News Update: Wars Foreign And Domestic

The big world story today is that Israel lost resoundingly before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and was ordered to stop all acts of genocide. The ICJ has no enforcement mechanism, but this is a big defeat in the court of world opinion for Israel and its US vassal. The US continues to provide the munitions for the genocide, but it is now called out for what it’s doing by a respected international institution. This gives weight to opponents of what’s already going on—most of the world. For example, …

The Houthi blockade of the Red Sea is designed to pressure Israel into stopping its genocide. The US has asked China to somehow “influence” the Houthis to stop the blockade. China’s response was simply, Stop the genocide. China knows the US could turn on its Israeli masters and stop the genocide by exerting its independence. Now, China has the ruling of the ICJ to back its responses up.

In addition, for the first time that I’m aware of, Russia is linking the war on Palestinians to the Red Sea blockade:

Russian Foreign Ministry Ties Red Sea Blockade to Gaza Blockade, Backs Houthis in Moscow Meeting

This is the plainest signal to date of Russian backing for the southern front of the Arab war against Israel, and the link which the Houthis have made between the Israeli blockade of Gaza, the genocide of the Palestinians, and the Red Sea blockade which the Houthis have imposed on vessels owned or directed by Israeli shipowners, US naval fleet, and American-flagged and other vessels carrying military and civil cargoes to Israel or reload ammunition for future attacks on Yemen.

This is putting increasing pressure on the Zhou regime, as its base voters are increasingly restive—via Megatron:

Israeli Walla News:

Biden to Netanyahu:

"I will not support a year-long war in Gaza"

"US President Joe Biden pressed Prime Minister Netanyahu during their phone call last Friday to reduce IDF operations in Gaza and emphasized that he does not support a year-long war in the Gaza Strip, according to two senior American officials.

Biden's request from Netanyahu indicates the growing concern in the United States about the continuation of the war in Gaza and the American president's desire to see the war end as long as possible before the November 2024 presidential election.

One of Biden's advisers said the White House fears losing votes from young voters, who increasingly oppose the president's policies regarding the war in Gaza" - the media wrote.

This appears to me to be a clear sign that the Zhou regime knows that it’s being backed into a geopolitical corner—the Israel Trap—and is scrambling to find a formula that allows an exit without humiliation. It may be too late for that.

In turn, more and more retired Israeli military and intelligence officials are calling for Netanyahu’s removal and are openly asserting that his war is continuing for his personal and political purposes.

Now, here’s a transitional bit of news—it transitions to the home front:

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has called for a ceasefire in Gaza

Fox lampoons the hapless Brandon with regard to violence in Chicago. But that’s not the real story. Brandon, mayor of the linchpin city of Chicago that delivers significant electoral votes to the Dems every election, is in trouble with his base—Black residents—over the illegal migrant issue. To counter that he pivots to an issue that will resonate with his Black base voters: Israeli genocide against Palestinians. This is as clear a signal as you could ask for about the state of Black sentiment regarding Israeli genocide and Zhou’s support for it.

Glenn Diesen @Glenn_Diesen

The Israeli/American genocide in Gaza undermines Biden's presidential campaign.

- There is a growing divide between the party elites and the voters as over 70% of Democrats support a ceasefire

Over 70% of Democrats support a ceasefire in Gaza: Poll

From responsiblestatecraft.org

1:00 AM · Jan 26, 2024

But Black distancing from Israeli genocide leaves the crucial domestic problem essentially untouched. That is: Illegal migrant entry to the US is easily the biggest issue among Americans, and its especially inflammatory in major metro areas with large Black populations who vote overwhelmingly Dem. Along with the Palestinian demonstrations, the news regularly covers Blacks protesting against the unsustainable flood of illegals into major metro areas. For now, it’s Red State governors and GOPer politicos who are supporting TX, but I suspect that support is widespread in many if not most Blue states, as well, and especially among the Dem base.

The Zhou regime has demanded that Abbott back down, but this looks like very thin ice that Zhou is edging out onto. It also looks increasingly like CJ Roberts and Justice Amy have chopped themselves off at the knees, in terms of support from a wide swath of the country, and especially conservatives. My views on the prickly constitutional issues that are involved here remain unchanged—as does my view that we need a fundamentally political solution that recognizes that the constitution does not empower the federal government to make war on the states by refusing to enforce federal immigration statues. Roberts’ better option was to play for time by letting the case play out in the lower courts.

Nor is the way forward for the Zhou regime at all clear. Some have argued that Zhou could nationalize the TX National Guard, but that tactic is not without problems. Others have pointed out that the president needs a reason for taking such action—usually a public emergency. Is razor wire along the national border that prevents illegal entry an emergency? I would expect that to be challenged in court by TX, and if I were a federal judge in TX I would side with TX—booting the decision, in effect, up to the SCOTUS. As I keep repeating, this is really a political problem, not a strictly legal one. It’s not a problem that will be settled in the courts—the feds will have to either enforce the laws or lauch a war on half the country. That was tried before and its an approach that will not garner much support across the country. The SCOTUS could get a second chance to cool things down and put a waiting game in play by, in effect, recognizing that the states have pressing and entirely legitimate interests at stake—as well as constitutional standing to act on those interests.

Can the US wage a civil war and a world war simultaneously? Is that the new meaning of a Two Front War? This all gives added meaning to the warning: Don’t try this at home!

Now, more on the insane Neocon war on the world. We start with Doug Macgregor tweeting up a storm this morning:

We are not hearing the truth of what is going on in our country or abroad through traditional media.

To find the truth you must dig and research things for yourself.

The mainstream media much like our government is in the hands of the same people that have the same agenda.

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Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and his colleagues, the CEO of BlackRock Larry Fink and Zelensky are all in bed together.

They are all trying to line their pockets.

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The neocon globalist cabal has been trying for a long time to bring on a war with Iran.

What stood between war with Iran, reason, rationality and peace was Donald Trump.

He said no, Trump saved us from a war and that pissed off the neocon warmongers of DC.

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The war in Ukraine is ending in catastrophic defeat for Ukraine and the United States.

The war in the Middle East is just beginning, and it will not end when the Israeli State decides to stop fighting.

Pay attention folks.

That last bit bears repeating. The war in the Middle East will not end when Israel decides to stop fighting. Events have already spiraled out of that zone of control. Well played, Neocons!

And we’ll end with Glenn Diesen, because will all this going on the Neocons are still trying to foment war on a new Northern Front:

Western powers have throughout history aimed to contain and weaken Russia by limiting its reliable access to maritime corridors:

- NATO targets all 3 seas on Russia's western borders: Black Sea, Baltic Sea & the Barents Sea https://t.co/2jUFdpnJeZ

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The Treaty of Stolbova in 1617 enabled Sweden to block Russia's access to the Baltic Sea. Sweden had also aimed to end Russia's access to the White Sea in the Arctic.

- As Sweden joins NATO, there is excitement about making the Baltic Sea a "NATO lake".

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The US is rapidly expanding in the high north as Finland and Sweden joins NATO, and Norway agrees to US military bases

- Russia can be blocked from all 3 seas on its western borders if the US can also get Ukraine and thus make the Black Sea a "NATO lake"

https://t.co/tUX7cyIbHp

Right. What could possibly go wrong? The Scandis are cruising for a bruising.