🇵🇼 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 U.S. weighs stationing Patriot air defense systems in Palau 🔷️ Island's president calls for 'peace through strength' as China tensions mount 🔷️ The U.S. and Palau are discussing the permanent deployment of advanced missile defense systems in the Pacific island nation, Palau President Surangel Whipps told Nikkei, part of Washington's efforts to check China's influence in the region. 🔷️ Palau has become an increasingly important partner for the U.S. military due to its strategic location between the U.S. territory of Guam and the Philippines. https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Defense/U.S.-weighs-stationing-Patriot-air-defense-systems-in-Palau https://archive.ph/r77fv

⚓️ 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 How US military equipment for Ukraine is shipped across Atlantic 🔶️ For heavy military equipment that’s being transported across the Atlantic, ocean shipping plays a central role, led by one company in particular: U.S.-flag operator American Roll-On Roll-Off Carrier (ARC). 🔶️ According to Chris Heibel, ARC’s head of operations, “We’ve carried the majority of all the cargo going [across the Atlantic] in support of Ukraine and we’re also participating in cargo going in support of the big NATO exercise, Atlantic Resolve. 🔶️ “Between August 2022 and July 2023, we moved approximately 32,000 pieces of equipment — that’s 5 million square feet of equipment — to and from Europe to support these exercises and operations,” Heibel said in an interview with FreightWaves. 🇳🇴 ARC, a subsidiary of Norway’s Wallenius Wilhelmsen (Oslo: WAWI), is the largest operator of roll-on roll-off (ro-ro) vessels in the U.S. Maritime Security Program (MSP). “Our main customer is the military,” said ARC Vice President Charles Diorio. 🔶️ Ukraine-bound cargoes being carried by ARC include wheeled and tracked vehicles — including Bradley Fighting Vehicles (BFVs) — as well as missile systems, including mobile HIMARS systems. A news release from the U.S. Transportation Command (USTRANSCOM) showed 60 BFVs being loaded aboard the ARC Integrity in Charleston, South Carolina, in January. 🔶️ ARC ro-ros do not transport bulk ammunition or missiles. Equipment such as Stinger missiles are transported via container ships or breakbulk ships, said Heibel. 🔶️ U.S. equipment for Ukraine and Atlantic Resolve is primarily loaded at two ports: Beaumont, Texas, and the TC Dock military terminal in Charleston. 🔶️ “Then you’ve also got cargo that is actually being supplied within the theater. There are depots in Europe that have been providing equipment by rail and truck right up to the border [with Ukraine]. And in the U.S., you’ve got the major rail lines all involved in moving cargo from the forts and depots to the ports of load, and you’ve got the truckers involved as well. 🔶️ “Where we play the biggest part is in large-scale unit moves. There’s really no other option for an armored brigade combat team other than a ro-ro vessel, and the nice thing is that once the cargo is in place, it’s sealed inside the ship so it’s not getting battered by the weather en route.” https://www.freightwaves.com/news/how-us-military-equipment-for-ukraine-is-shipped-across-atlantic

🛡 🇺🇦 📝 Chariots of the Slavs | CIG #commentary From Weapons for Profit to Weapons for War. The Ukraine War is a relearning of classic armored warfare. The luxury of heavy tank duels regressing to the historic mean of scalable, lighter armor in infantry support roles. The maneuver warfare that defined the Yom Kippur War and the Gulf War, was predicated on sufficiently allocated air support. This is not the case in Ukraine, we've returned to artillery being the king of battle as sustaining air superiority has become unpredictable. Of course, nothing is set in stone. If parity is not met between foes, we've seen conflicts retain an amount of fluidity. Such as third world conflicts or potentially a future war involving at least the US or China against a lesser power.

🛡 🇺🇦 🇺🇸 Western-made armor isn't working in Ukraine because it wasn't designed for a conflict of this intensity, Ukrainian analyst says Taras Chmut, a military analyst who's the head of the Come Back Alive Foundation, which has raised money to purchase and provide arms and equipment to Ukraine, said that "a lot of Western armor doesn't work here because it had been created not for an all-out war but for conflicts of low or medium intensity." "If you throw it into a mass offensive, it just doesn't perform," he said. Chmut went on to say Ukraine's Western allies should instead turn their attention to delivering simpler and cheaper systems, but in larger quantities, something Ukraine has repeatedly requested, the newspaper reported. https://news.yahoo.com/western-made-armor-isnt-working-111700196.html

🪃 🇦🇺 Australians looks set to reject new provisions for Aboriginal people Voice proponents are aghast. Mr Albanaese billed the referendum as a “a once-in-a-generation chance to bring our country together”. Unlike Canada, America and New Zealand, Australia never struck treaties with its original inhabitants. The idea for the Voice emerged from months of consultation with indigenous people to address that failure. The process culminated, in 2017, with a statement from Aboriginal elders blaming their community’s poverty on “the torment of our powerlessness”. They called for a treaty and truth-telling process, as well as an advisory body. https://www.economist.com/asia/2023/09/28/australians-looks-set-to-reject-new-provisions-for-aboriginal-people https://archive.ph/kiJ0G

🇨🇦 Close to 98% of the growth in the Canadian population from July 1, 2022, to July 1, 2023, came from net international migration, with 2% coming from the difference between births and deaths. Fertility reached record-low levels in 2022, with 1.33 children per woman, compared with 1.44 in 2021. More information on births, fertility levels and the most popular baby names in 2022 can be found in the products Fertility indicators, provinces and territories: Interactive dashboard, Baby Names Observatory, and the new infographic Canada's most popular baby names in 2022. As of July 1, 2023, an estimated 2,198,679 non-permanent residents lived in Canada, a 46% increase from the same date one year prior (1,500,978). This represents the largest year-over-year increase in the population of non-permanent residents living in Canada since comparable data are available (1971/1972), with the increase in work and study permits accounting for most of the change in the last year. This estimated population of 2.2 million non-permanent residents now outnumbers the 1.8 million Indigenous people enumerated during the 2021 Census of Population. https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quotidien/230927/dq230927a-eng.htm

🇺🇸 🇭🇹 A Female American Volunteer for an NGO in Haiti writes about her shock at being raped by a Haitian man she was there to advocate for - despite her being a “Malcolm X Scholar” engaged in a “common struggle” with him 📎 kunley_drukpa

NICE WORK RYAN! JUICE THIS! https://fixupx.com/groyperbob/status/1707237109587677470

↖️ 🇦🇺🇹🇱 The first Divisional size command on operations since WW2 commanded by an Australian, International Force East Timor. INTERFET was a Multi-National Force to bring order and stability to East Timor. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1999_East_Timorese_crisis 📎 Rhys

↖️ 🇦🇺 🇺🇸 Australia Wants U.S. Submarines To Deter China. Building Them Won’t Be Easy 🔷️ “The fleet that could result from AUKUS should be a force multiplier for America and its allies. But absent enough dollars and manufacturing capacity, fast, the deal could wind up exacerbating our attack sub shortfall and therefore fall apart.” 🔷️ “As the alliance takes shape, questions are being raised as to whether the U.S. military is capable of doing it all. Plagued by maintenance and construction delays, America’s submarine yards are underperforming relative to historic recapitalization rates.” 🔷️ “Attack submarines form the backbone of U.S. deterrence. While the Navy set a 30-year goal for a fleet with 66 nuclear-powered attack submarines, today we have just 49 (and dropping). Worse yet, only 31 of these are operationally ready as years of maintenance delays have culminated in a shipyard logjam that will take years to resolve.” https://www.19fortyfive.com/2023/09/australia-wants-u-s-submarines-to-deter-china-building-them-wont-be-easy

The AfD is within one point of being tied for the largest party in Germany in the most recent national poll. Germans see the damage migration has done to their homeland. And they see the tidalwave of illegal migrants storming Italy's shores. They hear Girogia Meloni and Ursula V.D. Leyen promising to keep taking people in. Germans know all of the hundreds of thousands of people are coming toward their borders, and that it is time to act before the nation is swamped once again.

In response to Elon Musk engaging with #BanTheADL and boosting the claim that Jewish community leaders pushed for censorship and boycotts, a collection of 100 rabbis and Jewish community leaders have launched a campaign to demand a boycott of X and its censorship from app stores. Tweet 🧃

Greater Idaho would be a rare win-win solution in a polarized America. Both sides would be able to enjoy their preferred policies. Political gridlock would be lowered. It wouldn’t even affect the number of seats Oregon has in congress until a decade later. If red areas are not allowed to reorganize with their fellow patriots they might sooner or later decide they have no choice but to elect “kamikaze” candidates who will cause as much gridlock as possible until their constituents are freed from tyranny. Our article explores this idea in greater detail: https://homelandinstitute.org/2023/05/greater-idaho-a-vision-for-a-white-super-state/

↖️ 🇺🇸 🏝 Ulithi Atoll, home to the 3rd Fleet in late 1944. The land in the foreground is one of several depot islands surrounding the anchorage. Forces landed in Sep. 1944 and began building one of the largest naval bases used in the war. At it's peak, Ulithi Atoll housed 617 ships, had its own 1,200-yard airstrip, and hosted 20,000 troops on its recreation island, Mogmog. https://www.wearethemighty.com/popular/12-photos-island-city-navy-built-invade-japan/

📝 During the Cold War, the US prepared for 45 years to fight a war in Central Germany. It never happened. instead, the war fervor bled into the first chance it could get with the Gulf War and by extension, the Global War on Terror. It would not be unreasonable to assume that a Western Pacific conflict could instead be channeled into a potential SOUTHCOM conflict.

↖️ 🇨🇳 🇹🇼 China Building Giant Hovercraft to Invade Taiwan’s Beaches We look at the capabilities and vulnerabilities of China’s growing fleet of military hovercraft that are designed to carry invasion forces to beaches Analysts say at least two new hulls of Chinese-owned giant Zubr-class hovercraft have recently appeared in social media imagery, putting the PLA’s total now at a minimum of six vessels. China previously had bought two of these Soviet-era vessels directly from Ukraine, and these were delivered by 2014. China then built two copies of these, with the PLA taking delivery in 2018. From then on production appeared to have stopped, so it is significant that China now seems to have restarted construction on a fleet of these vessels. Each Zubr hovercraft has a crew of 31 and can carry up to ten BTR-82A APCs, or three main battle tanks, or 500 troops, or some combination of these units. It can travel up to 483 kilometers at a sustained speed of 55 knots (101 kilometers per hour). Given that Taiwan’s western coastline is only around 170 kilometers from China, the Zubr’s long range means it could easily reach the Taiwan coastline at high speed after other ships had taken the brunt of an assault. It could then race over submersed rocks and sand bars to deliver beachhead teams on less accessible beaches, before re-inflating and returning to China to pick up a second wave of invaders. The Zubr hovercraft is also unique in that it is bristling with weapons. Each one is armed with two Fasta-4M surface-to-air missile launchers which are each loaded with four Igla-M missiles, which are roughly equivalent to the U.S.’s shoulder-fired Stinger missile. For close-in air defense and beach suppression, the Zubr is armed with two AK-630M gatling guns, each of which has six 30-millimeter barrels. These hovercraft also feature two Ogon 22-round 140-millimeter rocket launchers for suppressing beach defenses. Some models of the Zubr have also been fitted with missile pods that can fire multiple anti-ship missiles. So, the Zubr is a huge vessel that’s designed to transport a large force of combined arms at high speed over long distances, while also being able to deliver those forces to beaches in a way that only a hovercraft can. In addition, it has defensive weapons as well as offensive weapons that can suppress beach defenses while it unloads troops and vehicles. It is generally believed that a hovercraft won’t set off most types of sea mines as it travels over them, so defenders would mostly depend on anti-ship missiles to stop them. Anti-ship missiles are among the few weapons — apart from vertically falling artillery shells — that can punch a hole through the layers of the Zubr deep enough to puncture its air-cushion structure. Only when this air-cushion structure is punctured will the hovercraft lose the ability to float and start to sink. During a theoretical invasion, China would be expected to field the Zubr hovercraft in conjunction with its Type 076 hovercraft. The Type 076 is around the same size as the LCAC and can carry one tank, or four APCs, or troops. Unlike the Zubr, the Type 076 needs to be transported to the landing site by special navy ships with well decks at the rear that open below the waterline, allowing hovercraft and landing craft to slip into the ocean without falling over. The Type 076 is therefore earmarked to take a ride on China’s Type 071 amphibious transport dock and on China’s Type 075 amphibious-landing helicopter dock, which looks like a small aircraft carrier and features a 226-meter-long flight deck for helicopters. China is currently in the process of building a fourth of these Type 075 helicopter carriers with well decks. Combined with the slow but sure increase in its number of Zubr-class hovercraft, this seems to underscore persistent efforts by China to modernize and expand its naval amphibious assault capability. https://dominotheory.com/china-building-giant-hovercraft-to-invade-taiwans-beaches/

🇵🇭 🇺🇸🇨🇳 It seems that several more American military bases will appear in the Philippines - anonymous sources of the Japanese publication Nikkei Asia claim that the parties are already negotiating on this matter. American Admiral John Aquilino indirectly confirmed the military's intentions on September 14. - Rybar According to media reports, new military facilities are going to be built on the islands of Samar and Leyte , located in the eastern Philippines. Despite the remoteness of the islands from Taiwan, any military base on the territory of the country is of strategic importance for the United States . It can be assumed that the choice of Samar and Leyte was dictated by their relative proximity to Guam , an outpost of American military influence in the Asia-Pacific region. 🔻The obvious pretext for the construction of new bases is the conflict between the Philippines and China in the South China Sea, widely circulated on social networks and the media. In addition, the narrative about the “confrontation” between the United States and China , which is disseminated by American politicians, also plays a role in order to justify new budget expenditures and the construction of military facilities in the Pacific Ocean. Officially, the main mission of the US Armed Forces in the Philippines is to assist in disaster relief . However, given the foreign policy course of the Joe Biden administration, it is not difficult to guess that the United States will use any formulation to further spread its influence both in Southeast Asia and in the Asia-Pacific region as a whole. High resolution map

↖️ 🇺🇸 🇵🇭 U.S. seeks military access in Philippine eastern seaboard Additional sites serve to respond to Chinese activity in South China Sea The U.S. and the Philippines have begun discussions to expand America's military footprint in the eastern seaboard of the island nation, three people familiar with the matter told Nikkei. "Gen. Brawner and I may make recommendations to our senior leaders for the consideration of additional sites but there is still work to do there before we get to that answer," Adm. John Aquilino, commander of the Indo-Pacific Command, said at a press conference on Sept. 14, referring to the chief of the Philippine Armed Forces Romeo Brawner. The U.S. military has access to nine outposts in the Philippines, seven of which are located on Luzon island and Palawan island. https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Defense/U.S.-seeks-military-access-in-Philippine-eastern-seaboard https://archive.ph/a24rA

↖️ 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 US Army Puts More Tanks in the Pacific Theater to Counter China US Army tanks are getting lighter, networked with unmanned systems and easier to deploy Joint armor transport assets capable of moving heavy armor across the sea are rapidly expanding https://warriormaven.com/land/us-army-wants-more-tanks-in-the-pacific-theater-to-counter-china

✝️ 🇲🇽 ✡️ Former Mexican President Vincente Fox Quesada on X: "JEWISH AND FOREIGN AT THE SAME TIME." In reply to a photo of Presidential hopeful, Claudia Sheinbaum. If elected, she will be Mexico's first Jewish President, first female President. Despite wearing a crufix to appease voters, she turned the body of Christ away and offended them by doing so.

Ramzan Kadyrov published a video in which his 15 year old son Adam beats currently jailed Nikita Zhuravel , accused of setting the quran on fire. The head of Russian Chechnya region said that he approved of his son’s action. “He beat him up and did the right thing. Moreover, I believe that anyone who encroaches on any Holy Scripture, including demonstratively burning it, thereby offending tens of millions of citizens of our great country, must suffer severe punishment,” Kadyrov wrote in his telegram channel

🇪🇺🌐🏳️‍🌈❌🇷🇴 #BREAKING | The European Court of Human Rights has rejected the appeal made by the Romanian government in the Buhuceanu & others case forcing the implementation of some form of gay marriage including civil partnerships. The first steps were already taken last week when a bill supporting the recognition of same-sex marriages finalised in other countries was introduced in the Parliament. @Wallachian_Gazette

Maduro, promoted what is the first map of Venezuela (before Gran Colombia), with Essequibo included.

🇬🇾🇻🇪 President of Guyana: "I want to assure all Guyanese that we will defend Essequibo" https://alertas24.com/internacionales/presidente-de-guyana-quiero-asegurar-a-todos-los-guyaneses-que-vamos-a-defender-el-esequibo/

🇨🇴Migrants install Colombian flag on an island in the Rio Grande, US land. A DPS Tactical Marine Unit removed it.

14th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (1st Galician) surrendered to British and US forces by 10 May 1945. Most of the Ukrainian soldiers were interned in Rimini, Italy, in the area controlled by the II Polish Corps. The UNA commander Pavlo Shandruk requested a meeting with Polish general Władysław Anders a prewar Polish Army colleague, asking him to protect the army against the deportation to Soviet Union. There is credible evidence that despite Soviet pressure, Anders managed to protect the Ukrainian troops, as former citizens of the Second Republic of Poland. This, together with the intervention of the Vatican prevented its members from being deported to the USSR. Bishop Buchko of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church had appealed to Pope Pius XII to intervene on behalf of the division, whom he described as "good Catholics and fervent anti-Communists". Due to Vatican intervention, the British authorities changed the status of the division members from POW to surrendered enemy personnel.176 soldiers of the division, mainly prewar Polish Army officers followed their commander in joining Władysław Anders's Polish army.

🇦🇫🕵️‍♂️👀❗️ — 📰 Reuters: Exclusive: Taliban weighs using U.S. mass surveillance plan, met with China's Huawei — " The Taliban are creating a large-scale camera surveillance network for Afghan cities that could involve repurposing a plan crafted by the Americans before their 2021 pullout, an interior ministry spokesman told Reuters, as authorities seek to supplement thousands of cameras already across the capital, Kabul. The Taliban administration — which has publicly said it is focused on restoring security and clamping down on Islamic State, which has claimed many major attacks in Afghan cities — has also consulted with Chinese telecoms equipment maker Huawei about potential cooperation, the spokesman said. Preventing attacks by international militant groups - including prominent organisations such as Islamic State - is at the heart of the interaction between the Taliban and many foreign nations, including the U.S. and China, according to readouts from those meetings. But some analysts question the cash-strapped regime's ability to fund the program, and rights groups have expressed concern that any resources will be used to crackdown on protesters." Link https://archive.is/OmSjc

✝️ 🐣 📈 Model predicts 'religiosity gene' will dominate society Rowthorn has developed a model that shows that the genetic components that predispose a person toward religion are currently “hitchhiking” on the back of the religious cultural practice of high fertility rates. Even if some of the people who are born to religious parents defect from religion and become secular, the religious genes they carry (which encompass other personality traits, such as obedience and conservativism) will still spread throughout society, according to the model’s numerical simulations. https://phys.org/news/2011-01-religiosity-gene-dominate-society.amp

🇺🇸 🇲🇽 "CBP sources tell FOX News.. There were approximately 11,000 migrant encounters at the SW border in the last 24 hours marking the “single highest day in recent memory.” In Eagle Pass alone, there were more than 4000 from Fri-Sun/weekend" - Griff Jenkins https://insiderpaper.com/11000-migrant-encounters-reported-in-last-24-hours-a-historic-high-cbp

⛪️ 🇺🇸 Washington National Cathedral unveils new stained glass windows to replace Confederate Generals Robert E. Lee and “Stonewall” Jackson with BLM protestors. https://www.kpbs.org/news/news/national/2023/09/23/national-cathedral-unveils-racial-justice-themed-windows-replacing-confederate-ones 📎 AF Post

The Negative Foundation Myth @CIG_telegram

🫶 🇸🇾 🇨🇳 Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad and his wife Asma at the Asian Games opening ceremony. The visit has been very well received by the Chinese people. 📎 Zhao_dashuai

🇨🇦 🇺🇦 House of Commons Speaker, Anthony Rota, says the decision to invite a Ukrainian veteran who served in a Nazi military unit in WW2 to Zelensky’s speech, was “entirely” his own. “I particularly want to extend my deepest apologies to Jewish communities in Canada and around the world” 📎 MacKenzie Gray

🇨🇦 🇺🇦 "This SS Galicia division veteran was also called by Canadian parliament speaker "Ukrainian hero" & "Canadian hero" & thanked "for all his service."" 📎 Ivan Katchanovski

🇸🇾 🇨🇳 Leaders of Syria and China announce strategic partnership as part of Asian Games diplomacy “In the face of the unstable and uncertain international situation, China is willing to work with Syria to firmly support each other ... and jointly safeguard international fairness and justice,” Xi said in a video clip posted online by state broadcaster CCTV. https://apnews.com/article/china-syria-asian-games-diplomacy-assad-xi-cce801eaa586fe5db82d28df79b0f91f

🇸🇾 🇨🇳 🍵 Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and wife Asma arrives in Beijing for his state visit, after spending several days in Hangzhou for the Asian Games. In Beijing, post-war reconstruction will be the main topic The strategic location of Syria will be an important juncture for China's Belt and Road initiative. The Saudi Arabia-Iran peace deal and the inclusion of Middle East in the BRICS+, will ensure a prosperous Middle East. Enjoying tea farms in Hangzhou before leaving for Beijing 📎 Zhao_dashuai

🏴‍☠️Call to Action: STOP The Great Replacement The Great Replacement theory has gone mainstream... but Nationalists still have work to do. 🎥⚡️‐ WATCH ON YOUTUBE https://youtu.be/BAceX3ZW-3k @nationalist_network

"My assessment is that war is not inevitable, but the readiness I’m driving with that timeline is absolutely essential to deterrence and absolutely essential to the decisive victory," Gen. Mike Minihan said last week when asked about his prediction, according to Defense One. https://www.zerohedge.com/military/air-force-general-defends-memo-predicted-war-china-2025

🇻🇪❌🇬🇾 — A Good take from the video shared by VNN & GIW of the Venezuelan Ambassador for the UN: The Venezuelan rethoric regarding Esequibo is almost identical to the one used by Russia in Ukraine: — To stop the establishment of military bases by Foreign Powers near its borders, specially in territories considered as its own. — On Russia x Ukraine, it was 🌐 NATO Military Bases. — On Venezuela x Guyana, it is 🇺🇸 US SouthCom Military Bases

🇻🇪🇷🇺Venezuela reaffirms "strategic" relations with Russia to build a new world order https://n9.cl/6gr0m

🛢 🇺🇸 💵 JPMorgan says oil could spike to $150, gets very bullish on energy stocks Get ready for higher energy costs, JPMorgan said Friday, warning that the latest surge in oil prices may have a lot further to run. Analyst Christyan Malek upgraded the entire global energy sector to an overweight rating in a 44-page research report, saying that capacity shocks over the near to medium term and an energy "supercycle" could eventually drive up Brent crude prices — the global benchmark — as high as $150 a barrel. The recent uptick in oil prices , sparked by output cuts from OPEC and higher demand, has fueled inflationary fears and heightened concern that interest rates may stay at today's lofty levels for longer. Consumer prices in August, for example, showed a 0.6% month-over-month increase, the largest monthly gain of the year, partly owing to uptick in energy prices. Brent prices rose another 1% Friday to trade around $94 a barrel as a fuel export ban from Russia reignited global supply fears. https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/22/jpmorgan-says-oil-might-reach-150-gets-very-bullish-on-energy-stocks.html https://archive.ph/9R8t0

— A Very good question from February 22, 2022: https://t.me/BellumActaNews/70920