The citied terms are those used by Alastair Crooke previously and again today during his chat with Judge Napolitano, which was perhaps the most important one they’ve had to-date.
"If Israeli (or U.S.) aircraft cannot penetrate secured Iranian airspace – in whole or in part (and no Israel aircraft entered Iranian airspace on Saturday) – the entire paradigm for a U.S. or an Israeli kinetic military attack collapses: Iran has an overwhelming deeply-buried conventional missile arsenal by which to respond." A. Crooke
Yes, it does.
Great to see "The Mule" visiting again .... keeping an eye on the 'collective'.
Until the bully realizes that bullying doesn't work that bullying will continue. Iran like you said needs to teach the USUKIS alliance that those days are over. Even saying that the USUKIS alliance has a hard time
understanding anything meaningful, they rely on fantasy to be their reality.
My guess is that the Murmansk BN system threw shivers into the MIC, given that they have no answers
here is what i said a moment ago at moa - "i really believe the usa is a declining empire and i do believe both the leadership and the populace need to acknowledge and come to terms with this.. as it presently stands, that isn't happening.. until an acknowledgement of reality sets in, i can't see this usa election changing anything... the usa and it's citizens need a serious wake up call and i am not sure what it is at this point... but it definitely hasn't had this wake up call yet.."
There's a problem with the term "Empire" here as that denotes an undemocratic, authoritarian entity despite the fact that the USA's been an Empire since day one. People aren't taught that; they're taught the opposites. Admitting the USA's in decline means admitting all those GDP numbers produced for the last 20+ years were all falsified. And so on and so forth.
The biggest political problem in the West is prevarication on an industrial level.
Social change theory, still a fascinating topic. I wrote a paper in grad school on that topic in the sixties and was encouraged to turn it into a thesis subject. Good thing I didn't.
A great film "Der Untergang", starring Bruno Ganz as Hitler comes to mind. This is the mirror for the combined west. A leadership class bereft from evidence now fully submerged in concocting fantasies while pushing non existent wunderwaffe as solutions to their problems. And now we see the logic in various western states setting up ministries of truth to prosecute contrarians. It either ends in kinetic WWIII or retreat to garrison states locked out from the global south's journey to development and growth. The US may issue an edict to terminate mBridge, but China takes over the project. Now how will the fantasists spin this news?
thanks karl... i see you've linked to William Schryvers ''x'' post, but the substack article he wrote earlier today is much more complete.. here it is for you and others to read - Betting the Farm on the Imaginary War - it's quite a good read..
it is crooke in the quote linking to him, so i do believe some of crookes essay is inspired by him... . in your post the word 'experienced ' is underlined and links to schryvers x post... you linked to it here.. - "A more sober and experienced observer however,'
Crooke was wading into philosophy again with this one. They say making money actually convinces people they are more intelligent. It must be even worse when you're a good writer with great experience analyzing geopolitics. The guy is good in one arena and it makes him believe he can speak freely in any arena.
He's got a ridiculous obsession with Marxism. A true cold warrior, although a little more savvy than the rest. In this article, he takes the irrationalism of post modernism and calls it dialectical materialism. Just a hair better than the genius Trumpers who swear Kamala is a revolutionary Marxist. It's not hard to see Crooke, despite experience and talent as a writer, is a total reactionary.
Now I really hate it when someone quotes a Twitter thread about the "Israeli media" - and said threat does NOT provide a link to anything, in Hebrew or otherwise. Neither does Crooke.
This really gripes my ass. We're basing our entire analysis on some fucking random "trust me, bro" - as someone said in the Twitter thread - X tweet?
Jesus Baron von Christ! I like to trust Alastair's sources, but if he had said this was an X tweet in the Judge Nap interview immediately after the Iran strike, I would have had to question his sources. I hope the hell he has better sources, or that he searched for and reviewed the Israeli media in question himself. If he did, he should provide a better fucking link, for Christ's sakes!
Both Alastair Crooke's article and chat with Judge Nap are most informative.
I would like to suggest William Schryver's "Betting The Farm on the Imaginary War"
https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/betting-the-farm-on-the-imaginary
james noted Crooke had linked to it and I read it. Good read!
"If Israeli (or U.S.) aircraft cannot penetrate secured Iranian airspace – in whole or in part (and no Israel aircraft entered Iranian airspace on Saturday) – the entire paradigm for a U.S. or an Israeli kinetic military attack collapses: Iran has an overwhelming deeply-buried conventional missile arsenal by which to respond." A. Crooke
Yes, it does.
Great to see "The Mule" visiting again .... keeping an eye on the 'collective'.
Did you read the other parts to the story he wrote well after the initial trilogy? And the Robot series?
First Law of Robotics - do no harm to Don Firineach or other Humans!
It has been a while .. motivation to re-read.
Thank you Karl.
I read the foundation about 50 years ago, the Mule I vaguely remember, the rest disappeared into a black hole.
Maybe reread:)
I highly suggest getting all the volumes outside the trilogy--the prequels and sequels. All those are listed here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(book_series)
You'll see that there's a reason I refer to Asimov's works.
Until the bully realizes that bullying doesn't work that bullying will continue. Iran like you said needs to teach the USUKIS alliance that those days are over. Even saying that the USUKIS alliance has a hard time
understanding anything meaningful, they rely on fantasy to be their reality.
My guess is that the Murmansk BN system threw shivers into the MIC, given that they have no answers
here is what i said a moment ago at moa - "i really believe the usa is a declining empire and i do believe both the leadership and the populace need to acknowledge and come to terms with this.. as it presently stands, that isn't happening.. until an acknowledgement of reality sets in, i can't see this usa election changing anything... the usa and it's citizens need a serious wake up call and i am not sure what it is at this point... but it definitely hasn't had this wake up call yet.."
There's a problem with the term "Empire" here as that denotes an undemocratic, authoritarian entity despite the fact that the USA's been an Empire since day one. People aren't taught that; they're taught the opposites. Admitting the USA's in decline means admitting all those GDP numbers produced for the last 20+ years were all falsified. And so on and so forth.
The biggest political problem in the West is prevarication on an industrial level.
there is something very undemocratic, and authoritarian about the usa, so i will stick with empire... maybe rogue nation is better...
US GDP and the federal debt are rising almost parallel, same slopes.
But the debt line is 35% or more at each point on the lines, and flying in formation.
IOW the U.S. GDP is grown by debt at .65 GDP to 1.00 debt.
It's crazy when you look at the basic figures--assets, liabilities and equity. Negative $37 Trillion in equity!!
Thank you!
Social change theory, still a fascinating topic. I wrote a paper in grad school on that topic in the sixties and was encouraged to turn it into a thesis subject. Good thing I didn't.
A great film "Der Untergang", starring Bruno Ganz as Hitler comes to mind. This is the mirror for the combined west. A leadership class bereft from evidence now fully submerged in concocting fantasies while pushing non existent wunderwaffe as solutions to their problems. And now we see the logic in various western states setting up ministries of truth to prosecute contrarians. It either ends in kinetic WWIII or retreat to garrison states locked out from the global south's journey to development and growth. The US may issue an edict to terminate mBridge, but China takes over the project. Now how will the fantasists spin this news?
thanks karl... i see you've linked to William Schryvers ''x'' post, but the substack article he wrote earlier today is much more complete.. here it is for you and others to read - Betting the Farm on the Imaginary War - it's quite a good read..
https://imetatronink.substack.com/p/betting-the-farm-on-the-imaginary
Where did I link to that? I linked to Crooke's SCF essay and his chat with Napolitano.
it is crooke in the quote linking to him, so i do believe some of crookes essay is inspired by him... . in your post the word 'experienced ' is underlined and links to schryvers x post... you linked to it here.. - "A more sober and experienced observer however,'
Okay, so it was an internal link within Crooke's essay. The linked substack does look promising. Thanks!
https://www.reddit.com/r/QuotesPorn/comments/1xcr7a/we_now_live_in_a_nation_chris_hedges_960x720/#lightbox
chris is good..
I read that today. He gets it exactly right.
i thought it was very good and glad to know we see that the same way!!
Crooke was wading into philosophy again with this one. They say making money actually convinces people they are more intelligent. It must be even worse when you're a good writer with great experience analyzing geopolitics. The guy is good in one arena and it makes him believe he can speak freely in any arena.
He's got a ridiculous obsession with Marxism. A true cold warrior, although a little more savvy than the rest. In this article, he takes the irrationalism of post modernism and calls it dialectical materialism. Just a hair better than the genius Trumpers who swear Kamala is a revolutionary Marxist. It's not hard to see Crooke, despite experience and talent as a writer, is a total reactionary.
Now I really hate it when someone quotes a Twitter thread about the "Israeli media" - and said threat does NOT provide a link to anything, in Hebrew or otherwise. Neither does Crooke.
This really gripes my ass. We're basing our entire analysis on some fucking random "trust me, bro" - as someone said in the Twitter thread - X tweet?
Jesus Baron von Christ! I like to trust Alastair's sources, but if he had said this was an X tweet in the Judge Nap interview immediately after the Iran strike, I would have had to question his sources. I hope the hell he has better sources, or that he searched for and reviewed the Israeli media in question himself. If he did, he should provide a better fucking link, for Christ's sakes!