I love the name, "God's Partisans." It describes AnsarAllah very well. Good and evil has never been so clearly defined and seen as these present times.
A well-earned moniker, to be sure. I am constantly reminded of Finkelstein's incantation that AnsarAllah "do not stop their ears and blind their eyes to the agonized cries in Gaza, but - moved by the natural faculty of pity, and lacking the gift of "reason" to rationalize away this pity - have instead thrown down the gauntlet to the barbarous West." Incredible what the supposedly poorest country in the world can do, via sheer will, and dedication to justice.
I was very active at one point, but decided to use my beat up car to display Palestinian flags and a poster that says I support Palestinian human rights. Someone told me I was brave for doing so, others with thumbs up and then those others who gave me double F signs and one who followed me to where I live to argue with me. All I can say Kit, is my god what a world and we've all been too complicit in it because we are too comfortable and do not want to lose that comfort. If we are not willing to lose it to save it, it will all be loss.
It’s compassion not pity to identify with the other that allows Ansar Allah their ability to reason and act in the service
of their fellow humans - the Palestinians. Only a self involved intellectuals would describe “ Ansar Allah’s support as being due to the gift of pity ( compassion) and lacking the gift of ‘reason’ to rationalize away this pity(compassion) and throw down a gauntlet against the West”.
The Ansar Allah’s are a people of strong held beliefs and concern for their fellow man - a miracle of humanity, an exemplar of right thinking and action directed at a genocidal world who are willing to truly sacrifice themselves in the service of other human beings.
I might add here Finkelstein was channeling Rousseau - “men would never have been anything but monsters, if nature had not given them pity to aid their reason.” He wasn't suggesting AnsarAllah pitied the Palestinians.
How do you know who Finkelstein Is channeling and if so say it in your article and not quote Finkelstein in the manner that you did.
Finkelstein, who in a recent interview, identifies the AnsarAllah’s as his heroes without equivocation. As do I. Compassion for the other a lost concept for many in today’s “them versus us”world.
I'm with Finkelstein. Our world is in such bad shape because we don't have enough AnsarAllah's as a people to look up to, copy, present as as an example of what caring humanity looks like against uncaring. And because we call them "terrorists" they are denigrated to that when true "terrorists" go unnamed. But those speaking here know who the true terrorists are.
The Yemenis themselves suffered a genocidal war waged on them by the western mis-leaders, with the Saudis as the proxy. So they KNOW how evil these people are.
Let's try to take the example of God's partisans, and stand up to real bullies rather than be offended by and dismissive of those who try their best to do good.
It is compassion they are showing yes, but language varies over time and region and is imprecise. E.g. Oxford languages defines "pity" as "1. the feeling of sorrow and compassion ..."
I am not clear why a possibly poor choice of word makes him a particularly "self involved intellectual" in spite of his constantly advocating for others - if Finkelstein is who you were referring to?
Not everyone's first language and talent is English, as evident from the grammar above from a bibliophile interested in Scrabble and research.
He likely put "reason" in quotes because he questions their self-serving logic, not because he agrees that it is reasonable.
Hope it aids in waking many. They are truly a most beautiful and inspiring example of the fight ongoing against those who destroy our humanity and our earth.
Burkino Faso’s president is leading all of Africa to do the same to the West. The West should expect austerity as our living standards have been based on being barbarous nations. Russia and China are winning their trust by treating them as equals without all the lecturing about democracy and human rights and their sick complexes of being better than others. I understand Russia sent special troops in to protect Ibrahim Traoré after two or more coup attempts and an assassination attempt. The west is well aware of which side their bread is butter on and there’s no more butter for their bread. Amen. Hope South America catches on soon.
In my humble opinion, Trump doesn’t give a fuck what happens to the empire in Washington DC. He wants to humiliate the beast. He wants to destroy it. The Jewish controlled Washington DC commercial and mercenary empire is the work of Satan. It is pure evil. Every good man and every good woman wants to see Washington DC, the city of London, the Vatican be crushed to dust. We don’t even want a single gravestone or tomb, marking the spots where these evil places stood.
Trump is a warmongering psychopath who is trying to arrest the decline of the American empire by his trade wars and geopolitical manoeuvres. He is a living in the past believing that US imperialism can be restored to its former hegemony over the global economy. Thankfully, China has shown that the era of US domination has gone forever.
The first thing the new Pope will connect with the Palestinian, we will see what will happen.
Please don't ask me how being broke because the ideology of Vatican II the churches were
emptied. their connection with the Rothchilds, because the church was infiltrated since the Carbonari they lost the Vatican arranged with them a concordate that retuned the Vatican
as an independent country. They made an arrangement Cardinal Bea and the Jews to exempt the Sanedrin to be guilty of Jesus Crucificcion. Between masons, Zionists and the MI6 - CIA-and even MOSSAD..........
Thanks for the fascinating insights. It reveals how hollow are the threats against Iran which has the S400 anti missile system from Russia and a squadron of SU34 war planes. Whose to say what weapons have been provided by China which is an ally of Iran.
I would be interested to hear how the UK contingent of this war on the Houthis has fared and the costs to the British public suffering from labour party austerity.
I have to admire the fact that the Houthis are the only group who have consistently opposed the Israeli genocide in Gaza. To be honest it's shameful the complete failure of the Arab nations to do anything of note. Then again most of these governments are corrupt dictatorships in hoc to American imperialism.
It must be a great American tradition at this point to have the "greatest army in the world" defeated by 'third worlders' that are seen (incorrectly) as inferior, militarily and in every other way.
It's ironic what is looked down upon and seen as strange and foreign always turns out to be their strength and advantage. Ansar Allah are seen as primitive religious zealots, yet actually, their cheaper "primitive" technology is quite advanced and wins them ceasefire; their religion is their moral backbone and part of their way of life, for which they fight.
It amazes me how tough Arabs are in general, and the Yemeni in particular. You know, that really surprises me most in the people who hate them. They think they're cowardly. Well, they're dead wrong on that.
I find this part of the AP article telling of the state of US military: 'most of the sailors, including him [Cmdr. Benjamin Orloff], weren’t used to being fired on given the nation’s previous military engagements in recent decades. ... “It was incredibly different,” Orloff said. “And I’ll be honest, it was a little traumatizing for the group. It’s something that we don’t think about a lot until you’re presented with it.”'
"Given the nation's previous military engagements," wow! War is traumatising. So if this was "incredibly different" in being traumatising, what can one conclude from it other than that US military doesn't fight real wars and isn't used to people who can actually fight back, or who they can't like in Iraq simply bribe *not* to fight back?
God bless America, land of the free and home of the brave! (Can anyone here say that out loud and keep a straight face?)
Their strength is in their utter poverty, as is usual. With nothing they have nothing to lose that will destroy their ability to live and fight on.
Subsistence farming, nomadic herdsmen can survive where we would die in a week.
I don't mean man by man, I mean people by people. i.e. a group of them, a village will persist, live on, men women and children, a cohesive and viable whole even after the napalming of their whole village.
One of our villages would be deserted, scattered to the winds after one strafing attack with the threat of more to come.
The more 'primitive' people are the tougher they are, the more self reliant in smaller groups.
And, of course, though your home village may be like that, and mum and dad, today you may be a graduate from university with an engineering degree or electronics, etc. so those 'primitive' people are not wholly and only 'primitive'. Far from it.
Most ironically they are not even relgiious zealots. Spiritual grounding and a code of morality pays a big role in their culture, but that is not the same as them being fanatic or extremists.
However, they HAVE been victoms of a US-backed genocide, at the hands of the Saudis, so they know exactly what the Palestinians are facing.
Kit, thank you so much for this incredible article. This is outrageous. If they fail against the Houthis in such miserable fashion, one can imagine what the Chinese are gonna do to them when time comes. Also, taking into account their respective military yearly budgets!!!!!! Or the Russians for that matter.
I absolutely loOove what Erik Prince said either on his book (Civilian Warriors) or else where in an interview. something along the lines of "The DoD is like 300 pound triathlete"!!!!!!!! And I Agree with him 1 million %. And in his book, he discusses how to tighten the screws and make it one lean mean slender machine.
Empires do not concern themselves with pedestrian terms such as good and evil. Only power and the US has a LOT more than the ME fanatics who will die in service to their warrior god.
"While the President has bragged the Resistance group “capitulated” to his administration’s renewed, much-intensified belligerence and “don’t want to fight any more”, the reality is that God’s Partisans have once again defeated the Empire."
And we're supposed to believe Imperialism will defeat China? How many have defied the Imperialists in the last 10 years and sent them packing? The Taliban, Russia, AnsarAllah! And this is really just the beginning of the process. China has already won the tariff war. Who in the world, besides the deluded epigones of the Cold War imperialists could believe Imperialism can defeat China in a hot war? Imperialism is like a sensecent giant staggering across the globe with Russian, Yemeni and Afghani sabers stabbed into its side. Bleeding and crazy the giant screams to it most challenging opponent, "Let's fight!". Honestly a child could tell you what will be the outcome. Yet, not a single element of the Imperialist political elite seems able to guess what comes next. In fact, they are all dead eyed true believers in the dying giant's victory! With it's nuclear arsenal, this crazed, Imperialist ruling class is the greatest threat to humanity. It must and can be toppled. Who can do this? The wage slaves within US Imperialism on whom the full and increasing burden of the collapsing empire is to be placed. Kit's and several others reporting provides this population with critical information. What is needed is organization, strategy and an anti Imperialist political movement. Millions would undoubtedly join, but which brave souls will build it?
On the bright side, imperialism seems to be doing a good job at destroying itself. At this rate the imperialists might defeat imperialism before anyone else can do anything about it.
No, of course not, but as they enact their own ritual suicide, I'm unsure of their future means to do it. Aren't you? The future seems very uncertain to me. Of course, self-defeat doesn't mean you'll be left to your own devices.
The direction of the US seems to be bankruptcy and self-destruction. I'm not sure if they will manage a nuclear war; by the time they realise it's all over, their time might already be up. A cornered animal is most likely to strike, yet empires before their deaths never think themselves cornered, but most immortal.
Does the death of empire itself risk nuclear war, or is it only the micro-militarism that does? There doesn't seem much historical precedent to go off of.
The American Empire is deindustrialised, with decreasing nuclear capability due to lack of maintenance, lack of money, and lack of skill. Of course it still presently has the potential to destroy the world many times over, but for how much longer?
Emma M, there are alternatives! Just don't make me poof! from a guy with a test tube tripping on a candy wrapper in a biolab. Who knew about GCBRs? Lacking 'About Us' but rates USA #1 in 'Lab leak risk burden' here,
From tabletop Event 201, fictional: "This training tabletop exercise is based on a fictional scenario. The inputs experts used for modeling the potential impact were fictional."
Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise (no prediction, it was fictional),
"January 24, 2020 – In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called Event 201 with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. . . . To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners did not make a prediction . . . . For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. . . . We are not now predicting . . .., the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar . . ."
Thanks, i was aware of other things you mentioned, but had totally missed the collision and firing of the captain, very rare occurrence that they tell that the reason for relieving someone from command is 'total loss of his ability to command' :D :D somehow that gave me a good laugh.
I love the name, "God's Partisans." It describes AnsarAllah very well. Good and evil has never been so clearly defined and seen as these present times.
A well-earned moniker, to be sure. I am constantly reminded of Finkelstein's incantation that AnsarAllah "do not stop their ears and blind their eyes to the agonized cries in Gaza, but - moved by the natural faculty of pity, and lacking the gift of "reason" to rationalize away this pity - have instead thrown down the gauntlet to the barbarous West." Incredible what the supposedly poorest country in the world can do, via sheer will, and dedication to justice.
I was very active at one point, but decided to use my beat up car to display Palestinian flags and a poster that says I support Palestinian human rights. Someone told me I was brave for doing so, others with thumbs up and then those others who gave me double F signs and one who followed me to where I live to argue with me. All I can say Kit, is my god what a world and we've all been too complicit in it because we are too comfortable and do not want to lose that comfort. If we are not willing to lose it to save it, it will all be loss.
It’s compassion not pity to identify with the other that allows Ansar Allah their ability to reason and act in the service
of their fellow humans - the Palestinians. Only a self involved intellectuals would describe “ Ansar Allah’s support as being due to the gift of pity ( compassion) and lacking the gift of ‘reason’ to rationalize away this pity(compassion) and throw down a gauntlet against the West”.
The Ansar Allah’s are a people of strong held beliefs and concern for their fellow man - a miracle of humanity, an exemplar of right thinking and action directed at a genocidal world who are willing to truly sacrifice themselves in the service of other human beings.
David versus Goliath if you will.
I might add here Finkelstein was channeling Rousseau - “men would never have been anything but monsters, if nature had not given them pity to aid their reason.” He wasn't suggesting AnsarAllah pitied the Palestinians.
How do you know who Finkelstein Is channeling and if so say it in your article and not quote Finkelstein in the manner that you did.
Finkelstein, who in a recent interview, identifies the AnsarAllah’s as his heroes without equivocation. As do I. Compassion for the other a lost concept for many in today’s “them versus us”world.
I'm with Finkelstein. Our world is in such bad shape because we don't have enough AnsarAllah's as a people to look up to, copy, present as as an example of what caring humanity looks like against uncaring. And because we call them "terrorists" they are denigrated to that when true "terrorists" go unnamed. But those speaking here know who the true terrorists are.
Not pity nor compassion, pure justice they follow their Law to help
those in danger, they consider it an everlasting injustice, but then
came North Korea another country considered a pariah and tought
them how they had done.
The Yemenis themselves suffered a genocidal war waged on them by the western mis-leaders, with the Saudis as the proxy. So they KNOW how evil these people are.
https://www.american.edu/sis/news/20190128-the-us-s-role-in-the-hidden-genocide-in-yemen.cfm
Let's try to take the example of God's partisans, and stand up to real bullies rather than be offended by and dismissive of those who try their best to do good.
It is compassion they are showing yes, but language varies over time and region and is imprecise. E.g. Oxford languages defines "pity" as "1. the feeling of sorrow and compassion ..."
I am not clear why a possibly poor choice of word makes him a particularly "self involved intellectual" in spite of his constantly advocating for others - if Finkelstein is who you were referring to?
Not everyone's first language and talent is English, as evident from the grammar above from a bibliophile interested in Scrabble and research.
He likely put "reason" in quotes because he questions their self-serving logic, not because he agrees that it is reasonable.
Hope it aids in waking many. They are truly a most beautiful and inspiring example of the fight ongoing against those who destroy our humanity and our earth.
Burkino Faso’s president is leading all of Africa to do the same to the West. The West should expect austerity as our living standards have been based on being barbarous nations. Russia and China are winning their trust by treating them as equals without all the lecturing about democracy and human rights and their sick complexes of being better than others. I understand Russia sent special troops in to protect Ibrahim Traoré after two or more coup attempts and an assassination attempt. The west is well aware of which side their bread is butter on and there’s no more butter for their bread. Amen. Hope South America catches on soon.
In my humble opinion, Trump doesn’t give a fuck what happens to the empire in Washington DC. He wants to humiliate the beast. He wants to destroy it. The Jewish controlled Washington DC commercial and mercenary empire is the work of Satan. It is pure evil. Every good man and every good woman wants to see Washington DC, the city of London, the Vatican be crushed to dust. We don’t even want a single gravestone or tomb, marking the spots where these evil places stood.
Trump is a warmongering psychopath who is trying to arrest the decline of the American empire by his trade wars and geopolitical manoeuvres. He is a living in the past believing that US imperialism can be restored to its former hegemony over the global economy. Thankfully, China has shown that the era of US domination has gone forever.
in any case, the US EMPIRE (city of Washington DC) will be destroyed
https://t.me/c/1516565577/487548
Not by Islam. If it were to happen, it would be by suicide.
Please don't Islam as whole because it's not. Shiis are against radicalism
in Iran there are Jews since inmemorial times. as Christians and other minorities. Sufiism is pacific, Wahabism was incorporated to Sunnies of
Arabia by whom? that city beside the Tamesis.
well if it is jewish controlled then it's Trump's natural ally isn't it, seeing he is Jewish controlled, too.
"Donald Trump, Not Barack Obama, is Responsible for Ukraine’s Dramatic Military expansion between 2011 and 2021"
https://sonar21.com/donald-trump-not-barack-obama-is-responsible-for-ukraines-dramatic-military-expansion-between-2011-and-2021/
The first thing the new Pope will connect with the Palestinian, we will see what will happen.
Please don't ask me how being broke because the ideology of Vatican II the churches were
emptied. their connection with the Rothchilds, because the church was infiltrated since the Carbonari they lost the Vatican arranged with them a concordate that retuned the Vatican
as an independent country. They made an arrangement Cardinal Bea and the Jews to exempt the Sanedrin to be guilty of Jesus Crucificcion. Between masons, Zionists and the MI6 - CIA-and even MOSSAD..........
Very pertinent John, I couldn't agree more.
Great work again Kit.
Insight of what we knew was happening in Aden but totally ignored and pushed down by legacy media.
Always appreciate your clarity on the Global Delinquents.
My pleasure and duty comrade!
The US army really is a paper tiger.
New slogan: DON'T FIRE ON US
DON'T FIRE ON US, PLEASE.
EXACTLY what that needed, THX!!
Thanks for the fascinating insights. It reveals how hollow are the threats against Iran which has the S400 anti missile system from Russia and a squadron of SU34 war planes. Whose to say what weapons have been provided by China which is an ally of Iran.
I would be interested to hear how the UK contingent of this war on the Houthis has fared and the costs to the British public suffering from labour party austerity.
I have to admire the fact that the Houthis are the only group who have consistently opposed the Israeli genocide in Gaza. To be honest it's shameful the complete failure of the Arab nations to do anything of note. Then again most of these governments are corrupt dictatorships in hoc to American imperialism.
EXACTLY 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯
Brilliant reporting. Did you cover the "Fat Leonard" sting, yet another Navy fiasco.
Thank You Kit
Another Good article.
I do not mind political spin by some western leaders, so long as the truth outs!
Time I made another £contribution, soon.
As all your almost manifestos, impecable. In-formative and a blessing for the curious exhausted
of having to sift everthing and on top of it AI.
Thank you so much.
It must be a great American tradition at this point to have the "greatest army in the world" defeated by 'third worlders' that are seen (incorrectly) as inferior, militarily and in every other way.
It's ironic what is looked down upon and seen as strange and foreign always turns out to be their strength and advantage. Ansar Allah are seen as primitive religious zealots, yet actually, their cheaper "primitive" technology is quite advanced and wins them ceasefire; their religion is their moral backbone and part of their way of life, for which they fight.
It amazes me how tough Arabs are in general, and the Yemeni in particular. You know, that really surprises me most in the people who hate them. They think they're cowardly. Well, they're dead wrong on that.
Imagine any other culture in the place of the Yemeni, to be as resilient and react the way they did without faltering. Even ordinary residents were doing drills preparing for war back in November, as Yemeni journalist Ahmed Abdulkareem reported (https://www.mintpressnews.com/yemen-mobilizes-for-war-anticipating-us-invasion-under-trump/288681/).
I find this part of the AP article telling of the state of US military: 'most of the sailors, including him [Cmdr. Benjamin Orloff], weren’t used to being fired on given the nation’s previous military engagements in recent decades. ... “It was incredibly different,” Orloff said. “And I’ll be honest, it was a little traumatizing for the group. It’s something that we don’t think about a lot until you’re presented with it.”'
"Given the nation's previous military engagements," wow! War is traumatising. So if this was "incredibly different" in being traumatising, what can one conclude from it other than that US military doesn't fight real wars and isn't used to people who can actually fight back, or who they can't like in Iraq simply bribe *not* to fight back?
God bless America, land of the free and home of the brave! (Can anyone here say that out loud and keep a straight face?)
Their strength is in their utter poverty, as is usual. With nothing they have nothing to lose that will destroy their ability to live and fight on.
Subsistence farming, nomadic herdsmen can survive where we would die in a week.
I don't mean man by man, I mean people by people. i.e. a group of them, a village will persist, live on, men women and children, a cohesive and viable whole even after the napalming of their whole village.
One of our villages would be deserted, scattered to the winds after one strafing attack with the threat of more to come.
The more 'primitive' people are the tougher they are, the more self reliant in smaller groups.
And, of course, though your home village may be like that, and mum and dad, today you may be a graduate from university with an engineering degree or electronics, etc. so those 'primitive' people are not wholly and only 'primitive'. Far from it.
They incorporate both ends of the scale.
Money laundering for weapons manufacturers.
The soldiery are now, basically, the equivalent of 'Wheel of Fortune' models.
Most ironically they are not even relgiious zealots. Spiritual grounding and a code of morality pays a big role in their culture, but that is not the same as them being fanatic or extremists.
However, they HAVE been victoms of a US-backed genocide, at the hands of the Saudis, so they know exactly what the Palestinians are facing.
How can I give you 10 LIKES?
But credit to DJ for telling Pentagon let's make war economical.
(In memory of our debt?)
Kit, thank you so much for this incredible article. This is outrageous. If they fail against the Houthis in such miserable fashion, one can imagine what the Chinese are gonna do to them when time comes. Also, taking into account their respective military yearly budgets!!!!!! Or the Russians for that matter.
https://x.com/BRICSinfo/status/1782563831803220171
I absolutely loOove what Erik Prince said either on his book (Civilian Warriors) or else where in an interview. something along the lines of "The DoD is like 300 pound triathlete"!!!!!!!! And I Agree with him 1 million %. And in his book, he discusses how to tighten the screws and make it one lean mean slender machine.
Empires do not concern themselves with pedestrian terms such as good and evil. Only power and the US has a LOT more than the ME fanatics who will die in service to their warrior god.
"While the President has bragged the Resistance group “capitulated” to his administration’s renewed, much-intensified belligerence and “don’t want to fight any more”, the reality is that God’s Partisans have once again defeated the Empire."
And we're supposed to believe Imperialism will defeat China? How many have defied the Imperialists in the last 10 years and sent them packing? The Taliban, Russia, AnsarAllah! And this is really just the beginning of the process. China has already won the tariff war. Who in the world, besides the deluded epigones of the Cold War imperialists could believe Imperialism can defeat China in a hot war? Imperialism is like a sensecent giant staggering across the globe with Russian, Yemeni and Afghani sabers stabbed into its side. Bleeding and crazy the giant screams to it most challenging opponent, "Let's fight!". Honestly a child could tell you what will be the outcome. Yet, not a single element of the Imperialist political elite seems able to guess what comes next. In fact, they are all dead eyed true believers in the dying giant's victory! With it's nuclear arsenal, this crazed, Imperialist ruling class is the greatest threat to humanity. It must and can be toppled. Who can do this? The wage slaves within US Imperialism on whom the full and increasing burden of the collapsing empire is to be placed. Kit's and several others reporting provides this population with critical information. What is needed is organization, strategy and an anti Imperialist political movement. Millions would undoubtedly join, but which brave souls will build it?
On the bright side, imperialism seems to be doing a good job at destroying itself. At this rate the imperialists might defeat imperialism before anyone else can do anything about it.
Do you doubt these mad Imperialists will destroy the world in a nuclear conflagration if left to their own devices?
No, of course not, but as they enact their own ritual suicide, I'm unsure of their future means to do it. Aren't you? The future seems very uncertain to me. Of course, self-defeat doesn't mean you'll be left to your own devices.
The direction of the US seems to be bankruptcy and self-destruction. I'm not sure if they will manage a nuclear war; by the time they realise it's all over, their time might already be up. A cornered animal is most likely to strike, yet empires before their deaths never think themselves cornered, but most immortal.
Does the death of empire itself risk nuclear war, or is it only the micro-militarism that does? There doesn't seem much historical precedent to go off of.
The American Empire is deindustrialised, with decreasing nuclear capability due to lack of maintenance, lack of money, and lack of skill. Of course it still presently has the potential to destroy the world many times over, but for how much longer?
Emma M, there are alternatives! Just don't make me poof! from a guy with a test tube tripping on a candy wrapper in a biolab. Who knew about GCBRs? Lacking 'About Us' but rates USA #1 in 'Lab leak risk burden' here,
https://gcbrindex.org/
Johns Hopkins and Bill & Melinda Gates seem super interested in our 'health security.' To protect the economy. It worked so well for covid, https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises
But the informal Megan Test-Capitol Hill Steering Committee April 24, 2025 meeting cancelled,
https://web.cvent.com/event/6E2329DE-7EC0-4BE3-A38B-C7AC05C9415E/summary
From tabletop Event 201, fictional: "This training tabletop exercise is based on a fictional scenario. The inputs experts used for modeling the potential impact were fictional."
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/our-work/tabletop-exercises/event-201-pandemic-tabletop-exercise
Statement about nCoV and our pandemic exercise (no prediction, it was fictional),
"January 24, 2020 – In October 2019, the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security hosted a pandemic tabletop exercise called Event 201 with partners, the World Economic Forum and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. . . . To be clear, the Center for Health Security and partners did not make a prediction . . . . For the scenario, we modeled a fictional coronavirus pandemic, but we explicitly stated that it was not a prediction. . . . We are not now predicting . . .., the inputs we used for modeling the potential impact of that fictional virus are not similar . . ."
https://centerforhealthsecurity.org/2020/statement-about-ncov-and-our-pandemic-exercise
Thanks, i was aware of other things you mentioned, but had totally missed the collision and firing of the captain, very rare occurrence that they tell that the reason for relieving someone from command is 'total loss of his ability to command' :D :D somehow that gave me a good laugh.
Aha! It appears God's Partisans kicked a super-hornets' nest. The Empire should learn to stop playing with fire.
Stick with Game of Thrones, I would. Get a tattoo. Paint a fence. Wax off.