NL -- Manlio Dinucci -- De kunst van oorlog -- F-35's bombarderen Gaza

  

De kunst van oorlog

F-35's bombarderen Gaza

Manlio Dinucci

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Woordvoerder Zilberman van de Israëlische strijdkrachten kondigde de start aan van de bombardementen op Gaza, en preciseerde dat "80 gevechtsvliegtuigen deelnemen aan de operatie, waaronder de geavanceerde F-35's" (The Times of Israel, 11 mei, 2021). Het is officieel de vuurdoop voor het vijfde generatie gevechtsvliegtuig van het Amerikaanse Lockheed Martin, aan de productie waarvan ook Italië deelneemt als tweedelijns partner.

Israël heeft al zevenentwintig F-35's van de VS ontvangen en heeft afgelopen februari besloten niet langer vijftig maar vijfenzeventig F-35's te kopen. Daartoe heeft de regering een extra toewijzing van 9 miljard dollar uitgevaardigd: 7 werden door de VS gratis militaire "hulp" van 28 miljard aan Israël toegekend, 2 werden door de Amerikaanse Citibank als lening verstrekt.

Terwijl Israëlische F-35 piloten werden opgeleid door de Amerikaanse luchtmacht in Arizona en Israël, bouwden de ingenieurs van het Amerikaanse leger in Israël speciale geharde hangars voor de F-35's, geschikt voor de maximale bescherming van beide gevechtsvliegtuigen op de grond, en hun snelle opstijging bij aanvallen. Tegelijkertijd hebben de Israëlische militaire industrieën (Israel Aerospace en Elbit Systems) in nauwe samenwerking met Lockheed Martin het tot "Adir" (Krachtig) omgedoopte gevechtsvliegtuig verbeterd: vooral zijn vermogen om door vijandelijke verdedigingswerken heen te dringen en zijn actieradius die bijna werd verdubbeld.

Deze capaciteiten zijn zeker niet nodig om Gaza aan te vallen. Waarom worden dan de meest geavanceerde gevechtsvliegtuigen van de vijfde generatie ingezet tegen de Palestijnen? Omdat het dient om F-35's gevechtsvliegtuigen en hun piloten te testen in echte oorlogsactie waarbij huizen in Gaza als doelwit worden gebruikt op een schietbaan. Het maakt niet uit of zich in de huizen die het doelwit vormen hele families bevinden.

De F-35's, toegevoegd aan de honderden jachtbommenwerpers die de VS reeds aan Israël hebben geleverd, zijn ontworpen voor nucleaire aanvallen, met name met de nieuwe B61-12 bom. De Verenigde Staten zullen deze kernbommen binnenkort inzetten in Italië en andere Europese landen, en zullen ze ook leveren aan Israël, de enige kernmacht in het Midden-Oosten met een arsenaal dat wordt geschat op 100-400 kernwapens. Als Israël het bereik van de F-35 gevechtsvliegtuigen verdubbelt en op het punt staat acht Boeing Pegasus tankers van de VS te ontvangen voor het bijtanken van de F-35's tijdens de vlucht, dan is dat omdat het zich voorbereidt op een aanval, zelfs nucleair, tegen Iran.

De Israëlische nucleaire strijdkrachten zijn geïntegreerd in het elektronische systeem van de NAVO in het kader van het "Individueel samenwerkingsprogramma" met Israël. Hoewel Israël geen lid is van het bondgenootschap, is het geïntegreerd met een permanente missie in het NAVO-hoofdkwartier in Brussel. In hetzelfde kader heeft Duitsland zes Dolphin-onderzeeërs aan Israël geleverd. aangepast voor het lanceren van kernraketten (zoals Der Spiegel in 2012 documenteerde).

De militaire samenwerking van Italië met Israël is een wet van de republiek geworden (wet nr. 94 van 17 mei 2005). Deze wet voorziet in een uitgebreide samenwerking, zowel tussen strijdkrachten als militaire industrieën, met inbegrip van activiteiten die geheim blijven omdat ze onderworpen zijn aan het "Veiligheidsakkoord" tussen beide partijen.

Israël heeft aan Italië de Opsat-3000 satelliet geleverd, die beelden met zeer hoge resolutie uitzendt voor militaire operaties in verafgelegen oorlogsgebieden. De satelliet is verbonden met drie centra in Italië en tegelijkertijd met een vierde centrum in Israël, als bewijs van de steeds nauwere strategische samenwerking tussen de twee landen.

Italië heeft Israël dertig Leonardo Aermacchi gevechtsvliegtuigen geleverd voor de opleiding van piloten. Nu kan het Israël een nieuwe versie van de M-346 FA (Fighter Attack) leveren, die - zo heeft Leonardo Industry gespecificeerd - tegelijkertijd dient voor opleiding en voor "grondaanvalsmissies met 500-pond drop munitie, en precisie-geleide munitie die in staat is het aantal te raken doelen tegelijkertijd te verhogen ". De nieuwe versie van het gevechtsvliegtuig - Leonardo Industrie onderstreepte - is bijzonder geschikt voor "missies in stedelijke gebieden", waar zware gevechtsvliegtuigen "vaak worden gebruikt in laagbetaalde missies met hoge operationele kosten". Ideaal voor de volgende Israëlische bombardementen op Gaza, die kunnen worden uitgevoerd met "een kostprijs per vlieguur die tot 80% lager ligt", en die zeer "kosteneffectief" zullen zijn, dat wil zeggen dat ze veel meer Palestijnen zullen doden.

Manlio Dinucci

 (il manifest, 18 mei 2021)

Nederlandse Vertaling: Martien

DE -- Manlio Dinucci -- "Die Kunst des Krieges" -- Die F-35 bombardieren Gaza

 "Die Kunst des Krieges"

Die F-35 bombardieren Gaza

von Manlio Dinucci

Die Vereinigten Staaten, die über vier Munitionslagerbasen in Israel verfügen, stellen dort auch ein umfangreiches Arsenal bereit. Israel, das bereits eine der mächtigsten Luftwaffen der Welt besitzt, testet derzeit die F-35 im Kampfeinsatz gegen die Palästinenser.

Voltaire Netzwerk | Rom (Italien) | 18. Mai 2021

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Der Kommandeur der US-Genietruppen, Brian Trzaska, bei der Zeremonie der Verleihung der neuen Hallen für die F-35, die von der US-Army in Israel (20. März 2021) gebaut wurden.

Der Sprecher der israelischen Verteidigungskräfte Zilberman kündigte den Beginn der Bombardierung des Gazastreifens an und erklärte, dass "80 Jäger, einschließlich der F-35 Adir, an der Operation teilnehmen werden". Es ist offiziell die Feuertaufe des Jägers der fünften Generation der US-amerikanischen Firma Lockheed Martin, an dessen Produktion auch Italien als Partner zweiter Ebene teilnimmt.

Israel, das bereits 27 Jäger F-35 aus den USA erhalten hatte, hat im letzten Februar beschlossen, nicht mehr 50, sondern 75 zu kaufen. Zu diesem Zweck hat die Regierung eine weitere Zuweisung von 9 Milliarden Dollar verfügt: 7 aus der "militärischen" kostenlosen Hilfe von 28 Milliarden, die Israel von den USA gewährt wurden, und zwei Milliarden von der US-amerikanischen Citibank als Darlehen. Während die israelischen F-35-Piloten von der U.S. Air Force in Arizona und Israel trainiert werden, baut das US- Army-Genie in Israel spezielle, verstärkte Hallen für die F-35, die sowohl für den größten Schutz der am Boden befindlichen Jäger, als auch für ihren schnellen Start bestimmt sind, wenn sie zum Angriff starten. Gleichzeitig erhöhen die israelischen Militärindustrien (Israel Aerospace und Elbit Systems) in enger Zusammenarbeit mit Lockheed Martin die Leistung des Jägers, der auf Adir (Mächtig) umbenannt wurde: vor allem in seiner Fähigkeit, feindliche Abwehrkräfte zu durchdringen und seinen Aktionsradius, der fast verdoppelt wurde. Die Kapazitäten sind sicherlich nicht notwendig, um Gaza anzugreifen. Warum werden dann die fortschrittlichsten Jäger der fünften Generation gegen die Palästinenser verwendet? Weil sie dazu dienen, die F-35 und die Piloten in einer echten Kriegsaktion zu testen, indem man die Häuser in Gaza als Ziel des Schießpolygons benutzt. Egal, ob sich in den Zielhäusern ganze Familien befinden.

PT -- Manlio Dinucci -- A Arte da Guerra -- Os F-35s bombardeiam Gaza

  

A Arte da Guerra

Os F-35s bombardeiam Gaza

Manlio Dinucci

 

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O porta-voz das Forças Israelitas, Zilberman, anunciando o início do bombardeamento de Gaza, especificou que "80 caças, incluindo o F-35 avançado" (The Times of Israel, 11 de Maio de 2021) estão a participar na operação. É oficialmente o baptismo de fogo dos aviões de caça da quinta geração da Lockheed Martin dos EUA, em cuja produção a Itália também participa como parceiro de segundo nível.

  Israel, que já recebeu 27 caças F-35s dos EUA, decidiu em Fevereiro passado comprar não 50 mas 75. Para este fim, o governo decretou uma nova atribuição de 9 biliões de dólares: 7 da "ajuda" militar gratuita de 28 biliões concedida pelos EUA a Israel, 2 biliões concedidos como empréstimo do Citibank dos EUA. Enquanto os pilotos israelitas dos F-35 estão a ser treinados pela Força Aérea dos EUA, no Arizona e em Israel, o Corpo de Engenheiros do Exército dos EUA está a construir hangares especiais reforçados em Israel para o F-35, adequados tanto para a máxima protecção dos caças em terra como para a sua rápida descolagem quando vão ao ataque. Ao mesmo tempo, as indústrias militares israelitas (Israel Aerospace and Elbit Systems), em estreita coordenação com a Lockheed Martin, estão a reforçar o caça, rebaptizado "Adir" (Poderoso): sobretudo, a sua capacidade de penetrar nas defesas inimigas e o seu raio de acção, que foi quase duplicado. Capacidades certamente não necessárias para atacar Gaza. Porque são então os mais avançados caças de quinta geração utilizados contra os palestinianos? Porque serve para testar os F-35 e os pilotos em guerra real, usando as casas de Gaza como alvos para campo de tiro. Pouco importa se, nos edifícios alvo, estiverem famílias inteiras.

Os F-35A, que se juntam às centenas de caças-bombardeiros já fornecidos pelos EUA a Israel, foram concebidos para ataques nucleares, em particular com a nova bomba B61-12 que os Estados Unidos, para além de, em breve, alojarem em Itália e noutros países europeus, fornecerão também a Israel, a única potência nuclear do Médio Oriente, com um arsenal estimado em 100-400 armas nucleares. Se Israel duplica o raio de acção do F-35 e está prestes a receber dos EUA, 8 aviões-cisterna Boeing Pegasus para reabastecimento em voo dos F-35, é porque se prepara para lançar um ataque, incluindo um ataque nuclear, contra o Irão. As forças nucleares israelitas estão integradas no sistema electrónico da NATO, no quadro do "Programa de Cooperação Individual" com Israel, um país que, embora não seja membro da Aliança, está integrado com uma missão permanente no quartel general da NATO, em Bruxelas. No mesmo âmbito, a Alemanha forneceu a Israel 6 submarinos Dolphin modificados para lançar mísseis nucleares (como documentado pelo Der Spiegel em 2012).

A cooperação militar da Itália com Israel tornou-se uma lei da República (Lei n.º 94 de 17 de Maio de 2005). Estabelece uma ampla cooperação, tanto entre as forças armadas como entre as indústrias militares, incluindo actividades que permanecem secretas porque estão sujeitas ao "Acordo de Segurança" entre as duas partes. Israel forneceu à Itália o satélite Opsat-3000, que transmite imagens de muito alta resolução para operações militares em teatros de guerra distantes. O satélite está ligado a três centros em Itália e, ao mesmo tempo, a um quarto centro em Israel, demonstrando a cooperação estratégica cada vez mais estreita entre os dois países. A Itália forneceu a Israel 30 aviões de caça Leonardo Aermacchi para treino de pilotos. Agora pode fornecer uma nova versão, a M-346 FA (Fighter Attack), que – especifica a Leonardo - é utilizada tanto para treino como para "missões de ataque terrestre com 500 lb. de queda e munições de precisão capazes de aumentar o número de alvos a serem atingidos simultaneamente". A nova versão do combatente - sublinha a empresa Leonardo - é particularmente adequada para "missões em áreas urbanas", onde os combatentes pesados "são frequentemente utilizados em missões de baixo pagamento com custos operacionais elevados". É ideal para os próximos bombardeamentos israelitas em Gaza, que podem ser realizados com "um custo por hora de voo que é reduzido até 80%", e serão muito "muito bem pagos", ou seja, matarão muito mais palestinianos.

Manlio Dinucci

il manifesto, 18 de Maio de 2021

EN -- Manlio Dinucci -- The Art of War -- F-35s bombing Gaza

  

The Art of War

F-35s bombing Gaza

Manlio Dinucci

 

ENGLISH ITALIAN PORTUGUÊS 

 

Israeli Forces spokesman Zilberman announced the start of the bombing of Gaza, specifying that "80 fighters are taking part in the operation, including the advanced F-35s" (The Times of Israel, May 11, 2021). It is officially the baptism of fire for the US Lockheed Martin’s fifth-generation fighter,  whose production Italy also participates in as a second-level partner.

 

Israel has already received twenty-seven F-35s from the US, and last February decided to buy no longer fifty F-35s but seventy-five. To this end the government has decreed a further allocation of 9 billion dollars: 7 were granted by a US to Israel free military "aid" of 28 billion, 2 were granted as a loan by the US Citibank.

 

While Israeli F-35 pilots were being trained by the U.S. Air Force in Arizona and Israel, the US Army Engineers built in Israel special hardened hangars for the F-35s, suitable for both fighters’ maximum protection on the ground, and their rapid take-off on attack. At the same time, the Israeli military industries (Israel Aerospace and Elbit Systems) in close coordination with Lockheed Martin enhance the fighter renamed "Adir" (Powerful): above all its ability to penetrate enemy defenses and its range of action which was nearly doubled.

 

These capabilities are certainly not necessary to attack Gaza. Why then are the most advanced fifth-generation fighters used against Palestinians? Because it serves to test F-35s fighters and their pilots in real war action using Gaza homes as targets on a firing range. It does not matter if in the target houses there are entire families. 

 

The F-35s, added to the hundreds of fighter-bombers already supplied by the US to Israel. are designed for nuclear attack particularly with the new B61-12 bomb. The United States will shortly deploy these nuclear bombs in Italy and other European countries, and will also provide them to Israel, the only nuclear power in the Middle East with an arsenal estimated at 100-400 nuclear weapons. If Israel doubles the range of F-35 fighters and is about to receive eight Boeing Pegasus tankers from the US for refueling the F-35s in flight, it is because it is preparing to launch an attack, even nuclear, against Iran.

 

The Israeli nuclear forces are integrated into the NATO electronic system within the "Individual cooperation program" framework with Israel. Although not a member of the Alliance, Israel is integrated with a permanent mission in the NATO headquarters in Brussels. In the same framework, Germany supplied Israel with six Dolphin submarines. modified for launching nuclear missiles (as Der Spiegel documented in 2012).

 

Italy’s military cooperation with Israel has become a law of the Republic (Law No. 94 of May 17, 2005). This law establishes comprehensive cooperation, both between armed forces and military industries, including activities that remain secret because they are subject to the "Security Agreement" between the two parties.

 

Israel has supplied Italy with the Opsat-3000 satellite, which transmits very high-resolution images for military operations in distant war theaters. The satellite is connected to three centers in Italy and, at the same time, to a fourth center in Israel, as a proof of the increasingly close strategic collaboration between the two countries.

 

Italy supplied Israel with thirty Leonardo Aermacchi fighters for pilot training. Now it can provide Israel with a new version of the M-346 FA (Fighter Attack), which - Leonardo Industry specified - serves at the same time for training and for “ground attack missions with 500-pound drop ammunition, and precision-guided ammunitions capable of increasing the number of targets to hit at the same time “. The new version of the fighter - Leonardo Industry underlined - is particularly suitable for "missions in urban areas", where heavy fighters "are often used in low-paying missions with high operating costs". The ideal for the next Israeli bombings of Gaza, which can be carried out with "a cost per flight hour that is reduced by up to 80%", and will be very " cost-effective ", that is, they will kill many more Palestinians.

 Manlio Dinucci

(il manifesto, May 18, 2021)

PT -- LARRY ROMANOFF -- Parte 1 de 5 -- Bernays e a Propaganda -- February 06, 2021

Bernays e a Propaganda - Parte 1 de 5

 

Por Larry Romanoff para The Saker Blog, February 06, 2021

 

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Há muitos anos, o comentador político judeu americano Walter Lippmann percebeu que a ideologia política podia ser completamente fabricada, ao utilizar os meios de comunicação social para controlar tanto a apresentação, como a conceptualização, não só para criar crenças falsas profundamente enraizadas numa população, mas também para apagar completamente ideias políticas indesejáveis da mente pública. Este foi o início não só da histeria americana pela liberdade, democracia e patriotismo, como também de toda a opinião política fabricada, um processo que tem sido infalível desde então. Lippmann criou estas teorias de persuasão em massa do público, utilizando "factos" totalmente fabricados, profundamente insinuados na mente de um público ingénuo, mas há muito mais nesta história. Um judeu austríaco chamado Edward Louis Bernays, que era sobrinho do psicanalista Sigmund Freud, foi um dos estudantes mais precoces de Lippmann e foi ele que pôs em prática as teorias de Lippmann. Bernays é amplamente conhecido na América como o pai das Relações Públicas, mas seria muito melhor descrevê-lo como sendo o pai do marketing de guerra americano, bem como o pai da manipulação em massa, da mentalidade do povo americano.

 

Russian official statements about counter-actions to US sanctions

 

 

Russian official statements about counter-actions to US sanctions

 

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16 April 202119:28

Foreign Ministry statement on measures in response to hostile US actions

The latest attack by the Biden administration against our country cannot go unanswered. It seems Washington is unwilling to accept that there is no room for unilateral dictates in the new geopolitical reality. Meanwhile, the bankrupt scenarios for deterring Moscow that the US myopically continues to pursue only promise to further degrade Russian-US relations.

In this context, the appeals from across the ocean to refrain from escalation and essentially accept this attempt to talk to us from a position of strength sound hypocritical. We have repeatedly warned and demonstrated in practice that sanctions and any other pressure will never succeed and will only have dire consequences for those who dare attempt such provocations.

We will introduce the following countermeasures in response to anti-Russian sanctions in the near future:

•  Employees of US diplomatic missions will be expelled on a reciprocal basis in numbers proportional to the actions taken by the US authorities against Russian diplomats.
• Incidentally, we noted how quickly Warsaw played up to the US administration by demanding the departure of three Russian diplomats from Poland. In turn, five Polish diplomats will be expelled from Russia.
•  The US Embassy’s practice of using short-term trips by State Department staff to support the functioning of diplomatic missions will be restricted. The issuance of visas to them will be reduced to a minimum: up to 10 people per year on a reciprocal basis.
•  In strict conformity with the Vienna conventions on diplomatic relations and Russian law, including the Labour Code, measures will be taken to discontinue completely the practice of US diplomatic missions employing citizens of the Russian Federation and third countries as administrative and technical staff.
•  The bilateral 1992 memorandum of understanding on open ground is declared invalid due to systematic violations of rules for trips in the Russian Federation by employees of US diplomatic missions.
•  Plans are in place to halt the activities in the Russian Federation of American foundations and NGOs controlled by the Department of State and other US government agencies. These consistent, long-term efforts will be brought to an end, all the more so since the United States shows no intention of scaling back its systematic subversive efforts underpinned by a wide array of laws.
•  Obviously, this very tense situation objectively requires the ambassadors of our countries to be in their respective capitals to analyse developments and hold consultations.

These steps represent just a fraction of the capabilities at our disposal. Unfortunately, US statements threatening to introduce new forms of punishment show that Washington is not willing to listen and does not appreciate the restraint that we have displayed despite the tensions that have been purposefully fuelled since the presidency of Barack Obama.

Recall that after a large-scale expulsion of Russian diplomats in December 2016 and the seizure of Russian diplomatic property in the US, we did not take any response measures for seven months. We responded only when Russia was declared a US adversary legislatively in August 2017.

In general, compared to the Russian diplomatic missions in the United States, the US Embassy in Moscow operates in better conditions, enjoying a numerical advantage and actively benefitting from the work of Russian citizens hired in-country. This form of disparity frees up “titular” diplomats to interfere in our domestic affairs, which is one of the main tenets of Washington’s foreign policy doctrine.

Incidentally, soon the Foreign Ministry will publish on its website the names of eight incumbent and former high-ranking US officials and other figures involved in drafting and implementing anti-Russia policy. They will be permanently banned from entering the Russian Federation. This is our equivalent response to the sanctions against Russian officials that the US blacklisted last month.

Now is the time for the United States to show common sense and pull back from this confrontational course. Otherwise, the US will face a host of painful decisions, for instance, an order for US diplomatic missions to reduce personnel in Russia to 300 people. This will establish real parity at bilateral foreign offices because the US quota of 455 employees still includes the 155 people sent to the Russian Permanent Mission to the UN in New York. However, this has nothing to do with our bilateral mission.

There are also other options. Of course, we realise that we are limited in our ability to squeeze the Americans economically as they have us. However, we have some resources in this respect and they will also be used if Washington chooses to follow the path of spiraling sanctions.

None of this is our choice. We would like to avoid further escalation with the US. We are ready to engage in calm and professional dialogue with the US in order to find ways of normalising bilateral ties. However, the reality is that we hear one thing from Washington but see something completely different in practice. There must be no doubt – not a single round of sanctions will go unanswered.

We have obviously heard President Joe Biden express interest in stable, constructive and predictable relations with Russia, including a proposed Russian-US summit. When this offer was made, it was received positively and is now being considered in the context of concrete developments.

Press release on a ban on entry of certain US citizens into the Russian Federation

In response to the sanctions against Russian officials imposed by the US administration on March 2 of this year, the following incumbent and former US high-ranking officials and figures complicit in pursuing the anti-Russia policy, are denied entry to the Russian Federation:

1. Merrick Brian Garland, United States Attorney General;
2. Michael D. Carvajal, Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons;
3. Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas, United States Secretary of Homeland Security;
4. Susan Elizabeth Rice, Director of the United States Domestic Policy Council, former US Permanent Representative to the United Nations and National Security Advisor;
5. Christopher Asher Wray, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation;
6. Avril Danica Haines, Director of US National Intelligence.

In addition, entry is denied to John Robert Bolton, former National Security Advisor to the United States President, former US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, and Robert James Woolsey Jr., former director of the US Central Intelligence Agency.

In view of the unprecedented complications in Russia-US relations provoked by Washington, it was decided to deviate from the usual practice of not making public the response measures taken by the Russian side.

PT -- The Saker -- Os planos dos Estados Unidos para a Ucrânia -- April 16, 2021

  

The Saker -- Os planos dos Estados Unidos para a Ucrânia

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Francamente, o discurso de Biden à nação americana (o primeiro da sua vida) foi, provavelmente, o discurso político mais lamechas que alguma vez ouvi.  E não estou a referir-me ao facto de Biden chamar a Putin "Clutin" ou confundir "deescalation" com "vaccination", estou a referir do conteúdo verdadeiro do seu discurso.  Resumindo: continuaremos a magoar-vos e a humilhar-vos constantemente, tratar-vos-emos como uma criança mal educada de 10 anos a precisar de uma boa palmada, mas queremos paz e um bom relacionamento.  É evidente que Biden não percebe nada dos conceitos russos.  Mas para "Biden" (o colectivo "Biden", não o vegetariano confuso) existe um plano.  Qual poderá ser?

 

Já expliquei qual é o plano dos EUA em relação à Ucrânia: encorajar os Ukronazis a atacar, sem envolver os EUA numa guerra convencional com a Rússia.

Como é que os EUA procederiam?  Um exemplo: