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Terry Wears's avatar

Excellent and resonant post. This war , planned long ago , is indeed the grotesque “channel changer” from the Epstein revelations.

Phil Davis's avatar

The war was planned on the very day that the threat of the Epstein files being released was made (hyperbaly). The attack on Iran was labeled a contingency plan (a-z) as other, less kinetic, plans were attempted first. For instance, files missing, hard redactions, etc.

Ten years ago or longer, I would claim the US government and its elites were the most corrupt in the world. I was heavily criticized and labeled as a Russian agent or other silly names. But now, as the sewage flows throughout the empire, both literally, as John mentioned, and metaphorically, the nation is beginning to wake up.

In 1958, over 73% of Americans believed whatever the government said. Now that number is in the teens.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2025/12/04/public-trust-in-government-1958-2025/

ChatterX's avatar

"If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail"

-U.S. foreign policy, explained by U.S. War criminal and presidential candidate Wesley Clark

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youtube.com/watch?v=6Knt3rKTqCk

Dawn's avatar

Mr Leake…thank you for all of your thoughts here. I personally am holding on to a shred of HOPE that DJT IS NOT enjoined with the Epstein cabal and actually believes in AMERICAN FREEDOM. The stench of Washington DC is sadly fed by the taxpayers of this ,once, great country…the expense of our bureaucratic machine is an UNNECESSARY one…this Country should be run by a volunteer body that Actually CARES about our amazing Declaration of Independence. …period. NO MORE SELF CENTERED BUREAUCRATS GETTING RICH ON THE BACKS OF THE SEEMINGLY ‘UNIMPORTANT’ taxpayer.,

earl's avatar

Choosing people randomly from the phone book as has been suggested may actually be an improvement. Nation Duty along with Jury Duty : )

PharmedOUT's avatar

I agree with your comment to an extent ..sadly, though, the current administration cannot be trusted, have you forgotten who was in the White House in early 2020? March 13th, 2020, a Friday, when the “state of emergency” was announced. Do you know how many people have been killed by the hospital protocols, and so called “vaccine” under “Operation Warp Speed,” which HAD been going on, WAY before these poisonous “shots” were released on the unknowing, propagandized public?! Unfortunately, if you STILL trust anyone, in local, state, or federal government, I am not sure what to convey to you. lol ..not funny, actually ..I am not affiliated with, endorse, or support, any so called “political party,” or person — manufactured divisions, and corrupt lies are ALL around .. https://youtu.be/Xg7pFbR5Hdk ..why has the current administration not owned up and/or answered for what is now very public information (not mainstream media, unfortunately, of course), do you think they have no idea of what has happened, and where is RFK, Jr., in all of this? Why has all of this not been massively exposed to a public that needs to know?!

Dee Dee's avatar

open the files, put in Trumps name, read the first few pages...

Deborah's avatar

Holding on to that shred are you? You've been had like the other starry eyed wonders. There has always been a very clear Forrest in spite of the trees. Very clear,

Rosa's avatar

This is an idea I can get behind. Thank you, Dawn, for the suggestion!

Marco's avatar

The reasons to act now against Iran are clear and very legitimate. Why wait until they use a nuclear weapon and obliterate Israel, or New York? The comparisons used in your piece are not justified. This is NOT courageous discourse but propaganda!

nathan jones's avatar

I don't see how they are "clear" I don't know that any intelligence that our agencies has shared over the past few decades has been correct. Iran has been 6 weeks away from a nuke for 25yrs. More importantly i do not see how these claims are legitimate.

If the US is justified in bombing Iran and taking out all of their senior leadership because of something they might do in the future, some threat of harm they might cause in the future, then does that not give every other country in the world the right to take out our senior leadership? Iran sponsoring terror groups in other countries is pretty much the same thing that our government has been doing for decades, we have supported insurgent groups in other countries all over the world as they try to overthrow their governments. Would these insurgent groups be considered terrorist groups by the governments they are trying to overthrow? We can claim that Iran just killed tens of thousands of their own citizens...OK the US government just killed a few million of our citizens by the way they systemically coordinated the response to the covid pandumbic, knowing it would kill millions. Millions of people died because of our tyrannical governments response...so following the logic here...any other country has the right to come in and assassinate our senior leadership?????

Wayne Bonin's avatar

"OK the US government just killed a few million of our citizens by the way they systemically coordinated the response to the covid pandumbic, knowing it would kill millions. Millions of people died because of our tyrannical governments response.."

This needs to be hammered home over and over again.

Marco's avatar

Sorry but you are confused or purposely trying to confuse the reader. The enrichment of uranium by Iran has increased dramatically over time. If they claim that they could produce 6 nuclear bombs using the uranium they have, that is concerning. The parallel with North Korea as to how appeasement resulted in their obtaining a nuclear bomb, is legitimate. Fortunately the North Korean government is evil but not suicidal...unlike the radical Islamic culture. One cannot compare the terrorist groups funded by Iran with anything clandestine that the US may or may not have done. The utter insanity of the manufacture of a deadly virus and the insanity of the response must be blamed on the virology researchers, the medical community, and the pharmaceutical companies. That mRNA vaccines are still being used is beyond insanity. Blaming this on government is like blaming anything that occurred in the last administration on the brain-dead buffoon, Biden. Frankly we are very fortunate that islamic radicals know so little about science because our society is very very vulnerable to anyone with a suicidal ideology who is also very knowledgeable in chemistry and biochemistry. Fortunately these tend to be very exclusive mentalities.

nathan jones's avatar

i pretty much agree with everything you stated, except of course the first line...even if Iran has uranium and can make a bomb does that give us the right to go in and bomb them? Until they actually bomb us, we do not have that right. Many countries over the past 100yrs could say they felt like the US was threatening them...does that give them the right to pre-emptively strike the US? I do not like the concept any more than you do...but simply thinking that because we are America therefore our ideology is the correct ideology and because a crazy lunatic threatens us then we can bomb them to the stone age is not a valid argument. I think we are way past still believing that Might=Right... I personally believe that we should be a defensive state, not an offensive state. Attacking everyone that we perceive threatens us just leads to bankruptcy. Dick Cheney's 1% doctrine that supports this concept has led to millions of people dying needlessly around the world. it is a horrible corrupt and evil doctrine.

As far as simply blaming the pharma companies for the covid debacle...our government agencies were and continue to be so wrapped up in that mess that they cannot unwind it...which is why the mRNA shots have not been pulled off the market. if it was simply pharma influence they would have been pulled, or never even put on the market.

evergreen's avatar

The right to go after Iran? Clearly.

A nuke in the hands of a regime with this one's track record is the pinnacle of irresponisbility on any semi-civilized nation that could have put a stop to it.

Maybe the rabid dog analogy is better: do you take it out when it shows up rabid, or do you wait until bitten and then dispatch it, the latter case being Leakean in its proper justification sequence.

Actually, the latter case makes more modern sense if one is of the same mental capacity and spirit of legal interpretation as the Supreme Court. After all, without a bite mark, you don't have a harm--lack of standing.

Marco's avatar

Nathan, I sympathize with your concern about a pre-emptive strike. A purely defensive posture seems far more moral and civilized. However, the damage done by one nuclear explosion is so devastating that waiting for that to happen is unacceptable. Mutually Assured Destruction works with Russia and China as none of those cultures are suicidal. Another point that should be made, and I do hate to reach back to WW II, is that waiting to really become involved in WW II until we were attacked, was extremely dangerous. Many events could have gone wrong and the allies could have very easily lost the war and we could either be talking German or Japanese or just be dead or never born. From time to time I marvel at how lucky was the civilized world that the allies won the war. Waiting until the attack on Pearl Harbor may have been morally correct but it was extremely dangerous.

Lilo Bauer-Freitag's avatar

It was also Hitler's rhetoric that Germany was under imminent threat of being attacked. That's how he justified his attacks as well. It is such an old hat which had been worn by so many, on all sides.

Marco's avatar

Perhaps one should not confuse truth with lies.

Dee Dee's avatar

Didn't he stage an attack and then blame it on his enemies...

Lilo Bauer-Freitag's avatar

Let's not forget who that country was who actually ever used "the bomb" and is, therefore most likely to do it again. I am surprised that no international peace agency has ever told US to eliminate OUR nukes.

Steve's avatar

That's right. And if we had a brain we would have made sure no one else ever made one. We could have done that if we had bombed the Russian nuke program. With the bomb. Would have been quite a fitting ending for them. And anyone else who even tried to make one. Boom! No more program. Can we put the genie back in the bottle now? Maybe we should try.

Lilo Bauer-Freitag's avatar

Sure, and contaminate the entire planet at the same time. We seem so uncaring about contaminating ourselves, too, as the number of over 1000 nuclear tests right here in America reflects. Nuclear explosions, to include in oceans and atmosphere, poison all inhabitants of Earth.

Steve's avatar

Contamination. That scary boogeyman people bring up all the time. Overblown. Doesn't poison the entire earth. Only the locality in which the boom occurs. U been lied to.

Ruth Gordon's avatar

People like Marco are either intentionally delusional because of ideology or very young and do not remember even a short time ago Colin Powell bringing in his little vial of sand to the UN and making claims about how much anthrax Saddam Hussein "could have" and then finishing his sentence with "and Hussein has not allowed inspectors to confirm even one teaspoon of his anthrax." Looking back, all it would have taken was one smart and brave person in the room to say, "Let me get this straight. You have not seen 1 teaspoon of his anthrax but you know 100% how much he has?" (Actually, that probably did happen and it didn't matter.)

And, of course, the end result of the whole thing was that is was a 100% lie. He never had it. Yet, here we are again and Israel and the US are running the same playbook for the umteenth time. Claim those bad Muslims want to blow up the US (not their neighbors, mind you, who are an actual real threat to them) by getting their hands on a couple of missiles worth of uranium and hoping they can launch them before they are discovered to have them, thereby doing what? Killing maybe a million US citizens and guaranteeing their entire country gets wiped off the map?

Anyone who can step back calmly and rationally should be able to realize just how stupid the Israeli and American lies are.

That being said, if Iran doesn't get themselves some nukes quickly, though, and give Israel a very strong deterrent against attacking them into the foreseeable future, they will lose a lot of lives defending themselves. The best thing Iran can do is to level Israel. It is all they are going to respect.

Marco's avatar

Ruth, after reading the end of your message, my first reaction was not to reply because you seem to have drunk too much Kool-Aid. However, I'd like to share some information that may be of interest. I know personally one of the UN inspectors who was in Iraq, charged with looking for biological weapons. When he and his team arrived at a suspected facility, they were typically forced to wait outside for hours before being allowed in. While waiting they observed many trucks leaving the facility that they were not allowed to inspect. The rules were very strict. Perhaps the Iraqis were bluffing. Who knows. At the time the real situation was not clear. Hindsight is 20/20.

Lilo Bauer-Freitag's avatar

Cool Aid? One gets the impression that you must be the ultimate bearer of truth.

Marten's avatar

North Korea will supplied them, and you are spot on, Israhell will be push in the sea !!!! That Cancer must go !!!!

Maha's avatar

Scratch the surface, and the festering sore of Jew hate appears every time.

evergreen's avatar

The covid debacle was ONLY due to the complete lack of spine of nearly the entire medical profession. Check that; lack of spine from 1/3. The other 2/3 was unfathomably dumb.

Centralized medicine, taking orders from CDC (in complete disregard of the entire federal/state regulation relationship, licensed authorizations to practice, and professional oaths), gave the entire world the gift of unmanaged covid and mRNA nightmares.

Government was nothing more than boobs looking around for someone who knew what to do. Patients and family members dying was inaction due to fear and full feasance to a broken system of law: "eat nails!"...."yes, your honor."

Steve's avatar

Medical schools have been weeding out students with spines for couple decades now. These f-ing elites planned and executed this takeover of America. The current generation of doctors are so afraid of losing their precious gravy train license. They were picked for their fear and ease of being controlled.

Dee Dee's avatar

I haven't heard a reason that makes sense why we are bombing Iran...but I also didn't understand a lot of the past wars we've been involved with.

Lilo Bauer-Freitag's avatar

"Iran has been 6 weeks away from a nuke for 25 years"...yes! 😂 Hahahaha.

evergreen's avatar

About all your comment means is that the estimators were in ever decreasing error--in the end, accurate.

No?

Texas Evan's avatar

Your entire essay would be entirely justified if it didn't ignore the fact that all the money that Obama and Biden shipped to Iran has been paying for US politicians to destroy the USA from within. Witness the MASSIVE influx of Islam/Sharia Law into every major US city since Obama first took office. The only way to shut off the money supply is to shut down the foreign rulers that participated in the corruption of the deep state, as well as to shut down the deep state. This is about both stopping the demand for foreign cash from the deep state as well as stopping the supply of cash to the deep state. This is money laundering from taxpayers to our own politicians and their NGOs to replace citizens and cement globalist power, across a period of almost 20 years. Trump is shutting it all down.

BMeowDawg's avatar

It’s a fair question as to just who has funded that immigration not only into US but all of Europe. If it was Iran, then why don’t our politicians expose that fact? The fact that they don’t expose the funding suggests the money is from somewhere else, somewhere with the power to restrain the disclosure.

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

Well said. I believe that President Trump has been totally captured by the deep state. I do not believe he started out being a agent for them, but after 10 years of stress and manipulation it has taken it's toll. Power and Money control our federal government and we are no longer a bottom up society. We the People have been totally compromised.

Maha's avatar

Pharma, yes. The deep state, no. He has done quite a bit to weaken the deep state, however.

Deborah Teall's avatar

When you don't know who all of them are it is hard to pull themso you can capture them. You have to let them show themselves and we have already saw a bunch of the swamp. Show me who prior to Trump did anything? JFK tried and it got his shot.

Sam's avatar

"do not believe he [Trump] started out being a agent for them" I do. Butler, do you believe all that?

Thomas A Braun RPh's avatar

They tried to eject him from his first term!

Michael MASSAROTTI's avatar

Supposition without facts makes for interesting reading but where are the facts. Truth is beyond clever inductive leaps. I am really sad to see you take this quasi intellectual route. Sounds like a radical democrat party diatribe.

Dave Campbell's avatar

John, you’re becoming more shrill and deeply pessimistic of late. I read you because of your command of history, writing ability and reasonableness. Please don’t go off the deep end into endless doom and gloom. You leave no room for God who is sovereign over all.

Lydia donohue's avatar

If this is going off the deep end I am jumping in with him!

Dave Campbell's avatar

Certainly your prerogative.

Lilo Bauer-Freitag's avatar

Of course, He is sovereign over all and will judge all alike. Might be that He is disgusted with all of us.

Joseph A Gorski's avatar

Divide and rule is an ongoing program by the elites. The timetable for this attack on Iran was pre-established many weeks ago according to retired military officers. They look at a convergence of many factors to establish a date. I don’t think they woke up one day and said we need a distraction right now; let’s launch the attack. FYI : I totally disagree with this war, but now that it started I am hoping beyond hope that some good things come from it.

Steve's avatar

You would do well to sit back, relax, watch and learn.

Mary-Anne Sillamaa's avatar

Can you list the friends of Trump who have been outed by the release of the Epstein files?

Mothertrucker's avatar

Zero, himself included. If some were to be revealed, who would he blame, Russian disinformation campaign? It seemed to work well with no blowback for his old pal Hillary.

Hilary Butler's avatar

Guess what. If Trump and his friends littered the Epstein files, you can be sure that the Democrats would have made sure that was released to ensure that there would never be an opportunity for Trump to run again, let alone be president.

Mothertrucker's avatar

I’m sure there’s a good smattering of democrats in there as well. Another former president comes to mind. This depravity is apolitical it would seem.

Hilary Butler's avatar

Yes, agreed. But people are inferring that, or accusing Trump of not immediately releasing everything,

If Trump is actually being "selective" in releasing, then the Democrats could have selectively released information which would have been far more effective against Trump than "impeachment" or court appearances... If Democrats had selectively released Trump and his friends, that would have been problem solved..

Just maybe there is a differe nt strategy here, regarding sequential release of the Epstein files, first informing the public of overseas perpetrators, and non-political USA ones.

Can you imagine what would have happened if Trump had concentrated on naming everyone "at home" first? The Clintons who can remember nothing, already consider their congress hearings a witch hunt....

Deb Flower-Smith's avatar

Satan is alive and well on Planet Earth

SaHiB's avatar

Prosecute, Satan, prosecute!

eaglewood.adams's avatar

I could not say or reveal it better. But you have to include that the Democrat Party is now a mafia, the DEMONCRAT DEEP STATE CARTEL. They are completely immoral, lie about everything, and steal a trillion a year and elections. Whether or not they are part of the banking military machines, or a separate entity feeling off the vacuum and corruption, they are a criminal cartel.

The Watchman's avatar

Good read John, agree with it almost 100%. Yes it is kind of interesting how the subject changed. Probably another reason why they decided to go ahead with this stupidity. Linking today @https://nothingnewunderthesun2016.com/

Hilary Butler's avatar

You look at the glass half empty. Perhaps the discussion should be centred around the fact that Islam sanitised pedophilia aka Mohammed marrying a six year old, and raping her at 9. Looking deep enough, that attitude still stands. On the one hand they complain about the deaths of girls being killed in a school and on the other are happy to continue Mohammed's brutalisation of women.

So in that sense, if you direct the conversation in a different direction, the REASON the iranians want Islam gone is that they have been persecuted by the mullahs for 47 years.

Don't ever think that the people YOU classify as monsters, are worse than the Iranian regime, because if you honestly think that, you are deluded. Before you continue your current trajectory, please go and find a group of Iranian refugees in USA (who have more than a dog in this game) , and ask them why they are refugees, what their experiences are, and what they think.

https://www.tiktok.com/@user1365.zo/video/7591884442377964830

Maha's avatar
Mar 5Edited

Iranians have a reason for Islam to be gone. Europe has a reason for Islam to be gone, but they have been too brain dead with Marxist-inspired talking points to take action. Now it will be a battle. Meloni is taking action. Some nations are banning the cultural trappings they brought to make them want to remigrate.

The US is heading in the same direction. Islam needs to stay in Islamic countries with a protective cordon sanitaire firmly placed around them. But if any more develop nukes, that's a global problem.

Phil Palij's avatar

Kidnapping and murdering foreign leaders and governments absent any immediate threat is an act of war any way you look at it.

Under the US Constitution only Congress has the authority to authorize war.

The Trump administration has acted against the constitution, this would seem to make his administration illegitimate and everyone within it criminals under US law.

Have I got this right?

FortheLoveofFreedom's avatar

You've hit the bull's eye John with this article. You generally do!