Trump is escalating Iran while talking about American cities as collateral damage. History shows just how dramatically an attack can reshape both an election and a presidency…
Whether or not Trump's intent is to provoke the Iranian leadership (who are NOT the same as the people of Iran) to attack us via the destruction of San Diego's naval base and the entire city of LA is just another of his wanker fantasies, the confluence of behind the scenes dismantling of our experts on Iran is a tell. Of course, Iran has no ICBMS or other methods to deliver mass destruction, so a more likely scenario would involve a lesser attack, but I'll be contacting my reps today. Please keep letting us know about the heaving stew of malfeasance and outright, murderous, traitorous evil that's not being covered nearly enough in the mainstream media.
Right on, the people of Iran are, excluding the IRGC and Baij, graciious, intelligent and educated. Iranian ex pats in America are archtects, engineers, surgeons.
Iran has a history thousands of years old, and the Iranians think of it as yesterday.
The Mullahs, on the other hand, along with the fanatics inthe IRGC and Basij, are an antiuman blood thirsty lot.
In January the people revolted, Trump encouraged them, then did nothing and the Basij machine gunned 30,000 to 50,000 of them
The Basij are a fanatic volunteer paramilitary group, they could be the taxi driver, the tea vendor in the bazaar, a farmer leading a donkey cart, the number ofver a million.
The mullahs are so insecure, that they have hung young girls from construction cranes, slow strangulation, for not wearing the head scarf (hijab)
And as I speak the IRGC arbitrarily executes, imprisons and tortures enemies of the mullahs.
The people are great, they suffer mightily under the Mullahs, and nuking Iran, even bombing the cities is a crime against humanity, and it will do nothing about a regime change.
The Iranians have had over 50 years, to develop a system of succession. When Israel decapitates the regime, all it does is eliminate the older more moderate rulers, which are then replaced by younger and more extreme men.
For Example: Bibi killed Grand Ayatollah Ali Khameini, he was in his 80's and who replaced him, his son in the j50's Moijtaba Khameini, more radical than his father, and pissed off because Bibi murdered his father, wife, and children.
Thanks for presenting all of this. I lived in Iran for a number of years preceding the takeover from the Mullahs, and endorse your take on the Iranian people. One thing you might want to tuck in among other important things to know about Iran is that the US, via the CIA, is believed by most educated Iranians to have engineered the ouster of the democratically elected premier of tha country, M. Mossadegh, because he had socialist ideas, replacing him with a puppet ruler, Shah Reza Pahlavi. So we are in part to blame for the current situation.
Mossadegh was overthrown by a coup engineered by MI-6 and the CIA, because he had nationalized the petroleum industry, cutting British Petroleum out of the monopoly they enjoyed.
France was non plussed because Total SA was not in the deal, so they gave Khomeini safe harbor and used their diplomatic pouches to smuggle in his cassette tapes.
France engineered the overtrhow of the Shah, it did them no good, because the Mulahs created the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and have contracted with China
• Secretive Barter and Oil-for-Goods Mechanism: Under a long-running arrangement utilizing Chinese state-owned oil traders like Zhuhai Zhenrong and a China-based financial entity called ChuXin, Iranian crude is exchanged via non-bank channels and special purpose vehicles (SPVs). A large portion of these proceeds funds Chinese infrastructure projects in Iran, while the rest purchases goods like vehicles, electronics, medicines, and air defense equipment.
• Sinopec Group Long-Term Crude and Condensate Deals: Sinopec maintains long-term supply agreements with NIOC for crude oil and gas condensate. Deliveries frequently utilize National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC)-operated tankers under delivered ex-ship (DES) terms where Iran handles shipping and insurance costs. Sinopec also previously signed historic framework agreements including the development of the Yadavaran oilfield.
• China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Field Development: CNPC and its overseas subsidiaries (such as Naftiran Intertrade Company / NICO) have held major stakes in developing key Iranian energy assets, including the South Azadegan oil field, various gas-drilling projects, and phases of the South Pars gas field.
• China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) Agreements: CNOOC has targeted joint development and liquefied natura
Holy sh*t. And this is the shadow play we are being forced to live in. OMG OMG OMG. Your encyclopedic knowledge deserves the widest possible audience. Take care how you build your platform.
May you rest easy on your way to the heaven of your choice, William. While printing copies of your stuff and offering them to people like Eduardo to carry on down the road. I'm 78 and have a possibly yes and possibly no diagnosis of a form of bone marrow cancer, so I know the kind of detachment that can bring. That you are still fighting the good fight on behalf of truth and humanity is proof of your particular brand of excellence, as well as the fact that being old does not necessarily mean losing your marbles, Hope I still have all mine at your age. Namaste.
Anything is possible including the nuking of Iran, as our once solid Department of Defense has been gutted of real Generals and Admirals and all that is left are craven lickspittles., that click their heels and seig heil.
The U.S. Defense Department instructed U.S. Central Command several days ago to conclude preparations for resuming major combat operations in Iran, U.S. officials told Axios. The directive didn’t include a specific date for resuming strikes, but U.S. and Israeli sources say it could happen before the U.S. midterm elections. Barak Ravid reports.
If that os the October Surprise, and he launches a ground campaign, it will be a disaster and there will be a lot of weeping widows at Ft Bragg and in San Diego. Iran is a mountainouse country, two mountain chains that make Afghanistan look like a prairie. It is not conducive to an airborne assault, and if a paradrop is planned, it will be a turkey sboot rivaling that of the British 1st Airborne, as it jumped on top of a Panzer regiment in Operation Market Garden (around 100 survivors escaped, featured in Band of Brothers.
If he plans to capture Kharq Island. The Island is heavily mined, and sits under the guns of rockets and missiles in caves in the Zagros mountains that overlook it.
Trump has been lusting after Kharq Island as it is the main pumping station for tankers (lines run under the gulf from the mainland). Iran has a Sampson option and will blow the pumping stations rather than let Trump take it.
Trump's interest is seizing the island and using it for his personal beneift, just as he has done with revenues from Venezuelan oil.
It is hard to suspend disbelief when looking at the history of Pearl Harbor-type attacks that no US planes or ships noticed the entire Japanese fleet heading to Hawaii. As Thom pointed out, every "surprise" attack in history ensured the continued leadership of the president, chancellor, prime minister, etc. of the victim nation at the time. The vid of Bush being informed about 9/11 looked to me like he was expecting it - he did not seem very shocked - no significant OMGs. In fact, an Iranian terror attack would surely be used by Trump as a clear path to "forever rule."
Trump has weakened NATO while sucking up bigly to RU and China. Surely he thinks their friendship would insulate his reign. Every war in my lifetime has been fought for political reasons justified by industrial-strength gaslight. Communist dominoes would make SE Asia commie? The Vietnamese have a historical hatred for the Chinese. Afghanistan & Iraq were justified revenge for 9/11 terrorism by Saudi Arabs? It has been widely documented that Netanyahu had been warned about Oct. 7th, but elected to let it happen to justify a genocidal solution to the 2-State problem. Anybody besides me think that a Trump-engineered terrorism event would be used to justify nuking Iran and voiding Nov 3rd elections? Where's Trump's Nobel Prize for WAR?
while it is becoming increasingly obvious that donny must create an incident to influence the mid terms, and previous presidents have engaged in similar practices over the years----i dont think it's fair to include FDR in all that.
Japan's rape of China was explicitly driven by the source material of American oil and steel. And no doubt American producers of those material were making a fat profit out of it,
FDR put a stop to it, even though the result was predictable.
Germany and Japan were already in coalition, another few years and they would have overwhelmed the civilised world, especially taking into account the enormus fascist leaning of the USA then...in much the same way as it is today.
Had it not been for FDR, democracy would have been eliminated back in the 40s.
Republicans survive on fear-mongering and thrive on supplying war, so this is constantly their go-to pitch. What purpose is there to propose California for nuclear demolition, since Iran is not capable of such a thing, and even if they were, would most likely strike Washington or New York? Well, about half of all Iranian-Americans live in California, mostly in cities like Los Angeles and San Diego. Maybe "the enemy is in our midst", and all that, raised to dangerous proportions, to distract from or disrupt the electoral process. Also note the billionaire wealth tax is on the ballot there.
Excellent point, Thom ! However, I want to address the point you also made by quoting Trump's claims that Barack Obama would attack Iran back in 2012 or so for political purposes. As Trump often does, he projects a lot...and the dots I'm picking up are his repeatedly statements about "annihilating" Iran. Once in June or so? Again at the UN recently. And then add in Tucker Carlson's report of his talk with Trump 2 days before DJT started this War with Iran...in which Trump said something like "We're all going to die anyway..." Is this the "narcissistic collapse" we've been watching for? But also add: A recent report says Trump has asked the Pentagon for plans to use tactical nuclear weapons (in Iran?). Then there are now THREE aircraft carriers headed for Iran?! Also note that in the past few weeks Trump has repeatedly said that the War with Iran will be over right after the Midterm elections. Why is that? Why that specific timeframe? Perhaps something to have an excuse to nullify the midterm results which he undoubtedly isn't going to like? Knowing that he will be impeached over and over? Knowing that he and his family will be investigated for all their corruption? Knowing that his power is going to be curtailed? Wouldn't all of this amount to the pressure for "narcissistic collapse" in which he mentally justifies the use of nukes? Similar to Hitler calling on his troops to kill the German people once he knew he had lost the war? This doesn't look good ! And I am equally alarmed that the news media isn't connecting these dots ! This might sound over-the-top hysterical... but we keep forgetting (or rationalizing) that we are dealing with true, red sociopath !
If your scenario comes to pass, and the stupid American people reelect the current gang, they will deserve what they get. Because that scenario would imply treason by the felon in chief, Hehgseth, Patel, all in concert with them. For which the federal punishment remains the death penalty. It would not surprise me, though both my strong preference for democracy and my religious faith forbid me from wanting it, if that penalty was imposed "extradjudicially", by someone or someones who have simply had enough of the horror show that is MAGA and the morbidly rich.
As a native Californian, and hearkening back to the McCarthy Era which was long before I entered this world, I have four words for President Smitty that I am certain most Californians agree upon:
But Trump deposited $90 into my bank account this week. Should I send a thank-you note? Much more than that had already been spent on donations to Democrats running for the House and Senate. Thinking about where to send more. We should all be grateful and thank him for returning some of our money.
Whether or not Trump's intent is to provoke the Iranian leadership (who are NOT the same as the people of Iran) to attack us via the destruction of San Diego's naval base and the entire city of LA is just another of his wanker fantasies, the confluence of behind the scenes dismantling of our experts on Iran is a tell. Of course, Iran has no ICBMS or other methods to deliver mass destruction, so a more likely scenario would involve a lesser attack, but I'll be contacting my reps today. Please keep letting us know about the heaving stew of malfeasance and outright, murderous, traitorous evil that's not being covered nearly enough in the mainstream media.
Right on, the people of Iran are, excluding the IRGC and Baij, graciious, intelligent and educated. Iranian ex pats in America are archtects, engineers, surgeons.
Iran has a history thousands of years old, and the Iranians think of it as yesterday.
The Mullahs, on the other hand, along with the fanatics inthe IRGC and Basij, are an antiuman blood thirsty lot.
In January the people revolted, Trump encouraged them, then did nothing and the Basij machine gunned 30,000 to 50,000 of them
The Basij are a fanatic volunteer paramilitary group, they could be the taxi driver, the tea vendor in the bazaar, a farmer leading a donkey cart, the number ofver a million.
The mullahs are so insecure, that they have hung young girls from construction cranes, slow strangulation, for not wearing the head scarf (hijab)
And as I speak the IRGC arbitrarily executes, imprisons and tortures enemies of the mullahs.
The people are great, they suffer mightily under the Mullahs, and nuking Iran, even bombing the cities is a crime against humanity, and it will do nothing about a regime change.
The Iranians have had over 50 years, to develop a system of succession. When Israel decapitates the regime, all it does is eliminate the older more moderate rulers, which are then replaced by younger and more extreme men.
For Example: Bibi killed Grand Ayatollah Ali Khameini, he was in his 80's and who replaced him, his son in the j50's Moijtaba Khameini, more radical than his father, and pissed off because Bibi murdered his father, wife, and children.
Thanks for presenting all of this. I lived in Iran for a number of years preceding the takeover from the Mullahs, and endorse your take on the Iranian people. One thing you might want to tuck in among other important things to know about Iran is that the US, via the CIA, is believed by most educated Iranians to have engineered the ouster of the democratically elected premier of tha country, M. Mossadegh, because he had socialist ideas, replacing him with a puppet ruler, Shah Reza Pahlavi. So we are in part to blame for the current situation.
Mossadegh was overthrown by a coup engineered by MI-6 and the CIA, because he had nationalized the petroleum industry, cutting British Petroleum out of the monopoly they enjoyed.
France was non plussed because Total SA was not in the deal, so they gave Khomeini safe harbor and used their diplomatic pouches to smuggle in his cassette tapes.
France engineered the overtrhow of the Shah, it did them no good, because the Mulahs created the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) and have contracted with China
• Secretive Barter and Oil-for-Goods Mechanism: Under a long-running arrangement utilizing Chinese state-owned oil traders like Zhuhai Zhenrong and a China-based financial entity called ChuXin, Iranian crude is exchanged via non-bank channels and special purpose vehicles (SPVs). A large portion of these proceeds funds Chinese infrastructure projects in Iran, while the rest purchases goods like vehicles, electronics, medicines, and air defense equipment.
• Sinopec Group Long-Term Crude and Condensate Deals: Sinopec maintains long-term supply agreements with NIOC for crude oil and gas condensate. Deliveries frequently utilize National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC)-operated tankers under delivered ex-ship (DES) terms where Iran handles shipping and insurance costs. Sinopec also previously signed historic framework agreements including the development of the Yadavaran oilfield.
• China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) Field Development: CNPC and its overseas subsidiaries (such as Naftiran Intertrade Company / NICO) have held major stakes in developing key Iranian energy assets, including the South Azadegan oil field, various gas-drilling projects, and phases of the South Pars gas field.
• China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) Agreements: CNOOC has targeted joint development and liquefied natura
Holy sh*t. And this is the shadow play we are being forced to live in. OMG OMG OMG. Your encyclopedic knowledge deserves the widest possible audience. Take care how you build your platform.
Thanks Leigh, But I am 87 diabetic and in 9 years remission from stage 5 lung and brain cancer. I have no desire or time to build a platform
May you rest easy on your way to the heaven of your choice, William. While printing copies of your stuff and offering them to people like Eduardo to carry on down the road. I'm 78 and have a possibly yes and possibly no diagnosis of a form of bone marrow cancer, so I know the kind of detachment that can bring. That you are still fighting the good fight on behalf of truth and humanity is proof of your particular brand of excellence, as well as the fact that being old does not necessarily mean losing your marbles, Hope I still have all mine at your age. Namaste.
God bless you.
Anything is possible including the nuking of Iran, as our once solid Department of Defense has been gutted of real Generals and Admirals and all that is left are craven lickspittles., that click their heels and seig heil.
1846, not 1864. The year President Polk sent troops to the Rio Grande.
What I cannot put past this Low-IQ, Kiddie-Rapist, Bisexual Coward is . . .
Putting an aircraft carrier with 5,000 personnel within range of Iran's anti‑ship ballistic missiles.
A direct hit? That would tear it. And he and Keg's-Breath are just loopy enough to try it.
I just hope Iran isn't that crazy. But likely, Netanyahu is, though.
False flag?
#VOTE for Sanity NOW
#Melania needs a huge raise to remain in Nat's shadow
The U.S. Defense Department instructed U.S. Central Command several days ago to conclude preparations for resuming major combat operations in Iran, U.S. officials told Axios. The directive didn’t include a specific date for resuming strikes, but U.S. and Israeli sources say it could happen before the U.S. midterm elections. Barak Ravid reports.
If that os the October Surprise, and he launches a ground campaign, it will be a disaster and there will be a lot of weeping widows at Ft Bragg and in San Diego. Iran is a mountainouse country, two mountain chains that make Afghanistan look like a prairie. It is not conducive to an airborne assault, and if a paradrop is planned, it will be a turkey sboot rivaling that of the British 1st Airborne, as it jumped on top of a Panzer regiment in Operation Market Garden (around 100 survivors escaped, featured in Band of Brothers.
If he plans to capture Kharq Island. The Island is heavily mined, and sits under the guns of rockets and missiles in caves in the Zagros mountains that overlook it.
Trump has been lusting after Kharq Island as it is the main pumping station for tankers (lines run under the gulf from the mainland). Iran has a Sampson option and will blow the pumping stations rather than let Trump take it.
Trump's interest is seizing the island and using it for his personal beneift, just as he has done with revenues from Venezuelan oil.
I will definitely make those phone calls. Trump isn't above doing something like this.
It is hard to suspend disbelief when looking at the history of Pearl Harbor-type attacks that no US planes or ships noticed the entire Japanese fleet heading to Hawaii. As Thom pointed out, every "surprise" attack in history ensured the continued leadership of the president, chancellor, prime minister, etc. of the victim nation at the time. The vid of Bush being informed about 9/11 looked to me like he was expecting it - he did not seem very shocked - no significant OMGs. In fact, an Iranian terror attack would surely be used by Trump as a clear path to "forever rule."
Trump has weakened NATO while sucking up bigly to RU and China. Surely he thinks their friendship would insulate his reign. Every war in my lifetime has been fought for political reasons justified by industrial-strength gaslight. Communist dominoes would make SE Asia commie? The Vietnamese have a historical hatred for the Chinese. Afghanistan & Iraq were justified revenge for 9/11 terrorism by Saudi Arabs? It has been widely documented that Netanyahu had been warned about Oct. 7th, but elected to let it happen to justify a genocidal solution to the 2-State problem. Anybody besides me think that a Trump-engineered terrorism event would be used to justify nuking Iran and voiding Nov 3rd elections? Where's Trump's Nobel Prize for WAR?
Vid of Bush on 9/11 in 1st grade classroom - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBQEy6zs0mg
while it is becoming increasingly obvious that donny must create an incident to influence the mid terms, and previous presidents have engaged in similar practices over the years----i dont think it's fair to include FDR in all that.
Japan's rape of China was explicitly driven by the source material of American oil and steel. And no doubt American producers of those material were making a fat profit out of it,
FDR put a stop to it, even though the result was predictable.
Germany and Japan were already in coalition, another few years and they would have overwhelmed the civilised world, especially taking into account the enormus fascist leaning of the USA then...in much the same way as it is today.
Had it not been for FDR, democracy would have been eliminated back in the 40s.
It is in much greater danger now.
Republicans survive on fear-mongering and thrive on supplying war, so this is constantly their go-to pitch. What purpose is there to propose California for nuclear demolition, since Iran is not capable of such a thing, and even if they were, would most likely strike Washington or New York? Well, about half of all Iranian-Americans live in California, mostly in cities like Los Angeles and San Diego. Maybe "the enemy is in our midst", and all that, raised to dangerous proportions, to distract from or disrupt the electoral process. Also note the billionaire wealth tax is on the ballot there.
One presumes that Susan Collins’ concern would be matched only by Chuck Schumer’s strongly worded letter.
Trump is another in a long line of Republiklan traitors: Nixon, Bush I, Bush II, Ford, Trump. NEVER trust those murdering liars.
Excellent point, Thom ! However, I want to address the point you also made by quoting Trump's claims that Barack Obama would attack Iran back in 2012 or so for political purposes. As Trump often does, he projects a lot...and the dots I'm picking up are his repeatedly statements about "annihilating" Iran. Once in June or so? Again at the UN recently. And then add in Tucker Carlson's report of his talk with Trump 2 days before DJT started this War with Iran...in which Trump said something like "We're all going to die anyway..." Is this the "narcissistic collapse" we've been watching for? But also add: A recent report says Trump has asked the Pentagon for plans to use tactical nuclear weapons (in Iran?). Then there are now THREE aircraft carriers headed for Iran?! Also note that in the past few weeks Trump has repeatedly said that the War with Iran will be over right after the Midterm elections. Why is that? Why that specific timeframe? Perhaps something to have an excuse to nullify the midterm results which he undoubtedly isn't going to like? Knowing that he will be impeached over and over? Knowing that he and his family will be investigated for all their corruption? Knowing that his power is going to be curtailed? Wouldn't all of this amount to the pressure for "narcissistic collapse" in which he mentally justifies the use of nukes? Similar to Hitler calling on his troops to kill the German people once he knew he had lost the war? This doesn't look good ! And I am equally alarmed that the news media isn't connecting these dots ! This might sound over-the-top hysterical... but we keep forgetting (or rationalizing) that we are dealing with true, red sociopath !
If your scenario comes to pass, and the stupid American people reelect the current gang, they will deserve what they get. Because that scenario would imply treason by the felon in chief, Hehgseth, Patel, all in concert with them. For which the federal punishment remains the death penalty. It would not surprise me, though both my strong preference for democracy and my religious faith forbid me from wanting it, if that penalty was imposed "extradjudicially", by someone or someones who have simply had enough of the horror show that is MAGA and the morbidly rich.
As a native Californian, and hearkening back to the McCarthy Era which was long before I entered this world, I have four words for President Smitty that I am certain most Californians agree upon:
Better dead, than red.
https://rohnkenyatta.substack.com/p/the-pied-piper-president-smittys?utm_source=publication-search
But Trump deposited $90 into my bank account this week. Should I send a thank-you note? Much more than that had already been spent on donations to Democrats running for the House and Senate. Thinking about where to send more. We should all be grateful and thank him for returning some of our money.
Polk wasn’t president in 1864. Lincoln was.