Those US troops at Al Tanf are there to act as a sacrificial lamb, so the neo con’s can justify a much wider ME war, and aid Israel directly by bombing Iran (Israel does not have the long range capacity to hit the Iranian targets they desire). Both Syria and Iraq have demanded that all US bases be closed and evacuated, in fact DJT ordered all such bases closed, and then his order was ignored by General Mark Milley and SDOD Esper, two died in the wool neo con deep state operatives.
Attacking Iran is no cakewalk, they have a beefed up ADS, with multiple coverages of all vital facilities with S300 and S400 systems………..and they can hit Hormuz chokepoints at any time with cruise and ballistic missle fire……Lyndsay Graham needs to be careful what he wishes for……..expect many lost aircraft and captured pilots……

Posted by: Tobias Cole | Jan 29 2024 1:45 utc | 104

“I teach Classics and students fail it frequently…”
Attendance failures, right? Because you’re boring and they stop coming to class. The important point is that failing your class has no impact on any other classes students might choose to entertain themselves with. Nothing they might learn in your classes has any significance. It is disposable… entertainment.
If kids fail my classes, on the other hand, then they don’t become engineers or hard scientists. Then they have to take your classes and become journalists or business majors… you know, the university equivalent of Special Education.
“Steer clear of bullies who want to shut you down.”
Oh, you mean Classics majors who are certain that men can give birth and women can have penises? Freaks who wail they feel threatened if anyone doesn’t actively support their delusions? Don’t worry, those kind cannot handle real education and stay well away from math and engineering programs.

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 29 2024 1:56 utc | 106

Wouldn’t an attack on Iran shut down the Persian Gulf? Or at least hinder oil supplies?

Posted by: Immaculate deception | Jan 29 2024 1:58 utc | 108

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 29 2024 1:56 utc | 106
Unfortunately with the way tenure and professorships go in the USA for the last 30 years, everything being homogenized and corporatized, journalism school is only good for getting a job at USA Today or if you’re “lucky” a gig at one of the establishment “legacy” media rags like NYT or WaPo. Or of course just generating “content” to drive page views and view time for ads. Prior to the mid-90s you could still get a really good start into investigative journalism and critical thinking; now it’s all pro-Empire bullshit and “networking opportunities” as far as I’ve been told.
And it should be noted that there isn’t a single school of business that even mentions Marxist economic theory.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 29 2024 2:01 utc | 110

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 29 2024 1:56 utc | 106
Mate, we get it. Hard science is real. You teach it, therefore you’re real. A real piece of work.
Classicists are also about the most unwoke people you’ll ever meet. But I can see arguing with you is futile.

Posted by: Patroklos | Jan 29 2024 2:05 utc | 112

Can we get back to discussing the ongoing genocide, resistance efforts, and potential start to a major war in the Middle East?
Just to be clear, I love hearing from academics and shitkickers that bring the insights and discussions and questions that make this site great!

Posted by: mtw | Jan 29 2024 2:10 utc | 114

Tom_Q_Collins @107
Believe it or not, I completely agree. People should be well read, and sadly most won’t bother unless someone is holding their hand. I also think it can be a lot of fun discussing such monsters of literature as L Ron Hubbard’s “Atlas Shrugged”… or was it Ayn Rand’s “Battlefield Earth”? I always mix up those religious texts. Anyway, that stuff is a lot of fun, but actually getting college credits for it? I dunno…

Posted by: William Gruff | Jan 29 2024 2:15 utc | 116

William can it
Many of us have had professors who have had a large impact on our lives. I had 2. One who totally freed me from the current mode of learning art. The class was doing portraits in a way like Chuck Close, the works came out perfect they were self portraits. The professor then had us trade with someone else eras it and draw our own portrait on top of the erased one. The result was 1/3 of the class left and the rest of us learned that change is good and necessary . This professor also introduced me to Leon Golub. Who showed the world who and what the US wars were. My other amazing professor was a nun who after almost flunking modern art survey taught me to love art history. Taught me that sitting in a dark room looking at slides then being tested on those slides ,was not art history. She walked us through the lives of artists then expected us to walk her through our own favorite artists I received A s in her classes!
Are their corporate owned schools and professors? Of course these people tend to be in a lot of places not just education and not all professors are like that.

Posted by: Susan | Jan 29 2024 2:23 utc | 118

Tom_Q_Collins@100….nah, they’re just pissin’ up wind….do mind where you step.
Cheers M

Posted by: sean the leprechaun | Jan 29 2024 2:28 utc | 120

William Gruff 96
Patroklus 97
Can we agree that education in the modern world involves the use and examination of language so that it is a tool of critical thinking? Like the use of any tool or instrument, it must be challenged and practiced—like learning to play the piano, or learning a foreign language.
A discussion of rhetorical manipulation certainly is facilitated by an understanding of rhetorical terms.
It is just more efficient to know special terms.
How would you recognize, not to mention explain, gaslighting if we didn’t have a term for that?
How do you recognize and call out straw-man arguments if you don’t have a name for that? Knowing what a straw-man argument is helps one recognize one.
The fault lies not with education per se if it is poorly done, or if educational settings or pedagogical approaches are subverted for superficial goals (such as getting by with a passing C).
There are a couple of commenters here who vacillate between stream-of-thought incoherent jumbles of ideas and very clearly presented points. It is weird. I wonder whether this commenter is high half of the time.
I would skip most of his stuff until I read a very clear comment and realized it was from the jumbled guy. Got his act together, I guess.
Clear language is fundamental to clear argumentation.
Nathanial Philbrick’s book Valiant Ambition includes many excerpts of Washington’s letters. Boy, could he write, clearly and expressively. All of the Founders could write clearly and often brilliantly. They could observe and analyze and deploy the language to describe and explain complicated situations.
Even set up a government.
They were educated, no doubt about that.

Posted by: Jane | Jan 29 2024 2:31 utc | 122

Jane | Jan 29 2024 2:31 utc | 122 “Can we agree that education in the modern world involves the use and examination of language so that it is a tool of critical thinking?”
Language is communication. Critical thinking is altogether another arena. Each can exist without the other.

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 29 2024 2:38 utc | 124

True. I will avoid get cranky will bad spelling too.
It does remind me of an old gag:
“Spike Milligna, the well-known typing error”.

Posted by: Patroklos | Jan 29 2024 2:40 utc | 126

@ Alchemist | Jan 29 2024 2:27 utc | 119 with the request for contact about QEEG
Go to my web site, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the link to send me an email
a link to a journal article about QEEG therapy
https://www.isnr-jnt.org/article/view/16715
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ZH has a posting up with the title
Congressional Hawks Urge ‘Hit Iran Hard’ After 3 US Troops Killed By Tehran-Aligned Militants
It is fascinating in that they keep saying all the “In Jordan” and the “Its Iran” things but the map and quoted facts keep contradicting their spiel…..LOL!

Posted by: psychohistorian | Jan 29 2024 2:41 utc | 128

2024 is a year that has a serious nuclear prescient. Those who spent time studying and transliterating the ancient clay tablet records, which were buried under sand in Mesopotamia for approximately 4000 years, have detailed the destruction of five cities including Sodom and Gomorrah. An instant obliteration. Nuclear residue (U237) has been identified in the region and all pottery remains turned to glass from the heat. A “pillar of salt” is transliterated to a pillar of vapour as salt was recovered by vapourizing the water. This has been clearly date constructed through all historical manuscripts to a specific date, 2024 BC.
The Judaic people are all biblical. So is Catholicism, whos Pope Gregory modified the calendar so today we find ourselves in 2024 AD.
And to further elucidate on the impending political struggle, and the seriousness of the consequences, is the processional shift/change. in 2024BC we left the age of Taurus (note Moses first smashed the Bull when he returned with his tablets) entering the age of the Ram/Aries. 2000 years later we began the Jesus cult with him feeding the masses with two fish and a loaf of bread. The clear sign of Pisces, twin fish and a shaft of wheat.
2000 plus years later we end that cult and enter Aquarius.
As difficult and outrageous our obviously superior intellect and civilization appears to be in our cognitive dissonant conceited lives, it’s difficult to argue with 4000 year old documents recorded in a language no one could read until the discover of the Rosetta Stone by Napoleons men.
I despise the atrocities humanity performs in the name of their own particular God, Enlil or Enki offspring, but we do it. Troy was not some myth.
So grab your popcorn and enjoy the show. The power struggle is at a much higher level than Israel/USA etc vs China/Russia/Iran etc, its the Enki families turn to rule and they’ll have it. The Enlil side tried to hang onto the Bull era by resorting to nukes in 2024BC. Hopefully they don’t pull that desperate trick again.
Personally I’m disgusted to be Canadian witnessing our governments failure to protect the innocent people everywhere, and supplying the weaponry used to terrorize worldwide.
The “Gods” were pissed at the use of nukes, and when they did use them they backfired, winds carried the fallout over themselves. Enki got his Babylon rule as Marduk. The next transition, (Aries to Pisces) though not peaceful, wasn’t nuclear enhanced. Hopefully they/we learned. Lol

Posted by: Merv Ritchie | Jan 29 2024 2:59 utc | 130

ten years and I rarely missed reading a thread.
Garbage now
how sad

Posted by: ld | Jan 29 2024 3:08 utc | 132

130 merv a meteorite can explain the same scenario. Even the background radiation. One of the mysteries of magic , is that it only works if you believe it, one form being witch doctor magic where they say your gods must be more powerful to negate mine, or card tricks where one only has to look to see the switch.

Posted by: Hankster | Jan 29 2024 3:14 utc | 134

Hankster, yes, when cognitive dissonance rules with greater authority than 4000 year old records written on stone, of course one can come up with magical fantasies such as a meteor without evidence. I wonder if we can discuss intelligence and knowledge rather than grammar. Perhaps not. I love the bar as 1d states, and I know this is a bit of a diversionary thought bubble, yet if one considers 4000 yr old records as facts to debate the cause of today’s events, one might see I’m right on topic.

Posted by: Merv Ritchie | Jan 29 2024 3:26 utc | 136

A thought:
The destabilisation of Jordan works to the benefit of the Palestinian Resistance as it will disrupt the matrix of control held by the Western Satrapy run by King Abdullah over the majority Palestinian population of that regime.
Could it be that this attack on a U.S base in Jordan (if indeed it is in Jordan) could be the start of an attempt to draw Jordan into the maelstrom of Resistance?
If the Jordanian regime’ decides to view this attack on it’s soil as an attack on it’s sovereignty requiring a kinetic or political response (perhaps egged on by the Americans) it could lead to a destabilising series of tit-for-tat actions directly involving Jordan in the escalating conflict between the Empire and the Resistance.
(Yes, I am aware of the uncertainty around whether this strike took place in Syria, Jordan or along the border of both …)

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 3:37 utc | 138

People didn’t used to go to “journalism school” to become journalists.
They just did it.
Got out on the street and wrote about it.
Fast.
Posted by: Jane | Jan 29 2024 2:40 utc | 127
But if they don’t have a degree in journalism, how can we be sure they have been adequately indoctrinated?

Posted by: Honzo | Jan 29 2024 3:52 utc | 140

@ ld | Jan 29 2024 3:08 utc | 132
the threads are much harder to follow now.. i don’t try… too many people here now.
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does anyone know where this spot is that the usa is claiming the drone hit?? i can’t find it on a map..
…”a military base known as Tower 22 in northeastern Jordan”

Posted by: james | Jan 29 2024 3:58 utc | 142

At Tanf ISIS training and supply center.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@33.4815632,38.6413931,17089m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu
US recruitment center and raw material resource here.
https://www.google.com.au/maps/@33.3178946,38.675684,4280m/data=!3m1!1e3?entry=ttu

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 29 2024 4:07 utc | 144

@ Peter AU1 | Jan 29 2024 4:07 utc | 144
thanks peter… rukban appears to be the name on the name.. it is very close to the syrian border.. i suspect it works in collaboration with the al tanf site..
@ Jonathan W | Jan 29 2024 4:12 utc | 145
interesting conclusion!

Posted by: james | Jan 29 2024 4:16 utc | 146

Peter AU1 “wow, his grammar and punctuation was pretty good actually!”
There are two sides to this conflict. Always two sides. Interesting eh? Been going on for thousands of years. Wave your personal flag of choice and join in, or drop the flags of patriotism and educate in peace and harmony. If I could I’d order my Canadian government to stop supply weaponry to all the “Allied” inspired conflict areas, Israel, Trudeaus greatest pal.
But the best I can do is find intelligent people to share thoughts with.

Posted by: Merv Ritchie | Jan 29 2024 4:17 utc | 148

@ merv – just wait til that loser con gets in power…………. canucks are tired of trudeau and will definitely vote this loser in..
“Poilievre calls UNRWA ‘terrorist’ organization, after Canada pauses funding following allegations

Posted by: james | Jan 29 2024 4:19 utc | 150

simplicius – exactly..
“It’s understandable how things could get so confusing, what with so many illegal American bases strewn about like candy wrappers, and all. But in reality, this is likely an attempt to downplay and conceal US’ al-Tanf activity and give the appearance of legality by misdirecting everyone to the Jordanian base which US actually has legal permission to be in—unlike al-Tanf.”
divert and obfuscate..

Posted by: james | Jan 29 2024 4:24 utc | 152

Posted by: ld | Jan 29 2024 3:08 utc | 132
Yeah, I’m partly to blame for this one going off the rails. Mea culpa.
I promise I’ll offer something constructive next.
In the meantime, if waynorinnorway is reading:
They say it’s a virtue to spell:
and ‘shitkicker’ should not have an L
But in the case of old Gruff
I’ll just spell in the rough
Shitlicker goes well with the smell.

Posted by: Patroklos | Jan 29 2024 4:34 utc | 154

Israeli military and intelligence officials have concluded that a significant number of weapons used by Hamas in the Oct. 7 attacks and in the war in Gaza came from an unlikely source: the Israeli military. (New York Times)
Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 29 2024 4:12 utc | 145
Just a few days ago they were accusing China for supplying the bulk of Hamas weapons.
Then again, too many weasel words, the kind of weasel words the Zionists use to deflect and obfuscate:
– “unlikely source” … why would the IDF be an unlikely source? They’re the closest in proximity to Gaza!
– “significant number” … what, to them is “significant”? Ten Galils?
Remember: The Zionists are always lying, even when they are telling the truth.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 4:39 utc | 156

@ Merv Ritchie | Jan 29 2024 4:26 utc | 153
we must be a similar age…

Posted by: james | Jan 29 2024 4:45 utc | 158

The veil is being torn: the hidden truths of Jabotinsky and Netanyahu
by Thierry Meyssan
…From 1955 to 1965, Yitzhak Shamir headed a department of Mossad, the foreign secret service of the new state. Without informing his superiors, he organized the secret police of the Shah of Iran, the Savak. Some two hundred of his men came to teach torture alongside former Nazis [2].

Then, in 1979, while negotiating the Camp David Accords with Egypt, he moved the men he had sent to Iran to the Congo. Probably with the support of the US CIA, they now supervised Mobotu Sese Seko’s secret police. He went there to check them out.
As part of the Cold War, Yitzhak Shamir also helped the Taiwanese dictatorship [3].
This time, unbeknownst to the United States, he set up a terrorist group in New York, Rabbi Meir Kahane’s Jewish Defense League [4]. He supervised a campaign for the emigration of Soviet Jews to Israel, attacks on the Soviet delegation to the UN and, finally, on the legation of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
He forged alliances with South Africa [5]. He took part in the creation of “Bantustans”, false African states that enabled South Africa to treat its black population not as nationals, but as emigrants; a model that “revisionist Zionists” would later apply to the Palestinians.
In this vein, he had Israel finance the research of President Pieter Botha’s personal physician, Dr. Wouter Basson. Basson, at the head of 200 scientists, intended to create diseases that would affect only blacks and Arabs (Project Coast [6]) [7].
One crime leading to another, he also supported Rhodesia [8] and the fight against the independence of the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique and Angola.
In Guatemala, Yitzhak Shamir became close to the dictatorship of General Rios Montt. He not only supplied him with weapons, but also supervised his secret police. He set up a computer institute to monitor water and electricity consumption, enabling him to detect and locate clandestine activities. He organized the Mayan population into kibbutzim so as to make them work and keep an eye on them without having to carry out agrarian reform. Thus protected, Rios Montt murdered 250,000 people. [9]; a model that revisionist Zionists wish to apply to the Palestinians. Relations between Israel and the United States regarding the Guatemalan experiment were channeled through the Straussian Elliott Abrams.
Throughout the Cold War, the “revisionist Zionists” did not act in the interests of the Western camp; they used the opportunities presented to them to do what Vladimir Ze’ev Jabotinsky had always done: exercise power by force with no regard for anyone.
At the end of the Cold War, President Bush Sr. convened the Madrid Conference to finally resolve the Israeli-Palestinian question. During the conference, the Israeli delegation, chaired by Yitzhak Shamir, now Prime Minister, demanded the repeal of UN General Assembly resolution 3379 [10] before any further discussions could take place. This states that “Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination”. “With an open heart, we call on Arab leaders to take the courageous step and respond to our outstretched hand in peace”, declaims Shamir, grandiloquently. Anxious to reach an agreement, the General Assembly complied. But, deceiving its interlocutors, Israel made no commitments and even did everything in its power to defeat George H. Bush’s bid for a second term.
Before concluding, I’d like to say a few words about today’s personalities…
This brief historical summary shows us that there is no Arab-Israeli problem any more than there is a Ukrainian-Russian problem, but a huge problem of all of us with an ideology which, in different places and times, has done nothing but sow suffering and death. We must open our eyes and no longer accept to mobilize with false-flag actions and other lies.
“>https://www.voltairenet.org/article220334.html

Posted by: suzan | Jan 29 2024 5:15 utc | 160

@ Patroklos | Jan 29 2024 1:40 utc | 101
patroklos… just seeing your post now.. i admire and respect you as a poster here at moa.. you are smart, knowledgeable and informative.. please stick around.. thanks..
@ suzan | Jan 29 2024 5:15 utc | 160
thanks.. very informative quote!

Posted by: james | Jan 29 2024 5:30 utc | 162

….. Israeli military and intelligence officials have concluded that a significant number of weapons used by Hamas in the war in Gaza came from an unlikely source: the Israeli military. (New York Times)
Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 29 2024 4:12 utc……
No shit Sherlock : given the deep divides within Israeli society, the open corruption of the Likud – it’s a given that IDF supply Sargents as well as others in the supply chain make a few bucks on the side selling weapons to Al-Qassem.

Posted by: Exile | Jan 29 2024 5:38 utc | 164

patroklos – stay my friend

Posted by: Exile | Jan 29 2024 5:42 utc | 166

Exile 164
But, but Israel is the only democracy in the ME, governed independently and not subjected to any external pressures or influence.
Alistair Crooke has told , had he not , that Liberal American Jews are pitched against darker-skinned Mizeratis. How could the light of Liberal ism that shines so brightly suddenly go so dark?
The change is external to Israel, as the West turns Fascist against the collective wisdoms of Socialism, Islam and China. This is the USUK genocide with Israeli monkeys in the Israeli war cabinet obeying orders from USUK.
It cannot be dissident IDF selling arms to Hamas, but rather Biden’s neocons itching for world war. The ones who created Covid and biolabs. The ones whose Five Eye, 5G, lust for control over all human existence can tolerate neither Liberalism nor Judaism nor Christianity nor any other brand of ethic ever to exist.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 29 2024 6:04 utc | 168

The madman has armed the goldfish because his projected rage can no.longer tolerate the goldfish’s diffidence.

Posted by: Giyane | Jan 29 2024 6:15 utc | 170

/cheep cheep
Palestine Thread needs more Palestine and more Kumbaya. Take it outside, boys.
/warble warble

Posted by: titmouse | Jan 29 2024 6:43 utc | 172

Here from Middle East Eye (“Live: Tensions flare as U.S. troops attacked near Jordan-Syria border”) is today’s result on negotiation for a possible Hamas/Israel temporary ceasefire-prisoner-exchange deal:
“Talks initiated by Qatar, the United States and Egypt to broker a deal between Israel and Hamas were “constructive” but meaningful gaps remain, a statement from the Israeli prime minister’s office said.”
Almayadeen.net had reported on this deal on Jan. 25: “Israeli Channel 12:The war cabinet is discussing Hamas’ proposal for the exchange deal.
” ‘Israel’ considers the meeting crucial to unify the path of Qatari and Egyptian mediation in order to exert joint pressure on Hamas
“The director of the CIA, the head of the Qatari government, the head of Egyptian intelligence, the head of the Mossad, and the head of the Shin Bet will meet in Europe.
“Hamas’ proposal includes ceasefire periods between stages extending for approximately two months.
“ Hamas’ proposal includes a complete Israeli withdrawal from the Strip and a complete ceasefire.
“Hamas’ proposal involves a humanitarian release ratio of 100 prisoners for each captive.
“Hamas’ proposal includes ceasefire periods between stages extending for approximately two months.
“Hamas’ proposal for the exchange deal includes a ceasefire ranging from 10 to 14 days before the release of the captives.
“Hamas’ proposal for the exchange deal includes a ceasefire ranging from 10 to 14 days before the release of the captive.”
I still think that Hamas is NOT dealing from weakness, but maybe this deal is simply dead.

Posted by: Lavieja | Jan 29 2024 6:52 utc | 174

Do any flies or fleas have predictions as to how the Western forces will respond to the Al Tanf outrage?
Any ideas of timrframe?

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 29 2024 7:12 utc | 176

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 29 2024 7:12 utc | 176
Do any flies or fleas have predictions as to how the Western forces will respond to the Al Tanf outrage?
Any ideas of timrframe?
outrage, about what, what kind of buffoon are you ,they been occupying and terrorizing the whole region, their presence is a total outrage time to get the f out.

Posted by: Grishka | Jan 29 2024 7:38 utc | 178

Dick measuring contest thread, I see.
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Jan 29 2024 1:36 utc | 100
Minus actual dicks.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 7:43 utc | 180

Posted by: unimperator | Jan 29 2024 7:43 utc | 179
‘We’re a powerful resistance movement now, and when we act, we create a new challenge in the Red Sea. And while you’re preoccupied with that challenge —judiciously, as you will—we’ll hit more ships again, creating other new challenges, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study the strikes we do’
— Ansarhalla, East Asia Office

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 7:56 utc | 182

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 7:48 utc | 181
Thanks. You are probably correct, but I won’t hold you to that estimate.But
24 – 48 hours. The American attention span doesn’t stretch beyond one or two news cycles.

Posted by: Barrel Brown | Jan 29 2024 8:04 utc | 184

I still think that Hamas is NOT dealing from weakness, but maybe this deal is simply dead.
Posted by: Lavieja | Jan 29 2024 6:52 utc | 174
I don’t think Hamas is involved in this particular communication at all.
I think the u.s and Izzrael are doing what they usually do:
Negotiate amongst themselves towards some fantasy scenario they imagine would suit them and their opponent and then dump it on the table to be signed.
Only to be shocked and outraged when the deal is publicly and humiliatingly flipped off by the other side.
The last public communication from Hamas (Abu “The Djinn” Obaida) said nothing about a deal and everything about fighting until Gaza is liberated.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 8:13 utc | 186

Of course, US navy might simply start randomly sinking ships, marking its transition to a Somali pirate navy equivalent.
Posted by: unimperator | Jan 29 2024 8:09 utc | 185
If they do they’ll be saving the Houthi some work and generating an even more fearsome reputation for them.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Jan 29 2024 8:18 utc | 188

Megatron
@Megatron_ron
BREAKING:
⚡ 🇯🇴 The government of Jordan:
“The attack that targeted American forces near the Syrian border did not occur inside Jordan”
This means that the attack is on an illegal US base in Syria, right on the border with Jordan.
https://twitter.com/Megatron_ron/status/1751655585731264750

Posted by: Menz | Jan 29 2024 8:22 utc | 190

Larry Johnson’s latest video on the Jordan strike is not showing at his site but can be3 found here.
https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2024/01/larrys-warning.html

Posted by: Peter AU1 | Jan 29 2024 8:38 utc | 192

About 90% of the container ships sailing through the Red Sea have been forced to divert from the crucial trade route since mid-December, according to shipping services and data provider Clarksons. (Nikkei Asia)

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 29 2024 8:46 utc | 194

james | Jan 29 2024 3:58 utc | 142
The Tower 22 is 600 meters from the frontier, inside Jordan. Political expediency is making the US push the minimal difference as this is supposed to “justify” UK and US air strikes FROM Jordan into Syria, as the planes will theoretically be “safer” from any drones from resistance members. (Flying from airfields further away)
*
The main use of the Al-Tanf area is the production and training of (real) terrorists for use against the Syrians. There is a refugee camp, where the food etc is supplied – mainly on condition that those who will accept it, will also become terrorists in the desert area between Palmyra and Deir Ezzor. They are then trained by the US.
*****
UNWRA is also supporting at least 3 million refugees from the earlier Nakba. ie. for 75 years, who still find themselves in camps in neighbouring countries (Lebanon, Jordan, Syria). If they lose support, and hope of an eventual right of return, what is to stop them arming themselves with drones and other modern simple systems of warfare, and TAKING their possesions back? Do they now have any other alternative?
Blowback?

Posted by: Stonebird | Jan 29 2024 9:13 utc | 196

The fallen US soldiers have the same function for the US as the hostages do for Israel: to justify genocide. And many more will undoubtedly die. Sure, it, too, will be packaged as the “right to defend itself” never mind they should never have been there in the first place.

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jan 29 2024 9:30 utc | 198

Truer words…
Member of the Supreme Political Council of Yemen Muhammad Ali al-Houthi: We say to the Americans: If today in Texas you do not accept an immigrant who is trying to come to work for you, then how can you expect the whole world to accept your troops who come, colonize and kill of people?
https://t.me/vicktop55/20743

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jan 29 2024 9:42 utc | 200