What's Going On? What (Really) Went On? The Hurt in the Russia Ukraine Situation of Today, Reflecting the Hurts About 100 Years Ago; Generally, Globally, WMD and the Minds of Man, Then and Now.

Who tested what and when? Aside from the discussion of fine line in the sand between testing and actually bombing, who bombed who, where, and when? Today's (February 2026) media view of global relations and history, is it really the truth of what has happened even considering events as recent as WWI?

Why is this relevant?

The start if 2026 has several ugly ruts or stalemates on the global relations level, but the lives lost are not stale, it keeps going. 

Major situations right through here are:

Situation of Russia and Ukraine involving weaponry.

Discomforts in the Middle East, Markedly Palestine, Israel, Iran, while potentialities of unrest exist in other regions such as Syria.

So is it really true a simplicity that Russia is a mammoth that has always been, and it is wisest that it shall go untouched, perhaps the home of the historic woolly mammoth, respective size of the nation geographically and military might?

It turns out that essays, investigations, and evaluations of all these questions, from WWI on through 2/2026, have been done which expose some truths not often seen in today's media, and, those essays did not take into consideration a broader range of events that could affect a perspective.

Keep in mind that back in the WWI era, information sharing on a global level isn't what it's like today. It might have taken years or decades for the people of one country to know the deeds of another country. Especially events like testing and dropping bombs.

Meanwhile, propaganda and how bunch of 'highly educating' books were being churned out, which left the 'highly educated', undereducated.

Here is a brief look at some of the topics, that when studied altogether at the same time, without one-sided propaganda, might affect the lenses and perspectives of what happened from the timeline hallmarked by terms like Bolsheviki, WWI, WWII, and the major events and developments of today:

American Expeditionary Force Siberia or AEF-S

'was a formation of the United States Army involved in the Russian Civil War in Vladivostok, Russia, after the October Revolution, from 1918 to 1920. The force was part of the larger Allied North Russia intervention. As a result of this expedition, early relations between the United States and the Soviet Union were poor.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Force,_Siberia

Rarely if ever, has grade school material been out in front of me that says along the lines 'nearly a couple of hundred US troops died in the cause, here is the list of veterans'; I haven't heard it from any other student, from any school, anywhere, any time.

Recurrent question, what's Romanovka?, or which is which?

'The Battle of Romanovka was fought in June 1919 during the Russian Civil War. Russian Bolsheviks of Yakov Tryapitsyn launched a surprise attack on an American army camp at Romanovka, near Vladivostok.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Romanovka

Yalta Conference

Lop Nur or Lop Nor testing, when was it?

-Online information may generally point to a start of about October 1964 with over 40 tests spanning through the mid 1990s.

Russian bomb testing, when was it?

   -Briefly, fast access online sources might say, 

   RDS-1 or "First Lightning" (designated "Joe-1" by US), on August 29, 1949. The test took place at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan. 

Nakasaki/Nagasaki and Hiroshima bombings, when were they?

   -Generally, early August 1945

Essays written: 

In the referenced book, before, including, and around the essays 'A Military Necessity' (Feis), and Paterson's 'American Expressionism and Power'.

May beg a question such as, what accounts for lack of information on Lop Nur and Russia testing in these?

(Maybe there is down in there somewhere, but expounding paragraphs didn't seem readily noticeable.)

From the intro of the chapter 'The Atomic Bomb and Diplomacy', (Vol II of Major Problems in American Foreign Policy...Docs, Essays),

'Authorized...on populated areas because that was the only way to shorten the war and save American lives. Until the 1960s most historians accepted that conclusion. But recent scholarship,  although not denying the argument that American lives would have been spared, has suggested that other considerations also influenced American leaders: relations with Soviet Russia, emotional revenge, momentum, and perhaps racism. Scholars today are also debating why several alternatives... we're not tried.'

Along with obviously I'm further behind in my readings than I should be, (I'm probably not the only one), the statement in that intro says, the concept is nothing new. The book was published in 1978.

What's this about encroachment towards being un-American if flow doesn't go with certain individuals, certain plans?

Maybe some folks grew up with parents or grandparents that were impressions youths back in the 1960s, and the warplans was the say all folkway, in order to truly have fealty to America.

Then again there's strong argument to that as the turbulent 60s probably wouldn't have been turbulent if everyone agreed on everything.

I never grew up to hold or express racism against anyone, whether they be from the Far East, Far West, nor aspects of myself and own history, or own people/s. I'm not going to start, the racism etc, anywhere in the timeline from 1978 on through the future.

That's the way of the ultimate heights of peace.

Pro tem notes until more info found...

It might take a few lifetimes to get everything in to make an anywhere near reasonable assessment, of the wraparound of parts and pieces involved - with a number of things

Stuff keeps cropping up on the Internet about:

...

Stuff seems to not be cropping up on the Internet about:

...

My acquaintances are few, levels of communication minimal in some areas, for good and smart reasons. 

There is the concept/s of elect, elected, selected, and so gorth.Who are those that deselect for the lime light positions, such as power?

I remember some readings in English from the famous Hazrats famous book, translated goes something like, once you found out who power us in the hands of, you'll be very upset.

Sensei.. Sensei ..(?) Ed Parker, ref Kenpo, used to say, 'The Truth will make you mad'.

I'm not sure whether a lot of folks that have positions of power, especially in America today, even know some of what it is that they got involved with, in terms of 'rides'

Some of those 'rides', may not have been the initial esteemed outlays such as having an independent America, that notables like first President Washington initiated.

I think of the battle at Red Hook

A one big wash set of thoughts these days, as more and more is found, have in there altogether, massive amounts of narcotics, massive amounts of frauds, I'll use of mainstay services like roads, TV and information, transportation companies, insurance schemes way up into the trillions of dollars, and good guys and bad guys in the military.

Suggestion, to youth especially, is stick to honorable ways of George Washington.

Here come prospects of shutdown in the news again.

Meanwhile, every detail of what is involved with organizations like U-Haul, recorded as founded by veteran, + every detail of what was involved with people that used U-Haul trucks for various activities.

There's a roll back that goes back for, an estimate to work with, but not the only, us the past half century.

Then there's Yerida. How much study could conceivably be done to encompass every Yerida case?

Then there's a bunch of big wigs in the 1970s and 1980s used to 'crash into each other at the grocery store', in the DC and surrounding suburb area, and no one at the time paid it much mind. A lot of those folks are now being discussed in chapters of history, or historical figures.

There might have been a break, and sharp turn headed left, that a ride got started, or a bunch of rides, today relabeled as normal, politically safe, the right thing to do. The story of the normal that cut off an ear to fit in as normal under social construct pressure.

Read, be true, have a clean heart constantly, and a lot of troubles that recurrently appear today, might not be on your path.

Gaining knowledge is ongoing. Major events, such as major wars and 9-11, various tumultuous events like prison camps, and wars thousands of years ago that may have seen the loss of the population of nearly entire nations, and different social constructs on a global scale, moreover history repeating itself over and over especially today at frivolous levels, for most of us, will always be something out there for us to look into.

Dangerous, Irksome, Hackneyed, But Little Understood and Underpenalized :Ties Between Transnational Terrorist Groups and Whomever Else Complicit, or Acquiesce or Tacitly Facilitate Their Aims

As much as East Africa has jeweled admirable qualities, civilizations at the mouth of the Nile, and that many legendary people that formed the out wrapping of the pillars of civilization that have lasted thousands of years on through today, unfortunately a relatively few folks, especially for this paragraph, in the region that is formed by the area around the intersection of the Sahel and the Nile, are basically the rotten apples that are really blowing and ruining their people, now, and their people's future.

Did greed and other lusts get the best of them, regardless of what the 'pathology' is to the problem, the problem of facilitating terrorism, is as said, a large scale global problem.

In looking at the title of this blog post, what is summarily being talked about are the weak handshakes, regardless of whether they actually physically took place or not, between terrorist groups, distributed all over the earth.

There are at this present time, what could be discussed as the salient, well known to the media, or popularly known major ones, such as ISIS, Al Qaeda, and Al Shabab.

The other really bothersome dimension to what the earth is contending with, are politicians all over the earth that play in the handshake game, perhaps for monetary gain, political rise, power, lust for drugs and drug power, ideas about race based power and races rising and falling in greatness, and in some case just flat out wrongdoing and plain misguidance.

Questions are being asked right through here, like, why sue your country's leader the day after a government shutdown that crippled financially thousands of folks that help take care of him/her/them in ways they probably do not even know, finally draws to a close?

Sometimes who people are, really are, has little to do with outward appearance, the picnics they show up at, the business suits they wear, or political office they hold. Some folks are working for forces that have nothing to do with the country they are claiming to be a part of.

As far as a reading list, which is what this blog is supposed to be doing, here's one of the articles in the 2+2+2= what mystery, not to be disrespectful, but if 1+1+1 does not equal 3 in someone's book, then they might need to be on the list of people that need to be checked as complicit in terrorism and a threat to security right on in there with terrorist groups and the pandering fake politicians playing the game for aims some of the time.

Article 1: https://www.cfr.org/global-conflict-tracker/conflict/al-shabab-somalia

Read through that, then look at the next link. To be continued.

It would be different if it was just one incident; the same sign shows up week after week.

Standard history reading 101, the focus of the following Wikipedia article made history, and had numerous ties. Perhaps, for those newer to the field of digesting transnational terrorist group ties, or just readers of the news, 'start here', https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_the_Jackal

In 2025, Kashmir is another place, like the western boundaries and regions that may overlap the old Kingdom of Punt, that is currently in the process of being spoiled.

Times after Karbala. Regions near the people of the pure, standards of angelic folkways that many on the earth cannot even access.

Drug of choice in the last few years have shifted from medicines to straight up heroin and hashish. ?...__ numbers like increase if over 1,000% in narcotic use. Addiction problems. 

How did that occur? It wasn't all by itself, materialized by a little old lady sitting in the hills that does nothing but play a harp and say prayers.

(Trade. Trafficking. Cultivation.) Who were all they, and where are they?

Basic article to look at here. Of doing your own research might yield more information. https://kashmirobserver.net/2025/07/28/the-growing-drug-crisis/

A relatively few, bad apples, is a startling growing number.

The suggestion is stop it now while it's still a relatively few, or less than the majority, as it appears now, before it's the other way around.

The man that cut off his ear to fit in and be normal, well there is a true story where something like that happened; last thing the earth needs are law abiding individuals thrown in jail for refusal to be drug abusers.

What is What...

This blog post will be put on my personal page.

Thiql issues

Referring Books, Injeel from Gospel etc

(People can't use Blogger for decadence while the other end words to the right, on here, at the same time as though all in the same footing)

ج ل د - Carryover from Skin Conditions Page: Back to Word for Word Meanings of Quran. Comment Set 3.

When start a process, when to stop a process. When to instruct yourself to stop or start, a motion, or even a defense against disease, - a process, can be a crucial arrangement to the health of a part of parts or of course whole, setting forth a little bit also reference to wholistic health ideas.

This post builds on the previous 2 posts, 1 and 2, Carryover from Skin Conditions. In a way it can be a Part 3.

A renown high up scholar taught that the best way to learn Quran such as its meaning, is to use Quran, basically original Arabic for original Arabic.

There could be a zone where mistaken or misapplication of a meaning or nuance could occur if misguided.

Bluntly for brevity, using haphazard translations, some of the time, haphazardly, then telling yourself, I've got it, got the meaning, and proceed on to use a meaning in English used for one place, set the translations aside, and see the word or letter arrangement again in another location/s and apply. If not under correctness/ proper guidance, - the pitfall of misinstructing, might, (not saying it would for 100% as some forces of nature keep doing as they're supposed to), occur, to some degree. 

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ج ل د

So when the letters are connected, Arabic going from right to left, g sound, l (L) sound, d sound. 

To the chase for those interested, often translations in Quran when:

...جلد

are flog/lash, some may say in 'verb', 'noun' forms.

...جُلُود...

when the (waw) in there, it is often translated as skin or hides, like animal hides.

Hence, perhaps, not to erroneously lash when to make use of skin, and vice versa.

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An idea, is to 'get it' (not miss the point/meaning). Saying this politely, as once at the level where you can read Quran in Arabic and when you see translations,  can asses those translations as just that, translations or attempts at it, (reference slightly to discussions that can be found on the untranslatable). That level, read and understand in original Arabic, the ideal.

Every time you see ... translated once as lash, as already discussed, simply say lash?, after seeing tent as a translation once, every time use the translation tent? [- of course, before rushing off in a direction haphazardly, please use sound and correct guidance]

 

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(I use, carefully, nuance differences instead of just 'different meaning' or 'different word', because, of what could be.)

Arabic Wikipedia articles seem to have some information.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fur_clothing#:~:text=Fur%20clothing%20is%20clothing%20made,from%20the%20fur%20of%20animals.

Products of animal skin from Antiquity to the Medieval Period

https://www.jstor.org/stable/26342924

Kurbash

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurbash

كُرْبَاجْ

Transliterated- Kurbaj 

سوط [translated- whip]

https://ar.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%B7

"

السوط (الجمع: أَسْوَاط، سِيَاط) ويسمى في العامية الكِربَاج (الجمع: كرابيج) هو شريط مفرد أو شرائط من الجلد المجدول يستخدم لإصدار صوت مفاجئ عالي لحث الحيوانات على التحرك أو العمل، كما توجد أنواع أخرى تصنع من الجلد أو الشعر المجدول وتستعمل كأداة للسيطرة أو العقاب أوالتعذيب أو كسلاح

...في القرآن

"

Translated into English from Google's system:

"

A whip ( plural : whips, whips), colloquially called a lash ( plural : krabij), is a single strip or strips of braided leather used to make a loud, sudden sound to encourage animals to move or work. Other types are made of leather or braided hair and are used as a tool for control, punishment, torture, or as a weapon . 

In the Qur'an...

"

Whips were used in Arabia long ago made from animal hides or skins, according to some history sources.

عرض. Carryover from Skin Conditions Page: Back to Word for Word Meanings of Quran. Comment Set 2.

عرض

How to look at it.

How to apply it.

How to look at it when here, how to apply it when here, and then the same inquiry set for when somewhere else; pronunciation marks and other letters connected to it varying.

Once again, maybe, as though looking around a corner and extending your arm to crack open a door a peek inside of a room, inside that room or if it is a door to outside, there is a good chance there is some light or sunshine there (upon strong understanding of the subject here, -~willing, 'in shaa...lh').

To your health.

Carryover from Skin Conditions Page: Back to Word for Word Meanings of Quran. Comment Set 1. أَبَارِيق

Ok, so there's a blog entry in draft stage at the referent set aside page https://luqman-a-thornton-studies-and-remarks.blogspot.com/p/drafts-notes-blog-posts-in-progress.html. Pardon grammar and sentence arrangement, thoughts out first, will/might pretty up that in the future.

The blog entry has to do with leprosy, skin conditions, especially in the context of, for brief wordage, leprosy used as a translation in 'the Bible'; a major spark of it, the book Diseases of the Skin (Ormsby; Montgomery).

This blog entry actually gets in before the leprosy entry.

What happened?, what happ..?

In the process of the study, one might ask, why are devout Muslims advanced in age that came from the same region of the world where referent historical figure Dr Rahman emerged from when he 'came to America to help guide' back in the first half of the 20th century, afflicted with leprosy? (Referring to Bangladesh / (East (from years back)) Pakistan, et al.)

There are comments on that, but this post really isn't to lambast those that have done thousands of sinful things that could be afflicted by severity at an amount perhaps unfathomable if they get the equivalent amount of illness to their behaviors, set up on them.

Focusing on the carryover.

In the thought, halal (and haram). Halal some scholars say has to do with unfolding.

Unfolding of meanings, instead of confused understanding of meanings, can certainly help in the area of biology, skin health, mental health, physiology psychophysiology, their overlaps, etc.

Gaining a clearer understanding of the Quran of course could help; let's say when studying ways for skin health, and prevention of disease.

There was a set of clarification on a set of words gained recently-

Why not?, study all the words in Quran, generally, in the regard of what words mean what when.

For example a word might mean something in one area- 

A thought, a somewhat convenient method, to get at amounts as doable, is make use of online Quran translation tools.

All while, I still remember lessons from scholars that have an extreme amount of knowledge about Arabic, Quran meanings, and that subject matter. Long story short, online resources can definitely help study, but, they might not be the the totality of all the knowledge there is on certain subjects.

A video that brings up some of these topics, is an interview with M Abdul Haleem, born about 1930.

 https://youtu.be/g17YU8OBK7M?si=L8OHiskCEjQFPANp

Translating the Qur'an for Today...

That webpage was landed as a sequence from comment:

A May 2011 Message on the page https://corpus.quran.com/wordmorphology.jsp?location=(56:18:2) discussing  أَبَارِيق says/said: 

"However, we have chosen Badawi and Haleem's dictionary as the primary reference for roots for consistency:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arabic-English-Dictionary-Quranic-Handbook-Oriental/dp/9004149481

With regards to translation, flagons sounds like a good translation - this is in fact the translation suggested by Badawi and Haleem."

Going back to studying every word.

In the alphabetical order, it appears according to one online source, about the 3rd word. At already the 3rd word, the subject of the old teachings in comparison or with consideration of broader and different angles of meanings, to online resources comes up.

أَبَارِيق

So, are you right or wrong one might ask, if they were reading along, and began to have mental imagery of understanding having to do with lightning type phenomena?

Well there are about 50 translated English terms that have to do with jugs, pots, kettles and words like that.

Rereading with this in mind...

What do we have?

Ok, most translations of Quran online from English to Arabic as of today have to do with jugs.

'Maybe the conceptions of how Arabic words and variations of a root word come about, need reevaluation', is a repetitive and helpful thought, as improving in this area, can always help improve oneself.

Study does not stop.

Scholars of the Quran discuss jugs.

Studying just the word أَبَارِيق, just studying it-

Slowly refinement comes along in English words to describe the nuances, you might find connections to heat and radioactivity to the jug.

The studies do not stop, and won't stop, but after only a few minutes, it is found, 

https://www.almaany.com/en/dict/ar-en/%D8%A3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82/?page=5

Not to plagiarize, it's tough to get the content from one page to the next, and it may not have been formatted perfectly, but traction toward getting the idea is provided. Some content below might be deleted from this post later. What you see below is one page from roughly 20 pages of information. 

Original text Meaning

starry [General] مُنْجِم؛ أَنْجَم؛ ذو نُجوم؛ يبرق بريق النُّجوم؛ بَرّاق؛ مُكَوْكَب

radiotelegraphy [General] إبراق بالراديو؛ إرسال الرسائل برقيًّا بواسطة مَوجات الراديو؛ إبراق باللاسلكي

telegraph [Petrol] مبرقة أبرق

Keyer [Computer] مبرقة مبرقة

Original text Meaning

Opalescent/ Opalescence [General] براق وبريق

telegraph message [Media] رسالة برقية؛ برقية

be struck by lightning (v) [General] أبرق، أصابه برق

cablegram; cablegrams (n) [General] برقية؛ البرقية الكبلية

telegraph; telegraphs; telegraphed; telegraphing (v) [General] أرسل برقية؛ برق

lightning (n) [General] بَرْق: (ج) بُرُوق

like a streak [General] كالبرق؛ بسرعة البرق

Original text Meaning

to Cable (v) [Financial] أبرق، أرسل برقية

lightning flash; a telegraph [General] بَرقٌ (بُروقٌ)

twinkle, gleam, flash [General] بارِقَةٌ (بوارِقُ)

cable [Medical] يُبرِق - يَبْعَثُ برقيَّة

Cable transfer; telegraphic transfer [General] تحويل برقي؛ حوالة برقية

flicker of hope; sparkle of hope [General] بارقة أمل؛ بريق أمل

forked lightning [Weather] بَرْقُ مُتَشَعْب؛ بَرْقٌ مُتَفَرع

glimmering; glimmerings (n) [General] بريق؛ لامع؛ الوان براقة

A realization that can be arrived at is, there's a lot more reading to do, and a lot more understanding of that reading to do.

Maybe, moving toward turning the corner on gaining some progress, such as ideal skin conditions and prevention of unideal conditions, among other things, can be made, with more research, - you know, a favorite saying, 'more of this (such as interviews with scholars), and less of-' the evident that it applies to.