Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 5 2026 14:02 utc | 1
 
 
Great minds and such…

Posted by: Caveman | Apr 5 2026 14:04 utc | 4

Did i miss anything Important from the 1100+ Comments last Thread? Cant read all, have too much Work…🤔🤯

Posted by: Nobody | Apr 5 2026 14:06 utc | 6

Posted by: Caveman | Apr 5 2026 14:06 utc | 5
 
Off the deep end, that should read

Posted by: Caveman | Apr 5 2026 14:07 utc | 8

Posted by: Caveman | Apr 5 2026 14:06 utc | 5

Allah is DonT’s Last Hope! Better praise Her….😜

Posted by: Nobody | Apr 5 2026 14:08 utc | 10

Posted by: Nobody | Apr 5 2026 14:08 utc | 10
 
Ha! Reminds me of Lee Atwater buying the Bible once he got diagnosed with cancer. The Bible that healed him and made him a better person. The Bible that was anecdotally found after his death wrapped in the plastic that it came in when he bought it…

Posted by: Caveman | Apr 5 2026 14:10 utc | 12

Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day……

suggests the Sad Sacks Pentagon  need 3 full days to compile and issue target orders. What hopeless bureacratic deadweight. 
 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 5 2026 14:10 utc | 14

Exile | Apr 5 2026 14:10 utc | 14
Israel could just mark everything “girl’s school, bomb here”… they’re helpful like that

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 5 2026 14:13 utc | 16

In 1980 the Americans also blamed ‘Sand’ as the ‘main cause’ of failure, not enemy fire, lest it be known it would ruin the ‘superior’ image that the world continues to be deceived in.  It is more IMPORTANT to keep the faery-tale alive.
 
American boxers recovered at crash site
 
Russian source;
 

The US has extensive experience in such operations, for exampleOperation Eagle Claw was carried out on April 24, 1980 by US forces in Iran to rescue 53 hostages from the US Embassy in Tehran.
 
At least four transport helicopters were needed to successfully complete the operation. Of the eight that took off for the mission, one crashed into the water immediately after takeoff from the aircraft carrier due to a possible blade failure, and another was blown off course by a dust storm and turned back. Only six helicopters reached the first temporary base (an abandoned British airfield) in the desert.
 
One of the helicopters that reached the base developed hydraulic problems. While refueling, one of the helicopters crashed into a tanker aircraft. The ensuing fire killed eight crew members and both helicopters. The decision was made to abort the operation and leave Iranian territory. According to Iran, the collision was triggered by a nearby Iranian Air Force fighter jet.
 
As a result, all helicopters were abandoned in the desert (after which they were transferred to the Iranian army)
 

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Apr 5 2026 14:16 utc | 18

Posted by: Konami | Apr 5 2026 14:13 utc | 17

Thats why it is important to wound the Enemy. So He can cry for Help!! 🥳🤷‍♀️🤔

Posted by: Nobody | Apr 5 2026 14:17 utc | 20

Monty Python and the Holy Grail Credits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SII-jhEd-a0
 
An absolute classic, and, once you’ve seen it, you can’t unsee the current U$ “rescue” missions…

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 5 2026 14:20 utc | 22

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 5 2026 14:20 utc | 22

Life of Brian is the Easter Classic!! 😂😂😂

Posted by: Nobody | Apr 5 2026 14:23 utc | 24

I imagine Trump’s “Praise be to Allah” was meant sarcastically — as an insult to Islam. But even if not, it won’t offend the 30 percent or so of Americans who are members of his cult.

Posted by: malenkov | Apr 5 2026 14:25 utc | 26

Konami | Apr 5 2026 14:13 utc | 17
I agree TrumpTeamTrix + The Ghost of Tel Aviv are looking for a casus belli, but I think this Weekend of Special Ops FUBARS was from hubris, arrogance and that the better military planners have been sacked.
(see the Monty Python credits ^ posted ) 

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 5 2026 14:29 utc | 28

How is Trumpy tard allowed to make ‘WAR CRIME’ public statements.
 
These are all ‘documentary evidence’ perfect in proof ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ criminal charges. 
 
Are Presidents immune?

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Apr 5 2026 14:35 utc | 30

From Quds
 
 

Iranian forces display American ammunition recovered from the wreckage of US special forces planes that were destroyed last night during rescue mission clashes.

 
 https://x.com/QudsNen/status/2040794875105345646

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 5 2026 14:36 utc | 32

If they don’t use it now it proves that they’re complicit in what Trump is doing.
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 5 2026 14:04 utc | 3
 
They are. To understand Trump and Maga sect, which is in fact anti-American, I suggest you search for videos from Paula White-Cain live on stage. There are even compilations of her “work” 

Posted by: rk | Apr 5 2026 14:37 utc | 34

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 5 2026 14:29 utc | 28

I agree TrumpTeamTrix + The Ghost of Tel Aviv are looking for a casus belli, but I think this Weekend of Special Ops FUBARS was from hubris, arrogance and that the better military planners have been sacked.

These two statements do not contradict each other! I believe that Team Trump is messing about with their war but I also think that they put themselves in a place without good solutions, and that ramping up looks like the only war forward (so their apparatus comes up with devices for how make that ramp-up happen, e.g. sending some US soldiers to their deaths).

Posted by: Konami | Apr 5 2026 14:41 utc | 36

Live fire, active gunman (allegedly) situation at the White House. No direct confirmation yet. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 5 2026 14:44 utc | 38

Iran War Summary: Week Five, 3rd April: May be Useful to Some: The Iran War Summary: Week Five – by Dr. Rob Campbell

Posted by: The Busker | Apr 5 2026 14:46 utc | 40

What’s this?

Posted by: john | Apr 5 2026 14:50 utc | 42

Trumps thrown his easter egg out the pram,  could someone shove a nipple in his mouth to just shut him up. Metephorical or overwise.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 5 2026 14:52 utc | 44

Posted by: john | Apr 5 2026 14:50 utc | 42
 
AI

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 5 2026 14:53 utc | 46

🇺🇸⚔️🇮🇷 According to geolocation data, the WSO of the downed F-15E was evacuated via a remote agricultural airstrip roughly 50 km south of Isfahan.

He was initially located on Mount Siyah in Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, reportedly hiding in a crevice. U.S. recovery personnel later described landing in open terrain south of Isfahan. The straight-line distance between those points is at least 231 km—closer to 428 km by road.

That implies the WSO was moved a considerable distance—potentially by helicopter—to an extraction point still roughly 400 km from the Kuwaiti border. One plausible platform for this would be an MH-6M “Little Bird” operated by the 160th SOAR.

If accurate, this suggests a sustained U.S. air operation deep inside Iranian territory—potentially up to 400 km from the border—over a period of roughly 36 hours. That would include search and recovery, establishing a landing zone, relocating the pilot, and executing the final extraction, reportedly without losses.

Taken at face value, this reflects poorly on Iranian response capabilities. Resistance appears to have been limited to small-arms fire from local militias and Basij units, pointing to gaps not only in air defense coverage but also in coordination and access to systems like MANPADS.

☝️That said—tinfoil hat moment—

Given that the Isfahan area hosts sensitive nuclear infrastructure long associated with uranium conversion and research, it’s worth asking whether the operation had secondary objectives beyond personnel recovery—or whether the CSAR mission itself was simply an unplanned component of a broader operation.

And if the official account is accurate, it sets a troubling precedent for Iran: the U.S. appears capable of conducting extended operations deep inside Iran while openly signaling interest in securing its enriched uranium.

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Posted by: Surferket | Apr 5 2026 14:54 utc | 48

I have written here in the past about how Trump is the perfect face of the God Of Mammon cult under existential threat and if this doesn’t show all of humanity what we don’t want our species to live like, I don’t know what more example we need.
 
 Will the petulant man-child be directed to take our species to extinction?
 
 Given the cancer that global private finance has infected our species with for centuries I expect the cure will be difficult but the examples of Iran, China and Russia along with others in the axis of resistance give me hope for a more equitable world.
 
  The shit show continues until it doesn’t……sigh
 
Let me add that fellow barflies from outside American need to understand just how braindead much of my country is……I go weekly for an hour to stand waving a Palestine flag at my local courthouse and there are usually 20-30 of us there…..in the fairly blue state of Oregon
Over time I have interacted with about half of the regulars and most of them see Trump as the problem, not our God Of Mammon cult world.  When I ask them if they voted for the other genocide supporting candidate in our last (s)election they stop talking to me….an amazing amount of cognitive dissonance exists now in America and I don’t know how it resolves itself but feel it is coming to some sort of climax soon…..I certainly hope so.
 
Just like in Hitler’s time, not all Americans are bad but reflective of how effective propaganda is……I hope the example of moral behavior that Iran is showing will break the spell many are under and we can evolve as a species out from under the God Of Mammon cult with its Epstein Class acolytes.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Apr 5 2026 15:00 utc | 50

[…] That would include search and recovery, establishing a landing zone, relocating the pilot, and executing the final extraction, reportedly without losses […]
Posted by: Surferket | Apr 5 2026 14:54 utc | 48

2 pieces of C-130 and 1 piece of MH-6 doesn’t look like “without losses”. Iran is always saying, come closer. So, one may assume they let the party in and start engaging them only once everybody is there.

Posted by: BG13 | Apr 5 2026 15:05 utc | 52

Mega Don was no aberration, he was an inevitability. America is insane….the entire country is a madhouse. He will not step down or be replaced because he represents America perfectly. He is the lunatic running the asylum. 
 
Posted by: Maverick | Apr 5 2026 14:10 utc | 13
So, here’s the troll song this Easter morning: America’s Zio Imperialist masters are insane, thus their slaves are all guilty too.  Every last working class man woman and child. 
Funny.  Just change the subject of the sentence to Iran or Palestine and you’re suddenly thinking and talking just like a genocidal Zionazi.  
So, a quick lesson: genocide is categorically wrong.  That’s why the Zionazis are so hated.  You see how that works?  Our answer to their genocide cannot be more genocide.  
Think just a wee bit harder, fellows.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 5 2026 15:08 utc | 54

Posted by: Jane | Apr 5 2026 15:09 utc | 56
 
One does not exclude the others. The entire western world is pretty much certifiable. 

Posted by: Maverick | Apr 5 2026 15:11 utc | 56

So what exactly was going on over the past 36 hours?  From what has been released it looks that the US launch some sort of major operation in southern Iran involving more than a dozen aircraft. During this operation F-15 and an A-10 were both shot down.  the US then sent in more aircraft to look for the 1st pilot leading to 2 helicopters being damaged and forced to crash land, another A-10 being damaged and forced to return to base, 3 more aircraft giving emergency alerts (no information if they crashed or what), the bases these aircraft were operating out of were bombed, a temporary airbase was setup inside of Iran which was big enough to handle 5 (FIVE!!!) C-130 Hercules cargo jets (2 of which were destroyed) and 2x MH-6 Little Bird helicopters were destroyed (presumably ran out of gas and had to be torched). 
 
this was way, way more than a rescue operation for 2 pilots –  each of those C-130 are capable of holding 96 troops (plus the aircrew).  supposedly there were only 2 C-130 at first but when they were disabled the US flew in 3 more C-130 to rescue everyone from the 1st two C-130s.  1 C-130 should have been more than enough to take everyone,  sending in 3 C-130 implies that the initial two C-130 were already fully loading meaning that there were more than 2 companies (192 troops, plus 10 aircrew).
 
The failed Operation Eagle claw in 1980 involved more than 200 US soldiers in an effort to rescue 86 US CIA operatives from Iran and also involved a similar number of support aircraft (6 -C-130s).  The numbers involved are simply too large to explain all of this effort for 1 pilot, the US must have been trying to extract a large number of people, several dozen at least, perhaps CIA operatives, local tribal traitors or special forces. 
 
Trump publicly declared a huge success, but then follow that up with this insane and blasphemous Easter Sunday tirade, does that sound like someone who just had an incredible success?  No,  The US attempted some sort of large scale operation inside of Iran (probably a special forces insertion) and just like the original Operation Eagle Claw it failed, but this time the US successfully evacuated with their dead and wounded  (i.e they didn’t abandon them to be retrieved by the Iranians).  Carter couldn’t sweep his failure under the rug because the Iranians had the corpses, Trump managed to slink away with the dead bodies so he can declare victory and conceal the failure under national security.  This also explains Trump recent purge of US generals, they argued against this rehash of Operation Eagle Claw and were tossed out
 
 

Posted by: Kadath | Apr 5 2026 15:17 utc | 58

What’s this?
Posted by: john | Apr 5 2026 14:50 utc | 42
Reality, he is still wearing the same clothes he was captured in that paddock by two armed Iranians.
He had his hands raised and walked toward them from the fence line.
May be this is why Donny has lost the Whole Plot, he has been caught out again.

Posted by: Thunderdownunder | Apr 5 2026 15:21 utc | 60

Massive/small  protests/gatherings  Friday/Saturday, Iraq, Bahrain, Yemen, Iran,  Israel,  UAE (heavy crackdown)  Syria, Lebanon.
Some protesting, some showing unity. 
 
Silence:  Egypt/Qatar/Jordan/Oman

Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 5 2026 15:22 utc | 62

Trump flip-flop…(guessing market)
 
Is having imaginary negotiations again. “Peace Deal” tomorrow:
Tass Excerpt:
https://tass.com/world/2112095
NEW YORK, April 5. /TASS/. The US may reach an agreement with Iran on a peaceful settlement of the conflict as early as Monday, President Donald Trump told Fox News.
A “The president tells me he thinks he will be able to get a deal by tomorrow. He says: “I think there is a good chance tomorrow. They [the sides] are negotiating now,” Fox News journalist Trey Yingst reported, quoting the US leader.
“The reporter also noted that, according to the White House, if Tehran does not agree to a deal, Trump intends to take control of Iranian oil. “If they don’t make a deal, and fast, I am considering blowing everything up and taking over the oil,” Yingst quoted the US president as saying.”

Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 5 2026 15:29 utc | 64

There are two layers in all of the westernized nations: the Epstein Class owned top-down layer and the innocent, naive bottom-up class..  The two layers are isolated and heavily insulated from each. The bottom-up has been excluded from the affairs of the Epstein class.  The Epstein class led and owned “too big to fail” operate the “Top-Down, bottom-up” interface, that interface is called the government. 
 
 ..
Isolation and insulation have produced a bottom-up society that has no knowledge of the workings of government or the politicians that animate it and even less knowledge of the well hidden Epstein class that owns 99% of the wealth in the world.  How the Epstein class has acquired for themselves the wealth of the world is unknown to the bottom-up classes.   
 
 ..
The challenge is to find a way to expose the histories and activities of the Epstein class to the bottom-up societies imprisoned by the nation state system and to inform the corruption of the Epstein class to the bottom up societies. 
 
 ..
The real facts behind what the secrets as to what actually happened in Iran with missing pilot, downed and destroyed aircraft episodes is just one tiny example of information isolation and insulation.. 

Posted by: snake | Apr 5 2026 15:33 utc | 66

Here’s the list of confirmed material losses 10 aircraft – just shy of one billion dollars in losses
— 1× F-15E Strike Eagle — destroyed – cost $31 million— 2× HH-60 helicopters — damaged – cost $575 million— 2x MH-6 Little Bird — destroyed – cost $80 million— 1× A-10 Thunderbolt II — destroyed – cost $20 million— 2× C-130 Hercules — destroyed – cost $170 million— 2× MQ-9 Reapers — destroyed – cost $60 million
Possible / unconfirmed damage:— 1× F-16 Fighting Falcon — emergency squawk— 1× KC-135 Stratotanker — emergency squawk — 1× A-10 Thunderbolt II — crashed and likely destroyed

Posted by: Kadath | Apr 5 2026 15:35 utc | 68

Pope Leo condemned Trump’s war. 
 
Trump’s regime banned Catholics from its Easter meet today. 
 
I’m sure it’s a total coincidence 🫩

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 5 2026 15:43 utc | 70

Live fire, active gunman (allegedly) situation at the White House. No direct confirmation yet.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 5 2026 14:44 utc | 38

Maybe an in-house dispute amonst themselves. (/sarc).

Source of information,if possible, please and thank you

Posted by: Fíréan | Apr 5 2026 15:46 utc | 72

It’s like watching a nation-state version of ‘The Emperor’s New Clothes’. Trump is clearly crazy, but the US establishment keeps making excuses for his hugely dangerous bombastic buffoonery. The fact that he can get away with this behaviour for so long shows how effective their propaganda is, which is worrying.
Who does Trump think he’s negotiating with? Is this another shadow government thing, like they tried with that Guaido guy in Venezuela?
 

Posted by: Dave G | Apr 5 2026 15:50 utc | 74

RE: Posted by: Fíréan | Apr 5 2026 15:46 utc | 77
 
Totally lame if true.  Easter weekend, Trump in Mar-A-Lago for sure.. prolly left Epsteins Melania to toss out Eggs to unsuspecting children…

Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 5 2026 15:53 utc | 76

On Day 36 of the special 4 hours regime change operation 
Donald Trump converts to Islam on Easter Sunday morning 
 
Praise to Allah

Posted by: KillerDoll | Apr 5 2026 16:00 utc | 78

America is insane….the entire country is a madhouse. He will not step down or be replaced because he represents America perfectly. He is the lunatic running the asylum. Posted by: Maverick | Apr 5 2026 14:10 utc | 13===================I object to this.If all of the USA (I think that is what you mean) is insane, then so is the UK, Germany, the Ukraine, Australia—for starters.
Posted by: Jane | Apr 5 2026 15:09 utc | 56
 
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Jane your reply is a logical fallacy though it may very well be that all of the above are nuthouses.
 
On the point of the US being one big open air insane asylum this is unmistakably accurate but far worse- it is a dangerous madhouse.
 
Now there are numerous metrics to back the claim of the US being an asylum such as levels of obesity and how when overweight your cognition declines, extreme usages of pharmaceuticals, high levels of alcohol abuse, extreme amount of time on screens with little exercise, high level of neglect of elderly, poor critical thinking capacities, extraordinarily grotesque eating habits which also damages the brain, high levels of violence both internal to the society and external to the society that has been normalized, one could go on all day.
 
If you have any doubts that the US is a nuthouse come to where I live and we can travel elsewhere and you’ll see for yourself. This is a fundamentally sick society.

Posted by: Allen | Apr 5 2026 16:02 utc | 80

@Kadath

BREAKING: According to an informed U.S. military source, not one but four MH-6 ‘Little Bird’ helicopters had to be abandoned and were destroyed at the landing site along with the two C-130s Hercules – ABC News

via Middle East Spectator

Posted by: Apollyon | Apr 5 2026 16:09 utc | 82

69 – It is unusual for a German magazine, especially an MSM one, to approach such a negative aspect of Judaism. 

Posted by: Waldorf | Apr 5 2026 16:10 utc | 84

Jane your reply is a logical fallacy. . .
Posted by: Allen | Apr 5 2026 16:02 utc | 86
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Allen, dearie,
I think you missed my point.
Such a lot of words.
Without telling us where you live.

Posted by: Jane | Apr 5 2026 16:11 utc | 86

Posted by: Jane | Apr 5 2026 16:01 utc | 85
 
North Carolina

Posted by: Maverick | Apr 5 2026 16:14 utc | 88

The ‘rescue pilot’ narrative that was splattered all over western/alt media was greenlit – as DAMAGE CONTROL.  There was no creditable truth behind it, other than what the Americans are telling everyone to believe.  

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Apr 5 2026 16:16 utc | 90

Allen, dearie,I think you missed my point.Such a lot of words.Without telling us where you live.
Posted by: Jane | Apr 5 2026 16:11 utc | 96
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Speaking about personal matters on a political online forum is infantile and I do not engage in such things. 
 
If one short paragraph is too many words for you then it is best we part ways and cease further discussion.

Posted by: Allen | Apr 5 2026 16:18 utc | 92

Looking For The Next Genocide (& vid)
 
https://x.com/timand2037/status/2040765026689294416
 
“Israeli journalist Shimon Riklin openly calls for the extermination of the Iranian people:
 
‘It’s time for Israel to use a nuclear bomb against Iran. Or why not use a neutron bomb in Iran? It’s better than nuclear bombs because it doesn’t destroy buildings, but it kills people.’
 
Victory to Iran & Resistance! Death To USrael & Empire! Revolution Now!

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 5 2026 16:20 utc | 94

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 5 2026 14:04 utc | 3  I couldn’t believe it either. What’s with the ‘Praise Allah’ at the end? Dude is off the deep 
 
 
Posted by: Caveman | Apr 5 2026 14:06 utc | 5
 
—
 
Everyone’s first reaction: this is parody……….right?
 
This is Trump’s exit ramp out of the presidency, and for Vance to enter as the savior to save us all from the horror of a nuclear mishap in Iran. 

Posted by: freedom fritos | Apr 5 2026 16:22 utc | 96

Posted by Tom Pfotzer.
@ snake | Apr 5 2026 15:33 utc | 71
 
who said:

There are two layers in all of the westernized nations: the Epstein Class owned top-down layer and the innocent, naive bottom-up class..  The two layers are isolated and heavily insulated from each. The bottom-up has been excluded from the affairs of the Epstein class.  The Epstein class led and owned “too big to fail” operate the “Top-Down, bottom-up” interface, that interface is called the government.  

Snake: one of your better posts. You correctly identify lack of awareness as the core problem. As the duress and pain increase, so will the public become much more interested in finding out “why” and “what to do about it”.
 
This is an uncommonly ripe opportunity for budding authors. Ramp it up, Barflies!

Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Apr 5 2026 16:29 utc | 98

Speaking about personal matters on a political online forum is infantile and I do not engage in such things.  If one short paragraph is too many words for you then it is best we part ways and cease further discussion.
Posted by: Allen | Apr 5 2026 16:18 utc | 104
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Ooh ooh ooh, huffy huffy!
Saying where you live (to contextualize your pauschal judgments of  other countries’ citizens) is not a “personal matter,” ffs.
I have no interest in discussion with people here who make mountains out of mole hills and can’t understand the point of an uncomplicated, short post.
I follow events in the UK.
I follow events in Germany.
I get a good sense of how things stand in Australia from comments by Aussies here.
 
 

Posted by: Jane | Apr 5 2026 16:31 utc | 100