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johnycomelately's avatar

For what it’s worth, I’m reliably informed by contractors that embassies in Jordan are upgrading bunkers right now.

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SMH's avatar

Joe Biden “wily”? Anybody who believes that has to believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy as well. While I categorically reject the idea that Uncle Joe is “in charge” of anything, I do believe that those who are actually calling the shots possess the same blind arrogance that characterizes Biden’s dismissive smirk. Their completely unwarranted belief that they can “outsmart and outmaneuver” everyone else on the world stage is as delusional as it is dangerous. Virtually every move they make draws us closer and closer to WWIII. These people would be well advised to heed the admonition that “pride goes before the fall and a haughty spirit before destruction”

They may be able to ignore reality, but they cannot avoid the consequences of doing so.

I’ve said it before, but I’m convinced that 2024 is going to be very consequential and not in a good or pleasant way.

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D F Barr's avatar

2024 is shaping up to be full of unpleasant surprises.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

And who was it--Catherine Herridge?--said: Expect a Black Swan event?

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D F Barr's avatar

Yes, the journo from CBS predicts the black swan in 24. The narrative is being prepped.

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Steghorn21's avatar

Agree with everything said. Bibi is like Zelensky: trying to drag the West into a war to save his backside. The only difference is that Netanyahu makes Z look like a penis-playing pianist when it comes to results. It looks like it's going to take a sunken US fleet to knock any sense into the neocons. And even then...

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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

It's the "good old" A Clean Break: Project for a New American Century, circa the late 1990s. The objective is to take out Iran, after going through Iraq, Syria, Palestine and Lebanon.

They kicked it off by getting the US to attack Iraq after 9-11. Was Iraq in any way involved in 9-11? No. Did that matter? "Why am I asking irrelevant questions?"

It's the same thing today. Was Hezbollah involved in the October 7 attack? No. Should that stop Israel from attacking Iran? "Why am I asking irrelevant questions?"

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NFO's avatar

Slightly off-topic, but has anyone seen/heard any updates on the seawater flooding of the Gaza tunnel system that was reported to have commenced 10 or so days ago? Was supposed to take weeks to complete, but, that, to me, was at least as telling of Netanyahu's plans for depopulating the Strip as simply razing the joint. Destroy what's left of an already-inadequate aquifer and, quite likely, collapse most surface structures, and you have a perfectly-uninhabitable (at least, at current levels) tract ripe for redevelopment/repurposing. Story just seemed to fall completely out of the news.

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Under Vesuvius's avatar

Styxhexxenhammer has talked about this “salting of the earth” phenom

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Geowhizz's avatar

The US does Netanyahu’s and the zionist’s bidding. Just can’t understand it?

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Money. It buys a lot of politicians who share the same god…….$

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

This feeling is growing not only around the USA, but across the world as their greed and hunger for power reveals their true essence and brutal nature.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

And without a proper vote.

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Mike richards's avatar

I cannot bear those who use hedging language, asking ‘smart’ questions designed to insinuate. ‘A truth that’s told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent’.

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dissonant1's avatar

Unbelievable!

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Is it cynical or was the calculation based on the notion of revealing the Israeli’sfor who they really are, not what’s been mythologized?

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

Agree hence the outpouring of grief for the Palestinians and growing hostility toward the "never again" crowd. who's claim to the land as ancestral is belied by the lineage of their central European history.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

You should be careful about expressing your views in writing. People might get the idea that you've never bothered to read the history of Iran before expressing those views.

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Geowhizz's avatar

It’s tribal. All the way down. Tragically. IMHO

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Our biggest enemy is ignorance. Do something about it.

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ML's avatar

No, there won’t be peace, because as former Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin said, “you don’t make peace with your friends, you make it with very unsavory enemies.”

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Former Israeli PM expressed the view that those goals were unachievable.

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Jeff Cook-Coyle's avatar

And he is mocking Putin's objectives in the SMO.

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D F Barr's avatar

China and Russia stand aside and watch the American Empire weaken itself. Atrition

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