{"id":192153,"date":"2023-10-21T12:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T16:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=192153"},"modified":"2023-10-21T12:07:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T16:07:26","slug":"it-is-starting-to-look-like-the-armageddon-that-revelation-describes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=192153","title":{"rendered":"

“It is starting to look like the Armageddon that Revelation describes.”<\/span><\/b><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rushing Into Catastrophe<\/strong><\/em><\/h1>\n

Paul Craig Roberts\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Biden regime refuses to defend US borders but does not hesitate to rush aircraft carrier task forces and the 101st US Airborne Division to defend Israel\u2019s borders.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u201cWe have Israel\u2019s back,\u201d endlessly proclaims America\u2019 Jewish Secretary of State.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u201cAmerica can afford two wars,\u201d proclaims America\u2019s Jewish Secretary of the Treasury.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>But forget protecting our own border and the burdens on American taxpayers.<\/p>\n

It seems our government is captured and risks our lives and welfare in the interest of another country.<\/p>\n

It seems everyone in Washington, Republicans and Democrats, especially Republicans, have intense war fever.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>While Washington quickly escalated the conflict by deploying US military forces to the area, the Republican Senator from South Carolina, Lindsey Graham, blames \u00a0escalation on Iran and issues a threat: \u201cif you escalate this war, we\u2019re coming for you.\u201d Graham continues with his threats, in our name, to Iran saying the US will \u201cknock Iran out of the oil business.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Like Israel and the Jewish-American neoconservatives, Graham\u2019s target is the Lebanese militia, Hezbollah:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u201cI am poised to use military force to destroy the source of funding for Hamas and Hezbollah.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another House Republican, this one from Texas, House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Michael McCaul, says he is writing legislation for authority to commit the US military to Israel\u2019s war on Palestine.<\/p>\n

What we are witnessing is Republicans who are as extreme as Hamas.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Is this insanity real, or is this showmanship, with political campaign funding in mind, for the US military\/security complex who will greatly benefit from America \u201caffording two wars?\u201d<\/p>\n

We are also witnessing the total failure of Western leadership, not only in Washington but throughout the Western world.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Instead of escalating the situation by sending military forces, Washington should have used its offices to calm matters down.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Why did not Washington calm the situation down instead of blowing it up?<\/p>\n

This website \u2014\u00a0https:\/\/www.moonofalabama.org\/2023\/10\/us-deploys-large-force-eyes-on-syria.html<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 speculates that the US forces accumulating in the war zone are a \u201cwar fleet,\u201d the purpose of which is to finally bring regime change to Syria and kick out the Russians in an act of revenge for the Russians preventing President Obama\u2019s planned overthrow of the Assad government.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I can understand that the Biden regime\u2019s neoconservatives want to continue their policy of cleansing the Middle East for Israeli expansion, but how safe is it to assume that Putin will run away with his tail between his legs?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>This would finish Putin as a leader of the dissident world and probably also finish him inside Russia.\u00a0 A show of Russian cowardice<\/span>\u00a0would certainly provoke an escalation of NATO\u2019s involvement in Ukraine.\u00a0\u00a0It seems certain that a US attack on Syria would result in military conflict between the US and Russia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Israelis have been massacring Palestinians and stealing their country bit by bit since 1947, and no one has ever done anything about it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The UN passes resolutions, but the US vetoes them.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>So this final time Netanyahu expects no opposition, indeed, he expects \u00a0help from the US and its empire in the commission of his war crimes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It is clear to me that the situation is awash in miscalculations. Hezbollah is a match for Israel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Indeed, the militia has twice defeated the vaunted Israeli Army and driven them out of Lebanon despite Israel\u2019s air power. Syria\u2019s army is battle hardened from fighting the mercenaries Washington sent to overthrow Assad.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Like Hezbollah and Hamas, Iran has fervor and a large number of missiles that can hit Israel.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>If, as is claimed, 5,000 missiles from Hamas overwhelmed Israel\u2019s Iron Dome, the Iron Dome has no chance against 100,000 or 200,000 missiles.<\/p>\n

If Israel\u2019s army is sent into Gaza, Hamas will keep it there, and Israel risks being overrun by Hezbollah, Syria, and Iraq and Iran should they care to participate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Faced with Israel\u2019s defeat, Washington would commit its forces with catastrophic consequences.<\/p>\n

We are experiencing on the part of Israel and the US a total lack of judgment.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The risks are being ignored.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It is starting to look like the Armageddon that Revelation describes.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The problem for humanity is that it has developed weapons that are capable of destroying all life, and these weapons are in the hands of emotional people incapable of restraint and reason.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I have been, and continue to be, concerned about the conflict in Ukraine spiraling out of control.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The situation developing in the Middle East is more dangerous.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>There doesn\u2019t seem to be sufficient recognition of this danger.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The war propaganda from the presstitutes is extreme and blinds people to reality.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Those in office think they are in control, but they are not.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Possibly Russia could prevent a wider conflict by raising its military presence in Syria, but Putin is not proactive.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

You tell me, where are the leaders to prevent a catastrophe?<\/p>\n

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