The ‘Special Combat Operation’ continues accumulating unbridled triumphs with Trump’s announcement that he had visited upon Iran’s Kharg island a most biblical of retributions.
I think the best way to think of European relations vis a vis the U.S. is akin to that of a spurned lover. The same can be said of the Gulf States and maybe Japan and Korea as well. By setting dynamite to the global economy. blowing off Europe's request for help in the proxy war against Russia, and ignoring the desires of the Gulf States to maintain the status quo in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. has shown everyone that the U.S. has one and only one lover: Israel.
Putin has been wise to proceed cautiously in Ukraine, despite what all the Dr. Strangeloves in these comments think. Everything points toward a European pivot away from the transatlantic alliance and towards a transcontinental alliance of Europe and Asia. As the English bard once wrote, when England was a civilized country, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and Europe is run by women right now: literally and figuratively.
Trump has threatened Europe with tariffs, threatened to invade Greenland, made all sorts of disparaging comments about France and England (however deserved these comments may be), tried to bully Europe into more defense spending, and even threatened to withdraw from NATO. I don't think it is a radical statement to suggest that the Europeans are in no mood to try to help bail Trump out of the mess that he created in the Persian Gulf.
There's logic in your position but there's logic in the opposing position too. Aren't we seeing Europe preparing to grovel back to Russia for oil as the Iran war freezes them out? Putin playing nice is annoying as hell and arguably has had a cost. But ultimately wouldn't it be better for Russia if Europe survives and works with Russia? Zombies next door isn't great for property values... The current crop of losers in the EU "leadership" have "best before" stamps on their... bodies
Iran is not really a natural geo-strategic partner or ally for Russia. I think that it is more correct to state that Russia is best served by not having a regime hostile to its interests in Tehrain. This does not make Iran a Russian ally, however. The current tenuous alliance is more a relic of the Cold War and the current hostile posture of the U.S. toward Russia.
Russian-Turkish relations and the position of Turkey vis a vis Russia is far more important. Historically Russia and Turkey have been rivals, but that is because the objectives of each are similiar. In such cases, long-standing rivals can often become allies.
I guess you haven't heard of the trilateral treaty between Russia, China, and Iran? Nor the belt and road initiative? Nor the international north south corridor? Nor Iran providing Russia with drones and drone technology? Chip
Reasonable, but seems like a six or nine month view. What about 30 months from now? NATO likely history, who knows what chaos the US will be in… US likely weaker and Iran likely stronger, meaning Russia also stronger. It's not like Russia's going to lose, even if they are taking these arguably unnecessary hits. Trump thinks 10 minutes out, maybe Putin's thinking two or three years out, and xi… probably five or 10 years out.
I thought the EU wants the US to concentrate on Russia, not distracted by Iran. If there was no war in Ukraine, the EU would quickly send support for the war against Iran.
The whole of the western press was utilized against Russia... and you seem to keep falling for their narrative spin to think in their terms (what is 'weak' vs 'strong'). Bucha was a false flag massacre, Russians presented proof, but the western press went with the false flag narrative anyways - just an example.
Ukraine had spend the years from 2014 to 2022 building up various levels of fortifications with western help, money and resources. Russia is loathe to sacrifice more men than necessary, so they used their main advantage - which is artillery outpacing western production by light years. So pound pound pound... take their time.. then move forward with minimized losses. The ratio of Ukrainians to Russian dead is like the most lopsided ever in any major war, and we don't even have a proper count of the western 'ex' military folks that have also been KIA in Ukraine.
US bases in the mideast are more obvious sitting ducks, but it still requires precise intel and geospatial data for the Iranians to do what they've done, e.g. hitting 5 refueling tankers at the base in Saudi. Think about the impllied coordination of how those tankers were tracked... and then noted when they landed and parked to refuel... and *boom*, China, Russia and Iran are obviously working hand in hand.. you notice that neither China or Russia is crowing or looking to take credit? That's what real allies are like... they help where they can... and quietly, so that the enemy continues to sleepwalk into traps.
A number of countries are realizing that in order to stay relatively safe they will have to invest in nuclear weapons. That is another horrific fact of this war. It's been working for North Korea, so far.
It's definitely a possibility - why have them, ( assuming they exist ) when you can simply pretend to have them?
Either way, the idea is "Use it or lose it," and as they haven't been dusted off and repainted for many's the long year now, it is somewhat unlikely that they would still work as advertised.
Much of the world we think we live in is simply a CIA creation, in any case.
Wm Casey said that when everything the American people believe is false, then the CIA's work would be finished.
Please. Let's not forget, in all fairness, that at least some Americans are fair representatives of the human species. Some. However...
There's always Pete Hegseth. Who should never be looked in the face. Because his attempts to appear manly make him look like a puff adder with constipation.
"Nazi supporting" LOL You few communists who support Russia because you think it's still the Soviet Union are hilarious. Always lying. Meanwhile your fellow communists call Putin a "nazi" and "Hitler" for banning homosexual propaganda, the main project of you leftists, and for opposing mass immigration of your fellow non-Whites to the West.
Ukraine is run by a JEW who was installed by a JEWISH billionaire, and he is allied with Israel. The Jew got his funding and arms from the Jew-loyal leftist Biden, who is completely anti-White, reveling in flooding White nations with non-White immigrants, criminals like you.
The anti-Russian operation was run by the leftist Jew Victoria Nuland under both Obongo and Biden.
Biden was funded by Jews and surrounded by Jews in his administration. With Ukrainian rebuilding contracts handed to his close leftist Jew ally Larry Fink who runs BlackRock, and whose operatives was all over his administraiton.
Russia is a "capitalist" country, a market economy run by a conservative party. Sad for you. Putin has said Ukraine is run by Israel. Putin openly opposes the flooding of the West by non-Whites like you.
So what do you got? The Azov Battalion - you keep using that one, it's your only card, poor little leftist. Except they answer to a JEWISH president, their leaders having sold out long ago. With no representation in the parliament that is run by the Jew's party.
And they attack the pro-White Russia, which is the "nazi" country to all your fellow communists.
But keep lying, little leftist! If you didn't lie and tell the exact opposite of the truth you wouldn't be a leftist. LOL
> "Nazi supporting" LOL You few communists who support Russia
1. Swastikas, Hitler-tatooes, Azov's 'white superior race', untermenchen is Nazi ideology. Those who refuse to see will not see.
2. Ukraine will be judged, punished and denazified for it.
3. Europe, who supported them, will get its due down the road. Don't even doubt that. It's a promise.
4. USSR lost 27 mln people to Nazism and now Russia suffers from fresh infestation on our borders. Westies will never understand what it's like to be a target of Nazis.
In short, the whole "Cold War" was designed to continue the "fear" that had worked so well for the owners.
"Nuclear weapons" were only useful if...they were never used. So a contrived "dichotomy" needed to be created. Hence, the Soviets had to "get the bomb."
In this way, a continual, virtually limitless source of both power and lucre would flow (the total was five trillion at the time Mullins wrote the book, the total would be much higher now).
The problem is, this "nuclear club" (and such things as "MAD") only works to continue the hornswoggle if the "actors" are "willing participants" in the hoax, and also "big states."
Clearly (as Nakatani mentions in his book), "MAD" has exactly zero effect if a "non-state actor" (say, a religious extremist group) acquired a "bomb," since "MAD" would have no effect on those that don't fear death.
Fast forward to today. 80 plus years on and:
1. No nuclear weapons ever used or tested (all the tests have been either conventional explosions, or special effects)
2. No nuclear weapon explosive accidents (with over 40,000 having been created over the past 8 decades, there is exactly zero chance of a "perfect safety record")
3. No nuclear weapons used in situations that would have (if not necessarily morally) been tactically, strategically, and politically justified (see Korea, 1951)
4. We are told that "nuclear weapons" are somehow technologically advanced, but they were built with 1930's technology and less total computing power than in an average Texas Instruments graphing calculator. Countries like Iran have hypersonics (something that the "collective West" hasn't figured out yet). Specious.
This is just a short list of the "observables." The actual "physics" is shut down with a much longer litany of impossibilities. The biggest though, is compressibility of metals (or rather, the lack thereof).
To all the wags insisting nuclear weapons exist, please show me an example of "double density steel" that was "explosively densified" to prove your point. I'll wait.
The Russians finally started doing what I had theorized they would/should do almost 13 years ago, which is to re-purpose otherwise useless missiles as "kinetic hypersonic weapons." Cue the Oreshnik.
It is interested to read the comments to this post, and see that they fall roughly into two categories: those that are able to accept new information, and the possibility that they have been lied to, and those that are losing their minds defending what is now an indefensible position.
The latter are more than welcome to keep doing so, but my guess is they haven't read the book, or have a vested interest in continuing the deception (for whatever reason/motive).
I am a skeptic in all things and would be much happier if Nuclear weapons don't exist . However (like the moon landing) the majority of the evidence including the destruction of Japanese cities and the test sites (and the continuing use of nuclear reactors) make for me a compelling case . Is I stated , I would love to be wrong .
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were firebombed. Even the chief BDA expert for the Air Force concluded that:
" I was keyed up for my first view of an atom-bombed city, prepared for the radically new sights suggested by the exciting descriptions I had read and heard. But to my utter astonishment, Hiroshima from the air looked exactly like all the other burned-out cities I had observed!
Within an area defined by black, undestroyed houses there was the familiar pink carpet,5 about two miles in diameter. What is more, precisely as in Yokohama, Osaka, or Kobe, it was dotted with buildings still standing erect, with charred trees, poles, and other objects. All but one of the steel and concrete bridges were intact. A cluster of modern concrete buildings in the downtown section stood upright and seemingly undamaged. …
I had heard about buildings instantly consumed by unprecedented heat. Yet here were buildings structurally intact, with outside and stone facings in place. What is more, I found them topped by undamaged flag poles, lightning rods, painted railings, air-raid sirens, and other fragile objects. Clearly they had weathered the blast and somehow escaped the infernal heat, as well as the alleged super-hurricane thousand-mile-an-hour wind.
For two days I examined Hiroshima. I drove to T Bridge, which had been the aiming point for the atomic bomb. In its environs I looked for the bald spot where everything presumably had been vaporized or boiled to dust in the twinkling of an eye. It wasn’t there or anywhere else in the city. I searched for other traces of phenomena that could reasonably be tagged “unusual.” I couldn’t find them."
So no, the evidence is ample, and the Nuclear Emperor has no clothes. You are welcome to believe in things that meet -your- criteria for belief, but big claims (nukes exist) require big proofs (like, detonating an actual device).
I congratulate you on your successful reading of one book, all the the more so that it must be an extraordinarily interesting book, proving the inexistence of nuclear bombs.
I appreciate that he builds on the evidence provided by Nakatani, and provides some potential answers to a few of the second-order questions, "why" and "how" was this done?
The potential use of a blistering agent (mustard gas) was a missing piece, and a brilliant supposition (which fits with the inhuman evil of the culprits).
It must be stated, for all of those gnashing their teeth and trying to protect this sinking ship: science cannot prove, it can only disprove. The disproof stands unless it is refuted, in detail.
So far, ad-hominems and spittle are all that I have seen. Carry on!
He would have a difficult time convincing my uncle of that, who was forced to watch a nuclear test from Bikini Atoll, or the islanders who had to leave their former paradise because the land and sea were poisoned by radiation.
Back in 1968, at a party in London, I was introduced to a guy from MI6. He had returned from Jordan. He took a small plane and they went over Demona taking photos. The British at that time knew very well what the Israelis were planning.
They cooperated with South Africa to test their weapon.
The only thing surprising about your post is that there are four people who are so badly educated that they "liked" it.
Every now and then I look into what totally clueless people write. I don't know why I do that, because when you can see from a mile away the signs of people who seem to combine terrible educations with delusional thinking, so why expect anything but nonsense from them? But still, I suppose it's like visiting an insane asylum just to see with your own eyes the mental-pathology porn on display there.
I took a look at that link. You don't have to read very far into it to get to this: "There is a calm eye in this storm - the fact that nuclear weapons don’t work, don’t exist. This book explores the claim that nuclear weapons do not function, they are a large-scale hoax. I call this hoax the Fake Nuke Feint."
Alas, nuclear weapons do work, and they do so as a consequence of very basic science, sure as shootin' science, no doubt about it science, science just as certain as one plus one equals two in basic arithmetic.
I don't know who the guy is who wrote that book, but I don't need to know who he is to know the thesis of his book is totally, wildly wrong, just as wrong as the guy who gave me a ride once when I was a teenager and got a flat tire and my spare was flat as well and who seemed like a perfectly normal person until he started earnestly telling why the Earth was flat and not round.
I'm not even going to criticize the author for being an imbecile, because, it could be, he's a smart guy who has realized that he can make money writing books and posting stuff that people with really awful educations will buy, share, donate to and so on. He won't be the first smart, but shifty, guy to come up with a scam based on catering to the yearnings of the badly educated and easily fooled.
Erich von D. wrote nice books that gave us some excitement and hope that there are others powerful and benevolent civilizations. It was part of my growing up. it was also instrumental in me seeing first hand that majority of people from whatever camp do not think but believe. Nature did not give me much of that but I also assume (I know I know) that certain things are at least satisfying models of reality that make our daily life possible. Whether they are really describing reality is another matter. And as long as the humanity cannot identify all flying objects then the UFO or whatever they are called now exist. Not necessarily as a saucers but as objects which existence is difficult to explain. Whether any civilization can master interstellar travel is with our current knowledge impossible to say.
As for the subject of nukes - for all we know they did exist. Whether the ones we have work is another matter. There have been batches of other munitions delivered to Ukraine that had a massive failure rate. It is my understanding that the nukes main explosive material decays and need to be maintained in working shape. It is also my understanding that the electronics and other components had to fulfill very specific requirements and need constant maintenance too. Still in the worst case we have dirty bombs. So there is that.
We will find out anyway when the nuclear fireworks start. The way the little land and its major sponsor behave we will see it rather sooner than later.
I know you mean well, so let's think critically together.
"Whether the ones we have work is another matter." That's true. It's also why, just counting nuclear weapons produced and exploded by the US and USSR/Russia there have been over 70,000 nuclear explosives (warheads of various kinds for missiles and torpedos, bombs, demolition packages, experimental physics packages, etc.) produced and roughly 2,100 of them have been exploded to make sure they work. Add tests by the UK (45), France (210), China (45), India (6), Pakistan (6) and North Korea (6) and you get over 2,400. Those are rough numbers given that all nuclear tests haven't been reported, there's some gray areas as to what to count as a test (like a one point safety test that's not intended to generate a nuclear yield) and so on, but the numbers above are real, minimum numbers that are well documented by seismic records and so on.
All that testing has been going on for over 80 years, and trillions of dollars (in 2026 dollars) have been spent to make sure they work. About 530 of those explosions have been in the open atmosphere, many having occurred in locations now open to the public. The location of the very first shot in Alamagordo is opened to the public once a year (or used to be... don't know if they still do that...) but otherwise is protected to prevent people from scavaging trinitite there, the artificial rock that was created from the sand when the fireball from the very first shot superheated and pressurized the ground. As I write this I'm looking at the sample of trinitite I have on a bookshelf, a sample obtained legally many years ago when it was still possible to collect trinitite souvenirs. I also have samples from the equivalent Soviet artificial mineral, collected from the location of the first Soviet shot
The Earth is literally littered with massive amounts of incontrovertible evidence that nukes work, that they work very reliably and very well, and that staggering amounts of money and effort have been spent on continuous efforts for many, many years to ensure that current nuclear arsenals will, without doubt, continue to work very reliably and very well.
By the way, the evidence is around for anybody with a sound mind to examine for themselves, whether it is a visit to the South Pacific to see the stupendous craters left by many megaton open air detonations or whether it is to personally analyze the radioactive debris left by those explosions using equipment any sufficiently intelligent hobbyist can cobble up. In fact, it is interesting to note the public first learned that supposedly "inert" U238 contributed a significant part of the yield of the Alamagordo and Nagasaki as a result of analysis done on trinitite from Alamagordo by hobbyists.
"There have been batches of other munitions delivered to Ukraine that had a massive failure rate."
Whether or not munitions delivered to Ukraine have failure rates have nothing to do with the failure rates of weapons in the US's or Russia's nuclear arsenals. Conventional munitions like artillery shells do not cost a million dollars each and they are not subject to trillion-dollar quality assurance programs to ensure that they can be kept in storage for years and then will work with 98+ percent reliability. They are also not a matter of life and death for the countries that manufactured them, and the incentives for providing them to Ukraine do not include giving a shit about quality. In fact, the opposite is the case: many suppliers of weapons to Ukraine have prioritized virtue signalling and the looting of common budgets, not quality assurance. They've leaped at the chance to dump obsolete and no longer reliable munitions on Ukraine, avoiding the high cost of storing them, while clearing inventories to make way for re-supply of fresh stocks.
"It is my understanding that the nukes main explosive material decays and need to be maintained in working shape."
You need to become more acquainted with the basics of nuclear weapons, so you can sharpen sentences like the above to more accurately convey the thought. "Main explosive material" is a very fuzzy term. Do you mean the conventional explosives which are used to compress the primary's core to supercriticality? Do you mean the fissile material used in the primary's core? Do you mean the tritium-deuterium mixture used to boost the primary's core to enable a significant nuclear yield? Or do you mean degradation of the lithium-deuterium solid fuel in a weapon's secondary?
Neither plutonium nor uranium enriched to weapons grade "decays". Early production sometimes had problems with corrosion (literally, the material "rusting" in effect) of cores due to poor choices of plating materials, the corrosion possibly becoming severe enough to slightly reduce yield. But all that was identified by the trillion-dollar continuing quality assurance measures many decades ago. For many decades the physics packages of modern warheads have been designed as sealed units, sealed in hermetically-closed packages with higher pressure inside and inert gases, to ensure no corrosion. They also plate the key materials, like plutonium, with gold. That makes for a very beautiful pit.
With over 70,000 nuclear explosives manufactured to date, over the years they've had occasional problems with the conventional high explosives used deteriorating in unexpected ways. That's led to some costly retrofits. Again, for over 30 years they've used only highly stable explosives in almost all devices, with only a few retaining less stable (but with extra kick) explosives that have limited service lives. Those limited service life components get switched out regularly.
The boost gas bottles also get switched out regularly to ensure the tritium-deuterium mix has enough tritium in it to do the job (tritium has only a 12 year half life) without buildup of neutron-robbing helium. All routine and part of the regularly scheduled maintenance of nukes in active service.
Of the many other components that go into a nuke, from batteries to the fusion fuel, that may have a limited life, well, to deal with such routine stockpile issues is exactly why nuclear weapons states spend so many hundreds of billions and ultimately trillions on designing, building, testing, and maintaining devices that have very long service lives with minimized or simplified maintenance. They're designed and built at huge cost so they do *not* require "constant maintenance".
To take just one simple example, the tritium bottles for boost gas are stored outside the hermetically sealed physics package in modern warheads with an access panel in the re-entry vehicle base or bomb case that makes it easy to swap out the tritium bottle for a fresh one every few years. The boost gas system also includes helium scavenging so it doesn't have to be maintained constantly to remove helium from tritium decay.
In another example, nukes use thermal batteries that can sit around nearly forever without needing to be maintained or charged. A thermal battery is activated when a small pyroelectric charge is set off, causing the battery to ignite which liquifies/activates the electrolyte to energize the battery, so for the required time, a few minutes or whatever, it can provide the electric power required to run the warhead's fuses and other electronics and, ultimately, to fire the detonators that explode within the physics package.
The bottom line is that talk among amateurs that nukes might not work is very, very wrong. They'll work alright, with total failures counting everything in the launch, delivery, and explosion pipeline adding up to less than 2% failures, meaning 98% of them will indeed explode on target.
John, me and the boys have been working, in the basement, on a delivery system for our recently developed nuke and are just now tweaking the final details. Should be ready by Easter...
What I find interesting is the smugness that often accompanies writers like these, as if it is a foregone conclusion that they are correct. I recall a website I read many years ago, stating factually that the "Government" had created a race of super soldiers by cross breeding the Yeti in Afghanistan with humans, who were secretly operating there. There literally dozens of pages of evidence, written quite convincingly.
Entire books on the internet are written this way. It must be gratifying for them to be able to write from their perspective of mental illness, knowing there are no consequences, and if there are they will just keep doubling down. I mean, just look at CBC, ABC, BBC, CNN, FOX, etc.
"Show me a peer-reviewed paper on explosively densified metals. Any metal at all will do."
There are thousands of them. Read through the bibliography given in "A Technical History of America's Nuclear Weapons" by Peter A. Goetz. He has a very comprehensive bibliography of declassified US government documents such as technical reports from Los Alamos and Livermore weapons labs, Sandia reports, environmental impact statements (!) published by the US government and so on.
In fact, any university text book that covers equations of state will describe precisely the increase in density you get with a shockwave moving through solids, like metals. Doh.
What you write about Heisenberg is pure nonsense. Heisenberg was a key member of Nazi Germany's effort to build an atomic bomb. He gave up on that not because he didn't perfectly and totally understand that atomic bombs could be built, but that he didn't want to see Germany commit the effort and "120,000 men" he thought such a huge effort would require.
As the Wikipedia article on Heisenberg correctly notes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg ) Heisenberg in detention in the UK after Germany's collapse was skeptical the US had actually built a bomb because he doubted the US would have committed the huge resources required at the time. He also made a simple error in his calculation of the critical mass required, which apparently was the result of a quick, back of the envelope calculation. No less a nuclear luminary than Dr. Strangelove himself, Edward Teller, remarked on reviewing Heisenberg's notes that it was a common error at the time and that Teller himself had made the same error.
So no, saying Heisenberg did not "believe" nuclear weapons were real is a complete and total lie, the sort of lie absolutely ignorant people tell each other but which those who have a basic physics education know are not only lies, but really stupid lies.
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I can't resist adding to the above, that Heisenberg's detention by the UK at a time when the UK was *hanging* former Nazis colored everything he said and did in detention. While you could make a case that the UK was unlikely to actually hang Heisenberg (after all, the US gave von Braun a pass for being a Nazi with thousands of prisoners killed building the facilities he used for his rocket experiments), knowing that people you've known and worked with are being hanged tends to have a strong effect.
There's no doubt now and there was no doubt at the time that Heisenberg was up to his neck in the Nazi atomic bomb project as a key player. He had a massive incentive to downplay his role in the bomb project and to downplay the project itself, and to use every bit of his formidable intelligence in doing so.
Some people have speculated that Heisenberg knew perfectly well that his off the cuff comments in the UK were wrong, but that he deliberately wrote those notes and comments so that a very smart person (like Teller) reviewing them would conclude that they indicated either the Nazi bomb project had never really got going or that Heisenberg had never really done any serious work on it, or possibly both. In other words, he planted evidence to show that he shouldn't be hanged for being a Nazi who had tried to develop a mass murder weapon.
Besides the incongruity of somebody as intensely smart as Heisenberg making such a simple mistake (Teller's narcissism was such he couldn't contemplate the reality that Heisenberg was much smarter than him so he was glad to be able to say somebody of Heisenberg's caliber had made the same mistake that he, Teller, had made), there is the circumstantial evidence that before and after his sojourn in the UK Heisenberg showed clear and very deep mastery of nuclear physics.
It's one of those interesting "history of science" deals, but what it definitely does *not* indicate is any belief by Heisenberg that nuclear weapons were fakes.
928 nuclear tests...I guess they wanted to double check their work.
Thanks for the JerryJoseph Jack Mormon link-absolutely tip-top. Bookmarked.
My son worked with Mormons in Alaska and knew many "Jack (lapsed) Mormons". He had some stories. I tried selling my wife on joining their tribe, based on the multiple wives benefit. She was okay with the magic underwear part of my sale but the "sister wives" part of my sales pitch was a non-starter.
'But every day that goes by, every year that goes by, with exactly -zero- nuclear weapons used (ever), drives another nail into the coffin of "newks."'
Just as every day that goes by without an asteroid crashing into the Earth proves that no asteroids exist.
Why would anyone doubt nuclear power plants? Their existence and function are a strong factor in -why- explosive nuclear reactions cannot exist.
There is an interesting dichotomy inherent in nuclear vs. chemical processes. They do not scale in the same way.
I call this the "campfire/TNT equivalency fallacy."
In chemical processes, a campfire releases energy slowly, producing useful light and heat. A stick of TNT can release a similar amount of energy all at once, in the form of high velocity gas.
These are both chemical processes.
The "nuke hoax" exploits people's ignorance about the massive difference between chemical and nuclear phenomena.
A nuclear power plant uses a fuel source (typically U-238) along with a "moderator" (in the early days, consisting of graphite bricks, later water, and today usually a mixture of water and boron alloys). The moderator acts to control the nuclear chain reaction by slowing fast neutrons (interestingly enough, it is counterintuitive to most people that fast neutrons are very poor at initiating nuclear chain reactions). A reaction requires enough slow neutrons interacting with nuclei to trigger the chain reaction.
Alleged "nuclear weapons" do not have moderators. Hence, no capability of initiating a chain reaction.
Hopefully this is useful. I am certain it is more useful than the verbal diarrhea from Privates Billy.
I never know when reading ultracrepidarian blatherskite "nukes are a psyop" genre comments. Are you (fairly lame) trolls or just people who went to a US public school after the Reagan administration destroyed those?
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It's not real if you couldn't see it? I've seen some ground signatures with my own two eyes.
I personally have seen the Storax Sedan crater on a Nevada test site tour, they wouldn't let us bring cameras on that tour but it was IMPRESSIVE. I took a dive trip that visited Bikini Atoll back when they would let live aboard sport diver tourists go there, that's more about the sunken ships they used for damage assessment.
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No matter, the solution for a blockhead is a block.
@Totality451. They do exist. If one gets used, it's not Hiroshima, it is Hiroshima x 500, which means if one Sarmat 28 gets used, the UK will be gone.
With great destructive power comes great responsibilty.
There is another concurrent issue, that if one gets used the chances are very large that there will be an all out exchange, so about 8000 such explosions.
What happens then, is all the satellites we have flying in the sky will come tumbling down or worse case start burning in low earth orbit.
That is why even small dial-able strategic nukes don't get fired, because it can lead to the real END.
I believe that -you- believe that, for whatever reason.
But no, there's still a 0.00% chance that will happen.
Can you (and this goes for all the "newk defenders" tripping over themselves to try to blackwash Nakatani) focus on refuting his material instead of making grand expository rants about -your beliefs,- which are divorced from logic?
All good, I will just concentrate on physics, chemistry and a rather wide and indepth material science knowledge. It has worked pretty well throughout my life to explain, produce and understand stuff. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones to receive a superb education and being able to put it to use.
You can do, feel and believe anything you want ‘newk denier’.
Though usually if someone is able to master adjacent fields, it provides them with the ability to assimilate new information. So don't sell yourself short, I suggest you keep studying.
Here's an excellent follow-on work by an MD that dives deeper into the specifics of the Hiroshima hoax:
I appreciate that he references the soil and radiation survey, and shows that what small amounts of Uranium were found, were in the wrong ratios to indicate a bomb. In fact, it lends more weight to the "dirty bomb" fork, which would make sense. The "preview test shot" at Trinity was acknowledged as 108 long-tons of TNT laced with radioisotopes, so there is existing precedent just within the "Manahatto Project" itself.
Also, I remind you of the eyewitness testimony of Alexandr P. Seversky, the BDA (bomb damage assessment) expert brought in by the Air Force after the attacks:
"After visiting the major areas of the Pacific, I arrived in Japan. I began the study to which I had been assigned by making an aerial tour of the islands of Honshu and Kyushu, which encompass the main portion of industrial Japan. I flew over Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Akashi, and dozens of other towns and cities which had been subject to intensive air attack. Some of these towns are so close together that they seem almost continuous industrial sites.
All of these areas of annihilation presented approximately the same visual pattern. The smaller towns were totally burned out. Seen from above the prevailing color was pinkish — the effect produced by the piles of ashes and rubble mixed with rusted metal. Similar pinkish carpets were spread out in the larger cities, except that among them stood large and small modern concrete buildings and factory structure, unscathed bridges, and other objects that had withstood the impact. Many of the buildings, of course, were gutted by fire, but this was not apparent from the air.
I was keyed up for my first view of an atom-bombed city, prepared for the radically new sights suggested by the exciting descriptions I had read and heard. But to my utter astonishment, Hiroshima from the air looked exactly like all the other burned-out cities I had observed!
There was a familiar pink blot, about two miles in diameter. It was dotted with charred trees and telephone poles. Only one of the city’s twenty bridges was down. Hiroshima’s clusters of modern buildings in the downtown section stood upright. It was obvious that the blast could not have been so powerful as we had been led to believe. It was extensive blast rather than intensive. I had heard of buildings instantly consumed by unprecedented heat. Yet here I saw the buildings structurally intact, and what is more, topped by undamaged flag poles, lightning rods, painted railings, air raid precaution signs and other comparatively fragile objects.
At the T-bridge, the aiming point for the atomic bomb, I looked for the “bald spot” where everything presumably had been vaporized in the twinkling of an eye. It wasn’t there or anywhere else. I could find no traces of unusual phenomena. What I did see was in substance a replica of Yokohama or Osaka, or the Tokyo suburbs - the familiar residue of an area of wood and brick houses razed by uncontrollable fire. Everywhere I saw the trunks of charred and leafless trees, burned and unburned chunks of wood. The fire had been intense enough to bend and twist steel girders and to melt glass until it ran like lava - just as in other Japanese cities.
The concrete buildings nearest to the center of explosion, some only a few blocks from the heart of the atom blast, showed no structural damage. Even cornices, canopies and delicate exterior decorations were intact. Window glass was shattered, of course, but single-panel frames held firm; only window frames of two or more panels were bent and buckled. The blast impact therefore could not have been unusual."
“How many times have I said that trickery is the way of war? Is that really such a radical and controversial notion? This has been known since the Trojan Horse. The great Chinese general Zhu Geliang (181-234 CE) was celebrated for baffling the enemy with his infinite tricks and scams. The world has been at continuous war since the middle of the last century with no end in sight. Though I deplore the inhumanity and waste of it all, deep down I’d frankly be a little disappointed if the leaders and ‘powers that be’ were not creative and energetic enough to come up with some really good scams from time to time, like this nuclear thing. But now maybe enough is enough.”
What about them? Nobody is disputing that explosions happened. But this was right after WW2, and there was, shall we say, quite a bit of -spare- and no longer required ordnance laying around.
Man, that is so *intensely* wrong on so many levels. To get it that wrong you can't know anything about WW2, the explosives used in that war, or, for that matter, the physical reality of test sites like Enewetak atoll.
The Ivy Mike shot, the world's first two-stage, radiation imploded thermonuclear shot generated a yield of over 10 megatons of explosive force. That's four to five times *more* explosive power than *all* of the conventional explosives dropped by all sides in World War II (roughly 2–3 million tons of TNT).
That shot, not even the biggest nuclear shot ever, vaporized the islet of Elugelab and left a crater. Anybody with an IQ over 40 can hop on google and use search terms like "enewetak atoll craters" and then click the "Images" to see the various huge craters left on that atoll from tests. The Wikipedia entry on Elugelab at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elugelab has before and after shots that show where the vaporized islet used to be. For that matter, use search terms like "aerial view of nevada test site showing craters" and click on Images to see the hundreds of subsidence craters at the Nevada test site.
There is nothing, no non-nuclear explosive, that can create such enormous craters or the underground cavities, chimneys, and resulting subsidence craters that dot the Test Site. Anybody with even an elementary knowledge of geology knows that.
The world is full of absolutely incontrovertible evidence that nuclear weapons exist and have exploded over 2,400 times with about 530 of those explosions in the open atmosphere. Anybody with a bit of spare time and cash can go visit some of those locations where open air locations have happened. Semipalatinsk (now in Kazakhstan) is easy to tour. There were 116 open air shots at that site with 30 of those surface or near-surface bursts
Although you're not supposed to do it, many of the tourists that visit the Semipalatinsk test site collect souvenir pieces of the artificial rocks created by the surface blasts. As I mentioned in another post, I have one of those pieces, collected when it was still legal to do so. Those rocks and other debris from the Semipalatinsk site contain a vast array of radionuclides created by the nuclear explosions that occurred. Nothing in nature or artifice other than a nuclear explosion creates the particular mix of isotopes in such samples that a nuclear explosion does. You can't fake it by cooking samples in a nuclear reactor, because the neutron flux you get with a reactor doesn't all arrive at the necessary intensity and energy levels in a few microseconds like you get with a nuclear blast. That timing is essential to breed a cascade of isotopes from some of the extremely short lived isotopes first created. Spread out the neutron flux in time or energy and you get a completely different mix of isotopes.
It turns out that instruments which can measure radiation spectra from bomb debris to see what went on in the nuclear explosion aren't so hard to cobble up. It's been done since shortly after the very first blast. Herbert L. Anderson (a colleague of Fermi) and his team took samples of trinitite and soil from the Alamogordo crater to see the relative contributions of fission in plutonium and in the u238 tamper to the total 21 kt yield.
Later in 1995 a paper published in American Journal of Physics showed that a straightforward gamma-ray analysis of a small piece of trinitite could accurately determine the Trinity device's yield and reveal the "secret" physics of how the u238 tamper contributed to the device's yield. Almost 31% of the device's yield came from u238, with just under 70% coming from plutonium.
Since then many amateurs have been using home-brew equipment to replicate the 1995 paper's findings, and to extend the art to analyzing nuclear explosion debris from other sites.
There's also a pretty big "Gamma Spectrometry" community out there online, with groups like GammaSpectrometry.groups.io. Members frequently share spectra of Trinitite samples they’ve purchased, often discussing how the ratio of isotopes confirms the use of a natural uranium tamper and its contribution to the yield.
Bottom line, if you're not a truly badly educated, stupid, and gullible fool, the world is full of absolutely incontrovertible evidence that you yourself can collect and use to prove that nuclear weapons are very real. In fact, you can not only prove that nuclear weapons are very real, you can even do some very useful "citizen scientist" work to pull back a bit some of the classification curtains and learn for yourself some formerly classified details about some of the devices that have been exploded.
Aside from the big glaring problem with the steel support tower being unmelted (solidus and liquidus transition temperatures being very similar for steel and glass), there's exactly no evidence of soil vitrification.
I'm not doubting there's a group looking at the Trinitite tektites. They are fascinating. But they did not originate due to any "bombs." Tektites (aerodynamically vitrified micro-bolides) can be found all over the Mojave desert. I know, I have found dozens of them. They all pop a Geiger counter to a greater or lesser degree.
Visual evidence (low temperatures at the blast site) definitively rules out any vitrification at Trinity (since if it is hot enough to vitrify the soil, it is hot enough to liquify steel). Again, I'm really looking forward to how you are going to try to explain that.
And you are really going to bring the Bikini song and dance into this? You are a glutton for punishment.
To reiterate, nothing regarding the craters on the seabed can -only- be explained by the use of "nukes."
And I can almost feel the spittle flying from your unhinged retorts.
Calm down, before you do yourself an injury.
See my response above re: "Operation Big Bang" (the destruction of Heligoland using conventional explosives). Linky here because you are clearly lazy:
Based on the size of the craters, I calculate that less than 2.2kt of explosives would have been required. And since most of the vessels sunk at Bikini were warships, it would have made sense to have them "bring their own party favors." Also an excellent way to be rid of surplus or unstable munitions. Win-win-win.
It's a good thing you aren't a detective, you would be the worst detective since Clouseau.
And it's clear that this has really gotten you excitable and all in a tizzy.
You keep swearing up and down about the existence of all this "proof," but the only thing you are succeeding at is providing more opportunities to show evidence that they don't exist.
You are a classic "educated beyond your capacity to think logically and rationally" case.
Perhaps dial down the rhetoric, and work on your grammar and logic?
I read a sci-fi novel in the sixties about a post-apocalypse world in which every small city had their own nukes, and could drop one from a helicopter. Thesis was, it kept little cities from getting too big, too rich, too advanced to suit their neighbors. Didn't stop isolated drops, but there was no mechanism for escalation at scale.
Many alt media sites and their commentors continue to imply that if Trump does withdraw, the war will be over - as if the end of the war is in his hands. They continue to say that Iran will be open to a negotiated end as soon as the child-killing USrael withdraws or stops fighting. This is, from Iran's view, mistaken, as they have repeatedly indicated that the war's end is in their hands, not anyone else's and that it will continue until Iran feels the enemies have been punished enough.
I believe that explicitly means that the US is pushed out of West Asia, all its bases destroyed or permanently disabled, all West Asian financial dependencies on USreal are broken, the child-killing Palestine occupation regime is disarmed and dismantled and a new one-state solution is made possible where all religions can live in peace together with equal rights for all.
You should listen to better media. I recommend Glenn Diesen. His show is excellent as are his guests. I have it on in the background most of the day. You can get most of his interviews on Youtube still: though I am not sure how much longer that will be the case, since he defies the U.S., EU, and Israeli censors.
There is no possibility whatsoever that the regime you mention will ever be able to live in harmony with the goyim,. whom they consider to be animals disguised as men so as better to serve them.
Khazarael is an ethnosupremacist state of the ultimate worst kind, and there can only ever be temporary accommodations with it - left unchecked and emancipated, it will always begin to grow a new head, whose only thought is the destruction of those goyim.
You are likely correct as long before the zionist ideology came into being, these chosen ones were thrown out of virtually every country they moved into and even when thrown out found ways to return and disrupt again (usually through usury, bribes and deception). I can understand a people self-identifying as victims if they are thrown out of a country, but out of virtually every country over a period of thousands of years? Come on, man!
It is the highest proportion of Neanderthal DNA on this planet that drives them which they are carefully trying to hide since the beginning of times. Practically the whole of the planet was tested for this (including the Sub-Saharan Black population) except the cosmopolitan gang.
Those who are Christians understand the essence of this situation; the jew is "Of his father the devil," as the Creator stated, long before the concept of "hate speech" was introduced by them so as to shackle the minds of the goyim, thus limiting their ability to "notice."
Cain was their first iteration, and probably even non-Christians know what he did.
They may not really have a choice -- if they have nothing else to shoot. Should that occur, of course they could continue like Hezbollah who persist despite having only a fraction of the resources that Iran does. I'd consider that more of an ongoing terrorist (or freedom fighter depending on your point of view) action rather than a war. I'm not saying they will run out of offensive weapons, merely that that is one possibility for the war ending.
this can change and as much as I would like them to punch the noses of Donnie the Magnificent and mad Bibi bloody I also understand that any regime may cease to exist if the populations stops supporting it because it has nothing to eat and now water to drink. That is what apparently is happening in Cuba now and that is what broke the neck of the Assad regime. OTOH you may be right that they may be smarter than the Russians in that they attack the bases from they are being attacked. Russians did not - they even let the attacks on their nuclear infra go unpunished as they let the US military unpunished lead the attacking Ukrainian drones and cruise missiles reach the ships on the black sea.
In any case their view on this may change at some point. Taking the statements of the government at face value is naive whatever the government you listen to is.
The Iranian people will not allow them to stop. Have you seen what the public is saying each night when they come out on to the streets? They want the Zionist threat gone. For ever.
As for face value it would be foolish to think they are bluffing or underestimate them (as the Zionist sub-human animals did). China and Russia are behind them and want the same result.
That's my understanding of Iran's position and I believe there is a good chance they'll continue to hold that position barring unforeseen developments that threaten their very existence. It's not called an "existential war" for nothng. As to the possibility of a "one-state solution...", I have my doubts that such an outcome is possible even if Iran were victorious and wished it so. The enmity between the descendants of the pre-Balfour Declaration original inhabitants of Palestine and the post-WWII Khazari occupiers is a gulf too wide and too irreconcilably deep to allow for a single state; the Gaza genocide proved that to my chagrined satisfaction.
Iran won't get nuclear weapons. It would do them no good, as they could still be attacked - they wouldn't use the nukes, just like Israel isn't using nukes in this war.
Also, nukes have to be delivered, and you better be sure that you can deliver them with 100 percent certainty. Iran can't do that. Not to mention that they would of course be hit right back if they used nukes. So getting nukes is meaningless.
They wouldn’t be getting attacked if they had nukes, just as NK isn’t getting attacked now.
Your Israel example is a poor one, Israel attacked Iran who are only firing back in self defence. Because Israel has nukes, Iran would never unilaterally initiate attacks.
Nukes are the only true defence in the modern world.
Khamenei pere had issued a fatwah +20 years ago that Iran was not to pursue or build nucluear weapons. you see what that got him, he and his grandchild murdered in a missile strike.
Khamenei fils is almost certain to do this now, and i suspect that pere allowed himself to be killed so easily partly as a means of martyring himself and partly to refute his own fatwah.
regardless, the Axis of Epstein must be defeated. whether via the US courts or Iran makes little difference.
And the funny thing is nobody sends ships to save Trumpy... Not even France. The Gulf States likely figured out that Iran is holding the ‘dead man’s switch’ and that is 400 or so desalination plants and giant oil processing plants all around the Gulf. That happens to be called the ‘Persian Gulf’ and there is no accident there. If Iran disassembles the water and oil plants life will become pointless and short for the Arab States. No amount of gold can buy enough water that will be delivered fast enough to save their miserable lives. An unhappy ending for all.
Well, maybe because we have a national guard Major running SecDef and a retired Air Force general ten years, dusted off and brought in to run the battle. Trump is even worse than the Cheney/Rumsfeld crowd.
Because the U.S. president is a dotard who pays no mind to anyone except his zionist friends: Adelson, Singer, Netanyahu, Witkoff, and Kushner. No one, except Trump, in his cabinet, his military, or his avisor crowd thought that this was a good idea, so far as I can tell. It was only Trump and his legion of zionist Jews and Evangelical Christians who wanted this war.
True. Some use the term "judeo-Christian" for these people who argue the same Old Testament nonsense from Leviticus, Deuteronomy, etc. etc. rather than the New Testament and the life of J.C. of Nazareth... They're basically wannabes. A widespread cult or heresy if you like.
As we say, "The New Testament is in the Old concealed; the Old in the New revealed."
For example, the very first word in the Old is "Barasheet."
This ostensibly is translated as "In the beginning," but if you read it from its letters, which uniquely in palaeohebrew mean something individually, you find the transcendental statement, "The Son of God will die by His own hand upon a cross."
By the same token, "YHVH" is read as "Behold the hand, Behold the nail."
Judaism, of course, has nothing whatsoever to do with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - it is the "Traditions of the Elders," ie the rabbis, which Christ condemned unreservedly.
The people who loaned all that money for drilling (very short life span & abysmal EROEI) fracked oil/gas wells in USA are pretty darned happy with the new war. Also the people who built tar sands strip mines & extra heavy crude oil operations needing steam & solvent injection at even worse EROEI in Canada, they are quite pleased with West Asia being blockaded.
Trump took large campaign contributions disguised as bribes that made him impeachment proof as long as he does their bidding.
For some reason I don't think NuttyYooHoo will be holding any meetings on this mortal coil.
Never confuse an evangelical Christian with a Zionist Christian. We aren't the same. I am beginning to doubt those who proclaim they are Zionist are Christian. Zionism is a heresy.
Yes. I probably should have been clearer in my statement, because I too am what you might call an "Evangelical Christian," assuming that Evangelical means evangelist of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which repudiates Jewish false messiahs claiming to be creating the Kingdom of God. Netanyahu, in my opinion, is just another in a long line of Jewish false messiahs, and it boggles my mind why Christians would support him. It is akin to following Simon bar Kohkba rather than Christ.
The US reminds me of one of those men who rely on steroids to pump their muscles up; and yet the very drug they rely on to appear more masculine, is actually shrinking their dicks whilst it enhances their muscles - plus of course it produces the well-known "roid rage" we have heard about, and perhaps suffered as a result of; certainly if you are being subjected to some sort of "Epic Fury" at the moment.
The US is really quite a pathetic entity, and Iran is proving this to them every day, and in every way.
Iran right now is the Bruce Lee absolutely humiliating the slow moving gym-gorilla who has abused everyone on the street for decades, and everyone is standing around clapping... except the bully's goons, who aren't showing their faces, and have a good idea the gravytrain is over.
I'm also quite horrified by Trumps social media posts. They are so childlike and immature, that you would think that the stupidest MAGA Murican would be too embarrassed to support him. Sure doesn't say much for their cognitive abilities.
I can tell you for sure that steroids don't shrink your dick. They can cause your nuts to atrophy and shrink. Roid rage is just bullshit. Some muscled up punk decides he is a bad-ass. Kick him in the balls. Even if they are atrophied it is still very painful.
" ... Erectile dysfunction is a real risk. A 2022 review found that sexual dysfunction — particularly ED — is one of the most significant consequences of anabolic steroid abuse..... "
" ... Roid rage (also known as steroid rage[5]) is a side effect of the use of anabolic steroids which is described as dramatic mood swings, increased feelings of hostility, impaired judgment, and increased levels of aggression.[6] The term "roid rage" became popular in the 1980s.[7] ... "
Yeah, I have known or been acquainted with hundreds of men using anabolic steroids, including myself. It's usually the scrawny punks that bulked up fast that decide size means tough. They are bad-ass until they get kicked in their atrophied nuts.
One difference is, small brains or no (There is some dispute now on that), the dinosaurs weren't THAT stupid as to destroy themselves. It took a MASSIVE asteroid to end their rule.
Yep, we are ruled by people who are objectively stupider than dinosaurs.
Wow, 400 desalinization plants and oil processing plants needing protection all around the PERSIAN GULF - and the US focus was to serve Israel’s needs by attacking Iran - abandoning us all - a new genocide awaits in the Persian Gulf- what happened to America First?
Reality therapy for the world - the rogue states are clearly the US and Israel. But no one can tell the emperors they are wearing no clothes. Only option is to abandon them to their own fate or intervene to take them from this precipice in a manner that allows Trump to save face. Somehow I don’t see how this could be accomplished. Stalemate - who could intervene to create a lasting peace and compromise when the aggressors have backed themselves into these positions. The outcome is too ugly to contemplate.
No one addresses any reality or that our world is being destroyed by a mad man - the existential threat originally facing Iran has come home to roost in the US.
Are there no adults left in the room? When the whole country feeds DJTs illusions and delusions to the detriment of not only our country but the world what will the outcome be? What can it be?
Trump is clearly not mentally well. He is dangerous and needs to go.
We have had 2 old men with mental problems as president in a row.
It wouldn't surprise me if there were lots of conversations and plans going on to remove him. The Republicans should let the Democrats go ahead and impeach him for not bringing the approval for attacking Iran to Congress.
This would mean putting the country ahead of their AIPAC and MIC money, so don't expect it to happen quickly.
Placing into a timeline the Trump I and Trump 2 periods and the related wars and genocides started and cultivated it is absurdly impossible to visualize a more pro-Israel president than Trump.
Loyalty for the cosmopolitans is far more valuable than sanity or intellectual strength. Compared to Trump, Vance is an untested quantity. He will surely toe the party line but possibly with somewhat less enthusiasm than orange. He might import ten million Indians to the US just to make sure his wife will perform all her duties in the home environment.
Virtually the entire nation is infected with it - the jews have been extremely successful in getting the goyim to believe their fake history from at least since the end of WW2, when they first spun their holocaust hoax.
And it's been 24/7 ever since.
Probably fewer than a handful have held out against their malign propaganda.
Maybe look at mrff.com and understand that the US military is overrun with Evangelical Christians who want this war to go on so that Christ will return.
If they actually were Christians, rather than faux jews, they would know that something called "Tribulation" has to come first, which involves the massive persecution of Christians, and their beheading en masse, as per the jewish Noahide laws.
They seem to have all been sucking at the poisoned teat of John Hagee, one of the very worst exponents of this kind of judaistic trash.
No matter what they tell the rubes, the Hegseths don't believe a word of it, otherwise they would not so frantically lay up for themselves treasures on earth.
Trump IS mentally unwell, to keep making ridiculous claims the whole world can see are not true, and to now begging Russia and China the way he does, no the conclusion can be reached than mentally unwell, and that is putting it very politely.
I think he is basically the same kind of a typical American product of a psychopath-loving society he's always been.
I remember back in 2006 or so when I lived in LA everyone loved watching his reality BS show were he hamulated people on his BS reality show.
Most Americans still wish to be like him, wealthy, flashy, a real full blown psychopath without any mercy, honor, humanity - as all psychoapaths worldwide have always been.
so called Democrats are just jealous - they also want to be like him - even Obushama said something in the past about how he loved JUSSA because people can become like Trump... that's why there is no cure to JUSSA's slef-inflicted harm
Funny what you say about the success of Trump’s TV show (and frankly his election). It comes to show that there is a significant section of the class of ‘ordinary people’ that are not very nice.
In Britain we have this series, “Peaky Blinders’ which is just a shameless glamorisation of gangsterism, like The Wire but without the realistic social consequences side.
It’s vile, let me tell you. And yet they keep on churning series after series. After the third episode I clocked the fascistic undercurrent of the whole treatment and carried watching just to see what kind of come-uppance they’d get, when someone with balls would be introduced that’d kill the whole criminal, parasitic family.
I don’t think they’ve come up to write them out yet, despite all the years it’s been running. People like them too much, they find them sexy.
I had to stop after an episode in which they cut the throat of a working class father who refereed the local amateur football league for refusing to help the family’s chosen team win, solely out of principle. I couldn’t take any more after that.
I don’t know how anyone could enjoy week after week of that. And yet, the Brits love this kind of shit. They didn’t follow their leaders round the world for nothing after all.
Last year I was reading an anthology of essays by Orwell, in which he wrote that the English admire power. I’m not sure if he specified the working class. And yes, I could see the truth of his words 70 and 80 years later.
That's correct. This filth emanates from the US and is designed to infect as many as possible; the normalisation of violence and money; and the people who pedal it make money and win awards etc. It's disgusting.
Well put. Huge numbers of brainwashed Americans are infected; you have to live there for a while as an outsider to witness the insanity, the psychopathic worship of violence and money etc.. Thanks for posting.
WHICH Trump? The short fat Trump? Is he the gamma writing page-long posts of not entirely comprehensible bafflegarble? The one snuffling up to maybe-dead Bibi, trying to get a pat on the head?
Reading that Melania slapped 'one of the' Trumps' hand away when he tried to hold her hand raises a question of how blackmailed SHE is! Is Baron safe? Other Trump offspring? Trump himself?
According to some in the alt media who have contacts inside the U.S. administration, there are those within considering invoking the 25th amendment. The man is obviously stark, raving mad at this point. His posts are literally the ravings of a lunatic.
I had quite a lot of money. Still after a few years I felt as if I had already died every time I returned to JUSSA from traveling to Argentina, Serbia, Australia etc. It was even worse in Canadistan - a true tranny gulag
US Leaders may be chosen for their deficits and ability to follow orders. No president acts unilaterally he is part of a hidden cabal in this case the Zionists and Oligarchs appear to be controlling the machinations of DJT and hoping to make out like bandits from this debacle - Trump identifies with the Oligarchs and complies with all of their orders - the loose cannon is Iran existing in a no win situation and willing to go for broke- so it ain’t over til its over - one chance to return the Middle East to its former self. Reconfigure the whole ME- look at it through Iran’s eyes - this is an existential crisis they don’t have any reason to back down.
It all depends on deterrence. If the Iranians can be assured that they won't be attacked again they will stop. No one likes having the shit bombed out of them. That said, we are a long, long way from this point.
As each day passes the economic crisis gets larger and deeper. Recession is an understatement. The Russians and Chinese have been underwriting Iranian security for quite some time. Let's hope they can talk Trump down from the ledge. This is shaping up into a dangerous game of chicken.
"Who pays the piper calls the tune" is the simplest way to view policy decisions in the west.
So this means Adelson, Singer, etc - all jews.
As to who actually directs even them - you would probably need an Access All Areas pass to the tunnels beneath the Knesset to meet with the gentleman who is truly directing operations.
Trump's big donors are also big donors to key Democrats. As long as Trump is useful he is safe from a removal unless Vance is planning to throw Trump under the bus. Which means that we just exchanged a blathering idiot for a smooth operator. In the end we get the same policies and fewer Truth Social posts.
Yes, removing AIPAC and the MIC are the key. I see no difference between the two. Dismantling TooBigToFail banks and BlackRock would also be nice.
I've been musing on the fact that an interesting number of'world' leaders have succumbed to Alzheimers. I can list: Harold Wilson, Margret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Joe Biden, maybe there are others.
The outcome, as I see it, is to NOT EVER elect a geriatric to the county's highest office
This malaise will lead (my prediction) to a standoff between Team A (Trump, Hegseth) and Team B (Vance, Chairman JCC) in which Team B will refuse a direct order.
You may be right. I expect it will be the Republicans who initiate impeachment against Trump, with Vance and possibly Gabbard as VP. (The Dems will lose their chief fund-raising tool with Yrump gone, so they wont like this one bit.) Someone has been dropping hints, too: my mainstream propaganda feed has twice (at least) told me that Vance was against the war from the beginning. And, Gabbard? Really quiet, waiting.
Harold Wilson had a searing intelligence and he knew when he was losing his mental functions and promptly resigned and retired to the Scilly Isles. The others were never aware that they had progressive dementia.
It's not Trump per se. As Brian Berletic argues, this has been planned for since the late 80s at least. What wasn't expected is that the civilisational state of Iran would prepare so well for it.
Our cabal of PNAC aligned assholes openly stated they would do Iran (and all those others) back in 2001. It just took them a lot longer than they projected.
After Trump has exhausted every option, Vance will ascend and pretend he is MAGA and America First with a bit of Palantir and a dusting of Zionism.
Since the US is incapable of honest negotiations, a future will require the rest of the world to become more involved. A good start would be marooning Hegseth, Marco and Graham on a desert island.
Wow - so short sighted, water is essential for human life the oil processing still uses human beings to accomplish this goal. Always amazed at the short sightedness of the majority of my fellow men- no water = no oil = no life- wake up.
Note my reference to "small hats," so my message was that Khazarael's water plants should be demolished, thus defanging the snake which is behind this entire attempted additional genocide.
Everybody else's can be left intact and fully functioning.
So now you know a bit more than you thought you did about your fellow men.
Freedom Convoys could immediately set sail for Gaza.
The US would also organize an immediate airlift of water - but the beast would be hugely incapacitated, and no longer able to engage in its 24/7 scheming against all goy life.
An immediate airlift of…. tapwater? Crikey. In the quantities required for, say, 5 million people (for just 5 just litres a day each, you’d need 25,000 tonnes a day) that’d be expensive. You’d need some 500 flights a day by large cargo aircraft, with a farm of temporary, rubber reservoirs and a colossal fleet of tanker trucks at the Israeli end. Who’s got all that available on standby? And what if Iran is simultaneously continuing to strike the ports, airports and highway network?
They only need to take out one at a time. Tell the Israelis to stop or another gets blasted. So on and so forth. They either get the message or they don't. It's up to tiny-hats how thirsty they want to be.
Brits brought some guy from retirement. You forget that it's one thing to pat on the shoulder and push under rockets, but another to consider an "equal" :-) Same as Germans used Galicia Waffen-SS but as they retreated with Germans via Germany proper, Austria proper - they're forced to sleep in barns not the houses of Germans
Angelina, with respect, iirc it was one of our Nuclear Subs that had a sheared Bolt head reattached with Superglue. The issue with the ACs afaik was that they had no Aircraft. Admittedly that may have changed.
Yes, interesting how France and the UK are not letting themselves have their arm twisted this time, which frankly I see as a good sign that there is enough contact with reality in European quarters to realise that this war is not the kind of joke these countries are used to playing, like hitting weaker countries or hiding behind proxies. I think there is hope yet that in the course of time the Europeans will start making the right decisions. Mad yes (like my brother always says) but not stupid.
I understand they sent refuelling aircraft from day -30. Just as they supported the air strikes against negotiators and just as they've been supporting the Israeli "operations" in Gaza since 2023 with intelligence overflights, refuelling, and even occasional basing of Israeli strike aircraft. It won't be surprising if an increasing number of US/Israeli short-range strike aircraft end up based in Cyprus - regardless of contrary promises.
They do send airplanes tho and I recall a week or two ago (time flies) there was a talk about French and British carriers sent into battle although there was no talk then about sending them to the gulf of course. Also the British airplanes seem to be sent on patrol in UAE as the US base was attacked there.
Not sure what is going on at all - the fact is that the Donny the Magnificentest is indeed irritated or maybe he just he does not get enough sleep as he tries to tell the generals what to do.
I do not share the optimism of some here that the US will withdraw - i think the US will double down. Economically it has a longer breath than Iran. For Iraq it took much longer to prepare although I think the action here was being prepared since last year. I would also like to point out that the 2003 war in Iraq lasted around half a year so whatever was planned here the final stages are very far away. Admittedly the US leadership (whoever that is) did not prepare the land forces and did not organize the coalition which would silence some critics. Even Serbian exercise lasted 3 months. What is really worrying is that the Israeli leadership seems to be convinced that the little country is a global superpower or will shortly be. With this much hubris anything is possible.
There is a level of violence that makes the country to split in parts. You could see it in Syria although admittedly there there was much more coercion needed to keep the country united in the first place.
Destroying Iran as a functioning society is certainly a part of "their" intent. Just as was done in Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Somalia & Sudan.
For God's sake, more than 20 years ago "they" deliberately leaked the memo, then allowed their controlled press to publish their intentions in all of this: The destruction of every non servile government in West Asia & North Africa with exceptions made for our minions- Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the compliant gulf states petro pretend kingdoms. In no particular order:
Parts of Iraqi society have developed entirely too much coherence since, Shiite majority areas of Iraq will be targeted for some remedial destruction too, along with the renewed Israeli attacks on Lebanon. And if Kurds everywhere try to make common cause & form their own country or otherwise don't act as servile foot soldiers for the Empire yet again, there is some more betrayal in store for them too.
Looking forward to the rebellions that will follow the collapse of the Gulf states who have collaborated with Israel. These are not nations or civilizations, like Persia, they are family businesses propped up by the US and its Zionist homunculus.
Popcorn reserved for YouTube videos of MBS head-on-a-stick being paraded through the streets.
Down the road: a quick, surprise nuclear strike wipes Israel out, destroys its retaliatory measures, and no one in a more sanitary world mourns.
The Gulf Statelettes are run by and for the globalist pedophile sodomite cult. They are at best compliant with the FrankenEpstein Monster if not a main contributor to its existence.
that was FOUR DAYS AGO and they are completely hiding everything form the American people. I think its possible this information channel which uses AI - is from China.
Exactly, just wrote about the subject recently. AI is absolutely overrated as an independent thinker although soon it will look like that for the average human. Presently, AI is clearly manipulated to the very core by humans and mostly the worst of the worst like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg and Company. It is not always wrong but it is highly manipulative.
We do have a major opportunity with AI: We can flood normal humans with the proper information generated by AI. Try https://brightlearn.ai/
The Persian Gulf‘s average depth is 50 meters, maximum depth is 90 meters. If the Ford is sitting down there one can sell tourist tickets to fly over as it will be visible to the naked eye on the bottom on a sunny day. To my best knowledge the Ford was not even getting into the Gulf from the start of this conflict, it would be suicidal.
That channel (they are on youtube too) posts a lot of unverifiable cope. I stopped watching days ago when I realised many of their claims weren't true.
Hunkering down? They don't seem to be hunkering down to me. They seem to be quite aggressive, putting USrael on the back foot, destroying their defensive capability, their strategic installations and equipment, their financial centres in the area and showing the Gulf states that they can not rely on American protection. That is not 'hunkering down' - that is showing who is really BOSS in that region.
They haven't shot many long range missiles thus far and have stated on numerous occasions that they have newer never-been-used missiles still to be shown. They would be foolish not to be equipped for the long haul. They will need deterrence when the shooting ends.
Completely valid point. But being conservative doesn't necessarily imply hunkering down. I see hunkering down waiting for the enemy to expend himself as like Ali's 'rope-a-dope' technique.
And they have certainly prepared for the long haul as you note.
Well, they kind of did wait for the moron Epstein clan to start their blunder blitzkrieg, before they turned the table and served their own well prepared blitzkrieg!
This is the McGregor Doctrine; ie "All Iran has to do is to survive," but that's not true.
Iran must not only hunker down and wait for the US to run out of missiles, but it must then re emerge and unleash Armageddon on its foe, and demand all the things it is mentioning, eg reparations, full access to uranium for its reactor programme, and an end to 50 years of crippling sanctions; plus a complete removal of any and all US bases in the west Asia region.
And to add to that, Israel to withdraw to its 1967 borders, release all Palestinian prisoners, lift the blockade of Gaza and surrender its WMD, offensive air capabilities and submarines.
Michael Yon suggested the Zionists who currently reign in Israel are a elusive gang who are not wed to the geographic location currently known as "Israel."
I couldn’t agree more. I’m merely suggesting a set of terms those Kahanist psychopaths could conceivably be forced to agree to, if only battered long enough and hard enough.
Donnie in his Art of the Deal, would advise that initial demands must always be maximalist, otherwise they rapidly get watered down to an unacceptable level.
But you are new to this game, so probably were not aware of the strategy that we always employ in these situations.
Well, don’t ask, don't get, as the saying goes. Good luck with that. And so better add, Bibi, Smotrich and ben Gvir and all other major Israeli and US war criminals to be handed over for a fair trial and public execution in Tehran. Even if Iran falls short and only gets a disarmed, pacified, rump pre-67 Israel, that’d be a good solid win. Better still, they could then adopt Israeli moral standards and resume bombardment once Israel was safely disarmed.
No state of Israel. They have zero right to be there in a sovereign position. Those Israelis who take an oath to a Palestinian state can stay and their rights fully asserted as long as they give up the right of association for Zionist projects. I don’t see any other way.
Unfortunately, when dealing with der juden, you have to understand that lies come naturally to them, so nothing they ever say can be relied upon - take the Kushner / Witkoff episode as your starting point.
Once per year, they recite something called the Kol Nidre prayer, which they think absolves them of any and all commitments they have previously made to the goyim.
The only mechanism which can reliably constrain them is called razor wire, and a mined no-man's land beyond it.
Its possible that they have adopted the Russian strategy . They are steadily destroying the military assets of the USA (and Israel) in the zone . Russia is no doubt enjoying the opportunity to turn the tables by supplying weapons an intel to Iran . China is involved too , but is doing it but until recently more covertly .
It would be appropriate if Russia was providing weapons targeting information to Iran, wouldn't it, after US support has caused scores of Russian civilian deaths.
France and Britain getting their revenge on America for not participating in the 1956 Suez Crisis ( Second Arab - Israeli War). They probably wouldn't even send a toilet plunger to help Chump unstop his Hormuz.
The Americans haven’t forgotten 1979 when the US embassy was sacked and the Americans were ruthless in denying the British and French support in 1956. You never forget things like that they are burned into the national psyche.
With the US all tied up and using up its remaining bombs, Ukraine is up for the taking.
I've been reading reports that Ukraine has more drones than a year ago.
AFU have been holding the line.
Russia is losing its strategic edge in Ukraine as it continues non-ending WW1 positional attritional fighting, wasting men, supplies, and money which would have been better used with better planning to neutralize Ukraine long ago.
Russia's softness has enabled AFU forces to resupply.
Russia is
not targeting enemy weapons and drone production.
not targeting enemy command and control centers.
not doing what it takes to neutralize Ukraine.
Ukraine will hold long enough for NATO reinforcement.
I wonder how the Russian population will feel after 7 or 8 consecutive years of war without or barely advancing in Ukraine. Well, you can't criticize the SMO in Russia or risk going to jail. That's one way to control the narrative.
I've read about Russia experiencing communication problems on the battlefield that the AFU forces don't have, and the AFU having some successful counterattacks because of it. Ukraine has become a never-ending positional slaughterfest. That's why nobody talks about the Ukraine conflict much anymore. Nothing moves, men keep dying, weapons and money are spent. Both sides resupply.
I think the Russians strategy is now coming into focus. They seem to have dialed down the Ukraine front and are now providing more support for the Iranians. We all know these are 2 fronts of a world war.
Russia would need to have dialled up before being able to dial down, abc.
If we are at two fronts of a world war, it would be more reason for Russia to neutralize Ukraine. It's there for the taking right now while the US expends its remaining bombs and Europe is unprepared. Russia is in no position to open a second front somewhere.
When you neutralize AFU, you prevent NATO from linking up and forming a bigger army. This is a basic divide-and-conquer maneuver when facing two enemy forces about to link up. Never, never allow a link-up.
I'd fire the lot of generals for all the screw-ups they made from the very beginning and recruit the best to get the job done from the very beginning. It's not about being smarter but who has the better plan. That's me, hands down. 😂
It’s funny, I don’t think I’m smarter than Putin and his generals but I certainly think I am when it comes to Trump and his camp and look where he is and where I am. On the one hand there is professional competence, knowledge and experience but on the other there is perspective. And if we all here could see that attacking Iran was a mistake why wouldn’t we be sometimes be more right than Putin and his generals? I leave the question out there.
Ukraine war is often weather dependant . Different seasons require different tactics . When the ground thaws and has absorbed lots of water transport becomes difficult anywhere but on roads and logistics become difficult . Warfare has completely changed and the way its being fought reflects that . The USA is getting schooled on this. Massive assaults are no longer useful as any concentrations of men and/or machines will get hit - this also applies to bases .
This would be an ideal time to hammer the Banderites, with everyone looking at the Gulf, but apparently the Rasputitsa is particularly muddy this year.
I don't agree Russia is dialling down, they just continue at their chosen steady pace; since the failure of Istanbul talks in 2022 it has never been in Russia's strategic interests to simply conquer Ukraine - that would resolve nothing.
I do agree with the two fronts of one war view and suggest a possible third front: China blockades Taiwan - no invasion necessary..
Current Russian political show (just repeat what most Russians saying) state that Russia must just like Iran hit the decision makers at military bases in Poland and Estonia.
The exact opposite of demilitarization has been happening for more than four years and those imbeciles/traitors just sit on their hands and watch
The only hope is that Iran makes good on its promise to strike Ukraine and somehow manages to merge the two wars.
I am not sure how that can happen exactly, because with these people in charge in the Kremlin, it will be resisted fiercely. But I see no other way out, for both Russia and Iran.
What is more likely though is even more backstabbing.
P.S. Notice how Trump called on China to send warships to open up the strait of Hormuz. I think I mentioned a month ago here that I would be less surprised if China joins in on the attacks on Iran in order to keep the oil flowing than if it joined the war on the side of Iran. Looks like there is indeed something like that in the air for Trump to call for it publicly...
There is a scenario in which Iran takes out Zelensky with a missile strike (though at that distance it is hard to make sure he doesn't escape upon early warning, even with hypersonics) and levels Bankova.
Then Europe is outraged by it and they join the war on Iran while directly entering in Ukraine too. Then the wars merge and Russia's hand is forced.
I can still easily see Putin backing out even then, but as I said, there is a scenario.
Iran has nothing to lose -- they are pounded daily as it is. It can't get much worse than this.
Regarding China -- of course they rejected Trump's request now, but let's revisit this a few months from now with the straits still closed.
Also, there is one other player who can force Russia and China's hands, and that is North Korea. We shall see.
The absolutely fucked up thing here is that China holds all the cards. They can:
1) Stop rare earth exports to the US altogether, and that alone will shut the US MIC down
2) Stop all exports to the US, which will result in a Mad Max scenario in the US within a few weeks
3) Make a move on Taiwan, deny the US access to chips. Which will be somewhere in the middle of these two scenarios.
And the US right now cannot oppose such a move meaningfully.
But they instead declared a policy of "strategic non-alliance" and "independence"...
Patience. "Never disturb your enemy....." The time is not yet ripe for China to move and the frog is only just realising the water is getting uncomfortably hot.
Topping Z is an irrelevance. How many more examples are needed to see that such strategies achieve nothing positive.
As you say, no way China attacks Iran and I doubt India would risk it either; surely, Modi has learned he is backing the wrong horse, and who knows how Pakistan would react?
The only reason why he is making such blatantly ridiculous statements is that he wants to shelve responsibility for the devastation he and his jewish handlers have caused by putting the responsibility for solving the issue into everybody else's court; because self-evidently, he cannot do it himself.
But one has to wonder why China would send ships in a vain attempt to open the Strait when Iran is allowing tankers bound for China to pass through unmolested.
I expect it must all be Putin's fault, because for GM, that is always the final conclusion.
What he calls for at breakfast time is frequently turned completely on its head by teatime.
But he did call for nukes - he said he could destroy Iran so nobody could ever live in it again - but that would not be good for the jews, who want their Greater Israel, so he won't be allowed to do what he seems to want to do.
If he tries to, the videos of him in his activities with the girls and boys and his daughter will mysteriously somehow make an appearance.
Taking the rage-posts of a deranged person as evidence to support your thesis might not be the best approach.
Also I’m pretty certain that China doesn’t even have a blue water navy capable of projecting force thousands and thousands of miles away from their homeland.
China will sit on their hands and issue sternly worded diplomatic statements about wanting peace. Nothing more.
I see some suspiciously false news floating around there just like doo-doo is floating around the Ford. The story goes that Ukraine is turning the whole war around by unleashing their giant new drones that took them a few weeks to manufacture. The operational range of these new super-birds were increased from 31 miles to 93. (In a few weeks time.)
Ukraine still has lots of fight left because Russia is giving it to them.
This conflict could have been over long ago, with Russia in control rather than constant attrition, war-related population fatigue, financial cost overruns, and no significant territorial gains.
Got to figure in that Russia is also demilitarizing NATO, Britain and America. That seems to be working. If it were not for the nukes, we could end up with a disarmed world. Be nice if mankind could start making a better world than continually destroying it.
Sort of. Iirc it was just under 800 Patriots, or circa 20% of total of all production since commenced, that have gone to Ukraine. About 40% supposedly were used up this month against Iran (everything in theater). Leaving about 1600 Patriot missiles scattered around the world (or sold to other nations)? THAADs are comparatively rare.
But the Ukrainians claim to have destroyed 90% of all Russian incoming missiles. Which means, on a 2:1 basis for successful interception, Russia must have fired only 440 missiles, i.e. about two missiles per week since the war began. LOL.
It's been a bit stale there for months yes, but Russia is still advancing and Ukrainian accounts have been crying about a new offensive Russia is preparing in Zaporozhye. Will give an update on the situation soon, as Iran war has simply been more pressing.
Don't succumb to narratives. Look at professional appreciations. Start with the CIA declassified histories back to 1946 (yes, pre-CIA!), and US Army documents written by field grade officers back to 1990. Also TRADOC ATP 7-100.1: their nuclear doctrine, which in effect delegates nuclear launch authorization down to O4/O5 level, accounts for their reluctance to escalate to local war (thus the SMO).
Russia is still doctrinally way ahead of NATO (though drones have mitigated their advantage quite a bit). Especially if they can eliminate drones with an area weapon: it'll be interesting to see if what seems to be a plasma EMP weapon field tested a year or two ago can be finalized.
Presumably there is a threshold of escalating that has not been reached yet, but why it is higher than what already happened I have no idea...
The end game here for a Resistance win features the Houthis marching 500,000 men north to take Mecca and then later joining in the ground war to eliminate Israel. Maybe they are waiting for Saudi Arabia to officially join the war against Iran? Still, they could be hitting US assets in Yanbu and other bases that are closer to Yemen than to Iran. But they are not doing it...
Why sink them? They are over 1100km away from doing any damage to Iran. Effectively they are not even at war. Missiles better spent on Saudi and Israeli based I think.
"Remember the Maine!" Sinking an aircraft carrier would be a loss for Iran and Muslims because of the propaganda value it gives the US war hawks to use on the American public.
Americans today recoil at the memory of those wars, albeit not so much about Korea (which most Americans have forgotten).
The key issue is what Americans were thinking about those wars when they got started. There was strong support for both Korea and Vietnam when they got going. The public turned on Vietnam only when the US failed to win it quickly and losses mounted.
What's different about Iran is that it's probably the only war in recent memory that has started out unpopular. Trump and his party are going to get clobbered in the mid-terms elections.
"With the current location of the Lincoln, is it now more in danger?"
No. Ansar Allah does not have the heavy throw weight ballistic missiles or sea skimmers you need to sink a big carrier. There's also the issue that the Lincoln is off Oman, which borders the part of Yemen that Ansar Allah does not control. The current location of the Lincoln off Oman is about 1000 km from territory Ansar Allah controls, roughly the same distance from the closest part of Iran.
Big carriers are really difficult to sink. Much smaller carriers during WWII often took multiple hits from kamikaze attacks without sinking. Blowing a huge hole in the flight deck is not enough to sink it. You have to get down below the waterline and punch enough holes below that to defeat the compartmentalization of the hull.
Putting a carrier out of action with significant damage is much more doable. For that the ideal strategy is to use the carrier's own munitions, the missiles and bomb loads it carries for delivery into Iran, against it. But those (like fuel) are also kept compartmentalized since they know what happens if a lucky hit drills down through the flight deck to explode on the deck below where aircraft are being readied.
In the Red Sea next to territory Ansar Allah controls they can and have threatened US carriers. But that's been with very sporadic launches. Pulling off a mass launch of a few dozen sea skimmers to reach a carrier one thousand km away looks like too big a stretch for Ansar Allah.
Interestingly, probably the best way to damage or even sink the Lincoln is with small FPV drones. The carrier is very close to Oman, close enough for fast open boats (or boats posing as Omani fishing boats) to depart port and close within FPV fiberoptic controlled drone distance, 10 to 20 km. A swarm of fifty or a hundred small FPV drones, each carrying a couple of kilos of explosive could have the same effect as hitting the carrier with fifty to a hundred five hundred or thousand pound bombs.
Why? Because each of those small FPV drones could set off one of the five hundred or thousand pound missiles or bombs the carrier has staged for use in missions attacking Iran. There are many such weapons on aircraft on the carrier's deck that small drones can strike, flying into the bomb and not the aircraft that's carrying it, and there are many more on the deck below the carrier's flight deck. There are many, very large openings between that deck and the outside through which FPV drones can fly.
Being small, FPV drones are hard to see and almost impossible to shoot down. Small drones can also blind the carrier by taking out radar and other sensors, as well as doing kamikaze attacks on Phalanx and similar close-in air defense systems.
Made me think of the attack on the "Death Star" which worked in the movie. Just might work in what we like to call the "real" world. Spontaneous applause breaks out all over the theater!
No, AIUI it's sensibly skulking around off Oman, so still plenty of range from central Yemen, and the Houthis' missiles aren't as good as the Iranians'.
The real function of the Houthis is to close the Red Sea (and thus the Suez Canal) to hostile commercial shipping, therefore defeating any effort by Saudi etc to bypass Hormuz by using their east-west pipeline (Saudi Plan C). Iran has already taken out the Omani port facility that was the Saudi Plan B.
Get a grip Simplicius …..it is you who is unhinged.
Donald knows what he is doing.
At least he is trying unlike all Presidents going back to Ronald! It was the stinking Carter that helped have the Sha overthrown. All since have declared Iran evil and a terrorist state and none but Donald have done ANYTHING about it….except for make it worse….AND give alleys of cash.
Si Senora, absolutely correcto! Donaldo Orange is driving like mad to clear the path for the Counterfeit Mini State to take over the PERSIAN GULF. (And this is coming from the one who was sucking in the science of geopolitics with his mother’s milk.)
What is your definition of evil? Repelling US helicopters sent to rescue embassy staff (who were later released by Iran)? Resisting US influence for 60 years?
The "plan" has not gone according to, and Trump is going through the 5 stages of grief. We are in stage 1/2: Denial & anger. The fact that he has just recently started talking about bringing in "allies" means Stage 3: Bargaining is creeping in.
He has been told that the Navy can't open Hormuz. And if the ships are sent in, they will get hit, and once one gets hit a cascade occurs and a catastrophe follows. Imagine a destroyer getting immobilized and then taking hit after hit after hit, for hours, on camera, with multiple assets desperately trying to cover it, but it eventually sinking.
The alternative is to let the Hormuz play out - but we are at day 15 now, which means the "underway" vessels have completed arrival to places like Singapore, India, and most of East Africa. In about a week the Eastern Med and China / SK / Japan vessels will have arrived, and then Southern Europe, then Northern Europe.
Iran has weapons to hit them at a very far distance. And they claim they did hit at least one destroyer while also disabling the Lincoln.
But we have not seen the promised sinking of any US ships. So Iran is still trying to manage escalation. Not something they should be doing right now IMO...
>They aren't killing civilians in Israel, which they're going to have to do
We don't actually know how many civilians they killed, censorship is strict. There were some bomb shelters hit, which is a very good countervalue strategy -- Israeli bomb shelters are very shallow and don't provide much protection against a direct missile hit, while conveniently concentrating people in one easy to target location.
But it is not a consistent targeting policy yet.
And yes, desalination should have been targeted by now.
You can only win a war against absolute savages by outsavaging them. It's an uncomfortable fact, but a fact of life nevertheless...
Now, one side can decide to out-savage the savages, then the other side can decide to out- savage the out-savagers.
Bottom line is one team of out-savagers has 6000 nuclear weapons, so while their opponents have spent 40 years months away from building a nuclear device but apparently they still don't have any.
Hitting ships at sea is not an easy task. They have CAP fighters with missile defense capabilities, they have escorts with missile defense, they have close-range phalanx systems, and they have powerful electronic warfare systems to jam most communications.
The US has positioned its carriers beyond the distance Iran can hit them. That has imposed high costs on the US, but at least for a while the US can do that.
Donald "Jewhovah" Trump and and his Whore Secretary Hegseth should both be arrested and tried for committing atrocious war crimes. Greater men than them have fallen and paid the price thereof.
And yet, like a dog returning to it's vomit, you are back.....
Getting easily triggered like that is a sign of fragility.
Embrace creative writing as an art.
Thats vulgar? You should see when something isnt working the way its supposed to for me. Innanimate objects.
do respond to profanity it is real....
I think the best way to think of European relations vis a vis the U.S. is akin to that of a spurned lover. The same can be said of the Gulf States and maybe Japan and Korea as well. By setting dynamite to the global economy. blowing off Europe's request for help in the proxy war against Russia, and ignoring the desires of the Gulf States to maintain the status quo in the Persian Gulf, the U.S. has shown everyone that the U.S. has one and only one lover: Israel.
Putin has been wise to proceed cautiously in Ukraine, despite what all the Dr. Strangeloves in these comments think. Everything points toward a European pivot away from the transatlantic alliance and towards a transcontinental alliance of Europe and Asia. As the English bard once wrote, when England was a civilized country, "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," and Europe is run by women right now: literally and figuratively.
Trump has threatened Europe with tariffs, threatened to invade Greenland, made all sorts of disparaging comments about France and England (however deserved these comments may be), tried to bully Europe into more defense spending, and even threatened to withdraw from NATO. I don't think it is a radical statement to suggest that the Europeans are in no mood to try to help bail Trump out of the mess that he created in the Persian Gulf.
Equally their people (and in Starmer's case his own cabinet) won't wear it.
There's logic in your position but there's logic in the opposing position too. Aren't we seeing Europe preparing to grovel back to Russia for oil as the Iran war freezes them out? Putin playing nice is annoying as hell and arguably has had a cost. But ultimately wouldn't it be better for Russia if Europe survives and works with Russia? Zombies next door isn't great for property values... The current crop of losers in the EU "leadership" have "best before" stamps on their... bodies
Iran is not really a natural geo-strategic partner or ally for Russia. I think that it is more correct to state that Russia is best served by not having a regime hostile to its interests in Tehrain. This does not make Iran a Russian ally, however. The current tenuous alliance is more a relic of the Cold War and the current hostile posture of the U.S. toward Russia.
Russian-Turkish relations and the position of Turkey vis a vis Russia is far more important. Historically Russia and Turkey have been rivals, but that is because the objectives of each are similiar. In such cases, long-standing rivals can often become allies.
I guess you haven't heard of the trilateral treaty between Russia, China, and Iran? Nor the belt and road initiative? Nor the international north south corridor? Nor Iran providing Russia with drones and drone technology? Chip
Reasonable, but seems like a six or nine month view. What about 30 months from now? NATO likely history, who knows what chaos the US will be in… US likely weaker and Iran likely stronger, meaning Russia also stronger. It's not like Russia's going to lose, even if they are taking these arguably unnecessary hits. Trump thinks 10 minutes out, maybe Putin's thinking two or three years out, and xi… probably five or 10 years out.
I thought the EU wants the US to concentrate on Russia, not distracted by Iran. If there was no war in Ukraine, the EU would quickly send support for the war against Iran.
Other great commentators, like Dr. Gilbert Doctorow and John Helmer (both are often guests on Youtube) agree with you.
The difference is: Iran waited to be attacked, and is thus justified doing all that even for a large part of a gullible western public.
The whole of the western press was utilized against Russia... and you seem to keep falling for their narrative spin to think in their terms (what is 'weak' vs 'strong'). Bucha was a false flag massacre, Russians presented proof, but the western press went with the false flag narrative anyways - just an example.
Ukraine had spend the years from 2014 to 2022 building up various levels of fortifications with western help, money and resources. Russia is loathe to sacrifice more men than necessary, so they used their main advantage - which is artillery outpacing western production by light years. So pound pound pound... take their time.. then move forward with minimized losses. The ratio of Ukrainians to Russian dead is like the most lopsided ever in any major war, and we don't even have a proper count of the western 'ex' military folks that have also been KIA in Ukraine.
US bases in the mideast are more obvious sitting ducks, but it still requires precise intel and geospatial data for the Iranians to do what they've done, e.g. hitting 5 refueling tankers at the base in Saudi. Think about the impllied coordination of how those tankers were tracked... and then noted when they landed and parked to refuel... and *boom*, China, Russia and Iran are obviously working hand in hand.. you notice that neither China or Russia is crowing or looking to take credit? That's what real allies are like... they help where they can... and quietly, so that the enemy continues to sleepwalk into traps.
First, it's been a long time coming. And it appears the new Khamenei, unlike his father, may persue nuclear weapons. Trump is freaking out.
:)
A number of countries are realizing that in order to stay relatively safe they will have to invest in nuclear weapons. That is another horrific fact of this war. It's been working for North Korea, so far.
That's hilarious, as it is becoming obvious that "nuclear weapons" simply don't exist.
The infamous "Samson Option" is, as many suspected, the usual "By Way of Deception" nonsense. A bluff that was sold as a certainty.
But every day that goes by, every year that goes by, with exactly -zero- nuclear weapons used (ever), drives another nail into the coffin of "newks."
Funny that the book that eviscerated them, published in 2017, was magically "expunged" from Amazon in 2020.
Fortunately, the internet does not forget, and the book is available here:
https://archive.org/details/8d-0de-2/page/n2/mode/1up
Read, share, download, save.
Can't stop the signal.
Thanks for your perspective-
It's definitely a possibility - why have them, ( assuming they exist ) when you can simply pretend to have them?
Either way, the idea is "Use it or lose it," and as they haven't been dusted off and repainted for many's the long year now, it is somewhat unlikely that they would still work as advertised.
Much of the world we think we live in is simply a CIA creation, in any case.
Wm Casey said that when everything the American people believe is false, then the CIA's work would be finished.
"... when everything the American people believe is false, then the CIA's work would be finished."
I think that we are almost there.
They still have you to deal with, before the end comes.
And me, of course.
Actually it's been a while already probably since Harvey Lee offed JFK if not long before.
Who is "Harvey Lee"? Is that who Wikipedia is blaming the JFK murder on nowadays?
Good work never ends, does it?
The American is far from representative of the human species. Of another species? Probably, but let's not offend our distant, hairy cousins.
Please. Let's not forget, in all fairness, that at least some Americans are fair representatives of the human species. Some. However...
There's always Pete Hegseth. Who should never be looked in the face. Because his attempts to appear manly make him look like a puff adder with constipation.
they do refurbish them or at least the Russians do (although maybe because they decided to decommission a lot of own inventory).
The point is - why have them when the adversary is not afraid as they openly say so in Ukraine and the rest of the nazi supporting Europe.
"Nazi supporting" LOL You few communists who support Russia because you think it's still the Soviet Union are hilarious. Always lying. Meanwhile your fellow communists call Putin a "nazi" and "Hitler" for banning homosexual propaganda, the main project of you leftists, and for opposing mass immigration of your fellow non-Whites to the West.
Ukraine is run by a JEW who was installed by a JEWISH billionaire, and he is allied with Israel. The Jew got his funding and arms from the Jew-loyal leftist Biden, who is completely anti-White, reveling in flooding White nations with non-White immigrants, criminals like you.
The anti-Russian operation was run by the leftist Jew Victoria Nuland under both Obongo and Biden.
Biden was funded by Jews and surrounded by Jews in his administration. With Ukrainian rebuilding contracts handed to his close leftist Jew ally Larry Fink who runs BlackRock, and whose operatives was all over his administraiton.
Russia is a "capitalist" country, a market economy run by a conservative party. Sad for you. Putin has said Ukraine is run by Israel. Putin openly opposes the flooding of the West by non-Whites like you.
So what do you got? The Azov Battalion - you keep using that one, it's your only card, poor little leftist. Except they answer to a JEWISH president, their leaders having sold out long ago. With no representation in the parliament that is run by the Jew's party.
And they attack the pro-White Russia, which is the "nazi" country to all your fellow communists.
But keep lying, little leftist! If you didn't lie and tell the exact opposite of the truth you wouldn't be a leftist. LOL
" Putin openly opposes the flooding of the West by non-Whites like you."
Its obvious you've never been to Moscow.
" Russia, facing labour crunch worsened by war, pivots to India for workers "
" Moscow Turns to Asia to Fill 11 Million Missing Jobs "
" Russia turns to India, Sri Lanka for way out of its labor crisis
https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/russia-facing-labour-crunch-worsened-by-war-pivots-india-workers-2026-02-11/
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/work/russia-turns-to-india-sri-lanka-for-way-out-of-its-labor-crisis/articleshow/128025570.cms?from=mdr&utm_source=contentofinterest&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=cppst
https://medium.com/the-geopolitics-report/moscow-turns-to-asia-to-fill-11-million-missing-jobs-14c1195cff42
> "Nazi supporting" LOL You few communists who support Russia
1. Swastikas, Hitler-tatooes, Azov's 'white superior race', untermenchen is Nazi ideology. Those who refuse to see will not see.
2. Ukraine will be judged, punished and denazified for it.
3. Europe, who supported them, will get its due down the road. Don't even doubt that. It's a promise.
4. USSR lost 27 mln people to Nazism and now Russia suffers from fresh infestation on our borders. Westies will never understand what it's like to be a target of Nazis.
I would refer people to another excellent book by Eustace Mullins:
"The Five Trillion Dollar Cold War Hoax"
Link is here:
https://archive.org/download/EustaceMullinsCollection/Eustace%20Mullins%20Collection.zip/Eustace%20Mullins%20-%20The%20%245%20Trillion%20Cold%20War%20Hoax%20%281996%29.pdf
In short, the whole "Cold War" was designed to continue the "fear" that had worked so well for the owners.
"Nuclear weapons" were only useful if...they were never used. So a contrived "dichotomy" needed to be created. Hence, the Soviets had to "get the bomb."
In this way, a continual, virtually limitless source of both power and lucre would flow (the total was five trillion at the time Mullins wrote the book, the total would be much higher now).
The problem is, this "nuclear club" (and such things as "MAD") only works to continue the hornswoggle if the "actors" are "willing participants" in the hoax, and also "big states."
Clearly (as Nakatani mentions in his book), "MAD" has exactly zero effect if a "non-state actor" (say, a religious extremist group) acquired a "bomb," since "MAD" would have no effect on those that don't fear death.
Fast forward to today. 80 plus years on and:
1. No nuclear weapons ever used or tested (all the tests have been either conventional explosions, or special effects)
2. No nuclear weapon explosive accidents (with over 40,000 having been created over the past 8 decades, there is exactly zero chance of a "perfect safety record")
3. No nuclear weapons used in situations that would have (if not necessarily morally) been tactically, strategically, and politically justified (see Korea, 1951)
4. We are told that "nuclear weapons" are somehow technologically advanced, but they were built with 1930's technology and less total computing power than in an average Texas Instruments graphing calculator. Countries like Iran have hypersonics (something that the "collective West" hasn't figured out yet). Specious.
This is just a short list of the "observables." The actual "physics" is shut down with a much longer litany of impossibilities. The biggest though, is compressibility of metals (or rather, the lack thereof).
To all the wags insisting nuclear weapons exist, please show me an example of "double density steel" that was "explosively densified" to prove your point. I'll wait.
The Russians finally started doing what I had theorized they would/should do almost 13 years ago, which is to re-purpose otherwise useless missiles as "kinetic hypersonic weapons." Cue the Oreshnik.
It is interested to read the comments to this post, and see that they fall roughly into two categories: those that are able to accept new information, and the possibility that they have been lied to, and those that are losing their minds defending what is now an indefensible position.
The latter are more than welcome to keep doing so, but my guess is they haven't read the book, or have a vested interest in continuing the deception (for whatever reason/motive).
Enjoy.
What of the earthquakes and richter measurements ? Where is the truth in all the lies?
Totality451,
I am a skeptic in all things and would be much happier if Nuclear weapons don't exist . However (like the moon landing) the majority of the evidence including the destruction of Japanese cities and the test sites (and the continuing use of nuclear reactors) make for me a compelling case . Is I stated , I would love to be wrong .
Mark,
Nobody is disputing the destruction of over 66 Japanese cities due to terror firebombing.
The overwhelming evidence is that "nuclear weapons" -do not- exist. And regarding the moon landings, I have some bad news for you...
https://centerforaninformedamerica.com/moondoggie/
Hiroshima and Nagasaki were firebombed. Even the chief BDA expert for the Air Force concluded that:
" I was keyed up for my first view of an atom-bombed city, prepared for the radically new sights suggested by the exciting descriptions I had read and heard. But to my utter astonishment, Hiroshima from the air looked exactly like all the other burned-out cities I had observed!
Within an area defined by black, undestroyed houses there was the familiar pink carpet,5 about two miles in diameter. What is more, precisely as in Yokohama, Osaka, or Kobe, it was dotted with buildings still standing erect, with charred trees, poles, and other objects. All but one of the steel and concrete bridges were intact. A cluster of modern concrete buildings in the downtown section stood upright and seemingly undamaged. …
I had heard about buildings instantly consumed by unprecedented heat. Yet here were buildings structurally intact, with outside and stone facings in place. What is more, I found them topped by undamaged flag poles, lightning rods, painted railings, air-raid sirens, and other fragile objects. Clearly they had weathered the blast and somehow escaped the infernal heat, as well as the alleged super-hurricane thousand-mile-an-hour wind.
For two days I examined Hiroshima. I drove to T Bridge, which had been the aiming point for the atomic bomb. In its environs I looked for the bald spot where everything presumably had been vaporized or boiled to dust in the twinkling of an eye. It wasn’t there or anywhere else in the city. I searched for other traces of phenomena that could reasonably be tagged “unusual.” I couldn’t find them."
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1945/11/03/109347135.html
So no, the evidence is ample, and the Nuclear Emperor has no clothes. You are welcome to believe in things that meet -your- criteria for belief, but big claims (nukes exist) require big proofs (like, detonating an actual device).
Nuclear weapons don't exist?
And some tens of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were killed by a laundry fire?
They were hydrogen bombs, not nukes as we know today.
You haven't a clue what you are talking about. Hydrogen bombs came AFTER (1952) nucleair fission bombs deployed in Japan.
Ah yeah. You are correct. The bombs used in japan though weren't nukes as we have now though.
John Galtsky knows this subject well and maybe could chime in....
Hydrogen has a low energy density.
So no, there were no "hydrogen bombs."
And if you are claiming "hydrogen fusion bombs," then you are in the "loon" category.
First off, your trite comment is goulish.
No, tens of thousands at Nagasaki, Hiroshima, Kobe, Tokyo, Yokohama were killed by a mixture of napalm incendiaries and high explosives.
Secondly, no claims were made that "nobody died."
The loons are coming out of the woodwork the fling logical fallacies.
Read the book, then maybe we can have a conversation.
I congratulate you on your successful reading of one book, all the the more so that it must be an extraordinarily interesting book, proving the inexistence of nuclear bombs.
Indeed it is.
Here's another:
https://mpalmer.heresy.is/webnotes/HR/download/hiroshima-revisited.pdf
I appreciate that he builds on the evidence provided by Nakatani, and provides some potential answers to a few of the second-order questions, "why" and "how" was this done?
The potential use of a blistering agent (mustard gas) was a missing piece, and a brilliant supposition (which fits with the inhuman evil of the culprits).
It must be stated, for all of those gnashing their teeth and trying to protect this sinking ship: science cannot prove, it can only disprove. The disproof stands unless it is refuted, in detail.
So far, ad-hominems and spittle are all that I have seen. Carry on!
He would have a difficult time convincing my uncle of that, who was forced to watch a nuclear test from Bikini Atoll, or the islanders who had to leave their former paradise because the land and sea were poisoned by radiation.
Back in 1968, at a party in London, I was introduced to a guy from MI6. He had returned from Jordan. He took a small plane and they went over Demona taking photos. The British at that time knew very well what the Israelis were planning.
They cooperated with South Africa to test their weapon.
The only thing surprising about your post is that there are four people who are so badly educated that they "liked" it.
Every now and then I look into what totally clueless people write. I don't know why I do that, because when you can see from a mile away the signs of people who seem to combine terrible educations with delusional thinking, so why expect anything but nonsense from them? But still, I suppose it's like visiting an insane asylum just to see with your own eyes the mental-pathology porn on display there.
I took a look at that link. You don't have to read very far into it to get to this: "There is a calm eye in this storm - the fact that nuclear weapons don’t work, don’t exist. This book explores the claim that nuclear weapons do not function, they are a large-scale hoax. I call this hoax the Fake Nuke Feint."
Alas, nuclear weapons do work, and they do so as a consequence of very basic science, sure as shootin' science, no doubt about it science, science just as certain as one plus one equals two in basic arithmetic.
I don't know who the guy is who wrote that book, but I don't need to know who he is to know the thesis of his book is totally, wildly wrong, just as wrong as the guy who gave me a ride once when I was a teenager and got a flat tire and my spare was flat as well and who seemed like a perfectly normal person until he started earnestly telling why the Earth was flat and not round.
I'm not even going to criticize the author for being an imbecile, because, it could be, he's a smart guy who has realized that he can make money writing books and posting stuff that people with really awful educations will buy, share, donate to and so on. He won't be the first smart, but shifty, guy to come up with a scam based on catering to the yearnings of the badly educated and easily fooled.
There are always some people who would like to be admired and praised, but who lack the knowledge or ability to attain their goals by normal means.
For them, inventing weird and wonderful propositions has often worked out well. Offhand I think of Erich von Daeniken and the saucer people.
Erich von D. wrote nice books that gave us some excitement and hope that there are others powerful and benevolent civilizations. It was part of my growing up. it was also instrumental in me seeing first hand that majority of people from whatever camp do not think but believe. Nature did not give me much of that but I also assume (I know I know) that certain things are at least satisfying models of reality that make our daily life possible. Whether they are really describing reality is another matter. And as long as the humanity cannot identify all flying objects then the UFO or whatever they are called now exist. Not necessarily as a saucers but as objects which existence is difficult to explain. Whether any civilization can master interstellar travel is with our current knowledge impossible to say.
As for the subject of nukes - for all we know they did exist. Whether the ones we have work is another matter. There have been batches of other munitions delivered to Ukraine that had a massive failure rate. It is my understanding that the nukes main explosive material decays and need to be maintained in working shape. It is also my understanding that the electronics and other components had to fulfill very specific requirements and need constant maintenance too. Still in the worst case we have dirty bombs. So there is that.
We will find out anyway when the nuclear fireworks start. The way the little land and its major sponsor behave we will see it rather sooner than later.
I like SF and fantasy too, but I prefer them to be identified as such.
I know you mean well, so let's think critically together.
"Whether the ones we have work is another matter." That's true. It's also why, just counting nuclear weapons produced and exploded by the US and USSR/Russia there have been over 70,000 nuclear explosives (warheads of various kinds for missiles and torpedos, bombs, demolition packages, experimental physics packages, etc.) produced and roughly 2,100 of them have been exploded to make sure they work. Add tests by the UK (45), France (210), China (45), India (6), Pakistan (6) and North Korea (6) and you get over 2,400. Those are rough numbers given that all nuclear tests haven't been reported, there's some gray areas as to what to count as a test (like a one point safety test that's not intended to generate a nuclear yield) and so on, but the numbers above are real, minimum numbers that are well documented by seismic records and so on.
All that testing has been going on for over 80 years, and trillions of dollars (in 2026 dollars) have been spent to make sure they work. About 530 of those explosions have been in the open atmosphere, many having occurred in locations now open to the public. The location of the very first shot in Alamagordo is opened to the public once a year (or used to be... don't know if they still do that...) but otherwise is protected to prevent people from scavaging trinitite there, the artificial rock that was created from the sand when the fireball from the very first shot superheated and pressurized the ground. As I write this I'm looking at the sample of trinitite I have on a bookshelf, a sample obtained legally many years ago when it was still possible to collect trinitite souvenirs. I also have samples from the equivalent Soviet artificial mineral, collected from the location of the first Soviet shot
The Earth is literally littered with massive amounts of incontrovertible evidence that nukes work, that they work very reliably and very well, and that staggering amounts of money and effort have been spent on continuous efforts for many, many years to ensure that current nuclear arsenals will, without doubt, continue to work very reliably and very well.
By the way, the evidence is around for anybody with a sound mind to examine for themselves, whether it is a visit to the South Pacific to see the stupendous craters left by many megaton open air detonations or whether it is to personally analyze the radioactive debris left by those explosions using equipment any sufficiently intelligent hobbyist can cobble up. In fact, it is interesting to note the public first learned that supposedly "inert" U238 contributed a significant part of the yield of the Alamagordo and Nagasaki as a result of analysis done on trinitite from Alamagordo by hobbyists.
"There have been batches of other munitions delivered to Ukraine that had a massive failure rate."
Whether or not munitions delivered to Ukraine have failure rates have nothing to do with the failure rates of weapons in the US's or Russia's nuclear arsenals. Conventional munitions like artillery shells do not cost a million dollars each and they are not subject to trillion-dollar quality assurance programs to ensure that they can be kept in storage for years and then will work with 98+ percent reliability. They are also not a matter of life and death for the countries that manufactured them, and the incentives for providing them to Ukraine do not include giving a shit about quality. In fact, the opposite is the case: many suppliers of weapons to Ukraine have prioritized virtue signalling and the looting of common budgets, not quality assurance. They've leaped at the chance to dump obsolete and no longer reliable munitions on Ukraine, avoiding the high cost of storing them, while clearing inventories to make way for re-supply of fresh stocks.
"It is my understanding that the nukes main explosive material decays and need to be maintained in working shape."
You need to become more acquainted with the basics of nuclear weapons, so you can sharpen sentences like the above to more accurately convey the thought. "Main explosive material" is a very fuzzy term. Do you mean the conventional explosives which are used to compress the primary's core to supercriticality? Do you mean the fissile material used in the primary's core? Do you mean the tritium-deuterium mixture used to boost the primary's core to enable a significant nuclear yield? Or do you mean degradation of the lithium-deuterium solid fuel in a weapon's secondary?
Neither plutonium nor uranium enriched to weapons grade "decays". Early production sometimes had problems with corrosion (literally, the material "rusting" in effect) of cores due to poor choices of plating materials, the corrosion possibly becoming severe enough to slightly reduce yield. But all that was identified by the trillion-dollar continuing quality assurance measures many decades ago. For many decades the physics packages of modern warheads have been designed as sealed units, sealed in hermetically-closed packages with higher pressure inside and inert gases, to ensure no corrosion. They also plate the key materials, like plutonium, with gold. That makes for a very beautiful pit.
With over 70,000 nuclear explosives manufactured to date, over the years they've had occasional problems with the conventional high explosives used deteriorating in unexpected ways. That's led to some costly retrofits. Again, for over 30 years they've used only highly stable explosives in almost all devices, with only a few retaining less stable (but with extra kick) explosives that have limited service lives. Those limited service life components get switched out regularly.
The boost gas bottles also get switched out regularly to ensure the tritium-deuterium mix has enough tritium in it to do the job (tritium has only a 12 year half life) without buildup of neutron-robbing helium. All routine and part of the regularly scheduled maintenance of nukes in active service.
Of the many other components that go into a nuke, from batteries to the fusion fuel, that may have a limited life, well, to deal with such routine stockpile issues is exactly why nuclear weapons states spend so many hundreds of billions and ultimately trillions on designing, building, testing, and maintaining devices that have very long service lives with minimized or simplified maintenance. They're designed and built at huge cost so they do *not* require "constant maintenance".
To take just one simple example, the tritium bottles for boost gas are stored outside the hermetically sealed physics package in modern warheads with an access panel in the re-entry vehicle base or bomb case that makes it easy to swap out the tritium bottle for a fresh one every few years. The boost gas system also includes helium scavenging so it doesn't have to be maintained constantly to remove helium from tritium decay.
In another example, nukes use thermal batteries that can sit around nearly forever without needing to be maintained or charged. A thermal battery is activated when a small pyroelectric charge is set off, causing the battery to ignite which liquifies/activates the electrolyte to energize the battery, so for the required time, a few minutes or whatever, it can provide the electric power required to run the warhead's fuses and other electronics and, ultimately, to fire the detonators that explode within the physics package.
The bottom line is that talk among amateurs that nukes might not work is very, very wrong. They'll work alright, with total failures counting everything in the launch, delivery, and explosion pipeline adding up to less than 2% failures, meaning 98% of them will indeed explode on target.
John, me and the boys have been working, in the basement, on a delivery system for our recently developed nuke and are just now tweaking the final details. Should be ready by Easter...
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/make-a-painting-of-a-elaborate-7_0pCjXARwSg_CE2LFhBDg
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Full steam ahead!
I don't know why you do this either, but I am heartfelt happy to see it done.
Different Day, Same Audience: "Ain't No Sech Thang As A Virus!"
The earth is flat.
All you need to do is to visit JTolanMedia1's YT channel - a super-smart guy, who buys and knows how to use some very high-tech equipment.
What he sees is that by using IR lenses and shooting from aircraft altitudes, you can frequently see hundreds of miles.
Same story when we are told that these US AESA radars they have recently been destroying in the Gulf states can see hundreds or thousands of miles.
Your problem is that you decided "when you were a teenager" that you knew more than the person who was explaining this to you.
Nothing stultifies the acquisition of knowledge more than thinking that you know it all already.
And its center is the White House, and Christ was crucified at Disneyland Park California.
What I find interesting is the smugness that often accompanies writers like these, as if it is a foregone conclusion that they are correct. I recall a website I read many years ago, stating factually that the "Government" had created a race of super soldiers by cross breeding the Yeti in Afghanistan with humans, who were secretly operating there. There literally dozens of pages of evidence, written quite convincingly.
Entire books on the internet are written this way. It must be gratifying for them to be able to write from their perspective of mental illness, knowing there are no consequences, and if there are they will just keep doubling down. I mean, just look at CBC, ABC, BBC, CNN, FOX, etc.
Many of them, for want of something more exciting to do, ended up on this Substack.
Well, I guess he is so badly educated that Fujitsu hired him.
And generally a "scam" has a payoff. What would that be?
But since you are obviously one of those "I fucking love science" SmartBois, I will ask you to back up your bloviating:
Show me a peer-reviewed paper on explosively densified metals. Any metal at all will do. Then we can talk.
But...I have a feeling I know how that will go.
"Show me a peer-reviewed paper on explosively densified metals. Any metal at all will do."
There are thousands of them. Read through the bibliography given in "A Technical History of America's Nuclear Weapons" by Peter A. Goetz. He has a very comprehensive bibliography of declassified US government documents such as technical reports from Los Alamos and Livermore weapons labs, Sandia reports, environmental impact statements (!) published by the US government and so on.
In fact, any university text book that covers equations of state will describe precisely the increase in density you get with a shockwave moving through solids, like metals. Doh.
I guess you also think that Werner Heisenberg was "badly educated?"
He also called bullshit on nukes, almost immediately. But of course, according to you, he can be dismissed as a crank.
But, I guess you read the foreward of the book, and that was enough for you.
Kindly keep you bloviating and self-aggrandizement out of the discussion from now on, eh?
What you write about Heisenberg is pure nonsense. Heisenberg was a key member of Nazi Germany's effort to build an atomic bomb. He gave up on that not because he didn't perfectly and totally understand that atomic bombs could be built, but that he didn't want to see Germany commit the effort and "120,000 men" he thought such a huge effort would require.
As the Wikipedia article on Heisenberg correctly notes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Heisenberg ) Heisenberg in detention in the UK after Germany's collapse was skeptical the US had actually built a bomb because he doubted the US would have committed the huge resources required at the time. He also made a simple error in his calculation of the critical mass required, which apparently was the result of a quick, back of the envelope calculation. No less a nuclear luminary than Dr. Strangelove himself, Edward Teller, remarked on reviewing Heisenberg's notes that it was a common error at the time and that Teller himself had made the same error.
So no, saying Heisenberg did not "believe" nuclear weapons were real is a complete and total lie, the sort of lie absolutely ignorant people tell each other but which those who have a basic physics education know are not only lies, but really stupid lies.
[Edited to add the following...]
I can't resist adding to the above, that Heisenberg's detention by the UK at a time when the UK was *hanging* former Nazis colored everything he said and did in detention. While you could make a case that the UK was unlikely to actually hang Heisenberg (after all, the US gave von Braun a pass for being a Nazi with thousands of prisoners killed building the facilities he used for his rocket experiments), knowing that people you've known and worked with are being hanged tends to have a strong effect.
There's no doubt now and there was no doubt at the time that Heisenberg was up to his neck in the Nazi atomic bomb project as a key player. He had a massive incentive to downplay his role in the bomb project and to downplay the project itself, and to use every bit of his formidable intelligence in doing so.
Some people have speculated that Heisenberg knew perfectly well that his off the cuff comments in the UK were wrong, but that he deliberately wrote those notes and comments so that a very smart person (like Teller) reviewing them would conclude that they indicated either the Nazi bomb project had never really got going or that Heisenberg had never really done any serious work on it, or possibly both. In other words, he planted evidence to show that he shouldn't be hanged for being a Nazi who had tried to develop a mass murder weapon.
Besides the incongruity of somebody as intensely smart as Heisenberg making such a simple mistake (Teller's narcissism was such he couldn't contemplate the reality that Heisenberg was much smarter than him so he was glad to be able to say somebody of Heisenberg's caliber had made the same mistake that he, Teller, had made), there is the circumstantial evidence that before and after his sojourn in the UK Heisenberg showed clear and very deep mastery of nuclear physics.
It's one of those interesting "history of science" deals, but what it definitely does *not* indicate is any belief by Heisenberg that nuclear weapons were fakes.
The earth is flat, da moon is cheeZ
Moon is plasma.
Its light is significantly colder than background temperature.
I have proved this for myself.
Then that settles that!
Here's an interesting vid on the fake moon.....lander.
I shit you not that some people still imagine that $lumvillains landed on the (fake) moon with this "real" clown made moon lander. Onward to Mars!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6vAiyUIQog&t=8s
As he said, "Does this look like cardboard to you?"
Er ---- yep.
What are you yourself?
It certainly would be NICE if nuclear weapons didn't exist. Unfortunately, they do.
https://youtube.com/shorts/-HSWl4XB3mI?si=01NHWyxPYu0OeoDJ
https://youtu.be/LLCF7vPanrY?si=u-_4jB-gPm2886pL
928 nuclear tests...I guess they wanted to double check their work.
Thanks for the JerryJoseph Jack Mormon link-absolutely tip-top. Bookmarked.
My son worked with Mormons in Alaska and knew many "Jack (lapsed) Mormons". He had some stories. I tried selling my wife on joining their tribe, based on the multiple wives benefit. She was okay with the magic underwear part of my sale but the "sister wives" part of my sales pitch was a non-starter.
Your music link-much appreciated!
Here's Leon Thomas on the Vietnam biz. <<link::
https://youtu.be/tvXVPbZcupE?si=NO_oJ5v0DsZKGfoI
'But every day that goes by, every year that goes by, with exactly -zero- nuclear weapons used (ever), drives another nail into the coffin of "newks."'
Just as every day that goes by without an asteroid crashing into the Earth proves that no asteroids exist.
Indeed.
I carry a special stone in my pocket that wards off elephants. I know it works because I've never met an elephant.
I claim no expertise Totality, but if nuclear weapons don't exist, do nuclear power stations exist?
If they do exist, why don't nuclear weapons exist?
And if the power stations don't exist, what happened at Fukushima and Chernobyl?
Thank you.
Oh, don't bring logic into this, it will absolutely spoil the fun.
Why would anyone doubt nuclear power plants? Their existence and function are a strong factor in -why- explosive nuclear reactions cannot exist.
There is an interesting dichotomy inherent in nuclear vs. chemical processes. They do not scale in the same way.
I call this the "campfire/TNT equivalency fallacy."
In chemical processes, a campfire releases energy slowly, producing useful light and heat. A stick of TNT can release a similar amount of energy all at once, in the form of high velocity gas.
These are both chemical processes.
The "nuke hoax" exploits people's ignorance about the massive difference between chemical and nuclear phenomena.
A nuclear power plant uses a fuel source (typically U-238) along with a "moderator" (in the early days, consisting of graphite bricks, later water, and today usually a mixture of water and boron alloys). The moderator acts to control the nuclear chain reaction by slowing fast neutrons (interestingly enough, it is counterintuitive to most people that fast neutrons are very poor at initiating nuclear chain reactions). A reaction requires enough slow neutrons interacting with nuclei to trigger the chain reaction.
Alleged "nuclear weapons" do not have moderators. Hence, no capability of initiating a chain reaction.
Hopefully this is useful. I am certain it is more useful than the verbal diarrhea from Privates Billy.
@Totality451
I never know when reading ultracrepidarian blatherskite "nukes are a psyop" genre comments. Are you (fairly lame) trolls or just people who went to a US public school after the Reagan administration destroyed those?
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It's not real if you couldn't see it? I've seen some ground signatures with my own two eyes.
I personally have seen the Storax Sedan crater on a Nevada test site tour, they wouldn't let us bring cameras on that tour but it was IMPRESSIVE. I took a dive trip that visited Bikini Atoll back when they would let live aboard sport diver tourists go there, that's more about the sunken ships they used for damage assessment.
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No matter, the solution for a blockhead is a block.
Thanks for trying Totality. I don't have the background in Physics to evaluate your response, but I appreciate it.
A cigarette butt, there it is, poorly extinguished.
@Totality451. They do exist. If one gets used, it's not Hiroshima, it is Hiroshima x 500, which means if one Sarmat 28 gets used, the UK will be gone.
With great destructive power comes great responsibilty.
There is another concurrent issue, that if one gets used the chances are very large that there will be an all out exchange, so about 8000 such explosions.
What happens then, is all the satellites we have flying in the sky will come tumbling down or worse case start burning in low earth orbit.
That is why even small dial-able strategic nukes don't get fired, because it can lead to the real END.
END of life on the surface of this rock in space.
I hope that helps.
Optimum,
I believe that -you- believe that, for whatever reason.
But no, there's still a 0.00% chance that will happen.
Can you (and this goes for all the "newk defenders" tripping over themselves to try to blackwash Nakatani) focus on refuting his material instead of making grand expository rants about -your beliefs,- which are divorced from logic?
Nobody has addressed the material.
All good, I will just concentrate on physics, chemistry and a rather wide and indepth material science knowledge. It has worked pretty well throughout my life to explain, produce and understand stuff. I guess I'm one of the lucky ones to receive a superb education and being able to put it to use.
You can do, feel and believe anything you want ‘newk denier’.
Peace
Probably for the best.
Though usually if someone is able to master adjacent fields, it provides them with the ability to assimilate new information. So don't sell yourself short, I suggest you keep studying.
Here's an excellent follow-on work by an MD that dives deeper into the specifics of the Hiroshima hoax:
https://mpalmer.heresy.is/webnotes/HR/download/hiroshima-revisited.pdf
I appreciate that he references the soil and radiation survey, and shows that what small amounts of Uranium were found, were in the wrong ratios to indicate a bomb. In fact, it lends more weight to the "dirty bomb" fork, which would make sense. The "preview test shot" at Trinity was acknowledged as 108 long-tons of TNT laced with radioisotopes, so there is existing precedent just within the "Manahatto Project" itself.
Also, I remind you of the eyewitness testimony of Alexandr P. Seversky, the BDA (bomb damage assessment) expert brought in by the Air Force after the attacks:
"After visiting the major areas of the Pacific, I arrived in Japan. I began the study to which I had been assigned by making an aerial tour of the islands of Honshu and Kyushu, which encompass the main portion of industrial Japan. I flew over Tokyo, Yokohama, Yokosuka, Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, Akashi, and dozens of other towns and cities which had been subject to intensive air attack. Some of these towns are so close together that they seem almost continuous industrial sites.
All of these areas of annihilation presented approximately the same visual pattern. The smaller towns were totally burned out. Seen from above the prevailing color was pinkish — the effect produced by the piles of ashes and rubble mixed with rusted metal. Similar pinkish carpets were spread out in the larger cities, except that among them stood large and small modern concrete buildings and factory structure, unscathed bridges, and other objects that had withstood the impact. Many of the buildings, of course, were gutted by fire, but this was not apparent from the air.
I was keyed up for my first view of an atom-bombed city, prepared for the radically new sights suggested by the exciting descriptions I had read and heard. But to my utter astonishment, Hiroshima from the air looked exactly like all the other burned-out cities I had observed!
There was a familiar pink blot, about two miles in diameter. It was dotted with charred trees and telephone poles. Only one of the city’s twenty bridges was down. Hiroshima’s clusters of modern buildings in the downtown section stood upright. It was obvious that the blast could not have been so powerful as we had been led to believe. It was extensive blast rather than intensive. I had heard of buildings instantly consumed by unprecedented heat. Yet here I saw the buildings structurally intact, and what is more, topped by undamaged flag poles, lightning rods, painted railings, air raid precaution signs and other comparatively fragile objects.
At the T-bridge, the aiming point for the atomic bomb, I looked for the “bald spot” where everything presumably had been vaporized in the twinkling of an eye. It wasn’t there or anywhere else. I could find no traces of unusual phenomena. What I did see was in substance a replica of Yokohama or Osaka, or the Tokyo suburbs - the familiar residue of an area of wood and brick houses razed by uncontrollable fire. Everywhere I saw the trunks of charred and leafless trees, burned and unburned chunks of wood. The fire had been intense enough to bend and twist steel girders and to melt glass until it ran like lava - just as in other Japanese cities.
The concrete buildings nearest to the center of explosion, some only a few blocks from the heart of the atom blast, showed no structural damage. Even cornices, canopies and delicate exterior decorations were intact. Window glass was shattered, of course, but single-panel frames held firm; only window frames of two or more panels were bent and buckled. The blast impact therefore could not have been unusual."
(Reader’s Digest 1946 Alexander P. de Seversky)
So nuclear power stations exist but not nuclear bombs.
hell of a conspiracy theory.
Thank you for the book reference
Roman, my thanks to you for being cordial.
Here is a follow-up work that builds on Nakatani's:
https://mpalmer.heresy.is/webnotes/HR/download/hiroshima-revisited.pdf
I expect the wailing and beating of breasts to continue apace.
“How many times have I said that trickery is the way of war? Is that really such a radical and controversial notion? This has been known since the Trojan Horse. The great Chinese general Zhu Geliang (181-234 CE) was celebrated for baffling the enemy with his infinite tricks and scams. The world has been at continuous war since the middle of the last century with no end in sight. Though I deplore the inhumanity and waste of it all, deep down I’d frankly be a little disappointed if the leaders and ‘powers that be’ were not creative and energetic enough to come up with some really good scams from time to time, like this nuclear thing. But now maybe enough is enough.”
Interesting read!
Thanks.
What about the Bikini Islands?
Paddy,
What about them? Nobody is disputing that explosions happened. But this was right after WW2, and there was, shall we say, quite a bit of -spare- and no longer required ordnance laying around.
But I will leave this here for your enjoyment:
mileswmathis.com/bikini.pdf
Man, that is so *intensely* wrong on so many levels. To get it that wrong you can't know anything about WW2, the explosives used in that war, or, for that matter, the physical reality of test sites like Enewetak atoll.
The Ivy Mike shot, the world's first two-stage, radiation imploded thermonuclear shot generated a yield of over 10 megatons of explosive force. That's four to five times *more* explosive power than *all* of the conventional explosives dropped by all sides in World War II (roughly 2–3 million tons of TNT).
That shot, not even the biggest nuclear shot ever, vaporized the islet of Elugelab and left a crater. Anybody with an IQ over 40 can hop on google and use search terms like "enewetak atoll craters" and then click the "Images" to see the various huge craters left on that atoll from tests. The Wikipedia entry on Elugelab at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elugelab has before and after shots that show where the vaporized islet used to be. For that matter, use search terms like "aerial view of nevada test site showing craters" and click on Images to see the hundreds of subsidence craters at the Nevada test site.
There is nothing, no non-nuclear explosive, that can create such enormous craters or the underground cavities, chimneys, and resulting subsidence craters that dot the Test Site. Anybody with even an elementary knowledge of geology knows that.
The world is full of absolutely incontrovertible evidence that nuclear weapons exist and have exploded over 2,400 times with about 530 of those explosions in the open atmosphere. Anybody with a bit of spare time and cash can go visit some of those locations where open air locations have happened. Semipalatinsk (now in Kazakhstan) is easy to tour. There were 116 open air shots at that site with 30 of those surface or near-surface bursts
Although you're not supposed to do it, many of the tourists that visit the Semipalatinsk test site collect souvenir pieces of the artificial rocks created by the surface blasts. As I mentioned in another post, I have one of those pieces, collected when it was still legal to do so. Those rocks and other debris from the Semipalatinsk site contain a vast array of radionuclides created by the nuclear explosions that occurred. Nothing in nature or artifice other than a nuclear explosion creates the particular mix of isotopes in such samples that a nuclear explosion does. You can't fake it by cooking samples in a nuclear reactor, because the neutron flux you get with a reactor doesn't all arrive at the necessary intensity and energy levels in a few microseconds like you get with a nuclear blast. That timing is essential to breed a cascade of isotopes from some of the extremely short lived isotopes first created. Spread out the neutron flux in time or energy and you get a completely different mix of isotopes.
It turns out that instruments which can measure radiation spectra from bomb debris to see what went on in the nuclear explosion aren't so hard to cobble up. It's been done since shortly after the very first blast. Herbert L. Anderson (a colleague of Fermi) and his team took samples of trinitite and soil from the Alamogordo crater to see the relative contributions of fission in plutonium and in the u238 tamper to the total 21 kt yield.
Later in 1995 a paper published in American Journal of Physics showed that a straightforward gamma-ray analysis of a small piece of trinitite could accurately determine the Trinity device's yield and reveal the "secret" physics of how the u238 tamper contributed to the device's yield. Almost 31% of the device's yield came from u238, with just under 70% coming from plutonium.
Since then many amateurs have been using home-brew equipment to replicate the 1995 paper's findings, and to extend the art to analyzing nuclear explosion debris from other sites.
A typical "how to do it" article for analyzing trinitite comes from physicsopenlab.org: https://physicsopenlab.org/2018/12/19/trinitite/
There's also a pretty big "Gamma Spectrometry" community out there online, with groups like GammaSpectrometry.groups.io. Members frequently share spectra of Trinitite samples they’ve purchased, often discussing how the ratio of isotopes confirms the use of a natural uranium tamper and its contribution to the yield.
Bottom line, if you're not a truly badly educated, stupid, and gullible fool, the world is full of absolutely incontrovertible evidence that you yourself can collect and use to prove that nuclear weapons are very real. In fact, you can not only prove that nuclear weapons are very real, you can even do some very useful "citizen scientist" work to pull back a bit some of the classification curtains and learn for yourself some formerly classified details about some of the devices that have been exploded.
Hey John, in my reply above, I showed you a picture of the hypocenter of Trinity. Here it is again:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/61/Trinity_Test_-_Oppenheimer_and_Groves_at_Ground_Zero_001.jpg
Aside from the big glaring problem with the steel support tower being unmelted (solidus and liquidus transition temperatures being very similar for steel and glass), there's exactly no evidence of soil vitrification.
I'm not doubting there's a group looking at the Trinitite tektites. They are fascinating. But they did not originate due to any "bombs." Tektites (aerodynamically vitrified micro-bolides) can be found all over the Mojave desert. I know, I have found dozens of them. They all pop a Geiger counter to a greater or lesser degree.
Visual evidence (low temperatures at the blast site) definitively rules out any vitrification at Trinity (since if it is hot enough to vitrify the soil, it is hot enough to liquify steel). Again, I'm really looking forward to how you are going to try to explain that.
And you are really going to bring the Bikini song and dance into this? You are a glutton for punishment.
To reiterate, nothing regarding the craters on the seabed can -only- be explained by the use of "nukes."
And I can almost feel the spittle flying from your unhinged retorts.
Calm down, before you do yourself an injury.
See my response above re: "Operation Big Bang" (the destruction of Heligoland using conventional explosives). Linky here because you are clearly lazy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Big_Bang
Based on the size of the craters, I calculate that less than 2.2kt of explosives would have been required. And since most of the vessels sunk at Bikini were warships, it would have made sense to have them "bring their own party favors." Also an excellent way to be rid of surplus or unstable munitions. Win-win-win.
It's a good thing you aren't a detective, you would be the worst detective since Clouseau.
And it's clear that this has really gotten you excitable and all in a tizzy.
You keep swearing up and down about the existence of all this "proof," but the only thing you are succeeding at is providing more opportunities to show evidence that they don't exist.
You are a classic "educated beyond your capacity to think logically and rationally" case.
Perhaps dial down the rhetoric, and work on your grammar and logic?
Miles Mathis was a CIA shill
Maybe that's the answer, Gisela.
If every country in the world had nukes, the world would be more peaceful.
It sounds good in theory.
Lol
Until one day someone used one... or more.
There is a theory that if everyone habitually carried a loaded gun, society would be more polite.
If wishes were horses, beggars would ride...
I read a sci-fi novel in the sixties about a post-apocalypse world in which every small city had their own nukes, and could drop one from a helicopter. Thesis was, it kept little cities from getting too big, too rich, too advanced to suit their neighbors. Didn't stop isolated drops, but there was no mechanism for escalation at scale.
in a post-apocalypse cities there would be no helicopters, nukes, trucks, washing mashines, refrigerators, gas-stations, the list is endless
The setting was centuries later. But I don’t think plausibility was at the top of the author’s priority list, anyway.
I saw a bumper sticker on a car in Texas that read...
"an armed society is a polite society"
Before I saw this bumper sticker, my long time fave bumper sticker read...
"I love cats...dead cats"
<<the world would be more peaceful....>>
The Americans tried it in Vietnam and this was the result...
https://youtu.be/PmILOL55xP0?si=gBc1qRSSuxPzj43F
https://youtu.be/aFiO7iX3ezE?si=kRWvT71BbE7ocWvA
Seconds from the impact and moving way too slow.
"Who's Next?"
By the immortal Tom Lehrer:
https://youtu.be/oRLON3ddZIw?si=0m8EpBDChuKgukPL
Many alt media sites and their commentors continue to imply that if Trump does withdraw, the war will be over - as if the end of the war is in his hands. They continue to say that Iran will be open to a negotiated end as soon as the child-killing USrael withdraws or stops fighting. This is, from Iran's view, mistaken, as they have repeatedly indicated that the war's end is in their hands, not anyone else's and that it will continue until Iran feels the enemies have been punished enough.
I believe that explicitly means that the US is pushed out of West Asia, all its bases destroyed or permanently disabled, all West Asian financial dependencies on USreal are broken, the child-killing Palestine occupation regime is disarmed and dismantled and a new one-state solution is made possible where all religions can live in peace together with equal rights for all.
The war is in Iran's hands, full stop.
You should listen to better media. I recommend Glenn Diesen. His show is excellent as are his guests. I have it on in the background most of the day. You can get most of his interviews on Youtube still: though I am not sure how much longer that will be the case, since he defies the U.S., EU, and Israeli censors.
I do access his site. Perhaps you didn't catch the "many" alt sites I indicated.
GD is absolutely one of the best.
Fully concur with your description of him.
> You should listen to better media.
How so? What is wrong with Victor's comment?
Yeah! what's wrong with my comment? 😉
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Best analyst is Brian Berletic, The New Atlas on Youtube, also Ben Norton. Diesen has good guests but is a bit of a dope.
There is no possibility whatsoever that the regime you mention will ever be able to live in harmony with the goyim,. whom they consider to be animals disguised as men so as better to serve them.
Khazarael is an ethnosupremacist state of the ultimate worst kind, and there can only ever be temporary accommodations with it - left unchecked and emancipated, it will always begin to grow a new head, whose only thought is the destruction of those goyim.
It's like Japanese Knotweed, or the Cane Toad.
Khazarael delenda est.
You are likely correct as long before the zionist ideology came into being, these chosen ones were thrown out of virtually every country they moved into and even when thrown out found ways to return and disrupt again (usually through usury, bribes and deception). I can understand a people self-identifying as victims if they are thrown out of a country, but out of virtually every country over a period of thousands of years? Come on, man!
Dhdh said exactly the same thing a few days ago.
It is the highest proportion of Neanderthal DNA on this planet that drives them which they are carefully trying to hide since the beginning of times. Practically the whole of the planet was tested for this (including the Sub-Saharan Black population) except the cosmopolitan gang.
Those who are Christians understand the essence of this situation; the jew is "Of his father the devil," as the Creator stated, long before the concept of "hate speech" was introduced by them so as to shackle the minds of the goyim, thus limiting their ability to "notice."
Cain was their first iteration, and probably even non-Christians know what he did.
a psychopath support group basically masqueraded as a 'culture/religion'
How's Ohio, barbarian?
Good!
And NYC?
Crown Heights?
Don't know, but the ATL is under storm.
Correct. Iran has unequivocally stated they will decide when it ends.
And that will be when all us infrastructure is destroyed (financial as well as military), along with the illegal Zionist state.
Perhaps you're right mate.
But those are maximalist aims.
As much as this war is hurting the USA and Israel, it's hurting Iran too.
A compromise is surely possible.
I think the Iranians want to be safe more than they want to punish the aggressors.
Sure the Israelis will continue to aspire to dominate their neighbours, but without massive American support that's a pipe dream.
They aren’t my words John.
I directly quoted their spokesmen. I wasn’t reading between the lines or misinterpreting.
They are not interested in compromises, ceasefires, etc.
They stated they won’t stop and will ensure shitrael will never attack them ever again.
And the US will be evicted militarily and economically from West Asia.
Iran also is demanding reparations and have stated if not paid they will cause damage of US property to an equivalent value.
They have stated that they will decide when the war ends.
Absolutely. When people are fighting for their lives, they might want safety, but destroying their enemies are more important to obtain that end.
Personally, and I would lose no sleep if I was wrong, I don't think destroying Israel is realistic. (I don't think the West would allow it).
Defanging it, otoh, might be?
They may not really have a choice -- if they have nothing else to shoot. Should that occur, of course they could continue like Hezbollah who persist despite having only a fraction of the resources that Iran does. I'd consider that more of an ongoing terrorist (or freedom fighter depending on your point of view) action rather than a war. I'm not saying they will run out of offensive weapons, merely that that is one possibility for the war ending.
this can change and as much as I would like them to punch the noses of Donnie the Magnificent and mad Bibi bloody I also understand that any regime may cease to exist if the populations stops supporting it because it has nothing to eat and now water to drink. That is what apparently is happening in Cuba now and that is what broke the neck of the Assad regime. OTOH you may be right that they may be smarter than the Russians in that they attack the bases from they are being attacked. Russians did not - they even let the attacks on their nuclear infra go unpunished as they let the US military unpunished lead the attacking Ukrainian drones and cruise missiles reach the ships on the black sea.
In any case their view on this may change at some point. Taking the statements of the government at face value is naive whatever the government you listen to is.
The Iranian people will not allow them to stop. Have you seen what the public is saying each night when they come out on to the streets? They want the Zionist threat gone. For ever.
As for face value it would be foolish to think they are bluffing or underestimate them (as the Zionist sub-human animals did). China and Russia are behind them and want the same result.
That's my understanding of Iran's position and I believe there is a good chance they'll continue to hold that position barring unforeseen developments that threaten their very existence. It's not called an "existential war" for nothng. As to the possibility of a "one-state solution...", I have my doubts that such an outcome is possible even if Iran were victorious and wished it so. The enmity between the descendants of the pre-Balfour Declaration original inhabitants of Palestine and the post-WWII Khazari occupiers is a gulf too wide and too irreconcilably deep to allow for a single state; the Gaza genocide proved that to my chagrined satisfaction.
Iran won't get nuclear weapons. It would do them no good, as they could still be attacked - they wouldn't use the nukes, just like Israel isn't using nukes in this war.
Also, nukes have to be delivered, and you better be sure that you can deliver them with 100 percent certainty. Iran can't do that. Not to mention that they would of course be hit right back if they used nukes. So getting nukes is meaningless.
You are just spewing garbage. Please educate yourself, so you don't look ridiculous.
They wouldn’t be getting attacked if they had nukes, just as NK isn’t getting attacked now.
Your Israel example is a poor one, Israel attacked Iran who are only firing back in self defence. Because Israel has nukes, Iran would never unilaterally initiate attacks.
Nukes are the only true defence in the modern world.
and why should he not?
Khamenei pere had issued a fatwah +20 years ago that Iran was not to pursue or build nucluear weapons. you see what that got him, he and his grandchild murdered in a missile strike.
Khamenei fils is almost certain to do this now, and i suspect that pere allowed himself to be killed so easily partly as a means of martyring himself and partly to refute his own fatwah.
regardless, the Axis of Epstein must be defeated. whether via the US courts or Iran makes little difference.
And the funny thing is nobody sends ships to save Trumpy... Not even France. The Gulf States likely figured out that Iran is holding the ‘dead man’s switch’ and that is 400 or so desalination plants and giant oil processing plants all around the Gulf. That happens to be called the ‘Persian Gulf’ and there is no accident there. If Iran disassembles the water and oil plants life will become pointless and short for the Arab States. No amount of gold can buy enough water that will be delivered fast enough to save their miserable lives. An unhappy ending for all.
We all knew this, the Iranians made it very, very clear. How could the US with their trillion dollar military be so inept?
Well, maybe because we have a national guard Major running SecDef and a retired Air Force general ten years, dusted off and brought in to run the battle. Trump is even worse than the Cheney/Rumsfeld crowd.
And they have to pledge allegiance to the flag. The Israeli one.
And head butt the Wall.
Lmao.
Because the U.S. president is a dotard who pays no mind to anyone except his zionist friends: Adelson, Singer, Netanyahu, Witkoff, and Kushner. No one, except Trump, in his cabinet, his military, or his avisor crowd thought that this was a good idea, so far as I can tell. It was only Trump and his legion of zionist Jews and Evangelical Christians who wanted this war.
"Evangelical Christians" aka jews.
True. Some use the term "judeo-Christian" for these people who argue the same Old Testament nonsense from Leviticus, Deuteronomy, etc. etc. rather than the New Testament and the life of J.C. of Nazareth... They're basically wannabes. A widespread cult or heresy if you like.
As we say, "The New Testament is in the Old concealed; the Old in the New revealed."
For example, the very first word in the Old is "Barasheet."
This ostensibly is translated as "In the beginning," but if you read it from its letters, which uniquely in palaeohebrew mean something individually, you find the transcendental statement, "The Son of God will die by His own hand upon a cross."
By the same token, "YHVH" is read as "Behold the hand, Behold the nail."
Judaism, of course, has nothing whatsoever to do with the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob - it is the "Traditions of the Elders," ie the rabbis, which Christ condemned unreservedly.
The people who loaned all that money for drilling (very short life span & abysmal EROEI) fracked oil/gas wells in USA are pretty darned happy with the new war. Also the people who built tar sands strip mines & extra heavy crude oil operations needing steam & solvent injection at even worse EROEI in Canada, they are quite pleased with West Asia being blockaded.
Trump took large campaign contributions disguised as bribes that made him impeachment proof as long as he does their bidding.
For some reason I don't think NuttyYooHoo will be holding any meetings on this mortal coil.
Never confuse an evangelical Christian with a Zionist Christian. We aren't the same. I am beginning to doubt those who proclaim they are Zionist are Christian. Zionism is a heresy.
Yes. I probably should have been clearer in my statement, because I too am what you might call an "Evangelical Christian," assuming that Evangelical means evangelist of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, which repudiates Jewish false messiahs claiming to be creating the Kingdom of God. Netanyahu, in my opinion, is just another in a long line of Jewish false messiahs, and it boggles my mind why Christians would support him. It is akin to following Simon bar Kohkba rather than Christ.
I think you mean "bribes disguised as campaign contributions."
I do, didn't catch it until after I sent it and no edit feature.
The three dots top right will help in future.
The US reminds me of one of those men who rely on steroids to pump their muscles up; and yet the very drug they rely on to appear more masculine, is actually shrinking their dicks whilst it enhances their muscles - plus of course it produces the well-known "roid rage" we have heard about, and perhaps suffered as a result of; certainly if you are being subjected to some sort of "Epic Fury" at the moment.
The US is really quite a pathetic entity, and Iran is proving this to them every day, and in every way.
lol, Tim.
The moral is you gotta give somethin to get somethin.
Works great until bed time.
lol
Iran right now is the Bruce Lee absolutely humiliating the slow moving gym-gorilla who has abused everyone on the street for decades, and everyone is standing around clapping... except the bully's goons, who aren't showing their faces, and have a good idea the gravytrain is over.
I'm also quite horrified by Trumps social media posts. They are so childlike and immature, that you would think that the stupidest MAGA Murican would be too embarrassed to support him. Sure doesn't say much for their cognitive abilities.
Ever had the misfortune to hold in your hands a UK tabloid newspaper Dacoelec?
The imbecility leeches into your skin.
20-30% of the UK/US public have been so badly educated (Not their fault), all they can intellectually handle is WWE or Marvel 'superhero' nonsense.
This is the world the anglo 'elites' wanted us to live in.
The sad thing is, there is no cure for stupid.
Pete Hegseth much?
I can tell you for sure that steroids don't shrink your dick. They can cause your nuts to atrophy and shrink. Roid rage is just bullshit. Some muscled up punk decides he is a bad-ass. Kick him in the balls. Even if they are atrophied it is still very painful.
" ... Erectile dysfunction is a real risk. A 2022 review found that sexual dysfunction — particularly ED — is one of the most significant consequences of anabolic steroid abuse..... "
" ... Roid rage (also known as steroid rage[5]) is a side effect of the use of anabolic steroids which is described as dramatic mood swings, increased feelings of hostility, impaired judgment, and increased levels of aggression.[6] The term "roid rage" became popular in the 1980s.[7] ... "
Yeah, I have known or been acquainted with hundreds of men using anabolic steroids, including myself. It's usually the scrawny punks that bulked up fast that decide size means tough. They are bad-ass until they get kicked in their atrophied nuts.
It's a dinosaur - massive powerful body, deadly weapons, teeny tiny brain.
Don't forget the feathers.
One difference is, small brains or no (There is some dispute now on that), the dinosaurs weren't THAT stupid as to destroy themselves. It took a MASSIVE asteroid to end their rule.
Yep, we are ruled by people who are objectively stupider than dinosaurs.
Wow, 400 desalinization plants and oil processing plants needing protection all around the PERSIAN GULF - and the US focus was to serve Israel’s needs by attacking Iran - abandoning us all - a new genocide awaits in the Persian Gulf- what happened to America First?
Reality therapy for the world - the rogue states are clearly the US and Israel. But no one can tell the emperors they are wearing no clothes. Only option is to abandon them to their own fate or intervene to take them from this precipice in a manner that allows Trump to save face. Somehow I don’t see how this could be accomplished. Stalemate - who could intervene to create a lasting peace and compromise when the aggressors have backed themselves into these positions. The outcome is too ugly to contemplate.
No one addresses any reality or that our world is being destroyed by a mad man - the existential threat originally facing Iran has come home to roost in the US.
Are there no adults left in the room? When the whole country feeds DJTs illusions and delusions to the detriment of not only our country but the world what will the outcome be? What can it be?
Trump is clearly not mentally well. He is dangerous and needs to go.
We have had 2 old men with mental problems as president in a row.
It wouldn't surprise me if there were lots of conversations and plans going on to remove him. The Republicans should let the Democrats go ahead and impeach him for not bringing the approval for attacking Iran to Congress.
This would mean putting the country ahead of their AIPAC and MIC money, so don't expect it to happen quickly.
This is my belief also.
Placing into a timeline the Trump I and Trump 2 periods and the related wars and genocides started and cultivated it is absurdly impossible to visualize a more pro-Israel president than Trump.
Loyalty for the cosmopolitans is far more valuable than sanity or intellectual strength. Compared to Trump, Vance is an untested quantity. He will surely toe the party line but possibly with somewhat less enthusiasm than orange. He might import ten million Indians to the US just to make sure his wife will perform all her duties in the home environment.
> .... but they might decide he's bad publicity or has served his usefulness out ....
So, they might JFK him.
The Democrats are even more beholden to AIPAC than the Republicans.
The current 'leadership' maybe. The voters themselves... no.
Trump is doing the dirty work for the democrats and europeans.
Hence, the constant bitching about process and optics, but never about the war itself.
To be fair, republicans did something similar during the Afghanistan pullout.
As you say, the entire Congress is jewish-owned territory, so neither wing of the deep state bird will dare to go against its paymaster.
I don't think Trump is mentally unwell so much as spiritually unwell.
His brain has been infected with judaic principles, so he is no more dangerous than any other jew.
Lots of chatter about re the 25th, but what do people think are the odds of a coup by military not infected with the Zionist virus?
Virtually the entire nation is infected with it - the jews have been extremely successful in getting the goyim to believe their fake history from at least since the end of WW2, when they first spun their holocaust hoax.
And it's been 24/7 ever since.
Probably fewer than a handful have held out against their malign propaganda.
Maybe look at mrff.com and understand that the US military is overrun with Evangelical Christians who want this war to go on so that Christ will return.
Hegseth is in that group.
If they actually were Christians, rather than faux jews, they would know that something called "Tribulation" has to come first, which involves the massive persecution of Christians, and their beheading en masse, as per the jewish Noahide laws.
They seem to have all been sucking at the poisoned teat of John Hagee, one of the very worst exponents of this kind of judaistic trash.
No matter what they tell the rubes, the Hegseths don't believe a word of it, otherwise they would not so frantically lay up for themselves treasures on earth.
Which means — he is very dangerous indeed!!
Trump IS mentally unwell, to keep making ridiculous claims the whole world can see are not true, and to now begging Russia and China the way he does, no the conclusion can be reached than mentally unwell, and that is putting it very politely.
I think he is basically the same kind of a typical American product of a psychopath-loving society he's always been.
I remember back in 2006 or so when I lived in LA everyone loved watching his reality BS show were he hamulated people on his BS reality show.
Most Americans still wish to be like him, wealthy, flashy, a real full blown psychopath without any mercy, honor, humanity - as all psychoapaths worldwide have always been.
so called Democrats are just jealous - they also want to be like him - even Obushama said something in the past about how he loved JUSSA because people can become like Trump... that's why there is no cure to JUSSA's slef-inflicted harm
This is called the judaization of what was once a Christian society - even if in name only.
Funny what you say about the success of Trump’s TV show (and frankly his election). It comes to show that there is a significant section of the class of ‘ordinary people’ that are not very nice.
In Britain we have this series, “Peaky Blinders’ which is just a shameless glamorisation of gangsterism, like The Wire but without the realistic social consequences side.
It’s vile, let me tell you. And yet they keep on churning series after series. After the third episode I clocked the fascistic undercurrent of the whole treatment and carried watching just to see what kind of come-uppance they’d get, when someone with balls would be introduced that’d kill the whole criminal, parasitic family.
I don’t think they’ve come up to write them out yet, despite all the years it’s been running. People like them too much, they find them sexy.
I had to stop after an episode in which they cut the throat of a working class father who refereed the local amateur football league for refusing to help the family’s chosen team win, solely out of principle. I couldn’t take any more after that.
I don’t know how anyone could enjoy week after week of that. And yet, the Brits love this kind of shit. They didn’t follow their leaders round the world for nothing after all.
Last year I was reading an anthology of essays by Orwell, in which he wrote that the English admire power. I’m not sure if he specified the working class. And yes, I could see the truth of his words 70 and 80 years later.
Who was it that said "the biggest enemy of the working class, is the working class"?
I haven't watched that CC, but I found the same with the US show 'Walking Dead'.
The psychopathy is TOO obvious.
All/nearly all of the 'Superhero' films run on the same ethos - as Alan Moore pointed out decades ago. But not quite to the same level.
That's correct. This filth emanates from the US and is designed to infect as many as possible; the normalisation of violence and money; and the people who pedal it make money and win awards etc. It's disgusting.
Well put. Huge numbers of brainwashed Americans are infected; you have to live there for a while as an outsider to witness the insanity, the psychopathic worship of violence and money etc.. Thanks for posting.
WHICH Trump? The short fat Trump? Is he the gamma writing page-long posts of not entirely comprehensible bafflegarble? The one snuffling up to maybe-dead Bibi, trying to get a pat on the head?
Reading that Melania slapped 'one of the' Trumps' hand away when he tried to hold her hand raises a question of how blackmailed SHE is! Is Baron safe? Other Trump offspring? Trump himself?
According to some in the alt media who have contacts inside the U.S. administration, there are those within considering invoking the 25th amendment. The man is obviously stark, raving mad at this point. His posts are literally the ravings of a lunatic.
no he is just a typical American who's inherited his wealth.
The kind most Americans always wanted to be like
that's the real tragedy
I had quite a lot of money. Still after a few years I felt as if I had already died every time I returned to JUSSA from traveling to Argentina, Serbia, Australia etc. It was even worse in Canadistan - a true tranny gulag
Yes, he really is frothing at the mouth.
US Leaders may be chosen for their deficits and ability to follow orders. No president acts unilaterally he is part of a hidden cabal in this case the Zionists and Oligarchs appear to be controlling the machinations of DJT and hoping to make out like bandits from this debacle - Trump identifies with the Oligarchs and complies with all of their orders - the loose cannon is Iran existing in a no win situation and willing to go for broke- so it ain’t over til its over - one chance to return the Middle East to its former self. Reconfigure the whole ME- look at it through Iran’s eyes - this is an existential crisis they don’t have any reason to back down.
It all depends on deterrence. If the Iranians can be assured that they won't be attacked again they will stop. No one likes having the shit bombed out of them. That said, we are a long, long way from this point.
Abcdefg. I agree.
But who in their right mind can believe anything the Americans say?
What are their promises worth?
Would Russia and China underwrite Iranian security to avoid a worldwide recession, do you think?
As each day passes the economic crisis gets larger and deeper. Recession is an understatement. The Russians and Chinese have been underwriting Iranian security for quite some time. Let's hope they can talk Trump down from the ledge. This is shaping up into a dangerous game of chicken.
"Who pays the piper calls the tune" is the simplest way to view policy decisions in the west.
So this means Adelson, Singer, etc - all jews.
As to who actually directs even them - you would probably need an Access All Areas pass to the tunnels beneath the Knesset to meet with the gentleman who is truly directing operations.
Trump's big donors are also big donors to key Democrats. As long as Trump is useful he is safe from a removal unless Vance is planning to throw Trump under the bus. Which means that we just exchanged a blathering idiot for a smooth operator. In the end we get the same policies and fewer Truth Social posts.
Yes, removing AIPAC and the MIC are the key. I see no difference between the two. Dismantling TooBigToFail banks and BlackRock would also be nice.
I've been musing on the fact that an interesting number of'world' leaders have succumbed to Alzheimers. I can list: Harold Wilson, Margret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan and Joe Biden, maybe there are others.
The outcome, as I see it, is to NOT EVER elect a geriatric to the county's highest office
This malaise will lead (my prediction) to a standoff between Team A (Trump, Hegseth) and Team B (Vance, Chairman JCC) in which Team B will refuse a direct order.
You may be right. I expect it will be the Republicans who initiate impeachment against Trump, with Vance and possibly Gabbard as VP. (The Dems will lose their chief fund-raising tool with Yrump gone, so they wont like this one bit.) Someone has been dropping hints, too: my mainstream propaganda feed has twice (at least) told me that Vance was against the war from the beginning. And, Gabbard? Really quiet, waiting.
Harold Wilson had a searing intelligence and he knew when he was losing his mental functions and promptly resigned and retired to the Scilly Isles. The others were never aware that they had progressive dementia.
Your advice assumes that Presidents determine policy - which they don't, of course.
So it could be argued that the more mentally unfit they are, the more likely it is that they will be elected.
In any case, who needs a President when you have an autopen.
It's not Trump per se. As Brian Berletic argues, this has been planned for since the late 80s at least. What wasn't expected is that the civilisational state of Iran would prepare so well for it.
Our cabal of PNAC aligned assholes openly stated they would do Iran (and all those others) back in 2001. It just took them a lot longer than they projected.
PNAC?
Now reading THAT document after 911 was an eye-opener!
Of course, General Clarke didn't mention the memo until 6 years later.
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1436659390845800448/mediaviewer
"Are there no adults left in the room?"
Were there ever?
After Trump has exhausted every option, Vance will ascend and pretend he is MAGA and America First with a bit of Palantir and a dusting of Zionism.
Since the US is incapable of honest negotiations, a future will require the rest of the world to become more involved. A good start would be marooning Hegseth, Marco and Graham on a desert island.
Do it now - but only hit the water plants - we need the oil, but not the small hats that drink the water.
Wow - so short sighted, water is essential for human life the oil processing still uses human beings to accomplish this goal. Always amazed at the short sightedness of the majority of my fellow men- no water = no oil = no life- wake up.
Note my reference to "small hats," so my message was that Khazarael's water plants should be demolished, thus defanging the snake which is behind this entire attempted additional genocide.
Everybody else's can be left intact and fully functioning.
So now you know a bit more than you thought you did about your fellow men.
Trouble is that the Palestinians depend on those plants as well. You would be killing off most of the Palestine.
Freedom Convoys could immediately set sail for Gaza.
The US would also organize an immediate airlift of water - but the beast would be hugely incapacitated, and no longer able to engage in its 24/7 scheming against all goy life.
Without those desalination plants, any such support would fall far short of meeting the needs of millions.
An immediate airlift of…. tapwater? Crikey. In the quantities required for, say, 5 million people (for just 5 just litres a day each, you’d need 25,000 tonnes a day) that’d be expensive. You’d need some 500 flights a day by large cargo aircraft, with a farm of temporary, rubber reservoirs and a colossal fleet of tanker trucks at the Israeli end. Who’s got all that available on standby? And what if Iran is simultaneously continuing to strike the ports, airports and highway network?
They only need to take out one at a time. Tell the Israelis to stop or another gets blasted. So on and so forth. They either get the message or they don't. It's up to tiny-hats how thirsty they want to be.
Destroy water sources = nuclear war.
UK should send its super glue fixed aircraft career with the Linkedin's hired Admiral :-)
I think they ended up hiring Ukraine's ex-Admiral seemed like a good choice at the time...😉
Brits brought some guy from retirement. You forget that it's one thing to pat on the shoulder and push under rockets, but another to consider an "equal" :-) Same as Germans used Galicia Waffen-SS but as they retreated with Germans via Germany proper, Austria proper - they're forced to sleep in barns not the houses of Germans
Angelina, with respect, iirc it was one of our Nuclear Subs that had a sheared Bolt head reattached with Superglue. The issue with the ACs afaik was that they had no Aircraft. Admittedly that may have changed.
Naturally the UK bought America's "Flying Brick" for the carrier, Simon.
Harrier was the last decent plane the UK built itself imo.
"That happens to be called the ‘Persian Gulf’ "
Trump should rename it the Gulf of America II, walk away, declare victory.
The Gulf of America II where no American Navy ships are permitted to hang around.
The Gulf Off America
Yes, interesting how France and the UK are not letting themselves have their arm twisted this time, which frankly I see as a good sign that there is enough contact with reality in European quarters to realise that this war is not the kind of joke these countries are used to playing, like hitting weaker countries or hiding behind proxies. I think there is hope yet that in the course of time the Europeans will start making the right decisions. Mad yes (like my brother always says) but not stupid.
I don't know, we're pretty servile.
I can't see us sending our navies to be shot like fish in a barrel, but we may contribute the odd bomber or tanker if the Americans are running short.
I understand they sent refuelling aircraft from day -30. Just as they supported the air strikes against negotiators and just as they've been supporting the Israeli "operations" in Gaza since 2023 with intelligence overflights, refuelling, and even occasional basing of Israeli strike aircraft. It won't be surprising if an increasing number of US/Israeli short-range strike aircraft end up based in Cyprus - regardless of contrary promises.
They do send airplanes tho and I recall a week or two ago (time flies) there was a talk about French and British carriers sent into battle although there was no talk then about sending them to the gulf of course. Also the British airplanes seem to be sent on patrol in UAE as the US base was attacked there.
Not sure what is going on at all - the fact is that the Donny the Magnificentest is indeed irritated or maybe he just he does not get enough sleep as he tries to tell the generals what to do.
I do not share the optimism of some here that the US will withdraw - i think the US will double down. Economically it has a longer breath than Iran. For Iraq it took much longer to prepare although I think the action here was being prepared since last year. I would also like to point out that the 2003 war in Iraq lasted around half a year so whatever was planned here the final stages are very far away. Admittedly the US leadership (whoever that is) did not prepare the land forces and did not organize the coalition which would silence some critics. Even Serbian exercise lasted 3 months. What is really worrying is that the Israeli leadership seems to be convinced that the little country is a global superpower or will shortly be. With this much hubris anything is possible.
Hans. I think the West can destroy Iran, but I don't think they can defeat it.
There is a level of violence that makes the country to split in parts. You could see it in Syria although admittedly there there was much more coercion needed to keep the country united in the first place.
Destroying Iran as a functioning society is certainly a part of "their" intent. Just as was done in Iraq, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Somalia & Sudan.
For God's sake, more than 20 years ago "they" deliberately leaked the memo, then allowed their controlled press to publish their intentions in all of this: The destruction of every non servile government in West Asia & North Africa with exceptions made for our minions- Israel, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the compliant gulf states petro pretend kingdoms. In no particular order:
Iraq
Syria
Lebanon
Libya
Somalia
Sudan
Iran
https://youtu.be/UyEIiWjn9_Q?si=4JRlrR0xnofBiTCl
Parts of Iraqi society have developed entirely too much coherence since, Shiite majority areas of Iraq will be targeted for some remedial destruction too, along with the renewed Israeli attacks on Lebanon. And if Kurds everywhere try to make common cause & form their own country or otherwise don't act as servile foot soldiers for the Empire yet again, there is some more betrayal in store for them too.
Looking forward to the rebellions that will follow the collapse of the Gulf states who have collaborated with Israel. These are not nations or civilizations, like Persia, they are family businesses propped up by the US and its Zionist homunculus.
Popcorn reserved for YouTube videos of MBS head-on-a-stick being paraded through the streets.
Down the road: a quick, surprise nuclear strike wipes Israel out, destroys its retaliatory measures, and no one in a more sanitary world mourns.
The Gulf Statelettes are run by and for the globalist pedophile sodomite cult. They are at best compliant with the FrankenEpstein Monster if not a main contributor to its existence.
Iran just might consider this one more reason to allow them to be baked by the sun in the desert without drinking water.
babe wake up new simplicius dropped
Gosh! I must have dropped off! 😴.....😐
Brasil com simplicius .
Hi Simplicius !! I haven't read it yet - but did you see this ? https://old.bitchute.com/video/0y6y2J0BWGOB/
That is a bit overdramatizing it:
https://www.theweek.in/news/middle-east/2026/03/13/did-iranian-missiles-cause-a-fire-on-the-uss-gerald-r-ford-aircraft-carrier-us-navy-clarifies.html
that was FOUR DAYS AGO and they are completely hiding everything form the American people. I think its possible this information channel which uses AI - is from China.
Did you also notice the super intelligent China-Man talking there? Unless it was AI, more likely.
yeah- it is an AI channel...but maybe its right.
Why do people believe AI is always wrong?
Exactly, just wrote about the subject recently. AI is absolutely overrated as an independent thinker although soon it will look like that for the average human. Presently, AI is clearly manipulated to the very core by humans and mostly the worst of the worst like Bill Gates, Zuckerberg and Company. It is not always wrong but it is highly manipulative.
We do have a major opportunity with AI: We can flood normal humans with the proper information generated by AI. Try https://brightlearn.ai/
yeah- especially Chinese AI
The Ford is oversized to hide even if it is in the shallow waters of sixty meters.
the video said its at the bottom of the Persian Gulf.
The Persian Gulf‘s average depth is 50 meters, maximum depth is 90 meters. If the Ford is sitting down there one can sell tourist tickets to fly over as it will be visible to the naked eye on the bottom on a sunny day. To my best knowledge the Ford was not even getting into the Gulf from the start of this conflict, it would be suicidal.
happened this morning according to the video
That channel (they are on youtube too) posts a lot of unverifiable cope. I stopped watching days ago when I realised many of their claims weren't true.
yeah- I think so too...and its always really powerful info - you call it ' cope ' maybe I call it ' hope '
Yeah agree, I’ts hope if true, but some of the claims are not quite true. Then it’s cope.
I just this minute got an email from a friend I sent it too - and she sent me back " Asian Guy is AI Slop - don't send. hahahaha
LOL
It always was the Iranian strategy to hunker down and wait out the impulsive US. They seem to be doing just that.
Similar strategy to Imperial Russia vs. Napoleon.
Yes exactly. Typical guerrilla tactics, melt away when directly attacked and hit them where it hurts. Logistics.
Hunkering down? They don't seem to be hunkering down to me. They seem to be quite aggressive, putting USrael on the back foot, destroying their defensive capability, their strategic installations and equipment, their financial centres in the area and showing the Gulf states that they can not rely on American protection. That is not 'hunkering down' - that is showing who is really BOSS in that region.
They haven't shot many long range missiles thus far and have stated on numerous occasions that they have newer never-been-used missiles still to be shown. They would be foolish not to be equipped for the long haul. They will need deterrence when the shooting ends.
Completely valid point. But being conservative doesn't necessarily imply hunkering down. I see hunkering down waiting for the enemy to expend himself as like Ali's 'rope-a-dope' technique.
And they have certainly prepared for the long haul as you note.
Well, they kind of did wait for the moron Epstein clan to start their blunder blitzkrieg, before they turned the table and served their own well prepared blitzkrieg!
This is the McGregor Doctrine; ie "All Iran has to do is to survive," but that's not true.
Iran must not only hunker down and wait for the US to run out of missiles, but it must then re emerge and unleash Armageddon on its foe, and demand all the things it is mentioning, eg reparations, full access to uranium for its reactor programme, and an end to 50 years of crippling sanctions; plus a complete removal of any and all US bases in the west Asia region.
And to add to that, Israel to withdraw to its 1967 borders, release all Palestinian prisoners, lift the blockade of Gaza and surrender its WMD, offensive air capabilities and submarines.
They have been clear that the war in Lebanon must end and Israeli forces withdraw also.
I prefer their pre-1948 borders.
I see what you did there.
LOL
Michael Yon suggested the Zionists who currently reign in Israel are a elusive gang who are not wed to the geographic location currently known as "Israel."
I couldn’t agree more. I’m merely suggesting a set of terms those Kahanist psychopaths could conceivably be forced to agree to, if only battered long enough and hard enough.
Donnie in his Art of the Deal, would advise that initial demands must always be maximalist, otherwise they rapidly get watered down to an unacceptable level.
But you are new to this game, so probably were not aware of the strategy that we always employ in these situations.
Well, don’t ask, don't get, as the saying goes. Good luck with that. And so better add, Bibi, Smotrich and ben Gvir and all other major Israeli and US war criminals to be handed over for a fair trial and public execution in Tehran. Even if Iran falls short and only gets a disarmed, pacified, rump pre-67 Israel, that’d be a good solid win. Better still, they could then adopt Israeli moral standards and resume bombardment once Israel was safely disarmed.
No state of Israel. They have zero right to be there in a sovereign position. Those Israelis who take an oath to a Palestinian state can stay and their rights fully asserted as long as they give up the right of association for Zionist projects. I don’t see any other way.
Unfortunately, when dealing with der juden, you have to understand that lies come naturally to them, so nothing they ever say can be relied upon - take the Kushner / Witkoff episode as your starting point.
Once per year, they recite something called the Kol Nidre prayer, which they think absolves them of any and all commitments they have previously made to the goyim.
The only mechanism which can reliably constrain them is called razor wire, and a mined no-man's land beyond it.
Its possible that they have adopted the Russian strategy . They are steadily destroying the military assets of the USA (and Israel) in the zone . Russia is no doubt enjoying the opportunity to turn the tables by supplying weapons an intel to Iran . China is involved too , but is doing it but until recently more covertly .
It would be appropriate if Russia was providing weapons targeting information to Iran, wouldn't it, after US support has caused scores of Russian civilian deaths.
France and Britain getting their revenge on America for not participating in the 1956 Suez Crisis ( Second Arab - Israeli War). They probably wouldn't even send a toilet plunger to help Chump unstop his Hormuz.
True, and very funny.
Sheesh thats 70 years ago. Long memories
An Empire spurned...
I was two years old at the time. That's about as far back as I can remember.
I was thirteen and looking for girls.
I already had a girl friend. Got pictures of us in diapers. Hope you found a good one or two.
I hope you both weren't adults, 'cos that is a weird fetish.
I was two, she was three. She may have already graduated from diapers. It was her one year old sister in the diaper in those pictures.
The Americans haven’t forgotten 1979 when the US embassy was sacked and the Americans were ruthless in denying the British and French support in 1956. You never forget things like that they are burned into the national psyche.
Well, unless that thing is called the USS Liberty, of course. That one has been very carefully airbrushed from history.
America was right that time, told the Brits the French and the Israelis to pull their heads in. Hungary was also threatening to go off.
The United Nations even piped in its disapproval. Where is it now? In the same pockets as our senators and congressmen, I guess.
Probably. Was that Canadian UN guy who finally got the Israelis to back down in 56.
Where's that gumption gone.
All quiet on the Russian front.
With the US all tied up and using up its remaining bombs, Ukraine is up for the taking.
I've been reading reports that Ukraine has more drones than a year ago.
AFU have been holding the line.
Russia is losing its strategic edge in Ukraine as it continues non-ending WW1 positional attritional fighting, wasting men, supplies, and money which would have been better used with better planning to neutralize Ukraine long ago.
Russia's softness has enabled AFU forces to resupply.
Russia is
not targeting enemy weapons and drone production.
not targeting enemy command and control centers.
not doing what it takes to neutralize Ukraine.
Ukraine will hold long enough for NATO reinforcement.
I wonder how the Russian population will feel after 7 or 8 consecutive years of war without or barely advancing in Ukraine. Well, you can't criticize the SMO in Russia or risk going to jail. That's one way to control the narrative.
I've read about Russia experiencing communication problems on the battlefield that the AFU forces don't have, and the AFU having some successful counterattacks because of it. Ukraine has become a never-ending positional slaughterfest. That's why nobody talks about the Ukraine conflict much anymore. Nothing moves, men keep dying, weapons and money are spent. Both sides resupply.
I think the Russians strategy is now coming into focus. They seem to have dialed down the Ukraine front and are now providing more support for the Iranians. We all know these are 2 fronts of a world war.
Russia would need to have dialled up before being able to dial down, abc.
If we are at two fronts of a world war, it would be more reason for Russia to neutralize Ukraine. It's there for the taking right now while the US expends its remaining bombs and Europe is unprepared. Russia is in no position to open a second front somewhere.
You don't neutralize Ukraine by moving your borders closer to NATO
You sure do, Richard.
Let me explain:
By neutralizing Ukraine, you neutralize its army.
When you neutralize AFU, you prevent NATO from linking up and forming a bigger army. This is a basic divide-and-conquer maneuver when facing two enemy forces about to link up. Never, never allow a link-up.
I guess I was wrong then. Thanks for pointing that out.
You are a true gentleman, Richard.
I admire commenting on your wife in your bio, too.
The other reason to control Ukraine is economic, and creating a forward buffer to better defend against NATO incursion.
Best wishes.
You think you're smarter than Putin and his Generals? Really?
I'd fire the lot of generals for all the screw-ups they made from the very beginning and recruit the best to get the job done from the very beginning. It's not about being smarter but who has the better plan. That's me, hands down. 😂
It’s funny, I don’t think I’m smarter than Putin and his generals but I certainly think I am when it comes to Trump and his camp and look where he is and where I am. On the one hand there is professional competence, knowledge and experience but on the other there is perspective. And if we all here could see that attacking Iran was a mistake why wouldn’t we be sometimes be more right than Putin and his generals? I leave the question out there.
Vinny. We have more military geniuses commenting on here than Sandhurst, West Point, or the various Suvorov Academies combined. 😂😂
Ukraine war is often weather dependant . Different seasons require different tactics . When the ground thaws and has absorbed lots of water transport becomes difficult anywhere but on roads and logistics become difficult . Warfare has completely changed and the way its being fought reflects that . The USA is getting schooled on this. Massive assaults are no longer useful as any concentrations of men and/or machines will get hit - this also applies to bases .
I think that's right.
This would be an ideal time to hammer the Banderites, with everyone looking at the Gulf, but apparently the Rasputitsa is particularly muddy this year.
I don't agree Russia is dialling down, they just continue at their chosen steady pace; since the failure of Istanbul talks in 2022 it has never been in Russia's strategic interests to simply conquer Ukraine - that would resolve nothing.
I do agree with the two fronts of one war view and suggest a possible third front: China blockades Taiwan - no invasion necessary..
Current Russian political show (just repeat what most Russians saying) state that Russia must just like Iran hit the decision makers at military bases in Poland and Estonia.
The exact opposite of demilitarization has been happening for more than four years and those imbeciles/traitors just sit on their hands and watch
The only hope is that Iran makes good on its promise to strike Ukraine and somehow manages to merge the two wars.
I am not sure how that can happen exactly, because with these people in charge in the Kremlin, it will be resisted fiercely. But I see no other way out, for both Russia and Iran.
What is more likely though is even more backstabbing.
P.S. Notice how Trump called on China to send warships to open up the strait of Hormuz. I think I mentioned a month ago here that I would be less surprised if China joins in on the attacks on Iran in order to keep the oil flowing than if it joined the war on the side of Iran. Looks like there is indeed something like that in the air for Trump to call for it publicly...
There is a scenario in which Iran takes out Zelensky with a missile strike (though at that distance it is hard to make sure he doesn't escape upon early warning, even with hypersonics) and levels Bankova.
Then Europe is outraged by it and they join the war on Iran while directly entering in Ukraine too. Then the wars merge and Russia's hand is forced.
I can still easily see Putin backing out even then, but as I said, there is a scenario.
Iran has nothing to lose -- they are pounded daily as it is. It can't get much worse than this.
Regarding China -- of course they rejected Trump's request now, but let's revisit this a few months from now with the straits still closed.
Also, there is one other player who can force Russia and China's hands, and that is North Korea. We shall see.
The absolutely fucked up thing here is that China holds all the cards. They can:
1) Stop rare earth exports to the US altogether, and that alone will shut the US MIC down
2) Stop all exports to the US, which will result in a Mad Max scenario in the US within a few weeks
3) Make a move on Taiwan, deny the US access to chips. Which will be somewhere in the middle of these two scenarios.
And the US right now cannot oppose such a move meaningfully.
But they instead declared a policy of "strategic non-alliance" and "independence"...
Patience. "Never disturb your enemy....." The time is not yet ripe for China to move and the frog is only just realising the water is getting uncomfortably hot.
Topping Z is an irrelevance. How many more examples are needed to see that such strategies achieve nothing positive.
As you say, no way China attacks Iran and I doubt India would risk it either; surely, Modi has learned he is backing the wrong horse, and who knows how Pakistan would react?
China's only aim is more money.
Without China, Ukraine would not be able to accumulate so many drones.
China is at war with Russia.
Wow, I agree with you on something AGAIN GM! You're shocking me... Chip
Yep. I warmed up to GM’s views over the last three months.
The only reason why he is making such blatantly ridiculous statements is that he wants to shelve responsibility for the devastation he and his jewish handlers have caused by putting the responsibility for solving the issue into everybody else's court; because self-evidently, he cannot do it himself.
But one has to wonder why China would send ships in a vain attempt to open the Strait when Iran is allowing tankers bound for China to pass through unmolested.
I expect it must all be Putin's fault, because for GM, that is always the final conclusion.
He didn't call for nukes. That's something.
If you're referring to DJT, that means nothing.
What he calls for at breakfast time is frequently turned completely on its head by teatime.
But he did call for nukes - he said he could destroy Iran so nobody could ever live in it again - but that would not be good for the jews, who want their Greater Israel, so he won't be allowed to do what he seems to want to do.
If he tries to, the videos of him in his activities with the girls and boys and his daughter will mysteriously somehow make an appearance.
Was referring to General Moron
I think he does want nukes to be used; he seems to be a Dr Strangelove sort of character.
Putin isn't working as fast as he wants him to.
Grr I was this many days old when I found out nuclear weapons don't even exist!
Who is going to tell GM?
It’s always the final conclusion for the Yookay MSM, the BiBiC in particular.
Taking the rage-posts of a deranged person as evidence to support your thesis might not be the best approach.
Also I’m pretty certain that China doesn’t even have a blue water navy capable of projecting force thousands and thousands of miles away from their homeland.
China will sit on their hands and issue sternly worded diplomatic statements about wanting peace. Nothing more.
The Liaoning is in the Gulf region, with support.
They have a base on the Indian subcontinent, forget where. Iirc it's their only overseas base, agreed a couple of years ago.
I totally agree. While Russia inaction can be explained by weakness the Chinese role is especially dirty. They want to earn something from this war.
I see some suspiciously false news floating around there just like doo-doo is floating around the Ford. The story goes that Ukraine is turning the whole war around by unleashing their giant new drones that took them a few weeks to manufacture. The operational range of these new super-birds were increased from 31 miles to 93. (In a few weeks time.)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/ukraine-plan-cut-off-russia-080000050.html
Exactly.
Ukraine still has lots of fight left because Russia is giving it to them.
This conflict could have been over long ago, with Russia in control rather than constant attrition, war-related population fatigue, financial cost overruns, and no significant territorial gains.
Get away, its mud season.
Well, let's say after mud season.
Every year, excuses from the Kremlin.
You would think Russia had more sense of urgency long ago.
It's going on 5 years, Julianne.
The front lines have barely changed.
Got to figure in that Russia is also demilitarizing NATO, Britain and America. That seems to be working. If it were not for the nukes, we could end up with a disarmed world. Be nice if mankind could start making a better world than continually destroying it.
An argument can be made that the Ukrainian war drained whole nato of air defense interceptors.
Also, as we have seen lately, most of the jihadis from Syria went to Ukraine, reducing the rent-a-jihadi pool very light on.
Sort of. Iirc it was just under 800 Patriots, or circa 20% of total of all production since commenced, that have gone to Ukraine. About 40% supposedly were used up this month against Iran (everything in theater). Leaving about 1600 Patriot missiles scattered around the world (or sold to other nations)? THAADs are comparatively rare.
But the Ukrainians claim to have destroyed 90% of all Russian incoming missiles. Which means, on a 2:1 basis for successful interception, Russia must have fired only 440 missiles, i.e. about two missiles per week since the war began. LOL.
It's been a bit stale there for months yes, but Russia is still advancing and Ukrainian accounts have been crying about a new offensive Russia is preparing in Zaporozhye. Will give an update on the situation soon, as Iran war has simply been more pressing.
Perhaps we will see NK troops along the Belgorod/Briansk borders again?
Russia is already defeated. Putin is Trump's bitch.
How's that substack coming? Up to two subscribers yet? Chip
The world does not understand my point of view.
Try to read it if you want.
Perhaps there is a lesson there.
Don't succumb to narratives. Look at professional appreciations. Start with the CIA declassified histories back to 1946 (yes, pre-CIA!), and US Army documents written by field grade officers back to 1990. Also TRADOC ATP 7-100.1: their nuclear doctrine, which in effect delegates nuclear launch authorization down to O4/O5 level, accounts for their reluctance to escalate to local war (thus the SMO).
Russia is still doctrinally way ahead of NATO (though drones have mitigated their advantage quite a bit). Especially if they can eliminate drones with an area weapon: it'll be interesting to see if what seems to be a plasma EMP weapon field tested a year or two ago can be finalized.
Didn't Yemen aka the Houthis say there were going to enter the Fray?
With the current location of the Lincoln, is it now more in danger?
I am not sure what they are waiting for.
There is nothing to lose here.
Presumably there is a threshold of escalating that has not been reached yet, but why it is higher than what already happened I have no idea...
The end game here for a Resistance win features the Houthis marching 500,000 men north to take Mecca and then later joining in the ground war to eliminate Israel. Maybe they are waiting for Saudi Arabia to officially join the war against Iran? Still, they could be hitting US assets in Yanbu and other bases that are closer to Yemen than to Iran. But they are not doing it...
The Iranians explicitly said they are no longer making any distinction
I suspect the waiting is to keep the US fleet in the ME.
This gives Iran a justification to blow up US bases in neighbor countries.
If the fleet leaves, so does the moral and legal right to launch missiles at these targets.
After all this, Iran wants/will be accepted as a ME partner and power, possible even a protector.
Nothing to worry about there. As soon as I get my SS check I will buy them a new one.
'Buy the US a new aircraft carrier?'
Correcto
Why sink them? They are over 1100km away from doing any damage to Iran. Effectively they are not even at war. Missiles better spent on Saudi and Israeli based I think.
They are doing damage. Fighter jets are using them, refuelling mid air to launch stand off missiles.
For the same reason the Iranian ship was sunk off of Sri Lanka I guess.
Alright, that's good logic.
AIUI it was an unarmed training ship, so done for the lolz/fun rather than any actual purpose....
The loss of a carrier - or even it slinking away damaged - would be the “Empire Has No Dick” moment.
I think that parking an unprotected carrier 1100km away already telegraphs that.
"Remember the Maine!" Sinking an aircraft carrier would be a loss for Iran and Muslims because of the propaganda value it gives the US war hawks to use on the American public.
Agreed - only an imbecile would think the Iranians aren't justified in sinking anything they can, including Americans.
Remember Vietnam? Korea? The US recoils at the memory of some wars.
It is too bad that pay-offs to politicians trump true, Constitutional patriotism. Pun intended.
"The US recoils at the memory of some wars."
Americans today recoil at the memory of those wars, albeit not so much about Korea (which most Americans have forgotten).
The key issue is what Americans were thinking about those wars when they got started. There was strong support for both Korea and Vietnam when they got going. The public turned on Vietnam only when the US failed to win it quickly and losses mounted.
What's different about Iran is that it's probably the only war in recent memory that has started out unpopular. Trump and his party are going to get clobbered in the mid-terms elections.
"With the current location of the Lincoln, is it now more in danger?"
No. Ansar Allah does not have the heavy throw weight ballistic missiles or sea skimmers you need to sink a big carrier. There's also the issue that the Lincoln is off Oman, which borders the part of Yemen that Ansar Allah does not control. The current location of the Lincoln off Oman is about 1000 km from territory Ansar Allah controls, roughly the same distance from the closest part of Iran.
Big carriers are really difficult to sink. Much smaller carriers during WWII often took multiple hits from kamikaze attacks without sinking. Blowing a huge hole in the flight deck is not enough to sink it. You have to get down below the waterline and punch enough holes below that to defeat the compartmentalization of the hull.
Anybody who thinks carriers are easy to sink should read Simplicius's excellent report on that, at https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/does-iran-pose-a-real-threat-to-us
Putting a carrier out of action with significant damage is much more doable. For that the ideal strategy is to use the carrier's own munitions, the missiles and bomb loads it carries for delivery into Iran, against it. But those (like fuel) are also kept compartmentalized since they know what happens if a lucky hit drills down through the flight deck to explode on the deck below where aircraft are being readied.
In the Red Sea next to territory Ansar Allah controls they can and have threatened US carriers. But that's been with very sporadic launches. Pulling off a mass launch of a few dozen sea skimmers to reach a carrier one thousand km away looks like too big a stretch for Ansar Allah.
Interestingly, probably the best way to damage or even sink the Lincoln is with small FPV drones. The carrier is very close to Oman, close enough for fast open boats (or boats posing as Omani fishing boats) to depart port and close within FPV fiberoptic controlled drone distance, 10 to 20 km. A swarm of fifty or a hundred small FPV drones, each carrying a couple of kilos of explosive could have the same effect as hitting the carrier with fifty to a hundred five hundred or thousand pound bombs.
Why? Because each of those small FPV drones could set off one of the five hundred or thousand pound missiles or bombs the carrier has staged for use in missions attacking Iran. There are many such weapons on aircraft on the carrier's deck that small drones can strike, flying into the bomb and not the aircraft that's carrying it, and there are many more on the deck below the carrier's flight deck. There are many, very large openings between that deck and the outside through which FPV drones can fly.
Being small, FPV drones are hard to see and almost impossible to shoot down. Small drones can also blind the carrier by taking out radar and other sensors, as well as doing kamikaze attacks on Phalanx and similar close-in air defense systems.
Made me think of the attack on the "Death Star" which worked in the movie. Just might work in what we like to call the "real" world. Spontaneous applause breaks out all over the theater!
No, AIUI it's sensibly skulking around off Oman, so still plenty of range from central Yemen, and the Houthis' missiles aren't as good as the Iranians'.
The real function of the Houthis is to close the Red Sea (and thus the Suez Canal) to hostile commercial shipping, therefore defeating any effort by Saudi etc to bypass Hormuz by using their east-west pipeline (Saudi Plan C). Iran has already taken out the Omani port facility that was the Saudi Plan B.
Get a grip Simplicius …..it is you who is unhinged.
Donald knows what he is doing.
At least he is trying unlike all Presidents going back to Ronald! It was the stinking Carter that helped have the Sha overthrown. All since have declared Iran evil and a terrorist state and none but Donald have done ANYTHING about it….except for make it worse….AND give alleys of cash.
"Donald knows what he is doing."
Are you joking? Your LLM is broken. Upgrade to Kimi.
Wow, is this a real life Trump supporter?
She's got the hat, so she must be.
‘Donald knows what he is doing.’
Si Senora, absolutely correcto! Donaldo Orange is driving like mad to clear the path for the Counterfeit Mini State to take over the PERSIAN GULF. (And this is coming from the one who was sucking in the science of geopolitics with his mother’s milk.)
What is your definition of evil? Repelling US helicopters sent to rescue embassy staff (who were later released by Iran)? Resisting US influence for 60 years?
Not one ever mentions why they took over the embassy and held them hostage. More countries subject to US regime change operations should do similar.
Iran bad for overthrowing our son of a bitch.
I just can't see the Iranians throwing a wild party and dancing in the streets to welcome prince Pahlavi back to rule them.
Agree!
He is the ….Prince of Langley.🤡
From articles and videos I have seen —the Iranian people
believe he represents the “west” and the Epstein class..everything
they are against.
The devil incarnate from the “west” that bombs schools, killing children.
Put him in a crowd and they would probably literally tear him apart!
A comparison would be that after 9/11 ..everyone in the US wanted to be
ruled by Arabs, and convert to Islam. No constructive thinking at all.!
Beyond stupid that people fall for such a blatant propaganda narrative.
Bonhoeffer Theory of Stupidity case study. And you can’t debate with Stupid.
LOL is that satire or US dumbfuckery?
"Mr. Cromwell knows what he is doing"
The figure of text in question appears to be a satire. Lots of excitement in the masses and engaging in vibrant content.
Mr Hopper, however, needs to apologize unless he is a self-appointed moderator of the comments section who rules with fear.
Susan, if you lose any more braincells you're going to turn into an amoeba. Talk about unicellular!
Susan, with all respect, what have you seen that makes you think "Donald knows what he is doing"?
Trump is at such high levels of arrogance that if he loses he will shift the blame to other people and partly believe it.
The "plan" has not gone according to, and Trump is going through the 5 stages of grief. We are in stage 1/2: Denial & anger. The fact that he has just recently started talking about bringing in "allies" means Stage 3: Bargaining is creeping in.
He has been told that the Navy can't open Hormuz. And if the ships are sent in, they will get hit, and once one gets hit a cascade occurs and a catastrophe follows. Imagine a destroyer getting immobilized and then taking hit after hit after hit, for hours, on camera, with multiple assets desperately trying to cover it, but it eventually sinking.
The alternative is to let the Hormuz play out - but we are at day 15 now, which means the "underway" vessels have completed arrival to places like Singapore, India, and most of East Africa. In about a week the Eastern Med and China / SK / Japan vessels will have arrived, and then Southern Europe, then Northern Europe.
And then the crisis truly explodes.
Jamie Dimon said it would take 21 days so that explains why. Idle production is one thing but idle shipping is a real multiplier.
The ship situation is strange.
Iran has weapons to hit them at a very far distance. And they claim they did hit at least one destroyer while also disabling the Lincoln.
But we have not seen the promised sinking of any US ships. So Iran is still trying to manage escalation. Not something they should be doing right now IMO...
>They aren't killing civilians in Israel, which they're going to have to do
We don't actually know how many civilians they killed, censorship is strict. There were some bomb shelters hit, which is a very good countervalue strategy -- Israeli bomb shelters are very shallow and don't provide much protection against a direct missile hit, while conveniently concentrating people in one easy to target location.
But it is not a consistent targeting policy yet.
And yes, desalination should have been targeted by now.
You can only win a war against absolute savages by outsavaging them. It's an uncomfortable fact, but a fact of life nevertheless...
Now, one side can decide to out-savage the savages, then the other side can decide to out- savage the out-savagers.
Bottom line is one team of out-savagers has 6000 nuclear weapons, so while their opponents have spent 40 years months away from building a nuclear device but apparently they still don't have any.
if nuclear weapons were available would they not have been used already?
AIUI Israel has 130-300.
Or, the iranians cant hit ships as far out as they said. Not for lack of trying.
Hitting ships at sea is not an easy task. They have CAP fighters with missile defense capabilities, they have escorts with missile defense, they have close-range phalanx systems, and they have powerful electronic warfare systems to jam most communications.
and they move. and they can deploy smoke. and they can maneuver. hitting a ship is easy if you are 1km away but not when you are 300km away
That is all correct, but the Houthis did hit ships with AShBMs hundreds of kilometers away.
And they did hit the US carrier directly, at a distance of nearly 1000 km, forcing it to retreat.
If the Houthis can do those things, Iran can do them too.
It looks like they did score some hits, but nothing that is not deniable yet. And much less than what was expected.
I have some bad news for you dude...
They can, and we know that because the Houthis did hit ships very far away
Putin’s fault obviously.
Simplicius has an excellent report on that. See https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/does-iran-pose-a-real-threat-to-us
The US has positioned its carriers beyond the distance Iran can hit them. That has imposed high costs on the US, but at least for a while the US can do that.
Donald "Jewhovah" Trump and and his Whore Secretary Hegseth should both be arrested and tried for committing atrocious war crimes. Greater men than them have fallen and paid the price thereof.
And I thought Biden, Sullivan and Blinken were bad; God! Trump, Hegseth and Rubio are leaving them in the dust.
It's all the same US agenda. Wake up - it isn't football game.