WORLD AT WAR: 1.28.23 - The Situation Is Beginning to Look Dire

 The Situation Is Beginning to Look Dire – By Amir Tsarfati - https://harbingersdaily.com/worldview-with-amir-tsarfati-the-situation-is-beginning-to-look-dire/ West Worries as Russia Advances Over the last week, the Russian forces have made significant advancement on the eastern front near the Donbas city of Bakhmut and in the southern front near Zaporizhzhia.Many in the West are very concerned because Ukrainian forces are suffering triple digit losses of personnel every day. Three days ago, four deputy ministers in Ukraine and five district heads all suddenly resigned, leading to speculation that Moscow is aboutto launch a major attack. There is pressure amongst several western countries to assist Ukraine with its dwindling military supplies. Washington has informed Kyiv that it will send 31 M1A1 Abrams tanks to them. This opened the door for Berlin to ship to UkraineLeopard-2 tanks, as well. Poland is already sending armored vehicles and armaments to Ukraine. It is likely that they will also transport some of their own German-made Leopard-2 tanks, as will Spain. Slovakia is sending 30 T-72 Russian-made tanks for Ukraineto use against the Russians. Still, the situation for Ukraine is beginning to look dire, and it is possible that there could be a conclusion to this conflict in the next several weeks. For more information about this deteriorating situation, please watch myBreaking News Update from Tuesday. Russian Warship Gives Scare to the Western Atlantic Alarm bells went off when the Russian frigate, Admiral Gorshkov, deviated from its South Africa-bound course and turned west. What greatly concerned observers, particularlyin the current geopolitical climate, was that the warship was carrying “unstoppable” Zircon hypersonic cruise missiles and was heading in the direction of the US coast. Then, yesterday, the Russian news agency, TASS, reported that it was just a military exercise.The Admiral Gorshkov carried out a computer simulation of firing a hypersonic missile against an enemy ship at a distance of 900 km. Earlier this month, former Russian President and firebrand Dmitry Medvedev suggested that the Zircon-armed Gorshkov shouldbe positioned somewhere within 100 miles of the Potomac River. Estonia Considering Closing Gulf of Finland to Russia The government in Tallinn is planning to extend its control of the waters of the Gulf of Finland by adding a “contiguous zone” that would essentially cover the width of thebody of water. This would allow them to board and examine any ships coming in from the Baltic to ensure that they were keeping in line with the sanctions that are against Russia. They could also legally board Russian warships or ban them from passing throughthe gulf on their way to the Baltic and eventually to the Atlantic. In the eyes of Russia, this would be a justified reason for war. And because Estonia is a NATO country, the situation could escalate very quickly. Finland Considers Joining NATO Without Sweden Finland is at a place where it is considering distancing itself from Sweden in order to finally have its bid for NATO membership approved by Turkey. For a new country to beadmitted into the alliance, there must be a unanimous decision. Turkey has been blocking the Nordic countries over accusations that they harbor Kurdish militants. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is facing elections soon and is trying to show himselfstrong on Islam in order to garner popular support. A few days ago, someone burned a Koran outside of the Turkish embassy in Stockholm, essentially sounding the death knell to any possibility that Erdogan will agree to let Sweden into NATO. If Finland is tohave a chance, the country may have to change their duo status into a solo. Syria and Russia Deploy New Air Defenses in Eastern Aleppo Syria and Russia have recently jointly restored the al-Jarrah military air base, then armed it with the Russian-made Pantsir-S1 and Buk M2E air defense systems. Why rebuildthis small base? The Damascus Airport has been regularly receiving visits from the Israeli Air Force (IAF) whenever a new shipment of military materiel arrives from Iran, so the IRGC heavy cargo planes are now starting to land occasionally at Aleppo. Withthe al-Jarrah base being located approximately 60 km from the International Airport at Aleppo, it is well within protection range of the Buk M2E system. This will present a challenge to the IAF as they attempt to neutralize Syrian air defenses without harmingany Russians. UAV Attack on US Airbase in Syria Three suicide drones targeted the US Al Tanf Garrison in southeastern Syria on Friday. Two of the drones were shot down by the American Coyote air defense system. The thirddrone made it through, wounding two members of the Syrian Free Army. No US personnel were harmed in the attack. US has Harmed Its Military Readiness by Supplying Ukraine The Center for Strategic and International Studies issued a report saying that by the US sending so many long-range, precision-guided munitions to aid Ukraine in its fightagainst Russia, the super-power has depleted its own necessary resources. In addition, the US defense industry is not prepared to ramp up production should it become necessary. The report speculated that if Washington happened to get embroiled in a war againstChina over Taiwan, the US military would run out of the necessary high-tech munitions within a week. US and Israel Launch Significant Military Exercise In a reminder to Iran’s Islamic regime that the US and Israel are still watching them, the two countries on Monday launched Juniper Oak 2023, the “largest and most significant” joint live-fire military exercise to date. Over 7500 combined personnel, 140 aircraft, 12 naval vessels, and artillery systems from both nations are participating in the week-long drill. Earlier this month, outgoing IDF Chief of Staff Gen. Aviv Kohavi assertedthat Israel is fully prepared and ready to do whatever is necessary to keep Iran from achieving nuclear weapons. Demonstrating the relationship between the US and Israel is an important part of giving that threat “teeth”. Currently, it is estimated that Iranis about “two weeks” away from having enough 90% enriched uranium for several nuclear bombs, should they choose to complete the enrichment process. Iran Attempts a Swipe at Europe in War of Words Last week, the European Parliament voted to recommend that the EU declare Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) a terror organization. In retaliation last Friday,the Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagheri Ghalibaf responded, “If the proposal of the European Parliament to declare IRGC as a terrorist organization is approved, the Iranian parliament will retaliate and put the European government that support terroristsand their armies on the terrorism list.” This is a revision of the original official response issued by the Supreme Leader, stating, “I’m rubber and you’re glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks on to you.” Currency Freefall in Iran and Lebanon In more evidence that crime doesn’t pay, the governments in both Tehran and Beirut are seeing their currencies in perpetual freefall. In Iran on Sunday, the rial hit a recordlow of 450,000 to a single dollar on the open market. Last Friday, the Lebanese lira hit a record low of 50,000 to the dollar. Five days later, it had lost another ten percent, trading at 55,000 lira to the US dollar. In 2019, the exchange rate was 1500 lirato the dollar. Brazil and Venezuela Renew Relationships For four years the tensions have been high between Brazil and Venezuela, ever since the previous Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro backed Venezuelan National Assembly PresidentJuan Guaidó in his 2019 attempt to oust Nicolás Maduro from the country’s presidency. Now that Bolsonaro is out and Lula da Silva, a man after Maduro’s own heart, is in, it looks like the two countries are prepared to kiss and make up. Sadly, it is very likelythat Lula’s presidency will have the same destructive effect upon Brazil that Maduro has had on Venezuela. Pray for the people of Brazil! -------------------------------- The Nuclear War That We Have Been Relentlessly Warned About Is Now Right On Our Doorstep- by Michael Snyder - http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/the-nuclear-war-that-we-have-been-relentlessly-warned-about-is-now-right-on-our-doorstep/ Once the nukes start flying, there will be no going back. So I hope that you all understand that we are playing for all the marbles here. Sadly, our leaders don�t seem toget it. They just keep escalating the conflict in Ukraine, and on the other side the Russians just keep escalating matters as well. On Thursday, Russia responded to news that the U.S. and Germany would be giving highly advanced tanks to the Ukrainians by firing �a barrage of missiles and drones across the country�. The Russians are now so invested in this war that there is no way that they could ever back down. Of course the same thing is true for the Biden administration. Joe Biden has staked his presidency on winningthis war, and Congress has already approved approximately 100 billion dollars in total aid for the Ukrainians. We are on a collision course with destiny, and the cataclysmic war with Russia that I have been warning about for many years is now right on ourdoorstep. Donald Trump is warning that a worst case scenario is coming too. On Thursday, he posted a message that instantly made headlines all over the world� A Truth Social post from Trump on Thursday appeared to react to the recent wave of announcements on Western tank deliveries. �FIRST COME THE TANKS, THEN COME THE NUKES. Get this crazy war ended, NOW. So easy to do!� Trump wrote. He is quite correct. We must end this war before the nukes start flying. And actually Joe Biden once warned that we would be facing �World War 3� if we ever sent tanks into Ukraine. But now the Biden administration is trying to assure us that sending tanks into Ukraine is perfectly fine. Look, at this point we are providing more funding for the war in Ukraine than everyone else combined, more military equipment for the war in Ukraine than everyone else combined,more ammunition for the war in Ukraine than everyone else combined, and more military intelligence for the war in Ukraine than everyone else combined. In addition, we are regularly flying Ukrainians into this country for training. Once their training is done, they are sent to the front lines where many of them will soon die. Sadly, as long as it isn�t our boys and girls that are dying on the plains of eastern Ukraine, most Americans are simply not going to care. But the truth is that this has become our war, and the Russians understand this very clearly� �There are constant statements from European capitals and Washington that the sending of various weapons systems to Ukraine, including tanks, in no way signifies the involvementof these countries or the alliance in hostilities in Ukraine,� Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. �We categorically disagree with this, and in Moscow, everything that the alliance and the capitals I mentioned are doing is seen as direct involvement in the conflict. Wesee that this is growing.� Over and over again, the Russians have threatened us with nuclear weapons, but for some reason we are not taking those warnings seriously. This week, the head of Russia�s lower house of parliament wrote something that should send a chill up all of our spines� The head of Russia�s State Duma has said that the promised deliveries of additional weapons to Kyiv by Western countries could heighten the war in Ukraine to a new level thatcould result in a �global catastrophe.� Vyacheslav Volodin wrote on his Telegram channel on January 22 that �if Washington and NATO countries supply weapons that will be used to strike civilian cities and attemptto seize our territories�this will lead to retaliatory measures using more powerful weapons.� The comments by the head of Russia�s lower house of parliament were broadly taken to mean nuclear weapons, and he has now joined other high-ranking Russian officials who haverecently threatened a significant escalation of the unprovoked war the Kremlin launched against Ukraine 11 months ago. But the Biden administration can�t back down now. Biden has essentially pushed all of his chips into the middle of the table and is betting everything that this war will be a success� Biden has pinned his legacy on a major land war in Europe in which the United States has engaged in an effective proxy battle with nuclear rival Russia. This fight � whichis, in a way, the last battle of the Cold War � is a test of will between an American president and a Kremlin strongman deeply influenced by the US-Soviet standoff. Biden is leading the most significant foreign policy venture at least since the invasion ofIraq in 2003. Its success is critical for America�s credibility as well as his own. The magnitude of the mission is likely to overshadow much of the rest of his presidency � including the current investigation into misplaced classified documents � in worldhistory. So more escalations are inevitably coming. It is time for the American people to face the truth. We are at war, and there is no way out. Recently, an extremely long line of tanks was spotted rolling across Kansas. Scenes such as this will become increasingly common in the days ahead. If the American people truly understood what was at stake, there would be massive protests in every major U.S. city right now. But they don�t understand what is at stake. We are literally closer to nuclear annihilation than we have ever been in our entire history, and the Russians have actually been preparing for such a scenario for decades. Unfortunately, the backbone of the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal is still made up of hopelessly outdated Minuteman missiles that first went into service back in the 1970s. Would you want to use a computer or a phone from the 1970s? Well, then why would we want to fight a nuclear war with missiles from the 1970s? But instead of addressing that glaring need, the Pentagon is gearing up for conventional wars on multiple fronts, and this is making U.S. arms manufacturers very happy� The Post also notes the budget proposal does far more than that: �It lays the foundation for a vastly revitalized defense industrial base � and does so with one eye on thePeople�s Republic of China.� 25 new mass-assembly lines will soon roll out weapons quantities �far in excess of what is required to replenish Ukraine.� 700 HIMARS systems are ordered vs. the 20 sent to aid Kyiv, and 3,600 of two kinds of anti-ship missile,more appropriate for the South China than the Black Sea. One way or another, the military industrial complex always seems to win. But if a nuclear war erupts, there will be no winners. Only losers. Joe Biden and his minions are assuring us that the war in Ukraine can be won without nuclear weapons ever being used by either side. Do you believe them? Hopefully they are correct, because if their gamble fails it will literally mean the end of civilization as we know it today. -------------------------------------