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Tony Hunter's avatar

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!

GP girl's avatar

I feel the same way. I value Dr. McCullough, but am just about ready to cancel this. John Leake is off the rails.

Mary W Maxwell's avatar

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.

Marion's avatar

TDS cleverly rapped 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.

Jim's avatar

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.

Keith A Breedlove's avatar

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.

David Snell's avatar

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

Phil Denter's avatar

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.

https://www.youtube.com/@judgingfreedom

Some truth will see you through.

Cheers!

sibyl gardner's avatar

Seriously. Does Leake ever have an unexpressed thought? I want McCullough, not him.

Jim's avatar

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.

andrew gillies's avatar

You don't have to read it you know, and if you do, you dont have to agree with it :)

Phil Davis's avatar

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.

BMeowDawg's avatar

No you actually signed up to be a warmonger stooge. Goodbye.

Phil Denter's avatar

Crimes against humanity do not all come in a vial.

Paul Kirshman's avatar

He is threatening the Muslim occupation regime ONLY!!!! Not the 90 million IRANIANS who reject the ARAB religion’s ISLAMIC occupation!!!

Phil Davis's avatar

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.

Phil Davis's avatar

Yes, but it takes time for the masses to realize what they were supporting. But, you're correct.

mejbcart's avatar

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...

DBC's avatar

Horseshit. Iran put that school next to a military installation... a human girl age shield

Jim's avatar

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.

Phil Denter's avatar

Are you retarded? You can't slaughter little girls because you don't like where their school is!!!

Hank Dreamberg's avatar

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.

Phil Denter's avatar

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.

Sumera's avatar

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.

Phil Denter's avatar

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]

Joze's avatar

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?

Phil Denter's avatar

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.

Hank Dreamberg's avatar

How does he propose to bomb the regime but not civilians? Military targets are all destroyed, so…

Joze's avatar

WTF?

What’s been going on for weeks?

Phil Denter's avatar

You do not seem to be grasping what “We will bring Iran back to the stone age where they belong” means.

David Snell's avatar

Phil, was Trump referring to the Iran Military with this statement? The stone age statement?

Ranch's avatar

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.

Andrew Watkinson's avatar

TDS has finally taken root. Please stick to vaccines.

Phil Denter's avatar

Are you sure? I ask because it was Trump who gave us the vaccines (and then constantly bragged about it). You know that, right?

KC & the Sunshine's avatar

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.

Phil Denter's avatar

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!

Chris's avatar

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.

Phil Denter's avatar

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.

RedStateNW's avatar

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.

Olle Durks's avatar

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.

Horace the Menace's avatar

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.

Olle Durks's avatar

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.

Phil Denter's avatar

Lil Trumpsters use 'TDS' like Zionists use 'antisemite.' It's much less taxing than reason and debate.

Phil Denter's avatar

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.

Robert Stewart's avatar

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. See explains that the prohibition to kill 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.

RLM's avatar

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.

Phil Denter's avatar

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?

Tony Hunter's avatar

I signed up for medical insights from

Phil Davis's avatar

Then leave and go find a war-loving group; they are a dime a dozen.

Phil Denter's avatar

Read. Learn. It's all good. 🙏🏻

Larry McDonald's avatar

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.

Hopinow's avatar

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!!

Anne McKinney's avatar

Not to mention the unintended consequences ...

Phil Denter's avatar

"Since when did a president advocate taking down heads of state?"

Since, at least, Nov. 22, 1963.

Greymalkin's avatar

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.

Phil Denter's avatar

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.

Robin Young's avatar

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.

BMeowDawg's avatar

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.

Ranch's avatar

I wonder if Trump has Tertiary Syphilis? It fits his delusions of grandeur.

Neftali DeJesus's avatar

This article is really about Iran riding a crazy train into hell - Trump is Leonidas and the Mullah that led Iran was Xerxes. The writing is great - too bad the author has no discernment.

Greymalkin's avatar

And look what happened to Leonidas.

Neftali DeJesus's avatar

Xerxes didn’t exactly ride off into the sunset.