Larry Johnson — SONAR March 7, 2023
There is a lot of curious military activity involving NATO forces and equipment that is not receiving much media scrutiny.
Let us start with the recent action by the U.S. Air Mobility Command removing tail numbers and unit info from planes:
Air Mobility Command has directed its refueling and cargo planes to obscure the majority of identifying information painted on the aircraft, citing national security concerns — an unusual move that is alarming to government watchdogs. . . .
“Because of operational security concerns, we cannot provide specifics, though our aircraft will maintain markings as required by law,” Stewart said in the provided statement.
The change in the paint schemes, first reported by Aviation Week, comes a little more than a month after Air Mobility commander Gen. Mike Minihan sent a memo to his service members telling them to prepare for a war with China and warning them that it could be coming as soon as 2025.
But despite AMC’s stated justification of national security concerns, the new move to obscure some identifying info on planes is both alarming and puzzling to government watchdogs and transparency advocates.
You betcha it is alarming. I received the following email from an old friend, a genuine Spec Ops warrior. I think of him as the E.F. Hutton of Special Ops — when he speaks you better damn well listen. He wrote:
This move is unnecessary because deception flights have been used during and since WW-II, as well as fake tail numbers that have backstops if investigated. For example, our old XXX airplane had several tail numbers that we could change/replace with a hair dryer (heat-sticky lettering) and all of them were backstopped. So why would Biden’s Air Farce (er, Air Force) decide that now is a good time to eliminate the identifiable info from admin transport aircraft? These are the aircraft that fly supplies into Ukraine, fly cash to Iran, give arms to the Taliban, etc. What is the Biden Administration up to that makes them concerned about our aircraft being identified? This kind of stuff sickens me.
Some of those aircraft are not just flying supplies, they also are ferrying U.S. soldiers to Eastern Europe, including elements of a U.S. light infantry division to Poland. Those U.S. troops are being deployed on Poland’s border with Ukraine and there is not a planned military exercise to justify their presence.
Stephen Bryen, writing in the Asia Times, reports that:
Huge amounts of equipment either have arrived already in Poland, where they’re ready to be moved into Ukrainian territory, or are on their way. In addition, NATO is rapidly bolstering its forces. This past Saturday the US-flagged vehicle carrier Liberty Pride sailed into the port of Alexandroupolis, Greece, carrying military equipment destined for NATO forces. . . .
How many other US ships are in the ocean at the moment or arriving at other ports, isn’t yet known. But what is known is that NATO is girding itself for a spillover, once the Ukrainian offensive gets underway.
The main focus of the Ukrainian spring offensive likely is an assault on Crimea and on Russian forces in the south. The objective is to cut them off (Kherson area across to Zaphorizia) and systematically destroy them, followed by a big push into Crimea.
The US is supplying a huge amount of war materiel for this assault. It includes bridging equipment that can support German-origin Leopard II tanks, which weigh more than 62 tons (roughly the same as the phantom M1 Abrams tanks that won’t arrive until next year, if ever).
Then there is this photo of a massive array of U.S. military equipment staged on the docks of the Port of Gdynia in Poland. Some are speculating this equipment is headed for Ukraine. An unnamed source cited at Zerohedge claims the tanks and vehicles are:
at the Polish port “in preparation for redeployment to the continental United States after serving in the Operation Atlantic Resolve.”
Equipment belonging to the @USArmy 🇺🇸 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division staged at the Port of Gdynia, Poland 🇵🇱 in preparation for redeployment to the continental United States after serving in the Operation #AtlanticResolve, Feb. 22, 2023. #StrongerTogether pic.twitter.com/sqK5U3UbWZ
— Baltic Security (@balt_security) March 4, 2023
I would note that none of the equipment is painted in a color scheme appropriate for operating in Ukraine. It also is not clear when this photo/video was shot. However, elements of the main U.S. armored division have been active in Poland in the last month:
The 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team “Greywolf,” 1st Cavalry Division, transferred authority of U.S. Army operations in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve to the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team “Black Jack,” 1st Cav. Div., during a transfer of authority ceremony at Drawsko-Pomorskie Training Area, Poland, Saturday.
Over the past seven months, 3rd ABCT participated in multi-national training exercises in Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Greece, Italy, the UK and Germany. The Greywolf Brigade also trained in strategically important locations in the Baltics and the NATO Battlegroup Poland.
“Simply put, you’ve made a difference for your allies and the NATO Alliance and have done all your country asked of you,” said Col. John Gilliam, 3rd ABCT commander, 1st Cav. Div. “I could not be prouder of all of your hard work, and you’ve earned a well-deserved break with your families who are eagerly awaiting your return to Fort Hood.”
Is this a bluff or is the United States and its NATO allies ramping up to support a Ukrainian attempt to retake the Crimea? In my view this has all the makings of a major miscalculation on the part of NATO. If we are hearing about this you can be certain that Russia’s military intelligence is keeping track of equipment and troop movements. I am curious what you think is going on?
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‘If we are hearing about this you can be certain that Russia’s military intelligence is keeping track of equipment and troop movements.’
The above is the germane point. And Russia is unbothered. And nobody is bothering even to take photographs to verify that the Twitter source footage has an existential equivalent in the real world.
‘I am curious what you think is going on’
I offer two guesses:
1. A hoax is going on.
2. Poland has bought up many tonne-loads of bargain-basement military junk to bolster its own arsenal. But, wait: Where did this nation find the man-power and haulage equipment to bring this stuff home? Could doing this have beeen considered cost-effective?
Glad to see TS reverting back to experts like Johnson who actually know what’s going on mainly because they still have sources within intelligence and military. Macgregor, Ritter and many others likewise have verifiable sources.
Could this be a reenactment of the battle of the Little Big Horn – Custer’s (USA’s) last stand? Looks like we could be heading for the big one!🤢
The final photograph is a classic….don’t you think?…..
I think Belarus is at risk of attack, causing Russia to defend it, thus bringing in NATO in response to “Russian expansion”. One of the Baltic states, I think Belarus itself, has had western interference arranging public demonstrations to protest for the right to have foreign NGOs operating in their country, saying it’s against human rights to ban them. Who the hell demonstrates to let foreign NGOs remain?
Belarus has four hostile states bordering it, all of them former Soviet satellites which shows just how far US-led NATO has revived the Iron Curtain, this time facing east: it has Poland to the west, Lithuania to the north west, Latvia to the north and Ukraine to the south. Its only ally Russia is to its east.
The US planned this years ago, long before 2014, back to the collapse of the Soviet empire. Some say all those weapons sent to Ukraine may be in readiness for NATO troops to use. This is escalating, and perhaps our last chance to avoid nuclear war is if Russia targets western centres of government with its missiles and puts western politicians right in the front line. Assure them they’ll die first, not survive it.
So all this human destructive machinery in SAND [?] camouflage is for the BULLSHIT [as all wars are] Ukraine war, interesting!!!! Should make it easy for targeting eh?
Russia – plan for the worst possible scenario and be prepared to launch the first devastating strike.
Bottom photo:
Hmmm ….
is the Rodeo in town… or is that just a “Cavalry Style” fancy-dress party?🤔
Yes that last photo of the gay caballero cavalry readying their banners to ride to the rescue takes the faux cheesecake.
(Fingers crossed) we’ll know it’s on when and if the F-35, F-22, F-16 and Typhoons start flying over the border.
Getting them out of harm’s way otherwise they would be turned into scrap iron faster than the 911 forensic evidence got sold to China as scrap iron.
@ SCRAPYARD UKRAINE !
CUSTERS MEN RENASCENCE
British propaganda says that because Russia used six hypersonic missiles in its recent missile barrage this suggests Russia is running out of missiles. Wow! These people don’t just make out faces in clouds, they see unicorns skipping over rainbows. Being ridden by elves. Chased by fairies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x56bbMHLPuc
A video from France24 English says the Roma of Ukraine are happy to fight on Ukraine’s side but I find that hard to believe. I heard that in WWII Britain some gypsies saw the danger posed by a Nazi invasion of Britain, and how they’d be rounded up and sent to occupied Europe and worked to death and otherwise slaughtered; so a lot of them signed up to fight. Others moved to Ireland but Ireland’s neutrality wouldn’t have done them any good later on, just as Italy under Mussolini and collaborationist Vichy France under Marshall Petain didn’t save the Jews there. I just can’t see the Roma fighting for Nazis, and if so why now? I say it’s desperate propaganda, maybe to show Russia is losing or the Nazis are the good guys. All lies.
@ Pete Peth….
lt’s actually the same person.. doubled..twinned…
I was in the Cav back in the day when it was the 1st Air Cav. We lost that war as well…. Suggestion to Mothers. Don’t let your children be soldiers for something as stupid as this. We fought against Nazis in WWII Now they want us to fight for them. For What!
I didn’t raise my son to be a soldier… 1916, WWI
Ten million soldiers to the war have gone,
Who may never return again.
Ten million mother’s hearts must break
For the ones who died in vain.
Head bowed down in sorrow
In her lonely years,
I heard a mother murmur thro’ her tears:
CHORUS (sung twice after each verse)
“I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier,
I brought him up to be my pride and joy,
Who dares to place a musket on his shoulder,
To shoot some other mother’s darling boy?
Let nations arbitrate their future troubles,
It’s time to lay the sword and gun away,
There’d be no war today,
If mother’s all would say,
I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier.”�
This song was originally posted on protestsonglyrics.net
What victory can cheer a mother’s heart,
When she looks at her blighted home?
What victory can bring her back All she cared to call her own.
Let each mother answer
In the years to be,
“Remember that my boy belongs to me!”
Several of us (above) are giving credence to the hoax thesis, it seems. Now, there is more scope in this thesis:
‘Anonymous Intelligence Sources Have Identified the Nordstream Saboteurs,
Kevin Barrett • March 9, 2023’
https://www.unz.com/kbarrett/anonymous-intelligence-sources-have-identified-the-nordstream-saboteurs/
I am guessing that Rixon has seen this piece, and decided against publishing it. I have no difficulty with undesrstanding why. But one thing bothered me: Kevin Barrett wrote it. Now, he is nothing like a fibber or a fool. He just decided to pull a satire on us. But what if …?
Stopping here immediately, before I make a total ass of myself.
@ non-binary cyborg: ‘A video from France24 English says the Roma of Ukraine are happy to fight on Ukraine’s side but I find that hard to believe.’
Given that the scumbag Zelenski is having old men and under-age boys press-ganged into frontline service, he is very likely to be press-ganging the Roma too. Some pro-Ukes are probably white-washing that, in case it makes the scumbag look racist.
@ Sophie Johnson. I also wondered about Roma being press-ganged after posting that comment.