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Daniel Helkenn's avatar

Another comprehensive rundown. The Niger situation is interesting. I didn’t know about the Iran uranium piece. That is in itself interesting. I can’t help but think Iran is very close to completing its nuclear puzzle and is just waiting to build its forces until it can build its bomb and they’re too powerful to really mess with.

The Russia in Africa piece is interesting as well. Apparently the names may be different but the goals remain the same.

France seems to be desperately thrashing for its relevance. I guess with the demise of Germany it sees ascension to the top of the EU as a possibility.

A great summation. As always it takes a bit to digest. There’s always the great pictures though.

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Karen Gordo's avatar

There are always the pictures. The crazy is going nuts heading to hyperbolic. But a lot of the noise is shifting blame onto other factions and entities before you create the chaos. That's really the biggest theme of all for now. All wars have the information set up.

These coup characters are tailor made to be on the receiving end. I'm pretty sure most of this was role played and scripted long ago. Tested for narrative suitability and integration in the overall plan which is bigger than all previous modern wars combined. Then imagine the actors guild went McCarthy era crazy and they were all double, triple, even quadruple agents.

We still have a ways to go to see a clear picture. But breaking these individual acts into components helps me see a bigger picture. Hopefully, clearing is on the way!

No doubt Iran has an incredibly important role to play. Otherwise, Obama wouldn't have set them up. It is my understanding that the original (Albert Pike version, developed around the time of the Civil War) plan of WWIII had Israel/Palestine and Arabia mutually destroying each other. In this era, that implies nukes.

I don't think that will happen, just that it will look like it will. So Iran needs a narrative set up at least. Both sides want it so it will be the narrative. But we can potentially see side issues and relationships in the how that's done. Early hours yet; lots of action still to come.

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