Putin was polite and circumspect in his interview response, but Biden’s threat to “put him down” is precisely what it sounds like. He is being told he will be assassinated. And he knows it is his likely fate and appears at peace, come what may. If it was done to Stalin, who can be saved? Note only a few days ago, he took his first trip outside Russia in 2023 to friendly Kyrgyzstan. How will Russia respond to the fact? Atrocity, murder, mayhem, rank evil.. these are their remaining cards

“…He will not show regard for the gods of his ancestors, the god desired by women, or for any other god, because he will magnify himself above all.”

It’s hard to keep up with the bad news and coalescing theatres.

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⚡️The Swedish Minister of Civil Defense said that he had received information about damage to the telecommunications cable between Estonia and Sweden – media [a sea cable was cut… the USUK torching of Europe continues unabated.. This occurs right after the balticconnector gas pipe between Finland and Estonia was damaged…]

Protesters in Iran tonight after hospital bombing

a great crime, shocking to even a calloused region, took place tonight. About 1,000 died in the deliberate bombing of that single hospital. Hundreds more are yet unaccounted, not counting 1,000+ still unrecovered from rubble…… Several other hospitals were targeted too. Remember they served notice to ALL North Gaza hospitals to clear out in 24 hours. Most ignored the demands, as tantamount to murder of so many patients. These are the hospitals now being picked off… North Gaza is being cleared and leveled, come what may.

Already the earth is tilting against the compradore elites of the region, with the Israeli embassy in Jordan torched, the one in Turkey being barricaded and under assault atm, etc.. Even the poodle Palestinian “Prez” Abbas left Jordan to return to West Bank rather than be seen with Biden tomorrow. A great bifurcation with the combined West, to last at least a century, is under way… they are all tainted now with Israeli and zionist crimes, lepers in perpetuity.

💠@Arab Africa:
⚡There is not a single safe place left in the Gaza Strip. A Palestinian girl spoke about this at the Rafah border crossing on the border with Egypt. The girl said in an interview with Al-Jazeera that the Israeli Air Force attacked them as they drove to the border crossing. “We knew that the border crossing would not be opened, but we were sure that when we got to Rafah we would be safe, but now no one is safe in all of Gaza, we are constantly being bombed.”
⚡Egypt demanded to stop bombing the Rafah border crossing area. Egypt appealed to the international community to intervene in the situation and demand that Israel stop bombing the Rafah border crossing area. [Egypt is done too, unless it is itself attacked.. a gelded NPC controlled by purse-strings for the duration, so sad, given its heft, location, and glorious history.. many forget their Navy was instrumental in blockading and fighting the Crusaders alongside Saladin on land, and breaking their back a millennia ago, but the Zionists have not forgotten and broke Egypt down nicely this time around. Today, Egypt wanders so meekly into the End Times, a toothless and senile Junta busy earning 30 silver shekels..]

💠@Slavyangrad:
⚡The number of casualties from the attack on a hospital in Gaza has risen to 900, and the death toll, according to preliminary data, has risen to 600, Palestinian media reported [this was an earlier report]
⚡People began to take to the streets in Egypt, Tunisia, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran and Palestine. An EU statement is being prepared calling on Europeans to urgently leave Israeli territory

Kurdistan regional government condemns the attack on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza, in which hundreds of Palestinians are feared dead, says KRG Spokesperson Peshawa Hawramani  [this is bedrock region of the US occupation of Iraq AND Syria, and for selling the stolen Syrian oil, and used to weaken Iran and Turkey; many regions are awakening — Saladin was a Kurd]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⚡— By the way, it was a Christian hospital. If that makes any difference to some of you Evangelicals or other ‘Christians’ that still support Israel.
⚡— Doctor in Gaza: We have completely run out of medical supplies, all surgeries are now being performed without the use of anesthesia
⚡Lebanese PM Mikati announces tomorrow as a national mourning for the martyrs of the Baptist Hospital massacre [this is a billionaire and abject compradore of West, unlike honorable Hezbollah of Lebanon; even he panics..]

💠@Sputnik_Africa:
⚡❗ Erdogan urges to stop ‘unprecedented atrocity’ in Gaza Strip after strike on hospital. 🗣 “The attack on a hospital, where women, children and innocent civilians were located, is the latest example of Israeli attacks deprived of the most basic human values. I call on all humanity to take action to stop this unprecedented atrocity in Gaza,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said.
⚡❗ Russia, UAE request urgent UNSC meeting for Wednesday morning over strike on Gaza hospital
⚡❗ Abbas will not take part in summit in Jordan after strike on hospital, source tells Sputnik 🗣 “President Mahmoud Abbas is preparing to leave Jordan in response to the Israeli strike on a Baptist hospital in Gaza and will not take part in the quadrilateral summit,” the source said.

terrorist bases inside all targeted objects… Hamas = Palestine
💠 Intel Slava Z:
⚡❗Al Jazeera : The number of people killed at Al Ahly Baptist Hospital, hit by Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, may exceed 1,000.
⚡The situation in the West Bank is now explosive, everything could degenerate into chaos at any moment
⚡ Israeli security forces are reported to be opening fire on Palestinian protesters in Jenin and the West Bank
⚡#BREAKING Israel’s national security headquarters tells Israelis in Türkiye to leave the country immediately.
⚡ Riots broke out in Hebron. Arab youth took to the streets after news of the destruction of a hospital in Gaza

⚡Israeli army spokesman: We had warned [the Gaza authorities] to evacuate Baptist Hospital and 5 other hospitals
⚡A Pentagon deputy press secretary said Hamas “places its command and control units in hospitals.” But she refused to comment on the hospital explosion in the Gaza Strip: “I can’t talk about it because we are waiting for intelligence.”
⚡CNN: “It certainly could have been a Hamas misfire…” [ video ] 
⚡The supply of US weapons to Israel will continue continuously – Pentagon
⚡Also Türkiye, more and more people. Police are preparing to repel possible attacks at the Israeli embassy.
⚡ISRAELI EMBASSY SET ALIGHT in Jordan’s capital Amman (left vid) as people outraged by Gaza City hospital massacre take to streets.
Lebanon’s Beirut awash with protesters (top right vid) with THOUSANDS reportedly demanding Hezbollah declare war on Israel.

another United Nations building hit in Gaza

Bombed Gaza hospital

💠@DDGeopolitics:
⚡️According to Palestinian media, 300 people died when Israeli Air Force targeted a hospital in Gaza.

💠@Strategika51:
⚡️France provides military intelligence assistance to the Israeli government. It’s a little more than support. Almost the entire French military system set up in Romania against Russia is oriented towards Israel. France is not the only country to do this. All NATO countries are involved in this remake of the propaganda film “Save Private Ryan Israel”
⚡️Gaza health authorities are calling on every resident and gas station owners to donate any amount of diesel to enable hospital generators to operate and save lives. There is no more water or electricity in Gaza and the GSM network is practically out of service.

Rafah road Palestinian side

💠@MedManTG:
⚡️a clearer photo of an example of a road destroyed right in the Palestinian side of the crossing. How deep is this crate? 4,5 meters? I recall writing in the early days of the war how the the Israelis are bombing the Rafah crossing where even if the aid is “allowed” to get through, it will take time to get it through, hopefully, locals reported that construction crews crossed to the other side, hopefully, they will get it up and running.

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⚡️ The airstrike on Ismail Hanieh’s family house claimed the lives of all of his grandchildren, his brother and his family, and his own son. A total of 14 killed. [Hanieh is the political head of Hamas, based in Qatar, with whom met the Iranian FM and just spoke to the South African FM and many others…]

Journalist Hatem Omar

💠@Slavyangrad:
⚡️Journalist Hatem Omar fainted when he saw his family arrive dead and wounded in an ambulance after an airstrike hit a residential building in the Rafah area. He reported from Gaza for the BBC. [south Gaza, which now has reportedly >90-95% of total Gaza population, is still being bombed. There are no safe zones anywhere. Nothing is respected, with almost a dozen UN buldings bombed]
⚡️ Palestinians have organized mass graves for those killed by Israeli shelling of the Gaza Strip. The bodies are separated from each other by a row of bricks.

⚡️So the second leader of the triune nation is on the phone: Lukashenko – at a meeting with Iranian Vice President Mohammad Mokhber: “The Middle East crisis contributes to the fact that countries unfriendly to us – the United States and the West – are constantly directing the spearhead of this conflict against Iran. You can feel it better. Our answer is the same: we must work more closely with each other, cooperate together to counter these outbursts.” [this is more on the statement of Luka from above]
⚡️ The head of the House Foreign Policy Committee confirmed the presence of 2 thousand US Marines off the coast of Gaza and Israel and allowed their participation in the conflict [this is SOP by now. Send weapons or men, then declare they are to be sent.. it will not help them as in 404..]
⚡️The Telegraph quoted an Israeli official as saying: The fight to destroy Hamas may take months or even years. [🤣😂“Got Time?”]

💠@Marx Engels Lenin Institute:
⚡️If the war between Hezbollah and Israel explodes then I suspect the promise that Netanyahu has been given is that the US will use its air power to try and attack Hezbollah. That will mean though that the American presence in northern Syria will most likely come under attack immediately  and most likely get wiped out or forced to surrender. The same is true for the presence they have left in Iraq. Their puppet rulers in Jordan and Morocco would face a mass uprising and/or possible military coups. Even the Turkish and the Saudi reactionaries would be forced into a corner by such a move, facing enraged populations and a possible revolt even inside their own ruling circles. In short, it would be extremely damaging for US imperialisms interests in the region.

On the other hand though if they allow Israel to fall to defeat and possible collapse then it will also severely damage their ability to project power in the Middle East and have devastating political consequences domestically in the US as well. Imperialism is caught between a rock and a hard place now. Either way further defeat looms for it.

@RealPepeEscobar: “The Jabaliya refugee camp – which used to be a hive of humanity essentially trying to survive.
Civilians – the overwhelming majority women and children.
They can do this because they can – and know the collective West won’t give a damn.”

More exchanges continue across the Lebanese border, but most activity is damped down as the partially-propelled teleprompter mis-reader arrived, skulking in a day in advance. War to commence after he departs the Holy Land.

Thanks for your patience, this pseudo-Luddite is learning the ropes of main site and multi-tasking.. may be posting less for a bit. Also the overall contours of the geopolitical confrontation in West Asian front is solidifying. I usually do not cover skirmishes and war-stuff, and that appears the current inexorable development. Hezbollah and Israelis keep shelling, missiling, rocketing and otherwise fighting each other in endless tit-for-tat, in what appears prelude to the big stuff.

I hope to post Sudhi’s Ishchenko piece on main site for wider discussion. I disagree with his PoV – intimating China is using Russia and Iran against their will in West Asia to tie down the crazed hegemon! Or did I misunderstand him? Much nuance is missed in translation.

💠 Israeli is becoming an open charge of USUK, as in 404, now officially the 52st state:
⚡@DDGeopolitics:  Supreme Leader of Iran, Khamenei: “Our extensive intelligence indicates that the U.S. is shaping the current policy of the Zionist regime, and what is being done is controlled by U.S. policy. The United States must be held accountable for this situation.”
⚡@Strategika51: Israel is requesting extremely urgent aid from Washington. Officially this is a first survival tranche of 10 billion US dollars. In reality, the State of Israel only survives on US aid. Russian analysts are stunned and are beginning to evoke the Spider-Man myth when it comes to Israel. Lebanese Hezbollah has long described Israel as a spider’s web with a very weak center. In short, we have all been bamboozled by the big lies of the 20th century.

⚡@ejmalrai: US is a full partner of #Israel massacre of Palestinian civilians in #Gaza: Gen. Michael “Erik” Kurilla, Commander of US Central Command, has arrived in Tel Aviv, Israel and conducted a high-level 7-hour meeting with Israel’s military leadership

Watch the agitation of the “tough-talking” Egyptian Prez.. his entire world is collapsing. Also watch the smug Blinken. He owned the Egyptians and exposed them, as milquetoast merely for admitting him… The Egyptians lost face bigtime. Two drowning rats, although the Egyptian one is aware he is below the water level!

💠 @DDGeopolitics:
⚡German Chancellor US slave Olaf Scholz: I explicitly warn Hezbollah and Iran against interfering in the conflict [Oh Germany, we knew and loved ye once. He also threatened Qatar’s ruler to sever a previously unknown secret gas deal with Germany (!!) if they supported Hamas — further harming German energy security]
⚡Hamas appreciates the position of the Russian Federation regarding Israel’s actions in Gaza and the draft resolution that it submitted to the UN Security Council, TASS reports
⚡US President Joe Biden arrived in Israel, he will also visit Jordan, where he plans to meet with Jordanian King Abdullah II, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.
Russian Ambassador to Israel
⚡Statements from the Russian Ambassador to Israel, Anatoly Viktorov, during a press conference:
➡️ Russia considers it essential to promptly cease hostilities and open humanitarian corridors in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict zone.
➡️ The number of Russian citizens missing since the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has risen to nine.
➡️ Russia has taken all measures to evacuate its citizens from the Gaza sector and is awaiting the opening of the Rafah border crossing.
➡️ Approximately 1 million residents, including around 1,000 Russian and CIS citizens, have moved to the southern border of the Gaza sector.
➡️ The United States is attempting to mend its errors by demonstrating support for Israel through visits to the region.
➡️ The Russian side is exploring the possibility of opening the Rafah border crossing in cooperation with Egypt and Israel.
➡️ Russian contacts with certain representatives of Hamas do not signify support for terrorist actions.
⚡Jordanian Royal Court: The Jordanian monarch will host a four-way summit tomorrow in Amman, including the leaders of the United States, Egypt, and Palestine. (Al Jazeera) [Empire trying to brow-beat Egypt some more, if they can’t get them to allow in the exodus of Palestinians, to at least not attack Israel; and to get corrupt Palestinian Authority to acquiesce to culling of Gazans (!!) …]

Khamenei Zionist failure
💠@Middle East Spectator:
⚡— 🇮🇷/🇵🇸 Ayatollah Khamenei:
➡️ If the crimes of the Zionist entity continue, no one will be able to stand against the Muslims and the resistance forces.
➡️ Those who live in the settlements are not civilians and are mostly armed, so they must be considered combatants.
➡️ The current Zionist entity government must be tried for war crimes.
➡️ Our information indicates that America is the one organizing the current policy within the entity, so it is also responsible for the recent crimes.
➡️ The Zionist bombing of Gaza must stop immediately.
➡️ The Islamic people all around the world are furious because of what is happening in Gaza.
⚡Iran Foreign Ministry Spokesman, Nasser Kanaani: The Zionist entity is about to cross the red line, and the Resistance will give a serious response

💠@Intel Slava Z:
⚡Israel will not begin a ground operation in the Gaza Strip until after Biden’s visit – Der Spiegel
⚡The British newspaper Financial Times claims that Egypt, in response to pressure from the West to host a million refugees from the Gaza Strip, threatened to send them to EU countries.
⚡🇧🇾🇮🇷 Lukashenko: “The West is directing the spearhead of the Middle East conflict against Iran, we must together resist these attacks” [this appears words directed at Iran. Luka would not have spoken for the Union State without coordination with Russia. If the Plan appears to be to attack Syria (I agree), then battle lines are being drawn…]

Egyptian aid trucks and crews are waiting right in front of the Rafah crossing, waiting to get across.

💠@MedManTG: 
⚡Israeli hospitals are ordered to stockpile all necessary food, aid, and supplies, in case of an emergency, that should enable normal operation for four months.
⚡⚡️🇪🇬 A Special Report from the Rafah Border Crossing. Over 100 Trucks, Medical Crews, and Ambulances are waiting right outside the gate until, by the reporters own admission, are cleared by the Egyptian Side. The person being interviewed at 0:45 is the head of the Egyptian Food Bank, who answers several general and specific questions regarding the situation. [ video ]

💠@ejmalrai:
⚡I fear the worse for #Gaza. The #US, #French & #German top leaders visiting #Israel to express solidarity means only 1 outcome: They r preparing to cover #Israel total invasion of the city & r partners in the future genocide. Like in #Ukraine, they will fail & get their ME war. [I agree. These regional tours by western “leaders” are to marshal support for attack on Gaza, and during the process to freeze and weaken the Resistance. A full court press on behalf of Zionism. They want to ESCALATE, not put out the fires of war.]

💠 “Israel army killed its own ‘civilians’ during Hamas operation, says survivor“

So in addition to allowing it to happen by ignoring their own and Egyptian intel (and repositioning 75% of concentration camp guards from Gaza to the West Bank on the fateful weekend), they then hosed down and used their own civvies as human shields to ensure a high-enough body count to drive the cover for Gaza genocide. As in 911 and needing 3000 sacrifices to justify barbarities to come, a similar op was unrolled here in occupied Palestine. 👇👇👇

Pepe War OF Terror 

dear emerson, ours may be a minority opinion holding that the brain or CPU is in City, but note how Steve Bell, under editorial guidance of one of the most VIP media in the Anglosphere, and in Britain too, always drew the US-UK relationship.. so much of truth that remains in the West is in the Arts.

In one, Mad Blair comes out of Bush’s noggin to speak (and lie) for Empire.. in another, Bush, always drawn as a hairy ape, is the standing hired muscle, while the Brit sits and lectures the Iraqi. The real disdain is for the American in each shot, alongside the preposterousness of the Brits (Bell the last Brit who could laugh at his kind?)

Mercouris notes the British Financial Times always voices the US neocon position, and is first to do so, even before US media. Is that maybe reversed? That positions are laid out then enacted across the pond among the colonials returned to the British enclosure?? Truly an upside down wizard of oz empire.

But the great game’s up. Russians have singled out the entire lot by saying Anglo-Saxon, and indicated their first salvo will be directed at City, the eternal unquenchable enemy, and not at the hired muscle. They won’t get away this time. That does confirm where the head of the octopus resides, no??

Ok amigos, onwards then. That was part of my calculus too — use the internet while we still have it. Never commented publicly on internet until summer 2021, now can’t shut up.

trajectory: Hezbollah may be going full-throttle tonight….

From a dispassionate appraisal of the Empire’s zombie-moves, this slow-motion horror-show appears a script being carried out to the bitter dregs. Like Biden saying the “Ruble was rubble” in Poland, contrary to reality. They do not appear over their shock at the turn of fortune. Perhaps the script expected Russia at this point to have been prostrate, demilitarized, and NATO arsenals to be near-full and unconstrained. And Europe without war fatigue and not de-energized or demilitarized, and with mojo intact, that China and the Rest of Humanity would be cowed. Well.. no time for new script. Onwards for Empire too, on Rides that Richard Wagner would know.

💠 Lebanon front:
⚡️ @Slavyangrad: Not a good sign, as intelligence services would say. Canadian Foreign Minister: Canadian citizens should leave Lebanon while commercial flights are still available.
⚡️@Intel Slava Z: Russian Ambassador to Lebanon: “The Embassy advises Russian citizens to postpone travel to Lebanon if possible”
⚡️@Middle East Spectator: Israeli bombing now on border areas in southern Lebanon

💠@Strategika51 :
⚡️Turkish, Egyptian and Qatari officials claim to have no way of contacting the leaders of Palestinian Hamas since they threw away their smartphones as of 07/10/2023. “They no longer use smartphones and we don’t know how to contact them,” says a Turkish official responsible for negotiating the release of Israeli hostages. [This appears PR for three cowards to cover themselves in face of Israeli genocide. There are always indirect ways to contact folks who need to prudently ditch trackable devices]
⚡️ Lloyd Austin, US Secretary of Defense, announces that he has mobilized 2,000 US troops to support a ground operation against Gaza.

Porky in Kiev bunker
⚡️Blinken holed up in a bunker with Netanyahu, the Israeli defense minister and intelligence chiefs. Palestinian missiles landed near the Israeli Defense Ministry headquarters as a war meeting was taking place. [The Ukrainian Poroshenko would understand the mixed feelings..]

💠@Intel Republic:
⚡️Iranian FM Abdollahian announces “in coming hours, there is a real possibility of pre-emptive action by Resistance axis.” As US prepares 2,000 troops to support Israel, Abdollahian warns 🗣 “restraint is not unilateral. You cannot ask Hezbollah to exercise restraint and then tell Netanyahu to commit any crime he wants.” [ video ] [given relentlessness of genocide, total support of West, and slow walking of Rest — who else can come to Gazans’ aid??]

💠@Middle East Spectator:
⚡️[this continues comments on Iranian FM Abdollahian’s presser tonight about pre-emptive action:]  The only real possibility right now of an escalation, is Hezbollah joining the war against Israel.

Talks of Iran joining, or even Syria or Shia militias and houthis, are wishful thinking and 99% won’t happen. Iran sees the militias in Iraq and Syria as an extension of itself, and it won’t use them unless Iran is involved directly in a war. Hezbollah is independent, they make their own decisions, in consultation with Iran and the resistance. They are able to handle themselves and they have the agency and capability to act independently.

[He makes the scenarios clear to enemies. So this appears the graded Resistance Arc’s escalation approach: Hezbollah to open northern front only. Then take stock. If they attack Syria or Iran, then more counter-escalation…]

⚡️Iranian Foreign Minister:
🔹Time is running out, and the resistance has the capability to engage in long-term wars with the enemy
🔹During my meeting with the resistance leaders, they made it clear that they will not allow the Zionist regime to invade Gaza, and to then move on to another resistance front

[remember he just concluded his long week-long regional tour, from Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Qatar (with political Hamas elite), calls to Lavrov and Wang Yi and Saudis and Egyptians…. consensus is not to allow piece-meal attacks by Zionists/West, but to defend together. Sink or swim together]

⚡️The Iranian Foreign Minister basically says that intervention might be necessary, because Hezbollah knows that if Israel invades Gaza, Lebanon will be next on the agenda. It is a matter of Hezbollah’s own survival, and therefore in their own direct interest, to make sure that the Israeli operation in Gaza does not succeed.
⚡️Israeli Media: The only reason we have not invaded Gaza yet is Hezbollah, our leaders are weighing the decision of whether it is worth opening a second front

Worth the first five minute intro through Jerusalem alone.

💠@Strategika51:
⚡️Urgent: The Kremlin says there is a possibility that the conflict could turn into a generalized explosion in the Middle East. This statement comes AFTER telephone exchanges between Russian President Vladimir Putin with Netanyahu, Iranian President Raissi and leaders of Arab countries.
⚡️Colombia: severance of diplomatic relations with Israel and expulsion of the Israeli ambassador in Bogotá. [(!!) this is COLUMBIA, beach-head of Anglo Empire in Latin America…]
⚡️Russian Foreign Ministry: Washington will bear sole responsibility for the ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East.
⚡️Protocol anomaly or end of the world? US Secretary of State Blinken attends Israeli Cabinet war meeting as member… Never seen in any other country!

💠@Intel Republic:
⚡️Israel BOMBS Rafah border crossing AGAIN as HUGE fiery blast knocks wall off the ground. [ video ]  [this was in late afternoon… ignore last part where it says humanitarian evacs took place. None recorded so far..]

💠@Sputnik Africa:
⚡️MSF doctor working in Gaza says UK anti-terrorism police visited his home in absence. A Doctors Without Borders (MSF) surgeon, Ghassan Abu Sitta, working at Shifa Hospital in Gaza, said that the UK counter terrorism police had taken an interest in him after his account of the “catastrophic” situation in Gaza had been published by UK media. “British counter terrorism police has showed up at my house in the UK and harassed my family,” the surgeon wrote on X.