Russia-Iran axis is fomenting war in the Middle East

Event

Daily Telegraph, October 9, 2023

Russia and Iran, united by mutual geopolitical, military and economic interests as well as a determination to oppose US influence, have good reason to destabilise the Middle East by enabling Palestinian aggression against Israel at this particular time. Iran wants to disrupt Israel’s burgeoning relationships with Arab countries and especially diplomatic normalisation between Israel and Saudi Arabia, which appeared to be drawing closer in the days before this war. That might now be put on hold with Crown Prince Muhammed Bin Salman likely fearful of Arab street protests as Israel is forced to defend its people, probably with a ground offensive into Gaza. For Russia, a key element of Putin’s strategy is to wear down the vital Western support that has helped keep Ukraine in the fight, and to open up division among donor nations. Moscow sees violence in the Middle East as an effective way to divert US political bandwidth from the Ukraine war, as well as military resources.

Comment

The Russia-Iran axis symbolises a growing challenge for the West as emerging totalitarian alliances work to undermine the democratic order. For Russia, a key element of Putin’s strategy is to wear down Western support that has helped keep Ukraine in the fight, and to open up division among donor nations. Moscow sees violence in the Middle East as an effective way to divert US political bandwidth from the Ukraine war, as well as military resources.

The Bible says that Russia and Iran will be allied against Israel. We can see how everything is aligning as God said it would. Surely current events are what we have been waiting for for so long. We watch to see if the inner ring war develops….

Bible Quote

And I will turn thee back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords: Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet:  (Ezekiel 38:4-5)

Weekly World Watch, Andy Walton

 

 

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Preceding

Putin affirms ‘unwavering support for the Palestinians’

Could it be that we are living in the Last Days

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Additional reading

1. Russian government has the power to shut down any sort of organisation they do not like
2. The decline in Israel-Russia ties
3. Under pressure in Ukraine, Putin lashes out at US in Syria
4. You stopped a civil war, Putin tells his forces
5. US/UK send navy ships and planes to support Israel
6. Russians shunned and made silent
7. Dissident Voice: Pro-Israel and Ukraine Groups Use Identity Politics to Attack Free Speech
8. Israeli Leaders Say ‘Now Is Time for War’ and Vow to Wipe Hamas ‘Off the Face of the Earth’
9. Horror for a cornered people

Vladimir Putin’s war has exploded into Sudan

Daily Telegraph, April 16, 2023: event:

With more than 50 civilians and many more military killed already in the power struggle between rival governing factions that erupted in Sudan over the weekend, there is no good side in this battle. But as with so many other conflicts in Africa and the Middle East in recent years, one thing we do know is that Russian troublemakers are not far from the action. The fighting in Khartoum and elsewhere in the country was triggered by clashes between General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, head of the Sudanese armed forces, and General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, or “Hemedti” for short. Hemedti is commander of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) Rather unsurprisingly, the RSF has been linked to Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Wagner Group – Putin’s de facto private army. Wagner is believed to have been brought into Sudan by Bashir to help shore up his faltering regime in 2017, following a meeting with Putin in which Bashir promised to make the country Russia’s “key to Africa”

Comment

If you look on a map you will see there is Sudan as a nation and a South Sudan. The country split in two in 2011. “North” Sudan is mainly Islamic whilst the South is mainly Christian. Putin is heavily invested in North Sudan. He wants a port on the Red Sea and is using his private army (Wagner Group) to get hold of Sudan’s gold mines. Russia’s alignment to Sudan is foretold in Ezekiel 38. The AV translates a place called “Cush” in the Hebrew as Ethiopia. Cush isn’t really Ethiopia. Cush at the time of Ezekiel corresponds almost exactly to Sudan. Or to be even more accurate North Sudan. From 1070 BC to AD350 the area we now know as North Sudan was called the Kingdom of Kush. Kush = Cush = Sudan. Cush will be one of the nations joining forces with Gog…

And I will turn thee [Gog] back, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed with all sorts of armour, even a great company with bucklers and shields, all of them handling swords:  Persia, Ethiopia, and Libya with them; all of them with shield and helmet: Almost all versions translate Ethiopia as Cush (Ezekiel 38:4-5)

Andy Walton

Weekly World Watch Apr 16th – 29th 2023

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Preceding

Sukkoth, Gog, Magog, Armageddon, a covenant and Jerusalem

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Additional reading

1. Signs of the times – “Locust invasions”
2. After ten years of horror still no solution and peace for Syria
3. South Sudan and North Uganda 2021 update
4. Going to the end of 2022 having to see an ongoing invasion
5. 2022 the year of fearing some wars
6. Signs of the Times – A boost for Israel
7. A year of courage, caring, pain, hope, endurance and above all a year of unity (1)
8. Ukraine What we know on day 383 and day 384 of the invasion
9. No one, not even Putin, knows how this war will end
10. 2023 March 14 Ukraine update
11. Begin April 2023 Russia and Kremlin actions
12. The Developments for the second half of April
13. Evacuation from Sudan
14. Rai al-Youm: The proxy war in Sudan
15. Asharq Al-Awsat: If the Sudanese Had the Means to Escape
16. The Developments for the second half of April