They ignored Joe Biden’s warning, and we have an incapacitated president in the White House. What could possibly go wrong? Can someone tell me if this is WWIII?
Dozens of drones that will take hours to get there are reportedly coming from both Iran and Iraq. Will update more if I hear anything.
Sounds like it might be over, a warning that spat in the face of Joe Biden. Very bad look for our government to have warned Iran not to do something and they went ahead and did it as a show of force.
I don’t think it was meant as an insult to Biden. He’s just completely irrelevant. Israel hit Iran hard with its strike in Damascus. Biden had probably already told Israel to surrender to Hamas and Iran. Who cares? Then Iran had to retaliate with a mid-level attack, so it did. Anything Biden said or didn’t say was of no importance to anyone. Iran didn’t intend to provoke Israel by causing a lot of deaths, and it didn’t. Everyone had several hours to seek shelter. And now Iran has saved face.
I’m also thinking of not well known arms depot in Israel, that the USA keeps full of artillery shells. A depot we now know about due to Israeli whistleblowers raising alarm in Jan ‘23 NYT op-ed that stocks were getting low due to their diversion to Ukraine. Similar depot in Korea as well used to launder munitions to Kiev:
The US weapons storage in Israel is just prepositioning supplies forward and is done in NATO countries as well.
Israel had never allowed foreign troops except in 1991 when it was forced to accept a US Patriot battery in exchange for not attacking Iraq at the height of the First Gulf War.
I think Glenn Greenwald is indulging his anti-Israel fantasies that the IDF is not capable
The point is that ‘danger’ in the region, either real or manufactured supports continued, high Defense $ spending, jobs and profits, embraced by our ruling Uniparty. Having conflict or fear of conflict always top of mind keeps the war machine alive and we flirt between DEFCON 3 to 2, and god forbid, ever to 1.
The stories of Ukraine’s defeat are now hitting MSM. Here’s one on very same day as heat up in the Near East ;)
I don’t fly at all. I just know Boeing is not the company it once was. Too bad. At one time they were global leader in both military and commercial aircraft.
Hope you are right. I fear our open border may lead to attacks. Maybe I'm paranoid but I don't believe what happened in Dearborn the other day happened in a vacuum.
Iran had to do something like this to retaliate for the Damascus strike. Which was interesting. Drones identified several upper-level military commanders entering the same building, reportedly to plan an upcoming terrorist operation. Authorization for the strike was given very quickly, outside regular channels, as it was an unexpected opportunity to kill several upper and several lower level commanders. But that meant retaliation from Iran was inevitable. I hope everyone at risk has taken shelter. Iran has already said that that’s all for this round.
The Washington Free Beacon has a running series on Biden's senior moments. They're now up to #89. Highly recommended. It's always cruel to have fun at the expense of the aged. I don't. I am stunned, however, and I don't find the extent of his deterioration - #89 is sheer incoherence - amusing.
I also suspect we should not underestimate the stupidity of us supporting Ukraine and pushing Russia, China and Iran together. Every minute that we stand in the way of peace with Ukraine, we can expect the Russians to push for an all out war in Israel, and who knows where else.
Israel attacked Iran a month ago so that Iran would retaliate and give the excuse for a broader war to get more US funding and US troops on the ground. This gets us more complicit in the slaughter of Palestinians. Notice too that those calling for US to send troops are cowards who never joined the military themselves. This is to get Biden elected, US engaged in another neocon war, and money and troops to Israel.
thanks for catching that. It is of course, exactly what the US did to the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and blamed it on an 'old map'. our primary policy now should be getting all living hostages out, then talk about anything else. their pictures should be on TV every day, including our TV if any are American citizens.
Only to those people who are fed a continuous stream of propaganda from the National Socialist Media. BTW, those people are anything but liberal – that word implies someone who favours liberty.
1. Complex drones that can map targets, attack them with bombs or missiles and do electronic warfare, like Israel's Hermes 900 or IAI Heron-TP
2. Loitering drones fired at a battle area and which then use machine learning to identify targets on their own and crash into them and explode, like IAI Harop
3. Drones that only collect intelligence, like Israel's Orbiter family
4. Simple drones with explosives that crash into a preassigned target.
So, wouldn’t you think that it would be a good idea to have the border’s secured so we don’t have untold thousands of military aged men invading the country to carry out attacks in the states?
Thanks Democrat voters. Was it worth it to have Biden buy your vote by inflating the currency?
Your insanity is going to get people killed, hopefully you can live with yourselves.
Appeasing Iran never made sense. Never! Trump had it right. The Biden ( Obama’s 3rd term) has destroyed the world. Obama made it clear on day one.” I will fundamentally transform America”.
The Biden admin made it clearer. “ The transitioning”…” The liberal World Order”. Translation: Transitioning back to the Dark Ages”. “Illiberal NWO”. The iron fist and jackboot of tyrannical control over a dinished global population of androgynous, sterile, transhuman slaves.
Oh, that’s a fabulous rejoinder! And he’s hellbent ( no pun intended) on accomplishing the mission. Kind of like “ It depends on the size of the invasion”.
I remember an exchange between Joan Rivers and Selena Gomez at LAX. Joan was running to catch her flight when Gomez and her posse of clueless ambushed her. The “ Palestinian Chump Squad” confronting her about another Hamas attack and Israel’s response. Rivers responded as only she could do with total panache’. “ Hey college graduate- If NJ fired a missile through the Holland Tunnel into NYC, it would be Goodbye New Jersey and I bet you can’t even spell “ Palestine”. The press and crowd that had gathered exploded with laughter. The Peanut Gallery was silent.
I try to be open minded but this kind of commentary is a little too Hitler-esque for my blood. Are you kidding or are you serious? It crosses the line.
BTW, I watched a podcast last night with the host begging Trump to opt for Tulsi and ignore the purists bitching about “ but she was a Democrat”. He went on to absolutely laud you, Tammy Bruce,Leo Terrell and named many acclaimed Republicans who were former Dems, many on the far left. Including Thomas Sowell,David Horowitz,Krauthammer, Bachmann, Reagan( though not my favorite ) Navarro,Ezra Cohen,Mayra Flores,Brandon Straka, Scott Pressler,Doug Murray,Giuliani, Mike Flynn, Mark Morgan
Pierre Kory,Zev Zelenko, Jack BrewerWalid Phares,Ayaan Hirsi-Al,David Friedman, Harvey Rischand , James Kunstler,Dave Rubin, Tony Shaffer,Jeff Van Drew,Dave Webb,Dick Morris,others who have had enough of the No Longer Recognizable Dems… Joe Rogan,Asra Nomani,Rapaport,Dov Hikind, Majiid Nawaz
The Dems have become so feral, venal, corrupt, hateful and psychotic that even RFK Jr couldn’t stand it anymore.
And as the host noted about lifelong Republican “ purists” being of such integrity.. Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, John McCain, the Family Bush, Will Hurd, Kinzinger, Chris Wray, Robert Mueller,Chris Christie, John Bolton, Carly Fiorina, Mike Pence… How’s that working out ?
Yeah. That’s it. Jews are all terrible and rule the world. Are there terrible Jews? Yes, but they are Jews in name only. They hate themselves and are the most. virulent antisemites of all. Even more so than you, if possible. Yeah, the fundamentalist Islamist Ayatollah regime is terrific. They love Christians, Hindus,Buddhists,pluralist Muslims, Yazidis,Sikhs,Zoastrians,Kurds,Druze, atheists,agnostics , and women,gays across the spectrum. And a global Islamist caliphate under Sharia is fucking awesome!
The vote for Biden will end as a vote for drafting our daughters and sons and sending them into battle. This will become a bigger issue for suburban women and the youth vote. Under Trump we had four years of peace. Under Biden conflagrations have erupted in Europe and the Middle East. Military recruitment is at historic lows even with lower standards and signing and re-upping bonuses. I am voting for peace through respect.
If our young people are sent to defend the oppressed victims of colonialism and racism a lot of liberals may want to fight, but it is hard to imagine. No matter what happens, the wealthier of the white Democratic parents will find many ways to shelter their own kids from their wars. The ruling class has always done this.
The feckless Biden regime has destabilized the entire Middle East and facilitated this situation. The window of opportunity may be closing for America and the world to recover from the destruction of election integrity that led to the installation of one of the most criminally incompetent administrations in American history.
It will be interesting to see. I would think that the cognitive dissonance would be building about Muslims and their theocracies hating women and gays, but part of being woke is a surprising level of tolerance for their own inconsistencies.
A comment here or somewhere stated (paraphrasing): "as a queer person, I wouldn't be thrilled to visit Gaza, but I would be more afraid of being killed by the IDF than anyone from Hamas".
I shit you not. Doesn't get any more 'dissonant' than that. Just astounding.
I find that comment you quoted to not be very credible in terms of what is implied about the relative threat to "a queer person" from Hamas versus the IDF. I am not closed minded to the commenter's implication, but I am aware of what happens to gay people at the hands of Muslims and their Islamic states.
That is how I understood it. But I seriously don't get what you mean by your last sentence. I get that if someone is located in an area that is under military attack that person could be in extreme and immediate danger. And, I am thinking that leaders of Hamas are probably not in that area, but have left the citizens of Palestine to take the hits. None of that changes what Hamas or any other Islamists do to gay people when Hamas is not otherwise engaged.
Nobody worry - Ol' Joe has "cut short his weekend in Delaware" and headed back to the White House. He's got this. (MASSIVE SARCASM ALERT...)
Called one of his famous "lids" - the minders aren't letting him out tonight. He's probably drooling in his cup of melting ice cream - we're heading into sundown hours on the East Coast, can't have the shuffling human shell out in front of people without a few hours of drugs to boost him up.
Glenn says Israel bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus to start a war with them which they knew would then bring America into their war in the Middle East. So why do we have to go to war against Russia and Iran to protect the borders of Ukraine and Israel while our borders are wide open and people, mostly military age young men that we know nothing at all about, pour in by the thousands every day?
Glenn says this is disastrous for America so why are we doing this? Because this is what our ruling class wants, that’s why. So now our rulers are waging a war internally on Trump/MAGA, externally on Putin/Russia, this newest war will be against Iran/Hamas/Yemen and Syria plus from there it will escalate to a global WW3 which will bring down our entire global civilization. And all because the criminally insane pigs who rule us are obsessed with destroying those who oppose them. This is why I believe humanity, in group terms, is too stupid and too dysfunctional to survive. God only knows where we’ll all end up.
Israel Dragging US into New Mid-East War: “They Know What They’re Doing.” (20 min)
Plenty of acts of war from Iran against Israel. Iran, like Syria and Lebanon, considers itself to be in a state of war with Israel. In that state, the other side shoots back.
Smarter to accept the pension savings from 7 fewer senior IGRC officers and move on
And Israel has always considered itself in a state of war with those who don’t accept that God gave that land to the Jews 2500 years ago so it belongs to them and those who object are just Jew haters.
Total bunk: at least twice, in 2000 ( Ehud Barak) and 2008 (Ehud Olmert), the Israeli PM formally offered 98% of West Bank, all of Gaza and all but 10,000 square FEET of Jerusalem in exchange for peace.
In both cases the Palestinians didn't bother to respond or counteroffer.
Oct 7 atrocities is the only thing they want. Wrong century for that: the IDF will tear you a massive new orifice for trying. Get used to the concept
I follow John Mearsheimer and Glenn Greenwald for accurate information and they both say your version of history is bs put out by Israel to make them look like the good guys who have always worked for peace which is an outrageously absurd lie.
Israel has been picking this fight to bring the US into combat on their side and because support is waning for their little "technically not a genocide." It's only WWIII if we're stupid enough to get involved. Israel started the current mess by bombing the Iranian embassy in Damascus. *shrug* I don't know what to tell you. Make stupid choices, win stupid prizes.
And if you start cheering for war, remember a few salient facts: our military is understaffed, you try a draft with a war this unpopular and you'll have an uprising, we have virtually no ability to ramp up production for war materiel and we've given away all our extra weaponry, we're already way in debt, Israel has already isolated itself (and us) on the global stage, and any "help" we might have gotten from say European nations isn't there because they got their own little problem that we started in Ukraine.
Biden already promised to intercede if Iran attacked Israel, and I've heard more than one Republican demanding we invade Iran, so . . . plenty of people have been cheering for war.
I have no glee over Israel being attacked because I know where this goes. I know a bunch of idiots in the US will cheer on our getting involved, millions will die, and years later I will have to hear "but . . . but . . . but we didn't know."
But I'm as sad about Israel being attacked as you were about the Palestinians dying. That seems fair.
So what will it take? Kristallnacht USA 2024? Before you stop supporting and encouraging Nazis wearing keffiyehs? Your moral credibility is wearing very thin…
Hey, there Jude. Wondering if you would pipe up. Wait. This is the wrong substack and such an old topic. I have a comment you would absolutely love on the Free Press. You're the wrong place. You would find so many birds of a bloody feather over there. You'd be in hog heaven.
None of the people who cheer for our men to go die in Israel actually join the military and risk their own lives in combat. It’s because they are cowards who talk tough but act like cowards.
They are also members of the ruling class, who can keep their kids out of the fight and/or get them officers' commissions that connect them even more with the ruling class.
you don't watch blue team TV. they have ultra serious 'experts', usually female, but hard hard hard in face and spirit, arguing for war. when you guys say neo-cons, you forgot they control the blue team too. that's why we need RFK, Jr.
I appreciate you telling the truth even though you are defamed for it. Indeed Israel’s attack on Iran was to spark a broader war and get US troops engaged there to help Biden win in 2024.
Nope, it's not World War III. Israel and Muslim countries have been lobbing missiles and launching air attacks at each other for decades. The US has no business getting involved. Let's just hope Israel doesn't get to the point they decide to use the nukes they've never admitted having.
For some definition of "country". Hamas and Hezbollah are de facto states and they have certainly been exchanging missiles and air strikes with Israel.
Actually, it has. You evidently don't remember what happened in 1990 when Saddam Hussien bombarded Israel with SCUDS. The Israelis have launched air attacks on Iran to interrupt their nuclear plans.
Historically, no. Not since late antiquity have the Hebrew speaking people been allowed to exist apart from an important network of bankers facilitating trade.
The Iranian regime has been at war with Israel, the United States, and the West roughly since the Ayatollah overthrew the Shah of Iran. It is not a war that Israel has chosen. It is a war that has been thrust upon it by a regime of genocidal maniacs.
Thirty years after the fact the Court of Cassation in Buenos Aires issued a ruling blaming Iran for bombing the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina—a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires—on July 18, 1994, using its terrorist proxy Hezbollah. The attack left 85 dead and more than 300 wounded. The court called it a crime against humanity.
There's a whole lot more than that. Israel has been engaged in activities against Iran and Syria for some time. It goes back to 1979 when the Carter Administration helped the Ayatollah Khomeini return to Iran from exile in France. (Although he was officially flown back in a civilian airliner, the rumor is that he was taken back in a USAF C-141.) Previously, Iran and Israel had good relations and the Shah of Iran and Sadat of Egypt had brokered peace. That all fell apart with Khomeini then Sadat was assassinated. I'm not a big Wikipedia fan but this article gives a pretty good account of all of the events since that period - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_proxy_conflict. In short, it's not new.
I think the is the predicted results of the end of the old empire. Its shows desperation of the old elites trying to hold on to a system nobody wants to live in anymore. They are trying to create a world war in order to make a move to bring back a broken America such as what has happened in many of our past. Times are different now and large alliances has formed and the end result will be different
I think it makes all kinds of sense to send chronically, vocally antiAmerican individuals to stand in a line at the border and trade places with any vetted decent person who petitions to come in.
Judging by your comment. Let me guess. Bleeding heart liberal right? I would assume that anyone with an 5th grade education would understand that a lot of those people you talked about in your childish comment are coming here as a direct result of the US foreign policy in their countries brought on by the direction of the ruling class and elites not the good people living in the US. You can live your boring life trying to keep everything the same but the rest of us want to bring the country to a much better place for all Americans. Also the comment was a reflection of the ruling class and elites not the good hard working Americans
I would not underestimate the stupidity of the Biden administration getting us into the war in Ukraine, and continuing to up the anti. We drove Russia, China and Iran together, brilliant. Every minute we continue to increase sanctions and impede peace efforts in Ukraine will only expand Russia’s interest in distracting us on numerous other fronts.
You got it right. Team Biden/Obama driving all the BRICS together and now add another “I” in ‘Iran’ to that mix. All for short/medium term Defense $ spending benefits, retention of Uniparty power. But long term, these multi polar powers are going to challenge US Dollar as world’s reserve currency w/ one of their own - which if/when that occurs, is the true disaster.
Already happening alas. And undermined both Abraham Accords and Israel’s tentative friendlier economic and political relations with Russia and India over the last decades. Meanwhile this Biden crew remains in denial with its little love fests with Xi and ignoring Chinese helping war against Ukraine.
Not sure it’s a want for WW3, but it flirts with it. The administration is instead more plausibly hell bent on keeping the Defense Industry humming, cause’ the Ukraine boondoggle is going to sunset soon and another conflict is needed.
Here’s a report on Ukraine youth fleeing the country to avoid conscription into the war:
Interesting to me personally. When I saw a notification on my phone - my first inclination and action was to go straight to substack for news and info. I love knowing that change has happened mentally.
They have been used extensively by Russia and Ukraine reports shooting down over 90% in some attacks. Israel, with much more sophisticated air defenses, should do better.
These are the minimal response Iran can give that allows it to claim it attacked Israel but without causing much damage. Usually Russia has used these drone as decoys to distract air defenses from its ballistic missiles.
I agree this isn’t a ‘real’ attack by Iran but rather a ‘see what I can do’ gesture, and designed for Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthie/domestic Iran consumption. That said, it’s a watershed moment being the 1st time Iran has attacked Israel from its own soil, and has potential to cause an outsized response. Speculation Iran may be telling USA or Israel in advance where the drones are headed. How else do we have the several day ‘heads up’ of a coming attack? Buckle up.
This is a neocons’ wet dream. Liz Cheney poured herself a glass of champagne and she’s the one sucking it up today. Can you hear her burp? After Ukraine winds down, Iran gets wound up.
And who’s boots will they be? Not the neocons or their kids. They want more war but never actually go to combat themselves. They’re cowards. They want to send other American kids to die for Israel.
This just in. Iran has suspended it's petroleum industry to prevent future warming of the planet. Paying indulgence, it seeks carbon credits fir launching a biblical flock of passenger pigeon drones to block out the harmful rays of the sun over all places Israel.
Are we already in a civil war? The editors of Real Clear Politics believe we are and I very much agree with them. On his first day in office that stinking pig in the White House issued an Executive Order to replace meritocracy, considered racist due to its “disparate impact” on blacks, wherever it could be found with Equity aka Equal Outcomes. Are you happy now that your despicably evil democrats are even dumbing down medical schools for the sake of “Equity”? May God curse criminally insane fanatics like you and your hate whitey friends for destroying this once great nation.
“Editor’s Note: America is at war. This is not a traditional war, fought on a battlefield against an external enemy. It is a civilizational conflict against an internal enemy: the group quota regime, a revolutionary threat that seeks to reorganize American society around the principle of outcome equality — what the regime’s partisans call “equity.”
“This cold civil war may go unnoticed by many day-to-day, but its stakes are often as high as life and death. Here, Roger B. Cohen, a celebrated oncologist and professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, explains how the group quota regime has taken hold of the American medical education system and asks urgent questions about the consequences for medicine, for the sick, and for the country.”
No society so devoid of trust and so full of hate can survive as a nation. It doesn’t even still exist as a country internally which is why it’s disintegrating externally. Soon even Woke white leftists as densely befuddled as you will realize this obvious fact.
Open borders, dumbed down schools that poison children with Woke race and gender ideology, the demonization of “Whiteness!” in general and of white cops in particular, and the war on meritocracy due to its having a “disparate impact” on blacks and therefore condemned as “racist” by the left are just a few of the many ways you stinking filth have destroyed America. Are you proud of destroying America? Apparently so.
“California Nukes Math Standards For Racial Equity.” (7 min)
“Destroying America?” Lmfao. Looks just fine from my house. People like you have so much time on your hands that you convince yourself that you live in a hellhole. Get off your fat fern and off the internet and you might see things differently. You sound like every other whining racist I’ve run across
Freak Flags flying above our embassies, bobbly plastic balls on the WH lawn, deranged males (Levine, Brinton) flying their freak in the administration, just screaming for the hordes to invade.
Israel has always considered itself in a state of war with those who don’t accept that God gave that land to the Jews 2500 years ago so it belongs to them and those who object are just Jew haters. Most Jews in Israel, whether religious or secular, are Zionists who believe that the land belongs to them, whether for religious or secular reasons. This is why it’s such an impossible situation.
King James Version. Psalm 137, 1-4, Psalm 19:14. “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.”
I don’t propose to do anything about it. I do resent the country I live in being dragged into a Middle East war that has nothing to do with us. Why should America be involved in this impossible situation? This is just another disastrous mess on top of all the others that are already killing us.
Jesus Christ on a three-legged burro…The US government is either A) under the direct control of, or B) considerably influenced by, religious lunatics in the grip of apocalyptic fantasies, as are the zionists and mullahs. Gee, I wonder what’s going on in the Middle East?
How dare Iran bomb a country, unprovoked, after that same country bombed its embassy.? It's almost as if they they think they have the right to self-defense or something crazy that we only allow Isreal to use, when applicable.
Congress and the president authorize a draft: The president claims a crisis has occurred which requires more troops than the volunteer military can supply. Congress passes and the president signs legislation which revises the Military Selective Service Act to initiate a draft for military manpower.
The lottery: A lottery based on birthdays determines the order in which registered men are called up by Selective Service. The first to be called, in a sequence determined by the lottery, will be men whose 20th birthday falls during the calendar year the induction takes place, followed, as needed, by those aged 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 19, and 18 (in that order).
All parts of the Selective Service System are activated: The agency activates and orders its state directors and Reserve Force officers to report for duty.
Physical, mental and moral evaluation of registrants: Registrants with low lottery numbers receive examination orders and are ordered to report for a physical, mental, and moral evaluation at a Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) to determine whether they are fit for military service. Once he is notified of the results of the evaluation, a registrant will be given 10 days to file a claim for exemption, postponement, or deferment
Maybe our concern should be as to why Israel thinks it ok to destroy the Iranian embassy in Syria. Instead, we all react w horror when Iran responds. Unreal.
Judging by your comment. Let me guess. Bleeding heart liberal right? I would assume that anyone with an 5th grade education would understand that a lot of those people you talked about in your childish comment are coming here as a direct result of the US foreign policy in their countries brought on by the direction of the ruling class and elites not the good people living in the US. You can live your boring life trying to keep everything the same but the rest of us want to bring the country to a much better place for all Americans. Also the comment was a reflection of the ruling class and elites not the good hard working Americans
Saagar says our ruling class is committed to following Israel wherever they lead and what they want is war with Iran so that’s our newest forever war. God only knows where we’ll all end up. I recommend following Breaking Points with Krystal & Saagar. They do a lot of excellent reporting about domestic and foreign issues.
“Breaking: Iran Strikes Israel As US Military Engages.” (8 min)
Sounds like it might be over, a warning that spat in the face of Joe Biden. Very bad look for our government to have warned Iran not to do something and they went ahead and did it as a show of force.
I don’t think it was meant as an insult to Biden. He’s just completely irrelevant. Israel hit Iran hard with its strike in Damascus. Biden had probably already told Israel to surrender to Hamas and Iran. Who cares? Then Iran had to retaliate with a mid-level attack, so it did. Anything Biden said or didn’t say was of no importance to anyone. Iran didn’t intend to provoke Israel by causing a lot of deaths, and it didn’t. Everyone had several hours to seek shelter. And now Iran has saved face.
But might it be very nice for our Defense Industry? Boeing could sure use a lift…
More like Israeli defense firms:
IAI for Arrow 2 and Arrow 3
https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/missile-defense-weapons/arrow-3-makes-combat-debut-thwarting-long-range-missile
And Rafael for Iron Dome and David's Sling
https://www.rafael.co.il/worlds/air-missile-defense/
Raytheon partners with Rafael to market the Stunner hit-to-kill interceptor used in David's Sling as the Skyceptor/Patriot PAC4
USA military is building a base in the Negev desert, ~20 miles from Gaza border (Site 512) w/ said focus on Iran (and its missile threat):
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/27/secret-military-base-israel-gaza-site-512/
I’m also thinking of not well known arms depot in Israel, that the USA keeps full of artillery shells. A depot we now know about due to Israeli whistleblowers raising alarm in Jan ‘23 NYT op-ed that stocks were getting low due to their diversion to Ukraine. Similar depot in Korea as well used to launder munitions to Kiev:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/us/politics/ukraine-israel-weapons.html
The US weapons storage in Israel is just prepositioning supplies forward and is done in NATO countries as well.
Israel had never allowed foreign troops except in 1991 when it was forced to accept a US Patriot battery in exchange for not attacking Iraq at the height of the First Gulf War.
I think Glenn Greenwald is indulging his anti-Israel fantasies that the IDF is not capable
The point is that ‘danger’ in the region, either real or manufactured supports continued, high Defense $ spending, jobs and profits, embraced by our ruling Uniparty. Having conflict or fear of conflict always top of mind keeps the war machine alive and we flirt between DEFCON 3 to 2, and god forbid, ever to 1.
The stories of Ukraine’s defeat are now hitting MSM. Here’s one on very same day as heat up in the Near East ;)
https://apple.news/AeJOCaaZ6SOWrjWgQcL3Wkw
High defense spending gave us the Internet, radar and jet travel.
More regrettably, also direct impingement rifles, although that's being rectified, thank goodness
Back up the truck
But what sane military pilot would fly in a Boeing built plane. Would pay to have the engine cowling come off or the door open at Mach 2
The F15-EX is a wonderful new upgrade to a great aircraft.
The F18E is still the backbone of US Naval Aviation.
You fly much?
I don’t fly at all. I just know Boeing is not the company it once was. Too bad. At one time they were global leader in both military and commercial aircraft.
Their failure with the KC-46 tanker left the USAF using 60 year old tankers, the oldest in the world.
Too much DEI at Boeing sunk it
https://christopherrufo.com/p/its-an-empty-executive-suite
IDF lifted orders to remain near shelters and almost all incoming were shot down.
One girl was injured and slight damage to one base
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-vast-majority-of-ballistic-missiles-downed-a-few-impacts-identified-including-at-base/
Hope you are right. I fear our open border may lead to attacks. Maybe I'm paranoid but I don't believe what happened in Dearborn the other day happened in a vacuum.
Iran had to do something like this to retaliate for the Damascus strike. Which was interesting. Drones identified several upper-level military commanders entering the same building, reportedly to plan an upcoming terrorist operation. Authorization for the strike was given very quickly, outside regular channels, as it was an unexpected opportunity to kill several upper and several lower level commanders. But that meant retaliation from Iran was inevitable. I hope everyone at risk has taken shelter. Iran has already said that that’s all for this round.
This is what happens when we have a "President" nobody respects.
You bet. A disaster.
According to plan. Not incompetence on the part of America's enemies.
Oh yeah right. Russia and Iran our are buddies. Ding-a-Ling
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Elections have consequences and stolen elections have catastrophic consequences.
STEVE! :)
You nailed, it 🙃
More like a usurping Resident.
The Washington Free Beacon has a running series on Biden's senior moments. They're now up to #89. Highly recommended. It's always cruel to have fun at the expense of the aged. I don't. I am stunned, however, and I don't find the extent of his deterioration - #89 is sheer incoherence - amusing.
I also suspect we should not underestimate the stupidity of us supporting Ukraine and pushing Russia, China and Iran together. Every minute that we stand in the way of peace with Ukraine, we can expect the Russians to push for an all out war in Israel, and who knows where else.
A very reasonable comment.
Israel attacked Iran a month ago so that Iran would retaliate and give the excuse for a broader war to get more US funding and US troops on the ground. This gets us more complicit in the slaughter of Palestinians. Notice too that those calling for US to send troops are cowards who never joined the military themselves. This is to get Biden elected, US engaged in another neocon war, and money and troops to Israel.
The Neocons want war with Iran and more or less anyone else. Israel can handle this so we should stay out.
Especially when Israel doesn’t respect our President and bombs another country’s embassy!
thanks for catching that. It is of course, exactly what the US did to the Chinese embassy in Belgrade and blamed it on an 'old map'. our primary policy now should be getting all living hostages out, then talk about anything else. their pictures should be on TV every day, including our TV if any are American citizens.
Fox now reporting missiles are also being launched.
Iran UN mission says they're done with the attack
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/irans-mission-to-un-says-its-military-action-against-israel-is-concluded-warns-us-to-stay-out/
Enough to claim they attacked but not enough to trigger retaliation.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/idf-vast-majority-of-ballistic-missiles-downed-a-few-impacts-identified-including-at-base/
https://twitter.com/chiIIum/status/1779249295255867463
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Fucking liberals. Tell me again how we are better off today then 4 years ago. Tell me again. Good grief. Idiots.
Only to those people who are fed a continuous stream of propaganda from the National Socialist Media. BTW, those people are anything but liberal – that word implies someone who favours liberty.
Has a very different meaning now.
You're not doing it right: to feel better than four years ago you also have to drink the Kool Aid, available at NPR or the New York Times.
Obviously if you're planning to open your eyes and look around you're not going to feel better than four years ago.
really? less Covid mandates now and the sports teams can play each other in person?
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Here is a multi-view camera video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp9p1pieWrE
Thanks Sasha, you're quick coverage on this has been great!
Iran Revolutionary Guards are calling the attack on Israel ‘Operation True Promise’
https://www.marketscreener.com/news/latest/IRAN-S-REVOLUTIONARY-GUARDS-SAYS-OPERATION-TRUE-PROMISE-IS-PAR--46430434/
Is the whole point of drones to map out places to target with missiles?
The Iranian drones have bombs. Iran sold a bunch to the Russians for use against Ukraine. They cost about $40k each and can do considerable damage.
Some drones are equipped with missiles and bombs. The US has been using them for twenty years at least.
I'd divide drones into 4 groups:
1. Complex drones that can map targets, attack them with bombs or missiles and do electronic warfare, like Israel's Hermes 900 or IAI Heron-TP
2. Loitering drones fired at a battle area and which then use machine learning to identify targets on their own and crash into them and explode, like IAI Harop
3. Drones that only collect intelligence, like Israel's Orbiter family
4. Simple drones with explosives that crash into a preassigned target.
Iran's Shahed drones are all in the 4th group.
"Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May those who love you be secure." (Psalm 122:6)
So, wouldn’t you think that it would be a good idea to have the border’s secured so we don’t have untold thousands of military aged men invading the country to carry out attacks in the states?
Thanks Democrat voters. Was it worth it to have Biden buy your vote by inflating the currency?
Your insanity is going to get people killed, hopefully you can live with yourselves.
Biden is responsible for the ENTIRE chain of events!
Obama
Touche’! Obama hates Israel AND America!!
Appeasing Iran never made sense. Never! Trump had it right. The Biden ( Obama’s 3rd term) has destroyed the world. Obama made it clear on day one.” I will fundamentally transform America”.
The Biden admin made it clearer. “ The transitioning”…” The liberal World Order”. Translation: Transitioning back to the Dark Ages”. “Illiberal NWO”. The iron fist and jackboot of tyrannical control over a dinished global population of androgynous, sterile, transhuman slaves.
And then there's one of Biden's re-election promises: "Let's finish the job." That's exactly what scares me about him.
Oh, that’s a fabulous rejoinder! And he’s hellbent ( no pun intended) on accomplishing the mission. Kind of like “ It depends on the size of the invasion”.
I remember an exchange between Joan Rivers and Selena Gomez at LAX. Joan was running to catch her flight when Gomez and her posse of clueless ambushed her. The “ Palestinian Chump Squad” confronting her about another Hamas attack and Israel’s response. Rivers responded as only she could do with total panache’. “ Hey college graduate- If NJ fired a missile through the Holland Tunnel into NYC, it would be Goodbye New Jersey and I bet you can’t even spell “ Palestine”. The press and crowd that had gathered exploded with laughter. The Peanut Gallery was silent.
America will suffer greatly. For those who are God fearing prepare for what’s to come - and pray and remain calm.
replace entire with some of...?
I try to be open minded but this kind of commentary is a little too Hitler-esque for my blood. Are you kidding or are you serious? It crosses the line.
Sasha, he’s not kidding. But he’s dumb as a post.
BTW, I watched a podcast last night with the host begging Trump to opt for Tulsi and ignore the purists bitching about “ but she was a Democrat”. He went on to absolutely laud you, Tammy Bruce,Leo Terrell and named many acclaimed Republicans who were former Dems, many on the far left. Including Thomas Sowell,David Horowitz,Krauthammer, Bachmann, Reagan( though not my favorite ) Navarro,Ezra Cohen,Mayra Flores,Brandon Straka, Scott Pressler,Doug Murray,Giuliani, Mike Flynn, Mark Morgan
Pierre Kory,Zev Zelenko, Jack BrewerWalid Phares,Ayaan Hirsi-Al,David Friedman, Harvey Rischand , James Kunstler,Dave Rubin, Tony Shaffer,Jeff Van Drew,Dave Webb,Dick Morris,others who have had enough of the No Longer Recognizable Dems… Joe Rogan,Asra Nomani,Rapaport,Dov Hikind, Majiid Nawaz
The Dems have become so feral, venal, corrupt, hateful and psychotic that even RFK Jr couldn’t stand it anymore.
And as the host noted about lifelong Republican “ purists” being of such integrity.. Dick Cheney, Mitt Romney, John McCain, the Family Bush, Will Hurd, Kinzinger, Chris Wray, Robert Mueller,Chris Christie, John Bolton, Carly Fiorina, Mike Pence… How’s that working out ?
Tulsi of course would be best. In fact, she'd be better at the top of the ticket too, if we are judging that.
Wait, did Trump name drop all those people, including Sasha? Or was the host naming them?
Yeah. That’s it. Jews are all terrible and rule the world. Are there terrible Jews? Yes, but they are Jews in name only. They hate themselves and are the most. virulent antisemites of all. Even more so than you, if possible. Yeah, the fundamentalist Islamist Ayatollah regime is terrific. They love Christians, Hindus,Buddhists,pluralist Muslims, Yazidis,Sikhs,Zoastrians,Kurds,Druze, atheists,agnostics , and women,gays across the spectrum. And a global Islamist caliphate under Sharia is fucking awesome!
The vote for Biden will end as a vote for drafting our daughters and sons and sending them into battle. This will become a bigger issue for suburban women and the youth vote. Under Trump we had four years of peace. Under Biden conflagrations have erupted in Europe and the Middle East. Military recruitment is at historic lows even with lower standards and signing and re-upping bonuses. I am voting for peace through respect.
If our young people are sent to defend the oppressed victims of colonialism and racism a lot of liberals may want to fight, but it is hard to imagine. No matter what happens, the wealthier of the white Democratic parents will find many ways to shelter their own kids from their wars. The ruling class has always done this.
ouch. too true.
The feckless Biden regime has destabilized the entire Middle East and facilitated this situation. The window of opportunity may be closing for America and the world to recover from the destruction of election integrity that led to the installation of one of the most criminally incompetent administrations in American history.
So now we will watch all the 'Free Palestine' River to the Sea, and 'decolonizer' folks unequivocally support The Islamic State of Iran. Right?
It will be interesting to see. I would think that the cognitive dissonance would be building about Muslims and their theocracies hating women and gays, but part of being woke is a surprising level of tolerance for their own inconsistencies.
A comment here or somewhere stated (paraphrasing): "as a queer person, I wouldn't be thrilled to visit Gaza, but I would be more afraid of being killed by the IDF than anyone from Hamas".
I shit you not. Doesn't get any more 'dissonant' than that. Just astounding.
I find that comment you quoted to not be very credible in terms of what is implied about the relative threat to "a queer person" from Hamas versus the IDF. I am not closed minded to the commenter's implication, but I am aware of what happens to gay people at the hands of Muslims and their Islamic states.
Just to be clear: the quote was implying that being in Gaza was more lethal due to violence from the IDF than violence from Muslims as a queer person.
That is how I understood it. But I seriously don't get what you mean by your last sentence. I get that if someone is located in an area that is under military attack that person could be in extreme and immediate danger. And, I am thinking that leaders of Hamas are probably not in that area, but have left the citizens of Palestine to take the hits. None of that changes what Hamas or any other Islamists do to gay people when Hamas is not otherwise engaged.
Yes. That is the incoherence.
You could add Nazi and antisemite to your bio?
I banned him.
I was going to suggest that but hadn't gotten around to it. Not only is he an anti-Semite, he was insulting other people here.
Sasha- thanks for doing such a great job!! I preciate you!!
Ahhh...the internet.
Now I’m curious what this troll was saying…
It was a person w/ handle ‘Mr. Raven’ and a lot of ‘F the Hebrews’ and other antisemitic tropes
Meanwhile, Joe is looking for his next ice cream cone
And I was so sure “don’t” would have the mullahs shaking in their shoes.
Yup. So embarrassing and pathetic.
🤣🤣 my same thought, as if Biden could stoke fear 🤦♀️
Seriously, I am wondering when we are going to get some adults in Washington DC.
We have had immaturity in D.C. leadership during my entire lifetime. What we have now is a real loss of connection with reality.
Agreed. We have a loose cannon, in charge.
I am so worried about our country right now. I am afraid there's going to be another huge war. I HATE wars, no matter what.
And to think senile Joe from Scranton, has our nuclear codes. I do pray often but the past few months, I have become a prayer warrior.
Thanks Sasha for providing this important breaking news.
The scary thing is that it is not clear who really has the codes.
Shit show Joe.
Nobody worry - Ol' Joe has "cut short his weekend in Delaware" and headed back to the White House. He's got this. (MASSIVE SARCASM ALERT...)
Called one of his famous "lids" - the minders aren't letting him out tonight. He's probably drooling in his cup of melting ice cream - we're heading into sundown hours on the East Coast, can't have the shuffling human shell out in front of people without a few hours of drugs to boost him up.
Whisper: Vanilla ice cream.
Wonder how many drones $6B can buy?
https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2023-10-13/despite-state-department-assurances-6b-in-iran-funds-leaves-white-house-vulnerable
Glenn says Israel bombed the Iranian embassy in Damascus to start a war with them which they knew would then bring America into their war in the Middle East. So why do we have to go to war against Russia and Iran to protect the borders of Ukraine and Israel while our borders are wide open and people, mostly military age young men that we know nothing at all about, pour in by the thousands every day?
Glenn says this is disastrous for America so why are we doing this? Because this is what our ruling class wants, that’s why. So now our rulers are waging a war internally on Trump/MAGA, externally on Putin/Russia, this newest war will be against Iran/Hamas/Yemen and Syria plus from there it will escalate to a global WW3 which will bring down our entire global civilization. And all because the criminally insane pigs who rule us are obsessed with destroying those who oppose them. This is why I believe humanity, in group terms, is too stupid and too dysfunctional to survive. God only knows where we’ll all end up.
Israel Dragging US into New Mid-East War: “They Know What They’re Doing.” (20 min)
Glenn Greenwald. Apr 13, 2024
https://youtu.be/zBoUKUZQPD4?si=EtKtCwkrYOtXeO8Q
I will pray for the survival of species other than our own.
Certainly reminds one of INGSOC doesn’t it? 1984’s Oceania’s political system…
Babylon system is the mf vampire. Is it not so? Tell the children the truth.
If that's so then, clearly the Iranians fell for it
Retaliating against an act of war is not “falling for it.”
Plenty of acts of war from Iran against Israel. Iran, like Syria and Lebanon, considers itself to be in a state of war with Israel. In that state, the other side shoots back.
Smarter to accept the pension savings from 7 fewer senior IGRC officers and move on
And Israel has always considered itself in a state of war with those who don’t accept that God gave that land to the Jews 2500 years ago so it belongs to them and those who object are just Jew haters.
Total bunk: at least twice, in 2000 ( Ehud Barak) and 2008 (Ehud Olmert), the Israeli PM formally offered 98% of West Bank, all of Gaza and all but 10,000 square FEET of Jerusalem in exchange for peace.
In both cases the Palestinians didn't bother to respond or counteroffer.
Oct 7 atrocities is the only thing they want. Wrong century for that: the IDF will tear you a massive new orifice for trying. Get used to the concept
I follow John Mearsheimer and Glenn Greenwald for accurate information and they both say your version of history is bs put out by Israel to make them look like the good guys who have always worked for peace which is an outrageously absurd lie.
Israel has been picking this fight to bring the US into combat on their side and because support is waning for their little "technically not a genocide." It's only WWIII if we're stupid enough to get involved. Israel started the current mess by bombing the Iranian embassy in Damascus. *shrug* I don't know what to tell you. Make stupid choices, win stupid prizes.
And if you start cheering for war, remember a few salient facts: our military is understaffed, you try a draft with a war this unpopular and you'll have an uprising, we have virtually no ability to ramp up production for war materiel and we've given away all our extra weaponry, we're already way in debt, Israel has already isolated itself (and us) on the global stage, and any "help" we might have gotten from say European nations isn't there because they got their own little problem that we started in Ukraine.
Nobody is cheering for war, but you should try to contain your glee over Israel being attacked.
Do you have your best keffiyeh ready for the celebration tonight?
Biden already promised to intercede if Iran attacked Israel, and I've heard more than one Republican demanding we invade Iran, so . . . plenty of people have been cheering for war.
I have no glee over Israel being attacked because I know where this goes. I know a bunch of idiots in the US will cheer on our getting involved, millions will die, and years later I will have to hear "but . . . but . . . but we didn't know."
But I'm as sad about Israel being attacked as you were about the Palestinians dying. That seems fair.
I am sorry to see Palestinians die. I just don’t share your illusions about who is to blame.
Oh, well, then I'm so, so sorry to see Israelis die. And I have no illusions about who's to blame either.
You should try harder to be convincing. So far it’s not working, but then that’s exactly your intention, isn’t it?
Well, you weren't very convincing yourself.
So what will it take? Kristallnacht USA 2024? Before you stop supporting and encouraging Nazis wearing keffiyehs? Your moral credibility is wearing very thin…
Hey, there Jude. Wondering if you would pipe up. Wait. This is the wrong substack and such an old topic. I have a comment you would absolutely love on the Free Press. You're the wrong place. You would find so many birds of a bloody feather over there. You'd be in hog heaven.
None of the people who cheer for our men to go die in Israel actually join the military and risk their own lives in combat. It’s because they are cowards who talk tough but act like cowards.
No need for US boots on the ground or planes in air. Israel can handle it if we would just stay out of the way.
They are also members of the ruling class, who can keep their kids out of the fight and/or get them officers' commissions that connect them even more with the ruling class.
Where did she express glee over Israel being attacked?
Maybe I misinterpreted the **shrug** comment. But I don’t think so.
you don't watch blue team TV. they have ultra serious 'experts', usually female, but hard hard hard in face and spirit, arguing for war. when you guys say neo-cons, you forgot they control the blue team too. that's why we need RFK, Jr.
Jews lose.
not in comedy. they still win there. like that Mex Edelman guy. funny wins.
I appreciate you telling the truth even though you are defamed for it. Indeed Israel’s attack on Iran was to spark a broader war and get US troops engaged there to help Biden win in 2024.
You never stop with your Jew hatred, do you Lillian.
She’s not a Jew Hater and you should not start with the name calling.
Try something more creative.
Well said. I agree.
Who attacked first on October 7th???
The ‘palestinians’ of Hamas or Israel?
Who is supporting the ‘palestinians’ of Hamas?
History didn't start on October 7th.
That doesn’t answer the question.
Face facts: It was the ‘palestinians’ of Hamas that attacked mostly unarmed civilians on October 7th.
They started a completely unjustified aggression.
What is your answer to that?
History didn't start on October 7th. That's my answer. If you care enough to learn, you will. Otherwise you're wasting my time.
“The Israeli-Gaza War Did Not Start on Oct 7.” (15 min)
Glenn Greenwald. Feb 25, 2024
https://youtu.be/wO4hxzidrhc?si=FTGnGq96Tyr5IFep
No, that is a NON-answer.
Face facts: It was the ‘palestinians’ of Hamas that attacked mostly unarmed civilians on October 7th.
They started a completely unjustified aggression.
“The Israeli-Gaza War Did Not Start on Oct 7.” (15 min)
Glenn Greenwald. Feb 25, 2024
https://youtu.be/wO4hxzidrhc?si=FTGnGq96Tyr5IFep
Nope, it's not World War III. Israel and Muslim countries have been lobbing missiles and launching air attacks at each other for decades. The US has no business getting involved. Let's just hope Israel doesn't get to the point they decide to use the nukes they've never admitted having.
The people here want US to send troops there but they themselves are not willing to go fight. They’re cowards for that.
Hope is the best strategy.
"Israel and Muslim countries have been lobbing missiles and launching air attacks at each other for decades"
Actually That has not been true since 1973.
For some definition of "country". Hamas and Hezbollah are de facto states and they have certainly been exchanging missiles and air strikes with Israel.
Actually, it has. You evidently don't remember what happened in 1990 when Saddam Hussien bombarded Israel with SCUDS. The Israelis have launched air attacks on Iran to interrupt their nuclear plans.
But the Israelis say that when they bomb another country it’s always self defense. Doesn’t Israel have a right to exist?
Historically, no. Not since late antiquity have the Hebrew speaking people been allowed to exist apart from an important network of bankers facilitating trade.
How many Wars has Israel started? 1956 s the closest I can come up with.
That was the UK and France trying to recover Suez. Israel was a junior partner. Israel was bribed with French weapons to kick things off.
True, still they were the aggressors. That was my point.
They just started this war with Iran by bombing their embassy which is a violation of International law no matter how you spin it.
Building next to the embassy, not the embassy itself.
No one here complained when Israel attacks Iran a month ago. https://apnews.com/article/israel-syria-airstrike-iranian-embassy-edca34c52d38c8bc57281e4ebf33b240
Crystal night
Inviting more scuds is not the answer. the camel scrotums are stretched enough.
OH ONE Example. And that was to try and draw other Arab Nations into his war with America...with a notable Lack of success. Got More?
There have actually been numerous actions involving Israel and particularly Iran since 1973, some recent. Look it up.
Ya mean like This?
After last night
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/04/after-last-night-53.php
Scott Johnson
Apr. 14 2024
The Iranian regime has been at war with Israel, the United States, and the West roughly since the Ayatollah overthrew the Shah of Iran. It is not a war that Israel has chosen. It is a war that has been thrust upon it by a regime of genocidal maniacs.
Thirty years after the fact the Court of Cassation in Buenos Aires issued a ruling blaming Iran for bombing the Asociación Mutual Israelita Argentina—a Jewish community center in Buenos Aires—on July 18, 1994, using its terrorist proxy Hezbollah. The attack left 85 dead and more than 300 wounded. The court called it a crime against humanity.
(Snip)
There's a whole lot more than that. Israel has been engaged in activities against Iran and Syria for some time. It goes back to 1979 when the Carter Administration helped the Ayatollah Khomeini return to Iran from exile in France. (Although he was officially flown back in a civilian airliner, the rumor is that he was taken back in a USAF C-141.) Previously, Iran and Israel had good relations and the Shah of Iran and Sadat of Egypt had brokered peace. That all fell apart with Khomeini then Sadat was assassinated. I'm not a big Wikipedia fan but this article gives a pretty good account of all of the events since that period - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran%E2%80%93Israel_proxy_conflict. In short, it's not new.
Why so afraid of Arabs? they're sand diggers. oops! am i allowed to say that?
You have to fight your right to party.
I think the is the predicted results of the end of the old empire. Its shows desperation of the old elites trying to hold on to a system nobody wants to live in anymore. They are trying to create a world war in order to make a move to bring back a broken America such as what has happened in many of our past. Times are different now and large alliances has formed and the end result will be different
"trying to hold on to a system nobody wants to live in anymore"
Have you seen the piles of people trying to get into the US, on the southern border for example?
You won't see that sight of people desperate to get into Cuba, Iran or Russia.
That's a good indication where people want to live.
But you could easily demonstrate your convictions by leaving the US
I think it makes all kinds of sense to send chronically, vocally antiAmerican individuals to stand in a line at the border and trade places with any vetted decent person who petitions to come in.
Judging by your comment. Let me guess. Bleeding heart liberal right? I would assume that anyone with an 5th grade education would understand that a lot of those people you talked about in your childish comment are coming here as a direct result of the US foreign policy in their countries brought on by the direction of the ruling class and elites not the good people living in the US. You can live your boring life trying to keep everything the same but the rest of us want to bring the country to a much better place for all Americans. Also the comment was a reflection of the ruling class and elites not the good hard working Americans
"are coming here as a direct result of the US foreign policy"
Then they picked the wrong country: there are more US policies in the US than anywhere else.
Maybe the US Merchant Marine could transport them on to Cuba? No US policies there, they'll love it
Will we finally be convinced we have a problem when we see the celebrations in the streets here and in Europe?
I wonder how long before the mainstream media blames President Trump for Iran’s attack on Israel?
I would not underestimate the stupidity of the Biden administration getting us into the war in Ukraine, and continuing to up the anti. We drove Russia, China and Iran together, brilliant. Every minute we continue to increase sanctions and impede peace efforts in Ukraine will only expand Russia’s interest in distracting us on numerous other fronts.
You got it right. Team Biden/Obama driving all the BRICS together and now add another “I” in ‘Iran’ to that mix. All for short/medium term Defense $ spending benefits, retention of Uniparty power. But long term, these multi polar powers are going to challenge US Dollar as world’s reserve currency w/ one of their own - which if/when that occurs, is the true disaster.
Already happening alas. And undermined both Abraham Accords and Israel’s tentative friendlier economic and political relations with Russia and India over the last decades. Meanwhile this Biden crew remains in denial with its little love fests with Xi and ignoring Chinese helping war against Ukraine.
If any hope, Obama must be deteriorated in front of all his followers. the brainwashing must cease for good..
What could go wrong with Blinken, Sullivan and Biden in charge? Geesh.
They did such a stellar job in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Afghanistan, and Ukraine.
Blinken, Winken and Nod...only this fair tale might have a truly unhappy ending
Shocking! Who would have thought idiots. We are not going to let the US/Aka Israel attack us. Congrats warmongers!!
Funny how no one here complained when Israel attacked Iran a month ago. 😂😳
https://apnews.com/article/israel-syria-airstrike-iranian-embassy-edca34c52d38c8bc57281e4ebf33b240
This corrupt administration is hell bent on doing absolutely nothing to stop a headlong plunge into war, and everything to further our involvement!
Not sure it’s a want for WW3, but it flirts with it. The administration is instead more plausibly hell bent on keeping the Defense Industry humming, cause’ the Ukraine boondoggle is going to sunset soon and another conflict is needed.
Here’s a report on Ukraine youth fleeing the country to avoid conscription into the war:
https://dnyuz.com/2024/04/13/in-ukraines-west-draft-dodgers-run-and-swim-to-avoid-the-war/
You go to war with army you have. Not the army you want. What we have is an army of crossdressers. They've already declared victory. War over.
Interesting to me personally. When I saw a notification on my phone - my first inclination and action was to go straight to substack for news and info. I love knowing that change has happened mentally.
Of course they disregarded Brandon’s warning. Those who understand deterrence understand.
These are reported to be Shahed-136 drones:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136
They have been used extensively by Russia and Ukraine reports shooting down over 90% in some attacks. Israel, with much more sophisticated air defenses, should do better.
These are the minimal response Iran can give that allows it to claim it attacked Israel but without causing much damage. Usually Russia has used these drone as decoys to distract air defenses from its ballistic missiles.
I agree this isn’t a ‘real’ attack by Iran but rather a ‘see what I can do’ gesture, and designed for Hamas/Hezbollah/Houthie/domestic Iran consumption. That said, it’s a watershed moment being the 1st time Iran has attacked Israel from its own soil, and has potential to cause an outsized response. Speculation Iran may be telling USA or Israel in advance where the drones are headed. How else do we have the several day ‘heads up’ of a coming attack? Buckle up.
Suck it up, Buttercup.
This is a neocons’ wet dream. Liz Cheney poured herself a glass of champagne and she’s the one sucking it up today. Can you hear her burp? After Ukraine winds down, Iran gets wound up.
Israel is incapacitated. Unable to mount a counter attack. Curtains for Israel.
If Israel is incapacitated then we're fighting a war. Boots on the ground for the US.
The guy's an idiot Sasha, don't waste your time.
From one of Israel's top weapons exporters, and there's others as well:
https://www.rafael.co.il/worlds/air-and-space/
Most people are idiots. You have no choice. You have to waste your time. Idiot.
And who’s boots will they be? Not the neocons or their kids. They want more war but never actually go to combat themselves. They’re cowards. They want to send other American kids to die for Israel.
No boots. Drone warcraft.
That's what Hamas said 6 months ago.
In short order you too, and Iran, will be bleating "ceasefire now" as the incapacitated Israel pulverizes its enemies.
Hope the golf course that will replace Gaza City will have a good restaurant and bar.
If you think this is anything but a US attack you are terminally stupid
It does remind me of the week before Russian invasion of Ukraine. We heard pathetic warnings from Biden every day—something askew.
Pls elaborate
Biden warned Russia could invade Ukraine before they did. Russia invade Feb 24, 2022. Here is story from Feb 17, ‘22:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/17/us-says-war-appears-imminent-after-shelling-on-ukraine-front-line
Biden warned Iran could attack Israel on Apr 12, 2024. Today retaliatory drone and perhaps missile attacks:
https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-israel-us-biden/32903765.html
I think I will wait for a while.
This just in. Iran has suspended it's petroleum industry to prevent future warming of the planet. Paying indulgence, it seeks carbon credits fir launching a biblical flock of passenger pigeon drones to block out the harmful rays of the sun over all places Israel.
Here’s the latest live blog as it unfolds:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/live-blog/2024-04-13/iran-attack-on-israel
Everything’s Joe Biden’s fault boo hoo hoo
Are we already in a civil war? The editors of Real Clear Politics believe we are and I very much agree with them. On his first day in office that stinking pig in the White House issued an Executive Order to replace meritocracy, considered racist due to its “disparate impact” on blacks, wherever it could be found with Equity aka Equal Outcomes. Are you happy now that your despicably evil democrats are even dumbing down medical schools for the sake of “Equity”? May God curse criminally insane fanatics like you and your hate whitey friends for destroying this once great nation.
“Editor’s Note: America is at war. This is not a traditional war, fought on a battlefield against an external enemy. It is a civilizational conflict against an internal enemy: the group quota regime, a revolutionary threat that seeks to reorganize American society around the principle of outcome equality — what the regime’s partisans call “equity.”
“This cold civil war may go unnoticed by many day-to-day, but its stakes are often as high as life and death. Here, Roger B. Cohen, a celebrated oncologist and professor in the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, explains how the group quota regime has taken hold of the American medical education system and asks urgent questions about the consequences for medicine, for the sick, and for the country.”
“The End of Merit in Med Schools Will Be Deadly.”
Real Clear Politics. Roger Cohen. Apr 2, 2024
https://tomklingenstein.com/the-end-of-merit-in-med-schools-will-be-deadly/
Melt, snowflake
No society so devoid of trust and so full of hate can survive as a nation. It doesn’t even still exist as a country internally which is why it’s disintegrating externally. Soon even Woke white leftists as densely befuddled as you will realize this obvious fact.
I’m proud to be an American. If you don’t like it here, leave!
Open borders, dumbed down schools that poison children with Woke race and gender ideology, the demonization of “Whiteness!” in general and of white cops in particular, and the war on meritocracy due to its having a “disparate impact” on blacks and therefore condemned as “racist” by the left are just a few of the many ways you stinking filth have destroyed America. Are you proud of destroying America? Apparently so.
“California Nukes Math Standards For Racial Equity.” (7 min)
Breaking Points. Saagar Enjeti. July 17, 2023
https://youtu.be/8EalOqHt5-0
“How Blatant Anti-White Racism Won Acceptance in Elite America.”
Real Clear Investigations. Sept 7, 2022
https://www.realclearinvestigations.com/articles/2022/09/07/how_blatant_anti-white_racism_won_acceptance_in_elite_america_850879.html
“Destroying America?” Lmfao. Looks just fine from my house. People like you have so much time on your hands that you convince yourself that you live in a hellhole. Get off your fat fern and off the internet and you might see things differently. You sound like every other whining racist I’ve run across
Could it be a retaliatory attack weeks after an Israeli strike on the Iranian consular building in Syria killed two of Tehran’s top commanders?
Short answer...Yes. Looks that way.
Freak Flags flying above our embassies, bobbly plastic balls on the WH lawn, deranged males (Levine, Brinton) flying their freak in the administration, just screaming for the hordes to invade.
They'd better hope for their own sake that the hordes who invade are not Muslims.
What do care how you are a slave to? The lady do protesteth way to much.
Any photos of Dark Brandon in the situation room leaning forward, gripping the edge of the table and shouting at a blank screen ?
Just saw Mike Johnson post about it on Twitter/X. I'm praying. People are commenting that they hope the drones can be knocked out?
Breibart reporting the drones are in route and can’t estimate when they will arrive only that they were launched. 🙏🇮🇱
Praying? ok
Praying for Israel, praying for a peaceful world...yes, praying. Praying this won't turn into WW3.
I'll probably be dead by the time the rot arrives here. Cities are going down first.
Israel has always considered itself in a state of war with those who don’t accept that God gave that land to the Jews 2500 years ago so it belongs to them and those who object are just Jew haters. Most Jews in Israel, whether religious or secular, are Zionists who believe that the land belongs to them, whether for religious or secular reasons. This is why it’s such an impossible situation.
King James Version. Psalm 137, 1-4, Psalm 19:14. “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.”
“By the Rivers of Babylon.” (4 min)
Love1Another. July 2012
https://youtu.be/vYK9iCRb7S4?si=_ACeNZ3KaOL4gOCo
“There will be peace when Palestinians love their own children more than they hate Jews.”
This is why it’s such an impossible situation.
Do you feel God gave Jews the land so Palestinians don’t belong there except in minimal numbers?
No.
Are you aware that most Jews in Israel are Zionists who do believe that?
I don’t see your point. Does the fact that Jews live in Israel offend you? What do you propose to do about it?
I don’t propose to do anything about it. I do resent the country I live in being dragged into a Middle East war that has nothing to do with us. Why should America be involved in this impossible situation? This is just another disastrous mess on top of all the others that are already killing us.
Jesus Christ on a three-legged burro…The US government is either A) under the direct control of, or B) considerably influenced by, religious lunatics in the grip of apocalyptic fantasies, as are the zionists and mullahs. Gee, I wonder what’s going on in the Middle East?
How dare Iran bomb a country, unprovoked, after that same country bombed its embassy.? It's almost as if they they think they have the right to self-defense or something crazy that we only allow Isreal to use, when applicable.
Welcome to Act IV, folks.
Get ready -
Congress and the president authorize a draft: The president claims a crisis has occurred which requires more troops than the volunteer military can supply. Congress passes and the president signs legislation which revises the Military Selective Service Act to initiate a draft for military manpower.
The lottery: A lottery based on birthdays determines the order in which registered men are called up by Selective Service. The first to be called, in a sequence determined by the lottery, will be men whose 20th birthday falls during the calendar year the induction takes place, followed, as needed, by those aged 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 19, and 18 (in that order).
All parts of the Selective Service System are activated: The agency activates and orders its state directors and Reserve Force officers to report for duty.
Physical, mental and moral evaluation of registrants: Registrants with low lottery numbers receive examination orders and are ordered to report for a physical, mental, and moral evaluation at a Military Entrance Processing Station (MEPS) to determine whether they are fit for military service. Once he is notified of the results of the evaluation, a registrant will be given 10 days to file a claim for exemption, postponement, or deferment
Think maybe Israel had a little something to do with this? Provocation?
Maybe our concern should be as to why Israel thinks it ok to destroy the Iranian embassy in Syria. Instead, we all react w horror when Iran responds. Unreal.
The biggest question is why the middle east hasn't been turned into a huge pane of glass?
Judging by your comment. Let me guess. Bleeding heart liberal right? I would assume that anyone with an 5th grade education would understand that a lot of those people you talked about in your childish comment are coming here as a direct result of the US foreign policy in their countries brought on by the direction of the ruling class and elites not the good people living in the US. You can live your boring life trying to keep everything the same but the rest of us want to bring the country to a much better place for all Americans. Also the comment was a reflection of the ruling class and elites not the good hard working Americans
Saagar says our ruling class is committed to following Israel wherever they lead and what they want is war with Iran so that’s our newest forever war. God only knows where we’ll all end up. I recommend following Breaking Points with Krystal & Saagar. They do a lot of excellent reporting about domestic and foreign issues.
“Breaking: Iran Strikes Israel As US Military Engages.” (8 min)
Breaking Points. Saagar Apr 13, 2024
https://youtu.be/3Uwb2c_Sd_4?si=8D3WAglNdp3QCmmb
And Their expertise/knowledge of The Middle East/Foreign Affairs/Geopolitics is...?
Much better than yours.
That is not saying much.