No Big Surprise overnight, though a bunch of smaller ones to keep things boiling.

The more surprising one is the news from Gaza, where much of this foreign trouble is possibly linked directly to things in our election. Timing is everything, you know? The news of the apparently inadvertent killing of the most wanted man on the east side of the Israeli border was killed.

It wasn’t the result of specific targeting, by report, though available information is true only as reported.”

The individual was top Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar. An appreciation of his energy in building the organization committed to the destruction of the Jewish State is worth discussion. He

died in Rafah in a building damaged by an Israeli tank shell in an encounter on a routine patrol. Sinwar’s body was found in the rubble in defensive gear equipped with grenades.

There are enough branches and sequels in that story to spend the day. The implications about what it means in terms of what is about to happen in Iran are significant. What does it mean in Tehran? Is there a need to keep one American policy in place or change it?

The Russian war in progress is at another lurch point in which influencing the US election has a component not fully understood in the campaign coverage.

We are not going to veer off on that though there is plenty shooting up in the air about the Interview which is being played as either a disaster or a bush-whack, and this morning features an apology we haven’t read yet from the interviewer who dared ask a couple specific questions of the person claiming to be the best candidate for what was the most powerful office on earth..

In, Kiev, the Zelensky government is confronting a grinding bloody conflict against a Russian foe apparently which is now bringing up fresh North Korea troops to avoid full mobilization while continuing the brutal pressure. To counter, Zelenskyy’s Kiev needs an option without the means to try another Kursk offense. The one option available is use of long range rockets available immediately only through NATO.

Our perception bias here is that Washington still directs NATO on the big strategic issues. Maybe those times have changed depending on who is sitting in the White House. Or the Beach.

Anyway, those are just some of the things bubbling. We were going to talk about tone of those other metaphoric moments in local life, but this one is up in New York State, where the last full-up K-Mart is closing the weekend. We have a vignette to share, but will wait to post until closing day. Or at least the announcedone.

Which is sort of what all of us are doing these days, you know?

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