The Wire Weekly Rollup - March 31 - April 6, 2024

this is the wire weekly rollup for the week of March 31st through April 6 2024 beginning with international events in Syria Sunday night Israeli forces struck a building immediately adjacent to the Iranian Embassy in Damascus the Iranian Embassy proper was damaged in the strike and further investigation of the strike location indicates the building was an Annex of the official Embassy and located within the confines of the embassy compound and thus within the area of Iranian diplomatic protection three Iranian generals were killed in the strike along with a few staff officers in Taiwan several earthquakes struck the island Monday night causing widespread damage the most substantial earthquake registered a magnitude of 7.2 the largest recorded earthquake to strike the nation since 1999 so far the official death total is 13 fatalities though this number may rise as many still missing persons become accounted for in Belgium during the NATO Summit in Brussels US Secretary of State blinkin stated definitively that Ukraine will join NATO analyst comment a timeline for this event was not given nor were any details provided as to how this will happen as this seems to be a technical impossibility for many reasons at present on the home front in Tennessee an arson incident occurred at the global vision Bible Church in Wilson County at around 6:00 a.m. eastern Sunday a metal trailer filled with holy Bibles was set on fire outside the front entrance of the church local authorities confirmed the incident was intentional and no arrests have been made despite security footage capturing the license plate of the vehicle that dropped off the trailer and analyst comments for this wire regarding the Iranian Embassy strike confusion continues as to Mere centimeters of ground regarding the exact survey points of a compound in Damascus however as with nearly all Israeli air strikes what is absolutely clear is that the strike was conducted within the bounds of what is normally considered in the kinetic targeting Community to be a cat one no strike entity additionally the collateral damage estimation or CDE analysis of the potential civilian casualties or CIVC caused by The Chosen Munitions without question confirm that had it been carried out under us regulations set forth in US military law and in joint publication 360 this strike would have been illegal in any case the Diplomatic implications are quite severe regardless of a few centimeters difference of diplomatic soil if Israel had struck these generals as they stood on the sidewalk in front of the embassy compound the Diplomatic impact would be virtually the same worsening relations among two Nations who already suffer from intense rivalry and vastly competing interests this concludes the wire weekly rollup for the week of March 31st through April 6th 2024