I signed up for medical insights from Dr. McCullough and Nicolas Hulscher — not …whatever this is. And definitely not to read about John’s latest harebrained idea about “who really killed Charlie”.
TDS cleverly wrapped in semi-sophisticated analogy won't prevent the world's most active terrorist state from exploding a dirty bomb or worse. When a nuke is used anywhere, it will make 9/11 look like the shot over the bow which it was. When fanatical Islamists say Death to America, murder "misguided Muslems," murder their citizens who really are peacefully protesting, then you can see that their 47 years of hate aimed at the West will end like Hiroshima for Europe & America. They know that even one nuke used anywhere in the West will throw civilization off of the rails. You would need permission by your father or husband to do research as a woman. There is nobody they won't brutally abuse. The Persian people are praying for our success against the IRG. I stand with them.
The world's most active terrorist state? Surely you're discussing Israel and the US, no? Iran hasn't attacked another country in over two hundred years. The US is in perpetual war, as is Israel. Committing genocide certainly qualifies as terrorism. Kidnapping and/or murdering foreign heads of state: terrorism. Imposing starvation sanctions on countries, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians: that's terrorism. Look in the F'in mirror, dude.
Go back to sleep. You don't pay attention to history. YOu should recognize by now that when autocrats/megalomaniacs/theocratic lunatics threaten ("Death to America," "Death to Israel" ring a bell?}, they should be believed. Throw in the apocalyptic beliefs of the shia and stopping them was definitely in order.
How many Iranians have been killed in the streets by there own people without guns? The people had no guns protesting in the streets either. What other country came to the aid of the Iranian people beside the USA. Just want to get your thoughts.
You think this because you are not well informed about Iran, or pretty much anything else for that matter. Iran does not "Directly" attack anyone, they use proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, and any old random group who hates America will do. Crack a book before coming to play with the adults...
Ever heard of Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis? Who do you think finances them? Israel has a right to exist, in spite of Iran's determination to "bomb them back to the Stone Age," which they would love to do.
You have your facts wrong on Iran not attacking anyone for over two hundred years. That is so blatantly wrong that it nullifies your comment completely.
The world's most active terrorist state is Israel?.....NOW, THAT'S SOME CREATIVE RE-WRITING OF HISTORY. Adding the USA to terrorist state, now that's just plain dumb.
It appears you like to START your analysis of various occurrences from the middle and arrive at conclusions that would not hold up to analysis & review if you have started at the beginning, delivered the back-story, the history.
You're spot on Jim. As for the naysayers, I also loved Trump and voted for him. But his pledge of no more never ending wars and sticking our nose in the middle east is a distant memory. And it's confusing why he has flip-flopped on this. I still think he wants whats best for the country but has gotten terrible advice from all parties about Iran. Or he's been hypnotized into this, because this does not make sense.
To break from the hate propaganda that you are obviously consuming, I highly recommend "Judging Freedom" with Judge Andrew Napolitano and his stable of top-notch geopolitical analysts: Mcgregor, Wilkerson, Ritter, Johnson, Sachs, Mearsheimer, Blumenthal, Escobar, Maté, Hoh, Kwiatkowski, Freeman, Crooke, Doctorow, Diesen, Giraldi et al.
Yes, if you really want to break out of the media propaganda machine, check out these very knowledgeable people, many of them former military leaders, all true patriots. Most of the comments I read on this Substack are people just parroting talking points that have been repeated for decades. Obviously very effective. Lots of hate towards the Iranians, and towards John!!
They were protesting peacefully but the agents infiltrated in them were entirely otherwise. This has been publicly confirmed and admitted in interviews and posts on X. You are off the rails, Marion.
Here we have another TDS sufferer who cannot see reality because of blinding hatred and a corrupt need for the "institutional democracy" cretins like this have built to keep theur demonic control of everything.
As a person of who has studied history and has followed current events for decades using many sources, I can say John Leake typically misses or intentionally ignores 1/2 the facts and important details of the issues he decides to talk about and comes to conclusions that clearly indicate that. He's like a 15 year old writing a term paper and doing just enough research to complete the project and produce a plausible conclusion.
He parrots Kremlin "narratives," including straight lies. Get your geopolitical analyses and news here from John Leaker, or just go right to RT/Sputnik/Eurasia Review.
Actually, he should then stick to his genre (which clearly is mixing fictions with a little non-fiction)....because global politics & reality,....past or present isn't his forte.
Yes, this is exactly what the covid 19 pushers said about those of us refusing to be shot. The new anti-war crowd is the old anti-vax canaries. John is simply going from one man-made tragic event to another, and will be proven correct after all the shrapnel settles, as usual with any government adventures.
It's very easy, then: just pass on the posts written by John. You have the power to discriminate. But you'd be foolish to do so, because John's posts reveal a grasp of history, of literature and culture, and most of all, of PRINCIPLES.
General Curtis Lamay was yelling out “he should be shot” in the White House about JFK and was a war monger,trump has many like that around him , in a swamp of crocodiles he is trying to find safe land but trying to please everyone is not the thing to do , finish the operation and get out
Thank you. John would rather we wait to become total captives of the terrorist and we have our own GAZA and can do nothing about it. But then again he did tell us over the years as he waxed poetic about Cicero and his Austrian friends how bad America is.
As a Nam combat veteran I can tell you I’ve seen this movie before when 8% of the weak people are propagandized hate their country, the actual military, (not the Pentagon run by academia and corporate) and eventually they slander the combat veterans for being murders and baby killer while he and his lovely friends come out from under the covers.
So much for "connecting the dots" as John Leake does! If you cannot see that the same "operation warp speed" clowns are the ones destroying national integrity, then I say: Pfizer is needing "test subjects" for boaster # 6 so sign up and get paid.
I like freedom to express ideas! If I don't like the direction I turn that station off. Applied to "nightly news" starting for me 1980's. So detroll yourself and unsubscribe already
Hey Jo, I did unsubscribe. I will hate missing Dr. McCullough’s and Mr. Hulscher’s content, but John Leake has become unbearable to me.
And no - he isn’t connecting any dots. He’s venting his spleen. “Trump is Hitler, Caligula and Nero rolled into one!”. Brilliant insight. 🙄
There are plenty of writers on Substack who provide thoughtful and useful arguments against the war — Seymour Hersh and Glenn Greenwald come to mind — but John is unfortunately not one of them.
If you enjoy his work, though, I hope you keep supporting him.
This is Mr. Leake's substack. Unsubscribe or stop posting the same thing every day. If you are not a literal bot you act like one. You also are attempting to silence someone you disagree with. Every minute you spend on this substack is a minute you could be on your Bluesky account.
Hey Kirshman. Bombs can't discriminate; they just kill. Please review images of the bombing of North Vietnam. Or, as your name suggests, you're German, try Dresden.
But the ability to discriminate between targets certainly does. 80 years ago, area bombing was all that was available. Now we can and do take out individual Basij members at a traffic stop. It's a new world.
Haha, nice excuse. Have you seen images of Gaza? It doesn't exist. Do you know the civilian death toll in Iran? Probably not. How about the 130 or so school girls? Yeah, techno bombs are nice bombs. Dude, are you a sociopath?
HE STARTED WITH KILLING OF ~170 INNOCENT Iranian CHILDREN using unapproved special weapons using metallic targets under high pressure!!!! Israel and US target all CIVILIAN RESOURCES, food resources, hospitals, Schools, etc. There are IRANIAN CIVILIANS who are dying -> stop LYING like Trump...
And Israel puts its military headquarters smack in the middle of civilian structures. It puts top-level command bunkers under civilian towers. While bombing hospitals and schools at every opportunity. You might has well have hauled out that old chestnut: why did Iran put our oil under its sand? The US and Israel are guilty of massive crimes against humanity. Trump, Hegseth, Netanyahu: the whold lot of them deserve the same fate as the Nazis found guilty at Nuremberg.
You truly live in bizarro world, where everything is upside down and inside out. There is a county in West Asia, with a vast undeclared nuclear arsenal, and the planes, submarines, and rockets to deliver them. Never signed the non-proliferation treaty, never permitted inspections. Has come close to using those weapons before. No, DBC, if there's one country on the planet that would use nukes, it's not Iran. It's Israel.
Not as retarded as the Iranians, for putting a school next to a military installation. Human shields, with their own little girls. Praise Allah, right?
The USA puts schools on their bases all over the planet. It is standard practice. It makes sense logistically.
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It is a war crime to TRIPLE-TAP schools, bud. "I don't like where they put their school so we cooked all the little girls there" is not a valid defence. It is a war crime. Plain & simple. Sad but true.
Targeting Error: The U.S. military determined the strike was a mistake caused by outdated targeting coordinates provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency. The school building had formerly been part of an adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval base but had functioned as a separate civilian institution for over 10 years.
Ex-military and CIA officers gave a press briefing unmasking this flawed war. Former CIA officer Josephine Gillio said the American Tomahawk missiles fired from destroyers on the girls school had, by design, 3 levels of confirmation that it was a girls school, and that cannot be questioned.
"I can say this as a former officer, 'We Are The Terrorists'."
Sure. We first have to decide if we have great precision technology or outdated one. But regardless, it certainly wasn't a child/virgin sacrifice to Baal for good luck to kick off this epic(stein) war.
DBC look in the mirror. You will see the source of that 'horseshit'! Look how many Iranians are KILLED so far and compare that to the number of Israelis.. ANd wait until the number for American soldiers shows up, if ever.. Exactly like covid19 War(p) S(p)eed Trumps' KILLTOY, a silent, SUDDEN MURDER, with not a single word of APOLOGY to those who are NOW INJURED, for life, or INCAPABLE TO WORK, not to speak about families who lost ALL parents.
How many Iranian innocents have been killed? You don't know - Iran doesn't know - but you act like you know.
So you walk into the covid hoax and the response de-pop agenda. You hate Trump. I don't, but he shouldn't have been buffaloed by Fauci.
The country has shifted to a majority, being aware and dissing of the covid psyop. Pfizer just announced, they couldn't find enough trial participants to take their jab in a study, that they wanted to lie to us about.
I looked in the mirror. Glad I've never had a flu shot - and never took the CV clot shots.
A father in Minab, Iran received a phone call from his daughter’s school on the morning of February 28. There had been an explosion. His daughter was alive. “Come get her.” Before he could reach her, the school was hit again. She was killed.
The principal of Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School had moved surviving children into a prayer room after the first strike collapsed the roof. She called parents. “Come now.” The second strike hit the prayer room. According to the mayor of Minab and Iran’s Ministry of Education, a third strike followed.
168 people died. Children. Teachers. Four parents who came to pick up their kids. The school was painted bright blue and pink with sports fields drawn on the asphalt. It was visually, unmistakably, a school.
The U.S. military did this. Not allegedly. Not according to Iranian state media. According to The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, CBC, BBC Verify, Bellingcat, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. According to the Pentagon’s own internal investigation. According to footage showing a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile striking the site. Tomahawks are used exclusively by U.S. forces in this conflict.
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And here everyone was cowering from “double-tap.” Double-tap shmouble-tap, eh? The USA kicked off this war by bombing an obvious, known girls school in a Hellish, war-criminal TRIPLE-TAP!!! How very IDF of them, eh?
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You are being given a choice right now, people. You can support this war crime or you can oppose it. You may not "sluff" it. That is not an option.**
Be very careful as to what you decide as God is watching you.
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*The first missile kills and damages and leaves an eery silence. Then the war-criminal wait. Then the satellite confirmation of survivors’ congregation and rescuers desperately digging through the rubble in the often grave hope of survivors. Then the pièce de résistance: a double-tap missile doesn’t just explode and damage and kill like the first one, no, it includes the gnarly technology that compresses all unused rocket fuel to cook the gathered little girls.
**15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. - Revelation 3:15-16 [KJV]
Nope. They were not in school then. Go to TousiTV if you want legitimate information. Or check out the date of this article here. https://amu.tv/220699/ You are buying into Iranian propaganda.
Huh? What do you mean that they were not in school? Why were they all there and TRIPLE-TAPPED if they were not there? That makes no sense.
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I was introduced to TousiTV last night. Lightweight at best.
I highly recommend "Judging Freedom" with Judge Andrew Napolitano and his stable of top-notch geopolitical analysts: Mcgregor, Wilkerson, Ritter, Johnson, Sachs, Mearsheimer, Blumenthal, Escobar, Maté, Hoh, Kwiatkowski, Freeman, Crooke, Doctorow, Diesen, Giraldi et al.
" Not according to Iranian state media. According to The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, CBC, BBC Verify, Bellingcat, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. According to the Pentagon’s own internal investigation."
So, the commander said, let's kill little girls.... really? Your list of outlets, are the same outlets that have been lying to us and the world, for decades.
Put a school near/part of a military installation. They can only look in the mirror and say, our bad.
I never said that. Do not argue by strawman, DBC. Surely you are better than that. We all are.
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No, dipshit. It is the responsibility of the aggressor to vet any and all targets. This war crime was a war crime. It was a TRIPLE-TAP, ffs!
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Note: It is standard practice for American bases to have schools for the officers & enlisted children. The problem was not the cordoned-off school (since 2016). The problem was the USA TRIPLE-TAPPING the school. D'uh.
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May God have mercy on your corrupt, murderous soul. 🙏🏻
Of course, the uninformed don’t seem to know that Iranian schools have been CLOSED since the beginning of the uprising. No little girls were in the school, FFS. All Iranians are at home.
Jan, what happened to your promise to unsubscribe? Your denial of the death of those little girls shows the degree to which you are out of touch with reality. Hard to blame these innocent child victims, so you just deny their existence. This fits in the mind/moral set of genocidal Zionists.
It appears you must be a free subscriber to this substack, which is actually rather amusing. Otherwise, you would know that you pay for your subscription, and even if you unsubscribe, you still have access until the end date of your subscription.
Your Dunning-Kruger is showing, Jan. In fact, I am a paid subscriber, but that is irrelevant. What is relevant: you committed to unsubscribing, but you continue to turn up like a bad penny and perseverate with your hasbara and Trump Dead-ender Syndrome ignorance, stupidity and apologetics for a war of aggression. May the souls of 160+ little children haunt you.
Your poor research capabilities continue to show. For some reason, you insist on calling me Jan, which is funny as it’s not my name. So continue to spew BS.
First off, the school was partitioned from the base in 2016.
Secondly, many cultures have all-boys and all-girls schools (including the USA).
Third, it is common practice to have schools for the children of officers and enlisted near their base. The USA does this very same thing all over the world.
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You malign the little girls that you slaughtered. For shame.
I love how the boomer brain rot commenters on this thread think that they’re somehow helping the Iranians by bombing them to death. It’s the same way “our greatest ally” helped the Christians amongst the Palestinians by bombing them to death and ethnically cleansing them. Bethlehem used to be 85% Christian, it’s now 4%. These Israeli did that, but that doesn’t stop these brain-dead boomer halfwits from continuing to support them, and insisting that our young people fight <<their>>wars. If you’re so eager for war boomers, go to the front lines.
Your foundations for your arguments are wrong, ie your arguments are rotten to the core.
Get to the core issue and sound arguments will follow. Read Raymond Ibrahim’s “Sword and Scimitar.” He’s an historian fluent in Arabic and Greek, who worked at the Library of Congress and went to first sources to compile a history of Islam and Christianity.
Then you will understand that all the land the Muslims now occupy were once Christian. They were either great evangelists or a lot of slaughtering went on. It’s the latter and still going on today in Nigeria.
Understand the religions and you understand the conflict. You cannot understand it otherwise.
Sweetheart, my ancestors fought the Muslims for 500 years-from the 1400’s through the 1800’s. Can you can say the same about yours? I understand very clearly that the Muslims are our enemies, what you’re missing is that the Jews are as well. They refer to us as goyim slaves both IRL and in the Talmud. They ran the slave markets in Istanbul and throughout Eastern Europe, selling my ancestors to the Muslim enemy. They are NOT our ally.
No, I have no knowledge of my ancestors fighting the Muslims particularly as an ethnic group as you describe yours. Some on my grandmother’s side - the Hugenots - did flee religious persecution, not at the hands of Jews or Muslims, but evil nonetheless.
My own experience is a more direct confrontation with evil as a child abused by neighbors who were satanists.
It’s a long story but Jesus - not a religion, a person - saved me in every way a person can be saved: from existential despair, death and oppression from “all the evil in the world.”
No one in this world could save me. I always knew that. No one could turn back the clock. No one could undo what had been done. The only One who could save me was the One who had power over evil, power to recreate what had been destroyed.
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. My testimony is that He was with me when I did not see Him and He held onto me when I couldn’t hold onto Him.
I appreciate your sharing your perspective with me and I’m sorry for what your ancestors went through. Be blessed. 🙏
Martha you´ve got a problem. You´re a shamanist. Your experience of "a direct confrontation with evil as a child" (whatever it was) cannot be an excuse. You need to rethink your existential stance, especially that of "Jesus -not a religion, a person".
See what I wrote above for more clarity. It’s wise not to pass judgment on people you don’t know. I don’t even know what a shamanist is in a Christian context.
What I do know - what is a lived experience in my life - is that the secret is simply this: Christ in you, the hope of glory. That I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me and the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and delivered Himself up for me. I know that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. I know you must be born again, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but born of God. And finally I know what Jesus said to His disciples shortly before He was crucified and I paraphrase - you can look it up. It’s better for you if I go, because if I go I will send another and He will be with you and in you, the Spirit of truth, the Comforter, the Advocate, a Counselor who will guide you into all truth. Just as I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, so we will come and be in you and you in us.
The goal is to abide in Christ, learning to be content in all circumstances by the things which you’ve suffered and drawing on the peace of Christ that surpasses all understanding. To live and breathe and have your being in the love of Jesus Christ which is the will of God. He is enough. His grace is sufficient, His power is perfected in weakness. When you are weak, then you are strong. The meek shall inherit the earth.
He has loved you with an everlasting love. He will never fail you or forsake you. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. His arm is not too short to save. For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, despising its shame. You are His joy and today is the day of salvation. He didn’t come to condemn the world but to save it. Amen. 🙏
The relevance to our conversation is my sharing the basis of my world view and then learning what yours is. From your first comment I didn’t know that. From your second I do. You view the Jews as your enemy because they were your enemy. They sold your people into slave markets and managed that trade. Your people fought this for 500 years. They lied about your people in the Talmud (I’m trusting what you’re saying here - haven’t researched it for myself) so they could justify their practice/greed. I’m not going to argue with your personal experience and how it informs your current views. In that context they were your enemy.
My context is different and it is informing my views. In my viewpoint, Jews are not my enemy despite having plotted against my Savior and paying one of his disciples 30 pieces of silver to betray Him. Why?
Two reasons: 1) Jesus was a Jew and all of His disciples were. So not all Jews are evil.
Eventually I didn’t blame all church goers just because my neighbors were satanists and each one attended a different church. They were the wolves in sheep’s clothing. Thankfully my parents were not. They were the sheep in the story of the Good Shepherd.
2) Jews/Israel is not my enemy because I remember the Holocaust. I will not forget it. I can describe it here or we can refresh our memories of what happened. After WWII the Jewish people deserved to be returned to their homeland. Rarely in World history have we done that. Maybe never. We decided to give them what was theirs originally - thousands of years ago - the land of Israel. It wasn’t the greatest piece of real estate in the world, but it was their land. They came there after the war. Just read an inspiring account of a little Jewish boy who’d kept himself alive during the war and immigrated there afterwards: “Zvi”. All of his family had been murdered by the Nazis.
I’m not going to forget October 7. I’m not confused about what went on there or why. I’m not confused about radical Islam or Islamism, their aspirations and beliefs, the source of their beliefs, the motivation behind their beliefs. I’ve been studying it, but the spiritual truth is self-evident.
The spiritual truth is very similar if not identical to what my satanist neighbors had done. They try to baptize you into satanism with a sadistic sexual ritual where they’re hoping to kill your soul and cut you off from God. And they try to confirm you into the faith through a ritualistic sacrifice/murder of a person.
I’m not sure my accomplished neighbors (a doctor, an engineer, a VP, an artist, a superintendent of the school, a radio personality, a homemaker) actually believed in satan. They just knew they got what satan offered Jesus: power and wealth. And they were possessed.
The actions of October 7 were demonic. The people committing them were possessed. That’s what actually happened. It’s not confusing. They didn’t try to hide it like the Nazis.
Which brings me to my final point. The true battle in this world is this: Ephesians 6 from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians:
“Finally be strong in the Lord and the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Therefore take up the full armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.” Paul then describes the full armor of God and tells them to pray at all times and persevere.
In the current conflict I support Israel and the USA. I have taken the Islamic Republic of Iran at their word when they said/say “Death to America Death to Israel.” Why do they say that? Because we’ve done mean things to them? No. It’s coming from their faith, their belief system, their religion. I’ve listened to the people who’ve left Islam. Mohamad Faridi “Leaving my father’s religion,” Mosab Hassan Yousef whose father helped start Hamas, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who escaped an arranged marriage originally born in Somalia as a Muslim. I’ve listened to many others including an Imam who believes his religion is peaceful and has the courage to stand against this murderous interpretation of it.
Hopefully this explains my big picture understanding of the conflict. I’m not going to get into the weeds of the geopolitical schemes - everybody’s hands are dirty there. I live under no illusions when it comes to that. My personal story should reveal that as well. Be blessed.
LOL….don’t ask Phil. He has no idea what’s going on in Iran other than what he hears on CNN. The US is bombing military targets. Trump is talking about radical Islamic clerics and the weapons they have been creating. There is a reason why the Iranian population is at home….and actually filming the bombing and celebrating.
No. Stone Age is a cultural thing. How can you bomb a military to the Stone Age while leaving the advanced society/infrastructure in tact?
Besides, Trump has specifically threatened the war crimes of hitting Iranian's power generation of desalination plants.
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"General Curtis LeMay is famously associated with the quote, "We're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age," referring to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s. While it epitomizes his aggressive aerial warfare strategy, LeMay later denied saying it, claiming he instead said the U.S. had the capability to do so." - Google AI Overview
Amen! You also have to wonder how much he was paid to spout off with purely irrational Trump hating bovine excrement... I'm betting a nice chunk of change was exchanged. To quote another historic event as he seems to like to do, Judas betrayed Jesus too....
For such a depressing topic, it was truly a pleasure to read such an erudite post. I see that there are people in the comments who obviously support this dreadful war, which is mindboggling, given what we know about this being essentially a rehash of the 'WMD that never were' Iraq war in the early 2000s. History sure is rhyming a lot. I'd be interested to hear what they think can be achieved to benefit the U.S. through this. It's difficult to see how bombing them "back to the Stone Age, where they belong" wouldn't harm and kill millions of innocent people en masse. It implies a heartless dehumanisation and frustration with an entire population, which is simply shocking, and it seems that without a voice (like Charlie Kirk) to advise him otherwise, Trump has dragged America into yet more profitable war games when he ran on the opposite. Instead, we face more death, more displacement, and a global recession. Happy, happy, joy, joy.
We can only hope that this is just rhetoric and that de-escalation can be achieved soon without more bloodshed, though a certain state has been doing a lot of that across the entire Middle East, regardless of America's involvement and support.
wow, I didn't realize it was possible for a TDS infected person to dump a larger load of bovine excrement larger than your average 2000 buffalo. But here you did it. You are delusional. Trump said from the very beginning he would not let Iran possess nukes, he gave them every opportunity to resolve peacefully, they chose not to. You should get the info straight before taking a big shit in here.
Sir, no one supported Trump more than I did, and I think he's done some great things, especially in regards to health and general sanity after years of an autopen. But what he's doing here is a mistake. There's no 4D, 5D, whatever chess involved. It's just a terrible mistake made on behalf of an extremely corrupt, dangerous, evil, but extremely rich state. There were no nukes in Iran. This is just like Iraq. Bibi has been babbling on about all these threats from Iran for decades and using them to justify bombing nearly every country within hearing distance. America is being used as a poodle to add some extra clout, that's all. I don't like or support the Iranian regime, but I suggest that you dispassionately look at what's happening in the Middle East and who it benefits, then tell me who's delusional, because TDS works both ways.
What’s so barbaric about ending the ayatollah and his wicked and evil regime? They repeatedly proved that they lied abt stacking all the elements to make nukes.
They also shot a bomb over 2400kg last week, proving they also lied abt capping their weapons to shoot <2000kg. They capos easily reach London and much of Europe. They proved it. Do we sit around and wait for them to chant Death to America a zillion more times until they finally nuke us and indeed, bring death to America? Or do we nip that on the bud?
I think you just listed the wrong passenger on the crazy train, Mr. Leake. The conductor punched your ticket awhile ago and you have apparently chosen yourself as the ring leader to crazy town.
Good thing Israel and Witkoff and Kushner don't lie, eh?
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You are severely MK-Ultra'ed and propagandized. In order to become familiar with the truth, I highly recommend "Judging Freedom" with Judge Andrew Napolitano and his stable of top-notch geopolitical analysts: Mcgregor, Wilkerson, Ritter, Johnson, Sachs, Mearsheimer, Blumenthal, Escobar, Maté, Hoh, Kwiatkowski, Freeman, Crooke, Doctorow, Diesen, Giraldi et al.
Phil, the Trump Dead-ender Syndrome and Dunning-Kruger effect are strong here, and I don’t think they have the intellectual or moral capacity to appreciate or understand Napolitano and his guests. In particular, it takes a special kind of hypocrisy for the obvious “Christian”Zionists to accuse others of religious extremism. Trump’s war of aggression will likely cause a large number of deaths worldwide in poorer countries due to starvation due to shortage of fertilizer and diesel. But the deranged Trumpters don’t care and take comfort in their delusions.
It is an uphill battle, that is for sure. I'd be lucky to flip even a few souls while the majority wallow in their cult of personality and gleefully march into Hell.
They do chant death to America - and brag about having enough nuclear material to build 10 bombs. Here in Australia two Muslims went berserk and killed 15 Jews who were essentially picnicking. I know the threat is real. I have no idea if the response is appropriate or not. It bewilders me that people cheer on Iran - a country that marries girls at 9 and writes about men rubbing them themselves on infants, funding multiple terror organizations and holding the world to ransom. Each to his own I suppose.
Bondi Beach. Black op. You're being played like a fiddle, mate.
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The world would be a much better place if the USA simply followed George Washington's sage wisdom: Befriend all nations, trade with all nations, eschew becoming entangled in foreign alliances and conflicts and do not seek monsters abroad to destroy.
Anything is possible - but there is really no indication it was a black op. The videos I have watched show it pretty clearly - those people hate Jews and are at war with them (and us in general). Ready to die for the cause of killing Jews. I agree that the world would be a better place if we lived in peace. But in my cities - young immigrants go around in malls with machete's killing and harming people. There really are people out there that seek to destroy my way of life. We can either let them or stop them.
The people supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran and vilifying the USA and Israel are in denial of the reality of this level of evil. They refuse to believe it. They latch onto peace as the moral high ground so they can feel good about themselves, but failing to oppose evil with force if necessary is like opening your door to an axe murderer and watching your family be slaughtered. The loving man protects his family with every breath he has in him. There may be a dead murderer at the end or he may die, but he didn’t die without a fight.
There are just wars. This is one of them. This military action against the Islamic Republic is past due. The Iranian people, at least according to a dad living in Tehran, are cheering it on. I watch Tousi TV for coverage.
Thank you. My thoughts exactly. Most of us do want to be nice and welcoming, but there comes a point where you must accept that some groups of people really do wish us harm.
He also gave us Kennedy and tried to get the message out about hydroxychloroquine early on. Didn’t know what he didn’t know in the medical space. Like many of the rest of us.
Oh? So lil ole me could smell a rat but he couldn't? Maybe I should be POTUS, eh? Maybe many of those 500K murdered by hospitals for fed bonus money under his administration would be alive today. 🤷🏻♂️
Maybe. I wish it was just 500,000. The number of people who have been killed worldwide is in the millions. I did nothing but research this for 4 years (at least). I was the target group for the shot but I was still trying to clear spike from an infection in July 2020 when it came out. So I’m going to get a shot that instructs my body to make spike when I’m trying to clear it??? You’re right, it doesn’t take a genius. Anyway yes, if you would have known enough to stop this, I would have voted for you. Actually Peter McCullough testified before Congress in March 2020 re to low cost repurposed drugs. I’m sure you know that since you’re in this substack. I would have voted for him too.
There’s a lot of wars to be fought. The one in Iran against the Islamic Republic is justified.
Add in the entire vaccine program, the public/private partnerships that Reagan thought would be such a good idea, giving the vaccine manufacturers liability protection for anyone on the childhood schedule in 1986, and the suffering and death mounts.
Warp Speed, followed by promises of Golden Age (have you seen the tacky gold leaf flourishes added to the West Wing, ick), and now, drumroll please . . . Stone Age for Persia cause Zionists and their favorite malleable Americans - Christian Fundamentalists - (oh the irony) find killing a virtue. Can't believe I voted for this man, 3 times.
"entry drug" I see what you did there . . . interesting how the media gave all Americans a bird's-eye view as the Dept. of War went into action . . . positively normalizing these actions.
It was Trump playing his role which enabled big tech to take great strides while small business America suffered. He is ushering in the surveillance state among other things, and getting richer in the process. Why is Jared Kushner speaking on behalf of he administration in the middle east? Follow the money.
Your comment is a non sequitur. Yes I'm sure Professor Leake has developed an acute case of TDS of which there is no known cure. And I said Professor Leake should stick to criticizing vaccines. I bought and read his book and agree with his take. Whether Trump was responsible for promoting the clot shot is another issue that can be discussed. And relating to your later comment, I've never seen gold look so good as when Trump dances things up a little.
A) Stop dissing Trump. B) Stick to vaccines. C) Uhhh ... Trump gave us the vaccines.
Pretty standard really.
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While TDS does indeed exist, Lil Trumpsters (with the flip-coin opposite - and equally debilitating - Trump Adoration Syndrome) throw it everywhere like no criticism of Trump could ever possibly be valid.
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Trump's a war criminal. Your Department of War are war criminals.
Do you intend to drag Dr McCullough into your derangement? Have you no personal experience with Muslim violence? Will it take a beheading in Dallas for you to begin to understand the existential treat poised by Islam? How about Fort Hood? is that just one more outlier in your steadfast refusal to see what is right before your eyes?
PS; The father of a boyhood friend was drawn and quartered and his body dragged through Baghdad in the 1957 when his commercial flight had and engine failure and landed for repairs. His wife and my mother were best friends having gone to school together. The true believers, Shia or Sunni, are very dangerous. Listen to Ayaan Hirsi Ali in her recent Hoover Institute interview. She explains that the prohibition to kill innocents only applies to fellow Muslims. Or read some history of the last 47 years. That isn't the only personal experience I have had, so don't play games with my memory of the last 80 years. I've got lots more.
To add another anecdote. Long ago I met an English prof. who had spent a year in Saudi. I expected to hear some colorful descriptions of his experience. He turned to me with haunted eyes. In a medium-sized town, he had lived in an apartment two blocks from town square, where every Friday executions took place. They were SLOW executions, he said, and he had to endure the sounds of screaming for hours while they went on. I have had several friends who worked in that country, none who were ever willing to return.
I worry about that as well, but so far as is known, SA has not been working on a bomb. Also their Sunni theology is not quite as intractable as Shia. Mostly, (my TENTATIVE opinion) they can be 'bought,' (and are historically lazy, lacking in achievement, and have to hire non-believers to do all the work), Trump's perspective seems to be that almost anything can be resolved by money. For 95%, probably the case. The ayatollahs and IRGC seem to be in the 5%.
FWIW, I don't like saying things like 'bombing back to the Stone Age.' A full-scale nuclear war is a horror that will destroy large parts of the entire world, animals, plants, seas, and cause suffering most of us have never contemplated. Which gets us back round to Iran, the leaders of which think God wills for them to unleash exactly such destruction.
Absolutely. I just listened to her interview with Tommy Robinson. The hug she gave him was a moving experience. She’s had security since 2002 (I think) - early 2000’s.
Have you no personal experience with Mossad violence? Will it take three Manhattan skyscrapers pulverized to a fine white dust by two airliners one Tuesday?
Love you John, but you missed on this one. I agree the speech was misguuded and not the best, but I don't see how pinning those evil attributes on DJT makes any sense. It's not justified. The Iranian regime (not the Persian people) have been the demonic force in the Middle East for the past nearly 50 years. We cannot just cover up that turd.
Yes, in response to actions by the US and Israel against it starting with the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mossadegh, decades of support for the Shah's regime, and post-revolution sanctions/isolation. The CIA has overthrown 88 governments. American backed Israel is a constant threat to the larger area. It's not simple and one doesn't have to suffer from TDS to be critical of someone who comes across as deranged. Deranged because he campaigned on the opposite of what he is actually doing. Think of Venezuela (it is not an exporter of drugs to the US), the Greenland threat where he already has military bases and now Cuba. And what comes next? And remember how he promised to make public the Epstein files. Etc etc etc.
I wouldn’t minimize TDS, it’s a real mental illness depending on the extent you allow it in. I had it and recovered during Covid when I woke up to the censorship, the lies about the shot, the open border, and on and on. I supported Kennedy but I ended up voting for Trump. At this point I couldn’t be happier. We were 4 years away from becoming a banana republic: socialism, lawlessness, and open borders.
It is a real mental illness, agreed. So is Trump Adoration Syndrome (same shit, different pile).
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Regardless, not all criticism of Trump comes from TDS like many TAS constantly spout.
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For example: TRIPLE-TAPPING a school to cook 170 little girls is a war crime and it is legitimately about Trump himself while my mental health is irrelevant. See?
Your example seems a little deranged since we have all agreed for 47 years that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. They were weak and they were getting closer to achieving that end. There is evidence in terms of their long range ballistic missile capability as well.
This military action is not only warranted but timely since the regime was weak. Any govt that shuts off the internet so the world cannot see them slaughtering their people is weak.
Agreed. The 2 extremes are the same thing: 2 sides of the same coin.
The perception of the other side - MAGA - is that it’s all TDS because the MSM is the spreader and the Democratic Party with the exception of John Fetterman is the evidence as well as a spreader. Their entire party platform is to oppose Trump. They’ve also got personal experience with relatives or friends becoming unhinged when Trump is mentioned.
Started before that. Great game through the 19th century with both Russia and England constantly threatening invasion - then Anglo-Russian joint invasion did happen in 1942. Stole all the oil for the red army. 1953 was 150 years in.
I worked for 42 years in an environment that required me to be unbiased at all times and have no conflicts of interest. But I'm fallible. Happy Easter to you.
Trump never said he was going to bomb civilian infrastructures. He’s trying to do what no President before him has ever done: End the Islamist Regime in Iran. Iran is still calling for the destruction of Israel and are bombing its neighbors indiscriminately. Iran can end this war anytime by not behaving as a threat to the region. Leake clearly hates Trump but he’s dead wrong. His TDS is terminal, not unlike Keith Olbermann.
The disease that first manifest as Covid in 2020 has since manifest as the UKR war, Gaza genocide, and now Iran war: complete corruption of our government and absolute disregard for the interests of the American people. JL speaks to this with clarity and incite (assigned trolls be damned), and we are blessed to have his voice.
It's one thing to criticize Trump's language skills, which frequently seem inimical to his goals. (OTOH, compared to Harris and Biden, he's Churchill. ) It's another to use hyperbole in criticizing him, especially when it's the Enemy -- the theocracy/kleptocracy dictatorship in Iran -- that plans to RULE THE WORLD. If anyone is sympathetic to that, he is already a Shi'ite or else believes a leader of a theology that glorifies lying.
Iran has planned to create death, chaos, and destruction in any way possible to create a global caliphate for their End-of-the-World de facto slave-existence (known as 'submission'). Their idea was conceived after 700 AD. Their foremost enemy is Israel and they feed their hatred by hanging onto an absurd outdated contest between 'descendants' of Abraham's sons Isaac and Ishmael. Hatred between siblings is a tragedy much older than Herodotus.
The modern state of Israel may have been 'created' in 1948, but the land of Judah has existed for millennia. Judea was a kingdom in the Iron Age (c. 10.000 BC), conquered by Babylonians in 6th cent. BC, decimated, enslaved, and crucified by Romans, ruled by Christians or Muslims for 1500 years, but was still home to Jews throughout.
Mr. Leake clearly despises Trump. But, many of us don't like everything he does. However, if a writer has a better idea on how to solve the menace of an implacable enemy planning nuclear war, what is it? Tell us. Criticizing is easy. Producing an effective plan is not.
Leake is an erudite polly anna with no solutions to offer. Too bad because he seems to be a very smart guy. If bombing the place back to the stone-age is what it takes to persuade them to cease the insistence on the destruction of the US and West, then get to it.
You are 100% right. People must’ve missed your comment if I’m the first person to reply to it
Trump said exactly what he needed to say to people in a country that have lied to the world over and over.
I absolutely do not want him to hit the electrical substations because of all of the great Iranian people that just want freedom but this is the language that their leaders understand. Any of our other presidents, most of which would not even deal with or ran the way that he has would nibble around the edges and create a 10 year war so that everyone in the military industrial complex can get rich. This is exactly the way that we need to fight a war. We could not do it this way in Afghanistan, but with any country with infrastructure, this is how you do it.
I signed up for medical insights from Dr. McCullough and Nicolas Hulscher — not …whatever this is. And definitely not to read about John’s latest harebrained idea about “who really killed Charlie”.
Check please!
I feel the same way. I value Dr. McCullough, but am just about ready to cancel this. John Leake is off the rails.
100%
As a long time researcher of medical malfeasance and war and ... [etc], I can say that Leake is completely on target.
It must be the same mentality ("bring them back to Stone Age") that underwrote Covid.
Basically, the perps have to squelch Conscience.
John, thanks for all yr literary and historic references -- they had mostly been buried.
TDS cleverly wrapped in semi-sophisticated analogy won't prevent the world's most active terrorist state from exploding a dirty bomb or worse. When a nuke is used anywhere, it will make 9/11 look like the shot over the bow which it was. When fanatical Islamists say Death to America, murder "misguided Muslems," murder their citizens who really are peacefully protesting, then you can see that their 47 years of hate aimed at the West will end like Hiroshima for Europe & America. They know that even one nuke used anywhere in the West will throw civilization off of the rails. You would need permission by your father or husband to do research as a woman. There is nobody they won't brutally abuse. The Persian people are praying for our success against the IRG. I stand with them.
The world's most active terrorist state? Surely you're discussing Israel and the US, no? Iran hasn't attacked another country in over two hundred years. The US is in perpetual war, as is Israel. Committing genocide certainly qualifies as terrorism. Kidnapping and/or murdering foreign heads of state: terrorism. Imposing starvation sanctions on countries, leading to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of civilians: that's terrorism. Look in the F'in mirror, dude.
Go back to sleep. You don't pay attention to history. YOu should recognize by now that when autocrats/megalomaniacs/theocratic lunatics threaten ("Death to America," "Death to Israel" ring a bell?}, they should be believed. Throw in the apocalyptic beliefs of the shia and stopping them was definitely in order.
How many Iranians have been killed in the streets by there own people without guns? The people had no guns protesting in the streets either. What other country came to the aid of the Iranian people beside the USA. Just want to get your thoughts.
Thank you.
David
You think this because you are not well informed about Iran, or pretty much anything else for that matter. Iran does not "Directly" attack anyone, they use proxies, Hamas, Hezbollah, and any old random group who hates America will do. Crack a book before coming to play with the adults...
Ever heard of Hamas, Hezbollah, Houthis? Who do you think finances them? Israel has a right to exist, in spite of Iran's determination to "bomb them back to the Stone Age," which they would love to do.
You have your facts wrong on Iran not attacking anyone for over two hundred years. That is so blatantly wrong that it nullifies your comment completely.
The world's most active terrorist state is Israel?.....NOW, THAT'S SOME CREATIVE RE-WRITING OF HISTORY. Adding the USA to terrorist state, now that's just plain dumb.
It appears you like to START your analysis of various occurrences from the middle and arrive at conclusions that would not hold up to analysis & review if you have started at the beginning, delivered the back-story, the history.
You're spot on Jim. As for the naysayers, I also loved Trump and voted for him. But his pledge of no more never ending wars and sticking our nose in the middle east is a distant memory. And it's confusing why he has flip-flopped on this. I still think he wants whats best for the country but has gotten terrible advice from all parties about Iran. Or he's been hypnotized into this, because this does not make sense.
LOLOLOL. Bottom of the BOT Pot commentary with foul language on top of it. I guess the AI is sub-par and wimpy.
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Some truth will see you through.
Cheers!
Yes, if you really want to break out of the media propaganda machine, check out these very knowledgeable people, many of them former military leaders, all true patriots. Most of the comments I read on this Substack are people just parroting talking points that have been repeated for decades. Obviously very effective. Lots of hate towards the Iranians, and towards John!!
They were protesting peacefully but the agents infiltrated in them were entirely otherwise. This has been publicly confirmed and admitted in interviews and posts on X. You are off the rails, Marion.
Sure, the agents confessed on X. I'll keep that in mind.
Here we have another TDS sufferer who cannot see reality because of blinding hatred and a corrupt need for the "institutional democracy" cretins like this have built to keep theur demonic control of everything.
You're severely Trump Dick Sucking afflicted, with your hilarious username 😂 - "100% All-In MAGATARD"
Leake sucks Putin cock, like Orange.
Who is it that said “ the use of profanity is a weak mind attempting to express itself forcefully “ ?
As a person of who has studied history and has followed current events for decades using many sources, I can say John Leake typically misses or intentionally ignores 1/2 the facts and important details of the issues he decides to talk about and comes to conclusions that clearly indicate that. He's like a 15 year old writing a term paper and doing just enough research to complete the project and produce a plausible conclusion.
He parrots Kremlin "narratives," including straight lies. Get your geopolitical analyses and news here from John Leaker, or just go right to RT/Sputnik/Eurasia Review.
Actually, Leake’s literary forte is “true crime” genre .
Investigation.
Actually, he should then stick to his genre (which clearly is mixing fictions with a little non-fiction)....because global politics & reality,....past or present isn't his forte.
Except his "historic references" were factually wrong. Other than that...
Leaker always pushes Kremlin talking points - they're just flavored differently recently.
You're such an idiot. How does Trump's dick taste at the gas pump?
Is he the one actually writing this stuff? Or has someone else taken over?
Open your eyes.
Yes, this is exactly what the covid 19 pushers said about those of us refusing to be shot. The new anti-war crowd is the old anti-vax canaries. John is simply going from one man-made tragic event to another, and will be proven correct after all the shrapnel settles, as usual with any government adventures.
Seriously. Does Leake ever have an unexpressed thought? I want McCullough, not him.
It's very easy, then: just pass on the posts written by John. You have the power to discriminate. But you'd be foolish to do so, because John's posts reveal a grasp of history, of literature and culture, and most of all, of PRINCIPLES.
I think these are bots.
You don't have to read it you know, and if you do, you dont have to agree with it :)
But our money also supports someone whose opinion doesn't matter to us or that we totally disagree with. They need to separate.
Dude, they are separate.
Exactly. I'm paying for Leake's every thought.
Did you know Dr. McCullough’s wife is a Palestinian?
Did you know Israel is the most heavily and forced vaccinated country on this earth?
What do you want to hear from him?
Then leave. Why can't you guys figure out that Mccullough has his own Substack? Why's that so hard?
Crimes against humanity do not all come in a vial.
Seems like Leake values honesty more than patronage. It is refreshing. We need men like him if we are to turn this ship around.
Amen
General Curtis Lamay was yelling out “he should be shot” in the White House about JFK and was a war monger,trump has many like that around him , in a swamp of crocodiles he is trying to find safe land but trying to please everyone is not the thing to do , finish the operation and get out
Thank you. John would rather we wait to become total captives of the terrorist and we have our own GAZA and can do nothing about it. But then again he did tell us over the years as he waxed poetic about Cicero and his Austrian friends how bad America is.
As a Nam combat veteran I can tell you I’ve seen this movie before when 8% of the weak people are propagandized hate their country, the actual military, (not the Pentagon run by academia and corporate) and eventually they slander the combat veterans for being murders and baby killer while he and his lovely friends come out from under the covers.
Don't let the door hit your butt on the way out!
So much for "connecting the dots" as John Leake does! If you cannot see that the same "operation warp speed" clowns are the ones destroying national integrity, then I say: Pfizer is needing "test subjects" for boaster # 6 so sign up and get paid.
I like freedom to express ideas! If I don't like the direction I turn that station off. Applied to "nightly news" starting for me 1980's. So detroll yourself and unsubscribe already
Hey Jo, I did unsubscribe. I will hate missing Dr. McCullough’s and Mr. Hulscher’s content, but John Leake has become unbearable to me.
And no - he isn’t connecting any dots. He’s venting his spleen. “Trump is Hitler, Caligula and Nero rolled into one!”. Brilliant insight. 🙄
There are plenty of writers on Substack who provide thoughtful and useful arguments against the war — Seymour Hersh and Glenn Greenwald come to mind — but John is unfortunately not one of them.
If you enjoy his work, though, I hope you keep supporting him.
Another thought perhaps deeply Insightful?
When an article comes up and you see those words "by John Leake" perhap don't read?
No you actually signed up to be a warmonger stooge. Goodbye.
I second this.
This is Mr. Leake's substack. Unsubscribe or stop posting the same thing every day. If you are not a literal bot you act like one. You also are attempting to silence someone you disagree with. Every minute you spend on this substack is a minute you could be on your Bluesky account.
Actually, it started off as Dr. McCullough’s account. Or at least that’s what I and many others came here for.
Anyway, hilarious that you think I’m a liberal bot because I’m tired of Leake’s TDS tirades. 😂
If I were a bluesky type I’m sure I would have loved last night’s rant.
Truth Hurts!
Ah, he must be over the target.
I agree. Stay in your lane, John.
AMEN!!!!!
He is threatening the Muslim occupation regime ONLY!!!! Not the 90 million IRANIANS who reject the ARAB religion’s ISLAMIC occupation!!!
Hey Kirshman. Bombs can't discriminate; they just kill. Please review images of the bombing of North Vietnam. Or, as your name suggests, you're German, try Dresden.
Or Gaza
Yes, but it takes time for the masses to realize what they were supporting. But, you're correct.
I see you're about 40 years behind technologically....
Human nature never changes
But the ability to discriminate between targets certainly does. 80 years ago, area bombing was all that was available. Now we can and do take out individual Basij members at a traffic stop. It's a new world.
Haha, nice excuse. Have you seen images of Gaza? It doesn't exist. Do you know the civilian death toll in Iran? Probably not. How about the 130 or so school girls? Yeah, techno bombs are nice bombs. Dude, are you a sociopath?
If you choose to believe Iranian propaganda, no one can help you. Just admit you're an Islamist convert and move along.
HE STARTED WITH KILLING OF ~170 INNOCENT Iranian CHILDREN using unapproved special weapons using metallic targets under high pressure!!!! Israel and US target all CIVILIAN RESOURCES, food resources, hospitals, Schools, etc. There are IRANIAN CIVILIANS who are dying -> stop LYING like Trump...
Horseshit. Iran put that school next to a military installation... a human girl age shield
And Israel puts its military headquarters smack in the middle of civilian structures. It puts top-level command bunkers under civilian towers. While bombing hospitals and schools at every opportunity. You might has well have hauled out that old chestnut: why did Iran put our oil under its sand? The US and Israel are guilty of massive crimes against humanity. Trump, Hegseth, Netanyahu: the whold lot of them deserve the same fate as the Nazis found guilty at Nuremberg.
How massive of a crime could Iran do, with 11 nukes?
Probably the only country on the planet -- that would use nukes.
You truly live in bizarro world, where everything is upside down and inside out. There is a county in West Asia, with a vast undeclared nuclear arsenal, and the planes, submarines, and rockets to deliver them. Never signed the non-proliferation treaty, never permitted inspections. Has come close to using those weapons before. No, DBC, if there's one country on the planet that would use nukes, it's not Iran. It's Israel.
I live in coastal NC. Stick your bizzarro world up your ass.
There's a fucking 'county' in west Asia.?
"Has come close" how close is close?
Israel does have Nuke capability... I say so, b/c I want to sound like the authority of all West Asian counties.
Your common knowledge, is horseshit.
With such self appointed authority, you just confirmed you're a pos liar. Crawl back under your rock.
One word for you: Delusional.
Are you retarded? You can't slaughter little girls because you don't like where their school is!!!
Not as retarded as the Iranians, for putting a school next to a military installation. Human shields, with their own little girls. Praise Allah, right?
The school was triple tapped!!! Wake up.
May God have mercy on us.
You don't have a clue. You're insinuating that we have some commanders, that WANT TO FRY LITTLE GIRLS... You're so wrong. Your problem, not mine.
The USA puts schools on their bases all over the planet. It is standard practice. It makes sense logistically.
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It is a war crime to TRIPLE-TAP schools, bud. "I don't like where they put their school so we cooked all the little girls there" is not a valid defence. It is a war crime. Plain & simple. Sad but true.
More horseshit. Which commander said, let's kill little girls? Move to Iran.
Targeting Error: The U.S. military determined the strike was a mistake caused by outdated targeting coordinates provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency. The school building had formerly been part of an adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) naval base but had functioned as a separate civilian institution for over 10 years.
It was a triple-tap on Day One. That was no error. That slaughter of IRGC's little daughters was IDF-inspired and -standard m.o.
Wow. You must have some inside info, that the rest of us hapless folks, don't have.
Nope. It is all publicly available.
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Supporting war crimes committed in your name and on your dime is a sin, imho, DBC. May God have mercy on your corrupted, murderous soul. 🙏🏻
Ex-military and CIA officers gave a press briefing unmasking this flawed war. Former CIA officer Josephine Gillio said the American Tomahawk missiles fired from destroyers on the girls school had, by design, 3 levels of confirmation that it was a girls school, and that cannot be questioned.
"I can say this as a former officer, 'We Are The Terrorists'."
https://x.com/jacksonhinklle/status/2038269958237327529?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOpsunua7Bg
Watch at 3:58:30
Sure. We first have to decide if we have great precision technology or outdated one. But regardless, it certainly wasn't a child/virgin sacrifice to Baal for good luck to kick off this epic(stein) war.
DBC look in the mirror. You will see the source of that 'horseshit'! Look how many Iranians are KILLED so far and compare that to the number of Israelis.. ANd wait until the number for American soldiers shows up, if ever.. Exactly like covid19 War(p) S(p)eed Trumps' KILLTOY, a silent, SUDDEN MURDER, with not a single word of APOLOGY to those who are NOW INJURED, for life, or INCAPABLE TO WORK, not to speak about families who lost ALL parents.
How many Iranian innocents have been killed? You don't know - Iran doesn't know - but you act like you know.
So you walk into the covid hoax and the response de-pop agenda. You hate Trump. I don't, but he shouldn't have been buffaloed by Fauci.
The country has shifted to a majority, being aware and dissing of the covid psyop. Pfizer just announced, they couldn't find enough trial participants to take their jab in a study, that they wanted to lie to us about.
I looked in the mirror. Glad I've never had a flu shot - and never took the CV clot shots.
The U.S. Triple Tapped The Iranian Elementary School.
The U.S. military hit an elementary school three times in succession. A human would have seen the children after the first strike. The AI didn’t look.
https://volitionmaximus.substack.com/p/the-us-triple-tapped-the-iranian
A father in Minab, Iran received a phone call from his daughter’s school on the morning of February 28. There had been an explosion. His daughter was alive. “Come get her.” Before he could reach her, the school was hit again. She was killed.
The principal of Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School had moved surviving children into a prayer room after the first strike collapsed the roof. She called parents. “Come now.” The second strike hit the prayer room. According to the mayor of Minab and Iran’s Ministry of Education, a third strike followed.
168 people died. Children. Teachers. Four parents who came to pick up their kids. The school was painted bright blue and pink with sports fields drawn on the asphalt. It was visually, unmistakably, a school.
The U.S. military did this. Not allegedly. Not according to Iranian state media. According to The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, CBC, BBC Verify, Bellingcat, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. According to the Pentagon’s own internal investigation. According to footage showing a U.S. Tomahawk cruise missile striking the site. Tomahawks are used exclusively by U.S. forces in this conflict.
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And here everyone was cowering from “double-tap.” Double-tap shmouble-tap, eh? The USA kicked off this war by bombing an obvious, known girls school in a Hellish, war-criminal TRIPLE-TAP!!! How very IDF of them, eh?
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You are being given a choice right now, people. You can support this war crime or you can oppose it. You may not "sluff" it. That is not an option.**
Be very careful as to what you decide as God is watching you.
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*The first missile kills and damages and leaves an eery silence. Then the war-criminal wait. Then the satellite confirmation of survivors’ congregation and rescuers desperately digging through the rubble in the often grave hope of survivors. Then the pièce de résistance: a double-tap missile doesn’t just explode and damage and kill like the first one, no, it includes the gnarly technology that compresses all unused rocket fuel to cook the gathered little girls.
**15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot. 16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth. - Revelation 3:15-16 [KJV]
Schools in Iran have been closed for months. No one is going to school.
Huh? They were in school on Feb. 28 when the USA committed its triple-tap war crime against those little girls.
Iran closed its schools AFTER the Feb. 28 war crime.
Nope. They were not in school then. Go to TousiTV if you want legitimate information. Or check out the date of this article here. https://amu.tv/220699/ You are buying into Iranian propaganda.
Huh? What do you mean that they were not in school? Why were they all there and TRIPLE-TAPPED if they were not there? That makes no sense.
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I was introduced to TousiTV last night. Lightweight at best.
I highly recommend "Judging Freedom" with Judge Andrew Napolitano and his stable of top-notch geopolitical analysts: Mcgregor, Wilkerson, Ritter, Johnson, Sachs, Mearsheimer, Blumenthal, Escobar, Maté, Hoh, Kwiatkowski, Freeman, Crooke, Doctorow, Diesen, Giraldi et al.
https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom
Cheers!
" Not according to Iranian state media. According to The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, CBC, BBC Verify, Bellingcat, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch. According to the Pentagon’s own internal investigation."
So, the commander said, let's kill little girls.... really? Your list of outlets, are the same outlets that have been lying to us and the world, for decades.
Put a school near/part of a military installation. They can only look in the mirror and say, our bad.
I never said that. Do not argue by strawman, DBC. Surely you are better than that. We all are.
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No, dipshit. It is the responsibility of the aggressor to vet any and all targets. This war crime was a war crime. It was a TRIPLE-TAP, ffs!
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Note: It is standard practice for American bases to have schools for the officers & enlisted children. The problem was not the cordoned-off school (since 2016). The problem was the USA TRIPLE-TAPPING the school. D'uh.
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May God have mercy on your corrupt, murderous soul. 🙏🏻
Of course, the uninformed don’t seem to know that Iranian schools have been CLOSED since the beginning of the uprising. No little girls were in the school, FFS. All Iranians are at home.
Jan, what happened to your promise to unsubscribe? Your denial of the death of those little girls shows the degree to which you are out of touch with reality. Hard to blame these innocent child victims, so you just deny their existence. This fits in the mind/moral set of genocidal Zionists.
It appears you must be a free subscriber to this substack, which is actually rather amusing. Otherwise, you would know that you pay for your subscription, and even if you unsubscribe, you still have access until the end date of your subscription.
Your Dunning-Kruger is showing, Jan. In fact, I am a paid subscriber, but that is irrelevant. What is relevant: you committed to unsubscribing, but you continue to turn up like a bad penny and perseverate with your hasbara and Trump Dead-ender Syndrome ignorance, stupidity and apologetics for a war of aggression. May the souls of 160+ little children haunt you.
Your poor research capabilities continue to show. For some reason, you insist on calling me Jan, which is funny as it’s not my name. So continue to spew BS.
If you believe and accept innocent children were killed… they make the point of them being:
Innocent Girls…
At a Girls School
Within the walls of a
High value Military Target…
A girls school.
Why not a Boys school?
Iran told you
250 or 170 were killed.
You believe Iran…
Who made a target of a
Girls school…
Hid behind the skirts of schoolgirls.
Couldn’t boys learn to be better warriors to be on site of a military installation and observe its function.
Did the girls need special military instruction?
What are you talking about?
First off, the school was partitioned from the base in 2016.
Secondly, many cultures have all-boys and all-girls schools (including the USA).
Third, it is common practice to have schools for the children of officers and enlisted near their base. The USA does this very same thing all over the world.
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You malign the little girls that you slaughtered. For shame.
I love how the boomer brain rot commenters on this thread think that they’re somehow helping the Iranians by bombing them to death. It’s the same way “our greatest ally” helped the Christians amongst the Palestinians by bombing them to death and ethnically cleansing them. Bethlehem used to be 85% Christian, it’s now 4%. These Israeli did that, but that doesn’t stop these brain-dead boomer halfwits from continuing to support them, and insisting that our young people fight <<their>>wars. If you’re so eager for war boomers, go to the front lines.
Your foundations for your arguments are wrong, ie your arguments are rotten to the core.
Get to the core issue and sound arguments will follow. Read Raymond Ibrahim’s “Sword and Scimitar.” He’s an historian fluent in Arabic and Greek, who worked at the Library of Congress and went to first sources to compile a history of Islam and Christianity.
Then you will understand that all the land the Muslims now occupy were once Christian. They were either great evangelists or a lot of slaughtering went on. It’s the latter and still going on today in Nigeria.
Understand the religions and you understand the conflict. You cannot understand it otherwise.
Sweetheart, my ancestors fought the Muslims for 500 years-from the 1400’s through the 1800’s. Can you can say the same about yours? I understand very clearly that the Muslims are our enemies, what you’re missing is that the Jews are as well. They refer to us as goyim slaves both IRL and in the Talmud. They ran the slave markets in Istanbul and throughout Eastern Europe, selling my ancestors to the Muslim enemy. They are NOT our ally.
No, I have no knowledge of my ancestors fighting the Muslims particularly as an ethnic group as you describe yours. Some on my grandmother’s side - the Hugenots - did flee religious persecution, not at the hands of Jews or Muslims, but evil nonetheless.
My own experience is a more direct confrontation with evil as a child abused by neighbors who were satanists.
It’s a long story but Jesus - not a religion, a person - saved me in every way a person can be saved: from existential despair, death and oppression from “all the evil in the world.”
No one in this world could save me. I always knew that. No one could turn back the clock. No one could undo what had been done. The only One who could save me was the One who had power over evil, power to recreate what had been destroyed.
Jesus is the way, the truth and the life. My testimony is that He was with me when I did not see Him and He held onto me when I couldn’t hold onto Him.
I appreciate your sharing your perspective with me and I’m sorry for what your ancestors went through. Be blessed. 🙏
Martha you´ve got a problem. You´re a shamanist. Your experience of "a direct confrontation with evil as a child" (whatever it was) cannot be an excuse. You need to rethink your existential stance, especially that of "Jesus -not a religion, a person".
See what I wrote above for more clarity. It’s wise not to pass judgment on people you don’t know. I don’t even know what a shamanist is in a Christian context.
What I do know - what is a lived experience in my life - is that the secret is simply this: Christ in you, the hope of glory. That I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ who lives in me and the life I now live, I live by the faith of the Son of God who loved me and delivered Himself up for me. I know that the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld His glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. I know you must be born again, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but born of God. And finally I know what Jesus said to His disciples shortly before He was crucified and I paraphrase - you can look it up. It’s better for you if I go, because if I go I will send another and He will be with you and in you, the Spirit of truth, the Comforter, the Advocate, a Counselor who will guide you into all truth. Just as I am in the Father and the Father is in Me, so we will come and be in you and you in us.
The goal is to abide in Christ, learning to be content in all circumstances by the things which you’ve suffered and drawing on the peace of Christ that surpasses all understanding. To live and breathe and have your being in the love of Jesus Christ which is the will of God. He is enough. His grace is sufficient, His power is perfected in weakness. When you are weak, then you are strong. The meek shall inherit the earth.
He has loved you with an everlasting love. He will never fail you or forsake you. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. His arm is not too short to save. For the joy set before Him, He endured the cross, despising its shame. You are His joy and today is the day of salvation. He didn’t come to condemn the world but to save it. Amen. 🙏
Be blessed, Hanna.
Glad Jesus saved you, but that is totally irrelevant to the conversation we were having.
The relevance to our conversation is my sharing the basis of my world view and then learning what yours is. From your first comment I didn’t know that. From your second I do. You view the Jews as your enemy because they were your enemy. They sold your people into slave markets and managed that trade. Your people fought this for 500 years. They lied about your people in the Talmud (I’m trusting what you’re saying here - haven’t researched it for myself) so they could justify their practice/greed. I’m not going to argue with your personal experience and how it informs your current views. In that context they were your enemy.
My context is different and it is informing my views. In my viewpoint, Jews are not my enemy despite having plotted against my Savior and paying one of his disciples 30 pieces of silver to betray Him. Why?
Two reasons: 1) Jesus was a Jew and all of His disciples were. So not all Jews are evil.
Eventually I didn’t blame all church goers just because my neighbors were satanists and each one attended a different church. They were the wolves in sheep’s clothing. Thankfully my parents were not. They were the sheep in the story of the Good Shepherd.
2) Jews/Israel is not my enemy because I remember the Holocaust. I will not forget it. I can describe it here or we can refresh our memories of what happened. After WWII the Jewish people deserved to be returned to their homeland. Rarely in World history have we done that. Maybe never. We decided to give them what was theirs originally - thousands of years ago - the land of Israel. It wasn’t the greatest piece of real estate in the world, but it was their land. They came there after the war. Just read an inspiring account of a little Jewish boy who’d kept himself alive during the war and immigrated there afterwards: “Zvi”. All of his family had been murdered by the Nazis.
I’m not going to forget October 7. I’m not confused about what went on there or why. I’m not confused about radical Islam or Islamism, their aspirations and beliefs, the source of their beliefs, the motivation behind their beliefs. I’ve been studying it, but the spiritual truth is self-evident.
The spiritual truth is very similar if not identical to what my satanist neighbors had done. They try to baptize you into satanism with a sadistic sexual ritual where they’re hoping to kill your soul and cut you off from God. And they try to confirm you into the faith through a ritualistic sacrifice/murder of a person.
I’m not sure my accomplished neighbors (a doctor, an engineer, a VP, an artist, a superintendent of the school, a radio personality, a homemaker) actually believed in satan. They just knew they got what satan offered Jesus: power and wealth. And they were possessed.
The actions of October 7 were demonic. The people committing them were possessed. That’s what actually happened. It’s not confusing. They didn’t try to hide it like the Nazis.
Which brings me to my final point. The true battle in this world is this: Ephesians 6 from Paul’s letter to the Ephesians:
“Finally be strong in the Lord and the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Therefore take up the full armor of God, that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm.” Paul then describes the full armor of God and tells them to pray at all times and persevere.
In the current conflict I support Israel and the USA. I have taken the Islamic Republic of Iran at their word when they said/say “Death to America Death to Israel.” Why do they say that? Because we’ve done mean things to them? No. It’s coming from their faith, their belief system, their religion. I’ve listened to the people who’ve left Islam. Mohamad Faridi “Leaving my father’s religion,” Mosab Hassan Yousef whose father helped start Hamas, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who escaped an arranged marriage originally born in Somalia as a Muslim. I’ve listened to many others including an Imam who believes his religion is peaceful and has the courage to stand against this murderous interpretation of it.
Hopefully this explains my big picture understanding of the conflict. I’m not going to get into the weeds of the geopolitical schemes - everybody’s hands are dirty there. I live under no illusions when it comes to that. My personal story should reveal that as well. Be blessed.
How does he propose to bomb the regime but not civilians? Military targets are all destroyed, so…
WTF?
What’s been going on for weeks?
You do not seem to be grasping what “We will bring Iran back to the stone age where they belong” means.
Phil, was Trump referring to the Iran Military with this statement? The stone age statement?
LOL….don’t ask Phil. He has no idea what’s going on in Iran other than what he hears on CNN. The US is bombing military targets. Trump is talking about radical Islamic clerics and the weapons they have been creating. There is a reason why the Iranian population is at home….and actually filming the bombing and celebrating.
No. Stone Age is a cultural thing. How can you bomb a military to the Stone Age while leaving the advanced society/infrastructure in tact?
Besides, Trump has specifically threatened the war crimes of hitting Iranian's power generation of desalination plants.
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"General Curtis LeMay is famously associated with the quote, "We're going to bomb them back into the Stone Age," referring to North Vietnam during the Vietnam War in the mid-1960s. While it epitomizes his aggressive aerial warfare strategy, LeMay later denied saying it, claiming he instead said the U.S. had the capability to do so." - Google AI Overview
I couldn't agree with you more. You are being so logical! Thank you for your comment!
Correct. We should be able to have rational discourse. I never expected these recent posts from Leake. I have enjoyed the content over time.
But, may I politely suggest getting medical help for the display of TDS?
Amen! You also have to wonder how much he was paid to spout off with purely irrational Trump hating bovine excrement... I'm betting a nice chunk of change was exchanged. To quote another historic event as he seems to like to do, Judas betrayed Jesus too....
again one commenter with Netanyahoo/or AI, putting the many 'likes'...
BS
Hey John,
You must be doing something right, because you have an innumerable amount of Unit 8200 assets in your comment section. It's quite entertaining.
I hope you never change your style. You're a fantastic writer, learned historian, humble, and most importantly, ask questions. Keep it up.
Thank you, Ranch, you are very kind.
Very kind!
Great intro ...
Wholeheartedly agree! Thank you for being courageous!
Ranch, I can´t tell you how much I like your "about me" statement. Hats off!
And you are delusional and indoctrinated. You know how I know, because you acknowledged and approve of his TDS ravings.
For such a depressing topic, it was truly a pleasure to read such an erudite post. I see that there are people in the comments who obviously support this dreadful war, which is mindboggling, given what we know about this being essentially a rehash of the 'WMD that never were' Iraq war in the early 2000s. History sure is rhyming a lot. I'd be interested to hear what they think can be achieved to benefit the U.S. through this. It's difficult to see how bombing them "back to the Stone Age, where they belong" wouldn't harm and kill millions of innocent people en masse. It implies a heartless dehumanisation and frustration with an entire population, which is simply shocking, and it seems that without a voice (like Charlie Kirk) to advise him otherwise, Trump has dragged America into yet more profitable war games when he ran on the opposite. Instead, we face more death, more displacement, and a global recession. Happy, happy, joy, joy.
We can only hope that this is just rhetoric and that de-escalation can be achieved soon without more bloodshed, though a certain state has been doing a lot of that across the entire Middle East, regardless of America's involvement and support.
Trump/Witkoff/Kushner are Bored of Peace. They make trillions blowing the locals back to the Stone Age and then build their smart cities.
Trump is acting like a bumbling fool but, really, this is going EXACTLY as planned.
wow, I didn't realize it was possible for a TDS infected person to dump a larger load of bovine excrement larger than your average 2000 buffalo. But here you did it. You are delusional. Trump said from the very beginning he would not let Iran possess nukes, he gave them every opportunity to resolve peacefully, they chose not to. You should get the info straight before taking a big shit in here.
Sir, no one supported Trump more than I did, and I think he's done some great things, especially in regards to health and general sanity after years of an autopen. But what he's doing here is a mistake. There's no 4D, 5D, whatever chess involved. It's just a terrible mistake made on behalf of an extremely corrupt, dangerous, evil, but extremely rich state. There were no nukes in Iran. This is just like Iraq. Bibi has been babbling on about all these threats from Iran for decades and using them to justify bombing nearly every country within hearing distance. America is being used as a poodle to add some extra clout, that's all. I don't like or support the Iranian regime, but I suggest that you dispassionately look at what's happening in the Middle East and who it benefits, then tell me who's delusional, because TDS works both ways.
My suspicion is that Trump's message was meant for Iran.
What’s so barbaric about ending the ayatollah and his wicked and evil regime? They repeatedly proved that they lied abt stacking all the elements to make nukes.
They also shot a bomb over 2400kg last week, proving they also lied abt capping their weapons to shoot <2000kg. They capos easily reach London and much of Europe. They proved it. Do we sit around and wait for them to chant Death to America a zillion more times until they finally nuke us and indeed, bring death to America? Or do we nip that on the bud?
I think you just listed the wrong passenger on the crazy train, Mr. Leake. The conductor punched your ticket awhile ago and you have apparently chosen yourself as the ring leader to crazy town.
Good thing Israel and Witkoff and Kushner don't lie, eh?
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You are severely MK-Ultra'ed and propagandized. In order to become familiar with the truth, I highly recommend "Judging Freedom" with Judge Andrew Napolitano and his stable of top-notch geopolitical analysts: Mcgregor, Wilkerson, Ritter, Johnson, Sachs, Mearsheimer, Blumenthal, Escobar, Maté, Hoh, Kwiatkowski, Freeman, Crooke, Doctorow, Diesen, Giraldi et al.
https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom
Cheers!
Phil, the Trump Dead-ender Syndrome and Dunning-Kruger effect are strong here, and I don’t think they have the intellectual or moral capacity to appreciate or understand Napolitano and his guests. In particular, it takes a special kind of hypocrisy for the obvious “Christian”Zionists to accuse others of religious extremism. Trump’s war of aggression will likely cause a large number of deaths worldwide in poorer countries due to starvation due to shortage of fertilizer and diesel. But the deranged Trumpters don’t care and take comfort in their delusions.
Agreed. Thanks.
It is an uphill battle, that is for sure. I'd be lucky to flip even a few souls while the majority wallow in their cult of personality and gleefully march into Hell.
What's barbaric about being blood thirsty yourself?
Well said.
They do chant death to America - and brag about having enough nuclear material to build 10 bombs. Here in Australia two Muslims went berserk and killed 15 Jews who were essentially picnicking. I know the threat is real. I have no idea if the response is appropriate or not. It bewilders me that people cheer on Iran - a country that marries girls at 9 and writes about men rubbing them themselves on infants, funding multiple terror organizations and holding the world to ransom. Each to his own I suppose.
Bondi Beach. Black op. You're being played like a fiddle, mate.
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The world would be a much better place if the USA simply followed George Washington's sage wisdom: Befriend all nations, trade with all nations, eschew becoming entangled in foreign alliances and conflicts and do not seek monsters abroad to destroy.
Anything is possible - but there is really no indication it was a black op. The videos I have watched show it pretty clearly - those people hate Jews and are at war with them (and us in general). Ready to die for the cause of killing Jews. I agree that the world would be a better place if we lived in peace. But in my cities - young immigrants go around in malls with machete's killing and harming people. There really are people out there that seek to destroy my way of life. We can either let them or stop them.
Yours are the best comments I’ve read so far.
The people supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran and vilifying the USA and Israel are in denial of the reality of this level of evil. They refuse to believe it. They latch onto peace as the moral high ground so they can feel good about themselves, but failing to oppose evil with force if necessary is like opening your door to an axe murderer and watching your family be slaughtered. The loving man protects his family with every breath he has in him. There may be a dead murderer at the end or he may die, but he didn’t die without a fight.
There are just wars. This is one of them. This military action against the Islamic Republic is past due. The Iranian people, at least according to a dad living in Tehran, are cheering it on. I watch Tousi TV for coverage.
Thank you. My thoughts exactly. Most of us do want to be nice and welcoming, but there comes a point where you must accept that some groups of people really do wish us harm.
It was not a black op. Some commenters live in a fantasy world.
Not yo excuse anybody, but WE don't do any of these things?
True we had the terrible incident in Tasmania - but nobody celebrated that. Many, many Muslims celebrated October 7. It is a matter of public record.
I was actually thinking a little further back, and not necessarily just of Iran.
TDS has finally taken root. Please stick to vaccines.
Are you sure? I ask because it was Trump who gave us the vaccines (and then constantly bragged about it). You know that, right?
He also gave us Kennedy and tried to get the message out about hydroxychloroquine early on. Didn’t know what he didn’t know in the medical space. Like many of the rest of us.
Oh? So lil ole me could smell a rat but he couldn't? Maybe I should be POTUS, eh? Maybe many of those 500K murdered by hospitals for fed bonus money under his administration would be alive today. 🤷🏻♂️
Maybe. I wish it was just 500,000. The number of people who have been killed worldwide is in the millions. I did nothing but research this for 4 years (at least). I was the target group for the shot but I was still trying to clear spike from an infection in July 2020 when it came out. So I’m going to get a shot that instructs my body to make spike when I’m trying to clear it??? You’re right, it doesn’t take a genius. Anyway yes, if you would have known enough to stop this, I would have voted for you. Actually Peter McCullough testified before Congress in March 2020 re to low cost repurposed drugs. I’m sure you know that since you’re in this substack. I would have voted for him too.
There’s a lot of wars to be fought. The one in Iran against the Islamic Republic is justified.
Add in the entire vaccine program, the public/private partnerships that Reagan thought would be such a good idea, giving the vaccine manufacturers liability protection for anyone on the childhood schedule in 1986, and the suffering and death mounts.
Warp Speed, followed by promises of Golden Age (have you seen the tacky gold leaf flourishes added to the West Wing, ick), and now, drumroll please . . . Stone Age for Persia cause Zionists and their favorite malleable Americans - Christian Fundamentalists - (oh the irony) find killing a virtue. Can't believe I voted for this man, 3 times.
Double-tapping Venezuelan fisherman was the administration entry drug on hooking its customers on war crimes.
"entry drug" I see what you did there . . . interesting how the media gave all Americans a bird's-eye view as the Dept. of War went into action . . . positively normalizing these actions.
Yes. The school needed fishing boats.
The Nazis never really lost WWII. Rather, they were simply Paperclipped into another regime.
It wasn’t Trump, it was Pfizer, the military, Fauci, and the scientists who created the virus,
It was Trump playing his role which enabled big tech to take great strides while small business America suffered. He is ushering in the surveillance state among other things, and getting richer in the process. Why is Jared Kushner speaking on behalf of he administration in the middle east? Follow the money.
Yes. What Pirate said.
Your comment is a non sequitur. Yes I'm sure Professor Leake has developed an acute case of TDS of which there is no known cure. And I said Professor Leake should stick to criticizing vaccines. I bought and read his book and agree with his take. Whether Trump was responsible for promoting the clot shot is another issue that can be discussed. And relating to your later comment, I've never seen gold look so good as when Trump dances things up a little.
A) Stop dissing Trump. B) Stick to vaccines. C) Uhhh ... Trump gave us the vaccines.
Pretty standard really.
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While TDS does indeed exist, Lil Trumpsters (with the flip-coin opposite - and equally debilitating - Trump Adoration Syndrome) throw it everywhere like no criticism of Trump could ever possibly be valid.
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Trump's a war criminal. Your Department of War are war criminals.
Nuremberg matters.
Do you intend to drag Dr McCullough into your derangement? Have you no personal experience with Muslim violence? Will it take a beheading in Dallas for you to begin to understand the existential treat poised by Islam? How about Fort Hood? is that just one more outlier in your steadfast refusal to see what is right before your eyes?
PS; The father of a boyhood friend was drawn and quartered and his body dragged through Baghdad in the 1957 when his commercial flight had and engine failure and landed for repairs. His wife and my mother were best friends having gone to school together. The true believers, Shia or Sunni, are very dangerous. Listen to Ayaan Hirsi Ali in her recent Hoover Institute interview. She explains that the prohibition to kill innocents only applies to fellow Muslims. Or read some history of the last 47 years. That isn't the only personal experience I have had, so don't play games with my memory of the last 80 years. I've got lots more.
To add another anecdote. Long ago I met an English prof. who had spent a year in Saudi. I expected to hear some colorful descriptions of his experience. He turned to me with haunted eyes. In a medium-sized town, he had lived in an apartment two blocks from town square, where every Friday executions took place. They were SLOW executions, he said, and he had to endure the sounds of screaming for hours while they went on. I have had several friends who worked in that country, none who were ever willing to return.
Why, then, has the US, Trump included, been always so friendly with the Saudi? Why hasn´t Saudi Arabia been bombed into the stone age?
I worry about that as well, but so far as is known, SA has not been working on a bomb. Also their Sunni theology is not quite as intractable as Shia. Mostly, (my TENTATIVE opinion) they can be 'bought,' (and are historically lazy, lacking in achievement, and have to hire non-believers to do all the work), Trump's perspective seems to be that almost anything can be resolved by money. For 95%, probably the case. The ayatollahs and IRGC seem to be in the 5%.
FWIW, I don't like saying things like 'bombing back to the Stone Age.' A full-scale nuclear war is a horror that will destroy large parts of the entire world, animals, plants, seas, and cause suffering most of us have never contemplated. Which gets us back round to Iran, the leaders of which think God wills for them to unleash exactly such destruction.
I love Ayaan Hirsi Ali - powerful wise voice.
She is also incredibly courageous. It is curious that "feminists" in the woke ranks seem to be totally unaware of her existence.
Absolutely. I just listened to her interview with Tommy Robinson. The hug she gave him was a moving experience. She’s had security since 2002 (I think) - early 2000’s.
Have you no personal experience with Mossad violence? Will it take three Manhattan skyscrapers pulverized to a fine white dust by two airliners one Tuesday?
Wait! What?
Love you John, but you missed on this one. I agree the speech was misguuded and not the best, but I don't see how pinning those evil attributes on DJT makes any sense. It's not justified. The Iranian regime (not the Persian people) have been the demonic force in the Middle East for the past nearly 50 years. We cannot just cover up that turd.
Yes, in response to actions by the US and Israel against it starting with the 1953 coup against Prime Minister Mossadegh, decades of support for the Shah's regime, and post-revolution sanctions/isolation. The CIA has overthrown 88 governments. American backed Israel is a constant threat to the larger area. It's not simple and one doesn't have to suffer from TDS to be critical of someone who comes across as deranged. Deranged because he campaigned on the opposite of what he is actually doing. Think of Venezuela (it is not an exporter of drugs to the US), the Greenland threat where he already has military bases and now Cuba. And what comes next? And remember how he promised to make public the Epstein files. Etc etc etc.
Lil Trumpsters use 'TDS' like Zionists use 'antisemite.' It's much less taxing than reason and debate.
I wouldn’t minimize TDS, it’s a real mental illness depending on the extent you allow it in. I had it and recovered during Covid when I woke up to the censorship, the lies about the shot, the open border, and on and on. I supported Kennedy but I ended up voting for Trump. At this point I couldn’t be happier. We were 4 years away from becoming a banana republic: socialism, lawlessness, and open borders.
It is a real mental illness, agreed. So is Trump Adoration Syndrome (same shit, different pile).
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Regardless, not all criticism of Trump comes from TDS like many TAS constantly spout.
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For example: TRIPLE-TAPPING a school to cook 170 little girls is a war crime and it is legitimately about Trump himself while my mental health is irrelevant. See?
Your example seems a little deranged since we have all agreed for 47 years that Iran cannot have nuclear weapons. They were weak and they were getting closer to achieving that end. There is evidence in terms of their long range ballistic missile capability as well.
This military action is not only warranted but timely since the regime was weak. Any govt that shuts off the internet so the world cannot see them slaughtering their people is weak.
Agreed. The 2 extremes are the same thing: 2 sides of the same coin.
The perception of the other side - MAGA - is that it’s all TDS because the MSM is the spreader and the Democratic Party with the exception of John Fetterman is the evidence as well as a spreader. Their entire party platform is to oppose Trump. They’ve also got personal experience with relatives or friends becoming unhinged when Trump is mentioned.
And I was a Trump supporter until I realised who was holding his strings. A president should not be hanging on strings, he should be holding them.
Started before that. Great game through the 19th century with both Russia and England constantly threatening invasion - then Anglo-Russian joint invasion did happen in 1942. Stole all the oil for the red army. 1953 was 150 years in.
You are drugged and delusional if you truly believe any of that garbage you just excreted.
I worked for 42 years in an environment that required me to be unbiased at all times and have no conflicts of interest. But I'm fallible. Happy Easter to you.
Iran was negotiating in good faith. Iran was not an imminent threat to the USA.
Trump's Epic Fury was an illegal, unconstitutional, aggressive war of choice. Trump is the bad guy.
Trump never said he was going to bomb civilian infrastructures. He’s trying to do what no President before him has ever done: End the Islamist Regime in Iran. Iran is still calling for the destruction of Israel and are bombing its neighbors indiscriminately. Iran can end this war anytime by not behaving as a threat to the region. Leake clearly hates Trump but he’s dead wrong. His TDS is terminal, not unlike Keith Olbermann.
You are right, 100%. But it will never get into the single brain cell of the TDS SUFFERERS on this page.
I wonder if Trump has Tertiary Syphilis? It fits his delusions of grandeur.
I have wondered the same
The disease that first manifest as Covid in 2020 has since manifest as the UKR war, Gaza genocide, and now Iran war: complete corruption of our government and absolute disregard for the interests of the American people. JL speaks to this with clarity and incite (assigned trolls be damned), and we are blessed to have his voice.
lol.
I agree with John. Iran was not even a real threat. Since when did a president advocate taking down heads of state?? Sets a terrible precedent!!
Not to mention the unintended consequences ...
"Since when did a president advocate taking down heads of state?"
Since, at least, Nov. 22, 1963.
How old are you, 6?
You are correct Anne
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It's one thing to criticize Trump's language skills, which frequently seem inimical to his goals. (OTOH, compared to Harris and Biden, he's Churchill. ) It's another to use hyperbole in criticizing him, especially when it's the Enemy -- the theocracy/kleptocracy dictatorship in Iran -- that plans to RULE THE WORLD. If anyone is sympathetic to that, he is already a Shi'ite or else believes a leader of a theology that glorifies lying.
Iran has planned to create death, chaos, and destruction in any way possible to create a global caliphate for their End-of-the-World de facto slave-existence (known as 'submission'). Their idea was conceived after 700 AD. Their foremost enemy is Israel and they feed their hatred by hanging onto an absurd outdated contest between 'descendants' of Abraham's sons Isaac and Ishmael. Hatred between siblings is a tragedy much older than Herodotus.
The modern state of Israel may have been 'created' in 1948, but the land of Judah has existed for millennia. Judea was a kingdom in the Iron Age (c. 10.000 BC), conquered by Babylonians in 6th cent. BC, decimated, enslaved, and crucified by Romans, ruled by Christians or Muslims for 1500 years, but was still home to Jews throughout.
Mr. Leake clearly despises Trump. But, many of us don't like everything he does. However, if a writer has a better idea on how to solve the menace of an implacable enemy planning nuclear war, what is it? Tell us. Criticizing is easy. Producing an effective plan is not.
Leake is an erudite polly anna with no solutions to offer. Too bad because he seems to be a very smart guy. If bombing the place back to the stone-age is what it takes to persuade them to cease the insistence on the destruction of the US and West, then get to it.
How do you negotiate with end times fanatics making nuclear bombs to threaten civil societies??!
.... with Stone Age consequences.
Let's watch for results. 32 days of war, so far a quick fix for 47 year mess.
I like evidenced based science.
Stick to that.
Let's look to evidence based results in politics.
You are 100% right. People must’ve missed your comment if I’m the first person to reply to it
Trump said exactly what he needed to say to people in a country that have lied to the world over and over.
I absolutely do not want him to hit the electrical substations because of all of the great Iranian people that just want freedom but this is the language that their leaders understand. Any of our other presidents, most of which would not even deal with or ran the way that he has would nibble around the edges and create a 10 year war so that everyone in the military industrial complex can get rich. This is exactly the way that we need to fight a war. We could not do it this way in Afghanistan, but with any country with infrastructure, this is how you do it.
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Then leave and go find a war-loving group; they are a dime a dozen.
Read. Learn. It's all good. 🙏🏻