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!!!
james | Mar 18 2025 3:21 utc | 198

I can’t handle video to such a degree that I don’t even know what the state of the art is concerning AI extraction of transcript, but I’d assume this would be a feasible thing to some degree, at least in principle.
One of the more astounding things I saw in folks who are a mere ten to fifteen years younger than me, but grew up with smartphones and internet from about reading age, is their use of “time to distance” information. They use minutes instead of kilometers! By any means, that is a composite, made up by computing length and velocity … or perhaps it just should be, to my understanding?! If the Maps AI knows my walking habits (fast), then, well – ?!?
One of the more interesting things about video is that it allows you to experience great teachers, which comes in quite handy in maths and physics of all things. Or watching a 4km train leisurely creeping through scenery in Canada. Or documenting a live performance by some musicians, as I found out recently. Or watching ostensible missile hits in the Red Sea, to go back on topic.
[jukebox] Prong – Beg to Differ (full album)

Posted by: persiflo | Mar 18 2025 4:16 utc | 203

Trump and Republican can abandon Ukraine Neonazi, but can not ignore Zionist Israel.
As long as there are tensions between Israel and Iran, the US cannot relax its confrontational stance with Iran.
I think.

Posted by: Nokaz | Mar 18 2025 4:29 utc | 205

Savanarole@1856 St.Paddy’s Day
Bingo! Nailed it! Perfect depiction of the R.o.W. acceleration attitude to this ruptured republic.

Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 18 2025 4:30 utc | 207

I think the attacks on Yemen are an attempt to get Iran to intervene to save them, which Trump would spin into a casus belli to have an all-out war and get the American Hoi polloi behind a war against the Persians.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 18 2025 4:30 utc | 209z
Yep.
Again, though, IMHO it is far better for Trump to FAFO with the Houthis before engaging Iran and taking a real beating. The longer Yemen remains undefeated the more the US military’s weaknesses are exposed. The myth of western supremacy needs to die quickly for the multipolar world to fully be realized without nukes flying.

Posted by: TJandTheBear | Mar 18 2025 4:41 utc | 209

B: “The system is acting up”. Could it just possibly be hacktivities? It would require a mass of connexions to out the actual perp if that is the case. Several suspects would be on the list of bad guys.

Posted by: aristodemos | Mar 18 2025 4:49 utc | 211

Iran military: we will show less restraint this time
Cue + post threatened vid
https://x.com/IRIran_Military/status/1901784036886065653
Is that how WW3 starts? Because of someone’s shitpost on xwitter ?

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 18 2025 5:34 utc | 213

The real face of Trump comes out more and more
Peace president my ass
He is compromised that’s definitely a fact
Mossad has Videos of younger Trump they got them probably from Epstein or by other means
He will destroy the middle east as a starter and then probably the rest of the planet

Posted by: MikeBA | Mar 18 2025 5:41 utc | 215

Douglas Macgregor says the US sank an Iranian vessel.
I saw reports much earlier today, but the rebuttals convinced me it wasn’t correct.
Anything more than xwitter / telegram as sources?
https://x.com/DougAMacgregor/status/1901833354934137186

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 18 2025 6:05 utc | 217

George Papadupe:
https://x.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1901827115311333488
(Again. Not really a reliable source)

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 18 2025 6:08 utc | 219

Posted by: MikeBA | Mar 18 2025 5:41 utc | 218
#########
I think that like many Americans, Trump is a true believer. He sees the American story of exceptionalism in the Jews, as he sees it in America. That they had to murder those indigenous people to make way for the more superior colonials. That is progress, the strong over the weak.
I hope that “law of the jungle” lesson sinks in over the next 2 weeks in the Middle East. America scares very few people today. I mean, it is scary because it is arbitrary and inconsistent, not because it is powerful. The Navy is rotting and lacks the necessary support craft.
Trump’s not being blackmailed. He legitimately sees Arabs, Africans, and Asians as inferior people. He sees NY Ashkenazi Jews as the best of humanity. He was so proud of Ivanka converting and marrying Jared Kushner.
He also makes that joke about Schumer being a Palestinian and not a “real Jew”.
Anyway, whatever Trump is really about, I do not care. I just want Ansar Allah to give him a bloody nose and some public embarrassment. Maybe Putin too, although VVP is kind and professional to a fault. He will use Lavrov and Peskov to deliver tough messages. A bit of Medvedev too.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 18 2025 6:14 utc | 221

Russia,China,N Korea and Iran all have domestic military industries and are largely self reliant. Fighting each one sequentially is a good way to erode your own military as the US is finding out. Will the US military replace stocks donated to Ukraine before attacking Iran?
I can’t imagine a war against Iran affecting supplies to China much, as the BRI and north-south corridors purpose is to increase rail/land transport capacity. Trump said he is talking to countries about inspecting Iranian shipping going through the Malacca Straits, but I don’t think Indonesia, Malaysia or Singapore with go against BRICS+ and China.

Posted by: smallfrog | Mar 18 2025 6:22 utc | 223

There are 3 more major US naval assets deployed on the east coast. 2 Carriers and whatever a LHD is.
https://news.usni.org/category/fleet-tracker
ME will go up in flames. Even more so than it already has.

Posted by: darkmoon | Mar 18 2025 7:12 utc | 225

https://robcampbell.substack.com/p/disappointed-in-you-orange-man-760

Posted by: The Busker | Mar 18 2025 7:30 utc | 227

Posted by: Saag | Mar 17 2025 18:26 utc | 1
>>>
Like Whitehall, every two years or so, new furniture arrives and some paint work get done in some cold alleys and wide staircases.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 18 2025 7:40 utc | 229

Trump was elected on a peace platform, like Zelensky. The whole world rallied behind Trump, because “he was shot at by the Deep State” in the lamest fake assassination theater in history. Heartwarming! But hey, sheep better believe the government. A fake shooting with a bit of red paint, and elon posting a few things on twitter that the twitter algorithm said would be popular, and all is okay now. ALL is okay. All the wars are okay, because trump and elon are our guys. The next pandemic and the schwab stuff are now okay, because it’s trump and elon doing them.
Now they say that all of Biden’s orders were signed by a machine, so they’re invalid. Hear that? All the jews are absolved of any responsibility now. It was a machine! You can’t blame trump, nuland, bourla, zelensky, netanyahu, or the fake new leader of Syria whose real name is yonatan zvi-david – you can’t blame them for anything because everything was signed by a machine mimicking the signature of whatever actor was playing joe biden.
Let them be. They’re not responsible.
Next they do it all again to you.

Posted by: Jack M | Mar 18 2025 7:55 utc | 231

Ah got up too early and started catching up – the horror of dozens of air strikes – those ‘people’ ain’t … normal. They have a death wish it seems. ‘Kill me or else!’ Is what I am seeing and hearing coming out of that fake bastard imperial child.
Which leads to the following for all barflies but inspired by specific posters.
@ Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 18 2025 6:14 utc | 224
Posted by: lester | Mar 18 2025 1:30 utc | 176
“I think the leaders in China, Russia, Iran, already know that Trump is basically a spoiled 5 year “
Posted by: Jmaas | Mar 18 2025 1:59 utc | 189
“We are self terminating ourselves both in numbers and ability.”
Such self awareness beginning is an optimistic sign but let’s not count our chickens eh?
America is a spoilt 5 year old
Britain is a spoilt 20 year old
Europe is a syphilitic 30 year old
Switzerland is the pimp who owns the brothels.
EurAsia is the Mother and Father of them all
Africa is the grandaddy and mammy of the lot of us all.
The ages come and go, they will come around – maybe in centuries definitely in Millenia. All we need to do is avoid the fate of the past eons when all that was left of humanity ended up as aboriginals with their songs.
This constant battle to get on top of the bones of humanity to build a castle a top of it is CHILDISH.
It is only to make a spoilt brat feel better and have it all – regardles of whether it will make it sick with stuffing itself with ice cream till it bursts and give it shits for days.
As the senior adults, Russia the blushing bride and husband of the Post Roman Empire; China and India and Persia the proud elders and Africa in reincarnation, it is important to not strike down and annihilate the unruly children.
It is important to have patience and raise them to understand the error of their impetuousness. Their pathetic childish supremacist demands. Their crying and crying and tantrums until they get their way!
But when such a child fails to grow up correctly, or becomes a psychopathic teenager – not swiftly moving on from taunting and torturing smaller kids and animals – becoming a fratricidal, matricidal, genocidal, mass murdering freak – then it behooves the elders, to restrain physically, such a crazed family member, to look after them securely, so they don’t do harm and can live out their lives in isolation.
Or failing that there is only a judicial ultimate fate for the good of everyone else – as when a dog is rabid. As it is doing with the insane mass murder of defenceless Palestinians, as it did with the Syrians, Iraqis, Libyans , Afghani, Asians and Africans through the ages and the genocide of native Americans north and south.
This morning with the rabid illegal apartheid entities crazed ravenous attacks again. Using the cover of the US naval forces and Euro brats.
That phone call that Humpty Drumpffty has demanded to make with VVP is not going to turn out as he expects. He will be speaking to the multipolar elders.
Stop it now and go straight to your rooms and stay there or else!
There is no more time.
The clock has tik-tok to the last.
Understand.
‘The ball is in our court’

Posted by: DunGroanin | Mar 18 2025 8:41 utc | 233

whaddayaknow, Another graduate of GITMO, School of Reprogrammed terrarists !
https://www.sott.net/article/308497-Fighting-for-Uncle-Sam-Former-Gitmo-prisoner-becomes-Al-Qaeda-in-Yemen-leader

Posted by: denk | Mar 18 2025 8:53 utc | 235

An old post of mine as a reminder:
02.10.2024
Suggestions for keeping with proper perspective (and abandoning the illogical and counter-factual cliché that Israel drives US policy when it has always been, and is a tool of US policy):
– ‘Imperialism is afraid of China and of the Arabs. Israel and Formosa [Taiwan] are bases of imperialism in Asia. You are the gate of the great continent, and we are the rear. They created Israel for you, and Formosa for us. Their goal is the same.’ Mao in 1965 to a PLO delegation
– The current actions of the United States in the Middle East are part of a strategy presented for years to dominate the large space on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, which includes Syria, Iraq and whose main objective is Iran.
To achieve this goal, the United States needs a secure and absolutely dedicated base and that base is Israel. The actions that the United States is developing through the Israelis in Palestine and Lebanon — the genocide of the Palestinians and the destruction of what remains of Lebanon — are intended to create a situation in which Israel does not have to share means and forces to ensure its internal domain with disruptors such as the Palestinian resistance movements and can focus on the main objective, that of serving as a base of attack — or bridgehead — in the attack on Iran. The elimination of the Palestinians — under any pretext, be it Hamas or the quality of the water in the Jordan — as well as the absolute control of Lebanon have the purpose of preparing the attack on Iran and this attack must be carried out before it has access to nuclear capability and an effective anti-aircraft protection shield.

Carlos Matos Gomes
retired military, historian
https://cmatosgomes46.medium.com/na-periferia-do-imp%C3%A9rio-e-da-sorte-3e9369219e45
– For those who haven’t, I highly recommend again the superb extensive analysis of Fadi Lama: Showdown at Sunset, on his substack.
https://fadilama.substack.com/p/showdown-at-sunset?publication_id=2335947&post_id=149552430&isFreemail=true&r=1zj7w9&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
Posted by: JB | Oct 2 2024 12:23 utc | 100

Posted by: JB | Mar 18 2025 9:31 utc | 237

“Most Americans don’t understand how powerful the Israel Lobby is in the U.S. ”
Posted by: steel_porcupine | Mar 18 2025 3:35 utc | 200
Yes everybody keeps saying that and the idea is that some $100M to the parliamentarians is enough to make the US ship turn against the wishes of the population.
But no it isnt the parliamentarians except the presidential candidates. They probably get a much higher sum
But even so, is it high enough to change US foreign policy?
If that is the case then the US foreign policy could be bought from the rival nations. But that doesnt happen to such an extent that it turns the direction of the US ship. So the US performs the foreign policy that benefits the oligarchy and the parliamentarians get some bonus money.
The Israel project and the creation of zionism and nazism were all intended to cause a division between the financiers and the imperial rivals.
That meant that the financiers must be dependent on the empire to babysit Israel. If the empire doesnt continue to do that the financiers might decide to let Israel disappear or change sides.
Those who accussed Russia for interference in the US elections never touch the issue of how much money was expended on that interference compared with the money the oligarchy makes via the imperial foreign policy.
This lack of objectivity doesnt seem innocent to me. I dont think all the analysts would have failed to do that by mistake, It is just very dishonest.
Everything surrounding the Israel project and many other imperial moves is deceptive. People seem to accept every such con game at face value, never doubting it.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Mar 18 2025 10:08 utc | 239

Time for Russia to give Ansar Allah some hypersonic missiles.
Or is Trump using the possibility/threat of war on them as blackmail for a ukraine deal?
Posted by: Ed Bernays | Mar 17 2025 20:23 utc | 70

Trump’s involvement in Yemen is owed to his zionist instincts and unrelated to the Ukraine conflict. Russia is very well advised not to get involved in the new conflict, not rhetorically, let alone by sending arms to Iran/Yemen. Trump is the type of guy who very much depends on applause by his audience – but, what happens if things are not going his way, is pretty much uncharted territory…

Posted by: grunzt | Mar 18 2025 10:44 utc | 241

Posted by: Mary | Mar 18 2025 1:02 utc | 164
Not Quran. It is in the Hadith. Quran contains God’s words.

Posted by: sal | Mar 18 2025 11:12 utc | 243

Posted by: berthold | Mar 18 2025 8:16 utc | 235
“Note:
With Trump, you should get used to thinking outside the box and being unlogical.
The contradictions in his decisions have noticeably increased in this short time.”
Thank you b
and Berthold
No you do not have to think outside the box. It’s all in the open. Yeman is the only nation that poses any treath to Israel/ City of London’s Thallasocracy. Iran have not striked back at Israel as they promised.
Yemen first, hhile taking on Yemen, Syria and Lebanon and mayby some part of Iraq will be wrapped up.
Then mayby Iran. Iran has backed down once before and will do it again under threath or a limited attack.
Ukraine will go on, to much invested there. They are struggelig to launch/insert western controlled troops in there, maybe Turkish/Bangaladeshi/Afgani/Phillipine( South Africa/ peacekeepers under western controll?
Not to hard to unwrap

Posted by: Paul from Norway | Mar 18 2025 11:19 utc | 245

Posted by: sal | Mar 18 2025 11:12 utc | 246
Correct. I meant to type Islam says…

Posted by: Mary | Mar 18 2025 11:24 utc | 247

grunzt | Mar 18 2025 11:31 utc | 251
“You got a point there – still I don’t see how you’ll keep us out of WW3 while this Ukraine issue is not resolved. Still I’m treating DT like a mental case…the whole of US is a mental case. Actually, the same applies to Brussels these days…”
One thing that’s certain is that the “resistance” won’t prevent WWIII through appeasement of these malevolent mental cases. That especially includes the hang-separately mentality which so far is the default across the board – Iran mustn’t fight alongside the Palestinians, Russia mustn’t fight alongside Iran, China mustn’t fight alongside Russia, as long as it’s someone else then the fence is the right place to sit…

Posted by: Flying Dutchman | Mar 18 2025 11:50 utc | 249

Has Telegram been attacked? UK here.
“This site can’t be reached. t.me took too long to respond.”

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Mar 18 2025 12:16 utc | 251

The cunt is 80 in June. Keep working the bastard 16 hours a day until he drops down dead of a heart attack on a golf course. Then bury the arsehole in one of his bunkers.
With his arse sticking out of the sand. To give other golfers somewhere they can park their bikes.

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 18 2025 12:19 utc | 253

Posted by: Boardindundee | Mar 17 2025 18:29 utc | 2
— Mossad is supplying the Houthi,s with intel on US shipping
<= Israel supplies Houthi with coordinates used to sink US Carrier Whitehouse blames Iran WWIII Posted by: Hot Carl | Mar 17 2025 18:55 utc | 16 If the people of Yemen are ever allowed to own the natural resources, they can bankrupt the US oil majors. <= very interesting. what year did the British start their attack on Yemen to steal its oil and gas resources? Everywhere there are substantial oil and gas reserves you find the Brit imposed chaos with purpose to cloud that the Brits are using the chaos to gain command and control authority over the politics that controls the oil and gas in that target place or nation? Its a pattern.. first revealed to me in studying how the Bolshevik revolution was accomplished. The Brits used their control over the USA to force American incomes to be used to service European banks WWI loans and they used their control over the USA to force Americans to fight the British instigated WWI.. and WWII.. The Brits invented Israel and they use it to control by proxy the USA. Apparently, many US Oil majors are controlled for the most part by the City of London and their NYC proxy: Wall Street. The bombing of Yemen is an oil and gas is an oil and gas thing. Posted by: Cavery | Mar 17 2025 19:13 utc | 30 China really has to show face this time. <=how would you propose that China show its face? Posted by: TopaInka55-56 | Mar 17 2025 19:35 utc | 48 5. For better or for worse, Israel through its recent military actions and the US through the Soleimani assassination have shown the Mullahs' regime to be toothless. <=Toothless or rationally tolerant? IMO, the cost to the USA for the Soleimani assassination has been very high. The assassination of Soleimani also marked the end of rational international diplomacy and adherence to International rule of law. If Iran's decision not to engage was the result of rational tolerance, then it probably deferred its revenge to take advantage of a greater opportunity now developing. Toothless does not necessarily mean synthetic AI-informed, engineered false teeth are less fit for the purpose intended than are natural teeth? Iran is becoming an extension of China. Russia is joining that extended line.. BRICS is coming into its economic own. The economic power and military strength distributions in the world are changing. Use of force accelerates the movement of distribution peaks from West to East. The world is becoming less tolerant to use of force as a means for a nation state to settle its differences between the oligarchs who own the governments that manage the nation states or between the governments and the people the governments govern. I think the USA will cause America great and irreparable harm if it engages in wwIII. Its anti MAGA. Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 18 2025 12:08 utc | 253 People still can't see through this sociopath's bullshit. <= To the people watching the news war is a video game which restarts each time there is a new winner. There is no pain no matter who wins or looses..

Posted by: snake | Mar 18 2025 12:31 utc | 255

Hegseth says America will be unrelenting.
Air defense missile stocks say otherwise.
Putting aside morality for a moment, is the general consensus that America is making a strategic mistake or can they get some sort of “win” from this, even if it is only causing a distraction until the Palestinians are wiped out?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 18 2025 12:43 utc | 257

Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 18 2025 12:41 utc | 259
#########
Don’t kid yourself, the “left” in America, France, Germany, and the UK have been watching this slow motion genocide play out for decades. Silent if not enabling it.
Avoid partisanship. It makes you sound really dumb.
There is no right or left. There is power and its predictable attributes.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 18 2025 12:46 utc | 259

⚡️🇮🇱 BREAKING: Israeli War Minister Yisrael Katz:
“We are attacking Gaza fiercer than before. We arranged our attacks with the American administration”

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 18 2025 12:55 utc | 261

asking it to come up with ways how they can defend Trump this time.
It’s not looking good as ” oh shit ” can be heard echoing around the internet. As mirrors are locked away in cupboards and hearts and reason are abandoned.
Posted by: Sun Of Alabama | Mar 18 2025 12:54 utc | 263
Did you see what I said for the Nth time ?
“When cabinet was being announced I mentioned.
Trump will drop ukraine.
Trump will likelly not do much on china (too many are owned by those that have economic interests there)
ME is f*cked and might be bartered for the previous.
Posted by: Newbie | Mar 17 2025 20:15 utc | 64”
Didn’t people notice there were all ME hawks but no ukraine hawks and plenty who had worked for /owned by major players in china deals?
Ukraine was a likely drop, china just noise, so ME would be the focus and sincerely I think syria was part of the deal and mentioned it might not stop there (but in that case I’d expect at least the romanian AEGIS to be canceled, maybe the polish as well depending on the quid pro quo)
Also mentioned that the iran/RF agreement sounded bland but had some doubts if the responsibility didn’t fall on the new iran’s president (though other think the ayatollahs are still in charge)
Iran is still re-establishing itself, it’ still an infant in many ways (in this particular cycle, yes, they are one of the ancient ones but things rise and fall for millennia )

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 18 2025 13:13 utc | 263

Something blew up in the Red Sea?

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 | 113
That post has been deleted – so much for free speech on X.
Posted by: The Busker | Mar 18 2025 7:36 utc | 231

Here is a heavily edited Houthi video showing a huge explosion at sea at night.

𝐃𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐝 𝐙 @SMO_VZ
NEWS coming in from multiple reputable sciences stating that a USA aircraft carrier has been HIT !!!!
Red Sea….HOUTHIS confirmation !!!!!
https://x.com/SMO_VZ/status/1901765673983857141

The same explosion is shown twice. The shouts of “Death to America” have been added later in editing. This is typical of Yemenise videos.
A reply tweet offers a kind of rebuttal:

Tyler Pearson @_gidDy_Up_
Houthi after action reports are actually very straightforward and accurate believe it or not. When the dust clears I haven’t seen them lie yet.
All they said today is they “successfully targeted” the Truman which just means they targeted it, no hits.
https://x.com/_gidDy_Up_/status/1901856452295196705

The tweet by the Yemeni spokesman quoted above is here:

(Image with English text)
https://x.com/army21ye/status/1901798751536136435

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Mar 18 2025 13:14 utc | 265

He and the current GOP are as crazed as Hilary Clinton in her day and Biden in his.
Posted by: Sick and tired | Mar 18 2025 13:05 utc | 265
The us administration being a dick and basically doing what it wants is just standard operating procedure
Going for WWIII is not (though not uncommon)
There are nuances…

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 18 2025 13:17 utc | 267

Just connecting a few dots … could one reason that Trump is so desperate for a cease-fire in Ukraine be that he knows war with Iran is about to start?

Posted by: Ghost of Zanon | Mar 18 2025 13:23 utc | 269

Grieved, you don’t understand domestic politics nor policy. Trump is a jackass. As Truman said, “any jackass can kick over an outhouse, but he can’t build one.”. Trump has all the foresight of a car, plotting to get outside, but once there has no other plan. Like the underpants gnomes, step one, steal underwear, step three, profit. Haste makes waste. Trump is not a diligent thinker, the Heritage foundation is a domestic terror organization

Posted by: Scottindallas | Mar 18 2025 13:30 utc | 271

Don’t know how accurate this website is, but it’s all over the net.

Dramatic night as Saudi sources now claims Iranian intel ship Zagros (SIGINT) was sunk by U.S. forces at the same time the IDF conducts wide-ranging strikes in Gaza after Israel discovers Hamas was plotting another major Oct 7 style attack. Gaza ceasefire officially over, according to the Prime Minister’s office.
Reuters is also reporting ballistic missile movement at IRGC bases in Iran. There were also reports from Yemen (video) that several senior IRGC members were eliminated in US attacks on Houthi targets.

Horrible day for resistance forces.

Posted by: bored | Mar 18 2025 13:31 utc | 273

Posted by: bored | Mar 18 2025 13:31 utc | 275
The site is owned and run by Pamela Geller. She is a far right maniacal zionist and islamophobe. The foreword to her book was written by Geert Wilders, if that hints at her leanings.
She is just a nasty bloviating freak from my perspective.
That’s not to say that the story isn’t true, but I’d rather hear it from a source that isn’t an extremist racist of the lowest dog-whistling variety before I consider it’s veracity.

Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Mar 18 2025 13:50 utc | 275

Ukraine will go on, to much invested there. They are struggelig to launch/insert western controlled troops in there, maybe Turkish/Bangaladeshi/Afgani/Phillipine( South Africa/ peacekeepers under western controll?
Not to hard to unwrap
Posted by: Paul from Norway | Mar 18 2025 11:19 utc | 248
Right
The many trillions of dollars invested in Ukraine must be saved somehow.
And by that, I do NOT mean the billions for weapons and the corruption quagmire.
Finance and the stock market explained it: these trillions, 99% of which belong to the financial sharks, must generate returns, be it from black earth = wheat = animal feed, be it from raw materials, or simply from cheap labor.
Trump is desperately trying not to anger Putin too much, using all sorts of tricks, including promises (and threats to the outside world, of course), to get concessions to prevent him from completely taking over Ukraine.
If he succeeds, he will appear victorious to the outside world thanks to threats; if he doesn’t, he will continue the war for a long time with the help of the Europeans.
Putin’s only option would be to overrun Ukraine, at the cost of more human lives or even with actual support for his alliance, and then do so before the mud falls. As long as NATO’s warehouses are empty, Europe is divided and disorganized, starving for raw materials to produce weapons, etc.
While Putin has been Putin’s strongest ally so far, that will then reverse itself. The US will be preoccupied with Yemen and Iran, and the EU will then truly starve itself of energy.
Admittedly, that’s just theory; others say tinfoil hats…but that’s happened a lot over the last decade, and then it became reality.

Posted by: berthold | Mar 18 2025 14:06 utc | 277

US Strategic Oil Reserves at ~390 million barrels. Silly me, I expected the dumfuks would at least wait until they were refilled before starting anything real.
https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_ending_stocks_of_crude_oil_in_the_strategic_petroleum_reserve
Normally when I call to refill my tank it arrives in a few days. It’s going to be 2 full weeks.

Posted by: Mary | Mar 18 2025 14:12 utc | 279

The English PM using RAF bases in Cyprus – to aid the Yanks in bombing Yemen – the bases in Cyprus are also used to target civilians in Gaza, of which the info is sent to the Zionists who then bomb the civilians.
A rough estimate so far, on the cost to the British taxpayer for spy planes flying over Gaza – to send targeting info to the Zionists is around £18 million quid.
“Prime minister Keir Starmer quietly involved Britain’s armed forces in President Donald Trump’s bombardment of Yemen last weekend, Declassified can confirm.
A Royal Air Force (RAF) Voyager aerial refuelling tanker carried out two flights from Akrotiri airbase in Cyprus into the northern Red Sea to support the USS Harry S. Truman.
The US aircraft carrier launched multiple waves of air raids across Yemen on Saturday and Sunday in Trump’s largest military operation since returning to office.”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/how-starmer-aided-trumps-deadly-bombing-of-yemen/

Posted by: Republicofscotland | Mar 18 2025 14:35 utc | 281

Karlof1, I’ve long appreciated your keen focus on Russia. Your name is clever. I used to read it as Karlofi, that sounds like some Dostoyevsky character. Then I noticed it’s Karl of 1. Then I see you’re just a guy from East LA. That’s cool too. I love Los Lobos and as a multi-generational Texan, grew up with a great appreciation for Mexican food and culture. In light of current events, I want to make a short, ” gracias por los comidas” Thank God for alternatives to Northern European cuisine.

Posted by: Scottindallas | Mar 18 2025 14:56 utc | 283

hip hip hooray for karlof1!

Posted by: james | Mar 18 2025 15:14 utc | 285

Posted by: berthold | Mar 18 2025 14:38 utc | 284
The oil reserves you are referencing are oil in the ground.
The “Strategic Oil Reserve” is oil that was purchased by the US gov for storage iirc in salt mines. It was supposed to be saved for emergencies such as oil embargos or wars.
Trump filled the mines at low cost (iirc ~$50/bl during his 1st Presidency.
Biden then screwed us over by using them to lower prices artificially to bolster his ratings.
As a result, we are now potentially entering an emergency situation & they are only a bit over half full.

Posted by: Mary | Mar 18 2025 15:28 utc | 287

Horrible day for resistance forces.
Posted by: bored | Mar 18 2025 13:31 utc | 275
You are, without fail, a perpetual source of disinformation.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 18 2025 15:36 utc | 289

Posted by: Exile | Mar 18 2025 15:41 utc | 292
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Like with the PayPal mafia, this sounds like an Israeli front (Wiz) is now another USG operation front. A shell game.
It’s like how Biden used private companies to circumvent the First Amendment because it only applies to government.
Trump’s privatization push is the same thing. Ways to circumvent the Consitution, IMO.
I really hate IP, second to that, I get very upset about incorporation.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 18 2025 15:48 utc | 291

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 18 2025 15:57 utc | 294
Everything we’ll hear from Team Trump in the next few hours about the phone call will be the nice script of the conversation.
A Trump can’t afford to publish real criticism or identify real problems.
On the contrary, he’ll rave about a top deal that he’ll then forget about 24 hours later, and another 24 hours later, he’ll issue illogical threats against Putin because he doesn’t applaud the peacemaker and harbinger of happiness (Trump).
So don’t expect too much truth at his surely nasty press conference afterwards.
And if this press conference doesn’t turn out to be nasty, that says more than any words or euphemisms.
Trump needs success, not just in his own country.

Posted by: berthold | Mar 18 2025 16:07 utc | 293

The impending fallout of the Titanic is getting momentum as we speak.

Posted by: pepe | Mar 18 2025 16:24 utc | 295

@ Arch Bungle | Mar 18 2025 15:35 utc | 291
As much as I love and respect Ritter, when he bashed Berletic take on Gonzalo, Ritter mocked Berletic’s opining despite not having held a high-level analyst job. As though an outsider with a certain balance of intellect, open-mindedness, skepticism, and dedication can’t suss out truth as well or better an insider, at least sometimes and maybe even most of the time.
Scott and Larry expected something else from Trump? Sigh. Once again, the Empire of Chaos outsmarts some of our best.
Even on MoA. When some people here — smart, educated, curious, often skeptical — chime in for Trump and he turns out to be the same asshole we knew, then I think it’s hopeless to try to change the system.

Posted by: I forgot | Mar 18 2025 16:31 utc | 297

Scottindallas | Mar 18 2025 14:56 utc | 285–
I’ve provided some of my background via comments at my substack and a few occasionally over the many years I’ve commented at the bar. Karlof1 is 30 years old and combines my name with two singular aspects of my past. My recent comment about viewing the smoke from the Watts Riots said I saw that from a place East of LA–Upland to be precise. The core extended family is from Cucamonga and Upland–citrus ranchers well before suburban sprawl destroyed that region. I was born into the US Army at Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco while my dad was doing his draftee tour as a food inspector for 6th Army. After his discharge we settled in Davis where he became an agronomist for UC Davis and I learned how to farm. My genuine surname can be found at my substack and my ethnic basis as an Iberian Visigoth I’ve revealed here several times. My second career’s pursuit of objective history and interest in Russia was aided by technology, specifically translation software. Longtime barflies will know I began commenting here about Outlaw US Empire policy, its formative history and how we might go about altering its direction. As for music, I’m a Santana fan along with The Who and a host of others, Tower of Power, and Los Lobos tambien. Now to get to work translating yet another important meeting dealing with Russia’s future economic trajectory.

Posted by: karlof1 | Mar 18 2025 16:47 utc | 299