Debt Rattle April 14 2026
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April 14, 2026 at 9:39 pm #238312
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Participantdbs i remain a Luddite
April 14, 2026 at 10:38 pm #238313Dr. D
ParticipantSachs: “This makes no sense.” Okay, I stopped there. Sachs doesn’t know! First sentence! Wow, huge savings of time I can shut off now.
Sachs/Judge: “Trump talked to people before the war.” Wow. Riveting. Do Presidents talk to people? Is that their day job?
Sachs (article) “Trump, with his strong threats, apparently believed he could scare Iran” Using his DonaldTelepathy, he has no idea what the motives are AND ADMITS IT. That’s what “Apparently” means. It means, “I have no earthly idea”. Okay then!
Article: “There may be things in Trump’s past that he would not want the public to know. The situation became more unusual when Melania appeared to contradict an earlier statement from the Trump administration by saying that the Epstein files are real”
So they TOTALLLLLY, Totes, have Epstein on Trump. …Which no one can find or have page number on “We just say”. Then his WIFE comes out and says “Yeah, totally look into it, please, because we’re all Totes Guilty like that.” Uh-huh. Again, WHERE ARE ALL YOUR BRAINS?
They then “Just say” she was an Epstein girl, for which there would almost CERTAINLY be vaaaast evidence. …But same as anything to do with Trump and Epstein 600 million people can’t seem to find it.
Sachs: “Trump is stupid. He’s stupid. He doesn’t understand.” Which is why he kicked your -ss 10 years in a row now. But don’t worry: “Somebody wrote a book” he says. Ah. Well if “an expert” “Wrote a book” it’s all settled now. Also “Everyone writes everything down and follows the rules” in government. Ah. Wow, thanks Jeff, you’re right, I’ve never seen government lie or not follow processes. Golly.
“So, the attack on Iran turned out to be a major mistake by the Israeli regime and the Zionist empire in the United States.”
Is it? Looks like we got everything we wanted. We’re getting super-rich if nothing else. China is contained without firing a shot (in Asia).
Sachs: “Trump wants to overthrow Iran, install their leader, steal their oil” Which he uses his DonaldTelepathy. Hey dude: NONE OF THAT HAPPENED. In Caracas, for instance, whole government still there. Paying retail for oil. Restarting the wells. There was NO stand-in leader waiting for Iran. The CIA/MI6 had a stand-in for Venezuela, Trump did NOT put her in. This is even worse in Iran as there WAS no leader, no stand in, nor did Trump ever mention one. So there is literally Noooooooooooo reason to think a single one of these three is operational. Sachs just ignores it. All facts: discarded. Anything he doesn’t understand, “It’s stupid”. He talks solely emotionally, “Killing people must be super-satisfying I guess”. Ah. So again, showing you have NO idea AT ALL. “There is NO reason, NO political gain” We shut off China’s oil. Not saying that’s the motive, etc but THAT’S A REASON OR GAIN, jackass. He can’t see it.
There is NOTHING more obvious than shutting off China’s oil, you can see it from orbit. HE CAN’T SEE IT. The power of the TDS is too strong. “The power of the TDS compels you….” And I don’t even think that’s what’s happening. And he would EVEN be able to say “Trump is evil as f—k” by saying it, that is we’re shutting off China’s oil. He can’t. He can’t put two words together coherently right now. …As usual, but this is especially bad.
Sachs: “Trump has ministers around him” Ah. Well. First time ever, I guess, a government has ministers and advisors talking. Oh no.
Sachs: “I was in Europe and people don’t like Trump.” Wow. Well, Oh No then. He’s not popular!?! Gee, I guess we know what your University Position was about: “Is this book/paper/lecture going to be POPULAR with the “Experts”? No accurate, not useful, POPULAR. Yeah, I know.
Sachs: “Trump is Hitler.” That’s because Hitler – Pope. Dude, the Pope was WITH Hitler in 1940. He just is opening mouth and spinning. So the CRITICAL thing at this time is Trump tweeting Memes. A deep thinker Jeff is.
Judge: “Trump bombed the pope” Ah. Well. Good to use accurate language. Why? They have no idea, Sachs makes up s’more stuff.
Sachs: “Israel wants to overthrow Iran”. Yes, and officially so does all Europe. Probably all the Gulf states too. And? Israel agrees with most of the world, oh noes! That’s why they’re uniquely bad. They also have no balls, complain and won’t do anything about anything, which is why they’re uniquely moral.
Sachs then says “We can’t have peace ANYWHERE until we solve ALL issues at once, including Palestine.” Ah, no problem then! Practically solved!
On and on and on and on. The vanity of the world’s dumbest experts, doing nothing.
THIS IS WHY MURDOCH, THE WORLD’S BIGGEST GLOBALIST HAS HIM ON SPEED DIAL ALL DAY, get a clue.
Topcat: “TACO isn’t going to cut the mustard here.” Okay, he’ll bomb the straits then. Happy now?
“Trumpturd, try stopping a Russian flagged vessel. FAFO
I believe we already have in the past. The Baltic? Also that ship from Caracas last month? So…. Nothing, I guess? Again?
Duran: Alex C says “Europe has no options and no responsibility, not now not ever. Ah. You’ve said this before! I was unaware that anyone, born and living, had NO options whatsoever and NO responsibility to try anything. But no, because….Drum roll… It’s all AMERICA’S FAULT. WE are the ones who told them to rely eniterly on on Russian oil, shut down all their nuke plants, and vacation on the beach all August instead of building battleships. Totes! We said it…so Europe just did it! Every other nation in the world we tell suff to, they resist! But nor Europe. It’s IMPOSSIBLE. Thanks Alex.
AND if they ever DID anything…you know, like “Work”, it wouldn’t matter anyway so why bother. Nope, making peace with Russia, opening the North Sea, drilling for gas, building nuke plants, …expelling 20M people who shouldn’t be there…no effect at all!
Ah well. I guess sit in the dark and die then, my dude.
Alex M: “The Europeans might possibly START considering, maybe a breakup from the United States, a divorce, in 2-10 years. But they won’t really unless the U.S. makes them anyway. And then to actually DO it? Psah, I dunno, maybe 25-50 years?
Oh, um, Al? Yeah, um that timescale is not going to work for us, pal. First THERE IS NO POSSIBLE WAY WE COULD BE LOUDER about leaving and our divorce. Already past-tense my dude. Also, We’re ALREADY gone, in effect, but our stuff—like say Germany military bases – are going to be gone in 5.
So Alex, who is TOTALLY on top of these things compared to other Europeans, really gets it and Trump…is out of his mind. Like all Europeans when anything boomerangs back to “reality.” Like “Sure we closes all the nuke plants, but we expect to have electricity anyway.” Ah, great plan. IIRC, your plug for the grid was the two shut down nuke plants in Ukraine, plus Russia. And those are a Looooooooooong way from Paris.
So…yeah.
Last note from them? Alex C: Actually, the sole, backward nation of Iran has proven to be more powerful than ALL EUROPE COMBINED. How embarrassing. Yes. It is. They say no to the U.S. any time they want (Alex says) and Europe won’t. Yes. Since you have like 20 times their GDP maybe want to look into that or something. You’re SUB THIRD WORLD, man. Apparently IRAN …should just invade. !!! If only Turkey weren’t in the way, Iran should just TAKE all Europe and tell them to stuff it.
Yes, this is how much a dead zero ALL EUROPE COMBINED IS. As I say constantly, the Girl Scouts of Pennsylvania could take you. This is not against Europeans, it’s very obviously been highly orchestrated, but it’s a serious problem. We’ve fought the same dumb s—t tooth and nail while you laughed and killed us by the millions, looking down your nose. Okay, man. How’s it goin’?
Yes, Europe is a zero. Alex C says, then Alex M says UK couldn’t stand 70k troops, couldn’t field 20k for more than a month, has no planes on their carriers (now aging out), and …??? And here’s the thing: Like Europeans, they then SAY these things that need to be done…and throw up their hands and go to the beach. So you KNOW you need an army…not to DIE, to put too fine a point on it, but…that takes like work n’ stuff and is hard. So you weren’t arsed today. For 40 years in a row. Again, these are the GOOD guys in Europe, and they are infected with this same disease.
April 14, 2026 at 10:56 pm #238314Michael Reid
ParticipantApril 14, 2026 at 11:02 pm #238315Michael Reid
ParticipantApril 14, 2026 at 11:09 pm #238316Dr. D
ParticipantYou’re not really going to argue that the US Navy can’t stop unarmed ships going 6mph.
And that a captain won’t stop if a battleship hails him, but keeps going? This AFTER we sunk Iranian ship IN INDIA?
And that we have no idea where Iran’s railways are and where they leave the country.
There are many things that might be said but those don’t seem to be the hills to die on.
Well, sir, I take the other side of those bets. Also that China wants Iran flipped and open as much as we do.
April 14, 2026 at 11:17 pm #238317Michael Reid
ParticipantApril 15, 2026 at 12:13 am #238318Michael Reid
ParticipantThe China-Pakistan-GCC riddle
No one is betting that most GCC petro-monarchies in West Asia have seen which way the wind is blowin’.Contact us: info@strategic-culture.su
China and Pakistan released a joint 5-points statement on the war on Iran that at face value might be considered as lame as it gets.
Immediate ceasefire & humanitarian access to all affected areas.
Early peace talks; respect for sovereignty of Iran & Gulf states; diplomacy over force.
Protection of civilians & non-military infrastructure under international law.
Security of shipping lanes, especially the Strait of Hormuz.
Strengthening role of the United Nations and a UN Charter-based peace framework.
For all of Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar’s unbounded enthusiasm, this sounds like a cliché collection with no bite. Dar heavily spun that both the US and Iran expressed their “confidence” in Pakistan’s mediation. That’s extremely debatable.A feasible scenario: China was not convinced at all by anything discussed by a Quad – the Foreign Ministers of Pakistan, Turkiye, Saudi Arabia and Egypt – meeting in Islamabad. So Dar had to rush to Beijing to answer some tough questions.
Most of all, China could not possibly risk becoming the guarantor of a non-plan which will certainly be bombed by the Baboon of Barbaria in no time.
Of course there’s way more to it. But that will have to be discussed strictly between China and Iran. Dar had to run to Beijing because Tehran simply does not entirely trust Pakistan, not to mention the Turks and the Arabs. For anything meaningful to happen, Iran needs serious guarantees from China.
Previously, the Iranian government – with all its ministers – had responded to the 15-point US letter sent via Pakistan (in fact another intimation to surrender). They rejected all the US points and asserted the right to enrich uranium; continue developing its missile systems; request compensation for the unlawful war; and a lasting end of the war guaranteed by the UN.
Then there’s another intriguing scenario. The vague final statement might be interpreted as an opening for China to step in and mould the post-American Persian Gulf.
Pakistan’s Army Chief, Field Marshal Asim Munir, the strongman of the current regime, has the Baboon of Barbaria on speed dial. This was Ishaq Dar’s second trip to China in 3 months. He was on the phone several times recently with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi.
So how did we get here?
What is this Muslim Quad really up to
To be blunt, Egypt geopolitically is a non-entity; and to make matters worse, did less than nothing about the horrendous Gaza genocide. Egypt and Pakistan can be seen in several aspects as vassals of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which are vassals of the combo US-death cult in West Asia (but that, in the case of Saudi, may be about to change).
There was vast spin that the meeting in Islamabad was coordinated by a “Sunni Axis”. Stratospheric nonsense. What really matters is that all of them back the death cult in West Asia; for instance, as in Turkiye continuing backdoor trade despite an “official” ban.
The interlocked relations of these four Muslim nations is complex. Pakistan and Iran share a tricky border: Sistan-Balochistan in Iran, Balochistan in Pakistan, this one crammed with CIA/MI6 infiltrated/weaponized actors such as the Balochistan Liberation Movement, BLM.
Islamabad has a defense pact with Riyadh, signed in September last year; yet that does not mean Pakistan would help Saudi against Iran, which is being illegally bombed by foreign actors. Everybody even in the Baloch deserts knows that if Iran falls, Pakistan is next.
Turkiye’s Fidan – who harbors presidential ambitions – is essentially an Atlanticist. Both Pakistan and Egypt are de facto run by two Zionist-linked generals. And then, to complicate matters, the Baboon of Barbaria, in public, called MbS an ass-kisser: nothing in the Arab world can possibly be more humiliating than that.
The Islamabad Quad met just as Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait were “privately urging” the Baboon of Barbaria to go all out against Iran. That instantly changed after the “kiss my ass” gambit.
Now the GCC is already broken. Oman and Qatar declared themselves neutral – and won’t antagonize Iran. Riyadh, after Islamabad, came up with something quite bombastic. MbS has already started to exact his revenge: “We will no longer purchase American weapons.” Translation: one side of the larger than life petrodollar scam is already collapsing. The other side is collapsing in the Strait of Hormuz.
It was obvious even before Islamabad that Iran will not consider any US demands relayed via the Quad. Only via China.
Chinese diplomacy is always mastering sophisticated understatement. And caution. It was China that brokered the diplomatic agreement between Iran and Saudi Arabia in Beijing: Wang Yi was there to give the imprimatur. But that, in fact, never really came together in practice.
Beijing simply cannot risk guaranteeing any peace initiative alone because they cannot trust the Trump administration nor the genocidal psycho killers in Tel Aviv.
The only reasonable path forward would be a sort of non-aggression pact fully guaranteed by the five permanent members of the Security Council; and even that could be bombed by the Baboon of Barbaria whenever his whims dictate.
Pitting Persians, Arabs, Turks, Kurds against each other
Islamabad’s ambition is boundless. They dream of facilitating a Hormuz framework – already being engineered by Tehran – with Beijing as de facto guarantor, thus at the same time solidifying Chinese influence across the Persian Gulf while Pakistan collects the strategic dividend of becoming a key geopolitical partner in West Asia.
But there’s a catch. Neither Iran nor China need Pakistan for an Hormuz framework. That’s already in effect: Iran’s parliament has already approved legislation to make the toll booth permanent – with a tiered system where Tehran collects fees in yuan and passage is allowed for everyone except US and Israeli-linked vessels.
Everyone in West Asia knows what the death cult wants: total Divide and Rule, pitting Persians, Turks, Arabs and Kurds against each other. Essentially, the blow up of West Asia – with the proverbial, incited Sunni-Shi’ite sectarian tensions widening to the point of involving Pakistan, all to the benefit of that ghastly concoction, Eretz Israel.
Assuming the war would end with a negotiated settlement – absolutely out of the question as it stands – Pakistan would profit immensely: the perpetually-stalled Iran-Pakistan (IP) gas pipeline, blocked by US sanctions, would finally come to light.
Then there’s the Gwadar angle – the Pakistani port in the Arabian Sea which is a counterpart of the Iranian port of Chabahar in the Sea of Oman, only 80 km away. Gwadar is 400 km away from the Strait of Hormuz. Gwadar is the southwest maritime terminal of the $62 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), the flagship New Silk Roads/BRI project.
A Gwadar boom will allow Pakistan to develop refining, storage, and transit infrastructure connecting it with Iran’s energy flows. Translation; further integration between West Asia and South Asia. No wonder the Americans will do everything to prevent it – as much as they are bombing nodes of another key connectivity corridor, the Russia-Iran-India International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC).
Cracks on the GCC’s glitzy walls
The GCC is fracturing in real time. The UAE – an artificial construct, carved out by the Brits of lands belonging to the Sultanate of Oman – for all practical purposes has entered the American War on Iran. No culture. No History. Only a bling bling money laundering machine – which may be destined to extinction, or a return to Oman.
MbS, for his part, has already started to exact his revenge: and what he wants is definitely not what MbZ in Abu Dhabi wants. Iran, for its part, has already established, via ballistic missiles, the ability to devastate GCC petro-monarchies which insist on hosting US bombing raids.
And still, endless rabid vociferation and tweaking of narratives aside, there does not seem to exist any realistic possibility for the unhinged criminal psychopath incarnating the Presidency of the United States to find an honorable way out from his war.
He needs to pay back his selected billion-dollar Zionist donors; he needs a distraction from the Epstein files; yet at the same time there are signs he is “bored”; ready to ditch the GCC petro-monarchies; ready to declare Mission Accomplished; and ready to change the narrative again – as in attacking Cuba.
China and the Global South, in contrast, are fully aware that Iran’s Sovereign Resistance is now configured as the ultimate game-changer.
Geography is destiny, as much as History is geography in motion: Iran is the key crossroads and logistics maritime/landbridge connecting Russia, all of Asia, West Asia, Europe and Africa. China, Russia and the momentarily-in-deep-coma BRICS-plus cannot afford not to back Iran. Because the entire future of a possible global multipolarity hinges on a surviving, thriving, Sovereign, Resistance-reinforced Iran.
Yet, as it stands, no one is betting that most GCC petro-monarchies in West Asia have seen which way the wind is blowin’.
April 15, 2026 at 1:03 am #238319those darned kids
Participant“Sachs: “Trump is stupid. He’s stupid. He doesn’t understand.” Which is why he kicked your -ss 10 years in a row now.”
STOP.
STOP.
STOP DEFENDING A MURDERER.
STOP.
YOU ARE KICKING YOUR OWN ASS.
YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED.
ALL CAPS.
April 15, 2026 at 1:06 am #238320those darned kids
Participant“we sunk Iranian ship IN INDIA”
so, ¿you are a war criminal, too?
time to find new pronouns, cowboy.
April 15, 2026 at 1:10 am #238321those darned kids
Participant“Also that China wants Iran flipped and open as much as we do.”
did “you” enjoy flipping open the girls school?
do you have children?
a soul?
empathy?
anything?!?
April 15, 2026 at 1:35 am #238322those darned kids
Participant“vatican is one week away from making nuclear weapon”
hahahahahaha
April 15, 2026 at 1:43 am #238323those darned kids
Participanti do apologize for my tone. it’s as if i’m yelling at a cliché that has wagged its hubris in front of me my entire life, and i pray if i yell loud enough, maybe it will finally learn to listen.
April 15, 2026 at 2:14 am #238324Michael Reid
ParticipantApril 15, 2026 at 3:00 am #238325Michael Reid
ParticipantApril 15, 2026 at 3:10 am #238326WES
ParticipantMPSK:
I think your poem today, is one of the very best poems you have written on TAE!
April 15, 2026 at 3:18 am #238327Michael Reid
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