War On Iran: – Netanyahoo Blocked Imminent Deal

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May 25, 2026

The short version of what happened over the weekend with regards to a deal with Iran:

Trump: “WE HAVE A DEAL”
Netanyahu: “Nope”
Trump: “Deal’s off”

The longer variant:

Trump’s attempt over Friday and Saturday to come to some deal with Iran has failed.

A few hours after Trump had announced a preliminary resolution of the conflict, his boss, one Benjamin Netanyahoo, called and inserted clauses designed to prevent a deal:

President Trump and I agreed that any final agreement with Iran must eliminate the nuclear danger. That means dismantling Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites and removing its enriched nuclear material from its territory.

President Trump also reaffirmed Israel’s right to defend itself against threats on every front, including Lebanon.

Iran’s supreme leader had rejected to move any enriched Uranian from Iran’s territory. Enrichment to Iran is a non negotiable right. The inclusion of a real ceasefire in Lebanon is also a prime condition for Iran to conclude any deal.

After the call Trump immediately changed course. The deal he had been eager to conclude hours earlier was suddenly no longer urgent.

Trump soon diverted attention by resorting to a new, mafia-like, scheme.

He threatened to (again) bomb Iran. Iran, he claims, would then retaliate against Arab U.S. proxies in the Gulf. To prevent that, Trump says, those proxy states should immediately sign a peace deal with Israel:

“Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran are proceeding nicely! It will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all — Back to the Battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before — And nobody wants that!

During my discussions on Saturday with President Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, of The United Arab Emirates, Emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, and Minister Ali al-Thawadi, of Qatar, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah, of Pakistan, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of Türkiye, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, of Egypt, King Abdullah II, of Jordan, and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, of Bahrain, I stated that, after all the work done by the United States to try and pull this very complex puzzle together, it should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords.
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If they don’t, they should not be part of this Deal in that it shows bad intention.
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Therefore, I am mandatorily requesting that all Countries immediately sign the Abraham Accords …

Of course none of those countries even replied to that nonsense.

A deal with Iran is (again) off the table. Meanwhile the severe damage of the conflict to the global and U.S. economy is accumulating by the day.

Time is not on Trump’s side. He urgently needs a deal. But to get there he needs to get Netanyahoo off his back. How to do that is the really difficult question.

Posted by b on May 25, 2026 at 17:17 UTC | Permalink

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The GCC countries know that the US and Israel will not be able to protect them from total destruction this time around.

Posted by: norecovery | May 25 2026 17:21 utc | 1

Time is not on Trump’s side. He urgently needs a deal. But to get there he needs to get Netanyahoo off his back. How to do that is the really difficult question.

That is the question indeed. There should be no more discussion of who is calling the shots.

Posted by: Norwegian | May 25 2026 17:23 utc | 2

Iran, with China’s diplomatic/economic help, should take this opportunity to go for the big one: separate the separable GCC countries from the US orbit once and for all. From MBS to Qatar’s Emir, to Kuwait’s rulers, these people know the empire is pulling up stakes locally, will always put Iz first, and is already mostly milking them for $$$ and is unable to “protect” them like promised in the Cold War days …

They need to be encouraged to make that final move to realizing their investments in the “west” will not be long for this world anyway and move on to the new paradigm. Live in the world that is, not the world of their fathers … can they do that?

Posted by: Caliman | May 25 2026 17:33 utc | 3

Good cop bad cop game. The war is unpopular in the US, so Trump has to appear to be doing something to end it. Bad cop Bibi won’t “let” him.

Posted by: JMW | May 25 2026 17:37 utc | 4

Please correct me if I’m wrong: all the NATO countries support Trump’s position (“no nukes, no control of Hormuz, all fellate circumcised Nazis”), despite some refusal to participate (e.g., Spain), which is merest pragmatism, since all of them are “results-oriented” psychopaths whose one and only rule is Obey or Die.

Netanyahu and Israel are in the position they are in b/c they have universal Western support. And that will only change because of gas prices, not from any NATO members suddenly discovering genocide bad. Questioning Ukraine or Israel policy is already criminalized. It’s a crime to try to help a certain island that the West (sic) is starving, like it’s a crime to “help an illegal” in the US.

via Israel, the West is universally reasserting its god-like authority to kill and plunder and destroy w/o question.

Posted by: duck n cover | May 25 2026 17:40 utc | 5

Thanks for the posting b about the Hollywood kabuki we are watching front the God Of Mammon cult efforts.

Unlike Ukraine which is focused on Russia, the Iran conflict against Occupied Palestine and the US brings the religious focus on hearts and minds of the public for killing justification of evil Iran….backed by evil Russia and China but the Hollywood kabuki show is Iran and the greater ME.

Humanity is in a civilization war about whether our species organizes around the historic God Of Mammon cult using might makes right to retain dominance meme or a multilateral meme that serves the masses instead of a inherited cult and associated acolytes.

Will society have the social will to make this evolution of our form of social organization happen?….stay tuned and engaged.

The shit show continues until it doesn’t………and I am willing to name it after Trump to feed his ego, eh?

The Donald Trump Shit Show Extraordinaire

Step right up and buy your tickets! Your children will pay the price.

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 25 2026 17:46 utc | 6

The Donald is going to kill “The Creature from Jekyll Island” (suruptisously)

In the end, all this looking stupid is to throw the bloodhounds off the scent and not let them become suspicious of what is about to happen

Try to keep playing your musical instrument, even as the stern of the Titanic pitches more steeply upward until plunging irrevocably down.

The “Petro-Dollar” (wrongly used, as petroleum is a positive value tangible commodity) and USreal are going away, and the capacity of the Banksters/Gov to “inflate” will likewise go away, and when you save in real money instead of currency the value of what you saved will not be stolen by Banksters or Governments.

When the other shoe drops, and there’s no gas, no motor oil, no food being trucked into your city, no running water or sewer or electricity you should remember Hot Carl will be aboard his solar sailboat with refrigeration and drinking water and abundant wild food on the fin/hoof and Hot Carl will be wondering how the urban Din-doo Nuffins be ax’n an Din-doo’n an stuff…

Posted by: Hot Carl | May 25 2026 17:46 utc | 7

“But to get there he needs to get Netanyahoo off his back. How to do that is the really difficult question.”
Impossible without a social revolution, abolition of the billionaires, rendering private finance public property and putting every politician, news service and businessman that has ever previously supported genocidal Israel on trial with the death penalty.
This crisis can only be resolved by an organized revolutionary working class with a sound strategy for ending Capitalism and the Zio Imperialism it so very naturally it produces (see WW1 and WW2).
Let the genocidal misanthropes in their mom’s basements or Israeli coms offices, say what they like. Workers of the world would uniformly support and join such a movement of American workers.
For the most dense: the slaves must unite to death to exterminate the masters and abolish their system of wage slavery (which is now wholly dominated by Zios). There’s no mystery about the solution, there is only to commit to the goal and build the movement by any means necessary.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 17:50 utc | 8

Time is not on Trump’s side. He urgently needs a deal. But to get there he needs to get Netanyahoo off his back. How to do that is the really difficult question.

That is the question indeed. There should be no more discussion of who is calling the shots.

Posted by: Norwegian | May 25 2026 17:23 utc | 2 mm
Amen. Only a Zio would even question the near absolute control Israel has over US and the entire Western world.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 17:55 utc | 9

I this peace deal goes through and the Iranians are left with any ability to strike Israel Netanyahoo will nuke Iran. Israel is already an international parahia … the USA got away with nuking the japanese so why can’t the Israeli’s get away with nuking Iran? The world will be a little pissed at them for a few years but this is an existential threat and they are Gods chosen people after all.

There’s also that thing going on between US fundamentalist christians and conservative jews about the destruction of Iran being a harbringer of the battle of Armegeddon. There was the pep talk by military chaplins about such prior to hostilities against Iran and Hegseths weekly prayer meetings at the pentagon preaching such nonsense. Then there was the 4.2 magnitude “earthquake” at Israel’s Dimona nuclear facility in January.

If Trump doesn’t do what he promised Netanyahoo will do something of biblical proportions to Iran.

Posted by: HB_Norica | May 25 2026 17:56 utc | 10

Will a false flag event be used to eliminate Netanyahu? More than just one mass murdering Likudnik has to be dispatched to end Israel’s and America’s aggression/covetousness in West Asia.

Posted by: Keme | May 25 2026 17:58 utc | 11

That last post is an example of the ones somebody else, probably using “AI* writes for Trumpstein. No way he can spell Erdogan or Turkiye.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 25 2026 18:20 utc | 12

Posted by: Hot Carl | May 25 2026 17:46 utc | 7

In the conditions you describe you’ll last a few months.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 25 2026 18:29 utc | 13

difference from monday random or tuesday taco begins to be indiscernible.

question is, is there a way out short of a vicious destructive war (this was foreplay so far)?

Posted by: Newbie | May 25 2026 18:36 utc | 14

Currently:

“Fars News Agency: The Iranian President issues a decision to restore Internet service to its previous status” Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma

Look forward to hearing from Sakineh Bagoom, hope he is ok.

Escalation in Lebanon seems imminent, whether shorter series of raids or prolonged, am not sure.

Posted by: Ornot | May 25 2026 18:38 utc | 15

doesn’t Congress support Netanyahu (or Israel)? yes. 100%. (or 99.9%, it doesn’t matter.) the same Congress that bro’t us Russiagate, from the same gov’t that bro’t us Stuxnet and Black Raygun SuperJesus threatening to nuke Iran every time he opened his (CIA-trained?) mouth.

let’s not forget Stuxnet. keep the Jewish DNA (and sacred soil) pure by creating a nuclear catastrophe in Iran.

Posted by: duck n cover | May 25 2026 18:39 utc | 16

In Trump’s war against his own allies in Europe, time is unfortunately on his side, at least when it comes to energy. The United States is selling gas to the EU at a high price, which is (not so) slowly eroding the competitiveness of European industry. In Asia, the blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is not good news either.

Posted by: John V. Doe | May 25 2026 18:41 utc | 17

“But to get there he needs to get Netanyahoo off his back.”
Posted by b on May 25, 2026 at 17:17 UTC

This is only possible if Trump manages to silence the American Zionists with a lot of money. Probability: less than 1%

Posted by: smartfox | May 25 2026 18:42 utc | 18

The situation is ridiculous but serious…..But that’s what happens when you allow an avaricious and totally amoral 1% of the population to take over….

Posted by: pyrrhus | May 25 2026 18:42 utc | 19

Hajj ends on Saturday May 30th…

Posted by: ChatNPC | May 25 2026 18:46 utc | 20

Fucking Anglo/US/Zio/Western (feel free to add to the list) oligarchs. The shit keeps going while most people are still sleeping to the increasing risk of worldwide catastrophe.

Posted by: Chris N | May 25 2026 18:48 utc | 21

An image needs to be generated showing Netanyahu holding an Epstein Files gun to Trump’s head for that depicts what IMO is reality. The only way the Outlaw US Empire can alter the situation is to remove Trump from power which removes the loaded gun pointed at POTUS, provided Trump’s replacement has no such baggage. IMO, b has the Mafia reference backwards since its Netanyahu who’s clearly The Boss.

Iran needs to keep pumping Hezbollah with the materials to construct ever more FPV drones that have more power to carry bigger warheads. If you’ve seen Hezbollah videos of its FPV missions into Occupied Palestine, you’ve seen just how target rich that area is. Given Iran’s “offensive posture” of not being the aggressor but the retaliator, Hezbollah and the overall Resistance will need to operate independently of Iran in combatting the Zionists and Outlaw Americans. I know many barflies would like to see Iran be more offensive minded when it comes to destroying Zionists. It seems Iran is mimicking the Salami Slicing tactics of its enemies since they can’t refrain from attacking Iran. Will Trump try to extend the non-ceasefire ceasefire, or will he do something smart and lift the Blockade? Is Trump the frog in the pot of water that’s heating?

Posted by: karlof1 | May 25 2026 18:48 utc | 22

There is an easy solution. If Trump had a hair on his ass, he’d pack up the blood money he got from Adelson in a crate, send it back and tell every traitorous member of Congress to return the loot or face impeachment. Then tell Israel to eat shit.

Posted by: Space Cowboy | May 25 2026 18:49 utc | 23

@ jmw

Succinct and entirely accurate.

I really can’t seem to understand why so many here, including b, think that the Empire can just walk away without getting what they came here for: Iran’s capitulation.

People in the west are not that stupid to not scratch their head and wonder why we started this war at all if nothing was gained.

Not to mention that the whole crumbling edifice of the western financial system is predicated on eliminating rivals so as to be the only game in town, thereby controlling the rules and having the ability to print money ad infinitum whilst managing inflation through forcing the purchase of our debt.

This was not a war of choice. We can not just leave.

Posted by: NemesisCalling | May 25 2026 18:49 utc | 24

Hot Carl will be aboard his solar sailboat with refrigeration and drinking water and abundant wild food on the fin/hoof and Hot Carl will be wondering how the urban Din-doo Nuffins be ax’n an Din-doo’n an stuff…

Posted by: Hot Carl | May 25 2026 17:46 utc | 7

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In the conditions you describe you’ll last a few months.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 25 2026 18:29 utc | 13

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Mr Collins is correct. In any rational post apocalyptic scenario organized gangs will easily overpower individuals. Best to organize at least a couple thousand like minded folks, more if close to a city.

Posted by: Fool Me Twice | May 25 2026 18:50 utc | 25

“Workers of the world would uniformly support and join such a movement of American workers.”
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 17:50 utc | 8

Stop daydreaming. The days of class struggle are over; today, workers want to drive their SUVs, get cheap Netflix, and go on vacation. Those with a class-struggle ideology are a vanishingly small minority, no matter what the loudspeakers say.

Posted by: smartfox | May 25 2026 18:52 utc | 26

“Time is not on Trump’s side.”
That depends on what is happening in the chaos wars. If they are successfull Chinas Belt and Road may be significantly sabotaged. I dont know how it is going.
The US keeps a low profile about it but it is intended to counter China.
All the talk about separate roles between Netanyahu and Trump are theatre intended for us.
I am not sure China has won yet despite all the internetheaders claiming it.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 25 2026 18:56 utc | 27

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 17:50 utc | 8

Yep. And plenty of lampposts.

Posted by: Patroklos | May 25 2026 18:59 utc | 28

https://caitlinjohnstone.com.au/2026/05/24/israel-rapes-everyone-and-other-notes/
Israel Rapes Everyone, And Other Notes

International flotilla activists say they were subjected to torture and sexual assault by Israeli forces after being abducted in international waters while attempting to bring aid to Gaza.

A statement from the Global Sumud Flotilla reports that the IDF held the activists on a makeshift “torture boat”, asserting that “At least 12 sexual assaults have been documented on that vessel alone, including anal rape and forcible penetration by a handgun.”

This comes after a New York Times report on Israel’s systemic use of sexual torture in its prison camps sent hasbarists howling in outrage for days, and after a Haaretz report on the Israeli military’s internal findings that sexual assault is soaring among its own ranks.

If you knew someone who was constantly being accused of rape by different people on a daily basis, at some point you’d have to conclude that that person is a rapist. When you see the Israeli military being constantly accused by people from all walks of life of using rape and sexual torture, you have to conclude that Israel is a rape country……

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 25 2026 19:00 utc | 29

Posted by: Hot Carl | May 25 2026 17:46 utc | 7

Hot Carl gonna get a visit from Bluebeard and the jolly rogers. Hot Carl gonna meet Davy Jones.

Posted by: Patroklos | May 25 2026 19:02 utc | 30

My village has 2 active volunteer militias. No baddies getting inside pur valley of TSHTF

Posted by: Exile | May 25 2026 19:05 utc | 31

so if Israeli’s pal the Lebanese gov’t signed the Abraham Accords, the IDF would withdraw from Lebanon?

sure.

Trump posted on TrumpSuckAll that, with the Abraham Accords signed, there will be peace in the Middle East for the 1st time in 5000 years.

not 100 years, 5000 years. did the Trumpbot just hallucinate?

so there was no peace when ancient Hebrews supposedly ruled Judah/Israel? not even under Solomon?

no shit. no peace under the Persian Empire either. so there was no return to the Holy Land under Persia either.

Usurpers.

btw, if Jesus can be white, Helen can be black.

Posted by: duck n cover | May 25 2026 19:05 utc | 32

There was some discussion on the feasibilty of “Greater Israel”, centering on demographics etc.

What is being initially aimed for is not that (direct physical control and territorial ownership) . The aim is to align the governance of the region to US/”Israeli” hegemony, meaning “Israel” would be gatekeeper of policy, economic center of control, arbiter. This could be a decades long project, and eventually the populations discover they are all jews, or “Israelis” or SemiticUnion or whatever.

EU is a vety good template to how this sort of project is carried out, the timescales involved.

Although I do not pronounce this as foregone conclusion at all, others are less hesitant to explain their impression, out of despair if nothing else eg.:

“The painful truth is that Israel will be a major regional power and will have its say in the region and will implement its plans with almost complete support from the countries of the region.” Suhaib Al-Masalma

This sort of expansion is just not visible from outside the region, is subtle and integrates on various fronts, across various fronts. While the population are looking at one thing (say conflicts), the politicians are signing and implementing structural adjustments and legal formalities that even if disliked seem reasonable in other ways.

UAE is a prime example, but you would have to know the decades of preparation and alignments that have gone on to start to understand how one day it seems relatively independent, the next a center of attention, and the next near fully integrated into “Israeli” organisation. Jordan has a different history, Syria is more recent and more obvious, Kuwait goes back to gulf war, Iraq to invasion at least, Saudi to Desert Storm etc. , but always with background activity before, during, and after with the same aims, the pivots mentioned being where major impressions were made, public opposition breached and so on.

It is not consolidated at regional level however, and this is what we are seeing attempted now.

Posted by: Ornot | May 25 2026 19:12 utc | 33

peace=Zionist ownership and rule. there was no peace ever under Ottomans or anyone else. maybe the Hasmoneans were overthrown and then destroyed and expelled because they failed to sufficiently “exterminate the Amalekites” of their day, aka “bring peace”?

if only Israel would just kill people, instead of that and a whole lot more. a la the US in Iraq, Vietnam….but once Bibi gets the title deed to the temple mount, there will be PAX IUDAICA over all those oil fields. and all the Arab Israelis can get the fuck out of Israel, by force.

Posted by: duck n cover | May 25 2026 19:15 utc | 34

Just watched the Mizrahi Perspective on the Iran situation and Trump’s slipping the “Abraham Accords” into the picture–

https://alonmizrahi.substack.com/p/day-88-comedy-and-comfort-in-chaos?publication_id=2356168&post_id=199223071&r=2u1tvs&triedRedirect=true

Posted by: arby | May 25 2026 19:17 utc | 35

Just watched the Mizrahi Perspective on the Iran situation and Trump’s slipping the “Abraham Accords” into the picture– Posted by: arby | May 25 2026 19:17 utc | 36

Thanks for the heads up. Alon is one of the important storytellers of our time

Posted by: Chris N | May 25 2026 19:24 utc | 36

To all you nay-sayers about Hot Carl’s solar sailboat and the prudence of preparing for the long predicted hiccup in societal evolution, be it a Great Reset or Carington Event, war between the West and Global South, or swan of indeterminate color. You doubting Thomas’s, just you Google “Hot Carl”, discover just exactly what a “Hot Carl” is, and you’ll know how we prudent folks feel towards your type (and it’s better than “fart in your general direction”).

Posted by: Hot Carl | May 25 2026 19:29 utc | 37

Not buying that Trump was ever going to do anything that he isn’t already doing.
Not buying “BiBi” line.

US is utterly humiliated, by extension, Trump.
He’s actually threatening GCC because they will not “land war” for him/Israel.

He doesn’t want an off ramp… China/Russia/Iran knows this.

And Pakistan will soon learn the futility of their efforts as their fore-bearers of perfidy discovered, i.e. others that mediated Egypt, Qatar, Oman.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 25 2026 19:29 utc | 38

RE:
“Is Trump the frog in the pot of water that’s heating?”
Posted by: karlof1 | May 25 2026 18:48 utc | 23

Give it up.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 25 2026 19:36 utc | 39

time is not on netanyahus side either…. time is not on the elite western bankers side either…

thanks for the update b!

Posted by: james | May 25 2026 19:46 utc | 40

“Israel made us do it!”

lol. Flip Wilson is getting RIPped off.

The last important philosophy question-

is it better to be a fool or a liar?

Posted by: Not Ewe | May 25 2026 19:49 utc | 41

Thanks b.

I believe of that lot, only the UAE and Bahrain are signed up to the Zionist project alongside Morocco, Kazakhstan and big surprise Sudan.
Egypt, Jordan have a peace treaty, and Türkiye has a Diplomatic agreement.

@Ornot
Sakinah is a feminine name in Persian meaning tranquil, I believe Bagoom (Begum) is Turkic origin (Bey) denoting high rank (Dame/Lady), now commonly used as a name, same as Khan.

The US political establishment is increasingly fragmenting between American and Zionist interest. Take this debate for instance between Stephen Walt and Mike “Lie, Steal, Cheat” Pompeo.

Telegram: View @presstv

Posted by: Suresh | May 25 2026 19:50 utc | 42

The zionazis sabotage deals when American Caesar wants them to.

Posted by: Squeeth | May 25 2026 19:50 utc | 43

Ornot @15: “Look forward to hearing from Sakineh Bagoom, hope he is ok.”

It is “she” (they are not big on pronoun-of-the-week stuff in Iran, as I understand it). I look forward to hearing from her as well. I valued her contributions.

Posted by: William Gruff | May 25 2026 19:52 utc | 44

Ahenobarbus at 8: it might suffice to do a variation of the assassination of the Diem brothers in vietnam in 1963 and allow cia (which organisation most likely can move around freely in israel) to organise a coup and not allow netanyahu to slip away. Guess even taco trump would approve of such manoeuvre and the rest of the world as well. In short, the world has had enough of netanyahu and his comrade genociders.

Posted by: nisses | May 25 2026 19:58 utc | 45

O/T
The last important philosophy question- Is it better to be a Fool or a Liar?
Posted by: Not Ewe | May 25 2026 19:49 utc | 42

We were/are/will be fools in some way, past or present or future.

On the last Open thread, quite a few barflies are into philosophy.

So, I am surprised no one mentioned Ali Larijani, Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council murdered in the cowardly attack during negotiations.

He wrote a thesis bridging Kant’s Epistemology with Islamic transcendent philosophy. For those who value the subject, enjoy.
Larijani and Kant: Reason and Intuition

Posted by: Suresh | May 25 2026 20:10 utc | 46

Iran should put in a minor addendum in the plan the US has drafted and which the persians presently are analysing, that the jews must also abandon their nukes, an eye for an eye. Fully understandable that the persians won’t agree to remove their 400 kilos of enriched uranium from their territory since it would more or less be a betrayal of all scientist working in the process and being assassinated by the jews, one after the other, in brutal and callous manners only a jew can set in motion.

Posted by: nisses | May 25 2026 20:12 utc | 47

Thanks to B for this posting and for MoA.

There’s truly everything on MoA, including enough humor to make you burst out laughing on your keyboard.

A revolutionary calls for a global insurrection against capitalism and billionaires, and for the overthrow of the masters to break the chains of slavery.

But be warned: it goes without saying that everyone must fall in line behind the American “revolutionaries,” who enjoy the “natural right” to rule others.

Hilarious.

It’s liberating to be able to laugh, even amidst the drama unfolding before our eyes.

Posted by: Sebgo | May 25 2026 20:18 utc | 48

But the most important thing here is that the premarket futures are WAY UP! Happy Days are Here Again :)/

Posted by: Perimetr | May 25 2026 20:19 utc | 49

‘When Iran gets the bomb it will be Bibi’s bomb.’ Zionist entity commentary

‘If Iran gets a bomb it will be Bibi’s’: Trump’s deal outline sparks alarm in Israel | US-Israel war on Iran | The Guardian

Zionists in panic mode.

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 25 2026 20:21 utc | 50

Breaking: Al Jazeera is now reporting an exodus of people from Beirut’s southern suburbs as Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu announced his zio-nazi military will ‘step-up’ attacks against Lebanon.

Wartime Cafe with Laith Marouf, Ep 53

https://www.youtube.com/@tvfreepalestine/videos

“Dr Jamal Wakim: 26 years since the liberation of Lebanon.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 25 2026 20:26 utc | 51

B believes, and many “barflies” with him, that simply getting rid of Netanyahu will remove all obstacles to an agreement with Iran.

This is a mistake. Netanyahu is a willing scapegoat, accepting the use of his already hated name.

This agreement is rejected by many in Israel and the United States for what it represents: an admission of defeat and a renunciation, even temporary, of domination in the Middle East and elsewhere.

These are people who refuse to face reality and cling to their illusions, just as they believe they can maintain hegemony, even if the world must perish for it.

So it will be necessary to force or eliminate more than one person if this is the solution to moving towards peace.

Or to ensure that they truly, definitively have no choice.
Maybe some more Iranian long range missiles can help with “persuasion.”

Posted by: Sebgo | May 25 2026 20:33 utc | 52

As I recall, the deal made with King Abdul Aziz Al Saud was not that the US would protect him from Iran, it was to keep him on the throne of Saudi Arabia.
I think the threat came from his own people, not Iran.

Posted by: wagelaborer | May 25 2026 20:46 utc | 53

Posted by: Hot Carl | May 25 2026 19:29 utc | 38

I just hope you’ve done a dry run in advance. No sense in waiting for doomsday and then realising you forgot to buy a box of matches or any extra loo roll or cling film, etc, etc.

I hasten to add most preppers with whom I have spoken generally don’t have a good answer to the question “have you tried turning off the mains electricity, gas and water to see how long you can last out?”.
Tight lipped silence often ensues.

Posted by: ChatNPC | May 25 2026 20:51 utc | 54

It’s not a difficult question, it is a red herring. Suckered in to their narrative… again and again and again.

Sifting lies for truth your mind becomes full of the things they want you to think about. None of us are stronger, wiser, smarter or better in any way than the flaws in our own wiring.

Posted by: Rae | May 25 2026 20:52 utc | 55

Posted by: Suresh | May 25 2026 20:10 utc | 47

Thanks for the link. I shall endeavour to read it despite being woefully ill-informed on both topics.

Posted by: ChatNPC | May 25 2026 20:56 utc | 56

It’s typical Israeli psychology that they maintain the right to hit anyone especially when that state is defanged priory so they cannot defend nor retaliate. They love soft squishy toys with arms and legs tied.

Posted by: Surferket | May 25 2026 20:58 utc | 57

The Cradle, Ep 222, ‘Israel Escalates in Lebanon’

https://www.youtube.com/@thecradlemedia/streams

“Netanyahu’s desperate move: brutal escalation in Lebanon to torpedo US-Iran deal.”

Victory to Iran & the Resistance. Death to USrael.

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 25 2026 21:02 utc | 58

Clearly, Israelis/Israeli-americans would gladly see Goyimstan [formerly know as the United States] slaughtered upon the alter of a “Greater-Israel” [or Lebensraum as Nazis termed their version of the Israeli concept].

Essentially, it comes down to a zero sum, either Goyimstan [formerly know as the United States] is destroyed by Israel or…drum roll please…Goyimstan [formerly know as the United States] destroys Israel. TINA.

As many people here vocally seek the destruction of Goyimstan [formerly know as the United States] one presumes there will a lot of posts here rooting for the Israelis/Israeli-americans in this cage match…yes?

Posted by: S Brennan | May 25 2026 21:06 utc | 59

“formerly know[n] as the United States”

Posted by: S Brennan | May 25 2026 21:09 utc | 60

Sebgo | May 25 2026 20:33 utc | 53

accepting the use of his already hated name.

It’s not his name. He is Mileikowsky. {and even that is an pseudonym}

How did Mileikovsky become Netanyahu?
Starting from his time in Palestine, Nathan Mileikovsky signed his publications with the pseudonym Netanyahu, which means “God has given”.

Later, this pen name became his official surname, which was given to the preacher’s children at birth.

In the family of one of his sons, Israeli historian Benzion Netanyahu, the future Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, was born.

“Netanyahu’s” grandfather was a zionist. Preaching Zionism first in Russia, then Poland and ending up in Jerusalem

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 25 2026 21:11 utc | 61

He doesn’t want an off ramp… China/Russia/Iran knows this.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 25 2026 19:29 utc | 39
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Are you thinking mini-nukes followed by Iran obliterating all the Gulfie wells?

Posted by: frito | May 25 2026 21:13 utc | 62

I don’t have time to watch this, but I love love love the catchy headline:

Iran RUTHLESSLY MOCKS Trump As Deal He BEGGED FOR INSTANTLY FALLS APART!! | The Kyle Kulinski Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dUHwYq1fJY

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 25 2026 21:21 utc | 63

Israel Lashes Out At Lebanese Civilians

https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2059017000773472659

“Israel, which has been getting hammered by daily Hezbollah FPV drone strikes on military sites and command centers, is lashing out by escalating attacks on Lebanese civilian areas as it struggles to contain the growing pressure from the north.

Video shows civilians buried beneath rubble after an Israeli strike hit a residential area overnight into Tuesday in southern Lebanon.

The attacks came amid one of the heaviest days of Israeli bombardment in months, with L’Orient Today reporting 85 air strikes across southern Lebanon in a single day on Sunday.”

Death to USrael – Victory to Iran & the Resistance

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 25 2026 21:24 utc | 64

@45 William

Thanks William.

It is funny, I always took Sakineh as male because of how stable or calm his (or her) presence is. Persiflo should know for sure I think, I looked up the name at one point and if I remember I guessed (possibly wrongly) that it was a historical reference, possibly Sakina Banu Begum, a Mughal princess.

I don’t tend to ask questions about who is actually posting but sometimes details are interesting, especially if historical and announced.

@43 Suresh

We would be guessing, the name or similar have various origins or histories, just for example:

“BAKOOM.—Mentioned by Ross as an Adnanite tribe of Nejd. Can
these be the Begoum of Taraba whom Brydges mentions as shewing determined
hostility to the Turks; or the Bagoom in whose country Doughty locates
Jebel Hatthon and who, he says, have settlements between Tayif and Wadi
Turraba ?”

Persian Gulf Gazetteer Part II, Geographical and Descriptive Materials, Section III Central Arabia 1904

Posted by: Ornot | May 25 2026 21:26 utc | 65

Space Cowboy 24
Trump is being treated worse than a sorcerer’s apprentice by Netanyahu.
Having learnt the magic words from the Sorceror to start all spells, he has got the broomstick Jared Kushner to fetch the water.

But he doesn’t know the magic words to make the Zionist Spells he has cast on the broomstick to stop.

Posted by: Giyane | May 25 2026 21:27 utc | 66

John Gilberts @ 59

“Netanyahu’s desperate move: brutal escalation in Lebanon to torpedo US-Iran deal.”

Netanyahu and Trump are not like Tom & Jerry, more like Abbott & Costello. But, either way, it’s a show.

BREAKING: Two IRGC Navy speedboats were targeted by American fighter jets in the Persian Gulf, and four sailors were killed

https://t.me/Novichok_Rossiya_2/51157

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 25 2026 21:30 utc | 67

Trump doesn’t want any “deal”, not one that Iran could ever accept. This is all the same bs kabuki fake “negotiations” we see every single time. Pretend to negotiate, then say “see, we tried, but Iran is just too unreasonable and therefore the war must be escalated”. Or else, have Israel “block the deal” and attack first (with weapons and ISR and refuelling provided by US). Seems many have already forgotten that on Feb 28, US attacked Iran during negotiations and immediately after Iran had agreed to some compromise on uranium enrichment.

Posted by: J dubbya | May 25 2026 21:40 utc | 68

LightYearsFromHome@68:
“…it’s a show.”

For Americans a show of shame they need to close.

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 25 2026 21:45 utc | 69

Air defense active in Bandar Abbas Sirik and Jask. Iran has confirmed the deaths of 4 service members in 2 boats targeted by US planes.

IDF has issued limited gatherings in open places down from previous limits. Northern School closed, Operation Arrows of Fire approved (indiscriminate bombing of Beirut).

Ghalibaf, Araghchi and Hemmati (Central Bank Governor) are in Doha re frozen assets framework.

Posted by: Suresh | May 25 2026 21:49 utc | 70

John Gilberts @ 71

For Americans a show of shame they need to close.

First Trump needs to jump the shark, then it will get cancelled.

And if anyone jumps the shark it will be Trump. But what will it be???? Cuba?

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | May 25 2026 21:50 utc | 71

The US/Israeli aircraft have attacked 2 of Iran’s fast boats at Bandar Abbas. Air defenses were activated. There are casualties. https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/32400

IRGC Navy launching anti-ship missiles at American warships in the Gulf of Oman. https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/32399

Israel launching major escalation against Lebanon: https://t.me/geopolitics_prime/70050

I think that any agreement has effectively been shelved.

Posted by: Belle | May 25 2026 21:57 utc | 72

The Epstein cathouse operation in Manhattan was all Mossad and CIA all the way.

They set this up as a honeytrap for idiotic politicos, defense contractors, general and others they could blackmail into support for the Zionist genocidal agenda.

They had everyone on tape cavorting with underage women, very useful for a black op.

Get real they even had an Israeli PM and member of the Brit Royal Family in the vise.

Posted by: tobias cole | May 25 2026 21:58 utc | 73

Current sequence in Hormuz via Suhaib Al-Masalma

“Hearing the sound of explosions in the port of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran

Launching missiles towards the Strait of Hormuz

Other explosions were heard in the Jask and Sirik area

The runway of Bandar Abbas Airport in southern Iran was targeted by a missile

Iranian sources:
American planes bombed two Iranian Revolutionary Guard boats in the Strait of Hormuz, killing 4 of them.

Renewed explosions in Bandar Abbas, southern Iran, and the launch of air defenses

American bombing targeted speedboats near Iranian Lark Island”

Also Iran warns US that “any Israeli attack in Beirut will severely affect the negotiations to end the war”

Posted by: Ornot | May 25 2026 21:59 utc | 74

Posted by: duck n cover | May 25 2026 19:15 utc | 35

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peace=Zionist ownership and rule. there was no peace ever under Ottomans or anyone else.

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<=IOT achieve peace in out nation state divided world you must deny authority to a nation state to violate human rights.

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You can’t do that one nation at a time and you will never do it

without all of humanity participating in the development of an organization that protects humanity from the awesome powers of the nation state system.
I propose that something like the UN is the right type of organization to do that..A few big obstacles but not entirely impossible.

assuming humanity rises to the challenge.

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I believe most of humanity would get behind a well planned proposal that entertained something like the following:
1. eliminate all input from a nation state no organization or government gets a veto or a vote.

2. arrange the voting power based on head count..

voting is for humans, not nation states.

so there will be many voting districts.

One vote for each 10,000 people. Un Census.

3. no nation state has a vote. only humans no lobbyist

4. change the charter.

5. make the UN a licensing agency, it licenses nation states.

6. Define in legal terms human rights

7. UN licenses nation states to do business internationally, no one allowed to deal with an unlicensed nation state

8. Licenses are issued based on human rights defined in nation state charters and approved by the UN.

9. Licenses are revoked and suspended until cured and satisfactorily resolved.

10. the UN holds human rights courts.

11. any human anywhere in the world can force a human right prosecution against any nation state or nation state leader. (if the court finds probable cause, the license of the offending nation state is suspended)

12. All approved charters require all leaders of a nation state to step down (temporarily a complete change of government — much like when the bank examiners take over a bank replaced by UN appointed personnel) until revoked licenses are restored.

13. a condition of licensure requires nation states to pay a initial and annual fee (this supports the nation state system)
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I don’t have all the answers. IMO, survival its going to take global action on the part of all humanity to protect humanity from the nation state system. Bottom-up must find a way to make the nation states serve everyone equally and to deny the nations any authority to infringe on human rights

Posted by: snake | May 25 2026 22:00 utc | 75

Posted by: Melaleuca | May 25 2026 21:11 utc | 62

Thank you for your reply.

I was already familiar with the family history of the current Prime Minister of Israel, as well as his personal background.

But this individual needs to be referred to by some name, whether it’s Netanyahu, Mileikowsky, Bibi, or something else.

IMHO, attaching too much importance to an individual stems from a fascination with people onto whom we want to blame all the sins, and who end up even seducing and emulating others, Hitler being the most emblematic case.

Trump and Netanyahu are merely figureheads of a system that recognized itself in them to the point of bringing them to power, several times over, and that maintains them because they do the job.

Demonizing them individually amounts to exonerating the entire system, which will simply choose other loyal servants after them.

That is why I prefer to say “the USA” or “Israel” when talking about acts of state or war, while knowing that it is not the entire population of these countries.

And that is one of the things I pointed at in the B’s piece. It is not all about “Bibi.”
The American system, the Israeli system, the Empire system,the oligarchy system, don’t want to acknowledge the defeat in Iran.

There are going to oppose any deal that make it obvious, until they have no other choice.

Posted by: Sebgo | May 25 2026 22:02 utc | 76

LightYearsFromHome@68:
“…it’s a show.”

For Americans a show of shame they need to close.

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 25 2026 21:45 utc | 71
John “beautiful soul” Gilberts, ladies and gents. He is so beautiful he actually thinks Canada has nothing to do with Imperialism! Isn’t that precious?

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 22:09 utc | 77

The distance between comedy and tragedy is at a breaking point:
President Schlomo insists all the Arab GCCs must sign onto the “Abraham (Israel) Accords”. Huh ? Well, first you must drink a full glass of Herpes, then you will see the benefit.
What Arab Nation with any brains at all, can’t figure out Israel want them dead.
Failing that, then Israel wants the US to attack Iran, thereby triggering Iran to attack any GCC country assisting the lying, cheating Yanks and Israelis.
Iran must insist Israel remove all their nuclear weapons and research. Otherwise, within hours, days, weeks, a few years, once Uncle Schlomo and Izzy think they can kill Iran, this will start right back up again.

Posted by: kupkee | May 25 2026 22:11 utc | 78

Victory to Iran & the Resistance. Death to USrael.

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 25 2026 21:02 utc | 59
Stick to this clear and honest sentiment, friend.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 22:12 utc | 79

American bombing targeted speedboats near Iranian Lark Island”
Also Iran warns US that “any Israeli attack in Beirut will severely affect the negotiations to end the war”
Posted by: Ornot | May 25 2026 21:59 utc | 76

Oil trading closed at 2:30 PM today down around 6 bucks. It is now open again at 6PM and is up 28 cents. Makes it hard to believe that the so called peace deal is dead.

Posted by: arby | May 25 2026 22:21 utc | 80

btw, if Jesus can be white, Helen can be black.
Posted by: duck n cover |
She can be purple, but nobody is going to watch another Zio Imperialist “Hollywood history” film.
A Korean soap opera would have more humanity to it and without a single instance of Zio Imperialist political propaganda.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 22:22 utc | 81

The shit show continues until it doesn’t………and I am willing to name it after Trump to feed his ego, eh? The Donald Trump Shit Show Extraordinaire Step right up and buy your tickets! Your children will pay the price.
Posted by: psychohistorian | May 25 2026 17:46 utc | 6

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Thanks Mr. Historian. “The Donald Trump Shit Show” has a ‘ring’ of authenticity to it – possibly more than it deserves. But you may wish to exercise a modicum of caution in your assignations?

I can foresee such a description initiating phantom hallucinations in susceptible individuals that may (might?) conjure an additional illusory barfly that could, conceivably, be assigned the moniker “Dick Psycho”.

You heard it here first!

Posted by: General Factotum | May 25 2026 22:27 utc | 82

“Workers of the world would uniformly support and join such a movement of American workers.”
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 17:50 utc | 8

Stop daydreaming. The days of class struggle are over; today, workers want to drive their SUVs, get cheap Netflix, and go on vacation. Those with a class-struggle ideology are a vanishingly small minority, no matter what the loudspeakers say.
Posted by: smartfox | May 25 2026 18:52 utc | 27
Oh, History is just starting all over again, you little piss ant. Keep pushing your 1990s stereotypes. Yes, you and your ilk, you all just keep telling yourself the US is just one happy slave booze cruise.
The days are in fact numbered for the agents of Zio Imperialism like yourself. Israel would be a safer place than the US for you, in the long run.

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 22:31 utc | 83

I just learned a new name: “Smartfox”

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 22:32 utc | 84

“But to get there he needs to get Netanyahoo off his back. How to do that is the really difficult question.”

Slaves don’t get to tell their owners to get off their backs.

nazinyahu isn’t Trump’s boss, nazinyahu is merely the current underboss. The mafia don at the top is the genocidal zionist entity, with Miriam Adelson as the consigliere.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 25 2026 22:49 utc | 85

“But to get there he needs to get Netanyahoo off his back. How to do that is the really difficult question.”

Impossible without a social revolution, abolition of the billionaires, rendering private finance public property and putting every politician, news service and businessman that has ever previously supported genocidal Israel on trial with the death penalty.

This crisis can only be resolved by an organized revolutionary working class with a sound strategy for ending Capitalism and the Zio Imperialism it so very naturally it produces (see WW1 and WW2).
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 17:50 utc | 8
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Since none of what you describe is going to happen (and believe me, it ain’t), then there’s only one dismal conclusion:

We are well and truly fucked.

I mean: what the hell kind of tea leaves are you looking at that would lead you to conclude that such revolutionary things are anywhere within the realm of possibility in today’s world?

Where are the leaders? Where are the organized mass movements? Where is the unified political will necessary for such an overthrow?

The answer is: nowhere, except in certain people’s fevered imaginations.

Posted by: George the Zeroth | May 25 2026 22:51 utc | 86

American bombing targeted speedboats near Iranian Lark Island”Also Iran warns US that “any Israeli attack in Beirut will severely affect the negotiations to end the war”Posted by: Ornot | May 25 2026 21:59 utc | 76

Can’t find those stories anywhere else and the price of oil hasn’t budged. Looks like fake news.

Posted by: arby | May 25 2026 22:55 utc | 87

Wagelaborer makes a point that now rings true to me – the American military in Saudi Arabia isn’t there to protect the kingdom from Iran; it is there to protect the king from his own people.

Posted by: GMST | May 25 2026 22:55 utc | 88

Can’t find those stories anywhere else and the price of oil hasn’t budged. Looks like fake news.
Posted by: arby | May 25 2026 22:55 utc | 89

No sooner do I post that then the News shows up on ZH.

Reports: Fighter jets attacked two boats in the port of Bandar Abbas, killing four people
Iran has reportedly lifted its nationwide internet ban after nearly 90-days.
Israel dramatically ramps up war and bombing of Lebanon, citing Hezbollah drones on its territory.
Al Arabiya claims Tehran ready to transfer highly enriched uranium to China.

Posted by: arby | May 25 2026 22:58 utc | 89

Can’t find those stories anywhere else and the price of oil hasn’t budged. Looks like fake news.
Posted by: arby | May 25 2026 22:55 utc | 89

look here:
https://www.rt.com/news/640566-iranian-speedboat-attacks-hormuz/

Posted by: smartfox | May 25 2026 23:01 utc | 90

Demonizing them individually amounts to exonerating the entire system, which will simply choose other loyal servants after them.

That is why I prefer to say “the USA” or “Israel” when talking about acts of state or war, while knowing that it is not the entire population of these countries.

And that is one of the things I pointed at in the B’s piece. It is not all about “Bibi.” The American system, the Israeli system, the Empire system, the oligarchy system…

Posted by: Sebgo | May 25 2026 22:02 utc | 78

You are right, good post. The problem I see is that most people are not really capable of seeing the big picture of “the system” and also have short memories, therefore they focus on the perfidious individuals who, at any moment, are the faces of these big systems. Of course, the media (including much of “alt media”), promotes this shallow and personalized understanding of events. More clicks, more to talk and argue about on a daily basis.

Posted by: J dubbya | May 25 2026 23:04 utc | 91

@78 Sebgo

On the other hand, a large part of any or various population take the leader as their cue. A change of leader does mean a wider change of direction and mood. Granted, not necessarily for the better, and this can be nothing more than a tool for, or a distraction from, the system behind; but still it remains that to take down an unwanted leader is also a method to effect change.

For some it will simply be because they think any particular person should not receive pride of place, should not receive attention, should not be set as an example. These are all valid motives.

Posted by: Ornot | May 25 2026 23:10 utc | 92

I happen to think that b is right (as he usually is IMO) in his title ” Netanyahoo Blocked Imminent Deal.”

But if you agree with this, how can you claim that the US controls Israel (and not vice versa)?

Posted by: spudski | May 25 2026 23:14 utc | 93

Fox news claims US struck missile launch sites in Southern Iran.

3 x US air tankers airborne.

Fires evident on Kharg Island.

US naval vessels in the Sea of Oman targeted.

Posted by: Suresh | May 25 2026 23:16 utc | 94

Posted by: Ornot | May 25 2026 23:10 utc | 94

That is a valid and perceptive addition to what Sebgo said above. For some people, focusing on the perfidious individuals who are actuating the big systems’ goals is all they are capable of seeing. And that is important to. Can’t ignore the perfidious individuals and only focus on the big systems.

Posted by: J dubbya | May 25 2026 23:22 utc | 95

In response to
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I happen to think that b is right (as he usually is IMO) in his title ” Netanyahoo Blocked Imminent Deal.” But if you agree with this, how can you claim that the US controls Israel (and not vice versa)?
Posted by: spudski | May 25 2026 23:14 utc | 95
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When you have a hierarchy of oligarchs and those at the top of the pile, because of historical and other reasons [Hi Pope Bob!], are bigger than nations, you have the basis for the show we are watching…..the top/bottom West.

But humanity is watching an inversion of the oligarchs being bigger than the nation China and continuing to operate….research Jack Ma.

Do you want a world in which historical and aspiring oligarchs make public policy or national governments that eliminate private finance and don’t let oligarchs get too big for humanity’s britches.

And on we go….

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 25 2026 23:25 utc | 96

B: “But to get there he needs to get Netanyahoo off his back. How to do that is the really difficult question.”
The example of the South Vietnam President Ngo Dinh Diem springs to mind, for some reason…..

Posted by: Yeah, Right | May 25 2026 23:25 utc | 97

Like maybe there should have been a question mark ? at the end of my last question, eh?

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 25 2026 23:27 utc | 98

Mehrdad Khalili

“The US Army officially adopts attacks on various sites in southern Iran. This will make the situation in the Strait of Hormuz quicker, perhaps more difficult for America and its allies in the region, including the possibility of exchanges of strikes at sea. Trump wants to negotiate with the upper hand, and this is what will not happen.”

Posted by: Ornot | May 25 2026 23:29 utc | 99

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 25 2026 22:22 utc | 83
of a film no one has seen nor knows anything about. a non-troversy. is that the plan? in case a product turns out to be a big pile of capitalist crap, try to create a capitalist ‘scandal of infamy’ ahead of time, so at least people are talking…about race and gender…from an industry insisting, e.g., “Ghostbusters” (2016) failed cuz Pootin. like Trump won cuz Pootin. “Pootin’ on the Rus” – why doesn’t Putin get blamed for US drug use? or blame “the deplorables” themselves, who couldn’t name who is Helens’ father. I wouldn’t kick Lupita out of bed for bitching about the patriarchy.

Posted by: duck n cover | May 25 2026 23:30 utc | 100

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