WHILE THE WORLD GYRATES – WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO MAKE OF-IT?
I Would Like To Say – I Don’t Know . . . But History Would Prove Me Wrong.
WHAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A WALK IN THE PARK – WAS ANYTHING BUT:
Sooner – Rather Than Later, Trump Is Going To Have To Decide . . . Do-It Or Get Off The Pot.
I Abhor The Prospect Of Death & Destruction . . . But Not as Much as I Cringe at the Threat of Annihilation by a Mad Religious Cult (Islamism), Hearkening Back More Than 1000-Years.
Iran Is Not Going To Surrender Its Dream Of Nuclear Hegemony. It will Not Take a Knee to America, and Certainly Never to Jews, Whether the Jews are Israelis or Jews Living in the Diaspora.
The World Didn’t Listen To Hitler . . . And Where Did That Get The World?
BIG QUESTION . . . SHOULD TRUMP HAVE BOMBED IRAN?
Someone Had To . . . If Not Now, When? And If Not Trump – Then By Whom?
Let Me Share Some History With You . . . WWII was Declared Against Germany by England & British Surrogates (Canada, Australia, New Zealand – Etc) In December 1939, Which Was Known As The Phony War.
The Real War Didn’t Actually Start Until a Year Later, Giving all Sides the Opportunity to Recruit, Train & Build their Weapons of War, while they Positioned themselves for the Real Thing . . . Is That What Iran & America Are Doing Now?
There Is No Question, Between America & Israel, Iran Cannot Win. But Will Iran Actually Lose?
WHEN RUSSIA ATTACKED UKRAINE – NO-ONE THOUGHT UKRAINE COULD SURVIVE:
After Years Of War – With Millions Of Dead And/Or Wounded, At The Behest Of Putin – What Has Russia Gained? And Now We are Hearing the Rumblings of a Possible Peace Treaty at Best, and a Further Elongated Cease-Fire at Worst, Between Russia & Ukraine . . . Was The War Worth It?
While It Is True That Russia Will Gain Some Ukrainian Territory, at the Loss of Countless Lives, Russian & Ukrainian, but Mostly Russian, Along with Russian Surrogates . . . To What Avail?
The Way I See-It . . . Even Though Russia will Walk Away with More Territory, Ukraine & Zelenksyy are the Big Winners.
The World Believed Russia Would Simply Steam Roll themselves to Kiev. Seize the Ukrainian Capital, Capture, Kill or Imprison Zelenksyy and Call it a Day . . . But That Is Not The Way It Happened.
By Every Metric – Ukraine was Out-Manned & Out-Gunned Against the Russian Bear, When even at the Beginning of Fighting, there Seemed to be No Real Commitment by America, Europe, and Not Even NATO – to Offer More Help to Ukraine Other than some Moral Support & Outdated WWII Surplus Weapons . . . But Nonetheless, the Ukrainians Hung-In, and During the Fighting Developed a Unique, Accurate & Deadly Drone Offensive.
The Russian Population is just Under 150-Million People, Occupying About 6.6-Million Square Miles. Ukraine is a Country of just 40-Million People – Occupying About 230,000 Square Miles. This Should Never Have Been Close.
That Russia . . . Couldn’t Beat a Country a Fraction of its Size in Population & Territory . . . Says A Great Deal About Russia. . . . And A Great Deal More About Ukraine.
THIS BRINGS US BACK TO A PAPER-TIGER IN THE MIDDLE EAST:
The World Cringed At The Idea Of Going To War Against Iran, A Vast Nation Of Some 90-Million People, Controlled by a Huge Regular Army, a Huge Internal Army (IRGC), and an Equally Huge Volunteer Brown-Shirt-Like Para-Military (Basij), All Controlled Through Terror By The Ayatollahs.
How Did A Postage Stamp Sized Country Of Just Ten Million People (Israel), with Virtually No Natural Resources, which was Simultaneously Fighting Several Enemies on Multiple Fronts . . . Kick Iran’s Ass from One End of the Gulf to the Other . . . Even Before America Jumped-In?
How Could Iran, which Has a Territory of Approximately 636,000 Square Miles, and a Population of 90-Million People, Versus Israel, with a Total Territory of Less than 9-Thousand Square Miles and a Total Population of About 10-Million People (8-Million Jews) . . . Not be Able to Stop as Many as 5,700 IAF (Air Force) Sorties, From More Than 1000-Miles Away . . . Without Shooting Down Just One Israeli War Plane?
IS CHINA THE BOGEY-MAN WE PERCEIVE IT TO BE? . . . MAYBE – MAYBE NOT:
Who Needs Whom More . . . Do We Need Them – Or Do They Need Us?
While it is True that Much of the World Depends Greatly on China for all Manner of Manufactured Things, It Is Equally True, that Without the North American & European Consumer Markets . . . What Would China Have With Which To Create Wealth & Power.
Rare (Precious) Minerals Are One Thing . . . But They Are Not The Only Thing.
If China Really Was This Unstoppable Force . . . Taiwan Would Have Ceased to Exist as an Independent “State” Years Ago, But Big Doesn’t Necessarily Mean Better, Stronger Or Tougher.
It’s Not The Size Of The Dog In The Fight. . .
. . . It’s The Size Of The Fight In The Dog.
SOONER RATHER THAN LATER – THE DAY OF RECKONING WILL BE UPON-US:
We Are On The Cusp Of More Than Just A New World Order.
Best Regards . . . Howard Galganov
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In the real world, China is a tofu-dreg society. Everything that they build, from dams to aircraft carriers, is contaminated by corruption. Currently, most of the top echelon of the military world is being eliminated. The real estate market is literally collapsing. The engineer who designed China’s stealth fighter has been eliminated. A communist regime awards the wrong things and eventually pays the price.
HG, what you have written here is priceless. It is essentially wisdom for the ages. In my estimation the incredible armada that Trump’s war machine has placed in the Iranian theatre of war is blatant overkill. Obviously it cannot stay there forever without firing a shot. If there is all-out war a victory for America is assured. So get on with it already. Screw the dim-wit libs and the gutless Dems. Iran must not have a nuclear weapon. Period.
Ww1 The allies sort of won. Germany was not wiped out, just lost the war to end all wars. Result, Hitler and 0ver 60 million dead with Japan taking advantage of America’s perceived weakness. Result USA, Britain and the commonwealth etc.. Germany destroyed, Japan destroyed. Then the Marshal plan Both Germany and Japan prosperous. Nothing less for Iran. Radical regime must be destroyed completely. unfortunately, radicals must be whacked occasionally or we will all be annihilated.
I know I’ve said this before, but why not supply the Iranian PEOPLE with weapons and ammo–and let them solve the dilemma. No revolution can happen without at least small arms!
It is useless to supply small arms to the 80 million Iranians who have been under the yoke of the other 10 million Islamists in Iran. They have not had the training nor the experience killing other people. Remember the heroic Muslim on Bondi Beach who single handedly disarmed one of the two terrorists and then aimed that terrorist’s rifle at the terrorist but could not get himself to pull the trigger. He was then shot by the second terrorist who did not hesitate for a second. Enough said.