A short read and a good one. This is the question that follows Fairford, and it is not one I would dismiss. We do not know publicly how far the vulnerabilities exposed there extend, which is precisely why the assumptions underlying our broader security relationship with Britain deserve another hard look. I have been concerned about what this means for Lakenheath and our other equities in the UK. Rob takes that question another step into the nuclear architecture, and given the stakes, I think it is a fair one to ask.

The Myth of an Islamic Reformation On October 31, 1517 German Catholic Priest, Martin Luther, nailed a list of 95 Theses (or arguments) against the Catholic Church to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. This sparked the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, leading to major changes to the Christian Church at large, and to the culture of Europe as we know it. Indeed, you can trace the cultural roots of the United States to the Protestant Reformation. There is no doubt that without it the world would be a very different place, and not for the better. Recently I have heard several folks refer to a hypothetical "Islamic Reformation," suggesting that such a thing ought to take place, or even that it will take place, it's just a matter of time. The argument goes that Islam is "due" a reformation. After all, such a thing happened about 1,500 years into the Christian faith, and we're getting close to that with Islam, so why not? I'll tell you why not. 1) I think the underlying premise here is wrong. If you look at religion through a secular, "neutral," sociological lens, you might believe that you can simply rearrange the pieces of any given religion like building blocks and make a new structure entirely, but it's not that simple. Religions are not interchangeable, and Christianity and Islam are fundamentally different from one another across a host of important metrics. In fact, Islam is fundamentally different from all religions across a host of metrics, but we'll stick to the Christian-Islamic comparison for now. Christianity is, at its core, about the worship of the one true God, and having a right relationship with him, achievable exclusively by Grace, through Faith in His Son, Jesus. Christianity is Trinitarian, meaning we believe in One God in Three Persons (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit). Christianity fully affirms the Old Testament, aka the Hebrew Bible aka The Tanakh, but it doesn't stop there. The New Testament of the Christian Bible explicitly quotes the Old Testament between 280 and 350 times, and alludes to the Old Testament over 1,000 times. Christianity is authentically the continuation of something, rather than something entirely new, Christians today read the Old Testament as much as the New. By contrast, Islam is a religion that is fundamentally about submission (to the will of Allah, as described by his Muhammad), and his will is... conquest. The official founding of Islam occurred with the founding of an Islamic State, and it's growth has occurred through the growth of that state as driven by military conquest. This is both what Islam's holy book (the Quran) has prescribed, and it is what Muslims have done for 1,400 years. While the Quran states that both the Old and New Testaments of the Bible are true, it quotes the Bible a grand total of ZERO times. Rather, it twists the narrative of scripture, or downright contradicts it in almost every place that it does refer to the Bible, and Muslims almost never read the Bible unless they're involved professionally in apologetics against Christianity. 2) The Protestant Reformation, amongst other things, was about a return to scripture. One of the major components of the Reformation was Sola Scriptura, or "Scripture Alone." Over time, the Catholic Church had drifted away from relying heavily on the Bible, and instead more heavily upon the teachings of the Pope and other Church leaders. When those teachings were not supported by the Bible, or worst, contradicted the Bible, it simply wasn't seen as a big deal, and since there was so little emphasis on the Bible anyway, most folks didn't know the Bible well enough to even notice such contradictions. Christian Reformation inherently meant becoming more devout according to the original texts, not some new "version" of Christianity that was "updated" for more a more modern era. And what does a devout Christian look like? What does an "extreme" Christian look like? It looks like someone who loves God and loves their neighbor. It looks like someone who is willing to lay down his own life for others. It looks like a person who speaks truth, and helps the poor. It looks like someone who forgives, even when forgiveness looks impossible. A comparable "Reformation" within Islam would mean a return to the fundamental texts of Islam, aka the Quran, and what does the Quran say? Quran 9:5 commands Muslims to kill Christians wherever they find them, to capture them and besiege them, and to lie in wait for them at every place of ambush. But they can be allowed to live if they repent, and establish prayer, and pay a special tax. This is what devout Muslims believe. This is the law devout Muslims follow, which leads me to the 3rd, and final point: 3) A "Reformation" of Islam cannot, and will not happen, but what is happening instead is a cycle of devoutness to complacency to devoutness against that has been going on since the beginning of Islam in 622 AD. The first 100 years of Islam was explosive. Part of Muhammad's teaching was not only that Muslims must engage in physical, violent battle and conquest against the Infidels, but that the result of said violence is win-win. If you live you get to keep the spoils of war that you capture, including slaves, and especially female slaves, who you can do whatever you want with sexually (this is in the Quran) with no consequences whatsoever. And guess what! If you die, even better! You go to paradise where you will have 72 perpetual virgins who please you sexually all the time, and they're even described as having large eyes and large breasts. Yes, they're essentially anime characters. These incentives worked well, and Islam went from being present in one city in the desert of what is now Saudi Arabia, to conquering all of what we now know as the Middle East and North Africa, and virtually all of Spain in less than 100 years. But in 718 they failed in their Siege of Constantinople, and in 732 they were stopped from conquering France by Charles "The Hammer" Martel at the Battle of Tours. Their growth, for the time being, was stopped. Islamic warlords who had amassed insane wealth began to think more about how they could maintain their wealth and standards of living, and focused less on expansionary Jihad, and more on enjoying life and protecting what they had. So began an era of complacency. But eras of complacency were always temporary. There were always underdogs, who read the Quran, and hated the hypocrisy, opulence, and laziness of their leaders. With their devotion they would inspire a following of those who were also devout, and also ready to risk their lives in a fight. The devout would take over, supplanting the complacent leadership, and leading new rounds of Jihad and conquest. The cycle continued for hundreds of years. In that time Islam has had upswings and downswings. In 1683 they besieged Vienna Austria, on the edge of taking all of Europe, but they were thankfully defeated. Thus began a several-hundred-year downward spiral. In the present day we've forgotten what a threat Islam once was to the West, but we're starting to remember. 6% of the UK is Muslim. 10% of France is Muslim. Austria is 8% Muslim. Netherlands is 7% Muslim. You see it in the riots in France. You see it in the rape gangs in the UK. You see terrorist training camps in Amsterdam. Even the US faces a massive growth in mosques and Islamic communities practicing Shariah (Islamic Law) rather than American Law. Whole neighborhoods are popping up with Arabic street names and HOA dues that fund the local mosques. In the USA. Do not expect an Islamic Reformation, because there won't be one. What will happen is that the moderate Muslims will continue to lose influence and market share across the globe as Islam grows, and all Muslims see that they have the opportunity to have an upper hand over the Infidels. All Muslims, even if they claim to be moderate, know what the Quran commands about conquest, about killing Infidels, about forcing Infidels to submit to Islam. Any Muslim who remains Muslim is choosing Islam over every other system, and they will not stick their necks out for the Infidels when faced with a choice. It's high time that the West in general, and America in particular wake up to what Islam is. Enough wishful thinking. The history of Islam is long, and it is brutal, and we are absolute fools if we believe that it will ever stop of its own accord. Muslims explicitly believe that they can and must lie to Infidels, even in official matters such as treaties. Historically peace has existed between Muslims and Christians, but it was always temporary, and served as an opportunity for Muslims to regain their footing before betraying Christians and attacking again. Let's learn from the past, and use what we have learned to secure our future. SOLI DEO GLORIA PAX AMERICANA 🇺🇸

CSIS published an interesting perspective on how fast observed capability gets internalized and reproduced by the PLA.

WEDNESDAY MORNING WATCH OCTOBER 7, 2026 Good morning. There is quite a bit moving this morning, particularly in the Middle East and around the Black Sea, and some of yesterday’s developing stories have become clearer overnight. I’ll start with Yemen. The Houthis have now attacked Aden International Airport with ballistic missiles and drones as fighting with Saudi-backed Yemeni forces intensifies around Bab el-Mandeb and Mocha. One missile landed near the runway at Aden, forcing the diversion of a Cairo-bound flight. Saudi forces also report intercepting a Houthi ballistic missile aimed at Khamis Mushait. This follows the now-confirmed attacks on Saudi airports at Jazan and Najran, which injured three people and caused damage. The importance of this is larger than Yemen. Saudi-backed forces are fighting for control of territory around Bab el-Mandeb, while shipping through Hormuz remains under pressure. Saudi Arabia has dramatically increased the amount of oil moving west through its East-West Pipeline to Yanbu, reaching 5.8 million barrels per day. That gives Riyadh another route around Hormuz, but ultimately puts even greater importance on the Red Sea and Bab el-Mandeb. The Black Sea remains equally concerning. Bulgaria has now ended the search for the missing crew of the ALFA WATAN, which sank after Tuesday’s drone attack inside Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone. No survivors have been found. The second ship, ABLE, was damaged but its crew was rescued. Bulgaria says it still has not established who launched the drones, despite Ukraine’s attribution of the attacks to Russia. That distinction remains important. Bulgaria is responding militarily. Its government says it intends to acquire five additional surface-to-air missile systems following the attack. That is another concrete defensive-posture change on NATO’s Black Sea front. Overnight, Russia also launched another large combined missile-and-drone attack against Ukraine. NATO aircraft were scrambled in Poland and Romania as a precaution while Russian weapons operated close to alliance territory. At this point I have seen no confirmation that a Russian weapon entered Polish or Romanian airspace, and there is no indication that NATO aircraft engaged one. That makes these defensive scrambles, not a NATO-Russia engagement. Elsewhere in Europe, the accumulation continues. Sweden is sending a Patriot air-defense system and approximately 100 troops to eastern Poland to protect the logistics hub at Rzeszów beginning December 1, in addition to the Swedish Gripens already supporting NATO air defense there. Estonia is moving combat power east and expanding its long-range HIMARS and Chunmoo capability, Poland has shortened its air-defense engagement procedures, Lithuania is considering removing its prohibition on hosting nuclear weapons, and Russian military aviation around Norway has increased substantially. None of those individual developments means that a NATO-Russia war is imminent. What concerns me is the accumulation of military activity and increasingly compressed decision times. Fighters are scrambling more frequently, air defenses are moving forward, engagement procedures are getting faster, long-range weapons are moving closer to borders, and civilian shipping is now being attacked in waters immediately adjacent to NATO countries. That is where the danger of miscalculation grows. A defensive move by one side can look offensive to the other, which produces another response, followed by another. Wars do not always begin because somebody wakes up one morning and decides to start one. Sometimes they begin because somebody interprets the next move incorrectly. That is what I am watching at the moment. Have a good Wednesday, everyone.

Do you want to know what's at stake this November? Right now, House committee dems are developing ideas for potential oversight actions (hearings, leg items, reports, etc). They are preparing *now* for a win in November, so they can begin a full court press in January. This will cover every department and agency action from the routine (eg reprogramming funds from pet programs) to the more involved (Maduro, cartel strikes, etc). The House has historically been the chamber dedicated to the theater portion of “political theater” but if the Dems win, expect it to look like a musical of organized chaos. There will be a lot of throwing things at the wall to see what sticks. And committee leaders will use their positions to figure out what attacks are resonating and which ones aren’t. The focus will be more on the bread and butter issues: healthcare, affordability, etc. And expect House Dems to come together on legislative items to push that message on bills that will allow them to make Senate Rs look like they are against making living more affordable for American workers. The culture wars will also be on the table, but it will be focused less on making points you'd hear from the Western Mass covid conscious bar patrons, and more on constituencies that have traditionally represented core voting blocks for Dems (women, minorities, etc). To the extent there will be any DSA-esque talking points mirrored- it will be those intersectionality issues that connect class-conscioussness with race-consciousness, and framed in subtle and not-entirely-accurate ways like "the disappearing Black middle class." And because no member of this administration will want to cooperate with any policy and/or character assassination attempts by the House, expect support for these efforts from the usual suspects and new players of DC think tanks and advocacy orgs. [Side note: a good tell of whether a "Committee Report" is substantively driven vs theater driven: is it authored by both sides or just one (with minority views), does it lift whole passages or policy points from outside orgs, and was any agency involved in creating it?] To the extent the American people want to see a focus on real, workable policies that *actually* help families and working class Americans, do not look to the House. Assuming the House does flip, and the Senate stays like it (with possibly thinner margins), you can expect even less (no, don't laugh) from Congress next year.

Another Somali caught stealing from American taxpayers in Minnesota with a fake housing stabilization program Its another Mohammed…… His name is Ahmed Abdirashid Mohamed and he used some of the money to buy a $105,000 Audi and he made a TikTok account for his car to show off - The car is a Audi RS5 Sportback that he got customized - He started the fake company Pristine Health LLC with a partner and they enrolled it as a Minnesota Medicaid provider - Together they billed Medicaid $820,000 He says he “hates the police” on his social media They also took luxury trips to Saudi Arabia, Istanbul, Dubai, Sydney and London. All paid for by stolen taxpayer money We need to mass deport all Somali from America

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Mike triggered a nerd post... Two years ago, I had a wild conversation with a gentleman who had done a career mostly at JPL. I've known him for almost 40 years. He now travels with his wife on odd adventures and he writes endlessly – rarely letting anyone read it btw. Anyway, we talked about the stupid UAP hype happening in New Jersey and Virginia at the time, aliens, and in the unlikely event of contact, what the nature of that contact would be. From here, the conversation turned to the nature of observation without meaning. How do you actually recognize "alien?" This triggered my A(n) theory development btw – not about aliens specifically, but about recognizing the truly exotic. It goes like this. "First contact" is likely to be artifact to artifact, not life form to life form, nor even artifact to life form. How the A(n) lineage recognizes the truly exotic, beginning from the first-contact drill: 1) The UAP question collapses into a sterile binary – extraterrestrial technology versus mythic framing – because it starts with conclusions. We actually have no reference sample for an alien artifact, technosignature, or genuinely novel phenomenon, so we do not know what one would look like. 2) The alien question is not the destination btw. It is a thought experiment on method: radical ignorance is the feature that forces the correct posture, and that posture is the correct one for all exploration. 3) Therefore the lineage does not search for the exotic. It maps the normal so thoroughly that the different becomes statistically unmistakable when it does appear. 4) Recognition is derived, not detected. There is no template, ontology, or prior category for “alien.” Deviation appears only after a deep, local baseline exists. 5) Volume and repetition come first. A single unusual event is archived and given a stable identifier; it becomes exotic only if it remains rare against years of comparable observation. 6) Early departures from a shallow baseline are absorbed into the expanding normal without narrative. The same machinery later confronts subtler or rarer departures, including any that might be non-terrestrial. 7) Structure is preserved; meaning is deferred. The observer clusters correlations and scores uncertainty. Classification, explanation, and claims of novelty – alien or otherwise – stay downstream, versioned, and reversible. 8) Perspective is part of the signal. What one daughter system treats as baseline may be anomalous to another. Disagreement across orthogonal observers is retained, not resolved at the point of observation. 9) Time is required. Weak, slow, or once-per-generation patterns become visible only under continuous coverage and retrospective reanalysis. A long-interval repeat is not missed because the archive never discarded the first instance. 10) The exotic is what does not belong to the mastered normal – technological, biological, geological, or otherwise – and only after that normal has been exhaustively recorded without premature human meaning. * The theory stipulates that humans are really bad at long-duration observation. Thus, it's a job for a very special type of AI – the A(n) lineage. This leads us right back to the artifact to artifact first contact. Nerd post complete.

I’ve been holding off on RAF Fairford because there were too many missing pieces. We have more of them now. The United States did not simply decide it was time to bring the B-1s home. Reuters is reporting that two U.S. officials say intelligence concerning a possible complex drone attack involving Iran prompted the United States to remove its B-1 bombers from RAF Fairford. AP separately reports that a U.S. official said the threat was intended to kill American personnel and destroy American aircraft. British Counter Terrorism Policing also made a seventh arrest today in the investigation. A 22-year-old British national was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts, and police searched a property there. Six men previously arrested remain on police bail, including a dual British-Iranian national. We also know that during the original September 27 operation, police recovered petrol from vehicles associated with the suspects, although no explosives were found. That distinction matters. RAF Fairford isn’t just another airfield. It is one of the few European bases capable of supporting American heavy bombers and has been used during this war for U.S. operations against Iran. In July, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards publicly warned that bases used to launch attacks against Iran could be considered legitimate targets. Now for the part we do not know. British police have not publicly established that Tehran or the IRGC directed this alleged plot. Their investigation remains open, and they say they are pursuing multiple lines of inquiry and trying to establish the motivation. Iran denies involvement. So I am not going to turn an intelligence assessment into a proven chain of command. But I am also not going to minimize what the United States actually did in response. We moved the bombers. Moving strategic aircraft out of a major European operating location because intelligence indicates someone may be preparing to destroy them and kill American personnel is a significant force-protection decision. You don’t move a dozen B-1s because somebody posted something ugly on the internet. The United States clearly took the threat seriously enough to remove the target. And that is why I waited. There was enough speculation surrounding Fairford already. Today we finally have credible reporting that begins to explain why those bombers left. Whether investigators can establish the connection all the way back to Tehran is the next question. For now, keep the attribution in pencil. The threat itself was serious enough that the United States moved the airplanes. That part is no longer speculation. In the meantime, I want to know a few things. Did we extract the temporary B-1 support package from Fairford along with the aircraft? And are we repositioning personnel or aircraft at Lakenheath/Mildenhall because the threat assessment extends beyond Fairford? Security alert levels have reportedly been raised at RAF Lakenheath, where the U.S. permanently stations F-35s and F-15Es. Mildenhall, with its tanker presence, is right nearby. These are the things I think about regularly. 🤔

If you are eating chips and salsa on taco Tuesday, you would wear a @WassonWatch

I’d like to remind my fellow veterans that in the scope of human history, you are the NORMAL ones. It’s our bubble-wrapped modern society that is the oddball. Violence, injuries, and death are a norm in human existence. Even just a little over 100 years ago, seeing someone get run over by a horse, die in a farming accident or killed in a mineshaft was normal before reaching adulthood. Most people saw several. Brother’s went to war and simply never returned. On the American prairie, women fought with a baby on their hip when their husbands were out bringing in crops or trapping fur. You who answered the Nations call embody the true American spirit. The spirit of a warrior, a pioneer, one willing to endure hardships and build the future. Fighting and death are normal human experiences. You are normal. When the protected and insulted population looks at you sideways, keep that in mind. They are the ones lacking depth of normal human experience. What to do about it? Live your life to the fullest in honor of the ones who sacrificed to give you that opportunity. Don’t waste or dishonor that sacrifice. If you struggle with traumatic stress, reach out to those who can understand your very normal experiences. I still think half of the ones going down a dark road bought into the opinion the bubble-wrapped leaf-eaters pushed onto them. The leaf-eaters are the odd and broken ones; says all of human history. I’m no psychologist. That much should be obvious. I spent many hours chatting with the ones who worked at SERE though. I still think that field is just observation and guessing. The Psych’s I worked with generally agreed. Cortisol levels (stress) are very real and can ruin your decision making processes. Nutrition, sleep & exercise can turn that around. Willfully choosing to have a positive attitude and recognizing that you can’t time travel improve life massively. When life’s struggles become almost unbearable, simply making the next right choice, will take you far. It’s the same thing you did in a gunfight or while evaluating a casualty. You already have experience in this. Be good to each other and don’t be a stranger if you need someone to chat with. First responders, that goes for you too.

Here is: The jihadist Rashida Tlaib, calling on Islam to mobilize and take down the United States government, right here on U.S. soil. “We Islamist motherfuckers are in every corner of the United States.”

Well, this is interesting but I can’t say I’m surprised. Former BND chief August Hanning was arrested in Germany this morning on suspicion of espionage and treason, along with a former senior BND colleague. Prosecutors allege Hanning received roughly 2,000 classified documents over more than a decade, including intelligence concerning the Russian military and Iran’s nuclear program. The foreign intelligence service allegedly receiving the information has not been publicly identified, and German reporting currently says investigators do not believe it was Russia. That last part matters. Until we know who the customer was, I would be very careful about connecting this to anything else we are watching.

TUESDAY MORNING UPDATE OCTOBER 6, 2026 Good morning. There is quite a bit to cover this morning, and some of it represents a genuine escalation rather than simply another warning. I am starting in the Middle East, where the fighting in Yemen continues to expand. Saudi-backed Yemeni forces are advancing against the Houthis along the western coast and around Bab el-Mandeb, while Saudi Arabia has now confirmed attacks against the airports at Jazan and Najran. Three people were injured and both airports sustained damage. Saudi Arabia has attributed the broader campaign against its cities and civilian infrastructure to the Houthis. The Saudis are responding with an increasingly large air and naval campaign in Yemen, including strikes against Houthi missile infrastructure. Fighting around Bab el-Mandeb matters well beyond Yemen because it sits on one of the world’s most important shipping routes, while the Strait of Hormuz remains under pressure from attacks on commercial shipping. We now have serious instability around both major maritime chokepoints serving the region. The Black Sea is becoming considerably more concerning as well. Two commercial vessels were attacked overnight by aerial and maritime drones inside Bulgaria’s exclusive economic zone, approximately 70 nautical miles east of Byala. The ALFA WATAN sank and its crew remains missing. The ABLE, which was carrying grain, caught fire, but all 18 people aboard were rescued, two with injuries. Bulgaria’s prime minister convened an emergency meeting and called the attacks a serious violation of international law. Attribution remains unresolved. Bulgaria has confirmed that drones attacked the ships but has not said whether they were Russian or Ukrainian. Initial maritime-security assessments cited by Reuters suggest Russian involvement, but that is not yet an official Bulgarian conclusion. This follows yesterday’s sinking of the Royad Mammadov inside Romania’s EEZ after an apparent drone attack, killing two sailors. Ukraine attributes that attack to Russia, while Romania has not yet formally done so. In roughly 24 hours, three civilian merchant vessels have now been attacked in the economic zones of two NATO countries. That is an escalation regardless of who Bulgaria ultimately determines launched the drones. Farther north, Lithuania’s parliament has taken the first step toward removing its prohibition on hosting nuclear weapons. A second vote is required, and no nuclear deployment has been announced. Lithuania is also discussing a permanent U.S. military base. Moscow responded immediately, warning that either development would represent another significant escalation in tensions. Russian military aviation around Norway is also substantially busier. Norwegian F-35s have scrambled 77 times and identified 107 Russian military aircraft so far this year, already twice the number intercepted during all of last year and the highest activity in a decade. These aircraft have generally remained in international airspace, so this should not be confused with 107 Russian airspace violations. Add that to Estonia moving its principal combat formation closer to Russia, expanding its HIMARS and Chunmoo long-range fires, Poland shortening its air-defense engagement procedures, Sweden supporting NATO air defense over Poland, and Germany’s intelligence chief warning that Russia’s continuing shadow war could eventually become violent conflict. There is a pattern developing across both theaters. Commercial shipping is increasingly exposed, military forces are moving forward, air defenses are becoming more responsive, long-range weapons are becoming more prominent, and governments are openly discussing things that would have received considerably more attention only a few years ago. I don’t think people should panic, but I do think they should pay attention. The individual events matter, but so does their accumulation. Have a good Tuesday, everyone.

Worked the counter-narco mission for a year straight. Pretty much my entire understanding of trafficking was wrong up to that point – too much Miami Vice as a kid I guess. Some lessons: People see the continued SOUTHCOM strike videos and treat it as proof the mission is failing. Why haven't they stopped, right? A boat was hit, four people were killed, and product still moves via new boats and new crews. That reading misses how these corridors actually work. The Caribbean and eastern Pacific transit zones are large relative to the ships, aircraft, and sensors that can be kept on station. Go-fast boats exploit gaps, weather, and darkness. Under any realistic coverage, some loads will always get through. Interdictions rise with effort, but they do not produce total denial though. The more useful frame is route economics – logistics strategy. Continuous movement is itself the claim on a corridor. Pausing creates a vacuum that rivals, local forces, or subordinate cells can exploit – they have to keep running. Loss of a load is treated as a cost of business. Loss of the route is a big structural threat to revenue and protection further down the chain. That is why groups keep sending boats even when the risk is elevated. * In this respect, the Cartels have the same hope that Iran does – a new Administration stops the assaults, so maintain their claim for now. There are other logistics concerns. Static buildups near consolidation points carry the same problem from the other direction. Large piles of product sitting and waiting become high-value targets once the location is known. Rapid handoff and dispersal are preferred because fixed storage invites raids, tips, or strikes. The pressure to keep cargo moving is built into the system. The slower, but very real effect is attrition. Experienced boat drivers and coordinators are not instantly replaceable. Each loss pushes networks toward less skilled crews, higher failure rates, or higher pay for the people still willing to run. Internal premiums, replacement boats, and payments to facilitators all rise. Those costs are absorbed by moving less, raising prices downstream, or accepting thinner margins for the organizations that hold the routes. One video is a tactical result. The campaign pressure shows up over repeated cycles as higher ongoing costs to maintain a contested corridor, slower tempos, and more fragmented shipments. It does not empty the pipeline in months, and it does not remove demand or production. It raises the price of holding the route.

Why don’t you and your kind just assimilate and stop with the nepotistic hiring practices?

All the more relevant after yesterday's Brazil elections.

Your entire post is bullshit. H1B’s are cheap slave labor and are in normally high paying jobs that Americans aren’t getting. To pretend industries made this choice because there is more talent in India is absolutely ludicrous. We don’t hate Indians. We don’t like that they rarely assimilate and when they get into positions of hiring managers and higher up in companies by some “magic” those companies pretty much exclusively hire other Indians to replace Americans. Have you seen what medical staffing looks like now? Do their schools go through the same rigorous accreditation process and inspecthst our medical and engineering schools go through? No. You and your ilk automatically exclaim “racism” if another eace is invoved in a story/issue. You can moss me with that crap. If you arent even going to examine the situation outside of your own silo, why should anyone take you seriously?

EXC: The director of Russia’s Irkutsk anti-plague institute was in CHINA just weeks ago for a “cross-border infectious disease” exercise that simulated responses to imported PLAGUE and “Disease X.” About five weeks later, an employee of his institute was dead, with nearly 200 contacts reportedly placed under medical observation amid suspected-plague reports. Chinese government reporting names director Sergey Balakhonov as attending and speaking at the August 24–27 exercise in Fuyuan. The Chinese exercise involved the following: • A scenario involving plague arriving from abroad. • A hypothetical emerging tick-borne disease. • Chinese and Russian experts rehearsing outbreak notifications, joint risk assessments, and coordinated control measures. • Nineteen emergency teams, more than 300 personnel, and over 40 emergency vehicles. And the institute’s Chinese partnerships go back years. China’s official Inner Mongolia Yearbook records that regional inspection and quarantine authorities signed scientific-research cooperation agreements with the Irkutsk plague institute in 2014. A Russian government document lists additional cooperation planned for 2020–2021 with the Medical Department of Manzhouli Customs: joint surveys concerning plague and other rodent-borne infections, plus tick-borne disease research.

DECLASSIFIED RECORDS: Brennan/Jack Smith Connection Meeting CIA HQ:  FBI notes are blank - November 2023 Former CIA Director John Brennan meets with special counsel staff, FBI agents "..purpose of the meeting was to discuss expert testimony to National Defense Information in the forthcoming trial..." Was Brennan being prepped as potential "expert witness" in Trump classified documents case? Former Senior FBI Agents: "Looks like an intel OP not a law enforcement probe...made the FBI notes disappear” At Least Three Potential Scenarios: - FBI agents took no notes,  violating long standing Bureau procedures - FBI agents took notes which were intentionally withheld so 'Brennan conversation' was not discoverable for President Trump's lawyers - FBI agents' original notes were "electronically buried" in a restricted file NOTE:  The FBI EC or Electronic Communication documents the 2023 Brennan meeting at CIA HQ “The original agent notes will be maintained in the attached 1A.” MISSING LINK: There should be a summary of the meeting/discussion known as an FBI 302 Brennan has consistently defended his actions in court and in front of Congress. Declassified records via @WhiteHouse transparency task force