Intel Update - March 28 - Casino of War

Hello again everyone and welcome back to the Underground. This is the Intel update for March 22nd through the 28th, 2026.

Well, we are officially one month into the Gulf War and not only is no end in sight but this week

has been host to major escalations on most theaters of the war.

Today I'm going to cover a lot of the topics that I have not had time to cover throughout the week

and more generally reflect on the strategic nature of the war.

So fair warning will be digging into a lot of discussion and debatable opinion today

which I hope will be helpful in getting to the truth of what is actually happening.

We can mean count impact craters and we can watch oil refineries burn

but to actually get to the meat of how this war is shaping the world.

We have to dig up a lot of uncomfortable topics sometimes so we'll get to that in just a bit.

But starting at the very top the 60,000 foot view there are many hot spots for conflict

around the world and we are seeing a lot of smaller conflicts breaking out.

That seem unrelated at face value but are very significant conflicts nonetheless.

The war in the Middle East is of course largely centered in Iran however this conflict

has spread to be a more regional war at this point as Iranian counterattacks are taking place

throughout the entire region. Despite what the White House says drone and missile attacks

are continuing and the Iranian blisting missile attacks have been extremely devastating for

Israel over the past few days due to the early warning radar sites that were destroyed on the

first few days of the war. Separately from the Gulf War the Israelis are fighting a ground

invasion of Lebanon which has made significant advances at significant cost.

This conflict has been a little bit more difficult to track so we'll have to get back to that

next week I'm still compiling a lot of the data for the Lebanese war but suffice it to say

that's a pretty hot shooting war as well and I think this one's going to go on for a while too.

Bridging the divide between the West and the East Turkey is becoming more involved in either

of the two wars I'm not quite sure if that's confusing I understand what I'm referring to is the

targeting of a tanker vessel in Turkish waters a few days ago. Initially this attack was assessed

to be related to the war in Ukraine because this tanker was carrying Russian oil.

However many people have also made the claim that this vessel was actually targeted either by Iran

or by Israel as part of a Gulf War. At the moment I cannot say what the actual truth is it makes

more sense for it to be Ukraine simply due to geography but at this point nothing is off the

table and the Israelis have openly signaled that for them Turkey is next so they may also be

seeking to bring in Turkey into this little excursion in the Middle East. Still too soon to tell

those so we'll have to get back to that once we get more information. This leads us to Europe where

other conflicts around the world also saw resurgence this week such as the war in Ukraine which

brought about an intensification of targeting efforts throughout the continent as the Ukrainians

targeted oil terminals in St. Petersburg. Again drone warfare is making the world a very very small

place and to being located thousands of miles away from the front lines is no longer a guarantee of

safety in today's modern world. Also far away from the front lines the global impacts of this

conflict especially they won't conflict in Ukraine and also the conflict in Iran are impacting

the entire planet at this point as the world tries to start functioning in a manner where global

markets are being impacted. Famine potential in Southeast Asia is growing as fertilizer shipments

have effectively been cut off but even taking global maritime choke points out of the equation

we have to remember the transportation is not the only problem here much of the fertilizer market

revolves around Urea which is created during the distillation of liquefied natural gas and since many

LNG facilities such as in Qatar have been totally destroyed to the point that it will take years

to repair them even if the Strait of Hormuz were freely available to travel through the petroleum

fertilizer plastics and gas markets are going to take years to return to normal simply from the

production side of the house based on stuff that's already been destroyed so again these are two

separate issues we don't just have the problems with these Strait of Hormuz and getting cargo

in and out of the Persian Gulf that is a problem traffic is not resumed normal levels just yet and

the Iranians definitely control the strait but apart from the transportation issues we also have

problems on the production side of the house because a lot of the refineries and facilities and

factories which produce these materials and raw materials they've been targeted and they've

been destroyed or degraded heavily to the point of where it's going to take months to repair them

if not years so again stepping back these are the hot spots that are worthy of note this week

the war in the Persian Gulf is devastating the region there's a separate war going on in Lebanon

and of course the Ukraine war is starting to heat back up again at least in terms of H asymmetric

warfare tactics and all of the above are expanding substantially and escalating every day with no

end in sight so this is most certainly a very very busy time on the home front we have also

had several items of note to take a place this week out west several different wildfires have

swept through the state of Nebraska which has reminded us that wildfire season is most certainly

well underway the moral fire and the cottonwood fire were initially more devastating with the

immoral fire being the largest wildfire in state history now to more fires the minor fire and

ashby fire are currently being worked in the central regions of the state these wildfires and

Nebraska have devastated the agricultural community and a lot of this area is big cattle country

ranchers from neighboring states have been trucking in hay and feed to donate to farmers in need

with many other recovery efforts being underway so again from the very wave top level this is a good

example of how important and challenging it is to balance out all of the concerns of the modern

day yes it is important to know about what's going on in the middle east but at the same time a

wildfire in the middle of nowhere in Nebraska ever moves the food sources for cattle production

cycles are thrown off and suddenly you've got expensive beef or even beef shortages now in this

case i'm not really sure how much the Nebraska fires will affect the food supply i don't think it'll

be that devastating but these things are always hard to determine many people may not notice anything

at all but it's still a good example of logistical frailty that helps us understand which situations

do monitor around the country more direct threats have come to light regarding shadow warfare

tactics that are being undertaken nationwide this week the hot topic on that front has been the

indictment of two Chinese nationals who are alleged to be responsible for the attempted IED attack

at McDeal Air Force Base in Florida a couple of weeks ago i don't want to comment too much on this

case just yet because there are a lot of contradictory details that don't quite make sense so

please forgive me i need to do a little bit more research but right now this looks like this is

probably the classic Chinese sabotage act undertaken during a time of war purely for the purposes

of causing chaos within the American homeland remember everybody is expecting Iranian sleeper

cells to be activated in the United States right now but the Chinese also know this as well

so when we see an IED at the front gate of the headquarters of sent comm we might be inclined to

think the Iranians did it when in reality it was really a false flag carried out by the Chinese

or at least that's what it seems like at the moment we can never really be too sure about these

things i just wanted to mention this one because it is most certainly false flag season right now and

the whole world knows this too so while we argue on the internet about those pesky and elusive

Iranian sleeper cells what is undeniable and far more likely in my opinion are the risks associated

with any number of unnamed groups and nation states alike that greatly profit when chaos is

sewn in the American homeland this will be something to watch out for over the next few weeks and

it would be a good idea to pump the brakes on immediately assessing blame for whatever attacks

take place over the next few days weeks month so that's it for the homeland this week i know not

a whole lot please forgive me i was going to have another investigation that i had hoped to wrap up

or at least get to a point to where i can share my findings this week but i think i'm going to

need some more time on that so if i said to say there's a lot of fifth generation warfare

stuff going on in the homeland that i am most certainly aware of and watching i just need more

information before i can start drawing links and performing link analysis and going through all

these infrastructure analytical techniques to try to figure out exactly what's going on or draw

some kind of causation right i love a good internet schizo theory just as much as the next guy however

if we're wanting to actually have some tangible effects on target so to speak it's going to take

a little bit more time for me to bring a lot of this investigative stuff to light so i'll dig into

the mcdill stuff a little bit more with the the chinese iedis these things are occurring i just

need some more time to kind of scoop them up together in a consistent product so moving to the

middle east how goes the war this week overall i want to stress two words above all else diminishing

returns it is true that the united states is continuing to bomb targets throughout Iran however

evidence is mounting that they are running out of the easy targets to strike this is most sharply

evidenced by this short video clip of strikes that was posted by sent com the other day now when

i first saw this clip i did a loony tunes sq double take because in less than half a second so

much information was conveyed this video shows airstrikes of at least two construction vehicles one

front end loader and what looks like a bulldozer and these short clips are very very telling now

just right off the bat you can argue about whether or not these are valent military targets all you

want from my experience as an analyst working in a targeting shop conducting strikes just like this

at least during my time these would not have been considered a valid military target but again

that's also subject to what the target engagement authority or tia will authorize so the legality of

it uh that's just kind of dubious at best but more broadly this video clip is to use quite an

ironic term a shibboleth this is a tell this is an indicator that some things not quite right here

just to let everyone in on a little bit of targeting culture whenever a targeting shop starts

striking bulldozers they are running out of targets and the pao who was given these clips did not

know that little bit of targeting culture again when i was working in a targeting unit for some

stuff in syria a few years ago i would get phone calls from the marines at an adjacent targeting

cell at a at a neighboring base making fun of us like we would get mocked because one of our

generals got a wild idea and authorize a strike on a bulldozer and you know what my shop deserved

all of that teasing because that's how big of a cultural deal this is within the world of targeting

it's just embarrassing like you couldn't find a better target that's all you could find as some

guys bulldozer and in the real world it really does get played up kind of like that scene from

generation kill where captain america shoots up that guy's a vehicle with the a k and his guys say

well what what are you doing and he ends up saying something like denying the enemy transportation

or something like that it's the same idea right you could probably pencil whip it and justify it

which is what they're doing since comes doing in these clips you could definitely pencil whip

it and justified under a target engagement authority but again professional to professional it's

embarrassing i would not want my name on a targeting package that that had like a bulldozer on it

it's embarrassing so hopefully that bit of insider knowledge helps with context and maybe it

helps understand how the war is going of course we don't want to you know lean on one extremely

short video clip compiled by a pa was you know confirmation of anything it's more of just an

indicator really and at this point if the figures are correct and the pentagon has indeed run 10,000

swordies so far during this war i understand that they're probably having a hard time finding

valid military targets like i and many others have been saying since the first few days of the war

all the dumb ones were killed during the first few days and now the time is elapsed the targets

that remain will be vastly harder to find fix and finish as the pentagon likes to remind everyone

with a phrase that a super motarded lance corporal might write down in the margin of his right

in the right notebook but that's what they're doing literally repeating the most ineffective

measures of the g-watt and the pentagon is unaware that the relationship between bombs dropped

and targeting effectiveness is an inverse equation here the number of bombs dropped does not equal

winning the war and that's exactly what the pentagon is telling the public and it's probably what

they're telling the president to mr president mr president look how many bombs we dropped today

isn't that totally rad and cool they're jingling the plastic keys in front of every decision

maker and it's working because there are no low level analysts in the room telling the president

that the targets they're bombing now are becoming less and less effective as time goes on it's not

disparaging against the targeting process this is just how targeting works guess what put on your

big boy pants targeting's hard finding the enemy is hard and they're trying to say that just because

they drop some bombs on some guys you know goat shack that we're actually reducing the Iranian

military capability however let's make no mistake though in thinking that American bombing isn't

doing anything at all that's not true we have devastated a substantial part of their economy

and it will take a century probably to recover from what devastation we have wrought throughout

Persia but when it comes to the real threats the missiles and the drones are we able to target the

Iranians effectively enough to stop these types of attacks can we bomb the Iranians enough to

stop the drone attacks and open the straight the answer is undeniably no or at least history

does not indicate so going all the way back to Vietnam operation linebacker to we have never

really been able to launch a large scale bombing campaign that bombs the enemy into complete

and total submission without a ground force being part of that element as well there is only so

much that you can do from the air and President Trump can get on TV all he wants and say that

we've taken out all of their missiles but the dozen or so warheads that land in Tel Aviv every

single day and night are proof that this is just not the reality of what's happening on the ground

on the diplomatic front things are tenuous at best and now that the war is officially one month

old let's take a break for a moment and really reassess what is happening at the strategic level

we can take a look at the more tactical level stuff throughout the week but today we're really

trying to get a good beat on what's actually going on strategically and this week it's been

really crazy President Trump initially stated that Iran had a 48 hour ultimatum to open the

straight otherwise we would bomb their energy production facilities but the next day he extended

this deadline by five days to yesterday Friday well this deadline came and went and President

Trump extended the deadline again by another 10 days all the while this was going on the Israelis

were striking multiple Iranian nuclear facilities steel factories and other targets throughout the

country so the war between Israel and Iran is definitely still going on definitely still quite

hot and Netanyahu himself stated that a ceasefire between Iran and the United States does not apply

to Israel so they're going to keep attacking which is just incredible that's just something else

but what this mostly does for us is eliminate the chance for peace and through our own actions we

have made it very hard to achieve any sort of deal without giving up a lot of stuff eventually all

wars come to an end do they not and you can have peace two ways you can have peace through a

negotiated settlement or you could have peace by killing everyone on one side of the conflict

considering the long train of human events we very rarely end up killing every single person on

one side of the war so there's usually going to be a negotiated settlement again unconditional

surrenders even though the U.S. has openly stated this what we're going for unconditional surrender

is very rare throughout history most of the time there's going to be some kind of negotiated

settlement and when if you know you're going to negotiate your way out of a war shooting yourself

on the foot and giving up a lot of your negotiating power is probably not a good idea but we did

exactly that remember we started this war by using tactics that humanity has normally seen at

the end of a war so we used the late war tactics right at the start we killed a religious leader

and his wife and children during his religious holiday as part of the opening salvos of the war

militarily speaking I speculate that some people were able to convince the president the decision

to take out the Iatola was a low risk operation they probably didn't tell him that killing a head

of state would have consequences they probably did not think this through and even if they did

think this through they didn't really care they gave him the play school you know plastic keys

jingling in front of your face kind of answers to things and we saw this confirmed more or less

with the infamous lay down your arms of speech that President Trump gave on the day of the strikes

which in retrospect now that we can look back on that event we can look back on that speech

we can see just how utterly insane that was that that was so utterly ridiculous that they thought

that was actually going to work but anyway again you know hindsight is 2020 I guess but even when

we were watching these events happen in real time even even then we knew this was a bad idea

we knew that this was not going to work so it's not like we had to wait a whole month of you know

this this conflict dragging out to know that bad decisions were being made now we can see the bad

decisions were being made before the decisions were made starting a sneak attack during peace

negotiations is a low blow that makes it very very hard to extract ourselves from because now we're

trapped and nobody told Trump that taking out the Iatola was a trap our diplomats think about this

our representatives to the world openly brag about pretending to seek a diplomatic solution but

in secret they were really just stringing the ironians along because they had no intent of seeking

a deal they just wanted war is very unpleasant to note these things this is for sure like I don't

take any joy in reporting this but I myself I'm trying to think about what challenges I would have

back in my old life as an NCO right and adopting that frame of mind I would be furious that the

Pentagon is behaving the way that they are because when you start off a conflict like this in this

particular manner it makes it incredibly hard to fight on the ground for all of the NCOs and

junior officers out there that are having to manage their guys during a time like this I know

that you guys are having a hard time I really do I do not relish the thought of having a bunch of

PFCs or Lance Corporals under my wing who are watching what their secretary of war is saying and

having to walk back his statements it's probably quite tough to do that as a military leader of any

pay grade it is your duty to be magnanimous in victory like that's what gets beat into your

head and was certainly a very big part of the GWAT you do your job with honor integrity and

professionalism we know that the war is not necessarily being fought on American terms or even

for the right reasons in the first place we know this and we can't ignore it but you take the

part of the war that's right in front of you and you do the best you can with it that's what anybody

is gonna do you do not seek out atrocity and you do the best you can to preserve your own honor

you do not double tap rescuers trying to pull people from the rubble if we are fighting a war

based on bloodlust we have lost the plot and I am very concerned that a lot of high ranking

military officials have done just that and my heart goes out to the low level dudes out there

who are just trying to keep their guys on the narrow path and out of trouble I really do think

it and pray for you guys every single day because much of our military leadership are acting like

psychopaths at this point and behaving in ways that are below the station that they hold

all warfare is based on deception but treachery is not a virtue we must remember that even though

our government has forgotten it we do not worship death on the battlefield a lance corporal

making a crude remark about some drone footage is a lot different than the secretary of war doing

it we do what we have to do but we cannot lose our humanity and from what I see we are an extreme

danger of that happening if it hasn't happened already we are Americans we stop harm from

befalling the innocent without hesitation using violence to do so if need be but once that enemy

is out of the fight we show them mercy and compassion and now the Pentagon is trying to act like

mercy is a bad thing in any context and all I can say to that is may the lord have mercy on us

for allowing this evil mentality to flourish and for not having the courage to call this out

sometimes we have got to change this and I just don't know how I just thought it was important

to include these ideas for the record just in case we actually end up going into a ground fight

because when and if we start putting boots on the ground all of these ideas all of these

sentiments are going to get dialed up to 11 right now it's just an air war there's not that much

risk but when you start putting boots on ground the risk goes up and also a lot of cascading other

effects start shaping up to things get really complicated and even right now when it's just the

air war component when it's just a bombing campaign we're really not fighting this war on good moral

or just terms and this is not to disparage the guys on the ground but we can definitely support

those guys who have been you know put in a tight spot and are doing the best they can but at the

top all we hear from the war department is death destruction and ego none of that magnanimity

that got beat into our heads during the geo era none of that integrity or honor none of that

avoiding unnecessary killing none of that healthy respect for the enemy or at least recognizing

that they are defending their homeland even in Afghanistan when we were getting shot at all the

time no one was considered a Taliban sympathizer right for realizing that the Taliban fighters

were doing what they had to do that was their job we had our job to and there's a healthy respect

there and you can certainly have some level of respect for your adversary during a time of war

at least when it comes to the things they can do to you right and even so having respect for

your enemy is not something that's just a moral teaching it's not really just a moral thing

it's also a practical thing having a healthy respect for your adversary prevents your ego and

hubris from driving your own operations you don't have to like them but it would be very very

unwise to just think that they're all just goat herders right and the Pentagon is just going crazy

and they're they've lost all nuance with this kind of stuff at least publicly right I don't know

what the generals are saying to each other in private I don't know what they're saying off camera

but I can tell you the media bliss with this is not good it's not doing us any favors

and it's making everything harder of course I'm not exactly saying that it hearts and mind

campaign would work in this case I don't think that would work the reason that the Pentagon

propaganda is the way that it is and it's understandably the way that it is is because we're not

really driving this war on a strategic level we didn't go to war on our own terms and because of

that they're propaganda has to look a certain way which is fine that's their prerogative but what

is undeniable is that a kill everything and everyone approach that's not really good either

we're turning the whole world against us and we're going to have nobody to blame but ourselves

for allowing these events to take place look guys I hate it and I personally have no sympathy for

the Iranian regime just like everybody else I also have a very long memory and I do not forget

every EFP every roadside bomb and every rocket and mortar that the Iranians gave to

insurgent groups to target Americans with and I certainly hope and pray that America wins the war

because this is my country and this is my home and that's what you do when you live in a place on

earth but reality is reality and through the actions of our leadership we have given the Iranians

the moral high ground for this present conflict and that makes me absolutely sick again I'm coming

back to the perspective of the service members actually prosecuting targets during this war and

I'm imagining the targets here opening up their joint publications are JP 360 to see that we

cannot target civilian infrastructure because it's a war crime that gets beat into your head all the

time is a targeting guy it's a war crime it's a war crime this is not just something the left

loves to screech you know because they don't understand what a war crime actually is no I'm

really talking about the sent-com targeting guidance such as things like the cat one or

category one no strike list right all of the list of targets that we can't strike in war because

of not just you know this frivolous thing called international law like I mean like our actual

like laws that are meant to be adhered to by the United States said in place but Congress mostly

for the purposes of making sure that we keep our humanity that's what a no strike list is for

it's not really for international law we don't care about international law it's for keeping

your humanity and then the president gets on TV and says we're gonna strike civilian infrastructure

the same targets that you could crack open a book and see like right at the very top no you can't

hit civilian power plants can you imagine what that's like to sit there and having to be a targeting

analyst where you're looking at targets that are completely war crime targets again not in the

leftist way of like a war crime no I mean like actual like stuff that damages your soul kind of

targets and they're striking these things left and right I have plotted almost 2000 impact

craters on my maps and in my opinion having worked in a sent-com targeting shop in the past

I've seen enough to let me know that they've thrown a lot of this doctrine out the window

and they're prosecuting targets against longstanding doctrine we are dropping land mines in civilian

towns at this point which I don't think has been done since Vietnam or maybe even Korea land

mines are indiscriminate killers and the very minute that a civilian gets killed by an American

land mine in Iran will be the day that America no longer has the right to complain about i.e.

these killing Americans and at this point we are speedrunning our way to violating every ideal

that we used to hold dear I don't like it myself and of course nobody in the west wants to give

the Iranians credit for anything but from a purely neutral perspective during the lead up to

this war it was the United States that breached international norms by pretending to engage in

diplomacy while never intending to abide by a deal and that trust being broken cannot be dismissed

by anyone it's going to take a lot of effort to build that trust back now you can argue well

we've got our aircraft carriers and our submarines and our missiles and our cool bombs and stuff

but look man as much as I would love to be a participant in a lot of American exceptionalism

these days there's a little bit more nuance to it than that right the White House cannot blame

anyone for not wanting to negotiate with the United States right now because American diplomacy has

now boiled down to do what we want or will kill you and your entire family which is fair enough

in some circumstances right i mean that's that's kind of what you have to do in some ways right

I am a Roman citizen I am an American right you have to bring that mentality to the world to some

degree but again there is no crying in the casino of war and the Iranians still hold quite a few

cards to play which means that the war has the potential to continue for some time if the

belligerence so desire the other factor that the Iranians are probably thinking about is that if

they agreed any sort of peace agreement the Israelis will just bomb them anyway since it has

already been demonstrated by the strike at south powers that the Israelis are acting unilaterally

in this conflict right now sushi from a truck stop in Kansas is more trustworthy than an American

ceasefire and the Iranians are completely correct in assuming that our word means nothing

granted in a larger sense none of the belligerence in this conflict are completely trustworthy either

so right now when it comes to potential peace talks it's a wash most of the statements made by

American officials have been easily verifiable lies and President Trump has mostly been saying

stuff just to calm economic markets but also the Iranian messaging is fairly unreliable as well

because they aren't talking much I mean they don't really have to only have to do a survive so

they don't really need to have this propaganda campaign but even so most of their media the

Iranian media that is broadcast to the outside world is mostly just the you know the low grade

Middle Eastern flavored propaganda that is very common for wars like this so they're not really

putting in that much effort I mean again they don't have to they're on the defense right when

you're on the defense you you have a lot of advantages and of course the Israelis are going to do

whatever they want which is fair enough from their perspective but their targeting efforts will

absolutely derail any potential deal the US and Iran want to cook up later next week during the

alleged halt to bombing of civilian infrastructure within Iran even though honestly it's becoming

a little bit dangerous within the United States to truthfully and neutrally examine the overall

situation regarding the war the Iranians have actually carried out a relatively proportionate

and reciprocal targeting during this campaign with the exception being the first couple of days

when calms were down and local commanders shot it basically everything in range the ballistic

missile strike again at de mono which the Israelis tried to amplify quite a bit with

Prime Minister Netanyahu himself going to the impact crater the impact sites there this attack

while it was horrific you know it's always horrific anytime civilians get killed this was

actually a reciprocal attack targeting the Israeli nuclear program specifically they were

targeting a bunker it was allegedly being used by Israeli scientists which was underneath

the civilian city there and this attack itself was conducted after the Israelis targeted the

bunkers adibu share nuclear power plant a few days ago so again this is a tit for attack kind of

thing similarly various gcc states mostly just the Arab nations of the UAE Saudi Arabia

Bahrain Qatar Kuwait places like that they've been complaining that Iran is launching unprovoked

attacks into their nations however send calm themselves frequently published videos of high-march

systems launching atacams missiles into Iran from these same nations so once again it's mostly a

wash you don't get to sit there and complain that all the Iranians have hit our airport when

you've got atacams flying through your airspace and you're letting the Americans conduct a war

from your terrain you're in this war so again this is just a mess all around but again let's not

over romanticize the Iranians themselves by any means they are in this for the long haul and

they know that needlessly targeting things they don't need to will result in public opinion

turning against them what all of this means is that the targeting continues as before the conflict

the war the death the destruction continues just like it has for a month now and not only is the

White House not looking for any off ramps but they are looking to intensify this conflict and

escalate it as much as possible for the foreseeable future i don't really care what they're saying

actions speak louder than words and considering the contradictory words from the White House this

week i can't really make assessments based on what they say only what they do and so far

cargo flights have been increasing into the region and advanced party from the 82nd airborne is

already in the middle east to supplement the two mues which should be arriving this should have

gotten there by now and within the homeland United States there are indications and warnings of

more units being deployed as well the shining example of pinpoint precise journalism that is

the Wall Street Journal has leaked that the Pentagon has slated up to 10,000 more troops regular

army to deploy as well whether or not that's true as anyone's guess but so far the

United States is making preparations for a more protracted ground fight however there are still

a few indicators that have been watching for that haven't really lined up just yet so i don't think

we're going to be invading Iran anytime soon at least not within the next week or at least i

certainly hope not because the forces on station right now are not enough to occupy a bucket on a

Friday night so we have some more time before we freak out about Americans putting boots on ground

maybe by the end of next week at the earliest depending on how serious they are but again time

so all in all one month into the conflict the situation remains just as steady as before the

Iranian regime has not collapsed and it will not collapse without a total occupation of the

country whether that happens or not as anyone's guess at this point but we will certainly be on

the lookout for any indicators that may emerge over the next few days and weeks and with that

that's all i have for today i know kind of a short day a little bit shorter than what i was

expecting so let's wrap things up with the ghost net reports for this week once again another

fantastic week for taking the information space to the real world and trying to exchange information

with each other in a more off-grid manner i know that it's a little boring and super niche but i

think this is a huge part of not just preparedness but also the act of doing something physical helps a

lot this may sound really weird but over the past few years i've been working with radio and

especially since the ghost net has been working well i have found that the information that i get via

hf radio just it seems more real it seems like the stakes are higher and or maybe that there's

much more investment in finding out the truth or something like that i don't really know how to

describe it maybe some of you know what i'm talking about it's almost like the same piece of

information has more weight when i see it coming in through my radio to my jsa call screen as

opposed to when i just doomed scroll past it on my phone it's almost like the physical act of

getting outside touching grass and actually putting in some physical work to be informed is a

major motivating factor for finding out the truth of course we must always trust but verify

everything but still in the days ahead i think that getting involved in the world of radio is a good

thing to merge a lot of this this online information space stuff with the real world to kind of

help us balance out a lot of that stuff because i think that we tend to doom scroll way too much

these days i'm speaking for myself i know i do it way too much each day right so getting outside

or even if you have like an indoor radio or something just you know being involved in this kind of

thing helps quite a lot i think even if all you do is receive the signals that others are transmitting

so a very special thank you to all of you for contributing to the ghost net project i think

is working great i can't wait to see how this develops over time it will it will get better

it will get a lot more helpful as time goes on and i'm sure that there are a lot of other endeavors

out there trying to do the same thing to bring a lot of information efforts to the world of radio

so that's all i have for today as always all of my research and source material can be found

on my obsidian page to trust but verify everything that i use to conduct my daily analysis

and the mapping data that you have seen today and throughout the week can be viewed online

via my arc gis maps or downloaded offline as cam z files for use an attack if you want to replicate

exactly what i have here all of the links are below as usual and i hope to continually update all

of these products throughout the week just like i do every single day so thanks again for sticking

with me thank you for all of your support and thank you to all of you on patreon who keep the

project going and i'll see you next time and as always fight in the shade