Follow up to last night’s video of the Ohio Sheriff: Frank Gaffney’s experts on Chinese unrestricted warfare and the state of the war with the USA now

For those who haven’t yet watched the video posted last night it probably should be seen before or after this one, as it provides a tactical view of the strategic perspective contained in the following video. The video does not offer an embed code. So please click through to see it on Rumble.

Below is the video already posted last night.

Apropos of nothing, here is a couple of clips of Trudeau vis a vis China

Russia to launch gold backed BRICS currency

How screwed are we? I guess we’ll know soon.

Czech Republic: Leader of the opposition expresses concerns about US nukes and the curious bypassing of procedure to allow it to happen

Article at RAIR Foundation with additional details.

China, Trudeau and the balloons

First, a breakdown of Trudeau’s tough-talk presser on the balloon he pretended to order the USAF to shoot down. The host made a claim that Canadian jets cannot make that altitude. Unless we actually have F22s, he is right. The ceiling on an F18 is listed at 36,000 Ft at one link. 50,000 at another though.
But the real thing here is that Trudeau actively encourages breaches of our national and sovereign territory by anyone and everyone who will be a threat to Canada. Sometimes paying them 8 figures if they are enough of a threat.

At Roxham Rd. in Quebec, the RCMP have been turned into bellhops and they even built a special structure so that the public cannot see the masses coming across the border illegally. The idea was to stop reporters who aren’t under government payroll from photographing or videoing the deliberate destruction of Canada in this particular manner. So to hear Trudeau talk like this is just another form of contempt he has for Canada, and Canadians. Remember, with the left, the point is never the point. The revolution is always the point.

There is not a lot of substance in this first video. Watch at 1.75 speed. Once he starts on reading people’s tweets you can stop.

Richard Fadden has always been good. Which is probably why he isn’t head of CSIS anymore. One wonders what this interview was like before the censors at CTV got to it. Mr. Fadden was warning Canadians that China owns a lot of our politicians for over a decade.

CBC from before 2014. At this point there was a trace of information left in CBC’s operations and a touch of speaking truth for the purpose of keeping power in check.

 

In a conversation with a friend last night, he used a phrase about current events which I thought was so accurate, we made a meme of it. Chances are, Canada will feel the effects of the Chinese effort to take Taiwan far far more than we feel Russia’s ambitions to annex the Donbas.

Please download and read this document called, “The Secret Speech of General Chi Haotian. This claims to be a speech given as to ambitions, rationale and methods for Chinese global manifest destiny. The analysis of Nazi methodology alone is worth the time to read it.

One wonders if the Chinese are 80s rock fans. The lyrics are closer to the events today than I had remembered.

 

US destroys “Chinese” balloon over the Atlantic

What the hell was the payload if they needed to make sure it was over the ocean before they took it down?

FOX News:

The U.S. military has shot down the Chinese spy balloon over the Atlantic Ocean.

While the balloon was off the coast of South Carolina, the balloon was shot down by U.S. military fighter jets on Saturday afternoon, according to Fox News sources. 

A senior defense official said during a Thursday afternoon briefing that the U.S. government is “confident” the surveillance balloon is from the People’s Republic of China. 

Video at link. Shows falling white cloth, doesn’t say much else. Less in a way.

update: At 42:30 the balloon is destroyed but you don’t see how or by what. It just comes apart. Early in the video a military jet passes close to it. When they zoom out you see another jet which seems likely to have destroyed the balloon. Laser, missile or whatever.

Russia, Ukraine, Turkey, USA: Jingoism and escalation

First video is about Germany warned Russia on its massing of military assets on the Ukrainian border. The video is already out of date however, as the US has submitted to Russian requests to remove ‘War ships” out of the region. No idea if these are carrier groups or destroyers or whatever they may be, but the US called them off.

Third video: Russia appears to have upwards of 80,000 troops on the Ukrainian borders.

 

This one deals with Russian response to Turkish drones being supplied to Ukraine:

FOX News link: Biden declares Russia threat ‘national emergency,’ lobs sanctions; 10 diplomats booted over election meddling

President Biden on Thursday signed an executive order declaring a “national emergency” over the threat from Russia, as his administration slapped new sanctions on the country.

The U.S. Department of State said it is expelling 10 officials from Russia’s bilateral mission.

“Today, we announced actions to hold the Russian Government to account for the SolarWinds intrusion, reports of bounties on U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan, and attempts to interfere in the 2020 U.S. elections,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.

Thanks to Richard, M., and all who contributed to this post.

Taiwan reports large incursion by China’s air force

Al-Jazeera:

Taipei says Chinese combat aircraft, including nuclear-capable H-6K bombers and four J-16 fighter jets, entered its airspace.

Nuclear-capable Chinese bombers and fighter jets entered the southwestern corner of Taiwan’s air defence identification zone on Saturday and Taiwan’s air force deployed missiles to “monitor” the large-scale incursion.

Taiwan’s air force warned away the Chinese aircraft, the defence ministry said.

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H/T Bruce Porter

 

The Iranian threat that went unreported

First, the why:

Statue of Soleimani unveiled in Lebanon complete with drumroll

And the threat:

Chilling audio reveals threat to fly a plane into the Capitol building on the day Congress confirms Joe Biden’s win to ‘avenge’ the death of Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani

A terrifying message threatening to fly a plane into the Capitol building to avenge the death of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani was broadcast on air traffic control frequencies on Monday afternoon.

The FBI and FAA are investigating the message that was heard by multiple air traffic controllers in New York, according to CBS

The threat, delivered via a digitized voice, said: ‘We are flying into the Capitol Wednesday. Soleimani will be avenged.’

Congress plans to confirm Joe Biden’s win at the Capitol on Wednesday. 

The threat was made almost one year to the day after the death of Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike ordered by President Donald Trump.

It is not yet clear who sent the message and the threat is not believed to credible, CBS reports, but the Pentagon and other agencies were briefed on Tuesday. 

Yucki adds these links:

Besa centre: US and Israel prepare for Iranian ‘revenge’

Jewish Press: Dr. Kedar and preparations for ‘revenge’

 

 

Brad Johnson: “We are at war with China in all ways except actual shooting”

This interview was recorded on December 16, 2020 but was just edited and published now. There is not a word that is outdated however.

Here is the segment CBC posted back when it was not fully the voice of the COMINTERN and had some interests in the existence of Canada as a polity separate from communist China. A small part of this I edited into the Brad Johnson interview.

Below, China Uncensored video from December 28 2020 on Canada’s pro-China deep state (Anti-state is a much better word for it)

Three authoritative articles on the massive attack on Western systems

1. From an excellent source:

2. The Strategic Implications of SolarWinds

(Article from left leaning site, but we are told, this is a good summation. Apparently, ONLY the Penatgon has not been hit.)

Recent reports of a widespread Russian cyber infiltration across U.S. government networks are a sign of how great power competition will play out in the 21st century. The new great power game is digital, with the shadowy alleys and cafes of Cold War spy games replaced by massive data breaches and compromising corporate security. Some strategies see this world as dominated by offensive operations—but the SolarWinds case suggests the opposite. The U.S. Cyber Solarium Commission, on which we served, found that the future of cybersecurity strategy will come to rely on layered cyber deterrence to enable defensive denial operations, international entanglement and cost imposition when aggressors defy the norms of the international system. The SolarWinds hack emphasizes the importance of implementing this strategy. 

It’s simpler to list the agencies that have not been caught up in the SolarWinds infiltration, which was run by Russian hacking group APT29 under the umbrella of the Russian intelligence services, the SVR. So far, only the intelligence community has not been reported to have been breached. 

3. Advanced Persistent Threat Compromise of Government Agencies, Critical Infrastructure, and Private Sector Organizations

Summary

This Alert uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) version 8 framework. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise version 8 for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of compromises of U.S. government agencies, critical infrastructure entities, and private sector organizations by an advanced persistent threat (APT) actor beginning in at least March 2020. This APT actor has demonstrated patience, operational security, and complex tradecraft in these intrusions. CISA expects that removing this threat actor from compromised environments will be highly complex and challenging for organizations.

One of the initial access vectors for this activity is a supply chain compromise of the following SolarWinds Orion products (see Appendix A).

  • Orion Platform 2019.4 HF5, version 2019.4.5200.9083
  • Orion Platform 2020.2 RC1, version 2020.2.100.12219
  • Orion Platform 2020.2 RC2, version 2020.2.5200.12394
  • Orion Platform 2020.2, 2020.2 HF1, version 2020.2.5300.12432

Note (updated December 19, 2020): CISA has evidence that there are initial access vectors other than the SolarWinds Orion platform. Specifically, we are investigating incidents in which activity indicating abuse of SAML tokens consistent with this adversary’s behavior is present, yet where impacted SolarWinds instances have not been identified. CISA is working to confirm initial access vectors and identify any changes to the TTPs. CISA will update this Alert as new information becomes available.

Thank you ML for these materials.