Jim W. Dean

Jim W. Dean - China's move to build a second carrier could be providing the opportunity for an opponent to send a lot of China's defense spending to the bottom of the ocean on day one of a conflict.

Jim W. Dean - Turkey keeps pushing its "unsaid hand" that it has permission to be in Kurdistan to train troops with Kurdish permission, and hence it is none of Baghdad's business.

Jim W. Dean - DIA is one of the smaller budget orgs within US Intel, and has no human intelligence in the Mid East. Intelligence officers deal with human intelligence, have been in the field and have personal networks of sources.

Jim W. Dean - We find more interest among common citizens for fighting against the political and financial criminals in the US power elite than we do in the military structure, where playing it safe seems to be the top priority.

In this interesting holiday missive, Uri Avnery discusses the historical basis of the formation and dissolution of nation states.

Jim W. Dean - The Russian defense industry continues to put great focus on surface to air missile development, without which the best ground forces end up as a shooting gallery for an attacker with air supremacy.

Jim W. Dean - We share an unusual Christmas story of Edith Warner, the gentle soul of Los Alamos who was loved by the bomb makers for her chocolate cake and for what she taught them about her love for the ancient land and its people.

Jim W. Dean - We have long editorialized at VT that the Western neoCon plans to create a new Cold War to divert major expenditures into certain industries under the guise of "defending our interests" was nothing more than a criminal enterprise.

Jim W. Dean debates Richard Millett from London as he shills for the Israelis and Western terror supporters wanting to crush Syria. Millett had the gall to actually say that ISIL had gotten much stronger since the Russian air campaign. You just can't make this stuff up.

Jim W. Dean - Dimitry Rogozin's political career has been a flamboyant and outspoken one, and gotten him into some trouble from time to time. But it also raised his profile as a man who did not hide where he stood on issues, and Russian voters responded.

Jim W. Dean - After Turkey had promised Iraq it would not send more troops into Iraq without consulting Baghdad first, it has announced today that more troops are going in, to fight terrorism, but without permission. You just can't make this stuff up!

Jim W. Dean - Ulson Gunnar lays bare for us the conversion of the our defensive NATO coalition into an offensive one via a carefully planned construction of eliminating any public approval of what it does.

Jim W. Dean - No country that had long claimed Iran had been working on nuclear weapons ever put a shred of proof on the table. Should we view them as psychological warfare terrorists now?

Jim W. Dean - The new destabilization scam now is having military powers asserting the right to put military forces into another country simply by declaring the act as a counter-terrorism move being done for national defense...a blank check on military aggression.

Jim W. Dean - Russia's defense spending is not comparable in any way with the US as it is not supporting a huge international forward base deployment with the largest international force projection power.

Jim W. Dean - We have long editorialized at VT that without more international pressure against these illegal military actions inside another state without its permission, that they would grow in size to become permanent occupation forces.

Jim W. Dean - To avoid more Saudi casualties and internal opposition the Royal family is putting more mercenaries into Yemen, we hear in the 20,000 range, using the old Blackwater dealers of death.

Jim W. Dean - VT begins building Turkish sources to give us a deeper viewer into the firestorm that is emerging from the Erdogan regime and its neo-Ottoman foreign policy. We want those suffering there to share their story.

Jim W. Dean - The emergence of Asia's three major powers, after their setting aside old conflicts, will defeat all plans for their recolonization via gunboat and nuclear diplomacy. Once they are fully integrated, they will easily be able to defend their interests.

Jim W. Dean - The West's use of proxy terrorist forces for geopolitical gain is going to have long term boomerang costs as public trust in government will sink to new lows, but a new international prosecution forum is critically needed.

Jim W. Dean - The worse perversion of all is this scam of those guilty of State terrorism hiding behind a false screen of "anti-terrorism" operations like Erdogan is pandering to us now

Gordon and Jim - The maps tell a story of a continuous Kurdish controlled area that covers more than 70% of all stolen oil, all moved directly through Kurdish lines in areas where there is no ISIS presence.

Jim W. Dean - Henry Kamens gives us, as usual, an unreported aspect of the Turkey-ISIL oil smuggling operation, where all roads, or pipelines, often end up in the shadowy Republic of Georgia.

Jim W. Dean - The Obama administration finally stops lying to the American people about Turkey's support for ISIL. This now puts Erdogan and Turkish Intel on the spot for having been involved. And neither NATO or the EU can pretend they did not know.

Jim W. Dean - Putin is sending a message to those countries that have Special Ops teams in Syria trying to kill or kidnap Russian advisors and troops, that there will be no "after the fact" discussions over the matter.

Jim W. Dean - The stupid sanctions policies of the West are going to have huge long term costs in lost export business where arms are a major player.

Gordon Duff -Every aspect of this cross-border traffic involves the government and military of Turkey and its complicity in support of terrorism, five minutes with a map will tell anyone this.

Jim W. Dean - Who would have ever believed we would have seen the complete reversal of the military situation in Syria beyond anyone’s imagination?

Jim W. Dean - VT gets briefed on some declassified but generally unknown material that is literally science fiction stuff, so you know the classified stuff goes way further.

Jim W. Dean - NEO's Salman Rafi Sheikh takes us into the Byzantine maze of Russian-Saudi geopolitics, which can seem like trying to walk through a minefield with a blindfold on.

Jim W. Dean - I expect to see more focus on the Erdogan corruption, with revelations on the family energy companies and the industrial scale of their corruption, plus hunting down where all the "profits from terrorism" are stashed.

Jim W. Dean - After the carnage of WWII and the slaughters that came before, under the Commies, Russians have reverence for life way beyond their Western counterparts

Jim W. Dean - If the US and the Saudi's helped triangulate this attack, then it was an overt act of war, which included NATO as an accessory, and was a violation of a number of international laws, not to mention the UN charter.

Jim W. Dean - Putin's best revenge is to destroy the plans of the Western scamsters and their Gulf buddies to carve up Syria, killing a quarter million, over a million wounded and maimed, and 11 million refugees created in the process.

Jim W. Dean - I will stick to my original Santa list of 25 drone strikes of my choosing WITH full immunity if I can pass a lie detector test, that my sole motivation was national security.

Jim W. Dean - Uri is at his best when on his Don Quixote horse and taking on all comers. And I like his spunk toward going where others fear to tread

Jim W. Dean - The NGO arena has turned into an international sewer of sorts, with castaways and wanabees circling that toilet for a chance to jump in if someone throws in a few hundred bucks.

Jim W. Dean - The West’s succession of bad strategy, lies, and tactical blunders is pushing world opinion toward the Russian example of leadership on the world stage.

Jim W. Dean - May the angels smile upon and protect us as we honor the Russian SU-24 pilot, the first Russian to die in their air campaign. He will be honored by all honorable veterans as a brother in arms.

Jim W. Dean - Russia responds to Turkish shoot down by ending military cooperation and signaling one freebie is all Turkey gets. Russia has a right, under international law, to shoot down planes attacking it while on Syrian anti-terrorism operations.