Things have been worse. 
Right now we are in an era, one that will be laughed at in a few years in the lens of technological development.
Just a few decades ago, watching the news on color television was a major breakthrough, but watchers had to wait until the news came on, and be at a place with a TV, with the stations that aired the news selected. 35 years ago thereabout, special kudos to those that took a time out from watching sports and frivolous comedy, to watch the news.

As knowledgeable as news watchers were, compared to those that didn't have TV at all, everything is held relative.
Today, with cell phones that can take videos, and that there are satellites that can help with imagery, and a seemingly endless list of news sources on the Internet, it is a lot easier to keep up with what is going on, and a lot less censured when all the different news sources get compiled together, the cross-referencing of information may squeeze more of the truth out per unit time than TV and newspapers that monopolized information to the public decades back.

The era we are in right now, start of 2024, is one dominated by this new advent called a drone. Now of course there are even higher technologies out now and been out, but millions of members of the earth's public to have ready access?, the status as we speak for most, is watch the news on a cellphone and drones are able to capture footage from many angles.

The other kind of drone, is the form of a weapon of mass destruction. Yet another situation going on now, is drones are being used to do miserly criminal activities such as traffic illicit narcotics, and land outside prison windows to exchange communication about a next conspiracy to conduct.

The basic concept may stick around for a while, just as robbers that use getaway cars. A 100 years ago, a bunch of robbers got away in the car, and got away with the robbery; today, accountability technology such as license plates and arrays of footage taking mechanisms often make a getaway car an easy catch.

In much the same way, the drone situations we see today, the drug dropping, the monopoly to mass produce and sell to anyone like selling soldiers boots to any and all armies regardless of what side they fight on, drone mimicry as used to attack military bases and troops, which may have happened in Jordan about a week ago- and another drone attack in the past couple of days, which claimed the lives of about a half dozed 'Kurdish' fighters that were on a facility which also housed US troops about a thousand or so kilometers northeast from the previous one which triggered a US missile strike response over the past few days - eventually, this kind of materialization of events, is all going to simmer down, as command over technology increases.

What we might be witnessing has something to do with times -and place-; in remote desert areas, especially as it appears to those not originally from there, old laws of nature existent for thousands of years remains the same, but newer technologies may have changed over time, as the actors in the script of the applications.

That all said, as disheartening as it was for US soldiers to have to have been shipped from Jordan late last week; at this present sliver of time, it has already been proven by the attack on military facility in Syria in recent hours, that gorounds of attacks and attack-like activities involving drones, is bound to continue on throughout the next few weeks, unless something drastically happens, such as bans on certain kinds of drones, and a third entity, say a world peace organization that maintains a technology like drones that can destroy or capture drones, intervenes and successfully mitigates drone terror threats.

Meanwhile frustration around the globe continues, including, -similar to soldier boots mass production despite who walks in them and what they do- about equipment being used in the current Russia-Ukraine tension situation. 

There is a Ecuador rift with Russia having to do with Russian military equipment- banana-, US triangle going on.
The presence of Houthis that persist as terror threats.
Talk of Iran being what is backing certain scatterings of terror cells.
Talk of the Hamas group scattered around European places like Italy threatening bodily harm.
The ongoing Ukraine/Russia situation.

Last weekend, bundles of websites were buzzing about a volume of tensions globally that could potentially spark a WWIII. Right now those statements are being left as a figure of speech.
There has been much more that has gone on around the globe at one time n years past for instance almost every nation had a tension, compared to now, only the world didn't now about it, in an instant from watching the news online on cell phones.

In this case, it may apply that it may be a challenge to ascertain a lot of, ongoing present and danger elements for instance, when there is very little to pull together and analyze, nevermind make determinations of a substantive entity that is there to point blame to.
On or about January 28, 2024, several days ago, a drone attack struck Tower 22, claiming 3 US military lives and injuring about 40 others.
Considering there are reports of another US drone was actively moving around concurrent the drone that struck, it may be inferable that just about every sound and plan of the Tower 22, at least, has been eavesdropped in on, by parties with an interest in conducting an attack against Americans.

The Rukban region is about as remote desert region as can get, for the Jordan area. Natives in Rukban, or Al-Rukban, are said to be very destitute, poor, and hungry. The environment can be described as spaced out, arid, with very little urban structure that encompasses educational facilities. -Making it a challenge, perhaps, to identify a group of elements amalgamated.

That statement is not to detract at any degree from US information gathering reports, it is to provide broad strokes that the possibilities, on a trajectory from late 2023 going forward, is possibly almost endless, in terms of who might pull together with someone else to form up a team which could be summarily be called enemy combatants. There is a phenomenon that occurs, that when individuals are so nutrition deprived and hope deprived, they may start to suffer from illusions, and do things they ordinarily would not. Sometimes for money, or a sense that something has been accomplished putting them in a better position than they day before. It may be easy for once innocent individuals to be recruited, swayed, and influenced into activities involving violence.

Whether you call it Falesteen, Palestine, Israel, a combination of these, or other ancient name like Philista, the time now is it is up on that moment where the future is under the limelight, strong.

Over centuries at least, political divides have gone on in the region.

Chances are it will continue.

About two dozen Israel soldiers were reported to have been killed on or about yesterday, the reported most casualties suffered by them in a single day since 10/7- logic holds it will be slim that Israel military forces will call off all military action to 100% abatement between now and the end of this week, as a ramification for example.

Some say first man Adam was there at least in AlQuds as it may be referred to now for then, perhaps Nuh (Nwh, Noah spellings). It was a long time ago.

There was a serious incident October 7, 2023, which is reported by much of the media to have been a tipper, reference tipping point, that had in a chain of events that followed a reported onslaught of numerous individuals living in Gaza especially.

Some nations are now taking the case, of what happened post 10/7, to international court. The grounds, basically genocide. For example, South Africa presented an argument at the Hague almost two weeks ago. 

What if Israel is found guilty, or not guilty? Will it make a difference in terms of the day to day [military/tension] activities in the region?

What if the region known as Palestine or Gaza is granted a certain something something allowing them full peace unaffected by military encroachment? Will the day to day actually change, if so, how long?, etc. And vice versa.

Numerous UN condemnations of Israel activities that in brief words involve aggression have occurred. Since about 1950 to the present. 

Let's face it, many flags have flown in the region in just the past 100 years.  Hamas, PLO, Israel, PFLP-GC, DFLP, and so on.

At the end of the day, a large part of what counts is how did everyone act.

Such hosting sits as to be viewed with thanks and applause. Invited representatives from the Arab region.

1917, a year that is almost synonymous with the Russian Revolution.
Tsar Nicholas II, shift away.
Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, were renown party names, among the first most hear or read about in study texts about historic 'party politics' in the region.
Disintegration/dissolution of empires or Union are other big terms.
Russian Empire. USSR.
Perhaps the most famous names in the past century, Lenin, Stalin, and Gorbachev.
Aggressive activities in Afghanistan Russia tensions subsided.

So Russia went from [being] one place and into [being] another, and each time there were sighs of relief.

The concern at this time, November 2023, is the name and banner says one thing, such as headed toward democracy. The days of the Gulag are over. The days of the Cold War are actually a thing of the past, and starting to head toward antiquity.
But, is it really like that?

Great script for a movie, however, hundreds are constantly pouring out information and their emotions every day since Russian military carried out what may be described as a military operation on Ukraine February 2022; -irony, that things are just the way it is.. some things never change... [ cf. B. Hornsby song, politely excuse me], running in the theme of the script, is not a capturing enough a movie for a full rollout at the amateur level given the competition. [I] Will hold off for now, but will say something about:

In addition to the military activities and occupation, reference in gear late February 2022, which was said to have gotten started over concerns about roughly speaking, security leaks coming emanating from within the land mass of Ukraine, whether the Ukraine or its government has anything to do with it a separate conversation,- in addition to the activities, is that those that oppose the activity, pertinently in Russia, have been sent reportedly sent to jail. This has been ongoing since about the start, late February '22.

It is now at the point, that just the numbers of prisoners alone is a distinct global concern.

Reports say 10s of thousands of jailed persons. 

Of course another concern is the trend toward, none better mutter a word or look like they are opposing, or risk death or jail.

That is not the taste of a democracy, such as enjoyed in the USA.

The concept, of if one just says something about the issue, conducive or contradictory, start the oppression, that kind of bully, oppressive environment, it is reminiscent of the Gulag era.

Since moments of heading toward democracy after Gorbachev, is that status something that should or could be tolerated on a global level? Is it the Gulag era all over, or is the Gulag era still there?

A number of notable individuals holding key government posts have 'mysteriously disappeared over the last 2 years', who are at least rumored to have opposed the referent occupation of Russia in Ukraine.

Sometimes typical of war, is post fact the initial invasion, after a time, the day to day, is battle for this, battle for that, located here, or there. The such and such field, or hospital, or old factory. But where did the security leak objective in terms of purpose and intention go? Often not heard much of anymore.

Troubles in Gaza and centered around it, started back up to heightened levels of intensity about a month ago, October 2023, dwarfing the now hackneyed by media coverage of developments in Ukraine.

Much like the Ukraine Russia situation, rivals, issues, and tensions of many sorts have existed in the area radiating from Jerusalem for many years. When a time comes when the intensity is shocking and media grabbing, considering media and pubic access capabilities, here comes the all over the world stop and revolve around the pith of fury, like flying beings come to a bonfire on a desolate beach at night.

Circling around to the Gulag topic, in the news recently, was an early 30s age female painter, Russian in Russia, sentenced to a reported 7 years of imprisonment, for protests of some sort.

Question that may arise, and hopefully arise, in some minds, is, is this kind of oppression going to be around for 7 more years in Russia.

Freedom of speech, seriously not nearly around through there in the region, in the framework, moreover, the matter of how much progress has been made on making sure there isn't some perverted imprisonment scheme going on, is building in gaining attention.

The 'genocide by the Khmer Rouge' from about the mid 1970s, was able to 'walk' and 'escape' a lot of detection from places of the world in the pre photo-phone/ Internet era.

Perhaps contrary to the way people thought things were and mildly changed, for some change to the next, for example, the turbulent 60s in the US, wherein had, President Johnsons War on Poverty, events of Abdul Malik Shabazz (a.k.a. Malcolm X), and intervention in Vietnam. After the 'boys came home', from the Vietnam War [not so much discussing Korean War and Panama], there is this glorified picture of now it is the disco era, and everything is well and good, but some who are not as well to do, or have outward bodily features that may not have been the favored mainstream from from one town to the next, things are not so good. Perhaps had it been known the extent of what was going on in Cambodia, like media viewers are aware of events in Ukraine and Gaza, the ideas of the ups and downs of life might have been different.

Things were not good for the Cambodians, especially Champa people, in the late 1970s. Things were not good for prisoners in the Gulag, and the imagination might, it might, stretch to what the worst was. Today, 2023, we are witnessing elements of the Gulag era going in Russia. 

Walking without being detected or held accountable, I do not believe is on the slate to keep up, at that degree of severity. Regardless of how friendly relations are between the Russian government and others, regardless of what the real deal or media hyped relations are with places such as Chechnya, who were, reminding, bombed, in 1999, and faced other oppressions.


Published evening EST November 17, 2023