Israel vs Palestine/Lebanon/Iran/Yemen/Syria: a New Middle East War

[Gwin Ru]

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... patchwork on an already "old" interview:

Colonel Douglas Macgregor: We Are On the Brink of Total War: The Time To Act Is Now

45,546 views • October 25, 2023

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• Joe Rogan Goes ROGUE On Gaza:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Niod5JF9jNM

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https://sputnikglobe.com/20240331/un...117665660.html

March 31, 2024

According to local media, Israeli forces reportedly shot and killed 12 Palestinian civilians as they waited for aid trucks in Gaza City on Saturday.

The Commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) is calling for increased global pressure to push Israel; into opening more avenues for humanitarian aid to enter the Gaza Strip.

Philippe Lazzarini posed on X on Friday, calling on Israel to “cooperate with the United Nations to facilitate the delivery of urgently needed humanitarian aid to Gaza.”

“Member states should exert more pressure [on Israel] to implement the ICJ order,” Lazzarini wrote in the post. “Those who stopped funding UNRWA should reconsider their decision to allow the Agency to fulfill its mandate, including help averting famine.”

The tweet came one day after, and referenced, an order by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) which unanimously ordered Israel to take immediate and effective action to get aid into Gaza.

The renewed binding order from the @ICJ yesterday is a stark reminder that the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is man made + worsening.
It can however still be reversed.
The order calls on the State of Israel to cooperate with the United Nations to…
— Philippe Lazzarini (@UNLazzarini) March 29, 2024

According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, at least 31 people, including 27 children have died of malnutrition or dehydration. The ICJ court noted that in Gaza, “famine is setting in.”

The ICJ report called on Israel to open land bridges into Gaza to let humanitarian aid pour through. It noted that only land deliveries will be enough to prevent hunger in Gaza.

In January, Israel accused 12 UNRWA employees of being involved in the October 7 Hamas attack. According to EU humanitarian aid and crisis management head Janez Lenarcic, Israel never provided evidence to back the claim. The UNRWA also fired the ten surviving employees (the other two have been killed) but 18 countries, including the agency’s top donors the United States and Germany, paused funding.

“Bold action cannot wait any longer,” he concluded.
The survival of the UNRWA is in doubt, despite some of its funders resuming payments. In late February, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu released a post-war plan for Gaza that included the elimination of the UNRWA.

On Monday, US President Joe Biden signed a $1.2 trillion spending bill that forbade funding to the UNRWA until at least March 2025. A day earlier, Israel announced that it would no longer allow any UNRWA trucks to enter North Gaza, where food insecurity is at its worst.

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Exposed: New Film Reveals Mass Israeli Extremism, w/ Journalist Jeremy Loffredo

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=B4DkyKiKx_k

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"UN Expert Francesca Albanese has said that her next piece of work may be to determine the complicity of countries in the Israeli genocide in Gaza. America and the UK have faced worldwide criticism for supplying arms to Israel that killed more than 30000 innocent Palestinians including 15,000 children."

America, UK next on UN expert’s list to determine complicity in Israeli genocide | Janta Ka Reporter

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kz78E6ZQbBU

[Tintin]

This is actually a pretty huge breaking story here in the UK. If the Observer is running with it, it's too big to ignore.

Headline:

UK government lawyers say Israel is breaking international law, claims top Tory in leaked recording


Chair of foreign affairs select committee Alicia Kearns said at a Tory fundraiser that legal advice would mean the UK has to cease all arms sales to Israel without delay

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As the death toll in Gaza tops 32,600, we speak with UNICEF spokesperson James Elder in Rafah near the Egyptian border, now home to some 1.5 million Palestinians seeking shelter from the fighting. He says Israel’s continued obstruction of aid into the territory is a “man-made and preventable” crisis of hunger and acute malnutrition that could be ended if Israel just opened access to more aid trucks, especially in northern Gaza, where desperate people could be reached in as little as 10 minutes.
“When I’m on the street, every person, the first thing they want to tell me in English or Arabic is 'We need food, we need food,'” Elder tells Democracy Now! “They are saying that because their assumption is the world doesn’t know, because how would this be allowed to happen if the world knew?
”He also reiterates UNICEF’s call for a full ceasefire and warns against Israel’s planned ground invasion of Rafah, which he describes as “a city of children.”


“Like Lying in a Coffin”: UNICEF Spokesperson Warns of Devastating Toll on Gaza’s Children

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=M-b8PyJ3N_0

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Israel’s military claims the attack on Al-Aqsa Hospital was against a command centre operated by the Islamic Jihad group.

At least two people were reportedly killed in the attack that Gaza’s Government Media Office condemned Israel for, saying “a new massacre by bombing the tents of journalists and displaced people inside the walls of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital” was carried out.

Israel’s army has been carrying out attacks in and around Al-Aqsa Hospital, among other medical facilities, in Gaza.

Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudary has the latest from the Al-Aqsa hospital compound.


Two air strikes targeted journalists, displaced people in Al-Aqsa Hospital

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=AmA144WEq6A

Israeli army claims it struck an Islamic Jihad command centre at Al-Aqsa Hospital

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Kkh8L_me7Wk

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Latest with Abby Martin... as always good one!

Genocidal Intent: Israel In Their Own Words
Empire Files

Abby Martin & Khalid Elassaad talk about his website https://www.israelquotes.com, which extensively documents Israeli genocide, apartheid and fascism in the direct words of Israeli and US officials.
They also discuss Khalid being fired from tech company Agoria for standing up for Palestine, and how Big Tech facilitates suppression of pro-Palestine speech. VIDEOS + MERCH + SOCIALS + PATREON + EXCLUSIVE CONTENT :: linktr.ee/empirefiles MUSIC by Anahedron
Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcas...=1000650649332


Or on Spotify!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2K6WYTOouyW1I8ZIogoTdX

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A State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East resigned Wednesday in protest of U.S. support for Israel's assault on Gaza.

Annelle Sheline,
who worked as a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, was not planning on publicly resigning, but her colleagues asked her to "please speak out" against the Biden administration's unconditional support for Israel. "At the end of the day, many people inside [the State Department] know that this is a horrific policy, and can't believe that the United States government is engaged in such actions that contravene American values so directly, but the leadership is not listening," says Sheline.

"I'm trying to speak on behalf of those many, many people who feel so betrayed by our government's stance." Sheline describes being moved by the words of Aaron Bushnell, the active-duty U.S. airman who set himself on fire outside the Israeli Embassy in protest of the war on Gaza, who implored everyone to take a stand against genocide. "I have a young daughter, and I thought about, in the future, if she were to ask me, 'What were you doing when this was happening? You were at the State Department.' I want to be able to tell her that I didn't stay silent."

I Could Not Stay Silent: Annelle Sheline Resigns from State Dept. over U.S. Gaza Policy

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nRI-MtoSD_E

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸❗️Last night, the Holy Family Latin Church in Gaza City held a mass on the eve of Easter Sunday, holding the ceremony in darkness due to the lack of power.

Father Youssef As'ad presided over the mass, joined by Christian Gazans who have been displaced to the church since the beginning of zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip.

It is noteworthy that in December 2023, a mother and her daughter were martyred, and 7 others were wounded, by the bullets of IOF snipers outside the courtyard of the church. Others have been martyred by bullets or lack of medicine and the siege.

The oldest church in Gaza, the Saint Porphyrios Church for the Greek Orthodox, which is also in Gaza City, was bombed by the IOF in October 2023, resulting in the martyrdom of 18 displaced people. Since then, the church continues to be used as a refuge and a makeshift hospital.

Additionally, the Al-Maamadani (Baptist) Hospital of the Anglican Episcopal Church south of Gaza City was bombed on October 17th, 2023, in the bloodiest massacre in Palestine since the Nakba.

At least 3 churches in the Gaza Strip have been damaged by IOF bombing. With fewer than 1,000 Christians left in Gaza—separated from Easter processions in Bethlehem, where Palestinians face restrictions as well— ❗️the world's oldest Christian community faces a real threat of extinction due to the IOF's indiscriminate bombing.

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1774476130600264144

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🇮🇱⚔️🇸🇾An electronic intelligence and air surveillance plane from the 122nd Squadron of the Israeli Air Force has been flying for three hours over the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of occupied Palestine on a reconnaissance mission towards the Syrian interior:
Gulfstream 550 Nachshon Oron 452
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Enemy Israeli Nahshon aircraft have been flying over Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Palestine for about 3 hours and monitoring Syria. Syrian air defense crews remain ready with their capabilities to repel enemy attacks. Pantsir S1 🇸🇾

SAM_Syria0
https://x.com/dana916/status/1774473953211220118

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🇮🇱🏴⚔️🇸🇾The Israeli enemy provided direct support to terrorist organizations in Idlib. The aggression against Aleppo targeted sites of the Syrian Arab Army and Hezbollah on the 46th Regiment axis west of Aleppo, less than 7 km from the front line with the terrorist organizations, which on the same night launched an attack on the same axis that was completely destroyed. complete

The Israeli aggression led to the death of martyrs and also targeted an ammunition storage site used in military operations against terrorist organizations in Idlib and western Aleppo. Terrorist organizations in Idlib have been trying for 24 hours to attack with drones the 46th Regiment axis and the neighborhoods of the city of Aleppo, and all terrorist marches have been destroyed.

SAM_Syria0

https://x.com/dana916/status/1774473388800528451

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🇱🇧⚔️🇮🇱Hezbollah publishes scenes from an operation targeting a gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers at the Raheb site on the Lebanese-Palestinian border.

The video shows a direct hit on a large gathering of soldiers. The enemy did not announce losses.

https://x.com/dana916/status/1774469399044325733

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https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1774442790144852274

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🇺🇦 Zelensky's curse has also struck the head of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu.

He was rushed to hospital today with a serious form of hernia.
The Prime Minister will undergo emergency surgery under general anaesthetic. During this time, his powers will be transferred to Israel's Minister of Justice.

Zelensky and Netanyahu met in September 2023. Not even six months later, the Israeli leader has already been overwhelmed with the Palestinian case and gone on the operating table.

http://t.me/ukraine_watch

https://x.com/djuric_zlatko/status/1774494720401567977

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https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/1774411319632167389

March 28

https://x.com/SythUK/status/1773457832735645980

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🇷🇺 Ships of the Russian Pacific Fleet enter the Red Sea

"A detachment of Pacific Fleet warships, including the Varyag missile cruiser and Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate, has crossed the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait and entered the Red Sea," authorities stated.

Earlier in March, the Varyag missile cruiser and Marshal Shaposhnikov frigate held the Sea Security Belt-2024 joint international naval exercise with Iranian and Chinese naval vessels. This week, Pacific Fleet ships conducted anti-piracy and unmanned boat destruction drills in the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea.

https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1773240350825496645

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In my opinion... observation of Donald... I think he would do only what benefits him... He would privately tell Benjamin Netanyahu.. Wrap up what you are doing quickly, because it's becoming a political dynamite in the US!!!!

He would not care about 15 000 or more children died, 15000 women etc.. and all of those who are dying in these moments...

Palestine Expert REACTS To Trump's Israel Comments

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=4C4kYJhnlwg

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Interesting! Here latest Al Jazeera Inside Story!

For generations, have been exempt from military service - but a court order could soon change that.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has filed a last-minute application to the Supreme Court for it to be deferred for 30-days.

But the controversy isn't going anywhere.
Israel's war on Gaza is fuelling a sense of urgency and anger among those required to sign up.
So how much of a threat does this pose to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition?
And would his government survive the fallout from such a change of policy?

Will Ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel serve in its military? | Inside Story

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=0cYRsF5dIPI

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1774481076448051464

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1774482160214258089

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸The popular committees that secure the aid convoys in the north of the Gaza Strip have announced the cessation of their activities

The popular committees engaged in the last few weeks in securing the aid convoys in the northern Gaza Strip announced today the cessation of their activities due to Israel's repeated attacks on their people.

In a proclamation on behalf of the committees, it was stated that about 70 members of the committees were killed in the Israeli attacks and that from now on it is required that the Red Cross, UNRWA and the United Nations Food Program take care of the security of the convoys.

https://x.com/dana916/status/1774482998248845394

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️💔🇵🇸❗️The criminal Israeli occupation commits a massacre after bombing the displaced families tents at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

4 killed and 17 injured, including innocent children, after the murderous Israeli occupation bombed the courtyard of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah.

The Children of Gaza

https://x.com/dana916/status/1774478408132505713

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1774477609448898561

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🇺🇸🇮🇱⚔️🇵🇸Gaza Ministry of Health: Doctors at Al-Shifa Complex reported a shortage of diapers for the elderly, especially since 30 patients are bedridden and use diapers.

They are in dire need of medical and nursing care that the limited number of medical staff available cannot provide.

The occupation deprives the besieged patients and staff of food or water for days.

When the staff representative tried several times to convey their needs to the field command of the occupation army, he was met with violation and ill-treatment during every negotiation attempt.

❗️The soldiers stripped him of his clothes and left him half-naked for at least 3 hours before [allowing him to meet the relevant officer] who always says, “We will look into the matter and get back to you with an answer,” but they never responded.

In light of these appalling conditions, medical staff are already showing symptoms of fatigue and allergies, and infections are spreading between patients and staff.

If a solution is not sought as soon as possible, the place will turn into a graveyard for patients and staff.

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https://x.com/dana916/status/1774477343450415440

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https://x.com/suhaichemistry/status/1774425376540013011

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BREAKING: HAMAS OFFICIAL STATEMENT

“What was revealed by the Zionist media today is that the criminal occupation army has established “execution zones” along the Gaza Strip, where anyone who moves there is killed, without any discrimination. It is a brutal war crime, and a violation of all customs and laws of war, by targeting unarmed civilians, in ongoing incidents, some of which were revealed in video clips previously broadcast by Al Jazeera.

We call on the United Nations and international judicial institutions, led by the International Criminal Court, to begin an immediate investigation into these heinous crimes and other scandalous violations that occur in audio and video in front of the entire world, to prosecute the leaders of the Nazi occupation, and to work to stop the ongoing massacre and the war of extermination that is being waged against civilians. Defenselessness, and protecting the values of humanity trampled by the occupation with a cover and a green light from the administration of President Biden.”


https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1774549582644473868

https://x.com/AdameMedia/status/1774523693919523142

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https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1774557295206072500

https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/t...ment-jerusalem

Tens of thousands rally against Netanyahu government in Jerusalem

Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Jerusalem on Sunday against Benjamin Netanyahu's government and against exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from military service, in scenes reminiscent of mass street protests last year.

Protest groups, including some that led the mass demonstrations that rocked Israel in 2023, organised the rally outside parliament, the Knesset, calling for a new election to replace the government.

The protesters also want a more equal share in the burden of army service that binds most Israelis. Around 600 soldiers have been killed so far since the Hamas attack of 7 October and the ensuing war in Gaza, the military's highest casualty toll in years.

Israel's N12 News said it appeared to be the largest demonstration since the war began. Haaretz and Ynet news sites said it drew tens of thousands of people.

Netanyahu's cabinet has faced widespread criticism over the security failure of the Hamas attack on southern Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 taken hostage to Gaza.

"This government is a complete and utter failure," said 74-year-old Nurit Robinson, at the rally. "They will lead us into the abyss."

'Elections now'

Israel's war in the Palestinian enclave has aggravated a longstanding source of friction in society that is also unsettling Netanyahu's coalition government - exemptions granted to ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students from service in the country's conscript military.

With a 31 March deadline looming for the government to come up with legislation to resolve a decades-long standoff over the issue, Netanyahu filed a last-minute application to the Supreme Court last week for a 30-day deferment.

Follow Middle East Eye's live coverage of the Israel-Palestine war

In an apparent accommodation, the Supreme Court gave government officials until 30 April to submit additional arguments. But, in an interim ruling, it also ordered a suspension of state funding for seminary students who would be liable for conscription from Monday.

Protesters were waving blue and white Israeli flags and chanting "elections now".

At a news conference in Jerusalem, Netanyahu said he was confident a solution would be found. He also said that holding an election at the height of war, when he said Israel was so close to victory, would paralyse the country for months.

In Tel Aviv, some families of hostages and their supporters blocked a main highway, protesting against what they described as Netanyahu's failure to return their loved ones.

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https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/1774524932715585985

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To brush up on what was said the other day, there was a Russian reprisal of over thirty airstrikes but not in Golan:

...near the town of al-Resafa in the southern Raqqa countryside, close to the towns of Palmyra and al-Sukhnah in the eastern Homs countryside as well as in the desert of Mount Bashri in the southwestern countryside of Deir Ezzor.

The VKS and the Syrian Arab Air Force intensified operations in the central region after two deadly attacks last week.

On March 24, ISIS cells abducted then executed two pro-government fighters near Palmyra. Four others were abducted then executed by the terrorists close to al-Sukhnah the following day, March 25. The group’s news agency, Amaq, released photos of the crime.

ISIS cells have been waging an insurgency in central Syria for over six years now. The terrorists receive serious support from their comrades in the northeastern region, which is held by the U.S. and its proxies.

In addition, Syrian and Russian officials have accused U.S. forces at the al-Tanf garrison in the southeastern region of training and even arming terrorists, including members of ISIS, on several occasions in the past.

Earlier this month, the Syrian Arab Army amassed a large force, including units from the elite 4th Armored Division, in the central region. Despite reports of a plan to launch a full-blown operation against ISIS cells, the military is yet to make a move.

Same Amaq that seemed a bit unsure about the Moscow attackers has very grisly intimate details of the events it claims for itself.


In terms of numbers, no, I haven't seen any Syrian momentum even available for the Golan, where, instead:

Two civilians were injured in an Israeli aggression that targeted a number of points in Damascus vicinity.

“At approximately 21:30 p.m. on Sunday, the Israeli enemy launched an aerial aggression from the direction of the occupied Syrian Golan, targeting a number of points in the vicinity of Damascus,” a military source said in a statement to SANA.

The source added: “The Israeli aggression resulted in the injury of two civilians and some material losses.”

It is still a lot like Donbass, regularly attacked, sometimes injured.

Lebanon is going back under that same description I guess you could say.

You could still compare Idlib to Gaza: a place with a million people infested with enemy terrorists. Despite the fact that these particular terrorists are not even native to Idlib, for years, you don't see Syria pursuing a course of "reducing the city to rubble" just to overcome them. Obviously they don't use the Israeli excuses to destroy everything and everyone.

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“Jessica Burbank and Robby Soave talk to independent journalist Lee Fang about how Evangelical Christians are influencing foreign policy on the Middle East.”
Lee Fang CONFRONTS Pro-Israel Evangelicals in Congress

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WOVUtie5PpA

Aljazeera documentary on the christian zionist lobby in the USA:
Praying for Armageddon: Evangelicals, the US and the Middle East
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/wi...he-middle-east

Personal comment: I didn’t know to what extent Trump was personally involved with the Christian Zionist lobby until I saw the above documentary. Their fervour for warfare on behalf of Israel is mind-boggling. The solution, sadly, would be USA soon disintegrating to the point that they can no longer be a military threat. That seems to be well on its way now.

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US Builds Secret Airship on Yemen's Strategic Socotra Island

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=y1KZ-SIjg_A

Who else is wondering whether the arrival of the Russian Pacific fleet in the Red Sea has something to do with these illegal USA bases.

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Posted by Rizotto (here)
Personal comment: I didn’t know to what extent Trump was personally involved with the Christian Zionist lobby until I saw the above documentary. Their fervour for warfare on behalf of Israel is mind-boggling. The solution, sadly, would be USA soon disintegrating to the point that they can no longer be a military threat. That seems to be well on its way now.

That's pretty much my view on politics and churches.


Today they have literally destroyed the Iranian Consulate in Damascus.

Some missiles were intercepted, but, it got hit with something big enough to take out everything.

Syrian Ministry of Defense: At around 17:00 this evening, the “Israeli” enemy launched an aerial aggression from the direction of the occupied Golan Heights, targeting the building of the Iranian consulate in Damascus. Our air defense intercepted the aggression’s missiles, downing some of them. The aggression resulted in the complete destruction of the building and the martyrdom and injury of all those inside. Efforts are underway to retrieve the martyrs’ bodies, provide medical assistance to the wounded, and clear the rubble.

Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Dr. Fayssal Mikdad from the Iranian Embassy headquarter in Damascus said that the Israeli occupation entity will not be able to affect relations between Iran and Syria.

Well, the Israeli and Saudi Air Forces were cleverly sold to them in the 1960s.

This kind of thing is more true about them than it is anywhere else.

Putin on these people early 2000s:


"I thought it was arrogance mixed with a sense of impunity".


2020s:


"Just crazy".


Think of it this way, the support is a lot of the nouveaux riches, something like a millionaires' club.

The country is on a wicked parabola of what has been found historically to be impending Revolution or Collapse. In the early 2000s, when Putin was thinking in terms of arrogance, I had tapped into the math behind the Debt and couldn't find any solution. For example, even capped, if it never grew, you still couldn't do it. Just seems doomed. In both a moral and material perspective.