{"id":148505,"date":"2023-10-14T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-14T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=148505"},"modified":"2023-10-13T17:09:31","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T21:09:31","slug":"threats-escalate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=148505","title":{"rendered":"Threats escalate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-120746 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kim-Jong-un-frowns-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kim-Jong-un-frowns-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kim-Jong-un-frowns-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kim-Jong-un-frowns-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Kim-Jong-un-frowns.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Been a busy week in the war with words. Besides our own politicians wedging their size 12Es into their mouths, we have some of the usual overseas players making threats as well.<\/p>\n<p>Top of the list is Fatty da Kim. North Korea is offended that the USS Ronald Reagan group, an aircraft carrier group, has docked in Busan, Korea.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>North Korea on Friday warned of the possibility of a preemptive nuclear strike after the arrival of a U.S. aircraft carrier in South Korea.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Its arrival is &#8220;an undisguised military provocation driving the situation to irrevocable catastrophic circumstances,&#8221; North Korea&#8217;s state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) said Friday, per Reuters.<\/li>\n<li>Pyongyang threatened Friday to respond to the U.S. aircraft carrier&#8217;s arrival with its nuclear doctrine, which authorizes preemptive strikes, AP reported.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2023\/10\/13\/north-korea-nuclear-strike-us-aircraft-carrier\">Axios<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apparently he doesn&#8217;t know how carriers work. They aren&#8217;t a threat when they are docked.<\/p>\n<p>Now we all know Kim wants to be the pre-eminent nuclear power. Somehow he feels that his stock of nukes can overwhelm our estimated 2000+?\u00a0 Too, given the inaction of our leadership&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-111794 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hezbollah-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hezbollah-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/hezbollah.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And in Lebanon, Hamas&#8217; big brother Hezbollah, says it is ready to fight Israel any time.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Lebanese movement Hezbollah has claimed that it is &#8220;fully prepared&#8221; to join Hamas in a war against Israel when the time comes.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> Times of Israel, citing a statement by Naim Qassem, Deputy Head of Hezbollah, during a pro-Palestinian rally in the southern suburbs of Beirut<\/p>\n<p><strong>Quote: <\/strong>&#8220;We are fully prepared, and when the time comes for action, we will take it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Details: <\/strong>Afterwards, air-raid warnings were issued in northern Israel, where it borders Lebanon.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/lebanese-hezbollah-says-ready-fight-130223390.html\">Ukrayinska Pravda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Normally, noting the UP\u00a0 source I would be a bit skeptical, but in this case they are reporting public sources. Hezbollah is better financed by Iran (probably via the Quds Force of their Islamic Revolutionary Guards) and has been sending rockets into Israel for years. Believe I read they are the world&#8217;s largest , most heavily armed non-government force in the world? (After, of course, the NRA.) Their entry could be an issue, sort of like China interjecting themselves into the Korean War.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-133008 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Nord-Streamx.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"168\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And someone apparently decided they don&#8217;t like either the data link nor the gas pipeline between Finnland and Estonia &#8211; both were damaged on October 8 by &#8220;parties unknown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Finnish government on Tuesday reported damage to a gas pipeline and a telecommunications cable with Estonia following an unusual drop in pressure on Sunday in the Balticconnector gas pipeline, which led to its shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a news conference, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo stopped short of calling the pipeline damage an act of sabotage but said it could not have been caused by regular operations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2023\/10\/11\/finland-estonia-gas-pipeline-telecom-link-damaged-by-external-activity\">Al-Jazeera<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Russians deny any involvement (as well they should, given that both countries are EU and NATO members.)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Konrad Muzyka, an independent regional defence analyst, said on X that the Russian hydrographic survey vessel Sibiryakov had been detected in the Gulf of Finland near the pipeline and the Estlink cable in May, August and September.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You may remember the Siberyakov as having been spotted lurking with its transponders turned off near the Nord Stream pipeline, too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been a busy week in the war with words. 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