Hello everybody!
After 40 years in this ‘business’, I cannot avoid the conclusion that trying to analyse ongoing wars in order to extract lessons learned is entirely pointless. Because nobody - at least nobody here in ‘Garden Europe’ - is learning anything at all.
Just one example for results: when Zelensky is visiting that ammunition factory in Pennsylvania, and signing ‘ammunition for freedom’, I cannot but wonder how many of shells in question are going to end in Israel, instead in Ukraine…?
…because Holly Bibi there is now running his 'new phase of the war on civilians in Gaz... erm... Hamas' - through ordering bombardment of over 1,000 targets in Lebanon in a matter of two days...
Because ‘Gaza Strip’ is so much ‘the same like Lebanon’: only terrorists there.
Makes me wonder: why are the two places named differently, then….?
But, that’s irrelevant. Point is: lacking time to follow in more details, I made a big mistake and decided to check the TV-news.
- Reporting by the Austrian ORF (state-owned, 'national' broadcaster): starts with scenes of Israeli police officers running to a shelter, because there is a missile/rocket alarm, and explanation how Hezbollah is rocketing Israel, and 60,000 civilians in the Bekaa Valley are already 11 months evacuated from their homes....
...while showing videos of demolished buildings in Beirut, concludes with explanation that the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported 500+ massacred civilians since Monday (i.e. within less than 48 hours), 'but' that the IDF (of course, they don't know that designation and thus are using 'Israeli army' instead) is stating that it's doing its utmost to avoid civilian casualties...
ORF can't explain why Israel is now bombing Lebanon...
- German 'Welt' TV... privately owned (ProSieben Media Group), but repeating exactly the same exercise like ORF, almost scene-for-scene, word-for-word...
Welt can’t explain why Israel is now bombing Lebanon...(not even after the anchor is trying to milk the German-speaking Israeli reporter in Israel for an explanation).
- German 'Tagesschau24' TV....state-owned (ARD, and then one of the oldest news shows in the German TV)... repeating exactly the same exercise, almost scene-for-scene, word-for-word...
ARD/Tagesschau can't explain why Israel is now bombing Lebanon... the sole difference is the last sentence, where the anchor is commenting that 'there are experts who say that the Israeli military operation is a violation of international humanitarian law'...
OK, this is not working in German. Lets try in English...
- CNN... US privately owned TV-news... repeating exactly the same exercise, almost scene-for-scene, word-for-word...
CNN can't explain why Israel is now bombing Lebanon...is only excelling in presenting multiple highly-paid anchors as entirely clueless, and definitely ignorant, of what's going on.
....at that point in time I've suffered a brain freeze and turned off the TV...
The last of my brain cells that was still working couldn’t avoid one conclusion, though: good we've got the 'free' and 'independent' media - so that all of it, no matter where, is explaining exactly the same story, and that in perfect accord, and in the rhythm of messianic Israeli onslaught on civilian population of Palestine and Lebanon, once every hour to every four or five hours...
But, I'm wrong when I say we're 'indoctrinated'...
Well, sorry: I’ve explained it dozens of times already: I’m a nerd and a weirdo. And, a party crasher, too.
….and, I can’t explain this in any better words but: the more everybody is celebrating, the more doubts and concerns I have.
For example: when everybody is celebrating ‘Mossad’s pager massacre’, and the more cheered is the same, I cannot but conclude that after almost a year of systemic provocations (atop of decades… actually: a full ‘century plus’ of earlier provocations, attacks, massacres, ethnic cleansings, and genocide), Pudding’s buddy Netanyahu was, ‘finally’, highly successful in provoking an expansion of ‘his war to destroy Hamas’ to all of Lebanon and Syria. Probably because that war ‘to destroy Hamas’ was so highly successful that after one year of it, more than 60% of Hamas is still intact and fighting, the IDF is exhausted, and finding no solutions…
And so, considering the IDF can’t win a war against 2 million impoverished, hungry, desperate people incarcerated within a concentration camp the size of Philadelphia (yes, I do mean a city in the USA), or Vienna (yes, now I mean that city in Austria) - then now it’s going to win a war against a much bigger (though still, in grand total: rather small) country of 5 million, ‘supported’ (and, definitely: controlled) by an entity as fascistoid as the one in charge of Israel.
Aha… OK. Yes, that’s making helluva lots of sense (read: not at all).
Well, at least one thing is sure: by sheer accident, of course, this is certain to prompt the Trio Fantasticus in the White House to ship yet more arms and ammunition to Israel – at the cost of supporting Ukraine.
….and any kind of parallels to the situation from around a year ago are a pure, distilled chance, of course…
Now, as a weirdo (and an ‘anti-Semite’ of course), I cannot but conclude that it’s as ironic how many air strikes, assassinations and similar affairs it took the peaceful, peace-loving, humanist, pluralist, democratic and secular Zionists to provoke religious fanatics of the terrorist IRGC/Hezbollah conglomerate into launching a bigger rocket attack on northern Israel (like it did on Sunday - 22 September - just for example), as it is absurd how much is this fact ignored everywhere in the West…
It’s at such points in time when I cannot but recall how happy was everybody to ignore the Taliban offer to hand out OBL, in the aftermath of 9/11: how much better not only the US government, but all ‘the West’ knew back then, and how happy was everybody, in exactly these days some 23 years ago, to go ‘avenging 9/11’ - in Afghanistan…
….almost as happy as only a year later, while babbling about ‘Iraqi WMDs’ and preparing the invasion of Iraq…
So much so, the Taliban offer was promptly declared as ‘fake’ and remains known as such within the wider public ever since… while Iraqi WMDs…
…meh… irrelevant..
When then everybody starts explaining me what an ‘ally’ of Russia are Iran/IRGC/Hezbollah and Hamas, I cannot but agree that this is very much looking that way for all the ‘western’ ignorants, before continuing to stress that – regardless how often repeated – this is actually a load of BS, and then start listing all the differences between their ideologies and interests.
And when everybody is celebrating the White House’s announcement of another shipment of ammo to Ukraine (pay attention: this is already down to the ‘place No. 6 or lower’ in the ‘news-charts of the day’), already after a brief look at the list in question, I cannot but conclude the items mentioned might be enough to keep the Pokrovsk sector supplied – for about a week longer…
But, that’s from the rubric ‘Unpleasant Truths’, and thus something nobody wants to hear…
OK. OK. Then lets try something else. Please be so kind, permit me to be egocentric and ask another of my questions: is this making me something like a ‘doomer’? Somebody only seeing the ‘bad’?
I don’t think so. Full outting: probably because I’m a weirdo, I do consider myself a very enthusiastic person. Arguably, my sense of humour is a bit skewed (again: I’m a weirdo, after all), but, I love funny things, love to laugh, and that so much so I’m firmly convinced: we’re all going to die laughing.
It’s just so that when our glorious zombie idiots remain obsessed with bringing all the bad decisions that can only come to their rotten minds, I cannot but point out that their decisions remain bad.
That’s how it happens that my mind work. No ‘USA first’, no ‘Israel first’, no ‘Ukraine first’, and no ‘Austria first’. Nothing of that kind.
I’m the ‘consequences first’-guy.
And when I then think of consequences of supporting one party on basis of little else but primitive, religiously-motivated mythology (and then one created by an atheist… isn’t that funny, actually?), at the price of ignoring a massive, self-created problem directly at our doorstep… (which is at least as funny, isn’t it?) - well, then I cannot but conclude that we all might want to - urgently - re-think our priorities.
And yes: we do not.
….which, in this case (i.e. plural: in these cases), and from my point of view, cannot but mean that there are going to be dire consequences.
Ah well…
When in trouble, when in doubt, run in circles scream and shout.
The hystory Is a great teacher, but has no students, you know.
Funny that bibi is helping pudding in creating caos, while the 7th October was a gift for pudding (yes it's his birthday!).
But logic: bibi can continue living only if the war continues.