Comments by "Valen Ron" (@valenrn8657) on "The Jimmy Dore Show"
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The lesson from Ukraine's war lost as follows,
1. Smaller countries should armed themselves wiith nuclear weapons.
2. Don't trust US (or China, Russia) offers of security assurance in exchange of halting an independent nuclear weapons program. Ignore dreamers like Bill Clinton.
3. Exit from Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
4. Ignore NPT advocates like Frank Aiken, Irish Minister for External Affairs, US President Dwight D. Eisenhower, in his "Atoms for Peace" proposal.
5. Ignore certain large land territory nuclear-armed hypocrites from the Eighteen Nation Committee on Disarmament (TNCD).
The original members of TNCD were: Canada, France, United Kingdom, Italy, United States,, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Romania and Soviet Union (Russia).
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Niger's Main Customers (% of Exports)
France, 33.2%
Mali, 18.7%
Nigeria, 16.0%
United Arab Emirates, 8.9%
South Africa, 7.0%
Burkina Faso , 3.8%
Benin, 3.8%
Ghana, 3.0%
Chad, 1.9%
United States, 1.0%
Niger's Main Suppliers (% of Imports)
China, 23.9%
France, 21.0%
India, 10.3%
Nigeria, 7.7%
Germany, 5.1%
Thailand 3.7%
United States, 3.2%
Pakistan, 2.5%
United Arab Emirates, 2.5%
Japan, 1.8%
Putin's actions that made Niger an enemy of the France and the EU members only benefits Niger's uranium exporting competitors i.e. that's one less competitor for resource-rich Canada, Australia, and USA.
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The main reason why the Hamas paragliders avoided getting shot down is that Israel likely couldn’t detect them, said retired Marine Col. J.D. Williams, a defense policy researcher with the RAND Corporation.
“The paragliders would probably have flown very low — popping up to go over the border fencing and then flying low to the ground — staying under the radar coverage of Israeli air and missile defenses,” Williams told Task & Purpose on Thursday. “In addition, those air and missile defenses, primarily the Iron Dome system, are optimized to detect fast-moving, high trajectory weapons — missiles and rockets — and are not tuned to pick up low-flying, slow-moving objects like paragliders.”
Although counter-drone systems could engage paragliders, it is unclear how widely Israel deployed such systems before the Oct. 7 attacks or if they were positioned to stop incursions from Gaza, Williams said.
Even if counter-drone systems were in the area where Hamas launched its paraglider attacks, they still would have had the same challenges in detecting low-flying paragliders as other air and missile systems, he said.
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The U.S. military has had its own difficulties detecting slow-moving aerial objects and distinguishing threats from harmless balloons. Following the Feb. 4 shoot-down of a Chinese spy balloon off the coast of South Carolina, the head of U.S. Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command acknowledged that U.S. air defense systems had missed previous spy balloons that had flown over the country.
“It’s my responsibility to detect threats to North America,” Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck said at a Feb. 6 Pentagon news conference. “I will tell you that we did not detect those threats. And that’s a domain awareness gap that we have to figure out. But I don’t want to go in further detail.”
After the U.S. military recalibrated its radar and other sensors to look for small objects at high altitudes traveling at slow speeds, Air Force fighters shot down three unidentified aerial objects on Feb. 10, 11, and 12 over U.S. and Canadian airspace.
President Joe Biden later said the objects were likely balloons being used for scientific research or owned by private companies and hobbyists.
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