Gilbert Doctorow – Armageddon Newsletter Sept 10, 2024
Friends, countrymen, lend me your ears…
I cannot say how close we are to midnight on the nuclear war watch. But a Third World War fought at least initially with conventional weapons is now just days, at most weeks away.
I look at what my peers are saying on the most watched youtube channels, and they seem conforted that the Ukraine war is unsustainable for Zelensky’s army given the ongoing massacre of the forces they deployed in their Kursk gambit, today said to be over 10,000 men dead or grievously wounded. Meanwhile the Russian offensive in Donbass is reported both by Russians and by Western media to be accelerating, with more towns being captured each day and the number of square kilometers of Ukrainian territory ‘liberated’ there in the past month already roughly matching the 1,000 that Ukrainian elite forces captured in Russia’s Kursk oblast over the same period. Of course, these two conquests are incomparable: the Ukrainians have a tenuous hold on land they cannot fortify so as to keep given that their supply lines from the border are under constant deadly attack from the air and from Russian artillery, whereas the Russian advance along the Donbass battle lines is pulverizing long standing Ukrainian fortified positions and is about to totally disrupt the logistics that permit the Ukrainian forces to stay in the Donbass.
These same peers have highlighted the destruction of Ukraine’s best present and future cadres in electronic warfare by Russia’s missile strike this past week on the military communications institute in Poltava which is today said to have killed 700 Ukrainian and NATO personnel.
However, this seeming turning point in Russia’s favor is, as we speak, setting the stage for one further absolutely desperate and reckless act by the Biden administration to deprive Russia of its well earned victory by escalating the conflict to a world war.
What I have in mind is the near certainty that the United States and Britain have just agreed to give the Zelensky regime permission to use the long-range missiles which have been delivered to Ukraine, certainly including Storm Shadow and likely also the 1500 km range stealth missile known as JASSM to strike deep into the Russian heartland, and so ‘to bring the war to Russia’ as the Zelensky gang put it.
That is the sense of the trip this week by Secretary of State Blinken to Kiev and of the visit to the White House on Friday by British Prime Minister Starmer.
Collective Biden is doing this in the full knowledge that the Russians have issued direct threats of attack on the United States and other countries involved in strikes on its heartland using such Western supplied and directed weapons. However patient and averse to a hot war with NATO President Putin may be, he will have no choice but to rise to the challenge.
Meanwhile, peers who know a great deal about current affairs in the Middle East, in particular former British diplomat Alastair Crooke , have in their latest interviews on youtube said flatly that the United States has given Israel the go-ahead to launch a full-blown war on Lebanon. The nod from Washington was expressed by the reminder to Netanyahu that the aircraft carriers and other U.S. vessels now stationed in the Eastern Mediterranean cannot remain there indefinitely, so if he has something to do, he should proceed without delay.
Hence the Israeli prime minister’s public directive to the IDF a day ago to move on Lebanon. Should this happen, the tinderbox that is the Middle East today may well catch fire. The interested parties in countering the atrocities that Israel has been committing in Gaza and most recently also in the West Bank now take in even very moderate and restrained Jordan, as well as Turkey and Egypt. Of course; it will be very difficult for Iran to stay out of the conflict, which in one way or another will also bring in Iran’s newly declared strategic partner or ally, Russia.
In this way a presently localized conflict in the Middle East can in a flash become a regional war that in a further flash becomes a second front to the war between the United States and Russia which I foretold above when speaking about Ukraine.
These considerations of what may well happen in the immediate days ahead cannot bring joy to anyone. There will be no победа (victory) or слава (glory) for any of the parties to the coming conflagration. Only massive destruction and loss of life.
*Collective Biden is the term which Russian talk show hosts have applied to the US leadership given that the presidency assumed a collective form when the physical Joe Biden slipped into deep senility this past couple of years.
©Gilbert Doctorow, 2024
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WW3 could initially start with conventional weapons, but this would be another major mistake by Putin.
Why use nukes on day 2, or week 2, when you could’ve had the upper hand by using them on day 1, and once more, using them first.
I can not wait…. finally?
“Returns from Armageddon to the skies” ,
“Faster than a lazer bullet
Louder than an atom bomb
Chromium plated boiling metal
Brighter than a thousand suns”. Judas priest 🗿🔮⛏️🗽🗡️🚀☢️💣🛬🎯🌍⚖️🔥⚡🌪️🐑🐑🐑🐑🐑🚬
The “return to the moon and the promise of putting a man on the moon”, “nuke holocaust”, and the “Second Coming”…all in the future and never coming but feeding the expectations of passionate personalities with the expectation of “change”….
Primarily feeding politics and geopolitics, these memes are also profitable for “alternative journalists”…
I’ve bookmarked to my “Predictions” tab so I can once more return in underwhelming glory, not asking for donations, newsletter subscriptions etc…just so that I can fulfil my friendly neighbourhood duty as Anticlimax Man – my superpower is bubble bursting – probably around Christmas….Although by then there will be the reemergence of another one of the cycling “concerns”… maybe a “virus”…
Meanwhile, the jab poison continues with little fanfare in its remorseless course through humanity…
Let me guess .. a WWII History repeat with Russia performing a blitzkrieg into Germany’s industrial south and leveling Franfurt with their T80 turbine MBT’s speeding on the German autobahn ..
LOL! Fer sherrr!
More fear porn for the dumb sheeple. The WWIII being just a couple of weeks away has been a staple narrative of mentally ill delusional freaks for eons. Cooks have been making this exact same claim since at least 1950.
Biden administration telling Netanyahu to stop wasting time and attack Lebanon ASAP.
And what does the American fleet in the Med propose to do for Israel?
Those who want to save the world from ‘climate change’ also want world war III. It’s hard to square that circle.
Hal Turner is reporting Russia’s top diplomats and their families have left the US. Only a skeleton staff is present at the Embassy and Consulates.
LOL..
Professor Gilbert Doctorow (?) Harvard and Columbia, corporatist, worked in the Soviet Union…
..seems kosher…pushes the usual ‘narrative’.. plays the long game for the hidden agenda, saddles up with the usual suspects..obviously a mason..
..the internet is littered with these characters…
..and every single one of them is a spook stooge…of course this particular imbecile is actually quite funny and obviously has no sense of proportion or moderation.. cartoonish one could say..which of course..
.. is appropriate…all things considered…
I have not tried to study the psychology, but Carl Jones wants to “nuke” his own country. I am guessing he has been misunderstanding people in general for about 58 years
lewis jones: you’re such a moron. ‘My country’? My country is run by Nazis, and the thicko sheeple have voted for them over the decades.
‘Psychology’, that’s a bit rich for you, when you can’t apply it. In the past, you had something to say, but these days, you are devoid of critical thought. Maybe you passed away, and the Nazi deep state are using your name.
Much better for those who survive, not to be bothered by Nazis. This is why I support the Russians nuking the UK.
Jonesy just got triggered hahaha
For how many years have I heard this. Boring boring boring.
Starmergeddon
Prisons are schools for leaning crime
i learnt how to make bombs
one day soon synagogues across the UK will feel the anger
for what they have done to us
wait for it …
lewis jones do what we do and ignore carl jones
hes badly in need of treatment
i dont know why hes allowed on here
hes been exposed as mentally ill many times
even his natzis cant save us from what the jews have in store for us
Carl Jones, no surprise, thinks I am a Nazi, but more surprisingly, thinks I am dead and was replaced by Nazi gov. He’s not a raving nutter, however
@Carl
Now now Carl..we all understand that you are drifting into madness and that it’s most distressing both for you and the commentariat hereabouts, but you really need to to be more polite… you’re sounding and acting suspiciously like a totalitarian.. like a nazi in fact… and one whom it seems wants to holowco$t millions of Englishmen..
tut tut…
What have the lebanese people sinned that they
have to endure the criminal israeli nukeblast of
Beirut Port aug 2020 and now big stick gangster
USA inciting Satanjahu mafia against them .
@MM
what is with the US diplomats in Moskau ?
Carl Jones supports “Russians” nuking the UK (the West).
Straight out of the Protocols of Zion.
Carl Jones is a confirmed Jewish end-times purveyor, rehashing The Protocol’s script for Goyim annihilation via contrived war.
I suggest the Jews get better propagandists. Carl Jones is a smooth brain and who shills The Protocols, and as such you can almost be certain of his Jewish attitudes towards children, which I’m sure he will deny.
“The Nazis! The Nazis” shrieks the
Jew as he molests your children and poisons your wells.
The Carl Jones of the world are going to be dealt with severely when we unleash the reckoning.
I never realised I was so well read, and the comments reflect just how many Nazis are on here.
lewis jones: you should learn to read. I said ‘maybe you passed away’.
As to the others, it just shows how much of a Nazi tool this forum has become. The West, and in particular, the UK, is run by the most evil shits on the planet, putting to UK in the nuclear crosshairs, and everyone on here just blanks it. Even our editor doesn’t seem to be bothered by it, and he’s willing to turn his forum into the ‘Carl Jones appreciation society’, when we should be discussing things that matter.
As usual, the editor doesn’t post replies. If the wider world can read the comments, they must wonder about you.