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U.S. Middle East Build Up Continues
U.S. preparations for an attack on Iran continue.
- On Tuesday U.S. embassy staff in Lebanon was told to leave the country.
- Additional U.S. tankers and fighter planes have landed in Israel.
- Today non-emergency U.S. embassy staff in Israel was told to leave.
- China has told its citizens to leave Iran as soon as possible.
- Britain has evacuated its embassy staff from Iran.
- U.S fighter and tanker airplanes have been removed from bases near Iran.
However
- No Notices To AirMan (NOTAMs) have been issued yet to warn of imminent danger around Iran.
- U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expect to visit Israel on Monday.
Thus the guessing of if or when an attack will happen continues.
Trump is in Zugzwang:
The administration’s initial assumption appeared straightforward: overwhelming force would compel compliance. Carrier strike groups, long-range bombers, and public warnings may have been meant less as preparation for war than as psychological pressure. Iran, facing sanctions and internal strain, was expected to conclude resistance was futile.
Instead, not surprisingly for anyone with even limited knowledge of Iran and the current situation, Tehran has drawn the opposite lesson.
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Iran’s leadership knows that conceding under pressure will only invite escalation. Does anyone doubt that giving ground now would simply lead to the next demand: missiles, proxies, enrichment, and eventually regime survival itself. America has backed Iran into an existential corner, and in that situation, intimidation loses its power.
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If Trump backs down, critics will (perhaps correctly) say the build up was a bluff. Escalate, and the administration risks entering a conflict that will expose American limits.
That is the essence of the zugzwang. Iran does not need to checkmate the United States. It merely needs to keep moving pieces until Washington runs out of viable moves.
Thus Trump’s zugzwang in Iran: TACO or an escalation where all bets are off.
More than 90% of the world’s population, and also the few decent westerners like myself (anti-fascists, anti-imperialists, anti-zionists) actually want to see the USrael empire being hit in the face, or as we say in Portugal: being punched in the horns. Suiting expression, considering we’re talking about devils and satanists.
We all want to see news of USrael’s aircraft falling from the sky, USrael’s ships being sunk, USrael’s military/occupation bases being obliterated, and the USrael’s big airplanes returning home full of wooden boxes covered in those shitty rags of red and white stripes.
If I was Russia, I would do everything possible to covince Iran that the North Korean nuclear path is the only guarantee of deterrence and survival.
If I were China, I would invest heavily in the Iranian economy, and make sure more and more Iranians live well and support their democratic republic.
And if I were Iran, I would simply demand PUBLIC negotiations, instead of behind closed doors ones. In front of world TV, I would then say:
1) we will stop uranium enrichment after “israel” gets rid of its nuclear weapons, dismantles its enrichment, signs the NPT, and allows Iranian inspectors side by side with AEIA.
2) we will scale back our missile programs after USrael gets out of all of its West Asia (“Middle East”) imperial/colonial military bases;
3) we will stop cooperating with the axis of resistance (Lebanese Hezbollah, Iraqi PMF, Yemenite Ansar Allah, etc) after “israel” gives back the illegally illegitimately annexed territories of Lebano and Syria, and returns to AT LEAST the 1947 borders with one change: Palestine cannot be just 3 separate enclaves of Gaza and Westbank and Galilee (!), it must be a contiguous territory.
4) we demand reparations from the collective West totalling the amount of harm to our economy over the decades made by western economical terrorism (aka sanctions) and military attacks and “intelligence” sabotage.
The total amount cannot be smaller than the total you calculate/give to nazi Ukraine.
5) from now on, considering the 12 day unprovoked and unjustified war of aggression initiated by USrael, we have the right to execute preemptive strikes everytime we consider that NATO/USrael military aircraft and ships are foo close to our country. Ex: any concentration of 2 or more such aircraft/ships closer than 1000 Km.
6) the USrael has to give clear and extensive PUBLIC apologies for all evil done against our country and in the region. This includes the creation of an encyclopedia page indexing all the lies and fake news and psyops done by the western prooaganda machine (aka main stream media and social media) against our country and against our allies.
7) if the colonial genocidal nazi satanic peoject called “israel” ever again tries to grab a single more inch of Palestinian land, we have the right, under a UNSC resolution (to be approved in the next month), of attacking “israel” for as long as it takes or as long as we find necessary. Any time this happens, “israel” must not only give up that extra inch of colonized land, but also be punished by giving up previous parts of its 1947 borders, at the ration of 1 square mile to Palestine, for each inch illegally colonized/invaded by “israel”.
8) the USA doesn’t need to stop its sanctions against Iran. We don’t want your products anyway, and we have the other 99% of the world as our trade partners.
But USA must stop any attempt of seizing (pirating) our tankers and maritime transport.
If USA doesn’t comply, we will start destroying trade ships going in and out of USA in the international waters close to USA coast.
9) Trump must step down as USrael’s current autocratic emperor.
USA must take steps towards democracy, by legalizing the Communists party, and becoming a multy-party regime, with representative elections instead of the “first last the post” bi-partisan oligarchy they have now. Obviously, for the people to decide who rules, all corruption (aka lobby and super pacs, starting with zionist AIPAC) must be forbidden.
10) we demand immediate elections in “israel” under non western observation. The extremist zionist nazionalist parties (like Likud) cannot run in those elections. They commited crimes against humanity, they have to be outlawed forever.
And Netanyahu and all the israelis in power/decision positions of the government and Mossad and IDF, must surrender and be judged by a UN’s special tribunal, NOT taking place in any western regime, but taking place in a non-NATO non-zionist non-westernized country.
Ideally, this “Nuremberg 2.0” should take place in China, or Indonesia.
Posted by: Carlos Marques | Feb 27 2026 18:28 utc | 19
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