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He will have more than heartburn if this comes out. 

theintercept.com 2026-04-01

“Casualty Cover-Up”: The Pentagon Is Hiding U.S. Losses Under Trump in the Middle East

The Pentagon has sent outdated statements on the number of U.S. troops killed or wounded during the Iran War, resulting in undercounts.

Almost 750 U.S. troops have been wounded or killed in the Middle East since October 2023, an analysis by The Intercept has found. But the Pentagon won't acknowledge it.

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Since 2023?  That goes back to the Uncle Joe years.

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EMPTYWHEEL.NET 2026-05-07

Trump’s Base Motives

Iranian airstrikes have damaged or destroyed at least 228 structures or pieces of equipment at U.S. military sites across the Middle East since the war began.

Hitting hangars, barracks, fuel depots, aircraft and key radar, communications and air defense equipment, according to a Washington Post analysis of satellite imagery. The amount of destruction is far larger than what has been publicly acknowledged by the U.S. government or previously reported.

No big surprise that Trumpolini has been covering up the destruction of FSoA Airbases in Saudi, Kuwait and Bahrain.  I'd also still bet given that level of destruction that the current claim that only 13 grunts have been killed is a pile of horseshit. 😒

His Trumpness must be wildly pissed off at WaPo & Bezos for doing an end-around on FSoA censorship of Satellite Imagery and getting the facts out. 😁  Jeffy finally does something worthwhile with his media acquisition.

Obviously this clarifies why the Trumpenator wanted a Ceasefire, besides being short on Ammo, half their operating bases have suffered near total destruction and they're short on planes and radar installations.  Also why the war isn't close to being over and Hormuz reopened for shipping the Black Gold to power Happy Motoring and factories around the world.

The Market of course is still in denial and posting record highs on days El Trumpo makes a new claim that "Peace is Just Around the Corner".  When reality finally sets in maybe around Harvest Time, the bloodbath will be worth the wait.

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given that level of destruction that the current claim that only 13 grunts have been killed is a pile of horseshit. 😒

It makes you wonder why they even fessed up to 13.

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given that level of destruction that the current claim that only 13 grunts have been killed is a pile of horseshit. 😒

It makes you wonder why they even fessed up to 13.

They went down in highly visible plane crashes.  Iranian media crowed about it. Grunts on the ground, not so visible.

In this case among the many buildings totally demolished were BARRACKS, where MIRACULOUSLY there were no grunts asleep, smoking reefer or jerking off to internet porn.🙄

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And they have stuff they have not even tried out. The dolphin threat.

TASNIMNEWS.IR 2026-05-10

Iranian ‘Dolphins’ in Strait of Hormuz to Counter Enemy Warships: Navy Chief

The light submarines are commonly referred to by naval officers and personnel as the “dolphins of the Persian Gulf.”

A cross between a submarine and a mine.  I'll guess the things listen to sonic commands like watchdogs would.  Sick em boy!

TASNIMNEWS.IR 2026-05-07

Iran Not to Compromise on Nuclear Rights: MP

An Iranian lawmaker considered the right to uranium enrichment to be a red line for the country, stressing that Iran will not back down from its nuclear rights.

Do you think so?

As the world goes medieval as fast as the moon circles, perhaps letting the only adults in the room have the same adult toys the children in the room have could be seen as a reasonable concession.  It could even be seen as the smart thing to do.  I'm with Hassan Piker.  Every country over a certain size should have a bomb.

An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.

In the case of Iran, a half dozen tactical nukes might count as their single big nuke.  Each with in an escort of a dozen decoys.  That way peace can be kept when the outlaws come to town.

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In the case of Iran, a half dozen tactical nukes might count as their single big nuke.  Each with in an escort of a dozen decoys.  That way peace can be kept when the outlaws come to town.

I tend to agree that if 1 nation has them, they all should have the same right.  Small & Weak nations that can't afford a big military particularly need them.  It would stop big nations from attacking with conventional weapons & "bombing them back to the stone age".  Or at least think twice before doing so.

The main problem is that if lots of small countries with unstable goobermints have them, what happens when the country gets into a civil war?  Also, the increased potential for non-state actors to have a nuke.  Say here in the FSoA if the Proud Boys or Ku Klux Klan got a nuke?

Frankly, the technology isn't very complex, it's mainly an engineering issue for Uranium enrichment.  I'm sure the North Koreans could ramp up their production and sell tactical nukes on the retail arms market.  Good source of revenue.

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I'd love to be able to interrupt an American politician in the middle of saying:

Iran Can't have nuclear weapons.

I'd grab the mike and say:

Why the fuck not.

And I'd be thinking.

Why the fuck not you political hack of an asshole. What are they going to do with them that you wouldn't do.  Let's start there.  What kind of rotten filth lines your brain-pan so that you think a civilized nation is all about playing G.I. Joe.  Not ours, I mean a real civilized nation.  You have a case of arrested development?  Seems to me you MAGA asshole that your elevator can't even make it up to the second floor.  Not everyone is an adult child like you are.  Grow the fuck up.  Too long have I been tolerant of this ignorant painful and evil stupidity.


And if I we XI I'd throw Trump's ass in a Chinese prison as soon as he arrives.  Not to see the light of day until Maduro is back in Caracas holding a press conference.

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theatlantic.com 2026-05-10

Checkmate in Iran

Washington can’t reverse or control the consequences of losing this war.

Defeat in the present confrontation with Iran will be of an entirely different character. It can neither be repaired nor ignored. There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done. The Strait of Hormuz will not be "open," as it once was. With control of the strait, Iran emerges as the key player in the region and one of the key players in the world. The roles of China and Russia, as Iran's allies, are strengthened; the role of the United States, substantially diminished.

The consequences of letting a bully of an adult child run the show.  America thought the orange cookie thief would give them a cookie.  That he would share.  But the power obsessed do not share.  So it goes, when putting a sucker on the hook is very easy when you exploit GREED.  Power obsessed people know about greed.  Exploiting greed means you only have to make promises like 'make America great again.'  Having an actual plan to do so is totally unnecessary since America's greed prevents any consideration of consequences.

So Trump thinks:

And since talking shit and having no plan works so well, why not start a war without a plan too.  The suckers will believe anything I tell them.  They have so far.  They always do.

Iran experts have noted, the regime in Tehran currently stands to emerge from the crisis much stronger than it was before the war, having not only retained its potential nuclear capacity but also gained control of an even more effective weapon: the ability to hold the global energy market hostage. When the Iranians talk of "reopening" the strait, they still mean to keep the strait under their control. Iran will be able not only to demand tolls for passage, but to limit transit to those nations with which it has good relations. If a nation behaves in a way that Iran's rulers don't like, they will be able to exact punishment merely by slowing, or even threatening to slow, the flow of that nation's cargo ships in and out of the strait.

To benefit himself Trump has locked America into ineluctable decline.  To some, that defines a traitor.

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And if I we XI I'd throw Trump's ass in a Chinese prison as soon as he arrives.  Not to see the light of day until Maduro is back in Caracas holding a press conference.

It would be great if he was tried in absentia at the Hague for War Crimes and an International Warrant for his arrest put out by Interpol.😀  Then he could be arrested anytime he lands outside the FSoA on Air Force 1.

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It would be great if he was tried in absentia at the Hague for War Crimes and an International Warrant for his arrest put out by Interpol.😀  Then he could be arrested anytime he lands outside the FSoA on Air Force 1.

An arrest warrant from the Hague.  That makes me think of springtime freshness.

Magically delightful.

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NPR.ORG 2026-05-12

Israel's government is expected to collapse over ultra-Orthodox military draft

The Gaza war and the need for more soldiers has placed more political pressure on the community to take part in military service. Last year, Israel's Supreme Court ordered the government to draft ultra-Orthodox Israelis.

Unfortunately, Nitwityahoo will remain Acting PM until they can form a new Goobermint.  Also, whoever new is picked will probably be a Right Wingnut, since the Conservative Party has a plurality of MPs.  Only the Lefties in the Liberal party are anti war there.

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OWENJONES.NEWS 2026-05-12

New York Times confirms Israel using dogs to rape

There is now overwhelming evidence that the Israeli state is systematically using sexual violence against Palestinians.

The silence surrounding these crimes once again underlines the extent to which Israel's actions are whitewashed - and the extent to which Palestinian suffering is treated as though it simply does not matter.

Mother-Rapers! Father-stabbers! Father-Rapers! -Arlo Guthrie "Alice's Restaurant Massacree

Even Arlo didn't run into any DOG-RAPERS back in the 'Nam days. Times change.

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COUNTERPUNCH.ORG 2026-05-12

US Imperialist War in Iran Looks Like an Economic Rescue Mission

Disaster on the way represents capitalism in crisis.

Changing modes of capitalism have ended up as that skewed form of imperialism that now propels war with Iran. The message of Marxist analyst Samir Amin resonates: "[C]apitalism is incapable of overcoming its fundamental contradictions." (2) That would be so, especially if working people, the great mass of humanity, rise up, mobilize, and say, No!

This will be no surprise to Diners familiar with Marxist analysis and the ongoing crisis in Capitalist economics, but the Iran war has little to do with the Iranian Nuke Program and much more to do with the waning power of the FSoA Dollar as the only financial debt instrument available for the Oil Trade on the Nation-State level.

The rise of the Chinese Renminby as the debt instrument of choice for evading economic sanctions and the advent of the BRICS clearing system for trades enables Oil trade completely independent of SWIFT & the Petrodollar, so the loss of this financial control system has driven FSoA Imperialists to attempt the physical control over the choke points of the global ocean based transportation of the oil.  This motivated the action against Venezuela directly before the Iran war, and also the threats to Cuba, Greenland and Canada to their sovereignty.

Will the escalating crisis lead to a workers revolt and the collapse of the Dollar as World Reserve Currency?  Will that lead inexorably to WWIII and direct conflict between thee FSoA and the PRoC?  It's looking more likely all the time, and this week's meeting between His Royal Chumpness and Xi may provide some clues.

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MIDDLEEASTEYE.NET 2026-05-13

US heading for ‘checkmate’ and ‘total defeat’ in Iran war, says neocon Robert Kagan

Robert Kagan, one of the United States’ most prominent neoconservative voices and a long-time pro-Israel hawk, has warned that Washington is heading towards “total defeat” in its war on Iran - a setback he says “can neither be repaired nor ignored”.

Writing in The Atlantic, Kagan said the damage inflicted by the conflict cannot be reversed.  "There will be no return to the status quo ante, no ultimate American triumph that will undo or overcome the harm done," he concluded bleakly.

FINALLY, some GOOD NEWZ about the war in Iran! 😀  Off the keyboard of a certified Neocon Jackass, no less.  Rarely are we treated to such a happy moment worthy of celebration and gloating!

The only bad aspects of the collapsing FSoA imperialist adventurism is in the near term that it will do increasingly stupid things trying to maintain its "preeminence", and in the longer term won't do much besides perhaps slightly slow the ongoing Collapse of Industrial Civilization.  It's far too late to repair the damage already done and there still is no replacement for the ever dwindling resources of energy, water and minerals necessary to maintain the current technological standard of living and population size.  The Great Dieoff of Homo Sapiens on Planet Earth will arrive regardless.  In fact it probably has already begun.

In the distant future however, life will go on for millions more years until the Sun goes Red Giant, any Homo Saps who do survive or evolve into something else will have the chance to start over and not repeat the mistakes made in the Age of Fossil Fuels.  You can't make an Omelet without Breaking a few Eggs. 😀

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