Global SITREP F3-21: The Current Situation

 

At the ready...

UPDATE 02 July 2021: There are two other dire situations to report. No great surprise, both involve Communist China. OSINT reports for both are available at The Sun and The WSJ, among others sites. In a nutshell, the "kings of the East" appear to be ready to rumble like never before.

The first situation, but not most important, is that Communist China intends to launch a three-phase attack on Taiwan (Nationalist China) prior to a seaborne invasion of the island. The three phases are ballistic missiles strikes, followed by cruise missile strikes, followed by missile strikes by the ChiCom navy (PLAN) and air force (PLAF) on Taiwanese military bases of all types. These attacks will be followed up by waves of amphibious land invasion forces. Will Biden look the other way? Can he afford to considering U.S. pledges to defend Taiwan from Communist aggression? The risks to other U.S. defense agreements with South Korea, Japan, Australia and SEATO countries are incalcuably enormous if Biden balks.

An equally important focus of Chinese military aggression is against India. There are now hundreds of thousands of ChiCom and Indian troops with their most lethal weaponry now toe to toe across the common border between the two Asian giants, both of whom are nuclear armed. An additional fifty-thousand troops from each nation have just been deployed. Needless for Eschatology Today to point out the risks involved in such a conflict. The most obvious issue here is that the CCP appears to have determined it has amassed enough military power to fight wars on both its eastern and western borders simultaneously.

Watching... 

29 June 2021: It would be too easy for Eschatology Today to simply state that what was forecast in the immediately preceding SITREPs is now the current situation. And that would be correct, however, there is more to cover that has not be put to print here thus far.

The prophetic collapse of the regime currently holding power in the Islamic Republic of Iran is well underway. The clerics in Tehran have done everything within their power to prevent a collapse caused by external forces, both military and economic, (i.e. military and economic warfare, or "swords"). We know this, or at a minimum we should all know because it has been the "news of the day" form 2017 to today and into the coming days. Those who don't know this are seculars or have no use for the Word of God. 

And what the clerics have no chance of forestalling is the fulfillment of the prophetic Word of God. Jeremiah 49:34-39 is very clear on how this regime will be brought down. That process has been ongoing since 2017 and has gained an increasing momentum ever since. 

Verse 37 is the proverbial nutshell of what is happening as we have seen in real time over the past 48 months:

For I will cause Elam to be dismayed before their enemies
And before those who seek their life.
I will bring disaster upon them,
My fierce anger,’ says the Lord;
‘And I will send the sword after them
Until I have consumed them.

Disasters have befallen the Islamic Republic incessantly, and they cover all bases -- natural, military, economic and even rebellion among the masses of the Iranian people. Oh, yes, the clerics are dismayed in the extreme and, as we have also seen in real-time, the Twelver tendency is to reach too far in vain attempts that bring only more disaster upon them. It's like a vice where the pressure is ever increasing and unrelenting.

The situation in Iran is so dire that the recent bogus national election installed a Twelver jurist, Ebrahim Raisi, who is so extreme he makes a former president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, look like a girl scout in comparison. This installation was done at the direction of Ayatollah Khamenei and his sycophant loyalists to threaten Israel and the West at-large. 

On top of this we also know that the IRGC Intelligence Service, a/k/a the Ministry of Intelligence established in 2009 and led by MG Hossein Salami, have taken direct and total control of the Islamic Republic. In theory Major General Salami and his underlings are answerable only to the Ayatollah, but that remains to be seen. In this case it's he who has the guns and the gold who makes the rules, and not for long it would seem. 

The Iranian regime's 43-year tenure of it's formerly independent jurist Expediency Council, also known as the "Vilayat-e-Faqih," has been unceremoniously transitioned into the dust bin of history. The Expediency Council been superceded by what is now clearly to be seen as the Iranian Intelligence State. This type of internal drama is historically what takes place within any regime that is crumbling due to pressures both internal and external.

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In Israel a new 21st century airborne weapon system has made its debut according to journalist Seth Frantzman. Ten days ago the Israeli MoD completed a successful series of interception tests of a high-power laser system developed by Elbit Sysems and the IAF. No surprise, the system is known as the HPL-WS (High Power Laser Weapon System) and it brought down multiple UAVs (drones) at various ranges and altitudes. 

The really bad news for Israel's enemies in the sky is that the HPL-WS is inexpensive to fire and cannot run out of ammunition, and will be improved in power and performance in the months ahead. Interestingly, the HPL-WS test was conducted from a small Cessna aircraft! The HPL-WS will ultimately save countless and costly Iron Dome missiles from having to engage low-tech armed UAVs and/or balloon incendiary devices. 

The HPL-WS is yet another feather in the IAFs war bonnet right along side the increasing fleet of F-35I Adir stealth aircraft. Pity the near-future airborne invaders who want to take plunder from Israel, they won't stand a chance against game-changers such as these.

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In another confirmation of Eschatology Today's immediate after-action analysis of the IDF's "Operation Guardian of the Walls" in mid-May [SITREPs E10-21 (Part I) F2-21 (Part II)], Israel Defense.co.il published an article on 25 June stating that the war did not end; it "appears to have been just the first round of a war which is expected to resume in the coming months with an even greater intensity." 

The rationale offered by the Israel Defense article hinges of the fact that neither Israel nor the terrorist forces in Gaza (HAMAS and PIJ) realized the goals they sought to achieve. Israel did not achieve the objective of an enduring calm, and the terrorists did not achieve a new equation in its war against Israel, and instead paid an exorbitant price in combat capabilities, the long-standing leadership that was eliminated and tremendous gains in civil infrastructure paid for in the billions by Gulf Arab states like Qatar and the UAE. 

Still, the terrorists remain spoiling for a fight, and Israel can no longer tolerate the incessant threat to its civilian population. Neither side will concede anything further, so the return to a potentially final armed struggle beckons. The next act of this war is very likely to see Israel as the initiator of renewed hostilities which will rapidly escalate into total war, just as prophecied by Isaiah 11 and Ezekiel 28.

So, Watchmen, return to the walls and cry Marana'tha!