AHH posed these:
🔹 Does the accelerating implosion in the Ukraine heighten the chances of the Empire striking out in West Asia, to look strong elsewhere and to distract?
🔹 What face-saving mechanism can be provided to Empire to retreat from Gaza genocide, so it doesn’t escalate to regional war? Actually, the current trajectory is inevitable world war as their objectives of “victory” can only be met through total Palestinian extermination and/or ethnical cleansing, both to regain “deterrence” and to safeguard zionist lebensraum. That would be opposed by Resistance through unsurvivable attrition war. So the two options remaining to Empire are both quick and bitter short term moves: concede without calling it a defeat (like 404, another manifest loss) or to use massive attacks against Resistance camp, itself futile in the long term, and entrenching strategic loss worldwide…
🔹 Does the fear of an Iran now under Russian-Chinese mutual support heighten the chance Empire strikes out at what it foolishly sees as softer targets of Hezbollah and Yemen? In hours, a carrier strike group (CSG) will be adjacent to each of those two..
🔹 The next “Wunderwaffe” to be exposed, and sunk, will be the said CSG. How will the Empire respond? It could care less about the massive loss in manpower, but the loss in prestige is rather existential..
🔹 Having messaged intent to use tactical nukes, and having now “normalized” mass genocide in Gaza, where would it use the tactical nukes?
🔹Was Gaza genocide rolled out in part to desensitize the global commons with respect to mass human deaths, as planned for upcoming WMD wars??
🔹 Once nukes are used, how would the Global South respond?
🔹 How would Russia, China and/or Iran respond?
🔹 Have guarantees been given by Russia-China-Iran to weaker Resistance members against said nuke use??
From AHH. “… having now “normalized” mass genocide in Gaza,”
Yes. We are staring into the abyss. One mistake at this stage and…
I see thing otherwise, I can not believe that Russia is not using Hamas as a proxy force against the Empire. Of course I would not expect them to admit to this any more than I would expect USA to admit using Ukraine to bomb civilians in the Donbass. If… Read more »
archeon, beyond the validity of the analysis you apply which could be constructively criticized, in view of events and circumstances I agree with your conclusion that Israel is now trapped so ” …To back off is to admit defeat and to go forward is to make the situation worse for… Read more »
Israel’s military spokesman Daniel Hagari says that
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-middle-east-67324897
Anything from the BBC is not to be trusted. BBC is Bull shit news.
Jorge Vilches, with the greatest respect, I think it is as likely that Israel use nukes in Gaza as Russia using them in Ukraine, why would they? Israel can defeat Hamas quite easily, even without help from USA/UK/NATO. Just as Iran could easily defeat Israel, 7.5 million Israeli jews, most… Read more »
From archeon, “I can not believe that Russia is not using Hamas as a proxy force.” That’s possibly true, but Russia could only go down that path if it was supremely confident of its progress in Ukraine. Confident that no area of weakness has developed or been uncovered by the… Read more »
Steve from Oz, with respect, the risk is doing nothing while someone loudly and repeatedly threatens Russia’s existence. In the end either the Empire will cease to exist or the civilized nations will cease to exist. Both sides have admitted this to be true. December 17 2021 Russia told the… Read more »
I agree, Russia is doing plenty. It’s not as though they are doing nothing. I just cannot see that Russia, that has moved so deliberately in Ukraine, would light a match in the petrol-soaked West Asia. Why would they when the decay of the West is going so well, probably… Read more »
Strictly from a criminal mind-set perspective ( which BTW unbelievably seems to be the case… ) the only effective way to achieve what current authorities say is the objective seeked by Israel would be to nuke Gaza out… God forbid !!!!! Unfortunately the Israeli position is now so untenable that… Read more »
China seems to be alleging that the US is walking themselves into a trap. A very good article this morning, very nuanced in places, surprisingly in agreement with what I’ve been thinking. https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202311/1301245.shtml The nuclear case? Oh boy, they should not try you know! There was an old joke ..… Read more »
Hmmm… now then, …the Chinese guru’s article says that the US and Israel both prioritize “eliminating Hamas, rather than avoiding killing civilians”…which methinks if taken seriously in the current scenario and circumstances would necessarily require the use nuclear weaponry… which is definetly not a joke. But I reckon it would… Read more »
OK, mine and granted I spent the whole day on Gaza, history and current events yesterday. The Arab countries, although very reluctant to express any commitment of any kind, are becoming more resolute. They expected Israel will roll back as they usually do, but this time they are not. The… Read more »