Thursday, November 14, 2024
Friday, February 16, 2024
Good gridlock politics: Impeach 'em all
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s impeachment case begins with his
dereliction of duty when he failed to inform the White House when he was
incapacitated by a medical procedure. Under Austin’s watch, the
Pentagon has also blatantly disregarded the Hyde Amendment and is
facilitating the procurement of abortions for servicewomen using
taxpayer funds. ...
With a Democratic-controlled Senate, these impeachments will not be successful in removing these officials from power, but that is not the point. As Democrats set the standard in 2019, impeachment is now an exercise of partisan political power, and it should be treated as such. ...
Furthermore, it would also have the strategic effect of jamming the schedule of the Democratic-controlled Senate. If the upper chamber were forced to contend with numerous impeachment trials, it would have less time to vote on judicial nominations and billions of dollars in foreign aid.
Thursday, February 1, 2024
Is four days long enough since Iranians killed American soldiers for them to escape back to Tehran or nah?
SHOWDOWN: Pentagon plans for strikes on Iranian personnel and facilities approved...
Weather will be a major factor in the timing of the strikes, the U.S. officials told CBS News, as the U.S. has the capability to carry out strikes in bad weather but prefers to have better visibility of selected targets as a safeguard against inadvertently hitting civilians who might stray into the area at the last moment. ... [SECDEF] Austin told reporters the U.S. was trying to "hold the right people accountable" without escalating the conflict in the region.
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Tuesday, March 22, 2022
LOL Wall Street Journal: "The S-300 from Belarus wasn’t among the systems that are being sent to Ukraine, one U.S. official said"
That right there is an unnamed US source quoted for plausible deniability, primarily for Russian consumption. The link is free to read at Drudge.
USA Sending Soviet Air Defense Systems...
The story is an example of US disinformation involving a shell game of transfers of maybe this, maybe that, maybe here, maybe there.
Happy to see it!
WASHINGTON—The U.S. is sending some of the Soviet-made air defense equipment it secretly acquired decades ago to bolster the Ukrainian military as it seeks to fend off Russian air and missile attacks, U.S. officials said. ... in 1994 ... a Soviet-made transport plane was observed at the Huntsville, Ala., airport within sight of a major highway. It was later disclosed that the plane was carrying an S-300 air defense system that the U.S. had acquired in Belarus ... The S-300—called the SA-10 by NATO—is a long-range, advanced air defense system intended to protect large areas over a much wider radius. ... At least some of what the U.S. sent was from that base, said officials, who added that C-17s recently flew to a nearby airfield at Huntsville. ... [SECDEF] Austin last week visited Slovakia to explore if the country would send an S-300 from its arsenal. Slovakia has said that it would do so if the U.S. would provide it with a replacement . . ..
Tuesday, September 28, 2021
General McKenzie in Qatar told Taliban to stay out of Kabul or he would bomb them: They didn't and he didn't
Kind of hard to have any credibility when your commander in chief has none.
Biden signaled surrender already in early May, much earlier than hitherto reported; that's why the country collapsed like a house of cards.
Defeat in Afghanistan was a CHOICE made by the Democrat president, no different than the Vietnam defeat was a choice, made by the Democrat Congress of the time, of which Biden was also a part, which cut off funding to the government of South Vietnam.
The contractors which were necessary to the mission of the Afghan Army were already pulling out by the time of the May 8 Biden meeting where discussion of evacuating Afghan SIVs was supposedly excluded for fear of destabilizing the Ghani government, much earlier than has been reported until now:
At the time of the May meeting, Taliban forces were engaged in a countrywide offensive and were already capturing key territory in the west and outside Kabul, the nation's capital. U.S.-funded private contractors, meanwhile, were flying out of the country as part of the American troop withdrawal. The Afghan military needed the contractors to keep its air force flying. ... On Aug. 8, McKenzie delivered his findings to Milley, who in turn shared them with Austin. McKenzie warned that Kabul would be encircled in 30-60 days and that the city and the whole country could fall within weeks or a couple of months at most.