#46 Geoeconomics in Geopolitical dimensions
Middle East conflict expanding
With Pakistan announcing that it had carried out strikes against terrorist hide-outs in Iran - after a day earlier when Iran hit what it called militant camps in Pakistan, the military exchange being the latest example of an expanding set of hostilities connected to the Israel-Hamas war; on a pair of perceptive analyses of the incidents, read Bhadrakumar (India Punchline) and Salman Rafi Sheikh (Asia Sentinel).
And that Iran was able to launch a missile to Idleb in Syria which is 1,200 kilometers away, Iran has had demonstrated that it can reliably hit at targets over that distance. The missiles used, named Khaybar Shekan, have a top reach of 1,450 kilometers.
These attacks are a warning to Israel and the U.S. that Iran can hit all of Israel with well targeted attacks without having to deploy any foot soldiers abroad. Explored wider in an essay is US failed Middle East policy; accessible HERE, with updated graphics.
January 12, the United Kingdom and the United States launched military strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen in response to the group’s assaults on, and disrupting, commercial shipping in the Red Sea.
Following the assassination of Saleh al-Arouri and other Hamas leaders in Beirut on January 2, Hezbollah’s commander, Hassan Nasrallah vowed retribution and declared that the fight against Israel required nothing less than an “axis of resistance.”
Then the axis attacked.
Hezbollah pounded Israel’s Meron air surveillance base with 62 rockets; the Iraq-based Islamic Resistance group sent drones to attack U.S. bases in Syria and Iraq and targeted the Israeli city of Haifa with a long-range cruise missile; the Houthis struck in the Red Sea; and Iran captured an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman.
It is also a time whence Israeli settlers are leaving the country where an Israeli economy is in disarray; read further: Israel War Debt; Trading on Terror; The tunnel economy of Gaza.
To those who intends to broaden an understanding on the existential Middle East crises, here are more readings for your weekends: the Black Mountain Analysis; American hegemon chasing kancil across the world; Simplicious the Thinker.
Meanwile, my various postings published in the TWTW:
2] Genocide Convention against Israel in ICJ
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