US and Israel carrying out strikes against Iran

K-Dog · Jul 21, 2026, 07:43 PM

Sometimes if you hop around on the Tor browser you can find a location that is not blocked. I'm usually able to get to them directly, and do not have to play that game.

EN.IRNA.IR 2026-07-21

Schumer: Trump without doubt most corrupt president in US history

Chuck Schumer asserted that Trump “is without a doubt the most corrupt president in American history,” adding that he “has used the highest office in the country not for the interests of America, but to fill his bank account, and has betrayed the American people.”

Iranians know more about Americans than Americans know about Iranians.

K-Dog · Jul 22, 2026, 04:42 PM

TRADERSUNION.COM 2026-07-22

European gas prices near Iran war highs as winter supply risks mount

A sharp rise in European gas prices is intensifying pressure on energy markets as summer heat and tighter global supply leave the region more exposed ahead of winter. The benchmark Dutch TTF contract has climbed nearly 50 per cent in the past month, while lower LNG deliveries and slow storage refilling are adding to concerns.

RE · Jul 22, 2026, 07:43 PM

No, really? Who cooda node? 🙄

A long and very historical/academic analysis of the current approach to diplomacy being pursued by Trumpolini and his crew of syncophants, which was Doomed to fail not just because the approach is short sighted, but because the people negotiating it have no goal other than finding ways they can profit from the mayhem. Once you grasp that Trumpolini's goals are all directed by self-enrichment, everything becomes predictable.

His latest deal allowing the Saudis to develop their own Nukes is a case in point. These are the same folks who flew planes into the WTC. They are more trustworthy to have their own Nuke weapons than the Towel Heads in Tehran? The difference? The House of Saud will happily invest in Chump's Casinos, or whatever his latest scheme is for laundering money. The Saudi Princes are just as corrupt as His Royal Trumpness, and they all get along famously. The only substantive difference is the Saudi's can legally marry the 9 year old concubines in their harems if they so choose.

Far as the long term prospects for Peace in MENA, it's irrelevant who is POTUS on that score. One simple principle is all you need to know:

As long as their is econmically profitable Oil & NG to be extracted from beneath the desert sands of that neighborhood, there can never be Peace.

The battle for the Oil in MENA has been under contest either through overt military action or covert assasinations and regime changes continuously from before WWI began until the present. Capitalism always requires the use of force to take ownership of resources out of the Commons and into Private hands. For different ideological reasons, neither the Ruskies or the Iranians have been willing to play ball with the Rockefellers and their successors, and now as the last of the cheap oil is running thin, the battle has gone hot again. The math is simple. Raise the cost of the cheap oil left in Iran and Russia by creating wars and the expensive oil trapped in shale can be profitable.

Problem there of course is it's only profitable if Konsumers can afford to buy it, and ever increasing numbers can't.

That won't stop the wars though.

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RE · Jul 23, 2026, 05:03 AM

EVERYBODY KNOWS the answer to that question. Just follow the $MONEY$ !! 🙄

Chump knows at best he only has 2 more years to grift as much money as he can from the FSoA Taxpayer and other corrupt Dictators he is pals with. He'll make any deal that will in some way transfer $BILLIONS$ into his pocket before he leaves the WH. He's jealous that so far Elon holds the record for most successful grifter of the FSoA Taxpayer and wants to catch him before leaving the Oval Office.

Far as the Saudi Nukes go, I already mentioned how it effectively Torpedos any justification for not letting the Iranians have their own Nuke program. You can kiss off Nuke Non-Proliferation, everybody and his brother is gonna want their own Nukes now. As I've mentioned before also, there's nothing secret or technically that difficult about building a Fission bomb. Anybody with a degree in Theoretical Physics from a decent University knows the principles and the engineering isn't very complex. Main problems are getting enough Uranium and Heavy Water to do the enrichment without accidentally starting a chain reaction during the processing.

Besides the Saudis and Iranians, folks currently without Nukes who could start building them who I'm sure have the technical wherewithal to do it right now are the Germans, Italians, Japanese, South Koreans, Brazilians, Argentinians, Egyptians, South Africans, all the Scandinavians and Baltics, Poland, Czechia, Australia and possibly Turkey.

I also could easily see a non-state actor with good financing producing a Turnkey "Suitcase" Nuke Prefab where all you need to do is Add U-235 and it's Ready to Blow. Not big enough to vaporize a whole city, just say lower Manhattan below Canal Street. lol. Pick up the Suitcase for $1M from an International Arms Merchant and another $1M for the Uranium. Or Plutonium, once somebody builds a Breeder reactor and wants to make extra money on the side.

Anyhow, one can only hope this Deal Fuckery by Dimwit Don is the final nail in the coffin and the Repugnants get thoroughly DEMOLISHED in November and lose both Houses of CONgress by a wide margin. Not counting on it, but one can only take a deep drag off the Hopium Bong.

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K-Dog · Jul 23, 2026, 06:07 AM

I saw one of these pictures yesterday, and I had to click away quick before I lost my shit.

So the country that flew jets into the Trade Towers and started the war on terror which completely changed the fabric of American life gets to have nukes. The same regime that cut Jamal Khashoggi into chunks small enough to put into a Safeway shopping bag gets to have nukes.

Do I have this right?

While another country with advanced medicine and who makes their own cars can't have nukes and must be Annihilated from the face of the earth because, if they had nukes it is a known fact they would let one of their nutcases use them.

Do I have this right?

QuoteWashington has spent decades enforcing severe economic sanctions, kinetic strikes, and intense military pressure against Iran specifically to dismantle its domestic uranium enrichment capabilities and block any path to a weapon. The official U.S. stance has long maintained that allowing regional states to master the nuclear fuel cycle introduces unacceptable proliferation risks.

The bullshit excuse to invade Iran no longer is needed apparently. That makes sense since Trump does not have a way to stop the war an excuse to keep it going is not needed.

And the Iran war is now old enough that most of America can be convinced that Biden started it anyway.

Those fucking Dems.

RE · Jul 30, 2026, 03:16 AM

The critical point of this article comes right at the top in the sub-Header:

Without any reason for Iran to trust in negotiations, this is a one-way elevator until U.S. capitulation

This conclusion is what the markets refuse to accept as they bounce up and down with each tweet from Chump either announcing Peace is at Hand or I will VAPORIZE THE TOWEL HEADS!, often in successive posts. In REALITY for numerous reasons, on any timescale longer than about 2 weeks, the only direction this conflict will go is toward further escalation. There is NO common ground upon which to build a diplomatic solution and neither side will compromise on the key dispute, control over Hormuz. Which means Trumpolini must continue raising the stakes militarily to try and take control by force.

Given that actually succeeding in achieving that outcome is close to impossible and would require mobilization of a massive ground force of grunts, more countries will be drawn into the battle as each becomes increasingly more desperate over their inability to either sell or buy Oil or Food.

What is most annoying about the whole dynamic is how long it is taking for the whole thing to evolve and how BORING this sort of war is. There's no strategy, each side just randomly picks targets on the other side to demolish each day. It's not even exciting video.

What Chump NEEDS is some kind of dramatic action that will justify a ground campaign, so a False Flag would be worth watching for. If it happens close to the election that would kill 2 birds with 1 stone and give him an excuse to declare Martial Law. Stay Tuned.

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K-Dog · Jul 30, 2026, 04:31 AM

Iran could end this war tomorrow, all they have to do is destroy all the export terminals. Then the world won't get any oil, Hormuz open OR closed.

Iran, the crazy Islamic state that it is, appears unwilling to lower themselves to show the same depravity as Trump shows. The crazies in Iran seem to be worried about their eternal reward. And is that really so crazy? Trump, however knowing he took the down escalator, in contrast is without any restraint at all.

To the extent Trump knows anything.at all, he knows he is going to hell. Absolute power and the mind of a child.

RE · Jul 30, 2026, 04:33 PM

We need just ONE Proposition on the ballot in November:

Proposition A

POTUS Donald J. Trump should be Impeached

__ YES

__ NO

If this does not come back with at LEAST 60% YES, then Amerika deserves every bit of the mayhem ahead of it.

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RE · Aug 02, 2026, 12:22 AM

Yesterday, Bomb them Back to the Stone Age!, today Let's Make a Deal!

Basically, the Saudis know if Chump bombs Iranian power plants, Iran will bomb theirs. They're running out of anti-missile and drone hardware and their radar installations are damaged, so more Iranian drones will make it to target. All of MENA would be a mass Humanitarian Crisis as water desalinization plants go off line.

Does this mean all of a sudden they'll come up with a DEAL on Hormuz or Nukes? Of course not! But it buys another 24-48 hours of jawboning and Social Media Propaganda Posting while HR Trumpness screams expletives at his Syncophants and steam blasts out of his ears.

Then at some point more bombing, rinse and repeat until he finds some pretext to put Boots on the Ground. It has to be good because lotsa Body Bags will be required for Dignified Transfers of Corpses. The only justification that could measure up would be lots of Amerikan Civilians being killed. Children would really fire up the War Spirit. An Elementary School Bombing would be the ideal False Flag. I hope I'm wrong on this, that not even Chump would blow up a school full of Amerikan Kids to justify his war. Unfortunately, it's just Hope.

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K-Dog · Aug 02, 2026, 08:53 PM

Four percent in a day. Not to be confused with Trump giving a shit. That would take a Damascus moment, something Trump will never have.

RE · Aug 04, 2026, 12:56 AM

Not only Iran, but Ukraine as well has demonstrated that "Superpowers" Military might no longer poses the same type of threat to Medium level countries, because it's now possible for smaller countries to inflict significant damage to the Superpower by attacking infrastructure and economic dependencies, aka supply chains.

It's also no longer about the size of your military in manpower or killing soldiers. Its about demolishing the infrastructure of industrialized society. All one country needs to be able to do is damage the electrical and communications grids of the other to put up a fight. Then it's a matter of who can last longest and how much it costs.

How much do you think it will cost to repair the damage done to all those military bases? A whole lot more than thee $32B they claim the war has so far cost. How much to maintain those bases if they are under constant attack? How does the FSoA control the Oil coming from MENA if it can't afford to keep those military bases running? It can't.

It's not whether there is Oil left in the ground, it's about being able to move it from one place to another either on boats or through pipelines, and both are extremely vulnerable and easy to damage. As the war spreads out, this becomes ever more difficult to do, and more places get cut off from the supply. More blackouts, more fuel shortages, higher priced foods leading to more unrest and more war. A virtuous cycle of destruction and entropy ending the Age of Oil.

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RE · Aug 04, 2026, 05:01 PM

Now we know why TACO is a regular Chump meal. Offensively, the FSoA is a limp dick.

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RE · Aug 08, 2026, 01:11 AM

There's something here everyone has missed. This is an entirely new situation in War logistics since WWII. Never before, from Korea to Vietnam to Afghanistan to Kuwait to Iraq has the FSoA been short of the Death from Above to rain down on uncooperative Brown People. Why now?

The answer is the missiles have rendered the old form of aerial warfare and dumb bombs obsolete. The FSoA has lotsa dumb bombs to drop from bombers, but they are very inaccurate and you get a lot of collateral damage and civilian casualties. More importantly the VERY expensive B2 Stealth Bombers used to drop them are themselves very vulnerable to missiles when flying at bombing altitudes. The reason so few planes have been lost is they are not flying over Iran!

Dumb bombs were cheap. Missiles are very expensive. They also are much harder to build. You can't just hire housewives to stick semtex into metal casings. Every missile requires its own rocket engine and guidance system like a jet plane, but it is Single Use. Your basically blowing up a rocket every time you fire one off.

It's also why the FSoA doesn't want to license the Patriots. They are the best ssystem for knocking flying objects out of the air, including FSoA jets.

Best case scenario it takes 3 years to rebuild the inventory, but at the rate they use them now, they'll never do it. The cost would be astronomical.

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RE · Aug 10, 2026, 09:50 PM

Not ridiculous, they actually make sense. Just they are demands Chump can't agree to politically. Which is why there won't be a diplomatic solution.

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RE · Aug 12, 2026, 03:06 AM

We all know Chump is Nitwit's Bitch.

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