Once And Future World Revolutionary

Oh, it's true bay bee!

Being hot! funny, smart, cool, desirable and fashionably coutured as the world's indispensably Hyper Puissant bears certain costs as a - actually - the Great Power!

Great Satan has been revolutionary beyond repair since the day she hit the hood - and she is not about to change.

"...America remains the most revolutionary force on the planet. Love us or hate us (and feel free to do both) -- our DNA remains unchanged. We are a frontier-integrating nation that refuses to stand back, much less stand still.

"...Simply put, the world didn't work until we came along and sought to reshape it in our image

Sassy sweet imperialistic hubris nicht war?

Au contraire, mon frer'!

See, Great Satan's "...65-year moratorium on great-power war and an international liberal trade order actually empowers and enriches individuals the world over -- especially women.

"...The rising pillars of the East and South -- such as Brazil, South Africa, Turkey, India and China -- while speaking of themselves in great-power terms and building up their military might, continue to free-ride on the West's efforts. What's more, they prefer to describe us as more problem than solution, while offering no serious alternatives of their own.

"...In short, as the world experiences fantastic structural change, an aging, post-industrial West still covers all security "bets" while the surging, rapidly industrializing East and South lack the military maturity and strategic vision to step up and lend a much-needed hand.

"...So we watch demographically moribund Europe struggle to recast its relatively small militaries as expeditionary forces, while cash- and manpower-rich China stockpiles advanced weaponry useful only for fighting fellow great powers.

"...How long can this resource mismatch endure? Plenty long, judging by some of our clueless erstwhile allies. Consider Pakistan, which took about 10 years and $10 billion in U.S. military aid to finally admit that its in-country version of the Taliban constitutes a bigger security threat than India.

"...Astride it all stands America, which, amazingly enough, continues to find the political willpower to try and manage the international security landscape, even as such efforts contribute to -- but hardly encompass -- its magnificent public debt. Despite our enduring self-sacrifice, the world still feels more hostility than gratitude toward us

"...The world will continue demanding our responses, both kinetic and non-kinetic, in the years ahead. The sirens of isolationism will argue otherwise, as will those who dream of fantastically big wars against fabulously armed opponents.

"...A problem shelved is not a problem solved. We created this world; we will not abandon it.

Pic "Cause it happens too fast and it feels so good, it's like walking on glass" with January Jones

Taiwan In 3 Days

Oh Snap!

Hot gossip claims recent simulations of a Chinese D Day style invasion of Taiwan would result in a complete Peoples Liberation military victory in three days.

"...Under the scenario, assuming war in 2011, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) launched intensive air raids on Taiwan before sending in ground troops from sea and air.

"...The war game found that Chinese troops could march into Taipei on the third day of hostilities, seizing control of Taiwan's top military command and the presidential office.

Pic - "AirSea Battle?"

Hot Gossip!

More often than not - yours truly gets hot deets, wicked rumors, wacky backtalk, arranged and unarranged marriage proposals, lectures from academics horrid or benign, pictures and video requests along with psychic predictions from all around the world.

Unverified intell they calls it.


Often - it's by highly placed cats who know what the H they are on about, or anonymous and/or unsubstantiated, other times accompanied with a request to remain undercover or to hold up on it til a certain date or event transpires. Sometimes it's detailed to the nth.


GsGf appreciates it all (well 'cept for some of the - uh - more risque communiques) and will never kiss and tell about sources.

Pic - "Loose Lips sink ships!"

Nat'lism Redux

So mote it be!

In the twilight of the Westphalian Era, as the daemoneoconically delish Dr K psychically predicted a while back, nationalism is making a comeback!

"...Nationalism is returning, based on stronger common ties of language, history, religion, and culture. We are even seeing the return of a two-century-old European “problem”: a powerful Germany that logically seeks greater political influence commensurate with its undeniable economic superiority.

"...The tired Israeli-Palestinian fight over the future of the West Bank is no longer the nexus of Middle East tensions. The Muslim Arab world is now more terrified by the re-emergence of a bloc of old familiar non-Arabic, Islamic fundamentalist rivals.

Whoa! A bad B slap to the mighty mightiless side show nom d' guerre'd Arab League - that for whatever reason couldn't lead their collective of autocrazies to regional hegemony if their collective lives depended on it.

And it does!

"...With nuclear weapons, theocratic Iran wants to offer strategic protection to radical allies such as Syria, Hiz'B'Allah, and HAMAS, and at the same time restore Persian glory. While diverse, this rogue bunch shares contempt for the squabbling Sunni Arab world of rich but defenseless Gulf petro-sheikdoms and geriatric state authoritarians.

"...Turkey is flipping back to its pre-20th-century past. Its departure from NATO is not a question of if, but when. The European Union used to not want Turkey; now Turkey does not want the shaky EU.

"...Turkish revisionism now glorifies the old Ottoman sultanate. Turkey wants to recharge that reactionary model as the unifier and protector of Islam — not the modern, vastly reduced secular state of Kemal Ataturk. Weak neighbors Armenia, Cyprus, Greece, and Kurdistan have historical reasons to tremble.

K. Fair enough - yet, Great Satan built the modern world - and She knows her way around. Teufel Hunden's globe, anchor and eagle Tour icon come to mind.

Great Satan redux?

"...As panicky old allies look for American protection, we talk of slashing our defense budget. In apologetic fashion, we spend more time appeasing confident enemies than buttressing worried friends.

"...Just as old problems return, so do equally old solutions. Once-stodgy ideas like a free-market economy, strong defense, secure borders, and national unity are suddenly appearing fresh and wise.

Pic "You know it beotches!"

Targets Of Opportunity

Contact!

In the super rich target set of 44's Shadow War, several literally killer kill trophies have appeared.

Largely unnoticed (an amazing feat considering the girthy robustness personally deployed) the old Mahdi Army/JAM Militia and general control freak Mookie al Sadr has been whispered to be taking time out from Preacher Command's Ayatollah Academy to hang in Beirut.

Maybe Mookie just wants to chillax with his old BF from back in the day - the current Body Part Collector General of Hiz'B'Allah - the equally creepy and girthy H'Ssan Nasr'allah. Or maybe Mookie is just reminiscing about Imad Mughaniyah - Mahdi Army's murderous mentor, Revo Guard Commander and Hiz'B'Allah killer - and all that training, prepping and missions to kill Americans in Iraq.

Doesn't really matter. Mookie most likely has tons of hot! gossip, smoking deets and wicked little future plots to share with Great Satan over a long, leisured thorough. enhanced interrogation in an unknown locale.

Mookie's disappearance could easily be explained - maybe he really is like Mahdi! Maybe he disappeared into occultation and might come back one day. Who could say?

Another target of opportunity is an officially designated terrorist group on Great Satan's Official Hit List that has sprouted up in Mexico.

Weaponized Hiz'B'Allah within Fajr 5 missile range of Great Satan's Army Intell school at Ft Huachuca would be sweet to snatch too. The most proficient, serial killers and tormentors of Americans since Cold War time would have equally risque rumors to willingly share once firmly in Great Satan's righteous clutches.

Pic "Sleeper cells, patient plots, phone intercepts and covert operations"

Low Expectations And High Stakes

Whoa!

Low expectations and high stakes have got to be about as exciting as getting stranded at a strip club with no cash.

Not unlike 44's magical hook up with client states like Jordan's King Abdullah v2.0 (cute - but kinda short for a Sandhurst chap), Pyramidland's Undying Pharoh For Life, Little Satan's BiBi and one of the double Palestines' double nom d' guerr'd double broke, no game players.

Haunting.

For eons, the magical on again/off again 'forever quest' for something something 'Palestine' has always envisioned two nation states sweetly cuddled up, entwined and living in Peace.

Yet the two Palestines are fouled up beyond repair -

Palestine Pres Abbas/Mazen of the Fatah party, as chaircat of the ancient of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), may actually be considered illegit sans legal authority to negotiate on behalf of his half of Palestine.

See, his term of office expired in January. Of last year! Taking a page from Autocrazies - Abbas/Mazen magically self extended his term for a year - which petered out in January of this year.

Thus, rendering any deal - null and void

"...In the absence of national unity and a solid domestic mandate, Abbas has been forced to seek “political cover” from external actors, first from the Arab League and then later from the Quartet (US, EU, UN and Russia), before agreeing to enter direct negotiations with Little Satan.

Such a self inflicted schisimus maximus totally jams up Abbas/Mazen's diplopolititary fire and manuever ability in honest negotiations. And at an ancient 74 years old - it's probably his last gig before hitting the escape hatch and bailing out to the beach front villa in Qatar.

"... Although Abbas has pledged to put any agreement to a popular referendum, the outcome of such a vote (to say nothing of the likelihood of its taking place in the first place) would be far from certain.

"...It seems clear that any agreement that is negotiated exclusively by a Fateh-dominated PLO with no input or buy-in from Hamas—regardless of its content—is far more likely to be actively opposed by it, and thus likely defeated, than one that is more inclusive.

"...Ironically, therefore, an “imperfect” agreement that has buy-in and input from all major Palestinian factions, including Hamas, is far more likely to pass such a referendum than a theoretically “perfect” agreement that does not.

This week will be the death of the Oslo organized '2 State Illusion Solution"

Pic - "Wahabbi Arabia is AWOL!"

Fall Weiß Tag

At dawn on September 1st, Luftwaffe struck at Polish airfields destroying most of the planes before they could get off the ground. With control of the skies assured wicked Wehrmacht began the systematic destruction of railroads and the few communications nodes. From the very outset the Poles mobilization plan was seriously compromised. Before the day ended, chaos reigned at Polish Army Headquarters.

The first phase of the campaign, fought on the frontiers was over by September 5th and the morning of the 7th found reconnaissance elements of Army Group South’s 10th Army just 36 miles southwest of Warsaw. Meanwhile, also on September 5th, vBock’s Army Group North had cut across the corridor and turned southeast for Warsaw. Units of the 3rd Army reached the banks of the River Narew on September 7th, just 25 miles north of Warsaw. The fast moving armored panzer 'Schwerpunkts' of blitzing attacks left the immobile Polish armies cut up, surrounded and out of supply.

Meanwhile the closing of the inner ring at Warsaw witnessed some tough fighting as the Polish Poznan Army, bypassed in the first week of the war, changed heading and attacked toward Warsaw to the southeast. The German 8th and 10th Armies were put to the test as they were forced to turn some divisions completely around to meet the desperate Polish assault. In the end the gallant attack fell short and by September 19th the Poznan Army surrendered some 100,000 men and Poland’s last intact army.
As this was occurring the second, deeper envelopment led by General Heinz Guderian’s panzers took the city of Brest-Litovsk on September 17th, and continued past the city where they made contact with the 10th Army spearhead at Wlodowa 30 miles to the south.

The war, for all practical purposes was over by September 17th. Lvov surrender on the 19th. Warsaw held out until September 27th and the last organized resistance ended October 6th with the surrender of 17,000 Polish soldiers at Kock.

The campaign had lasted less than two months and ended in the destruction of the Polish Army and the fourth partition of Poland. German losses were surprisingly heavy considering the brevity of the campaign.

German casualties total some 48,000 of which 16,000 were killed. Fully one quarter of the panzers the German committed to battle were lost to Polish anti-panzer guns. The Luftwaffe was forced to write off some 550 aircraft.

It was not a cheap victory by any means but it did confirm to the generals of the Wehrmacht that the military machine that they had built was indeed the best in the world and worthy of their confidence.

Reaction around the world on 1 Sept 1939?

France - mobilized her military and demanded Deutschland withdraw from Poland.

Great Britain - mobilized her army and RAF (the Navy was mobilized the day before) and demanded Germany withdraw from Poland.

Italy - Announced no military plans or iniatives.

Russia - warned concern for civilian population of Russian descent and fear of Polish bandits would warrant armed intervention. She also mobilized her military.

Great Satan - Demanded a halt of indescriminate bombing of towns and civilians.

Finland, Norway, Sweden and the Swiss - announced neutrality

Deutschland - "Determined to eliminate insecurity and perpetual civil war from the borders of the Reich"

Poland - appealed to Great Britain and France to intervene in honour of the Mutual Assistance Treaty of 1939.

1 September is the day an old world order was violently overturned, chock full of lessons, promises and harbingers that echo still today.