Busy days, Simplicius. Thanks for the extra updates.
The big problem now is that the US has zero good options. Their assumptions were proven incorrect. We all knew that an attack would end up this way. Is it possible that Trump will TACO? Would he even be allowed. If they commit ground forces then the stakes will be all in. The Majlis are currently debating withdrawing from the NPT. They are preparing to escalate in response. The attack on the UAE aluminium smelter says it all. A ground invasion by the Empire will lead to a level of destruction that will affect the global financial system for many years. Possibly decades. This seems like a disaster with no solution? Can the Chinese cobble together a solution? It isn't impossible. Other than that...
The damage to the world has already been done only a megalomaniac would keep denying reality and continue to make it worse but DJT forges ahead nonetheless - maybe a world meltdown was his aim all along.
Reality. Iran was a rising power. Ai and Tech with billions of dollars and a network of Hammas and Hezbolah forces globally means the US either fights now while they still can or wait 5 years and do what?
Fight an Iran that is taking out us surface ships at will? The theocracy of Iran was not able to be toppled for decades, so they are doing what General Patton said when fighting in WW2. When your enemy is holding all aces, its time to kick out the table.
Hopefully you have more gold than that in your gravel pit.
The US has been fighting 3rd world countries up until they persuaded Russia to draw a red line in blood in Ukraine.
Putin has overcome all the NATO wunderwaffe, and now Donald the Magician is going to make Iran disappear?
The biggest Military mistake EVER made by the US was allowing the infiltration and extortion by Israel of US politicians.
Notice how the graph of the wealth of Dual-Citizen Billionaires is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to the US Public Debt (owed by poor Americans? As the individual American gets poorer, Dual-Citizens skim more?
I have heard no one in the administration say this. Tucker Carlson just yesterday pointed out that the administration has failed to explain what and why its doing this and what the goal is.
In the end its the forty trillion dollar question (Hint US DEBT). First you secure and lock down control of North, South and Central America. Then you throw everyone else into chaos while trying to rebuild your own industrial base.
WW2 left the US powerful because its industry was the only place that could build and deliver products. The rest of the world was destroyed and the US sold them the weapons and loaned them the money for it. Banks quickly began the lending the enslaved client governments. You are about to watch the most massive industrial kick off of US industry since WW2.
As Armenia, Yemen, Ukraine have shown, war has completely changed. Today the US is dumping much of its obsolete weapons as rockets and drones have ended the US monopoly on power projection. For the last 5 years we have seen unknown drones flying around the US and last week drones shut down a US airforce base in Louisiana for 4 days. Iran also had a commercial disguised ship with a rocket fire on a US Navy Burke class destroyer and had 3 minutes to figure out how to respond and survived this time. Lets see what happens when drones attack the US.
This is looking more and more like a very big attempt to reset the global financial system. I see no future for the gulf countries with a strong Iran or a destroyed Iran. Both routes end the same. Consider the table kicked out.
No, so the USA's present ownership can retain the WHOLE WORLD (and more importantly, the world's NON REBEWABLE natural resources) as their property & vassals, failing that, wreck everywhere else worse than USA gets wrecked and re trench into just owning the entire Western hemisphere as our neofeudal (neoliberal?!) overlords.
And now when the going got tough we kicked out our own allies’ table! Just like Ukraine - plan A, collapse Russia and rape what remains. Plan B, impoverish Europe. Iran - plan A, collapse Iran and rape what remains (this time with knives as is Israeli rape doctrine). Plan B, impoverish Europe.
The question in all this is: will the US have any allies left after another month of this? We cannot supply energy to replace what’s lost. We can’t restock magazines or guarantee security. We can’t destroy Iran so our credibility in threatening retribution for withholding tribute (transacting in USD) is gone too. This conflict has accelerated the demise of the empire by decades. Our “allies” now know why it’s dangerous to be enemies of the US but fatal to be allies.
And if Saudi and UAE (Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain are inconsequential militarily) actively enter the war on the side of the US they will be inviting their total destruction not only by Iran but also by restive populations who have been repressed.
If the US continues the war on this trajectory in addition to permanent control over Hormuz Iran and Iraq may move on Kuwait. Bahrain could fall. Qatar and UAE are one desalination plant going offline away from mass exodus. Guess who will fill that vacuum?
Trump couldn’t have planned the permanent exit of the empire from the ME and the destruction of Israel better if he tried. It’s just like Osama BL exercising long range mind control over GWB. Trump is going to accomplish something that the world very much needs and for that we should salute him.
I still believe this was a trap all along and R, I, and C have been preparing to ensnare Trump with the mother of all judo moves - use the awesome destructive power of the empire to foreclose on itself, and use the awesome forces of will that are Trump and Netanyahu to lure Israel into a trap by giving them what they have wanted all along, a war on Iran led by their little bitch USA.
If Iran kicks down UAE desalination plants, UAE will disintegrate. All the rich UAE Arabs will get onto cars and trucks, and whatever ships are available, and evacuate to Saudi Arabia and beyond, the richer ones to the UK.
Who will be left? the majority, who are the immigrants, mostly Indian. At this point, if India can quickly supply a tanker filled with marginally drinkable water, and provide some AK47s, they will have UIE instead of the UAE, at trivial cost.
But it takes some advanced preparation---the tanker must be flushed of oil, filled with water, and sent in advance, otherwise it will not arrive in time and a massive tragedy will happen instead. And some revolutionary cells must be organized among the immigrant population.
actually, DJT _ by WINNING the 2016 election and surviving an assassin's bullets SAVED America and the world FROM HILLARY GOING TO WAR AGAINST IRAN back in 2017 - AS she PROMISED SHE WOULD on the 2016 presidential campaign trail!
And likewise AIPAC, satanic hollywood (California) MOB made-woman imbecile MRS DOUG EMHOFF, aka kkkamala harris WOULD ALSO HAVE TAKEN US TO WAR against IRAN... AND RUSSIA only quicker than Trump (back in 2025) because kkkamala is a complete idiot bimbo even worse than Trump listening to kushner, lutnik, loomer, adelson and netanyahu.
See "THE DEAGLE PLAN" calling for a REDUCATION in U.S. population from 337 million to 100 million by the end of 2025...
Yes, They're a little tardy... but with this war AIPAC/ Trump/ isrhaell WAR LOBBY
WAR ABOUT TO WIPE OUT 1/5th of the WORLD OIL SUPPLY,
get THOUSANDS of U.S. TROOPS KILLED,
make MILLIONS of WAR REFUGEES infested with TERRORISTS
and with false flag CIA govt TERRORIST ATTACKS ABOUT TO GO OFF HERE IN AMERICA leading to MARTIAL LAW DICTATORSHIP
and an ever EXPANDING WAR "over there"
"they" the instigators of this war and their DEAGLE PLAN will soon make up for lost time.
He gets it. He says "Trump/Israhell war lobby", so he is aware they are all on the same team. Trump is just late to the party, and more awkward about it.
President Xi is hesitating over the question: Should I really turn into a peace dove and save the Orange Man or just use this golden opportunity to get Taiwan?
Taiwan is part of China, so no need to "get" it. And I really don't think the Chinese authorities would sacrifice a single bowl of rice to save the orange man. He is a singular curiosity, but of no special value to anyone.
Meanwhile the government of Israel believe that they should be the legal government of the whole Near East. And the government of the USA believe that they should be the legal government of this galaxy at least - and others once the words reaches them in a few million years.
Its not crazy. There was a civil war in China, one faction controls the mainland , the other Taiwan. They both claim to be the legitimate Chinese government. Until one side capitulates the standoff continues. This is why the US had no problem agreeing to the "one China policy", that is one China under the government based in Taiwan ;)
Sorry, my nasty, sarcastic remarks were formulated for those with a clear understanding of the basics at the ground level. Sometimes I make these mistakes.
I get your point, but it's not quite true. Trump is of great value to the MIC and the fossil fuel industry, not to mention the oligarch class in general. For just about everyone else, not so much.
Lowering taxes, freeing up jobs from illegals, pharma rework, new drugs for cancer, 8 trillion in outside investments into the mainland USA, exposure of the Dem party and forcing them to announce their real agenda (such as illegals before citizens), a re-strengthening of the military and much, much, much more says he is useful to the commoner if they would get their head out of their ass, form their own opinions, and stop listening to the media.
Sorry, my nasty, sarcastic remarks were formulated for those with a clear understanding of the basics at the ground level. Sometimes I make these mistakes.
has it ever occurred to anyone that things may be going exactly as wanted
, or close to it?
it may be to soon to make that argument here but I warned not to accept Joe Kent at face value and now I see Whitney Webb is advising caution as well regarding Webb
If you have 1 minute: https://youtu.be/_z7SHO2mbsU Long story short, the USMC MEUs in the Persian Gulf can do Coast Guard-ish stuff like VBSS (visit, board, search, and seizure).
Excellent question. Uncle Sam sees itself as the world's policemen and others as inferiors to be policed. When such haughty worldview eventually clashes with reality, let's hope it won't be too apocalyptic.
I understood this when I read that RAND paper from 2019. That paper was not only about Russia, just almost. I dont remember the wordings but I understood it was about EU or any competitor
I don't think it's going AT ALL as wanted. We don't know much, and we do have to give it caution, but after a month of complete and insane babbling over this ridiculous operation, it becomes clear that the government knows and understands even less than we do !
I remember thinking that about WMDs in Iraq: intuition told us it was absurd, but one couldn't imagine the government being so wrong and so stupid to make this up. And yet...
that is what hitler meant when he advised in Mein Kempf to lie outrageously if you do lie. because normal people can spot small lies. But they find it hard to believe anyone would even try to lie so outrageously, so they believe it
The point is not even that they lie absurdly, it's that they are absurdly stupid. No forethought at all, just wishful thinking. All that keeps reminding me of this brilliant analysis:
Yes, it's baffling because the natural assumption is to believe that they are smarter and more informed than we are, but as time goes by you often realize they are all just complete cretins
Those missiles were coming to Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia from around 500 or even more miles. That means that carriers can be attacked by Iran from similar or even longer distances. As I am typing this Google Map shows about twenty military planes sitting there in tight formations. Surely an earlier image. Less than 200 feet space from plane to plane. The Iranians were underestimated again.
Almost in the middle of this complete desert land sits Riyadh with around 8 million people. Surely within range of Iranian missiles and drones. This is a giant slave society. Out of 35 million people about 44% foreigners, most working to comfort the natives who drive around in their $120.000 cars. The slave wages are absurdly low. Part of the workers with good qualifications has it better. Did the rain of explosives hit Riyadh and a few large cities the slaves will likely run home, multiplying the problems.
AI says:
History: Slavery was formally abolished by royal decree in 1962.
Modern Slavery Estimates: The 2023 Global Slavery Index estimated that 740,000 people (21.3 per 1,000) live in "modern slavery" conditions in the kingdom, the highest prevalence in the Arab States.
Reported Pay Rates: Migrant laborers on major infrastructure projects, such as the Riyadh Metro, have reported earning less than $2 per hour.
Amnesty International
Monthly Salaries: Promised salaries for laborers and waiters are often around SAR 1,200 ($346) per month for long hours, though some bilateral agreements allow for wages as low as $180 per month.
Wage Theft: "Wage theft"—the non-payment or delayed payment of wages—is a systemic issue. Workers have reported going months or years without pay, with some recovery claims capped at SAR 17,500 (~$4,663), often excluding mandatory end-of-service benefits.
Human Rights Watch +1
Debt Bondage: Most migrants pay illegal recruitment fees (ranging from $1,100 to $4,000+) to secure jobs, often borrowing at high interest rates, which traps them in a cycle of debt.
I also recall some rumors. How did this happen? And is it only strictly the royal family or the whole of the upper crust? It would be fun to watch an anti-jew revolt in a 35 million people rich Arab Nation. An Arab version of 1956 Hungary. The Iranians believe that the Royal Family is Jewish and the Jerusalem Post seems to be comfortable with this observation.
A lot of anecdotal evidence suggests that people forced to live in such austere surroundings have a strong tendency to be very religious. Frank Herbert incorporated such a scenario in "Dune", where the Fremen who live on Arrakis prove to be even fiercer than the Emperor's feared Sardaukar from the "prison planet" Salusa Secundus. T. E. Lawrence wrote about the real desert people in "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
There is always a dramatic issue: is it better for the people to remain in the desert, where their lives are very hard, and stay devoutly religious; or to be civilised and fall prey to luxury and atheism? The God of the Old Testament preferred the former.
The current King of Jordan, Abdullah II, is considered a 42nd-generation direct descendant of Prophet Muhammad, and should control what's called Saudi Arabia, as they used to do in Mecca.
Red herring. ALL Arabs, like all REAL Jews, are Semites. As Nassim Nicholas Taleb points out, it is likely that the Palestinians are the most authentic descendants of the historic Jews. They have been peasants for thousands of years, and peasants stay put on their land. It's fighters, merchants, bankers, and the like who go traipsing off around the world causing trouble.
Actually there's a Jewish man in Israel who goes round visiting Palestinian villages showcasing how many of them are Jews that were forced to convert to Islam hundreds of years ago. They bring out Jewish religious artifacts which they they've secretly kept in the family for generations. Unfortunately I can't remember his name. He has a YouTube channel.
It's also important to remember that some Jews have lived there continuously since the Roman exile, and also Middle Eastern Jews who were forced to flee to Israel in 1948 (some say due to Israeli terrorist attacks posing as Islamic attacks on the Jewish communities there). Israel is run by American Jews, and Middle Eastern Jews are treated as third class citizens.
The Saudi ‘slaves’ cannot just run home- their passports are not in their possession -they are held in escrow until the ‘slaves’ aka employees complete their contracted ‘service’. Life is not fair, some are forever imprisoned in this country. Many are Muslims who come in order to make the pilgrimage to Mecca an inducement that the Saudi’s use for recruitment purposes.
My brothers, working for an American contractor, worked along with the bin Laden construction company in the 70’s building Saudi airports. Life was interesting for them-a true adventure- my sister -in-law a teacher was hired by the Saudi Airlines to teach the Airline employees . dependents. Unable to drive due to Saudi restrictions on women she was chauffeured to and from work daily with her young daughter for whom day care was provided while she taught. As employees they shared a villa and had a houseman who was in Saudi Arabia to make the Haj. Due to visa limitations they needed to leave the country every three months to renew their visas allowing them to leave this controlled, claustrophobic country and spend R&R in Europe. This was their adventure of a lifetime - my one brother returned home shortly after arriving, the other with his wife remained achieving his goal of earning enough to create a steel frame building company upon his return to the US. An adventure for an adventurous guy and his family. Now deceased I can’t ask him if he also built the airport just targeted. So sad all this destruction.
PSAB is a fairly recent construct. I was there when it was under construction in the 90's. We did our R&R in Bahrain where we were allowed (as US Military) to consume alcohol, verboten inside the Saudi Kingdom... Chip
Thanks for sharing - my brother liked his tipple so leaving every three months to renew visas probably made it tolerable for him to be in a ‘dry’ Muslim country.
Not really. Most of their wages (if any) were clawed back for food and lodging. It would take years to save up enough for steerage fare back home. And the Atlantic crossing was hard and dangerous.
'twenty military planes sitting there in tight formations. Surely an earlier image. Less than 200 feet space from plane to plane'
Dont underestimate the power of complacency and falling into patterns - after all, nobody has really shot back for a really long time and US mil is really rigorous organization, doubtful if they can adapt quickly to new circumstances, maybe we'll see couple more of this type 'parking lot' plane eliminations before they react...
There were fair warnings just before the present war about this possibility. The Iranians were negotiating with China for anti-ship missile deliveries and something was delivered to them – but no clear evidence about the nature of the beast. The US had sense enough to keep the carriers far enough but not these planes. I was rather surprised when this came up.
Thing is, there is simply not enough space. We have more planes there now than the airfields were designed for. I know as I did several designs for airfield expansions in the 2000's for our bases in Kuwait, UAE, and Afghanistan... Chip
It's far more profitable to slit the throats of their Arab masters and then rob them blind. I hope the slaves can all wake up to that fact. Those effeminate Arab cowards deserve every bit of hardships coming their way.
Is it possible these men are sent there as bait to flash out Iranian defenses into the open for a major air assault just to prove that orange has a superior IQ level?
It is likely that they refer to the oil infrastructure on Kharg having been mined, and prepared to spill burning oil in a nice cosy little inferno for the few, the proud, the war criminals.
If that does happen, it will prove Trump's superior IQ beyond all doubt.
Probably because Turkey and Pakistan have refused to house them. There is a limited number of airbases within useful distance. If you were to have air-tankers and AWACS commute all the way from Diego Garcia, then every move of USraeli air force would be telegraphed hours in advance.
No, the slaves won't run; the masters will. With just a little well-thought-out external support, mostly C&C and famine relief, the slaves will take over the ruins.
"...all the original ones were proven to be impossible to actually implement—i.e. regime change, Iran’s surrender, collapse of the IRGC or wider military structure, societal upheaval, etc."
I guarantee the people dreaming up these objectives are sealed within some kind of administrative thought bubble, cut off from the real world.
The same thing happened with Russia: sanction-induced economic collapse, leading to regime change and Putin getting the Gaddafi treatment.
?Syria was national suicide precipitated by Assad's psychic collapse with the terminal illness of his wife. The fat lady has still to sing with Venezuela. No one doubts the ability of the west to cash in on a weak opponent, like an opportunistic bacterium, although it tends like a disease to produce only rot.
Either your unbelievably brain washed or just extremely ignorant: Syria took 14 years, the US has been trying to collapse Russia since 1991 they just became 4th in the GDP replacing France. Venezuelan has the same government in place just different thieves running the show. Guess you missed that North Vietnam won that war! MAGA Tards don’t do facts they just run their mouths.
You take things for granted with an excess of confidence and imagination.
1. Vietnam is not an American ally.
2. Only time will tell what the US gained in Venezuela, if in fact it won anything. The game is still being played and will be played in the next ten years at least.
3. Russia did not betray Syria. Its government collapsed because of its own domestic incompetence. Russia
had helped Assad, but had no reason to consider the conflict there her own war.
Vietnam certainly isn't an enemy of America as it should be, because the Chinese scare them more.
Syria collapsed precisely because Putin played the good cop to the US-Israeli bad one for a decade, which hollowed it out.
And it was very much Russia's war, which is why it went into Syria years before it went into Ukraine. It's all part of the same conflict.
The Syrian domino falling meant Iran was next on the chopping block and that sequence of dominos ends with US SRBMs situated within point -blank firing distance of Russian ICBM silos in Siberia and jihadists being pumped in huge numbers all the way from Astrakhan to Barnaul.
The Mongol Empire failed to conquer Vietnam during three major invasions (1258, 1285, and 1287–1288) due to Vietnamese scorched-earth tactics, guerrilla warfare, and severe logistical failures.
It worked with covid. I.e., it works on its own people, probably because of what the west has done to its education system, running alongside a corrupt welfare programme. It has conquered itself! Now where are all those people willing to fight for it? Seems like brainwashing has its limits, or it never really worked. Bribery and blackmail are poor tools of social control. Use it to enable people to stay home with their entertainment systems and a sure supply of food and most of all, drink, and you have a compliant population happy to lap up a fabricated threat. It is just not a very useful people you have made for yourselves. Back to the cosmic drawing board.
Neoliberal capitalism - with an emphasis on "self-interest" - the 'invisible hand' most likely belonging to a banker. Building a 'democratic' society based on neoliberal capitalist values is like infecting yourself with cancer and then feeding it.
Well said. I like the analogy. Neoliberal Capitalism is an economic structure that inexorably tends to become a Ponzi scheme where financial "wizzards" sit at the top and real innovation is starved off.
However, I'd continue your analogy with the unleashing of chemotherapy (as a last ditch desperate attempt) to try to "cure" the cancer, except doing so under the care of an AI that wan not trained on collateral damage to healthy cells. Trump's crazy on-again, off-again tariff scheme comes to mind.
You can't have capitalism and democracy in one go. How can you spend most of your time at work in a corporate, absolutist hierarchy while claiming to have democracy on any decision making? You can't even vote about where a hospital is to be build or how narrow or broad a street should be. Let alone that you would be ask about the distribution of wealth.
A worker cooperation would solve this partially but then still the main questions are decided by people who are pre-selected for you to cast your vote on. To call this democracy is simply silly.
Switzerland is the closest to a democracy, but they are still a democratic republic, so any system that uses representatives 'of the people' is by nature not democratic. And if by some crazy turn of events a real democracy was created, it would be a disaster as the number of issues to be voted on would overwhelm the population and also most likely be beyond their expertise to assess and vote on. Even in republics, the representatives have representatives (committees and special commissions, etc) to assist, even those committees have industry lobbies and specialists to help them whilst lots of money is passed under the table for influence. China probably has the best, most efficient system today (I won't go into the extensive reasons why - I'll leave the reader to do their own research).
How about the Confederatio Helvetica (named after the ancient Celtic tribe who inhabited the area)-where one of the official languages is Romansch-the closest language to ancient Roman Latin still spoken? You know it as Switzerland, which is very close to the birthplace of the Celts, which is Hallstadt, Austria.
No, for Americans it's sugar. Sugary drinks and fentanyl are decimating America today. American people are too domesticated to do anything beyond complain. Between the poisoned food (glyphosate), corn syrup, vaccines, 5G, videogames, porn, social media and propaganda, it's all Americans can do to drag themselves to their shitty jobs and back again each day, to the isolation of their homes. They only protest on Saturdays from 12 to 2. I know, I see it every day and week.
Of course — it's obesity, Type 2 diabetes, then cancer. Cancer feeds on sugar, so diabetes increases the risk of cancer manifold. But also, our food is literally poisoned. What chance do we have to fight the system from the inside when we've never seen the outside? We have no frame of reference. We're literally living inside the matrix.
They probably don't know any different as they can only get shitty jobs if at all, they come home late, eat and have little time for anything but to sit in front of the tube watching MSM. They know little of geography so they think Ukraine is somewhere near Kansas. They know little of how government works and the US Constitution as they are no longer taught such things in school, instead being taught that whites are bad, black lives matter, men can have babies, speech is free as long as you don't offend anyone, pronouns are important, men and women should share toilets, changing your gender is perfectly normal and should be encouraged, police forces should be disbanded as people will live perfectly happy lives as a result, the Holocaust really happened and all should be required to worship at the nearest Holocaust Memorial, Jews are actually the gods of this earth and must never be criticised, and all Americans must be willing to die for israel - and so much more - no time for all that other stuff like readin', writin' and 'rithmetic..
Haha, pretty much. When you can't read, you can't history. And when you can't read history, you don't understand what's going on. You have no frame of reference.
I live there and I agree. Although half of the population believes the woke crap and the other half believe the Zionist crap. Most Americans are not objective minded and have been rendered incapable of engaging in critical thinking. I apologize to the rest of the world for what the stuptified American people allow their government to inflict on you.
And don't forget, repeatedly reassured that they are the masters of the world, and everyone else is a shitty third-world peon without rights. Just a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.
Hell no. But they are handicapped. Disabled. RFK Jr ran on a "Make America Healthy Again" platform (MAHA). "We are the sickest nation among any in the developed world. We spend more money per capita than any other nation, yet we have the worst health outcomes. Life expectancy in America is actually dropping." That's what Bobby Kennedy, Jr was telling us — now he just sold out to the glyphosate lobby. MAHA — like MAGA — is dead.
I assume most of you are Europeans? I was born in Europe and moved to the U.S. at age 10. I was naturalized at 17. I've lived 36 years in America, and I can tell you this: Europeans have a frame of reference; Americans have no frame of reference. The education system has been destroyed in America. They don't even teach reading, wiring or math anymore. Instead, we're connected to our devices all the time.
We've become afraid of each other. We no longer interact with neighbors or strangers. All interaction is through our devices. We've forgotten even how to say hello. A secular society, we have no traditional values. The only genuine American religion is the love and pursuit of money. That's it. Sadly, all of the stereotypes are true.
The food industry, the healthcare industry and the chemical industry- a triumvirate of death working together to make your life miserable so they can profit. Shitty foods full of chemicals cause disease treated by a for-profit healthcare system which rather than working to restore health, instead seeks profits from your illnesses.
Yes — and the health system is insurance-based. Not everyone gets health insurance. It's like a lottery of mediocrity. If you have it, you're one of the lucky ones.
The young people in Europe are also on devices, totally Americanized. 20 years ago there was some discontent with Iraq war, now not any more. Nobody needs anyone, they do not even just pretend.
And don't forget, constantly told that "America" is the top of the world, the land of the free, the indispensable country, better than anyone else. That baseless megalomaniac conceit greases the gullet so that the rest of the propaganda slides right down. Who doesn't relish being the top?
Right. Thank you for mentioning glyphosate—practically every American pisses it. A chemical compound first formulated to remove mineral deposits inside boilers and steam pipes, and now we… Oh, forget it. I can’t even finish the sentence.
Nicely put! Sounds a lot like Idiocracy in real time. As for protests … I walked past our local “No Kings” rally yesterday morning. Hundreds of signs and the word ‘Iran’ was nowhere to be seen. Or the bright side, I didn’t see any Ukrainian flags this time
Wrong... Regime is still in place. Trump took one look at the woman who won the Nobel Prize and realized installing her and collpasing the current regime would turn Venezuela into a Libya with chaos and invading drug gangs running rampant. No Venezuela is actually better off now in that it can run its popular Chavista government while having the US handle the oil business which it really hasn't been able to develop properly without also compromising the funding for its soical programs. Oddly, it now it has best of both worlds.
The assets have never not been stolen. Chavez transformed Venezuela and evened the playing field for the Venezuelan poor which are the majority. But under constant US neoliberal blockades it could not really take full advantge of its oil fields which require massive capital investment as I'm sure you know. Only the US could do that. The only realistic solution for the outgunned Venezuelans is proably the current one. Not ideal, but show me a better one at this time, grr.
What you convieniently left our is that 'Only the US can do that' is because they come with a gun to your head and they're known to pull the trigger because they're a nation of killers and gangsters.
I know, right. But he cares only via the cost bennefit analysis laid out by David Rockeffar who reasoned that for Gulf oil to maximize profits in Angola, he had to keep a stable worforce in place regardless of whther it was socialist or not.
Yes, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya. Look at all four, they are thriving cosmopolitan states to be admired and emulated.
The US has a human intelligence problem. We rely too much on foreign Intel agencies "sharing" their findings. This can lead to unforeseeable conditions such as the SMO and The Iran War. We also like to push noncredible ex-patriates as the next corrupt leader.
Honestly, who didn't think Iran was going to close the strait? That's asymmetrical warfare 101.
Congrats Simp. This is the first article on the invasion nonsense that hasn’t mentioned “sacred” name of “famous 82nd airborne”.
Puts me in mind of-the Dylan song “…when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody gunna jump for joy”.
Jumping apparently is what they are good at. But not much else, as according to AI, these are their achievements in the last several decades:
* Combat Experience: The division saw significant action in the invasion of Panama (1989), Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Well you know, once those Panamanians awake from siesta, they can be pretty agro.
Operation Desert Storm(nin Norman) was an triumph (for a month or so.) As for Operation Enduring Fuckup , well what can one say.
Wikipedia on the appropriately named Fort Bragg where these “warriors” hang out:
Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty) has been associated with several scandals, most notably a series of domestic violence cases involving special operations soldiers, as detailed in The Fort Bragg Cartel. These incidents often involve soldiers struggling with PTSD, substance abuse, and a lack of accountability. Other issues have included investigations into drug trafficking and various criminal activities involving service members stationed there.
Sounds like they specialise in beating up women and trafficking drugs.
And these degenerates are the best the US has. Yes please send them to Iran, apparently they have a cure for PTSD there. 100% recovery guaranteed or your oil back.
I don't and never did deny that. A ground invasion is a fucking nightmare for the USSA no mater what unit is involved. My only point, is that in the 82nd they don't have trannies or fat people. Not allowed, regardless of Pentagon and Administration bullshit. Don't confuse my knowledge of the status of US Army units with my other assessments, throughout this thread, that a land invasion is going to result in a shit load of body bags... Chip
And how many % have PTSD, drug problems and beat up their wives. Since you are absolutely certain none are fat, you must have the full picture. Pray enlighten the rest of us pal.
Nah, it will be a president. There's four (so far) total that have been assassinated with only two used for carrier names:
Abraham Lincoln (1865): Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, and died the following day.
James A. Garfield (1881): Shot by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881, at a Washington, D.C. train station and died on September 19, 1881.
William McKinley (1901): Shot by Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died on September 14, 1901.
John F. Kennedy (1963): Shot and killed by the CIA's Cubans (in revenge for screwing them at the Bay of the Pigs) on November 22, 1963, in Dallas.
"John F. Kennedy (1963): Shot and killed by the CIA's Cubans (in revenge for screwing them at the Bay of the Pigs) on November 22, 1963, in Dallas."
CIAs Cubans in league with the Chicago mafia for he and his brother's war on mafia families, and israel (who planned and coordinated the whole thing) for Kennedy's threat to close down Dimona and deny israeli access to nuclear technology. And Jew LBJ for providing political cover for the whole thing.
I'm still not too sure Ann. I saw the clip where Trump says it was attacked from 17 different directions (like how would he know) and they had to run for their lives. Then heard that the Pentagram was refuting this spurious allegation.
I read it as an announcement of Iran. Earlier today - I thought at the time it was just one strike. I should have marked it - don't know where I saw it now And now all the news is lies. I thought what Trump was talking about was the Ford.
The statement is real. It’s getting buried in the West but you can find it via Grok from neutral sources. I would guess that Trump is telling the truth but was not supposed to. A criminal breach of OPSEC. If it’s true that the Ford’s air defence was damaged then that is the kind of thing you need a cover story (“laundry fire”) to obscure until the carrier is out of danger. There would be no advantage to Trump to invent this as a lie. He just forgot what he was supposed to keep secret.
"Delusions, common as the illness progresses, tend to be poorly systematized and absurd. They can be grandiose, melancholic, or paranoid. These delusions include ideas of great wealth, immortality, thousands of lovers, unfathomable power, apocalypsis, nihilism. . ."
Do google this quote---you'll like the context. ;-|
You mean like 33rd Degree Freemason Confederate General Albert Pike established as the goal of the Third of the three World Wars he planned?
For all the comeuppance due the miscreants of our age, perhaps we might consider not playing into the hands of the Zionists who are walking the West into effecting its own destruction?
What if humanity stepped back from the brink, instead of cheering slaughter and prodding each other to take the plunge into a chaos meant to leave a depopulated world in ruins and in the hands of the Soi-Choisi?
"if humanity stepped back from the brink" - easy to say and loaded with virtuous intent, but difficult, if impossible, to implement with such as USrael running amok in the world.
Absolutely, the Ancient Conspiracy has been setting this up for a long time, it will be difficult if impossible to derail, but that's no excuse not to raise our voices against the tremendous harm being wrought on the entire world.
Unity and rejection of passivity is our only hope.
Conflagrationists militate against Unity and preach Doom and Vengeance.
Futures exploding... major indices down 2%.. WTI at a lusty $101... massive protests across the country... it took almost a decade to reach this chaos and protest over Vietnam... Drump achieves it in a month. Market makers don't believe anything coming from the WH and now hitting the panic button. US Agriculture sector facing disaster as fertilizers not available to 25% of farms at any prices... except for Russia and China who are well situated to weather the storm, much of the world looking at bad food and energy shortages. EU very, very vulnerable.
Interest rates about 15 basis points short of 4.5% mark on 10 year Treasuries... last time the 10- year hit 4.5% Drump backed off his tariff plan very fast. Even CPAC cheered for impeachment...
I was around during the Vietnam era. Believe me, what's happening now is a Big Deal and will be getting MUCH MUCH bigger because prices for essentials (food, fuel) are exploding. WTI crude up 7% since markets closed on Friday.
Fabulous. Iran is showing the world exactly how to bargain with the US and Israel. There is only one way, consistent destruction, death by a thousand cuts.
In the meantime, the world is on the precipice of a huge energy and base chemical shortage -
45% of global sulphur for sulphuric acid
30% of global helium supply gone for microchip manufacture, medical and superconductor industries
30% of fertilizer and 20% oil.
No matter if the war ends, this is the situation. Time to punish the USA/Israel with sanctions for destabilising the world economy, now if only there was a UN that wasn't corrupted by blackmail...
There are literal mountains of sulfur in Canada that they had been piling up as useless slag from the tar sands operations.
Running out of sulfur is not a real threat.
Helium will be handled too -- there is a lot of wasteful consumption of helium to be cut, and it will be cut to save it for the most important purposes
Fertilizer shortage means Africa will starve, not Europe. And most certainly not the USA and Israel.
Yes, exactly. I live in Africa, that big non descript continent where it doesn't matter whether people starve or whether they even live in different countries. Nope, just Africans...nothing to see here.
Thanks GM, a little white supremacist thinking goes a long way in reducing other people's suffering to inconsequential affairs.
As for the sulphuric acid disruption, we will see about that, as I recall, your take on the Russia/ Ukraine conflict also didn't take reality into account, but thanks Duke Nukem.
Hey Tim. I live in Africa, I happen to be of European descent. I also happen to have an IQ which unfortunately makes it difficult for me to deal with average people like yourself, for the very reasons you display so publicly: racism, insinuations of hate and murder, assumption that you, the white man, were yourself in Africa, and have been kicked out.
Relax. All is good here, Africa isn't Western and will never be. Why should it be Tim?
People suffer in silence, are patient and always willing to laugh it off. Why? Because the have been cheated, lied to and killed by Westerners for a long time.
See, the wonderful thing is, I lived in SA during Apartheid, the State of Emergency, Conscription, sanctions from the holier than though Western countries - so I am the real thing you are pretending to be.
I like my country and it's people, the continent is also pretty cool.
Don't speak too soon, tough times are coming. I would rather be with people who are used to suffering in darkest Africa than between a bunch of softy Europeans or those extremely well behaved American immigrants in that colony above Mexico. At least we don't need energy to stay warm in winter. It's cold up there.
When I think about geopolitics, which Simplicius the Thinker is all about, I think about how these shenanigans of the upper classes impact ALL of us here on earth.
I would have, for example had a lot of sympathy for US citizens if over the last 37 years, 14 million people died because of war in your region. As the US has done in the ME since 1990.
I probably have a different perspective since I grew up in a country with a 25 year border war against 'communists' in Angola for western ideals.
It's all politics, and citizens suffer the consequences of war, especially in Africa, West Asia (ME) since there has been ongoing destruction and destabilising of these countries due to commodity plundering and the importance of trading routes. As is clearly demonstrated by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Same goes for going hungry, people die and it's not fun. It is leaning towards feeling superior if the mass death of other people of another region and or culture do not bother you.
That goes for randomly advocating for the use of nuclear weapons too.
Once again, you seem to be one of those Africans who like to feel offended about everything, which in the end is an entirely self-defeating attitude.
I in no way hold white supermacist views.
I simply made the factual observation that in the real world if there is serious shortage of fertilizer Western Europe, Northern America and East Asia will grab what is available first, and will use military means to make sure about that if necessary, while Africa will starve. That is not an endorsement, the exact opposite, I was making the point that the bad guys will not suffer any consequences for their deeds. As is usually the case.
Asked an African one time where he was from. He told me, "Africa". I said Africa is a pretty big place, could he narrow it down. He was genuinely pleased I asked.
GM, if you’re American - and something tells me you are given how callously you speak about African people - the biggest responsibility is on you to bring down the corrupt, unhinged Epstein class. Putting it on the Russians risks turning this beautiful planet into a radioactive wasteland but the Americans aren’t gonna nuke themselves. So go for it buddy, lead the US into a revolution! Mocking the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and whoever else for their efforts just passes the buck
"Shaman"...that's funny, you inflated sack of shit. But, I do agree with you, actually. Let him (and you) stay. Racist pigs need to be mocked mercilessly.
Hawkgirl, FYI. GM is, I have been led to believe, a Russian ex-pat living in SE Asia. (Although, at times, I have serious doubts whether or not 'he/she' is actually human at all and not just a querulous AI chatbot.)
I am quite sure Russia will continue supplying Africa with fertiliser before considering any western beggars who might turn up.
That aside, ANY country that is not self-sufficient is going to suffer food shortages one way or another. Europe is , I suggest, far more vulnerable than you imagine. As for Israel, all the food in the world is not going to help if you don't have water.
Are we talking about the same Russia that has been supplying the very countries that are bombing Russia 24/7 with everything they need to continue bombing Russia, because, in the immortal words of the Supreme traitor-in-chief, "we get money for it" ("we" meaning the oligarchs around him, the Russian people are not part of that "we", and they only get the bombs on their heads)?
That Russia is sending the fertilizer to whoever binds the highest, and that ain't going to be Africa.
The different Russia that exists in people's minds is not out there in the real world.
Well, we will see, but I cannot imagine Russia simply abandoning all their "reliable partners", those they have repeatedly of late stated they prioritize, and thereby destroying, totally, everything they have been working towards for the last eighty years in Africa and more recently in BRICS. Not to mention stabbing in the back their "loyal and trusted ally", Iran. The damage to their reputation and diplomatic relations would be catastrophic.
Weird comment, nobody is forcing you read these articles, Substack has a variety of authors you can read. Just move on, isn't there enough negativity in the world as it is?
I was referring to what he said previously. In his previous column Simplesissy said that the Tripoli never left Diego Garcia. Now, he corrects that and acknowledges that it did leave, and yes, it is in the Arabian Sea.
All you need to know about Simplesissy is there - just look at his record. Russia by now should have occupied Kiev several times, Iran should be bombing Washington, and life if wonderful back in his sponsor nations.
That is not true. No one has been saying anything about how quickly Russia is suppose to get to Kiev for maybe 3 years now when it was finally recognized that Russia was fighting a war of attrition.
What people may have said in 2022 is of little consequence now as we see the strategy was changed dramatically when the SMO effort to bring Ukraine to the bargaining table was sabotaged by Boris Johnson. Russia fell back to defensive positions, built the Surovikin line, then started scaling up its arms industry and the Army.
The claim that Russia should be in Kiev by now is all in your head. (does Gilbert Doctorow reside there?)
Of course what I said was hyperbole. It was based on Simplesissy's reports, like Russia is winning almost every battle and Ukraine is running out of soldiers. My point was that if all that was accurate, Russia should have decisively won the war long ago.
And you are making assumptions that you know better how to run a war than the Russian military. It isn't just "getting to Kiev" that counts. I'm not telling you they should be there or shouldn't be there. I make no judgement on that. I just look at the facts that are presented and try to make sense of it.
Simplicius is hardly the only one reporting on the huge price Ukraine is paying. Drone warfare took some time to get used to. Ritter reported units can only move forward in "3's and 6's". Russian advances in drone counter measures (especially the fly by fiber which Ukraine seems unable to duplicate) and reports of "counter-drone drones" means shifting strategies may allow Russia to be more aggressive. Mercouris reports the Russians are advancing more rapidly -- but that's meaningless.
Hezbollah's use of FPV drones to wipe out entire tank formations pretty much justifies Russia "go slow" approach. But there are dozens of other reason to go slow.
WWI was fought for years over a very narrow stretch of land with huge losses on both sides. Then the tank was deployed and "things changed".
It might depend on the deductive powers of the reader himself, interpretation of what is read resides in the brain of the individual reading the content. It most probably also resides in the processing power of said reader's brain and the ability to remember and string events together over a timespan of years, which, in most cases nowadays, seems a very farfetched phenomenon.
I made different conclusions over the years of reading this specific Substack. I don't always agree with everything that is said. That is why I read other material and compare and make my own deductions from multiple sources about the state of the world.
One other point to remember is that irrespective of what is reported, the reality doesn't change, and unless you are in the middle of it, you will never have access to 100% truth.
I feel Simplicius puts in superb effort to provide us with information.
Having good manners, even when you're hiding behind your keyboard, and even if you think your opinion is the only right one, is kinda important.
I agree 100%. My responses are generated more by reacting to some of the comments. Regarding Simplicious, I agree he puts in a lot of work, and we all have our own preconceptions and personal histories whenever evaluating anonthers statement of opinions and facts.
I think that we can expect that any possible ground operation would probably resemble the search and destroy operations that the United States conducted during the Vietnam war. We can already see the narrative being constructed in the media for seizing the kharg island and also a potential operation to seize the enriched uranium presumably under the ruble. However, with Iran effectively decommissioning all of the United States bases in the immediate region plus the US media, acknowledging that much most of their soldiers are working remotely. It makes it incredibly questionable as to how long the United States could sustain any ground operation. Regardless of whether its search or destroy or a occupation. One thing I don't see anyone mention is the fact that the United States would have to engage in tunnel warfare. Given how extensively Iran's proxies have used tunnels in their battles, it would be foolish to assume that Iran's defenses of its Islands and its coastal regions do not contain secret tunnels where they could quickly move troops. And pop-up in ambush, any possible US marine. In short, I think that whatever limited ground operation, Trump thinks he can get away with will quickly turn into a bigger debacle. That would require him to deploy more troops in an attempt to gain leverage over the iranians, which he currently does not have
It’s a suicide mission for our warfighters. They’ll be the fodder for the grinder and manufacture consent for an escalation. It’s gonna be one horror after another, over and over again.
Maybe that's something that has to happen if the "Epstein Class" is ever to be destroyed. Some Colonel, or Lt. Colonel, maybe even a major foments a coup against Trump.
Bruh, no one is coming to save us. We have two options. Exit or submit. The technocratic dystopia with digital ID, social & carbon credit scores and CBDC is coming whether we like it or not. It could be this very event that crashes the dollar and the reset is switched on. It might not be *this time* but it's inevitable. Our government can't sustain the massive debt load, nor can the public. It's over.
Get out of the cities. Now. There's still time. Network, grow your own food, learn skills. Pray.
The bluff is to kick the front door down hoping the house of cards will collapse. There is no plan B (due to arrogance snd hubris). Once landed, due to the element of suprise the first 72 hours will be a media success, but Iran will mobilize and respond and the bluff will be eventually called.
After that, US will tuck tail and abandon the middle east and run. Israel will be emptied when the US withdraws. Gulf nations will partner with China.
The US media circus will be destracted with something smaller and less dangerous, eg Cuba.
Optics has always been an important aspect with running mass psyops. Trump wants to present a "win" to the public. He's f'd up everything so bad in this term that he's losing his base, and fast. That's the very thing he was installed to do - led the MAGA crowd to the slaughter.
But maybe, at this point, our luciferian overlords just don't give a fuck about optics. They hold all the cards. The end goal is to utterly crush the middle class and emplace the coming dystopian technocracy. This "war" could be the straw that breaks the camel's (that's us) back.
Or could be just another large nudge towards that end. These folks have mastered the art of slow-boiling the frogs. They've been doing it for generations. Iran might let the troops land and then shut the door on them. Then it might go as you say, with US military forces heading back home. It would be another massive wealth transfer (like COVID-1984) pushing us ever closer to dystopian doom. Even if the "war" were to go full stop immediately, it will take probably six months for us to get back to some semblance of normalcy in the West. Europe and Asia maybe longer. That's if we stop right now.
Or it could drag on and our luciferian overlords simply finish us off (as regards freedom and the lives we had before). Once the fuel rationing starts at the gas pumps, i don't think that will ever stop. It's gonna be a stranglehold on fuels from that point forward.
What we are witnessing isn't unusual. Most Empires go exactly the same way. The internal rot gets so bad that some rival manages to seriously wound the Hegemon in one of its forever wars. Once there is blood in the water the sharks circle for a feeding frenzy. We may be closer to that moment than many appreciate.
You're planning exactly like the Pentagon. You have the will to undertake a land-based adventure, so, by your sheer willpower, everything should go smoothly. Before setting foot in Iran, you need to think about how to get those feet there.
"I think that we can expect that any possible ground operation would probably resemble the search and destroy operations that the United States conducted during the Vietnam war."
That's not likely to be a good assumption.
The "search and destroy" missions the US conducted in Vietnam were the tip of the spear--supported by 500,000 IN-COUNTRY troops, massive logistics bases IN-COUNTRY, solid air-superiority IN-COUNTRY, uncontested control of naval access to the entire coast, and thousands of other logistical and administrative/support realities that will be totally lacking for any American forces unlucky enough to be doomed to set foot on Iranian soil.
Absolutely no resemblance.
A likely much better operation analogous to Americans attempting to set foot in Iran would be the valiant German boots-on-the-ground invasion of America's Atlantic coast in WW2.
A German submarine landed the invasion force--8 special forces soldiers in plain clothes--by rubber boat onto a Long Island beach. Kids spotted them, and within hours they were on the run. Within days they were arrested, sent to DC, tried and executed as spies.
I am going to do a slight reordering of what you yourself wrote, and leave it there:
>Trump’s one final remaining emergency lever will be to massively bomb Iran’s energy infrastructure, a kind of desperate last-ditch hail mary out of spite, the fit of a sadistic sore loser.
>But even this is obviously fraught with great risk because:
>1. It will not accomplish anything, due to Iran’s grid decentralization
>2. It will cause an even bigger headache for the US when Iran responds in kind and lights up the entire region’s critical infrastructure to an even greater degree
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>Funny how much the Special Combat Operation is starting to mimic the Special Military Operation.
>Putins’s one final remaining emergency lever will be to massively bomb Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, a kind of desperate last-ditch hail mary out of spite, the fit of a desperate loser.
>But even this is obviously fraught with great risk because:
>1. It will not accomplish anything, due to Ukraines’s grid decentralization (and well built USSR redundance and all those dieselgenerators brought in by EU/NATO)
>2. It will cause an even bigger headache for Russia when Ukraine responds in kind and lights up the entire Russias’s critical infrastructure to an even greater degree (than imagined before)
What do you call the Russian way of executing the Special Military Operation then?
On the 5th year and taking more losses than ever?
If not desperate…its flegmatic. That is even worse. If you follow RWA you can trace the frustration emerging that I aired already in June 2025 when I said that I would declare the SMO a failure if the summer offensive failed. Which it did.
I have been following RWA since the beginning of the SMO, but they are two guys on X and Telegram, they do not game situations nor do they have strategic overview of things.
I do not want to be rude or anything, but you are some blog commenter, from eastern Germany if I am not mistaken? Does not matter what you declared or declare in the future. To put it mildly.
Russia is in to sort this out for generations and it is not over yet,you cannot possibly judge at this moment if it is a failure.
Ukies started to recruit women again, think about that.
You should see the recent uncensored video of trump saying how much MBS is kissing his ass. He literally spoke those exact words during the presser. You just can't make it up 😂
No unfortunately it won't be. The Jewish ZioNAZI billionaires will still have their trillions of combined wealth, the Jewish banking families will still have their banks and hundreds of trillions. All they lose is some stolen land and control of Levant and Gulf hydrocarbons.
They will move the Andinia Plan in to high gear. And they already are meddling with hydrocarbon rights in Argentinian waters. And buying up Amazonian forests in Agentina.
Millei has passed laws that will allow Jew immigrants access Argie health care and welfare.
Well, eight years ago while touring in the Peruvian Amazon fronting Brazil, I came upon a group of "recently demobilized" IDF veterans. I wondered aloud how curious it was to encounter a group of hobbyists carrying surveying equipment in the jungle and was met with some nervous chuckling and cold glances. "Plan Andinia" appears to have a "Plan Amazonia" counterpart near Iquitos, the largest city in the world (IIRC) reachable only by boat or plane. But that's probably a conspiracy theory too.
The plight of putative US-Zionist allies if Don and Bibi's Excellent Adventure goes south as seems to be on the cards is nowhere greater than in Argentina, a nation on the verge of losing its sovereignty to financialization, asset stripping and a government in the service of foreign powers. It's ironic that a US court just ruled that Argentina's constitution carries more weight than a corporate charter and the nationalized petroleum industry does not owe punitive damages to vulture funds based outside its borders while at the same time the government has turned over the management of hydric resources in Patagonia to an Israeli outfit while attempting changes in laws governing foreign "investment" in land cleared of forests by deliberate arson carried out by... Guess who? This while hydric resources held in glaciers are planned to be removed from sovereign protection for the benefit of foreign mining companies. Legislators are all for sale in the country, so...
A nation's sovereignty rests on control of its natural resources: water, arable land, minerals, coastal fishing grounds, riverine transport, etc. The present government wishes to alienate all of these to private concerns so as to pay the onerous--perhaps odious, in legal terms--debt to the IMF, a debt-enabler as evil or more so than the vulture funds of which it is one operating in the disguise of a "benevolent" lender to "developing: nations. The debt should be repudiated and the nation prepared to hunker down to protect its most important resource: its children. Unfortunately, Argentina is very much a carpe diem society with little foresight and less long-term planning, so it's best hope when the smoke clears might be fragmentation into autonomous zones that zealously protect their resources and the talent to best employ them.
The problem with the Baluch plan and seizing Chabahar is that, while it is easier to take and easier to hold, it is very far from the Iranian heartland - it is surrounded by flat ground that leads into just THREE roads surrounded by mountains.
The problem would be that the Iranians could just contain the marines and Baloch militias around that area. The US would have no ability to "thunder run" into Tehran from there, and it would be a massively expensive and very slow campaign, which would be terrible optics.
Seizing Kharg would be like holding a child hostage, seizing Balochistan would be like holding a car hostage.
Ouch big bucks
How many billions has Iran lost already ?
The people making money need us to fight and die in addition to paying off the loans. It's quite the bargain.
As we will all soon find out the PTB no longer need us, and they already had all the money they would ever desire.
Busy days, Simplicius. Thanks for the extra updates.
The big problem now is that the US has zero good options. Their assumptions were proven incorrect. We all knew that an attack would end up this way. Is it possible that Trump will TACO? Would he even be allowed. If they commit ground forces then the stakes will be all in. The Majlis are currently debating withdrawing from the NPT. They are preparing to escalate in response. The attack on the UAE aluminium smelter says it all. A ground invasion by the Empire will lead to a level of destruction that will affect the global financial system for many years. Possibly decades. This seems like a disaster with no solution? Can the Chinese cobble together a solution? It isn't impossible. Other than that...
Just do everything Iran demands - no ifs or buts or Kushners, and all will be well.
No Kushners? Wow wow wow don't be antiseptic man c'mon
You need an antiseptic when dealing with scum/
Sorry.
I got carried away for a moment there.
Every jew is a good jew.
Not every human is good.
And jews are not exempted.
The damage to the world has already been done only a megalomaniac would keep denying reality and continue to make it worse but DJT forges ahead nonetheless - maybe a world meltdown was his aim all along.
Reality. Iran was a rising power. Ai and Tech with billions of dollars and a network of Hammas and Hezbolah forces globally means the US either fights now while they still can or wait 5 years and do what?
Fight an Iran that is taking out us surface ships at will? The theocracy of Iran was not able to be toppled for decades, so they are doing what General Patton said when fighting in WW2. When your enemy is holding all aces, its time to kick out the table.
The "we better fight them now before they got too powerful" logic assumes that we have to fight them at all. We don't.
I will give you forty trillion reasons why the US will try to reset global banking and wealth in the world.
Hopefully you have more gold than that in your gravel pit.
The US has been fighting 3rd world countries up until they persuaded Russia to draw a red line in blood in Ukraine.
Putin has overcome all the NATO wunderwaffe, and now Donald the Magician is going to make Iran disappear?
The biggest Military mistake EVER made by the US was allowing the infiltration and extortion by Israel of US politicians.
Notice how the graph of the wealth of Dual-Citizen Billionaires is DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL to the US Public Debt (owed by poor Americans? As the individual American gets poorer, Dual-Citizens skim more?
Oy vey - must Six Million more die because of your antisemitism?
re "allowing the INFILTRATION by DUAL CITIZENS with FIRST loyalty to a FOREIGN nation"
see ALISON WEIR, "AGAINST OUR BETTER JUDGEMENT
- How the U.S. WAS USED to CREATE Israhell"
https://yplus.ps/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Weir-Alison-Against-Our-Better-Judgment-The-Hidden-History-of-How-the-U.S.-Was-Used-to-Create-Israel.pdf
Or: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. (After fighting down your ingrained prejudices, if necessary).
That seems the be the "plan". If I can't have it, nobody will!
Lol, that's an incredibly efficient summation of administration talking points, great job!
I have heard no one in the administration say this. Tucker Carlson just yesterday pointed out that the administration has failed to explain what and why its doing this and what the goal is.
In the end its the forty trillion dollar question (Hint US DEBT). First you secure and lock down control of North, South and Central America. Then you throw everyone else into chaos while trying to rebuild your own industrial base.
WW2 left the US powerful because its industry was the only place that could build and deliver products. The rest of the world was destroyed and the US sold them the weapons and loaned them the money for it. Banks quickly began the lending the enslaved client governments. You are about to watch the most massive industrial kick off of US industry since WW2.
As Armenia, Yemen, Ukraine have shown, war has completely changed. Today the US is dumping much of its obsolete weapons as rockets and drones have ended the US monopoly on power projection. For the last 5 years we have seen unknown drones flying around the US and last week drones shut down a US airforce base in Louisiana for 4 days. Iran also had a commercial disguised ship with a rocket fire on a US Navy Burke class destroyer and had 3 minutes to figure out how to respond and survived this time. Lets see what happens when drones attack the US.
This is looking more and more like a very big attempt to reset the global financial system. I see no future for the gulf countries with a strong Iran or a destroyed Iran. Both routes end the same. Consider the table kicked out.
Tell me young David, when the SHTF, how many Dual-Citizen Billionaires are going to stick around and pay down all this uncollaterallized debt?
enlighten me young kam, who will try to collect the debt.
For what? So that you U.S. monkeys can turn the middle east into the burger-munching shitshow that is the U.S.A.?
No, so the USA's present ownership can retain the WHOLE WORLD (and more importantly, the world's NON REBEWABLE natural resources) as their property & vassals, failing that, wreck everywhere else worse than USA gets wrecked and re trench into just owning the entire Western hemisphere as our neofeudal (neoliberal?!) overlords.
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https://www.nefp.online/_files/ugd/63d11a_136d0855070647ba803e05cea0bc4c83.pdf
And now when the going got tough we kicked out our own allies’ table! Just like Ukraine - plan A, collapse Russia and rape what remains. Plan B, impoverish Europe. Iran - plan A, collapse Iran and rape what remains (this time with knives as is Israeli rape doctrine). Plan B, impoverish Europe.
The question in all this is: will the US have any allies left after another month of this? We cannot supply energy to replace what’s lost. We can’t restock magazines or guarantee security. We can’t destroy Iran so our credibility in threatening retribution for withholding tribute (transacting in USD) is gone too. This conflict has accelerated the demise of the empire by decades. Our “allies” now know why it’s dangerous to be enemies of the US but fatal to be allies.
And if Saudi and UAE (Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain are inconsequential militarily) actively enter the war on the side of the US they will be inviting their total destruction not only by Iran but also by restive populations who have been repressed.
If the US continues the war on this trajectory in addition to permanent control over Hormuz Iran and Iraq may move on Kuwait. Bahrain could fall. Qatar and UAE are one desalination plant going offline away from mass exodus. Guess who will fill that vacuum?
Trump couldn’t have planned the permanent exit of the empire from the ME and the destruction of Israel better if he tried. It’s just like Osama BL exercising long range mind control over GWB. Trump is going to accomplish something that the world very much needs and for that we should salute him.
I still believe this was a trap all along and R, I, and C have been preparing to ensnare Trump with the mother of all judo moves - use the awesome destructive power of the empire to foreclose on itself, and use the awesome forces of will that are Trump and Netanyahu to lure Israel into a trap by giving them what they have wanted all along, a war on Iran led by their little bitch USA.
Well said, I concur- ‘mother of all judo moves’ very apt description.
100%!
If Iran kicks down UAE desalination plants, UAE will disintegrate. All the rich UAE Arabs will get onto cars and trucks, and whatever ships are available, and evacuate to Saudi Arabia and beyond, the richer ones to the UK.
Who will be left? the majority, who are the immigrants, mostly Indian. At this point, if India can quickly supply a tanker filled with marginally drinkable water, and provide some AK47s, they will have UIE instead of the UAE, at trivial cost.
But it takes some advanced preparation---the tanker must be flushed of oil, filled with water, and sent in advance, otherwise it will not arrive in time and a massive tragedy will happen instead. And some revolutionary cells must be organized among the immigrant population.
India's oil supply problem solved forever.
Trump has no 'aim.'
You mean like the opening scene in Succession?
This is not a big damage yet. When you see jobless and hungry people around you, that would be a damage, This is nothing.
Well the Donald IS a megalomaniac so reality is out the window... Chip
Nobody is saying this; but surely it's obvious by now.
Trump is wrecking ball.
actually, DJT _ by WINNING the 2016 election and surviving an assassin's bullets SAVED America and the world FROM HILLARY GOING TO WAR AGAINST IRAN back in 2017 - AS she PROMISED SHE WOULD on the 2016 presidential campaign trail!
And likewise AIPAC, satanic hollywood (California) MOB made-woman imbecile MRS DOUG EMHOFF, aka kkkamala harris WOULD ALSO HAVE TAKEN US TO WAR against IRAN... AND RUSSIA only quicker than Trump (back in 2025) because kkkamala is a complete idiot bimbo even worse than Trump listening to kushner, lutnik, loomer, adelson and netanyahu.
See "THE DEAGLE PLAN" calling for a REDUCATION in U.S. population from 337 million to 100 million by the end of 2025...
Yes, They're a little tardy... but with this war AIPAC/ Trump/ isrhaell WAR LOBBY
WAR ABOUT TO WIPE OUT 1/5th of the WORLD OIL SUPPLY,
get THOUSANDS of U.S. TROOPS KILLED,
make MILLIONS of WAR REFUGEES infested with TERRORISTS
and with false flag CIA govt TERRORIST ATTACKS ABOUT TO GO OFF HERE IN AMERICA leading to MARTIAL LAW DICTATORSHIP
and an ever EXPANDING WAR "over there"
"they" the instigators of this war and their DEAGLE PLAN will soon make up for lost time.
You still don't get it. They are all dirty. They are all owned.
Bribed by stolen money that belongs to other Americans.
He gets it. He says "Trump/Israhell war lobby", so he is aware they are all on the same team. Trump is just late to the party, and more awkward about it.
‘Can the Chinese cobble together a solution?’
President Xi is hesitating over the question: Should I really turn into a peace dove and save the Orange Man or just use this golden opportunity to get Taiwan?
Taiwan is part of China, so no need to "get" it. And I really don't think the Chinese authorities would sacrifice a single bowl of rice to save the orange man. He is a singular curiosity, but of no special value to anyone.
If the Chinese could pull off a peace deal it would be the changing of the world order.
The world order is changin any way. And all China has to do to complete the process is nothing. America and Israel are destroying themselves.
Israel is destroying the USA.
First, from within.
Last, from without.
as most psychopaths tend to do - eventually self-destruct
Crazy thing is the government in Taiwan believe they should be the legal government of the whole of mainland China, USA sponsored nutters.
I wish everyone peace and equanimity, but that's not really happening at the moment :-(
Meanwhile the government of Israel believe that they should be the legal government of the whole Near East. And the government of the USA believe that they should be the legal government of this galaxy at least - and others once the words reaches them in a few million years.
“News from the Trump Galaxy”. 8-)
Its not crazy. There was a civil war in China, one faction controls the mainland , the other Taiwan. They both claim to be the legitimate Chinese government. Until one side capitulates the standoff continues. This is why the US had no problem agreeing to the "one China policy", that is one China under the government based in Taiwan ;)
Sorry, my nasty, sarcastic remarks were formulated for those with a clear understanding of the basics at the ground level. Sometimes I make these mistakes.
I get your point, but it's not quite true. Trump is of great value to the MIC and the fossil fuel industry, not to mention the oligarch class in general. For just about everyone else, not so much.
Lowering taxes, freeing up jobs from illegals, pharma rework, new drugs for cancer, 8 trillion in outside investments into the mainland USA, exposure of the Dem party and forcing them to announce their real agenda (such as illegals before citizens), a re-strengthening of the military and much, much, much more says he is useful to the commoner if they would get their head out of their ass, form their own opinions, and stop listening to the media.
Chinese diplomatic logic is 12 levels above such purile western logic I’m afraid. It’s like comparing Sun Tzu to Deepak Chopper.
Sorry, my nasty, sarcastic remarks were formulated for those with a clear understanding of the basics at the ground level. Sometimes I make these mistakes.
Ah a clear understanding at ground level. Seems to only apply to the Iranians, I’m afraid.
And of course all of the modern equivalents of Sun Tzu commenting here.
has it ever occurred to anyone that things may be going exactly as wanted
, or close to it?
it may be to soon to make that argument here but I warned not to accept Joe Kent at face value and now I see Whitney Webb is advising caution as well regarding Webb
so keep an open mind and be careful
about drawing conclusions.
There is simply way to much that we do not know.
"has it ever occurred to anyone that things may be going exactly as wanted
, or close to it?”.
Was that planned, even just closely?
"There is simply too much that we do not know". I agree with you, even though we know almost nothing.
Brian Berletic sees it as an oil embargo on China under the guise of Trumpian incompetence in the Persian Gulf.
If you have 1 minute: https://youtu.be/_z7SHO2mbsU Long story short, the USMC MEUs in the Persian Gulf can do Coast Guard-ish stuff like VBSS (visit, board, search, and seizure).
What if these pirates board a Chinese tanker, and are welcomed with MG fire? What will Trump do then?
Excellent question. Uncle Sam sees itself as the world's policemen and others as inferiors to be policed. When such haughty worldview eventually clashes with reality, let's hope it won't be too apocalyptic.
Berletic talks about it at https://youtu.be/pols1FsSA1g&t=3180
And the US destroying any European industrial competition. The US has oil, Europe, no. Remember the bombing of Nordstream by the US?
That is the PLAN.
I understood this when I read that RAND paper from 2019. That paper was not only about Russia, just almost. I dont remember the wordings but I understood it was about EU or any competitor
That is a most likely scenario.
Iran's policy of /selectively/ closing the Strait, and allowing through ships paying in yuan, has elegantly fucked up that plan.
I don't think it's going AT ALL as wanted. We don't know much, and we do have to give it caution, but after a month of complete and insane babbling over this ridiculous operation, it becomes clear that the government knows and understands even less than we do !
I remember thinking that about WMDs in Iraq: intuition told us it was absurd, but one couldn't imagine the government being so wrong and so stupid to make this up. And yet...
that is what hitler meant when he advised in Mein Kempf to lie outrageously if you do lie. because normal people can spot small lies. But they find it hard to believe anyone would even try to lie so outrageously, so they believe it
The point is not even that they lie absurdly, it's that they are absurdly stupid. No forethought at all, just wishful thinking. All that keeps reminding me of this brilliant analysis:
https://gaiusbaltar.substack.com/p/what-is-wrong-with-the-western-political
Yes, it's baffling because the natural assumption is to believe that they are smarter and more informed than we are, but as time goes by you often realize they are all just complete cretins
The Chinese can provide a solution; they will open another aluminum smelter. Let the desert reclaim its rights.
Hello :))
Those missiles were coming to Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia from around 500 or even more miles. That means that carriers can be attacked by Iran from similar or even longer distances. As I am typing this Google Map shows about twenty military planes sitting there in tight formations. Surely an earlier image. Less than 200 feet space from plane to plane. The Iranians were underestimated again.
Almost in the middle of this complete desert land sits Riyadh with around 8 million people. Surely within range of Iranian missiles and drones. This is a giant slave society. Out of 35 million people about 44% foreigners, most working to comfort the natives who drive around in their $120.000 cars. The slave wages are absurdly low. Part of the workers with good qualifications has it better. Did the rain of explosives hit Riyadh and a few large cities the slaves will likely run home, multiplying the problems.
AI says:
History: Slavery was formally abolished by royal decree in 1962.
Modern Slavery Estimates: The 2023 Global Slavery Index estimated that 740,000 people (21.3 per 1,000) live in "modern slavery" conditions in the kingdom, the highest prevalence in the Arab States.
Reported Pay Rates: Migrant laborers on major infrastructure projects, such as the Riyadh Metro, have reported earning less than $2 per hour.
Amnesty International
Monthly Salaries: Promised salaries for laborers and waiters are often around SAR 1,200 ($346) per month for long hours, though some bilateral agreements allow for wages as low as $180 per month.
Wage Theft: "Wage theft"—the non-payment or delayed payment of wages—is a systemic issue. Workers have reported going months or years without pay, with some recovery claims capped at SAR 17,500 (~$4,663), often excluding mandatory end-of-service benefits.
Human Rights Watch +1
Debt Bondage: Most migrants pay illegal recruitment fees (ranging from $1,100 to $4,000+) to secure jobs, often borrowing at high interest rates, which traps them in a cycle of debt.
This is an unstable society.
The Saudi royals are jews, which explains everything.
I also recall some rumors. How did this happen? And is it only strictly the royal family or the whole of the upper crust? It would be fun to watch an anti-jew revolt in a 35 million people rich Arab Nation. An Arab version of 1956 Hungary. The Iranians believe that the Royal Family is Jewish and the Jerusalem Post seems to be comfortable with this observation.
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-692595
Before the advent of Islam, this region was predominantly Jewish. It is quite possible that SBS is descended more from a rabbi than from the Prophet.
If their god sent the jews to these deserted sand dunes during the early medieval times that means two things:
1, Their god was in a sadistic mood.
2, The jews had it coming for some reason.
A lot of anecdotal evidence suggests that people forced to live in such austere surroundings have a strong tendency to be very religious. Frank Herbert incorporated such a scenario in "Dune", where the Fremen who live on Arrakis prove to be even fiercer than the Emperor's feared Sardaukar from the "prison planet" Salusa Secundus. T. E. Lawrence wrote about the real desert people in "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
There is always a dramatic issue: is it better for the people to remain in the desert, where their lives are very hard, and stay devoutly religious; or to be civilised and fall prey to luxury and atheism? The God of the Old Testament preferred the former.
good - send the jew back to wandering
God promised the Hebrews
milk and honey, not sand, stones, and hardship.
The current King of Jordan, Abdullah II, is considered a 42nd-generation direct descendant of Prophet Muhammad, and should control what's called Saudi Arabia, as they used to do in Mecca.
According to them, all Muslims are descendants of the Prophet.
According to the Bible, all Jews, Christians, in fact all people come from Adam and Eve, an incestuous coupling.
Are they really? got a good link?
Red herring. ALL Arabs, like all REAL Jews, are Semites. As Nassim Nicholas Taleb points out, it is likely that the Palestinians are the most authentic descendants of the historic Jews. They have been peasants for thousands of years, and peasants stay put on their land. It's fighters, merchants, bankers, and the like who go traipsing off around the world causing trouble.
Actually there's a Jewish man in Israel who goes round visiting Palestinian villages showcasing how many of them are Jews that were forced to convert to Islam hundreds of years ago. They bring out Jewish religious artifacts which they they've secretly kept in the family for generations. Unfortunately I can't remember his name. He has a YouTube channel.
It's also important to remember that some Jews have lived there continuously since the Roman exile, and also Middle Eastern Jews who were forced to flee to Israel in 1948 (some say due to Israeli terrorist attacks posing as Islamic attacks on the Jewish communities there). Israel is run by American Jews, and Middle Eastern Jews are treated as third class citizens.
By the same scholarly method, all the inhabitants of the Middle East, were originally Idol Worshippers?
Ergo, first claim.
jews are frauds and fakesters; none of them are semites.
Ashkenazim are Japhethites - see Genesis 10 verse 3.
Wow! Who knew? <Sarcasm deleted >
The Saudi ‘slaves’ cannot just run home- their passports are not in their possession -they are held in escrow until the ‘slaves’ aka employees complete their contracted ‘service’. Life is not fair, some are forever imprisoned in this country. Many are Muslims who come in order to make the pilgrimage to Mecca an inducement that the Saudi’s use for recruitment purposes.
My brothers, working for an American contractor, worked along with the bin Laden construction company in the 70’s building Saudi airports. Life was interesting for them-a true adventure- my sister -in-law a teacher was hired by the Saudi Airlines to teach the Airline employees . dependents. Unable to drive due to Saudi restrictions on women she was chauffeured to and from work daily with her young daughter for whom day care was provided while she taught. As employees they shared a villa and had a houseman who was in Saudi Arabia to make the Haj. Due to visa limitations they needed to leave the country every three months to renew their visas allowing them to leave this controlled, claustrophobic country and spend R&R in Europe. This was their adventure of a lifetime - my one brother returned home shortly after arriving, the other with his wife remained achieving his goal of earning enough to create a steel frame building company upon his return to the US. An adventure for an adventurous guy and his family. Now deceased I can’t ask him if he also built the airport just targeted. So sad all this destruction.
PSAB is a fairly recent construct. I was there when it was under construction in the 90's. We did our R&R in Bahrain where we were allowed (as US Military) to consume alcohol, verboten inside the Saudi Kingdom... Chip
Thanks for sharing - my brother liked his tipple so leaving every three months to renew visas probably made it tolerable for him to be in a ‘dry’ Muslim country.
In comparison the Colonial Indentured servants were getting a fair deal in America.
Not really. Most of their wages (if any) were clawed back for food and lodging. It would take years to save up enough for steerage fare back home. And the Atlantic crossing was hard and dangerous.
"Indentured Servitude" was a Brit invention akin to slavery.
Just a nasty rumor but young blonde girls often get an involuntary vacation to the Middle East, never to return.
It seems this thread was cut down like a Palestinian kid while walking to school, around 2:30 am, EST, USA. Just paralyzed.
Pentagon preparing for weeks of ground operations in Iran, Washington Post reports
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/pentagon-preparing-weeks-ground-operations-iran-washington-post-reports-2026-03-29/
Would you be interested in what I could bring back? I can be as, if not more, imaginative than the WPJ.
Yes, the USA is not afraid, they won't stop
They are hiding in hotels, lmao
Probably having a great time on double pay, taking photos of passing drones & missiles.
using human shieds/ According to the jew way of war Ira n can now level the entire city block..
Momma. Ain't gonna die for Israel.
Fragging going to get popular all over again.
'twenty military planes sitting there in tight formations. Surely an earlier image. Less than 200 feet space from plane to plane'
Dont underestimate the power of complacency and falling into patterns - after all, nobody has really shot back for a really long time and US mil is really rigorous organization, doubtful if they can adapt quickly to new circumstances, maybe we'll see couple more of this type 'parking lot' plane eliminations before they react...
There were fair warnings just before the present war about this possibility. The Iranians were negotiating with China for anti-ship missile deliveries and something was delivered to them – but no clear evidence about the nature of the beast. The US had sense enough to keep the carriers far enough but not these planes. I was rather surprised when this came up.
Planes parking like Hawaii December 7th?
That was an organized crime act. And the organizers were certainly sitting in D.C.
Franklin was working real hard to help Winnie.
Likely the Brit plans for sinking the Italian Navy with airplane ferried torpedo bombs accidently landed in Tokyo.
Thing is, there is simply not enough space. We have more planes there now than the airfields were designed for. I know as I did several designs for airfield expansions in the 2000's for our bases in Kuwait, UAE, and Afghanistan... Chip
It's far more profitable to slit the throats of their Arab masters and then rob them blind. I hope the slaves can all wake up to that fact. Those effeminate Arab cowards deserve every bit of hardships coming their way.
Middle East crisis live: Iranian forces waiting for US ground troops and will ‘set them on fire’, warns parliamentary speaker
https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/29/middle-east-crisis-live-explosions-tehran-yemen-houthis-iran-war-updates-trump-us-israel-strikes-lebanon
Is it possible these men are sent there as bait to flash out Iranian defenses into the open for a major air assault just to prove that orange has a superior IQ level?
If that's the case, it will prove that he's dumber than he seems.
American planes being shot down in Iranian skies, plus drones raining down on the troops...
Good luck with that.
It is likely that they refer to the oil infrastructure on Kharg having been mined, and prepared to spill burning oil in a nice cosy little inferno for the few, the proud, the war criminals.
If that does happen, it will prove Trump's superior IQ beyond all doubt.
But Iran has been hitting all US bases for a month now so why were all these planes sitting there exposed?
There is a theatrical element there I can easily small from 15,000 miles.
Probably because Turkey and Pakistan have refused to house them. There is a limited number of airbases within useful distance. If you were to have air-tankers and AWACS commute all the way from Diego Garcia, then every move of USraeli air force would be telegraphed hours in advance.
No, the slaves won't run; the masters will. With just a little well-thought-out external support, mostly C&C and famine relief, the slaves will take over the ruins.
"...all the original ones were proven to be impossible to actually implement—i.e. regime change, Iran’s surrender, collapse of the IRGC or wider military structure, societal upheaval, etc."
I guarantee the people dreaming up these objectives are sealed within some kind of administrative thought bubble, cut off from the real world.
The same thing happened with Russia: sanction-induced economic collapse, leading to regime change and Putin getting the Gaddafi treatment.
Pure western projection and wishful thinking.
Has that strategy ever actually worked?
People were saying the same things about Syria, mocking the West on its failure there, mere weeks before Syria collapsed.
The only place where you can confidently say the West failed has been North Korea.
Everywhere else they either persisted until they got what they wanted, or the targets are on the chopping block right now.
?Syria was national suicide precipitated by Assad's psychic collapse with the terminal illness of his wife. The fat lady has still to sing with Venezuela. No one doubts the ability of the west to cash in on a weak opponent, like an opportunistic bacterium, although it tends like a disease to produce only rot.
Where are these other successes, GM?
His wife was a big part of the collapse - mafia exploitation on steroids.
bullshit.
The fat lady has still to sing in Syria too. Once shitrael is done AQ will be evicted from Syria.
Al-Sharaa will pivot and adapt. He's agile this way.
I look at the whole thing through a broader time frame.
History is dynamic.
Iraq was once Iran's enemy, now it's an ally.
Syria, if Israel weakens too much and the US withdraws, will not be able to sustain itself and will return to Iran's arms.
Overthrow the monarchy in Jordan and try to imagine where that leads.
Interesting times...
Either your unbelievably brain washed or just extremely ignorant: Syria took 14 years, the US has been trying to collapse Russia since 1991 they just became 4th in the GDP replacing France. Venezuelan has the same government in place just different thieves running the show. Guess you missed that North Vietnam won that war! MAGA Tards don’t do facts they just run their mouths.
Yes, Syria took 14 years. When it started Assad had said it could last 10. It lasted more than that.
But it was betrayed by Russia in the end because Putin is 100% in the pocket of Israel.
Venezuela was not a US colony until January 3rd 2026, it is now. That is a major change.
Vietnam won the war and then realigned with the US regardless
You take things for granted with an excess of confidence and imagination.
1. Vietnam is not an American ally.
2. Only time will tell what the US gained in Venezuela, if in fact it won anything. The game is still being played and will be played in the next ten years at least.
3. Russia did not betray Syria. Its government collapsed because of its own domestic incompetence. Russia
had helped Assad, but had no reason to consider the conflict there her own war.
Vietnam certainly isn't an enemy of America as it should be, because the Chinese scare them more.
Syria collapsed precisely because Putin played the good cop to the US-Israeli bad one for a decade, which hollowed it out.
And it was very much Russia's war, which is why it went into Syria years before it went into Ukraine. It's all part of the same conflict.
The Syrian domino falling meant Iran was next on the chopping block and that sequence of dominos ends with US SRBMs situated within point -blank firing distance of Russian ICBM silos in Siberia and jihadists being pumped in huge numbers all the way from Astrakhan to Barnaul.
The Mongol Empire failed to conquer Vietnam during three major invasions (1258, 1285, and 1287–1288) due to Vietnamese scorched-earth tactics, guerrilla warfare, and severe logistical failures.
And the jungle. The Mongols were only very successful in open terrain, where their tactics were optimal.
And if you were to tell us about the Venus-Mercury conflict, you surely have some reliable information?
I think you are eating way too much GM food.
The successes in Korea? Vietnam, Afghanistan ? Smashing success.
Oh. And Iraq? About to get Yankee rump removed there too.
You can't keep stripping your natural and human resources to please your skimming and churning Parasites, without consequences.
I know almost nothing, but if I'm not mistaken, the United States supplied the weapons to Mao's rebels.
Look where that led.
It worked with covid. I.e., it works on its own people, probably because of what the west has done to its education system, running alongside a corrupt welfare programme. It has conquered itself! Now where are all those people willing to fight for it? Seems like brainwashing has its limits, or it never really worked. Bribery and blackmail are poor tools of social control. Use it to enable people to stay home with their entertainment systems and a sure supply of food and most of all, drink, and you have a compliant population happy to lap up a fabricated threat. It is just not a very useful people you have made for yourselves. Back to the cosmic drawing board.
I blame Neoliberalism. This is what happens when you outsource your security to the likes of Lockheed and Raytheon. It looks like Epstein's revenge.
Neoliberal capitalism - with an emphasis on "self-interest" - the 'invisible hand' most likely belonging to a banker. Building a 'democratic' society based on neoliberal capitalist values is like infecting yourself with cancer and then feeding it.
Well said. I like the analogy. Neoliberal Capitalism is an economic structure that inexorably tends to become a Ponzi scheme where financial "wizzards" sit at the top and real innovation is starved off.
However, I'd continue your analogy with the unleashing of chemotherapy (as a last ditch desperate attempt) to try to "cure" the cancer, except doing so under the care of an AI that wan not trained on collateral damage to healthy cells. Trump's crazy on-again, off-again tariff scheme comes to mind.
There hasn't been a "democracy" in the West for more than 150 years.
Maybe Switzerland and some other mini-states?
No.
You can't have capitalism and democracy in one go. How can you spend most of your time at work in a corporate, absolutist hierarchy while claiming to have democracy on any decision making? You can't even vote about where a hospital is to be build or how narrow or broad a street should be. Let alone that you would be ask about the distribution of wealth.
A worker cooperation would solve this partially but then still the main questions are decided by people who are pre-selected for you to cast your vote on. To call this democracy is simply silly.
NO Switzerland is not a Democracy..............it has more cameras and spy devices than a hedgehog.
Switzerland is the closest to a democracy, but they are still a democratic republic, so any system that uses representatives 'of the people' is by nature not democratic. And if by some crazy turn of events a real democracy was created, it would be a disaster as the number of issues to be voted on would overwhelm the population and also most likely be beyond their expertise to assess and vote on. Even in republics, the representatives have representatives (committees and special commissions, etc) to assist, even those committees have industry lobbies and specialists to help them whilst lots of money is passed under the table for influence. China probably has the best, most efficient system today (I won't go into the extensive reasons why - I'll leave the reader to do their own research).
How about the Confederatio Helvetica (named after the ancient Celtic tribe who inhabited the area)-where one of the official languages is Romansch-the closest language to ancient Roman Latin still spoken? You know it as Switzerland, which is very close to the birthplace of the Celts, which is Hallstadt, Austria.
Maybe even since 5th century BCE Athens.
Actually we do have the digital technology to recreate Athenian democracy and it would be a lot better than our present covid slave status.
No, for Americans it's sugar. Sugary drinks and fentanyl are decimating America today. American people are too domesticated to do anything beyond complain. Between the poisoned food (glyphosate), corn syrup, vaccines, 5G, videogames, porn, social media and propaganda, it's all Americans can do to drag themselves to their shitty jobs and back again each day, to the isolation of their homes. They only protest on Saturdays from 12 to 2. I know, I see it every day and week.
......and obesity.
Of course — it's obesity, Type 2 diabetes, then cancer. Cancer feeds on sugar, so diabetes increases the risk of cancer manifold. But also, our food is literally poisoned. What chance do we have to fight the system from the inside when we've never seen the outside? We have no frame of reference. We're literally living inside the matrix.
But do they like that kind of life?
They probably don't know any different as they can only get shitty jobs if at all, they come home late, eat and have little time for anything but to sit in front of the tube watching MSM. They know little of geography so they think Ukraine is somewhere near Kansas. They know little of how government works and the US Constitution as they are no longer taught such things in school, instead being taught that whites are bad, black lives matter, men can have babies, speech is free as long as you don't offend anyone, pronouns are important, men and women should share toilets, changing your gender is perfectly normal and should be encouraged, police forces should be disbanded as people will live perfectly happy lives as a result, the Holocaust really happened and all should be required to worship at the nearest Holocaust Memorial, Jews are actually the gods of this earth and must never be criticised, and all Americans must be willing to die for israel - and so much more - no time for all that other stuff like readin', writin' and 'rithmetic..
Haha, pretty much. When you can't read, you can't history. And when you can't read history, you don't understand what's going on. You have no frame of reference.
Yes, history. So important!
Scathing, but accurate.
I live there and I agree. Although half of the population believes the woke crap and the other half believe the Zionist crap. Most Americans are not objective minded and have been rendered incapable of engaging in critical thinking. I apologize to the rest of the world for what the stuptified American people allow their government to inflict on you.
Why is there no third idea or believing there?
And don't forget, repeatedly reassured that they are the masters of the world, and everyone else is a shitty third-world peon without rights. Just a spoonful of sugar to help the medicine go down.
Hell no. But they are handicapped. Disabled. RFK Jr ran on a "Make America Healthy Again" platform (MAHA). "We are the sickest nation among any in the developed world. We spend more money per capita than any other nation, yet we have the worst health outcomes. Life expectancy in America is actually dropping." That's what Bobby Kennedy, Jr was telling us — now he just sold out to the glyphosate lobby. MAHA — like MAGA — is dead.
I assume most of you are Europeans? I was born in Europe and moved to the U.S. at age 10. I was naturalized at 17. I've lived 36 years in America, and I can tell you this: Europeans have a frame of reference; Americans have no frame of reference. The education system has been destroyed in America. They don't even teach reading, wiring or math anymore. Instead, we're connected to our devices all the time.
We've become afraid of each other. We no longer interact with neighbors or strangers. All interaction is through our devices. We've forgotten even how to say hello. A secular society, we have no traditional values. The only genuine American religion is the love and pursuit of money. That's it. Sadly, all of the stereotypes are true.
The food industry, the healthcare industry and the chemical industry- a triumvirate of death working together to make your life miserable so they can profit. Shitty foods full of chemicals cause disease treated by a for-profit healthcare system which rather than working to restore health, instead seeks profits from your illnesses.
Yes — and the health system is insurance-based. Not everyone gets health insurance. It's like a lottery of mediocrity. If you have it, you're one of the lucky ones.
The young people in Europe are also on devices, totally Americanized. 20 years ago there was some discontent with Iraq war, now not any more. Nobody needs anyone, they do not even just pretend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LT3cERVRoQo
And don't forget, constantly told that "America" is the top of the world, the land of the free, the indispensable country, better than anyone else. That baseless megalomaniac conceit greases the gullet so that the rest of the propaganda slides right down. Who doesn't relish being the top?
Comfortably stupid.
american "people" are now more brown and low IQ than ever before - because of the jew...
Right. Thank you for mentioning glyphosate—practically every American pisses it. A chemical compound first formulated to remove mineral deposits inside boilers and steam pipes, and now we… Oh, forget it. I can’t even finish the sentence.
You neglected to mention the benefits. The urinals are kept clean of mineral deposits.
Nicely put! Sounds a lot like Idiocracy in real time. As for protests … I walked past our local “No Kings” rally yesterday morning. Hundreds of signs and the word ‘Iran’ was nowhere to be seen. Or the bright side, I didn’t see any Ukrainian flags this time
Venezuela.
Wrong... Regime is still in place. Trump took one look at the woman who won the Nobel Prize and realized installing her and collpasing the current regime would turn Venezuela into a Libya with chaos and invading drug gangs running rampant. No Venezuela is actually better off now in that it can run its popular Chavista government while having the US handle the oil business which it really hasn't been able to develop properly without also compromising the funding for its soical programs. Oddly, it now it has best of both worlds.
Really- check your facts, no US oil company will invest in Venezuela it’s a money losing proposition.
They will now that Persia is collapsing the Gulf states.
VZ had it's oils assets stolen. Then the sanctions. Classic victim blaming.
The assets have never not been stolen. Chavez transformed Venezuela and evened the playing field for the Venezuelan poor which are the majority. But under constant US neoliberal blockades it could not really take full advantge of its oil fields which require massive capital investment as I'm sure you know. Only the US could do that. The only realistic solution for the outgunned Venezuelans is proably the current one. Not ideal, but show me a better one at this time, grr.
Only the US could do that.
Really? It's beyond nonsense.
What you convieniently left our is that 'Only the US can do that' is because they come with a gun to your head and they're known to pull the trigger because they're a nation of killers and gangsters.
Keep your shirt on. I said it is the only realistic option AT THIS TIME. Got a better one, hothead?
The idea that Trump cares about Venezuela failing. 😁
I know, right. But he cares only via the cost bennefit analysis laid out by David Rockeffar who reasoned that for Gulf oil to maximize profits in Angola, he had to keep a stable worforce in place regardless of whther it was socialist or not.
Yes, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya. Look at all four, they are thriving cosmopolitan states to be admired and emulated.
The US has a human intelligence problem. We rely too much on foreign Intel agencies "sharing" their findings. This can lead to unforeseeable conditions such as the SMO and The Iran War. We also like to push noncredible ex-patriates as the next corrupt leader.
Honestly, who didn't think Iran was going to close the strait? That's asymmetrical warfare 101.
Congrats Simp. This is the first article on the invasion nonsense that hasn’t mentioned “sacred” name of “famous 82nd airborne”.
Puts me in mind of-the Dylan song “…when Quinn the Eskimo gets here, everybody gunna jump for joy”.
Jumping apparently is what they are good at. But not much else, as according to AI, these are their achievements in the last several decades:
* Combat Experience: The division saw significant action in the invasion of Panama (1989), Operation Desert Storm, and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan.
Well you know, once those Panamanians awake from siesta, they can be pretty agro.
Operation Desert Storm(nin Norman) was an triumph (for a month or so.) As for Operation Enduring Fuckup , well what can one say.
Wikipedia on the appropriately named Fort Bragg where these “warriors” hang out:
Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty) has been associated with several scandals, most notably a series of domestic violence cases involving special operations soldiers, as detailed in The Fort Bragg Cartel. These incidents often involve soldiers struggling with PTSD, substance abuse, and a lack of accountability. Other issues have included investigations into drug trafficking and various criminal activities involving service members stationed there.
Sounds like they specialise in beating up women and trafficking drugs.
And these degenerates are the best the US has. Yes please send them to Iran, apparently they have a cure for PTSD there. 100% recovery guaranteed or your oil back.
Stas Krapivnik says 20% of US service personnel are obese, and are in uniform because of very low uptake into the military by fitter people.
Bigger targets are good. Also need 2 parachutes , which probably cost 50k and take 3 months to make
"Stas Krapivnik says 20% of US service personnel are obese..."
Exactly zero percent of those are in the 82nd... Chip
I’m sure that’s right, Chip, but Iran is about to become an American graveyard
I don't and never did deny that. A ground invasion is a fucking nightmare for the USSA no mater what unit is involved. My only point, is that in the 82nd they don't have trannies or fat people. Not allowed, regardless of Pentagon and Administration bullshit. Don't confuse my knowledge of the status of US Army units with my other assessments, throughout this thread, that a land invasion is going to result in a shit load of body bags... Chip
And how many % have PTSD, drug problems and beat up their wives. Since you are absolutely certain none are fat, you must have the full picture. Pray enlighten the rest of us pal.
24 year army vet. I know my units. You on the other hand know nothing... Chip
No kidding, as if it wasn’t obvious. Which countries did you kill civilians in ?
24 years of total brainwashing qualifies you to spout shit, which you do.
I saw a report from Iran that they had hit the Lincoln
Bad name to give a carrier.
Almost as bad as Kennedy.
LOL. Good point. Perhaps the next carrier will be the Martin Luther King?
Nah, it will be a president. There's four (so far) total that have been assassinated with only two used for carrier names:
Abraham Lincoln (1865): Shot by John Wilkes Booth at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, and died the following day.
James A. Garfield (1881): Shot by Charles J. Guiteau on July 2, 1881, at a Washington, D.C. train station and died on September 19, 1881.
William McKinley (1901): Shot by Leon Czolgosz on September 6, 1901, at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, and died on September 14, 1901.
John F. Kennedy (1963): Shot and killed by the CIA's Cubans (in revenge for screwing them at the Bay of the Pigs) on November 22, 1963, in Dallas.
"John F. Kennedy (1963): Shot and killed by the CIA's Cubans (in revenge for screwing them at the Bay of the Pigs) on November 22, 1963, in Dallas."
CIAs Cubans in league with the Chicago mafia for he and his brother's war on mafia families, and israel (who planned and coordinated the whole thing) for Kennedy's threat to close down Dimona and deny israeli access to nuclear technology. And Jew LBJ for providing political cover for the whole thing.
except the one sop to a negro : the U.S. Navy is naming the fourth Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier, USS Doris Miller (CVN-81),
What, no Trump? No Obama?
😂
I'm still not too sure Ann. I saw the clip where Trump says it was attacked from 17 different directions (like how would he know) and they had to run for their lives. Then heard that the Pentagram was refuting this spurious allegation.
I read it as an announcement of Iran. Earlier today - I thought at the time it was just one strike. I should have marked it - don't know where I saw it now And now all the news is lies. I thought what Trump was talking about was the Ford.
The statement is real. It’s getting buried in the West but you can find it via Grok from neutral sources. I would guess that Trump is telling the truth but was not supposed to. A criminal breach of OPSEC. If it’s true that the Ford’s air defence was damaged then that is the kind of thing you need a cover story (“laundry fire”) to obscure until the carrier is out of danger. There would be no advantage to Trump to invent this as a lie. He just forgot what he was supposed to keep secret.
"Delusions, common as the illness progresses, tend to be poorly systematized and absurd. They can be grandiose, melancholic, or paranoid. These delusions include ideas of great wealth, immortality, thousands of lovers, unfathomable power, apocalypsis, nihilism. . ."
Do google this quote---you'll like the context. ;-|
Peace is the Prize of the Wise,
Victory the Vice of the Vain.
I call upon the Golden Golem to SUE FOR PEACE!
Iran needs to keep going until the decrepit US is utterly humiliated and jewrael is utterly destroyed.
Finish the job once and for all.
You mean like 33rd Degree Freemason Confederate General Albert Pike established as the goal of the Third of the three World Wars he planned?
For all the comeuppance due the miscreants of our age, perhaps we might consider not playing into the hands of the Zionists who are walking the West into effecting its own destruction?
What if humanity stepped back from the brink, instead of cheering slaughter and prodding each other to take the plunge into a chaos meant to leave a depopulated world in ruins and in the hands of the Soi-Choisi?
The US deserves to and must sink with jewrael
"if humanity stepped back from the brink" - easy to say and loaded with virtuous intent, but difficult, if impossible, to implement with such as USrael running amok in the world.
Absolutely, the Ancient Conspiracy has been setting this up for a long time, it will be difficult if impossible to derail, but that's no excuse not to raise our voices against the tremendous harm being wrought on the entire world.
Unity and rejection of passivity is our only hope.
Conflagrationists militate against Unity and preach Doom and Vengeance.
An ancient pattern.
The ancient conspiracy is what exactly? Let me guess , you are an ancient dingbat with wacko conspiracy theories. Foff. Mad as your cat picture
Midnight- 29 March
Futures exploding... major indices down 2%.. WTI at a lusty $101... massive protests across the country... it took almost a decade to reach this chaos and protest over Vietnam... Drump achieves it in a month. Market makers don't believe anything coming from the WH and now hitting the panic button. US Agriculture sector facing disaster as fertilizers not available to 25% of farms at any prices... except for Russia and China who are well situated to weather the storm, much of the world looking at bad food and energy shortages. EU very, very vulnerable.
Interest rates about 15 basis points short of 4.5% mark on 10 year Treasuries... last time the 10- year hit 4.5% Drump backed off his tariff plan very fast. Even CPAC cheered for impeachment...
Something's got to give very fast.
Among all the effects you mentioned the “protests” are a non-event.
I was around during the Vietnam era. Believe me, what's happening now is a Big Deal and will be getting MUCH MUCH bigger because prices for essentials (food, fuel) are exploding. WTI crude up 7% since markets closed on Friday.
Fabulous. Iran is showing the world exactly how to bargain with the US and Israel. There is only one way, consistent destruction, death by a thousand cuts.
In the meantime, the world is on the precipice of a huge energy and base chemical shortage -
45% of global sulphur for sulphuric acid
30% of global helium supply gone for microchip manufacture, medical and superconductor industries
30% of fertilizer and 20% oil.
No matter if the war ends, this is the situation. Time to punish the USA/Israel with sanctions for destabilising the world economy, now if only there was a UN that wasn't corrupted by blackmail...
There are literal mountains of sulfur in Canada that they had been piling up as useless slag from the tar sands operations.
Running out of sulfur is not a real threat.
Helium will be handled too -- there is a lot of wasteful consumption of helium to be cut, and it will be cut to save it for the most important purposes
Fertilizer shortage means Africa will starve, not Europe. And most certainly not the USA and Israel.
You don't sound much like a Russian zealot these days.
Yes, exactly. I live in Africa, that big non descript continent where it doesn't matter whether people starve or whether they even live in different countries. Nope, just Africans...nothing to see here.
Thanks GM, a little white supremacist thinking goes a long way in reducing other people's suffering to inconsequential affairs.
As for the sulphuric acid disruption, we will see about that, as I recall, your take on the Russia/ Ukraine conflict also didn't take reality into account, but thanks Duke Nukem.
Africans only survive because of wypepo, and yet you still hate and murder us.
Your economies and cities completely collapse once you kick us out because "apartheid."
Welcome to the real world.
Low IQs gonna get you in the end.
Uber ignorant bigoted comment there.
Low IQ white supremacy gonna get you in the end.
Speaking of Low IQ, that is a dumb take that doesn't even pretend to be logical.
Hey Tim. I live in Africa, I happen to be of European descent. I also happen to have an IQ which unfortunately makes it difficult for me to deal with average people like yourself, for the very reasons you display so publicly: racism, insinuations of hate and murder, assumption that you, the white man, were yourself in Africa, and have been kicked out.
Relax. All is good here, Africa isn't Western and will never be. Why should it be Tim?
People suffer in silence, are patient and always willing to laugh it off. Why? Because the have been cheated, lied to and killed by Westerners for a long time.
See, the wonderful thing is, I lived in SA during Apartheid, the State of Emergency, Conscription, sanctions from the holier than though Western countries - so I am the real thing you are pretending to be.
I like my country and it's people, the continent is also pretty cool.
South Africa - founded by whites THEN the negroes came to be parasites - like most western cities.
Not quite. But I think it's off topic anyway.
Boo hoo. No one cares.
Great comment. Thanks for the effort you put in to express yourself. Very meaningful words.
If all is so good why are you on substack bitching about it?
You’re a sad, old, lonely mother fucker, aren’t you? Pssft.
exactly - if white people stopped feeding africa they would go back to a smalll subsistance population of sub humans roaming the jungle....
Don't speak too soon, tough times are coming. I would rather be with people who are used to suffering in darkest Africa than between a bunch of softy Europeans or those extremely well behaved American immigrants in that colony above Mexico. At least we don't need energy to stay warm in winter. It's cold up there.
lol - negroes are not people... they will cut down all the trees for fire and eat you...
Dangote's refinery now seems a masterstroke.
Optimum the future is Africas and Asias. You're rich in commodities and people - both previously stolen by western military regimes.
As Ibrahim Traore pointed out Africa has a rich history of achievements that are simply ignored by western supremacists.
IMHO in the upcoming multipolar world many African nations will finally be allowed to reach their potential unburdened by western imperial aggression.
lol - what achievements? the negro never had the wheel or even writing...
When did you see white supermacism in what I said?
It was the exact opposite in fact.
When I think about geopolitics, which Simplicius the Thinker is all about, I think about how these shenanigans of the upper classes impact ALL of us here on earth.
I would have, for example had a lot of sympathy for US citizens if over the last 37 years, 14 million people died because of war in your region. As the US has done in the ME since 1990.
I probably have a different perspective since I grew up in a country with a 25 year border war against 'communists' in Angola for western ideals.
It's all politics, and citizens suffer the consequences of war, especially in Africa, West Asia (ME) since there has been ongoing destruction and destabilising of these countries due to commodity plundering and the importance of trading routes. As is clearly demonstrated by the closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Same goes for going hungry, people die and it's not fun. It is leaning towards feeling superior if the mass death of other people of another region and or culture do not bother you.
That goes for randomly advocating for the use of nuclear weapons too.
:)
Once again, you seem to be one of those Africans who like to feel offended about everything, which in the end is an entirely self-defeating attitude.
I in no way hold white supermacist views.
I simply made the factual observation that in the real world if there is serious shortage of fertilizer Western Europe, Northern America and East Asia will grab what is available first, and will use military means to make sure about that if necessary, while Africa will starve. That is not an endorsement, the exact opposite, I was making the point that the bad guys will not suffer any consequences for their deeds. As is usually the case.
I hold white supermacist views because it is a simple fact of reality - where is that negro space program?
Asked an African one time where he was from. He told me, "Africa". I said Africa is a pretty big place, could he narrow it down. He was genuinely pleased I asked.
Frankly the world would be better off if Africa starved, the median IQ would skyrocket
GM, if you’re American - and something tells me you are given how callously you speak about African people - the biggest responsibility is on you to bring down the corrupt, unhinged Epstein class. Putting it on the Russians risks turning this beautiful planet into a radioactive wasteland but the Americans aren’t gonna nuke themselves. So go for it buddy, lead the US into a revolution! Mocking the Russians, Chinese, Iranians and whoever else for their efforts just passes the buck
Even Albert Schweizer was clear-sighted about Africans.
He said they should never be treated as equals.
The only ones who like them are those who are not forced to live amongst them - so yes, Yankees understand what you don't.
Remember Iryna.
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Get lost
No one cares about dead white women you jerk off too. Fuck off.
"the only ones who like them are those who are not forced to live amongst them" (or interact with them)
We say similar things about Yanks ;)
Simplicius, time for Tim to go. Or, do you support his racist/white supremacist blather?
“Teacher! Tim’s using words I don’t like! He’s being mean!”
Grow up you little baby
"Shaman"...that's funny, you inflated sack of shit. But, I do agree with you, actually. Let him (and you) stay. Racist pigs need to be mocked mercilessly.
Lots of Africans were I live Timmy and I like them.
Show me a racist who claims to be Christian and I'll show you someone Jesus would have despised.
africans are not people....
You can get lost too
Hawkgirl, FYI. GM is, I have been led to believe, a Russian ex-pat living in SE Asia. (Although, at times, I have serious doubts whether or not 'he/she' is actually human at all and not just a querulous AI chatbot.)
References re your claims would make them have more credence.
Israel needs the Haifa port. It is critical.
The USA has an abundantly productive domestic agriculture.
... which depends on large inputs of fertilizer. Only about 10% of it is imported, but losing this 10% would drive up prices a lot.
No shortage of Bullshit though, where this idiot is holed up
I am quite sure Russia will continue supplying Africa with fertiliser before considering any western beggars who might turn up.
That aside, ANY country that is not self-sufficient is going to suffer food shortages one way or another. Europe is , I suggest, far more vulnerable than you imagine. As for Israel, all the food in the world is not going to help if you don't have water.
Really?
Are we talking about the same Russia that has been supplying the very countries that are bombing Russia 24/7 with everything they need to continue bombing Russia, because, in the immortal words of the Supreme traitor-in-chief, "we get money for it" ("we" meaning the oligarchs around him, the Russian people are not part of that "we", and they only get the bombs on their heads)?
That Russia is sending the fertilizer to whoever binds the highest, and that ain't going to be Africa.
The different Russia that exists in people's minds is not out there in the real world.
Well, we will see, but I cannot imagine Russia simply abandoning all their "reliable partners", those they have repeatedly of late stated they prioritize, and thereby destroying, totally, everything they have been working towards for the last eighty years in Africa and more recently in BRICS. Not to mention stabbing in the back their "loyal and trusted ally", Iran. The damage to their reputation and diplomatic relations would be catastrophic.
They may be mercenary but they are not stupid.
An exemplary comment capturing a combination of ignorance, lack of knowledge, and the emotional disposition of a prick!
Obviously you have no clue on economics.
Good to see that you walked back your lie about the Tripoli. I'm waiting for your next column to walk back your latest as well as previous lies.
Weird comment, nobody is forcing you read these articles, Substack has a variety of authors you can read. Just move on, isn't there enough negativity in the world as it is?
So you can't stand even FACTUAL comments... classic psychotic TDS ... go and have another cry in your tear stained hanky
Dumb Luck is still kvetching about the rabbi that gave him herpes when he bit his foreskin off.
What I wanna know is, did he spit, or swallow?
Hahahaha....
Very valid point. But I like to have a good laugh now and then. Maybe I will lay off Simplesissy for a while.
The Door:>>>>>>>
What "lie about the Tripoli"?
It never left Diego Garcia
Diego Garcia is in the Indian Ocean.
Open source says the Tripoli is in the Arabian Sea.
What's your source?
I was referring to what he said previously. In his previous column Simplesissy said that the Tripoli never left Diego Garcia. Now, he corrects that and acknowledges that it did leave, and yes, it is in the Arabian Sea.
It takes about 3 days to sail from Diego Garcia to the Persian Gulf. I recall the last column I read was 3 days ago.
I checked the day of his column
He did not say that. He quoted Ken Klippenstein and then stated, "It’s unclear how true or untrue that may be".
There is no way that can be construed as a lie.
What lie? Or, could it be, that you simply lied yourself about what Simplicius said?
Ah, classic. Scuttle back to your bar mitzvah, rat.
All you need to know about Simplesissy is there - just look at his record. Russia by now should have occupied Kiev several times, Iran should be bombing Washington, and life if wonderful back in his sponsor nations.
That is not true. No one has been saying anything about how quickly Russia is suppose to get to Kiev for maybe 3 years now when it was finally recognized that Russia was fighting a war of attrition.
What people may have said in 2022 is of little consequence now as we see the strategy was changed dramatically when the SMO effort to bring Ukraine to the bargaining table was sabotaged by Boris Johnson. Russia fell back to defensive positions, built the Surovikin line, then started scaling up its arms industry and the Army.
The claim that Russia should be in Kiev by now is all in your head. (does Gilbert Doctorow reside there?)
Of course what I said was hyperbole. It was based on Simplesissy's reports, like Russia is winning almost every battle and Ukraine is running out of soldiers. My point was that if all that was accurate, Russia should have decisively won the war long ago.
And you are making assumptions that you know better how to run a war than the Russian military. It isn't just "getting to Kiev" that counts. I'm not telling you they should be there or shouldn't be there. I make no judgement on that. I just look at the facts that are presented and try to make sense of it.
Simplicius is hardly the only one reporting on the huge price Ukraine is paying. Drone warfare took some time to get used to. Ritter reported units can only move forward in "3's and 6's". Russian advances in drone counter measures (especially the fly by fiber which Ukraine seems unable to duplicate) and reports of "counter-drone drones" means shifting strategies may allow Russia to be more aggressive. Mercouris reports the Russians are advancing more rapidly -- but that's meaningless.
Hezbollah's use of FPV drones to wipe out entire tank formations pretty much justifies Russia "go slow" approach. But there are dozens of other reason to go slow.
WWI was fought for years over a very narrow stretch of land with huge losses on both sides. Then the tank was deployed and "things changed".
It might depend on the deductive powers of the reader himself, interpretation of what is read resides in the brain of the individual reading the content. It most probably also resides in the processing power of said reader's brain and the ability to remember and string events together over a timespan of years, which, in most cases nowadays, seems a very farfetched phenomenon.
I made different conclusions over the years of reading this specific Substack. I don't always agree with everything that is said. That is why I read other material and compare and make my own deductions from multiple sources about the state of the world.
One other point to remember is that irrespective of what is reported, the reality doesn't change, and unless you are in the middle of it, you will never have access to 100% truth.
I feel Simplicius puts in superb effort to provide us with information.
Having good manners, even when you're hiding behind your keyboard, and even if you think your opinion is the only right one, is kinda important.
I agree 100%. My responses are generated more by reacting to some of the comments. Regarding Simplicious, I agree he puts in a lot of work, and we all have our own preconceptions and personal histories whenever evaluating anonthers statement of opinions and facts.
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I think that we can expect that any possible ground operation would probably resemble the search and destroy operations that the United States conducted during the Vietnam war. We can already see the narrative being constructed in the media for seizing the kharg island and also a potential operation to seize the enriched uranium presumably under the ruble. However, with Iran effectively decommissioning all of the United States bases in the immediate region plus the US media, acknowledging that much most of their soldiers are working remotely. It makes it incredibly questionable as to how long the United States could sustain any ground operation. Regardless of whether its search or destroy or a occupation. One thing I don't see anyone mention is the fact that the United States would have to engage in tunnel warfare. Given how extensively Iran's proxies have used tunnels in their battles, it would be foolish to assume that Iran's defenses of its Islands and its coastal regions do not contain secret tunnels where they could quickly move troops. And pop-up in ambush, any possible US marine. In short, I think that whatever limited ground operation, Trump thinks he can get away with will quickly turn into a bigger debacle. That would require him to deploy more troops in an attempt to gain leverage over the iranians, which he currently does not have
Exactly, the Iranians have outplayed them, they have zero good options. It would be funny if it wasn't for all the death and destruction.
Sometimes you need D&D to get through to jews and their goy stooges.
It’s a suicide mission for our warfighters. They’ll be the fodder for the grinder and manufacture consent for an escalation. It’s gonna be one horror after another, over and over again.
Maybe that's something that has to happen if the "Epstein Class" is ever to be destroyed. Some Colonel, or Lt. Colonel, maybe even a major foments a coup against Trump.
Bruh, no one is coming to save us. We have two options. Exit or submit. The technocratic dystopia with digital ID, social & carbon credit scores and CBDC is coming whether we like it or not. It could be this very event that crashes the dollar and the reset is switched on. It might not be *this time* but it's inevitable. Our government can't sustain the massive debt load, nor can the public. It's over.
Get out of the cities. Now. There's still time. Network, grow your own food, learn skills. Pray.
100%!!!
Just like the horrors “your boys” inflicted on vietnam, Afghanistan, iraq. Zero sympathy for “the boys”. Fuck em
The bluff is to kick the front door down hoping the house of cards will collapse. There is no plan B (due to arrogance snd hubris). Once landed, due to the element of suprise the first 72 hours will be a media success, but Iran will mobilize and respond and the bluff will be eventually called.
After that, US will tuck tail and abandon the middle east and run. Israel will be emptied when the US withdraws. Gulf nations will partner with China.
The US media circus will be destracted with something smaller and less dangerous, eg Cuba.
Optics has always been an important aspect with running mass psyops. Trump wants to present a "win" to the public. He's f'd up everything so bad in this term that he's losing his base, and fast. That's the very thing he was installed to do - led the MAGA crowd to the slaughter.
But maybe, at this point, our luciferian overlords just don't give a fuck about optics. They hold all the cards. The end goal is to utterly crush the middle class and emplace the coming dystopian technocracy. This "war" could be the straw that breaks the camel's (that's us) back.
Or could be just another large nudge towards that end. These folks have mastered the art of slow-boiling the frogs. They've been doing it for generations. Iran might let the troops land and then shut the door on them. Then it might go as you say, with US military forces heading back home. It would be another massive wealth transfer (like COVID-1984) pushing us ever closer to dystopian doom. Even if the "war" were to go full stop immediately, it will take probably six months for us to get back to some semblance of normalcy in the West. Europe and Asia maybe longer. That's if we stop right now.
Or it could drag on and our luciferian overlords simply finish us off (as regards freedom and the lives we had before). Once the fuel rationing starts at the gas pumps, i don't think that will ever stop. It's gonna be a stranglehold on fuels from that point forward.
What we are witnessing isn't unusual. Most Empires go exactly the same way. The internal rot gets so bad that some rival manages to seriously wound the Hegemon in one of its forever wars. Once there is blood in the water the sharks circle for a feeding frenzy. We may be closer to that moment than many appreciate.
It's coming from the inside. Trump is building the Technate Of America.
I talk about that here:
https://baconcommander.substack.com/p/concerning-the-recent-fbi-epstein
You're planning exactly like the Pentagon. You have the will to undertake a land-based adventure, so, by your sheer willpower, everything should go smoothly. Before setting foot in Iran, you need to think about how to get those feet there.
And just as importantly, how to get them out!
One thing at a time; first, they need to set foot on the coast or the island. To get to LA from Boston by car, you first need a car.
"I think that we can expect that any possible ground operation would probably resemble the search and destroy operations that the United States conducted during the Vietnam war."
That's not likely to be a good assumption.
The "search and destroy" missions the US conducted in Vietnam were the tip of the spear--supported by 500,000 IN-COUNTRY troops, massive logistics bases IN-COUNTRY, solid air-superiority IN-COUNTRY, uncontested control of naval access to the entire coast, and thousands of other logistical and administrative/support realities that will be totally lacking for any American forces unlucky enough to be doomed to set foot on Iranian soil.
Absolutely no resemblance.
A likely much better operation analogous to Americans attempting to set foot in Iran would be the valiant German boots-on-the-ground invasion of America's Atlantic coast in WW2.
A German submarine landed the invasion force--8 special forces soldiers in plain clothes--by rubber boat onto a Long Island beach. Kids spotted them, and within hours they were on the run. Within days they were arrested, sent to DC, tried and executed as spies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhAwemOL8Tk
I am going to do a slight reordering of what you yourself wrote, and leave it there:
>Trump’s one final remaining emergency lever will be to massively bomb Iran’s energy infrastructure, a kind of desperate last-ditch hail mary out of spite, the fit of a sadistic sore loser.
>But even this is obviously fraught with great risk because:
>1. It will not accomplish anything, due to Iran’s grid decentralization
>2. It will cause an even bigger headache for the US when Iran responds in kind and lights up the entire region’s critical infrastructure to an even greater degree
===>
>Funny how much the Special Combat Operation is starting to mimic the Special Military Operation.
By name only.
The similarities are there for sure…
Let me rephrase this:
>Putins’s one final remaining emergency lever will be to massively bomb Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, a kind of desperate last-ditch hail mary out of spite, the fit of a desperate loser.
>But even this is obviously fraught with great risk because:
>1. It will not accomplish anything, due to Ukraines’s grid decentralization (and well built USSR redundance and all those dieselgenerators brought in by EU/NATO)
>2. It will cause an even bigger headache for Russia when Ukraine responds in kind and lights up the entire Russias’s critical infrastructure to an even greater degree (than imagined before)
Russian desperate losers? lmao
It was better than ”sadistic”.
What do you call the Russian way of executing the Special Military Operation then?
On the 5th year and taking more losses than ever?
If not desperate…its flegmatic. That is even worse. If you follow RWA you can trace the frustration emerging that I aired already in June 2025 when I said that I would declare the SMO a failure if the summer offensive failed. Which it did.
I have been following RWA since the beginning of the SMO, but they are two guys on X and Telegram, they do not game situations nor do they have strategic overview of things.
I do not want to be rude or anything, but you are some blog commenter, from eastern Germany if I am not mistaken? Does not matter what you declared or declare in the future. To put it mildly.
Russia is in to sort this out for generations and it is not over yet,you cannot possibly judge at this moment if it is a failure.
Ukies started to recruit women again, think about that.
Ooof.
That last video would be hilarious if we weren’t on the verge of global economic collapse and WW3.
But hey … he saved on the pen.
Was that vid fake? If not we're in serious trouble.
'tis real. Just another senior's moment.
Egads! I hoped ‘twas AI.
You should see the recent uncensored video of trump saying how much MBS is kissing his ass. He literally spoke those exact words during the presser. You just can't make it up 😂
That man Trump: ever the wit!
This is exactly why I wished for Trump to be elected. He is destroying what remains of the degenerate state which is the US.
More popcorn please.
The expressions on Rubio's and Hegseth's and even RFK Jr's faces while Trump rambled on about pens had me howling despite the perilous situation...
Clown World, as Alex Christoferou would say.
The nerve of Iran...it was supposed to be a victim, not fighting back like a crazed Rottweiler!
Looks like the American military is going to continue its losing streak......
This is the empire's final hurrah, and the end of the jewish crime cartel.
No unfortunately it won't be. The Jewish ZioNAZI billionaires will still have their trillions of combined wealth, the Jewish banking families will still have their banks and hundreds of trillions. All they lose is some stolen land and control of Levant and Gulf hydrocarbons.
They will move the Andinia Plan in to high gear. And they already are meddling with hydrocarbon rights in Argentinian waters. And buying up Amazonian forests in Agentina.
Millei has passed laws that will allow Jew immigrants access Argie health care and welfare.
Amazonian forests in Agentina??
Yeah/nah LOL, Patagonian. Too many brain cells lost last night.
Well, eight years ago while touring in the Peruvian Amazon fronting Brazil, I came upon a group of "recently demobilized" IDF veterans. I wondered aloud how curious it was to encounter a group of hobbyists carrying surveying equipment in the jungle and was met with some nervous chuckling and cold glances. "Plan Andinia" appears to have a "Plan Amazonia" counterpart near Iquitos, the largest city in the world (IIRC) reachable only by boat or plane. But that's probably a conspiracy theory too.
The plight of putative US-Zionist allies if Don and Bibi's Excellent Adventure goes south as seems to be on the cards is nowhere greater than in Argentina, a nation on the verge of losing its sovereignty to financialization, asset stripping and a government in the service of foreign powers. It's ironic that a US court just ruled that Argentina's constitution carries more weight than a corporate charter and the nationalized petroleum industry does not owe punitive damages to vulture funds based outside its borders while at the same time the government has turned over the management of hydric resources in Patagonia to an Israeli outfit while attempting changes in laws governing foreign "investment" in land cleared of forests by deliberate arson carried out by... Guess who? This while hydric resources held in glaciers are planned to be removed from sovereign protection for the benefit of foreign mining companies. Legislators are all for sale in the country, so...
A nation's sovereignty rests on control of its natural resources: water, arable land, minerals, coastal fishing grounds, riverine transport, etc. The present government wishes to alienate all of these to private concerns so as to pay the onerous--perhaps odious, in legal terms--debt to the IMF, a debt-enabler as evil or more so than the vulture funds of which it is one operating in the disguise of a "benevolent" lender to "developing: nations. The debt should be repudiated and the nation prepared to hunker down to protect its most important resource: its children. Unfortunately, Argentina is very much a carpe diem society with little foresight and less long-term planning, so it's best hope when the smoke clears might be fragmentation into autonomous zones that zealously protect their resources and the talent to best employ them.
Btw, taking any of the islands is an exercise in futility and will lead to all of them soldiers dead.
A more possible route is through the baluchs. It will still be a disaster just not the worst.
True, but that doesn't alleviate the Empires problems. Probably makes them worse as Ansar Allah would no doubt announce a blockade of Bab el Mandeb.
The problem with the Baluch plan and seizing Chabahar is that, while it is easier to take and easier to hold, it is very far from the Iranian heartland - it is surrounded by flat ground that leads into just THREE roads surrounded by mountains.
The problem would be that the Iranians could just contain the marines and Baloch militias around that area. The US would have no ability to "thunder run" into Tehran from there, and it would be a massively expensive and very slow campaign, which would be terrible optics.
Seizing Kharg would be like holding a child hostage, seizing Balochistan would be like holding a car hostage.