Tag: war
2003: Operation “Shock and Awe” over Iraq’s capital city, 31 countries from the “free world” took part
2003: Operation “Shock and Awe” over Iraq’s capital city, 31 countries from the “free world” took part.
Understand this, Putin is holding back in Kiev #Kyiv
Originally tweeted by Syrian Girl 🇸🇾🎗 (@Partisangirl) on October 10, 2022.
Remember also that the WMD did not exist and they all knew it. Nor did Iraq have anything to do with 9/11 and they all knew it. ABN
Jew Zuckerberg (Powerless, Victim) Blocks Kanye’s Account, Deletes Posts to Prove Jews Are Not Powerful
On Friday, Kanye West posted about powerful Jews on instagram, and now that Jew who runs instagram has silenced him in order to prove that he is wrong and Jews being powerful is an anti-Semitic hoax.
The earth-shaking post was a screenshot of a SMS exchange between West and rapper Puff Daddy. West told Puffy that he’s not going to be cowered by the Jews.
…I don’t want to sound hysterical, of course. But it’s unclear what else could happen at this point than for things to start really falling apart in earnest. The idea that this current “normal” of Brandon’s America is sustainable on really any timeframe is just simply absurd. You notice that after the Nord Stream bombing, people are no longer claiming that talking about World War III is “hysterical.” Brandon himself is out there saying we’re all going to get nuked. These people just do a terrorist attack inside of Russia.
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Whitney Webb Interview – The Google AI Sentience Psyop
I finally had time to watch all of this and am disappointed in it. Webb brings up many good points and it is worth viewing but she is also missing the deep framework of what is truly going on. I will touch on that by describing what Eris Schmidt says and how she responds.
Schmidt is talking about a geopolitical conflict that presents questions such as: How do we deal with China? On Chinese AI and technological advancements, Schmidt says: “China is not a near-peer. It is a peer competitor. They are also now demonstrating quantum capabilities that we did not expect…” He goes on to list several other major Chinese tech advancements. What Schmidt is referring to here is our inevitable ineluctable competition with China across virtually all domains. This is the fundamental “game theory” of great powers. “Game theory” does not mean it is merely a “game,” or that it is something we can choose to participate in or not. This fundamental game theory is inescapably basic to top world power competition. This game/competition is extremely dangerous. Whoever wins will control the world. Schmidt asks, “How do we manage this?” meaning how do we manage competition with China. He answers by saying, “We don’t have a good answer but… we need groups to get together to agree on what the ethics in these areas should look like…. If we don’t do this, those decisions will be made by computer scientists like me… We need to make these decisions with the best minds that include non-computer scientists.” Webb misquotes and misconstrues what Schmidt is saying and then digs deep into the past to smear his ethics when Schmidt himself clearly said he wants to avoid having people “like me” making these decisions. Webb does not understand that increasingly advanced AI is inevitable and that someone will control it. That someone will be some sort of configuration of people (and gangs) in the West, in China, in Russia or India or some other place. No one has a choice in whether this happens or not. Each player must strive for total control because there is no other option. Right now, in Schmidt’s implied view if the West loses, China wins. Beyond this fundamental frame, which is all-important in this discussion, I share many of Webb’s fears about governmental totalitarian control. ABN
Russia’s military war vs Ukraine’s political war
Mattias Desmet: The Attempt to Burn Me at the Stake
In recent weeks, an offensive has been launched against me in the Flemish media. I’ve been accused of being a liar, a far-right extremist, a conspiracy theorist, controlled opposition, and of indoctrinating my students. I’ve quietly listened to every voice that felt called to make itself heard. And I have the impression that everyone who had something to say has now done so.
Now I’m going to say a word for myself.
I think I have some right to respond to a story about myself. Members of the media apparently disagree. As eagerly as they speak of me, they have obstinately refused to speak to me. But isn’t it a fundamental precept of humanity—that everyone has the right to tell their side of the story?
Granted, the media has had a certain inhibition about me for some time. For example, there was an uncomfortable silence in the press when my book The Psychology of Totalitarianism was translated into ten languages earlier this year and sold tens of thousands of copies.
Why such silence? Perhaps for this reason: people might start to take seriously the idea that the corona crisis was primarily a psycho-social phenomenon that marked the transition to a technocratic system, a system in which the government would attempt to claim decision-making rights over its citizens and, step by step, take control of all private space.
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Consider this in light of global game theory. Top players–USA, China, Russia, maybe India–do not know what their adversaries have or are capable of doing. Which of them will be first to make a quantum computer that can break all current digital passwords. Or which of them has some other weapon or means of global control. Since none of them–and there could be other top players–knows what their adversaries have or are capable of, all of them are forced to engage in some form of unrestricted warfare. You could say there is nothing new in that, all of history has had that condition and that would be true enough, but the speed of technological change today makes it different. Today, it is a much more dangerous game with stakes higher than they have ever been before. The heart of this KOBK geopolitical game is zero-sum, unrestricted war in the face of profound and dire uncertainty. This the deep reason almost anyone with a significant voice is silenced or behaves with apparent (or real) confusion and ignorance. Desmet, and those of us who have listened to him, knows something very dangerous is looming. Consider what he says in light of the conditions facing the top global players. It seems clear to me that there is no escape for them from this game. Top players cannot form trusted alliances with each other because they cannot have anything even approaching perfect knowledge of their partners. Therefore, all of them are forced into a melee of unrestricted war. Including unrestricted warfare against their own citizens. That is what is happening now and not something else. ABN
Taiwan Will Treat China Flights Into Airspace as ‘First Strike’
Taiwan warned it would treat any Chinese incursion into the island’s airspace as a “first strike,” as Taipei seeks to deter Beijing from ratcheting up military pressure around the island.
Defense Minister Chiu Kuo-cheng told lawmakers in Taipei that the ministry was taking such incursions more seriously after a recent spate of closer flights by Chinese warplanes and drones. Pressed on whether any warplane’s violation of Taiwan’s airspace would be viewed as a first strike, Chiu said, “Yes,” without elaborating what the response would be.
“In the past, we said we won’t be the first to strike, which meant we won’t do it without them firing artillery shells or missiles, et cetera, first,” Chiu said Wednesday. “But now the definition has obviously changed, as China used means like drones. So we have adjusted, and will view any crossing of aircraft or vessels as a first strike.”
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Told an audience in Boise that what we have seen over the past three years has been characterized even at scientific meetings as “evil”
Told an audience in Boise that what we have seen over the past three years has been characterized even at scientific meetings as “evil.” Nothing else explains global therapeutic nihilism, and willful blindness to horrific and fatal safety events. Only one word applies.
Originally tweeted by Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH™ (@P_McCulloughMD) on October 5, 2022.
Dr McCullough, it’s war. The enemy is hidden but the war and its many battlefronts are obvious. It’s evil, yes. But the reality is it is a war. Covid pseudoscience was and is an attack on the world and especially Western civilization. It is but one of many battlefronts. ABN
German deindustrialization, transitioning to service based economy
Russia: Putin signs unification treaties accepting four former Ukrainian territories into Russia
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed into law four unification treaties with the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, as well as the Kherson and Zaporozhye Regions, on Wednesday.
Earlier the treaties were unanimously backed by the Federation Council, the upper house of the Russian parliament. The agreements were ratified on Monday by the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, after they were certified as lawful by the country’s Constitutional Court over the weekend.
The agreements were signed by Putin and the heads of the four former Ukrainian regions on Friday, after the residents of the territories overwhelmingly backed the idea of joining Russia during referendums held between September 23 and 27. The votes have been firmly rejected by Kiev and its Western backers, who have vowed to never accept their results and recognize the four regions’ accession.
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Video of ICBM systems on the road in Moscow has triggered the claim that nuclear weapons are “on the way to Ukraine.”
By now the video of ICBM systems on the road in Moscow has triggered the claim that nuclear weapons are “on the way to Ukraine.”
That’s not what’s happening, but it is more evidence that Russia is planning to escalation – the beginning of season 2.
ICBM systems are being dispersed, essentially as insurance – it’s not preparation to begin a nuclear war, but it is preparation to be able to fight one if needed.
Russia will soon escalate in Ukraine, likely with decapitation strikes and the destruction of Ukraine’s vital utilities. In anticipation, they are moving strategic (read, nuclear) assets – both to deter NATO against escalating further, and to respond if the worst happens.
They’re probably ready to put a Poseidon off the coast of the English Midlands to this end as well.
Originally tweeted by Big Serge ☦️🇺🇸🇷🇺 (@witte_sergei) on October 4, 2022.
Formal annexation of Ukrainian territories happens on Wednesday. I would expect more intense Russian military action after that and not before. ABN
SMO coming to an end, conflict paradigm shift. Lavrov, Russian diplomacy success
Leaked phone call – Yulia Tymoshenko wanted to use nuclear weapons against 8 million Russians in Ukraine
Leaked phone call – Yulia Tymoshenko wanted to use nuclear weapons against 8 million Russians in 🇺🇦.
Tymoshenko made her wealth off 🇷🇺 gas, via a middle-man company she set up in the late 1980s. United Energy Systems was eventually closed for "financial irregularities".
Originally tweeted by Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil (@ivan_8848) on October 2, 2022.
NATO in the horns of a dilemma after former Ukrainian regions vote to join Russia: Scott Ritter
By infusing tens of billions of dollars’ worth of military aid into Ukraine, NATO produced a “game-changing” dynamic designed to throw Russia off balance. By undertaking the referendums in Kherson, Zaporozhye, Donetsk, and Lugansk, Russia changed the game altogether.
The ancient Greeks spoke of lemma as representing a logical premise, a matter taken for granted. This contrasted with a dilemma, or “dual premise”, where one would be presented with an either/or proposition. The Romans furthered this notion, referring to a “double premise” as argumentum cornutum, of the “horned argument,” because by answering one argument, an individual would be impaled by the logic of the second. Thus are the ancient roots of the modern idiom, “on the horns of a dilemma.”
This is the ultimate objective of maneuver warfare, for example: to position your forces in such a manner as to present the enemy with no good option – should they react to one pressing threat, they would find themselves overwhelmed by the other.
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