⁣Post this picture in a year.

Along with an apology to the Americans who could have benefited from this money.

And the Ukrainians who died because of it.

But most of all, reflect on the fact that one day, after Russia has defeated Ukraine, and the U.S. has to figure out how to live in peace with Russia, American negotiators are going to have to sit down at a table with their Russian counterparts and square the fact that they represent a government that paid billions to kill Russian boys.

Their eyes are going to meet.

And your smiling face will define the space between these delegations.

The face of evil.

May the Russians have the grace to forgive us as a nation.

But there is no forgiveness for you or those who voted for this blood money.

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⁣🎙 Ukraine is Heading Towards TOTAL COLLAPSE
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This allocation by Congress will allow long-range ATACMs missiles to be sent to Ukraine.

Ukraine will use these to attack the Crimea Bridge.

The current Russian deterrence posture is insufficient to stop this attack.

Unless Russia makes clear to both Ukraine and the U.S. that the consequences of such an attack will far outweigh the perceived benefits, it is inevitable that the Crimea Bridge will be destroyed.

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▫️What Happens to a Nuclear Weapon if it is Shot Down?
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▫️Who is Marwan Barghouti and Why Is He Important?
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▫️Baldy is Missing...Its Not Trivial...Jeff Spices Up Friday Nights
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⁣🎙 Scott Ritter | Carl Zha | Israel Responds | All Gloves Are Off | Gaza, Iran, Ukraine
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⁣A blast from the past: The Russian-Chinese political-military alignment was a predictable self-inflicted wound.

📰 Axis of Autocracy: The West’s Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

The US has singled out both Russia and China as presenting ideological, economic, and geopolitical threats to the US-led, rules-based international order that has governed global interaction since World War II.

While Russia and China have historically eschewed formalizing either an economic or military alliance, the impact of the US-led campaign against both has led to closer economic ties, and the formalization of military cooperation.

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⁣Last month I wrote that “Unless a miracle occurs, the Ukraine funding package looks unlikely to get passed.”

That miracle came in the form of the Iranian attack on Israel, which created unbeatable political pressure to free up the Israeli component of the stalled supplemental appropriation bill.

Once Israel was broken off, politics dictated everything else be voted on as well, including Ukraine.

But the release of the $60 billion does not change the reality that national security issues will remain hostage to domestic presidential politics through November.

Expect more “silly season” maneuvering to come by the U.S. Congress and the White House.

📰 Ukraine Aid Held Hostage by US Politics

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Hundreds of bodies of civilian men, women, and children are being exhumed in Gaza.

All were shot by the Israeli military.

Many had their hands tied behind their back.

Direct evidence of a war crime.

And yet America is getting ready to send billions in military aid.

We are complicit in this criminal enterprise we call Israel.

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⁣🎙 Ukraine Collapsing In Plain Sight
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▫️Are All Mercenaries Scumbags?
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The U.S. currently has 24-hour satellite coverage of Gaza.

The resolution of the images produced is good enough to discern individual humans.

The U.S. has complete coverage of all communications by the IDF in Gaza.

✅We saw them murder the Palestinian prisoners.

✅We heard them give the orders.

Our silence makes us complicit.

After Auschwitz we said “never again.”

We used that horror to justify the creation of Israel.

And now Israel has turned into that which the world then condemned.

We must all condemn Israel today.

And we must send Zionism to the place we sent the Nazis.

Hell.

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To better understand the issues underpinning notions of strategic stability between the US/NATO and Russia, one needs to focus on three concepts:

✅Competing strategic goals and objectives

✅Respective deterrence models designed to safeguard these goals and objectives

✅The war-fighting doctrine of each side

Balance of power equations generally begin with diplomatic efforts to find an acceptable equilibrium between competing strategic goals and objectives.

Where friction arises, deterrence models seek to hold each side back from seeking conflict-based resolutions. In short, the cost of war outweighs the price of peace.

If deterrence fails, then conflicts will be waged based on a sliding scale of intensity determined by the level of disparity between the respective strategic objectives. The lower the intensity, the greater the possibility of returning to a deterrence-based equilibrium. High intensity conflict is usually of an existential nature, resulting in the total defeat of one side over the other.

Nuclear-based deterrence models are by nature defined by a modified high intensity conflict model where both parties are ultimately defeated.

The US/NATO and Russia have operated on a nuclear based deterrence model for decades.

This model is failing at the moment because the US is blurring the lines between deterrence and warfighting when it comes to nuclear weapons.

This complicates normal conflict resolution schemes which would rely on diplomacy and deterrence to avoid existential conflicts.

The notion of “tactical” or “usable” nuclear weapons cannot work if only one side views these weapons in this manner.

Russia views nuclear weapons as an existential issue—only to be used to preserve the survival of the Russian nation.

The US/NATO have allowed crossover between nuclear deterrence and war fighting.

This creates incompatible conflict resolution strategies that will lead to the inevitability of nuclear conflict if the US/NATO does not modify its posture.

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⁣📰 North Korea Goes Ballistic

Over the course of the past decade, North Korea has developed a robust indigenous ballistic missile production capability that has produced a wide range of advanced weapons systems, including short-range, intermediate-range, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), submarine-launched missiles and — most recently — hypersonic missiles.

When armed with nuclear weapons, these missiles present a credible deterrent to potential regional adversaries, including the US, South Korea and Japan.

North Korea has made some significant progress with its missile program in recent months. On Jan. 14, it conducted a test launch of a two-stage intermediate-range, solid-fuel ballistic missile loaded with a hypersonic maneuverable controlled warhead.

The purpose of the test was to verify the operational characteristics of the warhead and the reliability of the solid rocket engines, believed to be comprised of the first two stages of the North Korean Hwasong-18 three-stage solid-fueled ICBM.

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The pro-Ukrainian social media is ablaze with posts proclaiming doom and gloom for Russia now that the US government has signed off on providing Ukraine with long-range (up to 300 kilometers) ATACM missiles.

While there is no doubt that a weapon of this accuracy and range will complicate Russian military operations, exposing critical command and control and logistics hubs to attack, as well as put critical civilian infrastructure, such as the Crimea Bridge, at risk, ATACMs is not the game changer the US and Ukraine is proclaiming it to be.

First and foremost, the ATACMs will be introduced into a deteriorating military reality where Russia enjoys superiority and/or supremacy in terms of control of the battle space, both at the front, and well into the Ukrainian rear areas.

Ukraine will have a hard time building up the logistical support infrastructure needed to make ATACMs a viable weapon system in the face of Russian deep interdiction capabilities. As a result, while Ukraine may enjoy the occasional ATACMs success, the ability to thoroughly integrate ATACMs into a cohesive fire support system will not be possible.

Another key factor is that the guidance system used by ATACMs—and inertial/GPS hybrid—is very similar to that used on the HIMARS. Russia has already fielded electronic warfare capabilities which have severely restricted the performance of HIMARS. It is anticipated that Russia will similarly suppress ATACMs.

Lastly, Russian air defense systems have shown a remarkable ability to adapt to new threats, such as HIMARS and the Storm Shadow/SCALP cruise missiles. It is anticipated that a firing solution to ATACMs will be developed shortly after the first missiles are employed against Russian forces.

In short, the ATACMs will go the way of all previous examples of western “wonder weapons”—much ado about nothing.

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⁣🎙 Ukraine, the money and the World
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⁣🎙 MOATS with George Galloway Ep 337
Interview for George Galloway

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Operation True Promise

How the Israeli miscalculation and the Iranian decisive response led to changes to the rules of engagement and the shift in the equation of power in West Asia.

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⁣🎙 Scott Ritter Show Ep. 69

On episode 69 of the show we are joined by Alexander Sladkov, a Russian journalist who has done hundreds of reports from battlefields and has a series of documentaries behind him. The VGTRK war correspondent closely follows conflicts on the world stage and has repeatedly risked his life in search of information.

Since 2014, Sladkov has worked in the combat zone in Donbass, collecting exclusive information. He is a member of the Public Council under the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. Sladkov is the author of a series of documentaries about the wars in the former Yugoslavia and the North Caucasus.

In 2017, he made a film about volunteers in the ranks of the armed forces of the DPR and LPR, and released a series of reports about the referendum in Crimea. In addition, Alexander has written several books and is considered an expert on the US Army and NATO military equipment.

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