Posted by: F.Bomb | Feb 5 2022 17:25 utc | 2
In case you want a list:
https://californiaman.substack.com/p/list-of-us-wars-and-interventions

Posted by: Blue Dotterel | Feb 5 2022 17:41 utc | 4

The civilization war we are in is about the paradigm of patriarchy, private property, ongoing accumulation thereof through inheritance, and control of the tools of finance/money.
China has sovereign ownership and management of finance and the West has private ownership of BIS, SWIFT, US Fed, City of London Corp., etc.
That is the reality humanity is faced with. Not BS about socialism, communism, fascism, monotheism, marxism, or any other obfuscatory THEORIES about our social interactions.
The paradigm the West is living has evolved since the Sumerian period and as I and others who have read The Dawn of Everything have reported from that book, humanity did not always live in such a form of social organization. Thankfully, China, who has had forms of social organization longer than the West, is challenging the current Western paradigm.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Feb 5 2022 18:03 utc | 6

Port problem didn’t pop up overnight
We Were Warned About The Ports – Prospect.org

THE FMC SET OUT NEARLY ALL of the issues that would be blamed on COVID a half-decade later, which were evident another ten years before that: things like chassis availability, terminal operations, truck turn time, and gate hours. These factors “must be addressed in the near term to ensure an efficient and reliable international ocean transportation system and the relevant supply chain,” said FMC chairman Mario Cordero at the time (he now runs the Port of Long Beach). The report’s subheader exclaimed: “Congestion is a serious challenge to America’s continuing economic growth and competitive position in the world economy.”
Availability of chassis, the semitrailers that containers get attached to after coming off ships, was seen as a particular cause of congestion. The shortage was being exacerbated by the growth of ever-larger ships, and the outstanding monopolistic reach of the shipping companies. Chassis usage was being built into the freight rate negotiated between the ocean carrier and its customer as a bundled service. “The practice of shipping lines owning the chassis is unique to the U.S. In most other countries, the motor carrier provides the chassis with which to move the container,” the report noted. This created exceptional issues of unaligned priorities in clearing out shipments, and deferred maintenance of aging, decrepit equipment in dire need of repair.
Terminal operations had become a similarly elevated concern. Vessels are supposed to arrive on precise schedules, spaced out enough to give time for longshoremen to unload and move cargo to the container yard. But ships had been “slow steaming” across the ocean to conserve fuel, falling behind schedule and leading to significant bunching at marine terminals, the report explained, a habit they’d picked up as a cost-cutting measure in the wake of the Great Recession. “Bunching can put enormous pressures on the terminal because resources available to work the vessels are finite … overcrowded container stacks lead to shuffling containers multiple times to get to the required container and this slows the process, delays and congestion build, and in-terminal dwell-time lengthens.”
That’s become the norm in today’s ports, a process which Mercogliano described to me as “a big game of Tetris in the terminal,” where empty containers piled high have to be moved around ceaselessly to facilitate unloading. The report, too, raised concern about the impact of a new ocean carrier consolidation that was just emerging at publication date, resulting in three major shipping alliances running the vast majority of operations. The alliances were already “a factor contributing to port congestion,” with “the potential to cause severe dislocation of chassis,” which are not shared across alliances.
A third area of concern came from slow “turn times,” or the time a truck spends at the marine terminal. While trucking deregulation and the conversion to an independent-contractor model made interventions difficult, the report keyed on low-cost suggestions that could be implemented without high price tags: setting up appointment systems through communication between truckers and marine terminal operators, for example, or “free-flow” strategies that stack containers from one cargo owner for quick loading to chassis.
Still, because deregulation brought a broader dealignment of priorities—a number of independent corporations merely looking out for themselves, rather than the holistic operation of the port—even those suggestions were impossible to implement. In one instance, the FMC referenced another report that found “queuing constitutes a significant portion of the 25 percent of truck visits that take two hours or more, but it is not being addressed because the marine terminals … do not consider the long lines outside the gates as their problem.”
Finally, the report looked at expanded gate hours as a possible solution to congestion, a tool with a track record. Ten years prior to the 2015 publication, the Ports of L.A. and Long Beach had pioneered an extended-hours approach, with mixed results. The costs of running an extended operation were substantial, with wages one-third to one-half higher during night and weekend shifts, the authors noted. Meanwhile, for those shifts to be functional required warehouses, manufacturers, and steamship lines, as well as their various help desks and support services, to also be operational, an expensive staffing requirement beyond just longshoremen and truckers. While the aim was to continue truck movement through terminals on nights and weekends, the report relayed, “anecdotal reports indicate this aim has not been achieved.”

So in other words, people could see this coming but nothing was done.

Posted by: c1ue | Feb 5 2022 19:20 utc | 8

I would have loved to have seen the Ned Price piece my roommate posted here about 2 minutes ago.

Posted by: Rockets Redglare | Feb 6 2022 5:37 utc | 10

On “reasons for transfer” in Norwegian’s link and quote.
I’m sure I’m missing plenty but I’m throwing this out there for people to comment on.
I’m guessing the reason is that Russia knows the US is aiming to launch a scenario where Nazi Ukraine attacks at least DPR and LPR.
So Russia makes at least some moves to improve their stance militarily.
The US might think that if Russia acts to defend DPR and LPR they can cry “Russian invasion” …and then the US ramps things up further, and if Russia doesn’t then the Russian public becomes so disgusted a color revolution in Russia is deemed possible …and then the US ramps things up further.
If DPR and LPR is not enough or doesn’t work then Crimea? Or maybe they go for Crimea right away or simultaneously if they think they have some decisive surprise in hand.
The Russians seem to answer with 1. declaring they do not want war, 2. demanding that their security should be respected, and 3. taking at least some measures in case of war against the US and maybe NATO, some more visible than others.
I’m also guessing the US is basing their plans on whatever they think was learnt from Georgia and Azerbaijan (against Armenia), maybe Syria too. However all of those are (or could be) in comparison relatively small and contained conflicts.
I could be completely wrong.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Feb 6 2022 10:11 utc | 12

Norwegian #11
I anticipate many more such incidents over the coming months. The Russians are assembling their kit. In Syria they just flew one of their awacs over the Golan border to accompany Syrian fighter planes. Messaging the apartheid state.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Feb 6 2022 10:32 utc | 14

Posted by: Stonebird | Feb 6 2022 12:06 utc | 15
I don’t think they would recognize it as a protectorate, but an independent state, if thought necessary. They might still assist them with weapons and maybe, alla Syria, with advisors if requested by the Donbass government.
All the same though, I do not really see them recognizing them as an independent state, either. If there is a Ukie attack, Russia will likely use its EW capabilities to muck it up and further provide the advantage to the Donbass in any counter attack.

Posted by: Blue Dotterel | Feb 6 2022 12:30 utc | 16

I’ve had the first reactions:

So I say to William and to Harry: do you understand now why they HAD TO murder your mum?
Reply ↓
fonso
February 6, 2022 at 10:20
Do you not understand that “William and Harry” and Co view you as less than a cockroach?
Reply ↓
John Cleary
February 6, 2022 at 11:14
“I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Read more: https://www.startuppacks.com/quotes/franklin-d-roosevelt-quotes/#ixzz7K6yulxPf
Reply ↓
Vivian O’Blivion
February 6, 2022 at 10:57
There have been a couple of interesting articles in the current and last editions of Lobster that sure look like the dear old Queen mum (gawd bless her heart) was up to her neck in the whole Rudolph Hess plot to stage a coup against Churchill’s unity government and put a Nazi sympathising puppet in No.10.
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John Cleary
February 6, 2022 at 11:55
Yes Vivian.
And that ties back to the enormous service Savile performed at the end of the war.

https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2022/02/how-the-establishment-functions/comment-page-3/#comment-1008465

Posted by: John Cleary | Feb 6 2022 12:36 utc | 18

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Feb 6 2022 10:32 utc | 14
My own feeling is that one of the first significant military technical demonstrations by the Russians will be in Syria.

Posted by: Blue Dotterel | Feb 6 2022 12:42 utc | 20

The people in the western world are rising against the covid tyranny as it becomes clear that the pandemic charade was just an excuse for the demolition of democracy.
Yet governments like in Austria and Greece are going ahead with mandatory vaccinations which are against every notion of personal freedoms and rights.
Now there is an unprecedented campaign to vaccinate children. Why? Because once it’s on the childhood schedule, they are no longer liable for injury. The Vaccine Injury Act (1986) insulates the pharmaceutical industry from all liability once added to the childhood vaccination schedule”.
This is a crime against children and whoever accepts this is complicit in this crime.

Posted by: DG | Feb 6 2022 13:02 utc | 22

I saw the following news report while thinking about replying; I agree with the various comments/possibilities and certainly about it being a different situation (but does the US and NATO understand this? They don’t seem to).
Anyway here: “Lukashenko: Belarus and Russia to Respond Together if Ukraine Starts War Against Donbass” via Sputniknews.

“MOSCOW (Sputnik) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said Sunday that his country would coordinate a joint response with Russia if Ukraine started a war against Donbass.”

and

“We will cut off all fuel and lubricant supplies to Ukraine…as well as electricity. We will not supply it if they start a war against us or Russia”, he explained.

and

“Answering a question from the host he confirmed it includes possible rocket strikes against Ukraine.”

More in article although this is most of it.
I read it as a guarantee. A Russian and Belarusian missile(/artillery) response (both anti-artillery and against all other military targets) quashes any US/NATO/Nazi hopes of a successful attack.
Maybe this madness can still be avoided and stopped.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Feb 6 2022 14:12 utc | 24

Blue Dotterel | Feb 6 2022 12:30 utc | 16
To a certain extent that is why I used the term “Protectorate”, to be protected (as you say with all the means necessary except direct force – at first).
The idea being to dare the Ukies or NATOstan to make a move, which would be fatal for them, OR, shut up.
Remember that the US objective was to make Russia make the move. By declaring a de facto no-fly no-go area, whatever the name, with a visible rapid reaction force in place, the Russians will have turned the tables. The UKie/US would then have to make an open move to start a major war. Would they if they are likely to lose it?

Posted by: Stonebird | Feb 6 2022 15:56 utc | 26

The US response to the Winter Olympics in Beijing has been a spotlight on the level of delusional denial of reality Americans are experiencing, stoked by their petty media outlets. Nothing but non-stop articles complaining about the most benign things that boil down to these journalists being shocked that they need to heed the public safety requirements of a foreign government. Did they think they’re above the laws of the land simply for being Americans?
It doesn’t help that the same country claiming to be concerned about the rise of anti-Asian violence has spent an inordinate amount of time attacking teenage athletes for daring to compete on Team China despite growing up in the US, being painted as “traitors” or ignorant kids who’ll understand their mistake soon. Hard to see how they’ll see their action of surrendering their US citizenship a mistake when Americans are foaming at the mouth in anger against them.
Even funnier is Peng Shuai showing up. The entire shtick was that she was disappeared, leading to “Where is Peng Shuai?”. Well, the answer is, and has been, in Beijing. Of course the explanation now is that she’s forced to say things, the government/party is keeping her under control, and we should “read between the lines” where the truth is curiously what Americans believe it to be and anything contrary is just a lie or cover-up. Unsurprisingly, the IOC is part of this global Chinese conspiracy (as usual, America, the country that practically established most of these international institutions is also the source of most conspiracies about these organizations being anti-US simply for saying anything that refutes the “facts of reality” adopted by the US).
Looking at how the US is behaving globally, with Russia over Ukraine, with China over literally existing, and with it’s own people, it’s hard to see how the US isn’t on an aggressive decline that it’s attempting to mitigate by inventing new realities to explain why they’re starting to see more and more things from the bottom looking up.
Here’s to hoping that the world will eventually find itself freed from the sick and perverted grasp of the US.

Posted by: brainiac3397 | Feb 7 2022 14:39 utc | 28