There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
Dr. Robert Malone discusses his book “Psywar,” exploring fifth-generation warfare, psychological operations, narrative control, societal impacts, and the challenges of discerning reality in a manipulated information landscape.
Like all of us, Dr. Robert Malone and his wife Jill had to grope around for understanding during the early days of Covid. What began as a diligent effort to help the world cope with a novel disease, soon turned into a disconcerting series of discoveries and unpleasant personal and professional experiences.
Dr. Malone’s journey toward understanding the true origins and purposes of Covid and into the public eye began with a phone call in early January 2020. A retired CIA operative alerted him to a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, prompting Malone to mobilize his team to assess the threat.
His rapid assessment of the coronavirus landscape revealed the bleak history of vaccine development for coronaviruses, promptly leading him to focus on drug repurposing as a more viable strategy.
However, Malone immediately encountered unprecedented resistance to publishing his findings on drug repurposing. He recently told me in the podcast (lined here and below) that “it was exceedingly difficult to get anything published concerning drug repurposing for this particular virus,”
As our conversation unfolded, Malone shared how his realization of the broader forces at play developed. One thing led to another, policies contradicted known facts, vaccine harms were buried, and there was no official curiosity in challenging any of this or doing better.
He soon discovered that these weren’t errors, but reflected a coordinated effort to control the narrative, a strategy that had been pre-planned, as evidenced by exercises like Event 201. This realization was a turning point for Malone, marking his entry into the realm of psychological operations, or “Psywar,” as he titled his latest book.
Covid, you see, was an opportunity for a hodge-podge of government agencies and affiliated private corporations to practice weaponized narrative control. The tools of their trade are ridiculously powerful, especially when directed against people who are highly educated and/or utilize abstract thinking as part of their professional lives.
The entire suite of activities fits under the umbrella of 5th-generation warfare where the target is your mind, the very basis of perception.
The topics of ‘misinformation, disinformation, and malinformation’ are some of the terms of the trade, while nudging, shadowbanning, bad jacketing, sockpuppets, and censorship are a few of the tactics and tools.
Malone has done a deep dive into 5th-generation warfare illuminating coordinated efforts to delegitimize dissenting voices and how these tactics were being deployed globally, particularly against those questioning the mainstream COVID-19 narrative.
It was both impersonal and very personal. “It destroyed my consulting business,” he told me in our interview.
It both targeted everyone impersonally, but also specifically ruined the careers of many dissident voices.
Throughout our discussion, Malone emphasized the importance of understanding the tools and tactics of psychological warfare. “Does it provide immunity to know what’s being done to you?” he pondered, with the conclusion being that while awareness may not offer complete protection, it certainly helps in coping with immunizing against the psychological impact of such operations.
PsyWars are very real, ongoing, and certain to become ever more powerful as AI supercharges and shortens the learning cycle of the manipulators. Much of their campaigns to distract, distort and confuse is either completely automatic, or soon will be.
And the effects are devastating. Families have been torn apart as political differences are now juiced by weaponized information tactics. Workplaces have fractured. Trust is eroded and sometimes gone, as is the case with my own trust in the medical system.
None of that was organic, a point Robert and I discuss in this podcast.
Key Data
There are over 7,000 peer-reviewed publications on overcoming vaccine hesitancy, illustrating the extensive research into messaging strategies.
The Trusted News Initiative was reoriented in 2019 to manage disinformation about vaccines, highlighting preemptive narrative control efforts.
Implications
The deployment of psychological warfare technology against citizens challenges the concepts of free agency and consent to the governed.
Individuals may struggle to discern reality from manipulated narratives, leading to increased skepticism and distrust.
Recommendations
Be aware of the psychological tactics used in media and question the sources of information.
Engage in critical thinking and seek diverse perspectives to better understand complex issues.
Nearly 1 million soldiers have been killed or wounded since start of the conflict, according to Valery Gerasimov
Ukrainian forces have suffered almost 1 million casualties since February 2022 and have lost about 20,000 tanks and armored vehicles, Valery Gerasimov, the head of the Russian General Staff, told foreign diplomats on Wednesday.
Russia’s top general hosted foreign military attaches to brief them on the activities of the Russian military in 2024 and how the country views the global security situation. Part of his 30-minute report was dedicated to the Ukraine conflict.
”The US and its allies have significantly increased the volume of military assistance to Ukraine” in a continued attempt to inflict a “strategic defeat” on Russia, Gerasimov said. Despite this, Russian troops are currently on the offensive, having pushed Ukrainian forces out of more than 190 settlements this year, he added.
The estimates of Ukrainian losses cited by Gerasimov were previously made public by Defense Minister Andrey Belousov, who delivered a televised year-end report to President Vladimir Putin on Monday.
Gerasimov accused Kiev of a policy of confrontation with Russia which “has resulted in total dependence on foreign management and funding” as well as “the consequent loss of state sovereignty” for Ukraine.
There were two major points of escalation in 2024 initiated by the West and Kiev, the general claimed. One was the Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk Region in August, which Gerasimov called a futile “terrorist attack” motivated by battlefield failures. The other was the permission given in November by Western arms donors for Kiev to fire long-range missiles deep into Russia, he added.
”In essence, the US has permitted itself to use those systems against Russian territory. The Ukrainian army alone is incapable of imputing space surveillance data to form flight plans for the missiles,” the general told the audience.
Moscow’s response was to demonstrate a new medium-range hypersonic ballistic missile dubbed Oreshnik, which the military launched at a Ukrainian weapons plant last month, Gerasimov said. The Russian military will react to further actions by its adversaries based on ongoing threat assessments, he warned.
As reported earlier in May 2022, Democrats in the US partnered with pharma companies and foundations led by George Soros and Bill Gates to set up bioresearch in Ukraine, using the project to generate additional funding for elections, the Russian military claimed in its latest biolab briefing.
“It needs to be said that the ideologues of US military biological research in Ukraine are leaders of the Democratic Party,” said Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov, the head of the Russian Radiation, Chemical and Biological Protection Force, as reported by Russia Today.
According to RT, the US government set up a way to fund the military bio-research directly from the federal budget, but also used government guarantees to raise funds from “non-governmental organizations controlled by the leadership of the Democratic Party,” Kirillov said.
These organizations include the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Clinton Foundation, George Soros’s Open Society and investment funds, the Rockefeller Foundation, the EcoHealth Alliance, and Hunter Biden’s Rosemont Seneca Partners, Kirillov claimed.
The Russian Defense Ministry spox also named Pfizer, Moderna, Merck and Gilead as involved in this scheme, “using it to test medications while bypassing international safety standards”, according to RT. In return, Big Pharma donates to the Democratic Party, Kirillov claimed.
Source: Russian Ministry of Defence
Lieutenant-General Igor Kirillov was very outspoken in his numerous public statements on the US-funded Ukrainian biolab research.
Kirillov even accused Democrats of using the lab money to fund their elections at home.
The late Lt. General Igor Kirillov was blown up in Moscow this week.
The Kiev regime once again resorts to ‘asymmetrical tactics’ (a.k.a. terrorism) and assassinates a top Russian General, in a move that is sure to generate a considerable escalation and also certain retaliation by the Russians against top Ukrainian officials.
On Tuesday’s morning, an improvised explosive device (IED) was detonated on Moscow’s Ryazansky Prospekt.
The massive, deadly blast killed high-profile Russian chemical defense chief General Igor Kirillov.
“The Russian Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case into the murder of Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, head of the Troops of Radiological, Chemical, and Biological Defense of the Russian Armed Forces, and his assistant.
The IED was planted on an electric scooter positioned at the entrance of a residential building in southeast Moscow.”
Lt. General Igor Kirillov was killed on the scene. He was the expert on the Ukrainian biolabs and their US Democrat Party connections.
Are we heading into a year that will be characterized by great turmoil? Every year, a magazine known as “the Economist” publishes an issue that is dedicated to what is coming in the year ahead. In the past, many of these issues have turned out to be eerily accurate. For example, the cover of last year’s issue featured images of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin with very large missiles standing next to each of them. Of course this ended up being one of the biggest news stories of 2024. Ukraine started firing long-range missiles provided by NATO deep into Russian territory, and the Russians responded with long-range missiles of their own. Unfortunately, it appears that the cover for this year’s issue could be previewing some very alarming events that are coming in 2025.
The Economist has been one of the most important mouthpieces for the western elite for decades. It has offices all over the globe, but it is based in the city of London…
Based in London, the newspaper is owned by the Economist Group, with its core editorial offices in the United States, as well as across major cities in continental Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
Aside from the Agnelli family, smaller shareholders in the company include Cadbury, Rothschild (21%), Schroder, Layton and other family interests as well as a number of staff and former staff shareholders.
Ordinary people don’t read the magazine much.
It is truly a magazine by the elite and for the elite, and so it provides a tremendous amount of insight into what the elite are thinking. Below, you can see what the cover for their 2025 preview issue looks like…
The first thing that stands out is how dark and ominous this cover is.
Are they expecting 2025 to be a dark and ominous year?
A black and white image of Donald Trump outlined in red is right in the center of the cover.
Obviously they expect him to be the center of attention.
Interestingly, a raised red fist that is outlined in red can be seen near the bottom of the cover. Needless to say, a raised fist is often used as a symbol of “resistance” to Trump.
There are several other world leaders on the cover as well. Just like in 2024, Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin are featured, and this year Chinese President Xi Jinping also appears.
It is already clear that the conflict in Ukraine will continue to be a major theme in 2025. Are the elite expecting war with China to break out too?
Right next to Trump, you can see a very tall white missile, and right beneath Trump there is something that looks like a mushroom cloud.
In addition, there are a couple of other symbols on the cover that are related to nuclear war.
This sort of imagery should deeply alarm all of us.
Are they trying to warn us that we are getting dangerously close to nuclear war?
Or could it be possible that they are suggesting that nuclear weapons could actually be used in combat at some point in 2025?
2024 was certainly a year of war, and I fully expect things to go to an entirely new level in 2025.
But let us hope that nuclear weapons are not used any time soon.
Switching gears, directly next to the very tall white missile is an image of a syringe that is more than half-filled with red liquid.
That can’t be related to the previous pandemic, because the previous pandemic has been behind us for quite some time.
So what are they trying to communicate with this image?
Are they suggesting that the world could soon be facing another major pestilence?
Red is a color that is often associated with death.
So the fact that the liquid inside the syringe is red is more than just a little bit creepy.
As I have detailed in previous articles, at this moment global health authorities are dealing with an outbreak of a mystery illness that is being referred to as “Disease X” in Africa, a new strain of the monkeypox that has started to pop up all over the world, an eruption of the Marburg virus in Rwanda, and a bird flu crisis that never seems to end and that has now jumped into humans.
I am convinced that pestilence will be a major theme in 2025, and apparently the Economist does too.
On the cover of the magazine, we also see a dollar sign appear twice, and there are numerous arrows that are pointing both up and down.
Are they anticipating that there will be economic and financial turmoil during the year ahead?
Of course economic problems have already begun in the U.S., in Europe, and in China. The global economy is rapidly heading in the wrong direction, and many are warning that 2025 is going to be a very hard year.
That is really bad news for those that are on the bottom levels of the economic food chain. Here in the United States, demand at food banks is already at all-time record highs. So what will things look like if a full-blown global economic crisis suddenly erupts in 2025?
There are other images on this cover that also seem rather odd. There is an image of Saturn, there is an image of an all-seeing eye, and there is an image of an hourglass.
An hourglass is often used to depict the fact that time is running out.
The truth is that we have been living on borrowed time for quite a while.
The elite love to create order out of chaos, and based on this magazine cover they certainly seem to believe that 2025 will be a year of chaos.
Perhaps the elite hope that the chaos that is approaching will represent an opportunity for them to regain some of the control that they have lost in recent years.
I think that they are starting to understand that the system that they have worked so carefully to construct is beginning to crumble, and now they are desperate to regain the upper hand any way that they can.https://www.youtube.com/embed/dmeOM6gWJj4?si=QXZRayhouKouj3fV
In a shocking revelation that has left social media ablaze and even caught the attention of podcast king Joe Rogan, John Ferguson, the CEO of Saxon Aerospace LLC, has delivered a bombshell theory on a series of mysterious drone sightings.
Ferguson, an expert in the field of unmanned aerial systems (UAS), believes these drones are not operating with nefarious intent but are likely searching for something critical on the ground.
Saxon Remote Systems’ new Viper M10 in AUVSI Dallas. Viper M10 boasts the capability to deliver payloads of up to 10 pounds to designated targets with unparalleled accuracy. (Credit: Saxon Aerospace)The Saxon Aerospace Inspector UAS (Credit: Saxon Aerospace)
Speaking in a now-viral TikTok video, Ferguson shared his professional insights into the growing phenomenon, speculating that these unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are part of a classified operation aimed at recovering a nuclear warhead that allegedly disappeared in Europe and could be en route to the United States.
Ferguson: I wanted to give you all my opinion on what I think could be going on with these drones.
I don’t particularly believe that these have a nefarious intent. I could be wrong. But I want to give you the truth and what I believe. It’s my own opinion, and I’ve not bounced this off of anybody. So if you think it’s bullshit, whatever, that’s cool. I don’t want to spread misinformation, as we know that there’s a lot of that going around.
Ferguson linked the sightings to a shocking claim: the disappearance of over 80 nuclear warheads from Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
According to Ferguson, these weapons have never been fully accounted for, and at least one of them may have been headed toward the United States.
Ferguson recounted a conversation with a government insider who physically handled one of the missing warheads, only to see his warnings ignored by U.S. authorities.
Ferguson: Back in the 1980s, Ronald Reagan had dismantled the nuclear program. With Russia, there were countless nuclear missiles that were disarmed and disposed of. Well, there were over 80, I believe. There were over 80 nuclear warheads that were in Ukraine that came up missing.
We don’t know where they are. Maybe somebody does, but nobody really knows where these are. I speak with some pretty high-level government officials on this stuff. It seems as though that is the case.
I spoke to a gentleman a few months ago who was trying to raise an alarm to the highest levels of our government, which they had their ears closed, about this one particular nuclear warhead that he physically put his hands on.
He physically touched this warhead that was left over from Ukraine. And he knew that that thing was headed towards the United States. That is a very serious deal. And everyone knows that the United States government, this administration, is pushing to get into a war with Russia. We all know that. We all feel it. We all see it. We’ll back up a few years…
Ferguson linked these sightings to earlier reports of unidentified drones along the Interstate 70 corridor, stretching from Colorado to Missouri. At the time, it was believed those drones were searching for missing radioactive materials within the United States.
Ferguson: Now, with new sightings near New Jersey and along the East Coast, Ferguson suggests this may be part of a larger, secretive government operation to locate the missing warhead.
Do you all remember when those drones were mysteriously flying across the Interstate 70 corridor from Colorado, up in Nebraska, down here into Kansas, and out into Missouri?
Well, it was believed that those drones were looking for radioactive material because there had been some material that came up missing here in the United States.
They felt like it was high probability that the nuclear or the radioactive material would be taken along the Interstate 70 corridor heading east or west or south. From what we understand, they were out there trying to find this radioactive material.
The CEO further explained that the specific use of drones at night, equipped with advanced sensing technologies, suggests that they are being used for specialized tasks such as intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR).
Ferguson dismissed the idea that these drones are used for ordinary tasks like mapping or agricultural work, which are typically conducted during daylight.
Instead, he insists these operations are likely aimed at detecting hidden or elusive targets, including radioactive materials.
Ferguson: Now, drones have no reason to be in the air at night unless you’re doing some type of ISR work, intelligence surveillance reconnaissance, looking for bad guys or looking for a victim, a search and rescue victim, or law enforcement, or some type of military project.
There’s no reason for a drone to be flying at night, really, because they don’t see shit. Unless you have thermal optics, drones really don’t see stuff. You need to do mapping during the day. If you’re going to do farming stuff, mostly do it during the day.
The only reason why you would ever fly an unmanned aircraft at night is if you’re looking for something, whether it be a person or trying to smell gas.
We have methane gas detection systems that can detect gas leaks and pipelines. You really wouldn’t use thermal optics for trying to find gas leaks just simply because the only way you’re actually going to find a gas leak with thermal optics is if the gas leak is aggressive enough that it has a difference in temperature. Because radio thermal imaging, it creates a digital image based off the temperature of variance.
So whatever is different in temperature, it creates an image. Gas, usually gas leaks so slow that it goes quickly into ambient before you can even see it. So we have special sensors that can detect gas leaks.
We also have special sensors that can detect radioactive material. So with this gentleman that I had spoken with who was trying to raise the alarm to try to get somebody in the government to say, ‘Hey, we need to work together to go try to find this nuclear warhead.’ None of that ever happened. They knew that warhead was on its way to the United States.
That’s all that ever came of it. Nothing ever happened. This government did not do anything at all to help this gentleman raise the alarm and raise awareness that there is a very deadly weapon on its way to the United States. It’s out there.
Nobody knows where it’s at now. It left Europe, now it’s gone. My guess, my own guess, is that these drones are not nefarious in intent. If they are, they are, but I doubt it. But if they are our drones, the only reason why they would be flying, and flying that low, is because they’re trying to smell something on the ground.
Ferguson explained that the type of drones observed—multi-copters rather than fixed-wing aircraft—are limited in range due to their battery life and operational capabilities.
Given these limitations, Ferguson hypothesizes that the drones are being launched from unknown locations within the United States and are flying low to the ground for a specific purpose: sniffing out substances such as gas leaks or radioactive material.
Ferguson: My belief is they’re trying to smell something on the ground, gas, leaks, radioactive material, whatever. Do I think that If they’re coming up out of the ocean, no, I don’t think so.
Drones that are multi-copter type drones, not the fixed wing aircraft that look like regular airplanes, but the multi-copters, they only have so much battery life. They have hybrid versions that are gas-powered with electric, but those can still only fly for a short period of time.
There’s no way in hell that any drone is going to go miles off the Coast as a multi-copter and fly into the interior of the United States and do a bunch of work and then turn around and fly back. It’s just physics will not allow that to happen.
So these drones, I believe, are launched from a location that nobody knows. But I do believe that they’re flying low enough that they’re just trying to sniff the ground and try to find something. So again, I hate to be a pessimist or a guy that thinks directly to the negative.
However, I know as a professional, we build professional stuff for the military. I believe that they’re actually out there trying to smell something that’s very important.
Video via John Ferguson:
The alarming claims caught the attention of Joe Rogan, host of “The Joe Rogan Experience.”
Joe Rogan wrote, “This is the first video about these drones that has got me genuinely concerned.”
Ferguson is the CEO of Saxon Aerospace LLC, a Wichita-based company specializing in advanced UAVs for military and industrial applications.
According to his LinkedIn account, “Saxon Aerospace LLC./Saxon Unmanned is a manufacturer of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Terrestrial Robot Crawlers for commercial, industrial and military clients around the world. Our mission is to design and build the most rugged, reliable systems and provide on-site training to ensure success for each client.”
Areas of Expertise:
Intelligent Surveillance and Reconnaissance
Thermal Imagery Analysis
Remote Operated Vehicle (ROV) Industry Expertise spanning over 19 years
Executive Management
Project Management
Operations Management
Business Development
Vessel Management
Saxon Aerospace recently secured a long-term agreement to manage Greenwood County Kansas Airport, further establishing its credibility in the aerospace industry. Ferguson insists his insights are based on professional experience and conversations with high-level government officials and industry insiders.
President-elect Donald J. Trump has weighed in for the first time regarding the drones invading America and our military bases.
Trump called BS on the Biden regime’s claims that they have no knowledge of who is responsible for the drones and demanded the Regime tell the truth immediately.
He then called for the drones to be shot down if the government was unwilling to provide answers (they won’t).
“Mystery Drone sightings all over the Country. Can this really be happening without our government’s knowledge? I don’t think so!” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Let the public know, and now.
“Otherwise, shoot them down!!!,” he added.
Credit Trump Truth Social Account
As Jim Hoft previously reported, several mysterious drones were spotted flying over New Jersey last week. The drones were spotted over at least 12 counties, prompting mayors to contact the governor and demand answers.
Following the news, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also restricted all drone flights over the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.
This has raised alarm bells across America, with suspicion a foreign adversary is responsible. Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) claimed on Wednesday that he had sources that Iran is responsible.
“I learned from very high sources, from very qualified sources, Iran launched a mothership a month ago that contains these drones, Van Drew said. “It’s off the east coast of the United States.”
It’s not just New Jersey, either. Former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan revealed on Friday that he had personally witnessed several drones over his residence in recent days.
There have also been drone sightings over U.S. Military bases.
Trump’s fiery response is precisely the type of leadership we are missing in the White House right now, and his return cannot be soon enough.
For weeks, now, a mystery has been hovering over the New Jersey skies, as hundreds of sightings of mysterious car-size drones are recorded nearly every day.
A sense of frustration is widespread after the Pentagon failed to properly address the issue.
Officials have so far admitted that the craft are very sophisticated, ‘becoming undetectable once a police drone or helicopter gives chase’.
There is also the fact that the drones hover in one place for hours longer than civilian versions are capable of.
“Authorities — from [New Jersey] Gov. Phil Murphy to the FBI — continue to insist that there is no danger from the drones, but also claim they have no idea what the drones are.”
The first question to bug people is: why New Jersey?
The answer appears to be: Picatinny Arsenal, an US Army weapons research and manufacturing facility in Wharton.
As big as a car or an SUV, the drones are a big mystery hovering over New Jersey.
“Many [locals] are suspicious Picatinny might be the source of the drones – and that the military knows exactly what they are but won’t say.”
Of course, the Picatinny Arsenal itself started complaining about the drones, which could be a way to divert attention.
But the ongoing show of the big objects flying in formations about 50 feet in the air, flashing red, green, and white lights, can hardly be ignored.
“Local officials told The Post they tend to agree with that explanation — and suggest many sightings farther afield could be either civilian copycats flying their own drones or people mistaking planes, helicopters or satellites for UFOs.”
This explanation seems to cover all bases, but yesterday (12) Rep. Jeff Van Drew (R-NJ) scrambled the cards when he came public with the bombastic claim that the drones could be ‘Iranian technology deployed from a *mothership* stationed off the east coast.’
The House member says he had ‘highly reliable’ sources with ‘top security access.’
“’These drones should be shot down’, he told Fox News in an explosive appearance, adding that ‘the military is on full alert with this’.”
The Pentagon was quick to rebuke Van Drew’s claims, saying there was ‘no evidence’ the drones belonged to a foreign adversary.
“’There is no Iranian ship off the coast of the United States, and there’s no so-called mothership launching drones towards the United States’, a representative told reporters — then proceeded on to other topics without providing any insight on what they could be.”
State authorities complain they have been left ‘shackled’ because the drones fall under federal jurisdiction.
“The FBI, meanwhile, continues to claim they have no idea where the drones are coming from, while insisting there is no danger.”
One very reasonable opinion, by State Police Col. Patrick Callahan]: ‘If it was another government agency they would have shared that information with him’.
At this point, we are prepared to expect any kind of incompetence from the ending Joe Biden Administration from Hell, but there’s the fact that incoming 47th Donald J. Trump is already receiving classified briefings, and either he or Vance, Musk or another ally would have blasted Dems for allowing enemy ships to hover unimpeded.
There is an interesting bit here, in a previous report, where Elon Musk talks about UFOs, but is extremely applicable to this case of Unidentified Flying Drones:
“‘Unidentified flying objects’ are one thing,’ the tech mogul said in the interview, ‘but there’s always a bunch of classified programs that are underway: new aircraft, new missiles and things’.”
The UFOs seen in the skies now are classified military vehicles, he says.
“Musk offered his best, unclassified assessment of what pilots and other military eyewitnesses were encountering when they report a out of this world craft.
‘If you had the top-secret compartmented clearance, you would know about this new program,’ Musk told Carlson as a hypothetical. ‘So, then, you know, some pilot sees something moving fast and says, ‘Hey! I saw a UFO!”
Musk continued, speaking from the voice of a hypothetical senior Pentagon official: ‘Yeah, that was actually a new weapons program but we can’t tell you that’.”
Enormous “mystery drones” are buzzing rooftops and flying freely through the skies in New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania, and our government is powerless to stop it. As I discussed yesterday, these drones have been spotted over military facilities, water reservoirs, transportation hubs, police departments and other sensitive installations. But even though some of these drones are the size of cars, and even though they are buzzing us at rooftop level in some cases, we can’t seem to track them effectively and when our aircraft do approach they “go dark” and disappear.
What in the world is going on?
These drones have been appearing just about every night since mid-November, and there are countless eyewitnesses.
In fact, New Jersey State Senator Doug Steinhardt says that he saw them from his own front porch…
And State Senator Doug Steinhardt says that’s simply not good enough.
“I’d be happy with an explanation that we’ve looked at it, and we don’t have information, or for law enforcement to say it’s an ongoing something or other, you know, and that’s as much as we can tell you, but we’re not even getting that which is unfortunate,” said Steinhardt.
And Steinhardt says he’s not just speaking as a lawmaker, he’s speaking as a witness.
“I walked out of my front porch last night and saw it would look like drone activity to me. I mean, I’ve seen airplanes cross the sky before and this wasn’t that,” he says.
We have never seen anything quite like this before, and people are really starting to freak out.
Many can’t seem to understand why nothing is being done to stop these unidentified drones from doing whatever they want in our airspace.
The mayors of 21 different towns in New Jersey got together and wrote a letter to Governor Phil Murphy demanding action…
The mayors of 21 towns in New Jersey are demanding action in a letter sent to Gov. Phil Murphy over the mysterious drones that have been spotted flying overhead in recent weeks.
Since mid-November, large drones of uncertain origin have been repeatedly spotted in the sky at night over central and northern New Jersey.
The drones, which are larger than the type typically used by hobbyists, have raised concerns due to their proximity to both a military installation and President-elect Donald Trump’s Bedminster golf course.
Of course Murphy is quite concerned as well.
At a press conference on Monday, he explained that these drones are “very sophisticated”…
New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy commented on the situation on Monday, saying that while authorities have not identified any immediate threats, they are treating the sightings with seriousness.
“This is something we’re taking deadly seriously,” Murphy said during a press conference Monday, adding, “These are apparently very, as I understand it, very sophisticated. The minute you get eyes on them, they go dark.”
Murphy said state and federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, are actively investigating. He noted that 49 sightings were reported on Sunday.
This confirms what we have been hearing from other sources.
Apparently we have been trying to confront these drones, but the moment they see our aircraft coming they “go dark” and disappear.
If one of our enemies has giant drones that we can’t track and that can elude us with ease, that is a major problem.
Of course it would probably be even worse news if these drones do not belong to any of the usual suspects.
At this point, authorities are openly admitting that they do not know who these drones belong to or where they are coming from.
When Fox News senior congressional correspondent Chad Pergram confronted House Speaker Mike Johnson, this is what he was told…
Pergram: It seems as though Members from both sides are not getting answers about these drones or whatever they’re seeing in New Jersey and Staten Island. There’s a hearing focusing on this today. What is the level of concern? Do you think the government is being straight? And Members can’t even get answers on this.
Johnson: We’re working on that. We need straight answers of course. We are concerned about drones and all of these new technologies and what it might mean for national security and the safety of the American citizen. I’m looking forward to the outcome of that hearing. And if we don’t get the necessary answers there, we’ll dig deeper and go to the classified level.
Pergram: Any thought that these might be “dark” programs?
Johnson: I hope not. I do not believe so. But there’s a lot of investigation going on. So we’ll find out.
Yes, I do hope that we get some “straight answers” soon.
The FBI is deeply involved in the investigation, and they just released a statement that tells us absolutely nothing…
“We understand the concern, and we are doing all we can to figure out what’s going on,” a spokeswoman for the FBI’s Newark Field Office, which is leading the investigation, told PIX11 News. “We truly don’t have much information to provide at the moment.”
If these drones actually belong to our military as some are suggesting, the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security wouldn’t be expending resources looking into this.
The fact that they are trying to solve this “mystery” tells us a lot.
And obviously Congress doesn’t know what is going on either, because they are actively searching for answers.
So that leaves us with two main theories.
Either Russia, China or another one of our enemies has drone technology that we cannot defend against, or these drones originate from a source that is not human. As I have discussed extensively, there has been a dramatic increase in sightings of unidentified aircraft all over the world in recent years. At this point, it is becoming very clear that something truly unusual is happening.
As for the enormous drones that are invading our airspace night after night, hopefully it will turn out that there is a simple explanation.
But for now, mystery drones continue to brazenly buzz the east coast during their nightly visits, and people are really getting scared.
Joe Biden is pushing the West into WWIII before he leaves office.
January 20th can’t come fast enough.
The Biden Regime on Saturday announced another $1 billion in military aid for Ukraine.
“Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin announced the Pentagon will send nearly $1 billion to Ukraine, bringing the total the United States has committed to Ukraine to more than $62 billion since Russia launched its invasion in February 2022.” ABC News reported.
“The package dedicated an additional $988 million to Ukraine and will provide the country with more drones, rockets for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems, and support for maintenance and sustainment.” ABC News reported.
Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced a significant new security assistance package to ensure Ukraine has the tools it needs to prevail in its fight against Russian aggression. This security assistance package commits an additional $988 million in support through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI) that will provide Ukraine with munitions for rocket systems and Unmanned Aerial Systems. This package also includes support for maintenance and repair programs to help Ukraine reconstitute its forces and build and sustain combat power.
The capabilities in this announcement include:
Ammunition for High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS);
Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS); and
Equipment, components, and spare parts to maintain, repair, and overhaul artillery systems, tanks, and armored vehicles.
This is the Biden Administration’s twenty-second USAI package. The United States will continue to work together with some 50 Allies and partners through the Ukraine Defense Contact Group and its associated capability coalitions to provide the support Ukraine needs to win the war.
In September, the Biden Regime announced an eye-watering $8 billion in military aid for Ukraine during Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Washington.
This massive giveaway comes as Americans continue to face economic hardships, skyrocketing inflation, and an unprecedented crisis at the southern border.
Since the onset of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Congress has approved nearly $175 billion in aid and military assistance for Ukraine.
Since the war began, the U.S. Congress has voted through five bills that have provided Ukraine with ongoing aid, doing so most recently in April 2024. The total budget authority under these bills—the “headline” figure often cited by news media—is $175 billion.
The historic sums are helping a broad set of Ukrainian people and institutions, including refugees, law enforcement, and independent radio broadcasters, though most of the aid has been military-related. Dozens of other countries, including most members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union (EU), are also providing large aid packages to Ukraine.
This is why the Deep State-media complex is attacking Trump’s nominee for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
The incoming Trump Administration will put an end to the Ukraine cash grab and endless war.
As we approach the momentous return of Donald J. Trump to the US Presidency, preparations are reportedly in course to get Ukraine ready for the ‘day-after’ the war.
A report from Spanish paper El Mundo (behind a paywall) shows the Western powers preparing a ‘golden exile’ in London for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
That would follow a ‘peace agreement’ with Russia, according to ‘rumors’ emanating from Ukrainian diplomats.
“The newspaper claims that Ukrainian diplomats believe Zelensky is expected to be sent to London while Ukraine gears up for presidential and parliamentary elections.
The term ‘golden exile’ refers to a situation where a person, typically a politician or leader, is forced to leave their country in a way that ensures they live comfortably and safely in exile. This form of exile aims to provide him with security and stability while Ukraine prepares for elections and focuses on rebuilding the country.”
Heading to a ‘golden exile’?
While there’s no official confirmation of this plan, it is significant that MSM is finally talking about the impending defeat by the Kiev regime, and the need for elections.
The reported plan also includes the swift admission of Ukraine to the European Union (EU) as well as deployment of European peacekeeping forces from the United Kingdom and France.
“General Keith Kellogg, appointed by Donald Trump as the special representative for Ukraine, had previously disclosed some plans for organizing negotiations. According to ‘El Mundo’, the plan suggests that future U.S. military aid to Ukraine will depend on Ukraine’s participation in peace talks with Russia.”
El Mundo’s sources also float a widely repeated – and doubtful – data point: If Russia does not agree to participate in peace talks, Trump means to supply Ukraine with more weapons than ever.
“On Thursday, December 5, the head of the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, stated that Ukraine is prepared to hold elections immediately after the war with Russia ends.”
Media has reported on Kellogg’s plan including the ‘diplomatic recovery’ of newly conquered Russian territories, and the indefinite suspension of Ukraine’s ascension to NATO.
“Kellogg also proposes partially easing sanctions against Russia in exchange for agreeing to a ceasefire, freezing the front line, and creating a demilitarized zone in Ukraine. If Russia signs a peace agreement, the sanctions would be fully lifted, and customs duties on the export of Russian energy resources would be used to finance Ukraine’s reconstruction.”
Ukrainian soldiers refusing to report for duty or walking away from their front-line positions are becoming an increasing problem for Kiev. One Ukrainian lawmaker said that there have been as many as 200,000 desertions.
Ukrainian officials and soldiers told the AP that “Facing every imaginable shortage, tens of thousands of Ukrainian troops, tired and bereft, have walked away from combat and front-line positions to slide into anonymity.”
Ukrainian ground forces, via Reuters
The report adds, “Entire units have abandoned their posts, leaving defensive lines vulnerable and accelerating territorial losses, according to military commanders and soldiers.”
“Some take medical leave and never return, haunted by the traumas of war and demoralized by bleak prospects for victory,” writes The Associated Press.
“Others clash with commanders and refuse to carry out orders, sometimes in the middle of firefights.”
Soldiers failing to report to their posts are a rapidly worsening problem for Kiev. In 2022, only 9,000 Ukrainians were prosecuted for desertion.
That number increased to 24,000 in 2023. Ukrainian government data showed prosecutions skyrocketed to 50,000 during the first nine months of 2024.
The prosecutions do not capture the whole picture as one Ukrainian lawmaker told AP the number “could be as high as 200,000.”
The growing problem is likely a result of war fatigue.
“It is clear that now, frankly speaking, we have already squeezed the maximum out of our people,” said one military officer.
Between casualties and desertions, Kiev is facing a massive manpower shortage. The AP noted Kiev lost a net 4,000 soldiers along the front lines in September. The White House is pushing Ukraine to lower its consumption age to 18 to help fill shortages.
The latest package worth $725 million includes artillery shells as well as missiles for air-defense and multiple launch rocket systems
The US has announced a new $725 million military aid package for Ukraine, with weapons and munitions to be provided from Defense Department stocks. National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan earlier said there would be a “massive surge” in deliveries to Kiev in the final weeks of the current administration.
In a press statement on Monday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken unveiled “another significant package of urgently needed weapons and equipment” for Ukraine. According to the document, the latest batch of military supplies is valued at $725 million and will be provided “under previously exercised Presidential Drawdown Authority.”
The Pentagon confirmed the new tranche, adding that it is the 71st such package provided to Kiev by the administration of President Joe Biden since August 2021.
Among the weapons and munitions to be supplied to Ukraine are missiles for the NASAMS air-defense system as well as Stinger missiles and Counter-Unmanned Aerial Systems (c-UAS) munitions. Moreover, Ukraine will receive missiles for the HIMARS multiple launch rocket system, 155mm and 105mm artillery shells, drones, TOW and AT-4 anti-armor systems, small arms, and non-persistent land mines.
Last month, the Biden administration announced plans to provide Ukraine with land mines for the first time since the escalation of the conflict – a move criticized even by Western human rights groups.
Speaking to ABC News on Sunday, Sullivan stated that Washington was working to “get Ukraine all the tools we possibly can to strengthen their position on the battlefield” as well as during any future peace negotiations with Russia.
“President Biden directed me to oversee a massive surge in the military equipment that we are delivering to Ukraine so that we have spent every dollar that Congress has appropriated to us by the time that President Biden leaves office,” the official said.
In late November, Politico, citing a document sent by the White House Office of Management and Budget to Congress, reported that the outgoing president had quietly asked lawmakers to allocate an additional $24 billion in Ukraine-related spending. Shortly beforehand, Biden wrote off $4.7 billion in forgivable loans provided to Kiev.
President-elect Donald Trump has repeatedly vowed to put a swift end to the Ukraine conflict. His supporters have suggested that Biden is trying to sabotage any prospect of a peaceful settlement.
Russia has consistently denounced Western weapons deliveries to Ukraine, insisting that they only serve to unnecessarily prolong the bloodshed, while unable to change the course of the conflict.
Information Warfare is an integral – and largely misunderstood – part of conflict. The use of terms like “misinformation” by politicians and pundits does nothing to help dispel this misunderstanding. And government responses that hinge on censorship – such as Australia’s Combatting Misinformation Bill – aid adversaries in their campaigns.
Information Warfare is the weaponisation of communication – be it true, false, factual or fictional – to shape the behaviour of target audiences to support broader goals. This does not happen in isolation but is part of a broad suite of economic, military, and other operations.
You can see Information Warfare as a specialised form of marketing. Marketing is about communicating a particular message to get you to buy a particular product. Marketing is an instrumental use of communication to persuade the target audience to take a particular action; usually, to purchase a product. Information Warfare is the same – except it’s not trying to persuade you to buy something, but to do something.
Complex Web
Furthermore, most information operations are not premised on single, simple messages. Instead, they rely on a range of separate, seemingly unrelated messages that work together to shape the behaviour of an entire target group. This includes the actions of subgroups within the target group reacting against the messaging – and can even include messaging on both sides of an issue.
As such, Information Warfare operations often rely on exploiting real injustices and pointing to real problems to give their messaging legitimacy and build trust. The point is not the injustice or the truth of the message, but to weaponise that in ultimate support of strategic objectives. Like Iago in Othello, information warriors take whatever facts they can and spin them to suit their designs.
This means that Information Warfare communications do not need to be coherent or consistent. They are not fundamentally about whatever specific argument the communication is making. The argument is irrelevant to the information warrior. What matters is its impact – not just on those who hear it, but also those who oppose it.
Russian operations since 2016 are instructive here. The Russians did not have a preferred U.S. presidential candidate, nor did they influence the election’s outcome. However, they made it seem like they did through “implausible deniability”, as Allon Uhlmann and Stephen McCombie of Macquarie University’s Department of Security Studies and Criminology have shown.
The Russian objective was to give anti-Trump elements enough evidence to oppose him – not because they are anti-Trump but because a divided and polarised America would be a less effective adversary. They have continued with this.
The Hunter Biden laptop scandal plays into this approach. By all accounts, the laptop and its contents are now accepted as completely genuine. The reaction of serving and former intelligence officials, and the press at the time, was to call the laptop Russian disinformation and suppress it.
Moscow would have been gleeful at this because it reinforced its own messaging of untrustworthy U.S. elites censoring the truth to maintain power. The Russians wanted a distracted and dysfunctional American polity so they could prepare for their military invasion of Ukraine – and that is exactly what they got.
Free Discourse
Early in the Cold War, Western intelligence agencies realised it was foolish to rely on censorship to counter communist propaganda. The whole point of the Western Alliance was that liberal democracy was superior to communist totalitarianism – and free speech and free association are fundamental to liberal democracy.
However, propaganda – the unrestricted political psychological warfare of the communists – did pose a real threat if not countered. The Alliance’s solution was simple – double down on free speech with the view that malicious propaganda could be drowned out.
To this end, they funded public broadcasters, independent publications, think tanks and academic scholarship, artists and writers. They used tax breaks, direct funding, and existing mechanisms to promote as many voices as they could.
The individual’s politics did not matter. The objective was not to determine the message, but to ensure multiple messages got out. It did not even matter if this led to messages that were critical or questioning of government policies. Democracies are meant to question their governments, after all.
The outcome was striking. While some communist-backed messages had an impact in the West, for the most part their campaign failed. The strategic objectives of communist Information Warfare – the collapse of liberal democracies and the downfall of the capitalist democratic West – did not happen.
By adopting an open approach to fighting Information Warfare on home soil, democratic nations were better able to respond to the problems communists were preying on to get their way. By being more democratic, they undercut the lure of revolution and tyranny.
The key to fighting information wars as democracies is to understand that there are no shortcuts. There is no legislation that will make misinformation go away. The price of victory is eternal vigilance.
While the war-weary US and European populations have long ago lost their fascination with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, which was on display during his September trip to Washington—largely met with little enthusiasm even among Congressional leaders—it is less common for the mainstream media to admit his star power has completely faded.
However, a fresh assessment in Britain’s The Timesnewspaper details the extent to which there’s been a general “disenchantment” with him both at home and abroad as he’s clearly lost his “shine”.
Amid steady Russian military gains in the east, and under pressure by Washington drop the military enlistment age from 25 to 18 (which would be hugely unpopular among Ukrainians), if a presidential vote were held tomorrow Zelensky would very likely lose.
Youngest Ukrainian president ever, via AFP/Getty Images
“Just 16 per cent would vote to re-elect him for a second term, according to an opinion poll of 1,200 Ukrainians published this week by the Social Monitoring Centre in Kyiv,” The Timeswrites. “The poll, the most comprehensive study of electoral preferences since the invasion began in 2022, also found that about 60 per cent would prefer Zelensky not to even stand for re-election.”
The publication comments bluntly that this shows “Zelensky’s popularity is fading” and the reality is “very few Ukrainians envision him as their next president.“
Perhaps he himself is fully aware of this, after having canceled scheduled elections last spring, and extending indefinitely the maintenance of martial law across the country which prevents a valid election from taking place.
On the inevitability of Zelensky’s popularity fading and plummeting, The Times observes further:
It was perhaps inevitable that Zelensky’s leadership would lose its shine. No Ukrainian president apart from Leonid Kuchma, whose 1999 re-election was marred by suspicions of vote fraud, has secured a second term since the country gained independence from the Soviet Union.
“Maintaining popularity in this country is incredibly challenging, particularly during a difficult war,” Ponomarenko said. “It is a pattern we’ve seen before. We elect a new ‘saviour of the nation’ as president with sky-high approval ratings, quickly grow disillusioned and, in the best case, ensure their landslide defeat in the next election.”
But the “next election” may be further away than ever, as Zelensky is unlikely to relinquish power so long as the war with Russia continues. If a full truce is eventually secured, he may actually step down soon afterward.
As for the aforementioned poll and potential rivals to the presidency, the same publication notes that “ahead of Zelensky, with 27 per cent was Valery Zaluzhny, the former commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces who has served as the ambassador to Britain since July.”
But again, all of this is reason enough to believe that Zelensky will keep pushing elections further and further down the road, and with no clear timeline of lifting martial law in the war-ravaged nation. Currently, he’s still going all-in with pressing Western allies for NATO membership.
Former top general Valery Zaluzhny would be supported by 27% if an election were held now, according to the survey
Only 16% of voters would back Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky if a presidential election were held now, a survey has revealed.
According to the Zerkalo Nedeli news website, the poll conducted by the Sociological Association of Ukraine, published on Tuesday, was the first to gauge Ukrainians’ electoral preferences since the escalation of hostilities between Moscow and Kiev in February 2022.
The study found that Ukraine’s former top general, Valery Zaluzhny, is far more popular than Zelensky, with 27% of those surveyed saying they would vote for him. Zaluzhny, who was dismissed as head of the armed forces in February, now serves as Kiev’s ambassador to London.
Former Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko, who lost to Zelensky in the 2019 election, would receive 7% if the vote were held now, followed by military intelligence chief Kirill Budanov, on 6%, the poll said.
A further 15% of respondents said they do not know whom they would vote for, while 10% replied that they would not cast their ballots at all.
The study, commissioned by the American Political Services international consulting firm, was carried out between November 15 and 21 via telephone interviews, and involved 1,200 people.
Zelensky remains in power in Ukraine despite his term in office having officially expired in May. He earlier scrapped the presidential election, citing the martial law he imposed during the conflict with Russia. Earlier this month, the measure was prolonged once again, until February 7, 2025.
A few weeks ago, the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) said Washington was considering holding a presidential and parliamentary election in Ukraine next year as a “legitimate” means of replacing Zelensky and his government. The US State Department believes the Ukrainian leader to be “overly entitled” and wants him out, it said.
According to the spy agency’s information, the Americans have decided to begin preliminary work aimed at creating conditions for launching an election campaign in Ukraine.
The first stage of the plan will see US-funded NGOs using the structures of Ukrainian civil society under their control to promote the idea of holding an election. After it gets “broad public support,” the candidates would be selected in coordination with the State Department, the SVR said.
If the trajectory of the war in Ukraine remains the same, Russia will win. The only way that Ukraine could win would be for NATO to get directly involved in the conflict, and we are dangerously close to seeing that happen. If Ukraine keeps firing long-range missiles provided by NATO into Russian territory, the Russian responses to those missile strikes will keep getting more intense. Eventually, the Russians may do something so dramatic that it would give NATO justification to enter the war, and that is precisely what many among the western elite want. But of course a direct conflict with Russia could spark a nuclear war that would kill hundreds of millions of people. So by choosing to greatly escalate the war in Ukraine, the western elite are literally gambling with all of our lives.
On Tuesday, it was being reported that Russia is gaining territory in Ukraine “at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion”…
Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion, taking an area half the size of London over the past month, analysts and war bloggers said on Tuesday.
The corporate media in the U.S. doesn’t talk much about Russian victories, and so most Americans don’t even know that this is happening.
Pasi Paroinen, a military analyst with Finland’s Black Bird Group, said Russian forces had taken control of an estimated 667 sq km (257 sq miles) this month, citing data he said could include some October gains noted with a delay.
President Vladimir Putin, who replaced his defence minister in May, has repeatedly said that Russian forces are advancing much more effectively – and that Russia will achieve all its aims in Ukraine, although he has not spelled them out in detail.
The Ukrainians are outmatched, and they have been worn down by more than two years of relentless fighting.
If things remain the same, the Russians will continue to march forward.
Russia controls 18% of Ukraine including all of Crimea, just over 80% of Donbas and more than 70% of the Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions in the south, as well just under 3% of the eastern Kharkiv region, according to open source maps.
The western elite are absolutely determined to do something to change the momentum of the conflict, and so they have decided to allow Ukraine to launch long-range missiles that NATO has provided into Russian territory.
But the Russians are promising that every time this happens, there will be a response…
“Missile strikes deep inside Russian territory are an escalatory step,” Lavrov told Rossiyskaya Gazeta newspaper. “All of our warnings that these unacceptable actions will be met with an appropriate response have been ignored.”
Those behind attacks on Russian citizens and infrastructure will face “well-deserved punishment,” the minister warned. He added that “no escalation coming from the enemy would force us to abandon our goals” in Ukraine.
The brand new Oreshnik missile that the Russians have unveiled is a game-changing weapons system.
According to Scott Ritter, the Oreshnik is unlike anything that we have ever seen before…
The Oreshnik was designed to carry between four and six IPBVs. The one used against Dnipropetrovsk was a six IPBV-capable system. Each war head in turn contained six separate submunitions, consisting of metal slugs forged from exotic alloys that enabled them to maintain their form during the extreme heat generated by hypersonic re-entry speeds. These slugs are not explosive; rather they use the combined effects of the kinetic impact at high speed and the extreme heat absorbed by the exotic alloy to destroy their intended target on impact.
The military industrial target struck by the Oreshnik was hit by six independent warheads, each containing six submunitions. In all, the Dnipropetrovsk facility was struck be 36 separate munitions, inflicting devastating damage, including to underground production facilities used by Ukraine and its NATO allies to produce short- and intermediate-range missiles.
The U.S. does not have anything remotely similar.
In fact, the U.S. does not have any operational hypersonic missiles at all.
The sad truth is that we are way behind the Russians in this area.
How in the world did we allow that to happen?
The Russians have begun mass production of the new Oreshnik missile, and according to retired MIT professor Theodore Postol we have absolutely no defense against it…
None of the current missile defense systems worldwide can intercept Russia’s new intermediate-range ballistic missile, the Oreshnik, Theodore Postol, a leading US missile technology expert and retired MIT Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology, and National Security Policy, told TASS.
He dismissed claims that existing missile defense systems, including Aegis, Aegis Ashore, THAAD, Patriot, and Iron Dome, could counter the Oreshnik. “No, no, absolutely not,” said the expert, who is a former science adviser to the US Navy chief of staff and has also worked at Stanford University and Argonne National Laboratory. “There’s nothing available that can engage that system and offer any meaningful defense against it,” Postol emphasized.
We are also being told that the Oreshnik can also carry nuclear warheads.
In addition to the Oreshnik, the Russians have developed highly advanced ICBMs that are far superior to anything that we have.
The Russians now possess the most advanced nuclear missiles in the world by a very wide margin, and meanwhile the U.S. is still relying on hopelessly outdated technology from the 1970s and 1980s.
We do not want to fight a nuclear war with the Russians.
It would not go well for us.
Recently, FEMA issued an updated guide for how to survive nuclear war, and it contains some very questionable advice…
FEMA’s guidance emphasizes three crucial steps: “Get Inside, Stay Inside, and Stay Tuned.” Citizens are encouraged to seek immediate shelter in a sturdy building, ideally in a basement or a central room away from windows, to reduce exposure to harmful radiation. Remaining indoors for at least 24 hours is essential unless authorities provide different instructions. Staying informed through official channels is vital; it’s empowering, ensuring you receive timely updates and directives and putting you in control of your safety.
The agency highlights the severe consequences of nuclear explosions, which include intense heat, blast waves, and radiation, all of which can cause catastrophic damage and casualties. A particular concern is fallout—the radioactive debris propelled into the atmosphere, which can reach ground level within 15 minutes of the detonation. This fallout poses significant health risks due to the high levels of radiation it emits.
First of all, if a nuclear war erupts most experts encourage people to stay inside for a minimum of 48 hours after the last nuclear detonation in your region of the country has occurred. But personally, I would recommend staying inside for at least two weeks.
Secondly, why are they telling us to stay informed “through official channels” when nuclear war will destroy our power grid and nobody will be broadcasting?
If a nuclear war erupts, tens of millions of Americans will instantly die, and tens of millions of Americans are likely to die in the aftermath as a result of being exposed to nuclear fallout.
Of course the famine that follows nuclear war would kill more Americans than anything else.
It has been projected that more than 90 percent of the U.S. population will end up dead if there is a full-blown nuclear war with Russia.
So why are the western elite gambling with all of our lives?
Is it really worth it?
Ukraine and Russia had agreed to a peace deal in the early days of the war, but the western elite vetoed that peace agreement.
They told the Ukrainians to keep on fighting, and since then approximately 600,000 precious Ukrainians have been killed.
Now the western elite are putting all of our lives on the line, and that should deeply concern us all.
Former Polish Minister Piotr Kulpa says half of the US aid to Ukraine was stolen and delivered to Democrats.
Outspoken former Polish Minister Piotr Kulpa said in an interview last week that up to half of the US aid to Ukraine was laundered by Ukrainians, and much was given to US Democrats. Up to a half of the funds that reached Kiev was stolen by Ukrainian officials, Piotr Kulpa has alleged.
Joe Biden is making a late request from Congress for $24 billion for an aid package for Ukraine.
On his way out of the White House, President Biden is reportedly making a last-minute plea to Congress for $24 billion in aid for war-torn Ukraine to bolster its military support and replenish US stocks that had dwindled.
The White House Office of Management and Budget suggested that Congress could fold the renewed aid into its solution to avert a government shutdown next month, according to a request obtained by Politico Pro.
Several lawmakers saw the proposal Monday and it features $8 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative to fund US company contracts to arm Kyiv and $16 billion to refill US weaponry stock, per the report.
If some lunatic shows up at your front door in the middle of the night and threatens to shoot you, does that make it more likely or less likely that you will shoot first? Any talk of NATO conducting a pre-emptive attack against Russia is extremely dangerous, because the Russians are paranoid enough already. If they become convinced that we are planning to hit them before they can hit us, that could motivate them to do something really, really stupid. We are closer to nuclear war than we have ever been before, and we definitely do not need western leaders making provocative statements that are only going to make things even worse.
NATO Military Committee Chairman Admiral Rob Bauer stated during a conference in Brussels that NATO leadership is contemplating the possibility of conducting precise preemptive strikes on Russian territory in the event of an armed conflict between Moscow and the Alliance.
It is now being claimed that Bauer was not actually talking about a pre-emptive strike on Russia.
But if you look at his actual words, it certainly seems like that was precisely what he was talking about…
During a question-and-answer session after his address at the European Policy Center in Brussels, Bauer said, “The idea was we are a defensive alliance, so we will only sit and wait until we are attacked, and then when we are attacked, we will be able to shoot down the ‘arrows’ that come to us,” referring to a Russian strike.
He also said that when responding to any attack, it would be “smarter” to “attack the archer, that is…Russia—if Russia attacks us. So you need to have a combination of deep precision (strikes) with which you can take out the weapons systems that are used to attack us.”
Needless to say, the Russians were not amused.
In fact, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov believes that Bauer was essentially announcing NATO’s “real plans”…
The North Atlantic Alliance has ignored all diplomatic protocol, allowing itself to make statements about the possibility of preemptive strikes on Russia, top Russian diplomat Sergey Lavrov said.
“Just the other day, Mr. Bauer, NATO Military Committee Chair, explicitly stated that it’s no longer enough, and ensuring the defense of the North Atlantic Alliance member states requires strikes on targets in Russia that NATO believes may pose a threat to the bloc. I think there’s nothing to comment on here; it’s just that they have forgotten all etiquette, publicly announcing their real plans,” he noted at the 20th meeting of the heads of security and intelligence agencies of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries.
If the Russians become convinced that we are going to hit them first, that will make it much more likely that they will hit us first.
We really need to get the Russians to understand that we have no plans to do that.
Meanwhile, a French news source is reporting that European leaders continue to discuss “sending Western troops and private defense companies to Ukraine”…
As the conflict in Ukraine enters a new phase of escalation, discussions over sending Western troops and private defense companies to Ukraine have been revived, Le Monde has learned from corroborating sources. These are sensitive discussions, most of which are classified – relaunched in light of a potential American withdrawal of support for Kyiv once Donald Trump takes office on January 20, 2025.
That is insane!
What in the world are they thinking?
No matter what Donald Trump does when he gets into the White House, our European allies fully intend to continue to escalate this war.
It is madness.
On top of everything else, this week the New York Times has reported that the Biden administration has actually discussed the possibility of arming Ukraine with nuclear weapons.
Moscow will consider any threat of nuclear arms being supplied to Ukraine by the US as preparation for a direct war with Russia, former president Dmitry Medvedev has warned. The actual transfer of nuclear weapons would be tantamount to an attack on the country under Russia’s new nuclear doctrine, he added.
“Give nuclear weapons to a country at war with the largest nuclear power? The idea is so absurd that it raises suspicions about a paranoid psychosis in Joe The Walking Dead and all those who would advise such a move.”
He continued, “Yet I must comment on the nonsense: 1) The very threat of transferring nuclear weapons to the Kyiv regime can be considered preparation for nuclear conflict with Russia;
2) The actual transfer of such weapons can be equated to an act of attack on our country under article 19 of the Fundamentals of State Policy in the Field of Nuclear Deterrence.
The consequences are obvious.”
I don’t think that the Biden administration has any intention of giving Ukraine nuclear weapons right now.
But the fact that they are talking about it is really freaking out the Russians.
I really wish that cooler heads would prevail, but instead both sides just continue to escalate matters.
Over the past few days, Ukraine has launched more long-range missiles provided by NATO into Russian territory, and now the Russians have announced that they are preparing another “response”…
Russia is preparing a response to Ukrainian ATACMS attacks on Kursk Region, the Russian Defense Ministry announced on Tuesday. Last week, US President Joe Biden authorized Kiev to use US-supplied long-range missiles against targets deep inside Russia’s internationally recognized borders.
In an official statement on Telegram, the Russian Defense Ministry reported that over the past three days, Ukraine’s forces had conducted two long-range strikes on Kursk Region using Western weaponry.
As I discuss in this video, many are anticipating that the Russian “response” will be even larger than last time.
Let us hope that the Russians only use conventional weapons, and let us hope that they limit their targets to Ukraine.
Because the Russians have previously identified a U.S. base in Poland as a potential target, and the Biden administration is making it clear that such a strike would trigger NATO’s Article 5…
White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby said Monday that the U.S. has a ‘rock-solid’ commitment to NATO’s Article 5, should Russia strike the new U.S. anti-missile base in Poland. Article 5 is NATO’s principle of collective defense, that if one NATO member is attacked, all other NATO members go to war with the attacker, a world war-style response.
“We take our Article 5 commitments to our NATO Allies incredibly seriously. It’s rock-solid, and that’s not going to change,” Kirby said on Monday, according to Remix News.
Kirby was responding to Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, who on Thursday said that Russia is considering attacking a new U.S. anti-missile base in Poland.
The Russians have been working extremely hard to prepare for a nuclear war, and meanwhile the U.S. is still relying on hopelessly outdated systems from the 1970s and 1980s.
We must change course while it is still possible to do so.
Unfortunately, it appears that we are about to witness another series of escalations which will push us even closer to the unthinkable.
NATO Military Committee Chairman Admiral Rob Bauer discussed preemptive strikes on Russia during an appearance on Monday.
NATO Military Committee Chairman Admiral Rob Bauer from The Netherlands discussed the need for preemptive strikes on Russia in the event of armed conflict.
Joe Biden and NATO are hoping for all-out war with Russia, the world’s second largest nuclear power, before President Trump enters office in January.
Tucker Carlson calls these recent developments the most evil thing he has seen in his lifetime.
NATO is discussing the possibility of preemptive precision strikes on the territory of Russia in the event of an armed conflict with the alliance countries. This was stated at a conference in Brussels by the head of the Military Committee of the bloc, Admiral Rob Bauer.
He called positive the fact that NATO has changed its attitude to the essence of the organization as a defense alliance, as well as the perception that it is necessary to “sit and wait for us to be attacked” and only then react.
“It is more competent not to wait, but to hit launchers in Russia in case Russia attacks us. A combination of precision strikes is needed that will disable the systems that are used to attack us, and we must strike first,” Bauer said, quoted by Bloomberg.
As reported by EADaily, the probability of a Russian attack on one of the NATO countries, including Poland or the Baltic states, is estimated to be low. This was stated in an interview with PAP by the head of the alliance’s Military Committee, Rob Bauer.
Joe Biden and his handlers are moving quickly to ignite World War III before Christmas and before President Trump can be inaugurated and bring peace to the region.
LastSunday, Joe Biden’s regime approved Ukraine’s use of US-made long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia.
The Washington Post reported that Biden will allow Ukraine to use a powerful American long-range weapon for strikes inside Russia, supposedly in response to North Korea’s recent aid to Russia in the form of thousands of troops. Ukraine will be specifically allowed to use the Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) to hit targets inside Russia.
As The Post noted, ATACMS is a supersonic-guided missile system that can be used with either cluster munitions or conventional warheads. It has a maximum range of about 190 miles.
The Post elaborates that Ukraine is expected to focus on and around the Kursk region at first but could expand its targets.
On Tuesday, Ukraine fired six US-made long-range missiles inside Russia. The first Ukrainian strike targeted the border region of Bryansk in Russia.
According to BRICS News – Five missiles were shot down by S-400 & Pantsir AA systems last week, one was damaged, its fragments fell in the technical zone of a military facility, causing a fire, Russian Defense Ministry says.
Putin, following reports of Biden’s decision to give Ukraine permission to “long-range” missiles, approved the updated nuclear doctrine of the Russian Federation. As part of the new doctrine Russia spelled out that aggression against Russia and its allies by a non-nuclear country with the support of a nuclear state will be considered a joint attack.
On Wednesday morning Joe Biden approved antipersonnel land mines for Ukraine – undoing his previous policy.
On Thursday Russia unleashed the Oreshnik hypersonic missile on Ukraine.
Russian leader Putin told reporters after the strike, “No air system can intercept Russia’s new Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile.”
And Putin mentioned on Friday that Russia has supplies of the Oreshnik missiles for future strikes.
On Monday news broke that the US discussed giving Ukraine nuclear weapons in recent meetings.
It’s hard to believe you’re the good guys when you are passing out nukes to desperate regimes.
According to the New York Times, US and European officials have discussed a range of options they believe will deter Russia from taking more Ukrainian territory, including providing Kiev with nuclear weapons. The outlet reports that Western officials believe the Kremlin will not significantly escalate the war before Donald Trump is sworn in as President in January.
Following the election of Trump earlier this month, the US and its NATO allies began taking steps to rush weapons to Ukraine and give Kiev the ability to strike targets inside Russian territory with long-range weapons.
American officials who were briefed on the intelligence community’s assessments told the Times that weapons will not alter the challenging situation that Kiev is currently facing. “US spy agencies have assessed that speeding up the provisions of weapons, ammunition and matériel for Ukraine will do little to change the course of the war in the short term,” the Times reports.
Desperate to bolster Ukraine’s standing in the war before the transition of power on January 20, the Biden administration is looking at a range of serious escalations. “US and European officials are discussing deterrence as a possible security guarantee for Ukraine, such as stockpiling a conventional arsenal sufficient to strike a punishing blow if Russia violates a cease-fire.” The article continues, “Several officials even suggested that Mr. Biden could return nuclear weapons to Ukraine that were taken from it after the fall of the Soviet Union.”
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