Trump is almost certainly demented, although not as severely as Biden was at the end of his presidency. But dementia is progressive in nearly all cases, meaning that the worst is yet to come. To make matters even worse, Trump has an underlying personality disorder that might best be described as “malignant narcisism” (this I learned from a psychiatrist friend). Mix that disorder together with cognitive decline, and you will have an extraordinarily bad stew.

Posted by: Rob | Mar 17 2025 22:08 utc | 103

re OT Belgrade. Please note I claim no first hand knowledge. According to RT, a Soros based USAID NGO is the source of the accusations of sound control weapons. Again, no firsthand knowledge, but from what I’ve read, the true sound weapon causes complete or near complete helplessness, vomiting etc. which did not seem to happen in Belgrade. Definitely some nasty stuff going on in Serbia and Romania, however. Where is Samantha Powers these days?

Posted by: Formerly Miss Lacy | Mar 17 2025 22:09 utc | 105

Trump is leading the losing team and is revengeful. Will he take our species down with his pettiness?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 17 2025 20:29 utc | 72
I really think that he is a psychopath of the kind of Hitler with the same Lebensraum madness.
Has Russia not concluded a strategic partnership with Iran?
Better to stock oil if the Ormuz Straight will be blocked. I would love to see oil going up to 5 US$ or €/litre. Anyone remember the Yellow Jackets?

Posted by: Naive | Mar 17 2025 22:14 utc | 107

MBBPGA!
(Make Bombing Brown People Great Again)!

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Mar 17 2025 22:19 utc | 109

US warship has been hit off Yemeni coast. This seems to be a recent video, at least and seems a pretty decent explosion.
https://x.com/RoyalIntel_/status/1901755800902615387

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 17 2025 22:21 utc | 111

https://x.com/ME_Observer_/status/1901744068108898390
Middle East Observer @ME_Observer_
⚡️ Pentagon:
3 American aircraft carriers heading to the Middle East.
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/1901754190231118310
Drop Site @DropSiteNews
REPORT | During the Pentagon briefing today, Joint Staff Director for Operations Lt. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich said there are “no credible indications of any civilian casualties” in Yemen following U.S. airstrikes that hit over 30 sites. Grynkewich estimates “dozens” of Houthi military casualties so far.
Yemen’s Health Ministry, however, reports the recent U.S. airstrikes killed at least 53 people and wounded more than 100 others—many of them civilians. As the bombing was still underway and the death toll was at 31, Anis al-Asbahi, a spokesperson for the Yemeni Health Ministry, told Drop Site News, “The majority of [casualties] were children and women.”
Specific reports include four children and one woman killed in Saada, and a residential strike in Sanaa that claimed at least 15 lives. The death toll may rise as rescue operations continue.
Footage shared by Yemeni media shows graphic scenes of civilian casualties, including children. See the linked post for details.

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 17 2025 22:27 utc | 113

thanks b…
bullying the little guy, because you can’t take on the big guys? lol.. so usa, lol – or uk for that matter…
it is a clear reflection of a declining empire that is losing its grip on the unipolar status it had previously… emperor trump, the bully, lol… he is so ‘peace’ or ceasefire, non agreement capable, it isn’t funny..

Posted by: james | Mar 17 2025 22:37 utc | 115

@ Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 17 2025 21:02 utc | 87
Thankyou.
had missed all that (been travelling).
Yup looks and sounds like some technology. Why had that many gathered at that time? Is it continuing?
Will try and look it up next few days.

Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 17 2025 22:39 utc | 117

It’s boots and bodybags that make it a “real” war.
Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 17 2025 22:09 utc | 106
OK! So Israel can nuke Iran, it will not be a real war.
Madness is spreading quickly. Denying reality is another kind of madness. Trump started a war.

Posted by: Naive | Mar 17 2025 22:40 utc | 119

Is ‘Iran can not be defeated’ the new ‘Hamas cannot be defeated’? Or is it more the new ‘Hezbollah cannot be defeated’?

Posted by: Jean-Baptiste Moquel | Mar 17 2025 22:48 utc | 121

@ michaelj72 | Mar 17 2025 22:27 utc | 115
re: “3 American aircraft carriers heading to the Middle East.”
That seems unlikely
The location of carriers is here.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 17 2025 22:54 utc | 123

White House
President Trump Is Standing Up to Terrorism and Protecting International Commerce
It has been over a year since a U.S.-flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal, the Red Sea, or the Gulf of Aden. No terrorist force will stop American commercial and naval vessels from freely sailing the Waterways of the World.
Our economic and national security have been under attack by the Houthis for too long. Today, President Trump’s action and leadership are moving to end this.
. . . then a history here.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 17 2025 23:01 utc | 125

Reluctance to bomb Iran is telling. Seem the propaganda about damage to Iran is false otherwise empire would be “going downtown” Tehran every day.
paddy | Mar 17 2025 19:53 utc | 53

Great point!

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 17 2025 23:08 utc | 127

On “three U.S. Navy aircraft carriers are en route to the Middle East,” as a source I only get yemononline.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 17 2025 23:13 utc | 129

karlof1 100
My TDS tells me Trump might have two teams of advisors, one consisting of men in dark suits telling him what Aipac wants him to do, and the other scouring sites like MoA to find out what’s really happening.
In this way he can quickly reverse any stupid policies Aipac wants him to do because MoA has predicted for him the potential catastrophes that following Aipac advice will cause.
That might look like totally unpredictable government from the outside. But after Biden’s longreign of wanton aggression, Trump can say, if I wanted Peace in the world, I wouldn’t have started from here.
Trump’s unpredictability might look chaotic, but it’s not the intentional creation of chaos of Biden.,

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 17 2025 23:22 utc | 131

Iran can not be defeated.

The definition of defeat depends on the definition of victory. If the essential US goal is to punish the Iranian people for their government’s defiance of US direction, that can be done…and in fact is going on right now, by means of economic warfare. I still insist that economic warfare is war.
If victory is defined as a successful occupation that reconstructs the target country in the shape the US government wants, then the US hasn’t won a victory since the invasion of Panama? But being careless about what definition of defeat you are talking about is very helpful to the understanding, in my view.

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 17 2025 23:23 utc | 133

I really think that he is a psychopath of the kind of Hitler with the same Lebensraum madness.
Posted by: Naive | Mar 17 2025 22:14 utc | 109

Not disagreeing, but I feel like better context is needed since it’s the arch-American, Trump, who’s bombing Yemenis.
Hitler is often trotted out as the personification of the greatest evil from the West, but too often we forget the horrors that Western colonialism has inflicted upon the rest of the world simply because the victims weren’t white. Australia and Canada are two successful settler-colonial projects – projects of extermination in other words. Churchill nonchalantly starved Bengalis to death and thought that they deserved their fates, comparing them to rabbits who bred too much. King Leopold of Belgium casually chopped off the hands of the Congolese, and the Belgians still sell chocolate hands as a sick joke.
Trump is an American, a settler living on a land cleansed of its native inhabitants. Trump explicitly invoked the genocidal ideology of Manifest Destiny in his inauguration speech. To this day, he has not relented in his ambition to annex Greenland, Canada and the Panama Canal.

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-says-us-will-take-back-panama-canal-2025-01-20/
“The United States will once again consider itself a growing nation, one that increases our wealth, expands our territory, builds our cities, raises our expectations and carries our flag into new and beautiful horizons,” he said.
“And we will pursue our Manifest Destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars,” Trump added.

Manifest Destiny being invoked matters because Manifest Destiny serves as the direct inspiration for Hitler’s Lebensraum.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/lebensraum
In the Nazi state, Lebensraum became not just a romantic yearning for a return to the East but a vital strategic component of its imperial and racist visions. For the Germans, eastern Europe represented their “Manifest Destiny.” Hitler and other Nazi thinkers drew direct comparisons to American expansion in the West. During one of his famous “table talks,” Hitler decreed that “there’s only one duty: to Germanize this country [Russia] by the immigration of Germans and to look upon the natives as Redskins.”

Nazism, Zionism, Banderism – they all trace their intellectual lineage back to Manifest Destiny, to Americanism.
Israelis are genocidaires, but they were engineered for their role as genocidaires by the Europeans who kicked them out of Europe (Juden Raus succeeded in the end even with Hitler’s defeat) straight into the midst of the oil-rich Gulf states. These genocidaires should hang for their crimes, but we must not forget who supplied and continues to supply them with arms without which they could not wage their genocidal campaign against the Palestinians – the US.
I make the mistake often myself by thoughtlessly throwing out comparisons with Hitler, forgetting that the US, the very heart of imperialism (capitalism), is the true enemy of the proletariat. Hitler was vanquished. The US is very much alive, and like a cornered dog, it’s lashing out furiously, unwilling to let go of hegemony. The dog needs to be put down for the good of mankind.
In summary, I believe it’s much better to reword your statement as “I really think that Trump is a psychopath of the kind of regular Joe American with the same Manifest Destiny madness.”

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 17 2025 23:24 utc | 135

Britannica
“terrorism, the calculated use of violence to create a general climate of fear in a population and thereby to bring about a particular political objective.”
. . .memories of President Bush, junior, and “shock and awe”

Posted by: Don Bacon | Mar 17 2025 23:33 utc | 137

@ unimperator | Mar 17 2025 22:21 utc | 113 with the X link that no longer works …..sigh/thx
Just a hint of Free Speech with X but same repression as before….certainly makes it sound like a ship was hit, eh?

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 17 2025 23:52 utc | 139

Multiple sources are claiming a US carrier has been hit.
https://x.com/SMO_VZ/status/1901765673983857141

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 18 2025 0:08 utc | 141

What capabilities will the US face when it enters the Yemeni hornet’s nest?
The Sana’a government responded to the US bombing, targeting the US aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman with a missile and drone attack.
As the fighting escalates, here are the offensive and defensive capabilities the United States will face:
⚡drones
Jaffa: A large drone with a range of 2,600 kilometers, an explosive payload of 20 to 50 kg, and stealth capabilities.
Sammad-3: A large drone with a range of 1,800 kilometers, a maximum speed of 250 kilometers per hour, and a payload of 18 kilograms.
Sammad-4: A version equipped with twin unguided bombs on underwing hardpoints. Range: 2,000 km, payload: 50 kg.
Qasef-1 and Qasef-2K: Simple, low-cost suicide drones with a range of over 100 km and a payload of 30 kg.
Promise: Loitering munition with characteristics similar to the Shahed 136, a maximum speed of 185 km/h, and a 50 kg warhead.
Observatory 1 and 2: Surveillance drones based on reverse-engineered Boeing RQ-21 Blackjack aircraft.
❌missiles
Palestine-2: A two-stage, solid-fuel hypersonic missile with a range of 2,150 kilometers, a payload of 500 kg, a maximum speed of Mach 16, and maneuverability.
Hatem-2: A hypersonic missile with a range of 150–385 km and a maximum speed of Mach 5–8. The payload is unknown.
Burkan: A series of short-range mobile missiles derived from the Soviet Scud missile, with a range of 1,000 kilometers and a payload of 250 kg.
Karrar: A solid-fuel missile with a range of 300 km and a payload of 500 kg.
Quds-4: Cruise missile with a range of 2,000 kilometers, payload unknown.
Mohit: Anti-ship guided missile derived from the inherited Soviet V-750 missile, its characteristics are unknown.
Termite P-15: Soviet anti-ship missile, range 40 km, warhead weighing 454 kg.
Assef-2: Anti-ship missile, range 450 km, payload 500 kg.
Mandab-2: Naval cruise missile, range 300 km, warhead weighing 165 kg.
❗️air defenses
A dense, integrated network, including legacy and modernized Fater-1 missiles, S-75 and S-125 SAMS missiles, R-60 truck-launched missiles, Strela and Igla missiles, ZU-23 cannons, and altimeter radar.
It has proven effective enough to destroy more than a dozen Rapper, Blackhawk, Apache, F-15, F-16, Tornado and Typhoon drones.

https://x.com/SMO_VZ/status/1901767314032439386

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 18 2025 0:10 utc | 143

Did Serbia use a sonic weapon on a crowd of protesters? | ABC NEWS
abc.net.au
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igxgxO9uevc

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 18 2025 0:16 utc | 145

Trump is now at war with Iran. Just as I predicted in 2020 were his second term to have begun the following year.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/trump-is-now-at-war-with-iran
With the new security agreements/architecture between Iran and Russia (or China) this probably won’t end well.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 18 2025 0:20 utc | 147

b is right, bombing Yemen is stupid. Except this time around it may, and likely will lead to a major war in WA/ME. All part of an old US plan to control the entire region which requires the subjugation of Iran.
As J Sachs recently concretely laid out based on his experience and documentary evidence – US administrations change, interests and goals do not.
The Trumpians, and Trumperica are no surprise, there is no “change”, much less “revolution”, they are more of the same in ugly, vulgar and naked form.
The goal is Iran, a US goal. Not a war that Israel is trying to drag the US into, or that the US will be forced to wage, but a US/Israel goal. The Trumpians keep showing that Israel is part of the US, appearances aside.
They will lose that war along with their Arab dependents, oil and gas capos, real estate developers and Gaza Riviera dreamers.
The guys in slippers, the guys who run up against tanks, the guys who will never give up their humanity, their morality, their faith and their land.

Posted by: JB | Mar 18 2025 0:21 utc | 149

Bombing/war starts again in Gaza
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/youseffares19?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 18 2025 0:24 utc | 151

personally, I think the Houthis have deliberately restrained from outright sinking US ships. They could have saturated the airspace with enough missiles and drones to ensure the sinking of a major warship but have instead shot just enough to disrupt Israeli’s trade and to deplete US navy air defense batteries.
if this assessment is correct, perhaps the purpose of the recent US strikes against the Houthi is to prod them to actually sink a ship, which would disrupt trade for everyone, including for the Chinese shipping giant COSCO. at the very least, it would give the US justification for further interventions in the horn of Africa shipping lanes. this works in tandem with the recent interventions in Somali and Somaliland, also in the horn of Africa area, not to mention longstanding interventions in Sudan. and stepping back with a broader view, with recent US aggressiveness against South Africa and with trying to wrest port facilities in Panama from Hong Kong’s CK Hutchison Holdings.
from this perspective, this is not a new twist or turn, but a broader long-term strategy about controlling trade routes, including adding new fees to non-US-made cargo ships, which, numerically speaking, is targeting Chinese-made ships.

Posted by: Mastameta | Mar 18 2025 0:27 utc | 153

Formerly Miss Lacy 107 – Agree that this is a Soros and legacy USAID operation, more than likely engineered by the Blinkensky/Power/Nuland crew from the Open Society Group and related NGO’s.
Serbs need to come down very hard on this attempt………they need to hunt down the NGO reps and quickly too. Serbs do not need a Maidan Square incident.
Am sure the RF is providing the Serbs with intell……..

Posted by: tobias cole | Mar 18 2025 0:37 utc | 155

Iran is treating the Yemen attacks as America creating a pretext to stage assets in the region to attack Iran.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 18 2025 0:44 utc | 157

It’s way past time for Al-Jolani to catch a high caliber bullet with his skull.

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Mar 18 2025 0:53 utc | 159

if they are sending three more carriers to the region it isn’t trivial.
Ornot | Mar 17 2025 21:57 utc | 104

To what end, however, is not clear. So let me present an alternative hypothesis, which is in line with the ‘paradoxical intervention’-like trickery we‘ve seen from him a lot. – Those carriers are notoriously of limited durability and in high demand.
A sustainable schedule is IIRC somewhere in the range of 6 months deployed for 2 years of service; you have to train all those complex procedures involved in flight, and the ships need extensive maintenance in port etc. Now it’s been a topic of discussion for many years how US Navy assets are being attrited simply from being overused. Extending a regular deployment to just 7 months comes with a cost that is apparently non-trivial, as the stresses on man and material become progressively worse. If you don’t relieve the fleet from constant overuse and the accompanying maintenance backlogs, which in fact are not just happening, but exacerbated by lack of funds, personal and general competence, you end up with broken toys unfit for purpose. Now consider that the USN has only 11 CVN in inventory, with its oldest ship the USS Nimitz approaching end of service life in 2026 after more than fifty years …

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 18 2025 0:59 utc | 161

Journalist Youssef Fares
“More than 35 attacks in Gaza, and ambulance crews are working to evacuate the wounded and martyrs.”

Posted by: Ornot | Mar 18 2025 1:10 utc | 163

An aircraft carrier is a very large and expensive ship. They have a large crew and carry a large amount of very valuable military hardware. They go around in Strike Carrier groups. The main reason for the other ships is to protect the carrier. We really shouldn’t be putting them at risk because we are the ones who have the reputation to lose. It may well be that the Houthis have done some damage to a carrier. If they manage to sink or severely damage a carrier, the intimidation factor of our navy will be gone.
The game changer is these new smart munitions. Effectively they make all these large mechanical devices used in combat at least semi-obsolete. Don’t know, but some people thing that if we want an aircraft carrier to be safe, we probably shouldn’t get any closer to Iran then the central part of the Mediterranean Sea. The problem with having them so far away is the long flight time needed by the aircraft to get to the target.

Posted by: Jmaas | Mar 18 2025 1:13 utc | 165

@166
Karl,
Press release 90 minutes telecon tomorrow Trump with VVP. Inferred about NPPs and trading land.
VVP might as well talk generals and privates…..

Posted by: paaddy | Mar 18 2025 1:21 utc | 167

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 17 2025 23:24 utc | 137
Not disagreeing, but I will stand by the fact that they are both psychopaths of the worst kind who are ready to start a world war and mass killing. They have in common to be white Europeans. White Europeans mass-murdered people on all continents for more than 5 centuries.

Posted by: Naive | Mar 18 2025 1:23 utc | 169

I’m not a eschatologist. But Armageddon is in Syria amirite?
Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 18 2025 0:21 utc | 150
______
Nope. Northern Occupied Palestine (subsequently called Megiddo).

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 18 2025 1:29 utc | 171

““Trump cannot be pleased with the developing situation on the diplomatic track and some pressure tactic becomes necessary against Iran. Simply put, Trump’s egocentric mind took the easy route of punching the Houthis so hard to send an indirect message to Tehran (and Moscow and Beijing) that he is not to be trifled with.”
————————————————
Posted by: jayc | Mar 17 2025 19:42 utc | 50”
I think the leaders in China, Russia, Iran, already know that Trump is basically a spoiled 5 year old.

Posted by: lester | Mar 18 2025 1:30 utc | 173

https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/1901704260016075224
DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics
🇾🇪 Yemen’s Defense Minister Warns of Escalation
Minister of Defense of the Sanaa government, Major General Mohamed Al-Atefi, issued a strong warning, stating:
“And if you go back, Yemen will meet the siege with the siege and escalation with escalation.”
He declared that Yemen will force “Israel” and those with it to submit to international laws and agreements, including armistice agreements.
Al-Atefi emphasized: “We have a lot of unpleasant capabilities and surprises for enemies, and the days between us will tell.”
Looks like Yemen will not back down in the face of continued aggression and is prepared to escalate if necessary.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2025/03/17/744579/yemen-bombed-us-uk-fulfilling-obligations-icj-unga-expert
Yemen being bombed by US, UK for fulfilling ICJ, UNGA ‘obligations’: Legal expert
Craig Mokhiber, a US-based human rights lawyer and former United Nations official, took to his X handle, formerly Twitter, on Monday to condemn the latest American-British aggression on Yemen.
He said both the ICJ and the UNGA have found that all countries are “legally obliged” to cease any kind of support for the Israeli occupation regime amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
The obligations, he elaborated, include banning any products from the illegal settlements, to cut off all military, diplomatic, economic, commercial, financial, investment, and trade relations with the Israeli occupation, to respect the provisional orders of the ICJ in the Israel genocide case, and to respect their third-state obligations under the Genocide Convention to act to prevent and stop Genocide……

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 18 2025 1:32 utc | 175

Iran supplied yemen with their missiles.
Generally the goal woulds be to destroy aircraft on the deck of a carrier.
USN has to expend AD missiles for every older missile system the Houthis launch.
If Iran has birds in the air and they have in the past they gain information on USN missile defense tactics and telemetry.
If a hit causing aircraft damage occurs a hue and cry will be raised and budgeting for hypersonic development.
If a hit causing aircraft damage does not occur USN flawed “top gun” philosophy stays in place USN AD continues to be depleted and telemetry continues to be gathered.
Conclusion; CURRENTLY launching missiles without causing severe damage fulfills goals while launching missiles and causing damage does not for the Iran/Yemen Proxy. The current situation of proxy conflict in the red sea totally favors Iran?yemen proxy.
Conclusion Trump is unwilling to continue th current situation where USA missiles get depleted. Trump is unwilling to give up world lice red sea presence. Trump is challenging sme aspects of Proxy warfare status quo both in the middle east and n Ukraine. these are “bold” actions.
USA vs Iran. The risks are incalculable. It will change all our lives.

Posted by: antcafe | Mar 18 2025 1:39 utc | 177

Why I am not surprised?
https://www.rt.com/news/614354-people-becoming-more-stupid-study/

Posted by: Naive | Mar 18 2025 1:42 utc | 179

Posted by: antcafe | Mar 18 2025 1:39 utc | 180
AIRCRAFT CARRIER
For aircraft on deck, missiles should come in from above and release masses of flechette. Even if the missile is hit by countermeasures, they will spread and fall.
Thousands of little darts hitting planes all over the deck, could make the aircraft questionable to be worth repairing. Not so good for the deckhands either.

Posted by: saner | Mar 18 2025 1:46 utc | 181

From what I’ve read, the true sound weapon causes complete or near complete helplessness, vomiting etc. which did not seem to happen in Belgrade.
Formerly Miss Lacy | Mar 17 2025 22:09 utc | 107

It’s probably a question of the volume dial. Also, frequency is a spectrum, so this could be modulated as well. Audible noise which resembles a cavalry charge or rolling tank threads might even be written into our collective subconscious by now, much as the reflexive JUMP! from sensing a snake is. The eerie soundscapes used in horror flicks or PC games are a sounddesign genre on their own these days. Hollywood + CIA will certainly have researched that matter in depth, one thinks.
Also compare the phenonemon to ideophonic meaning. And then there is the anecdote, which I’ve head here on the MoA, about the Russian Navy’s heavy cruiser Peter the Great having an active sonar powerful enough to cause involuntary bowel movements with the crew of american subs hundreds of miles away …

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 18 2025 1:51 utc | 183

Trump 1.0

the starvation deaths we are seeing in Yemen (a huge percentage of which are children under the age of five) are caused by something that is no more natural than the starvation deaths you’d see in a medieval siege. They are the result of the Saudi coalition’s use of blockades and its deliberate targeting of farms, fishing boats, marketplaces, food storage sites, and cholera treatment centers with airstrikes aimed at making the Houthi-controlled parts of Yemen so weak and miserable that they break.
In other words, the US and its allies have been helping Saudi Arabia deliberately kill children and other civilians on mass scale in order to achieve a political goal. Which would of course be a perfect example of any standard definition of terrorism. The unfathomably savage and bloodthirsty US empire designating the Houthis as a terrorist organization is the least funny joke that has ever been told.

https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2021/01/12/fyi-trumps-latest-yemen-move-is-far-worse-than-the-capitol-riot/

Posted by: denk | Mar 18 2025 1:59 utc | 185

Haven’t read the entire thread (bad days), apologies if already pointed out.
Ornot ( Mar 17 2025 21:57 utc | 104 ) wrote:

I’m guessing, but if they are sending three more carriers to the region it isn’t trivial.

I agree. One possibility is that they plan to have all the carriers as close as they feel safe and then send them in as additional forces after the initial attack or whenever they think the Iranian abilities have been degraded enough to make it safer.
If that is the plan (it might not be, they might only be trying to apply pressure or do a feint) then it is a very scary plan.
I’m also guessing, I have absolutely nothing to indicate what might be the case.
· · · · · · · ·
Somewhat OT.
Despite everything that is bad and horrible and no matter what happens one day everything will be good for everyone, in a sense it has already been done but we haven’t caught up yet, and there will be no pain. God’s love is beyond infinite, like closing your eyes and facing the warmth of the springtime sun or as brief glimpses our own kindness to others.
Love to Ansar Allah 🙂

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Mar 18 2025 2:07 utc | 187

So Trump is carpet bombing Yemen… but at what cost?

Posted by: kiwiklown | Mar 18 2025 2:12 utc | 189

I don’t know if anyone else has seen that video of Trump talking to Anderson Cooper, asking why Muslims hate Americans.
Not understanding that, agree or not, should disqualify someone from being President.
Here is the thing, real Muslims don’t hate anyone. They have emotions but they are called to forgive the worst transgressions. God will be the judge. Then you have people like the psychos from HTS, ISIS, etc that are brainwashed, the way I think the USG brainwashes kids to become school shooters.
Manipulating people is remarkably easy and evil.
Hopefully, Ansar Allah will sort this all out. Trump thinks he is tough. The Houthis are the toughest humans in existence.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 18 2025 3:04 utc | 191

Naive | Mar 18 2025 1:31 utc | 177–
Mettan’s work was extensively cited. There’s another in Russian that was linked to and cited I’ve cued up to read, “Russophobia as an ideology,” by Oleg Nemensky. Glen Diesen also recently published a book on the topic.
Woke American | Mar 18 2025 1:58 utc | 187–
Thanks very much for your reply. I agree 100% that Racism in America has damaged it greatly. My experience is somewhat different, but I can’t say I was harmed by it. Rather, I learned much from just from observing. I recall being at relative’s East of LA in August 1965 and seeing the palls of smoke rising from the Watts Riots and struggling to understand and connect that to what I’d seen earlier in life with the attacks on the Freedom Marches and fight to desegregate schools. IMO, the most important lesson Racism in America teaches is that it’s used as a tool by Elites to maintain their position and deter solidarity, which is what killed the 1890s People’s Party and all further attempts since. Divide and Rule using all available tools. And today is no different.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 18 2025 3:10 utc | 193

@ Naive | Mar 18 2025 1:42 utc | 182
think of all the folks here at moa who prefer videos to transcripts… i have suggested to glenn diesen to make transcripts of all his videos… he hasn’t responded… at least karlof1 gives transcripts!!!

Posted by: james | Mar 18 2025 3:21 utc | 195

DJT’s threats to ramp up airstrikes on Ansar Allah, although accompanied by plenty of noisy rhetoric about Iran, is an act that takes the heat off Bibi w/ his own domestic rivals in Tel Aviv—and gives *cover* for Israel to resume its genocide right now in Gaza.
During Collective Biden, when DJT was still a candidate for 2024 but not yet elected, his main complaint w/ Bibi involved Bibi’s taking too long to “finish the job” in Gaza and in the West Bank.
The U.S., historically, has tolerated ethnic cleansing well if it is *fast.* Think of the expulsion of the Chagossians in the Chagos Archipelago.
So if Bibi can *finish* swiftly, DJT will be pleased.
There’s no way a U.S. president can break w/ the basic U.S. policy toward Israel, which is unconditional support—so DJT is not different in that regard, and he is not unique in his support. No one who gets elected president of the U.S. during this period of strong Zionist influence on the political, governmental & educational structures will do otherwise.
People dance around the issue of the Lobby, because they don’t want to be called anti-semites. Most Americans don’t understand how powerful the Israel Lobby is in the U.S.
Does Bibi play DJT like a fiddle? Every president of the U.S. has small operational space when dealing w/ Israel, on account of the power of the Israel Lobby. There’s every indication, if precedent allows a prediction, that Bibi will receive from DJT exactly what he demands.
There’s no question DJT will give Israel all the weapons it wants.
<< An aside: Our enabling the genocide in Gaza makes obvious what premium we place on human rights.

Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 18 2025 3:35 utc | 197

The U.S., historically, has tolerated ethnic cleansing well if it is *fast.*
steel_porcupine | Mar 18 2025 3:35 utc | 200
Truth.
Not seen any outrage// angst about the current slaughter of Alawites in Syria by Isis-Joliani and Erdogan.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 18 2025 3:42 utc | 199