I realize, like my description of bitcoin/cryptocurrency as a map of criminal activities or botnets as an archive of illicit or espionage actions they were involved in...
This isn't so much speculation, as blindingly obvious.
And many other sources of hard evidence we've discussed here also play into this.
Cryptocurrency ledgers, server logfiles going back a year, Darknet trading sites' records, files of suspects & compatriots. justice.gov/opa/pr/four-me…
The IDF may well flood each tunnel section without hostages with seawater where its encroachment has already destroyed the aquifer, and with freshwater everywhere else, giving civilians time to flee while destroying these bunkers, transportation corridors, not to mention weapons.
AI drones don’t really need communications at all, if they’re advanced enough to operate on their own, say for limited missions. Given the US already has AI which can fly F-16s and outfly human pilots, we can assume such drones will be available soon, if they don’t already exist.
Then, there's an entire layer of espionage, treason, terrorism, psychological warfare, physical warfare, and an attempted, violent coup in the United States...
@ericgarland Let me say something reassuring to people trying to remove 87,000 IRS agents to slow prosecutions into the work of hostile foreign intelligence, treason & organized crime.
It is already far, far too late.
Evidence has been rolling in for years, along with unknowing confessions.
@ericgarland We've been treating this 6-year, slow-motion explosion like new geography rather than the snapshot of a blastwave and scattering shrapnel that it is.
It's not just that none of this was sustainable.
It's how much of their reserves our adversaries burnt down to attempt it.
@ericgarland Consider the incredibly granular map counterintel and law enforcement now have of the offshored wealth being illegally onshored via money laundering and other illicit exchanges.
@NatashaBertrand Twitter, it's time we had A Talk about a Ukraine insurgency against Russian occupation.
You'll notice "all this endless talking" has pushed back prospective invasion until at least late January, during the Omicron wave.
A thousand years of Russian history does not bode well...
@NatashaBertrand For any who would launch an offensive during Russian winter.
Even for Russians.
Be that as it may, there's another glaring factor involved.
The Javelins.
@NatashaBertrand Imagine a weapon which strikes almost unerringly, can be launched up to 1.6 miles away (for the shortest-range version), doesn't flare into full visibility until flying away from its user, and can take out a main battle tank with a single shot.
@McFaul Putin has backed himself into a corner and is facing prospects which look incredibly grim.
Reportedly, as of 2 months ago, only about 20% of Russia had taken any vaccines, almost none of them validated Western doses.
It’s Russian winter, and Delta and Omicron have joined hands.
@McFaul Every pillar of Russia’s economy, from fossil fuels to weapons to organized crime to espionage, is either sunsetting or facing fierce headwinds.
Russia is peaking demographically.
China has peaked.
@McFaul China’s construction industry has built housing for everyone in China plus an extra 200 *million* people.
One company alone has hundreds of billions of dollars in debts in can not pay.
But worse, there’s a multitude of subcontractors with no reason to exist.