A fascinating discussion of why yesterday’s Cassandra warnings might yet turn out to be premature, from the standpoint of geopolitics:

UK Shocked US Missile Strike No; Blames Sullivan

On the MilitarySummary channel, there’s another bit of speculation on why the Atlanticists seem to be choosing to back down from hitting Russia deep at the last minute. It seems that the Houthi rebels down in Yemen flew a couple of Very Sophisticated Missiles right over the heads of two American destroyer ships and hit an airfield in Tel Aviv, the capital of the nominal state of Israel.

No one is sure who gave the rebels such advanced technology, but there are very few countries in the world who have it to give, and Russia is certainly one of them.

So, the theory goes, Biden is blinking and maybe even reversing promises to the hawkish Brits, precisely because he got Putin’s theoretical message: You wanna play hardball Joe? You wanna blow up my people? Well that’s a very nice puppet state you have down there on the Mediterranean … in fact you seem to be swimming in nice puppet states all over the world …

Wouldn’t it be a shame if anything happened to them?

You and I know so very little of the real dangers of modernity, or how many times we’ve come this close to wiping ourselves out by such escalatory bluster and bullfrog puffery.

Of course this isn’t nearly over yet, and this is just one little crisis.

But it seems as though we might have time to take another breath.

Don’t waste it.

I will try not to either.

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PS: For the record, I wrote all of the above just before learning that the second would-be Trump assassin was a Russophobic whack job. It makes me wonder how many more Lee Harveys the Empire has in the chamber, and how many of them they’ll activate before November.