WHY? 1. Isael has big problems—and war against its neighbors is always a solution to them. 2. The U.S., along with its NATO puppets, are losing their illegal and unconstitutional war against the Russian Federation. Even their mercenaries are dying or deserting. And NATO-supplied weapons are not terribly effective.
Doomsday Clock. Founded in 1945 by Albert Einstein and University of Chicago scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons in the Manhattan Project, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the Doomsday Clock two years later, using the imagery of apocalypse (midnight) and the contemporary idiom of nuclear explosion (countdown to zero) to convey threats to humanity and the planet. The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 10 Nobel laureates. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to global catastrophe caused by manmade technologies. Now, it’s set at 90 Seconds to Midnight, the closest it’s ever been to the End of the World.
Israel. The illegitimate and terrorist Entity, founded upon and dependent upon Apartheid, has a rolling domestic crisis. Currently, its Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, has somehow distressed vocal and visible Jewish citizens. He’s curtailed their Supreme Court’s ability to overrule political decisions taken by the “country’s” Cabinet. Somehow this has rocked Israel’s image as a democratic state, even though it’s not. The Court sided with the Israeli “government” over the murder of Rachel Corrie, “a 23-year-old American peace activist from Olympia, Washington, who was crushed to death by an Israeli bulldozer on 16 March 2003, while undertaking nonviolent direct action to protect the home of a Palestinian family from demolition.” [Rachel Corrie | The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice] According to Human Rights Watch, “Israel’s Supreme Court on February 12, 2015, exempted the Israeli defense ministry from liability for actions [murder of Rachel] by its forces that it deemed to be “wartime activity,” but wrongly refused to assess whether those actions violated applicable laws of armed conflict.”
Rachel Corrie Sans Bulldozer That Ran Over Her—Twice
“Bibi” Netanyahu has fired his Defense Minister, Yoav Gallant, for questioning Bibi’s Supreme Court plans. In January 2023, Netanyahu replaced his Foreign Minister Yair Lapid with Eli Cohen, former head of the Intelligence Ministry, overseeing Mossad (external security) and Shin Bet (internal security). He had also been head of Shin Bet during Israel’s war against Gaza in 2014.
War? Journalist Jonathan Cook, writing in the Middle East Monitor, thinks Bibi’s way out of his personal (criminal charges, health issues) and political problems might be another war: [www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-netanyahu-crisis-plagued-war-save-skin-will]
A favoured tactic of Israeli prime ministers in trouble is to provoke a confrontation, or at least over-react to ensure one develops, and then send in the army.
Wars can be expected to unite Israelis behind a failing government and silence the opposition while winning uncritical support from Jews overseas and knee-jerk sympathy from western states.
Gaza has served this purpose repeatedly over the past 15 years. Notoriously, Ehud Olmert chose to use Lebanon - a much more challenging arena militarily - to try to prove his mettle in 2006 and rally Israel’s population behind his weak government. It did not turn out well for him…
If that weren’t bad enough, Netanyahu needs to endlessly pander to his fascist, religious settler partners in the coalition or his government will almost certainly fall.
But the far-right ministers overseeing the police and the military administration that dictates life for Palestinians are little more than pyromaniacs, determined to set the occupied territories blaze…
That way, the settlers, and army have the pretext to speed up the process of driving Palestinians off their land and herding them into a handful of urban ghettoes…
And What do We Find In The Washington Post of July 26, 2023?
A full, page ad placed by the World Jewish Congress. Titled “It’s Mayday for the Jewish People”, it starts off by noting that “We the Jews of the Diaspora…love Israel and we are committed to Israel.” [Leading to questions of national loyalty.] Continuing, it comments that “…Israel’s future hangs in the balance. The Jewish people’s one-and-only state is facing imminent existential danger…”
The ad goes on to note Hezbollah is turning into one of the most dangerous and powerful terrorist organizations in the world, [Without proof.] Moreover, it asserts that “the Palestinian Authority’s legitimacy is being undermined by Hamas and other radical forces.” [The Authority is seen by most Palestinians as a tool of the Zionist Entity and the United States.]
The World Jewish Congress then claims “The danger of a multi-front war is greater than it has been for decades.”
And of course, the group insists that “Over the last year, Iran has amassed enough nuclear material for several nuclear weapons…” [Conveniently omitting the number and amount of Israel’s own atomic and hydrogen bombs, poison gas, and deadly bacteria.]
So, What Are We to Think? The Zionists, who always claim to be persecuted by outside “anti-Semitic” forces, are quick to stoke them. They attack Iran clandestinely, they bomb Syria with impunity, they operate freely in northern Iraq, they most likely blew up Beirut’s port (in part because it competed with Haifa).
I agree with Jonathan Cook. Netanyahu’s way out of his problems leads to a. another attack on any part of Occupied Palestine, such as Gaza or the West Bank; b. more assaults on Syria; c. additional onslaughts against failing Lebanon; d. more strikes on Iran. Choose one. The Apartheid Entity won’t bother Jordan because it’s in the Americans’ pocket or Egypt because it’s in their pocket. And it would be too hard for them to raid Morocco, Tunisia, or Algeria since it would be really hard to justify that to “world opinion”, even if such is easily malleable.
And the Zionist-controlled mass media in the United States would blanket the airwaves and carpet the streets with printed matter claiming “Israel has a right to defend itself”. Of course, the American government, with Jews controlling foreign and domestic policy, would echo this nonsense.
Why don’t we move the hands of the Doomsday Clock 30 Seconds closer to Midnight. “Israel” is not impregnable, although it seems to believe so. The murderers, war criminals, and human rights violators running its “government” would likely pursue the Samson Option, setting off its weapons of mass destruction if it feared the consequences of its actions would be intolerable.
The Ukraine. According to RT (July 19, 2023), “As a result of last week’s NATO summit in Vilnius, the US-led military bloc promised Ukraine fresh tranches of financial and military aid. This was despite the fact that by the beginning of the summer, Kiev had already received a total of €165 billion ($185.6 billion) from Western countries.” [www.rt.com/russia/579897-europes-black-hole-ukraine/].
And there’s more on the way.
PressTV noted July 26 that:
“The United States has approved another military aid package for Ukraine worth 400-million dollars. The new package, FOR THE FIRST TIME, includes US furnished Black Hornet surveillance drones. The unmanned aerial vehicle provides troops on the ground with local situational awareness. The new aid package also includes munitions for Patriot air defense systems and National Advanced Surface-to-Air Missile Systems. The new aid package brings the total amount of such assistance to Kiev to more than 43-BILLION dollars. Russia has time and again warned against providing military assistance to Ukraine, saying the move will only prolong the war.”
Then there are the child-killing cluster bombs that Grandpa Joe Biden is providing the UkoNazi government. Unless signing up as a mercenary, none of his seven small ones are likely to go fight the Russian Federation in an illegal and unconstitutional war—and get blown up by a seemingly-harmless toy ball.
Cluster Bombs and Delivery Vehicle
On Thursday July 13, 2023, the Guardian reported:
“Cluster munitions provided by the United States have now arrived in Ukraine, the Pentagon confirmed on Thursday.
The munitions – bombs that open in the air and release scores of smaller bomblets – are seen by the US as a way to get Kyiv critically needed ammunition to help bolster its offensive and push through Russian frontlines. US leaders debated the thorny issue for months, before President Joe Biden made the final decision last week.”
The paper went on to say, in an explanatory side piece that:
“The bomblets are designed to detonate on hitting the ground and anyone in that area is very likely to be killed or seriously injured. Beyond the initial damage caused by the munitions upon impact, many bomblets fail to detonate immediately. Up to 40% of bomblets have failed to explode in some recent conflicts, according to the ICRC [International Committee of the Red Cross].
As a result, cluster bombs, like landmines, pose a risk to civilians long after their use. Unexploded ordinance from cluster bombs can kill and maim people years or even decades after the munitions were fired.
Human rights groups say that the use of cluster bombs in populated areas is a violation of international humanitarian law because they cause indiscriminate destruction. Sixty percent of cluster bomb casualties are people injured while undertaking everyday activities, according to Reuters. One third of all recorded cluster munitions casualties are children.
Cluster Bombed Children Who Survived
More than 120 countries have signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which prohibits the use, production, transfer and stockpiling of the weapons. Russia, Ukraine and the US have all declined to sign the treaty. Since the adoption of the convention in 2008, 99% of global stockpiles have been destroyed, according to the Cluster Munition Coalition.”
Ukrainian Losses. Mercenaries. As RT noted July 24, 2023:
“From the start of Russia’s military operation in Ukraine, thousands of foreign mercenaries have joined Ukraine’s Armed Forces. They came to Ukraine from all over the world, but mostly from Poland, the US, and Canada. Recently, however, it seems that their interest in fighting for Kiev has significantly faded. This is evident both from estimates provided by the Russian Ministry of Defense and from foreign media reports.
Since February 24, 2022, a projected 11,675 foreign mercenaries from 84 countries have joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). This was stated by the Russian Ministry of Defense on July 10.
The largest numbers of mercenaries apparently came from Poland (over 2,600), the US and Canada (over 900 from each), Georgia (over 800), Great Britain and Romania (over 700 each), Croatia (over 300), as well as from France and the part of Syria controlled by Türkiye [Turkey] (over 200 each).
According to Moscow, the peak influx of foreign mercenaries was from March to April of last year, but after the first casualties, the growth rate suddenly decreased.
The number of foreign mercenaries in Ukraine appears to be rapidly declining. Russia’s Ministry of Defense believes that only around 2,000 remain today. It has also claimed that about 5,000 foreign volunteers fled Ukraine after seeing how the authorities treated them…
Moscow now claims that, due to problems with mobilization in Ukraine and considerable losses, Kiev has begun actively recruiting fighters from Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East – particularly, from Argentina, Brazil, Afghanistan, Iraq, and “US-controlled areas of Syria.” [Cf. Visas for al-Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World by Michael Springmann, an analysis of destabilizing forces the U.S. created]
Ukrainian Soldiers. As related in (4) ARE THE UKRAINE & NATO WINNING THE RUSSIAN WAR? (substack.com), the Ukraine lost half its army in 2022. Now, it seems, the artificially-created country is on its way to losing the second half.
According to the Russian government, as reported in the Sunday, July 23, 2023 edition of RT:
“The Ukrainian military has failed in its long-anticipated counteroffensive against Russia, losing tens of thousands of service members in the process, Russian President Vladimir Putin has said.
On Sunday, Putin met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko in St. Petersburg, who said, citing US intelligence assessment, that the Ukrainian military has sustained 26,000 “irreplaceable losses.” “It’s more than that,” Putin replied.”
That same day, RT commented “Moscow’s forces had taken out at least 15 German-made Leopard tanks and over 20 US-made Bradley infantry fighting vehicles in just one clash.”
Lost Ukrainian Western-Supplied Armor
Continuing, the Russian news service stated:
“Last week, the New York Times reported that the Ukrainian military had lost 20% of its battlefield equipment, including many Western-provided vehicles, in the first two weeks of the offensive, which Moscow says has failed to gain any ground. On July 11, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu estimated Ukrainian losses at 3,000 units of military hardware.
Meanwhile, several other media reports have suggested that Kiev’s Western backers are alarmed at Ukraine’s slow progress on the battlefield, with a recent Wall Street Journal article claiming that they were also “jolted” by the “swift loss” of armor. However, numerous Ukrainian officials attempted to explain the difficulties in the offensive by pointing to delays in Western military assistance.”
So. The Ukies have lost a substantial portion of their army. They have lost most of their mercenaries. They have lost substantial numbers of Western-supplied armored vehicles.
What’s next?
1. Planned German tank factories won’t work. They’re easy targets for Russian forces.
2. False-Flag use of weapons of mass destructions? Given the Ukies by the U.S. and NATO. That’s the opening round of World War III
3. Shift NATO forces to the Ukraine? And engage the Russians? World War III again.
4. Increase the number of NATO and U.S. soldiers already in the Ukraine? One shot fired in the wrong direction, one military vehicle’s incursion into Russian territory? That’s the start of World War III.
Let’s move the Doomsday Clock hands another 45 Seconds closer to Midnight. That means, with Israel as well as the U.S. and NATO, the Clock stands at 15 Seconds before the End of the World.
Where are all the vaunted think tanks and international political analysts? Obviously not doing their jobs. Because they’re too invested in the status quo. And are blind to the dangers their advice and their politicians have created.
J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area. He is a frequent commentator on Arab and Russian news programs.
He is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, the country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.
Thanks Michael, wonderful reporting. After watching the House Committee on Censorship hearings, I am afraid that Congress is more interested in infighting and covering up missteps than addressing these real existential issues. Morgan Chase has also begun closing the bank accounts of organizations that are critical of the current administration and current U.S. policy.