An Echelon Insights Poll reveals 72 percent of Americans no longer wish to fight for their own country. The poll is reflective of the military’s lack of recruitment that is already causing significant reductions in our military capacity, with no end in sight. Another part of the poll reveals that 30 percent of Americans in prime fighting age, 18 to 29, would rather surrender than die in defense of their country.
The poll, should it be conducted next year, is sure to reveal even worse numbers as the DNC-CCP continues to demoralize the military by infusing it with anti-American ideologies such as Woketarianism, which is based on the premise that white people invented evil so we must destroy everything white people invented, including the American republic.
Right now, the far left already hates America, and they’re most likely a big reason for 30 percent of fighting age Americans not wanting to defend her. That figure is only going to increase as Americans look at the party in power and decide that “America” is no America at all, it’s progmerica, an anti-American nation that not only is not worth fighting for, it’s worth fighting against.
It appears the Israeli military had ample warning of the October 7 Al Aqsa Flood terror assault launched by Hamas that led to the slaughtering of 1300 Israeli citizens, allegedly. Two anonymous sources that claim they were present during the presentation of a report to a high-ranking military intelligence officer said the report was dismissed by the official as being an “imaginary scenario.”
To be sure, this claim being made by anonymous sources lowers the validity of the claim, but the claim seems to have some merit to it. According to the sources, the report was sent through a secure communications system, which included specific details such as Hamas’ plan to attack multiple border posts, then spread into surrounding kibbutzim with the intent to kill as many civilians as possible.
The lower-ranking soldiers also warned their analysis of several videos showed Hamas was rehearsing taking hostages, and that they felt an attack was imminent, the person said. The memo was triggered by the sighting of a high-ranking Hamas military commander overseeing the training, who was identified by the sentries against a database of faces and identities maintained by Unit 8200, a part of the Israeli intelligence corps.
In the last week or so, many people have been sharing images of what they feel are alarming amounts of military air traffic culled from various online tracking websites, purporting to show a “highly unusual” increase in air traffic throughout the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean (a.k.a., “The Levant”).
For those who are exploring a new landscape on the internet, such as aircraft and ship tracking websites, these images can, in fact, look incredible. Most of the online maps are indeed very cluttered, to such an extent that many computers have a hard time keeping up with the running updates, unless a user “drills down” to a very narrow region.
And to be fair, given the recent events within the region, with terrorist massacres in Israel, leading to brutal counterattacks by Israel, and the hysterical responses from throughout not just the region, but the threat of this new “Yom Kippur War” expanding to include most of the region – something that the few sane leaders of the world ‘body politic’ is desperate to prevent – is certainly making many people terrified of anything new and strange, that is presented with either incomplete, or flat-out wrong context, deliberately or otherwise.
The short answer to the “unusual increase” in aircraft activity in the Middle East is that it is a giant “nothingburger.” The long answer is far more mundane…but not so the reason behind it.
The fact is that Israel has severely neglected its defenses, both internal and external, for at least twenty years. Externally, Israel fell into the complacency trap of “Victory Disease” (the laziness and complacency resulting from too many victories), in that it felt that its “Iron Dome” missile defense system was mostly unbeatable, while its more conventional forces could easily handle anything that “Iron Dome” could not.
Internally, this dangerous complacency was compounded by Israel’s disastrous moves, beginning in 2012, to restrict the ability of Israeli citizens not on military or police duty, to owning or possessing military style firearms.
And on October 7, 2023, Israel and its citizens were given a stark wake up call as to why you should never beat your swords into plowshares before the right time.
As a result, Israel suddenly found itself in a desperate, grueling and bloody war against an implacable and bloodthirsty enemy at one end of its country, while facing another potential – and much more dangerous – foe to their north. While this is certainly not an unusual circumstance for Israel, Israel the state, as well as Israeli citizens, now finds itself being rudely forced to reorient its mental perspective on reality.
All-out war, as should be clear to anyone who has read an article on the Russo-Ukrainian War in the last almost two years, consumes people, ammunition, vehicles and supplies at a ferocious rate. While the scale and pace of the war in Israel may not currently be at the same overall scale as what is happening in Ukraine, when adjusted for scale, Israel is not much better off than Ukrainians.
In answer, the United States – long Israel’s only truly reliable ally – has doubled down on US support to Israel in the current conflict, complete with sending two complete carrier battle groups to the region, potentially committing US forces to direct combat in the conflict.
Obviously, no matter the Reader’s feelings – one way or another – about the current conflict, the United States has to supply Israel with weapons, ammunition and much else, exactly as it has for Ukraine. Normally, such supplies are sent by ship, and then by rail or road. The reason is simple: it is vastly more efficient than air transport.
Sometimes, however, speed is essential. Relatively small and light supplies, like ammunition and medical supplies, can be rushed to a conflict zone relatively quickly, as these are always the most critical supplies that would be needed early on in a conflict. In the case of any sudden uptick of military air traffic, however, there is currently another factor:
Volcanoes.
In 2010, a series of volcanic eruptions from the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland in April of that year completely shut down all air traffic in Europe outside of Spain and a tiny portion of France. That was, obviously, a very annoying situation for many travelers, as it up-ended flights throughout the world.
Military planners, already struggling to juggle the delivery of supplies to multiple active and potential combat areas, now have no choice but add the potential of a natural disaster shutting down European airspace for an unknown period. The only real option is to start drawing supplies from existing bases in the region, and sending those to Israel…by air.
At the same time, however, those supply bases will need to be restocked, and fast, given the potential for regional escalation. This problem can be solved via a surge in sending war materials and equipment to those bases via conventional shipping…that seems to be happening.
The Ready Reserve Force ship MV Cape Orlando is currently underway from Tacoma, WA, crossing the Pacific Ocean. The Cape Orlando, originally berthed in Oakland, was actually boarded by pro-Palestinian protesters on November 4th, delaying its departure for Tacoma. (The protestors were not charged.)
While the MV Orlando is certainly the most public of the ships potentially carrying supplies to the combat area, it is also certainly not the only one.
What is happening is clear: a giant “shell game” is underway, with supplies being shuffled as quickly as possible, to cover as many holes as have been left open by shockingly poor military policies by the West and its allies over the preceding c.30 years…But such circumstances cannot endure forever.
Sun Tzu, Author of Art of War. Photo: Gary Todd, 2008. Public Domain.
The death cult known as Hamas (which, in Hebrew, appropriately means violence) has the Mainstream media not only as its content market machine, but also as its co-conspirator in crime. Journalists embedded with Hamas during the October 7 terror assault that resulted in women, children, and infants being slaughtered knew what was going to happen and did nothing to inform the Israelis their citizens were about to be murdered.
On October 7, Hamas terrorists were not the only ones who documented the war crimes they had committed during their deadly rampage across southern Israel. Some of their atrocities were captured by Gaza-based photojournalists working for the Associated Press and Reuters news agencies whose early morning presence at the breached border area raises serious ethical questions.
What were they doing there so early on what would ordinarily have been a quiet Saturday morning? Was it coordinated with Hamas? Did the respectable wire services, which published their photos, approve of their presence inside enemy territory, together with the terrorist infiltrators? Did the photojournalists who freelance for other media, like CNN and The New York Times, notify these outlets? Judging from the pictures of lynching, kidnapping and storming of an Israeli kibbutz, it seems like the border has been breached not only physically, but also journalistically.
Four names appear on AP’s photo credits from the Israel-Gaza border area on October 7: Hassan Eslaiah, Yousef Masoud, Ali Mahmud, and Hatem Ali.
Eslaiah, a freelancer who also works for CNN, crossed into Israel, took photos of a burning Israeli tank, and then captured infiltrators entering Kibbutz Kfar Azza.
… Let’s be clear: News agencies may claim that these people were just doing their job. Documenting war crimes, unfortunately, may be part of it. But it’s not that simple.
It is now obvious that Hamas had planned its October 7 attack on Israel for a very long time: its scale, its brutal aims and its massive documentation have been prepared for months, if not years. Everything was taken into account — the deployments, the timing, as well as the use of bodycams and mobile phone videos for sharing the atrocities.
Is it conceivable to assume that “journalists” just happened to appear early in the morning at the border without prior coordination with the terrorists? Or were they part of the plan?
And why would Hamas want their atrocities documented other than for the same reason serial killers keep evidence of their crimes close to their hearts? It was for the trophies, it was for the bragging rights that those who slaughtered infants and children would gain from their fellow cultists, and the MSM journalists knew this, were complicit in this, and have now made themselves justified targets by Israel’s intelligence agency, Mossad, for righteous retribution after participating in the murders themselves and failing to warn the innocents of the death that was coming their way.
Whatever Israel has done that is not just it in no way, shape, or form justifies what Hamas did on October 7 in the name of their pedophilic god, Allah, and it certainly doesn’t justify mainstream media’s willing participation in this slaughter.
Every day these same content marketing death machines assault the world with psychological terrorism that serves their pedophilic god, the rainbow-colorist god of the DNC-CCP, here, they just murdered people directly as opposed to indirectly, doing what they do best, spreading hate and fear into the hearts of their readers.
A small town in Michigan has given the CCP-bought township board the boot following its continued commitment to allow the CCP to build a battery plant in the town under the condition that it must adhere to the standards of the Chinese Communist Party. The town is called Green Township and it just recalled and replaced 5 of its 7 board members, after 2 had already resigned, leaving none of the CCP-supporting seditionists in positions of power in the town.
The board had voted unanimously in 2020 to approve the building of the battery plant under the auspices of Gotion, a Silicon-Valley-based company whose parent company is owned by the Chinese Communist Party. The vote received an immediate backlash, one that has been ignored, until now.
While opposition steadily grew, the board chose to ignore residents’ concerns, but eventually the pressure was too much for at least two of the board members resigned rather than continue to face the backlash. Following their resignation, the community produced enough signatures to trigger a recall election, with every single board member voted out.
From The Blaze:
While the spread of communism may sound far-fetched, corporate documents explicitly require Gotion to “set up a party organization and carry out party activities in accordance with the constitution of the Communist Party of China” and “ensure necessary conditions for carrying out party activities.”
“China is our number-one enemy!” one angry resident yelled at a board meeting last spring.
“My family members fought communism, and you’re bringing it right here,” said another.
Over the past several months, Green Charter residents amassed enough signatures to force a recall election for board members, who otherwise would face re-election in 2024.
Tensions between board members and residents reached such a peak this year that two board members, James Peek and Gary Todd, already resigned their positions. On Tuesday, more than 1,000 Green Charter residents showed up to cast their ballots to oust the other five: Trustees Dale Jernstadt and Roger Carroll; Clerk Janet Clark; Treasurer Denise MacFarlane; and Supervisor James Chapman.
Jason Kruse defeated Chapman with a whopping 60% of the vote, and Jeff Thorne defeated Jernstadt with 62%. By comparison, Kelly Cushway’s 57% victory over Carroll looks relatively close. Corri Riebow beat Clark for the clerk position with 53%, and Robert Henderson also received 53% to beat MacFarlane for the treasurer spot.
Bill Stanek, the supervisor of nearby Big Rapids Township, also lost a recall vote to challenger Carman Bean.
What the board members of this small town attempted to do to their citizens, selling them out in exchange for CCP cash, is going on right now across our country, from the highest level of office, starting with the King of foreign cash grift himself, Joe Biden, on down to many other local boards, including school boards, willing to take cash for CCP influence over the American people.
Our nation is filled with CCP employees disguised as American politicians, and it’s a problem endemic throughout both major political parties.
Abortion wins in big showdowns in Ohio, where an amendment to the state constitution making abortion legal up to birth, in Kentucky when a pro-abortion Democrat governor won re-election in a red state, and Virginia’s State House turns blue over the abortion debate. “Americans” have chosen murdering unborn children over the republic. Last night the nation declared it was not repentant and would continue to worship Moloch over the Lord.
Two other elections of note include two Mayors’ races, one in Bridgeport Connecticut that appears to offer little resolution after a ballot-stuffing controversy surfaced in the Democratic Primary the week before the election. The other Mayor’s race of note involved Sheila Jackson-Lee’s Houston Mayoral run where a run-off election will need to be run to settle the final winner.
To top it all off, Virginia has elected the first trans person, Danica Roem to their State Senate.
The American Accountability Foundation has been served notice by the revolutionary-infested IRS that it will face a lawfare assault by the administration in the form of a tax audit for daring to oppose the death cult’s agenda. The Foundation has exposed a number of Biden’s anti-American, racist, heterophobic, anti-human violent revolutionary nominees and exposed emails by Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R) to pressure the IRS to target more DNC-CCP opposition for lawfare assaults, including calls to attack this very organization.
“Senator Whitehouse has repeatedly called for the IRS to investigate AAF—by name,” AAF President Tom Jones told The Daily Signal in an emailed statement Monday. “Attacking groups like ours has been a priority for Senator Whitehouse and it appears the Biden admin has heeded his calls.”
“We’re auditing your organization’s Form 990 for the tax year ended December 31, 2021,” an IRS revenue agent wrote in a Sept. 14 letter to AAF. The organization provided a copy of the letter to The Daily Signal.
The IRS insisted it does not launch audits for partisan reasons. A spokesman said he could not confirm the audit.
“Under the federal tax law, federal employees can neither confirm nor deny that a particular organization is or is not being audited,” IRS spokesman Anthony Burke told The Daily Signal in a phone interview Monday. “We’re precluded from disclosing tax return information.”
While the sheep of this country indoctrinated into the cult of death that is the DNC-CCP’s agenda cheer this violent action on, little do they realize they have signed up for a club that they can never be members of good standing with unless they sit on the very top of their murderous pyramid scheme Today it might be “conservatives,” the perceived enemies of these sheep, but tomorrow it will be the sheep themselves who cheered on the expansion of government power to chill dissent through lawfare, not realizing one day that same murder machine would one day bring them down as well.
U.S. Intelligence is claiming the Assad regime of Syria has agreed to deliver weapons to Hezbollah from Russia, with Wagner Group assisting in teaching Hezbollah how to use the weapons systems. These systems include Russia’s SA-22 missile system, an air defense system that could threaten Israeli jets. The U.S. has warned Russia, Iran, and anyone who cares to listen, they will intervene on behalf of Israel should these nations choose to attack Israel while it deals with Hamas.
This could bring about a dramatic escalation of the conflict and threaten to bring the U.S more directly into the fight, however, the U.S. asserts Iran, which is becoming a proxy for Russia and China, is not interested in having this fight escalate to a wider regional war, rather they are interested in manipulating their proxies to destabilize Irael while it fights Hamas.
From cnn.com: The US intelligence community believes – for now – that Iran and its proxies are calibrating their response to Israel’s military intervention in Gaza to avoid direct conflict with Israel or the US while still exacting costs on its adversaries.
But the US is also keenly aware that Iran does not maintain perfect control of its umbrella of proxies – in particular over Lebanese Hezbollah, the largest and most capable of the various groups. Hezbollah is an ally of Hamas, the group that attacked Israel on October 7, and has long positioned itself as fighting against Israel. US officials are deeply concerned that the group’s internal politics may cause Hezbollah to escalate simmering tensions.
The US also does not always have perfect visibility into the communications between Iran and its various proxies, according to sources familiar with US intelligence in the region.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, did not deliver the decisive declaration of war against Irael the Palestinians were hoping for.
From Newsweek: Nasrallah touted Hezbollah’s current involvement in the conflict, saying his group had joined the war on October 8. He largely renewed warnings to the United States and Israel that the group’s lower-level leaders had already made. He also called for a ceasefire in Gaza and reiterated Hezbollah’s support for Hamas and the Palestinian people.
“The depth of the disappointment for those who want Hezbollah to do more against Israel is a reflection of the height of anticipation leading up to Nasrallah’s speech. For them, Nasrallah’s speech failed to deliver,” said Firas Maksad, a senior fellow and director of outreach at the Middle East Institute.
Maksad told Newsweek that Nasrallah simply outlined what the group was already doing to divert Israel’s military resources away from Gaza and toward Lebanon. The Lebanese group’s leader also said that Hezbollah and Iran had no role in planning or foreknowledge of Hamas’ attack on Israel, as Iran and lower-level Hezbollah leaders have previously said.
Still, the moment an Israeli jet is shot down by a Russian air defense system, the risk of escalation is very real, whether anyone wants it or not.
A funny thing happened on the first of November of 2023. A few hundred (ultimately, up to eight hundred) Non-Commissioned Officers in the active duty US Army were stunned when they received orders, via email, to report – within a week – to a school none of them were expecting to attend: the Army’s recruiting school at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
This order, coming with no warning, is up-ending hundreds of enlisted families as there is little time to reorder the lives of married NCO’s. Compounding the problem, none of the soldiers ordered to the school knows where they will be assigned, leading to extreme uncertainty on where their new posting will be, as active duty recruiters are spread out across the country. This is guaranteed to strain relationships to the breaking point, compounding an already high divorce rate within the service.
As we reported previously, the harsh realities of the third decade of the 21st Century have caused not only the US Congress, but also the Defense Department, to begin discussing an idea that would have been unthinkable just ten years ago: the reinstatement of conscription, i.e., the Draft – and not simply the draft of the old days, which was male-only, but a draft which would almost certainly apply equally to women.
For the troops, it’s not so much that the recruiting school itself is overly difficult. It is the fact that most recruiters only volunteer for the duty reluctantly, as their usual alternative is a tour as a drill instructor, something that many NCO’s dread. This is because there has always been a stigma to the duty, dating from at least the official end of the draft in 1973, in that failing to meet assigned quotas of recruits can seriously damage the continuing career prospects of the recruiter. Recruiters are usually long serving NCO’s, with ten to twelve years in the service when they enter the recruiting school; this means that they have seriously committed to the idea of twenty to twenty-five years of service, in order to retire with a reasonable pension. That continued career, however, could be seriously damaged by a failed tour as a recruiter.
The reality, despite Gen-Z’s hysteria, is that the Army’s move has come – officially – as an unexpected result of recruiters and possible recruiter candidates leaving the service at an unexpectedly high rate. Functionally, sending an emergency draft of NCO’s to school to become recruiters – whether they want to be or not – is not a preparation for a reinstatement of conscription.
As we discussed previously, the military’s recruiting woes, where all of the military services except the Marine Corps and the Space Force, are missing their recruiting targets, are made worse when taking into account the comparatively small size of the Marine Corps and Space Force in contrast to the other services. The effects of badly managed “forever wars” and conflicts for over twenty years, coupled to other astoundinglybad decisions, have left the majority of the US population severely disinclined to support enlistment in general.
Obviously, the resulting falling recruitment numbers have left the US military, as a whole, in a dangerous situation, as mounting threats – from Ukraine and Israel, to Iran and China – equate to the likelihood that the United States may well find itself in a very large war – or two…or three – sooner than later. And, after spending some twenty years laser focused (albeit with a very smudged lens) on fighting insurgencies, the armed forces got a stark wake-up call from the Russo-Ukrainian War on casualty rates in large scale combat, to the point that the Army is desperately trying to relearn the flawed strategies of the 1970’s and 80’s, all while missing the mark in spectacularly catastrophic ways, that would be funny, if their effects were negligible…which they are not.
105th Medical Battalion Aid Station (30th Inf Div), Mortain, France, August 1944. US Army Photo.
Having stated the above, while the Army’s sudden orders are not a herald of a return to conscription in and of themselves, there is are a pair of outlying possibilities, that it could signal a middle ground” move, neutralizing a flawed medical screening system that has slashed the number of recruits by upwards of 25%. The return of medical waivers for volunteers for minor conditions dating from as long as a decade prior, would be seen as a solid move to increase recruit intakes. Of course, such a move would also open the way to waive medical issues for potential draftees.
Secondly, this move could signal actual preparation for renewed conscription laws, where recruiters could be assigned secondary duties to process a new wave of draftees. As we implied previously, a reintroduction of a Draft for Gen-Z and/or some Millennial’s would almost certainly spark a wave of draft dodging and draft riots on a scale that would make those of the Civil War era pale in comparison.
An illustration in The Illustrated London News depicting armed rioters clashing with Union Army soldiers in New York City, July 1863. The Illustrated London News, 1863. Public Domain.
And, of course, a third possibility is hanging in the air, namely, the idea of offering bounties and legal amnesty via recruitment to those “military age males” currently flooding across the southern border of the United States…
…However, considering how armed forces frequently act in their countries origin, this may well be more of a curse than a benefit.
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On Sunday, Lawfare Assassin foreign-born DNC-CCP Judge Chutkan reinstated the gag order, but in a limited sense, ordering Trump to not make “public comments targeting prosecutors, court staff and potential witnesses,” despite the fact that the DNC-serving prosecutors and many of the potential witnesses are direct political opponents to Trump’s 2024 Presidential runs.
While prosecutors wanted Trump thrown in jail, Chutkan chose not to do that as she rightly fears the backlash that would cause across the country as half or more of American citizens would rightly interpret such a move as a clear sign the Federal government is a direct enemy to their American rights and values in an existential sense of that term. Trump for his part is all-but pledging to defy the order, saying of it that “It will not stand.”
Trump stated, “I have just learned that the very Biased, Trump-Hating Judge in D.C., who should have RECUSED herself due to her blatant and open loathing of your favorite President, ME, has reimposed a GAG ORDER which will put me at a disadvantage against my prosecutorial and political opponents This order, according to many legal scholars, is unthinkable! It illegally and unconstitutionally takes away my First Amendment Right of Free Speech, in the middle of my campaign for President, where I am leading against BOTH Parties in the Polls. Few can believe this is happening, but I will appeal. How can they tell the leading candidate that he, and only he, is seriously restricted from campaigning in a free and open manner? It will not stand!”
It is becoming more and more evident that the DNC-CCP will stop at almost nothing they feel they can get away with to bury any opposition to fulfil the promise first made by then President-elect Obama, who claimed upon his accession to power he would “fundamentally transform” America, a seditious statement in and of itself that should have gotten him arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay along with the other terrorists seeking to murder their way to power at the expense of our liberty-loving republic.
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