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The Commission on the National Defense Strategy Report
By: Vic Eldred • Op/Ed • 28 Comments • 5 Likes • 2 months ago
““We’re going to do everything we can to keep a wider war from breaking out,” President Biden said.”
The congressionally appointed commission is bipartisan, and it recently released a report with dire warnings. It began with: “The threats the United States faces are the most serious and most challenging the nation has encountered since 1945 and include the potential for near-term major war.” The...
Opinion | Israel’s New Hezbollah Strategy
Via: Vic Eldred • Op/Ed • 3 Comments • 2 Likes • 2 months ago
“A full-scale war could destroy Lebanon and carry risks for Israel too. It could also hurt Vice President Kamala Harris politically and help the...”
Israel appears to be pursuing a new strategy to deter a broader war with Hezbollah. Instead of tit-for-tat exchanges, it will make clear to the Iran-backed militia the damage it will suffer if it continues to fire missiles at Israel’s north. That’s the conclusion we draw after a week of...
Israeli airstrike in Beirut killed senior Hezbollah official, says IDF
Via: Vic Eldred • News & Politics • 4 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 months ago
“After initially refusing to comment on Tuesday’s pager explosions, Israel on Wednesday tacitly acknowledged its role in the attacks. Defense...”
Israel’s military claimed it killed a senior Hezbollah commander in an airstrike on the group’s stronghold in southern Beirut on Friday, sharply escalating the conflict between the two sides and raising fears of all-out war. Ibrahim Aqil, a commander of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, was...
The strange case of Ryan Routh
By: Vic Eldred • Op/Ed • 91 Comments • 3 Likes • 2 months ago
“"We allege that the defendant made repeated, heinous threats to murder and torture Supreme Court justices and their families to retaliate against...”
The more we look into Ryan Routh's history, the stranger it gets. Routh hailed from a good family. He was the son of a Chemist and is the brother of a banker and a lawyer. Routh was once named the citizen of the year by the local police department where he grew up, after he saved a woman from a...
A House Divided
By: Vic Eldred • Op/Ed • 200 Comments • 5 Likes • 2 months ago
““We ran the play. It was the best play; it was the right one. So now we go back to the playbook. We'll draw up another play, and we'll come up with...”
The House voted down Speaker Mike Johnson's government funding plan with 14 Republicans voting against it and two others voting present. The measure failed by a 202-222-2 margin. Three Democrats voted for the bill. Johnson's measure would have funded the government for six months, but it included...
Exploding pagers
By: Vic Eldred • Op/Ed • 66 Comments • 5 Likes • 2 months ago
“"It demonstrates Israel's ability to infiltrate its adversaries in a remarkably dramatic way," said Paul Pillar, a 28-year veteran of the U.S....”
I think it is time to dispel some misinformation put out by the so-called "Health Ministry" of Lebanon.Fact: Hezbollah fighters have been using pagers as a low-tech means of communication in an attempt to evade Israeli location-tracking, two sources familiar with the group's operations told...
Strangers in their own land
By: Vic Eldred • Op/Ed • 182 Comments • 4 Likes • 2 months ago
“"It's like living in a dystopian nightmare," Daniels told Lawrence Jones on Thursday. "You hope you wake up and it's 2019 again, and then you...”
Our dishonest left-wing media is out bombarding the news cycle with a shiny object known as "Haitians eating pets." To American citizens living in the town of Springfield Ohio (a town of just under 60,000 people) the country is at a crossroads. Their resources, especially health care are under...
A new turn in the Ukraine war and a strange claim on the ABC debate
By: Vic Eldred • Op/Ed • 167 Comments • 5 Likes • 2 months ago
“"I have seen and read the affidavit and after the attorney blacks out the name of the whistleblower and other information that could dox the...”
Link to quote: Kamala Harris-Donald Trump Debate Was Rigged? ABC Whistleblower Claims Surface (msn.com)Let me first dispense with this unproven allegation which first appeared on social media.The story is now starting to appear in print media. Basically, someone who calls themselves "Black...