You again? Ha ha. I'd really like to hear Simp answer since he wrote it.
Nevertheless, "degraded" ... you could look it up or, in this case, means used, destroyed, defeated, or buried under rubble.
Regarding proxies, you're ignoring a few.
Sure. The GCC are all "US vassals" ... if you say so.
25 million barrels of crude oil; plus some refined products [are now transiting the strait daily]. The oil originates from almost every country in the region, minus Iran." https://x.com/TankerTrackers/status/2092328933739864323 That number is more than before Operation Epic Fury ... about 25% more.
"and that doesn't include the seven million barrels of crude bypassing the Strait entirely through pipelines ... add that to increased exporting capacity of Venezuela and the United States ... The world is adapting in real time"
"The war-risk premium in Brent has faded amid mounting developments this week that major Gulf producers, including Kuwait and Qatar, are increasing tanker flows through the Strait of Hormuz."
"Persian Gulf oil exports have recovered ... Gulf-area exports of crude and petroleum products have rebounded sharply to between 15 million and 16 million barrels per day, up from a March low of 5 million to 6 million barrels per day"
While you're on the trail of absurd speculations, may I suggest if Israelis (and perhaps most of the world's Jews) haven't yet figured out their Iranian Endgame was de facto the Endgame of their experiment, then they truly must be messianic.
Iran has powerful trading partners including China, which will protect them from the worst perfidy of American sanctions. Don't forget that it was UK and US intervention in Iranian internal matters in 1953, when they planned and financed the overthrow of Iran's first democratically elected Prime Minister Mossedegh, thereby creating the whole, destructive progression resulting in today's Iran. It was also Trump who tore up the six nation agreement that stopped any further refining of plutononium to weapons grade levels. The Iranians were living up to the terms. All he did was create a situation to kill more people. What a blood sucker!
No, it's not, but he has a point: when I was last in Iquitos, I traveled to a jungle lodge to take a motorboat into the main channel of the Amazon and among te guests of the lodge was a group of "demobilized" IDF folk, taking a vacation with theodolites and other surveying equipment, much as they have long been reported doing in Patagonia, where they have been accused of setting forest fires. The "fire sale" provisions of Milei's law were required to be deleted for any of the other measures to pass. Win some, lose some, so the Peruvian Amazon with its largely indigenous population might begin looking good. Might be an emerging market opportunity for curare-tipped darts among the locals.
Right. I looked at a map of the Amazon Basin and it extends further south than I had thought, all the way into Bolivia. Bolivia borders northern Argentina, so yeah it wouldn't be a stretch for them to mosie on up into the Amazon Basin and pick up some of those darts for their next assassinations.
That's far from a settled issue in Argentina. The increasingly unhinged and unpopular Milei can make all the claims he likes, but there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. His new laws that would have made the 50,000 hectare purchase possible failed to make it through the legislature, so the project to turn the Patagonians into Palestinians will not likely come to pass in whatever time Milei has left as president. Reelection is unlikely and removal before end of term is not impossible. If Vice President Victoria Villaruel were to take his place, the fate of the so-called "Issac Accords" would almost certainly come into question and if the left returns to power, the same would likely be true.
N.B. This reply to grr should be above the reply to pimaCanyon.
The next stage of 3 WW is coming at the end of this year.
No matter what are Iran-USA diplomatic talks, Iran will be nuked, by hands of Israel. Bushehr nuclear power plant will be dirty bombed, it will explode, with 72 tons of active material loaded in reactors and 200 tons spend fuel stored on site. Americans will use flesh rotting chemical weapons, gas bombs on civilians - all not reported and later under-reported by the Western mass media. Death in tens millions, hell in hell. Mass migration in ten/hundred millions from the Middle East, out of total 500 mln population.
Israel enters into Great Israel stage, the map Natanyahu shown at UN plenary session on 22 September 2023. And beyond those borders. With false Messiah pointed by them, just to get all those mad evangelical Christians in the USA and everywhere else, who are all Zionists, on their side.
If Trump doesn’t follow, he will be poisoned. His son Barron becoming interim president.
Pivotal in this war will be a new player, but not a superpower, Turkiye. It will leave NATO and associate with Russia and Pakistan for nuclear umbrella.
Russia and/or Pakistan will nuke Israel, to prevent them from using remaining bombs on Turkiye and elsewhere.
There would be immediately hot front on NATO East border. Six countries will be at active war. Large American armaments will be coming, they will send all they have, and they still have a lot - bar nukes. Zaporozhe nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, will be once again bombed, but this time at critical danger level. All borders in Europe shut and with full military mobilisation, to prevent mass migration from Ukrainian and Middle East humanitarian disaster and stop deserters, conscripts from war countries.
It will be a very fast paced war, with many war theatres around the glob, will end
Chine will try to stay away as far as possible. To prevent nuclear war they will use biological weapon, highly deadly pandemic, with not known medicines to cure. All active fronts and any military activity will cease. Putin single-handedly stopped Covid, which was just socio-engineering, by war on Banderites, Xi will stop nuclear war with ensuring nuclear winter, by real mass death. That will save humanity for 1-2 generations, when the 4 WW will annihilate 99% of us.
I can't help but wondering if the storm shadow story with the new Starmer is part of this Ratcliffe visit. Perhaps the Russians have hatched a plan to actually get the novichoc out of the fridge? Perhaps we will see more "accidents" happening in the UK toward the end of the year.
Both political elites are mad, irrational and dangerous.
The 28.02 marked the beginning of 3 WW. It will last another few years. With death for half of world, mainly in Asia, from the Middle East to China. With war comes hunger and disease for Africa, but it spread worldwide. Remember the Spanish Flu at the end of 1st WW with 50 mln perished. Depopulation agenda is on, so multiply that 50 by 10. Hunger killed tens of millions at the end of 2 WW and years after. Heavy dependent on fertiliser and fuel, modern food production can't support 8 bln population and can't make profit for agricultural giants and bankers.
Humans will be controlled by artificial intelligence, with Robocops and Robosoldiers keeping order and peace. With ruling class in nuclear bunkers on isolated Pacific islands and cruising oceans on 500 mln yachts with military-grade missile defense systems, helipads, bulletproof glass and a mini-submarines
The good news is that the US doesn't have much fight left in a discredited, decrepit Empire. The moral rot and demoralization is tangible. Russia and China will move cautiously to restore some semblance of peace. Taiwan will fade away as an issue; new EU governments will make their peace with Russia. Optimism isn't an impossible ask.
A neutron bomb only has a kill radius of approximately 1.5 km due to the physical nature of neutrons. They would have to use an enormous amount of those. This characteristic of neutrons would likely obviate any possibility of a "super neutron bomb".
The US is a paper tiger. They do public relations or propaganda well but they suck at fighting wars. They can't even defeat Yemen with their fancy AI and tech. 😂😂😂
The only times the USA actually went full scale was before it was a country and the 2nd time was fighting itself. Anything else was half hearted and Japan during WW2 was soundly destroyed but once again, half hearted.
Well it might have been tactics, allowing the allies to fight for two and a half years by themselves until they were worn down and broke before jumping in and saving the day (not). It was the Soviets that ended WWII in Europe and the American destructive force of nuclear weapons that it used on CIVILIAN targets that ended WWII in the Pacific.
Agree, not impossible, but the current situation makes it very hard to be optimistic. It’s not just conflicts, it’s climate, it’s polution, it’s another pandemic, it’s social decay and it’s not looking good☹️
Climate. Oh jeeze. CO2 is plant food and man does not control, or affect, the climate. Solar cycles, multi-generational orbits, and the big yellow ball in the sky have the true control over the climate. Not man... Chip
The USA has plenty of fight and square that number if the threat is a real threat that the populace actually supports. God help you if the US Left and Right stand together and agree on destroying your country.
And who should keep the "military-grade missile defense systems, helipads, bulletproof glass and mini-submarines" alive? I have a small yacht of my own, and again and again there is endless maintenance to be done; and I do not have such fancy systems on board.
One of the most ignorant comment I have ever read..."with war comes hunger and disease for Africa"...WHY? There are wars being waged right now, and on multiple front lines, multiple theaters. Why can't you detox from all that Hollywood and MSM brainwashing you consume. You think Africa shits what you eat? Tell me, what's the plight of Gaza, Tel Aviv or Mariupol, currently? Oh I see, the devastating effects of an Iskander-M by Russia can be seen all across the major cities in central and southern Africa.
Why do you do this... "3 WW/ 2 WW" instead of this, "2nd WW" or even the normal "WW2" or even "WWII"? Doing this, "2 WW" just makes it obnoxious to read.
The dollar will indeed be around for a long time, but the process initiated has been predetermined - the dollar system will be replaced by an alternative system. The dollar remains - the system goes away.
And thanks for letting us poor ignorants know you will keep coming in here to remind us of our failings. It's really appreciated!
Oh boy. I guess being a flat earther can only take you so far.
Get ready for this lesson:
Iran takes it nothing-value Rial and wants to buy from China... well China has its RMB pegged to the US dollar. China is not going to give stuff away for free, that's some BRIC larping nonsense. So with a weak Rial how is Iran going to buy the things it doesn't produce domestically (like water, the drought that has been haunting it for over a decade). Maybe Afghanistan as its currency is even more worthless than the Iranian rial but how many high end CPUs for advance weapon systems does Afghanistan make?
Brother... you should enrol back into adult school and get your Grade 7. Believe me, it'll help you.
Don't be mad America was driving cars on the moon while your people haven't invented the toilet yet. Its not my fault reading is a new psycho-technology for you.
As GRR says, irrelevant. Iran's GDP based on PPP is number 27 in the world, higher than most European countries. They have full grocery shelves and plenty of petrol and diesel. Yes, imports are more expensive with the weak rial, but Iranian essentials are not suffering.
Iran is astonishingly resilient, and packed to the eyeballs with extremely capable scientists, despite the jews' attempts to murder them all.
I was reading how they have many companies specializing in nanomolecular coating technologies, the application of which, for example can make turbine blades last ten times as long as they otherwise would.
And why is the Rial's worthlessness against the dollar a problem to Iran? In case you haven't been paying attention, Iran is under heavy DOLLAR sanctions, so it is the dollar that is worthless to Iran, because what use is a currency if no-one will accept it? The trouble is that most people who come from countries that are not self-sufficient cannot understand the concept of one that is.
From the beginning of the conflict to current day, Iran has been dealt an estimated $270 billion to $300 billion in total damage due to a steady barrage of strikes, including numerous infrastructure targets from bridges, highways, railways, airports, etc.
The three-month-long US blockade on Iran's oil exports have also taken a toll, with national oil output dropping from 2.2 million bpd to less than 300,000 bpd. It is likely that there has been some long term damage to the regime's oil wells and they have lost approximately $6 billion in oil revenues so far.
With a general information blackout in place, getting a proper estimation of the damages can be difficult. However, in recent months many Iranian leaders and media sources have indicated a dangerous shift in the stability of the country. The situation has become so volatile that citizens are reportedly turning to theft in order to get their hands on basic necessities including food.
Iranian newspaper Jahan-e Sanat has reported increased theft of basic groceries over recent months, with store workers linking the trend to rising poverty. Related reports say meat is in short supply, there is reduced consumption of staples, subsidy shortfalls, and broader poverty pressures.
Analysts note that while full state collapse or famine has not yet occurred, the combination of high food inflation, currency weakness and job losses is placing severe strain on households. Iran's President, Masoud Pezeshkian, seemed to confirm the decline last week when he noted that the country was facing economic “difficulties and problems,” while claiming the enemy was trying to provoke protests.
At Iran’s 33rd Conference on Monetary and Banking Policies (around June 2026), he questioned why people wake up to find their purchasing power has fallen and stated there are “hundreds of ways to overcome the economic impasse.” He noted that policymakers take people’s money and "return it with reduced value."
Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati presented a recovery roadmap and acknowledged an ongoing GDP contraction. He stated that “the combination of war and cruel sanctions has posed serious challenges to the country’s economy. Most importantly, people’s livelihoods have been severely affected because various sectors of the economy have been impacted by sanctions.”
He also cited inflation at around 53%, which appears to be a underestimation of the real currency destruction taking place.
Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani has discussed infrastructure damage (e.g., bridges, tunnels, gas and electricity capacity losses), adjustments to gasoline rations, and challenges with subsidy payments disrupted by banking issues or cyberattacks.
These admissions are often wrapped in claims of resiliency despite the crisis, but the biggest danger (inflation) has yet to fully play out. SCI data for the Persian month of Khordad (ending ~June 21, 2026) showed overall year-on-year inflation of 88.6% (up from pre-escalation levels around 50%). Food inflation reached 134%, with oils/fats at 278%, red meat/poultry at 178%, and bread/cereals at nearly 139%.
The rial hit record lows of around 1.5–1.9 million per USD at various points during the war. This has amplified import costs and eroded purchasing power.
Crippling infrastructure damage and currency devaluation might help to explain Iran's desperate insistence on charging tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. If their oil industry is facing a multi-year setback and damage to infrastructure is extensive, tolls on shipping through the strait may be their only source of economic recovery.
Iranian citizens turning to theft to make ends meet is a far more profound issue than a similar trend would be in the US or Europe. In Iran, punishment for a first offense for theft of food is three months to one year of incarceration and up to 74 lashes. Multiple thefts can result in the amputation of fingers, life in prison or execution. The point is, stealing is no small matter in Iran and for people to turn to theft suggests extreme economic derailment.
Even if the war ends this week as negotiations reportedly carry forward, Iran faces a long and arduous road to recovery. It is likely that a collapse of the existing system is inevitable. Whether or not this actually leads to civil unrest as the regime fears is anyone's guess.
I don't know what is wrong with these idiots, but they're always here in droves. (Note likes to grt's vacuous reply tripling those of Denis's OP.)
Just suggesting that maybe getting hit by a Tomahawk missile or any other US weapon might not be such a fun thing, and you get scads of responses claiming that it's no big deal --or at least reflexively asking "but what about the cost to the US?" SMH
"Allow me to summarize this article: someone is of the opinion that everything we're doing in Iran is working, and we are actually winning, despite every evidence to the contrary.
It's copied and pasted from the darn article I posted above, which I knew you wouldn't read, Grr. I can predict outcomes with some of you. 😂 I was just trying to bring a balanced perspective, something that a lot of people here can't comprehend.
The Rial is near worthless no matter how bad you want not to be.
How come your "balanced perspectives" are always so negative they imply total catastrophe? It is easy to find negatives in any situation and in doing so all the time sometimes indicates a desire to sound informed with 'true' knowledge.
Simplicius already covers the positives. Then I said Iran has performed exceptionally well against the US. But no one covered the other side, so I just brought it up. Why get up in tatters and fail to be objective? It's a mental illness when one can't be objective and cult-like, narrow-minded. I'm telling you Iran has done great against the US. But when I mention the costs, then I become your devil for being factually objective. Then some of you only remember the negative part as if I've committed some kind of blasphemy. Lucky for me, I have worked in mental health, so I can absorb dysfunctions humourously. 😂
Why are you so cognitively dissonant and defensive of me just laying out the balanced truth of the matter? These are facts. Take your head out of the sand and look at the world as it really is, and not your cult-like imaginary interpretations of proven reality, by not looking at both sides of the equation. That's mental illness, Desmondo. I kid you not. 😂
Sorry, Grr, learn to face reality instead of putting your face in the sand like an ostrich when you see something you don't like. You are delusional, so committed to an idea that you can't even be objective. Everything is the same with some of you. Brainwashed, cult-like, narrow-minded and stubborn like a mule. I don't say things to offend or undermine. It's reality. Objective reality.
I simply don't understand why some of you get so offended by simple reality. There are always two sides, but many of you only see things one narrow way, which blinds you to reality. It's a remarkable phenomenon to observe.
The thickest of people that won't listen or learn from others. The people that quote propaganda outlets as facts while ignoring what the situation actually is.
I do listen and learn, Grr. I see both sides of a situation and even accept opposing views. Iran has performed great against the US, something that Russia could learn from. How much more positive can I be than that? Iran rocks, man. I like Iran, I like Russia, I like you and Victor and all the other thorns on my side. What more can I give? Everyone here is on the same side, even if we don't see it the same way. I am here to learn, Grr. Now you may teach me. 😂
"Everything is the same with some of you. Brainwashed, cult-like, narrow-minded and stubborn like a mule." That is a pinpoint description of you and the other members of GM's Doom Club.
Why don't you convert your money to Rials as a store of value and let me know what % you lost in a year? Iran's inflation is 50% a month but it varies, and the Rial is worth a wooping .00000073 to the USD, and you think Iran's economy is in great shape. lol And you think he's the deluded twat.
The facts tell otherwise to your dreadful demise.
You stepped into a hornet's nest, my friend,
And now you are trapped by exposing your dysfunctional thinking,
masking behind the use of ad hominem to cover your flagrant lies for everyone to see. 😂
You're always claiming that Russia has handled its war poorly and telling us what YOU would have done. If you never said 3 days then fair enough, I retract that. But you have consistently claimed that you would have done an infinitely superior job.
So I was wondering how you would have handled the US Iran war which appears to have been handled even worse.
But, Denis. Do individuals matter when your country's faith is at stake? From the top down perspective? And especially in a martyr culture? They have new leadership. That is what serious countries are about - being able to survive decapitation strikes without serious issues.
You are trying too much to analyse their mentality / position from your western perspective and keep bringing up that killing 80+ year old grandpa, that was obviously sitting at home and not trying to hide from decapitation strikes, as some hard core success.
You are right on that point, but that doesn't preclude that Iran is in a tough situation too, as I have illustrated. Ding, ding. Oh, oh...that's the bell. I only wanted to make a simple statement to balance things out, not write a book to you all. Gotta go. Go Habs go.
"The top management, the rial, the rubble, the shortages." That's what the Americans and the jewry who lost are saying. They're almost as "clever" as you.
Who quoted Kagan? If you're referring to Simp's article the ashkeNAZI Kagan was quoted to show it as the deluded bullshit it is. And was presented as such in the article.
Denis quotes ZeroHedge (with no source reference until that was questioned) as if it's proven facts.
No, Simplicius quotes Kagan and agrees with what Kagan writes. I think you should read it again, grr.
That said, I used to read Z Hedge but don't much anymore since they have steadily become more aligned with standard neocon policy, just like Trump. A lot more bullshit is spewed there, but once in awhile they still have a decent article. It's an aggregator. Still some good commenters.
Yes, I reread it. Had it confused with another recent article from Kagan.
Kagan is stating the current reality in this quoted article, but not because he cheers it. He is criticising the neocon's long held beliefs only because it's blowing up in their faces.
Re ZH, agreed, it was once upon a time ok, but has fallen. A pity.
Agree. Attrition goes both ways. No need to cheer and think the American Empire is gone because of this. The true enemy is alive and kicking - Israel. And thanks to them and Trumpie we have another country angry and hostile to the West. And now they are determined to fight whatever. The Persian Lion and the Russian Bear they always depicted as threats are now for real.
> My advice: avoid Iran as a tourist destination for the foreseeable future.
Have you heard of conflict tourism? I found Japanese are over-represented in this type. Best time to travel - no crowds, empty hotels and tourist sites,incredible stories, and a populace eager to see you.
Yeah but they are used to this...remember it was them against Saddam and the rest of the world just a few decades ago. We even supplied nerve gas to Saddam. 10 years of being blockaded and in a war with the other side being supplied by the world. These guys running Iran today are all veterans of winning that conflict. The US is headed towards rough economic times dead ahead, especially if we don't negotiate getting the straights opened back up for hydrocarbon and related products transit. We cannot handle anything close to what Iran can.
Nonsense. Iran is no worse off economically. They have survived decades of sanctions. Their food and energy prices are cheap. They provide 90 percent of their own food. Sure Western products cost a fortune but so what. Those are uncessary. Iran survived 8 years of war with US backed Iraq after the revolution.
jesus fucking christ- you state the TRUTH and you get no less than a dozen people calling you out for speaking it. what the fuck is wrong with the idiots on this forum?
YES, Iran has taken some serious punishment...it is not a total happy big celebratory victory for them AT ALL. There are costs in lives lost and which will be lost. Nothing is hollywood script FREE and painless.
Nobody is saying Iran hasn't taken serious damage. The issue taken is treating a Zerohedge article as gospel. It obviously isn't a reflection of the reality of the situation in the Gulf. If you're at all interested in truth more than inflammatory rhetoric let's examine the postmortem.
Iran has an iron grip on the most critical maritime chokepoint ever and they have demonstrated the ability to target the whole of West Asia with very sophisticated stand off weaponry.
The US otoh has been caught with their pants down. The Gabbard DNI report is a damning indictment of just how ignorance and incompetence are now embedded at the highest level in the Trump administration. They were told exactly how this war would.pan out and ignored it.
And remember that even Trump moaned over Israel killing Iranians leader so there was no one to talk with or push for power in Iran.
It was Israel who attacked the Iran Gas facility.
When will US understand they have a rabid dog in the House?
Agree with most of Simplicius article, this was fitting (about Kagans writing):
” Often such figures pen these fear-monger pieces disingenuously, feigning some declarative “doom” reality when their true intention is to spur action to prevent the very result they’re railing about. Is this the case here?”
Yes, it is. First declare obvious truth a normal person can see for them self and then spin in a ”doom” of what the World will look like if Iran continues to have leverage.
He does it with more finesse than Bibi but the goal is the same - make the US Golem move.
>Often such figures pen these fear-monger pieces disingenuously, feigning some declarative “doom” reality when their true intention is to spur action to prevent the very result they’re railing about. Is this the case here?>
Hey… his wife is seriously busy teaching the younger generations with Hilary Clinton and Annelina Baerbock at columbia University. 😂😂😂… what the hell is going on at Columbia? Was some sort of slush fund put together as a retirement fund for failed Western leaders?
Does Vicki Nuland have a death wish or something? We all know that Columbia U is overrun with violent antisemites who want to kill all the Jews. Trump and the MSM have told us so. She must be crazy to teach those swarming little Hitlers in the heart of NYC 🫣
If you read his first critical article carefully he was advocating for a massive ground war. So I still assume this is his preferred solution. He is militarily ignorant though. He doesn't understand anything. Iran keeps bombing the shit out of Erbil because the US keeps trying to stage a spec ops and Kurdish force for sabotage operations. Iran is watching and hitting any concentration of forces it sees. Sadda's greatest mistake was watching the US spend half a year staging an invasion force. Lol. He probably would have lost anyway because the US could still establish air dominance from air craft carriers back then but if Iraq would have attacked Saudi Arabia at the start of the buildup it would have been much uglier for the US and more complicated. Iran has clearly planned this all in. They know what they are doing precisely from watching the US operate here for decades. They developed a plan accordingly.
Quite well known - eg it's one of Meirsheimer's main theses - that air war can never win a war - so if Saddam had attacked the Saudi build-up, we would have seen the first iteration of what is now being spelled out for the US by Iran.
His Scuds may not have been especially accurate, but there would have been no significant air defence tech to repel them.
I am kind of coming to the conclusion that the stressed flight of CIA Director Ratcliffe to Moscow was to promote the perverted idea that it is against Russia’s best interest to win the Ukraine war. Ratcliffe and Trump is trying to avoid being trapped in a second black hole after Iran. Zelensky is projecting signals of panic after his 40 day effort went the wrong way. Ukraine has lost functional ports on the Black Sea and Putin is enlisting 300,000 Men for an attack from the North, (Not Women!) At the same time EU/NATO still has to process the additional yearly $60 billion+ that will be needed to fix the lost income Ukraine is suffering yearly because of the new Russian act.
True. Russia won't have peace until Ukraine is reduced to a fully demilitarized rump state that is patrolled by the AFR. Any attempt at NATO rearmament will be quashed.
It was clear from the early stage of the war that Russia was locked into the conflict where US/NATO combined resources were supposed to force a capitulation. And now, Orange was touched by the passing of time and his age and was kicked into the Iran war by Bibi, his best friend. I really think we are looking at planned calculated Chaos to the 33rd Degree.
Trump was thoroughly compromised this time around. There was no better time to destroy Iran than the present in NuttyYooHoo's correct estimation. The timing was correct, if not the capability.
I am a believer that Trump was convinced Iran would be conquered and Patrick bet-David installed as viceroy in time for Trump to make his March 15th meeting with Xi.
Yes - but in US terms a commodore (O7) qualifies as an admiral. In exactly the same way that a brigadier technically is not a general in the UK, but is in the USA. US rank inflation? :)
pravda had pics (from western sources), with images apparently showing a module for working with classified information: "...The head of the CIA got to Riga on a regular C-40 special aircraft, but flew to Moscow in [...] an aircraft with an enhanced protection system, an electronic warfare station and powerful communications equipment. The C-17 is capable of operating as a secure command post with its own headquarters and meeting room..." - https://news-pravda.com/russia/2026/08/27/2546071.html
Imagine being the head of the CIA! JFK, 9/11, Epstein, … you would be able to know all. Mind blowing. But, looking at his pict, I think he is part of to the group with dark triad’s (narcissim, Machiavellian, psychopathy)
I saw that too, but the question is: Why? Were they supposedly using this trip as a clandestine intelligence gathering operation of some kind? Like send the CIA director as a ruse for such a plane to even be allowed inside Russian airspace while attempting to siphon up as much signals intel as possible?
Probably just a secure pod able to send and receive real time information back to the DC swamp using electronic relays present during the meetings. I am sure we were trying to gather a bit of signals Intel while in the neighborhood as well.
It's a combination of 2 "secure" pods. Secured against RF signal penetration, I guess. Looking at the Pravda images of the inside of the fuselage, it would appear that there wasn't TOO much room for those Caddy SUVs once accounting for the 2 airstream pods and the seating up front. Whatever, though. This visit smacks of desperation.
Well....allegedly the cargo transport plane was for two different reasons a) to carry their own vehicles and b) because it also carried some fancy pants new signals intelligence doo-dad pods, something like two interlinking Airstream trailers that can shield from RF intel gathering and do intel gathering of their own.
Who knows. I've also seen speculation that the trip was to retreive LIVE US CIA assets captured by Russia in Ukraine and to arrange for the return to Russia of alleged Russians imprisoned in the USA.
All in all, the whole thing smacks of desperation by the Trumpstein Regime and the crumbling empire they currently helm (and are accelerating the decline of).
The Airstream trailer was an immediate red flag for me also. They have strong aluminum bodies, with minor modifications they can be turned into Faraday boxes.
” I think you missed the part where I explained Why a CIA director would fly to Moscow. It must be important to get the message through and without anything to leak out.
The ”no fly zone” is more of a Hegseth thing so probably only 5% chance of that.
I think 80-90% chance is that US know of an imminent Russian strategic operation which could alter the standstill in the War and/or bring it an end unfavourable to the West. It comes with a warning of US countermeasures.
5-10% its a warning against involvement in Iran. Get those Russian operators or adviser out of Iran - we will otherwise cremate them in coming attacks.”
That the director of the CIA would go to Russia to collect the dead bodies of agents seems infeasible to me - for one thing he doesn't give a shit about people. As for the reason he arrived on a C-17, he probably took with him his own auto transport as a security measure against possible sabotage of any Russian-based vehicles.
You might be right but if the US Embassy in Moscow cannot provide a safe vehicle to an incoming ranking visitor that is a serious sign of deteriorating conditions. Russia still allows 455 American employees at the embassy but zero Russians. They have likely less than 455, maybe a lot less.
Someone with the importance of the Director of the CIA would take no chances. It wouldn't be his decision but that of the folks who are responsible for his security.
He personally flew into a country his agency is at war with, land of the so-called sworn enemy of the US since hollywood started making action movies. That entire trip is one giant "chance," from the US pov. The fact that it even happened, signifies weakness and hubris all by itself.
The whole story stinks right from the beginning, a C17 to carry a CIA boss c’mon get sober, I agree with Larry who says that there can be no message or warning or threatening happening, there are regular channels for that. Security? It’s the right plane that offers the most body security, and by the way using their own CIA-Mossad principles that is negotiate and kill even during the talking. The evidence that Ratcliffe got home safe means that he wasn’t of that importance to send him back home in a bodybag like Lindsey Graham.
Or maybe the Russians have more decency, honor and civility than the bloated, amoral, jew-infested cancerous morass they're dealing with. If noodleman was able to make it "home" safely after the vomit and bile she hurled at everyone in the kremlin, its fair to say the Russians aren't too keen on murdering their interlocuters, not matter how evil and disgusting they might be.
When questioned re his stance re Isr@el Putin allegedly commented some time ago that many there are Russian and slavic jews and therefore he wont become involved in regional tensions.
Are you aware of his MANY other blatantly anti-jew public statements? What do you call Russian interventions in Syria, or are those not part of the same "regional tensions?" If you think Russia and Israel are chummy, or that Putin is some chabad "operative" I've got news for you.
Nah. No mystery. To travel with a civil plane from Riga (he flew with ordinary plane from US) could be risky. Oops - shot down.
A military big plane is not just a mistake its an act of War - so a little blit more secure. I dont think he delivered 4 tonnes of Green dollar or collected any dead Americans. Others can do deliverances.
CIA Directors has done numerous trips to post-Soviet Kreml, always before or after an important event. See post above or under - complete list.
No CIA boss flies in a C17 and they would never communicate with a president certainly not direct with Putin. But again TACO’s are no longer a surprise
Perhaps the Judaic belief that everyone can be bought has penetrated US deciders’ mentality to such an extent that they genuinely hoped to ‘make a deal’ with the stubborn Russians.
Optics! If we send low-level flunkies to retrieve dead Americans -- the AMERICAN PUBLIC will recoil and try to stampede away. If we sent a high(er) level apparatchik to APPEAR to be negotiating, or transferring some info or request WITHOUT the chance of it being intercepted, it would look like this.
As for:
"head of the CIA got to Riga on a regular C-40 special aircraft, but flew to Moscow in [...] an aircraft with an enhanced protection system"
Anyone flying from eastern Europe into Russia -- by ANY route except maybe over the Pole -- would be really dumb to fly an unprotected plane through a very hostile war zone! Just as Prez Trump switched planes from the new pretty -- not yet WELL-defended AF1 -- to an older better defended version makes SENSE! Unlike the @(_%*^&media crowing and bouncing up-and-down like a baby in a bouncy chair!
Those flights keep going on long years ago, daily. Tucker Carlson was traveling on one of them. Since the CIA did not blow up that one I guess they are safe.
Correct. Standstill is not one centimeter at all. Russia has moved a lot of centimeters. Their doctrine is not one - it changes every 3 months or so. Their strategy is the same.
Yes. They may take Kramatorsk and Slavyansk if not something surprising happens in between. But the prevailing opinion that there is nothing between Russian forces and Dniepr is a misconception. Ukraine has had 4 years to prepare new command centers and bunkers so the pattern will repeat (if Russia is even going for Dniepr).
Yeah...four years, and nothing is prepared. NATO was pushing the Banderan army to stay on the offensive, not defend. It's nearly over for the Banderans.
The EU is obviously in trouble. For the first time, there are three (!) member states that do not participate in the "loan". As long as Hungary was the lone white knight, the VdL, Kallas, Merz and Macrons could strangle Hungary so much, that the voters decided against Orban. But the Genie is out of the bottle, the new government has to follow in the footsteps of Orban. Now joined by Praha and Bratislava governments. And Italy, Bulgaria, Austria and others are not so far from following.
there are people calling out drone plants in the UK on the reg now on tweeter and there are multiple locations ALREADY...banging out drones for use in Ukranus. For use against Russia IN Russia.
EU or not, they seem to find a way to send more weapons.
Russia must seal the border NOW...ALL borders. If Poland continues to allow itself to be a transit point, it must be struck...Iran would.
Ah ha, the Russian don't seem to be doing things quite how you would like them to. Funny how they never picked up the Western Doctrine. I guess the barbarians are happy to forego strikes on non-belligerents. Crazy times indeed
It happens now and then and this is a list and the circumstances:
Known public occasions over the last ~70 years (roughly since the mid-1950s) are limited and rare; many CIA Director travels involving sensitive intelligence channels are unannounced or only partially disclosed after the fact. No confirmed visits by a serving CIA Director to Moscow appear in the open record during the height of the Cold War (pre-1991/1992), when the relationship was purely adversarial. The first widely recognized one occurred after the Soviet collapse.
Robert Gates (September/October 1992)First serving U.S. Director of Central Intelligence to visit Moscow.
Met SVR Director Yevgeniy Primakov, FSK (predecessor to FSB) Director Sergey Stepashin, and President Boris Yeltsin.
Circumstances: Post-Soviet transition under Yeltsin. Aimed at establishing a formal liaison relationship and exploring cooperation on mutual threats (nuclear proliferation/nonproliferation, organized crime, drugs, terrorism). Gates also provided details of the 1970s Glomar Explorer operation that recovered parts of a sunken Soviet submarine (including information on recovered bodies buried at sea). He emphasized turning a page while not forgetting differences.
James Woolsey (October 1993)Follow-up visit shortly after his appointment.
Continued the high-level exchanges initiated by Gates (Primakov had also visited Washington earlier that year).
Circumstances: Building on the nascent post-Cold War intelligence cooperation framework in the Yeltsin era, covering similar practical areas of mutual interest.
George Tenet (August 2000)Visited early in Vladimir Putin’s presidency.
Met Russian intelligence officials.
Circumstances: Practical cooperation remained possible despite political complications; focus included counterterrorism and international crime. These channels later gained importance after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
John Brennan (early March 2016)Secret/unannounced visit (publicly acknowledged weeks later by Russian and U.S. sides).
Met representatives of the FSB (and possibly others); no Kremlin/Putin meeting reported.
Circumstances: Syrian civil war. Emphasized the importance of Russia and the Assad regime honoring the ceasefire/cessation of hostilities and reiterated U.S. support for a political transition that would include Assad’s departure. The trip roughly coincided with Russia’s announcement of a partial drawdown of forces from Syria (Russian officials denied any direct link).
Mike Pompeo (May 2017)Secret/unannounced visit.
Met Russian intelligence officials.
Circumstances: Early Trump administration, amid fallout from Russian election interference investigations and strained relations. Details of the agenda were limited in public reporting; such contacts often cover counterterrorism or crisis management even during tense periods. (Pompeo later hosted Russian intelligence chiefs in Washington in early 2018 on counterterrorism.)
William Burns (November 2021)Publicly confirmed two-day trip at President Biden’s request.
Met senior officials including Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev; spoke directly with President Putin (by phone, as Putin was in Sochi).
Circumstances: Russian military buildup near Ukraine. Burns delivered a clear warning against a full-scale invasion and outlined potential consequences. This was the last known CIA Director visit to Moscow before the February 2022 full-scale invasion.
John Ratcliffe (25 August 2026)Unannounced/secretive short visit (roughly 7–8.5 hours on the ground; traveled on a U.S. military C-17 via Riga).
Met Russian intelligence counterparts (reports name FSB head Aleksandr Bortnikov and/or SVR head Sergei Naryshkin); Kremlin confirmed contacts at the security services level but stated no meeting with Putin occurred (Putin was briefed).
Circumstances: Ongoing Russia-Ukraine war (fifth year), stalled peace efforts, and broader tensions. U.S. officials asked Ukraine to pause certain strikes during the window for safety. Public statements described it as contacts between services (Trump called it “semi-routine”); speculation and later reporting touched on Ukraine war dynamics, potential de-escalation/peace messaging, Iran-related issues, or warnings related to NATO. Exact agenda remained largely undisclosed.
I've always been puzzled about what was full scale about the February 2022 invasion. It didn't involve all the Russian army, let alone all the Russian armed forces, nor were all the combatants on the Russian side from Russia, nor yet was the entirety of Ukraine invaded. It wasn't even the case that the invasion occurred over the entirety of the border between the two countries.
It is western word-salat to ingest the aggressive nature of Russia. When Israel flattens Gaza to grey matter it is a security operation and when US/Israel, unprovoked, attacks Iran and deliver 16 000 attacks on ”targets” its called a Special Operation. Fact is, Russia is lousy on information War - whatever the spooks says.
My suspicions are that, yes, Iran was discussed, however the purpose was to warn about European plans for provoking over Kaliningrad. Not ironically, as Ratcliffe is widely regarded as an establishment figure, his very visit is useful as narrative cover for false-flags.
He was on the ground for 8.5 hours, though we don't know how long he met with his Russian counterparts, not including Putin, apparently. I hear Kremlin brunch is excellent.
You guys are so idiotic. You will believe anything these days. Khameimi is dead, Netanyahu and trump are alive and smiling. Another one comes along. We can kill him too. Oh my god oh my god oh my God the US is burning pile of ash. Oh my God oh my God oh, my God isn’t that amazing oh my God oh my God oh my God.
Trump really does deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. He was the President who huffed and puffed and blew down the American Empire in the most conspicuous way possible. For sure Drump would have to share his prize with many others, since this Imperial denouement was decades in the making. But in selling his soul to blood-thirsty Jewish Zionists, Drump will leave an indelible mark to rival the legends of Nero and Caligula.
I don't know. It could become worse in 2028. The democrats will win in a landslide and have a “mandate”. So what will that mean? War with China? Trump has been so bad I think the democrats put him there so they could win 2028 convincingly and the empire will bring another round of stupid wars
Another possibility: media will keep talking about the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) and there will be a DSA candidate on the ballot in 2028. They will get just enough votes to usher in JD Vance as the next greatest MAGA saviour ever. He will be just another John McCain though, just as Trump has proven to be ever since the 2024 election.
to prevent the emplacement of NATO strike weapons in Ukranus.
EVERY SINGLE DAY NOW those weapons are launched into Russia from Ukranus.
This is what losing looks like. The ONLY THING you idiots have is the tactical picture on this or that front or this or that bombed out village.
In the STRATEGIC VIEW, yes, Russia is losing. They are losing capabilities that their adversary, the EU is not. Russia's drone launch volume went off a cliff. Their Soyuz-2 facility was critically hit...significant damage. This is their SOLE source of space launch capability...
what in the EU has been destroyed or damaged? NOTHING.
So how in the fuck can ANY OF YOU claim Russia is WINNING? They are taking hit after hit and the EU is not.
The fact that the orange orangutang trusted a foreign intelligence agency and government over his own institutions shows the extend of treason. The monkey and all his entourage are foreign assets.
After the briefing the likely plan was a sequence, not a single Iran crisis: provoke something over the weekend, take the Monday swing, repeat until Hormuz was in play, then keep using the same rhythm. The hardliners were useful idiots. The market gaps were the point.
Contrary to your claim, the more plausible reading is that he used that “foreign pressure” the same way he used the hardliners: as noise and as a tool, not as his chain of command.
He is a low life scumbag who is too stupid to take expertly advise. I remember when the dems were on him with charges and counts this that, he looked for a lawyer with such desperation as no one would volunteer their services because they said they would recommend he does this or that, and the dumb dope would go out and do the exact opposite, so no one wanted to take his case or help him‼️
Also during his first term, US intelligence Agencies hated his ass because they would advise him about what he should do and he would not listen, so they stopped giving him the intelligence briefings he should have access to as President. He is a retard who never qualified for the job. NEVER.
That's how "democratic" this country is. IF one has money and big facial trap of mouth they qualify to run this country over the f ing cliff🤣🥲🙄. And he is doing so now and not even blinking about it with the blessings of the cattle across country as no one is twitching in the process...The "brave, free & exceptional" in action🙄...
I object! I protest against your insulting orangutangs, a perfectly fine & peaceable primate, by comparing them to the depraved moron in the Oval Office!
Oh boy, I'm almost afraid that GM is going to stroke out over a piece like this. He seemed almost unhinged yesterday (yes, everything is still Putin's fault, too weak, too strong, not firm enough, too firm...) Simplicius - you should not drop so many truth bombs in such a short period of time, as certain folks' brains will not compute...
None of us commentators can ever be sure if GM is a "NAFO bot" or not, except for those others who are on the same "team" (if such exists).
Here are a few known tactics used by troll farms and/or bot farms which for me, lend credence to the idea that GM, and a few other highly prolific names, may indeed be part of such an operation:
- extremely prolific, both in sheer numbers of posts and in massive word counts in nearly every thread. Higher total word counts in many cases than even in Simplicius' original posts. This high amount of work may indicate payment for services.
- highly repetetive rhetoric over many months and even years. Propaganda has to be highly repetitive to be effective. Think "unprovoked full-scale invasion" and similar in the western media. Same principle.
- frequent use of provocative language and ideas that are intended to stir up emotions and derail more serious discussion.
The visit to Moscow in a big plane with a cavalcade of cars was to pick up coffins containing dead CIA operatives, presumably recovered from sites in ex Ukraine territory.
Ratcliffe did not meet with top Russian players just his intelligence counterparties.
Iran hasn't been launching missiles lately, not necessary. lmao What do you mean degraded?
Jihadi proxies are CIA / MI6 proxies, not Iranian.
Iran's neighbors? GCC salafi US vassals?
As I said I have not seen Iranians been launching missiles lately and it seems to me that they are out of targets rather than being degraded.
Ignoring whom? Hezbollah? They are grassroot movement. Houthis? Do not forget your KSA vassals and UAE invaded them.
Which GCC family business aka "country" is not a US vassal?
NYP, sweet.
You again? Ha ha. I'd really like to hear Simp answer since he wrote it.
Nevertheless, "degraded" ... you could look it up or, in this case, means used, destroyed, defeated, or buried under rubble.
Regarding proxies, you're ignoring a few.
Sure. The GCC are all "US vassals" ... if you say so.
25 million barrels of crude oil; plus some refined products [are now transiting the strait daily]. The oil originates from almost every country in the region, minus Iran." https://x.com/TankerTrackers/status/2092328933739864323 That number is more than before Operation Epic Fury ... about 25% more.
"and that doesn't include the seven million barrels of crude bypassing the Strait entirely through pipelines ... add that to increased exporting capacity of Venezuela and the United States ... The world is adapting in real time"
"The war-risk premium in Brent has faded amid mounting developments this week that major Gulf producers, including Kuwait and Qatar, are increasing tanker flows through the Strait of Hormuz."
"Persian Gulf oil exports have recovered ... Gulf-area exports of crude and petroleum products have rebounded sharply to between 15 million and 16 million barrels per day, up from a March low of 5 million to 6 million barrels per day"
Follow the money. United Arab Emirates cuts off trade with Iran, nixing billions — why it could have ‘crippling effect’ on Tehran https://nypost.com/2026/08/24/world-news/why-uaes-suspension-of-iran-trade-could-be-biggest-threat-to-regime-yet/
Most of the 90 Million Persians would love to be freed from the mad mullah's jihadi regime. Free Persia!
While you're on the trail of absurd speculations, may I suggest if Israelis (and perhaps most of the world's Jews) haven't yet figured out their Iranian Endgame was de facto the Endgame of their experiment, then they truly must be messianic.
Iran has powerful trading partners including China, which will protect them from the worst perfidy of American sanctions. Don't forget that it was UK and US intervention in Iranian internal matters in 1953, when they planned and financed the overthrow of Iran's first democratically elected Prime Minister Mossedegh, thereby creating the whole, destructive progression resulting in today's Iran. It was also Trump who tore up the six nation agreement that stopped any further refining of plutononium to weapons grade levels. The Iranians were living up to the terms. All he did was create a situation to kill more people. What a blood sucker!
300,000 (initially) genocidal land thieving filth are going to Argentina.
The indigenous of the Amazon had better get up to speed with drone warfare. They have a whole world of hurt coming.
last I checked, Argentina is nowhere near the Amazon
No, it's not, but he has a point: when I was last in Iquitos, I traveled to a jungle lodge to take a motorboat into the main channel of the Amazon and among te guests of the lodge was a group of "demobilized" IDF folk, taking a vacation with theodolites and other surveying equipment, much as they have long been reported doing in Patagonia, where they have been accused of setting forest fires. The "fire sale" provisions of Milei's law were required to be deleted for any of the other measures to pass. Win some, lose some, so the Peruvian Amazon with its largely indigenous population might begin looking good. Might be an emerging market opportunity for curare-tipped darts among the locals.
Right. I looked at a map of the Amazon Basin and it extends further south than I had thought, all the way into Bolivia. Bolivia borders northern Argentina, so yeah it wouldn't be a stretch for them to mosie on up into the Amazon Basin and pick up some of those darts for their next assassinations.
Yeah, I always make that naming error; Patagonia. As in Plan Andinia.
That's far from a settled issue in Argentina. The increasingly unhinged and unpopular Milei can make all the claims he likes, but there's many a slip twixt the cup and the lip. His new laws that would have made the 50,000 hectare purchase possible failed to make it through the legislature, so the project to turn the Patagonians into Palestinians will not likely come to pass in whatever time Milei has left as president. Reelection is unlikely and removal before end of term is not impossible. If Vice President Victoria Villaruel were to take his place, the fate of the so-called "Issac Accords" would almost certainly come into question and if the left returns to power, the same would likely be true.
N.B. This reply to grr should be above the reply to pimaCanyon.
We're like multiple hungry cats waiting for the mouse to appear. Who will be the lucky cat?
Here
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/the-true-extent-of-fallout-from-uss/comment/324276459
The next stage of 3 WW is coming at the end of this year.
No matter what are Iran-USA diplomatic talks, Iran will be nuked, by hands of Israel. Bushehr nuclear power plant will be dirty bombed, it will explode, with 72 tons of active material loaded in reactors and 200 tons spend fuel stored on site. Americans will use flesh rotting chemical weapons, gas bombs on civilians - all not reported and later under-reported by the Western mass media. Death in tens millions, hell in hell. Mass migration in ten/hundred millions from the Middle East, out of total 500 mln population.
Israel enters into Great Israel stage, the map Natanyahu shown at UN plenary session on 22 September 2023. And beyond those borders. With false Messiah pointed by them, just to get all those mad evangelical Christians in the USA and everywhere else, who are all Zionists, on their side.
If Trump doesn’t follow, he will be poisoned. His son Barron becoming interim president.
Pivotal in this war will be a new player, but not a superpower, Turkiye. It will leave NATO and associate with Russia and Pakistan for nuclear umbrella.
Russia and/or Pakistan will nuke Israel, to prevent them from using remaining bombs on Turkiye and elsewhere.
There would be immediately hot front on NATO East border. Six countries will be at active war. Large American armaments will be coming, they will send all they have, and they still have a lot - bar nukes. Zaporozhe nuclear power plant, the largest in Europe, will be once again bombed, but this time at critical danger level. All borders in Europe shut and with full military mobilisation, to prevent mass migration from Ukrainian and Middle East humanitarian disaster and stop deserters, conscripts from war countries.
It will be a very fast paced war, with many war theatres around the glob, will end
Chine will try to stay away as far as possible. To prevent nuclear war they will use biological weapon, highly deadly pandemic, with not known medicines to cure. All active fronts and any military activity will cease. Putin single-handedly stopped Covid, which was just socio-engineering, by war on Banderites, Xi will stop nuclear war with ensuring nuclear winter, by real mass death. That will save humanity for 1-2 generations, when the 4 WW will annihilate 99% of us.
I can't help but wondering if the storm shadow story with the new Starmer is part of this Ratcliffe visit. Perhaps the Russians have hatched a plan to actually get the novichoc out of the fridge? Perhaps we will see more "accidents" happening in the UK toward the end of the year.
Sure, but the 'novachoc' is in MI6's fridge.
Very often it is the same cat.
Precisely!
You and alphabet divvy it up between you.
And Spectre and grr. 😉
Just your alters, from what I've been told.
You guys so need to get out more.
You are so right.
they need to fuck off
being a first poster is a sign of being pathetic
Your pils TJE. Take them and breeeaathe
The USA and Israel would never give up.
Both are nuclear powers.
Both political elites are mad, irrational and dangerous.
The 28.02 marked the beginning of 3 WW. It will last another few years. With death for half of world, mainly in Asia, from the Middle East to China. With war comes hunger and disease for Africa, but it spread worldwide. Remember the Spanish Flu at the end of 1st WW with 50 mln perished. Depopulation agenda is on, so multiply that 50 by 10. Hunger killed tens of millions at the end of 2 WW and years after. Heavy dependent on fertiliser and fuel, modern food production can't support 8 bln population and can't make profit for agricultural giants and bankers.
Humans will be controlled by artificial intelligence, with Robocops and Robosoldiers keeping order and peace. With ruling class in nuclear bunkers on isolated Pacific islands and cruising oceans on 500 mln yachts with military-grade missile defense systems, helipads, bulletproof glass and a mini-submarines
The good news is that the US doesn't have much fight left in a discredited, decrepit Empire. The moral rot and demoralization is tangible. Russia and China will move cautiously to restore some semblance of peace. Taiwan will fade away as an issue; new EU governments will make their peace with Russia. Optimism isn't an impossible ask.
Yes, but in worst scenario Russia will exist from Ural mountains eastwards and China will have left 400 mln population.
If the USA has a neutron wundervaffen, it will be used. With no known defence against it.
Super neutron 10x more powerful to Tzar Bomba
A neutron bomb only has a kill radius of approximately 1.5 km due to the physical nature of neutrons. They would have to use an enormous amount of those. This characteristic of neutrons would likely obviate any possibility of a "super neutron bomb".
😂😂😂😂😂
1970s technology delivered by platforms not much younger snd largely interceptable today.
Wunderwaffen didn't bring the Third Reich any more victory than they have the Fourth in Ukraine.
The US is a paper tiger. They do public relations or propaganda well but they suck at fighting wars. They can't even defeat Yemen with their fancy AI and tech. 😂😂😂
The only times the USA actually went full scale was before it was a country and the 2nd time was fighting itself. Anything else was half hearted and Japan during WW2 was soundly destroyed but once again, half hearted.
Well it might have been tactics, allowing the allies to fight for two and a half years by themselves until they were worn down and broke before jumping in and saving the day (not). It was the Soviets that ended WWII in Europe and the American destructive force of nuclear weapons that it used on CIVILIAN targets that ended WWII in the Pacific.
Not the dreaded Discombobulator.
The US will die a horrible death if it starts a nuclear war. That is a prediction that few will argue with.
Agree, not impossible, but the current situation makes it very hard to be optimistic. It’s not just conflicts, it’s climate, it’s polution, it’s another pandemic, it’s social decay and it’s not looking good☹️
You forgot to mention the rapidly declining global fertility rate. We're fucked, or are we?
Yes. We are
🤣 I caught that.....🤣🤣
Eh, predominately Anglo countries and Asian are having a birth crises, everyone else? Not so much.
Really can't you make your point without vulgarity?
Climate. Oh jeeze. CO2 is plant food and man does not control, or affect, the climate. Solar cycles, multi-generational orbits, and the big yellow ball in the sky have the true control over the climate. Not man... Chip
I am not saying man made😀
So what is this climate crises you are so worried about?
precipitation Changes
Are you kidding?
One can only hope that this is the outcome.
The USA has plenty of fight and square that number if the threat is a real threat that the populace actually supports. God help you if the US Left and Right stand together and agree on destroying your country.
And who should keep the "military-grade missile defense systems, helipads, bulletproof glass and mini-submarines" alive? I have a small yacht of my own, and again and again there is endless maintenance to be done; and I do not have such fancy systems on board.
The Palantir AI system magically solves everything with just a few computations. See their precision bombing of gaza!
🤣
One of the most ignorant comment I have ever read..."with war comes hunger and disease for Africa"...WHY? There are wars being waged right now, and on multiple front lines, multiple theaters. Why can't you detox from all that Hollywood and MSM brainwashing you consume. You think Africa shits what you eat? Tell me, what's the plight of Gaza, Tel Aviv or Mariupol, currently? Oh I see, the devastating effects of an Iskander-M by Russia can be seen all across the major cities in central and southern Africa.
You are a nincompoop.
"Humans will be controlled by artificial intelligence, with Robocops and Robosoldiers keeping order and peace."
Pure science-fiction. I, like many others, will not live in the world they have planned for us. Irish democracy and Madmax will prevail... Chip
Nonsense. It is Europe and the US that will die off. The Epstein class isn't that smart and their AI is a f#$king joke.
A.I. is not a joke hombre. You just dont know enough about it.
the Thucydides Trap is in play. the end of the USA empire is clearly in site.
In other words, China , Russia, and the rest are in on the scheme.
Cliche dystopian script.
Why do you do this... "3 WW/ 2 WW" instead of this, "2nd WW" or even the normal "WW2" or even "WWII"? Doing this, "2 WW" just makes it obnoxious to read.
Podium.
Bronze?
Iran has performed exceptionally well against the US.
But let us not also assume that Iran hasn't paid a tremendous price.
Its entire leadership was vaporized on day one. (Russia, take note)
The Rial has gone the way of the Dodo bird. (near extinct)
Infrastructure turned into piles of rubble.
Iranians are suffering from all kinds of shortages.
My advice: avoid Iran as a tourist destination for the foreseeable future.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/irans-economy-shambles-war-takes-its-toll
All I'm saying is there are two sides to this story.
This conflict is costly for all parties involved, and the same applies to the war in Ukraine.
Iran has performed exceptionally well against the US.
True
But let us not also assume that Iran hasn't paid a tremendous price.
True, but so has have the Zionist JUSA and shitrael
Its entire leadership was vaporized on day one. (Russia, take note)
Untrue.
The Rial has gone the way of the Dodo bird. (near extinct)
Untrue.
Infrastructure turned into piles of rubble.
Somewhat true, but bridges etc rebuilt fast, With proof posted.
Iranians are suffering from all kinds of shortages.
Untrue. Petrol 2 cents a litre, fresh food everywhere. And better quality than US shit.
My advice: avoid Iran as a tourist destination for the foreseeable future.
Uninformed advice. Iran is safer than many areas in the UK and USA
lol, Grr.
You really made my day with this response.
One Rial is equivalent to .00000073 of 1 US dollar.
The Rial is worthless my dear Grr.
Probably not much longer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdYHbhT6524
Great, please send me all your worthless dollars. I'll even pay for shipping.
I don't have any dollars, but if I did, you probably wouldn't be able to afford the shipping once what that video indicates takes place.
Oh boy a Youtube professor. No wonder you people keep getting shocked when the resistards keep losing.
The US dollar is going to be around for a long time. I'll keep coming in here to remind you until you re-enrol in adult school and get your grade 7.
The dollar will indeed be around for a long time, but the process initiated has been predetermined - the dollar system will be replaced by an alternative system. The dollar remains - the system goes away.
And thanks for letting us poor ignorants know you will keep coming in here to remind us of our failings. It's really appreciated!
what in the LITERAL FUCK DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE RIAL?
STFU already...jfc
Off your meds again, I see. Relax, buddy….youre going to blow a cardio gasket.
was i talking to you, idiot? MYOFB
And that fact is irrelevant.
Oh boy. I guess being a flat earther can only take you so far.
Get ready for this lesson:
Iran takes it nothing-value Rial and wants to buy from China... well China has its RMB pegged to the US dollar. China is not going to give stuff away for free, that's some BRIC larping nonsense. So with a weak Rial how is Iran going to buy the things it doesn't produce domestically (like water, the drought that has been haunting it for over a decade). Maybe Afghanistan as its currency is even more worthless than the Iranian rial but how many high end CPUs for advance weapon systems does Afghanistan make?
Brother... you should enrol back into adult school and get your Grade 7. Believe me, it'll help you.
Fvck me; is this cvnt the norm for 'meriKunt ignorance?
Living proof as to why the US "education" system fails at all levels.
Says the guy who thinks space is fake.
Don't be mad America was driving cars on the moon while your people haven't invented the toilet yet. Its not my fault reading is a new psycho-technology for you.
As GRR says, irrelevant. Iran's GDP based on PPP is number 27 in the world, higher than most European countries. They have full grocery shelves and plenty of petrol and diesel. Yes, imports are more expensive with the weak rial, but Iranian essentials are not suffering.
Iran is astonishingly resilient, and packed to the eyeballs with extremely capable scientists, despite the jews' attempts to murder them all.
I was reading how they have many companies specializing in nanomolecular coating technologies, the application of which, for example can make turbine blades last ten times as long as they otherwise would.
Do not underestimate this nation.
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/08/26/775107/iran-nanocoating-industry-powering-high-tech-manufacturing-exports-industrial-innovation
Have you not seen the gas queues?
No one in Iran salivates with a buck, and my next tourist destination is Iran with yuan.
I remember buying a can of Coke for four thousand Italian Lira. Italy is still there.
And why is the Rial's worthlessness against the dollar a problem to Iran? In case you haven't been paying attention, Iran is under heavy DOLLAR sanctions, so it is the dollar that is worthless to Iran, because what use is a currency if no-one will accept it? The trouble is that most people who come from countries that are not self-sufficient cannot understand the concept of one that is.
What does Iran import from the usa ?
Tomahawks; according to Drumpf.
From the beginning of the conflict to current day, Iran has been dealt an estimated $270 billion to $300 billion in total damage due to a steady barrage of strikes, including numerous infrastructure targets from bridges, highways, railways, airports, etc.
The three-month-long US blockade on Iran's oil exports have also taken a toll, with national oil output dropping from 2.2 million bpd to less than 300,000 bpd. It is likely that there has been some long term damage to the regime's oil wells and they have lost approximately $6 billion in oil revenues so far.
With a general information blackout in place, getting a proper estimation of the damages can be difficult. However, in recent months many Iranian leaders and media sources have indicated a dangerous shift in the stability of the country. The situation has become so volatile that citizens are reportedly turning to theft in order to get their hands on basic necessities including food.
Iranian newspaper Jahan-e Sanat has reported increased theft of basic groceries over recent months, with store workers linking the trend to rising poverty. Related reports say meat is in short supply, there is reduced consumption of staples, subsidy shortfalls, and broader poverty pressures.
Analysts note that while full state collapse or famine has not yet occurred, the combination of high food inflation, currency weakness and job losses is placing severe strain on households. Iran's President, Masoud Pezeshkian, seemed to confirm the decline last week when he noted that the country was facing economic “difficulties and problems,” while claiming the enemy was trying to provoke protests.
At Iran’s 33rd Conference on Monetary and Banking Policies (around June 2026), he questioned why people wake up to find their purchasing power has fallen and stated there are “hundreds of ways to overcome the economic impasse.” He noted that policymakers take people’s money and "return it with reduced value."
Central Bank Governor Abdolnaser Hemmati presented a recovery roadmap and acknowledged an ongoing GDP contraction. He stated that “the combination of war and cruel sanctions has posed serious challenges to the country’s economy. Most importantly, people’s livelihoods have been severely affected because various sectors of the economy have been impacted by sanctions.”
He also cited inflation at around 53%, which appears to be a underestimation of the real currency destruction taking place.
Government spokeswoman Fatemeh Mohajerani has discussed infrastructure damage (e.g., bridges, tunnels, gas and electricity capacity losses), adjustments to gasoline rations, and challenges with subsidy payments disrupted by banking issues or cyberattacks.
These admissions are often wrapped in claims of resiliency despite the crisis, but the biggest danger (inflation) has yet to fully play out. SCI data for the Persian month of Khordad (ending ~June 21, 2026) showed overall year-on-year inflation of 88.6% (up from pre-escalation levels around 50%). Food inflation reached 134%, with oils/fats at 278%, red meat/poultry at 178%, and bread/cereals at nearly 139%.
The rial hit record lows of around 1.5–1.9 million per USD at various points during the war. This has amplified import costs and eroded purchasing power.
Crippling infrastructure damage and currency devaluation might help to explain Iran's desperate insistence on charging tolls in the Strait of Hormuz. If their oil industry is facing a multi-year setback and damage to infrastructure is extensive, tolls on shipping through the strait may be their only source of economic recovery.
Iranian citizens turning to theft to make ends meet is a far more profound issue than a similar trend would be in the US or Europe. In Iran, punishment for a first offense for theft of food is three months to one year of incarceration and up to 74 lashes. Multiple thefts can result in the amputation of fingers, life in prison or execution. The point is, stealing is no small matter in Iran and for people to turn to theft suggests extreme economic derailment.
Even if the war ends this week as negotiations reportedly carry forward, Iran faces a long and arduous road to recovery. It is likely that a collapse of the existing system is inevitable. Whether or not this actually leads to civil unrest as the regime fears is anyone's guess.
This is not written by you. It is clearly an anti-Iran propaganda screed. Where was it copied and pasted from?
Or the effects on the US military.
what the fuck does that have to do with whether the shit written is TRUE or not?
what the fuck is wrong with you idiots?
Iran is in dire straits....no question. IF the US is in dire straits too, THAT DOES NOT FUCKING NEGATE THE FACT THAT IRAN IS.
Iran, if these things are happening, needs to go back to kinetic war immediately. Do not wait.
I don't know what is wrong with these idiots, but they're always here in droves. (Note likes to grt's vacuous reply tripling those of Denis's OP.)
Just suggesting that maybe getting hit by a Tomahawk missile or any other US weapon might not be such a fun thing, and you get scads of responses claiming that it's no big deal --or at least reflexively asking "but what about the cost to the US?" SMH
He used AI with certain set of prompts.... thus the wall of text, a huge giveaway.
It's from the article I posted above, which you didn't even read, like a cult-like programmed zombie simpleton. 😂
ZeroHedge again LOL
From one of the comments to that article:
"Allow me to summarize this article: someone is of the opinion that everything we're doing in Iran is working, and we are actually winning, despite every evidence to the contrary.
Who writes this shit??"
I totally agree.
'from the article I posted above' < where's the reference?
It's copied and pasted from the darn article I posted above, which I knew you wouldn't read, Grr. I can predict outcomes with some of you. 😂 I was just trying to bring a balanced perspective, something that a lot of people here can't comprehend.
The Rial is near worthless no matter how bad you want not to be.
How come your "balanced perspectives" are always so negative they imply total catastrophe? It is easy to find negatives in any situation and in doing so all the time sometimes indicates a desire to sound informed with 'true' knowledge.
Simplicius already covers the positives. Then I said Iran has performed exceptionally well against the US. But no one covered the other side, so I just brought it up. Why get up in tatters and fail to be objective? It's a mental illness when one can't be objective and cult-like, narrow-minded. I'm telling you Iran has done great against the US. But when I mention the costs, then I become your devil for being factually objective. Then some of you only remember the negative part as if I've committed some kind of blasphemy. Lucky for me, I have worked in mental health, so I can absorb dysfunctions humourously. 😂
Iran has assets which it will be receiving renminbi and rubles in exchange for.
Introducing blatant propaganda from a biased source is not balance.
“I can predict outcomes with some of you.” You’re the easiest of all to predict (well, maybe second place to GM).😂🤡
Sounds like Reuters to me.
Or Ha'aretz.
To Denis.
Hairdresser's chatter, playing the role of Jiminy Cricket. Don't waste your time and go back to the gossip columns. It's your thing.
I get the whining, but Iran is at war. I hope the Iranian people realize this before they do something the'll regret.
You are dumber than a box of rocks.
One of the few here that is making any sense.
What's that you say? The sky is falling in? What a miserable life you must lead.
Why are you so cognitively dissonant and defensive of me just laying out the balanced truth of the matter? These are facts. Take your head out of the sand and look at the world as it really is, and not your cult-like imaginary interpretations of proven reality, by not looking at both sides of the equation. That's mental illness, Desmondo. I kid you not. 😂
Your statements are not facts. They are distortions and outright lies.
You have done similar with the Ukraine subject and now you're fudding on Iran with falsehoods.
Sorry, Grr, learn to face reality instead of putting your face in the sand like an ostrich when you see something you don't like. You are delusional, so committed to an idea that you can't even be objective. Everything is the same with some of you. Brainwashed, cult-like, narrow-minded and stubborn like a mule. I don't say things to offend or undermine. It's reality. Objective reality.
I simply don't understand why some of you get so offended by simple reality. There are always two sides, but many of you only see things one narrow way, which blinds you to reality. It's a remarkable phenomenon to observe.
The thickest of people that won't listen or learn from others. The people that quote propaganda outlets as facts while ignoring what the situation actually is.
Denis, you are one of those thick people.
I do listen and learn, Grr. I see both sides of a situation and even accept opposing views. Iran has performed great against the US, something that Russia could learn from. How much more positive can I be than that? Iran rocks, man. I like Iran, I like Russia, I like you and Victor and all the other thorns on my side. What more can I give? Everyone here is on the same side, even if we don't see it the same way. I am here to learn, Grr. Now you may teach me. 😂
Denis, it's not true that ostriches hide their heads in the sand.
"why put out a blatant lie?
Must you still so low?"
"Everything is the same with some of you. Brainwashed, cult-like, narrow-minded and stubborn like a mule." That is a pinpoint description of you and the other members of GM's Doom Club.
good god dude, the guy stated a set of FACTS and you come back with this shit?
like you think everything is hunky dory in Iran? Are you people fucking nuts?
Your candidness is noteworthy.
Thanks, TJE.
I agree with Denis. These nitwits need a splash of cold water in the face.
Thanks for being sensible, David.
Facts? You are a deluded twat. Or a troll.
Why don't you convert your money to Rials as a store of value and let me know what % you lost in a year? Iran's inflation is 50% a month but it varies, and the Rial is worth a wooping .00000073 to the USD, and you think Iran's economy is in great shape. lol And you think he's the deluded twat.
The facts tell otherwise to your dreadful demise.
You stepped into a hornet's nest, my friend,
And now you are trapped by exposing your dysfunctional thinking,
masking behind the use of ad hominem to cover your flagrant lies for everyone to see. 😂
Sorry Dennis but copying ai slop does not magically make something a fact.
Learn to read. It's from the article above, but you're too damn lazy to read it and rushed a judgment like you know something.
Back to grade 1 for you, Einstein. 😂
Denis.
I remember that you often provided scenarios on how Russia should have won the war in Ukraine in 3 days or so.
Do you have any thoughts on how Iran or the USA could have won this conflict?
3 days is impossible, John.
Why put out a blatant lie that I said this?
Must you stoop so low?
I think you're ignoring my point here.
You're always claiming that Russia has handled its war poorly and telling us what YOU would have done. If you never said 3 days then fair enough, I retract that. But you have consistently claimed that you would have done an infinitely superior job.
So I was wondering how you would have handled the US Iran war which appears to have been handled even worse.
But, Denis. Do individuals matter when your country's faith is at stake? From the top down perspective? And especially in a martyr culture? They have new leadership. That is what serious countries are about - being able to survive decapitation strikes without serious issues.
You are trying too much to analyse their mentality / position from your western perspective and keep bringing up that killing 80+ year old grandpa, that was obviously sitting at home and not trying to hide from decapitation strikes, as some hard core success.
You are right on that point, but that doesn't preclude that Iran is in a tough situation too, as I have illustrated. Ding, ding. Oh, oh...that's the bell. I only wanted to make a simple statement to balance things out, not write a book to you all. Gotta go. Go Habs go.
Sure they are, but they have been since 1979.
'Every day is Ashura and every land is Karbala'
This is why I rate the UK's chances if Russia sends a few Oreshniks to London - if Burnham goes, we can always fall back on Streeting.
And Rayner or Reeves if he decides to spend more time with one of his rent boys.
Nobody should doubt that the UK is just such a "serious country."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j62ElUAtAE
Operation Paper Tiger - Britain's Useless Aircraft Carriers
I love your sarcasm. I'd much prefer an Oreshnik to arrive on the HoC & rid us of 650 traitorous parasites in one go.
I want the SAS to enter and arrest them all.
Why only London, why not Washington ?
London is the heart of the beast.
yanquis are just subcontractors - franchisees, effectively.
This is what the Brits were doing for eight years after the end of the WoI, during which time they remained in the US finalizing the details.
Dis yu on X?
https://x.com/CzeKuku2/status/2092991692672565732
Nah.
I'm much better looking.
Yes, and Zionism is secretly led by the Vatican. Whatever you say.
I never said that.
"Explosion reported near Wembley Stadium in London, followed by a large fire."
https://x.com/Glenn_Diesen/status/2093360387957686630
Somebody is listening to you, Tim.
I just had a call saying "It's done" from Liz Truss.
Perhaps Ratcliffe was too late...
from the jew perspective ...
To Denis
"The top management, the rial, the rubble, the shortages." That's what the Americans and the jewry who lost are saying. They're almost as "clever" as you.
Thanks for your insightful contribution, Pedro.
ZerofuckingHedge again! LOL
ZioHedge... Chip
Is that really any worse than quoting Robert Kagan?
Who quoted Kagan? If you're referring to Simp's article the ashkeNAZI Kagan was quoted to show it as the deluded bullshit it is. And was presented as such in the article.
Denis quotes ZeroHedge (with no source reference until that was questioned) as if it's proven facts.
No, Simplicius quotes Kagan and agrees with what Kagan writes. I think you should read it again, grr.
That said, I used to read Z Hedge but don't much anymore since they have steadily become more aligned with standard neocon policy, just like Trump. A lot more bullshit is spewed there, but once in awhile they still have a decent article. It's an aggregator. Still some good commenters.
Yes, I reread it. Had it confused with another recent article from Kagan.
Kagan is stating the current reality in this quoted article, but not because he cheers it. He is criticising the neocon's long held beliefs only because it's blowing up in their faces.
Re ZH, agreed, it was once upon a time ok, but has fallen. A pity.
Agree. Attrition goes both ways. No need to cheer and think the American Empire is gone because of this. The true enemy is alive and kicking - Israel. And thanks to them and Trumpie we have another country angry and hostile to the West. And now they are determined to fight whatever. The Persian Lion and the Russian Bear they always depicted as threats are now for real.
> My advice: avoid Iran as a tourist destination for the foreseeable future.
Have you heard of conflict tourism? I found Japanese are over-represented in this type. Best time to travel - no crowds, empty hotels and tourist sites,incredible stories, and a populace eager to see you.
yes and iran does not have jews and cities full of subhumans like in the west....
Iran has them also.
Yeah but they are used to this...remember it was them against Saddam and the rest of the world just a few decades ago. We even supplied nerve gas to Saddam. 10 years of being blockaded and in a war with the other side being supplied by the world. These guys running Iran today are all veterans of winning that conflict. The US is headed towards rough economic times dead ahead, especially if we don't negotiate getting the straights opened back up for hydrocarbon and related products transit. We cannot handle anything close to what Iran can.
Nonsense. Iran is no worse off economically. They have survived decades of sanctions. Their food and energy prices are cheap. They provide 90 percent of their own food. Sure Western products cost a fortune but so what. Those are uncessary. Iran survived 8 years of war with US backed Iraq after the revolution.
jesus fucking christ- you state the TRUTH and you get no less than a dozen people calling you out for speaking it. what the fuck is wrong with the idiots on this forum?
YES, Iran has taken some serious punishment...it is not a total happy big celebratory victory for them AT ALL. There are costs in lives lost and which will be lost. Nothing is hollywood script FREE and painless.
I call it a cult-like, narrow-minded mental illness, TJ
Sort of like lemmings following each other over a cliff.
😂 Truth exposes their stupidity in not being able to deal with reality.
Thanks for understanding and for the support.
Sorry Denis but Zerohedge as a reliable source for internal Iranian affairs is a joke. Really, you can do better
He can't. Obviously. The dill is doubling down on the ZH he posted without reference (ie plagiarised).
Nobody is saying Iran hasn't taken serious damage. The issue taken is treating a Zerohedge article as gospel. It obviously isn't a reflection of the reality of the situation in the Gulf. If you're at all interested in truth more than inflammatory rhetoric let's examine the postmortem.
Iran has an iron grip on the most critical maritime chokepoint ever and they have demonstrated the ability to target the whole of West Asia with very sophisticated stand off weaponry.
The US otoh has been caught with their pants down. The Gabbard DNI report is a damning indictment of just how ignorance and incompetence are now embedded at the highest level in the Trump administration. They were told exactly how this war would.pan out and ignored it.
Believing Netanyahu is a fail from the start.
Bibi in and Tulsi out is a recipe for disaster.
And remember that even Trump moaned over Israel killing Iranians leader so there was no one to talk with or push for power in Iran.
It was Israel who attacked the Iran Gas facility.
When will US understand they have a rabid dog in the House?
Agree with most of Simplicius article, this was fitting (about Kagans writing):
” Often such figures pen these fear-monger pieces disingenuously, feigning some declarative “doom” reality when their true intention is to spur action to prevent the very result they’re railing about. Is this the case here?”
Yes, it is. First declare obvious truth a normal person can see for them self and then spin in a ”doom” of what the World will look like if Iran continues to have leverage.
He does it with more finesse than Bibi but the goal is the same - make the US Golem move.
"If all the rich men in the world divided all their money up among themselves; there wouldn't be enough to go round..".
A very simple and often eluded truth is: xenocracy is the worst of all regimes.
The big news is that another aircraft carrier strike group (the USS Theodore Roosevelt) will soon be deployed against Iran in West Asia, while Iranians keep making fun of Trump, Bessent & co.: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/new-us-aircraft-carrier-strike-group
Another "laundry fire" coming up, then.
>Often such figures pen these fear-monger pieces disingenuously, feigning some declarative “doom” reality when their true intention is to spur action to prevent the very result they’re railing about. Is this the case here?>
Yes, as sure as God made little green apples.
What I wonder is where was Kagan when all these things were being discussed prior to the unprovoked act of US / Israeli aggression ?
I cannot conceive that a jew would have been calling for restraint and negotiation with the goyim.
Where was Kagan ? That's easy Tim. He was cribbed up with his Missus, comfort eating, Morning, Noon and Night, an inordinately huge quantity of Pies !
More likely in some gay bar in TA.
Having that vampire of a wife would turn me gay so I can't fault him for that 😂
Hey… his wife is seriously busy teaching the younger generations with Hilary Clinton and Annelina Baerbock at columbia University. 😂😂😂… what the hell is going on at Columbia? Was some sort of slush fund put together as a retirement fund for failed Western leaders?
If jews fund these places, as they do, then they can give the teaching places to any Jezebel they please.
Does Vicki Nuland have a death wish or something? We all know that Columbia U is overrun with violent antisemites who want to kill all the Jews. Trump and the MSM have told us so. She must be crazy to teach those swarming little Hitlers in the heart of NYC 🫣
Her policy is to teach them cookie making, as a first step in disassembling their natural inclinations.
Once they can gather round and all have a nice cookie together, their more homicidal tendencies miraculously evaporate.
She learned the technique at the Maidan.
If you read his first critical article carefully he was advocating for a massive ground war. So I still assume this is his preferred solution. He is militarily ignorant though. He doesn't understand anything. Iran keeps bombing the shit out of Erbil because the US keeps trying to stage a spec ops and Kurdish force for sabotage operations. Iran is watching and hitting any concentration of forces it sees. Sadda's greatest mistake was watching the US spend half a year staging an invasion force. Lol. He probably would have lost anyway because the US could still establish air dominance from air craft carriers back then but if Iraq would have attacked Saudi Arabia at the start of the buildup it would have been much uglier for the US and more complicated. Iran has clearly planned this all in. They know what they are doing precisely from watching the US operate here for decades. They developed a plan accordingly.
Quite well known - eg it's one of Meirsheimer's main theses - that air war can never win a war - so if Saddam had attacked the Saudi build-up, we would have seen the first iteration of what is now being spelled out for the US by Iran.
His Scuds may not have been especially accurate, but there would have been no significant air defence tech to repel them.
"Sadda's greatest mistake was watching the US spend half a year staging an invasion force."
This !! I've been saying the same thing for years.
I am kind of coming to the conclusion that the stressed flight of CIA Director Ratcliffe to Moscow was to promote the perverted idea that it is against Russia’s best interest to win the Ukraine war. Ratcliffe and Trump is trying to avoid being trapped in a second black hole after Iran. Zelensky is projecting signals of panic after his 40 day effort went the wrong way. Ukraine has lost functional ports on the Black Sea and Putin is enlisting 300,000 Men for an attack from the North, (Not Women!) At the same time EU/NATO still has to process the additional yearly $60 billion+ that will be needed to fix the lost income Ukraine is suffering yearly because of the new Russian act.
True. Russia won't have peace until Ukraine is reduced to a fully demilitarized rump state that is patrolled by the AFR. Any attempt at NATO rearmament will be quashed.
It was clear from the early stage of the war that Russia was locked into the conflict where US/NATO combined resources were supposed to force a capitulation. And now, Orange was touched by the passing of time and his age and was kicked into the Iran war by Bibi, his best friend. I really think we are looking at planned calculated Chaos to the 33rd Degree.
Agree. Usurers and oligarchy need dirty waters for fishing.
This explains it quite accurately.
https://substack.com/@rayjackson488947/note/c-324493515?r=2ddtzm&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Looking at the first image I can almost feel his pain.
Trump was thoroughly compromised this time around. There was no better time to destroy Iran than the present in NuttyYooHoo's correct estimation. The timing was correct, if not the capability.
I am a believer that Trump was convinced Iran would be conquered and Patrick bet-David installed as viceroy in time for Trump to make his March 15th meeting with Xi.
The ex UK navy Admiral Steve Jermy offered a very likely reason for the visit; to retrieve the carcasses of CIA (and maybe MI6) personnel.
Using such a huge cargo plane for basic transport doesn't make sense.
The Ukro Nazis do not like Americans. It takes Russians to act like human beings. I don't think Ratcliff deserves it.
Steve Jermy was never an admiral of the Royal Navy.
No he was a commodore.
Yes - but in US terms a commodore (O7) qualifies as an admiral. In exactly the same way that a brigadier technically is not a general in the UK, but is in the USA. US rank inflation? :)
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/seminar-commodore-steve-jermy-strategy-for-action-using-force-wisely-in-the-21st-century
pravda had pics (from western sources), with images apparently showing a module for working with classified information: "...The head of the CIA got to Riga on a regular C-40 special aircraft, but flew to Moscow in [...] an aircraft with an enhanced protection system, an electronic warfare station and powerful communications equipment. The C-17 is capable of operating as a secure command post with its own headquarters and meeting room..." - https://news-pravda.com/russia/2026/08/27/2546071.html
Imagine being the head of the CIA! JFK, 9/11, Epstein, … you would be able to know all. Mind blowing. But, looking at his pict, I think he is part of to the group with dark triad’s (narcissim, Machiavellian, psychopathy)
I saw that too, but the question is: Why? Were they supposedly using this trip as a clandestine intelligence gathering operation of some kind? Like send the CIA director as a ruse for such a plane to even be allowed inside Russian airspace while attempting to siphon up as much signals intel as possible?
the 'why' is the biggest questionmark, perhaps time will tell. apparently Ratcliffe had talks with counterpart Russian intel official Sergey Naryshkin - https://www.axios.com/2026/08/27/trump-nato-russia-ukraine-war
Probably just a secure pod able to send and receive real time information back to the DC swamp using electronic relays present during the meetings. I am sure we were trying to gather a bit of signals Intel while in the neighborhood as well.
It's a combination of 2 "secure" pods. Secured against RF signal penetration, I guess. Looking at the Pravda images of the inside of the fuselage, it would appear that there wasn't TOO much room for those Caddy SUVs once accounting for the 2 airstream pods and the seating up front. Whatever, though. This visit smacks of desperation.
If true, Russia conveniently obliged again, just like many times before. Putin cant let his US intelligence counterparts look bad after all.
Well....allegedly the cargo transport plane was for two different reasons a) to carry their own vehicles and b) because it also carried some fancy pants new signals intelligence doo-dad pods, something like two interlinking Airstream trailers that can shield from RF intel gathering and do intel gathering of their own.
Who knows. I've also seen speculation that the trip was to retreive LIVE US CIA assets captured by Russia in Ukraine and to arrange for the return to Russia of alleged Russians imprisoned in the USA.
All in all, the whole thing smacks of desperation by the Trumpstein Regime and the crumbling empire they currently helm (and are accelerating the decline of).
The Airstream trailer was an immediate red flag for me also. They have strong aluminum bodies, with minor modifications they can be turned into Faraday boxes.
See this article linked by someone else in the thread:
https://news-pravda.com/russia/2026/08/27/2546071.html
I wrote this two days ago:
” I think you missed the part where I explained Why a CIA director would fly to Moscow. It must be important to get the message through and without anything to leak out.
The ”no fly zone” is more of a Hegseth thing so probably only 5% chance of that.
I think 80-90% chance is that US know of an imminent Russian strategic operation which could alter the standstill in the War and/or bring it an end unfavourable to the West. It comes with a warning of US countermeasures.
5-10% its a warning against involvement in Iran. Get those Russian operators or adviser out of Iran - we will otherwise cremate them in coming attacks.”
That the director of the CIA would go to Russia to collect the dead bodies of agents seems infeasible to me - for one thing he doesn't give a shit about people. As for the reason he arrived on a C-17, he probably took with him his own auto transport as a security measure against possible sabotage of any Russian-based vehicles.
You might be right but if the US Embassy in Moscow cannot provide a safe vehicle to an incoming ranking visitor that is a serious sign of deteriorating conditions. Russia still allows 455 American employees at the embassy but zero Russians. They have likely less than 455, maybe a lot less.
Someone with the importance of the Director of the CIA would take no chances. It wouldn't be his decision but that of the folks who are responsible for his security.
He personally flew into a country his agency is at war with, land of the so-called sworn enemy of the US since hollywood started making action movies. That entire trip is one giant "chance," from the US pov. The fact that it even happened, signifies weakness and hubris all by itself.
It also shows that Americans can trust the honorable Russians. The Russian government is not some AIPAC-occupied bordello on Potomac.
It is simply to show American contempt and distrust. That is all.
The whole story stinks right from the beginning, a C17 to carry a CIA boss c’mon get sober, I agree with Larry who says that there can be no message or warning or threatening happening, there are regular channels for that. Security? It’s the right plane that offers the most body security, and by the way using their own CIA-Mossad principles that is negotiate and kill even during the talking. The evidence that Ratcliffe got home safe means that he wasn’t of that importance to send him back home in a bodybag like Lindsey Graham.
Or maybe the Russians have more decency, honor and civility than the bloated, amoral, jew-infested cancerous morass they're dealing with. If noodleman was able to make it "home" safely after the vomit and bile she hurled at everyone in the kremlin, its fair to say the Russians aren't too keen on murdering their interlocuters, not matter how evil and disgusting they might be.
When questioned re his stance re Isr@el Putin allegedly commented some time ago that many there are Russian and slavic jews and therefore he wont become involved in regional tensions.
Feigling.
Are you aware of his MANY other blatantly anti-jew public statements? What do you call Russian interventions in Syria, or are those not part of the same "regional tensions?" If you think Russia and Israel are chummy, or that Putin is some chabad "operative" I've got news for you.
Excuses used as cover.
Where was Russian "morality" in relation to Palestine ? Seems very selective.
Seems someone suffering from lobotomy, Russian morality to Palestine well did Russia created Israel or did the west?
Nah. No mystery. To travel with a civil plane from Riga (he flew with ordinary plane from US) could be risky. Oops - shot down.
A military big plane is not just a mistake its an act of War - so a little blit more secure. I dont think he delivered 4 tonnes of Green dollar or collected any dead Americans. Others can do deliverances.
CIA Directors has done numerous trips to post-Soviet Kreml, always before or after an important event. See post above or under - complete list.
No CIA boss flies in a C17 and they would never communicate with a president certainly not direct with Putin. But again TACO’s are no longer a surprise
He didnt talk to Putin either. And perhaps you are right. He took a Lada to Moscow and the C17 flew away like a decoy.
Collecting some coffins explains sending a C-17, not the director of the CIA.
There are more reasonable ways to honour the dead.
Probably it was an attempt to personally gauge Putin's readiness for compromise, which failed because the desired meeting did not take place.
As usual a mixture of US military threats and vague offers in the sanctions front.
Perhaps the Judaic belief that everyone can be bought has penetrated US deciders’ mentality to such an extent that they genuinely hoped to ‘make a deal’ with the stubborn Russians.
Optics! If we send low-level flunkies to retrieve dead Americans -- the AMERICAN PUBLIC will recoil and try to stampede away. If we sent a high(er) level apparatchik to APPEAR to be negotiating, or transferring some info or request WITHOUT the chance of it being intercepted, it would look like this.
As for:
"head of the CIA got to Riga on a regular C-40 special aircraft, but flew to Moscow in [...] an aircraft with an enhanced protection system"
Anyone flying from eastern Europe into Russia -- by ANY route except maybe over the Pole -- would be really dumb to fly an unprotected plane through a very hostile war zone! Just as Prez Trump switched planes from the new pretty -- not yet WELL-defended AF1 -- to an older better defended version makes SENSE! Unlike the @(_%*^&media crowing and bouncing up-and-down like a baby in a bouncy chair!
There are daily multiple airline flights into Moscow from Europe and Turkey always fully loaded.
Sure, loaded with people, the downing/destruction of whom would NOT spark of an immediate war.
Those flights keep going on long years ago, daily. Tucker Carlson was traveling on one of them. Since the CIA did not blow up that one I guess they are safe.
There is no standstill in the SMO. Russia is following it's doctrine and it appears to be working.
Correct. Standstill is not one centimeter at all. Russia has moved a lot of centimeters. Their doctrine is not one - it changes every 3 months or so. Their strategy is the same.
"Taking land is a necessary evil."
-Russian doctrine
The Banderans are being crushed along with NATO disarming itself. Only two fortresses left and no significant barriers to the Dnieper.
Yes. They may take Kramatorsk and Slavyansk if not something surprising happens in between. But the prevailing opinion that there is nothing between Russian forces and Dniepr is a misconception. Ukraine has had 4 years to prepare new command centers and bunkers so the pattern will repeat (if Russia is even going for Dniepr).
Yeah...four years, and nothing is prepared. NATO was pushing the Banderan army to stay on the offensive, not defend. It's nearly over for the Banderans.
The "signals of panic" derive more likely from the attack of Geranium drones recently on his cocaine stash.
The EU is obviously in trouble. For the first time, there are three (!) member states that do not participate in the "loan". As long as Hungary was the lone white knight, the VdL, Kallas, Merz and Macrons could strangle Hungary so much, that the voters decided against Orban. But the Genie is out of the bottle, the new government has to follow in the footsteps of Orban. Now joined by Praha and Bratislava governments. And Italy, Bulgaria, Austria and others are not so far from following.
Godspeed!
The UK and France seem determined to soldier on.
there are people calling out drone plants in the UK on the reg now on tweeter and there are multiple locations ALREADY...banging out drones for use in Ukranus. For use against Russia IN Russia.
EU or not, they seem to find a way to send more weapons.
Russia must seal the border NOW...ALL borders. If Poland continues to allow itself to be a transit point, it must be struck...Iran would.
Ah ha, the Russian don't seem to be doing things quite how you would like them to. Funny how they never picked up the Western Doctrine. I guess the barbarians are happy to forego strikes on non-belligerents. Crazy times indeed
A Populist revolt is growing fromLondon to East Germany as I type this. It will get to the US as well, only a question of time now.
It happens now and then and this is a list and the circumstances:
Known public occasions over the last ~70 years (roughly since the mid-1950s) are limited and rare; many CIA Director travels involving sensitive intelligence channels are unannounced or only partially disclosed after the fact. No confirmed visits by a serving CIA Director to Moscow appear in the open record during the height of the Cold War (pre-1991/1992), when the relationship was purely adversarial. The first widely recognized one occurred after the Soviet collapse.
Robert Gates (September/October 1992)First serving U.S. Director of Central Intelligence to visit Moscow.
Met SVR Director Yevgeniy Primakov, FSK (predecessor to FSB) Director Sergey Stepashin, and President Boris Yeltsin.
Circumstances: Post-Soviet transition under Yeltsin. Aimed at establishing a formal liaison relationship and exploring cooperation on mutual threats (nuclear proliferation/nonproliferation, organized crime, drugs, terrorism). Gates also provided details of the 1970s Glomar Explorer operation that recovered parts of a sunken Soviet submarine (including information on recovered bodies buried at sea). He emphasized turning a page while not forgetting differences.
James Woolsey (October 1993)Follow-up visit shortly after his appointment.
Continued the high-level exchanges initiated by Gates (Primakov had also visited Washington earlier that year).
Circumstances: Building on the nascent post-Cold War intelligence cooperation framework in the Yeltsin era, covering similar practical areas of mutual interest.
George Tenet (August 2000)Visited early in Vladimir Putin’s presidency.
Met Russian intelligence officials.
Circumstances: Practical cooperation remained possible despite political complications; focus included counterterrorism and international crime. These channels later gained importance after the September 11, 2001 attacks.
John Brennan (early March 2016)Secret/unannounced visit (publicly acknowledged weeks later by Russian and U.S. sides).
Met representatives of the FSB (and possibly others); no Kremlin/Putin meeting reported.
Circumstances: Syrian civil war. Emphasized the importance of Russia and the Assad regime honoring the ceasefire/cessation of hostilities and reiterated U.S. support for a political transition that would include Assad’s departure. The trip roughly coincided with Russia’s announcement of a partial drawdown of forces from Syria (Russian officials denied any direct link).
Mike Pompeo (May 2017)Secret/unannounced visit.
Met Russian intelligence officials.
Circumstances: Early Trump administration, amid fallout from Russian election interference investigations and strained relations. Details of the agenda were limited in public reporting; such contacts often cover counterterrorism or crisis management even during tense periods. (Pompeo later hosted Russian intelligence chiefs in Washington in early 2018 on counterterrorism.)
William Burns (November 2021)Publicly confirmed two-day trip at President Biden’s request.
Met senior officials including Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev; spoke directly with President Putin (by phone, as Putin was in Sochi).
Circumstances: Russian military buildup near Ukraine. Burns delivered a clear warning against a full-scale invasion and outlined potential consequences. This was the last known CIA Director visit to Moscow before the February 2022 full-scale invasion.
John Ratcliffe (25 August 2026)Unannounced/secretive short visit (roughly 7–8.5 hours on the ground; traveled on a U.S. military C-17 via Riga).
Met Russian intelligence counterparts (reports name FSB head Aleksandr Bortnikov and/or SVR head Sergei Naryshkin); Kremlin confirmed contacts at the security services level but stated no meeting with Putin occurred (Putin was briefed).
Circumstances: Ongoing Russia-Ukraine war (fifth year), stalled peace efforts, and broader tensions. U.S. officials asked Ukraine to pause certain strikes during the window for safety. Public statements described it as contacts between services (Trump called it “semi-routine”); speculation and later reporting touched on Ukraine war dynamics, potential de-escalation/peace messaging, Iran-related issues, or warnings related to NATO. Exact agenda remained largely undisclosed.
" the February 2022 full-scale invasion."
I've always been puzzled about what was full scale about the February 2022 invasion. It didn't involve all the Russian army, let alone all the Russian armed forces, nor were all the combatants on the Russian side from Russia, nor yet was the entirety of Ukraine invaded. It wasn't even the case that the invasion occurred over the entirety of the border between the two countries.
It looks to me like a meaningless sobriquet.
It is western word-salat to ingest the aggressive nature of Russia. When Israel flattens Gaza to grey matter it is a security operation and when US/Israel, unprovoked, attacks Iran and deliver 16 000 attacks on ”targets” its called a Special Operation. Fact is, Russia is lousy on information War - whatever the spooks says.
My suspicions are that, yes, Iran was discussed, however the purpose was to warn about European plans for provoking over Kaliningrad. Not ironically, as Ratcliffe is widely regarded as an establishment figure, his very visit is useful as narrative cover for false-flags.
He was on the ground for 8.5 hours, though we don't know how long he met with his Russian counterparts, not including Putin, apparently. I hear Kremlin brunch is excellent.
America wants regime change in China Russia and Iran 🤔 Jeffrey Sachs John mearsheimer
America wants regime change in China Russia and Iran 🤔 Jeffrey Sachs John mearsheimer
NATO Europe is supposed to take over managing the Banderans defeating Russia while we concentrate on defeating Iran and encircling China.
Events aren't going quite as smoothly as one could hope.
You guys are so idiotic. You will believe anything these days. Khameimi is dead, Netanyahu and trump are alive and smiling. Another one comes along. We can kill him too. Oh my god oh my god oh my God the US is burning pile of ash. Oh my God oh my God oh, my God isn’t that amazing oh my God oh my God oh my God.
What a bunch of morons.
Trump really does deserve a Nobel Peace Prize. He was the President who huffed and puffed and blew down the American Empire in the most conspicuous way possible. For sure Drump would have to share his prize with many others, since this Imperial denouement was decades in the making. But in selling his soul to blood-thirsty Jewish Zionists, Drump will leave an indelible mark to rival the legends of Nero and Caligula.
Burnham doing the same thing in Ukraine recently, playing his fiddle with some Azov scum.
I don't know. It could become worse in 2028. The democrats will win in a landslide and have a “mandate”. So what will that mean? War with China? Trump has been so bad I think the democrats put him there so they could win 2028 convincingly and the empire will bring another round of stupid wars
That is plausible.
Another possibility: media will keep talking about the DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) and there will be a DSA candidate on the ballot in 2028. They will get just enough votes to usher in JD Vance as the next greatest MAGA saviour ever. He will be just another John McCain though, just as Trump has proven to be ever since the 2024 election.
Alright guys time to let loose with all the reasons that Russia is actually losing! We can’t let this stand.
Lol. Don't worry, they'll be here soon enough.
what was the objective of the SMO?
to prevent the emplacement of NATO strike weapons in Ukranus.
EVERY SINGLE DAY NOW those weapons are launched into Russia from Ukranus.
This is what losing looks like. The ONLY THING you idiots have is the tactical picture on this or that front or this or that bombed out village.
In the STRATEGIC VIEW, yes, Russia is losing. They are losing capabilities that their adversary, the EU is not. Russia's drone launch volume went off a cliff. Their Soyuz-2 facility was critically hit...significant damage. This is their SOLE source of space launch capability...
what in the EU has been destroyed or damaged? NOTHING.
So how in the fuck can ANY OF YOU claim Russia is WINNING? They are taking hit after hit and the EU is not.
Nice try, but the EU and Russia aren't at war. I think you are mixing up NATO and the European Union.
dude...EU is NATO ! FFS it's an overlap but NATO includes the JUSA
Nations IN THE EU as well as the UK have explicitly stated that they are participants in the war.
the fucking EU's ppl like der Layen and Borell and Kallas...ffs, what do THEY say? YES the EU is at war with Russia.
The fact that the orange orangutang trusted a foreign intelligence agency and government over his own institutions shows the extend of treason. The monkey and all his entourage are foreign assets.
I think he's just stupid.
Or severely compromised
Or both. The perfect president.
Zion Don is just one of them.
After the briefing the likely plan was a sequence, not a single Iran crisis: provoke something over the weekend, take the Monday swing, repeat until Hormuz was in play, then keep using the same rhythm. The hardliners were useful idiots. The market gaps were the point.
Contrary to your claim, the more plausible reading is that he used that “foreign pressure” the same way he used the hardliners: as noise and as a tool, not as his chain of command.
He is a low life scumbag who is too stupid to take expertly advise. I remember when the dems were on him with charges and counts this that, he looked for a lawyer with such desperation as no one would volunteer their services because they said they would recommend he does this or that, and the dumb dope would go out and do the exact opposite, so no one wanted to take his case or help him‼️
Also during his first term, US intelligence Agencies hated his ass because they would advise him about what he should do and he would not listen, so they stopped giving him the intelligence briefings he should have access to as President. He is a retard who never qualified for the job. NEVER.
That's how "democratic" this country is. IF one has money and big facial trap of mouth they qualify to run this country over the f ing cliff🤣🥲🙄. And he is doing so now and not even blinking about it with the blessings of the cattle across country as no one is twitching in the process...The "brave, free & exceptional" in action🙄...
I object! I protest against your insulting orangutangs, a perfectly fine & peaceable primate, by comparing them to the depraved moron in the Oval Office!
Yeah, and that's why "a weaker russia keeps fighting..."
:)
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/why-weaker-russia-keeps-fighting?s=ESPZZ006G4&utm_medium=promo_email&utm_source=special_send&utm_campaign=PROM_Special%20Send_082726_Why%20a%20Weaker%20Russia%20Keeps%20Fighting&utm_content=20260827&utm_term=ESPZZ006G4"
Oh boy, I'm almost afraid that GM is going to stroke out over a piece like this. He seemed almost unhinged yesterday (yes, everything is still Putin's fault, too weak, too strong, not firm enough, too firm...) Simplicius - you should not drop so many truth bombs in such a short period of time, as certain folks' brains will not compute...
LOL
Yeah… that guy is some sort of NAFO bot though.
you copers are so fucking stupid...you really ought to STFU bc you are the exact mirror of a NAFObot
you literally come here to read what you want to hear like a bunch of rubes
None of us commentators can ever be sure if GM is a "NAFO bot" or not, except for those others who are on the same "team" (if such exists).
Here are a few known tactics used by troll farms and/or bot farms which for me, lend credence to the idea that GM, and a few other highly prolific names, may indeed be part of such an operation:
- extremely prolific, both in sheer numbers of posts and in massive word counts in nearly every thread. Higher total word counts in many cases than even in Simplicius' original posts. This high amount of work may indicate payment for services.
- highly repetetive rhetoric over many months and even years. Propaganda has to be highly repetitive to be effective. Think "unprovoked full-scale invasion" and similar in the western media. Same principle.
- frequent use of provocative language and ideas that are intended to stir up emotions and derail more serious discussion.
We can't be sure though.
uh..this is a piece about Iran you dipshit, not Russia
The visit to Moscow in a big plane with a cavalcade of cars was to pick up coffins containing dead CIA operatives, presumably recovered from sites in ex Ukraine territory.
Ratcliffe did not meet with top Russian players just his intelligence counterparties.
That is Steve Jermy's speculation alright. Could be.
Hope it is true
Pure speculation by SteveJermy. They could send a plane to do that without any fanfare or publicity. But it could be true.
If that were the case, then Ratcliff need not have gone.
Be logical, even if Steve isn't.
The fact the Jermy is saying this means it's a false narrative, and implies that the UK was part of the issue under discussion.
they wouldn't be storing those at the fucking Kremlin