We all know, the war is a tube system of money that flows through pipes to Ukraine, then redirected back to those the money was really intented for.
Ukraine has always been a money laundering country. Just on a larger scale now. And, using our tax dollars.
Can Putin please just nuke that country and be done with the nonsense.
Reminds me of the time that the US and UK decided to declare a war on drugs. They pressured and sanctioned Pakistan, which was the source of poppies, the plant from which opium is created. Eventually, the Pakistan govt agreed and outlawed it made the farmers destroy their crops.
And the growing of poppies moved to Afghanistan where the CIA helped secure trade routes and protection to create new opium kings and this money helped fund some locals called the mujahedeen spy on and fight commies trying to sneak in. Even better, they had a great guy who could do this. He came from a family that co-owned an oil business with then Gov. George W. Bush. He was in business with a saudi family, the bin Laden family. Their son, Usama, sometimes called Osama. They also gathered intelligence, data, if you will. In fact, calling themselves a data base in a local term, Al Qaeda.
So, on the day of 9/11, after all planes were grounded, the bin Ladens were quietly loaded on a plane and flown out with military escorts.
So, none of the officially listed terrorists were from Afghanistan. A majority were from Saudi Arabia. It is known that financing for the attack came through saudi banks and the payment to Mohammed Atta (flying AA flight 11) was sent to the Iran's Gen. Mahmoud, in charge of iranian intelligence.
28 pages in the 9/11 Commisssion report deal with this and those 28 pages were redacted. Every president has promised to unseal those. Not one of them did. Not Bush in his second term, not Obama in both terms, not Trump in his term. Certainly not Biden, who may have problem knowing what day it is ("My butt's been wiped!")
If you want to avoid Iran, the best way to get from the Caspian Sea to the Arabian Sea is through Afghanistan.
So. bin Laden, armed with a sat phone and a lap top hiding in a cave in a range near Pakistan organizes 19 guys to hijack 4 airliners with nothing more than utility knives. These knives were able to help them crawl under doors.
Every single american pilot on those planes were former military, averaging 6'1" or taller, A buck 80 or so. The FDR notes everything. Door closed gets a note. Door locked gets a note. So, the only FDR recovered was that of AA flight 77, which went into the side of the Pentagon through a 16 foot by 19 foot hole while the FDR showed it was 150 off the ground. The Pentagon is about 80 feet tall.
Anyway, not notes of the door being opened or unlocked after initial close and lock while still at the terminal.
Awesome pilots, those guys from Saudi Arabia. The NTSB gathered data that UA flight 175 was doing 521 knots at about 800 feet above sea level, technically sea level. That is past Mach 1 for a beer can. Magically, there was no dutch roll and without any prior impact practice, went into the side of a building approximately the same width as an aircraft carrier. And left a roadrunner or wiley e coyote cut-out.
So, Haliburton makes a lot of money.
It may not be a carbon copy but it reminds me of that, even just a little bit.
