This is an excellent analysis... except that calling the Ukrainian regime “Nazi” is nuts. I am also not as sure as you are that Russia is going to win. You betray here an irrationality which is saddening.
Did you hear Mercouris and Diesen interview Alastair Crooke on the Duran, October 11? I think we must consider whether Netanyahu's opponents, who Crooke says are significant in the Israeli military and intelligence community, allowed the Hamas attacks to happen. You and others (including Mercouris in his solo video today, October 12) argue convincingly that the urban warfare in Gaza that Netanyahu is promising but has not yet initiated simply will not work out for him or for his society, not to mention for the many immediate victims of such an operation. That seems to me knowable.
I think it's possible that the Israeli "establishment", by which I mean Netanyahu's opponents, well understand the implications of the geopolitical developments of late, and they feel that they have to get rid of Netanyahu, stop the third-temple movement, and do some big-time negotiating with BRICS countries before their whole project unravels once and for all.
I don't think Netanyahu would have or did participate in allowing Hamas to break out and head south. In light of the schism in Israel that Crooke talks about, I'm not sure that Netanyahu has the power over the military and intelligence people to make it happen even if he wanted to. But I find Ritter's explanation far too complicated. Too clever by much more than half. Israel probably doesn't have the men or the social will to go into Gaza for a "long war", but they do have the surveillance prowess to anticipate this kind of thing.
I think before long we might see the BRICS group impose a solution to the Palestinian problem. Their approach will be respectable in that they will not set Israel up for destruction. There are some out-there theories about Ukraine that you are undoubtedly aware of. For example, Richard Cook in his recent conversation with Kevin Barrett. I don't totally rule out that some remainder of a Ukrainian state will be available as a refuge for Israeli Jews who don't trust the results of an imposed solution. Such a Ukrainian remainder would be under Russian supervision, not western. That whole idea is a bit of a long shot, but I don't rule it out.
The global circumstances now are massively complex, and the masterminds who run their parts of the world are thinking hard to figure out what's happening and what's possible. I am not one of them and am just giving it a shot here!
Outstanding essay. This event is obviously going to be used as a pretext for the surveillance of and denying the civil liberties of Muslims in Europe and the US under the guise of safety and allaying fear. The fact of the recent massive immigration into Europe and the US of Muslims from all over the world will increase the visibility of this population and thus the fear of the Christians and Jews. This tightening of the noose of authoritarianism will be celebrated by those who only last week were decrying it; all it took was pushing the right Israel propaganda buttons to make those who considered themselves "dissidents" fall right in line, completely unable to see the irony of their own manipulation.
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
This is an excellent analysis... except that calling the Ukrainian regime “Nazi” is nuts. I am also not as sure as you are that Russia is going to win. You betray here an irrationality which is saddening.
Exceptional. Sobering. By far most indepth overview and analysis I read.
Ingasz: Great article, as many of yours are.
Did you hear Mercouris and Diesen interview Alastair Crooke on the Duran, October 11? I think we must consider whether Netanyahu's opponents, who Crooke says are significant in the Israeli military and intelligence community, allowed the Hamas attacks to happen. You and others (including Mercouris in his solo video today, October 12) argue convincingly that the urban warfare in Gaza that Netanyahu is promising but has not yet initiated simply will not work out for him or for his society, not to mention for the many immediate victims of such an operation. That seems to me knowable.
I think it's possible that the Israeli "establishment", by which I mean Netanyahu's opponents, well understand the implications of the geopolitical developments of late, and they feel that they have to get rid of Netanyahu, stop the third-temple movement, and do some big-time negotiating with BRICS countries before their whole project unravels once and for all.
I don't think Netanyahu would have or did participate in allowing Hamas to break out and head south. In light of the schism in Israel that Crooke talks about, I'm not sure that Netanyahu has the power over the military and intelligence people to make it happen even if he wanted to. But I find Ritter's explanation far too complicated. Too clever by much more than half. Israel probably doesn't have the men or the social will to go into Gaza for a "long war", but they do have the surveillance prowess to anticipate this kind of thing.
I think before long we might see the BRICS group impose a solution to the Palestinian problem. Their approach will be respectable in that they will not set Israel up for destruction. There are some out-there theories about Ukraine that you are undoubtedly aware of. For example, Richard Cook in his recent conversation with Kevin Barrett. I don't totally rule out that some remainder of a Ukrainian state will be available as a refuge for Israeli Jews who don't trust the results of an imposed solution. Such a Ukrainian remainder would be under Russian supervision, not western. That whole idea is a bit of a long shot, but I don't rule it out.
The global circumstances now are massively complex, and the masterminds who run their parts of the world are thinking hard to figure out what's happening and what's possible. I am not one of them and am just giving it a shot here!
Outstanding essay. This event is obviously going to be used as a pretext for the surveillance of and denying the civil liberties of Muslims in Europe and the US under the guise of safety and allaying fear. The fact of the recent massive immigration into Europe and the US of Muslims from all over the world will increase the visibility of this population and thus the fear of the Christians and Jews. This tightening of the noose of authoritarianism will be celebrated by those who only last week were decrying it; all it took was pushing the right Israel propaganda buttons to make those who considered themselves "dissidents" fall right in line, completely unable to see the irony of their own manipulation.
“I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.”
- Abraham Lincoln (just before his assassination)
Ignasz, Mike is right. You wrote a superb article. You're as long and detailed as Simplicius the Thinker with as many videos as he.
I'm grateful to Mike for the introduction.