News about David Petraeus

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President Biden took notes and saved important memos that recalled his fight against sending tens of thousands of Americans into Afghanistan. Special Counsel Robert Hur gave a lengthy account of his appointment, including his "motive" for hanging onto records that should not have been posted at the National Archives. Biden writes daily in notebooks and on notecards about his pressure campaign leading up to the 2009 vote. For the first time, the paper includes a portion of their content.

Israel's agriculture minister Avi Dichter said on Thursday that after the war is over, Israel will establish a buffer zone within the Gaza Strip once the conflict is over. Israel's foreign minister Eli Cohen said on Wednesday that after this conflict, not only will Hamas no longer be in Gaza but also the territory of Gaza will shrink.' Israel's agriculture minister Avi Dichter said the current situation, in which the bulk of Israel's border security system was several hundred meters inside Israeli territory, was no longer tenable, asked about these remarks and the possibility of establishing a buffer zone inside Gaza. "It's not that you started it from inside the Gaza Strip as a buffer zone," says the author. 50 to 100 meters inside starts it on the Israeli side. . . We know it was a mistake, but it had to be fixed,' he told a media briefing in Sderot.

Before defeating Hamas pockets of resistance, Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told Israeli lawmakers that the IDF intends to launch its three-phase war with airstrikes and ground maneuvers. Israel's "responsibility for life in the Gaza Strip," he said, would cease once this is complete. Currently, Israel provides the Gaza Strip with much infrastructure, including electricity and water

David Petraeus, the former CIA and the US' top general, warned that the IDF's new strategy, which could include a bombing program and a major land invasion of the 140 square mile patch of land,'could be Mogadishu on steroids very quickly.' The warning referenced the bloody two day battle between US forces and Somalia National Alliance and armed citizens in Somalia's capital city in 1993

Former CIA director General David Petraeus has asked Israeli officials to give an overview of how the country copes with Gaza going forward. His remarks come as the death toll rises in Gaza, top left, and another 1,400 people have lost their lives in Israel, bottom right, since the war began on October 7 with Hamas' brutal assault on Israeli civilians. 'This is so bad, there must be something good that comes out of it,' Petraeus said.

Around mid-day on June 24, Wagner troops were on their way to Moscow from Rostov-on-Don, Yevgeny Prigozhin (left) reportedly tried to contact the Kremlin directly. According to the Kremlin's close relatives who talked to media outlet Meduza, he tried to call Putin (right), but the president didn't want to talk with him." Prigozhin may have realised he had 'gone too far' and that his chances of moving any further were 'dim', according to these reports. Although Prigozhin had stated at the start of his attempted mutiny that 'half the army' was willing to assist him, he received no help from soldiers other than his own, according to reports. After the Kremlin realized that Prigozhin's scheme was doomed to fail, they gave him a way out of a 'bloody confrontation.' Putin was apparently hesitant to even discuss Prigozhin during talks that reportedly included top Russian officials and Aleksandr Lukashenko (inset).

If Prigozhin has a deep network of support in Russia's top echelons, he may be killed in short order, according to Russian expert and political scientist Nicolas Gosset of the Royal Higher Institute for Defense (IRSD). On Saturday, after clashes with Russia's regular forces en route to Moscow, Prigozhin (left, inset bottom) unexpectedly stopped his troops' "march for justice" (right), after agreeing a deal that would prevent bloodshed and a potential civil war in Russia, he said. Prigozhin will go into exile in Belarus and will not face charges under the pact, but will no longer lead the influential Wagner group under terms of the deal, which was the biggest threat to Putin's reign (inset). Despite the arrangement, Russian news agencies announced on Monday that a criminal lawsuit against Prigozhin is still open, although several analysts, including Gosset, predict that the Wagner chief will be assassinated, regardless of any bargain he made with the Kremlin.

According to a former CIA chief, if Russian President Vladimir Putin used nuclear weapons in his conflict with Ukraine, NATO and NATO allies would destroy Russian forces. David Petraeus said that the nuclear risks must be investigated seriously and that Putin is 'desperate,' and that the 'battlefield reality he faces is irreversible.' Jonathan Karl, a Nato cosmonaut, told him that the possibility of nuclear radiation reaching a Nato nation could possibly be construed as an assault on a Nato member. So even if Ukraine is not a Nato country, a 'US and Nato response' would be in order, according to Petreaus. We'll start leading a Nato - a cooperative venture that would destroy every Russian conventional power we can see and recognize on the battlefield in and also on Crimea and every ship in the Black Sea, to give you a hypothetical.' Petraeus' words came after Putin declared the annexation of four regions encompassing more than half of Ukraine as the conflict approaches its eighth month.