3 F15E were shot down The CENTCOM claimed it was Kuwaiti Patriot AD friendly fire. This is not likely due to Target Identification systems built into American Weapon System. 
 
Iran announced shooting down 1 F15e hours before CENTCOM and White House. Yugoslav Serbs did shot down American Stealth fighter during Yugoslav war. Despite protocols and training learned from this. American pilots still have a habit of going to strike from predictable corridor of attack.
 
Currently the disinformation warfare is too muddy to discern facts from fiction.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 2 2026 15:50 utc | 104

Kegsbreath announced there will be no longer Political Correct war nor building democracy in Iran.
 
Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 2 2026 15:37 utc | 102

 
In all fairness, I don’t imagine it was ever the Trump Gang’s intention to let the Iranians vote on Baby Shah.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 2 2026 16:00 utc | 106

Saudi and Israel funded this war and they can’t get away by claiming neutrality while actively hosting and refueling US bases and planes.
Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 2 2026 4:09 utc | 56
Agree. Suppose European countries provide fuel for US tanker planes. These US tanker planes take off from US bases in European countries and refuel bombers used in operstion “Epic Fury”. Does that make these European countries participants, and  legitimate targets?

Posted by: The Far Side | Mar 2 2026 16:10 utc | 108

Based on the current facts. It seems like the USA adventure in Iran won’t go anywhere while Iranian Victory objectives is 2

1. Drive the USA away
2. Total destruction Israel.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Mar 2 2026 16:06 utc | 108
 
Colinel Jacques Baud said with Nema that Iran has to hit US and Israel that they have to beg for peace. Not only for a ceasefire, but so hard that that they can achieve a lasting peace treaty. That seems rational, but is hard to achive.
 
The other way in my opinion is to hit them so hard that their military reputation is destroyed and they do not dare to strike again for a long time.

Posted by: Johann Siegfried von Oberndorf | Mar 2 2026 17:03 utc | 110

GM/SB are just repeating same old same old, I wish b would terminate with prejudice.
 
OTOH, there are a lot of idiots everywhere, as well as the trolls. The Guardian threads have a number of commenters (a dozen? but far more likes) who seem convinced despite all evidence that Trump is a Russian agent. Their current argument is that bombing Iran is 5-d chess to force up the oil price “for Putin’s war machine”.

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Mar 2 2026 17:09 utc | 112

RT: Ukraine issues mercenary plea to stem manpower crisis

Ukraine plans to recruit more foreign fighters to address the army’s manpower shortage, Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov has announced.
The Ukrainian armed forces lack reinforcements due to widespread draft evasion and desertion. Fedorov described on Sunday greater use of mercenaries as part of a strategy to tackle the problem, though some commentators questioned the reliability of hired soldiers.

I’m going to go out on a limb and predict an increase in retroactive casualties among the “foreign fighters” in the AFU. 

Posted by: N_H | Mar 2 2026 17:13 utc | 114

Colinel Jacques Baud said with Nema that Iran has to hit US and Israel that they have to beg for peace. Not only for a ceasefire, but so hard that that they can achieve a lasting peace treaty. That seems rational, but is hard to achive.
 
The other way in my opinion is to hit them so hard that their military reputation is destroyed and they do not dare to strike again for a long time.
 
 
Posted by: Johann Siegfried von Oberndorf | Mar 2 2026 17:03 utc | 111
 
Plus bleed the US economically.  Russia / China / Iran / North Korea are doing a good job of boiling the frog slowly.  It looks like Iran was given enough defenses to decently defend Iran, while the US bleeds itself militarily in Ukraine, and bleeds itself economically using tariffs and sanctions.  The US still has a lot of resources.  Enough to drag this on for years rather than months.  Hopefully the frog will boil slowly enough to keep us from using nukes.  And without destroying so much of the US that we have a century of poverty ahead of us.

Posted by: Woke American | Mar 2 2026 17:15 utc | 116

• Slightly under 1.300 AFU casualties

 
https://tass.com/politics/2094725
still no Marat so Tass sum up is all I have today
 

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 2 2026 17:31 utc | 118

NS gas was mostly for Germany and they don’t want it so there is no problem.  This will be solved like Ukr weapons problem: they continue to get them but everyone pays US for it. NS will e restored under US ownership, gas will flow for dollars, Russia will get the dollars they love, Germany and others will get gas but US will control which company can buy it and take a percentage from each contract. In fact even Tass says the dollar is best and safe ( tass.com/economy/2094719 )  
Posted by: rk | Mar 2 2026 14:02 utc | 95
 
We the German people want cheap Russian gas and we want friendship with Russia. Eccept or Goverment and the brainwashed fools of MSM supervised thinking. But they are likely to die out. More an more young people vote for AfD and BSW. I would be surprised if Fritze Merz will survive this legislature. But as the late Franz Josef Strauß once said: “Everthing Has to get really worse before it starts to go better”.

Posted by: Johann Siegfried von Oberndorf | Mar 2 2026 17:52 utc | 120

🙏🙏To read current events in the light of bible prophecy, pls search on GOOGLE 👇 Bible Prophecy in Action blogspot 

Posted by: Joy N. | Mar 2 2026 18:15 utc | 122

Johann Siegfried von Oberndorf | Mar 2 2026 17:52 utc | 121
*** But as the late Franz Josef Strauß once said: “Everthing Has to get really worse before it starts to go better”. ***
 
He was genuine, and had considerable personal popularity. But as the head of CSU administration (a former NATO bureaucrat) told me at the Munich head office of that party in the early 1980s, Strauß was basically being used as a front by a party the controllers of which did not really agree with him.

Posted by: Cynic | Mar 2 2026 18:26 utc | 124

Salaam- well so much for the Board of Peace now! One needs to ask what was going through the minds of these board members- when they chose to join up? There are two things that are infinite- human stupidity and the universe.I am not so sure about the latter -Albert Einstein.

Posted by: 4q8 | Mar 2 2026 18:39 utc | 126

To read current events in the light of bible prophecy, pls search on GOOGLE  Bible Prophecy in Action blogspot 
Posted by: Joy N. | Mar 2 2026 18:15 utc | 123
 
I am a Christian, but I stopped to interpret biblical prophesies into daily politics. You will end up like Jehovas Witnesses in trying to explain why things are not happening as you expected.

Posted by: Johann Siegfried von Oberndorf | Mar 2 2026 18:39 utc | 128

https://t.me/mod_russia/61654
 

Russian troops have liberated the villages of Drobyshevo and Reznikovka in the Donetsk People’s Republic and established control over the village of Krugloe in the Kharkiv region.

 
Notice the language shift.
 
It doesn’t say all three were liberated. The DNR ones were, but for the Kharkov village “control was established”.
 
Previously Kharkov settlements were also “liberated”, implying they are claimed. 

Posted by: GM | Mar 2 2026 19:02 utc | 130

GM/SB – is it possible you could go and boil your head?

Posted by: YetAnotherAnon | Mar 2 2026 19:20 utc | 132

🇷🇺⚔️🇺🇦 A new Russian missile?
 
Ukrainian pages are crying over the fact that Russian units have started using another novelty – the airborne cruise missile “Product 30“.
 
Talking about a missile with a wingspan of about 3 meters, a warhead of 800 kg and a range of at least 1,500 km. The first cases of its use were at the end of last year.
 
▪️ Ukrainian intelligence writes that according to the marking and design features, the product is identified as a development of the “Zvezda” Design Bureau, which is part of the “Tactical Missile Weapons” corporation. 
 
For the first time for enemy cruise missiles, the satellite navigation system is presented as a combination of products from two different Russian companies.
 
▪️ This is a jam-resistant satellite signal receiver with a digital antenna array “Comet-M12” produced by “VNIIR-Progress” and a reception and computing unit produced by “KB Navis”.
 
▪️ A separate electronic control unit for the warhead BUBS-30 is made on a Russian element base. Its key component is a 32-bit microcontroller of the ARM 1986VE1AT architecture produced by “PKK Milander”.
 
▪️ It is assumed that “Product 30” is a cheaper alternative for Tu-160/95 bombers to replace the X-101.
 
The whining of the Ukrainian side is primarily due to the fact that they have found American-made parts in the debris, which caused a stir.
 
There’s nothing surprising about this. In the conditions of a full-fledged conflict, various equipment is imported into Russia to reduce production costs and speed up the process.
 
More importantly, Russian manufacturers are actively looking for alternatives to expensive cruise missiles in favor of simplification and adaptation to various platforms.
 
courtesy of the Archangel of Special Forces

 
photos . 
https://x.com/dana916/status/2028570058201403747

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 2 2026 20:40 utc | 134

@136 Plus all the interceptor conception .. meant ‘interceptor consumption’

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 2 2026 20:45 utc | 136

Posted by: GM | Mar 2 2026 19:02 utc | 131
 
nuh uh, Putin Good!

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 2 2026 23:05 utc | 138

Russia Shadow Fleet
 
As most of you know, the so called Russian Shadow Fleet is large group of ships, owned by individuals or corporations from around the world.  Most of these ships are registered in countries such as Panama, Liberia, etc.  So forget the scary name.  Most of these ships have nothing to do with Russia.  However, these ships are unique in refusing to buy their insurance from Lloyd’s of London.
 
Here is where the    the war in Ukraine interest with the current Middle East war:
“This is potentially the biggest Iran story nobody is talking about: the global insurance market may be heading toward a systemic crisis. Here’s why . . . Most people don’t realize London isn’t just a financial center it’s THE center of global insurance.  Lloyd’s underwrites ~40% of the world’s marine cargo. Ship sinks, port gets bombed, canal gets blocked the bill lands in London.  This is why the UK punches above its weight. Not the Royal Navy. Not diplomacy. Insurance.  Control insurance, control trade.”
 
That explains the West’s propaganda label “Russian Shadow Fleet.” It is meant to scare shipowners back into the waiting arms of Lloyd’s insurance.  Two days ago, Iran closed the Stairs of Hormuz.  Then it attacked several ships that attempted to sail through the straits.  Then it attacked US Navy operations centers in Bahrain.  Finally, the US Navy is making no efforts to fight their way into the Persian Gulf to escort the stranded ships.  This led Lloyd’s to cancel all of those ships’ insurance policies.  They have just become part of the Russian Shadow Fleet and London did it.  This is crazy!  Lloyd’s wanted to force every ship to buy its insurance from them.  Then it went and cancelled the insurance on ships stuck in the Persian Gulf.  Those ships will be forced to buy from Chinese or Russian insurance companies.  The war in the Middle East has just shifted ship insurance away from London and towards Russia and China.
 
John Konrad continued, “This means if London is suddenly flying blind [regarding the risk to the ships stuck in the Persian Gulf] it’s not just Lloyd’s policyholders at risk. It’s the entire global reinsurance chain. The cancellation of war risk coverage on ships isn’t the crisis. It’s the canary.”
 
So many of the west’s attacks the last few years have boomeranged back and hurt the west while strengthening its enemies.
 
Crazy!

Posted by: Nobody Special | Mar 3 2026 2:03 utc | 140

Are you sure that Russia will just let bygones be bygones and say, like, “ok, no hard feelings, we are friends again!” ?
 
Posted by: Rutte | Mar 3 2026 3:22 utc | 142

 
”Sorry, Germany, but we’ve already committed our entire productive capacity to China and several Global South states. Ask again in ten years…”

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 3 2026 3:29 utc | 142

Posted by: Nobody Special | Mar 3 2026 2:03 utc | 141
 
Very good, I learned a lot, thanks!
 
Now: Lean back and watch the demise – slow or quick – of the great British empire?

Posted by: Avtonom | Mar 3 2026 7:54 utc | 144

⚡️⛔️🗳🇺🇦🗣 Zelenskyy abandoned the elections. He stated that Ukraine would be ready to hold a vote only after the end of the conflict, and not after a ceasefire. According to the latest polls, Zelenskyy is in fourth place.

Posted by: Jo | Mar 3 2026 11:38 utc | 146

Hmm.  Looks like Trump’s got himself a two front war.   Didn’t work in the past but the past may be no guide.  The Wehrmacht of 80 years ago didn’t have nuclear.  
 
…………………..
 
“Now: Lean back and watch the demise – slow or quick – of the great British empire?”
 
Posted by: Avtonom | Mar 3 2026 7:54 utc | 145
 
Avtonom, as with Jane on the other thread I’m sceptical of the assertion that Britain pulls the strings.    I see no evidence for it.  All I know is that the English “insiders” who would know about that don’t seem to hold to that view.
 
Ian Proud, Alastair Crooke, Craig Murray, who’ve all done time inside the machine, don’t talk as if it’s the case that we’re at the centre of the spider’s web.  General Lord Richards, speaking of his time at the top, stated explicitly that the big decisions came from Washington.  So such evidence as I’ve come across tends to show that HMG is one of the lesser Europoodles these days and has no central or decisive role in directing Western strategy.
 
It’s a pity Colonel Lang’s site is no longer up but I still have vivid recollections of it and kept a few bits and pieces from it – all too few, sadly.  The Colonel knew his way around many fields including UK Intel.  He was offered a heap of gold to join it at one time!  He regarded the UK as no more that Daddy’s little helper and I think that’s a more realistic assessment.  The recent press conference in London given by the heads of MI6 and the CIA confirmed that, though more tactfully. 
 
I’ve submitted more on the subject to “b’s” site in the past but here I’ll just say that from my perspective the assertion that HMG, or dark powers behind HMG, run US foreign policy belongs to the talk about the Rosicrucians, or whoever is today’s bogeyman, doing the same.  Evidence not there. 
 
And you’ve got to admit that even if HMG did run the shoe, there’s damn all gain to us visible.  We’re skint as can be.  But on the off-chance that we do pull the strings, and on the off-chance that one of the string pullers is reading this, I’d say, could you please use your sinister powers to get the potholes in the lane outside my house filled in?  Instead of sending our treasure to Kiev so they can buy more villas on the Med.

Posted by: English Outsider | Mar 3 2026 12:58 utc | 148

The Russians don’t even seem to have done anything concrete about their Merchant ships/oil tankers being hijacked and attacked some by pygmy Countries like Estonia and Sweden,WTF is going on?
Posted by: Englishman | Mar 3 2026 11:12 utc | 146

 
Same thing that has been talked about for years by a handful of people but most don’t want to listen to — Putin is a traitor. 

Posted by: GM | Mar 3 2026 13:19 utc | 150

Well, still another near 1.300 AFU casualties day
 
https://tass.com/politics/2095583
 
It’s interesting to note that since the end of 2023 that is a regular day (2022 being just 1/3 and 2023 2/3) . Consistency and , to quote Deadpool , “maximum effort “, more than a third of total potential in irretrievable losses 

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 3 2026 14:51 utc | 152

This started with the assassination of a man who was held in high regard in Iran, by the majority of its citizens. Propaganda aside he was an Islamic scholar and a gentleman. I simply do not see this ending well. The vast majority of the right minded people of this world can see what has happened recently and know in their heart that our western narrative is highly economical with the truth, the aggressors have “form” their actions clear for all to see.
people are afraid to say anything and are being heavily censored. Nevertheless the truth is clear. Recent developments that have come to light amongst the elites are sickening for all right minded people. Exploitation of the young and vulnerable and killing of children is completely unacceptable for the vast majority of humans regardless of race or religion. These latest actions, the assassination of a respected cleric, will, I believe, galvanise the oppressed. Time will tell………
 

Posted by: Neako | Mar 3 2026 17:34 utc | 154

https://t.me/belarusian_silovik/70097
 

The Russian liquefied natural gas tanker Arctic Metagaz caught fire in the Mediterranean Sea, leaving the fate of its crew unknown.

Posted by: GM | Mar 3 2026 19:29 utc | 156

Re: LNG
The cojones of the West know no bounds.  I am pretty sure it was bound for China.  

Posted by: schmoe | Mar 3 2026 20:26 utc | 158

While this may be close to a “cope”, attacking a Chinese-bound LNG shipment in this environment seems incredibly stupid.  Another article said a Russian drone damaged a cargo ship at a Ukrainian port today. 

Posted by: schmoe | Mar 3 2026 20:56 utc | 160

Posted by: Jo | Mar 3 2026 20:45 utc | 159
 
But Russia says the tanker was attacked by Ukr drones from Libya and that the crew was rescued. 

Posted by: rk | Mar 4 2026 9:00 utc | 162

I am putting 2 and 2 together, and thinking that footage north of tehran, and the rumor of a USreal jet being shot diwn is the yak 130 being shot down by the f-35.
 
My initial reaction to a USreal jet neing shot down over north tehran was “doubt”, because why would a USrael fighter be all the way over there, they are still only using stand off missiles.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 4 2026 11:08 utc | 164

Latest Marat, some details worth reading
 
https://maratkhairullin.substack.com/p/brief-frontline-report-march-3rd

Posted by: Newbie | Mar 4 2026 11:52 utc | 166

The official Russian position from their actual website:
https://mid.ru/en/foreign_policy/news/2083459/
We are deeply concerned about the escalating armed confrontation across the Middle East, resulting from US and Israeli aggression against Iran.
 
It is evident that, beyond pursuing regime change in Iran through the most unscrupulous methods, including the murder of a sovereign state’s leadership, Washington and Tel Aviv are also seeking to undermine efforts aimed at normalising relations between Iran and its Arab neighbours.
 
 

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 4 2026 14:03 utc | 168

With the number of times Germany’s lack of sovereignty has been talked about
 
Posted by: joey_n | Mar 4 2026 10:51 utc | 163

 
Wholly irrelevant when one considers that easily 90 percent of the voting population there votes for pro-American war parties.

Posted by: malenkov | Mar 4 2026 14:21 utc | 170

More Carney Corruption in Ukraine
 
https://x.com/dsimieritsch/status/2029039362755776624
 
“Is Carney sending billions to Ukraine to save Brookfield’s assets/contracts?” And is his former minister, Chrystia Freeland, now special advisor to Zelensky on ‘reconstruction’ assisting?
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 4 2026 14:49 utc | 172

JUST IN: Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud. They discussed steps to restore stability in the Middle East.

Is that a joke or is Putin really away with the Fairies? also another Russian tanker attacked in the Med WTF is Putin going to do about that because so far with all the other attacks he has done nothing, if he wants to see his Government brought down he is helping that process.

Posted by: Englishman | Mar 4 2026 15:53 utc | 174

Glenn Diesen: Prof Richard Sakwa
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAdb64j7U8I
 
“The Russo-Ukrainian War – follies of empire.”
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Mar 4 2026 17:05 utc | 176

Also from last night:
 
https://t.me/dva_majors/89121
 

Drones attacked Kirovo-Chepetsk in the Kirov region this morning . There were no casualties, according to regional Governor Alexander Sokolov.
Sokolov added that emergency services are still working at the scene and the situation is under control.
✨Drones attacked ammonia production facilities at the UralChem plant .
The enemy was deliberately attempting to cause an environmental disaster.

 
Perefectly fine, no big deal. It’s only 1,300 km deep. We can take it. Nothing bad should happen to the dear partners, under no circumstances, that is the most important thing.

Posted by: GM | Mar 4 2026 17:26 utc | 178

Colonelcassad
 
Putin presented the Hungarian Foreign Minister with two captured Ukrainian soldiers of Hungarian descent, who had been forcibly conscripted from areas with a high concentration of Hungarians and sent to be butchered. They were lucky to be captured and will now be returning to Hungary.

Posted by: MiniMO | Mar 4 2026 18:10 utc | 180

Is Orban still a pal of DT?
can the people of europe rise against their delusional  masters supporting the war against Iran ,further genocide sgainst Palestinians, the ever expanding greater Israel relentlessly against Lebanon, will the latest energy madness be the last straw, being hostage to USA whose psychopathic leader in his speeches of hatred is actually only self projection , himself a “lunatic terrorist”?

Posted by: Jo | Mar 4 2026 22:08 utc | 182

Posted by: English Outsider | Mar 3 2026 12:58 utc | 148
“the assertion that HMG, or dark powers behind HMG, run US foreign policy belongs to the talk about the Rosicrucians, or whoever is today’s bogeyman, doing the same.  Evidence not there. ”
Check out Quigley, Carroll: “The Anglo American Establishment”, a serious book. A more recent reference is Docherty, Gerry and Macgregor, Jim: “Hidden History”. 
 “could you please use your sinister powers to get the potholes in the lane outside my house filled in?”
The Elite is indifferent to the needs of ordinary people.
 

Posted by: Jan Sobieski | Mar 5 2026 8:09 utc | 184

Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 5 2026 8:24 utc | 185
 
doubt the carte blanche thing.
 
Unless Russia was waiting for the Iranian war as its go signal 

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 5 2026 8:32 utc | 186

 
    
  Posted by: LoveDonbass | Mar 5 2026 8:24 utc | 185
 
LD – if it’s true that Putin is now considering a harder line that indicates that the constraints on Russian freedom of action are falling away.  These constraints have been very real.
 
The primary constraint was fear of the US using its nuclear weapons against Russia.  Always a vanishingly small risk but even a tiny risk there is inhibiting.  Especially since Washington in mad dog mode is unpredictable.  Towards the end of the Biden Presidency there was  feeling around that it was getting too unpredictable.  The more tension around the greater the danger of an accidental launch and there was a deal of tension around at that time.
 
Now it’s clear Trump won’t see Washington fry for Berlin on any account – and Biden was always similarly reluctant in truth – that allows the Russians more of a free hand.
 
Western expertise in dirty war and our readiness to take that ever further was another constraint.  The fact that the US is militarily impotent in the Ukrainian theatre, and probably generally, doesn’t mean the West has no teeth.  Far from it.  Attacks on NPP’s, attempted and sometimes successful assassinations, prodding away at other parts of the RF perimeter, attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure, attacks on the nuclear triad – none of this is trivial and there’s a lot of it.  Much, incidentally, delegated to Daddy’s little helper.  But the Russians may now feel there’s no point in hoping to limit that dirty war because it’s already got as bad as can be.
 
If so, and that’s a judgement only they can arrive at, no harm in taking the gloves off at their end also.  So not a constraint removed but one now discounted.  And much of that dirty war is only possible because we can run it out of Ukraine.  So the sooner Ukraine’s neutralised the better.     
 
A constraint usually taken no account of is world opinion.  That matters because the Russians regard as important their relations with countries outside the Western heartland.
 
In the West it’s been the military side of this conflict that’s got all the attention.  That’s important but it’s only ever been one facet.  Russian strategy has had to integrate far wider considerations than that and the need to give world opinion time to swing round has always been a constraint on Russian actions.
 
At the start most countries were dubious about or were shocked by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  After the videos of Ukrainians shooting prisoners in the legs or the video of that Ukrainian actress slitting a Russian’s throat went viral in China and elsewhere, opinion started to shift.  It’s been shifting ever since.  For various reasons – won’t go into them here – the Chinese and the Indians were quite horrified by the SMO at the start.  Now they see the necessity for it.  Plus, after Gaza and now Iran it’s now clear outside the West, particularly in Africa, who the bad guys are.  So that constraint is also no longer there.
 
As for the constraint represented by the Europeans, that’s gone.  I’ve always argued, though it’s always been regarded as a fanciful argument, that the Russians have no interest in having a collection of failed states on their western borders.   Bad things come out of Europe when it’s in a mess and those bad things sometimes head east.   So the Russians have always handled the Europeans with kid gloves, even when we’ve been prancing around damning them to hell. 
 
But Europe getting itself in a mess anyway – it’s as if as soon as we see some course of action that’ll damage us yet more we seize on it as a drowning man grabs a rope –   so kid gloves are now irrelevant.  If the current European politicians stick around felo de se will be the norm.  The unveiling of more sanctions packages will become a regular item and military Keynesianism will drive us deeper into the mire.   Whatever the Russians do Europe’s in deep trouble so that’s another constraint removed.
 
Unlike most here, I believe the Russians have got the tempo of this war dead right, though it’s been a long wearisome process.  But if it’s now got to the stage where the various constraints on them are removed or reduced, no reason why they shouldn’t go in harder.  Donald and his Europoodles’ll huff and puff but that’s all they’re good for anyway.

Posted by: English Outsider | Mar 5 2026 16:42 utc | 188

The US House of Representatives rejected an effort to ‌stop ⁠President Donald Trump’s war on Iran and ⁠require that any hostilities against Iran be authorised ‌by Congress, backing the Republican president’s ‌military campaign on the sixth day of the expanding conflict.
 
The vote was 219 to 212 in the House, where Trump’s fellow Republicans control a narrow majority ⁠of seats.
***””””””*******
 
oooh, so close, you win some you lose some, Americans, but dont doubt your voice is heard.  Better luck next time, and remember every vote counts, so dont forget to vote!

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 5 2026 22:07 utc | 190

Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese revealed Thursday that three submariners with the Royal Australian Navy were onboard the U.S. fast attack submarine, identified by CBS News as the USS Charlotte (SSN-766), a Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered fast attack submarine, that sunk the Iranian Moudge-class frigate, IRIS Dena (75), in international waters off the coast of Sri Lanka on March 4.

Posted by: UWDude | Mar 6 2026 3:45 utc | 192

Is something going on in Ukraine?……/s
 
Z is twisting slowly in the breeze……

Posted by: psychohistorian | Mar 6 2026 5:20 utc | 194

Orban says if Ukraine doesn’t block the flow of oil to Hungary and Slovakia, the countries will break the blockade by force.
 
This could be also simply be a statement to force AFU to divert forces away from the east, which of course, may accelerate things for RUAF. Zelensky also threatened to murder Orban.

Posted by: unimperator | Mar 6 2026 8:46 utc | 196

Orban says if Ukraine doesn’t block the flow of oil to Hungary and Slovakia, the countries will break the blockade by force. Posted by: unimperator | Mar 6 2026 8:46 utc | 196

 
So Hungary and Slovakia will fight Poland and Romania too (because that is the only way to win in this case) even though they would be absolutely crushed by the AFU alone?

Posted by: GM | Mar 6 2026 8:59 utc | 198

I didn’t save the link but I did read somewhere yesterday that Trump asked Zelensky for help in Iran and Zelensky said of course, we’re in and ready to assist in any way possible. LMFAO

Posted by: Avtonom | Mar 6 2026 9:28 utc | 200