“So will there be a war or not? Yes, there will be, but only in two cases: if Belarus suffers a direct aggression, if a hot war is unleashed against our Belarus. We will stand united as one – even those who don’t want to – to defend our land and our homeland. And the second possibility, when a war may happen and Belarus will take part in it: if our ally Russia suffers a direct attack, if such aggression is committed against the Russian Federation. The grounds for that are our allied agreements.”-Alexander Lukashenko, President of Belarus, quoted by TASS Russian News Agency
A BMP based engineer vehicle disembarks a rail-car in Belarus, 19JAN2022. Photo via Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Since 19JAN2022, Russian forces (Eastern Military District ground and air units, and Pacific Fleet ground units) began arriving in the Republic of Belarus, which is just north of Ukraine. The official reason is to ‘inspect’ Belarusian forces for readiness, which is expected to take until the end of February. Russian officials say it is in compliance with the Vienna Document of 2011.
Russian Defense Ministry video of BMP-2, trucks, BMP engineer vehicle being off-loaded in Belarus, 19JAN2022:
Part of the ‘inspection’ will include a wargame called Union Courage 2022, conducted from February 10th to 20th. The premise of the wargame is an invasion by U.S./NATO.
S-400 anti-aircraft system. Photo via Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
On 21JAN2022, Russia’s Eastern Military District announced that two divisions of S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft systems were on their way to Belarus. The S-400 system consists of several types of vehicles. Video of load-up on rail-cars:
This is Russian Defense Ministry video, recorded on 25JAN2022, showing the arrival of the self propelled artillery gun known as 2S3 Akatsiya:
Su-35S of the Eastern Military District deployed to Belarus, 26JAN2022. Photo via Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Russian Defense Ministry video of Sukhoi 35S ‘multi-role’ aircraft deploying to Belarus, 26JAN2022:
Su-35S aircraft of the Eastern Military District arrive in Belarus, 26-27JAN2022. Photo via Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
Russian Defense Ministry video of Sukhoi 35S ‘multi-role’ aircraft arriving in Belarus:
Russian Defense Ministry video from 28JAN2022, more trains loaded with Russian vehicles arrive in Belarus:
This photo was released in the United States in late 1986-early 1987 (date when photo was made is not known). The U.S./NATO called it the M-1973 SMP 1987 152mm Howitzer, of course it is the 2S3.
From a U.S. Army vehicle I-D poster.
To make things more confusing, U.S./NATO also called the 2S3 the SAU-152.
This photo was released in the United States in late 1986-early 1987 (date when photo was made is not known). In this photo release the U.S./NATO correctly called it the 2S3 152mm self-propelled howitzer.
From U.S. Army Graphic Training Aid, Armored Vehicle Recognition, 1987.
From U.S. Army Graphic Training Aid, Armored Vehicle Recognition, 1987.
Soviet promotional video for the 2S3:
M-1973 (another name the U.S. military sometimes called the 2S3 during the Cold War), on display on Fort Irwin, National Training Center, California. U.S. Army photo taken in late 1990.
A lone abandoned Iraqi 2S3 sits next to a line of AMX-30 AuF-1 self-propelled guns, in the Taji tank graveyard of Iraq, photo dated October 2005.
2S3 artillery unit, based in Primorsky Krai, fire-off some rounds. Russian Eastern Military District photo, June 2015.
Video of Russian 2S3s conducting live-fire training in Tajikistan, September 2015:
Column of Ukrainian 2S3s heading into disputed Donbas area, sometime in 2018.
Russian 2S3 on one of the many training grounds spread from the Ural Mountains to Siberia. Russian Central Military District photo, September 2020.
Since 19JAN2022, Russian ground forces (Eastern Military District units and Pacific Fleet marine units) began arriving in the Republic of Belarus, which is just north of Ukraine. The official reason is to ‘inspect’ Belarusian forces for readiness, which is expected to take until the end of February. It is in compliance with the Vienna Document of 2011. This is Russian Defense Ministry video, recorded on 25JAN2022, showing the arrival of the 2S3:
Russian 2S3s arrived in Belarus, 25JAN2022. Photo via Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
From a Cold War U.S. Army vehicle I-D poster. The U.S./NATO liked to call the 2S1 the M-1974.
To make things more confusing, U.S./NATO also called the 2S1 the SAU-122.
It has a 122mm gun.
Photo from a 1978 Soviet wargame.
Photo dated May 1985. No other information given. East Germany (DDR)?
U.S. Army vehicle I-D video from the last decade of the Cold War:
A 2S1 122mm self-propelled howitzer. Photo was officially released in the United States in late 1986 or early 1987, actual date and location photo was made is not known.
From U.S. Army Graphic Training Aid, Armored Vehicle Recognition, 1987.
From U.S. Army Graphic Training Aid, Armored Vehicle Recognition, 1987.
This is a U.S. Army M551 Sheridan ‘fake news’ 2S1, on Fort Irwin, California, January 1991.
What is left of an Iraqi M-1974 (2S1), February 1991.
By 1991, the U.S. military was still calling the 2S1 the ‘M-1974’. This is an abandoned Iraqi 2S1. U.S. Department of Defense photo by Staff Sergeant Robert Reeve, March 1991.
A Croat 2S1 (captured from the Serbs) paraded in Dusine, Bosnia & Herzegovina, 26FEB1996. U.S. Army photo by Specialist Alejandro Cabello.
U.S. Army photo by Specialist Alejandro Cabello, 26FEB1996.
The info that came with this June 1999 photo of a Serb 2S1 withdrawing from Kosovo, said it was a SAU-122.
2014 video, Donetsk People’s Republic forces fired on Ukrainian forces with their 2S1 Gvozdikas:
Syrian 2S1s, possibly in 2017.
According to the info that came with this photo, this is a 2S1 being used by one of the rebel groups in Syria, 2017.
Oklahoma Army National Guard video by First Lieutenant Kayla Christopher, 2S1 Gvozdika live fire near Yavoriv, March 2017:
Is this a 2S1? Modified in Ukraine, the gun is not the 122mm artillery piece. Photo possibly made in 2018.
Self propelled artillery 2S1 Karamfil (Russian name Gvozdika, Гвоздика, carnation) Novo Selo Training Area, Bulgaria. Michigan Army National Guard photo by Specialist Alan Prince, 18JUN2019.
Syrian insurgency, 2012 to present. A 2S1 rolls through a Syrian town.
Russian Eastern Military District photo.
Russian Southern Military District photo.
Russian Southern Military District photo.
Russian Northern Region (Severomorsk) photo.
Russian 2S1, Sambuli Mountains, Tajikistan. Russian Central Military District photo, May 2020.
Pilots from South American countries get a tour of the Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, ‘enemy’ tanks display, 03NOV2020. Notice the 2S1 behind them. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman First Class Zachary Rufus.
Finland calls their former East German 2S1s the 122 PSH 74. The unification of East and West Germany, and end of the unofficial Cold War, allowed the Finns to get them cheap. Puolustusvoimat / Finnish Defense Forces photo.
Russian 2S1s in the Sambuli Mountains of Tajikistan. Russian Central Military District photo, July 2021.
Since 19JAN2022, Russian ground forces (Eastern Military District units and Pacific Fleet marine units) began arriving in the Republic of Belarus, which is just north of Ukraine. The official reason is to ‘inspect’ Belarusian forces for readiness, which is expected to take until the end of February. It is in compliance with the Vienna Document of 2011. This is Russian Defense Ministry video, recorded on 25JAN2022, showing the arrival of the 2S1 (it is very quick edit, as the majority of the vehicles were 2S3 which you can see in 2S3 Akatsiya [2C3 Акация], Cold War to Ukraine Border Crisis!):
Welcome to borderland hell under the U.S. President, highly incomplete (just the tip of the iceberg) list of videos and links to news/government agency reports as of 28 January 2022:
U.S. Coast Guard District 7 captured 191 illegals from Haiti, about 40 miles southwest of Great Inagua, Bahamas, 25JAN2022.
Photo via Royal Bahamas Defence Force, 23JAN2022.
With the help of a USCG aircraft, Royal Bahamas Defence Force captured a smuggling boat with 88 illegals from Haiti onboard, approximately 23 miles west of Great Inagua, Bahamas, 23JAN2022.
20JAN2022, Canada reports finding four illegals from India frozen to death, they were smuggled in from the United States (see more below in Florida):
On 10JAN2022, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection reported more than 338-thousand “encounters” along the Southwest area of the U.S./Mexico border for the First Quarter of Fiscal 2022!
USCG District 7 photo, 09JAN2022.
On 09JAN2022, the USCG captured a boat packed with illegals from Haiti, about 25 miles northeast of Anguilla Cay, Bahamas. Unconfirmed reports that 176 people were crammed on the smuggling boat!
U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Second Class Danielle Baker, 07JAN2022.
The U.S. Navy’s USS Milwaukee (LCS 5) captured 315 kilograms of cocaine from a ‘go fast vessel’ (GFV), somewhere in the Caribbean, 07JAN2022.
USCG photo by Petty Officer Second Class Ade Gills, 04JAN2022.
On the night of 04JAN2022, the USCG took part in a joint operation with the Royal Moroccan Navy, off the coast of West Africa, capturing a boat overloaded with illegals. Of course, the Biden Administration had this officially reported as a “rescue” in the “U.S. national interests, security, and stability in Europe and Africa.”
ARIZONA: 25JAN2022, Biden resettles 3-hundred Afghan refugees in Scottsdale:
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine silent video of rescue of illegal female, lost and dehydrated in the Baboquivari Mountains, 10JAN2022:
FLORIDA: WPLG says at least 38 people missing, one dead:
USCG District 7 photo via Petty Officer First Class Nicole Groll.
On 27JAN2022, the U.S. Coast Guard halted its search for a reported capsized human smuggling boat, USCG says at least 34 people missing. The USCG was notified of the capsized boat on 25JAN2022.
USCG District 7 video from onboard the search & rescue boat, out of Coast Guard Station Fort Pierce, 26JAN2022:
25JAN2022, U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations notified the U.S. Coast Guard of a human smuggling boat 10 miles south of Long Key. The boat was captured along with one smuggler.
U.S. Coast Guard District 7 photo, 23JAN2022.
23JAN2022, Coast Guard Cutter Charles David Junior reported this suspected human smuggling boat, 13 miles southeast of Marathon. One person in custody on charges of suspected smuggling.
21JAN2022, Canadian officials charge a Florida man with human smuggling, which resulted in four people freezing to death:
USCG photo via Petty Officer First Class Nicole Groll, 07JAN2022.
On 07JAN2022, a USCG HC-144 Ocean Sentry aircrew spotted these homemade boats filled with illegals from Cuba, approximately 60 miles off Marquesas Key.
USCG photo via Petty Officer First Class Nicole Groll, 07JAN2022.
Coast Guard Cutter Charles David Junior intercepted the homemade rafts, which turned out had 33 people onboard, the people were sent back to Cuba.
On 26JAN2022, the USCG cutter Joseph Doyle captured a homemade boat, packed with 55 illegals from Dominican Republic, about 35 nautical miles north of Aguadilla. On 27JAN2022, a total of 94 Dominicans (39 captured in other incidents) were sent back to Dominican Republic.
On 16JAN2022, the USCG District 7 PADET San Juan reported that 90 illegals from Dominican Republic, captured in three separate incidents, were sent back to Dominican Republic.
Department of Public Safety official reacts to the revelation that the federal Transportation Safety Administration is accepting arrest warrants, and deportation orders, as identification allowing illegals to fly on airlines:
Federal government December 2021 data shows illegal border crossings along the U.S./Mexico border higher than previous three Decembers! Biden orders release of illegals from overwhelmed detention centers:
25JAN2022, man pleads guilty to using a coffin to smuggle illegals into the U.S.:
28JAN2022, A24 News Agency report revealing that the recent so-called Islamic State prison break in Syria caused so much collateral damage, during the resulting days-long battle involving ‘Islamic State’, Syrian forces, Kurdish YPG and U.S. Army, that civilians fled to Musab bin Omair mosque and are afraid to return to their homes:
27JAN2022, 4Kurdistan TV video shows Kurdish YPG/U.S. Army ground forces after the ‘islamic state’ prison break inside Syria:
U.S. Army photo by Sergeant First Class Jay Townsend, 28JAN2022.
On 28JAN2022, the U.S. Army Reserve’s 90th Sustainment Brigade, in Arkansas, said good-bye to nearly 1-hundred of its soldiers as they prepared for deployment to Southwest Asia-Central Command Area of Responsibility (CentCom AoR).
U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sergeant Megan Beatty, Ämari Air Base, Estonia, 26JAN2022.
26JAN2022, six F-15E Strike Eagles were deployed from Seymour Johnson Air Force Base(AFB), North Carolina, to Ämari Air Base in the tiny Eastern European country of Estonia.
USAF photo by Staff Sergeant Megan Beatty, 24JAN2022.
24JAN2022, U.S. Air Force personnel from Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina, and Royal Air Force personnel from RAF Lakenheath, England, arrive on Ämari Air Base, Estonia.
24JAN2022, U.S. President Joe Biden alerts 8-thousand-5-hundred stateside personnel of possible deployment to Eastern Europe:
National Guard photo by Captain Titus Firmin, 22JAN2022.
On 22JAN2022, it was revealed that about 50 personnel from both Kansas and Missouri Army National Guards were deploying to somewhere in Southwest Asia (Iraq, Kuwait, ?).
U.S. Army photo by Photo by Staff Sergeant Ashley Dotson, 21JAN2022.
On 21JAN2022, Alpha Company, 553 Division Sustainment Support Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division Sustainment Brigade, held a color casing ceremony on Fort Bliss, Texas, for its deployment to Poland.
20JAN2022, hundreds of Arizona Army National Guard personnel deployed to the border with Mexico:
South Carolina Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Tim Andrews.
16JAN2022, South Carolina Army National Guard deployed about 150 personnel from the 133rd Military Police Company, 51st Military Police Battalion, 59th Troop Command, to Southwest Asia.
15JAN2022, a U.S. Army financial operations unit, from California, deployed to CentCom AoR (Central Command Area of Responsibility: Southwest Asia):
U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Kristin Weathersby, 10JAN2022.
On 10JAN2022, Airman from Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, deployed to Balad Air Base, Iraq.
On 10JAN2022, the U.S. Army’s Automated Movement and Identification Solutions (AMIS) office announced ‘enhancements’ to simplify the logistical process of deployments, such as routing and tracking multiple convoys of the Army National Guard across highway systems. Essentially, the new computer upgrades are meant to prevent traffic jams when massive amounts of military vehicles are being deployed on public roads. AMIS administrators say the enhancements will save time and money. They are planning a future ‘enhancement’ that will allow the military logistics programs to interface with commercial/civilian logistics programs. Supply shortages?
Kentucky Army National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Andy Dickson, 06JAN2022.
06JAN2022, Kentucky Army National Guard deployed 2-hundred of its personnel with the 1st Battalion, 149th Infantry Brigade, to Kosovo. The deployment ceremony was held in a local mega-church.
Kentucky Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Benjamin Crane, 05JAN2022.
05JAN2022, the Kentucky Army National Guard deployed its 198th Military Police Battalion to Kosovo.
Washington National Guard photo by Joseph Siemandel, 05JAN2022.
On 05JAN2022, it was revealed that the state of Washington’s Army National Guard would be deploying to Poland. At least 1-hundred members of the 2nd Battalion, 146th Field Artillery Regiment and 898th Brigade Engineer Battalion are now on Fort Bliss, Texas, for deployment training. This deployment comes just as another Washington Army National Guard unit returned from Ukraine.
Video of Washington National Guard deployment by Peter Change:
U.S. Air Force Photo by Captain Kevyn Kaler, 04JAN2022.
04JAN2022, the U.S. Air Force deployed F-16s, normally based in Germany, to Poland as part of NATO’s increased presence in Eastern Europe. USAF video explainer by Staff Sergeant Melody Howley and Senior Airman Ali Stewart:
Virginia Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Terra C. Gatti, 02JAN2022.
On 02JAN2022, the Virginia Army National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 224th Aviation Regiment, 29th Infantry Division, began their deployment to Kosovo.
Virginia Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Terra C. Gatti, 02JAN2022.
Virginia Army National Guard photo by Sergeant First Class Terra C. Gatti, 02JAN2022.
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hugel, 02JAN2022.
On 02JAN2022, the Oregon Army National Guard’s 1st Squadron, 82nd Cavalry Regiment was deployed to what is being called the European Deterrence Initiative. It should be noted that other Oregon Guard personnel deployed to the Middle East a couple months ago, and the Oregon Guard has also been deployed to local hospitals (yet again)!
Oregon National Guard photo by John Hugel, 02JAN2022.
“We knew we could do it, but it would take a long time. We basically rebuilt the entire front of the A-10 without aided engineering and un-procurable parts that had to be local manufactured.”-Daniel Wise, 571st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron (AMXS)
U.S. Air Force photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 22OCT2021.
By 22OCT2021, repair crews at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, finished more than three years of work returning a crashed A-10 Thunderbolt-2 to life.
Michigan Air National Guard photo by Terry Atwell.
The Michigan Air National Guard thought the warthog could be repaired and contacted the 309th AMXG (aircraft maintenance group) on Hill AFB. 80-0264 arrived on Hill in July 2018.
USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 28SEP2021.
USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 30SEP2021.
The reason why it was sent to Hill AFB is that the A-10 is such a unique, and old aircraft, that parts are hard to find, but many can be locally made on Hill AFB: “A lot of the parts are unavailable so we have to run them through our local manufacturing process and make them ourselves. With any of the other weapons systems, if they have a bad part, they order it through supply and replace it. On the A-10’s, we’re kind of in a different world.”-Scott Oster, 571st AMXS
USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 28SEP2021.
USAF photo by R. Nial Bradshaw, 30SEP2021.
When the 30mm Gatling gun decides to malfunction it causes extensive structural damage inside the nose of the A-10, including the nose wheel well and landing gear: “It was just a whole lot of structural work, like 90%.”-Scott Oster, 571st AMXS
U.S. Air Force Facebook photo, April 2020.
Then, at the beginning of April 2020, another A-10C, this time in Georgia, also made a belly landing on Moody Air Force Base.
Way back in March2008, an A-10 taking part in a Green Flag operation out of Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, had to make a belly landing, and did so on Edwards AFB, California.
Upon closer inspection of the photo, it appears there was a problem with the 30mm gun?
For some unknown reason, for a short time during the Cold War the U.S./NATO called both the BRDM-1 and BRDM-2 the BTR-40.
Warsaw Pact Poland BRDM-2 crossing a river.
BRDM-2 captured by U.S. forces during the invasion of Grenada (Operation Urgent Fury). U.S. Air Force photo by Technical Sergeant Mike Creen, October 1983.
U.S. Marines captured this BRDM-2 during Operation Urgent Fury. U.S. Navy photo by Peter D. Sundberg, October 1983.
BRDM Sagger anti-tank missile version, referred to as the BTR-40 in some Western publications. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated November 1984.
Sagger missile launcher retracted. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated November 1984.
Launcher raised, one Sagger AT-3 onboard. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated November 1984.
A 1987 Czechoslovak film (including 1980s ‘East Bloc’ music) promoting the BRDM-2:
Photo released in the United States in April 1989, BRDM-2s follow behind a BTR-50P.
On display, Fort Irwin, National Training Center, California. U.S. Army photo dated January 1991.
On display, Fort Irwin, National Training Center, California. U.S. Army photo dated January 1991.
The U.S. Army added ‘Fake News’ Spandrel anti-tank missiles to this BRDM. Fort Irwin, National Training Center, California. U.S. Army photo dated January 1991.
Abandoned Iraqi BRDM-2 in Kuwait, during Operation Desert Storm. Apparently it was being used to haul trash. U.S. Department of Defense photo dated February 1991.
Several years after the unofficial Cold War ended, the U.S. Marine Corps was using BRDM-2s in a war game called Kernel Blitz ’97. U.S. Navy photo by Paul Self, 21JUN1997.
In 2014, a BRDM-2 was seen being used as a taxi in Saint Petersburg, Russia:
Russian Western Military District photo, August 2021.
Billions of investor dollars have been pumped into the vaccine maker’s coffers, along with the billions of taxpayer dollars used to purchase the vaccines for so-called free distribution to the public. For the past two years the global economy has been forced, by mandates of various governments, to focus on what has become what I call The Pandemic Industry, but will recent court rulings bring that financial/economic Tower of Babel crashing down?
Here’s an incomplete list of videos and links to reports out of the United States:
January 2022: Investment adviser in New York City says 28% of all U.S. dollars were created in 2020 & 2021 (essentially because of what I call The Pandemic Industry), and that continued government Pandemic focused spending will actually crash the economy for everybody else (he calls it a ‘Cobra Effect’). Also, The Pandemic has been used to hide inflation, which is now painfully obvious:
March 2020: Financial Times explains how much money is spent on (what I call The Pandemic Industry) vaccines:
Individuals in the United States suffering adverse reactions to vaccines need to self-report to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Victims who have done so say it is time consuming and complicated, as if intended to dissuade you from making a report.
Official U.S. government video explanation of ‘no fault’ Childhood NVICP (which also hears cases involving adults):
“Applicants are likely to succeed on the merits of their claim that the Secretary lacked authority to impose the mandate. Administrative agencies are creatures of statute. They accordingly possess only the authority that Congress has provided. The Secretary has ordered 84 million Americans to either obtain a COVID–19 vaccine or undergo weekly medical testing at their own expense. This is no ‘everyday exercise of federal power.’ In re MCP No. 165, 20 F. 4th, at 272 (Sutton, C. J., dissenting). It is instead a significant encroachment into the lives—and health—of a vast number of employees.”–13JAN2022, U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding the U.S. Secretary of Labor’s implementation of Biden’s vaccine mandate
Now, what happens to all those thousands of employers who began removing employees who refused to comply with the now illegal Biden vax mandate? Massive class-action lawsuits, anybody?
Individuals in the United States suffering adverse reactions to vaccines need to self-report to the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program. Victims who have done so say it is time consuming and complicated, as if intended to dissuade you from making a report.
Official U.S. government video explanation of ‘no fault’ Childhood NVICP (which also hears cases involving adults):
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