Our Armed Forces have become Black Water. Or Doom Dash.
On Smedley Butler from Wiki...
In 1935, he wrote the exposé War Is a Racket, a trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare. His views on the subject are summarized in the following passage from the November 1935 issue of the socialist magazine Common Sense:[15]
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer; a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
This is proof that Things Are Not As They Appear, and that this war with Iran has motives as yet unseen. I said motives,because forf one thing it pulls Bibi's irons out of the fire. Considering it is he who launched the first missile to take out the Mullahs, but this operation has been in the planning stages for months, that's why the carrier groups were stationed to the region.
There appears to be a Triumvirate , Trump, Netanyahu, Putin and a greater game at play
With the world distracted by the Iran war, Putin has greater play in Ukraine. Trump has always been Putins butt boy, he and Bibi are BFF's, and Trump has back stopped support for Ukraine anyway
Are we seeing the world carved up, Orwellian style. Oceania (the Technate), Eurasia, East Asia, a Caliphate centered in Riyadh or a Sultante in Istanbul?
Oil prices surpassed $90 a barrel Friday, with American crude settling at $90.90, up 36% from a week ago, and Brent, the international standard, climbing 27% over the course of the week to land at $92.69. Google: Oil prices are critically important to the Russian economy, acting as the primary driver of government revenue, economic growth, and ruble stability. While fossil fuels historically funded nearly 40% of the federal budget, this decreased to 25% in 2025 due to sanctions, price caps, and global market shifts. High prices boost the ruble and state spending, whereas low prices trigger inflation, deficits, and economic contraction.
Krasnov is on the job. On March 5, 2026, the U.S. Treasury issued a 30-day waiver allowing India to purchase Russian oil currently "stranded at sea" to stabilize global prices following conflict in the Middle East.
Nuclear Energy Exemptions: In December 2025, the administration suspended sanctions on several major Russian banks (including Sberbank and VTB) specifically for transactions related to civil nuclear energy projects.
Targeted Delistings: In late 2025, the Treasury quietly removed sanctions from several foreign firms in Cyprus, Dubai, and Turkey that were previously accused of supplying Russia's military.
Meanwhile in Baghdad By the Sea, Trump will host leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean in Doral today for what the White House describes as a landmark summit aimed at reshaping regional alliances and reinforcing U.S. influence in the Western Hemisphere.
The gathering, which the Trump administration is calling the “Shield of the Americas Summit,” will bring together the heads of state or government from 12 countries aligned with Washington on issues including migration, drug trafficking and regional security.
A White House official said that the participating governments are expected to sign the Doral Charter, a declaration affirming what officials describe as the “right of the peoples of our Hemisphere to chart their own destiny free from interference,” while emphasizing democratic governance and free-market principles.
Yep Shield of America aka the Technate of America aka Oceania.
Different names for the same thing.
As regards Russia, suzerainty over Eureasia, and Israel over the Levant and Mid East.
I am of the opinion, that this war with Iran had a purpose, not the only one, of serving the needs of Trumps BFF Bibi., with no longer a Gaza war excuse, Bibi is in real trouble, he needs a war to stave off justice, and Trump has been hectoring the President of Israel, pardon Netanyahu or else.
The war provides Trump with a national emergency crisis that he can use to grab total power, it detracts attention and resources from the defense of Ukraine,gives Putin an economic boost.
Fulfills a promise to the oil execs that he addressed prior to the campaign, five a billion dollars in support and I will give you what you want.
And then there is the Saudi Arabia (Sunni)_ Shia (Iran) millenia old conflict for leadership of the Islamic world.
Don;'t accept anything at face value, things are not as they appear, and there is always more than one motive
But Trumpepstein is a distraction, it will not take down Trump or the regime, for the simple reason that the only way to take him down is via the Department of Justice,and he has has total control of the DOJ, which is he is personal law firm.
We would think that elections might do it, but voter suprression and voter theft laws and actions are in effect and in motion, and frankly I don't think the Epstein files are sufficient, abortion wasn't.
And that assumes that there will be an election, or an election like in 2012, a Hungarian style election, yes, A Russian slyle election yes, a Turkeish style election , Yes, a Russian style election yes, A free open , honest election, no.
Steve Bannon spilled the beans, Trump has said it aloud, there will be no election, they've been working on it since Jan 2025, and will have had four years, who knows maybe ta purpose of this war, is to obviate an election.
That's my new sign, and I'm going to put it to use today. I've noticed the MAGA people driving by giving us a one digit salute have a different attitude. They used to be gleeful and happy, now they are just mean and oh so very angry.
It's almost like they are catching on that what the sign says is true. No one likes to get an "I told you so!". See you in the streets.
Trump aims to bankrupt the world like one of his casinos, just because he operates on greed and vengeance, and not a lick of common sense. All of his followers would never have the nerve to do what he's doing, but they have always yearned to see it get done.
Are we sure Kristi was fired? Are we really? Things are never as they appear to be.
Let's exam the situation.
Kristi is a Trump loyalist, she wants nothing more to please her boss, she is his dog. He commands she barks.She is ruthless, a psychopath like him, she is totally dependable to follow orders.
In other words she is useful, very useful and dependable.
He has placed her in charge of something that came out of the blue, The Shield of the America's, and not one pundit, media source has asked questions like What the eff is this Shield of the Americas.
The leftist, liberal,progressive media should be all over this, but silence, not even a wisp of curiosity, just wetting their undies over the "firing of Noem'. I am losing any respect for liberal media and pundits.
I will take a stab, factor in Trumps plans for Cuba, to take it down economically and install Marco Rubio as satrap, his plans for Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia I see the Shield of the Americas as the Technate of America, aka Oceania. https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:34227574
Who better than to head the project, than a ruthless, dependable,worshiping psychopathic, sycophant like Kristi Noem.
Here in Baghdad By the Sea, where the leading candidate for governor is a Black Republican, we have a major scandal.
The Group Chat: Originally created last fall by Abel Alexander Carvajal, Secretary of the Miami-Dade Republican Party and an FIU law student, the chat was intended for conservative students but quickly devolved into hate speech.
Offensive Content:
Racist Slurs: Participants used variations of the N-word over 400 times.
Violent Rhetoric: Messages reportedly detailed "dozens of ways" to kill Black people, including mentions of crucifixion and beheading.
Antisemitism & Misogyny: Members praised Adolf Hitler's politics, joked about gas chambers, used slurs against Jewish and gay people, and used degrading terms for women.
"Nazi Heaven": One member described the chat environment as a "Nazi heaven".
The New York Times
Involved Individuals
Abel Alexander Carvajal: Secretary of the Miami-Dade Republican Party. While he claims he did not send the offensive messages himself, he is facing intense calls to resign for creating the space.
Ian Valdes: FIU's Turning Point USA chapter president.
Dariel Gonzalez: Former College Republicans recruitment chair.
Instagram
Caravajal is a second year law student.
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Byron Donalds, a U.S. Representative and front-runner in the 2026 Florida gubernatorial race, centers his position on "election integrity" rather than "voting rights" as defined by Democrats. He argues that secure elections are the foundation of democracy and that current GOP-led reforms are necessary to restore trust in the system.
The New York Times
So far, I haven't found any public comment by Donalds about the emails.
Key Positions on Voting & Elections
Proof of Citizenship: Donalds strongly supports the SAVE Act, which would mandate that individuals provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections. He calls this a "common sense" measure to prevent non-citizens from voting.
Voter ID: He is a vocal proponent of strict voter ID laws, dismissing claims that they disenfranchise minority communities as "widely debunked".
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The irony is that in the rest of the country, MAGA sees Cubans like Carvajal as DEI. And many of would not judge Donalds by the color of his character.
Does anyone think the Republicans will finally impeach the bastard? We may have to wait for something clear-cut that Caroline Leavitt can't lie about, such as an Iranian cell killing or kidnapping rich white Americans on American soil. I would love to be a fly on the wall in Putin's war room. Great post, Thom.
I really think the 🤡 or should I say 👺 in the white house, has an inferior complex. He takes no advice from anyone of intellectual capabilities ,,so he tries and succeeds, to think he's proved to everyone that he's the smartest person in the room, when in reality he's in his own little world of DOMINANCE.
NO, HE IS NOT THE KING, BUT I TRULY BELIEVE HE THINKS THAT, BECAUSE OF THE NO KINGS PROTESTS, HE ACTLIKES THEM. JMHOP
Iran is playing rope a dope. They have been building, stockpiling and storing in caves (Most of Iran is mountainous, not flat like Iraq, drones, rockets andmissiles.
You can't decapitate a reptile that grows another head. Iran has been preparing for this, they knew that Israel was dedicated to decapitating the regime and the IRGC, and have succession plans. For the mullahcracyand the IRGC.
Iran has an army and had a navy, until it was sunk on day two,. 25 old obsolete submarines, about 13 frigates and corvette, one sunk by our sub in the Indian ocean, a corvette, found safe harbor in Sri Lanka and is now detained by rules of war, the rest were moored and sunk.
But what wasn'ttouched nor can be, are the 33,000 fast boats that the IRGC Navy have, scattered along the coast, each carrying about 15 men, if launched en masse they could destroy all shipping, and Iran missiles can easily take out our aircraft carriers.
The Kurds are 10% of the population, and occupy the NW corner of Mountainous Iran, they are also Sunni Muslims in a Shia country.
Our missiles have been attacking radar stations, communication sites, police and miliary sites in what is Kurdistan Iran. And the CIA has been arming the Kurds. And the plan is to send Special operators into Iranian Kurdistan, this will alarm the Iraqis, which might remember that they are Shia, if not the government, then the Iraqi militia, the Popular Mobilization Force or Quwwāt al-Ḥashd ash-Shaʿbī, and also Turkey who has had a decades old fight with the Kurds
Shia Iran has been competing with Sunni Saudi Arabia and Jordan for leadership of the Islamic world, in 1989, Khomeini send a suicide squad on a mission to capture Makka and the Qaaba, during the Haj.
Iran is now attacking the Sunni gulf states, but each state, especially Yemen have a Shia population.
The question is will the Shia see themselves as Shia or Arabs, we kind of know the answer when it comes to the Houti's of Yemen., they have closed the The Bab-el-Mandeb ("Gate of Tears") a critical 20-mile-wide, 70-mile-long maritime choke point separating Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula from Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa.
Already France and Greece and Turkey are involved, and the war between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus is about to erupt again.
The sinking of the Frigate in the Indian ocean has brought in India on the side of Iran, not only a loss of Iranian oil, forcing them to buy Russian oil, despite Trumps threats, but because the Frigate was unarmed and a guest at the invitation of India during a planned exercise, a covette has sought shelter in Sri Lanka and is being detained under the rules of war.
Wars aren't started this century by proclamations, We are already in WWIII
I take a long view with Iran. Would they be as hostile or need to rely on “terrorism” if Israel had had, from the beginning Nakba, treated the Palestinians with the dignity they deserve as human beings?
The temptation to blame POSOTUS misses the point. He, President Miller, Secretary of Ethanol Hegseth, the Cabinet, the DOJ, the FBI, DHS, etc., etc. are unrestrained by Congress, the courts, the voters. Legacy media has abandoned professionalism for profit. “Critical mass” seems elusive - it just keeps getting worse and worse, keeps getting normalized by repetition, keeps metastasizing, all for want of effective, organized, compelling opposition. Follow the money.
POSOTUS isn’t a Svengali, he is the epitome of the Repugnican Party, created by the Repugnican Party which embraced him with passionate, unquestioning fervor.
Thom has nicely demonstrated Trump's demented brain and his sociopathic soul.
His carefully-selected cabinet of incompetent sycophants nullifies Article 25. His spineless Congressional majority nullifies impeachment.
By default, we have a ruler. By his history of invasions, we have an emperor. A historical first perhaps is that Emperor Bonespurs has zero combat experience, and is so addlepated that his lack of strategic planning will soon run America out of munitions to protect our borders from invaders of Taiwan or Alaska, or, even Europe. Having already declared World Tradewar III, his recklessness will soon enable WWIII. Feeling a bit helpless? You should be.
Our Armed Forces have become Black Water. Or Doom Dash.
On Smedley Butler from Wiki...
In 1935, he wrote the exposé War Is a Racket, a trenchant condemnation of the profit motive behind warfare. His views on the subject are summarized in the following passage from the November 1935 issue of the socialist magazine Common Sense:[15]
I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer; a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902–1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.
Smedley Butler was a hero for telling the truth to as many people as he could with his book. He shed light on an unfolding insurrection from within.
Russia sharing intelligence with Iran, works in their favor as it distracts attention and resources from his invasion of Ukraine
Trump's response when asked about Russia helping Iran was dismissive: https://www.newsweek.com/trump-russia-iran-intelligence-report-response-leavitt-11636666
This is proof that Things Are Not As They Appear, and that this war with Iran has motives as yet unseen. I said motives,because forf one thing it pulls Bibi's irons out of the fire. Considering it is he who launched the first missile to take out the Mullahs, but this operation has been in the planning stages for months, that's why the carrier groups were stationed to the region.
There appears to be a Triumvirate , Trump, Netanyahu, Putin and a greater game at play
With the world distracted by the Iran war, Putin has greater play in Ukraine. Trump has always been Putins butt boy, he and Bibi are BFF's, and Trump has back stopped support for Ukraine anyway
And then there is this Krasnov the KGB agent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-u4d6Zwdns&t=5s
Are we seeing the world carved up, Orwellian style. Oceania (the Technate), Eurasia, East Asia, a Caliphate centered in Riyadh or a Sultante in Istanbul?
Maximum pressure on Cuba is helping Putin recruit starving fighting age men to fight Ukraine.
Plus they're FUNDING the war:
Oil prices surpassed $90 a barrel Friday, with American crude settling at $90.90, up 36% from a week ago, and Brent, the international standard, climbing 27% over the course of the week to land at $92.69. Google: Oil prices are critically important to the Russian economy, acting as the primary driver of government revenue, economic growth, and ruble stability. While fossil fuels historically funded nearly 40% of the federal budget, this decreased to 25% in 2025 due to sanctions, price caps, and global market shifts. High prices boost the ruble and state spending, whereas low prices trigger inflation, deficits, and economic contraction.
Krasnov is on the job. On March 5, 2026, the U.S. Treasury issued a 30-day waiver allowing India to purchase Russian oil currently "stranded at sea" to stabilize global prices following conflict in the Middle East.
Nuclear Energy Exemptions: In December 2025, the administration suspended sanctions on several major Russian banks (including Sberbank and VTB) specifically for transactions related to civil nuclear energy projects.
Targeted Delistings: In late 2025, the Treasury quietly removed sanctions from several foreign firms in Cyprus, Dubai, and Turkey that were previously accused of supplying Russia's military.
Meanwhile in Baghdad By the Sea, Trump will host leaders from across Latin America and the Caribbean in Doral today for what the White House describes as a landmark summit aimed at reshaping regional alliances and reinforcing U.S. influence in the Western Hemisphere.
The gathering, which the Trump administration is calling the “Shield of the Americas Summit,” will bring together the heads of state or government from 12 countries aligned with Washington on issues including migration, drug trafficking and regional security.
A White House official said that the participating governments are expected to sign the Doral Charter, a declaration affirming what officials describe as the “right of the peoples of our Hemisphere to chart their own destiny free from interference,” while emphasizing democratic governance and free-market principles.
Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami-dade/article314950354.html#storylink=cpy
Yep Shield of America aka the Technate of America aka Oceania.
Different names for the same thing.
As regards Russia, suzerainty over Eureasia, and Israel over the Levant and Mid East.
I am of the opinion, that this war with Iran had a purpose, not the only one, of serving the needs of Trumps BFF Bibi., with no longer a Gaza war excuse, Bibi is in real trouble, he needs a war to stave off justice, and Trump has been hectoring the President of Israel, pardon Netanyahu or else.
The war provides Trump with a national emergency crisis that he can use to grab total power, it detracts attention and resources from the defense of Ukraine,gives Putin an economic boost.
Fulfills a promise to the oil execs that he addressed prior to the campaign, five a billion dollars in support and I will give you what you want.
And then there is the Saudi Arabia (Sunni)_ Shia (Iran) millenia old conflict for leadership of the Islamic world.
Don;'t accept anything at face value, things are not as they appear, and there is always more than one motive
Coincides with the Trumpepstein issue.
But Trumpepstein is a distraction, it will not take down Trump or the regime, for the simple reason that the only way to take him down is via the Department of Justice,and he has has total control of the DOJ, which is he is personal law firm.
We would think that elections might do it, but voter suprression and voter theft laws and actions are in effect and in motion, and frankly I don't think the Epstein files are sufficient, abortion wasn't.
And that assumes that there will be an election, or an election like in 2012, a Hungarian style election, yes, A Russian slyle election yes, a Turkeish style election , Yes, a Russian style election yes, A free open , honest election, no.
Steve Bannon spilled the beans, Trump has said it aloud, there will be no election, they've been working on it since Jan 2025, and will have had four years, who knows maybe ta purpose of this war, is to obviate an election.
War Murder Lies---Your tax dollars at work!
That's my new sign, and I'm going to put it to use today. I've noticed the MAGA people driving by giving us a one digit salute have a different attitude. They used to be gleeful and happy, now they are just mean and oh so very angry.
It's almost like they are catching on that what the sign says is true. No one likes to get an "I told you so!". See you in the streets.
War Murder lies I like it. Sex Lies and Videotape though not original for my poster.
Trump aims to bankrupt the world like one of his casinos, just because he operates on greed and vengeance, and not a lick of common sense. All of his followers would never have the nerve to do what he's doing, but they have always yearned to see it get done.
Another comment:
Are we sure Kristi was fired? Are we really? Things are never as they appear to be.
Let's exam the situation.
Kristi is a Trump loyalist, she wants nothing more to please her boss, she is his dog. He commands she barks.She is ruthless, a psychopath like him, she is totally dependable to follow orders.
In other words she is useful, very useful and dependable.
He has placed her in charge of something that came out of the blue, The Shield of the America's, and not one pundit, media source has asked questions like What the eff is this Shield of the Americas.
The leftist, liberal,progressive media should be all over this, but silence, not even a wisp of curiosity, just wetting their undies over the "firing of Noem'. I am losing any respect for liberal media and pundits.
I will take a stab, factor in Trumps plans for Cuba, to take it down economically and install Marco Rubio as satrap, his plans for Canada, Greenland, Mexico, Ecuador, Venezuela, Colombia I see the Shield of the Americas as the Technate of America, aka Oceania. https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:34227574
Who better than to head the project, than a ruthless, dependable,worshiping psychopathic, sycophant like Kristi Noem.
She wasn't fired, she was promoted.
I agree.
Reminds me of the French Revolution and she's Robespierre of the Americas.
And especially in light of your recent comment vis a vis the meeting in Baghad by the sea of the upcoming meeting of Trump's Shield of America's.
Again I am very dismayed that no one in even the so called liberal media, or substack has even expressed a curiosity
The world is being changed in front of our eyes, and everyone is fixated on the spaghetti sticking to the walls.
Myopia, the myipic mind is the enemy, and as Pogo said: I've seen the enemy and he is us.
Too awful to make a comment..
Thanks Thom for bringing us some more truths.
I spoke to our cleaning lady this morning - she is an American citizen, born in the USA...
She did not know we are at war with Iran!
How many other citizens are there like her?
Here in Baghdad By the Sea, where the leading candidate for governor is a Black Republican, we have a major scandal.
The Group Chat: Originally created last fall by Abel Alexander Carvajal, Secretary of the Miami-Dade Republican Party and an FIU law student, the chat was intended for conservative students but quickly devolved into hate speech.
Offensive Content:
Racist Slurs: Participants used variations of the N-word over 400 times.
Violent Rhetoric: Messages reportedly detailed "dozens of ways" to kill Black people, including mentions of crucifixion and beheading.
Antisemitism & Misogyny: Members praised Adolf Hitler's politics, joked about gas chambers, used slurs against Jewish and gay people, and used degrading terms for women.
"Nazi Heaven": One member described the chat environment as a "Nazi heaven".
The New York Times
Involved Individuals
Abel Alexander Carvajal: Secretary of the Miami-Dade Republican Party. While he claims he did not send the offensive messages himself, he is facing intense calls to resign for creating the space.
Ian Valdes: FIU's Turning Point USA chapter president.
Dariel Gonzalez: Former College Republicans recruitment chair.
Instagram
Caravajal is a second year law student.
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Byron Donalds, a U.S. Representative and front-runner in the 2026 Florida gubernatorial race, centers his position on "election integrity" rather than "voting rights" as defined by Democrats. He argues that secure elections are the foundation of democracy and that current GOP-led reforms are necessary to restore trust in the system.
The New York Times
So far, I haven't found any public comment by Donalds about the emails.
Key Positions on Voting & Elections
Proof of Citizenship: Donalds strongly supports the SAVE Act, which would mandate that individuals provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register for federal elections. He calls this a "common sense" measure to prevent non-citizens from voting.
Voter ID: He is a vocal proponent of strict voter ID laws, dismissing claims that they disenfranchise minority communities as "widely debunked".
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The irony is that in the rest of the country, MAGA sees Cubans like Carvajal as DEI. And many of would not judge Donalds by the color of his character.
Does anyone think the Republicans will finally impeach the bastard? We may have to wait for something clear-cut that Caroline Leavitt can't lie about, such as an Iranian cell killing or kidnapping rich white Americans on American soil. I would love to be a fly on the wall in Putin's war room. Great post, Thom.
Not if they are counting on the midterms being cancelled.
I really think the 🤡 or should I say 👺 in the white house, has an inferior complex. He takes no advice from anyone of intellectual capabilities ,,so he tries and succeeds, to think he's proved to everyone that he's the smartest person in the room, when in reality he's in his own little world of DOMINANCE.
NO, HE IS NOT THE KING, BUT I TRULY BELIEVE HE THINKS THAT, BECAUSE OF THE NO KINGS PROTESTS, HE ACTLIKES THEM. JMHOP
Iran is playing rope a dope. They have been building, stockpiling and storing in caves (Most of Iran is mountainous, not flat like Iraq, drones, rockets andmissiles.
You can't decapitate a reptile that grows another head. Iran has been preparing for this, they knew that Israel was dedicated to decapitating the regime and the IRGC, and have succession plans. For the mullahcracyand the IRGC.
Iran has an army and had a navy, until it was sunk on day two,. 25 old obsolete submarines, about 13 frigates and corvette, one sunk by our sub in the Indian ocean, a corvette, found safe harbor in Sri Lanka and is now detained by rules of war, the rest were moored and sunk.
But what wasn'ttouched nor can be, are the 33,000 fast boats that the IRGC Navy have, scattered along the coast, each carrying about 15 men, if launched en masse they could destroy all shipping, and Iran missiles can easily take out our aircraft carriers.
The Kurds are 10% of the population, and occupy the NW corner of Mountainous Iran, they are also Sunni Muslims in a Shia country.
Our missiles have been attacking radar stations, communication sites, police and miliary sites in what is Kurdistan Iran. And the CIA has been arming the Kurds. And the plan is to send Special operators into Iranian Kurdistan, this will alarm the Iraqis, which might remember that they are Shia, if not the government, then the Iraqi militia, the Popular Mobilization Force or Quwwāt al-Ḥashd ash-Shaʿbī, and also Turkey who has had a decades old fight with the Kurds
Shia Iran has been competing with Sunni Saudi Arabia and Jordan for leadership of the Islamic world, in 1989, Khomeini send a suicide squad on a mission to capture Makka and the Qaaba, during the Haj.
Iran is now attacking the Sunni gulf states, but each state, especially Yemen have a Shia population.
The question is will the Shia see themselves as Shia or Arabs, we kind of know the answer when it comes to the Houti's of Yemen., they have closed the The Bab-el-Mandeb ("Gate of Tears") a critical 20-mile-wide, 70-mile-long maritime choke point separating Yemen on the Arabian Peninsula from Djibouti and Eritrea in the Horn of Africa.
Already France and Greece and Turkey are involved, and the war between Greece and Turkey over Cyprus is about to erupt again.
The sinking of the Frigate in the Indian ocean has brought in India on the side of Iran, not only a loss of Iranian oil, forcing them to buy Russian oil, despite Trumps threats, but because the Frigate was unarmed and a guest at the invitation of India during a planned exercise, a covette has sought shelter in Sri Lanka and is being detained under the rules of war.
Wars aren't started this century by proclamations, We are already in WWIII
T
I take a long view with Iran. Would they be as hostile or need to rely on “terrorism” if Israel had had, from the beginning Nakba, treated the Palestinians with the dignity they deserve as human beings?
Bullshit.
The temptation to blame POSOTUS misses the point. He, President Miller, Secretary of Ethanol Hegseth, the Cabinet, the DOJ, the FBI, DHS, etc., etc. are unrestrained by Congress, the courts, the voters. Legacy media has abandoned professionalism for profit. “Critical mass” seems elusive - it just keeps getting worse and worse, keeps getting normalized by repetition, keeps metastasizing, all for want of effective, organized, compelling opposition. Follow the money.
But for Trump, none of the rest would follow.
POSOTUS isn’t a Svengali, he is the epitome of the Repugnican Party, created by the Repugnican Party which embraced him with passionate, unquestioning fervor.
Tip of the spear? No tip no spear.
No absolution for his True Believers.
My thoughts are with Cricket. Out there in the vast universe Cricket may well have been waiting for this to happen to Christie.
What did Trump expect when he handed Christie that sensitive position - that she would not go on to emulate him?
Thom has nicely demonstrated Trump's demented brain and his sociopathic soul.
His carefully-selected cabinet of incompetent sycophants nullifies Article 25. His spineless Congressional majority nullifies impeachment.
By default, we have a ruler. By his history of invasions, we have an emperor. A historical first perhaps is that Emperor Bonespurs has zero combat experience, and is so addlepated that his lack of strategic planning will soon run America out of munitions to protect our borders from invaders of Taiwan or Alaska, or, even Europe. Having already declared World Tradewar III, his recklessness will soon enable WWIII. Feeling a bit helpless? You should be.
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