Intel Update - September 14 - Sheer Lunacy on the Western Front

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the Intel update for September 8th through the 14th of 2024 so let's get right to it this week we have a lot of things that are kind of up in the air still developing or otherwise just more along the lines of an indicator for later not a lot of details right now so one of the first things I wanted to highlight before we get into the the regions is over the past couple of weeks uh I've gotten a lot of messages from a lot of you out there talking about the DraStic increase in school threats bomb threats at schools active shooter threats um I have gotten several hundred messages from a lot of you out there on varying platforms I'm sorry I I can't reply to all of you. But but this has become quite a trend uh people noticing or getting emails that their school's on lockdown because there was a threat or so on and so forth now this seems like it it it could be a pretty big rapid rise and these kinds of threats going on around the country almost none of them are like come to fruition or anything it's mostly just the threats uh that have got people concerned because they'll get an email that their kid' school got locked down because of some threat or so on. And so forth uh there the these incidents usually Spike uh right after a major like incident as we all know we had that school shooting down in in Georgia so after that that's it's kind of expected that you're going to see a lot of threats being made a lot of copycats unfortunately um you know that that sort of thing happens pretty much with every one of these incidents. But we also have to keep in perspective that I don't necessarily know if this is a sort of harbinger of things to come uh this past month or so all of these these sorts of threats just kind of skyrocketing I don't know uh I would be more inclined to think that it's probably election year stuff so again as malign actors around the globe seek to cause problems for the United States uh either within the United States or you know foreign actors like Russia or China or something like that these kinds of things tend to happen now again because it's in the Cyber realm and we just we just don't have that much Fidelity on where these threats are coming from it's hard to say uh. But I just instinctively kind of have noticed and I'm sure many of you have noticed as well these kinds of things tend to Skyrocket when there's political turmoil in the United States so you know causation correlation I don't know I just thought I'd point it out because so many of you have messaged me about this um really over the past month or so past few weeks kind of like more intently so again I thought I would mention this just in case you have noticed this yourself uh a lot of places are locking down for you know an hour or two everybody's on edge so there's a lot of um you know proactiveness there's a lot of overreacting which is which is not bad you know it's better to go with the worst case scenario be you know um precautious and things like that. But I've noticed that there's an increase in this sort of thing again I personally think it's election year stuff it's tied to you know the crazy crazy times of trying to destabilize the United States you know foreign or domestically So speaking of crazy times in New York uh another NYPD commissioner is out uh so Edward caban resigned uh yesterday uh this is probably related to the ongoing corruption probe with between him and his brother like I mentioned before when the Scandal kind of kicked off uh I don't necessarily know if it's genuine or not. But the allegations are that his brother is basically a fixer Problem Solver kind of thing uh and he used his brother's um status as being the chief law enforcement entity for New York City to basically just make problems go away whether this is true or not I don't know again anytime the FBI is involved in something that is really big like this you really got to wonder uh especially considering how uh our nation is going these days. But either way it's it's kind of an interesting thing he is he he was on the job for a little over a year uh before stepping down uh it's not certain as to when his resignation will be effective it see it sort his announcement made it sort of sound like it was immediately. But I don't really know uh when he's going to actually have a replacement or when a replacement is going to be appointed either way he's the third guy in almost four years so it will be interesting to see who his replacement is considered ing all of the legalities and legal issues from Second Amendment stuff to Trump stuff anything in between the legal kind of um atmosphere within New York is very interesting at the moment and. Even though it's kind of out of the you know law enforcement side of things it's more into the you know court side of things now uh it's still going to be interesting to see who gets who who uh gets on the job next so either way we'll see how that goes. Moving on down to Massachusetts another rather unfortunate incident that occurred uh the day before yesterday in Boston another self- imulation incident uh the reason that I wanted to talk about this one a little bit a little bit more than just noting that it happened is because the mainstream media appears to be and I it's just my opinion I think that they're uh trying to camouflage this one uh because every single mainstream media report that I have found uh mentions that this uh incident guy set himself on fire outside the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston if you're familiar with the area at all uh you know that this is you know obviously the Four Seasons is not you know your super rate so you can kind of passively just know that this is a very ritzy neighborhood if you look on Google Maps you can find out that yeah it is and if you do a little bit of digging you can find out that the dude uh set himself on fire uh on the sidewalk uh outside the Four Seasons that's true that is a factual statement. But they're leaving out the second part which is more important across the street is the Saunders building which which is host to a few different diplomatic missions. But mostly the Israeli consulate for Boston so yeah I think this is related uh it's probably another horrific like exceptionally graphic means of protest against Israel we've seen this happen a few times usually in conjunction with something that uh Israel has done in Gaza that has kind of stirred up feelings you know uh the reason that I say this was probably it is because this site the saund building there have been protests there so it's not like this guy just went on to Google Maps and saw the Israeli consulate and said I'm going to go do this there uh this is a well-known site so I don't know um with these very very graphic incidents it's hard to say was this a mental health thing or was this a protest thing for me I I think there's very there's very little difference between the two with this kind of thing uh so I would think that if you're going to Emet anywhere there's going to be a pretty good chunk of that related to mental illness or some kind of mental health problem so um it's really hard to say generally speaking if somebody's going to do something that drastic they're going to like make sure people know what it was for. But again you can't really be certain because there's the mental aspect to it right so again it's a really graphic thing uh I don't know very much about it again it's one of things kind of up in the air. But I didn't want to highlight it because well you know it's one of those things that that's probably going to keep happening as long as uh as long as the situation in the Gaza region you know uh continues to not be super great um it's it's still pretty rare. But you know it's more I guess more along the lines of an indicator for society uh when you have a lot of people set themselves on fire and protest for some other reason that tends to not necessarily be a a good you know thing for your country sort of thing so if people are are that many people and it's still rare like we're only talking like one or two or three or four now I guess. But still if if there's that many like you can go 10 20 years without anybody setting themselves on fire for some cause or something and then now all of a sudden you've gotten how many I don't I don't even really know cuz I think others have probably been suppressed or I just missed them entirely so I don't know it's maybe just kind of an indicator for how tense things are uh. Even though that again there's just not much there we can't really get much uh Fidelity on what's going on there so let's move on down to the southeast yet another sort of speculation heavy uh incident this is the Manhunt for Joseph couch so for those of you who are unaware of the general gist of the story uh this guy set an ambush sight up on I75 shot a bunch of passing cars and now he's uh scooted off into the Wilderness and there's been a Manhunt that's been going on for six days now so again media coverage of this has been extensive so I'm not going to go into too much detail on that. But uh the motivations for why he did what he did like I mentioned in the wire it's really unknown uh and I and I'll get into this in a moment uh. But generally he for for right now now it's assessed by the local authorities that he may be hiding out in Daniel Boone Forest that is if he's not deceased this is an important factor because law enforcement have sort of released details of communications that he had with a uh a female contact of unknown relationship to the shooter uh that indicated that he had planned to conduct this attack. And then take his own life so that little detail is kind of of everything for this story uh and the nature of trying to find this guy so again just very very wave toop level if we've got a situation around the country shooter commits some kind of crime they're able to get away and they're able to survive the first 48 Hours of being a fugitive they usually get away uh so that's kind of The Benchmark usually if somebody can do something. And then evade capture for 48 hours they're long gone there are exceptions to this but but generally speaking fugitives almost always get caught later so that same person who does something they get away uh they're long gone after the first two days uh usually they're found months later by making some sort of stupid mistake or being complacent so it's kind of hard to be you know live completely completely off- grid and be a complete ghost in society today in the long term you can maybe get away with an anonymity in the short term. But generally speaking you're you're going to need a job the feds are going to know who you are at some point so um this guy has been missing or they've been searching for him for six days so that being considered and the details of the communications that he had with that female party um there are a couple of diverging possibilities I'm sure that the local authorities are considering many more possibilities. But just for those of you who may still be on the lookout for this guy there's there probably two courses of action or two diverging paths that could be the reason why this guy hasn't been found in 6 days um both of which are related to the extremely rugged terrain so both of these theories of where he is and why they haven't been able to find him yet kind of center around two ideas one is if he planned this incident like deliberately and two is if he didn't plan the incident so the the initial details that we know about this guy local authorities were kind of given the vibe out that he just snapped he had some kind of Mental Health crisis or lost his mind or something and went and just picked random targets so uh he didn't really planed it in that much in advance he just grabbed his rifle grabbed his car and and just went uh that's what local authorities have kind of sheepishly been kind of going with for their main the if this is what he did then and and if he did this. And then carried through on his original plan um his body would be pretty much impossible to find I mean if you just look at the terrain I mean d Boon National Forest that is a big place and you can hide pretty much anywhere so if he did this incident ran off with no gear no supplies no equipment ran a couple miles into the forest found some hole to crawl into and you know finished his plan so to speak he ain't ever gonna be found like you you can disappear in that in that area so you know you don't need Logistics or sustainment you know if you're deceased you also probably you also don't really show up that well on thermal if you're deceased so again hard to find so it may take a few more days uh maybe even some I don't know a few weeks or so maybe for you know cab dogs to go find this guy maybe uh. But but it it just really just depends so but again it's been 6 days probably it's going on 7 Days now so again that we're now talking like the dog should have found him by now um or something you know something should have been found so that kind of makes if I you know if I'm just kind of telepathically trying to figure out what the search team is is prioritizing that would make me think if I haven't found this guy if he's not playing this if he's on foot in rug terrain he ditched his rifle he probably doesn't have any gear he ain't going far I mean he's probably going farther than than you think. But he's not going that far so six days you should have found him if you haven't found him in six days you have to reassess your priors right going back to basian thinking right so you have to reassess your your initial assessment which is that he didn't plan this if he did plan this he ain't ever going to be found he's gone uh because if he was able to cash weapons cash supplies at predetermined places and he was able to commit the crime then shoot and Scoot sort of thing he's gone you have to wait to for the Marshals or something to pick him up in Tijana or someplace um so again for the locals who have been on you know Red Alert for 6 days these are things to consider especially considering people are are um people are losing their losing their stuff a lot more often lately and uh it seems like um th this this may become more more common I I mean I don't know. But it seems to me like you know as things get more serious people start getting to the end of their rope sort of thing the these kinds of things tend to happen a little bit more often uh they're they're you know we're not really living a super great times and when these kinds of incidents start increasing in frequency that kind of reaffirms that so you know should you plan for this I don't know. But uh just as a very brief kind of digression for a moment uh maybe I should do a whole video on this I'm sure somebody else more qualified is going to do more content on this. But freeway shooter scenario this incident has given us a lot of reminders right uh and I'll just cover a couple of them very very briefly again just due to the importance of this medical carrying medical with you man that's is so so important um freeway shooter scenario man I could go on for a few hours on this one uh it's one of those scenarios where if you look at risk management Matrix it doesn't happen very often. But when it does it can be very very serious because freeways or interstates uh they offer very very unique challenges. First of all there's usually clear line of sight you're usually on the X you're usually in the Ambush site uh and it's hard to move off the X because say this scenario happens to you right shoot someone shoots at your car randomly going down the highway you're probably going to stop uh if you're wounded you might be forced to stop and now you're still in the vicinity of the X little cover the the shooters already gotten a good range on you you see how this can snowball also another thing to remember is navigation how many of you driving down the interstate look at the mile marker and note where you are you need to do this this is super super important and I think I'm I'm like the only person that like I think actively does this if you're driving down the interstate look at the M Market workers every single one of them and remember the last one you saw uh GPS is great fine. But if you are bleeding out you know if you're like if you're wounded and you've got your cell phone in one hand you know you've got to like be able to call 911 and tell you know the authorities which mile marker you're at or where you are at and what you know what characteristics to look for the good news is that interstates are msrs their main Supply routes or major surface roads. However you wanted to use the acronym uh so authorities you know medical can get to you very quickly just knowing where you're at is is kind of a hard thing to do sometimes. Though so just just you know take note take not of The Last Exit you saw the last mile marker you saw just in case right it doesn't hurt you know to do these sorts of things you're talking about you know Interstate travel is is so much more dangerous in in in many regards because when something can happen it can be very very catastrophic you can have very catastrophic injuries in an auster environment right so you're away from Medical Care and you're still in a dangerous situation because a car is whizzing by you so again I could talk more about this at Great length. But I just wanted to like remind everyone who might be thinking about this situation and trying to glean some very rapid quickfire Knowledge from it uh the last one again firearms and training you know enough set on that sort of thing I I don't know how realistic it would be probably not very realistic at all I know that if I get shot at on the freeway I'm Pro and if and if I can push through push through that push through that Ambush get off the X move through that place I'm I'm not going to to be looking for my truck gun you know sort of scenario that a lot of people are are looking for I'm going to try to um get through that situation uh really really quickly so so again I know a lot of conjecture a lot of um a lot of unknowns like we just don't know a lot of um things to think about. But nothing really to like sink your teeth into with this sort of thing and I know this it seems like is this another thing for us to be terrified about like in our daily lives now I don't know probably not. But you know the potential is there and the next couple of months uh up until inauguration and probably a little bit shortly after we're going to be very very crazy so I would I would like more make more Del plans to to um be a little bit more prepared you know this winter um as as we get through through the election through inauguration then things will probably calm down a little bit who I mean who knows how that's going to go. But generally speaking once a consensus has been formed and a system has been put in place whatever that system may be even if it's a really bad system usually there's going to be a level of stability so we're now living in times of uncertainty instability crazy things happen random things happen you see how this can be a little bit more of a risky time for all concerned so moving over to the Midwest let's talk about Ohio for a moment uh and of course this is in relation to the recent Haitian controversy in Springfield Ohio so for those of you who have been living under a rock and have not been force-fed content on this uh the general gist of the story is that the town of Springfield Ohio has had a very strong influx of Haitian migrants from Haiti uh who have flown directly from p i Prince directly into Ohio and setup shop there the reason that this has become such an issue is that Springfield Ohio is kind of a small town well not really. But it's a smaller City it's only got around 60,000 people since this data is actively being manipulated now I suspect but generally speaking let's go with the number of 60,000 residents or natives uh for now and that that has been increased to uh between 15 and 40,000 Haitians so again the numbers are very widely differing uh mostly because of the next point which is that uh this issue has become a political issue because Trump said it JD Vance said it on the campaign Trail and highlighted it um and this has become kind of a thing politically I am personally kind of hesitant to lean on the spring Ohio thing so much mostly because this is not a case study this is happening everywhere around this country this is not a small issue this is happening in many other places it's just Springfield has had such a problem because um Haiti is probably the most third world country in this hemisphere in the in North and South America and Central America all combined Haiti is the worst country like it's one of the worst countries in the world in terms of crime in terms of culture in terms of economy basically by every Factor you could possibly imagine Haiti is the worst of the worst so you might find you know shocker that a lot of the people fresh off the boat or fresh off the government paid airplane uh don't necessarily blend in super well with American culture so there have been a lot of controversies I'm sure that all all of your social media feeds have been uh filled with rather graphic and disturbing content uh regarding what these Haitians have been doing in Springfield so I will not go into detail uh. But just generally speaking this is now a political issue now there's a few different things going on um the media is trying to make it out like this is a good thing you know if any of you could see my Twitter uh feed oh good grief um no it is not a good thing this is very very horrifically bad and um just like the TDA issue in Colorado it would probably be a good idea for most Americans to kind of understand what's going on here don't listen to the mainstream media interestingly enough the mainstream media uh reporting on this issue specifically uh has been very very like totalitarian you know I would argue maybe we're seeing like covid era misinformation being spread by the mainstream media on this specific incident uh I don't know why uh. But I thought it was very interesting when I was trying to find like some some information uh because a lot of people for whatever reason don't like it when I talk about an issue that doesn't have mainstream media coverage. But anyway I tried to find some mainstream media coverage on this uh what the Haitians are doing uh in Springfield and why the Springfield you know locals are freaking out and mainstream media is like like like absolutely insane on the topic very interesting um and I I I suspect I suspect that this might be due to the mainstream media thinking that this is now a weak point for Trump a weak point for the Trump campaign so they're going to go after it maybe I don't know uh I just found it very very interesting that out of all the issues out of all the issues that misinformation and propaganda and straight up lie is are being told by the mainstream media this one's the worst in recent memory I don't know why. But it's very interesting maybe they're trying to cover up the nature of uh cultures I don't know interesting I thought I would elaborate on that a little bit more uh just because I didn't write about it at all this week in the wire and I know a lot of people are kind of talking about it I know a lot of people have um kind of just blocked that content off of social media just because the the graphic stuff that's out there on this man good grief um still uh it's it's a big issue it's a big deal the Springfield residents are freaking out rightfully so I'm sorry I don't have any answers for for those of you who who may be watching from Springfield I don't have any answers for you um. But we can start to see how this becomes more of a problem uh because these people didn't just migrate there naturally they were put there deliberately by Nos and government operations so your tax dollars paid for it probably just follow the money you'll figure out who did it uh. But this becomes more of a problem considering what we have going on out west so again I basically recycled this slide from last week shocker right all I have to do is change a few words the TDA shot callers who were arrested have been released at least two of them so these guys were released on $1,000 bail never to be seen again uh again this is going to embolden everybody else to know that well they'll just get a slap on the wrist probably get their bail paid by somebody else paid with cash by the cartel they literally work for and they're gone you know or they're or they're going to stay who knows just keep recycling just keep getting rearrested these guys were charged with attempted murder so this is a capital crime right so they were charged with attempted murder and given $1,000 bail you know at some point you really have to wonder well you don't really have to wonder anymore this is now just deliberate it's just open and deliberate right uh what is what is being uh done throughout the justice system to to encourage these kinds of things so I know this is is not really particularly surprising and I know that uh I've already kind of digressed quite a bit for today I don't mean to rant and row too much I've just had too much coffee this morning. Anyway these guys being released part for the course like this is going to this is going to keep happening this is definitely a situation of the beatings will continue until morale improves so the differences between Ohio and Colorado are are largely just it's a very different dynamic in Colorado we've got a rapid influx of uh Terrain denial sort of operations going on encirclement occupation operations by a criminal Syndicate from a South American Nation that's a little bit different you know that's you know organized crime is a lot different than you know natives being native you know uh so the problems that Springfield's having is not necessarily organized crime it's just straight up Street crime and the the horrific nature of it so um you know there there's a a huge problem there it's cultural as well there aren't a whole lot of TDA guys snatching up family pets to use them in sacrificial voodoo rituals which is something that uh I never imagined I would ever say in a briefing. But here we are uh in Springfield I guess so for those of you who are looking to be a little bit more proactive and figure out um what what's going on with this the these two these two incidents seem kind of related. But they're really not um the differences between what's going on in Ohio and Colorado are very very different um they're destroying local communities but they're very they're doing so in very different ways I mean for instance TDA organized crime from a foreign International like crime syndicate that's a little bit different than Haitians coming to Ohio and turning a small town um Americana sort of situation into the third world that's very different so there's crime increase no matter what. But organized crime especially from like a cartel nature sort of arrangement is a lot different than just regular Street crime I mean it's hard to argue which one's worse so that's it for the United States uh I know not really a particularly satisfying week I'm sorry lots of conjecture sorry again uh. But uh I've really been focusing on a lot more abstract stuff this week such as what's going on in Ukraine and how that's going to affect how we move forward this winter so lots of movements being being made I'm not going to talk about uh the military uh stuff just going to keep things at a wave toop level today mostly because it's hard to find really good information and I just do not have time uh there are 50,000 Ukrainian experts on the internet already go figure out from them what's going on if you're trying to figure out which Village just got taken last night or whatnot I can generally say the Ukrainian offensive in Cur continues. Though is it still an offensive at this point I don't know they still hold a lot of terrain Russia's consolid did some Russia's made a lot of advances in the East uh. But it's hard to say how far they've gone it's also hard to say how or what uh Russians are doing to push back against the kers offensive like I wrote In The Wire I think last week maybe this week I can't remember uh it seems like the Russian uh Doctrine so far has been a lot of people were saying they were stupid and they were just slow to react and ukrainians caught them with their pants down that was a good theory that was a good theory uh it could be true see the Russians have a way of having two things true. At the same time when they do Warfare stuff so it could be the Russians did get caught with their pants down and the Ukrainian offensive inur pushed a lot further than uh Russia wanted it to. But there's also the old tradition going back to World War I and even before that tra Russian tradition of let your enemy come deep inside your territory before you surround them uh whether or not this is intentional still to this day Russia says yeah yeah yeah we meant to do that we let we we meant uh to let the the Germans during World War II get almost all the way to Moscow we yeah we we totally meant to do that hard to say if it's true or not so the Russians are kind of doing the same thing yeah yeah yeah we let them get almost all the way to K and the hammer is going to drop any day now there's also that there's also the real world fact of Ukraine Advanced into Russia with lightly armored vehicles like mostly a reconnaissance asset IM wraps very little armor um. But using it in a combined fashion with air and artillery shocker I know it's surprising combined arms Warfare works and when Ukraine uses it maybe they're able to you know do a little bit better than they have been. But anyway my U coffee driven ranting and digressions for today is not entirely useless I think because what happened in the past is going to explain what's happening in the present and what happens in the present is going to impact what happens in the future so curse offensive occurs Ukraine gets some traction right generally speaking I think that anyone who has read a Tom Clancy book once and that's their entire Warfare like experience um anyone who's done that can look at this in the grand scheme of things and say this this doesn't usually work out very super well historically you know if your nation is on the brink of collapse uh your front lines are crumbling hey let's go launch a major offensive deep into enemy territory where there's no strategic gain to be had and we're just going to sacrifice most of our experienced people for the inevitable Counterattack right again I am no scholar of warfare studies or anything. But even I can see this was probably not going to work out super well and because of that Ukraine has shot themselves in the foot or rather the United States has shot Ukraine in the foot by encouraging these Shenanigans uh this little Escapade in kers has cost Ukraine a lot because they can't hold it they're trying to hold it. But maybe they're trying to get a better position with negotiations I don't know all I know is that now Ukraine's pretty desperate and what Ukraine is trying to do strategic Al very broad brush they realize that they can only do so much in K their their Eastern front's crumbling they can't hold on to kers very long uh so they're trying so what they're going to do is just go scorched Earth we're at a situation now where kers is uh has now forced Ukraine into a tight spot and now uh what they're what both sides are trying to do is trying to end the war uh or shall I say um in the war as it stands right now the West is trying to expand it the West is trying to start World War III okay let's just get that out of the table again that's just my opinion. But it seems like the West is trying to directly become more invested in this and Russia Russia is calling them out on that so so Putin feelings on him personally aside feelings on Russia aside I know that talking about Putin in a slightly positive light any form of fashion is just for botin in today's society. But uh anyway Putin has called out the United States uh on this latest Aid package and what the United States is cooking up with regards to the war in Ukraine Russia is basically taking the position Putin is taking the position that uh and he said directly as much in a press uh presser with um I think RT or some other state media he said basically look uh Ukraine doesn't have military satellites that NATO does so if you are going to get if NATO is going to give Ukraine weapons that can only be used with NATO directly driving them then ukra this is no longer an advisory role this is no longer NATO supporting Ukraine this is NATO fighting Ukraine's war for them and Putin has has said this so if NATO if the United States gives Ukraine munitions that need things like military satellites to even launch or to to for guidance or something like that Putin will consider that to be an attack by NATO itself personally I think that's a reasonable position to hold I mean it it makes sense logically like you know if NATO NATO Ukraine is now hands off if you're giving Ukraine a a a missile that can only be used by the NATO advisors on the ground now you're just fighting Russia openly so I don't know um Russia has called the United States out on the carpet for um uh basically trying to sleepwalk or you know Mission creep their way into fighting Russia directly without openly fighting Russia directly and I think Russia is kind of at the next stage in the war where you know hey that that ain't going to fly so if a NATO missile come like if a German made missile that ukrainians don't even know how to use takes off from Ukraine is flown by German advisers strikes an apartment building in Moscow Russia is going to point the finger at Germany not at Ukraine right so same thing with a Polish missile or an American missile you know it it does make a lot of sense now I don't want to give Putin too much credit because I mean they started this whole thing well that's arguable too I guess. But still um either way this is not good and I think that one of Russia's biggest problems is they talk a lot of talk Russia talks a lot of talk Demitri meddev if you get on his social media it's like he's like the most skitso poster on the planet like he's like openly threatening the United States routinely um it's kind of hilarious. But still like Russia's not super great for separating out the crying wolf things from the you better not like seriously type messages uh I think Putin did this recent press uh press statement on this to kind of convey hey look we're not playing like if you launch a NATO missile with NATO advisers uh using NATO assets NATO satellites NATO just attacked us not Ukraine anymore I don't know I mean again perspective is everything and a lot of people seem to conflate military strategy and Military Victory and Military belligerence with morality that's probably not the best way to look at it so keeping that in perspective we also have to remember the West the West has got a lot of problems po land Germany the United Kingdom these three country France oh good G France as well Spain too uh all of these countries right you know all pretty much every NATO member right now has gotten a lot of internal problems um namely that they don't want this they realize that we're now at a stage where peace should have happened two years ago Russia did what they did fine sanction Russia Russia did invade a sovereign nation state for whatever for for reason which are debatable uh. But by and large now we're getting into a situation where it's more palpable that we're being run by morons and what I mean by that is you know generally speaking you've got nation states in Europe uh let's take the United Kingdom for instance the United Kingdom is doing everything they possibly can to get themselves involved in a foreign war again the United States does this too. But we're even seeing things like you know the UK floating the idea and like various like press tabloids or whatever of talking about bringing back conscription so generally speaking I know this may be a surprising concept to many. But generally speaking if you're trying to get your nation involved in a war it's probably not a good idea to piss off the people who might be fighting it for you so the United Kingdom is doing two things simultaneously they are trying to encourage a war and they're also doing everything they can to target the people that might fight that war they're doing everything they can to take off off all the people in their own countries that's why I focused on the winter fuel payment uh this week because you know uh cutting off the winter fuel payment uh for for senior citizens and for pensioners and retirees and in the UK is like it's like very bad to do politically it's sort of like in the United States if we told uh every senior citizen Social Security is gone uh we're just going to stop your checks like that's the that's the level of um uh concern that uh might be had in the UK again it's not a on toone thing it's not it's not the only social benefit there is it's like a two to 300 pound payment once once a a year uh to help seniors pay for energy costs we don't I don't think we have that here in this country it's just a it's a like a supplement in the UK so you know generally speaking if you want your citizens to be happy with you cutting Social programs is not something you would do especially if you're trying to give yourself a pay raise the same time so I I mean I don't know I don't know what the West's goal is just sheer lunacy I don't know I mean on the one hand Germany is doing everything they can to send their best and brightest missiles to Ukraine to get Germany more directly involved in the war and Ukraine because as we all know the Great Prussian military strategist Carl Kitz uh always said that you want to join a war um on the side of the losing party right before they're about to capitulate that's a great strategy really great idea not really so you know Germany trying to to to put a saddle on a dead horse is probably not a super great idea especially if you're uh trying to do everything you can to persecute people within your own country who are going to be fighting that war for you so again it's not a very easy thing to convey I guess and it's again lots of conjecture lots of opinion. But you know a lot of things going on around the world and uh maybe I'm just too stupid to realize what's going on what's their game here you know what does Poland have to have to gain by uh not wanting to pursue a peaceful option wanting to encourage Ukraine to Just Ride This Out ride it all the way down to the ground um you know there's some benefit to be had there with Poland doing that. But it you know antagonizing Russia in the process you know Ukraine's goingon to lose this war like that's probably going to be the outcome like I can't imagine a future in which Ukraine doesn't capitulate at some point like that's just I know it's offensive for many people out there. But I think that's kind of like a foregone conclusion just looking at it purely neutrally you know not picking a side or anything um I think it's very hard to suggest that Ukraine is going to walk away from this the winner you know Russia may not be the winner either mean nobody really wins in war. But in terms of like the military objectives Russia's probably going to meet meet them more Russia is more likely to to meet their own military objectives than Ukraine is for sure we already know Ukraine lost this war before they even started they lost Crimea so they lost the war before they even started you know their own military objectives were to keep their terrain well they lost when they started so you know um. But all of Western Europe just collectively losing their minds and trying to trying to ride this out fine you if you even if Poland Germany France Spain the UK and America even the Scandinavian States. Even if even if they they view Ukraine as being Expendable it would still be in their best it would still be in NATO's best interest to pursue or at least allow for the opportunity of for peace and generally speaking if you're going to be a warmonger if you want to go to war if you have plans for world domination you better dang well be capable of doing it um because all of NATO all of NATO has backed Ukraine uh and how's that working out so you've got Russia and you've got how many nation states in Ukraine are fighting on Ukraine's behalf including most of NATO all of NATO so again Grand strategy is important some of these larger more long- winded thoughts are I think important Maybe not maybe not the things I say. But still it's worth having the conversation it's worth talking about these things and just kind of open ly coming to some realizations real quick because this has the potential we're at one of those Milestones again where this has a potential to get really really ugly and uh it's very clear that NATO has decided to sacrifice Ukraine to save NATO. But they may not succeed in in doing the latter um either way it's going to be very very nasty uh for the forceable future in Ukraine and probably for the rest of Western Europe as well so that's pretty much all I have for today I will SP you uh listening to the rest of my incoherent ramblings and let's uh finish off with the ghost net so again ghost Nets kicking off it's doing pretty good uh there are um version 1.5 I'm still working on I've hit a couple of roadblocks with regards to how I am trying to think about things there's a couple of new Concepts I'm trying to explain in in trying to implement and trying to do things that would allow ghostnet to be a little bit more helpful uh and mostly to allow people to understand when they should use it and what's the best use case for it so I'm still working on it I'm sorry I'm overdue uh I know I promised this weeks ago I guess um. But it will be it will be finished uh shortly who knows when but I will uh I will do it I'm I'm trying to get it done uh. But again once it comes out you'll see like why this took took me so long to figure out how to implement uh but. Anyway the ghost in itself lots of good reports this week um a few that I I did not actually catch the call sign and it was only like a partial call sign so I don't even know who who sent these um. But again people highlighting uh the schools um being shut down or canceled so again you know thank you for this information this is good information I'm sorry that it's happening so much. But uh it it does seem to be a very strong commonality around the country uh with General unspecified threats being called in uh and you have to treat each threat seriously until it's found until it's uh discovered to be unfounded so you know these things just kind of tie up resources um and they're they're very they're very common tactic to be used by malign actors um again somebody talking about a District Board member I only caught part of this so I'm sorry I didn't catch the first it looks like I'm catching the the back end of a conversation here. But again somebody probably made some disparaging remarks about VP Harris and how this District Board member wants to be is trying to be like targeted in some way I don't know I I I should have Googled this. But either way um somebody asking here about a fill for ghost net wind link nodes no no I don't uh this is something I'm going to clarify in the next version win link is it's one of it's one of the least important parts of the plan it's just there in case you had to make uh to familiarize people and in case you had to make send an email or send a very long email- like text message to to one other person so uh the part of the ghost net that's just the um the wind link section uh that's that's really not that important I mean you can do whatever you want we're just using uh peer-to-peer stuff so um in the ghost net plan you can see here the the yellow uh part here this is really just for people who want to make contact during JSA call maybe send each other an email or something it's only one person to one other person. Though so it's a direct link between two people uh that's the that's the downside we're not using wind Link's taet we're not using other people's infrastructure it's just a personto person peer-to-peer uh connection with with wind link so that's what it's for it's nothing more nothing less I will uh incorporate I know people are griping about Vara uh HF being used because Vara HF is paid and it's proprietary it's super awesome and it's really fast. But again people don't like that part so I don't care it doesn't matter to me figure something out amongst yourselves like if you want to use ardop uh use ardop I don't care um I will change that. Though and clarify that uh just so that the standard is a little bit more up to date it's helpful to learn how to use both VAR and ardop uh for sending emails over HF radio uh. But I I just picked VAR because it's faster and it seems like it's better in every way except for the fact that it's proprietary which I don't like so um either way for those of you who just could tune out because you hate this radio stuff uh fear not I don't really like it either um. But I will explain this this will be a little bit more clear uh in due time uh it's just going to uh take me a little while to get there so just bear with me while I do that um. But again I did want to highlight somebody uh their call sign was garbled so I only got half of it uh but somebody said greetings everyone first time on the net so again new people are coming in uh somebody did K I didn't I didn't get a screenshot of it so screenshot or didn't happen right somebody said they heard uh 51 stations uh from I think Texas again uh and somebody said they heard 11 from Louisiana so again band conditions have been pretty good lately uh so for those of you who are looking to go through and do the receive only js8 stuff you don't need a license for that you can just do it for free you don't even need to buy anything I have a whole video on that so start there if you're looking uh to get into more of this radio stuff um I wish it were easy it will be easier in the future uh there are uh programs and uh projects being done to make this easier. But you know for now uh this is what we've got to work with so uh you know expectation management expectation management is a big thing so so that's pretty much all I have for today uh here are the sources as usual um again there's just a lot going on in the world and uh uh I haven't really had time to sit down and nail down some of the stuff this is a little bit more useful for you guys so I'm sorry that these briefings sometimes become really just a very long format way to say I don't have a whole lot to say uh so. Anyway sometimes that happens but uh either way the uh the usefulness and kind of fleshing out some of these more longer form ideas as opposed to just reading what I wrote In The Wire is kind of helpful sometimes so um hopefully it's been helpful for you. But in any case I will call it there for today so thank you all for watching and we will. See you next time and as always fight in the shade.