The Holy Grail of air defense systems goes to Ukraine

The news readers at CBC have been referring to the Patriot missile system in those terms. Yup, the "Holy Grail" of anti-missile missile defence. One of the few places where Patriots see action is in Saudi Arabia, who have invested billions in this anti-missile missile system. The result? The towel-heads 'o terror they are fighting over there in Houti-land, who are marginally less primitive than the Taliban who ran the US Army out of Afghanistan, routinely manage to get missiles past the Holy Grail of air defense systems. Hard to imagine this is going to be a game-changer. A single Patriot battery requires three tractor-trailers to move it, and a crew of 90, who require extensive training. It most likely won't arrive before this war is over, and if it does, it won't last a week. But at least Zelensky was able to go home and talk about a successful trip to plead for more weapons from the people who pushed this war on him.

Hillbilly blogger beats CNN and Fox to Patriot missiles in Turkey by a week

Here's  the story on CNN today.

And here's the story on Fox News today.

The think tank here at Falling Downs had the story a week ago.

How is such a thing even possible?

It's possible because CNN and Fox and the rest of them aren't just there to report the news, they're there to manage the news.

While they obviously have access to anything that was discussed here a week ago, they chose to sit on the story for a week.

Why? I'm guessing it's because it's more useful today than it was a week ago.

It's a useful story for ramping up the anti-Syria hysteria that needs to be in full bloom before America is
willing to put boots on the ground in that country.