EZEKIEL’S Fire
The unexpectedly nice thing about Florida rivers, is how calm they appear. With no true high ground to flow through, on the whole the rivers are somewhat sedate.
They do get a bit exciting during tropical storms and hurricanes, but over all, they are mild and easy flowing.
This relative calm is deceptive. Gators, Cotton mouth Moccasins, invading Pythons and deadly Amoebas dwelled within the still waters.
The same for life along the river banks, could not be said. The dangers were not hiding beneath a serene camouflage. The threat was on open display along the banks of the river, the docks, launches, old town sidewalks and roads.
Smuggling in the decades before the fires, drugs, humans, all forms of illegal trade, had made life along these natural channels more than a little interesting.
After the night of fires,life had become both cheaper, and more exciting. Life on land along the canals and river banks proved brutal, cruel and glaringly obviously so.
Michael, stowed the paddle, shifting position creating a lower profile. The inflatable boat, covered with a camouflaged net fixed with tufts of saw grass, palmetto branches and other native Florida plant life.
The rubber boat , with the two Rangers aboard seemingly disappeared into the predawn shadows.
Michael scanned the river banks, on either side through the night vision scope of his M-21 rifle.
Ken, Michaels Ranger buddy, worked as spotter, together, the duo drifted silently down stream while searching for the tangoes LP/OP, ( Listening post/observation post)
Which, on their third trip down stream through the area, the third moonless night of fruitless patrol, neither man had spotted the enemy. No tangoes observed.
Both Rangers were convinced there had to be one, or several concealed along the low lying river banks. Drifting with the current for the third night in a row during the dark of the new moon, the only sign had been an obvious blind, suspended on the underside of the two lane bridge, they had bypassed a few miles back.
Only completely amateur idiots, would have left the river approach otherwise unguarded.
Well, considering that the target was Daesh terrorists from Syria, the so called caliphate, it was entirely possible. Make that, most likely.
Michael and Ken had spent several hours the night before observing the bridge out post, literally looking over the posted guards shoulders.
The Rangers could clearly see the twisted porn videos that the tangoes were watching on their cel phones. This night, a strike force had been set up to seize control of the bridge.
Michael and Ken were serving as the forward observers for the air assault elements.
The Apaches and Blackhawks that would descend in the chaos just after the drone strike. Problem was, there were no outlying targets to be found.
Something the two Rangers found nearly impossible to believe.
When the flash and booms began the duo had no available targets, they took no fire, serving as only observers. They may as well not even been there. By the time they had made their way to the area of operations, it was over. They had never even fired a shot.
The hidden training camp had been reduced to smoking ruins and scattered body parts from the airstrike. None of the tangoes had survived the air strike and initial run of the apaches.
The Air assault troopers, didn't fire a round either. Paddling up to a bullet riddled wooden dock, Michael and Ken could see the dismounted troopers searching the ruins, and gathering various body parts in an attempt to get an accurate body count.
In silent agreement the Rangers took their sweet time securing the small rubber boat and moving ashore. It was all over , with only the itching mosquito bites and sweat soaked BDUs to mark their nights labors.
It had turned into a near flawless operation, not one American service member had accrued more than the occasional mosquito bite. Though, unfortunately, there appeared to be no surviving tangoes to take prisoner and question.
At least sixty lifeless bodies, accounted for the tangoes. With any luck, the strike team upriver would have two prisoners to question. Though, that was unlikely in itself, These bastards had a nasty habit of wearing explosive vests and blowing themselves to hell rather than be taken captive.
Maybe there would be some good intel from cel phones etc, seized from the encampment.
Within an hour of initiation, the area of operations had been secured and cleared. The main body of troopers were climbing aboard the Blackhawks while FBI and Homeland security moved into the area to begin their phase of operations.
Michael and Ken were quite content to let the fed bois bag and tag, as they lifted off for the ride back to Hurlburt field.
Sometime in the relatively near future, they were expecting to be deployed into the Kurdish/Peshmerga regions of Syria, Iraq and South Eastern Turkey.
What was that saying about the best laid plans of mice and men again?
Turkey, in a fever of Islamic insanity had embraced the Islamic caliphate, leaving Nato and forming a formal alliance with Syria, Sudan, Egypt, Libya and Yemen.
Iran, continued the back door supply to various Terror Groups. U.S. Troops had returned enmasse to Iraq and Saudi Arabia, operating against Daesh elements from Kurdish and former Saudi controlled areas.
To what purpose no one seemed to know, aside from killing radical islamist elements. The 82nd had seized control of the Sinai, serving as a trip wire between Egypt and Israel once again. While Israel devastated the Hezbollah, and Hamas elements of Gaza, the west bank and southern Lebanon. Jordan served as a cross roads for all of the elements engaged in the collective madness.
No one seemed to have any idea what was next, only that escalation appeared inevitable. With the joint Taliban/Daesh Islamist take over of Pakistan's military and nuclear assets it was only a matter of time, though whether Kashmir and India, or Israel, or one of the ports of Europe or North America would be the first nuclear targets was anyone’s guess.
While the main stream media referred to World War 3, looming, Michael knew the brutal reality was actually, World War4, this time with Russia and China added into the mix. WW3, had proven to be the so called, war on terror, the precursor, to World War 4.
The so called war on terror had involved more nations, than either of the two World Wars that preceded. Exactly as the first world war had set the stage for World war 2, The War on terror, WW3 by any other name, in which only Antarctica had not seen national military or terrorist operations. Set the stage for World War 4.
Michael mused,
Well, couldnt WW1 and WW2, be considered the same war over all with only a break to regroup, rearm and then return to battle? Would that make this in fact, WW2?
After the death of his wife Laura, during the first, night of fires, or days of ashes as some called the month long national spasm, Michael had reenlisted.
With no wife, including his exwife and children, killed during the terrorist actions, there was nothing else Michael could think of to do. The Army had been the one thing he had ever been really good at, it had been a no brainer.
For their part, the Army were tickled pink to have him back. Michael was determined to be "An highly motivated asset" had been the assessment.
Michael, merely felt numb, empty and vengeful. That it wasn't patriotism on his part, was the one thing all could agree on. Michael had no point, purpose, or desire outside of cold fury and vengeance for his murdered family.
With Posse Comitatus suspended, Socom, special operations command, had been tasked to take out the islamist terrorists,the few surviving BLM operatives and antifa elements across the country.
Which, they had attended to with a dedicated fervor. It was a covert war, initially. In reality, it was all about setting the stage for more nightmares to come. One more step on the road into apocalypse.
The use of chemical and biological weapons truly serves only to destroy an civilian population, to slaughter noncombatants and to spread fear and terror.
The use of Chemical and biological weapons of mass destruction serve no true purpose other than terror and unmitigated slaughter.
Sadly, the same cannot be said for tactical nuclear weapons. Low yield nukes, can serve definitive tactical purposes against massed forces.
During the Iraq war, Saddams cache of chemical and bio weapons were not all secured. Those not used against the Kurds and the Shia populations of Iraq made their way into Syria, to later fall into the hands of Daesh.
For years, U.S. Socom forces worked covertly trying to find, secure, and destroy those weapons of mass destruction. Despite the resulting illness and death of operators from exposure to those weapons, Unfortunately, they never found them all.
Daesh, used some of them, a few, here and there in setting up the caliphate, false flag operations blaming the Assad regime. Reserving the majority for their true targets of Israel and the great satan, America.
None of them were successfully deployed in the U.S. Thank GOD. Israel, became another matter. From positions in southern Lebanon and south western Syria, the unholy jihadist alliance struck. Raining chemical artillery barrages onto the Golan heights, launching bio agents aboard Iranian supplied rockets.
The Israeli Iron dome defense system worked very well. Unfortunately, Iron dome could not prevent the bio agents from being released even as they struck every rocket and shell from the sky. The debris rained down upon Israeli cities and settlements. Bringing plagues, mass deaths, and inciting Israel, to retaliate.
In return, Vengeance was launched, the Samson option, deployed.
Damascus burned, consumed by three tactical nukes, a trinity of death, rained down on the ancient city. That hell fire was followed by wave upon wave of Israeli chemical weapons, until, there was nothing left but smoking rubble, that would never be habitable again.
The world, pretended outrage, protesting Israel's response. The destruction of Damascus, along with the destruction of Russian assets and forces around Damascus sparked rioting and protests worldwide, the craziness made the Islamic spring, look like a stroll in the park comparatively.
Oddly enough very few nations or media outlets condemned Daesh for their attempted Israeli genocide. Par for the course.
Ignoring the horrors wrought by the Islamists, was the status quo maintained. Business as usual in other words. So long as the oil flowed, that is all most of the world cared about.
Israel, alone, with their backs to the sea, felt no choice except to retaliate. Which, they did. Damascus and a large Russian force based there, were utterly destroyed. This event lit a fuse, the entire Islamic world lost it's mind, swearing vengeance. Their collective rage embracing a new voice proclaimed as the Madhi.
His reborn caliphate rose from the destruction, the beast , the wounded head, was set to astonish the world.
The Russians joined their voices in protest. Turkish and Iranian forces and support gathered together, along with their Russian allies and central asian allies, to strike in fury and vengeance , via the Golan heights.
All of this of course took time. Almost three years passed as the wounded beast licked its wounds gathering strength.
Israel had more tactical nukes. Miraculously they would not be used.
The alliance of the invasion of evils, Gog And Magog , was destroyed, consumed On the mountains of northern Israel. None of those forces survived.
The wrath of God, rained down. A series of coronal mass ejections, pelted the earth. Creating chaos and destruction. The skies ignited in magnificent auroras, as electro magnetic storms razed the earth. Satellites fell from the skies, electrical grids failed. Unshielded Electronic equipment, which is to say, pretty much every unshielded non military electric device ceased working. World wide earth quakes rocked the planet. The massive armies of the alliance of evil, stopped in their tracks unable to move. With no functioning electronics, the massed armies lost communications, command and control, and any ability to coordinate. Frightened Troops panicked, " friendly fire" incidents abounded, feeding the terror, inciting retaliation. The Armies destroyed themselves, battling amongst themselves, Ezekiel’s vision of fire, wrath, judgement from Heaven, which was a blessing from GOD, rained down.
Israel could not have survived had they been forced to fight the invaders. Between the devastation wrought by first, daesh, then ,what had come to be termed, Ezekiels war, Ezekiels fire, the wrath of GOD, or simply framed as the Gog Magog war.
It was estimated, that Israel would be cleaning up the dead and destroyed equipment for at least seven years. The population of carrion birds exploded astronomically.
The entire combined arms of the Russian, Iranian, Turkish expeditionary force had burned in the solar rage, the world itself, seemingly ground to a halt. World wide, the only functional elements were those hardened and shielded against the EMPs of nuclear weaponry
For a short while, the world stepped back , watching as the horrors unfolded along Israels mountain ranges.
No nation involved with the failed invasion had the means to wreak vengeance alone in the aftermath.
This resulted in spasms of madness and chaos that consumed most of the Islamic world. When the dust settled, a super power had appeared, stretching from central Asia, to Kashmir, to Morocco, east Africa and Anatolia with all of the Saudi peninsula.
The Madhi was proclaimed and the caliphate of the Madhi, declared world wide jihad. Everywhere the Caliphate held power, non muslims were systematically sought out, and executed. The penalty for non conversion, being death by decapitation.
Israel stood alone in the midst of the madness, Surrounded on all sides, by a maniacal regime of evil intent upon the genocide of the Israeli peoples. Nukes make for wonderful deterrents even against pure evil.
Controlling the vast majority of the worlds Oil and gas, thus, the worlds economy, the caliphate quickly brought the world to its knees. Only the ruined United States, Canada, Great Britain and the Australasia/ New Zealand alliance along with a near destroyed Israel stood openly opposed to the proclaimed Mahdi... How long that could last remained to be seen.
With the essential capitulation of the European union, the only way to get supplies to the besieged Israel was via submarine and or direct orbital insertion. Neither method proved to be efficient or cost effective.
It was as if the worlds political leadership had used the old Testament prophets of Isaiah and Ezekiel as a plan of action.
That being the case,
The next 7- 14 years should be extremely eventful, horrible, and destructive.
Pray that the ending of the Biblical story, is the end game here. Else,
There will likely be nothing and no one to survive.
Ashes from ashes, dust into dust...
The blood of heroes,
Turns the world into,
Rust.
That rough beast slouched onwards to be born amidst the birth pangs and tears of an anguished dying world.