Bombing Mexico to stop drug cartels from supplying US with fentanyl is a terrible idea

July 10, 2023July 10, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The early stretch of the 2024 presidential campaign is underway — and with it a boatload of bad ideas and policy initiatives. One of the worst but increasingly popular proposals, uttered by several politicians aspiring for the highest office in the land, is to use the military to combat the drug cartels that have smuggled gargantuan amounts of fentanyl into the United States and turned swaths of neighboring Mexico into a war zone.
Bombing Mexico to stop drug cartels from supplying US with fentanyl is a terrible idea

Maybe they should call the Taliban for help?! /s

Israel does not have a right to self-defense for its occupation

July 10, 2023July 10, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Israel’s “right to defend itself” is invoked constantly by its supporters, but international law says Israel cannot simultaneously occupy Palestinian land and attack it as a “foreign” threat, or treat those resisting as enemy combatants.
Israel does not have a right to self-defense for its occupation

Biden Says Assad Must Go

July 8, 2023July 8, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

While on the campaign trail, President Joe Biden spoke with some “Syrian American activists” who favor increased sanctions on the country as well as regime change in Damascus, during a private fundraiser in Maryland last month. According to neoconservative columnist Josh Rogin – one of Bill Kristol’s protégés – Biden told these regime change advocates that, among other things, Assad must go. Rogin says these activists “took advantage of their audience with Biden… to implore him to do more to oppose” Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Biden Says Assad Must Go

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House Republicans Propose The Study Of An Oil Naval Blockade Of China

June 23, 2023June 23, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

The House of Representatives is discussing a move that would effectively amount to an act of war if carried out: a naval blockade on China.
House Republicans Propose The Study Of An Oil Naval Blockade Of China

The following is outdated, especially considering the problems with the US Navy’s LCS ships, but I thought that the bold quote was interesting. I highly doubt that Russia would ever submit to the US!

In short, Russia would not only be China’s best hope of overcoming an American blockade, but it would also be the United States’ key to closing China’s transit route through Central Asia and preventing China’s two neighboring oil producers from supplying it with petroleum. In an American blockade of China, Russia’s importance as a swing state cannot be overstated, as is borne out by the observation that “no blockade of China in history has succeeded without Russian acquiescence.”

Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran

May 24, 2023May 24, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A leaked intelligence report from February says “Netanyahu probably calculates Israel will need to strike Iran to deter its nuclear program.”
Leaked Report: “CIA Does Not Know” if Israel Plans to Bomb Iran

U.S. officials walk back claim Syria strike killed senior al-Qaeda leader

May 18, 2023May 18, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

QORQANYA, Syria — U.S. military officials are walking back claims that a recent strike in Syria killed an influential al-Qaeda figure, following assertions by the dead man’s family that he had no ties to terrorists but was a father of 10 tending to his sheep when he was slain by an American missile.
U.S. officials walk back claim Syria strike killed senior al-Qaeda leader

Previously:

US Military Probing Reports It Killed a Civilian in Recent Syria Airstrike

White Helmets?! 🤔

Ukraine’s security service initiates criminal proceedings against air defense “leakers”

May 17, 2023May 17, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Ukraine’s security service has registered criminal proceedings against six “bloggers” in Kyiv who it alleges took photos and videos showing the country’s air defense systems at work during Tuesday’s Russian missile strike and posted them on social media.
Ukraine’s security service initiates criminal proceedings against air defense leakers

Video Did Russia destroy a US Patriot Air Defense in Kyiv? DEBUNKED! via Ukraine War Awareness

H/T: Emil Cosman

No concern, at all, about freedom of speech! If this had happened in Russia, this is how corporate media would cover it.

5/11/23 Joziah Thayer on AQAP’s Standing in Yemen

May 15, 2023May 15, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Joziah Thayer joins to show to discuss some of the work he’s done digging into the many factions and groups within Yemen and the foreign powers working to pull their strings. Scott and Thayer drill in on Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, and explore how the group’s standing in Yemen has changed and how the country is likely to evolve going forward.

Discussed on the show:

The CIA, AQAP, and the Never-Ending Excuse to Bomb Yemen

How the IMF & World Bank Destroyed Yemen
5/11/23 Joziah Thayer on AQAP’s Standing in Yemen

UK-supplied missiles used to strike civilians in Lugansk + Evidence Of ADM-160 Miniature Air-Launched Decoy Use By Ukraine Emerges

May 14, 2023May 14, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

Ukraine’s military used UK-supplied long-range missiles to target civilians in the Russian city of Lugansk, resulting in several children being injured, according to Russia’s Ministry of Defense and local authorities.

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Later, however, it [Joint Center for Control and Coordination] clarified that the strike involved two Anglo-French Storm Shadow missiles and a US-made ADM-160B decoy missile.
UK-supplied missiles used to strike civilians in Lugansk – authorities

The ADM-160B has a stated maximum range of around 500 miles and reportedly has the capability to mimic the radar signatures of various different kinds of aircraft. It is designed to follow a preprogrammed route, which can include loitering over designated areas.

In 2012, the Air Force also began acquiring ADM-160C variants, also known as MALD-Jammers or MALD-Js, which added an active radar jamming capability. Further improved variants of the MALD, which the U.S. Navy has also been acquiring, have since been developed as you can read more about here.

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It is worth noting that in December 2022 the Pentagon announced new aid for the Ukrainian armed forces that included what was only described at the time as a “counter air defense capability.” That U.S. military assistance package was also a so-called “drawdown,” meaning that all the items it contained would come straight from existing U.S. military stocks.

If the Ukrainian military has indeed begun receiving MALDs, this would not be the first time the Pentagon has transferred higher-end weapons and other equipment and not initially disclosed it. The sudden appearance of MALD wreckage would also fit the same general pattern of how it first emerged that the U.S. military was supplying its Ukrainian counterparts with AGM-88 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missiles (HARM) last year, which was eventually confirmed.

How long-range Storm Shadow missiles could help Ukraine destroy the Crimea bridge

May 12, 2023May 12, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)1 Comment

Britain is sending Ukraine Storm Shadow missiles in a significant upgrade to Kyiv’s arsenal, allowing it to hit targets that have long been out of reach, including the Crimea bridge.
How long-range Storm Shadow missiles could help Ukraine destroy the Crimea bridge

H/T: Emil Cosman

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