War On Iran: – U.S. Ratcheting Fails

May 30, 2026

A typical U.S. tactic is to ratchet things up in a conflict. This is done by continuously introducing additional hostile measures. Red lines get passed over bit by bit with the hope that each step is too tiny for the other side to really hit back. The war in Ukraine continues to be run like that.

Two days ago the U.S. attacked two Iranian boats which it had claimed were laying mines near Bandar Abbas. (There is zero evidence that Iran has laid ANY mines in the Strait.)

Iran did not allow for the ratchet to click. It immediately hit back.

Statement from CENTCOM on Recent Iranian Aggression – CENTCOM, May 28 2026

TAMPA, Fla. – At 10:17 p.m. ET on May 27, Iran launched a ballistic missile toward Kuwait that was successfully intercepted by Kuwaiti forces.

“Successfully intercepted …”

Americans Injured in Iranian Missile Strike on Kuwaiti Air Base – Bloomberg, May 30 2026

An Iranian ballistic missile strike on a Kuwaiti air base within the past 24 hours caused minor injuries to several Americans and seriously damaged two MQ-9 Reaper strike drones, …

That sounds like a spot on hit.

Kuwaiti air defenses intercepted the Fateh-110 missile, but falling debris struck the Ali Al Salem air base, according to a person with direct knowledge of the attack, who requested anonymity to describe details that aren’t public.

“Falling debris …”. Like in ‘The missile was falling, then there was debris.’

Interpretation:

أَبُو عِرْفَانِ پارسی @A_E_P_1979 – 11:20 UTC · May 30, 2026

It seems Iran’s recent attack on Kuwait inflicted casualties on the Americans. This is significant for two reasons.

1. Americans are still stationed in the Gulf and do not want to leave.

2. Iran showed the Americans that, unlike before, attacking Iran “under the threshold” will not grant them immunity, and Iran is willing to escalate massively even at the cost of war. Creating a credibility for its threats.

This attack is very significant, in my opinion, because it will directly affect the negotiations and erase any delusions the Americans might have.

Well, hopefully.

I still expect another massive U.S. attack on Iran combined with an unrealistic attempt to gain (fire-)control over the Strait of Hormuz.

Posted by b on May 30, 2026 at 15:55 UTC | Permalink

Comments

https://www.merkur.de/politik/putins-satnav-falle-russland-kapert-drohnen-und-lenkt-sie-ins-baltikum-zr-94329633.html

this is the worst trash ever in a long time, germans think now that they can hide their participation behind “Ukrainian innovation” what shitfucks. even if I live here I hope the smackin will be good

Posted by: Macpott | May 30 2026 23:56 utc | 101

I discussed with a German who is active in pro-Palestinian academia (and has problems for this) how the genocide is *not’ hidden and nonetheless most Germans support Israel, including the entire official apparatus.
Posted by: Konami | May 30 2026 17:51 utc | 18

When was the conversation had? When was the last time a nationwide poll was held in Germany regarding opinions on Israel?

Posted by: joey_n | May 30 2026 23:57 utc | 102

If Russia and Iran takeover Azerbaijan and Oman, they will control the empire entity and all its lackeys. And the world economy too. Not difficult at all. Russia should deal a decisive blow to Ukraine using the Hiroshima model, end that war and turn to Azerbaijan demanding a land link to Iran. It’s the worst fear of USA, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. No escape from Strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea.

Posted by: Jason | May 31 2026 0:07 utc | 103

https://www.merkur.de/politik/putins-satnav-falle-russland-kapert-drohnen-und-lenkt-sie-ins-baltikum-zr-94329633.html

what makes you think that russia will go down the line as the lowlife empire? russia had the soviet union. they let it disappear without a wimp. those guys have nothing and still think they are bigger than the soviets

Posted by: Macpott | May 31 2026 0:16 utc | 104

Posted by: Jason | May 31 2026 0:07 utc | 104

sorry last post was for you

Posted by: Macpott | May 31 2026 0:16 utc | 105

Posted by: Jason | May 31 2026 0:07 utc | 104

…they will control the empire entity and all its lackeys. And the world economy too.

Maybe you should ask them first if “controlling an empire” and the “world economy” is what they want?

Everybody is not a western exceptionalist with “Global Full Spectrum Dominance” as the ultimate goal in his head.

Posted by: Sebgo | May 31 2026 0:18 utc | 106

@Posted by: Menz | May 30 2026 22:41 utc | 84

Bertrand is massively overselling that document, I covered it some days ago at Chinese Agency Report On China-US Relationship

Firstly, we have to remember that any publicly available document from a Chinese state agency will include a large amount of propaganda and may be quite different from non-published internal documents. The public message being sent is that China and the US are now peers and that China is open to working with the US in a constructive win-win fashion as long as the US respects its “red lines and bottom lines”.
Arnaud Bertrand makes the claim that, “This is an extraordinary document which contains perhaps the most authoritative description of where China thinks its relationship with the U.S. stands, and where it’s headed”.
Such a claim is deeply naive of the propagandist role of such public Chinese documents. This does not show that the Chinese intelligence agencies believe that the US threat is over and the relationship with the US can be “managed”, as Bertrand states. The document is both a statement of what a positive China-US relationship would look like and a propagandist selling of China as more than ready to engage in such a partnership. Internally, the Chinese Party-state will very much understand how incredibly untrustworthy the US oligarchy is, and how it is still trying its best to hold China back. Also, the differences over strategy between different fractions of the US oligarchy and the competition between them that is so directly reflected in policy circles in a time when billionaires can so easily buy politicians. The Party-state is attempting to manage the US decline peacefully, and the published document is all part of this management effort. It knows that it has won, the issue is keeping the US from causing too much mischief whilst it slowly accepts its decline.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | May 31 2026 0:39 utc | 107

PAGING NURSE RATCHETT! (one flew over the dodo’s nest)

to ratchet up abroad requires a ratchet up at home.

by his absenteeism, our Buddha of the Crap Shoot appears to be in deep meditation. no one will step into the same reflecting pool twice. look out Somalis. look out Guatemalan fisherman. Cuba, gird your loins.

as long as the Western insane asylum inmates keep believing in this “mind-forged manacle” called “money,” how long can the threat escalation continue?

well, our owners have now figured out how to wage war w/o needing a worker.

Posted by: duck n cover | May 31 2026 0:50 utc | 108

Re: De Dollarization and Oil Payment

The Shanghai Petroleum and Natural Gas Exchange (SHPGX) stated that the digital yuan, China’s central bank digital currency (CBDC), was utilized to settle an oil transaction for the first time.

On October 19, PetroChina International purchased one million barrels of crude in response to the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government’s request to apply the CBDC to international commerce. The name of the vendor and the price were not published.

This big milestone for the digital yuan reflects China’s broader attempts to enhance yuan usage in overseas markets and promote de-dollarization. The yuan’s cross-border settlement usage climbed by 35% year on year in the first three quarters of 2023, reaching $1.39 trillion.

The expansion of the digital yuan into worldwide transactions is consistent with China’s continuous efforts to build cross-border CBDC transactions, such as the mBridge platform, which includes partners such as the United Arab Emirates and China’s Bank of China. The city of Jinan has also adopted Digital Yuan payments for its bus routes, while DBS bank launched a CBDC platform for corporate clients in China.

The vendor identity is likely to be either Iran or Russia.

Posted by: KillerDoll | May 31 2026 0:55 utc | 109

Posted by: Giyane | May 30 2026 22:15 utc | 77

Richard Medhurst explains how the Petrodollar is being saved/replaced by the Petro-Gas Dollar, and apart from temporary obstacles in Iran and Ukraine, the strategy is working very well for the Outlaw Empire.

https://richardmedhurst.substack.com/p/how-the-us-pulled-off-an-armed-robbery

Gaining control of the world’s energy resources is the goal. World-wide depression, if it comes to that (likely), won’t affect the Donor Class’s long term profits.

Posted by: norecovery | May 31 2026 1:07 utc | 110

Today’s Marandi/Nima chat ended with a description of Iranian resolve–the harder Iran is pushed, the harder Iran pushes back. The massive degree of contempt Iran has for Western double standards is one source of that resolve. Iran will stand on its initial Ten Points and force Trump to kneel, although it seems more likely he’ll sneak away during the night. Ultimately, Trump is a coward and a knave. His Gang may be able to manipulate American markets but not international markets as Sean Foo noted today in this key video.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 1:07 utc | 111

On October 19, PetroChina International purchased one million barrels of crude in response to the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government’s request to apply the CBDC to international commerce.
Posted by: KillerDoll | May 31 2026 0:55 utc | 112

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I think this is a good example of China’s ‘people parties’ working with China’s ‘private industry’.

Posted by: financial matters | May 31 2026 1:08 utc | 112

Sakineh Bagoom, so glad you’re back. I know the feeling of watching and not being able to participate. It’s frustrating.

My Iranian Facebook friend also came back, but with less to say. Basically, 1) I’m alive and 2) The US is not getting our uranium.

Posted by: wagelaborer | May 31 2026 1:10 utc | 113

Sebgo@69:

“…with the help of their allies, they will win.”

Let it be so and soon…

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 31 2026 1:10 utc | 114

norecovery | May 31 2026 1:07 utc | 113—

I disagree with Medhurst because gas now being exported will be needed to power AI data centers within the Empire since there are no other options available in the short term that AI corps and Wall Street operate within.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 1:11 utc | 115

I mainly just read here, but this quite reminds me of an old post B made about Ukraine and their interception claims. “Interception by target” was part of the title. I would link it, but cannot find that older post. Same thing claimed over and over in Ukraine, intercepted, but yet the debris blasted holes and lit the target on fire. Same thing with Iran or Hezbollah launches on Israel, claims all intercepted, while videos come out of the skyline lighting up with not just the first, but secondary explosions.Must have been the washing machine launched shovels then. They are apparently devastating.

Posted by: Rhymerez | May 31 2026 1:13 utc | 116

Question:

congress wants the Israeli and US military to be fully integrated per Federal Lsw.
will that help recruitment ? will more young Americans volunteer for the military ?

Posted by: Exile | May 31 2026 1:17 utc | 117

American markets but not international markets as Sean Foo noted today in this key video.
Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 1:07 utc | 114

I watched that video today. He pointed out as I have felt for some time the fact that the US weaponizing of the dollar, and freezing, and confiscating other people money is a huge nail in the coffin of the dollar. Almost everyone hollers about inflation and interest rates , etc. , but few seem to look at the freezing and theft. As Shawn says , the big players have seen it and are moving their money out of the dollar. This also applies to the Euro.

Posted by: arby | May 31 2026 1:24 utc | 118

Roger Boyd @109: “Firstly, we have to remember that any publicly available document from a Chinese state agency will include a large amount of propaganda and may be quite different from non-published internal documents.”

I realize the document is a little surprising, but I think you might be misunderstanding how China is actually governed. China is governed by the Communist Party of China. Western media consumers (almost all westerners) visualize that as being half a dozen old guys in a smoke-filled room making decisions for the entire country. That is absolutely NOT how the CPC works. The Chinese Communist Party has almost a hundred million members. Think about that. It means the CPC all by itself would be the 17th largest country on the planet if it were its own country. It takes absolutely MASSIVE communications to internally coordinate that body. The notion that the CPC could somehow have secret internal agendas while the published white papers are clever deceptions meant to mislead the West is utterly preposterous. Basically, that idea is impossible.

On the other hand, what is certain is that most white papers are published that don’t represent CPC policy, but are intended to promote or educate for a potential policy for the CPC to adopt. After all, how else do groups in an organization that big communicate their ideas about what the organization should collectively choose as policy? When one discards the view of the CPC as some sort of uniform and monolithic entity and instead view it as a massive dynamic one with ongoing internal discourse and debate then the perspective one has on such papers can more closely approximate reality.

Posted by: William Gruff | May 31 2026 1:26 utc | 119

@Sakineh Bagoom:

Good to see your name again. Condolences for your losses. Honour, respect and honour upon the martyrs and your people. May Iran’s historic victory go forth and multiply against the evil oppressors and show others the way.

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 31 2026 1:33 utc | 120

Speaking of China, I find the narrative management aspect more interesting than the (hopefully true) allegations at the core of this reporting.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/iran-may-used-chinese-missile-shoot-us-fighter-jet-sources-say-rcna347555

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 31 2026 1:34 utc | 121

I disagree with Medhurst because gas now being exported will be needed to power AI data centers within the Empire since there are no other options available in the short term that AI corps and Wall Street operate within.
Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 1:11 utc | 118

Possibly you underestimate how much oil the Empire will be able to steal and refine. They’re also looking at possibly taking over the Canadian Tar Sands supply, which like Venezuelan oil is refined in Texas. They’re also intending to exploit potential Arctic reserves. Those heavy crudes could enable substitution of all diesel supplies in the US, freeing the lighter crude refined product for export. Also, some of the Data Centers are planning for nuclear-powered electrical supply, although that takes longer to build.

Posted by: norecovery | May 31 2026 1:35 utc | 122

@Sakineh Bagoom | May 30 2026 19:41 utc | 38

Welcome back — and eternal honor and glory to the two family members of yours who gave themselves to a righteous cause.

Posted by: malenkov | May 31 2026 1:37 utc | 123

@118

Hyperscale deployment is running well behind schedule. A lot of so called Gigawatts are coming on line late and often a few hundred megawatts.

This is acceptable because current deployed LLM’s are ineffective have unacceptable error rates and cost to must to deliver the 15% error rates that are common, and not including the halluciantion.

The Chinese version runs art 10% the overhead seen with Antropic, OpenAI and Grok!

The bust will happen, whether it is blamed on lack of hyperscale or the poor performance of the US AI labs. None have a path to profit, which is odd because historical new industries make profits that invite competition AI is sold in a carnival of promises not related to protduct.

Posted by: paddy | May 31 2026 1:39 utc | 124

re Patroklos | May 30 2026 20:55 utc | 60

”And the first and hopefully last MoA Jan Brady* Award goes to…”

(*substitute Tonya Harding ad libitum)

Posted by: malenkov | May 31 2026 1:43 utc | 125

@125

You grossly underestimate the time, money (no one is rushing in) and risk to increase VZ heavy crude supply, increase tar sands supply and license mini nukes.

Will Russia and China provide icebreaker services in the arctic? US has none!

Besides the bulk of US venture capital is buying NVIDIA chips which will be obsolete long before the hyperscalers overcome the challenges of building compute for customers whose business model is insane..

Posted by: paddy | May 31 2026 1:46 utc | 126

R2R: ‘Oil Crisis Red Zone’

https://www.youtube.com/@reason2resist/videos

“Oil industry experts sound the alarm over impending disaster.”

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 31 2026 1:49 utc | 127

@Sakineh Bagoom | May 30 2026 19:41 utc | 38

Blessings to you and your return to the MoA bar

You and your country should be proud of the effective point-of-the-spear efforts being made against the God Of Mammon cult……THANKS!

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My thought about the mining of the Strait of Hormuz is that Iran would do it to keep submarines out but otherwise don’t need them…..and if not mines then appropriately spaced listening devices to detect submarines and such submersible attempts at intrusion…..useful for long term ship passage management, eh?

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 31 2026 1:59 utc | 128

No, the war is not won yet; you are correct. But the war is extremely well-fought to date by Iran. Extremely well.Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | May 30 2026 20:31 utc | 54

Very true Tom. Whatever happens, there’s no taking away Iran’s military successes to date.

Just as Russia had decisively defeated the Ukraine Army Versions 1 -4 in the field of battle, it has failed to end the war.

Saudi Arabia and UAE are scaling up their versions of the Shahid. New Korean AA (Cheongung-II) missiles, improved on the Russian S300 have been exported to the UAE. The same with Korean K239 “HIMARS” and Chinese AR3 & SR5.

Unlike the SMO, there is nothing the US or NATO can do to change the outcome. Russia has the advantage across the entire political, military, economic and social spectrum.

The point I’m trying to get at is that Iran doesn’t have all of those advantages yet.

Posted by: Suresh | May 31 2026 2:09 utc | 129

“Iran did not allow for the ratchet to click. It immediately hit back.”

As I’ve said over and over, Iranian red lines are a bright clear warning, Iran does exactly what it says it’ll do if said red lines are crossed, and that is why it’s gained the respect of even those countries that hate it.

Russian red lines are bad jokes much more like permissions, each stating how much Russia will tolerate without retaliating, which is why Russia is held in contempt by even the Baltic chihuahuas, let alone more powerful countries like Germany, and which is why Russia is steadily losing friends, from Armenia to India.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 31 2026 2:11 utc | 130

In response to
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The bust will happen, whether it is blamed on lack of hyperscale or the poor performance of the US AI labs. None have a path to profit, which is odd because historical new industries make profits that invite competition AI is sold in a carnival of promises not related to protduct.
Posted by: paddy | May 31 2026 1:39 utc | 127
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Thx
Western Ai is being developed/sold as the self licking marketing/sales/social control ice cream cone of promises.
China AI is being used to optimize manufacturing and social service provision capabilities.

One form of social organization is being exposed as the class based absurdity it now represents……the God Of Mammon cult won’t be able to use monotheist religion clashes to save themselves either, IMO.

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 31 2026 2:11 utc | 131

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 30 2026 16:56 utc | 10

LOL, Oman trolls the Trumpster…prolly a beach ball.

Posted by: ChatNPC | May 30 2026 16:58 utc | 12

Hilarious.

After an exhausting search of months, the US military declares it can’t find any mines.

Just a day after, some rando pops up with a picture of one (purported).

Funny that.

Smells like Mossad …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 31 2026 2:14 utc | 132

@Sakineh Bagoom 39

I’ve personally met, in real like, Bushist Americans who still call Iraq eye-rack, and I am yet to meet an American who knows to pronounce Nepal as Nay-paal instead of Knee-paul, so expecting them to properly pronounce Iran is like expecting them to not be slaves of zionistan.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 31 2026 2:15 utc | 133

@ Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 31 2026 2:11 utc | 133 who must be paid be ignore the fact that Russia is a nuke state and Iran is not which just might effect geopolitical conflict responses, eh?

And you continually ignore the civilization war context of Russia’s conflict in Ukraine, eh?

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 31 2026 2:17 utc | 134

@ michaelj72 | May 30 2026 21:26 utc | 70

Always good to note that Saint Bernard, Sheepdog of the Dim Party has never condemned “Israel” for committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. Instead he quibbles that “Israeli” actions are “disproportionate”.

He’s really no different than Huckabee, Schumer, or Little Jared.

Posted by: malenkov | May 31 2026 2:27 utc | 135

Eisenhower could or would do nothing.

Posted by: paddy | May 30 2026 22:24 utc | 79

When it came to foreign policy, Ike was nothing more than a hand puppet of the Dulles Brothers.

Posted by: malenkov | May 31 2026 2:29 utc | 136

Posted by: John Gilberts | May 30 2026 20:44 utc | 58 … “Iran will defeat the United States.”

<=what will defeat change? .. maybe it will require the Epstein class to do some work arounds?

Until the masses are given access to the information they need, to fully understand, nothing is ever going to change. Its not about politics and for the Epstein class its not about economy, its about control and monopoly power.

nation state piracy cannot be punished until an alternative institution (AI)to the United Nations is established in the BRICS Sphere of influence.

<=that alternative must be bottom up and global in jurisdiction or it too will fail.. the alternative institution must be organized to defend humanity against the nation state system. Humanity has suffered because the nation states decide how they will control things and almost always those decisions result in genocides, wars, assassinations, sanctions and regime changes somewhere..

The replacement UN needs to have the power, authority and strength of force sufficient to license and police the nation states and on discovery that a violation of human rights has occurred it needs to be able to revoke the license of the offending nation state to do business and transact banking any place in the world outside of its borders. Anything short of that will fail.

For Sino-US relations to be stable, the most fundamental thing is to respect each other’s territorial sovereignty, social system, and development path, and not to impose one’s own will and model on the other; in particular, the United States, as a stronger party, cannot “shape” China’s strategic environment at every turn, and even seek to Extreme pressure to “change China”.

Re:Chinese document published by B as critiqued by: Roger Boyd @ 109<=but there are many points in the document, that describes the negotiable boundaries of global peace and integrated development, security and governance. These important land marks include:
1. Intl politics as a jungle created by two polarities: Hegemony maintenance and private equity involvement in power politics.2. Technology [AI, Quantum computing, block-chain, biotechnology.] is the catalyst that will neutralize and merge the two poles. 3. It suggest an arms length agreement based on:mutual respect, peaceful coexistence, and Win win agreements.

I suggest keeping these points in mind defines a path forward but hegemony and monopoly power seeking will do its best to overpower a stabilizing solution; Chaotic environments are essential prerequisites to hegemony and monopoly power.

Posted by: snake | May 31 2026 2:36 utc | 137

@133

Spot on! Putin painted himself into a corner by letting Ukraine cross all red lines without any real punishment. Through Ukraine European Nazis have attacked Russian cities, petroleum facilities, factories, electricity infrastructure, ports, airports, schools, nuclear facilities, strategic aircraft, ships, etc. No other country with nukes allows that to happen.

Everyone knows that NATO is using Ukraine as cannon fodder to destroy Russia. It’s worthless battling the cannon fodder. Just defeat them decisively and move on. Nukes are specifically for this purpose. Russia has bigger things to do than get bogged down in a war with Ukraine and spend sleepless nights enduring terrorist attacks. It’s very difficult to rise up from a position of a pushover to a dignified nation. It may well be too late already.

Posted by: Jason | May 31 2026 2:42 utc | 138

@ Sakineh Bagoom 39

Even better to point out that the accent falls on the first syllable of your country’s name, thus EE-ron not ee-RON*.

This renders impossible a correct pronunciation of “Iranian”; we should probably just say “Irani” (big accent on first syllable, secondary accent on third syllable), but heck, we’re talking about media that consistently mispronounce “negotiation”, so what the heck…
(*at least this is what I recall from my Iranian roommate when I was in Germany. Granted, he was from Mashhad, but I can’t imagine the dialect was that fundamentally different.)

Posted by: malenkov | May 31 2026 2:45 utc | 139

…expecting them to properly pronounce Iran is like expecting them to not be slaves of zionistan.
Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 31 2026 2:15 utc | 136

Yup. The US ‘education’ sector is working exactly as designed.

Posted by: GreatLakesObserver | May 31 2026 2:45 utc | 140

From the immovable Iranian wall to the empire: “mene mene tekel upharsin”

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | May 30 2026 19:41 utc | 38

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I’m so glad you are back! Condolences on your sad losses – it is a very high price to pay.

Your quote brings back a flood of memories from a long time ago. My religious teaching from when I was quite young taught me the interpretation of the prophecy [ ‘mene‘ – mena, a valuable coin; ‘tekel‘ – aramaic for shekel; and ‘upharsin‘ – divided, or literally half a shekel] was “You are weighed in the balance and found wanting; this night your kingdom is required of you and will be divided between the Medes and the Persians”… But the most memorable part for me was the description of King Belshazzar in the Book of Daniel, which is perhaps my favorite Bible text.

Daniel 5:6 [KJV] “Then the king’s countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed and his knees smote one against another.”

What I would give to observe a similar response from President Trump!!!

PS. The above ‘interpretation’ is just my recollection from a long time ago; not a statement of fact.

Posted by: General Factotum | May 31 2026 3:19 utc | 141

@Posted by: William Gruff | May 31 2026 1:26 utc | 122

I fully understand how the CPC operates, with its over 90 million members, and like any mass party it has a hierarchy and a core group such as the Politburo and a security service. Replicated at the province level. Please actually study how the CPC works before commenting on it. For issues such as national security, discussions are held at senior levels and not publicly. Managed by the Central National Security Commission, that brings together the different organs of intelligence, military and the state and Party at the senior levels. Anyone who thinks that any of this would be discussed publicly in any country, let alone the Party-state apparatus of China, is deeply naive. All such public-facing documents will follow very specific guidelines about following the official line and also showing a positive face to other nations (that is really who the propaganda is targeted at). This covers the general process of foreign policy making, which will be informed by the overall national security processes.

Given the very lengthy rise of people through the Party-state, including the security, military and diplomatic apparatuses, the internal senior level meetings will generally be of older people – in their 50s and 60s etc. Of course, there will be larger organizations creating reports etc., but just like a large corporation, there will be a limited number of people at the top who make the final decisions. There can be extensive public consultations and many public-facing think tank reports, but the real decisions will be made at the top by people with access to non-public information and discussions. And decisions on national security and foreign policy are some of the most secret in any country.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | May 31 2026 3:21 utc | 142

US & Israeli militaries to merge like never before!
Posted by: Otto Penn | May 30 2026 17:13 utc | 13

Well, considering they both love killing civilians, especially children, they are both psychopath led, both believe they are exceptional or chosen, should be a marriage made in hell. Just formalizes what was already there.

Posted by: Organic | May 31 2026 3:40 utc | 143

Hermann Goring

Posted by: GeorgeWendell | May 31 2026 3:43 utc | 144

– Iran has a “new strategy” ??? According to Tritia Parsi Iran will strike the United Arab Emirates every time Isreal strikes Lebanon. (???????????)

Trita Parsi gives his opinion in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg02M6Ua95w (length: 7 minutes)

Posted by: WMG | May 31 2026 3:45 utc | 145

I’ve personally met, in real like, Bushist Americans who still call Iraq eye-rack, and I am yet to meet an American who knows to pronounce Nepal as Nay-paal instead of Knee-paul, so expecting them to properly pronounce Iran is like expecting them to not be slaves of zionistan.

Posted by: Biswapriya Purkayastha | May 31 2026 2:15 utc | 136

Yeah, Americans are such friggin’ morons. So many more examples. They pronounce Deutschland as “Germany”. They pronounce España as “Spain”. They pronounce Italia as “Italy”. They pronounce Zhōngguó as “China”. The retards even pronounce Россия (Rossiya) as “Russia”.

Posted by: Hwy 50 | May 31 2026 3:49 utc | 146

Thank you all for your replies. Much appreciated.

In my previous post earlier, I didn’t address the nuke issue, and just thought of false-dichotomy.

Many say: Iran has to get a nuclear weapon, and get one yesterday. Why? I ask. They say see, DPRK has nukes and they are not attacked, thus…

Well, this argument dismisses geography. Seriously, NK is not even remotely in the vicinity of the entity, and it is not resisting, lebensra… , well you know…

How does go in real-estate? Location, location, location.

It is indeed a false-dichotomy to compare NK to Iran in this sense. Whether Iran had/has nukes would not prevent the current war (err, terror attacks).

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | May 31 2026 3:57 utc | 147

I accept that you think that commenter mad an OT comment but due to the interesting subject I felt inclined to ask AI for a comparison between the muslims and Venice’s role.

“Both the Venetian Empire and various Islamic empires were deeply involved in the Mediterranean slave trade, but Islamic powers engaged in slavery on a far larger and more sustained scale. [1, 2]
Slavery was an integral, long-term pillar of Islamic empires—such as the Mamluks and the Ottomans—who required a constant influx of slaves for military ranks (like the Janissaries) and domestic labor. Venice heavily profited from acting as the middleman for this trade.

The two systems were connected.

Venice as the Supplier (Early Middle Ages): In the 8th to 12th centuries, Venetian merchants actively supplied slaves to the Islamic world. They acquired captives from Central and Eastern Europe—specifically the Balkans (the root of the word slave) and the Black Sea—and sold them in massive quantities to Arab and North African markets

The Ottoman Era (15th to 18th Centuries): As the Ottomans expanded across the Mediterranean, the tables turned. Ottoman and North African (Barbary) corsairs aggressively raided European coastal towns and captured ships. Thousands of Europeans were enslaved in places like Algiers, Tunis, and Istanbul. During this later period, Venice itself actually became a central financial and communication hub for ransoming Northern European Christians enslaved by Muslims.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 31 2026 4:19 utc | 148

“Whether Iran had/has nukes would not prevent the current war (err, terror attacks).”
@Sakineh Bagoom | May 31 2026 3:57 utc | 155
Why then is Israel so anxious about it? Is it because Israel wants to help the US to get the Uranium for their own energy needs?
I dont think so even though the US selfidentified Pirates might have such intentions

Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 31 2026 4:24 utc | 149

Overview of recent developments regarding the US naval blockade on Iran: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/is-trump-lifting-the-naval-blockade?r=25fc37
I am starting thinking that there may not be a new attack on Iran, but I will provide my opinion on that in another post.

Posted by: Ismaele | May 31 2026 4:25 utc | 150

Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 31 2026 4:24 utc | 158

Thanks for the reply peter.

The entity is anxious for various reasons.

it would lose nuclear supremacy over west Asia. Remember: Pax Judeica.
It would put pause to the greater-is… project.
Only the Chosen can rule, and they rule by edge of the sword.
A rival cannot exist in the neighborhood (my original point in the post. Remember, location). Ask the @bar. They would tell you why the entity is fighting a seven front war. My answer: Supremacy, from a ethno-supremacist state, for other people’s land, and their subjugation. But, that’s just me.

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | May 31 2026 4:44 utc | 151

Slavery was an integral, long-term pillar of Islamic empires—such as the Mamluks and the Ottomans—who required a constant influx of slaves for military ranks (like the Janissaries) and domestic labor.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 31 2026 4:19 utc | 156

True and no difference with ancient Greece, especially Sparta, where almost every manual job was done by slaves, and even those cities which were not actually slaves were held in a subservient condition… regular tribute payments required, etc.

When Rome became the dominant power, many of the better educated Greeks found themselves as slaves to Roman households assigned administrative and accounting tasks. Goes around and comes around … but pretty much everyone at the time regarded it as a reasonable way to organize affairs.

Posted by: Tel | May 31 2026 5:15 utc | 152

@Sakineh Bagoom | May 31 2026 4:44 utc | 160
Ok many now have that impression.
But in my view hat supremacy is highly artificial. Mainly created by the selfidentified anglosaxons (I mean in the way that Cecil Rhodes defined their group). The proxies are rewarded for playing the role of supremacists that they really cannot uphold without the imperial masters babysitting it.

Their billionaire supporters are allowed to play a role that the imperialists benefit from. They all want continued Hegemony. If there were any decent individuals among those supporters they would probably become less influential. The anglosaxons are very used to aquire a hold on people and groups as may be observed on the Europeans who are acting as if they have suicidal intentions. But Europe has been deeply brainwashed since the 1950s. Also in the sense that History has been systematically rewritten by the empire so people dont know what happened in the past.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 31 2026 5:20 utc | 153

Why then is Israel so anxious about it?

Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 31 2026 4:24 utc | 159

israel knows that the world is terrified by nukes and therefore it will crank this lever as hard as it can …

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 31 2026 5:32 utc | 154

Genociders stopped a freighter in the Gulf of Oman headed for an Iranian port, during the Night Saturday-Sunday. Ship is the Lian Star

Posted by: Exile | May 31 2026 5:47 utc | 155

Question for p3t3r:Can you tell us how you manage to get access to anti-spiegel? Next to Moon, it used to be my favourite site.
Posted by: Roger Milbrandt | May 30 2026 18:13 utc | 22
SOLUTION
From your PC, the website address is “https://anti-spiegel.ru/”.Depending on the country where you live, which may block access to this site or to RT, or to Sputnik (Russian sites), download the “TOR” VPN: https://www.torproject.org, install it, and use this VPN to access “anti-spiegel”.

Posted by: MOSHI Ondoa | May 31 2026 6:10 utc | 156

see the 6-second video at the first link

https://x.com/wyattreed13/status/2060385456051700212
Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13

Israel has responded to Trump’s suggestion that an Iran deal may be signed by launching three massive missile strikes on the biblical city of Tyre

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https://scheerpost.com/2026/05/29/the-rise-of-the-global-south/
The Rise of the Global South
The war on Iran has not only ended in a humiliating defeat for the United States, but resulted in a dramatic shift in the balance of power in the Middle East and the Global South.

The humiliating defeat of Israel and the United States in their war on Iran, along with the savagery of the ongoing genocide in Gaza, are ushering in a new world order. This order is one where voices of reason and stability emanate not from the West — which spent tens of billions of dollars sustaining Israel’s genocide — but from the Global South, including China. It is an order where alliances are being rapidly reconfigured to protect countries from a rogue American state that lashes out like a wounded beast, as it spirals toward terminal decline.

The end of the U.S. Empire, led by an impetuous and clueless Donald Trump, is irreversible. The U.S. has lost its sixth war in the Middle East in 25 years. Iran’s power has been enhanced not only because it — along with Oman — controls the Strait of Hormuz — where roughly 25 percent of the world’s seaborne oil and 20 percent of the world’s seaborne liquified natural gas pass through — but because it has delivered a stark message, with its drones and missiles, to U.S. allies and bases in the region, while sending the global economy into a tailspin……

….Trump’s savagery and bluster – he threatened to “blow up” Oman if it fails to “behave” after reports of Oman jointly charging tolls with Iran for ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz – cannot mask the impotence of the U.S. The refusal by America’s allies to heed Trump’s call to help him reopen the Strait, along with the economic misery visited on nations struggling to cope with shortages and the rising costs of energy and fertilizer supplies, are stark evidence of Washington’s pariah status.

Empires, blinded by the myth of their own omnipotence and military superiority, blunder at the final stages into conflicts with little understanding of where they are headed. They alienate their allies. They stumble from one military fiasco to the next, as the U.S. has done for over two decades in the Middle East……

Posted by: michaelj72 | May 31 2026 6:15 utc | 157

Gaining control of the world’s energy resources is the goal. World-wide depression, if it comes to that (likely), won’t affect the Donor Class’s long term profits.
Posted by: norecovery | May 31 2026 1:07 utc | 111

Sorry, that may be the attempt, but all I see the Anglo-Zionist Empire doing is failing.

Do not mistake desperate activity for succesful achievement of goals.

Trump is a Corpo. So is his entire government.
He represents the first time in history a government has transitioned to being a fully corporate entity.

The American leadership thinks, acts and talks like a corporation.

Corporations thrive on appearing successful even as the bottom is falling out.

That’s America today, under CEO Trump: A giant corporation with stock value through the roof, debt to the moon – and real value through the floor.

America is not an Empire.

It is a Bubble.

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 31 2026 6:21 utc | 158

From Aljazeera

The Israeli Broadcasting Corp has aired images showing Israel’s flag and the banner of the Golani Brigade flying above Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon.
The pictures were broadcast shortly after the Israeli military announced a “large-scale operation” in the Beaufort Ridge and Wadi al-Salouqi region, warning that the offensive would expand to “additional areas”.
The army also released images of its soldiers in the area, saying: “Our forces have crossed the Litani [River] and expanded their attacks against Hezbollah to north of the river.”
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu confirmed on Friday that Israeli forces had crossed the Litani. Speaking during a visit to Division 36 on Israel’s northern border, he said troops were also operating in Beirut and the Bekaa Valley as part of a broad offensive against Hezbollah across the Lebanese front.

Posted by: psychohistorian | May 31 2026 6:22 utc | 159

Slavery was an integral, long-term pillar of Islamic empires—such as the Mamluks and the Ottomans—who required a constant influx of slaves for military ranks (like the Janissaries) and domestic labor. Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 31 2026

Everyone did slavery. From the earliest times, conquered enemies, particularly women, children and older males were enslaved. Everyone did it. Every religion, every culture, every group of humans. Indeed, slavery still exists today in India, Africa and parts of Asia. The Muslims were no different to anyone else. And the world has seen not just African slaves as many would have it but Anglo, European, Indian, Asian, Polynesian, Aboriginal, everyone.

Posted by: rosross | May 31 2026 6:43 utc | 160

They would tell you why the entity is fighting a seven front war. My answer: Supremacy, from a ethno-supremacist state, for other people’s land, and their subjugation. But, that’s just me.

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | May 31 2026

Doomed to fail of course. Even if every Jew in the world went to what is called Israel, there would still not be enough to hold all of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria or any of the other countries they want as Greater Israel.

They have a weak, poorly trained military with high levels of mental illness, which sabotages every kind of competence, and even if 15 million Jews were sitting in Pissrael they could not achieve what they claim they want.

There is the dream and there is the reality and reality is that Americans are sick and tired of the Zionist State and younger generations, on their way up, will not tolerate the sabotage of their country by a foreign State and a trivial little religion.

What we are watching are the death throes of a pissy supremacist, fascist, military, colonial, apartheid State in Palestine which should never have been created and was never going to last. Some said long ago that the greatest threat to Israel were the religious nutter freaks and they were right. Israel is self sufficient in nothing but ego, terrorism, hate and paranoia. It cannot survive without American money, weapons and support and it cannot survive without the support of the world. It has lost the latter and is losing the former.

The only question is how many it will kill before the world finally puts it down.

Posted by: rosross | May 31 2026 6:50 utc | 161

America is not an Empire. It is a Bubble.
Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 31 2026 6:21 utc | 159

Think you have it put as concisely as it can be said.
The everything bubble is just popping.
The irony of US commentators describing Russia as a gas station with nukes, with a GDP the size of Italy is pretty funny at this point.

Posted by: jpc | May 31 2026 7:06 utc | 162

@Sakineh Bagoom

One word: Respect

Posted by: Norwegian | May 31 2026 7:44 utc | 163

@1 Thanks for the translation of the article on Anti-Spiegel. I thought the site was inactive, but (unfortunately) it’s just that their RSS feed isn’t working (for me)…

Posted by: pepa65 | May 31 2026 7:55 utc | 164

It’s not going to stop the talks are a waste.

Capital Hungry on X: “https://t.co/Z8RapAzhp5” / X https://share.google/ZgicaPfuLhFvE1bs8

Posted by: jpc | May 31 2026 9:25 utc | 165

Am I looking back through rose-tinted glasses, or was it once totally unacceptable to routinely snipe children, demolish whole towns & villages on land that you have stolen, bomb schools, hospitals and other public infrastructure as a matter of policy, rape prisoners with dogs and commit genocide and ethnic cleansing? How did western countries end up ditching their oft-publicly-stated red lines?
Orwell’s ‘doublethink’ comes to mind. It’s OK to do all those bad things if you control the political leaders and the media.

Posted by: Dave G | May 31 2026 9:41 utc | 166

@Dave G | May 31 2026 9:41 utc | 168
If you mean what the Zionist state is doing it is because it is the proxy of an evil imperial master who wants an unnatural hold on the proxy so it has to perform an evil dance according to the prerequisites of the master entity. It is no surprise under such conditions that the proxy attempts the Epstein mode of operation which it gets a way with since the master is an evil empire and is happy with the evil performance since that underwrites what a safe hold the master has over the proxy. If the president of the master had real power he would just kill any Epstein phenomenon. But the oligarchy simply coopts that phenomenon instead and uses it. What hold do they have over Merz?

Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 31 2026 9:55 utc | 167

The big boys are being bought out by Hezbollah
Heavey missiles hit Acre and Haifa
Mayadeen ticker tape
https://english.almayadeen.net/

Posted by: Monty | May 31 2026 10:07 utc | 168

Does anyone but me, find it odd, that here at the precipice of a global recession/depression, that zero squat shit of nations are doing a thing?

No unified governments of any form are demanding that the U.S. remove its blockade on Iran so that Hormuz can resume its shipping?

No unified nations ascending on Iran?

I just find it beyond rationale that going on 2 months of the pretend ceasefire, an obvious global threat of energy security, global depression and it’s crickets from all nations, western or otherwise.

Just like COVID, a global leader lead reset, and wealth/asset transfer like the world has never seen, with permission from all.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 31 2026 10:08 utc | 169

Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 31 2026 9:55 utc | 169

Ultimately bullshit. The Zionists religion says they can snipe children. Stop trying so hard to deflect for them, hasbarat. Just because “Israel” serves a purpose to Empire doesn’t mean the Jewish Supremacists aren’t uniquely evil in the 21st century. My God, stop already you sick puppy.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 31 2026 10:08 utc | 170

What hold do the Zionists have over Merz? For fucks sake wake TFU.

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/06/19/jhxi-j19.html

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 31 2026 10:11 utc | 171

Roger Boyd @143: “…but just like a large corporation, there will be a limited number of people at the top [of the CPC] who make the final decisions.”

This is actually an inversion of how the CPC works. The final decisions are made by the party congresses (you know, “Five Year Plans” and such). Top administrators are just that: administrators. They have some discretion with implementation details, but they are absolutely not some kind of equivalent to CEOs in corporations.

Posted by: William Gruff | May 31 2026 10:15 utc | 172

What other group, elite and common folk still openly speak of liebenstraum, the animalizzation of the other, the sub human amalek goyim and their divine right to rule over us? It’s no wonder Empire has chosen these inbred psychopaths as thought leaders on the periphery. Jewish Supremacists are still there for a god damned reason. And that’s why they murder arab, white, Persian and any other goys as sadistically as they do.

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 31 2026 10:28 utc | 173

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | May 30 2026 19:43 utc | 39

Also, on pronunciation of the name of the country. Hint: think Italy. Same pronunciation rules apply. You don’t [well, excluding rednecks] say eye-taly, it’s ee-taly. It is ee-ron. You don’t say eye-talian, it’s ee-talian. NOT ee-rain-ian, ee-ron-ian

Italy is the English spelling of the Italian word Italia. The English pronunciation of the English word, Italy, is not ee-taly, it’s it-l-ee, with a soft i. The Italian pronunciation of the Italian word, Italia, is ee-tah-lyah, because being a phonetic language, i is always pronounced ee.

Aside from that, welcome back and thanks for standing your ground. The scenes of your compatriots standing firm and calm amidst the bombardments are unlike any scenes I’ve ever seen. I’m still awe-struck.

Posted by: john | May 31 2026 10:48 utc | 174

I’ll join in welcoming back our Iranian correspondent! Bloodied but not bowed.

I look forward to reading your eyewitness facts of the attempted uprising with Elons star links and Mossad run armed infiltrators. apso a confirmation of the casualties on both sides from that ‘Color’ attempt.

I am sorry for the Iranian peopels who have been at the receiving end of the undeclared 80 years of war.

Posted by: DunGroanin | May 31 2026 10:54 utc | 175

Some interesting and thoughtful comments amongst the usual HasbaRat slop. Working backwards I’ll start with:
@ Posted by: Dave G | May 31 2026 9:41 utc | 168

You’re right they are rose tinted and also blinkers! But absolutely correct on the propoganda and conditioning.

The savagery of angloeuropean history is celebrated even !

You could go all the way from romans to the C20th!

Italy and Britain was dropping poison gas on Ethiopians pre ww2. Churchill and Raj and Europeans were killing millions of subcontinentals and Africans through starvation or shooting or blowing up tied to canons.

The fascists raised the bloodlust with Guernica in the Spanish ‘civil’ war and Picasso was commisoned to paint it and put in display to get Europeans ready for the deaths to come as the Old Bastard owners set them towards taking Russia and killing every single one of them.

Same was going on against China with the proxy Japanese fascists!

There is so much blood and pink mist of humans dissolved by explosions – maybe that’s where you are seeing the colour.

Gaza has been the New Guernica – preparing us minions for their past Great War of conquest of the majority of humanity – looking at ‘culling’ billions … Covid too has been part of that ‘conditioning’.

Posted by: DunGroanin | May 31 2026 11:10 utc | 176

Posted by: Arch Bungle | May 31 2026 6:21 utc | 159

Yes but no.

Not the first time in history.

‘National Interests’ only came to being once ‘Nations’ were created. They were done so by the ‘corporatists’ and ‘Bankers’ who Ho became the private owners of many ‘National Banks’.

They kill any nation and leaders who oppose their corporate ‘benevolence’.

They were the various East India Companies and transmuted to the America India Company – AIC.
CIA in French! Like nato is otan!
Also known as ‘The Company’.

The US flag is the same corporate flag! Which they interchanged with the skull and crossbones when pirating each other!

See?

The USA was always their corporate setup.
They are planning a fake 250 birthday for it.

The Izzies like the 5 Eyes and other satraps were all created by the same dynastic forces.
All AngloEuropean conquest and wars are run by them.

Not new as a corporatocracy then.

Even Assad famously told the world about how the US is such run for and by the Old Bastard commercial interests (not necessarily even ‘American’, look at saffy Musk) every potus is just the nominal ‘public face’, chairman of the board of national interest appointees.

Posted by: DunGroanin | May 31 2026 11:17 utc | 177

On the subject of pronunciation, how do you pronounce acetaminophen???

Posted by: $outhpaw | May 31 2026 11:18 utc | 178

On the subject of pronunciation, how do you pronounce acetaminophen???
Posted by: $outhpaw | May 31 2026 11:18 utc | 180
Paracetamol

Posted by: Phalanges | May 31 2026 11:37 utc | 179

This is an extraordinary document …
Posted by: Menz | May 30 2026 22:41 utc | 84

No one is going to pay to read that blog.
The Chinese text is pure bla-bla ending with “Although China-US relations cannot return to the past, they can have a proper relationship and a better future.”
They also write that they love Tattoo Pete because said he doesn’t want to “humiliate” China. So the author is using empty words to write a high-school essay and not the real facts, like the weapons supplies to Taiwan or the ever increasing bases in Japan.
The same type of nonsense they wrote in their peace proposal for Ukr or Iran, which all sides directly involved completely ignored.
What else could say the guys who can’t control their own waters and who have to ask for permission from US to buy from their own “One China”?

Posted by: rk | May 31 2026 11:45 utc | 180

Posted by: Phalanges | May 31 2026 11:37 utc | 181

Or…L I V E R D A M A G E ?

Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | May 31 2026 11:47 utc | 181

Re Tom Q C

Indeed!

Posted by: Phalanges | May 31 2026 11:52 utc | 182

@ Phalanges | May 31 2026 11:37 utc | 181

Damn, you beat me to it! 😁

Posted by: malenkov | May 31 2026 11:55 utc | 183

…You almost get the impression that the Israeli leadership, on some level, wants to beat the Nazis at their own game.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | May 30 2026 16:23 utc | 4
astonishing thought

Posted by: Slim | May 31 2026 12:11 utc | 184

to s brennan #30.
the jews are anti-goyim.

Posted by: a lurking reader | May 31 2026 12:32 utc | 185

The US is in a massive financial bubble, while running a 5.8% budget deficit.

Posted by: Roger Boyd | May 30 2026 17:56 utc | 20

Which is a 5.8% surplus for the non government sector. US households, US business and foreigners who hold $’s. Which is held as ” savings “.

I.E not being spent into the economy.

It’s bankers that cause bubbles with their lending.

https://new-wayland.com/blog/zirp-primer-summary/

Posted by: Andrew | May 31 2026 12:45 utc | 186

Roger Boyd @143: “…but just like a large corporation, there will be a limited number of people at the top [of the CPC] who make the final decisions.” This is actually an inversion of how the CPC works. The final decisions are made by the party congresses (you know, “Five Year Plans” and such). Top administrators are just that: administrators. They have some discretion with implementation details, but they are absolutely not some kind of equivalent to CEOs in corporations.
Posted by: William Gruff | May 31 2026 10:15 utc | 174

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The State Council of The People’s Republic of China has a good article on “Key things to know about formulation of recommendations for China’s 15th five-year plan” here:

https://english.www.gov.cn/news/202510/31/content_WS6903f4b4c6d00ca5f9a07327.html

I thought it may be useful for those who are interested in these things to be able to read details of how the process of formulation of Five Year Plans actually works, directly from the State Council; who presumably understand the process and know what they are talking about.

Posted by: General Factotum | May 31 2026 12:47 utc | 187

“expect another massive U.S. attack on Iran”

The arrogance of empire should be bend with getting big counter-attack.

Man like Trump and Netanyahu won’t change their ways unless he’s thoroughly humiliated in public.
I believe Iran need to deal a blow to the US and Israeli forces that is so obvious damaged anyone can recognise it.

Posted by: Nokaz | May 31 2026 12:47 utc | 188

Journalist Suhaib Al-Masalma

– “Katz:

We will occupy more territory because of Hezbollah’s threats

We will not withdraw from Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon

We will demolish thousands of homes in southern Lebanon

Beaufort Castle will remain part of the safe zone

Israeli army spokesman: Our forces began a large operation in the Shaqif Heights and the Wadi Saluki area in southern Lebanon”

– “Israeli army spokesman: The operation aims to destroy military infrastructure and eliminate militants to remove the threat from the towns of the north

Israeli army spokesman: The operation began a few days ago, as large ground forces began expanding the front defense line

Israeli army spokesman: Our forces crossed the Litani and expanded their attacks against Hezbollah to the north of the river

Israeli army spokesman: Our military operations in southern Lebanon are expanding to additional areas”

– “Israeli source

Netanyahu and Minister Katz are leaning toward approving major strikes across Lebanon over the next night, including evacuation notices for hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens, in coordination with the Americans.”

-“US President Donald Trump told Fox News about negotiations with Iran:

The strait must be opened immediately and without imposing any fees

Iran cannot possess a nuclear weapon

I follow the talks and evaluate them constantly, and we will see what happens. I am negotiating and they are negotiating

The Iranians are very good negotiators, but we hold all the cards because we defeated them militarily”

Journalist Youssef Fares

“France requests an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council regarding Lebanon”

For close coverage of regional

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For closer coverage of Gaza, Palestine and Lebanon

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Closer coverage of Gaza

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Posted by: Ornot | May 31 2026 12:50 utc | 189

American markets but not international markets as Sean Foo noted today in this key video.

Posted by: karlof1 | May 31 2026 1:07 utc | 114

Sean Foo is one of the biggest fools on social media – period!

With his gold standard , fixed exchange rate lens. As usual like all fools do. He overlays his gold standard, fixed exchange rate lens over a fully sovereign modern fiat currency. Makes a right mess of it. He has never understood modern money.

Using the old gold standard, fixed exchange rate conversion theory while describing modern money exchange theory never works. People are drawn to fools like moths to a light. Ideology and confirmation bias poison.

Posted by: Andrew | May 31 2026 12:54 utc | 190

While the Empire can print dollars, it cannot print tomahawks or AA interceptors. What happens when your print more dollars to chase around the same amount of product? It doesn’t really accomplish what the dollar-printers hope.

Posted by: William Gruff | May 30 2026 22:01 utc | 75

I suppose if you repeat a lie often enough it becomes a truth. So a myth becomes fact. Like a say , fools are drawn to myths like a moth to a light.

What happens if bank lending prints tomahawks or AA interceptors ?

Then what do you say William ?

Will bank lending cause inflation when it chases the same amount of product ?

Or are you just ideological driven and just attack government printing instead of bankers printing ?

Here:

new-wayland.com/blog/resources-are-people-too/

Why not just tell the truth for a change and simply say …

” The.productive capacity of any nation state is the people ( skills it has ) and ( stuff) real resources it has?

That government printing or bankers printing can mobilise both.

We can all avoid the ideological drivel.

Posted by: Andrew | May 31 2026 13:09 utc | 191

@Tom_Q_Collins | May 31 2026 10:08 utc | 172
For God’s sake! We have no different opinions about what they are today. A very sick nazi variant rewarded by the US for what they do.
.
But go ahead on your high horses – Continue blindly defending what the British created fully aware of the intention to make it totally dependent on imperial protection. The British were not serving anybody they were committed in a coldblooded calculation. Continue pretending or imagining that the British did not brainwash americans into so called Christian Zionism so you can imagine that this isnt an entirely anglosaxon conspiracy against the world. That conspiracy was in all likeliness also about having a handle on the bankers so they would have to care for the anglosaxon colony if they wanted to be entrusted with the anglosaxon imperial finances. Does that make the bankers innocent?. Hardly but the higher power was always the anglosaxon elites. They followed the Venetian example of separating the moneylenders from a higher power related to the black Nobility and hided significant aspects in the 16th century when they intermarried.

Posted by: petergrfstrm | May 31 2026 13:16 utc | 192

RE: Posted by: Ornot | May 31 2026 12:50 utc | 191

Whats the point of France’s UNSC emergency meeting when the Governance of Lebanon won’t even send the Lebanese nations own army with a R2P against USReali threats?

2 more of their Army service members have been wounded. Still, no national call up or mobilization to protect Southern Lebanon.

Its not that the UNSC isn’t just absolutely worthless, there’s no case for any nation to issue an R2P since Lebanon government themselves won’t do a thing.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 31 2026 13:18 utc | 193

” “It is completely forbidden in Islam to enslave someone who was born free, except by conquest. The entire process of conquest, like the entire process of political Islam today is still Western controlked , by USUKIS. Posted by: Giyane | May 30 2026 23:19 utc | 93”

“The Tartars from the Crimea enslaved, between 1468 and 1694, 1.75 million Ukrainians, Poles, Russians, and that is not counting the enslavement of Circassians and Georgians in the Caucasus. The prisoners were sold from the Crimean ports to the Ottoman Empire, about 2.5 million between 1450 and 1700. . . . [F]rom 1350 to 1550, jihads against the Balkans were practically yearly events, and from 1450 onward, Turkish fleets laid waste to the shores of the Mediterranean . . . between 1530 and 1780, enslaving about 1.2 million Europeans. . . . Mogul rule stretched into southern India and flooded the markets of central Asia with Indian slaves. . . . The Moroccan sultanate passed through the Sahara and destroyed Songhai, the largest black African ruled territory, and created plantations of slaves, which for many years were larger than the European plantations in the Caribbean. From 1565 onward , jihads [of Muslim Moros based in the southern Philippines] led to the capture of about 10,000 slaves a year in the Philippines alone, reaching 2 million within 200 years; the numbers of slaves captured in the Indonesian islands was greater still.” (pp. 89–91)”

Posted by: Vacuous Cipher | May 31 2026 13:20 utc | 194

Posted by: William Gruff | May 30 2026 22:01 utc | 75

The simple truth is both government printing and bankers printing can mobilise skills and real resources. Put them to use. So yes, you can print things like food.

The private sector can expand production to meet demand. Unless of course you think the private sector is garbage and doesn’t want the extra sales. Both government printing and bankers printing can expand private sector production. If there are enough skills and real resources.

The Skye bridge in Scotland is the perfect example..

You either build the bridge with government printing or you build the bridge with bankers printing.

They decided to use bankers printing to mobilise the skills and real resources to print the bridge. So the bankers put a toll on the bridge. The riots and protesting lasted years.

When the government could have printed the bridge instead for free. As taxes don’t fund government printing.

There was enough skills and real resources available to build the bridge so taxes didn’t need to rise to release the skills and real resources to build the bridge from elsewhere in the economy.

Shouldn’t the actual debate be what should be government printed and what should be bankers printed ?

Stop rent seekers like the bankers bridge once and for all?

Posted by: Andrew | May 31 2026 13:26 utc | 195

Posted by: DunGroanin | May 31 2026 10:54 utc | 177

Thanks for the sentiment DG. Like anything else Iranian, the country, and people of Iran have been looked at through the lens of demonization that has lasted so many decades. I think the expression is “they started believing their own BS.”
Like, did you know every akhound (cleric/muslim scholar) carries a hand grenade under his turban?

Like any other country, people of Iran like to bicker about this or that, but do they welcome bombs falling on their heads? Or their peaceful demonstration infiltrated for nefarious reason? I assure you, NOT.

Iran is not a gun-culture, and when you see guns in the hand of civilians you have to wonder where did they come from and what is their purpose. Later did we find from the empire’s functionaries, that this was all planned (I’m looking at you Bessent).

Horrific scenes unfolded as a result of violence that was injected into the crowds. There are many videos of old men and women being attacked/beaten or killed for no other reason but being at the wrong place at the right time.

It took the authorities a couple of days to realize the source of all this evil, and with superb technology and with help from allies the Starlink units were jammed, and their locations spotted. Swiftly the perps were rounded up and executed, depending on their crimes and evidence left behind.

These are scenes that I wish I had not seen, and like a good ptsd will stay with me for I don’t know how long; perhaps forever.

I firmly believe the state report of 3117 dead. Their names have been published. Iran does not take this lightly. Every death is reviewed and some families compensated for their loss.

Posted by: Sakineh Bagoom | May 31 2026 13:27 utc | 196

Exactly when is Iran going to stop this no deal ceasefire clown show & get on with sending missiles into Israel, or consulting with Yemen to send missiles into Israel to help Hezbollah out?

Honestly, allowing Lebanon to be Gazified is beyond ridiculous.

Posted by: Trubind1 | May 31 2026 13:30 utc | 197

Posted by: Giyane | May 30 2026 23:19 utc | 93

On #78 I was simply providing the proper links that Vacuous Cipher failed to provide in his response to your good poor self ….

A bit of Islamic history to add to your education – that is all.

Posted by: Don Firineach | May 31 2026 13:35 utc | 198

@ 196 andrew

great response for anyone interested in understanding the difference between private verses public finance.. as we see, politicians of the west are completely captured by the private financial interests who helped to finance there political power in the first place.. thanks for your response to william..

Posted by: james | May 31 2026 13:37 utc | 199

One strand of contra “US domination” (much of it fake or publicity) claims that the US has lost many wars, from Vietnam to …. Afgh., Iraq, Lybia, and is now losing in Iran, etc.

That view depends on what the aims of the ‘wars’ were. If the aim was to make a lot of ppl **** rich and to kill a lot of ‘inferior’ ppl with impunity, mobilise US citizens, spread fear and support for US hegemony, etc. well then they were succesfull – at least for a good part or so. (Long-term effects are not correctly calculated, say.)

The ‘war’ on Iran is by USuk-isr is just more of the same, but in this case the “Axis of Resistance” has a better chance of prevailing. What we see here is one crack in US hegemony. A big fissure. Major.

Posted by: Noirette | May 31 2026 13:37 utc | 200

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