A Global Release of Tensions

October 16, 2023

by James Howard Kunstler Daily Reckoning

It’s been a week since the skies over the Negev Desert filled with something eerily like the flying monkeys of Oz upgraded to Hamas Road Warriors in motorized paragliders, kicking off that third world war we’ve been hearing about all our lives, and not at all the way we expected either, which was more Dr. Strangelove style, with the mushroom clouds billowing everywhere — though, who knows, it might come to that too, before long.

This new catastrophe, quickly globalizing, makes the war in Ukraine seem as comfortable as an old sweater.

For now, the question of intel failures must be put aside. There will be no official inquiries while U.S. carrier fleets sail into position, and Hezbollah does a war dance on the northern frontier with Syria, and the Israelis struggle to strategize an extremely sticky hostage predicament, even as their air force blows up whole blocks of Gaza City.