dj wrote (View Post): |
Sod, where are you getting this information? Sounds like a credible justification. Not a single word about that was mentioned by US media. The Invasion of Iraq and take-out of Saddam Hussein is looking to be quite possibly the worst American foreign policy blunder in our nation's history. Iraq was the perfect balance of power check against Iran and the Shia's. Now we have an absolute train wreck with Turkey supposedly being part of our alliance on paper much like the Saudi's Sunnis. But in reality those governments have very little control if any to regulate sympathetic factions that not only support the ISIS cause but give them significant financial support. Worse is that they have an extremely effective recruitment strategy which has a limitless pool of over a Billion muslims or even non-muslims that can be indoctrinated to join their cause. I don't trust a single word politicians say about ISIS because the vast majority have absolutely no clue what they are talking about. |
MajorFrank wrote (View Post): |
Finland drops depth charges in 'submarine' alert
Ok now the Finnish navy have picked up some signals that point to an unknown entity in Finnish territorial waters. Not necessarily a Russian sub but that's one possibility. Not sure if this is going to be another 'wild goose chase' as was with the Swedes. |
dj wrote (View Post): |
Correction...I got the Finland incident mixed-up with Sweden as both nations have been reporting similar incidents in recent years. |
dj wrote (View Post): |
The Protesters in Moscow looked very bad for Putin. I saw the video footage, they roughing up people. Putin is starting to face some more serious opposition to his dictatorship. One of Putin's political opponents has flying drone video footage trying to expose corruption.
Still no answer on all the suspected sub incidents in Finland and Swedish coastal waters. The Russians possibly are hiding stealth sub based near St Petersburg? Situation in Syria looks very sketchy. Not sure what Russia gains except for maybe arms trade deals with Syrian govt. Russia is hurting from sanctions not worth it. |
pvt_Grunt wrote (View Post): |
An interesting article about hacking as a weapon. We've all seen it in movies, the reality is different of course but just as effective as strategic bombing.
https://www.wired.com/story/russian-hackers-attack-ukraine/ |
dj wrote (View Post): |
The Protesters in Moscow looked very bad for Putin. I saw the video footage, they roughing up people. Putin is starting to face some more serious opposition to his dictatorship. One of Putin's political opponents has flying drone video footage trying to expose corruption.
Still no answer on all the suspected sub incidents in Finland and Swedish coastal waters. The Russians possibly are hiding stealth sub based near St Petersburg? Situation in Syria looks very sketchy. Not sure what Russia gains except for maybe arms trade deals with Syrian govt. Russia is hurting from sanctions not worth it. |
MajorFrank wrote (View Post): | ||
About subs, I think they speculated that Russia is probably operating with mini-subs in the region. Or not. There's one Russian sub, a big one, that sometimes surfaces near a ferry that operates between Helsinki, the capital of Finland, and Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. Just kind of surfaces and tourists snap pictures of it. Doesn't seem hostile but it's not really normal either. |
sod98 wrote (View Post): | ||
WIRED is about as reliable as Germany's propaganda WW2 was truthful. They are one of the backers of the " White Helmets " story. They ran articles backing the " Syrian Observatory for Human Rights " even well after they were outed as a fraud. A one man band ( SOFHR ) operating out of a house in England. The guy used photos from many conflicts and made up stories. Very easy to check this one piece out alone. Many other articles written by these guys put them into that class of media known as propaganda. The hacking story could still be correct. But with absolutely no evidence again other than a very unreliable report I suggest it belongs with the rest of the fake news. Funny enough lots of hackers are Ukrainian. However for the top 10 countries Russia only comes in at number 6. USA are the overwhelming winners - https://www.businessinsider.com.au/worlds-10-cybercrime-hotspots-in-2016-ranked-symantec-2017-5?r=UK&IR=T Still it would make for a good movie alone side another remake of Red Dawn. |
dj wrote (View Post): |
Boom - first source of evidence announced in story in Wall Street Journal today. Flynn said to have ties to Russians hackers via Partisan supporter Peter W. Smith. Whom allegedly died just 10 days after his meeting with WSJ reporters. 81 years old but no mention of how he died. This is basically the first real evidence. WSJ is NOT fake news:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gop-operative-sought-clinton-emails-from-hackers-implied-a-connection-to-flynn-1498770851 Re: unknown sub incidents in Baltic, it is hard to say why all the issues. Since this is such a critical region for Russia, I would guess they have some stealth sub or even new sub drones that could explain. Some incidents are not adding up. ...So the Russian "bank" executive that met with Jared in December in NY, turns out to just be front for Russian govt. The "bank" actually has no capital or cash. It is just a front for financial transactions for Russian govt. Deutchbank gave Jared $200M loan just a few months ago that he personally is the guarantor. Russians were masterful in their manipulation of Flynn, Mannafort and others. |
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