While there has been a whole lot of positivity being spread around the country right now thanks to the election of President-elect Donald Trump to the White House beginning in 2025, global events continue to unfold that point toward a massive global conflict, regardless of who occupies the Oval Office. Sadly, many folks are choosing to bury their head in the sand and ignore the events transpiring before our very eyes.
In some ways, that’s understandable. We’ve all been through a lot the last four years. It would be nice to have a break to recuperate before being faced with yet more challenges. Alas, that is not the kind of times we are living in.
On Thursday, the top dog of the Iranian Army issued a warning that the country will soon deliver what he called a “crushing” blow to the nation of Israel.
In a Thursday meeting with family members of Major Sajjad Mansouri – who was reportedly killed during the Oct. 26 Israeli strikes – Commander-in-Chief of the Iranian Army Major General Seyyed Abdolrahim Mousavi promised a “crushing” blow to Israel.
“We will determine the time and manner of our response. There will be no hesitation when the time comes, and our reply will surely be crushing,” he said according to Tehran-based news outlet Iran Front Page News, echoing threats issued by Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei earlier this month when he said Tehran would issue a “crushing response.” Similarly, Deputy Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Ali Fadavi on Thursday said, “The entire world will bear witness as the complete downfall of the Zionist regime fulfills the triumph of righteousness over falsehood.”
Israel responded by saying they would hit back even harder than they did before. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suggested that one of the potential targets for Israel Defense Forces could be Iranian oil fields.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hinted that the IDF would hit Iranian oil fields should Tehran make good on its threat to launch another ballistic missile attack on Israel. “Another attack on Israel would simply cripple Iran’s economy,” Netanyahu said in an unusual English-language message he directed at the Iranian people.
This would have horrific consequences for the world as it would lead to a spike in the price of oil, which would inevitably lead to gas prices and the cost of energy going up as well. The defense minister for the Jewish State actually wants to take things further than that, going on to publicly suggest wiping out Iran’s nuclear facilities.
Grossi’s comments came during a news conference Thursday and just three days after Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Monday said that Iran was “more exposed than ever [for] strikes on its nuclear facilities.”
“We have the opportunity to achieve our most important goal – to thwart and eliminate the existential threat to the State of Israel,” he added.
On top of that, we have IDF bombing the absolute hell out of Syria on a daily basis.
Israeli attacks on Syria have become daily, and now the United States is ramping up its own attacks in the northeast of the country as well.
On Thursday Israeli warplanes launched attacks on two residential buildings in the Damascus suburbs – one in Mazzeh and the other in Qudsaya, which lies west of the capital. Regional reports said that many people were killed, and Syrian state SANA posted photos of bombed-out apartments. Israeli Army Radio in a rare acknowledgement appeared to confirm the Israeli attack while claiming the fresh attacks targeted the Syrian headquarters the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) group, which is fighting alongside Hamas in Gaza, and has held Israeli citizens captive since Oct.7, 2023.
Keep in mind, we have two months until Trump takes office. In the meantime, the weak Biden-Harris administration is still in control of the reins. I don’t think anyone in the Middle East is afraid of any action being taken by these two. Things could explode at any moment. And then, of course we have the war between Ukraine and Russia too.
Russian forces just recently launched a massive missile attack against the capital city of Kyiv.
As world diplomacy is working overtime in this transitional period in America, the Russian Federation forces continue in their overwhelming campaign against Ukraine. After almost four months of ‘saving missiles’, this early morning (13), explosions rocked Kiev as Russia launched its first missile attack on the Ukrainian capital since August. Kiev citizens have been expecting a missile attack for a while now, worrying that it could deal a new blow to the hobbled energy system and cause blackouts during the winter.
Along with this, things are growing more tense between Taiwan and China. There is turmoil all over the world. Let’s hope and pray things stay locked how they are until Trump and his administration take control.
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