US bases in Iraq are getting hit by FPV drones. At least a radar and helicopter have been destroyed. The US does not seem prepared for this advancement in warfare. If the US sends ground troops to Iran, a lot of them will be killed by FPV drones. These are short range, cheap drones, that can be used as suicide drones or to drop explosives.
The Ukraine-Russia war has shown that this is a new factor in warfare, and the US doesn’t seem to have adapted fast enough.
America’s rolling thunder of destroying things from the air is not convincing the Iranian regime to budge or the Iranian people to rise up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rSv1Ig-RSc
“”ICE agents are not trained or certified in aviation security,” American Federation of Government Employees National President Everett Kelley previously said in a statement to USA TODAY. “TSA officers spend months learning to detect explosives, weapons, and threats specifically designed to evade detection at checkpoints – skills that require specialized instruction, hands-on practice, and ongoing recertification. You cannot improvise that. Putting untrained personnel at security checkpoints does not fill a gap. It creates one.”
Early reports from some travelers indicated that ICE’s presence wasn’t doing much to improve conditions – and for some employees it may be more disruptive than helpful.
“The employees that actually work at the airport, they’re afraid of coming to work because they were afraid that their immigration status would cause them to be detained or removed from the airport,” Johnny Jones, secretary and treasurer of the Association of Federal Government Employees local 1040 representing TSA workers in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, said in a March 24 press briefing. “A couple of restaurants did not actually open at the airport because they had no workers show up.”
While Harmon-Marshall doesn’t expect ICE’s presence to pose a risk to aviation security, it could have other adverse impacts. “What I do think their presence is going to do is intimidate the traveling public,” he said.”
https://travel.yahoo.com/advice/safety/articles/tsa-officers-skilled-eye-ices-070142424.html
The Bible isn’t one book. It is a bunch of books put together. If we really want to understand it, we should try to understand what each author was saying.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5ojTGrL_94
Some of Iran’s strikes on Israel are getting through.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqAAD_d-7VE
Trump’s China tariffs were, for the most part, a massive failure. China is still the world’s manufacturer and exports a ton of manufactured goods.
China is well ahead of the rest of the world in automated manufacturing. They executed a ten year plan to do this, and it worked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djE7MDOyFLs
The Littoral Combat Ship sucks for so many reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djXMmr1Na_A
How US Forces are Trying to Open the Strait of Hormuz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOGOelPbTF4
Jesus was not mentioned by Greek or Roman sources in the first 100 years. And, his first Greco-Roman reference was a passing reference. Paul also tells us very little about what Jesus specifically said. Our earliest sources are the four gospels. They are not particularly reliable, but that doesn’t mean they are useless. The Gospels are not first-hand testimony, but people reporting hearsay. They couldn’t know Jesus’s exact words.
We can look at which testimony is earlier, whether one seems to be emphasizing a bias or a message rather than just telling us what happened, to what extent different sources agree with each other, and the extent that Jesus is saying something that seems like his followers would not want him to say.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dDtefHPTEk
The Chinese Communist Party forced Apple to lower prices on the Apple Store for Chinese residents. Trump talks big, but he lets the Chinese Communist Party push around American companies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WARSIG9iq8A
The South left the Union in order to defend slavery and racial supremacy. The Southerners believed it was a scientific truth of the world that blacks were inferior and should be subservient. They didn’t lose these beliefs the moment they lost the war. After the Civil War, White Southerns responded to the loss by organizing in order to persecute, murder, beat, and instill fear in, blacks, in order to keep them down and maintain racial supremacy. White Southerners maintained white supremacy through terrorism.
The Klu Klux Klan, the KKK, started as a kind of social club, almost like a college fraternity. They made up silly-sounding titles and wore fun costumes. The people in it were racists, but they didn’t set up the organization to do racist things.
The Klan became a political organization when members perceived the North’s rule as too aggressive in potentially arming blacks in state militias and giving them the ability to vote.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX7sVUgcD4I