Reader’s links, November 13, 2017

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  1. U.S. Military: More Fake News from the New York Times

    by Peter Huessy
    November 13, 2017 at 4:00 am

    https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11335/us-military-new-york-times

    The New York Times appears convinced the United States has plans to hurl 4000 nuclear warheads at Russian cities in the event deterrence breaks down, a retaliatory threat they claim is far beyond what is needed to keep the peace. Instead, they call for a unilateral cut in our nuclear force to roughly 1000.

    For some reason, the Times did not get the memo some half-century ago that the United States deterrent policy does not target an adversary’s cities. Nor are the number of warheads in the American deployed nuclear arsenal anywhere near the 4000 claimed by the Times.

    They were reduced by half that number in 2002 under the Moscow Treaty, and to even lower by the 2010 New START Treaty.

    The Times, believing American nuclear deterrent policy is still based on burning down to the ground our adversary’s cities, calls for the country to keep no more than a few hundred warheads to incinerate either Russian or Chinese cities, and roughly no more than a total of 1100 warheads to raze the cities of an expansive list of our nuclear-armed enemies.

    • I am not sure how many warheads we have, checking on the net the best sources says 5200 but the author says not near that many.

        • To the best of my knowledge it was some time while W was in office.

          Yes there is a sell by date, the ionizing radiation can damage the electronics and the plastic explosive that crushes the plutonium sphere into a critical mass can deteriorate due to age. Normally they would have been re manufactured at least once this century. The libs are raising hell because PT wants to test and rebuild the warheads. Working from fallible memory and inadequate knowledge in the first place I think most if not all of them will still work. The Missiles are also due replacement because of age and once again the libs are raising hell.

          • No reason this can’t be done quietly.
            If our military is more trustworthy than our intelligence community. A big “if”.

    • “The New York Times appears convinced the United States has plans to hurl 4,000 nuclear warheads at Russian cities in the event deterrence breaks down…”

      Puhleese…!!! More than anything, why bother?!? While Putin and Russia’s next generation neo-commissars are altogether, useless, lying sacks of worthless shite, America’s attention is best directed towards addressing the (far more dangerous) ongoing proliferation of nuclear weapons technology being promoted by Red China, North Korea, Iran, and Pakistan.

      Ensuring how such rogue bastard Alpha Hotels are starved out via import–export economic boycotts—that could easily collapse these anti-Western pissholes like the toothpick skyscrapers that they are—is JOB ONE for all Western Nations.

      Herein lies the most difficult task of all for American voters.

      It’s long overdue for the US electorate to realize that (regardless of office or partisan alignment), every last one of these cheaply bought-off street-corner-whores must be ejected from office with slingshot velocity.

      For several decades America’s people have, shamelessly, been sold (in whatever mixed metaphor) “whole hog”, like Abilene cattle to Chicago’s feedlots. There remain only another few short years for the US electorate to recognize how they are on the precipitous brink of permanent irrelevance should they continue to pretend that any lack of political interest comes without consequence.

  2. BBC – Raqqa’s dirty secret

    The BBC has uncovered details of a secret deal that let hundreds of IS fighters and their families escape from Raqqa, under the gaze of the US and British-led coalition and Kurdish-led forces who control the city.

    A convoy included some of IS’s most notorious members and – despite reassurances – dozens of foreign fighters. Some of those have spread out across Syria, even making it as far as Turkey.[…]

    […]We took out around 4,000 people including women and children – our vehicle and their vehicles combined. When we entered Raqqa, we thought there were 200 people to collect. In my vehicle alone, I took 112 people.”

    Another driver says the convoy was six to seven kilometres long. It included almost 50 trucks, 13 buses and more than 100 of the Islamic State group’s own vehicles. IS fighters, their faces covered, sat defiantly on top of some of the vehicles.

    Footage secretly filmed and passed to us shows lorries towing trailers crammed with armed men. Despite an agreement to take only personal weapons, IS fighters took everything they could carry. Ten trucks were loaded with weapons and ammunition.

    on this page :

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/raqqas_dirty_secret

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    DAILY MAIL – The great ISIS exodus: Investigation reveals 250 fighters and 3,500 of their family members were driven out of Raqqa in coalition deal and are now ‘spreading across Syria and beyond’

    Secret deal saw hundreds of ISIS fighters smuggled out of Raqqa in huge convoy

    Investigation by BBC spoke to ‘dozens’ of people involved in secret operation

    The fanatics formed a seven-kilometer convoy as hundreds left war-torn Raqqa

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5078691/Hundreds-ISIS-fighters-smuggled-Raqqa.html

    • We can hope, if anothr specila prosecutor is appointed he will have to be from outside DC, if he isn’t no one will trust what the investigation finds.

      The Dem must think we are really dumb to believe that any honest investigation has been pulled on Hillary and her crimes, of course since he was on her campaign he may be worried about some of the things he did for her.

      • He’s an old swamp rat.
        Special prosecutors are dog-&-pony shows.
        …..
        The FBI is supposed to go after crooks.
        Gotta be overhauled, taken apart, scraped down to bare metal.
        Lots of judges oughta be tossed.

  4. Richard: This is an interesting argument, probably won’t go anywhere but interesting.

    Is the Income Tax Immoral?

    Once you give the government an inch on the income tax and spending, they take 100 million miles. Republicans are fools if they think a tax increase on millionaires is going to fix anything. In fact, a millionaire’s tax will only embolden the Democrats and grow the government, something the Republicans also like.

    When the 16th Amendment was passed, most Americans were not affected by it. The incomes of couples exceeding $4,000, as well as those of single persons earning $3,000 or more, were subject to a one percent federal tax. One percent! This meant that a married couple would not start paying any tax until they made a dollar over $4000.

    An income of $4000 in 1913, given the ravages of inflation, would be more than $88,000 in today’s dollar valuation

    https://garydemar.com/income-tax-immoral/

  6. China’s Air Force Is Getting Ready to Fight Wars Abroad

    China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) is starting to make headway in developing an expeditionary capability.
    China’s Air Force Is Getting Ready to Fight Wars Abroad

    China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) is starting to make headway in developing an expeditionary capability as Beijing continues its rise as a great power according to a new RAND Corporation study.

    While initially focusing on “non-war” operations involving airlifters, it is likely that the PLAAF will eventually develop robust expeditionary capabilities for its combat aircraft too. PLAAF fighter aircraft already deploy long-distances domestically and internationally and have trained abroad in Russia, Turkey and Pakistan, but China’s oversea combat aircraft deployments remain small compared to Western air forces.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-apos-air-force-getting-010000947.html

    Richard: Rebuild the US military and fund the research to stay ahead of China.

    • I sincerely doubt that the ChiComs are spending all the money needed for active flight time, live fire exercises, engine (or airframe) rebuilds, and combat simulations to produce anything that remotely resembles a functional air force.

  8. As ISIS Caliphate Crumbles, U.S. Builds Outposts in Western Iraq

    Several hundred American Marines are operating close to the battlefront in the fight against Islamic State in western Iraq near the border with Syria. The Americans directed Iraqi troops in their recapture last week of the border town of Qaim, the militants’ last urban holding. Now they will lead the task of clearing the extremists from a large stretch of empty desert north of the Euphrates River. They also face the possibility of friction with Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militias that are increasing their own presence in the region.

    U.S. commanders say bringing the Americans out of main bases and closer to the action in the past year has paid off in the swift rollback of Islamic State.

    https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2017/11/10/as-isis-caliphate-crumbles-us-builds-outposts-in-western-iraq/

  9. How Close to Israel Can Saudi Arabia Move?

    Six years of an “Arab winter,” millions of refugees, ruined cities and one-third of the Arab League states looking completely different from the way they did a decade ago, made it clear to those who had claimed that solving the conflict with the Palestinians would cure the region’s diseases that Israel isn’t the problem in the Middle East.

    The Iranian danger alone likely won’t be enough to openly bring Saudi Arabia and Israel closer together. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman is working on fortifying his inheritance, and it’s unlikely that he wants to expose himself to Arab criticism, especially Iranian, over his “betrayal of the Palestinian people.”

    https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5040673,00.html

  10. Putin’s Syria Play: Trump and Tillerson are ceding the advantage to Russia and Iran
    WSJ paywall, but I read it off an Israeli site and the title says it all.

    President Trump…tweeted that the United States needs “a good relationship with Russia” to solve crises like Syria, despite zero evidence Mr. Putin shares America’s strategic interests. The Russians, like the Iranians, want to prop up the Assad regime and establish military bases in Syria to threaten NATO and Israel. Their immediate near-term goal is to retake the energy-rich eastern regions of Syria from the Syrian Democratic Forces because they realize that “seizing the oil,” to borrow a phrase, is in their interests.

    The big picture is that Mr. Trump and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson seem to be using the diplomacy of deconfliction to justify a retreat from post-ISIS Syria. Where that leaves America’s Kurdish and Syrian allies isn’t clear, though perhaps they’re on their own. Mr. Putin is winning in Syria no matter his deceptions about election meddling.

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/putins-syria-plan-1510521991

  11. The 1,002nd Arabian Night?
    Mohammed bin Salman’s coup from above may have an even more profound impact on the region than the rise of ISIS.

    It was on the fourth night, very early in the great Arabic tale, that Shahrazad, in telling the story of King Yunan and his evil vizier, says as follows: “Oppression hideth in every heart; power revealeth it and weakness concealeth it.”1 It’s hard to say from Washington, DC, how oppressive it really is for a passel of princes (11 at last count) and assorted retainers (as many as 500, according to some reports) to be held under “hotel arrest” at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, but it’s easy to suppose that Mohammed bin Salman, the 32-year-old Saudi Crown Prince—and King in all but formal title—senses that his burgeoning power gives him license for a bit of what he no doubt considers necessary oppression. It no longer hideth entirely in his heart.

    https://www.the-american-interest.com/v/adam-garfinkle/