1917, a year that is almost synonymous with the Russian Revolution.
Tsar Nicholas II, shift away.
Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, were renown party names, among the first most hear or read about in study texts about historic 'party politics' in the region.
Disintegration/dissolution of empires or Union are other big terms.
Russian Empire. USSR.
Perhaps the most famous names in the past century, Lenin, Stalin, and Gorbachev.
Aggressive activities in Afghanistan Russia tensions subsided.

So Russia went from [being] one place and into [being] another, and each time there were sighs of relief.

The concern at this time, November 2023, is the name and banner says one thing, such as headed toward democracy. The days of the Gulag are over. The days of the Cold War are actually a thing of the past, and starting to head toward antiquity.
But, is it really like that?

Great script for a movie, however, hundreds are constantly pouring out information and their emotions every day since Russian military carried out what may be described as a military operation on Ukraine February 2022; -irony, that things are just the way it is.. some things never change... [ cf. B. Hornsby song, politely excuse me], running in the theme of the script, is not a capturing enough a movie for a full rollout at the amateur level given the competition. [I] Will hold off for now, but will say something about:

In addition to the military activities and occupation, reference in gear late February 2022, which was said to have gotten started over concerns about roughly speaking, security leaks coming emanating from within the land mass of Ukraine, whether the Ukraine or its government has anything to do with it a separate conversation,- in addition to the activities, is that those that oppose the activity, pertinently in Russia, have been sent reportedly sent to jail. This has been ongoing since about the start, late February '22.

It is now at the point, that just the numbers of prisoners alone is a distinct global concern.

Reports say 10s of thousands of jailed persons. 

Of course another concern is the trend toward, none better mutter a word or look like they are opposing, or risk death or jail.

That is not the taste of a democracy, such as enjoyed in the USA.

The concept, of if one just says something about the issue, conducive or contradictory, start the oppression, that kind of bully, oppressive environment, it is reminiscent of the Gulag era.

Since moments of heading toward democracy after Gorbachev, is that status something that should or could be tolerated on a global level? Is it the Gulag era all over, or is the Gulag era still there?

A number of notable individuals holding key government posts have 'mysteriously disappeared over the last 2 years', who are at least rumored to have opposed the referent occupation of Russia in Ukraine.

Sometimes typical of war, is post fact the initial invasion, after a time, the day to day, is battle for this, battle for that, located here, or there. The such and such field, or hospital, or old factory. But where did the security leak objective in terms of purpose and intention go? Often not heard much of anymore.

Troubles in Gaza and centered around it, started back up to heightened levels of intensity about a month ago, October 2023, dwarfing the now hackneyed by media coverage of developments in Ukraine.

Much like the Ukraine Russia situation, rivals, issues, and tensions of many sorts have existed in the area radiating from Jerusalem for many years. When a time comes when the intensity is shocking and media grabbing, considering media and pubic access capabilities, here comes the all over the world stop and revolve around the pith of fury, like flying beings come to a bonfire on a desolate beach at night.

Circling around to the Gulag topic, in the news recently, was an early 30s age female painter, Russian in Russia, sentenced to a reported 7 years of imprisonment, for protests of some sort.

Question that may arise, and hopefully arise, in some minds, is, is this kind of oppression going to be around for 7 more years in Russia.

Freedom of speech, seriously not nearly around through there in the region, in the framework, moreover, the matter of how much progress has been made on making sure there isn't some perverted imprisonment scheme going on, is building in gaining attention.

The 'genocide by the Khmer Rouge' from about the mid 1970s, was able to 'walk' and 'escape' a lot of detection from places of the world in the pre photo-phone/ Internet era.

Perhaps contrary to the way people thought things were and mildly changed, for some change to the next, for example, the turbulent 60s in the US, wherein had, President Johnsons War on Poverty, events of Abdul Malik Shabazz (a.k.a. Malcolm X), and intervention in Vietnam. After the 'boys came home', from the Vietnam War [not so much discussing Korean War and Panama], there is this glorified picture of now it is the disco era, and everything is well and good, but some who are not as well to do, or have outward bodily features that may not have been the favored mainstream from from one town to the next, things are not so good. Perhaps had it been known the extent of what was going on in Cambodia, like media viewers are aware of events in Ukraine and Gaza, the ideas of the ups and downs of life might have been different.

Things were not good for the Cambodians, especially Champa people, in the late 1970s. Things were not good for prisoners in the Gulag, and the imagination might, it might, stretch to what the worst was. Today, 2023, we are witnessing elements of the Gulag era going in Russia. 

Walking without being detected or held accountable, I do not believe is on the slate to keep up, at that degree of severity. Regardless of how friendly relations are between the Russian government and others, regardless of what the real deal or media hyped relations are with places such as Chechnya, who were, reminding, bombed, in 1999, and faced other oppressions.


Published evening EST November 17, 2023

In DC in just this past week, there have been a couple of incidents sparking serious safety concerns about rideshares and deliveries such as for food.

In DC, last Friday evening, a moderately upscale neighborhood had a food delivery driver car taken away at gunpoint, then the assailant reportedly swung back around in the vehicle and shot the driver.

Another incident near the MD/DC juncture, in the last few days of October last week, where young teenage youth 'disappeared' for a while. He has been reunited with his family.

November this year started off with the mother of a, get this, 12 year old, turning that son in, for armed carjacking, in DC.

In nearby Baltimore, Maryland, indelible scars have been left on certain communities where moms of several children, using rideshare food delivery to raise extra income, shot by carjacker or assailant, about a month or two in, in 2022.

Early last month, Baltimore, a female was doing a food delivery and had her car stolen, dog still inside, -both eventually recovered; however, for this point, the fact that a theft occurred just moments after the driver exited the vehicle, is a serious issue.

Further up the road, Philadelphia, PA area, a 64 year old was shot multiple times, while doing a delivery last evening right around the time it gets dark. The words shame come to mind. Not how anyone, let alone seniors should be treated.

Looking up and down on the vulnerabilities to safety, the loopholes of 'what could happen or go wrong', looking east to west, it is pretty clear that although rideshares have many safe aspects, there is still plenty of catching up to do in the area of preventing disastrous incidents.

A few shy of a thousand assault incidents of a referent sort involving Uber that went reported in 2020.

Articles about assaults of drivers on passengers are found all over the Internet, spanning at least the past 8 years.

Montgomery County Maryland, one of the counties contiguous to the Nation's Capital, has an astounding set of statistics showing a high number of carjacking in just the past 3 years. (What is going on, and why hasn't it been markedly reduced yet?)

In the past few days, a young teenage male youth reportedly was interpreted by an armed off-duty agent as approaching with possible, imminent, and potentially lethal intent to carjack, along with what might have been an accomplice, and wound up being shot, fatally, by the officer.
Regardless if the young victim was not seasoned enough to know the dangers in engaging in real or play activity that remotely appears as carjacking, the bottom line is a very new life is now gone.

Look, at the Nation's Capital it being what it is in just that regard, of course it is befitting that it at least have some kind of standard or reputation to be moderately safe from carjackings and rideshare dangers, but right through here, the condition is down around a level that may be summarily described as dismal.

There are certain smells being detected. One, is stalking.
It is know the rideshare/delivery programs usually involve GPS systems in the vehicles, and drivers usually have cellular phones. Many electronic gadgetry these days have finding, tracking, such as a find me app, and other mapping features. For better or worse?, if these apps are being used to the advantage of criminals, there has to be a way to swing the favor back to the driver, and the public needs assurances and methods that driver s will not engage in criminal activity either.

It is evident that firearms often are an element in rideshare/carjacking incidents.

According to many easily accessible accounts of world history, among the oldest nations, current borders aside, are Greece, China, Turkey, Russia, India, and Egypt. Of course lands in the Middle East such as where Jerusalem is, have undergone many events, however, still understood of where the region is.
Since about the materialization of the United Nations, roughly summer of 1945, the expectations of where the nations will stand on certain intensified issues, such as disputes of regions in and around Jerusalem, has pretty much been that they have stayed within certain lanes.
A brief discussion of what aspects of how things were like before it is now, is brought up, for illustration, in the picture painted of the possibilities discussed here, that the lanes of position on issues, may be up for some changes, or perhaps at least a review for changes.

It was not quite a hundred years ago, that Galicia, Transjordan, a United States without Alaska, to name a few nations, was a part of the world topography. 

So when issues came up about the regions in and immediately surrounding Jerusalem, who was saying what? It was not as it is, known today, in basic aspects for conversation.

But since the last 50 years or so, old nations, have had simple expectations. ['Expectations' in this story, briefly refers to an in context expectation of what masses of people will see on big name TV, Internet, newspaper, hear on the radio, in short, commonly spoken of as the media.]
For example, Turkey's relations with Greece, and their relations with nations and constructs in the Middle East.
One by one. Head down the list,
West Bank,

The situation is global.
The US just underwent some trauma in the past few weeks. Mass shootings, and attacks on government officials using firearms.
The amount of casualties, perhaps around 30 fatalities total, that made the news.

As you may anticipate, later in this story, there will be statements which refer to things being held relative.

In Bosnia and Herzegovina, this past August, community and much more was marred by an incident of a partner shooting his female partner, and live streaming it.
There has been public outcry in the region, over what seems to be a trend of using live stream to be a part of the picture, that involves violence, and the point or objective the shooter may have.

Back here in the US, there have been live streaming or social media posts, where persons have been shot or attacked.

What does retrogressive mean, especially here in the context? It means the reverse of making progress. Peace is many times what many want to see progress made in or arrive at. The mix of guns, and emotions, and using social media tools available in this era, can lead to retrogression. In the future there may be other social media tools, or simply tools, involved in different ways to interact.  The hope is, those tools will not be abused for the wrong purposes either.

The numbers of fatalities in recent events around the world point out something, the value of human life. Sensible human beings value human life, regardless of who, what, when, where.

Today a report came in that about 8,000 persons in Gaza have died, in the sequence after about 1300 persons died from the attack on October 7, 2023 in the larger region.

Wait just a moment, are these numbers of people dying for the sake of peace, security, and the prevention of future deaths? There is no way 3,000 children dead, from ethnicities and ancestries that are in some aspects sometimes, close cousins, are to blame for the strategies of a handful of masterminds of attacks.

In the tests of human life, there will come times where the fine line between ruthlessness for an objective, such as the stability of a nation and perpetuation of its future, and a conflict of interest when going to far, will be presented.

At a juncture now where mankind is nearing witnessing 10,000 deaths, if not already, in the time span of under one month, and a geographic region where persons can travel to both ends in about a day. This number is:

• About 3 times as many as the fatalities stemming from the 9-11 tragedy in US, in 2001
• About a fifth of the fatalities from the earthquakes that affected the region in and around Turkey earlier this year February
• Around 5 to 10 times as many fatalities from the earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this month
• Statistics differ as to how many people died, soldiers and civilians in Russia and Ukraine from the tensions marked after the invasion in February 2022, but for making the point here, the amount according to some reports is about the same or more!

Some other method for the objective besides bloodshed.
Anything can become the object of a cathexis if not careful.
Uncontrolled and out of control pursuance of an objective, or a response from a stimulus, could occur.
The topic being brought up, is simply killing, and going into a gross disproportion to what humanity says is acceptable, may not always be a viable solution to an objective.

How much is too much, is the method truly acceptable to all, in the eyes of others? even though, a people or groups of people underwent torment such as the Holocaust.

Perhaps the biggest point, is that when help is needed for medical and health conditions which could lead to major catastrophes, to make sure these are provided, could prevent the catastrophes.

In the USA, some if not all the trauma that occurred with an individual behind a gun, was after, in the sequence of events, from being affected psychologically, psychiatrically, or emotionally. Such as the mass shooting that just happened a few days ago in Maine (USA). In Bosnia and Herzegovina, the live stream attack that also included a few other persons and the shooter, is evident involved highly charged emotions. Emotions ran very hot after the attack on October 7th in Middle East, as well as many emotions in decades past on different sides of the tension in region.

Reports are pouring in that describe inhabitants of Gaza that were told to go to one place for safety, only to be destroyed in it. 
Entire buildings toppled.
Startling numbers of women and children deceased.

Keep in mind, historically, Gaza was not always the sole location, or perhaps seemed like so by some, where Palestine non-Israel lands were.
[Differing interpretations as to status of government and political presence is a longer conversation, word and phrase choices in this article are said to quickly help illustrate.]

---> UPDATE October 31, 2023: The concern that a process that can be briefly described as, huddle a group of persons together, lure them to a location with the false promise they will be safer, then destroy them, is behavior recurrence, repetitive occurrence, in the region. Who and how many parties are engaged in the activity, not discussed here.
Reports are in that Jabaliya/Jabalya/Jabalia Refugee Camp was struck today, leaving a crater among other damage. It may be that military commanders were targeted, however, based on the hundreds of photos already available widespread over the Internet, it is about confirmed there have been many others that have succumbed in the blasts and building collapses.

The 'human shield' being often used- concept, is well known by many in the region; and, the misfortune that the locale of the human shield becomes a target of a devastating blow, is a problem to humanity, the weight of what keeps happening leaves no other choice but for other entire nations to make some kind of statement, plausibly by rule of international law. At least 2 war crimes can be cited in this floorplan or trajectory.
--- end of update insertion

Here is a list of a few of the false 'successes' that happened in the past couple of weeks:

• Upsetting stories of lives lost at the headlines of newspapers around the world
• According to some sources of information that covered what appear to be victims since October 7, it appears among the children victims, are those that have certain characteristics for high potential of charm, globally accepted as easy on the eyes
• • There may be a lot of targeting, exclusive neglect this set, target that set, back and forth going on around, which may indicate -->
  • • that plans are being drawn to drag out tensions in the Middle East over Palestine/ Israel/ 'Occupied Territories'/ allegiances for decades to come

Let's go back to how the new debacle recently got started, reference October 7, 2023, which is set on top a long existing tensions in the region.
Gunmen charge into a music festival. They have had to know where and what it was.
No one wants to see footage of any young lady anywhere near being paraded through the streets in the back of a truck, or elsewhere. Not in this day and age. And reports of rape? Not really how Muslim do business. Just warfare, [referring to jus bello], or rules of a just set of conduct, rules just thrown out the window.

Over the course of the last 50 or so years, yes, there have been miserable crimes that have taken place.
Yes, around a thousand years ago when Muslim conquerors invaded lands back in the horseback days, prisoners were paraded, but with rules.
-Were these the 'green light' for some of the activities of what happened a few weeks ago? Was there a statement issued mentioning an act for balancing, or that they are acting in accordance with what may briefly be called Sunnah, or tradition, written or orally told to them? Discussion about feeling it necessary or unnecessary in consideration; the intentions, deeds and actions, is a critical issue in this October timeline.

Israeli intelligence is considered among the most advanced, that said, there comes the backlash, which is how could that level of intelligence, aware of every heartbeat, footstep, and thought, in framework, not have blocked the October 7 music festival melee?
There may be answers.
When those answers are examined, and the new set of options going forward are set before those that are going to be in positions to make decisions as to what the future is going to be, another set of risks emerge. Hate to say it, but with the very significant principle of trust being involved, if another intelligence apparatus is set up, or changes to Israeli heading, overhauls, whatever the case, it may involve getting a whole new ball up, running, and rolling, whereat, trial and error, and observation to make sure security breaches do not occur, will have to run pass throughs, which may take time.

Why a cease fire may seem reasonable:
Because if further bloodshed is not the solution, i.e. for peace, or for the current or future stabilization/defense of either side 'Pro-Palestine' or 'Pro-Israel', immediate stop of bloodshed is ipso facto, readily seen, logical.

If there is a 'straddle group' of some sort, that exists, and plays into both sides, and that is the seed cause of the current strife and bloodshed, then that or they need to be addressed, as opposed to giving them what they may want, which is to be able to be behind the startup of turmoil, then step out and watch the aftermath. Instead, a solution may be to cut the aftermath, and start looking at methods of taking the bell out of the bell ringer's hands.

Preempt a cycle, where the startup of when unrest starts, is when the bellringer decides.

The region known as Palestine, Falestine, Al Quds, Israel, area where Bany Israel, transliterated direct from the Quran in Arabic, may have inhabited or consider special for a number of reasons, is held special and sacred for special and sacred reasons; not as a place to use what is upheld as high, for games and schemes for money, weapons acquisition, and other bully associated power schemes, such as human trafficking strongholds, and hopes for illusions for an upperhand in narcotics to become a reality.

History analysts have said it many times, human emotions can be a cause for social development to include war.

Who is in the driver's seat of sparking the current escalations of tensions in the region? Is it pure faith? Or is it a two drivers situation?, one, the driver that wishes to use emotions and reverence of the Holy Land to push and pull; the second driver are the emotions themselves and the concept of dying as a 'mujahid'.

Someone shows up, and says hey, we can use the youth's understanding of pursuing being a mujahid, we can use the concept of patriotism, and defending a nation, to compel two sides to fight, the finely crafted trick has to be put in place to make it happen.

The situation of Jacob, Yaqub children, Job, Ayub children, Bany Israel children, even though not all behaviors day to day, individual to individual, may be the most admired by everyone, is a subject that is an undercurrent to the matter of referent.


   (Set a boot on one of these with no shirt on... what is that to do?, and people are taking the matter seriously; even if whoever did it is related somehow. There may be different degrees of certainty or uncertainty, latency etc., but, it is not the zone for this kind activity; all of it, the last 100 years.)


It cannot be assumed that the only risks to peace in the Middle East, especially around the lands just east of Egypt and near Jerusalem, al Quds, Gaza et al., are solely a two-pronged Israel/proIsrael versus Palestine/proPalestine. Other evils may emerge.




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