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Trump may not appreciate just how isolated the U.S. and Israel are among Israel’s Arab and Sunni neighbours.

Israelis, as a whole, are exhibiting a rosy assurance that they can harness Trump, if not to the full annexation of the Occupied Territories (Trump in his first term did not support such annexation), but rather, to ensnare him into a war on Iran. Many (even most) Israelis are raring for war on Iran and an aggrandisement of their territory (devoid of Arabs). They are believing the puffery that Iran ‘lies naked’, staggeringly vulnerable, before a U.S. and Israeli military strike.

Trump’s Team nominations, so far, reveal a foreign policy squad of fierce supporters of Israel and of passionate hostility to Iran. The Israeli media term it a ‘dream team’ for Netanyahu. It certainly looks that way.

The Israel Lobby could not have asked for more. They have got it. And with the new CIA chief, they get a known ultra China hawk as a bonus.

But in the domestic sphere the tone is precisely the converse: The key nomination for ‘cleaning the stables’ is Matt Gaetz as Attorney General; he is a real “bomb thrower”. And for the Intelligence clean-up, Tulsi Gabbard is appointed as Director of National Intelligence. All intelligence agencies will report to her, and she will be responsible for the President’s Daily briefing. The intel assessments may thus begin to reflect something closer to reality.

The deep Inter-Agency structure has reason to be very afraid; they are panicking – especially over Gaetz.

Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have the near impossible task of cutting out-of-control federal spending and currency printing. The System is deeply dependent on the bloat of government spending to keep the cogs and levers of the mammoth ‘security’ boondoggle whirring. It is not going to be yielded up without a bitter fight.

So, on the one hand, the Lobby gets a dream team (Israel), but on the other side (the domestic sphere), it gets a renegade team.

This must be deliberate. Trump knows that Biden’s legacy of bloating GDP with government jobs and excessive public spending is the real ‘time bomb’ awaiting him. Again the withdrawal symptoms, as the drug of easy money is withdrawn, may prove incendiary. Moving to a structure of tariffs and low taxes will be disruptive.

Whether deliberate or not, Trump is keeping his cards close to his chest. We have only glimpses of intent – and the water is being seriously muddied by the infamous ‘Inter-Agency’ grandees. For example, in respect to the Pentagon sanctioning private-sector contractors to work in Ukraine, this was done in coordination with “inter-agency stakeholders”.

The old nemesis that paralysed his first term again faces Trump. Then, during the Ukraine impeachment process, one witness (Vindman), when asked why he would not defer to the President’s explicit instructions, replied that whilst Trump has his view on Ukraine policy, that stance did NOT align with that of the ‘Inter-Agency’ agreed position. In plain language, Vindman denied that a U.S. president has agency in foreign policy formulation.

In short, the ‘Inter-Agency structure’ was signalling to Trump that military support for Ukraine must continue.

When the Washington Post published their detailed story of a Trump-Putin phone call – that the Kremlin emphatically states never happened – the deep structures of policy were simply telling Trump that it would be they who determine what the shape of the U.S. ‘solution’ for Ukraine would be.

Similarly, when Netanyahu boasts to have spoken to Trump and that Trump “shares” his views regarding Iran, Trump was being indirectly instructed what his policy towards Iran needs to be. All the (false) rumours about appointments to his Team too, were but the interagency signalling their choices for his key posts. No wonder confusion reigns.

So, what can be deduced at this early stage? If there is a common thread, it has been a constant refrain that Trump is against war. And that he demands from his picks personal loyalty and no ties of obligation to the Lobby or the Swamp.

So, is the packing of his Administration with ‘Israel Firsters’ an indication that Trump is edging toward a ‘Realist’s Faustian pact’ to destroy Iran in order to cripple China’s energy supply source (90% from Iran), and thus weaken China? – Two birds with one stone, so to speak?

The collapse of Iran would also weaken Russia and hobble the BRICS’ transport-corridor projects. Central Asia needs both Iranian energy and its key transport corridors linking China, Iran, and Russia as primary nodes of Eurasian commerce.

When the RAND Organisation, the Pentagon think-tank, recently published a landmark appraisal of the 2022 National Defence Strategy (NDS), its findings were stark: An unrelentingly bleak analysis of every aspect of the U.S. war machine. In brief, the U.S. is “not prepared”, the appraisal argued, in any meaningful way for serious ‘competition’ with its major adversaries – and is vulnerable or even significantly outmatched in every sphere of warfare.

The U.S., the RAND appraisal continues, could in short order be drawn into a war across multiple theatres with peer and near-peer adversaries – and it could lose. It warns that the U.S. public has not internalized the costs of the U.S. losing its position as the world superpower. The U.S. must therefore engage globally with a presence—military, diplomatic, and economic—to preserve influence worldwide.

Indeed, as one respected commentator has noted, the ‘Empire at all Costs’ cult (i.e. the RAND Organisation zeitgeist) is now “more desperate than ever to find a war it can fight to restore its fortunes and prestige”.

And China would be altogether a different proposition for a demonstrative act of destruction in order “to preserve U.S. influence worldwide” – for the U.S. is “not prepared” for serious conflict with its peer adversaries: Russia or China, RAND says.

The straitened situation of the U.S. after decades of fiscal excess and offshoring (the backdrop to its current weakened military industrial base) now makes kinetic war with China or Russia or “across multiple theatres” a prospect to be shunned.

ORDER IT NOW

The point that the commentator above makes is that there are no ‘easy wars’ left to fight. And that the reality (brutally outlined by RAND) is that the U.S. can choose one – and only one war to fight. Trump may not want any war, but the Lobby grandees – all supporters of Israel, if not active Zionists supporting the displacement of Palestinians – want war. And they believe they can get one.

Put starkly and plainly: Has Trump thought this through? Have the others in the Trump Team reminded him that in today’s world, with U.S. military strength slipping away, there no longer are any ‘easy wars’ to fight, although Zionists believe that with a decapitation strike on Iran’s religious and IRGC leadership (on the lines of the Israel’s strikes on Hizbullah leaders in Beirut), the Iranian people would rise up against their leaders, and side with Israel for a ‘New Middle East’.

Netanyahu has just made his second broadcast to the Iranian people promising them early salvation. He and his government are not waiting to ask Trump to nod his consent to the annexation of all Occupied Palestinian Territories. That project is being implemented on the ground. It is unfolding now. Netanyahu and his cabinet have the ethnic cleansing ‘bit between their teeth’. Will Trump be able to roll it back? How so? Or will he succumb to becoming ‘genocide Don’?

This putative ‘Iran War’ is following the same narrative cycle as with Russia: ‘Russia is weak; its military is poorly trained; its equipment mostly recycled from the Soviet era; its missiles and artillery in short supply’. Zbig Brzezinski earlier had taken the logic to its conclusion in The Grand Chessboard (1997): Russia would have no choice but to submit to the expansion of NATO and to the geopolitical dictates of the U.S.. That was ‘then’ (a little more than a year ago). Russia took the western challenge – and today is in the driving seat in Ukraine, whilst the West looks on helplessly.

This last month, it was U.S. retired General Jack Keane, the strategic analyst for Fox News, who argued that Israel’s air strike on Iran had left it “essentially naked”, with most air defences “taken down” and its missile production factories destroyed by Israel’s 26 October strikes. Iran’s vulnerability, Keane said, is “simply staggering”.

Kean channels the early Brzezinski: His message is clear – Iran will be an ‘easy war’. That forecast however, is likely to be revealed as dead wrong. And, if pursued, will lead to a complete military and economic disaster for Israel. But do not rule out the distinct possibility that Netanyahu – besieged on all fronts and teetering on the brink of internal crisis and even jail – is desperate enough to do it. His is, after all, a Biblical mandate that he pursues for Israel!

Iran likely will launch a painful response to Israel before the 20 January Presidential Inauguration. Its riposte will demonstrate Iran’s unexpected and unforeseen military innovation. What the U.S. and Israel will then do may well open the door to wider regional war. Sentiment across the region seethes at the slaughter in the Occupied Territories and in Lebanon.

Trump may not appreciate just how isolated the U.S. and Israel are among Israel’s Arab and Sunni neighbours. The U.S. is stretched so thin, and its forces across the region are so vulnerable to the hostility that the daily slaughter incubates, that a regional war might be enough to bring the entire house of cards tumbling down. The crisis would pitch Trump into a financial crisis that could sink his domestic economic aspirations too.


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  1. Notsofast says:

    the israeli fister candidates will breeze through confirmation but tulsi, rfk and gaetz, while certified kosher by rabbi shmuley, as israeli fisters as well, will face a much more fearsome gauntlet. big pharma will attack rfk, the dnc will attack gabbard and the deepstate will attack all three. gaetz has already resigned his seat in the house, this will present a very juicy target as if he is not confirmed he’s out altogether.

    the other intriguing element is iran holding off on their response, saying they would be willing to deal with his administration, perhaps that’s just to keep bibi from launching while brandon is still in office, but have backroom channels been opened already? trump had previously stated he wanted to deal with the iran and liked iranians. i think scott ritter has said something to that effect, but i wouldn’t bet on it.

    • Replies: @Anonymous
  2. Thank you Alastair Crooke for providing valuable insight into current affairs.

  3. Wokechoke says:

    Why is Russia banned in FIFA UEFA, while Israeli teams are welcomed to host cities like Amsterdam?

    Video Link

    And when the football hooligans from Tel Aviv come to the host city, why does the press set it up as a muslamic pogrom against the Jewish hooligans? Jews attacked blond haired blue eyed Dutch folks all around town.

    Are journalists conscious of the narrative lies they are spreading when accurate info is all around?

  4. A war with Iran would be a disaster for America. Look how well the “liberation” of Iraq worked out. Or how successful the Afghanistan occupation was.

    • Replies: @迪路
    , @Old Prude
  5. Cat says:

    America is a parochial, myopic country. We are very close to being hit by a ton of BRICS, not to mention inveigled into a ruinous WWIII. The ramifications of a failed Zionized international geopolitical strategy on our budding hopeful domestic vision cannot be underestimated.

    Trump’s proposed new administration:

    Domestic appointees – A+

    Foreign policy appointees – D-

    • Agree: Robert Bruce
  6. anonymous[139] • Disclaimer says:

    US has never fought a war with a ‘peer’ or ‘near peer’ adversary. It has always chosen those in a weak position. The last few outings haven’t been very rewarding. It would be lunacy to try to wage a war against Iran, a country of about 90m. There’s no chance of invading and occupying any of its territory so they can keep fighting for the next fifty years or however long they want. They might be bombed into temporary quiescence but then they’ll come right back. The days of easy wars for the US passed a long time ago, right around ’45, with Korea and Vietnam spelling the end, the Iraq and Afghan adventures being reminders of that. Hopefully the snarling rhetoric of the new administration is just that, a lot of big talk.

    • Replies: @Gerbils
  7. Anon 284 says:

    An attack on iran is so galactically stupid i almost guarantee the jews, through their agent trump, will do it! 2025 will be a seminal year. A destructive and painful year. But israel will commit suicide and the US will finally be forced to grow up and think like an adult instead of naive children who want easy answers so they can go back to playing brainless video games. The economic and emotional pain of a war with a real country will cause this shock; the US will be irreversibly weakened and changed, hopefully for the better. As for the jews… if they think using a nuke will save them, they should consider that iran will reciprocate. And, this says nothing of the global jewish diaspora in the west who will face the blowback of iranian and other muslim neighbors in california new york london etc etc. they should consider that too. All iranians i know have family in tehran, a city of 15 million

    We are on a dangerous path with no exits before the ultimate destination. Trumps election put us on this road.

    Personally, i am most surprised that china and india, the two countries with potentially the most to lose if oil spikes to $200 barrel causing millions of their most vulnerable to die of starvation, havnt tried to stave off this lunacy with some diplomatic ultimatum to the US and the jews.

    Like i keep saying. Buy oil, food, tp and hold on to your butts

  8. Europe is now in a corner, Sholz has just gone to Putin with cap in hand and got a lesson in reality.

    Europe is in a real bind if they don’t change something quick, Trumps election has left them holding the Ukraine baby, the natives are also getting restless due to job losses, will they have to go to war? Can they?

    Desperate people do desperate things, Europes inability to cast out the occupier post WW2 have turn it into a milk sop…but that’s over…will we see a rise in fascism again on the European continent?

  9. sorry, Crooke, but “the renegade team” is DOA:

    *neither Gaetz nor RFK Jr. will get by the corporate-Republiscam/Demonrat Senate.

    *Musk and Pajeet #1 will accomplish nothing w their tinker-toy “Dept. of Whatever”: the jew.gov will continue to metastize.

    *Tulsi the Samoan Hindu (pajeet #2) @ Intel will tell Trumpstein/Hegseth/Waltz/Rubio et al exactly what they want to hear: warwarwarwarwar..….

    *there is, however, this, @ Zio-Gestapo HQ, alias DHS:

    View post on imgur.com

    ……large packs of puppies and other small animals have begun fleeing to Mexico.

    • Replies: @Priss Factor
  10. West is getting information-dumb at the elite level.
    It’s getting to the point where the low-info person is gonna be better-informed than the high-info person(as the high-info person sticks to the official narrative).

    • Thanks: Miro23
  11. @Haxo Angmark

    Puppy-killing wench. Vile scum.

    And she wants to shoot the First Amendment to appease the Chosen Tribe.

    • Replies: @Charles Martel France
  12. Not sure where Alistair gets his stats from re “China’s energy supply source is 90% from Iran”.

    The Russians and Saudi’s are the top oil suppliers and the Power of Siberia supplies the bulk of the natural gas to China.

  13. @Anon 284

    “An attack on Iran is so galactically stupid I almost guarantee the jews, through their agent trump, will do it!”-unfortunately you are very likely right.
    “US will finally be forced to grow up and think like an adult instead of naive children who want easy answers so they can go back to playing brainless video games”-yes remember that for the vast majority of the populace, video games are the most common way of experiencing war which creates a false sense of what war actually is.

    • Replies: @Anon
    , @Anon
  14. Protogonus says: • Website

    The writer Crooke and the commentators evidently think the blue-to-red rotation is about America, whose history began with the crypto-Hebrews Jefferson & Co. and was founded on slave labor then and still is–China being a vast plantation supplying the Zionist Empire, just as Kissinger hoped.

    The main stage was set by 1945 for the final assault on the goyim nations. The Cold War represented two groups of talmudic killers exercising modes of appropriation of the goyim nations–through capitalism or by proletarian expropriation. America is nothing in itself and never has been.

    Putin & Co. threw out the Rothschild’s man (Khodorkovsky) in a clever ploy but Russia otherwise remains a possession of the Talmudic Monster, since the Bank of Russia remains Hebrew and the Russian economy likewise, for the most part. The Ukraine war is a means of busying Moscow until Khodorkovsky returns.

    The overthrow of the Shah (1979) was the event around which modernity turns. Readers will notice a procession of wars (Desert Storms) following manipulation of Iraq and Saddam against Tehran, the earlier occupation of Lebanon (Marine Barracks), the subsequent war on Syria (White Helmets).

    After elaborate arrangements and preliminary stage-setting, wars and assassinations, everything is ready now for the recovery of Tehran. Moscow will follow in step. Beijing has always been a pawn (the rise of Mao being merely a stage in the subjugation of Japan and Germany).

    The Sanhedin of 71 awaits the moment when Temple Mount will be ready for sacrifice of bellowing calves and goats, with throats slit and their blood flowing off the Hebrew altars–all in worship of the satanic Voice of Death that first spoke to Moses long ago:

    https://www.academia.edu/122647432/Moses_the_Sorcerer_Meta_Analysis_

    Note that to view the article, simply SCROLL DOWN; no sign-in is necessary. Thanks.

  15. Miro23 says:

    The U.S. is stretched so thin, and its forces across the region are so vulnerable to the hostility that the daily slaughter incubates, that a regional war might be enough to bring the entire house of cards tumbling down. The crisis would pitch Trump into a financial crisis that could sink his domestic economic aspirations too.

    There are shades here of the end of British India (1947).

    British forces were thinly stretched. They were vulnerable to the generalized hostility. Also colonial India morphed into a heavy financial burden that bankrupt post WW2 Britain couldn’t handle.

    However, the most worrying aspect is that the only remaining true power the US has left is nuclear, and it now looks like it’s under the control of the Israeli nut cases.

  16. So, is the packing of his Administration with ‘Israel Firsters’ an indication that Trump is edging toward a ‘Realist’s Faustian pact’ to destroy Iran in order to cripple China’s energy supply source (90% from Iran), and thus weaken China? – Two birds with one stone, so to speak?

    Can we have Alastair Crooke removed from TUR forever? What is this nonsense? He is senile.

    Iran is almost irrelevant to China as an energy supply source, accounting for less than 3%.

    https://www.statista.com/statistics/1310953/oil-imports-by-country-china/

    https://thediplomat.com/2021/03/china-is-buying-record-amounts-of-iranian-oil/

    In 2021 Iran was sening approximated 306,000 barrels per day of crude oil to China. In 2020, Chinese oil imports grew to 10.85 million barrels per day.

    • Replies: @ba8niu
    , @Almost Missouri
  17. roonaldo says:

    The Resistance could’ve demolished the US military almost overnight, while the Hegemon’s supersoldiers are holed up in comfort rooms sobbing and coloring over the shock of Kamala’s defeat.

    Reports pour in of grieving crews running aircraft carriers into shoals, driving submarines into seamounts, and crashing planes into the sea. Half the Pentagon is on bereavement leave and logistics are all fouled up, leaving men’s rooms bereft of tampons and mess halls empty of tofu.

    Now’s the time, Vladimir. Think of what Sun Tzu said, Xi… “When enemy cries his eyes out, it is time to eat his liver!”

    • LOL: Old Prude
  18. anastasia says:

    If those who govern us didn’t know that a country with 140 million people was going to win a war against a country of 40 million people, those who govern us will not be making the right decisions with regard to Iran.

  19. Protogonus says: • Website
    @anastasia

    Frederick the Great led a continuous hot war (1740-1762) defending his five million Prussians against nations attacking from every direction representing one hundred million people (see Thos. Carlyle, ‘History of Friedrich II,’ 5 vols., 1865, a readable history with interesting military maps).

    If Zelensky were a real general and not a Hebrew pervert, crack addict, and con man Ukraine might have had a chance against Russia, especially given the hundreds of billions in money and weapons being handed to the President of Ukraine and his corrupt colleagues up to the present moment.

    However, Russia itself is led by less-than-stellar military staff and internally has to cope with a lack of enthusiasm for (or really commitment to) what is an ex-Soviet hodgepodge of peoples and religions. Its noted ideologist Dugin constantly complains about the liberals of Russia as a “fifth column.” Abortion-on-demand is still allowed.

    Putin & Co. threw out the Rothschild’s man (Khodorkovsky) in a clever ploy but Russia otherwise remains a possession of the Talmudic Monster, since the Bank of Russia remains Hebrew and the Russian economy likewise, for the most part. Under these conditions, will Russia prevail against NATO’s proxy aggression?

    https://www.academia.edu/76372363/To_Sevastopol_With_Love

    Note that to view the article, simply SCROLL DOWN; no sign-in is necessary. Thanks.

  20. @anastasia

    Size isn’t everything, the persian army had over 10,000,000 and they still lost to a smaller army.

  21. Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy have the near impossible task of cutting out-of-control federal spending and currency printing

    Perhaps not.

    I think they can strip the administration to the bone in the wake of the recent Supreme Courts Chevron decision.

    If you reduce the administration only to those actions specifically directed by Congress, not to those determined by the administration itself to be allowed, then real estate prices in Northern VA and Southern MD could drop like a stone.
    One dumb simple example: When did Congress pass a bill saying car fleets have to average 35 MPG?

  22. ba8niu says:
    @Anonymous534

    Iran’s oil supply to China is a bit hidden from general public media, because of USA’s sanctioning towards to both Iran and China. Iran exported oil under name of other countries, e.g. Malaysia, Pakistan etc. it accounts of 10% of total oil import for China.

    So it’s quite substantial percentage, in this way, what Alastair said is still making sense, even though the percentage number is wrong.

  23. muh muh says:

    Still can’t capture Gaza.

  24. muh muh says:

    Definitely dispatched.

    • Thanks: AxeGryndr
  25. anon[166] • Disclaimer says:

    What can Israel learn from America? You need to reverse that question: The question is what can America learn from Israel.”

    – Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for Defense Secretary, tells Jewish group in Israel.

    In this extended clip, Pete Hegseth explains how Americans are largely “asleep” unlike wise Israelis and suggests he’s preparing his young boys to fight future wars “side by side” with Israel. (Aug, 2016

    Haley – Israel doesnt need America America needs Israel

    Nancy Pelosi:If capital crumbles to the ground,one thing tha’ll remain is our commitment to Israel.Our aid I dont call it aid,its our committment .

    Video Link

    “Hearing Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer brag about the fact that his name, Schumer, comes from the Hebrew “shomer” or guardian and that as such, he has always seen himself as a “shomer Yisrael” or “guardian of Israel””
    JPost. But J Post found it inadequate

    Martin Indyk says he ‘made aliyah to Washington’ to save Israel.
    He reminded he served for Israeli army in 1973 war.

    Rep Andy Ogles If you are a foreign student who’s abusing the privilege of studying in the greatest country on earth by terrorizing college campuses, GO HOME

    Does America has a right to exist ? Does it exist?

    “Musk appears to pressure Trump on Cabinet and tariffs, raising eyebrows
    Elon Musk, the billionaire who has become Donald Trump’s “first buddy,” appeared to publicly pressure the president-elect on economic policy and a key Cabinet pick.”–

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/11/16/elon-musk-trump-treasury-tariffs/?commentID=b4c9aaa4-b31d-405d-91e7-51f9c2305c9e

    Did Haim Saban or Singer or Adelshon get ever scrutinized and portrayed same way as Musk is being?
    Did AIPAC ever face condemnation for putting people in Clinton cabinet and for bragging about it?

    This is worth reading — https://mondoweiss.net/2012/05/in-92-aipac-president-raised-1-million-for-bill-clinton-and-he-supported-the-settlements/

    More —“Netanyahu didn’t stop there. After Romney lost, Netanyahu came to Congress to tell the Congress to reject President Obama’s nuclear deal. That was an unprecedented interference of a foreign leader in our policy-making, enabled by the Israel lobby; but there were never any investigations about that. Subsequently Chuck Schumer said he was torn between a Jewish interest and the American interest, before voting against the president, and he paid no political/reputational price for it; while President Obama said that it would be an “abrogation” of his constitutional duty if he considered Israel’s interest ahead of the U.S.; for which Obama was called an anti-semite.”

    https://mondoweiss.net/2017/02/interferes-politics-scandal/

    • Thanks: Zumbuddi, Agent76
    • Replies: @One Nobody
  26. @ba8niu

    No, his argument doesn’t make sense. Iran accounts for less than 5% of world oil production. If Iran were to disappear from the face of the Earth tomorrow, other producers would increase their production and prices would adjust. China wouldn’t be “crippled” by it. China would be marginally worse off, that’s all.

    Trump is not packing his Administration with ‘Israel Firsters’ because he’s playing secret 5D chess and wants to “cripple” China by destroying Iran. Trump is packing his Administration with ‘Israel Firsters’ because he is bought and paid for by the Jewish/Israeli lobby, and the ZOG regime installed him to lead his Israel First Administration for their own goals, such as destroying Iran for the benefit of Israel. Just a few days ago Crooke repeated this ridiculous thesis that Israel is a proxy of the US. One must be blind not to see in the current year which country is the actual proxy.

    • Replies: @Wild Man
    , @barr
  27. gT says:

    Ok, the US can’t fight Russia, the US can’t fight China, because those countries are simply to big / capable to get an easy victory against. So the US thinks it can beat Iran, because Iran simply does not have the wherewithal that Russia and China has. Fair enough, but the problem is that Russia can easily supply Iran with all the equipment Iran needs through the Caspian Sea. So just like the West is supplying Ukraine in its war against Russia right now, Russia can supply Iran in its war against the West. And just like with Serbia, the West won’t want to put boots on the ground in Iran, so it will be an exclusively bombing war. And with a bombing war its aircraft and missiles, both air launched and ground / sea launched, which matter. Iranian sam’s will take down many Western aircraft, Russian sam’s in Iranian hands will take down even more Western aircraft. Then its just the cruise and ballistic missiles, of which Iran has a lot and Russia even more. So a victory over Iran will come at the cost of all infrastructure in the Middle East, if a victory is even possible without putting boots on the ground in Iran. Sure looks like the only way to achieve victory in a war against Iran is with nukes, and if the West nukes Iran then Russia will supply Iran with nukes, just like the US supplied Israel with nukes, through the guise of Israel having stolen them from the US.

    There is no way the West can win a war against Iran.

    • Thanks: showmethereal
  28. @ba8niu

    Yeo say Chinee DNA no like conquer stuff

    • Thanks: James of Africa, Agent76
  29. If the reports are correct that that dangerous decendant of the malevolent Scotts Irish, Bidet, has given the ok for deep strikes into Russia then you better stock-up for nuclear war. Forget about Trumps government, good chance there won’t be one.

    Ukraine has talked about nuclear bombs, now they will have long range capabilities…what do you think the Russians will do when their radars pick up incoming missles?

    I believe the vast majority of morons still won’t believe nuclear war is possible even when the mushroom clouds start appearing?

    • Replies: @Monika92gti
  30. Wow, Mark Zuckerberg has cloned himself.

    Check out that Secret Service agent next to Trump in the photo.

  31. @Mr-Chow-Mein

    Maybe this is the plan. Get a major war going with Russia and then Biden claims power can’t be transferred. I’m sure Trump would issue a nation-wide call for Americans to hit the streets. I don’t know…. any attempt by the Dems to stay in power would be extremely risky and chaotic. Or, maybe they are determined to hand Trump the worst possible scenario…

  32. The western media is ignoring this report. Iran says it has no nukes, but can build one in 24 hours.


    Video Link

    • Replies: @Anonymous534
  33. ghali says:

    “Trump may not appreciate just how isolated the U.S. and Israel are amongst Israel’s Arab and Sunni neighbours.” What a bigoted and racist statement! The hundreds of millions of Muslims who live in the region do not exist for a racist Brit. There are hardly any Christians left in the region. The Jews murdered most of those who were not lucky to leave.  Muslims do not identify themselves as “Arab and Sunni.” And the coward has not a single word about JEWS, who controlled everything in the U.S.-led Christian West, from politics to entertainment and the entertainment industries. Trump was elected because he repeatedly assured the Jews that he will allow the Jews/Netanyahu to “finish the Palestinians.”

  34. Anynomous says:

    We need to legally strike soft targets of american and british terrorists with legal means and start boycotting them, as well as putting them under sanctions, until theres legally nothing left of this animal scum. The murderous and criminal american and british nazi and fascist slave trader ideology and culture finally needs to die.

    • Replies: @Zumbuddi
  35. Gallatin says:
    @Wokechoke

    Double Down News deserves praise for being honest here.

  36. Walt King says:
    @Robert Young

    Yes he is completely wrong.

    “Russia, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq were China’s main sources of crude oil imports in 2023. Compared with 2022, China’s 2023 crude oil imports increased the most from Russia, Iran, Brazil, and the United States. China’s largest volumetric increase in crude oil imports in 2023 was from Russia.”
    Iran simply not mentioned.

    https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61843

    Coal is still very important, and nearly all that comes from their northern provinces.
    “China is the largest producer and consumer of coal and coal power in the world. The share of coal in the Chinese energy mix declined to 55% in 2021 according to the US Energy Information Agency.”

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_in_China

  37. 迪路 says:
    @anonymouseperson

    But I don’t think they’ll be in a big fight.
    Iran may not have a nuclear bomb, but they do have a dirty bomb, and it should be okay to contaminate all of Tel Aviv and make it uninhabitable.
    Given the fact that the US can’t afford a local war, I guess at best they continue with the assassination campaign.

  38. Anon[211] • Disclaimer says:
    @notbe mk 2

    Call Of Duty & video games are grosskyunable to replicate the reality of combat or even the service as an Infantry grunt.

    Can’t replicate 3 days of zero sleep after 24hr days of demanding physical activity. Digging, filling sandbags & HESCO’s coupled with the “downtime” of standing watch. Living off MRE’s & pooping in view of everyone into a hole that you dug in the ground. Not bathing for days (weeks) on end. No running water, limited electricity, no WiFi, no cell phone service.

    Call Of Duty wannabe warriors well rested sitting in the air condition/ heater in a comfy chair only able to play at wannabe warriors because they have electricity & WiFi. And the flushable potty is only 10 steps away

    • Agree: notbe mk 2
    • Thanks: showmethereal
    • Replies: @Old Prude
  39. skrik says:

    @Alastair Crooke

    for the U.S. is “not prepared” for serious conflict with its peer adversaries: Russia or China, RAND says

    The Pentagon must know the true ‘state of play,’ both their own capabilities and those of China, Iran & Russia.

    IF the Pentagon thought it could win against any of them, especially Iran THEN they would have already ‘gone in.’ IMHO that means they know that they *cannot* win. boohoo

    As well, their ‘proxy’ Ukraine will go ‘toes up.’ What an utterly stupid ‘own goal,’ a total embarrassment. no boohoo

  40. GMC says:

    Alastair says
    ” Many (even most) Israelis are raring for war on Iran and an aggrandisement of their territory (devoid of Arabs). They are believing the puffery that Iran ‘lies naked’, staggeringly vulnerable, before a U.S. and Israeli military strike.”
    This sounds like the same BS propaganda that they used on the Ukrainians when the Jew Neocons wanted the Ukies to take on Russia, after training up their armies. And it will end the same way for Israel – hopefully. As far as long range missiles hitting Russia proper, go ahead, once they launch out of Odecca/ Nikolaev area , bingo , Russia will now definitely take all of Odecca and Transnistria together. Forget about negotiations. The people in the US just don’t get it – hitting Crimea is like hitting Florida – Period.

    • Agree: Alfred
    • Replies: @One Nobody
  41. President Joe Biden is senile and quite incapable of rational thought so who is really running the United States government and launching our missiles deep into Russia?

    Who is risking world war III and for what purpose?

  42. Anonymous[332] • Disclaimer says:
    @Notsofast

    iran is fake and controlled op, not to mention it is run by mi6 spooks and indian transexuals. do your research.

    • Troll: Notsofast
    • Replies: @Rev. Spooner
  43. There is nothing other than media bluster to support this narrative that Trump is a “renegade.”

  44. Old Prude says:
    @anonymouseperson

    The US military routed the Taliban in a month, and took over Iraq in three weeks. Pretty impressive. That’s what the military is for: Smash and grab.*

    Trying to teach savages civilized ways? Forlorn. Twenty fu**ing years of waste.

    *I doubt the current military could accomplish this. All those guys have retired out,

    • Replies: @MoT
    , @barr
  45. Old Prude says:
    @Anon

    All that misery, AND the real threat of getting killed or maimed at any moment. There is no feeling like being unable to escape the hands of Fate and Doom.

    • Agree: notbe mk 2
  46. aspnaz says:

    Many (even most) Israelis are raring for war on Iran

    Many (even most) Israelis have serious mental health issues. Just look at their pervert army dressing in women’s clothing, the clothing of their murder victims; other than being totally unprofessional – we do not see this from Ukraine, Russia, Syria, Iraq, Libya etc – what sort of “soldiers” are these; have they been forced to do this, is that why they are insane; but the Ukrainian army have been forced yet they are able to be mostly professional. What has happened to Israel’s culture, are they now all religious fanatics, the western replacement for ISIS?

  47. @Wokechoke

    W… they are not Journalists that record events as witnessed. They are Propagandists that narrate deceptive lies for a few who believe they are exceptional in order to exploit Humanity.

    Those “Journalists” are a fifth column and I hope one day they will be found guilty and punished for all the dead children of the world and our dead soldiers.

    • Replies: @Romulus
  48. @Carlton Meyer

    That probably means they do have nukes.

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
  49. Stopped reading at “panicking … over Gaetz.”

    Comedy gold right there, truly hilarious.

    Gaetz has a snowball’s chance in Hell of being confirmed.

    Next …

    • Replies: @bjondo
  50. @GMC

    GMC… It is not hard to see that no foothold should be left from which MI6 fuckery can spring into Russia. This is why Russia will bulkanize the Ukraine by returning historical territories back to its neighbors.

    Does Russia really want to end the war in Ukraine? Doesn’t every missile and Dollar sent to Ukraine become one less missile and Dollar going to Shitrahell?

    The game as it stands is a rush into WW3 to give the Bank of England and the ECB an excuse to default on the guaranteed Ukrainian Bonds owned by Blackrock and Monsanto; or to recolonize the ME so Europe can regain a source of energy commodities after the same attempt failed in Ukraine. Europe never could survive without being a parasite living off the rest of the planet.

    Winter is coming on and the German Greens are about to burn brown coal, high quality gas was so much cleaner. What a reversal of fortunes in Ukraine.

    Will Shitrahell be also a reversal of fortunes for Europe and the UK? It isn’t the same problem for the US, unless the US commits suicide for Shitrahell and destroys itself. A diminished US is always good news for the Brutish Clown and the City of Dragons. This is the level from where this game is directed. The game is called collateralized commodities or colonialism.

    • Agree: Alfred
    • Replies: @GMC
  51. @anon

    Downtown Tel Aviv is starting to look like Allepo. This is what happens when 6 million Shitrahellis, (one million fled their promissed land), think they are chosen to rule over half a billion neighbors. Hubris is terminal.

  52. That we must still put up with rabid Talmudic psychopaths controlling a giant US golem, using it like a Big Stick to beat up the rest of the world, is a disgusting anachronism and leads us to one overwhelming question: when the hell are we going to finally solve the Jewish Problem? There is only reason we are on the brink of another world war: the Jews. I think we’ve had about enough of this bullshit.

    Trump’s rampaging Zionists are aiming for one thing: setting fire to the Middle East, starting with Iran. The Jews shoved Israel-firsters down America’s throat and that means writing a blank check to a Nut-anyahoo who is now licking his chops, ready to bomb-bomb-bomb Iran back to the stone age. It will start with a “preemptive strike” against Iranian nuclear facilities, and negative war-game scenarios and Rand Corporation analyses be damned. Reality? The Jews are untethered from reality: reality is what the Jews see fit to call reality.

    The problem is that we’re not dealing with rational creatures: we’re dealing with Jews, the eternal enemies of the human race. The Jews want to kill off as many goyim as possible, and that includes not only Persians and Arabs, but literally everybody: whites, brown, yellows, and all the different shades of humanity. That the US will suffer from serious blowback and fallout from these Jew derangements is NOT an unintended consequence: it’s all part of the satanic Jew plan.

    So prepare yourselves, fellow Unzers, for the Trump 2.0 regime: it’ll be a doozy. Just think about the worst scenario you could possibly fathom and you can be sure the Jews have thought about something even more evil and are actively putting their humanly inconceivable plans into action. Jew-puppet “Biden” authorizing the Jew Zelensky to use long-range missiles to attack deep inside Russia is just one example: “Third Rome must fall and its leader must be killed”, think the satanic messianic Jews.

    The Jews are an alien race: when they accuse us of not being human, it’s all projection, because they know that it is they, themselves, who are not human. That’s what we still have to deal with until the whole world gets so fed up with this alien species that it will have to take a drastic step: we will all have to get together to come up with a final solution — a real one, this time — for the Jewish Problem. Enough is enough.

    “Biblical ‘prophecy’ is being MADE to happen to make it appear to Jews and Christians that ‘God’ is making it happen on the way to the Messianic Age and the Christian Second Coming of ‘Jesus’.”

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  53. Bama says:

    The U.S. is looking for a fight. That is its way of life now. It is a bully that does not hesitate to pick on lesser competitors. One would think that Vietnam and Iraq would have taught our corrupt, Jew run government a lesson. The cards are out there on the table and we will sooner or later bite off more than we can chew. No one wants the big war but we cannot help ourselves and keep pushing. That is a Jewish trait we have taken as our own.

  54. @Robert Young

    Perhaps he meant that the 90% of Iranian oil goes to China which accounts for a certain portion of all energies imported by China.

    • Agree: showmethereal
    • Replies: @notbe mk 2
  55. @Anonymous534

    China’s energy supply source (90% from Iran)

    Maybe Crooke can clarify, but I think he means that China consumes 90% of Iran’s output, not that Iran’s output is 90% of China’s input. Admittedly, not clearly phrased.

    • Replies: @Anonymous534
  56. They did have one easy victory recently – Pakistan. Imran Khan seemed like a very popular guy with a lot of support for a more nationalist agenda, but the neocons were able to oust him fairly easily as soon as he got out of step with their plans. I still don’t get the dynamics that allowed them to overthrow such a popular leader in a nuclear armed Islamic fundamentalist country where the Taliban is still in control of large sections in the northern mountains. Maybe Pakistan had been more kiked up with feminism and such than I realized. Maybe they think they can still do the same in Iran. They obviously had Iranian security forces infiltrated enough to pull off that bombing in Tehran.

    • Replies: @showmethereal
  57. Zumbuddi says:
    @Anynomous

    We need to legally strike soft targets of american and british terrorists with legal means and start boycotting them

    regardez les agriculteurs français

  58. HT says:

    Not to worry about all this. It’s very possible the lunatic globalist warmongers in our government will force Putin to launch on us making the Middle East issue disappear.

  59. @Anon 284

    Obviously, you think that Harris was the better choice.

  60. The main event is not this contrived Kabuki Theater between Israel and Iran

    The main event is going right now in Gaza, specifically northern Gaza where Israel’s unabashed slaughter of defenseless civilians is happening

    This fake conflict between the bedfellows Israel and the Mullahs is a distraction from the mass murder in Gaza

    The Israeli controlled West say they want democracy in Iran, that’s bullshit

    The Israelis know that a democratic Iran would be anti Israel, that’s why they do everything possible to maintain the Mullahs in power by assassinating any threats to them

    Hence General Soleimani’s liquidation with no blood for blood in return by the Mullahs

    Think out side the box folks

  61. Jim H says:

    Message sent to Senators just now:

    Please support your colleague Senator Sanders today as his three Joint Resolutions of Disapproval are considered:

    S.J Res. 111 – to block 120 mm tank rounds
    S.J.Res. 113 – to block 120 mm high explosive mortar rounds
    S.J.Res. 115 – to block JDAMs

    “The United States government is currently in violation of the law. Every member of the U.S. Senate who believes in the rule of law should vote for these resolutions.

    “The Foreign Assistance Act and the Arms Export Control Act are very clear. The United States cannot provide weaponry to countries that violate internationally recognized human rights or block U.S. humanitarian aid.

    “Israel is clearly in violation of these laws. It is illegal for the U.S. government to provide Israel with more offensive weaponry. JRDs are Congress’s tool to enforce those laws.”

    – Senator Sanders, press conference, Nov 19, 2024. Video:

    Video Link

    ————

    By tonight, we will know which Senators are pro-genocide, and which Senators oppose genocide. It’s a stark, black-and-white choice between an ethical respect for human rights, or the degenerate orgy of mass murder committed by the little Jewish apartheid colony.

    This morning is the time to call your Senators, if you’ve got them.

  62. Emslander says:

    This must be deliberate. Trump knows that Biden’s legacy of bloating GDP with government jobs and excessive public spending is the real ‘time bomb’ awaiting him.

    Thank you. This is the dirty reality that has generated stock market balloons and happy talk economic forecasts for fifty years.

    Borrowing and spending increased GDP. Increases in GDP justify more borrowing and spending. The DOGE will trigger reality. Please don’t get cold feet. Let the house of cards fall!

  63. @Almost Missouri

    Yes, that would be the most charitable interpretation of his argument, but while Iran is China’s energy supply source, it’s only a minor one. The US could make a bigger impact than that by simply banning export of its oil to China, as they export more to China than Iran.

    • Replies: @Almost Missouri
  64. Chaskinss [AKA "Septic Guirini"] says:

    Regarding the terminal decline of the American empire. thinking of writing another vol. in the series, but am not sure of a possible title. narrowed it down to 4 candidates, and wd appreciate it if you guys cd vote on which you think is the best one. Here goes:

    1. The Degradation of the Hustling and Huckstering Buffoons

    2. A Fake Nation Beating Off into Oblivion

    3. A Fraudulent Nation that Deserves to Die

    4. Dumber than Dogshit: Case Studies of the American Peoples

    Or, you might suggest an alternate. Thanks mucho

  65. Netanyahu allegedly was one of the first to congratulate Biden in 2020. That supposedly infuriated The Donald. Does Trump hold good grudges? One could hope, which is what we can do while preparing for the worse.

    Personally I do not think Trump’s Christian Zionist picks could talk any non-Evangelicals into war. They are so breathlessly fanatical on end times, and will do anything to make it happen so they can be ruled over by a Jew. Instead what Christian Zionists have done is to taint Christianity as wacko for their masters. Most every non Christian thinks they are nuts, while the Jews have done their best to make the US into a non Christian country. (Guys, you need to stop thinking Jews are smart.) No clue if Trump is hoping the onward Christian soldiers (sorry Martin Luther) will wind up setting up the Israelis, and even the deep state, for failure. If he is, it could be a stone killing trifecta without so much as lifting a finger.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  66. @Fin of a cobra

    It will start with a “preemptive strike” against Iranian nuclear facilities

    Which in all likelihood will end up a total failure. Russia is furiously arming Iran with S-400 and S-500 missiles, as well as other more cost effective models. The F-35 piece of junk that the Israelis are flying can be detected long before they reach the Iranian border. Hence, a greeting by Mr. Zircon and his cousins.

    Iranians now have received a dozen or so SU-57s, are doing flight training as rapidly as possible. Just like the NATO slime are in Ukraine operating and teaching the potato farmers, aka, Ukrainians how to use sophisticated weapons, so the Russians are playing the same game.

    If the US sends a wave of sorties against Iran from a carrier, Iran will probably sink, or wound it mortally with a battery of hyper sonic missiles. 3000 personnel+ are on board one of these vulnerable targets, with sub-standard in quality and reduced head count.

    The Pentagon only has enough money to keep a carrier flotilla group in the area for 4 months maximum.

    • LOL: Yababa
    • Replies: @Yababa
    , @MoT
    , @anon
  67. Iranian people would rise up against their leaders, and side with Israel for a ‘New Middle East’.

    This has to be the biggest fattest Jewish lie ever told, and that is comparing it to the Jewish court condemning Jesus Christ to death for blasphemy.

  68. Mike321 says:

    “…has Trump thought this through?” What a stupid question.

  69. Trumpeter says:

    The biggest bang for the buck – worldwide – is the concentration of US Air Force refueling tankers, parked just minutes from Iran. Last I heard, 60% of our air refueling fleet was there. The loss of such a large part of the fleet would be a serious blow to our ability to project power. In a perfect display of SNAFU that is US weapons design and procurement, the replacement is overdue, over budget and has problems doing the job as well as it’s predecessor.

    Looking at the bigger picture; can someone explain why, if Iran is naked and defenseless before the high tech might of Israel, WHY do they need us to help? Why have they been waiting for us? Heck, why did the second and third wave abort the attack at the very moment of Victory?

  70. Belis60 says:

    I frankly doubt Trump needs Mr Crooke’s analysis about the warmongering party and about the dangerousness of a war against Iran.

  71. Wild Man says:
    @Anonymous534

    Crooke seems to be a careful commentator (at least that has been my impression up to now) who has been contrary to others on some important points (like his insistence that the pager attack was an attack of terrorism as it targeted civilians):

    ““This is bunkum,” said Alastair Crooke, who lives in Lebanon. The former British diplomat explained to Judge Andrew Napolitano that most of those targeted in the pager attacks were not military members at all.”

    https://www.todayville.com/israel-launches-new-form-of-terrorism-with-its-exploding-pager-attacks-in-lebanon/

    This article published from my neck of the woods (Alberta, Canada) also claims Crooke resides in Lebanon. Interesting.

    Crooke also has some views that are almost Candace Owens-like, with respect to Hasidic rebbe spiritual madness informing the West Bank 800,000 strong Jewish settler madness in the West Bank (Crooke claiming that these West Bank settlers all think basically the same way, as informed by their key rebbes there, rendering them an ideological subverso-army within Israel, that seem to possess the fuse to world war 3, as held in these key rebbe’s hands, by way of their influence on Netanyahu, with respect to his grand wish for American war with Iran).

    We are putting alot of faith in Crooke’s deep knowledge of the region, so his credibility-reputation can’t afford to be so blatantly wrong about something like the source of China’s international energy purchases. He needs to clear this up pronto (but how?, he is just insanely wrong here, it seems), because if he doesn’t, this calls into question many of the important contrary claims he has made recently, that many of the writers at TUR (especially Unz) rely upon (and I should say that I too have heavily relied upon Crooke’s credibility-reputation, for the development of my own views about the Middle East region).

    My first guess is that Crooke meant that Iran controls the Straits of Hormuz (and so de facto, all the oil emerging from that region), or something along those lines, which if so, then he very badly stated such sentiment, and yet that 90% figure is still dead wrong, even in that eventuality. What gives here with Crooke?

    On that note, here is comment I left on another thread here at TUR, back on October 17th:

    OK, we are hearing that Bibi will strike Iran before the American election. So a 3 week window, now, before a probably massive turning point, in world affairs, comes. What gets me about all this is that we heard from the likes of manifold discredited conspiracy theorists, way way back when now (even 30+ years ago now) that the Greater Israel Zionist project was a globalist reality. That it was a real agenda. We all scoffed.

    And now the non-discredited commentators (like Alastair Crooke in his latest piece, for instance) are starting to see that yes indeed, the Greater Israel Zionist project is a real agenda and always was.

    It’s like we are sleep walking into oblivion. Because our non-discredited commentators, even the good ones (like Alastair Crooke let’s say) are useless. They don’t cry wolf until it’s too late, even though others that were discounted, put this all together ages ago. This set-up, makes this current crop of non-discredited commentators in particular, to look pathetic. And that’s the best we got. Crazy. Why didn’t they see the writing on the wall 30 years ago, and speak then, given that now these clowns are saying this (Greater Israel) was the intended set up, even 50 years ago?

    Kind of make me want to upchuck just thinking about it. We have been led down the garden path, folks, and people like Alastair Crooke (whom I like and feel a bit unhappy saying this about the likes of this gentleman and others like him) helped do that leading, until it is too late, and now they are coming clean, because they feel uneasy about the fact they have been dolts.

    I expect better, is my point. Maybe Crooke is just a mixed up old man who was never really on the ball, even during his diplomatic career? But the Wikipedia article on him seems to claim very much otherwise. By way of the Wikipedia article, it seems he was well positioned to see the reality of the Greater Israel Zionist project all the way through. Maybe he just was never in a good position to give voice to such speculation at the time, that he now claims he harbors.

    I look forward to Crooke clearing the air on Iran’s importance to Chinese international energy purchases. Let’s see what he now may say about that. Everybody makes mistakes sometimes. In the past, where people have thought Crooke was wrong, he then subsequently cleared the air by showing his views were being mistakenly interpreted, as such views were actually much more nuanced than people first though. Let’s see. I am still seeing him as a gentleman statesman (for now).

    • Replies: @Yababa
    , @迪路
    , @24th Alabama
  72. American Exception: Empire and the Deep State


    Video Link

  73. bjondo says:
    @Event Horizon

    Next …

    AG Gaetz has Bill Barr on an I-95 chain gang picking trash.

    5ds

  74. Yababa says:
    @Wild Man

    China will be cut off from Iranian oil and forced to buy from Arab clients of the US to make up for the loss

    And China will approve of it.

    Don’t believe it? Just wait.

    Europeans are using atomic agency to issue resolution that will snap back UN sanctions on Iran veto proof per nuclear surrender deal JCPOA. That’s how stupid Eye rainians are.

    And China Russia uphold UN resolutions as sacrosanct so China will sanction itself out of Iranian oil .

  75. Agent76 says:

    November 19, 2024 Joe Biden, “Going Out with a Bang”: Gives Zelensky Green Light to Bomb Russia 

    On Sunday, President Joe Biden authorized the use of U.S.-supplied long-range missiles by Ukraine for strikes inside Russia. The sudden reversal of policy represents a dramatic escalation in the war that will require a strong response from Moscow. President Putin has repeatedly warned that firing missiles at targets located on Russian territory would trigger harsh retaliatory attacks not just on sites in Ukraine but also on those nations that are directly involved in the strikes, namely NATO and the United States. 

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/going-bang-mike-whitney/5873181  

    • Replies: @Agent76
  76. Yababa says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Russia sides with Israel, Russian clown, regardless of hot air: like Erdoğan Sisi MBS, Jewtin is owned by Israel.

    Russia hasn’t given shit to Iran since the obsolete S300 was delivered well past its due date. Just rumors to save face for both sides.

    Soon Russia will begin to sanction Iran! LOL.

    Just wait propatainnent clown.

    UN sanctions are being snapped back as we speak on Iran. Both China and Russia will have to comply unless they get out of the UN. UN is a sacred cow as International Law for both as a counterweight to US rules based order.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  77. Chicken says:
    @anastasia

    It isn’t just 140 million vs 40 million but, broadly speaking, 140 million (army + industry) vs 40 million (army) + NATO (industry).

    Note that sanctions were meant to cripple Russia, which turned out to be ineffective. NATO countries also destroyed much of their own industrial base, so it has a hard time competing.

  78. … they are panicking – especially over Gaetz.

    Possibly, but not really.
    After all it is USA, the Crime Cartel “country” (that doesn’t have a real border) where everyone in power from the president down to the street cop is for sale. They don’t have to panic about their paid hires. But what they do have to worry about is the quality of the enforcement that USA may (or may not) provide when/if push comes to shove.

    USA’s “soldiers” are inferior in battle fortitude to Hamas, Hezbullah, Syrian Arab Army, Koreans and just about everyone else. The weapons systems are inferior to the main competitors. The senior officers are politically correct queers and similar.
    One strike on US soil and the pantywaist obese walmart shoppers will be shrieking like sissies and that would immediately end any hostilities.
    Couple hours at most.

    With apologies to Americans who are informed and courageous/righteous.
    Incl maybe one/two picked by ZionDon.
    Thanks as always Alastair Crooke. Maybe clarification needed re China/Iran oil.

    • Replies: @Arthur MacBride
  79. @Priss Factor

    https://www.foxnews.com/politics/gov-kristi-noem-recalls-faith-family-farming-roots-memoir-political-rise

    Gov. Kristi Noem recalls her faith, family and farming roots in memoir about her political rise

    Gov. Noem recounts how her father’s death led her to get involved in politics to help struggling families

    Most of Noem’s life has been about three things: faith, family and farming. Born and raised on a ranch, Noem describes a childhood that was rich with life lessons about self-starting, working hard, having grit, trusting God, appreciating the land, and loving thy neighbor. The corollaries from her ranching life to her political life are too obvious to miss.

    No figure seems to loom larger over Noem than her father, Ron Arnold, whom she writes about with deep reverence and adoration. “Growing up with a father like mine was challenging, exciting, exasperating, and inspiring,” she writes. Her book is full of stories to prove it.

    But when Noem was 22 years old and eight months pregnant with her first child, Ron Arnold died in a truly harrowing farming accident. “Dad was buried alive underneath tons of cold, damp corn,” she recalls in a jaw-dropping and heart-wrenching telling of the event.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
    , @Gerbils
  80. MoT says:
    @Old Prude

    Sandal wearing tribesmen? Wow! So impressive. Such daring do! It’s pathetic. And Iraq? A poorly trained and equipped force. Again… pathetic. Iran is not them and just try and contain 70 million pissed off people. Americans haven’t fought a peer level force in over 75 years… And even then had its ass handed to it every time they came into contact the first time. Next time won’t be any different and Israel will join it on the funeral pyre.

    • Agree: Arthur MacBride
  81. MoT says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Sending a carrier to the bottom would be the wake up call America needed but since most Americans are tone deaf they’ll never hear it nor get the message.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
    , @AxeGryndr
  82. @Arthur MacBride

    With further apologies for forgetting another element, uniquely American, among the treacherous, venal, venomous trash that serve the “International Money Power” in the many intercompeting Alphabet Soup Agencies and other branches of the US “government”. The ones that killed JFK, RFK, MLK, Mal X and who knows how many other lesser Americans; that arranged 9/11; that continue to cover up USS Liberty etc
    Biolab technicians/chemists/”doctors”.
    Employees of Blackrock/similar.

    OK, so more than one … and there are many others.
    But the ones I was thinking of were those uniquely American batshit-crazy zionist “christians”; the stupid no-brain killers of ME (mainly, also elsewhere) genuine Christians on behalf of Christ-hating Jews. Those people are the real bottom rung.
    The evolutionary dead-end.

    Maybe USA really has been/is a gigantic Mistake after all.

    “Have a Nice Day”.

  83. @Wokechoke

    Thank you. But lies have been the staple of the Zionist empire with America and the rest of the Western world firmly secured to the Zionist tail coats. Anyone claiming that Trump is appointing Israel firsters to his cabinet forget who really put him in office.

  84. @Anonymous534

    Every two-bit industrial state that runs its own nuclear fuel cycle is six months
    from “breakout” without even trying; the fatwa that nukes are haram
    is still in force but they´d be derelict in their duty if they hadn´t prepared
    (remember, a fatwa is a legal opinion).
    The Izzies claim to have, in violation of US conditions, hit some superduper secret
    underground nukuler facility – this declaration may be a sign they have hit something.

  85. @Yababa

    You are not even stupid. You exist in a phantasmagorical world of the psychotic-which is defined as the substitution of Reality, by the “reality” inside the psychotic’s head.

    If you haven’t realized that you are mentally incompetent and deranged, let me inform you so, in order that you can recognize your cognitive collapse and substitution of another world, another galaxy or inside of Ur Anus.

  86. @MoT

    Oh, I don’t know about that.

  87. @Anonymous

    As you have already done the research, be a pal and share it with us, pretty please, xxx,lotsalovexxx.

    • Thanks: Notsofast
  88. GMC says:
    @One Nobody

    Good Comment and it certainly made me think harder. Russia is definitely planning their own War out and the more the West supplies, the more Russia will put the screws to Ukraine. It’s obvious that London is lost in its own shit, so terrorism is their only options in Ukraine and the M E. But their spec. ops guys are good.

    I think the Russians are taking their sweet time on adding Odecca and Transnistria into NovoRossiya because they want to make sure that they have the Dnepr R in Zaporozhia and Dnepr in their pocket first. They are also worried about the civilian populations there. This is also driving the West crazy, cause they are trying to figure out – how to get their troops in Moldova and between Transnistria and Odecca without Russia sending Mr Kinzhal and Iskander to the Nato bastards. This is my take and Im in Crimea.

    The Oakland Institute showed us who invested in Ukraine , so I suspect Bidens money laundering is partially paying back the main shareholders who are going to lose their lands, ports and industry . Lockheed Martin is just one and of course BlackRock is up there too. Your synopsis on the Israeli / EU collateralized or colonised is very interesting. Thanks.

    • Thanks: Gerbils, One Nobody
  89. aandrews says:

    • Disagree: One Nobody
    • Thanks: Arthur MacBride
    • Replies: @One Nobody
  90. Gerbils says:
    @anonymous

    US has never fought a war with a ‘peer’ or ‘near peer’ adversary.

    Andrew Jackson defeated the British at New Orleans. This eventually led to the end of the Rothschilds bank and the only true freedom european americans have ever known which lasted about 40 years until the bankers started the Civil War to get control back.

    • Agree: Bro43rd, Jonah Gathers
  91. aandrews says:

  92. @Anonymous534

    I think US oil exports to China are slightly less than Iran’s exports, but your point is well taken: the US could get the same result on China just by shutting off its own spigot without fighting any war. Not that losing either Iran’s or the US’s supply—or both—would matter too much to China’s increasingly electric transport fleet. Russia could make up the difference and/or China’s electric vehicle capacity suddenly won’t look like “excess”.

  93. barr says:
    @Anonymous534

    Iran may not control Chinese need and predictability . It may not provide enough to China.
    But US controls other supplies sans Russian and Venejuealan. As long as US controls the oil of other countries ,China and other remain at risk .Also once Iran is out of the picture, Chinese dependence and future supplies willbe exclusively met by countries that are controlled by US except Russia . After Iran ,Russia becomes the target and US comes to controls the oil to China

    • Replies: @showmethereal
  94. barr says:
    @Old Prude

    1Trillion military had to wage war for 3 weeks to rout Taliban with a budeget less than $ 100,000 .
    Thats awesome !
    How long is that Army taking to rout Hamas ?
    ( 70% of Israeli financial and mikitary needs met by US , remaining 30? Part ofthat surely defrayed by German and UK.)

    Now who is pressing for ceasefire in Lebanon?
    Why aren’t these Americans peace lover insisting on the ceasefire in Gaza?

  95. The zionist demons from hell are behind every war since they created the central bank the FED and the graduated income tax the IRS and these are 2 of the 10 planks of the communist manifesto, and with that, the zionist banking demons from hell took control of America and were the agent provocateurs in every war, beginning with WWI right down to the war in the Ukraine and Isra-hells genocide of the people of Palestine and Lebanon, the zionist demons were the agents behind every one of the wars and the killing and unpayable debt owed to the zionist bankers.

    Wars are one of the zionists ways to eliminate gentiles and muslims fro the earth and as Maurice Samuel said in his book You Gentiles, page 155 ; We jews, we are destroyers nothing you can do will meet our demands or needs, we will forever destroy, because we want a world of our own. This book can be had on amazon.

  96. @Wokechoke

    Western MSM presstitutes are the filthiest vermin imaginable, on a level with paedophiles, real estate agents and advertising thugs. They lie as they breathe because their jobs depend on total obeisance to the Jewintern and its underlings. Western MSM whorenalists, being robopaths, are ‘conscious’ as a liver fluke is self-aware.

  97. @Old and Grumpy

    It matters not which Sabbat Goy gets the most votes in a US election, the Jewintern ALWAYS wins.

  98. @aspnaz

    In retrospect Zionists were semi-crazed, deeply-warped murdering fanatics from the very beginning except the West pretended otherwise

    • Agree: dimples
  99. @aspnaz

    Judaism is a group psychopathy, an eternal psychic epidemic (in Jung’s terminology)festering and pullulating down through the ages. Just now it is reaching a sort of demonic apotheosis as the divine exultation of genocide, destruction, depravity and arrogance. This was always coming, as Jewintern corruption, blackmail, murder and slander captured all Western states, and removed any chance of the Judenreich being brought to heel and to its ‘senses’, if they have any left-even self-preservation.

  100. Romulus says:
    @One Nobody

    Yes, thanks. It’s a very simple answer. They’re liars for hire, vetted by a certain group of supremacists. Nothing more nothing less.

  101. Russia would have no choice but to submit to the expansion of NATO and to the geopolitical dictates of the U.S.. That was ‘then’ (a little more than a year ago). Russia took the western challenge – and today is in the driving seat in Ukraine, whilst the West looks on helplessly.

    Oh was that the narrative? Russia is in the driving seat even though they are using Communists to try and remove Ukrainians from Kursk? Sounds more like a stalemate.

    I seem to recall a flurry of blog posts from Putin defenders that told us the war was won within a few weeks of the invasion. Then we were told of the upcoming “Great fall offensive”, followed by predictions of a winter offensive with talk of Napolean even though the Ukrainians were on the side of the Russians in that war. Ukraine has been one month from collapse about every other month since 2022 according to the Putin defense squad.

    So what is stopping Trump’s hand picked Zio-Avengers from talking him into a similar decapitation attack that is only supposed to last 2.5 weeks? You see Trump we just remove the government of Iran with special forces and the military will stand down. Sure that was the plan of Putin but we’re America damn it and we will do it right. Just look at this super awesome plan we developed. We can’t fail!

    For all we know Trump may believe he is destined to attack a country like Iran or Syria.

    Syria would honestly work if Trump is just looking to go out as a war president. You just re-kindle the civil war and then attack during the chaos. I really don’t want that to happen but I think the author is being too optimistic. Trump’s cabinet should be an onion parody. Huckabee is one of the worst Rapture Ready lunatics. Look at this comment from him:
    There is no such thing as a West Bank – it’s Judea and Samaria. There’s no such thing as a settlement. They’re communities

    He doesn’t even recognize that they exist. Very similar to how liberals have decreed that White people don’t exist and how Putin doesn’t recognize Ukraine. It’s a way to completely dehumanize your enemy.

  102. The old nemesis that paralysed his first term again faces Trump. Then, during the Ukraine impeachment process, one witness (Vindman), when asked why he would not defer to the President’s explicit instructions, replied that whilst Trump has his view on Ukraine policy, that stance did NOT align with that of the ‘Inter-Agency’ agreed position. In plain language, Vindman denied that a U.S. president has agency in foreign policy formulation.

    I say:

    The US military is inundated with JEW UKRAINIANS like that Ukrainian-born Alexander Vindman Jew Rat and Leprechaun louts and all manner of off-brand foreigner interloper boobs and old stocker sonofabitches smelling loot and power from the overseas antics of the rancid American Empire.

    Frank Lautenberg was a JEW US Senator who dishonestly dragged a huge amount of Alexander Vindman-type Soviet Jews back to the USA. The USA should never have allowed even one single JEW to infiltrate the USA from anywhere after WWII, and especially from any area or territory controlled by the Soviets.

    The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire has lost any and all credibility. The JEW/WASP Ruling Class of the American Empire must be politically decapitated and removed from power.

    Alexander Vindman is a JEWS ORGANIZED GLOBALLY(JOG) agent infiltrator from the Ukraine who attacked the USA by falsely accusing Trump of a deal that was written out in a transcript.

    The evil Jew shyster rats who control the media are a lot like this US military Ukrainian Jew dirtbag Alexander Vindman.

    Alexander Vindman is a JEW who wants to keep his anti-Christian and anti-White nonsense going on in the USA.

    How much war profiteer loot has sneaky Jew Alexander Vindman got from all the American Empire money laundering scams and boondoggles emanating from the American Empire’s Ukraine proxy war against the Russians?

    Attention Alexander Vindman: Get Out Of My Country Now! Dammit!

    Ann Coulter has a proposal to avoid the Alexander Vindman Problem(2019):

    Tweet from 2024:

  103. Plenty of talk about a US war against Iran, or China, or Russia. How about all three together, the US versus Asia. Feeling lucky?

  104. anon[881] • Disclaimer says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Russia is furiously arming Iran with S-400 and S-500 missiles, as well as other more cost effective models. The F-35 piece of junk that the Israelis are flying can be detected long before they reach the Iranian border. Hence, a greeting by Mr. Zircon and his cousins.

    Iranians now have received a dozen or so SU-57s, are doing flight training as rapidly as possible.

    Readers should be aware that this is entirely a fabrication.

    https://www.indianpunchline.com/between-russia-and-iran-all-is-well-that-ends-well/

    Russia only prived S-300s and that after years of making IRI wait. The above source is not pro-empire and presents the fact.

    Lies that paint IRI as being some sort of military power possessing peer level tech with their adversaries are like e.g. Saddaam and his “elite republican guards”. Pretext to justify massive destruction in Iran.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
    , @barr
    , @barr
  105. Gerbils says:
    @Charles Martel France

    Most of Noem’s life has been about three things: faith, family and farming. Born and raised on a ranch, Noem describes a childhood that was rich with life lessons about self-starting, working hard, having grit, trusting God, appreciating the land, and loving thy neighbor. The corollaries from her ranching life to her political life are too obvious to miss.

    More like she was hired out of a call girl/talent agency by jewish scouts looking for new right wing puppets.

  106. Trumpster is in his second term. He doesn’t have to placate his moron base whatsoever anymore (including in rhetoric) He wasn’t out there stumping 900 rallies for votes, it was to garner trust from the idiot base, to redirect their angst behind him and his role in the fraud/clown show that is US politics.

    Recall Obama’s second and final term. The insane agendas went off the rails, the placating over entirely. I remember running across a meme back during that time that pointed out how JFK put a man on the moon, while Obama put a man in women’s restrooms. Not paying as much attention to politics then, I remember thinking, perhaps there is some kernel of truth to the meme, but a higher level of exaggeration behind it seems to make more grounded sense. Nope, not whatsoever. The idea of it seemed just too radical back then, now it’s accepted without surprise that this is an actual issue somehow within US politics.

    It’s looking to me like Trump has long been chosen to play the role of taking the entire moron country down the tubes. This brazen foreign policy will do so alone. On top of matters, wait until the domestic strife is blown to sky-high proportions once he starts with mass deportations on the ground. The scripted media will focus in on that (or some similar invented circus) while the US is embroiled further into empire crippling wars. The narrative for the collapsing empire will be spun off as the result of ‘colonialism’ and ‘reckless patriarchy’ an the entire mess will be set down the path of a ‘diversified’ surveillance state.

    Most of Trumpster’s base don’t even suspect Elon Musk of being a manufactured fraud. They truly believe things are going to change for the better under Trump, while they get fatter, dumber, more tattooed, and more screwed. The nation was lost altogether circa 2020, because the nation by and large (pun intended) is simply retarded. And looks the part if you have a real good look around you in any state anywhere. Plus take in what the average idiot has to say on almost any matter and it’s screaming obvious the absolute state of things. Reserve a passport, get your ducks in order, and detach (your only viable option at this point)

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  107. Anglo cucks appeasing their Jewish Masters is what the West is about. Neville Chamberlain was an amateur in the appeasement department.

    Biden-Starmer Go All In On Ukraine: Storm Shadow Kursk Attack, Land Mines

  108. AxeGryndr says:
    @MoT

    As an American, I can assure you we run the gamut, the full spectrum, from stupid as a stump to painfully aware of the fix we are in. What used to be law and order, is now just order. The long march through institutions has been tantamount to slowly being boiled alive; it’s starting to get a bit warm and uncomfortable. I have had a very good life, but I can see the path we are on could change that permanently, and quickly. As the axiom goes, good times make weak men, who make hard times. So in light of your comment of sending a carrier to the bottom, I concur. We need a good hard slap. But I guarantee you, most of us will get the message, because that will augur the beginning of the cycle of hard times.

    • Agree: Poupon Marx
  109. This last month, it was U.S. retired General Jack Keane, the strategic analyst for Fox News, who argued that Israel’s air strike on Iran had left it “essentially naked”, with most air defences “taken down” and its missile production factories destroyed by Israel’s 26 October strikes. Iran’s vulnerability, Keane said, is “simply staggering”.

    I say:

    Compare and contrast the level-headed patriot Pat Buchanan with treasonous rat scumbags like 81 year old treasonite geezer Jack Keane and Leprechaun treasonite Sean Hannity and treasonous rat Baby Boomer Lindsey Graham and rat whore Tom Cotton and rich boy Baby Boomer skank George W Bush and open borders mass immigration extremist Dick Cheney and chinless 82 year old Chinese Communist Party stooge Mitch McConnell and crooked crook bag man money launderer Mike Johnson and all the rest of the other disgusting rancid Republican Party rat filth that puts the interests of other nations ahead of the interests of the United States.

    PAT BUCHANAN AND GEORGE KENNAN WERE RIGHT THAT NATO EXPANSION WAS A STRATEGIC DISASTER THAT WOULD OVERSTRETCH THE AMERICAN EMPIRE

    Low IQ treasonite 81 year old unpatriotic scum such as Jack Keane put the interests of other nations ahead of the interests of the United States — that is TREASON!

    General George Washington and General Andrew Jackson would hang any man who put the interests of any other nation ahead of the interests of the United States of America.

    A lot of US military officers are disgusting treasonous rats. Jack Keane, Michael Hayden and many more retired and serving military officers are complete and total no-integrity globalizer assholes.

    Retired General Jack Keane has advocated for endless overseas war. Jack Keane was born in New York and went to Fordham. The Irish love to hate the English, but they don’t mind enjoying some of the power that serving in the British Empire and now the American Empire brings to them.

    Jack Keane will say and do anything the ruling class of the American Empire wants him to.

    This 81 year old piece of treasonous shit, Jack Keane, was one of the scumbags behind George W Bush’s IRAQ WAR DEBACLE.

    Now this treasonous rat whore for Rupert Murdoch, Jack Keane, is calling for the American Empire to start wars with China, Russia and Iran.

    Get this rat phuck puke warmoger goon Jack Keane away from the electronic propaganda megaphone and get him on the golf course pronto, and tell that piece of billionaire filth Rupert Murdoch to stop the incessant warmongering on his propaganda slop outlets.

    81 Geezer Boy Warmonger Scumbag Jack Keane Thinks George W Bush Won The War In Iraq

    Tweet from 2018:

    • Replies: @ariadna
  110. Jim H says:

    Senator Sanders’ S.J. Res. 111 to cut off arms sales to Israel is defeated, 18-79.

    Never again can the US lecture any country, anywhere, on human rights.

    ‘We’ are the worst of the worst, with our little apartheid colony partner Israel.

  111. ZexE says:

    I must say this…
    I watched X-Men (all of them to analyze from 2000 till now)

    It begins with “Holocoust”
    Well…

    To be on topic…
    Most is not all populus in the US have been programmed (it’s called “predictable programming” ) in not only the US but also the whole EU.

    I watched the movies if the X-men where the Jews. And then it’s interesting to watch 🙂

    I think 110 will come sooner than later.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  112. 迪路 says:
    @Wild Man

    They make a very serious miscalculation when they think they can strangle us through energy.
    I think it’s actually just a lie by the Jews to annex the whole Middle East.
    Our country has actually been trying to reduce its dependence on oil. Why else is China leading the world in the field of renewable energy?

    • Agree: mulga mumblebrain
  113. ZexE says:

    X-Men 2000 opening scene

  114. 迪路 says:
    @ba8niu

    It doesn’t matter. There are ways to get energy when we want it. Besides, the oil price problem is mainly related to industry.
    Most of our new cars are electric now. There are hardly any new oil cars left.

  115. @anon

    I can’t decide if you are fool or a shabbos phony.

    Either way, your assertions and opinions are not just wrong, but ridiculous. Your source is pathetic and amateurish.

  116. ZexE says:

    HEHEHEHEHEHE, Sorry, i’m LMAO of what i’m watching now…

    I must say…. This is the fossile mindset of NATO (Never Able To Organize) and the rest XD

  117. barr says:
    @anon

    Why has not US bombed Iran in the same way it has Syria,Iraq,Yemen ? What gives?

  118. @aandrews

    New york banks control the Treasury not the City of London’s Blackrock.

    • Replies: @Bro43rd
  119. When the RAND Organisation, the Pentagon think-tank, recently published a landmark appraisal of the 2022 National Defence Strategy (NDS), its findings were stark: An unrelentingly bleak analysis of every aspect of the U.S. war machine. In brief, the U.S. is “not prepared”, the appraisal argued, in any meaningful way for serious ‘competition’ with its major adversaries – and is vulnerable or even significantly outmatched in every sphere of warfare.

    Translation: “The military industrial complex needs to make hundreds of billions of dollars in sales, therefore we will say the US is seriously unprepared for war, so it needs to purchase hundreds of billions of dollars of weapons systems from our puppetmasters at raytheon, lockheed, etc.”

    Fuck these guys. I’m so sick of these disgusting war profiteers. Stop selling lies and deception just so you can make money. Pieces of fecking shite.

  120. Trump may not appreciate just how isolated the U.S. and Israel are among Israel’s Arab and Sunni neighbours.

    Sunnis are gutless trash. They have not done one thing to help the Palestinians. The faggot turks and saudis could cut off oil to shitrael tomorrow and shitrael would be crippled.

    But they won’t, because, like I say, sunnis are all talk and no action. Only the Shia are honorable and are trying to help the Palestinians.

    Shame on the sunni cowards. They have no honor, and no integrity. They will do what their jewish/american masters tell them to do.

    On the upside for Europeans, if the migrants to Europe are sunni, someday, the Europeans should be able to slaughter them at will and force them to leave. Clearly the sunni have shown they have no nuts…unlike the heroic Shia.

  121. Anynomous says:

    Both american and british people as long cannot survive without others feeding them and they want and long for their empires. British to this day are mourning how they no longer have an empire and they want their empire back. American are just the same, always talking about their empire, influence and hegemony, how they want to keep their empire and influence. The problem isnt some elite or a deep state. The problem is that british and american as whole have always been sick people. They really genuinely want this and they want to subjugate everybody else as global imperialists, impose a strong government around the world and disarm everybody else. They do not want to admit it, but the whole world knows and understands. They are just like israeli have been and in fact it was american and british who taught israeli to terrorize. Theres nothing american and british havent been doing that israeli are now doing.

  122. Agent76 says:
    @Agent76

    I do not know why this did not work the first time, but here is a working link.

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/going-bang-mike-whitney/5873181

  123. Anynomous says:

    The sick fascist and nazi ideology, culture and identity of american and british need to die and need to be de-nazified, so that theres nothing anything harmful left in theor false view of history, culture etc. Just like they did to german, except american and british have always been the evil and Satan, that have always subjugated others to their sick values, their sick culture and to their sick ideology.

    We will finally destroy everything american and british are trying to be and imposing these sick ideas on us. This is the final war against Satan and evil.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  124. Make jUdeSA Great Again.

  125. It’s called the deep state. A mix of military industrial complex, corrupt elites and stupidity.

  126. barr says:
    @anon

    The second meeting of the Saudi-Chinese-Iranian Joint Tripartite Committee to follow up on the Beijing Agreement was held in Riyadh on Tuesday, the Saudi Press Agency reported.

    Saudi Deputy Foreign Minister Waleed bin Abdulkarim Elkhereiji chaired the meeting, with Vice Foreign Minister of China Deng Li and Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Majid Takht Ravanchi present.

    The Saudi and Iranian representatives reaffirmed their commitment to fully implementing the Beijing Agreement and strengthening neighborly relations through adherence to the UN Charter, the Charter of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, and international law, emphasizing respect for sovereignty, independence, and security.

    https://www.arabnews.com/node/2579986/saudi-arabia

    19 th Nov 2024

    UAE nor Egypt nor Jordan let alone Saudi is meeting with Israel even below the radar . Neither anyone has come to US or UK to meet any Israelis or Israeli dogs or bitches in any western capital.

  127. @Robert Young

    Yeah it seems he quoted Alistair Cooke incorrectly. He said China buys 90% of Iran’s oil exports. That sounds realistic.

  128. ariadna says:
    @Charles Pewitt

    “Syria withdrawal a strategic mistake. Bush won the war in Iraq w/ the Surge. Obama lost the peace by premature withdrawal.”

    Maybe Jack Keene is too old to remember the use of organs but there is something that can be a lot worse than ‘premature withdrawal”: intromission.

    • Replies: @Charles Pewitt
  129. Am I naive? Is the US Congress not outright owned by Israel and their lobbyists? Why not acknowledge that cancer and address the situation? The video upstream in the comments showing Nancy Pelosi insisting that US support for Israel is more important than our country — bring on the chemotherapy and surgery. A foreign country has taken possession of the US? This is science fiction.

  130. ariadna says:

    There are no easy wars left…. maybe so if we think nostalgically of the glorious swift victory Reagan gained in Grenada.
    But I think the situation is even more serious now in our imperial senescence: what would have been easy wars back then are monumentally difficult and humiliating failures now, like the Houthis.
    I am surprised that our parasites still trusts us to conquer the ME for them. How do they explain that we could not prevent the Yemenites from turning he Red Sea into a Houthi lake, or that the Iron Dome we made for them is more like an Iron Kippa?

  131. @Wild Man

    The fall of the Soviet Union was the most destructive event in American history.
    Lord Acton wrote, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts
    absolutely.” When the U.S.S.R. fell apart, the Americans gained absolute power,
    and not only became corrupt but adopted a fictional Weltanschauung.

    Those words accurately describe the rise and fall of every Empire since the
    Egyptians, from Alexander to the British and now the impending collapse
    of the American Empire as guided by Jewish interests. The Jews have never
    been able to govern themselves or conquer other nations, but now they have
    seized near total control of the most powerful Government in history,
    and no one dares to challenge them but a few unheard voices.

    The United States is the only obstacle to World peace and shared prosperity,
    having rejected every peaceful overture from Russia, China and Iran, and
    instead demonizing their governments. The real demon is a delusional,
    Zionist controlled America.

  132. Just as a separation of church and state was set in stone, e.g., Jefferson’s Wall of Separation Letter and the First Amendment…an effort must be made to enforce a separation between corporate America and Government entities. COO’s, CEO’s, and their workplace familiars will be strictly forbidden, by statutory law, from accepting any government position, no matter if the qualification perfectly match the job description. Front men, straw men, moles and the like can be pried out of government service by investigation. I loath to suggest that another policing agency be created but I see no alternative. A return to the made for TV creation “The Untouchables” they will have full statutory authority to separate representatives of business enterprises (in particular ground breaking investments abroad) from using a government position to glean public tax dollars or vote in favor of using our military to pave the way for their exploits aka softening up domestic dissidents who don’t want some “limited liability” Delaware Incorporation on their soil.. Corporate entities must learn to hire their own thugs, paramilitaries, buy off specific leaders, assassinate without the aid our our DIA or CIA, and use private cash sources collected from their investors without perverting any branch of our military and or tax base to expand their new enterprises. Our citizenry at large voted for Trump perhaps on a subconscious level, because they realize that true democracy is incompatible with corporatist fascism. As I’ve recently stated in another UNZ article-a quote from a POTUS, FDR: “The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger then their democratic State itself. That in essence is Fascism-ownership of a government by an individual. by a group or by any other controlling private power” end quote. Ref: FDR Simple Truths Message to congress circa 1936.

    Clearly those Senate Select committees on ethics and conflict of interests for public officials hasn’t worked to the extent that I am suggesting here. Corporate America has taken over our government and we want it back !! No more wars for you guys. Go on, get and take your HQ’s out of here if you plan to spill any more American blood or steal tax dollars to enrich your stockholders. Why not China? half of you are there already (sixty thousand corporations at last count) ..see how long it takes their rank n file proles to kick you out. Bangladesh next? what a bunch of whores you corporate gangsters are.

    By the way, stop stashing your profits in secrecy jurisdiction banks i.e., those shore UK banks thus avoiding be taxed properly- you-are-disgusting! Evidence such as the Panama papers and paradise papers have shown some light on YOU.

  133. @Captain Jones

    Trumpster is in his second term. He doesn’t have to placate his moron base whatsoever anymore (including in rhetoric) He wasn’t out there stumping 900 rallies for votes, it was to garner trust from the idiot base, to redirect their angst behind him and his role in the fraud/clown show that is US politics.

    I’m beginning to wonder if his nomination of Gaetz was a pay-off to an unknown House Republican.

    Drag him in the spotlight with the nomination and let the investigation tarnish him publicly.

    Trump eats his Big Mac and laughs at his base for thinking he had a chance. Gaetz not only slept with a 17 year old but showed off pictures of her on his phone.

    Why would you nominate him for AG? Smells like a ruse.

    But then Trump himself is a walking ruse.

  134. Bro43rd says:
    @One Nobody

    Who controls New york banks? Same people that control COL Blackrock. Same people that control the world’s banks. Less than 5k people control 78% of the world’s wealth/assets. How do they do it? Primarily via government.

  135. @ariadna

    Maybe Jack Keene is too old to remember the use of organs but there is something that can be a lot worse than ‘premature withdrawal”: intromission.

    I say:

    Don’t mount that three dollar whore war in the first place?

    The whole damn conception and ideological underpinnings of George W Bush’s IRAQ WAR DEBACLE were bullshit from the beginning.

    Jack Keane is a rancid geezer rat warmonger.

    The evil Murdoch Organized Crime Syndicate puts that Jack Keane on the boob tube Fox News to push endless war and all manner of other warmongering.

  136. @Amalek Lives Matter

    It’s because Pakistan’s military and intelligence were funded and trained by the US. Recall in the Cold War it was India siding with Russia and Pakistan with the US. So the US still has it’s tentacles in with them. Of course they would have people believe Bin Laden lived a few chains from a major Pakistani military base for 10 years and nobody knew. Then of course someone just happened to tip the US off that he was there – lol. No doubt Iran’s military and intelligence has double agents (which they purged some recently) – but it’s not the same as Pakistan. Pakistan did start to change a little because recall the US recruited China to their side. Pakistan and China are tight friends (“iron brothers” as they call it)…. So the US soured a little on it. All the old Iranian regime from the days of the Shah are long gone.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  137. @barr

    How do you propose that the US gets the Saudis and Emiratis and Qataris to stop sending energy to their biggest money maker???? Did you not see the foreign ministers of Saudi Arabia and Iran just met again with their Chinese counterpart and affirmed they will continue mending ties (now talking of joint military drills)?? So please explain how you expect the US to do this… BRICS expansion included who they included for a reason.

  138. ANON[339] • Disclaimer says:

    THIS IS BULL…

    Alastair Crook… IT’S IN HIS NAME

    The entire Russo-Ukraine War was meticulously engineered by you know who. But why?
    https://stateofthenation.co/?p=254793

  139. @showmethereal

    But, show, that was NOT Osama. He died c.2001. The fellow retired with extreme prejudice was one of the fake Osamas the US used for years.

  140. @Anynomous

    It’s the final war, the war against Nature. The insult to global system stability caused by industrialisation in the last 250 years ie primarily the massive emissions of greenhouses gases, is the greatest and most rapid such assault in ALL planetary history. And the morons either deny it, or imagine some technological fix is possible. Homo stupidiens.

  141. @ZexE

    Who has been ‘programming’ poplar trees?

  142. So, what can be deduced at this early stage?
    Same old, same old.

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