The US revives the venerable old tradition of the religious war
The official US war doctrine is based on religion, ie, two extreme distortions of the Bible, on the Jewish side (Old Testament) and the Evangelical side (“Christian” Zionism), respectively.
The official US-Israel war doctrine and foreign policy is based on religion, ie, two extreme distortions of the Bible, on the Jewish side (Old Testament, or Tanakh) and the Evangelical side (“Christian” Zionism), respectively, which complement each other.
(Your daily air strike update follows below this article)
Briefly, on the Jewish side, the Zionists, who are in fact non-religious in their beliefs regarding morality, have seized upon the Old Testament idea that “God gave us the land,” which they spout ad nauseam when defending their criminal policies against the Palestinians.
And on the Evangelical side, the “Christian” Zionists believe that they must support Israel whole-heartedly in order to inherit the Kingdom of God and to avoid hell fire in the afterlife. This is based on the Old Testament God’s statement that whoever blesses Father Abraham will be blessed and whoever curses him will be cursed. In this context, it is generally understood that God was referring to the children of Israel, not just to Abraham.
The main problem is that the people calling themselves “Jews” today have a rather tenuous claim to a Hebrew heritage since the DNA samples analyzed by researchers are so disparate from one group to another that one cannot speak of a uniform genome representing any sort of ethnic group. In particular, the theory of Jews having descended from a common ancestor, ie, the Biblical Abraham, is essentially out of the question. Therefore, both the Jewish and “Christian” Zionists fail to prove any claim by today’s self-proclaimed “Jews” to land given by God to Abraham and his descendants. (And you can’t call this claim anti-Semitic because there is precious little Semitic DNA in the group that calls itself Jews.)
Thus, astoundingly, US-waged wars, motivated by a desire to defend Israel, are devoid of any demonstrable Biblical support and are based on pseudo-religious grounds, just like the religious wars of the Middle Ages, such as the Crusades, and have no place in the modern world.
Further, like the medieval wars, they are waged from the “Christian” side using the most barbaric methods imaginable, to the extent that the ICJ has admitted that a charge of genocide against US-backed Israel is plausible – and hence, that charge would necessarily be applicable to the US, which has wholeheartedly supported this genocide. (BTW, S. Africa is also planning to sue US and UK for their support to the genocide).
It was to be expected that any war based on religion (or pseudo-religion) instead of on reason, logic and facts, would wind up with most of the world gasping in horror and protesting vigorously. The Crusades were a model of this kind of irrational war, but, as with any war that is debated in a reason/logic vacuum, we can’t expect the supporters to be reasonable or logical, now can we?
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Here’s your daily air strike update for Feb 22, 2024
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Missile strikes on Ukraine were carried out on the night of February 22, 2024: data on explosions
02.22.2024
Missile strikes on Ukraine were carried out on the night of February 22, 2024: data on explosions were issued. An air raid alert was announced in several regions of Ukraine on the night of Thursday, February 22. At the same time, messages about powerful explosions appeared in Telegram channels. It is clarified that the Russian Armed Forces used high-precision missiles.
Several explosions were recorded in the Poltava and Odessa oblasts of Ukraine. RBC writes about this with reference to the Ukrainian press.
Data on explosions in the Poltava oblast were confirmed by the head of the local regional military administration, Philip Pronin. He wrote on the Telegram channel that loud sounds were heard in the Mirgorod [Myrhorod in Ukrainian] region. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties or damage, he added.
In turn, Channel 24 reports about explosions directly in the city of Mirgorod itself. However, no details have been provided yet. [The name Mirogorod, location of a Ukrainian airbase, frequently appears in air strike reports]
At night and in the morning, air raid signals also sounded in the Dnepropetrovsk, Kirovograd, Nikolaev, Sumy and Kharkov oblasts. The signals lasted from an hour to three and a half hours.
At the same time, yesterday, an air raid alert was announced throughout Ukraine. Sirens sounded at 12:11 local time (13:11 Moscow time) in Kyiv. Four minutes later, the red zone spread to all regions of the country.
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German officials skating on thin ice with Russophobic declarations
I don’t make predictions, but I do sometimes issue warnings.
Warning to German Russophobes:
Russia has hinted that it might be forced to attack NATO countries in the event its territory is attacked.
Well, now the Bundestag has passed a resolution (see below) to send Taurus missiles to Kiev. The Taurus is a long-range missile that can strike deep inside Russia if fired from Ukraine.
German officials have stated outright that they are interested in having Kiev destroy Russian territory with their Wunderwaffe missile. Perhaps they are unaware that the Russian military doctrine allows Russia to respond to any strikes on its territory using nuclear weapons.
More likely, though, they are under the delusion that NATO is omnipotent. I suppose the drastic decline in German industrial power has not yet been noticed among the political class. There’s no light at the end of that tunnel, however.
Since the German intent is clear, this new resolution could easily be construed as a direct attack on Russia by Germany – its old nemesis, which killed 27 million Russians in WW II!
If Russia considers this resolution to be a direct attack on Russia, Germany could well head a list of enemy countries that might be hit by a retaliatory strike from Russia. If I were a Russian war planner, I would likely put Germany at the top of a list of countries deserving of retaliation. Nuclear retaliation.
And in the event Russia did decide to retaliate against Germany, Russia would no doubt nuke the NATO Ramstein base and use conventional weapons to hit the Bundestag and might use a tactical nuke to flatten the Rheinmetall weapons plant that plans to manufacture weapons for Ukraine, and a number of other military-related facilities.
Of course, if Russia went that far, it would also have to prepare for WW III. Russia is smart enough to know better.
But is Germany?
https://ria.ru/20240107/nemtsy-1920007172.html?ysclid=lsxfk5svha360152033
“The time has come”: the Germans remembered history after calls for attacks on Russia
MOSCOW, January 7 – RIA Novosti. Readers of the German publication Die Welt criticized the call of Bundestag deputies to supply Taurus cruise missiles to Ukraine.
Earlier, MPs Sarah Nanni (Greens), Roderich Kiesewetter (CDU) and Marie-Agnes Strack-Zimmermann (FDP) called on German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to transfer Taurus cruise missiles to Kyiv. In addition, Nanni and Kiesewetter openly declared the need to strike at Russia.
“Impossible”: Germany announced the failure of Zelensky’s plan
January 5, 14:24
"Miracle weapons and successful counter-offensives. This reminds me of something," wrote Gido B.
“This is not our war. Or do the current parties want a direct war with Russia in the interests of the USA and Great Britain?” — Jazek R wondered.
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“Weapons do not create peace!!! As far as I know, there is not a single documented case in history. Madness must end,” Andreas A urged.
“Oh yes, Ukraine must spend several more billions, and even more poor people must lose their lives,” complained Ingeborg G.
"The missile attack on the Palace Hotel in Kharkov was a serious blow to NATO personnel in Ukraine. Now the transatlantics need the next stage of escalation. Until now, we have constantly heard from them: what else can the Russians do, their forces are already running out. And the Russians after each new supply of weapons is being dealt more and more severe blows,” warned Tomi F. [If this is an accurate translation from the German to Russian, then this reader is being sarcastic since Russian forces are NOT running out]
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“Taurus missiles will not save Ukraine,” noted Ulrich H.
“It’s time to face the truth. A few Taurus won’t change anything, just like Leopard tanks in their time,” stated der Herr W. [Many Leopards were destroyed in Ukraine during the failed counteroffensive. After that, Ukraine no longer used its remaining Leopards on the battlefield]
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Our thanks to HM for this:
Rabbi David Feldman is a leading Neturei Karta Rabbi and a member of Jews United Against Zionism.
In this interview, he engages in a thought-provoking discussion with Miko Peled. Rabbi Feldman expresses his staunch rejection of Israel, articulating how Zionism, in his view, diverges fundamentally from Jewish religious teachings, which prohibit the use of physical force and mass immigration into the ‘Holy Land’ or to uproot the native inhabitants from their land. He argues that Zionism co-opted elements of Judaism not out of religious conviction but to lend the movement legitimacy, thereby distorting the essence of the Jewish faith.
He explains how Theodor Herzl and his associates, initially uninterested in traditional Judaism, incorporated the religion into their movement to garner support. Feldman describes this as a paradoxical situation where a secular, heretical movement manipulated religious beliefs for political gain. This hypocrisy, he argues, underlies traditional Jewish opposition to Zionism, offering an alternative perspective on the conflict and its historical roots.
https://www.instagram.com/conflictechoes/reel/C2kqF09rJcE/
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Link to alKhanadeq article
Translation with my notes in bold and in [brackets]
Note that Arab authors, writing in Arabic, generally use the word amrika (أمريكا) to denote the US, so when you see the word America in this translation, it probably refers to the US., although this is never entirely clear.
Thursday 01 February 2024 04:10
America is awaiting harsh Yemeni strikes that it has not seen even in its worst nightmares
Day after day, American forces and those who risk themselves and ally themselves with them will face harsh Yemeni military strikes that the Pentagon’s senior planners may not have taken into account, or even seen in their worst nightmares. Today, the Yemeni armed forces, in simple terms, humiliate America with their naval operations against Israeli commercial ships or those of other countries heading to occupied Palestine, declaring that they will continue to do so until the aggression stops and the siege on Gaza is lifted.
[Let’s recall that the Houthis, like others including Hezbollah and the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces, are in fact Iran-backed. No one can know how many of its arms are supplied by Iran, but the ties are close. Thus, even if the US-UK Neonazis (er, I mean Neocons .. same thing, for all intents and purposes) manage to seriously deplete their missiles and other weapons, these will almost surely be replaced by Iran, which is a master of aerospace engineering.]
At the same time, it will continue to strike American and British military and commercial ships until these countries’ aggression against Yemen stops, declaring that it will confront the American-British escalation with escalation and will not hesitate to carry out broad and qualitative military operations in response to any foolishness from them. [And let us also recall that, in the event the Western genocide supporters manage to overcome the Houthis, at some point, Iran may simply enter the conflict, and that country has promised that if Israel crosses a red line, it will use its missile force to destroy Haifa and Tel Aviv] Is there any country since after World War II - with the exception of a few countries such as the Islamic Republic of Iran - that has been able to forcefully challenge American arrogance and directly target American military vessels or commercial ships?
In the past few hours, the Yemeni Armed Forces carried out two qualitative operations, the first of which targeted the American destroyer USS Gravely (which astonished many military experts and certainly incited fears of American military leaders), and the second of which targeted the American merchant ship Cole. It was heading to the ports of occupied Palestine [by using the name “occupied Palestine,” non US-aligned Arab and Muslim countries remind us that what is currently called “Israel” was illegally carved out of Arab lands by European Jewish terrorists in the mid 1940s and recognized in the UN, thanks to US skullduggery – bribes, bullying, etc, and is therefore illegitimate under international law. The early history of the founding of “Israel” is recorded in the video Al-Nakba] with naval missiles and hit it directly. These two operations were carried out despite the US-British aggression coalition launching a new aggression against Yemen on Wednesday evening, January 31, 2024, targeting the governorates of Saada and Hodeidah. [In truth, the US leadership is living in Lala Land, because there are many real threats against the homeland. Theoretically, for example, if North Korea decided to attack the US mainland, it has subs and nuclear-armed missiles to do so. If Russia decided it was cornered, it could destroy all or most US bases both in the US and elsewhere plus the buildings housing Congress, the White House, as well as the residences of people it recognizes as terrorists, such as Lindsay Graham, Nikki Haley and others, and could easily sink all US aircraft carriers along with their burden of aircraft, and could use its “doomsday weapon,” the Poseidon, to destroy vast US territories. We are in no position to throw out our chests and proclaim superiority or world dominance. This is why I say that the Neocons that infest the State and Defense Departments and the governing bodies of the US are criminally insane, because they threaten the existence of the entire planet and seem blissfully ignorant of this fact!]
The American destroyer Gravely uses its last means of defense!
The Yemeni attack on the destroyer Gravely raised the astonishment of many military experts and the American media in particular (CNN), because the destroyer Gravely, according to American officials, was forced to use the CIWS system for the first time in order to shoot down the Yemeni cruise missile after it reached a distance of about 1,600 meters away (that is, about 6 to 7 seconds away) from hitting the destroyer. Since America began intercepting the Yemeni missiles late last year (it began this path in support of Israel and to prove that it is still the deterrent and dominant force in the world). American officials added that American destroyers usually intercept these missiles at a distance of 8 miles or more, and the CIWS system is designed to intercept close-range missiles; it is one of the final lines of defense that aims to shoot down the missile when other systems fail to intercept it, which means that this happens. This time opens the possibility for it to be repeated other times, especially if the Yemeni attack was carried out via a group [swarm] of missiles and perhaps drones at the same time. [There can be no adequate air defense against a large enough swarm of missiles or drones, regardless of their type! Any aircraft carrier could easily be disabled in a matter of minutes]
Let America prepare for its worst nightmares
Therefore, America must be aware that it is losing its direct war with the Yemenis is, and it will inevitably cost it a lot if it continues, because the Yemeni leadership (which is proud to confront American forces directly) has set its conditions for stopping these confrontations, and will not back down from them at all. Therefore, the American administration and those who follow it have no choice but to submit to these conditions, or otherwise they should prepare themselves for the worst nightmares and scenarios, and even for what may be beyond their ability to imagine.
Yemen possesses multi-range anti-ship missile systems, including those with a range of up to 2,000 kilometers, which means its ability to target American and British ships and battleships before they even enter the areas of conflict. The Yemenis also possess many strengths, including: the geostrategic location of their country, which enables them to detect all American and British targets in the Red Sea, and their possession of sea and land missile systems and multiple radars that monitor and track ships and know their identity and directions in the Arabian and Red Seas, the development of their naval aviation, which can occupy And exhausting the American defense systems, which can then be targeted by naval missiles.
19 operations so far
To date, and since November 19, 2023, the Yemeni Armed Forces have carried out 19 naval operations targeting:
_ 3 Israeli ships (Galaxy Leader, Unity Explorer, Number Nine).
_ 9 American ships and destroyers, including (Ginko Picardi / Kim Ranger / OCEAN JAZZ / Lewis B Puller / USS Greeley).
_ British oil ship (Marilyn Luanda).
_ 10 ships linked to the temporary entity are (Astrinda / Maersk Gebrelater / MSC Alanya / MSC Palatium / Swan Atlantic / MSC Clara /, MSC United / Maersk Hangzhou / CMA CGM Tegue / Zogravia).
Writer:
Ali Nour El-Din
The Anglo-American War Hawks opted to become the Global Hegemon enforcing a "Rules-Based Order" since the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989 with a 'permanent war' doctrine called the Wolfowitz doctrine.
Now, the biggest threat to the 'new Roman empire' is not Putin. It is coming from the American sideline spectators watching the physical disintegration of their Republic as more money is spent funding the war machine to create new demons e.g. China and the BRICs.