Ronald A. Gustafson

Critical Thinking | Flight Test (USAF & FAA) | Operational Test | Combat Analysis | Management | Ground Water Protection | Land Use Planning | Public Advocate

[Ronald A. Gustafson @Ron__Gustafson]

Our military should be used for defense of our country -- not for the overthrow of other countries to gain access to their resources and to control their governments (e.g., Iran, Venezuela, Ukraine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Cuba, Vietnam, Philippines, Panama, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, …).

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

This is the most grotesque - and militarily illiterate - war-lusting plea to President Trump I have literally ever heard.

This Rosenberg fellow was given prime media real estate on Fox News to make a plea to President Trump to go to full scale war with Iran to “annihilate” them and he’s convinced it would b a grand idea to send in US ground troops as “the only way” to win the war.

There IS NO military path for the United States to achieve the “unconditional surrender” of Iran Rosenberg advocates. Air power alone definitely cannot achieve it. But what if we added a land army, you may ask?

This is where illiterate is added to the insanity of the suggestion: WE DON’T HAVE THE MILLION TROOPS IT WOULD TAKE TO EVEN HAVE A CHANCE.

A cursory glance at a relief map reveals Iran is nearly five times bigger than Iraq (and in 2003 we deployed about 150,000 ground troops to a war against a country that was as flat as cardboard, against an army that had no drones or missiles).

Virtually the entire western half of the country of Iran is covered in a series of mountain ranges. Any invading army would be literally destroyed piecemeal if it went against a defending army in those mountains. It would be suicide for us.

This fellow doesn’t seem to understand that very basic military reality.

But what outright angered me was his claim that American service members signed up voluntarily to “fight wars“. No. We didn’t. We signed up to “defend America.“

America was not attacked by Iran. Iran didn’t even threaten our country. There is no value to our country to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of Americans in a vain attempt to accomplish something Mr. Rosenberg seems eager to accomplish — for the benefit of a different country.

I find his remarks ignorant and reprehensible. I can only pray President Trump does not listen to such suicidal advice for our Armed Forces.

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

Mr. @POTUS ,

When are you going to hold someone, anyone, accountable for violating the sanctity of our elections!?

Signed,

A VERY concerned citizen who wants our country back and refuses to allow it to be taken by the radical left.
@realDonaldTrump

[Amazing Physics @amazing_physics]

🚨🪐 **BREAKING:** NASA has released a stunning new image of the enormous **hexagonal storm** at Saturn's North Pole.

Spanning more than **20,000 miles (32,000 km)** across—large enough to fit **around four Earths** inside—it remains one of the Solar System's most extraordinary mysteries.

First observed by **Voyager** in **1981**, the giant six-sided storm has persisted for **over four decades**, astonishing scientists with its remarkable stability. Researchers believe the phenomenon could be far older than our observations suggest.

🔭 Saturn continues to surprise us, reminding us just how incredible and mysterious our universe truly is.

📸 **Source:** NASA

#NASA #Saturn #Space #Astronomy #Science #SolarSystem #Universe #SpaceFacts #Cosmos

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

WOAH 🚨 Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge says she worked with a special task force created by our Director of National Intelligence and found OUR CIA ‘WAS WORKING WITH GLOBALISTS, TO PRESERVE THE GLOBALIST VIEW’

“In the last week, I've been speaking with a very senior member of Director Gabbard's investigations team, known as the DIG. And what they told me is that they did see a pattern where there was a sense or a feeling in the intelligence community — there was very much a globalist view, and they had to preserve a globalist view”

She explains they found evidence that to preserve this globalist view, they had to do things like the Hunter Biden laptop and cover up Chinese threats

“So whether it was downplaying or suppressing intelligence about the threat from China, whether it was giving a pass and calling the Hunter Biden laptop Russian disinformation, there was this level of a bureaucracy, a kind of conspiracy that was making decisions about the kind of information that should be reaching policymakers and ultimately the commander-in-chief”

She says there is a shadow government that seeks to be running these things

“I think the big record that stands out is this instant messaging with a very senior FBI official who does counterintelligence, who describes this shadow government”

There is no other way to interpret this than our FBI and CIA were working with globalists for the globalist agenda

And the literally know this to be true because remember during Biden’s term they would always fly to the World Economic Forum’s Davos summit to mingle with them

This is Treason

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

They FINALLY released a video proving Mitch McConnell is actually alive

And all you conspiracy nuts doubted it!!🙄

[David Stockman @DA_Stockman]

You're Welcome!

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I’ll soon be sponsoring a bill to withhold federal money from municipalities and police departments that deploy Flock (and other style) cameras to surveil law abiding citizens.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

"90% of Congress takes money from an unregistered foreign lobby. Both parties have the same paymasters. Loyalty to a foreign country."

[The Babylon Bibi @TheBabylonBibi]

Hilarious!!!

[Ronald A. Gustafson @Ron__Gustafson]

Good info. More insight about voting in the House of Representatives.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

MTG succinctly explains something most Americans don’t know: There are two votes on every bill in the House, and frequently the first (unreported) vote matters more than the second vote for final passage:

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

BOMBSHELL 🚨 Investigative journalist Catherine Herridge says she found evidence that Joe Biden’s family was being blackmailed by China (and shows the documents) and our mainstream media ignored the evidence

“What we saw in the release of the records, which I'm afraid I think in the media or legacy media there was kind of a willful blindness. They didn't want to look at the records. All you had to do was spend a couple of hours. I found these records which are talking about blackmail by China. It was for President Biden's daily brief. I can conclude, I think, that it was probably about targeting his family”

She explains earlier that all this was ignored and buried by the FBI, CIA and the media in order to keep Democrats in power

[The Mel K Show @MelKShow]

[1/18] 🚨 51 former US intelligence officials signed a letter weeks before the 2020 vote calling the Hunter Biden laptop "Russian disinformation." All 51 knew it was real. Not one has been charged. Why is that? 🧵👇

[Peter Clack @PeterDClack]

Planet Earth is 'still' in the Late Cenozoic Ice Age — an unbroken ice-age ecosystem that began roughly 34 million years ago with the glaciation of Antarctica.

Technically speaking, we are living through one of the colder periods in Earth’s geological history. How does that fit into 'global warming'?

For roughly 70–80% of the last half-billion years (the Phanerozoic Eon), Earth has existed in a 'hothouse' state, largely devoid of polar ice sheets but crammed with life. Almost 80% of the Earth was tropical rainforest pole to pole. Temperatures sat between 18°C and 25°C — all well above today's very modest 14°C to 15°C.

Human civilisation developed within the embrace of the Holocene warm interglacial - during an ice age. The primary drivers steering Earth between a deep freeze and warm interglacial over 2.58 million years were not atmospheric — they stemmed from orbital mechanics, specifically Milankovitch cycles (eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession).

While CO₂ forms a feedback loop in paleoclimate records, data shows it is orbital variations that pull the trigger on major ice-age transitions.

The modern climate debate often treats today's baseline of 15°C as an absolute planetary limit, set in stone. Yet it is a momentary snapshot of one fraction of Earth's deep history. Modern human infrastructure and agriculture are clearly optimised for the current climate conditions. But today is just a microsecond in geological or planetary terms.

Treating this fleeting era as the Earth's natural state wipes millions of years of geological reality off the table.

[Stern Drew @SternDrewCrypto]

🚨 WE ARE ABOUT TO WITNESS THE BIGGEST WAR IN HISTORY FOR THE SURVIVAL OF PETRODOLLAR

Massive U.S. bomber formations, continuous surveillance flights, and heavy air movements are now saturating the skies near Iran. This is no longer posturing.

This is the opening chapter of the biggest geopolitical-financial war of our lifetime, the one that will decide whether the petrodollar survives… or dies.

If the U.S. fails to completely dismantle the IRGC’s control inside Iran, the consequences are not gradual. They are terminal‼️

Iran has already laid down the new law of energy: Every single barrel of oil that passes through the Strait of Hormuz, the artery carrying ~20% of the world’s crude, must be settled in Chinese yuan. No dollars. Full stop.

The moment that demand sticks, the 50-year monopoly that forced the world to recycle oil revenues into U.S. Treasuries collapses overnight. The petrodollar doesn’t weaken. It dies. And the yuan (backed by real oil flow) becomes the new settlement currency of the energy world.

Watch the bombers. Watch the surveillance orbits. Watch Hormuz.

Because if this war ends with the IRGC still standing, the dollar’s exorbitant privilege ends with it and a multipolar monetary order ruled by Beijing’s currency and decentralized rails takes its place.

The markets haven’t priced this yet. They will.

The faith of the petrodollar is now being decided in the skies over the Gulf.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Trump just told Americans to stop fighting data centers and just to give up and deal with it.

"You can’t fight it... you have to go with it.”

[ColonelTowner-Watkins @ColonelTowner]

Why is it important to go beyond Soros? There are many nuggets that are missed when he is the focal point.

Almost without exception, these figures are products of the same narrow socio-institutional breeding grounds: Ivy League law schools (particularly Georgetown, Yale, and Harvard), elite think tanks (Brookings, Carnegie, Center for a New American Security), and high-level corporate or foundational governance (BlackRock, Ploughshares Fund, Berggruen Institute). They represent the classic managerial class, technocrats who move fluidly between academia, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and executive branch policymaking without ever facing genuine democratic accountability.

Whether functioning as advisors, transition directors, or cabinet secretaries (such as Jake Sullivan, Tony Blinken, Avril Haines, and William Burns), their careers demonstrate how bureaucratic power is insulated from electoral shifts. When administrations change, they do not leave government service; they simply rotate into well-funded 501C(3) and 501C(4) “shadow” holding pens, like National Security Action or Win Without War, to coordinate policy, maintain discipline, and stage their return for the next cycle.

A critical through-line connecting figures like Rosa Brooks (author of the infamous 2017 Foreign Policy piece outlining four ways to remove Trump, including a military coup, and co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project) is a willingness to weaponize civil-military relations and institutional friction to achieve political ends. Whether through war-gaming contested transitions, managing state-backed messaging campaigns (the classic “echo chamber” model pioneered by Rhodes for the Iran deal), or utilizing front groups to question the chain of command, this network routinely blurs the line between normative governance and active regime management.

Ideologically, this cohort shares a commitment to liberal internationalism, multilateral institutionalism, and muscular foreign interventionism, often paired with a professed preference for “diplomacy” that relies heavily on economic warfare, NGO-driven soft power, and covert or bureaucratic centralization (as seen in the NSC’s heavy-handed micromanagement during the Afghanistan withdrawal). They view foreign policy not as an expression of distinct national interest grounded in popular sovereignty, but as a technical problem to be managed by an enlightened, credentialed elite insulated from public sentiment.

For example, Jake Sullivan is the primary figure from that network with a documented, formal association with the Berggruen Institute. During the period between the Obama and Biden administrations, specifically while he was outside of direct government office, Sullivan served as a non-resident senior fellow at the Berggruen Institute. In this capacity, he contributed to their projects on governance and foreign policy, aligning directly with the institute’s work on shaping the strategic outlook of the transnational managerial class before returning to the apex of federal power as National Security Advisor (the central conduit for CIA covert operations).

The Berggruen Institute is a high-level globalist think tank founded in 2010 by billionaire investor Nicolas Berggruen and journalist Nathan Gardels (publishes in all the CIA approved media). Endowed with hundreds of millions of dollars, it operates out of hubs in Los Angeles, Beijing, and Venice, focusing on restructuring global governance, economic systems, and political institutions for the twenty-first century.

The institute serves as an elite ideological incubator where Western technocrats and Chinese state planners meet to design new paradigms of governance. Its core projects and initiatives reveal its underlying agenda:

1. Technocracy over Democracy

The institute actively promotes systems of governance that bypass traditional representative democracy, which its founders view as too unstable, short-term, or populist to handle modern planetary crises. Nicolas Berggruen has openly advocated for "participation without populism," pushing instead for meritocratic oversight where technocratic experts make decisions insulated from the will of ordinary citizens.

2. The US-China Convergence

Unlike standard American foreign policy think tanks that operate from a purely adversarial standpoint, the Berggruen Institute maintains a heavy footprint in Beijing, including a research center at Peking University. It explicitly promotes a stable, integrated framework between the United States and China, viewing both systems as converging toward a managed, state-directed capitalist model.

3. Radical Economic Restructuring

The institute champions progressive-globalist economic policies, most notably "universal basic capital" and wealth redistribution mechanisms designed to manage the social disruptions caused by automation and globalization.

4. Cultural and Philosophical Engineering

Through initiatives like the Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture (which awards a $1 million prize) and publications like Noema Magazine, the institute works to shape the cultural and philosophical assumptions of global elites. It brings together academics, corporate leaders, and former state officials to forge the consensus narrative on issues ranging from artificial intelligence governance to climate policy.

In essence, the Berggruen Institute is part of the transnational managerial architecture. It functions as a laboratory where elite consensus is manufactured, aiming to replace traditional national sovereignty with centralized, technocratic global governance.

This is Jake Sullivan (Rhodes Scholar, Yale, Truman Scholar, Carnegie Fellow, etc) married to Maggie Goodlander (Groton, Yale, senior foreign policy advisor for U.S. Senator John McCain, served as counsel during Trump impeachment)...

Make sense now?

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Mitch McConnell's team reached out to me earlier today — through an intermediary, of course — asking me to take this down.

I won't. I don't bend the knee.

And if they don't like having their name and face attached to it, maybe they should ask themselves why that is.

[F-15 Eagle Vet🇺🇸 @F15sRdaBest]

So... There was this one time when:
On 19 March 1990, during the Arctic Cover exercise over Alaska, an F-15 from Elmendorf AFB fired what the pilot believed was a CATM (Captive Air Training Missile) AIM-9 Sidewinder at his wingman. It wasn’t. A live AIM-9M had been loaded by mistake. The missile came off the rail, locked on, and struck the lead F-15 in the tail section. The damaged Eagle, flown by Lt. Col. Jimmy Harris, took heavy hits to the horizontal stabilizer, left wing, and exhaust area, causing over $1 million in damage. Harris managed to recover the jet and land it safely at Elmendorf. No one was hurt .The pilot who fired, 1st Lt. Michael Lynch, thought he was launching an inert training round during a routine mock intercept. An investigation later found that munitions personnel had loaded a live warhead missile without proper notification, and pre-flight checks failed to catch it. The entire exercise was immediately canceled. Lynch was grounded pending review, and several others were reassigned. This was one of the rare times an F-15 shot another F-15 with a real AIM-9, and both jets still made it home. A true testament to the Eagles survivability!🦅
Special thanks to @Russkies_suck for reminding me of this.

[Brian Berletic @BrianJBerletic]

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