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“Will Mexico be blackmailed to help destroy Cuba with blackouts? | The Communists (dated 01 January 2025)
(remarking that if a Russian tanker were to arrive… )”
I recall reading about this very recently but can’t find it. Yes, Russkie is dotting “i’s” and crossing “t’s”. Mexico ain’t the same socialist of pre-1991 and cannot be relied on. As the old saying goes,“…poor Mexico, so far from God and so close to the United States!”
Here is an article of earlier deliveries. [March 2024]
Cuba is being savaged atm for same reason as Greenland, or Grenada in Raygun era.. because “every now and again the United States has to pick up a crappy little country and throw it against a wall just to prove we are serious.” To seem bigger than reality through lowering tiny Others. And I dare say, as a conveniently close-by friend of Russia through which to humiliate Russia. It is all fetid malice at the sorry end.
… but even if the oil can be delivered, the starvation siege remains in effect.. causing the youngest to despair, flee and hollow out the working generations.. These, as in Syria or Iran or elsewhere, lack the perspective, fortitude and resilience of the older revolutionary generations.
This is why sanctions eventually work.. the only long-term solution is to defang them fully through decoupling, and to deprive the irredeemable imperialists of resources.
Russia and China cannot be left standing alone, islands in a sea of enslaved humanity. They too would eventually fall in the passage of cruel time, with the entire humanity being brought to work on them, like termite ants on gorgeous antique wooden churches
💠@Bellum Acta:
⭕🇨🇺🇺🇸 Cuba has lost more than 10% of its population in the last three years. About 850,000 Cubans have immigrated to the US in that same period.Approximately 80% of the migrants in 2022 were within the prime working ages of 15 to 59, and about 50% settled in Miami-Dade County.
📎 StatisticUrban
💠@imetatronink:
⭕ 🚨 BREAKING: US TESTING NEW UNSTOPPABLE SUPERHYPERSONIC MISSILE SYSTEM.beep beep
⭕ ‼️ US Navy Developing New Super-Duper Hydrosonic SubmarineAnonymous Pentagon sources reveal super-duper encrypted plans cannot be stolen or deciphered by America’s enemies.
Serial production predicted to commence in the year 2525, if man is still alive. |raw stolen intel|
⭕ I cannot understand why it is so many Russians still want to be loved and accepted by the western Europeans.
[links:
🔻 Glenn Diesen: NATO Secretary General Rutte argues Putin has no vote or veto on NATO expansion
– The post-Cold War objective of making NATO the dominant security institution for Europe, and arguing that Russia should have no say over what NATO does is the source of the war. Zero-sum bloc politics is revived to evict Russia from Europe. Without institutional influence to prevent being surrounded by a hostile military bloc, the only option becomes hard power
– In the audience, at the end of the video, is a soldier from Azov with a Nazi insignia on the shoulder |media|
🔻 C2: If you go Russia and talk with even Russian nationalists or even people like Dugin you’ll realize that most of people who are living West of Ural or maybe even in a whole are westerners. For years after soviet union collapse Russia government and it’s people tried to be accepted by the western civilization as it part, when it failed they had to fall on it’s own project which they would call Eurasian. It’s only adopted because Russia government and lot of people felt westerners betrayed them.
🔻 C3: That is rapidly changing. Russians are developing a new found self confidence as they begin to realise the Emperor was naked the whole time. It hasn’t reached everyone yet, but it is spreading quickly.
🔻 C4: They once believed it was the hub of civilization and culture. They got wise
🔻 C5: I don’t think they do. European want what Russians have (their land, their brains, their history, their military, their wealth, their resources, their arctic, their know-how, their art, their gold, their weapons, their culture, their intel capabilities, their submarines, their ice breakers, their diplomacy, their castles, their nuclear power); one can’t imagine the Russians want anything in Europe
🔻 WS: Many do. It has been that way for centuries. Not all Russians, by any means. Not even most Russians. But there has always been a non-trivial proportion of Russian society that has been envious and longed to “fit in” with what they view as the “sophisticated and fashionable” west.
🔻 C6: 19th cent Ottoman Turks had same idea, that if they dressed & acted like furriners, they’d be equal.
Post war Iran rejected this concept. Famous essay is by Jalal Al-e Ahmad, “Westoxification,” on the colonized mind
⭕ ⁉️ I’m curious to know exactly what the Marines’ mission description looks like for this operation. What are their orders? What’s the objective? |media|
[same as with aircraft carriers – the land equivalent of steaming in circles, tooting horns, and sucking thumbs]
🔻 C1: Secure the border duh
🔻 WS: That is not a mission description. Nor is it even remotely an attainable goal for the force being deployed.
🔻 C2: To win.
🔻 C3: Visual effect for the masses.
🔻 C4: To spend is into fucking oblivion. Same thing year after year
🔻 C5: Cirrca 1994 elements of my Marine Battalion were assigned to assist Boarder patrol & DEA, our mission was to set up unseen observation posts, watch for anything suspicious and call it in for Feds with police powers to deal with.
🔻 Dr Sq: In 2012 I met an American gentleman called Sam who recalled his happy days in the National Guard, when it meant getting to play cards and drive cool vehicles.The clip made me think of him for some reason.
🔻 C7: In every normal country military guard’s borders
🔻 WS: How many troops do you suppose it will take to “guard” US borders?
🔻 C7: As many as needed . Guarding S.Korea border and not your own is insane
🔻 Cristian George: Bro… show of force. Since when did you become so bitter that you stopped being able to see?A tank is useful for 2 things: shooting at things OR showing up. In this case them just making a show of force will be good enough for now.
Part of the border problem is there is no deterence. You need the columns of immigrants to stop way before the border.
🔻 WS: “Bitter” has nothing to do with it. It’s a simple question of logistics.500 Marines doing a PR photo-op is anything but a “show of force”.
🔻 Cristian George: depends how many times it’s played over social media. The Osprey’s looked pretty far out.As far as actual results, I’m sure that as things shake out, a much bigger outfit will get responsability and will be accountable for securing the border – but in the meantime the fastest way to force some results is to bluff.
It’s what he’s doing everywhere – his first 3 days are pure shock and awe, being anywhere, everywhere at once. Is this actually impactful in real terms? Nope. But it has a definite psychological effect – America is back.
Even as I know that it’s a game, it’s still hard to deny the effect that this man is hustling and this might have a significant impact depending on how many people believe it. His job is to get people fired up!
[how many semi-honest MAGA-tards with still functional gray matter are having buyers’ remorse?! Wait a little. Orange will make it Darker still]
🔻 WS: I suspect that, in the eyes of a great many discerning observers around the world, it is seen as a manifestation of underlying weakness.Which, of course, it is.
🔻 Cristian George: I agree. There is no doubt.
But if he manages to fire up the US population – then America has an unbelievable potential. Right now there is a wet blanket much of the Western World in terms of lack of agency and enthusiasm, a malaise that is very hard to overcome.
I can tell you by experience that the situation is much worse in Canada than in the US.The goal of any leader, at any level is to fire up the people so they enthusiastically take charge of their responsibilities.
The man sure knows what he’s job is, and he is leading by example. He knew the importance of symbolic tag lines : 100 hours, 100 days… the US 250th anniversary next year. People are very emotional creatures – if they believe, they will invest their emotions and then massive action will happen.
If they are suspicious, they will do things half hearted and they will falter and fall.
[Ok. Orange will marshal folks faster, and with more enthusiasm, right off the Cliff. That does appear the exceptional manifest destiny of the Last American Prez. Next trick?]
⭕ cont. thread:
🔻 Armchair Warlord:
Short thought for the evening.So about every day I see some take come across my feed that aircraft carriers are obsolete because long-range hypersonic weapons or something.
While war has definitely changed in the modern day, this is a bad take. Let’s walk through this.⬇️ ….
🔻 WS: After carefully re-reading your post above, I think I understand your argument better than I did when I read it hastily late last night — and I agree with several elements of what you wrote.That said, it seems to me you are not talking so much about what aircraft carriers are NOW, but what they COULD BE at some point in the future.
That is a substantially different fundamental premise than I have addressed previously.
And so, before I proceed to respond to your post, I want to confirm that my interpretation of your argument is more or less correct.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: My argument is that the replacement for the aircraft carrier is the aircraft carrier. 😉
🔻 WS: Only somewhat tongue-in-cheek, I once proposed something somewhat similar:
[repost old:
“🤔 If I were the Pentagon, I’d convert all the supercarriers to massive missile ships. Get rid of all the aircraft and 90% of the crew and its quarters. Gut the ship and install self-feeding missile systems that would bristle from the deck and sides. That would be a useful ship.”]
🔻 WS: At any rate, the more I ponder the question, the more I am persuaded that most legacy surface warfare ships, and almost all legacy naval doctrine, will be revealed as effectively obsolescent in the next few years.I intend to make and defend that argument in my next blog post.
🔻 C2: Russia seems to be moving in the direction of numerous small missile carriers. USA loves deploying air-power to inflict damage on third-world countries. Projections of aircraft longevity in case of all out war with a peer have always been pretty dire (days at most).
🔻 C3: As if a hypersonic missile can’t adjust for the vector of a moving aircraft carrier
🔻 C4: Chinese type 076
🔻 WS: Just as vulnerable as US Wasp-class LHDs.
⭕ 🐶 Trembling Puppy UpdateSpeaking of aircraft carriers …
After sallying forth ever so intrepidly to a point a few kilometers south of the Egyptian border, CSG-8 (CVN75 – USS Trembling Puppy) turned on a dime and made haste back towards the safer environs of the Gulf of Suez.
🔻 C1: Poor little puppy is afraid even after Ansarullah said they won’t attack until Tel Aviv breaks the ceasefire?
Does it not trust Ansarullah or Tel Aviv? Not to mention its screens.
⭕ ‼️ Some of the most devout apologia you will ever see comes from the true believers in US naval supremacy — none of whom will consent to the reality that modest Yemeni missile salvos credibly threatened and repeatedly discombobulated four consecutive US carrier strike groups.
‼️ How the Yemeni Chased Away the US Navy
🔻 Renier P. du Plessis: In civilian life any tech that is three decades old is obsolete – think phones, fax machines, cars
Whoever can replace or upgrade their weapons the fastest – will win
⭕🔻 DD Geopolitics: 🇭🇺 Budapest will agree to extend sanctions against Russia if Ukraine returns gas transit, stops threatening oil transit and stops attacks on Turkish Stream.
— OrbanFor reference: European sanctions are in effect until January 31, and a consensus of all EU members is needed to extend them.
🔻 WS: Orban outmaneuvers the Brussels mediocrities at every juncture.And, of course, Russia will accept impotent EU sanctions as a “cost of doing business” expense on energy sales to Europe.
🔻 C2: And this “cost of doing business” is borne by the EU when they buy 🇷🇺 oil refined in indis
⭕ 🔻 Armchair Warlord: Once again the “throw something at it” method of AT drone defense is successful. |media|
🔻 WS: Time to bring back the [Roman] scutum [shield]?
🔻 C2: shields and spears are making a comeback on the frontlines.
[Einstein: ‘I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.’]
⭕🔻 WarshipCam: USNS Big Horn (T-AO-198) Henry J. Kaiser-class replenishment in Duqm, Oman – January 20, 2025 #usnsbighorn #tao198SRC: INST- esuttonmk2
🔻 SeaWaves Magazine: Been there since September after being towed in.
🔻 Sal Mercogliano (WGOW Shipping): First picture I have seen of USNS Big Horn since she was towed into port in September after grounding.When are we going to get an update on her from @USNavy @MSCSealift @US5thFleet?
This is a major asset down for 4 months? |media|
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Fitting a pattern of “accidents” that the US military doesn’t want to explain happening to critical assets weeks after some major provocation against Russia.You notice we’ve stayed the hell away from their strategic bombers since 2022.
🔻 WS: I’m just relieved an Osprey didn’t make a huge cloud of dust, flames, and debris during today’s big show.
[post his older:
“🚨 BREAKING 🚨Anonymous Pentagon sources reveal that all 500 US Marines participating in today’s deployment to the US/Mexico border will receive a new and distinctive medal for their service. 🎬👏”]
🔻 C5: Gotta give them something for riding in an Osprey on purpose.
⭕🔻 Lord Bebo:
🇺🇸🇩🇰 Trump demanded Greenland?The US president spoke to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish premier, for 45 minutes last week.
Five current and former senior European officials briefed on the call said the conversation had gone very badly.
They added that Trump had been aggressive and confrontational following the Danish prime minister’s comments that the island was not for sale, despite her offer of more co-operation on military bases and mineral exploitation.
“It was horrendous,” said one of the people.
Another added: “He was very firm. It was a cold shower. Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious, and potentially very dangerous.”
The details of the call are likely to deepen European concerns that Trump’s return to power will strain transatlantic ties more than ever, as the US president heaps pressure on allies to give up territory.
🔻 WS: “Neo-Manifest Destiny” is manifestly very popular in the eyes of a great many Americans here in the early days of the second Trump rodeo.This ride will end badly for the cowboys, the bulls, and the clowns.
🔻 Matt Bracken: I disagree here. Greenland is low-hanging fruit, with a population of under 60K who HATE the Danes. Why? Read this. This did not happen a century ago, this happened in the 1960s and 70s. The child victims are still alive in their 60s and 70s. They remember. The world will learn, and disgust will grow at the Danish masters of Greenland. |story|xcerpt:
From the 2022 BBC article:Denmark and Greenland have formally agreed to launch a two-year investigation into historic birth control practices carried out for many years on Inuit Greenlanders by Danish doctors.
Thousands of Inuit women and girls were fitted with an intrauterine device (IUD), commonly known as a coil, during the 1960s and 70s.
It is a contraceptive device placed inside the womb – or uterus – to prevent pregnancy.
Among the women and girls fitted with an IUD was Naja Lyberth.
It was in the 1970s that a doctor told Naja, who believes she was then aged about 13, to go to her local hospital to have a coil implanted following a routine school medical examination.
“I didn’t really know what it [was] because he never explained or got my permission,” says Naja, who at the time was living in Maniitsoq, a small town on Greenland’s west coast.
“I was afraid. I couldn’t tell my parents,” she says. “I was a virgin. I had never even kissed a boy.”
Now 60, Naja is one of the first to speak out about what happened.
“I can remember the doctors [in] white coats, and maybe there was a nurse. I saw the metal things [stirrups] where you should spread your legs. It was very frightening. The equipment the doctors used was so big for my child body – it was like having knives inside me.”
[US has done worse. And who inspired the Danes? Perhaps Anglos desiring to strip her of Greenland in a near future?]
🔻 Matt Bracken: Please ask the Greenlandic Inuit how much they love being ruled by Denmark. Ask them.Reckoning with Denmark’s Cruel Birth Control Campaign [in Greenland against the Inuit] JANUARY 9, 2024 |story|
🔻 Matt Bracken: When the world finds out what Denmark did to the Inuit in Greenland, Denmark will have to beg for forgiveness. This was not done a century ago. This was done in the 60s and 70s, AND COVERED UP UNTIL NOW.
It was a pure NAZI extermination campaign, done in modern times.@quinntheeskimo6 💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸🇺🇦It appears that the issue of lowering the draft age in Ukraine to 18 has been effectively resolved. Almost the entire Western press confirms that the Trump administration is demanding this in exchange for arms supplies.
[another metric of what the Russkie calls “continuity of deep state governance.” There is a seamless transition from the crashtestdummy to the Orange belly dancer]
💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Hamas hands over four more Israeli hostages to Red Cross, media reportThe hostages are four captured IDF servicewomen.
[these appear teens or low 20s — the ones who manned the automatic machine gun turrets of the Gaza walls, whilst twerking on social media and doing their nails. Strategika51 noted in late 2023 these criminals may have most blood on their hands of all the zionazis – easily over 100 murdered per girl. Careless videogame-like murderers]💠@Middle East Spectator:
⭕ It is now confirmed by reliable local sources that HTS forces have suddenly withdrawn from the Western Syria coastal region, including Latakia and Tartous, for unknown reasons – gunfire is now audible in several places
[hand off to their Turk brothers, currently invading the same space?]💠@DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺💬🇯🇵 “Japan takes a clearly unfriendly position towards our country,” Dmitry Peskov told TASS.This is how the press secretary of the Russian president commented on the words of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba about the desire to resolve the “territorial problem” and conclude a peace treaty with the Russian Federation.
[so, as with 404, they’d planned to resolve territorial disputes through Russkie capitulation?? The world’s certain gotten more interesting since the ascension of Orange]
💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ From Dahiya, Beirut, where Israel assassinated Hezbollah secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah. The operation was much more complicated than it looks like. Israel won’t withdraw easily from Lebanon.
⭕ Don’t expect Hezbollah to attack Israel on Monday the 27th, the day after the 30-days ceasefire ends. It is the duty of the Lebanese govto first try to force it on France and the US, the guarantors. The armed resistance has the right to defend itself per the UN Charter 51.
🔻 C1: What are our options Elijah!!! We either defend ourselves(Hizbollah/Lebanese Army) or the countries who put themselves as guardians of Lebanon (USA,France and Saudi) defend us. Frankly there is no scenario where the israelis stay occupying Lebanese Land.
🔻 EM: The options go by priority. The first priority is the well-being of the people and the refugees. The second is for the government to assume the responsibility of the deal. The third is the reconstruction. The fourth is to wait for the return of the settlers and for these to reconstruct their places so if Israel wants to attack civilian homes, the Lebanese know what to do. The fifth is to understand that the long term strategy will be similar to the 1980s where Hezbollah becomes a local resistance. Does it make sense?
🔻 C1: It makes sense in the long term but the issue of Israel occupying/establishing permanent positions inside Lebanese territories is imminent. Once they are allowed to extend their stay one time its game over,they will never leave. It’s not 1980, the whole geopolitics has changed.
🔻 EM: Is it counterproductive for the armed resistance long-term presence if Israel occupies part of Lebanon?
🔻 C1: Oh!! Sure the existence of an armed resistance stays valid as long as the enemy stays.
Sorry, my brains got all scrambled right now,it’s fighting with itself🤦♀️ our MEN deserve to live a normal life yet as long as israel stays on our borders we will never have normal life ☢️
🔻 C2: Elijah, we read in the news that Bibi guy is requesting additional 30 days of ceasefire. Is it true?
🔻 EM: Possible.
⭕ Israel cannot and will not violate the 60-days ceasefire agreement with Lebanon without the approval of president Donald Trump’s administration.
⭕ Check out my upcoming article exploring the implications of Israel’s anticipated breach of the ceasefire agreement with Lebanon.If you enjoy in-depth analysis, consider subscribing to my blog for more insights.
⭕ Hamas has recruited between 10,000 and 15,000 new fighters since the onset of its conflict with Israel (Reuters). This significant estimated increase in personnel suggests that Hamas is rapidly replenishing its ranks, potentially offsetting losses incurred during the devastating war.Following the death of Hamas’s leader Yahya Sinwar, his younger brother, Mohammed, has taken over leadership and is working to rebuild the group. It underscores the organisation’s resilience and its ability to mobilise support even amid ongoing hostilities and highlight the limitations of a solely military approach.
⭕ Today is supposed to be the most important day for Gaza in 15 months of war.Hamas wants to hand over the Israeli prisoners as soon as possible so that the Israeli occupation forces can withdraw from the Nitzarem corridor on al-Rashid Street along the coast. This would allow over half a million Palestinians to return to their homes, or what remains of them, as agreed in the ceasefire agreement.
This is expected to be the most painful dagger in the heart of Benjamin Netanyahu’s criminal political career, with Hamas imposing its conditions and the failure of the Israeli extremist plan to annex the Strip and force another exodus on the Palestinians.
The resistance demanded the release of Palestinian leaders from all groups, especially Abdel Naser Issa Mohammad Abu Warda (47 life sentences in Israel); Ammar al-Zebed (27 life sentences), Zakaria Zubeidi (33 life sentences).
🔻 C1: Is Marwan Barghouti release not part of the deal?!
🔻 EM: Not today for certain.
⭕ Of 200 Palestinians to be freed today, there are 70 Palestinians with dozens of life sentences to be released and escorted out of Palestine to Egypt for 3 years.
🔻 C1: Is a joke they took 200 more in last few days
⭕ retweet:
🔻 Roberta Sutton: 60 day C-F ends 26thJan. BN must get US agreement to stay in Leb beyond that date. He’s already told IL army to stay. Hezb will pursue US/Fr via Leb parliament to act as true guarantors. Hezb now presents herself as guardian of Leb sovereignty, via Parl. Rejects extension of C-F |story|
[summary of latest article]
⭕ The four Israeli prisoners have been released. Now it is Israel’s turn to free the Palestinian prisoners and withdraw from the Nitzarem corridor.
⭕ Israel occupied Gaza and conducted hundreds of attacks during 15 months but failed to find and free any of the Israeli prisoners held on the 7th of October.💠@ejmalrai:
⭕ retweet:
🇨🇳🇮🇱🇵🇸 China has begun teaching its children about the genocide in Gaza.Schools are showing them videos of the massacre and suffering of the children. |media|
[as i’ve said since fall-winter 2023: the West shall never recover from this. Zion and the Moshiach ensured it. Everything that follows is detail, and tilting at windmills…]
⭕ retweet:
Watch the moment a high-ranking Israeli soldier was questioned by Declassified about war crimes during what he thought was a secret trip to London |media|
💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 C1: Be interesting to watch that oil price tumble based on Trump’s instructions……Like the new photo…..makes you look like a Renaissance philosopher
🔻 WS: It’s some sort of AI concoction that Happy Corgi Pants @PhilthyCarn made for me. My wife says it makes me look too much like Jeff Bridges, but I figure that’s probably an improvement. #imetatronAbidesThis is cool, too: |media|
I find things like this extremely interesting.
I’m also a fan of well-done colorization of old photos and early 20th century motion pictures.
🔻 C2: is that the reason for the new profile pic ?
🔻 WS: Never mistake whim for reason
or your reason will become a bust
One day the barbarians will crash through your gates
and smash it all into dust😏
⭕🤔 This 4/8 post from my 2022-01-13 thread is an interesting case.Fact is, the US/NATO has had a MASSIVE military response. They have simply managed to do everything they possibly could just short of a calamitous air campaign and ground assault.
1/2
[4/8 post:
“What will be the US/NATO response? Well, I consider it 99.99% certain there will be no military response – none whatsoever. There is no way in hell the Pentagon is going to risk having the myth of US military impregnability exposed in a futile attempt to help Ukraine.4/8”]
🔻 WS: The US and its NATO vassals are not even remotely capable of large-scale combat operations at this point in time.2/2 |link|
[ergo the florid screeching, tweeting and belly thrusts of our plump Orangeman]
🔻 Aldo: Will what is your position now on what will happen in Ukraine. What is this bluster from Trump?
🔻 WS: [links his old thread on “‼️ Bombast and BlusterAs expected, Trump’s opening rhetorical gambit to Putin is couched in bold-talking bravado…”]
⭕🔻 — GEROMAN — time will tell – 👀 –:
1 trillion budged but low on barrels
3rd world country level
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Meanwhile we haven’t actually seen an M777 on the battlefield in months – the system appears to be largely extinct in the field after more were destroyed on camera than officially shipped.If barrel production for M777s is actually happening it’s likely to refill US spare parts.
[Back in the day, Napoleon remarked for modern ground war, Artillery is the god of war… and USUK-NATO stands demilitarized in this critical area, which drones cannot compensate against peer foes.. NATO is literally grabbing its ankles and whistling in the Dark… keep that in mind, as Orange struts and bellows to cover the unseeming posture]
🔻 C3: I’ve seen one or two get blown this month but impossible to tell how long ago.
🔻 Armchair Warlord: Used to be you couldn’t open Telegram without seeing them getting hit by Lancets.
🔻 OneShadowCaster: “The M-777 howitzer costs four to five million dollars per unit.”… don’t tell me a hunk of steel should ever cost 4 million USD… which can be destroyed by an RPG attached to the FPV drone worth of 300$.
🔻 Snuffy Froman #TinPeasent: Remember the Bradley Graveyard? Every single part other than the box was stripped off…I think that’s how we see random shit like BTR-4E popping back up…and T-64s, all the Nato stuff has to be mostly Lego sets at this point.
🔻 WS: They may yet prove effective against drug lord villas and RCMP cavalry.
🔻 C6: Canada has attack beavers. Checkmate.
🔻 C7: Drug lords will be more impressive than you think. They even have their FPV drone corps now.
🔻 WS: I don’t think you have followed closely enough what I have said regarding a putative US military operation in Mexico.
🔻 C7: Only so many things one can follow each day. I’ll give it a look.
🔻 WS: I meant no offense. But I have expressed my doubts that the US could prosecute a successful military operation in Mexico — for reasons, which as always, boil down to underestimation of adversary capabilities and insuperable logistical constraints.
⭕⚡️ Artist Renderings Go to War – IV
(An ongoing series.)Look here, folks! The F-35 has successfully demonstrated the capability to control US drone aircraft that do not as yet exist except in the form of concept art.
🤦♂️ |story|
🔻 C1: The concept of using a manned fighter aircraft to deploy and/or command and control an unmanned aircraft is flawed from an operational employment standpoint. Not only is it a waste of $$, it’s real purpose is to extend the relevance & lifecycle of manned acft that make defense primes billions of dollars.
🔻 C2: If they are AI enabled drones, why they need to be controlled?
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord:
Short thought for the evening.So about every day I see some take come across my feed that aircraft carriers are obsolete because long-range hypersonic weapons or something.
While war has definitely changed in the modern day, this is a bad take. Let’s walk through this.⬇️
So, first of all, what does an aircraft carrier do? Well, it provides a capability to fly off and sustain a large number of conventional aircraft at sea. This allows it to both attack at extended ranges and to sustain combat operations for an lengthy period of time.
The argument is that (1) it’s not as hard to find carriers as it used to be because of modern ISR assets, (2) modern hypersonic missiles can sail through the current generation of missile defenses, and (3) many modern missiles are very long-ranged and can handily outrange the current crop of carrier aircraft.
These are all true to an extent, but none of this means the operational concept of the aircraft carrier is obsolete. First of all they’re overstated: (1) assumes peacetime brOSINT ISR assets will keep operating in wartime; (2) elides that modern hypersonics generally don’t have capability against moving targets and ignores developments in missile defense; and (3) ignores the fact that current crop of modern carrier aircraft were designed for permissive maritime environments and are shorter-ranged than even their Cold War counterparts.
Second of all, what is the biggest military development of the mid-21st century? Drone proliferation. Unmanned aerial systems are the way of the future. And you know what ship can operate a huge number of high-performance drones at sea, far more than any “conventional” warship?
An aircraft carrier. Which will be able to attack at extended ranges compared to, and sustain combat operations far longer than, any “conventional” naval platform. And, moreover, aircraft carriers “payloads” can be easily swapped out, so there’s not even any question of the current generation of flattops really being obsolete because you can simply stick new aircraft on them if that’s the way war is developing.
In fact that’s… exactly what happened historically. Carrier doctrine underwent enormous development from the 1920s into WWII and the Cold War as aircraft developed into technological maturity. What didn’t change, by and large, were the ships themselves – the Saratoga was about as useful to the Navy as a combat unit in 1927 as it was in 1945 despite flying off a radically different air wing. The late-war Midways operated successfully through the entire Cold War, flying several generations of air wings in the process.
So, yes, anyone loudly proclaiming the demise of the aircraft carrier as a naval centerpiece is extremely mistaken. It’s also noteworthy that the Chinese aren’t preparing to challenge the USN for supremacy in the Indo-Pacific asymmetrically – they’re building out their own carrier fleet as fast as they can get the hulls in the water.
🔻 WS: I’ve bookmarked this.I don’t have the time or inclination to respond right now. But I’m glad we’ve found a point of contention, and I look forward to making a counterargument.
🔻 C2: Do you have contact with Martyanov? He could do an entire post or vid taking this nonsense apart.
Russia has been developing solutions for taking out carrier battle groups for decades.☝️ Ramallah is de facto capital of the compradore Palestinian Authority Gauleiter force. It’s of no use to either side anymore. Pretense is being dropped
💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇧🇾Western leaders are pushing the world community towards a global war, said State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich.
⭕ 🇷🇺🇺🇦Russia has reported its largest drone attack [on Russia] since the beginning of the year.According to the Russian Defense Ministry, 125 drones were shot down, some of which were flying toward Moscow and were shot down on the approaches.
⭕ 🇺🇦🇷🇺The enemy struck the Novo-Ryazan Thermal Power Plant and the oil refinery of JSC RNPK. |media|
[This is fifth largest power generator in Russia, located just outside Moscow.. i suppose Orange is now “negotiating in earnest”]💠 @Middle East Spectator:
⭕ — 🇮🇷 NEW: Another record high of inflation was set by the Pezeshkian administration, with $1 USD now exchanging on the open market for 840,000 IR Rial – marking the worst exchange rate in the country’s history
[A potent marker of intent by the Last Satanic Empire. To the bitter end. The same starvation siege as put on Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Cuba, and much of mankind]
💠 @Yemen | Bab-el-Mandeb:
⭕ The Political Bureau of Ansar Allah:- The United States continues its blatant hostility towards the Yemeni people and is desperate in supporting the Zionist entity with all its capabilities.
- The new U.S. administration aims, through its unjust decision against our people, to further support the crimes of the entity against the Palestinian people.
- The U.S. aims to increase the suffering of our people and to try to deter Yemen and its armed forces from continuing to support the just Palestinian cause.
- The U.S., stained with bloody terrorism throughout its history, is not in a position to classify countries and peoples.
- We strongly condemn the old-new U.S. step that has become a farce, lacking any standards other than serving the Zionist agenda.
- We warn of the repercussions of the U.S. decision on the economic and humanitarian situation in Yemen and on the peace efforts that have reached an advanced stage.
- We call on free countries and peoples, as well as humanitarian and rights organizations, to condemn this unethical decision.
- We renew our commitment to Palestine and Gaza that Yemen will continue its principled solidarity with the Palestinian people.
- Our armed forces will remain on alert and ready for any military escalation against Yemen and to confront violations of the agreement in Gaza.
⭕ U.S. President Donald Trump: Ready to visit Saudi Arabia if they pump investments.
The milking has begun.
⭕ Trump is a lying clown; his mission is well-known—milking the big players. As for us Yemenis, we will respond to America, and we will classify it as a dangerous terrorist entity. We will take decisions that will strike at its economic and security interests.💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 📌 Major world events by the morning of January 24- Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba announced his desire to conclude a peace treaty with Russia;
- An elite bunker for the world’s richest people in case of a global catastrophe will be built in the US state of Virginia, media reported;
- Russian air defenses intercepted and destroyed 121 Ukrainian drones over Russian territory overnight, including six over the Moscow region and one over Moscow, the Russian MoD reported.
💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⭕ 🇷🇺💬 Chairman of the Russian State Duma Vyacheslav VolodinOn the role of sovereignty
For Russia, the question of independence is a question of the existence of our state.
Given the size of the country and the availability of natural resources, we by definition have someone to defend ourselves from and something to defend.In the 90s, the Russian Federation practically lost its sovereignty.
A number of states that were formerly union republics of the USSR sacrificed it in favor of Washington and Brussels.
We are talking about the Baltic countries.Ukraine lost it finally in 2014.
The result is known: the state is gone, faith is trampled, memory is betrayed, history is rewritten, culture is destroyed, the language of the majority of the population is banned, and citizens are relegated to the role of expendable material.Pressure from the US and Western countries has always existed. Colonial policy is the basis of their existence.
There are countries that understand that maintaining independence is an opportunity to determine their own destiny and plan for the future.
For Russia, this became possible after Putin was elected President.
It was Vladimir Vladimirovich who began the difficult path of reviving our state and gaining its independence.In Belarus, issues of sovereignty are the basis of Lukashenko’s policy.
Alexander Grigorievich played a key role in protecting the interests of the state during the most difficult years.Today, Russia and Belarus are countries with their own political systems and economic models that ensure stability and successfully confront challenges.
External threats have brought us together.
We are building the Union State together, but everyone is independent in making decisions.
Our relations are based on the principles of non-interference in each other’s internal affairs, but at the same time mutually beneficial cooperation, respect and support.
On Sunday, presidential elections will take place in Belarus.
Citizens will have to decide who will lead their country.
The State Duma sent its observers to them.There are still a few days until the elections, but the European Union is already unhappy with them.
And what elections has the European Union ever been happy with?! Only those where their candidate wins, and not the one who defends the interests of his people, protects his country and its sovereignty.
💠@ejmalrai:
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🔻Roberta Sutton:
Trump’s requirement of the C-F seemed to signal impatience with IL but was just a sop to his Xtian fundamentalist base. His remarks on Gaza put him close to Kushner. Continuation of 2K pound bombs heralds further killing & destruction. Rejection of the 2 state sits ill with MBS |article|
[summary of his latest article]
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In the north, tents are being prepared in the Al-Shujaiyah area of Gaza City and set up despite a significant shortage to accommodate people returning from the south, starting Saturday, 25.01. Those on foot will arrive through Al-Rashid Street without being searched, while vehicles will use Salaheddine Street and undergo inspections.
hassan.salem.gaza (IG) |media|
💠@imetatronink:
⭕🔻 Kit Klarenberg: It begins!
🔻 C2: Pulling out of NATO after 20 yrs will be easier than EU.
🔻 WS: I think the EU will spontaneously combust sooner than later. The iron and clay cannot mix; Club Med, the Nordic states, and the Intermarium cannot coalesce. The European “Union” is an illogical and unsustainable construct.The Ukraine War has brought this fact into stark relief.
🔻 WS: I even think Germany will finally awaken from its stupor and fulfill what I predicted of them three years ago:
The End of NATO, American Imperial Hegemony, and The Rebirth of A Multipolar WorldA short🧵
[IMO, too little too late.. The Soul Train’s already over the Cliff in glorious freefall]
🔻 Armchair Warlord: And why wouldn’t he? These organizations have done nothing but harm Slovakia over the last several years.If you’re being exploited in an abusive relationship, you leave. Simple as that.
🔻 WS: The empire will undoubtedly make a last ditch effort to color revolution all the recalcitrant eastern European states. But I think the momentum of the movement has gotten away from them. And if they lose Romania … well, it’s bound to bring down the whole NATO/EU house of cards.
🔻 C4: The effort to throw down the government is currently underway in Slovakia. This week, 600 psychologists and psychiatrists in a country of 5M people signed an open letter asking Fico to step down from politics. Demonstrations announced for tomorrow.
🔻 Carborundum Crew: How many proxy wars can they start and will it help? |story|
🔻 C5: as someone from germany whos 28 i can tell you ask any person under the age of 25 in the east of germany and they will tell you they want out of the EU and NATO. it’s starting.
⭕ cont thread:
‼️ Bombast and BlusterAs expected, Trump’s opening rhetorical gambit to Putin is couched in bold-talking bravado:
“You must end this war immediately, or else we’re going to get real serious, and you will not like the consequences.”
Things will go downhill from here …
🔻 C1: Puts Putin in a position where he cant.
🔻 WS: I have no idea what you’re trying to say.
🔻 C1: To accept after Trumps threats will make him look weak.
🔻 WS: I think Putin’s course of action will be dictated more by domestic realities and strategic imperatives than by anything Trump might say or the US might attempt to do.As I wrote in the article linked above:
[Excerpt of his “Dictating Terms” article i’ve linked many times]
🔻 WS: I stand firmly by what I wrote (as reposted below), and I repeat what I have written on many occasions since early in the war: Odessa to the Danube (and Transnistria) will be reassimilated into mother Russia essentially without a fight. Odessa will petition to rejoin Russia.
⭕ reposts old:
As I have noted on multiple occasions, my single biggest geopolitical miscalculation / misjudgment of the past few years has been the vast chasm between what I thought Germany was and what Germany has now revealed itself to be: slavishly obeisant; devoid of self-respect.
⭕🔻 Glenn Diesen: Trump cannot threaten his way to a peace agreement, as Russia considers this to be an existential threat. Why not start with dialogue?
[he links Drumpf’s crazed tweet threatening Russia which began with, “I’m not looking to hurt Russia. I love the Russian people…”]
🔻 Glenn Diesen: Putin already welcomed a meeting with Trump to bring an end to the war – why kick at an open door?
🔻 WS: Because the concession of strategic humiliation waits inside that door, and it’s a bitter pill to swallow.
📜 The Bitter Pill of Decisive Strategic Defeat
🔻 C2: And that pill must be swallowed voluntarily or otherwise.
⭕🔻 Armchair Warlord: The standard narrative of the Ukrainian War (one I myself have followed to an extent) is that an “analytical swerve” occurred in the West in the first weeks of the war, leading Western leaders to believe that Russia could be conventionally defeated.What if this was a psyop?⬇️
This narrative goes as follows: Western policymakers had a very low opinion of the Ukrainian military prewar stemming from its manifest failures in the Donbass in 2014-15, and expected the AFU to collapse quickly in the event of full-scale war with Russia. Ukraine would be occupied by Russian forces and NATO would then turn the tables on Russia with a combination of crippling sanctions and support for Ukrainian insurgents. Prewar NATO material aid to Ukraine was thus limited as Western leaders considered it to be a lost cause, and floodgates of war materiel were only turned on after the AFU unexpectedly survived the initial Russian attack and proved to be a capable fighting force.
There’s a fundamental problem with this narrative, however. It assumes that the growth of the AFU as a very large and increasingly well-trained and battle-hardened fighting force from 2015-2022 entirely slipped the attention of the Western defense, intelligence, and policy establishment. We now know that this very same establishment was in fact deeply involved in establishing Maidan-era Ukraine as a geopolitical counterweight to the Russian Federation.
In fact, any serious analyst looking at the prewar force array – to include yours truly – would (and in my case, did!) come to the conclusion that, if properly employed, the AFU had the capability to defeat any invasion force the Russian Federation could reasonably muster at its borders. It had enough troops and enough equipment to do so – in fact, Zelensky’s 2021 decision to begin actively preparing to invade and crush the separatist republics likely stemmed from an AFU General Staff conclusion that they could win a fight with the Russian Federation.
In short – the CIA was not going to simultaneously know all of this because of their deep relationship with the GUR and then conventionally write off Ukraine. But the perception that Ukraine was weak nevertheless remained strong in the general public and even in many less-informed official circles. My theory is that this perception of a Ukrainian underdog was then deliberately leveraged in the early days of the war to create the narrative (one which persists to this day despite all logic) of a brave little country humbling an arrogant but hapless bully – despite the fact that “little Ukraine” actually showed up to the initial fight, as the defender, with a 2:1 or greater numerical advantage over “big bad Russia.”
Under this line of argument, extensive Western material aid to Ukraine prewar was unnecessary – Ukraine had its own military industry and massive stockpiles of Soviet equipment. They didn’t actually need NATO’s stuff to win the war. Providing them a few antitank missiles was largely a show of support and largely served to get NATO’s foot properly in the door for massive reinforcements to follow after they’d beaten the Russians bloody.
Similarly, any close observer of Western information efforts in the early war – such as myself – would note that they were all geared strongly and immediately towards promoting a conventional Ukrainian victory. Given who likely paid for and coordinated all of this (see the departure of numerous brOSINT outlets with US government budgetary cycles in subsequent years), that coordinated messaging is extremely telling.
Knowing this, the actual shock in Western policy circles in February and March of 2022 becomes clear – not that Ukraine had managed to somehow survive the Russian onslaught and fight back, but that despite years of preparation for precisely this war the Ukrainians had been badly outfought and outmaneuvered and were prepared to surrender. It was in fact the Russians, not the Ukrainians, who proved a far more formidable combatant than expected. Dramatic efforts were needed – and the appropriate mountains moved – to get Zelensky back on board, with an army reconstituted directly out of NATO stockpiles.
This thesis also explains why Western defense policymakers – not a group known for being quick on their intellectual feet – suddenly and in absolute lockstep went from supposedly believing Ukraine was cooked (“3 Days to Kiev”) to believing that Ukraine could conventionally defeat the Russian Federation. Namely, that they never changed their minds at all, and were merely psyopping the public to drive support for Ukraine and create an impression of Russian weakness to lower public thresholds for further action once the Russians were inevitably buried by endless waves of Ukrainian reserves. And, critically, they have largely stuck by that assessment despite endless evidence that it’s nonsense.
In short, my theory is this: What if the prewar conventional wisdom about “weak little Ukraine” – endlessly promoted by official and semi-official Western outlets despite the fact it could be easily refuted by publicly available information, and there would have been little reason to expect a rapid Ukrainian defeat among well-informed observers – was part of the same Great Big Psyop that unfolded in the early days of the war, and intended to interlock with and reinforce a narrative of a heroic Ukrainian victory against all odds?
Food for thought.
🔻 WS: I agree with this assessment.I have agreed with it since no later than early July 2022:
📜 A Drone’s Eye View of the Ukraine War
⭕ reposts old:
📜 Bird’s Eye View of the Ukraine War
⭕ Epic Ivan the Terrible quote cited below.Not as concise as Uncle Sasha would have phrased it, but poetic all the same.
[links:
🔻 Maria Dubovikova:
The Second Letter of Ivan IV to the Swedish King John III
January 6, 1573“If you wrote to us with barking and intend to respond to our letter with more barking, then for us, great sovereigns, it is no trouble to write back to you in the same manner. However, it is unbecoming of great sovereigns to write barking. We wrote to you not with barking, but with truth. And sometimes we wrote at length because, if we did not explain things to you, we would not receive any meaningful response from you.
But if you, taking on the mouth of a dog, wish to bark for amusement, that is your servile custom: it may be an honor for you, but for us, great sovereigns, even to correspond with you is dishonorable. To write barking to you is worse still, and to engage in mutual barking with you is the worst disgrace imaginable in this world. If you wish to engage in mutual barking, then find yourself a servant like yourself and bark with him.
From now on, no matter how much barking you write, we will not respond to you.
If you wish to act, our people have seen your cannons. And if you wish to try again, you will see what profit you gain from it.
But if you desire peace for your land, send your envoys to us, and we will learn from them your intentions and decide what should be done.”
This is Russia’s response to Trump’s proposal — or rather, his ultimatum. Or perhaps… just his barking.”]
[AHH: my history on this is now distant and iffy, but I sense modern nazidom was born in Sweden, even before Germany or Banderistan; look where Herr Hermann Göring spent the interwar years, and into which nobility he married.. So, as for this letter by Ivan IV, after these pleasant exchanges with one of the dominant powers in Europe at the time, the Russkies went on to bury the Swedes, and end their mini-rule of north Europe. Now you know why they’re salty to this day, and as committed to the Drang as other crazy Balts]
🔻 Maria Dubovikova: Ivan IV is Ivan the Terrible.
Just for your notice and information.
🔻 C2: Then Russia could stop selling uranium for American nuclear power plants. Sel titanium to Boeing. Just for starting.
🔻 Maria Dubovikova: I think Trump is unaware of the origin of uranium and titanium in the US.
[i don’t think he could care less. That’s not his role. He is like the cleaner you send after the mafia has exhausted possibilities and liquidates liabilities. The more Chaos, the merrier. Orange will deepsix the dregs of this Empire for the zionazis. Even if he weren’t willing, he is under compulsion]
🔻 C3: Trump’s delegation is going to learn
reality bites
🔻 C4: The letter is still so relevant. Nothing has much changed in 500+ years apparently. Same play, different actors.
⭕ 🎸 The Golden AgeThe new old president says we’ve now entered the golden age of America, but I can’t see what’s changed.
This is the Golden Age
It’s hard to imagine
With the way I feel today
🔻 Salamanca: He meant the Age of the Golden Shower. |golden|
🔻 C2: Unfortunately Trump is not going to change much in Ukraine, as you have already noted in the past.This is going to be his war soon, if he does not pull out, and he will be rightfully blamed when thr Ukrainians collapse.
Trump can’t bluster his way out.
[links:
“🔻 🅰pocalypsis 🅰pocalypseos 🇷🇺 🇨🇳 🅉:
🇷🇺 Professor Dmitry Evstafiev: The degree of Trump’s rudeness with his ultimatum is noticeably higher than is expected when entering into a serious dialogue. Even I raised an eyebrow in surprise.It is clear that he is euphoric.
It is clear that he was offended that they did not call him.
It is clear that he was offended by the video negotiations between Putin and Xi.
It is clear that he does not control Zelensky and cannot get any concessions from him. And he cannot dump the “asset” called Ukraine.
But still, a clear overreaction. Demonstrative. He’s not ready to negotiate seriously with us. That’s conclusion number one. Neither on strategic disengagement nor on Ukraine locally.
Such statements are made only to be rudely rebuffed. It’s too thick.
I’m not an advisor to the boss, but I would sigh sadly and shrug. And that’s it. There is no subject for discussion yet.
Conclusion number two: Trump’s freedom of maneuver is significantly less than it seems to us. He is tied to death by agreements with the elite. Well, who would doubt it.
But in general, Trump has finally drowned our “peace party” today, as well as all our Trump fans. Which, of course, is very good.”]
⭕ reposts old:
🤡🌎 Stupid Is As Stupid Does“Shadow Fleet” = Ships used by countries or entities who buy insurance from someone other than imperial insurers.
“Sanctions” = Drive away your customers to pursue alternative arrangements.
The dwindling Anglo-American empire is led by imbeciles.
🔻 WS: India likes getting Russian oil, and is no longer willing to submit to imperial edicts to cease doing so. #OpenDefiance |story|
(0:30) As the Man says, “… MANY people will lose their lives as a result of this war.”
With this Treaty being unwound and openly torched by Orange and Gang, who’ll get the pieces of Germany and Italia this time?!💠“Freemasons eyeing comeback in Syria“ — the organization announces their return after a five-decade ban under the Assad government.
Why not surprising? Open satanism follows in the wake of the assisted liberation of “Freeum & Demokracy”. You can also ask Russkie and Ottoman of late 19th Century – shortly before both fell due to elite supranational intrigues
💠@Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇩🇿 In the morning on the deck of the missile cruiser “Marshal Ustinov” in the port of the capital of Algeria
[so much for Russkie being evicted from the Mare Nostrum. This is near dead center, with ready access to ports in Libya and Egypt as well]💠@Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇺🇸Trump signed an executive order to close the southern border of the United States, the White House website reported.Its crossing on the Mexican side is completely closed.
Meanwhile, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has begun detaining illegal immigrants across the country for deportation.
⭕ 🇮🇳🇷🇺India expands pool of Russian insurers after US sanctions, Reuters reports.India has allowed Russian insurance company Soglasie to provide marine insurance to tankers calling at Indian ports, the Indian shipping regulator said on its website.
New Delhi wants stable supplies of cheaper Russian oil despite recent US sanctions.
India has also extended the validity of the permit issued to Russian companies Sogaz Insurance, AlfaStrakhovanie and VSK Insurance by five years until February 2030, according to a notification posted on the website of the Directorate General of Shipping. Soglasie has been allowed to provide insurance coverage for ships calling at Indian ports until February 20, 2026.
India also recognises Russian insurer Ingosstrakh, with approval valid until February 20, 2029. Earlier this month, Washington imposed sanctions on AlfaStrakhovanie and Ingosstrakh, as well as Russian oil companies and tankers, in a bid to cut Russia’s oil revenues.
[Lloyds, Lloyds .. we loved ya once upon a time in the wild west. Elite dementia has consequences!]
☝️☝️ see the below findings at the UNSC in last day for why these troops are being deployed… Iran and China have similarly been quite active with military support, to prevent the rise and havens of USUK-Salafi terrorist hordes to be subsequently unleashed on them all
💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ 🌍⚠️ The threat posed by the sharp rise in terrorism in Africa has reached a tipping point, AU commissioner says“The gravity of the threat caused by the exponential growth of terrorism in Africa is overwhelming and startling. […] We have reached a tipping point and we must act together,” the African Union (AU) Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security Bankole Adeoye said while addressing a UN Security Council ministerial meeting on countering terrorism in Africa.
With over 3,400 attacks and 13,900 fatalities across the continent in 2024 alone, terrorism threatens development, undermines governance, and jeopardizes the AU’s Agenda 2063 and the UN’s Agenda 2030, Adeoye pointed out.
🛑 According to the commissioner, the AU is responding with new frameworks, focusing on African leadership and building stronger capabilities. Key priorities include a new Continental Strategic Plan of Action to ensure that inter and intra-regional counterterrorism is sustainable, as well as regional collaboration, and tackling terrorist financing through a comprehensive study.
“The African Union and the United Nations […] should jointly support predictable, sustainable, and flexible funding for peace enforcement in counter-terrorism contexts,” he added. |media|
[but the gutless compradore AU does not name the names. Who is behind the plague of Rules-based Terrorism, Inc. This is like attributing climate change to bovine gas]
⭕ 🌍 Illegal actions of the West have created conditions for terrorism in Africa, Russian UN envoy saysSpeaking at a UN Security Council meeting on combating terrorism in Africa, Russian UN Envoy Vassily Nebenzia blamed the rise of terrorism in Africa on Western military actions, particularly the 2011 intervention in Libya.
💬 “Under the pretext of the ‘responsibility to protect’ concept, they disrupted Libyan statehood and economy,” he said, adding that these actions created a breeding ground for terrorism.
He further criticized former colonial powers for maintaining military presence in Africa under the guise of counter-terrorism.
💬 “This presence is no longer welcomed… because the ineffectiveness of these so-called counter-terrorism operations by Western countries is more than obvious,” he stated.
Nebenzia also highlighted reports of Western-supplied weapons to Ukraine ending up with criminal and terrorist groups, calling for a thorough investigation.
[this is plain speaking]
⭕ 🌍 The number of terrorist attacks in Africa has increased by 400% over ten years, Algerian FM states💬 “These figures indicate that throughout the last decade, Africa has witnessed a deeply shocking 400% increase in terrorist attacks and a 237% rise in terrorism related deaths,” stated Ahmed Attaf, speaking in New York at a ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council dedicated to counter-terrorism in Africa.
According to him, the epicenter of global terrorism has shifted in recent years to the African Sahel region, which now accounts for 48% of terrorism-related deaths worldwide, whereas in 2007 it accounted for only 1%.
Attaf added that despite the reduction of the terrorist threat in other parts of the world, it has significantly increased in Africa.
The Algerian foreign minister pointed out that terrorist groups have effectively turned into armies.
💬 “We talk first about terrorist groups that are heavily armed and strongly equipped, groups that display highly skilled military strategies and groups that practically deserve to be designated under the name of ‘terrorist armies,'” he said.
[fruits of the 2011 Anglo-French savaging of Libya…]
This lunatic will blow up the world. “Putin disrespected Biden” (!!) Not a promising start whatsoever. He was correctly prophesied to be the Last American President.
💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Trump called on Russia to end the special military operation, threatening to impose new sanctions and duties on all Russian exports to the US if it does notTrump also called for an immediate end to the Ukrainian conflict, believing that “it will only get worse.”
Earlier, Russian President Putin said that (https://t.me/sputnik_africa/33942) Moscow is open to dialogue with the new US administration on the Ukrainian conflict, however he stressed that the goal should not be a short-term truce, but a long-term peace based on respect for the legitimate interests of all peoples living in this region.
[someone needs to teach Orange some basic math. What was the 1941 USSR population, how far Nazis reached on land, and why 60M is impossible. And secondly, the nature of bluffing and blustering, and how it affects the civilizational-states, or all with a spine]
that’s almost $400 Billion USD debt for Zion! A veritable mill-stone around neck of USUK and combined West, fully on the hook. Carry on lads.
💠@imetatronink:
⭕ Uncle Sasha is one of the all-time giants of Russian literature.
[links:
🔻 Sony Thang:
🇧🇾ALEKSANDR LUKASHENKO:“I’m ready to support Donald Trump’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize—if he truly becomes a peacemaker.
If you are a peacemaker, then work to ensure there are no wars.
You can do that.
After all, Americans have always started these wars or pushed for them.
If you can do this—well, if you want to be a Nobel laureate—we’ll support you too.
We’ll even present you.
Though, let’s be honest, the Nobel Prize doesn’t mean much anymore.”
Excerpt from remarks by Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko during a conversation with employees of the Minsk Automobile Plant, January 21, 2025.
Source: BelTA ]
⭕ 💥 Chain-smoking Artillery TubesThe article linked below is a specimen of some of the more subtle spin you can occasionally find on the pages of the various military-oriented propaganda mills.
In aggregate, since early 2022, Ukraine received several hundred of the fragile M-777 towed howitzers, of which the overwhelming majority have been destroyed.
We used to see almost daily Russian MoD reports (and lots of video clips) of M-777s getting disassembled by Lancet drones. Not anymore.
It’s obvious there simply aren’t very many of them left. Hundreds have been destroyed since they were introduced on the battlefield. And there are precious few 155 mm artillery rounds left to supply those that remain.
Yes, the M-777, when put into a high-intensity warfare scenario, burns through barrels like a chain-smoking cannoneer draining a pack of Lucky Strikes. Early Ukrainian reports in 2022 talked of barrels wearing out after less than a week of moderate sustained fire.
And yes, there can be no doubt that the US Army was unable to “keep up” with the logistical demands of an industrial scale conflict.
The M-777 replacement barrels are made by a sole-source arsenal whose capacity is apparently such that increasing production by 50% will bring the total up to 30 tubes per month.
But the Pentagon procurement request referenced in the article below is almost certainly NOT intended for Ukraine. It is intended to replenish exhausted US stockpiles.
Because 20th century towed howitzers may be anachronistic in a big-time 21st century war against Russia, but the US may yet find good use for them against insurgent Canadians and Mexican banditos. 😏 |story|
🔻 C1: A wanted poster for some of those Canadian banditos |media|
🔻 C2: That is what happens when you have a corrupt profit driven MIC buidling weapons for wars of choice or “limited war” vs a purpose driven Russian MIC designing weapons for existential total war.
🔻 C3: Forging a gun barrel in Russia |media|
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🔻 Armchair Warlord:
19 Dec 2024
Why does the “Davos Regime” and its “Rules-Based International Order” actually exist? Why did a putative world government – and make no mistake, that’s exactly what it is – emerge in the early years of the 21st century?Let’s talk about it.⬇️
I posted the other day that the story of the colossal sanctions failure and backfire against Russia is a case study in the benefits of forced reshoring. Russia is not some rentier petrostate that needs foreign contractors to keep its lights on, it is a developed country with a highly educated population and vast latent productive capacity. With Western-facing trade largely cut off except for some high-demand commodities, and domestic demand for goods and services higher than ever thanks to the war, those jobs in productive industries that were brain-drained out of Russia to the West in the 1990s simply returned home. People fled the service industries for higher-paying factory work, and rising wages have fueled an economic boom.
The thing is that this domestic growth model, although excellent for the ordinary man on the street, is anathematic to oligarchs. It’s inefficient – one of the first economic theories they teach you is how free trade creates greater net prosperity because of the efficiencies of specialization. Of course they leave a couple things out in Economics 101: (1) sufficiently large countries can actually be “good at everything” and have no real need for foreign trade as all efficient specialization can occur between internal trade nodes; and (2) the real world is not an economic supply-demand chart, the benefits from this complex arrangement will be engineered to flow primarily to the people managing it. Paying for Chinese goods with American banking-sector money is very efficient but only economically benefits a small group of transnational elites. Ergo the “Davos Regime” – this highly rarified group of people meet up every year for the World Economic Forum in the city of Davos, Switzerland.
So where does the Rules-Based International Order enter into it? Well it’s quite simple – you can’t have an economic bloc without some level of shared governance to enforce the bloc rules, and these governance structures tend to grow with time. It’s why the European Coal and Steel Community* dictates the policy of most ostensibly sovereign European countries now. And with the emergence of a planetary economic bloc after the Cold War – generating astronomical wealth to be creamed off by a new generation of oligarchs sophisticated enough to manage its incredible complexity – a putative world government was going to emerge almost as though by the laws of geopolitical gravity.
* now known as the European Union
The “Rules-Based Order” is thus simply the domestic policy of the Davos Regime – an entity that has no foreign policy because it purports to govern mankind and has arrogated to itself a monopoly of legitimate force worldwide. The Davos Regime conducts no real diplomacy and recognizes no other sovereigns, only rebels against its rule.
This monopoly on violence and diplomatic atrophy, by the way, precisely explains the behavior of Western leaders of late. Brutalizing protesters against their rule at home – or bombing their enemies abroad – is legitimate because they are representatives of a global sovereign with a monopoly on legitimate force. Lesser entities not part of the Davos Regime have no such rights, and any use of force on their part is presumed to be criminal in nature and to be punished severely. Similarly, the institutional collapse of Western diplomacy is easily explained by the fact that these diplomats do not view themselves as dealing with coequal sovereigns but rather with lesser, subject entities to be dictated to, and to whom they lack any real reciprocal obligations.
You can see immediately why Russia would drive the Davos Regime absolutely up the wall.
⭕🔻 C1: What’s does the United States need an iron dome for?
🔻 WS: To cover the hole in its head.
⭕🔻 C1: “The Pentagon has fired and suspended everyone who was responsible for Ukraine and aid to it. The US Department of Defense is in a complete reboot”
🔻 WS: “Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”― Euripides
⭕🎸 Some Things Never ChangeSame old picture in another frame
Same old story just a brand new name
Same old problems
From a different point of view |media|
[well said. Sums up the now ascendant Orange Camacho Gang. Same bilge water in the newly repolished bottle]
⭕ Olaf needs to go back to the coffee-house circuit. The big theater gigs aren’t working out for him.
[reposts tweet from 21.09.2023:
“German Chancellor Olaf Scholz drew a very impressive crowd at the UN.Germany is racing towards failed-state status.”]
🔻 C1: Invisible men and women
🔻 C2: For all those self-loathing German bros, a weak Germany means a weak EU which means you will have no influence or power in this world. Be careful what you wish for.
🔻 C3: Herr Scholz is just an agent of USA. The world has enough of USA and its endless wars. What’s the meaning to listen to Scholz’s lies?
🔻 C4: He repeats US policy … no need to listen to him.Just listen to Biden & Blinken 🤷♂️
🔻 C5: Oh, was he allowed to say something?
