Slouching Toward Armageddon News Roundup

 
From: "Terry Lodge tjlodge50@PROTECTED [Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition]" <peacelist@PROTECTED>
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Date: January 20th 2024
   Friends, I've been sitting on this blustery winter evening, thinking about what a harsh and messy year 2024 is going to be for US politics. If all that we who live in the belly of this Beast slouching toward Armageddon can do is send a message to the Dems that they can still be voted out of office -- then we had better send that message, but do it now, don't wait for November.

    Because we are slouching toward Armageddon. 

    Here're a few developments of the past two weeks that are downright frightening:

    > on January 4 the United States killed an Iraqi military commander. He was Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF) deputy commander Mushtaq Talib al-Saidi of the Harakat al-Nujaba militia, and he was bomb-assassinated right next to a Ministry of the Interior complex. The PMF, a collection of Shia militias, are part of Iraq’s armed forces. This means that more than twenty years after the invasion of Iraq, the United States has not even managed to create an Iraqi government that it does not feel compelled to bomb.

     > While the US was bombing the Houthis for the second time on January 13,  President Biden sent a private note to the mullahs in Tehran which Biden himself said warned the Iranians "We're confident, we're well-prepared."  It would be prudent to regard that as provocative and sent by someone who doesn't have much contact with reality. Since when does the President of the United States send private trash talk notes to foreign leaders?


     > The US has launched, literally, a couple hundred missiles and/or dropped bombs on Yemen in slightly more than one week, in at least 6 attacks. 

     > Just today the IDF has struck an apartment building in Damascus, the Syrian capital, ostensibly killing multiple Iran Revoluntary Guard officers.

     > On Tuesday of this coming week the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will be announcing whether or not they have moved the minute hand of the global nuclear war clock closer to midnight. Right now it's closer than it has been at any time since August 1945 -- 90 seconds to midnight. My money says it'll be inside of a minute.

      Israel is well known for deliberate overreaction and there is literally no one on the planetary stage -- surely not our sad sack president -- who will say "no" to Netanyahu and Likud and the War Cabinet, and make it stick. As difficult as it is to imagine, we are likely drifting toward worse and more widespread carnage in a massive regional war that could blow up into a global one.

      Stay tuned.

        Terry
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