Sunday, April 21, 2013

Boston Marathon Hoax? Or Financial Op!



So many anomalies and no investigative reporters

8 November 2023

Given the amount of False Flag Propaganda
in our News Media today, I am revisiting 
previous False Flag operations to pick 
them apart in professional analyses
to help you understand how the 
Deep State operates to instill
 FEAR and LOATHING!

I'll start with the Boston Bombing today and 
work through a few of these 
False Flag ops for you.



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Dateline: 6 June 2020:



We are reposting this blog commentary in light of the latest attempts to create 
more chaos by Soros/Mossad activists.  We've watched a steady progression of 
staged Terrorist CRISES take place, with complicit 
Media and local government Press Releases.

It happened again with the George Floyd staged-death by a Crisis Actor videoed 
"killing poor George" [who actually died 30 years ago].  Today, that staged event 
is the basis for a mass protest at the White House, with organizers
 demanding the White House be STORMED.

The objective is to have innocents injured or killed so the public's outrage 
can be exploited still more..  You likely remember Boston; 
this 2013 blog reveals the scam that shook the nation, and 
set the stage for subsequent False Flags
and more demands for "Gun Control".


-------2015----------


This is a reposting of the original blog post from 2013 
as we update our analysis and assessment, and add some 
new factors which add to the questionable aspects of this
event, and add several financial factors we overlooked in 
the original analysis.  We've highlighted the new material 
and emphasized key issues in Red for your quick review.

We will review each of our posts on Mass Shootings and 
other horrors which are either False Flag, or, manipulations
of individuals under psychological or psychiatric care.

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The more reports we read on the Boston Bombing, the less sense the Official reports make.
The "official" reports need to be consistent, but they are not.  
[Our next door neighbor was a participant in this "marathon, but saw no actual injured runners.]

Editorial Disclosure: 
We'll present our critique of this event in several segments from the personal experience standpoint of having been, in succession, an Army Sapper, an Intelligence Operative, an MI Special Agent with experience in [successful] counter-terrorist operations, commander of an MI unit which created and conducted Command Post and Counter-Terrorist training exercises with "role players", an investigator of national security issues, a strategic analyst at the Pentagon and the State Department, and, the Director of global Intelligence operations [DCS]. 

[Thus, we can dispense with petty sniping from those whose experience is based on X-Box games or having watched episodes of Keifer Sutherland's nonsense program "24".]



No Motive; Just Convenient Fall Guys
"The hoax" story line: 
The basic story of the Boston Bombing is that two Chechen young men emplaced two pressure cooker IEDs packed with ball bearings and nails near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.  
They then reportedly detonated the bombs, likely using remote controls with batteries, causing injuries to runners and bystanders, killing three. That scenario has now been expanded to claim the two perps were part of a 12-man "sleeper cell" 
[never subsequently proven or ever validated]


1) Photos from mounted cameras as well as bystanders showing the explosions and various suspicious characters were distributed to the Media and on the Internet. 

2) Photos showing the two "perps", one wearing a white baseball cap, were distributed in short order. 

3) Suspicious characters were detained and questioned; among them a Saudi national who was
    quickly released and shipped off to Ryadh.  Rumors now claim he was part of the "sleeper cell". 


 DHS Crisis Actors, Perps, Fall Guys ?

    a) Two persons of interest
        appeared to be Navy
        SEALs assigned to the
        Exercise.  
        
       The leaks may have been
       intended to make SEALs
       the fall guys.

 [Of note is the number of SEALs who have died mysteriously since their hit on Osama bin Laden]

 b)  DHS denied their nearby 
      simultaneous Exercise 
      included the Marathon.

c)  Spectators stated there were
     repeated Marathon
     announcements about a
     "Security Exercise" and
     they should not be concerned
     by bomb-sniffing dogs or 
     security personnel. 

[Notably, the bomb-sniffing dogs did not detect any bombs
Real bombs? Detonated later?







 d)  The Boston Globe




"There will be a controlled explosion opposite the library within one minute as 
part of bomb squad activities"










4) The perps, supposedly after months of meticulous planning and preparation, now, in the midst of a massive police, FBI, and DHS presence, rob, without motive, a convenience store in their own neighborhood where they are identifies as "known residents"?

            and,  

They inexplicably shoot/kill a campus police officer? 
drawing the attention of the entire Law Enforcement Community to them?    


5) The perps, who lived nearbv, reportedly then car-jack a vehicle, the owner of which states that he saw them "light a fuse" on a pressure cooker!  [after the bombing event!]


Deadly Firecrackers?

6)
The police reportedly [according to our News Media] conduct a high speed chase, during which shots are fired, and the perps toss bombs out the vehicle window
 [Were those "cherry bomb" firecrackers?]

Cherry bombs range in size from 3/4 to 1.5 inches in diameter.






Police "shoot-out" with the perps
[no need to hide behind the vehicles during a shoot-out if everyone fires blanks]


7) The Police have a shoot-out with the perps, killing the older perp, 
     and wounding the younger one.

8) Audio of the shoot-out sounds like what one would hear on an Army shooting range; i.e., evenly spaced pistol shots, one at a time, followed by a rifle shot, then followed by dozens of weapons being fired simultaneously, as if every armed law enforcement officer felt compelled to empty his weapon!  

[At the Army shooting range, this was called the Magic Minute when all the remaining ammunition was fired at the end of the training period]


IR Photo of Perp hiding in Boston boat;
[it was the only boat surveilled
8)  The police discover the younger perp hiding in a covered boat parked in the backyard of a Boston citizen, 
Police discovered the wounded lad in the boat, although the perp was not visible, and there were no blood trails leading to the boat, or any reason the boat's owner would inspect the boat since he was supposedly out for a smoke.


[Once that anomaly had been pointed out, DHS quickly posted an InfraRed [IR] photo of a boat with a human form in it.  No confirmation that it was the perp or even the boat in question, but, it satisfied "inquiring minds".]



Now, let's look at the Pressure Cooker IEDs/bombs.

We'll return later to the overall scenario, which we liken to an amateurish [i.e., Sean Penn] Hollywood script rather than a realistic account of the event.  We'll examine the entire scenario piecemeal to highlight all the discrepancies in the "official" version of this latest "terrorist" event.

Of late, there is an official report that the perp's car-jacked a vehicle, and the owner stated that one of the perps "lit the fuse" on a pressure cooker.  If the pressure cooker bombs used timers and batteries for detonation, it likely would not make sense to "light a fuse" on such a device, unless the bombers wished to blow themselves up.  {The other question is "where would the fuse fit?]

It's possible the perp was lighting a fuse on a small IED [Improvised Explosive Device], e.g., CO2 cartridge with a drilled top; but, that would be tiny compared with a "pressure cooker" bomb; so, even a person completely ignorant of such things could tell the difference between a bomb the size of a small radish vs one the size of a pumpkin.  

But, such small IEDs would tie to the official accounts that the perps were tossing bombs out the window of the car during the high speed chase.  Or, maybe it was written into the script.



For the moment, let's address the 
pressure cooker IED issues:

Post explosion Pressure Cooker
[No Holes]

1) The recovered cooker was bent, but had no holes, large or small, which would be normal in a shrapnel producing IED container.

2) The lid of the cooker was found on top of a nearby building, indicating it was placed and detonated upright, which would indicate a blast throwing shrapnel outward and upward, not laterally, causing upper body injuries - at worst!  

Although, no such injuries were reported.






Claymore being positioned


3) To have caused the reported injuries, the actual blast would have been directional, as in a Claymore, which distributes shrapnel at ground level, inflicting damage on lower body extremities [i.e., legs].








Will this fit in your backpack?


4)  Cookers are too large to fit easily into backpacks.

5)  Backpacks stuffed with a cooker and left in place would be vulnerable to pedestrians kicking or tripping over them; or, possibly removal by event attendees, or petty thieves. 

New reports claim the perps placed the bombs only minutes before the detonations, whereas original reporting claimed the bombs had been pre-positioned hours before.





These instructions in al Qaeda magazine Inspire 
are drawn from the 
Anarchist's Cookbook produced in 1971
by William Powell of the 
Weather Underground,
led by 
Bill Ayers - Mr Obama's business partner in Chicago,
and a 
self-proclaimed terrorist.



20 Runners visible; No flag movement on right;
no officials or police injured;
no shrapnel?  No head wounds!
But, hundreds were injured?


a cooker would have created a more rounded effect with flags closest bent outward severely, while peripheral flags would show decreasing degrees of bending with distance from the blast.

NOTE: The flags on the right side of the photo show no movement.

Notably, the explosion blew the flags, but apparently no shrapnel; otherwise, the officials in yellow shirts near the blue barriers would have been ripped apart.  Instead, they're quite casual.  In total, at the time of the blast, there were only 20 visible runners [count them] 
who could have been injured or killed by the shrapnel blast.
[Was there any shrapnel?  
How were "hundreds" injured if there were only 20 runners near the blast?  
And, 
why were no officials [yellow jackets] injured/killed?]


But, we digress; back to the official account of this amazing event.
One conclusion would be the placement of "cookers" to create smoke and noise, while, the actual IED would be a Claymore mine, easily packed into a backpack with multiple means of detonation.

The majority of those reportedly treated at nearby hospitals had wounds to the lower body/extremities, consistent with the directional Claymore, but, inconsistent with the pressure cooker IED.

We do not challenge the fact that this event occurred in some fashion, nor do we challenge the fact that the Chechens were involved in some way [more likely hired as "Crisis Actors" for the DHS].  Unfortunately, one perp is dead, the other is severely wounded and unavailable for comment or interrogation. 

Were the perps "role players"?

A scenario presented is that the Chechens were hired as part of the DHS security exercise, and so they expected to be rounded up as part of the exercise -- thus they wore distinctive white  baseball caps as an easy Exercise identifier, 
and the videos of the Perps placing bags near the finish line; 
and the carjacking of a witness 
    [who reportedly described in detail their plans to attack New York City before he was released].

[That would fit nicely into a training script for analysts to follow]



But, the main flaw [among so many] in the official story remains the pressure cooker; it is displayed as evidence but bears no validating signature [i.e., puncture holes from shrapnel], indicating it may have held explosives, but no shrapnel.

That would account for the vertical plumes of smoke; and it would tie to the Boston Globe's Tweet of an imminent "Exercise" bomb blast 
-- perhaps validating the theory these Chechens were hired as role players, or  set-up as fall guys


Arms Tech, Ltd  MM-1 Directional [Claymore] Mine
As to the reported injuries/deaths of runners and spectators, it would make sense to examine the lateral blast pattern of military Claymore mines as an explanation for all those lower body wounds on spectators and runners. 

So, where did those Claymores come from?

Military Claymores [8.5"x 5" x 1.5"] have an effective range of about 150 feet, but a smaller version [see photo] would be more likely.  This one is small [5" x 3" x 1.5"], weighing about two pounds - with about 400 steel balls.  Kill radius is about 50 feet with a swath of 16 feet, targeting the lower body.

But, the Claymore Mine, had one actually been used, would have explained the lower body injuries suffered by those reportedly maimed by the otherwise harmless [DHS Training] blast mentioned in the email

Most intriguing is the totally incongruous hold-up of a convenience store, the shooting of the campus police officer, and the car-jacking -- which suddenly recast the Chechens from role players to "perps" -- ending in a real shoot-out with law enforcement officers who presumed they were dealing with real terrorists.

The latest twist on this convoluted story is that the two Chechen youths were a part of a 12-man "sleeper cell".  So, now, the scenario has been created by which DHS can rationalize imposing national police powers in their regional -- or even national search for terrorists. There are precedents for such scenarios, particularly with the FBI.

There is also the Israeli Intelligence take on this event, claiming the Chechen brothers were double agents, trained by the FBI/DHS to penetrate al Qaeda terrorist cells -- but who were doubled by al Qaeda into carrying out an actual attack.  Something to consider, but we suspect there is considerable fiction wrapped provided by Mossad.

Could this be a prelude to suspensions of your rights as DHS invokes the provisions of the Patriot Act and the NDAA as they pursue "terrorists."  
This will not end well.


The official accounts continue to be anomalous; and so far, we can only assume this scenario was created as a Hollywood movie script, complete with role players -- and live victims.

We've retrieved some of the published material revealing Crisis Actors preparing for the "explosion" and subsequent to the explosion with the full make-up required for the news cameras.  There was a wealth of such information on the Internet not long after the bombing event, but much has been deleted by our Internet censors.  Here's a few that escaped censorship - although I suspect they will disappear soon enough.




Surgeons advise that, if this were an actual casualty,
[instead of a Crisis Actor amputee
his wounds would have bled out within 3 minutes since both arteries would have drained his entire blood supply.





Crisis Actors are in steady demand: 


















Did George really die?  

Or, was this another staged event to defund the police?







https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x320532
[DailyMotion analysis of Boston Marathon hoax]


https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2px79s 
[CNN interviews same witness of both Boston Marathon bombing and Watertown Shooting 4 days later]



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UPDATE:


This is another attempt to update this blogpost with new material.
My previous attempt was mysteriously censored, eliminating the following material, 
which again is posted for your edification. [I'll address the censorship of 
G00GLE and Facebook in a future blog and invite closer scrutiny
 of both by [the next Trump era] federal authorities.

So, why am I re-examining this event which most experienced observers view as a hoax? 

Well, one of our more astute followers highlighted financially significant events which coincided with this news-consuming event. 

1) It seems [then] President Obama's henchmen were busy at work rewriting legislation, or rather, editing the legislation called the Stock Act [2012], removing these key restrictive elements:
  
   a)  Searchable, sortable disclosure of information contained in reports, even of Congress, 
        the President, the Vice President, Cabinet Officers, and Congress, to include the dates
        of such reports or transactions.

   b) Requirements for electronic filing for Congress, the President, the Vice President, the
       Cabinet, Congress, Congressional Candidates, 
        AND 
    c) High-level Executive and Congressional Branch employees/appointees.  
    d) Even the images of staffers' filing won't be available for viewing on the Internet or web sites.



What does this mean?
No Transparency or Watchdog accountability

Essentially, INSIDER INFORMATION employed by federal officials, elected or appointed, or employees, would no longer be transparent.  This class of The Swamp [or the Deep State] would be able to "play the Market" with full knowledge of an impending crisis [e.g., the Boston Marathon Bombing],  selling stocks ahead of the event knowing the Market would plummet, and then buy back their shares after the event at rock bottom prices.


So, what occurred on the day of the Boston Bombing?

1)  The DJ Industrial Average plummeted, finally rebounding with a Point Loss of only a 265. 
     Trading volume was up significantly before the Boston Bombing, followed by a selling spree
      after the bombing.  [Insider trading?]

2)  Gold and Silver prices plummeted to their lowest price since the 1980s.

3)  Boston Marathon bombing event:                 [ 15April 2013    2:49 PM]  
-- Obama  signed the Stock Act Reversal.   [15April 2013 -- 1:15 PM]
    protecting all those Insider Traders.  

 There would be merit to subpoena the trading records of all DHS, FBI, Boston/Massachusetts officials, Senators, Congressional Reps, and those of Vice President Biden and President Obama in that time frame to determine who was involved in Insider Trading, based on fore-knowledge of the staged Marathon Marathon bombing.

While we're at it, examine the stock trading of Congress, the Bush Family (and associates), senior Defense/Military officers (e.g., MG Singlaub), the NYC Fire Chief, 

[In a crisis, always follow the money]


Saturday, April 6, 2013

Social Security for Illegals?



 Click here for related article [Washington Post]

The Washington Post today published a heart-rending article on the unease and near-panic of Marcelo, [Not Further Identified (NFI)] age 46, a Maryland construction worker who is approaching retirement age. 

He fears that, due to current Social Security legislation, he won't be eligible for those retirement benefits; but, he, and the Post are looking forward to a package of Social Security benefit for Marcelo and folks just like him -- i.e., hard-working, undocumented [aka: illegal] laborers who don't pay into the Social Security system, but who expect to reap its benefits.

The Post story [written by Tara Bahrampour, who refers to herself as The Iranian] notes critically that all those Social Security benefits will evaporate as 78 million greedy  Baby Boomers cash in on this bundle of benefits for which they are so undeserving.  

Now, the fact that most of those Boomers [like yours truly] each added hundreds of thousands of dollars to this program over their working lifetimes of employment is apparently irrelevant. 
[Babyboomersretirementnetwork.com]
 
To clarify, Social Security has been funded since its inception by people who worked in the US and contributed a portion of their salaries each pay period.  It wasn't meant as a retirement fund initially, but merely as a buffer -- just in case.  Generally speaking, most Boomers never really intended to draw on this fund since they had invested wisely and had substantial retirement assets -- until 2008. 


You may remember 2008 as the year in which all the scheming by Wall Street financiers [the 30-somethings] created "derivative packages" which were bought by mutual funds, retirement funds, and various investment houses.  

When the unregulated [read Barney Frank] financial system collapsed, so too did the retirement programs in which the Boomers had heavily contributed.  

The culprits?  Wall Street, to include Goldman Sachs and AIG, and their 30-Something coke-snorting traders who disdained the Boomers as "suckers."


So, the Social Security fund, which most Boomers never expected to have to tap into, suddenly became a lifeline, salvaging mortgages, health care co-pays, and food.

But, we digress.
 
It seems that our Liberal establishment [e.g., the Washington Post (owned by Limousine Liberals)] feels the money in the Social Security fund should instead go to immigrants who need the money far more than the Boomers, whom they imply are useless wastrels who would spend their benefits on food, housing, and increasingly expensive ObamaCare co-pays [and, of course, student loan payments their adult children are no longer able to make as they are now unemployed or underemployed]. 

After all, those Boomers, being used to sacrifice and hard work over the last 50 years or so, will likely vote Conservative in an effort to block Mr Obama's Socialist program which promises to emulate the success of Hugo Chavez's Venezuelan economy; whereas, the undocumented [aka: illegal] aliens, when [note that is NOT an IF] are granted US citizenship, will vote for the Democratic ticket which will increase spending on benefits for our newest "citizens" and their extended families.

But, as Ms Bahrampour notes:  

"Some [NFI] argue that if undocumented [aka: illegal] immigrants are allowed to live and work here legally, they will contribute more";

or, in that status, they will likely continue their practice of sending most of their earnings back to their home countries for the benefit of their home governments and their extended families -- who will spend that money as local consumers [i.e., outside the US] and thus contribute nothing to the US economy. [Ever wonder how China was able to accumulate so much US currency? Millions of Chinese working in the US transferring billions of dollars every year to their extended families back home.]
Will illegals soon have the vote -- and decide our laws?
 

However, while these illegal workers are here, they send their kids to US schools, demand that their kids be allowed to attend US colleges [with scholarships], and inhabit our hospital Emergency Rooms -- for lack of medical insurance, forcing the hospitals and medical practitioners to increase their fees for legal, paying patients.  


And, let's not forget that illegals make up a majority of our prison population, having been arrested for a wide variety of crimes far beyond their lack of documentation.



Proud to now be Americans!
 

Unaddressed in Ms Bahrampour's heart-wrenching article is the issue of all the documented immigrants [aka: LEGAL] who live and work legally in the US, pay taxes, pay into Social Security, and spend their earnings in the US, thus benefiting the US economy, and enhancing the overall health of the US.


Now, we wonder if Ms Bahrampour's parents might have been part of the wave of Iranian immigrants who arrived as "students" and stayed on -- indefinitely.  So, perhaps she writes from an unusual perspective.

 


Administration professional hand-wringers seem to feel that the only ways to alleviate this Social Security shortfall would be to 
  1. Increase taxes
  2. Increase FICA deductions
  3. Increase the age of eligibility for SS recipients [except for undocumented (aka: illegal) immigrants]
  4. Reduce the benefits of SS recipients


Alternatively, 
We believe they might try enforcing the existing legislation requiring that all [repeat ALL] workers pay into the system from which they expect to benefit.  Illegals should not expect to exploit the benefits for which the Boomers have sacrificed and paid for.

Our multi-cultural soccer team

As a footnote, we don't mean to imply that these illegals are bad folks [well, some of them are].  We have taught and coached their kids in school and on soccer fields,, steered them towards jobs, and advised them on pursuing citizenship in the proper manner.  

We have also worked with many legitimate immigrants who spent ten years or so in the queue for citizenship, and who have met all the requirements necessary to citizenship, and who are now citizens.



Thursday, April 4, 2013

North Korea - War?





The sound of sabers rattling is rapidly becoming deafening.

Bibi sees the invisible


North Korea [NK] has been threatening the US and South Korea now for about 40 years, and on occasion, has actually attacked US soldiers and South Korean villagers and fishermen.  Listening to Supreme [and beloved] Leader Kim Jong-un rant, stamp his feet, and threaten the end of the world reminds us of Bibi Netanyahu's claims that Iran has nukes -- thus his demand that the US declare war on Iran. 

[Goodness! Did Kim Jong-un take obnoxious lessons from Bibi?]


The world, which is nearly unanimous in sanctioning NK, pretty much recognizes that it is a rogue state with no reason to exist other than to serve as a buffer between China and potential invaders allied with the US.  It's not much of a buffer, but there are about 25 million North Koreans, with 9.5 million in uniform, whom China regards as ultimately dispensable from a ground action perspective.  And, China and the Soviets provided North Korea sufficient armament to make it dangerous enough to be noticed and a distractor to the US.

What's at stake here.
Is there actually a threat?

Here's the North Korean Military:

1) Lots of artillery, much of it dating back 70 years.  Their most sophisticated 170mm Field Gun has a range of only 32 miles, a bit short of Seoul.

2) Most of their MBTs [Main Battle Tanks] are 50+ years old.  The newer ones are retrofitted 30 year old tanks.
 

3) Their Air Force has some modern fighters and bombers, but none compare to US technology.
 

4) Their surface Navy is dilapidated and essentially a coastal defense force
 

5) They have a large submarine force - but most are second-hand rehabs.  Their miniature subs are effective, and the GRU reported that one of them was responsible for blowing up the Deepwater Horizon in the Caribbean.

6)  Their Strategic Rocket Forces include missiles dating back 25 - 50 years and are Soviet and PRC hand-me-downs,

7)  Nuclear arsenal?  Well, sort of; ancient warheads retrofitted to fit the smaller NK missile bodies capable of carrying them; all three of them.




So, what's the big deal over this Mouse That Roared?

Why didn't we simply obliterate this paper tiger 15 years ago after the first threatening gesture?




Our Media, fueled by the thrill and excitement of sending our troops back into war, is anxious to sell advertising on its new web sites and during commercial breaks for its talking heads and other mindless comic venues.


Our Military-Industrial Complex [MIC] wants to keep its weapons systems contracts alive and immune from Sequester cuts.

DOD needs to justify its civilian employee population of 718,000 and its budget of $500 Billion

Room for 1 more general?
The Pentagon needs to have a visible threat to justify 500 generals and 162 admirals -- including 30 at the 4-Star rank.

[Figures are vague, but it is estimated that we now have roughly five times as many flag rank [generals and admirals] today as we had in World War II.]

Our Navy now has nearly more admirals than it has ships.

For the most part, our military leadership is not so much interested in neutralizing the NK Military Threat as it is in testing our new weapons and intelligence technology in battle-field conditions.

The Air Force is keen on engaging enemy fighters, while our Rocket Forces are interested in testing out their bunker busters [the one they launched into the Pentagon was pretty effective, but that was 12 years ago]; and they'd like to test the new SAMs, and Patriot missile upgrades.  Our Net-Centric crowd is anxious to see how vulnerable our systems are to NK hacking and electronic attack. and above all, our Drone Contingent is anxious to test the Predator and all the new miniature drone clones.

But, you say, we already know the NK military is using weaponry and equipment that is, for the most part, nearly 70 years old.  What's the challenge there?

Well, after WWII, our military was not allowed to start or fight any global wars, so, we and the Soviets and the Chinese engaged in Proxy Wars [e.g., Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan] so that we could see and test out military equipment. 
[Our infamous hostage rescue attempt under Jimmy Carter demonstrated the US Military was woefully unskilled and ill-equipped].

What's our capability?
Not as good as Google Earth, but, actually, we can do a lot better
1)  We monitor every communication and military movement down to the oil change on Kim's limousine.  Although there is considerable artillery in position, and Kim has been moving more of it to key positions, we know precisely where each tube is, and the air pressure in each tire of the vehicle towing it.  We can even check the temperature in Kim's bathroom [urp!].

If Kim Jong-un were to launch an artillery and rocket bombardment on South Korea tomorrow at 9:00 am, North Korea could lie in smoldering ruins by 9:05 am, having been bombarded with US state-of-the-art artillery and missile fire, Stealth bombing runs, Drone attacks, and lots of shouting and carrying on by South Korean [ROK] troops -- who would then rush across the border to seize NK positions, and to capture tens of thousands of North Korean troops -- who are anxious to relocate to South Korea by any means.


2)  But, that won't happen...

Kim who?

     a.  Officially, there will be hand-wringing in Washington over whether the US can legally engage since the attack will be against South Korea. The lawyers will sort it out in a matter of weeks.  And, the situation will escalate day-by-traumatic day.  The talking heads will babble, John Kerry will look forlorn as he begs Kim to act rationally, and Mr Obama will be able to act Presidential this time [as opposed to his failed Benghazi spontaneous riot scheme.


     b.  Just how much damage can we inflict without looking like we're mean old bullies to be condemned by our Socialist UN friends?  [Why can't you just get along!]

Best that we do so only a little at a time; it can be a conflict of attrition, and we'll sacrifice a few hundred US and ROK troops, and there will be harumphing and haranging on Capitol Hill -- but no action, since most will have received substantial campaign donations from Defense Contractors.

M-1989 [Koksan] 170mm Gun [range: 32 miles]
c.  But, the real reason? 
Both Russia and China will be feeding Kim weapons and technology that they want to test against US capabilities.  And, knowing that, we will stretch out the conflict to see how effective our new technology is.  Will our stealth aircraft evade their radar advances?  Will they be able to jam our GPS systems?  Will they infiltrate our tactical headquarters in ROK uniforms and kill our intelligence people?


[Rick Francona photographed this NK weapon during the first Gulf War (1991)]




Will there actually be a military conflict?

Sort of. 
We have to have SOMETHING to satisfy the Media.
We have to have SOMETHING to allow Mr Obama to act Presidential.
We have to have SOMETHING to offset the Sequester cuts.

So, we'll have a flurry of activity, maybe have a few bombs go off, and then we'll have endless replays and Monday morning quarter-backing by the Talking Heads. 

                                                                                                    [Oliphant]
We'll also need to tread cautiously since we don't want to annoy our Chinese debt lords as we did when MacArthur drew them into the Korean War by announcing he was about to invade them [he was safe and sound in Japan at the time].

In the meantime, China and Russia will be gearing up for a power play.

[But, that's a whole nother blog post!]