Mr. Leake - I have enjoyed your writing for a long time but you're getting a bit out of your lane here on what Trump has been doing militarily. There is a bigger picture to it that you are apparently not aware of so your content is making you appear quite naive.
I couldn’t have put it better myself. There are many like John Leake out there right now. They are either sincerely seeking truth and understanding about what Trump is about and doing, or they are reporting naivety and confusion so as to perpetuate confused readers. The Promethians have the answer that connects the dots and provides the understanding John so evidently is lacking.
Actually, it's promethean that's proving to be deranged hopium, feeding on the delusions of the low-IQ matrix dwellers, clinging to white-hat psyops that addled their brains beyond any hope of return to reality or discernment. At this stage of the game, and certainly after the c0vid scamdemic, people should have learned a little more about using discernment with controlled opposition and psyops, yet... here we are... pretending the "British" created the "oligarchy class of Iran", which somehow magically happened and continued under 47 years of US sanctions against Iran to bring them to their knees, and with C_A/M0SSAD instigating one Gladio color revolution psyop after another in many countries in the M E. Promethean is proving to be a deranged comedy series, but the controlled-opposition propaganda from them is too outlandish for even that classification. Stockholm Syndromed NPCs defending their criminally-insane psychopathic captors with brainwashing so complete it's truly remarkable, but not surprising given the low-IQs and zombification of the American NPCs. If there's an op underway to "stop the DS globalists", Trump wouldn't be forcing Real ID, Palantir surveillance, CBDCs, AI governance takeover, etc on HIS OWN PEOPLE to satisfy the globalist agenda of the NWO.
". . . what Trump has been doing militarily. . . ." Even Trump booster Alex Jones says Trump knows next to nothing about military affairs (many other things too, like tariffs, I'd add). Isn't it true the military, even Trump's new favorite general, Raizin' Caine, advised not attacking Iran?
Leake is obviously suffering from a mild case of TDS. More importantly, he is negligent of the 14k ft view of the strategy undertaking of this incursion/war. The more I read with Leake's narratives, it is obvious he has ulterior motives, or as you say, is naive to the big picture. Or worse, he is a shill.
Can't you people see that feeding the military industrial complex $$$ is actually destroying it? That war is actually peace? That no danger with mRNA vaccines means they're perfectly safe warp speed? That "are you people still paying attention to that" is really showing us the unredacted Epstein files?
OMG now I see. Trump ascending to heaven in a ray of light, killing off those dastardly Iranians because that's what Bibi really, really wanted please Mr. President you're be doing the world a favor, please?
The big picture. You mean, the fantasy they painted for you, the big Q show, the making of a mythology of Donald Trump? The real man is a braggart, an insulter-in-chief, and it looks like an idiot-in-chief, and BTW A LOT of conservative commentators have come to that conclusion as well, and I read that side and not the lefties.
Not sure which is worse: those who hate everything Trump does or those who love everything he does, because Big Picture.
I'm disgusted with this irrational Trump worship: he who said over and over and over how he was against endless wars, so that's why we have endless war. Wake up.
Yes, it's called Trump Discernment Syndrome. If you HAD any discernment or critical-thinking ability, you'd put together a much different picture than the one being fed to you from (yet another) controlled opposition psy0p. NEWSFLASH: if anyone else on the planet (ie CommieAla) did the things Trymp is doing... from Real ID, to the Epstein clan protection, to never-ending wars & supporting heinous genocidal atrocities, to endless lies & propaganda & broken campaign promises, to the Palantir Surveillance State, to increased corporate lobbying (tech broligarchy control), to the heinous escalation of pHARMa control, to the 3-letter agencies being nothing more than obstructors of justice & protection of g0vt criminals, to chemtrail & geoengineering escalation, to 6G, to !sraeli influence, to the devaluing dollar, to AI governance take over, to escalating housing costs, to first amendment violations, to ... (and that's just the tip of the iceberg of what Trump's ushered in); "the right" would be clutching their pearls, with their hair on fire, screaming from the rooftops about these heinous anti-American, pro-globalist violations. Instead, we see Stockholm Syndromed NPCs, at an unprecedented level, ignoring the obvious and protecting the convoluted twisting of the truth. Looks like the criminal insanity, deception, corruption and lies have become accepted and excused by the very people who should know better. Yet... here we are... with another successful M K Ultra psy0p overtaking those very same people who should've known better.
And BTW - Shame on all who were led astray by this nonsense, ditched any semblance of a moral compass (YET AGAIN) by being distracted away from the Epstein Files (especially after almost a decade of your mantra of "saving the children"), and who now support gen0cide 2.0 (because OWS just wasn't enough to convince you of the depth of evil you're witnessing) with turning a blind eye to violating (& bombing) even MORE innocents, by the tens of thousands, to "achieve your goal". No, no one's taking down the cartel-babylon globalist DS. You're SUPPORTING the cartel-babylon DS -- cartel-babylon is just fighting over who's going to sit at the top of the pyramid to usher in the same anti-human, TRANSHUMAN agenda.
Which fact listed above is deranged? Not one single item mentioned. Not one. The fact you can deny any of those things as true reflects a single-digit IQ, zero discernment and even less of a moral compass. The one who needs help is you. Unfortunately, you've crossed the rubicon of that even being a possibility. Now crawl back under your rock, little matrix-dwelling NPC, and keep defending your Stockholm Syndrome. And don't forget to parrot "TDS" whenever truth or reality is in the picture.
Perhaps Leake reads wider than you do. If you want to know what is actually going on you have to weigh information from all sources. There are very solid indications that Trump and his men have totally underestimated what they're going to get the US into. Iran has been preparing for this conflict for decades. All US military bases in the Middle East have been hit by Iranian missiles. Critical infrastructure like radar installations worth billions of dollars has been destroyed. The implications are huge. The US has sent so many missiles to Ukraine and Israel that it has left itself vulnerable. Israel has suffered great infrastructure loss and Iran hasn't started using its hypersonic missiles yet. The US aircraft carrier closest to the action is 700km away because of fears that ships may be sunk. Trump has asked Iran more than once for an end to hostilities and Iran has refused. The victor in a war situation lays down the terms of surrender. It looks like Iran is dictating at present. Wounded US soldiers are flown to military hospitals in Germany. Iran has invited the US to send ground troops into Iran. They have hundreds of thousands of troops. Getting enough US troops into Iran will be a logistical nightmare. Israel started this war and dragged the US into it. It is a tiny country with very limited resources, but it has a nuclear capability. Trump should be admonished to get the US and Israel out of this mess before Israel does the unthinkable.
Lol, your mainstream media brainwashed. Be prepared to be on the wrong side of history. Amazing how people like you, who have never served in the military or your country seem to know what is going on and even more delirious about military strategy and history.
Friend, I have no clue whatsoever what mainstream media puts out. I follow military experts. And FYI I served my country in a war that played out in another country as an 18 year old. I was dropped in that foreign country with an unmarked overall with the clothes on my body, nothing to clean myself with for 6 weeks and carrying a significant responsibility. But I ended up as an academic which taught me a lot about dealing with information about a topic. I really want America to succeed as a country but it is being run by people who do not serve American interests first of all.
Friend, I have no doubt you are a patriot, but I have studied pysops (military and civilian) for over 23 years. You are wrong about this president and his administration and you wont have to wait long to see exactly how wrong you are. God speed.
I don’t agree with this war, but the comparison to Caligula (one of the most profoundly depraved emperors in a huge number of them) is akin to other Leftist’s comparison of Trump to Hitler. It’s not particularly astute or intelligent and smacks of TDS.
I think that to understand the "current political theater" we only need recall that in his presidential campaign the bloviating president repeatedly bragged about ending this war and that war, and how the Ukraine war would never have started had in been in office, etc., etc. How's that worked out?
He has proved himself to be a warmonger and clueless, not a peace president, and the ones who believe he has a great grand scheme don't quite get that the man is beyond his depth and lives in a fantasyland.
Why does everybody forget it was Trump that gave us lockdowns, the greatest upward transfer of wealth in history, and the wonderful MRNA jabs (he calls OWS his greatest achievement). No excuses, millions of us saw what was going on by March 2020. Not because we're geniuses, but because it was so friggin' obvious. He's so GD clueless he just got another booster for God's sake. He's done a lot right, I voted for him three times. Why so many worship him as an omniscient 5-D chess player is beyond me. Another thing, he's too dumb to stop listening to Kushner. Or maybe he likes what Kushner likes.
Yes I think the fact that he's still bloviating over the mRNA shots says a lot. For whatever reason he seems not to be listening to reason in many regards ... perhaps his elevated opinion of himself gets in the way.
Why do they forget? Because they are enamored by their cult leader. I broke free from that cult once I saw that he and his minions had no intention of releasing all of the Epstein documents. I believe that it is Kushner who is the true devil behind Trump and his decisions. He is a devout Israel first satanic cult member.
I voted against the three persons, but it’s been very rare for me to actually be voting for someone. I need to hold my nose when I enter the voting booth.
A three time Trump voter has TDS? You're retarded. He's still better than Kamala, Biden, and Obama. Although this adventure might be worse than anything they would have done. The open borders would destroy the USA though, so pick your poison. Either way, we lose.
Retarded? Lol. Better than an inbred such as yourself. Adventure? What are you talking about? You're also a defeatist. Yeah, I guess we already lost huh? I bet you never served your country or even really know what is happening right now. Now, go back to your basement and let the adults talk.
And who do you think gave us lockdowns, the greatest upward transfer of wealth in history, and the wonderful MRNA jabs? In my reality Trump claimed he got another COVID jab recently. Are you aware of none of this?
Just watch. He is NOT a warmonger when the US is counting its casualties on two sets of fingers. Yes, it could go up, but this is a regime that would gladly have choked the world and destroyed Israel in its quest to kill the Western world, apostates and infidels. This is a surgical strike, perhaps intelligence under estimated the number of hiding places and the amount of ordnance that had been amassed in 47 years. Trump is not a stupid old man. Im sorry John, that you have found yourself tricked into looking at the surface of Trumps mind and strategy, and are starting to think you understand the scope of his posts. Stay tuned.
Aye, let the Master lead us. He's crushing the deep state, and if they don't say "uncle" he'll start another $$$ war $$$ and show $$$ them who's really the boss.
So far as Israel ... I think the warmongers there would be happy to flatten every human being in the Middle East that isn't an Israeli. Give 'em the old Gaza treatment. And yet Iran is the really bad player here?
"The surface of Trump's mind." That's rich. Amazing. A man who still believes that Warp Speed was a great idea has these wonderful depths that normal humans just can't grasp.
What about warp speed? Im in health care and just let me enlighten you. Warp speed ended a national hysteria, and half-assed of the population is still getting the Covid-19 jab at the behest of American medicine. There are those in this string that think Warp Speed was a grand mistake, but can you imagine the conversation if millions had died and Trump had been sitting on his hands? Also, Trump, if this plandemic hadn't bled into a new administration would never have made the Covid jab MANDATORY. I seriously doubt that he is still getting boosters, but if he is, that's his choice. Can anyone in this string, especially those who think he is an idiot, imagine themselves in the position of getting medical guidance from Dr Mengele, and trying to make the best decision for an entire globe whipped into a hysterical frenzy by the very people who should have been recommending pause and common sense? D9 you all remember that he was calling for wide spread use of HCQ and was summarily blocked from releasing it from Federal stockpiles by an embedded member in his HHS, who as I recall was a PHYSICIAN? Shame on all of you for using this created public embarrassment to judge his character or decision making ability.
If you believe that the Covid shots were a good idea then that's the problem right there.
The hysteria was 100% whipped up by 24/7 fear porn, and it could've ended if the medical mafia had promoted the use of HCQ and ivermectin, etc. But then of course the shot wouldn't have gotten EUA and $$$$ for pharma.
Look, I was for the man. But ya gotta call a spade a spade, and this man is proving to be a warmonger walking into a hugely mistaken fight because Bibi told him it would save the world. A smart man can judge who to listen to: JFK did it. Trump, no.
I dont think they were a good idea, I think in retrospect he listened to the wrong people, but how many people now think RFK is insane? Who were the right people to listen to? The globalist agenda was to kill as many people as possible by any means necessary, including economic collapse, the fear of the disease and then the purported cure. The President's responsibility is to protect Americans, but he was dealing with TREMENDOUS corruption in the medical cartel, who continue to support the jab in the face of undeniable evidence that it is killing more people than the disease ever did. I am not a cultist, I dont think he is an idiot. I think those are very strong words for disagreements when neither of us know what he knows. To think you could put a collar around his neck and he'd be led around by Bibi is dumb. After a 5000 target destruction and the destruction of most of the Iranian Navy and still be able to launch thousands of missiles and drones says something very frightening about what they were planning for. To ignore that threat would have you same people calling Trump an idiot when Iran took the offensive. If they weren't ready to attack with the arsenal they already had, just imagine what they were planning.
i agree that Trump would not have made the covid shots mandatory. i blame Biden for my being fired from my 40 year career, not Trump. However the decision to bomb Iran is entirely his (and BiBi's).
however, he did go along with Fauci when he might have done "his own research" and put that little troll in his place. he was the President and his job is to uphold the Constitution which has no pandemic exception. many "inalienable" rights were suspended and shouldn't have been.
You make me want to read the timelines a little better to see exactly when the change of power occurred. When you consider that the AMA, ANA and (if Peter and Anthony were still at the NIH), every powerful organization was steering him toward the vaccination, and he had a hysterical country to deal with, AND he was listening to outside sources to suggest HCQ, I think he did a remarkable job. Could he have done better under the circumstances, I don't think so. Could he be doing better? To answer that question look at the TREMENDOUS pressure the current FDA and HHS are working under and the lies that are still being promulgated in healthcare. It's still very frightening.
What do you supposedly know that main stream media doesn't know? If there was even a shred of evidence about falsifying American casualties, Trump would be lambasted for it. Just for the record, if there are black ops or other casualties from those groups, they aren't released publicly by any administration.
i know nothing, other than the largest military base hospital in germany stopped doing baby deliveries and maternal care to be ready for incoming wounded.
and why wouldn't a government, getting caught with it's pants down, lie to try to keep "the people" on it's side, which they never were anyway. now we're talking about accusing media outlets who don't report the war "favorably" of treason, as if we should only have the government's take on how the war is going
Remember that seeing coffins arriving on tv is what turned Americans against the unnecessary war in Vietnam so in all wars since, coffins are hidden. .
i kinda know how it's going- badly since it was supposed to be a quick in and out before the markets opened on monday morning. that's what the UAE countries were told to get them on board and they're bitching that all the defensive weapons went to Israel.
Trump "claims" that Iran is 100% destroyed militarily but they can still get off a missile or drone. he "claims" that 5 refueling planes have not been shot down. reality has a way of not living up to fantasy.
sorry, but you sound like Sam Harris arguing covid with Bret Weinstein... "well, you knew that the vaccine was bad but you couldn't have known it then based on the information we had so the right thing to do was to take it." or whatever. it's pathetic to watch the man tie himself into knots trying to excuse his lack of foresight.
so do i have "secret information?" no, but i have my gut instincts and i know that governments lie and the truth is only revealed when all the guilty have died, like pfizer wanting 75 years to release the data upon which approval for those horrid covid shots were based. i knew they were bad, would kill people and do nothing to stop the pandemic but rather lead to variants. i'm not a virologist so how did i know? because i use my rational brain and i read a lot of medical books. i knew it was a lab leak. i knew pfizer was lying about efficacy, using relative data instead of absolute data. i knew they were killing old people in the UK by using an end of life protocol that you would NEVER use on people with a flu and i knew that the UK government stocked up on those drugs BEFORE the pandemic arrived.
i had some high hopes for Trump, mainly because of RFKjr and because of DJT’s promises to get us out of wars. which means not starting any new ones.
i have no hope anymore.
i predict (and it makes me sad to say this) that the democrats will take the majority and immediately start impeachment processes. the vaccine schedule will go back to the autism causing liability free mess that it was, children will get sicker, glyphosate will be everywhere (and no, farmers do not need it but bayer needs to stop being sued for causing cancer and the health of the nation is obviously a lower priority than the health of a not even American company) and everything will go back to our CIA run sham of a "country." we are living in a Potemkin village.
i'd like to live in a country. i'm pretty sick of living in a late stage Empire trying desperately to hang onto it's waning powers no matter the cost to it's citizens.
So now the lamestream whore media, the scripted C_A psyop whose only objective is mass mind control via lies & propaganda, is a reputable, trustworthy "source" of truth and reality. 🤦♀️ Are you actually serious, or is that satire?
NEWSFLASH - it's way past time to get your head out of the a$$ of controlled opposition and propaganda. If you think there's only a handful of casualties, you're sadly misled or willfully ignorant. And even if it WAS "only" a handful, it's a handful too many. (If it's so meaningless and acceptable, you get YOUR a$$ over there or sacrifice YOUR children to this beast, umKay?) Furthermore, there's no such thing as a surgical strike in war, and ESPECIALLY not in this case where the terrain is inhospitable to our military capabilities; and you're not dealing with some backwards third world nation here. Furthermore, you have zero concept about what's been unleashed here, and how rapidly and severely the global economy will crumble. You think it's just "oil" that's effected? 🤦♀️ You have no idea what that means in a bigger picture. That also includes the by-products that are associated with "oil" insofar as things like fertilizer, sulfur, etc have been deeply effected. Let's translate what that means. It's not just fabrics, goods, plastics, etc that are now devastated, it's food production -- on a global scale -- as in famine. You better get a clear understanding of what's going on here. The incongruous, ridiculous statements being made here are truly mind boggling and utterly shocking.
Well Liberty Liz, you sound like you have some kind of amazing insight into the realities of what is REALLY going on. What does your name mean? What does liberty cost when you are dealing with a "third world nation" that has enough arms to hold a passive world at bay? Do you think that Iran had no plans to crash the world's economy? Do you think that they weren't a threat and we should have just left them alone? Just for the record, I was in the military for 23 years. Though I was never in combat, Im well aware of the horrors of war. So...reel it in, and enter a civil conversation if you have something to add to the debate. Teach (if you dare), don't attempt to offend and act like you work in Biden's DOD.
Actually, Iran was not a threat to the US. Actually, Iran did not start this next phase of the genocidal depopulation agenda. The decades-old propaganda of "Iran being a threat" were propagated by none other the psychotic war criminal, B00mB00mBibi, for his (Rothschilds) greater !srael agenda not our (or any other nation's) "national security". You can pretend this is about a "left vs right" false paradigm. You can pretend that somehow the truth being presented is coming from a PedoJoe "supporter". You can pretend you're not a cultist with a single-digit IQ, no discernment and even less than zero of a moral compass; but you've simply proven you're a mere NPC helping to usher in your own demise and that of a once great nation.
Again with the insults, is that the only way you know how to communicate your opinions? What you present is truth, and not simply your opinion? What I believe makes me immoral, stupid, and unable to discern? I never called him PedoJoe, you pulled that from previous opinions and placed it in my wheelhouse. We dont need to continue, but I would truly like to ask..since I am watching the demise of our nation under Trump, by deduction, we were on the path to greatness under Bush, Obama and Biden..true?
But I'm sure the war planners thought of all this, and some grand plan is in place. Or ... you know what? I think they're idiots bringing us to war with simplistic notions of how soon it will all be over and then MAGA.
The writing is on the wall, once we disregard fantasies of Trump's supposed genius. They're idiots. They have no idea what they're doing.
the US always enters war without understanding the country that it is invading and then suffers blowback because of that lack of understanding. we are an intellectually lazy people. we like our wars simple and sweet with clear good guys (white hats and cleft chins to help the masses understand the narrative) fighting super villains. too many John Wayne movies.
when you believe that your country is the greatest shining light in all of history, you can get full of yourself and not bother to see the complexities in other people's culture.
the other night Trump said that Iranians were the most evil people in all of history. they cut babies' heads off and slice women in half. if any of that were remotely true, i guess we could feel justified in bombing them (even though we'd probably kill a lot of those poor women and children before they even had a chance to be beheaded or cut in half).
no, there is no plan. the original "plan" was that by killing the moderate Ayatollah (imagine how Catholics would respond if the USA killed the Pope!), the regime would collapse, the people would cheer and it would all be over by the time the markets opened Monday morning. there was no plan B. they are making it up as they go along.
It seems they're not complete idiots. It's worse. Their irredeemable, insane, gen0cidal actions are INTENTIONAL and flat-out satanic for mass destruction and depopulation, to hasten the psych0tic globalist agenda. No one, NO ONE, is stupid enough to do what we're witnessing, especially given all the OTHER things that have been put into place to compliment the criminally-insane activities taking place in the M E.
Um, Carolyn, the news media wants wars that are clean and tidy, and perhaps most Americans do also....but we have never been in one except for the first Gulf War in Kuwait. The rest have been dirty, prolonged and with no clear enemy, except Hitler. We've been in most our wars for the elite bankers. Read the "Creature from Jekyll Island" for some interesting insight.
Jim- it’s worked out quite well for those whose wars he actually do stop. There is a bigger strategy at play here, one you do not grasp or are aware of. See Promethean Action or Overview for enlightenment. Consider this: after Trump met with Putin in Alaska, the Russians began filling their tankers with oil and parking it on the high seas. Who just came to Asia’s rescue with recently “unsanctioned Oil”? Bessent admitted that was part of their planning for this conflict. This is part of redefining the Middle East and the good news is- most of the countries there want it!
"... after Trump met with Putin in Alaska, the Russians began filling their tankers with oil and parking it on the high seas." Really? Got a reference for that?
Or is this from "Promethean Action"? So we're still playing the game that this is all some grand strategy by Trump to destroy the cabal and usher in world peace? Trump as the grand chess master? Somehow I fail to believe that someone who often acts so un-statesmanlike is a master statesman.
Yes, this is the other version of TDS, the version that says no matter what he does it's part of some grand strategy: trust the plan! Like the plan to have us all injected with mRNA technology? That plan? Like the plan to topple the deep state by releasing the Epstein files, but ... whoops, are you people still talking about that, said the Grand Master?
And how about that Ukraine war that he stopped, and showed Putin who was really boss? I know, I know: part of the plan and I'm not yet enlightened.
I had faith in the man. But anyone who still believes that he's anything more than a bloviating idiot lives in la-la-land, refusing to let their image of him fade before the reality. He's not crushing the deep state, he's feeding it with $$$ war-profiteering $$$, to the tune of billions a day. Take that, deep state!!
I had hopes for him, too, even though I should have known better because of the whole warp speed debacle. Now, the facade has fallen. But there will always be those who cling to the white hat, 40 D chess rationale. "It's easier to fool someone, than to convince them they have been fooled."
If there is any error in what you are saying, it is taking stories of other people and treating them as Trump's thoughts, perceptions, and actions. He's been the President for just over a year. Most of all of our major disagreement here is the Iran conflict. Would any of us see things differently if Rensselaer this?
What?? Someone compiled all the quotes of Trump saying peace this and peace that and stopping endless wars. It’s quite a list of quotes and you could probably AI it to get it. But now he’s out to remake the Middle East in Israel’s image with $$$$ from the taxpayers going right into the pockets of the military-industrial complex and the bankers who finance this war.
He didn’t stop any wars. He said he did. The countries in question say he didn’t. Great idea- kill everyone in the Middle East, make every country there an uninhabitable waste land and then “claim” that you “redefined” it.
Unfortunately, John appears to be a Rand Paul. Rand stated in a recent hearing if someone attacked us in NY he would then consider that as an act of War. Like sending a message to our enemies that you can nuke us and only then is it an act of war.
I am sure in John's list of heroes is Neville Chamberlain. How did that work out?
Also, President Jefferson must be on John's list. Leave those pirates alone. I am sure Washington was out of line as well. Since the United States wasn't a country and the Continental Congress was not empowered by the King. God save the King!
"I am sure in John's list of heroes is Neville Chamberlain. How did that work out?"
To take just one of your examples--how did Churchill work out? Hitler, in part because of the starvation blockade against Germany at the end of WWI, wanted farmland to his east, and to reclaim the German territory taken by Poland under the disastrous Versailles Treaty. Britain told Poland to reject the German demands, and when Germany invaded Poland, Britain declared war on Germany, a war Hitler didn't want, as he was an admirer of the Brits (German royal family), and for which Britain was unprepared. The result was a British-French-US alliance with the Soviet Union (a country even more murderous toward its own people than Hitler's Germany), and a world war with an death toll of something like 50 million people. Though Britain came out on the "winning" side (with most of the Allied fighting done by the Soviets), it lost much of its empire to the U.S., and today seems pretty much done for. One never knows what might have happened otherwise, but the better outcome might have been a more limited war between the two totalitarian countries, leaving even the "victor" weakened.
Another instance of an old guy, now under a whole lot of stress, who confidently walked into a corner, got lost, and now can't remember how to turn around.
"The problem is this: the US Navy can deny the Iranians the ability to operate on the waters of the strait—or anywhere for that matter—but the US Navy cannot control the strait itself. Iran can deploy cheap anti-ship weaponry along the littoral of the strait with far greater ease and assurance than modern naval forces can reliably counter them. Dumb mass will defeat cutting-edge quality ...
Given the strong tides through the strait, Iran can also float mines into the waters from various points on the littoral. It doesn’t have to load them onto mine-laying vessels (16 of which the US claims to have sunk).
So, in the unlikely event the US Navy did attempt convoy, it would first need to destroy land-based anti-ship capabilities and operations on the Iranian side of the strait.
It’s at this point the Dardanelles analogy becomes operative. The only reason the Gallipoli campaign was attempted in 1915 was because the most powerful navies of the day had failed to force a passage through the narrow Dardanelles, the shores of which were controlled by Ottoman forces. In this case, even 18 battleships—including the 381-mm guns of the new battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth—failed to sufficiently suppress defensive artillery.
In constricted waters, the combination of basic artillery and basic naval mines inflicted such damage on the world’s most advanced navy and its French ally that they had to retire.
So, an attempt to force passage will present the United States with the same fallback option that Britain and France had in 1915: to take the littoral by force. But occupying the Gallipoli peninsular doesn’t begin to compare with occupying more than 150 km of Iranian shoreline, from Qeshm island in the west to the Port of Bandar Abas and down the coast to Koo Mobarak, where the strait widens.
There is no defensible line that US forces could ever secure. The attempt would be Gallipoli times 10, with the difference that the Iranians could always pull back to interior lines of defence. It is inconceivable that the US would try.
Are there alternatives? US air forces could continue to reduce Iran’s ability to make drones and missiles. But even if that works, there are substitutes. Russia has every incentive to keep the strait closed, since its own hydrocarbons are becoming more valuable with every passing day. Russia is strategically on-side with Iran’s actions.
Russia also has the kit to help. It has spent four years contracting the development cycles of cheap drones and non-smart missiles. It can fly or ship hundreds of such munitions across the Caspian Sea. Even if US drones could interdict passage, an attempt would constitute a direct attack on Russian forces. So that won’t happen either."
Well explained for the unschooled people educated by Conservative Treehouse.
The next option might well involve heavily mining the Strait. Obviously, with China tankers exiting the Strait, the waters are currently without mines. In a scenario where a force needs more leverage, mines will do. Mines are cheap. The Strait is narrow.
Iran is showing the advantages of asymmetric warfare to a traditional military. We need hardly remember far back to see the U.S. defeated by far lesser forces as those in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Pres. Trump receives enormous pressure from world financiers--the true rulers of the world--to restore shipping routes; restore their commerce; and cease heavy disruption in world energy markets. Furthermore, if the situation becomes more dire, we can expect, as Martin Armstrong pointed out, Iran to take out all the oil production in the ME. While the U.S. will be little affected (since we take 3% of our oil from that region), Europe and other markets will crash badly.
Further, more Iranian-backed attacks will occur in the U.S. I marvel that Mirian Adelson's--one of Trump's prime financial backers--Venetian hotel hasn't been hit.
If the final act must be played, remember that Pakistan has offered a nuclear weapon to Iran. Israel will vanish. The Middle East will cease as a transit point East-West for a number of decades.
The US is getting increasingly short of "friends" because of what they did by starting this war. Those nations that are being devastated by Trump's actions, like Japan, Taiwan, etc are rapidly distancing themselves from the US because of what is going to happen to their supply chains AND food security. Trump has basically INTENTIONALLY unleashed impending famine on many global "partners". How friendly are the US's "friends" feeling right now? Might want to listen to people who understand the dynamics of what's going on & what's coming, because Trump effectively put many, many countries on the chopping block for irreversible destruction.
If Pakistan gave a nuclear bomb to Iran, Israel would hit it first.
If Iran did succeed in detonating a nuke on Israel, the counterattack would kill millions of innocent Iranians and maybe Pakistanis, because that’s how mutual assured destruction.
Iran is rapidly losing its ability to even launch Shaheed. Ukraine is helping SA and others defend against those, so Iran is incapable of ending ME oil production.
SA owns one side of the straights, and could certainly help suppress any fast boats.
Perhaps some people don't understand blood or tribal ties nor the apocalyptic scenarios driving all Christians, Jews, and Muslims at this point in history.
All three Abrahamic religions believe by their own accounts in some mystical figure who will reappear at these "End Times" and provide salvation; justice; or a new world. The Zionists and current Shia Muslims are openly seeking to establish the required conditions in which their saviors might arrive. Some Christians hold apocalyptic views akin to the Red Heifer Jews. When such beliefs are held, people willingly go to their deaths
Intention and beliefs create reality.
Pakistan doesn't need "to give" anyone a bomb. They'll fire if they feel Iran has been unjustly diminished.
Many countries in the ME are Shia dominated (majorities) under heavily controlled Sunni authority.
Rumor is that the former Iranian supreme leader openly invited death by not seeking bunker protection. He martyred himself which, in his religion, gives him great honor and value.
Agreed the evangelical groups that bribe Israel government to tolerate settlers so that god will return, various fringe Hassidim, and the clerics in Iran are all batshit crazy.
Would Pakistan nuke Israel if the RG fell? I can’t see it but I don’t know the “football “ chain on Pakistan. I have faith in MAD.
It's a wonder there is not a fatwa on POTUS Trump similar to the one on Salman Rushdie. Khamenei SNR had a fatwa on production or possession of nuclear weapons. I'm not sure if that applies to a "dirty bomb" but given how porous the US southern border has historically been it's not only Israel that should be concerned.
The fatwas were issued by prominent Iranian Shia clerics, specifically Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi and Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani, in response to what they termed threats against Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Regarding the fatwah on nuclear, that was just deception.
Overall, the fatwa exists as a repeated public religious stance by Khamenei against nuclear weapons, used consistently in diplomacy. Whether it reflects genuine, unchanging religious belief or serves flexible political/strategic purposes remains contested. Most evidence suggests it has been treated as real and operative by the regime for decades, though potentially subject to revision if existential threats escalate. Iran has not crossed into overt weaponization despite advanced enrichment capabilities.
Just like they knew in 1966 that the Viet Cong were going to kick their ass but hung around for years to get it kicked anyway and just like they would have known years in advance that the Taliban would kick their ass in Afghanistan.
Actually we had the North Vietnam beat after their big defeat at the Tet Offensive, according to may reading of the history. It was the negative press which turned the U S approval negative and made effective further fighting politically not feasible. According to what I read, the North Vietnamese couldn't understand why we hadn't followed up.
That’s why an actual declaration of war should be sought from Congress before waging war. It’s doubtful Congress would have approved a declaration of war against North Vietnam, in spite of the Domino Theory. No American lives would have been lost and other than having an influx of thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodians into this country the eventual outcomes would have been the same as they are today.
No doubt they considered it, but also no doubt that any advice urging caution was drowned out by idiots proclaiming "no problem, we got it figured out" when they were only looking at clouds in their coffee.
Ohhhh. So THAT is why we went to war with Iran--to keep the Strait Open, Safe, and Free. Isn't that Reason For The War number 4 now? or 5? And wait, wasn't the Strait Open, Safe, and Free before the US mucked things up? I am SO CONFUSED.
Alright John, you’re starting to suffer from TDS. Things will get worse until they get better, since you cannot make sense of his statements and actions. Results will have to speak for themselves.
Oh, my. I believe you miss Trump's tactics. He knows all that you assert he does not know. He is aware that China has been running oil through the Strait. (Other ships have passed as well, with transponders turned off.) Rather, Trump is calling out for China and others to make a public effort to normalize the Strait. Failure to do so is reason for action - and China knows that. (So they send missiles and drones through the backdoor of Pakistan.) Trump is a master of setting terms in communications that others do not seem to understand. Here, once again, he is setting the stage, like he did with NATO, for others to come out of the dark and own their participation. You can be sure that now that Kharg Island is being taken over by the U.S. military that China will not be loading ships without assisting in stopping bad actors (which includes themselves).
"Trump is a master of setting terms in communications that others do not seem to understand."
Yup. Like, "I'll end the Ukraine war in the first week." Gotta hand it to him, I don't understand his terms of communication in that one 'cause it ain't happened, and it looks to me like bloviating but then again, I'm not of sufficient understanding to parse the depths of that one.
And how about "you still talking about that" with regards to the Epstein files? Seems to me there's a lot to unpack in those files but the Master was apparently telling us something to tell us something that was something that he wanted to tell us that was a message that we might hear if we only heard him right.
President Trump could have ended the war in Ukraine in one week, as he proposed. He did the right thing. And he did essentially negotiate an end to the war. But that was not the real war, he discovered.
That which he did not understand was the extent of the Deep State invested in keeping that war going. As you may have noticed, he continues to fight those people. (You may be right that you are not of sufficient understanding to grasp the Ukraine corruption that began in 2014.) The question is whether the case being built in Florida will bring those people to justice. Trump has clarified all these things, but few are paying sufficient attention.
And you seem to have missed the importance of the Epstein files, the importance of the Mossad-CIA-MI6 operation being revealed. You might not realize the extent of the Intel Community opposition to an actual reveal... which is taking place anyway. You may have missed the manner in which these things are all tied together in the Deep State intelligence community. Did you miss the part where Epstein acknowledged he was working for the Rothschilds?
Of course not. Where did you pick up that silliness? How about being the first one on your block to prevent getting your boy harmed by radical Islam? How about not facing wacky Islamists with nukes? How about saving thousands and millions of lives by stopping terrorist loons?
“Be the first one on your block to bring your boy home in a box”
Ritter:
“The 31st MEU is heading toward the Persian Gulf.
There’s a lot of talk about the Marines taking Kharg Island.
But the truth is the USS Tripoli, an America-class amphibious assault ship that carries the embarked 31st MEU, can’t get anywhere near the island—the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
To even try and enter the Persian Gulf is the kind of suicidal venture former Marine Commandant, General David Berger, warned about in his 2019 Commandants Planning Guidance, where he noted that “our Nation’s ability to project power and influence beyond its shores is increasingly challenged by long-range precision fires; expanding air, surface, and sub-surface threats; and the continued degradation of our amphibious and auxiliary ship readiness. The ability to project and maneuver from strategic distances will likely be detected and contested from the point of embarkation during a major contingency…it would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships. The adversary will quickly recognize that striking while concentrated (aboard ship) is the preferred option.”
And yet here we are, seven years later, a prisoner of legacy doctrine and systems.
If Marines are to attempt to take Kharg Island, it will have to be an assault launched from ashore, not from the sea. Marines and their Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft will need to deploy to Kuwait or Bahrain, both of which are currently under attack from Iranian missiles and drones, and from their attempt an air assault.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because in May 1975, US Marines carried out a similar vertical envelopment on Koh Tang island in the Gulf of Thailand. Conceived as a rescue mission to free US merchant marine sailors taken prisoner by the Khmer Rouge, the Marines instead found no prisoners, but lots of dug in Khmer Rouge fighters who ended up shooting down three of the eleven helicopters used in the initial landing, and heavily damaging five others. In the end, 38 Marines and US Air Force personnel were killed, and another 50 killed before the Marines had to be extracted under heavy fire. In the confusion of the final evacuation, three Marines were left on the island, and were subsequently captured and executed by the Khmer Rouge.
Any attempt to land Marines on Kharg Island will end in a disaster that would make Koh Tang island look like child’s play.
General David Berger knew this.
I wonder what the current Commandant, General Eric Smith, has to say about this?
Back in 1990 the Marine Corps Commandant, General Al Gray, formed an ad hoc planning cell to challenge the plans being put together by General Norman Schwarzkopf to liberate Kuwait.
Does General Smith possess the kind of intelligence and courage that General Gray had in standing up to bad ideas, or will he stand by silently as history repeats itself in the Persian Gulf, where the 31st MEU may find itself in a repeat of the Koh Tang debacle so Donald Trump can falsely declare victory over Iran.”
🇺🇸🇮🇷Tucker Carlson: The US President allowed the use of nuclear weapons against Iran.
"The President of the United States said on camera today: 'We are considering the possibility of using nuclear weapons against Iran'."
He said: "We could destroy Iran, make it uninhabitable forever in one hour. We could deal with them by today. In fact, within an hour, they would literally never be able to restore this country. We have weapons that can do that."
Well, we're talking about nuclear weapons. The President of the United States is openly saying that if the situation escalates, we can launch a nuclear strike against them. And again - there have been very few attempts to convince you that we did this in the national interests of America.
The Secretary of State just spoke and said: 'We did this because Israel forced us to do it.'
So they're quite openly talking about what's happening here and what the stakes might be. The President of the United States is threatening to use nuclear weapons. This is on the agenda."
Tucker Carlson announced a possible criminal prosecution by the US authorities.
"The CIA is preparing a request for criminal prosecution against me... What is the crime? That I talked to people in Iran before the war,"
, - he said.
He recalled that similar pressure had already been exerted on him during the preparation of an interview with Vladimir Putin.
John Leake you are on the money and most of these turkeys 🦃 haven’t a clue 😉keep going Sir …..pulling the Band-Aid off is painful to some and liberating for others ……I find you liberating !!!!🙏😁
I don’t think podcasters know more about what’s going on than the does the president of a country. It’s not like they are being briefed by multiple branches of intelligence and the military. But, they are still entitled to their opinions. It would just be nice if everybody didn’t jump on the bandwagon as if it were the final word. It is not.
Don't you think Trump's tweet/his words kind of speaks for itself? Are you suggesting there is some kind of intelligent strategy behind his tweet that appears to make him look clueless? I am genuinely curious.
So you presume that this president is acting on the advice of his military? It seems very likely he’s acting on the advice of his partner from Israel, his non-military son in law and his donors.
Where do all the five star armchair quarterbacks come from?
Here's another mostly unknown soapboxer with a laptop, access to the internet and an ego that compels him to believe his geo-political / military analysis is complete and sound.
But will Leake and all the other know-it-alls publicly admit their profound opinions were grossly premature and downright out to lunch should hostilities end very much in line with the plan objectives?
I expect their respective egos won't allow them ( Rogan maybe ) to acknowledge their sins and like today's Democrat crazies, they'll twist their previous position to excuse their immaturity and carry on with 'new concerns'.
Trust me, if the war ends soon and on terms that everyone can accept or is forced to accept, I'll be the first to admit that His Masterfulness can play geopolitical chess far beyond my meager ken. But until then I'm on board with the opinions of Professor Mearsheimer and others who see this as a fool's errand and a long-drawn out mistake.
someone explain to me how a country with 100% of it's military capability destroyed could easily "send a drone or two, drop a mine or deliver a close range missile somewhere," indicating that somewhat less than 100% of it's military capability has been destroyed.
sorry. but the bombast and exaggeration doesn't quite work when the reality on the ground refuses to cooperate.
If you can’t see what great things this President does, especially if compared to the last few, then you are part of the problem, which policies and declining moral principles got us where we are now.
Can someone send John Leake a link to The Conservative Treehouse so that he understands the current political theatre better? Please??
I agree!!! And here's another for him: https://www.prometheanaction.com/
Mr. Leake - I have enjoyed your writing for a long time but you're getting a bit out of your lane here on what Trump has been doing militarily. There is a bigger picture to it that you are apparently not aware of so your content is making you appear quite naive.
I couldn’t have put it better myself. There are many like John Leake out there right now. They are either sincerely seeking truth and understanding about what Trump is about and doing, or they are reporting naivety and confusion so as to perpetuate confused readers. The Promethians have the answer that connects the dots and provides the understanding John so evidently is lacking.
Actually, it's promethean that's proving to be deranged hopium, feeding on the delusions of the low-IQ matrix dwellers, clinging to white-hat psyops that addled their brains beyond any hope of return to reality or discernment. At this stage of the game, and certainly after the c0vid scamdemic, people should have learned a little more about using discernment with controlled opposition and psyops, yet... here we are... pretending the "British" created the "oligarchy class of Iran", which somehow magically happened and continued under 47 years of US sanctions against Iran to bring them to their knees, and with C_A/M0SSAD instigating one Gladio color revolution psyop after another in many countries in the M E. Promethean is proving to be a deranged comedy series, but the controlled-opposition propaganda from them is too outlandish for even that classification. Stockholm Syndromed NPCs defending their criminally-insane psychopathic captors with brainwashing so complete it's truly remarkable, but not surprising given the low-IQs and zombification of the American NPCs. If there's an op underway to "stop the DS globalists", Trump wouldn't be forcing Real ID, Palantir surveillance, CBDCs, AI governance takeover, etc on HIS OWN PEOPLE to satisfy the globalist agenda of the NWO.
". . . what Trump has been doing militarily. . . ." Even Trump booster Alex Jones says Trump knows next to nothing about military affairs (many other things too, like tariffs, I'd add). Isn't it true the military, even Trump's new favorite general, Raizin' Caine, advised not attacking Iran?
DJT doesnt need to know military affairs. He is responsible for protecting America. Caine did not say that, btw...
Leake is obviously suffering from a mild case of TDS. More importantly, he is negligent of the 14k ft view of the strategy undertaking of this incursion/war. The more I read with Leake's narratives, it is obvious he has ulterior motives, or as you say, is naive to the big picture. Or worse, he is a shill.
Yes, the 14K foot view! The big picture!
Can't you people see that feeding the military industrial complex $$$ is actually destroying it? That war is actually peace? That no danger with mRNA vaccines means they're perfectly safe warp speed? That "are you people still paying attention to that" is really showing us the unredacted Epstein files?
OMG now I see. Trump ascending to heaven in a ray of light, killing off those dastardly Iranians because that's what Bibi really, really wanted please Mr. President you're be doing the world a favor, please?
The big picture. You mean, the fantasy they painted for you, the big Q show, the making of a mythology of Donald Trump? The real man is a braggart, an insulter-in-chief, and it looks like an idiot-in-chief, and BTW A LOT of conservative commentators have come to that conclusion as well, and I read that side and not the lefties.
Not sure which is worse: those who hate everything Trump does or those who love everything he does, because Big Picture.
You are truly deranged and need help. You're vitriol and hatred will be your demise. Good luck though.
I'm disgusted with this irrational Trump worship: he who said over and over and over how he was against endless wars, so that's why we have endless war. Wake up.
2 weeks is not endless
Well stated
Yes, it's called Trump Discernment Syndrome. If you HAD any discernment or critical-thinking ability, you'd put together a much different picture than the one being fed to you from (yet another) controlled opposition psy0p. NEWSFLASH: if anyone else on the planet (ie CommieAla) did the things Trymp is doing... from Real ID, to the Epstein clan protection, to never-ending wars & supporting heinous genocidal atrocities, to endless lies & propaganda & broken campaign promises, to the Palantir Surveillance State, to increased corporate lobbying (tech broligarchy control), to the heinous escalation of pHARMa control, to the 3-letter agencies being nothing more than obstructors of justice & protection of g0vt criminals, to chemtrail & geoengineering escalation, to 6G, to !sraeli influence, to the devaluing dollar, to AI governance take over, to escalating housing costs, to first amendment violations, to ... (and that's just the tip of the iceberg of what Trump's ushered in); "the right" would be clutching their pearls, with their hair on fire, screaming from the rooftops about these heinous anti-American, pro-globalist violations. Instead, we see Stockholm Syndromed NPCs, at an unprecedented level, ignoring the obvious and protecting the convoluted twisting of the truth. Looks like the criminal insanity, deception, corruption and lies have become accepted and excused by the very people who should know better. Yet... here we are... with another successful M K Ultra psy0p overtaking those very same people who should've known better.
And BTW - Shame on all who were led astray by this nonsense, ditched any semblance of a moral compass (YET AGAIN) by being distracted away from the Epstein Files (especially after almost a decade of your mantra of "saving the children"), and who now support gen0cide 2.0 (because OWS just wasn't enough to convince you of the depth of evil you're witnessing) with turning a blind eye to violating (& bombing) even MORE innocents, by the tens of thousands, to "achieve your goal". No, no one's taking down the cartel-babylon globalist DS. You're SUPPORTING the cartel-babylon DS -- cartel-babylon is just fighting over who's going to sit at the top of the pyramid to usher in the same anti-human, TRANSHUMAN agenda.
You are entitled to your opinion, but not your own deranged facts. Please see professional guidance and therapy.
Which fact listed above is deranged? Not one single item mentioned. Not one. The fact you can deny any of those things as true reflects a single-digit IQ, zero discernment and even less of a moral compass. The one who needs help is you. Unfortunately, you've crossed the rubicon of that even being a possibility. Now crawl back under your rock, little matrix-dwelling NPC, and keep defending your Stockholm Syndrome. And don't forget to parrot "TDS" whenever truth or reality is in the picture.
Perhaps Leake reads wider than you do. If you want to know what is actually going on you have to weigh information from all sources. There are very solid indications that Trump and his men have totally underestimated what they're going to get the US into. Iran has been preparing for this conflict for decades. All US military bases in the Middle East have been hit by Iranian missiles. Critical infrastructure like radar installations worth billions of dollars has been destroyed. The implications are huge. The US has sent so many missiles to Ukraine and Israel that it has left itself vulnerable. Israel has suffered great infrastructure loss and Iran hasn't started using its hypersonic missiles yet. The US aircraft carrier closest to the action is 700km away because of fears that ships may be sunk. Trump has asked Iran more than once for an end to hostilities and Iran has refused. The victor in a war situation lays down the terms of surrender. It looks like Iran is dictating at present. Wounded US soldiers are flown to military hospitals in Germany. Iran has invited the US to send ground troops into Iran. They have hundreds of thousands of troops. Getting enough US troops into Iran will be a logistical nightmare. Israel started this war and dragged the US into it. It is a tiny country with very limited resources, but it has a nuclear capability. Trump should be admonished to get the US and Israel out of this mess before Israel does the unthinkable.
Lol, your mainstream media brainwashed. Be prepared to be on the wrong side of history. Amazing how people like you, who have never served in the military or your country seem to know what is going on and even more delirious about military strategy and history.
Friend, I have no clue whatsoever what mainstream media puts out. I follow military experts. And FYI I served my country in a war that played out in another country as an 18 year old. I was dropped in that foreign country with an unmarked overall with the clothes on my body, nothing to clean myself with for 6 weeks and carrying a significant responsibility. But I ended up as an academic which taught me a lot about dealing with information about a topic. I really want America to succeed as a country but it is being run by people who do not serve American interests first of all.
Friend, I have no doubt you are a patriot, but I have studied pysops (military and civilian) for over 23 years. You are wrong about this president and his administration and you wont have to wait long to see exactly how wrong you are. God speed.
Ok make it 4D idiot chess then
Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda ftom the Promethean Action group are 💯💯💯💯💯 on target with their analysis.
I don’t agree with this war, but the comparison to Caligula (one of the most profoundly depraved emperors in a huge number of them) is akin to other Leftist’s comparison of Trump to Hitler. It’s not particularly astute or intelligent and smacks of TDS.
I think that to understand the "current political theater" we only need recall that in his presidential campaign the bloviating president repeatedly bragged about ending this war and that war, and how the Ukraine war would never have started had in been in office, etc., etc. How's that worked out?
He has proved himself to be a warmonger and clueless, not a peace president, and the ones who believe he has a great grand scheme don't quite get that the man is beyond his depth and lives in a fantasyland.
Why does everybody forget it was Trump that gave us lockdowns, the greatest upward transfer of wealth in history, and the wonderful MRNA jabs (he calls OWS his greatest achievement). No excuses, millions of us saw what was going on by March 2020. Not because we're geniuses, but because it was so friggin' obvious. He's so GD clueless he just got another booster for God's sake. He's done a lot right, I voted for him three times. Why so many worship him as an omniscient 5-D chess player is beyond me. Another thing, he's too dumb to stop listening to Kushner. Or maybe he likes what Kushner likes.
Yes I think the fact that he's still bloviating over the mRNA shots says a lot. For whatever reason he seems not to be listening to reason in many regards ... perhaps his elevated opinion of himself gets in the way.
Maybe you go get another jab, that should make you feel better.
And what makes you think I got any jab at all??
Its obvious. Im betting 3rd or 4th booster. Good luck with the turbo cancer. Its coming.
Why do they forget? Because they are enamored by their cult leader. I broke free from that cult once I saw that he and his minions had no intention of releasing all of the Epstein documents. I believe that it is Kushner who is the true devil behind Trump and his decisions. He is a devout Israel first satanic cult member.
It really is a cult, no less so than the leftists.
I voted against the three persons, but it’s been very rare for me to actually be voting for someone. I need to hold my nose when I enter the voting booth.
Do not forget the 6G push.
You're TDS is showing. There's mental help for that..
A three time Trump voter has TDS? You're retarded. He's still better than Kamala, Biden, and Obama. Although this adventure might be worse than anything they would have done. The open borders would destroy the USA though, so pick your poison. Either way, we lose.
Retarded? Lol. Better than an inbred such as yourself. Adventure? What are you talking about? You're also a defeatist. Yeah, I guess we already lost huh? I bet you never served your country or even really know what is happening right now. Now, go back to your basement and let the adults talk.
Yeah, we already lost. The silver lining of Trump screwing over the country is he's taking brainless sycophants like you down too.
SteelJ. Not sure what reality you are living in!!
And who do you think gave us lockdowns, the greatest upward transfer of wealth in history, and the wonderful MRNA jabs? In my reality Trump claimed he got another COVID jab recently. Are you aware of none of this?
Just watch. He is NOT a warmonger when the US is counting its casualties on two sets of fingers. Yes, it could go up, but this is a regime that would gladly have choked the world and destroyed Israel in its quest to kill the Western world, apostates and infidels. This is a surgical strike, perhaps intelligence under estimated the number of hiding places and the amount of ordnance that had been amassed in 47 years. Trump is not a stupid old man. Im sorry John, that you have found yourself tricked into looking at the surface of Trumps mind and strategy, and are starting to think you understand the scope of his posts. Stay tuned.
Aye, let the Master lead us. He's crushing the deep state, and if they don't say "uncle" he'll start another $$$ war $$$ and show $$$ them who's really the boss.
So far as Israel ... I think the warmongers there would be happy to flatten every human being in the Middle East that isn't an Israeli. Give 'em the old Gaza treatment. And yet Iran is the really bad player here?
"The surface of Trump's mind." That's rich. Amazing. A man who still believes that Warp Speed was a great idea has these wonderful depths that normal humans just can't grasp.
What about warp speed? Im in health care and just let me enlighten you. Warp speed ended a national hysteria, and half-assed of the population is still getting the Covid-19 jab at the behest of American medicine. There are those in this string that think Warp Speed was a grand mistake, but can you imagine the conversation if millions had died and Trump had been sitting on his hands? Also, Trump, if this plandemic hadn't bled into a new administration would never have made the Covid jab MANDATORY. I seriously doubt that he is still getting boosters, but if he is, that's his choice. Can anyone in this string, especially those who think he is an idiot, imagine themselves in the position of getting medical guidance from Dr Mengele, and trying to make the best decision for an entire globe whipped into a hysterical frenzy by the very people who should have been recommending pause and common sense? D9 you all remember that he was calling for wide spread use of HCQ and was summarily blocked from releasing it from Federal stockpiles by an embedded member in his HHS, who as I recall was a PHYSICIAN? Shame on all of you for using this created public embarrassment to judge his character or decision making ability.
If you believe that the Covid shots were a good idea then that's the problem right there.
The hysteria was 100% whipped up by 24/7 fear porn, and it could've ended if the medical mafia had promoted the use of HCQ and ivermectin, etc. But then of course the shot wouldn't have gotten EUA and $$$$ for pharma.
Look, I was for the man. But ya gotta call a spade a spade, and this man is proving to be a warmonger walking into a hugely mistaken fight because Bibi told him it would save the world. A smart man can judge who to listen to: JFK did it. Trump, no.
I dont think they were a good idea, I think in retrospect he listened to the wrong people, but how many people now think RFK is insane? Who were the right people to listen to? The globalist agenda was to kill as many people as possible by any means necessary, including economic collapse, the fear of the disease and then the purported cure. The President's responsibility is to protect Americans, but he was dealing with TREMENDOUS corruption in the medical cartel, who continue to support the jab in the face of undeniable evidence that it is killing more people than the disease ever did. I am not a cultist, I dont think he is an idiot. I think those are very strong words for disagreements when neither of us know what he knows. To think you could put a collar around his neck and he'd be led around by Bibi is dumb. After a 5000 target destruction and the destruction of most of the Iranian Navy and still be able to launch thousands of missiles and drones says something very frightening about what they were planning for. To ignore that threat would have you same people calling Trump an idiot when Iran took the offensive. If they weren't ready to attack with the arsenal they already had, just imagine what they were planning.
i agree that Trump would not have made the covid shots mandatory. i blame Biden for my being fired from my 40 year career, not Trump. However the decision to bomb Iran is entirely his (and BiBi's).
however, he did go along with Fauci when he might have done "his own research" and put that little troll in his place. he was the President and his job is to uphold the Constitution which has no pandemic exception. many "inalienable" rights were suspended and shouldn't have been.
You make me want to read the timelines a little better to see exactly when the change of power occurred. When you consider that the AMA, ANA and (if Peter and Anthony were still at the NIH), every powerful organization was steering him toward the vaccination, and he had a hysterical country to deal with, AND he was listening to outside sources to suggest HCQ, I think he did a remarkable job. Could he have done better under the circumstances, I don't think so. Could he be doing better? To answer that question look at the TREMENDOUS pressure the current FDA and HHS are working under and the lies that are still being promulgated in healthcare. It's still very frightening.
it already has "gone up." certainly the US government is lying about the number of casualties as it lies about most things
What do you supposedly know that main stream media doesn't know? If there was even a shred of evidence about falsifying American casualties, Trump would be lambasted for it. Just for the record, if there are black ops or other casualties from those groups, they aren't released publicly by any administration.
i know nothing, other than the largest military base hospital in germany stopped doing baby deliveries and maternal care to be ready for incoming wounded.
and why wouldn't a government, getting caught with it's pants down, lie to try to keep "the people" on it's side, which they never were anyway. now we're talking about accusing media outlets who don't report the war "favorably" of treason, as if we should only have the government's take on how the war is going
Remember that seeing coffins arriving on tv is what turned Americans against the unnecessary war in Vietnam so in all wars since, coffins are hidden. .
i kinda know how it's going- badly since it was supposed to be a quick in and out before the markets opened on monday morning. that's what the UAE countries were told to get them on board and they're bitching that all the defensive weapons went to Israel.
Trump "claims" that Iran is 100% destroyed militarily but they can still get off a missile or drone. he "claims" that 5 refueling planes have not been shot down. reality has a way of not living up to fantasy.
sorry, but you sound like Sam Harris arguing covid with Bret Weinstein... "well, you knew that the vaccine was bad but you couldn't have known it then based on the information we had so the right thing to do was to take it." or whatever. it's pathetic to watch the man tie himself into knots trying to excuse his lack of foresight.
so do i have "secret information?" no, but i have my gut instincts and i know that governments lie and the truth is only revealed when all the guilty have died, like pfizer wanting 75 years to release the data upon which approval for those horrid covid shots were based. i knew they were bad, would kill people and do nothing to stop the pandemic but rather lead to variants. i'm not a virologist so how did i know? because i use my rational brain and i read a lot of medical books. i knew it was a lab leak. i knew pfizer was lying about efficacy, using relative data instead of absolute data. i knew they were killing old people in the UK by using an end of life protocol that you would NEVER use on people with a flu and i knew that the UK government stocked up on those drugs BEFORE the pandemic arrived.
i had some high hopes for Trump, mainly because of RFKjr and because of DJT’s promises to get us out of wars. which means not starting any new ones.
i have no hope anymore.
i predict (and it makes me sad to say this) that the democrats will take the majority and immediately start impeachment processes. the vaccine schedule will go back to the autism causing liability free mess that it was, children will get sicker, glyphosate will be everywhere (and no, farmers do not need it but bayer needs to stop being sued for causing cancer and the health of the nation is obviously a lower priority than the health of a not even American company) and everything will go back to our CIA run sham of a "country." we are living in a Potemkin village.
i'd like to live in a country. i'm pretty sick of living in a late stage Empire trying desperately to hang onto it's waning powers no matter the cost to it's citizens.
So now the lamestream whore media, the scripted C_A psyop whose only objective is mass mind control via lies & propaganda, is a reputable, trustworthy "source" of truth and reality. 🤦♀️ Are you actually serious, or is that satire?
NEWSFLASH - it's way past time to get your head out of the a$$ of controlled opposition and propaganda. If you think there's only a handful of casualties, you're sadly misled or willfully ignorant. And even if it WAS "only" a handful, it's a handful too many. (If it's so meaningless and acceptable, you get YOUR a$$ over there or sacrifice YOUR children to this beast, umKay?) Furthermore, there's no such thing as a surgical strike in war, and ESPECIALLY not in this case where the terrain is inhospitable to our military capabilities; and you're not dealing with some backwards third world nation here. Furthermore, you have zero concept about what's been unleashed here, and how rapidly and severely the global economy will crumble. You think it's just "oil" that's effected? 🤦♀️ You have no idea what that means in a bigger picture. That also includes the by-products that are associated with "oil" insofar as things like fertilizer, sulfur, etc have been deeply effected. Let's translate what that means. It's not just fabrics, goods, plastics, etc that are now devastated, it's food production -- on a global scale -- as in famine. You better get a clear understanding of what's going on here. The incongruous, ridiculous statements being made here are truly mind boggling and utterly shocking.
Well Liberty Liz, you sound like you have some kind of amazing insight into the realities of what is REALLY going on. What does your name mean? What does liberty cost when you are dealing with a "third world nation" that has enough arms to hold a passive world at bay? Do you think that Iran had no plans to crash the world's economy? Do you think that they weren't a threat and we should have just left them alone? Just for the record, I was in the military for 23 years. Though I was never in combat, Im well aware of the horrors of war. So...reel it in, and enter a civil conversation if you have something to add to the debate. Teach (if you dare), don't attempt to offend and act like you work in Biden's DOD.
Actually, Iran was not a threat to the US. Actually, Iran did not start this next phase of the genocidal depopulation agenda. The decades-old propaganda of "Iran being a threat" were propagated by none other the psychotic war criminal, B00mB00mBibi, for his (Rothschilds) greater !srael agenda not our (or any other nation's) "national security". You can pretend this is about a "left vs right" false paradigm. You can pretend that somehow the truth being presented is coming from a PedoJoe "supporter". You can pretend you're not a cultist with a single-digit IQ, no discernment and even less than zero of a moral compass; but you've simply proven you're a mere NPC helping to usher in your own demise and that of a once great nation.
Again with the insults, is that the only way you know how to communicate your opinions? What you present is truth, and not simply your opinion? What I believe makes me immoral, stupid, and unable to discern? I never called him PedoJoe, you pulled that from previous opinions and placed it in my wheelhouse. We dont need to continue, but I would truly like to ask..since I am watching the demise of our nation under Trump, by deduction, we were on the path to greatness under Bush, Obama and Biden..true?
And then there's this: https://merylnass.substack.com/p/iranian-cyberattack-on-medical-device?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=746368&post_id=190983667&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=c8qgw&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
But I'm sure the war planners thought of all this, and some grand plan is in place. Or ... you know what? I think they're idiots bringing us to war with simplistic notions of how soon it will all be over and then MAGA.
The writing is on the wall, once we disregard fantasies of Trump's supposed genius. They're idiots. They have no idea what they're doing.
And this: https://merylnass.substack.com/p/in-addition-to-the-one-air-force?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=746368&post_id=190987251&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=c8qgw&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
the US always enters war without understanding the country that it is invading and then suffers blowback because of that lack of understanding. we are an intellectually lazy people. we like our wars simple and sweet with clear good guys (white hats and cleft chins to help the masses understand the narrative) fighting super villains. too many John Wayne movies.
when you believe that your country is the greatest shining light in all of history, you can get full of yourself and not bother to see the complexities in other people's culture.
the other night Trump said that Iranians were the most evil people in all of history. they cut babies' heads off and slice women in half. if any of that were remotely true, i guess we could feel justified in bombing them (even though we'd probably kill a lot of those poor women and children before they even had a chance to be beheaded or cut in half).
no, there is no plan. the original "plan" was that by killing the moderate Ayatollah (imagine how Catholics would respond if the USA killed the Pope!), the regime would collapse, the people would cheer and it would all be over by the time the markets opened Monday morning. there was no plan B. they are making it up as they go along.
I believe you are correct. We're being led by complete idiots.
It seems they're not complete idiots. It's worse. Their irredeemable, insane, gen0cidal actions are INTENTIONAL and flat-out satanic for mass destruction and depopulation, to hasten the psych0tic globalist agenda. No one, NO ONE, is stupid enough to do what we're witnessing, especially given all the OTHER things that have been put into place to compliment the criminally-insane activities taking place in the M E.
Um, Carolyn, the news media wants wars that are clean and tidy, and perhaps most Americans do also....but we have never been in one except for the first Gulf War in Kuwait. The rest have been dirty, prolonged and with no clear enemy, except Hitler. We've been in most our wars for the elite bankers. Read the "Creature from Jekyll Island" for some interesting insight.
I just perused this article Jim, but again, you think these cyber criminals were going to remain dormant as long as we never attacked Iran?
Jim- it’s worked out quite well for those whose wars he actually do stop. There is a bigger strategy at play here, one you do not grasp or are aware of. See Promethean Action or Overview for enlightenment. Consider this: after Trump met with Putin in Alaska, the Russians began filling their tankers with oil and parking it on the high seas. Who just came to Asia’s rescue with recently “unsanctioned Oil”? Bessent admitted that was part of their planning for this conflict. This is part of redefining the Middle East and the good news is- most of the countries there want it!
"... after Trump met with Putin in Alaska, the Russians began filling their tankers with oil and parking it on the high seas." Really? Got a reference for that?
Or is this from "Promethean Action"? So we're still playing the game that this is all some grand strategy by Trump to destroy the cabal and usher in world peace? Trump as the grand chess master? Somehow I fail to believe that someone who often acts so un-statesmanlike is a master statesman.
Yes, this is the other version of TDS, the version that says no matter what he does it's part of some grand strategy: trust the plan! Like the plan to have us all injected with mRNA technology? That plan? Like the plan to topple the deep state by releasing the Epstein files, but ... whoops, are you people still talking about that, said the Grand Master?
And how about that Ukraine war that he stopped, and showed Putin who was really boss? I know, I know: part of the plan and I'm not yet enlightened.
I had faith in the man. But anyone who still believes that he's anything more than a bloviating idiot lives in la-la-land, refusing to let their image of him fade before the reality. He's not crushing the deep state, he's feeding it with $$$ war-profiteering $$$, to the tune of billions a day. Take that, deep state!!
I had hopes for him, too, even though I should have known better because of the whole warp speed debacle. Now, the facade has fallen. But there will always be those who cling to the white hat, 40 D chess rationale. "It's easier to fool someone, than to convince them they have been fooled."
If there is any error in what you are saying, it is taking stories of other people and treating them as Trump's thoughts, perceptions, and actions. He's been the President for just over a year. Most of all of our major disagreement here is the Iran conflict. Would any of us see things differently if Rensselaer this?
What?? Someone compiled all the quotes of Trump saying peace this and peace that and stopping endless wars. It’s quite a list of quotes and you could probably AI it to get it. But now he’s out to remake the Middle East in Israel’s image with $$$$ from the taxpayers going right into the pockets of the military-industrial complex and the bankers who finance this war.
He didn’t stop any wars. He said he did. The countries in question say he didn’t. Great idea- kill everyone in the Middle East, make every country there an uninhabitable waste land and then “claim” that you “redefined” it.
Unfortunately, John appears to be a Rand Paul. Rand stated in a recent hearing if someone attacked us in NY he would then consider that as an act of War. Like sending a message to our enemies that you can nuke us and only then is it an act of war.
I am sure in John's list of heroes is Neville Chamberlain. How did that work out?
Also, President Jefferson must be on John's list. Leave those pirates alone. I am sure Washington was out of line as well. Since the United States wasn't a country and the Continental Congress was not empowered by the King. God save the King!
When under stressful times breathe deeply.
"I am sure in John's list of heroes is Neville Chamberlain. How did that work out?"
To take just one of your examples--how did Churchill work out? Hitler, in part because of the starvation blockade against Germany at the end of WWI, wanted farmland to his east, and to reclaim the German territory taken by Poland under the disastrous Versailles Treaty. Britain told Poland to reject the German demands, and when Germany invaded Poland, Britain declared war on Germany, a war Hitler didn't want, as he was an admirer of the Brits (German royal family), and for which Britain was unprepared. The result was a British-French-US alliance with the Soviet Union (a country even more murderous toward its own people than Hitler's Germany), and a world war with an death toll of something like 50 million people. Though Britain came out on the "winning" side (with most of the Allied fighting done by the Soviets), it lost much of its empire to the U.S., and today seems pretty much done for. One never knows what might have happened otherwise, but the better outcome might have been a more limited war between the two totalitarian countries, leaving even the "victor" weakened.
You're the one one who needs links
Oh yea sure 5D Chess Blackmailed, Bribed Pedo Trump who is as stupid and moronic as Biden!
Could you put a link to it here?
Is this it? https://theconservativetreehouse.com/
White House decision making
https://youtube.com/shorts/I3YSVZRfWjM?si=mkdEv79Nqav1SsGx
Jan, can someone help you with your inability to analyze actual evidence?
Another instance of an old guy, now under a whole lot of stress, who confidently walked into a corner, got lost, and now can't remember how to turn around.
"The problem is this: the US Navy can deny the Iranians the ability to operate on the waters of the strait—or anywhere for that matter—but the US Navy cannot control the strait itself. Iran can deploy cheap anti-ship weaponry along the littoral of the strait with far greater ease and assurance than modern naval forces can reliably counter them. Dumb mass will defeat cutting-edge quality ...
Given the strong tides through the strait, Iran can also float mines into the waters from various points on the littoral. It doesn’t have to load them onto mine-laying vessels (16 of which the US claims to have sunk).
So, in the unlikely event the US Navy did attempt convoy, it would first need to destroy land-based anti-ship capabilities and operations on the Iranian side of the strait.
It’s at this point the Dardanelles analogy becomes operative. The only reason the Gallipoli campaign was attempted in 1915 was because the most powerful navies of the day had failed to force a passage through the narrow Dardanelles, the shores of which were controlled by Ottoman forces. In this case, even 18 battleships—including the 381-mm guns of the new battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth—failed to sufficiently suppress defensive artillery.
In constricted waters, the combination of basic artillery and basic naval mines inflicted such damage on the world’s most advanced navy and its French ally that they had to retire.
So, an attempt to force passage will present the United States with the same fallback option that Britain and France had in 1915: to take the littoral by force. But occupying the Gallipoli peninsular doesn’t begin to compare with occupying more than 150 km of Iranian shoreline, from Qeshm island in the west to the Port of Bandar Abas and down the coast to Koo Mobarak, where the strait widens.
There is no defensible line that US forces could ever secure. The attempt would be Gallipoli times 10, with the difference that the Iranians could always pull back to interior lines of defence. It is inconceivable that the US would try.
Are there alternatives? US air forces could continue to reduce Iran’s ability to make drones and missiles. But even if that works, there are substitutes. Russia has every incentive to keep the strait closed, since its own hydrocarbons are becoming more valuable with every passing day. Russia is strategically on-side with Iran’s actions.
Russia also has the kit to help. It has spent four years contracting the development cycles of cheap drones and non-smart missiles. It can fly or ship hundreds of such munitions across the Caspian Sea. Even if US drones could interdict passage, an attempt would constitute a direct attack on Russian forces. So that won’t happen either."
Yes, very difficult to keep such a narrow shipping lane sufficiently free of hazards to comply with maritime insurance retirements.
Well explained for the unschooled people educated by Conservative Treehouse.
The next option might well involve heavily mining the Strait. Obviously, with China tankers exiting the Strait, the waters are currently without mines. In a scenario where a force needs more leverage, mines will do. Mines are cheap. The Strait is narrow.
Iran is showing the advantages of asymmetric warfare to a traditional military. We need hardly remember far back to see the U.S. defeated by far lesser forces as those in Vietnam and Afghanistan.
Meanwhile, Pres. Trump receives enormous pressure from world financiers--the true rulers of the world--to restore shipping routes; restore their commerce; and cease heavy disruption in world energy markets. Furthermore, if the situation becomes more dire, we can expect, as Martin Armstrong pointed out, Iran to take out all the oil production in the ME. While the U.S. will be little affected (since we take 3% of our oil from that region), Europe and other markets will crash badly.
Further, more Iranian-backed attacks will occur in the U.S. I marvel that Mirian Adelson's--one of Trump's prime financial backers--Venetian hotel hasn't been hit.
If the final act must be played, remember that Pakistan has offered a nuclear weapon to Iran. Israel will vanish. The Middle East will cease as a transit point East-West for a number of decades.
Excellent comment!
Thanks. Asymmetrical war -- Prof Jiang gave an explanation👏🏻
Since USN has no minesweepers, do they have any friends who do have some ?
The US is getting increasingly short of "friends" because of what they did by starting this war. Those nations that are being devastated by Trump's actions, like Japan, Taiwan, etc are rapidly distancing themselves from the US because of what is going to happen to their supply chains AND food security. Trump has basically INTENTIONALLY unleashed impending famine on many global "partners". How friendly are the US's "friends" feeling right now? Might want to listen to people who understand the dynamics of what's going on & what's coming, because Trump effectively put many, many countries on the chopping block for irreversible destruction.
The US Navy currently has 4 Avenger-class mine countermeasure ships in service.
In Japan. Too far to travel maybe. The new ones Littoral class, are poorly regarded.
If Pakistan gave a nuclear bomb to Iran, Israel would hit it first.
If Iran did succeed in detonating a nuke on Israel, the counterattack would kill millions of innocent Iranians and maybe Pakistanis, because that’s how mutual assured destruction.
Iran is rapidly losing its ability to even launch Shaheed. Ukraine is helping SA and others defend against those, so Iran is incapable of ending ME oil production.
SA owns one side of the straights, and could certainly help suppress any fast boats.
Perhaps some people don't understand blood or tribal ties nor the apocalyptic scenarios driving all Christians, Jews, and Muslims at this point in history.
All three Abrahamic religions believe by their own accounts in some mystical figure who will reappear at these "End Times" and provide salvation; justice; or a new world. The Zionists and current Shia Muslims are openly seeking to establish the required conditions in which their saviors might arrive. Some Christians hold apocalyptic views akin to the Red Heifer Jews. When such beliefs are held, people willingly go to their deaths
Intention and beliefs create reality.
Pakistan doesn't need "to give" anyone a bomb. They'll fire if they feel Iran has been unjustly diminished.
Many countries in the ME are Shia dominated (majorities) under heavily controlled Sunni authority.
Rumor is that the former Iranian supreme leader openly invited death by not seeking bunker protection. He martyred himself which, in his religion, gives him great honor and value.
Agreed the evangelical groups that bribe Israel government to tolerate settlers so that god will return, various fringe Hassidim, and the clerics in Iran are all batshit crazy.
Would Pakistan nuke Israel if the RG fell? I can’t see it but I don’t know the “football “ chain on Pakistan. I have faith in MAD.
It's a wonder there is not a fatwa on POTUS Trump similar to the one on Salman Rushdie. Khamenei SNR had a fatwa on production or possession of nuclear weapons. I'm not sure if that applies to a "dirty bomb" but given how porous the US southern border has historically been it's not only Israel that should be concerned.
Per grok
The fatwas were issued by prominent Iranian Shia clerics, specifically Grand Ayatollah Naser Makarem Shirazi and Ayatollah Hossein Nouri Hamedani, in response to what they termed threats against Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Regarding the fatwah on nuclear, that was just deception.
Per Grok
Overall, the fatwa exists as a repeated public religious stance by Khamenei against nuclear weapons, used consistently in diplomacy. Whether it reflects genuine, unchanging religious belief or serves flexible political/strategic purposes remains contested. Most evidence suggests it has been treated as real and operative by the regime for decades, though potentially subject to revision if existential threats escalate. Iran has not crossed into overt weaponization despite advanced enrichment capabilities.
This is disturbing, but not something I would believe the military hasn't considered.
Just like they knew in 1966 that the Viet Cong were going to kick their ass but hung around for years to get it kicked anyway and just like they would have known years in advance that the Taliban would kick their ass in Afghanistan.
Actually we had the North Vietnam beat after their big defeat at the Tet Offensive, according to may reading of the history. It was the negative press which turned the U S approval negative and made effective further fighting politically not feasible. According to what I read, the North Vietnamese couldn't understand why we hadn't followed up.
That’s why an actual declaration of war should be sought from Congress before waging war. It’s doubtful Congress would have approved a declaration of war against North Vietnam, in spite of the Domino Theory. No American lives would have been lost and other than having an influx of thousands of Vietnamese and Cambodians into this country the eventual outcomes would have been the same as they are today.
Our modern wars seem to be incremental affairs, which exhibit misison creep. I think it might be best if Congress could use its power to end a was.
No doubt they considered it, but also no doubt that any advice urging caution was drowned out by idiots proclaiming "no problem, we got it figured out" when they were only looking at clouds in their coffee.
👏🏻 Very helpful!
They can’t float mines while letting Chinese ships pass .
Source?
Ohhhh. So THAT is why we went to war with Iran--to keep the Strait Open, Safe, and Free. Isn't that Reason For The War number 4 now? or 5? And wait, wasn't the Strait Open, Safe, and Free before the US mucked things up? I am SO CONFUSED.
God. What's happening? The 'leaders' are insane- psychology insane. Wow.
Yes the Trump apologists here. Getting people killed.
Alright John, you’re starting to suffer from TDS. Things will get worse until they get better, since you cannot make sense of his statements and actions. Results will have to speak for themselves.
John makes perfect sense to me .
Ironically, it is people like you who suffer from “Trump Derangement Syndrome”…
Oh, my. I believe you miss Trump's tactics. He knows all that you assert he does not know. He is aware that China has been running oil through the Strait. (Other ships have passed as well, with transponders turned off.) Rather, Trump is calling out for China and others to make a public effort to normalize the Strait. Failure to do so is reason for action - and China knows that. (So they send missiles and drones through the backdoor of Pakistan.) Trump is a master of setting terms in communications that others do not seem to understand. Here, once again, he is setting the stage, like he did with NATO, for others to come out of the dark and own their participation. You can be sure that now that Kharg Island is being taken over by the U.S. military that China will not be loading ships without assisting in stopping bad actors (which includes themselves).
"Trump is a master of setting terms in communications that others do not seem to understand."
Yup. Like, "I'll end the Ukraine war in the first week." Gotta hand it to him, I don't understand his terms of communication in that one 'cause it ain't happened, and it looks to me like bloviating but then again, I'm not of sufficient understanding to parse the depths of that one.
And how about "you still talking about that" with regards to the Epstein files? Seems to me there's a lot to unpack in those files but the Master was apparently telling us something to tell us something that was something that he wanted to tell us that was a message that we might hear if we only heard him right.
Or ... he's just an idiot.
President Trump could have ended the war in Ukraine in one week, as he proposed. He did the right thing. And he did essentially negotiate an end to the war. But that was not the real war, he discovered.
That which he did not understand was the extent of the Deep State invested in keeping that war going. As you may have noticed, he continues to fight those people. (You may be right that you are not of sufficient understanding to grasp the Ukraine corruption that began in 2014.) The question is whether the case being built in Florida will bring those people to justice. Trump has clarified all these things, but few are paying sufficient attention.
And you seem to have missed the importance of the Epstein files, the importance of the Mossad-CIA-MI6 operation being revealed. You might not realize the extent of the Intel Community opposition to an actual reveal... which is taking place anyway. You may have missed the manner in which these things are all tied together in the Deep State intelligence community. Did you miss the part where Epstein acknowledged he was working for the Rothschilds?
And did you perhaps miss the part where Trump said "are you still talking about that" with regard to the Epstein files?
It most certainly has not been taken over by us military . No knowledge makes a poor participant in the discussion.
You missed the operation taking place yesterday and today and continuing tomorrow?
Delusional. “Be the first one on your block to bring your boy home in a box.”
Of course not. Where did you pick up that silliness? How about being the first one on your block to prevent getting your boy harmed by radical Islam? How about not facing wacky Islamists with nukes? How about saving thousands and millions of lives by stopping terrorist loons?
“Be the first one on your block to bring your boy home in a box”
Ritter:
“The 31st MEU is heading toward the Persian Gulf.
There’s a lot of talk about the Marines taking Kharg Island.
But the truth is the USS Tripoli, an America-class amphibious assault ship that carries the embarked 31st MEU, can’t get anywhere near the island—the Strait of Hormuz is closed.
To even try and enter the Persian Gulf is the kind of suicidal venture former Marine Commandant, General David Berger, warned about in his 2019 Commandants Planning Guidance, where he noted that “our Nation’s ability to project power and influence beyond its shores is increasingly challenged by long-range precision fires; expanding air, surface, and sub-surface threats; and the continued degradation of our amphibious and auxiliary ship readiness. The ability to project and maneuver from strategic distances will likely be detected and contested from the point of embarkation during a major contingency…it would be illogical to continue to concentrate our forces on a few large ships. The adversary will quickly recognize that striking while concentrated (aboard ship) is the preferred option.”
And yet here we are, seven years later, a prisoner of legacy doctrine and systems.
If Marines are to attempt to take Kharg Island, it will have to be an assault launched from ashore, not from the sea. Marines and their Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft will need to deploy to Kuwait or Bahrain, both of which are currently under attack from Iranian missiles and drones, and from their attempt an air assault.
If this sounds familiar, it’s because in May 1975, US Marines carried out a similar vertical envelopment on Koh Tang island in the Gulf of Thailand. Conceived as a rescue mission to free US merchant marine sailors taken prisoner by the Khmer Rouge, the Marines instead found no prisoners, but lots of dug in Khmer Rouge fighters who ended up shooting down three of the eleven helicopters used in the initial landing, and heavily damaging five others. In the end, 38 Marines and US Air Force personnel were killed, and another 50 killed before the Marines had to be extracted under heavy fire. In the confusion of the final evacuation, three Marines were left on the island, and were subsequently captured and executed by the Khmer Rouge.
Any attempt to land Marines on Kharg Island will end in a disaster that would make Koh Tang island look like child’s play.
General David Berger knew this.
I wonder what the current Commandant, General Eric Smith, has to say about this?
Back in 1990 the Marine Corps Commandant, General Al Gray, formed an ad hoc planning cell to challenge the plans being put together by General Norman Schwarzkopf to liberate Kuwait.
Does General Smith possess the kind of intelligence and courage that General Gray had in standing up to bad ideas, or will he stand by silently as history repeats itself in the Persian Gulf, where the 31st MEU may find itself in a repeat of the Koh Tang debacle so Donald Trump can falsely declare victory over Iran.”
You’re confused about who the terrorists are.
The us military does not have control of this very important island .
🇺🇸🇮🇷Tucker Carlson: The US President allowed the use of nuclear weapons against Iran.
"The President of the United States said on camera today: 'We are considering the possibility of using nuclear weapons against Iran'."
He said: "We could destroy Iran, make it uninhabitable forever in one hour. We could deal with them by today. In fact, within an hour, they would literally never be able to restore this country. We have weapons that can do that."
Well, we're talking about nuclear weapons. The President of the United States is openly saying that if the situation escalates, we can launch a nuclear strike against them. And again - there have been very few attempts to convince you that we did this in the national interests of America.
The Secretary of State just spoke and said: 'We did this because Israel forced us to do it.'
So they're quite openly talking about what's happening here and what the stakes might be. The President of the United States is threatening to use nuclear weapons. This is on the agenda."
Tucker Carlson announced a possible criminal prosecution by the US authorities.
"The CIA is preparing a request for criminal prosecution against me... What is the crime? That I talked to people in Iran before the war,"
, - he said.
He recalled that similar pressure had already been exerted on him during the preparation of an interview with Vladimir Putin.
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As you noted, no knowledge makes a poor participant. Pay attention to the operation in progress.
Trump: Conditions for Iran deal 'not good enough yet'; Iran's Kharg island 'totally demolished,' but U.S. might continue strikes 'just for fun'
In an interview with NBC News on Saturday night
John Leake you are on the money and most of these turkeys 🦃 haven’t a clue 😉keep going Sir …..pulling the Band-Aid off is painful to some and liberating for others ……I find you liberating !!!!🙏😁
Trump's post sounds like that of a desperate person.
I agree that Caligula, the mad emperor, is the right comparison.
🙋Trump has some loose screws in his head. Ray McGovern said all presidents lie but Trump lies all the time.
He got another booster recently you know.
I don’t think podcasters know more about what’s going on than the does the president of a country. It’s not like they are being briefed by multiple branches of intelligence and the military. But, they are still entitled to their opinions. It would just be nice if everybody didn’t jump on the bandwagon as if it were the final word. It is not.
Don't you think Trump's tweet/his words kind of speaks for itself? Are you suggesting there is some kind of intelligent strategy behind his tweet that appears to make him look clueless? I am genuinely curious.
So you presume that this president is acting on the advice of his military? It seems very likely he’s acting on the advice of his partner from Israel, his non-military son in law and his donors.
Where do all the five star armchair quarterbacks come from?
Here's another mostly unknown soapboxer with a laptop, access to the internet and an ego that compels him to believe his geo-political / military analysis is complete and sound.
But will Leake and all the other know-it-alls publicly admit their profound opinions were grossly premature and downright out to lunch should hostilities end very much in line with the plan objectives?
I expect their respective egos won't allow them ( Rogan maybe ) to acknowledge their sins and like today's Democrat crazies, they'll twist their previous position to excuse their immaturity and carry on with 'new concerns'.
Trust me, if the war ends soon and on terms that everyone can accept or is forced to accept, I'll be the first to admit that His Masterfulness can play geopolitical chess far beyond my meager ken. But until then I'm on board with the opinions of Professor Mearsheimer and others who see this as a fool's errand and a long-drawn out mistake.
someone explain to me how a country with 100% of it's military capability destroyed could easily "send a drone or two, drop a mine or deliver a close range missile somewhere," indicating that somewhat less than 100% of it's military capability has been destroyed.
sorry. but the bombast and exaggeration doesn't quite work when the reality on the ground refuses to cooperate.
You are an idiot sir!
If you can’t see what great things this President does, especially if compared to the last few, then you are part of the problem, which policies and declining moral principles got us where we are now.
Trump not stupid, knows what he is doing
Just like he did with the mRNA shots.
And the lockdowns