Good Sunday morning beloved sentients. Just a short post for today because we’re going out for a Mother’s Day brunch a week early. We’ve found over the years that Mother’s Day proper [next Sunday] is impossible…with all the restaurants totally booked and inaccessible.
You might say we’re using an asymmetrical means to achieve our goal of having a restaurant meal on Mother’s Day. Below is the Google Search definition of asymmetric warfare–something I always come across in my search for geopolitical truth–but know relatively little about:
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“Asymmetric warfare is a conflict between opposing sides—often a state and a non-state actor—whose relative military power, resources, or tactics differ significantly. The weaker party employs unconventional strategies, such as guerrilla tactics, terrorism, or cyber warfare, to exploit the stronger opponent’s vulnerabilities and avoid direct conventional battles. [1, 2, 3, 4]
Key Characteristics and Examples
- Power Imbalance: The core definition involves a massive disparity in military strength.
- Unconventional Tactics: Instead of direct, conventional combat, the weaker side uses tactics like surprise attacks, sabotage, or guerrilla warfare.
- Psychological Focus: Often aims to demoralize the stronger opponent’s population or leadership rather than destroy their army outright.
- Examples: Guerrilla movements, insurgencies, terrorist attacks, and cyber warfare (e.g., in Afghanistan or Iraq).
- Asymmetry of Means: One side might rely on advanced technology, while the other uses cheap, readily available tools like IEDs. “
UPDATE: I forgot to mention the newest and most powerful form of asymmetric warfare and that’s AI. Here is a good synopsis of AI from today’s “What does it mean“.
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Greencrow continues: I have to disagree with the above definition in that it implies only the “weaker side” uses this sort of warfare.
That used to be the case but in my lifetime that began to change. The Vietnam War taught the USraelis that they needed to adopt asymmetric tactics if they wanted to fight those defending their homelands. Defending homelands creates the most motivated fighters on earth and traditional military tactics fall short in defeating them
I believe it’s now the stronger side and traditional Imperial powers who use this warfare to the greater extent. Intermediate nations being targeted by USrael are just beginning to catch on to this form of warfare which has become highly sophisticated and often bankrolled by billionaires like Soros.
Iran, because it knew it was a future target of the Zionist regime started teaching asymmetric war in the 1990’s–as is shown by the Iranian martyr Hossein Salami teaching it to IRGC recruits:
Greencrow continues: All countries in the world now use the psychological tactics of asymmetrical warfare…even Canada as evidenced by how we apply psychological pressure to Iranian FIFA sports officials seeking to perform their duties in our country.
CSIS is in charge of asymmetric warfare in Canada. CSIS [Canadian Security and Intelligence Services] in our country is actually a foreign power–pretending to be Canadian while implementing USrael power in Canada. According to the judge who headed the last Royal Commission ever conducted in Canada which investigated this act of terror–CSIS was connected with the Air India bombing which happened just 6 months after CSIS being installed in the Canadian bureaucracy. IMO, this was the first case of asymmetric warfare by Canada.
Iranian soccer official says he’s talking to authorities after former IRGC commander denied entry to Canada
“A senior Iranian soccer official says he’s been in contact with “relevant authorities” after Canada’s immigration minister confirmed the government revoked travel documents granted to a former commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps to attend a FIFA meeting in Vancouver.
The incident, which has drawn pointed questions from Conservatives, issimilar to a previous one in 2022when Canadian officials discussed a special exemption for Iran’s soccer team to travel to Vancouver for an international friendly match against Canada. The game was cancelled over public outrage.
The latest controversy involves Mehdi Taj, president of the Iranian Football Federation and a former intelligence commander with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Iranian regime’s military and security force. Canada listed the IRGC as a terrorist entity in 2024.
Taj was leading a small delegation of Iranian soccer officials when he was turned away after landing at Toronto’s Pearson Airport on Tuesday.
“I am currently looking into the situation and coordinating with the relevant authorities,” Hamed Momeni, deputy secretary general of Iran’s Football Federation, wrote in a message to CBC News on Friday.He did not clarify which authorities he’s contacted.
Momeni was reportedly among the delegates who flew to Canada with Taj to attend the FIFA Congress held this week in Vancouver.
Taj told Iranian media that the group was granted visas to enter Canada, but when they arrived in Toronto he was taken to a room and questioned by the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) about his involvement with the IRGC.
In a video posted by the West Asia News Agency, Taj claims CBSA eventually agreed to allow them entry, but the delegation decided to return to Iran due to the behaviour of Canadian immigration officials.
“They did not in fact deport us, and there is nothing called deportation in the record, but that is how it appears, at least from what we know. We returned ourselves,” Taj said in Farsi. …”
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Greencrow continues: Asymmetrical Warfare has been used during the USrael War on Iran more than in any other conflict in history. Government lies about damage inflicted on one’s own military infrastructure is one of most common forms of asymmetric psychological warfare. In fact as I wrote about yesterday, lies are the biggest weapon in the asymmetric warfare arsenal. Currently US is lying about how much damage the Iranians inflicted on it during the USrael provoked conflict:
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“How many bases does the US have in the Middle East?
The US operates a network of around 20 permanent and temporary military bases throughout the Middle East, with the largest – Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar – hosting 10,000 troops and serving as the forward headquarters for CENTCOM. The US maintains a network of major military bases across Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, and as of mid-2025, there are between 40,000 and 50,000 American troops stationed in the region at any one time.
Here’s a comment from a social media forum telling the truth:
“10k troops are station in the those bases that got hammered and you telling me only 3 died. I must be dumber and dumber to believe that,I’ll pit two zero behind that number 3 and there’s your real number.”.
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Greencrow continues: The biggest mystery of the current USrael War on Iran is why Americans–even Americans who are richer and more powerful than Trump–put up with his bizarre, corrosive and destructive behaviour–which is inflicting a deep humiliation on the United States as a nation–and will be recorded in history as the nadir of a once great country. Are these behaviours tolerated because his non-stop verbal terror–is a form of asymmetrical warfare?
Hey, as I wrote in a post at the beginning of Trump’s reign of terror–there IS a precedent for this behaviour in warfare:
Berserker Tactics – Greencrow as the crow flies
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Like all forms of warfate, it appears that aysmmetrical warfare continues to evolve. New tactics are constantly being added to the arsenal. Here we have a descent into evil that speaks to the darkest attributes of this form of warfare. Israel is killing those it thinks “might” become future leaders…before they even enter the public spotlight. Well, we all know that Israel targets the young in Palestine, so there’s that:
“Prof. Schlevogt’s Compass No. 57: Liquidating tomorrow – When states kill possibility, not persons
Amid the Iran conflict, Israel has avowed it will kill leaders yet unknown – a revolutionary, open-ended warrant for lawless execution.“
https://www.rt.com/news/639358-liquidating-tomorrow-states-kill-possibility/
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The question arises: Did this youngster show some leadership promise?
JUST IN: ISRAELI SNIPERS JUST SHOT AN UNARMED PALESTINIAN YOUTH IN THE WEST BANK FOR NO REASON
*NSFW
https://twitter.com/i/status/2050932313727365404
Greencrow concludes: As the evil aspects of asymmetrical warfare escalate, so does the use of these divergent tactics by those who oppose the evil. In closing this post I leave you with the news story about a man who could no longer tolerate the evil and so acted on his own. I remember these cases from back in the Vietnam era…I know they will happen more and more frequently as this war drags on.
Humanity WILL fight back. As long as there are homelands to defend there will be asymmetric warfare.
Stay tuned.
Greencrow as the crow flies 