While you're about it, I suggest we all declare our own time zones & geographic coordinate system. No reason to accept someone else's space time coordinates!
The Israelis have a name for it: Mowing the Grass. They've been doing it for more than a decade now (reported on page 18 if anyone noticed) but the primary turf for Israel was merely Gaza, which is 1/10th the size of Rhode Island -- and even there Hamas springs back to life no matter how severe the cut. Now the US and Israel fantasize perpetually "mowing the grass" throughout the entire Muslim Middle East, a land mass roughly equivalent to the US itself and home to 6% of the world's population, none of whom want to be ruled by Zionists and Christians, or the West's lousiest gangsters (they have their own people for that.)..
It's not going to work and trying to make it work risks destroying all of the West along with all of the Middle East.
my father used to mutter in a grim voice between long stints at Bells Labs, eyes transfixed to our small cathode ray television in our linoleum floored "rec room," that WWIII would be fought in the Middle East over oil. he wasn't wrong. he didn't view US imperialism as a necessary factor.
mind you, it was the 70s and fairly easy to ignore, and for a Jewish astrophysicist educated in England who believed he was on the side of good, the perks of that era made it especially so.
were he alive today, he might identify Israel and the US as aggressors who have destroyed the post-1945 international order.
Obama no doubt tried to temper what he knew was a likely fate.
Can we talk about how Lindsey Graham openly works with Israel and pledges to be with Israel until "OUR dying day"? He has so much power in this Administration and he pledges that he will allow America to die in Israel's support.
The world war you describe is right out of Orwell’s 1984. Perpetual war that is used to justify economic deprivation and a boot-stomping surveillance police state with no democracy at home. The only bright spot is the “quiet revolution” you’ve mentioned.
What WW2 premiered that is now the norm is wholesale slaughter of civilians. Gaza is of course the outstanding example with Israel trying to cover its atrocities by claiming it was going after HAMAS. The widespread terror in the West Bank shows that HAMAS has nothing to do with what Israel is after, the land free of the natives, the goal of Israel from its creation in 1948.
The Gulf War of 1991 showed clearly that massing troops condemns them to slaughter. The IDF can be massed because there is no opposition with air power and armor, let alone nuclear weapons.
As for the significance of this war for no reason but Israel, that is THE thing now up in neon lights. Rejection of Israel is starting to roll in the US and can only pick up momentum as every citizen can see we are spending a fortune, upending stability in many ways that hurts the American people, let alone the rest of the world. Most of all, we are spilling the blood of those who pledge allegiance to liberty and justice for all to protect ethnic supremacy.
All who died for the Union in the Civil War are turning in their graves. All who lost their lives, not least MLKJ, in the Civil Rights Movement are turning as well. The very conscience of America is being slapped in the face for a fanatic project that takes pride in killing and doesn't hesitate to stick the label of antisemite on all who question it.
The apocryphal phrase supposedly used by some Japanese officer at the start of WW2 was that the attack on Pearl Harbor had "awakened a sleeping giant". What could be said now regarding Israel's atrocious behavior is that it has "awakened a hypnotized giant" that it has had in complete service to it for decades.
The Trump administration is the last desperate effort for white supremacy in the US. In this Zionists find ready company and as we see now, support to the point of undermining the US. The course for Iran is not military as it can't compare (borrowing from the Ayatollah Khomeini) to the Great War Machine and the Little War Machine acting in concert. All it need do, at a high price in lives, is to refuse to surrender.
This will be intolerable to Israel because Iran can still get a nuclear weapon as long as it is sovereign. This only underlines the idiocy of what Trump has done. The irony is of little military power prevailing against unlimited destructive might. The US is so militarily overweight that it can't sustain its forces indefinitely. Iran might fold but given its physical size and population this is hardly likely as tiny Vietnam held out and the incredible Palestinians still stand defiant though being killed with impunity in the tiniest amount of land one can imagine. Israel is 4 times the size of what is left to the Palestinians. Iran is 80 times the size of Israel. The entire American and Israeli armies combined on the ground in Iran could not force surrender.
Beyond this "8 front war" of which Netanyahu boasts, Israel will not be able to sustain the impossible project of "living by the sword" as the made-in-America sword is withdrawn. Even the Israeli Merkava tank is made in the US as is the entire fighter/bomber component of the IAF. Zionism is and always has been a terrible project, not necessary as the US is a safe home for Jews, though Israel threatens that, but it has inflated in power to an astounding amount. Coming now is the air being let out of it to the relief of the world. A tiny country of 8 million people became effectively the world's only superpower by political and financial manipulation of the US. Historians will read the account of it with astonishment.
And then there is also NATO's war with Russia. Don't forget that Europe is in this thing too. And Russia and China are both actively helping Iran. It's not just happening in the Middle East.
I'm sorry I had to stop reading and comment on the "technical prediction" comment... before I go any further, was that sarcasm? Related to the tomahawk that obliterated an all girls school?
You might want to check, I'm pretty sure the first thing that happened was the school getting hit. Only later came the assassination of Khamenei. Neither one of these things "started the whole thing."
Thanks for your excellent reporting, as always! I especially appreciate your recognition of what is happening, despite the refusal of corporate news sources to accurately name what we are all witnessing.
I wrote a piece last Friday observing the onset of the Third World War, and the disturbing complicity of European countries that, mere months ago, were quite willing to recognize Trump’s belligerence when it was Greenland he was threatening. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/welcome-to-world-war-iii
I published another piece yesterday reflecting on the equally disturbing abdication by Congress of its war making power, allowing Trump’s unrestrained militarism to spread across the world. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/hurtling-into-the-abyss
It’s important to lay blame at the feet not only of a maniacal president serving as Netanyahu’s attack dog, but also the various forces that continue to enable and empower them both—including bipartisan corruption (ie Democrats) in Washington, and European “allies” that appear all too willing to let America drag the world into preventable catastrophic conflict.
I declared today Saturday, fuck it at this point
lol
While you're about it, I suggest we all declare our own time zones & geographic coordinate system. No reason to accept someone else's space time coordinates!
I strongly support this message and declare it as fact globally lol
Same people who admonished Zelensky in front of the entire world, saying that he would start WW3. Smh...
The Israelis have a name for it: Mowing the Grass. They've been doing it for more than a decade now (reported on page 18 if anyone noticed) but the primary turf for Israel was merely Gaza, which is 1/10th the size of Rhode Island -- and even there Hamas springs back to life no matter how severe the cut. Now the US and Israel fantasize perpetually "mowing the grass" throughout the entire Muslim Middle East, a land mass roughly equivalent to the US itself and home to 6% of the world's population, none of whom want to be ruled by Zionists and Christians, or the West's lousiest gangsters (they have their own people for that.)..
It's not going to work and trying to make it work risks destroying all of the West along with all of the Middle East.
Another perceptive and informative piece.
hey thanks Billy!
You and the other independents are doing some heavy lifting.
my father used to mutter in a grim voice between long stints at Bells Labs, eyes transfixed to our small cathode ray television in our linoleum floored "rec room," that WWIII would be fought in the Middle East over oil. he wasn't wrong. he didn't view US imperialism as a necessary factor.
mind you, it was the 70s and fairly easy to ignore, and for a Jewish astrophysicist educated in England who believed he was on the side of good, the perks of that era made it especially so.
were he alive today, he might identify Israel and the US as aggressors who have destroyed the post-1945 international order.
Obama no doubt tried to temper what he knew was a likely fate.
World war 3 or World War V; these guys treat American lives like they’re playing a video game!
Unfortunately, we can’t wake up from this nightmare; it’s our new reality!
Can we talk about how Lindsey Graham openly works with Israel and pledges to be with Israel until "OUR dying day"? He has so much power in this Administration and he pledges that he will allow America to die in Israel's support.
That one went over my head along with my ability to spell
The world war you describe is right out of Orwell’s 1984. Perpetual war that is used to justify economic deprivation and a boot-stomping surveillance police state with no democracy at home. The only bright spot is the “quiet revolution” you’ve mentioned.
Ken, did you intentionally leave out the fact that Iran has had core parts of civilian infrastructure as well as a school attacked since Feb 28?
this is not a comprehensive list!
Unfortunately it's viewed as existential for all three. And two lunatics in two of the countries have access to the red button.
What WW2 premiered that is now the norm is wholesale slaughter of civilians. Gaza is of course the outstanding example with Israel trying to cover its atrocities by claiming it was going after HAMAS. The widespread terror in the West Bank shows that HAMAS has nothing to do with what Israel is after, the land free of the natives, the goal of Israel from its creation in 1948.
The Gulf War of 1991 showed clearly that massing troops condemns them to slaughter. The IDF can be massed because there is no opposition with air power and armor, let alone nuclear weapons.
As for the significance of this war for no reason but Israel, that is THE thing now up in neon lights. Rejection of Israel is starting to roll in the US and can only pick up momentum as every citizen can see we are spending a fortune, upending stability in many ways that hurts the American people, let alone the rest of the world. Most of all, we are spilling the blood of those who pledge allegiance to liberty and justice for all to protect ethnic supremacy.
All who died for the Union in the Civil War are turning in their graves. All who lost their lives, not least MLKJ, in the Civil Rights Movement are turning as well. The very conscience of America is being slapped in the face for a fanatic project that takes pride in killing and doesn't hesitate to stick the label of antisemite on all who question it.
The apocryphal phrase supposedly used by some Japanese officer at the start of WW2 was that the attack on Pearl Harbor had "awakened a sleeping giant". What could be said now regarding Israel's atrocious behavior is that it has "awakened a hypnotized giant" that it has had in complete service to it for decades.
The Trump administration is the last desperate effort for white supremacy in the US. In this Zionists find ready company and as we see now, support to the point of undermining the US. The course for Iran is not military as it can't compare (borrowing from the Ayatollah Khomeini) to the Great War Machine and the Little War Machine acting in concert. All it need do, at a high price in lives, is to refuse to surrender.
This will be intolerable to Israel because Iran can still get a nuclear weapon as long as it is sovereign. This only underlines the idiocy of what Trump has done. The irony is of little military power prevailing against unlimited destructive might. The US is so militarily overweight that it can't sustain its forces indefinitely. Iran might fold but given its physical size and population this is hardly likely as tiny Vietnam held out and the incredible Palestinians still stand defiant though being killed with impunity in the tiniest amount of land one can imagine. Israel is 4 times the size of what is left to the Palestinians. Iran is 80 times the size of Israel. The entire American and Israeli armies combined on the ground in Iran could not force surrender.
Beyond this "8 front war" of which Netanyahu boasts, Israel will not be able to sustain the impossible project of "living by the sword" as the made-in-America sword is withdrawn. Even the Israeli Merkava tank is made in the US as is the entire fighter/bomber component of the IAF. Zionism is and always has been a terrible project, not necessary as the US is a safe home for Jews, though Israel threatens that, but it has inflated in power to an astounding amount. Coming now is the air being let out of it to the relief of the world. A tiny country of 8 million people became effectively the world's only superpower by political and financial manipulation of the US. Historians will read the account of it with astonishment.
And then there is also NATO's war with Russia. Don't forget that Europe is in this thing too. And Russia and China are both actively helping Iran. It's not just happening in the Middle East.
I'm sorry I had to stop reading and comment on the "technical prediction" comment... before I go any further, was that sarcasm? Related to the tomahawk that obliterated an all girls school?
It's a reference to the mainstream media's awe at the operation that started this whole thing: the killing of Khamenei
You might want to check, I'm pretty sure the first thing that happened was the school getting hit. Only later came the assassination of Khamenei. Neither one of these things "started the whole thing."
Thanks for your excellent reporting, as always! I especially appreciate your recognition of what is happening, despite the refusal of corporate news sources to accurately name what we are all witnessing.
I wrote a piece last Friday observing the onset of the Third World War, and the disturbing complicity of European countries that, mere months ago, were quite willing to recognize Trump’s belligerence when it was Greenland he was threatening. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/welcome-to-world-war-iii
I published another piece yesterday reflecting on the equally disturbing abdication by Congress of its war making power, allowing Trump’s unrestrained militarism to spread across the world. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/hurtling-into-the-abyss
It’s important to lay blame at the feet not only of a maniacal president serving as Netanyahu’s attack dog, but also the various forces that continue to enable and empower them both—including bipartisan corruption (ie Democrats) in Washington, and European “allies” that appear all too willing to let America drag the world into preventable catastrophic conflict.
what is "central belligerent?"
As in, the party doing the majority of the fighting