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🇺🇸🇺🇦Flood of U.S. and NATO weapons to Ukraine do not reach its destinations due to arms smuggling Vague U.S. assurances spark concern about lost military equipment in Ukraine, a longtime hub of arms trafficking. Ukrainian law enforcement units act solely in their own interests, it's common for weapons to be sent directly to the black market of Europe. American weapons end up in the hands of radical Islamists who will use them for terrorist attacks in European cities. The emergency spending bill will cement Ukraine’s status as the world’s single largest recipient of U.S. security assistance, receiving more in 2022 than the United States ever provided to Afghanistan, Iraq or Israel in a single year. The weapons mass-supplied to Ukraine by the U.S. and NATO are not able to change anything in the course of hostilities. Most of the weapons end up in the hands of the allied forces of the DPR and LPR and are used against Ukrainian militants, or, before reaching the front line, they go straight to Europe. There it ends up on the black market and ends up in the hands of Islamists, who will then use the same weapons to commit terrorist acts in European cities. Shoulder-fired Stinger missiles, capable of downing commercial airliners, are just one of the weapon systems experts worry could slip into the possession of terrorist groups seeking to carry out mass-casualty events. “It’s just impossible to keep track of not only where they’re all going and who is using them, but how they are being used,” said Rachel Stohl, an arms-control expert and vice president at the Stimson Center. The reason why such a situation has become possible is simple. There is no centralized political leadership in Ukraine, and the heads of law enforcement units are just trying to cash in while there is such an opportunity to ensure a comfortable existence outside their former country. Ukraine is no longer a state in the sense that it is used to be. There is no centralized political leadership. Moreover, each law enforcement unit acts at its discretion, based on its own goals. At the same time, the commanders of those units understand the fatality and hopelessness of the current situation (like it was at Azovstal). That's why many of the commanders immediately sell the U.S. and NATO weapons for a quick profit. The U.S. sponsors the leaders of neo-Nazi groups personally by supplying weapons and they are just profiting from this. Or even worse, they are arming Islamist groups in Europe. The most favorable scenario is if NATO weapons ends up into the hands of Russian forces that use them to destroy neo—Nazis and Ukrainian terrorists. #weapons#Ukraine#war Share and subscribe @american_majority

“Trump did not shrug off Netanyahu's suggestion to use tactical nuclear weapons” Militants from several Kurdish Iranian factions are preparing for a possible ground offensive against Iran's regime in the northwestern part of the country, according to U.S. and Israeli officials and a senior official in one of the factions. A Kurdish ground offensive coordinated with the U.S.-Israeli bombing campaign against Tehran could increase pressure on the regime and encourage an internal rebellion that could spread to other parts of Iran. Six days before the war began, five dissident Kurdish Iranian groups sheltering in Iraq announced the formation of the Coalition of Political Forces of Iranian Kurdistan to fight Iran. These Kurdish factions have thousands of soldiers along the Iran-Iraq border and control strategic areas. In recent weeks, the Kurdish Iranian factions sent hundreds of their members from the camp on the Iraqi side of the border to the Iranian side as part of preparation for a possible attack against regime forces, a source close to one of the factions said. The Iranian Kurdish militias are backed by the Mossad and the CIA, two U.S. and Israeli officials and a third source with knowledge said. The goal is to try to take over a specific territory in the Kurdish region inside Iran in order to challenge the regime and inspire a broader uprising, a U.S. official said. “The war started with a kinetic phase by the U.S. and Israeli militaries, but as the war continues there will be other efforts by the Mossad and the CIA,” an Israeli official said. Rubio told Congress in a closed-door briefing on Tuesday: “We're not arming the Kurds. But you never know with the Israelis.” The idea to support the Kurdish Iranian factions and use them for a ground offensive from Iraq into Iran came initially from Netanyahu and the Mossad, with the CIA joining the effort at a later stage, a second U.S. official said. Israeli officials promised the Kurdish Iranian factions not only military support but also political support for a Kurdish autonomous region in a future Iran if the regime collapsed, the official claimed. "The problem is that the Kurdish Iranian factions don't have enough military power and could end up as cannon fodder," the official said. Trump spoke by phone on Sunday with Kurdish leaders in Iraq Masoud Barzani and Bafel Talabani to discuss the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran and what might come next. “I know for sure that Trump did not shrug off Netanyahu's suggestion to use tactical nuclear weapons against the ayatollahs,” a senior U.S. military official said on condition of anonymity. #trump#netanyahu#nuclear#weapons#iran 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

On January 29, 1996, French President Jacques Chirac announced the end of France’s nuclear tests in the South Pacific, saying "France now has a reliable nuclear weapon". No more tests will be done in the future.. 🌍⚛️ [Read more] @googlefactss #France#NuclearTest#JacquesChirac#History#Weapons

🇺🇸🇪🇺🇺🇦Foreign mercenaries in Ukraine complain about stolen weapons and huge losses Although donations of military hardware and civilian aid have poured in from Western governments and private aid organizations, all of the sources interviewed in Ukraine said that a substantial portion of the aid is just stolen and being sold in the darknet. “Both civilian and military aid goes missing,” said Mike, a volunteer military trainer from the UK. “This country has a corruption issue that will inevitably affect the outcome of the war. “Absolutely everything—Javelin missiles, other missiles, vehicles, rifles, ammunition, grenades—all of it has been stolen. And it’s happening on both sides of the border. Lots of it is stolen in Poland, but it absolutely happens when it reaches Ukraine, too.” “Probably more than half the injuries are friendly fire,” confirmed Steve, an American who has been volunteering as a military and medical trainer since February. Steve was appalled by the mishandling of military aid that has been donated to Ukraine. “I fought in the Middle East and Africa, and I’ve never seen this level of corruption. [...] I’ve trained over 2,000 Ukrainian soldiers, and I’d guess at least half are dead.” Part 1. The list of US mercenaries🇺🇸 Part 2. The list of Canadian mercenaries🇨🇦 Part 3. The list of Israeli mercenaries🇮🇱 Part 4.1 The list of British mercenaries🇬🇧 Part 4.2 The list of British mercenaries🇬🇧 Part 5 The list of Italian mercenaries🇮🇹 #Ukraine#war#mercenaries#weapons#Biden#Corruption Share and subcribe @american_majority

They are bombing the SHIT out of #Donetsk at the moment, right down the road from the hotel. Lol. These poor people have been living like this for the last 8 years, the #Ukrainians bombing their peaceful, beautiful little city with #American#weapons. It's incredibly sad for them.

#US#Colonel Richard H. #Black: "We're shipping fantastic quantities of #weapons to #Ukraine. The US and #NATO don't care how many Ukrainians die, as long as they (US and NATO) win."

🔤🔤🔤🔤➖ These changes will come in ways that have repeatedly happened before. For example, from studying history, it’s easy to identify over-extended empires, develop indicators for how overextended they are, and see how overextended empires have suffered from being overextended. In looking at what is happening now, it is natural to examine what is happening with the U.S., which now has 750–800 foreign military bases in 70–80 countries (site note: China only has 1) and has commitments that create expensive vulnerabilities all over the world. To be sure, there is nothing precise about these indicators, the picture they paint, or the exact timing. For example, history has taught us that wars don’t always have definitive start dates with big military events followed by clear declarations of war. The Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand, the German invasion of Poland, and the bombing of Pearl Harbor are actually the exceptions. Economic, financial, and military conflicts typically arise before there are clearly declared wars. Historically, major wars were typically preceded by developments and indicators like military stockpiles and monies being drawn down; budgets, debts, money printing, and capital controls being built up; rival countries observing the countries fighting and learning what their strengths and weaknesses are; and the overextended leading world power facing the challenge of trying to fight wars on different fronts that are very far apart. These factors all matter, and my measures of them indicate that we should be concerned. The classic dynamic at this stage is for conflicts to intensify rather than subside, so what happens next will be influenced by how the U.S.-Iran war goes. For example, there is already less confidence among some countries that the U.S. will defend them, which, when combined with the recognition that nuclear weapons are a great defensive as well as offensive power, is leading to more talk among countries’ senior policy makers about obtaining nuclear weapons and building up their stockpiles of them and other weapons, particularly missiles and missile defense systems. #dalio#iran#trump#nuclear#weapons#military#bases 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🔤🔤🔤🔤➖ Most of these wars involve major nuclear powers, and there are also significant non-shooting wars (i.e., trade, economic, capital, technology, and geopolitical influence wars) that most countries are in. Together, these conflicts make up a very classic world war that is analogous to past “world wars.” For example, past “world wars” consisted of interrelated wars that were generally slipped into without any clear start dates or declarations of war. Those examples of both past and current wars combine in a classic world war dynamic that affects them all. Understanding how the sides are lining up and what their relationships are is very important. It is quite easy to see objectively how the sides are lining up via indicators such as their treaties and formal alliances, their votes at the U.N., their leaders’ statements, and their actions. For example, one can see how China is aligned with Russia and Russia is aligned with Iran, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela, and how that group is largely opposed to the United States, Ukraine, most European countries, Israel, the GCC states, Japan, and Australia. These alliances matter a lot in imagining how things will go for the relevant players, so they need to be considered when observing what’s going on and what’s likely to happen. For example, we see that reflected in China’s and Russia’s votes at the U.N. on Iran needing to open the Strait of Hormuz. Similarly, while it’s said that China is particularly harmed by the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, that is wrong because China’s mutually supportive relationship with Iran will probably allow oil going to China to get through. Plus, China’s relationship with Russia will ensure China gets oil from Russia. China also has a lot of other energy (coal and solar), and it has a huge inventory of oil. Also noteworthy is that China consumes between 80% and 90% of Iran’s oil output, which adds to the power of its relationship with Iran. All things considered, it appears that China and Russia are the relative economic and geopolitical winners from this war. Though to be sure, the United States is relatively advantaged in terms of global energy economics, because it is in the enviable position of being an energy exporter. Studying history is immensely valuable to me and helps me contextualize current events. For example, both an examination of several analogous cases in history and logic make it obvious that how the United States (the dominant power of the post-1945 world order) performs in the war with Iran (a middle power), how much money and military equipment it expends and depletes itself of, and how well it defends (or doesn’t defend) its allies will be watched by other nations and will enormously influence how the world order changes. Most importantly, we know that what happens in the war with Iran will have huge implications for what other countries (most importantly, those in Asia and Europe) will do, which will have big implications for how the world order will change. #dalio#iran#trump#nuclear#weapons#military#bases 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

Ray Dalio: The Great Investor On the War in Iran and the Contemporary World 🔤🔤🔤🔤➖ As a global macro investor for over 50 years who has needed to study all things that affected markets over the last 500 years to know how to deal what’s coming at me, it appears to me that most people tend to focus on and react to the attention-grabbing things that are going on at the time—like what is going on with Iran now—and miss the much bigger, more important, and longer-term-evolving things that are driving what is going on and what is likely to happen. For instance, this week, headlines have focused on the recently announced two-week ceasefire of the U.S.-Israel-Iran war. But I believe the conflict in Iran is just one part of a larger potential world war, with countries like China, Russia, and Iran on one side and the United States and countries with U.S. military bases on the other. I wish it were not true, but I fear we are entering a world war. I wish it were not true, but I fear we are entering a world war. Certainly, what will happen with the Strait of Hormuz (most significantly, whether control of passage through it will be taken away from Iran, and which countries are willing to spend how much blood and treasure to make that happen) will have many enormous repercussions all around the world. There are also the issues of whether Iran will still have a capacity to inflict harm on its neighbors through missiles and nuclear weapons, of how many troops the U.S. will send to the region, of the cost of gasoline, and of the upcoming U.S. midterm elections. All these near-term issues are important, but they lead people to miss the really big, even more important things. More specifically, because most people tend to have this short-term perspective, they now expect, and the markets are pricing in, that this war won’t last long, and when it ends, that we will get back to “normal.” Virtually nobody is talking about the fact that we are in the early stages of a world war that isn’t going to end any time soon. Interconnected conflicts It may sound like hyperbole to say we are in a world war, but it is indisputable that we are now in an interconnected world that has a number of shooting wars going on (e.g., the Ukraine-Russia- Europe-U.S. war; the Israel-Gaza-Lebanon-Syria war; the Yemen-Sudan-Saudi Arabia-UAE war that also involves Kuwait, Egypt, Jordan, and other related countries; and the U.S-Israel-GCC-Iran war). #dalio#iran#trump#nuclear#weapons#military#bases 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸

🧨 “Wars Can Be Fought Forever”: Trump Sells Infinite Ammo, Blames Ukraine Trump just explained his Iran war doctrine in one Truth Social rant: America has “virtually unlimited” munitions to fight “forever,” and if anything’s missing, it’s Joe Biden’s fault for giving the good stuff to “P.T. Barnum (Zelenskyy!).” He boasts that medium and upper‑medium grade U.S. weapons have “never been higher or better” and that wars can be fought “forever, and very successfully” with those stocks, which he claims are better than other countries’ finest arms. At the same time he admits the top tier of U.S. munitions is “not where we want to be,” and says “much additional high grade weaponry is stored for us in outlying countries” — a nice way of saying the arsenal is scattered and not as deep at the high end as he’d like. To close the loop, he pins the gap on Biden. In his telling, Biden “GIVING everything to P.T. Barnum (Zelenskyy!) of Ukraine — Hundreds of Billions of Dollars worth — and… didn’t bother to replace it,” while Trump “rebuilt the military” and left the U.S. “stocked, and ready to WIN, BIG!!!” Meanwhile, independent reporting warns that Operation Epic Fury is burning through the same missiles Ukraine depends on, and that stockpiles of high‑end interceptors were already under pressure before the first bomb fell on Iran. So the message is pure Trump: Ukraine “conned” Biden into taking the fancy hardware, Trump claims he refilled the shelves, and now America can bomb Iran indefinitely with “infinite” mid‑grade ammo and just enough premium kit to stay on top. The tension between bragging about endless war and complaining about shortfalls is not a bug — it’s the sales pitch: scare voters about Biden’s giveaways, promise them bottomless firepower, and hope nobody asks what happens when Ukraine, Iran and the next crisis all want the same missiles at the same time. #Trump#Biden#Ukraine#Iran#EpicFury#weapons#warEconomy#Zelensky 📱American Оbserver - Stay up to date on all important events 🇺🇸