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originally posted by: Guyfriday
a reply to: crankyoldman
People without homes will not quarrel with their leaders. This is well known among our principle men now engaged in forming an imperialism of capitalism to govern the world. By dividing the people we can get them to expend their energies in fighting over questions of no importance to us except as teachers of the common herd.
J. P. Morgan
If knowing is half the battle, then we were lied to about the nature of war.
Me
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
The Taliban has seized a giant cache of U.S. weapons in a compound in Afghanistan.
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Port of Los Angeles anticipates disruptions from China’s move
Some shipping companies are diverting vessels from China port
A Covid outbreak that has partially shut one of the world’s busiest container ports is heightening concerns that the rapid spread of the delta variant will lead to a repeat of last year’s shipping nightmares.
The Port of Los Angeles, which saw its volumes dip because of a June Covid outbreak at the Yantian port in China, is bracing for another potential decline because of the latest shutdown at the Ningbo-Zhoushan port in China, a spokesman said. Anton Posner, chief executive officer of supply-chain management company Mercury Resources, said that many companies chartering ships are already adding Covid contract clauses as insurance so they won’t have to pay for stranded ships.
It seemed as if things were just starting to calm down, “and we’re now into delta delays,” Emmanouil Xidias, partner at Ifchor North America LLC, said in a phone interview. “You’re going to have a secondary hit.”
Two developments over the past week are harbingers of a storm that may test Western democracy to destruction. First, the imminent collapse of the Afghan state risks sending a massive new wave of migrants towards Europe. Second, the sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) presents evidence that within the next few decades—not the next century—the effects of climate change may be such as to help destroy several vulnerable and heavily-populated states.
A row of state failures like that of Afghanistan would lead to increases in migrant numbers on a scale that Western democracies could not absorb without ensuring their own collapse. The case of Afghanistan illustrates some of the moral dilemmas and practical difficulties involved in the question of accepting migrants on a mass scale. The West has no choice but to consider possible answers—because the question isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
President Joe Biden's administration has been holding secret talks with more countries than previously known in a desperate attempt to secure deals to temporarily house at-risk Afghans who worked for the U.S. government, four U.S. officials told Reuters.
With the Taliban tightening their grip on Afghanistan at a shockingly swift pace, the United States on Thursday announced it would send 1,000 personnel to Qatar to accelerate the processing of applications for Special Immigrant Visas (SIV).
@HUNTSMAN
If the terminal shutdown at Ningbo (NBO) ends up being something more than extreme PRC paranoia, here's one grey zone-ish possibility beyond simple brute force trade manipulation.
2nd image is snapshot off NBO. Orange is fishing ships - lots of asymmetric threat vectors there.
Amazon's manufacturing base is largely SHA/NBO and Shenzhen regions.
Full withdrawal would not leave our equipment behind for the enemy to take later. Maybe some old stuff that won't be good enough to use against us somewhere else in the ME. I think I am seeing some things the Chinese and Iranians would love to get their hands on to steal concepts 1st hand.
originally posted by: carewemust
originally posted by: EndtheMadnessNow
a reply to: carewemust
I was making a parallel connection to Vietnam... another epic failure. You're missing the bigger picture and the aftermath yet to come and the Pentagon war mongers will probably start another war somewhere else. Biden is not in charge of anything, just a puppet.
President Trump had ordered a full Afghanistan withdrawal by May 2021. Would we be looking at the same situation there if Donald Trump was still President, and the withdrawal had recently completed?
Through the remainder of 2021, racially- or ethnically-motivated violent extremists (RMVEs) and anti-government/anti-authority violent extremists will remain a national threat priority for the United States. These extremists may seek to exploit the emergence of COVID-19 variants by viewing the potential re-establishment of public health restrictions across the United States as a rationale to conduct attacks. Pandemic-related stressors have contributed to increased societal strains and tensions, driving several plots by domestic violent extremists, and they may contribute to more violence this year.
Additionally, leading up to the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, Al-Qa’ida in the Arabian Peninsula recently released its first English-language copy of Inspire magazine in over four years, which demonstrates that foreign terrorist organizations continue efforts to inspire U.S.-based individuals susceptible to violent extremist influences.
How We Are Responding
DHS will continue to identify and evaluate calls for violence, including online activity associated with the spread of disinformation, conspiracy theories, and false narratives, by known or suspected threat actors and provide updated information, as necessary.