Sunday, September 20, 2026

Iran’s military command says it has been informed US plans to resume strikes


Iran’s military command says it has been informed US plans to resume strikes


Iran received information that the United States, with the backing of some regional countries, is preparing to resume actions against Iran, the country’s central military command says in a statement, according to state media.

The military says that any US attack will trigger sustained strikes on US bases and interests in the region, the report adds, warning that regional countries supporting US aggression against Iran will be considered parties to the conflict.



After a pair of terrorist attacks in the northern West Bank, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that “no terrorist is immune, nor are those who assisted them.”

“We will hold them all accountable — in Gaza, in Lebanon, and in Judea and Samaria,” he says in a statement released by his office shortly after a man was killed in a terror shooting near the Neve Tzuf settlement.

He says he instructed Israeli security forces to sent reinforcements to the West Bank, and to impose closures and carry out arrests. Netanyahu also orders that the home of a terrorist who was shot and killed after a separate attempted ramming attack today be demolished immediately.

“On behalf of all the citizens of Israel, my wife and I send our deepest condolences to the family of the victim of the attack and share in their profound grief,” says Netanyahu.

Meanwhile, President Isaac Herzog says in statement that terrorism will not break Israelis’ spirit.

“I bow my head in memory of the victim murdered in the terror attack,” says Herzog. “I share wholeheartedly in the grief of his family and community and pray for the recovery of the wounded.”

“On the eve of this sacred festival, let it be stated clearly: Terror will not break us, and it will not shake our spirit,” he continues. “We will stand against terror together, united, resolute, and full of faith.”

Police: Man shot in West Bank terror attack dies of his injuries

The Israeli man seriously injured in the shooting attack near the West Bank settlement of Halamish has succumbed to his injuries, police say.

The man, in his 30s, had been inside his car at a natural spring in the area when a Palestinian gunman opened fire on bathers and fled.

Police say the man was taken to a hospital, where his death was declared a short while ago.

Police officers are operating at the scene alongside IDF troops to locate the terrorist.





The Arctic Front Of The "Cordon Sanitaire" Is The Most Threatening To Russia:


The Arctic Front Of The "Cordon Sanitaire" Is The Most Threatening To Russia


The military-technical developments there aim to greatly mitigate Russia's nuclear second-strike capabilities via the Golden Dome in parallel with posing an unprecedented fifth-generation aerial threat via the F-35As that'll outmatch Russia's Su-57s by 10:1 without the US and 35:1 if it's included.


RT reviewed the 2026 Russian Military Yearbook, which is sponsored by the state arms company and meant only for senior members of the national security apparatus.

Their article can be read in full here, but the present piece will only focus on the part about "The Very Cold War". This is in reference to escalating NATO-Russian tensions in the Arctic. The Yearbook details NATO's large-scale military drills in the Arctic, its allies' arms build-ups, and their deep displeasure with Russia's Northern Sea Route.

Most alarmingly, the Yearbook mentioned that Finland plans to acquire 64 F-35As while Canada will receive 88 of them. It was separately reported that Norway already has 52 F-35As, which is more than double Russia's estimated 20 or so Su-57s, its fifth-generation analogue. Sweden doesn't yet have any fifth-generation fighters, but those other three Arctic states will have over 10x as many as Russia does. If the US' over 500 F-35As are included, then Russia's fifth-generation fighters will be outmatched by 35:1.

These statistics on their own show that the US is actively implementing its 2021 strategic plan for "Regaining Arctic Dominance" that was cited in the Yearbook, the latter of which also detailed some of NATO's new radar, drone, ship, icebreaker, missile, and other military-technical plans. They altogether lend credence to one of the cited Russian experts who warned that "Washington never abandoned the thought of redrawing borders in that area."


To summarize, Trump 2.0 is pursuing a three-pronged strategy against Russia:

1) build Golden Dome missile defense infrastructure in the Arctic to greatly mitigate Russia's nuclear second-strike capabilities; 

2) arm Canada and the Viking Bloc (Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland) to threaten Russia; and then 

3) likely push Russia's limits along the Northern Sea Route for the purpose of provoking a crisis that would then render this corridor dangerous and thus greatly reduce its use at minimum.

The pressure that the US is placing upon Russia along the Arctic front via these means complements that which it's also placing through Polish-led efforts in Central & Eastern Europeand Japanese-led ones in Northeast Asia. All of these fronts consist entirely of US mutual defense allies, but the Turkish-led one along Russia's entire southern periphery doesn't, yet a hypothetical special operation there (such as against Azerbaijan) might be deterred by the possibility of the US responding via the other fronts.

Simply put, a "cordon sanitaire" has been assembled around Russia, and this containment noose is being tightened the most by the military-technical developments along the Arctic front than anywhere else. Up till recently, this was the quietest front of the four, but that just shows that its members were moving silently to avoid attracting attention from Russia.

The latest Yearbook proves that the Kremlin had been monitoring them all along and is thus planning its response, however, so this front will likely heat up.





Ukraine Pounds Major Moscow Refinery As Global Diesel Crisis Threatens Economic Shock


Ukraine Pounds Major Moscow Refinery As Global Diesel Crisis Threatens Economic Shock
TYLER DURDEN



Military conflicts, economic wars, and resource wars are converging ahead of the Northern Hemisphere winter.

Export restrictions on critical materials and energy products are adding economic pressure worldwide, raising the risk that supply disruptions and retaliatory measures widen existing conflicts. With no clear path to de-escalation, the potential for spillover from active war zones remains top of mind.

The most pressing news so far this morning is that Ukraine launched a major overnight drone strike on Russia, hitting a Moscow refinery despite President Trump's request for Ukraine to stop striking Russian energy infrastructure as a global refining crisis deepens.

Bloomberg reports that the Gazprom Neft-owned Moscow Oil Refinery, about 16 miles from the Kremlin, was struck by drones. The facility has a processing capacity of around 245,000 barrels a day and supplies fuel to the surrounding metro area.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X, "One of Russia's key oil industry facilities and the aggressor’s logistics facility were hit. These are billions of dollars that sustain the war machine. The systems used included FP-1, RZ-100, MICH-2000, Palianytsia, Vendetta, Liutyi, Bars, Flamingo, Sichen, and Pelican."

Last week, diesel futures and refining spreads climbed to record highs as worsening supply disruptions in the Gulf and Russia tightened availability of the industrial fuel that powers the global economy.

Potential export restrictions, or extensions of existing restrictions, are compounding the squeeze. A report on Tuesday said Moscow was considering extending its diesel export ban, while Senate Majority Leader John Thune told reporters that day he was "open to exploring" a US diesel export ban.

The squeeze was even more severe in refining spreads. The US heating oil crack, which measures the difference between fuel and crude prices, surged to $117 a barrel on Wednesday, the highest level in Bloomberg data going back to 2009.


Bloomberg Intelligence senior commodity strategist Mike McGlone has warned that the diesel price shock echoes similar moves in gasoline during the 2008 energy shock.





Trump rushes back to White House amid looming US military operation against Houthis


Trump rushes back to White House amid looming US military operation against Houthis


US President Donald Trump cut short his stay at Camp David on Sunday and returned to the White House. Simultaneously, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth departed a sports event in Texas to make a swift return to the capital, as the US prepared for potential wide-ranging military strikes against the Houthis in Yemen.

Hegseth left a college football game at Texas A&M University, while an official delegation in Copenhagen was recalled directly to the capital. According to a report on CNN by Alex Plitsas, the US was weighing extensive operations against Ansar Allah (the Houthis), in retaliation for rebel strikes inside Saudi Arabia. The kingdom has struggled to counter the Iranian-backed Yemeni rebels, to the point that it has approached Israel to enhance its defensive capabilites. 

 CNN National Security Analyst Alex Plitsas confirmed on X that the presidential session focused on reviewing strike options following a missile assault directed at Riyadh.  "As I said last night, was told that the POTUS meeting at Camp David was to deliberate and review Yemen strike options. Today, U.S. embassies in Middle Eastern countries that are likely to be targets of retaliatory strikes issued warnings. Now POTUS head to the White House early," he wrote on X.

Alongside the emergency measures in Washington, the State Department issued a rare worldwide travel alert and updated security guidance for Americans in the Middle East. 

"Due to tensions in the Middle East, the security environment remains complex with the potential for unforeseen escalation," the official announcement stated. Administration officials said Iran-backed rebels had attacked targets in Saudi Arabia, including civilian airports, warning explicitly, "This military conflict has the potential to escalate rapidly."

The administration urged American citizens in the region to maintain heightened vigilance, monitor flight schedules, and prepare for potential sudden cancellations or airspace closures. Officials also advised citizens outside the region to reconsider any travel to or transit through the area.

Government sources emphasized that US diplomatic facilities have been targeted in the past, warning that Iran and its proxies could attempt to attack American missions, businesses, and interests globally.

Alert levels were also raised in Israel. The US Embassy in Jerusalem stated that consular services in the capital and at the Tel Aviv branch continue to operate normally. However, the embassy urged citizens to verify flight statuses at Ben Gurion and Haifa airports, locate their nearest bomb shelter or safe room, and download the Home Front Command app for real-time alerts. Citizens were also instructed to stock up on water, food, and essential medications, and to stay away from demonstrations and large gatherings.

Separately, European nations have been sounding the alarm on what appears to be potential Russian preparations for another incursion into Europe.

On Wednesday, Finnish President Alexander Stubb urged his country's citizens to "prepare mentally for something to happen." On Friday, after convening French party leaders in the crisis room at the Élysée Palace, President Emmanuel Macron said, "In recent weeks, the threat, particularly the Russian hybrid threat, facing Europeans and France has intensified."


The clearest warnings came from Poland, one of NATO's most prepared countries on its eastern flank. Prime Minister Donald Tusk delivered a special address Thursday to the Sejm, Poland's lower house of parliament, on the 87th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland.

"According to intelligence assessments, the Russian plan also includes hybrid strikes using drones and missiles against countries supporting Ukraine, including Poland," Tusk said.


Chaos And Desperation To Come - Paving The Road To Digital Reset


America’s truckers and farmers are being forced out of business by sky-high diesel prices, setting stage for severe food shortages



The war on energy is not some organic development that resulted from bad decisions or bad luck.

It’s all orchestrated to get the world into a crisis mode because it’s during a crisis that the globalist power elites can bring about the most drastic change. They know the changes they have planned are going to be very unpopular. Things like driving less, maybe even abandoning your motor vehicle altogether, eating less meat, living in a much smaller home, running less air conditioning. These are all highly unpopular lifestyle changes for the average Westerner.

So it takes a good all-consuming crisis, and a declared emergency, to get us to accept these changes.

CV was one such crisis, in 2020.

But instead of focusing on the root causes of the energy shortfalls, which are the wars in the Middle East and the lack of refinery capacity in America and the West, we see Donald Trump focused on doubling down on needless foreign wars and encouraging the building of thousands of AI data centers here at home. If you look at his first term, these have been his two biggest priorities — conquering foreign countries he doesn’t like, or whose resources he’d like to steal, and building out the AI control grid.

He should be working to save our trucking industry and our farming community but instead he’s focused on two policy actions that hurt trucking and farming – building more data centers that require vast amounts of water and energy, and the continuation of wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Both wars have led to the closure of critical trade routes and destroyed key oil refineries and pipelines.

Many truckers are posting videos to YouTube saying they can no longer afford to keep working when it costs $1,000 or more to fill up their semi-trucks with diesel costing $6.50 to $8.00 or more per gallon.

Today, in part two, let’s look at the impact of the diesel crisis on farmers.

Farmers already struggled this past spring to get sufficient fertilizer in the immediate aftermath of the U.S./Israel attack on Iran and subsequent closure of the Strait of Hormuz (and don’t forget that Iran warned the world ahead of time it would close the Strait if attacked, so no one in the administration can claim, as Trump has tried to do, that this was a surprise move by the Iranians).

Christian Westbrook, who operates the Unshadowed account on Substack with a focus on global food wars and the destruction of the food supply chain, is reporting today that farmers are finding themselves in a financial straightjacket similar to what truckers are experiencing. The numbers simply don’t add up for many to continue harvesting their crops this fall.

Westbrook writes:

“I am hearing from farmers who are confirming — given diesel prices, they are walking away from their crops.

“The math just doesn’t add up for them. It is economically unviable to farm.

“And as they destroy the family farms, they roll out the gene-edited food…with extremely dangerous consequences to all living creatures (especially microbiome).

“Folks are feeling the pain from diesel and are wondering what’s going on — ensure they get the big picture agenda, not some partisan blame game nonsense. Spread the word.”


“I used to wonder how they were going to make all the Agenda 2030 issues line up over a few years, but it is becoming pretty clear now.”

Pretty clear, indeed. Manipulate the U.S. president into starting a totally unnecessary war, which causes the country he attacked to choke off the most important trade route for moving oil, gas and fertilizers, then sit back and let the oil markets do the rest. Make it unaffordable to farm, unaffordable to move farm produce to the places where people can buy it, thus causing civil unrest and the responding government crackdowns, lockdowns, rationing, depopulation, etc.

Hungry people typically react in one of two ways. They either do what they are told and become 100 percent compliant in hopes of getting whatever paltry handouts the government may be offering, or they get out in the streets, engaging in rioting and theft.

In a chaotic atmosphere like this, people become desperate, more willing to accept radical changes, like rationing of energy and food, digital/programmable currencies and biometric digital IDs. 

The digital ID may not be mandatory, but you won’t be able to buy food or gas unless you have one. Most people will be willing to do whatever is asked of them in order to feed their families or achieve a measure of freedom in a lockdown technocratic authoritarian system that strictly measures their energy usage. The Covid response proved that most people will obey the government’s draconian, even nonsensical, rules when under extreme stress and anxiety.

The way it’s going, they may even achieve their goals for a digital reset ahead of schedule, before the year 2030.

One thing I have become convinced will not work: I do NOT believe voting is going to solve anything because candidates on both sides of the political divide, no matter what they say, are owned by the same masters. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure that out in the current environment.

Keep your head up. Stay focused. Prepare for war while praying for peace.