JNIM claims to have ambushed a fuel tanker convoy escorted by the Malian army and the Africa Corps between Kassaro and Soribougou, west of Bamako this evening, it has been a while since this axis has seen an attempt to bring fuel tankers to the capital, efforts recently being… pic.twitter.com/W98QthKvZC
JNIM claims to have ambushed a fuel tanker convoy escorted by the Malian army and the Africa Corps between Kassaro and Soribougou, west of Bamako this evening, it has been a while since this axis has seen an attempt to bring fuel tankers to the capital, efforts recently being focused on the southern axis.
IS-Sahel released images from the Africa Corps - Malian army vehicle they targeted near Menaka, and of the helmet of one of the Russian mercenaries, adding that they monitored a helicopter landing near the IED site to evacuate the wounded.
IS-Sahel released images from the Africa Corps - Malian army vehicle they targeted near Menaka, and of the helmet of one of the Russian mercenaries, adding that they monitored a helicopter landing near the IED site to evacuate the wounded.
IS-Sahel also stated that Russia "competes with the Crusader West in looting underground treasures" in the Sahel, using Africa Corps, and that the regional government only switched from American guardianship to Russian guardianship since the coups.
IS-Sahel says that despite the Wagner PMC rebranding to Africa Corps, or the Western powers withdrawing to be replaced by Russia, nothing has changed for them and that they will continue to target "Russian invaders alongside American and European invaders wherever they land [...] No distinction is made between an Eastern infidel or a Western infidel".
TROOPS BURST CRIMINAL GANG, RECOVER ARMS AND AMMUNITION IN DELTA STATE
Troops of 63 Brigade/Sector 1, Joint Task Force, South South, Operation DELTA SAFE have successfully bursted a criminal gang and recovered arms and ammunition in Oshimilli North Local… pic.twitter.com/kC1ZXTgTCW
TROOPS BURST CRIMINAL GANG, RECOVER ARMS AND AMMUNITION IN DELTA STATE
But what does criminal gang mean in this context?
Troops of 63 Brigade/Sector 1, Joint Task Force, South South, Operation DELTA SAFE have successfully bursted a criminal gang and recovered arms and ammunition in Oshimilli North Local Government Area of Delta State. The operations led to the arrest of two suspected criminals, alleged to be members of a notorious cult group in the area. Their arrest was effected following credible intelligence on the nefarious activities of the criminal gang in a recent operation conducted around Ibusa.
During the operations,several weapons were recovered, including two pump action rifles recovered from the criminals, as well as additional three pump action rifles recovered from purported local vigilantes. The suspects and weapons recovered have been handed over to the relevant agency for further investigation. Furthermore, in a follow up operations conducted, the area was combed, which led to the recovery of additional eight pump action rifles at Umuisiagba. Thirteen 13 suspects, including Nwaokonta Elvis, Obi Victor Woke, Uba Elijah, Nonso Ibiora, Dumbili Ezefili, Ndefu Ifeanyi, Ozemene Richard, Broderick Patrick, Nwaokonta Afamefile, Kelvin Ejiani, Victor Ogochukwu, Ogadi Kelvin Ikechukwu and Ndibuisi Obiogonna (Native Doctor)
Meanwhile, the Commander, 63 Brigade, Brigadier General MA Shonibare, while commending troops for their vigilance, charged them to clampdown on l criminal networks in the area. He reassured the good people of Delta Sate and environs that the Brigade would continue to effectively prioritise the safety of lives and property.
#2
The so-called bandits in that part of the world are jihadis, too, as it turns out. So many different names for the same work, and the personnel change hats depending on where the pay is the best and the action is hottest.
Troops recover cache of 12.7mm ammunition in Maiduguri
Troops of Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have recovered a large cache of high-calibre 12.7mm ammunition in the Bulumkutu Railway general area of Maiduguri, Borno State.
Troops recover cache of 12.7mm ammunition in Maiduguri
Troops of Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have recovered a large cache of high-calibre 12.7mm ammunition in the Bulumkutu Railway general area of Maiduguri, Borno State.
Sources said that the recovery followed sustained, intelligence-led security operations and follow-up actions after recent cordon-and-search activities aimed at denying criminal and terrorist elements freedom of action.
Military sources said the discovery was made at about 3:00 p.m. on Friday, following a distress call by residents who reported suspicious metallic objects inside a drainage channel in the area.
Troops, alongside Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) teams, immediately mobilised to the location to secure the environment and assess the situation.
A thorough search of the drainage channel led to the recovery of 1,270 rounds of 12.7mm ammunition warheads, including some live 12.7mm rounds, as well as power banks concealed within the channel. More at the link
NAF sustains air strikes, cripples terrorist networks in North-East, North-West
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The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has sustained a series of coordinated, intelligence-led air interdiction operations across the North-East and North-West, dealing significant blows… pic.twitter.com/Cs6aUm8PR5
NAF sustains air strikes, cripples terrorist networks in North-East, North-West
By Zagazola Makama
The Nigerian Air Force (NAF) has sustained a series of coordinated, intelligence-led air interdiction operations across the North-East and North-West, dealing significant blows to terrorist networks and denying them safe havens.
NAF spokesman, Air Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, said in a statement on Friday that the operations were conducted between Jan. 1 and Jan. 2, 2026, under the joint task forces of Operations Hadin Kai and Fasan Yamma Sector 2.
Ejodame said the air strikes were executed based on actionable intelligence on terrorist intent, movement and logistics, with air assets deployed to strike identified hideouts, movement routes and assembly areas.
He said the operations were aimed at denying terrorists freedom of movement, operational depth and sanctuary within Nigeria’s territory.
“In the North-East theatre, successive precision strikes were delivered against deeply concealed terrorist enclaves at Abirma and Chiralia within the Timbuktu Triangle, following persistent surveillance that confirmed active facilities linked to improvised explosive device production and attack planning,” he said. More at the link
[X] Ever more interesting times. First the Houthis were pounded by America, then Israel — who also killed a bunch of their emirs — and now this. They can’t win for losing, a clear sign of Allah’s disfavour.
UAE-backed 🇦🇪 STC forces are collapsing in Hadramout, though they still hold in Mahra Governorate.
Here’s the latest map of Yemen’s 🇾🇪 situation, showing the recent advances made by the Saudi-backed 🇸🇦 National Security Forces (NSF) in Wadi Hadramout as of today. https://t.co/I9S2jqggsCpic.twitter.com/MFDLgCOyMV
The scale of videos emerging from Hadramawt showing widespread looting is staggering. I am seeing footage of an aircraft stairs truck being looted from Yemeni Airways facilities at Sayoun Airport, possibly even from aviation assets linked to Al-Rayyan Airport.
The scale of videos emerging from Hadramawt showing widespread looting is staggering. I am seeing footage of an aircraft stairs truck being looted from Yemeni Airways facilities at Sayoun Airport, possibly even from aviation assets linked to Al-Rayyan Airport.
I am also seeing civilians looting containers filled with ammunition and weapons, from locations such as the Al-Rayyan Airforce base and the Dhabba Oil Terminal Base.
In Mukalla, videos show young men looting the Judiciary Complex and carrying away computers and laptops.
Other footage shows civilian vehicles openly transporting ammunition, including ATGMs and RPGs.
While some may find this almost comical, the reality is deeply troubling. More at the link
[AnNahar] Saudi-backed troops on Saturday made advances in Yemen ...an area of the Arabian Peninsula sometimes mistaken for a country. It is populated by more antagonistic tribes and factions than you can keep track of... 's resource-rich Hadramawt province, military officials said, as confrontations between forces backed by Riyadh and Abu Dhabi have triggered a deep rift between the two Gulf allies.
The Saudis and Emiratis have for years supported rival factions in Yemen's fractious government. But the UAE-backed secessionist Southern Transitional Council's recent offensive to capture Hadramawt angered Riyadh and left the oil-rich regional powers on a collision course.
Following repeated warnings and air strikes, including on an alleged Emirati weapons shipment this week, the Saudi-led coalition launched a wave of attacks on Friday, including on the al-Khasha military camp in Hadramawt that left 20 dead, according to the separatist group.
Two military officials with the Saudi-aligned government told AFP on Saturday morning that Riyadh-backed forces had taken control of the principal military base in the Yemeni city of Mukalla, the capital of Hadramawt.
According to an AFP journalist, gunfire could be heard in the city early Saturday and while residents described a security breakdown there, Saudi-backed forces appeared to advance with little resistence.
In the province's city of Seiyun, 160 kilometres (100 miles) northwest of Mukalla, a government military official said pro-Saudi forces had taken control of the airport, targeted in Friday's strikes, as well as administrative buildings.
"We are working to secure them," the military official said.
A STC military official said: "There has been a retreat of our forces and we are resisting the attacking forces in Seiyun."
"We carried out a complete withdrawal from the areas of al-Khasha... as a result of pressure from Saudi air strikes on us," he added.
- CALL FOR DIALOGUE -
Residents in Seiyun also said they heard gunfire and festivities early on Saturday.
Saudi Arabia ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start... on Saturday called for dialogue between factions in southern Yemen.
In a statement posted to social media, the Saudi foreign ministry called for "a comprehensive conference in Riyadh to bring together all southern factions to discuss just solutions to the southern cause".
Riyadh said the Yemeni government had issued the invitation for talks.
Also on Saturday, the UAE urged Yemenis to "halt escalation and resolve differences through dialogue".
The STC is now pushing to declare independence and form a breakaway state, which would split the Arabian Peninsula's poorest state in two.
On Friday the separatists announced the start of a two-year transitional period towards declaring an independent state and said the process would include dialogue and a referendum on independence.
STC president Aidaros Alzubidi said the transitional phase would include dialogue with Yemen's north -- controlled by Iran-backed Iran's Houthi sock puppets ...a Zaidi Shia insurgent group operating in Yemen. They have also been referred to as the Believing Youth. Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi is said to be the spiritual leader of the group and most of the military leaders are his relatives. The legitimate Yemeni government has accused the them of having ties to the Iranian government. Honest they did. The group has managed to gain control over all of Saada Governorate and parts of Amran, Al Jawf and Hajjah Governorates. Its slogan is God is Great, Death to America™, Death to Israel, a curse on the Jews They like shooting off... ummm... missiles that they would have us believe they make at home in their basements. On the plus side, they did murder Ali Abdullah Saleh, which was the only way the country was ever going to be rid of him... rebels -- and a referendum on independence.
But he warned that the group would declare independence "immediately" if there was no dialogue or if southern Yemen was attacked again.
The Saudi-backed coalition was formed in 2015 in an attempt to dislodge the Houthi rebels from Yemen's north.
But after a brutal, decade-long civil war, the Houthis remain in place while the Saudi and Emirati-backed factions attack each other in the south. re
[NYP] The streets of Venezuela have been plunged into chaos Saturday as gun-toting supporters of captured dictator Nicolás Maduro are rioting throughout the country and demanding his return ‐ forcing citizens to hide in the safety of their homes, a terrified resident told The Post.
"The nightmare isn't over yet. The figurehead is gone. But his supporters are still here," one man living in Valencia told The Post, declining to reveal his identity: "I'm afraid that if I say anything and give my name, I'll be arrested."
"People are very scared."
The streets in his city are “absolutely dead” except for the Maduro supporters. People are only willing to leave their homes to rush to the supermarkets and wait on long lines to purchase dwindling supplies.
[IsraelTimes] The Constitutional Chamber of Venezuela’s Supreme Court orders that Vice President Delcy Rodríguez assume the role of acting president of the country in the absence of Nicolás Maduro, who was detained in an operation by US forces.
The court ruling says that Rodríguez will assume “the office of President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, in order to guarantee administrative continuity and the comprehensive defense of the Nation.”
The ruling adds that the court will debate the matter in order to “determine the applicable legal framework to guarantee the continuity of the State, the administration of government, and the defense of sovereignty in the face of the forced absence of the President of the Republic.”
Lots more of this kind of thing around Twitter and elsewhere, if one looks.
[PJMedia] It just wouldn't be New Year's Eve without two scoops of global violence. And Islam, as regular as a prune farmer's to-do list, didn't disappoint.
Let's go around the world in 956 words and see what the religion of pieces managed to destroy as civilized people bid adieu to 2025 and welcomed 2026.
ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS
Jihaddi-daddies in the Netherlands kicked off 2026 by treating the police in Rotterdam to "unprecedented" levels of violence that left two people dead.
Cops found themselves on the business end of fireworks and gas-fueled Molotov cocktails.
This article by the BBC, clearly written by subhumans from Operation Mockingbird, twists words to make the reader think the problem was the fireworks, not the animals firing them at cops. It also kinda, sorta leads the reader to believe that a famous church, built in 1872, was torched by fireworks, not Islam. In fact, the article never tells us who the "youths" are who attacked the cops, lit the Roman candles, or tossed the firebombs. The author also mentions that 14 people went to hospitals for eye injuries, which may or may not have been caused by fireworks. It ends with good news: fireworks, not the felons using them as weapons, will be outlawed in 2026.
This former Catholic church was opened in 1872 and closed in 1977. Since then it has been sometimes vacant, sometimes used as a community center, sometimes used for worship.
THROWBACK FRIDAY!
One year ago, first responders in Belgium found themselves being attacked by fireworks and gas-bombs, which appear to be the preferred weapons of those poor, bedraggled, totally-not-invading, Muslim asylum seekers.
ALLEGED BIGOTRY-O-RAMA! I am not a linguist, but these accents below don't sound native to any country in Western Europe.
Emergency vehicles were set on fire, and police officers were attacked with Molotov cocktails in Brussels during New Year’s Eve.
BIRMINGHAM, UK
Cops in various English cities took a few hours off from arresting white Brits over "hurtful tweets" to not arrest roaming gangs of violent diversity.
BREAKING: During last night’s New Year’s Eve celebrations in Birmingham, Islamists attacked random civilians and emergency rescue workers using fireworks.
A 71-year-old man also died after his house caught fire on New Year's Eve around 3:35 pm local time. The police are investigating the cause of the fire, which I suspect will lead to no suspects being arrested.
FLORENCE, ITALY
The Florence authorities avoided "firework violence" this year by presciently banning those pesky "whistlin' bungholes, spleen splitters, whisker biscuits, honkey lighters, hoosker doos, hoosker don'ts, cherry bombs, nipsy daisers, with or without the scooter stick, and whistlining kitty chasers."
Left with no fireworks to shoot at cops, but eager to tear down Western civilization, Islamists turned the Florence New Year's Eve celebrations into WrestleMania and launched folding chairs at peaceful Italian revelers.
I never thought globalized tyranny could be funny until a leftist "influencer" calling herself "Kunshikitty" from Germany decided to turn her "woke" knob to 11 and walk around Cologne, Germany, dressed as a cross between Barbie and My Little Pony, to prove that the women of Cologne were safe from Muslims.
Our own Tim O'Brien wrote about this earlier.
FAKT-O-RAMA! Ten years earlier on New Years Eve, 1,200 German women were sexually assualted on New Year's Eve by Muslims, most of them in Cologne.
Sadly, and yet hilariously, Kunshikitty was pelted with rocks by adherents of the religion of "peace."
German streamer @Kunshikitty wanted to prove by her own example that women in Cologne have nothing to fear on New Year's Eve.
Reality struck back: the situation with illegal migrants in Europe is finally spiraling out of control. pic.twitter.com/TgLX5MWs1B
❗️⚠️🇪🇺 - Welcome to the New Normal in Parts of Europe?
On New Year's Eve 2025, several Western European cities once again descended into widespread disorder, highlighting a disturbing pattern that has persisted for years.
Belgium, authorities reported hundreds of arrests—159 in the capital alone—as groups of predominantly young individuals, often described in reports as migrant youth, targeted police, firefighters, and emergency services with heavy fireworks, stones, and even Molotov cocktails.
Dozens of vehicles were torched, public transport damaged, and responders faced direct assaults despite preemptive measures like curfews and enhanced policing.
Antwerp's mayor noted that some perpetrators were as young as 10 or 11, underscoring a deeper failure in integration and enforcement.
Berlin followed suit, with over 400 arrests and injuries to dozens of officers amid chaotic scenes where illegal fireworks were weaponized against authorities and civilians alike.
Neighborhoods devolved into near-lawless zones, with explosions causing significant property damage and prompting accusations of unchecked aggression linked to migration policies.
Similar unrest plagued cities in the Netherlands, where police described "unprecedented" levels of violence, including petrol bombs and widespread arson.
This is not an isolated incident but a recurring spectacle: New Year's celebrations in multicultural urban areas frequently morph into battlegrounds, where fireworks—intended for festivity—become tools of intimidation.
While mainstream outlets often downplay the demographic factors, conservative sources and on-the-ground accounts consistently point to disproportionate involvement by young men from migrant backgrounds.
Critics argue that decades of lax immigration controls, inadequate integration efforts, and reluctance to enforce order have eroded public safety in once-peaceful cities.
When emergency workers fear for their lives on a night meant for joy, it's a stark indictment of failed policies.
Europe deserves better than annual war-zone simulations on its streets.
And in England:
England: New Year’s Eve in Birmingham (where more than 30% of the population are Muslim immigrants).
Gangs of immigrants take advantage of the New Year celebrations to shoot fireworks in all directions – including at civilians and at security forces.
For millenia millions had planned.
Their descendants, well-rested and tanned,
Put in motion The Plot!
"Now we've got the whole lot
That G-d wrought: Palestinians' land!" /Myers
"And perhaps a little pied-a-terre... everywhere."
[Newsday] Many households and businesses in south-west Berlin face days without electricity after high-voltage power lines were damaged by a fire which city authorities said Sunday was a result of a politically motivated attack by “left-wing extremists."
So Black Bloc/Antifa. Page 1: WoT is definitely the right call.
The fire broke out on Saturday morning on a cable bridge over the Teltow Canal, near the Lichterfelde power plant, according to local authorities. Initially, over 45,000 households and 2,200 businesses in four districts were without electricity. Heating and internet services were also affected.
Franziska Giffey, the city's Senator for Economic Affairs, described the incident as “a particularly severe power outage affecting tens of thousands of households and businesses, including care facilities, hospitals, numerous social institutions and companies.”
While power was restored to thousands of households by Sunday, many others are likely to be left in the dark until Thursday, authorities estimate.
Snowy weather and freezing temperatures has slowed down efforts to restore electricity and made life extra difficult for those affected.
The incident is being investigated as a possible act of arson. Authorities compared it to a similar power outage last September in southeast Berlin, when radical activists claimed responsibility.
Authorities said they were working to confirm the authenticity of a letter claiming responsibility for the latest incident.
The perpetrators were “clearly left-wing extremists," Berlin’s Mayor Kai Wegner was cited as saying by a German news agency. “It is unacceptable that once again clearly left-wing extremists have attacked our power grid and thereby endangered human lives,” Wegner said.
🇮🇶 Irak: Des affrontements ont éclaté dans la province de Mayssan, en Irak, entre une milice chiite pro-sadriste et une force paramilitaire chiite pro-iranienne.
Les sadristes portent une vision plus nationaliste, à l’inverse des milices chiites pro-iraniennes, étroitement liées… pic.twitter.com/O2ACD3mYcI
[IsraelTimes] The Israel Defense Forces says that it destroyed a rocket launcher in northern Gaza that was “loaded and prepared” to be fired at southern Israel, in a violation of the ceasefire deal with Hamas.
According to the IDF, the launcher was located in a pit in the ground, and troops took measures “to minimize the risk of harming civilians” before launching the strike.
[Rudaw] The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Saturday that they arrested four suspected Islamic State ...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems.... (ISIS) members in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa during a joint operation with the US-led global coalition against ISIS.
In a statement, the SDF said that, in coordination with the Military Operations Teams (TOL) and the US-led global coalition, they "carried out a precise security operation in the city of Raqqa, resulting in the arrest of four members of the terrorist organization ISIS."
The SDF, the de facto military force in northeast Syria (Rojava), was the coalition’s sole on-the-ground partner against ISIS in Syria until the Syrian government joined the military alliance in November. The TOL is an SDF-affiliated unit specializing in counterterrorism raids and special operations.
According to the statement, SDF forces "raided the cell’s location without any casualties among civilians or the participating forces." Weapons and communication equipment "used to support terrorist activities" were seized during the operation, it added.
The SDF said that during initial interrogations, the detainees confessed to gathering intelligence on the locations and positions of SDF forces, planning attacks, and "maintaining contact with ISIS leadership and supplying them with information."
The announcement came days after the SDF said it arrested several ISIS members on Thursday, including an individual involved in bomb-making and multiple attacks, in another joint operation with the US-led global coalition.
On Wednesday, the SDF said it had carried out 163 security and military operations against ISIS cells in 2025, arresting or killing dozens of bully boys, including three leaders.
Those operations led to the dismantling of logistical networks, the destruction of hideouts, and the seizure of weapons and improvised bombs before they could be used to target civilians and public institutions, according to the statement.
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[IsraelTimes] Britain and France’s air forces conducted a joint operation late on Saturday to bomb a suspected underground arms dump previously used by Islamic State in Syria, Britain’s defense ministry says.
“Our aircraft used Paveway IV guided bombs to target a number of access tunnels down to the facility; whilst detailed assessment is now underway, initial indications are that the target was engaged successfully,” Britain’s defense ministry says in a statement.
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The city of Hamadán was taken by the protesters and the city, and the "holy city" of Qom, only 150 kilometers from Tehran, is being taken over in large part by the protesters.
Iran reports member of Revolutionary Guards killed in clashes with protesters
[IsraelTimes] A member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was killed in a protest in the country’s west after clashes broke out, the Mehr news agency reports, on the seventh day of economic rallies that have expanded to include political demands.
“During clashes in Malekshahi, Latif Karimi, a member of the IRGC, was killed while defending the country’s security,” Mehr says, after earlier reporting a member of the Basij paramilitary force was also killed in western Iran.
Malekshahi is a county of about 20,000 residents with a large Kurdish population, where “rioters attempted to enter a police station,” according to a separate news agency, Fars.
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What city is not holy in the Muslim shitholes? And why does it capitalize Muslim when I type it?
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From #2 link: Khamenei sez - "Protest is legitimate, but protest is different from rioting." He warned that "officials should speak with protesters. Speaking with a rioter is pointless. Rioters must be put in their place."
Seems like that might have application in other riots protests.
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Then there is this which starts with the fleets not visible on the fleet tracker: here
#1
A Strategic Betrayal: How Venezuela Exposed Russian & Chinese Air Defenses to the US
Article By Major Sammer Toorr (Infantry Combat Veteran)
(Urban Warfare Specialist)
This is bigger than Venezuela. Russian S-300 and Chinese HQ-9 air defense systems are now exposed not destroyed but decoded. That’s worse. Air defense isn’t metal and missiles. It’s radar logic, response time, software behavior, and operator doctrine. Once mapped, it’s neutralized everywhere. US forces don’t need combat. They need access ISR flights, EW probing, cyber mapping, drone stimulation. Venezuela gave them that access. The S-300 myth was built on fear. But once its radar frequencies, engagement windows, and tracking limits are recorded, every S-300 battery on Earth becomes predictable. The HQ-9 narrative is even more fragile. Marketed as China’s Patriot-killer, its real-world exposure risks export collapse and credibility loss across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Pentagon doesn’t rush. It observes, records, simulates, and writes counter-tactics then shares them across NATO and Indo-Pacific commands. This is why Moscow and Beijing feel cheated. They paid in weapons, training, oil deals, diplomatic shielding, and vetoes and got strategic leakage in return. Venezuela wasn’t supposed to be a US lab. It was meant to be a pressure point. Maduro chose regime survival over strategic loyalty.
Now Russia faces a nightmare: Any future S-300 engagement risks being pre-solved by US algorithms. China’s worry is deeper. If HQ-9 performance gaps are exposed, Pakistan, Iran, and export clients start asking uncomfortable questions. This is modern warfare’s harsh rule: You don’t defeat air defenses by bombing them. You defeat them by understanding them. Venezuela may survive sanctions. But Russia and China may have just lost deterrence capital worth decades without a single missile fired
MAJ Toorr thinks Venuezula is still under sanctions but given the situation, that is not true. Also he implies Maduro made a deal to give the USA access to weapon info.
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Maduro is giving the US access to names of US politicians he has bought.
#6
MAJ Toorr thinks Venuezula is still under sanctions but given the situation, that is not true. Also he implies Maduro made a deal to give the USA access to weapon info.
Might have been a much larger "deal" than many realize. I can almost here the Orange Man telling Hugo...."Hey, no problem. Bring Cilia and the dog too. We've got plenty of room."
#8
There were allegedly 5,000 manpads issued across the country. Figure 10% operational / available at any given point in time. Allocated at least 100 to the capital - say maybe 25 to the night shift. It's "interesting" that no E4 issued item didn't decide to light it up during the big show.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling 
