Johan Galtung had and interesting end of empire talk. Mentioned that the empires vassals stop following instructions when the empire is in collapse. So can use that as a symptom. Are Ukraine and Israel following instructions? Will we ever know? Who is even setting actual USA policy? Does the Biden regime itself even know? It’s a miasma
Vassals follow instructions when forced to, which requires policing and penalties for those who disobey. But those who do the policing are also vassals! As organizations grow, with more and more people trying to ascend the ladder, organizational integrity breaks down-- and along with a control . In other words the growth of an empire augers its own collapse. The fact that empires are kluges doesn't help. IMO
Iran demonstrated that it can hit any target in Israel, or anywhere else within range, with impunity if it really wants to, and they did it without using any hypersonic missiles. Since Russia and China definitely have even more advanced missiles, Iran's attack was not only a message to Israel, but to the US as well.
No base, and no ship, is invulnerable to attack. That's the message, and it was understood by those Empire managers with functional brains. That's why the Biden Regime told Israel the US would not help it in (another) attack against Iran. That's why Israeli papers like the Times of Israel and Haaretz are printing articles saying Israel has already lost the war in Gaza.
Iran demonstrated this capability after the murder of General Souliemani. The unspoken message in this attack is that Iran has powerful partners – Russia and China. How is it that he Iran could develop hypersonic missiles when the US cannot? That technology had to come from elsewhere.
I have not seen any hard evidence that Iran even used any hypersonic missiles. They used a few ballistic ones, timed to arrive with the junk drones and cruise missiles, that got through.
They certainly have some. The Russians came up with the hypersonic, but the Chinese have invented new missile technology as well. I think it's safe to assume the Iranians have both. But they are Persians, remember. They will use them conservatively and effectively if they have any choice, and won't use them until they have to a real good justification for doing so.
I think the Iron Dome turned out to be more of an Aluminum Foil Hat :-)
Seriously though, the current conflict between Israel Palestine et al was baked into the cake at its foundation. Those of good will and sincerity were used as popular support for a deceptive architecture designed by depraved people with a colonial/militarist agenda for Israel to perform on behalf of the usual suspects (usa/uk). I recall Chris Floyd at Empire Burlesque referring to it as “America’s plucky little outpost in the Middle East.” It’s always been a win-lose set up. Seems to me the only quasi resolution is a period (say 99 years) of international governance of those holy lands. It would allow religious and cultural freedom for citizens and sharply reduce its use as an aircraft carrier for us/uk. I can’t think of anything else that could curtail the eliminationism widely exhibited in the region (at least all the players have that in common?!).
Now if we could just curtail the impulse in the Anglo American deep state to lovingly cultivate extremist ideologies everywhere. Perhaps the collapse of the U$D will put an end to the virtually limitless amount of fake money conjured and then laundered into hard assets through resource theft around the world. Having such deep pockets has allowed the direct purchase of venal characters everywhere in the world (and the elimination of their opponents) with literal bags of cash. I’d like to think we could get maybe 75-100 years of relative peace that way were this to pass. It might have to wait until BRICS+ rises far enough to fully balance the G7 monopole. This would mean, of course that BRICS+ would have to seize political opportunity (within the UN framework probably) rather than claiming to be economic only. I think political muscle flexing on their part is inevitable anyway. History is waiting for is a suitable visionary to facilitate it. I don’t think this visionary will come from the collective west. I think it was Anias Nin who said that a society in decline has no need for visionaries. One look at the institutional leadership of the western empire and the rot at the head is obvious, and it trickled on down the line.
I have a hunch this visionary will come from Russia, as Russia takes its place as the mediator both culturally and economically between East and West in the emerging multipolar world, particularly as Eurasian economic integration becomes a reality.
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Regarding aging, if you reach 100, there’s no telling how long you’ll go. After all, very few people die after age 100 (h/t George Burns).
Lies: If you tell a lie you can always walk it back with such claims as being uninformed, most likely then a new lie will be told. But if you tell the truth! Very difficult to walk back the truth.
The $64 question is where do the materials come from if Israel needs to repair its electrical generating system? I doubt the ore will come from Africa, those nations are taking a bit of exception to the ongoing genocide perpetrated by Israel. If you can take out generating systems then surely ports are susceptible targets too. I suspect that heavy duty electrical parts are in shortage world wide. Does anyone see China saving Israel?
Of course, the U.S. can send what little we have in stock in the ways of turbines and transformers, but persistent blackouts may throw a wet blanket on popular reflexive support for Israel.
I read Cunningham's post. I find it quite lame. The MSM and plenty in the US and EU governments have been doing plenty to downplay interest in the genocide--which of course, our fearless leaders won't even call a spade a spade. Now they have Trump lawfare to splash all over their pages. I thought Iran's response was rather shrewd--expend those high cost iron dome resources on low cost drones.
This has been in play for a long time: The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates. David Ben-Gurion The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.
As far as I know, Cunningham has never claimed any particular expertise in military matters. As for anything involving Israel, one never quite knows what odd position a given person may take. Look at RFK, Jr, for example. I thought he was right about everything - until Israel was mentioned.
Unless, of course, they made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
I assign about 50% likelihood to the possibility that every President since Kennedy has been explicitly warned what will happen to him if he doesn't obey orders.
A trifecta of Kennedy murders would look bad to us civilised humans, but the Zionists wouldn't think twice. One goy, two goyim, three goyim... a million goyim, we should care?
I think people in the West watch too much television! Especially "action" and "superhero" series . The frontal part of the brain contains an area responsible for "Executive Function" which in most people imposes high "latent inhibition". Basically, EF frames your perceptions heuristically on the basis of various paradigms or scenarios which determine how you see and what you see what you see. The pussycat is a tiger. Or the Tiger is a pussycat. You don't actually see either as it is – you see what you expect to see. And you act on that basis.
That's why quite intelligent people like your well-traveled acquaintance acquaintance can say stupid stuff.
Ditto: COVID-- which amazingly scientists still do not really understand.
In any case, the Russians and the Chinese and Iran are focused on building their societies – on development. They will fight only if forced to.
Empathy has a wonderful way about it.
Cats have an aloofness I appreciate .
One holds a plant and asks “ tell me what you know” reminds one of how the Amazonians used 23 different steps to create curare.
Utterly different mind set as you know.
Johan Galtung had and interesting end of empire talk. Mentioned that the empires vassals stop following instructions when the empire is in collapse. So can use that as a symptom. Are Ukraine and Israel following instructions? Will we ever know? Who is even setting actual USA policy? Does the Biden regime itself even know? It’s a miasma
Vassals follow instructions when forced to, which requires policing and penalties for those who disobey. But those who do the policing are also vassals! As organizations grow, with more and more people trying to ascend the ladder, organizational integrity breaks down-- and along with a control . In other words the growth of an empire augers its own collapse. The fact that empires are kluges doesn't help. IMO
Iran demonstrated that it can hit any target in Israel, or anywhere else within range, with impunity if it really wants to, and they did it without using any hypersonic missiles. Since Russia and China definitely have even more advanced missiles, Iran's attack was not only a message to Israel, but to the US as well.
No base, and no ship, is invulnerable to attack. That's the message, and it was understood by those Empire managers with functional brains. That's why the Biden Regime told Israel the US would not help it in (another) attack against Iran. That's why Israeli papers like the Times of Israel and Haaretz are printing articles saying Israel has already lost the war in Gaza.
Iran demonstrated this capability after the murder of General Souliemani. The unspoken message in this attack is that Iran has powerful partners – Russia and China. How is it that he Iran could develop hypersonic missiles when the US cannot? That technology had to come from elsewhere.
I have not seen any hard evidence that Iran even used any hypersonic missiles. They used a few ballistic ones, timed to arrive with the junk drones and cruise missiles, that got through.
They certainly have some. The Russians came up with the hypersonic, but the Chinese have invented new missile technology as well. I think it's safe to assume the Iranians have both. But they are Persians, remember. They will use them conservatively and effectively if they have any choice, and won't use them until they have to a real good justification for doing so.
Yes, Henry was a master at perfecting the lie to appear as the truth.
They are still working on it as a goal throughout the West.
Thanks to Julian and his cat perspective.
My cat just tells me what to say.
You may be suffering from high anxiety.
Always. Comes with ASD.
Scott Ritter with George Galloway the morning after has a realistic view of how successful it was for the Iranians.
Imagine 5 hrs travel time coming to Israeli
for the slow decoy drones.
It’s what then happened, so the intended targets were hit at a fraction of the cost.
The same method of lying we see in the Ukraine with the Israeli’s .
We’ve been educated by recent events as if it never occurred to the Hegemon anyone would learn simply by observing.
We don’t need to hear what they say .
Shocking !
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
Henry A. Kissinger
Good point.
I think the Iron Dome turned out to be more of an Aluminum Foil Hat :-)
Seriously though, the current conflict between Israel Palestine et al was baked into the cake at its foundation. Those of good will and sincerity were used as popular support for a deceptive architecture designed by depraved people with a colonial/militarist agenda for Israel to perform on behalf of the usual suspects (usa/uk). I recall Chris Floyd at Empire Burlesque referring to it as “America’s plucky little outpost in the Middle East.” It’s always been a win-lose set up. Seems to me the only quasi resolution is a period (say 99 years) of international governance of those holy lands. It would allow religious and cultural freedom for citizens and sharply reduce its use as an aircraft carrier for us/uk. I can’t think of anything else that could curtail the eliminationism widely exhibited in the region (at least all the players have that in common?!).
Now if we could just curtail the impulse in the Anglo American deep state to lovingly cultivate extremist ideologies everywhere. Perhaps the collapse of the U$D will put an end to the virtually limitless amount of fake money conjured and then laundered into hard assets through resource theft around the world. Having such deep pockets has allowed the direct purchase of venal characters everywhere in the world (and the elimination of their opponents) with literal bags of cash. I’d like to think we could get maybe 75-100 years of relative peace that way were this to pass. It might have to wait until BRICS+ rises far enough to fully balance the G7 monopole. This would mean, of course that BRICS+ would have to seize political opportunity (within the UN framework probably) rather than claiming to be economic only. I think political muscle flexing on their part is inevitable anyway. History is waiting for is a suitable visionary to facilitate it. I don’t think this visionary will come from the collective west. I think it was Anias Nin who said that a society in decline has no need for visionaries. One look at the institutional leadership of the western empire and the rot at the head is obvious, and it trickled on down the line.
I have a hunch this visionary will come from Russia, as Russia takes its place as the mediator both culturally and economically between East and West in the emerging multipolar world, particularly as Eurasian economic integration becomes a reality.
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Regarding aging, if you reach 100, there’s no telling how long you’ll go. After all, very few people die after age 100 (h/t George Burns).
That may be the best way I have heard of demonstrating the difference between absolute and relative frequency!
Get to without heart disease, cancer or diabetes and listen to Jethro Tull a lot.
Lies: If you tell a lie you can always walk it back with such claims as being uninformed, most likely then a new lie will be told. But if you tell the truth! Very difficult to walk back the truth.
How true. Which is why human relationships depended part upon the ability to live gracefully, LOL.
The $64 question is where do the materials come from if Israel needs to repair its electrical generating system? I doubt the ore will come from Africa, those nations are taking a bit of exception to the ongoing genocide perpetrated by Israel. If you can take out generating systems then surely ports are susceptible targets too. I suspect that heavy duty electrical parts are in shortage world wide. Does anyone see China saving Israel?
Of course, the U.S. can send what little we have in stock in the ways of turbines and transformers, but persistent blackouts may throw a wet blanket on popular reflexive support for Israel.
An excellent point. Neither the US nor Israel have the industrial infrastructure to repair this kind of damage
"The IDF insists that its ”David Sling” system intercepted 99% of 120 missiles breaching its airspace".
Cool! What other national air defence system could shoot down 118.8 missiles, letting only 1.2 missiles get through?
Unless they meant "all but one". Reporters gotta use percentages...
That 0,2 missile was the Killer.
Thought provoking👏👏👏
I read Cunningham's post. I find it quite lame. The MSM and plenty in the US and EU governments have been doing plenty to downplay interest in the genocide--which of course, our fearless leaders won't even call a spade a spade. Now they have Trump lawfare to splash all over their pages. I thought Iran's response was rather shrewd--expend those high cost iron dome resources on low cost drones.
I like Cunningham and I respect him but I think he was quite wrong here.
This has been in play for a long time: The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates. David Ben-Gurion The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates.
David Ben-Gurion
Good point I think.
As far as I know, Cunningham has never claimed any particular expertise in military matters. As for anything involving Israel, one never quite knows what odd position a given person may take. Look at RFK, Jr, for example. I thought he was right about everything - until Israel was mentioned.
Unless, of course, they made him an offer he couldn't refuse.
I don't know enough about RFK to comment. But he should know better.
"Unless, of course, they made him an offer he couldn't refuse." That has been known to happen.
I assign about 50% likelihood to the possibility that every President since Kennedy has been explicitly warned what will happen to him if he doesn't obey orders.
A trifecta of Kennedy murders would look bad to us civilised humans, but the Zionists wouldn't think twice. One goy, two goyim, three goyim... a million goyim, we should care?
I’m not a conspiracy theorist - I’m a conspiracy analyst.
Gore Vidal
Love it!
Thanks for that, mate! I am a huge Gore Vidal fan, but I had never heard that particular remark.
Analogous to the saying, "Just because you're paranoid, that doesn't mean they aren't out to get you".
And this from a bit of an authority: The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.
Sigmund Freud
Great Analysis again...
Keep us informed.
We spread the word... Maybe not over all our 14k followers, but at least those who daily check our tweets... (Shadow banned we are) and those count...
Sander
PS. ->https://twitter.com/OccupySchagen
As always, thank you Sander.
I think people in the West watch too much television! Especially "action" and "superhero" series . The frontal part of the brain contains an area responsible for "Executive Function" which in most people imposes high "latent inhibition". Basically, EF frames your perceptions heuristically on the basis of various paradigms or scenarios which determine how you see and what you see what you see. The pussycat is a tiger. Or the Tiger is a pussycat. You don't actually see either as it is – you see what you expect to see. And you act on that basis.
That's why quite intelligent people like your well-traveled acquaintance acquaintance can say stupid stuff.
Ditto: COVID-- which amazingly scientists still do not really understand.
In any case, the Russians and the Chinese and Iran are focused on building their societies – on development. They will fight only if forced to.
Americans and Europeans live in Disneyland.