I think Scott Ritter and Douglas MacGregor are terrible. They are nearly always wrong. I hate listening to them. I don’t find them credible.
I almost feel that if they say something happened, that more than likely the opposite is true. They seem to peddle not just in little kids (allegedly) but in misinformation, especially anti-western misinformation.
I know this is over simpilfied but many know that “War Is A Racket”, or usually a resource grab. Anyone noticing the narrative in the Investment community about the value of Uranium? “Now is the time to invest in Nuclear…”. (what kind of nuclear?) Many a war was really about grabbing the energy resource, like oil. Might the “mindfuck” we are currently assaulted with actually be about how much uranium those “enemies of Isreal” have is actually about Trump wanting to steal or prevent the capitalization of that uranium. Which is becoming rather rare? Gov of NYS just announced a plan to build a super nuclear plant. Why are people in media so ignorant of Thorium reactor technology? Can we invest in thorium?
Thorium is three times as abundant as [uranium]and nearly as abundant as lead and gallium in the Earth’s crust. Thorium- The Thorium Energy Alliance estimates “there is enough thorium in the United States alone to power the country at its current energy level for over 1,000 years.” “America has buried tons as a by-product of rare earth metals mining”, notes Evans-Pritchard. Almost all thorium is fertile material Th-232, compared to uranium that is composed of 99.3% fertile U-238 and 0.7% more valuable fissile U-235.
Point: Less suitable for bombs. It is difficult to make a practical nuclear bomb from a thorium reactor’s by-products, allowing governments to potentially pursue further nuclear power without worsening [nuclear arms proliferation]
Interesting alternative.
Its almost as if there’s a Big Group, and you ain’t in it, and it owns all the energy production in fossil fuels, and it doesn’t want that gravy train to be interrupted.
Which Thorium would do. We’ve had the Thorium tech since the 60s, but “coincidentally”, there has been no forward progress. Until “AI” came along which is a useful mechanism for controlling (replacing?) the little people. Now Thorium is - suddenly - acceptable.
War is a Racket- Money making scheme.
Especially since WWII. The Axis were losing in 1943, and beaten by 1944. How to keep war going??
an ambiguous demand of unconditional surrender.
Today; we (CIA-DS) topples governments, back (create) rebel (terrorists) forces and keep governments weak. (forever war, someone calls it)
One could argue it also props up certain regimes to create adversary that then demands big war. See Iran now? Look nazi germany… they were weak 1939… had 2 years to manufacture weaponry and take over places before any opposition happened. By design? Total war economy was declared only about 1943 or 42, very close to end of war.
You are correct, Germany did not ramp up production until 43+. And in fact, production increase throughout '44- despite bombing (so much for that).
It led to senseless terror bombing of non-military targets. (spend the ordinance- make more bombs). Same for Japan.
In 1939-1941 most Europeans were weak, not ready (just like now).
my opinion
BREAKING: Iran has made preparations to lay mines in the Strait of Hormuz, in case of any renewed aggression – Reuters
So far both are “preparing” aka posturing. Will it go kinetic again, who knows. Someone commented China has been flying cargo planes to Iran side and turning off transponders.
Are they having new 2025 Yalta conference in Tehran, using military planes instead of fancy private jets?
(IIRC this has been done in history to prevent paparazzis tracking them).
Key words; “preparations”, “in case”
Then: " – Reuters"
A DS source. (note: doesn’t mean it isn’t true)
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BREAKING: Iran closes its Western and Central airspace to all civilian air traffic until tomorrow
@Middle_East_Spectator
Iran closes its Western and Central airspace to all civilian air traffic until tomorrow.
Not sure what is going on here, will do an update later.
@Slavyangrad
Iran may not trust IDF to stick to ceasefire.
(don’t blame them)
I am absolutely sure that Iran does not trust the “ceasefire.”
Why should they?
Mossad is to blame. They had to “brag” about insiders. now any support for a change is being erased…
one thing, they (Iran) don’t mess around with infiltrators, unlike US.
[sarc]
I read about this post 2010 spy ring CIA had but China got them. Allegedly executed them. This could be same but officials would never publicly admit it. Im not referring to public news but they might have smart people who noticed something that gave hint to catch many of them. Or allies helped them. Chinese afterall are pretty good in that.
That means all covers burnt means no more mossad assets, much less leverage and info in near future.
It may take 5years+ to build these spy networks undercover.
Not very covert…
How Clinton’s Negligence and State Department Incompetence May Have Burned Dozens of CIA Assets | American Enterprise Institute - AEI
By [Marc A. Thiessen]
AEIdeas June 09, 2016
"Experts agree that building HUMINT capabilities is a long and difficult process of at least 10 to 15 years. As Sen. Evan Bayh recently said, “you can launch a new satellite and get it into orbit but it takes years to recruit the right people from the right ethnic groups who speak the right languages and have them work their way up to positions where they can obtain the kind of information that we need. It just takes time.”
-CAP Feb 18, 2004