Hi Clownshack

The analysts at the Global Firepower Index (GFI) incorporate all facets of a country: population, economy, geography, naval forces, etc.

If nuclear-armed Israel is ranked at 15, the GFI analysts have probably considered population size as a factor, meaning the ability to absorb casualties and field reservists. Israel's population and armed forces size is much smaller than Iran's or Turkiye's. In a long term conflict, Iran and Turkiye can outlast many countries.

Also, Israel's high-tech economy may be good at making them money, but that won't help them if those civilians are called into military service.

The Gaza pogrom began taking its toll on their economy.

Israel's maritime capabilities are sufficient for local defense, but for offensive operations far away from port I'm not sure.

Lastly, other countries can survive with embargoes and being cut off from food supplies. Israel might be vulnerable in that respect.

Which countries would drive in food for them? They have angered all their neighbors. Israel had to beg some European countries for help when they had troubling battling wildfires last year.

For similar reasons, non-nuclear powered South Korea is ranked at 5; nuclear-armed North Korea is 31.

The GFI is meant to be a reference tool to quickly get a picture of a country's military power, that's all.

"A group of internal investigators at the giant cryptocurrency exchange Binance made a series of startling discoveries last year. People in Iran had gained access to more than 1,500 accounts on the Binance platform over the previous year. About $1.7 billion had flowed from two Binance accounts to Iranian entities with links to terrorist groups.

Internal warnings about the Iranian transactions surfaced last year, in the months before Dummkopf Trumpf granted a pardon to Binance's founder, mega-goniff Changpeng Zhao, who had spent four months in federal prison in 2024 for his role in the firm's crimes. The Trumpf Crime Family's (TCF) crypto start-up, World Liberty Financial, has forged close business ties with Binance, and the sinister Changpeng Zhao was a guest this month at a conference of avaricious no-goodniks at Mar-a-Lago, the draft dodging geriatric morbidly obese pedophile's gaudy club in Palm Beach, FL. "

~snip~

Along with grotesque mega-oligarchs Felon Musk and Larry Ellison, the nefarious Changpeng Zhao is in close contention to be the "Worst Person in the World."

*** Dummkopf Trumpf Still Mercilessly Bombing Latin Americans in Open Waters ***

This makes at least 150 people murdered by the nefarious Trumpf junta without trial, otherwise known as Extra-Judicial Killing (XJK).

The US has plenty of money to kill people worldwide and at home, but doesn't have the money to give us universal healthcare, as enjoyed by the residents of Germany, Israel, Greenland, Denmark, Canada, Taiwan, the UK, or tiny Albania.

And the belligerent Trumpf junta is stunned as to why Leo XIV, the first American Pope ever, declined an invitation from good-for-nothing VPOTUS JD Vance to celebrate America250 with us.

Really?

In terms of global military firepower, Iran is ranked 16 out of 145 countries.

Neighboring Turkiye is ranked 9/145.

American taxpayer-funded nuclear power Israel is ranked 15/145.

Poor Venezuela was ranked 51/145.

"Ryan Schwank, who resigned from his job at an ICE academy in Georgia last week, told congressional Democrats at a hearing that the agency eliminated 240 hours of "vital classes" from a mandatory 580-hour training program, including instruction about the legal boundaries for the use of force, how to safely handle firearms, and the proper way to detain and arrest immigrants.

"Law enforcement is a deadly serious business. It is not a place for shortcuts," Schwank said. "Deficient training can and will get people killed. ... ICE is lying to Congress and the American people about the steps it is taking to ensure that 12,000 officers can faithfully uphold the Constitution and perform their jobs."

Ahead of the hearing, Schwank provided a joint panel of House and Senate Democrats copies of internal ICE documents that he said show the extent of the cuts. The documents indicated that the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers (FLETC) in Glynco, Georgia, shortened its training program from 72 days to 42 days.

Several of the lawmakers repeated calls for D/DHS Secretary Kristi L. Noem to resign or be impeached."

~snip~

As a double graduate of FLETC from decades ago (uniformed and criminal investigator), I can tell you that Constitutional Law training was stressed. In fact, we helped the "Tackleberries" in our class study with index cards before the final test. One of my friends (a former US Army Ranger and Special Forces NCO), who was already an expert with firing weapons and hand-to-hand combat, was terrified of the final exam on Constitutional Law. So, we studied together. After the test results were handed out, we looked at each other in the classroom. "Whew!" 70!" he signaled me. For the final exam where we were tested in non-compliant arrests and other mischief, the "Tacklelberries" in turn would partner up with us bookworms. "Whew! Pass!" I signaled to my friend.

Nota Bene: Thanks to Kashyap Pramod Vinod Patel, the once rigorous four-month long plus FBI Academy was similarly shortened to a scant eight weeks and a college degree is no longer required. Today, enlisted US Army MPs receive more training than FBI Special Agents. If I were to apply to NYC DOI or any agency for a position, I would ask for a non-lethal sidearm and emphasize that I underwent undiluted training and not this "here's your gun and badge, go get'em cowboy training" we see today.

And his Chicken Vindaloo (five out of five spicy). Biriyani rice, and Chala Masals.

Yum!

The late actor Robert Duvall and Sean Penn played in a movie last century about the LAPD and gangs.

The cops that brandish tattoos today are basically uniformed gang members, like ICE.

LA county correctional officers ran gladiator fights between juvenile detainees.

Those of you old enough to remember the British "Profumo affair" and the "Cambridge Five" scandals will see this Epstein fandango will be just as damaging. But the "Profumo affair" helped to topple Harold Macmillan's Conservative government.

UK PM Keir Starmer (Labor Party) may survive a no confidence vote if the Serious Crimes Office, now called the National Crime Agency (NCA), nets more Royals and Lords and other highly-placed muckety-mucks.

And right now the UK needs a solid anti-Kremlin government to help Ukraine and counter Vladimir Putin.

Epstein's nefarious empire is damaging the West five years after he somehow killed himself in near impossible conditions in his secure cell in the MCC.

Virulent antisemites will jump all over this and bray that Epstein's lucrative and sinister enterprise was a grand "Jewish conspiracy."

That might explain why USAG Merrick Garland, an Ashkenazi Jew, inexplicably sat on these explosive and gravely damaging files from 21 Jan 2021 to 19 Jan 2025.

But there are millions of Jews NOT involved in this sordid espionage affair, to wit: US Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), House Democrat Jerry Nadler (D-NY), Ukraine President Volodomir Zelensky, Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum, ex-NYC Comptroller Brad Lander, and my fellow New Yorkers.

*** Gigolo Corey Lewandowski Entered Cockpit of DHS Jet Before Firing Pilot For Misplacing Strumpet Kristi Noem's Blanket ***

"Top US DHS aide good-for-nothing Corey Lewandowski entered the cockpit of a government jet uninvited during a flight last year, after which he fired a pilot over a misplaced blanket. Lewandowski, a long-time ally of Dummkopf Trumpf, was traveling with the inhuman D/DHS Kristi Noem when they discovered her blanket was missing."

"Lord" Mandelson.

Hmph.

There is a book titled The Unravelling about sexual lunatics and incest.

Today we are witnessing a slow unravelling of a blackmail-extortion-influence peddling enterprise linked to the Mossad.

AIPAC-ers like Josh Moskowitz (D-FL) or Alan Dershowitz will deflect and say the Russians are involved too.

Could be.

Israeli organized crime extends into Russa and the Russian mafia contains Chechens and Jews.

Money is money.

But the central figures are indisputably Jeffrey Epstein, who had the Mossad secure his Upper Eastside manse, and the repugnant Ghislaine Maxwell.

You could start to tell $#!+ was fcnked by Spring 2024

#3 | Posted by hamburglar at 2026-02-23 05:37 AM | Reply | Flag: Indeed. A Likudnik maniac said to drop a nuke on the Palestinians in Gaza

In the summer of 2024 , I calculated with pen and paper the IDF would kill 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza before 1 Jan 2025.

I was pretty close, but a little off. Then I added the +3,000 Arabs killed in Lebanon and I reached ~50,000.

Basically the Middle East has become Arab Killing Zones (AKZ) for the IDF: AKZ-Gaza, AKZ-West Bank, AKZ-Lebanon, AKZ-Syria, AKZ-Iran (Persian), AKZ-Yemen, AKZ-Somalia (Schwarzers).

And Dummkopf Trumpf has been continually bombing the Somalis. Each Hellfire missile or Reaper drone is expensive, so the hardworking American taxpayer continues enriching the oligarchs in the US Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) while making America enemies in the Middle East.

Worse, the USG has plenty of money for Murder-Death-Kill in USCENTCOM AOR, but not for our healthcare.

Republican Party = Police State.

Police State = Republican Party.

The erudite and calm Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum was forced to imprudently act against the drug cartels because of pressure from the bellicose Trumpf junta. She holds Mexican sovereignty sacrosanct as she is trying to uplift her people from poverty. But now these anti-cartel operations (with US intelligence support) are threatening the FIFA games in Mexico.

Oy, gevalt, what a creepy looking deviant.

Blech.

America is certainly on the right track.

Years ago, Israel's excellent hospitals treated wounded Muslim guerillas fighting Bashar al-Assad.

"They'll never come for me...."

And this ICE detainee comes from Morocco, a monarchy with a mukhabarat.

83 Not Jewish college kids:

#87 | Posted by A_Friend at 2026-02-23 02:36 PM | Reply | Flag:

D/Mossad David Barnea and the Likud junta successfully negotiated with Palestinian resistance fighters for the release of Israeli hostages and three prisoner exchanges were conducted in late 2023.

The whole purpose of the 7 Oct 2023 raid was to capture as many prisoners as possible since the IDF was holding thousands of Palestinians in security detention without a hearing or even being formally charged with a crime, other than being a Palestinian male of military age (MAM).

In the US, there is no negotiating with these "no replacement Nazis" who will happily put us into ovens.

And his name sounds like a porn actor:

"....starring Bo French and Carlos Danger in...."

Hah!

Trumpf said last June that the US had "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program and 4 days ago he said that Iran's nuclear potential had been "totally decimated".
So he's trying to force them into an agreement over a nuclear program that he claims they do not have?

#8 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-02-23 03:14 PM | Reply | Flag:Yup