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
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.
Thanks for this, whoever said the Russians and Friends can't play the media game, eh? The alt-story stateside is that the Iranian attack was all theater and Iranian leadership are all "controlled by the CIA"
(! 😂)
Yah.
The same crowd who've been saying that the Russian SMO in the very former ukraine is "fake, and nobody is dying"...
Millions upon millions of Western alt-media fanboys believe the above, and the other half of them think the Russian Chinese alliance is gonna rescue them from evil Zio-Corporate Overlords. (Good luck with that.)
Meanwhile a senior Russian Academician has just reminded us all that "the enemy needs to realize that the [relatively imminent Russian] retaliation [to US/UK provocations] will be devastating." And that the Europeans have now been removed from the picture and rendered impotent.
A professional acquaintance of mine-- well "educated" and travelled, PMC type-- recently informed me confidently that the Americans and British (cough, 😂) naval forces in the Pacific could "roll over the Chinese [PLAN] in a few days...". That's how utterly clueless 2 decades of anti-Chinese firehose propaganda has left the average western midwit. Bereft of any real knowledge or insight.
As the Russians say:
Devastating. And how it will surely be. COVID showed us all how ready western demokwacees are able to handle a large scale emergency.
(It's a fake virus!!!
... but ehhh, China released it, anyway!!! The fake virus!!)
Hope you have the popcorn ready in your East Asian hideyhole, my handsomly rugged birra rough. (And here's hoping the Japanese will read the pictography on the Wall before they find themselves in the crosshairs, too. The SKoreas seem to be waking up and have dealt the current American presidential muppet a lethal blow in their midterm elections.)
Tick, tock.... if the Russians are planning a devastating response, one can barely imagine what the Chinese are getting ready to let rip.
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.
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
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.
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.
You may be suffering from high anxiety.
Thanks for this, whoever said the Russians and Friends can't play the media game, eh? The alt-story stateside is that the Iranian attack was all theater and Iranian leadership are all "controlled by the CIA"
(! 😂)
Yah.
The same crowd who've been saying that the Russian SMO in the very former ukraine is "fake, and nobody is dying"...
Millions upon millions of Western alt-media fanboys believe the above, and the other half of them think the Russian Chinese alliance is gonna rescue them from evil Zio-Corporate Overlords. (Good luck with that.)
Meanwhile a senior Russian Academician has just reminded us all that "the enemy needs to realize that the [relatively imminent Russian] retaliation [to US/UK provocations] will be devastating." And that the Europeans have now been removed from the picture and rendered impotent.
A professional acquaintance of mine-- well "educated" and travelled, PMC type-- recently informed me confidently that the Americans and British (cough, 😂) naval forces in the Pacific could "roll over the Chinese [PLAN] in a few days...". That's how utterly clueless 2 decades of anti-Chinese firehose propaganda has left the average western midwit. Bereft of any real knowledge or insight.
As the Russians say:
Devastating. And how it will surely be. COVID showed us all how ready western demokwacees are able to handle a large scale emergency.
(It's a fake virus!!!
... but ehhh, China released it, anyway!!! The fake virus!!)
Hope you have the popcorn ready in your East Asian hideyhole, my handsomly rugged birra rough. (And here's hoping the Japanese will read the pictography on the Wall before they find themselves in the crosshairs, too. The SKoreas seem to be waking up and have dealt the current American presidential muppet a lethal blow in their midterm elections.)
Tick, tock.... if the Russians are planning a devastating response, one can barely imagine what the Chinese are getting ready to let rip.
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 !
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.
——-
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.
"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...
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.
Great Analysis again...
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