[AccordingToHoyt] Imagine we had a president, let’s call him Bindy E. Weed who was always an extremely corrupt politician, and whose family is so deep in crime that every dictator and cartel owns a piece. He was elected in an election so fraudulent it could never happen in reality because among other things it required fooling other nations about the virulence of a released bio-agent, and I mean, why would other nations all fall for that. Wait, I’ll make it so that they too are fighting internal dissension that will upend long-held structures of power. That might do it, right?
Bindy is elected and immediately gets what he deserves. First, due to his guilty conscience he jumps at nothing and either he or someone in his orbit orchestrates a Reichstag fire, which fails to have the effect hoped for despite work over years to make it into the worst thing ever. His inauguration — this is pretty much impossible in America, okay — is behind barbed wire fences and beefed up guard, but despite incitement nothing happens to justify it. And then.... slowly, incrementally, the wheels keep coming off.
There had been signs of decline before, but they were possible to cover up. Except he gets much, much worse. Behind the scenes he’s puppetted by his wife, a Doctor of ... oh, I don’t know let me see a completely useless degree.... We’ll call it Pedagogical studies, as a place holder. His wife.... d*mn it, need name, Tilly Weed, and his son Nimrod. Nimrod not only has acted for years as the family bagman, but is also an addict to several disparate substances and has subtly been emitting cries for help in the form of trying to get caught for years. There’s also a cabal of overgrown theater kiddies who love, adore and bow down to Tilly thinking she is a mondo genius. The most prominent of them are the triple A group around Bindy, who are frankly my weak point. I mean, why should they all have A names? It begs the question. I might change it in post. And make them Bs. I mean, they’re B class talent. Anyway, it’s not just them, of course. Tilly has the kind of suburban mom vibe that will appeal to broken kiddies of any age, of which there are a lot in this administration and the corrupt ideology that supports it. For instance the head of the secret service Howda Cheatam — yes, the name is too on the nose, I’ll fix it later — is a great friend of Tilly and owes her rise to Tilly.
Everything is going swimmingly. Okay, it’s not, because our little cabal in power is busier fending off attacks from other cabals within the very corrupt party that put them in power than actually governing. Also, they’re not that smart. Suburban and (I hate the term, but there it is) midwits. More sure of their smarts than smart. Mostly because they have credentials and are sure these must mean something.
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Suburban and (I hate the term, but there it is) midwits. More sure of their smarts than smart. Mostly because they have credentials and are sure these must mean something.
How AWFL.
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Stay safe out there everyone
So I had 2 books of Stephen King in my car and someone broke in and left 4 more pic.twitter.com/C8FH25vzW3
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The Democrats fail at everything except where payoffs occur. This current administration is a perfect example of one failure after another. The rot runs deep but its foundations are breaking away under their feet. Trump certainly has seized the day.
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[Korrespondent] In the summer of 2023, according to the plan of the Ukrainian command, 12 armored and mechanized brigades were to break through a 30 km wide area.
The authoritative British security think tank RUSI has published a 48-page report , Preliminary Lessons from Ukrainian Offensive Operations 2022-23, in which it named the main reasons for the unsuccessful counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2023. Analysts also expressed doubts about a new offensive in the near future. The authors of the report are Jack Watling, Oleksandr Danylyuk and Nick Reynolds.
PLAN OF THE ARMED FORCES OF UKRAINE
The authors call the original plan justified: 12 Ukrainian armored and mechanized brigades were to break through a 30-km-wide area, isolate Tokmak for seven days, and then break through to the south to Melitopol. At that rate, Russia would not have had time to bring up reserves, and the advancing Ukrainian troops only had to overcome the resistance of six Russian regiments in defense.
MISCALCULATIONS OF THE ALLIES
But the implementation of this plan was hampered by mistakes made,6 in the opinion of the authors of the report, both by Ukraine’s allies and by the Ukrainian command itself.
In particular, RUSI notes that Western allies did not supply enough equipment and weapons to Ukraine; unlike Russia, they did not have time to transfer industry to military flights, so they did not have enough weapons, and those that they had were delivered late. This led to the Ukrainian army having little time to master new equipment.
MISCALCULATIONS OF THE UKRAINIAN COMMAND
The Russian command clearly knew exactly where the main attack would be, analysts note. The authors see this as a failure of operational security on the part of both Ukraine and its allies.
In addition, the Ukrainian command decided to throw less prepared units into the breakthrough, while the more experienced ones were supposed to hold the front. The Ukrainian Armed Forces scattered their forces in several directions.
But the most serious mistake of the Ukrainian command, according to analysts, was that it expected that the defending Russian troops would not hold out and would flee, as happened near Kharkov in 2022. When this did not happen, the Ukrainian Armed Forces hopelessly lost momentum.
However, the authors do not touch on such discussed factors as the density of Russian minefields and the capabilities of attack drones, which are capable of hitting valuable armored vehicles with great accuracy.
NEW COUNTEROFFENSIVE
Watling, Danylyuk and Reynolds believe that a resumption of Ukrainian offensive action is impossible in the foreseeable future.
However, Ukraine may focus on inflicting maximum damage on the Russian army, as well as increasing attacks on Russian infrastructure that generates income for the Russian budget.
Western and American officials estimate that Ukrainian forces will remain on the defensive for the next six months and will not be able to mount a large-scale counteroffensive until 2025.
However, the Ukrainian Defense Forces are already trying to seize the tactical initiative in certain sections of the front and will be able to conduct limited counter-offensive operations even while on the defensive, if the availability of Western assistance allows it.
Ukrainian forces will likely be able to increase both the scale and frequency of counterattacks in the coming months as Western aid arrives at the front and Ukraine continues to build up reserves and new brigades, according to analysts at the Institute for the Study of War.
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IOW, Western leaders miscalculated and Ukrainians paid for it with their lives. It does not instill much confidence in Western leaders, Joe...and Jill.
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Analysis from here: you yahoos didn't analyze Kursk '43.
[AmericanThinker] Many people are justifiably tired of failed overseas wars, fought by men who were lions but led by donkeys, in which defeat was consistently wrested from the jaws of victory. These conflicts led to trillions of dollars in wasted money, over 8,000 lost American lives, and entire regions upended and sent into the chaos, which has fueled the current immigration crisis in Europe and, partially, the United States.
It can be tempting, with the current "Specter of the Global War on Terror" under which we live, to be cynical: "No more overseas bases" and cries to eliminate our military presence in over a hundred countries can be a seductive reaction to the abject failure of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. I served in both conflicts as a soldier in the United States Army, and the day Kabul fell was similar to how many Vietnam veterans felt when they witnessed the fall of Saigon.
INTERNATIONAL STRATEGY
The economic lifeblood of a nation like the United States in 2024 is international trade — both the import and export of goods. To start: It is an abject crime against the national security of our nation that we have exported our manufacturing jobs overseas since the 1970s. Although this is a key factor in many of the problems affecting the U.S. today (see the cultural decline of the Rust Belt), it is not the most important theme in this article.
Even if the United States can manage to return manufacturing jobs to the USA, we will still need to safely and securely export those manufactured goods to other nations. And unless we are exporting to Mexico and Canada (and in some cases, even then), those goods must be transported using naval ships.
There are four key "chokepoints" to global trade: the Strait of Malacca in Asia; the Panama Canal in Central America; the Suez Canal in Africa and the Middle East; and the Strait of Gibraltar, which is the gate between the Atlantic and Mediterranean. Many billions of dollars in U.S. overseas trade traverse all of these, and there are many other sea lanes important to U.S. trade that I do not have the space to elaborate on (Hormuz being one of them).
Although one might ask, "Why not just go around them?," it is important to remember that operating a ship costs fuel, pay and medical insurance for the crew, and maintenance. Without the use of these sea lanes, the price of international trade would go up significantly.
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After working in an Embassy, I realized that USAID was a money laundering event, FMS was a bribery tool, and none of them worked. We need to end ALL foreign aid. There is no return on the dollar. Take the money we spend on water in other countries and fix our broken water systems. Fix our roads, end our national debt.
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has fueled the current immigration crisis in Europe and, partially, the United States.
Might that have been the real reason all along?
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^ Where's the graft in that?
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enlisted in the Marine Corps after 9/11 and deployed to Iraq in 2005, the same year I was there during the height of the war. He put his life on the line in service to our country.
Was Kamala Harris ready to sacrifice her life for our country? Of course not.
says Iran born columnist she is known to have high level sources in Tehran
[IsraelTimes] When intelligence officials briefed Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in May ahead of a snap presidential election, their report was grim: angered by economic hardship and crackdowns on social freedoms, most Iranians planned to boycott the vote and turnout would only be about 13 percent.
That's when Khamenei decided to plan a carefully orchestrated election, setting the stage for a little-known but trusted moderate, Masoud Pezeshkian, to rise to the presidency in a race that would initially be dominated by hardliners, five people with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.,,,
"It was a flawless plan by the supreme leader... which guaranteed the survival of the Islamic Republic," said Tehran-based pro-reform analyst Saeed Laylaz.
"Pezeshkian will avoid any crisis at home, whether with the nation or the establishment," Laylaz said. "That will allow top leaders to decide about the succession and plan it in a calm atmosphere."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
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