I am going to outline a contextual background for the Iranian conflict and my opinion of the current situation in detail. In short, I stand with President Trump’s position, but many of the influential aspects are being missed.
The anti-interventionist podcasters and the Israel-first advocates are both wrong. An honest and pragmatic review of the entire regional dynamic is needed. Which includes the big picture question that no one is asking.
In the interim, here is the statement from President Trump describing the current status, against the backdrop of Vice President JD Vance’s earnest efforts to negotiate a resolution:
[VIA TRUTH SOCIAL] – “Iran promised to open the Strait of Hormuz, and they knowingly failed to do so. This caused anxiety, dislocation, and pain to many people and Countries throughout the World.
They say they put mines in the water, even though all of their Navy, and most of their “mine droppers,” have been completely blown up. They may have done so, but what ship owner would want to take the chance?
There is great dishonor and permanent harm to the reputation of Iran, and what’s left of their “Leaders,” but we are beyond all of that. As they promised, they better begin the process of getting this INTERNATIONAL WATERWAY OPEN AND FAST! Every Law in the book is being violated by them.
I have been fully debriefed by Vice President JD Vance, Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, and Jared Kushner, on the meeting that took place in Islamabad through the kind and very competent leadership of Field Marshal Asim Munir, and Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, of Pakistan. They are very extraordinary men, and continuously thank me for saving 30 to 50 million lives in what would have been a horrendous War with India. I always appreciate hearing that — The amount of Humanity spoken of is incomprehensible.
The meeting with Iran began early in the morning and lasted throughout the night — Close to 20 hours. I could go into great detail, and talk about much that has been gotten but, there is only one thing that matters — IRAN IS UNWILLING TO GIVE UP ITS NUCLEAR AMBITIONS!
In many ways, the points that were agreed to are better than us continuing our Military Operations to conclusion, but all of those points don’t matter compared to allowing Nuclear Power to be in the hands of such volatile, difficult, unpredictable people.
My three Representatives, as all of this time went by, became, not surprisingly, very friendly and respectful of Iran’s Representatives, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, Abbas Araghchi, and Ali Bagheri, but that doesn’t matter because they were very unyielding as to the single most important issue and, as I have always said, right from the beginning, and many years ago, IRAN WILL NEVER HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON!
[PART II] – “So, there you have it, the meeting went well, most points were agreed to, but the only point that really mattered, NUCLEAR, was not.
Effective immediately, the United States Navy, the Finest in the World, will begin the process of BLOCKADING any and all Ships trying to enter, or leave, the Strait of Hormuz. At some point, we will reach an “ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO IN, ALL BEING ALLOWED TO GO OUT” basis, but Iran has not allowed that to happen by merely saying, “There may be a mine out there somewhere,” that nobody knows about but them.
THIS IS WORLD EXTORTION, and Leaders of Countries, especially the United States of America, will never be extorted. I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.
We will also begin destroying the mines the Iranians laid in the Straits. Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! Iran knows, better than anyone, how to END this situation which has already devastated their Country. Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti Aircraft and Radar are useless, Khomeini, and most of their “Leaders,” are dead, all because of their Nuclear ambition.
The Blockade will begin shortly. Other Countries will be involved with this Blockade. Iran will not be allowed to profit off this Illegal Act of EXTORTION. They want money and, more importantly, they want Nuclear. Additionally, and, at an appropriate moment, we are fully “LOCKED AND LOADED,” and our Military will finish up the little that is left of Iran!” ~
At the end of the day, this is about China. The CCP is the Mullahs banker as evidenced in the WSJ article I posted a couple of times this week. All wars are bankers wars.
China needs the oil. They don’t really care about the Mullahs or their death cult. The next step is for President Trump to lift all sanctions on Russian oil (except to China) and settle Ukraine so Europe will buy Russian oil.
China is asshoe.
Hopefully large tracts of rails and a couple of key bridges disappear on the China Inc. to Iran rail line, to deliver a message.
Ideal timing would be with those weapons shipments being on the rail lines being destroyed. Also, automatic 50% increase of tariffs on anyone transporting weapons to Iran.
IRGC loses the weapons, and China loses both on the infrastructure that they built and get to eat more tariffs to boot.
Emotionally that is a good point but for the optics required … better to hit empty bridges and rails NOW before anything in shipped.
I wonder if being able to get a better look at the transit routes on how China is re-supplying weapons to Iran was one of the reasons President Trump agreed to what we all suspected would be a useless ceasefire attempt to negotiate with these terrorist psychopaths.
I also wonder if China is still bringing cargo planes into Iran. If so, why not put the ChiComs on notice these planes will not be allowed to land in Iran and will be blown out of the sky if they try?
The destruction of ALL the belt and road initiative including birth tourism!
You nailed it!
Someone also mentioned here yesterday that the way our military got Maduro and dealt with Venezuela also involved a blockade. It was very successful.
I hate to mention the words “proxy war,” but if the time has come – it’s come.
Side note: I ordered a pair of pruners this weekend and found them stamped Made in Taiwan instead of the usual (crappily) Made in China. The steel appears sound and is not peeling apart.
Good omen?
Made in USA would be better.
Obviously!
I just hate buying from the CCP in the meantime. Avoiding it but sometimes there’s no choice at all.
I hope so! Way too much garbage in this country already!
China may be one of the Mullahs bankers, but no matter how you slice it, you still come up with the peanuts of the financial control system run through the square mile of the City of London, because they are China’s banker.
This war is a different form of banker’s war, as this is the first time that I can think of that is actually fought against the banker’s interests. Just like Venezuela, Ukraine, Europe, Canada and China, Trump is directly attacking the nodes of their power, either neutralizing, or outright changing them to nodes of American power.
The City of London as a true seat of power died a long time ago. China has trillions in reserves of US $, US treasuries and gold. They don’t need some coffee shop on the Thames to trade risk.
Certainly serves as a useful misdirect to have people thinking that the City of London still wields that same influence does it not?
No, not misdirection, reality, see my comment below.
Reading the money trails, including Citibank picking Obama’s cabinet and then Obama sending billions in pallets of cash to Iran to pay for the missiles and nuclear buildup is not misdirection. It’s following the evidence.
If the City of London system still controls China–and I believe they do–then they control all of those assets that you mention.
Please consider:
When the threat to the bankers control of China, consolidated with the Opium wars and maintained by putting down the Boxers, was then threatened by the the forming of the Republic of China and Sun Yat-Sen and the ending of their proxy Qing dynasty, they turned to Mao and the CCP as their means of control.
That control still exists today, and you can see it in the actions and statements of the WEF and their global young leaders like Trudeau and Chrystia Freeland (now in Ukraine), individuals like current Canadian PM and former governor of the Bank of England Mark Carney, and narrative gaslighting such as the praising of China’s digital pass system from UN and big pharma controlled organizations–a system desired as one of the top means for control.
In fact, all of those on Team Slavery have consistently praised China in the past, as well as turning to them now in an attempt to counter Trump.
Just as Wall Street financed the Soviet Union, they backed and created the People’s Republic of China, mainly through the control of the US State Department by the CFR and the infiltration of communists in the 1930’s, and as the banksters and their minions still advocate for China, they still maintain control.
Good analysis, except you have to analyze whether Xi is making the same play as to China as Team Putin did as to Russia.
Freeing China? With a US and Russian assist?
China was allowing the Russian navy to make port calls in Qingdao years ago. Would we let Russian sailors have shore leave in San Francisco?
So, that tells you something about the current state of Sino-Russian affairs.
Reframe: if the ARC Sovereign Alliance is real, and if the IRGC is really just MI6/CIA/DS in cosplay costumes, then what do we have?
Iran in the middle. China controlling access to the Eastern Eurasian landmass. Russia controlling access to the North via the Caspian Sea and the corridor through Armenia and Azerbaijan. The US now in control of Netanyahu, plus all the Gulf States to the West ((*except Iraq and Turkey, both dogs not currently barking).
POTUS referencing his prevention of a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan = they both of those British Empire Hegelian Dialectic X and anti-X constructs owe him and have been leashed, if not tamed.
Pincer move, East, North, and West.
EU Nazi proxies all boxed up, and the Strait is closed.
Add in the US military holding Diego Garcia to the Southeast (and Mickey fingers to Starmer on that – you and what Navy are going to support Mauritius in seizing control of it?), and Djibouti to the Southeast, and
Crossfire.
Hurricane indeed.
You could very well be right as far as Xi making the same play, I am still left to wonder though why all the voices of those who wish to enslave us are in unison in their praise for China and continually hammering Russia and the US, another possible deeper layer to the Heglian dialect, or a grasping of straws maybe.
Though I can’t shake the feeling that a deeper control mechanism was put in place at the founding of the CCP and reenforced during the move to place them in the WTO.
Perhaps understanding that there are multiple groups, nations, and organizations around the world (including here in the USA) that have globalist aspirations will add some clarity. Each of these believes that not only should they lead and control all of the world and mankind but that they are predestined to so.
Many of these globalists are very willing to along side the others to achieve common goals like the destruction of the American People whose independence (although being constrained) is the greatest impediment to any globalist success. It will be when enough of the common goals have been achieved that these globalist groups, nations, and organizations will turn against each to determine which will have ultimate dominion.
For now the US deep state, US political class, international finance, corporatist technocrats, Islam, China, WEF, etc. will work together to achieve the mass termination and eventual subjugation of all of humankind. Fortunately those that God the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit know who the victor will be.
I can’t say the bank of London as the center of it but the rest of your points are valid to me. Carney-China definitely!
Let me know when “the mullahs” start feeling comfortable building up massive real estate holdings in China. /sarc
https://www.timesofisrael.com/mojtaba-khamenei-reportedly-owns-two-london-properties-overlooking-the-israeli-embassy/
And when they send their families for luxury living in Wuhan instead of San Francisco.
Yes, also:
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2026/04/12/president-trump-releases-a-statement-on-the-iranian-refusal-to-stop-building-a-nuclear-weapon/#comment-12523631
FTR, China has dumped half its US securities, and has been buying gold like mad.
The James Bond franchise has struggled as well since the departures of Sean Connery and Roger Moore. There was a time that British intelligence was on par with the 007 genre. These days though, Johnny English is a more apt allegory to the likes of Stammer and Kahn.
Correct, but so is the UK. Most of the IRCG money is located in UK banks.
Only what they need to buy London real estate and pay for their grand kids boarding schools. The real money is in China and Qatar.
and lock Chinese out of any visas to the US, not students, not H1B, not tourists.
Seize all properties owned in the US too, while we’re at it!
Bingo.
Seize it.
If Russian holdings can be seized, so can IRGC holdings.
Any bank that refuses to turn over the funds should have its US operations suspended.
Correct. Which is why they don’t “bank” with any one with US operations including “City of London” banks.
Seriously? You are telling me the IRGC and its controllers don’t have trillions squirreled away at Lloyd’s Bank, and in the Cayman Islands, and the Bank of England, not to mention TD Bank in Canada?
Pull the other one.
Yes. That’s what I’m telling you. The generals stash their skim in Swiss and Cyprus banks but Irans reserves and banking capital is in China and Qatar. That’s 10x what the the generals skim.
Unlikely. Trump wants China relegated to their own hemisphere but to still be a functional, huge member of the new world order. They are in a position to obtain fuel elsewhere in the marketplace and move one. This is almost certainly about the old order, the one run by the neo-colonialist bankers. They are most precisely targeted by the shutdown of the Strait.
Canada has some oil tar they would like to move but China will have to build them a pipeline and a port to get it.
The big calculus is at what point does the preasure on China cause them to attempt an opportunistic attack on Taiwain
True.
The banks win whenever there is a war that they have control of. Money comes from both sides.
Trump has tossed that paradigm overboard and is remaking the world for nations and their people to have sovereignty.
A thousand likes!
I agree and think this is part of PDJT’s long game. He knows Putin can be a strong allie. Look how Russia benifits.
They don’t have any cards, well, the fake cards that MSM and Panican podcasters hold up for them, but as I mentioned, those are fake cards. I would even say imaginary cards that only work on fools.
That could very well happen, but if it does not President Trump is most assuredly ready, and whatever response he eventually decides upon in that case, will have an even stronger strengthening of the ‘you can’t have psychos armed with nukes’ narrative, as well as the cohesion of the Peace Board in its response; regardless of anything else he has the argument that he tried to talk to these crazy bastards.
The only real card they have left is geography.
The layout of the Strait of Hormuz gives Iran the ability to be very disruptive.
We’re looking at a long term commitment there policing that area.
Disruptive with what? Their navy?
Land based munitions, drones.
Yes, but!
Pres Trump:
“Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL!”
Thousands of missiles.
Using what, exactly?
You’d be surprised.
“Any Iranian who fires at us, or at peaceful vessels, will be BLOWN TO HELL! “
My point being, that game of whack a mole could go on for years.
This war, in some form, will last for a while.
My concern is, after this investment, will we be better off in the long term.
Could cost the GOP the midterms.
Exactly.
And that could be an extremely high cost. Actually, that would be a tragedy and disaster.
If the game of “whack a mole” continues, so does the search for adequate, long term, sources of oil.
Note the numerous million barrel cargo ships, from around the world, heading to US shores…
https://xcancel.com/mercoglianos/status/2043323828269453655#m
If enough “time goes by”, those alternative sources with far, far less risk, become ever more entrenched.
Financially, the alternate becomes the preference (stability vs uncertainty).
Physically, the alternate becomes the preference (assets afloat vs assets at the bottom of the sea)
As long as the threat of a “choke-point” remains, while safe and lucrative alternatives are available (perhaps, not not as lucrative as they once were. However, far more lucrative than having your tankers held hostage, or sunk), the appetite to roll the dice on running the straight… will abate.
Thoughts
Role of Board of Peace. Iran isn’t the only country along that Strait.
I have no issue with all the tankers coming to the Gulf of America. If need be we should take and rename the Strait of Hormuz the Strait of America. Panama will look like baby steps. Putting our enemies back in their box. Remaking the world for a thousand years. PDJT sees the curve of time like no politician can.
“Peace is the prize.”, and a very worthy one at that, but it may come at great political expense to PDJT at the R party of RINO’s and useless and pathetic misfits as it were.
It seems, nowadays, anything President Trump does, “may come at great political expense”.
Likewise, anything he doesn’t do.
If, in the end, this all goes well, do you not believe something else President Trump does/doesn’t do, won’t be elevated to the heights of “may come at great political expense”?
When would breaking the bonds of political control over our lives NOT come at “Great political expense”?
When has any other risked so much to bring to fruition the change we ALL desire?
“It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.”
~ Frederick Douglass
A while back I read (I don’t remember where) that Israel was planning on building an alternate route or canal to by pass the straight of Hormuz. Anyone have any info on this?
Nixed by The Trump Board of Peace, which will control Gaza, not Israel. The natural gas fields also will be Gazan, not Israeli.
Yes, there are multiple projects in the works to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
At present, Saudi Arabia has a 700 mile oil pipeline to Yanbu on the Red Sea which carries 7 million bpd. The Saudis are planning to add an additional pipeline along the same route. In addition, Saudi Arabia is working to renovate the existing TAP Pipeline which transits Syria to a port on the Mediterranean with a capacity of 4 million bpd. Iraq is working to reactive a pipeline to the Mediterranean as well.
All this and more should have been done ten years ago! 🤔
I read that, too. I just can’t seem to recall where. I’ll have to look around and see.
Reply to myself: here’s what I found I found via AI.
There is no official or active project for Oman to build a canal to bypass the Strait of Hormuz. While proposals for a maritime canal exist as theoretical concepts to bypass the geopolitical risk of the narrow strait, they are considered financially and technically impractical, with estimates reaching up to $200 billion for a project cutting through the Hajar Mountains.
Key Details on the Potential Bypass
The Concept: The proposed canal would connect the Persian Gulf (near Dubai/UAE) directly to the Gulf of Oman, traversing the Musandam Peninsula or the UAE/Oman border regions.
Engineering Challenges:
The route requires cutting through the Hajar Mountains, which are over 2,000 meters high, requiring a complex, massive lock system similar to or exceeding the Panama Canal.
Alternative Solutions:
Rather than a canal, the UAE built the Abu Dhabi Crude Oil Pipeline (ADCOP), which became operational in 2012. It carries 1.5–1.8 million barrels per day, creating a viable, lower-cost bypass for oil exports.
Why No Canal?: The project is hampered by extreme costs, complex engineering through mountains, and immense geological challenges. Furthermore, a canal would only move the chokepoint from the sea to land, without eliminating the geopolitical risks of the region.
Why Not Build It?
Cost: A 2008 proposal estimated a 180 km canal could cost over $200 billion.
Geopolitics & Security:
Constructing such a massive project in a tense region, often with geopolitical issues involving Iran, provides no guarantee of security compared to existing shipping lanes.
Alternative Pipelines:
Current focus is on securing pipelines, such as the 380 km ADCOP pipe, rather than a sea-level canal.
They are a radical regime that believes in martyrdom. They don’t care that they don’t ‘have any cards’. Not having any cards does not change the ideology.
President Trump makes good points, but leaves out a ‘card’:
– Iran still has thousands of missiles left, and can possibly keep the Strait closed for months, along with more launches against Israel and others
Do they have hypersonic missiles?
After Iran is dealt with, it’s time to focus on another set of antagonists – OPEC. It’s a monopoly to which the world has given the enormous power to control global oil prices. We are pretty self-sufficient in that regard, but we’re paying high prices at the pump because some third world potentates have banded together?
Screw that.
100% tariffs on all OPEC members and a suspension of trade until the organization is broken up and they are forced to actually compete instead of collude.
Why ??? your arguments make absolutely zero sense as OPEC actually cooperates when needed as well as when dealt with properly. They are a legitimate economic cartel that is now lead by a very different group of people vs pre-2016.
Internal US Financial masters of the world are bigger threats to the US than OPEC.
Also, in case it’s lost on people not paying close attention … it is OPEC members (who are also Abraham Accords signatories) supporting the US at this time.
You hate competition and support a monopoly of third world dictators.
Got it.
You got NOTHING.
Those “dictators” rule countries that have had the same form of government for centuries and are the ones President Trump helped come into power in 2016-2020 and who have cast their lot with President Trump.
It is empty headed, interventionist policies like yours that lead to Gulf War II under Bush, the Mullahs in Iran, Balkan Conflicts, Libyan adventures, raise of ISIS, raise of the murderous regime in South Africa, the Noriega regime in Nicaragua, Maduro in Venezuela, … so much for your vaunted strategic thoughts.
Okay, Mr. Globalist Foreign Entanglement Lover, thanks for playing. Now go pay your absurd price for gas so your pals in Iraq, Iran, etc can line their pockets.
Edit: Abraham signatories that also belong to OPEC: UAE and Saudi Arabia. That’s it. WOW SO MUCH SUPPORT!
Whose “vaunted strategic thoughts” are empty headed now?
Geee … so ignorant that what actually YOU propose is military entanglements .. pfft.
One more minor detail to address your fuel cost BS … in 2019 the US consumer was paying the lowest prices at the pump than had been charged over 50 years … and OPEC was cooperating. It was under your interventionist buddies Obama and Auto-Pen JoeBama that we had issues.
I agree, you are ignorant. I notice you want to ignore your ignorant claim about OPEC and the Abraham Accords, which was remarkably ignorant.
I’m guessing you’re a bot.
No I think it’s a 12 year old.
The Abraham accords brought peace to the Middle East. That’s a fact, Joe Biden lost the peace.
The Iran and Israel air war started on senile Joe’s watch. The war in Gaza started on senile Joe’s watch; by the time Trump took Gaza was mostly destroyed.
Thanks for playing.
What does that have to do with anything?
Trump didn’t help dictators come to power. LOL
You are confusing him with Obama. Obama, destroyed Libya, Syria, and Yemen for his Saudi and Qatari masters.
The Arab spring was a snowflake venture. Duh.
Excellent response.
Totally debunked, but I guess that’s “excellent.”
Not debunked simply because you claim it; any other arguments in support of your position?
We are an exporter every dollar that oil goes up we as a nation benefit all the money stays here.
The problem is that money is moving from your wallet into someone else’s wallet before it shows up as growth in the economy. TRICKLE DOWN is an unpopular concept, not because it isn’t true but because that growth is slower than a sequoia. From the perspective of the working man, we hope and pray we or our children will benifet.
We need to find away to more directly benefit. Alaska pays its citizen a portion of oil revenues directly. Perhaps some version of that would negate the burden. It needs the touch of a pick pocket rather than the boot of the isms
“All the money stays here?” Seriously, if you believe that you should sit this one out.
The way to more directly benefit is to stop allowing tin-pot dictators dictate what we pay at the pump by controlling the worldwide price of oil and force them to compete.
As Sundance has mentioned here many times, commodity prices are largely controlled by big multinationals. Oil is different only in that the OPEC cartel has outsized influence.
Once the oil tankers en route to the US are filled and sailing again the price will moderate downward. The longer the strait stays closed the more oil tankers are filled here in the US. Yes, maybe trickledown economic levers go slow at first, but there is more light at the end of the tunnel. Let Trump be Trump.
I WANT Trump to be Trump and negotiate with oil producing countries individually, not cartels that monopolize the industry.
So many people in here supporting Globe First instead of America First.
I’m sure negotiating with Opec is just right on up there at the top of his punch list.
Can you let him move pieces as he sees fit? This is chess not checkers.
See what the Arab world has been watching:
The War the Arab World Is Watching
The Middle East Has a Different Story and the West Is Not Hearing It
…Western observers who followed this war through the lens of Iranian social media accounts have been watching a carefully produced performance. The Arab world has been watching something else entirely, the first serious challenge to an ideology that was never democratically adopted, never welcomed, and imposed through violence and subversion from the moment of its founding.
The United States and Israel, long cast in Arab political culture as the twin engines of regional oppression, are being processed by a significant and growing portion of Arab opinion as something closer to liberators, not in the language of gratitude, which Arab dignity would resist, but in the language of relief.
Two interviews have proven especially illuminating in this regard. One features an Egyptian writer, the other a former Iraqi parliamentarian, both speaking on a Saudi-sponsored Arab channel with the kind of frankness that the Western media landscape rarely produces and rarely amplifies. Each, in his own way, says the same thing: Iran is the enemy.
https://www.zinebriboua.com/p/the-war-the-arab-world-is-watching?r=jdg8r&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true
Are we at the ultimate FAFO stage? You just know that they will start firing on our Navy ships there.
Bet me the Department of War would like nothing better than “another Gulf of Tonkin incident” to activate our war machine!
Gulf of Tonkin, WMD, it’s all they do – i.e. lie for a living.
We have been residing in a perpetual stage of FA through the last several presidencies (minus DJT).
Guess what?
We have (FO) found out.
Our government, corporations, financial institutions, the media, etc. — are a totally compromised, corrupt mess.
Thank you, God, for Donald J. Trump.
Let the compromised bastards scream. We need to join our collective voices and scream louder!
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“I have also instructed our Navy to seek and interdict every vessel in International Waters that has paid a toll to Iran. No one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas.”
Not just for the usual suspects.
Hello EU.
Exactly 👍
Still waiting for SOMEONE to explain exactly HOW any “toll” is being paid, and TO WHOM?
The time for “We will remember” has arrived, France, Spain, the UK, and even Italy.
So much for NATO
: )
Hmmmm UK
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in regard to Macron. Would that we could be a fly on the wall in his mansion and watch his reactions. lol. Waiting for the incoming pearl clutching and hand wringing from the Left. Great entertainment. President Trump is the GOAT when it comes to trolling.
Hope we destroy the rail system to China.
Once the “Ceasefire” is over, this should be priority #1.
With the announcement of the Naval Blockade … the ceasefire has ended.
yeah and then a bomb accidently falls on the bridge from Canada to Wisconsin.
Are we sure that would be a bad thing?
Throughout all of the military operations/wars that have been fought in my lifetime, I have never had as much confidence in our Commander In Chief and our military leadership as I have right now.
President Trump is large and in charge and the whole world knows it—even if the fake news pretends otherwise.
The days of Iran playing “rope-a-dope” with the United States are over. They aren’t Muhammad Ali and we aren’t George Foreman.
Nobody with an ounce of integrity or intelligence can deny that President Trump will accomplish all of his goals with Iran and that the end result will be a more peaceful and prosperous world.
🎯💕🙏
And yet this “muslim problem” will remain . If one is a hater there’s a religion to support. Then again, try the democrat party as its younger, hateful sister.
Or, just close your eyes and make a wish!
What of the no religion leaders?
Problem is that CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, NYTimes and the Washington Compost don’t have an ounce of integrity or intelligence combined.
Right but President Trump has been using them, riles them up and changes directions… he’s halfway to the moon and they are still circling the block, the same block from his first term.
And it’s clear 77 million of us know that.
💥🦅✝️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I’m not a weather man but I predict it will be raining in Iran in the near future. Raining bombs.
I predict the opposite.
This was illegal, more importantly this exposed a long running plan to import Islam to Christian Europe, as this was a joint Council On Foreign Relations Clinton Admin/Uniparty operation with Nazi NATO against the Orthodox Christian Serbs & the secular Bosnian Muslims under Abdic. Abdic had actually won the elections but somehow (sarc) the Nazi Islamist Izetbegovic was declared the winner and who subsequently tore up the peace treaty that had already been signed after a closed door meeting with CFR Clinton appartchick Warren Zimmerman. Proving that the radical jihadist Bosnian Muslims started the war at the behest of the Globalists.
May 21, 1996 Iranian Arms to Bosnia
Senate Intelligence Committee heard testimony from Ambassador Richard Holbrooke concerning the U.S. involvement in shipments of arms from Iran to Bosnia via Croatia and whether the Clinton administration broke federal law governing the disclosure of covert operations
https://www.c-span.org/program/senate-committee/iranian-arms-to-bosnia/56632
Very, very astute.
Good afternoon to you, Colkitto.
Can’t remember if you have made any reading suggestions to better understand the Serbian/Bosnian conflict following the breakup of Yugoslavia. I feel like that’s a weak spot in my understanding of the region and period, and I tend to shy away from anything NY Times or media recommended. I’m just not sure where to go to find good, unbiased information, and as you seem to have a really good handle on the subject, any help or guidance would be so appreciated!
Fool’s Crusade by Diana Johnstone. Here’s a small sample from an interview. She nails the expansion of Op Cyclone from Brezinski-CFR/Trilateral/London Globalist Nazis originally in Afghanistan and expansed to the Balkans and beyond. Radical Islam is their golem as my Quigley quote backs up. Before Clean break Yugoslavia, they had a Clean Break in Africa to destroy the Christian Resistance Block of mainly Rhodesia/South Africa/Portugal, after their Atlantic Charter WWII theater clause pulled out the Belgians & such. The African Wars against Globalist-Communism are fascinating reading on its own.
“Denying” the Srebrenica Genocide Because It’s Not True: an Interview with Diana Johnstone
https://www.counterpunch.org/2015/07/16/denying-the-srebrenica-genocide-because-its-not-true-an-interview-with-diana-johnstone/
Ty for asking and always a pleasure my friend.
Awesome.
Thank you for the info. One of my fav history professors had such deep knowledge of his subject matter, and after my first class with him I vowed that one day I would be able to converse about historical content in a similar fashion. Pretty certain I’m a lifelong student, and I feel confident I’m on my way.
Much obliged to you!
Wikileaks exposed that the much of the Obama Admin Cabinent was picked by the Council On Foreign Relations, which means these Islamists were known and allowed to proceed as Quigley stated in the below quote.
“Any other groups means IC created Islamist-Jihadist terrorists. Africa is a great example of this, where the communists have morphed into Islamists after the Christian resistance bloc of nations were overthrown by a combined effort of the CIA/MI6/UN/World Council of Churches,Soviet union, China,Cuba, and various Liberal-cultural Marxist Western Orgnizations and of course the Mockingbird Babylonian-Globalist Fake News
Yes to China and the EU. Trump and his brilliant cabinet doing their best to prevent a nuclear war. Obviously, the end will come in God’s timing. These stupid podcasters are self enriching narcissists. Do they really love their country?
There is no talking out any deal.
What are the IRGC supposed to do if they can’t export violence and death to the little satan and the big satan.
They won’t give up nuclear weapons to open a fruit stand or kabob house in the UK.
How thick is everybody in the West?
Dragging this out with some more useless ”negotiating”after 47 years of negotiating is just stupid.
Dragging it out will have negative consequences for domestic political games.
End it, or it will end you.
No more negotiating. That ship has sailed (and sunk). Either accept our terms, stand down from terrorizing the region, open the Strait and forfeit any nuclear weapons ambitions or suffer the consequences. Make them an offer they can’t refuse!
It is about enrichment. Basically saying a sovereign nation can’t have a nuclear industry. So stupid. All on behalf of the only nation with nuclear weapons in tbe middle east. End all foreign wars and entanglements especially for israel.
Blindingly wrong.
You selectively ignore ALL the offers over the past 20 years to assist in non-weapon nuclear energy and medical development.
The enrichment being discussed is directly related to weapons level efforts.
Enrichment is allowed and when you fight on behalf of another nuclear armed nation, you lose all “moral” or legal standing.
Allowing a Terrorist nation who has avowed to destroy US and Israel to make or even have access to nuclear weapons is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
Kamala? Is that you?
What is one supposed to make of the one signatory to the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons pursuing nuclear weapons development in spite of the treaty binding non-weapons states from pursing weapons development? Iran has a recognized right by the treaty to enrichment for peaceful use of nuclear energy. One does not need highly enriched uranium for electrical generation, but for weapons.
It is a different discussion with Israel not being a signatory to that same treaty.
It’s a different discussion for Israel and for North Korea, because they have nuclear weapons.
Therefore, you’re gonna have to conclude that the West is a puppet of both Israel and North Korea. LOL
Good grief, how ridiculous.
North Korea formally ratified but withdrew from the treaty years ago and is technically a non-signatory.
Israel, Pakistan, India, and South Sudan are not signatories.
Those are facts.
Israel did not sign the treaty because to do so would be tantamount to admitting officially that they have nuclear weapons. Not that everyone doesn’t already know this but it’s not official.
Exactly.
They have a policy of strategic ambiguity.
When a Nation says “Death to America” believe them.
Pakistan has them 😎
Not middle east but good try. So does india and north Korea. Iran probably learning the lesson of Libya and Iraq and go for nukes regardless if they want them or not but will ensure respect.
you may want to recall what Iran did when we attacked. They couldn’t rain bombs on us but filled the skies toward their neighbors, not just Israel. Imagine if they had six nuclear bombs and was attacked.
Obama gave them 4.5 Billion they spent it all on building things to kill. Think this one thru;
Thank you for ruining my sleep! ☺️
The minute the nutjobs produce enough for a nuclear bomb, Israel will be wiped off the map. As soon as they have a long range ICBM, they will launch nuclear weapons on the USA. The mullahs ONLY reason for being is to obliterate Israel off the face of the map, as well as the USA. They chant it ever day, it is in their DNA.
So, no, it is not stupid to say Iran cannot have nuclear.
Your “logic” is flawed. Iran has the goal of making nuclear weapons. This is well known. Iran has stated it will destroy israel and the US. If iran had nuclear weapons they would use them at some point too start ww3. The way to end a war is to win a war and President Trump is doing this. Israel like the US are targets.
You must hate the planet Earth. Almost every nation has agreed to stop the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Your kind of logic leads to a North Korea.
And the name dropping of Israel is idiotic. It reminds me of Nancy Pelosi or some other hoaxer constantly using the word Russia.
Obama dropped 26,000 bombs in his last year of office in the Muslim world, and he did it for the Saudi and Qatar, not for Israel.
Okjhg, did you miss this part when it was covered during the era when Bill Clinton gave nuclear technology to North Korea? This also was “Just to develop nuclear energy.” How did that turn out? If you weren’t alive to witness how this situation unfolded, it would be helpful to read some history on it. Now NKorea has nukes that could hit the west coast of the US. Are you advocating that it would be acceptable for Iran to follow suit?
From the article:
“The anti-interventionist podcasters and the Israel-first advocates are both wrong.”
Thank you, Sundance, for this opening. I agree and look forward to your upcoming article
regarding this statement.
Everyone here is America first and a Trump supporter.
Israel first is just a hoax like the Russia hoax.
Right.
“Oh, look honey the twins just turned three, time to get them matches and a gallon of gas.”
And the comments are gold; as if on cue, the intellectually dishonest swarmed to be the first to post an idiotic response to your comment.
Such a nonsense speculative answer. Israel blackmailed nixon in 1973. Why we have any worship for that dump is beyond anyone under 50.
Yeah, yeah yeah Israel is bad. Trump is a puppet of Israel. Lindsey Graham is an Israeli firster.
This sounds exactly like the Russia hoax with a simple search and replace of ‘Russia’ with ‘Israel’.
They didn’t give them a nuke because they knew they would likely use it.
Absolutely true.
Or even North Korea or Pakistan?
Because they already had the Western powers to do that for them?
………China or Russia……or North Korea
Any nation which has the money and the technological means to build a nuclear weapon can build a nuclear weapon. Once a nation has enough bomb-grade fissile material, it becomes possible to build a nuclear weapon which has a decent chance of detonating even if it hasn’t been tested.
It may not be a nuclear weapon compact enough to fit aboard a missile, but it can be one which poses a real threat if it can be delivered by some other means, such as in a cargo ship or in a cargo airliner. Or in a truck trailer which comes across a national border.
It is perfectly reasonable to believe, even without direct evidence, that Iran already has enough bomb-grade fissile material hidden away somewhere to build eight or ten nuclear weapons of some rudimentary design.
Their bomb design might be horribly inefficient in its consumption of fissile material, and too large and heavy to fit aboard a missile, but there is every possibility that Iran already has a bomb design of some kind which could be rapidly assembled if and when Iran decided to do so.
Radical muslims give new definition to that “crazy eyes” look!
Excellent question , Sir!
I figure the answer is because both Russia and China knowingly understand that the rulers of Iran are hell bent on Jihad and death to any standing in their way. IMHO.
Is it a stretch to think Pakistan working as the mediator in all things Iran,,, is also responsible for Iran’s knowledge and attainment of weapons grade nuclear material? Seems Pakistan already has a past history of helping others in this area. 🤔
Would not be a great idea considering India is right next door to Pakistan. Last thing they would probably want is another less friendly nation to Pakistan being armed by India in response.
Many of the anti-Iran voices of today, either remained silent during this Iran Influence in the Balkans timeframe, or supported it. At the time this was happening, I could not believe those who claim to uphold Holocaust history, would allow the turning of the Holocaust in WWII upside down and label the Holocaust victim Serbs “Nazis” and the real Nazis of 13 & 21 SS ” Allies”. It was straight out of Orwell’s 1984.
Concentration Camps: Jasenovac
https://jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jasenovac-camp
Iranian Soft Power and Religion in Bosnia
https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/events/iranian-soft-power-and-religion-in-bosnia
the mullahs have been a PITA for almost 50 years. I don’t know what kind of bizarro world they live in to expect to extract tolls for the Straight. Much less continue their nuclear program. I’m all for finishing this once and for all.
The Persians have been fighting wars with their neighbors for the last 2300 years. They’ve gotten to be pretty good at it, surviving the wars they’ve been involved in to fight another day, even if they weren’t the nominal victors at the conclusion of some of those wars.
If the Iranian-Persians refuse to play ball, and if they are more than willing to accept any and all damage to their nation and to their people the US and Israel can inflict upon them using unrestricted conventional air and sea power, then just how do we go about ‘finishing this once and for all’?
Accepting that damage is the easy part.
Living thru that damage is a bit trickier.
In 8 minutes PDJT’s discussion with Maria released on youtube (11:30AM EST):
Sometimes I wonder whether PDJT has a bit of a blind spot when dealing with these mooks. He enters these negotiations assuming that he’s dealing with rational men, but is actually dealing with a closed minded theocratic cult bent on obliterating Israel, Jews and eventually the US. Getting them to capitulate is tantamount to them renouncing mohammed and insulting allah. Then he sends two Jews (Kuchner & Witkoff) as part of the negotiating team which these mutants must consider a slap in their faces.
I can’t tell whether the president knows this and is dragging this process out to further expose and humiliate these savages and political Islam on the world stage, or he’s naive in this regard and is unknowingly pissing up a flagpole.
”He enters these negotiations assuming that he’s dealing with rational men,..”
On what basis do you hold this claim?
Are you saying that Trump isn’t fully aware that he’s dealing with fanatical crazies?
Because he seems frustrated in holding all the cards needed to win the poker game, but is up against an opponent playing Go Fish.
No, he knows. He has many very wealthy Persian friends/associates who are members of the diaspora. And he’s had years observing this mess.
imo he actually wants the conflict to continue until we kill all the radical mullahs that could potentially take over. their only hope now is to decieve the world they have no nuclear ambitions or die trying.
Trump is a master negotiator. And many of the people he has negotiated with in b business are more ruthless and more intelligent than they befuddled Iranian and delegation. LOL
Walking away from negotiations is the most basic part of Trump‘s art of the deal.
President Donald John Trump started his business in the Construction “Adverse” State in the USA. He not only created a MULTI BILLION DOLLAR Corporation, it thrived…. BIGLY.
In Negotiatons, he KNOWS what he’s doing.
Read the article of the deal pdf is free online. Audio is free on YouTube.
Remember the creator of ALL things has his back.
Nuclear Armageddon seems to be the Iranian hardliners’ raison d’etre, and so negotiations are pointless until….
Yeah, that whole conversation is hilarious; the idiots are out in force today.
when giving a quiz, could we see the answer sheet at the end?
Hahahaha. Good one, SD!
Am I understanding this correctly that Iran is ‘attempting’ to charge a toll to go through the Strait where there are mines?
How can Iran enforce anything?
Force from the bottom of the sea??
And that brings to mind my question too. If Iran has planted mines in and around the Straight of Hormuz, why would anyone in their right mind pay a toll to travel through it? So either they did not plant any mines and are lying to Trump and company, or they did plant mines and are lying to their prospective ‘customers’? Either scenario we know this about Irans ‘leaders’; they are definitely liars.
The only card Iran had, was to cause an economic depression by blocking off 20% of the worlds oil supply from Hormuz. Saudi Arabia with help from the US War Dept just eliminated this treat by completing an oil line across Saudi Arabia that eliminates using Hormuz and will contribute 7 million barrels of oil per day or roughly 7% of the worlds oil supply, lowering oil prices by $20-$30. Only a short time ago the press was saying it would take a year to build this, however it was done by converting existing gas lines to oil lines and using offshore loading instead of building docks. This completion is what allows Trump to blockade the Strait.
President Trump’s first foreign trip in his first term was to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Deliberate and quite the honour for SA…and they knew it. Remember the incredible reception given to him?
One of his many strengths is that he knows the importance of genuine, forged friendships/relationships; and so, being able to see further than most (or any for that matter), he has built one with Mohammed bin Salman. I am remembering on his second visit last year (again the first one of his third term), MbS himself waved President Trump onto AF1 personally, patting his heart as he said farewell from the foot of the stairs President Trump climbed.
Unheard of!! It was quite a moving moment and very telling.
I am in no way surprised by this Saudi development. In fact, it was something which could almost be anticipated by anyone who understands the firm friendship between these two men…President Trump and MbS…and their interpersonal history.
Good news… which we are desperately in need of.
And I must insert this link here…
One of the Iranian “negotiating” team was one Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf.
Understand who this monster is, and the failure to reach a “deal” was always predestined.
Know the enemy, which the rabid Ghalibaf most assuredly is. A thing I am betting President Trump understood even as Vance boarded the plane, even as he heaps false praise upon him now.
From the Gatestone Institute.
Please read.
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/22410/ghalibaf-is-no-moderate
Great link – thanks for sharing.
Does an excellent job in explaining the Iran system and mindset to Westerners.
Thank you Betsy, it’s like dealing with Satan.
They want to destroy the entire Western world.
Can you imagine if Kackle got installed???
She’d probably have us wearing burkas now.
He has invested a lot of time with many heads of state throughout the region too, establishing a strong rapport. He gave a rather impressive speech after signing the peace accords last October, offering praise to many specific leaders in the room. You could see that it was genuine. Previous administrations worked at playing different states off one another, which has left the region dysfunctional for decades. He has calculated that if he can get everyone focused on economic development as a common goal, peace is within grasp.
We built the 808 mile Trans Alaska pipeline in 17 months. From The Bearing Sea to Valdez. 2 mountain passes larger than the Rockies. 10 months were during winter reaching -60. All with 1970s technology.
we can’t build anything like it today. Ask yourself WHY?
I EXPECT deviant minds to be unrelenting. Wisdom provides the context. Islamic cultists have proven their human disregard for LIFE for almost 50 years. They relish their HATE for civil society.
So, it looks like President Trump has realized that the exit ramp is the smartest route to take in the Iran matter.
As he points out Iran has been beat to hell, it’s crazy leaders killed and military destroyed. We can easily open the Straits of Hormuz while additional oil pipeline bypasses are built.
The focus now is winning the elections in November by…
A: Lower interest rates.
B: Lower inflation
C: Lower gas prices
D: Cut federal deficit
E: End Ukraine War
Like was promised. 🤔
The longer this drags out, the more it effects PDJT & the MAGA anti-Globalist agenda being opposed by the Uniparty-Democrat traitors.
On another note, why hasn’t Bibi & Co ordered their AIPAC puppets in Congress to full support PDJT & MAGA as a token of appreciation for all that PDJT, MAGA, and America has done for them and our friends in Israel? This is the 6 million dollar question that Steve Austin wants to know
Precisely! Why is the predominantly Jewish owned and operated news media siding with Iran and the Democrats in a propaganda war against President Trump?
That’s a very disturbing and important question that needs to asked of them!
It’s like why did 90% of Jewish New Yorkers vote for and financially support Mandami for mayor?
Check AIPAC funding of “Anti-Israel” congressional prostitutes and “Pro-Israel” prostitutes in Congress. Also think about how many fistfights in Congress between the “Anti-Semites” & “Pro-Semites” and AIPAC vs the Muslim CAIR lobby. Once you understand the dialectic process of “Problem,reaction, solution” or “Control both sides of the False Binary Uniparty political system” your vison becomes clearer.
https://www.trackaipac.com/
and # F. stop H1B, illegals and deport them all.
Plus much accelerated deportation!
The USA and its Gulf Allies should create a DMZ that encompasses the Iranian coastline of the Strait of Hormuz, and guard it from Iranian infiltration. The only access point for Iran to the Strait should be Kharg Island, and they should be given a deadline to build a pipeline parallel to the Strait, replacing that access.
Until there is a legitimate regime change that involves the complete removal of the IRGC and the mullahs, the attempt to negotiate will continue to be a futile attempt.
They have no intentions of giving up their ambitions to have and to use nuclear weapons.
Time for our side to accept that they are dealing with religious fanatics bent on the subjugation of western civilization.
Once we take over their oil exports (by taking Kharg Island and other facilities), we will bankrupt the IRGC, and that will be the end of them. Then we can work out a deal with the Persians like we have with the Venezuelans. I’ll guess this will all be achieved before President Trump meets with Chairman Xi in mid-May.
While bankrupting them is great, in the end, until the religious fanatics are rubbed out of existence, they will continue to find a way to create havoc and export their terror.
Yep. Been that way for 1500 years or more.
Absolutely, regime change is necessary. And not give it over to the children of the martyrs, who want to avenge their dead parents, and who would be even worse. The regime change must be categorical.
Wow. FAFO to the extreme.
I salute you, Mr. President. Exceptional statement.
The plan sounds good to me. As is well known iran has refined nuclear material.
Also iran has been imbedded like sand fleas in various places that will be a threat.
NATO is a joke as is the EU. Little to no support of US effort to crush iran nuclear threat.
Tucker C is wrong about US effort against iran as are others.
Other podcast sideshow stuff like macron thing is just a distraction and draws attention away from the fact iran has refined nuclear material and wants ro start ww3 at all costs.
The iran regime kills their own people just for protesting.
The iran ticking time bomb has been fueled by the democrates and their partners.
I say take iran leardership and military all the way out.
That you for your attn in this matter.😉
Our track record with ‘protesters’ aint all that good. While iran killed them off en masse, we still killed some of ours and imprisoned a ton more.
God bless president trump. Iran will never give up their nuclear ambitions. They will need to be crushed, and we will have to seize and eliminate the nuclear enrichment. In the meantime, president trump is literally strangling China. Venezuela and Iran oil gone. They will have to buy oil from USA. Bye bye Xi checkmate.
Hilary Clinton gave Russia rights to our uranium via a Canadian mining company with the understanding the uranium couldn’t be exported back to Russia,which makes no sense…enter Iran …
Sundance, Iranians still have lots of uranium probably by way of Canada and Russia. Is it possible because of this large supply uranium that the Iranians actually think a nuclear option is still a reality?
Sum of All Fears.
Same play.
Blame the Russians.
Who wins WWIII?
The EUSSR Nazis.
Put a period on it President Trump, finish this.
Enough with the Moral Equivalence arguments, we’re all just people honestly trying to get along. Iran doesn’t want to get along with anyone and when they constantly scream “Death to America!” never turn your back on crazy, take them at their word.
The real problem isn’t that we can’t put Iran into the stone age and forcibly dig out the enriched uranium ourselves afterwards while shutting down their nuclear reactor and all associated activities and facilities.
The problem is that if the Democrats take back political power; they will, of course, surrender to Iran and try to use the UN to put everyone who stopped Iran from becoming a nuclear threat into a U.S. prison… just like they’ve been doing all along in their persecution of President Trump and his administration. These are bad people who are not on the side of the U.S. or Western Civilization.
They are a nasty mutated strain from the atheist and deist invention of the political left that brought the world the Soviet Union, Chinese communism, North Korea, the Khmer Rouge, that destructive socialism in German, and since the late 1960’s: the radical leftism that subverted and is now in control of the Democrat Party.
The last tanker of jet fuel arrived in the UK two days ago.
Their reserves run out mid-May.
It takes at least 40 days turnaround once the Gulf reopens to get any more.
Leverage.
The largest religious minority in Iran is the Baha’i faith, currently being persecuted and slaughtered by the mullahs.
It’s chief tenet being, all religions should peacefully coexist.
They need to to be supported and assisted in uprising against the Islamic regime.
No comment
The end game is removal of the Iranian regime for crimes against humanity. Death to islamic terrorism.
Unless we are willing to carpet bomb Tehran including bridges, hospitals and power plants killing 750,000 people you are not going to remove the Mullars and IRGC from power!
Pinprick military strikes are worthless.
Blockaid the Straight and bomb the railroads. Turns off their money and their China pipeline. No need to bomb civilians.
I stand with President Trump on this issue. Iran must never be allowed to have nuclear anything, much less nuclear bombs and intercontinental missiles. Now is the time to rectify the situation, no matter what it takes.
Now as for Chinese meddling…
The IRGC sent FIVE plane loads of additional IRGC members to Pakistan, as they do not trust Araghchi or the rest of the negotiators. The IRGC has been fighting among themselves back in Iran, and have also brought in operatives from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan to patrol the streets and checkpoints. The radicals in that regime would not honor any agreement that might have been reached during the negotiations.
The new AI from Anthropic called Claude Mythos can hack into any device on the internet. Take all of Iran’s money and put it into the Social Security Trust Fund where US politicians can steal it fair and square.
The new “AI” is a snake oil scam. It’s not what you are reading or hearing in the media.
Where does this AI can do anything BS come from?
This is such a moronic take. You clearly have ZERO understanding of the matter at hand, or even the history of Iran vs USA.
This was in reply to someone up higher… who’s post must have been removed. This is NOT a reply to Sundance’s post.
Looking forward to your contextualizing this situation, Sundance.
Back when Israel bombed them, 12 day wrt, and we took out the deep target, many described facilities that went beyond just having enriched uranium. Facilities to turn the gas firm into bomb material.
I am so sick of these idiots claiming Iran doesn’t want the bomb.
BTW, while most focus on further enrichment, 60% is capable of being used as a bomb. A bomb can be made with enriched uranium as low as 20%. The bombs get smaller and smaller the greater the enrichment.
https://theconversation.com/what-is-uranium-enrichment-and-how-is-it-used-for-nuclear-bombs-a-scientist-explains-259031
While the IRGC has suffered substantial losses in personnel, infrastructure, and equipment, it remains a functional and potent military force.
The destruction of its headquarters and hundreds of facilities has degraded its operational capacity, but its underground infrastructure, decentralized command, and asymmetric warfare tactics have preserved its ability to strike adversaries and project power regionally.
The war has not broken the IRGC’s will nor capability to fight. And it, it may have strengthened its political standing by framing the conflict as resistance against foreign aggression.
Iran may have lost battles, but the IRGC as an institution has not collapsed—and may even emerge with enhanced authority.
Metaphors be with you Luke.
What will they do for money? Their anglo-European backers are being starved. Keep China onside by offering a healthy marketplace and oil at fair market value, and the globalist puppets will eventually atrophy.
Scofield. Finney etc
We have Trump! Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition!
I’m happy that this is down to just the nuclear weapons issue if that is truly the case. Much easier to bring in allies to assist in making a deal if that is all we are demanding. A little help from Russia and China on the QT would be nice.
Europe paid Tribute to pirates for 400 years. They would do so again.
China seems to want Iran to be a mirror state just like N. Korea except with oil.
In a non-pretending world, the fact that Iran is “unwilling” to give up their nuclear ambitions is irrelevant.
Iran no longer has a choice in the matter. Their nuclear ambitions are done and done. The only choice they have left is this:
Will they do it the easy way or the hard way? President Trump is not playing.