalists in Gaza in 2024 (Al Mayadeen)
■ Israel's Smotrich threatens to topple government if Gaza is not occupied (TRT World)
■ Ben Gvir’s Otzma Yehudit shakes coalition with exit over Gaza deal (Al Mayadeen)
■ Ben Gvir's far-right party to leave Israeli government Sunday (Yeni Şafak)

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.

US President-elect Donald Trump has arrived in Washington, D.C., where his inauguration ceremony will be held on January 20, the media reported. | Trump's plane landed at Dulles Airport on Saturday night, the US media said, adding that after his arrival, Trump, together with his wife Melania and their son Barron, headed to his National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, for a celebratory dinner and fireworks show. At the same time, Vice President-elect JD Vance reportedly hosted a dinner at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. ● Before heading to Capital One Arena for his Presidential Parade on Sunday, Trump will take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, the media added.

■ Seeding a Narrative Already: "Should something happen to Trump in the next few days, Iran is the main suspect"

German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock and other lawmakers have criticised Chancellor Olaf Scholz for refusing further military aid to Kyiv. | German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under fire from lawmakers from across the political spectrum — including his own foreign minister — for refusing to approve a further €3 billion in military aid for Ukraine unless it is funded with additional borrowing. ● Speaking on national television earlier this week, Germany's beleaguered leader said he would only agree to the military aid package if new debt was issued to finance it, rather than cuts to social spending. ● The additional cash, which would supplement €4 billion of aid for Kyiv already committed for 2025 in a provisional budget, would mainly fund weapons for Ukraine's air defence. ● Opposition politicians and even Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock have criticised Scholz's stance — either directly or indirectly — and accused him of electioneering.

Despite the announcement of a ceasefire, Palestinian blood continues to flow in Gaza without mercy or reprieve amid the relentless Israeli carnage. | Despite the announcement of a ceasefire in Gaza, the Israeli occupation continues massacring Palestinians and destroying the Strip. ● In 24 hours, the Israeli occupation committed three massacres across the Palestinian-besieged territory, killing 23 Palestinians and injuring 83 more. ● Although several victims were transported to the few partially functioning hospitals in Gaza, countless more remain trapped under the rubble as rescue operations have been rendered near impossible. ● This raises the death toll since October 7, 2023, to 46,899 Palestinians killed and 110,725 others injured.

✅ A Ceasefire is not an End (Craig Murray)
✅ Keir Starmer's support for the Gaza ceasefire is riddled with lies (Jonathan Cook)

Eloise Goldsmith | "Physically dragging out a reporter from the State Department briefing room while preaching press freedom to the rest of the world is the perfect example of the Biden administration's love affair with double standards and duplicity," said one foreign policy observer. | Two journalists were removed from Secretary of State Antony Blinken's final news conference on Thursday after interrupting Blinken's remarks to heckle him about the United States' policy toward Gaza, a day after a cease-fire deal between Hamas and Israel was announced. One of the reporters, independent journalist Sam Husseini, was physically carried out of the briefing room by security. ■ Less than two minutes into Blinken's remarks, as he was thanking the reporters in the attendance for "asking tough questions," Max Blumenthal, the editor in chief of The Grayzone—an independent news—addressed Blinken, saying loudly in reference to the cease-fire deal:"300 reporters in Gaza were on the receiving end of your bombs. Why did you keep the bombs flowing when we had a deal in May?" On Wednesday, President Biden announced the breakthrough, saying that “this is the ceasefire agreement I introduced last spring." ■ "Why did you sacrifice the rules-based order on the mantle of your commitment to Zionism," Blumenthal continued, before being led to the door. "How does it feel to have your legacy be genocide?" he yelled. Blumenthal also called out State Department Spokesman Matt Miller, who is briefly visible in a video filmed by the journalist, who charged that Miller "smirked through a genocide."

■ ‘Why Aren’t You in The Hague?’: Journalist Sam Husseini Gets Dragged Out of Blinken’s Last Press Conference

The Mysterious Death of the Inventor of the PCR Test, Nobel Laureate Dr. Kary Mullis

💬 “The PCR is a process. It does not tell you that you are sick.” –Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and Inventor of the RT-PCR, passed away in August 2019.
💬 “…All or a substantial part of these positives could be due to what’s called false positives tests.” –Dr. Michael Yeadon, distinguished scientist, former Vice President and Chief Science Officer of Pfizer
💬 “This misuse of the RT-PCR technique is applied as a relentless and intentional strategy by some governments to justify excessive measures such as the violation of a large number of constitutional rights, … under the pretext of a pandemic based on a number of positive RT-PCR tests, and not on a real number of patients.” –Dr. Pascal Sacré, Belgian physician specialized in critical care and renowned public health analyst.
💬 “I have seen massive efforts made to deliberately inflate Covid death numbers by relabelling cancer patients and stroke victims and all manner of normal regular deaths as Covid, in fact virtually anyone getting into an ambulance. The methods used to do so were totally flawed, PCR tests for example being run on 45 cycles we all know to be worthless, yet people are being euthanised on this basis and sometimes only on the basis of a chest x-ray alone.” –John O’Looney, Funeral Director, Milton Keynes

President Trump’s swearing-in ceremony will be moved indoors to the Capitol Rotunda due to ‘cold weather.’ Temperatures in Washington DC are expected to be in the 20s on Monday with wind chills near five degrees. This will be the coldest inauguration since Ronald Reagan’s second swearing-in ceremony in 1985 where temperatures dipped below zero with the wind chill, which was also held indoors. | Trump released a statement: "January 20th cannot come fast enough! Everybody, even those that initially opposed a Victory by President Donald J. Trump and the Trump Administration, just want it to happen. ● It is my obligation to protect the People of our Country but, before we even begin, we have to think of the Inauguration itself. ● The weather forecast for Washington, D.C., with the windchill factor, could take temperatures into severe record lows. There is an Arctic blast sweeping the Country. ● I don’t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way. It is dangerous conditions for the tens of thousands of Law Enforcement, First Responders, Police K9s and even horses, and hundreds of thousands of supporters that will be outside for many hours on the 20th (In any event, if you decide to come, dress warmly!). ● Therefore, I have ordered the Inauguration Address, in addition to prayers and other speeches, to be delivered in the United States Capitol Rotunda, as was used by Ronald Reagan in 1985, also because of very cold weather. [...]

Sitting over the rubble underneath of which he was pulled from two days ago | Gaza. pic.twitter.com/VzMbwQr4Pz

— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) January 17, 2025

With over 50 million tonnes of rubble still scattered and reconstruction costs projected to reach $80 billion, the challenge ahead is immense. | As the war on Gaza winds down, international donors are assessing the immense Israeli destruction in the densely populated territory and considering future reconstruction efforts, as highlighted in a report by The Times. ● The scale of devastation is staggering: the Israeli aggression, which Gaza's Health Ministry reports has killed over 46,000 Palestinians, has left behind more than 50.8 million tonnes of rubble—surpassing the debris from the war in Ukraine and amounting to 17 times the combined total of debris from all wars since 2008. ● Clearing this debris alone is projected to cost $970,945,431, while the overall reconstruction is estimated to require up to $80 billion.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian has arrived in Russia on the second leg of his two-nation visit that also took him to Tajikistan. | On Friday morning, he left Tajikistan's capital of Dushanbe, where he held talks with his Tajik counterpart, Emomali Rahmon, on bilateral, regional and international issues and oversaw the signing of 23 documents on cooperation in different fields. ● "We hope that by implementing these agreements, we will see significant steps towards increased interaction and achieving our desired goals," Pezeshkian said in a press conference on Thursday. ● Iran and Tajikistan have numerous shared interests, he said, noting, "the necessary groundwork to surpass the half-billion-dollar trademark between our nations is achievable." ● During his trip to Dushanbe, Pezeshkian also met with the Iranians residing in Tajikistan and received an honorary diploma along with an honorary professorship at the Avicenna Tajik State Medical University (ATSMU).

■ Iranian president arrives in Moscow (RT)

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)