Published: 2025-09-24
Updated 2025-09-27: several updates with later sources confirming the analysis provided in this article have been added. Among them is a conversation between Johnson and Crooke.
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Gunboat Neo-Colonialism
The US Navy’s operations in the Caribbean are a threat to coup the government of Venezuela.
“The massive naval flotilla off the coast of Venezuela and the movement of fifth-generation F-35 fighters to Puerto Rico has little to do with actual drug interdiction — they represent operational overkill,” said Adm. James G. Stavridis, a former head of the Pentagon’s Southern Command.
”Rather, they are a clear signal to Nicolás Maduro that this administration is growing serious about accomplishing either regime or behavioral change from Caracas,” Admiral Stavridis said. “Gunboat diplomacy is back, and it may well work”
[NYT]
[Image from a Green Left (Australia) call for a protest.]
That the US government is using the Navy to do the Coast Guard’s job is not only overkill. Murdering civilians on international waters is illegal. The US never signed the international treaty of the Law of the Sea. The US does demand freedoms provided by it when it proclaims “freedom of navigation” missions for its Navy.
The treaty codifies international waters as a commons, available to all for trade and transport. The current US program of attacking boats in international waters denies those commons. The US is, essentially, extending its territorial waters across the international zone to claim all of the “Gulf of America” and the Caribbean.
This US behaviour echoes that of Israel to maintain its siege on Gaza. Israel has used its military to board boats and kidnap civilians in international waters to prevent them entering Palestine’s territorial waters. With the Global Sumud Flotilla approaching Palestine, the largest such civilian mercy mission to deliver humanitarian aid to the population of Gaza, we can expect the same disregard for the international commons from Israel.
“Unidentified” drones have been flown to observe and threaten the flotilla.
Law for Thee and None for Me
Former British diplomat (and friend of Wikileaks and Assange) Craig Murray published an article highlighting the descent into a police state currently occurring in the UK.
On the one hand, UK police are arresting old ladies siting down in a public space holding plaques reading things like “No to genocide. I support Palestine Action”. Palestine Action has been proscribed (labeled) by the UK government as a “terrorist organisation” to legalize the arrests.
On the other hand, outgoing head of MI6, Sir Richard Moore stated that:
“we [MI6] ... forged a relationship with HTS” which “forged a path for the UK government to return to [Syria] within weeks”
[Murray]
HTS is a sub-branch of Al Qa’ida, a proscribed terrorist organisation, according to a UK government website to which Murray provided a citation. He concluded:
The [UK] government is arresting little old ladies for holding signs supporting one proscribed organisation, Palestine Action, while it admits it has been actively supporting another proscribed organisation.
...
In the UK neither the government nor the security services stand above the law. The fact that neither Moore nor Powell nor any of those on the ground directly involved in actively and substantively supporting HTS – a proscribed organisation – has been arrested, while people are arrested for holding a placard supporting Palestine Action because it is a proscribed organisation, is the very definition of arbitrary and oppressive government.
[Murray]
The general term for an “arbitrary and oppressive government” is a police state. Who, pray tell, are the “authoritarians” now, Sir Starmer?
Murray had earlier covered the legal farce used to discard a legal challenge to the proscription of Palestine Action.
NATO “Article 4” False-Flag Psyop Continues
A propaganda campaign is being run in Europe to manufacture support for British, French, German and EU preferences to continue the failed NATO war versus Russia in Ukraine.
The latest propaganda operation began on September 1st, when EU Commissioner von der Leyen claimed that the crew of a flight to Romania on which she was a passenger were forced to land unconventionally due to “Russian jamming”. The Financial Times (FT) article on the ruse published words from anonymous officials stating that the crew needed “analogue” (paper) maps.
Bernard from Moon of Alabama was quick to expose the idiocy of the FT forwarded claims of von der Leyen. Modern passenger aircraft do not carry paper maps, but use digital GIS systems. Against these, the plane’s position is understood by multiple independent systems. A plane knows which way it is going, how fast it is traveling and where it is. “Jamming” does not delete this data. The whole evidence-free claim was nonsensical.
Eight days later on the evening of the 9th September, the first of now three claims of violations of NATO member state airspaces by Russia in Poland, Romania and then Estonia were issued. These media narratives have been shot down by independent media, with Bernard from Moon of Alabama quickly issuing articles debunking the nonsensical claims from officials republished by legacy media.
The “Russia is testing NATO defenses” narrative has suffered critical failures. But, Western media continue to uncritically spray paint the nonsensical claims of European leaders across their digital pages.
Belarusian and Polish Chiefs of General Staff exchanged data to manage the situation in Poland on the 9th and 10th. The non-armed drones used did almost no damage. One building was damaged, not by an unarmed drone. but by a missile fired by a NATO military jet. Neither the NATO missile nor any of the unarmed drones exploded. The type of drones used to violate Polish airspace have been falling to the ground by the hundreds in Ukraine. Russia has been using them as decoys in its drone and missile attacks on military production facilities in Ukraine. The “clever” Ukrainians have obviously been collecting and refitting them.
In the U.S., merely hours after the drone operation of the 9th/10th, Charlie Kirk was publicly assassinated. This sucked all of the air out of US coverage of the “19 airspace violations” drone operation’s media coverage.
The next drone operation occurred on Saturday September 13th. A single drone was claimed to have been flown into Romanian airspace whereafter it just “disappeared”. 4 NATO jets were “scrambled” to practice looking for the mysterious drone.
The next media operation, on September 19th, involved Russian jets flying between Karelia (north of St. Petersburg) and Kalingrad. Estonian officials claimed that they had violated Estonian airspace.
According to Moscow, their path followed an established route, more than 3 Kms around the uninhabited, Estonian rock, Vaindloo, located in the eastern Baltic.
During the flight, the Russian aircraft did not deviate from the agreed flight path and did not violate Estonian airspace. The aircraft’s flight path lay over the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, more than three kilometers from the island of Vaindloo
[Russian Ministry of Defense as quoted by Moon of Alabama]
[The red marker is the uninhabited Estonian rock, Viandloo, via OpenStreet Map. The inserts show a close up (top) and zoom out (bottom).]
The straight between Finland, Russia and Estonia has been demarked with a central channel of international waters (and thus airspace above it) to provide each nation with access to maritime and air transport between their national territories and the international area. The rock of Vaindloo does not extend Estonian territory the default “12 Kms” offshore because if it did, and all rocks got the same provision, this would prevent trade via shipping on the international waters. Denying access to international waters is a sure fire way to generate a war.
Estonian officials, Prime Minister Kristen Michal and Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna and Western media who reprinted their “hysterical nonsense”, assume that a) we are all stupid and cant read maps and b) that nobody will ridicule them for their “laughable stunts”. [These quoted characterizations are from the same Moon of Alabama article]
Both Estonia and Poland have initiated “Article 4” (have a chat) NATO meetings after these media operations based on Ukrainian false flag operations or flat out lies. NATO Secretary Rutte has been happily squawking unity in the face of fabricated threats.
Update 2025-09-25
Ooops. I missed the September 22 temporary closures of Copenhagen and Oslo airports due to drones flying in the area. Danish PM Federiksen couldn’t rule out the nation NATO is fighting in Ukraine as a perpetrator. She didn’t rule out aliens or the Mongols either.
Danish police weren’t sure of the number of drones (3 or 4). Police described them as larger than can be bought for general (public) use but didn’t know if they were military of civilian. i.e the report which AFP issued was so early that the Danish police knew very little.
The major non-government Danish channel, TV2, suggested that the drones could have been launched from ships. Copenhagen airport is on the small island of Amager.
Aerotime informs that Danish authorities are considering three ships which were in the area as potential sources of the drones. The article notes that the investigations are trying to link these ships to Russia.
The “launched from ships” hypothesis is plausible. Examples of recent notable cases of drones launched from concealment to attack national infrastructure were against Russia’s strategic bombers, and Iranian military facilities, by Ukraine and Israel, respectively. Naturally, Danish police are not looking in these directions.
Drone sightings disrupt flights at Copenhagen, Oslo airports; Al Jazeera [actually AFP]; Archive.today; 2025-09-25
Denmark links drones at Copenhagen airport to hybrid attacks across Europe; ABC News; ABC; 2025-09-23
Drones disrupting Copenhagen flights may have come via ships; aerotime.aero; Archive.today; 2025-09-25
The Kirk Bullet
Following Larry Johnson on Dialogue Works (see Sources), Paul Craig Roberts provided a simple window into the disorganization of the FBI’s approach to its investigation into the public assassination of Charlie Kirk .
To connect an assassin to a victim murdered with a gun, one has two links to establish. One needs to connect a gun with an alleged assassin based on time, place, DNA and other methods. But, this is waste of time if on cannot make the second link.
From the body, one needs a bullet. This can be matched to a gun based on marks on the bullet as it traveled through the rifling on the inside of the gun barrel to connect the bullet to the gun. Without a bullet, any “beyond a reasonable doubt” case collapses.
Roberts’ observation was that the alleged assassin was arrested without evidence because the bullet was not known of at the time. Until the FBI provides evidence (photographs, lots of them, in high definition) of the bullet there is no case.
If, as many suspect, the FBI investigation is being politically influenced to hunt in places where there the guilty cannot be found, one can expect a haphazard process as the FBI looks here and there, dropping hints along a path being constructed.
The professional approach is to STFU (Shut the Fuck Up) and deliver glomar responses (”we cannot comment on an ongoing investigation”) to requests for commentary until a solid case is established. That this is not happening, supports the assertion that the investigation is under political influence.
Roberts continued, outlining the two obvious sources of political pressure possibly being exerted on the FBI. One is the US “establishment” (deepstate). It, stated Roberts, will not tolerate a political leader who cannot be controlled. The other source of political pressure, stated Roberts, is the Israel Lobby. Its connection to Kirk via funding has been established by reporting from The Grayzone. Both groups have motive and form in removing political figures who resist their control.
Roberts cut a bit too close to the bone when he laughingly noted that the alleged assassin might die in custody while the cameras are turned off and the guards are absent, as was the case for Jeffrey Epstein.
Forces as powerful as the US establishment and the Israel Lobby have methods of preventing investigations which may expose how their raw power is maintained.
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Sources
U.S. Military Buildup in Caribbean Signals Broader Campaign Against Venezuela; The New York Times (Eric Schmitt); Archive.today; 2025-09-22
Unidentified drones circle Sumud flotilla en route to Gaza; News Desk; The Cradle; 2025-09-22
Staggering Hypocrisy; Craig Murray; Craig Murray; 2025-09-22
“We Accept Of Course That It Is Draconian: And Deliberately So”.; Craig Murray; Craig Murray; 2025-07-0
Von der Leyen Is Lying About Russian GPS Interference; b.; Moon of Alabama; 2025-09-02
Ukraine Attacked Poland in False Flag Drone Operation; YesXorNo; 2025-09-12
The War Must Go On: False Flag Drone Operations; YesXorNo; 2025-09-15
Media Disguise Airspace Violation Claims; b.; Moon of Alabama; 2025-09-20
Top pro-Israel TPUSA donor terminated support for Kirk in days before death, sources say; Max Blumenthal; The Grayzone; 2025-09-22
Charlie Kirk refused Netanyahu funding offer, was ‘frightened’ by pro-Israel forces before death, friend reveals; Max Blumenthal; The Grayzone; 2025-09-12
Who Killed Charlie Kirk? NATO Ramps Up for War with Russia; Larry Johnson (SONAR21); Archive.today; 2025-09-23
Johnson continues to provide solid ballistics and expert gun knowledge on the Kirk assassination. In this article he also noted the ongoing media campaign to keep the Ukraine war hot.
[Post publication references/Other related coverage]
Crisis Escalation Becomes Euro-Cabal’s Final Meal Ticket; Simplicius; Simplicius’ Garden of Knowledge; 2025-09-26
Simplicius quotes Danish Minister of Defense considering invoking the Washington Treaty’s “Article 4”. This summarizes the campaign. Denmark would become the 3rd member state to invoke that treaty provision. Viewed from a European perspective, these “Article 4” invocations are an effort to keep the US in Europe while the false flag drone attacks generate fear in their populaces.
Alastair Crooke: Gaza, Iran, Ukraine Conflicts and Geopolitical Shifts; Johnson interviews Crooke; Counter Currents; interviewed 24th published 2025-09-26
Crooke describes the drone campagin as dangerous false flag operations attempting to drag the US back into the Ukraine war which may provoke a wider war. Related to the dangerous campaign are attempts to block Russia’s use of international waters for its trade in/out of the Baltic (St. Petersburg area).
I concur.
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Videos
Larry C. Johnson & Paul Craig Roberts: Charlie Kirk BOMBSHELL Update — Europe Snapbacks on Iran; Alkhorshid interviews Johnson & Roberts; Dialogue Works; 2025-09-22
John Helmer: Escalation ALERT: Russia, NATO, and the Rise of Drone Warfare; Alkhorshid interviews Helmer; Dialogue Works; 2025-09-23
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Whether the issue is understanding maps or international treaties or basic logic of crime analysis.....you DO have to assume the western public is stupid. Because they are. And manipulable.
That is why it so essential for western governments to spread "social media" and control it. It's the essential vehicle for keeping people distracted, low IQ and manipulable at the drop of a hat.