WHAT NEXT?

Usually, I don’t jump in with my opinions.

My way is to establish for myself what is NOT true and not jump to conclusions but to hold often contradictory ideas up in the air until it becomes obvious what the truth is.

So it is with World War 3.

I am not qualified to make judgements of my own - who is ‘winning’, where events are likely to go in the future. I am not a geopolitical analyst ist and know nothing about different weapons systems, and so forth.

I have to rely on others and just collect the news reports and the analyses of others.

However, it may be time to break that pattern and come up with some speculation of my own.

Often I have the experience in moments when my mind is very quiet, between waking and sleeping, when things come to me without any contribution from my ‘thinking’ mind. Thoughts just ‘come’ to me , as if from somewhere else.

Call it what you like - intuition or messages from the Holy Spirit, (not dreams, because these come as thought forms, not visual images - these are not ‘my’ thoughts.

So it was last night after working on transcribing what Scott Ritter had to say about his experience of having his passport stolen by the US State Department.

People are talking about how RESTRAINED the Russians are and seem for a long period of time to “do nothing”- for instance, from 2014-22 when Nato was able to build up Ukraine’s armed forces and the UAF were able to kill civilians in the Donbass without consequence.

But then the Special Military Operation came in February 2022 and many subsequent examples of Kremlin ‘inaction’.

It is often said that the Americans (and the Collective West) play poke while the Russians play chess.

The analogy of the American Wild West and swaggering threats being made against the enemy.

I recall an analogy related by the Saker a few years ago, talking about the Russian schoolyard. When attacked by a bully, instead of issuing empty threats, the Russian victim of bullying just absorbs the attacks and seems to do nothing until one fine day, out of the blue, the victim takes his opportunity to take his revenge and the bully finally gets his comeuppance.

There is no doubt that what we are seeing is a dangerous escalation of the conflict

There is some talk of what the response will be.

Scott Ritter talked about this being a NUCLEAR strike and that this will not only destroy America but Russia and the rest of the world as well.

The bottom line is that the Russians launched the missiles, those missiles will hit the targets they're aimed at.

If those targets if those missiles have nuclear weapons, those nuclear weapons will detonate where they're supposed to .

This will be devastating.

It will be the the end of Europe at a minimum and potentially the end of the United States the end of Russia and the end of the world.

What does Putin mean by “we consider it possible to use all the means at our disposal."

My ‘Still Voice Within’ tells me that this not necessarily be the case and it may well be that Pepe Escobar may be closer to the truth.

Russia’s response is likely to be rational, considered (and don’t get me wrong - there are plenty of hotheads in Russia as well), asymmetrical, and perhaps - COORDINATED.

Why would Russia’s response be unilateral?

There is the chance that if Russia strikes NATO and US decision- making centers the US will be given the chance to retaliate with a nuclear response.

The message I received was to consider this option.

What if the United States was disabled by something like an EMP attack that took out the entire electrical infrastructure and rendered the United States defenseless?

EMP is here – Within a year of an EMP attack at least 2 thirds of the us population will perish from starvation, disease and social collapse

Then there are other putative weapons Russia may have on hand;

Drone submarine Russia claims could destroy US by triggering underwater earthquake with nuke nears completion

There are few signs that the United States is at all ready for this.

An EMP attack need not come from Russia, but from China - or even North Korea.

What if China and Russia have been talking and agreed that China take action against Taiwan to coincide with a decision for Russia to take retaliatory action against Nato provocations?

Next, things are rapidly heating up in the Middle East. Hezbollah has had some remarkable successes against Israel

It seems that the Lebanese have been using relatively minor attacks on Galilee in Israel but this all may have been used to deplete Israel’s Iron Dome and to identify their whereabouts so they can be destroyed latger.

Now, it may be that Israel is moving into another trap by declaring war against Hezbollah.

What if this is just the lead-up to the real conflagration?

What if all Israel’s enemies coordinate to attack Israel at its weakest and while the West is in a weakened state and distracted by problems all over the globe and decides, in its hubris, to strike Russia after it has received warnings aplenty of the consequences from the Kremlin?

One thing is certain to me is that Russia and Vladimir Putin are not going to make decisions that involve national suicide.

Maybe they do have a winning strategy?

Tell me it isn’t true.