Everybody already heard most of it anyway by the looks of things lol. Might wanna think about how somebody could know that :-).
Former CIA engineer gets 40 years for giving agency's hacking secrets to WikiLeaks
"FEBRUARY 1, 2024
AP
"NEW YORK — A former CIA software engineer was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday after his convictions for what the government described as the biggest theft of classified information in CIA history and for possession of child sexual abuse images and videos.
The so-called Vault 7 leak revealed how the CIA hacked Apple and Android smartphones in overseas spying operations, and efforts to turn internet-connected televisions into listening devices. Prior to his arrest, Schulte had helped create the hacking tools as a coder at the agency's headquarters in Langley, Virginia."
"In requesting a life sentence, Assistant U.S. Attorney David William Denton Jr. said Schulte was responsible for "the most damaging disclosures of classified information in American history."
During a two-hour proceeding, Furman noted a one-page letter the government had forwarded from CIA Deputy Director David S. Cohen, who described Schulte's crimes as causing "exceptionally grave harm to U.S. national security and the CIA."
Europeans set up corridor for rushing NATO troops eastward
(They gettin ready yo.)
"PARIS — Germany, the Netherlands and Poland plan to develop a military corridor that would make it easier to move troops and equipment between Europe’s North Sea ports and NATO’s eastern flank, at a time of growing hostility with Russia."
(If the Russians are getting beat into a stalemate?
Why are people on their doorstep getting ready for a war with them? Kinda becomes the question.)
"The countries signed a declaration of intent on Jan. 30 to develop the corridor, with plans to tackle infrastructure choke points, such as low bridges, and slash bureaucracy around permits for cross-border transport of ammunitions and other dangerous goods, the Dutch Ministry of Defence said in a statement. They’ll also study how military rail transports can be prioritized over routine civilian traffic."
"Russia’s invasion of Ukraine two years ago made European countries realize they need to be prepared to move their military across the continent, something that previously hadn’t been high on the agenda,"
(Got caught with their pants down.)
"European countries are playing catchup after decades of underinvestment following the end of the Cold War, said Sarah Tarry, head of the NATO Defence Policy and Capabilities Directorate."
(See what I mean?)
NATO has a munitions problem, and Europe needs to step up
Thursday, Feb 1
(Well you know?
Good luck with that...)
"The war in Ukraine has provided desperately needed momentum to renew the European defense industry. Efforts to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces with weaponry have exposed startling gaps in Europe’s readiness for large-scale conflict. European nations have been found lacking not only adequate munition stockpiles, but also the industrial base required to refill inventories to keep up with Ukraine’s continued pleas for weapons. At the same time, the United States’ own production challenges and competing regional priorities suggest European NATO members cannot count on Washington to save the day."
(Its not just the Europeans that are having problems. NATO simply wasn't prepared and somebody in Moscow knew it.)
In another article that this one links to it is stated:
"Before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the Army produced around 14,000 155mm rounds a month in government-owned, contractor-operated munitions plants. In December 2022, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said the Army was looking to increase production to 20,000 rounds per month by the spring and 40,000 rounds per month by 2025."
(To put that increase in perspective
Russia currently goes through
more than that in a day sometimes.
You don't "switch" to a war of attrition as some bought off "think tanks" might suggest, it has to have been the plan all along in order to have the stockpiles needed. If they were buying all their shells from North Korea we wouldn't have noticed? Come on now, we all know that dog don't hunt etc.
Long story short?
Good luck ever catching up.
Somebody in Moscow started this plan a long time ago.)
Unable To ‘Destroy’ Even A Single HIMARS, Russia Is Jamming Its Missiles With ‘Pole Attacks’
February 1, 2024
"The Ukrainian armed forces could face a monumental challenge as it can no longer rely on the US-supplied High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) missiles and Excalibur artillery shells as the Russian electronic warfare (EW) systems are now reportedly leading them astray."
(Somebody told his son the Russians are using this (Ukraine) as a testing ground to figure out things for the real war when it starts on the continent much like Germany did during the Spanish Civil war pre WW2..
Cause everybody knows all about that that these days right? So much information at our fingertips and what are we doing with it exactly? Becoming more knowledgeable? Or more ignorant? Its pretty obvious which of those two options is the one in play.)
"Even as Russians have not managed to destroy a single HIMARS system, Moscow has been making aggressive advancements in Electronic Warfare.
"Russia has been using EW aggressively to divert Ukraine’s precision-guided weapons, such as Excalibur artillery rounds and HIMARS rockets, and Ukraine is finding it increasingly difficult to match Russia’s countermeasures."
"Despite the increased use of drones in the war, artillery, rocketry, and missile launches account for 60 to 80 percent of all military engagements."
"After receiving the American artillery shells in 2022, Ukrainian forces had significant success in identifying and taking out Russian artillery positions. It denied Moscow the ability to bring massive amounts of ammunition closer to the frontlines and sustain a high rate of fire."
"However, Moscow found a solution to the problem in the form of the Pole-21 electronic warfare system. It disrupts the critical signals essential for helping the GPS-guided munition reach its designated target accurately. This makes the missile deviate from its intended trajectory."
"Experts suggest that the solution to the conundrum lies in more precision-guided munitions with increased range.".
(Cause they are so easy to make right?
And we have all the people and the components necessary to do so right?
Like I told my friend, obliterating an area and then moving forward 15-20 miles and continuing to do so may be privative, but its also highly effective, epically if your adversary was the only one planning for this type of conflict.
(Russia will always have more:
"artillery, rocketry, and missile launches"
Than we have
"precision-guided munitions with increased range"
to take them out.
Simply because they are easier to manufacture and they had years to get a jump ,start on building up their stockpiles. They will have more simple, easy to use and manufacture weaponry than we will be able to make precision ones to take them out.
(Again, WE GOT CAUGHT WITH OUR PANTS DOWN FOLKS.).
"Ukraine must work around the strides Russia has taken in Electronic Warfare."
(And good luck with that as well...)
Calling Russia’s Attack ‘Unprovoked’ Lets US Off the Hook
(Did comments on that piece back in October.
(We are nowhere as innocent as you are being led to believe in this conflict.
We have had multiple chances through the years to deescalate the situation
and each and every time deliberately sought to escalate instead.
You might wanna think about why that is
and who exactly is calling the shots in this country.
The names and the party's change
but the policies always seem to go on unaltered.
Death, destruction, chaos and arms being out main exports to the world.
It was never about democracy or freedom.
Without economic freedom?
There is no freedom.
How free are you really?
There's only one way to be completely free forever.
)
Habakkuk 2:8
Because you have plundered many nations,
the peoples who are left
will plunder you.
For you have shed human blood;
you have destroyed lands and cities
and everyone in them.
Kinda speaks for itself these days.)
Daily artillery round use in Ukraine equal to a month in Afghanistan, NYT reports
Simply put?
Sep 7, 2023
(The Russians are firing more now than they were then. BTW.
If they switch to precision strikes for a while?
They are now back to saturation bombing.)
"The Battle of the Seelowe Heights, which opened the Red Army's path to Berlin, began with Soviet artillery firing 500,000 shells in 30 minutes. Russian artillery doctrine is still largely based on extensive analysis of World War II data to determine how many shells were needed to achieve a specific effect."
Russia’s Artillery War in Ukraine: Challenges and Innovations
9 August 2023
"Doctrine
‘Russian forces manoeuvre to fire,
Western forces fire to maneuver’ is a neat encapsulation of Russian doctrine compared with the West.
Put simply, Russia uses artillery as its primary form of lethality in the deep and close battles."
"They don't fight like we fight.
They don't think like we think."
"Artillery is a formidable component of the Russian military, with occasionally best-in-breed targeting cycles and a doctrine that allows it to overcome deficiencies elsewhere."
"In Sum
This brief analysis of Russian artillery practice in Ukraine indicates that while it has demonstrated variable levels of efficacy, on the whole it is a formidable component of the Russian military, with occasionally best-in-breed targeting cycles and a doctrine that allows for artillery to overcome the deficiencies of Russian combined arms forces. It has built a significant ability to find and strike targets over a wide area, and likely retains the ability to mass fires against targets of opportunity.
"Indirect fire support operates on mathematical principles of certainty. Approaches to this differ: Western forces, for instance, seek an economy of effort and resources in the application of fires. They tend to pay close attention to all aspects of the gunnery problem to ensure that their fires achieve effect with optimal ammunition consumption. The evidence from Ukraine suggests that Russian forces have combined both approaches: the use of UAVs, radar and precision munitions indicates that accuracy is essential for certain tasks, but attaining the weight of fires remains critical."
The US GDP Number Was Great... There Is Just One Huge Problem
"...a bizarre jump in exports despite the soaring dollar,"
(Hey?
Tyler Durden.
(Articles author)
Heres why buddy:
US weapons exports up 50 percent in 2023 as Washington challenges Russia, China
01/29/2024
"American defense companies racked up $81 billion in new foreign military sales last year, a more than 50 percent increase from 2022, with huge deals spurred by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine leading the way"
"The biggest deals were a trio of sales worth about $30 billion for attack and transport helicopters, and long-range missile launchers to Poland and Germany, as NATO rushes to stock up on state-of-the-art weapons in the alliance’s stare-down with Moscow, according to State Department figures obtained by POLITICO ahead of their official release on Monday."
(Long range missile launchers
are one way to try and keep away from the front
the sheer amount of shells needed
to sustain the rates of fire seen by the Russiansd to date.
Dont kid yourselves.
People flat out know
whats going to happen
and where this is headed.
I figure you should too.
The doors of the ark are closing people:
Romans 10:9
that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus
and believe in your heart
that God has raised Him from the dead,
you will be saved.
Do it today.
Ask somebody how if you need to.
"Tomorrow only exist
on the calendar of a fool."
Luke 12:16-21
And he told them this parable: “The ground of a certain rich man yielded an abundant harvest. He thought to himself, ‘What shall I do? I have no place to store my crops.’
Then he said, ‘This is what I’ll do. I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store my surplus grain. And I’ll say to myself, “You have plenty of grain laid up for many years. Take life easy; eat, drink and be merry.”’
“But God said to him,
‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded from you.
Then who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
“This is how it will be with whoever stores up things for themselves but is not rich toward God.”
YOU ARE NOT IN CHARGE.
ETERNITY IS AT STAKE.
MAKE A WISE CHOICE.
Russian Electronic Warfare base in Kaliningrad disrupts GPS signals over several European countries
January 4, 2024
Oh Kaliningrad?
You mean right where Poland, Belarus, Russia
and the Baltics all come together?
Largely where the
"corridor for rushing NATO troopps eastward"
was mentioned earlier?
Interesting.
"The Electronic Warfare (EW) base in Russia’s Kaliningrad enclave on the Baltic Sea disrupts GPS signals over several European countries, as theorized by OSINT researcher Markus Johnson.
“I think I found the location of the Baltic Jammer. In Kaliningrad, Russia. Since Dec 15 aircrafts have suffered from navigation errors over south Baltic Sea, on and off. By plotting an assumed max jamming-range for each bad position there is one area standing out: Kaliningrad.” he wrote on X (Twitter) on Jan. 3."
There have been many recent disruptions in navigation in the Baltic Sea, and Kaliningrad is strategically positioned along the middle of its coast.
(See the comment above about Ukraine being to Russia a testing ground of equipment and tactics, much like the Spanish civil war was used by Germany pre WW2..)
Poland and Lithuania to hold joint military exercises around Suwałki Gap
JAN 23, 2024
(Well I wonder why they are doing that for?
You can kinda see it in the screenshot above.
Its a lil buldge right where Kaliningrad, Belarus and Lithuanian all come together.
Heres a better shot:)
"go fight and die for:
Lithuanian, Latvia and Estonia."
Why hell no.
We got pronoun usage
and 18 other
kinds of distractions
and idiocrasy's
to fight over
for goodness sakes.
You're gonna think pronoun useage
when youre crawling through a dumpster
looking for a chicken bone to boil
to get some broth out of.
And dont worry,
when the time comes?
The MC's will just come
and take your chicken bone
away from you anyway.
There is only one thing
to be worried about,
one thing
that you are in charge of deciding
and that is:
WHERE IS YOUR SOUL GOING TO SPEND ETERNITY?
THATS IT.
EVEREYTHING ELSE THESE DAYS?
IRRELEVANT.
Feb 2nd 2024
"Where as recently as this summer, Ukraine’s artillery enjoyed parity with, if not superiority over, Russia’s own artillery, today the Russians have a fivefold advantage. Ukrainian batteries fire around 2,000 shells a day. Russian batteries fire 10,000."
(If we quadrupled production tomorrow basically
(and we can't)
they would be going through that in four days right now.
(Somebody told you when this started this is what they were going to do. (War of attrition) You might wanna think about what entity that is, that is responsible for that and fall down on your hands and knees and give thanks and glory and honor to him cause its all his anyway.)
“Our analysis suggests that this resurgence signals a decreasing fear among Russian forces, possibly fueled by renewed ammunition shortages on the Ukrainian side.”
(This is kinda what they do yo.
Did everybody just forget all the sudden?
WTF?)
"But with artillery and rocket ammo dwindling, the Ukrainian military is saving what shells and rockets it has for the direst emergencies: striking Russian troops and their vehicles as they’re about to break through Ukrainian lines.
“Regrettably, this situation empowers Russia to execute a well-known approach,” Frontelligence Insight explained. “The systematic destruction of urban areas, rendering them indefensible.”
(Yes its primative but its also highly effective. How much artillery you really think France, Germany and the UK have right now?
What do you really think is going to happen give the current situation?
)."The group pointed to Marinka, a city in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast. Ukrainian troops held out in Marinka for nearly two years. But as their ammo ran low, Russian artillery was able to mass for a devastating bombardment.
In late December, Russian guns “systematically obliterated the entire city, leaving almost no trace of any structure or dwelling,” Frontelligence Insight recalled."
("They dont fight wars like we do.")
"The surest way for Ukraine to restore artillery parity, prevent the demolition of more cities and turn Russian gunners’ growing complacency against them also is the most obvious. Somehow acquire more shells and rockets for its howitzers and launchers."
(As I have demonstrated here
Its just logistically improbable.
The Russians had to big of a lead from the get go.)
"One critical ammunition type is artillery ammo. Last summer, Ukraine was firing up to 7,000 rounds a day, compared to 5,000 shells on the Russian side, according to a Monday report from The New York Times, which cited US and Western analysts.
But now, those figures seem to have flipped dramatically. Ukraine is firing just 2,000 rounds a day, while Russia is nearing 10,000 shells. The uptick for Moscow can be explained by increased domestic production and an influx of North Korean weaponry."
(Bull shit. At these rates of fires?
It aint all coming from
"increased domestic production
and an influx of North Korean weaponry."
They stocked up before the war.
Putin said, with his troops ready to go
That we "need to discuss a new European security agreement."
We laughed at him.
See verse about Sodom and her sisters,
what was their sins agian?
In particular the first one on the list?
ARROGENCE
As in "false confidence.")
"Western security assistance remains vital for Ukraine as any slow reduction or sudden collapse of Western aid will very likely eliminate Ukraine's ability to defend itself," the analysts wrote in a Tuesday battlefield assessment."
(Weve already had the slow down. This is what they do, this is their SOP, they just exhaust you, supply's, equipment, shells, troops, etc...its their whole strategy, and has been for a long time.)
"Reductions in aid, they added, "could lead to the Russian military capturing significantly more territory in Ukraine, bringing Russian forward bases closer to the borders of NATO member states."
(Kind of the plan after bleeding NATO dry.)
"The replenishment of NATO stockpiles is also an important endeavor, as ISW also continues to assess that NATO rearmament is necessary to deter — and if necessary defeat — any future Russian attack on NATO's eastern flank," the analysts said."
(See info on Suwalki Gap above.)
"Pentagon officials have asserted that without more money, Washington can't outfit Kyiv with weapons at the same levels and pace that it has done since the early days of the war."
(Somebody in Moscow knew that.)
"The implications of aid drying up are incredibly high-stakes, American and Ukrainian officials warn. Some have said that the Ukrainians will lose without continued assistance."
(Its a given at this point.)
"The continued lack of funding has forced us to pause drawing down additional items from our inventories, given the implications for our own military readiness," Pentagon Press Secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder" told reporters on Tuesday.
"These limitations, he added, prevent "us from meeting Ukraine's most urgent battlefield needs to include things like artillery rounds, anti-tank weapons, air defense interceptors."
(Lie I was just sayin...)
With demand high in Ukraine, US Army ramps up artillery production
Jan 25, 2023
"But as Ukrainian forces burn through the ammunition for howitzers sent to the country, the U.S. is hoping to ramp up production to roughly 90,000 shells a month, according to a New York Times report this week."
(Russians are currently going through that in nine days right now BTW)
"He said the Army is moving “to get ahead of the problem."
(If it wasnt so sad?
That statement would be laughable.
it really is.
Kinda hard to do when youre starting off years behind.)
US Army hunts for explosives to meet increased munitions output goals
Tuesday, Feb 6
“You have to produce enough explosives – either IMX-104 or TNT – to fill that many shells that fast and that production capacity does not exist in the United States by itself,” Doug Bush said during a Feb. 5 Center for Strategic and International Studies event in Washington. “We’re having to go overseas to allies. Luckily, we have many, [that are] highly capable.”
(Kinda the same problem with a lot of things these days in case you aint noticed.
Dad told me when all the offshoring started, late 70's early 80's,
"We are shooting ourselves in the foot doing all this moving everything overseas."
Chickens come home to roost much?)
"Bush said at CSIS that each 155mm shell contains 22 pounds of explosives. If the U.S. ramps up to 100,000 munitions a month, it would need to produce 26.4 million pounds of explosives, also known as “energetics,” per year to keep up.
The Army awarded $1.5 billion in contracts to nine companies in the fall of 2023 to companies in the U.S., Canada, India and Poland to boost global production of 155mm artillery rounds. The contracts included procuring 14.2 million pounds of bulk energetics, consisting of TNT and IMX-104 explosive."
(Nothing like relying on India and Poland for your national security needs during ww3.)
""Increasing production is also riding on Congress approving a pending supplemental budget request which aims to support Ukraine and Israel. "
(If relying on India and Poland wasn't already bad enough?
Now you gotta throw in those guys?)
"Another $93 million would upgrade facilities to reestablish M6 propellant production at Radford Army Ammunition Plant in southwest Virginia. That propellant is used to shoot the shells, but is no longer in production in the U.S."
(Well that was smart,
see my dads comment above.)
"Currently there is no TNT production in the U.S. and the supplies come from allies such as Australia and India."
(Oh yeah, thats gonna work out good...for the other guys.)
"Poland is a major supplier, but with every country ramping up production to support Ukraine and meet their own demands, Bush noted late last year, the U.S. will need to onshore TNT production."
(To late already...coops.)
"The Army issued a request for information in the fall of 2023 on Sam.gov for the design, construction and commissioning of a facility capable of producing five million pounds of TNT per year. Responses from industry are due Feb. 17."
The service is aiming to complete construction and open the facility no later than 48 months after awarding a contract. The RFI notes that the government is assessing multiple sites for the facility."
(48 months...plz...
and this is to get to be able
to manufacture in a month
what Russia is now using in 9 days?
...48 months...see how big the issue is?
And the whole thing here is Mr. Putin had a plan
nobody saw coming and now its already to late.)
Ukraine war: Western allies say they are running out of ammunition
"Western military powers are running out of ammunition to give Ukraine to defend itself against Russia's full-scale invasion, the UK and Nato have warned.
"Adm Rob Bauer, Nato's most senior military official, told the Warsaw Security Forum that "the bottom of the barrel is now visible".
(How many times you gotta say it?
That was kinda the plan all along.)
"The admiral, who chairs Nato's Military Committee, said decades of underinvestment meant Nato countries had begun supplying Ukraine with weapons with their ammunition warehouse already half-full or even emptier."
(It always catches up to you sooner or later,
but it always comes back and bites you on the ass.
Underinvestment that is.)
"We need large volumes. The just-in-time, just-enough economy we built together in 30 years in our liberal economies is fine for a lot of things - but not the armed forces when there is a war ongoing."
(Well no shit Sherlock, thx.)
"UK Defence Minister James Heappey told the forum that Western military stockpiles were "looking a bit thin" and urged NATO allies to spend 2% of their national wealth on defence, as they had committed to do.
He, too, said the "just-in-time" model "definitely does not work when you need to be ready for the fight tomorrow".
("Thank you Captain Obvious as they say on the Bob and Tom Show...
Greed, just flat out greed ruined the west...)
"We can't stop just because our stockpiles are looking a bit thin," Mr Heappey said. "We have to keep Ukraine in the fight tonight and tomorrow and the day after and the day after. And if we stop, that doesn't mean that Putin automatically stops."
(I can assure you when we stop?
That is when he will start in earnest.
Cause it has been the plan all along.)
"He added: "When it comes to the alliance, the US is increasingly looking east and west, and I think justifiably our colleagues in Congress need to see the European powers are spending their 2% to resource NATO equitably."
(Translation?
We cant deal with this and Taiwan
and us and the Europeans and China and Russia and everybody knows it.
I said shortly after the Ukraine war started the only way we have a chance is for the European counties to take on Russia and for us to take on China in the Pacific. Now we HAVE WAITED TO LONG ALREADY TO ADJUST TO THE REALITY THATS IN FRONT OF US.)
"And in the long run, I think it's crucial that Ukrainians also can procure defence material from the industrial base in Europe. We learned some hard lessons here about scale and volume, not at least when it comes to artillery ammunition."
The UK defence ministry says that since the start of the invasion in February 2022, the UK has given more than 300,000 rounds of artillery ammunition and is committed to giving "tens of thousands more" by the end of the year.
The US state department says that over the same timescale, America has given Ukraine more than two million Nato standard 155mm artillery rounds."
("We learned some hard lessons here about scale and volume,
not at least when it comes to artillery ammunition."
This is the Russians a bread and butter BTW.)
"They fear that US military support for Ukraine might diminish if Mr Trump were to seek some kind of political settlement with Moscow.
The difficulty is that despite attempts to ramp up production, Ukraine is using the ammunition faster than Western powers can replace it.
Nato and EU countries
have agreed on
various plans to
share expertise,
agree joint contracts with defence manufacturers,
subsidise production as much as they can.
(And?
All that and .50 cents might buy you a pack of gum.
Maybe.
I reiterate, we got caught with our pants down.)
"But it appears that they are still struggling to meet the need.
Analysts say that in contrast, Russia appears much more able to gear up its wartime economy to replenish its own stockpiles."
(Because they got prepared in advance over the years)
Just because
your mind
doesn't want to believe it?
(Biblical prophecies coming true,
end times right here etc)
Doesnt mean
your brain
doesn't already know
every bit
of what is listed above
is true.
Sorry Buddha and others.
is a thing.
And if your mind isn't believing
what your brain already knows to be true?
Then that concept just got proven to you:
"In the philosophy of mind,
mind–body dualism
denotes either the view that
mental phenomena
are non-physical,
or that the mind and body
are distinct and separable."
So where does that
non-physical energy go
for eternity?
Kinda becomes the question.
Eternity is at stake.
Choose wisely.
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