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Wuhan virus -

Omicron mania is increasing almost exponentially for a variant little is known about.

biden is scheduled to speak on his plans to combat this new variant. Although biden tried to quell alarm over the omicron variant, saying it was a cause for concern but “not a cause for panic.” his minions are doing just the opposite. One leaked item is that the Biden administration will extend requirements for travelers to wear masks on airplanes, trains and buses and at airports and train stations through mid-March, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters, amid concerns about a new COVID-19 variant.Biden plans to discuss the U.S. strategy for fighting COVID-19 this winter.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is ordering airlines to turn over the names of passengers who have recently been in any of eight southern African countries where the COVID-19 Omicron variant is known to be spreading. It requires all airlines to collect and turn over names and contact information for all travelers who have been to Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa or Zimbabwe in the past 14 days. The CDC is also looking to increase its “surveillance” at airports. Identified airports for increased surveillance measures will be implemented at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York City, Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey, and San Francisco International Airport.

However, these ‘efforts’ are too late as a “fully vaccinated” individual in Kalifornia reportedly is the first known case in the US. The person was a traveler who returned from South Africa on Nov. 22 and tested positive Nov. 29.

In a recent interview Dr. Fauci called for testing of everyone coming into the country within 24 hours of their entry — except illegal aliens.

OMICRON OBSERVATIONS - Incredible hype that hasn’t been reflected in public opinions IIRC. It would seem that biden is hiding behind his machine to preserve his ‘ratings’ and letting the minions run rampant. Democrat globalist/leftists need to keep fear high to justify further restrictions and controls. This may be a first run attempt to use a variant as a tool to override elections reforms instituted after the 2019 elections.

A panel of U.S. health advisers on Tuesday narrowly backed a closely watched COVID-19 pill from Merck, setting the stage for a likely authorization of the first drug that Americans could take at home to treat the coronavirus.
The Food and Drug Administration panel voted 13-10 that the antiviral drug’s benefits outweigh its risks, including potential birth defects if used during pregnancy.
NOTE last sentence - there are serious risks, yet they will try to force this on us.

More court losses - Montana Department of Justice. - “U.S. District Court Judge granted Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s request for a preliminary injunction against the COVID-19 CMS vaccine mandate, which was set to take effect Monday, December 6, 2021,” the Montana DOJ wrote. “The vaccine mandate is now stayed in Montana and all other states.”

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Globalism / Great Reset -

The Canadian federal government announced that it will pump millions more into its “voluntary” COVID isolation site program to “help” temporary foreign workers forced to isolate as well build a new virus camp. Canadian Minister of Health Jean-Yves Duclos said in a press release last Friday that more than $5 million will be provided for COVID sites and programs in the province of British Columbia through “Canada’s Safe Voluntary Isolation Sites Program.”

The chief of the European Commission has said EU nations should consider making Covid-19 vaccinations mandatory because too many people still refuse to have them voluntarily. German chancellor-designate Olaf Scholz said he would back a proposal to mandate coronavirus vaccines for all next year.
The EU-wide vaccination rate is 66%, and unexpectedly high case surges in much of the 27-nation bloc have led many member countries to renew mask and testing requirements, and to take other steps to curb infections.
“It is understandable and appropriate to lead this discussion now – how we can encourage and potentially think about mandatory vaccination within the European Union,” Ursula von der Leyen said. Health policy remains a national prerogative in the EU, and making jabs mandatory remains a controversial issue.

Greece Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced in a televised statement that the COVID-19 jab will now be required by law for people aged 60 and over. The prime minister said that for every month citizens 60-years and up go without a coronavirus vaccine, they will be slapped with a 100-euro ($114) fine.

Eighty House Republicans voted with Democrats on Tuesday to pass the Immunization Infrastructure Modernization Act, which if passed by the Senate and signed into law would fund a federal vaccination database.
According to the bill, also called H. R. 550, the government would provide $400 million in taxpayer dollars to fund “immunization system data modernization and expansion,” a system otherwise defined as “a confidential, population-based, computerized database that records immunization doses administered by any health care provider to persons within the geographic area covered by that database.”
OBSERVATION - Another step closer to a national wuhan passport.

OVERALL OBSERVATIONS - More countries are continuing to increase the tyrannical policies towards the unvaxxed. These countries should be viewed as examples of what the biden globalists eventually want to put into place here. First step now is the 7 day quarantine for certain travelers for Omicron.
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Economy -

The Govt is facing a shut down this Friday. There are rumors that an agreement has been made to avoid this. Watch for details.

DOW flipped around 700 points on the announcement that Omicron has reached the US. Buckle up for more bumps.
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Invasion of Illegals -

The biden administration is withholding the annual Entry/Exit Overstay Report, which covers the number of illegal aliens who remain in the United States after their visas expire. The public release of this report isn’t optional, but its delivery to congress is mandated by law

Hundreds of illegal aliens congregated in recent days under a bridge in Del Rio, Texas, according to reports. Just a couple months ago thousands packed in the area. Most of the migrants hailed from Cuba, Venezuela, and Guatemala, authorities told KENS 5.
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Biden watch -

A recent poll released by the Trafalgar Group has revealed that Biden’s approval rating in November has continued to fall, landing at 36.3 percent.
NOTE - Poll numbers vary from polling firm to polling firm. Trend is the key in all of them and they all are pointing down, down, down.
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CW2/Domestic violence -

Americans continue to arm to the teeth. On Black Friday, the FBI conducted 187,585 National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS) checks on gun sales, according to reports. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), Black Friday 2021 NICS checks surpassed those of 2020, which was 186,645.

Capitol Police arrested dozens of abortion rights supporters who sat down in a crosswalk near the courthouse, obstructing traffic, as hundreds staged dueling rallies in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday.

Another day, another trial. Officer Kim Potter is on trial for the shooting of Daunte Wright. Wright attempted to flee from officers during a traffic stop due to outstanding arrest warrants and was shot and killed by Potter after he crashed in to a concrete barrier. Potter is charged with First and Second-Degree Manslaughter.
On Tuesday night in Minneapolis at a BLM protest against the jury selection for the Kim Potter trial, rioters swarmed & attacked a vehicle. They tried to open the doors to pull the driver out.
Daunte Wright has an extensive criminal history. He was charged with carrying an illegal .45 Ruger, skipping his initial court date before being stopped by police officers in April of 2021. In the wake of the shooting, his social media showed him flashing gang signs and using drugs.
In the days following the incident, nearly a hundred people were arrested as they tried to break in to the Brooklyn Center Police Department and threw projectiles at officers.

OBSERVATION - This trial has the potential for serious violence if an acquittal is the outcome.
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POLITICAL FRONT -

Three senior aids to VP harris have quit in the past two weeks.

19 democrat congress critters have announced they will not run for reelection next year and retire
NOTE - They won’t get their pension if voted out. They are taking our money and running.
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China -

The World Tennis Association has cancelled and pulled out of China due to China’s treatment of Peng Shuai. While this will cost the WTA millions, the insult to China is significant and may provide more leverage to boycott the Olympics.

China and the US are preparing for a meeting between their top military officials amid rising tensions over Taiwan and an arms race over the most lethal hypersonic weapons.

China told Indonesia to stop drilling for oil and natural gas in maritime territory that both countries regard as their own during a months-long standoff in the South China Sea earlier this year, four sources told Reuters
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North Korea -

The U.S. and the Republic of Korea are expected to announce this week they will begin writing a new war plan for North Korea that takes into account Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile launch advances, two U.S. senior defense officials said Tuesday.
At their annual Security Consultative Meeting in Seoul on Thursday, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Republic of Korea Defense Minister Suh Wook will announce new strategic planning guidance “to start the process of developing a new operational war plan,” said one of the officials, who briefed reporters traveling with Austin to Seoul. “The DPRK has advanced its capabilities. The strategic environment has changed over the past few years,” the official said. “It’s appropriate and necessary that we have an OPLAN that is updated.” The officials noted that the current war plan for North Korea is around 10 years old.
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Russia -

See related discussion under Ukraine
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Ukraine -

UK Foreign Secretary has just held a meeting with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Stockholm amid growing concern among western allies over a build up of Russian troops around Ukraine and the potential for another invasion.

Putin made very specific demands this week: No additional eastern expansion of NATO & legal guarantees of same, no foreign long range missiles in Ukraine, no foreign military basing in Ukraine.

Observers have noted that the current build up has exceeded the one this past spring. Blinken said yesterday it is unclear whether Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine, but said that “he’s putting in place the capacity to do so on short order, should he so decide.” “by evidence that Russia has made plans for significant aggressive moves against Ukraine,” including “efforts to destabilize Ukraine from within, as well as large scale military operations.”

There are reports of Ukranian armored units moving eastward.

PM Lukashenka at the meeting with head of Russian State Duma Volodin: “we have an understanding of the need to preserve that civilization that existed at our joint Fatherland”, “joint Fatherland is Belarus and Russia”, - he explained, also hopes Ukraine will join this “joint Fatherland”

OVERALL OBSERVATIONS - Situation has gotten more serious. Putin is taking an increasingly harder line looking to leverage the fact that he has the forces on the ground to accomplish what he wants and a shut down of natural gas to Europe in his back pocket. He may be close to painting himself into a corner and have to launch some kind of attack. NATO is partially hamstrung in that Ukraine is not a NATO member, but is petitioning to become one. As I’ve noted, Putin sees Europe/NATO as a strategic threat. He covertly tried to get a Russian friendly government installed like in Belarus, but failed, initiating his capture of Crimea and eastern provinces of Ukraine under the guise of a separatist rebellion.
Absent US ‘backbone’ Europe is struggling to respond but resistance to Putin is stiffening. Putin is threatening but so far Ukraine and NATO haven’t taken the bait to initiate actions. I think Putin may do something limited if NATO forces move into Ukraine.
A very dangerous game of chicken is developing.
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Israel -

Israel PM Bennett told US Secretary of State Blinken in a phone call: Iran is carrying out “nuclear blackmail” - there should be an immediate halt to negotiations and harsh measures by the powers
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Iran -

Iran gives European nuclear deal parties drafts on sanctions removal, nuclear issues. according to state media. A European diplomat confirmed it, according to Reuters

Andrea Stricker, a research fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and an expert on the Iran nuclear program, told JNS that “if Iran comes to talks with maximalist demands for sanctions relief and refuses to resume discussing the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), the P5+1 will quickly realize that Tehran’s game is one of extortion, and they could pivot to a united pressure front.”
OBSERVATION - Iran is pursuing maximalist demands.

AEA boss Rafael Mgrossi “I confirmed that Iran increased production capacity at its enrichment plant in Fordow. It’s very important they give unfettered access to my inspectors. If they limit access, then we do have a problem”
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Black Swans -

The GPS meter in Grímsvötn shows that the ice cap continues to descend and it has sunk almost 9.87 m (32.4 feet) since it was measured highest on November 24, 2021, the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) reports.
Running water has now appeared in Gígjukvísl and the water level there has risen gradually yesterday and last night.
According to Benedikt Gunnar Ófeigsson, deformation scientist at the IMO, there is every indication that the Grímsvötn volcano is ready to erupt. The last eruption of this volcano took place in 2011 — it was a large and powerful VEI 4 eruption.

OBSERVATION - as noted earlier, major eruptions have followed these melting episodes. Such eruptions have shut down air travel in the UK and even portions of Europe. Such would impact the economies of these countries and may even worsen the current excessive cold weather being experienced due to sunlight blockage.


744 posted on 12/02/2021 6:51:28 AM PST by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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To: Godzilla

“Incredible hype that hasn’t been reflected in public opinions IIRC. It would seem that biden is hiding behind his machine to preserve his ‘ratings’ and letting the minions run rampant. Democrat globalist/leftists need to keep fear high to justify further restrictions and controls. This may be a first run attempt to use a variant as a tool to override elections reforms instituted after the 2019 elections.”

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Looks to me like they are setting up Biden to be the reluctant lockdown guy, who regretfully has to lockdown because enough people didn’t get vaccinated.

Also, regardless of how many mutations Omicron has, and whether vaccines work or not, the variant will be used to push vaccines.

It’s like everything they do is to push the vaccines.

I’ve said it before, if your top worry is a pandemic, you don’t fire nurses over not getting the vaccine. There’s lots of good reasons not to mandate vaccines.

The only way to make sense of what they do is to look at as if the vaccinations are the top priority by far, more important than public health, the economy, elections, anything.


745 posted on 12/02/2021 7:09:43 AM PST by BusterDog
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To: Godzilla
Omicron mania is increasing almost exponentially for a variant little is known about.>>>>>>>>>

The Dems have their Lemmings all cranked up while JoeBlow is doing the false quelling of the disturbed masses. They mean to contextualize the Nov mid terms right in the center of this mania....and double down on the election steal.

RUN FOR YOUR LIVES ....ITS Obamacron Virus!

VOTE BY MAIL, VOTE BY DROP BOX, RED CHINA'S ALREADY PRINTING THE BALLOTS.

747 posted on 12/02/2021 11:51:51 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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Color Key
BLACK - An area worth noting, but not immediately impacting on US safety
BLUE - Incidents increasing and needing further monitoring, low threat to the US
YELLOW - This is the moderate concern level. Definitely becoming a threat but in the longer term.
ORANGE - A definite threat in both short term and long term. Some active events occurring
RED - Active and ongoing. Examples of this would be 2020 rioting, war etc.

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Wuhan virus - YELLOW, trending upward
OMICRON is the new kid on the block and has spread to at least 5 states, although there is no evidence of it being more lethal. It is driving the extension of and new oppressive measures to ‘combat’ it.

biden’s wuhan plan is just more of the same. However, he’s looking to increase pressure to jab those 17 and younger.

The White House is considering mandating vaccinations for domestic air travel following the discovery of the Omicron variant in the United States.”I would say that nothing is off the table, so, including domestic travel,” said Press Secretary Psaki when asked about future rules.
OBSERVATION - Incrementalism, setting the stage for national passport.

The World Economic Forum issued a neutral statement concerning Omicron saying not much is known about it or its effects. “Early data from South Africa shows the rate of hospitalization is rising among COVID-19 patients. However, there is no evidence so far that directly links infection with Omicron with an increased need for hospital treatment. “

Court ordered Pfizer and FDA to release documents pertaining to the development and approval of the mRNA jabs. A lot of revelations that have been hidden. Among early discoveries, there were a total of 42,086 case reports for adverse reactions (25,379 medically confirmed, 16,707 non-medically confirmed), spanning 158,893 total events. More than 25,000 of the events were classified as “Nervous system disorders.”

The World Health Organization has questioned the UK government’s decision to roll out hundreds of millions of booster jabs to its population, asserting there is “no evidence” they would offer “greater protection” to the healthy.
Dr. Mike Ryan, head of the WHO’s emergencies program, questioned the logic behind this decision.
“Right now, there is no evidence that I’m aware of that would suggest that boosting the entire population would necessarily provide any greater protection for otherwise healthy individuals against hospitalization and death,” he said.

An abstract published American Heart Association “Circulaton” warns mRNA vaccines dramatically increase risk of developing heart disease. AHA issued a disclaimer that there are errors in the abstract that need to be fixed and in its current version may not be reliable.
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Globalism / Great Reset - YELLOW trending upward
Powers that be still trying to get pieces together. Global governments are increasingly moving to universal jab mandates and establishing quarantine camps for the unjabbed. In some instances they are using Omicron to justify the increased tyranny.

On Thursday Merkel and Olaf Scholz, the vice chancellor who will be replacing Merkel next week, unveiled new Covid mandates: Mandatory Covid shots for hospital, care-home employees. Access to restaurants, theaters only for vaccinated, recovered. Access to non-essential stores only for vaccinated, recovered. Tighter contact restrictions for non-vaccinated people. Nightclubs closed in places with high infection rates. Limits on number of spectators at large public events. Expanded crisis unit to coordinate federal, regional action.
OBSERVATION - Germany is setting the stage for universal vaccine mandates for all.

An investigation by experts in Spain has concluded that vaccine passports have no significant impact on reducing COVID-19 infection rates. Details of the study, carried out by Spain’s inter-regional Covid committee, were obtained by El Pais and reported on by the Telegraph.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/covid-news-cases-deaths-booster-jab-coronavirus-omicron/#update-20211201-0922
The researchers also concluded that vaccine passport schemes “contribute to a false impression that vaccinated people do not get infected,” when in fact “around 40 per cent of those vaccinated are susceptible to infection and transmitting the infection,” the report states.

A Swedish biohacker and advocate for human augmentation is promoting the use of microchips implanted in the hand to record COVID certificate status. Response of biblical proportions . . . . .
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Economy - ORANGE trending upward

Congress passed a stop-gap bill yesterday to fund the govt to Feb 2022. Kicking the can down the road 11 weeks.

Jobs report came out - results were half what was expected. 210K non farm jobs added, but 550K were expected (down a stunning 336K from October’s upward revised 546K), and the smallest monthly increase since December! Unemployment rate dropped to 4.2%.
Also in the report, the revelation that REAL US Average Hourly Earnings growth YoY fell to -1.378%. Income being far outstripped by inflation.
biden is expected to try to put lipstick on this pig this morning in an announcement.
NOTE - these unemployment numbers are so perverted that they are not believable anymore.

The California drought conditions are so dire the Department of Water Resources has issued its earliest ever 0% water allocation heading into 2022, signaling even further issues for water conservation in the most populous state in the U.S. One symptom, the largest, Lake Oroville, is only at 30% capacity, which is half of what is normal for this time of year,
OBSERVATION - Remember, Kalifornian is a bread basket for the US and much of the world. 0 allocation means fewer crops (only those with independent water sources).

biden claims the reduction of gasoline prices of 2 cents/gallon as a ‘victory’ They fail to mention that prices rose well over a dollar since the first of the year.
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Invasion of Illegals - ORANGE trending upward
Illegals continue to push across the border with record numbers of intercepts

The Biden administration announced Thursday that it is ready to re-implement the Trump-era “Remain-in-Mexico” policy in response to a court order to do so, after making changes to secure the agreement of the Mexican government – while still seeking to abolish the program entirely.
“As required by a federal court order, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been working in good faith to re-implement the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) program,” the Department of Homeland Security said in a statement. “Today, in coordination with the Departments of State and Justice, DHS announced key changes to MPP to address humanitarian concerns raised by the Government of Mexico and shared by the U.S. Government.”
OBSERVATION - Expect feet dragging on this ‘implementation’ as it has been biden’s common tactic on this as well as other court mandated actions.
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Biden watch - ORANGE trending upward
Mental facilities being questioned by leftist media and even 0bama’s doctor.

Biden says he went to Israel during the Six Day War to act as a liaison. He’s lying. That never happened. Totally normal.

LL Cool J introduced the president and first lady Jill Biden on Thursday evening at the National Christmas Tree lighting ceremony, which was held at the Ellipse south of the White House, but the cheering crowd had to wait nearly two minutes for the pair to show up.
Music played for part of the time — the rest was filled with silence until the rapper spoke up again and said, “We’re going to do it again.” He then told the crowd to sit down again. Someone else could be heard asking for applause before LL Cool J again introduced the Bidens....
OBSERVATION - Tardiness to events is becoming an increasingly common issue.
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CW2/Domestic violence - YELLOW trending upward
New trials are stimulating BLM violent protests. Potentially may also leverage a reversal of Roe v Way for addition violence.

Kathleen Casillo, 52, appeared in Manhattan Criminal Court on Wednesday after she was accused of driving through Manhattan BLM protestors last December. Casillo rejected the court’s offer for a plea deal, which would have given her six days of community service and one year license suspension, in favor of a trial. She claimed the demonstrators at the protest last year had come up to her car and called her ‘a white privilege b**ch’ before banging on the vehicle. She also told police at the time that she panicked and hit the gas as they started banging on her car. BLM protestors gathered in front of the court room on Wednesday as they awaited justice for Casillo’s actions. They had been angered over Casillo’s ‘lenient’ sentencing after she was only charged with reckless assault in the third degree on February 22

OBSERVATION - The right of self defense in these cases is not well established. This has been likened to another Rittenhouse scenario. These ‘road blocks’ by BLM/Antifa were an increasingly popular method of terrorizing the local citizenry.

Gov DeSantis announced the formation of a state militia known as the Florida State Guard. It mission - “The establishment of the Florida State Guard will further support those emergency response efforts in the event of a hurricane, natural disasters and other state emergencies. The $3.5 million to establish the Florida State Guard will enable civilians to be trained in the best emergency response techniques.”
OBSERVATION - With the exception of “other state emergencies”, this organization looks like it is initially poised for disaster relief. In many ways it resembles the CERT program I was in. However, this is a MILITARY force exempt from federal control as a way for states to circumvent Department of Defense regulations. Intrastate emergencies or interstate power contests may pit federal troops against state forces if a governor defies the Pentagon.

With arguments at the USSC over abortion ‘rights’ over, the decision is not expected for several months. However, the tea leave readers seem to think that Roe will be drastically pulled back if not eliminated outright. Pro-Aborts will likely use the decision to rally large protests and try to make the issue a key one for the 2022 midterm elections. Moderate potential for violence, mostly aided and abetted by BLM/Antifa elements that use the protests as a cover for them to spring board off from.
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Strategic Activity / Deployments - BLUE trending neutral

U.S. surveillance planes carried out a record number of sorties along China’s coast during the month of November. According to a Chinese think tank, U.S. surveillance and maritime patrol aircraft conducted 94 close reconnaissance flights along China’s coastline, a 30% increase from previous months. A majority of the flights were conducted by U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft.
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Russia - YELLOW TO ORANGE *change from previous week*
Increased potential for military action against Ukraine Four courses of action as i see it -
1. No invasion, but maintain turmoil and NATO will have no interest in bringing Ukraine into the Alliance.
2. Limited invasion, most likely in the Southeast Ukraine to make a land bridge to Crimea. Note increasing Russian talk about a Ukraine attack to recapture Crimea - nothing the Donbas region. Alternative limited scenario would see Russia claiming Ukrainian military movements toward/vicinity of Line of Contact (LOC) as justification/act of war (AOW) for moving conventional troops, weapons, and equipment into separatist regions.
3. Russia maintains pressure and orchestrates a change of Ukraine government to one favorable. Gains a buffer with NATO
4. Full invasion of Ukraine- worst case scenario.

Right now winter forecasts bode ill to united NATO response to any Russian incursions. Russian military is well-equipped to conduct a winter assault. In contrast, NATO would likely struggle to traverse the continent after winter conditions set in under threat of engagement by Russian long-range precision fires.

It all boils down to the extent of NATO involvement in Ukraine. Russia urgently needs guarantees that NATO will not move eastward, “it cannot continue this way,” the Kremlin said.

Russia hold the high cards so far and the game of chicken is entering a most dangerous stage IF warnings of a winter offensive by Russia hold true.

Talks between the United States and Russia over Ukraine have seemingly fallen apart, with both sides seemingly resigned to the possibility of conflict.

Russia has deployed its Bastion coastal missile defense system to a remote part of the Kuril island chain in the Pacific near Japan, the Ministry of Defense’s Zvezda TV channel said on Thursday.
Japan lays claim to the Russian-held southern Kuril islands that Tokyo calls the Northern Territories, a territorial row that dates back to the end of World War Two when Soviet troops seized them from Japan.
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Ukraine - YELLOW to ORANGE *change from previous week*
Increased potential of an attack by Russia.

Ukraine’s military intelligence says militants in occupied Donbas led by Russia’s 8th CCA command are holding drills to exercise putting troops on hight combat alert. Besides, their artillery is also training hard.
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Israel - ORANGE trending neutral to upward
Ongoing threat from Hezebollah and Iran continues.

Mossad openly promised that Iran will never get nuclear weapons.
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Iran - ORANGE

Iranian negotiators led by deputy FM Ali Bagheri Kani presented in Vienna this week two new drafts for an agreement on sanctions relief and for an agreement on measures Iran needs to take in order to roll back its nuclear program in compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal

Blinken: Washington is not optimistic about the Iranian nuclear talks in Vienna
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Belarus - YELLOW trending upward
Migrant ‘crisis’ still a severe concerns in EU, but recent events appear that Belarus is potentially deescalating the situation. Increasing trend in that it will support/participate in Russian military action against Ukraine

The US has imposed new sanctions on Belarus in response to the migrant crisis on the border with Poland and ongoing human rights violations by the Lukashenka government
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748 posted on 12/03/2021 8:08:50 AM PST by Godzilla (Never give up, never surrender . . . . . .)
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