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Yeah, nothing's gonna happen. Putie can't stop Ukrainians from raiding into Kharkov Oblast, he can't "Rain hellfire on IZrahell!" unless he escalates nuclear,

I think Kunstler is right on this one.

I find it quite delightful to see how awful many countries weapons are when they decide to use them! Remember scuds?

SharkyP says

I find it quite delightful to see how awful many countries weapons are when they decide to use them! Remember scuds?

Those Iranian "High Speed Precision Missile attacks" fell everywhere and anywhere, and the only immediate death was a rocket booster falling on an Fakestine Arab.

These Billionaires and Trillionaires didn't amass all of their money, to only end up in a apocalypse where their money is worthless, and only value is to buy them a spot for comfortable living conditions. Even that would be dwindling the longer world trade and diplomacy is hindered.

There will never be a WWIII in the sense of anything we thought it would be. No nuclear holocaust, no AI drones taking over and killing us all.
Somebody has to plug them in. The possibility of a Nuke being dropped on someone is always a danger. But I think in MOST countries, that would authorize a nuclear strike. Those that execute the actual missle launch would be hesitant. I think the response would be a devastatingly brutal conventional missle strike. Carried out by many nations.

If there were to be anything like a WWII, I think the NATO alliance and the UN assembly would be turned on it's head and meaningless. It wouldn't even be anything like a historical war, with a home front and warfront. As so many nations would be against other nations, enemies with nations that has common enemies with your own country. It would be more of a worldwide Civil War than a War of Nations.

Imagine 100 years after the great Wah Wah Trois, a high school teacher reading the text book citation, that WWIII was started by a meme. Then trying to explain what a meme was.

The Russkies just made a large crater while testing their latest Sarmat "superweapon."

https://x.com/FAB87F/status/1837833052438802942/photo/1

If that is a crater it's awfully narrow. Would it be likely that the three radio towers would still be standing near the crater like that. The towers are hard to see from that angle, but the shadow for them is plainly visible. Also the shadow on all of those building structures are there. It looks like they adding top soil to raise the area, and stop erosion. The green photo you can see all of the edges of the mound that complex is on, is sagging. In the other photo, they have been leveled out.

Great team spirit playing affirmative defense and denial violins on the deck of the WWIII Israeli Titanic, but it might not stop the sinking.

The Israeli gangster proxy can't exist without massive external life support, and it doesn't seem like the Three Cities think it's worth the bother or expense any more, even if it means unblocking the righteous from the Holy Land's occult powers and tearing down the Golden Calf.

The bible thumpers are trying to breed the red bull which is needed to sanctify the Third Temple in Jerusalem. This will usher in the final battle commencing in Megiddo. Zionists have always been suicidal/homicidal, and they're leading the blackmailed leaders of the West into destruction.

The captured witching powers of the Temple Mount appear to be uncooperative at the moment. Station identification until reset with the requisite entities.

That's true, the Hassidim are opposed to the Zionists - they consider the illegitimate establishment of Israel (which was recognized by Truman only after the Zionists placed a credible bounty on his head if he failed to do so) to be too soon.

Matthew 7:15-20
New King James Version
You Will Know Them by Their Fruits
15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

It's estimated Israel has 100-200 nukes, and that's a 30-year-old guess. I wonder what their target list looks like? Are there even that many valid targets? Israel could, of course, nuke Iran's nuclear prep sites, if they thought they were close to fielding a weapon. Even though the Iranians have burrowed deep underground, a nuke on top of their enrichment sites would make recovery of the yellowcake a lengthy, and likely, a radioactively dirty process. Israel's biggest concern would be the potential fallout. That's also an issue even if using bunker busters.

This is why Iran (and other participatory countries / polities) wage war on Israel through proxies. Direct action would be suicide.

Israel has been doing quite well lately in eliminating proxy threats. The ground war aims to reduce the proxy army troop levels to manageable numbers. It's like cleaning out wasp nests. It won't kill 'em all, but a few stings won't kill Israel in the long term. A large swarm is a problem.

They may have the nukes, but as a proxy themselves, the red buttons are elsewhere.

Tenpoundbass says

It would be more of a worldwide Civil War than a War of Nations.

This.

If we went to war with Russia, it would make the Vietnam domestic front look tame.

Israel is certainly good fruit compared to its neighbors in terms of living standards, human rights, etc. and the protection of Christian Holy Sites vs. Muslims, who turned it on and off to pressure the West.

In any case, that's from the NT, aimed at Christians, about False teachers like Jim Jones and Beth Moore trying to trump the Bible with their antinomian visions. "Oh I dreamed gay was okay, so toss out the Bible and listen to me, glorious Beth Moore"

In Romans 11, which specifically deals with the Seed of Abraham, they are beloved for the sake of the Patriarchs and eventually Physical Israel will be grafted back in and saved

If 'Israel' 'sends' nukes, the retaliations won't be exclusively on the resource poor Mediterranen desert outpost fort, the retaliations will go back to the puppeteers of the proxies. The local mad dogs would never be trusted with that capability.
Besides, the fate of an assassin's cult is always itself to be assassinated to create plausible deniability for the employers.

The mass slaughter of Silicon Dolls from Alibaba continues