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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

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 6 2026 22:47 utc | 412
Agreed, a bit less dog-piling would be good.
It’s not as if there isn’t plenty of interesting stuff going on, it doesn’t need to be swamped by page after page of flaming back and forth.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Mar 6 2026 22:53 utc | 401

FIFA bla bla…
Posted by: jayc | Mar 6 2026 22:44 utc | 408
 
Hopefully there will be so many bomb threats that they will have to cancel a lot of games…

Posted by: Zet | Mar 6 2026 22:55 utc | 402

Whatever sins may be charged to All Under Heaven, being a Democrat is not one of them. 
 
Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 6 2026 21:38 utc | 347
I’m touched by your defense of a comrade.  As the premier crypto Imperialist Democratic, I will take your word on it, Stevie. 
Next time you guys are in the office together, tell AUH to just drop the phony radical act.  It’s so threadbare at this point, it’s becoming ridiculous.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 6 2026 22:56 utc | 403

Posted by: Framarz | Mar 6 2026 22:34 utc | 398
The commenters here are unable to accept reality and live in a constructed one. China will swoop in any minute to save Russia and Iran, they fantasize.
 
Posted by: catdog | Mar 6 2026 22:47 utc | 411

Do you need a blanket? I believe noone, even the whackadoodles that frequent this bar, suggested Russia and China were going to swoop in and do anything. However, your assertions that Russia and China are doing nothing was countermanded by the very Western media whose views you espouse so desperately. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/06/russia-iran-intelligence-us-targets/
It seems Russia and no doubt China are doing what any reasonable person would assume after the US provided and continues to provide intelligence and satellite data to Ukraine, which is playing the ‘UNO Reverse’ card. 
 
Neither you or anyone else has really articulated any argument as to why America has the strategic edge in this conflict, when any oompah loompah should be able to see that it is Iran. Of course America can rain down fire and brimstone and death but thats not winning, is it?
 

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 6 2026 22:57 utc | 404

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 6 2026 22:47 utc | 412

I will be so impolite as to note you didnt offer me a drink, which makes me sad. But I would probably have declined anyway and instead ripped a half dozen bongs. The inflection point seems apon us, next Mondays market open will be…interesting. Take care all.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 6 2026 23:00 utc | 405

Posted by: William Gruff | Mar 6 2026 21:47 utc | 351 Carly Simon had a hit song, with the line “You’re so vain you think this song is about you.” This person is just another dumb hammer. Dividing the world into Trump cultists and dembots is about as dumb as it gets. 
 
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 6 2026 22:30 utc | 393  You shouldn’t boast about your job satisfaction in wrecking. You vastly overestimate your contribution to Trump’s triumph Venezuela. I hope you are bitterly disappointed if your shrieks of joy turn out to be somewhat premature. I remember your satisfaction at the prospect of the crushing of the seeds of dual power in Venezuela. It was and is contemptible. 

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 6 2026 23:00 utc | 406

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 6 2026 22:49 utc | 415
I would say Iran is wise they saw how the US treated Sadam after he had fought the Iran- Iraq war for the yanks and them were conned into entering Kuwait and saw their army destroyed by them. Only trust yourself is a good philosophy

Posted by: Monty | Mar 6 2026 23:06 utc | 407

 
What comes after America’s retreat?

 

Lord Robert Skidelsky

Mar 05, 2026

 
[…] …  whereas in other respects Trump is repudiating the ‘globalist’ policies of his predecessors, in this respect he is simply following them. In committing itself to Israel’s survival, the USA is doing for Israel what it has said it would no longer do for its NATO allies. [..]
‘So in practice, it fell to the leading great power to supply sufficient carrots and sticks to ensure that nations followed the rules. Apart from the leading power claiming discretion to break the rules whenever it suited it, the problem was that such an order is necessarily self-liquidating over time by draining the leader of the resources needed to sustain it. So the system is bound to collapse in disarray, and most likely war, until a new world leader emerges.’
 
What comes after America’s retreat?

Posted by: Don Firineach | Mar 6 2026 23:07 utc | 408

It is very understandable that Iran doesn’t want to be dependent on china and Russia.  for one thing, Russia and china both helped push Iran into the corner where Trump felt free to beat up on Iran.  But if they have any interest in not consigning themselves and future generations to a gangster world, they must, I think, embrace global solidarity.  So must Russia and China.
 Or else, no worries:  the Hegemon will pick off any holdouts one by one.
I think China and Russia will try to avoid that by signing on with the Hegemon as vassals.   I don’t think the Hegemon will let them.  I think the Hegemon will insist on breaking them up.   No one will care at that point.
I think those asses, China and Russia, are depending on Iran and they don’t even know it.  or put it this way:  if Iran begins to prevail in this war, china and Russia will turn against it.  I think they are already willingly under Trump’s boot heel.
 
As we saw with Venezuela, Trump is perfectly happy to leave vassals a shred of dignity, a slight appearance of salvaged sovereignty.

Posted by: Paulunun | Mar 6 2026 23:07 utc | 409

apologies if someone posted john helmers link earlier on this thread…
 
here is a quote and then the link to the full article..
 

Accordingly, the Russian assessment is that Iran will not need to request military resupply and other assistance from Russia. Not yet — because the attrition of the Epstein Coalition forces is so rapid, they will be compelled to ask for a stop before Iran will need to ask for Russian assistance.”

 
THE SINKING SHIP PROBLEM IN THE WAR OF US, ISRAEL, INDIA AND NATO VERSUS IRAN, RUSSIA AND CHINA
 
 

Posted by: james | Mar 6 2026 23:09 utc | 410

Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 6 2026 21:38 utc | 347
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 6 2026 20:48 utc | 304

 
Stop it with the lovers’ quarrel. One of you is a conservative liberal and pro-Trump (but doesn’t admit it) and the other is a progressive liberal and anti-Trump. Both of you are fascists who fight to preserve America and take offense whenever someone says “Death to America!” It’s just like Tom_Q_Collins having a little spat with William Gruff over Trump, but when it comes to defending America, Tom_Q_Collins joins up with S Brennan (part of the same pro-Trump clique as Gruff) and work together to obfuscate the fact that Americans are chiefly responsible for the war against Iran by using Goyimistan to stand in for America.
 
On a related note, here’s some news from Guancha that brings a smile to my face (machine translated):

The lyrics are very fitting! The Iranian Embassy in China posted a Chinese children’s song, “The American Is a Robber.”
 
On March 4th, the Iranian Embassy in China posted a 1960s Chinese children’s song titled “The American is a Robber.” The lyrics read: “The American is a robber. Smiling on the face, with a big knife on his back. When he sees something good, he wants it all. If he can’t get it, he steals it. He seizes land and houses, commits murder and arson. His ambition is bigger than the sky. He wants to drag the earth down and move it home.”

 
Guancha has a video of American belligerence to accompany the song, but if you want the full song with period-appropriate footage and translated lyrics, you can check it out on YouTube.
 
Machine translation often loses nuance, so I’ve taken the liberty of translating the lyrics myself:
 

The American is a robber
Smiling on the face while hiding a big knife on his back
When he sees something good, he wants it all
If you won’t give it to him, then he robs it from you
He seizes lands and houses
He commits murder and arson, there’s nothing that he won’t stoop to doing
His ravenous ambition is bigger than the sky
He wants to drag the whole planet Earth back to his home
Children all over the world
Fight back against the American robber
No matter how vicious he is
We are stronger than him
Let us unite as one
Take down the American imperialist bandits

 
The Chinese have never forgotten the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, known to Americans as the Korean War. I’m quite sure someone else has shared on MoA the news of Chinese people’ genuine outpouring of support like donations to the Iranian Embassy. The embassy had to reject the donations because they didn’t plan on civilian monetary donations at this point in the conflict.
 
Let us join the children around the world and the Iranians in singing:
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 6 2026 23:14 utc | 411

Trump left America vulnerable to retribution — and that’s no accident
Would the Americans at least fathom this? The Iranians are not Arabs, and Iran is not Iraq. There is also Afghanistan, that wants vengeance. Trump is 79+, and how many years left for him? He is not like Carter to live for 100, and Carter was respected everywhere.

Posted by: James | Mar 6 2026 23:15 utc | 412

Which country, or which nation, race can be considered as friends to America? Is there at least one nation in the world? Not, those ‘leaders’ who smile today…

Posted by: James | Mar 6 2026 23:17 utc | 413

Only trust yourself is a good philosophy
 
Posted by: Monty | Mar 6 2026 23:06 utc | 427
 
######
 
The long and safe way is the enduring way. It is harder, but the hard way makes for a better outcome. Tested. Proven. Resilient.
 
Many cannot comprehend the Eastern perspective on time.
 
What did the Taliban use to say?
 
“America has the watches, but we have the time”.
 
Things have gone pretty well for the Taliban. And for China. And for Russia. And as we’re seeing now, Iran.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 6 2026 23:18 utc | 414

Of course America can rain down fire and brimstone and death but thats not winning, is it?
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 6 2026 22:57 utc | 424
“When you kill your enemies, they win.”

Posted by: catdog | Mar 6 2026 23:19 utc | 415

IRGC Spokesman: ‘Iran wholeheartedly welcomes America’s intention to have the U.S. Navy escort oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. Let’s see what happens.
 
They are also waiting for the US boots on ground…

Posted by: James | Mar 6 2026 23:20 utc | 416

the newest ‘posts a lot” poster… i wish there was a special room for these folks.. 

Posted by: james | Mar 6 2026 23:23 utc | 417

It’s just like Tom_Q_Collins having a little spat with William Gruff over Trump, but when it comes to defending America, Tom_Q_Collins joins up with S Brennan (part of the same pro-Trump clique as Gruff) 
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 6 2026 23:14 utc | 432
Ohhh the drama. what happens next, please tell.
Yoga Class Unite!
Yoga Class Unite!
Yoga Class Unite!
 
 

Posted by: Deniz | Mar 6 2026 23:24 utc | 418

what a raving lunatic he is… the best he can do here is step aside and absolve his role as president of usa…. short of that, putting him in front of a firing squad would also work… 
Posted by: james | Mar 6 2026 16:32 utc | 67
Yes, where are those nice young men in their clean white coats to take him away? Trump has become a cartoon idiot — unhinged, unsound, demented, and unfit for office. He is a clear and present danger to the US and the world.
I can’t fathom why none of the puppeteer oligarchs are using the hook to pull him off the stage before he burns down the theater.  Unless it’s too late, and the 911 demolition charges are already in place. Trump’s derangement is now obvious, as publicly visible as Biden’s dementia. That he’s still “in charge” of the asylum is baffling — very ominous.

Posted by: Doug Terpstra | Mar 6 2026 23:32 utc | 419

Current Situation in Israel (March 6, 2026)

  •  Over the past 24 hours, Iran has launched five major attack waves toward Israel, featuring ballistic missiles, missiles with multiple warheads, and UAVs.
  • Attacks have primarily targeted the Tel Aviv metropolitan area, including Bnei Brak, Ramat Gan, and Petah Tikva, as well as Beit Shemesh and Be’er Sheva.
  •  A missile recently struck in Tel Aviv, sparking a fire and damaging several buildings. Another reportedly struck near Ben Gurion Airport, targeting areas used by U.S. aerial refuelling tankers.
  •  In the last 24 hours alone, approximately 140 civilians have been injured. Since the war’s start on 28 February, 12 Israeli civilians have been killed and over 1,600 injured.

 
The Conflict with Hezbollah

  • Hezbollah has launched 18 attacks targeting IDF positions in northern Israel and southern Lebanon in the latest reporting period.
  • Hezbollah issued an urgent warning early today for Israeli residents to evacuate towns within 5km (3 miles) of the Lebanese border.
  • A Hezbollah projectile fire near the border today injured eight Israeli soldiers, five of them severely.

Posted by: James | Mar 6 2026 23:33 utc | 420

The Iranians are very prideful (dignity before death) and still remember the USSR helping Saddam during the Iraq/Iran war. They will work with Russia, but they don’t want to be dependent on anyone if they can help it.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 6 2026 22:49 utc | 415
 
Thanks for the reminder about the Iran/Iraq war.  Something I know, but fail to keep track of sometimes.

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 6 2026 23:35 utc | 421

Stop it with the lovers’ quarrel.  . .
Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 6 2026 23:14 utc | 432
================
 
Jesus, you wasted all that vertical space just to play the concern troll!!??
 
You  have a problem. Please solve it some other way.
 
 

Posted by: Jane | Mar 6 2026 23:37 utc | 422

Posted by: James | Mar 6 2026 23:17 utc | 434
 
People always wear the mask of a persona in front of an oppressor. Sartre called it inauthenticity. He illustrated that by using the example of waiter in a restaurant who acts out his role of submitted politeness to charm the customers but in reality hates the fact he must be subservient to their whims to make a living. He is thus putting on an act.
 
When the oppressor loses power the gloves come off as we saw in Paris after the Germans lost, China after Mao won, Russia after the revolution, France after the 1790s revolution etc etc. Retribution and vengeance take over. So people have been pretending to look happy for the US oppressors. Wait until they lose their power and supremacy, then we will now what the 81% of the oppressed and exploited world really thinks as well as some aware Americans who have been oppressed by their elitist leaders and their corrupt aims.
 
 

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Mar 6 2026 23:42 utc | 423

see the 1:21 video at the first link.  If this happened in israel, the USA, or any European nation, the mainstream media and political Elites wouldn’t shut about it for over 50 years; and put it in every ‘history’ book
 
see the 23-second video at the third link
 
 
 
 
https://x.com/zhao_dashuai/status/2029963295114023282
Zhao DaShuai 东北进修🇨🇳  @zhao_dashuai 
 
The moment when US bombs struck a school in Iran. 
 
This is a war crime.
 
————
 
https://x.com/HadiNasrallah/status/2029955382152474968
Hadi @HadiNasrallah 
 
“Iran will lose Arab sympathy for targeting the gulf” 
 
Lmfaooo who gives a f*ck? What did your “sympathy” do for Gaza? They don’t need crocodile tears. They need you to stop being shields to Israel and US bases. Otherwise stop whining like a b!tch and own up to your choices
 
————–
 
https://x.com/hippyygoat/status/2029843413533667765
Earth Hippy 🌎🕊️💚  @hippyygoat 
 
Look at the devastation and carnage after the Iranian missile strike last night. 
Many dead and missing.
– Bat Yam in Tel Aviv
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 6 2026 23:43 utc | 424

“When you kill your enemies, they win.”
 
Posted by: catdog | Mar 6 2026 23:19 utc | 436

 
Killing school girls has very little effect on enemy military capabilities.
 
If the “official” Iranian reports are to be believed, the US has killed about 2000 Iranians in the first week … a mix of assassination of key religious authorities and civilian bystanders, but relatively few genuine military targets. Obviously, the Iranians might be worse off than they admit … but taking this on face value … if the bombing continues and no other factors change the US could kill 100,000 Iranians in a year. That’s not really going to stop the missiles is it?
 
The USA can easily stand a year of economic disruption … they already did the dry run testing during COVID luckdowns. We can reliably call their strategy: print money, cause inflation, blame the other guy … it might even fool a few people. The question is can the US government deliver “a win” to the American people within that timeframe? I doubt it.
 
Take note, that all shipping everywhere is at risk now. It’s perfectly feasible for a very small force to use drones to shutdown the Panama Canal, or destroy most ocean-facing ports. There’s really no safe place to stand anymore.

Posted by: Tel | Mar 6 2026 23:46 utc | 425

Ohhh the drama. what happens next, please tell.
Yoga Class Unite!
Yoga Class Unite!
Yoga Class Unite!
Posted by: Deniz | Mar 6 2026 23:24 utc | 439

Hi there Deniz, or was it Deniz 152? Or Turk 152?
 
The same barfly who boasted about graduating from an American university? The one who condemned Muslim societies for their lack of “freedom” and then berated LoveDonbass for not appreciating the “freedom” that is America’s gift to the world?
 
Stop leaning on your Turkish identity as a crutch, Deniz. You’re an American. Even if you’re not an American citizen, you’re functionally one.
 
Just look at you instinctively absolving America and Americans of all responsibility.

Israel’s side. The Erdogan regime/AKP is a dictatorship, officers or journalists opposing his schemes will be thrown in jail and denounced as traitors. The current pushback that you see about his Iranian brothers is theatrics for internal politics. Think of it as Trump saying, “No new wars!”. If the most powerful country in the world is controlled by the Epstein class, do you think that Turkey Israel’s most powerful neighbor somehow managed to maintain its sovernity? I understand that the AKP just authroized 3 Israeli satelites to be set up over to Turkey to spy on Turkish citizens.
Posted by: Deniz | Mar 6 2026 17:42 utc | 153

 
Blame it all on the Jews! Everything bad that America does is because of Zionist infiltration, everything good is 100% pure All-American effort.
 
It’s unsurprising that an American will defend fascism. It’s the system that’s benefited Americans the most.
 
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 6 2026 23:46 utc | 426

Posted by: JackG | Mar 6 2026 22:32 utc | 396 The US only faked bombing IRI in June? Is that you c1ue?
Posted by: steven t johnson | Mar 6 2026 22:50 utc | 418

So Iran couldn’t land one missile on Qatar during the fake “retaliation”, but somehow has magically developed that capability now and is wrecking US bases?  The whole bomb Iran / missile strike Qatar was arranged.  Yes, the bombs fell in Iran.  Gave Trump a nice show and an off ramp.  The Russians even admitted they were involved in arranging it.

Posted by: JackG | Mar 6 2026 23:47 utc | 427

“Iran Just Bombed Tel Aviv With Cluster Bombs — Israel’s Defenses Are Failing”   (???????????????????????????????????????????)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nvsFrQ1VFw  (31 minutes)
 
There were more videos of this kind (“Iran attacked Israel with clusterbombs”) but I remain sceptical as long as there isn’t a (reliable) source or are more reliable sources.

Posted by: WMG | Mar 6 2026 23:47 utc | 428

India’s largest private refiner, Reliance Industries, is sounding the market for buying Russian crude, an anonymous source told Bloomberg on Friday, after the United States on Thursday issued a temporary one-month license to India allowing it to purchase Russia-origin crude loaded on vessels before or on March 5.

And so it begins.  The mad scramble for crude oil.  Something tells me India and Japan can buy as much crude from Russia as they want, and the US isn’t going to say crap about it.

Posted by: JackG | Mar 6 2026 23:49 utc | 429

If you are in the Biggliest Hole, make it Bigglier! DonT Tzu

Posted by: Nobody | Mar 6 2026 23:50 utc | 430

I am offended by calling the latest Iran missile that releases many sub munitions as cluster bombs because there is no evidence that what Iran has is like the cluster bombs of old that some nations have signed papers that they would not use…..but notUS and Occupied Palestine I believe.
 
The other point I want to make is that I watched an early view of that Iran missile and it seemed to send all the munitions to one place that I heard was the airport which makes sense because of the lots of little damage to the runways that is hard to repair potential.
 
My $0.02

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 6 2026 23:52 utc | 431

Posted by: WMG | Mar 6 2026 23:47 utc | 450

New type of war head.  “Cluster bombs” is probably disinfo because it is illegal in many countries.  They are properly called multiple reentry vehicles.  Russia and the US have them, and I’m sure China.  The main war head opens up and releases 20 mini-war heads.  Defeats terminal anti-missile defense.  Videos of them falling on Israel have been out.

Posted by: JackG | Mar 6 2026 23:54 utc | 432

“Trump / the US is asking Europe for help in the war against Iran”   (??????????????????????????????)

Posted by: WMG | Mar 6 2026 23:56 utc | 433

Shanaz Ibrahim Ahmed
@firstladyofiraq Shanaz
 
https://nitter.net/firstladyofiraq/status/2029576938919018606
Leave The Kurds Alone,
We Are Not Guns For Hire
 
On the 5th of March, we remember the day the Kurdish people rose up against the brutality of Saddam Hussein’s regime in a popular uprising that subsequently spread to a number of major cities.
 
Today, as war is knocking on our doors, regional tensions rising, we are reminded of our responsibility. We owe it to our people to protect our hard won peace and never again allow chaos to undo what was achieved through such sacrifice.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 6 2026 23:56 utc | 434

Posted by: WMG | Mar 6 2026 23:47 utc | 450
 
From what I have heard, Israel has introduced a law that forbids people and the media from showing the level of destruction in the country.  The exception to this rule is work done by propagandists  making claims that Israeli civilians are being targeted:  this for the sake of gaining sympathy for Israelis from the West.  
 
I think it is true however, Iran is hitting both strategic and civilian targets now.
 
Iran could not give a toss now since Israel and the US have been deliberately bombing parts of Iran in civilian areas as we know, even carpet bombing. So the gloves are off and Iran is not going to be polite nor as careful as Putin has been in Ukraine.  Israel and US bases will receive the same treatment it meted out to GAZANs, and is now attempting to do in Iran.
 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zdft-4xGRE

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Mar 7 2026 0:00 utc | 435

What could be a truly painful Iranian response to US and Israeli attacks? It’s water.
 
Millions of people in the Persian Gulf monarchies live in the desert thanks to dozens of large desalination plants located along their coasts. These plants are large, static targets that can’t be hidden or transported, and they are within the range of cheap Iranian drones.
 
It’s estimated that Qatar gets almost 100% of its drinking water from desalination, Bahrain and Kuwait around 90%, Saudi Arabia around 70%, and the UAE 42%. These five countries are home to approximately 58-60 million people. Most live in the largest cities—Riyadh, Jeddah, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait, and Manama—where access to water depends on several coastal facilities that pump water through pipes hundreds of kilometers into the desert.
 
In Israel, five coastal plants on the Mediterranean Sea also provide up to 80–90% of the cities’ drinking water, and they are also within range of Iranian drones and missiles.
 
Damage to even one major facility could quickly trigger an emergency.
 
What if Iran strikes several sites simultaneously?
 
Authorities will have not a week, but just days, to try to keep the Gulf states from collapsing—deploying field logistics, organising water distribution, and protecting warehouses from looting. But there may be nowhere to transport water from: the surrounding countries are equally deserted. Without water, hospitals, airports, data centers, and military bases will come to a standstill. Within days, there will be a mass exodus from coastal cities, disease outbreaks, and direct conflict over access to functioning wells and reservoirs. A classic scenario for a humanitarian catastrophe: millions of citizens in the world’s richest oil region will find themselves in refugee camps.
 
For the United States, such a scenario would be a blow, as the monarchies would pressure the United States: either you quickly wind down the war and strengthen the defense of our infrastructure, or we will limit your presence in the region.
 
For Trump, the risks of turning a “small victorious war” into a protracted conflict with Iran and the loss of wealthy allies are becoming increasingly tangible.

Posted by: James | Mar 7 2026 0:00 utc | 436

Jesus, you wasted all that vertical space just to play the concern troll!!??
You have a problem. Please solve it some other way.
Posted by: Jane | Mar 6 2026 23:37 utc | 443

 
Hi there Jane!
 
Should I remind you of your defense of Trump’s attempted annexation of Greenland?

But in the “good for whom?” field, Greenlanders might be glad to get out from under the Danish yoke. It is kind of absurd that tiny Denmark controls gigantic Greenland, but more to the point, there is a long history of overt racism by Danes regarding the indigenous population of Greenland.
Despite the negative colonial baggage, in the case of a referendum I hope the Greenlanders take plenty of time to consider the benefits of being far removed from one’s master!
Posted by: Jane | Jan 8 2025 15:24 utc | 20

 
Will you now say that an annexation of Iran by America or Israel is good? What if America lets Israel annex Iran for 20 years, then America kicks out the Israelis and installs America itself as the benevolent governor of Iran? Would you argue that it is good because it is removing “negative colonial baggage”?
 
The fascists sure get riled up whenever they sense even the tiniest bit of threat to America.
 
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 7 2026 0:00 utc | 437

@ jayc | Mar 6 2026 22:44 utc | 408
 
The easy way out would be for FIFA and the IOC to forbid Iranian participation. 
 
I wouldn’t put it past them.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 7 2026 0:00 utc | 438

Blame it all on the Jews! Everything bad that America does is because of Zionist infiltration, everything good is 100% pure All-American effort.

Zio-slop straw man.  The Greater Israel Project is proven.  Congress is owned by AIPAC.  Proven.  Epstein was a mossad pedo blackmail operation.  Proven.  Ritter, who met frequently with the Iraqi government, Israeli government, and briefed the Whitehouse categorically states that Israel ordered the Iraq war.
There’s also the MIC raking in the loot.  No one denies that.  And there’s even the boomer obsession with 1979.  They don’t even know that Iran and the US were allies during the war against ISIS in Iraq.  It was even Solemani who was meeting almost daily with US officers to coordinate air and artillery support for the Shia militia.  Boomers don’t know that.

Posted by: JackG | Mar 7 2026 0:02 utc | 439

§| Precision bomb a children’s school.✅
§| Torpedo an unarmed vessel, in international waters, participating in naval exercises at the invitation of your ally ✅
§| Ignore centuries old naval law about rescuing drowning sailors✅§| Kill the leadership of a country while conducting “negotiations”✅
§| wail and rant because muh “cluster” bombs
🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
 

Posted by: Melaleuca | Mar 7 2026 0:03 utc | 440

Posted by: Framarz | Mar 6 2026 22:34 utc | 398
 
2 su-35s were delivered in nov 2024.  They take 3 months to assemble.  They are most likely in operation, and there is a picture of one in an underground airbase in one of the articles I posted twice last thread.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:07 utc | 441

Hezbollah has lit up a Zio commando drop in Beqaa Valley. Rumors of a helicopter shot down. 
The men of God are ready. 
 

Posted by: Ali | Mar 7 2026 0:09 utc | 442

Karl, you still owe me an answer to a question. Do you remember how many times I’ve asked here over the past three years about what happened to the Su-35 jets that Iran purchased and why they  havent been delivered…
 
Posted by: Framarz | Mar 6 2026 22:34 utc | 398
 
Ahh, no wonder for some reason you came at me for posting a story about your reputation.
 
I need to post this bit to show your haughty arrogance and ignorance.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:09 utc | 443

Another Putin hater that dont know shit, surprise surprise.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:10 utc | 444

President Biden… ewww so sorry…   Pedophile Biden… ok don’t need to go THAT far.
 
In 2023 I think it was, might have been 2022, Biden made a speech where he discussed why the US was transferring cluster bombs to Ukraine, and working with them for use against Russia.  The reason was:  we ran out of regular artillery ammunition.  For Americans now, the fact that Iranians are using CLUSTER BOMBS shows how evil and horrible and bleah bleah bleah.  One more set of lies that Americans shout at maximum volume.  If we yell it loud enough it must be true right?
Here on Moon of Alabama, there was then a discussion about the US use of cluster bombs against Russian military assets.  At first, the US used them as replacements for regular artillery shells.  The claim here was that this was a waste since artillery shell targets were mostly used against hard targets, which artillery shells are great again but cluster bombs suck against.  Apparently US military commanders came to the same conclusion since, in 2 weeks or so, the US started using them against softer targets, especially known artillery locations, and that was quite effective.
There are reasons why Americans 100% absolutely fervently believe stuff that is 100% false.  This is an example of how these lies are manufactured.  Americans have yet to pay the full price for believing all this shit.  The day of reckoning does not seem to be very far away anymore.

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 7 2026 0:11 utc | 445

Here are the lyrics to the song “Waterloo” by ABBA .
My, my, at Waterloo Napoleon did surrenderOh yeah, and I have met my destiny in quite a similar wayThe history book on the shelfIs always repeating itself
Waterloo – I was defeated, you won the warWaterloo – Promise to love you for ever moreWaterloo – Couldn’t escape if I wanted toWaterloo – Knowing my fate is to be with youWaterloo – Finally facing my Waterloo
My, my, I tried to hold you back but you were strongerOh yeah, and now it seems my only chance is giving up the fightAnd how could I ever refuseI feel like I win when I lose
Waterloo – I was defeated, you won the warWaterloo – Promise to love you for ever moreWaterloo – Couldn’t escape if I wanted toWaterloo – Knowing my fate is to be with youWaterloo – Finally facing my Waterloo
So how could I ever refuseI feel like I win when I lose
Waterloo – Couldn’t escape if I wanted toWaterloo – Knowing my fate is to be with youWaterloo – Finally facing my Waterloo

Posted by: Rufus Arrr | Mar 7 2026 0:11 utc | 446

“America Is Running Low on Ammo | Behind the Numbers with Rick Wilson”
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SejjvR6glPo   (length:  5 minutes)
 
– A THAAD system costs $ 1.2 billion a piece and that’s without missiles. Iran destroyed 2 THAAD systems with russian intelligence.
– This war costs $ 1 billion a day. That’s without all the support from ships, fighter planes, …….. and other military stuff. When one includes all the support of ships and planes and military logistics the the cost goes up to half a billion an hour.
 
(“Behind the numbers with Rick Wilson” has more videos in which the ugly truth is more revealed.)
Even prominent figures like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tucker Carlson are having severe doubts about the course of the Trump administration.

Posted by: WMG | Mar 7 2026 0:14 utc | 447

Putin says Russia may halt energy supplies to Europe, redirect them to Asia

The news came in like a bombshell to me on the morning of the 4th (UTC-8).
I had long understood the conflict in Ukraine as a means for the US to drive a wedge between Russia and the rest of Europe and reinforce the Anglo-Zionist stranglehold on the latter. Is Putin acquiescing to that?
It makes me angry enough with the USA to see 450 million taxpaying citizens suffer as a result of the decisions of these US-trained and installed elites. Seeing all the gloating, rejoicing and Schadenfreude in comment sections of RIA, RT and Twitter, and the lack of counterarguments to Putin’s proposal, makes me wish I were in Khamenei’s shoes right now – the USA is not called the Great Satan for nothing.

Posted by: joey_n | Mar 7 2026 0:15 utc | 448

I saw a job ad for some people to collect / manage the personal belongings of dead soldiers / contractors. Can’t find it now… was on some TG channel.
 
Posted by: Zet | Mar 6 2026 22:49 utc | 416
https://news-pravda.com/world/2026/03/04/2126585.html
 
 

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:15 utc | 449

He is not like Carter to live for 100, and Carter was respected everywhere.
 
Posted by: James | Mar 6 2026 23:15 utc | 433

 
Except Iran, I imagine.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 7 2026 0:21 utc | 450

Apologies if this has been posted already
Picked this up from over at NC. Yves commented that even the generally even tempered Aurelien said this made his hair stand on end.
It treats at length and in well sourced detail the effects of the closure of Hormuz on global economics but also on global social coherence. Moderately terrifying if the idiot twins don’t stand down their unwinnable war.
https://ctindale.substack.com/p/systemic-risk-a-12-order-cascading

Posted by: lone plateau | Mar 7 2026 0:21 utc | 451

https://bulgarianmilitary.com/2024/11/30/first-two-su-35e-fighters-were-delivered-to-iran-in-pieces/
 
and the article with a picture from Iranian news:
 
https://militarnyi.com/en/articles/iran-underground-bases-missile-airbases/
 
they were just mock ups in the iranian news to test the space.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:23 utc | 452

Posted by: JackG | Mar 7 2026 0:02 utc | 461

 
America comes after God but above Israel in importance to the Ansar Allah, with an eye towards America’s destruction, not in its glorification as in the case of God.
 

Allāhu ʾakbar
Al-mawt li-ʾAmrīkā
Al-mawt li-ʾIsrāʾīl
Al-laʿnah ʿalā ‘l-Yahūd
An-naṣr li-l-ʾIslām
God is great
Death to America
Death to Israel
Curse on the Jews
Victory to Islam

 
Tell me, JackG, are you on the battlefield, taking fire and dying from the Saudi and Emirati missiles and mercenary armies like the Yemeni Ansar Allah are? It’s strange that those whose life are most at risk reserve their utmost bile for America. Israel and Jews make the list, but not before America. Saudis and Emiratis don’t even appear.
 
The Iranians consider America the Great Satan and Israel the Little Satan.
 
Perhaps you are a member of the Hezbollah, JackG? Your words carry weight because you have fought against the Israelis on the battlefield.
 
Nasrallah was one of the leaders of Hezbollah and he was martyred in 2024 in an airstrike.
 
Let me remind you of Nasrallah’s words again:

It is America that controls Israel. The story about the Jewish and Zionist lobby is—forgive me for saying this—a joke invented by the Arabs so that they do not have to fight Israel. They do this so that they can go to America, deposit their money there, and establish relations with America, under the pretext that they are establishing an Arab lobby in order to compete with the Jewish lobby.
In America, you have the major corporations… You have a trinity of the oil companies, the weapons industry, and the so-called “Christian Zionism.” The decision-making is in the hands of this alliance. Israel used to be a tool at the hands of the British, and now it is a tool in the hands of America.

 
Remember that if you ever in your comments choose to suggest that Israel controls America, then you’re dishonoring the memory of Nasrallah of the Hezbollah and openly insulting the Ansar Allah.
 
If you choose not to affirm that America is the one who controls Israel, then I want it on the record that you believe in the opposite. Tell all of the bar that you think Nasrallah is stupid and wrong for believing that America controlled Israel and that anyone who buys into the opposite narrative of Israel controlling America is the equivalent of the Arab traitors who work for America.
 
Say it, JackG! Say that you oppose Nasrallah and the Ansar Allah!
 
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 7 2026 0:23 utc | 453

@AllUnderHeaven spitting fire tonight.  Love the song.  Keep up the good work.

Posted by: NotPaulHollywood | Mar 7 2026 0:23 utc | 454

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 6 2026 23:46 utc | 447
I have been analyzing your harangues and I really find it kind of fucking stupid, some weird bastardazation of Marx to say that any American with a job that isnt shoveling shit is personally responsbile for the crimes of our Epstein class.  If one thinks deeply about what you are saying, you are actually shilling for the proletariate.  You dont have to committ a real crime, you dont have to create a genocide, you dont have start a war, all you have to do is be some shlub who tried to make a better life for himself, live in America, and you have just as much blood on your hands as Netanyaho. 
 
I must have said a thousand times over the years, that I think that the US administration, Trump, Biden, Clinton are criminals, I frequently refer to them as the criminal class, but the one time I mention my degree as part of a conversation, you never let it go.  That seems quite psychotic. dont you think?   
 
Finally, just because you have been programmed to think Zionists are one in the same as Jews, doesnt mean I do.  In fact, I look at as the average Jew (some of my friends), the Zionist, who have mostly been fucked up by warped propoganda promulgated by the British Empire in the Anglican Church, who can be reasoned with and lastly the Satanists.  The Satanist under Sabbatai Zevi, who I understand forsake Judiasim, probably this is where you will find the Epstein class, which we all know isnt made of Jews, as we can plainly see in Trump, Poindexter (not Jews!).  There is a giant chasm in morality difference between the average Zionist in Israel and the Likud party leaders.   
 
Yoga Class Unite!Yoga Class Unite!Yoga Class Unite!
 
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Deniz | Mar 7 2026 0:23 utc | 455

Someone posted this Joti Brar interview on the Iran situation. You always learn when she talks. very good– no hype, lots of facts and rational thought
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauYp0IEfb0

Posted by: arby | Mar 7 2026 0:25 utc | 456

– When Iran retaliates against the American bases that attack its people, the Arab regimes get angry and describe the Iranian Muslim people’s defense as aggression against them!!
– The countries hosting American bases rush to confront any Iranian operations and try to defend and secure those bases.
– Arab countries provide financial support to the American bases and cover all their expenses.
– They want the countries attacked by America to remain silent and not defend themselves.
Sayyed Abdul-Malik Badruddin al-Houthi:

 
https://t.me/YemeniMilitary/795

Posted by: Framarz | Mar 7 2026 0:29 utc | 457

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Mar 7 2026 0:23 utc | 478
 
just death to america, but death to Israel AND curse on the Jews in their slogan.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:33 utc | 458

An Iranian woman angrily says:
 
“We stand here to the very last drop of our blood. We won’t submit to neither submission nor negotiations. We’re only here to avenge our leader, only this!
 
They have to pay! And they have to pay with their blood. We’re the children of Seyyed Ali. We’ve eaten the bread and salt of this land.”
 

21-second video . 
https://x.com/TranslateMom/status/2030045085866381559

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 0:34 utc | 459

@ All Under Heaven | Mar 7 2026 0:23 utc | 478 who claims that the US rules Occupied Palestine…..you haven’t reached the top of the pyramid yet
 
Western empire is run by the private money folks that I call the God Of Mammon cult and they claim no fealty to either their religious proxy Occupied Palestine nor the current face of empire, America.
 
Thank you for your attention to this matter…../s

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 7 2026 0:34 utc | 460

its amazing how much AllUnderHeaven cares so much to exonerate Israel.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:34 utc | 461

“The great masses of people…will more easily fall victims of a great lie than to a small one.”— A. Hitler

Posted by: hightrekker | Mar 7 2026 0:36 utc | 462

That new missile (Khorramshahr, I believe) that looks like a cluster attack, the two Larrys Wilkeson and Johnson mused with Nima, that it may be MIRVs.
 
Of course, the Western media is breathless with crying about cluster bombs when Israel is famous for using cluster bombs on residential areas.
 
the Israeli cries as he strikes you

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 0:41 utc | 463

Trump’s derangement is now obvious, as publicly visible as Biden’s dementia. That he’s still “in charge” of the asylum is baffling — very ominous.
Posted by: Doug Terpstra | Mar 6 2026 23:32 utc | 440
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It looks like the whole White House staff has lost it.
I am posting again the item from Lord Bebo, which shows Trump’s spiritual adviser, Paula White, in the Oval Office, declaring the White House Holy Space, and then raving  in tongues before swaying zombies in some kind of structure—truly ghastly and frightening. The clips look genuine to me.

https://x.com/MyLordBebo/status/2029860273855811795
I also did a search for “Paula White Speaking in tongues” and got this. Doesn’t prove that it is genuine but worth a look if you don’t mind spoiling your appetite for dinner:
 
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fgZvzc4Pgmo

Posted by: Jane | Mar 7 2026 0:42 utc | 464

Everywhere I look, the moodshift is real.  It took a week to go from, “ha ha, protest slaughtering IRGC pwned” to “oh shit, its ww 3, we aint winning, and we aint ever getting student loan debt relief or universal healthcare”

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:46 utc | 465

Posted by: Framarz | Mar 6 2026 22:34 utc | 398Ahh, no wonder for some reason you came at me for posting a story about your reputation.I need to post this bit to show your haughty arrogance and ignorance.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:09 utc | 466

You tried your best, but you cannot provoke me into discussing off-topic matters.

Posted by: Framarz | Mar 7 2026 0:46 utc | 466

The War that isn’t a War
Everyone involved understands what sustained military conflict between states looks like. History has given us plenty of examples. But acknowledging that fact would require accountability.

  • It would require Congress to vote clearly.
  • It would require leaders to explain the goals, costs, and risks.
  • It would require the public to confront the possibility that the nation is sliding toward escalation.

And those are all difficult conversations. So instead we get the ritual and the verbal vagueness while the bombs still fall, the missiles still launch, and the soldiers still die.
Meanwhile someone in Washington steps before a microphone and explains that nothing so dramatic as war is taking place.
 
 

Posted by: Irishsteel | Mar 7 2026 0:53 utc | 467

You tried your best, but you cannot provoke me into discussing off-topic matters.
 
Posted by: Framarz | Mar 7 2026 0:46 utc | 492
 
I posted an article two days ago that was in direct opposition to one you posted, without knowing it was.
 
It meant so little to me I dont even remember what the story was.
 
But you took great offense and had to inform me how the rest of the bar is quite aware of the accuracy of your news posts.
 
And I was like,ok, whatever…  i thought it odd, but ignored it, no sweat off my back, I didnt care either way about the story.
 
 
But now you have revealed yourself to be another Putin hater, now I understand why you came at me out of the blue.
 
And you and your little Putin hating circle jerk of socks and jerks try to turn any topic off topic by making it all about Putin somehow, no matter what the actual topic, so dont give me that shit, punk, about being worried about offtopic.  You fucker make every topic into “Putin sucks”.
 
Furthermore, in my years here, I didnt recognize your moniker, so I have no idea how you think you have the reputation you claim you do.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:54 utc | 468

Reported clashes between gunmen and an Israeli force that landed on mountains in eastern Lebanon
 
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said local gunmen tried to repel the force on the edge of the town of Nabi Chit. NNA also said Israeli warplanes were flying over the area.
 
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV reported that Israeli forces tried to land three times in Nabi Chit and the third attempt occurred after midnight Friday. It was said to have been met inside the town by Hezbollah and local fighters who clashed with it.
 
There was no immediate word on casualties.
 
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to an AP request for confirmation.
 
Nabi Chit is a stronghold of the Hezbollah militant group.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:57 utc | 469

AUH 459:
 
Oh, dear, reading comprehension problems, plus a lateral leap.
(I wonder how much of your day you wasted looking for this, a la LD.)
In Copenhagen, I visited a museum with an extensive exhibit on the many types of abuse that Greenlanders suffered as a colony of Denmark. Then I wrote:
 
“Despite the negative colonial baggage, in the case of a referendum I hope the Greenlanders take plenty of time to consider the benefits of being far removed from one’s master!Posted by: Jane | Jan 8 2025 15:24 utc | 20 ”
As I said, reading comprehension problem, and doesn’t change your concern trolling.
More wasted space. Give it a rest.
 
 
 
 

Posted by: Jane | Mar 7 2026 1:00 utc | 470

Maybe someone can tell me – how the hell is torpedoing the Iranian destroyer not a war crime? It was way away from any action and wasn’t an imminent threat to anything.
BTW – voted for Trump (twice) because the alternative was worse. At this point though, I would have no problem with impeaching and convicting him.

Posted by: ian | Mar 7 2026 1:05 utc | 471

Furthermore, in my years here, I didnt recognize your moniker, so I have no idea how you think you have the reputation you claim you do.
Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 0:54 utc | 494

 
LOL .., ok dude, I give up, you got me!

Posted by: Framarz | Mar 7 2026 1:10 utc | 472

BTW – voted for Trump (twice) because the alternative was worse. At this point though, I would have no problem with impeaching and convicting him.
Posted by: ian | Mar 7 2026 1:05 utc | 497
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It is a war crime. They are piling up.
 
I am sure there are many in your position re having voted for Trump. Hell, I see guests on podcasts saying this on a regular basis.

Posted by: Jane | Mar 7 2026 1:12 utc | 473

Yedioth Ahronoth (Israeli Daily Newspaper): Since the outbreak of the war, 1,681 people have been transferred to hospitals.
 
No word on how many died in hospital, or how many went to hospital with lights and sirens off.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 1:12 utc | 474

At this point though, I would have no problem with impeaching and convicting him.
 
Posted by: ian | Mar 7 2026 1:05 utc | 497
 
i dodnt vote for him afraid of this, i wanted it not to be true, but his zionism was too much to ignore after 8 years.
 
I am for impeachment IF it is for his bullshit wat, but NOT if its for some other bs.
 
And if they try to impeach him, it wont be for this war, guarantee it.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 7 2026 1:15 utc | 475

Posted by: ian | Mar 7 2026 1:05 utc | 497
 
There can only be war crimes when there is someone to prosecute them. Those days are long gone. It’s the law of the jungle now.  

Posted by: Maverick | Mar 7 2026 1:15 utc | 476

https://x.com/its_ereko/status/2029872744561582466
 
TIME magazine headline: Iran rejects cease fire, says ready for US ground invasion.
 
Read it again.
 
Slowly.
 
They frame it as Iran rejecting peace. As Iran preparing for war. As Iran being the obstacle. But here’s what they don’t say: Iran has been under sanctions for decades. Iran has been threatened with invasion for years. Iran has watched Libya disarm and get bombed. Iraq comply and get occupied. Ukraine trust and get burned. Now they’re supposed to beg for a ceasefire? From the country that just bombed them? “Ready for US ground invasion” isn’t aggression. It’s preparation. It’s survival. It’s the only language the empire understands. The media spins. The headlines lie. The people stay confused. Iran didn’t reject peace. They rejected surrender. There’s a difference. The West just doesn’t want you to see it.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 7 2026 1:15 utc | 477

The headline language newspeak has to be the more insidious shit of it all

I read one about the school bombing. That was absurd. 

Made it sound like the students had GONE on strike. 

Hundreds dead “after school strike.”

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 7 2026 1:17 utc | 478

Last couple of thoughts from me.
 
Ford CSG moving in may indicate USS Abe is incapacitated. Again, I remind the bar that the extremely sensitive catapult system can be made inoperable if debris were to get in and the entire air group is stuck. 
 
Special Forces, Airborne type units are “Light Infantry”. Watch “Longest Day” to get a sense of how they need to operate I  order to survive. This is not Grenada/Panama or sellout Venezuela.
 
This points to deployment either in Gaza or Lebanon and at a stretch Iraq. Alternatively, Bahrain where Iranian SOF maybe active. 
 
B52s. 
All F15s shot down by the Ghost of Kuwait have been either in Kuwait or Basra, Iraq.  This points to lack of Aerial domination and the airspace is still hotly contested, hence $100s of millions in Drone shootdowns.BB52s flying over will be akin to escorting ships in the Strait. 
 
Quick recap, these news are for US domestic consumption and rank amateurs.
 
May the men and women on the Eastern and Middle Eastern fronts prevail over the Satanists and their familiars.
 
 

Posted by: Suresh | Mar 7 2026 1:17 utc | 479

see the 22-second video at the first link
 
 
 
 
https://x.com/sahouraxo/status/2029989641038725528
sarah  @sahouraxo 
 
This is Beirut today. 
 
Israel is systematically wiping out entire apartment blocks in Lebanon’s capital — a historic city that has stood for more than 5,000 years. 
 
Not military targets. 
 
Civilian homes.  Residential buildings
 
——————-
 
https://x.com/hasanthehun/status/2029929157921230867
hasanabi  @hasanthehun 
 
fucking insane the way we talk about entire countries. it’s unbearably evil. we are truly run by monsters.
 
 
https://x.com/NatashaBertrand/status/2029923484076216324
Natasha Bertrand  @NatashaBertrand 
Trump tells @DanaBashCNN: “Cuba is gonna fall pretty soon, by the way, unrelated, but Cuba is gonna fall too. They want to make a deal so badly. They want to make a deal, and so I’m going to put Marco (Rubio) over there and we’ll see how that works out. We’re really focused on this one right now. We’ve got plenty of time, but Cuba’s ready — after 50 years
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 7 2026 1:18 utc | 480

In voting for McKinley 130 years ago Americans endorsed a policy of outward focused Imperialism post the mass slaughter of 11 million American Indians. US Imperialism has continued ever since replacing British Imperialism. Americans voted for governments that have maintained this position in the world and many believed in US exceptionalism backed by a phony sense of ‘God given right’, very similar to what the Jews and Israelis claim about themselves being God’s chosen people. 
 
So it is not true that only US administrations and the deep state which only gained much traction post WWII after Truman, that only they are to blame for the current murderous mess the US has created in the world. I still maintain it is about 10% of Americans who see this.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Mar 7 2026 1:19 utc | 481

Cuba….there is nothing left of Cuba to be destroyed. All it takes is to watch a few Cuba travel vlogs to come to that conclusion. The buildings, the transportation, the people are all worn down and crumbling. Six decades of total sanctions have brought not just to it’s knees, but flat on it’s face, with a jack boot stomping on it. It is monstrous what the US has done to that country. They have little food, almost no medical supplies, and zero hope. 
 
At this point they have nothing remaining to loose. Frankly the best thing they could do at this point is surrender, let the US pay to rebuild it and then once they have, rebel all over again. Anything is better than what the Cuban people are living with now. 

Posted by: Maverick | Mar 7 2026 1:28 utc | 482

In fairness, I love Love’s contributions.
 
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 6 2026 22:47 utc | 412
 
####
 
Thank you. You and I disagree on some things, but we have mutual respect, which makes anything possible.

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 1:31 utc | 483

This isn’t going to change as long as the dollar is the world’s reserve currency.
 
Posted by: bored | Mar 7 2026 1:31 utc | 515

Fortunately for those ‘regional powers’ (do you actually believe this drivel) America is led by halfwits who are happily accelerating the fall of the greenback. 

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Mar 7 2026 1:36 utc | 484

“No New Wars” looks like it’s about to become “ALL New AND Old Wars” – Man did the MAGAts get clowned. Let’s hope the rest of the world didn’t, too. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Mar 7 2026 1:36 utc | 485

Looks like Raid on Entebbe II, the sequel, went sideways for the IDF:
 

🌟⚡️🇮🇱 Summary of what happened in the town of Al-Nabi Sheet, Lebanon according to a Lebanese reporter:
 
– The Islamic Resistance forces succeeded in countering the attempt to deploy Israeli forces in the town of Al-Nabi Sheet.
 
– According to information, after warplanes continuously created a fire belt for more than 10 hours, Israeli forces landed in the town center.
 
– They first tried to carry out the deployment operation around 7 o’clock but failed. Then around 11 o’clock they tried again and were unsuccessful once more. On the third attempt, around 12:30 AM, the forces landed in the town center near the surrounding mountains.
 
– There, the resistance forces and the residents of Al-Nabi Sheet were lying in a strong ambush waiting for them. Despite all the air attacks, direct clashes with Israeli forces occurred, and immediately warplanes launched severe and multiple attacks against the town.
 
– However, the resistance’s air defense confronted them, and it was also observed that fires were released in an attempt to escape the area.
 
– After more than half an hour of fighting, the fate of the Israeli force that landed in Al-Nabi Sheet remains unknown to this moment.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2026 1:37 utc | 486

Has anyone seen Paula White, Trump’s “spiritual advisor”?
 
She speaks in tongues and leads prayers in the Oval Office. It’s not creepy, it’s funny.
 
Then Rubio and Hegseth talk about the Iranians as religious fanatics.
 
No one ever claimed the Ayatollah was sent by God, the way the MAGAs do about Trump.
 
How demoralized must a people be to choose a pedophile liar and ignoramus TV star as a Messiah? One has to believe in nothing and see nothing positive coming from God to choose such a low character, low-quality human being to be a Messiah. By definition, a Messiah is exceptional. 
 
I do like the talk of Trump bringing Jesus back into the world. I don’t think that he is, well, not by design.
 
If Jesus comes, what will he think about child killers and people who starve his people to death? What will he think about the wealth gap? What will he think about OnlyFans and gender reassignment surgery? What will he think about people putting money over family and humanity?

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 1:41 utc | 487

Chinese satellite reconnaissance and surveillance ship is parked in the Persian Gulf sniffing up everything at least 5,000 km radius. Everything. Including all those invisible US stealth planes signatures.

https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/ZWKZnfjDJiJXoYqnkJ2kNQ

Posted by: Surferket | Mar 7 2026 1:41 utc | 488

🇺🇸 BREAKING! USS George H.W. Bush is deploying to the eastern Mediterranean, according to Fox News. If confirmed, this would place three U.S. carrier strike groups in the region.
🔴 @DDGeopolitics

 
Three whole carrier groups!?
 
What’s the matter Uncle Sam? You seem to be making pretty heavy weather of this!

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2026 1:41 utc | 489

Has anyone seen Paula White, Trump’s “spiritual advisor”? She speaks in tongues and leads prayers in the Oval Office. It’s not creepy, it’s funny.. . .
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 1:41 utc | 520
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I posted links showing this already twice.
It is not funny.
It is creepy.
 

Posted by: Jane | Mar 7 2026 1:45 utc | 490

Over $805,000,000,000 wiped from US stock market today.

https://t.me/RezistanceTrench1/41316

Posted by: Framarz | Mar 7 2026 1:46 utc | 491

see the 12-second video at the second link
 
 
 
 
https://x.com/JohnOSullivan36/status/2029868570193109232
John O’Sullivan #FreePalestine #neveragainisnow @JohnOSullivan36 
 
I want to feel some pity for Israelites being bombed as I fear I have lost my humanity. But no matter how much I try and squeeze out a drop of human kindness I can’t.
 
All I can think of is that poor young girl #Hind being shot over 300 times; refugees being shot at checkpoints trying to get food; aid workers being massacred and hastily buried in an attempted cover up; hospitals and schools being carpet bombed; dead babies being carried around in the mouths of emaciated and starving dogs,
You deserve this Israel 🇮🇱. I am not going to waste a tear. Everything that is happening to you is karma and deserved. #IranIsraelWar
 
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https://x.com/HadiHtt/status/2029968404505854268
Hadi Hoteit | هادي حطيط  @HadiHtt 
 
Israeli terrorists just attacked the International United Nation forces in south Lebanon. The base for Ghana’s forces received direct strike. 
This is what the west is supporting and funding and sending their sons to die for.
 
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https://x.com/ggreenwald/status/2029950970407379393
Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald 
 
The evidence is becoming overwhelming, even dispositive, showing that it was a US airstrike — quite possibly guided and governed by Anthropic’s AI — that blew up an Iranian school filled with school girls, liberating 150 of them (from life). 
 
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/world/middleeast/iran-school-us-strikes-naval-base.html
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Mar 7 2026 1:48 utc | 492

So in a poker game if after the fact a raises made and poor choices made. what you gonna do if u got 2 2’s or maybe less 
place your bets

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Mar 7 2026 1:49 utc | 493

I don’t know what some folks’ definition of civilized is, but there is almost nothing in American or European culture today that could be deemed civilized.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 6 2026 21:15 utc | 329

 
I remember a paleontologist (or archeologist)’s answer to the question : “what was the first trace of human civilization”?
She answered : “a broken human femur that healed”.
Her point was : this bone proved that the poor fellow was taken care of by family or clan for at least a month (instead of left there to die).
 
So what is a civilized country? A country that takes care of the old, the sick, the “useless”. In the West, Europe and Canada/Oz/NZ had that, but it is slowly being dismantled, healthcare privatized, old people asked to request euthanasia, etc.
 
So, whatever its capital/history in Arts and Science, the West is slowly becoming uncivilized. Supporting pedocriminals and the Gaza genocide and the war against Iran is all a further proof of that…

Posted by: Asian Frog | Mar 7 2026 1:49 utc | 494

@Hibou #5
Stop with your shitty popcorn. Women and children are dying because of that asshole.

Posted by: Hagen | Mar 7 2026 1:51 utc | 495

In fairness, I love Love’s contributions. Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 6 2026 22:47 utc | 412 #### Thank you. You and I disagree on some things, but we have mutual respect, which makes anything possible.
Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 7 2026 1:31 utc | 513
Keep doing your thing, brother!  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Mar 7 2026 1:51 utc | 496

If I got 2 2’s I fold usually 
glory be seems dipshits in dc

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Mar 7 2026 1:51 utc | 497

Looking at the glorification of the B-52’s and their use to bomb Iran, one question arose: Can those be shot down? Then I found this article and it appears that the Vietcong used SAM’s of that day to take a number of B-52’s down. They even have an instruction manual to shoot those down. Who would have known? I was under the impression these are invincible. Obviously not.
https://vietnamnews.vn/society/1722017/soldiers-reveal-all-on-taking-down-b-52-bombers.html

Posted by: Nottheonly1 | Mar 7 2026 1:51 utc | 498

BREAKING! USS George H.W. Bush is deploying to the eastern Mediterranean, according to Fox News. If confirmed, this would place three U.S. carrier strike groups in the region. @DDGeopolitics

 Three whole carrier groups!? What’s the matter Uncle Sam? You seem to be making pretty heavy weather of this!
Posted by: Arch Bungle | Mar 7 2026 1:41 utc | 522
 
And now would be the time to hit (try not top sink) one…
 

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 7 2026 1:52 utc | 499

 

https://x.com/MiguelNicolelis/status/2029768353628258747
Parece que a frequência terrestre está LITERALMENTE mudando. Serão as explosões do Oriente Médio? Ou uma mensagem alienígena inteligente? Tem algum físico por aqui?
 

Posted by: Padawan | Mar 7 2026 1:52 utc | 500