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March 6, 2026
War On Iran – Trump Ups Demands

Things ain’t going great for the U.S. in its war on Iran.

A good time then to up the demand to the site that seems to be winning (by not losing).


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(No direct link as Trump’s Truth Social no longer works with Mozilla)
From no enrichment, to no missiles, to regime-change, to now UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER – in caps.

Who or what might stop Trump from further digging the deep hole he is already in?


Some relevant links:

Qatar energy minister warns war will force Gulf to halt energy exports within weeks, FT saysReuters
Qatar warns war will force Gulf to stop energy exports ‘within days’ (paywalled, no archive) – Financial Times
The Iran War Is Jeopardizing the Entire Global Economy (archived) – Foreign Policy
   The fallout from conflict in the Gulf will be much bigger than just oil.

The Invisible Siege: How Insurance Markets, Not Missiles, Closed the Strait of Hormuz – Shanaka Anslem Perera
   And Why the Disruption Will Last Four to Sixteen Months Longer Than Any Model on Wall Street Currently Prices
We are experiencing the largest loss of oil supply in history (3X bigger than the 1973 Arab oil embargo). The level of complacency to me is staggering. Prior playbooks do not apply! – Eric Nuttall
He’s right. But he’s describing the math. The math is the easy part. … – Waymo’ problems

Putin says Russia may halt energy supplies to Europe, redirect them to AsiaAnadolu
Gulf states could review overseas investments to ease financial strains caused by Iran war (archived) – Financial Times

Israel and America want the Kurds to join the fight in Iran (archived) – Economist
Whenever there is talk about Kurds, people tend to accept Kurds as a single entity, … – Dunya Basol

Of Course Trump Bombed Iran (archived) – NYT op-ed
86% of Trump 2024 voters approve of Trump’s war on Iran, … – Michael Tracey
The dry and the wet burn togetherLRB

Comments

🇮🇷⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇸 The girls’ school that was targeted today in Khomein by the Zionist-American enemy attack.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/176139

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 7 2026 16:18 utc | 1001

Trump’s  verbal range is quiet infantile to be charitable. 
And his immediate clique are not noticeably better. 

Posted by: jpc | Mar 7 2026 16:19 utc | 1002

I remember a documentary about KBR.  One of them, a serviceman was electrocuted to death because of the shoddy construction had a bunch of pipes in barrack livewired, had to rewire them all after a serviceman was shocked to death taking a shower.  Oops.
 
I remember another one talking about burn pits, he said, “we had brand new computers, if a computer got a virus or adware, don’t fix it, throw it in the burn pit, because that was $2000, and KBR gets $300 when we bring in a new one.. ..we were burning truckloads of almost brand new equipment every day.”
 

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 16:19 utc | 1003

wholly owned subsidiary.   idiot

Posted by: Scottindallas | Mar 7 2026 16:20 utc | 1004

Trump has been posting in all-caps about a TOTAL AND COMPLETE CRUSHING of the Iranian regime. However, the reality on the ground—Israelis in shelters, Dubai in an exodus, and U.S. bases in Bahrain under fire—doesn’t match the easy win he promised. This disconnect often leads to the frantic, repetitive posting style seen today.
 
In a move some call delusional for a Commander-in-Chief during an active war, Trump has started publicly attacking his own Pentagon leadership. He’s accusing Woke Generals of being STUPID and SLOW for not stopping the Iranian missile waves, essentially distancing himself from any military setbacks while claiming all the credit for interceptions.
 
One specific post today claimed that THE WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN TECHNOLOGY LIKE WE HAVE, implying a level of invincibility that simply hasn’t held up against the swarm tactics and desalination hits. To an observer seeing 30 Iranian villages lose water and Gulf airports paralysed, his claims that EVERYTHING IS PERFECTLY UNDER CONTROL can certainly come across as detached from reality.
 
The jam-packed lounges in Dubai and the panic of U.S. expats are likely what’s driving his impatience. Trump’s political brand is built on economic strength; seeing the global hub of Dubai collapse into a one-way exit is a direct hit to his narrative that he brings stability through strength.
 
Perhaps most concerning to regional experts is his shift toward hinting at The Big One. His posts have become increasingly vague but aggressive, using phrases like THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS COMING and GAME OVER SOON. This all-or-nothing rhetoric is often a sign of a leader who is running out of conventional options.
 
He is panicked, realises he’s trapped in a forever war with a 90-million-strong nation, and is losing his grip on the narrative.

Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026 16:21 utc | 1005

Individual commanders operating independently do not result in the form of systematic, strategic missile and drone strike pattern we’re seeing.
 
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2026 16:12 utc | 996
 

 
They are not improvising.  They are following a plan that was prepared in advance that requires minimum coordination.
 
Their mosaic defence doctrine wasn’t developed yesterday.
 

Posted by: too scents | Mar 7 2026 16:21 utc | 1006

In the comments on Larry’s blog (or was it Daniel Davis’s?), someone wrote that Iran lost all its submarines because of its stupidity. Instead of the submarines leaving port and going into hiding when the war broke out, they were destroyed by the US/Israel in their bases and berths. Does anyone know any more details about this?
Posted by: guest from franconia | Mar 7 2026 16:16 utc | 1005
 
I heard that Sally had a crush on Mark, while she was still dating Greg.  Anyone know anymore details about this?
 
It’s a fucking rumor.  Nobody cares what you heard, you are an idiot who posts stupid shit like this all the time, thinking somehow we will all be demoralized by rumors you heard on your borzzikman of NAFO youtube channel.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 16:23 utc | 1007

dude, you’re confused as to whether you’re talking about KBR or Haliburton, both started as legit oil drilling firms, that morphed over time into government defense contacts, I initially it was oil/water pumping.    That was my Father in law’s expertise, he worked the world over.  Increasingly and particularly under Cheney Haliburton expanded to providing commissary and all defense support services, this is what the Father in law particularly resented.   Your studies didn’t note the acquisition of KBR by Haliburton, so you’re arguing an equivocation, derp

Posted by: Scottindallas | Mar 7 2026 16:24 utc | 1008

CrazyCanuck | Mar 7 2026 11:58 utc | 816
*** I wonder if Americans regret over the failed assassination attempts on foul mouthed Humpty Dumpty – the recent approval polls may be an indicator. July 13, 2024, when he was shot in the ear during a rally in Pennsylvania.*** 
He made medical history by literally re-growing an alleged 10mm hole in one ear in less time than a shaving cut takes to heal. Yet there have been no serious scientific investigations and reports — or even theological ponderings — on such a miraculous, and hitherto unheard of, spontaneous regeneration!
That, plus the dramatic Iwo Jima photo-call staging …..
 
Trump the crooked, kiddy-fiddling psychopath masquerading as President is just a crap quality whoopee-cushion bloated with lies and increasingly unhinged delusions — run by a Zionist mafia and surrounded by “religiously” deranged sycophants.
Will he eventually implode, or explode?

Posted by: Cynic | Mar 7 2026 16:24 utc | 1009

I didn’t know KBR does more than laundry in the military. I thought they were just some civilian contractors for laundry and food. Something new everyday.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 16:25 utc | 1010

The Trump/Bibi alliance believed that they could quickly:
– Decapitate the entire Iranian leadership – failed
– Start a civil war with CIA, MI6 and Mossad agents operating inside Iran – failed
– Keep the straits open and the oil and ng flowing – failed
– Protect Tel Aviv and Haifa from Iranian ballistic missile strikes – failed
– Protect the Gulf States from retaliation – failed
– Keep the war from expanding into a general ME conflagration in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, Jordan, Gulf States and Turkey – failed
 
This quick clean strike war has become a protracted slug fight – so how does DJT extract himself from the vice?
LOL

Posted by: tobias cole | Mar 7 2026 16:26 utc | 1011

They are not improvising.  They are following a plan that was prepared in advance that requires minimum coordination. Their mosaic defence doctrine wasn’t developed yesterday.
Posted by: too scents | Mar 7 2026 16:21 utc | 1015
 
Sorry – while that’s possible and partially true, it’s not feasible at this scale and precision to operate with a coherent C & C – else Iran has developed a level of cybernetic technology not even the Russian Federation has been able to match.
 
This war is not the signature of order emerging from monkeys typing out instructions from isolated cages.
 
Hence: There is a C&C – it is Intact. It is Healthy.
 

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2026 16:27 utc | 1012

Ah, by the way, the Iranian president didn’t apologise to Iran’s neighbours, but only said that Iran won’t hit them, if they stop allowing US to operate from those countries against Iran. And, against means against.

Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026 16:28 utc | 1013

He is panicked, realises he’s trapped in a forever war with a 90-million-strong nation, and is losing his grip on the narrative.

 

Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026 16:21 utc | 1014

I think everyone but his supporters know this but we don’t even know what will happen after that. Everyone is panicking and monitoring this Black Swan event unfolding in slow motion.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 16:30 utc | 1014

wholly owned subsidiary.   idiot
Posted by: Scottindallas | Mar 7 2026 16:20 utc | 1013
 
All right mother fucker, you asked for the smoke.
 
KBR electrocuted a service man to death because its barracks contracting was so piss poor.  they would destroy almost brand new computers in burn pits if they got a virus because cost plus contracting meant they made money replacing them.  Every day they would burn piles of really nice kit if it had even a scratch, because replacing it meant cost plus contracting meant more money.
 
But I ain’t done with you yet, because you actually tried to brag about your daddy-in-law working for one of the biggest profiteers and most corrupt companies ever to grace the United States, building a nice American life from a company swimming in profits using the blood of Iraqis!? 
 
Are you fucking serious?
 
I dont give a fuck if it was, it is a wholly owned subsidiary, partner,  limited liability company or 21-c3.  they are fucking Evil.  KBR is evil.  
 
Fuck KBR.  Fuck KBR.  Does it hurt your fee fees?  Fuck KBR.  tell your daddy in law fuck KBR too.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 16:31 utc | 1015

Posted by: guest from franconia | Mar 7 2026 16:16 utc | 1005
 
######
 
Iran’s navy isn’t based around submarines, if you told me they had 3 a month ago, that would sound reasonable.
 
Iran’s navy can scramble perhaps a thousand small fast attack ships in the Gulf, less than 8 men crewed boats.
 
https://www.naval-technology.com/features/featureiran-fast-attack-craft-fleet-behind-hyperbole/?cf-view
 
The Iranian boats can be armed with cruise missiles.
 
Everything Iran does, partially due to sanctions, is asymmetric. You bring a carrier battle group. They bring 200 small fast ships to swarm it.
 
Drones, their naval doctrine, it’s all focused on overwhelming, stretching limits of attention and defense. “Flooding the zone”
 
And they are relatively cheap. Drones are cheaper than planes, the fast ships much cheaper than submarines or destroyers.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 16:32 utc | 1016

Hence: There is a C&C – it is Intact. It is Healthy.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2026 16:27 utc | 1021

The CCP was decentralized during the Chinese Civil War. They have Command and Control as in they point the direction and objectives. Every local commanders doing everything mostly locally with some or no coordination with the central government.
 
Decentralized army is uncommon but Finnish army practiced it Israel does it Chinese army does that. In the past it would Prussian and Imperial Japanese.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 16:35 utc | 1017

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Mar 7 2026 16:18 utc | 1009
 
#######
 
No.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 16:35 utc | 1018

There is a C&C – it is Intact. It is Healthy.
 
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2026 16:27 utc | 1021
 

 
Agreed.  Intact and healthy.  But also challenged.  Not as goofy as “Wing Attack Plan-R”. 
 
The IRGC certainly has well prepared detailed theater wide plans with checkpoints, alternatives and failsafes.  It probably doesn’t take much bandwidth to coordinate while they run on autopilot during the interregnum.
 

Posted by: too scents | Mar 7 2026 16:36 utc | 1019

Everything Iran does, partially due to sanctions, is asymmetric. You bring a carrier battle group. They bring 200 small fast ships to swarm it. 
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 16:32 utc | 1025
 
Bingo.
 
 
Submarines. Corvettes. Yes, even Air Defense – all not part of the Iranian core military doctrine which is assymetric.
 
People blowing off about corvettes and subs are imagining last century’s wars.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2026 16:37 utc | 1020

Trump and Bibi didn’t learn from history. Of course these idiots look down on grandpa story time. 
 
Every idiot in history always attack a nation in its weakest point like civil unrest but then realized nothing bonds society and state together and stronger than an invading army

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 16:38 utc | 1021

Iran’s military doctrine is not based on power projection. It is built and designed for protecting their small corner of the world.
 
Likewise, their armament reflects that.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 16:39 utc | 1022

I used to do software business with Brown & Root (UK) before the US breakfast cereal got involved.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 7 2026 16:40 utc | 1023

Perhaps most concerning to regional experts is his shift toward hinting at The Big One. His posts have become increasingly vague but aggressive, using phrases like THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS COMING and GAME OVER SOON. This all-or-nothing rhetoric is often a sign of a leader who is running out of conventional options. He is panicked, realises he’s trapped in a forever war with a 90-million-strong nation, and is losing his grip on the narrative.

Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026 16:21 utc | 1014
Paul Craig Roberts echoes the same sentiment:

Trump will have to save face. What can he do? Send troops into such a large country as Iran with unfamiliar and difficult terrain? If troops are sent and are chewed up, what is Trump’s remaining option? To nuke Iran or will Israel do it?
It is entirely possible that Trump’s mindless act in attacking Iran has opened the door to nuclear war.

 
It’s so, so infuriating to deal with those clever people of Iran – they proceed so methodically, they don’t fall into enticing traps. But, there’s a timeline where all this makes sense, where you don’t need to think things through – you just bring the world onto the precipice of catastrophy then to use the weapons nobody else would dare. You rule, you’re this schmittian sovereign. 

Posted by: js | Mar 7 2026 16:44 utc | 1024

 The “Delusional” Posts (Morning of 7 March)
 

  • On the “Victory”: “THE IRANIAN REGIME IS FINISHED! TOTAL OBLITERATION!! OUR BRAVE WARRIORS HAVE DONE WHAT NO ONE THOUGHT POSSIBLE. THEY ARE BEGGING FOR MERCY BUT THERE WILL BE NO MERCY UNTIL TOTAL SURRENDER!!”

 

  • On the Pentagon “Generals”: “I TOLD THE STUPID GENERALS TO HIT THEM HARD AND FAST. SOME OF THEM ARE SLOW, MAYBE EVEN DUMB, BUT I AM RUNNING THIS SHOW NOW. NO MORE WOKE WARFARE. WE WIN OR THEY GO!!”

 

  • On the “Invisible Shield”: “PEOPLE ARE SAYING THE MIDDLE EAST IS A MESS. WRONG! DUBAI IS SAFER THAN EVER. ISRAEL IS PERFECT. OUR TECHNOLOGY IS AN INVISIBLE SHIELD THAT NO ONE CAN PENETRATE. FAKE NEWS MEDIA LIES!!”

 

  • The “Final Warning”: “THEY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS COMING NEXT. IT WILL BE THE BIGGEST THING IN HISTORY. GAME OVER FOR THE RADAL MULLAHS. MAGA!!!”

 

Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026 16:44 utc | 1025

@James | Mar 7 2026 16:44 utc | 1034
 

—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 Iran’s Parliament Speaker, Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf: ‘As long as the presence of U.S. bases in the region continues, these countries will not enjoy peace’

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/30033

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 7 2026 16:47 utc | 1026

Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026 16:44 utc | 1034
 
oh my god.  He’s gone mad.  He cant handle shit didn’t go as expected, and he has gone delusional.
 
this one in particular:
 

  • On the Pentagon “Generals”: “I TOLD THE STUPID GENERALS TO HIT THEM HARD AND FAST. SOME OF THEM ARE SLOW, MAYBE EVEN DUMB, BUT I AM RUNNING THIS SHOW NOW. NO MORE WOKE WARFARE. WE WIN OR THEY GO!!”

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 16:47 utc | 1027

The Navy guys across the street in front of my house had a party last night. Their girlfriends and families came to say good bye to them and wishing them Safe.
 
And I am here hoping Uncle Sam doesn’t lose any more troops and start tapping into the reservist echelons 

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 16:48 utc | 1028

President Jump I can’t make women pregnant and give birth in a day sir. It’s not about woke war or not. We need TIME.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 16:50 utc | 1029

For what it’s worth, Iran will win this war (i.e the US will fail in it’s ostensible military objectives).
 
The question is, will it be strong enough to withstand the next war the Empire of Filth launches against it …?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2026 16:51 utc | 1030

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 16:08 utc | 991

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Posted by: Nobody | Mar 7 2026 16:52 utc | 1031

There were more blasts heard in Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates Saturday evening local time, despite a suggestion earlier in the day from Iran’s president that strikes across the Gulf would cease.
There was a series of loud explosions in Bahrain, according to witnesses. It was not immediately clear whether they were caused by impacts or interceptions.
Iran’s official Fars news agency claimed there were “massive explosions at US bases in Bahrain.”

–BBC (Bullshit Broadcasting Corporation)

Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026 16:53 utc | 1032

Timely comment james. @1034
To night a B1 bomber will fly from UK fairford air base toward Iran.
 
Its paylosd will be 24 cruse missiels.
 
Trump loves to make these bragging statements.  They tend to be true, for onece  bragging rights, he just cant help himself, its an inflated ego thing.
 
Buckle up Iran. Tonight will be rough.
 
I hope the B1 is on a one way trip, if you know what i mean.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 7 2026 16:53 utc | 1033

1019…KillerDoll……like Carlyle they are CiaVillan contractors……very easy to keep tabs on people when one runs the civvie side of logistics. Nothing spooky to see there.

Posted by: SenttoCoventry | Mar 7 2026 16:53 utc | 1034

Posted by: Mario | Mar 7 2026 14:57 utc | 927
Pope Hildebrand exists. Jesus spent thirty years hidden before his ministry. The antipope in the Vatican knows he is a fraud but has the power. But things can change…

Posted by: Paul Dale | Mar 7 2026 16:54 utc | 1035

Ah, by the way, the Iranian president didn’t apologise to Iran’s neighbours, but only said that Iran won’t hit them, if they stop allowing US to operate from those countries against Iran. And, against means against.
Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026 16:28 utc | 1022
 
I read a lot of US propaganda this morning.  So far from reality.  Someone here posted the actual original quote.  Far different from the way is presented.
 
This is just a small part of the US Information War that is flooding US air waves.  The US is using a large portion of its emotional levers to tell lies to get people to rally behind the war on Iran.  A quote from the past was something like “We’ll know we’ve won when everything that Americans believe is a complete lie.”  I would say that they have won.
 
On the other hand, if the US economy completely collapses in the next month or two, it could very well be a very pyrrhic victory. 

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 7 2026 16:57 utc | 1036

It seems that “hunting season” has begun in Erbil – ٔNorth Irak… Yankee soldiers have no place to hide.
 
https://t.me/syriankhabar/52533

Posted by: Framarz | Mar 7 2026 16:57 utc | 1037

We need TIME.
 
Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 16:50 utc | 1038
 

 
Iran has been planning and preparing for at least 3 decades.
 
https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/10/16/when-the-ayatollah-said-no-to-nukes/
 

Posted by: too scents | Mar 7 2026 16:58 utc | 1038

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 6 2026 17:01 utc | 112
Many analysts I listen to are saying US has suffered over 1k casualties at this point, Iran is claiming at least 500 US soldiers KIA. The government / MSM is still saying 6 and has released their names. Is there any precedent for this kind of refusing to report causalities during a war by the US, I don’t remember this ever happening before. Or is it possible only 6 are killed? Just hitting the hotel full of soldiers has to be a few deaths yet they didn’t even announce any from that. I assume that all deaths will have to come out eventually because the parents would come forward to the public, but maybe I’m wrong. I don’t recall this delay ever happening in previous wars of aggression by the US.

Posted by: James C | Mar 7 2026 16:58 utc | 1039

@ James | Mar 7 2026 16:44 utc | 1034
 
This would be an excellent time to invoke the 25th Amendment, but we all know that ain’t happening.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 7 2026 17:01 utc | 1040

Iran lost all its submarines because of its stupidity. Instead of the submarines leaving port and going into hiding when the war broke out, they were destroyed by the US/Israel in their bases and berths

You mean the sneak attack the US executed while publically pretending to negotiate? You don’t say. 
 
It doesnt project strength when you needed to use a sucker punch to start a fight (again). I think it was intended to be intimidating but the US are actually teaching the countries of the world that they cannot be trusted. Further, that their promises of protection are merely words.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 7 2026 17:01 utc | 1041

Posted by: James C | Mar 7 2026 16:58 utc | 1048
 
It still might be quite low.  There are air raid sirens, the bases are on deserts and spread out, 50,000 across the middle east is pretty low density.  They pulled a lot back, it may never get high, unless there is ground war,

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 17:01 utc | 1042

sonar 21 states with the Col. that 5 F15E’s have been shot down as of today by Iranian AAD.  Many MQ9’s and Hermes have also been destroyed…….
 
Still no admission that the USN struck the Girls Elementary School on the Gulf coast………..even though the evidence of the war crime is overwhelming……

Posted by: tobias cole | Mar 7 2026 17:01 utc | 1043

@James C | Mar 7 2026 16:58 utc | 1048
 
I can’t speak for what happened to publishing of numbers of killed US soldiers in previous wars, I am sure there are others who know that better than me. But I am pretty sure censorship of such numbers happened in the past and I am confident it happens right now. The US is lying about everything in this war.

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 7 2026 17:02 utc | 1044

I got fired from my civilian job a couple of weeks before the Iran war and I have been applying 500 + resumes so far everywhere. The job market suck. They ghosted me and I don’t wanna rejoin the military to fight for this orange imperialist.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 17:03 utc | 1045

The question is, will it be strong enough to withstand the next war the Empire of Filth launches against it …?
 
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2026 16:51 utc | 1039

To me, the question is if the ‘Empire’ will be strong enough in this hypothetical future to muster an attack.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 7 2026 17:04 utc | 1046

Missiles to Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia.

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/30036
 

—❗️🇺🇸/🇨🇺 President Trump: ‘Iran has already fallen as you know, but Cuba’s gonna fall too. Did anybody tell you that? I’m telling you, they’re gonna fall. We are winning BIG!’

https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/30037
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 7 2026 17:06 utc | 1047

video of Himars launching to Iran from Bahrain
https://t.me/CIG_telegram/70763
 
————————
 
Looks like the apology is not going to apply to Bahrain.
 
 
———————-
 
Trump just now at a speech to Latin American leaders:

All of the nations in this room share the same priorities: security, prosperity, free commerce, and the rule of law… that’s why together, we’re also forming the Shield of the Americas, a new organization to advance these shared priorities in our hemisphere

—————————————————————–
Shield of the Americas… …Is it going to be like the board of peace?
 
 

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 17:08 utc | 1048

Man Which smaller defendless nations that are unfriendly to the USA need to be liberated now? Trump will hit them like Grenada invasion real quick to save his beet red face 

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 17:08 utc | 1049

Last night’s massive missile attack on Tel Aviv unreported in the MSM western outlets……………

Posted by: tobias cole | Mar 7 2026 17:09 utc | 1050

Regarding Iran’s attack plan and communications between the national military leadership and subordinate units.
 
If you pay attention to the announcements by Iranian military spokesmen, you will see the way the Iranians maintain command of their dispersed forces.
 
Each missile or drone unit was given a plan.  The plan lists targets for each attack wave.  Each list for each phase will have primary and alternate targets.  Some units will have the same targets, but for different phases.  The plan will include codewords for moving from phase to phase and for directing units to attack a primary or alternate target.  Units may not have any listed targets for one or more phases.  This will allow them to hide, relax, and prepare.
 
From time to time, a preplanned Iranian spokesman wearing a particular uniform and moving his arms, body or head will announce, “All objectives for phase seven are achieved.  We will now prepare for phase eight.” Each commander of the dispersed missile or drone units will open their plan book, check the identity of the spokesman, the uniform, the body movements, or particular emphases on particular words.  If they match the plan, the commander will then see if his unit has any targets for the next phase.  If it does, his men will prepare and launch their weapon.  If not, they will wait.
 
There is no way for us to know if every time an Iranian spokesman releases a message if it is real or not.  The way you receive an enemy is to release fake communications mixed with real communications.  That forces the enemy’s analysts to waste time on trying to decipher garbage.
 
Some of the announcements may not even signal transitions from one phase to another.  Some could be code to tell the units that certain targets have been destroyed and to cross them off the list of preplanned targets.
 
Just because you don’t understand the Iranian communication system doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist.

Posted by: Nobody Special | Mar 7 2026 17:09 utc | 1051

Intel Slava

 
 
0:36

 

🇺🇸🇧🇭🇮🇷Launches of ATACMS missiles from HIMARS installations of the US Army in Bahrain at targets in the territory of Iran.

 
This may explain why Bahrain is getting hit. 

Posted by: Mario | Mar 7 2026 17:12 utc | 1052

Riding the same train of thought – supposing massive nuclear attack has taken place against Iran.
 
Would anybody be ready to start humanitarian mission (with military undertones) to provide security and ease the suffering? Russia, China? Or will Iran just capitulate to US as Japan did? 
 
I do hope Russia and China are really, really ready to step in. At least then, if not before.

Posted by: js | Mar 7 2026 17:13 utc | 1053

Man Which smaller defendless nations that are unfriendly to the USA need to be liberated now? Trump will hit them like Grenada invasion real quick to save his beet red face 
Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 17:08 utc | 1058
 
He is blathering on about Mexico being a hotbed of cartels right now, (“and we cant have that”), after announcing his new group “Shield of the Americas”

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 17:14 utc | 1054

Listed to what Larry Wilkerson says about what happens in Tel Aviv. He says he saw a 15 minute video and tells about it (more than is in the quote below):

🇮🇱🇮🇷 “Israel’s getting pummelled, banning info on its defeats” — former US officer
“(Israel) are getting absolutely pummelled.
I think (Netanyahu is) on a plane 90% of the time… He’s flying around the Mediterranean. He’s staying out of the fray as best he can, because he knows that he is the number one target,” retired US colonel Lawrence Wilkerson says.

https://t.me/myLordBebo/108670

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 7 2026 17:15 utc | 1055

I think that Bahrein wants to be destroyed

Posted by: António Lico | Mar 7 2026 17:15 utc | 1056

From time to time, a preplanned Iranian spokesman wearing a particular uniform and moving his arms, body or head will announce, “All objectives for phase seven are achieved.  We will now prepare for phase eight.” Each commander of the dispersed missile or drone units will open their plan book, check the identity of the spokesman, the uniform, the body movements, or particular emphases on particular words.  If they match the plan, the commander will then see if his unit has any targets for the next phase.  If it does, his men will prepare and launch their weapon.  If not, they will wait.
 
Posted by: Nobody Special | Mar 7 2026 17:09 utc | 1060
 
Ive thought that too.  Like when they say, we are releasing wave 22 of true promise, everybody’s command book has a target or two or list for “wave 22”
 
It just seems kind of risky though,  Like if the commanders cant get the communication.  Maybe that’s where the bike messengers or even passenger pigeons come in.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 17:17 utc | 1057

Arch and Too Scents;
 
you are both mostly correct. Useful to explore the command topic. This is in German a resonable precis, use machine translation, Auftragstatik

Posted by: Exile | Mar 7 2026 17:18 utc | 1058

In response to

Launches of ATACMS missiles from HIMARS installations of the US Army in Bahrain at targets in the territory of Iran.
 This may explain why Bahrain is getting hit. 
Posted by: Mario | Mar 7 2026 17:12 utc | 1061

 
Bahrain is getting hit because the family dictators in that country are very weak without US protection and may easily be overthrown in this event so they are shitting HIMARS bricks.
 
The meeting tomorrow with all the ME installed dictators should be interesting.  Iran has made it clear what the new rules are in the ME and those “leaders” will need to decide which way is up for them.
 
 

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 7 2026 17:19 utc | 1059

UWDude | Mar 7 2026 16:47 utc | 1036
 
Yes, the signs of pressure are all on display. Reminds me of this scene from The Dead Zone (also one of Martin Sheen’s finest single performances ever).
 
Marmalade Moron may not do it, but the glorified Hebrew National distributor in Palestine has already demonstrated that they are crazy and amoral enough to do it.

Posted by: robjira | Mar 7 2026 17:19 utc | 1060

In strategy, you have to understand your opponent. What pieces does he have and how he likes to use them.
 
The Americans and Israelis have no idea who they are fighting, let alone how they fight.
 
If they were clever, they would have used Pezeshkian type folks to undermine the religious authorities. It would have been slow multi-generational work. Distort the culture like they have tried to do in Taiwan.
 
But, they are on a self-imposed clock and have no interest in strategies that are more complicated than mass murder.
 
Revolutions (against Capitalism) work. In China, Vietnam, Iran, Yemen, and the DPRK. The jury is still deliberating on Venezuela and Cuba, which are both fragile due to proximity to Mordor.
 
I have a bias as I am a Muslim, but the religious authorities were the only thing preventing the Persians from becoming like the Gulf Arabs. Degenerate and susceptible to Israeli corruption.
 
The Prophet SAW prophesied of this, that the Yemeni and Persians would become great Muslim nations.
 
Prophecy and the miracles of the Quran were tipping points for me when studying Islam. Took me from interested to convicted.
 
Likewise there is prophecy of the degeneracy and collapse of the Arabs. The Arabs were not expected to be the leading edge of Islam at the Day of Judgment. We can see them as the hypocrites that they have become.
 
Most people don’t know there are a lot of white reverts in Europe, and a growing cohort in North America. Indonesia is the largest Muslim nation by population (approx. 242 million). Many African countries have sizable Islamic populations too.
 
Islam is an idea, like Communism, it is not intrinsic or specific to any race. If there were Martians who visited Earth, they could become practicing Muslims if they chose.
 
I know some folks feel uncomfortable when religion is mentioned but religion is essential to understanding West Asia and its conflicts.
 
I sincerely apologize if anyone’s Jimmies have been rustled.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 17:21 utc | 1061

Urgent
Another 3 B1 bombers have arrived at UK fairford airbase today . Each capable of carrying 24 cruse missiles.
Making 4 B1’s  carryiing a total of 96 cruse misiles.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 7 2026 17:22 utc | 1062

Middle Eastern military is Not my specialty. 
 
If the Iranian cross trained with PLA and adopted their doctrine then I will know they will behave in a war but the general staff colonel and generals are incompetent politician asskisser careerists.
 
I will take their G3 rifle to bring home with me if worse comes to worse. Break them into smaller pieces and hide them inside the vehicles.
 
I really don’t wanna fight for this losing battle.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 17:22 utc | 1063

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 7 2026 17:19 utc | 1068
Assuming that the info is true it’s not Bahrain that is using himars it’ s US. 

Posted by: Mario | Mar 7 2026 17:23 utc | 1064

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 17:08 utc | 1057
 
######
 
“Shield of the Americas’ is likely going to be Trump’s private colonial IDF as he abandons NATO. Think of  ICE acting outside of the Homeland.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 17:25 utc | 1065

To me, the question is if the ‘Empire’ will be strong enough in this hypothetical future to muster an attack.
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 7 2026 17:04 utc | 1055
 
Exactly.
 
Which is why Iran (in the first instance) and China, Russia and yes, even Turkey and India must do what they can to make sure regardless of who wins this round, the USA is a spent power for the foreseeable future.
 
After all, they’re all next on the menu …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2026 17:26 utc | 1066

https://youtu.be/_3YkekOpJpg
 
Mahmood OD’s latest video.  He posted the President of Iran’s speech, along with an English translation.
 
If his translation is even close to accurate, his words have been taken WAY WAY WAY out of context.  The US version of it is a flat out lie.  Let’s apply it to the current situation.
 
Iranian President:  We apologize to our Brothers and Sisters in Bahrain.
Bahrain:  Missiles are launched from Bahrain into Iran.
Iranian President, later on in the speech:  We will act aggressively against those that use your territory to destroy our own.  
 
Nothing at all weak about his speech.  It is an offer to the Gulf States:  Israel and the US started a war with us.  Remember when they assassinated our Supreme Leader?  It wasn’t that long ago.  We are fighting Israel and the US.  If you work with the US and Israel, your territory will be targeted.  We apologize to all our Brothers and Sisters that do NOT support the Israel / US attacks Iran from your territory.
 
If you kick Israel and the US out of your nation, we can be at peace.
 
Words – not weak.  Body Language – resolute, firm.  Not weak.  Content of his speech – more words devoted to the necessity of defending against Israel / US than anything.
 
It was a good speech.  Not the speech of someone looking to betray Iran.

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 7 2026 17:30 utc | 1067

Reuters reports that the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation has declared force majeure due to the war in the Middle East.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 17:31 utc | 1068

Making 4 B1’s  carryiing a total of 96 cruse misiles.
==========
whats the range of these slo-mo cruise misiles ? 
whats the range of Iran’s SAMs ? 

Posted by: Exile | Mar 7 2026 17:31 utc | 1069

The American Empire is my home. I am obligated to defend it but I hate it because it’s Imperialistic and I want world peace. Trump is too dangerous as a cornered rat. The congress should stop pushing this man and treat him nicely please. I am scared of Trump now.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 17:32 utc | 1070

In response to

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 7 2026 17:19 utc | 1068Assuming that the info is true it’s not Bahrain that is using himars it’ s US. 
Posted by: Mario | Mar 7 2026 17:23 utc | 1073

 
It is the US that Iran is trying to drive out of the ME and if the leaders in Bahrain are too weak to tell the US to leave then they along with the US assets will be destroyed……that is the message the folks in the ME leadership meeting tomorrow need to understand.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 7 2026 17:33 utc | 1071

I can’t predict what current trends will result in.
First, Epstein has further ruined what little confidence US people have in government.  Further, Congress has become increasingly irrelevant, they don’t accomplish much of anything. The big decisions and actions are made by the White House by executive order. Thus, tariffs and wars and emergency expenditures.
Second, elections might become crazy because only a small minority actually vote in many areas. – Miami, NYC.  Yes, they could elect a Communist or a deranged Trans with a criminal record or anyone.
 

Posted by: Eighthman | Mar 7 2026 17:33 utc | 1072

Posted by: Mario | Mar 7 2026 17:23 utc | 1073
 
######
 
Yes, as we learned in Ukraine, HIMARS use is specialized and dependent on Americans at this time.
 
The Gulf militaries are a joke and many Gulf nations employ mercenaries for any heavy lifting.
 
That is all by colonial design. True sovereignty comes from military capability and food security, which were the two things denied to West Asia and West Africa.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 17:33 utc | 1073

video of trump reading a speech about America fuckyeahnistani power
https://t.me/CIG_telegram/70769
 
President Trump remarks on plans for Cuba at “Shield of the Americas” summit in Florida:

“Cuba’s in its last moments of life as it was. It’ll have a great new life…That’ll be an easy one.”

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 17:34 utc | 1074

Last night I saw on Chris Hedges show an alternative set of peace terms:
 
1. End all sanctions, and return to the same terms of Non-Proliferation Treaty that apply to everyone else;
2. Return all frozen assets, with interest;
3. Israeli forces return home, from Syria, from Lebanon, from Gaza, and from the West Bank;
4. US forces leave the Persian Gulf region.

Posted by: Mark Thomason | Mar 7 2026 17:34 utc | 1075

KillerDoll,
 
whats your M.O.S. ? 

Posted by: Exile | Mar 7 2026 17:34 utc | 1076

Posted by: Eighthman | Mar 7 2026 17:33 utc | 1081
 
Not a comuniss!

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 17:35 utc | 1077

Israel will not give up the Golan Height, Syria. Their water is from there. 

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 17:36 utc | 1078

12Bravo Combat Engineer I picked the most dangerous job because I was suicidal.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 17:36 utc | 1079

🇮🇱 Foreigner in Israel freaks out and comments on the incoming Iranian missiles.
“This is the US base and Iran is killing it”

https://t.me/myLordBebo/108689

Posted by: Norwegian | Mar 7 2026 17:38 utc | 1080

food security
 
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 17:33 utc | 1082
 

 
You would thing that food security would be indelibly etched into the memories of GCC citizens.  Their last great famine was just a generation ago.  
 
https://www.google.com/search?q=malnutrition+gulf+war&udm=14

Posted by: too scents | Mar 7 2026 17:40 utc | 1081

Posted by: Mark Thomason | Mar 7 2026 17:34 utc | 1084
 
#####
 
Who comes up with this stuff?
 
The Ayatollah was murdered during negotiations. Young girls were mass slaughtered. The slaughter continues today.
 
Iran is all gas no brakes, course set on destroying Israel.
 
Destroying Israel is a minimum condition. Not relocating but eradicating. America, if not destroyed completely, the Great Satan must be rendered unable to ever return.
 
The Iranians won’t be bought off with sanctions relief anymore than if someone killed my grandfather, daughters and nieces, then offers me some cash and McDonalds coupons…to call timeout and a truce.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 17:41 utc | 1082

Posted by: James C | Mar 7 2026 16:58 utc | 1048
This may answer your question in part:
<blockquote>Since U.S. troops first set foot in Afghanistan in 2001, the Defense Department has gone to significant lengths to control and suppress information about the human cost of war. It banned photographers on U.S. military bases from covering the arrival of caskets containing the remains of soldiers killed overseas. It paid Iraqi journalists to write positive accounts of the U.S. war effort. It invited U.S. journalists to “embed” with military units but required them to submit their stories to the military for pre-publication review; according to some reports, the policy was meant to co-opt the embedded journalists and make independent and objective reporting more difficult. It has erased journalists’ footage of civilian deaths in Afghanistan. And it has refused to disclose statistics on civilian casualties.</blockquote>
If a casualty is categorized as “friendly fire” or a “training accident,” does that mean that it is excluded from the reported casualties? Yes. The US military divides deaths into “Hostile” and “Non-hostile” categories, as we see here:
https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oef/byCategory
Note also that the number of wounded tends to far outweigh the number killed. In Afghanistan, there were 20,149 wounded versus 505 killed via “non-hostile” actions and 1,845 killed from “hostile” actions. In addition, as is well-known, psychological trauma is endemic in troops who return home. Very little if any of this will be reported at this stage. I suspect also that many of the “friendly fire” and “training” incidents are in fact incidents involving hostile activity; they are just categorized conveniently. There are many ways to twist the numbers. 
Even aside from the above, however, I suspect that the military is taking its time in updating casualty reports—perhaps they need a few weeks (or months…) to “confirm” the actual total. The powers that be are experts at lying. “Perception management” is what they call it—even this term is part of the Big Lie. 
<i>The Human Cost — Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan</i> https://www.aclu.org/human-cost-civilian-casualties-iraq-afghanistan-updated

Posted by: HeyHeyHey | Mar 7 2026 17:42 utc | 1083

Wasn’t there a big brouhaha a day or two ago about a Pezeshkian speech?  Weren’t there people here calling him a traitor?  Didn’t someone from the religious leadership tell him to be quiet?
 
Did nobody here consider the possibility these were preplanned coms?  I assume there were embedded code words and phrases.  Then the rest of the speech was built around those code words and phrases.  That’s how these things are done when you assume your enemy can intercept, read, block,.and alter everything you send electronically.  You make public announcements that will be picked up by news agencies and every on line nobody.  All of these news agencies and anonymous people will spread your unaltered coded communications.
 
If that’s what you use, and many groups do this, including the global elites, the more provocative the speech, the more people will publicize it.

Posted by: Nobody Special | Mar 7 2026 17:43 utc | 1084

Formatted: 
This may answer your question in part:

Since U.S. troops first set foot in Afghanistan in 2001, the Defense Department has gone to significant lengths to control and suppress information about the human cost of war. It banned photographers on U.S. military bases from covering the arrival of caskets containing the remains of soldiers killed overseas. It paid Iraqi journalists to write positive accounts of the U.S. war effort. It invited U.S. journalists to “embed” with military units but required them to submit their stories to the military for pre-publication review; according to some reports, the policy was meant to co-opt the embedded journalists and make independent and objective reporting more difficult. It has erased journalists’ footage of civilian deaths in Afghanistan. And it has refused to disclose statistics on civilian casualties. 

If a casualty is categorized as “friendly fire” or a “training accident,” does that mean that it is excluded from the reported casualties? Yes. The US military divides deaths into “Hostile” and “Non-hostile” categories, as we see here:
https://dcas.dmdc.osd.mil/dcas/app/conflictCasualties/oef/byCategory
Note also that the number of wounded tends to far outweigh the number killed. In Afghanistan, there were 20,149 wounded versus 505 killed via “non-hostile” actions and 1,845 killed from “hostile” actions. In addition, as is well-known, psychological trauma is endemic in troops who return home. Very little if any of this will be reported at this stage. I suspect also that many of the “friendly fire” and “training” incidents are in fact incidents involving hostile activity; they are just categorized conveniently. There are many ways to twist the numbers. 
Even aside from the above, however, I suspect that the military is taking its time in updating casualty reports—perhaps they need a few weeks (or months…) to “confirm” the actual total. The powers that be are experts at lying. “Perception management” is what they call it—even this term is part of the Big Lie. 
The Human Cost — Civilian Casualties in Iraq and Afghanistanhttps://www.aclu.org/human-cost-civilian-casualties-iraq-afghanistan-updated

Posted by: HeyHeyHey | Mar 7 2026 17:44 utc | 1085

Exile @  1078
I’m glad your asking,  i dont know, but would like to. The truth is i’m not mentaily strong enough to even look on wiki or any miltary sites. war burn out. I bet i’m not the only one.
 
I think a main problem is the high altitude they can drop from,  plus carrying cruse  missiles gives them obveous stand off capabiltys. No doubt  they will be refuild in air on the way.
 
I hope Iran has something real good that hasent been used yet , but i doubt it.
 
Just bomb the crap out of  tel aviv.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 7 2026 17:45 utc | 1086

Posted by: too scents | Mar 7 2026 17:40 utc | 1090
 
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China has been developing terraforming tech which has allowed it to (re)forest and reclaim Eastern desert regions in China.
 
I am sure that tech would be very efficacious one day in West Asia and parts of Africa.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 17:46 utc | 1087

🇮🇷🇮🇱⚡️- Israeli Channel 12 reports that the Khamenei’s son was injured in an attempted assassination strike by Israel, but is still alive.

 
https://x.com/ALERTX360/status/2030339617824833837
 
Like father, like son.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 17:50 utc | 1088

The US Army must be having a hard time fighting without bases and logistic supports. First Gulf War had the US and its allies built up the army over the years in the Neighboring countries before launching an attack. 2003 we already have the bases to support a forward deployment.
 
This is the first time we get a set back and all the bases destroyed. A lot of the US soldiers will be imbedded more into the civilian infrastructure and more depending on the local logistics. 
 
Under these conditions the collateral damages will increase. The US need to invade Iran to occupy and secure the area of operations. Iranian OPFOR are entrenched everywhere and locals are compromised OPFOR HUMINT. 
 
If only Trump shut the fck up and let his generals do the job. We wouldn’t be in this shit show of a losing battle. Best we can do is kick this war to next President.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 17:51 utc | 1089

Thoughts and prayers for Sakineh Bagoom. Also their family and friends and any other Iranian lurkers.
 
Stay safe 

Posted by: Some Random Passerby | Mar 7 2026 17:54 utc | 1090

Israel deleta est. Alhamdulillah.
Peace and Blessings on the Iranian people

Posted by: Giyane | Mar 7 2026 17:55 utc | 1091

If rumors is true. The Israel mossad disguised them as dentists to implant fake GPS tracker teeth and brace inside these idiots families and themselves because their extended families don’t follow OPSEC.
 
The problem with killing them is HOW CAN WE HAVE A BACKCHANNEL TO DESCALATE. Now we have to kill every single Iranian.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 7 2026 17:56 utc | 1092

Years ago, a lot was made about the concept of Responsibility to Protect.
 
If one has reasonable doubt that a major crime against humanity is about to be committed – could one intervene to prevent it, should one be obliged to intervene?
 
Surely Russia can monitor the movements of those bombers and make informed guess about their aims and loads?
 
Kind of remember Pepe Escobar claimed Israeli plane with nuclear load was destroyed some years ago. It was very hard to take him seriously then. Now I wish it could be true.

Posted by: js | Mar 7 2026 17:57 utc | 1093

whats the range of Iran’s SAMs ? 
 
Posted by: Exile | Mar 7 2026 17:31 utc | 1078
 

 
Iran is reported to have fielded S-300 PM2 systems with some flavor of 48N6 missiles.  That missile has a range between 150-300km an reaches an altitude of 28k meters ==> https://www.deagel.com/Weapons/48N6/a000994
 
https://militarywatchmagazine.com/article/iran-deploys-russian-s300-capital
 
That is what is available from recent open sources.
 

Posted by: too scents | Mar 7 2026 17:59 utc | 1094

It’s all so pointless and predictable.
 
Those B1’s will be used by trump. Thus dragging england even further into this stupid war,  purily for the gratification / wet dream of pshyco trump.
 
In the blink of an eye Iran will hit Cypress and hit them hard. As they should.
 
Nightmare.

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 7 2026 18:02 utc | 1095

Who or what might stop Trump from further digging the deep hole he is already in?
 
All those brave? Americans who insist lamely “it isn’t us, it’s our government” need to start taking accountability into their own hands. There appears to be only one so far and that man gone to prison.
 
 

Posted by: petra | Mar 7 2026 18:04 utc | 1096

Thanks two scents @ 1103

Posted by: Mark2 | Mar 7 2026 18:05 utc | 1097

300km max Range for the Iranian SAMs ?
 
figure the B1s then need to fire 400km stand off from the SAM bases. 
Whats the range of the cruise misilles the B1s carry ? 

Posted by: Exile | Mar 7 2026 18:06 utc | 1098

Trump and his administration are beginning to lean toward seizing Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, home to Iran’s largest oil terminal, responsible for 90% of its oil exports.
 
Seizing Kharg Island or destroying its oil terminal would “cut off” Iran’s ability to pay its troops, according to The Washington Post. It would also lead to famine or civilian deaths in Iran.
 
The Iraqi Air Force bombed Kharg Island during the Iran-Iraq War, destroying its oil facilities. This did not cause any mutinies among Iranian troops or the country’s bankruptcy, but the US is unaware of this.

 
https://x.com/vick55top/status/2030324768457531815
 
The lack of awareness and knowledge of history is why the Empire of supposedly Exceptional Chosen People (Pedophiles) will collapse in infamy.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 18:10 utc | 1099

Trump’s base must be deserting him in droves after his lies about draining the swamp and not going to war. These promises were pretty fundamental. I suppose this confirms that Trump won’t be seeking re-election, even if it was possible, because he’d lose heavily.

Posted by: Dave G | Mar 7 2026 18:13 utc | 1100