James Stavridis

Obama war crimes in Libya

On March 21, 2011, President Obama publicly announced U.S. military forces commenced no fly-zone operations in Libya two days earlier, on March 19, "to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe" and cited UN Resolutions as giving him the authority to do so. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates warned establishment of a no-fly zone meant attacking Libya. Officials such as National Security Advisor Tom Donilon and Deputy National Security Advisor Denis McDonough also opposed to attacking Libya; but Hillary Clinton, tossing her "smart power" doctrine to the wind, "won the bureaucratic battle to use Department of Defense resources to achieve what's essentially the State Department's objective... and Obama let it happen". The Charter of the United Nations, in Article 2(4), prohibits the “threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence” of a member state, and many observers have wondered whether the establishment of a no-fly zone would constitute a violation of this prohibition. The Congressional Research Services advised that a no-fly zone imposed against a state that has not carried out an attack on its neighbors may consider the imposition of a no-fly zone an “armed attack.” CRS warned that even if no-fly zone operations in a given state do not constitute an “armed attack",

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that state, and other members of the international community, might consider them a violation of the prohibition of the “threat or use of force,” as well as of the customary duty of non-intervention in the affairs of other sovereign states.

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NATO's Supreme Allied Commander James Stavridis told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee days before President Obama publicly admitted to intervention that U.S. intelligence knew of al Qaeda and Hezbollah elements among the Libyan insurgents.

Russiagate: Deep State coup 1.0

Alliance for Securing Democracy (ASD) formed by Democrat foreign policy hands and neocon Never Trumpers in Washington. The outfit aims to expose how supposed Russian Twitter bots were infecting American political discourse with divisive narratives. The initiative was endorsed by John Podesta of the Center for American Progress.

ASD was sponsored by the German Marshall Fund, funded by Western governments. Its top two financial sponsors, at more than $1 million per year each, are the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the German Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt). The U.S. State Department also provides more than half a million dollars per year, as do the German Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development and the foreign affairs ministries of Sweden and Norway. It likewise receives at least a quarter of a million dollars per year from NATO.

ASD'e advisory council consists of Michael Chertoff, David Kramer, Bill Kristol, Michael McFaul, Mike Morell, John Podesta, Michael J. Rogers, Kori Shake, Adm. James Stavridis, Jake Sullivan, Nicole Wong and others.

James Stavridis, who provided the inspiration for Essay: Russia's long history of many bitter, military defeats.

Iran war

Stavridis said on CNN: the USS Abraham Lincoln has “80 combat aircraft, and you can move it right up to the coast.” Not only that, but there may soon be “long-range strategic bombers” going towards “the island of Diego Garcia” alongside “F-35 Lightings, the most advanced fifth generation fighter in the world, out of Doha, Qatar.” And more airpower could be coming. CENTCOM announced today on X that U.S. Air Forces Central (AFCENT) will be conducting a multi-day readiness exercise that could be used as a pretense to surge numerous other aircraft to the Middle East. Further bolstering U.S. firepower are newly arrived THAAD and Patriot missile batteries for air defense and four British Eurofighter Typhoon jets now in Qatar.

As Adm. Stavridis said, the gathered forces give “the president a lot of military capability and options” but there would still be risk should the U.S. decide to launch an attack. Analysts warns that Iranian drone swarms could threaten U.S. naval vessels, and both the Houthis and Kataib Hezbollah have pledged to join Iran in the event of war, with the latter group posting videos on social media dozens of fighters sworn to become suicide bombers.