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Message started by Laugh till you cry on Aug 1st, 2024 at 8:55pm

Title: WW3? ... Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen
Post by Laugh till you cry on Aug 1st, 2024 at 8:55pm
The US has no control over live fire incidents.

Israel has been trying to lure the US into attacking Iran by provoking Iran with attacks inside Iran.

Israel withheld the attack plan from the US to avoid being dissuaded.

Turkey is now making threats against Israel. The situation is very tense.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/01/world/middleeast/middle-east-israel-iran-hezbollah.html


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Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen, With U.S. Seen as ‘Not in Control’
American officials said they had no advance warning of the attack on the Hamas leader in Iran, raising worries of a power vacuum that could lead to a broader geopolitical crisis.

By Mark Landler, Reporting from London, Aug. 1, 2024, 5:05 a.m. ET

For months, diplomats and analysts in foreign capitals have worried that prolonged political upheaval in the United States could invite aggression abroad, whether in Russia’s waging of war in Ukraine, North Korea’s rogue nuclear ambitions or China’s expansionist designs in the South China Sea.

Now, less than 100 days before Americans elect a new president, that broader geopolitical crisis has erupted in the familiar theater of the Middle East. The targeted killings of Hezbollah and Hamas leaders in Beirut and Tehran have deepened fears of a regionwide conflict — one that the United States, caught up in its own political drama at home, may have little capacity to avert or even contain.

On Wednesday, Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken said the United States had not been involved in, or even informed of, the operation in Tehran, which the Iranian government swiftly blamed on Israel. To some, Mr. Blinken’s statement confirmed a dangerous power vacuum in the region.

“We thought it would be Vladimir Putin or Xi Jinping or Kim Jong-un who would take advantage of this period in the U.S.,” said Vali R. Nasr, a professor of international affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. “Nobody counted on an American ally doing it.”

“This is going to make the region extremely nervous,” said Mr. Nasr, who served in the State Department during the Obama administration. “It’s never good for the United States to be seen as not in control.”

For President Biden, who expended time and prestige trying to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas to release hostages in Gaza, the back-to-back assassinations of the Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr, and the Hamas political leader, Ismail Haniyeh, could signal the futility of his diplomatic efforts, at least for now.

Moreover, the United States could find itself drawn into a direct conflict with Iran, something both countries have taken pains to avoid through months of tensions over the war in Gaza. In April, American officials worked behind the scenes to persuade Iran to limit its military reprisal against Israel after Israeli jets carried out a deadly strike on a meeting of Iranian generals in Damascus, Syria.

This time, however, the killing of Mr. Haniyeh, while he was in Tehran to attend the swearing-in of Iran’s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, suggests that American sensitivities counted for little, analysts said. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, quickly blamed Israel and vowed “harsh punishment.”

Title: Re: WW3? ... Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen
Post by Bobby. on Aug 1st, 2024 at 9:00pm
Some people are ready for WW3 - they are called preppers:



Title: Re: WW3? ... Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen
Post by Laugh till you cry on Aug 1st, 2024 at 9:07pm
Is this Bvr's garage where the Ozpolitic death cult that shall not be named meets?

Title: Re: WW3? ... Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen
Post by Bobby. on Aug 1st, 2024 at 9:09pm

Laugh till you cry wrote on Aug 1st, 2024 at 9:07pm:
Is this Bvr's garage where the Ozpolitic death cult that shall not be named meets?



Bvr's?

It's an anonymous prepper - probably from the USA.

Title: Re: WW3? ... Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen
Post by Bobby. on Aug 2nd, 2024 at 3:48pm
The US has deployed 12 warships in the Middle East amid the rise in tensions
that threatens to engulf the region, according to the Washington Post.



The vessels included the aircraft carrier USS
Theodore Roosevelt and its accompanying warships, and the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group, a three-ship amphibious task force that includes more than 4,000 Marines and sailors, the official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.

(The Washington Post)




Title: Re: WW3? ... Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen
Post by tallowood on Aug 2nd, 2024 at 4:17pm

Bobby. wrote on Aug 1st, 2024 at 9:00pm:
Some people are ready for WW3 - they are called preppers:



Excellent colour coordination there.

Title: Re: WW3? ... Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen
Post by Grappler Truth Teller Feller on Aug 2nd, 2024 at 4:25pm
It's coming - has been for a long time with all these 'limited' wars causing greater and greater unbalance....  these are just jockeying for position ...  in Putin's fevered mind he needs to re-establish the old border between Mother Russia and Western Europe to forestall The Invasion..... in doing this he is creating the very thing he claims to be preventing... and this time Father Winter will not save Russia...  Fat Boy Slim in North Korea keeps rattling his sabres because he imagines that China will bail him out as it did in 1951..... what he doesn't realise is that China will only do so to 'save face', since it stands to lose far more from fighting anyone... and Day One would come as a shock to the Chinese defence systems.... Israel stands currently against Gaza, Lebanon, parts of Syria dominated by radicals, South Yemen and Iran... Iraq is still in shock.....

Title: Re: WW3? ... Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen
Post by tallowood on Aug 2nd, 2024 at 5:14pm

Quote:
in Putin's fevered mind


Actually Putin has cool mind unlike WOKE western leaders who keep iterating through few dozen of their sex identities a year bringing the so called WEST to ruin.


Title: Re: WW3? ... Fears of Wider Mideast Conflict Deepen
Post by freediver on May 23rd, 2026 at 11:04am
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