War On Iran: – April Ceasefire – A Tick Tock Of Statements And Comments

April 8, 2026

Trump has chickened out from his threat of committing a genocide in Iran by agreeing to a ceasefire based on Iran’s 10 point declaration.

The war isn’t over.

Israel will do its best to sabotage the ceasefire by all means.

If Trump really wants to stop losing the war he had started on advice of Netanyahoo (archived) he will have to throw him under a bus.

The Secretary for War Crimes Pete Hegseth and others who had urged for the war will be made scapegoats for this defeat.

An attempt to tick-tock what happened:

Minutes before the launch of the genocide he had threatened Trump chickened out.

Arash Azisi: Direct talks between Ghalibaf and Vance in the last few hours made the ceasefire agreement possible — sources in Tehran tell me.

At 23:50 UTC the ~~Foreign~~ Prime Minister of Pakistan Shahbaz Sharif announced a ceasefire:

With the greatest humility, I am pleased to announce that the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States of America, along with their allies, have agreed to an immediate ceasefire everywhere including Lebanon and elsewhere, EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY.

I warmly welcome the sagacious gesture and extend deepest gratitude to the leadership of both the countries and invite their delegations to Islamabad on Friday, 10th April 2026, to further negotiate for a conclusive agreement to settle all disputes. …

The original statement was probably written by someone else.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi issued a Statement on behalf of the Supreme National Security Council of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Trump conceded defeat:

Based on conversations with Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and Field Marshal Asim Munir, of Pakistan, and wherein they requested that I hold off the destructive force being sent tonight to Iran, and subject to the Islamic Republic of Iran agreeing to the COMPLETE, IMMEDIATE, and SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz, I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks. This will be a double sided CEASEFIRE! The reason for doing so is that we have already met and exceeded all Military objectives, and are very far along with a definitive Agreement concerning Longterm PEACE with Iran, and PEACE in the Middle East. We received a 10 point proposal from Iran, and believe it is a workable basis on which to negotiate. Almost all of the various points of past contention have been agreed to between the United States and Iran, but a two week period will allow the Agreement to be finalized and consummated. On behalf of the United States of America, as President, and also representing the Countries of the Middle East, it is an Honor to have this Longterm problem close to resolution. Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP
(TS: 07 Apr 18:32 ET)‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍‌‍

The full statement by the Supreme National Security Council of Iran – PressTV write up.

Iran’s position has slightly softened. The 10 points Iran issued yesterday are slightly different from the 10 points now mentioned in the PressTV piece (Lebanon is now missing(?!) but lifting of ALL sanctions against Iran) (There also seem to be differences on enrichment in the Farsi and English versions of the latest 10 points issued.)

Nevertheless:

Poète dubitatif @evil_SDOC – 23:56 UTC · Apr 7, 2026

If this is it really, Trump will have saved face at a cost of strategic defeat to the US, because negotiations based on the Iranians’ 10 points, together with interim Iranian control of Hormuz for the duration of the cease fire definitely means Iran has won.

White House press statement:

This is a victory for the United States that President Trump and our incredible military made happen.
From the very beginning of Operation Epic Fury, President Trump estimated this would be a 4-6 week operation.
Thanks to the unbelievable capabilities of our warriors, we have achieved and exceeded our core military objectives in 38 days.
More on that tomorrow morning from @SecWar and Chairman Caine!
The success of our military created maximum leverage, allowing President Trump and the team to engage in tough negotiations that have now created an opening for a diplomatic solution and long-term peace.
Additionally, President Trump got the Strait of Hormuz reopened.
Never underestimate President Trump’s ability to successfully advance America’s interests and broker peace.

Sarcastic comment by AmCon’s Andrew Day:

The Strait of Hormuz was closed for 47 years by the Mad Mullahs of Iran. But tonight, Donald Trump opened it.

As very positive sign Trump reposted Araghchi’s statement on his Truth Social account.

Trump’s victory statement:

…Big money will be made. Iran can start the reconstruction process. We’ll be loading up with supplies of all kinds, and just “hangin’ around” in order to make sure that everything goes well. I feel confident that it will. Just like we are experiencing in the U.S., this could be the Golden Age of the Middle East!!!

Netanyahoo falsely claims that the ceasefire “does not include Lebanon”.

The opposition leader in Israel is furious about this defeat.

Various comments:
Mark Ames:

Trump’s insanely stupid & evil war ends in perhaps the most humiliating defeat in US history. …

Amal Saad:

The US didn’t agree to a ceasefire but acquiesced to a new balance of power. …

James Acton:

The U.S. acceptance of the Iranian proposal as a basis for negotiation is a *huge* concession. There is nothing about Iran’s nuclear program in there and it includes a toll for the Strait.
Obviously this is a starting point, not an end point, but it is unlikely the U.S. will achieve any of its strategic goals—which is the price we must pay, I guess, for absolutely terrible and horrific policy.

Chinahand:

my uninformed opinion is that usa/allies denying overflight/refueling to israeli planes is the key behind the scenes condition for iran agreeing to the ceasefire. iiuc israel still lacks the ability to strike iran without these facilities. if Trump genuinely wants to wind this thing down, Netanyahu will have to resort to some other provocation to try to keep the war going. IMO.

Gregg Carlstorm

Listen, it is indeed striking that Trump describes Iran’s ten-point proposal as a “workable basis” for talks, but stipulating that at the start does not bind you to anything at the end
If America walks in and says it wants to change “right to continued enrichment” to “zero enrichment”, then we’re right back where we were in February

Side note:

The war has (so far) lasted 40 days. That limit has religious importance in Judaism and Islam.

PS: Latest Iran Lego Movie: TACO Tuesday – How to defeat a hegemon

Posted by b on April 8, 2026 at 07:12 UTC | Permalink

Comments

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 8 2026 19:47 utc | 431
Thank you for at least for thinking about it. We are here for Thousands of years. looting is looting, Visiting is fine, visitors cannot replace people who live in that land.
So you 400 years ago your forefather was a visitor (just like ambassador), but he had no claim on land. None!

Posted by: Jenn | Apr 8 2026 20:55 utc | 501

Posted by: Bob Hopkins | Apr 8 2026 20:55 utc | 500
“AKA not Trump’s son in law or his golfing buddy who are equal parts unqualified and inept.”

Exactly,
and by accepting these sham negotiations, Iran is showing who is part of the problem and who is part of the solution…Tonight, the exasperation with the Israeli and US attitude was palpable, even among the announcers on the official media.So yes, Iran is playing the “good guy,” and it’s working.

Posted by: Tak-Tik | Apr 8 2026 21:02 utc | 502

Iran’s FM spokesman Baghaei condemned Israel’s strikes on Lebanon, citing Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif who said the two-week deal with the US also included a Lebanon ceasefire:

If this isn’t yet another case of the U.S. early reneging, then what is it?!

https://t.me/presstv/184519

Spanish PM Sánchez condemned Israel’s “harsh attacks” on Lebanon, stressing that the two-week US-Iran ceasefire deal must also include Lebanon.

https://t.me/presstv/184520

🔴 Former IRGC commander Mohsen Rezaei expresses support for Hezbollah resistance and blames the US for the collapse of the ceasefire:

We stand with Hezbollah’s fighters with all our strength, and we will punish the Zionist enemy. The responsibility for the collapse of the ceasefire lies with the US, which either cannot or will not rein in its rabid dog (Israel). Any US violation of the ceasefire will also not be tolerated.

https://t.me/presstv/184524

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 8 2026 21:02 utc | 503

Jenn,

was the Island of Manhatten sold ?

Posted by: Exile | Apr 8 2026 21:02 utc | 504

add to my 502 :
” even among the announcers on the EMPIRE’S official media “

Posted by: Tak-Tik | Apr 8 2026 21:05 utc | 505

🏁🇺🇸 The Trump administration is reportedly considering pulling US troops out of European countries that did not support Washington in a war against Iran.

According to Wall Street Journal sources, options are being discussed to effectively “punish” less cooperative allies.

US forces could instead be redeployed to countries seen as more loyal and supportive of the US and Israel during the conflict.

https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/181399

You mean Iran liberated Europe too?

Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 8 2026 21:06 utc | 506

Posted by: Bob Hopkins | Apr 8 2026 20:55 utc | 500
Yeah – experience in high $ NYC Real Estate transactions hardly makes one a diplomat on the World stage – one wonders when the discretion of the president gets challenged to put these dipshits in charge of diplomacy that effects so many directly – it is literally offensive – and suggests that the systems of gubment in dc are completely broken down.

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 8 2026 21:06 utc | 507

It literally AFFECTS us all – and these fella hardly seem to have a sense of world history – they are just pigeons sent to do diplomacy against others who have studied history and have an IQ above mafia levels – for Christ’s sake. How is it the president has his “own team” in the key diplomatic discourse that literally is on behalf of the citizens supposedly – this seems like a breach in gubment – and suggest to me – that the days of the us of a are numbered – and nobody wants another King for eff sake.

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 8 2026 21:09 utc | 508

So many things have been raised all partly true i think. I cannot list the names of posters. Most are good. My current thinking:

Iran most certainly did not tryst the USA but did what it must
Trump and his inner circle were SERIOUSLY thinking of mass nuclear attack
Trump was told by Russia (via Vance) and maybe China that nuclear attack was off the table completely because it would start WWIII and nuclear armageddon
Trump took the off-ramp BUT the crazy rapture mob did not accept it. There is division in the USA
Israel definitely did NOT accept it.
The UAE did not accept it, nor Kuwait
Saudi has gone quiet as has Bahrain
Iran has now got nukes. I feel sure that they tested them previously but never made them operational. That has changed
A two week ceasefire may be needed by iran to get nukes operational
Iran will not use nukes against Israel – too close to home and not good for allies in Lebanon, Syria and of course Palestine
Nukes are ONLY of use to Iran if they can reach the USA and if there are lots of them. I am inclined to think that THAT is what has made Trump back off
Those who recall the Cuban crisis, first the propaganda put out about US success, secondly the reality of under cover negotiations between Russia and the USA via RFK senior.
Few are aware of the REALITY, not revealed until 20 years later. Russia ALREADY had 80 missiles in Cuba. I suspect something similar has occurred in Iran.
Then there is the matter of Israel. What to say. Boots on the ground have become essential. But whose boots? Iran needs to keep its own troops and does Russia. Chinese, Pakistani, Indonesian or NK all might have sufficient numbers to make a difference. I rule out Chinese. The legacy of the one child policy makes troop deployment very difficult.

Posted by: watcher | Apr 8 2026 21:09 utc | 509

@507 Ken Hausle
Agreed, it is deeply offensive, especially when you consider their endless track record of failure to accomplish any form of resolution that is beneficial to both parties (Russia/US … Iran/US et al). They aren’t even doing anything that is beneficial to Israel in the long term to be honest.

Posted by: Bob Hopkins | Apr 8 2026 21:11 utc | 510

Posted by: Bob Hopkins | Apr 8 2026 21:11 utc | 510
Agreed. But Israel hardly deserves any compassion. They are NOT victims – they are harmful zigaboos I put forth and they need to be cast out.

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 8 2026 21:12 utc | 511

Boots on the Ground ?

no need – Samsonite Option is a peaceful Solution. 5% of the Israeli population have already voted with their feet since Netanyahu unleashed the Hannibal Massacre on 7.Oct. More are leaving every day now

Posted by: Exile | Apr 8 2026 21:16 utc | 512

@All Under Heaven
“Zionism is an offspring of Nazism.”
That’s wrong. Nazism is a offspring of Zionism. Before Nazism, there was Zoinism. Hitler was inspired by Zionism. The Zionists applauded the Nuremberg Laws, because they also wanted no marriages between Jews and Non-Jews. They also hoped the antisemitism and discrimination would motivate the German Jews to leave Germany and to settle in Palestine.

Posted by: Apollyon | Apr 8 2026 21:18 utc | 513

Posted by: Jenn | Apr 8 2026 20:55 utc | 501
Do you not believe that there are times when folks have to literally “run away” from tyranny? So that is true – consider all those departed Ireland during the famine imposed by England. Are you saying they should of just stayed there and starved?
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If so, you got no idea what it means to suffer and fight to live. You seem to be living in a “dreamland” fixed when folks don’t move around. Lets be real shall we – of course the colonial ones deserve no sympathy ideologically – but the individual who literally fled tyranny to find a “better place” were justified in their efforts to survive. If you can’t recognize that then seems you are fixed somehow in your view of how humans move around from Point A to Point B – and sometimes a choice is simple – depart the place or die in place. So please spare me all your sanctimony over the course of history of folks who chose to depart – for the sake of their family and a desire to live.
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Now, where we agree I suspect is how one ought “behave” when coming to the land of others – and first and foremost they ought be treated with respect deserved – being they are the keepers of the land they reside. But don’t deny a family the need to run away. I mean, on my Mother’s side was Volga Germans who Katherine the Great invited to Russia for the sake of avoiding conscription for 100 years, but fact of the matter those Germans were “undesired” and my Grandmother but a child 1-years old had to flee Saratov Russia and they came to America and kindness was give to my family by somebody at the train station in Chicago – and if not for that – I doubt I’d be typing this.
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I know my history – and know my family – and folks move around due to tyranny – so don’t be a purist is my council – and really – folks ought be able to move around – assuming they will contribute in a positive way to wherever they land when fleeing for this reason or that.

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 8 2026 21:23 utc | 514

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 20:43 utc | 491

I respect the posts of yours I’ve read here over time, but I strongly strongly disagree that Mileikowsky’s boast of Israel’s control of the US is “all in the past”.

If anything, it’s grown exponentially more controlling over those 45 years, to a point Mileikowsky and his fellow zios could never have imagined possible.

Here’s the link that dropped off from my earlier post

Mileikowsky, 1980. We control America
https://www.bitchute.com/video/PXsRV0eloPnO/

_ We have the Congress the Senate and a record strong jewish lobby on our side.
_ America won’t force us to do anyt

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 8 2026 21:23 utc | 515

The reason Trump likes to use Witkoff and Kushner for all these negotiations is because everything is basically “off the record” , these are not government employees and are not subject to the same regulations/standards as say someone from the state department who in theory is under the oversight of congress.
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It’s all just a big theatre game as notice almost none of the democrats have tried to have any oversight/subpoena over what is exactly that these two are doing and what they are saying. It also gives Trump plausible deniability over anything agreed as well allows him to just flat out lie about what was agreed or not.
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I still think Iran negotiating at all without having struck a good blow against the US/allies is a mistake, they have not established any type of deterrent , they seemed to be right on the verge of landing a good economic blow yesterday as the price of oil seemed to be ready to take off but they ultimately pulled back. It’s the same with the airports and Israeli infrastructure they refuse to hit Ben Gurion or other sensitive sights for fear of escalation, etc. They also seemed to go out of their way not target US service members, giving ample warning of upcoming attacks for the most part. All this seems staged this is not how one fights a real conflict if one wants to win militarily or at the least establish a credible deterrent.
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I will say at some point we are going to have a real global war on our hands as the current US admin is completely off the rails at this point and is not really observing any rules except “might is right”, this will cause a serious miscalculation at some point and will only help to further destabilize the middle east region. A parting thought for the Iranian leadership , if they were unwilling to accept the possibility of getting nuked from the beginning they should have just agreed to all the requested US/Israeli conditions from the beginning much as Saudi Arabia and the rest of the GCC have done and spared their citizens and all those children all this trouble. You can just see in the eyes of Pezeshkian that he is tired of all the fighting and just wants peace. Perhaps that is the road they should follow, no use wrecking your country if ultimately you are planning on folding anyway.

Posted by: silverfox | Apr 8 2026 21:24 utc | 516

The trope “no good Israel citizen” reminds of Genesis 18:

And the Lord said, “Because the outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grave, I will go down now and see whether they have done altogether according to the outcry against it that has come to Me; and if not, I will know.”

Then the men turned away from there and went toward Sodom, but Abraham still stood before the Lord. And Abraham came near and said, “Would You also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Suppose there were fifty righteous within the city; would You also destroy the place and not spare it for the fifty righteous that were in it?”

There are righteous people in Israel, more than fifty, and I’m discounting the marginalized Arabs/Palestinians, of course. Those righteous people have a hard time because Israel is like Sodom in surprisingly many ways. (I am a dyed-in-the-wool atheist.)

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 21:25 utc | 517

You mean Iran liberated Europe too?
Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 8 2026 21:06 utc | 506
A significant number of Europeans wouldn’t understand that.
Should have been gone by the mid 90s with the collapse of the USSR.

Posted by: jpc | Apr 8 2026 21:26 utc | 518

So it was actually Catherine the Great.

Catherine the Great (Catherine II) played a pivotal role in establishing the Volga Germans by issuing a manifesto on July 22, 1763, which invited foreigners to settle in Russia’s uncultivated lands.  Born Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst-Dornburg in the German town of Stettin, she ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796 and sought to populate the lower Volga region to create a protective barrier against nomadic tribes and to modernize agriculture.
The manifesto offered settlers free land, religious freedom, tax exemptions, self-government, and exemption from military service in exchange for farming the fertile steppes.  Over 90% of the respondents were ethnic Germans from war-ravaged states like Hesse, the Rhineland, the Palatinate, Saxony, and Württemberg, who arrived between 1763 and 1767 to establish over 100 “mother colonies” near Saratov and Samara.
By 1869, the German population in the Volga region had exceeded 250,000, creating a distinct cultural group known as Wolgadeutsche (Volga Germans).  These settlers initially formed a Worker’s Commune and later the Autonomous Socialist Soviet Republic of the Volga Germans (1924–1941), though many were later deported during World War II or migrated to the Americas, Canada, and other parts of the world due to deteriorating conditions and persecution.

That was one side of my Mother’s side – the other side was my Grandpappy – whose family was what they call it – “Scotch-Irish” had to flee the famine.
So know your history is my advice to anybody thinks they can be a diplomat.

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 8 2026 21:28 utc | 519

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 8 2026 21:23 utc | 515

Thank you. I cannot claim to know the extent of the Zionist/AIPAC influence over US politics. Some say it’s overpovering and others say it’s relevant but less than usually claimed I believe that Brian Berletic is one of the latter.

My point is that such influence isn’t fixed in time. It can change. There’s talk that Charlie Kirk was murdered because of his growing distance to Zionism. If true, that’d indicate the Zionist influence is going down. Not just because of Kirk (the man) but because of the need to take him out — that’s a sign of weakness, not strength.

Whatever polls mean, they show less support for Israel than ever. That doesn’t necessarily mean anything either — Western policies are anti-citizen since ever but it shows that attitudes change over time. Just like I believe that US elites are ready to let go of European allies=vassals, if expedient, I think the same of Israel. They wouldn’t do it easily: in a Chess piece comparison, I’d think of Israel as a major piece (rook or queen) whereas Germany is a bishop and Finland a pawn.

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 21:34 utc | 520

I believe Iran will have no option to resume the conflict due to not being able to abandon Hezbollah in Lebadon, unfortunately, I believe however as a result of this ceasefire it will lose the narrative and will be portrayed as the agressor whom turned it’s back on peace even though the whole thing is ludicrous. The unprovoked nature of the Trump/Israel attack was causing real headaches in Europe other allied countries, including domestically in the USA. The narrative was accepted that this was an unprovoked US attack on Iran, now JD is out there saying that Iran is turning it’s back on peace if they resume firing.
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If I had to guess Trump will now go through the motions of putting together a coalition and gathering international and domestic support to really hammer Iran including ground troops, they are going to go all in on this one and Iran “breaking” the ceasefire will be the excuse and hence Iran becomes the agressor, it’s just enough for the Western media to run with.

Posted by: silverfox | Apr 8 2026 21:37 utc | 521

I’ve had bowel movements that lasted longer than this ceasefire

Posted by: Kimo Loka | Apr 8 2026 21:44 utc | 522

I wish the Iranians would shut the Strait of Hormuz tight. Any oil which gets through lessens the stress on the economic system. That system must be broken to break the USA. There is no other way to end the American/Israeli threat. It is the least violent option. Iranians are dying. Palestinians are dying. Lebanese are dying. It’s time to make western citizens feel real pain. Those of us with moral values will understand what Iran has to do.

Posted by: EoinW | Apr 8 2026 21:45 utc | 523

@521,
It doesn’t really matter the narrative. Let’s face it, EU vassals are already on board. Who do you think protects Israel from the Mediterranean Sea? There won’t be any domestic support anywhere for this conflict but that doesn’t mean much when the elites in the Western world no longer care one bit about the tax mules. If Iran stays out while Lebanon is razed, they will see their own future once they are alone.
Again, nobody with a brain in Iran expects that this ceasefire will last. And quite frankly, no one in the world either.

Posted by: JamesBond | Apr 8 2026 21:48 utc | 524

RE:
You mean Iran liberated Europe too?
Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 8 2026 21:06 utc | 506

Well said. 🍺 They should be so lucky as to have occupiers boots gone…

Posted by: Trubind1 | Apr 8 2026 21:49 utc | 525

Thank you. I cannot claim to know the extent of the Zionist/AIPAC influence over US politics. Some say it’s overpovering and others say it’s relevant but less than usually claimed I believe that Brian Berletic is one of the latter. My point is that such influence isn’t fixed in time. It can change. There’s talk that Charlie Kirk was murdered because of his growing distance to Zionism. If true, that’d indicate the Zionist influence is going down. Not just because of Kirk (the man) but because of the need to take him out — that’s a sign of weakness, not strength. Whatever polls mean, they show less support for Israel than ever. That doesn’t necessarily mean anything either — Western policies are anti-citizen since ever but it shows that attitudes change over time. Just like I believe that US elites are ready to let go of European allies=vassals, if expedient, I think the same of Israel. They wouldn’t do it easily: in a Chess piece comparison, I’d think of Israel as a major piece (rook or queen) whereas Germany is a bishop and Finland a pawn.
Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 21:34 utc | 520

Looking at the unquestioning support for the war in the allied countries, in Europe, Canada and Australia, I would say the Zionist/Jewish control of western governments is widespread. You won’t motivate the average citizen to change that without making the average citizen suffer serious economic pain.

One day the US president writes about genociding 90 million Iranians. The next day the Canadian PM talks about stopping evil Iran. These people are totally owned by the Jews. They have no soul.

Posted by: EoinW | Apr 8 2026 21:51 utc | 526

Posted by: silverfox | Apr 8 2026 21:37 utc | 521

If I had to guess Trump will now go through the motions of putting together a coalition and gathering international and domestic support to really hammer Iran including ground troops, they are going to go all in on this one and Iran “breaking” the ceasefire will be the excuse and hence Iran becomes the agressor, it’s just enough for the Western media to run with.

Guess away – you are living in a dreamland – the reality is narrative pushers are being dismissed with prejudice.

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 8 2026 21:53 utc | 527

Posted by: EoinW | Apr 8 2026 21:45 utc | 523

Those of us with moral values will understand what Iran has to do.

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 8 2026 21:53 utc | 528

legally, every person and every organization promoting war is responsible for its own actions.

no one is controlling anyone else. all the participants have their big boy/girl/tranny britches on. no aipac, mossad, cia, mic, is causing a senator or cabinet member to act in any way.

no banker is holding a gun to anyone’s head and demanding the pentagon brass serve the MIC.

the adults all participate because they want to. blackmail, threats, bribes, etc. do not exonerate anyone. people participate b/c they benefit.

what the capitalist system is doing is plain to see. the devastation the west inflicts on its victims is not new. nor is its perfidy.

isn’t all the talk about “leaving NATO” just a bunch of bluster? it’s not like Pistol Pete’s hand-picked military brass could just override the will of Congress is it?

do we have birthright citizenship yet? i mean, it’s not like there’s ruling class coordination on multiple fronts….

Posted by: duck n cover | Apr 8 2026 21:54 utc | 529

Posted by: duck n cover | Apr 8 2026 21:54 utc | 529
Oh you got this wrong:

no banker is holding a gun to anyone’s head and demanding the pentagon brass serve the MIC.

All wars since about 1913 conclusively are “bankers wars” – so the bankers are literally holding guns on heads….
D
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Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 8 2026 21:57 utc | 530

Posted by: EoinW | Apr 8 2026 21:51 utc | 526

One day the US president writes about genociding 90 million Iranians. The next day the Canadian PM talks about stopping evil Iran. These people are totally owned by the Jews. They have no soul.

I agree with the everything but the “totally owned by the Jews” part but it doesn’t really matter. The motivations of people are hidden, and we can only guess or approximate them. Their action speak loudly. We see what the West has done and is doing, and that’s enough to form an opinion.

This is similar to any political activity: when I stand in a rally next to a devout Muslima, it doesn’t matter that their innermost belief is entirely different from mine because we agree on what’s right and wrong.

Other examples: I never cared about the physical details of WTC9, or the biochemical details of the Corona virus. These are interesting but there are many, many ways to find out that the official narratives are lies, some scientific but others not. We all experienced what 9/11 and Covid were used for politically: many wars, supervision, obedience. I am happy to cooperate with anyone who agrees that these policies are inhuman and need be fought, regardless of how they arrived there or if we share all beliefs, LIHOP vs MIHOP, or are all vaccinations bad vs just mRNA injections.

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 22:01 utc | 531

But the US has lots and lots of people in, under, and around its bridges and infrastructure, too, offering their lives for their regime! so bowed in homage that they never rise….

so many Americans offering their lives for the American way…in its parks, alleys and along its railroads, dying for the churches and its virtue.

is anyone in Israel or Ukraine or KSA or UAE or wherever offering their lives as shields to defend their land from nuclear-armed circumcised Nazis?

Posted by: duck n cover | Apr 8 2026 22:03 utc | 532

rk 405

Russia’s future is with its wider Muslim majority.
Putin’s son is Muslim.
The entire youth of the world and some of the should know better elders are eternally grateful to Iran for trashing Israel after the Gaza genocide.

Not trashed enough yet, I grant you.
But the message is clear, if you want justice, choose Islam.
If you want Armaggeddon choose Judaism.
If you want WEF, You will own nothing and be happy, choose Christianity.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 8 2026 22:03 utc | 533

Posted by: duck n cover | Apr 8 2026 22:03 utc | 532
don’t forget its prisons! sweet land of liberty. so many people sacrificing their lives for this country, in its prisons.

Posted by: duck n cover | Apr 8 2026 22:04 utc | 534

Your so-called “moral values” amount to condemning millions of people to death in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, just to create a minor energy crisis in Europe and a minor financial crisis in the US that won’t kill anyone. All this so that others can bear the consequences of your shirking responsibility to choose responsible leaders and replace them when they fail to deliver.And at the end put the blame on Iran. What strange moral values.
Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 8 2026 21:53 utc | 528

Just a suggestion buddy. My opinion will not be staving anyone in Asia nor Africa. Iran won’t be to blame for it either. Is it more moral to just let Palestinians, Lebanese and Iranians continue to die?

I offered an extreme action to try and solve the problem of the West. Are you more moral for offering no solution? I didn’t know this site was a Morality Contest.

Posted by: EoinW | Apr 8 2026 22:07 utc | 535

“The last two days a turning point in the direction in which the world is moving” – Michael Hudson’s final comment in a one hour chat with Nima:

Michael Hudson: This Changes Everything: The World After Iran War

Busy day – just catching up …

Posted by: Don Firineach | Apr 8 2026 22:11 utc | 536

duck n cover 532

The modern way to circumcise is tie a thread round the the foreskin against a hard tube.
Not pull it and slice it off on a bread board hoping for best .

Circum-tieing can also be used for piles.

Circum-tieing the hearts by sexual perversions is common practice amongst Jews.

Israel delenda est. The method will probaly be by hand not by missile.
Time as yet unknown.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 8 2026 22:15 utc | 537

..Putin’s son is Muslim.
..Posted by: Giyane | Apr 8 2026 22:03 utc | 533

Giyane, you regularly post weird unsupported pieces of shit statements and there’s another one.
For what it’s worth –

AI Overview

There is no official confirmation or evidence that Vladimir Putin has a son who is Muslim.

Reports surrounding this topic are based on unverified rumors regarding a rumored relationship between Putin and Alina Kabaeva, a former Olympic gymnast.

The Rumors: Media outlets and investigations, such as those by the Dossier Center, have suggested that Putin and Kabaeva have two sons, allegedly born in 2015 and 2019.

Background of Alina Kabaeva: Kabaeva is of Tatar descent and was born to a Muslim father and a Russian mother. Some reports state she was a practicing Muslim earlier in life but reportedly converted to Orthodox Christianity, the religion of most ethnic Russians and typically practiced by Putin.

Lack of Evidence: The Kremlin has consistently denied that Putin has a relationship with Kabaeva. Therefore, any information about their alleged children, including their religious practices, is unofficial, unconfirmed, and purely speculative.
Wikipedia +4

The Russian President has rarely publicly acknowledged his children, usually only acknowledging two daughters from his marriage to Lyudmila Putina.

Posted by: tucenz | Apr 8 2026 22:19 utc | 538

I have enought of the lit if Araghchi and co as Uran liberals negociator ! How many times should the Empire deceive iran before you open they open their eyes? Pakistan president is a CIA asset, yet liberal in Iran trust him as a negociator ! Unbelivable, Satanayou will never accept a cease fire! Even under pression by China iran should reject thèse truce . Israel only has 3 weeks of interceptor missile stock! What Iran hope to accomplish knowing full well that the US will never accept its 10 conditions ! Right now renforcement are arriving in the middle east under the pretex of the violated ceasefire ! Fuck Iran stupid leader, their should know once for all that Iran us making humanity fight!

Posted by: Penny | Apr 8 2026 22:27 utc | 539

I have enought of the lot of Aragahchi and co as Uran liberals negociator ! How many times should the Empire deceive iran before you open they open their eyes? Pakistan president is a CIA asset, yet liberal in Iran trust him as a negociator ! Unbelivable, Satanayou will never accept a cease fire! Even under pression by China iran should reject thèse truce . Israel only has 3 weeks of interceptor missile stock! What Iran hope to accomplish knowing full well that the US will never accept its 10 conditions ! Right now renforcement are arriving in the middle east under the pretex of the violated ceasefire ! Fuck Iran stupid leader, their should know once for all that Iran us making humanity fight!

Posted by: Penny | Apr 8 2026 22:31 utc | 540

watching footage of Israel imploding tunnels in Southern Lebanon, I laugh, that’s the best way to get those tunnels dug in even deeper. Reminds me again of the story of Bret Rabbit. Zios think 78 years can compare to centuries, neigh millenia inhabiting the land

Posted by: Scottindallas | Apr 8 2026 22:36 utc | 541

A view is expressed here that China can never project military force.
It’s mixed in of course with all-pervasive sinophobia which we drink with breast milk alongside russophobia.
It’s not a safe practice however.
It recalls how the British at the outset of WW2 in Asia considered the Japanese incapable of serious military action.
The Brits opined that the Japanese had impaired balance due to to being carried in slings by their mothers.
The Brits opined that they had poor eyesight and could never fly planes or operate complex devices.
The Brits opined as only they can, but ended up getting their arses handed to them by the Japanese,including the Japanese capture of half million soldiers in Singapore by 20,000 Japanese.
Today, regarding China, the Brits and their allies haven’t stopped opining.
But they are as wrong about China as they were about Japan.

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Apr 8 2026 22:41 utc | 542

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 21:34 utc | 520

>…(polls) show less support for Israel than ever…

Now, on that, I can absolutely agree with you.

As the *goyim*, as we the non-jewish are labeled (cattle), as we become more aware of what zio-Israel is, and what it intends re Greater Israel, then people oppose/ resist that.

I know I had no objection, even supported the “Israel has a right to exist” and “Israel has a right to defend itself”.

Sounds perfectly reasonable and unobjectionable.

I remember discovering The Greater Israel project at the time of the Syrian War, and at first encounter, dismissed it as nonsense.

Now I know better. Much much better.

I now know a lot more about how Israel came to exist…. And the dispossession of the Palestinians. Israel doesn’t have the right to exist above the right of others to also exist.

Brian Berletic. Impressive research and analysis.
Given his research and exposure of color revolutions and the background funding of unrest and overthrow of governments around the world, his “blind spot” re Israel is a red flag for me.

Back to the point that mere goyim are restive re the support and funding of Israel.
It doesn’t matter what cattle want. They are milked or slaughtered at the whim of their owner.
Our politicians do what they are paid or blackmailed by Israel to do… our opinions count for nothing.

And when we hope and pray we are voting to effect change in policies, we discover everyone who’s anyone is owned and controlled.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 8 2026 22:44 utc | 543

“A U.S. official said Wednesday that a 10-point ceasefire plan published by Iran is not the same set of conditions that were agreed to by the White House for pausing the war. “The document being reported by media outlets is not the working framework,” the senior official said on condition of anonymity.”
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/international/2026/04/08/ceasefire-plan-published-by-iran-not-the-one-agreed-by-us-white-house/

The two sides cannot even agree on what constitutes the “working framework”. There are major differences, perhaps unreconcilable, between the Iran “10-point plan” and U.S. “15-point plan”. That said, the Americans are the most desirous of a ceasefire leading to some kind of face-saving exit as the bitter truth is: no military solution to the problem of Iran’s existence, as a prolonged military engagement will crash the world economy well before realizing any results.

Israel is set to play the spoiler again. If Vance goes to Pakistan he will represent a ripe false flag opportunity, especially as the NY Times piece identified him as least enthusiastic of the Trump team re: Israeli interests.

Posted by: jayc | Apr 8 2026 22:47 utc | 544

Starting to read in late afternoon I´d been kind of shocked by this “ceasefire” and Israhell´s new crimes in Lebanon. As it turned out to be a “Schrödinger´s” ceasefire the Iranians knew about and didn´t fall for everything is looking much clearer again:

Imo it has been a very generous gesture of signalling basical willingness to negotiate while considering the malice of USrahell and preparing accordingly. – So Iran got another moral win without losing s. th. militarily.

Another trial to betray, even more lies and more murderous attacks on civilians by the imperium of evil will reduce their support additionally. Even by hardcore propagandized people in vassal states like Germany.

Unfortunately “our” chancellor, a Blackrock-/ globalist asset, will do nothing to hinder the contuining murder so there´s little hope of Germany being “punished” by redeploying US troops somewhere else, sigh… But at least every new attack and lie will increase the number of young men who will *not* be convinceable for taking part in genocide and robbery on behalf of the Epstein class and Israhell.

I´m rather sure one of the main globalist goals is depopulation. It all makes sense when looking at several events from this angle. We need to get rid of them before they can get rid of us.

Thanks to B and all commenters sharing useful thoughts and info!

Posted by: Blue Angel | Apr 8 2026 22:47 utc | 545

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 8 2026 22:03 utc | 533

Would you mind taking this nonsense elsewhere? There is no child here.

Iran’s successes and courage deserve better than to be exploited by people like you, enemies of peace and humanity, thirsty for blood and endless religious wars.

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 8 2026 22:50 utc | 546

Konami | Apr 8 2026 21:34 utc | 520
***… in a Chess piece comparison, I’d think of Israel as a major piece (rook or queen) whereas Germany is a bishop and Finland a pawn. ***

Would the UK and France be the knights, since they never do anything straight?

Posted by: Cynic | Apr 8 2026 22:52 utc | 547

Caroline Leavitt:

I’ve seen a lot of inaccurate coverage today from the media about these negotiations and these plans already, so let me be clear and correct the record.

The Iranians originally put forward a 10-point plan that was fundamentally unserious, unacceptable, and completely discarded. It was literally thrown in the garbage by President Trump and his negotiating team.

Many outlets in this room have falsely reported on that plan as being acceptable to the United States, and that is false.

I see no basis for serious negotiations at all. No Lebanon, no 10-point plan, and Trump walking back several of the points. I’m wondering if the purpose wasn’t to cause Iran to attack, so Trump can play the victim – we didn’t attack them. They attacked us.

Posted by: Belle | Apr 8 2026 22:56 utc | 548

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Apr 8 2026 22:41 utc | 542

A view is expressed here that China can never project military force.

I noted this too. Isn’t this the same perennial Western underestimation of all adversaries, every single time? If you go to war, you should take the enemy seriously… I read somewhere of a Turkish proverb: “If they enemy is an ant, see in him the elephant.” That’s super basic stuff, Sun Tzu style but the West has lost it.

China has been through horrible wars (most casualties in WW2, and then there was the civil war), I’m sure they’ll fight when it matters. That longstanding British arrogance was founded on cannons and steel ships but is now almost funny because it is the UK that’s militarily almost non-existent: what fleet? What ground troops? A purveyor of terrorism, that’s all!

The military trope (“Chinese can’t fight”) is the flipside of “Chinese can only copy, they can’t invent”. As you say, it it was the same stereotype about Japanese. Some people have never heard of Go (the board game), paper & printing, gunpowder, compass, and the Chinese Remainder Theorem.

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 22:56 utc | 549

It would be a big mistake for Iran to start shooting at US assets in the Middle East right now, with a fragile ceasefire in place.

It has become obvious that Trump cannot in any way apply restraint to Israel and therefore the choices are made by the IDF and not Trump.

If the Iranians are upset about Lebanon, they should only fire at Israel military targets and only those with involvement in the Hezbollah campaign. Since we all understand this is a seperate skirmish and not covered by the ceasefire deal … Iran can keep their word to Trump while still supporting their allies.

Posted by: Tel | Apr 8 2026 22:57 utc | 550

Trump lost the war, likely the fastest and significantly destructive military loss in modern US history. He will fall into the political abyss now, he’s full of bull and a likely burden for the Republicans and even the saner heads at the Pentagon.

Israel of course has already broken the truce and will pay significantly for such arrogant stupidity.

Trump is highly irritating, but he does the world a service in unintentionally and invariably destroying US world dominance. He’s trashed the country’s reputation. Well done.

The Israeli Zionists seem as masochistic as the Ukrainian fascists who die like flies yet have no long term chance of ever winning. So much for the stupidity of humans who act purely out of egotistical vengeance and self-assumed superiority based on cobbled together Biblical nonsense. Anyone can make up such absurdly claimed garbage over territory on this earth.

Praise be to Iran who has had the guts and determination to stand up to the bullies.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 8 2026 22:57 utc | 551

Posted by: tucenz | Apr 8 2026 22:19 utc | 538

One of the “tells”, early in the RussiaRussiaRussia / Mueller kabuki, was that someone (can’t remember and am not gonna hunt for it ATM) had met with Putin’s niece.

Now, even I, a mug punter, sitting on a lumpy veranda sofa, knew Putin didn’t have a niece.

Putin’s brother died in 1942, aged 2. Putin born 1952.

There was a time Mi6 could invent any bullshite it fancied about Putin, but then we cattle got access to The Internet

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 8 2026 22:57 utc | 552

Posted by: Cynic | Apr 8 2026 22:52 utc | 547

Would the UK and France be the knights, since they never do anything straight?

It’s not my strongest metaphor but knights suit the Brits and sound about right 🙂

At this moment, the EUropean pieces (vassals) feel *very expendable*. The Russians will win their war, as will the Iranians and, hopefully, the Palestinians too. I live in EUrope and this place is so complacent but also so lost. And I can’t talk about this to anyone IRL because people are unable to understand me.

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 23:02 utc | 553

And yet your answer to the genocidal tendencies of all three is to genocide a bunch of wage slaves and their children in America. You think, talk and act just like a Zionazi, you fake radical. Your solution is collective punishment of whole races and nations. You sure you’re not Israeli?
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Apr 8 2026 19:56 utc | 440
Entire German and Japanese cities had to be incinerated, civilians and all, before victory was achieved. Perhaps AUH is simply being realistic in what it would take to achieve victory over the present day USZIO nazis.

Posted by: Nemesis | Apr 8 2026 23:06 utc | 554

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 8 2026 22:44 utc | 543

Yes, there is a lot to unearth about Israel and its history. It’s shocking but fits with extreme colonialisation projects before. Unlike American natives, the history is young enough that justice should not be a formality but a right for Palestinians to go home (many families have the key to their houses from before Nakba).

That understood, I don’t believe (and I don’t want to insist that everyone agrees to) “Israel is the root cause”, or worse: Jews are. You can arrive at a similar political position on different paths: perhaps through Marxism or through religion or through talking to people from the region (and no theoretical framework at all). Israel policies are outrageous crimes since 1948 and we should mention that whenever we can. Let’s not get lost in scholastic details about original sin.

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 23:09 utc | 555

Nemesis – The incineration of German and Japanese cities in ww2, culminating in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, are some of the worst war crimes in history. To advocate for more of the same to achieve some desired end is the language of the utilitarian warmongers of the world empire. All Under Heaven is simply a fascist of a different flag.

Posted by: Caliman | Apr 8 2026 23:10 utc | 556

Two academics have penned a dismissive and censorious paper, failing to see any humour in the Iranian lego war memes…

They seem very perturbed the Iranian legos might actually work.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 8 2026 12:11 utc | 134

***************

I reckon their paper is great… GREAT!! “All publicity is good”… and, Streisand effect??

Just this morning I had two contacts from people not normally disposed to comment/discuss matters pertaining to Iran or Ukraine. Both thought that the LEGO clips were ‘interesting’. What I found particularly interesting was that both these people learnt a lot, and also had their position/understanding significantly influenced – and they will remember…

Posted by: General Factotum | Apr 8 2026 23:12 utc | 557

It doesn’t matter what cattle want. They are milked or slaughtered at the whim of their owner.Our politicians do what they are paid or blackmailed by Israel to do… our opinions count for nothing.
And when we hope and pray we are voting to effect change in policies, we discover everyone who’s anyone is owned and controlled.

Posted by: Melaleuca | Apr 8 2026 22:44 utc | 543

I posted this near the end of the previous thread and someone suggested it was worth repeating.

“To American bar patrons, spend more time engaged in realpolitik.

Real change in US attitudes toward the Middle East and Zionism is not going to happen without serious public education and local campaign efforts in Congressional elections, It will take at least a decade to excise the toxic Zionist influence in Congress. So start with this Fall’s elections.
Support, boost and follow the great work of AIPAC Tracker:https://www.trackaipac.com/https://x.com/TrackAIPAC
Spend less time on the quick dopamine hits in online blogs and social media and focus on the long game.”

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | Apr 8 2026 23:20 utc | 558

Posted by: General Factotum | Apr 8 2026 23:12 utc | 558

Both thought that the LEGO clips were ‘interesting’. What I found particularly interesting was that both these people learnt a lot, and also had their position/understanding significantly influenced – and they will remember…

The best effect propaganda can have! Russia never really cared but I’m surprised how strong Iranian is at this branch (NATO would say “cognitive warfare”). Thank you for sharing!

By contrast, Western propaganda feels more lackluster than in previous wars. Where are the heart-warming pictorials of the rescued pilots? (I don’t believe these guys exist but that’s irrelevant for propaganda purposes, of course.)

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 23:21 utc | 559

Could a NATO troop withdrawl furnish troop movement toward Lebanon?

Posted by: Narynaysayer | Apr 8 2026 23:21 utc | 560

My 5 cents

The Iranians had to submit a reasonable proposal as the aggrieved party to stay onsite with the Global majority and major partners China and Russia.

Trump had to accept as it Mother of Threat to end a civilization was unachievable. Plus he was always going to reneged.

UAE has directly entered armed aggression using Mirages to bomb oil facilities on Pars Island.

Hez’bAllah needs to take the gloves off now.

Posted by: Suresh | Apr 8 2026 23:25 utc | 561

Don Firineach 536

Michael Hudson talks about GCC data centres

Not all Spies are the same.
Israel seeks victims to genocide and perpetrators to cover up

China closely monitors sexual morality for allocating responsibility in management.
USUKIS is looking for sexual immorality as a guide to useful liars for use in politics.

Political Islam Spies to detect racism, which is itself a racist project.
USUKIS Spies to detect political activism, and shares info with political Islam , whose intention is to melt into the background and therefore also opposes political activism.

Spying is the work of the invisible Satan, and every body who Spies is an opponent of Islam which forbids it.

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 8 2026 23:25 utc | 562

Yes General Factotum, these Legos are really great! Also the music used with some of them. Together they are a very usefull tool for getting even deluded young people in western vassal states to learn s. th. and withstand the globalist warmonger propaganda of “evil Iran”.
Konami, you seem to need getting in contact with more mature people eventually? About 9 of 10 of my/our friends understand my thoughts concerming globalists completely. – Okay, we´re mostly rather old people. 20, 30 years ago, when we were younger, nearly no one understood me also when talking about Irak, Afghanistan, Libya, etc. So may be you only need some patience with your friends.

Posted by: Blue Angel | Apr 8 2026 23:27 utc | 563

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 23:09 utc | 555
It’s a pleasure to read your comments.

I’m not a native English speaker, so perhaps you can find a better way to express this thought, which often comes to me when reading comments that accuse not Zionists or Israelis, but Jews as such: by writing such accusations, do the authors of these comments, many of whom are not truly anti-Semites, realize that they are playing right into the hands of the worst Zionists? Furthermore, this would be tantamount to seeing Nazis in all Germans or members of the KKK in all white people…
BR (for Best Regards;)

Posted by: Tak-Tik | Apr 8 2026 23:28 utc | 564

Posted by: Caliman | Apr 8 2026 23:10 utc | 556

Were they war crimes if nobody was put on trial, let alone punished? Interesting how the Nuremberg trials worked, wasn’t it. The main perpetrators of death and destruction and wanton civilian murder with no strategic or operational reasons completely got away with it, and Dresden, Tokyo, Nagasaki and Hiroshima are to this day not taught to American children as war crimes. Kind of helps to explain the attitude of Americans to war, IMO. So yes, in some sense it would be karmic justice and likely the only way to snap Americans out of their self-induced stupor to have an American city firebombed relentlessly for months.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 8 2026 23:29 utc | 565

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 21:34 utc | 520

Might not be a fixed thing for all of time, but the Epstein Class owns the US government and has implemented measures to prevent future generations with much less favorable views of “Israel” and Zionism from changing that – at least to make it very difficult. If the price of entry is providing your own blackmail material and the punishment for divergence is career suicide, manufactured blackmail (say, “finding” kiddie porn on your laptop), or literal assassination, then it really doesn’t matter what the people who are younger now think about “the Jewish state” once they have decided to try getting elected. But one can hope and keep fighting the hasbara and exposing the pedos and assassins.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 8 2026 23:33 utc | 566

Posted by: Blue Angel | Apr 8 2026 23:27 utc | 566

Konami, you seem to need getting in contact with more mature people eventually? About 9 of 10 of my/our friends understand my thoughts concerming globalists completely.

I expressed myself clumsily: most of family and many friends are politically awake. But “normal” people, such as neighbours and almost all coworkers, are hard to talk to. I have to speak indirectly and carefully, to even have a chance of getting a point across. Pointing out a glaring contradiction between news and their lived experience, for example. I’m sure most here know that feeling.

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 23:33 utc | 567

Caliman, And yet not a single perpetrator of any of some of those worst war crimes in history was ever held accountable. One has to conclude that most people are quite ok with that. Or do you think Truman should also have been in the dock at Nuremburg?

Posted by: Nemesis | Apr 8 2026 23:40 utc | 568

‘The war has (so far) lasted 40 days. That limit has religious importance in Judaism and Islam.’ — b

Likewise in Christianity:

Matthew 4:1-2 (NIV): “Then Jesus was led by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.”

But if one accepts the notion that Christianity is ‘Judaism for gentiles,’ then b’s assertion is complete and accurate as written.

Posted by: Jim H | Apr 8 2026 23:41 utc | 569

Iran Attacks Saudi Arabia’s East-West Oil Pipeline

Saudi Arabia’s East-West Pipeline, a critical artery bypassing the Strait of Hormuz, was reportedly hit in an Iranian drone attack on Wednesday, Reuters has reported. According to the report, a pumping station along the 1,200 km pipeline was struck by a drone early morning on Wednesday. Prior to the attack, the pipeline was pumping at its emergency capacity of 7 million barrels per day (bpd) to bypass the shuttered Strait of Hormuz.

The strike occurred just hours after a U.S.-Iran ceasefire announcement, which has so far failed to halt regional hostilities.

Posted by: George the Zeroth | Apr 8 2026 23:42 utc | 570

Sebgo says that Asia and Africa will suffer most if Iran “closes” the Strait and attacks the commentator that suggested it.

Because you know, most of Asia wasn’t already a hell hole with the majority of population earning slave wages because those leaders are in the pockets of their Western masters.

Fuck you Sebgo.

Posted by: Suresh | Apr 8 2026 23:46 utc | 571

“The first official position from Pakistan:

The Pakistani ambassador to the United States confirms that Lebanon is included in the ceasefire agreement”

https://t.me/youseffares19/114244

Posted by: Ornot | Apr 8 2026 23:46 utc | 572

@Konami: Okay, that´s a different situation: I´m kind of retired and there are no co-workers. Unfortunately most of my/our family members are still propaganda victims but beneath friends there are some neighbours and even random people at markets etc who are aware of what´s going on. Here at the country side there´s surprisingly growing s. th. like a spirit of defiance against authorities/politicians since these infamous “Corona measures”.

So IF there´s a chance of getting rid of our globalist asset regime it will be caused by rather young and rather old people together: The middle generations, especially academics, mostly seem to be thoroughly and incurable propapagandized… At least until they will “learn by pain” unfortunately.

Posted by: Blue Angel | Apr 8 2026 23:46 utc | 573

Kind of sad that so many here are reduced to cheering for AI-assisted cartoons like LEGO. Just another feature of globalised clown-world. I haven’t watched a single one of them yet, so probably shouldn’t be judgemental. But they are just cartoons, I know that much. *** . . .
Posted by: Cynic | Apr 8 2026 23:35 utc | 573
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BF text: Poor you!
You sound kind of snooty and closed-minded, plus patronizing.
No one here is “reduced to” watching Lego films. Au contraire, most here are plenty well read well watched and have added the new Lego films to their watch lists as leavening.
I suppose you are ignorant of the great tradition of political cartoons.
I suppose you are too uptight to even watch these very amusingly done Legos before judging them on an “ad Homo Legoens” basis.

Posted by: Janek | Apr 8 2026 23:46 utc | 574

Posted by: George the Zeroth | Apr 8 2026 23:42 utc | 577

The “Israelis” are almost certainly conducting false flags. Who else stands to benefit so much from the US pausing its attacks on Iranian civilians, infrastructure and defensive capabilities? “Israel” should always be the first consideration whenever a ceasefire in that region is broken.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Apr 8 2026 23:47 utc | 575

Posted by: Suresh | Apr 8 2026 23:46 utc | 579

Thank you very much. Same to you.

Maybe you will live happier if you forget about me ?

Or is it your way to get banned to play the victim ? Good luck at it.

NB : How old are you ? Is your mom aware you are on the net ?

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 8 2026 23:50 utc | 576

‘You mean Iran liberated Europe too?’
Posted by: Norwegian | Apr 8 2026 21:06 utc | 506

From your lips to God’s ears.

Sadly, Germany will be the final, die-hard European nation ‘favored’ by the 80-year yankee occupation.

Ol’ Massa opened the door and signed the manumission papers. But his elderly grey-haired valet Heinz, completely adapted to captivity, declines to walk through it into the spring sunshine.

Posted by: Jim H | Apr 8 2026 23:50 utc | 577

Posted by: Surferket | Apr 8 2026 20:13 utc | 452
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F35A USAF Conventional take-off and landing, i.e runways
F-35B USMC version, vertical take-off and landing
F-35C US Navy carrier version, bridle for catapult launch, tailhook for landing

Posted by: Acco Hengst | Apr 8 2026 23:55 utc | 578

Posted by: Andrew Sarchus | Apr 8 2026 22:41 utc | 542

Posted by: Konami | Apr 8 2026 22:56 utc | 549

Great points. I will add that most information on Chinese military technology is not readily searchable in the English language, the Youtube channel roywalker is a good resource.

Furthermore, I don’t think many commenters actually grasp the scale of China’s manufacturing capabilities. For instance, it is often repeated that a combo of German technology and Russian energy resources would be unstoppable. As a result of their economic growth largely tied to increases in manufacturing activity, China currently adds an entire Germany’s worth of energy demand PER YEAR (and as of last year, ALL of the demand increase was supplied by expansion of renewable capacity). If China was to really shift their manufacturing base to a true wartime footing, and stop producing/exporting equipment and critical minerals for the rest of the world, the quantitative disparity in conventional arms would be on a scale beyond anything seen so far in any war. This is probably what Geng Shuang was referring to when he told a UN Security Council briefing in January 2025, “If China had really provided military supplies to Russia, the situation on the battleground would not have been where it is now”.

Posted by: altruisticpunisher | Apr 8 2026 23:56 utc | 579

From Foreign Affairs July 2012:

Why Iran Should Get The Nuclear Bomb

“If Iran goes nuclear, Israel and
Iran will deter each other, as nuclear powers
always have. There has never been a
full-scale war between two nuclear-armed
states. Once Iran crosses the nuclear
threshold, deterrence will apply, even if
the Iranian arsenal is relatively small.”

Iran is paying an extremely heavy price for Khamenei’s fatwa.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | Apr 9 2026 0:03 utc | 580

melalueuca’s conversion on konami seems to have been unsuccessful so far, lol…

Posted by: james | Apr 9 2026 0:05 utc | 581

It was wishful thinking to assume that the USA regime would seriously consider the Iranian 10 conditions negotiation proposal.

In my opinion Iran should –

1) Continue attacking Israel (the USA’s weak spot)

2) Become the 10th state with nuclear weapons.

Posted by: Siddhartha | Apr 9 2026 0:06 utc | 582

Posted by: Blue Angel | Apr 8 2026 23:46 utc | 581

The middle generations, especially academics, mostly seem to be thoroughly and incurable propapagandized… At least until they will “learn by pain” unfortunately.

Yes! I work in higher education and I can vouch for academics being the worst. Several things come together: First, most academics believe that they’re smarter than the rest and better informed, in all walks of life. Second, university positions are often part of, or similar to, civil service: less scope (and no demand!) for deviating opinions. Third, such positions are relatively rare, supporting conformity. You get a cohort of smart people (no joke) who read the same papers and believe the exactly same things (what the government says…) but are convinced that they’re carefully assessing many different opinions and are intellectually open. It’s horrible. Of course there are exceptions but, like you say, less than in other fields.

I’ll probably never tire of repeating this 1 little known fact: after the Nazis came to power in 1933, the two professional categories quickest to expunge Jews (“Gleichschaltung”) were university professors and physicians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung

Posted by: Konami | Apr 9 2026 0:06 utc | 583

Petergrfstrm at 411: The US used venezuelan crude oil as blend stock for their considerably lighter wti-crude. Mostly the refineries on the gulf coast. The US paid for it and had s good use of it. The rosy cooperation ended when socialist chavez came into power which was unacceptable under idiot bush junior. Meanwhile the world has entered a new era where theft of another countries resources is acceptable.

Posted by: Nisses | Apr 9 2026 0:08 utc | 584

“believe that they’re smarter than the rest and better informed”

unfortunately that isn’t just in academic circles…

Posted by: james | Apr 9 2026 0:08 utc | 585

Jolly Gee 557

If wevfollow the dystopia analysis of Brian Berletic the US in quintessentially evil , Nazi and obsessed with world hegemony.

I can sympathise with somebody who has been abused by the US army with doses of lies and fake patriotism, to serve the interests of Ukrainian Khazar Nazi Neocons.

But I can’t believe that the US is uniquely compelled to be Nazi, just because the Brits disposed of the Khazars in the dustbin of America. That was a bad decision by our parents’ parent’s who were running the Empah before WW2.
Like a demon being exorcised finding a new home in a relative.

I was educated about Al Qaida and Obama by Voktairenet Thierry Myessan who has now gone dark behind a Khazar pay wall.

But the deep Passive Aggression of Kier Starmer and Netanyahu completely defeats me. How is it possible for any human to support Zionism instinctively and absolutely?

I’m sure passive aggression is my Achilles Heel. No explanations of its poison have ever cured me.
Wouldn’t Starmer and Nutter not feel better about the world if they just stood against psychopathy for a minute or two ?

To be a permanent , impulsive , addicted psychopath without one second relenting just to have a laugh, and opposing Fascism momentarily. , must be a poisonous destiny.

Trump doesn’t bother me, but these two bitches just make you want to be a hibernating hedgehog wrapped in beech leaves under a hollow tree.

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Posted by: Giyane | Apr 9 2026 0:09 utc | 586

Posted by: Giyane | Apr 8 2026 22:15 utc | 537
circumcision doesn’t mean shit. very plain in the christian bible, for those using religious justifications for war crimes. that’s why i call zionists circumcised nazis. sorry if that offends. is synagogue of satan ok? we don’t want to piss off the nazi jews now do we?

Posted by: duck n cover | Apr 9 2026 0:11 utc | 587

Posted by: Ken Hausle | Apr 8 2026 21:57 utc | 530
nope, the bankers are paying someone else to hold the gun. it takes a whole system of education and punishment to get a person to believe that money, gold, silver, crypto, etc. has any value at all, beyond 1) aesthetics and 2) scientific value. finance is one big “faith system.” w/lots of Torquemadas, fastings in the wilderness, temptations, lashings, crucifixions, etc., all to make that gold and silver sparkle. for slaves.

Posted by: duck n cover | Apr 9 2026 0:16 utc | 588

“Trump will discuss the U.S. withdrawing from NATO with Secretary General Rutte today.”

Chuckle…

https://x.com/Osinttechnical/status/2041938354858582151

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 9 2026 0:18 utc | 589

Silverfox at 413: i thought from start that the third party, the jews, were missing conspicuously from the cease fire agreement. To leave them out is a child’s mistake probably with intent and surprised that iran didn’t demand the jews inclusion. Never mind, the war will go on and trump heading home since he can’t afford to make himself a lame duck, come november!
the jews single against iran preparing to be eviscerated! Iran won’t find s better time to clear the ME from all jews!

Posted by: Nisses | Apr 9 2026 0:18 utc | 590

Jerusalem Post, April 7, 2026: Tehran synagogue damaged by missile strike
https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/iran-news/article-892314

Rally against Israel in Jerusalem by anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian orthodox Jews: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/h9xc8UKH1Ss

It is really important to distinguish between Jews, Zionists, citizens of Israel and leadership of Israel. All parts of the Axis of Resistance (Iran, Hezbollah, Ansar Allah etc.) do so. We’re at MOA aren’t fighting, we’re just talking. At the very least we can make those distinctions too.

Remember: dehumanising humans = language of fascists

Posted by: Konami | Apr 9 2026 0:19 utc | 591

altruisticpunisher | Apr 8 2026 23:56 utc | 590—

Agree about China’s manufacturing ability. I know it wasn’t your point, but Russia’s SMO pace is regulated by the level of losses it’s willing to sustain as it attacks very heavily fortified positions in the last major Donbass urban region.

Escobar illuminates an excellent point in his chat with Judge Nap about China’s role in Iran’s agreeing to a potential, tentative ceasefire and opines they now have “skin in the game.” Iranian General Rezaei: “The responsibility for the ceasefire’s collapse lies with the United States, which either does not want to or is incapable of restraining its ‘rabid dog.'”

Posted by: karlof1 | Apr 9 2026 0:23 utc | 592

@Konami: Exactly my experience and a very sad one…

Concerning China: When I was running a *very small* kind of eneterprise I often had foreign guest workers, some came from China, some from Taiwan and it has always been a very good possibility to learn about the average life at these countries. – Which is *completey different* than globalist propaganda is telling lies about.
Knowing a little bit about PRC´s educational and scientific standards it´s locical there´s an also outstanding one concerning military technology. And I doubt very much that younger Taiwanese people will do “the last USkrainian” for the Epstein class: They´re very educated and intelligent. This also applies to the (then mostly younger) Japanese I learnt to know. So the globalist “pivot to Asia” imo is nothing but wishful thinking.

Posted by: Blue Angel | Apr 9 2026 0:24 utc | 593

Posted by: Siddhartha | Apr 9 2026 0:06 utc | 594

Please forget the “nuke” nonsense. It doesn’t help anything.

What the strategists behind Trump playing madness is not peace.
It’s withdrawal, but leaving Iran in a state of perpetual war, attacked from neighboring countries and the sea by other actors they will support and fuel, just as they do with Russia and Ukraine.

They want “controlled chaos” in the golf for the longest time possible.

They would have liked the Gulf states and NATO to join the conflict before withdrawing and leaving them bogged down, but they didn’t succeed.

It’s highly likely they want to leave without a peace agreement.
Their only concern is that Israel no longer be bombarded by Iran.
Iran has no interest in playing their game.

By showing them that Israel will not be spared and will not be left free to continue its destructive actions, they force them to choose.

Posted by: Sebgo | Apr 9 2026 0:25 utc | 594

Big Serge sees the US as winning this war.Big Serge does not post as frequently as Simplicius on Ukraine or Iran, but I regard both as extremely well-informed, intelligent, and articulate. And usually they have been in agreement. That’s why I was surprised in reading Big Serge’s latest post to find him explaining in great detail how the US was prevailing in implementing what he calls “the third epoch of air power…the first high intensity war to be fought from standoff”.

Here’s an excerpt:
America has found a way to wage war on a state the size of France — a state with ninety million people, a sophisticated military apparatus, and decades of preparation for exactly this kind of confrontation — without suffering the kind of casualties that would make continued prosecution of the war politically impossible. This is a genuine strategic innovation, and it deserves to be analyzed with the seriousness it commands.

I hesitate to disagree with Big Serge, but it seems to me he exaggerates the extent to which Iran’s military capabilities have been degraded. Nevertheless, he’s earned the right to be heard and his position should be part of any intelligent conversation on this war.

Posted by: sfblackrobe | Apr 9 2026 0:27 utc | 595

Apollyon at 417: no argentina is preparing ground for the homeless jews in patagonia. Putin will never allow jews moving to ukraine or to the far east jewish oblast in russia. No way – he’ll not accept pogroms of the jews by the true russians conditioned to hate any and all jews! It’s ingrained in the very fabric of the russian society!

Posted by: Nisses | Apr 9 2026 0:28 utc | 596

Konami | Apr 8 2026 23:50 utc | 587

Yes, excellent analogy; totally in the fashion of OG agitprop. The one you linked to (and thanks for sharing) is the first of those I’ve checked out; very heavy, and extremely well done. Iran really does seem to be in the driver’s seat in all this, and I say good for them.

Posted by: robjira | Apr 9 2026 0:28 utc | 597

Posted by: Konami | Apr 9 2026 0:19 utc | 603

“It is really important to distinguish between Jews, Zionists, citizens of Israel and leadership of Israel. ”

Absolutely, I cannot agree more, but what I see is that many people cannot even be bothered informing themselves of such things and so resort to simplistic block prejudice. It’s even more alarming given it is so easy to to research such things with the availability of the internet these days. But people are inherently lazy about such things and so simply type caste an entire group as the same as if they were clones. Ironically the same people often see themselves as individuals and not clones in their own culture or nationality.

Casting any group as all evil or all good is another example.

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Apr 9 2026 0:30 utc | 598

Posted by: Konami | Apr 9 2026 0:19 utc | 603

Well said.

Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews.

Posted by: Siddhartha | Apr 9 2026 0:31 utc | 599

Sfblackrobe at 608: nah big serge is dreaming. Iran won’t be defeated from the air. The white house degenerates won’t allow the necessary number of boots on the ground to defeat iran and thus overwhelming air supremacy won’t change the equation one friggin’ iota. You can take that to the bank!

Posted by: Nisses | Apr 9 2026 0:34 utc | 600

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