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[Fullmoonn]

A miniature "regeneracy event?"

https://www.foxnews.com/media/trump-rev ... r-shooting

Probably has to be something that interests and moves the majority of the population to be regarded within the realm of regeneracy or whatnot.

[Fullmoonn]

If anyone has heard something about famine coming up especially since the fertilizer and farm input for the global year are bottled up during the straight closure, look at El Nino for the food shortage coming and... all the other inputs getting eliminated somewhat systematically in every part of the world. Time's running for cheap food

[tim]

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticke ... -civil-war

Between July 1936 and April 1939, Spain suffered a bloody civil war as a coalition of Nationalists under Generalissimo Francisco Franco staged an insurrection against the Second Spanish Republic. Nationalist forces had won the bitter struggle, at a steep cost: Some 300,000 fighters killed on both sides, with another 200,000 civilians dead in the crossfire. Franco would rule Spain as dictator for the next 35 years.

But the Spanish Civil War had significance far beyond the Iberian peninsula. European observers watched the fighting closely, alternately portraying the conflict as a fight between dictatorship and democracy, as a class struggle, and as a struggle between communism and fascism.

It is not difficult to spot antecedents of the massive global conflict within the Spanish Civil War. Nazi Germany and fascist Italy furnished munitions and supplies to the Nationalists; the communist Soviet Union furnished support to the Republicans. Hitler used the Spanish Civil War to test new German military equipment and doctrine, and to provide his forces with combat experience for the war he had already planned to launch.

Though the United States remained officially neutral in the conflict, some 2,800 Americans made their way to Spain to fight on the Republican side, most famously in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade. Those returned veterans would become the subjects of the first serious scientific study of fear in battle, insights that would help the United States prepare its own troops to fight in the Second World War.

This century's "Spanish Civil War" and prelude to WWIII seems to be the war in Ukraine.

Weapons that would be put to deadly use in WWII were tested and developed in combat in Spain.

The drones we are seeing in the Russian-Ukrainian War today should be thought to be early versions of a more refined deadlier version to be used in WWIII.

As John has said before, "The living will envy the dead". Those who had been born and lived out full lives before the coming crisis will be envied by those who will be caught up living it.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0587stuka/

Orders for 262 Ju-87A-ls were placed immediately, and by 1937, three Stukas had been sent to Spain and were actively engaging in com­bat missions against Republican units. More Stukas were to follow. The precision with which the planes were able to strike ground targets impressed even the still-less-than­-optimistic Richthofen, and he or­dered the crews of the three Ju-87s to be changed often in order for as many flyers as possible to gain ex­perience in the aircraft.

Further Stuka successes in Spain continued to stimulate dive-bomber research and development. The Sudetenland crisis of 1938 caused the Luftwaffe to form additional dive-bomber groups, using older aircraft until more Ju-87s became available. These included the He-45, He-50, He-5l, and especial­ly the Hs-123, a plane that closely resembled the Curtiss Hawk and one that was used extensively by the Germans in the initial stages of the war.

Junkers factories increased their production, and soon, faster, more updated Ju-87Bs began to replace the older A models. This newer plane had a 1,150-hp engine, which resulted in a maximum bomb-carry­ing capacity of 1,000 kg. Despite a relatively short action radius of 125 miles at 180 mph, the planes were more than adequate for the ground-support missions they were re­quired to perform.

By the time hostilities broke out with Poland on September 1, 1939, the Luftwaffe had more than 300 Ju-87B and thirty Hs-123 aircraft ready for deployment as operational dive-bombers.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih ... -guernica/

On April 26, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the Nazis tested their new air force on the Basque town of Guernica in northern Spain. One-third of Guernica’s 5,000 inhabitants were killed or wounded.

Pablo Picasso exposed the horror of the bombing in his famous anti-war painting called Guernica.

[tim]

https://www.zerohedge.com/military/axio ... s-homeland

Axios Warns Cuba Stockpiled 300 Attack Drones With Crosshairs On U.S. Homeland

Fast forward to Sunday: Axios, citing newly obtained U.S. intelligence, reports that Cuba has accumulated roughly 300 military drones from Russia and Iran and has discussed potential wartime strike scenarios targeting Guantanamo Bay, U.S. naval vessels, and possibly Key West.

Axios spoke with a senior US official who said the Cuban drone threat is becoming a growing national security concern because of Cuba's proximity to the U.S., the presence of Iranian military advisers in Havana, and the rapid proliferation of low-cost drone warfare.

"When we think about those types of technologies being that close, and a range of bad actors from terror groups to drug cartels to Iranians to the Russians, it's concerning," the official said.

The official noted that Cuba has been building drone stockpiles of "varying capabilities" from Russia and Iran since 2023.

Late last week, CIA Director John Ratcliffe met with officials in Havana, which appeared to reopen the channel for political dialogue between the two countries.

Ratcliffe and top U.S. officials, some of whose faces were blurred in images released by the CIA on X, held high-level talks with Cuba's Interior Minister, the head of Cuban intelligence, and Raúl Castro's grandson, Raulito Rodríguez Castro.

AP News noted that Cuban officials presented a report to Ratcliffe and his team, claiming to demonstrate that the communist-run island poses no threat to U.S. national security.

Meanwhile, the most glaring vulnerability in U.S. airspace is the absence of a low-cost, layered counter-drone technology capable of detecting and defeating one-way attack drones. That gap spans energy infrastructure, stadiums, data centers, military facilities, power substations, and other high-value civilian assets.

This is precisely why private equity funds have recently rushed into the space. PE firms are increasingly moving to fund, acquire, and import battle-tested Ukrainian drone and counter-drone systems into the U.S. market, positioning for a rapid phase of domestic airspace fortification.