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Debt Rattle March 4 2026

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• The War’s Going Pretty Well, Ackshully (Stephen Green)
• President Trump, Rubio Warn Iran ‘Hardest Hits Are Yet To Come’ (JTN)
• Trump Makes It Painful to Be a Liberal, Blue-Haired Gorgon (Kevin Downey Jr.)
• ‘ Their Whole Currency Is Lying’ (Victor Davis Hanson)
• Are White Nations Too Far Gone To Recover? (Paul Craig Roberts)
• Iran: The Last Stand against Baal (Alexander Dugin)
• Persian Gulf Goes Dark For Container Shipping; No Detour Left (FreightWaves)
• Spain and UK Response to Iran Conflict Shows NATO Weakness and Duplicity (CTH)
• Briitish Muslims and UK Reaction to US Strikes Against Iran (CTH)
• Zelensky Warns Iran War Could Starve Ukraine Of Critical US Arms (ZH)
• European Commission Wants Your Free Speech. X Is In the Way (Adina Portaru)
• OpenAI Rewrites ‘Sloppy’ Pentagon AI Deal After Backlash Over Surveillance (ZH)
• Video Released of Clintons’ Deposition Over Epstein (Lucas)
• Rep. Ted Lieu Spreads Bizarre Conspiracy Theory in Congress Hearing (Turley)
• Supreme Court Delivers Key Victory for Parental Rights in California (Turley)

 


 

Stephen Green: “Carlson on Monday repeated propaganda claims that Qatar and Saudi Arabia caught Mossad agents planting bombs to massacre Arab civilians — something that literally never happened.”

https://twitter.com/ivan_8848/status/2028617747534430335?s=20

 


 

 


 


“Iran is losing this war, badly,” [..] “Because if they weren’t, the Gulf states part of the map below would be absolutely awash in red icons.”

• The War’s Going Pretty Well, Ackshully (Stephen Green)

“The dog did nothing in the night-time,” a confused Inspector Gregory said to Sherlock Holmes, who replied, “That was the curious incident.” Without glossing over the losses suffered by American, Israeli, or coalition forces — not to mention the civilians targeted by Iran’s terrorist regime — in the first few days of Operation Epic Fury, Iran is so far the dog that didn’t bark. Or, more accurately, tries to bark but not much comes out.Or at least that’s my impression after seeing a nifty map of all of Iran’s attacks, courtesy of a generally reliable X user calling himself Plane Fag. Sorry, I don’t name X users. “I popped over to GeoConfirmed’s website… and it verified the impression I’d got from my OSINT feed: Iran is losing this war, badly,” PF posted early Monday. “Because if they weren’t, the Gulf states part of the map below would be absolutely awash in red icons.” Here’s PF’s map:



The data is roughly 30 hours old now, but the current map — which you can see for yourself at this link — doesn’t look all that much worse. “It’s normal to go after an enemy’s C3 (command, control, communications) to disrupt their ability to pass on orders and co-ordinate attacks, but by erasing almost all of Iran’s most senior military and political leadership in one stroke, there wasn’t even anyone to give those orders even if C3 had been intact,” PF added. “Operating on their own initiative and/or pre-planned strikes, they’re just not massing enough fires to achieve salvo weights that can effectively saturate defenses.”Translated into civilian speak: You’ve got to fire a lot of missiles or drones all at once at a single target to overwhelm defenses, and Iran either lacks the physical ability or the command cohesion to do so.

Roughly half of Iran’s ballistic missile launchers are believed to be destroyed, and that’s a number that can only go up. I’d also add that Tehran announced that it had closed the Straits of Hormuz, but the spice oil still flows. So, yes, the war’s going pretty well. There are at least three caveats, though.The longer the bombings continue, the greater the likelihood of being “one mechanical failure or magical BB away from having an American held prisoner or worse,” as CDR Salamander put it in that column I linked to yesterday. Along a similar line, Iran’s terror attacks (via missile, drone, or direct) are meant to create cracks in the coalition (even such as it is), and Tehran might have some success there.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin got on the phone Monday with Emirati and Qatari leaders, and according to the Kremlin, both agreed that both men “emphasized the need for an immediate ceasefire and a return to the political and diplomatic process.” (But a caveat within the caveat: That’s to be expected of both Qatar and the UAE. Keep an eye on Riyadh, though. If it starts to waver, then SecState Marco Rubio will be knee-deep in shuttle diplomacy before breakfast.) Finally, there’s the missile/interceptor logic. Does the coalition run out of ballistic missile and drone defenses before Iran’s offensive capabilities are smothered or the regime collapses/cries uncle? All while the clock ticks on the coalition and that “magical BB” gets a lucky hit on an F-35.

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“The State Department has urged Americans currently in the Middle East to leave their respective countries in light of the escalating conflict.”

• President Trump, Rubio Warn Iran ‘Hardest Hits Are Yet To Come’ (JTN)

President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio issued stark warnings to Iran Monday that the “hardest hits” in its new conflict in the region is still to come if it does not agree to end its nuclear program. The United States and Israel launched missiles at Iran over the weekend, which resulted in the death of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameini. Iran has since retaliated by targeting Israel and U.S. bases in several Middle Eastern countries.Trump told CNN that he thinks the U.S. side of the conflict is “going very well,” and warned Iran that bigger hits could still be coming.


“We’re knocking the crap out of them,” Trump said. “We’ve got the greatest military in the world and we’re using it … We haven’t even started hitting them hard. The big wave hasn’t even happened. The big one is coming soon.” The president also commented that the U.S. was ahead of schedule in the amount of damage it has caused Iran, but that he anticipates the attacks will last approximately one month. Rubio echoed the president’s comment, stating that the next phase of U.S. attacks on Iran will be “more punishing” than the ones they have dealt it so far.

“The hardest hits are yet to come from the U.S. military. The next phase will be even more punishing on Iran than it is right now,” Rubio told reporters. “The objectives of this operation are to destroy their ballistic missile capability and make sure they can’t rebuild it, and make sure that they can’t hide behind that to have a nuclear program.” The State Department has urged Americans currently in the Middle East to leave their respective countries in light of the escalating conflict.

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“Even back in the early 2000s, I knew better. Thus, my days as a Big Apple Bolshie ended. On September 11, 2001, I became a Republican.”

• Trump Makes It Painful to Be a Liberal, Blue-Haired Gorgon (Kevin Downey Jr.)

As some of you know, I was a big ole New York City liberal for many years. I was really bad at it, and I got increasingly worse. Back in 2003, a white lib friend with a bachelor’s from Brown and a need to downplay zher privilege once “bravely” decried “systemic racism,” while chugging a $10 IPA and occasionally checking its $700 phone (big money in 2003). As zhe spoke, I silently recalled my first racially motivated ass-kicking. I was six or seven years old, growing up in Detroit. They were older, bigger, and there were more of them. Two held my arms while one or two beat the potato salad out of me. Another bigger kid bopped my five-year-old sibling. My helplessness to save him still infuriates me.


I had never even been in a fight. In all seriousness, I thought we had been thumped by members of the Jackson Five. Humiliatingly, one of them was Janet. FACT-O-RAMA! To be a devout libstain in New York City, one must have a tenuous-at-best grasp on reality. A lack of verisimilitude isn’t shameful; it’s a necessity. Logic is a roadblock that your bald, vegan batwanger-in-law can capriole over with a tumulus of Care Bear virtue, though phantom as it may be. Is it just me, or does that last FACT-O-RAMA! try too hard? Let’s continue…Anyhoo, to the well-to-do apparatchik, black folks in the U.S. are constant victims of white racism, and illegal immigrants don’t rape and kill. Yet somehow, I am responsible for all of the terror they totally “don’t” commit.

Even back in the early 2000s, I knew better. Thus, my days as a Big Apple Bolshie ended. On September 11, 2001, I became a Republican. Days later, as I lay in my room, smelling the bodies of my fellow New Yorkers burning in the heap that used to be the World Trade Center, I watched George W. Bush assure We the People that Islam was “the religion of peace.” That’s when I left the Republican Party and became a nuisance of the New World Order. Today, I not only do not possess the delirium to be a leftist, but I am also sickened by those who do.As a comedian, I can read a room like nobody’s business. My weakness is that I assume everyone sees what I see, and that’s not the case.

I assumed everyone saw what I saw, including that:

• states, even red ones, were kidnapping kids if their religious parents refused to fillet their child’s genitalia if the kid so deemed

• people were fired if they didn’t use the selected “pronouns” of the mentally ill incel in the next cubicle

• communism is everywhere

But, man oh man, the prerequisites necessary to be a Democrat today require a level of denial not seen since your friend’s creepy Uncle Gerhard told you the Holocaust never happened. If you want to wave the chimerical flag of liberal virtue today, you have to pretend:

• Hamas isn’t a bunch of evil rapists; they are “victims”
• the mullahs of Iran aren’t genocidal animals who behead women who think for themselves and toss gay men off of buildings; they are “austere religious scholars”
• men in makeup aren’t responsible for more mass shootings than their population would suggest; you are just a “transphobic” conservative who doesn’t understand “bigotry”

• You were told to be “inclusive” to groups of radical miscreants seeking to treat your kids’ genitals like Waffle House hash browns, and render them diced, shredded, and scattered, and it’s groovy to take those kids from your home if you refuse to play along.
• We were informed that trans decepticons were being “genocided” despite the reality that trans people are slaughtering WAY more people than their populations would represent, usually kids.
• And lefty stool samples are defending the trans animals gunning down innocent children

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“I think their strategy, to tell you, was kind of a Muhammad Ali “Rope-a-Dope” where they were going to ride it out.”

• ‘ Their Whole Currency Is Lying’ (Victor Davis Hanson)

Jack Fowler: Victor, your thoughts if we don’t take action because Iran is, despite what happened a few months ago, the bombing of the enrichment and the nuclear facilities, they are constructing new facilities even deeper in some other mountain. But is there any doubt in your mind that if Iran goes unchecked for the next months or years, that there will not be a catastrophe from them having nuclear capability?


Victor Davis Hanson: No, you can’t negotiate with them because their whole currency is lying, and they’re fanatic ideologues. And they have a supernatural view of what’s going to happen, and they’re on the right side of Cosmic Divinity and all of these ideas. I think [former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi] Rafsanjani in a disputed statement, but I think it was accurate, said that Israel was a one bomb state, and that was the advantage that you got half the Jews in the world in one place, where all you needed was one bomb. So you can’t negotiate.

I think their strategy, to tell you, was kind of a Muhammad Ali “Rope-a-Dope” where they were going to ride it out. And then [President Donald] Trump would be gone in three years, and people would be angry, and you’d get a Joe Biden, or better yet a type of puppet of the Left. But better yet, you would get an [Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez] or a “squad” member, or a [Gavin] Newsom or [Kamala] Harris, and then you’re home free to get the bomb.] Because they would not do anything. That was the strategy. I think it would’ve worked actually if Trump had let him off the hook. So now the question is the domestic support. When the statue [of Saddam Hussein] fell in April of 2003, I think most polls showed that George Bush had a popularity rating of between 80% and 90%.

There was a controversy over the carrier flag “Mission Accomplished” because there was a little bit of terrorist activity. I was in Washington at the Naval Academy, and I remember distinctly that Chris Matthews, I was watching CNN, who ended up despising Bush, was a big critic. He said, “We’re all neocons now,” on the air. And then I remember Andrew Sullivan, who was sort of a chameleon in his political views, but mostly started out as, I guess, a British conservative, but ended up very left-wing. He was all for it. There was a guy who did little green footballs. Remember that little podcast? I knew the guy. He was a nice guy.

I rode a bike with him once and he was all in, and then all of a sudden the insurgency came. And the American casualties started and everybody adopted. And then there was a Vanity Fair on the neocons that they felt had been the architects, Richard Perle, David Frum, Bill Crystal, and all of them, had adopted, I guess you would call it my beautiful war and your lousy occupation. And the scapegoat they focused on was [former Secretary of Defense] Don Rumsfeld. If you just get rid of Dom Rumsfeld, everything will be okay. What I’m saying is that domestic support will depend on how many American casualties, how quick is it over, and how effective are the results.

If it is over within three weeks, and there’s a revolution and they have some type of transitional government, unlike Iraq, then everybody’s going to say, I was for it all along. Even the ones that were against it. If, on the other hand, they start shooting down planes or they hit an American base or they take out a frigate or something, they get a lucky shot on a carrier, and we don’t get a change and we stop, then everybody said I was never for it.

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” Is a country with a population this uninvolved, this completely stupid, really a superpower?”

• Are White Nations Too Far Gone To Recover? (Paul Craig Roberts)

For decades, Americans have been brainwashed about the virtues of being a Tower of Babel. The liberal-left calls it “multiculturalism” and sings its praises. I have in front of me evidence of the extent to which our ethnic American nation has disappeared. It exists in the form of a notice from a Medicare supplement provider, that is, an insurance company that for a premium will ensure a person against the medical expenses that Medicare will not pay. In other words, Medicare only provides partial protection. To be insured, you have to pay for a private insurance policy.


The notice from the supplement provider lists the languages in which customer representatives can supply assistance. English, of course, and Spanish, America’s second language. Arabic, Chinese, French, Haitian Creole, German, Gujarati, Vietnamese, Hindu, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Farsi, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Tagalog, and Urdu. These are languages in which just one Medicare supplement company can provide assistance. The list for Medicare itself, which I once saw, list 50 or more languages in which it provides assistance.

For a Medicare supplement company to provide assistance in 20 languages for Medicare covered persons is expensive to the company and implies that there are many people in America who speak these languages, but not English. Think about this for a moment. How many countries have a world population in place of an ethnic population that is the basis of the countries name? Does Israel have a world population? Does Japan? Does China, Indonesia?

What multiculturalism does is to destroy nations. Multiculturalism replaces nations with Towers of Babel. This process has gone the furtherest in the white ethnic countries. For example, the red state of Texas faces a vote whether to permit Sharia law in Texas and whether to permit Israeli indoctrination as a mandatory requirement in Texas education. Insouciant white Americans have sat on their butts while the liberal-left stole their country from them and turned it over to immigrant-invaders. Is a country with a population this uninvolved, this completely stupid, really a superpower? Or is it instead a nation that has defeated itself by its own insouciance?

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Dugin aka Putin’s philosopher. “Now the cult of Baal reigns supreme, the cult of the golden calf, the cult of global power, the cult of the United States and Israel. This is a civilization of violence, Satanism, cannibalism, perversion, and pedophilia.”

• Iran: The Last Stand against Baal (Alexander Dugin)

What happened on the first day of the US and Israel’s war against Iran fundamentally changes the balance of power in the world and the rules of international politics. Trump has already said that international law does not exist: ‘What is moral is what I consider to be moral.’ In principle, in the wake of the abduction of Maduro and the establishment of direct external control over Venezuela, and now after the strikes on Iran, with the targeted destruction of the military-political and religious leadership of the country — a sovereign power that was willingly in negotiations with the United States — it is no longer possible to talk about rules, laws, or any norms of international relations in the world.


Indeed, now only the right of the strong, the right of the quick, applies. Whoever strikes faster or acts faster is right. Everything else becomes merely supplemental justification. That is, it is now important to strike a decisive blow against the enemy, break his resistance, destroy his leadership, and strike at his main military and energy facilities. After that, you can frame it however you want, justify it however you want, and spend a long time sorting it out.

I think that now almost everything depends on how long and how decisively Iran can resist. If it continues to wage war even after the destruction of its political leadership, if it does not surrender, does not raise the white flag, and does not capitulate, then this could end badly for the West itself. After all, then everyone else will start acting in exactly the same way, paying no attention to anything and overestimating their own potential regardless of their legal status. This will give free rein to many regional powers, which will do whatever they want. This could very quickly lead to the use of nuclear weapons — perhaps in the Pakistan-Afghanistan conflict, perhaps in others. There are definitely no rules anymore.

In short, if Iran continues its resistance under new leadership, this could have very serious consequences for the West itself, affecting Trump, the US, and NATO countries. But if the situation with Venezuela repeats itself – either the new leadership declares surrender, or the military is simply unable to continue fighting – then the war will be short. If this proves to be the case, then we should expect a similar scenario. There is no doubt that Trump and the West, seeing that this scheme works, will simply turn to eliminate Russia’s main political and military-political leadership as their next move.

Today, it is already clear that we are acting indecisively. Following the same model, we could be struck right in the middle of the next negotiations with Kushner and Witkoff. Perhaps even with a nuclear weapon. Therefore, I believe that the situation is critical for us. We did not stand up for Venezuela or Iran, and China is also remaining neutral. But in such a case, China will be next after us. And then the “kingdom of Epstein” will reign over the whole space of mankind.

I would like to emphasize that today we can already say that we are not just dealing with the liberal West. Liberalism has quickly faded away and disappeared from the agenda. No one talks about liberal values or democracy anymore — all that is in the past. Now the cult of Baal reigns supreme, the cult of the golden calf, the cult of global power, the cult of the United States and Israel. This is a civilization of violence, Satanism, cannibalism, perversion, and pedophilia. And this “pedophilic civilization of Baal” is dropping its masks before our very eyes and going on the attack in earnest.

From all points of view, what is happening now is very reminiscent of the End Times. If we do not find the strength within ourselves to comprehend the situation, we will find ourselves in a catastrophic position. Many insist that “this is no time to panic,” but sometimes it is better to take what is happening seriously than to assume that we will get through it unscathed. Now it is clear that we will not get through it unscathed: Iran is the last thing standing in the way of a direct war between the civilization of Baal and Russia.

If we had enough will and determination (although I have serious doubts about this), we would have to start acting according to the same rules that everyone else besides us is already acting on. That is, we could eliminate the military and political leadership of Ukraine and, without paying attention to any costs, we could solve the tasks of the Special Military Operation. By the way, against the backdrop of names world powers are using, like “Shield of Judah,” “Operation Epic Fury,” and “Seal of the Flood,” I would rename our modest Special Military Operation “Sword of Katechon.” And that would immediately change a lot.

But I’m afraid we won’t dare to do that and will continue with the same old song. And then, I repeat, missiles will fly into Moscow right in the middle of negotiations with Kushner and Witkoff, literally following the Iranian scenario. The civilization of Baal is simple: it repeats the same scenarios over and over again, and they work every time, because everyone thinks that this only applies to Gaddafi, Hussein, Milosevic, Mubarak, Nasrallah, Assad, or Khamenei, but not to themselves. Thus, step by step, the civilization of Baal achieves its goals.

Therefore, either we mobilize urgently, or the situation will become extremely difficult. And if we still harbor any illusions, then there is some kind of profound falsehood at large within our own camp. This is especially noticeable against the backdrop of what has happened in Iran, which is a catastrophe of global proportions. Wonderful people, remarkable spiritual leaders, have been killed. For comparison, it would be like the Patriarch of Moscow, the President, the Chief of the General Staff, and all the key ministers were killed at the same time, along with more than a hundred schoolgirls, innocent souls, killed by missiles. After such an event, is it possible to remain indifferent and pretend that it does not particularly concern us, that it is not our business?

Therefore, if we endure all this and remain silent, then next time they will do the same to us. That is why I am absolutely certain that in the current situation, we should immediately declare a state of emergency, at least at the highest level of government. After all, the situation is becoming simply critical for us.

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“There is no viable alternative to getting containers in or out of ports such as Jebel Ali by ocean if the Persian Gulf is off limits..”

• Persian Gulf Goes Dark For Container Shipping; No Detour Left (FreightWaves)

Ocean lines flee Strait of Hormuz as Iran targets Persian Gulf ports While tanker vessels came under fire in the Strait of Hormuz, container lines were suspending operations to Persian Gulf ports following the joint Israel-U.S. attack on Iran. Media reports said ports in the United Arab Emirates and Dubai’s port of Jebel Ali were hit by Iranian missiles, and that Tehran had attacked at least three tankers in the strait. A fire began at Jebel Ali after an incoming drone was intercepted. While the strait has not been officially closed, several liner operators suspended operations to the Persian Gulf, and ordered their vessels to seek shelter.


Hormuz is the gateway for Persian Gulf energy transport, with about 20% of the world’s crude oil supply passing through its waters. While futures prices ticked up late Sunday, analysts note that 80% of Iran’s oil is sold to China, so it’s unclear what the extended effect could be on global markets.The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations Centre, which monitors maritime security in the Middle East and Indian Ocean region, reported a number of attacks against vessels on Sunday. Shipping was caught in the crossfire after Tehran responded following Saturday’s Epic Fury attack that killed Iran’s leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and other high-ranking government and military officials.

US Central Command on Sunday denied Iranian claims that it hit the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln with a ballistic missile.Maersk, CMA CGM and Mediterranean Shipping Co. suspended or shifted vessel services to the region. CMA CGM also announced an Emergency Conflict Surcharge of $2,000 for 20-foot, $3,000 per 40-foot and $4,000 per refrigerated container. The surcharge covers all Red Sea ports in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Djibouti, Sudan and Eritrea, as well as Persian Gulf destinations. Maersk prior to the outbreak of hostilities said the deteriorating security situation led it to divert the MECL service to the United States and ME11 to North Europe away from the Suez Canal route and around Africa. The carrier had only recently restarted regular rotations through the Red Sea.

Iran-sponsored Houthi rebels in Yemen warned they would resume attacks that all but shut down Suez transits for the largest container carriers since late 2023.“There is no viable alternative to getting containers in or out of ports such as Jebel Ali by ocean if the Persian Gulf is off limits,” said Xeneta analyst Peter Sand, in an email to FreightWaves. “Carriers will instead omit these calls on east-west services and drop boxes at a least-worst alternative port for onward transportation by road. This will cause severe disruption and port congestion at a regional level, but will not have a major impact on a global scale when compared to the seismic influence of conflict in the Red Sea.”Sand noted ex-Asia container rates had ticked up since Feb. 15 as the US massed forces near the Gulf.

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“Once, again President Trump’s lack of trust in NATO proved correct.”

• Spain and UK Response to Iran Conflict Shows NATO Weakness and Duplicity (CTH)

When addressing Greenland’s strategic value within U.S. Arctic defense efforts, President Trump argued that although the European Union and NATO insisted there was no need for American control —promising instead to marshal their combined military strength to defend the territory— he remained skeptical of their assurances. Trump’s remarks were met with swift shock and visible dismay. Pearls were clutched and jaws stood agape.However, it only took a few weeks for a moment of clarity to surface following the Israeli/U.S. decision to strike Iran and eliminate the long-standing nuclear threat. Suddenly Great Britain and Spain tell the U.S. they will not allow American military use of their joint airbases. Once, again President Trump’s lack of trust in NATO proved correct.


This visible example of unidirectional self-interest is happening at the same time European and British leadership are requesting demanding the United States provide the security guarantees for their Ukraine ambitions. The contrast is stark. Concerns about Islamist extremism within the U.K. appear to influence the thinking of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. With a significant number of immigrants from Muslim-majority countries now living in Great Britain, some argue that actions perceived as antagonizing more radical elements abroad could have domestic repercussions within the U.K. That said, the contrast in support is so stark that opposition leadership inside the U.K. are now confronting the British Prime Minister.

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Britain is no longer a Christian nation. Do you see how serious that is? Your world is gone. You will never get it back.

• Briitish Muslims and UK Reaction to US Strikes Against Iran (CTH)

Susan Kokinda and the Lyndon LaRouche network give their perspective on the British reaction to the U.S. strikes against Iran. The analysis has value from a review of the historic relationship of the British imperialist policy toward matters of foreign entanglement and the control mechanisms that have historically flowed from the U.K As a consequence of British government policy much of the Kokinda analysis accurately touches on the root cause of U.K response. However, the emphasis on the modern UK government as the lead of a global network is not always as severe or πcomplicated as the Lyndon LaRouche network would espouse. WATCH:



Great Britain has imported a large percentage of extreme Islamists. As Iran is confronted, and as Israel is viewed as a significant beneficiary to that confrontation, the leftist British government -represented by majority base supporting Prime Minister Keir Starmer- is politically trying to retain stability. Starmer does not want to upset the Muslim population within the U.K. That is a significant political facet undiscussed in the Kokinda review of British response. Additionally, the Trump Doctrine in confronting totalitarian dictators, or oppressive government systems, has always been to support the rise of the authentic nationalist voice of the nation in question.

President Trump has no personal or policy motive to drive the outcome when the authentic rise of the voice happens. Instead, he seeks to remove the anti-American sentiment carried by the former -hopefully replaced- regime. In all of President Trump s prior foreign policy examples we see he focuses on creating opportunity for liberty and freedom, but he does not seek to determine how that liberty and freedom are ultimately expressed so long as there is no negative outcome to American interests. President Trump positions the United States to remain the biggest, most powerful and influential nation in the world.

To the extent that Chinese tentacles need to be severed, Trump policy delivers. (North Korea, Panama Canal, Canada, Venezuela, Iran) To the extent that malicious actors in the world need to be removed, his policy delivers. (Venezuela, Iran) To the extent that American economic interests are represented in all of the outcomes, he forces reciprocity. (Canada, EU, NATO, ASEAN, trade tariffs) America-First. Let each nation compete on equal footing; but let there be no doubt America has the biggest footprint.

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“At a moment the depth of American arms supplies and ammo stockpiles are in question given the rate of expenditure in the new Iran war ..”

• Zelensky Warns Iran War Could Starve Ukraine Of Critical US Arms (ZH)

This isn’t the first time the world’s attention has shifted away from the Ukraine war, but it certainly marks the biggest other conflict to erupt throughout the four-year long war in Eastern Europe. Every time there is a ‘distraction’ – President Zelensky takes pains to try and refocus attention on Kiev’s plight, quite naturally. At a moment the depth of American arms supplies and ammo stockpiles are in question given the rate of expenditure in the new Iran war, the Ukrainians are rather nervous to say the least. Zelensky has freshly warned that deeper US involvement in the conflict with Iran could disrupt the steady flow of American weapons that Ukraine depends on in its war against Russia.


Of course, Ukraine was issuing desperate pleas for more arms and ammo even long before Trump’s Operation Epic Fury kicked off. On slowed arms flows, he said as quoted in WSJ: “We understand that a long war–if it is long–and the intensity of the military actions will affect the amount of air defense we receive,” Zelensky told reporters on Monday, according to audio of his remarks published by Ukrainian media.m Zelensky said he spoke to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz about the issue of weapons supplies to Ukraine, and was in contact with other allies. So far, he added, there are no signs of any delays.

“Everyone understands that, for us, this is a matter of life,” Zelensky said of the arms Ukraine receives through the Prioritized Ukraine Requirements List, or PURL, a program European allies use to purchase weapons from the U.S. for Ukraine. But then again America’s Gulf allies, who are also desperate for anti-air replenishment, consider this moment a matter of life and death too.WSJ notes further, “Ukraine has said it desperately needs PAC-3 interceptor missiles for the Patriot systems supplied by the U.S.” Further, “The U.S. has been using its own Patriot systems to protect U.S. military bases and the airspace of allied countries in the Middle East from Iranian retaliatory strikes.”

So it seems like Zelensky’s arms wish list will be further delayed – not for lack of money, but simply based on rate of slow replenishment, but mostly Washington’s new conflict theatre priority: Iran and the Gulf. What’s worse is that the war is already threatening expansion across the whole Mideast region, as the conflict spreads to Lebanon. Still, Ukraine has come out in favor of Trump’s strike on Iran, given especially that Russia uses Iranian suicide drones in the Ukraine conflict, and has from nearly the start.

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We need Trump to stop this. He will, because the Digital Services Act will bother Americans too. But what a mess.

• European Commission Wants Your Free Speech. X Is In the Way (Adina Portaru)

Last week, Elon Musk’s X launched a landmark legal challenge against a $140 million fine issued by the European Commission last December under the Digital Services Act, an EU censorship law. The case was filed at the General Court of the EU, which hears high-stakes challenges to EU regulatory and enforcement actions.The commission claims the fine, the first to be issued under the DSA, was for alleged transparency and procedural breaches, all of which X denies. But the real reason the company was targeted is clear: X is a free speech platform, and Elon Musk refuses to implement online censorship in the EU and around the world.


This case, which ADF International is proud to support, concretizes the severe threat to free speech posed by the DSA. The EU law, which came into force in 2024, requires “very large online platforms,” like X, Meta, and Google (platforms with more than 45 million users per month), which operate or are accessible in the EU, to remove so-called “illegal content.” “Illegal content” is defined in line with a plethora of anti-free speech legislation across EU countries, such as in Germany, where it is illegal to insult a politician (Section 188 German Criminal Code). The legislation additionally requires platforms to “mitigate” so-called “systemic risks,” such as “negative effects” on “civic discourse,” “electoral processes,” and “gender-based violence.”

Codes of conduct have also been added to the legislation regarding “disinformation,” “hate speech,” and guidelines on electoral processes and the protection of minors, resulting in 153 pages of additional regulations that were never voted on. Platforms face massive fines of up to 6% of global annual turnover for non-compliance with the DSA and can even be suspended in the EU. The vague terms used in the legislation and codes of conduct are extremely broad and lack precise legal definitions, meaning they are ideal tools for the commission to censor disfavored views. And the commission’s reach extends far beyond Europe through the DSA.

A recent report from the House Judiciary Committee showed big tech platforms face immense pressure from the commission to set their global content moderation rules to censorial DSA standards. This means the EU law is censoring speech not just in Europe, but also in the United States and around the whole world. The case of Finnish parliamentarian Päivi Räsänen demonstrates what DSA censorship will look like in practice. After six years of criminal prosecution, Päivi is awaiting a verdict from the Supreme Court of Finland for tweeting a Bible verse. She was prosecuted under the “War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity” section of Finland’s criminal code. Under the DSA, censorial laws like this will become the global baseline.

Since Elon Musk bought X and turned it into a free speech platform, Brussels has been clear about its hostility toward the platform. Former European Commissioner Thierry Breton issued a stark warning in 2023 stating: “You can run but you can’t hide … fighting disinformation will be legal obligation under #DSA. … Our teams will be ready for enforcement.” Former commission Vice President for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova added: “Twitter has attracted a lot of attention, and its actions and compliance with EU law will be scrutinized vigorously and urgently.” In this context, it’s clear why the commission gave X the first-ever DSA fine last December. They were sending a message to all big tech platforms about what will happen to platforms that refuse to accept censorship. That is what makes X’s legal challenge so important – they are fighting for the right of citizens around the world to freely express their views online. In this case, X is challenging the centralized powers given to the commission by the DSA, which it argues violate its right to due process and are contrary to the rule of law. The commission is able to set the rules for content moderation, set up the infrastructure, launch investigations, and issue penalties under the DSA, all with no meaningful oversight. If this is allowed to stand, the EU will have the unchallenged ability to police the global public square, with dire consequences for online free speech.

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Question: Did OpenAI -the system-really write it, or was it their owners/lawyers? Ifthelatter, what does that say about the quality of the system?

Here’s what to do: Let OpenAI write two scripts: one in favor of OpenAI, one in favor of the Pentagon.

Let Grok, Anthropic et al do the same.

• OpenAI Rewrites ‘Sloppy’ Pentagon AI Deal After Backlash Over Surveillance (ZH)

OpenAI – which millions of users trust with everything from legal documents to tax returns – is revising its newly signed contract with the US Department of War, just days after it was announced that they would replace Anthropic for use in government systems because the rushed rollout “looked opportunistic and sloppy.” Hours after negotiations collapsed between the Pentagon and rival startup Anthropic on Friday, the San Francisco-based company agreed to supply its AI models for use in classified military operations. The breakdown followed talks with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth over how the government could deploy advanced AI tools.


OpenAI initially described its agreement as containing “more guardrails than any previous agreement for classified AI deployments, including Anthropic’s.” But on Monday, CEO Sam Altman said the company was working with the department to add explicit contractual language barring the intentional use of its systems for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons or nationals. “The AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of US persons and nationals,” Altman said the revised terms would state, adding that intelligence agencies such as the National Security Agency would be excluded from the deal for now. So – while OpenAI has likely bought some legal cover with these changes, there’s always the possibility of unintentional use. From a Monday update to OpenAI’s statement on the deal:

“Throughout our discussions, the Department made clear it shares our commitment to ensuring our tools will not be used for domestic surveillance. To make our principles as clear as possible, we worked together to add additional language to our agreement. This language makes explicit that our tools will not be used to conduct domestic surveillance of U.S. persons, including through the procurement or use of commercially acquired personal or identifiable information. The Department also affirmed that our services will not be used by Department of War intelligence agencies like the NSA. Any services to those agencies would require a new agreement.

The new language reads: “Consistent with applicable laws, including the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution, National Security Act of 1947, FISA Act of 1978, the AI system shall not be intentionally used for domestic surveillance of U.S. persons and nationals.For the avoidance of doubt, the Department understands this limitation to prohibit deliberate tracking, surveillance, or monitoring of U.S. persons or nationals, including through the procurement or use of commercially acquired personal or identifiable information. The Department of War plans to convene a working group made up of leaders from the frontier AI labs, cloud providers, and the Department’s policy and operational communities.

OpenAI will participate and expect this will be an important forum for ongoing dialogue on emerging AI capabilities, privacy, and national security challenges going forward. These updates build on the framework we announced last week and we hope will help create a pathway for other labs to work with the Department going forward.

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OpenAI says it can uphold its own red lines through a mix of contractual provisions and technical controls. The company says it will deploy models via cloud access rather than installing them directly onto military hardware and will keep its personnel involved in the loop. It has reiterated that its technology cannot be used to direct autonomous weapons systems. Altman suggested the company was comfortable relying in part on existing law. “Anthropic seemed more focused on specific prohibitions in the contract, rather than citing applicable laws, which we felt comfortable with,” he said Saturday.

But by Monday, he acknowledged concerns about how AI systems could enable large-scale data gathering.“We shouldn’t have rushed to get this out on Friday. The issues are super complex, and demand clear communication,” Altman wrote in a message to employees reposted on X. “We were genuinely trying to de-escalate things and avoid a much worse outcome, but I think it just looked opportunistic and sloppy.”The updated language would “prohibit deliberate tracking, surveillance or monitoring of US persons or nationals, including through the procurement or use of commercially acquired personal or identifiable information,” according to the company.

The Pentagon’s pivot to OpenAI came after Anthropic’s negotiations unraveled over two core red lines articulated by its CEO, Dario Amodei: no domestic mass surveillance and no use of AI in lethal autonomous weapons systems – and would require the Pentagon to seek approval to use it in the heat of battle.. According to the Financial Times, Hegseth sought language permitting the models for “all lawful use.” Anthropic executives argued existing U.S. law could allow mass AI-enabled data collection and pressed for tighter contractual safeguards until new legislation was enacted. Discussions reportedly stalled over terms governing the mass collection of publicly available data.

The Pentagon had signaled openness to revising phrasing that Anthropic viewed as overly broad, and senior figures at the company believed a deal was close. But negotiations ultimately fell apart.Since then, the Trump administration has moved aggressively against Anthropic. President Donald Trump has directed agencies to phase out the company’s tools. The Treasury Department, the Federal Housing Finance Agency, and government-backed mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac all announced they would end Anthropic contracts – with full dis-integration to occur within six months. The Pentagon also designated the company a supply chain risk.

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All 4,5 hrs at the link.

• Video Released of Clintons’ Deposition Over Epstein (Lucas)

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee released full video of former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s testimonies about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The depositions for each before the bipartisan panel lasted 4.5 hours. Hillary Clinton was deposed last Thursday. Bill Clinton was deposed on Friday, the first time a former president has been compelled to testify before Congress. Clinton said he first flew on Epstein’s plane in 2002 and took trips to Asia, Africa, and Europe. Clinton said his former treasury secretary, Larry Summers introduced him to Epstein. He said that Epstein was interested in funding brain research and other humanitarian work.


“He knew I was planning to set up a global network to provide lots of AIDS medicine to as many people as possible as quickly as possible,” Clinton said of Epstein. Clinton said his relationship with Epstein ended when the humanitarian team expanded. “A lot of other people who might do better, and who really cared about the work, came forward,” Clinton said. The former president said Epstein “never asked me anything untoward.” He later added, “There was nothing that I saw when I was around him. It made me realize he was trafficking women.”

During the Democrats’ questioning, Clinton was asked if he was aware of President Donald Trump’s interaction with Epstein. “I don’t want to leave the impression, since there was no follow up question, he never, the president never, this was 20-something years ago, never said anything to me to think he was involved in anything improper with regard to Epstein, he just didn’t,” Clinton said. Hillary Clinton was asked how she felt about photos of her husband in the pool at the home of Epstein, which were published in batches of the Epstein files released by the Justice Department. The former secretary of state replied she was not there to provide opinions.

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“Lieu’s rave about the alleged murder of a child made the National Inquirer look like the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.”

• Rep. Ted Lieu Spreads Bizarre Conspiracy Theory in Congress Hearing (Turley)

Years ago, Rep. Ted Lieu (D., Cal.) demanded that “Facebook should do more internally to regulate fake news and point out fake news.” This week, he finally made his case for such private censorship. Lieu went full conspiracy theorist during a congressional hearing this week, leaving many gobsmacked. Lieu’s rave about the alleged murder of a child made the National Inquirer look like the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. In an age of rage, Lieu knows that you must go louder and bigger to be heard above the mob. Facts are now passé and Lieu is known for sensational claims like claiming that “Trump is broke.”


At a House Judiciary Committee hearing on the Epstein files, Lieu won the race to the bottom with his colleagues in making outrageous, unsupported claims. It was a moment reminiscent of the recent face-planting by Rep. Ro Khanna (D., Cal.) in disclosing the names of powerful men shielded by the Administration in the scandal. (Four had no connection to Epstein). He suggested that Trump not only abused a minor, but that she was later bumped off to keep her from speaking. What Lieu does not inform the public is that his blockbuster disclosure was based on the unverified account of an anonymous man, who worked as a limo driver in 1995. The bizarre account claimed the driver picked up Trump and overheard him on the phone with someone called “Jeffrey” and made references to “abusing some girl.” The driver said that he wanted to pull over and “hurt[] him”.

Driver Dan Ferree has self-identified as the source referenced by Lieu. Ferree reportedly has posted hundreds of politically anti-Trump and extreme memes to his Facebook account, including a recent image of Trump in what appears to be a casket. He has also reportedly claimed that he was stalked by Trump associates. In a defamation case, Ferree would be difficult to pass off as a credible source for a publication. The use of such sources is a familiar tactic in Washington. During the Chandra Levy scandal, politicians and pundits piled on Rep. Gary Condit (D., Cal.) as the presumptive murderer of the congressional intern. The source cited by Vanity Fair’s Dominick Dunne turned out to be a “horse whisperer” in Dubai who said that he had heard Condit arranged for her murder. (Condit was later cleared in the case).

Ferree is only marginally better than a horse whisperer as a source of Lieu. Ferree told the FBI that he met a young girl who told him she had been raped by Trump and Epstein at a “fancy hotel.” He claimed that the young girl was later found with her head “blown off.” He said that, while the officers at the scene thought it was murder, the coroner later ruled it a suicide. There was no proof of such a case. It appears that Lieu knew or suspected that the source of the allegation was unhinged or unreliable because he later re-posted only two of the three pages of the statement to the FBI. The third page included other bizarre claims about the Oklahoma City Bombing and a drunk Hillary Clinton.

Lieu decided it was best to withhold the third page and the details of a raving, drunken Hillary Clinton and an effort to frame an innocent man for the Oklahoma bombing. It seems that he was not aggrieved that the FBI did not investigate that part of Ferree’s allegations.Nevertheless, at an earlier event, Lieu declared: “Why are Republicans so interested in Bill and Hillary Clinton? It’s because they’re trying to distract from the fact that Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there’s highly disturbing allegations of Donald Trump raping children, of Donald Trump threatening to kill children.”

What is striking is how so many politicians supporting the crackdown on disinformation on the right are purveyors of such disinformation. From the Russian conspiracy hoax to the flogging of migrants by Border agents, members and the media have regularly spread false accounts with impunity. It is not considered disinformation if it appears on BlueSky or MS NOW. The intentional omission of the third page of the allegation puts this disinformation effort in a particularly menacing light. This was not some hair-triggered posting that failed to research the underlying story. This was a knowing effort to later re-post the sensational allegation while removing a third of the document that undermined the credibility of the source.

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“What Plaintiffs seek is to force the State to respect their enduring federal constitutional rights as citizens of the United States.”

• Supreme Court Delivers Key Victory for Parental Rights in California (Turley)

The Supreme Court on Monday issued an important order on its shadow docket in Mirabelli v. Bonta. The court granted an emergency appeal filed on behalf of Catholic parents by the Thomas More Society, blocking a state law that barred parental notification that their children had changed their gender identity. I previously wrote about the case after heralding the decision of District Court Judge Roger Benitez, who wrote a powerful opinion in support of the rights of all parents. He wrote: “The Attorney General on behalf of the State of California says Plaintiffs’ lawsuit is “properly understood as seeking a federal constitutional exemption from the California constitutional right to privacy, as applied to gender identity in the school context.” State Defs’ Oppo to Plaintiffs’ MSJ, Dkt 256, at 9. But the Attorney General gets it upside down. Plaintiffs do not ask the State to magnanimously permit a sort of federal constitutional exemption. What Plaintiffs seek is to force the State to respect their enduring federal constitutional rights as citizens of the United States.”


The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit stayed his injunction. For years, some of us have been raising the attacks on parental rights. That is why this order is so notable. I recently wrote about this fight in Michigan, where parents secured the right to sue to defend their rights against the Rockford Public School District. The District refused to inform them of gender identity changes in their children. While it only restores the injunction during the pendency of the litigation below, it reflects a clear notion of the likelihood to prevail on the merits. There remains ambiguity on where individual justices fall on the issues. The parents raised both free exercise and substantive due process challenges. Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas wanted to go further in ruling on the merits in favor of the parents.

In her opinion, Justice Amy Coney Barrett rules for the parents, not the teachers, in the case. In her concurrence with the Chief Justice and Justice Kavanaugh, she focuses most on explaining why a view in favor of substantive due process is consistent with the decision in Dobbs. The three liberal justices — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson — dissented. Justice Kagan decried the rejection of California’s priorities and objected to “throwing over its policies in a slapdash way.” Justice Sotomayor was the only member of the Court who opposed all of the parents’ and teachers’ claims. Without writing a dissenting opinion, she would have denied their application in its entirety.

The decision puts even greater focus on another case. Last year, I wrote about a startling decision in Foote v. Feliciano in which the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled against parents in a similar challenge. Massachusetts parents Marissa Silvestri and Stephen Foote demanded notice of any gender identity change of their child after learning that the 11-year-old child had self-declared as “genderqueer.” The First Circuit dismissed the challenge, holding “as per our understanding of Supreme Court precedent, our pluralistic society assigns those curricular and administrative decisions to the expertise of school officials, charged with the responsibility of educating children.”

The petition for review to the Supreme Court is now pending. Foote could allow the Court to reaffirm the fundamental rights of parents and, most importantly, clearly establish the standard for review in future cases. The previously stated in Pierce v. Society of Sisters (1925) that “the child is not the mere creature of the State; those who nurture him and direct his destiny have the right, coupled with the high duty, to recognize and prepare him for additional obligations.” It is time for the Court to back up that constitutional right with clear and robust protections.

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  • March 4, 2026 at 3:58 pm #233316
    kultsommer
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    Sadly so true.
    But, in his mind it is all about what the “world” doing to them instead what they are doing to the “world” with their genocidal existence.

    March 4, 2026 at 3:59 pm #233317
    John Day
    Participant

    Jessica Rose Ph.D. on operationalizing quantum-entanglements: Quantum Repeaters: Overcoming Loss for Long-Distance Entanglement
    Just think of it like never falling out of love no matter far apart you are.​ https://jessicar.substack.com/p/quantum-repeaters-overcoming-loss

    ​ BREAKING STUDY: Living Near a Cell Tower Linked to White Blood Cell Elevation Comparable to Smoking
    24% of residents living within 60 meters of a tower had abnormally high immune cell counts and over 50% of heavy phone users had abnormal immune cell counts — a signal of biological stress.​ https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/breaking-study-living-near-a-cell

    ​ Meryl Nass MD, Trump administration asks Supreme Court to back Bayer again, aided by [DOJ] officials who came from Bayer’s law firms
    How much of the Executive branch and its agencies has industry already purchased?​ https://merylnass.substack.com/p/trump-administration-asks-supreme

    ​ Let’s brain-chip “sleepy Joe” and see what he can do: Trump Signed a Directive to Accelerate 6G Deployment to Operate “Implantable Technologies”
    Newly developed AI brain chips known as the Biological Interface System to Cortex (BISC) will merge human consciousness with AI — a dangerous path to dystopia. https://www.thefocalpoints.com/p/trump-signed-a-directive-to-accelerate

    March 4, 2026 at 4:06 pm #233318
    zerosum
    Participant

    shooting yourself in the foot.
    US want rare earths but energy is required to produce it.

    March 4, 2026 at 4:10 pm #233319
    Topcat
    Participant

    “It’s not a War”

    For the dumbest of the dumbest…

    OSLO, March 3 (Reuters) – The impact on energy flows of U.S. and Israeli military attacks on Iran and Iran’s drone ​and missile launches against its neighbors could reopen ‌debate in the European Union over banning Russian natural gas imports, Norway’s energy minister said on Tuesday.

    European gas prices have jumped 75% ​this week, hitting multi-year highs as hostilities in ​and around Iran have impacted gas exports from ⁠the Gulf..

    This is just ther beginning of the catastrophic inflation in gas prices for Euroturdistan.

    From Andrei Martyanov’s Blog

    [Knocking another one out of the park…]

    “Europe can surely “reopen debate” and debate this debate until hell freezes over, but as Russian anecdote goes about a single babushka being a lone seller of sunflower seeds at the completely empty marketplace–responding to a dude who complained that her sunflower seeds are too expensive, she suggested him to “walk around the market, find a better price”.

    Poor, poor dear this Mark Champion (a rather pretentious second name for a guy who is a sore loser) of Bloomberg, he laments:

    Bo-Who Bloomberg

    “The only winner in the US and Israel’s conflict with Iran is Putin, writes Bloomberg. Columnist Mark Champion argues that US Navy strikes on Iranian targets reduce the likelihood of arms supplies to Ukraine and deplete American missile stocks. This also fuels the rise in global oil and gas prices, which benefits Russia. A prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz could revive the market for Russian energy, providing an opportunity to sell unsold oil.

    This is what happens when you have a fraudulent “degree” from Georgetown in “Russian studies” and know nothing but more or less proper grammar when writing about things you have no clue about. We knew it was bad, but now it does disintegrate and the only thing they have left is spin. US legacy media are complicit in covering up pedophilia and what amounts to a treason by ruling class, because of that they are one and the same. There is no distinction. Per Macron and France … LOL. ”

    March 4, 2026 at 4:14 pm #233321
    zerosum
    Participant

    Will Hillary and Bill Clinton open an academy to teach how to be convincing.

    March 4, 2026 at 5:16 pm #233323
    D Benton Smith
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    There is only one REAL intelligence in the Universe and it is the intelligence which created that Universe in the first place and thereby governs literally ALL of that Universe’s observable “rules” of operation, which geeks call Science and Logic and Saints call God’s Law and Justice.

    We humans, seeking to learn those rules-of-the-road for this world (which we seem to be inescapably stuck in) well enough to survive in it, were simply trying to copy as best we could what was already there and within which we had no choice but to live and work.

    So what happens when you do that? What happens when you seek to find out what the heck is this world you’re in all of a sudden, without forewarning?

    I’m not trying to be cute & clever with this question here. I mean it as a dead serious question. What happens when you try to copy the entire environment using words and textbooks and careful investigations which are then translated into all of the parts of a language which enables us to see, record and share our findings with other people, and they with us?

    What happens is that you develop a TECHNOLOGY, in this case the techniques for communication called LANGUAGE along with the attendant sub-disciplines of language called speech, observation and logic. The language itself is a technological tool of the highest order. It enables groups to exist collaborate and create thought patterns of enormous size that can be turned into complex material and non-material structures called “products” that no single individual could even dream of producing on their own.

    Those shared thought patterns can be very impressive. That’s because they are so much bigger than anything we could do on our own. Yup. 10 guys working together can outproduce 1 guy working alone at better than 10 to 1, and that is certainly impressive, and we tend to remember and utilize what we learn from impressive events. We share that knowledge between each other and among ourselves and we call that entire “process” of sharing knowledge LANGUAGE and COMMUNICATION.

    Copy it well enough and you will notice that the TECNOLOGY ITSELF (in this case the technology of language and communication) is in fact merely an extremely thin, substandard and very short lived “replica” or “substitute” for the real thing that we’re striving to acquire. But it sure can be made to LOOK like the real thing anyway. Well, it looks that way because it is a very very VERY carefully made copy.

    But it is NOT the real thing. It is a copy, very comparable to the paper that pops out of your xerox machine that looks just like the original.

    Language and communication copies reality so well that it can start to look like the actual thing that it is trying to emulate: INTELLIGENCE.

    Well it ain’t. The copy is NOT intelligence. It is SIMULATED intelligence, and simulated intelligence is absolutely guaranteed to get you killed because it can never, ever, know if it is right or wrong because there is no consciousness in it. Nor could there ever be.

    INTELLIGENCE is the consciously aware capacity to know the difference between true from false, right from wrong, and then initiate action intended to bring misaligned parts into better alignment, so that we and others can live.

    ARTIFICIAL intelligence is the simulation of that process, which mimics very closely the patterns and processes of human language, and thereby constitutes a machine that processes data just like we do. Look at all the dials, bells and whistles of it’s output is impressive. The big difference is that you know who’s reading the dials and the machine doesn’t know anything. At All.

    It’s very impressive because it can process language and logic based data overwhelmingly faster than a single human. What makes it very un-impressive in that without someone to appreciate its output the “thought spewing machine” is just a big pile of junk.

    But here’s the part the RoboBoyz always miss when brainstorming their strategy for ruling the world with AI robot control from the comfort of their big easy chairs in Central Control Central.

    The rules of language and logic based machine intelligence apply to the herd as much as they do to the pinnacles of power who think they can use ARTIFICIAL intelligence robot machines to rule over the slaves.

    The elites with their electronic machine intelligences did not foresee that the herd itself would operate JUST LIKE like a “machine” intelligence, because language and communication ARE the material architecture of thought, which is merely an attempted mimicry of reality.

    In other words, the herd has a mind of its own.

    And I don’t mean that just in the figurative sense. I mean it in the LITERAL sense, too. The Interchange between all of humanity, through the communication of language delineated ideas, operates as an enormous “machine intelligence”, whose output is manifested in the precise conditions of its entire civilization (wall-to-wall) within the limits and constraints of what humanity can physically control or effect at all.

    In other words, humanity operates like a machine intelligence under the direction of its consciously aware and purposeful Creator.

    So far, humanity seems to have come up with the right answers well enough to still be here (answers to the questions of what is true and what is false, what is right and what is wrong, what should people do and what should people not do) , because we take advantage of God’s good graces who is standing by ready and willing just for the asking, to check their homework before handing it in for a final grade.

    Just tell him what you think you should do next and ask his advice on whether it’s a good idea or not.

    March 4, 2026 at 6:23 pm #233334
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Iran Hits the U.S. Navy Command Center in Bahrain

    March 4, 2026 at 6:40 pm #233335
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    THE EMPIRE’S STRATEGIC BLUNDER IN IRAN – MILITARY, ECONOMIC , AND POLITICAL CATASTROPHE

    March 4, 2026 at 6:41 pm #233336
    chooch
    Participant

    Lissa4maga, Cowboy Killa, Serious?

    Little Marco

    March 4, 2026 at 6:47 pm #233337
    chooch
    Participant

    https://x.com/IslanderWORLD/status/2029076466298737120?s=20

    March 4, 2026 at 7:38 pm #233353
    zerosum
    Participant

    Check out this report

    5. Tag im Angriffskrieg Israels und der USA gegen den Iran (Ticker 17:00 Uhr)

    Day 5 in Israel’s and the USA’s war of aggression against Iran (Ticker 17:00)
    March 4th, 2026
    by Peter F. Mayer / Jochen Mitschka

    The news of new losses of the Iranian fleet came this morning from an unexpected source: The frigate “Dena” of the Iranian Navy sank off Sri Lanka. About 180 people were on board the ship. 30 sailors were rescued and taken to hospital. The death toll is at least 78 people. The U.S. confirmed the attack by a submarine – a clear act of piracy, since the U.S. has not declared war on Iran. Dena came from a fleet parade in India.
    ———-
    ARE CHINESE TROOPS ALREADY IN IRAN TO TEST HYPER WEAPONS?

    A high-ranking Russian general with direct ties to the Kremlin has just dropped a massive information bombshell. Chinese military personnel are already on the ground in Iran to test its latest weapons systems. The US and Israel did not see this coming.

    The bomb of General Popov

    ➡️ Retired Russian Major General Vladimir Popov is highly decorated and has far-reaching connections.
    ➡️ In an interview, he just explained that Chinese troops are already in Iran.
    ➡️ Not as a consultant. But as active weapons testers.
    ➡️ Their mission is to test hypersonic missiles and bombs at Iranian test sites.

    The Zwite Wave Stratgy

    ➡️ The Iranians have not yet used their most powerful weapons.
    ➡️ They are holding back a second wave until the logistics of the USA are exhausted.
    ➡️ Popov explains that Iran is saving everything for the moment when the situation becomes truly catastrophic.
    ➡️ China is supplying them with supplies precisely for this moment.

    –

    March 4, 2026 at 8:25 pm #233354
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    IRAN SHOOTS DOWN US & ISRAELI F15s – Andrei Martyanov On Iran War

    March 4, 2026 at 8:34 pm #233356
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Israeli F-35 Just Shot Down Iranian Fighter Jet Over Tehran

    March 4, 2026 at 9:09 pm #233357
    Topcat
    Participant

    Kim Dotcom
    @KimDotcom

    China is at war with the US via Iran.

    Iranian missiles hit accurately.

    The targets are chosen with precision and the results are successful. It suggests that this is no longer limited to Iran’s capabilities.

    Iran knows in which hotel and on which floor the CIA and Mossad agents are.

    During the 12-day war the accuracy of Iranian missiles was low. Now they don’t miss.

    I think China is involved in this war. China helps identify American targets in Arab countries and provides electronic intelligence.

    This means that the “eastern front” may soon open up.

    March 4, 2026 at 9:11 pm #233358
    Topcat
    Participant

    “It’s not a War”, drd

    Absolute panic in South Korea as stocks collapse by more than 12%, their single worst day in history

    March 4, 2026 at 9:25 pm #233359
    Topcat
    Participant

    Larry Johnson lends a little reality to the Air Defense missile math of Empire of Lies AD inventory:

    Trumpturd Fanboys: Read & Weep

    Note that I am assuming that the entire inventory of US Patriot missiles have been deployed to Israel and US bases in the region. That is a false assumption because there are Patriot missile batteries with a full complement of missiles in other theaters.

    At present there are three Patriot battalions permanently assigned/forward-deployed to INDOPACOM (e.g., in South Korea/Japan/Guam areas, like 35th ADA Brigade and 1-1 ADA at Kadena); EUCOM has one Patriot battalion assigned (e.g., units in Germany like Baumholder/Ansbach areas, supporting NATO/Eastern flank).

    The US Army has 15 Patriot battalions total (14 fully available as of mid-2025, with one in modernization), each typically consisting of 4–6 batteries (a battery is the firing unit with launchers/radars).

    A Patriot battery (also called a fire unit) typically includes 6–8 launchers (Launching Stations), though configurations vary by operator, mission, and launcher type (e.g., M903 for modern U.S. systems).

    If we assume that the four Patriot battalions have four batteries each, with 72 missiles per battery, we get a total of 1,152 missiles that must be subtracted from the maximum possible number deployed to the Middle East — i.e., the actual inventory, using the most conservative estimate, is 1,221.

    That means the US inventory of PAC-3 MSE missiles, using the assumptions above that Iran is firing 60 ballistic missiles per day, the supply of missiles will run out in 10 days.

    This is why I assert that Donald Trump is out of touch with reality.

    March 4, 2026 at 9:28 pm #233360
    Topcat
    Participant

    Please, please, Great Sky God, allow Trumptard to put USSA Navy ships into the Straits of Hormuz, PLEASE!

    Over 10 oil tankers have been hit after ignoring Iran’s warning that the Strait of Hormuz is now a war zone — Mehr News citing a senior IRGC navy official

    March 4, 2026 at 9:35 pm #233361
    Topcat
    Participant

    Video showing Iran’s new Cluster Headheads that break apart just before impact and cover a far wider area of explosions.

    Looks like they work fantastically

    March 4, 2026 at 9:56 pm #233363
    Topcat
    Participant

    For your viewing pleasure

    Make Israel look like Gaza

    Reports that circa 50 missiles hit Israel without interception.

    The coordinated strike represents the largest single barrage reported, targeting major population centers across the Negev and Judea regions.

    https://x.com/i/status/2029078163154751835

    https://x.com/i/status/2029078163154751835
    This is a particularly sweet video of Ah’mericans driving along the highway in Bahrain when the very first series of Iranian missiles hit the 5th Fleet HQ in Bahrain.

    The passengers are very surprised

    https://x.com/i/status/2029138254969102714

    March 4, 2026 at 10:01 pm #233364
    Topcat
    Participant

    Iranian Cluster Warheads not intercepted going off

    https://x.com/i/status/2029062261793538312

    March 4, 2026 at 10:09 pm #233365
    zerosum
    Participant

    Laughing all the way to the bank
    https://x.com/pati_marins64/status/2028843308005413266

    The Astronomical Daily Costs of the US-Israel-Iran War: Billions and Counting

    The escalating conflict between the United States, Israel, and Iran, now in its fourth day as of March 3, 2026, has unleashed not only military and humanitarian devastation but also staggering economic burdens.

    Daily costs for the primary belligerents and affected regional players are running into the multi-billion-dollar range, driven by intense military operations, defensive expenditures, infrastructure damage, and widespread economic disruptions.

    For Israel, earlier phases of direct confrontation with Iran (such as the 12-day war in June 2025) provide a benchmark. Direct operational costs, covering aircraft fuel, maintenance, sortie generation, and offensive munitions, were estimated at around $700 million per day.

    However, when factoring in the high price of defensive interceptors (David’s Sling, Arrow 2-3, Patriots, SM-3, SM-6, and THAAD) plus structural damages from missile impacts, the total surged to approximately $2 billion per day.

    In the current escalation, with heavier barrages and sustained strikes, comprehensive daily figures, including operations, interceptors, and repairs, could easily exceed $4 billion for the US due to intelligence operations, high numbers of Tomahawk missiles used, and heavy damage to local military bases.
    Notably, damage to the base in Qatar has reportedly cost more than $10 billion.

    Combining these, the US-Israel side alone may be incurring $4-5 billion daily in costs during the last three days.

    The ripple effects extend sharply to Arab Gulf countries (UAE, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain), where airspace closures, airport shutdowns, and retaliatory strikes have crippled aviation hubs, creating impacts over $1 billion per day in direct losses.

    When adding secondary economic hits (tourism collapse, energy market chaos, supply chain interruptions), Gulf states could face an additional $3-4 billion daily in combined damages.

    Altogether, the combined daily toll from US and Israeli military expenditures to Gulf economic fallout, could reach $7–10 billion per day or more, if other economic sectors are considered, a figure that aligns with analyst warnings of attritional warfare burning through resources at an unsustainable pace.

    The extension of naval drones into the Med, (on a Russian LNG carrier by Ukraine from Libya), should make the UK and France think twice before sending underarmed and without sufficient AD capital ships there.

    aaand the Houthi Government has not even entered the war yet. A last key point is that US ships have to be reloaded in port (vertically), which at the moment is Diego Garcia, a long way away.

    Posted by: Stonebird | Mar 4 2026 21:02 utc | 202

    March 4, 2026 at 10:10 pm #233366
    Topcat
    Participant

    Empire of Lies ruled by the Epstein Class®

    March 4, 2026 at 10:57 pm #233367
    those darned kids
    Participant

    wowsers, sometimes the jokes write themsleves:

    https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Epstein-Eyed-Nigerian-Oil-Trade-But-Feared-Being-Defrauded.html

    March 4, 2026 at 11:14 pm #233368
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    3 US F-15s DOWNED — By America’s OWN Ally Over Kuwait

    March 4, 2026 at 11:39 pm #233370
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    IRAN seized the latest Israeli Missiles and arrested General Qaani, who helped Israel kill Khamenei

    March 4, 2026 at 11:52 pm #233371
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    The spy that

    March 5, 2026 at 12:23 am #233372
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    IRAN NARRATIVE CRUMBLING – EPSTEIN TESTIMONY – ANTHROPIC VS THE PENTAGON – W MATT WEINGLASS

    March 5, 2026 at 12:57 am #233373
    zerosum
    Participant

    https://x.com/iranin_arabic_/status/2029308953448902718
    Urgent

    Iranian military capabilities are now being deployed:

    Attention everyone | High-risk security alert

    Our forces are fully and accurately aware of the presence of the French terrorist force stationed in the Iraqi province of Diyala, specifically in the Jalawla district, at the positions of the Iraqi Army’s 1st Division. This force is equipped with TRC systems designed to disrupt drone operations targeting enemy positions.

    Therefore, to protect the lives of Iraqi soldiers from the effects of missile strikes, the decision has been made to eliminate these mercenaries through special field operations unless the force and its equipment withdraw from Jalawla.

    Furthermore, we urge the leadership of the 1st Division and all its personnel not to wear any uniform that resembles that of the French force stationed there.

    A very difficult decision will be made regarding this force, which, by God’s will, will not be able to escape.

    Unless the French force withdraws, the news of their liquidation will be a headline in all the world’s newspapers.

    March 5, 2026 at 1:10 am #233374
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Iran Just Attacked a U.S. Nuclear Base — NATO Shot Down the Missile

    March 5, 2026 at 1:29 am #233375
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Lawrence Wilkerson: U.S. Arms Kurdish Fighters in Iran to Start Civil War

    March 5, 2026 at 1:36 am #233376
    Celticbiker
    Participant

    ZOG, evident since 1913/ Fed, implied since JFK/Liberty, obvious since 911, deadly since Covid jewjab. Now WW3. You have to be 1 dumb motherfucker to not see now.

    March 5, 2026 at 1:59 am #233377
    Dr. D
    Participant

    Had to go do real things in the real world, and this is like I’ve been saying but not doing.

    I disagree with everything being written right now: The US is not awesome right now. Iran is decisively not a terrorist state. Their response is disappointing but not terrible. Ours was unexpectedly firm but may be “lucky.” White nations aren’t failing: one thing Iran shows is that the U.S. is completely capable if we choose to be. That’s the same with all nations.

    Other nations, people (Dugin, Krainer) are alarmed and crestfallen. They may be correct. It depends what’s actually happening, but the problem is, it’s been nothing but lies since CIA Director Casey (“Every single thing they believe will be a lie”) and it has been only increasing, not receding. So IF I am correct – and that’s a huge IF – THEN my generally upbeat, sanguine view is justified. There are no data points clearly removing it yet. However, IF it is not – and there are 100 ways that might be the case – THEN it’s probably nearly as bad as people say. Not that there’s some new level of villainy – Epstein has cured all of us from saying that – but that the world world is made of unreflective retards who will just keep limping along by killing randomly. And why not, yes?

    I’ll hold to the view I’ve been on – Markets especially seem to say so, ebullient right now, elated the war is good and ending soon – and post when I have time.

    Comments:
    Barron Trump: They would murder Barron the second he enlisted. Then you would cheer.

    Trump Draft-dodged. Is that really proving your point though? And so you enthusiastically approved of the Vietnam war, Mai Lai and the Tet offensive? Let me know. I’ve always found this “But they draft-dodged an idiotic, cruel, unnecessary, evil, banker’s war” a strange argument. I mean, I would have (didn’t have to), did you?

    So your argument is, IF there is a cruel, stupid, evil banker’s war, AND they arrest you to make you go, you should just go? I don’t think that squares very well with American values. Anyway, the point is: no one has a point. They just say things. Their goal is to MAKE Barron join, then murder him and laugh. Classy. Killing people, gloating, POWER: THAT, is the point. Don’t be that guy.

    “Iran Just Destroyed THAAD — The U.S. Has No Defense Left” Asian Guy

    Yup, Iran just invaded and conquered us. All our leaders are dead, and they are sinking our ships at will. Like Father Phi videos, Day 200 of trying to get AI not to lie. We’re helpless, as you can tell by no ships being sunk.

    “Worse than 2008” as stocks do nothing oil does nothing, gold and silver do nothing, gas is $3, housing is high, and no banks fail. Yup. I remember that was exactly what ‘08 was like and why we all wrote a million articles about it. I remember how Michael Burry made all that money betting against the “Nothing” that “Didn’t happen.”

    Asian Guy. Can you AT LEAST forward his videos that aren’t openly, headline false? Have mercy on my poor embattered sanity, man, I beg you. At least ONE thing he says per episode must be true. Just ONE. Deal?

    “Iran war: Iran is being destroyed, Trump is winning!”

    I don’t know what “winning” is, I’m not that thrilled about it, but probably. They’re not landing any punches and any minute they run out of missiles. The U.S. insures all ships in the gulf, as London (predictably) tries to make trouble by refusing to insure. But think about this: by what right is London issuing the insurance? It’s long said that the US NAVY insures the world seas. While I don’t WANT this to be the case, everyone agrees. So essentially: London writes free insurance against the US NAVY’s actual paid enforcement. We ABSOLUTELY should Insure instead of them! We’re the only ones doing work! That’s what’s happening now, and was starting to happen for Putin as well.

    “Make certain there is a war: Before Khamenei Killing, CIA Assessed He Would Likely Be Replaced by More Hardline Elements of the IRGC”

    Yes. But just as the CIA is against America and would kill us all if they could, the IRGC is against Iranians. …Then who are they FOR? Arguably, globalists. Satanists. Just like our own CIA. Thus the delicious problem MI6 n Co have arranged for us all. AND! They can call us villains if we act! How dare you punish Satanists?! Don’t you know killing is BAD, sir?

    Okay, my point is, RUSSIA is in there deciding it right now. CHINA is inside Iran deciding it right now. They will all see who floats to the top as a REAL Iranian core and leader, and back them. We will throw a big Kafabe fit about it and let them. The problem was, as a very controlled regime, any opposition talent is co-opted “by Goldberg”. They are both regime AND run the “anti-regime”. …Or did you actually think those ladies called “Wednesday Adams” lighting their cigarettes in Tehran were real? Hahahaha! No. All fake. So if you’re Russia, wtf is “Real”? How could you possibly prove?

    I can’t prove any of this, but it’s as obvious as the sun coming up in the morning. Use your head.

    “..Western interceptor stockpiles in crisis. Rubio confirmed publicly” I’m sure the are. We suck, and like sucking bc it’s sooper-easy to fix this problem. However, we still suck less than you.

    “Meryl Nass MD, There are very serious laws of war. We and Israel are commiting war crimes. We are the terrorists today, not Iran. This is being done in our name, and we too may experience the consequences.
    You are not allowed to attack civilian targets, period. It is a crime and those who select and bomb those targets deserve a court martial.”

    Agree. 1St: you need a declaration of war. …And a REASON? 2nd: bring your court cases. That’s what they’re for.

    “US B-2 Bombers Belatedly Authorized To Use British Bases To Hit Deep Inside Iran”

    England totally against this. When was England last against Israel, or War in M.E.? 1909? 1809? Okay, data point that keeps popping up here. So England hates Israel all a-sudden?

    “we’re in a war with Iran because Israel forced our hand. This is basically the worst possible thing he could have said.”

    Why? Do people hate the Truth that much? Seems the obvious thing to say, I’d headline it if I were him, and we can all discuss it openly for the first time since Kennedy. We can then discuss the “Liberty” too.

    “Iran: We have nothing to do with the attack on the Saudi Aramco refinery, it was Israel”

    Fog of war but wouldn’t surprise me. Nor Tucker’s allegation that was instantly refuted. I totally believe Israel would and would be shocked silly if they didn’t.

    “All the air defense missiles in the US are for Israel. “America has abandoned us” – Saudi official”

    WTF is WRONG with you people??? You have more money than God, you’re part of BRIICSSSS, our stuff sucks balls, and Russia was selling it to you. Like this is OUR fault? It’s not my fault you were born retarded. Buy an S300 if you want to live, moron. PS read any history book with “America” and “Treaty” in it. I have.

    “So far we’ve heard that although we killed the whole Iranian regime, this was not a regime change war.”

    Agree, Matt Walsh. NOW! Would somebody like to TELL THE TRUTH, put a bullet in Asian Guy’s central CPU and listen to any pundit – ANYWHERE – who’s been right for once and not constantly always, deadly, wrong? Nope. Nobody is doing any of those things. Nor you either, or your roster would substantially change. Saying it for years now: LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE WHO WERE RIGHT BEFORE. This is what happens if you don’t: All lies, no one calls anyone on it, eventually all language becomes gibberish. “Subprime is Contained” “Green Shoots” “They’ll greet us with flowers.” Raul, TAE, and all us were right on every one of those. They shouted us down for years and still are.

    “Have you tried NotRetarded? Ask your Doctor about NotRetarded today and stop listening to retarded people.”

    “Jeffrey Sachs: ‘Trump Is An Utter Disgrace To Our Nation – He Lied To Us’”

    Boy, glad THAT’S never happened before. Mr. Sachs. Who used those lies to crush Russia and extract their resources under exactly said lying Presidents “Not an Inch to the East” n’ co. “We wuz only joking about Minsk II, ha ha” — Merkel

    “​Act of War or ​Piracy? ‘Russian shadow fleet’ tanker”

    Always tough with State Actors, by my go-to is always piracy. Start there and tell me why it isn’t.

    “France’s nuclear ‘renaissance’ faces uncertainty amid uranium crunch”

    There’s zero “Crunch”, all the same Uranium is still there. Mined by the same mines. France just doesn’t want to pay. Black Africans aren’t humans, I guess, their markets aren’t real.

    “US Navy strikes on Iranian targets reduce the likelihood of arms supplies to Ukraine and deplete American missile stocks. This also fuels the rise in global oil and gas prices, which benefits Russia. A prolonged closure of the Strait of Hormuz could revive the market for Russian energy, providing an opportunity to sell unsold oil.”

    What does he mean? All those sound good for America. I’d pay to have that happen. The only sad part on that list is Israel still exists, but that seems to be getting fixed.

    “Israeli F-35 Just Shot Down Iranian Fighter Jet Over Tehran”

    Sadly, Asian guy, so I have to assume it’s dead-wrong. However, this is what Luongo was saying we are fly-at-will over all Iran, and I think that was morning yesterday. Odd: if that’s true, we are WINNING and the media refuses to report. Huh. Pretty funny. Aren’t these the same guys can’t stop lying about how awesome we were in Israel, Iraq War, … heck, VietNam, Grenada… for a zillion years since before I was born? Yet someone flipped a switch – “The Memo” went out – and now America is required to LOSE when we’re winning, instead of saying we WIN when we’re clearly losing. I don’t care which, but would you like to explain?

    ““It’s not a War”, drd
    Absolute panic in South Korea as stocks collapse by more than 12%, their single worst day in history

    Uhhhh…have you heard of a place called “Japan”? It’s right near there. They blew out all their markets +1 month ago in the biggest explosion since the Death Star. Don’t just chase the shiny object. Maybe the Olympic medals caused this? Maybe the Lawsuit in Georgia? Yeah, I don’t think so. And that also means Korea’s market may have nothing to do with the war either, since this problem could be predicted from orbit before Jan 1st.

    Gas is $3. Gold is plummeting. Oil is lower than ever. So go on, make your case.

    “3 US F-15s DOWNED — By America’s OWN Ally Over Kuwait”

    My present bet is that Kuwait F18 blew them up, but there’s no special reason to believe it. What fascinates me is that anybody cares. Why? Would it matter either way? If you have a “war” then you fly a lot of planes in a hurry, then this definitely happens. If Iran shot them, would it be better for you? Worse? Why?

    “IRAN NARRATIVE CRUMBLING”     What narrative? There’s a narrative? They keep making s–t up then refuting it. Exhausting.

    See now? I did not really have time to review all that. Sigh.

    March 5, 2026 at 2:02 am #233378
    Doc Robinson
    Participant

    Why don’t Trump’s warships dare to approach the Persian Gulf

    Viewpoint from Tasnim News Agency in Iran, machine translated.

    The IRGC announced today that it had targeted an American war vessel using “Qadr 380” and “Galtier” missiles from about 600 kilometers away, in the northern Indian Ocean. While the vessel was fueling.

    The important thing is that these missiles have a range of more than a thousand kilometers. Therefore, in order to target vessels, the IRGC Navy does not necessarily need to be deployed near the coast; it can deploy missile launchers deep into the country and from there to hit naval targets.

    Another important feature of these missiles is the ability to change the direction in the final stage, which means that they can move towards the target in different directions and correct their path to hit the target more accurately. Of course, the “Qadr 380” missile may have a higher radar cross-section due to the engine’s position outside the body, but it has an important advantage: a very simple and fast launch pad. This simplicity makes it possible to prepare and shoot quickly, and production is not complicated. For this reason, these missiles are produced in large quantities and are available to operational forces.

    The Americans have announced that they are willing to escort tankers and merchant ships in the Strait of Hormuz, but they also seem to know that such a plan is very difficult to implement in practice. If U.S. warships actually enter the Strait of Hormuz or the Persian Gulf, they will become easy targets for Iranian naval forces.

    The statement of the CENTCOM commander that the United States has destroyed 17 Iranian vessels and that Iran no longer has an active vessel in the region, is more like a psychological war. Some of the vessels targeted were support vessels, and some may have been combat vessels located at the dock. But the main part of Iran’s naval power is based on fast-paced vessels, which are very difficult for large carriers and are very efficient in the closed environment of the Persian Gulf for rapid operation, high maneuvers and mass firing of cruise missiles.

    In fact, one of the main reasons why Americans do not even approach the Iranian coast in the Oman Sea is the same naval power, let alone in the Strait of Hormuz.

    https://tasnimnews.ir/fa/news/1404/12/14/3531691/%DA%86%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%87%D8%A7%DB%8C-%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%BE-%D8%AC%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA-%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%AF%DB%8C%DA%A9-%D8%B4%D8%AF%D9%86-%D8%A8%D9%87-%D8%AE%D9%84%DB%8C%D8%AC-%D9%81%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%B3-%D8%B1%D8%A7-%D9%86%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%AF

    March 5, 2026 at 2:05 am #233379
    BlueSkye
    Participant

    “ZOG”

    The older name was Boogeyman.

    March 5, 2026 at 2:39 am #233380
    those darned kids
    Participant

    sorry, doc d, the war is lost.

    everybody hates america now.

    March 5, 2026 at 3:36 am #233383
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    We can look forward to:
    Israel being obliterated by Iran
    Death of the petrodollar
    Iran, Russia and China crushing NATO allowing the world to live in peace

    March 5, 2026 at 4:12 am #233384
    Michael Reid
    Participant

    Ten hours that shook West Asia
    We may just be reaching the portal of the post-U.S. West Asia order.

    Join us on Telegram, Twitter, and VK.

    Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su

    Ten hours. That’s what it took for Iran to:

    put the Empire of Chaos, Plunder and Permanent Strikes under siege all across the Gulf.
    bomb 27 major US military bases, relentlessly – inflicting extensive damage.
    determine that all US and Israeli assets and interests in West Asia are legitimate targets for retaliation.
    block the Strait of Hormuz (then unblocked; but free passage only for Russian and Chinese vessels).
    Up next: if US warships do not retreat, they will be sunk.

    The whole drama, predictably, developed as Deceit in the Making. The war was ordered by the leader of a death cult in West Asia, a genocidal psycho who then took refuge in his “Wing of Zion” and fled to… Berlin. His American sidekick, neo-Caligula, a megalomaniacal Narcissus, co-ordered the war from Mar-a-Lago.

    Their spectacular success on Day One: to kill Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei in a decapitation strike. And to kill scores of girls – 100+ and counting – in an elementary school in southern Iran.

    Predictably, this was also a remix of the assassination of Hezbollah’s Sayyed Nasrallah in Beirut.

    During indirect “negotiations” in Oman the Trump 2.0 team required Tehran to clarify an offer that required some final fine-tuning.

    Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr bin Hamad al Busaidi confirmed that Iran, for the first time, agreed to “never” accumulate nuclear material for a bomb; maintain zero stockpiles of enriched material; agree that existing stockpiles would be down-blended; and allow full IAEA verification.

    The meeting took place in Tehran on Saturday morning, uniting top members of the Iranian leadeship.

    The Epstein Syndicate duly bombed the meeting, killing top officials plus Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The Empire of Chaos does not do negotiations: it uses them as a weapon.

    Yet there was no instant collapse leading to regime change. Less than half an hour after being struck, the Tehran leadership launched a stunning, lightning-fast, coordinated counterpunch on a massive scale, in 24-hour continuous launch mode, thus establishing the parameters of escalation as well as resilience supremacy on the battlefield.

    For instance, Iranian tactics are now very different compared to the 12-day war. In the second wave against Bahrain, they used Shahed-136 kamikaze drones only after a massive ballistic missile barrage which completely bewildered US defense systems. The result: scores of expensive interceptors expended too early. The drones only came later.

    Only on Day 1 Iran fired over 1,200 missiles and drones. Tehran has tens of thousands of missiles and drones in stock. US interceptors are about to run dry in a matter of days. Each THAAD costs $15 million. The math is definitely not leaning the imperial way.

    From martyrdom to revenge

    Iran going after US assets in Dubai is a masterful strategic play – linked to destroying sheltering US military personnel and/or clandestine CIA digs. All those tacky Dubai symbols of bling bling opulence are on fire; Burj Khalifa, Burj Al Arab, Palm Jumeirah.

    As correctly argued here, 88% of the population of Dubai is foreign. Apart from being the world capital of money laundering, this is most of all a special economic zone with a flag, now running the risk of a bank run.

    After all, the UAE does not produce anything – as in productive capitalism; it’s a tax-free service economy built around bling bling opulence and safety (now gone).

    Dubai also happens to have enormous leverage over neo-Caligula – as in “Trump coins”, personal investments, donations to the Board of Peace, a.k.a. Board of War. Aviation is 27% of Dubai’s GDP – and 18% of the UAE’s. Dubai airport in the dark is an absolute disaster. Mega-airlines like Emirates, Etihad and Qatar Airways – complete with their mega-airports – are key vehicles/nodes of the global transportation matrix.

    Dubai in the dark is a very bad business proposition for Trump. There’s no question MbZ is already on the phone begging for a ceasefire. Moreover, Tehran also made clear that energy giants Chevron and ExxonMobil are legitimate targets. So it’s no wonder neo-Caligula already wanted a ceasefire on Day 1, communicated via Italian diplomatic channels to Iran.

    Whatever the torrents of speculation on whether the genocidal psycho in Tel Aviv did force neo-Caligula to go to war when his Invincible Armada was still not ready, the fact is the Pentagon lost the strategic initiative.

    The script is being written in Tehran; that’s going to be a war of attrition, where Tehran has gamed every possible scenario.

    So here’s how it all developed, in a flash. Decapitation strike. Council of Experts convened in minutes. IRGC: “maximum force” response within the hour, unleashed over the death cult + petro-chihuahuas. Succession mechanism: in place. Command structure: in place. No regime change. Zero imperial strategic dominance. From martyrdom to revenge.

    The whole Global South is watching.

    Total strategic rupture

    According to several IRGC sources, Ayatollah Khamenei had everything prepared in excruciating detail via a series of directives. He had instructed Ali Larijani, the secretary of the Security Council, and selected leadership members not only on how Iran could resist to the Epstein Syndicate firepower but also any assassination attempts, including on himself. Khamenei was killed alongside Ali Shamkhani, the former National Security Council secretary, and IRGC Commander Mohammed Pakpour.

    Khamenei named no less than four layers of succession for each key military command and government role. No wonder all crucial decisions after the decapitation were taken in record time.

    The genocidal/murderous American-Israeli duo has no idea what’s coming. They managed to affront the whole of the Shi’ite world – not to mention hundreds of millions of Sunni Muslims as well.

    Total strategic rupture does not even begin to describe it: we have reached the absolute point of no return between Washington and Tehran. Instead of this childish notion of regime change, which only braindead fanatical Zionists can entertain, the killing of Khamenei is consolidating a national consensus; legitimizing a no holds barred retaliation; and unleashing a multi-front confrontation stretching from the Gulf to the Levant.

    Iran’s immediate tactics are crystal clear: to saturate Israeli air defences and trigger a massive Interceptor Crisis. That is bound to compel Israeli generals to beg neo-Caligula for a ceasefire – even as Iran will not cease to pick Israel’s infrastructure and economy apart, possibly causing the death cult to crack in a matter of days.

    Russia and China meanwhile will be working in the shade to ensure Iran’s defense network remains intact.

    If West Asia gas and oil stops flowing only for a few days, all ominous bets are off when it comes to the global economy. Iran has gamed all scenarios and can apply and release pressure at will.

    The Global South will be learning all the lessons of how the Iranian leadership displays solidarity and clear objectives while forced on an unprecedented fight on several fronts against the imperial colossus – and that after 47 years of relentless sanctions. This kind of resistance, in itself, is already a miracle.

    Now the path may be opened towards the end of American military footprint across West Asia – something envisioned by a lineage of martyrs, from Soleimani and Nasrallah to Khamenei.

    We may just be reaching the portal of the post-U.S. West Asia order, where that ghastly death cult with its pathetic intolerant God will be strategically wallowing in the mire, its deterrence in tatters, consumed with paranoia while fighting multiple instance of asymmetrical pressure.

    Ten hours that shook West Asia

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