a better question is ”why”? i think the answer is in who actually owns the media.. these same deranged freaks i mention already…. complete losers who always claiming to be ”winning”..

Posted by: james | Sep 19 2026 17:06 utc | 3

This is getting to be a bit effing much. My older brother recently scoffed at my assertion that nazis have been in effective control of the US since Truman signed the National Security Act (thank you for the “scientists,” Operation Paper Clip).
 
As was being said in Russia around the start of the SMO, “time to finally finish WW2.”
 
Thank you, b.

Posted by: robjira | Sep 19 2026 17:13 utc | 5

“We must continue to ensure that Iran and Yemen can strike anywhere in the Persian Gulf and Middle East at the time and place of their choosing, and sustain that force.“
 
 
see the many photos at the link
 
 
 
 
https://www.presstv.co.uk/Detail/2026/09/19/776570/images-severe-destruction-US-base-Kuwait
New images reveal severe destruction at US base in Kuwait after Iranian strikes 
 
Newly released images reveal the aftermath of an Iranian retaliatory strike on a US base in Kuwait, revealing severe damage to several structures, including a bunker and the base’s airfield. 
 
Several structures at the base appear to have been completely destroyed, with surrounding areas also heavily damaged. Buildings that were once operational have been reduced to rubble, with debris scattered across the site. 
 
One of the most notable details in the images is the damage to a bunker designed to protect personnel during incoming attacks. The bunker appears to have sustained a direct drone strike, despite being a hardened structure intended to provide shelter for troops during attacks……. 
 
,,,,The Pentagon has not publicly provided a detailed asses,ent of the damage to US installations across Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Oman, and Jordan. Satellite imagery, however, has repeatedly shown the impact of Iranian strikes on US positions across the region.,,,,,
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 19 2026 17:16 utc | 7

What would western media write about any other country which publicly sets out such aim?

They would call it state sponsored terrorism.

Posted by: Norwegian | Sep 19 2026 17:23 utc | 9

Accidental honesty is my favorite kind.

Posted by: Jim Phillips | Sep 19 2026 17:36 utc | 11

In response to
”
What has gone wrong?
Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 19 2026 17:39 utc | 12
”
 
God Of Mammon owned/controlled TV/Media and the total ignorance of its brainwashing capability and usage for such.

Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 19 2026 17:48 utc | 13

God Of Mammon Cult = Sabatean-Frankists = Epstein Class 

Posted by: Amalek (né exile) | Sep 19 2026 17:51 utc | 15

Robjira @ 5
 
Not since Truman, but literally centuries earlier, even before formation of the nation.  For example, Ben Franklin was writing about the need to expand colonies to the Pacific Ocean as early as the 1740’s…see the writings of the ‘revisionist school of American history’ such as William Appleman Williams and Walter LaFeber…

Posted by: mjh | Sep 19 2026 17:56 utc | 17

“We must continue…”
 
That part of the statement connotes policy continuity, that peace isn’t the goal, that dominance is instead. What the Global Majority sees and hears are the words of an Evil Empire that in so many ways has only those words remaining–a Mafia threat to Humanity. The world’s goal is to somehow eliminate that threat to itself without the Outlaws using their only remaining weapons of coercion–nukes. 
 
With the implementation of the new tariff law against the planet, the only valid response is to cease all trade with the Outlaws, to cease using its currency, to cease buying its debt and equities, and to cease using its global financial architecture–a 100% refutation of the last remaining tools of the Outlaw’s attempts at colonialism. There are now several examples of the resistance required to neuter the Outlaws the Global Majority must emulate. For those of us living within the beast, the best we can do is to cease feeding its institutions by adopting our own personal austerity programs; for example, don’t take on any new debt, don’t use any AI, only purchase essentials, and form resistance communities. 
 
  

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 19 2026 18:02 utc | 19

Karl VI | Sep 19 2026 18:02 utc | 20—
 
Yes, and that’s precisely what China is attempting–building trust through its many initiatives, to act as an Elder Brother, not a maniacal warlord.  

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 19 2026 18:07 utc | 21

Christ, a full on grand mal display of stage 2.
 
Well, I guess it eventually had to come at some time; the denial phase was drawn out much longer than one would think possible.
 
How long have certain people been saying exactly this? How many fools – people like Snowden – allow their egos to declare that they know best?
 
The facts have always been there, completely exposed for any to see. That is, unless one permitted ideology and belief to cloud judgment.
 
It certainly would be nice if alt.media could move on past the group hug cry-fest and begin analyzing the true underlying bases for estimating & calculating odds.
 
 
No, Russia China Iran will prevail because I want it, dammit, but rather an honest assessment as to who will actually come out on top.
 
I’m betting on my home team, but I think both Russia & China have excellent opportunities in which to build out their respective tech economies, providing substantial material benefits for their respective populations.

Posted by: Hobbes | Sep 19 2026 18:11 utc | 23

Good news from Inside China Business    https://youtu.be/GIrUXsrucPU  
 
The Biden administration effectively used prohibitions on using Chines EV and Solar Energy parts when he was “bringing EVs and Solar Power in the United States”.  Make big public demonstrations about how US POWER and US MONEY and all that jazz could bring these to the United States.  Enforce Executive Orders that make it impossible to implement.
 
Now Trump is doing to the rest of our power grid what the Biden administration did to Green Energy.  He is enforcing recent Trump Executive Orders prohibiting any Chinese equipment from being used in our power grid.
 
With the Biden administration, it was clearly intentional institutional sabotage.  Whether the people that wrote the Trump Executive Orders to gut our power grids are doing it out of stupidity, or out of intentionally trying to Make Americans Homeless Again, the results will be the same.  The US will steadily lose its ability to destroy the lives of people outside the US.  Regardless of our desire to strike anywhere on the globe.

Posted by: Woke American | Sep 19 2026 18:13 utc | 25

The Legend Who Inspired The Most Investors in History
 
https://x.com/kadmitriev/status/2101010295061696788
 
“Warren Buffet stepped down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and appointed his son Howard to succeed him, the first phase of a succession plan that has brought the $1 trillion conglomerate into a new era…”
 
Kirill Dmitriev
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirill_Dmitriev
 
See ‘Career’…
 
‘All over the world cats make friends with cats and nowhere in the world do cats make friends with mice.’ – Mao
 
Beware the oligarchs. All of them. Everywhere.
 
Power to the People.

Posted by: John Gilberts | Sep 19 2026 18:19 utc | 27

 The Vikings will never understand why, China has taken their place on the world stage. Karl VI | Sep 19 2026 | 22
 
There it is, “I want it daddy!” LOL
 
You can count on two hands the number of empires which have successfully projected power past their immediate geographic locations:
 
Greece, Rome (Venice), Spain, Portugal, France, Netherlands, Britain, USA. (Honorable mention to Japan for 4 years.)
 
Alt.media is facing a cross roads: continue to engage in wishful fantasy, or begin to address the very real fight on hand.
 
Sites like this arose because intelligent people rejected the main stream slop being fed morlocks. But it risks the danger of engaging in similar exercises in fantasy simply people their minds are literally repealed by truth.
 
China has no track record of imperial posture; nada, zilch. Russia of course exists from internal expansion from ancient Rus, while Iran has experienced periods of extended (regional) control.
 
Any reasonable punter is going to evaluate the entire field, and not allow their emotions to guide action.

Posted by: Hobbes | Sep 19 2026 18:27 utc | 29

John Helmer Gilberts Doctorow  doesn’t even pretend to be on-topic anymore, and just straight attempts to railroad it into a thread about Russia. 
Posted by: UWDude | Sep 19 2026 18:30 utc | 30
 
Like he does at least once every fucking thread.
 
Asshole.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 19 2026 18:32 utc | 31

Posted by: pyrrhus | Sep 19 2026 18:41 utc | 32
 
Nope.  1)  It also discriminates against Asians at least in colleges now, and 2) Asians work harder than white men in many fields that require collegiate degrees.
 
Also:
 
USA lost moral authority a long time ago, and many of the best and brightest in America would NEVER work for the “defense” industries… ..or join the military.

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 19 2026 18:49 utc | 33

Greece, Rome (Venice), Spain, Portugal, France, Netherlands, Britain, USA. (Honorable mention to Japan for 4 years.)

Posted by: Hobbes | Sep 19 2026 18:27 utc | 29
 
All of them, excluding the USA (so far) either collapsed and imploded violently or decayed and faded away as the costs of maintaining empire started outweighing the profits gained. The US is not immune from either, or indeed both processes; arguably symptoms are starting to make themselves known already, with the increasing exposure of US military force projection as ineffective in achieving the goals of empire, and the ructions in the global debt markets, with investors casting a flinty eye towards the prospect of continuing to fund the US imperial ambitions.
 
Many in the US see global dollar usage as an indicator of global strength; it is no such thing, it is a massive vulnerability for the empire, and one that which nothing can be done about; all those dollars cannot be stopped from returning ‘home’. Weimar will look like a teddy bears picnic in comparison.
 
All empires rise, flourish, stagnate (you are here), decay and fall; the “exceptionalist” US is not excepted from this rule.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 19 2026 18:58 utc | 35

It’s funny to see how much it burns the asses of the Putin fanatics;
I wonder what the three Zionists sent by Trump discussed—practically in private—with Putin for three hours, while American cargo planes were shuttling back and forth to Poland unloading weapons for the “Ucro-Nazis”? Did they settle on each of their payouts?
If you hang out with a cripple, you learn to limp—and Kirill Dmitriev has quite the limp.
Be wary—always be wary—of politicians, regardless of their affiliation or nation; they’re all just out to screw you.

Posted by: Cagliostro | Sep 19 2026 19:03 utc | 37

Posted by: JustOneMoreThing | Sep 19 2026 19:05 utc | 38
 
omg.  isn’t one hijacked thread enough?

Posted by: UWDude | Sep 19 2026 19:07 utc | 39

El 17 mins
 
Germany DECLARES US Friendship OVER – Fed HIKES Against Trump, Dollar COLLAPSES
 
A global Cane Mutiny springs to mind!

Posted by: Don Firineach | Sep 19 2026 19:08 utc | 41

“What would western media write about any other country which publicly sets out such aim?” b

“They would call it state sponsored terrorism” Norwegian

They would call it Russia.

Posted by: Ornot | Sep 19 2026 19:23 utc | 43

 
https://x.com/HormuzLetter/status/2101302736671166710
The Hormuz Letter  @HormuzLetter 
 
BREAKING: France is running out of fuel. 11% of France’s stations nationwide are now out of petrol or diesel, one in nine, with 16% of stations short in Grand Est, 15% in Pays de la Loire, 14% in Occitanie, and 13% in Centre-Val de Loire, per government figures published this morning. 
 
The official count only registers a station as short if it has no petrol at all or no diesel at all, so a station out of one grade but holding another is not counted, meaning the real shortage is much larger. French diesel averages €2.406 a litre, about $10.45 a gallon. 
 
Europe is facing its worst energy crisis in history.
 
—————————–
 
https://t.me/RezistanceTrench/57038#
ResistanceTrench mirror 
 
🇾🇪🇾🇪⚡️🇹🇷🇵🇰🇸🇦 Mohammad al-Bukhaiti, a member of the political bureau of Yemen’s AnsarAllah: 
 
By God, if Turkey or Pakistan get involved, we will strike them with an iron fist. And just as we are disciplining Saudi Arabia today, we will discipline them as well.
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 19 2026 19:26 utc | 45

What would western media write about any other country which publicly sets out such aim?

I wouldnt worry about such rhetoric.  It just states that any nation is used to increase the power of its rulers to the maximum extent.  They all do it, even if its constrained by resources be close to or within its borders.   The raw potential of the US let’s it expand to the whole globe but thats not because they’re extra greedy, just their rulers have that much more power at their disposal.   The USSR in its heyday likewise had no qualms about flexing a long way from its borders, or Britain during its time in the sun etc..

Posted by: Neofeudalfuture | Sep 19 2026 19:29 utc | 47

Don’t panic, such hubris comes just before the fall:
 
The Beginning of the End

Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 19 2026 19:31 utc | 49

try countering with arguments in his defense and dismantling the dilemma

Posted by: Cagliostro | Sep 19 2026 19:31 utc | 48
 
Oh, I’ll counter alright, just in a topic thread where it’s relevant.
 
Just a recommendation for you, but try reading @b’s topic-heading piece before posting (run it through your preferred translation app, if you struggle with English), it will help with the flow of communication and understanding.

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 19 2026 19:41 utc | 51

Looks like Caine is Pinky. Where  is the
Brain?
 

Posted by: Angelo | Sep 19 2026 19:52 utc | 53

How different is what Dan Caine saying from Trump’s threat to erase an entire civilization or Europeans constantly saying they need to go to war with Russia?
 
I sometimes get the feeling that China, Iran and Russia are enabling bad behavior by allowing acts of aggression with “calibrated” pushbacks instead of a well deserved jaw breaking punch to the face. 

Posted by: Suresh | Sep 19 2026 19:55 utc | 55

Posted by: Cagliostro | Sep 19 2026 19:31 utc | 48
Much better to flatter a fool with a bomb in the hope that he won’t actually throw it, rather than anger him and ensure that he will.
Time to get back inside your cabinet now, doc.

Posted by: pasha | Sep 19 2026 20:01 utc | 57

What we are looking at here is an echo of these words by an excited not to say crazy French author: ” To attack the sun, to expunge it from the universe, or to use it to set the world ablaze- these would be crimes indeed!”
 Those acquainted with “The Story of O” may recollect that young lady’s enrollment in a sadistic fraternity which began “You are here at the service of your masters…” 
Underlying all US culture is the sadism of the slavemaster and his co-adjutors who massacred the indigenous, burned their villages and raped their children. It was from this that West Point was born.

Posted by: bevin | Sep 19 2026 20:08 utc | 59

These genocidal, pedophile Yankees are practically salivating at the prospect of invading Cuba, especially Gusano Rubio. I just hope the Cuban politicians don’t turn out like those sellout “Chavistas” who betrayed their own country and handed over their own president.

Posted by: WW3 | Sep 19 2026 20:22 utc | 61

but it will happen or we will go extinct.
 
What a watershed moment to live through, eh?
 
Posted by: psychohistorian | Sep 19 2026 17:17 utc | 8
You’ve made it to a rare, revolutionary chapter of human history! 
Anything is now possible for visionaries with an organization and a popular political program.  
The Russians have spoken, as has Iran and Ansarallah.  What will the hundreds of millions of slaves in the western world put forward?  
 

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 19 2026 20:23 utc | 63

“We must continue to ensure that the United States of America can strike anywhere on the globe at the time and place … ”
 
Monty Python did it better ==> https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/488d9516-49a3-49af-910a-7b770e1f7d4f
 
 

Posted by: too scents | Sep 19 2026 20:37 utc | 65

I doubt the brave Houthis would have the least hesitation in striking Turkish or Paki forces if sent to Saudi Arabia, or even the countries themselves; hell, they already took on the US and Nato in the Red Sea…. and won
 
 
 
https://x.com/ejmalrai/status/2101372942731166137
Elijah J. Magnier 🇪🇺  @ejmalrai 
 
The governments of Pakistan and Türkiye would be making a grave strategic mistake by joining any military campaign against Yemen’s Ansar Allah. The United States has already tried and failed to defeat the movement, as did an eleven-country coalition armed with overwhelming firepower and virtually unlimited resources. Islamabad and Ankara should ask themselves what they could realistically achieve where far more powerful forces failed.
 
——————————
 
https://x.com/ShaykhSulaiman/status/2101354810825978028
Sulaiman Ahmed  @ShaykhSulaiman 
 
IRAN FM ARAGHCHI: 
 
“If international law is disregarded whenever the interests of major powers dictate, one can no longer speak of the rule of law. 
 
If human rights are an inherent right for some nations and a conditional privilege for others, they can no longer be called universal.”
 

Posted by: michaelj72 | Sep 19 2026 20:55 utc | 67

In the spirit of further trouble-making, before the US confirms its global empire ambitions perhaps it could confirm its gold holdings in Fort Knox.
 
Gen. Caine, being a military man, and Fort Knox being a military establishment, surely then he is the ideal person to oversee an audit, having all the necessary security clearances etc.
 
Where’s the problem…?

Posted by: Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 19 2026 21:02 utc | 69

Underlying all US culture is the sadism of the slavemaster and his co-adjutors who massacred the indigenous, burned their villages and raped their children. It was from this that West Point was born.
 
Posted by: bevin | Sep 19 2026 20:08 utc | 59
All US culture?  Really?  
Come now.  You know there are two principle classes in the US, right?  You’ve heard of the American Civil War?  
This is just too categorically nationalist and ahistorical.  You know better, sunny boy.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 19 2026 21:19 utc | 71

WMG.
 
Missiles and drones are merely conter to advanced air and naval power projection. 
 
They negate a superior force from dominating/controlling geographical chokepoints.
 
The boots on ground equation is still relevant in subduing restive natives. 
 
The key to controlling natives without “boots on ground” was always financial. Those financial institutions are now being challenged by BRICS, non dollar transactions and loss of Petrodollar circulation. 
 
Without traitors like the Iraqis, Syrian,  Lebanese, Palestinians or Venezuelans to buy off within,  the Empire is useless. 
 
In Taiwan’s case, a blockade is all that’s required.
 
Firstly,  the sentiment of the population does not reflect current US controlled Government. Then there’s the tyranny of geography. 

Posted by: Suresh | Sep 19 2026 21:25 utc | 73

Danang Dick waves it at Russia, China, India
 
The Miss Lindsay Graham Memorial Sanctions.
 
Memorial for whom..?

Posted by: ChatNPC | Sep 19 2026 21:30 utc | 75

The statement assumes every other nation must surrender sovereign self-defense to be OK with that statement by Gen. Caine. Since that is an impossibility basically this is a panicked call of USraeli empire to fund Star Wars again. I’d like to think with modernity we can thread back who is making the call behind the Gen. Caine cat’s paw (like Angelo notes in post 53 referencing the cartoon Pinky & the Brain).
 
Now my next questions would be what associations Gen. Caine has with which: 1) think tanks, 2) military contractors, and or 3) how arrested is his mental development to pre-teen amazement with movie special effects.
 
/laser blasts and R2D2 sounds
😉 Not now, starling buddy. I wanna finish my point.
 
Since the DoD(DoW) has been a revolving door for several administrations now, I expect a cushy private liaison consultant after Gen. Caine’s retirement. Is this feathering his nest ahead of time trying to scare up funds for more military space funding? Has he already made a deal unnoticed? Since the fall of empire is the time to loot and scoot, who is he abetting?
 
🙂 Sorry, I’m just an ignorant wee bird in the garden. If I knew better I wouldn’t cast aspersions on such a big, important man’s integrity, a general no less! But it looks to me as a way to sneak away stuffing to pad one’s nest before things run out.

Posted by: titmouse | Sep 19 2026 21:40 utc | 77

It all sounds expensive !  Gen Dan Caine wants tobe able to strike anywhere in the world and sustain combat operations achieving what , he does not elaborate .Nor does he say how many trillions it cost . This is what the MIC wants to hear of course . America needs to rebuild its manufacting base and it starts here at home building weapons .  The US is going to have to morph from the worlds biggest consumer economy to a big industrial producer and refining economy without polluting its cities and waterways . Those are lofty goals that will require lots of innovation in the fields of energy , refining , mining , physics research and development .  Good luck to the US and may the force be with you . 

Posted by: Cheryl | Sep 19 2026 21:45 utc | 79

When I first went to the States in 2005 I was herded in the customs queue by aggressive gun wearing uniformed nutters. The customs men, also toting guns eye scanned and fingerprinted me. We were then released into the open air prison that is America.
To a Kiwi this appears extremely unfriendly and intimidating. It is the behavior of a state that normalises violence and gangsterism.

Posted by: Fisher | Sep 19 2026 21:57 utc | 81

Jeremy Rhymings-Lang | Sep 19 2026 21:42 utc | 78 &  Cheryl | Sep 19 2026 21:45 utc | 79—
 
The key clause: “…  sustain that force.” That cannot be done as is now being proven. Cheryl’s use of “the force” I’ll equate with the energy to do work. That’s being undermined by General Caine’s boss as this video that was posted above explains. But that isn’t the only info on that subject as several dozen have appeared here during this year alone. And now there’s the looming transport fuel crisis the Empire cannot escape. In today’s world, the Outlaw US Empire is relegated to a subordinate position when it comes to the critical resources and supply chains required to “sustain force” possible. Printing useless dollars will not solve an issue tied to physical realities.
 
Uncle Sam’s tryst with the Earth Goddess has come to an abrupt end when he says he can’t leave by her front door because there’s a man down there (insert favorite Olympian God) that looks like it might be her man, so Sam needs to sneak out the bedroom window because he wants to avoid a confrontation he’s likely to lose. (Yes, there’s much more to that 5 years-old blues tune, some of which is also applicable.)  

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 19 2026 22:20 utc | 83

The best and brightest do not work for entities that drug test.  

Posted by: Laradise | Sep 19 2026 22:34 utc | 85

When I first went to the States in 2005 I was herded in the customs queue by aggressive gun wearing uniformed nutters. The customs men, also toting guns eye scanned and fingerprinted me. We were then released into the open air prison that is America.
To a Kiwi this appears extremely unfriendly and intimidating. It is the behavior of a state that normalises violence and gangsterism.
 
Posted by: Fisher | Sep 19 2026 21:57 utc | 81
To an American wage slave, it feels that way too.  

Posted by: Ahenobarbus | Sep 19 2026 22:49 utc | 87

Anonymous | Sep 19 2026 22:44 utc | 86—
 
You’ll discover from the chat I just linked to that the Outlaws want to employ nukes to get their way.

Posted by: karlof1 | Sep 19 2026 22:53 utc | 89

Who doesnt want to redecorate Putin’s palace?
 
But the Kennedy Center?!?! We will put on dresses and purple hair for that one! Don’t let Trump destroy the DEI center! Barf. 
 
1.5 trillion in DOD funds buys a lot of jobs in DC. 
 
 

Posted by: Duck n cover | Sep 19 2026 23:03 utc | 91

Most of the 12 USN CVN carriers are now either in drydock, under repair or just plain worn out……hardly a formula for worldwide strikes as General Caine alleges.
 
Latest to leave active status is the USS Gerald R. Ford, now undergoing billions of dollars in repairs after the ‘laundry room’ fire or anti ship missile strike by the Houthis (take your pick on your own scenario).  Its expected to out of service for years.
 
USS Abraham Lincoln is limping it way to San Diego with structural and severe maintenance issues, and expected to be out of service for many months.
 
USS JFK has numerous technical problems and is not ready for active service, necessitating the delay in decommissioning the USS Nimitz.  Nimitz however is not now carrying its air fleet and is being used as a ‘training carrier’ and is unfit for active service.

Posted by: tobias cole | Sep 19 2026 23:26 utc | 93

No words:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ejga4kJUts&list=RDfuPX8mjeb-E&index=2

Posted by: Luk | Sep 19 2026 23:33 utc | 95

This is a time of unfolding possibility. New possibilities are emerging; this is an historical hinge moment when birth of the new is in sight.  Spread factual info in your churches, neighborhoods, or political organizations. Converse with and inform strangers.  Danny Haiphong’s essay today has some good material to start with—even General Caine’s statement above can be used as a conversation starter:
https://chroniclesofhaiphong.substack.com/p/against-geopolitical-despair?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=355681&post_id=213547088&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=1x8iy9&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email 

Posted by: mjh | Sep 19 2026 23:50 utc | 97

No churches. Just, Recognition. Everyone has the right to be honest.
 
 
And this is very good because is very humidly, but with a good thinking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAGnKpE4NCI&list=RDtAGnKpE4NCI&start_radio=1  
 

Posted by: Luk | Sep 20 2026 0:02 utc | 99