Overnight the United States and Great Britain attacked the Houthis, hitting airbases, munition depots, military HQs, etc etc. We await Houthi retaliation. We've already heard Dems condemning the strikes and some on the right claiming Yemen is the Neocon's next Ukraine, or some such. Sorry, yeah, no. Protecting the sea lanes is literally the US Navy's job. Literally. Exit question: did the Houthis fuck around and did they find out?
Observation: Secretary of Defense Loyd Austin is still in the hospital. He's useless. Does Joe even know what's going on? Related: we don't why more people haven't noticed that 'Doctor' Jill does a lot of TV. We can't be the only one to wonder if Ankor is going to swap out Joe for Jill.
A new Israeli poll confirms Prime Minister Netanyahu is doomed. According to the latest poll from Channel 12, Benny Gantz' National Unity Party would win 35 seats to Likud's 18, with the left-bloc winning 67 seats overall.* Another poll shows that in an Israeli version of a head-to-head matchup Gantz gets 51% of the vote to Bibi's 29%. Good. In the long run, this blog believes a Gantz run coalition government with Likud sans Bibi would be in the best interests of the nation. Win the war, step aside, and write your memoirs, Bibi. You've had a good run.
We haven't been following the arguments for and against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague because we're not a lawyer and we believe the case has more to do with South Africa than Israel. South Africa's decline, once slow, is now fast, and blood libeling the Jews is a useful distraction for the incompetent government of Cyril Ramaphosa (spelled that right on the first try, WTF?) that can't even keep the lights on. Mister we could use a man like PW Botha again. Botha's South Africa was the least worst country in sub-Saharan Africa.
Regarding our Alberta farmer (or rancher) story, the leader of this blog's Confederate Contingent comments, 'Just have him get up the next morning and continue to farm he knows people need to eat and crops will be worth more than gold.' We were actually going to do this with another story, but my god, this is the story with which to do this. Henry's sitting on his back porch, watching the southern horizon glow and figures he'll just go about business as usual. You magnificent bastard! You did it!
We are prepared to start War Night's nuclear silo story. The story begins seconds after the Titan II missile has left its silo. The crew sits around and waits for the inevitable. One begins Buddhist chanting he learned in Vietnam. One opens a bag of chips for his last meal. What does the crew do when the inevitable doesn't happen? It's a personality study. We actually referenced this silo in The Great Nuclear War of 1975. And here's some more research.
*Labor gets no seats. None. Zero. Zilch. Nada. What does one suppose former Labor party grandee Shimon Peres, thinks about the polls you know, from down there. We've coined the term 'Peres' meaning a peace idiot who thinks that if one only gives the enemy everything they want, they'll stop trying to kill you. Usage, 'You're a Peres'.
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