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Decades ago I personally worked with someone at DIA who would later become D/NCTC after I retired: media.executivegov.com

Christy Abizaid, daughter of the famous US Army general, was a terrific athlete and a clever and popular person.

Appointed by POTUS Joe Biden, Christy was the first woman and first openly gay person to hold the position of D/NCTC.

Today, she would not recognize NCTC, DIA, or the rest of the USIC for that matter, all thanks to Dummkopf Trumpf and his coterie of misfits, sycophants, and Islamophobes.

Here is an excellent break down of the situation, there are issues with this overview.
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The US is in a bubble, the culture has ensconced you while everything in the RoW is changing.
The US is running on the momentum from the 1950s.

The US political infighting isn't going to help, you're actually part of the problem.

Time and again I have said that my opinion about Jan 6 is, simply, the break-in would not have occurred were it not for mail-in ballots used extensively due to COVID. It created widespread doubt in the election results. And I am f****** tired of people saying the only reason anyone thought that is because of Trump. That is a stupid assertion. People are plenty capable of thinking without Trump or the GOP telling them what to think.
TH: You are absolutely wrong. IF Piggy and his minions had simply accepted the results like every other losing presidential candidate in our nation's history, then NOTHING would have happened. There would have been NO mistrust of mail-in ballots because the only reason there IS mistrust over mail-in ballots is because Piggy and the right wing minions lied about them for months.

That being said, mailing ballots to all registered voters and then sending uncounted completed ballots back through the mail is a disaster waiting to happen. Small scale, such as absentee ballots, will not likely create mass hysteria such as what could happen on a larger scale if ballots did get lost or destroyed (accidentally or on purpose).

TH: Not it is not a disaster waiting to happen. The system is set up to monitor each and every ballot. Each ballot is uniquely identified, and each ballot is signed and that signature is compared to the signature on the registration, like you do in person. Since the ballot is individually identified then the ballot can be tracked from sending to receipt back. Each individual can confirm that their ballot was received and counted.

A disaster cannot happen.
That is a simple fact, that only simpletons don't understand

The Iranians, descendants of ancient Persia who brought the world chess and distinct musical syncopations, are not a stupid people.

Years ago an Iranian professor who studied and taught political science in Texas would appear on al-Jazeera's "Inside Story" from Iran. He was, incidentally, a loyal Dallas Cowboys fan. People like him advise Tehran about America and our election cycles.

Like 2024, 2026 may also be decided by America and Israel's Islamophobic misadventures in the Middle East.

Iran's multi-decade isolation by the West and constant threat of attack from Israel have informed their military-industrial complex to stockpile drones, rockets, and missiles. Iran produces so many drones that they sell them to Russia.

Without access to the numbers, I daresay Iran can probably continue launching drones and rockets at targets throughout the Middle East and outlast US and Israeli interceptor systems. Israel already reported a shortage of Arrow-3 interceptors.

Iran will continue counterattacking to hurt the Western economies (which they were kicked out of anyway).

Nota Bene: The Bosnian Serb Army was initially running roughshod over the Bosnian Army in the 1992-95 Civil War, suffering fewer casualties than the Bosniaks. After the BiH Army was armed with Western armaments and the Bosnian Croats allied with them, Bosnian Serb casualties started to mount and the war started to become unpopular with Serbian families back home. This helped bring them to the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA).

As a DPA Compliance Monitor, I met a Bosnian Serb military veteran who rolled up his shirt and showed me several bullet hole scars on his torso, just like the Preacher in the film Pale Rider. I was astounded he was alive. This Serb was the angriest man I ever came across during my several missions to the Balkans.

"Look! Look at me! And still the Bosnian Serb government doesn't send me money or someone to help me after all the promises they made to me and everything I went through! Look at my hut! See how I live? Ptooey!"

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