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Ukraine Flees Avdeevka as Russian "Aggressive Attrition" Takes Toll

Biden has blood on his hands and with so little blood going to his brain I expect there will be more.  But the waste of money becomes ever more obvious.

There is an area where Ukrainians have been shelling Donetsk city for years.  It now is in Russian hands.  For months Russian forces have been destroying Ukrainian capability.  Running down their men and ammunition.  Now the Ukrainians fall back.

But Biden will give Ukraine and Israel more money.  We should say no.



The beginning of this video has a map with English names to match up with the Russian map.  In the Russian map the area is already shown as taken.  Which is correct.  The Russian Map shows where the Ukrainians fell back to.

Political DEATHLOCK,  Time for Biden to fold-em.  (https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftse1.mm.bing.net%2Fth%3Fid%3DOIP.tkwlVsMndHom2bSG5ZC3NAHaFj%26pid%3DApi&f=1&ipt=6300acb4ec9390985a4a66e0587cce8c6a982b015af70f5edaf7deaf3bfa736b&ipo=images)

But that would require blood flow to Biden's brain.  So blood will continue flow in Ukraine.

Oil is being pumped out of the country as fast as it can be.  The Ukraine war props up the American oil industry and bankrupts the rest of us.

Quote from: K-Dog on Feb 17, 2024, 04:35 PMOil is being pumped out of the country as fast as it can be.  The Ukraine war props up the American oil industry and bankrupts the rest of us.

Ukraine doesn't have oil.  It has pipelines that transit oil coming from Russia and Turkey.

RE

Amy Martin describes the NATO machine.  A machine that does not support peace but domination.  War is a feature of collapse, and NATO will see us collapse.  Sooner.

This is dated.  Zionist have genocided many more thousand people since this video was made.

Time for revolution IMHO. But many more must die before that happens.  For now the anger can only build.

I am pissed.  You Tube age restricted the video so the gray screen will scare you away.  I am also sure that it keeps the algorithms 'in the know' to limit distribution.  I UPLOADED THE VIDEO TO MY OWN CHANNEL !

So do not be scared about the god damn gray screen.  The video is on my You Tube channel.

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Same thing happened to me. I had a similar type video exposing Israeli aggressions. Nothing was x/r rated except maybe a picture or two of rock throwing. They made it "private" and restricted.

Quote from: Knarf on Mar 08, 2024, 08:04 AMSame thing happened to me. I had a similar type video exposing Israeli aggressions. Nothing was x/r rated except maybe a picture or two of rock throwing. They made it "private" and restricted.

And 'they' also came into the Diner today and deleted your post.  I had to restore it.

Seems the U.S. government is at war with U.S. citizens.  They are taking it upon themselves to destroy private property.  We own the Diner, and we do not agree with censorship by outside sources.

Two posts deleted.  You and RE are both owed $100 by Uncle Sam.  That is what we are charging for deleted posts.  I'm sure your check will be in the mail soon.

While you are waiting you might like what JP Chapman says about all this.


The Most Dangerous Thing In The Western Hemisphere  -  Second Thought

How is that for a headline?


Is it absurd?  If so, no more than the dozens of headlines that grab your ears and eyes every day in  the FSOA.

Considering the oil and weapons money being made, my headline is not absurd.  It is in the category of amusing over-generalizations.  And less offensive than the headlines JP show in his video.

Would Vlad the Impaler actually DO that?  Because hitting the Brits is basically identical to hitting the FSoA.  It was the imminent threat that Hitler would invade England that got the FSoA into WWII much more than the Jap attack on Pear Harbor.  The Anglo-American Alliance precedes NATO and the ties between Wall Street and the City of London form the economic heart of Capitalism.

If he was to attack Brit targets, what would they be?  Would it be North Sea Oil platforms?  Pipelines?  Direct bombing of the British islands?  Hitting Brit targets inside Ukie borders is no biggy other than some political fallout if Brit soldiers are killed, but all that might do is get the Brits to withdraw any troops they have there, not their equipment and munitions.

How will the Brits respond to the threat?  Will they stop sending military hardware to Ukraine?  What kind of hardware do they actually supply?  Who are the bomb manufacturers supplying the Ukies, and where are their munitions factories?  What sort of identifying marks are there on the bomb casings that could be used to identify who made the explosive?

Of course, if you are goingto retaliate against the Brits if their hardware is used, logically you would also have to retaliate against FSoA or Israeli targets if their bombs or missiles are used.  Any of these retaliations is a direct escalation to WWIII.

It seems beyond reason that Vlad would actually do this.  War however often is not a reasoned outcome.  Diner opinions welcome.

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-will-strike-british-targets-if-uk-weapons-are-used-hit-its-2024-05-23/

Russia says it will strike British targets if UK weapons are used to hit its territory

RE

Quote from: RE on May 23, 2024, 10:34 AMIt seems beyond reason that Vlad would actually do this.  War however often is not a reasoned outcome.  Diner opinions welcome.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-says-it-will-strike-british-targets-if-uk-weapons-are-used-hit-its-2024-05-23/
RE

Well, I will put in my 2 cents, representing about 1/3 of total active Diner opinions. I agree with RE. I think every time Putin has threatened nuclear alerts and issued other random threats, Biden has pushed into them and Putin turns out to just be a pussy. It is unlikely he would go after another nuclear armed power because...well....pussys tend to be pussys.

This doesn't help him of course.

No One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work
https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-weapons-testing/

Quote from: TDoS on May 23, 2024, 03:43 PMNo One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work
https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-weapons-testing/

Doubtful it would be a nuclear response, that's too disproportionate.  Either an attack on oil infrastructure or a military base would seem the most appropriate.  First though,there has to be some confirmed evidence of an attack with Brit weapons on Ruskie soil.  I don't think there has been one of those, and the only thing I can guess the Brits provide would be close attack VTOL Jets, aka the Harriers.  Or maybe Helicopters or drones.  I don't think they provide missiles, I think those are all FSoA manufacture or maybe Israeli.  They may provide tanks, but the Ukies are on the defensive, I don't think they are rolling tanks into Mother Russia.

It seems to be mainly political posturing to sway political opinion in the UK to join the Krauts in not committing so much aid to the Ukie goobermint.

RE

Nord Stream already gives Putin reason and international justification to retaliate.  That Russia has not is strategic.  Russia does not want to play tit for tat while the economies of the west flush billions down the toilet while Russia builds military strength.

One nuke into Ras Tanura will ruin the economies of the world and Russia could easily do it.  But that would hurt the whole world so taking out North Sea oil platforms with small hypersonic nukes makes more sense.

Calling Putin a pussy promotes war, and I am not going to allow it.  The next time I see Putin called a pussy someone is going into the cooler.  The fact is Putin is a civilized and refined man and I will not be intimidated into Bad rapping Putin because it is the American and British thing to do.

Putin will do what is in the best interest of Russia, whatever that is.  Guessing Putin would not have the stones to take out a large British Asset forgets that Putin might want to stop a shooting war where hundreds of thousands have already been killed.

John Bull arrogance may make a response necessary.  From Russia's point of view.

Calling Putin a Pussy is just another example of Tdos  need to insult somebody in every post.  He closed his last posts insulting me because I don't remember meeting an anonymous stranger at an open air festival attended by thousands of people.  He says he talked to me while I was cruising around on the scooter I bought, which cuts the number down to a couple of dozen faceless people I spoke with.  Meanwhile continuing to maintain I confirmed his identity, which I haven't and which he continues to refuse to do.  Pointless waste of time again, so further posts on that dead horse will result in a cooler trip also.

RE

Quote from: RE on May 23, 2024, 06:53 PM

Quote from: TDoS on May 23, 2024, 03:43 PMNo One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work
https://www.wired.com/story/nuclear-weapons-testing/

Doubtful it would be a nuclear response, that's too disproportionate.

Bullys generally stick to proportionate responses?

Quote from: K-Dog on May 24, 2024, 11:10 AM
Calling Putin a pussy promotes war, and I am not going to allow it.  The next time I see Putin called a pussy someone is going into the cooler.

I see. Because not only are the Men In Black watching and erasing seditionist posts related to oil but the new age KGB is concerned the opinion of 1 of the 3 Diner regulars might be...significant?

Never know who's reading, only who's posting.  There's usually a half dozen or so guests on at any given time.  Most today was 14.  They're mostly bots of course, but it could be anybody.

RE

It's tough to fight a war these days without tons of high explosives.  It's not like the good old days when all you needed were some swords and battle axes which were reusable.  Even arrows could be collected from the corpses once all the bad guys were dead and  reused for the next battle.

Unfortunately those days are long gone and the stuff that makes bombs go boom and bullets leave a rifle barrel at supersonic speeds can only be used once, so you gotta keep making more of the stuff.  Where does it come from?  OIL of course!  TNT for instance is trinitrotoluene, a neat configuration of carbon atoms in a ring shape with Nitrate groups sprinkled around it.

(https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320776368/figure/fig1/AS:613512653074453@1523284223588/Chemical-structure-of-2-4-6-trinitrotoluene-TNT.png)

Now, your barrel of oil straight out of the ground doesn't have much toluene in it, its mostly straight chains of carbon atoms with hydrogen atoms sprinkled around.  That's why they call them "hydrocarbons" lol.  So to make the gobs of toluene you need you wanna start with just the fraction of oil in the barrel that has the right number of carbon atoms, 7. There's also Benzene occuring naturally in there that can be distilled out, it's already in a ring shape but only 6 carbons.  Precisely how much of these various fractions there are in any given barrel I don't know, that is something Tdos probably can answer for us.

(https://www.gas-sensing.com/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/10/5307Chemistry_62b073c167e49f6068c0c1dc.jpg_img_upload_solution_2022-07-08_13_22_59.412239-1024x576.png)

There are also synthetic tricks you can use to take shorter fractions and hook them together to make longer ones, and take longer ones and chop them into shorter ones.  However, every additional synthetic trick you use to get the ton is TNT you need for a bombing campaign takes energy and makes the production more difficult and costly.

Finally, once you have the required amount of your basic toluene molecules, you need to add your Nitrate groups.  This you do sequentially using Nitric acid, catalysts, heat and pressure in some combination that gives you the good stuff at the end.  This is the tricky part because each Nitrate group you park on the ring makes it more unstable so it wants to fly apart and reconfigure very rapidly into hot gases which then further rapidly oxidize with the oxygen in the air and gives you your big boom.

Anyhow, this whole bizness besides consuming a lot of oil as the substrate consumes a lot of electricity  or heat to perform all these synthetic tricks and give you the explosive material at the end.  That's what munitions plants do.  I tried to find details on exactly how much energy it takes to produce a kilo of TNT in a munitions factory, this info is not EZ to come by.  EZ to find how much energy is in a kilo once it's manufactured, 4x10⁶J.  About the same as a kilo of gas, just it's way more unstable and once it's detonated the reaction happens nearly instantaneously, it doesn't burn slowly to make gases.

Anyhow, it's not that important, just important is you need a LOT of the stuff to run a war and there aren't that many munitions factories around producing gobs of it all the time, they only ramp up production when they have a big war to supply.  Apparently, the munitions factories in Europe have not been able to meet the demand of the Ukies for enough bombs to match Vlad the Impaler, who probably has nearly as many munitions factories as the FSoA does, plus his own supply of oil to ake the bombs with.  Mother Russia is a one stop shop for bombs, no supply chain from other countries, no shipping of materials or completed bombs.  All relatively cheap for him since he gets it at cost. lol.  All the Western countries have to pay for the bombs they kindly donate to the Ukies so the stockholders of the munitions company make a profit.  So it's costing them more than it's costing Vlad to run this war.

This is not even counting the fact that there's a big difference in price of the missiles and artillery shells depending on how "advanced" the systems are,  and FSoA bombs tend to be expensive and technically complex whereas Ruskie bombs are cheap and stupid.  But they blow up pretty much the same. lol.

Now, the question is how committed are the NATO allies to supplying the Ukies with the bombs they need to match Vlad's relatively limitless supply when the Ukies can't PAY  for these bombs, except with promissory notes?  Somebody has to pay for it, because the stockholders are not in business as a nonprofit charitable organization.  If the German or Belgian taxpayers don't wanna fund it, then they need the FSoA to pony up the money.  I suspect at this point support for paying for the bombds is dwindling over there.

As we move forward here, energy and substrates for bomb manufacture are going to become a significant factor in prosecuting wars.  Ammo will become more scarce as well.  This won't happen overnight, but much more than WWI or WWII, producing explosives in the necessary quantities for big wars will be much more difficult.  In a major European theater war, the munitions factories for both sides are within EZ reach of cruise missiles.  We may be back to fighting wars with swords and battle axes sooner than expected.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2024/05/26/there-is-an-explosive-flaw-in-the-plan-to-rearm-ukraine

There is an explosive flaw in the plan to rearm Ukraine

RE

The FEAR level is being ramped up in media propaganda now, likely in order to bolster waning public support for backing the Ukies in the neighboring NATO countries.  How much the Ruskies are actually DOING right now of this sort of sabotage is an open question.  It quite difficult to PROVE any of these supposed acts of sabotage were committed by Ruskie "sleeper" cells supposedly in place since the days of the old USSR and Cold War.  Those sleepers are pretty old guys by now, unless of course you figure they had kids who have taken over the job from mom and dad and sit waiting for coded instructions to come in over the shortwave radio hidden in the basement. lol.

Besides old fashioned short wave and Rip Van Winkle saboteurs, the media propagandists also postulate Social Media is being used to recruit Gig-job saboteurs who will set fires at the local Mall for a few hundred Euros dropped into their crypto wallet online.  The one thing they don't mention is the possibility some of these supposed acts of sabotage are false flags executed by their own black ops security services in order to generate fear as they are blamed of the Ruskies.

This is not to say Vlad is not doing some of this, I mean he IS ex-KGB after all and if the operations had political or logistical value, I'm sure he'd consider using them.  I just don't see what that political or logistical value is right now to do so,  I don't think he needs to do this to reduce support for the war among Belgians or Germans.  At the moment, this type of action does more harm than good as far as his side is concerned.  REAL sabotage where munitions production or ammo dumps are sabotaged yes, random fires and telecommunication disruptions not so much.  It's hardly "unfair" war tactics though.  What do people think he will do if Ruskie assets are confiscated by Western banksters, sit on his duff and do nothing?

Definitely with both the trade war escalating with the Chinese and increasing propaganda surrounding the war in Ukraine, the geopolitical drift toward an expansion of hostility between the major powers has increased.  The only question is how it will evolve and what forms the conflict will take.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/5/29/as-ukraine-war-rages-russia-activates-sabotage-plans-in-europe-experts

As Ukraine war rages, Russia activates sabotage plans in Europe: Experts

RE

Where's Tony Stark when you need him?  lol.  Nothing like paying billions of dollars to FSoA military contractors for weapons that don't work.  Is anybody even held accountable for this?  You would think some general should be fired, right?  Except nobody even wants to admit the failures, and between the Congress who appropriates the money, the military planners who recommend the equipment and the contractors who build it, each group passes the buck on who's responsible.

Thing is, this stuff is just Small Potatoes, wait till real aerial combat starts taking place and $Billion$ in fighter jets start getting shot down by $10K shoulder fired laser guided missiles.  Aircrafte carriers and Dreadnoughts doing the Titanic when rammed by dozens of remote controlled speedboats and mini-subs loaded with high explosives.

The high tech stuff looks great in the movies.  IRL, not so much.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/ukraine-us-weapons/

Ukraine War rips veil off of US weapons superiority

RE

Quote from: RE on May 24, 2024, 08:11 PMNever know who's reading, only who's posting.  There's usually a half dozen or so guests on at any given time.  Most today was 14.  They're mostly bots of course, but it could be anybody.

RE

Is there a point to putting this subject matter on the internet if you are worried about who is reading? Isn't that the entire point of doing this on the internet, to be interactive, get points of view out, managing those inbound to make sure they don't interfere with the notions of the site owner, etc etc?

Otherwise wouldn't you just lock it down, vet those who want to participate, background checks, whatever it takes, and then stop worrying?

It doesn't matter to me who reads it. I find the topic interesting so I write about it.  The bots and database intrusions are an annoyance, but they don't affect us much, just occasionally posts disappear and need to be  restored, which is a pain.  All part of the modern internet environment.

RE

Quote from: RE on May 30, 2024, 06:14 PMIt doesn't matter to me who reads it.

I imagine that was true when you were the head dishwasher of the Diner, and I'll take your word that the same is true now. But the new head dishwasher does for some reason. The concern as to who reads this site is unclear to me. No one here is passing around nuke codes or discussing what info they have for sale to the Russians or anything.

It is no different than some folks who know each other and meet up for beers on a Saturday night because they don't have much of a social life the rest of the week. So why care that someone put a microphone in the peanuts?

Quote from: REI find the topic interesting so I write about it.

That is obvious and has been so since at least 2007/2008 when I first bumped into you. You aren't the only one. You haven't embedded nuke codes using steganography in your dissertations have you?

Quote from: REThe bots and database intrusions are an annoyance, but they don't affect us much, just occasionally posts disappear and need to be  restored, which is a pain.  All part of the modern internet environment.
RE

Any pattern to what they erase? Besides my insight into the geosciences of course.

Quote from: TDoS on May 30, 2024, 08:05 PMAny pattern to what they erase? Besides my insight into the geosciences of course.

Mostly the more politically oriented analysis, not the Peak Oil stuff you generally respond to.  Not surprisingly, they aren't big fans of Marxist content.  Articles and videos which put a positive spin on Putin or the Palestinians tend to attract attention from the same IP addresses all the time.  K-dog likes keeping track of what they fish for I think.  Sort of a hobby. lol.

RE

Quote from: RE on May 30, 2024, 08:23 PM

Quote from: TDoS on May 30, 2024, 08:05 PMAny pattern to what they erase? Besides my insight into the geosciences of course.

Mostly the more politically oriented analysis, not the Peak Oil stuff you generally respond to.  Not surprisingly, they aren't big fans of Marxist content.  Articles and videos which put a positive spin on Putin or the Palestinians tend to attract attention from the same IP addresses all the time.  K-dog likes keeping track of what they fish for I think.  Sort of a hobby. lol.

RE

We have never had nuke codes or anything like that.  However I have been fucked with because I have been a bad boy.  I learned a few things in the fuckification process.

I triggered 'operational security' concerning some things I learned about Merican Troll farms run by Homeland Security and that started a wild ride. 

I also flipped GW Bush the bird when his motorcade passed me years ago.  This was when he was running for re-election.  Actually as it was driving towards me, and the motorcycle escort in front was freaked out.  I was leaving a war protest.  His head looked huge through the bulletproof glass.  There were an easy 100 cars in the motorcade and I kept my hand flag flying.  There must have been 100 guns and cameras on me.  I obviously had been waiting, and the route had been changed at the last minute.  Bush went to his fund-raiser from the north not the south as had been expected.  I really did freak them out.  I wanted to avoid the crowd on the south route.

But trying to publish what I learned about troll farms is what did it.

Things happened on my wild ride you would not believe.  In the process I learned my 'file' had been started decades before any of the flipping of the bird nonsense.  Or my discovery of Troll farms run by the Merican Army.  All it took was a visit to a communist bookstore, and I was on a list.  There are many lists.


This movie describes the experience I went through in many ways.  However the intent of Homeland Security was not to make my life fun.  The movie portrays  staged excitements.  Similar to what I went through.  A couple morality plays staged for my enlightenment.  Nazis would never have done that.  They would have shot me.  Fascism Lite is much better.  Same oppression I learned.  But a much better taste.  The overtime paid to the TSA actors I'm sure exceeds all the taxes I've ever paid.

It was a very wild ride.  Complete with gang stalkings.

On the main page I have had links to other websites.  At times these links have been changed to send me messages.  The new links somehow placed on a private website (mine) send personal messages, threats to be specific.  Suggestions that bad things could happen to me or family members if I am a bad boy.  The clean-out of posts a month or so ago was only the most recent of many personal attentions.

Genocide is now legal.  Israel extirpates the Palestinian Arabs.  A teaser of what is to come.

Forfeiting their right to exist in my opinion.  But the American ruling class are racist elitist assholes who can't get their heads past what they were told was 'good' when they were ten years old in Sunday School.  Passage of H.R.6090, the Antisemitism Awareness Act of 2023.  Now makes failing to praise the murder of Palestinian Arabs a crime. Calling Israel a fascist apartheid state.  Which it is, is now against the law.  Praise of the murder of Palestinian Arabs is consequently mandated by law.

Quote"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Yo daddy's America, and not this one.


This short video explains what congress has done.  And the understanding of the implications.

Proxy wars suspend real rights. 

America's racist elitists in congress and the Oval Office have an agenda.  The agenda is to enter into the promised land with.

F-35 Lightning II advanced stealth fighter jets. F-15 Eagle tactical fighter aircraft.  F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft.  AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.  M1 Abrams battle tanks.  M109 Howitzer self-propelled artillery.  M270 Multiple Launch Rocket Systems.  Patriot Missile surface-to-air missile systems.  The Iron Dome short-range rocket defense system is subsidized by the U.S. government.  Arrow Missile System anti-ballistic missile systems.  Mark 48 torpedoes for submarines.  C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft.  KC-135 aerial refueling aircraft.  P-8 Poseidon patrol aircraft.  HMMWV (Humvee) high mobility multipurpose wheeled vehicles.  M-4 Carbine standard issue assault rifles.  M-16 standard issue assault rifles.  M-60 Machine Gus.  TOW Missile System anti-tank guided missiles.  JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) GPS-guided bombs.  GBU-28 bunker buster laser-guided bombs.  Mk 84 Bomb general-purpose bombs.  Hellfire air-to-surface missiles.

A partial list of weapons the U.S. supplies to Israel.  To support this agenda, free speech is now further compromised.



Thou shall not kill.



Any Questions?

US seizes Scott Ritter's passport (https://www.malaysiasun.com/news/274394369/us-seizes-scott-ritters-passport)


The RT contributor (https://www.rt.com/op-ed/authors/scott-ritter/) was stopped from visiting Russia

The US State Department has seized the passport of former Marine and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter, he told RT on Monday.

Ritter was on his way to Russia for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) when he was pulled off the plane and had his documents confiscated.

"I was boarding the flight. Three [police] officers pulled me aside. They took my passport. When asked why, they said 'orders of the State Department'. They had no further information for me," Ritter told RT. "They pulled my bags off the plane, then escorted me out of the airport. They kept my passport."

Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, who later served as the US and UN weapons inspector in Iraq. He is also a RT contributor, writing about international security, military affairs, Russia, and the Middle East, as well as arms control and nonproliferation.

He most recently visited Russia (https://www.rt.com/russia/591663-gauntlet-of-redemption-chechnya-russia/) in January, spending time in Chechnya, Moscow and St. Petersburg, among other places.

The most recent post on Ritter's Telegram channel (https://t.me/ScottRitter/2319) put the Clooney Foundation for Justice on notice for its alleged crusade against "Russian propagandists."

"Here I am. In your face. If telling the truth about Russia makes me a propagandist in your book, then I accept the title," he wrote. "Bring it on. I'll school you on the First Amendment."

"You have zero concept of what free speech is. Try and arrest me and you'll find out. In spades. It's war," he added.

Caleb Maupin explains in detail.  It is a worth a listen.  Scott Ritter was set up by an undercover cop.  A very interesting story.  Scott is grounded for wanting to talk to Tara Reade among other things.


Scott is an American Hero.  As the foolishness of our American elites continue to worship a dead cold war, Scott's voice becomes ever more important.

* The title confusion is explained.

The murder by  U.S. money of Ukranians is out of hand and not meeting objectives.


The situation becomes more dangerous as the Biden agenda fails.  Trump or a nuclear war.  What is the best option?  Is there another way to dump Biden?

The tune mentioned by Scott in the video.  Never mind that the fucker who sings it owns the Rising Sun.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 04, 2024, 12:20 PMIs there another way to dump Biden?

The best (only?) hope is that he steps aside for the Lady Obamanator.  Or fortuitously drops dead before the election.

RE

Quote from: RE on Jun 04, 2024, 01:14 PM

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 04, 2024, 12:20 PMIs there another way to dump Biden?

The best (only?) hope is that he steps aside for the Lady Obamanator.  Or fortuitously drops dead before the election.

RE

Does the Lady Obaminator know that the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 adopted 11/1011995 "Determines that Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination" with 72 votes in favor, 35 against and 32 abstains.

Or is such knowledge inconsistent with life on Martha's Vineyard.
                                                               

Quote from: K-DogScott is an American Hero.

I'll take my heroes lacking the sexual convictions and jail time (https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna45049386) thank you very much.

Why is it those who have a chance of being taken seriously have to wreck it with this kind of nonsense?

Quote from: TDoS on Jun 04, 2024, 02:38 PM

Quote from: K-DogScott is an American Hero.

I'll take my heroes lacking the sexual convictions and jail time (https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna45049386) thank you very much.

Why is it those who have a chance of being taken seriously have to wreck it with this kind of nonsense?

I don't think male ex-military officers who engage in online sex chat are particularly rare, but ones who also are pro_Russia and write about it online are definitely more likely to be under FBI surveillance and set up for a sting operation of the kind this guy got convicted for engaging in.  Oldest trick in the book in the Spy Biz to set up political opponents with a sex scandal.

Definitely shows bad judgement on his part since it's a no-no to send nudie pics of yourself to a minor, but it doesn't make his political material any less valid.  Anyhow, that conviction was back in 2011, so he's paid his debt to society for sexting with a teenager.  It's SHOCKING I know, but if Jesus can forgive him, shouldn't we also?

RE

I confess to being a little surprised that our MIC is so woefully short of production facilities for weapons and basic ammo components like black powder and TNT.  Spend billions of $$$ building ships and artillery that fire these shells, but don't even make the basic components?  Nobody in the military is held responsible or gets fired for this either?

I also find it hard to believe it will take a couple of years to ramp up production and keep the Ukies locked & loaded.  They ramped up production of a Covid vaccine faster than that.  This is century old chemistry and basic forging and machining of metal that's been around twice as long as that.

Of course what it DOES mean is a huge windfall for folks who want to get into the weapons manufacturing biz.  Of course you'll need the right connections to get a contract though.

For you fans and aficionados of AI, here is an application TAILOR MADE for this technology!  Making an Artillery Shell is such a simple and straightforward engineering task, I don't see why they need any workers at all for a manufacturing plant.   They have new Fast Food restaurants that are entirely robotic.  Just substitute  explosive ingredients for the food and bomb casings for the paper and plastic packaging materials and POOF, it will turn out artillery shells.  No new software necessary. lol.  Adapt robotic arms from the auto industry.  The plant can be run remotely and the units in the field can order their ordnance directly over Amazon.  The order goes straight to the factory and the ordnance is picked up by FedEx which delivers it to the Front Lines when it Absolutely, Positively has to get there Overnight! lol.

Of course, this is all just tip of the iceberg stuff when it comes to the TRUE readiness of the FSoA military to fight any kind of real war that takes more than a few divisions  of Special Forces, all branches of the military have been unable to meet recruitment goals for even reduced "peacetime" jobs in the military, servicing all the high tech equipment they order up.  I'll bet dollars to doughnuts anytime a tank commander has a problem with his M1 Abrams tank, the wait time to get it in the shop is longer than the wait times cripples have for getting their wheelchairs fixed or Tesla owners have to get their battery pack fixed.

If/when a real war comes up, who are they going to draft?  There aren't enough new HS graduates available to take Fast Food jobs, and the military pays worse than flipping burgers at Mickey Ds.  Unless they start conscripting Chinese right as they cross the border from Mexico into SoCal, finding cannon fodder that isn't too fat to get off the couch in mom's basement is going to be pretty tough.

Back to the Ammo Problem though, I bet the problem is mirrored closely with small arms ammo, aka plain old bullets.  I'll bet the actual manufacturing capacity isn't more than say 50% above what they manufacture in a normal peacetime economy, and if a Civil War broke out tomorrow, the National Guard, Right Wing militias, Drug Cartels and Gang Bangers would all start running short of bullets inside a month.  Good luck ramping up production once the fighting gets going too.

This is probably a good time to arm yourself with a Crossbow and a Potato Gun to fire homemade Molotov Cocktails from your bunker.  Head to the feed store and lay in a supply of Ammonium Nitrate fertilizer also.  Buy smokeless powder in bulk and invest in reloading equipment.  Ammo will run out faster than Toilet Paper during Covid.  lol.

https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2024-us-global-war-weapons-race/?utm_source=newsshowcase&utm_medium=gnews&utm_campaign=CDAqEAgAKgcICjDi7PAKMIXduwIwjs-FAw&utm_content=rundown&gaa_at=la&gaa_n=ARTJ-U9mNRJTbnq1b9w5xQqmWoNbPG0Nr_sAWv6zM9pW8zgW3aEARlEvNJ03ADZ7_8pBwDqAFZ9F02ayGO8n&gaa_ts=6663c000&gaa_sig=giX4TyknDRpq6JesG8ba9KvYLLnGyos0SPFPGtW2fgq8gnjuwJOcMZJqScYkx146FrbCECR2RJwUGG8HJpW9TA%3D%3D

America's War Machine Can't Make Basic Artillery Fast Enough

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Fun fact.

Hitler overextended himself.  The Phoney War or Sitzkrieg was an eight-month period at the start of World War II during which there was only one limited military land operation on the Western Front, when French troops invaded Germany's Saar district.

In that eight month period German munitions output was significantly increased under the direction of Fritz Todt. Todt played a crucial role in organizing the expansion of Germany's armaments production.  Artillery shell production doubled.

Todt became Inspector General for German Roadways after Adolf Hitler came to power. In that capacity, he was responsible for the construction of the German autobahns.Todt became Inspector General for German Roadways after Adolf Hitler came to power. In that capacity, he was responsible for the construction of the German autobahns.  Killed in a plane crash he was succedded by Albbert Speer.

Russia has done fine with western sanctions.  Sanctions which a computer model would have show had to backfire, and did, but politicians are not so smart.  Russian munition production was not lagging Russian need to begin with, and now no amount of western munition production can catch up to Russia unless foreign troops get involved, and that pointless foolishness starts WWIII.

At the beginning of WWII the Nazis could easily have been defeated.  Further Hitler could not have increased munitions production without starting the war.  The German industrialists needed to be paid.  War was a way not to pay bills which were coming due.  Prior to the war German munition production used a special funny money that had to be converted to regular German money at a future date.  The promise was that the funny money script could be redeemed for real money all along.  The bills were coming due.  War was a way to not have to honor the promise.

Ukraine is defeated, they no longer have enough troops.  Giving Ukraine more munitions only means useless death.  Russia is prepared to respond in kind.  Ukraine continues to grind the meat.  And more men die.  In part because Americans can't understand limits, and know when things are not our business.  Americans make everything their business. 

This has been a war of attrition which Ukraine has not been winning.  Nothing will change about that unless WWIII is started by the fuzzy leg luvin drooling fool in the Oval Office.  Which could happen.  Increasing munitions to Ukraine (or that other place) will only mean more death.  The drooling fool needs to go.  America drifts to war.  And for no good reason.  None! 

Crimea was never really fully Ukrainian to begin with.  In March 2014, a referendum was held in Crimea, and the official results indicated that an overwhelming majority of Crimean voters chose to join Russia.  There was no invasion.  But memories are short and American media has everyone pretty well convinced Russia stole Crimea despite the people living there deciding to leave on their own.  But the mantra that Russia stole Crimea despite having a right to be there is repeated daily in American 'news'.

Succession was a Crimean right.  Crimean self-determination, something Americans used to believe in before high-fructose corn syrup dummied things down and the worship of rich people became the new American religion.

The disputed Ukrainian areas?  Prior to the war had the American Federal Government been lobbing artillery shells into Seattle for eight years, would Washington State wanting to join Canada seems strange?  I'd be wanting to say 'aye' every day.

How is the Donbass different?

Britain has The Great Game, and hating on Russia confirms American Capitalism as if Biden himself was blessing the cup.  It is a religion.  Hate on Russia because they are communist. 

What, they are not communist any more?  That does not matter.  You are not supposed to know that.  They still must like communism since they were once anyway.  Go with it.  Truth is, any old excuse will do because  America still wants to carve up Russia like it is a Thanksgiving Turkey.  And that is the imperialist truth of it. 

Drink from the cup and hate on Russia.  It is your American duty.  Your religion.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 08, 2024, 12:10 AMWhat, they are not communist any more?  That does not matter.  You are not supposed to know that.  They still must like communism since they were once anyway.  Go with it.  Truth is, any old excuse will do because  America still wants to carve up Russia like it is a Thanksgiving Turkey.  And that is the imperialist truth of it. 

Drink from the cup and hate on Russia.  It is your American duty.  Your religion.

Empires always have & need "enemies" that pose an ever-present threat that justifies maintaining a military force.  The military force is necessary to keep growing by acquiring economic control over more land and the people inhabiting that land.  It was necessary to maintain control over the trade routes between different regions and power centers.

The enmity between the "Rus" and Western European Kingdoms predates communism and goes back to the split and collapse of the Roman Empire.  Prior to WWI you had the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Ottoman Empire in control of the eastern half of the old Roman Empire.  When the Barbarians were at the Gates of Vienna, they were coming in across the Russian Steppe from the east.  Besides the Rus who were descendants of the Vikings, you had the "Cossacks", horsemen from Kazkhstan who were descendants of the  Mongols and Genghis Khan.  The Ottoman Turks ruled the eastern Roman Empire from Constantinople for a millenium after the fall of Rome.

After WWII, the economic division of the world left it with 3 great power centers, the Soviet Union, China and the FSoA and it's vassal states in Western Europe.  The last 80 years has been all about these 3 power centers jockeying for econommic hegemony over all the 3rd World countries they needed for resources and labor.  Overall, the Capitalists were much more successful bringing those places into their orbit through the banking system, backed up by the enforcement arm of the FSoA military, which up until around the time of Desert Storm at least was competent enough to have enough ammo.  Cracks in the competency became evident beginning with the Vietnam War, and the last 50 years has seen the game change to economic warfare on one side and terrorism on the other .  Assymetric warfare in other words.

Both Mother Russia and China ended up quitting on communism in different ways, China turned into a cheap labor manufacturing economy and the Ruskies shrank from their client states and relied on their own energy resources and their own military industry as supplier to anyone trying to get out from under FSoA control.  Their weapons systems may not have as many bells and whistles, but Kalishnikovss come in at a competitive price and they don't run out of bullets to load them with. lol.

Neither Russia or China gets painted as Communist much anymore, rather they are portrayed as being anti-democratic totalitarian states with Dictatorial rulers.  Vlad the Impaler has managed to maintain his hold on power for 25 years, and Xi in China for a decade with the CCP in control of China unbroken since Mao and the revolution.  Of course, the CCP of today doesn't resemble anything Marx or Lenin would recognize as communist, but they keep the name.  lol.

Anyhow, the Tri-lateral division of the world has been the fundamental geopolitical model all international policy of the FSoA has followed since the time of Kissinger, regardless of what political party was in the White House.  I don't think Trumpovetsky is any more likely to avoid a war with Mother Russia than Uncle Joe Biden.  Either of them will do exactly what the Banksters tell them to do.  That's how it goes, Everybody Knows.

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Good thing we don't actually send soldiers to war zones these days, just money and hi tech equipment that doesn't work. lol.  If an army composed of actual FSoA soldiers was required anytime in the forseeable future, they might as well issue body bags instead of uniforms.

In total numbers, they're missing recruitment goals by 50%.  It's particularly bad amongst men, due the sociologists say a crisis in masculinity, lack of motivation to do ANYTHING, WOKEism, educational failure, increasing drug addiction, overdoses and suicides, isolation playing video games, poor health & nutrition and an epidemic of obesity.  Besides that apparently 1/3rd of GenZ male meat packages are now fags. lol.  To be fair 1/3rd of the females are lezbos also.  Does the military still have "don't ask, don't tell" as policy, or is it now OK for the guys to blow each other while showering and the babes to go clam diving?

I'm not sad to see the military can't find decent cannon fodder anymore of course, but the litany of reasons WHY they can't truly speaks to a population that is hopelessly psychologically damaged.  They're not just unfit to be soldiers, they're unfit to do anything at all.

Now, one hopes that we're getting a skewed view of all of Gen Z since it's just the subset of potential grunt level recruits we're talking about, which always has come from the very bottom of the social hierarchy, but they're talking about kids from college here too, who with a degree would be commissioned officers.

Also, if this is the state of the regular army, imagine what the National Guard looks like today, and then imagine what it might be like at the Dem Convention if like in 1968 the Mayor requests 11,000 Nat Guard and 7500 regular army to back up the Chicago PD to maintain order.  :o  :o  :o   It's a clusterfuck waiting to happen.

Often when people point out the awful state we are in here in the FSoA, I will point out that it's not just here, all the industrialized countries suffer from similar problems.  In this case, I'm not gonna do that, because I think this problem, at least the level it has reached in such a large portion of the society is very much an Amerikan problem.  Sure, the Japanese have weirded out GenZ kids too, but I don't think they have the obesity problem we have here too.  I think the Chinese can still find decent cannon fodder for their million man army.

Sociologically speaking, Amerika is leading the way falling off the cliff in a Seneca Collapse.  Our society is a Basket Case.  FUBAR. Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/06/14/armys-recruiting-problem-male.html

The Army's Recruiting Problem Is Male

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QuoteI'm not sad to see the military can't find decent cannon fodder anymore of course, but the litany of reasons WHY they can't truly speaks to a population that is hopelessly psychologically damaged.  They're not just unfit to be soldiers, they're unfit to do anything at all.

Previous generations saw the military as a pragmatic way to launch a working career.  A soldier is highly employable after military service.  They do what they are told like a good wage slave should.  ROTC paid for college and many doctors and dentists with military service signed up to get the education and for no other reason.  The dentists in particular.

Why the fuck would anybody join the U.S. military now.  We treat veterans like shit.  There are no jobs to get trained for.  The newer generations do not hang with conventional education, because again.  The jobs are not there, and being lazy became a virtue.

Walk into stores and grab stuff for free or get killed or maimed for life with no chance of grabbing the brass ring.  What choice makes sense to you?  The pope is a dope and he would tell you the wrong answer.

If a society can't provide, it has no right demanding.  This society is not providing the way it should.


"   I may live badly, but at least I don't have to work to do it.  "

The characters in this movie went on to have kids, and that is who we are really talking about.  We really do have Idiocracy 500 years early.

It seems there is a Global Shortage of Cannon Fodder.

Military planners are beside themselves with worry, panicked they won't have enough warm bodies to throw in front of the bullets.  The whole concept of an army relies on a commonality of interest and loyalty to inspire the population to want to fight together for something.  The Battle Cry for the Brits as they ran into a hail of bullets was "For King & Country!".  What Gen Z waste-o is going tofeel kinship with #ShitzinPants or Uncle Joe and pride in the cesspool of 21st Century Amerika?

Besides the fact raising a sufficient size army being problematic, with modern weapons systems they would be mowed down as fast as you deploy them.  Nobody would ever get off the beach at Nomandy today.  If Hitler had hypersonic Cruise Missiles, all the landing craft approaching the beach would be blown out of the water before they ever even made the beach.  If Vlad the Impaler wasn't trying to minimize escalation into WWIII, he could easily Carpet Bomb Kiev.

Then there is the REALLY stupid idea of fighting wars with Robot Armies.  WTF will care when the newz comes on the tube "500 American Robots were Killed in Action today fighting 10,000 Chinese Robots who suffered much greater losses.  Over 2500 of the Chinese robots were irreperably damaged.  The Chinese still took Taiwan though, because the remaining 4500 Amerikan Robots malfunctioned."

https://www.vox.com/world-politics/355547/soldiers-shortage-demographics-population-conscription

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Firstthey manufacture a global crisis over the falling birthrate.  Admittedly, this does pose economic difficulties, but the world clearly is overpopulated with Homo Sap meat packages, and reducing population voluntarily by having fewer babies is clearly a better option than raising the death rate, which few people will volunteer for.

Now however, the global paranoia propaganda machine is busy not just in the FSoA but in Europe and Asia also that everybody is running short of soldiers.  Why do we need more if all our "enemies" don't have enough to stage an invasion either?

It's not just soldiers they're short of either, Police forces also are having trouble finding enough thugs to employ to protect the property of the rich.  Without their enforcers, the rich can't maintain the huge chasm in wealth distribution.

Surly used to love to quote Jay Gould, a 19th century Robber Baron who said

(https://www.azquotes.com/picture-quotes/quote-i-can-hire-one-half-of-the-working-class-to-kill-the-other-half-jay-gould-67-85-01.jpg)

This is the real worry.  They can't hire enough muscle.  The suicidal, drug addicted obese Xbox players living in mom's basement aren't interested in working at all, much less beating on people with billy clubs for a crappy paycheck.  They can have a lot more fun killing virtual people in a 1st person shooter game and not break a sweat.

They're getting desperate, and the draft is a last ditch effort to maintain control.  I suspect if/when it is reinstituted, Draft Dodging will become even more common than back in the Vietnam era.


https://theconversation.com/us-kicks-off-debate-on-conscription-as-other-nato-members-introduce-drafts-232458

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QuoteWhy do we need more if all our "enemies" don't have enough to stage an invasion either?

How dare you point that out.  Blasphemy.

The Crisis of Masculinity has now expanded to a Cultural Crisis with a shrinking military.  Oh, the horror!  We must act to avert this desperate crisis.

https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4752675-americas-shrinking-military-is-a-cultural-crisis/

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It is interesting the 'Shrinking Military' author accepts the selective service as a given.  But what do you expect from a major in the fucking army.  He is a gung-ho motherfucker.

I wonder if he knows 'the divine right of kings' is out of favor.  It is kinda a dumb idea now.  It was useful it its time to shut people up. Now people can't swallow that much bullshit at once.  People be half-educated now.

People who take empire as a given:  SUCK

All selective service records should be transferred to flash paper and someone should light a match.

To discuss Israel's holocaust in Gaza, Rania Khalek was joined by journalist Abby Martin.

Serial Killers-R-Us.

Check it out.  Masab Yousef, I'm sure I got the spelling wrong, spouts amusing bullshit.  He makes up his own history.

Senator Lindsey Graham Calls for Direct Attack on Iran's Oil Infrastructure to Halt Terrorism


Madness.  Total madness.  Lindsey Graham  => Seagram,  which Lindsey has obviously had too much of.  You have to move one of the 'a's.  Like Biden, the brain has rotted away.

Nice timing.  ::)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg72ny4xeyo

Iran is reeling from Israel's unprecedented attack - and it is only the start

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Quote from: RE on Jun 13, 2025, 10:56 AMNice timing.  ::)

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg72ny4xeyo

Iran is reeling from Israel's unprecedented attack - and it is only the start

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This is the line of bullshit:

So what has led to this attack by Israel and why now?

Total Bullshit which reeks to high heaven :

Israel, and several Western countries, suspect that Iran has been secretly working towards what is called "breakout capability", meaning the point of no return in developing a viable nuclear weapon.

Iran denies this and has always insisted that its civil nuclear programme – which has received help from  :o  Russia  :o  – is for entirely peaceful purposes.

Total reality which makes heaven puke :

Israel, and several Western countries, suspect that Iran will be "pissed off" when the Palestinians are pushed into the sea and murdered."

The message goes out that support of the victims will be met with more attacks.

I state the obvious because the obvious is denied.

Holy Pontius Pilate batman, everybody's Conscience went on Autopilot.

Trump and Netanyahu together might have as much smarts as some of the less capable AI models I run on my video card. 

The Motherfuckers have just started WWIII.

That is oil and gas on fire because Israel has attacked Irans' oil and gas.  Now we know what the military parade in font of the White House is really all about.  Trump acting tough, while Israel's relentless airstrikes on Iran escalate beyond military targets.

Donald Trump has declared that the United States stands ready to defend Israel in the event of Iranian retaliation following Israeli airstrikes on Iran.

Prior to Netanyahu's sneak attack on Iran The White House reached out to at least one key Middle Eastern ally to inform them of the Israels' impending strike.

Buy enough Trump-coin and you can start a war.

"We knew everything" about Israel's attack in advance Trump admitted.  The U.S. supplied the weapons now raining destruction on Iran.  The U.S. is already directly involved, helping to stop Iranian missiles.

Since the 2023 Gaza war, U.S. deployments to the Middle East have increased.  Fighter jets (F-35s, F-15s), and stealth bombers (B-2s), are deployed in nearby countries (Saudi Arabia and the UAE).  The U.S. has flown military cargo planes into Israel to deliver supplies and munitions.

The direct hit on Iran's South Pars gas field was no accident.

This is a calculated strike at the Iran economy, and retaliation is certain. Tehran is now threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz.

If this reckless escalation continues, the U.S. Navy will have no choice but to engage in direct combat.  American troops will once again see the sands of the Mid-East.  The ambitions of two bigoted strongmen: Netanyahu, with his apartheid regime, and Trump, whose racism and thirst for chaos is boundless.  Trump violence has returned.

The vile politics of these two men are putting American lives at risk.  Trump's hubris makes him into more of an idiot than he already was.  Would my video card be smart enough not to cut the VA while also starting a war that is certain to use U.S. troops?

I think so, It would.

Deep Workforce Cuts at VA, Pentagon Backed by Republican Spending Bills (https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/12/deep-workforce-cuts-va-pentagon-backed-republican-spending-bills.html)

Which is more than you can say about Trump.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 14, 2025, 11:20 AMThe Motherfuckers have just started WWIII.

Yeah...ummm....not quite sure we are THERE yet. The Russians have demonstrated they can't get out of their own way and stomp flat some pesky little neighbor country, so that rules out a nuke power that matters and is occupied being stupid and getting their people killed elsewhere, if Iran had a nuke it would get cracking at using it, and Israel has nukes and the ability to stomp Iran flat pretty easily (and just did) with regular means, and can probably happily keep it up for months if they want to. With the recent demolition of all their air defenses...and military leaders...and quite a few other things of significance....it is unlike interrupting production at South Pars would b the tipping point for a country already nearly defenseless and an enemy quite happy to keep proving it on a daily basis.

But it good for trying to whip up some good ol' fashioned middle eastern drama! And American LNG exports coming online means there is some coin to be made producing NG in the US....us now being the world's largest producer of both oil and gas. And word's largest exporter of LNG. Profits to feed the capitalism beast!

QuoteThe Russians have demonstrated they can't get out of their own way and stomp flat some pesky little neighbor country

Not when it is a well funded proxy war willing to send all the young men of Ukraine to die for a chance exploit that land.  This is true.

Trump says he will continue funding Ukraine's war effort — but he wants something rare in return.  Trump says he wants access to Ukraine's bonanza of rare earth and critical minerals in exchange for the billions of dollars in military aid Washington has been supplying to Kyiv.

And you have not been keeping up with the news.  Russia prevails.

TDoS, this is your link where you posted this graph. (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/doomstead/index.php?msg=4902)


And it is why you are a troll.  You wrote this and I am responding to it.

QuoteAmerican LNG exports coming online means there is some coin to be made producing NG in the US....us now being the world's largest producer of both oil and gas. And word's largest exporter of LNG. Profits to feed the capitalism beast!

Your own graph which you used to counter my assertion that:

➡️ By 2030, approximately 50% of current oil supply will be lost to natural decline.

➡️ By 2035, if demand holds steady, gasoline supply failure becomes imminent.

Just came back to haunt you.  You published clear evidence for decline, yet you pivot into a make America great posture.  Just let let the horses run free.  Prosperity is here for those who ride.  Capitalism is an unstoppable force.  The end result of centuries of progress, and I am a fool for thinking otherwise.  That is your position.  You can find a graph to punch me down with if it suits you.  Because yes, the delusion can be maintained past the midterm elections that we all can have a tiger in the tank.  The miracle of horizontal drilling gives us that much time.

After that the discount at the gas pump you get for buying groceries is going away.  But not tomorrow, and the peak on the graph was your point.  Your point was not tomorrow.  Anne of the Thousand Days we have.

* Because if you are trying to be sarcastic, it isn't working.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 14, 2025, 12:23 PM

QuoteThe Russians have demonstrated they can't get out of their own way and stomp flat some pesky little neighbor country

Not when it is a well funded proxy war willing to send all the young men of Ukraine to die for a chance exploit that land.  This is true.

Proxy war isn't WWIII

As far as who is exploiting who in the "pipsqueak country doing a fine job demonstrating that the bully on the block is an incompetent war fighter", would seem proxy wise that the west is profitting immensely from watching a new style develop, and how easy a time NATO would have pushing Russian troops back to Moscow if it weren't for the nukes involved.

Which could lead to WWIII. BUt aren't anywhere close yet. And don't look to be getting closer. Obviously I am ignoring the children's squabble in the Middle East.

Quote from: K-DogTrump says he will continue funding Ukraine's war effort — but he wants something rare in return.

Trump is a liar, convicted felon and admitted serial sexual predator by both the court, and his own, admission.

Why in the WORLD would you assign credibility to an orange halfwit?

Quote from: K-DogTrump says he wants access to Ukraine's bonanza of rare earth and critical minerals in exchange for the billions of dollars in military aid Washington has been supplying to Kyiv.

Trump says he is slapping tariffs on all the countries. Lasts a day or two. Trump says he didn't inflate the values of his properties to commit fraud. Trump says he is a genius...and only weighs 220#. Trump says he doesn't cheat at golf.

Yes....sounds like we should pay attention to his honesty and everything he says.

Quote from: K-DogAnd you have not been keeping up with the news.  Russia prevails.

Not yet. But even if, after more than the 3 years of war where they have been doing a piss poor job, they suddenly get some traction while killing off a couple more hundred thousand young men, they have taught NATO everything they need to know. They don't have to worry about any Russian land war from the gang that can't shoot straight. Or manuveur. Can't achieve air superiority. Doesn't have much in the way of tanks left to fight with. Fights stupid. Fights with theory of "maybe if we shove our male 18-22 entire population of the country into a meatgrinder....the meatgrinder will break!

Yes...Russia prevails. The same Russians that kill Americans supporting them because they didn't know he was one of their cheerleaders. Oops. So smart they kill their own propaganists. Genius! Russia prevails!

I'm sure the Israeli decision to bomb the Iranians had nothing to do with getting the price of oil out of the basement.  ::)

RE

Tehran, Iran – Roya, a 62-year-old resident of Iran's capital, was jolted awake just after 3am on Friday morning by the sound of explosions in her Marzdaran neighbourhood in western Tehran.

QuoteIt was absolutely terrifying, my heart was beating out of my chest," she recalled. "I saw smoke on the horizon and at first thought all the strikes were farther away, but when the images came out, I found that a home just a few streets from us was hit too,

The Israeli military carried out more attacks on Tehran, saying it targeted buildings linked to the country's nuclear programme, including the defense ministry.

I doubt people are as stupid in Tehran as they are in America.  Being as they have not been eating corn as long as we have and all that.  The relevant point is, I'm sure Iranians have any serious shit deep underground.  If they have any serious shit at all.


Zionist Terrorism

The universe mocks humanity.


Hitler had success after success and like all such fools his madness had no end.  Germany overextended itself.  Overshot success and attacked Russia, and the moment Hitler did that the Nazis were doomed.

Barbarossa then, now Operation Rising Lion.  The victims of the Nazis repeat Nazi history.  And the universe laughs its ass off.















What will the  TACO do?  (https://png.pngtree.com/png-clipart/20231121/original/pngtree-free-palestine-3d-text-with-watermelon-png-image_13672373.png)

The chosen race, the master race, I see no difference.

Netanyahu claims intelligence shows Iran is behind the Trump assassination attempts.  Israel attacks Iran and then finds out Iran has improved ballistic missiles.

What better time to discover the skullduggery of the Satan worshiping Iranians.

QuoteNetanyahu listed the alleged Iranian connection to the assassination attempts on Trump during an apparent defense of Israel's "Rising Lion" military campaign in Iran, which is designed to eliminate the regime's nuclear program and ballistic missile capabilities.Netanyahu listed the alleged Iranian connection to the assassination attempts on Trump during an apparent defense of Israel's "Rising Lion" military campaign in Iran, which is designed to eliminate the regime's nuclear program and ballistic missile capabilities.

And this has nothing to do with the ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

Escalation in the Middle East: Israel-Iran Conflict and U.S. Involvement
Introduction

Kyle Kulinski opens with a stark declaration: the episode may be the most consequential in the show's history, given the unprecedented escalation between Israel and Iran, alongside domestic turmoil in the U.S. The transcript outlines a multi-faceted crisis, including:

Israel-Iran War: Iran's retaliatory missile strikes after Israel's offensive.
U.S. Protests: Anti-Trump demonstrations dubbed the largest in U.S. history.
MAGA Terrorism: Alleged right-wing violence in Minnesota and disinformation campaigns.
Internal MAGA Divisions: Factional splits over U.S. involvement in Iran.

This essay synthesizes the transcript with verified sources to provide a granular account of these events.

1. Israel-Iran Conflict: From Escalation to Open Warfare

Israel's Offensive Strike

Initial Attack: Israel launched a preemptive strike on Iran on April 13, 2024, targeting nuclear facilities, military leaders, and energy infrastructure. The attack was reportedly greenlit by former President Donald Trump, per leaks cited in the transcript.

Key Targets

South Pars Gas Field: Partial shutdown after strikes disrupted 12 million cubic meters of daily gas production.
Abadan Oil Refinery: Set ablaze, impacting Iran's 3.3 million barrels/day crude output (~3.5% of global supply).
Think Tanks & Diplomats: The Iranian Foreign Ministry's library and Track 2 diplomacy researchers were hit, signaling an attempt to disrupt negotiations.

Casualties: The AP reported 406 killed (197 civilians, 90 military personnel) and 654 wounded.

Iran's Retaliation

Missile Waves: Iran launched hybrid drone-missile attacks, targeting:

Haifa: Home to Israel's gas fields; power plants were struck, causing blackouts.
Kirya Compound: Israel's equivalent to the Pentagon, confirmed by Fox News correspondent Trey Yingst.

Tactics: Older missiles (20–30 years old) were used initially, followed by advanced hypersonic missiles that overwhelmed Iron Dome defenses. Footage showed shockwaves and direct impacts on infrastructure.

U.S. Involvement

Logistical Support: The U.S. quietly delivered hundreds of Hellfire missiles to Israel pre-strike (per Middle East Eye).

Troop Movements: Trump reportedly withdrew U.S. troops from bases near Iran beforehand, suggesting premeditation.
Information Warfare: Reuters claimed Trump vetoed a plan to assassinate Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei—a claim the host dismisses as disinformation akin to Trump's "fake Gaza ceasefire" announcements.

Netanyahu's Rhetoric and U.S. Politics

Historical Parallels: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's justification—claiming Khamenei planned a "Holocaust 2.0"—mirrored Iraq War WMD propaganda.
Lobbying Trump: Netanyahu framed the conflict as personal to Trump, falsely linking Iran to assassination attempts on Trump (e.g., "Through proxies") to garner support.
Regime Change Push: Israel allegedly seeks to install Reza Pahlavi (son of the deposed Shah) as Iran's leader. Pahlavi publicly endorsed Israel's strikes.

2. Domestic U.S. Context: Protests and Disinformation

"No Kings" Anti-Trump Protests
The host compares the demonstrations to 1960s upheavals, citing their scale and volatility. While specific crowd sizes aren't provided, the framing suggests a response to Trump's alleged role in escalating Middle East tensions.

MAGA Terrorism in Minnesota

The transcript accuses the right of "coordinated gaslighting" about an incident in Minnesota, though details are sparse.

MAGA Factionalism on Iran

Internal GOP divisions emerged, with:

War Hawks (e.g., Mike Pompeo) advocating for regime change.
Isolationists (e.g., Tucker Carlson-aligned figures) opposing entanglement.

Tim Dillon's Rant: The comedian criticized neoconservatives, exemplifying populist-right dissent.

3. Humanitarian and Geopolitical Fallout

Civilian Impact

Iran: Residential areas like Tehran's Taj neighborhood were bombed, with car bombs (allegedly Israeli) killing civilians.
Israel: Evacuation orders for 330,000 in Tehran's District 3 (home to embassies/UN offices) hinted at broader strikes.

Nuclear and Environmental Risks

IAEA Reports: Strikes on Iranian nuclear sites caused radiological leaks, per IAEA chief Rafael Grossi.
Iran's Nuclear Program: Despite Netanyahu's claims, U.S. intelligence (e.g., 2023 DNI report) reiterated Iran had no active nuclear weapons program.

Global Oil Markets

Price Surge: Attacks on Iran's energy infrastructure triggered fears of a 20-year high in oil prices.
Strait of Hormuz Threat: Iran could retaliate by blocking the strait (30% of global oil trade).

4. Propaganda and Historical Context

Iran's Nuclear Claims Debunked

The host replays clips of officials (e.g., Antony Blinken, Netanyahu) falsely asserting Iran was "months away" from nukes since the 1990s.
2015 JCPOA: The Iran nuclear deal was working (validated by IAEA inspections) until Trump withdrew in 2018 to spite Obama.

False Flag Warnings

The host anticipates U.S./Israel may stage attacks (e.g., cyber or terror incidents) to justify boots on the ground, citing Pompeo's rhetoric about "Iranian terror cells"—a claim unsupported by history (Salafi jihadists, not Shia Iran, conduct most anti-Western attacks).

Conclusion: A Region on the Brink

The transcript paints a picture of unchecked escalation:

Israel's offensive mirrors U.S. post-9/11 playbooks, with Netanyahu exploiting Trump's ego for support.
Civilian tolls mount as Iran retaliates, risking a regional war.
Domestic U.S. unrest and disinformation compound the crisis.

Verification Notes:

Trump's JCPOA Withdrawal: Confirmed by The Guardian (May 8, 2018).
Hellfire Missiles: Middle East Eye reported deliveries on April 12, 2024.
Netanyahu's 2002 Iraq Testimony: Archived by C-SPAN.

QuoteRyan Grim reports nine Palestinians were just killed seeking aid (https://substack.com/@ryangrim/note/c-122379141). A number that would make
international news if they were not Palestinians. And since he said this, I saw a new report, over 30 Palestinians were killed. Yet again they are luring Palestinians to a fake humanitarian aid agency and then when they go there they are murdering them. Over 30 of them killed just this morning. So we have the final solution is in full effect in Gaza.  It's in full effect At the same time they announced a total siege on the West Bank. So they're going to take over the West Bank too. They've gone full psychopath y'all.  They've gone full expansionist and annihilationist! They've taken large swats of Syria. They're taking over all of Gaza. They're taking over all of the West Bank. They're bombing Lebanon. They're bombing Yemen. And now they're bombing Iran. And they are begging the US Send boots on the ground. To do an actual regime change in Iran.

To say we're up Shit's creek without a paddle is the understatement of the fucking century.

And oh fuck there is more.

President Trump on Monday warned that those in Tehran should "immediately evacuate" as he lamented Iran's decision not to sign an agreement with the United States limiting its nuclear program.

"Iran should have signed the 'deal' I told them to sign. What a shame, and waste of human life," Trump posted on Truth Social. "Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!"
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The Myth of Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program: A 40-Year Propaganda Campaign for Imperialist Aggression

For over four decades, the United States and its allies have relentlessly perpetuated the unsubstantiated claim that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons. This narrative, a meticulously crafted fabrication, serves as a cynical justification for economic warfare, relentless regime change efforts, and aggressive military intervention in the Middle East. Despite Iran's unwavering denials and repeated U.S. intelligence assessments directly contradicting these allegations, this destructive myth persists, a convenient pretext for a deeply rooted imperialist agenda. What follows is a critical, searing examination of this manufactured crisis, boldly exposing the lies and the chilling geopolitical motives that fuel it.




The Origins of the Myth: Cold War Paranoia & Political Expediency

1980s–1990s: Fabricating the Threat
The U.S. first began to maliciously frame Iran as a nuclear threat after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, precisely when Iran sought to re-establish its civilian nuclear energy program—a program ironically initiated with U.S. support under the "Atoms for Peace" initiative in the 1950s [6]. By 1984, the Reagan administration, without a shred of credible evidence, brazenly designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism, cynically lumping unsubstantiated nuclear fears into a broader, venomous anti-Iran propaganda campaign [8].

In the 1990s, the Clinton administration, with calculated escalation, intensified this rhetoric, imposing crippling sanctions under the specious pretext of nuclear weaponization—despite no proof of a weapons program [8]. These sanctions were never truly about nonproliferation; they were, and remain, a transparent tool to economically isolate Iran and systematically weaken its burgeoning regional influence.

2002: The "Axis of Evil" and the Natanz Hoax
The U.S. and Israel orchestrated a cynical media spectacle in 2002, shamelessly claiming that Iranian exiles had "exposed" secret nuclear sites at Natanz and Arak. Crucially, no evidence was ever provided that these facilities were for weapons development; in fact, they were legally permitted under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), which Iran had unequivocally signed [6]. Yet, President George W. Bush infamously and irresponsibly labeled Iran as part of an "axis of evil," framing its entirely legal nuclear activities as an imminent threat—despite U.S. intelligence reports at the very same time explicitly finding no active nuclear weapons program [7].

The 2000s–2010s: Sanctions, Sabotage, and the JCPOA Charade

The Amad Plan Myth & UN Sanctions
The U.S. and Israel aggressively pushed the narrative of the "Amad Plan," baselessly claiming Iran had a covert nuclear weapons program until 2003. This outrageous claim relied on demonstrably dubious intelligence, including unequivocally forged documents [11].

The IAEA's own reports, despite immense pressure, never once confirmed weaponization, only vaguely noting "possible military dimensions"—a conveniently ambiguous term mercilessly exploited to justify crushing sanctions [5, 12]. Under relentless U.S. pressure, UN sanctions (2006–2010) were imposed, devastating Iran's economy while utterly failing to halt enrichment, which Iran consistently and truthfully maintained was for peaceful purposes [8].

The JCPOA: A Diplomatic Trap
The 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) represented a fleeting moment of détente, where Iran, demonstrating extraordinary good faith, agreed to unprecedented IAEA inspections and stringent enrichment limits in exchange for promised sanctions relief [5].

The IAEA repeatedly and unequivocally confirmed Iran's full compliance, yet the U.S. brazenly fabricated violations to systematically undermine the deal [5]. Trump's 2018 withdrawal was not based on any Iranian breaches but on naked political pressure from Israel and the relentless machinations of neoconservative hawks rabidly seeking regime change [1].

The 2020s: Escalating Lies to Justify War

The "60% Enrichment" Deception
Recent U.S. claims that Iran's 60% enriched uranium stockpile could be "weaponized" are a deliberate and dangerous deception:

Weapons-grade uranium absolutely requires 90% enrichment—Iran has never, and has no intention of, crossing that threshold [6, 9]. The IAEA has consistently found no evidence of weaponization, yet the U.S. shamefully continues to cite "risks" without a shred of proof [10].

Israeli Sabotage & False Flag Operations
Israel has repeatedly and illegally attacked Iran's peaceful nuclear facilities (Natanz in 2021, 2024, 2025) while ludicrously claiming Iran is "weeks away" from a bomb—a claim even U.S. intelligence explicitly disputes [10].

The 2025 strikes on Natanz were offensively justified as "preemptive," yet U.S. intelligence assessed Iran was still years away from any nuclear weapons capability [10]. Crucially, no radiation leaks were detected, irrefutably proving the sites were civilian enrichment plants, not weapons facilities [3, 13].

The Real Motive: Preventing Iranian Sovereignty

The nuclear scare is not just a lie; it is a thinly veiled smokescreen for far deeper U.S.-Israeli objectives:

    Maintaining an iron grip on Middle East hegemony by brutally suppressing Iran's independent energy and technological development [8].
    Cynically justifying gargantuan arms sales to Gulf dictatorships (Saudi Arabia, UAE) under the false pretense of "countering Iran" [8].
    Aggressively preventing Iran from challenging the petrodollar system by trading oil outside the oppressive confines of U.S. sanctions [8].

Conclusion: The Nuclear Lie Exposed

After an agonizing 40 years of baseless accusations, crippling sanctions, and overt sabotage, Iran still possesses no nuclear weapons—because it has never sought them. The U.S. and Israel have relied on fabricated intelligence, manipulative media campaigns, and brutal economic warfare to sustain this pernicious myth, all while shamefully ignoring their own egregious violations of international law (e.g., Israel's vast, undeclared nuclear arsenal) [2]. The truth is glaringly clear: Iran's nuclear program is unequivocally peaceful, and the U.S. campaign against it is not, and never has been, about nonproliferation—it is unequivocally about empire.

Key Exposed Lies:

    ✅ No evidence of weaponization—U.S. intel admits Iran has no active nuclear weapons program [7, 10].
    ✅ 60% enrichment ≠ weapons-grade—Iran has never enriched to 90% [6, 9].
    ✅ IAEA inspections confirmed compliance—U.S. sanctions were purely political, not based on any violations [5].
    ✅ Israel's attacks are acts of war—not "defensive" measures [3, 14].

The nuclear scare is a manufactured crisis, a ticking time bomb of misinformation, and the world must bravely reject it before it ignites another catastrophic war.

Sources:

[1] Hersh, Seymour M. Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. HarperCollins, 2004. (While no specific book is named in the original prompt, Seymour Hersh is a prominent investigative journalist known for exposing government fabrications, and this book broadly covers the period and themes discussed regarding fabricated threats).

[2] Gambrell, Jon. "Iran claims without evidence that it took Israeli nuclear files." Associated Press (also reported by Seattle PI). June 8, 2025.

[3] Grossi, Rafael Mariano. "IAEA Director Grossi's Statement on Israeli Strikes on Iranian Nuclear Facilities." International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Official Statement, June 16, 2025.

[4] Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD) Policy Brief. "Iran Nuclear Deal: Debunking the Myths." While a specific date isn't provided, this would refer to an analysis piece from FDD, which often publishes critical views on the JCPOA.

[5] TIME Magazine. "Iran's Nuclear Program After Israel's Strikes." June 13, 2025.

[6] "What to know about inspections of Iran's nuclear program by the IAEA ahead of a key board vote." Associated Press. June 9, 2025.

[7] Office of the Director of National Intelligence. National Intelligence Estimate: Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities. December 2, 2007. (This is a well-known intelligence report explicitly stating Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, which would align with the text's reference to U.S. intelligence reports from the early 2000s).

[8] Katzman, Kenneth. Iran: U.S. Sanctions. Congressional Research Service Report (CRS), R43311. August 7, 2024.

[9] "EU warns of 'nuclear proliferation crisis' over Iran's uranium enrichment." Iran International. June 11, 2025.

[10] Brookings Institution. "Israel strikes Iran. What happens next?" June 16, 2025.

[11] Albright, David, Sarah Burkhard, and Andrea Stricker. "Analysis of the IAEA's Comprehensive Iran NPT Safeguards Report May 2025." Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS). June 6, 2025.

[12] Chayes, Sarah. "Did Iran Ever Actually Violate The Nonproliferation Treaty? Does It Matter?" Foreign Policy Association (FPA), 2023. (Assuming a recent publication for relevance).

[13] "Israel-Iran war: IAEA confirms critical damage to Iran's nuclear sites — Here's list of 8 past attacks on nuclear bases." Livemint (Today News). June 15, 2025.

[14] "US surges warships and aircraft to Middle East, as Trump says "evacuate Tehran"." World Socialist Web Site (WSWS). June 17, 2025.

War Propaganda and the First Casualty

Krystal and Saagar are joined by Glenn Greenwald to examine the dangerous parallels between the current media environment surrounding U.S.-Iran tensions and the propaganda that preceded the Iraq War. Their conversation highlighted how media outlets serve as tools for government disinformation, the role of ideological fervor in shaping foreign policy, and the alarming repetition of past mistakes.
Media as a Tool of War Propaganda

The discussion opens with an examination of how major U.S. media organizations uncritically amplify narratives pushed by the Israeli and U.S. governments.

Greenwald pointed to a glaring example: conflicting headlines about Iran's willingness to negotiate. While one report claimed Iran was eager to negotiate, CNN framed it as Iran refusing talks until after retaliating against Israel.  The point is to confuse and hide the truth.

Greenwald explains that disinformation is a deliberate weapon of war, and corporate media acts as a willing participant * rather than a watchdog. Skepticism alone may is not enough, given the historical record.  Outright disbelief is warranted.

The media's failure to challenge government claims has repeatedly led nations into disastrous conflicts, with Iraq being the most infamous example.

Saagar added that even when administrations change, the same deceptive tactics persist. He referenced reports from Barak Ravid, an Israeli journalist with intelligence ties, who has consistently relayed U.S.-Israeli diplomatic claims without scrutiny. This stenographic journalism, Greenwald argued, is not accidental but systemic.  Media figures see themselves as extensions of state power rather than independent truth seekers.

The Role of Religious Messianic Bullshit in Foreign Policy

The conversation turned to the disturbing influence of religious extremism in shaping U.S. and Israeli policies. Trump recently shared a letter from Mike Huckabee, his former ambassador to Israel, which framed Trump's survival of an assassination attempt as divine intervention, suggesting he was chosen for a historic, apocalyptic mission.

Our religious fanatics think the religious fanatics anywhere else are crazy.

Greenwald finds this alarming, particularly because the same rhetoric used to demonize Iran, accusing its leaders of being irrational theocratic nutballs, applies equally to key figures in the U.S. and Israel.

Netanyahu has long framed regional conflicts in biblical terms.  U.S. evangelicals half-wits support Israel to fulfill end-times prophecies. The hypocrisy is staggering. 

Iran's religious ideology is deemed dangerous, while American and Israeli leaders who invoke divine mandate are given a pass.

Eerie Parallels to the Iraq War

The same propaganda tactics used to sell the Iraq War are being recycled today.  It will probably work.  Americans are too deceived to smell the truth.

Glenn Beck, who once infamously declared that Americans would be "greeted as liberators" in Iraq, has returned with nearly identical rhetoric about Iran. He now claims that this conflict is different—more "surgical" and "preemptive"—yet the underlying fear-mongering is identical.

Greenwald noted that the same people who lied about Iraq's nonexistent WMDs are pushing the narrative.  Iran it is claimed is on the verge of nuclear capability, with hot pants to use them.  Despite intelligence consensus to the contrary.

Even the phrasing is recycled—Ted Cruz recently echoed George W. Bush's infamous "mushroom cloud" warning.

Saagar highlighted a clip of Netanyahu from 2002, where he insisted Saddam Hussein was "feverishly working" on nuclear weapons, a claim later debunked. Today, Netanyahu makes the same assertions about Iran, and once again, the media fails to challenge him.  It worked the first time, Netanyahu will do it again.  People will be fooled again.

The Futility of Accountability

Those who lied the U.S. into Iraq faced no consequences.  Many of the liars became rich and influential.  Some, like Ari Fleischer and Paul Wolfowitz, remain influential.

Greenwald notes that even within the MAGA movement, a movement that once opposed foreign intervention, there is capitulation.  Voices are goose-stepping in line behind Trump's aggressive raw power.

The threat of excommunication from the ecosystem controlled by our orange fuhrer, silences dissent.

Conclusion: A Cycle of Deception

Rinse and repeat.  The bleak reality.  Propaganda works, even when it's been exposed before. The same actors, the same narratives, and the same media complicity are driving the U.S. toward another catastrophic conflict.

Without systemic media reform and genuine political accountability, history will repeat and Americans will die.

Once war begins, trajectory is unpredictable. The lessons of Iraq should have been indelible, but here we are again.  On the brink.  With truth the first casualty.

* From a Marxist point of view, corporate media belongs to the bourgeoisie or the ruling class.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 17, 2025, 06:42 AMThe Myth of Iran's Nuclear Weapons Program: A 40-Year Propaganda Campaign for Imperialist Aggression

I doubt the Iranians are working on a bomb.  More likely is they already have one.

The basic A-bomb is 80 year old "technology".  Enriching Uranium doesn't require anything more complex than a powerful centrifuge, same for tritium (heavy water).  It's a tedious process, but unlike WWII racing against the Nazis they've had plenty of time.  As K-dog mentions, their facilities are likely deep underground.

Even in the unlikely possibility they don't do it themselves, I'm sure the Ruskies or Chinese would sell them some and they have plenty of money.

Finally, the main evidence they have one is that the Israelis haven't used theirs yet.  Like with the big boys, MAD keeps them from pushing the button.  They certainly don't refrain due to humanitarian or environmental concerns. lol.

RE

Quotethe main evidence they have one is that the Israelis haven't used theirs yet.

Before now despite Israel owning congress and all our previous presidents, nuking Iran would have been crossing a red line. And Israel being the good parasite it is, has previously been smart enough not to kill it's host.  America demands the exclusive right to nuke people.  Like the highlander, there must be only one.

Prior to now a nuke on Iran would have got whoever was in power in America in lots of trouble.  There would have been nuclear blowback.  "how could you let this happen.

And when it comes to nuclear fallout, what happens in Vegas does not stay in Vegas and everyone knows it.  Unless you are a sociopathic mentally ill dictator without regard for people outside of your rich-bitch elite social group, you do not want to be involved with nuking anything.

What is happening now is a smokescreen so Palestinians can be ethnically cleansed and made unalive.  Their land is already being divvied up.

On No Kings day the protest in Philly managed to have a Palestinian flag waving prominently.  Unfortunately most Americans still do not know what the fuck it looks like.  It was not prominent in many other protests, and algorithms are now pushing most of the scanty video and pics of the Palestinian component to the bottom of search results.  I know this because I looked for them.

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In 1984 the book, Winston had to redefine vocabulary by hand.  Under the spreading chestnut tree / I sold you and you sold me.  But 1984 was a long time ago.  We got algorithms to do Winston Smith's work now.  Americans have no idea how much they are digitally filtered.  Had Orwell talked to Alan Turing there might have been another chapter in the book.  Smith would have been replaced by AI, and tuned search engines.  But at the end of the book the face rats would still be there.

Which goes to show, the debate than money can't buy love may go on forever, but the fact that money can buy hate is beyond any doubt.

The only thing going nuclear is the Israeli killing machine.

Jesus Christ, the lack of concern makes me want to walk away (https://chasingthesquirrel.com/public/text/omelas.pdf).

And my sad analysis makes me understand that the missiles stop flying when Israel has achieved their own NAZI tyranny and eliminated their Palestinians.  And if America gets involved before then we know for certain that Trump has been dog-walked into trouble.  This could happen, Trump is a stupid man.

Quote from: K-Dog on Jun 17, 2025, 11:10 PMAnd if America gets involved before then we know for certain that Trump has been dog-walked into trouble.  This could happen, Trump is a stupid man.

Trump has already said the only way Amerika gets involved is if the Iranians attack Amerikans.  Which means if the Israelis want Amerika to bomb Tehran back to the Stone Age, all they need to do is have some Black Ops Mossad fire a missile from inside Iran on an Amerikan owned facility or base in Saudi Arabia.  Or maybe have some Amerikan diplomat assassinated.

We'll get an international war no matter what.  Maybe beginning in Europe, maybe MENA or maybe the South China Sea.  It's baked in the cake of diminishing per capita available energy.

RE

Quoteall they need to do is have some Black Ops Mossad fire a missile from inside Iran on an Amerikan owned facility or base in Saudi Arabia

True that.

The Gleiwitz Incident: When Nazis Faked an Attack on Germany

The Gleiwitz Incident was a staged attack on a radio station at the German-Polish border. Adolf Hitler utilized the incident as a pretext for invading Poland in 1939.

Nazi soldiers launched a simulated attack on the German-run Gleiwitz radio station on the evening of August 31, 1939. The action, which is widely referred to as the Gleiwitz Incident, was designed to give the impression that Poland was attacking Nazi Germany. Part of Operation Himmler, the incident to justify Germany's invasion of Poland on September 1, 1939, can be seen as marking the start of World War II.

Rinse and repeat.  Good you pointed that out.  This is as we know, is the FSOA.

Psychopath in Chief

In a recent clip, former President Donald Trump addressed the media regarding escalating tensions between Israel and Iran. His comments were alarming.  Revealing a deeply unstable and narcissistic mentality when discussing matters of war and violence. This reaction examines the disturbing nature of his statements, the false pretexts for aggression, and the broader implications of such rhetoric from a world leader.

The False Justification for War

Trump's remarks came in the context of Israel's recent attack on Iran, which was justified by the claim that Iran was close to developing a nuclear weapon. However, this assertion is demonstrably false. U.S. intelligence agencies, along with former Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, have stated that Iran does not possess a nuclear weapon and is not actively working toward one. This lie mirrors the "weapons of mass destruction" deception used to justify the Iraq War.

Israel, with U.S. backing, launched an unprovoked attack on Iran's capital, killing civilians. Yet, instead of condemning this aggression, Trump framed Iran as the aggressor, saying, "Iran's got a lot of trouble." This is a classic tactic of blaming the victim.  Trump prtrays the nation that was just bombed as the one at fault.

Trump's Psychopathic Rhetoric

What is most chilling about Trump's comments is not just the policy implications but his demeanor and language when discussing mass violence.

    "You don't know that I'm going to even do it. You don't know. I may do it, I may not do it. Nobody knows what I'm going to do."

This is the language of an unstable individual, akin to a child waving a loaded gun. No morally sane person discusses the potential for mass murder with such casual indifference. If an ordinary citizen spoke this way  "I might kill people, I might not, you don't know"  they would be institutionalized. Yet, Trump, as a former president and potential future commander-in-chief, flaunts this unpredictability as a strength.

His narcissism is also on full display. When asked about negotiations, he responded:

    "Why didn't you negotiate with me before all this death and destruction?"

This framing makes the conflict entirely about him, ignoring the fact that Iran was in negotiations with the U.S. when Israel attacked. His lies are pathological, he either knowingly deceives or is so detached from reality that truth is irrelevant.

The Hypocrisy of U.S. and Israeli Aggression

The U.S. and Israel posture as defenders against Iranian aggression, yet they are the ones initiating violence. Iran has not attacked the U.S. or Israel; instead, it has been subjected to decades of sanctions, covert operations, and military strikes. The idea that Iran must "surrender unconditionally" after being bombed is absurd, it is the logic of a schoolyard bully demanding submission after throwing the first punch.

Trump's comparison of Iran to "hostile zealots" is particularly hypocritical, given that Israel's ruling class has repeatedly demonstrated bloodlust, and expansionist policies. The U.S. and Israel possess vast nuclear arsenals, yet they feign moral outrage over the possibility that Iran might one day develop a weapon.

The Danger of Unchecked Power

Trump's mentality mirrors that of history's worst dictators.  Stalin, Mao, Hitler.  Psychopaths who viewed war as a game and human lives as expendable. His language is not that of a leader seeking peace, but of a tyrant reveling in power:

    "We've made a lot of progress... It was one hell of a hit."

This is how he describes an unprovoked attack that killed people, as if it were a sports highlight. His complete lack of empathy underscores the danger of placing such individuals in positions of authority.

Conclusion: A Call for Awareness

Trump's remarks reveal a deeply unstable, narcissistic, and morally bankrupt individual. The fact that millions still support him despite this blatant psychopathy is a testament to the power of propaganda and tribalism.

The U.S. and Israel are not the victims in this conflict, they are the aggressors. If Americans truly value peace and justice, they must reject the lies that justify endless war. The real threat is not Iran but the war machine that profits from destruction.

This is not just about policy disagreements; it is about recognizing evil when it speaks. Trump is not a leader.  Trump is a danger to the world. And until people see that, Trump's cycle of violence will continue.

Within 20 to 30 years, the direct witnesses to a war begin to age out of public life.

The Iraq War began on March 20, 2003, when the United States, along with coalition forces, invaded Iraq under the pretext that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

As of June 2025, it has been 22 years and 3 months since the start of that war.

Time to repeat the good faith mistake.  It has been long enough to forget.





Yellow Cake anyone?  Twenty two years, celebrate the new ignorance.  Get yourself a big slice.





Or maybe you are not ignorant, and you just do not care.

Does the attack provide a smokescreen to hide the Gaza genocide?

Israel's attack on Iran serves as a strategic smokescreen to divert global attention from its ongoing actions in Gaza,  Here is how it works.  Since Israel began bombing Iran on June 13, 2025, international media coverage has largely shifted away from Gaza, despite Israel intensifying its assaults on Palestinians.

Massacres in Gaza such as the killing of more than seventy Palestinians at an aid distribution site have continued but receive minimal attention due to the attack on Iran.

Expanded forced displacement push Palestinians into uninhabitable areas.  Entire towns are destroyed.

Israels siege blocks food and medical aid from Gaza where famine conditions prevail.






Dumfucks think this is about Nukes.  The truth is, it is about land.


And the ethnic cleansing needed to get it.

Israel's Strikes on Iran Signal a New Global Conflict Against BRICS

With Every Intention of getting the Oil and Gas

BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates. BRICS is an intergovernmental organization comprising ten countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Iran and the United Arab Emirates.

June 13th, 2025, changed everything. While mainstream media focused on nuclear facilities and security threats, they missed the real story unfolding behind the headlines. Is Israel the new sheriff? The West's proxy move against BRICS.

Most people believe the recent Israeli strikes on Iran were about preventing nuclear weapons development. But what if I told you these attacks were actually a calculated assault on the world's fastest-growing economic alliance, one that threatens to end Western financial dominance forever?

Today, we'll prove this wasn't about nuclear security at all. We'll show you how Iran became the energy backbone of BRICS, why that terrifies Western powers, and how Israel just fired the opening shot in a new kind of global war. By the end of this video, you'll understand why these strikes represent the most significant geopolitical shift since the Cold War ended.

But before diving into the analysis, let me share something personal with you.

A Personal Note from Think BRICS

Dear friends of Think BRICS, we should have been in Tehran these days. We were supposed to report on the event "deBlock - The Future of BRICS Through Blockchain." We are media partners. We had our bags packed and ready. But on Friday morning, we got terrible news: Israel bombed Iranian territory, and our trip, along with the event itself, was canceled.

We wish we were talking about progress and cooperation instead of conflict. But we cannot ignore what is happening in the world today. Our sadness about not visiting a historic place like Iran is nothing compared to what the Iranian people are going through right now.

Iran's Crucial Role in BRICS

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Here's what makes Iran invaluable to BRICS. Iran's energy resources are crucial for the alliance amid Western sanctions. Iran holds the world's fourth-largest oil reserves.  That's 163 billion barrels, or 9.5% of global deposits. But it gets better. Iran also controls 12% of the world's natural gas reserves, ranking among the top three holders globally.

Despite crushing Western sanctions, Iran increased oil production by 60% over the past two years. Think about that for a moment. While the West tried to strangle Iran's economy, Tehran found new markets and doubled down on energy exports. Who's buying? China, Venezuela, and until the coup d'état Syria.  All BRICS partners or allies. Notably, Venezuela imports Iranian oil despite its own substantial reserves due to quality differences, international sanctions, and refining capacity challenges.


BRICS Membership Shifts Global Oil Dynamics

When Iran joined BRICS officially on January 1st, 2024, everything changed.

A year and a half ago.

The expanded BRICS group now includes three of the world's largest oil exporters. Together, they control 42% of global oil supply. This isn't just about energy numbers.

It's about breaking the petrodollar system that has anchored Western financial dominance for fifty years.

Iran explicitly joined BRICS to "counterbalance Western powers" and "bolster economic transactions in non-dollar currencies." Beijing and Moscow welcomed Iran with open arms because they share this vision.

When countries representing more than half of the global population start trading outside the dollar system, Washington's sanctions become worthless paper.

The last gasps of an Imperial Empire amid bullshit end-time rhetoric.

The June 13th Attack: What Really Happened?

Now, let's examine what really happened on June 13th. Israel struck Iran's Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant, destroying the above-ground facility producing 60% enriched uranium. The electrical infrastructure was completely demolished—substations, power supplies, backup generators. Fordow and Isfahan facilities were also hit.

But here's the smoking gun most media ignored. Journalist Pepe Escobar revealed:

The "devastating attack on Iran was coordinated in detail with President Donald Trump." Trump's own statements provided the roadmap. He demanded a "deal" while threatening "something much worse than anything they know." He gloated about "hardliners" being "DEAD now" and warned of "more brutal" planned attacks.

This fits perfectly with Israel's "decapitation strategy".  Systematically eliminating Iran's military and diplomatic leadership.

Remember former President Raisi and Foreign Minister Abdollahian's mysterious deaths? Remember Trump's assassination of General Soleimani? This is pattern recognition, not coincidence.

The green light came directly from Washington.

Why Now? The BRICS Factor

But why now? Because Iran was becoming too comfortable, too integrated into BRICS. According to sources, "indirect nuclear negotiations in Oman were taken seriously in Tehran, lulling the Iranian leadership to sleep." They fell into the trap.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) inspections Iran allowed weren't about transparency.  They were intelligence-gathering missions. As one analyst noted, "Iranians were naïve enough to let the IAEA visit their strategic sites, where spies collected all the info needed to facilitate Israeli strikes." Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister confirmed this betrayal, announcing Iran "will not notify the IAEA further about nuclear program activities after Israel's attacks."
The trust is broken. The cooperation is over.

Stupid Is as Stupid Does.  - Trump Is as Trump Does.  -  Trump is the Great Divider.

The Real Target: BRICS Energy Integration

This brings us to the heart of the matter. These strikes weren't about Iran's nuclear program, they were "above all a pre-emptive attack on the BRICS energy core."

Iran serves as the crucial link between Russia and China in their Eurasian integration project.

Their gas tank.

The International North-South Transportation Corridor connects Russia, Iran, and India. These aren't just trade routes—they're the infrastructure of a new world order. By attacking Iran, the West aims to deliver a "killer blow to increased Eurasia integration."

The Shanghai Cooperation Organization, which includes Iran as a full member, condemned the strikes as a "gross violation of international law." They declared, "any unlawful actions directed against SCO member states are unacceptable."

But condemnation isn't deterrence. The BRICS nations face a stark choice:

Either they develop real military alliance structures to protect members, or they watch the West pick them off one by one. As one analyst put it, "Liquid organizations like BRICS don't serve any purpose without military backing." The only hope is "a network of military alliances like those that bind Western countries."

The Energy War: Why It Matters

Now, let's dive deeper into why these energy dynamics matter so much. BRICS countries already account for 36.4% of the world's primary energy supply. By 2040, that figure jumps to 45% of global energy consumption and production. This growing dominance explains Western desperation.

Ya think!

Iran's integration into BRICS creates an alternative energy architecture completely outside Western control. Iran and Russia plan to establish a "gas hub on the Makran coast for exporting energy to South and Southeast Asian countries." They're building swap arrangements through Turkmenistan territory. These projects bypass Western financial systems entirely.  No dollars, no Western banks, no Western control.

The West's Last Stand?

The current global energy governance system was designed in 1974 by major oil consumers.  The US, Japan, and Europe. It excludes BRICS members despite their status as top energy consumers. BRICS wants to transition from "rule takers" to "rule makers" in global energy governance. The West cannot allow this transformation. Hence the proxy war through Israel.

Iran holds one final card that terrifies Western planners: the Strait of Hormuz. Iran can "shut down the Strait of Hormuz and collapse the global economy" if pushed too far. Twenty percent of global oil passes through this narrow waterway. One Iranian decision could trigger worldwide economic chaos.

This is why the stakes are so incredibly high, and why the strategy to destroy the Iranian economy may backfire. Instead of capitulation, Iran seems to choose escalation. The question becomes:

Will Russia and China allow their BRICS partner to be destroyed? Or is it that Iran doesn't need any help and can manage this war by itself, despite what Western media claims?

If they intervene, we're looking at World War Three. If they don't, BRICS could easily die as a credible alternative to Western dominance.

This is very dangerous.

Conclusion: A New Global Struggle

The Israeli strikes on Iran represent far more than a regional conflict. They're the opening move in a global struggle between the declining unipolar order and the emerging multipolar world. Iran's energy wealth makes it the crown jewel of BRICS.

The coordinated Western-Israeli response shows how desperate they are to maintain control.

But this strategy carries enormous risks. By attacking a BRICS member, the West may have just accelerated the very multipolarity they sought to prevent. What happens next will determine whether we live in a world dominated by one superpower or balanced among many. The stakes couldn't be higher.

What Do You Think?

Is Israel acting as the West's enforcer against BRICS? Drop your thoughts in the comments below. We'll continue following this story as it develops. Stay informed, stay engaged, and keep questioning the narratives.

Thanks for watching.          Comments by K-Dog.

It certainly makes sense.  Just as the Petrodollar underpins the status of "global reserve currency" for the dollar's putative value, the BRICS need a similar stock of oil a debt instrument they issue trades for.  They have set up also an aalternative cleearing system for trades to the SWIFT system used by the Western banks.

The lynchpin they still haven't issued or agreed on is  what that debt instrument will be and how it will be constructed.  I doubt they will use either the Rouble or Renminby for this, but rather create a new currency based on a basket of these currencies (plus the Real & Rial etc) and Gold to price out all international trades.  Then each country would be able to adjust the value of their own currency for domestic commerce.  They'll need also to set up a central bank and satellites to issue the new currency for each of their members, like the Euro.  This biz is all going to take some time.

Starting a war with Iran definitely will delay things on the monetary front.  I wouldn't expect Mother Russia or China to drop in officially, but I can certainly see both supplying the Iranians with advanced weaponry like hypersonic cruise missiles that could target Israeli basses and Saudi oil infrastructure.  The whole biz easily could escalate to WWIII.

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Hi everybody Today is Saturday June 21st 2025 and our friend Pepe Escobar is back with us Welcome back Pepe Nema Always a pleasure I turned uh Russia upside down to be here with you tonight It's 11 in Moscow I just arrived from St Petersburg to be here on time so we could do this relaxed you know at least a little bit Let's let's get started Pepe with what's going on in the Middle East The situation as time goes by is getting more dangerous more fragile And it seems that the United States is doing everything just moving these fighter jets bombers close to Iran They're preparing for an attack on Iran Even CNN reported that this sort of idea of two weeks and there's somehow there it's a game of deception Of course to keep Therron confused Your take on what's going on U can I make an.

attack on Iran Even CNN reported that this sort of idea of two weeks and there's somehow there it's a game of deception Of course to keep Therron confused Your take on what's going on U can I make an introduction IA before I answer your question Go ahead Because we need to talk about St Petersburg Yeah Uh it was the most important forum in Russia this year and I heard from global south businessmen in St Petersburg that for them is much more important than Davos Why Because they are doing business This morning uh the organizers in St Petersburg they announced that uh okay this is not the final count over $80 billion dollar of deals were signed in St Petersburg that's enormous by any standards and the great thing is these are global south deals this is not uh international banking system.

count over $80 billion dollar of deals were signed in St Petersburg that's enormous by any standards and the great thing is these are global south deals this is not uh international banking system this is not black rock you know the usual suspects these are African nations uh India and Pakistan were there uh the Pakistanis they sent ministers you know uh the Gulf cooperation council Bahin was one of the guests of honor Southeast Asia Everybody from Southeast Asia was there and of course scores of African nations So and obviously Central Asia Russia China There was so just to give you an idea there was uh in the middle of uh on Wednesday there was uh Russia China business panel packed totally packed people out of the room because they couldn't get into the room businessmen from both sides.

there was uh in the middle of uh on Wednesday there was uh Russia China business panel packed totally packed people out of the room because they couldn't get into the room businessmen from both sides local governors in Russia different oblasts and everybody uh talking business and uh uh the local go Russian government saying look the Chinese are investing in this this this this project amazing stuff you know uh there was a wonderful panel which our friend Apollo Batista he he was the star of the panel online can imagine Paulo talked online for less than 10 minutes and told the show it was a panel uh about um a possible reform of the international financial system and the Russians there was a there was a Chinese there was one Chinese as they were too uh careful they you know ah we have to.

panel uh about um a possible reform of the international financial system and the Russians there was a there was a Chinese there was one Chinese as they were too uh careful they you know ah we have to go little by little one step at a time and all that and Paulo says the real thing no we have to go for broke and our window of opportunity is is you know it's quite small and the the real important reforms they have to start now which is what the Russians were saying and working for last year before the brick summit in Kazan last year because as we all know the summit is in Brazil this year everything is slowing down the Brazilian way but at least we have people like Paulo one of the founders of the MDB new development bank He knows that there's got to be a structural reform of the NDP and.

is slowing down the Brazilian way but at least we have people like Paulo one of the founders of the MDB new development bank He knows that there's got to be a structural reform of the NDP and all that And this is something that is practically not discussed even in Russia and in China So you know these kinds of conversations only in a forum like this you you can have it We had our own panel I I was on a panel on fake news which went way uh beyond that because we were discussing um control of information artificial intelligence and the fact that now fake news is going to be digitally produced by big tech itself This is one of the key themes Uh there was for instance a very high ranking executive of a spare bank the number one Russian bank and he was giving figures about fake news not only.

by big tech itself This is one of the key themes Uh there was for instance a very high ranking executive of a spare bank the number one Russian bank and he was giving figures about fake news not only Russia but absolutely astonishing and of course when you compare to the latest information about uh Palunteer in fact Palunteer now is inside embedded in the US federal government So we have a huge AI company okay let's say among the top high-tech companies in the west now dictating policy How serious is that These people already do uh AI models for the Israelis to kill Palestinians So you know it's getting worse by the minute And of course uh uh the uh these Russians uh these Russian friends they started um an organization that the merit of this organizations is enormous It's called Global.

it's getting worse by the minute And of course uh uh the uh these Russians uh these Russian friends they started um an organization that the merit of this organizations is enormous It's called Global Factchecking Network uh GFCN You can find them online They have their own website Uh lots of uh people have joined including myself and we are trying to maybe um set up a blueprint about uh controlling fake news checking fake news and get this conversation going to the point that it would land on the bricks table Of course it's not going to be in Rio in a few days you know but the next brick summit next year in South Africa and then if you have this discussed by the bricks there's a strong possibility that we can have uh just an example uh the beginning of a bricks net or a bricks tube or a.

next year in South Africa and then if you have this discussed by the bricks there's a strong possibility that we can have uh just an example uh the beginning of a bricks net or a bricks tube or a all around bricks alternative media sphere because we cannot simply be subjected to the big tech platforms because we know exactly where it's going with the former PayPal mafia with this very very dangerous characters Peter T and Alex Karp and the fact that they are now part of the US government it's even even more dangerous so the forum was this forum is changing Nema it's great because used to be too generalistic until next year This year there were lots of panels that were extremely practical and people discussing possible solutions Everything from geoeconomics to the IT sphere and of course.

too generalistic until next year This year there were lots of panels that were extremely practical and people discussing possible solutions Everything from geoeconomics to the IT sphere and of course the overarching theme the dark cloud over all of us is your question Iran Israel and US and what is US going to do Um the everybody was waiting for the plenary session which was yesterday right with President Putin But first great thing about the plenary session the global south was represented on stage at the plenary session we had China Indonesia Bahrain and South Africa How cool is that This is a a sample of the global south uh with the the guest of honor the president of Indonesia prao Southeast Asia which puts Putin sees as one of the two top areas of development in the near future.

This is a a sample of the global south uh with the the guest of honor the president of Indonesia prao Southeast Asia which puts Putin sees as one of the two top areas of development in the near future Southeast Asia and Africa and of course Putin indirectly uh very diplomatically he answered these questions about Iran Uh it's very clear in the Russian position Iran has absolute inaliable rights to have a civilian nuclear program which is what they have at the moment Number one Number two Putin said that he received personal assurances from Trump and from Netanyahu that they are not going to bomb Busher plant because there are over 200 ultra high tech Russian technicians working at Busher So obviously we we can imagine the conversation right putting on the phone say don't touch Busher and.

bomb Busher plant because there are over 200 ultra high tech Russian technicians working at Busher So obviously we we can imagine the conversation right putting on the phone say don't touch Busher and the other two like this because they know the consequences if that happens Number three extremely important There's a lot of criticism um partially in Russia from let's say the Russian Atlanticist gang but mostly AC across the global north that Russia is not doing enough to um help Iran Putin said explicitly these people who are pedling this notion they are provocators provocati literal translation from from Russian So this means we can infer that of course they are helping discreetly Iran in this is a a taboo subject here uh Nema we cannot discuss this publicly I asked people close to the.

from from Russian So this means we can infer that of course they are helping discreetly Iran in this is a a taboo subject here uh Nema we cannot discuss this publicly I asked people close to the government about it no answers So we discussed this with the people from think tanks for instance Uh and the answer that they they they give is very similar to the answer that I received in Yemen when I asked a member of the high political council What are your exactly your relations with Russia and China And basically he said very diplomatically yes we have our own channels So obviously Thran and Moscow they have their own channels and obviously nobody here is going to expose these channels and what is the level of collaboration and help from Russia to Iran Same thing about China uh I discussed.

they have their own channels and obviously nobody here is going to expose these channels and what is the level of collaboration and help from Russia to Iran Same thing about China uh I discussed this for instance with my friend professor Jeang wei way he was in this uh China Russ audience as then he had he had to go to his own panel and he said of course there is but this is uh uh this is not in the open in cannot be in the open in China and it's not the Chinese way of doing the Chinese are extremely discreet especially when it comes to helping a partner that for them is a matter of national security as you know Very well Nema It's not only that deal which is not 10 years it's actually 20 years the $400 billion plus deal between Iran and China energy and infrastructure Uh so it's a matter.

security as you know Very well Nema It's not only that deal which is not 10 years it's actually 20 years the $400 billion plus deal between Iran and China energy and infrastructure Uh so it's a matter of national security for China and whatever happens Iran will have China's back China will have Iran's back I'm sorry So so it was good to have even if we had let's say tur and tentative answers but basically you got answers to these questions you know and it was good that this came out in the plenary session especially apart from that ju just to close this introduction the atmosphere was was buzzing everywhere you could you you could feel that there were deals being struck all the time I gave an example in my telegram column I interviewed a high power Chinese CEO dressed Hong Kong style She.

everywhere you could you you could feel that there were deals being struck all the time I gave an example in my telegram column I interviewed a high power Chinese CEO dressed Hong Kong style She said she's going to move she's going to live in Hong Kong next year H currently she is in Beijing Her company wants to invest in Donetsk This is something that nobody in the west knows In fact then my my Donbas friends they organized an interview with the number two of Donetsk Uh he great guy and he said "Look it's not only this lady that you just talked to I every day I receive inquiries from Chinese companies They want to come here and see the investment possibilities. " And he said minerals obviously coal for obvious reasons Now uh Donbas's Donbas is cool oblast or republic uh transportation.

companies They want to come here and see the investment possibilities. " And he said minerals obviously coal for obvious reasons Now uh Donbas's Donbas is cool oblast or republic uh transportation which includes connectivity corridors overland and maritime via maropo and tourism because they know the possibilities of of tourism including for China because uh it's a beautiful region Um Marupo could become uh quite something a mix of a spe um uh special economic zone uh important port and a tourism hub as well So um if you don't go to a forum like this you are literally uh blinded by the western narrative And of course everybody I I talked to people people from Astrakan for instance which is part of the international north south transportation corp they love talking to foreign uh journalists.

narrative And of course everybody I I talked to people people from Astrakan for instance which is part of the international north south transportation corp they love talking to foreign uh journalists and analysts because they are of course you know it's impossible for them to talk to the west and they are doing absolutely amazing stuff uh in ter in terms of integration they talk about how the federal government is investing a lot in all these oblasts and these uh public private uh partnerships So this is just to give you and our audience a small glimpse of how important this forum was Even all of us hostages of this absolutely horrendous situation in West Asia You have over 10, 000 people over there for three days non-stop networking and doing business So this is the future and it's not.

all of us hostages of this absolutely horrendous situation in West Asia You have over 10, 000 people over there for three days non-stop networking and doing business So this is the future and it's not it's no wonder that one of the most important quotes from Putin during his plenary session is that he said we uh not only uh we Russia we are betting on bricks as the future but we are betting on the constitution of a new growth model with everything that implicates new growth model something completely different to what we have since 1945 When it comes to you mentioned the situation in in the Middle East in the West Asia between Iran and Israel was discussed How as as I mentioned in my first question h what is the latest development in the region How do you find in the west When you look at.

East in the West Asia between Iran and Israel was discussed How as as I mentioned in my first question h what is the latest development in the region How do you find in the west When you look at the mainstream media in the west they're saying Iran was defeated Iran was destroyed and unbelievable what's going on in the mainstream media It's totally they're totally changing their the reality of what's going on there You're because they're a machine of fake news Nema We know that uh in fact in my panel I described Brussels as a fake news machine In fact the whole collective fragmented decaying west is a fake news machine against anything It can be uh Iraq it can be Syria it can be Libya it can be Somalia and now it can be Gaza and especially Iran Not to mention everything concerning Russia.

west is a fake news machine against anything It can be uh Iraq it can be Syria it can be Libya it can be Somalia and now it can be Gaza and especially Iran Not to mention everything concerning Russia Every scene that escapes that uh little tiny uh window which we call collective west which in terms of Europe basically is a very very small peninsula of the big Eurasian continent and of course the US which in the fabulous definition of bismar of course they are safe on both sides they are surrounded by fish It's a beautiful definition of course So uh no and obviously um the US is even more provincial than Europe Europe at least you have nodes of you know looking around the world and trying to establish a a relationship with the world even if it's not mutual respect But the US is a.

more provincial than Europe Europe at least you have nodes of you know looking around the world and trying to establish a a relationship with the world even if it's not mutual respect But the US is a completely different story It always go back to manifest destiny exceptionalism shiny city on the hill all that crap you know regurgitated ad infinitum and the for instance the way they are incapable of understanding not only how the Iranian system works how do they make decisions what constitutes an existential threat to Iran how Iran h deals with his neighbors with the Arab world and with Eurasia at large and how Iran has been preparing for this war now for decades because they knew not because they are they are crystal ball readers but because they knew it would be inevitable It's a war of.

at large and how Iran has been preparing for this war now for decades because they knew not because they are they are crystal ball readers but because they knew it would be inevitable It's a war of the turbo capitalist system against the Islamic revolution This is the key And now the people behind it they think that they have an opening For instance I have a lot of respect for Sai Hersh Uh when I was growing up when I was still in college Sai Hersh was one of my mo role models as an investigative uh journalist But Sai uh there's a problem with Sai because first of all he doesn't know West Asia very well which is an enormous problem if you are an investigative journalist Well he basically concentrates in in Washington and his gigantic role decks He can pick up the phone and talk to anybody.

very well which is an enormous problem if you are an investigative journalist Well he basically concentrates in in Washington and his gigantic role decks He can pick up the phone and talk to anybody he wants in Washington This is fantastic Nobody has that kind of of access Right But for instance he writes a piece that is absolutely terrifying this week on his Substack basically reproducing what his sources which are deep uh industrial military complex deeper industrial military complex and Zionist silos working around Washington Virginia and Maryland And what what is it about It's about the war that they always wanted since at least 1998 If some of them they want this war since 1979 as you know very well Regime change in Iran Uh elimination of the Iranian civilian nuclear program.

the war that they always wanted since at least 1998 If some of them they want this war since 1979 as you know very well Regime change in Iran Uh elimination of the Iranian civilian nuclear program Elimination of Islamic ballistic missiles basically destroying Iran like they did like they destroyed Iraq without thinking obviously for one minute about uh Iranian capabilities geography you name it of course not these people don't first of all they don't understand they never learn anything from geography history and both so when you read Sihar's piece it is terrifying the level of stupidity and ignorance of these people is terrifying but the problem is some some of these people interviewed by Hirs they have access to decision making in Washington and that's what makes it even more dangerous.

ignorance of these people is terrifying but the problem is some some of these people interviewed by Hirs they have access to decision making in Washington and that's what makes it even more dangerous and it's a quite a collection of of sources you know so if these people actually believe in what they are doing so we better get ready for some sort of apocalypse really apocalypse later not apocalypse now and proving once again that the system in the US is irredeemable It cannot be changed They will only change if they were destroyed completely which is not going to we know it's not going to happen They're still very very powerful Even if they were defeated by the Houthis and now they want to be defeated by the IRGC right It took one month for the Houthis to destro destroy now to completely.

They're still very very powerful Even if they were defeated by the Houthis and now they want to be defeated by the IRGC right It took one month for the Houthis to destro destroy now to completely defeat and humiliate the US Navy So now they want to repeat that with the IRGC That's a really bad move But that's where we're going apparently So it is in every respect Nema It's terrifying because these people they are not illiterate They are not completely dumb but they are fanatic They are extremely misinformed they have uh positions of power in the nomenclature So in a sense I her speech was uh uh it was a public service for him to public something like this I like his style because he's not judgmental Basically he's reproducing what people told him you know but wow it's one of the most.

uh uh it was a public service for him to public something like this I like his style because he's not judgmental Basically he's reproducing what people told him you know but wow it's one of the most terrifying things I have read in my long long long life around the world Really Pepe when it comes to the attack on Iran and the way that Iran has responded so far if the if Israel is winning what does Donald Trump need to interfere in the conflict Why do they need to go and bomb Iran Israel is winning So let them win the war What's going on that Nema They can't win this war You know that I know that Our most of our audience I'm sure knows that In fact they are losing already They lost the strategic initiative They lost the aura of invincibility for them I I would say that this is a.

I know that Our most of our audience I'm sure knows that In fact they are losing already They lost the strategic initiative They lost the aura of invincibility for them I I would say that this is a psychological coup even worse than losing everything Nobody is afraid of the Israelis anymore Everybody knows that they are a killing machine But it's very very convenient to be a killing machine uh killing women children hospitals journalists humanitarian help etc from above with missiles try try to match yourself against a real regional power They are they are having their ass kicked little by little the Iranian way because Iran for the moment hasn't entered a war against Israel They are probing they it's a sort of a little by little escalation to achieve strategic deterrence which in some.

little the Iranian way because Iran for the moment hasn't entered a war against Israel They are probing they it's a sort of a little by little escalation to achieve strategic deterrence which in some aspects they they already have There are some serious gaps in their uh anti-aircraft defenses and anti-missile defenses which might maybe they might get help from Russia to plug these holes if they wanted um quoting Putin again Putin said we offered some stuff to Iran Iran said no we don't want it at least for now if they wanted Russia is willing to help them any way they can So even with the fact that they continue to be attacked by Israel several raids a day missiles targeted assassinations you name it But the destruction that they already inflicted in Tel Aviv and beyond is now.

with the fact that they continue to be attacked by Israel several raids a day missiles targeted assassinations you name it But the destruction that they already inflicted in Tel Aviv and beyond is now unimaginable for everyone Nobody could ever imagine that missiles will be destroying neighborhoods in Israel landing near Dona destroying most of the port of Hifa The mayor of Hifa is desperate now is begging for peace because his sport sooner or later is going to disappear just like uh a lot was bankrupt Hifa will disappear It's not it's not in in the equation anymore oil the oil refinery in in Hifa Same thing So Israel now for has I would say of their three ports they have maybe 30% left in Ashdod which is near Gaza so it's not very well located the other two are well one of them is.

in in Hifa Same thing So Israel now for has I would say of their three ports they have maybe 30% left in Ashdod which is near Gaza so it's not very well located the other two are well one of them is non-existence and the other one is slowly sinking so there is a different strategy that was re-elaborated it probably in the first 48 hours by the IRGC I say okay now it's different now it's not strategic patience anymore we going to go best by a thousand cuts and it's working it's working because the number one objective is very ambitious is to paralyze the Israeli economy and they are on the way to do that Nemo seriously with only two weeks Less than two weeks No with two weeks One week It was It started on Friday last week Yeah So exactly We We lose track Everything is so fast So a little.

to do that Nemo seriously with only two weeks Less than two weeks No with two weeks One week It was It started on Friday last week Yeah So exactly We We lose track Everything is so fast So a little over one week They already paralyzed We can say maybe half of the Israeli economy at least And these attacks on Raphael on the Wiseman Institute on unit 8, 200 this is pinpointed This is absolutely these are the key intel military nodes in Israel Both so you know the the Iranian strategy is calculally calculated We can say it is working They are paying a horrendous price No question because Iran continues to be bombed Uh they are they bombed the Iraq um reactor right Yeah Uh targeting assassinations in K near the shrine in K So there are no limits for these gangsters you but um we can say uh.

continues to be bombed Uh they are they bombed the Iraq um reactor right Yeah Uh targeting assassinations in K near the shrine in K So there are no limits for these gangsters you but um we can say uh with a measure of certainty that H& RGC they see the big picture ahead Of course if the Americans get what Four B2s dropping four bombs exactly at the same time vertically on the spot over four Then it's a completely new ball game as we know which by the way which is not that much possible I talk about it because when you hit the f when you first hit the target the explosion whatever is happening in the aftermath of that impact they're not you're not going to be able to to to hit the target again at the same point At the same point Exactly Nema Not to mention uh smoke debris etc You need.

in the aftermath of that impact they're not you're not going to be able to to to hit the target again at the same point At the same point Exactly Nema Not to mention uh smoke debris etc You need perfect visibility on top of it for your heads So c can you imagine that there's absolutely no one at the Pentagon to tell the president of the United States how completely absurd this whole idea is Apparently not right And the guy who's in charge that major imbecile gurilla who is an anti-Iranian islamophobe whatever No wonder he's the guy in charge of the whole operation and he's the guy convincing he's the guy convincing Trump and the whole notion is so absurd that even Trump himself apparently is not convinced Of course I would say a 5-year-old would not be convinced but that's where we are.

he's the guy convincing Trump and the whole notion is so absurd that even Trump himself apparently is not convinced Of course I would say a 5-year-old would not be convinced but that's where we are and and it gets more serious by the minute And I'm sure Putin um already via their privileged channels already told Trump look you have no idea what awaits you if you go along with this But at the same time Nema we all know it's not Trump who's making this decision The decision has already been made by the usual suspects behind They are forcing him to of course give the green light It's a completely different story And there are um uh echoes and shades telling us that uh he's he's now afraid because he is totally trapped in his own rhetorical game and in the Zio Con's long running game that.

different story And there are um uh echoes and shades telling us that uh he's he's now afraid because he is totally trapped in his own rhetorical game and in the Zio Con's long running game that comes since the end of the 1990s He's he's in an untenable position and we can already say that he lost the midterms His base half of his base is gone already So bye-bye He's going to be a lame duck after the midterms Not to mention they they might advance to try to impeach him again So it's wow The accumulation of horrors and absurdities is never ending right And when you of course all of us who for professional reasons we have to at least uh get a glimpse of what mainstream media is saying they live in what kind of re now obviously these people don't live in reality but what kind of nether world.

professional reasons we have to at least uh get a glimpse of what mainstream media is saying they live in what kind of re now obviously these people don't live in reality but what kind of nether world they live and ping the notion that I know it's the president of the United States is Like God he can decide one day to do the or zeals He he can decide one day to throw a lightning bolt and the other day okay let's have a banquet He decides the future of the world No he doesn't decide anything There are people deciding for him He's basically a lowly messenger a cheap messenger a casino hustler you know a mobster a subm mobster So it's uh it was good to have a few um uh inside um info and commentary from from people in St Petersburg Well well positioned people in the Russian government.

you know a mobster a subm mobster So it's uh it was good to have a few um uh inside um info and commentary from from people in St Petersburg Well well positioned people in the Russian government especially they have no they have no illusions of course and once again they all come back to the same point We have a war here in our borders First we need to solve this and now they're fully concentrated uh what's going to happen in the next few months Uh the conditions are going to be much much tougher if uh not uh Kiev but Kiev's sponsors don't accept what's on the table put on the table by the Russians and meanwhile they keep organizing forums like this so the whole of the global south can get together and strike business deals So there there's always the other side of the coin IMA right The.

and meanwhile they keep organizing forums like this so the whole of the global south can get together and strike business deals So there there's always the other side of the coin IMA right The auspicious side of the the coin even in the middle of such darkness What was so important about the the point that Putin raised in St Petersburg said he said that Russia and Iran are fighting the same forces The same this was brilliant Wow Everybody knows what he means He doesn't need to get into detail and Putin doesn't he never needs to spell out okay he needs to spell out especially for Kab But when he's talking to a broad audience which in this case was a global audience everybody was waiting okay what is he going to say about Iran This is possibly the key quote because you can inter interpret.

he's talking to a broad audience which in this case was a global audience everybody was waiting okay what is he going to say about Iran This is possibly the key quote because you can inter interpret this at several levels and at the same time he said something very crucial which explains a lot of his um let's say circumspection when he deals with Israel He says look we have almost 1. 5 million former USSR and Russian citizens double passports living in Israel speaking Russian So Israel in many aspects is also a Russian land He has to take this into consideration of course So it's it's a his compared to Trump his position is uh of course it's solid but the nuances are extremely complex but because he's he has a legal mind He is a strategist and he weighs everything before making a big big.

compared to Trump his position is uh of course it's solid but the nuances are extremely complex but because he's he has a legal mind He is a strategist and he weighs everything before making a big big big decision At least we have a rational mind calculating all the vectors right But at the same time he's not going to abandon his principles which is Iran is a very strong ally of the Russian Federation They have mutual interest They have business deals Russia is helping Iran in their civilian nuclear program and they are not backing down from any of that So this is clear and the Americans who know how to read for them this is also clear obviously from the Zionist axis point of view this doesn't change anything because they're fanatics and now they think that they have the holy grail in.

who know how to read for them this is also clear obviously from the Zionist axis point of view this doesn't change anything because they're fanatics and now they think that they have the holy grail in front of them regime change in Iran which once again Sai piece was about how we're going to achieve regime change in Iran this should have been the title in fact the headline What were the main points that he was mentioning Because so far I don't see anything in that sense is happening in Iran The main goal of these attacks assassination decapitation as they call it was to somehow bring so-called regime change in Iran That doesn't that didn't work so far Shano ima all of us who remember shock in 2003 uh in in Iraq it worked but Iraq was already dissolved as a nation Um I I went to in 2002 I.

regime change in Iran That doesn't that didn't work so far Shano ima all of us who remember shock in 2003 uh in in Iraq it worked but Iraq was already dissolved as a nation Um I I went to in 2002 I spent one months in Iraq during Saddam It was around September September October So a few months before shock and all And I saw by myself how the country was impoverished after how many 20 years almost 20 years of sanctions destroyed Uh the only thing that more or less worked was the mukabarat the intel services and it would be very easy if the Americans launched and it was uh and even like that it took three three weeks for the whole thing to collapse and it only collapsed because they distributed a lot of money to Saddam's generals Iran now Iran is solid even of course there is oppos you know.

took three three weeks for the whole thing to collapse and it only collapsed because they distributed a lot of money to Saddam's generals Iran now Iran is solid even of course there is oppos you know of course there is opposition uh to the government especially in north Iran the upper middle class the people who dream of Iran under the sha etc but it's a minority in Iran uh so and the fact that now the nation was attacked directly it unified the nation completely as you know very well Nema but try to explain this in Washington Nobody will understand First of all these idiots never been to Iran They don't know how it works They don't know anything The culture history how the system works You name it Uh different levels of popularity If you compare uh Kistan with Mashad with the Caspian.

Iran They don't know how it works They don't know anything The culture history how the system works You name it Uh different levels of popularity If you compare uh Kistan with Mashad with the Caspian with the Persian Gulf and they don't even they don't know anything They only have the obsession we need to get rid of Kam We have to kill him and then we're going to have the son of the sha to be our guy This the level of stupidity is exactly what I just told you Pepe Deitri Ditri Med said he tweeted on Twitter He said on X "If the West wants nuclear disarmament start with Israel Iran won't back down no matter the threats. " These are one of the most I would say important word words that came out of the some someone like Madv who is very important when it comes to the foreign policy of Russia.

down no matter the threats. " These are one of the most I would say important word words that came out of the some someone like Madv who is very important when it comes to the foreign policy of Russia Is the number the number two Yeah Is that it is dima because medv can say what Putin cannot say explicitly So we should always pay attention to what he's saying This is what they discuss behind closed doors at the security council meetings or among them etc You and medv can Yes This is very very very serious Absolutely Absolutely And and once again it looks like nobody in Washington in a position of power or in a position to control foreign policy is listening to their detriment If they get into this adventure which as it stands there is a strong possibility We no none of us know but all the.

of power or in a position to control foreign policy is listening to their detriment If they get into this adventure which as it stands there is a strong possibility We no none of us know but all the signs are that something will happen and something nefarious will happen and something like a mother of all mistakes might occur So they're going to pay a heavy heavy price for it The the problem is in the west when they want to go to war they're so much somehow melted in their own rhetoric that they cannot hear anything from outside They feel that they're going to they're going to achieve what they want to achieve by this sort of war against other nations But after all we know that it doesn't work the way that they were talking about this Iran is not other countries like Iraq Afghanistan I'm.

want to achieve by this sort of war against other nations But after all we know that it doesn't work the way that they were talking about this Iran is not other countries like Iraq Afghanistan I'm sure today I talk with Professor Mirandi Okay Prepared to fight the United States Absolutely We are totally prepared to fight it and come in and do it We We are prepared to respond to you I It's not just about Iran Yemen just announced that there if the United States dares to attack Iran they're going to attack the United States in the Red Sea bubble mand somehow and and on the other hand I heard something from China the I don't know you the the political analyst Victor G from China here is what he said go is very good he's very here is what he said in terms of if the United States attacks Iran.

from China the I don't know you the the political analyst Victor G from China here is what he said go is very good he's very here is what he said in terms of if the United States attacks Iran back against aggressors and if the United States wants to join Israel to become an aggressor against Iran well history will eventually have its own verdict If other countries want to join the fight on the side of Israel I will urge them to stop that right away And if for example other countries want to join the fight against Iran you never want to exclude the possibility that other major countries want to fight together with Iran because the war imposed on Iran is the unjustified war It's a war of aggression It's undeclared war It's a surprise attack and any people any country any country under such.

to fight together with Iran because the war imposed on Iran is the unjustified war It's a war of aggression It's undeclared war It's a surprise attack and any people any country any country under such surprise attack an attack of aggression has full legal justification to fight back Yeah What Victor is saying uh it's very important Nema because this is essentially the position of the leadership in Beijing It's exactly the same position which they express of course very politely uh in the briefings of the minister of foreign affairs in Beijing and all that but this is their position and it's implied that if that happens they will help Iran in ways that none of us can imagine what would be the Chinese way of course discreet made in the shape hate They don't talk about it We We've seen that.

implied that if that happens they will help Iran in ways that none of us can imagine what would be the Chinese way of course discreet made in the shape hate They don't talk about it We We've seen that in Ukraine We know how they act and they they don't talk about it Even with with the case of Russia Iran when Iran was somehow sending drones to Russia nobody was talking about it You remember that These countries are helping each other without talking about it Unlike what the United States and Europeans do Uh yes because they are masters of uh narrative twisting and blah blah blah And Russia Iran and China they have interlocked strategic partnerships It's on a completely different level There's no comparison Civilization states who have interlocking strategic partnerships and have the same.

and China they have interlocked strategic partnerships It's on a completely different level There's no comparison Civilization states who have interlocking strategic partnerships and have the same interest and they are all on board on the main theme of the forum of St Petersburg until yesterday the construction of an integrated Eurasia and they are the three top actors We cannot say India is one of the top actors Definitely not By the way there are not many in there there was um yes there was a sizable Indian delegation in St St Petersburg but they didn't say anything remotely consequential And their position is for instance I'm sure you noticed that the Shangai Corporation organization blatantly uh condemned Israel in an official communicate Guess who was not part of the condemnation.

And their position is for instance I'm sure you noticed that the Shangai Corporation organization blatantly uh condemned Israel in an official communicate Guess who was not part of the condemnation India So the other SEO members are already looking at India They say do they really belong here you see and it's completely stupid because they depend on Russia they depend on Iran They are partners in the international north south transportation corridor which is a lifeline commercial lifeline for them But the relationship between New Delhi and Tel Aviv is wow this is quite something And of course don't forget the affinity the ideological affinities between Zionism and Hindutva uh supremacism That's not good at all You know Axis Pepe Axis reported that the United States tried to set up a.

course don't forget the affinity the ideological affinities between Zionism and Hindutva uh supremacism That's not good at all You know Axis Pepe Axis reported that the United States tried to set up a meeting with Iran in Estanul but it didn't work Supreme leader Yeah refused to talk with the United States But we know that the Iranian foreign minister went to Europe He talked with foreign ministers of the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom together with Germany and France The outcome of that those talks they were they were just repeating the same sort of demands on the part of the United States No enrichment even they want to bring in the missile the the missile program of Iran Unbelievable I don't know if it seems as time goes by Iran sees no solution but fight in the United States.

States No enrichment even they want to bring in the missile the the missile program of Iran Unbelievable I don't know if it seems as time goes by Iran sees no solution but fight in the United States Yes Uhhuh The Shihuawas uh you saw the Shihu were demanding zero enrichment Who the hell are the Shihu to demand anything from a sovereign nation Especially because these imbeciles were part of the original JCPOA Germany was an observer in JCPOA It was the P uh was P3 plus one that was called Yeah Uh yeah I think P3+ one Germany was part of uh Vienna I can't believe that Well okay let's say that they had slightly less imbecile leaderships at the time Okay which is true technically In fact it was B5 plus one if I'm not I'm sorry Nema Yes P5+1 the five of the UNC plus German And now they Okay.

they had slightly less imbecile leaderships at the time Okay which is true technically In fact it was B5 plus one if I'm not I'm sorry Nema Yes P5+1 the five of the UNC plus German And now they Okay zero enrichment Okay in fact zero zero everything Get rid of everything be invaded and we want regime change Basically this is what they're saying Gosh Pepe you you said that you've lost the the the the about the date of the the the when the the war between actually it wasn't the war it was the Israeli attack on Iran started on on June 13 on Friday They started this All right It started on a Friday Is that because my It was two days before Sunday that they were going to talk in Yeah In Oman if I'm not mistaken between the United States in Oman You're right Nema Exactly So but I lost track.

Friday Is that because my It was two days before Sunday that they were going to talk in Yeah In Oman if I'm not mistaken between the United States in Oman You're right Nema Exactly So but I lost track because No you go crazy in our case Yeah It's all I I totally understand that Since then they have received 14 weapon shipments from the United States and Germany to just sustain sustain certainly interceptors we are we we don't know what's inside of but okay if we want to bet interceptors because they are actually running from out of interceptor we can we can see that they are not only they are intercepting much less but they are very very careful with how many intercept chapters they're going to launch because they know that it's dwindling and it's part of the Iranian strategy once again.

intercepting much less but they are very very careful with how many intercept chapters they're going to launch because they know that it's dwindling and it's part of the Iranian strategy once again And did the Iranians lose anything important so far On the contrary they got rid of all their older missiles And what were the older missiles doing Depleting the interceptor uh fleet Let's put it this way Brilliant Straight to the point Very simple Obviously nobody saw about it the Israelis and the Americans and both proves once again that it works Simple strategies do work So wait until Iran starts to sending uh fles of their latest editions you know the Hajikasam Fatu you name it Wow But they are guarding this for the second stage which certainly is the calculations that they have that the.

to sending uh fles of their latest editions you know the Hajikasam Fatu you name it Wow But they are guarding this for the second stage which certainly is the calculations that they have that the United States sooner or later would enter the war Just like Russia in many aspects it's still saving the best that they have for the possibility later on of NATO and the United States having ideas about Russia So there are similarities and this is something that they can discuss at the highest level strategic level ministry of defense level and all that Look we're fighting more or less the same war Yes it is the same war It's the same forever war in two different theaters uh with the same backers on the other side and with the same objectives And the objective number one is to plunder the natural.

it is the same war It's the same forever war in two different theaters uh with the same backers on the other side and with the same objectives And the objective number one is to plunder the natural wealths of both Russia and Iran and to prevent by all means necessary Eurasia integration with both of them with China especially and everybody in between and around them It's as simple as that and is as complex as that So nothing is um by accident in this progression If we look at the progression since uh Maidan to Ukraine uh to the SMO to the okay how the SMO is going to be resolved to the negotiations on the Russian front negotiations on the Iranian front the state that we are now we are on the brink of the US entering another forever war everything makes sense it's a progression absolutely.

on the Russian front negotiations on the Iranian front the state that we are now we are on the brink of the US entering another forever war everything makes sense it's a progression absolutely our friend Sergey Glazia have uh he he gave the short version of we are discussing now and he said and level three was u Ukraine so it didn't work so they are on level four level four is go against Iran and level five will be against China we are on level we are entering level four now absolutely and they are desperate because there's nothing they can do in terms of level three they're going to start a nuclear war against Russia they will lose Do they have what it takes to attack Russia No they don't in every aspect Are they going to accept that they are have been strategically defeated by Russia No.

nuclear war against Russia they will lose Do they have what it takes to attack Russia No they don't in every aspect Are they going to accept that they are have been strategically defeated by Russia No they won't Will that change anything No it won't So okay you change the subject which is exactly where we are now They changed the subject Okay regime change in Iran Let's see if it works No it won't work So they'll be even more desperate after that What are what they're going to do False flag in Taiwan So you know when you put this all when you follow the process you put this all together you see the level of desperation Nema of these people because usually when we have a situation like this in the world okay the solution is a war to reset the system is what happened from 39 to 45 Now if.

see the level of desperation Nema of these people because usually when we have a situation like this in the world okay the solution is a war to reset the system is what happened from 39 to 45 Now if you launch a war you will reset the system but against you And that's what makes them even more abysmally desperate There's no other way that the war will work in their favor Ukraine proved that and something that is unimaginable for several generations Israel sold the miss to everybody that they were invincible Bye-bye Not anymore Your miss is shattered And they won't be able to live with that And uh in the mid to long term they will vote with their feet They will go back to Eastern Europe where they came from because none of these people are Semites But this is a long process It's starting.

And uh in the mid to long term they will vote with their feet They will go back to Eastern Europe where they came from because none of these people are Semites But this is a long process It's starting now So it's fascinating how the angel of history to get one of my favorite images of all time by Walter Benjamin uh the angel of history is looking back you know over his shoulder to the past but he cannot move into the future because he's encumbered by all the horrors of the past in front of him but sometimes you know let's say he looks into the he turns his head again he starts looking at the future again I said oh there is a glimmer of light over there so even if I am in shackles here I can maybe you know have one that uh we may be at this point now a a angel of history correction of all.

future again I said oh there is a glimmer of light over there so even if I am in shackles here I can maybe you know have one that uh we may be at this point now a a angel of history correction of all the horrors unleashed by that construct in West Asia So that of of course and this involves unimaginable suffering and horrors but you know always you have to pay history is not free for anybody You have to pay and even the winners or even the pe the the people's culture civilizations who resurrect they have to pay a horrible price for it Uh in the case of Russia they had to pay uh the '90s their purge and their valley of tears for Russia was the ' 90s They started to resurrect in the 2000s and look where they are now The first part of Buting's speech in St Petersburg I'm sure many of you.

purge and their valley of tears for Russia was the ' 90s They started to resurrect in the 2000s and look where they are now The first part of Buting's speech in St Petersburg I'm sure many of you have seen was detailing the success of the Russian economy the fourth largest economy in the world by PPP now even being the most sanctioned nation state probably in history So there are always ways of uh you know Phoenix rising again So okay All that to say in a somewhat convoluted way forgive me all of you that maybe this could be the beginning for a resurrection of Palestine later on because if Zion if Zionism machine is shattered they will naturally dissolve and that thing will dissolve and they will go back to Poland Ukraine even Russia Yeah Eastern Europe in general Well and that's it And.

Zion if Zionism machine is shattered they will naturally dissolve and that thing will dissolve and they will go back to Poland Ukraine even Russia Yeah Eastern Europe in general Well and that's it And the land will return to their rightful owners Here is Pepe Here is what Donald Trump said Yes Foreign Minister this afternoon said if the US is serious about negotiations that you would call up Israel and request that they stop their air strikes Will you make that request Well I think it's very hard to make that request right now If somebody's winning it's a little bit harder to do than if somebody's losing But we're ready willing and able And we've been speaking to Iran and we'll see what happens Yeah He feels that he's winning Pepe I Nema they are not they're not giving him the right.

somebody's losing But we're ready willing and able And we've been speaking to Iran and we'll see what happens Yeah He feels that he's winning Pepe I Nema they are not they're not giving him the right information Simple as that It's obvious It's he doesn't know anything that's going on over there obviously and he doesn't read Once again we we already discussed that many times A president that doesn't read and works by uh TV uh talking points and sound bites Of course he's a hostage It was a long time ago he said "We're going to go and destroy Houthies destroy Yemenes. " And he capitulated and we're going to go We're not going to fight I don't know how he how in the world he's thinking that the situation with Iran would be different for the United States while they know they can if to be.

we're going to go We're not going to fight I don't know how he how in the world he's thinking that the situation with Iran would be different for the United States while they know they can if to be honest they can destroy infrastructures all of these locations but after all they're not going to be able to defeat Iran on of course not Yeah But there's nobody uh capable of telling him that uh around him in his circle of power and much less uh in the industrial military complex Uh of course our friends independent analysts with uh their experience inside the deep state They could explain this for him in five minutes Ray McGovern could meet uh Trump and tell him five minutes look the whole thing is absurd But would he listen Of course not Even if that happened The United States has brought.

for him in five minutes Ray McGovern could meet uh Trump and tell him five minutes look the whole thing is absurd But would he listen Of course not Even if that happened The United States has brought the their fighter jet to Saudi Arabia Do you believe if they wanted to attack Iran they would use Saudi Arabia Because I would say that that would be the end of Saudi Arabia That would be the end of Saudi family Well NBS is losing sleep on all that Obviously he knows NBS is not a fool He may be a gangster but he's not a fool Um yeah we we we don't know how the let's say the background infrastructure to help an American attack on Iran what they would use anything that they use will be a legitimate target for Iran And this has been explicitly outlined by everybody that is in power in Tehran.

to help an American attack on Iran what they would use anything that they use will be a legitimate target for Iran And this has been explicitly outlined by everybody that is in power in Tehran over and over again And obviously the GCC they know of course and they have of course and they have diplomatic uh dialogue all of them Iran is talking Saudi Arabia Iran is talking to Qatar with UAE Everybody knows that and obviously they are terrified because it will be a unilateral decision It will be not a Tel Aiv decision will be a Washington decision So it's the empire that will okay which vessels I'm going to use for this operation And the vessels caught in the net they cannot say bye-bye you know In the case of Iran I remember when the war in Ukraine started how cautious Russia was even is.

I'm going to use for this operation And the vessels caught in the net they cannot say bye-bye you know In the case of Iran I remember when the war in Ukraine started how cautious Russia was even is today considering the war in Ukraine I see the same sort of attitude Pepe in Iran I talk with Iranians They're not going totally out against Israel because they know they're waiting for something bigger than Israel They wanted the United States to come and then show what they can do with with Israel or even with the Arab states And I don't know if in the United States these people the same people who were somehow cheering how how helping the case of Ukraine for more than three years in the conflict which literally destroyed Ukraine They're arguing that if we we go against Iran if we attack Iran.

were somehow cheering how how helping the case of Ukraine for more than three years in the conflict which literally destroyed Ukraine They're arguing that if we we go against Iran if we attack Iran that would change the game That would be devastating We're going to destroy Iranian nuclear facilities and all of that I we know these sort of rhetorics They're they they want to make the case for the administration to go after the plan to attack Iran They don't care about the outcome They don't care about what's going on in the aftermath of that attack But that would be the end of Donald Trump and his administration in my opinion because look at what's going on in the United States with MAGA Look at what's going on with Tucker Carlson It's not just about Taco Carson Matt Gates Somehow they.

and his administration in my opinion because look at what's going on in the United States with MAGA Look at what's going on with Tucker Carlson It's not just about Taco Carson Matt Gates Somehow they tried to convince or somehow put pressure on Tulsi Gabbard She backed down in her recent tweet on X But after all you cannot change the base You cannot change the mindset of those people who voted for you who wanted some sort of change These are big things that are happening in the in my opinion in the mind of Donald Trump himself before going to Iran It's not just about Iran It's about the future of the United States Absolutely Um well once again he's caught in a net in a very elaborated trap set up by the Zionist axis and he's expendable Nema He's another expendable US president If his.

future of the United States Absolutely Um well once again he's caught in a net in a very elaborated trap set up by the Zionist axis and he's expendable Nema He's another expendable US president If his presidency implodes because of a out of control stupid adventure in Iran the Zionist axis will continue and they will find another one to implement what they always wanted from the beginning That's what is so terrifying and it's another conclusion out of the uh the Sih column It doesn't m you read the column from back to back and said these people live in a sort of delium tremens all of them Yes it was always like this and it's not going to change unless they are eliminated from the levels of power in the US government and you know this is not going to happen and if it was going to take.

Yes it was always like this and it's not going to change unless they are eliminated from the levels of power in the US government and you know this is not going to happen and if it was going to take maybe it could take decades or generations just like u those mega fanatic settlers in the West Bank There's no other way to get rid of them except I don't I don't need to spell out right otherwise they'll keep you know the virus will continue indefinitely So we are all hostages of this um I use it in the title of one of my columns a death cult and the death cult is not only Israel the death cult is impregnated in the tissue of the US government We all know Eisenhower alerted everybody about it We all know that JFK was fighting against it and we all know what happened afterwards No Pepe.

cult is impregnated in the tissue of the US government We all know Eisenhower alerted everybody about it We all know that JFK was fighting against it and we all know what happened afterwards No Pepe Europeans United Kingdom and Germany are helping the Israel and even even United Kingdom is preparing the fighter jets to go to the region to help the United States You look at this situation You've mentioned that before but they're literally the same people They're that fight in the Iran They're talking about the United States But when it's not just the United States Germany is in the United Kingdom is in and they're talking and Iran has no problem with these countries and they're participating in the attack on Iran If they attack Iran they're going to be part of that attack I I literally.

Kingdom is in and they're talking and Iran has no problem with these countries and they're participating in the attack on Iran If they attack Iran they're going to be part of that attack I I literally think that China is looking at what's going on Russia is looking at what's going on and they say "So who are you to support Who are you to come to the to fight Iran You have no problem with Iran It's all about Iran and Israel The United States wants to back Israel They can come in fight Iran What is what it has to do with Germany and the United Kingdom Unless you think that the Israeli project is the is a British project they need to go Uh Germany and France are inconsequential So whatever they do nobody cares because they are inconsequential The Brits is different It's MI6 So it's regime.

is the is a British project they need to go Uh Germany and France are inconsequential So whatever they do nobody cares because they are inconsequential The Brits is different It's MI6 So it's regime change For the Brits is regime change It's the same Uh the way MI6 and the British ruling classes look at Iran is exactly the way the Zionist look at Iran Regime change We did a puppet over there and we need to make a lot of money out of re Iran's national natural resources and of course block exactly u this association between Russia Iran and China this is what really matters ana in the European theater France and Germany they don't even qualify as a consequences nobody can their army they cannot fight a a war in a basta inconsequential the outcome Pepe if the United States finally decides to.

theater France and Germany they don't even qualify as a consequences nobody can their army they cannot fight a a war in a basta inconsequential the outcome Pepe if the United States finally decides to attack Iran I would say they're not going to be able to do regime change so-called regime change they're not going to be able to defeat Iran but the outcome would be devastating for the future and the way that don't that the United States wants to have some sort of leverage or some sort of strate strategic partnership in the Middle East That's going to be gone These Arab state would be destroyed I would say it before it happening I would confess that they're going to do this They're going to do this Is insanity This is unbelievable what Donald Trump is playing with This is We know how.

I would say it before it happening I would confess that they're going to do this They're going to do this Is insanity This is unbelievable what Donald Trump is playing with This is We know how capable Iran is You can you can hit Iran so hard but they're going to fight back They're going to destroy whatever you have in that region in in the Middle East I don't know if there is anybody in the Trump administration or so that would be my question to you uh Nema Uh your conversations with Iranians this past few days this is a national consensus If the US enters the war we will fight with everything that we end It's the end It's the end of oppositions It It's the end of anything that the West was somehow investing in in investing in in for many years For many years these people you you see the.

that we end It's the end It's the end of oppositions It It's the end of anything that the West was somehow investing in in investing in in for many years For many years these people you you see the crown the the son of Sha of Iran coming out and coordinating with Israelis and the and and Americans in terms of fighting He was asked "Do you care about the British media was asking him do you care about that Israelis are attacking civilians in Iran? " They don't want to attack civilians He actually said that He said this Wow Wow These people are totally in bed with what's going on in they want to literally they want to divide Iran in oblast and they want to Kurds Turks Arabs Beluchis and all of this This is the main goal the endgame on their part in my opinion and and Iran knows this These are.

literally they want to divide Iran in oblast and they want to Kurds Turks Arabs Beluchis and all of this This is the main goal the endgame on their part in my opinion and and Iran knows this These are huge These these are smart people These are not some ordinary people talking about because they they want to hear the argument on the part of the west They know what they're doing and they were preparing for this They knew that this would come to them This reminds me uh Nema one of the things that struck me last It's incredible I was in Iran last months when I went to Sistan Baluchistan Finally the people that I talk Sistan is more to the N more to the north sorry of of the huge province as you know and the Baluchi we were interacting with Baluches all the time They saw they see themselves.

the people that I talk Sistan is more to the N more to the north sorry of of the huge province as you know and the Baluchi we were interacting with Baluches all the time They saw they see themselves first and foremost as Iranians No they're not separatists at all Even though the province is enormous has a very peculiar history is very far away from the center No but they see themselves as Iranians and the development of Chabahar port it's for the good of Iran So it is this feeling of national unity you see it every in the Caspian I saw that in the Caspian as well Same thing So what you're saying is absolutely correct It's it's all over You cannot analyze Iran based on the differences between North Iran wealthy and South Iran proletarian No it's much more complex than that Exactly Let's.

saying is absolutely correct It's it's all over You cannot analyze Iran based on the differences between North Iran wealthy and South Iran proletarian No it's much more complex than that Exactly Let's see what would happen But I don't see anything What's what's what's your feeling Mima Ser without polit geopolitical analysis What's your feeling What's your feeling My feeling is what from what I'm hearing from inside from Iran as time goes by when these attacks are continuing on Iranian people there are the unity is growing stronger among Iranian you see the all people those liberals that you've mentioned in the northern part of Thran coming together with the southern part of Thran with those villages in Iran all united I I can confess that Py I live in Brazil you know that and I do see.

mentioned in the northern part of Thran coming together with the southern part of Thran with those villages in Iran all united I I can confess that Py I live in Brazil you know that and I do see the feeling when it comes to Iran the feeling that come came out of this attack on Iran unprovoked attack on Iran is is bringing something to the society that the society wasn't experiencing it since the war against Saddam Hussein there is something new happening inside the society and nobody knows they're gonna fight these these people would fight the United States to the last one to they they going to fight back and I I hope there is somebody in the United States hearing what's going on you know and seeing the reality of what's going on not through the propaganda these people who were who who.

to fight back and I I hope there is somebody in the United States hearing what's going on you know and seeing the reality of what's going on not through the propaganda these people who were who who were simply receiving money to manipulate the the analysis on their part from Iran These mostly Iranians who are living outside of Iran trying to give false pictures to the administration in the United States in Europe because they're receiving they're somehow they're puppets of many are being paid actually Yeah This is this is that's why I'm seeing this is totally dangerous This is dangerous I don't want to see any anything happening in that region We had a lot with Gaza with the Palestine with the case of and again they're trying to do it I don't see anything I don't see the United States.

don't want to see any anything happening in that region We had a lot with Gaza with the Palestine with the case of and again they're trying to do it I don't see anything I don't see the United States winning I I see United States losing and losing big in the West Asia They're going to learn it if they go with the attack on Iran They're going to learn it They're going to find something that has never happened before to the United States It's something big It's something big there there must be there shall be prepared they shall prepare for that in in my opinion it's yeah the only thing that I can say and but I don't see the sanity in the administration I was somehow hope I I was hoping that these people like like the vice president of the United States JD Vance would be the the voice of.

I can say and but I don't see the sanity in the administration I was somehow hope I I was hoping that these people like like the vice president of the United States JD Vance would be the the voice of sanity he's not he's not he's is trying to he he's not doing anything Look at Tulsi Gabbard Look at we were talking about Cash Petal He who's unbelievable Unbelievable The worst thing with the Biden administration at least we know that they wouldn't let the Neta wanted to attack during the Biden administration They didn't let him They didn't let him to attack But Trump administration is somehow we we had a lot of hope in the in the administration Mhm It's just gone All gone Everything you said makes total sense compared to what what I'm hearing the echoes I'm getting from Iraq Absolutely Uh.

we we had a lot of hope in the in the administration Mhm It's just gone All gone Everything you said makes total sense compared to what what I'm hearing the echoes I'm getting from Iraq Absolutely Uh and it's very impressive that in only a matter of few days people understand the bigger picture not only the unprovoked attack by Israel per se but everything that that implies and it's a camouflaging it's the same old imperial story They could never digest the Islamic Revolution with all the problems of the Islamic Revolution but it's it's ingrained in them They need revenge for what they lost and now they think that they have the this small window of opportunity and as you said correctly they will regret it Yeah Thank you so much Papy for being I wish we had more apicious things to talk.

and now they think that they have the this small window of opportunity and as you said correctly they will regret it Yeah Thank you so much Papy for being I wish we had more apicious things to talk about but that's it that this is this is our reality Yes Yeah Yeah It's hitting us See you in in Brazil See you see you soon in Brazil Okay Chowo chiao Cha Byebye.


My tool needs work. But it sort of works.  A long conversation.  Best to get this still-quite-raw version out.  Considering that war does not wait.  K-Dog

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And so it begins...

Unsurprisingly, the Trumpenator dropped the Death from Above down on the Iranians to demonstrate his power.  No megalomaniacal tyrant could resist such a juicy excuse to blow things up.  The towel heads now have their own rationale to escalate as well, which besides firing missiles in the other direction will probably include terror attacks on FSoA home soil.  Even if they don't, the Israeli Mossad will oblige and do it to give his Trumpness an excuse for a declaration of War and Martial Law.  That will put an end to all those pesky SCOTUS immigration detention law suits.

Up go the oil prices, down goes the stock market, supply chain disruption, shortages of  goods.  Havoc ensues.

Where will the first big terror blast go off?  Place your bets here.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/6/22/live-us-joins-israels-attacks-on-iran-bombs-three-nuclear-sites

Trump says US has bombed Iran's Fordow, Isfahan, Natanz nuclear sites

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This clip is amazing to me. What has been taking place in Israel isn't just their willingness to kill, murder, burn people alive, or rape on camera—it's their mocking, their dancing. They go into people's rooms, put on women's outfits, and dance gleefully. Look at the murders we're committing! Ain't this great? Look how awesome we feel as we do this!

They used to mock.  This woman. She thought it was completely funny to mock Palestinians. Well, she doesn't think it's funny now that they blew up her damn house.

On the right—that's her, thinking it's perfectly funny what they're doing to Palestinians. On the left? That's her current house... which no longer exists. Oh, isn't that funny now? Is that funny for you, huh? That's interesting.

It's funny for me. It's funny for me. I've got some damn good coffee too. Yep.

On the right, she thought it was so hilarious—the most comical thing in the world—to mock people being starved to death and shot. But on the left? She loses her house. You better be lucky you kept your life.

Let's keep going. Yeah, I'm a hardass on this. This is fucking outrageous.

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