The US, Russia, and Iran butt heads in Syria and Iraq

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Amidst the influx of thousands of US troops into West Asia, Syria is once again at the heart of a multifaceted battle for control, which will likely be played out on its troubled, contentious border with Iraq.

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In a significant development last month, US military convoys rolled into Iraq via the Arar crossing with Saudi Arabia. This visible display of foreign force movements saw a portion of the convoy making its way to the Ain al-Assad base in western Iraq, while the rest headed toward the US occupation base of Al-Tanf in Syria.

In July, the US Department of Defense unveiled its plan to deploy approximately 2,500 soldiers from the 10th Mountain Division, stationed at the Fort Drum military base. Their mission: Operation Inherent Resolve (OIR), the codename for the US-led military campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq.

Given the fact that US troops were assumed to be gone from Iraq since last year, pro-US media and political commentators went into overdrive trying to convince a cynical Iraqi public that these new troop movements suggest a healthy development in Washington's policies toward Baghdad. But will it work?

Syria’s strategic significance 

Today, the focal point of the Russian-American-Iranian power struggle in West Asia is in Syria. This strategically located country serves as a pivotal Meditteranean gateway for Russia's military presence, and is the Arab cornerstone for the Axis of Resistance which extends from Iran to Lebanon and Palestine.

Geopolitically, Syria's significance derives from its vital location at the crossroads of three continents, and shares borders with five countries: Turkiye (822 km), Iraq (605 km), Jordan (375 km), Lebanon (370 km), and Palestine (76 km). Moreover, Syria's coastal stretch along the Mediterranean Sea, spanning 192 km, holds tremendous strategic sway in the realm of global security, politics, and economics.

For these multifaceted reasons, Washington has stayed fully engaged on the Syrian file as an important arena from which to curtail Russian and Iranian influence throughout the region. As such, regime change scenarios have played an outsized role in US policy in West Asia. 

In 2011, spurred on by the euphoria and optimism of the so-called Arab Spring, anti-government protests erupted in Syria and were very quickly infiltrated by Western weapons and agendas.  

A plethora of armed factions emerged during this turbulent period, each backed by different foreign states and interests, including the Free Syrian Army, Al-Nusra Front,  ISIS, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), and various other armed extremist groups. 

By 2012, it became clear that chief among the countries involved in supporting terrorist militias in Syria were the US, Turkiye, Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Israel. In a direct display of support, Washington threw its weight behind the Kurdish-led SDF, offering training and weaponry to help ethnic Kurds carve out an autonomous zone in eastern Syria, emptied of much of its Arab population. 

These machinations were not lost on Russia and Iran, who entered the fray upon the request of the Syrian government, and rallied support from the likes of Lebanese Hezbollah and Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU).

For much of this conflict, Western powers turned a blind eye to the burgeoning activities of terrorists along the Syrian-Iraqi border - and by 2014, ISIS managed to seize control of Mosul and three Iraqi provinces.

The Iraqi-Syrian border, stretching over 605 km, fell under ISIS's dominion as it severed supply lines to Iraqi factions fighting in Syria. This strategy aimed to force Iran to withdraw its support of Syrian President Assad.

But in an unexpected countermove, mostly Iran-backed Iraqi forces launched campaigns to reclaim territory from ISIS's grasp. After an arduous 1,200 days of battles, they emerged victorious, wresting control of the Iraqi borders from the grip of the self-proclaimed caliphate. 

Disputes on the border 

On the Syrian side of the border, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA), aided by Russia and other allies, successfully reclaimed a vast swathe of territory from armed opposition militias, leaving only pockets of militias in eastern Syria, notably in the city of Idlib, where Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Al-Nusra Front) dominates. 

Of particular concern to the US has been the prominent presence of the Iran-supported PMU along Syria's borders with Iraq. In order to control that border, the US-led international coalition - occasionally joined by Israeli forces - has launched countless targeted operations against the PMU along the Iraqi border. Washington argues that it does so in “self-defense,” to prevent attacks against US forces stationed at bases like Syria's al-Tanf and Iraq's Ain al-Assad. 

It is a position unsupported by international law: US forces illegally occupying a sovereign state cannot claim self-defense.

Nevertheless, these dynamics have compelled the US to prioritize the Iraqi border within its broader Syria strategy. As strategic expert Hazem al-Sharaa tells The Cradle:

“These borders are not only part of the Syrian war game but have become part of the Ukrainian war and Washington's conflict with both Moscow and Tehran.”

Today, control of the al-Qaim (Iraq's side) border crossing are held firmly by the PMU. When the US feels a need to undermine that control, it makes claims of PMU attacks against US bases and troops, in order to launch a lethal US retaliation at PMU positions.

In the broader picture, Russia - as a steadfast ally and strategic partner to Damascus - also plays a role in tightening the grip around the illegal US occupation of Syria, with Russian forces now reaching a point of contact with the US-backed SDF.

A proxy theater for Russia and the US 

This has “raised the American side's fears of a decline in its influence in Syria,” says Ali al-Shammari, a researcher at Al-Rafidain Center for Strategic Studies. "Washington lost on the Ukraine front, and does not want another loss on the Syrian front," he tells The Cradle. 

For Vladimir Vasiliev, a senior researcher at the Institute for the United States and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, a US loss in Ukraine may ratchet up confrontation in Syria quickly: Washington “is attacking Russia with Ukrainian hands. The failure of this attack will prompt America to resort to a backup plan in Syria."

On 23 July, 2023, a potentially dangerous episode unfolded as a Russian Air Force fighter jet narrowly avoided a collision with a drone from the US-led coalition. These past months have seen subtle yet palpable tensions grow between US and Russian forces in Syria.

Syrian intelligence sources tell The Cradle that US forces in Syria have increased from 500 to 1,500 soldiers, all of whom have entered the country via the Al-Waleed border crossing from Iraq. Meanwhile, a high-ranking officer within the Iraqi border guards reveals that there are "indications of an upcoming military operation by the US army on the Syrian side of the border with Iraq."

A senior security source in the Iraqi Counter-Terrorism Service (CTS), on the other hand, reports to The Cradle that “the Americans whom we meet at the Joint Operations Command weekly, and who inform us of all their movements and air strikes inside Iraqi territory against ISIS, did not inform us of any military operation inside Iraqi territory.”

Stakes and alliances 

Suspicions over US military ploys grew further on 7 August, when Iraqi Defense Minister Thabet al-Abbasi paid a secret visit to Washington, accompanied by prominent army commanders and the head of the CTS.

Although the details of the visit remain undisclosed, private sources tell The Cradle that Iraqi officials were presented with a new deployment strategy for US forces in eastern Syria. Implementation of this strategy is expected upon the conclusion of US reinforcement efforts.

The sources add that the Americans emphasized the necessity of neutralizing Iraqi Shia armed factions and preventing their involvement in potential clashes between US forces and the SAA along the Iraqi border. As Ghazi Faisal, director of the Iraqi Center for Strategic Studies, tells The Cradle, US interest in Syria appears not to have diminished a whit:

"Washington's plan in Syria has three axes: forcing Moscow to bring in more forces to Syria to relieve pressure on Ukraine, blocking the Iranian presence in Syria, and cutting off Iran's supply of advanced missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon."

Qamishli, a city situated in northeastern Syria approximately 680 km from Damascus, emerges as a potential epicenter for the brewing confrontation between US and Russian interests, due to the coexisting spheres of influence between US forces and the SDF on one hand, and on the other, the Russian military position at a local airport. 

In this intricate mix, several military factions aligned with both Tehran and Damascus also stake a claim on these areas. Kirill Semenov, an expert from the Russian Council for International Affairs, notes that "In the event of any provocation from any party, all possibilities will be available."

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Poland needs to hear RFK Jr.’s Message of Peace

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Robert F. Kennedy (Sr) in Poland, June 1964

To say that Poland is at the forefront of the West’s proxy war with Russia, in which Ukraine’s horrible losses from the Western perspective are seen as a “relatively low cost”, would be an understatement. One can always count on Warsaw to lead the charge in NATO and the EU for further escalation of tensions with Russia, whether through another round of useless sanctions, more deliveries of weapons to Ukraine or irresponsible and dangerous rhetoric from the highest officeholder himself. To paraphrase the late senator John McCain’s famous line about his attitude towards Iran, the view of the vast majority of the Polish political and media elites on the war in Ukraine can be summed up as “bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Moscow.”

One cannot also ignore the fact that the current reckless position of Warsaw vis-à-vis Moscow is carefully stoked by the Biden Administration. It’s no coincidence that it was in Poland where Joe Biden essentially called for regime change in Moscow.

It has been a long time since an American president or a prominent American politician visited Warsaw without the obligatory reference to the potential danger of Russia lurking just around the corner. Much of the current Polish ruling elites’ unrelenting position on the Ukrainian war stems from the support it receives from official Washington - the White House, Congress, American media, and the pro-war (most often neoconservative) think-tank complex. This is how the eminent Polish scholar of international relations, Stanisław Bieleń, assesses the spiritus movens of Warsaw’s seemingly inherent stance regarding Russia: “Poland during the period of ‘real Socialism’ never engaged as heavily in an anti-American campaign as the current Republic engages in an anti-Russian campaign. In the face of America, even the one waging ‘dirty wars’ (like the Vietnam War), Poles did not feel hostility.”

Bieleń notes that after 1989 “in addition to various objective conditions (from dramatic history to neighborly asymmetry of power) we are dealing with the dominance of subjective factors – the psychological and cultural, as well as the instructions of external forces.” One is reminded also in this context of the critical observation made by Aleksander Bocheński, one of Poland’s most prolific writers of the realist political tradition: “All characterizations of our nation mention, as one of its chief defects, the excess of feelings over reason. It would seem only right to seek balance by strenuously training reason.”

One of the few American statesmen who saw Poland in a different light than the current crop of warmongers and ideologues, who have for decades occupied the heights of power and influence in Washington D.C., were President John F. Kennedy and his brother, former attorney general Robert F. Kennedy.

Both Kennedys knew Poland well, not only through personal and familial connections, but also by having visited the country – JFK in 1939 and 1955, RFK in 1964. They both understood the vulnerable geopolitical position of Poland, a frontline state in any potential war between the capitalist West and communist East.

On October 1, 1960, then-senator John F. Kennedy addressed the Polish American Congress in Chicago. Commenting on the limitations of, as he called it, “the policy of liberation,” JFK stated: “We do not want to mislead the people of Poland or Hungary again, that the United States is prepared to liberate them. Therefore, within the general framework of present events, what policies should we carry out? What can we do to maintain the spirit of independence? What can we do to help, in Thomas Jefferson's words, the disease of liberty to spread? Poland is a satellite government, but the Poles are not a satellite people. We have no right, unless we are prepared to meet our commitments, to incite them to national suicide.” And while he did not advocate for abandoning Poland to the whims of the overlords in Moscow, the future president clearly understood how harmful a policy of building up expectations of the Americans “coming to the rescue” can be in Eastern Europe and preferred a policy of cautious realism. Something which definitely cannot be said of today’s geopolitical overlord to which Polish politicians officially report, i.e. the United States.

This strain of realism, grounded in the urgent need for an enduring peace, was also present in Robert Kennedy’s reflections on his 3-day visit to Poland in June 1964. Worth noting is that the current presidential hopeful and son of the former attorney general, Robert Kennedy, Junior, accompanied his father on this trip. In his official statement after the visit published on July 1, 1964, RFK Sr. noted that “The bond that links our two countries is a reality of great potential. It puts Poland in a special position in the world for Poland has political ties with the Soviet Union and personal ties with the United States. Poland, therefore, has a unique opportunity to contribute to European security and the easing of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.” Despite being clearly grounded in the Soviet camp, RFK saw an opportunity for Poland to contribute to a de-escalation of tensions at the height of the Cold War (the Cuban Missile Crisis having occurred just two years before). This is a message that needs to be clearly articulated once again today, in the current context, and there is no better messenger than Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Without a doubt an epic, groundbreaking and public speech in Warsaw would go a long way to bringing this renewed message of peace to Polish minds. When Americans speak, Poles listen. If Barack Obama could make a candidate’s speech in Berlin in 2008, why not RFK Jr. in Warsaw? Such a speech would be a strong response to the dangerous rhetoric, which was spouted twice in Poland by Joe Biden, who essentially called for escalating the proxy war with Russia, without regard for the tragic costs of this clearly provoked conflict. Coming from a Kennedy, I have no doubt it would inspire not only a shift in Polish, but also Western thinking about this war, whose potentially dangerous consequences grow ever clearer with each passing day. A shift not in the minds of the warmongers, but in the hearts and minds of millions of Europeans, who constitute the core of public opinion and don’t wish to see the Old Continent turned into a nuclear wasteland. It would be an exercise in “training reason,” as Bocheński wrote, the likes of which Warsaw has not seen coming from an eminent American figure.

In the statement quoted above, Robert F. Kennedy went on to state: “Our objective is clear. It is to facilitate the reconciliation of Eastern and Western Europe in association with the United States. This is the only sure guarantee against nuclear war whether by design or by accident. It is also the surest means of fostering our common prosperity.” These are words that in no way have lost their relevance and there is no better place to make the case for rescuing civilization from the apocalypse of nuclear war than Warsaw, which still bears the scars of total annihilation resulting from a politics of genocide, terror, subordination, hubris, and totalitarian ideology. If Robert Kennedy Jr.’s recent and groundbreaking foreign policy address is the standard to measure his commitment to seriously ending the garrison state in America and its military imperialism abroad, he should not hesitate to bring that message up close and personal to Eastern Europe, to Poland.

During his historical visit to Poland, Robert F. Kennedy would point out that, “You know, my brother would not have been elected if it weren't for the Polish vote.”

I am certain the “Polish vote” in the United States would very much appreciate a candidate who does not see Poland as an instrument of destructive and provocative anti-Russian politics, but seeks Poland’s survival and well-being as a crucial bridge in East-West relations, a country and a nation that has a unique opportunity to contribute to European security and the easing of tensions between the United States and the Russian Federation. A country that shuns the reckless policy of hubris, fake moral posturing, being a willing executioner of the policy preferences of the American military-industrial complex and one that takes to heart the words of President Kennedy: “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

Mr. Kennedy, Warsaw is waiting.

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George Galloway: Russia Has DESTROYED Ukraine and Triggered the Collapse of US Hegemony

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George Galloway: Russia Has DESTROYED Ukraine and Triggered the Collapse of US Hegemony

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Jul 21, 2023

George Galloway discusses his view of the conflict in Ukraine and pays particular attention to Russia's special Independent media is under attack. Galloway correctly points out that Russia cannot afford to accept a "premature peace" that would leave the current Zelensky regime (or equivalent) in power, as even a rump but sovereign Ukraine can still serve for another attempt by the West to create its desired platform to threaten Russia with nuclear weapons, or permit the West to mount endless guerrilla operations or sabotage deep in Russia. Moscow therefore can only go for a maximalist solution, exerting total dominion over the Ukraine.

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GEORGE GALLOWAY ON UKRAINE, EUROPE'S DEMISE, AND RUSSIA AND CHINA'S RISE!

Streamed live on May 10, 2023 #ukraine #russia #china

Former UK MP and host of MOATS George Galloway joins the show to discuss the latest geopolitical developments including Europe's decline, the Ukraine crisis, and the rise of a multipolar world.

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GERMAN PROPAGANDA: Toppling Soviet statues – How should history be remembered? | DW Documentary

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Case studies in Western propaganda. Everything you see here—including the attached official description of this video by DW— is a cynical, often insidious distortion of history in favor of unrepentant anti-communism and reckless Russophobia. Sadly, there are literally countless videos like this, as the Ukraine war has ratcheted up the sociopathic engines of Western disinformation. Those behind this lying machine are apparently indifferent to the fact they are driving the world to a global conflagration—the ultimate crime.

Toppling Soviet statues - How should history be remembered? | DW Documentary

Amid outrage at Putin’s war in Ukraine, memorials commemorating the Red Army’s victory over fascism are being torn down across Eastern Europe. But don’t Soviet troops who helped defeat the Nazis in World War II deserve to be remembered? In Ukraine and across Eastern Europe, monuments dating back to Soviet times are being torn down. But shouldn't we preserve them as a way of commemorating history? Few seem to think so. But some believe that tearing down these testaments to Soviet victories plays into Putin's hands. According to his propaganda, Russia still identifies with the Soviet Union, and the Russian army under his leadership is fighting the same battle as the Red Army once did. Yet many countries that suffered under Soviet rule see these statues and monuments as symbols of Russian imperialism and oppression. Germany too is home to many Soviet monuments that are even being restored, and critical voices are getting louder. Over 100 years after the founding of the Soviet Union on December 30, 1922, this documentary shows the challenges of dealing with these monuments of the past. We journey to Ukraine, to the Baltic States, and visit the Soviet memorials in Berlin.

ADDENDUM

Another example of Western historical disinformation. Probably paid for and even redacted by the CIA or some other alphabet agency, of which the US and West have an obscene abundance. As usual, everything you see and read here is part of a big lie. The video (and its attached "description") are riddled with lies, innuendos and other forms of deception. The text literally drips with hatred toward Russia and everything Russian. It's indeed laughable to hear these characters shed crocodile tears over the disappearance of the rule of law, while slavishly doing the work of US/NATO, two entities notorious for breaking international law whenever it suits them.

(Official narrative)
May 18, 2023

They share a common ideology and vision of totalitarian power yet reportedly, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko hate each other. As popular opposition in Belarus and the war in Ukraine force them closer and closer together, we examine the relationship between these two men. We also look back at Lukashenko’s rise to power and hear from some of the protestors brave enough to oppose him. Filmed undercover in Belarus in the weeks up to and just after the invasion of Ukraine.

From her exile in Lithuania, a mother recounts how the KGB came looking for her four-year-old son. When a video of Victor attending a protest was seen on social media, the KGB sent photos of him to every kindergarten in Minsk asking the teachers to identify him. They escaped in time but Victor’s father was arrested and imprisoned for attending the same protest. Also in prison is Daria’s husband, Igor, an independent journalist who ran an information channel on the internet. Although he never overtly criticised the regime, he was still given a 15 year prison sentence.


It was the grounding of a Ryan Air flight to arrest journalist Roman Protasevich that provoked stiff sanctions from Europe. In retaliation, Lukashenko lured tens of thousand of refugees from the Middle East and sent them towards Poland. When people started dying in the sub zero temperatures, he blamed Europe and went to play ice hockey with Vladimir Putin. It was a public sign of support from the Kremlin for a man they are bound to support.
 
Without Russia’s aid, the 2020 popular protests would probably have ended Lukashenko’s regime. In return, Lukashenko has not only allowed Russia to station troops in Belarus, a recently held referendum also links the consolidation of his power with military support for Russia. It enables Lukashenko to stay in power until 2035 and Belarus to host Russian nuclear weapons. The Kremlin knows that any replacement would likely be pro-Western. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Belarus’ President-in-Exile, has promised to cut the links with the Kremlin and denounced the invasion of Ukraine. From her base in Vilnius, she tells how she is trying to prevent her country becoming a Russian proxy and how opposition figures abroad are constantly targeted.
 
In Belarus, everyone knows they live under constant surveillance, ruled by a government that has lost its legitimacy and governs through force. The fear is that if Ukraine loses the war, its fate could be the same.

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Erasing Inconvenient History : The Lithuanian Holocaust

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NATO's pathetic figureheads congregating in Vilnius. (TGP screenshot)

ROME—12 Jul 2023 / Machine translated

First a disclaimer. I'm not a writer, less so a political analyst, so you will forgive my shortcomings. But I know my history, that is, the history of my conflicted region, comprising Poland, the Baltic states, Ukraine and Russia. 

Watching the NATO hoopla and the simply ridiculous ceremonies and speeches in Vilnius, exercises in transparent propaganda with the assist of a highly cooperative audience (Lithuanians have a long tradition of rightwing, Russophobic and imperialist sympathies, about which more below), I thought the NATO fest was the cynical culmination of a process of truth denial, of naked historical revisionism, that for at least 20 years has engulfed Europe and the US, with the intent of deleting and upending the facts about World War 2, and more specifically, edited out the great contributions of the Russian people to the liberation of Europe and the world from the pestilence of Nazism. (BTW, the systematic demonisation of Russia —a very old Western project—has helped London and Washington in their effort to whitewash Nazis of their repugnant legacy, and thereby weaken the antifascist impulse. Just witness how even Jewish-controlled media platforms like Facebook, for example, have shifted their hypocritical and unilaterally defined "community rules" from condemnation of Ukraine's Nazis to total acceptance and even praise for such misguided characters, with few voices noticing or protesting). 

As for Joseph Biden's extravagant praise of Lithuanians' supposedly heroic fight for liberty and democracy and the rest of the self-serving claptrap constantly utilised by the Anglo-Americans in their campaigns to narcotise the world (beginning with their own population), into supporting their heinous international crimes, a simple revisitation of the incontrovertible historical record may prove a sobering experience. I highly recommend this mental medicine for those subjected to the poisons dispensed by the engines of mass propaganda: NYTimes, WaPo, CBS, CNN, BBC and the rest of that squalid lot.
 

Biden speaks about U.S. support for Ukraine after meeting with Zelenskyy | full video

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Streamed live 21 hours ago (Jul 12, 2023) #news#biden#ukraine

President Biden delivered remarks at Vilnius University after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Wednesday to discuss support for Ukraine. "We will not waver," Mr. Biden said. "Our commitment to Ukraine will not weaken. We will stand for liberty and freedom today, tomorrow and for as long as it takes." In earlier remarks with other G7 members, Mr. Biden said the leaders were "launching the Joint Declaration support for Ukraine to make it clear that our support will last long into the future."

Now, for the unvarnished truth. I humbly collected some compelling testimonies. First, let's see what Wikipedia says on this topic. Remember that Wikipedia is a heavily redacted, some say is CIA-editorially-patrolled, source. But I guess not even they can deny the mountain of evidence still standing:

The Holocaust in Lithuania

1. The Holocaust in Lithuania resulted in the near total destruction of Lithuanian (Litvaks) and Polish Jews,[a] living in Generalbezirk Litauen of Reichskommissariat Ostland within the Nazi-controlled Lithuanian SSR. Out of approximately 208,000–210,000 Jews, an estimated 190,000–195,000 were murdered before the end of World War II, most of them between June and December 1941. More than 95% of Lithuania's Jewish population was massacred over the three-year German occupation – a more complete destruction than befell any other country affected by the Holocaust.[citation needed] Historians attribute this to the massive collaboration in the genocide by the non-Jewish local paramilitaries, though the reasons for this collaboration are still debated.[1][2][3][4] The Holocaust resulted in the largest-ever loss of life in so short a period of time in the history of Lithuania.[4]

The events that took place in the western regions of the USSR occupied by Nazi Germany in the first weeks after the German invasion, including Lithuania, marked a sharp intensification of the Holocaust.[5][6][7][b]

The occupying Nazi German administration fanned antisemitism by blaming the Soviet regime's annexation of Lithuania in June 1940, on the Jewish community. To a large extent the Nazis also drew upon the physical organization, preparation and execution of their orders by local Lithuanian collaborators.[2][3]

As of 2020, the topic of the Holocaust in Lithuania and the role played by Lithuanians in the genocide, including several notable Lithuanian nationalists, remains controversial.[8]

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2. The Wikipedia also offers this additional page on the subject. 

Lithuanian partisans is a generic term used during World War II by Nazi officials[1] and quoted in books by modern historians[2][3] to describe Lithuanian anti-communist fighters, thus collaborators with the Nazis during the first months of the German occupation of Lithuania during World War II. A part of the Lithuanian partisans who fought against the Red Army during the June Uprising, were later organized into various auxiliary units by German Nazis. A minority of the units assisted and actively participated in mass executions of the Lithuanian Jews mostly in June–August 1941.

The term "Lithuanian partisans" might apply to several different and unrelated groups during 1941 and later:

3. Even Israeli media, which (maybe out of loyalty to their imperial patron, or the fact that Jewish oligarchs have played a very ugly role in the blooming of Nazism in modern Ukraine) have been shamefully quiet about the degree of Nazism in Ukraine have things like this to say, from time to time (this excerpt from The Times of Israel):

Lithuania has a checkered history when it comes to Holocaust remembrance. The Nazi’s Lithuanian collaborators under German occupation were involved in many atrocities, including the massacres at Paneriai, a present-day suburb of Vilnius, where 70,000 Jews were killed between 1941 and 1944. Lithuanian battalions performed guard duty and organized deportations at the Majdanek death camp in Poland and the Warsaw Ghetto.

Jewish leaders objected when, in 2020, Lithuanian lawmakers considered a law that would have declared that neither Lithuania nor its leaders could be blamed for participating in the Holocaust because the country was occupied. Amid the rise in nationalism across Eastern Europe, streets, schools and monuments have been named for Lithuanian collaborators. (See Lithuania passes law allocating $38 million in restitution for Holocaust survivors, by David I. Klein, The Times of Israel, 31 December 2022)

NOTE: Something tells me this law, with its paltry funding, was maybe nudged into being (or outright financed) by the Americans, an effort to clean the soiled face of Lithuanians, as Washington, always sensitive to the optics, has long planned to use and is using the Baltic statelets as strategic assets against Msocow.

4. I have also found useful materials at EUvsDISINFO. This website's purpose seems to be the debunking of "Russian disinformation". But in order to induce credibility for their attacks on truth, they often very skilfully summarise the pro-Russian point of view. But guess what...In so doing, I think they also end up unwittingly convincing those not totally brainwashed about the truth in the Russian version of history! In any case, it is known by now that in "the collective West" all historical/political truth that does not conform with the official narrative as formulated by Washington and London's Orwellian "WOKE imperialism" is simply "disinformation". Take the below assertion, for example, which this site then tries to negate as false, as being just disinformation by the evil Russians. Be sure to read the summary in black bloc (the supposedly false statement, the "disinfo" part), followed by the "disproof" in the orange bloc. 

SUMMARY

Anti-Semitism, anti-Sovietism and Russophobia, in general, are the basis of modern Lithuanian identity. Lithuanians consider those who murdered Jews and collaborated with Nazis as national heroes. It is an official historical concept. (Author's note: This sounds identical to what we see in Ukraine?). 
SEE THE PAGE HERE

Another example. This one, being recent history, takes the tart:

SUMMARY (Remember, this is supposedly the false, lying premise)

What the West is doing, using the Kyiv regime as a tool, can only be regarded as another attempt to create a Nazi coalition against the Slavic peoples, Russia, and already against Belarus. This has been announced officially. Now Nazism is being revived with the full connivance and encouragement of Western neighbours, and in European homes, the seeds of hatred, racial superiority, and the seeds of the abolition of culture, including Slavic culture, are sown. It's not hidden and turns into practical politics. Monuments to those who liberated Europe are demolished. In their place, statues of Nazi criminals are erected.

(This is a thick tissue of lies, innuendoes and half-truths requiring probably another entire article or several to tease apart its main lines of deception. But that it is utterly misleading,  there is no doubt.)

Nazis in the EU, which have been repeatedly debunked (see here). This is part of a disinformation campaign aiming to justify Russia’s unjustified military invasion of Ukraine. It is also consistent with disinformation narratives about Nazi Ukraine and it being a non-sovereign, West-ruled country.

Nazi Europe has been widely used by Putin and pro-Kremlin outlets since Russia attacked Ukraine and illegally annexed its peninsula of Crimea in 2014. It is Moscow's attempt to manipulate, twist and re-write history and to monopolise the role of victim in the Second World War.

The European Union is not a nazi-construct. The EU was set up with the exact opposite aim: of ending the frequent and bloody wars between neighbours, which culminated in the Second World War. The founders of the EU have no connection with Nazis. The Nazi ideology and the EU are based on opposite values ​​and principles. Read more here.

In 2012, the EU was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for advancing the causes of peace, reconciliation, democracy and human rights in Europe. Most countries which provide Ukraine with aid now were fighting Nazism back then. They were providing support for the former Soviet Union during its war with Nazi Germany.

Read more disinformation cases claiming that the EU is Hitler's 'New Europe', that the European Union justifies Nazism, and that the The EU continues the aggressive policies of Nazi.

Last, but not least, let me quote here the excellent John Wight, who happens to have penned a piece on the NATO summit that speaks volumes about this conveniently forgotten Lithuanian holocaust. I will use some long excerpts because his eloquence demands it, but be sure to read his entire article on Medium:

The Nato Summit in Vilnius merely makes Putin’s point

John Wight (excerpts)

In his 1988 personal memoir of life as a Jew during the Nazi occupation of Lithuania — Kaddish for Kovno: Life and Death in a Lithuanian Ghetto — William W. Mishell makes the salient point that “Under Germany we [the Jews of Lithuania] were doomed. Under the Russians we were free.”

Given that memory loss is now all the rage in capitals across the Western hemisphere, let us take a moment to look back at the history of the Holocaust in Lithuania and the role that many non-Jewish citizens of this small — and now NATO-member-state — played in collaboration with it. Remembering, after all, is the least we can do in tribute to the dead.

In Berlin on 17 November 1940 the far right anti-Soviet Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF) was founded by a group of Lithuanian émigrés under the former Lithuanian envoy to Berlin, Colonel Kazys Škirpa. Their objective was to unite the anti-Soviet underground in Lithuania with the help of the Nazis. However their goal was not only to free Lithuania from Soviet control, it was also to cleanse the country of its Jewish population. Consider, in this regard, part of the proclamation announcing the LAF’s formation to Lithuania’s Jewish community:

Jews, your history in the Lithuanian land that has lasted for five hundred years is now over. Have no hopeful illusions! The Lithuanian people, arising for a new life, consider you traitors and will treat you as a traitor should be treated!

The Nazi occupation of Lithuania saw the grim prophecy of William W. Mishell come to pass. The country’s Jews were indeed doomed. Just prior to Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa being launched against the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941, the LAF issued another proclamation, this time to the country’s non-Jewish population:

The hour of Lithuania’s liberation is close at hand. Immediately after the campaign from the west starts you will be informed on the radio…Local Communists and other traitors of Lithuania must be arrested at once, so that they may not escape just punishment for their crimes (The traitor will be pardoned only provided they prove beyond doubt that they have killed at least one Jew). . . . Beginning today, inform the Jews that their fate has been decided upon.

Decent sorts, I’m sure you’ll agree.

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Holocaust Encyclopedia , ninety percent of Lithuania’s Jewish population were murdered by the Germans and their Lithuanian collaborators, formed into special auxiliary battalions. It was one of the highest rates of Holocaust victims in Nazi-occupied Europe, and the slaughter continued right up until Lithuania was liberated from Nazi occupation by the Red Army in the summer of 1944.

Thoroughly corrupt and self-deluded, as is fitting for a fraudulent organisation, NATO is proud to have Lithuania and her fellow rabidly Russophobic, pro-Nazi countries, under its wing. Worse, this malignant organisation is still daydreaming about its industrial potential for bellicose ends. Coercion again appears to this bunch as a viable tool in the near future. But the world and technology have moved on, and reality can't be bought. For-profit arms production will never match nationalised production centers. Just read Andrei Martyanov on the subject if you don't believe me. The US simply lost its immense military supremacy some time ago due to greed and endemic corruption. And the West, no matter how much puffing and huffing, will never defeat Eurasia just through conventional weapons. That locomotive also left the station long ago. That leaves of course the unthinkable, which Western propaganda has somehow managed to make not only thinkable, but not even urgent. While the Russian and Chinese publics are fully aware of the peril, the Western public is virtually asleep. But with nukes, as anyone with an iota of common sense knows, an all-out fight is mutual suicide. That's why Wight—presuming a nuclear clash— is on firm ground when he somberly warns:

Chillingly, with the lone exception of Hungary’s Viktor Orban, not one Western leader is currently arguing for an end to the ongoing slaughter of Ukrainian manhood. War fever has taken control of the addled minds of the supposed representatives of Western civilisation, and it is this war fever that is driving it towards its destruction. The worrying thing is that in the process of hurtling towards World War III, it may well be the death of us all.

Need we say more? 

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