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All This and World War, Too
Kunstler.com ^ | 13 Oct, 2023 | James Howard Kunstler

Posted on 10/23/2023 4:29:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber

“To all scholars who teach jihad… to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application of theories.” —Khaled Meshaal, former Hamas leader.

It’s less than a week since the skies over the Negev Desert filled with something eerily like the flying monkeys of Oz upgraded to Hamas Road Warriors in motorized paragliders, kicking off that third world war we’ve been hearing about all our lives, and not at all the way we expected either, which was more Dr. Strangelove style, with the mushroom clouds billowing everywhere — though, who knows, it might come to that, too, before long.

This new catastrophe, quickly globalizing, makes the War in Ukraine seem as comfortable as an old sweater. For now, the question of intel failures must be put aside. There will be no official inquiries while US carrier fleets sail into position, and Hezbollah does a war dance on the northern frontier with Syria, and the Israelis struggle to strategize an extremely sticky hostage predicament, even as their air force blows up whole blocks of Gaza City.

Meanwhile, former Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal has called for a worldwide jihad this very day, Friday the 13th, as it happens, by which he means disruption within the entity known as Western Civ, where Jihad’s most dogged enemies dwell. For years, footloose emigres have been flooding into Europe and across America’s border with Mexico, mostly young men, hardly vetted, the sort of humans most likely to act-out warrior scripts in a zeitgeist gone sour, and I guess we’ll find out pretty soon whether some of them were sent to be activated against us.

The world is periodically subject to a mighty release of tensions. That’s why there are great wars. We’ve been well aware of these tensions building into the new millennium and now here it is. The elaborate systems we’ve allowed to evolve — our gigantic manufacturing and resource supply lines, the financial scaffold that has turned capital formation into a freak show of scams and wishes, the grotesque behemoth governments of a zillion regulatory impulses turning more tyrannically against their own citizens every day — all add up to a general condition of fantastic fragility. So, you see, a global release of tensions is liable to bust up a lot of those arrangements.

Western Civ has been expecting this for a while. All the years of clever work-arounds and kicking cans down the road tells you that. The big question is: can we carry on as before? And anyone with half a brain can see the answer is: probably not. That is, not enjoying the many comforts, conveniences, and luxuries we’ve grown used to, all of which hinge on our energy supplies, enough of which is centered in the Ummah of Islam so that when it is interrupted or cut-off, there goes the cushy life for us....


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: drstrangelove; hamas; hamaswar; jihad; kunstler

1 posted on 10/23/2023 4:29:04 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I apologize for posting this late. My Duck Duck Go browser somehow deleted an entire folder of bookmarked websites. Poof and it was gone. I am slowly recreating that folder and I missed some really good articles like this one.


2 posted on 10/23/2023 4:29:16 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, clic/k on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

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3 posted on 10/23/2023 4:30:23 AM PDT by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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To: MtnClimber
“To all scholars who teach jihad… to all who teach and learn, this is a moment for the application of theories.” —Khaled Meshaal, former Hamas leader.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

And now you will hear about the theories of those who teach the western jihad of liberty and freedom . And they will be applied to all of you pretend human offal who are possessed as demons of the false god,the demon Allah who sends you as demons to kill , rape,behead and maim babies, women and old ladies.



4 posted on 10/23/2023 4:37:49 AM PDT by Candor7 (( Ask not for whom THE Trump trolls...He trolls for thee!)<img src=""width=500></img>)
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To: Noumenon

Ping.


5 posted on 10/23/2023 5:15:42 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Candor7

R.O.P. Alert


6 posted on 10/23/2023 5:24:47 AM PDT by pingman (It's a Clown World, and we're paying for it.)
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To: MtnClimber

“And anyone with half a brain can see the answer is: probably not. That is, not enjoying the many comforts, conveniences, and luxuries we’ve grown used to, all of which hinge on our energy supplies, enough of which is centered in the Ummah of Islam so that when it is interrupted or cut-off, there goes the cushy life for us....”

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The fix: Drill, baby, drill!


7 posted on 10/23/2023 5:30:51 AM PDT by jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)
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To: MtnClimber

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8 posted on 10/23/2023 12:10:14 PM PDT by sauropod (The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly.)
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