U.S. Intelligence Warns China and Russia Developing Weapons to Destroy American Satellites, Threatening GPS and Military Communications

U.S. Intelligence Warns China and Russia Developing Weapons to Destroy American Satellites, Threatening GPS and Military Communications

Emmitt Barry

U.S. intelligence officials are warning that China and Russia are developing increasingly sophisticated weapons capable of disabling or destroying American satellites, potentially disrupting GPS navigation, military communications, missile-defense systems, and critical infrastructure during a future conflict.

A new Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) assessment, released October 26, details how America’s two principal strategic competitors are expanding their ability to wage warfare in space through satellite-jamming technology, powerful lasers, anti-satellite missiles, and orbital weapons.

The report, Challenges to Security in Space, warns that China is developing space-based weapons capable of threatening American satellites, while Russia is pursuing a particularly dangerous capability: a satellite designed to carry a nuclear weapon.

According to the DIA, China’s military already possesses ground-based laser systems capable of disrupting or damaging satellite sensors and is developing more powerful directed-energy weapons that could threaten satellites in higher orbits by the end of the decade.

Beijing is also expanding electronic warfare systems capable of interfering with satellite communications, military reconnaissance, and GPS signals.

U.S. intelligence assesses that China intends to deploy additional anti-satellite missiles capable of destroying spacecraft across multiple orbital altitudes, potentially undermining America’s military advantage during a confrontation over Taiwan or elsewhere in the Pacific.

Russia presents another serious threat, with intelligence officials warning that Moscow is developing a satellite intended to carry a nuclear anti-satellite weapon.

Such a detonation could disable thousands of satellites, potentially causing widespread disruptions to military operations, global communications, navigation, and commercial services.

The DIA also warns that radiation generated by a nuclear explosion in orbit could persist for years, damaging satellites that survive the initial blast.

Russia has already demonstrated sophisticated orbital maneuvering capabilities, including positioning spacecraft near American government satellites, raising concerns about their potential use in future attacks.

American military operations depend heavily on satellites for precision-guided weapons, intelligence gathering, battlefield communications, missile-launch detection, and navigation.

Disrupting these systems could complicate military operations before conventional fighting even begins.

The threat extends beyond the Pentagon. Civilian aviation, shipping, financial networks, emergency services, and telecommunications also depend on satellite-enabled navigation, timing, or communications.

The latest assessment underscores a growing concern among U.S. defense officials: the opening stages of a future major war could unfold in orbit, with America’s adversaries attempting to blind and disrupt U.S. forces before attacking on land, sea, or air.

The intelligence findings describe developing and existing capabilities, not evidence that China or Russia has launched a new destructive attack against American satellites.

The Gulf Holds a Security Meeting and Washington Wasn’t Invited

The Gulf Holds a Security Meeting and Washington Wasn’t Invited

Larry C. Johnson

On Monday, while Donald Trump was publicly pondering whether to “make a deal” with Iran or “finish them off,” something happened in Tehran that should have set off alarms in every office of the State Department, assuming anyone is still left there to hear them.

Saudi Arabia’s defense minister, Prince Khalid bin Salman, the brother of the Crown Prince, flew to Tehran. With him came Pakistan’s Field Marshal Asim Munir and Turkey’s intelligence chief, Ibrahim Kalin. They sat down with Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and senior security official Rezaei, who hosted the talks, for about two hours. The agenda: the Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia, the Strait of Hormuz, the American blockade of Iran’s ports and a regional non-aggression framework.

Read that list again. Those are the four biggest security problems in the Persian Gulf. The countries that actually live there just met to discuss them. The United States, which has two carrier strike groups, an amphibious ready group and a blockade in the neighborhood, was not in the room. Nobody seems to have missed it.

The three visitors are the signatories of the Makkah Agreement, the mutual-defense treaty that Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan signed on August 7. Article 2 says an attack on one is an attack on all. It was sold, at least in Washington’s imagination, as a Sunni shield for the Kingdom against Iran and its friends in Yemen.

Eleven weeks later, the entire shield showed up in Tehran to talk about cooperation. Iran’s ambassador to Pakistan says Tehran will “study” the agreement, “and if it is good, we will support it.” The treaty conveniently includes an accession clause allowing new members to join by consensus. My sources tell me the three formally invited Iran to join once the U.S.-Israeli war ends, and that Tehran accepted on that basis. No official readout confirms that yet. But the official readouts did agree to keep talking “among the four,” and Iran has a phrase for what it wants: “endogenous security.” Translation: security for the Gulf, by the Gulf, without the 5th Fleet.

According to my sources, Field Marshal Munir told Prince Khalid that Riyadh needed to reach an accommodation with Ansar Allah, and reportedlyPrince Khalid arrived in Tehran with a $1 billion down payment to help buy one. An anonymous report in the Israeli paper Israel Hayom says the same, including that the money flew in on the prince’s plane. Riyadh hasn’t confirmed it, and officially insists on the return of seized territory first. I personally doubt this story because it is a piddling amount that the Houthis will view as a meaningless gesture. But consider the picture if it is true: the Saudis would be paying Iran to get the Houthis to stop shooting at them. Washington spent a decade and billions of dollars in arms sales so that Saudi Arabia would not need Tehran’s help. That worked out well.

Araghchi had offered on October 11 to broker Saudi-Houthi talks. Two weeks later the Saudi defense minister was in his capital. Iran has gained more leverage in a month of diplomacy than in a year of American “maximum pressure.”

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Black Swan & Perfect Storm

Black Swan & Perfect Storm

Via Money Circus

News comes at us fast, like the pitcher’s ball. We take them one by one, defence and deflection. We’re not looking to knock them out of the park. Survival is the game.

Crises in food and fertiliser, transportation and fuel, jobs and AI, internet and cyber attacks, lack of chemicals bringing industries to a halt. What’s going on?

A Great Shutdown is underway and it was already a much bigger deal than Covid when I wrote about it in 2023. From energy prices that shutter industry, to brands that “go woke and go broke” — why burn it down unless that’s not where your wealth lies.

The continuation of war despite the mounting loss of energy, the impact on food and essential inputs for industry, from pipes to metals, confirms my analysis.

The gas and oil spigot is being turned off.

I called out the Great Shutdown back in 2023 when it was not fit for polite conversation. Like the Great Replacement is still not fit today.

At a certain time, late in the day, everyone will agree that they knew all along.

So let us examine this criss.

The announcer over the speaker system tells us, during half time, that there will be a fly past.

We look up, and see black swans incoming.

CASCADING CRISES

We find, in no particular order, a growing number of crises affecting industry and society.

Jobs are layoffs accelerate. Microsoft is offering redundancy to more than one quarter of its workforce, offering buyouts to 60,000 staff. Barclays bank is cutting five per cent of its staff, mainly in support functions. Groupon is going from human “digital native” to “AI native”, cutting a quarter of its jobs. It’s a broad trend, across many industries.

Internet insecurity is no longer a bug, it’s a feature. We see a global equivalent of Stuxnet (the virus that was used to break Iran’s nuclear centrifuges in 2010) and this time the target is whole-of-society. Cyber attacks and Internet outages shuttered banks last week. AI agents probed companies’ code. French supermarkets saw their fridge freezers hacked, temperatures cranked up to spoil food. If their SMART fridges then why not yours, or any device that’s hooked up, like the SMART meter that controls your electricity?

This was the scenario of the Obama-produced “Leave the World Behind” (2023) in which a broad and rolling cyber attack exposes the fragility of its middle class characters.

Western newspapers are reporting on the vulnerability of Internet cables that pass under the Strait of Hormuz. Recall how the same politicians and media lamented Europe’s reliance on Russian gas shortly before the detonation of the North Stream pipeline under the Baltic Sea.

Food prices rise. Don’t believe the official inflation numbers which are manipulated. Watch your shopping bill and the hidden shrink-flation of smaller packet sizes and cheaper ingredients.

U.S. wheat production is down 23 per cent on the year, to its lowest level since 1970. The reduction is caused partly by drought, El Niño and tired soils affecting yields, but also by a shift to higher-subsidised crops like corn and soybean. The rising cost of fertiliser and diesel is another burden. Disruption to Ukraine exports through the Black Sea also pushed up grain prices.

The Quaker Oats factory in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, suffered an explosion and fire, five floors up in an area where the product moves, rather than where people work. No one was hurt but the the building and its machinery were put out of action. It is the worlds largest oat milling facility that processes over 2 million pounds of oats daily.

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Saudis ask Trump to 'give diplomacy a chance' on Iran prior to military option, sources tell 'Post'

Saudis ask Trump to 'give diplomacy a chance' on Iran prior to military option, sources tell 'Post'

AMICHAI STEIN

Saudi Arabia has asked the Trump administration to “give diplomacy a chance” before US President Donald Trump makes a final decision on whether to launch military action against Iran, two regional sources told The Jerusalem Post.

“Senior Saudi officials have asked senior Trump administration officials for ‘more time,’” one of the sources said.

Riyadh is concerned that if Trump orders a strike on Iran, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the Iranian military could retaliate by targeting Saudi Arabia, including its water and electricity infrastructure, as well as facilities linked to the oil and energy sectors.

Several days ago, senior representatives of the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, comprising Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan, arrived in Tehran for meetings with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, and Supreme National Security Council Secretary Mohsen Rezaei.

The delegation also included Saudi Defense Minister Prince Khalid bin Salman Al Saud.

According to one regional source who spoke with the Post, during the meetings, the Saudis conveyed a request to Iran that, should the conflict resume, Tehran refrain from targeting key Saudi oil and gas facilities. However, the Iranians refused to make such a commitment, the source said.

During Operation Roaring Lion and Operation Epic Fury, the joint Israeli-American military campaign against Iran in March, Tehran launched missiles and drones toward a series of targets in Saudi Arabia.

At a certain point, Iran reduced and eventually halted its attacks following messages from Riyadh warning that Tehran was “crossing a red line” and that Saudi Arabia would be forced to strike Iran if the attacks continued.

Christine Lagarde QUITS European Central Bank as Inflation Surges and Europe’s Debt Crisis Deepens

Globalist Christine Lagarde QUITS European Central Bank as Inflation Surges and Europe’s Debt Crisis Deepens

Jim Hᴏft

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde is calling it quits, nine months before her term expires, as Europe faces another inflation crisis, skyrocketing borrowing costs, and mounting concerns over the continent’s economic future.

The stunning announcement came Thursday, October 29, when the European Central Bank (ECB) confirmed that Lagarde will step down on February 7, 2027, rather than serve until the scheduled conclusion of her eight-year term in October 2027.

The ECB confirmed her early departure in an official statement, announcing that Lagarde had informed its Governing Council and European Council President António Costa of her decision.

The announcement immediately raised questions about why one of Europe’s most powerful financial officials is abandoning her post as the eurozone faces renewed economic turbulence.

And the timing could hardly be more revealing.

According to the latest Eurostat figures, eurozone annual inflation climbed to 3.8% in September, up from 3.2% in August and well above the ECB’s 2% target.

Inflation increased in 23 European Union member states, putting additional pressure on households already struggling with elevated living expenses.

Meanwhile, European governments are confronting rising borrowing costs, with particular concern surrounding France’s deteriorating public finances.

French government bond yields have surged, adding to fears that Europe’s heavily indebted economies could face even greater financial instability.

The ECB now finds itself caught between two dangerous choices: raise interest rates to fight inflation and risk further damaging economic growth, or hold rates steady and allow price pressures to persist.

The early resignation comes amid reports that Lagarde could be preparing for another influential position inside the globalist establishment.

Reuters reported on October 15 that the World Economic Forum (WEF), the organization behind the annual Davos gathering of political and corporate elites, was considering appointing Lagarde as its next chair.

According to four people familiar with the organization, the WEF could select Lagarde as early as November.

The organization’s Board of Trustees is scheduled to meet on November 2.

No appointment has been confirmed, and the ECB did not provide a reason for her early departure.

In June 2023, she absurdly claimed at a Paris “New Global Financing Pact” summit that “climate change affects inflation” and that inflation is “the beast that all central bankers… want to tame.”

TGP reported at the time that this was classic elite deflection, blame the weather and demand more taxes and green mandates while central banks print money and pursue zero-interest-rate policies that fuel the real problem.

This is the same Lagarde who, earlier this year at the World Economic Forum in Davos, reportedly walked out mid-speech as U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick called out Europe’s underperforming, uncompetitive, open-border, climate-obsessed economies.

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