Saturday Report 3/7/26 — Russia Sharing Intelligence with Iran to Target US Forces?

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Will Iran surrender or will this war burn the world down? and, “Some people will die”: That’s your president speaking of Americans’ lives. Donald Trump made it crystal clear Friday. There’s no deal, no negotiation, no off-ramp. He wants unconditional surrender from Iran. Full stop. In a post on his Nazi-infested failing social media site, Trump said he won’t end the U.S. attacks against Iran without Iran waving the white flag completely and without conditions. Then, and only then, he promises to help Iran pick what he called “great and acceptable leaders” and rebuild its economy from the ground up, just like we once promised Iraq in Afghanistan. He even coined a brand new slogan for the occasion: “Make Iran Great Again.” MIGA. No, seriously. That’s what the President of the United States wrote on social media while a war he started is actively burning and American soldiers lay dead. But unconditional surrender isn’t a peace plan: it’s a forever war plan. History tells us that countries don’t just roll over and surrender on demand, especially not ones with deep religious and nationalist pride. So what Trump is really saying is that this war doesn’t end until he decides it ends, on his terms, on his timetable. And the rest of us, working people, families, anyone filling a gas tank or paying a heating bill, are the ones who’ll pay the price while Trump cosplays general from his golf course.
Even more disgusting, when Time Magazine sat down with Trump and asked whether Americans should be worried about Iran striking us on U.S. soil, the leader of the free world said, “I guess.” That’s it: “I guess.” And now we learn the Trump regime is suppressing a report warning Americans of Iranian revenge attacks here in the continental United States. Iran had already struck the U.S. embassy in Kuwait earlier this week, and has killed six Americans. And when pressed on whether it could happen here at home, Trump told the interviewer that some people will die. When you go to war, he shrugged, that’s what happens. The reaction to Trump’s tone-deaf comment was swift and brutal. Former Republican congressman Adam Kinzinger posted “Kewl bro” on X. Democratic strategist Mike Nellis wrote, “I guess. What a leader.” Jon Favreau, who worked in the Obama White House, pointed out that we still don’t even know what the goals of this war are. And Mehdi Hasan of Zeteo News said what a lot of people were thinking: it won’t be Trump or his family who die (Baron, Don Jr and Eric apparently have hereditary bonespurs). It’ll be ordinary Americans who didn’t want this war, didn’t ask for it, and had no say in starting it.

— Trump tells CNN Cuba is soon going to fall: “I’m going to put Marco over there.” Trump has put Cuba under siege, a violation of international law and human decency, and it’s shutting down the island nation’s electric, water, hospitals, and commerce. People are out of food, water, and medicine with no prospect for anything coming in. And now he’s congratulating himself on his brutality, as he told CNN’s Dana Bash: “Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon, by the way, unrelated, but Cuba is gonna fall too. They want to make a deal so badly. They want to make a deal, and so I’m going to put Marco (Rubio) over there and we’ll see how that works out. We’re really focused on this one right now. We’ve got plenty of time, but Cuba’s ready — after 50 years. I’ve been watching it for 50 years, and it’s fallen right into my lap because of me, it’s fallen, but it’s nevertheless fallen right into the lap. And we’re doing very well.” This is dictator’s logic: beat others into submission with massive collateral civilian damage and call it victory. It’s criminal behavior and it’s disgusting.

— DOJ releases the interview with the woman who alleges Trump raped her as a minor. In 2019, this woman reached out to the FBI to allege that, when she was 13–15 years old, she was with a small group of people including Trump and his best friend Epstein. Trump, she told the FBI, asked the others to leave the room before, as the FBI notes, he “mentioned something to the effect of, ‘Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be.’” He then, she told the FBI under oath, forced her to perform oral sex on him and, when she bit his penis, beat her with his fists and threw her out of the room. Was this why Trump invaded Iran? Or was that to distract us from his economy that hasn’t created significant jobs at all since “Liberation Day”? Or was it simply because his two owners/mentors, Putin and Netanyahu, told him to do it? Two juries of his peers have already found that Trump, who once bragged about sexually assaulting women, committed rape against E. Jean Carroll. Now this. Is there no low that will put even a small dent in Trump’s support from the so-called Christians in America?

— ICE has killed another person in one of their concentration camps, the ninth so far this year. Emmanual Damas was illegally detained without a judicial warrant back in September and throw into Trump’s concentration camp in Florence, Arizona. He developed a severely infected tooth and begged for medical attention, but the goons running the for-profit “detention facility” didn’t want to pay for a doctor or medication so they essentially let him die. As Christine Ellis, a city council member in nearby Chandler, Arizona, told the media: “He was complaining for almost two weeks straight, until he collapsed and got septic from the infection.” These crimes are being committed in our names with our tax dollars. There has to be accountability.

— Russia Sharing Intelligence with Iran to Target US Forces? Remember when, in 2019 during Trump’s last term in office, we learned that Putin was offering bounties to local militias in Afghanistan to kill American soldiers and Trump did nothing about it? It appears Russia is up to their old tricks, this time giving the Iranian militias pinpoint-precision targeting information on American ships, planes, and troops from their high-altitude spy satellites. Putin, in fact, appears positioned to be a major beneficiary of our attack on Iran (second, perhaps, to Netanyahu, who gets to stay out of prison longer). We’re draining our anti-aircraft munitions so we can’t send any more to Ukraine, we’re driving up the price of oil which is Putin’s main source of revenue, and we’re forcing India and China to shift their oil purchases from the Gulf states to Russia. It’s almost as if Putin had told Trump to do it…

— Good News Alert! Kristi Noem got fired. Cricket the Dog was unavailable for comment. Kristi Noem is out as Homeland Security Secretary, and let’s be honest about her legacy: she won’t be remembered as a stateswoman or a security expert. She’ll be remembered as the woman who shot her own dog in the face, wrote about it proudly in a book, and genuinely seemed to believe it made her look like leadership material. In reality, it made her look like she had the empathy of a parking ticket. Her entire tenure was a taxpayer-funded vanity project. Mount Rushmore photo shoots. A nearly quarter-billion-dollar federal contract to an ad firm that turned out to be shadier than her spray tan. All while migrant children sat in filthy, overcrowded detention camps that would embarrass a third-world dictatorship. She expended more energy on her Instagram feed than on actually protecting anyone. When Trump finally showed her the door, he handed her the consolation prize title of “Special Envoy for The Shield of the Americas,” which sounds like something printed on a discount Halloween costume. Cricket the dog just wanted to chase birds and live her best life. Noem wanted fame, power, and a reality show career in public service. One of them had better instincts. And it definitely wasn’t the one holding the gun.