As usual on Monday we have Alastair Crooke’s SCF essay and his chat with the Judge. The essay, “Macron’s Psycho-Play to Keep Aloft the Punctured Balloon of a ‘Geo-Political EU,’” gets a bit of coverage at the end of their chat; rather, Crooke’s Al-Mayadeen
I still need to read the articles but had already watched the chat and the part I found most enlightening (which may not be news to others) was his discussion about Ron Derma's recent talks about the need to de-radicalize Gaza and the West Bank through a "transformative process" like Germany and esp. Japan experienced at the end of WWII.
"This is exactly what I was told back in 2003, that after Iraq was bombed into dust like Dresden the Palestinians would become docile and agree to peace on Israel's terms because Saddam Hussein was an icon for the Palestinians so his annihilation would be transformative for the Palestinian leadership, they would be thoroughly demoralized."
He also made some very good points about the Qassam Brigades, that they "have a different ethos than the political leadership sitting in Doha, their ethos is victory or martyrdom. We don't understand when they talk about this or about sacrifice, how they could conceive that sometimes a people must lose a large proportion of itself in order for the people as a whole to survive."
The notion that Palestinians can be bombed into docility is ludicrous, it will just radicalize more of them and understandably so. If your fate is to be killed anyway you may as well do as much damage to your enemy as you can before you go down.
I wonder how many young Europeans are baling out of their home countries since their prospects are so grim. IE, people who can "smell the coffee". It seems the social benefits will diminish as the 'leaders' there find a predictably moronic way to beat plowshares into guns. Apparently, Barbara Tuchman in her depressing history of 14th C. Europe, A Distant Mirror, not only wrote about the past but predicted the future. The more things change... The US MIC is licking their greasy/bloody mandibles in anticipation of the big grift. And...FJB
I still need to read the articles but had already watched the chat and the part I found most enlightening (which may not be news to others) was his discussion about Ron Derma's recent talks about the need to de-radicalize Gaza and the West Bank through a "transformative process" like Germany and esp. Japan experienced at the end of WWII.
"This is exactly what I was told back in 2003, that after Iraq was bombed into dust like Dresden the Palestinians would become docile and agree to peace on Israel's terms because Saddam Hussein was an icon for the Palestinians so his annihilation would be transformative for the Palestinian leadership, they would be thoroughly demoralized."
He also made some very good points about the Qassam Brigades, that they "have a different ethos than the political leadership sitting in Doha, their ethos is victory or martyrdom. We don't understand when they talk about this or about sacrifice, how they could conceive that sometimes a people must lose a large proportion of itself in order for the people as a whole to survive."
The notion that Palestinians can be bombed into docility is ludicrous, it will just radicalize more of them and understandably so. If your fate is to be killed anyway you may as well do as much damage to your enemy as you can before you go down.
I wonder how many young Europeans are baling out of their home countries since their prospects are so grim. IE, people who can "smell the coffee". It seems the social benefits will diminish as the 'leaders' there find a predictably moronic way to beat plowshares into guns. Apparently, Barbara Tuchman in her depressing history of 14th C. Europe, A Distant Mirror, not only wrote about the past but predicted the future. The more things change... The US MIC is licking their greasy/bloody mandibles in anticipation of the big grift. And...FJB
Good read. Macron, the Lilliput.
I was under the impression that French troops were already in motion.
He is simply great! And here is the latest one: https://english.almayadeen.net/articles/opinion/the-crocus-concert-hall-atrocity--no-going-back