I do not have a sophisticated understanding of Huckabee’s theology but have read it is called Dispensational Christianity, which was crystalized by the dubious Scofield Reference Bible in USA.
Whatever the case, Huckabee’s obeisance does not seem appropriate to me, especially while Israel’s savage assault on Gaza is ongoing and he is representing USA.
I know it is too much to ask of any mainstream prominent American, but it would be good if at least a few of them openly recognized that both USA and Israel had to have had foreknowledge of the 10/07 attack and that Israel clearly delayed reacting to it and was responsible for the majority of Israelis killed that day. This profoundly undermines the ersatz ‘moral basis’ of the slaughter and starvation of so many Gazan women, children and civilians.
I am fine with religion and government mixing on abstract and some practical levels, but Huckabee is taking this much too far into dangerous intellectual and theological territory. ABN
Doha used the strike as a permission structure to pivot away from the hosting model.
It wasn’t a “soft-power failure”.
It was a structural pivot.
Qatar treated “hosting Hamas” as a proxy-asset whose position turned negative.
For a decade, the asset had positive utility. The US got a reliable conduit, Israel tolerated Qatari cashflow management into Gaza, and Doha monetised access into mediator prestige.
That setup existed because the US originally wanted a reachable Hamas channel in a US-aligned host (Al Udeid as the ultimate security umbrella).
So until now, that channel still priced in that utility.
But now it’s over.
Qatar’s “mediator” brand only worked while those conditions held.
There’s a reason why these conditions no longer remain useful. And i’ve explained this before.
Proxies are time-sensitive assets.
They remain useful during stalemated negotiations. Once they obstruct normalization or capital flows, sponsors reroute;
budgets thin, access tightens, and the proxy gets integrated, contained, or abandoned.
There’s PLENTY of signals we’re at the end of this curve.
Maintaining mediator role is just a toxic position now.
Stop looking at the past to determine what the future should be. That’s not how statesmen think. They evolve all the time.
What Qatar needs to do now, is exit the hosting role, and keep the convening brand. It should facilitate talks without residency.
There’s several reasons why it needs to accelerate this pivot.
The Hamas/Israel deadlock has became a liability.
The mediation channel has stalled.
When a channel stops producing swaps/ceasefire increments, it stops buying Qatar influence and starts costing it.
The West clings to its delusion of supremacy like a fading empire hoarding tarnished trophies.
It’s the same old playbook for them.
They spin a narrative, call it truth, and expect the world to bow.
They do this with everything. From marketing product sales, to politics.
To grasp the Middle East’s geopolitics, you have to understand this Western narrative framework.
“Terrorism” is always the villain, and the West, the gallant hero, swoops in to save the day.
There’s no reality where the resistance topples Israel and “wins” the Middle East.
That’s not how the script works.
The West demands its victory lap, claiming it tamed the savages and gifted the region peace.
The reality however, is that their grand experiment failed to become a hegemony so they need to wrap this up, and demote Israel to just another player integrated into the region’s control.
That’s the reality. That’s the outcome.
The Gulf states get this. They ditch the ego and pride and see the board for what it is. And they couldn’t care less what the region thinks of them.
Outcomes over optics.
Many on here don’t understand this. Frankly, they should not be involving themselves with geopolitics.
Just pay attention over your timeline. Anyone saying the Gulf states are an embarrassment or a humiliation over this Doha strike,
are the ones being played by the Western narrative. They care about the narrative of optics over the reality outcomes.
They care about shit like honor, integrity, glory when the stakes are far more substantial.
These people are like naive children.
They don’t just fall short when it comes to geopolitics. They often conduct themselves poorly in other domains within their life.
I see it in corporate very often.
Very easy to manipulate.
They become part of the means for people who shape outcomes.
Decentralization will be the new strategy for Hamas.
The Doha strike proved that no single location is safe, accelerating Hamas’s move toward a dispersed leadership model.
From what I am gathering from the region, the group has already established a political office in Baghdad and maintains a significant presence in Istanbul.
This swift readjustment just proves once again, just how coordinated all this is.
This shift to a multi-node network across several friendly nations is a logical evolution to maintain survival and slow integration. Intelligence collection will be forced to pivot from monitoring a single headquarters to mapping this distributed and more elusive network.
This will naturally mitigate the risk while significantly raising the cost of Israel attempting further strikes in the absence of undeniable proof that Hamas is still strong and active.
To understand and make sense of all this, you need to walk the western narrative framework.
As I said,
the Israeli strike in Doha marks the end of the “safe haven” era for Hamas’s political bureau.
From here, I think Hamas will survive as an organization, its role in regional diplomacy will contract sharply,
with Arab states and TPS [Transnational Private Sector] actors seizing the initiative to reshape Palestinian governance.
Poland’s Prime Minister today warned ‘we are closer to war than any time since World War Two’ after his country was forced to shoot down Russian drones that violated its airspace.
Polish media is now reporting that Donald Tusk has requested the triggering of NATO’s Article 4, where member countries can bring an issue to the attention of the North Atlantic Council. Poland’s security council will also meet to discuss an ‘appropriate response’.
More than eight million Poles were ordered to hide in their homes as the drones flew overhead, with debris from one shot-down device crashing into a house. The full force of NATO’s fighter planes was unleashed to shoot down the drones.
After the organisation’s patriot defence systems detected the drones with their radars, Polish F-16 fighter jets, Dutch F-35, Italian surveillance aircraft, and NATO’s MRTT mid-air refuelling aircraft all came together to counter the drones.
The downing of Russia’s unmanned aerial vehicles marked the first-ever direct engagement between Moscow and NATO. It has long insisted it wants no confrontation with Putin. Kyiv has accused Russia of deliberately invading Poland’s airspace with 24 UAVs to test the West’s defences.
Multiple Russian drones leaving Ukraine airspace into Poland’s
On Wednesday, Tusk held an extraordinary meeting with top officials after Russia’s actions. Senior army officials are present at the gathering.
He said a number of drones that posed direct threats to Russia were shot down in a joint effort with NATO allies, and warned that Poland is ready to react. The prime minister added that he was in communication with allies.
Tusk also spoke in parliament and said some of the drones flew in from neighbouring Belarus, a staunch ally of Russia. He also confirmed that three or four of the nineteen drones were shot down.
UPDATE: The reasons for this are decidedly ambiguous. Could be to provoke NATO, to test Poland’s defenses, to prepare for negotiations or just to flex. How we interpret it is a psychosemiotic challenge. I doubt Putin wants war and also I doubt he would back down from war if provoked. It is very possible Poland or NATO has provoked Russia in some way we do not know about. Navrotsky said yesterday: ‘I’m not going to give my consent to send the Polish military to Ukraine’. I wonder if his views on that will change now. Another possibility is Zelensky sent doctored drones from Ukraine to provoke Poland against Russia. ABN
It’s too destabilizing for Egypt, Jordan, GCC [Gulf Cooperation Council], and the TPS [Transnational Private Sector].
So Israel resorts to incremental displacement; making areas unlivable so populations slowly filter out.
That’s Israel’s current state calculus.
In parallel to that, yes, flattening urban space creates a blank slate for reconstruction contracts.
Cycles of destruction/rebuilding feed into TPS projects tied to donor funds.
This ensures that while Israel secures its “security” objective, the TPS still gets entry points for capital deployment.
But the TPS doesn’t want total ethnic cleansing, because it risks blowing up the very donor funds from the GCC and sabotages Israel normalization with them.
So the TPS tolerates destruction as long as it leads to managed rebuilding under conditional frameworks.
Everyone thinks Palestinians will be exterminated / totally displaced.
It’s already a foregone conclusion that this will not happen.
Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked about the status of negotiations with Ukraine. President Putin notes some of the internal political issues within Ukraine must be deconflicted in order for discussions to proceed. Without these issues resolved, discussion is futile.
Russian President Vladimir Putin: “First. After all, quite recently, the leadership of the Kyiv regime, mildly speaking unflatteringly of us, and excluded all possibility of direct Contacts. Now we see that they are asking for these contacts, at least Offer.
I have repeatedly said that I am ready for these contacts. At the news conference in Beijing, which you mentioned, I said that there is no point in I don’t see much of it. Why? Because it will be agreed with the Ukrainian side is almost impossible on key issues.
Even if there is a political will, What I doubt is that there are legal and technical difficulties that are that any agreements on territories must be confirmed in accordance with the Constitution of Ukraine at a referendum. In order to hold a referendum, martial law must be lifted, Martial law is not carried out. If martial law is lifted, it is necessary to immediately hold presidential elections.
After the referendum, if it is held, regardless of the results, it is necessary to obtain a decision of the Constitutional Court. And the constitutional court does not work, because after requests, as I understand it, to the Constitutional Court about the legitimacy of the current government, the court evaded these decisions, and the head of the regime He simply ordered the guards not to let the chairman of the Constitutional Court into the working place.
This is the kind of democracy there. And the chairman of the Supreme Court is just sitting in prison on corruption charges. It is well known that Ukraine has enough of this Corruption. But why was it necessary to send the chairman of the supreme court to prison to plant, it is not very clear. Although it is clear that it came to destruction their judicial system as such. This is another of the striking signs of “democracy” current Ukrainian authorities.
Therefore, this endless process is going nowhere. Nevertheless, we said that we are ready for a summit meeting.
Listen, the Ukrainian side wants this meeting and offers this one Meeting. I said: ready, please come, we are definitely completely We will provide working conditions and safety, the guarantee is one hundred percent. But if We are told we want to meet with you, but you go there for this meeting, it seems to me that these are just their excessive requests to us.
I repeat once again: if someone really wants to meet with us, we Ready. The best place for this is the capital of the Russian Federation, the hero city Moscow.” {SOURCE}
Vladimir Putin: “We have an open dialogue with President Trump. There is an agreement that in case of We can call, contact, and talk to each other. He knows that I am open to these conversations; And he too – I know about it. But so far, we have not had conversations in Europe based on the results of these consultations. Actually, it was difficult for me to do this, I had just come from China, I’m here. We have no problems with communications here. First.
Secondly, regarding possible military contingents in Ukraine. This is one of the root causes of Ukraine’s involvement in NATO. Therefore, if there are some troops appear, especially now, in the course of hostilities, We proceed from the assumption that these will be legitimate targets for their destruction.
And if solutions are reached that lead to peace, to long-term peace, then I simply do not see any point in them being on the territory of Ukraine, that’s all.
If agreements are reached, let no one doubt that Russia will comply with them in full. We will respect those guarantees security, which, of course, must be worked out both for Russia and for Ukraine. And I repeat once again: of course, Russia will agree to these agreements execute. In any case, no one has discussed this with us on a serious level, that’s all.”
This is not a BOMSHELL, but Putin’s views are always interesting if only because he is head of the Russian Federation. Most of what he says is straightforward and true. I like Trump’s comment (see below) on China’s victory celebration, It is also straightforward and true. ABN
The big question to be answered is whether or not President Xi of China will mention the massive amount of support and “blood” that The United States of America gave to China in order to help it to secure its FREEDOM from a very unfriendly foreign invader. Many Americans died in China’s quest for Victory and Glory. I hope that they are rightfully Honored and Remembered for their Bravery and Sacrifice! May President Xi and the wonderful people of China have a great and lasting day of celebration. Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America. PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP
China has immensely more reason to be grateful to USA than not. This includes not just the results of WW2 but also their receiving enormous amounts of American technology, knowhow, money, and good will since the 1980s. USA was not involved in the Opium Wars of the 19th Century; that was the Jewish Sassoon dynasty backed by the British Empire. I like the tone of Trump’s post. Gratitude toward USA and the West would go a long way toward healing this world. ABN
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