Whats on my radar this week
ISIS/Terror
Abundant rumors out there with ISIS threats, etc. Sri Lankan security opened up a number of dens of horror - explosive/IED vests, etc over the weekend. Terror groups deeply entrenched there. Will operations by cells start here and elsewhere in the west? Historically, a lot of the calls by AQ and later ISIS were just hot air. However, with battle hardened jihadists stealthily returning to the west, the potential for a strike is increasing
Iran
Threatening to withdraw from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty - as if they were ever serious about it in the first place.
RUMINT - seeing numerous reports that Iranian forces in eastern Syria observed ‘unidentified’ aircraft over their areas and fled. They claim they were not Russian, Syrian or Iranian. Given that the USAF has iconic aircraft (C5, C17, B52, etc) that they couldn’t identify those airframes either. Further - RUMINT reports UI ground units in the area. Weirdness or have the aliens arrived.
Libya
Civil war has reached quagmire with house to house fighting in settlements surrounding Tripoli. Neither side appears to have any advantage at the moment.
Thanks for your work and the ping. We are approaching 2020 and still dealing with advancing barbarians destroying civilization. SICK.
Remember when the Vietcong took over Huế? They were able to round up every government official, march them all off into the jungle and kill every last one of them in one single night.
They knew exactly where they lived, who they visited, where they shopped and where they ate dinner, and when.
How you ask?
The cabbies had been providing the Vietcong daily reports on their every move for years in advance.
Soooo, where do most of the cabbies in your berg come from? In Washington DC, it's Somalia...
Just because we've forgotten the lessons of Huế and the lessons of the Sepoy Rebellion's "The Perfect Day" doesn't mean our enemies have.
While we were sleeping -
Venezuela - BREAKING
Juan Guaido had called for the overthrow of Maduras and is leading elements of the Venezuela military in a coup attempt. He has called for the people to come into the streets in support. News is very confusing because Maduras has ordered the internet essentially shut down to prevent opposition coordination. However, reports seem to bear out that people are starting to stream into the streets. There are reports of tear gas and gunfire in suburbs of Caracas.
Guaido has called the protests “operation freedom”. Supporting military are wearing blue arm bands. It was announced at Air Base “La Carlota” which is currently open for supporters to enter. There are reports that ‘collectivos” - biker gangsters supporting Madura - have attacked the airbase and Guaido supporters.
President Trump reportedly has been briefed on the situation and is having events there monitored closely. Unknown at this time what any US response may be. Absent carrier strike group presence, IF US begins military operations I would expect rapid deployment forces of either the 82d or 101st to be brought into forward operating bases in Colombia that have been prepared for months.
ANTIFA
FBI investigating reports that an antifa group tried to contact narcoterrorist cartels in Mexico to obtain weapons for a border uprising. Following getting their arses handed to them in recent confrontations with those to the right of their politics (virtually everyone in the country), they have gone increasingly to becoming armed. Developing.