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What is a War?
NaomiWolf.Substack ^ | January 12, 2025 | Naomi Wolf

Posted on 01/18/2025 6:55:50 AM PST by Twotone

Since the wildfires (which, in my California childhood and girlhood, used to be called “forest fires”) broke out last week in Los Angeles, I have been living in a kind of anguish. It is not, of course, thankfully, the material agony faced by the millions of people now in a hellscape that used to be a paradise, or the unimaginable agony faced by the tens of thousands who have lost their homes and belongings.

Mine is an intellectual misery, rather, as I watch something unfold that is clearly, to me at least, the latest Pearl Harbor in our history.

It is so clear to me that events in Los Angeles constitute an attack that is part of a war. Pearl Harbor was the second attack on our homeland since the War of 1812; 9/11 was the third; and the Battle of Los Angeles is the fourth.

In order to make that statement, I have to explain again what a war is. Since April of 2020, when Brian O’Shea first explained to me “unrestricted warfare’, that Chinese Communist concept and goal, and that the CCP makes war in ways with which Westerners were unfamiliar, I have been persuaded by his argument that we are under attack unconventionally from multiple directions.

To recap: “unrestricted warfare” is a method of degrading the resources and morale of the enemy so thoroughly, bit by bit, that a shot need not be fired.

Brian gave me a dramatic image familiar to China hawks, in explaining this concept: we in the West expect to see war as an invasion or a bombing attack or to see enemy boots on the ground. We expect armies in uniforms on a battlefield, facing off.

But the goal of “unrestricted warfare” is to surround the enemy...

(Excerpt) Read more at naomiwolf.substack.com ...


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KEYWORDS: brianoshea; california; ccp; china; fires; gavinnewsom; karenbass; la; naomiwolf; nuttynaomi; war
Very long article, but interesting...
1 posted on 01/18/2025 6:55:50 AM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Thanks for posting. HOORAY Naomi Wolf! BTTT


2 posted on 01/18/2025 6:57:41 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Twotone

“War educates the senses, calls into action the will, perfects the physical constitution, brings men into such swift and close collision in critical moments that man measures man.” Ralph Waldo Emerson


3 posted on 01/18/2025 7:01:34 AM PST by kawhill (He would never eat it. He knew it was stolen.)
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To: Twotone

Naomi is always kinda verbose, but she is smart and her heart is in the right place.


4 posted on 01/18/2025 7:20:46 AM PST by OKSooner ("I'd be safe and warm, if I was in LA... " Mama Cass Elliott, 1966)
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To: Twotone

I think she is dead on. The entire situation is crazy. Makes no sense. I just read another article written by an air firefighter who said they are not accustomed to being called to duty in the US in January. Chile, Australia, yes, not in the US.

There is no way that there are only 24 deaths.


5 posted on 01/18/2025 7:34:35 AM PST by yldstrk
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To: PGalt

Very important article. Bookmarked and shared with close friends.
It’s a multi-front invasion and our ‘leaders’ have been on board with it for quite some time.
The Enemy Within...God help us!


6 posted on 01/18/2025 7:38:07 AM PST by Deo volente ("When we see the image of a baby in the womb, we glimpse the majesty of God's creation." Pres. Trump)
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To: Deo volente

She forgot fentanyl. It kills 100,000 Americans per year and is made from precursors exported from China. I have read that those exports qualify for subsidies from the Chinese government. That is an act of war.


7 posted on 01/18/2025 7:43:22 AM PST by p. henry
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To: Twotone

To recap: “unrestricted warfare” is a method of degrading the resources and morale of the enemy so thoroughly, bit by bit, that a shot need not be fired.


Folks,

Read it slowly and let your lips move. Read it again. Post it on your wall.

It still amazes me how effective the media is, even here on FR, in accomplishing their goal.


8 posted on 01/18/2025 7:43:58 AM PST by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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To: Twotone

Fires are normal for us. There was not much that could have been done with 80 mph winds. Santa Ana winds are normal for this time of year but they don’t usually get to 80 mph. I live in an extreme fire hazard area of Los Angeles on purpose. It is illegal to put low income housing in an extreme fire hazard area. There are fires from the homeless everyday without exaggeration within a 1 mile radius. Fire helicopters patrol the area constantly.
Unlike a hurricane or war that Naomi mentioned, with an earthquake or fire you can easily drive out of the disaster area.
This is just mismanagement. Environmentalism gone wrong. Both Bass and Newsom claim global warming, that should give you a hint they are ignorant.
Brush should have been cleared on the government property adjacent to these homes.
If they couldn’t get a guarantee that brush would be cleared on government property, building permits shouldn’t have been issued or the housing lots should have been big enough to provide the 200 foot dry vegetation clearance.
Fire breaks wouldn’t have worked in winds that high but sheep, goats and cattle grazing on government land could have kept the vegetation low.
Water rationing prevents us from growing lawns, the homeowners planted flammable trees and shrubbery.
Electric cars and energy storage was a big mistake.
Plastic water pipes in a fire zone is a big mistake.
Allowing second and third houses on a single family lot is a big mistake.
Where I live we have anti-mansionization laws. We can’t build a house that takes up most of our lot.
California taxes CO2, manufacturing moved out. Manufacturing gave jobs to people of every skill level. Now we have the homeless.


9 posted on 01/18/2025 8:30:18 AM PST by Haddit
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To: Haddit
Fires are normal for us.

We've all watched Cali fires on TV our whole lives but those were forest fires that might take out a few rural homes. This is different. This is suburbia burning. 10,000+ structures. With homeless constantly starting fires, how hard would it be for a nefarious character to start fires strategically and purposefully to burn the suburbs? Then it simply gets blamed on the homeless.

This is just mismanagement.

Caused by those in charge in Cali, many of whom, like mayor Bass, a trained marxist, could quite possibly be mismanaging purposefully. That is war. This whole Critical Theory that has radicalized so many university students, is war.

And spell check wants me to capitalize marxist. That is war. As Alex Jones says, there's a war on for your mind.

10 posted on 01/18/2025 8:59:24 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: Twotone
What is a War?

What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing!
Huhhh!!!

11 posted on 01/18/2025 9:03:13 AM PST by newfreep ("There is no race problem...just a problem race")
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To: Twotone
It's going to be a battle for people to cleanup and rebuild. War.


12 posted on 01/18/2025 9:17:13 AM PST by Pollard (Zone 6b)
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To: Haddit
Santa Ana winds are normal for this time of year \/ . been back in calif for 3 decades january ? no, its not normal. its geo engineered high winds same as lahina sddefault https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgRxhhQnKVo&t=7s&pp=ygUORGFuZSBXaWdpbmd0b24%3D rt 54 m
13 posted on 01/18/2025 9:22:08 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: Haddit
Fire breaks wouldn't have worked in winds that high

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but the metal power poles that were fire and wind safe would have...

..and the econazies stopped them from replacing the 100 year old dry as a match wooden poles

cuz of an “ endangered “ plant.

( sorry to nit pick , your post was really good over all )

14 posted on 01/18/2025 9:26:26 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961
"The Halliburton Hurricane Machine"?

I found this online. I don't know how accurate it is, but it looks like the winds do happen in January. It's just that the fires usually happened earlier. Since they didn't happen then, they're happening now.

15 posted on 01/18/2025 9:33:32 AM PST by x
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To: cuz1961
santa anna winds are normal in the fall

jan is the dead of winter.

ive also seed evidence of the hurricane that tore up n.Carolina was also geo engineered in its path and intensity

its also addressed in the vid i posted. .

16 posted on 01/18/2025 9:35:49 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: x

i stand corrected

thank you

i live way up north so the only time i heard about the santa anna winds have been the fall time fires.


17 posted on 01/18/2025 9:39:01 AM PST by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

Wildfires Serve Geoengineering Agenda
rt 22 m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nmL0aTXXoM&pp=2AEAkAIB


18 posted on 01/18/2025 9:41:38 AM PST by cuz1961
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