cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/11251740
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“Sadly, mass-casualty terrorist ambition endures… but the terrorist threat now sits alongside strategic national security threats posed by capable states,” [says Sir Ken McCallum, the head of Britain’s security agency MI5].
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{On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the U.S.], McCallum warns particularly of Russia and China as well as of ‘islamic terrorism’.
"This is my call to arms after 25 years: government, business, academia, and the public must treat national security not as the specialist concern of a handful of agencies, but as a shared national endeavour.”
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The threat level in the UK is currently at severe, the second-highest category, meaning that an attack is highly likely. Commemorations for the 2,977 people who died in 9/11 will be marked around the world, remembering the day the world changed.
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Russia’s hybrid war against the West and China’s competition over minerals and trade routes have led to increasing calls for a “whole nation” response rather than a reliance on the security services and armed forces for protection and survival.
He writes: “Contending with rising state-backed aggression – whether sabotage subcontracted to criminals, or covert interference in our democracy, or destructive cyber attacks on power stations – demands new laws as well as new tradecraft.”
Russia has used the full spectrum of attacks that he refers to against the UK in the past 15 years as well as state-sponsored murder.
“We cannot wait for the next shock to discover who owns the vulnerability, who has the authority to act, or who was supposed to pick up the phone.”
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The momentum allowed for the Iraq war and the takeover of everything in that region but Iran.
Afghanistan built dams and controls an important water source for Iran.
So, it worked out ok so far. I think after the midterms we will see how much of an obstacle Iran is.
But China will take over the global economy if nobody stops them. So we will start that war. We are preparing for it and use the Russian threat as cover.
Allowed for the destabilising of the region and US bases are now empty due to Iran’s missile capabilities.
And the Taliban are back in power in Afghanistan lol, imagine painting that as some strategic win
China isn’t expansionary, they just seem like the reliable partner right now as USA achieves historic aura loss from Iran war and shits on its allies. US isolationism failed last time it tried it.
Iran isn’t an obstacle, it’s a cluster fuck of the highest order
After the sudden victory in Syria I don’t write off America from that setback with Iran. We don’t know the objectives.
That’s why there will be war. The West will lose global control otherwise.
We do know the objectives, every Israeli prime minister for 30 years has been asking the US to do this. None of them have been stupid enough to believe it would be a simple in and out job, 2 weeks special military operation lol.
US has given up the rules based order. It’s a multi polar world now. US just wants the western hemisphere.