Sunday, July 16, 2023

Converted..

 

Glass..

 

Thin..

 

Closed..

 

The US Secret Service has closed its investigation into the discovery of cocaine in the White House.

It said it had attempted to determine a suspect through fingerprints, DNA traces and video evidence, but had not been able to do so.

The cocaine was discovered earlier this month in a storage area of the West Wing where visitors taking tours must leave their mobile phones.  

The small plastic bag used to contain the drugs was discovered in an area that can be accessed by members of the public, and where mobile phones and other personal devices are stored before entering the White House. 

It's too bad that no one knows [officially] the identity of whoever left the cocaine behind. Suspicion would continue to hover on certain people unfairly.

Cluster..

 

What would be next  to feed the fire in the Ukraine?

July..

 

Part-2..@

 

Nearly a third of the Bradley armored vehicles that the United States has provided to Ukraine may have already been lost or damaged, according to open source data, demonstrating the extent to which Kyiv's counteroffensive against Russia is proving to be a hard and costly slog.

Oryx, an open-source military research group, reports that 34 Bradleys have now been visually confirmed as having been abandoned, damaged, or destroyed, a few days of fighting in June, when Ukraine formally announced its bid to retake territory conquered by Russia following last year's full-scale invasion.
The losses are not unexpected and appear to have been concentrated in the first few days of the counteroffensive as Ukrainian soldiers sought to cross territory that was heavily mined by entrenched Russian forces. Ukrainians have credited the vehicle with saving lives.
Is this the new Vietnam-part 2?

Saturday, July 15, 2023

Solid..

 

Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak of UK

Summit..

 



The summit ended on Wednesday with a joint declaration from G7 leaders for their nations to negotiate long-term bilateral security commitments for Ukraine to build up its land, sea and air defenses to deter future Russian attacks. 
The move is a halfway house measure designed to tide Ukraine over until a future moment when it could join NATO and enjoy the “attack on one, is an attack on all” umbrella its members enjoy a moment that the alliance has yet to determine.
Biden insisted that granting membership now would mean NATO states having to go to war against Russia – a disastrous escalation he has been desperate to avoid.
 Spain and England disagreed with the Cluster Ammunitions, but it seems that the USA is the driving force of these war decisions.

Nightmare..

 

Image from one war earlier.

The Biden administration’s decision to send cluster munitions to Ukraine is shortsighted, ignores clear lessons from history and erodes significant international norms
As a result, new casualties will continue for decades after the conflict in Ukraine comes to an end.
U.S. cluster munitions have left a trail of human misery in the countries of Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq, Kuwait, Serbia, Kosovo and Afghanistan, to name a few. 
Last year, the United States spent more than $375 million to clean up conventional weapons, including cluster munitions, in more than 65 countries.
During the Vietnam War, the United States dropped up to 270 million cluster munitions on neighboring Laos during America's secret war against communist forces and against their flow of supply along the Ho Chi Minh Trail. [By Titus Peachey]
What would be the next item to fuel the war?    Just a thought.