🇺🇸 The last time the US Army was organized for major conventional war it boasted just over three quarters of a million active duty personnel. Today it has just over 463K and is missing recruiting goals while simultaneously leaning on the Guard component more heavily than it ever did during the Cold War. The Army simply doesn't have the personnel to meet operational & training obligations, while also giving the troops downtime in garrison.
Aggravating this problem is the steady increase of the T3R ratio post Gulf War. Meaning combat arms represents a decreasing percentage of the overall force.
📎 Patrick Fox
🛢📈 — Reuters reports that oil is approaching $100 per barrel following the latest exchange of attacks between Americans and Iranians on oil tankers.
▶️The price of Brent crude has risen to $97.07 per barrel, while American WTI crude has risen to $92.28. In the past week, Brent has risen by 7.8%, while WTI has risen by nearly 10%.
▶️On Saturday, U.S. forces attacked three Iranian oil tankers, one of which was stationed near the island of Kharg, a key center for Iranian oil exports. In response, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced attacks on three oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz and three more U.S. ships.
▶️In this context, traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has sharply declined. Over the past 10 days, an average of only 10 cargo ships have transited the strait per day – the lowest level since May.
The WHO now states on its website:
Vaccination against COVID-19 can trigger multiple sclerosis through cross-reactive CD4+-T cells that recognize the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2 and myelin peptides.
In other words: Your own immune system destroys the nerve pathways and then attacks your brain and spinal cord.