Great article, Lucian, your insight into much of the military/intelligence world is invaluable. Thanks for helping us understand this latest atrocity. However, this Israeli operation creates a major contradiction between what happened on October 7, 2023, which was explained as an intelligence failure, and this super secret and sophistica…
Great article, Lucian, your insight into much of the military/intelligence world is invaluable. Thanks for helping us understand this latest atrocity. However, this Israeli operation creates a major contradiction between what happened on October 7, 2023, which was explained as an intelligence failure, and this super secret and sophisticated pager etc., operation that Israel is pulling off right now. Mossad has an earned reputation for being very secretive and effective in its operational functions, and I, for one, was skeptical about the Hamas ‘surprise’ attack last fall. It had been planned for several years, we have learned. It didn’t make sense to me that Mossad wouldn’t have known about it, which would mean it was allowed to occur to give cover for Yahoo’s plans for a Gaza genocide. I mentioned this thought to an 80+ year-old, but still naive, Jewish friend of mine who insisted such ideas were the product of my overactive imagination. Well, not quite, especially when it concerns the ME, and especially an odious evil character like Yahoo. It does seem that the level of secrecy involved in this exploding pager operation had to have been huge because of it size and complexity. I suppose the same could be said of the Manhattan (atomic bomb) Project), which was kept secret for years, but those were perhaps more innocent times. I would think that Hezbollah’s intelligence capability would have been good enough to suss that out. Evidently not. Yahoo now seems bound and determined to go to war with Hezbollah/Lebanon despite being urged, obviously ineffectively, by us and many nations to not do so. He will do anything to stay in power and out of prison, not unlike *Rump. His other motive is to try to drag us into a land war, that no rational person wants, to do his fighting for him. Biden won’t do him that favor, IMHO. The Israeli military is saying they are prepared. What other horrors does that mean we are going to witness in the coming days before our election that Yahoo wants *Rump to win very badly.
This adds a very plausible level of complexity to Lucian's byzantine but more-than-plausible explanation. I'm not assuming that the Mossad is all-in for Bibi (nowhere close), and I'm also not assuming that the Mossad is monolithic: some parts of it may be more astute than others. Bibi has been playing games with Hamas and probably being played in return.
It is my hope that Biden will lower the boom on Yahoo after the election regardless of the outcome. Hopefully Harris wins, and she does not have a long standing relationship with Yahoo, although I think even Biden understands by now what an evil weasel Yahoo is. A major Israeli invasion of Lebanon before the election, and then Yahoo’s cry for help could put Biden in a bad place. Don’t put anything past him.
Which is exactly what the orange turd wants him to do. Lowering the boom is the hope of the MAGA party. They figure they will pick up a helluva lot of the Jewish vote if we finally cut Bibi and his thugs off. As it stands right now? The Arab vote is in play, and yes, the Democrats need them. So here we have the sword of Damocles swinging back and forth and less than 60 days to the election.
Also true...complex, complicated politics - mind blowing! However, as far as I see, Jewish people are anti-Bibi and would welcome some tough love from Biden.
Great article, Lucian, your insight into much of the military/intelligence world is invaluable. Thanks for helping us understand this latest atrocity. However, this Israeli operation creates a major contradiction between what happened on October 7, 2023, which was explained as an intelligence failure, and this super secret and sophisticated pager etc., operation that Israel is pulling off right now. Mossad has an earned reputation for being very secretive and effective in its operational functions, and I, for one, was skeptical about the Hamas ‘surprise’ attack last fall. It had been planned for several years, we have learned. It didn’t make sense to me that Mossad wouldn’t have known about it, which would mean it was allowed to occur to give cover for Yahoo’s plans for a Gaza genocide. I mentioned this thought to an 80+ year-old, but still naive, Jewish friend of mine who insisted such ideas were the product of my overactive imagination. Well, not quite, especially when it concerns the ME, and especially an odious evil character like Yahoo. It does seem that the level of secrecy involved in this exploding pager operation had to have been huge because of it size and complexity. I suppose the same could be said of the Manhattan (atomic bomb) Project), which was kept secret for years, but those were perhaps more innocent times. I would think that Hezbollah’s intelligence capability would have been good enough to suss that out. Evidently not. Yahoo now seems bound and determined to go to war with Hezbollah/Lebanon despite being urged, obviously ineffectively, by us and many nations to not do so. He will do anything to stay in power and out of prison, not unlike *Rump. His other motive is to try to drag us into a land war, that no rational person wants, to do his fighting for him. Biden won’t do him that favor, IMHO. The Israeli military is saying they are prepared. What other horrors does that mean we are going to witness in the coming days before our election that Yahoo wants *Rump to win very badly.
This adds a very plausible level of complexity to Lucian's byzantine but more-than-plausible explanation. I'm not assuming that the Mossad is all-in for Bibi (nowhere close), and I'm also not assuming that the Mossad is monolithic: some parts of it may be more astute than others. Bibi has been playing games with Hamas and probably being played in return.
Biden needs to lower the boom on 'Yahoo'. we have the leverage so USE IT, goddamit!
This pager thing is terrorism, pure and simple!
It is my hope that Biden will lower the boom on Yahoo after the election regardless of the outcome. Hopefully Harris wins, and she does not have a long standing relationship with Yahoo, although I think even Biden understands by now what an evil weasel Yahoo is. A major Israeli invasion of Lebanon before the election, and then Yahoo’s cry for help could put Biden in a bad place. Don’t put anything past him.
Which is exactly what the orange turd wants him to do. Lowering the boom is the hope of the MAGA party. They figure they will pick up a helluva lot of the Jewish vote if we finally cut Bibi and his thugs off. As it stands right now? The Arab vote is in play, and yes, the Democrats need them. So here we have the sword of Damocles swinging back and forth and less than 60 days to the election.
Also true...complex, complicated politics - mind blowing! However, as far as I see, Jewish people are anti-Bibi and would welcome some tough love from Biden.