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📖 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 If shipping companies decide Israeli ports are too risky, the country could soon find itself running out of food | Times of Israel - October 26th, 2023 🔶️ Due to its location, Israel trades almost exclusively via sea routes. Yet, even before the…
🏴☠️ 🇵🇸 🇮🇱 All of Israel's relevant ports may be blockaded soon | CIG #commentary
🏹 Hezbollah - Haifa
🏹 Hamas - Ashdod
🏹 Houthis - Eilat
🔶️ Important to note that food imports were going through Haifa because Ashdod is a ghost town now. Even if Hezbollah only strikes Haifa occasionally, most ships will avoid it like the plauge because it could quickly become the most expensive port in the world with a constant threat of missile/drone attacks. Previously, the few US defense contractor ships entering Ashdod were struck by shrapnel, despite successful interceptions in the autumn of 2023.
🔶️ Even if Hezbollah wanted to send a message, it could inadvertently spark famine in Israel. Which makes me think a blockade of Haifa would be related to Israel starving Gazans, because Haifa heavily moves grain and agricultural products. Blockading Haifa would be one of the most impactful decisions of the war that could go unnoticed because supply chains, especially shipping is not a very exciting topic for most.
🔶️ How would the US react to this? With what sealift, where are the sailors, how would they prevent vessels being shredded after interceptions? The US also lacks sufficient throughput for airlift. The old Berlin airlift strategy was mostly political, it failed to supply the necessary aid. Resupplying all of Israel's needs under a blockade would be as unsuccessful as sending aid over Taiwan. Would the US embarrassingly attempt even more humanitarian aid piers? Even now, foreign vessels refuse to touch Israel for every reason. The main DoD maritime contractors like Maersk are backing out.
🔶️ This is where the sword beats the pen because the bottleneck is physical goods & throughput. Sending billions to Israel is only possible because wealth is an abstract medium of digits on a screen. It seems they are no longer accounting for production times and the lack of an industrial base to fulfill such orders.
🔶️ Israel is situated at the epicenter of the world island supplied by shipping cargo containers. The October 7th war focuses almost entirely on denying strategic chokepoints. This breakdown of shipping lanes presents Israel with an existential threat greater than any sanctions and every war since 1948.
🏹 Hezbollah - Haifa
🏹 Hamas - Ashdod
🏹 Houthis - Eilat
🔶️ Important to note that food imports were going through Haifa because Ashdod is a ghost town now. Even if Hezbollah only strikes Haifa occasionally, most ships will avoid it like the plauge because it could quickly become the most expensive port in the world with a constant threat of missile/drone attacks. Previously, the few US defense contractor ships entering Ashdod were struck by shrapnel, despite successful interceptions in the autumn of 2023.
🔶️ Even if Hezbollah wanted to send a message, it could inadvertently spark famine in Israel. Which makes me think a blockade of Haifa would be related to Israel starving Gazans, because Haifa heavily moves grain and agricultural products. Blockading Haifa would be one of the most impactful decisions of the war that could go unnoticed because supply chains, especially shipping is not a very exciting topic for most.
🔶️ How would the US react to this? With what sealift, where are the sailors, how would they prevent vessels being shredded after interceptions? The US also lacks sufficient throughput for airlift. The old Berlin airlift strategy was mostly political, it failed to supply the necessary aid. Resupplying all of Israel's needs under a blockade would be as unsuccessful as sending aid over Taiwan. Would the US embarrassingly attempt even more humanitarian aid piers? Even now, foreign vessels refuse to touch Israel for every reason. The main DoD maritime contractors like Maersk are backing out.
🔶️ This is where the sword beats the pen because the bottleneck is physical goods & throughput. Sending billions to Israel is only possible because wealth is an abstract medium of digits on a screen. It seems they are no longer accounting for production times and the lack of an industrial base to fulfill such orders.
🔶️ Israel is situated at the epicenter of the world island supplied by shipping cargo containers. The October 7th war focuses almost entirely on denying strategic chokepoints. This breakdown of shipping lanes presents Israel with an existential threat greater than any sanctions and every war since 1948.
🇵🇸 🇮🇱 🇮🇷 Waiting for war in Haifa | Gidon Ben-Zvi
👤 Gidon Ben-Zvi contributes to The Algemeiner, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, CiF Watch and blogs at Jerusalem State of Mind.
🔶️ "Israelis sitting in front of their television screens can’t help but notice that the Home Front Command’s list of areas where red alert alarms are going off is increasing daily. And with Hezbollah’s theater of operations expanding, Israel is effectively shrinking. As a result, residents of Haifa—Israel’s third largest city, with a population of close to 300,000—believe that it’s only a matter of time before they are ordered to evacuate their homes."
🔶️ "Haifa is now next in line to be attacked by Hezbollah. It lives a life in limbo. We continue to work. Our children go to school. But the red alerts are multiplying. My cousin in the northern coastal city of Nahariya—about a 30-minute drive from Haifa—now regularly hears bombs overhead, forcing her and her family to run to their home’s safe room. My wife and her workplace colleagues in Acre—25 minutes by car from where we live—are constantly hearing sirens. Virtually every afternoon, my kids come home from school with updates about another classmate whose father has been called up for a second tour of reserve duty, this time in the north."
🔶️ "We have entered a period of threat and waiting. What the people of the north are experiencing today is not unlike the hamtanah the “Waiting Period” before the 1967 Six-Day War. During the three weeks of the hamtanah, Arab nations were poised to annihilate Israel. Jerusalem mobilized the IDF reserves. In this tension-filled time, Israeli morale plummeted, catalyzing a political crisis that led to the formation of Israel’s first unity government."
🔶️ "Based on Hezbollah’s modus operandi, anything short of a rapid reestablishment of the preemption doctrine could well lead to Israel having to abandon the Galilee and other parts of the north. At this rate, people will soon be talking about a Kfar Saba envelope in addition to the one around Gaza. It would be a damned shame to have to leave it all behind."
https://www.jns.org/waiting-for-war-in-haifa/
👤 Gidon Ben-Zvi contributes to The Algemeiner, The Times of Israel, The Jerusalem Post, CiF Watch and blogs at Jerusalem State of Mind.
🔶️ "Israelis sitting in front of their television screens can’t help but notice that the Home Front Command’s list of areas where red alert alarms are going off is increasing daily. And with Hezbollah’s theater of operations expanding, Israel is effectively shrinking. As a result, residents of Haifa—Israel’s third largest city, with a population of close to 300,000—believe that it’s only a matter of time before they are ordered to evacuate their homes."
🔶️ "Haifa is now next in line to be attacked by Hezbollah. It lives a life in limbo. We continue to work. Our children go to school. But the red alerts are multiplying. My cousin in the northern coastal city of Nahariya—about a 30-minute drive from Haifa—now regularly hears bombs overhead, forcing her and her family to run to their home’s safe room. My wife and her workplace colleagues in Acre—25 minutes by car from where we live—are constantly hearing sirens. Virtually every afternoon, my kids come home from school with updates about another classmate whose father has been called up for a second tour of reserve duty, this time in the north."
🔶️ "We have entered a period of threat and waiting. What the people of the north are experiencing today is not unlike the hamtanah the “Waiting Period” before the 1967 Six-Day War. During the three weeks of the hamtanah, Arab nations were poised to annihilate Israel. Jerusalem mobilized the IDF reserves. In this tension-filled time, Israeli morale plummeted, catalyzing a political crisis that led to the formation of Israel’s first unity government."
🔶️ "Based on Hezbollah’s modus operandi, anything short of a rapid reestablishment of the preemption doctrine could well lead to Israel having to abandon the Galilee and other parts of the north. At this rate, people will soon be talking about a Kfar Saba envelope in addition to the one around Gaza. It would be a damned shame to have to leave it all behind."
https://www.jns.org/waiting-for-war-in-haifa/
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"The European Elections: Progress for Nationalism Continent Wide!"
White Papers examines some of the progress made by nationalist and national conservative parties in the recent European elections.
From local gains by the National Party in Ireland,
To the large gains made by Marine Le Pen leading to fresh snap elections in France,
It is clear that the march of "far-right" parties in Europe is realigning the continent's politics and sending Europeans on a search for a genuine form of nationalism which may just bring them out of the mire of the modern age.
And while not all the parties that made gains represent a genuine nationalism, their gains do represent a genuine desire for change among Europeans.
Learn more about the elections in Europe here on our Substack.
Be sure to find us on Telegram. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram
White Papers examines some of the progress made by nationalist and national conservative parties in the recent European elections.
From local gains by the National Party in Ireland,
To the large gains made by Marine Le Pen leading to fresh snap elections in France,
It is clear that the march of "far-right" parties in Europe is realigning the continent's politics and sending Europeans on a search for a genuine form of nationalism which may just bring them out of the mire of the modern age.
And while not all the parties that made gains represent a genuine nationalism, their gains do represent a genuine desire for change among Europeans.
Learn more about the elections in Europe here on our Substack.
Be sure to find us on Telegram. Follow us on Twitter and Instagram
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The European Elections: Progress for Nationalism Continent Wide!
Progressing into the new, nationalist, era
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👮♀️ 🇫🇷 Police women fail to arrest male suspect in Marseille until a man offers to arrest him. Problem solved.
📎 Radio Genoa
📎 Radio Genoa
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Google Earth Pro now has updated aerial imagery of SpaceX's Boca Chica Starship facilities.
🚀 🇺🇸 SpaceX wants to build 1 Starship megarocket a day with new Starfactory
🔶️ Sure, the test flight of the world's most powerful rocket this week was nail-biting. But it was also a massive win for SpaceX with a successful fourth test for Starship.
🔶️ The company's goals for this test flight were accomplished as Starship's first-stage booster, Super Heavy, made a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico and the 165-foot tall (50 m) upper stage, referred to simply as Ship, made a controlled landing burn during reentry before landing in the Indian Ocean.
🔶️ SpaceX now aims to build on the progress with its Starship program as continues work on Starfactory, a new manufacturing facility under construction at the company's Starbase site in South Texas. As it looks to use Starship to eventually make humanity interplanetary, SpaceX has stated the ambitious goal of producing one new Starship rocket every single day at the new facility.
🔶️ "We have Ships and Super Heavy boosters built and either ready to launch or in testing for the next several flights with more coming off of the production line as SpaceX's Starfactory continues to grow," Jessie Anderson, SpaceX's Falcon Structures Manufacturing Engineering Manager, said during SpaceX's livestream of the Starship flight test Thursday. "The latest phase of the factory currently under construction will come online this summer, giving us several 100,000 more square feet of space."
🔶️ The facility is part of SpaceX’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, one of the first-ever commercial spaceports in the world devoted to a single vehicle; in this case, Starship. Once completed, the company's goal for the facility will be to create one Starship megarocket every day at Starfactory.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-one-a-day-starfactory
🔶️ Sure, the test flight of the world's most powerful rocket this week was nail-biting. But it was also a massive win for SpaceX with a successful fourth test for Starship.
🔶️ The company's goals for this test flight were accomplished as Starship's first-stage booster, Super Heavy, made a soft splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico and the 165-foot tall (50 m) upper stage, referred to simply as Ship, made a controlled landing burn during reentry before landing in the Indian Ocean.
🔶️ SpaceX now aims to build on the progress with its Starship program as continues work on Starfactory, a new manufacturing facility under construction at the company's Starbase site in South Texas. As it looks to use Starship to eventually make humanity interplanetary, SpaceX has stated the ambitious goal of producing one new Starship rocket every single day at the new facility.
🔶️ "We have Ships and Super Heavy boosters built and either ready to launch or in testing for the next several flights with more coming off of the production line as SpaceX's Starfactory continues to grow," Jessie Anderson, SpaceX's Falcon Structures Manufacturing Engineering Manager, said during SpaceX's livestream of the Starship flight test Thursday. "The latest phase of the factory currently under construction will come online this summer, giving us several 100,000 more square feet of space."
🔶️ The facility is part of SpaceX’s Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas, one of the first-ever commercial spaceports in the world devoted to a single vehicle; in this case, Starship. Once completed, the company's goal for the facility will be to create one Starship megarocket every day at Starfactory.
https://www.space.com/spacex-starship-one-a-day-starfactory
🚤 🇹🇼 Taiwan unveiled an unmanned surface vessel (USV) inspired by Ukraine's use of similar boats in the Black Sea.
🔶️ The USV is designed to be autonomous and has a range of potential uses, including mine clearance and potentially even kamikaze attacks.
https://theaviationist.com/2024/06/05/taiwan-kamikaze-boats/
📎 Clash Report
🔶️ The USV is designed to be autonomous and has a range of potential uses, including mine clearance and potentially even kamikaze attacks.
https://theaviationist.com/2024/06/05/taiwan-kamikaze-boats/
📎 Clash Report
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🌊 🇺🇸 Northrop Grumman on X: "Together with DARPA & our industry partners, we have built Manta Ray – a new type of uncrewed underwater vehicle. Manta Ray will operate long-duration, long-range missions in ocean environments, going where humans can't." 📎…
🌊 🇺🇸 Manta Ray is a pioneering glider UUV with the capability for long-range, long-duration missions. It boldly explores the ocean and undertakes the most challenging and dangerous undersea missions.
🔶️ Most large undersea vehicles, like submarines, are so big when fully assembled that they can’t be put on a truck or ship to transport. Our engineers designed Manta Ray with these considerations in mind. Thanks to its modular design, Manta Ray can be separated into parts for easy shipping. Then, it can be assembled in-field.
https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/sea/manta-ray/beneath-the-surface
🔶️ Most large undersea vehicles, like submarines, are so big when fully assembled that they can’t be put on a truck or ship to transport. Our engineers designed Manta Ray with these considerations in mind. Thanks to its modular design, Manta Ray can be separated into parts for easy shipping. Then, it can be assembled in-field.
https://www.northropgrumman.com/what-we-do/sea/manta-ray/beneath-the-surface
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🇺🇸 🇲🇽 📝 In all seriousness, an "Iron Dome" is the future of the US. Regardless of what your politics are, it would simply be a product of the time we live in. | CIG #commentary 🔶️ Current wars, terrorism and crime are showing off new weapon capabilities.…
🇷🇺 🇺🇸 🇲🇽 Russian state media claims that countries in Latin America, including Mexico, could host missiles that can strike American targets.
🔶️ In a monologue, host Evgeny Popov referred to comments by President Joe Biden that U.S. permission for Kyiv to use weapons to hit Russia did not mean that they could be used to hit Moscow or any government buildings.
🔶️ The clip then showed Popov's wife and co-anchor Olga Skabeeva reporting from the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum where she said Putin had addressed how to respond to deliveries to Ukraine of "high-precision long range missiles" and permission to use weapons on Russian territory.
🔶️ She said one "asymmetric" response from Moscow would be to deliver missiles "to those nations that are willing to strike our enemies," and listed allies such as Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-mexico-nuclear-missile-1910386
🔶️ In a monologue, host Evgeny Popov referred to comments by President Joe Biden that U.S. permission for Kyiv to use weapons to hit Russia did not mean that they could be used to hit Moscow or any government buildings.
🔶️ The clip then showed Popov's wife and co-anchor Olga Skabeeva reporting from the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum where she said Putin had addressed how to respond to deliveries to Ukraine of "high-precision long range missiles" and permission to use weapons on Russian territory.
🔶️ She said one "asymmetric" response from Moscow would be to deliver missiles "to those nations that are willing to strike our enemies," and listed allies such as Venezuela, Cuba and North Korea.
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-mexico-nuclear-missile-1910386
🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇨🇺 Russian Navy flotilla now appears to be off the coast of Florida, on their way to Cuba.
🔶️ US Coast Guard Cutter Stone may be shadowing the Russian Flotilla which may be off the east coast of Florida abeam of Cape Canaveral.
🔶️ P-8A Poseidon bearing tactical hex code AE686F has just turned their transponder on in the general area where USCGC Stone was last beaconing on AIS.
🇨🇦 Royal Canadian Air Force CP-140/P-3 Orion C2B1ED as 140108 is joining the US Navy P-8A Poseidon.
📎 Intel Frog
🔶️ US Coast Guard Cutter Stone may be shadowing the Russian Flotilla which may be off the east coast of Florida abeam of Cape Canaveral.
🔶️ P-8A Poseidon bearing tactical hex code AE686F has just turned their transponder on in the general area where USCGC Stone was last beaconing on AIS.
🇨🇦 Royal Canadian Air Force CP-140/P-3 Orion C2B1ED as 140108 is joining the US Navy P-8A Poseidon.
📎 Intel Frog
🇷🇺 🇨🇺 The Russian flotilla is scheduled to arrive in Havana on Wednesday.
🚢 The four vessels in the flotilla are:
-Project 22350 Frigate Admiral Gorshkov, commissioned July 26, 2018
-Project 885M Yasen-M class SSGN Kazan (K-561), commissioned May 7, 2021
-Project P-5757 Nikolay Chiker sea-going rescue tug, commissioned April 12, 1989
-Project 23130 Akademik Pashin replenishment oiler, commissioned January 21, 2020
📎 Steffan Watkins
🚢 The four vessels in the flotilla are:
-Project 22350 Frigate Admiral Gorshkov, commissioned July 26, 2018
-Project 885M Yasen-M class SSGN Kazan (K-561), commissioned May 7, 2021
-Project P-5757 Nikolay Chiker sea-going rescue tug, commissioned April 12, 1989
-Project 23130 Akademik Pashin replenishment oiler, commissioned January 21, 2020
📎 Steffan Watkins