Today I'm writing up a few recommendations for your
enlightenment. First up is Scott Ritter's new, serialized book
being sent to his subscribers – The Scud Hunters
which reveals a previously untold story of Operation Desert
Storm, which was enacted by George H.W. Bush as enforcement of a
UNSC resolution regarding the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. Following
the links is a section from the book announcement (bold emphasis
added).
scottritter+the-scud-hunters-book@substack.com
https://open.substack.com/pub/scottritter/p/the-scud-hunters
"Operation Desert Storm [begun Jan. 16-17, 1991] had a third facet of conflict that has gone largely unexplored in the various memoirs and histories that emerged in the aftermath of the conflict—a missile war which saw Iraq launch nearly a hundred modified Soviet-made Scud missiles against targets in Israel and the Arabian peninsula. To the extent that the missile war has been covered in post-war literature, it has been in the context of promoting the effectiveness of US-made Patriot missile as a "Scud killer", and the heroism of US pilots and US and British commandos in hunting down the Iraqi missile launchers that threatened Israel.
However, the truth tells a different story.
The US diverted thousands of aircraft away from their assigned duties as part of the Strategic Air Campaign to instead scour southern and western Iraq in search of elusive mobile Iraqi missile launchers, and scores of US and UK special operators were dispatched into the expanse of western Iraq to hunt the launchers and their crews.
Patriot missile batteries were deployed to Israel and the Persian Gulf in order to provide an umbrella of missile defense against those Iraqi missiles that managed to elude the net being cast by the US and its allies.
And yet, when the war ended, not a single Iraqi mobile missile launcher had been destroyed. Iraq was able to launch missiles against Israel and the Arabian peninsula up until the last days of the conflict. And it is highly unlikely that any of the Iraqi-modified Scud missiles that were launched were successfully intercepted by Patriot missiles.
In short, everything that has been written about the missile war during Operation Desert Storm is premised on lies and distortions.
These lies carried over into the post-conflict period where UN weapons inspectors were dispatched to Iraq to oversee the elimination of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs, inclusive of their indigenously modified Scud missiles. But the lies of Desert Storm carried over to the work of the UN inspection teams, impacting their ability to attain a final accounting regarding the disposition of Iraq's missile force. In many ways, the missile war did not end with the ceasefire that was agreed to in March 1990, but continued for several years as those who hunted the Iraqi missiles during the war worked hand in glove with the UN weapons inspectors to finish the job they had started. Throughout, Israel loomed dangerously in the background, threatening to break apart a US-led coalition that would not survive Israel actively aligning itself against Iraq during the conflict, and poised to intervene decisively once the war ended. The Scud Hunt never really ended, with commandos, spies and inspectors searching for missiles and the ghosts of missiles up until the very end, when the US government, acting on the basis of the lies that had been told over the years, invaded Iraq in 2003.
The story of this Scud Hunt, and those who carried it out, has never been told before.
The Scud Hunters tells this story, in comprehensive fashion, from the perspective of both the hunters and the hunted. One of a kind interviews and unique access to archival material previously inaccessible to historians and researchers, combined with the author's first-hand experience in virtually every aspect of this narrative, have resulted in a book unlike any other ever written about Operation Desert Storm and its aftermath.
It is a story the US government does not want told.
Which makes it a story that must be told."
So in Scud Hunters you have a different view of the "Gulf War" (Operation Desert Storm). The neo-cons were upset when George H.W. Bush didn't continue across the Iraq border to conquer all of Iraq. But he had met the conditions of the authorizing UNSC resolution, to kick Iraq out of Kuwait, so he did the right thing and withdrew. As a side note, Netanyahu was very upset about this, so funded and supported Bill Clinton for Pres., thus the first true Israeli U.S. president. But from Scud Hunters you see the role of the U.S. forces trying to protect their puppet regimes in the area, the Zionists and the Saudis, from the scud missiles, even to the point of siphoning off some military resources away from the main (and authorized) war effort to do so. At taxpayer's expense, that's why you shouldn't know this story.
There's been some great interviews on Glenn Diesen's program,
well worth watching, and you can get the notices by signing up on
his Substack at
https://substack.com/@glenndiesen
Here's two recent ones:
Alex Krainer: Europe's Militarism & Economic Decline
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HembJRfcFQ
Rick Sanchez: War Propaganda & Suffocating Censorship Weaken
the West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvtctPX2sI8
This Rick Sanchez interview marks the 20th anniversary of RT.com
(Russia Today), Margarita Simonyan, Editor. You can read more
about it on
Scott Ritter's Substack: with some interesting interviews he
did with Russian
officers.
Sometimes Rumsfeld's terminology is useful, such as with Gaza
and the Zionist entity:
This is a Known Known: The Zionist entity is the living
embodiment of Evil.
The Known Unknown is what is the Rest of the World going to do
about it?
The Unknown Known is that these two cultures can NEVER live
side-by-side. A bit of blow-back before lunch can ruin your whole
day. The arrogance of the Zionists excludes the possibility of
any alternative meaningful culture within 1000 miles from there.
Thus, the push for "Greater Israel."
"Two-State Solution" is a phrase that people who think they are
important say, because they remember someone else who thought
they were smart saying it many years ago, and it was just never
implemented. And what? A Palestinian state composed of one narrow
strip (Gaza) plus what's left of the West Bank? One bit here, one
bit there? That can't work, duh. Palestinians need one homeland,
with Al Quds as their exclusive capital. (look it up)
For ongoing updates on the Gaza situation, subscribe to Caitin Johnstone's Newsletter.
One of the best Substack sites: Joyce Vance at Civil
Discourse – this recent post is about the Comey trial,
an excellent legal discourse. Joyce is a great legal scholar
trying to get the Trump Insurrection under control. Please
subscribe!
Here's
another good Joyce Vance post, about whether the courts can
reign in the deployment of troops against the domestic
population.
In this
post from Ismaele at geopolitiq, he has
translated an article from Germany which lists just about all the
(mostly unelected) European elites who keep up the Russia-hating
call for war, and the organizations that connect and support
them. This is a good article to save for reference, since ALL of
these people, and ALL of the organizations, are enemies of the
people, and it is hard to find any listing of them, they prefer
to write YOUR destiny in secret.
But this cabal of elites didn't start recently, it was brought
into being before WW-I, in 1891, see this excellent report on The
Duke Report, "Hidden
History: The Secret Origins of the First World War
Explainer."
As I've mentioned before on these pages, you can get excellent
reports on Don Hank's
Substack
Most of his posts cover multiple topics in world affairs, with
articles he has translated from Russian and Arabic, sources that
you will not see in Western monopolistic media. Since he can read
those languages, he understands idiomatic expression when a
google-translate cannot. Here is a resent post on the murder of
Hind Rajab:
Hind Rajab has more power in death than the entire Zioinazi
propaganda machine
The world will never forgive little Hind's Zionazi murderers,
despite Israeli propaganda.
Her Name Was Hind: Her Foundation Takes 24 Israeli Soldiers and
Commanders to the ICC for Her Murder
And another on the authoritarian rule in the UAE (a Trump ally!):
"With the UAE's normalization deal with Israel, that now means that anyone in the Emirates who does anything to criticize Israel – perhaps even symbolically tearing up Benjamin Netanyahu's picture – could face a life sentence."
Back to Scott Ritter for the final word today: The Last Full Measure – "I'm trying to breathe life into US-Russian arms control. Here's a report card of where things stand now. It's a mixed bag." Scott is planning another trip to Russia in November to investigate popular support for new nuclear arms control talks:
"What I can do—and must do—is accurately capture the Russian reality so that the citizen engagement process envisioned during the Poughkeepsie Peace Initiative meetings can craft a politically viable program of action derived from facts, not fiction. The Russian reality will be what separates the Poughkeepsie Peace Initiative effort from the "experts" currently advising President Trump, whose positions are driven more by Russo-phobia than reality."
And that Russo-phobia is a deep problem in the belly of the
West—USA, and there and around the world, it must end. And
more on this same topic from Larry C. Johnson at Sonar 21:
Western analysts continue to push delusions about Russia.
Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that." - MLK
Jr.
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