President Trump approved an offensive cyberstrike that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches, reports The Washington Post.
The cyberstrikes were launched Thursday night by personnel with U.S. Cyber Command, according to The Post.
The administration on Saturday warned industry officials to be alert for retaliatory cyberattacks originating from Iran.
The digital strike was an example, according to Post sources, of what national security adviser John Bolton meant when he suggested recently that the United States is stepping up offensive cyber activity. “We’re now opening the aperture, broadening the areas we’re prepared to act in,” Bolton said at a Wall Street Journal conference. -RW
If someone make a credible threat, then according to libertarian code, you may response in self-defense. The cyber strike is an act of self-defense.
ReplyDeleteThe point is who started this mess...a long time ago. You’re like the blind man who touches only the elephant’s tale and describes the animal as such.
DeleteFreedom Mom, if I trespass onto your property and you throw a rock at me, telling me to get the hell off, that does not justify your throwing a rock back at me.
DeleteFreedom mom, we have been waiting for a “credible threat” to show itself since Saddam’s weapons of mass destruction.
DeleteTo say Iran, is any threat to the military power of the US, is laughable. Bring the troops home. Start trading with Iran, buy their oil, see how fast that narrative flips.
In another thread, replying to Wenzel's reference to Trump as a flip-flopper, seanot said, "It's easy to flip positions when there is no principle behind your decisions."
ReplyDeleteseanot is correct. Trump has no philosophy, ideology or worldview to guide him - he just sticks his finger in the wind and makes things up as he goes.
But that's what amazes me about his supporters. He has flip-flopped on so many positions, issues and people that it's amazing that his supporters aren't fleeing in droves. Obviously a cult of personality, since it's just not possible for the average person to hold to so many contradictory positions at the same time.
Although there may be a silver lining in this. It may be that the Trump supporters, while recognizing his inconsistencies, still see him as our only chance to throw off the chains of the Deep State (without realizing Trump has either acquiesced to it or is in outright submission to it - with the occasional right choice like calling off the bombing of Iran.) This could indicate that a large number of people in this country are at least somewhat aware of the Deep State/The Establishment/The Invisible Government but just don't know what to do about it. With their simplistic understanding of world affairs, politics, economics, etc. (often no more than choosing between an R or D), they are ripe for educating. This is our chance to make them an-caps.
In Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1841), Charles Mackay said, "Men...go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."
So use his calling off the strike force and the subsequent furor of the war-hungry neocons as an opportunity to acquaint your friends and neighbors with the Ron Paul Institute and the Liberty Report, the writings of Laurence Vance, Randolph Bourne's War is the Health of the State, Smedley Butler's War is a Racket, Target Liberty, lewrockwell.com, The Tom Woods Show and an occasional Tucker Carlson monologue or interview. Take advantage of Trump's brinkmanship.
http://ronpaulinstitute.org/
http://www.ronpaullibertyreport.com/
https://www.lewrockwell.com/author/laurence-m-vance/
https://www.bigeye.com/warstate.htm
https://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html
https://www.targetliberty.com/
https://www.lewrockwell.com/
https://tomwoods.com/podcasts/
"President Trump approved an offensive cyberstrike that disabled Iranian computer systems used to control rocket and missile launches..."
ReplyDeleteOr, the cyberstrike gave the US government the ability to launch an Iranian missile to create a false flag which provides the warmongers with a stronger reason to go to war.
NAPster, that is an interesting insight. That has to be a possibility.
DeleteHe broke SA. He broke NK. Pretty sure he's on the verge of breaking Iran too. He's not a conman; he's a poker player. He's skilled in game theory, the percentages, psychology and tactics. Guys this is the 3rd time we're watching this same movie. 4th if you count his half-hearted "attack" in Syria. The decision for war comes from Iran. If they want war, they'll get one. If they don't, they won't. No more bullshit, time to show your cards or fold. CIA guy dead in NK (Kim's half brother). CIA guy dead in Iran. Pretty sure they got high profile ones in SA and Syria too.
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