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<blockquote data-quote="Buck" data-source="post: 8906357" data-attributes="member: 591582">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-deploys-f-35s-puerto-rico-airfield-after-pair-venezuelan-jets-buzz-us-warship[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.biometricupdate.com/202509/lawmakers-demand-answers-on-ice-facial-recognition-app-as-oversight-fight-intensifies[/URL][URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.alternet.org/trump-fbi-informant-2673962593/[/URL]<img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="👀" title="👀" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f440.png" />&quot;“We need to be able to take a punch in the nose, whether it’s a cyber attack or a conventional kinetic attack, and get back up and come out swinging,” retired Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, who led the two commands from 2020 to 2024, said during a Mitchell Institute webinar on Thursday. “What I believe is if any potential adversary looks at us and sees a nation so resilient that they believe they could never achieve their objectives without a large nuclear attack on us, then they’re most likely not to attack in the first place, because they know what comes back is a mutually assured destruction. That is strategic stability by definition, and that’s where we need to put ourselves. Unfortunately, we’re not there from a resilience perspective.”&quot;[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.twz.com/news-features/homeland-needs-to-be-able-to-survive-a-punch-in-the-nose-according-to-former-norad-chief[/URL]WW3</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buck, post: 8906357, member: 591582"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-deploys-f-35s-puerto-rico-airfield-after-pair-venezuelan-jets-buzz-us-warship[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.biometricupdate.com/202509/lawmakers-demand-answers-on-ice-facial-recognition-app-as-oversight-fight-intensifies[/URL] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.alternet.org/trump-fbi-informant-2673962593/[/URL] 👀 "“We need to be able to take a punch in the nose, whether it’s a cyber attack or a conventional kinetic attack, and get back up and come out swinging,” retired Air Force Gen. Glen D. VanHerck, who led the two commands from 2020 to 2024, said during a Mitchell Institute webinar on Thursday. “What I believe is if any potential adversary looks at us and sees a nation so resilient that they believe they could never achieve their objectives without a large nuclear attack on us, then they’re most likely not to attack in the first place, because they know what comes back is a mutually assured destruction. That is strategic stability by definition, and that’s where we need to put ourselves. Unfortunately, we’re not there from a resilience perspective.”" [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.twz.com/news-features/homeland-needs-to-be-able-to-survive-a-punch-in-the-nose-according-to-former-norad-chief[/URL] WW3 [/QUOTE]

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