November 22, 2024
In 54 BC, Marcus Licinius Crassus, a rich, ambitious Roman businessman, got himself named governor of the wealthy province of Syria. Crassus had been sharing power in Rome with Pompey and Julius Caesar. Call him the Donald Trump of his day.
Crassus decided to invade neighboring Parthia, which is today Turkey and Iran. At the battle of Carrhae, retreating Persian horse archers loosed arrows over the back of their horses, giving us the literary term for a parting shot, `Parthian shaft.’
The moribund Biden administration loosed its own Parthian shaft this week by having Ukraine fire US-supplied ATACMS tactical missiles – with the help of US military technicians. A handful of British Storm Shadow and French Scalp air-launched missiles were also fired at Russia.
This was clearly an act of war between nuclear powers. Russia responded by launching one of its new hypersonic missiles with multiple warheads at Dnipro, Ukraine. The new Russian medium-ranged missile carried conventional, not nuclear, warheads. But the message was loud and clear: all western Europe was in range.
What, one must ask, was the lame duck Biden administration doing? Clearly trying to provoke an even larger war with Russia.
The outgoing administration is still filled with fanatical Russia-haters. In fact, the Pentagon, CIA, NSA and the rest of America’s 18 national security agencies were packed with dunderheads who think we are still fighting the Cold War and yearn to break up Russia into little Balkanized mini states such as happened to Yugoslavia.
So, the low IQ Biden administration has managed to get itself into a real, unwinnable war in Ukraine and the genocidal disaster in Gaza that also threatens to drag the US into war with Iran (former Parthia) while a huge conflict with China looms just over the geopolitical horizon. Meanwhile, Israel’s extreme right-wing government of fanatical settlers and nouveau rightists seems to be acquiring most of the levers of power in the US. And this is before the uber Israel-first Trump & Co. enters office.
Fools should not be allowed to play with matches. Biden’s foolish neocons can still cause a lot of mayhem before 20 January. Trump keeps vowing to uproot Washington’s deep-seated neocon ‘secret government’ that is the real power behind the scenes. But he is really part of this cabal and seems to share its views. Perhaps Trump will keep his word and begin to break the war party’s grip on power before they manage to ignite a nuclear war with Russia.
Copyright Eric S. Margolis 2024
The most definitive explanation of the Ukraine conflict.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiK6DijNLGE
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It’s well worth the watch. It starts with the American’s breaking their promise of not moving NATO east.
Trump is filling his administration with foaming at the mouth fanatical Zionists so prospects of peace are as likely as snow in Death Valley in July.
Frankly I am sure they will start building extermination camps in Gaza within a year and every Zionist owned western politician will fight for the job of opening the gas valves,
The heck of it is, the US supports these actions. This and their actions in the Ukraine, and their stance against the ICC, the US has become a rogue state.
I just learned that the ATACMS and Storm Shadow missiles had to be launched by US and UK personnel, respectively. Those NATO countries are directly responsible for launching a missile attack on Russia, not the Ukraine. The missile was ‘clocked’ at Mach 11. In addition, and of more concern, is the range includes parts of the east coast of the United States. The missile has six independently targeted warheads, each having six sub-munitions. Putin provided a warning a half hour before sending the missiles.
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The missile performed perfectly. I don’t know if this is a ‘one off’ but given the effectiveness of this new weapons system, NATO should be quite concerned.
Giving the Ukranians permission to use ATACMS missiles, by the US, and Storm Shadow missiles, by the UK, was monumentally stupid. Putin’s defence intercepted five of the six missiles and re-directed the sixth one to be less dangerous. The defence also intercepted the Storm Shadow missiles. Putin said he would respond and did so using the Arreshnik (sp? I’ve seen three different spellings) missile. This is a hypersonic device with a speed of Mach 10 and multiple directed warheads. It has an accuracy of 50 m. It was ‘bang on’ the target and took out one of the Ukraine’s most important facilities. As a NATO or western country this should be concerning. It shows that Russia has state of the art defensive and offensive weapons and that they ‘really’ work. Putin also stated that he was serious about any responses to NATO’s actions. His response was excellent.
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This will be interesting. NATO was responsible for the war in the Ukraine and we will see how this can escalate. WWIII could be in the offing.