WSJ via https://archive.ph/xlwD7 Finding this a curious oped, published in WSJ, from Liz Truss.I don’t dispute the existence of a deep state. Her oped includes a a good description of the existence of the deep state and the problems it brings – “shift of power away from democratically accountable officeholders to unelected bureaucrats and technocrats.” […]
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Some thoughts.. Israel won’t have US support for an Israeli counterattack on Iran President Biden told Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a call on Saturday that the U.S. won’t support any Israeli counterattack against Iran, a senior White House official told Axios. Why it matters: Biden and his senior advisers are highly concerned an […]
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Iran Concludes It’s Retaliation ?
Just posting some links The news of retaliation started this morning when Iran seized the Israeli linked ship From the comment section- these are now updated https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/13/04/2024/iran-launches-drones-at-israel The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) released a statement saying: “We launched an operation using drones and missiles in response to the Zionist entity’s crime of targeting the […]
AA The ship named MSC Aries (Aries or Ares was the ancient Greek god of war or, more properly, the spirit of battle. He represented the distasteful aspects of brutal warfare and slaughter) was seized by the marine unit of the IRGC in a special heliborne operation, state-run news agency IRNA reported on Saturday, confirming […]
Good piece on Lavender’s use +972 Magazine Formally, the Lavender system is designed to mark all suspected operatives in the military wings of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), including low-ranking ones, as potential bombing targets. The sources told +972 and Local Call that, during the first weeks of the war, the army almost completely […]
Approximately 35 minutes Quote from Mearsheimer ““The evidence is overwhelming that Israel is an albatross around our neck.” The AI is mentioned. As well as the potential for warfare with Iran Israel continues to deny this reality Samantha Power, the director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), told lawmakers Wednesday that people in […]
Thoughts on this oped from Foreign Policy?? Read the beginning paragraphs at the link above- The author’s claimed impetus for the culture shift is explained. Under the leadership of the military’s chief of staff, Aviv Kochavi, from 2019 to 2023, the killing-based criteria were reinforced. Kochavi’s goal was to remake the army into a “lethal, […]
There seems to be a specific concept or egregore being created around Armenia- One that employs religious terminology. One that is presenting Armenia as Christianity being persecuted by Azerbaijan being a Muslim Bogeyman. Don’t believe this presentation. It’s an obfuscation to hide the geopolitical machinations playing out between the Western NATO nations and the Russian/East […]
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Iran-Adapts-to-Shifting-Tides-in-South-Caucasus.html Two major developments in recent years – Azerbaijan’s reconquest (retrieval/return) of Nagorno-Karabakh and Russia’s unprovoked (provoked) invasion of Ukraine – created new diplomatic openings for Iran. The changed geopolitical environment has enabled Iran and Azerbaijan to smooth over what for much of the post-Soviet period had been a prickly relationship. At the same time, […]
Washington Post article making the rounds today — As Russia steps up airstrikes and once again advances on the battlefield in Ukraine … President Volodymyr Zelensky’s options for what to do next — much less how to win the war — range from bad to worse. Zelensky has said Ukraine will accept nothing less than […]