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"Netanyahu is in real trouble today. First, he is attacked by his coalition in the government... the finance minister [Bezalel] Smotrich and the security minister [Itamar] Ben-Gvir warned him if he stopped the attack on Gaza, saying that they want the [Israeli] settlers to return to Gaza after they were asked to leave in 2005 by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.The Biden administration has largely defended Netanyahu's military operation in Gaza, which has killed 1% of the enclave's population over the previous months. Both Biden and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken have a long history of strong support for Israel.
"This objective contradicts with the American announcement that the Palestinians will go nowhere and will remain in Gaza, and any ethnic cleansing is not permitted, which means that the coalition and Netanyahu's government is not going to hold."
"US officials are concerned that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may see an expanded fight in Lebanon as key to his political survival amid domestic criticism of his government's failure to prevent Hamas's Oct. 7 attack. In private conversations, the [Biden] administration has warned Israel against a significant escalation in Lebanon."

Swedish Armed Forces to be deployed in Latvia amid NATO integrationAs international analysts have commented, the proxy war in Ukraine has exposed NATO to be a rather ineffective and deteriorating - albeit lawless and destructive - American-run outfit which is fast losing any influence it had in the world:
In anticipation of its NATO membership, Swedish Armed Forces announced plans to contribute army units to Latvia as part of NATO's enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) concept. The FLF initiative involves multinational battle groups stationed in eight Eastern European countries, aimed at deterring potential Russian aggression against the West and NATO.
The mission in Latvia, led by a Danish division staff, will see Sweden and Denmark alternating responsibilities for setting up a battalion as part of a brigade based outside Riga. The Danish and Swedish troop contributions will rotate every six months. The Swedish component will consist of a mechanized battalion, starting as early as 2025.
While stationed in Latvia, the Swedish forces plan to continue training in a multinational context with other divisions, focusing primarily on deterrence.
Correction: Belligerence.
Although there is no formal government decision yet on the contribution, the army is actively planning for the mission.
"This will be one of the army's most visible initial contributions to NATO's collective defence, a task we take very seriously," said Major General Jonny Lindfors, the Chief of the Army. "The ability to provide military support outside our borders is crucial for our future role in NATO, just as the ability to receive military support in Sweden is."
The South Scanian Regiment (P 7) is designated as the first unit to be deployed following Sweden's NATO membership, with approximately 600 personnel involved.
"We have started planning for this mission, and assuming a decision is made, we are ready to fulfill the task," stated Colonel Lennart Wideström, commander of P 7.
NATO enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) forces are present in eight Eastern European countries, including Bulgaria, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Hungary. These battle groups vary in size and troop composition, adapted to specific geographic conditions in each host country. Sweden's contribution in Latvia will be led by a Danish division commander and will primarily involve personnel from the 71st battalion.
What is this book about? It is about the taking of collateral, all of it, the end game of this globally synchronous debt accumulation super cycle. This is being executed by long-planned, intelligent design, the audacity and scope of which is difficult for the mind to encompass. Included are all financial assets, all money on deposit at banks, all stocks and bonds, and hence, all underlying property of all public corporations, including all inventories, plant and equipment, land, mineral deposits, inventions and intellectual property. Privately owned personal and real property financed with any amount of debt will be similarly taken, as will the assets of privately owned businesses, which have been financed with debt. If even partially successful, this will be the greatest conquest and subjugation in world history.
We are now living within a hybrid war conducted almost entirely by deception, and thus designed to achieve war aims with little energy input. It is a war of conquest directed not against other nation states but against all of humanity.

Comment: Attal seems to consider himself Jewish. From the Jewish Telegraph Agency: Oh boy...