@joe shikspack

Much is made of western leadership(including Israel) being out of touch with reality. What about online sources and those who support any resistance against the Empire?

Were we not led to believe Hizbollah missiles were so advanced since 2006 that they could shut down Israel on their own? They couldn't even shut down the Israeli air fields! Thus we got the "escalation excuse" stringing us further along that Hizbollah can do so much more if they want to.

It's the same deal with Iran. They could destroy Israel with conventional weapons if they want to...yet they never seem to want to. They could bring western economies to their knees by cutting off the oil...but they never even did that!

Just look at the scorecard: thousands of dead Palestinians, thousands of dead Lebanese, entire Hizbollah leadership wiped out and numerous Iranian leaders assassinated.

What price has Israel paid? The war criminal leadership still alive and well. For the most part it is business as usual if Haifa and Tel Aviv. Yes Hizbollah and Iran are not targeting civilians. Is that really smart when the other side is running a terror campaign? And what exactly is civilian about the West Bank settlements? These are the biggest supporters of the genocidal policies of Israel. West Bank Palestinians are attacked each day. The settlers still have their nice comfortable homes to go back to each night.

We get the same narrative about Ansar Allah. They could sink US navy ships any time they really want to. How many have they sunk so far?

I'm not saying the experts we are listening to online are wrong. Maybe it is a war of attrition and Israel falls in the long run. They are intelligent men and everything they say could be right. Yet their basis for Israel losing is entirely speculative. They are, I suspect, guilty of their own bias and are telling their audience what they want to hear.

However the conclusion I must reach is that the Resistance is afraid to go to all out war. It's a war of attrition because that's all they have the courage to attempt. Until Putin strikes NATO outside Ukraine the exact same accusation applies to the Russians. This behavior simply encourages Israel/USA to use more violence - because they are not paying any price that really hurts them.

It's a shame the Iranians/Russians couldn't have gone after the West's Ponzi scheme economy and shocked the whole thing into immediate collapse. That is the only way you stop this endless warmongering.

The domestic analogy I'd use(and it really applies to Putin who is so pro-West) is this is an abusive marriage. The BRICs are trying to end it but they don't want to really upset the abusive West in the process.

I may be guilty of being too emotional, however with the Gaza Holocaust still ongoing I'll forgive myself. I'd like to see WW3 now and western "civilisation" get exactly what it deserves. I might be guilty of wishful thinking but I can't help but wonder that if the Resistance really pushed back on the West, on all fronts, the USA would suddenly look like Russia in 1905.

I'm complaining, yet in a way I'm not. I've got a very high quality of life and the status quo suits me fine personally. But I am finding all that Palestinian, Lebanese and Russian blood on my hands difficult to ignore.

Posted by: EoinW | Nov 28 2024 11:54 utc | 20

Russia was/is still selling us gas even after all the sanctions. Russian gas is still going to Europe. Same thing with Iran. They could have damaged the global economy while still selling gas to China… Hezbollah took forever to start really hitting targets in Israel and the same with Iran not actually doing any damage on their hits to Israel. And they still haven’t hit Israel back for their bombing. Israel committed 2 acts of war on Iran, but they did nothing after Israel bombed their embassy in Syria. And if Russia gave Syria AD why don’t they let them use it?

People who have been calling out the Rona scam for 4 years were predicting that the globalists next step would be global war and here we have been for the last couple of years having wars expanding in many places. But the only people actually doing the heavy dying are the Palestinians and now the Lebanese. And add in the Syrians because Israel is free to target them. And no one is trying to stop the deaths and destruction. The UN has been neutered by Israel/America doing whatever the hell they want.

Too much just doesn’t make sense.

Can anyone explain this global shitshow to me?

#5.1.1

i don't understand it either. i surmise that the u.s. and other western powers have successfully played the divide and conquer game and played to the corrupt natures of many of the region's governments.