Off to land of nod barflies I’ll leave it t when th a few goodbyes. 
 
@ Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 2 2026 23:55 utc | 307
 
“It’s obvious USrael is the actual 4th Reich.”
 
They do have a much better gestapo network too.
 
Anyone with a LinkedIn profile for instance, has a secret code running on any computer they use to login with. Everytime they connect that sends all the collected data to the Neo gestapo servers and they do whatever they want with that information.
 
There is a large amount of secret policing going on.
 
@ Posted by: titmouse | Apr 2 2026 23:56 utc | 308
 
Gotta agree with your counsel little birdie.
I posted my similar philosophy on that, a couple days ago.
We see the socks disturbing the peace with all of their games.
It’s filibustering of sorts.
 
@ GM
Yes yes – as I replied to you earlier – your concern has been heard and noted every time. I do hope vvp or Lavrov or mad dog Dmitry, get your concerns soon and launch the big arrows they should have years ago – saving us all the slowmo attritional SMO – which seems to have assured the daily strikes by ‘Ukraine’ and 1000 drone raids against  response as we head for the final bell with both exhausted! 
 
Presumably Irans assymetric to symmetric to now the supersymmetric responses (10 bridges to be targeted for that one today) will be ineffective as you fear.
 

Posted by: DunGroanin | Apr 3 2026 0:31 utc | 303

Iran claims they snuffed 2 of these…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_EC-130H_Compass_Call

Rare, Vintage, Bloody Expensive!

Posted by: Nobody | Apr 3 2026 0:41 utc | 305

@313 GM

“If the other side’s objective is to destroy your industry and infrastructure and turn you into a failed state, that is not enough.”

i.e. every country would need to be able to intercept inter-continental ballistic missiles at 100% ?

And even that would not be enough.

What is occuring is a poorly or unjustified war of aggression openly labelled as a ‘pre-emptive precaution’ , all revolving around, primarily now, a western US supplied and sponsored hegemonic expansion, basing itself on the annulment of opposition to ‘colonial “Israel” ‘ .

Clearly, various other interests are inter-twined with all of that.

The question is maybe, how mad will the aggressor go ?

Or, is escalation to generalised or regional non-nuclear destruction the aim, or limit ?

How would any country be able to know the answer to that ?

Don’t ask me.

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 3 2026 0:46 utc | 307

Posted by: Suresh | Apr 3 2026 0:50 utc | 329
 
There was actually a video that came out yesterday that showed Israeli streets awash with sewage. Don’t know if you saw it, it was posted on here.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 3 2026 0:55 utc | 309

S400.
 
India lost an S400 in the opening retaliation by Pakistan.  As explained back then,  China has the S400 and Pakistanis have been training with the Chinese. 
 
Rusdia has taken a few hits on its S400s too. Turkey has the S400, so the assumption can be made that those radiation data has been compromised. 
 
Additionally, military analysis have been explaining how “sambush” operations are carried out. Mike at BMA re Serbia with limited sweep operations, the AnsarAllah operations and now Iran’s.
 
You will know when Iran has no air defense because the B52s would be carrying out carpet bombing. 

Posted by: Suresh | Apr 3 2026 1:02 utc | 311

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 3 2026 0:55 utc | 328
 
That’s what people are saying but I saw what looked like a water main. Sewage pipes here in the US anyway don’t flow that hard after ruptures. The brown water color looked like mud as it gushed. No big difference to me though since a main rupture would flow more water and better food shelters. In fact even if it wasn’t a sewage pipe, enough water in the shelters automatically results in sewage overflowing in underground shelters.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 3 2026 1:14 utc | 313

Stone Age…Was that before Eve ate that Apple?

Posted by: Nobody | Apr 3 2026 1:24 utc | 315

Posted by: GM | Apr 2 2026 23:48 utc | 303
 
Maybe because I am not paid to post rubbish everyday online ?
 
As for “tiny brain” it’s very obvious you take all the majorly senior barflies on MoA as children, that’s why you use so obviously false and illogical rhetoric to try to confuse them.
 
But it just show your true level, not the one of your readers.
 
BTW, You should learn the definition and semantics of “traitor”.
 
You are obviously an enemy of Iran and Russia, lying and trashing those countries with thousands of posts a week.
 
So there can’t be any “betrayal” because you have never been together or shared the same views to begin with.
 
As I already said, your talking points are rubbish, silly and without real aims.
 
“China doesn’t help” or “Russia doesn’t help” is the demonstration that you deny any sovereignty to all the countries in the world but a tiny number, seeing them as mere colonies and proxies of the big powers.
 
Or maybe, seeing the spanking Iran is giving to Trump, your only hope is to get Russia to interfere so that you can say the mighty US army lose because of the “nuclear power”.

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 3 2026 1:25 utc | 317

Posted by: GM | Apr 2 2026 23:48 utc | 303
 
Oh, and I  almost forgot.
 
Even with the regular username changes, your method remains ridiculous.
 
Setting records for posting continuously on MoA for 24 to 48 hours, posting every 5 to 20 minutes, replying to practically everyone, and repeating the same things over and over, exposes you for what you are.
 
Unless you’re being paid by the volume, it’s counterproductive.

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 3 2026 1:35 utc | 319

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 3 2026 1:35 utc | 346

Unless you’re being paid by the volume, it’s counterproductive.

I appeal to the scientific method: all that you say is correct but it’s happening nonetheless. So we should deduce that there’s a motivation other than “being productive”. You mention money, and that’s an option. Ideology/conviction would be another, and cheaper, one. We will never know. But we can be sure that a whole bunch of bad-faith posters are active and they’re doing an excellent job because we reply to them, even when we don’t (like I do right now) and the threads get disrupted.
 
Because nothing of importance happens on a forum like this, the only function I can see is to render this communication place useless. Which just means that MOA is big enough to warrant this kind of disruption.

Posted by: Konami | Apr 3 2026 1:46 utc | 321

Iran showed a footage of an aircraft flare getting hit I assume this is a Dassault Mirage 2000 from UAE or F16 from the USA. 
 
CENTCOM claims all aircrafts are accounted for and Iran destroyed an US fighter jet as fake news.
 
Note: CENTCOM didn’t say their aircraft wasn’t damaged just nothing is destroyed. Iran didn’t show the footage of an aircraft explosion either.
 
My conclusion: The AD sharpnel damaged an US jet near Qeshm island in persian gulf.

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 3 2026 1:50 utc | 323

Mahmood OD: ‘The Iranian Punishment’| They Tried to Hide’| ‘Another Jet Shot by Iran’| ‘Fired!’|
 
https://www.youtube.com/@Mahmood_OD/videos
 
“Israel under heavy hypersonic fire| Iran struck sensitive Israeli locations| Iran hunting down US/Israeli fighter jets| Hegseth sacks US Army Chief|”
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 3 2026 1:56 utc | 325

Ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon. Christians can stay. Muslims must go.
 
Israel’s Message to a Broad Swath of Lebanon: Shiites Must Go
 

Israel has issued sweeping evacuation warnings, and pressed some Christian and Druse leaders to expel Shiite Muslims from southern towns, the leaders said.
 
No paywall:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/world/middleeast/lebanon-shiite-israel-evacuation.html
 

Posted by: Menz | Apr 3 2026 2:02 utc | 327

European Parliament member Rima Hassan taken into French police custody
 
Members of Hassan’s La France Insoumise party condemn detention as part of effort to ‘intimidate’ Palestine supporters.
 
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/4/2/european-parliament-member-rima-hassan-taken-into-french-police-custody
 

Posted by: Menz | Apr 3 2026 2:07 utc | 329

Posted by: Menz | Apr 3 2026 1:49 utc | 353
 
It’s just another stupid knee jerk reaction ’cause Australia won’t tow the line and run off to support his stupid Gulf war.  A kindergarten level  reaction which would be OK for a child but honestly. Same old, same old. It seems it will have little effect anyway since the main player is CSL which is largely manufacturing in the US. Another example of a childish emotional reaction rather than thinking things through – Americans will pay for it and probably jeopardized by it.  
 
He never learns a thing this total fool.   https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-03/donald-trump-puts-100pc-tariff-on-pharmaceuticals/106529504

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 3 2026 2:13 utc | 331

for those who may have missed it earlier…
 
EI Resistance Report with Jon Elmer
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBxSyj3KHas
 
“Resistance Axis coordinates strikes…”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 3 2026 2:21 utc | 333

Posted by: Menz | Apr 3 2026 1:44 utc | 347
 
Posted by: Konami | Apr 3 2026 1:46 utc | 348
 
You’re absolutely right.
 
Actually, my reaction is mostly anger towards myself for not recognizing the type of post and thus avoiding responding.
 
Despite being labeled a “small blog”, MoA attracts enough troublemakers to be a sign of success.
 
Congratulations to b.

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 3 2026 2:25 utc | 335

The recent firings of American generals are ominous.
 
It may be that Trump is demanding the US military commit war crimes which even they find beyond the pale.
 
Could use of nuclear weapons be in discussion?

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 3 2026 2:29 utc | 337

Arch Bungle@371:
 
“I’ve been here a decade at least and it’s always been a den of scum and villainy. May it ever remain that way…”
 
Hear hear! I’m just here for the boos.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 3 2026 2:31 utc | 339

I can tell who the troll is when they have 17 comments so far on this one page of the thread and another 7 references to their posts which are 95% comprised of making observations and issuing criticisms of other commenters.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 3 2026 2:39 utc | 341

2 more gone!  David Hodne and William Green Jr.
 
Gen. Randy George Firing: Hegseth Removes Two More Generals, David Hodne And William Green Jr., Alongside Army Chief Of Staff | Times Now
 
The Army top brass resigning en masse would lead to a total collapse of this Administration.

Posted by: Suresh | Apr 3 2026 2:47 utc | 343

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 2 2026 22:25 utc | 248
 
Thank you, Ahenobarbus, that was kindly said.  I really forgot myself, thought I was on the open Open thread.  I think my previous posts were connected to Iran’s moves to charge a toll at Hormuz, which I think is a very positive solution to the bottleneck there. 
 
I don’t understand at all why Trump is not being removed from office; it would be the kindest thing.  He cannot be anything but highly stressed not realizing his own inadequacies.  It could be physically dangerous to him letting him continue, not only to those of us trying to understand him but also to his own life.  It must feel nightmarish at times.  He’s not sane.  I think the problem was heightened by his narrow escape from death as he must have then believed he was only spared in order to accomplish extraordinary things.  That would be too much for anyone.  This situation with respect to Iran ought to have  made that a very clear and present danger.  The mind is a fragile thing.

Posted by: juliania | Apr 3 2026 2:56 utc | 345

What does it say about barflies that spew ongoing textual white noise here that is not on topic?
 
I hope you get banned along with GM that you are sounding like here.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 3 2026 2:59 utc | 347

Saw this amazing admission by US neocons highlighted by Simplicus, that if Iran had nuclear weapon it would have deterred the US from carrying the strikes it is carrying out now on Iran:
 
The real showstopper, however, comes in the next few paragraphs, wherein Kagan effectively reveals the true secret reason behind the US’s perennial aggression against Iran, and again implies—as he did last time—that Israel is at the center of it:
 

The United States has long sought to prevent Iraq or Iran from acquiring weapons of mass destruction, but not because these countries would pose a direct threat to the United States. The American nuclear arsenal would have been more than adequate to deter a first strike by either of them, as it has been for decades against far more powerful adversaries. What American administrations have feared is that an Iran in possession of nuclear weapons would be more difficult to contain in its region, because neither the United States nor Israel would be able to launch the kind of attack now under way. The Middle East’s security, not America’s, would be imperiled.

 
Read that last part again because his point is not immediately clear without clarification: The only reason the US has terrorized Iran in the hopes of stopping it from developing nuclear weapons is not because those weapons would pose a threat to the US itself, but because a nuclear Iran would have credible deterrence in stopping the US and Israel from engaging in unprovoked aggression against Iran, the likes of which they are presently carrying out.
 
Can you say ‘Wow’?
 
https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/sanctity-lost-even-neocon-pantheon
 
 

Posted by: Sloan | Apr 3 2026 3:01 utc | 349

I just watched Danny Haiphong’s podcast with Col Wilkerson and Patrick Henningsen.
Really worth watching.
Both Henningsen and Wilkerson have depth and breadth in multiple areas.
And, I thought Danny did an excellent job—as he always does—as ringmaster of the show, coordinating relevant clips, etc. I don’t see any reason for negative reviews up-thread of his handling of this podcast.
 
Henningsen’s picture of the approaching economic disaster is scary as hell. Seems like we can only hope that Congress grows a spine and does not accede to Trump’s $1.7 trillion grab of money needed by Americans for their daily lives and survival.

Posted by: Jane | Apr 3 2026 3:11 utc | 351

@ Sloan | Apr 3 2026 3:01 utc | 399 with the Kagan misdirection..thx
 
It is not religion but the financial beliefs associated with religions/moral values which are in conflict as I write about here continually.
 
Humanity is in a civilization war about public/private finance and since the private side was not winning in Russia and elsewhere they launched the penultimate proxy battle that they want to make look like a religious war which it is only partly about.
 
Remember that the US in the 1950’s changed the original motto from Out of Many, One to In God We Trust to make folks think our civilization war is about religion or the lack of it but here we are now with a religious overtones proxy battle.
 
And the real enemy of global private finance [God Of Mammon cult] is China that has structured finance in their society as a public utility instead of the jackboot by the private finance folk.
 
And here we are.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 3 2026 3:14 utc | 353

SN1,  The president of Iran has legitimate concerns, and he espoused them in a benign way.  He should probably take his views to western media if they would have him and then at least a larger percentage of people would know the underlying issue, which is oil.  

Posted by: Chad McDougal | Apr 3 2026 3:21 utc | 355

@ SN1 | Apr 3 2026 3:17 utc | 409 and others like you that can’t seem to believe that a civilization state can exist with basic human morals about not wanting weapons of mass destruction.
 
The also don’t allow usury which I also expect you can’t comprehend…..may I suggest a good book for you….The Dawn Of Everything by Graeber/Wengrow where they document the 40 thousand years of our species forms of social organization BEFORE the social sickness of monotheism was instantiated by the barbaristic patriarchs of our world.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 3 2026 3:23 utc | 357

The complicity of Western media in war crimes now becomes crystal clear:
 

🇮🇷⚡️🇮🇱🇺🇸 Epstein media: Attack civilian places, we’ll justify it!
 
These days, Epstein media have one duty: to justify attacks on civilian places and justify the crimes of Israel and the USA. Examples of justifying attacks on infrastructure:
 
1⃣ Attack on “Tofigh Darou,” a center producing cancer drugs, with the claim of producing chemical weapons
 
2⃣ Shahid Abbaspoor Technical Development and Technology Center, a civilian infrastructure justified as a military equipment production center
 
3⃣ School targeting by Ali Karimi and BBC whitewashing: We hit Minab school because it was near IRGC complexes
 
4⃣ Attacks on hospitals, a legitimate target for Zionist criminals
 
5⃣ Attacks on stadiums justified by the presence of military forces
 
6⃣ Justification of attack on oil storage with the claim of supplying gasoline for suppressors
 
7⃣ Attack on Mobarakeh Steel in Isfahan justified by production of raw materials for missile manufacturing
 
8⃣ Attack on airplanes and airports justified by use by officials
 
9⃣ Assassination of Iranian university professors justified by participation in nuclear bomb development
 
Now we must see what justification hostile media will bring for today’s attacks on the B1 bridge, the largest bridge in West Asia, and the Pasteur Institute research center.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 3 2026 3:36 utc | 359

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Apr 3 2026 3:26 utc | 415
 
 
Interesting point.
 
Coincidentely, Albanese (Aust. Prime Minister) and Starmer both scheduled an ‘Address to the Nation’, and delivered absolutely nothing of any consequence that couldn’t have delivered in a one minute sound bite for the evening news.
 
The sycophantic tag team of Australia & UK, both heavily invested in this war, seemed to have been caught with their pants down.
Or maybe just a complete coincidence.

Posted by: Persona Non Grata | Apr 3 2026 3:45 utc | 361

Israel issues rocket and missile warning for Upper Galilee

Israel’s Home Front Command has issued warnings about rocket and missile fie in the vicinities of Malkiya, Kiryat Shmona, Tel Hai and Metula in the Upper Galilee region.
The Home Front Command, which is tasked with protecting civilian lives, earlier on Friday also issued an alert about a “hostile aircraft intrusion” in the Western Galilee region. [few mins ago

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 3 2026 3:52 utc | 363

As I look at this war only has two probable outcomes. 
 
One Iran gets its demands met and the USA withdrawals from the Gulf for good giving Iran a win.
 
Two the USA tempts fate and attacks the oil and power infrastructure of Iran causing the retaliation promised. Oil and gas are taken completely offline along with desalination facilities in the entire area. The global economy implodes with mass deaths and wars breaking out all over the world. Nobody wins however I would guess that the Russia/China partnership could keep the pair relatively stable and able to start some form of recovery globally once the dust settles. The USA, where I live, is going to suffer badly due to our lack of industrial capacity and the likely embargo by China on goods due to the actions of the government in starting this disastrous war.

Posted by: Badjoke | Apr 3 2026 4:01 utc | 365

I just watched Danny Haiphong’s podcast with Col Wilkerson and Patrick Henningsen.Really worth watching.Both Henningsen and Wilkerson have depth and breadth in multiple areas.And, I thought Danny did an excellent job—as he always does—as ringmaster of the show, coordinating relevant clips, etc. I don’t see any reason for negative reviews up-thread of his handling of this podcast. Henningsen’s picture of the approaching economic disaster is scary as hell. Seems like we can only hope that Congress grows a spine and does not accede to Trump’s $1.7 trillion grab of money needed by Americans for their daily lives and survival.
Posted by: Jane | Apr 3 2026 3:11 utc | 404
 
I thought that Danny was really taken aback at the intensity of both of them early in the show.  However, after I reread my post after posting it, I agree with your criticism of my post.  What I wanted to say and what I wrote were not the same.  Thanks for the correction.
 
2 additional videos.
 
https://youtu.be/6-GRwwgINi0 
 
Rachel Blevins has Jeffrey Sachs on.  Like Larry Johnson on the Sabby Sabs show, he was very intense, and very negative about the Trump speech.  All 4 of the regular commentators that I watched today had similar intensities.  The Trump speech from last night will not be forgotten.  The US and Israel will pay a huge price for that speech.
 
Iran has done a lot of leggo videos.  Very well done, with good music.  Their most recent video has a much different tone.  Very militant.  Defiant.  According to the President of the United States, the goal of the United States and Israel is to bomb Iran back to the stone age.  Iran listened.  The whole world listened.
 
https://youtu.be/VDkQAnn-3sQ 
 
The Trump speech from last night was a game changer.   

Posted by: Woke American | Apr 3 2026 4:03 utc | 367

You fuckers are going to pay for all this.
 
Posted by: David G Horsman | Apr 3 2026 4:03 utc | 443
 
It’s a bar. What’d you expect when the trash walks in?
 
O Bernhard, clean this mess up!

Posted by: Arch Bungle | Apr 3 2026 4:10 utc | 369

@448 Killer Doll
 
The 1944-5 Wehrmachtisation of the American military, when any general reporting the facts on the ground risked immediate dismissal, continues. 

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 3 2026 4:17 utc | 371

In a Genocidal Rant, Trump Vows to Send Iran ‘Back to the Stone Ages’
 
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/04/02/qfyu-ao2.html
 
“…In other words, Trump declared, If Iran does not totally capitulate and become effectually a colonial protectorate of the United Snakes, he intends to wipe out everything that sustains modern life for 90 million people and not give them ‘even a small chance of survival.’ There has never been an address like this given by an American president. These are statements of, literally, genocidal intent. To ‘bomb’ a country ‘back to the Stone Ages’ means to destroy its civilization – a civilization that in Iran’s case spans thousands of years. 
 
The president of the United States is declaring, on national television, his intention to annihilate an entire country – to level its cities, its power-grid, its water supply, its hospitals and its industry, everything that sustains 90 m people.
 
It is the language of the mafia delivered from the White House. A criminal underworld is in power. The war against Iran is the product of decades of escalating violence – from the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq, through the destruction of Libya and Syria, through the genocide in Gaza – each crime more brazen, each carried out with greater impunity.
 
In the media commentary that followed Trump’s prime time address, discussion was dominated by whether he had ‘made his case’, not that the president of the United States had issued a criminal declaration to carry out mass murder.
 
Not a single Democrat leader has responded to Trump’s ‘Stone Ages’ statements. Five weeks after the bombing, not one committee has held a public hearing.
 
The same day as his address on Iran, Trump told attendees at an Easter lunch at the White House that he had ordered the Office of Management and Budget to cut all federal daycare funding.  ‘We’re fighting wars. We can’t take care of daycare’, he said, adding ‘It’s not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these individual things,’ Trump added, ‘We have to take care of one thing, military protection.’
 
The war against the people of Iran and the war against the working class at home are two sides of the same policy.. A government that prepares mass murder abroad prepares social counterrevolution at home: the shredding of what remains of democratic rights and social reforms, the intensification of austerity and the drive to establish a fascistic dictatorship. The crisis now confronting humanity is posed as socialism or barbarism.”
 
 

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 3 2026 4:20 utc | 373

To those wondering about conflicting reports of Iranian Air Defenses, they have remaining intermittent capability – not comprehensive.  USA signals dominance means their mobile units can only pop-up a few seconds to paint the target, get the missile to within infrared range.
 
I’m marvelling at how few of you manage to connect more than two or three dots made obvious in the past twenty years.
 
Seems like a law of satan that stupidity gets abused.

Posted by: crondish | Apr 3 2026 4:21 utc | 375

My #457 – I meant to say that things with Russia-Ukraine under a Democrat president would get way worse.  Not that Trump is doing very much. Lots of talk, little has changed UNTIL they needed the weapons for Iran. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 3 2026 4:22 utc | 377

I apologize to the Islam of Iran by lumping them in with the other monotheists because their refusal to go with weapons of mass destruction and usury shows they are not barbaristic…..but still are patriarchal in their form of social organization which I think is a disservice to our species.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 3 2026 4:28 utc | 379

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 3 2026 4:17 utc | 452
 
Soon it will be just like in the movie Downfall. Hitler rant about SS commander Steiner whom didn’t mobilized enough men to break through the Soviet encirclement upon Berlin in the last ten days of Adolf Hitler’s life and eventual suicide in his Berlin underground bunker.
 
Speaking of the Furher Bunker xD Didn’t Trump just build one under the new Ballroom and he has a gold plated .45 cal German Handgun. xD btw Hitler suicided in his bunker using his personal Walther pistol in 1945 😉

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 3 2026 4:32 utc | 381

Anyone know if there’s a version of the ignore script for this new comment platform at MoA? With the old one someone linked a github repository where you could run a script and it made any commenter you didn’t want to see vanish.  I used it for a little while but never redid it once MoA started getting all those ddos attacks or whatever was going on. Then I got a new laptop, and then b switched to this new system.  
 
It’s pretty obvious someone is trying very hard to get banned tonight, but I don’t think that’s a good solution and I  think b probably understands that it’d be a badge of ‘honor’ for this particularly twisted troll, so he lets him stew in his own juices, forced to probe ever farther inside the edges of what it knows to be mostly acceptable, so that it can document (and I do mean as in write down or save in a text file) exactly what sequence of events led to that particular ban. We’re dealing with a very attention starved sociopath, here. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 3 2026 4:38 utc | 383

Posted by: David G Horsman | Apr 3 2026 4:37 utc | 466
 
Good point and I agree with  your framing. In fact I only even mentioned Dems or Kamala because Trump didn’t have any competition from the GOP.  I could easily have said that if Vance had been the nominee, it’s HIGHLY unlikely the illegal war of aggression on Iran gets launched. He’s just not owned enough by “Israel” – and rumors are circulating that Trump is trying to throw Vance under the bus for “failure” to negotiate an end to this war with “the Iranians” (I guess the ones in Trumpstein’s head).  Hell, I seriously doubt that even if Lyin “Israel” lovin’ Ted Cruz was elected things would have gone down like this. The Orange Retard was Bibi and the Zionists dream president. Let’s see how it all ends up working out for them, though….

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 3 2026 4:41 utc | 385

Posted by: PeaceSeeker | Apr 3 2026 5:03 utc | 422
 
Give us a start. Where did you see this? I saw a MUCH earlier cluster of TG posts across the usual channels with a vid that looks like an F35 strike off the southern coast of Iran, but that’s about it. 
 
One of many (duplicative) posts on this particular channel: https://t.me/llordofwar/593021 (about 2PM US time earlier in the afternoon)

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 3 2026 5:07 utc | 387

Reply to : Posted by: Framarz | Apr 2 2026 20:09 utc | 155
I had posted an article a few days earlier that pointed to the attack to come in through northwestern Iran with the help of traitors Kurds and Iranian Azeris. The whole idea of seizing islands is a trap set by the US/Izraehell to distract the Iranians. READ IT, READ IT, A MUST READ.
Read this. A more accurate guesstimate of were US invasion will occur:https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/03/27/how-will-the-us-military-invade-iran/

Posted by: PeaceSeeker | Apr 3 2026 5:11 utc | 389

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 3 2026 4:28 utc | 402
 

but still are patriarchal in their form of social organization which I think is a disservice to our species.

 
There’s too much theory in that statement.
 
In West Africa, we live in societies where a significant portion of the population has been matriarchal for centuries.
 
But I can assure you that society derives no comparative advantage from it.

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 3 2026 5:16 utc | 391

“…The war against the people of Iran and the war against the working class at home are two sides of the same policy.. A government that prepares mass murder abroad prepares social counterrevolution at home: the shredding of what remains of democratic rights and social reforms, the intensification of austerity and the drive to establish a fascistic dictatorship. The crisis now confronting humanity is posed as socialism or barbarism.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 3 2026 4:20 utc | 390
Well said and deserves repeating.

Posted by: simon crow | Apr 3 2026 5:21 utc | 393

Reply to: Posted by: Tom_Q_ 408
Tom, I  just saw a YouTube channel a minute ago that said a bunch of f35s destroyed on the ground in their bunkers in Izraehell.

Here’s one of the links: https://.be/ZZnisFwSrts?si=zImdarFZCQPhLqB5
Here’s the second link:..              https://.be/DUVek4zswgc?si=cO_8zNyOTWfLmHcz

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b here – AI fakes – links disabled

Posted by: PeaceSeeker | Apr 3 2026 5:25 utc | 395

Hey, remember how I said repeatedly that if Iran had a nuclear weapon, Epsteinistan and zionazistan would never have dared attack it? Remember how various Moon of Alabama comment section “experts” had rushed to contradict me?
 
Well, let’s see what Simplicius76’s latest article quotes neocon Robert Kagan as writing!
 

“What American administrations have feared is that an Iran in possession of nuclear weapons would be more difficult to contain in its region, because neither the United States nor Israel would be able to launch the kind of attack now under way.”

 
Simplicius76 comments further:
 

“The only reason the US has terrorized Iran in the hopes of stopping it from developing nuclear weapons is not because those weapons would pose a threat to the US itself, but because a nuclear Iran would have credible deterrence in stopping the US and Israel from engaging in unprovoked aggression against Iran, the likes of which they are presently carrying out.”

 
And still the comment section “experts” will fulminate hysterically at the suggestion that Iran now has no option but to seek nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 3 2026 5:39 utc | 397

Scott Ritter claims Iran took out two airbases and 40 Israel F35s   Posted link keeps being deleted !!!!
Posted by: Bob Green | Apr 3 2026 5:45 utc | 403
 
Because ZERO evidence. No meaningful attribution. Sorry but I say so having spent 25 minutes looking for a single source that references primary attributions. 
Great if true. But otherwise stop posting this stuff without more than mere unsubstantiated rumor.  Saying that Ritter says so (also without any links or sources of his own) is appeal to authority. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 3 2026 5:50 utc | 399