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September 20, 2026
Iran Open Thread 2026-207
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Posted by: The Busker | Sep 20 2026 13:58 utc | 1
So will Trump try something on in the next few days?
Or will the reality of $10 diesel Aviation fuel doubling in price,Lubricant oils are doubling in price make his controllers tell him stop screwing up the world economy.?
Posted by: jpc | Sep 20 2026 14:07 utc | 2
https://t.me/Middle_East_Spectator/36927#
Middle East Spectator — MES
—❗️🇺🇸/🇮🇷 BREAKING: Iran’s Khatam Al-Anbiyaa Central Command:
‘According to our intelligence, the criminal United States—seeking to mask its failures and secure hollow achievements in a war initiated through Zionist lies and staged events, and sustained by deception and trickery—has once again decided to resume hostile actions against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
This move follows a joint meeting in a European country, held with the approval of certain regional states.
We warn that should the U.S. commit any error against Iran, all its bases and interests in the region will—without any constraints or reservations—become targets of continuous, effective, and painful strikes.
We further warn that if regional nations, by persisting in their duplicitous policy toward the Islamic Republic of Iran, align themselves with the Great Satan’s aggression against Iran, they will be deemed complicit in this malice.
Consequently, they can no longer expect any restraint or forbearance from Iran’s Armed Forces.’
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 20 2026 14:10 utc | 3
michael j72 @ 3
I’m seeing various notices that planes took off from Fairford 12 hours ago. Flurries of comments. It’s only 5 or 6 hours flight time to most Iranian targets. Something does seem to be happening. What?
And of course missiles are much faster.
Comment not just for Michael, who posts lots of solid info here. Anyone?
Posted by: oldhippie | Sep 20 2026 14:19 utc | 5
Marandi with Diesen a few hours ago …
Seyed M. Marandi: U.S. Strike Imminent – Toward Total War in the Middle East
Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 20 2026 14:32 utc | 6
‘America must implement our conditions first’: Iran security chief lays out Tehran’s position
Here are key quotes from Mohsen Rezaei’s exclusive interview with Al Jazeera:
- On talks with the US: “The respected Qatari government, as well as the respected Pakistani government, are currently engaged in continuous consultations with us. There are ongoing contacts and meetings. We have informed them of our conditions – and the Americans themselves are aware of our conditions as well… and we are waiting for the Americans to accept and implement them.”
- “Our conditions include the release of our frozen assets. Secondly, they must announce an end to the war on all fronts – refrain from interfering in our internal affairs, stop cooperating with opponents of our revolution, halt any form of aggression against our territory, and lift the naval blockade.”
- “America must implement our conditions first, and only then can negotiations follow.”
- On Iran’s nuclear doctrine: “We remain committed to the fatwa of our martyred Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini], and our position has not changed to this day, but we do not know what will happen in the future… We are now considering whether or not we will withdraw from the Non-Proliferation Treaty. This depends on America’s conduct.”
- On the Houthi-Saudi Arabia conflict: “We genuinely want to end the war between Saudi Arabia and Yemen… if they also ask for our help, we are fully prepared to help achieve peace between Yemen and Saudi Arabia.”
- On potential US attacks: “We have fully prepared ourselves to fight a decisive war. The weak points of the American military are now fully known to us… We recently tested an anti-warship missile, that is, we fired a missile that exploded near the aircraft carrier there and split into 80 explosive warheads.”
- “We are serious about defending ourselves. This time, if war begins, we will strike, more severely, all the American air bases from which those planes take off.”
AlJazeera
Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 20 2026 14:34 utc | 7
So will Trump try something on in the next few days?
Or will the reality of $10 diesel Aviation fuel doubling in price,Lubricant oils are doubling in price make his controllers tell him stop screwing up the world economy.?
Posted by: jpc | Sep 20 2026 14:07 utc | 2
As though he decides anything related to Iran. The real question is whether the committee of Zio billionaires that actually run the US decide to destroy the world in their obsessive quest to destroy noble Iran.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 20 2026 14:49 utc | 8
Hope Israel is on Iran’s bucket list this round.
Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 20 2026 14:17 utc | 4.
Truly. The whole world would support that.
Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 20 2026 14:51 utc | 9
40 mins – one year ago – still relevant
Saudi Arabia is Super-Rich: Why is Their Military so Awful?
Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 20 2026 14:53 utc | 10
Anyone? oldhippie | Sep 20 2026 | 5
It would be nice to address higher level issues, but I guess that’s a different realm.
Since the dawn of time, military conquest drove resource acquisition which begat economic & political control.
The USA must sustain the dollar; it’s really as simple as that. Since it’s a debt based system, the balance sheet must continuously expand, with the velocity of money maintained/increased.
Achieving those twin objectives is quite trivial: one only needs consumers and energy. Consumers are of course people, with immigration being the primary driver behind absolute growth.
This then leaves us with the remaining variable – energy – which of course is the reason behind the global resource wars.
Armed with this macro crib sheet renders short term daily activities as essentially moot. What does it matter what the USA says/does at any point about any theatre?
The end goal remains constant, which reduces the entire question to success/failure. Will we win or not?
OK, so how do we lose?
Now this is where people tend to go off the rails, overwhelmed with deep seated emotions, boiling over with seething resentment and hatred.
But really, can anyone actually propose a rational analysis as to why/how the USA loses that isn’t floating on hope, wishes and desires?
And if you actualky think the USA (along with collective west) will/might lose, why aren’t you betting with your feet to actually change your life conditions?
Posted by: Hobbes | Sep 20 2026 14:57 utc | 11
why aren’t you betting with your feet to actually change your life conditions?
Posted by: Hobbes | Sep 20 2026 14:57 utc | 11
a few of us Barflies already did. Easier than one thinks….🤣
BTW – ever since the great financial Crisis an increasing record of US citizens are making the (expensive) decision to exit their US citizenship.
From wiki – From 2014 to 2016, an average of about five thousand U.S. citizens gave up their citizenship each year. These numbers have risen by nearly ten times between 2005 and 2015, though they remain only about three times the annual numbers in the 1970s
Posted by: Amalek (ne exile) | Sep 20 2026 15:25 utc | 12
US Rules Out Direct Strikes on YAF Positions: Reports
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-rules-out-direct-strikes-on-yaf-positions-reports
“The United States has reportedly ruled out launching direct ‘offensive strikes’ against Yemeni Armed Forces positions in support of Saudi Arabia, CNN reported Sunday, citing an unnamed US official. ‘No offensive strikes’, the official told the network, according to the report.
The reported position comes as Riyadh faces renewed hostilities and cross-border fire with the Yemeni Armed Forces, while Saudi Arabia is also seeking indirect channels to reach and understanding with the Sanaa government…”
Of course US lies and treachery are not uncommon in such cases either. We shall see.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 15:37 utc | 13
@Hobbes | Sep 20 2026 14:57 utc | 11
That is a well-expressed statement of part of the situation. I concur that a great deal of the hopes and support offered to the collective non-West by Barflies is rooted in resentment and some degree of wishful thinking.
Allow me to argue the other side of the coin:
a. The RoW (rest of world, e.g. non-West) out-numbers the West by about 2:1.
b. That rest of world is needy, driven, has enormous economic potential due to presence of materials, people, motivation, latest tech in comm, mfg’g, ag, etc. Relatively few boat-anchor industries lumbered down with “old ways”. The West’s energy, ag, comm, transport, housing, health care … the really big components of the real economy, use yester-year designs, are _somewhat-to-very_ inefficient. Finance and Military components of the Western economies (the political part of the economy, mainly) are rife with corruption and waste. They are really bad, and most non-West economies don’t suffer nearly the degree of misallocation that these two parasitical components of the West’s economies do.
c. The RoW is where the demand is, and where the wealth-generating capacity to actually fulfill that demand is or will be shortly
d. The RoW despises the US/UK/Zionist/Overlord class, and very clearly sees it for that it is. Most of the story-book imagery of what the West is, and why it’s desirable has been destroyed over. In addition, the methods the West uses to maintain control over the RoW are now open-book, well-documented, and are subject matter at every BRICS, SCO, etc. meeting that happens
e. There are now at least one exemplar re: how to design a mixed economy: China. They’re doing it, on all counts. Culture, technology, real-economy investment, strategic planning, materials acquisition… right across the waterfront. I can’t think of an economic or cultural aspect they’re deficient in to any substantial or systemically irredeemable manner. So the China example says, resoundingly, “there _is_ an alternative”.
If indeed the West is to prevail over the RoW, these things have to happen:
a. The West has to resoundingly defeat China, Russia and Iran militarily. It is no longer possible, given the structural economic and cultural deficits of the West, to beat the RoW economically. The RoW can do everything, economically and technically, that the West can do, and they can do it cheaper and more.
b. The West has to maintain political order within the Western allies. Russia’s and lately Iran’s strategy of weakening those alliances appears to be working. Are you going to assert that NATO is actually going to start a hot war with Russia, conventional or otherwise? If so, you’ll need to trot out production figures and manufacturing ramp-up for the military hardware that will matter, and it’s not tanks nor airplanes. You’ll have to demonstrate that the political will among the plebes to sacrifice themselves is on the ascent.
c. You will also have to assert and defend that Russia can’t defeat Ukraine, will remain bogged down. If Russia puts Ukraine to bed, NATO has been beaten in the theater it was _most prepared_ to win. Russia post-Ukraine is going to be very, very difficult to threaten or contain. Russia-China-Iran is defeating NATO.
d. You will also have to assert and defend that US has vanquished Iran. A major change in strategy will have to be implemented, and that means using nukes. How are you expecting RoW to react to that tactic?
Please rebut.
And for the rest of the Bar, I ask:
If the West was so confident of victory over RoW, why is the US and Israel so interested in taking over South America? Would you not interpret that action as a “retrenchment”?
Posted by: Tom Pfotzer | Sep 20 2026 15:51 utc | 14
For the first time in weeks, I’m seeing tankers transiting the Strait … three days in a row now.
Posted by: The Owl | Sep 20 2026 15:57 utc | 15
jpc | Sep 20 2026 14:07 utc | 2
As if he isn’t just a puppet to begin with…
Don Firineach | Sep 20 2026 14:53 utc | 10
Lol why is the USA so super rich, and can’t win a war against goatherders in sandals(or barefoot even)? Kinda won in Iraq, but having to withdraw by the end of the month. A setup, attacked their own proxy leader and payed off the generals before the “fight”
And if you actualky think the USA (along with collective west) will/might lose, why aren’t you betting with your feet to actually change your life conditions?
Posted by: Hobbes | Sep 20 2026 14:57 utc | 11 Why would I move to another country, instead of hold my ground here, yea the USA is losing, the government global cabal. I’ll go with Captain America and plant like a tree, and you move. Why would moving, like a colonizer be the appropriate thing to do anyways? If I can’t get my country to behave properly, why would another one want me?
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 20 2026 16:12 utc | 16
Do understand:
90 years ago Britain created “Saudi Arabia” by supplying; the military equipment, the money to pay soldiers, the strategic planning to engage the various opponents and the political backing to compel most of the world to recognize the Saudi occupation as legitimate rule.
There was a little Arabian Kingdom with a King backed by the Ottoman, and the British proxy (now King Saud) conquered the little kingdom and then ADDED 3 YEMENI PROVINCES, THE SHIIT COASTAL POPULATION AND PART OF TRANSJORDAN. If the Shiit coastal region, the 3 Yemeni provinces and the chunk of Transjordan are justifiably removed from Saudi, then Saudi would be a poor landlocked rump State.
Yemen has MORE OIL THAN SAUDI and Yemen has gas Saudi does not have.
North (actually West) Yemen has a homogeneous population 10 times the size of the homogeneous Saudi population, and a military with more than ten times the combat soldiers.
The reason the Saudis are afraid of Iran is because Iran is capable of successfully returning the Shiit coastal population, the 3 Yemeni provinces and the chunk of Transjordan rule to their respective indigenous inhabitants, thus causing Saudi to return to being a poor landlocked camel jockey rump State
Not to mention Kuwait is in a similar situation. In fact, none of the Gulf Monarchies would survive a collapse of the Saudi puppet State. All the Gulf Monarchies would adopt democracy and vote to not sell anything to anyone who has a relationship with the settlers occupying Palestine.
Posted by: Hot Carl | Sep 20 2026 16:16 utc | 17
For the first time in weeks, I’m seeing tankers transiting the Strait … three days in a row now.
Posted by: The Owl | Sep 20 2026 15:57 utc | 15
Word is that the Saudis gave Iran a big payment, and also some indication that Iran has pushed the US warships further out. Ships can go through, if they arrange it with Iran. Not near the pre-war traffic, but weekly averages are around 10 a day, dropping off when the US does something stupid. Rumor is at least that the Saudis paid to have around a couple dozen tankers to pass. Even a US spin that they are being protected by the US navy, but they negotiated transit with Iran lol.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 20 2026 16:17 utc | 18
“The United States has reportedly ruled out launching direct ‘offensive strikes’ against Yemeni Armed Forces positions in support of Saudi Arabia, CNN reported Sunday, citing an unnamed US official. ‘No offensive strikes’, the official told the network, according to the report.
The reported position comes as Riyadh faces renewed hostilities and cross-border fire with the Yemeni Armed Forces, while Saudi Arabia is also seeking indirect channels to reach and understanding with the Sanaa government…”
Of course US lies and treachery are not uncommon in such cases either. We shall see.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 15:37 utc | 13
This is weird behavior on the part of the US. Reminding everyone that we can still use nukes if we wanted??? Not sure of the intent. If I had to guess there are fierce battles going on among those discussing what the US should do.
Last night: Imminent upcoming attacks.
Now: No offensive attacks planned.
Two hours from now: Oops we changed our mind.
Not really lying. Just an up to date report on which faction is winning the argument at a given time. The US is in a bad place. I bet the discussions are very heated.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 20 2026 16:19 utc | 19
Tom , 14, interesting list at the end of your post… for a long time now, many parts of the west could have pivoted to peer to peer electronic cash (And thereby dragged most of the world with them to some extent) but they all continue to walk in lock step to its opposition (yes, even trump and c o)… It is the only possible type of win that remains for the west but it means relinquishing control over transactions at a fundamental level!
Posted by: E | Sep 20 2026 16:26 utc | 20
But really, can anyone actually propose a rational analysis as to why/how the USA loses that isn’t floating on hope, wishes and desires? […]
Posted by: Hobbes | Sep 20 2026 14:57 utc | 11
Very simple, because your understanding of USA is comprised of the very same crumbling material as you already outlined as USA’s strength, and that is no longer floating but truly sinking: desires = money, wishes =energy, hope = people (who, you call consumers).
You have ironically delineated how you already lost. At this point one would be wise to repent their ways. Yet you still cannot see it. So you have the final nail, hubris…
🙂 May you one day see and mend your ways.
Posted by: titmouse | Sep 20 2026 16:26 utc | 21
Word is that the Saudis gave Iran a big payment, and also some indication that Iran has pushed the US warships further out. Ships can go through, if they arrange it with Iran. Not near the pre-war traffic, but weekly averages are around 10 a day, dropping off when the US does something stupid. Rumor is at least that the Saudis paid to have around a couple dozen tankers to pass. Even a US spin that they are being protected by the US navy, but they negotiated transit with Iran lol.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 20 2026 16:17 utc | 18
I hope you are correct. Unless, of course, unless this is just the US cutting its losses in West Asia and pivoting to Russia. The 2000 drones that the US sent into Russia, especially targeting Moscow, tells a big story.
For all the talk about war and killing, at the BRICS summit it was mentioned that Russia and India are working on creating a payment infrastructure for Russian-Indian trade to be paid for only in their currencies. Definitely no interactions with anything relating to the dollar. Presumably built so as to be able to add other nations once it gets rolling. To have a China based system AND a Russian based system – and I can also dream of an African based system eventually – would allow for a reasonably peaceful multi-polar world that just might work.
If the US mostly leaves West Asia, and pivots against Russia in a way that leaves Europe and European Russia still habitable with Russia in control of the Ukrainian areas that are strongly pro-Russia – well we might have a mostly peaceful world in a decade or so. The CIA and MI6 and Mossad agents would still have to neutralized in some way. And the number of US military bases around the world would have to reduced by a factor of 10. So lots of work would still need to be done. But we gotta start somewhere.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 20 2026 16:31 utc | 22
Letting a few tankers(paid and negotiated with Iran). Does a little seem why let them sell a little bit of oil. It is though a little bit, and transit paid for. It puts the US blockade in a position, do we interdict our propped up kingdom’s ships or let Iran have the win of even Saudis can get oil out, if they make an agreement with Iran. Maybe did come from India, but Persians have been playing chess long before it was introduced to the west.The Owl though is not very observant if they only see in the last 3 days a small number of ships transiting. US attacks do have it cut down at times, but a small number pass every day.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 20 2026 16:31 utc | 23
Why does Iran threaten to hit American bases in the region but won’t attempt any serious attacks against the carriers in the ocean conducting the blockade? What am I missing? I mean both objects are legitimate military targets and in the case of the carriers/destroyers, there is no risk of civilian casualties and you aren’t targeting your neighbors.
Posted by: bored | Sep 20 2026 16:47 utc | 24
I’m swamped by all the info going around, so won’t attempt to roundup even. Half an hour reading up on reports and not sure what to think. So I just leave a set of relevant links for anyone trying to figure out or follow what is going on, whichever suits anyone, or for various views as most sites have info the others don’t report:
Region – steady and reliable enough:
https://t.me/s/Middle_East_Spectator
Gaza and region – mixture of faster and original reporting:
https://t-me.translate.goog/s/Sohaibpress?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en
Region and world – reliable and varied, more political
Iran based – reserved and thoughtful with original insight.
https://t.me/s/FotrosResistancee
Region, reasonably reliable and fast updating, original.
Youssef Fares is good as well for Gaza and Palestine.
A lot more I would like to add to the discussions, and so on, but cannot be on computer all day.
For now, a lot of speculation on what is going on, censorship, meetings, unexplained explosions, conflict in Yemen and much more all going on near simultaneously.
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 20 2026 16:48 utc | 25
Woke American | Sep 20 2026 16:31 utc | 22 I did recently see that the troop deployments in Europe from the US are going to be greatly reduced. Being played off as they didn’t help with Iran, but they are actually occupation forces. I have not read the UN charter recently to confirm what the German politician said, but they claimed in the UN charter, if they supply weapons or parts or anything determined to be aggressive against Russia, then it’s law, that Russia can hit them(same for Japan and Italy). No security council vote, it’s in the charter.
Ah lol could not help myself, pulled up the UN charter https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/full-text There is not anything there that specifically supports the German politicians claims. Unless it falls under the 102+ sections which hold treaties(like those ending WWII) in effect. The politician might have been referencing a treaty but attributed it to the UN charter.Oh, actually, 107 ”
Article 107
Nothing in the present Charter shall invalidate or preclude action, in relation to any state which during the Second World War has been an enemy of any signatory to the present Charter, taken or authorized as a result of that war by the Governments having responsibility for such action.”The charter was signed in Moscow… It is there!
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 20 2026 16:51 utc | 26
bored | Sep 20 2026 16:47 utc | 24It won’t be reported, but there are indications that ships have been hit. Laundry fires that put a carrier out of service before it even got in theater as an example.Makes me think of the JFK secret societies speech, the commonly put out excepts from it frame it as against the secret societies, but the full speech at the press club was telling them not to report on US losses. Full speech vs the commonly used(and edited excerpts) Is really two different speeches.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 20 2026 17:10 utc | 27
Thanks Ornot et al. Rhymerez@26 re: UN Charter:
World Leaders Return to UN Amid Wars in Middle East & Ukraine
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/world-leaders-return-un-amid-wars-middle-east-ukraine-2026-09-20/
Trump to address UNGA, Rubio & Lavrov to meet, should be interesting…
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 17:13 utc | 28
Ornot | Sep 20 2026 16:48 utc | 25
https://t.me/s/syriankhabar/ one I have come across that would be good to add to the list. Youssef Fares the only one still working from a list you put up before, ah, checking back, https://t.me/s/Sohaibpress is working again, did not for a while. Youssef gives raw on the ground Gaza things, and ah, when there is nothing I can do to stop it, pics and videos of kids being killed/maimed, can’t really handle it. Recent story, that b even did a post on, thousands more ton bombs being given to genocide…
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 20 2026 17:18 utc | 29
John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 17:13 utc | 28Can not find the reference, it was I think a former member of the German parliament, putting out a red flag, thought it was an obnoxious claim, that it was in the UN charter that without security council anything, they could be hit by Russia, legally. It is in there though, that 107 section, any of those considered as Axis powers in WWII, they do anything supporting aggression against the original signatures on the charter, it’s legal to hit them. Eh, a little of an extension, as WWII wrapped up, the US took a hostile stance against the USSR. Patton was ah lets take Moscow(yea right, good general, but Russians took Berlin), would have taken Tokyo also, but WMDs used to have them sign treaty with the US instead. A little tangent, and also a bit off topic for the Iran thread, might should be in the Ukraine one. The targets of the atom bombs were not military, they were religious towns.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 20 2026 17:33 utc | 30
@30 Rhymerez
“A little tangent, and also a bit off topic for the Iran thread, might should be in the Ukraine one”
The way things are looking we might just end up with a single thread, The War Thread. There are so many interconnections between the various conflicts that it is hardly possible to look on each in isolation. For example, if there was no Ukraine war, the meaning of the Iran war would be completely different.
Here is Merz suggesting a re-appraidal of various aspects of life in europe:
“…trust in the institutions of our country is sinking and is being actively undermined by radical parties left and right.
In Germany and across Europe, we must fundamentally rethink freedom, everyday security, peace, and our own strengths and weaknesses…”
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 20 2026 18:12 utc | 32
@28 John
“President Pezeshkian will depart to New York for the UN General Assembly . I don’t trust this at all, and I wouldn’t put anything past America” MES
Would not be surprised if ‘things happen’ while more moderate leaders are out of the country.
OTOH all the stress going on now might be to set a backdrop to UN meetings.
I would be guessing.
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 20 2026 18:17 utc | 33
Not really lying. Just an up to date report on which faction is winning the argument at a given time. The US is in a bad place. I bet the discussions are very heated.
Posted by: Woke American | Sep 20 2026 16:19 utc | 19
Far as I’m concerned any nukes goes off in the ME. Its isreal.
Imo its just bluster to draw attention in nukes fashion and taking the fall for any nukes in the ME
Posted by: Tannenhouser | Sep 20 2026 18:21 utc | 34
“Seyed M. Marandi: U.S. Strike Imminent – Toward Total War in the Middle East” (??????????????????????????????)
Glenn Diesen talked to Seyed Marandi. https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/seyed-m-marandi-us-strike-imminent
(Don’t know if I am going to watch the video).
Posted by: WMG | Sep 20 2026 18:24 utc | 35
Rhymerez@29, Ornot@33:
Thanks. We shall soon see…
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 18:28 utc | 36
No More Missiles At Tel Aviv
https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/2101544703237693500
“How did the Israelis successfully get:
- The US to fight Iran.
- Saudi Arabia to fight Yemen
- Syria to fight itself?
And everyone just forgets about it as it does a genocide on Lebanon and Gaza. No more missiles at Tel Aviv.”
Friends in high places. Everywhere.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 18:43 utc | 37
Posted by: Hobbes | Sep 20 2026 14:57 utc | 11
……
My dear Hobbes, are you not making several category errors?
All is not black or white with no alternatives.
Also, value systems as applied to the concept of “winning” and “losing” are not monolithic.
~~
How do I love thee land? Let me count the ways.
I love your spacious skies
Your majestic mountains
Your vast open plains
Your deep canyons
Your tidal pools teeming with life
Your lush flora
Your stately trees
Your mighty rivers and quiet waters
Your noisy cicadas
Your panoply of melodies
Your birdsong
Your night symphonies of
Crickets, night hawks, toads and frogs
Your cacophony of wind in trees’ leaves
Your violent fertile storms
Your generosity
Your abundance.
“Voting with my feet” is not on the list.
Rhymerez says it well:
“Why would moving, like a colonizer, be the appropriate thing to do anyways? If I can’t get my country to behave properly, why would another one want me?
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 20 2026 16:12 utc
Posted by: suzan | Sep 20 2026 19:09 utc | 38
Last blow up was after a bit of getting new batches of missiles, bombs, etc.
Now that new carriers, supplies, air assets are in place it is time to blow stuff up in Iran. Another 10 day flare up before the mid term elections. Use it as cover for Israel to attack Lebanon again. Then the current batch of weapons will run out and another month or several of “cease fire” or what ever the term is until the US can scrape together another short attack.
This will be repeated as long as the US can do it. Maybe 7 to 10 times more? With several months between strikes? 20-50 more months? The US navy and air assets should be pretty well trashed by then.
Meanwhile the coups, color revolutions, etc will still march on as the West asserts what control it can over the globe.
Posted by: jonny law | Sep 20 2026 19:23 utc | 39
Posted by: jonny law | Sep 20 2026 19:23 utc | 39
I’m trying to surmise how anyone in US government could see such a strategy as beneficial in the long run. US logistics are already problematic, thanks to Iran’s missile work, while Iran has a paucity of military targets that can be attrited. As you point out, such a strategy will result in the depletion of already depleted stand off weapons and interceptor missiles. It may get some US fighter jets downed in Iran and their pilots captured. It may get a carrier badly damaged. It almost sounds like the US is trapped in a vicious spiral dictated by its regime change playbook, until events end it all.
Posted by: Mike R | Sep 20 2026 19:47 utc | 40
As Craig Roberts said:
Turn the entity into a parking lot.
Posted by: Minaa | Sep 20 2026 20:00 utc | 41
Neutrality Studies: Laith Marouf: ‘Yemen Escalates’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnVsXGy5RNs
“US-Saudi alliance is screwed; Yemen destroys Middle East strategy.”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 20:07 utc | 42
He’s got his answer.
A despicable incompetent creep.
In Germany and across Europe, we must fundamentally rethink freedom, everyday security, peace, and our own strengths and weaknesses…”
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 20 2026 18:12 utc | 32
Posted by: jpc | Sep 20 2026 21:47 utc | 44
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 20 2026 16:12 utc | 16
???
Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 20 2026 22:01 utc | 45
@44 jpc
It’s freaky when they start speaking like that.
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 20 2026 22:08 utc | 46
Reports of:
Explosions Hormuz
Heavy Saudi bombing and fierce clashes Yemen. Also…
“American refueling aircraft stationed in Qatar are conducting air support missions near the Saudi border with Yemen, with no confirmation of their direct involvement in the raids on Ansar Allah in Yemen” TPO
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 20 2026 22:14 utc | 47
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 20 2026 16:12 utc | 16
The people those American soldiers are fighting are defending their homeland and families and trying to keep their nations sovereign.
The Americans fighting there are not. They are fighting people that, if left alone, would not be the worry of any American. They are fighting for the dollar, for Chevron, for Amazon.
It’s easily seen which group has the most to lose and therefore the most motivation.
Posted by: Archetypex | Sep 20 2026 22:30 utc | 48
How unrealistic/realistic would be this scenario?
- Trump allows for nuke bombing Iran
- Iran suffers severe damage (civil and militar) but regroups and rushes to have their own nukes (or are given some).
- Israel is nuked and disappears from the face of earth.
- The jewish lobby has no more a land to defend (or attack neighbors) and forgets about influencing US to control the Middle East.
- Trump washes his hands and concentrates on the US area of influence (LatAm, Canada, Groenland, etc), having no more reason to go along the “blackmailing people”.
Been a long time reader of MoA but this is my first post.
Opening my umbrella, it may rain a lot of critics…
Posted by: DA | Sep 20 2026 22:40 utc | 49
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/al-gharsi-yaf-seeking-to-establish-riyadh-for-sanaa-equation
Al-Gharsi: YAF seeking to establish ‘Riyadh for Sanaa’ equation
Yemen’s blockade on Saudi Arabia, al-Gharsi says, will not be lifted until the blockade on Yemen is lifted, “even if the whole world intervenes.”
Zaid al-Gharsi, head of the Media Department at the Office of the Presidency in Sanaa, told Al Mayadeen on Sunday that “Riyadh for Sanaa” is the equation the Yemeni Armed Forces are working to establish, stressing that Riyadh must accept this new reality.
He explained that targeting the Saudi capital sends a message that the Yemeni Armed Forces can reach any location across Saudi Arabia, describing the strikes as an advance warning. He added that the next phase could include closing Saudi airspace or targeting oil facilities…….
…..Al-Gharsi concluded by affirming that Sanaa is open to considering any initiative that does not compromise the rights of the Yemeni people. He clarified that a truce remains in place with the United States, warning that “Yemen will not remain silent in the event of any violation.”….
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https://x.com/HormuzLetter/status/2101729874771673239
The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter
BREAKING: The Trump administration sent new private messages to Qatar, containing assurances that Trump now wants to reach a deal with Iran, per Qatar’s foreign ministry.
This comes after Iran conveyed its conditions to the US through Qatar and is now awaiting a response.
Trump told Fox News an hour ago, “My question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up? They had better behave.”
Iran’s conditions remain unchanged: $300 billion in US compensation, complete lifting of all US sanctions, release of $100 billion in frozen Iranian assets, end of the US naval blockade, US troop withdrawal from the entire region, and a comprehensive regional ceasefire including in Lebanon and Gaza. Iran also said on Thursday it will not open the Strait of Hormuz until Trump and Netanyahu are out of power.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 20 2026 22:45 utc | 50
NATO recon planes were all over the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland this week…….
Just a coincidence that Moscow suffered its heaviest attack since WWII last night?
The consequences of this massive attack will be grim on NATO and the Ukronazis.
Expect NATO recon planes to fall from the sky and soon too………..and Kieve will burn like a Roman candle……
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 20 2026 23:04 utc | 51
Reports from TPO:
Explosions Sanaa
Missiles launch towards Saudi
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 20 2026 23:09 utc | 52
TPO is also currently posting a lot of footage of a major arms depot explosion in Syria, that has been continuing for over an hour.
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 20 2026 23:14 utc | 53
Hope Israel is on Iran’s bucket list this round. Posted by: Trubind1 | Sep 20 2026 14:17 utc | 4
Topple the Israeli state, and the whole situation deflates. The only reason why the Washington DC regime military is in the Middle East is to safeguard the Jewish 51st state.
Remove Israel from the equation, and suddenly the Pentagon’s military has no purpose to serve in that part of the world.
There are 8 million Jews in Israel, a state the size of New Jersey. They are surrounded by hundreds of millions of Muslims in neighboring and nearby countries.
All that’s missing is the willpower.
Posted by: ReinhardVonSiegfried | Sep 20 2026 23:19 utc | 54
Why does Iran threaten to hit American bases in the region but won’t attempt any serious attacks against the carriers in the ocean conducting the blockade? What am I missing?
Posted by: bored | Sep 20 2026 16:47 utc | 24
Iranian ballistic missile technology is very accurate when hitting stationary targets at well-known coordinates … the missiles are essentially blind, they don’t track targets, they only follow a pre-programmed trajectory. They have drones which can hit a moving target but those are smaller and slower … the carrier can defend itself against that.
With that said, Iranian technology is advancing out of desperation and necessity … so they already moved to cluster munitions to achieve an area effect rather than a pinpoint strike but these still don’t track their targets. They just depend on filling the air with so many projectiles that they are sure to hit something.
Dropping a single two tonne explosive on a steel shed in the desert will destroy the shed, but the downside of that is you just destroyed a shed. Scattering a hundred individual twenty kilo sub-munitions across the whole base causes damage to many sheds, aircraft, vehicles, etc … less damage in each case but more costly overall.
The modern Russian jet powered Geran drones probably could be used against a moving ship … it would require a swarm to hit from various directions. To the best of my knowledge, Iran does not have access to those (yet) and cannot manufacture suitable engines.
Posted by: Tel | Sep 20 2026 23:37 utc | 55
In Germany and across Europe, we must fundamentally rethink freedom, everyday security, peace, and our own strengths and weaknesses…”Posted by: Ornot | Sep 20 2026 18:12 utc | 32
Posted by: jpc | Sep 20 2026 21:47 utc | 44
Merz & co would eagerly implant microchips in every one of their citizens if they could, in order to program them with the ‘proper’ thoughts. That’s their idea of rethinking. Until that time, it’s 24/7 propaganda.
Posted by: Mike R | Sep 20 2026 23:37 utc | 56
Since it is a slow day and the B1 posturing was all just psyop, time to catch up on some other conversations.
Col. Baud identifies an Oriental mindset that always puts nonviolent solutions first and foremost compared to the Western mindset of complete capitulation or subjugation. (@45 min mark onwards)
For me, it explains why Russia constantly entertaining the clowns from the US, Iran’s MoU insistence and China’s cool attitude to everything going on around us.
Col. Jacques Baud: the Houthis Are Dismantling Saudi Arabia’s Military Ecosystem
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 20 2026 23:38 utc | 57
Breaking: Another Ammo Depot Blows Up in Syria (& vid)
https://x.com/DD_Geopolitics/status/2101804943808004600
“This one located in al Eiss south of Aleppo. Numerous secondary explosions were observed.”
See this also – reposted from dead thread:
Syria is being plunged into greater chaos
https://x.com/VanessaBeeley/status/2101540082020745680
“This has the ring of orchestrated violence…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 23:38 utc | 58
Merz is reminding me more and more of the dysfunctional Weimar governments………not a good look!
Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 20 2026 23:42 utc | 59
https://x.com/caitoz/status/2101464425136095414
Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz
The reason everyone stopped caring about October 7 is because Israel just spent three years showing the world all the murderousness, sadism and racism which caused October 7 to happen.
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https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2101684647096717313
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺 @ejmalrai
A renewed US attack on Iran remains unlikely because Washington has no clear, achievable objective. But if it happens, Tehran intends to strike American military and commercial (US companies) assets across the Gulf—particularly in the UAE, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
This time, I am told, Iran will remove the gloves. No US asset in the region will be treated as beyond reach.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 20 2026 23:50 utc | 60
tobias cole | Sep 20 2026 23:04 utc | 51
*** The consequences of this massive attack will be grim on NATO and the Ukronazis.***
Indeed so …. a few totally disposable soldiers of the Kiev regime may become severely indisposed, plus a quite strongly worded complaint made to the UN.
That will certainly teach them!
*** Expect NATO recon planes to fall from the sky and soon too………..and Kieve will burn like a Roman candle……***
Anyone really important is more likely to get hit by a defective F35 falling from the sky of its own accord.
“This time, I am told, Iran will remove the gloves. No US asset in the region will be treated as beyond reach.”
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 20 2026 23:50 utc | 61
Unless the US is forcibly made to surrender and accept defeat consciously and realistically, it will keep doing the same atrocious international covert muck raking and manipulation that causes problems for many other nations everywhere. It is now a rogue state linked to the madmen in Israel and is no different in intent to any totalitarian fascist-murderous state.
USrael leadership is not only neurotic but also psychotic these days.
Posted by: GeorgeWendell | Sep 21 2026 0:14 utc | 62
Sunday Wire, Ep 613: Patrick Henningsen
https://x.com/21WIRE/status/2101702222325428351
“So why are they now telling us to prepare for WAR, WAR, WAR…?”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 0:52 utc | 63
Posted by: Mike R | Sep 20 2026 19:47 utc | 40
I just look at the current state and figure it continues. Periodic attacks on Iran since Biden spaced by months of no attacks. 3-4 years worth.
The effects are to cut oil supplies in the world, at the same time the US/EU controls the world with proxy wars, coups and color revolutions in Ukraine, Pakistan, Nepal, Africa(many), Myanmar, S. Korea, Philippines, S. America (many) and others.
Another effect is to degrade the US weapons systems over years, did they not think that would happen? Even I see the US does not have the manufacturing capacity of the Korea/Vietnam years to lose thousands of air assets/year and continually run carrier fleets. The local arms industries in my US region are long closed down.
Another 7 to 10 attacks on Iran and we will lose some of the expeditionary operations capability and be more like Russia, China, EU in the ability to project power. But we take vastly more countries by proxy, color revolutions and coups than any military op.
Posted by: jonny law | Sep 21 2026 0:57 utc | 64
^^ Meaning talk to me when my local or state government passes a law conveying the same sorts of protection to Ukraine in blatant violation of the First Amendment (and other precedents) that is bestowed on the foreign psuedo-nation known as “Israel.”
Posted by: Tom_Q_Collins | Sep 21 2026 1:05 utc | 65
see the 50:00 video at the second link
https://x.com/pagreen1966/status/2101574332904259985
Peter Green @pagreen1966
Ed Sheeran performed to a half empty stadium in Philadelphia after endorsing Israel’s genocide in Gaza. The concert failed to sell tickets at a 50% discount, proving that boycotts do work. Free Palestine!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnVsXGy5RNs
US-Saudi Alliance Is SCREWED. Yemen Destroys US Middle-East Strategy | Laith MaroufNeutrality Studies Neutrality Studies 362K subscribers
Laith Marouf, a Canadian-Syrian journalist based in Lebanon, discusses Yemen’s advancing front lines, Saudi Arabia’s strategy, Ansar Allah’s goals, Oman’s mediating role, US involvement, Saudi internal pressures, the wider regional war, nuclear risks, and Egypt’s decision to remain outside the conflict.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 21 2026 1:11 utc | 66
Posted by: ReinhardVonSiegfried | Sep 20 2026 23:19
Gonna be so funny the head explosions around here when Israel is sacrificed without hesitation or afterthought, a la Ukraine now, abandoned by the Bibis and co in charge now, high-fiving each other and their buckets of cash as they fly off to Argentina or Miami or Toronto or London.
And the excuse of wicked Jewish betrayal will again be used to expand and promote war with Russia.
Nah. It wont matter. The fact that everyone can be bought everywhere in the world is some kind of gigantic Talmudic mystery.
It is so fucking stupid.
Thanks for doing your part, starship trooper.
Posted by: Duck n cover | Sep 21 2026 1:37 utc | 68
@71
Economics is not a science, it presumes behaviors.
Dollar is strong compared to its more wretched contemporaries. 3.75% US fed rate is peanuts in light of 5% ten year treasuries!
Two reasons I would not trade crude paper these times: potential for demand destruction (aka huge political miscue/war or massive recession from diesel scarcity, et al) and Trump still has the SPR to depress crude runs some other manipulation)
Econ is not hard it is politics and mismanagement.
Posted by: paddy | Sep 21 2026 1:46 utc | 69
See how greedy Jews make people think some kind of revolution is occurring simply because the currency of capitalist exchange is moving from US dominated assets? Change the sign, change the exploitation.
See what Jews have done to you???? They make Midas think sparkling pyrite is actually worth something. Jews put that gleam in your eye.
Jews making all the Road Warriors drive in circles fighting over oil while wasting all the oil in the very effort at acquisition?
Jews made you that fucking stupid?
Posted by: Duck n cover | Sep 21 2026 1:49 utc | 70
Saudi Arabia, UAE* Helping US, Israelis to Fulfill Their Mission in Region: Analyst (& vid)
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/20/776687/Iran-armed-forces-warning-regional-countries-GCC-nations-help-US
“The Iranian armed forces’ Khatom al-Anbia Central Command has warned the US and regional countries that any mistake could make them targets of painful attacks.
The central command said Iran has information that the US is planning to resume hostilities against the country on the green light of some regional countries…”
* Saudi & UAE are also ‘strategic partners’ of Russia and BRICS.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 2:10 utc | 71
NYT runs out of ideas, takes to trolling:
“New York Times, citing U.S. administration officials, reports that President Trump has been very indecisive on a strike against Ansarallah, with him flip-flopping on the subject multiple times before ultimately canceling as the strike was about to begin.
On Wednesday this week, President Trump was opposed to strikes against Ansarallah, but had changed his mind and favored strikes on Thursday following a phone call with KSA’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. But by the time strikes were set to begin this weekend, Trump had changed his mind again and canceled strikes.
Most of Trump’s inner circle is deeply skeptical of strikes against Ansarallah, NYT reports” Tabz
A fake fake fake ?
He won’t like that I guess…
Posted by: Ornot | Sep 21 2026 2:29 utc | 72
@ Ornot | Sep 21 2026 2:29 utc | 80 with the latest Trump TACO…thx
When does the military decide it has had enough of him and Hegseth?
Trump is going to preach to the UN on my BD, the 22nd. It should be at least entertaining.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 21 2026 2:37 utc | 73
I am reading about a bunch of strikes in Syria and can only expect it is from Occupied Palestine……. wondering what this means?
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 21 2026 2:46 utc | 74
Truck Driver Goes Off About The Cost Of Trump’s America (&vid)
https://x.com/DropSiteNews/status/2101841650779586939
“Brent crude tagged a high of $104.90 Sunday night and was trading just below $103 at the time of publishing. The national average diesel price in the United States has surged to a record high of $6.51 per gallon.
Farmers are confronting these record-high fuel expenses at the height of the fall harvest season. Because the vast majority of commercial food relies on diesel-powered trucks and freight, these spikes are expected to push retail grocery bills and inflation higher as well.
According to the non-profit National Energy Assistance Directors Association, householders that rely on heating oil are projected to face winter bills that are 31% higher than last year due to the parallel strain on distillate fuel stock. Truck drivers are upset with the Trump administration…”
Death to USrael & Empire – Victory to Iran & The Resistance – Free Palestine
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 3:16 utc | 75
Mr Psycho @ 81
The Trump side and the Pentagon is thee Pentagon are a bad marriage.
Trump is the oil mob and they hold the media. Their wars against Russia and Iran are about oil.
The Pentagon is the military mob. They don’t really care to fight Trump’s wars they want to fight China.
It is a symbiotic relationship. The Pentagon tolerates Trump only just. Hegseth tried to thin out the disagreeable ones but they are deeply rooted.
It got very serious between the two side early this year but each has a vested interest so they sort of resolved differences, agreed to disagree.
Trump gets his oil wars while the Pentagon keep building it’s attack strategy on China.
I am horrified when I realise what the Pentagon is doing
.the Pentagon strategy is called “tip of the spear”. It is not about defence as they say, and this is obvious when you know the plan. The war will begin just before 2030 when the final radar is in place.
The Pentagon strategies are years, even decades in the making. The oil wars are not their idea. They only take orders. This is why it seems Trump has no strategy, out of his depth.
Hegseth was briefed on Pentagon strategy early in his reign, he spoke to the media then, said too much, and was shut down. “Tip of the spear is massive. Tens and tens of billions, seven countries. Parts not blurted by Hegseth are still top secret, though I know so others must also.
It has nothing to do with Taiwan which is a diversion. It is about a massive attack on civilians in the China mainland.
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 4:17 utc | 76
From Middle East Spectator
Ansarallah have captured Jabal Rasin (Rasin Mountain), a strategic position just 15km west of Al-Turbah, a major town on the Taizz–Aden roadIf Ansarallah forces push through to Al-Turbah, the last remaining road into Taizz will be cut off & the city will be officially encircled.
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 21 2026 4:27 utc | 77
Should be the Trump side and the Pentagon side…first line.
I use burners to communicate, if I didn’t a lot of people won’t talk to me. In today’s world you can understand that.
But I have arthritis and it renders my typing guesswork sometimes. Apologies.
Posted by: Bingo | Sep 21 2026 4:27 utc | 78
yeah, a real ‘friend’ of the Palestinians there
https://x.com/theintercept/status/2101678778992726092
The Intercept @theintercept
Billionaire New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft wants you to know he has spent “decades” supporting the Palestinian people. But The Intercept dug into his claim and found that he actually has spent years donating to…. Friends of the IDF and AIPAC?
Kraft has also given money to a host of pro-Israel advocacy groups that attack critics of Israel, spread content that critics warn is Islamophobic, and have steadfastly defended Israel against mounting evidence of its ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.
https://archive.ph/uFJHS
https://theintercept.com/2026/09/18/robert-kraft-macklemore-ed-sheeran-israel-donations/
Robert Kraft Claims His Donations Help Palestinians. Turns Out He’s Funding Friends of the IDF.An analysis of tax forms by The Intercept show Kraft’s charity and LLC have donated to Friends of the IDF and AIPAC’s super PAC
Days after pressuring pop singer Ed Sheeran to drop rapper Macklemore from his tour over the latter’s “Free Palestine” remarks, Kraft claimed in a statement posted to social media that “for decades” he has “supported efforts that create opportunity for Palestinians,” such as initiatives to “to build businesses, create jobs, and forge relationships” between Israelis and Palestinians. The claims were made as a part of Kraft’s pledge to give $2 million to “aid in the region.”
Kraft did not disclose which organizations would receive his money……
…..The Intercept’s analysis of tax forms since 2006 show that Kraft’s charity group, the Kraft Family Foundation, has donated $196,000 to the Friends of the IDF and an additional $123,000 to other organizations — Brothers for Life and Friends of Israel Disabled Veterans — that directly benefit Israeli military soldiers. In his seven separate donations to the Friends of the IDF, Kraft earmarked the money to “Promote education for young Jewish soldiers.”……
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 21 2026 5:11 utc | 79
crude down $2.40 at 93.75. Posted by: arby | Sep 21 2026 1:16 utc | 67
That is the November contract and they are always in retardation like a time decay on a Call or Put
October Just took a Jump and only WTI is just under $100 @ $98 the rest average $107 + Tanker hire + insurance. Diesel and heating oil are being savaged.
Trump needs to take his toys out of the sand pit and it will settle back with 3 months
Posted by: Thunderdownunder | Sep 21 2026 5:39 utc | 80
Lame. No organization whatsoever, just bitching at others.
Posted by: Eyeballs focsed | Sep 21 2026 6:01 utc | 81
Follow up to Col. Baud’s chat with Nima re Oriental thought (Civilizational States) is an outline of Alaistair Crooke’s talk given at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow on the 7th of September this year.
A World Turned Upside Down – Conflicts Forum’s Substack
Posted by: Suresh | Sep 21 2026 6:17 utc | 82
Videos of Unidentified Object in Skies Above Tehran (& vid)
https://x.com/uncledoomer/status/2101876169960239613
“They must have deployed one of the B-52s from Houston…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 21 2026 6:41 utc | 83
Posted by: oldhippie | Sep 20 2026 14:19 utc | 5
The only definite reports of aircraft leaving UK I could find were facebook statements. All other references, such as hindustan times, mention that the take offs were ‘reported’. So I assumed it was just huff ‘n’ puff. Busy doin’ MBE aka BS.
Posted by: Lantern Dude | Sep 21 2026 6:56 utc | 84
I concur with “DA” re: comment #49, were I Trump or the president that would be my plan.
Posted by: NATO Blues | Sep 21 2026 7:02 utc | 85
BTW – ever since the great financial Crisis an increasing record of US citizens are making the (expensive) decision to exit their US citizenship. From wiki – From 2014 to 2016, an average of about five thousand U.S. citizens gave up their citizenship each year. These numbers have risen by nearly ten times between 2005 and 2015, though they remain only about three times the annual numbers in the 1970s
Posted by: Amalek (ne exile) | Sep 20 2026 15:25 utc
Still others are taking the path of simply disappearing from the territory of that decayed empire. It’s like the United States rulership effectively tracks the goings of its subjects. After several years of sincerely-meant residence, a surprisingly large number of other countries will accept a refugee as a new citizen. Some even recognize the unfeasibility of getting America to release its claws from one fated to have been born under its flag – and readily issue waivers of the requirement to eliminate old citizenships before obtaining a new one.
Plenty of USicans die in gutters every day. What’s one more to simply fall off the map?
Posted by: ДжММ | Sep 21 2026 7:22 utc | 86
“When the coffins of American soldiers and officers begin to be transported. When they came in vertically and return horizontally, it’s then that the Trump administration will realize that they have lost the region. And will lose the elections. If we achieve this goal, and it will be achieved inshallah, the liberation of Al-Quds will be a stone’s throw away. When the US leaves our region, these Zionists will pack up and leave. We might not even have to fight a battle against ‘Israel'” – Hassan Nasrallah, former secretary-general of Hezbollah.
Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 21 2026 7:25 utc | 87
michaelj72 3
‘ in a war initiated through Zionist lies and staged events, and sustained by deception and trickery’
I am surprised that the Muslim world does not recognise the origins of ‘Zionist lies and staged events’ when Political Islam has been following the mantra of the US-created Saudi petroMafia boss Osama bin Laden , working terror in Afghanistan, Africa, Europe to serve the colonial interests of USUKIS since the 1970s.
Political Islam has , against the laws of the Holy Qur’an, turned itself into a Confederate to USUKIS in its different manifestations of Salafism, exhibited by Islamists in Libya and Damascus, and Muslim Brotherhood, exhibited in NATO’s Turkey and Britain.
If you adopt the ” lies and staged events” habits of your enemies, you will eventually, like Saudi Arabia now by the Houthis, be exposed as belonging to them.
All of the GCC countries have been exposed by Iran as agents of Israel’s Jewish Supremacy.
There’s no stone for Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar or Dubai to hide under or behind.
In particular, the use of Gulf energy to fuel Datacentres that collect and analyse private information, for Israel to response, is a Wars Crime.
You live with dogs, you get fleas, and the time will come for you to repent , or die.
In many ways the imminent destruction of the GCC in retaliation to Trump’s threats to Iran, is essential and necessary.
These countries have had enough time to understand their error in allying with USUKIS. They are not going to be allowed to continue to disobey the clear commands in the Holy Qur’an.
The Words of the Qur’an are Hukum, Law.
So when the Qur’an says Do not Spy, why have they disobeyed the Laws of Allah?
Saving the private lives of innocent people in Datacentres in order to blackmail or kill them is 100% Haram.
Posted by: Giyane | Sep 21 2026 7:51 utc | 88
Nasrallah was right. so was soleimani. The goal of US out of the region is very doable, in our lifetime.
Posted by: annie | Sep 21 2026 7:53 utc | 89
@annie | Sep 21 2026 7:53 utc | 89
Oh yeah, even in my lifetime – and I’m circling the drain…
Posted by: necromancer | Sep 21 2026 8:11 utc | 90
Syrian Girl
A Jewish Rabbi in Iran, told me ASIO boss Mike Burgess’s claims that Iran plans to attack Jews in Australia are retarded.
“Impossible, we have Synagogues inside Iran and we feel totally safe here, Iran would never attack a place of worship.”
Video (5:47)
https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/2101497910223368483
Posted by: Menz | Sep 21 2026 8:18 utc | 91
michaelj72 87
‘We might not even have to fight a battle against ‘Israel’” – Hassan Nasrallah, former secretary-general of Hezbollah.’
I read a few days ago that the US has decided to make 2000 lb cluster bombs to speed up its genocidal sweep through Greater Israel, and is currently sending fresh supplies of massive bombs to Israel.
The massacre of vast numbers of Muslims is prophecied in Islam, so Trump must have been reading his esoteric literature in those lonely nights , where the hatred of his electorate all pervades.
The Muslim Confederates must be destroyed first, before Israel. And its weird backers in USUK will hopefully see the light on the Messiah “s return.
The prophecy in the Qur’an in Chapter Israel, says that the destroyers of Israel will be like the Babylonians and the Romans, complete devastation by hand to hand fighting.
A nuke on Israel would kill the Palestinians. So the good news is that these vast cluster bombs Trump is commissioning will not prevent Israel’s total destruction. The US is wasting its money and time.
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Posted by: Giyane | Sep 21 2026 8:54 utc | 92
“This has the ring of orchestrated violence…”
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 23:38 utc | 58
There seems to be two sources likely for it. One is from those who supported getting rid of Assad, but not happy with the result, the other the military forces that did support Assad. The head choppers who are now in the government of the country seem unable to defend. I suspect that the ammo depots that keep getting blown up are first looted. What can be taken is being taken and the rest put to the torch. No direct evidence of that, but it seems likely.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 21 2026 9:01 utc | 93
Have relatshonships between the saudi’s and UAE broken down ?
Posted by: Mark2 | Sep 21 2026 9:07 utc | 94
Posted by: Menz | Sep 21 2026 8:18 utc | 91
I saw that news about Burgess, trying to stir up more anti-Iran and “antisemitism” panic, and I had to laugh.
He has his tongue so firmly inserted in the rectum of the zionist lobby, it should render his employment as Australia’s spy chief untenable. But here we are.
Posted by: Jon_in_AU | Sep 21 2026 9:13 utc | 95
Ornot | Sep 21 2026 2:29 utc | 72
The likely reason that the US is not joining in with attacking Yemen is they cannot afford another laundry fire on another carrier. They also have the Saudis dropping bombs, supplied by the US, and also the planes dropping them. The US not attacking, not directly, but using a proxy. The Saudis didn’t build the f-15s dropping the bombs, nor the bombs dropped. Also in watching the videos that the Yemen Army put out, much of it was small groups climbing a mountain or hiding behind rocks to attack from. What exactly then do you bomb? Every rock outcropping? Not to mention then that they built in days miles of easy to make dirt fortifications for the areas they just took. How they are doing it, the fortifications don’t even always have to be manned, just watching for an attack, then they are there as a defense point. Makes me think a little of a civil war fort, around Wilmington area. Don’t recall the name, came across it in an east coast beach tour(with a focus on going to historical sites). The amount of ordinance that was used against piles of sand is insane, and it took the Union sending human waves at it to take it. Literally piles of sand. Which reminds me of Fort Moultrie, a sand and what got the state it’s name as the palmetto state a soft wood. Absorbed the British cannon fire improving the fortifications. Both improvised fortifications did fall, but it took massive firepower and manpower to overcome simply built fortifications in relation to attacking forces very lightly defended.
The Yemen, make an outcropping of rocks into a fortress, and the terrain is there are outcroppings all over the place. From what I saw on the 20+ miles of fortifications they put up to hold the south, not trenches, they just put up a bunch of berms of earth, dirt piles, simple, but very effective.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 21 2026 9:34 utc | 97
Giyane | Sep 21 2026 8:54 utc | 92
I somewhat suspect that so many generals in the US military were fired, because they made the nuke briefcase unable to launch anything, as the POTUS is insane, and should not have such weapons. No one should, but for sure not someone who regularly posts rants so demented they got kicked off of X as president, so as someone with a bunch of funds made their own social media to keep going at rants. Kinda funny, their billionaire buddy Musk had to be, eh, you are too obnoxious for twitter, but eh lets get you nukes… A common thread on this and other forums nuke this, nuke that, it actually shows that the people going on like that have no idea what using those weapons means. Even just the testing of them has added radiation to the atmosphere, increasing sickness and disease. A widespread use in war, basically killing the planet. There is a reason MAD is the term for the mutual deterrence in having them, it’s expletive insane.
Posted by: Rhymerez | Sep 21 2026 9:51 utc | 98
https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/2101544703237693500 “How did the Israelis successfully get:
- The US to fight Iran.
- Saudi Arabia to fight Yemen
- Syria to fight itself?
And everyone just forgets about it as it does a genocide on Lebanon and Gaza. No more missiles at Tel Aviv.” Friends in high places. Everywhere.
Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 20 2026 18:43 utc | 37
Posted by: Amalek (né Exile) | Sep 21 2026 9:57 utc | 99
“Impossible, we have Synagogues inside Iran and we feel totally safe here, Iran would never attack a place of worship.” Video (5:47)https://x.com/Partisangirl/status/2101497910223368483
Posted by: Menz | Sep 21 2026 8:18 utc | 91
indeed until Netanyahu‘s unprovoked atack on Iran, the safest place on earth for s Jewish Person was Iran.
Posted by: Amalek (né Exile) | Sep 21 2026 10:00 utc | 100