Hybrid Warfare and Sabotage

[OldSolduer]

https://twitter.com/x/status/2022264492185595919

He's right and the fools don't even know they are being played.

They are the first ones to complain to the new ruler and then get their heads cut off.

Like Pol Pot did in Cambodia and Lenin did in Russia. Something about eggs and omelets

 

[Kirkhill]

Now, though, everone is a useful idiot to be exploited.

It doesn;t matter if the divide is over the "E" in whiskey or supporting Ukraine. Division is the only thing that matters.

 

[Kirkhill]

In Hybrid Warfare is the US better investing 20,000,000,000 dollars and 5,000 sailors in a CVN and Air Wing or in 100 OPVs at 200,000,000 apiece with crews of 50?

The target is 1500 shadow fleet vessels.

Holland-class patrol vessel - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Kirkhill]

And from CSIS - China is a bigger Arctic threat to Canada than Russia

CSIS has recently stepped up its engagement with Indigenous communities, territorial and municipal governments in northern Canada to help mitigate China’s foreign interference and economic espionage in the region.

“I would say now, our primary concern about the threat in the Arctic falls under economic security,” said Lynd. “It’s foreign interference in our economic sector.”

Lynd said this would include predatory investment, attempts at control in the critical minerals sector and China’s attempts to gain footholds in critical infrastructure.

“The concern we have would be with clandestine or deceptive investment practices or economic engagement in certain market sectors in the Arctic,” he said. “From a CSIS perspective, we investigate, collect information on that, and we advise government on the rest of the threat.”

CSIS officials say China is more of a concern in Canada’s Arctic than Russia

Canada’s spy agency remains focused on China’s threat to economic security in the North

nationalpost.com

 

[Kirkhill]

US blockade of Cuba - coercion through denying it fuel

Report: USCG Cutter Blocks Tanker Bound for Cuba with Vital Fuel Supply

There is no official comment from the United States, but observers tracking Cuba believe a U.S. Coast Guard cutter intercepted a tanker bound for Cuba...

maritime-executive.com

 

[YZT580]

US blockade of Cuba - coercion through denying it fuel

Report: USCG Cutter Blocks Tanker Bound for Cuba with Vital Fuel Supply

There is no official comment from the United States, but observers tracking Cuba believe a U.S. Coast Guard cutter intercepted a tanker bound for Cuba...

maritime-executive.com

It would seem that the U.S. is acting towards its nearest neighbours in the same manner as China has acted in the Philippines. They seem to be establishing the American Empire; not by military invasion but by isolation. Whose next?

 

[Kirkhill]

Cyber-CRINK per Google

Google Links China, Iran, Russia, North Korea to Coordinated Defense Sector Cyber Operations

State-backed hackers from China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea target defense contractors using espionage, malware, hiring scams, and edge exploits.

thehackernews.com

 

[Brad Sallows]

It would seem that the U.S. is acting towards its nearest neighbours in the same manner as China has acted in the Philippines. They seem to be establishing the American Empire; not by military invasion but by isolation. Whose next?

Conventional wisdom used to be that the US has been behaving imperially since 1945, and since much earlier in the Americas. Taking down the most prominent socialist (marxist, leninist, whatever) governments in SA has been an on-again, off-again project for decades. Undoubtedly it will be a blow to Trump's followers if the administration continues pursuing regime change against authoritarian dictatorships in the region. "No new wars".