and to all a good life! It’s been one crazy year, personally and geopolitically. Wondering if the mass insanity inflicts itself into the individual lives of random persons? Sort of like this? Manifesting itself in unexpected and disturbing ways? Or, perhaps I”m just tired? Thanks to everyone who stops by! Enjoy your holidays, however you […]
Month: December 2023
Interview: Gaza and Ukraine Endgame
Gaza & Ukraine Endgame – John Mearsheimer, Alexander Mercouris & Glenn Diesen As always share some thoughts!!
Above is the original title from this Financial Post article– Don’t know why they didn’t go with it because I like it! Phasing out fossil fuels is going to cost way more than ordinary people will accept. Delegates to COP28 clearly didn’t understand that Author of the article: Ross McKitrick I’ll bold the interesting bits. […]
This is one bizarre narrative. This committee is deeming hostages dead in a way that reads as completely unaccountable and requiring no remains. Reading about this unprecedented medical committee and their determinations gave me second thoughts on why the IDF may have shot those 3 hostages without question? Is it possible these hostages and many […]
This concerns what is known geo politically as a choke point. Many years ago, 13 years to be precise, I’d written one of several pieces about choke points, globally. Does the US led response have the additional goal of restricting Saudi Arabia’s ability to sell/trade/ship oil? https://pennyforyourthoughts2.blogspot.com/2010/01/yemen-hidden-agenda-strategic-oil.html url above for one report. Which included a […]
That’s the premise presented in this article. Though it could be said despite all the military aid, Ukraine’s military ability and capabilities have been in decline for quite some time now. Too many dead and injured fighters have contributed to, or exacerbated the inevitable decline. Too much corruption and black market weapons sales may have […]
I’m sure he’s proud as peacock! Crowing like a rooster. Time of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday night that he was “proud” he prevented the establishment of a Palestinian state and took credit for “putting the brakes” on the Oslo peace process, during a press conference at the defense ministry headquarters in […]
And today an Al Jazeera journalist- The deaths underscored the ferocity of Israel’s more than 2-month-old onslaught in Gaza. The soldiers mistakenly identified the three Israelis as a threat and opened fire on them, said the army’s chief spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari. He said it was believed that the three had either fled their […]
BBC This meeting was in western Ukraine- Quite far from the fighting- The attack took place on Friday morning at the village council headquarters in Keretsky in the western Zakarpattia region. Police have not yet commented on a possible motive for the attack, which has left six seriously wounded. The meeting was being livestreamed on […]
And I’m not talking about the music of Bob Marley and the Wailers! Link Nearly two months after Hamas attacked Israel, the Israelis have begun pumping seawater into at least a part of the group’s elaborate tunnel network under the Gaza Strip, U.S. officials told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Flooding the tunnels could […]