Russia is bombing the Ukraine power system into oblivion, and in the middle of winter, which means that none of the people in the cities will have lights, heat, emergency services, working phones and so on. Cell phones have to be charged, you can’t do that without power.
Finally, the US has given Ukraine permission to send bomb drones deep into Russia. The US can tell Ukraine what to do because the country would already be lost without our weapons and naturally, I’m wondering where those long-range drones are coming from. Us, of course, but nobody is saying so. Meanwhile it’s only another week or so before Patriot missile systems are deployed in Ukraine and manned by American military.
The Russians are very unhappy knowing that soon, they will be getting bombed too, and are making threats of nuclear destruction again. I have a much better idea, that would improve their general welfare and quality of life. Get the fuck out of Ukraine. Then, like MAGIC, no war, no death, no chance of them getting nuked into a lifeless, sterile, radioactive wasteland.
But until they figure that out, the war will continue to escalate and it could get really messy over there unless some of Putin’s generals are smarter than he is and they retire him before he starts sending nukes over here.
In other happy, cheerful Holiday Season news, Iran and Israel are steadily getting closer to all-out war, the latest word being that Israel believes Iran is smuggling weapons on civilian airliners into Lebanon for the Hezbollah and is threatening to bomb Beirut Airport if they have enough proof. The Hezbollah are a terrorist wing of Iran who threaten Israel from the north while Iran threatens them from the south.
Bombing the airport may not initiate a full-on war between them but it could, at the least it will certainly result in some nasty retaliation from Iran that Israel will not ignore in turn.
Why this matters is that such a war would raise holy hell with oil shipping, and disrupt global commerce much more than it already is. Besides, Iran wants a big war with lots of dead people because of their insane religious beliefs, and are certain to goad Israel as much as they can to use a nuclear weapon, and the obvious way to do that is to hit Israel with a big Dirty Bomb that spreads radiation everywhere and kills lots of people.
2023 may dawn brightly. Like, with big, bright flashes of light. Or it may not. But it sure is fun waiting to find out what all the Elite Assholes are going to do to the rest of us, isn’t it?