Welcome to the “Warm-up” War

War rarely begins with trumpets. More often, it starts with something small — a sanction, a strike, a “limited” operation with a tidy name. In the Cold War, superpowers perfected the art of brushfire and proxy conflicts: calibrated moves designed to test defenses, send signals, and preserve plausible deniability before anyone reached for the nuclear lever. What we may be witnessing now in the Middle East looks less like a full invasion — and more like what I call a “warm-up war.”

A warm-up war isn’t about immediate conquest. It’s about positioning. It’s about building “cut-outs” for policymakers, probing responses, conditioning markets, and managing escalation one rung at a time. The opening move rarely decides the game — but it tells you what kind of game is being played. And in a nuclear age, even limited conflicts carry shadows far longer than their headlines.

In this weekend’s Peoplenomics report, we break down the strategic architecture behind these opening moves, what history teaches about limited wars that didn’t stay limited, and what it could mean for markets, metals, energy — and your own contingency planning.

Warm-up extends into personal health, too. With some notes on using personal thermogenisis to help weight loss.  And 30+ pages of ChartPack, if you are still knee deep in markets…

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  1. Ure-ites : it’s been my honor to know and associate with some of America’s finest. Our kids are now front line, again, and we the People should _always_ have one plan while warriors are in the fray … unconditional support. Let’s not natter let’s not waiver. Once in the field let’s hope for speedy end where ours come home.

    IceMan Egor
    _/)__________

    ps – it’s past sunset in Tehran. We own the night.
    https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/iran/tehran

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    • Clicked the link. Thanks.
      .., but what I found fascinating – and to be honest., it has always bugged me. In the blue square that shows the time difference – it gave my little town, by name.
      Pinpointed my ass within milliseconds. .., damn.

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  2. you should read the longer post, here is the opening,,,
    “Shanaka Anslem Perera ?
    @shanaka86
    They did not bomb Iran. They waited for Iran’s entire leadership to sit down in the same room and then they bombed Iran.

    Months of intelligence. Thousands of hours of surveillance and signal intercepts. One variable: the moment the Supreme Leader, the President, and senior military command gathered in a single location at the same time.,,, ”
    https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2027725563251847510?s=20

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  3. and so It begins…as predicted/viewed.

    Events start cascading with various scales, spreading world wide.

    all remote viewing groups have viewed likely scenarios for what will become GLOBAL conflict. Already “rods of god”/new weapon tech been unleashed. More new weapon tech pending.. But the Public Violence Issues in our malls and other public places – rut-row psych-terror “to go”, want Fries wit that ? Personally looking forward to seeing the Physical Phights breaking out in congress..Can Not Wait !
    As for neighbors to South – fuggetaboutit! Mexico will No GO area of contentions.

    On z top of all the above – count on Flooding events EU, and a major flare/CME causing seriuos damage to Satillites. Crypto ? BTC lookslike it amy drop into $55k range for awhile..but then back up : D

    Stock market ?
    “OH Shit !” moment coming – put I thinks everyone kinda suspected A Cull was coming SOONER than Later. We in it now.

    Cheers – as Ure life will never be the same after today..NEVER.
    bwaahahahah

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  4. “A warm-up war isn’t about immediate conquest. It’s about positioning. It’s about building “cut-outs” for policymakers, probing responses, conditioning markets, and managing escalation one rung at a time.”

    food for thought
    well consider the war on the home front,, the epstein files are MISSING data entries from 1999 to 2001,,, takes this guy about 38 seconds to get to the chart
    https://rumble.com/v76b5m6-why-was-ghislaine-maxwell-invited-to-participate-in-shadow-commission-on-91.html?e9s=src_v1_cbl%2Csrc_v1_ucp_a

    why would they be missing??? maybe for prosecution in a court room.
    hummmmm 911 ? an attack on America,,, ?by foxes in the henhouse?

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  5. Once Trump captured Maduro, and Venezuelan oil production, it felt like World War 3 check mate to make China want a stable Iran, and Russia feel more heat. Putin still pissed about Trump giving the Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine on top of Obama CIA operation to remove pro-Russian leader of Ukraine.

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