I don’t always like the guy much. He’s often full of assholiness. But he’s right more often than he’s wrong, about Ukraine, and now he’s right about Gaza too.

Monumental Oversight: Unveiling a Colossal Miscalculation | Scott Ritter

The two main reasons to sink into this hour are:

1) You will learn about the complicated and ugly situation in Israel even before the events of a month ago. The President of the country (as opposed to the much more famous Prime Minister) has said that Israel was on the brink of civil war, and the reasons why haven’t changed. You’ll learn about them too.

2) You’ll be offered the strategic proposition that it is in Israel’s own best interests, never mind the victims of the slow-motion genocide, to immediately call a cease-fire and enter negotiations with Hammas. I believe that’s correct. Israel will never again be in as strong a negotiating position as they are right now. It can only get worse.

I’m sure it will. I’m sure they’ll ignore the good advice and blunder on down the path of Zionazism. I’m reasonably certain that they will drag other countries into the shitstorm militarily, and that might even include the American serpent, metaphorically tangling you and me up in this mess even deeper than we already are.

Happy blue Monday.