Re: Generational Dynamics World View News
Posted: Thu Dec 28, 2023 2:50 pm
** 28-Dec-2023 World View: Mideast war escalates
It is becoming increasingly clear that
the Mideast war is being directed by
Iran, which supplies the weapons and the
funding. Iran would like to further
humiliate America, which it is already
doing by supplying Russia with drones
for use in Ukraine.
Iran has made dozens of attacks on
American assets. These attacks are made
through Iranian proxies -- Hezbollah (in
Lebanon), Kataib Hezbollah (in Iraq),
the Houthis (in Yemen) and the
Palestinian Authority.
Over 100 of these attacks have been on
targets in Syria and Iraq. However,
there's been a major escalation by
Houthi drones attacking commercial
shipping in the Red Sea. These attacks
have been coordinated by an Iranian ship
in the Red Sea providing targeting
information to the Houthis. According
to one report on tv, American missiles
have shot down 15 of these drones in
just the last 24 hours, before they
could do any damage. An American
missile costs $3 million, while an
Iranian drone supplied to Yemen costs
only $300,000, so this is not
sustainable.
The Biden administration could stop
these attacks by striking the drone
sites in Yemen and the IRGC assets
within Iran (which is what Trump would
have done by now), but refuses to do so
for fear of inciting a wider Mideast
war, which is happening anyway, and
because they have the delusional belief
that they can restablish the JCPOA that
Obama created and Trump quashed.
Instead, the Biden administration has
provided tens of billions of dollars to
Iran mostly in the form of sanctions
relief. Iran has used these funds to
launch and support the Mideast war.
The war between Israel and Hezbollah, on
Israel's border with Lebanon, has
reportedly gotten much worse in the last
few days. The 2006 war between Israel
and Hezbollah was devastating to
Lebanon's infrastructure, and most of
the Lebanese do not want a repeat.
The war between Israel and Hamas has
badly split the Democrat party in
America, with large factions of the
Democrats supporting Israel, and large
factions supporting Hamas. The
pro-Hamas factions are anti-American and
are allied with Soros and China, and
have historical roots in the Confederacy
which tried to destroy the Union in the
American Civil War.
There's nothing funny about what's going
on in the Mideast, but there is one
amusingly ironic story that came up in
the last couple of days.
Iran and Hamas have been having a
disagreement on who is responsible for
Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7.
Up until now, Iran has claimed that it
had nothing to do with the attack. But
now, suddenly, Iran has done a U-turn,
and is claiming that it, not Hamas, is
responsible for the attack. Hamas
disagrees, saying that it, not Iran, was
entirely responsible. This is all based
on televised news reports.
One more thing. A military analyst on
tv this morning said that Iran was very
close now to building a nuclear weapon,
and what he's afraid of is that they'll
complete it next year, and become an
"official" nuclear power. Then, even if
Trump becomes president again, he won't
be able to do anything about Iran as an
established nuclear power.
It is becoming increasingly clear that
the Mideast war is being directed by
Iran, which supplies the weapons and the
funding. Iran would like to further
humiliate America, which it is already
doing by supplying Russia with drones
for use in Ukraine.
Iran has made dozens of attacks on
American assets. These attacks are made
through Iranian proxies -- Hezbollah (in
Lebanon), Kataib Hezbollah (in Iraq),
the Houthis (in Yemen) and the
Palestinian Authority.
Over 100 of these attacks have been on
targets in Syria and Iraq. However,
there's been a major escalation by
Houthi drones attacking commercial
shipping in the Red Sea. These attacks
have been coordinated by an Iranian ship
in the Red Sea providing targeting
information to the Houthis. According
to one report on tv, American missiles
have shot down 15 of these drones in
just the last 24 hours, before they
could do any damage. An American
missile costs $3 million, while an
Iranian drone supplied to Yemen costs
only $300,000, so this is not
sustainable.
The Biden administration could stop
these attacks by striking the drone
sites in Yemen and the IRGC assets
within Iran (which is what Trump would
have done by now), but refuses to do so
for fear of inciting a wider Mideast
war, which is happening anyway, and
because they have the delusional belief
that they can restablish the JCPOA that
Obama created and Trump quashed.
Instead, the Biden administration has
provided tens of billions of dollars to
Iran mostly in the form of sanctions
relief. Iran has used these funds to
launch and support the Mideast war.
The war between Israel and Hezbollah, on
Israel's border with Lebanon, has
reportedly gotten much worse in the last
few days. The 2006 war between Israel
and Hezbollah was devastating to
Lebanon's infrastructure, and most of
the Lebanese do not want a repeat.
The war between Israel and Hamas has
badly split the Democrat party in
America, with large factions of the
Democrats supporting Israel, and large
factions supporting Hamas. The
pro-Hamas factions are anti-American and
are allied with Soros and China, and
have historical roots in the Confederacy
which tried to destroy the Union in the
American Civil War.
There's nothing funny about what's going
on in the Mideast, but there is one
amusingly ironic story that came up in
the last couple of days.
Iran and Hamas have been having a
disagreement on who is responsible for
Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7.
Up until now, Iran has claimed that it
had nothing to do with the attack. But
now, suddenly, Iran has done a U-turn,
and is claiming that it, not Hamas, is
responsible for the attack. Hamas
disagrees, saying that it, not Iran, was
entirely responsible. This is all based
on televised news reports.
One more thing. A military analyst on
tv this morning said that Iran was very
close now to building a nuclear weapon,
and what he's afraid of is that they'll
complete it next year, and become an
"official" nuclear power. Then, even if
Trump becomes president again, he won't
be able to do anything about Iran as an
established nuclear power.