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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Excerpts from an Atlantic article. Read entirely here How and when Israel proceeds into Rafah is a short-term, tactical dispute. In the medium term, Israel and the Biden administration have a strategic difference over the prospect of an Israeli offensive against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Hezbollah is probably one of the most potent nonstate fighting forces […]
The past few days have been hectic, personally speaking, so here’s me playing catch up! MOSCOW, April 1. /TASS/. Washington runs the risk of being suspected of involvement in international terrorism due to its attempt to exonerate the Kiev regime and continuation of aid supplies to Ukraine following the March 22 terrorist attack on a […]
Link Another major geopolitical shift is happening in Europe, this time in the South Caucasus.. This was stated by former NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen in an op-ed for Le Monde daily, in which he called on Brussels to leave its policy of maintaining neutrality between Armenia, which has preferred the line of the […]