While the US has its focus on Ukraine and the Middle East, China performs a blockade drill in potential WW3 flashpoint Taiwan. South China Morning Post reports: “The People’s Liberation Army announced on Monday evening that it had wrapped up its blockade drills around Taiwan, saying it had “fully tested […]
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“I don’t think there is an implicit obligation for the United States to follow like a stupid mule whatever the Israelis do. If they decide to start a war, simply on the assumption that we’ll automatically be drawn into it, I think it is the obligation of friendship to say, […]
Things have gone from bad to worse for Ukraine. Zelensky is again traveling the globe in an attempt to form some type of international consensus for ending the conflict. Simplicius Oct 11, 2024 After half a year of deliberately obfuscating propaganda about Russia “desperately” chasing a ceasefire, it has emerged […]
Weather has been dangerous lately, most notably in the hurricane events Stateside, but less well spotlighted by Western media are events in the East. Naturally there have been mutterings about “weather wars”. Now would be a suitable time for a reminder about things spoken of in the 1990s about military […]
New Zealand has had a bad run lately. A newly refurbished inter-island ferry running aground. Prior to that our Boeing 757 RNZAF craft broke down immediately after a “thorough” mechanical service. These things have something in common: All recently given a substantial service or refit, and all subsequently “lost power”. […]
Two days out from Iran’s seminal strike on Israel and some things are being clarified. Simplicius https://simplicius76.substack.comOct 04, 2024 All the early claims of having shot everything down were slowly retracted, with more realistic headlines slowly taking their place as testament to the confusion behind the scenes. Iranian missiles were […]
Over the last year or two, Hezbollah had become increasingly concerned that the cell phones used by its members were giving away their locations and allowing the Israelis to target them with airstrikes or missiles, so its leadership finally decided to shift most of its communications network to the use […]
Here’s what the Russian Army has achieved in Ukraine over the last two months… Sergey PolataevRTThu, 19 Sep 2024 © RT/RT Russian Army Moscow’s forces are building on gains on three key fronts as Kiev desperately tries to find a response. The front line in the Ukraine conflict has shifted […]
Israel’s Mossad spy agency planted a small amount of explosives inside thousands of pagers ordered by Hezbollah months before the devices exploded, a Lebanese security source has told the Reuters news agency. Sky News – Sept 18, 2024 The senior source said the militant group had ordered 5,000 beepers which […]
War in space seems to be a dominant theme of the emerging World War 3 scenario. NZ is ready and willing. However, there’s sure to be repercussions. Here’s RNZ’s news report: New Zealand has accepted a US invitation to join a top-level group that aims to deter hostile actors in […]