"... will work tirelessly to bring Iran back from the brink of destruction, making it economically bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. IRAN WILL HAVE A GREAT FUTURE. 'MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!).' Thank you for your attention to this matter! President DONALD J. TRUMP."
Writes Trump, at Truth Social.
That's not the first time Trump has used "MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN." I'm seeing:
June 22, 2025: "It’s not politically correct to use the term, 'Regime Change,' but if the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change??? MIGA!!!"
January 13, 2026: "Iranian Patriots, KEEP PROTESTING - TAKE OVER YOUR INSTITUTIONS!!! Save the names of the killers and abusers. They will pay a big price. I have cancelled all meetings with Iranian Officials until the senseless killing of protesters STOPS. HELP IS ON ITS WAY. MIGA!!! PRESIDENT DONALD J. TRUMP"
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Trump knows how to press his advantage.
Marco, President on line one…
Trump’s tagline might be more like this: “You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs — and the eggshells are someone else’s problem.”
He’s breaking eggs but has no plan to make an omelette. Nor even a concept of a plan.
rehajm said...
Marco, President on line one…
Heh, ain't that the truth.
''MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN (MIGA!)"
[bugs bunny googly eyes]
Trump is winning the war on jobs too!
Trump’s war with Iran is far from over. Calling for a nation to surrender unconditionally is the very definition of war. By any honest reading of the Constitution, such a campaign requires a formal declaration of war.
What goes around, comes around. Russia is providing Iran with ISR, precise targeting information, for example, six early warning radars in the ME have been taken out. Radars that were built to detect missile launches in Iran.
China is providing public satellite imagery of the results of these strikes, and providing imagery that proves, for example, that the Saudis were lying about not being involved, by showing US warplanes at their airbases.
After the 12 day war, the assessment was that Iran's missiles had an accuracy of about a kilometer. Somebody upgraded their missile accuracy markedly, I doubt they did it themselves, and they are accurately striking radar domes dead center, as shown by Chinese satellites.
Russia can provide the Iranian "regime" with enough food for them to distribute. Who knows what China is providing. And Russia also is cutting off NG to Europe, while the provider of 20% of the worlds LNG is supplied by Qatar, and they have shut down production, and it will likely be a month before it restarts if the war ends today. God help us if it goes the 100 days that Hegseth is talking about.
I hope Trump has worked this all through, and it's not just about his family getting rich off of what is today $90 a barrel oil. Putin says thank you, BTW.
I am sure that Trump has the situation well in hand and you guys will be gloating when this is all over next week and the price of gas drops back to under $3 before the mid-terms, and MAGA will sweep to unprecedented electoral power.
Kak and Jaq, now in reruns
What Trump did with the assassinations is show that the US cannot be negotiated with, it cannot be appeased, it shows no pity, no mercy, well, you know the rest of the quote. The rest of the world plainly sees this now.
But I am sure that Trump and Rubio have thought this through.
"now in reruns"
So are the endless wars, rerunning since, well, Korea, the Taiwan Crisis, Viet Nam, ... You really don't need the whole list, do you?
"UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"
Boot boots boots boots, needed on the ground again!
"UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!"
"You guys are funny! Have we ever told you how funny you are!" - The Taliban
BTW, Jimmy Carter and Obama are just as complicit as Bill Clinton, George W Bush, and now Trump, that's where Kak and I differ, I believe that he is a Chorus commenter who only says things that he believes help the Democrats.
"You have the watches, we have the time." —The Taliban.
Why hasn't Ukraine collapsed under four years of missile barrages? Iran is twice as large as Ukraine, and has a far larger population. And the pro-Western Iranians? They mostly live in Tehran, and we are destroying their homes.
No one could have predicted that starting a trade war would lead to the loss of jobs.
When you look at the map it’s hard to see how the US (or Israel) could successfully invade Iran. So as long as the Iranians have the resolve to just sit there and be bombed, there’s no way to make them surrender, or even change their form of government. Only an internal uprising could do the trick, and we can’t make that happen.
@Lucien, Enduring Freedom 2: Just 2 Weeks Boogaloo
Don't follow leaders, watch your parking meter. Cuz time is just about up.
100% for unconditional surrender.. about time the USA WINS A WAR... uh I mean police action. Give the Iranian masses guns and let them do their thing.
Islam is all about “unconditional surrender”
Glad to see that Trump is not willing to play the hudna game with these muzzies. A hudna pause is a "time-out," letting the muzzies regather strength to fight another day.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudna
First thing a psychiatrist will tell a person suffering from anxiety depression is "Don't watch the news, don't listen to the news, and don't read the news"
Migas is a dish of "crumbs" (migas means "crumbs" in Spanish) made from fried tortilla pieces or stale bread, mixed with eggs and other ingredients like vegetables, cheese, and sometimes meat, served as a savory breakfast or brunch. While the Tex-Mex version is famous for using tortilla chips scrambled with eggs, onions, tomatoes, and peppers, Spanish versions use stale bread and can include chorizo, potatoes, and kale, showcasing how the dish varies across cultures but always uses leftovers.
Crumbles is what's left of Iran
Lucien said...When you look at the map it’s hard to see how the US (or Israel) could successfully invade Iran.
What makes you think they'll have to?
Only an internal uprising could do the trick, and we can’t make that happen.
Where you been the last 20 years?
Outstanding! Then scrap the $50 billion emergency supplemental handout to pad defense industry profits and sustain Trump’s bottomless war appetite. By his own account, he already has everything required.
"The US military has more than enough munitions, ammo, and weapons stockpiles to continue demolishing the Iranian regime and finish Operation Epic Fury, no matter how long it lasts. Nevertheless, President Trump has always been intensely focused on strengthening our military, which is why this meeting with defense contractors was scheduled weeks ago. The President will continue to call on these US companies to more speedily build American-made weapons, which are the absolute best in the world.” ~ Karoline Leavitt
https://donsurber.substack.com/p/democrats-go-to-war
Trump needs to shut up. He's acting like a crazed neo-con. So now its "unconditional surrender". Well, I guess Iran cant refuse that great deal. LOL.
Of course, Trump lied about the peace negotiations with Iran twice, and Venz. once, so this might be more lies and empty Trump rhetoric. A tactic.
https://www.englandhistory.com/sections/conflict/Empire/Anglo-Persian-War.html a lesson
The fog of Trump's war.
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say ~ Reuters
"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."
"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the Middle East."
The price of oil will start to skyrocket in a couple weeks. The straits are closed and our bombing campaign cant stop Iran from hitting oil tankers. Oh well, at least israel and Bibi are happy. And doesn't that make it all worth while?
Everyone knows the USA/Israel killed over 100 school girls in Iran. Its not "Likely" or "Possible". Its the truth.
Differences between Iraq and Iran:
- Iraq had an oppressed 60% Shia majority; Iran has an oppressed 90% Shia majority.
- Who was/is oppressing them? Iraq: Sunni ruling elite, drawn from significant 40% Sunni minority. Iran: Shia ruling elite, a small number of assholes from that 90% Shia majority.
- So what happens on decapitation? Iraq: Sunni fear for their fucking lives as Shia seek revenge and security. Foreign Sunni fighters come in to help their brothers. Shia fighters and eventually anyone anti-US get IRGC assistance from over the border. Iran: Remaining 89.99999% Shia figure out how to govern themselves. No foreign friends to help whatever regime remnants want to keep fighting: the mullahs have pissed off all their neighbors with missile strikes, the Assad regime is gone, and Hamas/Hezb are pinned down by the IDF.
- What was US long term plan? Iraq: We're gonna show y'all how to be a country. Here's some purple ink. Iran: Don't fuck up again or we'll be back.
- What happens long term? Iraq: still trying to build a functional country. Was a client state for so long that it's building basic stuff from scratch. Iran: Has been independent for nearly 50 years. Corrupt mullahs and IRGC like money so they have been economically active with whatever part of the world will deal with them. Have R&D and manufacturing, even though military-oriented. Rentier economy, but seems to be run by Iranians because of their pariah status. Persian culture literally more civilized (oriented around cities, trade, industry, nation) than Arab tribal raid/gimme culture.
So I think there is more hope for Iran. CC, JSM
Israel probably killed 30,000 kids (Given they killed 75,000 civilians in Gaza) during their bombing campaign, and no one in the USA said boo. So, I don't think Americans care. But Iranians do care, and no Iranian Government is going to surrender to Trump after something like that.
USA: Hello Please surrender Iran, we'll rebuild your society, yknow like we did Iraq.
Iran: Uh, no thanks.
RC - I think people of reasonable intelligence acknowledge that Hamas propaganda is anti-American anti-Western propaganda. Sure, Democrats and leftist and Howard Zin types will always believe anti-western propaganda, but people of reasonable or even average intelligence recognize that Hamas propaganda is exactly that.
We can always count on you taking the most anti-American anti-Western values anti-western civilization propaganda as fact, as long as there is an antisemitic angle.
What a loser.
Rc my suspicion is that you do not hate Western civilization, and our values. It’s so strange because I think you actually support freedom of speech, the right to vote, freedom of expression, and all those values that made western civilization great. So it’s so strange to me that someone could hate Jews so deeply and so completely that you advocate for the head choppers, the enemies of civilization. You are like bill Crystal or David French. People who once advocated for western civilization, but found that they hate so much and so deeply that they are willing to cast away all of their values. In their case, they hate Trump so much that they are willing to abandon their principles. In your case, you hate Jews so much that you abandoned western civilization, and wish to see us lose in our existential fight.
I’m a Trump supporter, and I’m worried about this kind of language. I hope he ends this quickly.
I want Trump to use some skywriting planes to write the following message over Tehran, "Surrender Mojtaba!"
yeah sure more will die but we are now working on CUBA (you know America first) they should be next where's Marco... All the MAGAS elected trump to stop all the wars and not be a NEOCON.(fake out) War mongers gonna War, big $$, take the oil, 89 a barrel this morning ,vix at 27 job loss worst since 20. Getting primed to steal the midterms with obstruction,troops in the street,changing polling places and all that can be done.. Venezuela, Iran, Somalia and Yemen and now Marco check out CUBA. Meanwhile Paladin still leading in the DERBY FUTURES and EPSTEIN back in the cue, Bondi up next ICE BARBIE moves to the x -MEN position? (right out of the comics) wheres the comic guy when you need him? And the Band played on.... now back to Spring Break planning, maybe we can get up to Aqueduct Racetrack for a session and visit some people up there,one of our sons lives up there, see what mama wants to do. And its one two three what are we fighting for,don't ask me I don't give a dam,next stop is (trumps picks)
With their leadership all dead, who is supposed to handle the surrender?
The puppet we install?
mojtaba has decided not to take the short straw
wisrich:
As former Creighton basketball coach Dana Altman told his players, "Step on their throats!"
The skywritten message does two things:
1. Shows we control the airspace; and
2. Since the internet is shutoff, this is a great way to communicate to the people of Tehran.
Reuters...
According to archived copies of the school's official website, the school is adjacent to a compound operated by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the military force that reports to Iran's supreme leader.
Doesn't it look like the school is inside the perimeter wall of the IRGC compound?
I thought of migas this morning, as I picked up a breakfast taco. There's a terrific cafe near me that recently moved to an even closer location. It's run by a bunch of Mexican ladies, they are hard chargers and do it all by hand. This new location has a bigger kitchen / prep area, a nicer sit-down section, and a steadily growing clientele. It was jammed this morning, landscaper's trucks and BMWs in the parking lot. A terrific success story, the kind everybody likes. And excellent food.
The Iran adventure needs to proceed at its present pace and wrap up.
The BBC is reporting today on the improvements already being seen on the street in Venezuela, funny how that story gets no American air time, wut?
Trump’s arrogance is often a virtue in producing positive results. It can be a negative factor politically. Rubio articulates several good reasons for the Action in Iran, none of which are MIGA. American voters are probably smart enough to be receptive to denying Iran funding for terrorism or the means to nuke us. I doubt they care about MIGA.
BTW, have any Islamists anywhere ever surrendered unconditionally?
Talk is cheap. No one is gwanna hold Trump to this empty boastful proclamation. It's just the ridiculous opening ask.
I care as much about Making Iran Great Again as I care about rebuilding a smashed ant colony. If I was suitcase king for a day I'd literally turn the whole fucking region into skating rink made of atomic glass.
RCOCEAN II “ Everyone knows the USA/Israel killed over 100 school girls in Iran”
Everyone? Funny, I don’t.
“With their leadership all dead, who is supposed to handle the surrender?”
I suspect you’d make an acceptable quisling, Mark
Grant was a great general and a President whose reputation is being refurbished. The Unconditional Surrender message began with him at the Battle of Fort Donelson.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/ulysses-s-grant-myth-unconditional-surrender-begins-fort-donelson
FDR echoed that refrain in his speech before Congress on December 8, 1941. "But always will our whole nation remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might will win through to absolute victory.
As a matter of style Trump reminds me of P.T. Bridgeport in the old Pogo comic strips.
Hopefully not another Obama, Biden, Clinton-style ethnic Spring.
What Trump did with the assassinations is show that the US cannot be negotiated with, it cannot be appeased, it shows no pity, no mercy, well, you know the rest of the quote.
Has that not historically been our position? We don't negotiate with terrorists? 'From the halls of montezuma to the shores of tripoli."
Or I guess you consider the mullahs freedom fighters rather than terrorists. Checks!
Art of the Deal.
Jaq said...
What Trump did with the assassinations is show that the US cannot be negotiated with, it cannot be appeased, it shows no pity, no mercy, well, you know the rest of the quote.
Yes. If you are a terrorist country that tries to obtain nuclear weapons, the US will destroy you.
No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
If you're a sane human being, you support this policy. Which is why only Democrats oppose it
"Unconditional surrender" is a terrible plan, though it might be OK as a negotiating start. We can't enforce it without boots on the ground, and I think everybody knows that.
I left my crystal ball in my other pants, but I can guess. The "art of the possible" suggests that the IRGC will play a role in any new government -- who is there with the force to eliminate them? Stymie, perhaps, eliminate, no. That suggests that any new government will be not terribly stable and not reliably friendly, though probably less bad than what's there now.
Kak and Jaq, now in reruns
They have gone well past the 100 comments needed for syndication, and it is not like their paymasters are expecting quality and fresh material.
Kakistocracy said...
Trump’s tagline might be more like this: “You cannot make an omelette without breaking eggs — and the eggshells are someone else’s problem.”
He’s breaking eggs but has no plan to make an omelette. Nor even a concept of a plan.
Correct. And that's the correct policy.
You threaten the US, we destroy you. We don't care what happens after that, other than that we won't let any of the "threaten the US" people come back into power later.
We wish the Iranians the best of luck afterwards, and we'll be happy to welcome them to our world order (where China has to pay market prices to get their oil) if they chose to be civilized.
But we owe them nothing. Their rulers threaten us, so we destroyed them. Rulers who want to live will note the outcome
It isn't really Iran we are demanding surrender from.
It is Lloyds of London.
@Achilles, for war reasons or not, definitely agree 100% with the administration tickling building our own global underwriter. Giving Lloyds market dominance and for this long is criminal.
Kakistocracy said...
Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say ~ Reuters
RCOCEAN II said...
Everyone knows the USA/Israel killed over 100 school girls in Iran. Its not "Likely" or "Possible". Its the truth.
Oh look, it's the Jew hating freak brigade.
No, what everyone knows is that it was a failed Iranian missile. But RC is still quoting BS Hamas propaganda, so there's no reason to expect him to be sane WRT Iran.
Not when he can let his Jew hating freak flag fly
DJT reads this blog.
Hope my previous musings on UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER resonated.
Bravo, Mr.President.
james said...
"Unconditional surrender" is a terrible plan, though it might be OK as a negotiating start. We can't enforce it without boots on the ground, and I think everybody knows that.
Bullshit.
Iranians are currently using every scrap of internet access they can get to tell Israel where regime forces are so Israel can bomb and kill them.
After maybe another week of that, we start dropping cases of AK-47s and ammo in civilian areas of every city, and tell teh people it's time to rise up.
Then when the rulers of Iran get tired of being slaughtered by the people they've been terrorizing, they come begging to us for protection.
And we'll tell them if they unconditionally surrender, and turn over all the regime foreign banking accounts to us, we'll let them and their families bug out with a small pile of cash.
Or, maybe we'll just sit back and watch, and just bomb any time the regime gets troops together, until everyone in teh regime is dead.
RC is like the women's studies majors at Columbia. Advocates for Hamas and Al-Jazeera. Everything is always America's fault and it's because the JOOOOS control everything.
What a loser.
If I have said this once I have said it a thousand times: how wet💦 is Liz Cheney right this second. Bucket and a mop.🧹
I understand that several hundred political prisoners have been released in Venezuela. Maduro is in jail and several hundred innocent people are free. Does that make the Venezuelan operation a success?.....We'll see how it plays out, but surely you cannot describe that operation as a failure and so far so good.........I don't think anyone in Venezuela wants to die for the cause of Maduro, but there's a lot of people in Iran who will die for Allah. It will definitely be messy, but I just don't see how you can claim Iran is winning..........The Germans enabled the overthrow of the Romanovs for the cost of a train ride (and a pile of counterfeit rubles). Why is it possible to overthrow Czars and Shahs but impossible to overthrow Mullahs?
Anyone 5’9 and over wearing a burka in Iran wil be killed by a drone
The real scandal is not that a bomb perhaps went astray but rather that a regime would choose to put a girl's school next to a primary target.......To date, more Iranians have been killed by the IRGC than by our bombs...........There's a joke on Wall St, that the market can be wrong longer than you can be right. I think Iran is betting that they can withstand our bombing longer than we can withstand $100 per barrel oil. We'll see how it goes, but we're gambling with our economy and they're gambling with their lives........I don't think the Taliban made rational choices, but for just that reason, they won their bet.
Howard said...
Talk is cheap. No one is gwanna hold Trump to this empty boastful proclamation. It's just the ridiculous opening ask.
Meh. The checks are already written.
This is just Trump taking the chance to look cool on the stage while all of his enemies crawl out from under their rocks and look stupid while they show themselves.
The big trophy Trump gets to mount this round is Lloyds.
China is however the real loser in all of this because they are going to lose their oil arbitrage.
Russia is also going to have to change how they operate based on long term lower gas prices.
https://comexlive.org/brent-oil/
D.D. Driver said...
If I have said this once I have said it a thousand times: how wet💦 is Liz Cheney right this second. Bucket and a mop.🧹
Not very wet. She is in the same boat as Billy Kristol.
Trump is killing the regime unceremoniously and violently. He is unleashing the US Military and using it how it was meant to be used and in the interests of the US citizenry that funds it and mans it.
The Cheney's were intent on using the US military to keep globalist powers entrenched. There was some war profiteering on the side.
Trump is destroying the machinery that has propped up the post WWII globalist order. What is happening now is much larger than the mullahs in Iran or any of the stupid shit you idiots are whinging on about.
William said...
I understand that several hundred political prisoners have been released in Venezuela. Maduro is in jail and several hundred innocent people are free. Does that make the Venezuelan operation a success?.....We'll see how it plays out, but surely you cannot describe that operation as a failure and so far so good.........I don't think anyone in Venezuela wants to die for the cause of Maduro, but there's a lot of people in Iran who will die for Allah. It will definitely be messy, but I just don't see how you can claim Iran is winning..........The Germans enabled the overthrow of the Romanovs for the cost of a train ride (and a pile of counterfeit rubles). Why is it possible to overthrow Czars and Shahs but impossible to overthrow Mullahs?
3/6/26, 11:48 AM
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I disagree a LITTLE. 1) You know Venezuela is going great? How do you know? Well if there is ANY shooting in American (not black-on-black) it is publicized all day and all night because the media generally hate traditional America and they really hate guns so EVERY mass shooting is publicized as much as possible. If you are not hearing about Venezuela it's because the good guys are winning and in general the media hate America.
2) IRGC is huge. So is the traditional army. How many IRGC are true believers and how many are getting paid to do it? No one knows. But once the money spigot is turned off the paid employees are done. You'll only have the true believers. How many of them are there, what happens when the traditional army decides they don't want to die, and what happens when the 99.99% of the population that hates the mullahs stop taking it?
It reminds me of a movie back maybe inthe 1990's? Something about Czechoslovakia where the secret police were torturing the population. Gradually it became clear that freedom would win. In almost the last scene the notorious vicious Stasi type policeman silently removes his Stasi pin and replaces it with a freedom pin and melts into the crowd.
I wonder if a meaningful part of the IRGC will do the same.
No the irgc are both the support structure of the regime and the elite forces (much like the republican guard)
Liz was much like suleimanis protector as he picked the prime ministers in iraq
EU is lifting sanctions on Russia, "temporarily" and I am at a loss as to why Putin would agree to continue the flow of energy to Europe, temporarily, to Europe which is actively making war on him, sinking LNG tankers in the Mediterranean, etc, just because they are desperate now.
These are all eminently foreseeable consequences of this stupid war.
I just heard a finance guy say that right now we have nearly a quadrillion dollars, nominally, in derivatives, that are founded on 300 billion dollars in hard assets, and that depend on oil staying within a certain window.
The Big Short, remember that movie? That collapse was based on a nearly universally accepted assumption, that prices couldn't collapse nationwide, only regionally, then they proceeded to make risky loans nationwide based on this "insight."
History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes, one thing is for sure, there are people who are going to get really rich based on money that will ultimately come out of your bank accounts, either in inflation, or pension fund collapses, or higher taxes, they will get it, one way or another.
MAGA NEOCON has tasted blood and man is he loving it!!
Justice Department targets Cuban officials, aims for indictments
The effort to bring charges against Cuban officials coincides with President Donald Trump saying that his administration is eyeing Cuba as the next country whose government might be overthrown, following the capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro in early January and the killing of Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday. This is what you bought!
Hegseth says we have destroyed their "drone launchers" You know what a drone launcher is? It's a little metal contraption less complicated than a lawn chair.
Jaq said...
EU is lifting sanctions on Russia, "temporarily" and I am at a loss as to why Putin would agree to continue the flow of energy to Europe, temporarily, to Europe which is actively making war on him, sinking LNG tankers in the Mediterranean, etc, just because they are desperate now.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Trump is going right at the globalists that rule Europe. What Trump is doing in Iran is defenestrating the Post WWII order. Lloyds. The Atlantic Council. WEF.
When Lloyds tried to shut down the Straight of Hormuz they were not ready for Trump to be prepared for that.
There are patterns clearly apparent to people smarter than you.
"...I understand that several hundred political prisoners have been released in Venezuela. ..."
The BBC broadcast I mentioned this morning said that thousands of political prisoners had been released, and that hundreds remained jailed. The second part of the sentence had the tone that suggested they were sorry that it wasn't reversed, but felt compelled to admit it.
Jaq - a rail or catapult drone launcher is around 15–25 ft in length, width about 4-8 ft and weighs 1,000–2,500 lbs.
That about the size of Jaq's lawn chair, so...
"Everyone? Funny, I don’t."
Why am I not surprised.
The EU makes the USA seem like a sane foreign policy actor. Supporting the war against Iran, supporting Ukraine, cutting themselves off from Oil and Gas, and now rearming against some mythical "Russia threat".
Of course all these EU countries are also importing millions of 3rd worlders while having less than 2.0/women birthrates. I think they must have some mind virus. Or taking stupidity pills.
If you're just listening to Fox or CNN or reading the WaPo/NYT you're only get part of the foreign news. The foreign outlets are much better. Institute for the study of war and Dropsite are good too.
Just curious: I wonder what Jaq would describe as a winning strategy with Iran. Trump should say "My bad" and pull out. Afterwards the Middle East would become a place of peace and prosperity?.......I don't know if any of our past leaders have made the absolute right choice in what to do there, but isn't some of this mess their fault?.......Jaq is a white supremacist. He believes that only white people are smart enough to make bad choices.
mccullough said...
“Anyone 5’9 and over wearing a burka in Iran will be killed by a drone.”
Bad idea. For one small example, that will take away Iran’s womens volleyball team at the next Olympics.
Suppose we bomb every target we can find. How does one get from there to surrender without troops on the ground? Seems impossible.
RCOCEAN II said...
The EU makes the USA seem like a sane foreign policy actor. Supporting the war against Iran, supporting Ukraine, cutting themselves off from Oil and Gas, and now rearming against some mythical "Russia threat".
Of course all these EU countries are also importing millions of 3rd worlders while having less than 2.0/women birthrates. I think they must have some mind virus. Or taking stupidity pills.
There is a globalist elite and you correctly allege they exist. They rule over Europe and they are doing exactly what you would predict a ruling class of billionaires would do if they ruled Europe.
Your problem is you keep calling them Jews. Some of them are Jews but they do not act with ethnic motivations.
Trump is completely rebuilding the international order in a way that is more beneficial to the US and to nationalist sentiments and taking out the post WWII globalist regime.
A thousand years after the fall of Rome, Europeans still mourned its fall. There were lots of things wrong with the Roman Empire, but it did provide one very valuable and worthy thing: peace......To a lesser extent, something like that happened with the Pax Britannica and the Concert of Europe. You can even praise the Ottoman Empire for the peace they inflicted on their subjects--at least outside of the Balkans and Europe.......If America wins decisively and the Mullahs go the way of the Bolsheviks and the Jacobins, I think a great many people in that part of the world will have more reason to rejoice in our success than to resent us. Not that they will.
There would be a powet vacuum a real hegemon like china would attempt to fill it, or it might be anarchy like both versions of mad max
Trump has been taking credit the last year for single handedly bringing gasoline prices down. Much higher prices coming for oil, natural gas, aluminum and fertilizer -- just in time for planting season. I’ve no doubt he will take ownership also when gasoline prices double.
Trump seems to be spinning a lot of plates -- interesting quagmire.
Yes the ottomans did suppress some nasty critters like the wahhabi kingdom for a spell
Emily Zanotti 🦝 on X: "Ah yes, lectured on colonialism by the famously non-colonial…*checks notes*…. …Spain?" / X https://share.google/lq0NRgHL03LGOAzRB
Prices are moving higher, but at least the number of people employed is going down. You’d think the guy who was elected to lower prices and end wars would be a little more concerned than he seems to be.
Almost every major industry group shed jobs in February.
Private sector overall: -86,000
Hospitality -27,000
Healthcare -28,000
Manufacturing -12,000
Tranport/warehouse -11,000
Construction -11,000
Information -11,000
Federal gov't -10,000
Professional/biz -5,000
Mining -2,000
Social assistance +9,000
Finance +10,000
Source BLS
Another reason we do not need more immigrant labor - legal and especially illegal.
"The foreign outlets are much better. "
I don't know if that's true or not, but how do you know they are better unless you have some direct access to the truth, and can separate propaganda and bias from facts?
steve uhr said...
Suppose we bomb every target we can find. How does one get from there to surrender without troops on the ground? Seems impossible.
Then you're not very bright.
The people of Iran rose up against the gov't, and were murdered in the tens of thousands
Now we're killing the ones who murdered them
When we've killed enough, we'll invite them to go back out on the streets, and kill anyone who attacks them
No more Mad Mullahs
https://fb.watch/FGYwCXibLv/
Just leaving it there...
Best President in my lifetime. He's incredible.
Russia is helping Iran to target US military assets in Middle East ~ Reuters
US foreign policy is now like a dog chasing its own tail.
Russian intelligence sharing with Iran is obvious and expected, much like US and allies intelligence sharing in the Ukraine.
The West is trying to bleed Russia in a grinding Ukraine conflict and Russia will try to bog the US down in the Middle East.
“Magazine depth” (drones, missiles and interceptors) across the two regions are interlinked. Russia uses Shahed drones in Ukraine (but is now producing its own jet powered drones). Ukraine produces lowcost interceptors. It’s now all connected.
Politically, this news forces the Trump administration to acknowledge Russia as an adversary in this conflict and perhaps more broadly on the global stage. It’s becoming untenable to give Russia a pass in Ukraine, while working to dismantle its ally Iran in the Middle East.
Buckle up, Trump is going to have to work very hard to square this circle and contain the global mess he has unleashed.
The Kak and Jaq show is pretty tedious. Like, take a break, go outside or something.
Kak - Russia is tapped out. All its resources are going into Ukraine and it just lost an entire generation of men.
China just lost a major part of its oil supply. It is estimated to have 90 days of reserve. Trump is about to control China's ability to fuel itself. China just stopped exporting petroleum products because it acknowledges it is in a VERY tight spot.
What do you think just happened to China's taking Taiwan without petroleum products? Without energy?
Your posts almost read like a thousand monkeys typing randomly.
I thought of Jaq et.al. when I read this article by an al-Jazeera apologist for Iran, titled "The End of Iran's Strategic Patience."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/the-end-of-iran-s-strategic-patience/ar-AA1XEH8Z?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=DCTS&cvid=69ab40536b0f4e1bb6a835e4c3647909&ei=11
Wonder why Putin can afford to be so bold with Trump and why Trump seems so subservient to Putin.
“Wonder why Putin can afford to be so bold with Trump and why Trump seems so subservient to Putin.”
Nope, no need to wonder most of us know why. Same reason Trump is Bibi’s bitch.
Some thoughts -
It seems unlikely that China can significantly resupply Iran under current conditions. US strategic reconnaissance is (probably) such that any flights into Iran by jet aircraft aren't going to be secret, if indeed there still are still airfields they can use.
Russian recon is far from real-time, and Iran (probably) doesnt have anything it can use to take advantage of targeting information to attack USN task forces. Iran probably did try, early on, to no effect so far.
Iranian firepower of all sorts is a wasting asset. It was strongest, by far, initially.
The Gulf states, plus Saudi Arabia have very significant air forces, and air control over Iran is such that they should have a free go over Iran too. But I doubt the US and Israel want them to help, they (probably) arent integrated into the US-Israeli targeting/deconfliction system apparently in use, and the risk of civilian damage in Iran is too high.
They could be used, maybe, as an anti-cruise missle CAP over the straits.
This would have been a perfect use case for US frigates or small combatants, that never were, as convoy escorts. The DOD deserves a reaming for having screwed that up for twenty years in spite of understanding the issue thoroughly.
Putin is bold with Trump?
112 comments and maybe a dozen worth reading.
Keith said...
https://fb.watch/FGYwCXibLv/
Hollywood is officially done.
Unconditional surrender has a very specific meaning. Do you suppose anyone in the White House realizes that?
Inga said...
“Wonder why Putin can afford to be so bold with Trump and why Trump seems so subservient to Putin.”
Nope, no need to wonder most of us know why. Same reason Trump is Bibi’s bitch.
Wasn't Trump Puntin's bitch?
You should remember what you were saying yesterday. You wouldn't sound like such a retard.
The laser weapon in use on the USS Preble (Arleigh Burke destroyer), reading between the lines, seems to have been very effective against drones/cruise missiles. Unfortunately, based only on open source, its the only such ship so equipped. This project has been pursued much too slowly over the last @5 years. Usual DOD inefficiency and lack of urgency. You will want hundreds of these in re China.
Kakistocracy said...
Unconditional surrender has a very specific meaning. Do you suppose anyone in the White House realizes that?
We notice that you morons aren't talking about Venezuela anymore.
You are too stupid to see what is going to happen over the next 10 months but let me help you out.
Democrats are going to be crying as Iranian people are in video ads thanking Trump for saving them from Mullah rule. Particularly the women.
In 6 months the stability of production in Iran will start kicking in and the global price of Oil will even out for all countries. China will no longer be getting cheaper Oil than the US and prices for Americans will come down.
Just in time for the midterms.
Meanwhile keep drooling on your keyboard like an idiot. It is fun to watch.
buwaya said...
The laser weapon in use on the USS Preble (Arleigh Burke destroyer), reading between the lines, seems to have been very effective against drones/cruise missiles. Unfortunately, based only on open source, its the only such ship so equipped. This project has been pursued much too slowly over the last @5 years. Usual DOD inefficiency and lack of urgency. You will want hundreds of these in re China.
China was so sure they were going to sink a carrier or two that they released the weapons shipment of the supersonic "ship killer" missiles.
Obviously Chinese hardware is failing epically all over Iran right now.
Xi is still purging his top military ranks.
"Unconditional surrender has a very specific meaning"
Does it?
As with anything human its got endless wiggle room.
Japan surrendered unconditionally, ostensibly, but as we know, with a good number of tacit side deals, like the emperor stays, along with the zaibatsus.
Aguinaldo was captured at gunpoint by Frederick Funston in 1901, and then officially surrendered his forces unconditionally. Some of which however continued fighting (a few for anothe 5 years) And then Aguinaldo was permitted to run his province as a fiefdom for 30 years. Make no trouble, and you get to do as you like with your bit of the Philippines.
The statement attempting to lock in a meaning to "unconditional surrender" lacks, er, nuance and historical context.
“Wasn't Trump Puntin's bitch?”
Obviously Trump pissed Putin off when he attacked Putin’s ally Iran, duh. The romance is over. Don’t be a retard.
Note that "Shipfinder" has the USS Preble at Yokusuka.
I wouldnt trust official statements by the DOD about such things.
Putin can't even prevent Ukrainian drones from destroying his infrastructure. He doesn't dare have his navy patrol the Black Sea.
But he's help Iran. Sure.
And Yes, Jim. About a dozen comments worth reading.
I've been looking for this data; the time series of missiles launched by Iran. Is it trending up or down? Answer: Down.
During yesterday’s briefing, Caine released some figures indicating the Iranians are losing their ability to fire ballistic missiles and drones: “As of this morning, U.S. Central Command is making steady progress. Iran’s theater ballistic missile shots fired are down 86 percent from the first day of fighting, with a 23 percent decrease just in the last 24 hours, and their one-way attack drone shots are down 73 percent from the opening days.”
"The romance is over. Don’t be a retard."
The romance only ever existed in your head.
“The romance only ever existed in your head.”
Maybe it’s time to take your head out of the sky and look around yourself.
Inga, do you still believe that Trump colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election?
Buwaya, Japan surrendered unconditionally. The U.S. was run by practical men who told the emperor he could stay because these practical men understood that some continuity was necessary. Hirohito had no say in it. And Tojo swung from the end of the rope.
Unconditional Surrender means give up or the U.S. will kill every last one of you. The IRGC is a finite number. They know they lost.
"Buwaya, Japan surrendered unconditionally"
Ostensibly.
Buwaya,
The U.S. was ready to kill every last one of them.
If you want Unconditional Surrender then you have to be willing to kill all of them.
Israel won’t defeat the Palestinians until they show they are willing to kill Hamas whenever they are. If you can’t live with collateral damage, then it’s a waste of time.
"Your problem is you keep calling them Jews."
No that's a lie. You're the one that keeps bringing up jews all the time. But if you don't have an argument, what can you except smear and call names?
Here we are, defeating in detail, an enemy who has been at war with us for 47 years, with minimal casualties for our people and civilians (note to people whining and obsessed about 100 school girls - civilians ALWAYS suffer in war), and many among you are utterly miserable about the situation. Guess what? At the core, Americans are an aggressive and warlike people.
p.s. agree with Mosby about Iran's future
Trump's repeated calls for Iran's unconditional surrender—on the very same day he summons defense industry CEOs to an emergency meeting about military supplies—perfectly captures his grasp (or lack thereof) of ends and means.
"By March 4, Iranian missile attacks were down by 86 percent, and drone attacks were down 73 percent. Missile attacks fell because Iran is running low on missiles, and the U.S. and Israeli air forces have prioritized destroying missile launchers after they fire."
Bring on the ground invasion.
What do we got to lose, boomer?
YeewHaw! USA USA USA
Only some Democrats, PBS and NPR, and Iranians loyal to the AK Regime are upset about CURRENT EVENTS in IRAN. FREE IRAN.
Just yesterday multiple Democrats claimed Trump "had no exit strategy".
It's "a war of choice". F### yes it is, cry harder.
I heard also that Trump offered to get Jasmine Crockett a job at MickeyD's.
My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. . . . I think it will go relatively quickly, . . . [in] weeks rather than months.
Dick Cheney
Adelman called it a cakewalk and it was till debaathification
mccullough said...
If you want Unconditional Surrender then you have to be willing to kill all of them.
I am perfectly happy with the idea of killing every single member of the gov't ruling Iran, and killing every single person who supports it
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