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Realities May be Reality of What's Pivotal to Get, Regarding the Middle East, Money, Oil, Military Activities, Relations

August 3, 2026
Pivotal, or 'basicmost' if that's a standard word, in world of word choice to paint a picture.

Just what is, going on the Middle East?

For a while in the past year, a lot of what was happening, barely hit anyone's newspaper, if at all.

Iranian websites went down and almost become nonexistent.

Over 400 US troops have been injured 'over there' (in the Middle East) since 'Epic Fury' thereabout; where specifically, how?, before getting all the way up to 400, what happened to get to the first 20 injuries, next 20 injuries ... now try to figure out 400 all at once.

Listen, there are other dynamics that get involved in military missions that involve airstrikes; parents sometimes, as in parents of soldiers abroad serving in a conflict, have experience, hindsight, foresight, and insight into injury preventative keys, as a number of them have been soldiers too.

But if you leave them in too much darkness, then that help isn't there. Next phase is the issue of how it got that bad? Next phase is investigation into responsibility and shortcomings.

'Epic Fury', named so as it may be perceived by the senses, was supposed to an epic or of historic proportion in manner of fury, to overturn some unanimously agreed upon developments having to do with Iran since Khomeini took power in the 70s. Not injuries of US personnel at epic proportions, respectfully put. Moreover, ridding Iran of certain unwanted elements seems to be a focus that has been digressed away from in the past couple of months, where the focus now is more Straits of Hormuz vagaries, oil ships, and abstract gambits over power.

The world's best, most experienced truck driver, doesn't put a blindfold on and drive down an icy road in a tractor trailer sized truck packed with flammable material.

According to some reports, inside of Iraq are proponents of aspects of Iran the US is in conflict with.
In addition to tactics of warfare such as airstrikes on targets in Iran, are also in Iraq.

There's more and there's more, and as always there's under the arc of destiny that no one single man, outside of a miracle, knows everything about.

Lessons learned from other conflicts, don't let matters race away to the point it's out of control to the point of nothing but disaster.
 

Psychological Scars of Russia Ukraine Embroilment - Weighed, Projections

July 30, 2026
Good morning.
This morning, one more mom appeared towards the top of a major newspaper that was a witness of her family's destruction. Looking everyone in the eye. What was behind hers told many stories. 
One of them was, if it doesn't stop now, the situation might go on for the next hundred or 200 years.

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When Putin set before his audience a proclamation several years ago, that military activities upon Ukraine were a paraphrased and translated, necessary strategy, was or is ongoing scarring indelibly of principally the same people in a many aspects, also in what might be referred to as the vision?

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Here's the thing about visions, strategies, and plans, -very often, plans don't go as planned.

Somewhere between the thought not to plagiarize the referent over a century old paper, and getting a stronger idea of what is going on to confirm a very strong sense that there is a major problem, 'faces of mothers of victims' in the Russia Ukraine situation, as in from the 'invasion' a few years ago to the present, was briefly looked up, again. At the current, pictures come up in frameworks such as 'Kharkiv's hospitals reveal the hideous cost....invasion'. 

I'm not even in the region, and saw just a few pictures for a few minutes, and it's already at the stopping point, where I could run the risk of putting psychological damage  if I research any further. Now contrast that to those affected in the region.

Way, way over threshold of what is acceptable.


This is all coming dangerously close, if not already, to 'what happened in Bosnia'. Bosnia, Herzegovina, Kosovo, et al, affected by 'activities', a.k.a. genocide, slightly before the millennium 20000.
 

Issues Percolate Upon the US Delegation to UN Walking Out On France

July 28, 2026
It's being looked at. Digging deeper and deeper trying to get to the bottom of it. It might take years of digging; some of the issues were present before Volker Turk, about age 61, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, was here, and strongly possible as well others interfacing the UN circles, and people reporting on the situation.

Dan Negrea, who led the referent walk-out, defected from then 'communist' Romania and sought asylum in the US, back in the 70s, his age estimated in the early 70s.
The UN basically came into existence in mid 1945, preceding Mr Negrea by just a few years, but both were in relative infancy at about the same time.

July 1946, was the King David Hotel bombing.

May 1948, Israel proclaimed. POTUS Truman is said to have concurred.

The UN flag-stand is supposed to be making sure that human rights is seen to, for everywhere.

In the last couple of years, among the world's most salient ongoing events have been Russia's actions on Ukraine, Israel actions on Gaza and Lebanon. More recently, US action on Iran, no strikes reported though the past couple of days.

Vote time on Volker Turk, from Austria, although the name implies Turk, the end of the day that is the name he is at least using, -vote time, and among the countries not voting for him to have a second term, are US, Israel, and Russia.

Some folks on earth don't care about what goes on inside the shell of the UN, as the results of what come outside that shell are what they are regardless.

Russia was considered one of the pillar points of communism for a while, especially after Bolshevik developments around early 1900. Although things supposedly changed at the historic level in late Gorbachev era, some ripple effects of communism still remain. For example, there is a prominent communist party in Russia still today.

Apparently, the tipping point prompting the walk-out was something the France delegation said about the US.

France has shown recently they are making strong presence on human right and fairness.

Aside from going into the science and logic of the walk-out, the Turk revote, all of it may have some viability questions by some readers, important is the concept of keeping as many friends as possible, especially advanced nations. The reasons standard obvious, such as strength in unity.

People know about the past of France, such as occupations; they were in the US a couple of hundred years ago.

Painting kettle with different complicated tricks from years back, in potential perspectives.


Afterword:
It won't be surprising that all nations involved in the moment of the walkout have some in-house sessions about where going, and trying to go.

Thematic, sensitivity to disintegration; word forms, disintegration, and thereunto.

 

West Bank Flare Ups Leave Projections for More Agitation

July 26, 2026
Over the past few days, tensions toppled over in the region. Among the incidents, 2 masajid (mosques) were heavily damaged due to fire. Key points in the issue seem to centered on settlers and settlement, and discomfort with policies.
 

Challenges in Myanmar Mount

July 24, 2026
Shipwreck last week, healthcare system fledgling, buildings thrashed, fighting, and more.

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