The Iranian-backed Houthi rebels have captured Mokha – a key Red Sea port in southwestern Yemen near the Bab al-Mandab (BAM) Strait. There are also reports they seized two islands located in the Red Sea shipping lanes. These moves against the Saudi Arabian-backed forces that previously held these areas could further cement the Houthis’ control over the narrow chokepoint to the Gulf of Aden, where the group has already imposed a blockade on Saudi oil exports.

The Houthis’ drive to control the BAM has been emboldened by the U.S. being stretched thin in its ongoing fight against Iran. Combined with Tehran’s control of the Strait of Hormuz, this threatens to add to the Islamic Republic’s command over the flow of oil from the Middle East. It is a maximum pressure campaign on the U.S. and global markets, something we have predicted for years. Amid all this activity, the per-barrel price of Brent Crude is well over the $100 mark now.

The rapid advance on Mokha was planned and backed by Iran, according to the leader of Saudi-backed forces that retreated from Mokha, which is about 50 miles north of the BAM. It took place as Tehran has taken a more belligerent stance in the region that has seen it reportedly damage U.S. aircraft in a recent attack on Jordan earlier this week and get closer to striking U.S. Navy warships with ballistic missiles.

“The Joint Forces have formed a command center south of the city of Mokha, following Houthi breakthroughs across various combat axes under heavy fire, in which the Houthis used various types of weapons,” Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Leadership Council (PLC), Lt. Gen. Tareq Saleh, said in his acknowledgment that his forces lost the port. The PLC was created in 2022 to represent the internationally recognized government of Yemen.

“The armed forces on the West Coast — the National Resistance, the Giants [Brigades], and the Homeland Shield — in addition to units of the Taiz axis west of the governorate, have paid a heavy price, martyrs and wounded, over the past days as they confronted the Houthi attack, which was planned by Iran, supported by it, and carried out with the participation of its various proxies/tools.”

“Thanks to God, our armed forces were able to repel an enemy combat formation a short time ago in the province of Taiz, forcing it to withdraw,” Houthi spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree proclaimed. “This was achieved by targeting it with a number of locally manufactured surface-to-air missiles.”

Videos have emerged showing Houthi forces inside Mokha and its airport and a large amount of equipment being seized.

Even before the capture of Mokha, the rebel group held the BAM under threat with its array of drones and missiles, some of which it launched from deeper in Yemen. In fact, the group became the first to fire anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM) at vessels during its campaign against Red Sea shipping.

Mokha, however, provides a potential new surveillance and launching point for the Houthis to deploy mines as well as aerial drones and uncrewed surface vessels (USVs) they can use to attack shipping. As we have reported previously, the rebel group pioneered the operational use of some of these weapons.

The Houthis “are determined to control the ports in order to use booby-trapped boats from areas close to shipping lanes,” Col. Abdul Basit Al-Baher, a Yemeni army officer and military analyst, told Arab News last month as the rebels were pushing closer to the port.

You can see video and images of a Houthi USV that struck the Greek-owned ship Tutor in the Red Sea in 2024 below.

In addition to Mokha, the Houthis also reportedly captured two important islands that could also add to its control over shipping through the strait. However, TWZ cannot independently confirm this.

There are claims that the Houthis seized Perim Island, which sits right in the middle of the BAM. In 2021, satellite images we obtained showed completion of a new, approximately 6,150-foot-long runway on the island as well as hangars and other facilities. The installation was supposedly meant primarily to support drone operations and was built by the United Arab Emirates.

This strategically located island sits in the narrowest part of the BAM, less than two miles west of Yemen and about 13 miles east of Djibouti, giving the Houthis a commanding presence at the mouth of the Red Sea.

Zuqar Island, which was also reportedly captured, sits in the middle of the Red Sea about 80 miles north of Perim Island. In the custody of the Yemeni government since 1998, it was being “used by government forces to track shipping traffic, monitor movements by Houthi rebels and stop weapons smuggling in the Red Sea,” according to The National.

Last year, images emerged of construction of a runway on the island.

It is unclear who built this island runway, though there have been indications that it could have been the United Arab Emirates once again.

Zuqar Island sits about 7 km east of the northbound shipping lane in the Red Sea. Control over these two islands could allow the Houthis to mirror the pattern Iran established in the Strait of Hormuz by directing traffic to pass through a narrow passage between Qeshm and Larak islands.

The conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis grew out of a civil war in Yemen that erupted in 2014. It expanded a year later when a Saudi-led coalition joined forces with the government ousted by the Houthis and raged on until the parties reached a tenuous ceasefire in 2022. The Saudis held off on getting involved in the recent Red Sea conflict which saw the U.S. and coalition warships duking it out with the Houthis, and eventually led to a U.S.-led air campaign over Yemen. Tensions, however, reignited after that conflict ended when the Houthis joined the U.S.-Iran conflict on the side of their major supporter. In addition to the aforementioned blockade, the Houthis began striking Saudi refineries.

The Houthis already control the port of Hodeidah, about 100 miles to the north. Capturing Mokha and the two islands extends their reach even closer to the BAM. 

In the wake of the Houthi blockade imposed in July, traffic in the BAM fell by 15%, according to Lloyd’s List Intelligence.

“On average, 273 ships sailed through the chokepoint each week between 27 July and 23 August,” the organization reported. “The naval ban on Saudi Arabia came into effect on 20 July, and the weekly average in the run up date was 319. Still, traffic remains above volumes seen before the crisis in the Middle East Gulf that led to a flurry of activity in the Red Sea as Saudi oil was redirected to Yanbu.”

As we have explained in the past, Saudi Arabia has diverted millions of barrels of oil per day through pipelines to its Yanbu port on the Red Sea in an effort to minimize the energy shortages due to the hostilities near the Persian Gulf.

The biggest impact of the blockade, Lloyd’s List Intelligence notes, is that it is driving up the cost to deliver oil by forcing traffic north through the Suez Canal, “extending voyage times and tying up capacity. In the Middle East, rising use of Hormuz shuttle tankers and multiple STS transfers is creating delays and increasing vessel utilization. Combined, these rising inefficiencies have led to the third VLCC spot-rate spike since the beginning of the crisis in the Middle East Gulf.” 

The Houthi strikes on Saudi’s oil infrastructure, including a Houthi missile and drone attack against the Saudi Aramco refinery at Jazan on the Red Sea earlier this week, add a further dilemma for Riyadh, making it harder to get its product to points of shipment.

Video of of the aftermath of those strikes, which you can see below, emerged on social media.

All this is raising the specter of the U.S. having to get as involved as it did during the previous Houthi campaign against shipping that ended last September, which could pull resources away from Iranian-focused operations, if supporting such an operation is even possible at all at this point. The Navy, and other key elements of the U.S. military, is overstretched and worn down by continuous deployments for many months leading up to Venezuela and then Iran, and now six months after Operation Epic Fury.

U.S. forces in the Persian Gulf are under increasing pressure as tensions with Iran continue to simmer. On Tuesday, several U.S. Air Force jets were damaged in an Iranian missile barrage on Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan, according to CBS News. An A-10 Thunderbolt II close support jet lost a wing and about eight F-15E Strike Eagle multi-role fighters were slightly damaged and returned to service, the network noted.

There is also a report that Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao said Iranian forces “blew the hell out of Bahrain” where the U.S. military has a number of key facilities, including the headquarters of the U.S. Fifth Fleet. The country has been the subject of frequent Iranian barrages since the U.S. and Israel first attacked on Feb. 28.

Cao’s assessment matches what we have seen and heard prior to his comments and raises anew the question of whether the U.S. will return to Bahrain and other bases in the region heavily attacked by Iran.

On the sea, Iranian missiles are getting closer to hitting U.S. Navy warships, the Wall Street Journal reported.

“At least three times in the past week, Iranian forces have launched missiles at American warships, including an aircraft carrier, taking direct aim at the U.S. Navy in a way it hasn’t done since the start of the war,” the newspaper noted. “The attempted strikes on warships have led to much closer calls than previous attempts, with Iran using maneuverable warheads, people familiar with the attacks said.”

Amid this activity, traffic through the Strait remains suppressed.

“Vessel transits via the Strait of Hormuz fell on Wednesday to seven from 12 ​the previous day, preliminary ship-tracking data showed on Thursday, with ‌levels also below the 10-day average of 14,” Reuters reported. “Out of these seven ships, four vessels exited and three entered, according to the data.”

However, an exact figure is hard to come by. Some vessels could be sailing through the ​waterway with their transponders turned off and would not be counted ​toward the totals, the outlet added.

As it is, oil prices are skyrocketing. As of noon Thursday, the per barrel price of Brent Crude exceeded $107, the highest price since July when it fell to just over $77 per barrel, according to OilPrice.com.

It will take some time before we get a better picture of how the Houthi seizure of the port of Mokha, and possibly Perim and Zuqar islands, will affect the global economy due to rising oil prices, either through reduced supply, increased cost of delivery or some combination of the two. With no end in sight to the U.S. conflict with Iran that helped to drive these actions, the Yemeni rebel group has incentives to inflict economic pain wherever it can.

Contact the author: howard@twz.com

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Ukraine has unveiled a new domestically developed surface-to-air missile system designed to turn a diverse collection of air-to-air missiles into a flexible ground-based air defense capability. Called Shershen, Ukrainian for hornet, the system combines a locally-developed command-and-control architecture, a dedicated surveillance radar, and multiple launchers that can employ both Ukrainian and Western missiles.

The system was displayed at the MSPO defense exhibition in Kielce, Poland, by the National Association of Ukrainian Defense Industries (NAUDI). The example shown is reportedly the second operational prototype and is described as being close to its production configuration.

The appearance of Shershen comes as Ukraine continues to develop an increasingly diverse family of indigenous air defense systems, while simultaneously adapting older missiles and foreign-supplied weapons to address a severe shortage of interceptors.

That effort has produced some distinctly unconventional combinations. Ukraine’s so-called FrankenSAM programs have paired existing Soviet-era launchers and radars with Western missiles, while other systems have adapted Soviet R-73 air-to-air missiles for ground launch. The United Kingdom and Denmark have also worked with Ukraine on the containerized Gravehawk system, another concept built around repurposed air-to-air missiles.

Shershen takes that philosophy a step further by making missile interchangeability a central feature of the system.

The Shershen battery consists of a Perun command-and-control vehicle, an Athena radar, and four Borei launchers.

According to the developer, the system’s architecture is deliberately open. This allows it to use different missiles from different manufacturers and also permits the integration of third-party surveillance and guidance radars.

The company says Shershen can currently employ the R-27 (AA-10 Alamo), R-73 (AA-11 Archer), AIM-9 Sidewinder, and AIM-132 ASRAAM, while compatibility with the R-60 is also being explored. These weapons come with a mix of semi-active radar or infrared homing seeker heads.

Air-to-air missiles are already available in considerable variety across Ukraine’s arsenal and those of its foreign partners. Being able to employ several types from a common ground-based system provides much more flexibility than a conventional SAM designed around one dedicated interceptor.

It also offers a way to exploit missiles that were never originally intended to be fired from the ground. That means Shershen’s launcher and fire-control system are meant to be interceptor agnostic, at least to a certain degree.

Shershen’s Athena radar is reported to be capable of detecting targets at ranges of up to 85 kilometers (53 miles).

In terms of the engagement envelope, Shershen is claimed to be capable of engaging aircraft, cruise missiles, and drones at ranges of up to 25 kilometers (16 miles) and altitudes of up to 10,000 meters (32,800 feet). Clearly, these figures will vary widely depending on the type of interceptor.

When employing radar-guided missiles, the system’s engagement architecture can reportedly guide as many as six missiles simultaneously.

The advertised performance figures have not been independently verified, and it remains unclear what target types and engagement conditions were used to establish them.

The developer says the second prototype has completed initial testing, including successful interceptions at a test range.

One of the Borei launchers displayed at MSPO were armed with an R-120K, a new Ukrainian missile equipped with a radar seeker and is intended to be capable of both air-to-air and surface-to-air employment.

The R-120K remains under development, however. Work is reportedly continuing on its rocket motor, meaning that its eventual performance and production status remain uncertain. Still, having the option of including the R-120K on the Shershen system in the future is significant.

Rather than relying indefinitely on stocks of Soviet and Western air-to-air missiles, Ukraine could eventually have a domestically produced interceptor specifically tailored to its growing family of ground-based air-defense systems. That will become increasingly important as stocks of legacy missiles are depleted. Earlier this year, it was reported that Ukrainian F-16s were running low on their air-to-air missiles, which include the same AIM-9s that are used in some FrankenSAM systems, as well as being compatible with Shershen. But even before that, it was clear that Western-supplied missile stocks in Ukraine across the board were diminishing, in some cases drastically, with critical interceptors like the AMRAAM and Patriot being badly affected.

Ukraine’s need for additional surface-to-air missiles has become increasingly acute during the full-scale war, especially as Russian drone and missile barrages have stepped up.

The shortage has encouraged Ukraine to pursue a combination of indigenous development and unconventional adaptations.

The FrankenSAM initiative, conducted with U.S. support, demonstrated how existing Ukrainian systems could be combined with foreign missiles to rapidly create additional air-defense capacity. Ukraine has also fielded modified Osa systems armed with R-73 air-to-air missiles rather than their original 9M33 interceptors. Other R-73-based concepts have even been demonstrated aboard Ukrainian uncrewed surface vessels.

Shershen appears to reflect the next logical step in that evolution: rather than creating a one-off FrankenSAM combination, build an architecture from the outset that can accept multiple missiles. Additionally, with so many different ground-based air defense systems now being fielded, it comes with the significant advantage of a standardized launcher and control interface that can accommodate a range of interceptors.

At the same time, Ukraine is pursuing substantially more ambitious indigenous SAM projects.

Earlier this year, a previously secretive Ukrainian missile identified as the Koral made what appeared to be its first public appearance. The program dates back to at least 2021, when Ukraine’s Luch design bureau presented a concept for a medium-range surface-to-air missile.

Koral is intended to provide a much longer-range capability, potentially filling some of the gap left by Ukraine’s aging Soviet systems and supplementing the Western-supplied Patriot and SAMP/T.

Shershen, by contrast, is clearly focused on the short-range layer.

Together, the programs illustrate the breadth of Ukraine’s emerging domestic air-defense effort: from relatively inexpensive systems built around repurposed air-to-air missiles to new, purpose-designed interceptors intended to replace or augment Soviet-era systems.

Ukraine’s experience with FrankenSAM has demonstrated the value of getting unconventional air defense combinations into service quickly.

Once fielded, Shershen, with its architecture capable of accepting different Soviet-origin and Western-made interceptors, and eventually a Ukrainian one, gives Ukraine another way to stretch its missile inventory and enhance its air defense capabilities.

Contact the author: thomas@thewarzone.com

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Um acidente rodoviário mobilizou os elementos dos Bombeiros Mistos de Alcácer do Sal na tarde de hoje. Segundo a corporação dos Bombeiros Mistos de Alcácer do Sal, o alerta para a colisão contra uma infraestrutura fixa na Estrada da Horta da Azeda foi dado pelas 14h44.

Do sinistro resultaram cinco feridos leves. De acordo com as informações disponibilizadas pelos bombeiros, duas das vítimas foram transportadas e evacuadas para o Serviço de Urgência Básica (SUB) de Alcácer do Sal para receberem assistência médica. As restantes três vítimas assistidas no local recusaram o transporte para a unidade hospitalar.

A operação de socorro e apoio no local contou com a intervenção da GNR de Alcácer do Sal, da GNR da Comporta e das Infraestruturas de Portugal (I.P.).

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A Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR) revogou a portaria que autorizava o procurador Lucas de Morais Gualtieri, especialista em combate ao terrorismo, a participar da oficina “Combate ao Irã e seus Representantes nas Américas”, marcada para os dias 16 e 17 de setembro, em Assunção, no Paraguai. O evento é organizado e financiado pelo Departamento de Estado dos Estados Unidos, que arcaria integralmente com as despesas do procurador.

Um procurador da República só pode se ausentar do país a trabalho com autorização da PGR. A ida de Gualtieri havia sido autorizada por portaria publicada no Diário Oficial da União (DOU) em 31 de agosto, assinada pelo vice-procurador-geral da República, Hindenburgo Chateaubriand Pereira Diniz Filho. Em 2 de setembro, o mesmo vice-PGR revogou o ato.

Até o momento, o MPF não divulgou o cancelamento à imprensa. A Agência Pública questionou a PGR sobre o workshop, a viagem, o financiamento do evento pelo governo americano e se a situação configuraria uma violação da soberania nacional. As perguntas não foram respondidas: a PGR informou apenas o cancelamento da portaria e da ida do procurador a Assunção, mas não explicou o motivo do cancelamento.

A Pública também tentou contato com o procurador Lucas de Morais Gualtieri e a assessoria de comunicação da Procuradoria da República em Minas Gerais, onde ele é lotado, disse que só a Secretaria de Comunicação da PGR estava tratando do caso. 

Seria a segunda viagem de Gualtieri ao Paraguai neste ano. Em março, o membro do MPF esteve em Assunção para ministrar uma aula no seminário “Desarticulação de Esquemas Financeiros Criminais e Terroristas”, realizado pela American Bar Association, órgão que tem papel equivalente ao da OAB nos EUA. 

O Paraguai, sob o presidente Santiago Peña, alinha-se aos EUA em relação ao Irã: anunciou proteção especial a órgãos dos governos americano e israelense e reforço da segurança na tríplice fronteira. O Brasil criticou os ataques dos EUA e de Israel ao Irã e manifestou preocupação com a escalada militar no Golfo Pérsico.

A tensão entre os EUA e o Brasil vem se acumulando desde 2025. Em maio, o Departamento de Estado designou o Comando Vermelho e o PCC como organizações terroristas globais, uma medida que o Palácio do Planalto afirmou afetar a soberania nacional e o próprio combate ao crime organizado, além de manter tarifas sobre produtos brasileiros e indicar um embaixador em Brasília sem a anuência do governo brasileiro.  

Procurador falaria sobre a Operação Trapiche 

No workshop cuja participação de Gualtieri foi agora cancelada pela PGR, o procurador falaria sobre a Operação Trapiche, de novembro de 2023, na qual duas pessoas apontadas como ligadas ao Hezbollah foram presas sob a acusação de planejar ataques a prédios ligados à comunidade judaica no Brasil. Segundo a Polícia Federal, o recrutamento seria realizado por Mohamad Khir Abdulmajid, foragido. Um dos presos, Lucas Passos Lima, foi condenado em primeira instância a mais de 16 anos por terrorismo; o Tribunal Regional Federal da 6ª Região reduziu a pena ao entender que a motivação era financeira, e não ideológica. O caso segue tramitando no Superior Tribunal de Justiça (STJ).

A oficina do Departamento de Estado no Paraguai discutirá técnicas de cooperação internacional e de enfrentamento ao financiamento do terrorismo, tema de interesse acadêmico de Gualtieri, que cursa mestrado em relações internacionais na PUC-MG, com foco em Estratégia, Inteligência e Contraterrorismo. O programa completo do evento não está disponível na internet.

O Hezbollah, criado em 1982, é classificado pelo Departamento de Estado como organização terrorista financiada pelo Irã e atua no Líbano também como partido político. Desde outubro de 2023, o grupo realizou ataques ao norte de Israel, que respondeu com ofensivas e com a ocupação de parte do sul libanês. 

O Brasil não possui uma lista oficial de organizações terroristas. A lei antiterrorismo brasileira exige comprovação de motivação ideológica para classificar crimes como atos de terrorismo. Projeto de lei de 2021 do deputado Paulo Bilynskyj (PL) prevê a adoção de uma extensa lista que inclui o Hezbollah. Em 2024, o projeto foi aprovado na Comissão de Segurança Pública, mas não houve andamentos significativos depois. 

A Pública também procurou o Itamaraty, que alegou que apenas o MPF e os organizadores do evento deveriam se manifestar.

A relação entre o MPF e agências americanas voltou ao debate público após a Lava Jato. A série “Confidencial: as digitais do FBI na Lava Jato”, produzida pela Pública em parceria com o Audible, mostrou que autoridades dos EUA fizeram visitas frequentes a procuradores brasileiros durante a operação, em contatos mantidos fora dos canais oficiais e sem comunicação com a PGR.

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“America’s state religion, is ‘patriotism,’ a phenomenon which has convinced many of the citizenry that ‘treason’ is morally worse than murder or rape.” ~ William Blum

One meaningless jingoistic cliché I am subjected to constantly is “I love my country.” This gibberish for the most part is pure nonsense, and is rarely defined. When most use this term, do they love the people, land, culture, or the government? My take from all my many thousands of encounters of this phrase, is that it means I love my country right or wrong, which is pure nationalism. I say this because that is what I see and hear with my own eyes and ears. This is why many raise blood-soaked flags in honor of aggressive war. This is why most will stand hatless with their hand over their heart during the ‘national’ anthem, this is why most will pledge their dying allegiance to the State, and this is why most all perpetually worship the military and those who falsely claim to ‘serve’ the people.

They rarely if ever say I love all the people, because they do not. They rarely if ever say I love the landscape, and they rarely if ever say I love the culture. This cliché is used almost entirely under the assumption that one is showing false ‘patriotism’ to the national state, which indicates agreement with what those controlling the nation-state do in their name. This includes taxation, theft, economic destruction, inflation, regulation, mass brutal enforcement, and aggressive warmongering. In other words, as mentioned earlier, they love the State, right or wrong. This attitude is pure reverent worship of the nation and government, which is the exact opposite of honest ‘patriotism.’ Hypocrisy has already taken over at this point.

This is the epitome of what is called ‘Stockholm Syndrome,’ where the ‘citizen’ (victim) forms a psychological attachment (bond) with his captor, controller, and master; in this case, the government. To see this attitude practiced in totality, one only has to watch or attend any large sporting event. As the field-sized flag is rolled out, military jets overhead, and government soldiers on the grounds, everyone is ordered to stand, remove his hat, put his hand over his heart, and bow down to the State en masse. 80,000 will all stand at once, (to not acquiesce and go along with the tamed collective herd can be risky as I have found out many times) complying with the order they have received, while acting as if in prayer to a ‘god.’ The ‘god’ they are praying to is the so-called ‘united’ states.

This is propaganda indoctrination; this what is taught you see, almost from birth to death, from cradle to grave and generationally, beginning in government run, mandatory attendance, ‘public’ schooling environments. This brainwashing is supported by the town and city politicians, the State, the federal government, and the complicit media. This instilled worship of rule is a huge part of the lives of all, and the reason this population is so easy to dumb down and control. As so aptly stated by Jean Baudrillard: “We are dealing with a genuine Stockholm syndrome on a mass scale – when the hostage becomes the accomplice of the hostage taker – as well as a revolution of the concept of voluntary servitude and master-slave relations. When the entire society becomes an accomplice to those who took it hostage, but just as much when individuals split into, for themselves, hostage and hostage taker.” In other words, most all of you are willing slaves, and the ‘country’ you claim to love, is your lord and master, and just as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe said, “None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.”

This is an appropriate time to bring up this subject, as blood-soaked flags are flying all around me, as those who “rally round the flag’ are showing their solidarity to their State ‘god’ on this ‘holiday’ weekend celebrating Labor Day. This is supposed to be a celebration of laborers, but in this country today, every made-up holiday is treated as — Worship the State and military warmongers day. Never miss a chance to idolize the State, but always remember that the Mafia is more honest than any government, so maybe your ‘patriotic’ idolatry is misplaced.

Now, this heinous empire called America is warring around the world, aggressively maiming and killing, all in your name and with your earnings, wealth, and the blood of your children. It is supporting genocide, and destroying your most necessary vital goods of food, water, and energy. Your savings are being depleted, and the worthless fiat currency is continually debased, as hundreds of trillions of dollars of debt continue to rise, while you await the coming collapse. The big club that you ain’t in does not care about you, does not give a damn about you, but it does want you either controlled or eliminated.

This country is coming apart at the seams, and this is happening intentionally, by design, and is conspiratorial. The agenda, the real big picture, is to form a technocratic governing system; a globalist system put into place in order to claim ownership of everything, and then implement regional universal ruling ‘authority’ zones to lord over all. To accomplish this requires a complete digitization, biometric labeling, non-cash society with digital currency, and concentration-camp environments where control becomes more manageable. The depopulation agenda is an important aspect of this plan as well, as has been telegraphed for decades, and obvious signs of this evil are already evident.

This is not just happening here, but worldwide, and simultaneously among most every country. This is a global phenomenon. This would be impossible unless controlled by a master class of criminal rulers and their pawns and partners in politics, media, and military, as has already happened during the absolute fraud of the fake ‘covid’ pandemic, where most every country on earth did the exact same things at once. You see, all this is a long-planned, structured undertaking that is now coming to fruition.

The result of this takeover plot is up to you, all of you as individuals, not as a collective horde bowing to the State as ‘god.’ Caring intimately for where you were born, your culture, and where you live is natural, but reverence for a governed nation-state reveals a much deeper insanity based on enslavement, not freedom. Americans are captured serfs at this point, dependent on a failed system of reprehensible and immoral rule.

America is now in the darkest moments of its existence, and this has happened because it was allowed to happen by the weakness and indifference of the American people, and without any legitimate resistance. Mass individual opposition is necessary if sanity and freedom are desired. Without an awakening to the fact that this country’s ruling class and government are consumed by evil and deserve no respect, without the understanding that false ‘patriotism’ is not the way forward, but the way to hell, then we all face eventual bondage, or worse, annihilation.

This ‘country’ (or any other) is not to be worshipped or idolized, it is to be lived in, enjoyed, and protected from all those who would claim rule over it. Governments, all governments, are always your captor, controller, and master, and never deserve to be associated with “love of country,” but treated with contempt. Stockholm Syndrome is complete mental instability, and ‘Statism’ is the epitome of the this mental disorder of man, where captivity is more sought than freedom.

“Nationalism is pimped out bigotry, designed to provoke a Stockholm syndrome in the livestock.” - Stefan Molyneux

Original Article: https://www.garydbarnett.com/the-near-entirety-of-americans-are-engulfed-by-a-nationalistic-stockholm-syndrome/

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The Oregon Air National Guard’s 142nd Wing has taken another significant step toward turning the F-15EX Eagle II into a true multirole fighter, conducting the first live-bomb drops from operational F-15EXs during training at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The milestone came during a roughly three-week deployment to Nellis in late August and early September in support of the U.S. Air Force’s Weapons Instructor Course (WIC).

Photographs released by the Air National Guard yesterday show F-15EXs from the 142nd Wing carrying live bombs on the flight line and departing Nellis with the weapons loaded. Official imagery shows the jets armed with a single 500-pound Mk 82 freefall bomb on the fuselage centerline, while spotters also captured F-15EXs carrying a 2,000-pound Mk 84 freefall bomb in the same position.

The 142nd’s F-15EXs are only now acquiring a capability that was deliberately absent from the wing’s previous F-15C fleet. The Portland, Oregon-based unit was an air-superiority organization when it operated the F-15C, while the F-15EX is ultimately derived from the F-15E Strike Eagle and has considerably more inherent multirole potential.

As we reported in July, the wing had already begun laying the groundwork for this transition. In May, 142nd personnel traveled to Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, where they loaded and dropped inert BDU-50 and BDU-56 training bombs from their F-15EXs. Those weapons replicate the size and weight of 500-pound-class Mk 82-series and 2,000-pound-class Mk 84-series bombs. Over 10 missions, the crews dropped 24 BDU-50s and 12 BDU-56s.

While the F-15EX had already been tested in an air-to-ground role by the Air Force’s test community, the Mountain Home deployment was the first time an operational Eagle II unit had loaded and dropped bombs. The next step, the wing said at the time, would be live weapons employment at Nellis.

The Air Force has emphasized that the F-15EX’s primary mission remains defensive and offensive counter-air, particularly in the homeland-defense role. At the same time, the service’s plans call for the aircraft to provide combatant commanders with strike packages capable of operating in contested environments.

The F-15EX is inherently well suited to such a mission. Derived from the Strike Eagle lineage, it combines that aircraft’s large payload capacity and long range with substantially modernized avionics and electronic warfare systems. The aircraft’s design leaves considerable room for additional weapons and mission equipment, making an expansion into air-to-ground operations relatively straightforward compared with trying to add that capability to the F-15C.

The 142nd has been building the institutional knowledge required to make that transition. Three of its pilots underwent a nine-month course covering the science, tactics, and procedures associated with air-to-ground weapons employment before returning to help establish the wing’s training program. Weapons personnel also traveled to Nellis earlier this year to work with F-15Es assigned to the 59th Test and Evaluation Squadron and become certified in bomb loading procedures.

As well as teaching pilots how to release a weapon, the wing had to develop an entirely new air-to-ground training pipeline for pilots, maintainers, and weapons personnel at a unit that had not previously operated an aircraft with an operational bombing mission.

Nellis is home to the Air Force’s Weapons School and is central to the Weapons Instructor Course, making it one of the most important locations in the service for developing and evaluating advanced tactics. The 142nd’s participation therefore places its emerging F-15EX air-to-ground capability in an environment specifically focused on integrating advanced weapons, tactics, and mission planning.

The wing’s new live bomb-dropping capability also comes as the Air Force continues to explore how broadly the Eagle II can be employed.

Test and evaluation units have already demonstrated that the aircraft can accommodate sophisticated air-to-ground weapons. Earlier this year, an F-15EX from the 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron participated in a munitions-load training event at Kadena Air Base in Japan, where Air Force personnel practiced loading live GBU-53/B Small Diameter Bomb IIs onto the aircraft.

The F-15EX is also capable of carrying the conformal fuel tanks used by the F-15E, which can provide additional fuel as well as additional weapons stations. The operational F-15EXs delivered to the 142nd have so far been seen without CFTs, however, and the status of the plan to equip the Oregon aircraft with them remains unclear.

CFTs could become increasingly important if the Air Force moves toward more demanding air-to-ground missions for the Eagle II, particularly those requiring substantial weapons loads and long-range operations.

Another unresolved question is how the Air Force will ultimately crew F-15EXs when they are performing more complex multirole missions.

The Eagle II retains the F-15E family’s two-seat cockpit, although the Air Force’s initial operational concept has generally involved flying the aircraft with a single pilot. That leaves an unused cockpit that could potentially become an important asset as the mission set expands.

Former 142nd Wing commander Col. Michael Kosderka previously told TWZ that the addition of a weapons systems officer or other specialist in the rear cockpit could open the door to more air-to-ground capabilities.

“We can start talking about putting all kinds of air-to-ground capabilities into the airplane, potentially putting WSOs or other experts in the backseat as well to have us do any number of multi-role capabilities that it’s just physically not possible to in the C model,” Kosderka told TWZ in an interview back in 2024. “So the X has tremendous growth capability. It’s really exciting.”

Two crew would be particularly relevant to complex strike missions, where managing sensors, weapons, communications, electronic warfare, and other mission systems can place substantial demands on a single pilot. As we have discussed in the past, a back-seater would also be highly beneficial for the emerging drone controller role.

The Weapons School has also been associated with developing two-seat F-15EX operations, indicating that the second cockpit’s utility is already being considered at the tactical-development level.

For now, it would be premature to characterize the F-15EX as an operational replacement for the F-15E Strike Eagle in the air-to-ground role. The 142nd’s newly demonstrated bombing capability remains part of an ongoing training and development process.

Meanwhile, the Air Force is preparing to field substantially larger numbers of F-15EXs. Beyond the 142nd, additional Guard units are planned to receive the type, in California and Louisiana, as well as Michigan.

The Air Force has announced plans to base F-15EXs at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, North Carolina, where they will eventually replace older F-15Es, which, in turn, are slated to move to Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri, as part of a broader realignment of the Eagle fleet.

Another two active-duty F-15EX squadrons are slated to replace the former F-15C force at Kadena. The first F-15EX for permanent assignment at Kadena recently departed Boeing’s St. Louis, Missouri, facility for the 142nd Wing, where it will undergo final preparations before its eventual deployment to sprawling Okinawa.

The operational implications of the air-to-ground training therefore extend well beyond Portland.

The Eagle II’s generous weapons payload, long range, modern sensors and electronic warfare systems, and ability to carry both air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons give the Air Force a platform that can potentially perform several missions without sacrificing the characteristics that make the F-15 attractive for homeland defense and counter-air operations. The same characteristics are also extremely relevant to any export operator, which would expect to operate the Eagle II in a multirole capacity.

As well as a weapons-training milestone, the first live-bomb drops by the 142nd Wing provide more evidence that the F-15EX’s mission is continuing to evolve.

Contact the author: thomas@thewarzone.com

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