The Wire - January 2, 2025

this is the wi4 2300 Zulu January 2nd 2025 precedences routine information cut off as 2200 bottom line up front questionable details remain following yesterday's Terror attacks beginning with international events in Europe Russia's gas prom has halted the flow of natural gas to Europe following the cessation of the long-standing trade deal involving the transportation of liquid natural gas through Ukraine to European customers this development has been expected since at least 2014 when Europe was extremely reliant on Russian gas yet in the predicament of the war developing in Crimea at the time since that time most European customers of Russian LNG have either attempted to reduce or shift their demand for natural gas or have shifted to other providers analyst comment at the moment this development doesn't appear to really change much with regards to Europe's energy crisis this is more of the end of an era that has been a long time coming on the home front in Louisiana many details abound surrounding the New Year's attack on Bourbon Street most pressingly the FBI has taken the position that the attacker shamsu Den Jabar acted alone despite initial reports suggesting three men and one woman were observed planting explosives throughout the area the FBI has corrected these reports and suggested that the persons observed were not involved with the placement of IEDs analyst comment the new jerk reaction by the FBI to lie has reduced the trust and confidence the average citizen has in this assessment for instance during the FBI's press conference yesterday in which a spokesperson stated that the event wasn't terrorism the FBI had already recovered an Isis flag at the scene at the time of the press conference the FBI knew this detail confirming that the details conveyed to the American people at that moment were a lie trust is a concept that is easily lost and very hard to regain as such if additional threats emerged following the now multiple Terror attacks that have already occurred around the nation it's unlikely that anyone will trust what the FBI has to say for some time in Nevada overnight investigators have stated that the incident at Trump Tower in Las Vegas was a deliberate Act of terrorism the suspect who authorities claim has been identified as Matthew livelsberger allegedly constructed a vehicle BN IED detonating the device at the hotel for as of now unknown reasons analy commas for this wire the details that have come to light regarding the Vegas bomber have largely been host too much suspicion allegedly livelsberger was killed in the attack however considering that livelsberger was a special force Soldier and an expert in small uas systems and remotely operated Electronics skepticism abounds as to whether or not the body recovered from the vehicle was actually him DNA testing will be required to fully verify the driver's remains initially authorities appear to have relied on tattoos and documents found in the vehicle to identify the driver of the Cyber truck however it's not clear as to how the driver's remains can be burned beyond recognition yet has identity documents to include his passport survive the fire it's also not clear as to why the driver would have sustained a gunshot winge to the head as was stated by the Las Vegas sheriff this afternoon if the intent was for him to detonate an IED this latter detail is completely at odds with the characteris istics of most Terror attacks it is virtually unheard of for an attacker to take his own life before ensuring their explosives are functional and or the attack is complete an attacker choosing to take their own life rather than carry out the attack is somewhat common however the details of this case cause much doubt as to what really happened all of these details while possibly perfectly explainable also could be indicators of inconsistent information that raise legitimate questions considering his military experience and the training courses that would have been required all throughout his career including educational courses on how to make homemade explosives or hme it is highly suspect that this individual would have created such a crude Reddit tier explosive device even the Bourbon Street terrorist was able to make a few crude pipe bombs and that individual worked in it the Vegas bomber was a Green Beret whose entire career Arc revolved around Guerilla Warfare cans of gasoline and fireworks being a core part of his alleged explosive attack is completely outside the norm of what all service members in his career field are capable of on the other hand his technical Specialties within his military career were not specifically to be an explosives expert this detail combined with the declining proficiencies within the military at large mean that it is theoretically possible however remote that this individual could not identify the deficiencies with his own attack plan the end result leaves no room for comfort in any case as far too many intelligence gaps remain to make sense of what truly happened many factors had to line up for this attack to have been as ineffective as it was the alleged bomber calmly parked at the front door not even bothering to attempt to Ram through the obviously unreinforced plate glass front windows which lends Credence to the driver maybe not being alive at the time the vehicle arrived Tesla vehicle such as a cyber truck being capable of autonomous driving the Cyber truck heavily marketed and sold on its resistance to bullets and trapnel is an interesting choice of vehicle used in the attack that was somehow used in the most ineffective way possible all in all while the specifics of the attack itself vary the atmospherics of this incident bear striking resemblance to the 2020 Nashville vbi attack in which the alleged attacker in that case also took radical steps to ensure that virtually every single Norm of a routine terror attack is not adhered to conducting the most ineffective attack possible and this more recent attack in Las Vegas this overall similarity can't be dismissed even if livelsberger was seeking to only take his own life in a flamboyant way or to complete the act as part of a political statement the very ineffective and extraordinarily amateurish vbi DEC construction is an oddity even someone operating with an altered mental state would likely have conducted this attack or political statement very differently while much debate abounds regarding the multiple Terror attacks that ushered in the new year for the United States one detail remains pertinent for those discussing the very questionable details surrounding these attacks a false flag operation conducted solely for the purposes of furthering a political goal can still be fatal whatever really happened whether it be a wild and elaborate conspiracy or a purely isolated event the universal truth no matter the cause is that people were killed yesterday In the Heat of the Moment it's too late to have the philosophical debate of whether or not an attack is a false flag operation however after the event is over discernment the crown of all virtues is a worthy Pursuit when an event occurs it would be wise for one to consider the emotion or action that event is intended to result in in short when something happens think about what it's trying to get you to do an Isis flag being found at the scene of a terror attack and yet somehow still sporting creases from being folded in the packaging it was sold in is probably intended to drive an emotional response a highly experienced Green Beret trained in how to make bombs in a thousand different ways somehow choosing the most ineffective explosive method that results in no casualties and very little damage is probably also intended to result in some form of emotional response right now the risk of terrorism is high who is really and truly behind it is Up For Debate and probably varies widely but on the ground when the bullets are flying the philosophy of the event is largely not considered during The Fray when the chips are down helping each other and stopping the evil Acts are the only priority it is only after the day is done and the casualties are counted that the speed and violence of action to prevent bad people from doing bad things should shift into a mentality of discernment on the one hand the United States has never been more vulnerable to Terror attacks conducted by thousands of different groups and Maline actors on the other hand the United States is also incredibly at risk of a false flag terror attack dragging our nation into a war under false pretenses it is only in the search for discernment that we will have the ability to prevent mitigate and respond to crises that affect our civilization while also having the wisdom of restraint this concludes zir for 2300 Zulu January 2nd 2025