A very significant event occurred on Monday when Russian President Vladimir Putin officially recognized sovereign independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, two Ukrainian republics. Taken without a shot fired, Russia shrewdly established casus belli (reason for war), by setting up a strawman of Ukrainian resistance from those republics, only to "heroically" knock it down when Putin …
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Following Israeli airstrikes on Iranian positions in Syria yesterday, Russian Ambassador to Damascus stated: "Russia strongly condemns the illegal Israeli attacks on Syrian soil. They pose a threat to international civil aviation and cause damage to life and property." Why is that significant? Those who study Ezekiel 38-39 know that a ruler out of Russia …
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Today has been a very busy day in the Middle East, with military action taking place as I post. (It is night time in the Middle East.) First, to dispel early reports on social media regarding rocket attacks in Abu Dhabi, news outlets now report those explosions as gas cylinder explosions, not rockets, in a …
According to an FBI report, the devastating explosion at the Port of Beirut in 2020 was the result of only 1/5 of the ammonium nitrate that was delivered in 2013. Not withstanding the severity of that explosion, the big question now is: where are the other 4/5's of that explosive material? The August 2020 blast …
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