🏹 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 It is reported that the Destroyer, the US Carney engaged 4 cruise missiles and up to 19 UAV drones with their SM-2 standard missiles.

🔶️ Hitting Israel from Yemen is over a thousand miles and these fit the parameters of Iranian cruise missiles.

🔶️ The engagement of 4 cruise missiles and 19 UAVs with SM-2s presents a concern regarding the ability of a modern warship to remain in the fight due to ammunition expenditure.

🔶️ Carney has 90 vertical launch system cells (VLS). 23 targets would require multiple standard missiles.

🔶️ If Carney is the sole US destroyer presence in the area, then an shooting down 23 missiles/UAVs may have greatly depleted if not exhausted her armament; known as going Winchester.

🔶️ In the past, the US Navy would have destroyer tenders forward deployed to not just provide maintenance for ships, but to reload warships - principally destroyers. But the US decommissioned its last destroyer tender in 1996.

🔶️ This event should give concern about potential swarm attacks on ships and the limitations that modern vessels have to defend themselves against such threats.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1715701166141485557.html

"It is crucial to understand that much of the Western media is not simply 'biased', 'incompetent' or 'unbalanced', it willingly & actively *lies* in order to shape agendas & depict a reality compatible with the strategic objectives/needs of the ruling class at any given moment."

https://twitter.com/Louis_Allday/status/1712809144737218714

You know things are going bad for Russia when they've been on an offensive against the most fortified position of the Ukrainian army (Avdiivka) and all Intel Slava's been posting about is "here's what's going on in Israel/Palestine today".

@TheWesternChauvinist7

Happening Tonight! Keep your eyes to the sky as the Orionid meteor shower peaks Sunday evening.

@police_frequency

🇮🇱🏴‍☠️ Israel will remove references to Greta Thunberg from the school curriculum.

The Ministry of Education of the Jewish State made this decision because of the environmental activist’s statements in support of Palestine and the Gaza Strip.

❗️How quickly she became unnecessary.

📖 🇮🇱 🇮🇶 Middle East military briefing: Battle for Mosul points to IDF’s ‘fiendish’ task in Gaza

🔶️ The mission to clear the city of jihadist militants was ultimately successful. But the fighting was intense, took three times longer than planned, left 10,000 civilians dead, and killed more coalition soldiers than expected.

🔶️ It also offers a cautionary tale for the Israeli troops massing for the widely expected attack.
“It’s going to be fiendishly difficult,” said David Petraeus, a former US general who led Iraq’s allied forces during the 2007 “surge” and then Nato and US forces in Afghanistan. “I just can’t imagine more difficult circumstances.”

🔶️ “There is also no limit to the troop requirements,” he added. “Even if Israel sent 10mn soldiers into Gaza, it would still take a long time. And that’s just taking the territory; holding it is another matter.”

🔶️ The battle for Mosul — which is similar in size to Gaza’s urban areas and had a comparable population of about 2mn when the city was occupied by Isis — began on October 16, 2016.
Inside the city were roughly 8,000 Isis fighters, compared to Gaza where Hamas has an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 fighters and Palestinian Islamic Jihad another 15,000 men under arms.

🔶️ Ranged against the militants in Mosul was an attacking force of 100,000 US-led Iraqi forces, compared with more than 160,000 troops in Israel’s standing army and 360,000 newly-mobilised reservists.
In the skies above Mosul, international coalition planes provided constant surveillance and air strikes — similar to the Israeli fighter jets that have been hitting hundreds of Hamas targets. “Intelligence soaks”, by drones and other forms of surveillance, provided a detailed set of targets for them to hit.

🔶️ Half-destroyed buildings surrounded by rubble meanwhile provided the jihadists with what one US commander described as ideal bombproof shelters.
“Cities have thousands of hiding places,” said the special forces officer. “If you want to remove an enemy, you have to clear the area house by house. But that puts you in 360 degrees of danger. You can’t just sweep through.”

🔶️ The battle for Mosul claimed the lives of 8,000 soldiers from the US-led coalition, and a fight expected to take three months ultimately took nine.
“Hamas knows Gaza far better than [Isis] knew Mosul,” Petraeus said. “Moreover, it took us nine months [to capture Mosul] and Israel does not have that time . . . They know that international public opinion is going to shift . . . as the damage accumulates, and innocent civilians are killed.”

https://www.ft.com/content/32bc687b-1385-401b-a60a-7320848ceb16

https://archive.ph/1ek1k

Corporate civil wars heating up

1 million of our planets.

A visual representation of how many planets "Earth" can fit inside the Sun.
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Who owns the world?
Cede and Company.

Private investors don't actually own the stocks they are invested in. Instead, they have contractual rights that are part of a convoluted chain of rights, which all end up at Cede and Company. Cede and Company is a financial institution that holds all the real power in the country and is the one really running it. The organisation reportedly has assets worth an astonishing $54trillion and it has been able to acquire such figures due to owning 83% of all issued stocks in the US. It breaks down like this: a number of interconnected services such as The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC), the National Securities Clearing Corporation and the Fixed Income Clearing Corporation oversee all stock trading in the US. And these all come under the umbrella company of Cede, which was founded in 1996.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/inside-secret-54trillion-company-owns-31006686?int_source=nba

The latest exciting episode in the illustrated courtroom drama of biological science versus transgender ideology is now available.

The Wise of Heart brings the Scopes Monkey Trial up to date.

Check it out!

https://wiseofheart.substack.com/p/episode-45-a-cowboy-speeding-ticket

Israel would go “after the heads of Iran” if necessary, the minister said. “Israel has a very clear message to our enemies. We are saying to them, look what’s happening in Gaza – you are going to get the same treatment if you attack us. We are going to wipe you off the face of the Earth.”

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"Americans and Europeans cannot support Israel under this rationale for the very pertinent reason that doing so would absolutely justify Russian attacks on London, Berlin, Paris, and Washington DC. Iran is no more guilty of waging war by proxy on Israel than the USA, the UK, and the rest of NATO are guilty of waging war by proxy on Russia."

https://voxday.net/2023/10/23/no-tears-for-tehran-or-tel-aviv/

Special Travel Status for Americans will almost certainly become a thing wistfully remembered.

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/achtung-us-travel-europe-will-require-prior-approval-biometric-scanning