Monday, March 18, 2024

MRE Gaza.

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When you are drowning and someone throws you a lifeline, don't ask if the lifeline is clean or dirty?

Palestinian activist Ahmed Kouta evaluates the meal-ready-to-eat [MRE] as being air-dropped to the residents of Gaza.

Quds News Network

@QudsNen

* "Palestinian activist Ahmed Kouta exposes the contents of US airdrops to the starving population of Gaza."

"Food is so scarce that storing and protecting whatever food you have has become dangerous. The lack of proper nutrition is now causing new illnesses to develop among the formerly healthy and is making every pre-existing illness and ailment so much worse. That’s why we are aiming to provide hot and nutritious meals all over Gaza throughout Ramadan this year."

Ahmed appraises the MRE. Rates the ration as exceedingly poor!

See the twitter post of Ahmed Kouta. That topic the edibility of the MRE ration.

Comment:

* Ahmed is a medical professional [a Canadian national]? Now working in Gaza.

* Ahmed to buy his ration? Free food aid you have to pay for?

From a comment to the post more true than false:

 Posted: Yesterday 11:36:34 PM EDT[#44]

"We're not sending them to help him. We're sending them to prop up Biden's collapsing support from his base."

Ahmed has his own charitable web site the mission of which to procure food for the people of Gaza.

See previous blog entry the topic also the MRE.

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Tiraspol.


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"Today a fire occurred on the territory of a military base in Tiraspol as a result of an explosion,"

Russian intrigue and chicanery Trannistria?

"Rare Drone Attack On Military Base In Breakaway Pro-Russian Republic Of Transnistria"

From Zero Hedge | BY TYLER DURDEN | MAR 17, 2024. 

"An unprecedented or at least extremely rare attack has just targeted a military base in the pro-Russian breakaway Moldovan republic of Transnistria on Sunday."

"A kamikaze drone hit a military base in Tiraspol, the capital of unrecognized Transnistria, local officials have told RIA Novosti. The attack reportedly resulted in fire and damage to military assets at the airfield, but there were no casualties."

This is not the Cobasna Soviet/Russian arms depot under attack. Cobasna the largest arms depot in Europe. Enough armaments to equip a Soviet style combined arms army!

"Russian state media said a helicopter stationed at the airfield was destroyed in the UAV attack. Presumably the helicopter belonged to either Transnistria separatists or to the Russian military."

"'It was preliminarily established that the explosion was caused by a kamikaze drone attack,' they added, and alleged the drone launched from the Odesa region. They are blaming Ukraine forces for the rare cross-border attack."

"The incident was not immediately confirmed either by the Russian or Ukraine governments. 'Grainy footage distributed by separatist authorities showed a projectile slamming into a military helicopter standing at an airbase surrounded by fields,'" 

See previous blog entry [with additional embedded links] Cobasna and Transnistria:

https://militaryanalysis.blogspot.com/2024/02/grabdefy.html

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Sunday, March 17, 2024

Alias.


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"The investigation drew extensive media attention for spotlighting a history of loose prescribing practices and poor controls of powerful drugs including opioids in the White House Medical Unit, a military outfit that attends to the president, vice president, and others in the White House compound."

Call me Ishmael!

Jump the line!

"jump the line: English - Verb - (US) To skip to the head of a queue without waiting for one's turn."

"Washington elite received free healthcare from the military by using aliases"

FEATURED | WIB | POLITICS | March 15, 2024 | Staff Writer.

"Top U.S. officials in the Washington area have received preferential treatment from a little-known health care program run by the military, potentially jeopardizing care for other patients including active-duty service members, according to Pentagon investigators."

"White House officials, senior military and other national security leaders, retired military officers, and family members have all benefited. The Washington elite could jump the line when filling prescriptions, book appointments through special call centers, and receive choice parking spots and escorts at military hospitals and other facilities, including Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, according to the Pentagon’s inspector general."

"Through a unit at the White House, government personnel were routinely allowed to receive treatment under aliases, providing no home address or insurance information. For some of them, the care was free, as Walter Reed had no way to bill for it or waived charges."

From my perspective line-jumping here not the most egregious offense.

Consider drugs to include OPIOIDS obtained by persons in high-ranking governmental positions [to include military officials] gotten by persons using an ALIAS to be a more severe violation?

Think also the recent hospitalization of the American SECEF Austin. Done under circumstances warranting a degree of suspicion.

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Jammer.


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If nothing else a grave violation of diplomatic protocol!

An effort at meaconing? False navigation signals.

 Deliberate and malicious. Downright dangerous!

"Russia ‘jams signals’ on RAF plane carrying Grant Shapps"

"The electronic attack happened when the defense secretary, who has accused Putin of ‘saber-rattling’, was flying back from Poland, where he had watched a Nato exercise"

From the Telegraph | Larisa Brown | March 14 2024. 

"Russia is believed to have jammed the satellite signal on an RAF aircraft carrying Grant Shapps back from Poland, in a 'wildly irresponsible' act of electronic warfare."

"The GPS signal was interfered with for about 30 minutes while the jet flew close to the Russian territory of Kaliningrad on the Baltic Sea. Mobile phones could no longer connect to the Internet and the aircraft was forced to use alternative methods to determine its location."

"Meaconing: Meaconing is the interception and rebroadcast of navigation signals. These signals are rebroadcast on the received frequency, typically with power higher than the original signal, to confuse . . . navigation. Consequently, aircraft or ground stations are given inaccurate bearings."

I am not absolutely sure about this but at the exact moment Grant Shapps would have been traveling with diplomatic status. Even an indirect effort to obstruct the movement of Shapps would constitute a contravention of diplomat protocol.

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Saturday, March 16, 2024

Unissued.

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“'These are the stories of 40 students, who never had a chance to complete their studies and their diplomas will never be issued to them, because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine' . . . 'This exhibition is to commemorate those students, to raise awareness about the ongoing war, and to show the brutality and destruction the war brings.'” 

WARNING: If you are easily offended by material that can be of an intense and emotional nature hit ESCAPE now.

'Unissued diplomas': an exhibition in Tromsø highlights Ukrainian students who died in the war."

"Photos of 40 students who died during the war in Ukraine are displayed on the walls at the campus of The Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø."

From https://thebarentsobserver.com | March 12, 2024.

"When I walk along the campus building, I stumble upon a line of photos with the young, smiling faces of those who just started on their life’s path. Reading their stories and about how they died, the general word 'war' rapidly transforms into countless personal tragedies."

Students the Norwegian Arctic University having been mobilized for the war effort the Ukraine Conflict having perished, their education and lives cut short!

See from the https://www.unissueddiplomas.org web site the slide show with captions. Very sad indeed!

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Moiseev.

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Big shake-up the Russian navy? The new man takes command. How often have we heard this in the context of the Ukraine Conflict.

"shake-up noun: an act or instance of shaking up - specifically : an extensive and often drastic reorganization"

"Izvestia: Admiral Moiseev takes over as Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy"

"Russia's new Navy commander has decades of experience from the north, including onboard ballistic missile submarines sailing the Barents Sea."

From https://thebarentsobserver.com | By Thomas Nilsen | March 10, 2024.

"Rumors started in social media on Sunday that the top brass in the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov had been dismissed."

"A few hours later, Kremlin mouthpiece Izvestia reported about Evmenov’s ‘resignation’ and Admiral Aleksandr Moiseev taking over the position."

"No official explanation is given. However, it is well-known that the Russian navy has lost many of its key warships in the Black Sea after drone attacks by Ukraine."

That perception [unwarranted or otherwise] that the performance of the Russian high military command during the Ukrainian Conflict has been at best ham-handed with a relatively speaking ineptness puzzling and surprising to many.

"ham-handed: adjective - Lacking dexterity or skill; clumsy."

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Friday, March 15, 2024

NK & Ru.

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Tongue-in-cheek good natured humor directed at the military forces of North Korea [DPRK and Russia.

"Tongue-in-cheek: Tongue-in-cheek is an idiom that describes a humorous or sarcastic statement expressed in a serious manner."

Thanks to You Tube Shorts in both cases.

First the North Korean [DPRK]:


And for Ivan the Russian:

Comrade Kim in the DPRK. I know you do not accept that there is a North Korea or a South Korea. There is only a Korea. Any  미국 사람 American violating such a fastidious convention do so at your own peril. MILBLOGGERS in particular.

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