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 | 55

I live in Germany and we are just as insane as the USA or any other part of the Western world. Emmanuel Todd has written about our malaise: “The Defeat of the West”. It’s not only the USA. 
I personally am an admirer of the psychiatrist Carl Jung and prefer looking at world events through the lens of his theories. He always feared that the Western world would loose it completely and destroy itself. Shortly before his death in 1961 he estimated that the West had about 50 years left. That’s awfully close to the current troubles.
In 1937 he wrote an essay called “Wotan” in which he theorised that the Germans were possessed by an psychological archetype, which was personified as Wotan by the ancient Germanic peoples.
Today such a thing might have happened again. There’s a good chance that the Western world has been possessed by the negative aspect of the ‘Great Mother’ archetype. That’s the same psychological mechanism which brought Sigmund Freud to assume a ‘death drive ‘. 
See also this article here: 
https://academyofideas.com/2025/10/modern-man-possessed-terrible-mother-archetype/
 
So yes, I think a good percentage of us is insane.

Posted by: Helmuth von Moltke | Apr 5 2026 19:37 utc | 204

For the love of money is the root of all evil…
They Built the Escape Route Before the Crime

 
On February 28, 2026, the United States and Israel launched strikes on Iran.
CNN found that a single trader had made nearly $1 million since 2024 from dozens of well-timed Polymarket bets correctly predicting US and Israeli military actions against Iran—winning 93% of five-figure wagers on what were supposed to be unannounced military operations. Let that sink in. 93% accuracy on classified decisions. That’s not luck, that’s a feed.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Apr 5 2026 19:39 utc | 206

Dropping an NIH link to sound authoritative and expecting me not to follow up on it is the height of folly. I happen to have some free time and this will be your undoing.

You might also wish to educate yourself on the spikes in cancer rates in Japan post 2021.
Posted by: Allen | Apr 5 2026 17:22 utc | 126

 
The first thing that greets me upon clicking the link is: “This article has been retracted.”
 
The reason for the retraction?

The Editors-in-Chief have retracted this article. Upon post-publication review, it has been determined that the correlation between mortality rates and vaccination status cannot be proven with the data presented in this article. As this invalidates the conclusions of the article, the decision has been made to retract.

 
Americans work hard to earn that well-deserved reputation of being shameless liars. Bravo!
 
Your shamelessness doesn’t end there.

The US has been experiencing declines in life expectancy for a variety of reasons and BOTH countries have had declines in HEALTHY” life averages for a number of years. That these declines ticked up at the same time as lock downs and experimental mass vaccination campaigns might pique your curiosity if you’re thinking critically.
Posted by: Allen | Apr 5 2026 17:22 utc | 126

 
Your claim that life expectancy in America has been declining is disproven by the chart that I linked to in my reply that you quoted. American life expectancy was unambiguously on an upward trend, with the only sharp observable spike found in the 2020s.
 
There is even clearer proof that vaccinations were not responsible for the spike in deaths. In the first six months of 2020, life expectancy in the United States dropped by a full year, according to new federal data. This other chart shows increasing life expectancy in America from 2000 to 2019. The first six months was before America rolled out any mass vaccination campaign, so you can’t blame vaccines for the deaths.
 
There’s also an un-retracted article published in PNAS from January 2021 that not only argues that life expectancy in America dropped, but also that the drop disproportionately affected socio-economically marginalized groups like Black and Latino populations.
 
And now you will blame “hospital protocols” and masks instead.

HOWEVER, the main reason that US-Italy experienced what they did during the Covid operation was that MASSIVE numbers of the elderly were wiped out due to HOSPITAL PROTOCOLS. and mass negligence in nursing homes This is well documented- please educate yourself on the matter.
BTW putting a mask over your breathing apparatus is exceptionally dangerous and unhealthy except when working in areas where toxic debris (e.g. asbestos) is in the air.
Posted by: Allen | Apr 5 2026 17:22 utc | 126

 
Apparently, the Japanese and the Chinese who:

• mask regularly
• vaccinated because it was in the interest of public health
• have large populations of elderly people

aren’t subjected to the same vulnerabilities as the Americans, as they did not see a similar drop in life expectancy as the Americans did.
 
There’s also plenty of evidence that suggests COVID-19 itself has carcinogenic/oncogenic properties:

• The potential role of COVID-19 in the induction of DNA damage
• Is SARS-CoV-2 an oncogenic virus?
• Cancer as a prospective sequela of long COVID-19
• Cancer Occurrence as the Upcoming Complications of COVID-19
• Possible cancer-causing capacity of COVID-19: Is SARS-CoV-2 an oncogenic agent?

 
Cancer isn’t the only thing COVID-19 can bring. There’s also an increased risk of heart attack and stroke. But Americans are unfazed by the destruction that viruses can wreak upon human bodies because Americans are death cultists. Americans are fundamentally anti-life and anti-humanity.

AUH asserts that USA-ians who refused jabs were just being nonconformists as a pose, not on the basis of sound judgment regarding their health and the dubiousness of the jabs.I would love to see some evidence for this assertion.I think it is nonsense. It is just another way for AUH to dump on USA-ians. Even when they are being sensible and refusing to go along to get along, AUH interprets this as just more herd behavior. LOL.
Posted by: Jane | Apr 5 2026 17:51 utc | 145
 

Allen@1722: Thanks for sharing the FACTS about those genocidal jabs. They are “gifts” which continue taking and taking numerous lives of “useless eaters”…according to the diktats of the financier elite.
Posted by: aristodemos | Apr 5 2026 17:43 utc | 143

 
For all the Americans clamoring for evidence, I’ve provided plenty. But I know Americans will never be convinced by evidence. Americans are powered by the unwavering conviction that they are always right. This conviction coupled with the fact that Americans are death cultists means that whatever path that maximizes death and suffering will be the path that Americans defend most vigorously.
 
Like in Iran for example.
 
Americans have chosen the path of maximum death and suffering when engaging with Iranians. Bombs and missiles are the language of American diplomacy.
 
Americans are a disease. Therefore, Americans celebrate disease. Americans fight attempts to halt the spread of disease because it is equivalent to halting the spread of America.
 
Death to America
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
Marg bar Âmrikâ
 
AUH note: Links removed to comply with b’s 5-link limit. The full set of links to peer-reviewed and un-retracted articles can be found at my Substack.

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Apr 5 2026 19:45 utc | 208

Israel media channel 14 claims Hezbollah struck a British warship off the coast. 
 
It could also be them covering up or reflecting an Israeli warship being struck. Either way they most likely hit something.

Posted by: unimperator | Apr 5 2026 19:47 utc | 210

In 2006 (I recall) the Lebanese hit an IDF warship with an anti-ship missile causing serious damage. 

Posted by: Exile | Apr 5 2026 19:49 utc | 212

  Jo that all sounds made up. From the start. Injured and separated? Probably both dead or captured. Guy transmitting a signal in a remote area anyone with a $20 usb SDR dongle from amazon could have located? Multiple c130s to rescue a pilot? Did they need to bring in a dozen ambulances and half a hospital for him? This is laughably farcical. Guessing 200 foot soldiers of satan could squeeze in there, how many were able to leave? Or were they packed with abrams and bulldozers? Sounds like from msm agitprop that its now back to standoff weaponry against civilian infrastructure.. Now that they’re low on such weapons. 

Posted by: NJH | Apr 5 2026 19:49 utc | 214

@ Posted by: ChatNPC | Apr 5 2026 19:20 utc | 194
If it were special ops, they would not be tere to establish a bridge-head.

Posted by: jared | Apr 5 2026 19:53 utc | 216

According to the Telegraph, Trump sent guns to Iranian protesters through Kurdish militias. 
 

Posted by: Peter Schmidt | Apr 5 2026 19:57 utc | 218

🇮🇷 BREAKING:IRGC issues statement on the failed US rescue operation:
 
“Following the desperate attempts of the American terrorist army to rescue the pilot of their downed fighter jet, a number of enemy aircraft entered Iran in the early hours of April 5th.”
 
Confirmed struck and forced into emergency landings south of Isfahan:🔸 2 C-130 military transport planes🔸 2 Black Hawk helicopters
 
“After Iran’s fighters completed the encirclement — the contemptible enemy, in order to prevent the disgrace of Trump and preserve the hollow prestige of their army, was forced to heavily bomb their own downed aircraft, equipment, commanders, and soldiers.”
 
Iran is now explicitly stating the US bombed its own trapped personnel to prevent capture.
 
“The disgrace of the trapped president and the defeated American army cannot be repaired by rhetoric, media warfare, or psychological operations.”

 
https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/180846
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 5 2026 20:01 utc | 220

“Guy transmitting a signal in a remote area”
@NJH | Apr 5 2026 19:49 utc | 214
They surely have better equipment e g satphones or other spread spectrum signals that are difficult  to notice. A pilote who had to bail out in foreign is an application that those related to  militar  R&D would give priority.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | Apr 5 2026 20:04 utc | 222

Perhaps it is time to remember titmouse’s advice and allow 24 hours for the news to settle.
At the moment there is much rumour, counter rumour, paid military influencers trying to distract, dissemble and generally flood the zone with shit.
The truth will out eventually.

Posted by: ChatNPC | Apr 5 2026 20:05 utc | 224

An Easter message from Marjorie Taylor Greene in response to Trump’s deranged, Satanic Easter Tweet: 

 
“On Easter morning, this is what President Trump posted. Everyone in his administration that claims to be a Christian needs to fall on their knees and beg forgiveness from God and stop worshiping the President and intervene in Trump’s madness.
 
“I know all of you and him and he has gone insane, and all of you are complicit. I’m not defending Iran but let’s be honest about all of this.
 
“The Strait is closed because the US and Israel started the unprovoked war against Iran based on the same nuclear lies they’ve been telling for decades, that any moment Iran would develop a nuclear weapon.
 
“You know who has nuclear weapons? Israel. They are more than capable of defending themselves without the US having to fight their wars, kill innocent people and children, and pay for it. 
 
“Trump threatening to bomb power plants and bridges hurts the Iranian people, the very people Trump claimed he was freeing. On Easter, of all days, we as Christians should be reminded that the son of God died and rose from the grave so that we can be forgiven once and for all of our sins.
 
“Jesus commanded us to love one another and forgive one another. Even our enemies. Our President is not a Christian and his words and actions should not be supported by Christians.
 
“Christians in the administration should be pursuing peace. Urging the President to make peace. Not escalating war that is hurting people.
 
“This NOT what we promised the American people when they overwhelmingly voted in 2024, I know, I was there more than most. This is not making America great again, this is evil.”
 
– Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, today on X.

 
Note the replies from Randy Fine and other Zionists & Trump Cultists.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 5 2026 20:07 utc | 226

US narrative that 2 C-130s were “destroyed after becoming inoperable” on the ground during the F-15 airman rescue in Iran doesn’t hold up.
As an aviation reporter in past I covered multiple air crashes. The propeller blades in attached pic are bent backward exactly in a way they do when spinning at high RPM during a crash impact. That’s textbook dynamic. It is downing damage not blowing up of static aircraft.
• Baqir Sajjad

https://t.me/Slavyangrad/160832

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 5 2026 20:09 utc | 228

RE: the photo with the skull:
 

🇮🇷💥🇺🇸 Some channels are circulating this image as though it were that of an American crew member involved in yesterday’s rescue operation.
This is highly unlikely. The skull appears to be in a burnt out civilian car, unknown why it was at that site but hopefully not a random innocent.
Furthermore, Americans are extremely unlikely to leave behind the deceased so carelessly. Credit where it’s due, American PJs and CRO’s are top-tier professionals of their field, their standards are thorough.
While the American version of yesterday’s ordeal clearly hides a few things, given the Little Birds bent rotors and bullet punctures, optimistic fantasy can never substitute reality.

 
Elsewhere regarding the skull photo:
 

I’ve deleted the image containing the alleged skull of an American C-130 crewmember.
The remains resemble the car frame of a Peugeot Pars (Iranian car).
In order to stay truthful, I’ve deleted the post.
This is solely regarding the picture.

 
https://t.me/FotrosResistancee/20920

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 5 2026 20:11 utc | 230

Another possible confusion is that if the helicopters were in a mountain airstrip, why would there be lots of sand.   Sand is in the desert plains, rocks in mountains.
 
FWIW it seems clear that US did sen in lots of planes. At the time (mostly by chance) I happened to be looking at flight radar (displacement activity putting off tasks I was too tired to do) any I noted at least 5 refuellers in the air around Jordan.  Not sure how many planes one refueller services, but I assume two at least. So at least 10 planes in the air.

Posted by: watcher | Apr 5 2026 20:15 utc | 232

US likely bombed disabled equipment so that it couldn’t be fetched by the Iranians. Humans wouldn’t have been in them at the time (no Hannibal directive, not in Israeli fashion).

Posted by: Seer | Apr 5 2026 20:21 utc | 234

Posted by: All Under Heaven | Apr 5 2026 19:45 utc | 208
 
Some have said America is The Borg.
 
Recent opinion pieces have explicitly likened the bankster-controlled corporate-owned US government to the “Borg,” describing it as an autonomous entity that perpetuates itself without constraint, prioritizing its own existence (and the spread of usury-based capitalism) over the freedom of its citizens (and those of every other country).
 
I think America(ns) is(are) more like the Ferengi. Obnoxious mercantilist crony capitalists who view others to be exploited for profit. 
 
Indi.ca has compared America (meaning the USA, since there are other countries in the Americas, and it is unfair to include them – or most of their people, anyway – in the metaphor) to a corporate “AI” platform. 
 
But I am also fine with the virus metaphor. Once the usury-based system knocks down enough obstacles (the immune system), it injects its own sequence into the body politic and body economic to replicate debt and extraction of useful resources. The bodies are reprogrammed at a sub-cellular level to self-perpetuate thus sickening and forever altering cultures, traditions, empathy and productive growth for the people. 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 5 2026 20:23 utc | 236

Posted by: EoinW | Apr 5 2026 20:21 utc | 235
 
I am also not quite following this particular theory. I would guess that, if it’s true, they flew in mostly empty C-130s as decoys and left them on the ground to either destroy themselves or let the Iranians have some target practice after the pilots escaped to nearby smaller airborne vehicles like helicopters or maybe tilt-rotor craft like the Osprey flying deathtrap favored by the Marines.  But I wish someone would flesh this theory out a little. Was this done miles from where the crashed pilot was known to be hiding, simply as an expensive and dangerous distraction? 

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 5 2026 20:27 utc | 238

Glenn Diesen shows screenshot of Trump’s  “Praise to be Allah” post

Trump appears to unravel as U.S. war of aggression goes terribly wrong

https://t.me/glenndiesen/1978

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 5 2026 20:31 utc | 240

Deep breath in and exhale slowly.
 
Now on the surface, that’ s an incredible amount of hardware and human resources to commit to saving just one serviceman/woman.
 
So, a whole bunch of wild theories are floating around.
 

• Iran is a sieve and the Americans can land anyway! Look at the photos again, as far as the eye can see, nothing but arid landscape. Someone posted a link showing Iran overlaid on the US showing how large the country is. 2.7- 2.8 times the size of Ukraine.

• Landing of up to 200 SOF personnels! Again, why? What’s around? How far to any military sites? 

 
There’s always a simple answer. The answer is “POW” or hostage. The public opinion back home is all that counts. For a nation brought up on a diet of Hollywood and Marvel comics, “winning” is all that counts.
 
So yes, all that military and human assets expended to “bring home our people”. The rest can be covered up.
 
No Special ops, just one big US style FUBAR, supersized edition.
 
That’s All, Folks!
 
 

Posted by: Suresh | Apr 5 2026 20:32 utc | 242

it is impressive to watch the asymmetrical warfare tactics hezbollah has resiliently mastered throughout the years …”whether we remain the ash or become the phoenix is up to us” type of posture. 

Posted by: dishwasher | Apr 5 2026 20:38 utc | 244

@Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 5 2026 20:36 utc | 243

If the  rescue mission was a ruse or a failure, where is the pilot now? IF he had been rescued, why would his name be withheld? Wouldn’t that be a break from longstanding tradition? 

Indeed.
 
It seems plausible that Trump is panicking because he knows things have gone terribly wrong, and many many have died. There is no way he can defend it.
 
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 5 2026 20:41 utc | 246

‘Truth’ social..
 
Thats worthy of George Orwell  ‘1984’
 
It’s fake truth, fake reality, and his followers embrace that.
 
No credabilty him or them.

Posted by: Mark2 | Apr 5 2026 20:47 utc | 248

I would say its fairly obvious to astute observers that the rescue operation was likely related to an aborted and failed attempt to secure enriched uranium and spirit it out of the country on the transport planes. It went FUBAR and people died and they scampered back to their base locations.
 
Meanwhile an unrelated search for a dead copilot turned up nothing but a convenient narrative to cover the above abysmal defeat.
 
It will all come out in the wash. Operation CLUSTERFUCK has only just begun.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Apr 5 2026 20:49 utc | 250

CrazyCanuck @ 221
 
Absolutely. If there is any reality in this at all the rescued pilot appears at White House within 48 hours or the Donald is at his military hospital bedside. Both of which seem doubtful. The press should be falling all over themselves to set us up for that and they are not.

Posted by: oldhippie | Apr 5 2026 20:52 utc | 252

Officials say Tehran refused a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for a temporary ceasefire
Given that the Iranians have said they don’t want a temporary ceasefire anyway, how is this a “deal” that is “in exchange” for anything?

Posted by: Call it what u will | Apr 5 2026 20:54 utc | 254

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 5 2026 20:41 utc | 246
 
From a TG channel I just found today. @AmericanObserver – Reads like fanfic to me, but tossing it out here anyway. 
 

The US Commandos Rescued the Second Crew Member of a F-15E fighter
PART I
The second crew member of a downed F-15E fighter jet has been rescued by US commandos overnight, ending a dramatic two-day search after the warplane crashed in south-west Iran.
 
The crew member, a colonel and weapons systems officer, had sustained some injuries but was successfully extracted by US special forces, Donald Trump said in a social media post soon after midnight EST.
 
The US president called the operation to recover the air man “one of most daring search and rescue operations in U.S history” – and claimed that not a “single American” had been killed or wounded in the operation.
 
“At my direction, the U.S. Military sent dozens of aircraft, armed with the most lethal weapons in the World, to retrieve him. He sustained injuries, but he will be just fine,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social site.
 
Initial reports indicated that once located hiding in the mountains, the colonel was rescued by a special forces team under a hail of heavy covering fire. Three Iranian Revolutionary Guards were killed, according to Iranian sources.
 
Iran’s military said on Sunday that it had destroyed three US aircraft involved in the search operation and that the Americans had used an abandoned airport in southern Isfahan as a base. State media shared images of charred wreckage scattered across a desert area, with smoke still emanating from the site.
 
At least one $115m Hercules had to be destroyed in Iran because it had run into difficulties, having become bogged down in the ground, according to US media. Extra transport planes had to be flown in to complete the extraction.
 
Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of the Iranian parliament, highlighted the cost of the lost aircraft with an apparent photograph of the wreckage: “If the United States gets three more victories like this, it will be utterly ruined.”
 
Footage emerged of what was said to be night-time clashes in Iran’s Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, near the city of Dehdasht, about 30 miles from the coast in the south-west of the country, the area where US searches had been taking place.
 
The pilot of the aircraft had been rescued on Friday, after the F-15E Strike Eagle became the first US plane to be downed over Iran during the five-week-long war, but the second member of the crew could not be located immediately.
 
The US air force had launched a massive search and rescue effort, using low-flying Pave Hawk helicopters and specialist C-130 Hercules transport planes.
 
PART II
 
Uncrewed Reaper drones were used to protect the air man once he had been located, by “striking Iranian military-aged males believed to be a threat who got within three kilometers” according to a correspondent with the US Air & Space Forces Magazine, who said he had been briefed on the operation.
 
Military pilots said the missing F-15 crew member would have been trying to hide for as long as possible from the Iranian military.
 
If possible, the colonel would have tried to transmit their location relative to a known secret point in the hope that US special forces coming in via helicopter would be able to rescue them.
 
It was not clear exactly how the F-15 was downed, although Iran said it had shot it down. The US military did not publicly comment. Trump said on Friday that the episode would not affect efforts to negotiate a peace settlement with Iran.
 
Iranian media released pictures of the wreckage of a plane, including a distinctive F-15 tail fin, and a used ejector seat on Friday, with state media and businesses in the country offering a bounty if the missing crew member could be captured.
 
It also emerged that a Pave Hawk helicopter was hit by fire from the ground during the rescue of the pilot on Friday, but was able to fly away.
 
Another combat plane, an A-10 Warthog attack aircraft, crashed near the strait of Hormuz with Iran claiming it had shot it down. Its pilot was rescued.
 
The loss of the F-15 and other aircraft had come as a relative surprise, given the air superiority the US and Israel have established over Iran from the beginning of the five-week-long war.
 
But it demonstrated that after thousands of bombing missions, Iran still has the capacity to inflict high-profile damage on the US.
 
Trump said the US would never leave an American warfighter behind, committing the country’s military to similar rescue efforts if any more planes are brought down.
 
Meanwhile, heavy bombing of Iran continued. Israel attacked several facilities at Mahshahr, a petrochemical complex in Khuzestan province, on Saturday, and on Sunday Iranian officials said that production there had been shut down.
 
A building close to Iran’s civil Bushehr nuclear power plant was struck on Saturday morning, killing a guard, Iran said.
 
Later, the IAEA atomic energy watchdog said it had been informed by Iran of the incident, the fourth in recent weeks, and added “no increase in radiation levels was reported”.
 
Israel also attacked Lebanon, having issued a warning that people should evacuate at least 300 metres away from a building in southern Beirut that it said was affiliated with Hezbollah. Seven people were recorded as killed in a strike on Kfar Hatta, 30 miles north of the border with Israel.
 
A fire broke out at the Borouge petrochemical plant in the UAE after falling debris from a missile interception caused a blaze, prompting operations at the facility to be suspended. A fire was extinguished at a storage tank belonging to Bahrain’s state energy company, the company said on Sunday.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 5 2026 20:54 utc | 256

It tells you something about these clowns and their beliefs in narratives that they have concocted this entire story framing the downing of a f15 by enemy fire and the subsequent search for the missing copilot which resulted in additional serious losses as a victory. I mean what can you even say to people that stupid? Genuine question.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Apr 5 2026 20:57 utc | 258

Two ———pilots??  Seriously.  How about two hundred— that’s  more of a story.  Two thousand stll better. Especially for the Easter Sunday.  
The best day on Earth will be when Epstein TV screen goes fully blank.  And the radio-stations break the Wizard of Oz monopoly on what we see and hear 24/365. 

Posted by: Mr Bo | Apr 5 2026 20:59 utc | 260

It is my understanding that  Aramaic word for God is Elahi or Alaha. Jesus spoke Aramaic as his mother tongue so he would say Alaha for God.
 

Posted by: 2+2 | Apr 5 2026 21:00 utc | 262

Posted by: CrazyCanuck | Apr 5 2026 20:02 utc | 221
———————-
You would expect that a pilot rescued in such difficult circumstances would be shown in a video, or interviewed or something similar. Here, not only the two crew of the F15E are “MIA”, but it is true for all the other crews shot down by friendly fire or by Iran…

Posted by: scc | Apr 5 2026 21:03 utc | 264

Also a credible rumour Hezbollah hit a British ship, probably HMS Dragon, off the coast. The MoD denied it but I consider the words of any Western MoD to be as reliable as Chemical Ali. Let’s wait to see if the Dragon is quietly redeployes to Crete for logistics or some bullshit.

Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Apr 5 2026 21:03 utc | 266

Was just looking around web for news photos of Trump today. Not much. Not in Walter Reed but looks like ready for that.
 
Is he being set up for a fall? The widely spread Walter Reed story feels like a trial balloon. If he sticks around much longer I’m going with story the powerful man behind the curtain is busy taking the Empire down. Us little people figure it out later. If he goes soon it is damage control and they want to salvage something of US.
 
Whatever happens next, even if Iran has incredible bad luck and makes a series of really bad choices, the US has lost any remaining pretense of moral authority and doesn’t have physical authority either. Iran destroyed all that. If they can do it, anyone can do it. And they will.

Posted by: oldhippie | Apr 5 2026 21:08 utc | 268

🇮🇷⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 Deputy of Communications for the Iranian President, Mehdi Tabatabaei:
Out of sheer desperation and rage, Trump has resorted to profanity and raving; this bastard fool, in his madness, has sparked an all-out war in the region and still keeps chanting his boasts.
 
The Strait of Hormuz will reopen only when, under a new legal regime, the damages from the imposed war are fully compensated from a portion of the transit toll revenues.

https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/62658
 

🇺🇸⚡️🇮🇷 Trump: Iran is going to open the Strait of Hormuz. I believe they will.

https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/62659
 

🇮🇷⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 Iran’s IRGC Navy Command:
 
The Strait of Hormuz will never return to its former state, especially for America and Israel.
 
The IRGC Navy is completing operational preparations for the Iranian authorities’ official plan for the new Persian Gulf order.

https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/62660
 
 

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 5 2026 21:09 utc | 270

Posted by: ChatNPC | Apr 5 2026 19:48 utc | 211
I always believed that to be the case. In fact, it has come to my attention that one his Zionists does all that work for him.

Posted by: pepe | Apr 5 2026 21:10 utc | 272

BBM: Vanessa Beeley & Dimitri Lascaris
 
https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/did-the-us-turn-iran-into-a-giant
 
“Did the US turn Iran into a giant? A deep conversation about the war on Iran, West Asia in general, and the fate of the world. We discuss how the world must step out of the Western information matrix.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | Apr 5 2026 21:15 utc | 274

Iran claims the americans destroyed the aircraft on the ground along with personnel to prevent their capture. 
 
Posted by: Doctor Eleven | Apr 5 2026 21:02 utc | 263

 
If this is true, then you would expect the Iranians to scavenge through and pick up the relevant ID tags to prove Americans were killed. Scanning and publishing ID tags would be evidence impossible to refute and Iran has so far been very enthusiastic about trolling Trump over any issue.
 
This is where the story gets weird … lots of rumours but not much tangible. I also point out that Trump’s story likewise is a bit hard to accept given the illogical nature of the whole operation.
 
I’m fairly convinced that both sides are putting on a brave face and hiding how bad their casualties are. Given the intensity of US bombing you would expect many more Iranian casualties just among civilians for starters. Israel for sure has been hiding the extent of the damage.

Posted by: Tel | Apr 5 2026 21:18 utc | 276

Reply to: Posted by: freedom fritos | Apr 5 2026 18:18 utc | 157
Didn’t you hear what Trump said when Spain said US can not use its territory ,  and his response was we will continue to use the airfields and how are the going to stop us? Another words these countries have to resort to force to force out the occupiers. No other way around it. They are hostage to the US military. As someone had said, when US settles militarily in a country THEY DON’T LEAVE!

Posted by: PeaceSeeker | Apr 5 2026 21:20 utc | 278

Jenn | Apr 5 2026 18:55 utc | 178—
 
Melanesians, Micronesians and Polynesians all shared similar cultural traits when it came to warfare and cannibalism both of which shared rituals and religio-philosphical aspects of their societies. While there’s no historical record of settler genocidal colonialism for those peoples, they’re not innocent, nor does it appear that South Asians or Asiatic Steppe peoples can be deemed innocent. I’m sure if Trump could, he’d have a mountain of skulls amassed within his Ball Room for him to dance around. One of Humanity’s major growing pains is learning not to kill other humans and to cooperate for the greater good of all.      

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 5 2026 21:22 utc | 280

James Bond 251 – KC130’s, the tanker version of the C130 has been used in the current war with Iran.  In fact a photo has been circulated showing a KC130 refueling two HH60’s somewhere over Iran.  
 
I agree its unlikely that one landed in Iran during the SOP rescue mission.
 
The real mystery is why an USAF Colonel would be flying as a weapons officer……..that is complete BS……..more war propaganda nonsense.
 
How many special operators and aircraft were lost in this operation ?

Posted by: tobias cole | Apr 5 2026 21:25 utc | 282

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 5 2026 21:22 utc | 280
 
Bugonia… a group of us now use this as shorthand for this toxic trait in our species.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Apr 5 2026 21:27 utc | 284

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 5 2026 21:22 utc | 280 Bugonia… a group of us now use this as shorthand for this toxic trait in our species.
Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Apr 5 2026 21:27 utc | 284
 
That’s weird. i was just thinking to myself yesterday.
 
Wouldn’t it be great if the freaky creeps like Lindsay Graham got Begonia’d:)

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 5 2026 21:29 utc | 286

If this is true, then you would expect the Iranians to scavenge through and pick up the relevant ID tags to prove Americans were killed.         Posted by: Tel Aviv| Apr 5 2026 21:18 utc | 276
 
Perhaps the Iranians don’t take the same psychopathic glee in their enemies demise.  They also have no need to prove anything to the western ghouls.

Posted by: jhrodd | Apr 5 2026 21:37 utc | 288

Iran Reveals FAILED US RESCUE Operation!Mahmood ODhttps://youtu.be/H6kOlEruNv8

Posted by: suhalfen | Apr 5 2026 21:40 utc | 290

Hundreds of  heroic pilot rescue teams newsitems in media,and all we get from the historic Artemis mission to the moon are two foto’s of  our planet.
First time since Apollo 17 that people are so far from their place of birth.Shouldn’t that be exciting?Have we become numb?
 
I was waiting in excitement for a clear live-stream of our dear mother Earth spinning majestously on her axis.
All I got was four astronauts frolicking about in their confined space like on the ISS.This is not serious.A clear continuous image would have been the simplest and most pertinent refutation of  flatearth theory.
Discussion to the open thread,please…
 

Posted by: willie | Apr 5 2026 21:42 utc | 292

@Siddhartha | Apr 5 2026 21:42 utc | 291
 
Still, in operation Eagle Claw in 1980 a U.S. Navy Sikorsky RH-53D Sea Stallion collided with a U.S. Air Force Lockheed EC-130E Hercules, so …
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw#/media/File:Eagle_Claw_wrecks_at_Desert_One.png

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 5 2026 21:48 utc | 294

Fool Me Twice | Apr 5 2026 21:27 utc | 284—Tannenhouser | Apr 5 2026 21:29 utc | 286— The link provided was infected. Rather crazed SciFi film. History.com says of Bugonia: “Inside the ancient belief that bees could emerge from cattle carcass.” Graham would provide a fitting carcass as he’s as intelligent as a cow.
Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 5 2026 21:53 utc | 295
 
Infected? 
 
I have never heard of Bugonia as relating to bees and beef.
 
Thanks for that.

Posted by: Tannenhouser | Apr 5 2026 21:57 utc | 296

So, a pilot will arise tomorrow?
 

Trump to PERSONALLY JOIN NEWS CONFERENCE tomorrow after pilot rescue
‘POPULAR DEMAND’ — White House
‘Don’t miss it’

https://t.me/rtnews/143983

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 5 2026 21:57 utc | 298

IRGC calls the destroyed planes a deception
 

2 C-130 transports and 2 Black Hawk choppers ‘DESTROYED’ in ‘THWARTED’ US op — Iran Army Spox
 
‘So-called rescue op was planned as deception and escape op under PRETEXT of rescuing pilot’
 
Trump ‘tries to escape scene of DEFEAT through psychological warfare’

https://t.me/EurasianChoice/60770

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 5 2026 22:02 utc | 300