Armageddon. No, the real one.
Armageddon is in the Middle East. Always has been.
BillMon recently posted this piece :
From the American Conservative, July 22, 2005:The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States.
The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons.Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option.
Read some more of Whiskey Bar, such as this and this, to see that the idea of a real armageddon centred around the real Armageddon, is becoming more and more likely.
Depressing, but we knew all this in the seventies, though back then we thought Armageddon would be caused by the US and the USSR fighting over oil in the Middle East, the 1977 Oil War scenario. Luckily, back then the US government was less stupid than it is now, having only recent had it's arse handed to it by the Viet Cong and the Khmer Rouge in Vietnam and Cambodia. It's scary how quickly people forget the lessons of history.
Now we are faced with the prospect of Israel, Iran, Pakistan, and shortly afterwards Saudi Arabia and Egypt, going nuclear, with the US sticking it's dick into the honey pot. And what will China do with such a convenient distraction? Goodbye Taiwan, maybe? Annex the rest of Mongolia?
Game Designers Workshop once released a role-playing game called Twilight 2000 based mainly around the idea of US forces trying to get back home from Poland after a nuclear war between the US and the USSR caused failure of infrastructure and the abandonment of the European theatre US troops. They basically became bandits. But they had some support from locals in that game, as many still thought of the US forces as trying to help them.
I am tempted to run a new game called Twilight 2010 where the players are US forces attempting to survive escaping from the Bagdhad Green Zone, perhaps to Israel, orTurkey. It'll be like Blackhawk Down, only far worse because they won't have a carrier group sitting off the coast to provide support, and they've got much further to go, through a much more hostile country.
Another reason to ensure that Brash, the Bush arse-licker, isn't in charge, we need to distance ourselves as far as possible from the rogue state the US has become.
BillMon recently posted this piece :
From the American Conservative, July 22, 2005:The Pentagon, acting under instructions from Vice President Dick Cheney's office, has tasked the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM) with drawing up a contingency plan to be employed in response to another 9/11-type terrorist attack on the United States.
The plan includes a large-scale air assault on Iran employing both conventional and tactical nuclear weapons.Within Iran there are more than 450 major strategic targets, including numerous suspected nuclear-weapons-program development sites. Many of the targets are hardened or are deep underground and could not be taken out by conventional weapons, hence the nuclear option.
Read some more of Whiskey Bar, such as this and this, to see that the idea of a real armageddon centred around the real Armageddon, is becoming more and more likely.
Depressing, but we knew all this in the seventies, though back then we thought Armageddon would be caused by the US and the USSR fighting over oil in the Middle East, the 1977 Oil War scenario. Luckily, back then the US government was less stupid than it is now, having only recent had it's arse handed to it by the Viet Cong and the Khmer Rouge in Vietnam and Cambodia. It's scary how quickly people forget the lessons of history.
Now we are faced with the prospect of Israel, Iran, Pakistan, and shortly afterwards Saudi Arabia and Egypt, going nuclear, with the US sticking it's dick into the honey pot. And what will China do with such a convenient distraction? Goodbye Taiwan, maybe? Annex the rest of Mongolia?
Game Designers Workshop once released a role-playing game called Twilight 2000 based mainly around the idea of US forces trying to get back home from Poland after a nuclear war between the US and the USSR caused failure of infrastructure and the abandonment of the European theatre US troops. They basically became bandits. But they had some support from locals in that game, as many still thought of the US forces as trying to help them.
I am tempted to run a new game called Twilight 2010 where the players are US forces attempting to survive escaping from the Bagdhad Green Zone, perhaps to Israel, orTurkey. It'll be like Blackhawk Down, only far worse because they won't have a carrier group sitting off the coast to provide support, and they've got much further to go, through a much more hostile country.
Another reason to ensure that Brash, the Bush arse-licker, isn't in charge, we need to distance ourselves as far as possible from the rogue state the US has become.