Looking back on Israel’s continuing war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip and all the uproar over the US withholding of certain munitions shipments to Israel, it doesn’t appear that they actually suffered from any shortages at all and still don’t. The conflict in Gaza is being conducted “business as usual”, and when Hezbollah in Lebanon got into the fray they were quickly and soundly defeated and rushed to the bargaining table for a cease-fire.
Even as all that was going on, Israel was able to launch a devastating attack on Iran’s missile production facilities and do the same in Syria. So plainly, Israel was not lacking in munitions and still isn’t.
What the supposed “withholding of shipments” did do was give more confidence to Israel’s enemies, who then grew bold enough to attack Israel and who then got flattened for their trouble. Could it be that all that uproar over withheld shipments and the US trying to stifle Israel’s war efforts, was a trick to lure in their enemies by making Israel look weak? Because the result is a dramatic change in the Middle East that’s still ongoing. We have yet to see the end of it with Iran, Syria and Lebanon.
The war between Russia and Ukraine still drags on, and started because of all the proactive efforts to bring Ukraine into NATO. This would allow the deployment of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, aimed at Russia, of course, which is why Putin invaded. It was clear at the time that bringing Ukraine into NATO would precipitate this conflict, so why was it pushed?
Look at the results for the answer to that. Russia’s conducting a grinding war that’s draining all their resources and they can’t keep this up forever, after they allied with China, which so far has done little, if anything, to aid them. Instead, the war has halted a lot of farm production that China would love to buy but now can’t. So was Putin conned into attacking Ukraine? Maybe, huh?
It’s such a common tactic. The US public didn’t want anything to do with Germany and Japan when they were launching their wars, they wanted to stay out of it and did until, strangely, the radar operator in Honolulu failed to report all the aircraft approaching the island, even though they were on alert for a Japanese attack.
US intelligence services were fully aware that a bunch of Saudis were setting up an attack on the Twin Towers, yet somehow failed to get the message until after they were struck, so instead of attacking Saudi Arabia, they went to war with Iraq for the oil and Afghanistan for the profits from munitions production.
Government is a shell game. It’s all about misdirection. When you think that little pea is under one of those three shells, it’s actually in the con man’s hand.
Happy Birthday, Sir!
Thank you, and thanks for your email with all those Happy Birthday .jpgs. It was a fun surprise.