Yes this is true however i thought calculations changed when the Soviet nuclear stockpile reached such a vast number (even before parity) sometime in 1960s that M.A.D. became operative. A first strike was recognized to be a murder-suicide.

So starting from early 1970s bilateral treaties on arms and AD limitations, a different mindset prevailed for about 30-40 years.

I wouldn’t be surprised the PNAC gang and other supranational zionist ideologues forced through the change to Nuclear Primacy, as if M.A.D. stopped operating. They willfully ignored the Russians maintained control and command and kept modernizing their nukes at all costs, even during the lean 1990s. It is hardwired into the Russian DNA the next western Drang always comes every 30 years or so, for 1,000 years, without fail.

☝️Amarynth quoted on another thread this statement by the Yemeni Minister of Defense, Major General Mohammed Al-Atefi, in Sanaa, made right after Hezbollah’s first salvo. At the end of her comment is the written statement he reads in this video.

☝️He makes good point, this new crazed document from Empire is “a nuclear EMPLOYMENT guidance” – an internal document, rather than an external policy deterrent! I disagree in one aspect that this is a measured return to the Cold War nuclear posture. As documented by Eric Zuesse, the operative posture of the Exceptionals is “Nuclear Primacy.” They’ve deluded themselves into believing they can wage and win such wars… and in the setting of extreme desperation of hegemonic-econonmic-financial-societal collapse, they do not have another 40 years to slowly work to submit the civilizational-states a second time. It’s Nuke or Kneel Time – right now. And the Moshiach waits to be born inside the rapidly dying Zionist project..

Note the symmetry: the zionist spy base struck was in northern suburb of the Zion’s capital, the way their killed commander was in southern suburb of their capital Beirut. Hezbollah and Yemen keep their word.

So Yemen’s next move should be to attack a civilian equivalent of the splashy Hodeidah oil storage and electricity aggression. A Hot Summer for Zion! And we’re not talking yet of Iran, Iraq, or even little Hamas, which now has more freedom as Gaza is largely theirs to rove and from which to launch rockets.

Another point made by Magnier: Hezbollah this time launched many drones/missiles from Bekaa (north Lebanon, beyond the Litani). In prior wars, their tech development largely limited them to south Lebanon, which was also easier to find and destroy by NATO. Now they’re dispersed, and inside mountains and forests, throughout Lebanon.. and were still able to fly the longer ranges, avoid NATO air defense, and hit their targets with precision.. another demonstration bolstering Deterrence..

https://tass.com/world/1833053

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Russian military struck a temporary deployment point of foreign mercenaries, the Russian Defense Ministry reports

More statements from the ministry’s daily briefing:
🟠Ukraine lost more than 1,900 servicemen in the special operation zone during the past day;
🟠Russian air defenses shot down 8 enemy HIMARS MLRS projectiles and 41 drones;
🟠A US-made Abrams tank and a ‘Kozak” armored vehicle were destroyed by Russian troops.

💠@Strategika51:
⭕ Speech by the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah.

The political-military party claims to have launched 320 rockets last night in what it calls the first phase. It seems certain that Hezbollah’s response will be either delayed or modified according to developments on the ground.

On the Zionist side, more than 100 fighter jets took part in the air strikes against southern Lebanon overnight, and it seems impossible that all these aircraft belong to the Israeli air force.

Temporary conclusion: the Lebanese Hezbollah will practice procrastination and assess the designs and scope of enemy operations before risking all out war.

On the diplomatic front, Lebanese Hezbollah is under immense Arab pressure to scale down its response.
⭕ We can’t have some retrospective from the rapidly evolving situation in the Levant. We will summarize the main points of Nasrallah’s speech, and attempt to provide some wide-angle analysis later.
⭕ Hassan Nasrallah announces the code name of the current operation “Al-Arbaeen” (“40” in reference to the 40th day after the death of his military leader).

He returned to the general situation and admitted that the unbearable tension in which the Israelis were struggling was in favor of the Axis of Resistance. He pointed out that the latter had decided to respond, but not collectively, since each member of the Alliance was free to make its own tactical and strategic choices. Nasrallah reaffirmed that the response had been planned, but that it had been postponed in response to pressure and threats from the US, which he accused of being a party to the massacre, and above all to give the ceasefire negotiations in Gaza a chance of success. He denies all the Israeli narrative and points out that the border conflict had been limited and policed until then (no targeting of civilians, no bombing of urban areas), but says that Hezbollah had the right to target civilians after the Israeli bombardments in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
⭕ Nassrallah says that the pressure on Israel and the United States was such that they had to resort to the general mobilization of all their military resources. From this point of view, if his knowledge of the situation in Israel is fairly exhaustive, it’s quite astonishing that he is informed of the general mobilization of the United States when it was done without a sound.
[well USUK didn’t just mobilize for the Holy Land. It is in concomitant war with Russia and most in the Cosmos.. And things will not get easier that’s for sure]
⭕ Nasrallah announces that he will not use strategic missiles “for the time being” and reveals the targets struck within the Zionist entity, mainly bases of the 8200 electronic intelligence unit.
⭕ Nasrallah:

“We are a people who do not accept humiliation or kowtowing to anyone. We fight with reason, spirit, weapons, drones and hidden ballistic missiles for a day that may come. This enemy must understand that Lebanon is no longer weak and that a day may come when we invade you with an orchestra [musical troupe].”
⭕ Invading with an orchestra… After Wagner and Mozart, this phrase must refer to something specific…
[Swan Lake!? Perhaps a Nutcracker Suite is more appropriate]

Note again the risible zionazi spin that they launched “a preemptive strike” – like their cousins in 404 launching the vaunted “counter-offensive!” The messaging appears off with the Holy Land nazis though. They are torn between appearing manly (thus “preemptive”) and the eternal sniffing victim (thus “counter-offensive”). Can’t have it both ways

this is our old friend Ali Mortada (“Hello My Enemies”) reporting live earlier from southern Lebanon during zionazi bombing. Armageddon is gonna require teeth-gritting in the early phases, for it a rolling affair, like a certain rolling stone… then in half-an-hour, LIGHTS OUT for a certain anti-civilization being sent to Bandera..

💠@imetatronink:
⭕ This is an exceedingly imbalanced scenario that greatly favors Hezbollah et al., both in terms of cost and magazine depth. They’ll take that trade anytime.
[response to:
Israel’s Apaches are used for counter-air defense against slower drones. They use their Hellfires primarily for this, but Stinger (stock Apache capability) and potentially other Israeli-built A2A weapons could be used as well (not confirmed for the latter)]

The problem with Armageddon is that it is uncharted territory. Both sides FEEL their way along, like the blind. And the satanic side is equally hamstrung, having to set it up to make little Zion look like the passive plucky little survivor, defending itself from the civilizational hordes. On this well-known weakness, done countless times before as seen with the Maine, Pearl Harbor, Gulf Tonkin, 911, Yada Yada… it opens juicy possibilities, using Time, Pressure, Space, Coordination & Sequencing of the Resistance etc against them

💠 @Intel Slava Z:
⭕ 🇷🇺💥🇺🇦🏁 According to several sources, last night, Russian Aerospace Forces fighter jets delivered a powerful strike on a group of Ukrainian special forces and Western mercenaries on Snake Island in the Black Sea.

The landing party allegedly included personnel from NATO Special Operations Forces, operating on speedboats from a base in Romania.
[Snake Island has plagued us for third year running!]
⭕ 🇷🇺🇸🇾 The Russian Aerospace Forces destroyed three militant bases hidden in the remote areas of the White Desert in Syria, reported Captain 1st Rank Oleg Ignasyuk, Deputy Head of the Russian Center for Reconciliation of Opposing Sides in Syria.  |media|

💠 @Resistance News Network:
⭕ 🟡🟢 Hezbollah:
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In support of the steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in solidarity with their brave and honorable resistance, the Islamic Resistance carried out several operations against the locations and deployments of the “israeli” enemy’s army along the Lebanese-Palestinian border on Saturday, 24-08-2024, as follows:

1. At 08:30, targeting the position of “israeli” enemy soldiers at the Hermon site with a drone strike, hitting it directly.

2. At 12:00, targeting the Al-Rahib site with artillery shells, hitting it directly.

3. At 12:15, targeting the espionage equipment at the Al-Rahib site with an attack drone, hitting it directly.

4. At 10:15, targeting the deployment of “israeli” enemy soldiers around the “Misgav Am” site with appropriate weapons, hitting it directly.

5. Launching an aerial attack with an attack drone on the newly established headquarters of the Western Brigade south of the “Yaara” settlement, targeting the positions of its officers and soldiers, hitting them accurately in response to the “israeli” enemy’s attacks on the steadfast southern villages and safe homes.

6. At 14:10, targeting the deployment of “israeli” enemy soldiers around the Hadab Yaroun site with artillery shells, hitting it directly.

7. At 16:45, targeting the Ramtha site in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shuba hills with rocket weapons, hitting it directly.

8. At 16:40, targeting the Zebdine site in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with rocket weapons, hitting it directly.

9. At 17:15, targeting a deployment of “israeli” enemy soldiers at the Bayad Blida site with appropriate weapons, hitting it directly.

10. At 17:25, targeting a gathering of “israeli” enemy soldiers around the Hanita site with artillery shells.

11. After the attacks carried out by the “israeli” enemy from the Ruwaisat Al-Alam site using machine guns, which affected the outskirts and orchards of the Shebaa Farms and the Kfar Shuba hills, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance responded by targeting the site with machine guns.

12. At 19:10, targeting a force from the war gathering and military intelligence around the Al-Rahib site with rocket weapons, hitting it directly.

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Pavel Durov’s arrest comes as no surprise. In his case, you’d have to be a raving lunatic to stop over in France.
⭕ Pavel Durov’s false arrest at Le Bourget may have been a staged operation with his prior consent (Intel)

– Pavel Durov has been a French national since 2021. In addition to his French and Russian nationalities, he is also a citizen of the United Arab Emirates and Saint Kitts and Nevis.

In any case, this affair is all the more suspicious given that Telegram is far from secure.
⭕ A Swedish CV-90 armored vehicle of Ukrainian forces captured by the Russians…  |media|
[Russia.. a most familiar burial ground of the combined West..]
⭕ The Palestinian resistance in Gaza pursued an Israeli soldier on leave to the Jordan Valley (West Bank) and shot him dead in his car. |media|
[And so it will proceed, to the dregs. No sane society unleashes a mutual extermination..]
⭕ Two small false-flag incidents in Germany and France reflect the waning effectiveness of this modus operandi, so popular with special services similar to Gladio. The Diversion no longer works.
In Solingen, Germany, a 15-year-old Syrian refugee is an ideal tool for this type of demonstration, as well as the symbolic of diversity allegedly targeted. Unfortunately, there were deaths. Daech claim from who knows where. Analysts cry Mossad.

In France, it’s low-rent vaudeville: a clown disguised as a drunken gas station attendant, dead in the middle of a heatwave, running with two almost empty plastic bottles (it’s not clear whether they contained varnish, water or vodka), was photographed running after an attempted fire at a synagogue in Montpellier called Beth Yakoov (Jacob’s House)… No casualties and not too much damage. Just the bare minimum for summer vacations. The resigning staying prime minister makes a little improvised movie for the occasion and disappears.

Decline affects all areas.
⭕ Israel could wait no longer for an attack. Netanyahu’s cabinet has just ordered a pre-emptive strike on Lebanon. Lack of patience is fatal in strategy.
⭕ 2006 Scenario in 2024
⭕ Israel has just launched an air campaign targeting Lebanon.
[This doesn’t appear it. More of the same, perhaps slightly increased..]

💠 @ejmalrai:
⭕ Israel claimed that #Hezbollah’s attack was directed against “strategic objectives”. Hezbollah says that the first stage is over, which indicates that there are other stages to come. The “specific target” Hezbollah aimed for is still unknown
⭕ The first wave of #Hezbollah’s attack is over. Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets to “open a corridor” for its drones to reach its desired and specific objectives. We still don’t have the final result on the Israeli side of the “specific military target”.
⭕ Hezbollah warned #Israel:

“If you target the civilians, we shall follow suit, and the revenge will be severe”.
⭕ One of #Hezbollah’s objectives was hitting an Israeli power station (since the Israelis don’t like to live without electricity). A few drones managed to reach the objective despite being protected by the Iron Dome, and they destroyed it.
⭕ Israel’s war cabinet said it would “retaliate against #Lebanon” but did not say against #Hezbollah. Was this a generalisation or deliberate? Hours later, Israel de-escalated by saying it had launched a “pre-emptive strike”. It may be that what Hezbollah hit was too much for the Israelis to swallow, especially with the presence of US and NATO forces in the region to support Netanyahu and his wars.
⭕ Israel has decided to open all shelters in Tel Aviv.
This means:
1. #Hezbollah’s hit was strategic & painful that Israel is refraining from revealing it & wants to retaliate.
2. Israel will escalate/retaliate against targets deep in #Lebanon and probably the suburb of #Beirut.
⭕ The question today:

Will #Israel swallow #Hezbollah’s retaliation and de-escalate by hitting the usual targets in southern #Lebanon, returning to the old and established rules of engagement, or will it decide to escalate?

It is now up to @Netanyahu. For Hezbollah, the “case” is closed
[Will a pyromaniac with his slave Uncle Schmuel breathing heavy behind him, willing to be suicided, lay down the can of petrol??]
⭕ Israel has decided to accept #Hezbollah’s retaliation and consider the “case is closed” by informing all allies it won’t escalate.

Let’s see if that will hold and for how long
⭕ Netanyahu said, “#Israel has destroyed 1000s of missiles directed toward Tel Aviv, and we stopped it”.

Excellent. A blatant lie but with the desired effect: Israel wants to boost its “pre-emptive” attack to say it doesn’t need to retaliate to the retaliation
⭕ Don’t be surprised when @Netanyahu says he stopped a #Hezollah assassination attempt on him; he destroyed 6000 missiles aimed at Tel Aviv; he is the saviour of #Israel.

All good lies to show he is not waging a wider war
⭕ My view:
#Hezbollah’s retaliation is strategic:

it indicates

1. there is no coordinated and joint attack with #Iran, #Yemen and #Iraq to “destroy #Israel”
2. There is no need to gather this level of US and NATO forces in the ME.
3. Keep and redirect the focus on #Gaza
⭕ Today at 18:00 #Beirut local time, 15:00 CET, #Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah is expected to warn Israel and offer the details of the retaliation against #Israel and the (mis) information provided by the Israeli and @Netanyahu in this regard.
⭕ Suppose #Hezbollah managed to hit the secret Mossad (external Intelligence service) and the Aman (military intelligence unit 8200 et al.) bases north of Tel Aviv as per the Israeli media. That would indicate Hezbollah’s fine intelligence capability and rich bank of objectives
⭕ Israeli PM @Netanyahu has instructed his ministers not to make any statement (to avoid embarrassment for not retaliating against #Hezbollah).
⭕ According to the Israeli media, this is the first time that #Hezbollah hits a target 100 km from the Lebanese borders, 10 km north of Tel Aviv

He makes the point the total US ground forces are less than 500,000, scattered over 1000+ bases and points worldwide needing manning, and of which only 80 – 100,000 are the combat troops (rest are support).

However, iirc, since Rummy’s and Admiral Cebrowski days, in the early Bush II years, they took most forces “dark” — into PMCs, legionnaire-type outfits, etc. Some of the special forces lads went native and were essentially permanently prepositioned to both stir the Chaos for Zion and to be called on as needed. I remember even during mid-Iraq years >100k such “non-official” knuckle-draggers littered the sands like Blackwater in Falluja. So the Empire likely has a hefty ground contingent right now around and inside Zion.

It still won’t help them, as they’re demented working for satanic side, dependent on distant interdictable logistics, and surrounded in sea of enemies, and so they’re painfully out of place and easy to track down when hunting season opens. The point is the tripe that the official nazi bases are sitting ducks and undermanned and won’t take more than a simple barrage is wishful thinking. Empire, like 404, will still require a serious ground fight.

A shoe is waiting to drop for which Arab or Turk or Egyptian army will join the action too. Their elites are no less arrogant, supremacist and desperate.

This is where the Houthis and Iraqis and Hezbollah, all well trained by Soleimani and their own need, bring a useful opposing irregular fighting group. Much of this, unlike the European theatre, should continue to be waged by non-state actors.

Indeed, Eschatology indicates that when the evil atomics are brought out, (interpreting here) that the coming decapitation of the local states may fully make it amorphous fighting units on both sides. What should die with Armageddon is the Westphalian modern state. A return to premodern organizational units and loyalties and fighting will resume.

This likely informs the long delay as Iran, Yemen and others reorganize, along decentralized, traditional paradigms. The new Iranian Prez appears clueless, a simple figurehead! It is as if they trotted out their own version of Trump. The real action is taking place behind the scenes with both sides. In a way mankind has already been Raptured! “And the days are between us…”  The elites on either side didn’t bother to send us deplorables the memo..

Imagine the terrible fate the civilizational-states have decided to impose on the demented West for forcing them down these savage roads. Those public TV videos of Poseidon tsunamis hitting London don’t look coy now at all. They are a grim promise, even if Armageddon is averted, to end the endless Drangs once and for all

NB. watch these days George Galloway’s face frozen in fear, nearly catatonic, and increasing strident segment titles. His grand sense of humor and eloquence masks it, but he knows what’s coming and where the first target lies

Kill & be Killed. The last measure of spite of the satanic West, before being buried. Look carefully at the cowardly zionazi stormtroopers, who shoot bullets into the empty air, pretending to wage war whilst in open extermination of civilians. Like going to the native American settlements after the men leave to massacre the women and children and elders. Nothing new under the sun. The world takes note. The criminals hide behind UkroNazis in 404 and messianic losers in the Holy Land. What will happen to them when the ammo & hardware or proxies dry up???

💠 @Arab_Africa:
⭕ 🇷🇺🇸🇩 The Sudanese newspaper At-Tagyir reported from its sources that the Chairman of the Sovereign Council Abdel Fattah al-Burhan will soon visit Moscow.

“The recent Sudanese-Russian rapprochement has become a reality and a new variable in Sudanese politics, conducted by the de facto government of Port Sudan led by the army commander, Colonel General Al-Burhan, who is expected to visit Moscow soon to sign various military, security, trade and economic deals,” the report said.

According to the publication, a certain number of planes and ships from Russia and the Emirates have arrived at the airport and seaport of Port Sudan in recent weeks. Russia, according to the newspaper, supplies the Sudanese army with weapons, modern high-quality equipment and spare parts for aircraft. The recent visit of Sudanese Defense Minister Yassin Ibrahim to Moscow put the finishing touches to the creation of a Russian logistics base in Sudanese territorial waters in the Red Sea.

An informed source also confirmed to the At-Tagyir publication the veracity of the information that had been disseminated about the presence of Russian troops in the Red Sea and reported:

“Yes, it is true that there are Russian troops that arrived by sea in Port Sudan a few days ago, consisting of more than 700 Russian servicemen.”  [a war as bitter and exterminatory as against the Palestinians has been waged against Sudan. They shall not forget the Anglo-Zionists and GCC behind it. Eschatology foretell their, and the similarly genocided Yemenis’, epic revenge on Zion. They will be among the human waves crashing it to expunge the devils]

💠 @Sputnik Africa:
⭕ ❗️Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky signs a law allowing to ban the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate  

💠 @Strategika51:
⭕ Gaza Strip: Known for its small size – 27 square kilometers out of Gaza’s total area of ​​365 square kilometers – Deir al-Balah has become one of the most overcrowded Palestinian areas, home to almost a million people, or 50% of Gaza’s total population.

This is unprecedented in contemporary history.
[Keep that name in mind, for shocking crimes to come. They’ve been herded like fish into the waiting barrel]
⭕ Gaza Strip: another Israeli force lured into a fake tunnel. The resistance detonated three simultaneous charges as soon as the force entered the tunnel.
⭕ Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence claims that investigations into the assassination of Palestinian leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran have concluded that no internal elements were involved in the killing.
This adds even more mystery to the assassination. It is almost certain that a new technology involving small stealth drones was used, and remains unknown to the general public.
[You can kill a man, but not the Idea. And they’ve lit a Fire in Yemen!]

🇺🇸 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. joined Donald Trump’s campaign rally in Arizona.

Trump promised that if he wins the election, he will establish an independent presidential commission to investigate assassination attempts, including the July attempt on his life.

The commission will also be tasked with releasing all remaining classified documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

🍿

🔴 @DDGeopolitics

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What a risible PsyOp! The Lemmings are entranced, lapping it up. First rate breads & circuses. Trump’s political career could be summed up with the phrase, “Killing Hope accompanied by Orgasmic Hype.”

And the Swamp plays off him so well — he builds and builds anticipation, never to crest or to deliver an iota.

BTW, this current building work, no pun intended, when it fails due to the next stolen selection or completed assassination, should really help move along the desired Civil War 3.0