The entire discussion around the Iran war has now turned to Iran’s “diminishing” scale of strikes, with pro-Western commentators claiming that this means Iran is losing and will eventually succumb to the US-Israeli juggernaut.
$4 gasoline? The current price in Canada is around $5/gallon (CDN$1.50/litre), and EU prices are even higher. If Trumpy pisses off Carney and his Rothschild handlers much more, expect prices for Canadian crude to rise and add to the US gas-pump misery.
Some of the Gulf States have already shut down extraction and processing, which may take weeks, if not months to restart. The other risk to shutting down extraction is that it usually involves a significant loss of future ultimate yields. Yes, there are methods to reduce that loss, but they slow production, are expensive, environmentally damaging and only partially effective.
This will disadvantage Gulf States that rely on being captured low-cost providers to the US/EU. No one outside the US/EU/NATO will trust the Gulf States to be capable of sticking to any agreements. Via China, the Saudis negotiated a peace treaty of sorts with Iran, but continued to allow the US to park its military across the Persian Gulf. Sure NOW the Saudis functionally prevent the US from overflying, as opposed to the 'turn a blind eye' of a couple weeks ago. Funny how discovering the US can't provide the 'protection' the PetroDollar Racket promised is changing the geopolitical landscape.
They learned patience watching Russia. Just as Russia emptied the West of military assets in Ukraine by being methodical, Iran will try to do the same.
The US and Israel play the same game in Ukraine and Iran. They keep trying to orchestrate by doing outrageous things to get the other side to react.
Russia doesn't react to their lead. Iran will take note, as pointing out who it is to first start hitting water or oil supplies, but they won't react until it suits them.
Your screen name harkens back to a sick university riddle from the 70s. What's the difference between the women's track team and the dwarf students who got dean's honours? (That one wasn't very funny either, but a bit more clever).
Who cares about moral high ground? The jews committed genocide on live TV for 2 years. They lost the pr war but here they are attacking Iran. No, when you are in a war for survival you use whatever you can to win. Damn what the neighbors may think about your actions.
Israel will only send a nuke if its leadership has given up. And in that case many nuclear powers will then obliterate the Jewish cancer. No one in this world will tolerate a first-strike nuke by anyone.
As I've written (and said to people with who I speak), if Israel launches a first-strike nuke, Jewish people everywhere who don't loudly repudiate it will ALL be at risk from finally having incited pogroms around the globe, their erstwhile "allied" nations included.
Iran wins when/ if the Gringo Empire is evicted from the region. No US bases = no US fuckery in the Gulf & Caucasus = no petrodollar system = US on the brink to bankruptcy.
This is IMO their end goal. Getting nuked dozens of times by Israel when those cultists decide this is the End Times indeed is not how to win.
If/when the Gringo Empire implodes financially, Israel’s fate will be sealed as well. The settlers will have to pack their bags and move or return to Biblical living conditions.
Good points… imo Israel has been on the open rampage this last couple of years bc they are pretty sure daddy Gringo is going to suffer severe financial & social problems in the medium term (1-5yrs??) and they want to complete as much of the greater Israel project in the meantime in order to become as unassailable as possible afterwards, including (a fundaméntela aspect, actually) becoming the puppeteer of some or most of the GCC sheikdoms. (The incoming US problems are also the reason of Trump 2.0 becoming an accelerationist, btw).
If the US is evicted from the Gulf, the zionists cannot take over the business management.
My guesstimate is that in the moment that neither the US nor Israel can control the Gulf, the Israeli *elites* will abandon Israel to its fate and move to a nicer place to chill out, and good luck to the everyday Zionists remaining there.
So yes, I think if Iran is able to get the US out of the Gulf in the short term and assert control there, Israel will be toast bc they won’t have the means to influence the Gulf from current Israeli territory.
BTW, happy International Woman's Day to all you women out there! You make our lives bearable and full of beauty! And your patience with us is immeasurable. You bring life and nurture into the world.
Good, cause it is so fucking depressing these constant lies , the stupidity, the hypocrisy.
So let me share another joke: the dutch have a large gasfield in the province of Groningen. We had some ‘earthquakes’ (2-3 Richter scale). Around 200 wells. The dutch decided to close those wells. How? Filling them up with concrete so we can never re use them again. 70 of the 200 are now been closed that way, 130 to folllow. Gas reserve is at 10% now and we are getting gas from Norway, USA, Qatar. But Qatar will not be coming now, LNG from USA is now diverting to countries that are willing to pay more and we decide not to keep the gas fields open in case of an emergency. The politicians are of such low level, it is mind boggling.
Re your gas. Isn't it funny that Russia is not supplying Europe with gas, but the USA is? And, as you point out, it will have to do so even more because of Qatar shutting off the gas........
As the old expression goes, who is profitting from this?
It’s even worse: they accused Russia of using energy as a weapon while Russia has always been a very reliable supplier, fulfilling its commitments. Who is using energy as a weapon now?
Russia is still supplying Europe with gas; but Ursula and her co-treasonites are saying that they plan to cut it all off in two month's time.
So Putin is now "thinking aloud" as he describes it, as to whether he should just pre empt the Euro idiots, and end it now.
As for the US, it never "has to" do anything - it only ever does something if it can profit thereby, whether you are its ally or its adversary makes no difference at all.
I'm surprised Iran hasn't mounted special forces operations to blow up US LNG tankers arriving in Europe. Each one is a floating bomb with nearly tactical nuclear effects, and when fully loaded they're very vulnerable to being exploded by even small drones. Blow up a few of those when they arrive, which would take the offloading terminals with them, and the EU will be in real trouble.
Fighting back in a war is not a terrorist act. Iranian strikes against US energy infrastructure are fair game, and that includes strikes against NATO countries that have allied with the US and Israel.
NATO likes to prance around babbling about Article 5, claiming that "an attack on any one of us is an attack on all" but in the middle of all that narcissist barking they forget that joining a military alliance is not a one-way street. It also means that "an attack *by* any of us is an attack by *all*".
For that matter, all of the EU countries have been enablers and military allies of Israel. Give Israel the money and weapons it uses to attack Iran and you've made yourself a fair target in the war Israel has started.
The EU has taken measures to cripple Iran's economy and energy infrastructure. It's perfectly fair for Iran to respond by crippling the EU's economy and energy infrastructure. Let's see how those pigs in Brussels like it when somebody they've been torturing drives a spit up their asses and starts broiling them over a fire.
It's true some of the Europeans, like Spain, are getting cold feet now that the US has gone all in with war crimes. But they still had no problem sanctioning Iran. Well fine, now that their US ally has started a war it's fair for Iran to settle scores with everybody that's been screwing it in the past.
Good one! I already smell a false flag operation. Who shall we blame this time? North Korea? Iran???, China?
Amazing that the plebs in the west still accept this bs from their elites. Always the same projection: everyone does the same what we would do in similar circumstances. Total lack of empathy and understanding of other nations and cultures.
I don't know that a false flag will be necessary; after all, Trump has assumed to himself the authority to declare when Iran has 'surrendered', based on his personal or advised assessment that Iran 'no longer presents a threat to the United States of America'. Having already claimed the Global Capital of Freedom and Democracy and its Israeli sidekick have wiped out Iran's Navy and Air Force, pretty much devastated its Army and are now ferreting out the last few missile-launch sites, I would suggest he is already laying the groundwork for the triumphant return of The Victory Fleet to American ports. He is certainly talking in that direction.
If you can get within range of the LNG tanker, sure. Groups of Iranian special forces operators could bring with them, and use, small drones in any country, including the US.
"I'm surprised Iran hasn't mounted special forces operations to blow up US LNG tankers arriving in Europe."
Patience John, it's just a matter of time. This is the low hanging fruit of payback. I hope the Europeans have warm sweaters. People will be lining up and cutting in line to take out one of these floating gas bags. A perfect Trump metaphor, an exploding gas bag. Tick-tock...
Because it would be a strategic mistake to widen the war instead of focusing on blinding the US and Israel and destroying US/Israel capacity to launch attacks (on civilians).
Oh, and because they are not evil run by an Epstein class of degenerates.
Actually Russia is trying to send through gas and oil to Hungary and Slovakia but the Neanderthal is blocking the pipes in Ukraine. His terrorists are repeatedly threatening Orban and even young people who face Ukraine opponents in international tennis games:
Banderites represent another supremcist death cult. No wonder that the zionist state is benevolent towards the Ukrainian neo-nazis: zionists and banderites are brothers forever.
Mein kampf has a chapter on how governments become less and less qualified. Basically, people in government are less likely to higher people that are potentially more qualified than themselves.
American sea assets are having to keep their distance, thus minimising their effect on Iran. American bases are being flattened and their radars taken out. Same with the little girl killers.
So where are all these American and child-killing fighter/bombers coming from? They have to return to their bases after their sorties, so why aren't they being hit on the ground? It's not like they are out of range of Iranian missiles and UAVs, nor is it like Iran is running short of them.
Now they’re flying back as far away as they can, even further than Cyprus and when they’ve refuelled numerous times they lay up and get numerous hours of maintenance under hardened shelters. It’s turning into a fantastically expensive murder spree for America, and how will they even get back to there mid east bases?
I don't think they will. Those airbases are being flattened with billions upon billions of infrastructure, equipment and weaponry being destroyed that took decades to put in place.
As far as Cyprus goes, I have seen photos of many, many planes crammed onto that base - from both heads of the USrael two-headed demon. They couldn't possibly have that many hardened shelters. They might be waiting until they have picked off all AD radars and/or launchers before striking the final blows. Time will tell.
I’d said at least as far as Cyprus, they fly back to Diego Garcia or the RAF bases in England, which is why he was complaining to Starmer so much. Imagine how long each sortie takes, how many times to refuel en route and back. Trump will lose all US bases in the gulf at this rate, all that for his Israeli/evangelic bs.
I completely understand Israel’s motives here, if it’s Israel’s it’s also Trumps motive. I spent a year and a half in Iraq and there was absolutely nothing achieved in all the time of the occupation, and also been in Iran and all over the mid east. All the zionists want is every country around them a non functioning wreck, a ruin and that’s also there attitude to America and every other country or people on the planet. They hate everybody, bar none. America if it wants to regain its self worth and not go bankrupt needs to destroy Israel and everybody in it without delay. A bit like the Romans did 2000 years ago.
I don't know. Perhaps the Andinian Plan has been replaced with the American Plan? The zionist influence in America has infiltrated virtually all sectors of political, military, business, banking, academic, medical, religious, media and entertainment, and at all levels of government - local, state and federal. POTUS, SCOTUS, Congress, Federal Bureaucracy - you name it. One could not be blamed for proposing that America has become the new zionist state.
My understanding is they are using bombers to launch standoff weapons at a distance: cruise missiles and JDAMs. Iran’s big challenge is to figure out how to neutralize the JDAM’s, which will be the one munition the US will be able to deliver consistently.
Thanks for this. I think yo are right - B52s and B2s are much too valuable to base in that region - though I did see lots of refuelers. I understand that Ben Gurion is being bombed pretty heavily now - it has been put out of action. People can neither arrive or leave. But I might be wrong. As for AD, I haven't seen any evidence that the Occupiers have an effective means of deterrence against Iran's missiles, except the older ones that are used primarily to use up AD ammo.
As a 6 ft 5 inch athletic and handsome man I have noticed the mental strain I am on women. Out of solidarity I therefore have followed Muslim women's example in my country (NL) and dress modestly while using perfume only sparingly. After all, men, just like women, are 'diamants who have to be caressed solely in private and covered up when in public'. So that we all can get along without harassing each other because of our lust. Not like those Israeli & US influenced Iranian wh*r*s who now flood social media with their vulgarity.
Well said! My 37 year old daughter-in-law (also my neighbor on the same property) is pregnant with her fourth child, my fourth grandchild, and those children are the emotional axis of my life at age 79. I have marvelous times with them and have watched them grow since their birth, beginning 12 years ago when I was present for the birth of the first. Two boys (12 & 10) plus a girl (7) and it is my hope to survive until 87 so that I may dance with her at her quinceañera (the equivalent of a coming-out party, a major event in a girl's life.
Now I'll have to make it to 94, seeing as the child soon to be born (ojalá) is another girl! I also have the good fortune of having lovely women, young and old, paying me visits to chat. Ah, women!
Not me. There are "certain things" that I have experienced that only a woman can do for me. Just saying. You probably met some of the wrong women. I know some GIANTS. TALL TIMBERS and not small shrubs. Peace
Man, you know nothing about me. Why you disrespecting me? I only need Almighty God. You apparently have never been really loved by a real woman, and therefore you hate them. Most closet homosexuals do. They forget a woman gave them life, changed their diapers, nursed them, and protected them when they couldn't even raise their heads. I do "3 dispute exchanges". I have nothing else to add. Next comes a block.
"The lower salvo counts should actually scare you, because it represents the base volume that Iran can sustain indefinitely while regenerating stocks 1:1"
Small clarification, Iran promised not to hit TURKEY AND AZERBAIJAN if they did not support US attacks. There was no apology to the gulf states who are clearly supporting US strikes.
I saw similar statement, that was kind of directed at azerbaijan, namely that they would not hit neighbours, provided they are not attacked from their air space and territory. Also yhose countries that they never hit (azerbaijan）
You don't really need a source for saying something that is simple common sense.
Why would Iran attack anybody unless it was being attacked by them first?
Turkey is allowing Incirlik to be used by the Axis of Epstein, and so this explains the missile "From Iran with love" that was shot down from overhead recently.
I was questioning your statement that the President of Iran in his speech to the nation did *not* reference that Gulf state but instead referred to Azerbaijan and Turkiye.
The apology line was misrepresented in the Western media as a simple apology and characterized by Trump as an attempt at surrender. Other people in other times in other places may have said what you claim. But if they did, it wasn't the high profile comment that set off a news cycle and got global attention.
No one in comments in the news cycle claimed that the Iranian President's speech to the nation did not reference the Gulf states. The readout of the speech published in the English language media confirms that. (and also the qualified nature of the supposed apology) The Western media reacted to the apology directed at the Gulf states. The Gulf states reacted to it as if it was directed at them. Azerbaijan and Turkiye didn't react since they weren't mentioned.
We have a War, someone called it an SMO, in Ukraine where little Ukraine launch drones and missiles into Russia month after month. The behemoth Russia is still wasting their soldiers to fertilize the black earth of Donbas. Russia is still trying to demount the Ukrainian means for War.
The ”attrition” going on is all to the benefit of Russia, they say.
Now we read a piece from Simplicius where the attrition from underdog Iran will make the Beast, USrael, to succumb in 8 months…?
Not at all. The longer it takes the more dangerous for Iran (if we are going to believe the narrative regarding Ukraine).
Its a good dissection, however, done by Simplicius to reveal the many lies/disinformation laid ut by Isreal in the various medias. The launchers was always the key but numbers doesnt add up. Israel cant have destroyed the launcher-fleet twice. Regardless the numbers, if Israel can continue to bomb inside Teheran unhindered it will spell the doom. It is also obvious that US/Israel is trying to hide as many incidents they can of their own misfortunes. What has exactly been hit in Israel?
The same goes for Iran. They have been crippled but not eliminated. They will face the same destiny as Libyia if they dont try working harder. Hitting the desalinations plants should have been done during the 12-day war. Now it can work both ways.
US want the oil for themselves but Israel will certainly bomb and destroy all facilities irrespective of what the Orange Daddy tell them.
The cognitive dissonance surrounding the Ukraine war is revealed when corresponding events and actions take place in the Middle East. When the Babco refinery in Bahrain receives a missile, it is declared that their oil industry has collapsed. When the same thing happens inside Russia, it is described as a needle prick with no effect. However, the truth lies somewhere in between. Industries are more resilient than we think and, above all, less vulnerable than our perception is. The fact is that the Russian oil industry has been damaged to some extent - the same applies to the Arab states, but people who downplay in one case and greatly exaggerate in the other should we be suspicious of.
Did energy prices double over night from attacks on Russian facilities?
Context is obviously irrelevant to you or you just want other people to believe it is, which seems more likely from someone telling others who they ‘should’ be suspicious of.
<<<<<Now we read a piece from Simplicius where the attrition from underdog Iran will make the Beast, USrael, to succumb in 8 months…?<<<<<<
Israel is the size of New Jersey with a small population. It is highly dependent for its existence on external support at the best of times since it is surrounded by enemies not supporters.
Israel can indeed possibly be defeated militarily by Iran in a way that is very difficult to accomplish in Ukraine.
The U.S. can be militarily defeated by its own electorate saying that the campaign was a mistake, when the next elections come up in a few months. Not only is that possible but now looks likely.
Israel is not surrounded by enemies- GCC and Abraham Accord participants including India, Morocco and others will support Israel despite there being no agreement to settle Palestine issue- economically the ME countries are in bed with Israel at the behest and in agreement with the USA— this is part of security agreement US has with many oil producing countries. In addition many Russian oligarchs live in Israel. High tech industry is big business in Israel as well.
Next election will change everything? ?? I think
Not you cannot gain consensus now and the majority of both parties are indebted to AIPAC for their very survival. See everyone giving Trump a standing ovation at the State of the Union address when speaking about Iran. We have been captured.
India part of I2U2 accord with US and Israel - Morocco and Sudan are part of Abraham Accord - you are correct they may not have borders but they have agreements of support.
The US has exhausted itself financially and militarily since the 90's with its endless wars, so that it has been unable to replenish itself, as US Debt doesn't allow it, neither does the MIC, a hungry beast which is eating up the US military budget whilst delivering very little in value.
The US is still stuck with the mindset that multi-million $ missiles and missile systems can defeat drones, that cost anything from $10k upwards, and we are seeing that disastrous failure on the US war on Iran, in which US assets are being destroyed without them being able to respond, and Israel it appears have run out of interceptor missiles, its either that, or their own dome has been totally inundated by incoming projectiles that it is not capable of dealing with, and wete never planned for.
You wrote " The USA has exhausted itself financially and militarily since the 90's with its endless wars"
In my opinion this is not absolutely true.
At the turn of the Century the US was incredibly powerful. Had America moved to a war economy, like say the USSR in WW2, it could easily manage to fight endless wars against what have been pretty weak opponents. Look at Rome or Britain - because their economies were strong they funded wars for centuries.
However, at the same time as fighting pointless wars the American political class has overseen a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary Americans, who actually pay taxes and fund the State, to the corporations and the 1%.
For me that is key because this, on it's own would have critically weakened the US military.
The US is in a paradoxical situation, because the one thing that might save it is the one thing that its elites reject; ie the ending of the private bank called the Fed.
Similarly, the one thing that might save it militarily, ie investing in drones and effective missiles, is also the thing the MIC rejects, because they can make more money by building inefficient but ruinously expensive and hopelessly-vulnerable platforms like aircraft carriers and ships, not to mention jack of all trades and master of none platforms like the F35.
Because politicians are venal, cripplingly-short-sighted, and easily-bribed, none of the things that should be done, are being done, so the US is on a collision course with an iceberg, and everyone is too busy enjoying the music to notice.
However Ron, now Armageddon has been mentioned and especially "Fighting for Jesus" several million Zio-Christian Evangelicals will be rubbing their hands in glee.
Yes, US, can eventually destroy itself from within. But looking at the Vampires in Congress drooling over decapitation, bombings and chanting Israeli slogans I doubt the American people has a real choice.
Israel has survived before and not even Iran seems to want to destroy Israel completely. Dimona and the Desalinations plants are unaffected. Tel Aviv doesnt look like Gaza and never will. I think they will cut deep into each other and then limp back (for the next War).
You have Rednecks, Mexican gangs and the more uncertain disorganized George Floyders. If you have seen n some of the Hollywood ”priming” movies like Purge and Civil War you know what I mean. Yes! Tick-tack.
Iran doesn't even need to do damage to plants the themselves. A spill from a ship in the surrounding waters, a hit on Israel's offshore petro fields and the plants supplying eighty percent of Israel's potable water go offline for a long time. Perfectly legitimate targets that can't be protected with concentrated point defense setups.
Operative words being IF ISRAHELL CAN. Can it? Can the US and israhell sustain it's bombardments vis a vis armaments needed to do so? After all no one is talking about Iran's low supplies or abilities to build more at an appreciable pace. Or those of it's best buds Russia's and China's ability to do so. The same is not true of the US and it's parasite for a multitude of factors.
We dont simply know. They just ordered 12000 tons of bomb from US. We know they have dropped about 100000 on Gaza and Lebanon, if not more.
I agree with Simplicius and all others that US/Isreal has taken a too big bite to swallow. But destruction in Iran can follow and I would guess if US/Israel withdraws, so will Iran. The strain&fatigue brought on your people is simply gutting a nations soul.
12000 tons of bombs aren't going to do them any good. Unlike any of Israel's previous opponents, Iran has an air force and missiles and slow bombers are going to be easy targets for a SAMbush.
Good point to compare Ukraine and Iran wars. All these 4 years we have heard that Putin was the adult in the room because he was containing an escalation of the war by not hitting at the countries behind the proxy Ukraine, because if not, WWIII, we all gonna die, etc.
Iran gets attacked and is systematically demolishing the economies of the “neutral” GCC satrapies from day 1. And saying: wtf are you going to do about it? Because they know that if/when the GCC defects, it will be over for the petrodollar system and the finances of the Gringo Empire.
I’m pretty sure a lot of military commanders in Russia are taking notes of the US response in the Gulf and complaining about how much has the Kremlin miscalculated the strategic-political side of the war…
And concerning the launchers: as the Iranian MIC apparently is not so galactically corrupt as the US one, they have gone for the easy and logical solution of using standard tractor trailers. Making a TEL from a dump trailer chassis is stupidly cheap compared to building an entire truck around it.
Surely there are many among the Russian authorities, who will come to the conclusion that targeting neighbouring countries like Iran does would be advisable for their war aims.
On the other hand both situations are very different.
The US is already at war with Iran and attacking its Arabs allies does not change the nature of the conflict in a fundamental way.
Would Russia attack a NATO country, the probability of a general war increases enormously.
I would also add that NATO countries that neighbor Russia are mostly strategic rear for Ukraine and launching pads for temporary, pinprick tanker seizures.
If you are right about the launchers, Iran can go on a while more.
What I have learned about the launchers for the biggest missiles is that you need these special trailers to quickly get out of the tunnel with 20t missile (Khorramshahr), rise it, launch and get back in. Iran do indeed use a lot of standard trailers and it would explain why IDF claims they have destroyed so many. Time will tell.
“I’m pretty sure a lot of military commanders in Russia are taking notes of the US response in the Gulf and complaining about how much has the Kremlin miscalculated the strategic-political side of the war…”
Glenn Diesen interviewed Gilbert Doctorow a few days ago and Doctorow said that in the Russian media many commentators are making this point. Also remarking on how easy it would be to carry out a decapitation strike on Russia.
In my view Gilbert Doctorow is not very good on military matters but his views on the Russian political scene are usually astute.
Gilbert Doctorow forms his opinions from dinner-party discussions with the 'Russian elite' when he is visiting St Petersburg, and which he passes off as broad-ranging Russian public opinion. It could hardly be, if Putin's approval ratings are to be believed. Doctorow has a business background, not a military one. He doubtless does have an inside track on information in Russia, being regularly there, but I would not agree what he passes on as opinion reflects general Russian thinking. When he says 'many commentators in the Russian media', he means Vladimir Solovyov and guests on his show.
While Vladimir Putin definitely does things his own way, I have seldom seen a leader who relies so strongly on the advice of his various department heads - unlike Trump, he knows he is not personally and simultaneously an expert in agriculture, transport, military and manufacturing matters. State decisions on how to pursue the war in Ukraine, therefore, are not just Putin waking up with an epiphany, although they are regularly presented as if he were going against the collective opinions of his military leaders. This is simply not so, although the BBC and other NATO organs frequently dredge up querulous objections from this or that 'retired Russian Army General' claiming Putin is going at it all wrong.
A similarity that Russia and Iran DO share is that both know this one is for all the marbles, and defeat will mean so much more than defeat; it will mean their erasure from the sovereign-decision-making map. Russia would be broken up into ethnic statelets which could be set to warring with one another on a perceived pretext, just as the combined entity is currently at war with Ukraine - that would never have come about without western manipulation. Iran would be subsumed into neighbouring states and managed by Israel.
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That's a really interesting point Celtiberian. Thank you.
Quick question though, don't you think the response to bombing European NATO members would have been much greater than bombing a handful of Arab vassal states that the West fairly openly despises?
Those Arab vassals are actually the freaking foundation of the dollar system. By selling oil & co in dollars they effectively force the rest of the world to use US$, plus they recycle the surplus dollars into the US financial system, contributing to fund the US debt issuance and the stock market.
Remove it and with the current level of debt and the ongoing everything bubble, the Gringo Empire suffers a financial collapse.
True, but equally, weaning the Arabs off the Petrodollar is desirable, but impossible. The various Sheikhs would last 5 minutes if they even considered it out loud.
You missed that small fact that Russia fighting Ukraine, not US. If Ukraine had and used bases in NATO territories this would be fair comparison, but you comparing apples to oranges.
With your logic, US should start directly attacking Russia assets, because it provides intel, right? Are US doing that? No, they don't
The Ukraine/Russia war is a proxy war on the part of the US. Without US support, Urkraine would have capitulated long ago. Russia of course knows this, and it explains much about how they have prosecuted the war.
Can't win just by bombing. RAND has been preaching that to Israel for years and yet the deaf Jews won't take advice. Bombing wars are TV wars and that is all.
Agree in most of the cases. But as was the case with Libya and Syria it seems enough to bomb a lot and support fractions and instigate frictions to get people to kill each other.
And you are of course right - you could never ”win” only deny the opponent…
I would like to throw out this possibility of where this war might play out next. There have been multiple reports coming out of the United States indicating that there is some kind of ground operation being prepared. In my opinion, there are 2 possible scenarios where a ground operation could be launched. Number one with the Kurdish Iraq militants, or the US could attempt something bold and try to seize one of those Islands. You mentioned earlier? Either way, is this would be an enormous task in borderline suicidal, in a way. Whether or not the united states is able to successfully launch a ground operation.It will be only a matter of can it sustain such an operation? Are the logistics still in place. In order for an operation to be sustained for a longer period of time, my guest no and the haystead. This operation is being put together. Would suggest to me that even if they were successful was in the first 72 hours, they would then, be attributed in annihilated.
The reason why I mentioned the kurds is that if the united states were to deploy its own troops, one possible theater would be in iraq, with those kurdish militias being reinforced by american troops.And it could attempt some kind of encoursion to establish a beachhead into iran.For perhaps more troops to arrive, I was just only throwing that out there.Because it is a possibility that being considered. You are right, though.The kurds alone would be annihilated by iran if they attempted any serious military action.But I would not take their words at face value
Regarding the Stateless Kurds; as brave and as good at fighting as they may be, I hope they realise they've been used as Mugs, doing the dirty work for others for the false promise of a homeland for far too long.
I was thinking the same. The USI, the “United States of Israel”, as usual, relies on proxy forces to carry out its dirty work, and the Kurds can clearly see that now.
Turkiye has strong opinions about such a move by the U.S. U.S. troops in Iran ....whatever. Arming the Kurds and giving them the wherewithal to try and form their own state while they are asserting themselves in the region.......No way Jose.
I am aware that the U.S. has used the Kurds in this way in the past. Even the Turks themselves have done similar recently. However, what is being suggested is an army capable of inflicting serious damage on vast country with a huge population. Not quite as big a nut to crack as Turkiye itself but close enough to cause Turkiye to make sure it doesn't happen.
The Shia militias of the PMU, which have already defeated the Kurds several years ago, would not stand by and let this happen. Numerous militias are attacking US bases on a daily basis. The Iraqi government is aware that this might plunge the country into a renewed civil war and has already put pressure on the Kurdish authorities in the north to stay out of the war.
Certainly, the "ground operation" is to bring the 82nd and possibly 101st airborne divisions in to reinforce bases in Iraq, Bahrain, and possibly Syria. They could provide "logistical support" or some such drivel to Kurdish forces, but their real function will be to try to defend those bases against guerilla and territorial forces from Iraq and Bahrain sympathetic to Iran. They would also be juicy personnel targets for Iranian cluster-bomb missiles. I suspect the U.S. would want actual "local air superiority" over those regions, so they can fly anti-drone CAP, before they even attempt to deploy their airborne units into Iranian missile fire. My guess is that it will be some time before there is any such "ground operation," and there may not be anything left of the bases in Iraq or Bahrain to defend by the time they feel comfortable moving in additional ground troops to secure them.
Certainly, the "ground operation" involves deploying the 82nd and possibly the 101st Airborne Division to reinforce bases in Iraq, Bahrain, and potentially Syria. And let's not forget Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Avengers.
Kurds declined to engage in ground warfare per sonar21.com -
Hegseth - the ever willing yes man- yes sir, boots on the ground sir - suicide mission take one - posturing, theater, robot army brigade - anyones guess - most participants would need to carry a 45 pound munitions pack along with other field necessities is this feasible on this terrain. Uncl Sam needs Iron men needed- NOW!
At the request of the Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers, Iraq has deployed forces between the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Iran. They have now blocked the United States and Israel’s plan for a possible ground operation into Iran.
The Iraqi government asked the Iraqi Kurdish Guards (PUK) to withdraw from the Iran–Iraq border and replaced them with the so-called Iraqi Army, which is mostly made up of Iran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi forces.
Yes, the clip recorded on, I assume AF1, of Trump & Hogsbreath denying responsibility for killing the School girls was galling. But they do it so effortlessly without a hint of conscience. Perhaps they don't have one.
total lack of emotions a strong clue they're either shape-shifted reptiles or clones. Worshiping their dark Astral masters to wreak maximum havoc on this planet - that's what these feed on and have been feeding on for thousands of years. May sound far fetched but factual quite likely.
One thing I wonder that's not done- the Arab states are still not united
Politically, with GCC encouraging Iran to negotiate and betrayed by US-israel (2x, once in jun 2025 and again in Feb 2026), the Palestine slaughter still ongoing, the ayatollah in Lebanon bombed, the pager bombing... GCC's support of the board (bored) of peace and it's betrayal by the feb26 attacks,
I would think that iran-saudi can be the cornerstone of the Arab world to kick the US-israel out of the middle east, with the short term objective of freeing and rebuilding Palestine.
Pretty sure the world would rally around this cause.
Perhaps there are just too many issues to deal with to look political opportunities to solve the root problems.
This period seems like a good time to set aside their differences. Otherwise, they can sign up for 'bored' of peace, support American bases and many other accomodations, but the bully will just step up their bullying.
The Arabs states you mentioned are all run by cucks and cowards who are beholden to the anglo-american-zionists for their seats in power. They won't unite unless forced to by revolution or a major power that wants them united. Also recall that the gulf Arab states are even more of a fictional creation of a state than their northern cousins in Syria, Jordan, and Iraq.
Perhaps they're too tied up in the Petro-dollar and US/Western Assets to bite the hand that feeds them, and keeps their elite in a lifestyle to which they've become accustomed.
The Gulf tyrannies, the EU tyranny, the US tyranny, the Israeli tyranny, etc. They are all tyrannies, according to their customs; otherwise, the people would be free. Yes, I know, theocracy, the same in the West, is called something else: democracy. On one side, princes govern the serfs based on religious principles; on the other, the new aristocrats govern the serfs based on ideological principles.
Let’s take the 150 plus children as an example that died in an attack, let’s include the killing of the Palestinians, the pager attacks, the bombings, it all generates emotional responses. But only for a short period! Still way more people die in traffic every year. No emotional responses. My point is, most of the 8.5 billion people are NOT affected, it’s a far away issue, they may get a short rouse, but they keep on doing the things they were doing. The root cause is the human mind and it’s many flaws
There's just too many options in life to do as well.
Kind of sensory overload and there's not much direct alternative to get the govt to take action.
Compared to the ease of 'brainrot' from scrolling endlessly, watching videos and ordering food - taking concrete actions on such matters are actually time consuming.
There's no app to protest or urge the govt to do something - even if there were, would the govt respond?
nope, governments do what governments do and what they don't do is listening to the public. Protestors most likely will get a harsh treatment to scare the rest of the plebs to stay quiet and low.
You should have factored in the 'reparations' and cynical victimhood card; the shameless holo-museums (all of them "stand with Israel"), Spielberg projections, and non-stop squealing about Anne Frank. -- The girl died in a hospital and then was used by her profiteering daddy (a Nazi collaborator and felon) to pollute the minds of millions of children by promoting an immaculate image of the "ever-sufferings and most moral jews." Jewdaists have captured emotional responses of ethical westerners and converted them into money.
Madam Albright (a genocider of Belgrade) has become famous for her declaration that the death of 500,000 Iraqi children "was worth it." She was a daughter of a "holohaux survivor" Korbel, a jewish thief who looted an art collection and dinner silverware of a European family and brought his loot to the US.
"Items Involved: 20 17th-century Dutch paintings (including works by Ludolf Backhuysen and Hendrik Van Steenwyck), antique furniture, and silverware."
Korbel mentioned taking items due to "hard times." - Any surprises?
Please, do not vulgarize the feeling of empathy that makes us all humans.
AI search: "The Dunbar number is approximately 150, representing the cognitive limit on the number of stable social relationships a human can maintain.
Definition and Origin
The Dunbar number, proposed by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar in the 1990s, suggests that humans can maintain about 150 stable social relationships—relationships in which individuals know each person and how they relate to others in the group. Dunbar derived this number by studying primates, observing a correlation between neocortex size and social group size, and extrapolating to humans based on brain size. He described it informally as the number of people you could comfortably join for a drink without feeling embarrassed."
Society has become to complex. And at the same time the elites have found a way to manipulate the people by targeting their emotions and the emotions are used to legitimize their (criminal) activities (endless wars). Emotions are (utterly) 'stupid': Hamas beheaded a couple of babies on October 7th 2023 (A LIE) and many people didn't object the destruction of 2 million Palestinians. So, yes, the feeling of empathy is vulgar as it legitimizes the killing of tens of millions around the globe (sanctions alone 38 million, mostly the weak, women and children)
The general populations in MENA are almost uniformly anti-America. The governing population and business class who benefit from the influx of U$D are the problem. They will remain loyal as long as the grift keeps on giving and they can hire top level security.
Here's my take after week one of the Iranian conflict.
Say goodbye to the old Iran, as the US will control its oil flows using a Smash and Grab Foreign Policy.
Here’s the actual sequence: Washington strangles Iran with sanctions, greenlights covert ops, toys with open war, then shrieks that Iran’s own oil is a “threat” because Tehran won’t play landlord to U.S. corporations and Gulf client states.
International law says you can’t invade or extort countries to seize their resources; empire hears that as a suggestion. America didn’t find that oil and doesn’t own that ground, but it does have a fossil‑fuel addiction and a wobbling hegemony to feed, so suddenly other people’s hydrocarbons become a “security imperative.” Even General Wesley Clark said years ago that Iran was a target. It's nothing new. In the end, Iran will comply, just like Venezuela, and the US will control the oil. There are no signs that Iran is winning anything.
Iran's fleet? coral reef for exotic fish. (Putin, take note)
Iran's political and military leadership? mostly obliterated from the first day. (Putin, take note)
Iran's command and control centers? vaporized. (Putin, take note)
Iran's oil exports? Not enough to fill my car.
Iran's current oil revenue? Nada
Iran's rial? less than your pocket change.
Iran's aqueducts to irrigate dry, thirsty land for agriculture to feed the population? Running low.
Iran's internal unity? Crisis mode-IRG's hired 5 thousand foreign mercenaries to shoot down protesters.
Iran's current economy? desperate
Iran's allies willing to help fight? none
Iran's strategic positioning? surrounded
Iran's food supply? Limited
Iran's ability to resupply? No can do.
Iran's Heroin supply? unlimited.
Iran's number of sunk enemy ships? Zero
Iran's enemy kills? Let's say 20 soldiers, not one high-ranking official.
Air superiority? USIS dominates 10 to 1.
Iran's takeout of enemy planes? 3 US planes from friendly fire, and I'll add another ten upcoming.
To assume that Iran will somehow win this war when you look at the situational bigger picture is a long, long shot I wouldn't count on. Iran is in stage 4 of political and economic decapitation so that the US-IS can instill a new friendly (you know what that means) leadership similar to Venezuela and control over the oil as well as geo-strategic-positioning at Russia's underbelly as part of an encirclement of power and influence.
The thing is, Iran is not falling from US hostilities.
Iran was already in crisis mode before the war started, so the USIS decided to take advantage of Iran's economic and political crises and attack it while it was vulnerable in every way. It's actually quite a sinister and devious plan with a very high probability of succeeding. These people are ruthless, man. Look at the genocide of innocent children, women and men in Gaza, Iraq, Libya and on. The Hegemon is a modern Genghis Khan. Its aphrodisiac is Control and Power, whatever it takes. The Hegemon will spend as many trillions as it takes to put Iran where it wants it, and we are just appalled witnesses to this madness.
Russia has the perfect opportunity to neutralize Ukraine while the US is busy with Iran, but that won't happen because Putin and the Kremlin are too anxious to welcome the US as a business partner to help develop its resources. I wonder if Russia is noticing the US-led encroachment squeeze play on its underbelly yet. They'll sit still in the slow, WW1-era positional attrition warfare in Ukraine and hope for the best. It's just a matter of time before the classic "we got fooled again" meme. The squeeze is on while Putin plays the violin.
The MIC has been weakening Iran for a long time with the intent to control it.
This is the terminal phase.
Once the Rial collapsed (nearly worthless currency at hyper-inflationary scale) and the riots and protests showed signs of internal distress in Iran, Operation Fury was activated. Iran is the last remaining country out of seven in the M.E. targeted for control by the MIC from twenty years ago. They are behind schedule, but with the same objective on a longer timeline.
L.ol He has been proven wrong about everything he says.
Even Clinton removed him from his duties. He allowed the Russians to fly in an airborne brigade and take over Serbia's downtown airport on his watch. Clinton had to ask them to leave as it was interfering with getting a solution to the then Balkan troubles. Russia agreed and left on their own accord.
Russia's military campaign is based on a long term plan. Its objective among other things is not to get up trying to impress people in the West. Consequently, they are indifferent in their Ukraine campaign, to news cycles.
The slow, orderly process of eliminating all military age men in Ukraine is continuing to their satisfaction. The systematic reduction in NATO capabilities is continuing to their satisfaction. The resetting of their economy is continuing to their satisfaction. The continued widespread of the Russian people for their plan continues to the satisfaction.
I recognize that you are not satisfied with their conduct in Ukraine. For some reason you think they should change their plan to something more to your liking. If you were to ever outline an alternative plan, they would say .....that doesn't meet our needs. We aren't American....
Russia is five thousand miles deep. It has a large population spread all over the country. The limited strikes on Russia are pinpricks for a country that size. Russia's economy and society are functioning normally without any degradation.
The fireball from blowing up some fuel storage tanks impress you but all they do it put that refinery on somewhat limited production for a couple of weeks while they get storage facilities back in operation.
You want to see fireballs. The Russian military wants to see Ukraine order their troops to fight to the last man to hold some otherwise worthless village. You are impressed with their determination. The Russians are impressed too while they bomb them into annihilation.
When you talk about a hundred thousand Russians killed are you talking about civilians? If so, it is pointless to even discuss the issue with you.
<<<<<<he US is targeting equipment, factories and civilians all over Russia and largely responsible for the number of Russians who have died, which must be north of 100,000.<<<<
Excuse me if I mistook the civilians being killed that you mentioned as being represented by the number of one hundred thousand which you included immediately after your reference to civilians being killed.
You can dismiss the Ukrainians as U.S. puppets who should be ignored in favor striking the *real* enemy. However, the Russians see the Ukrainians as around twenty million people on their border who are intent on killing Russians because they are Russian. The Russian leadership see that as a much bigger problem for *them* than you see it as a problem for you.
We will soon find out if Russia is led by intelligent men or retarded boomers. How? If we see more and more evidence that Russia was, is, and will continue to provide material support and intelligence to the Iranians. The same is true for rhe Chinese leadership, though to a lesser extent than the Kremlin. Now is the time to cause real problems for the anglo-american-zionists. I really hope the Russians and Chinese don't chicken out.
Denis you claimed y'day this was a draft only. It's still the same.
Let's pick the "analysis" apart.
Iran's fleet? coral reef for exotic fish. (Putin, take note)
SURFACE FLEET NOT NEEDED, SUBS AND DRONES ARE THE NAVAL ASSETS.
Iran's political and military leadership? mostly obliterated from the first day. (Putin, take note)
WRONG. CONTINUITY OF LEADERSHIP CONTINUES.
Iran's command and control centers? vaporized. (Putin, take note)
WRONG, CONTINUED COMMAND AND CONTROL SHOWS THIS TO BE UNTRUE.
Iran's oil exports? Not enough to fill my car.
PLANNED AHEAD. US GULF ALLIES IN SAME POSITION, BUT DID NOT PLAN ON THIS SO ARE FUCKED AND ARE ALREADY RECONSIDERING US CONTRACTS.
Iran's current oil revenue? Nada
DITTO TO ABOVE.
Iran's rial? less than your pocket change.
NOT RELEVANT
Iran's aqueducts to irrigate dry, thirsty land for agriculture to feed the population? Running low.
IF TRUE RUSSIA AND CHINA WILL SUPPLY ALL NEEDS.
Iran's internal unity? Crisis mode-IRG's hired 5 thousand foreign mercenaries to shoot down protesters.
BULLSHIT
Iran's current economy? desperate
RUSSIA/CHINA WILL SUPPLY ALL NEEDS.
Iran's allies willing to help fight? none
WRONG. HIZBOLLAH IN ALREADY, ANSAR ALLAH COMING (HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW THIS)
Iran's strategic positioning? surrounded
LOL SURROUNDED BY WHOM?
Iran's food supply? Limited
IF TRUE RUSSIA AND CHINA WILL SUPPLY ALL NEEDS.
Iran's ability to resupply? No can do.
IF TRUE RUSSIA AND CHINA WILL SUPPLY ALL NEEDS.
Iran's Heroin supply? unlimited.
wtf?
Iran's number of sunk enemy ships? Zero
MAYBE ONE, A SUPPLY SHIP. SO WHAT? USN RETREATED.THEY LOST THEIR NAVAL BASE IN BAHRAIN.
Iran's enemy kills? Let's say 20 soldiers, not one high-ranking official.
MANY KIA AND WOUNDED. ALREADY ARRIVALS TO US VIA GERMANY. DEAD US MILITARY ARE NOT A MEASURE OF WINNING VS LOSING. THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS THE TELL. AND IT'S BEING DISMANTLED BY IRAN.
Air superiority? USIS dominates 10 to 1.
NOPE.
Iran's takeout of enemy planes? 3 US planes from friendly fire, and I'll add another ten upcoming.
US PROPAGANDA. IFF FAILED THREE TIMES IN AN HOUR? LOL
Hilarious, you are drawing on inputs from the Fucking Idiots who have assisted Chump in getting into the neck deep mess and failure that the US found itself in, first in the Ukraine, and now in Iran!!!
It's amazing, right? The neocons are getting ever more deluded... like no one in their circles dare to mention any truths now, as they may get their heads chopped off. So the level of delusion gets bigger and bigger.
You Fucking Idiot, you're a Typically Ignorant American Shit Head and one dimensional thinker, just like your Worthless Fucking Government who now has you in a Hole in Iran.
Secondly it is your American neanderthal mentality, that has brought about Global Conflict, given that Roit Cause Analysus proves your Broke Shit Hole Cuntry, to be the common denominator in almost every conflict on the planet, be your involvement direct or indirect.
Furthermore your savage neanderthal mentality has brought you to the point, where you believe that your Violence directed at other nations somehow solves either problems which Don't Exist, or potential problems which could be resolved if it wasn't for your Satanic Blood Lust and Greed, and Sheer Fucking Ignorance.
It also explains why the Cuntry which supposedly has the worlds largest economy, has the largest personal and Federal debt on the planet, with nothing to show for it , and that your military exploits read of nothing but gross incompetence failure and financial loss, with nothing to show that matches your supposed intentions, which means that you're a nation of Liars, or Morons, or both.
The fact that you voted for Chump, and believe the never ending flow of Fucking Bullshit, that falls from his mouth, reaffirms my comments about you, as a nation being nothing but Neanderthal Morons!!!
What is your suggestion? Russia should have behaved like jews?
Ukrainians are Russians, with the exception of rabid banderites, these twins of zionists. People do not want to die for the "pianist" and Vampire Squid, hence the press gangs:
"Ukraine is experiencing an acute manpower shortage in its war against Russia, leading to intensified and coercive mobilization tactics. "Busification" is the practice of violent detaining of men on the street and forcing them into vehicles (minibuses) to be taken to recruitment centers."
And this: "Ukraine's [neo-Nazi] Azov Regiment visits Israel: 'Mariupol is our Masada'
Azov officer Ilya Samoilenko led the delegation to Israel. “I’m completely restored,” Samoilenko told The Times of Israel on Wednesday, hours after he landed at Ben Gurion Airport for a nine-day visit to Israel, where he is telling the story of Mariupol’s defense to a country that Kyiv says has failed to take a firm moral stance in the face of Russian crimes." -- The jewdaic genociders welcomed Ukrainian neo-Nazi. So touching!
For "Ukraine" substitute, all of NATO, especially the U.S., supplying intelligence, weapons, financing, political support and officers and "advisors" to help operate the weapons and intelligence centers. Ukraine only supplies the canon fodder. Add in sanctions of Russia in an attempt to break their economy. That Russia has not only been able to survive all this, but is prevailing on the ground, is really quite impressive.
IF TRUE RUSSIA AND CHINA WILL SUPPLY ALL NEEDS. <<<<<<<
Iran is the major supplier of food to the Gulf states as they have little agriculture. It is the Gulf states where the anxiety about food is rising rapidly as air and marine transport are now closed off.
I am aware that the rich Gulf states like to import kiwi fruit and such to the extent that dollar wise Iran looks like only a large provider not a major one. But the staples, the ones needed for survival ....they come from Iran. Or at least they did.
The fundamental folly of the "Putin take note people" is to compare Russia and Iran. Some archidiots have even phantasized about the US sending some American heroes to Russia to kidnap Putin like they did in Caracas. Literally, I read somewhere comments of this kind.
Suffer those folks with the patience of a medieval monk and God will reward you throughout eternity!
Let's say for argument's sake that everything that you say is true. How exactly does "Iran in crisis" convert to "U.S. gains complete control of Iran and all Iranian oil?" Iran is in better shape today economically and socially than Iraq or Afghanistan prior to the U.S. attacks on those countries. Do they control either today after 25 years, trillions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of "boots on the ground" cycling through?
The U.S. cannot invade Iran. Where would they land? How would they supply a force large enough to capture a country the size of Western Europe? Where would they even get a force that large? How would they slog up the mountain chains to get to the central plateau? Iraq would be the most logical entry point, but resupply there is through the Gulf and Straights of Hormuz. The supply line by sea is dubious: to say nothing about the fact that they actually don't control any of the Iraq countryside, which is largely sympathetic to Iran, an even more dubious supply route.
The bottom line is that the U.S. cannot invade Iran, and without an invasion, there is no way to "collapse the government" or take control of anything. The U.S. flattened North Korea in the Korean War so that there was a not a 3-story building left standing anywhere in the country. They don't have 2% of the bombs necessary to do the same to Iran today, and even if they did, North Korea never surrendered and the U.S. never took control of it.
None of the U.S. war goals or anything that you have stated is possible to achieve by way of conventional munitions and airpower alone. It isn't going to happen the way that you describe... period.
The U.S. has no control over Syria or Libya today. Syria is controlled by Jihadists and to some extent by Turkey via proxy. Libya is an anarchic failed state that has served as a launch point for an invasion of Southern Europe by sub-saharan Africans.
The U.S. is an interloper outside the Western hemisphere who comes for a minute and then leaves. Local and regional powers, including the Persians, will have the say as to who and what controls Iran and Iranian oil Russia will have a lot more to say about the postwar state of Iran than the U.S. or Israel: just as Iran had the final say in who controlled postwar Iraq; Turkey had the final say in who controlled postwar Syria, North Korea, Russian, and China had the final say in who controlled postwar North Korea; North Vietnam and China had the final say in who controlled postwar Vietnam; and so on and so forth.
I respect your opinion. 20 years in Afghanistan showed us exactly that but the difference is that Iran has some civilisation which you cant say about the Afghans.
And you're Fucking Stupid enough to think that this means an end to Iran???
Just because you're too much of a pussy to face being shot, bombed, etc..doesnt mean that the Iranians are.
The Persians, Arabs, and African may end up with nothing, but they will keep on fighting until the US runs away, just like they dud in Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, after having lost $Trillions, but the US will Never control them, or gain access to their resources.
Part of your Gross miscalculation stems from the fact that you Don't Know, at what stage Russia and China will step in militarily to save Iran, and destroy the US, militarily, economically, socially and politically, from which the US will never recover.
Russia and China have more to lose by letting the US take control of Iran, than by stepping in.
Up until now Russia and China have been supporting Iran behind the scenes, with everything from military intelligence and targeting, to military hardware in various forms, as well as through supply chains bringing in anything and everything Iran meeds to survive, which means that should this survival fail Russia and China will most certainly step in.
I am very familiar with "economic crises." We had 150-200% annual inflation here just a few years ago: just like Iran. The country didn't fall apart, and I can assure you that if anyone invaded, they would not have been given the keys to the Casa Rosada and handed control of Vaca Muerta by the local population. They would have been fought tooth and nail by every able-bodied man and some women too.
Just because there is a crisis doesn't mean that some interloper can come in and take control of a country.
I was in Iraq in 2004 as a US Marine, I can promise you that nobody has a clue about what is actually going on for sure, except for the grunts on the ground and the officers above them lying to the people above them.
the first person in the comments who admits he isn't a general and war plans as an unpaid hobby because he is so accurate charging for it would deprive the ignorant masses of their genius.....
Another Delusional Idiot, or are they now classes as Paid Propagandists???
The US will run out of ammo, resources and resolve, before Iran runs out of water, food, money, or resolve Asshole!!!
Chump is already using back channels in a desperate attempt to gain his version of a victorious “ceasefire” and an offramp for the US, and the Iranians told him to Fuck Off.
Unlike you American Fucking Idiots who have done nothing but run your mouths for thirty years, the Iranians have planned for this day for thirty years you Dumb Fuck.
So Shit Head, what are these supposed warnings for Putin, when Chump has already run away from the Ukraine after being defeated by Russians???
I don’t yet agree that ALL the control momentum is on the US/IS side, but your points are well argued, and your swipes at Putin are certainly correct. Russia is sleepwalking into only being able to reestablish deterrence through nuclear weapons.
How will the US fly 100+ C17 sorties to to land and support an 82nd Airborne Division Brigade-sized force required to conduct a rapid mission? And where will those 5000 soldiers base?
I think it was just a dick move, because Israel is suffering more than it will report. That's the only good thing about this Trumpian catastrophe, he did it for Israel, but it could lead to the demise of Israel.
Israel is throwing stones when they themselves are in a glass house. They have water problems, too.
Iran was quick to point out that Israel was the first to do this, which is probably a war crime. If Iran attacks Israel's water, it's justified response.
92,000,000 million inhabitants in Iran - we know Israel has a genocidal streak when it come to ‘others’ - all non-Jews irregardless but to do away with the Iranian population that would be quite a reach even for the Israeli’s.
Israel wants to do away with Iran's population as an organized state with a viable culture. They would probably like to kill them all but even they realize they just don't have enough bullets.
Elimination comes in many forms. Libyans and Syrians are de facto eliminated. You dont need to kill them. Just starve them, like Palestinians, destroy their infrastructure and oil production. Make them thirsty. No one will care as we have noted.
Don't worry, all the Western evil blows back on them in spades. Look at what coups and a proxy war in Ukraine has done to Europe, and the US military stocks. It made Russia stronger and the attackers weaker.
Iran will suffer, but Israel will be demolished. Any fool could see how this will play out. Well, except for the neocon zionist fools.
Trouble is that some of these people actually think the Jewish Messiah is going to come and make Israel a mighty kingdom.
He came, they rejected Him, and they are in for a rude awakening.
Per your original message - ‘This is another dimension’
Unfortunately on reflection you may be right- After he Covid debacle we are all expendable- US still committing democide on their population as are other countries including Israel- we are the enemy- never forget it. Vaccine as a countermeasure, a kill shot. Welcome to the 21st century. Humans no longer required.
an article I just read addressed that stating that it turned the skies of Tehran black with smoke and sickening to breath. i.e., chemical/biological environmental destruction…more war crimes
They advertised a few days ago for personal effects specialists. These are the people that sort through the possessions of the dead (in lockers, pockets, etc) and ship them to the families.
This is a subject that is being studiously avoided in the media, including self-identified conservative outlets. To me, blackouts like this are an indication of a serious problem they haven't yet figured out how to stage manage and minimize to avert a public outcry.
I would expect a measured but steady trickle of announced accidental deaths and training accidents in the near future.
$4 gasoline? The current price in Canada is around $5/gallon (CDN$1.50/litre), and EU prices are even higher. If Trumpy pisses off Carney and his Rothschild handlers much more, expect prices for Canadian crude to rise and add to the US gas-pump misery.
Some of the Gulf States have already shut down extraction and processing, which may take weeks, if not months to restart. The other risk to shutting down extraction is that it usually involves a significant loss of future ultimate yields. Yes, there are methods to reduce that loss, but they slow production, are expensive, environmentally damaging and only partially effective.
This will disadvantage Gulf States that rely on being captured low-cost providers to the US/EU. No one outside the US/EU/NATO will trust the Gulf States to be capable of sticking to any agreements. Via China, the Saudis negotiated a peace treaty of sorts with Iran, but continued to allow the US to park its military across the Persian Gulf. Sure NOW the Saudis functionally prevent the US from overflying, as opposed to the 'turn a blind eye' of a couple weeks ago. Funny how discovering the US can't provide the 'protection' the PetroDollar Racket promised is changing the geopolitical landscape.
Easy with the F bombs their slugger it is international women’s day
That’s every day silly!
To be fair no longer having an active apartheid welfare state in the Middle East would probably benefit most people in the world
And that affects you, how exactly?
While we’re at it, can you please explain to The rest of us what they are supposed to be tolerant of and how you’re gonna do so much better of a job ?
did you drank after her or smth? :))—-WTF?
I think your personal digital assistant might be glitching either that or the power outage is in Tel Aviv or is starting to get to you
Hey, Vade, this is for you and your righteous jewdaic anger:
Niddah 44b:9
"A girl who is three years and one day old, whose father arranged her betrothal, is betrothed through intercourse..."
Shoo away with your jewdaic righteousness and holobiz victimhood.
They learned patience watching Russia. Just as Russia emptied the West of military assets in Ukraine by being methodical, Iran will try to do the same.
The US and Israel play the same game in Ukraine and Iran. They keep trying to orchestrate by doing outrageous things to get the other side to react.
Russia doesn't react to their lead. Iran will take note, as pointing out who it is to first start hitting water or oil supplies, but they won't react until it suits them.
If that happens Nutty Yahoo will nuke Iran and no one wants that except Nutty Yahoo and his close chums.
A nuke from Israel would make that a definite.
Israel knows full well how to play the escalation game.
Push too hard and you become the aggressor which is not the role they want to portray to the world at the moment.
They have the moral high ground, they need to retain that whilst slowly grinding Israel and US might to a thin red paste.
That approach will also further expose the Israel and US propaganda machine to the actual truth.
Your screen name harkens back to a sick university riddle from the 70s. What's the difference between the women's track team and the dwarf students who got dean's honours? (That one wasn't very funny either, but a bit more clever).
Who cares about moral high ground? The jews committed genocide on live TV for 2 years. They lost the pr war but here they are attacking Iran. No, when you are in a war for survival you use whatever you can to win. Damn what the neighbors may think about your actions.
The moral high ground doesn't help. Hell, Israel conducted a daylight genocide in Gaza and nobody other than the Houthis did anything.
ThenUS and Israel attacked Iran and the Americans' catamites line up to support.
Israel will only send a nuke if its leadership has given up. And in that case many nuclear powers will then obliterate the Jewish cancer. No one in this world will tolerate a first-strike nuke by anyone.
Are you kidding? Israel could drop a bomb on the european parliament and we'd hear the europeans bleat "Israel Has The Right To Defend Itself (R)!"
As I've written (and said to people with who I speak), if Israel launches a first-strike nuke, Jewish people everywhere who don't loudly repudiate it will ALL be at risk from finally having incited pogroms around the globe, their erstwhile "allied" nations included.
He'll do that anyway if he thinks Israel will be defeated.
Clean logic.
Iran wins when/ if the Gringo Empire is evicted from the region. No US bases = no US fuckery in the Gulf & Caucasus = no petrodollar system = US on the brink to bankruptcy.
This is IMO their end goal. Getting nuked dozens of times by Israel when those cultists decide this is the End Times indeed is not how to win.
If/when the Gringo Empire implodes financially, Israel’s fate will be sealed as well. The settlers will have to pack their bags and move or return to Biblical living conditions.
Good points… imo Israel has been on the open rampage this last couple of years bc they are pretty sure daddy Gringo is going to suffer severe financial & social problems in the medium term (1-5yrs??) and they want to complete as much of the greater Israel project in the meantime in order to become as unassailable as possible afterwards, including (a fundaméntela aspect, actually) becoming the puppeteer of some or most of the GCC sheikdoms. (The incoming US problems are also the reason of Trump 2.0 becoming an accelerationist, btw).
If the US is evicted from the Gulf, the zionists cannot take over the business management.
My guesstimate is that in the moment that neither the US nor Israel can control the Gulf, the Israeli *elites* will abandon Israel to its fate and move to a nicer place to chill out, and good luck to the everyday Zionists remaining there.
So yes, I think if Iran is able to get the US out of the Gulf in the short term and assert control there, Israel will be toast bc they won’t have the means to influence the Gulf from current Israeli territory.
Does it make sense?
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BTW, happy International Woman's Day to all you women out there! You make our lives bearable and full of beauty! And your patience with us is immeasurable. You bring life and nurture into the world.
How could we do without you?
A couple of seconds too late!
He is a seasoned pro with a lot of gold medals under his belt 🤣
I give up!
Don't! It's kinda fun in a childish kind of way...😉
Good, cause it is so fucking depressing these constant lies , the stupidity, the hypocrisy.
So let me share another joke: the dutch have a large gasfield in the province of Groningen. We had some ‘earthquakes’ (2-3 Richter scale). Around 200 wells. The dutch decided to close those wells. How? Filling them up with concrete so we can never re use them again. 70 of the 200 are now been closed that way, 130 to folllow. Gas reserve is at 10% now and we are getting gas from Norway, USA, Qatar. But Qatar will not be coming now, LNG from USA is now diverting to countries that are willing to pay more and we decide not to keep the gas fields open in case of an emergency. The politicians are of such low level, it is mind boggling.
Re your gas. Isn't it funny that Russia is not supplying Europe with gas, but the USA is? And, as you point out, it will have to do so even more because of Qatar shutting off the gas........
As the old expression goes, who is profitting from this?
It’s even worse: they accused Russia of using energy as a weapon while Russia has always been a very reliable supplier, fulfilling its commitments. Who is using energy as a weapon now?
It doesn't matter what Russia does or doesn't. Russia will be blamed.
Hard to imagine Russia using energy as a weapon, when it was the Biden US which blew up the Nord Stream.
Russia is still supplying Europe with gas; but Ursula and her co-treasonites are saying that they plan to cut it all off in two month's time.
So Putin is now "thinking aloud" as he describes it, as to whether he should just pre empt the Euro idiots, and end it now.
As for the US, it never "has to" do anything - it only ever does something if it can profit thereby, whether you are its ally or its adversary makes no difference at all.
If I was Putin I'd cut it off, part from Hungary/Czech Republic.
I'm surprised Iran hasn't mounted special forces operations to blow up US LNG tankers arriving in Europe. Each one is a floating bomb with nearly tactical nuclear effects, and when fully loaded they're very vulnerable to being exploded by even small drones. Blow up a few of those when they arrive, which would take the offloading terminals with them, and the EU will be in real trouble.
Because Iran isn't a terrorist state
Fighting back in a war is not a terrorist act. Iranian strikes against US energy infrastructure are fair game, and that includes strikes against NATO countries that have allied with the US and Israel.
NATO likes to prance around babbling about Article 5, claiming that "an attack on any one of us is an attack on all" but in the middle of all that narcissist barking they forget that joining a military alliance is not a one-way street. It also means that "an attack *by* any of us is an attack by *all*".
For that matter, all of the EU countries have been enablers and military allies of Israel. Give Israel the money and weapons it uses to attack Iran and you've made yourself a fair target in the war Israel has started.
The EU has taken measures to cripple Iran's economy and energy infrastructure. It's perfectly fair for Iran to respond by crippling the EU's economy and energy infrastructure. Let's see how those pigs in Brussels like it when somebody they've been torturing drives a spit up their asses and starts broiling them over a fire.
It's true some of the Europeans, like Spain, are getting cold feet now that the US has gone all in with war crimes. But they still had no problem sanctioning Iran. Well fine, now that their US ally has started a war it's fair for Iran to settle scores with everybody that's been screwing it in the past.
Like Israel?
Wait, are you sure?
We've heard about Iranian terror squads for what, decades now?
Course there's never been a confirmed sighting.
Good one! I already smell a false flag operation. Who shall we blame this time? North Korea? Iran???, China?
Amazing that the plebs in the west still accept this bs from their elites. Always the same projection: everyone does the same what we would do in similar circumstances. Total lack of empathy and understanding of other nations and cultures.
I don't know that a false flag will be necessary; after all, Trump has assumed to himself the authority to declare when Iran has 'surrendered', based on his personal or advised assessment that Iran 'no longer presents a threat to the United States of America'. Having already claimed the Global Capital of Freedom and Democracy and its Israeli sidekick have wiped out Iran's Navy and Air Force, pretty much devastated its Army and are now ferreting out the last few missile-launch sites, I would suggest he is already laying the groundwork for the triumphant return of The Victory Fleet to American ports. He is certainly talking in that direction.
So much for evolution.
The average human brain seems to be little different from the average reptilian one.
Maybe we write the biology textbooks, and so give ourselves a lot more credit for "sapiens" than we deserve.
A drone could achieve the same effect.
If you can get within range of the LNG tanker, sure. Groups of Iranian special forces operators could bring with them, and use, small drones in any country, including the US.
"I'm surprised Iran hasn't mounted special forces operations to blow up US LNG tankers arriving in Europe."
Patience John, it's just a matter of time. This is the low hanging fruit of payback. I hope the Europeans have warm sweaters. People will be lining up and cutting in line to take out one of these floating gas bags. A perfect Trump metaphor, an exploding gas bag. Tick-tock...
Because it would be a strategic mistake to widen the war instead of focusing on blinding the US and Israel and destroying US/Israel capacity to launch attacks (on civilians).
Oh, and because they are not evil run by an Epstein class of degenerates.
What's 'evil' about fighting back against a US and an EU that have spent the last 40+ years trying to destroy the Iranian nation?
Actually Russia is trying to send through gas and oil to Hungary and Slovakia but the Neanderthal is blocking the pipes in Ukraine. His terrorists are repeatedly threatening Orban and even young people who face Ukraine opponents in international tennis games:
https://magyarnemzet.hu/english/2026/03/hungary-fm-ukrainian-presidents-threat-targets-the-entire-hungarian-nation
That's a grave insult to all Neanderthals.
I guess they had it coming :))
They want to die—cementing up an energy resource when the existence of their country rests on energy.
Banderites represent another supremcist death cult. No wonder that the zionist state is benevolent towards the Ukrainian neo-nazis: zionists and banderites are brothers forever.
Some truth in this remark - but even the US is Banderite, and rightly so, in its desire to re migrate all the incomers from around the world.
It's just a question of how far your nationalism should go.
Holland is very big on heated greenhouses, - or at least, it was.
On present appearances, they will soon have to go back to eating tulip bulbs again, as they did in earlier times.
Members of the Epstein club/class/cartel.
Mein kampf has a chapter on how governments become less and less qualified. Basically, people in government are less likely to higher people that are potentially more qualified than themselves.
"Hire."
The Dutch are so woke it's ridiculous.
Bravo!
American sea assets are having to keep their distance, thus minimising their effect on Iran. American bases are being flattened and their radars taken out. Same with the little girl killers.
So where are all these American and child-killing fighter/bombers coming from? They have to return to their bases after their sorties, so why aren't they being hit on the ground? It's not like they are out of range of Iranian missiles and UAVs, nor is it like Iran is running short of them.
I don't understand. someone enlighten me.
Do you prefer a flashlight or a candle for lighting?
I'll start reading MSM, they are good at gaslighting.
Now they’re flying back as far away as they can, even further than Cyprus and when they’ve refuelled numerous times they lay up and get numerous hours of maintenance under hardened shelters. It’s turning into a fantastically expensive murder spree for America, and how will they even get back to there mid east bases?
I don't think they will. Those airbases are being flattened with billions upon billions of infrastructure, equipment and weaponry being destroyed that took decades to put in place.
As far as Cyprus goes, I have seen photos of many, many planes crammed onto that base - from both heads of the USrael two-headed demon. They couldn't possibly have that many hardened shelters. They might be waiting until they have picked off all AD radars and/or launchers before striking the final blows. Time will tell.
I’d said at least as far as Cyprus, they fly back to Diego Garcia or the RAF bases in England, which is why he was complaining to Starmer so much. Imagine how long each sortie takes, how many times to refuel en route and back. Trump will lose all US bases in the gulf at this rate, all that for his Israeli/evangelic bs.
> that empire is heartless and utterly without honor.
Return to barbarism. No other term is appropriate.
I completely understand Israel’s motives here, if it’s Israel’s it’s also Trumps motive. I spent a year and a half in Iraq and there was absolutely nothing achieved in all the time of the occupation, and also been in Iran and all over the mid east. All the zionists want is every country around them a non functioning wreck, a ruin and that’s also there attitude to America and every other country or people on the planet. They hate everybody, bar none. America if it wants to regain its self worth and not go bankrupt needs to destroy Israel and everybody in it without delay. A bit like the Romans did 2000 years ago.
Hi Elena, Why do you think Iran is crucial to BRICS? Because of the oil?
Iran stated any attempted rebuilding will be destroyed. And will keep doing so.
The ashkeNAZI will never get a foothold in West Asia again.
The Andinia Plan will be enacted.
I don't know. Perhaps the Andinian Plan has been replaced with the American Plan? The zionist influence in America has infiltrated virtually all sectors of political, military, business, banking, academic, medical, religious, media and entertainment, and at all levels of government - local, state and federal. POTUS, SCOTUS, Congress, Federal Bureaucracy - you name it. One could not be blamed for proposing that America has become the new zionist state.
Have you seen Tyler Oliveira's recent video about Jew Jersey?
If not, watch it. A glimpse in to what will happen everywhere, all funded by tax payers.
It's always had that reputation but is now on an entirely increased level. An invasion actually.
My understanding is they are using bombers to launch standoff weapons at a distance: cruise missiles and JDAMs. Iran’s big challenge is to figure out how to neutralize the JDAM’s, which will be the one munition the US will be able to deliver consistently.
Victor,
The B52s and B2s are being flown from their home bases in the US. They are air refueled all the way to the ME.
B52s , lumbering giants that they are, require very long runways which not all overseas bases have.
US would not risk, in my opinion, putting a B2 or any of their bomber fleet on the ground.
The B1 bomber is apparently being based in England.
The tankers are at Ben Gurion and would seem to be an easy target? However I have read the AD is formidable there.
Thanks for this. I think yo are right - B52s and B2s are much too valuable to base in that region - though I did see lots of refuelers. I understand that Ben Gurion is being bombed pretty heavily now - it has been put out of action. People can neither arrive or leave. But I might be wrong. As for AD, I haven't seen any evidence that the Occupiers have an effective means of deterrence against Iran's missiles, except the older ones that are used primarily to use up AD ammo.
Quite a few are coming from Diego Garcia - the B52s.
They carry dozens of JASSMs, ie stand-off weapons.
As to why DG hasn't been hit, you would have to ask the Iranians - it would certainly be a very good move.
wow that is fast
"That's what she said", or
"If I had a nickel for every time I heard this"...
"That's what she said!" is never not funny!
Amen
As a 6 ft 5 inch athletic and handsome man I have noticed the mental strain I am on women. Out of solidarity I therefore have followed Muslim women's example in my country (NL) and dress modestly while using perfume only sparingly. After all, men, just like women, are 'diamants who have to be caressed solely in private and covered up when in public'. So that we all can get along without harassing each other because of our lust. Not like those Israeli & US influenced Iranian wh*r*s who now flood social media with their vulgarity.
The west should be more like Iran.
And Int'l Men's Day is being celebrated when? Asking for a friend.
It's every day. I celebrate daily
Well said! My 37 year old daughter-in-law (also my neighbor on the same property) is pregnant with her fourth child, my fourth grandchild, and those children are the emotional axis of my life at age 79. I have marvelous times with them and have watched them grow since their birth, beginning 12 years ago when I was present for the birth of the first. Two boys (12 & 10) plus a girl (7) and it is my hope to survive until 87 so that I may dance with her at her quinceañera (the equivalent of a coming-out party, a major event in a girl's life.
Now I'll have to make it to 94, seeing as the child soon to be born (ojalá) is another girl! I also have the good fortune of having lovely women, young and old, paying me visits to chat. Ah, women!
You are surely blessed!
Thank you! I certainly feel that way! My son does as well.
They want to make sure you keep them in, or add them to, your will.
To describe females as devious would be putting it mildly.
Your average male never understands them.
🌹 to your (patient) wife
Thanks from her! (I think she wants to put me away.)
We can't.........we couldn't even exist. WOMAN = WOMB OF MAN. Thanks ladies.
Men can exist perfectly well without women.
In my general although not exclusive experience, most of them are far more trouble than they are worth.
But women cannot exist without men, because we do all the things they are too lazy and / or too ignorant to do.
Not me. There are "certain things" that I have experienced that only a woman can do for me. Just saying. You probably met some of the wrong women. I know some GIANTS. TALL TIMBERS and not small shrubs. Peace
People who are dependent on others never really experience them properly.
It's the difference between wanting and needing; and you fit into the latter category.
Man, you know nothing about me. Why you disrespecting me? I only need Almighty God. You apparently have never been really loved by a real woman, and therefore you hate them. Most closet homosexuals do. They forget a woman gave them life, changed their diapers, nursed them, and protected them when they couldn't even raise their heads. I do "3 dispute exchanges". I have nothing else to add. Next comes a block.
Is that you in the video?
https://jeanbaptisteguillory.substack.com/p/stick-up-for-yourself
Man why are you disrespecting me?
Is it because you are a hypocrite, and so that's all you have?
" ... You apparently have never been really loved by a real woman, and therefore you hate them. Most closet homosexuals do... "
As to suffering the ultimate humiliation of being blocked by somebody such as you - be my guest.
If I knew how to do it, I would block you after two such exchanges.
You probably want them in positions of power and allowed to vote as well don't you.
Somebody's been O/D - ing on blue pills.
Females have betrayed us since Eve started the ball rolling with Lucifer.
Respect.
This:
"The lower salvo counts should actually scare you, because it represents the base volume that Iran can sustain indefinitely while regenerating stocks 1:1"
Off your meds today?
Small clarification, Iran promised not to hit TURKEY AND AZERBAIJAN if they did not support US attacks. There was no apology to the gulf states who are clearly supporting US strikes.
Source? Everything I have heard from non western corporate media is the comment specifically referred to their Arab neighbors.
I saw similar statement, that was kind of directed at azerbaijan, namely that they would not hit neighbours, provided they are not attacked from their air space and territory. Also yhose countries that they never hit (azerbaijan）
You don't really need a source for saying something that is simple common sense.
Why would Iran attack anybody unless it was being attacked by them first?
Turkey is allowing Incirlik to be used by the Axis of Epstein, and so this explains the missile "From Iran with love" that was shot down from overhead recently.
I was questioning your statement that the President of Iran in his speech to the nation did *not* reference that Gulf state but instead referred to Azerbaijan and Turkiye.
The apology line was misrepresented in the Western media as a simple apology and characterized by Trump as an attempt at surrender. Other people in other times in other places may have said what you claim. But if they did, it wasn't the high profile comment that set off a news cycle and got global attention.
No one in comments in the news cycle claimed that the Iranian President's speech to the nation did not reference the Gulf states. The readout of the speech published in the English language media confirms that. (and also the qualified nature of the supposed apology) The Western media reacted to the apology directed at the Gulf states. The Gulf states reacted to it as if it was directed at them. Azerbaijan and Turkiye didn't react since they weren't mentioned.
This matter is a bit complicated. I will cover this in my next update.
What a wonderful World we live in!
We have a War, someone called it an SMO, in Ukraine where little Ukraine launch drones and missiles into Russia month after month. The behemoth Russia is still wasting their soldiers to fertilize the black earth of Donbas. Russia is still trying to demount the Ukrainian means for War.
The ”attrition” going on is all to the benefit of Russia, they say.
Now we read a piece from Simplicius where the attrition from underdog Iran will make the Beast, USrael, to succumb in 8 months…?
Not at all. The longer it takes the more dangerous for Iran (if we are going to believe the narrative regarding Ukraine).
Its a good dissection, however, done by Simplicius to reveal the many lies/disinformation laid ut by Isreal in the various medias. The launchers was always the key but numbers doesnt add up. Israel cant have destroyed the launcher-fleet twice. Regardless the numbers, if Israel can continue to bomb inside Teheran unhindered it will spell the doom. It is also obvious that US/Israel is trying to hide as many incidents they can of their own misfortunes. What has exactly been hit in Israel?
The same goes for Iran. They have been crippled but not eliminated. They will face the same destiny as Libyia if they dont try working harder. Hitting the desalinations plants should have been done during the 12-day war. Now it can work both ways.
US want the oil for themselves but Israel will certainly bomb and destroy all facilities irrespective of what the Orange Daddy tell them.
The cognitive dissonance surrounding the Ukraine war is revealed when corresponding events and actions take place in the Middle East. When the Babco refinery in Bahrain receives a missile, it is declared that their oil industry has collapsed. When the same thing happens inside Russia, it is described as a needle prick with no effect. However, the truth lies somewhere in between. Industries are more resilient than we think and, above all, less vulnerable than our perception is. The fact is that the Russian oil industry has been damaged to some extent - the same applies to the Arab states, but people who downplay in one case and greatly exaggerate in the other should we be suspicious of.
Did energy prices double over night from attacks on Russian facilities?
Context is obviously irrelevant to you or you just want other people to believe it is, which seems more likely from someone telling others who they ‘should’ be suspicious of.
You are proof of this: ” Industries are more resilient than we think and, above all, less vulnerable than our perception is.”
Its all perception when oilprice went up 50%, not ”doubled”.
One tweet bringed it bck 5%. Tweet removed - up 5%.
Perception does more than bombs.
Ah, so you're a trumper who prefers speculation over the reality of markets. You're going to be in for a shock.
You havent actually read anything from me if you live in that illusion.
”Crime against humanity” is only words now a day.
”Rule based order” is another illusion.
”Nukes” is something you talk about but dont dare to use.
So…all other means are allowed including genocide.
Yeah they should target the sewage treatment plants instead. Make it truly SHITRAEL.
<<<<<Now we read a piece from Simplicius where the attrition from underdog Iran will make the Beast, USrael, to succumb in 8 months…?<<<<<<
Israel is the size of New Jersey with a small population. It is highly dependent for its existence on external support at the best of times since it is surrounded by enemies not supporters.
Israel can indeed possibly be defeated militarily by Iran in a way that is very difficult to accomplish in Ukraine.
The U.S. can be militarily defeated by its own electorate saying that the campaign was a mistake, when the next elections come up in a few months. Not only is that possible but now looks likely.
Israel is not surrounded by enemies- GCC and Abraham Accord participants including India, Morocco and others will support Israel despite there being no agreement to settle Palestine issue- economically the ME countries are in bed with Israel at the behest and in agreement with the USA— this is part of security agreement US has with many oil producing countries. In addition many Russian oligarchs live in Israel. High tech industry is big business in Israel as well.
Next election will change everything? ?? I think
Not you cannot gain consensus now and the majority of both parties are indebted to AIPAC for their very survival. See everyone giving Trump a standing ovation at the State of the Union address when speaking about Iran. We have been captured.
You might want to check a map - India and Morocco dont exactly have borders with Israel.
India part of I2U2 accord with US and Israel - Morocco and Sudan are part of Abraham Accord - you are correct they may not have borders but they have agreements of support.
I wouldn't rely on any theoretical support from India, myself.
Nothing like a vaguely worded agreement of support to back you up
Not at the moment, maybe.
But the Greater Israel plan will address that lack of contiguity in due course.
Spot On!
The US has exhausted itself financially and militarily since the 90's with its endless wars, so that it has been unable to replenish itself, as US Debt doesn't allow it, neither does the MIC, a hungry beast which is eating up the US military budget whilst delivering very little in value.
The US is still stuck with the mindset that multi-million $ missiles and missile systems can defeat drones, that cost anything from $10k upwards, and we are seeing that disastrous failure on the US war on Iran, in which US assets are being destroyed without them being able to respond, and Israel it appears have run out of interceptor missiles, its either that, or their own dome has been totally inundated by incoming projectiles that it is not capable of dealing with, and wete never planned for.
It's only partly the wars, it's mainly been the wholesale transfer of wealth from ordinary Americans to the Epstein Class.
Please explain how this relates to my comment.
You wrote " The USA has exhausted itself financially and militarily since the 90's with its endless wars"
In my opinion this is not absolutely true.
At the turn of the Century the US was incredibly powerful. Had America moved to a war economy, like say the USSR in WW2, it could easily manage to fight endless wars against what have been pretty weak opponents. Look at Rome or Britain - because their economies were strong they funded wars for centuries.
However, at the same time as fighting pointless wars the American political class has overseen a massive transfer of wealth from ordinary Americans, who actually pay taxes and fund the State, to the corporations and the 1%.
For me that is key because this, on it's own would have critically weakened the US military.
The US military was weakened by the disunity of the United States. The country has been a 'resource' for traitors of all sorts for too long.
The US is in a paradoxical situation, because the one thing that might save it is the one thing that its elites reject; ie the ending of the private bank called the Fed.
Similarly, the one thing that might save it militarily, ie investing in drones and effective missiles, is also the thing the MIC rejects, because they can make more money by building inefficient but ruinously expensive and hopelessly-vulnerable platforms like aircraft carriers and ships, not to mention jack of all trades and master of none platforms like the F35.
Because politicians are venal, cripplingly-short-sighted, and easily-bribed, none of the things that should be done, are being done, so the US is on a collision course with an iceberg, and everyone is too busy enjoying the music to notice.
However Ron, now Armageddon has been mentioned and especially "Fighting for Jesus" several million Zio-Christian Evangelicals will be rubbing their hands in glee.
I was comparing the narrative of attrition, Ron.
Yes, US, can eventually destroy itself from within. But looking at the Vampires in Congress drooling over decapitation, bombings and chanting Israeli slogans I doubt the American people has a real choice.
Israel has survived before and not even Iran seems to want to destroy Israel completely. Dimona and the Desalinations plants are unaffected. Tel Aviv doesnt look like Gaza and never will. I think they will cut deep into each other and then limp back (for the next War).
The Fifth Column is strong in the Disunited States of America.
:-) Only a fifth…?
You have Rednecks, Mexican gangs and the more uncertain disorganized George Floyders. If you have seen n some of the Hollywood ”priming” movies like Purge and Civil War you know what I mean. Yes! Tick-tack.
All Iran needs to do is to hit the jew desalination plants, and Six Million more will ( hopefully ) die.
Iran doesn't even need to do damage to plants the themselves. A spill from a ship in the surrounding waters, a hit on Israel's offshore petro fields and the plants supplying eighty percent of Israel's potable water go offline for a long time. Perfectly legitimate targets that can't be protected with concentrated point defense setups.
This impinges on the idea of collective punishment, which is disallowed under international law.
But given that it's jews being collectively punished, then I am in favour of such action.
There must be plent of Zyklon-B still available somewhere in Germany.
The jews wanted to poison 6m Germans post WW2, so it would be poetic justice.
Operative words being IF ISRAHELL CAN. Can it? Can the US and israhell sustain it's bombardments vis a vis armaments needed to do so? After all no one is talking about Iran's low supplies or abilities to build more at an appreciable pace. Or those of it's best buds Russia's and China's ability to do so. The same is not true of the US and it's parasite for a multitude of factors.
We dont simply know. They just ordered 12000 tons of bomb from US. We know they have dropped about 100000 on Gaza and Lebanon, if not more.
I agree with Simplicius and all others that US/Isreal has taken a too big bite to swallow. But destruction in Iran can follow and I would guess if US/Israel withdraws, so will Iran. The strain&fatigue brought on your people is simply gutting a nations soul.
12000 tons of bombs aren't going to do them any good. Unlike any of Israel's previous opponents, Iran has an air force and missiles and slow bombers are going to be easy targets for a SAMbush.
You need a magnifying glass to find an Iranian Air force.
Israeli Airforce dont use any slow bombers.
But Iran is probably too big to bomb to pieces.
"Israeli Airforce dont use any slow bombers."
"Slow" is by comparison with fighters and missiles.
US/Isreal have been moving fast to their delenda est
Good point to compare Ukraine and Iran wars. All these 4 years we have heard that Putin was the adult in the room because he was containing an escalation of the war by not hitting at the countries behind the proxy Ukraine, because if not, WWIII, we all gonna die, etc.
Iran gets attacked and is systematically demolishing the economies of the “neutral” GCC satrapies from day 1. And saying: wtf are you going to do about it? Because they know that if/when the GCC defects, it will be over for the petrodollar system and the finances of the Gringo Empire.
I’m pretty sure a lot of military commanders in Russia are taking notes of the US response in the Gulf and complaining about how much has the Kremlin miscalculated the strategic-political side of the war…
And concerning the launchers: as the Iranian MIC apparently is not so galactically corrupt as the US one, they have gone for the easy and logical solution of using standard tractor trailers. Making a TEL from a dump trailer chassis is stupidly cheap compared to building an entire truck around it.
Yes and no.
Surely there are many among the Russian authorities, who will come to the conclusion that targeting neighbouring countries like Iran does would be advisable for their war aims.
On the other hand both situations are very different.
The US is already at war with Iran and attacking its Arabs allies does not change the nature of the conflict in a fundamental way.
Would Russia attack a NATO country, the probability of a general war increases enormously.
I would also add that NATO countries that neighbor Russia are mostly strategic rear for Ukraine and launching pads for temporary, pinprick tanker seizures.
You Fucking Ignorant Shit Head, Iran is destroying all US presence and assets in the GCC countries!!!
“Fucking Ignorant Shit Head”. Uuh, uuh, uuh… Are you 10 years old?
No Asshole, anobody with any savvy who read the Fucking Bullshit contained in his dogmatic comments, wpuld react in the same manner.
So either you haven't read his Bullshit, or you lack the savvy or both.
I'm not sure what has triggered you here?
Not sure what triggered me???
You ate obviously Cognitively Dissonant!!!
Perhaps so, I still don't understand.
Well Cognitively Dissonant people don't understand anything, and explanations are wasted on them.
Easy mate. It looks as if you have some reading comprehension issues…
If you are right about the launchers, Iran can go on a while more.
What I have learned about the launchers for the biggest missiles is that you need these special trailers to quickly get out of the tunnel with 20t missile (Khorramshahr), rise it, launch and get back in. Iran do indeed use a lot of standard trailers and it would explain why IDF claims they have destroyed so many. Time will tell.
“I’m pretty sure a lot of military commanders in Russia are taking notes of the US response in the Gulf and complaining about how much has the Kremlin miscalculated the strategic-political side of the war…”
Glenn Diesen interviewed Gilbert Doctorow a few days ago and Doctorow said that in the Russian media many commentators are making this point. Also remarking on how easy it would be to carry out a decapitation strike on Russia.
In my view Gilbert Doctorow is not very good on military matters but his views on the Russian political scene are usually astute.
Gilbert Doctorow forms his opinions from dinner-party discussions with the 'Russian elite' when he is visiting St Petersburg, and which he passes off as broad-ranging Russian public opinion. It could hardly be, if Putin's approval ratings are to be believed. Doctorow has a business background, not a military one. He doubtless does have an inside track on information in Russia, being regularly there, but I would not agree what he passes on as opinion reflects general Russian thinking. When he says 'many commentators in the Russian media', he means Vladimir Solovyov and guests on his show.
While Vladimir Putin definitely does things his own way, I have seldom seen a leader who relies so strongly on the advice of his various department heads - unlike Trump, he knows he is not personally and simultaneously an expert in agriculture, transport, military and manufacturing matters. State decisions on how to pursue the war in Ukraine, therefore, are not just Putin waking up with an epiphany, although they are regularly presented as if he were going against the collective opinions of his military leaders. This is simply not so, although the BBC and other NATO organs frequently dredge up querulous objections from this or that 'retired Russian Army General' claiming Putin is going at it all wrong.
A similarity that Russia and Iran DO share is that both know this one is for all the marbles, and defeat will mean so much more than defeat; it will mean their erasure from the sovereign-decision-making map. Russia would be broken up into ethnic statelets which could be set to warring with one another on a perceived pretext, just as the combined entity is currently at war with Ukraine - that would never have come about without western manipulation. Iran would be subsumed into neighbouring states and managed by Israel.
Thanks for taking the time to make such an informative comment. You make some good points. I agree completely that “this one is for all the marbles”
Thank you, Gerald; you’re very kind. By all means visit us at http://www.thenewkremlinstooge.wordpress.com for more of the same, and engage in our discussions - like Dr. Campbell, I have some very perceptive readers. In advance, if you comment, the first one will be held for moderation and will not appear immediately. As soon as you have one approved, your commentary is unfiltered.
Good write! More of this than KC Erasmus abusive behavior.
I wasn’t aware of Doctorow’s comments. Thanks for sharing.
I watched it, too. Powerful arguments.
That's a really interesting point Celtiberian. Thank you.
Quick question though, don't you think the response to bombing European NATO members would have been much greater than bombing a handful of Arab vassal states that the West fairly openly despises?
Those Arab vassals are actually the freaking foundation of the dollar system. By selling oil & co in dollars they effectively force the rest of the world to use US$, plus they recycle the surplus dollars into the US financial system, contributing to fund the US debt issuance and the stock market.
Remove it and with the current level of debt and the ongoing everything bubble, the Gringo Empire suffers a financial collapse.
True, but equally, weaning the Arabs off the Petrodollar is desirable, but impossible. The various Sheikhs would last 5 minutes if they even considered it out loud.
You missed that small fact that Russia fighting Ukraine, not US. If Ukraine had and used bases in NATO territories this would be fair comparison, but you comparing apples to oranges.
With your logic, US should start directly attacking Russia assets, because it provides intel, right? Are US doing that? No, they don't
The Ukraine/Russia war is a proxy war on the part of the US. Without US support, Urkraine would have capitulated long ago. Russia of course knows this, and it explains much about how they have prosecuted the war.
I would say try bullshitting with your words. People are less likely to skip over your comment.
As noted…
Can't win just by bombing. RAND has been preaching that to Israel for years and yet the deaf Jews won't take advice. Bombing wars are TV wars and that is all.
Agree in most of the cases. But as was the case with Libya and Syria it seems enough to bomb a lot and support fractions and instigate frictions to get people to kill each other.
And you are of course right - you could never ”win” only deny the opponent…
"The behemoth Russia is still wasting their soldiers to fertilize the black earth of Donbas. "
That is because Russia is not allowed to use the nukes.
Yes, sort of.
Nothing hinders them except their sanity.
I would like to throw out this possibility of where this war might play out next. There have been multiple reports coming out of the United States indicating that there is some kind of ground operation being prepared. In my opinion, there are 2 possible scenarios where a ground operation could be launched. Number one with the Kurdish Iraq militants, or the US could attempt something bold and try to seize one of those Islands. You mentioned earlier? Either way, is this would be an enormous task in borderline suicidal, in a way. Whether or not the united states is able to successfully launch a ground operation.It will be only a matter of can it sustain such an operation? Are the logistics still in place. In order for an operation to be sustained for a longer period of time, my guest no and the haystead. This operation is being put together. Would suggest to me that even if they were successful was in the first 72 hours, they would then, be attributed in annihilated.
Iraqi kurds have said no. And if they did, so what? They are a light infantry force numbering less than 50,000 (IIRC).
The Iraq military couldn't do it with air power and heavy weapons, how would the ungrateful kurds do so? As you state, they would be annihilated.
The reason why I mentioned the kurds is that if the united states were to deploy its own troops, one possible theater would be in iraq, with those kurdish militias being reinforced by american troops.And it could attempt some kind of encoursion to establish a beachhead into iran.For perhaps more troops to arrive, I was just only throwing that out there.Because it is a possibility that being considered. You are right, though.The kurds alone would be annihilated by iran if they attempted any serious military action.But I would not take their words at face value
Regarding the Stateless Kurds; as brave and as good at fighting as they may be, I hope they realise they've been used as Mugs, doing the dirty work for others for the false promise of a homeland for far too long.
I was thinking the same. The USI, the “United States of Israel”, as usual, relies on proxy forces to carry out its dirty work, and the Kurds can clearly see that now.
Turkiye has strong opinions about such a move by the U.S. U.S. troops in Iran ....whatever. Arming the Kurds and giving them the wherewithal to try and form their own state while they are asserting themselves in the region.......No way Jose.
I am aware that the U.S. has used the Kurds in this way in the past. Even the Turks themselves have done similar recently. However, what is being suggested is an army capable of inflicting serious damage on vast country with a huge population. Not quite as big a nut to crack as Turkiye itself but close enough to cause Turkiye to make sure it doesn't happen.
The Shia militias of the PMU, which have already defeated the Kurds several years ago, would not stand by and let this happen. Numerous militias are attacking US bases on a daily basis. The Iraqi government is aware that this might plunge the country into a renewed civil war and has already put pressure on the Kurdish authorities in the north to stay out of the war.
Certainly, the "ground operation" is to bring the 82nd and possibly 101st airborne divisions in to reinforce bases in Iraq, Bahrain, and possibly Syria. They could provide "logistical support" or some such drivel to Kurdish forces, but their real function will be to try to defend those bases against guerilla and territorial forces from Iraq and Bahrain sympathetic to Iran. They would also be juicy personnel targets for Iranian cluster-bomb missiles. I suspect the U.S. would want actual "local air superiority" over those regions, so they can fly anti-drone CAP, before they even attempt to deploy their airborne units into Iranian missile fire. My guess is that it will be some time before there is any such "ground operation," and there may not be anything left of the bases in Iraq or Bahrain to defend by the time they feel comfortable moving in additional ground troops to secure them.
More targets for Iran...
Exactly James, that's just putting more Americans in harm's way for no obvious benefit.
Certainly, the "ground operation" involves deploying the 82nd and possibly the 101st Airborne Division to reinforce bases in Iraq, Bahrain, and potentially Syria. And let's not forget Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Avengers.
Kurds declined to engage in ground warfare per sonar21.com -
Hegseth - the ever willing yes man- yes sir, boots on the ground sir - suicide mission take one - posturing, theater, robot army brigade - anyones guess - most participants would need to carry a 45 pound munitions pack along with other field necessities is this feasible on this terrain. Uncl Sam needs Iron men needed- NOW!
If you read US reports and start fantasizing based on them, you're in deep trouble.
Relevant: https://x.com/kurdistannews24/status/2030307508318097620
At the request of the Iranian and Turkish foreign ministers, Iraq has deployed forces between the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Iran. They have now blocked the United States and Israel’s plan for a possible ground operation into Iran.
The Iraqi government asked the Iraqi Kurdish Guards (PUK) to withdraw from the Iran–Iraq border and replaced them with the so-called Iraqi Army, which is mostly made up of Iran-backed Hashd al-Shaabi forces.
Jews and Trump lying. Do bears shit in the woods.
Yes, the clip recorded on, I assume AF1, of Trump & Hogsbreath denying responsibility for killing the School girls was galling. But they do it so effortlessly without a hint of conscience. Perhaps they don't have one.
total lack of emotions a strong clue they're either shape-shifted reptiles or clones. Worshiping their dark Astral masters to wreak maximum havoc on this planet - that's what these feed on and have been feeding on for thousands of years. May sound far fetched but factual quite likely.
Time to educate those evil bears to shit on toilets like we do. I think boot on the grounds. Lets give those bears a lesson
Just ignore the sign on the tree that says come take it
They are walking mental,moral and emotional zombies. Lies are their natural habitat. They would die out deprived of their “natural environment “.
It is always amusing when the sock puppets begin to sweat
One thing I wonder that's not done- the Arab states are still not united
Politically, with GCC encouraging Iran to negotiate and betrayed by US-israel (2x, once in jun 2025 and again in Feb 2026), the Palestine slaughter still ongoing, the ayatollah in Lebanon bombed, the pager bombing... GCC's support of the board (bored) of peace and it's betrayal by the feb26 attacks,
I would think that iran-saudi can be the cornerstone of the Arab world to kick the US-israel out of the middle east, with the short term objective of freeing and rebuilding Palestine.
Pretty sure the world would rally around this cause.
Perhaps there are just too many issues to deal with to look political opportunities to solve the root problems.
Persians aren't Arabs, and Sunnis aren't Shia.
This period seems like a good time to set aside their differences. Otherwise, they can sign up for 'bored' of peace, support American bases and many other accomodations, but the bully will just step up their bullying.
As has been the case.
The Arabs states you mentioned are all run by cucks and cowards who are beholden to the anglo-american-zionists for their seats in power. They won't unite unless forced to by revolution or a major power that wants them united. Also recall that the gulf Arab states are even more of a fictional creation of a state than their northern cousins in Syria, Jordan, and Iraq.
Perhaps they're too tied up in the Petro-dollar and US/Western Assets to bite the hand that feeds them, and keeps their elite in a lifestyle to which they've become accustomed.
Yep, stuck in the box of their minds
This is politically, a good time to start setting aside differences.
The difference is that there is genuinely an alternative in Russia and China to develop one's economy and improve livelihoods of people.
With this political banner/flag, they can keep going to free the Palestinians and effect the two state solution.
This next few weeks are key- Iran has to outlast the bombings and stay together without civil uprising.
The Arab states maybe not, but the Emirates, yes.
The Gulfie tyrannies in general.
The Gulf tyrannies, the EU tyranny, the US tyranny, the Israeli tyranny, etc. They are all tyrannies, according to their customs; otherwise, the people would be free. Yes, I know, theocracy, the same in the West, is called something else: democracy. On one side, princes govern the serfs based on religious principles; on the other, the new aristocrats govern the serfs based on ideological principles.
Let’s take the 150 plus children as an example that died in an attack, let’s include the killing of the Palestinians, the pager attacks, the bombings, it all generates emotional responses. But only for a short period! Still way more people die in traffic every year. No emotional responses. My point is, most of the 8.5 billion people are NOT affected, it’s a far away issue, they may get a short rouse, but they keep on doing the things they were doing. The root cause is the human mind and it’s many flaws
There's just too many options in life to do as well.
Kind of sensory overload and there's not much direct alternative to get the govt to take action.
Compared to the ease of 'brainrot' from scrolling endlessly, watching videos and ordering food - taking concrete actions on such matters are actually time consuming.
There's no app to protest or urge the govt to do something - even if there were, would the govt respond?
nope, governments do what governments do and what they don't do is listening to the public. Protestors most likely will get a harsh treatment to scare the rest of the plebs to stay quiet and low.
You should have factored in the 'reparations' and cynical victimhood card; the shameless holo-museums (all of them "stand with Israel"), Spielberg projections, and non-stop squealing about Anne Frank. -- The girl died in a hospital and then was used by her profiteering daddy (a Nazi collaborator and felon) to pollute the minds of millions of children by promoting an immaculate image of the "ever-sufferings and most moral jews." Jewdaists have captured emotional responses of ethical westerners and converted them into money.
Madam Albright (a genocider of Belgrade) has become famous for her declaration that the death of 500,000 Iraqi children "was worth it." She was a daughter of a "holohaux survivor" Korbel, a jewish thief who looted an art collection and dinner silverware of a European family and brought his loot to the US.
"Items Involved: 20 17th-century Dutch paintings (including works by Ludolf Backhuysen and Hendrik Van Steenwyck), antique furniture, and silverware."
Korbel mentioned taking items due to "hard times." - Any surprises?
Please, do not vulgarize the feeling of empathy that makes us all humans.
AI search: "The Dunbar number is approximately 150, representing the cognitive limit on the number of stable social relationships a human can maintain.
Definition and Origin
The Dunbar number, proposed by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar in the 1990s, suggests that humans can maintain about 150 stable social relationships—relationships in which individuals know each person and how they relate to others in the group. Dunbar derived this number by studying primates, observing a correlation between neocortex size and social group size, and extrapolating to humans based on brain size. He described it informally as the number of people you could comfortably join for a drink without feeling embarrassed."
Society has become to complex. And at the same time the elites have found a way to manipulate the people by targeting their emotions and the emotions are used to legitimize their (criminal) activities (endless wars). Emotions are (utterly) 'stupid': Hamas beheaded a couple of babies on October 7th 2023 (A LIE) and many people didn't object the destruction of 2 million Palestinians. So, yes, the feeling of empathy is vulgar as it legitimizes the killing of tens of millions around the globe (sanctions alone 38 million, mostly the weak, women and children)
The general populations in MENA are almost uniformly anti-America. The governing population and business class who benefit from the influx of U$D are the problem. They will remain loyal as long as the grift keeps on giving and they can hire top level security.
Gaddafi and Khomeini were executed as examples.
Gentleman Russia points finger at Gaza, West Bank and Lebanon.
Here's my take after week one of the Iranian conflict.
Say goodbye to the old Iran, as the US will control its oil flows using a Smash and Grab Foreign Policy.
Here’s the actual sequence: Washington strangles Iran with sanctions, greenlights covert ops, toys with open war, then shrieks that Iran’s own oil is a “threat” because Tehran won’t play landlord to U.S. corporations and Gulf client states.
International law says you can’t invade or extort countries to seize their resources; empire hears that as a suggestion. America didn’t find that oil and doesn’t own that ground, but it does have a fossil‑fuel addiction and a wobbling hegemony to feed, so suddenly other people’s hydrocarbons become a “security imperative.” Even General Wesley Clark said years ago that Iran was a target. It's nothing new. In the end, Iran will comply, just like Venezuela, and the US will control the oil. There are no signs that Iran is winning anything.
Iran's fleet? coral reef for exotic fish. (Putin, take note)
Iran's political and military leadership? mostly obliterated from the first day. (Putin, take note)
Iran's command and control centers? vaporized. (Putin, take note)
Iran's oil exports? Not enough to fill my car.
Iran's current oil revenue? Nada
Iran's rial? less than your pocket change.
Iran's aqueducts to irrigate dry, thirsty land for agriculture to feed the population? Running low.
Iran's internal unity? Crisis mode-IRG's hired 5 thousand foreign mercenaries to shoot down protesters.
Iran's current economy? desperate
Iran's allies willing to help fight? none
Iran's strategic positioning? surrounded
Iran's food supply? Limited
Iran's ability to resupply? No can do.
Iran's Heroin supply? unlimited.
Iran's number of sunk enemy ships? Zero
Iran's enemy kills? Let's say 20 soldiers, not one high-ranking official.
Air superiority? USIS dominates 10 to 1.
Iran's takeout of enemy planes? 3 US planes from friendly fire, and I'll add another ten upcoming.
To assume that Iran will somehow win this war when you look at the situational bigger picture is a long, long shot I wouldn't count on. Iran is in stage 4 of political and economic decapitation so that the US-IS can instill a new friendly (you know what that means) leadership similar to Venezuela and control over the oil as well as geo-strategic-positioning at Russia's underbelly as part of an encirclement of power and influence.
The thing is, Iran is not falling from US hostilities.
Iran was already in crisis mode before the war started, so the USIS decided to take advantage of Iran's economic and political crises and attack it while it was vulnerable in every way. It's actually quite a sinister and devious plan with a very high probability of succeeding. These people are ruthless, man. Look at the genocide of innocent children, women and men in Gaza, Iraq, Libya and on. The Hegemon is a modern Genghis Khan. Its aphrodisiac is Control and Power, whatever it takes. The Hegemon will spend as many trillions as it takes to put Iran where it wants it, and we are just appalled witnesses to this madness.
Russia has the perfect opportunity to neutralize Ukraine while the US is busy with Iran, but that won't happen because Putin and the Kremlin are too anxious to welcome the US as a business partner to help develop its resources. I wonder if Russia is noticing the US-led encroachment squeeze play on its underbelly yet. They'll sit still in the slow, WW1-era positional attrition warfare in Ukraine and hope for the best. It's just a matter of time before the classic "we got fooled again" meme. The squeeze is on while Putin plays the violin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Knt3rKTqCk
Yes, nuances in the fog of war, Elena.
The MIC has been weakening Iran for a long time with the intent to control it.
This is the terminal phase.
Once the Rial collapsed (nearly worthless currency at hyper-inflationary scale) and the riots and protests showed signs of internal distress in Iran, Operation Fury was activated. Iran is the last remaining country out of seven in the M.E. targeted for control by the MIC from twenty years ago. They are behind schedule, but with the same objective on a longer timeline.
Here's the General Wesley Clark interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Knt3rKTqCk
Denis
<<<<<<General Wesley Clark <<<<<
L.ol He has been proven wrong about everything he says.
Even Clinton removed him from his duties. He allowed the Russians to fly in an airborne brigade and take over Serbia's downtown airport on his watch. Clinton had to ask them to leave as it was interfering with getting a solution to the then Balkan troubles. Russia agreed and left on their own accord.
Clinton was too busy horning all the women and perving on minors.
Anyway, Clark exposed the plan regardless, and so far, so right on a longer timeline.
The plan was obvious, regardless of anything Clark said.
Elena
Russia's military campaign is based on a long term plan. Its objective among other things is not to get up trying to impress people in the West. Consequently, they are indifferent in their Ukraine campaign, to news cycles.
The slow, orderly process of eliminating all military age men in Ukraine is continuing to their satisfaction. The systematic reduction in NATO capabilities is continuing to their satisfaction. The resetting of their economy is continuing to their satisfaction. The continued widespread of the Russian people for their plan continues to the satisfaction.
I recognize that you are not satisfied with their conduct in Ukraine. For some reason you think they should change their plan to something more to your liking. If you were to ever outline an alternative plan, they would say .....that doesn't meet our needs. We aren't American....
Russia is five thousand miles deep. It has a large population spread all over the country. The limited strikes on Russia are pinpricks for a country that size. Russia's economy and society are functioning normally without any degradation.
The fireball from blowing up some fuel storage tanks impress you but all they do it put that refinery on somewhat limited production for a couple of weeks while they get storage facilities back in operation.
You want to see fireballs. The Russian military wants to see Ukraine order their troops to fight to the last man to hold some otherwise worthless village. You are impressed with their determination. The Russians are impressed too while they bomb them into annihilation.
When you talk about a hundred thousand Russians killed are you talking about civilians? If so, it is pointless to even discuss the issue with you.
Elena
<<<<<<he US is targeting equipment, factories and civilians all over Russia and largely responsible for the number of Russians who have died, which must be north of 100,000.<<<<
Excuse me if I mistook the civilians being killed that you mentioned as being represented by the number of one hundred thousand which you included immediately after your reference to civilians being killed.
You can dismiss the Ukrainians as U.S. puppets who should be ignored in favor striking the *real* enemy. However, the Russians see the Ukrainians as around twenty million people on their border who are intent on killing Russians because they are Russian. The Russian leadership see that as a much bigger problem for *them* than you see it as a problem for you.
Elena, Russians are not jews. Russians do not do carpet bombing and nuclear-war provoking. Chill out.
We will soon find out if Russia is led by intelligent men or retarded boomers. How? If we see more and more evidence that Russia was, is, and will continue to provide material support and intelligence to the Iranians. The same is true for rhe Chinese leadership, though to a lesser extent than the Kremlin. Now is the time to cause real problems for the anglo-american-zionists. I really hope the Russians and Chinese don't chicken out.
Too late, Andy.
Denis you claimed y'day this was a draft only. It's still the same.
Let's pick the "analysis" apart.
Iran's fleet? coral reef for exotic fish. (Putin, take note)
SURFACE FLEET NOT NEEDED, SUBS AND DRONES ARE THE NAVAL ASSETS.
Iran's political and military leadership? mostly obliterated from the first day. (Putin, take note)
WRONG. CONTINUITY OF LEADERSHIP CONTINUES.
Iran's command and control centers? vaporized. (Putin, take note)
WRONG, CONTINUED COMMAND AND CONTROL SHOWS THIS TO BE UNTRUE.
Iran's oil exports? Not enough to fill my car.
PLANNED AHEAD. US GULF ALLIES IN SAME POSITION, BUT DID NOT PLAN ON THIS SO ARE FUCKED AND ARE ALREADY RECONSIDERING US CONTRACTS.
Iran's current oil revenue? Nada
DITTO TO ABOVE.
Iran's rial? less than your pocket change.
NOT RELEVANT
Iran's aqueducts to irrigate dry, thirsty land for agriculture to feed the population? Running low.
IF TRUE RUSSIA AND CHINA WILL SUPPLY ALL NEEDS.
Iran's internal unity? Crisis mode-IRG's hired 5 thousand foreign mercenaries to shoot down protesters.
BULLSHIT
Iran's current economy? desperate
RUSSIA/CHINA WILL SUPPLY ALL NEEDS.
Iran's allies willing to help fight? none
WRONG. HIZBOLLAH IN ALREADY, ANSAR ALLAH COMING (HOW CAN YOU NOT KNOW THIS)
Iran's strategic positioning? surrounded
LOL SURROUNDED BY WHOM?
Iran's food supply? Limited
IF TRUE RUSSIA AND CHINA WILL SUPPLY ALL NEEDS.
Iran's ability to resupply? No can do.
IF TRUE RUSSIA AND CHINA WILL SUPPLY ALL NEEDS.
Iran's Heroin supply? unlimited.
wtf?
Iran's number of sunk enemy ships? Zero
MAYBE ONE, A SUPPLY SHIP. SO WHAT? USN RETREATED.THEY LOST THEIR NAVAL BASE IN BAHRAIN.
Iran's enemy kills? Let's say 20 soldiers, not one high-ranking official.
MANY KIA AND WOUNDED. ALREADY ARRIVALS TO US VIA GERMANY. DEAD US MILITARY ARE NOT A MEASURE OF WINNING VS LOSING. THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS THE TELL. AND IT'S BEING DISMANTLED BY IRAN.
Air superiority? USIS dominates 10 to 1.
NOPE.
Iran's takeout of enemy planes? 3 US planes from friendly fire, and I'll add another ten upcoming.
US PROPAGANDA. IFF FAILED THREE TIMES IN AN HOUR? LOL
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Same theme written differently.
Nice write-up, Grr.
No more short, snappy lines when I'm up to bat, huh? Haha.
Powered up with those Caps too.
You know, if Putin were more like you, Russia would have dealt with Ukraine long ago.
I'm serious. 😂
ALLCAPS only because I was too lazy to do inverted commas. One finger typing.
This is the interview from which I draw my conclusion, Grr.
You may have seen it from General Wesley Clark.
I forgot to put it up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Knt3rKTqCk
Yeah, I watched that when it was released 25 years ago.
God darn it, it was that long ago.
The good times.
Lots of wars back then, too.
What is life?
Life is an ongoing, never-ending war.
Hilarious, you are drawing on inputs from the Fucking Idiots who have assisted Chump in getting into the neck deep mess and failure that the US found itself in, first in the Ukraine, and now in Iran!!!
It's amazing, right? The neocons are getting ever more deluded... like no one in their circles dare to mention any truths now, as they may get their heads chopped off. So the level of delusion gets bigger and bigger.
Where's your counter thesis at least, instead of ranting?
Put in some work, man.
What's your analysis?
You Fucking Idiot, you're a Typically Ignorant American Shit Head and one dimensional thinker, just like your Worthless Fucking Government who now has you in a Hole in Iran.
First off, who are “you guys”, Fuckhead???
Secondly it is your American neanderthal mentality, that has brought about Global Conflict, given that Roit Cause Analysus proves your Broke Shit Hole Cuntry, to be the common denominator in almost every conflict on the planet, be your involvement direct or indirect.
Furthermore your savage neanderthal mentality has brought you to the point, where you believe that your Violence directed at other nations somehow solves either problems which Don't Exist, or potential problems which could be resolved if it wasn't for your Satanic Blood Lust and Greed, and Sheer Fucking Ignorance.
It also explains why the Cuntry which supposedly has the worlds largest economy, has the largest personal and Federal debt on the planet, with nothing to show for it , and that your military exploits read of nothing but gross incompetence failure and financial loss, with nothing to show that matches your supposed intentions, which means that you're a nation of Liars, or Morons, or both.
The fact that you voted for Chump, and believe the never ending flow of Fucking Bullshit, that falls from his mouth, reaffirms my comments about you, as a nation being nothing but Neanderthal Morons!!!
Thanks God you are not in Putin's position.
What is your suggestion? Russia should have behaved like jews?
Ukrainians are Russians, with the exception of rabid banderites, these twins of zionists. People do not want to die for the "pianist" and Vampire Squid, hence the press gangs:
"Ukraine is experiencing an acute manpower shortage in its war against Russia, leading to intensified and coercive mobilization tactics. "Busification" is the practice of violent detaining of men on the street and forcing them into vehicles (minibuses) to be taken to recruitment centers."
And this: "Ukraine's [neo-Nazi] Azov Regiment visits Israel: 'Mariupol is our Masada'
Azov officer Ilya Samoilenko led the delegation to Israel. “I’m completely restored,” Samoilenko told The Times of Israel on Wednesday, hours after he landed at Ben Gurion Airport for a nine-day visit to Israel, where he is telling the story of Mariupol’s defense to a country that Kyiv says has failed to take a firm moral stance in the face of Russian crimes." -- The jewdaic genociders welcomed Ukrainian neo-Nazi. So touching!
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-4-months-in-russian-solitary-ukrainian-officer-visits-israel-tells-his-story/
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-725351
For "Ukraine" substitute, all of NATO, especially the U.S., supplying intelligence, weapons, financing, political support and officers and "advisors" to help operate the weapons and intelligence centers. Ukraine only supplies the canon fodder. Add in sanctions of Russia in an attempt to break their economy. That Russia has not only been able to survive all this, but is prevailing on the ground, is really quite impressive.
grr
<<<<<<ran's food supply? Limited
IF TRUE RUSSIA AND CHINA WILL SUPPLY ALL NEEDS. <<<<<<<
Iran is the major supplier of food to the Gulf states as they have little agriculture. It is the Gulf states where the anxiety about food is rising rapidly as air and marine transport are now closed off.
I am aware that the rich Gulf states like to import kiwi fruit and such to the extent that dollar wise Iran looks like only a large provider not a major one. But the staples, the ones needed for survival ....they come from Iran. Or at least they did.
You've found a calling as a nurse for the deranged. Well done.
I drive a KIA. Hmmm.....
The fundamental folly of the "Putin take note people" is to compare Russia and Iran. Some archidiots have even phantasized about the US sending some American heroes to Russia to kidnap Putin like they did in Caracas. Literally, I read somewhere comments of this kind.
Suffer those folks with the patience of a medieval monk and God will reward you throughout eternity!
What Grr said 100%!
MANY KIA AND WOUNDED. ALREADY ARRIVALS TO US VIA GERMANY.
The US Military is hiring people to catalog corpses at Dover. Dewey Decimal
rehabilitated. Sarge, do we file this one under fiction or non-fiction?
So much winning. The truth outed: We are ruled by satanists, baby-killers
and kiddie-diddlers. Fascism, like rust, never sleeps. Trump and Biden will do
until the Mossad finds a marketable 90 y/o to run the janitor's closet. Trump's
round-ball team of midgets getting on with "March Madness".
OK, that’s funny
When people like Dennis make all these absolute claims it’s clear they are just playing around in a Langley sandbox somewhere
A very plausible scenario and clean analysis, Denis!
You need to take note of grr's response.
Cant find it.
lol, too funny, Mikey.
Who made you the Supreme leader Lenin, Victor?
Telling someone what they need to do sounds a bit commie for an Englishman. hahaha.
From now on, I'll ask your permission to write something, Victor Starmer.
May I go now, sir?
😂
"May I go now, sir?"
You may. And please don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.
*oops, almost forgot* LOL
Thanks, your highness, Victor.
Uno, dei, trei, poof, gone.
Another Brainwashed Idiot!
Plz, Simplicius. Why do we have these persons calling us names on this site?
Why don't you run and tell "Daddy" Chump???
KC Erasmus. May I suggest a little less heat and a little more light?
I suggest the solution to your problem would be in making sure that your brain is engaged, before putting your mouth into gear!
Let's say for argument's sake that everything that you say is true. How exactly does "Iran in crisis" convert to "U.S. gains complete control of Iran and all Iranian oil?" Iran is in better shape today economically and socially than Iraq or Afghanistan prior to the U.S. attacks on those countries. Do they control either today after 25 years, trillions of dollars, and hundreds of thousands of "boots on the ground" cycling through?
The U.S. cannot invade Iran. Where would they land? How would they supply a force large enough to capture a country the size of Western Europe? Where would they even get a force that large? How would they slog up the mountain chains to get to the central plateau? Iraq would be the most logical entry point, but resupply there is through the Gulf and Straights of Hormuz. The supply line by sea is dubious: to say nothing about the fact that they actually don't control any of the Iraq countryside, which is largely sympathetic to Iran, an even more dubious supply route.
The bottom line is that the U.S. cannot invade Iran, and without an invasion, there is no way to "collapse the government" or take control of anything. The U.S. flattened North Korea in the Korean War so that there was a not a 3-story building left standing anywhere in the country. They don't have 2% of the bombs necessary to do the same to Iran today, and even if they did, North Korea never surrendered and the U.S. never took control of it.
None of the U.S. war goals or anything that you have stated is possible to achieve by way of conventional munitions and airpower alone. It isn't going to happen the way that you describe... period.
They destroyed Libyia and Syria without a ground invasion….
Iran is far more defendable and all those mountains is like Afghanistan redux.
But hey, have you heard about a country up north that has been bombed for four years now and on the brink of destruction?
The U.S. has no control over Syria or Libya today. Syria is controlled by Jihadists and to some extent by Turkey via proxy. Libya is an anarchic failed state that has served as a launch point for an invasion of Southern Europe by sub-saharan Africans.
The U.S. is an interloper outside the Western hemisphere who comes for a minute and then leaves. Local and regional powers, including the Persians, will have the say as to who and what controls Iran and Iranian oil Russia will have a lot more to say about the postwar state of Iran than the U.S. or Israel: just as Iran had the final say in who controlled postwar Iraq; Turkey had the final say in who controlled postwar Syria, North Korea, Russian, and China had the final say in who controlled postwar North Korea; North Vietnam and China had the final say in who controlled postwar Vietnam; and so on and so forth.
Changing subject? Question was if US need to invade with troops on the ground. NO.
They can ”eliminate” by other means and create exactly what you described above.
NO, they cannot. 24 year mil vet here. What you are suggesting is impossible Sir... Chip
I respect your opinion. 20 years in Afghanistan showed us exactly that but the difference is that Iran has some civilisation which you cant say about the Afghans.
General Wesley Clark on the MIC's plan to take Iran 20 years ago.
I don't get why everyone is so surprised.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Knt3rKTqCk
Aurorus: Iran's not in good shape; it's in economic crisis amid other problems. Look at the economics of the country, man.
And you're Fucking Stupid enough to think that this means an end to Iran???
Just because you're too much of a pussy to face being shot, bombed, etc..doesnt mean that the Iranians are.
The Persians, Arabs, and African may end up with nothing, but they will keep on fighting until the US runs away, just like they dud in Somalia, Yemen, Afghanistan, after having lost $Trillions, but the US will Never control them, or gain access to their resources.
Part of your Gross miscalculation stems from the fact that you Don't Know, at what stage Russia and China will step in militarily to save Iran, and destroy the US, militarily, economically, socially and politically, from which the US will never recover.
Russia and China have more to lose by letting the US take control of Iran, than by stepping in.
Up until now Russia and China have been supporting Iran behind the scenes, with everything from military intelligence and targeting, to military hardware in various forms, as well as through supply chains bringing in anything and everything Iran meeds to survive, which means that should this survival fail Russia and China will most certainly step in.
You're too primitive to respond to.
Too far behind the evolutionary scale.
So you still don't understand the basic tennet, of the Global US Failure, which confirms my prior assessment of you being a Fucking Idiot!!!
Buddy, do you suffer from Tourettte’s or something? If so maybe you could start your posts with some kind of a disclaimer, we’d be understanding.
It is still in better shape than either Iraq or Syria was or is.
I am very familiar with "economic crises." We had 150-200% annual inflation here just a few years ago: just like Iran. The country didn't fall apart, and I can assure you that if anyone invaded, they would not have been given the keys to the Casa Rosada and handed control of Vaca Muerta by the local population. They would have been fought tooth and nail by every able-bodied man and some women too.
Just because there is a crisis doesn't mean that some interloper can come in and take control of a country.
I have to wonder exactly what telescope you are using to look at the country with
And the US economy is honky dory? - Denis, what planet are you from?
Look at the disunity in the US: The county has been devoured from within by bankers, the dishonorable MIC, zioinists, and mega corporations.
The US has lost its vital homeostatic mechanisms because the 'owners' are not interested in biofeedback ("others" opinions).
Morally, the US is castrated.
Industrially, the US is a giant on the feet of clay.
It’s not about US interests. It’s about degrading a regional power that resists Zionist supremacy and the Greater Israel project.
All true enough.
But shouldn't your screen name be "Aurorus Australis"?!
Denis, you're beginning to sound like a Hasbara propagandist.
It's not me, Victor.
It's called the Military Industrial Complex.
Talk to them about it.
Then again, since you live in the UK...shhhush Victor.
Ears are everywhere.
"Ears are everywhere."
Isn't that the truth! It's one reason why I don't participate on social media.
I was in Iraq in 2004 as a US Marine, I can promise you that nobody has a clue about what is actually going on for sure, except for the grunts on the ground and the officers above them lying to the people above them.
the first person in the comments who admits he isn't a general and war plans as an unpaid hobby because he is so accurate charging for it would deprive the ignorant masses of their genius.....
The grunts know what goes on? I have to take your word for it.
Don’t worry, though we have a platoon of resident trolls that stay on message around here 24 seven
They apparently know more than you do, even though they sit in a cubicle somewhere
In reality, they present some twisted version of events that they could not possibly have knowledge of
Where is our ppt?
Another Delusional Idiot, or are they now classes as Paid Propagandists???
The US will run out of ammo, resources and resolve, before Iran runs out of water, food, money, or resolve Asshole!!!
Chump is already using back channels in a desperate attempt to gain his version of a victorious “ceasefire” and an offramp for the US, and the Iranians told him to Fuck Off.
Unlike you American Fucking Idiots who have done nothing but run your mouths for thirty years, the Iranians have planned for this day for thirty years you Dumb Fuck.
So Shit Head, what are these supposed warnings for Putin, when Chump has already run away from the Ukraine after being defeated by Russians???
Wake the Fuck..Up Moron!!!
Adorable.
You've outdone GM. Is this a contest or a race?
I don’t yet agree that ALL the control momentum is on the US/IS side, but your points are well argued, and your swipes at Putin are certainly correct. Russia is sleepwalking into only being able to reestablish deterrence through nuclear weapons.
How will the US fly 100+ C17 sorties to to land and support an 82nd Airborne Division Brigade-sized force required to conduct a rapid mission? And where will those 5000 soldiers base?
How many times have you posted this spiel now?
Plan 'B', when the US even has one since the Indian Wars, is genocide.
More like Plan A vs Iran, double tap on the girl's elementary school on Purim came from a US base.
Why did Israel strike oil facilities? They know/expect Iran to retaliate by destroying gulf oil facilities.
Is this to create global shortage or to make Iran look bad (when they retaliate) or to kick off WWIII proper?
I think it was just a dick move, because Israel is suffering more than it will report. That's the only good thing about this Trumpian catastrophe, he did it for Israel, but it could lead to the demise of Israel.
Dicktim.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Dicktim
Perfect.
As Mr Crooke said on Chris Hedges. Israel will never be the country it was again.
Dual national stampede coming soon.
The goal of such strikes is to harm Iran economically, to make the population suffer as much as possible.
Israel is throwing stones when they themselves are in a glass house. They have water problems, too.
Iran was quick to point out that Israel was the first to do this, which is probably a war crime. If Iran attacks Israel's water, it's justified response.
Israel wants to eliminate the Iranian population. They dont care about regime change. This is another dimension.
92,000,000 million inhabitants in Iran - we know Israel has a genocidal streak when it come to ‘others’ - all non-Jews irregardless but to do away with the Iranian population that would be quite a reach even for the Israeli’s.
See below. I dont think, physical elimination is their goal.
Reply below
Mikey Johnson
Israel wants to do away with Iran's population as an organized state with a viable culture. They would probably like to kill them all but even they realize they just don't have enough bullets.
Elimination comes in many forms. Libyans and Syrians are de facto eliminated. You dont need to kill them. Just starve them, like Palestinians, destroy their infrastructure and oil production. Make them thirsty. No one will care as we have noted.
So that's how supposedly "civilised" nations do it huh???
You Fucking Ignorant Asshole, Iran is Not Gaza, a trapped strip of land between Israel and the ocean.
Hell will freeze over before your Fellow Morons ever starve or destroy the Iranians!!!
Dont call me names.
Don't worry, all the Western evil blows back on them in spades. Look at what coups and a proxy war in Ukraine has done to Europe, and the US military stocks. It made Russia stronger and the attackers weaker.
Iran will suffer, but Israel will be demolished. Any fool could see how this will play out. Well, except for the neocon zionist fools.
Trouble is that some of these people actually think the Jewish Messiah is going to come and make Israel a mighty kingdom.
He came, they rejected Him, and they are in for a rude awakening.
Per your original message - ‘This is another dimension’
Unfortunately on reflection you may be right- After he Covid debacle we are all expendable- US still committing democide on their population as are other countries including Israel- we are the enemy- never forget it. Vaccine as a countermeasure, a kill shot. Welcome to the 21st century. Humans no longer required.
an article I just read addressed that stating that it turned the skies of Tehran black with smoke and sickening to breath. i.e., chemical/biological environmental destruction…more war crimes
I keep rolling my eyes when I read 6 US troops have been killed. Sure, only 6, maybe now 7.
They must have bodies stacked in freezers, or they're all going to be covid deaths or something like that.
They advertised a few days ago for personal effects specialists. These are the people that sort through the possessions of the dead (in lockers, pockets, etc) and ship them to the families.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/your-military/2026/03/04/dover-personal-effects-specialist-job-posting-creates-stir-on-social-media/
Had to advertise to go through 6 people's things, gosh!
They may have accumulated a lot of items...
I don't buy it's 6
Nobody does.
Lots of people here in the comments sections that do.
Among Americans I know, 70% are for the war with Iran. Usually, they're pretty rational but it's like a switch went off in their brains.
This is a subject that is being studiously avoided in the media, including self-identified conservative outlets. To me, blackouts like this are an indication of a serious problem they haven't yet figured out how to stage manage and minimize to avert a public outcry.
I would expect a measured but steady trickle of announced accidental deaths and training accidents in the near future.