@BremenBod A diabolical presence and pretense, war. The anti-Christ, the lowest form of violence, they're all at it. And if you thought it was a mess, with Israel bombing Syrian airports, Russia has just opened Khmeimim airbase to Iran.
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Copy of tweet: Surreal to hear US officials feign outrage over civilian casualties when, just last year, ex-intelligence analyst Daniel Hale was sentenced to 45 months in prison for exposing that, during one five-month period in Afghanistan, 90% of the victims of US airstrikes were civilians. Bombing civilians? Business as usual. Quote tweet: 90% of war deaths are civilians. #AmericanJournalofPublicHealth June 2014. Heschel: “There is nothing so vile as the arrogance of the military mind.” Art, mine, smartphone, #picsart 2014. Image of children, smiling, hands raised, under banner: HANDS UP FOR WAR! Beneath, Lockheed Martin logo.
@lukeburgis @JonAskonas @NOV1TATE Timely, yes. @johnrobb ("A world full of nuclear weapons isn't compatible with the way networks drive politics and conflict") as myself, shocked by the dearth of acuity surrounding immediate, related, mimetic trends. I'm quoting Paul, in an eschatological note, too, these days.
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Copy of tweet: 2/ Some aver the recent, massive, mimetic escalation in technology-accelerated cycles of violence and counter-violence defining geopolitical conflicts perceived by key antagonists in fundamentally existential terms, abrogates the theoretical premise putting a brake on Armageddon. Copy of tweet: end/ So, an algorithmically-supercharged vortex of mimetic contagion and, all told, a momentum the prophets universally anticipated would inevitably deliver us to the very threshold of suicidal, planetary cataclysm. Hobbes' 'war of all against all', plus nukes. What next, then?
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@iyad_elbaghdadi My conclusion is that it's not possible for Israel to invade & occupy Gaza or transfer its population outside Israel without breaking the region, destabilizing multiple regimes, causing a long-term rise in worldwide radicalization & polarization, causing an irreparable rift between the West & the rest of the world, causing political crises in multiple countries outside the region, ending whatever remains of the rules-based world order, causing a generational spike in anti-US sentiment, ending all diplomatic ties with Arab states (including Egypt & Jordan), and causing a multi-front regional war that sees the US dragged back into the Middle East for a while. And even then, it's unlikely that they'll even succeed. Last edited 12:58 PM · Oct 20, 2023 · 291.9K Views