US, Israel Launch ‘Most Significant’ Military Drills in History in Message to Iran

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

On Monday, the US and Israel launched massive military drills, which one Pentagon official speaking to NBC News described as the “most significant exercise between the United States and Israel to date.”

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The Pentagon official who spoke with NBC said that the drills show the US has not forgotten about the region even as it is focused on its proxy war against Russia and a military buildup in the Asia Pacific aimed at China. “We still have the excess capacity to be able to flex to another high-priority area of responsibility and conduct an exercise on this scale,” the official said.
US, Israel Launch ‘Most Significant’ Military Drills in History in Message to Iran

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Study: Defense industry unprepared for war with China

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

The U.S. defense industry is “not adequately prepared” for “a protracted conventional war” with an enemy such as China, according to a think tank study published Monday.
Study: Defense industry unprepared for war with China

Exaggerating China’s military spending, St. Louis Fed breaks all statistical rules with misleading graph

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

The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis published a jaw-droppingly misleading graph that portrays China as spending more on its military than the US. In reality, the Pentagon’s budget is roughly three times larger.
Exaggerating China’s military spending, St. Louis Fed breaks all statistical rules with misleading graph

Catherine Perez-Shakdam: The “Israeli Spy” Who “Infiltrated” MintPress

January 21, 2023January 21, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

A storm of controversy erupted earlier this year in Iran, after local media outlets announced that a “Mossad spy” and “Israeli infiltrator” had gained the trust of the country’s senior leadership, penetrated into the highest halls of power, and had even been employed as a writer for Ayatollah Khamenei himself.
Catherine Perez-Shakdam: The “Israeli Spy” Who “Infiltrated” MintPress

NYT: US Considering Helping Ukraine Strike Crimea + “likely” to send long-range missiles

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

NYT: US Considering Helping Ukraine Strike Crimea

US may not maintain military support for Ukraine, Navy secretary says

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

The US may not be able to continue its ongoing support for Ukraine if weapons makers do not ramp up production, US Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro told Fox News on Wednesday evening.
US may not maintain military support for Ukraine, Navy secretary says

Propaganda (too much to debunk):

The war in Ukraine could be decided this year, former US Army general says, warning of dire consequences if Russia faces defeat

Ukrainians to start training on Patriot missiles in US as soon as next week, officials say

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

Ukrainians to start training on Patriot missiles in US as soon as next week, officials say

The training for the Ukrainians on the complex system is expected to take “several months,” said Laura Cooper, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia.

The American People vs. The American Congress

December 31, 2022December 31, 2022 Tina Marie (Ms. Cat)

by Eric Zuesse

On December 13th, Gallup listed, in order of Americans’ polled ratings of issues as being the nation’s “Most Important Problem”, all 14 issues that more than 2% of Americans thought to be that; and here they were, in order from the top-most to the bottom-most, of all issues that the thousands of Americans who were sampled volunteered to be that:
The American People vs. The American Congress