Intel Update - November 30 - War and Peace

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the underground this is the Intel update for November 24th through the 30th 2024 so let's get right to it continuing the trend from last week I'm going to spend all of today talking about international events uh not that there haven't been events in the United States worth covering uh there certainly have been it's just I've been personally more focused on International kind of mutterings rumors uh atmospherics just a kind of General feel because as we all know the American election has you know transpired and now we're just waiting for inauguration day and because of that very very significant International uh developments are underway uh this of course happens every four years. But this year it's it's been quite interesting to follow some of the more um uh diplomatic sort of things that have been going on around the world so just as a blanket disclaimer to kind of head off any sort of Reddit tier well actually uh kind of arguments today I'm going to be talking a lot of opinion a lot of speculation a lot of unconfirmed stuff a lot of uh more discussion type content so again we are in the era of unknowns uh in terms of what nations are willing to do and I think we're finding out a lot when it comes to especially the international stuff that the way things are in the world is not necessarily the way that they have been portrayed to the United States uh American population so again especially when we get to the Middle East U A lot of people are finding out that well the situation uh that we have been fed the stories that we have been um kind of led to believe are true might not necessarily be the most accurate way of of painting the picture. But again we'll get to that just wanted to let everyone know it's going to be a little contentious uh when it comes to some of these events because we just don't know uh the the concept of Truth uh in society is very much debatable by a lot of people these days um and very few people are are willing to try to try to come at things from a neutral perspective so that makes it very very hard to kind of understand what's really going on so all of that out of the way hopefully that will kind of quail any sort of descent here uh. But anyway uh let's let's start with northern Europe and talk about the recent cable cutting incident so suspect number one is the Chinese Merchant vessel yeang 3 this is a bulk Cargo Carrier vessel uh that is of course Chinese flagged and is the lead suspect uh in the recent cas cutting incidents in the Baltic Sea so for those of you who have not been following this incident uh two submarine cables or UND sea cables uh were cut uh in the Baltic Sea a couple of weeks ago and the investigation has been ongoing as to who might have been the culprit uh last week we talked about how there was kind of a a lot of details that didn't really add up uh in terms of an anchor dragging scenario uh generally speaking uh the things that were suspicious to me uh were the timing of the incidents uh they occurred many many hours apart according to the companies themselves and also the location where the cables were cut they were allegedly cut uh upwards of 100 miles away from each other there have been a lot of media groups uh writing about this this topic. But a lot of the reporting is circular meaning that uh one Media Group comes out with a with a report or with some sort of journalistic effort. And then a bunch of other uh subsidiaries or Affiliates copy that report and just put it out again so you don't really have multiple sources you just have that one in any case I haven't seen any solid reporting coming out that's gives us a whole lot of details from either the companies or uh the nation of Sweden or uh the nation of Denmark which is also uh sort of one of the leading partners of the investigation. However one detail is kind of adds a little bit of credence to what I was talking about last week which is that it's suspicious that the cables were cut at different parts. But yet uh they were ALS so cut at different times so that that didn't make a whole lot of sense well now the leading story is or at least the theory that the that the media is going with is that this ship the eing 3 drugg her anchor for over a 100 miles uh and just scraped the ocean floor uh with her anchor for a very long period of time so yeah uh ship dragging her anchor for over 100 miles is fairly uh fairly indicative of a very intentional Act is it true no one really knows uh of course the Chinese government has not been very helpful uh the Russian the Russian Navy also sent a ship into the to the area to kind of like you know make a a little bit of uh Naval power projection. But in any case uh the investigation basically concluded uh the Danes uh briefly quasi detained The Vessel um in term in Port uh but again the investigation that the vessel did not uh cooperate China did not cooperate either and they just had to let the vessel go uh I don't know why they didn't just seize the ship uh you know and just keep it uh as kind of like a you know active War sort of thing. But anyway I I guess the Danes are probably not willing to um uh poke China too hard considering um that of course Chinese vessels are are instrumental to trade in the region so yeah it seems like our lead suspect is is kind of fleeing the scene so to speak. But either way anchor dragon was it an anchor draging incident I don't know there haven't been a lot of details released on it it still could be a Russian submarine like I originally thought it's still could be that it still could be an American submarine for all we know um the Baltic Sea is is decently shallow so a few different nations have that capability to go down um into those Waters so it's not really that you know big of a deal so yeah not a whole lot of details on this one we're just going to have to kind of be okay with understanding that we're not going to know the full story on this so let's move on down to Western Europe at large and again this is uh in terms of speculation land we're still kind of there uh I think a lot of people are okay with that because we're trying to figure out essentially we're trying to get to the bottom of the story of how how close are we to a very very widespread conflict breaking out throughout Europe that's not just involving Ukraine to that I I say it's still pretty pretty unlikely. But that's just my personal opinion again like we're we're so far off of the manual with regards to what should have happened what has happened so we're just kind of going on gut assessments at this point with regards to a lot of these conflicts and we see that in terms of what nations are trying to do civil defense-wise like I wrote earlier this week in The Wire Germany has sort of made these these efforts as well uh in terms of they're trying to examine the feasibility of turning a lot of their Metro stations and underground subway stations into bomb shelters or a raid shelters. But I'll get to that in a moment because I think that when it comes to a lot of these nations Germany Sweden Finland uh a lot of these countries trying to revamp and Revitalize their uh civil defense practices um I think that there there's a little bit of an ulterior motive there which is fairly obvious I mean there's of course there's an ulterior motive to pretty much everything in the field of international relations and politics. But I think that uh there's one Canary in the coal mine that kind of lets us know that uh NATO might not be very serious about some of these things and to kind of uh set the stage for that idea uh two incidents occurred this week that really were kind of interesting at least as far as I'm concerned with regards to being an indicator for how serious things really are uh one of them was uh in Sweden one of their nuclear reactors was scheduled to have a planned maintenance period uh they're going to go ahead and cancel that so that they can keep that reactor online uh permanently running uh through 2026 for those of you who might not be aware of how nuclear reactors work this is fairly common or at least the the the concern with shutting the reactor down and starting it back up uh is there because in order to take a a reactor completely and utterly offline it takes months to restart it sometimes it takes months to shut down months to to bring back online now in an emergency of course the reactor can be uh shut down instantly. However it breaks a lot of things uh in terms of the longevity of some of the equipment I know nuclear Engineers there's a are probably going to disagree with that. But there there's a lot to be said for slowly spinning down a reactor versus shutting it down immediately another situation is very interesting to me in terms of of what NATO is is kind of thinking and and trying to work toward is uh in the United Kingdom as many of you have probably seen by now um Prim Minister starmer uh has radically changed his position on immigration and in in a televised address or speech he he stated that you know this was by Design This was did not happen by accident so um you can read the full speech to get the full context of what he's saying. But the implications of that are very interesting because essentially the Prime Minister who's an extreme farle politician extreme farle at least by American Standards extreme farle uh complete open borders complete you know World citizenship kind of guy now has completely flipped the script and completely gone the exact opposite way and to be honest to be honest some of his remarks so far on immigration have been essentially in my opinion against British law I mean people have been locked up and are currently sitting in jail in in the United Kingdom for saying you know immigration is probably not a super great idea and he comes out and says that this is not working at all and we must change this do you see the the situation with regards to reality and the British legal system is completely completely demolished right so that's a very interesting aspect uh that that I'm kind of interested in and both of these things this Swedish reactor and the prime minister's remarks in the United Kingdom kind of lead me to essentially being able to theorize I should say theorize some of the indications and warnings essentially I'm looking at a bunch of canaries and some coal mines here and I think that a lot of the civil defense fear-mongering stoking kind of World War III oh my gosh nuclear Armageddon kind of talk in Europe over the past few weeks is really misplaced and here's why I think that if Germany was serious if Germany was serious about civil defense they would be doing the things like the proper things the things that you would expect a nation to do if they're trying to protect their citizenry right produce pamphlets re-examine critical infrastructure do things like that. But Germany is also completely going the opposite way with regards to energy they're not they're they're focusing on pamphlets and they're not focusing on the one thing that is going to that Russia is going to have you know a really strong grip on which is energy all of this may seem to be very very unrelated uh so I'll I'll try to kind of bring this home under one idea I'm afraid I'm not as articulate this week as I would would hope to have been. But uh in terms of you've got Nations around around Europe that are preparing for World War I at least it seems like they are doesn't it they're doing pamphlets they're they're examining their Metro systems they're they're talking about you know draft ages they talking about civil conscription they're doing all of these things that you would you know assume that a government would do if they are preparing to go towards a World War uh situation in Europe or a very large conflict if nothing else in Europe. But on the other hand they're doing things that make absolutely zero sense so for instance just just to just to show you the perspective that that I'm I'm kind of looking at things uh from Admiral Rob Bower did a did a talk a few days ago uh where in in which a lot of I tried to explain it in a rather long wire report uh. But essentially people were very concerned that the basically the commander of military forces in NATO was talking about potentially doing a first strike on Russia again that's not what he said that people were taking his words out of context and they admitted the next sentence in which he very clearly stated that NATO will not strike Russia first we will have to wait and we will have to take the first blow first. And then we can strike Russia uh with longrange Munitions that's what he was talking about and I hope I hope that my my very delicate wording in in that wire uh report kind of conveyed that. But anyway people were kind of focusing on that part uh but they were completely admitting the other things that he said that were absolutely ridiculous so again this is all just atmospheric it's all opinion it's all speculative it's all um subjective very subjective all this stuff is very subjective. However we have to really go on what NATO's leadership you know says so you know don't get mad at me get mad at you know NATO's military leadership and one of the things that was kind of interesting to me is is that basically in the same breath as saying we need to be militarily capable of taking on Russia because war is coming and it's in many ways it's already here. But in the same breath you also say clean energy is the future you know wind turbines and solar panels are going to help us out during a war I mean on an individual person or Soldier level yeah a little solar panel to help you know Offset you know the grid being down is very crucial. But the this is Europe solar in Europe just doesn't work I mean it just doesn't I mean how many months of the year do so do Germany's solar panels stay covered with snow I mean this has caused Nationwide blackouts before and you're going to tell me that if Mother Nature can take out your energy source you don't want to take it into a a a combat situation where Russia can do so much more damage one cluster ammunition could black out your country with solar panels so either way again this is all very subjective. But I find it to be very very odd that you've got countries like Germany who are trying to stoke fear in their population saying oh my gosh you may have to shelter in a metro station so so that Putin's bombs don't get you. But somehow those wind turbines and those solar panels will be perfectly fine because clean energy is the future do you see how irritating this can be because if you really wanted to honestly Sol solidly protect your nation in terms of ener in terms of just anything energy is one of the things you're going to need if half your population freezes to death due to just the weather and not any sort of military action how good is that going to be it's not going to be very good at all right so places like Germany Sweden Finland doing all these civil defense things. But they're not looking at energy they're not looking at communications right they're not looking at these sorts of things tells me they're not really serious uh in terms of what they need to be thinking about and and perhaps more nefariously what if they are that's the worst thought what if they are serious what if they genuinely utterly and truly wholeheartedly believe that they will be at War within a couple of years and they still think solar panels and wind turbines are going to help them out uh I don't have enough time in the day to explain how dumb of an idea that is. But anyway hopefully many of you can can see that in war you know lives are measured in diesel lives are measured in oil and that's how Wars are fought Logistics right so in terms of what a nation is doing on the national front with regards to civil defense we can look at things and say well this is an interesting effort it's it's good that this country is is is taking the effort to try to prepare their citizens for a contingent situation we can look at it through that lens. But I look at it through an additional lens which is save your pamphlets bro you know don't mail me a pamphlet you know fix your nule nuclear reactors you know fix your wind turbines fix your solar panels and make your energy source more resilient because if China can take your National cell phone grid offline because they don't like the fact that you're snooping around one of their ships that dragged an anchor over a cable do you see where we're going with this like maybe maybe we should not so much focus on the pamphlets. But focus on the energy needs which are completely going completely unnoticed by a lot of people so yeah I know kind of a r off topic way to look at things I guess. But it just seems to me like if we're trying to not fearmonger if we're trying to to to avoid fear-mongering but we're also trying to accurately like assess the threat we're trying to do some risk management the risk management chart on all of this all of these charts and graphs I've looked at it a billion different ways and Europe is just not serious they're not serious about the about the potential for war they they're trying to make it look like they're serious by printing out some really pretty uh pamphlets. But they're not really investing in a lot of the things that you would expect them to invest in uh with regards to National Defense and National Security so I don't know that may change and of course we always have to remember we are looking at things through a soda straw right so we can't necessarily see a lot of the efforts that nations are are undertaking if a nation is secretly building a grand Communications Network I mean we would still find out about that because there are just indicators everywhere. But but anyway you see what I'm trying to say there a lot of nations are probably doing Secret preparedness items with regards to at least keeping their Elite safe uh in terms of in terms of a you know large uh conflict. But in terms of the actual citizenry itself and being very serious about their Nation it just doesn't seem like they're they're preparing in the ways that I would have expected them to so. Anyway I just wanted to kind of put that out there as a way of of simmering things down because a lot of people are terrified right now that World War III is like days away I don't think so. But again the overall idea is that we would always stumble into something like this or that World War III would go hot by a mistake you know not an intentional act or an intentional aggression it's always going to be a misunderstanding that results in something bad happening. But anyway I think we've gotten far enough off topic on that let's go ahead and move over to the Middle East where we can get ourselves into even more trouble so uh two big developments this week in the Middle East for one the Lebanon ceasefire and I say ceasefire in gigantic air quotes because it's a typical Middle Eastern ceasefire where basically it's not really a ceasefire everyone's still shooting at each other so it's just they're shooting at each other with less intensity which you know like I wrote yesterday it might be the best we can hope for uh Israel has violated the ceasefire very clearly by striking Targets in Lebanon Hezbollah has also violated the ceasefire by striking Israeli targets or with couple of tanks with some atgms or something like that hard to say um that's why the situation gets a little bit skewed because we can very clearly see an Israeli air strike right because well they use very large Munitions don't they so we can very clearly see well who dropped that bomb is it Hezbollah who have no aircraft or is it Israel well we clearly know that an aerial bomb was dropped so okay clearly Israel violated the ceasefire. But was that before or after hezb did something on the ground that we can't see again you know I don't want to take up for any side in this. But I can scroll Telegram and find endless endless footage of Israeli bombs Landing in Lebanon after the ceasefire but I can't really find that many videos of Hezbollah uh targeting Israel. But again I I it's just it's an intelligence Gap I just don't have that information it probably is happening but I can't say for sure all I can say for sure is bombs landed in Lebanon after the ceasefire so again the war in the Middle East is really just opinion based. Anyway so whoever's going to pick a side just pick your side but. Anyway the more interesting thing that has happened this week has been in Syria so for now in leanon things are I'm not going to say the ceire is holding because technically it isn't both sides are still shooting at each other they're just shooting at each other with less intensity so is that a ceasefire I don't know it's up for you to decide I guess guess. But either way let's move over to Syria uh where some rather significant developments are underway that may have some implications for the United States in the future so with regards to Syria I know not a lot of people care about Syria trust me there will be a why should you care sort of situation at the end here I'll explain uh. But just for the record I wanted to show this chart uh this this chart outlines a lot of the relationships and uh sort of alliances and friend enemy sort of situations that are kind of going on with regards to the conflict with Isis now as we can see here Isis at the very center basically everybody hated Isis for a period of time so this is an older chart this is an older chart of alliances and uh sort of relationships it's not this way anymore this is uh this is kind of like um 2015 2016 time frame of how uh the Syrian War kind of worked out now as Donald Trump likes to bring up Isis Was Defeated well in the Middle East you don't really ever defeat an enemy right they just change Flags so isis's population the population of human beings on the earth that were waving the Isis flag and calling themselves Islamic State that did dwindle down to basically zero at one point. But they just took off their patches and took down their flags and they joined another group well over the past few years over the past I don't know four or five years or so they've made a resurgence uh in terms of popularity now in terms of being an army they're not they're not uh back on the same stage that they were for for the longest time Isis was they were the the the hot group in town to join not So Much Anymore uh. But you do see Isis flags being around and a lot of morale patches on people's gear um like PL carriers and whatnot but we'll get to that in just a moment in any case just kind of ignore the Isis part in the middle for now and you can see all of the different power players that are at some way uh a factor in this conflict so let's move on to what has happened over the past 48 Hours well in short one of the major western-backed proxy groups that has kind of morphed itself from an offshoot of an offshoot of al-Qaeda uh has essentially taken control of a large chunk of Aleppo a major city in Northwestern Syria again uh Damascus is the capital Aleppo is well it depends on how how you view the population tables. But at one time Aleppo was the biggest city uh in the country uh hard to say if it's that way now but it's a very large city still and now the fighting is kicked off for those who are kind of wondering why are we still talking about Syria didn't the Syrian Civil War end in 2020 effectively sort of uh there was a very tenuous ceasefire that was brokered by turkey and Russ Russia to kind of let the front lines kind of stay where they were and basically everybody sit down for a minute and just stop shooting each other that lasted for a couple of years. And then the fighting kicked up again and now it's reached again another period of intensity so Vladimir Putin has formally accused turkey of helping this uh faction uh violate the ceasefire and all of this has happened over the past 2 days again the fighting has been going on or or building for the past 3 or 4 months I don't think anybody was ever really expecting it to go anywhere um. But now they've sort of made a a a a quick run for Aleppo and kind of caught the Syrian Army off guard now is this indicative of a major offensive I would say yes. But again that's opinion this could just be a skirmish of a few hundred or even maybe a few thousand soldiers uh and that are trying to take Aleppo can they hold a leppo I don't know we time will tell like I said this is a current event this is happening as I am recording this briefing right now so it's hard to say will they just punch into a leppo get some pictures of themselves you know chilling on the governor's couch like we've already seen. And then retreat in a couple of days so they don't lose their their fighting force I don't know it's hard to say um I can tell you that they've captured quite a bit bit of a leppo they've captured some regions that they didn't capture even at the height of the fighting a few years ago. But again we're getting ahead of ourselves here let's let's talk broad brush here let's let's talk very broadly here about who's kind of at play here well let's talk firstly about the major Nations involved on the west on the western back side you have the United States and Israel and on the East you have Russia along with Iran Iraq and of course uh Syria the Syrian government Bashar al-assad right so these are the two main factions at play underneath these factions we have a lot going on so starting with the East this is the most simple Russia is backing the government of Bashar al- Assad the Syrian Army as we call them right the proper Syrian governmental Army along with some varying factions and Logistics mostly from places like Iran and Iraq um those relationships have been strained at times. But that's generally how it's worked out now the more interesting side the of more complex hard to figure outside which is intentional I think uh we have a lot of western-backed proxies right now the new kids in town or rather the the hot Kids on the Block at the moment are what we call HTS hayat tiir Al sham now these guys they are an offshoot debatably they're an offshoot of the alus front which in itself is a a wing of al-Qaeda so they've tried to like Rebrand themselves a couple of times over the years to make themselves more palatable to the the west. But again this is very very very contentious here to suggest the United States is funding terrorists or what we would considered to be terrorists uh in Syria. However in my opinion again this is absolutely happening and this has been a contentious topic for about 15 years now in Congress some Congressman finds out wait a minute why is that guy wearing an Isis patch on his uniform and we're giving him money do you see how this has become kind of a thing essentially the United States is flinging wads of cash at anyone who hates Bashar al-assad that's how the Syrian War has basically gone Russia is doing everything they can to prop up Bashar al-assad that's essentially the conflict in a nutshell another complicating factor which is where the United States kind of comes into this and why this may start start to matter a little bit is turkey now turkey is what we might consider to be a professional fence sitter turkey is a very interesting Nation because they are member of NATO so remember that they're a member of NATO. But they're not really a NATO Ally like they're not really friendly uh we made turkey a NATO Ally so that we could put Patriot missiles there to kind of tick off Russia a long time ago. But you see how this is just a complicated web of international relations nobody really cares about I did put turkey here as a proxy of the United States because they kind of are they kind of aren't it's it's hard to explain um turkey does a lot of things on their own in this case they're directly backing uh HTS who is taking the fight to Bashar al-assad because the Turks don't like the syrians and the syrians don't like the Turks goes back thousands of years it's not really a new thing uh. But in any case as we can see here other power players that are at play are obviously Isis uh we've got dudes taking selfies of themselves as they're Marching In they are the the the moderate Rebels the moderate Rebels who are freedom and democracy and all kinds of great things that gets Congress to to make them likable so we could send them even more money yeah there w't Isis patches a lot of them are so basically it's the same old story in the Middle East no one in America really cares about this sort of thing. But this is where your tax dollars going right now so apart from that the other random groups that are kind of generally conglomerated underneath the sort of free Syrian Army kind of approach which is basically what the United States tried to create as a as an opponent as a sort of Independence Movement within Syria a lot of these groups just just devolve into tribalism very quickly so it's hard to say like are these guys really all about independence or not I don't know uh. But another Factor at play again here in the northeastern part of of the city are the Kurds um again they are just a third faction on this big game board of risk you know and that's how this works out the Kurds have been backed by the us at times. But also you know left out to dry by the us at times so that relationship is very very tenuous at best so I know a lot of stuff nobody really cares about so let's just go ahead and cut right to the chase here why does this matter well um well let me tell you first what I think is happening I'll just cut right to my assessment then you can agree or disagree I think the CIA who's largely running things in Western Syria uh I think they understand a riding on the wall and they're trying to give one last final push to Al Assad before Trump comes into office and realizes wait a minute we've been doing what in Syria and you know that kind of uh takes over so over the years since Trump was in office uh it turns out that all the people we spent fighting all the people we spent a lot of lives and lost a lot of lives to fight in Syria we're now helping because whatever reason that's just how things worked out I guess again like I said anybody who opposes Assad we throw cash at and that's kind of the way that this is been so personally again very inflammatory opinion I know. But it shouldn't be surprising I think the CIA is for a lot of the OG guys on the ground they're trying to do one last push to do two things one because they know their prob their jobs are on the line and they know they're not going to be in Syria for or they're gonna have a reduced role in Syria so they're doing one one big push with these HTS guys to see if they can take Aleppo and just muddy the waters and make things as costly for Assad as they possibly can and by doing so they bring Russia into the conflict more directly so now Russia is is bombing our random neighborhoods in in Aleppo again uh so it gets Russia all stirred up again so that's kind of the way the CIA operates right they're just trying to get Russia to do something. But more nefariously the other goal which I think is again more contentious more inflammatory whatever uh I think that the CIA is trying to destabilize Syria to the point to where a power vacuum or several Power vacuums can occur more terrorism in terms of what they can sell to the American people is created again anytime someone is not in charge of a piece of land in the Middle East is exactly what happens here a lot of Bad Dudes just spring up out of nowhere this is exactly what Vladimir Putin said turkey allowed because turkey created that safe Zone that safe Zone in I believe idlib where it was basically just kind of a Syrian Army will stay out of here we'll leave each other alone well guess what happened Syria did that they left these people alone and now they're on their doorstep taking Aleppo so again power vacuums are a huge thing in Syria and I think the CIA is trying to create a power vacuum to retroactively justify their own presence there this is what the CIA does best right we're going to go in we're going to poke the situation make it worse. And then say hey look see we're needed here to fix this situation so this really brings out out the whole idea of chicken or the egg sort of thing is was the situation made better or worse by the CIA being involved were they just there just in the nick of time to stop bad guys from doing bad things or did they provoke those bad guys to do bad things who never plan to do bad things beforehand you know it's sort of like the whole argument of well would 911 have happened if the FBI hadn't to helped the hijackers I don't know I don't know it's it's it's definitely debatable. But in Syria I think we can say with a little bit higher confidence that you know yeah the CIA is probably trying to stoke a a a power vacuum situation here they're trying to make it as as costly for Assad as humanly possible because they know or they can assess that their funding is going to dry up and all these you know hundreds of millions of dollars were funneling to you know Insurgent groups in the desert who uh don't have a favorable view of America. But as long as they hate Assad they're good I think that Trend or that that that tactic is probably going to come come to an end um or it's going to be reduced quite a bit will it ever end I don't know I mean the CIA is going to do what the CIA is going to do regardless of who's in office. But I think that very long- winded very conjecture filled uh very opinionated look at things in Syria is is basically all I can muster uh for today in terms of what's actually going on there bottom line bottom line last I guess uh this may create the conditions for a very large Middle Eastern War again another Isis push it could do this in a few months we'll see again it's hard to base an assessment that large on two days worth of fighting uh in Aleppo hard to say I mean I would say that just based on two two days of fighting is very unlikely for Assad to just kind of give up based off of that alone I mean the war was way more serious at one point so why would it be why would it be more important now. Anyway um but this is set in conditions this is set in conditions so that you know in a year from now maybe you can look back on this and say ah okay I understand what he was trying to say now um. Even if I can't articulate it very well right now but either way this couldn't could at some point months or years from now involve the United States getting dragged back into this I hope not. But it could um either way somebody somewhere is trying their hardest to make that happen so so either way I guess we'll see how it works out so enough of that for today uh let's talk about the ghost net again I have nothing significant to report I was on the ghost net uh because it was Thanksgiving so I was monitoring it um didn't see that many news reports. But that's okay I wasn't expecting there to be much traffic on it but it's good it's good that a lot of you uh were able to to monitor it I I was not monitoring via web my web SDR I was on it via my my personal radio here so my reception wasn't so great uh just outside my local area. But I saw lots of heartbeats lots of messages it's good and fantastic that things are are carrying on and going with this uh so I'm I'm glad to to uh keep that going I do have a couple of others Quai secret projects and the works that are related to the ghost net. But they're they're separate so I'll I'll be talking about those over the next couple of months hopefully once I get something ready for for public consumption but yeah still working on things still improving things it's evolving it's it's been around for over a year now so I think that it's it's it's decently reliable at this point which is good so that's pretty much all I have for today uh again I wish I was a little bit more coherent in terms of trying to figure out what I wanted to say today uh. But it's been kind of a long week I'm a little bit tired so so please forgive me on that front but yeah these are the sources for today uh hopefully I'll be able to get a little bit more uh with regards to some of these events I I wish I had just more detail I wish I had more uh to say on on a lot of these incidents uh that that are going on throughout Europe at least so uh for now this is what we've got so we'll have to wait and see what next week brings so thank you all for watching uh Happy Thanksgiving a belated happy Thanksgiving for all of you out there I know that this year we have a lot to be thankful for uh I I most certainly do so thank you uh to all of you out there uh for for supporting me over the years and uh I can't wait uh to see where this this project goes in the future so thank you again thanks for watching and we will. See you next time and as always fight in the shade.