As is tradition, at around this time of year, we discuss the latest developments in the communist plan to destroy Christmas and everything festive and jolly - including that bastard kulak Santa Claus. Down with holly and myrrh, and up with historical materialism!
This year, I’m highlighting the economic trend of de-Decemberization, as the world struggles to break free from the seasonal hegemony imposed by the North Pole. Some regard it as a rather overhyped phenomenon, stating that the chains of Christmas are too frozen for any country to thaw and break in the current environment. Others are more optimistic, and assert that perhaps an alternative world holiday could be established to outright replace it, or maybe a series of smaller holiday traditions can bring it down like a pack of wolves bringing down a moose.
To return to seriousness, as this year draws to a close, I hope everybody here - yes, also you, the person reading this - has a 2026 that was better than 2025, and that the efforts of the United States and their proxies are foiled at every turn. One day, humans will live in a world free from empires, and it would be nice if as many of us as possible lived to see that world’s birth.
At the very least, I’d like to live to see an aircraft carrier sink beneath the waves.
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The Zionist Entity's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
Mirrors of Telegram channels that have been erased by Zionist censorship.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
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This comment from Marmite123 about the weapons technology aspect of the War on Christmas.
Also, I think this is meant to be a pinned comment.
Edit: Hope everyone had a Merry Maomas!
Honestly, being labelled a ‘Terrorist’ by Islandic Anglos means that you’re on the right side of history. It’s like a badge of honour. Greta is now up there with heroes like Bhagat Singh.
All the normies I’ve spoken to about this said it looks SO BAD. Greta is a tiny woman, she’s really small and being surrounded by absolutely giant cops like in that video has made even the right-leaning people I know say sympathetic things.
People in the UK take the piss out of Greta sometimes but there’s rarely the same genuine hate for her that I see the americans have. Just a sort of mocking tone of activism in general. So when something they feel genuinely looks wrong occurs they do turn sympathetic.
I think a lot of these right-leaning people are very visually emotive, finding ways to create imagery that hooks into that visual emotiveness would help pull them left. The video of her being surrounded by cops and having that placard taken out of her hands has struck a chord.
tiny white woman
She will likely receive lenient treatment and be released quickly so that they can continue to sweep the injustice of Palestine Action members starving to death under the rug
Yeah lmao, this is a massive unforced L. Arresting her puts a spotlight on something they’re trying to ignore, which is probably why she did this and got herself arrested.
to comrade Greta.
Political power grows out of sticks of dynamite:
https://xcancel.com/Ollie_Vargas_/status/2003025820072477066Bolivia: 60 buses full of mineworkers are heading towards the capital for the start of the indefinite general strike against austerity measures.
Many of them are carrying dynamite, normally a work tool but often used in protests.
Food prices went 100% up, they arrested Arce. Evo already announced a long march towards La Paz, I expect police units to desert their posts just like what happened in Peru and Ecuador.
they arrested Arce
Socdem splits the party, immediately gets the
award.Best thing that could have happened tbh it’s fucking shut the door on all “moderate” left opposition.
They absolutely should fucking NOT have arrested Arce. Biggest mistake the right could’ve made.
More common than you think - Kautsky’s wife died in a concentration camp, after her husband basically did everything in his power to make social fascism a viable alternative to communism.
More common than you think
I assure you that I think it’s extremely common, lol.
Kautsky’s wife died in a concentration camp, after her husband basically did everything in his power to make social fascism a viable alternative to communism.
Jesus fucking Christ.
Yeah its quite sad, his wife was friends with Rosa Luxembourg and she choose to not flee europe because her sons were already caputred by the nazis.
Despite claims about how “brutal” evul Stalinists are to their socdem comparators - rarely does preparing the way to fascism end well for reformists.
Yeah. I still don’t think he deserves to be arrest (the same way I don’t think Liberal Alejando Toledo from Peru deserved to be arrested, it’s quite clear to me he is being used as a scapegoat and so the far-right can punish him for being part of the anti-fujimori movement), I wish Evo or some other leftist woud return to power and for Arce to retire from politics.
the dynamite is a surprise tool to help us later
Women’s rights are on a sharp decline in Israel. Advocates blame Netanyahu’s far-right government
Israel’s global standing on gender equality has plunged in recent years. In the 2025–26 Women, Peace and Security Index, produced by Georgetown University, Israel ranks 84 of 181 countries – behind Albania, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Before the current government came into power three years ago, it ranked 27.
One bill under debate at Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, which could be finalized in the coming weeks, would dramatically expand the authority of state-run religious courts to handle civil disputes. These courts, staffed exclusively by men who rule according to Jewish law, already oversee marriage and divorce proceedings, including for secular couples. Under the proposed legislation, they would gain power to rule on financial disputes, business matters, and potentially child custody issues.
only democracy in the Middle East everyone
German Communist Party’s Bank Account Terminated
The DKP’s party bank accounts have been terminated, the bank said it was due to “outside pressure”. This is part of a wave of un-personings and sanctionings of individuals by the German state who are anti-imperialist including prominent pro-Palestinian activists as well as anti-Ukraine, pro-Russia-rapprochement far right parties.
In February of 2024, then-Interior Minister Nancy Faeser unveiled a 13-point plan aimed at tackling right-wing extremism. Among other points, it included provisions that would make it easier for German authorities to freeze extremists’ bank accounts, as well as to track donations to such entities.
What a shock that legislation purportedly targeting the right is used against the left. Morgenthau continues to be right.
Not exactly news but I don’t remember seeing this posted here:
Radio Free Asia stops transmitting in Uyghur due to Trump budget cuts (news from July this year).
The article is :cognitohazard: so open at your own risk
Hamas has released a narrative on the last two years titled “Our Narrative… Al-Aqsa Flood: Two Years of Steadfastness and the Will for Liberation
https://t.me/Palresistmirror/83120
In Few Words…
The Al-Aqsa Flood was, for us and for the vast masses across the world, not merely a military event, but a moment of glorious birth, and an emergence of a liberated consciousness free from deception or falsification. It is a bridge extended upon a solid will, a renewed resistance, a firm commitment, a profound awareness, and a vision of utmost clarity that looks towards the restoration of all our people´s rights, the recovery of our stolen freedom, the liberation of our land and holy city (Jerusalem), and the establishment of our state.
After two years of genocide and steadfastness, our narrative stands clear and evident: a people who cannot be erased, a resistance that cannot be defeated, and a memory that cannot be forgotten.
Palestine does not ask for the world’s pity, but respect for its people’s right to life and freedom. The independent Palestinian state, with Jerusalem as its capital, and the return of refugees to their land are not a dream, but a historical and political entitlement demanded by a people who withstood genocide and did not break.
This is our narrative… remaining as long as a heart from this people beats for freedom.
Nigerian locals say that the area that Washington drone attacked today has not had a terrorist presence for many years:
"African media journalist Nasiru Suleiman claims that in the Tambuwal district of Sokoto State, local residents haven’t heard of any militants or radicals for at least a decade. And residents of the Nigerian village of Jabo were sleeping peacefully in their homes at the time of the American attack, until they were awakened by the explosion of an aerial bomb.
Suleiman’s colleague, Mahmud Jeba, who is originally from Sokoto State, was very surprised to learn that this particular region was the target of the American attack. He argued that if the US military had wanted to strike militants from Boko Haram, an ISIS affiliate, they should have attacked Borno State, where the terrorists have been based since approximately 2009."
We’re only a few days out from Christmas, time really flies. In other “news”:
Santa is readying the Hypersonic Sleigh Vehicle (HSV) to deliver Christmas presents around the world. Activity has been detected at the North Pole launch facility. 24 Reindeer HyperVelocity Boosters (RHVBs) have been readied to propel the HSV. Mrs Claus is preparing Santa a steak and lobster dinner for the 24th, and flight tracking software is showing an unusual amount of logistics flights around the world, with RHVB forward refuelling points (bales of hay) being set up at key checkpoints. The North Pole pizza tracker is showing increased activity at the Santa Claus head office.
Anti Christmas rebels have set up and put their air defence systems on high alert. Santa’s HSV has evaded them all this time, but the introduction of a new air defence system, with kinetic hit to evaporate presents technology, an altitude control system, and an endo-exo atmospheric engagement profile, is said to change the stakes. Otherwise, the rebels are hoping to jam the reindeer navigation system, by playing Rage Against The Machine instead of Christmas carols. Guerrilla activites, such as blocking chimneys across the land, are also hoping to slow Santa down and trap him in a Christmas of attrition, to prevent meeting the 24 hour deadline. The hope is to bring down the unipolar Christmas celebrations for multipolar holidays!
I promise I’ll put up an actual serious post soon.
I’m personally not too worried that I’ve been a bad boy this year because I’ve been investing some considerable time and money in developing some homebrew ACCs (Anti-Coal Countermeasures) so my Christmas deliveries are pretty much disappointment-proof.
Let’s see if they work… I’m hoping my ACCs are functional too.
I am less clear about the effect of turbo raindeer farts, but I do feel like people ignore that this Clause guy is a coal supplier to the obviously “naughty list” fossil fuel industry.
Hans “Santa Claus” Klaus has his grubby hands in almost every single major drug trafficking operation. From his drug lord fortress in Argentina, he has bases throughout the globe including the North Pole. Klaus first made money manufacturing coke-infused carbonated beverages for the SS, only fleeing to Argentina after the Red Army destroyed his factory manned by concentration camp inmates. Rumors swirl of Klaus being the mastermind behind the JFK assassination after scholars discover a previously undiscovered recording where JFK clearly stressed the need to begin an offensive against Christmas.
Just in: Candace Owens says that Santa killed Charlie Kirk. It came to her in a dream.
They get naughty list status on purpose by destroying the environment, which in turn just gets Santa to give them more coal, so they destroy the environment further. The Fossil Fuels industry is exploiting the system!
The rebels are currently quietly waiting for the opportunity to unveil their Kinetic Reindeer Anti-air Munitions and Present Unwrapping System for maximum shock and awe.
Santa is currently over Kazakhstan according to NORAD, hopefully the rebels have placed their anti air systems close enough to allow for maximum probability of present evaporation.
What sort of SEAS/DEAD systems does Santa deploy? I saw something about Global South Pole militias testing out Gravitational Rocket-propelled Interception Nailbomb Christmas Halters. Will those be effective?
Rudolf the red nose reindeer flies out ahead and uses his blinking red nose to bait out the air defences to fire at him. This allows the rest of the Christmas strike package to engage the air defenses by firing anti Grinch homing missiles that home in on the energy of those who hate Christmas.
Nailbombs could be effective, wide area of effect to take out lots of presents. But range appears limited.
Latest news from the front in the War on Christmas: Israel arrests Santa Claus in Haifa.
Israeli police arrested a Palestinian man dressed as Santa Claus during a raid on a Christmas celebration in Haifa earlier this week, a local rights group has said.
Police forcibly dispersed festivities held by Palestinian Christian citizens of Israel in the Wadi Nisnas neighbourhood on Sunday and confiscated equipment from the event.
According to the Mossawa Centre, an organisation advocating for the rights of Palestinian citizens of Israel, police used excessive force while detaining the man dressed as Santa Claus, as well as a DJ and a street vendor.
All three were released on Monday but were expected to be summoned to court again.
Mossawa said police also raided a music institute without legal authorisation.
Footage shared online showed Israeli police officers dragging the man dressed as Santa Claus from the scene.
Other videos appeared to show police interrupting a traditional dabke dance that was being performed in the street.
Video from the scene:
https://x.com/i/status/2003632625429414027 https://xcancel.com/i/status/2003632625429414027
lol. lmao. https://archive.ph/fD7gA
Choked By China, U.S. Relies On Abandoned French Factory Stockpile To Keep F-35s, Tomahawks Flying
The US is the world’s preeminent military power. … The US is also the world’s largest arms exporter, controlling 44% of the global weapons market. … However, the country’s mighty defense-industrial complex is currently surviving by a thread, as its only source of a critical heavy rare-earth magnet used in fifth-generation stealth fighter jets such as the F-35 and lethal missiles like Tomahawks is a decades-old samarium dump abandoned in a bankrupt factory in France.
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Even more worryingly, this samarium dump can supply the US defense industry for barely a year; beyond that, there are no credible alternative supply plans in place. How the US got into this rabbit hole, despite pioneering the technology of samarium processing and its various uses in the defense industry in the 1960s, is a story as bizarre as today’s situation, where some of the world’s largest defense giants are living on a thread, not sure how long their supply of critical heavy rare earth magnets will last.
The Making Of Samarium Supply Bottlenecks
The US pioneered the development of samarium-cobalt (SmCo) permanent magnets, the primary defense-related use of samarium. These high-performance magnets, which offer strong magnetic fields, excellent resistance to demagnetization, and superior high-temperature stability, were invented based on work by Karl Strnat at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and Alden Ray at the University of Dayton. Due to their remarkable properties, Samarium Cobalt magnets are used in aircraft and satellite systems, as well as missile guidance and control systems. However, the industry moved to China in the 1980s for a variety of reasons, including the presence of rich rare-earth deposits, lax environmental regulations (samarium processing is extremely polluting), and heavy state subsidies from the Chinese Communist government. Today, China mines, processes, and sells such massive quantities of rare earths that it can keep prices artificially low, knocking out any foreign competition. Over the decades, all Western companies that processed rare earths went out of business, unable to compete with China’s prices. Today, China mines nearly 60% of the world’s rare earths and processes almost 90% of rare-earth magnets. However, China controls nearly all of the world’s supply of Samarium Cobalt magnets.
Earlier this year, in response to US President Donald Trump’s punitive tariffs on China, Beijing imposed strict restrictions on the export of rare-earth magnets. Subsequently, China removed restrictions on the export of several light and medium rare-earth magnets; however, restrictions on the export of heavy rare-earth magnets, including Samarium Cobalt magnets, remained in place. China began requiring export licenses for samarium and six other rare-earth metals in April this year, choking the supply for US defense giants. Underscoring the criticality of samarium supply chains for the US, the U.S. Geological Survey named samarium the No. 1 critical mineral at highest risk of supply chain vulnerabilities in October in its proposed 2025 Critical Mineral List. The chokehold China exerted on the supply of samarium could have halted production of many critical defense systems in the US. However, a decades-old samarium dump in a bankrupt factory in France gave the US defense giants a lifeline.
Samarium Dump In A Bankrupt Factory That Gave Lifeline To US Defense Giants
New York-based Arnold Magnetic Technologies, a subsidiary of US conglomerate Compass Diversified and manufacturer of samarium-cobalt magnets with factories in Switzerland, Thailand, and China, had over a year’s supply of the metal on hand when China announced its export controls on April 4, said Aaron Williams, the company’s chief commercial officer. However, as months passed and their supply plummeted, the company began to worry. Arnold contacted UK-based Less Common Metals, one of the last remaining manufacturers of rare-earth metals in the Western world. Less Common Metals contacted Solvay, a Belgian chemical company that was once one of the world’s largest producers of rare-earth oxides. Luckily, Solvay had a factory in France that still had a decades-old, abandoned samarium dump. Solvay had stopped separating rare-earth elements in France two decades ago because it had become “uneconomical,” a company spokeswoman told the New York Times. Samarium processed outside China is five to eight times as expensive. But Solvay kept its stock of semifinished materials and still had the know-how and equipment to refine it. Solvay’s entire inventory was around 200 tons, enough to supply the US defense industry for a year.
The U.S. defense industry requires less than 200 tons per year, according to estimates by Jack Lifton, co-chair of the Critical Minerals Institute, an industry advisory organization. Less Common Metals (LCM) brought Solvay’s samarium to Britain, where the company is turning it into metal that will be melted into alloys. These alloys will be cut into magnets at US factories, which will in turn be supplied to US defense giants for use in fighter jets and missile systems. “As market demand accelerates for sustainable, Western-sourced magnet materials, Arnold is taking decisive action to guarantee supply and provide commercial flexibility for our customers,” Aaron Williams, chief commercial officer of Arnold Magnetic Technologies, said. “We are very pleased to partner with LCM and Arnold Magnetic Technologies to provide essential resources for high-performance applications, particularly in the strategic domain of the European Aerospace Industry,” An Nuyttens, president of GBU Special Chem at Solvay, said. Notably, to further secure supply chains, the UK-based LCM was acquired by American miner USA Rare Earth on November 18. The acquisition demonstrates vertical integration strategies aimed at securing Western-origin material sources.
Even though these samarium magnets are much more expensive than the prices at which China was supplying the US until months ago, they provided a lifeline to the US defense-industrial complex at a critical time. For now, the US has secured its supply of samarium magnets for at least a year, and the industry is confident that new samarium sources will be found before Solvay’s stash runs out. China might also relax its export restrictions in the meantime. However, as a popular saying goes, “Once burned, twice shy,” the US will be extremely cautious in the future, avoiding entirely depending on China for the supply of such a critical mineral.
Kkkanada considers permanent bases in Latvia as part of Canada’s NATO commitment
Mission to deter Russian aggression in Baltic region already Canada’s largest overseas deployment
Look how close Russia put itself next to all our military bases, dawg. They are being so aggressive!
Inb4 “it’s Latvia’s choice to have the right to western military bases in its soil!!”
Canadian Uknazians need a place to take over and escape to if stuff pops off with the US.
oh, you want some spare parts for your F-35? uh, well, let me just check… oops
pg. 75, https://comptroller.war.gov/Portals/45/Documents/afr/fy2025/DoD_FY25_Agency_Financial_Report.pdf
Through our audit procedures, we determined that the DoD did not account for or report Global Spares Pool assets for the Joint Strike Fighter Program, or accurately record this government property in an accountable property system of record. The DoD could not provide or obtain accurate reliable data to verify the existence, completeness, or value of its Global Spares Pool assets for the Joint Strike Fighter program and did not report this government property on its financial statements as of September 30, 2025. This occurred because DoD officials did not use contracting mechanisms to request financial data to support the valuation of government property or implement procedures to account for and manage government property in accordance with SFFAS 3 and 6.
from an earlier report about this same problem, explaining what this “Global Spares Pool” is:
Rather than owning the spare parts for their aircraft, the program participants share a common, global pool of spare parts that DOD owns and the prime contractors manage. These spare parts are held in over 50 domestic and international non-prime contractor facilities.
holy shit the F-35 genuinely is subscription-based software applied to military equipment, you don’t even get to own your spare parts?!
Hamas leader Osama Hamdan:
– “In the second phase of the Gaza agreement, guarantees must be clearer and commitments more detailed.”
– “The enemy does not abide by the agreement, and even flagrantly violates the international agreements it signs.”
– “The enemy does not want to move to the second phase, because it entails a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the continued presence of the resistance on the ground.”
– “Our definition of the second phase of the agreement is that we reject guardianship, reject disarmament, and reject any interference in our internal Palestinian affairs.”
– “We do not need foreign forces to come and disarm us of weapons that the occupation has failed to take from us over the course of two years.”
inb4 Israel continues bombing and the international media blames Hamas.
Mostly mundane article but something in the middle caught my eye, it claims that Russia has started evacuating its diplomats and their families from Venezuela.
The official told The Associated Press the evacuations include women and children and began on Friday, adding that Russian Foreign Ministry officials are assessing the situation in Venezuela in “very grim tones.” The White House and Kremlin did not respond to requests for comment.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-venezuela-tankers-shipbuilding-3c711c500a627243329807df42fa6ef8
I’m guessing an operation comes anywhere between christmas day and new year’s day.
Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is calling bull on this.
❗️Reports by Associated Press regarding alleged ‘evacuation’ of the Russian Embassy in Venezuela @EmbajadaRusaVen are simply put — A LIE.
Be careful and don’t fall for Western provocations!
Article was updated:
The [Russian Foreign] ministry said in an X posting that it was not evacuating the embassy but did not address queries about whether it was evacuating the families of diplomats.
Ok so they’re expecting danger to civilians but the embassy itself to be safe.
The big question is what. I think large scale landings are out of the question
I don’t expect any landings, perhaps some special ops but we’ll never hear about them unless they go horribly wrong for the americans which is unlikely. All we’ll hear about are the bombings and there’s going to be a lot of that. Venezuela has some air defence systems but the US will simply fire enough missiles to overwhelm them or have them run out of ammunition and require reloading, at which point they’ll then be destroyed.
I expect a very large scale saturation attack to completely overwhelm and destroy what air defences and radar systems venezuela has, and at least an attempt to bomb Maduro
Even if Maduro was to survive, the US could trivially wipe out the Venezuelan airforce, air defenses, amd and other sensitive military equipment to leave him exposed every time he steps outside.
I think it’s notable that Venezuela is distributing small arms to militias. I do not think Maduro fears for an American landing - this is infeasible and something the great satan is unwilling to risk for such little reward - but I do believe that he is (rightly) considering the real threat to come from the opportunistic sycophants of the empire.
Those guns are not to deter the yankee generals, but the Argentinians ones who will see the images of smouldering SU-30s on their televisions as moment of weakness to exploit.
I think it’s notable that Venezuela is distributing small arms to militias.
This also completely destroys any narratives who claim Maduro is a dictator.
about them unless they go horribly wrong for the americans which is unlikely
That actually sounds extremely likely based on their track record
I dunno, the only one I know of that went like that was the mercs. The US special forces seem to either have things go right, abort early, or mysteriously die in “accidents” that are rarely explained. We don’t even get to know about many of their ops. Most of them are probably installing spying equipment in my opinion.
You mean just silvercorps, right? Because that wasn’t federal and we don’t know about the vast majority of American ops
We’ll hear about them in 5 years. Like they posted up the North Korean mission 4 years later.
Some of them sure. I doubt all of them are used this way though. That Korean one made me realise a lot of their missions are probably very mundane and boring instances of sneaking into a country via the sea and installing some spy equipment then leaving. They probably do this to a lot of countries all year round.
I doubt these special forces are sitting around doing nothing very often.
