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A simply magisterial analysis of world events by British geopolitical analyst Joti Brar, delving into the reasons for the US Empire inexorable decay, and why humanity stands now on the brink of a new system grounded in mutual respect, rationality, and international brotherhood.

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The Paris Olympics, with its outrageous illogic of banning Russia and Belarussia, countries which are merely defending themselves from Western assault, but admitting mass-murdering Israel to the games proves the advanced social and cultural decomposition of the West, notes Joti Brar, and we all agree. Joti then explains why capitalism, and its offshoot, imperialism, cannot be fixed, and how all efforts by its current pathetic leadership to "fix the problem" can only lead to disasters and delay the inevitable. From Ukraine to Gaza and beyond, the US empire is showing everyone that its appalling corruption. irrationality, hypocrisy, and structural disease cannot be cured or covered up any longer by a prostituted media or political class.

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EURASIA TILTING AWAY
BANDERA 404
- 404: Ukraine will introduce 'action plan for peace' by end of November - Elensky communique ( Kyiv 'Independent' ) 
┝ Patience, Support and Diplomatic pressure needed ( by US and EU ) for a 'just peace'
┝ 'International unity will add pressure and show Moscow that there is no chance'
- 404: 'I know we will win – and how' - Ukraine’s top general on turning the tables against Russia - Syrsky ( Guardian UK ) 
┕ There is a plan to take Crimea but it's top secret.. We basically need more men, hopefully Ukrainians abroad.
- 404: Russia 'adapting tactics' advances in Donetsk - takes more land - Ukraine depleted - turmoil in US election ( WaPo ) 
- 404: Ukraine helped Mali rebel attack kill dozens of Wagner fighters - key role in ambush by 1,000 'Tuaregs' ( Times UK )
- 404: Ukraine's plan to survive Trump - survive and resist for 5-8 months - Trump will see 'Putin can't be trusted' ( TIME ) 
- 404: Ukraine’s top diplomat signals readiness to negotiate with Russia - Kuleba - Wang Yi 3 hour meeting ( SCMP CN ) 
- 404: Zaluzhny - now ambassador to UK - in first address - wants to turn his country into a weapons testing lab ( RT RU ) 
- 404: US combat vehicles keep Russians at bay - for how long? - 300 Bradley IFVs wrecked, Trump more? ( Times UK ) 
- 404: Ukrainian Brigade Collapses - and now hundreds of soldiers are surrounded near Progres - David Axe ( Forbes )
- 404: Ukraine will have a just peace or none at all - better position for offensive next year - Editorial Board ( FT UK ) 
- 404: Gains in terrain for Russia's army - Ukrainians are less and less able to counteract, morale crumbles ( FAZ DE ) 
- 404: Russia punches through weakened frontlines in eastern Ukraine - probing and breakthrough operations ( NYT ) 
- 404: F-16 fighter jets arrive in Ukraine but may not tip advantage against Russia - ' will arrive within weeks' ( WaPo ) 
- 404: Ukraine has suffered 700,000 irretrievable losses in the SVO - Major General Apti Alaudinov ( Rossiya 1 TV ) 
- 404: Peace agreement with Russia would be a 'deal with the devil' - top Ukrainian adviser Podolyak ( Euronews ) 
- 404: Fitch downgrades Ukraine further into default zone over $20 billion debt agreement - 'C' rating ( Reuters ) 
- 404: Plan to send Azeri gas to Europe may simply disguise Russian fuel - Kiev 'experts' examine ( FT UK )


EUROPE HATES HUNGARY
- EUK: Poland tells Hungary to 'join a union with Putin' in diplomatic row - leave EU and NATO - Deputy FM ( Euronews ) 
- EUK: Hungary embraces China loan financing after €1B deal - Chinese financing will be widespread ( Bloomberg ) 
- EUK: Orbán spoke at the annual Tusványos summer University in Hungarian part of Romania ( various ) 
┝ Russia stands to gain as 'irrational' West loses power - hyper rational, remarkable economy ( Reuters / CNN ) 
┝ Nord Stream act of terrorism was carried out under US leadership against German property ( Ukro Pravda ) 
┝ The European Union is on the path to 'self-destruction' - world is Asia-oriented - Orbán ( Guardian UK ) 
┕ EU will have to admit defeat and bear responsibility for supporting war in Ukraine - Orbán ( TASS RU ) 
ITALIA REACHES OUT
- EUK: Italy’s Meloni on mission to mend ties with Xi ahead of US vote - in Beijing after leaving BRI last year ( Bloomberg ) 
- EUK: Italy's Meloni pledges to 'relaunch' relations with China - on five-day state visit - signed 3-year 'action plan' ( FT UK ) 
- EUK: Italy restores diplomatic relations with Syria - returns ambassador after decade-long absence ( Euronews ) 
- EUK: Thousands rally in various Serbian towns to protest against EU lithium excavation deal ( Euractiv ) 
ECONOMIC LANDSCAPE
- USC: National debt hits $35 trillion - US stares down fiscal reckoning - debt to GDP 'scary levels' ( Washington Examiner )
- USC: US home insurers suffer worst loss this century - citing natural disasters, inflation and 'population growth' ( FT UK ) 
- USC: Pentagon finds another $2 billion of accounting errors for Ukraine aid - used wrong values to tabulate ( Reuters )
- USC: US consumers show signs of flagging, companies and analysts warn - spending lowest in eight months ( FT UK )
- USC: $1 Trillion rout his NASDAQ 100 over AI jitters in worst day since 2022 - lost $10t value in selloff ( Bloomberg ) 
- USC: US Carmakers chasing an EV future get tripped up by 'choppy present' - Ford, GM, Tesla stocks fall ( WSJ ) 
- USC: Undocumented immigrants will boost economy, lower deficit - Congressional Budget Office ( The Hill ) 
- USC: Yellen says $3T of fresh capital is needed annually to fight climate change - in Brazil ( Politico US ) 
- USC: No return date for NASA astronauts amid problems with Boeing Starliner capsule ( Guardian UK ) 
- USC: McDonald's sales fall worldwide for first time in four years as cost of living bites ( Guardian UK ) 

- EUK: Around 10m British pensioners will lose their winter fuel payments under new plans - chancellor Reeves ( BBC UK ) 
- EUK: EU diplomats ordered to cancel parties after 'budget crunch' - overspending triggers expense crackdown ( FT UK ) 
- EUK: Tories have left UK with 'unforgivable' £22 billion black hole in budget - Chancellor Rachel Reeves ( Times UK ) 
- EUK: Scholz is failing to engineer 'liftoff' for German economy - no meaningful growth casts shadow ( Bloomberg ) 
- EUK: More than half of Britons feel poorer than they did five years ago - Censuswide survey ( Bloomberg ) 
- EUK: The UK is 'broke and broken' - Starmer's office prepares to tackle shortfall in public finances ( AP ) 
- EUK: UK drops out of top ten manufacturing nations for first time -from 8th to 12th place ( Times UK ) 
┕ 7 Mexico, 8 Russia, 9 Italy, 10 France, 11 'Taiwan', 12 UK
- EUK: China's made-in-Europe EVs pose new threat to region's carmakers ( Bloomberg )
┝ BYD, Chery, Geely open new factories in Hungary, Spain, Türkiye and Poland
┕ New quarterly losses : Renault 35% decline, Ford 18%, Nissan 73%, Stellantis 48%!
- ASO: Japanese automaker Nissan lowers its profit forecast amid incentive, inventory woes - 73% profit loss ( WaPo ) 
- ASO: Critical AUKUS contract doubles in price and now a year late - $9.6m / 114% increase ( Canberra Times AU ) 
- RUC: Russia's 'surprising' consumer spending boom - sharp rise in real wages and consumption ( FT UK ) 
MILITARY / DIPLOMATIC 
- USC: Canada, China pledge to mend relations - FMs met in Beijing - Tibet, Taiwan, Uyghurs 'internal affairs' ( CBC CA ) 
- USC: How the US and allies can convince more citizens to serve - we need more men - Editorial board! ( Bloomberg )
- USC: The entire West makes just one fifth-generation fighter - The F-35 - and it’s in crisis - delays, price ( Telegraph UK ) 
- USC: US risks losing in event of multiple conflicts with adversaries - National Defense Strategy report ( Sputnik RU ) 
- USC: Blinken warned China’s top diplomat Wang Yi that Kamala Harris 'cares about rules-based order' ( WaPo ) 

- EUK: The EU sends €1.5B frozen assets to Ukraine - Switzerland opts out - will not follow - law, obligations ( Swissinfo ) 
- EUK: Germany's legal bogeyman is 'hampering EU response to Putin' - shared EU debt = Eurobonds ( Bloomberg ) 
- EUK: Rampant sanctions busting is overwhelming EU front-line states - Latvian FM Baiba Braže ( Politico EU ) 
- EUK: European defense is in need of big financial boost - Swedish Saab chief Micael Johansson ( FT UK ) 
- EUK: Why Britain’s F-35s could be consigned to the scrap heap - programme is too costly ( Telegraph UK ) 

- ASO: US told Philippines it made 'missteps' in secret anti-vax propaganda effort - drag China into a quagmire ( Reuters ) 
- ASO: Making Asia grimace again? Idea of Trump 2.0 White house fuels regional unease - for the enslaved ( SCMP CN ) 
- ASO: US forces Japan to be upgraded to 'warfighting command' - new four-star US commander ( Defense One ) 
- ASO: Blinken chides Beijing's 'escalating actions' at sea, concerned over Taiwan - ASEAN Summit ( Reuters ) 
- ASO: US launches military command in Tokyo 'to counter China' - forces will be overseen from new HQ ( WSJ ) 
- ASO: Blinken meets Wang Yi, US and China 'air global differences' - on sixth meeting since last year ( AP ) 

- RUC: PLA holds intensive foreign military interactions across three continents - Europe, Asia, Africa ( Global Times CN )
- RUC: Russia celebrated Navy Day in St Petersburg - with international flotilla of 200 - China, Algeria, India ( TASS RU ) 
- RUC: Putin on Russian patrol flights near Alaska - a response to increased US activity close to Russia ( RT RU ) 
- RUC: Segrei Lavrov arrived in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on previous unannounced official visit ( TASS RU ) 
┕ Malaysia sent official letter of application to join BRICS - PM Anwar Ibrahim ( TASS RU  ) 
- RUC: Russian navy starts major drills involving most of its fleet - Pacific, Arctic, Caspian, Baltic ( Reuters ) 
- RUC: India and China agree to work urgently to achieve withdrawal of troops from disputed border ( AP )
- RUC: Putin warns the United States of Cold War-style missile crisis - response to Germany ( Reuters ) 
- RUC: Attack on Christian church foiled in Islamic Russian region - Kaspiysk, Dagestan - FSB ( RT RU ) 

WEST ASIA MIGHT EXPLODE
ATTACK ON THE GOLAN
- WEA: A projectile fell on a football field, in Majdal Shams, Israel-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, killing 12 children 
┝ Hezbollah 'firmly denied' claims that they were responsible - official statement
┝ The Druze initiative said Israeli Iron Dome interceptor missiles fell on them - 'happens every day' - Ghalib Saif
┝ The Druze in this occupied area are Arabs loyal to Syria and the resistance, certainly not the occupation
┝ The funeral goers rejected Israeli ministers presence, including Smotrich - videos
┝ They also heckled PM Netanyahu going to the town - sent a letter to the Knesset to 'stay away'
┝ 'Get out of here, murderer! You came here to dance on the blood of our children!'
┝ Israel blamed Hezbollah - claimed it was an 'Iran-made Falaq 1 missile'
┝ Israel has refused an official inquiry into the Majdal Shams explosion.
┕ The IDF vowed they - Hezbollah - will 'pay a heavy price' - DM Gallant
CURRENT AFTERMATH
- USC: Netanyahu’s US visit revealed 'no workable plan' for peace - Biden 'day after' strategy remains pipe dream ( WaPo ) 
- USC: Don't bomb Beirut - US leads push to 'rein in' Israel's response - five people with knowledge ( Reuters - Euractiv ) 
- USC: Washington gives Netanyahu 'full backing' to expand war on Lebanon - insider tells Israeli channel 14 ( Cradle ) 
- USC: US and Middle-East diplomats scramble to head off Israel-Hezbollah war after rocket attack ( WSJ )
- USC: US does not want escalation after Golan Heights rocket attack - Blinken in Tokyo ( Reuters )

- EUK: Britain delays decision on banning arms exports to Israel for weeks - expected 'total ban' suspended ( Times UK ) 
- EUK: Türkiye should be kicked out of NATO after threatening Israel with war - Belgian PM Geert Wilders ( Ynet ) 
- EUK: Church of England bishop calls Israel an apartheid state - Rachel Treweek ( Telegraph UK ) 
- EUK: EU top diplomat urges end to 'madness' after Gaza school strike - Borrell ( Euractiv ) 

- WEA: Extremist Israeli Finance Minister minister called for assassination of Hezbollah's Nasrallah - Smotrich ( IRNA IR ) 
- WEA: Israel launched retaliatory strikes 'deep inside' Lebanon - claim 'weapons and military infrastructure' ( Politico EU ) 
- WEA: FM Bezalel Smotrich urged NATO to expel Türkiye after Erdogan threatened to invade Israel ( Times of Israel ) 
- WEA: Lebanon warned Israel that an attack on Beirut would lead to 'regional war'  - Foreign Ministry ( Telegraph UK ) 
- WEA: 'I can’t justify this military operation any more' -  the IDF reservists refusing to return to Gaza ( Guardian UK ) 
- WEA: Israeli education minister threatens 'all-out war' with Hezbollah after Golan Heights attack ( Guardian UK ) 
- WEA: Iran warned of serious consequences for any Israeli strike on Lebanon - President Pezeshkian ( Reuters ) 
- WEA: UNHRC finds Israel 'and Hamas' guilty of war crimes - extermination, murder, using starvation ( CNN ) 
- WEA: Erdogan warned that Türkiye may enter Israel - just like it entered Karabakh and Libya ( TASS RU )
- WEA: An Israeli airstrike hits a school sheltering people in Gaza, killing at least 30 including children ( AP ) 
- WEA: Israel orders more evacuations - deadly strike on Khan Younnis school kills at least 30 ( WaPo ) 
- WEA: Israeli FM threatens Erdogan with Saddam Hussein’s fate - Israel Katz ( Mehr IR )

THE AMERICAS
VENEZUELA DECIDES
- LAT: Venezuela 'strongman' Nicolas Maduro reelected as president - election authorities ( CNN ) 
┝ All Western headlines are about a 'shock' win for an 'autocrat' with election interference.
┝ Attack on electoral system that slowed vote count came from North Macedonia - Attorney General Tarek Saab
┝ 'protestors' / thugs have set hospitals, and the Calabozo USP HQ on fire after elections.
┝ Nicholas Maduro, when casting his ballot : 'Viva Palestine Libre!' 
┝ María Corina Machado : 'Venezuela's struggle is Israel's struggle' - sent letters to US and Israel to invade
┝ María Corina Machado : 'We will move the Venezuelan embassy to Jerusalem if we win'
┝ Argentina will not recognize Maduro - Milei 'hopes the Armed Forces will 'defend democracy' - statement
┝ Elon Musk - for some reason - was extremely upset with the election results.
┝ Blinken has 'serious concerns' about election representing the 'will of the people' - statement
┝ Venezuela withdraws diplomatic staff from Argentina, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Panama, Dom-Rep, Uruguay
┝ Mexico - belatedly - recognized the election results as fair and open, after confirmation.
┕ Putin, Lukashenko, Iran, Bolivia and China congratulated Maduro on his re-election as president
DEMOCRACY IN USA
- USC: Democrats bet America is ready to elect a black woman president - Gender and race will be central to campaign ( WSJ ) 
- USC: Kamala Harris and the dangers of the 'Glass Cliff' - women of color cleaning up mess after white men ( Intercept ) 
- USC: Kamala Harris has 'quickly pivoted' to convincing Arab American voters of her leadership - on Gaza policy ( AP ) 
- USC: Kamala Harris raises $200m in first week of presidential campaign - overcoming Biden 'slowdown' ( FT UK ) 

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Is there a risk that Kamala Harris might “go soft” on foreign policy?

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Extraordinary Times: Biden renounces his election bid via in the slimmest of Sunday afternoon postings; retreats into a silence which finally is broken by a ‘long farewell’ pronounced from the Oval Office. Biden’s staff didn’t hear of his renunciation until a minute before his letter was posted. Then the internet was struck down by CrowdStrike, and the head of the U.S. Secret Service gives an account of the Trump assassination attempt that leaves both sides of the aisle in Congress aghast at the seeming incompetence – or mooting something ‘worse’.

Everyone is left reeling.

With all media information streams tainted, and with no ‘believable someone’ to explain what is going on, we are pushed completely to the ‘outside’. For now, it is impossible to orientate. The media increasingly is about one thing: ‘Let us think for you. Let us be your eyes and your ears. Make our new words and phrases into your language. The explanations and hypotheses that are offered appear so unconvincing that they evoke, rather, a deliberate attempt to dis-orientate the public – and to loosen their grip on reality’.

Nonetheless, even if the essence of the internal U.S. conflict is shrouded, a veil on the working of the Deep State has been peeled away: It is widely understood the Biden ouster was masterminded – behind the curtain – by Barack Obama. Pelosi was the ‘enforcer’ (“We can do this [Biden’s ouster] the easy way – or the ‘hard way’”, Pelosi warned the Biden circle).

Wall Street Journal:

“We [he and Obama] both grew up in Chicago politics. We understand how it works—with the bosses over the people. Mr. Obama learned the lessons well. And what he just did to Mr. Biden is what political bosses have been doing in Chicago since the 1871 fire – selections masquerading as elections. Mr. Obama and I know this kind of Chicago politics better than anyone. We both rose up in it and I was brought to ruin by it”.

“While today’s Democratic bosses may look different from the old-time cigar-chomping guy with a pinky ring, they operate the same way: in the shadows of the backroom. Mr. Obama, Nancy Pelosi and the rich donors—the Hollywood and Silicon Valley élites—are the new bosses of today’s Democratic Party. They call the shots. The voters, most of them working people, are there to be lied to, manipulated and controlled”.

“All along, Mr. Biden and the Democratic politicians have been claiming that this year’s presidential race is about “saving democracy”.They are the biggest hypocrites in American political history. They have successfully maneuvered to dump their duly elected candidate for president … [Biden’s] unfitness to run for re-election today didn’t just happen. The Democrats have been covering it up for a long time. [However, after] June’s presidential debate, Mr. Obama and the Democratic bosses could no longer hide his condition. The jig was up, and Joe had to go”.

“The Democratic National Convention in Chicago next month will provide the perfect backdrop and place for Mr. Obama to finish the job and choose his candidate, not the voters’ candidate. Democracy, no. Chicago ward-boss politics, yes”.

Well, it seems that Kamala Harris – who never won a primary – is again about to circumvent the primary process through orchestrated acclaim, which rumour suggests is concerted by the Clinton family, whilst the Obama family (Dons of the Chicago political mafia) are against her, and fume quietly.

Is it done? Will Kamala Harris be the Democratic contender?

Maybe so – but were there to be a major international crisis – say, in the Middle East, or with Russia – possibly things might then change.

How so?

To get where Harris ‘is’, she “went from being a tough-on-crime prosecutor as a district attorney in California – to the far Left”, (sic) California delegates at the RNC told The American Conservative:

“She and Gavin Newsom,in charting their rise through the Democratic Party of 2024,tried to keep tacking to the far Left. They had to be the most extreme on crime, on abortion, on DEI, on the open border, on economic policy and confiscation level taxation. That really doesn’t play well in most of the country”.

Harris has also differentiated herself from Biden in foreign policy by being explicitly more sympathetic to the plight of Gaza’s Palestinians.

U.S. foreign policy strategies however, are not widely discussed publicly, and are viewed by the ruling-strata as vital and being of the essence. The electorate will not be privy to what those entanglements are at the structural level, since they involve state secrets. Nevertheless, much of U.S. politics rides on the back of this ‘less divulged’ bedrock.

Will Harris commit to these foundations of foreign policy structures (i.e. such as the Wolfowitz Doctrine)? Will she go soft on the structures out of a desire to tilt towards the progressive wing of the Democratic Party in respect to Gaza? Will she go party-partisan and break the bi-partisan canon (already under stress)?

Ignore the money-laundering aspect to foreign policy expenditure. The important thing is that no one can be allowed to go soft on these policies and treaties on which the ‘free world’ structurally now depends, and has done so for decades. That is the Deep State stance.

It will not play well in the U.S., were Harris to ‘go soft’. There was clear evidence in Netanyahu’s address to Congress that the longstanding bipartisan consensus to back Israel has eroded. This will worry the foreign policy grandees.

“The one adhesive that has maintained the resilience of the Israeli relationship is bipartisanship”, said Aaron David Miller, a former Middle East negotiator and adviser to Republican and Democratic administrations. “That is under extreme stress.” He added: “If you have a Republican view and two or three Democratic views about what it means to be pro-Israel, the nature of the relationship is going to change”.

Mr Netanyahu was evidently well aware of this risk. He struck a pointedly bipartisan tone throughout his address. And the address undoubtedly was a masterful display of his feel for the American political psyche. It hit the required spots and carefully melded into a ‘State of the Union’ mode of delivery and structure.

Of course there were dissenters, yet Netanyahu seized the audience with his “crossroads of history” grand theme which portrayed Iran’s “Axis of Evil” confronting America, Israel and their Arab allies. And he cemented his hold over much of that audience by promising that – together – America and Israel would prevail: “When we stand together something very simple happens: We win, they lose. And my friends”, he pledged, “We will win”.

It was a replay of the ‘Israel is America and America is Israel’ meme.

So the foreign policy questions in respect to the Harris candidacy are two-fold: First, might Harris – as presidential candidate presumptive – choose to tear down, weaken or expose the load-bearing foreign policy ‘givens’ in the eyes of the Establishment?

And secondly, what should be the stance of Deep State panjandrums should a serious international crisis arise in the near future?

A clamour then will surely swell that an experienced foreign policy hand must take the helm – which Harris isn’t. It would invite calamity, were someone with no foreign policy experience to knock down certain policy ‘structures’ on which so much U.S. policy rides.

Is Obama then awaiting the moment to insert his final choice as the new Party figurehead (as the GOP Convention goers suspect), or is he convinced that Harris will not prevail in November, and as party elder statesman, would prefer to pick up the pieces of the Party – in the aftermath – and mould it to his liking?

Just to be clear, an international crisis precisely is that which Netanyahu intends to begin to build out during his Washington visit. Of course, the address of Netanyahu’s ‘grand theme’ will be pursued quietly, away from the public gaze. Speaker Mike Johnson is convening a private gathering with Netanyahu alongside some of the most influential Republican mega-donors and political power players.

Netanyahu is on record that 7th October has evolved to become a war on Israel from all points of the compass, and that Israel needs the support and practical assistance of the “free world” … “at a time when it is more viciously demonized than ever”.

Whilst Hezbollah is being confronted daily by the IDF, it has manifestly neither been dismantled nor deterred. And that dictates that Israel cannot live with ‘terrorist armies’, openly dedicated to Israel’s destruction encamped at, and near, its borders, Netanyahu complains.

This constitutes ‘the imminent crisis’: The prospective Israeli military operation in Lebanon to push Hezbollah back from the border. Reportedly, the U.S. already has committed to limited support for this military objective.

But Netanyahu also insists that Israel needs the support and practical assistance of the ‘free world’ ‘to counter the regime at the heart of the existential threat – Iran’. What if Iran intervenes in Lebanon in response to a massive Israeli assault? Netanyahu casts this as the ‘barbarians’ coming for western civilisation – coming too for America as much as Israel.

The recent Israeli attack on Hodeida port in Yemen – at least in part – can be seen as an Israeli teaser clip to show the western world that Israel is able to confront adversaries at long distance (1,600 kms) showcasing its own in-flight re-fuelling capabilities for a large phalanx of aircraft. The raid inflicted heavy damage on the port. The message was clear: If Israel can do this to Yemen, it can (theoretically) strike at Iran, too.

Of course, hitting out at Iran is entirely a different proposition. And that’s why Netanyahu is seeking U.S. support.

There is a photograph of Netanyahu and his wife aboard the Wing of Zion (the new Israeli State aircraft) with a MAGA-style baseball cap on the desk beside him, only it is blue, not red, and is emblazoned with two words: “Total Victory”.

“Total Victory” plainly is Israel ‘winning together, with the U.S., in confronting Iran’s axis of evil’: Is the U.S. aboard? Or are U.S. foreign policy circles so distracted by the extraordinary succession events cascading out in the U.S. and Ukraine that the élites cannot, at the same time, attend to Bibi’s “crossroads of history”? We shall see.


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