An important Memo so sending today.
I believe we do not see the long picture and what the ultimate tie up of Russia with China means.
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I am a hawk. I learned growing up on the school play ground don't feed bullies. It simply increases their appetite.Xi, Putin, Iran Ayatollah's have a common goal - the ending of America's presence and effectiveness on the world scene
We have many reasons to justify this action. The death of 17 sailors and an attack on an American ship in port comes to mind as one and there are many others if we had the guts.
A recent op ed in the Wall Street Journal, by Mike Kerrington, referred to the military theorist Carl Von Clausewitz who argued force should be employed when it is the best option in order to maximize national security. not the last option.
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Russian invasion of Ukraine is bad, nuclear Iran is worse
By David Weinberg
US President Joe Biden's selling out to Iran is worse than bowing down to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of the Ukraine almost completely has overtaken the global news focus on US President Joe Biden’s impending approval of the worst-ever-possible Western sell-out deal with Iran. Unfortunately.
Even in the Israeli media, reporters and analysts have been loudly debating all week whether Jerusalem’s mild expression of “concern” about Russia’s initial incursion into eastern Ukraine was sufficient or delinquent. (Israel did so without even mentioning Russia!) This question has been the lead headline, along with reporting about preparations for the possible evacuation of Ukrainian Jews and Israelis in Ukraine.
In this newspaper too, the Ukrainian crisis has been the lead item, along with stories about Israeli coalition disagreements, “better food for IDF troops by Passover,” the Pegasus predicament, and “LGBTQ-phobia.” Only secondary attention has been devoted to the ills and implications of a new P5+1 deal with the nuclear mullahs of Tehran.
Every diplomat and foreign VIP visitor I spoke to this week too, asked me first and foremost about Israel’s calculated “caution” (i.e., reticence) in speaking out against Putin’s aggression in the Ukraine (i.e., not really speaking out at all). No one sought out my views on the rotten, earth-shattering, imminent nuclear sell-out to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
(The explanation for Israel’s low profile on Ukraine has to do with the fact that Israel now has a “border” with Russia given that Putin’s air force dominates the skies of Syria. Israel needs to maintain cordial coordination with Moscow for freedom of Israeli military action against forward Iranian targets in Syria. So why tick off Putin by taking too-strident a tone on Donbas?)
I certainly realize that Putin’s assault on Ukraine has far-reaching global consequences. After all, Putin means to attack not only Ukraine but the entire Western-led world order.
As Anne Applebaum convincingly explained in The Atlantic, Putin not only wants Ukrainian democracy to fail and the Ukrainian economy to collapse, but “he wants his neighbors – in Belarus, Kazakhstan, even Poland and Hungary – to doubt whether democracy will ever be viable, in the longer term, in their countries too.
“Farther abroad, he wants to put so much strain on Western and democratic institutions, especially the European Union and NATO, that they break up. He wants to keep dictators in power wherever he can, in Syria, Venezuela and Iran. He wants to undermine America, to shrink American influence, to remove the power of the democracy rhetoric that so many people in his part of the world still associate with America. He wants America itself to fail.”
SO, YES, UKRAINE is a big story, and Putin is a menace to Western stability. But I will argue here that allowing Iran to march merrily forward with its nuclear bomb and ballistic missile programs and its hegemonic regional ambitions is an even worse threat to world security, and certainly to Israel’s security.
The about-to-be signed nuclear deal with Iran is “shorter and weaker” than president Barack Obama’s bad 2015 deal with the ayatollahs. The old/new deal maintains soon-coming sunset clauses; does not guarantee IAEA supervision of Iranian nuclear installations “anywhere and anytime”; and does not give global powers the actual ability to activate the “snapback mechanism,” which allowed president Donald Trump to reimpose sanctions.
It will whitewash all of Iran’s nuclear program violations to date (like enriching uranium to the 60% level) and allow Iran to keep its advanced centrifuges. It will pave a certain path for Iran to acquire a nuclear bomb in the coming years.
Reportedly, the just-round-the-corner agreement also lacks any mechanisms that will force Iran to engage in additional negotiations over a “longer and stronger” deal before the old/new deal expires – something the Biden administration had promised to Israel and the American public when it set out its goals.
Chillingly, the deal also will grant Iran hundreds of billions of dollars in sanctions relief, allowing Tehran to rehabilitate its economy and continue funding its terrorist proxies and hegemonic aggressions. Instead of reimposing maximum economic pressure and building a credible military threat against Iran, Biden is surrendering to Iran.
The extremist Islamic regime in Tehran undoubtedly will point to the deal as evidence of its morality and superiority, and of the weakness of the US and Israel.
According to some reports the Biden administration even is considering the declassification of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization. The IRGC is the roof organization of Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, the Houthis in Yemen and more. It is the mullahs’ forward shock-force against Iran’s adversaries, acting to undermine pro-Western governments and pro-Israel Sunni regimes from Central and South America to Africa, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
The IRGC also operates Iran’s growing fleet of sophisticated and long-range attack drones. Iranian UAVs have made deadly and devastating attacks on targets at sea in the Arabian Gulf and beyond, and against American targets in Iraq. Iranian UAV attacks have claimed innocent lives, such as British and Romanian civilians killed in the attack on the Mercer Street oil tanker off the coast of Oman. Iranian UAVs and missiles endanger civilian flights across the region, too.
If all this is not a clear-and-present-danger to world peace and security, I don’t know what is.
Of course, this is where the crises with Russia and Iran coalesce. These countries (and China too) seek to emasculate the West, to expose America as a paper tiger. Putin wants Eastern Europe back in the Russian orbit. Iran wants to go further – to bring about the Shi’ite messianic era, which means bringing the entire Middle East (at least) under its thumb. Which means crushing Israel and enervating America.
The writer is a senior fellow at The Kohelet Forum and in the research department of Habithonistim: Israel’s Defense and Security Forum. His diplomatic, defense, political, and Jewish world columns over the past 25 years are archived at davidmweinberg.com
On Snake Island, 13 Ukrainian troops were posted there as border guards were ordered to surrender. They could have—but this is war. This is a fight for their home. And there would be no retreat. A Russian naval ship ordered them to throw down their arms. They told them to screw off—literally.
“Russian military ship, go f**k yourself,” they replied. All were all killed as a result (via Daily Mail):
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Subject: U.S. OIL SUPPLY.....INCREDIBLE..!!
Here's an astonishing read. Important and verifiable information:
About 6 months ago, there was a news program on oil and one of The Forbes Bros. was the guest. The host said to Forbes, "I am going to ask you a direct question and I would like a direct answer; how much oil does the U.S. Have in the ground?" Forbes did not miss a beat, he said, "More than all the Middle East put Together."
The U.S. Geological Service issued a report in April 2008 that only Scientists and oil men knew was coming, but man was it big. It was a revised report (hadn't been updated since 1995) on how much oil was in this area of the western 2/3 of North Dakota, western South Dakota, and Extreme eastern Montana.
Check THIS out:
The Bakken is the largest domestic oil discovery since Alaska's Prudhoe Bay and has the potential to eliminate all American dependence on foreign oil. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates it at 503 billion barrels. Even if just 10% of the oil is recoverable (5 Billion barrels), at $107 a barrel, we're looking at a resource base worth more than $5.3 trillion. "When I first briefed legislators on this, you could practically see their Jaws hit the floor.
They had no idea." says Terry Johnson, the Montana Legislature's financial analyzer. "This sizable find is now the highest-producing onshore oil field found in the past 56 years," reports The Pittsburgh Post Gazette.
It's a formation known as the Williston Basin but is more commonly referred to as the 'Bakken.' It stretches from Northern Montana, through North Dakota and into Canada. For years, U.S. Oil exploration has been considered a dead end. Even the 'Big Oil' companies gave up searching for major oil wells decades ago.
However, a recent technological breakthrough has opened up the Bakken's Massive reserves, And, we now have access of up to 500 billion barrels. And because this is Light, sweet oil, those billions of barrels will cost Americans just $16 PER BARREL!!!!! That's enough crude to fully fuel the American economy for 2041 years Straight. And if THAT didn't throw you on the floor, then this next one should - Because it's from 2006 !!!!!!
U.S. Oil Discovery - Largest Reserve in the World Stansberry Report Online - 4/20/2006. Hidden 1,000 feet beneath the surface of the Rocky Mountains lies the Largest untapped oil reserve in the world. It is more than 2 TRILLION barrels. On August 8, 2005 President Bush Mandated its extraction. In many recent years of high oil prices none has been extracted. With this mother lode of oil why are we still fighting over off-shore Drilling?
They reported this stunning news: We have more oil inside our borders, than all the other proven reserves on Earth.
Here are the official estimates:
8 times as much oil as Saudi Arabia
18 times as much oil as Iraq
21 times as much oil as Kuwait
22 times as much oil as Iran
500 times as much oil as Yemen
And it's all right here in the Western United States !!!!!!
HOW can this BE? HOW can we NOT BE extracting this? Because the Environmentalists and others have blocked all efforts to help America become Independent of foreign oil! Again, we are letting a small group of people Dictate our lives and our economy. WHY?
James Bartis, lead researcher with the study says we've got more oil in this very compact area than the entire Middle East, more than 2 TRILLION barrels Untapped. That's more than all the proven oil reserves of crude oil in the World today, reports The Denver Post.
Don't think 'OPEC' will drop its price even with this find? Think again! It's all about the competitive marketplace, it has to. Think OPEC just might be funding the environmentalists?
Got your attention yet? Now, while you're thinking about it, do this:
Pass this along. If you don't take a little time to do this, then you should stifle yourself the next time you complain about gas prices, by doing NOTHING, you forfeit your right to complain.
Now I just wonder what would happen in this country if every one of you sent this to everyone in your address book.
By the way, this can be verified. Check it out at the link below !!!!!!
USGS Releases Oil and Gas Assessment for the Bakken and Three Forks Formations of Montana and North Dakota | U.S. Geological Survey [usgs.gov]
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ALERT: Biden Selects Supreme Court Nominee
Who is Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee? - Vox
(TheRedAlertNews.com) – BREAKING NOW: Just moments ago, the news broke that President Joe Biden has selected Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, who currently sits on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, as his nominee to the United States Supreme Court.
If the United States Senate confirms Judge Jackson, she will become the first Black woman to serve on the court.
From the outset, even during his 2020 presidential campaign, Biden pledged that, if elected, he would appoint a Black woman to the highest court in the land.
According to the Washington Post:
“President Biden will nominate federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace retiring Justice Stephen G. Breyer, according to people briefed on the process, a historic choice that fulfills the president’s pledge to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court.
“Jackson, 51, would also be just the third African American in the high court’s 233-year history. A former public defender, she served as a trial court judge in Washington for eight years before Biden elevated her last year to the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. She was confirmed to that court after a relatively uncontentious Senate hearing and with the backing of three Republican lawmakers.”
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Russians Ordered Thirteen Ukrainian Soldiers on Snake Island to Surrender. Here's What Happened.
By Matt Vespa
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Snake Island is small. It doesn’t look like much, but it’s a strategic island. The Russians now control it. They’re a mere 40 miles from Romania, a NATO member state. It’s one of the many skirmishes that have erupted all over the country amid this new war launched by Vladimir Putin. It’s a war we all saw coming, but one our government seems woefully behind with regards to strategic thinking. They don’t even know where they stand on sanctions and their effect. Were they handed down as a deterrent or not? Half of this administration thinks so, the other half do not. It’s a circus. As the West figures out what to do, the Ukrainians are reportedly fighting hard. They’re not giving up, and this comes as almost every one of them knows they cannot defeat the Russians. On Snake Island, 13 Ukrainian troops were posted there as border guards were ordered to surrender. They could have—but this is war. This is a fight for their home. And there would be no retreat. A Russian naval ship ordered them to throw down their arms. They told them to screw off—literally.
“Russian military ship, go f**k yourself,” they replied. All were all killed as a result (via Daily Mail):
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