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Although perhaps not yet obvious to Washington, a US war on Iran will be viewed as one against Russia and China too. Both Putin and Xi know that Trump’s war is singularly directed at the transformational global ‘changes they are driving together.’

Russia and Iran are at the forefront of the multi-layered Eurasia integration process – the most crucial geopolitical development of the young 21st century.

Both are top members of BRICS+ and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO). Both are seriously implicated as Global Majority leaders to build a multi-nodal, multipolar world. And both have signed, in late January in Moscow, a detailed, comprehensive strategic partnership.

The second administration of US President Donald Trump, starting with the “maximum pressure” antics employed by the bombastic Circus Ringmaster himself, seems to ignore these imperatives.

It was up to the Russian Foreign Ministry to re-introduce rationality in what was fast becoming an out of control shouting match: essentially Moscow, alongside its partner Tehran, simply will not accept outside threats of bombing Iran’s nuclear and energy infrastructure, while insisting on the search for viable negotiated solutions for the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

And then, just like lightning, the Washington narrative changed. US Special Envoy for Middle East Affairs, Steven Witkoff – not exactly a Metternich, and previously a “maximum pressure” hardliner – started talking about the need for “confidence-building” and even “resolving disagreements,” implying Washington began “seriously considering,” according to the proverbial “officials,” indirect nuclear talks.

These implications turned to reality on Monday afternoon when Trump allegedly blindsided the visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with the announcement of a “very big meeting” with Iranian officials in the next few days. Tehran later confirmed the news, with Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi saying he would engage in indirect nuclear negotiations with Witkoff in Oman on Saturday.

It’s as if Trump had at least listened to the arguments exposed by the Islamic Republic’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. But then again, he can change his mind in a Trump New York minute.

The finer points of the Russia–Iran–China axis

Essential background to decipher the “Will Russia help Iran” conundrum can be found in these all-too-diplomatic exchanges at the Valdai Club in Moscow.

The key points were made by Alexander Maryasov, Russia’s ambassador to Iran from 2001 to 2005. Maryasov argues that the Russia–Iran treaty is not only a symbolic milestone, but “serves as a roadmap for advancing our cooperation across virtually all domains.” It is more of “a bilateral relations document” – not a defense treaty.

The treaty was extensively discussed – then approved – as a counter-point to “the intensified military-political and economic pressure exerted by western nations on both Russia and Iran.”

The main rationale was how to fight against the sanctions tsunami.

Yet even if it does not constitute a military alliance, the treaty details mutually agreed moves if there is an attack or threats to either nation’s national security – as in Trump’s careless bombing threats against Iran. The treaty also defines the vast scope of military-technical and defense cooperation, including, crucially, regular intel talk.

Maryasov identified the key security points as the Caspian, the South Caucasus, Central Asia, and last but not least, West Asia, including the breadth and reach of the Axis of Resistance.

The official Moscow position on the Axis of Resistance is an extremely delicate affair. For instance, let’s look at Yemen. Moscow does not officially recognize the Yemeni resistance government embodied by Ansarallah and with its HQ in the capital Sanaa; rather, it recognizes, just like Washington, a puppet government in Aden, which is in fact housed in a five-star hotel in Riyadh, sponsored by Saudi Arabia.

Last summer two different Yemeni delegations were visiting Moscow. As I witnessed it, the Sanaa delegation faced tremendous bureaucratic problems to clinch official meetings.

There is, of course, sympathy for Ansarallah across Moscow intel and military circles. But as confirmed in Sanaa with a member of the High Political Council, these contacts occur via “privileged channels,” and not institutionally.

The same applies to Lebanon’s Hezbollah, which was a key Russian ally in routing ISIS and other Islamist extremist groups during the Syrian war. When it comes to Syria, the only thing that really matters for official Moscow, after the Al-Qaeda-linked extremists took power in Damascus last December, is to preserve the Russian bases in Tartous and Hmeimim.

There’s no question that the Syrian debacle was an extremely serious setback for both Moscow and Tehran, further aggravated by Trump’s non-stop escalation over Iran’s nuclear program and his “maximum pressure” obsession.

The nature of the Russia–Iran treaty differs substantially from that of Russia–China. For Beijing, the partnership with Moscow is so solid, it develops so dynamically, that they don’t even need a treaty: they have a “comprehensive strategic partnership.”

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in his recent visit to Russia, after coining a pearl – “those who live in the 21st century but think in Cold War blocs and zero-sum games cannot keep up with the times” – neatly summarized Sino–Russian relations in three vectors: The two Asian giants are “forever friends and never enemies;” Equality and mutually beneficial cooperation; Non-alignment with blocs; Non-confrontation, and non-targeting of third parties. So even as we have a Russia–Iran treaty, between China and Russia, and China and Iran, we have essentially close partnerships.

Witness, for instance, the fifth annual joint Russia–Iran–China naval exercises that took place in the Gulf of Oman in March. This trilateral synergy is not new; it has been under development for years.

But it’s lazy to characterize this improved RIC Primakov triangle (Russia–Iran–China instead of Russia–India–China) as an alliance. The only “alliance” that exists today on the geopolitical chessboard is NATO – a warmongering outfit composed of intimidated vassals corralled together by the Empire of Chaos.

Cue to yet another hard-to-resist Wang Yi jade pearl: “The US is sick but forces others to take the medicine.” Takeaways: Russia is not switching sides; China won’t be encircled; and Iran will be defended.

When the new Primakov triangle meets in Beijing

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At the Valdai discussion, Daniyal Meshkin Ranjbar, assistant professor in the Department of Theory and History of International Relations at the Moscow-based RUDN University, made a crucial point: “For the first time in history, the diplomatic outlooks of Russia and Iran converge.” He’s referring to the obvious parallels between official policies: Russia’s “pivot to the east” and Iran’s “look east” policies.

All those interconnections plainly escape the new administration in Washington, as well as bombastic Trump–Netanyahu rhetoric that has zero basis in reality – even the US National Security Council admitted that Iran is not working on a nuclear bomb.

And that brings us to the Big Picture.

The Circus Ringmaster – at least until he changes his mind again – is essentially working on a triangulation deal, allegedly offering Russia a transportation framework, access to grain exports in the Black Sea, and Russian banks off the sanction list of SWIFT so he may execute his “pivot” to then attack Iran (deadline to Tehran included).

And if Russia defends Iran, no deal.

That’s as mendacious as Mafia-style “offer you can’t refuse” maximum pressure can get. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov – an exceptionally able diplomat – destroyed the whole rationale: “Russia cannot accept US proposals to end the war in Ukraine in their current form because they do not solve the problems Moscow considers the cause of the conflict.” Even as Moscow “takes the models and solutions proposed by the Americans very seriously.”

As the Russian angle of Trump’s triangulation falters, Tehran is not merely watching the river flow. How Iran adapted for decades to a sanctions tsunami is now firm knowledge deeply shared with Moscow, part of their deepening cooperation enshrined in the treaty.

For all of Trump’s volatility, non-Zionist-contaminated voices across the Beltway are slowly but surely imprinting the rational view that a war on Iran is absolutely suicidal for the Empire itself. So the odds resurface that Trump 2.0 verbal barrages may be paving the way for a temporary deal that will be spun to death – after all, this is always a battle of narratives – as a diplomatic victory.

Bets can be made that the only leader on the planet capable of making Trump understand reality is Russian President Vladimir Putin, in their next phone call. After all, it is the Circus Ringmaster himself who created the revamped “nuclear Iran” drama. RIC – or the revamped Primakov triangle – duly addressed it, together, in a crucial, discreet, not-publicized recent meeting in Beijing, as confirmed by diplomatic sources.

Essentially, the RIC has developed a “nuclear Iran” road map. These are the highlights:

  • Dialogue. No escalation. No “maximum pressure”. Step-by-step moves. Build mutual confidence.
  • As Iran re-emphasizes its veto on developing nuclear weapons, the much-debated “international community”, actually the UN Security Council, recognizes, again, Iran’s right to peaceful nuclear energy under the NPT.
  • Back to the JCPOA – and reboot it. To get Trump back on board, the reboot will be an extremely hard sell.

This roadmap was ratified during a second round of RIC trilateral talks in Moscow on Tuesday, where senior officials from the allied nations discussed collaborative efforts to address the challenges faced by Iran.

That summit in Moscow

As it stands, the road map is just that: a map. The breathless Zionist axis from Washington to Tel Aviv will continue to insist that Iran, if attacked, will not be supported by Russia, and extra, non-stop “maximum pressure” will force Tehran to eventually fold and abandon its support to the Axis of Resistance.

All that, once again, eschews reality. For Moscow, Iran is an absolutely key geopolitical priority; beyond Iran, to the east, is Central Asia. The Zionist obsessive fantasy of regime change in Tehran masks NATO’s then penetrating into Central Asia, building military bases, and at the same time blocking several strategically crucial Chinese Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) projects. Iran is as essential to China’s long-term foreign policy as it is to Russia’s.

It’s not by accident that Russia and China will meet at the presidential level – Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping – at a summit in Moscow around 9 May, Victory Day in the Great Patriotic War. They will be analyzing in detail the next stage of “changes that we have not seen in 100 years,” as formulated by Xi to Putin in their groundbreaking 2023 summer in Moscow.

They, of course, will be discussing how the Circus Ringmaster dreams of closing down one Forever War just to start another: the specter of a US–Israel attack on their strategic partner Iran – complete with the counterpunch of blocking the Strait of Hormuz (transit for 24 million barrels of oil a day); a barrel of oil skyrocketing to $200 and even more; and the collapse of the humongous $730 trillion pile of derivatives in the global economy.

No, President Circus Ringmaster: You don’t have the cards.

(Republished from The Cradle by permission of author or representative)
 
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  1. Notsofast says:

    with all of the rapidly evolving technologies and strategies emerging from russia’s smo, the most important aspect of this world changing event is often missed completely.

    russia’s military dominance on the battlefield, has shown that the real war being waged, is an economic struggle. by slowing down the pace of the war, the russians were able to retaliate against the zato countries, that were behind the ukranazi proxy army, damaging their economies, by dragging them into a slow war of attrition. this gradually pulled them down, draining their resources, while sending waves of ukrainian refugees to to stress their overburdened social services and sow discontent into their electorate. this is total sun tzu, full spectrum warfare.

    now that russia has successfully demonstrated this economic aikido, the chinese have seen the light. with the iranians having demonstrated their amazing proficiency in drones and hypersonics, the hegemon has to ask if they really want to head down that path. add to this the russians warning the u.s., that there would be grave consequences if they were to bomb iran. do they want another ukraine on their hands, or worse a humiliating strategic defeat at the hands of a supposed inferior military?

    i have been saying all along that the russians would save the day, allowing trump to save face and defusing the clusterfuck that he was threatening. now that trump is allowing indirect negotiations, the iranians can sign a deal with a trusted partner, rather than a duplicitous snake that cannot be trusted. sometimes economics can force peace where brute strength cannot. if israel doesn’t get the war she desires, her economics will force her to her knees and a peaceful solution, that is the total defeat of zionist supremacism and an end to the ersatz israel project.

  2. Dr. Rock says:

    I don’t think I’m alone in saying that IF Trump attacks Iran, his entire political mandate is over.

    • Replies: @anon
    , @N. Joseph Potts
  3. ghali says:

    Let’s hope that China and Russia, in particular, will not use Iran as a bargaining chip to avoid the wrath of Trump’s tariffs. The Trump regime is demanding that Iran prove it has not developed nuclear weapons. However, since Iran does not possess any nuclear weapons and is not pursuing their development, it is impossible for Iran to prove their absence. In other words, Iran cannot prove a negative. As a result, the US seems to be creating a false justification out of thin air by using Netanyahu’s decade-old lies to push for a war against Iran at any cost. This situation is reminiscent of Iraq, where Iraq also lacked weapons of mass destruction and therefore could not provide evidence of their absence. The US similarly fabricated a pretext to justify aggression against Iraq. These actions are not only illegal but also unethical from start to finish, as no morally upright individual (except Jews) would resort to spreading falsehoods. Furthermore, Iran must be cautious if Russia attempts to interfere in the negotiations. Russia is known for being the biggest backstabbing hyena in the East and should never be trusted.

  4. SteveK9 says:

    You don’t have the word Jew anywhere in your article, which means you know absolutely, positively, … nothing.

  5. Nadim [AKA "Annony"] says:

    Trump is an illiterate genocidal liar who, according to his own words, does NOT READ, even a report. If he had done his homework, then he would have realized how STUPID is to repeat his threat, because: (1) According to the US intelligence community, Iran hasn’t got an active nuclear weapons programme, Israeli intelligence agrees with this view.

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    (2) The US intelligence community set out this view in a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) in November 2007. It remains the view of the US intelligence community today.
    (3) The November 2011 IAEA report on Iran’s nuclear activities did not state that Iran has an active nuclear weapons programme, contrary to the impression given in much of the media commentary on it. (4) Iran has declared to the IAEA 15 nuclear facilities (including its uranium enrichment plants at Natanz and Fordow) and 9 other locations where nuclear material is customarily used. These sites are all being monitored by the IAEA. In its February 2012 report, the IAEA confirmed for the umpteenth time that there was no diversion of nuclear material from these facilities.
    (5) After the publication of the November 2007 NIE, US military action against Iran was off the agenda. President George Bush wrote in his memoir Decision Points: “How could I possibly explain using the military to destroy the nuclear facilities of a country the intelligence community said had no active nuclear weapons program? (6) Today, Trump should be asking himself the same question, since the US intelligence community is still saying that Iran has no nuclear weapons program.
    The United States has 54 nuclear power plant sites with 93 operating commercial nuclear reactors, located across 28 states.
    When NIE said that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon program, then why does illiterate trump dares to tell a NPT member you cannot have your nuclear program. Who is this genocidal liar who DARES to tell a member of NPT that, if you don’t dismantle your program, then you will be bombed. Everyone laugh at an illiterate president who dares threathen a country with over 7000 years of civilization, by a country established less than 300 years ago on a stolen land.

    Japan possesses the technology to enrich uranium to weapon-grade levels, it has chosen not to develop nuclear weapons and adheres to the Three Non-Nuclear Principles, or introduction of nuclear weapons. Other countries in a similar position include South Korea and Taiwan, which also have nuclear programs and expertise but have committed not to develop nuclear weapons.

    There are more countries in the world, including in Europe, who can enrich to the weapon grade if they have to and NO ONE wants to bomb them or put under sanctions. Then why does US behaving like a evil when Iran is concerned. Why this genocidal assassin does not go after Israel and ask Israel to put her NUCLEAR Bomb factory under agency’s inspection not to make nuclear bombs? If he does not do that , then he should shut up, because you are trying to destroy Iran, a civilization that none of you had. If you are serious about nuclear weapons then you should get rid of your according to NPT, not to expand it. This is a VIOLATION of the NPT article. Is clown Garrosi inspecting your nuclear program? If not, you should shut up and leave others alone. You the genocidal assassin are not in a position to come after a country that is a member of NPT and its program is under stringent inspection and illegal sanctions. Is your nuclear weapons under inspection? If not then shut up, we are fed up. The problem is that Trump is working not for US but for Israel because they want him to take Iran’s ENRICHMENT PROGRAM, where I think he knows shit about, otherwise he would not repeat the Israeli’s demand to say: ‘I just want Iran not to have nuclear weapon, otherwise will be hell’. Let me tell you if you don’t understand what is involved, and do stupid things then you will be in HELL too. Why don’t you tell the world that are carrying Netanyahu’s order because you have been BLACKMAILED, otherwise it does not make any sense to wage war for an illegitimate entity like genocidal Israel. It is Netanyahu and an agent of Mossad, Yossi Cohen, who are so afraid of Iran and its civilization that want Iran be destroyed in order Israel to have power. That’s why you come and threaten Iran and Iranian civilization Thant neither you nor Israel ever had. The clan of ‘Israel’, as Bennett said: survives ONLY 80 years. Thus, it is the time that Israel goes down.Here is the words of the MOSSAD, Yossi Cohen, who said: We have to take Iran’s enrichment program. This is Netanyahu’s war, not American NIE, and thus NOT illiterate Trump that Americans are AGAINST and will never allow it. Israel should fight its own stupid wars, otherwise go to HELL.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBAo2E33dJQ

  6. Docmike says: • Website

    Total nonsense Russia closest ally in the Middle East Syria was attacked daily by Israel and Russia did lift a finger
    Iran is run by totally corrupt fanatic Muslim poverty is rampant abuses are terrible Israel planes hit Iran for 2 hours without one shot fired at them they were praying
    China is too opportunistic and too smart to go to war for Iran they are taking advantage of Russia need and weakness

  7. IronForge says:

    No.

    Because it depends on the situation, Author…

  8. Anonymous[338] • Disclaimer says:

    American and british have been acting tough guys for last decades, but its all just a fake show, acting. In reality they are scared to death even now and you will see that more when Satans empire finally collapses and tides turn. Justice will be served to these sick, invidualistic and materialistic animals.

    In general, american and british are horrified, when they are attacked and they do not know what to do. They are just coward and sick terrorists and criminals.

  9. Anon001 says:

    More garbage from Pepe. Ron is really ruining his reputation with this clown.

    While China is making sure that they comply with all sanctions West imposed on Russia, including banking sanctions, and while Russia is making plans to help NATO destroy Iran, just like they helped NATO destroy Syria, Trojan Horse style, Ukis have been pounding Russia’s territory non-stop ever since 30-day partial ceasefire was brokered by Russia with the US [1]. Russia has been whining about that to Trump, but the WH is ignoring them [2].

    [1] Turns Out Kiev Has Been Bombing Russia Every Single Day Despite Ceasefire Deal! | Rurik Skywalker / Rolo Slavskiy Substack | Apr-2025
    https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/uh-oh-turns-out-kiev-has-been-bombing

    [2] Kremlin Complains Its Questions On Ukraine Ceasefire Unanswered By US | Apr-2025 | ZeroHedge
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-complains-its-questions-ukraine-ceasefire-unanswered-us

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  10. Bankotsu says:

    No, President Circus Ringmaster: You don’t have the cards.

    Only in your head Pepe Escobar, only in your deranged head.

    Crazy bastard. Imagine listening to this clown on Assad Syria and Hezbollah winning against Israel.

  11. muh muh says:

    Israel certainly has been on a rampage as of late: Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Turkiye, Yemen, America…

    An outsider might be inclined to think there’s nothing that will stand in their way, and thus, conclude that the demise of Iran’s current leadership for which they have maneuvered — lo, these many years — is all but certain.

    Yet the common denominator of Israel’s operations since October 7, 2023 has been one that involved little direct combat engagement from Israel’s allies, and where American special forces did participate in ground offensives in Gaza, they failed so miserably, there was no repeat attempt.

    Even if one were to concede a major setback of the Axis in Lebanon by way of the Syrian coup, Israel’s hair trigger in Syria as well as Netanyahu’s recent lobbying against Turkish reception of F-35s, reflects its persistent insecurity all too close to home.

    It is as if, in spite of the apparent success of Israel, its insistence on taking what it can while it still can telegraphs importunity, which, in turn, betrays vulnerability. A similar strain of impatience appears evident in the manner with which Trump approaches Putin in order to forestall the latter’s assistance to Iran. Trump’s ever contradictory messaging, holding a torch in one hand and a club in the other, impresses us as less mercurial than desperate.

    Such are the lines in between, the less than subtle tells of an aggressor determined to shape the world in his own image, yet far too oblivious of his own weakness to fathom the consequences of so doing.

    Iran will not be Palestine, nor Lebanon or Syria, and only confidence men sell the snake oil that Russia and China will allow America to have its way over Iran.

    The common denominator of Trump’s flurry of action these last three months is American desperation — desperation to maintain its ever diminishing influence over the world. Ironically, even the success it attains will be short-lived in the inevitable countervailing era of resistance it now engenders.

    • Replies: @Little Black Duck
  12. ghali says:

    Unfortunately, the author (Escobar) did not elaborate further on how Moscow excels in backstabbing, regardless of the number of signatures on a document. He writes, “the only thing that truly matters to official Moscow, following the rise of Al-Qaeda-linked extremists to power in Damascus last December, is to maintain the Russian bases in Tartous and Hmeimim.” Although this is accurate, Moscow has delegated this task to Netanyahu, who is fiercely fighting to keep Russian forces in Syria. Why?

    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  13. maskazer says:

    It appears that, fundamentally, the absence of a clear roadmap for a future world order led by BRICS has placed both Moscow and Beijing in a challenging predicament. Their short-term and long-term interests often conflict, forcing them to adopt temporary balancing strategies in response to the evolving dynamics between themselves and the West on the global stage.

    In the short term, both Russia and China have significant stakes in the existing zioglobalist economic order, including substantial trade relationships. However, their long-term strategic imperatives compel them to support Iran as a buffer against potential threats to their sovereignty posed by zioglobalist powers. Should Iran be weakened or destabilized, these powers would gain direct access through Iran into Central Asia—a scenario with grave implications for both nations. Imagine the destabilizing impact if zioglobalists were to offer salaries of $500 per month to recruit terrorist operatives akin to Daesh, effectively bringing chaos right to the doorsteps of Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as jeopardizing China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI).

    Thus, from a theoretical standpoint, when considering the more critical long-term perspective, it is reasonable to conclude that Russia and China will have no viable alternative but to back Iran in any all-out war involving the U.S. and Israel. Such support would be essential not only to safeguard Iran but also to preemptively shield their own territories from direct confrontation with zioglobalist forces.

    • Agree: Salus Populi, Passing by
  14. anon[410] • Disclaimer says:
    @Dr. Rock

    All Trump voters don’t really care if America’s “hand puppet” of Netanyahu Trump exterminates the entire population of Iran, China, Russia, North Korea, Venezuela, etc. Trump voters voted for Trump because they believed that he would allow them to acquire more “stuff” by reducing inflation and ensuring secure jobs, and by protecting the “stuff” of Trump voters by eliminating illegal aliens and other criminals who threaten the “stuff” of Trump voters. So, if Trump fails, Trump voters will do nothing Who else will they vote for? A Democrat? A neo-conservative? There will never be a civil war in America – all Americans are completely genetically deteriorated due to dysgenics. “Hand puppet” Trump is successfully fully carrying out all the wishes of Netanyahu and the Likud Party, while throwing his voters a few “bones.” All resisting Arabs/Iranians are about to be completely eliminated. Netanyahu, with his American tariffs, is greatly lowering the quality of life for all Trump voters. The most Trump voters will do is post messages on the internet and perhaps get bumper stickers saying something like “Trump has failed us.” Then they will all just accept their poverty and death.

    Netanyanu can now go ahead and completely destroy Iran. He knows that Putin and Xi will do exactly what they did when Netanyahu just now conquered all of Syria – nothing. Putin and Xi will just be watching out for their personal bank accounts and physical safety. Both Putin and Xi understand that they are quite elderly now and just want to spend a few more decades engaging in extreme hedonism before they die for all eternity. They are not going to put their money and power in jeopardy by helping Iran.

    • Troll: Anonymous45
  15. Recent developments (104% tariffs, hah!) have made clear the only conceivable
    reasons for the Orange One´s moves are
    – start a war with China at any cost, and throw Taiwan on the block, or
    – kill the dollar, and he has already made clear that´s the last thing on his mind.

    Video Link

    From that perspective closing the Strait of Hormuz is just another Nord Stream
    bombing on a global scale that will affect the Great Satan a lot less;
    in addition the stable genius has given the entire world an existential interest
    in seeing the GS dead;
    it is all very typical end-stage empire.

    http://www.mythfolklore.net/aesopica/oxford/153.htm

  16. luhloi says:

    FYI: Nuclear NPT

    Article IV: RIGHTS OF NON-NUCLEAR WEAPONS STATES

    1. Nothing in this Treaty shall be interpreted as affecting the inalienable right of all the Parties to the Treaty to develop research, production and use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes without discrimination and in conformity with Articles I and II of this Treaty.

    2. All the Parties to the Treaty undertake to facilitate, and have the right to participate in, the fullest possible exchange of equipment, materials and scientific and technological information for the peaceful uses of nuclear energy. Parties to the Treaty in a position to do so shall also co-operate in contributing alone or together with other States or international organizations to the further development of the applications of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes, especially in the territories of non-nuclear-weapon States Party to the Treaty, with due consideration for the needs of the developing areas of the world.

    • Thanks: nokangaroos
  17. We dare and double dare the Orange Orangutang DJT to attack Iran. The genocidal regime of israel will be wiped out for good.

    • Thanks: Anonymous45
  18. Mahan famously observed that it was the wealth gained by trade that funded navies (which in turn underpinned British 19thC/20th century hegemony). Now that the US is turning away from trade…

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
  19. @ghali

    Tariffs against Russia are not that effective since the only things Russia export to the US are Mazoot to produce Diesel when mixed with US produced Light Crude. 98% of US Rail and Truck run on Diesel.
    The other commodity is Uranium for US power plants.

    So it should be obvious the US needs trade with Russia and the trade deficit is created by the US.

    As for tariffs on China, China’s attitude is Walmart is against the tariffs Trump. It was nice how you brought the price of eggs down at Walmart, howver, let’s talk when we let the tariffs show up reflected in the price of everything sold at Walmart and Amazon where Americans shop.

    This American attitude of “I take what I want because I’m exceptional”, needs to be replaced by “I will ask first, even say please and give others time to get on board with my requests.”

    This is what they call Diplomacy.

    • Replies: @antibeast
  20. Escobar leaves out that US/Israel killed Solemani, Nasrallah….and more….with impunity.

    He says losing Syria was a loss for Russia and Iran, but never asks why China, if Iran and Russia or so important to China, did not help Syria more with economic and military support.

    If Iran is so important to Russia why doesn’t Russia recognize Ansarallah?

    He doesn’t ask why Russia gives Trump ‘propaganda victories’, for example by upholding the pretense that the US is ‘mediating’ between Ukraine and Russia, when everybody knows the US is making war on Russia, including targeting the Russian heartland with US missiles, basically doing everything then letting a Ukrainian finger push the button.

    So, is Putin going to give Trump another propaganda victory in Iran, with the pretense that ‘Strong Trump forced Iran to the negotiating table and forced them to agree to a nuclear deal’?

    The ‘soft power’ of propaganda victories is a key element that allows the US empire to remain dominant. It seems that China is now done with the ‘our partner’ bullshit that Putin still indulges in, an indulgence which in fact weakens resistance to the empire.

    Finally, control-F Gaza, no mention at all in this article about west asia. The dog that didn’t bark. Russia/Putin could win propaganda victories daily by focusing on the daily US/Israeli atrocities. But they don’t. The fact that Putin is so Israel friendly, cannot even recognize Ansarallah, possibly betrayed Syria for Israel’s benefit, should make any analyst at least consider seriously the possibility that Putin will ‘stand down’ if Trump nukes Iran. After all, Russia doesn’t want a nuclear Iran on its border. They could do deals with Iran after Iran gets regime changed as well as they can now, can’t they? Haven’t they done this with Syria?

    • Agree: Yababa, ariadna, Henry Ford
    • Replies: @Yababa
    , @muh muh
  21. @Notsofast

    How can Israel and Europe throw a grenade into a US-Iran deal, is yet to be seen.

    Remember the real reason Trump was told to pull out from the JCPOA? First, what did the deal have in it? French oil Companies to supply France with energy for all of Europe from Iran, and in return Renault would build and sell cars in Iran to teplace the aging private fleet. Obama loves Europe and the US banks hated the missed opportunity.

    Europe owes the US a sabotage, if you will, and who can the old colonial mind set go to for more mayhem in the ME but Israel who has been kindly told “a deal is happening BB and your war is not. However, your laundry is ready BB, so take it and go back home and face the music.”

    This is what worries me about Israel, more binge killing might be in for baby Ghazans.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  22. anon[368] • Disclaimer says:

    Don’t you think the whole threat of tariffs, war, and sanctions are just a way to de-U.S.-dollar and bring about the adoption of the BRICS currency?

    China, Russia, Iran, and all of BRICS could adopt their crypto payment system to avoid U.S. tariffs and sanctions if they are on the new BRICS blockchain.
    https://bricschain.org/

    I think they are ready to implement the BRICS Currency.
    https://watcher.guru/news/brics-confirms-development-of-new-payment-systems-in-2025

  23. Bankotsu says:

    With “allies” like this latino bastard Pepe Escobar, the “multipolar coalition” doesn’t need enemies.

    They will all be destroyed by the hared brained schemes of this ridiculous clown.

    One by one, all will be destroyed – Assad Syria, Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Iran, Russia, China, North Korea etc.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  24. @Torna atrás

    “Trade follows the flag”, yes; the navy and the trade underpin each other –
    up to a point; what is covered with the mantle of love in our textbooks is that
    the Queen´s Navee bankrupted Little Britain by ~1908 (diminishing returns);
    warships are unproductive investment; in addition,
    if all you can is warships there are certain limits to how many you can sell to
    your next enemies (there were no “kill switches” back in the day).
    So, the trade wars started; they forced (!) the Germans to put “Made in Germany”
    on their merch to mark it as inferior (in hindsight a more hilarious self-own is
    hard to imagine).

    – The petrodollar bought the Great Satan another half century after defaulting,
    but at the expense of US manufacturing; it is all so predictable …

  25. @Notsofast

    There needs to be a reaction button “I want to believe”.

    • LOL: Yababa
  26. Aragorn says:
    @Notsofast

    White people can not be trusted. Russia betrayed all of the working slave cast, and are on its way to let the Jews get wiped out. If not my close reading of the labels in the food shop will starve the German and “American” bastards. 😜

    • Replies: @ariadna
  27. anon[165] • Disclaimer says:
    @SteveK9

    word “Jew” was invented in 18th century and has too much wide meaning (black Falash from Ethiopia are Jews, some Indians from Andes insists they are Jews etc.), so far more informative is to use original word: KHAZARS.

    Note: Here experts insists that there are no Khazars, but 94% of so-called “Jews” are of Khazaria Empire origin (Mongolian, Slavic, Turkic, Kurdish DNA) i.e. no Semites.

  28. “The second administration of US President Donald Trump… the bombastic Circus Ringmaster himself, seems to ignore these imperatives.”

    The name calling isn’t gonna save your bacon, i.e. Iran and China. In a war involving Shia Iran, China and a very doubtful Russia on one side and America on the other side, the Sunnis, the Europeans and Indians with the Quad members Japan and Australia are not going to sit it out. In an all out war China along with Iran will be the biggest losers. So, hopefully, Xi and Khamenei aren’t dumb enough to pay attention to your grand scheming!

  29. Yababa says:
    @WingsofaDove

    Our gremlin in the Kremlin protects Israel, always, before Iran. However it doesn’t mean it will let go off Iran that easily, because tomorrow when Trump is impeached, or Dems regain the Senate, Congress and perhaps presidency, pro Russia Trump policies will be reversed. Even Trump himself may renege on any deal made with Russia. So Russia will protect Israel from Iran, while doing what it can to covertly assist Iran in defending Iran from US assaults, without intervening directly.

    Chinaware salesman is just a salesman, not a warrior. Which is why Trump hits the Chink chimps where it hurts most, in the pocket. China exports far more to the US than vice-versa so it will lose its market in US and EU very soon. And it might lose its oil supplies too if Trump can have his way, but Russia will probably not let Trump have his way, not all the way at least.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  30. ariadna says:
    @Notsofast

    “i have been saying all along that the russians would save the day, allowing trump to save face and defusing the clusterfuck that he was threatening. now that trump is allowing indirect negotiations, the iranians can sign a deal with a trusted partner, rather than a duplicitous snake that cannot be trusted.”

    Wishful thinking is often stronger than reason and, unlike brain-washing from outside, by being internally produced, is not perceived as a deception.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
    , @socratesjr
  31. ariadna says:
    @Aragorn

    “White people can not be trusted. Russia betrayed all of the working slave cast, and are on its way to let the Jews get wiped out.”

    Organize a campaign with the slogan “NON-Whites Unite to Save Jews!”

  32. Harry Law says:

    We are about to find out what is more important to the west, Israel, or their own economies including all its bases in the middle east and 50,000 military personnel serving there, oh and two aircraft carrier battle groups, many in the US regard Israel as more important than Religion and/or life and death, we shall see.
    Nancy Pelosi at AIC conference in 2018, “if capital crumbles to the ground one thing that’ll remain is our commitment to Israel”.

    Video Link

  33. Notsofast says:
    @ariadna

    let’s just see who’s turns out to be right. if it’s ww3, you can point to me and say, “i told you so”. don’t be surprised if i do the same. so far this is turning out as i called it. who knows what’s next, i guess we’ll just have to wait and find out.

    • Replies: @ariadna
  34. Got Boy says:

    Pepe, the ever-romantic idealist dreamer. Liberte, egalite fraternite and all that.

    Putin will feed Iran to the sharks just like he did Syria. He’s not going to get in the way of the West or of the Zionist state.

    Like it or not, the Iranians are now very much on their own.

    • LOL: Poupon Marx
    • Replies: @Nadim
    , @ariadna
  35. anonymous[328] • Disclaimer says:

    Despite all the threats and bluster there’ll probably be no attack on Iran.They’ve certainly war-gamed it to the hilt and found it to be a losing proposition. Should things go haywire Russia and China would supply Iran with just enough to keep the US tied down and drain it slowly so as to keep it focused there and unable to muck about in places like Ukraine and Taiwan. It’d be a great way to keep the US off their backs.

    • Agree: Henry Ford
  36. Goy Boy 2 says:
    @Notsofast

    The Russians have repeatedly threatened grave consequences in Ukraine in response to the West crossing various red lines. Aside from the Oreshnik deployment last November, I have yet to see anything.

    Maybe a major ground offensive after General Mud departs would give the “grave consequences” canard some teeth, not only in Ukraine, but elsewhere as well.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  37. Agent76 says:

    September 11, 2024 China-Africa Summit Enhances Relations to the Level of “Strategic Partnership”   

    53 states on the continent were represented at the FOCAC gathering in Beijing. This year’s Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) Summit was held in Beijing where decisions were made to strengthen already existing ties into a strategic partnership between the two geopolitical entities. 

    https://www.globalresearch.ca/china-africa-summit-strategic-partnership/5867553       

    Apr 7, 2025 The U.S. Drops a Tariff Bomb, China’s Exports Face Disaster, Where Did $520 Billion in Goods Go?
    
    On April 2, 2025, the US government reignited global debate by imposing a 34% “reciprocal tariff” on China, adding to the 20% increase from March and bringing the total tariff rate to 54%. Under President Trump’s sweeping tariff policy, China’s foreign trade sector is facing significant disruption, and cross-border businesses are under considerable strain.


    Video Link

  38. @Notsofast

    “ the real war being waged, is an economic struggle.”

    Supposedly, behind every war there are primarily economic aims. But at this particular juncture, where Trump is trying to upend the world trading order through his tariffs mayhem, lurks the hidden reality that most institutional investors have been steadily moving away from the public sector by dumping U.S. treasuries in favour of private sector equities. European bonds are also faring worse. And I speculate that Trump’s economic advisors know well that a crash in the stock market might cause a recession but a less severe crash in the bonds market could lead to a depression. Hence the sudden move into bonds we have seen ever since the announcement of the Trump’s open trade war, which should be followed by a cut in interest rates by the Fed.

    European bets on a Russian defeat to open the doors of Russia for extractive policies have dissipated with the ever widening victory margin against Ukraine-cum-NATO. Add the growing Asian solidarity among Russia, China and Iran, and the only course of action for the U.S. is to seek a peaceful settlement with Iran to the great disappointment to Israel’s wannabe King Netanyahu.

    While it looks ever more likely that Europeans will be left out in the cold as America abandons the fight, Von Der Leyen just announced that “Europe is based on the values of the Talmud, the Jewish sense of personal responsibility, of (sic) justice and of solidarity…” This is how far Europe is straying from her high points of Magna Carta and the “theoretical” Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen ( which we should take with a grain of salt as it came from the French Revolution that sent seventeen thousand citizens to the guillotine under the Jacobins).

    Whether Trump carries his war towards fruition or seeks a political settlement with the Iranians would determine who is the master and who is the slave when it come to the Israel/USA duo. But a desperate U.S. facing bankruptcy can be ever more unpredictable and dangerous.

    • Replies: @Notsofast
  39. Anon[111] • Disclaimer says:

    Roadmap B

    1. USAF zooms around in another little airshow, at a safe distance:
    https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/collapsing-empire-the-delusion-of

    2. US bases go away

    3. NATO bloc depression and financial collapse

    4. JCPOA II:
    – Mideast nuclear free zone
    – Continuity of obligations in current Israel/Palestine
    – Genocide Tribunal

    • Replies: @John Trout
  40. @Anon001

    Russia has also been bombing the Ukraine daily, only not the electricity infrastructure as it tries to keep in agreement with the terms of the ceasefire. Anyway, the ceasefire will end soon and then Russia will resume bombing the electricity infrastructure even more than it had ever done before, probably plunging the Ukraine into darkness.

    • Replies: @Anon001
  41. Anon[693] • Disclaimer says:

    Israel will be destroyed, it will be GOOD for the world. Genocidal US-UK are keeping Israel alive. These evil must be destroyed.

    Video Link

  42. @ghali

    Netanyahu, who is fiercely fighting to keep Russian forces in Syria. Why?

    Maybe he wants the Russians there between Turkey and Israel.

    Anyway, it’s far from over with Syria and there is bound to be mare strife and change in the future. What is happening with the oil fields? Have the Americans who occupy them handed them over to the new Syrian government? Where is the oil from those fields going? Will this new government be able to run a viable economy, impose stability and security, collect taxes? I guess for now Turkey is supporting the terrorists in power. But Turkey has big problems and it’s own economy isn’t doing too well. There could come a time when Turkey won’t be able to subsidise this Syrian government. Then anything could happen.

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
    , @迪路
  43. 迪路 says:
    @ghali

    I think we’re taking the pressure off the Iranians.
    Recent military exercises near Taiwan have shown that the entire island is already in a state where we can crush it like an ant at any time.
    If the United States dares to attack Iran, then they will lose most of their semiconductors.

  44. @ghali

    Furthermore, Iran must be cautious if Russia attempts to interfere in the negotiations. Russia is known for being the biggest backstabbing hyena in the East and should never be trusted.

    You weren’t doing too badly until the above. Then, your eyes rolled back into their sockets, you started jabbering in an unintelligible tongue, and out slipped the silly and ridiculous statement. Do you have a child, a 10 year old that accesses your computer when you are away?

  45. @Yababa

    A comment that is replete with absence of concrete references, any semblance of Reality, and a healthy dose of homogenized swine scata. Where do people like you come from? Helen Keller saw more of the world than you. Are you just stupid or perception impaired?

  46. @Bankotsu

    Where do the plethora of morons like you come from, and why are you here? This is not the appropriate place for developmentally stunted people like you. People like you carry a stench of self-delusional relevance and knowledge that is based on nothing. You are nothing, have no experience in the world, no CV, no time and grade except dish washing and bussing tables at a hamburger joint.

    Obviously low IQ, the dump of the rump. Here is a link for you to discover at least some firm knowledge of the World and secure your place at the bottom of the ladder:

    https://naturalnews.com/search.asp?query=illiterate&dateselection=Any&startdate=&enddate=&searchsubmit=Click+to+submit&pr=NN

  47. China and Iran and Russia are the only forces on earth standing in the way of the zionist satanic destruction unleashed on humanity by Trump and Nutanyahu and the outcome of this war against humanity is yet to come.

    Pepe is a champion of the downtrodden and humanity, I wish there were a million just like him.

    • Thanks: John Trout
  48. @Commentator Mike

    If you shave it the newfangled Syrian maximo líder looks like the Zezi´s lost
    twin brother so I think you´re missing something here.

  49. Nadim [AKA "anani"] says:
    @Got Boy

    Like it or not, the Iranians are now very much on their own.

    Iranians are smart and know they cannot trust Russia, the history of Russia in Iran tells them that. You go and save your own behind, and leave Iranians alone. They have survived over 7000 years, you are only in the stolen land of America less than 300 years. UK-US along their PROXY, Israel, must be destroyed and forced out of the region.
    There is a short time before Israel goes into a garbage bin, so US-UK, the evil entities where have done nothing but genocide, rape, terrorism, assassination, invasion, coups, robbing other countries and killing children and women to survive. Death to both, it is time to go into their graves.

    • Thanks: John Trout
  50. In terms of projected military force, Russia is in no position to directly defend Iran. However the second best approach was decided upon with the Iranian purchase of Russian anti ballistic S-400 missiles and system. For both the Russian and American military defense forces, it is a challenge to and performance test of the Northrup B-2 Spirit stealth technology. Among top brass, this is a wink and a nod between U.S and our Russian “partners” We really have no one else fit enough to enter the boxing ring with us. Our admirable Chinese defense forces still rely on the Russians to design and sell top end fighter aircraft engines to them. You see folks, President Putin and his apparatchiks know all about General Wesley Clark’s awareness of, and public announcement concerning a classified memo detailing the “take out” of seven countries in five years beginning with Iraq and ending with Iran. This stratagem was handed down to the Pentagon officialdom from more powerful political forces above and we know or strongly suspect that the real movers-and-shakers are Wall Street speculators with a few closely associated ( revisionist ) Jabotinsky Zionists. It behooves investigative reporters, I’m asking an awful lot here, to compile a crosschecked list of those members found participating in the last Bilderberg meet and latest Chatham house guests. There, we will most likely find whose who issued the classified memo that Wesley Clark became aware of…In short this next regional war? has little to do with the latest Oval Office occupant or Putin’s re-arranged and renamed Soviet directorate members. These guys are the “invisibles” and global peace will never break out until the true movers-and-shakers are hunted down and questioned. They are just humans and cannot hide indefinitely from the combined efforts of the paparazzi coupled with investigative journalist reporting. At this time I wish to add one big kudos to journalists and writers, Greg Palast, a man’s man, the fearless Loretta Napoleoni, dare I say, a woman’s woman along with of course world globe trotter and brilliant commentator Pepe Escobar!

    • Replies: @Joe Webb
    , @AnoN
  51. after coining a pearl

    yet another hard-to-resist Wang Yi jade pearl

    SO many pearls!

    And I, a mere swine.

    • LOL: Cloudwalker
  52. antibeast says:
    @One Nobody

    As for tariffs on China, China’s attitude is Walmart is against the tariffs Trump. It was nice how you brought the price of eggs down at Walmart, howver, let’s talk when we let the tariffs show up reflected in the price of everything sold at Walmart and Amazon where Americans shop.

    During the First Trump Trade War, Trump exempted consumer goods from his tariffs. But Trump fell into his own trap in this Second Trump Trade War by imposing across-the-board tariffs indiscriminately upon the world. So the MAGA crowd are going to feel the biggest pain from supporting Trump 2.0. That’s why China reacted the way it did to the Second Trump Trade War which they had been preparing for in earnest. It’s like how you got beaten up by a bully the first time but then you came up with a plan to beat up the bully this second time around. After the Second Trump Trade War is over, Trump’s own MAGA crowd will beat the GOP to death.

    • Thanks: One Nobody
  53. @ghali

    Ethics and morality are mysterious and somewhat risible terms to the neocons.

  54. Russia is not switching sides; China won’t be encircled; and Iran will be defended.

    Based on Pepe’s record of always being wrong, that means

    Russia is switching sides; China will be encircled; and Iran will be defeated.

    The bigger question maybe is, why is Pepe always wrong? Being wrong all the time takes real effort. It doesn’t just happen by accident.

    It’s not like Pepe simply makes mistakes. With a mistake, you make a statement – “Russia will sweep the UAF all the way to the Dnieper River”, “Hezbollah will beat Israel in the next war”, “Assad will stay in power in Syria”, “the Axis of Resistance is gaining new allies” – and if your prediction turns out wrong, you are embarrassed, and you try to do better next time. Pepe doesn’t do any of that. He never corrects his mistakes. He just doubles down. He seems to have no shame.

    Someone must be paying Pepe very well to keep embarrassing himself in public like this over and over again.

    • Agree: Yababa, peterAUS
    • Replies: @Anon001
  55. @Anon

    – Genocide Tribunal

    I agree with a genocide tribunal. We could start with a list of the zionist pilots who bombed civilians.

  56. Weasels Tear My Flesh.

    Directly From My Heart To You:

    Don’t fret. Surgical brain implants are just around the corner.

  57. Notsofast says:
    @Goy Boy 2

    he didn’t say that they would respond, he just said there would be grave consequences. this is why i like putin, he doesn’t threaten and he speaks in an understated manner. i kind of look at this like the oracle of delphi, telling king croesus, if he attacked persia a mighty empire would be destroyed.

    remember the russians and iranians have been working together on radar and air defenses. he may be telling trump, he’s in for a nasty surprise if he attacks iran. he doesn’t say how, why, what, where or to whom, these consequences will befall. that should give them food for thought, if they are capable of that, the jury’s still out on that but trump, accepted indirect talks after that.

    as to ukraine, the smo will continue until ukraine capitulates to all russian demands, there is talk that trump will force the ukrainians to accept the russians demands. we’ll see where this goes but the russians are in no hurry to end this on any terms other than theirs, as this war is destroying the e.u. zato forces economies, time is on their side.

    • Replies: @Poupon Marx
  58. Instead uniting the world in peace, more hegemonic thiking.

    Splitting Russia From China Is Possible—and Vital

    https://www.theamericanconservative.com/splitting-russia-from-china-is-possible-and-vital/

  59. RonUnzFan says:

    I love Pepe Escobar. He is a man of radiant, joyous wisdom. I have decided to support this website and the brave Ron Unz because free speech is under assault in the U.S. I am here also because I am afraid of what the Trump administration might do to Mr. Unz. Biden may have regrettably aided and abetted the genocide in Gaza, but at least he let us complain about it.

    I am instinctively averse to the apparent one-sided Zionism of President Trump. But I say ‘apparent’ because I have hope that the deal maker, who used to theorize about leaving something on the table for the other side, will find room in his heart for Iran.

    I love Iran, the Iranian people, and Shi’a Islam. The American regime, if it is to exist in 100 years time, must find a way to make way for the 2 billion Muslims on this planet, who will soon number 3 billion. There is no reason Iran should need to ‘ask permission’ for a civilian nuclear program or any other thing they need to protect themselves from Western, Anglo-American imperial predations. This was true in the days of Mossadegh, and it is true now.

    Pepe Escobar has a peerless understanding of these matters, and I celebrate this article and Mr. Unz’s brave provision of a platform for these views.

    • Agree: Salus Populi
  60. Notsofast says:
    @Joe Levantine

    Von Der Leyen just announced that “Europe is based on the values of the Talmud, the Jewish sense of personal responsibility, of (sic) justice and of solidarity…”

    i saw that and spit out my coffee, even though i wasn’t drinking coffee. well i guess it’s all out in the open, they don’t even try to hide it anymore. well she better dye her hair, because her nazi roots are showing. perhaps they are askenazi roots.

    https://globaleuronews.com/2023/03/25/scion-of-the-nazi-heritage-about-von-der-leyens-family-wardrobe-skeletons/

    But a desperate U.S. facing bankruptcy can be ever more unpredictable and dangerous.

    i’m starting to think that is the plan, to drive the whole world into a massive depression, to cover the impending u.s. bankruptcy to force the “great reset” and a new bretton woods, in order to sweep the 36 trillion debt under the carpet. how else can they deal with it? hopefully it won’t require ww3 but you never know. all i know is that the view from main street is bleak.

    • Replies: @Joe Levantine
  61. @Notsofast

    Russia: “Time is on my side. Yes it is”.

  62. @SteveK9

    Pepe, is a pussy, always has been. In every article he’ll throw around Russian and Chinese names from whom he’s got direct information. Most of the times it’s fake. He once claimed a nuclear bomber crashed on Jordan Israeli border.

  63. Anon[131] • Disclaimer says:

    NE Asia dribbles out another little tranche of Treasuries and Trump will be pitchforking kikes into the ovens to smooth things over.

  64. muh muh says:
    @WingsofaDove

    The ‘soft power’ of propaganda victories is a key element that allows the US empire to remain dominant.

    ‘Propaganda victories’ — if they can even be called this — preach to the choir. In reality, they no more strengthen an aggressor than braggadocio empowers a bully.

    There’s a reason it’s called a confidence game. Seasoned players learn repose. They do not telegraph conflicting messages without revealing a weak hand.

    Syria was an unfortunate loss, yet engagement there would have diverted it from the endgame. Putin saw the trap and acted accordingly. He maintains composure, which is much more than I can say for his adversaries.

    Time will tell. Until then, let the aggressors proclaim what they will. In fact, it is better they do.

  65. peterAUS says:
    @Anon001

    …..Ron is really ruining his reputation with this clown…..

    Or, a certain additional dataset has been added, and regularly updated, to the overall data mine. And processed, of course.

    All good.

  66. @Dr. Rock

    If the Rain of Tariffs doesn’t end SOON, he is over anyway.

  67. ariadna says:
    @Notsofast

    Of course nobody know how all this will ultimately turn out. Nevertheless venturing a prediction on this assumption of yours, that “now that trump is allowing indirect negotiations, the iranians can sign a deal with a trusted partner, rather than a duplicitous snake that cannot be trusted” looks to me like heart-breaking wishful thinking.
    Also, if the worst imaginable outcome came to pass — WWIII (or even a nuclear regional war) breaks out– the last thing on mind would be to point to you and say “I told you so,” first because although I like you are not THAT central in my mind, and second because whatever satisfaction of having been right you seem to put so much stock in is grossly inappropriate in this context and indeed anywhere outside kids’ games.

    • Agree: Yababa
    • Replies: @Notsofast
  68. ariadna says:
    @Got Boy

    “Like it or not, the Iranians are now very much on their own.”

    As they have always been. The awareness of it must inform their decisions

    • LOL: Poupon Marx
  69. Anonymous[399] • Disclaimer says:

    Why cannot we reply to #5 comment?

    @ Annony

    Iranian are smart and have said not only Trump is an assassin and a genocidal, but also he is using LIE and DECEPTION in shaping his foreign policy. On one hand he wants to ‘negociate’, on the other hand he pass more SANCTIONS on Iran, this tell everyone with more than two brain cells that he is a LIAR, no one should believe a word coming out of his mouth.
    For example his advisor Witkoff in Carlson interview said that Trump does not want much only Iran not to have nuclear weapon. He said in fact ‘the president’ wants to bring Iran in close to US helping her economy. ALL LIES, he is passing MORE SANCTION while he is giving these LIES for his gullible Americans consumption. Watch the following to see the gap between what Witkoff is telling Carlston on behalf of the ‘president’, and what he is doing every day against Iran. LIARS.

    Then the ‘president’s advisor’, the terrorist Mark Dubowitz from terrorist FDD who gives the brainless president advice, write the following:

    Enhanced Iran Sanctions Act (H.R. 1422) clears HouseForeignGOP committee. It tightens pressure on Tehran’s petroleum sector, blocks funding for its nuclear ambitions, and requires COMPLETE and VERIFIABLE nuclear DISMANTLEMENT before sanctions relief.

    What do you believe?

  70. @ariadna

    Ariadna

    Wishful thinking is often stronger than reason and, unlike brain-washing from outside, by being internally produced, is not perceived as a deception.

    Great insight!

    Looking into my crystal ball I see a 2500 year old Cult agenda that has defied all common sense about how a small group of people, even with a disconnect in genetic heritage, can jump the genetic train track without loosing their momentum. I cannot grasp, that after all this time and effort, someone like Putin will save the day, unless a “day” is a temporary lull in this agenda.

    I do not see a good outcome. It is risky business when too much hope is put on one man. For all that Hitler tried to do for his people, when he died, his movement died. Strong leaders come and go but the Cult keeps on trucking. But I would like to see Notsofast have the last laugh.

    • Replies: @muh muh
  71. It all just seems like 1984, where they are all in cahoots behind the scenes.

    • Agree: Cloud Posternuke
  72. The Ukraine is continually breaking the energy infrastructure ceasefire yet the West says nothing. Wait when the ceasefire expires and the Russians hit the Ukrainian energy infrastructure really hard and see how the hypocritical West responds. The Russians are demonstrating that the Ukrainians are not ceasefire capable. All they are capable of is spreading propaganda in the Western media that has no bearing on reality.

  73. Notsofast says:
    @ariadna

    there’s a difference between wishful thinking and observance of human nature and situational analysis. i trust my instincts and they have very rarely let me down. like i said, we’ll see.

    • LOL: Yababa
  74. anon[348] • Disclaimer says:

    Xi and Trump are in a d*ck measuring contest. China needs to call Trump’s bluff by imposing a 250% tariff on all US imports. Let’s see what Trump does.

    • Replies: @nokangaroos
    , @SteveK9
  75. Vladimir says:

    Strong leaders come and go but the Cult keeps on trucking.

    You are right, the Jewish mafia has killed the strong man, Alexander LEBET, who was a good alternative to petty and drunk Yeltsin and zionist Putin.
    The state of Israel is a major factor in the rise and power of the mafia. The drug traffickers, sex traffickers, organ traffickers, child porn pushers and slave traders are free from prosecution in Israel. Russia voted for the erection of Israel like US-UK, to erect a PROXY for the west, including Russia, to robe and control the West Asia. Russia along with the west toppled Abdulhamid II, Ottoman Sultan to create an opportunity to send its own Jewish population to stolen land of Palestine. So, Putin is not the first president to support and protect the Jewish mafia. Putin was let into power by the same mafia that Yeltsin was let in. There were other Russian brave nationalists who wanted to protect Russia from the mafia, but they were killed in different type of ‘accidents’ to increase the chances of those who are holocaust promoters. One of these victims of the mafia is General Alexander Lebed.
    Alexander Lebed, a Russian General who played a key role in foiling the 1991 coup against Mikhail Gorvbachev and ran for president against Boris Yeltsin five years later, died in a helicopter crash. His last job was governor of the Siberian Krasnoyarsk region. Many suggested that his death might NOT have been an accident. The spokesperson said: “the helicoprter hit a high-votage line and crashed. He said “there were 19 people on board. Seven, including Gen Lebed, died while the rest were in hospital.
    However, at the time, every member of the Russian military was convinced the death of Lebed was no accident, but rather another hit by the international Jewish mafia, an organization that had long since taken control over much of Russia’s economy. There was reports that Prior to this ‘accident’ dozens of anti-Zionists in Russia had been murdered by car bombs or other devices, while none of the cases was ever solved. Only a handful was even investigated.
    They say that Alexander Lebed, likely the most popular man in Russia at the time, was going to build a national socialist empire—possibly with Chinese assistance—based on the massive oil and mineral wealth of the region.
    The reason Putin is alive is due to his close cooperation with the Jewish mafia, otherwise he would have been assassinated, especially when many criminal jews have access to Putin.
    http://hugequestions.com/Eric/RussianMafia_RaphaelJohnson_TBR.pdf

  76. peterAUS says:

    There is a common belief in this online pub. Or a (social) lab, if you will. A certain faith in something.

    Now, it appears that the faith is starting to shake a bit. First, weak, signs, but they are there.
    Of course, it’s really irellevant what people here believe or not, especially in regards to real geopolitical issues, BUT, that’s not the point.

    The POINT is, if people here are starting to have some doubts, what we can expect from very people directly affected by those geopolitical issues?

    Middle aged/elderly people sitting in their armchairs and typing their beliefs is one thing. No skin in the game. No paying, whatsoever, for any mistake/error/etc.
    For people living in those parts of the world directly affected, well, it’s totally different game. Lives are at stake for the same errors/mistakes.

    So….if “believers” here are starting to have doubts, well, what can be expected from people in Iran?
    Direcly related to their willingness, or not, to fight and die for the regime in Tehran?
    Perhaps it’s time to start thinking about other options? Plenty of them. From being ineffective in their jobs/roles/assignments to direct rebellion and/or switching sides when the time is right. And many in between.

    Just a thought.

    • Replies: @Anon
    , @Commentator Mike
  77. Notsofast says:
    @One Nobody

    i’m afraid the senseless slaughter of innocents will continue until israel is broken economically. this is only conclusion i can draw, as israel is incapable of diplomacy and fears a peaceful solution to the point, it is willing to bring the entire world into nuclear conflagration, rather than finding a peaceful solution.

    the only thing other than genocide these hubristic monsters understand, is money and in the end, it’s the only thing they love more than their primitive supremacism, that passes for a religion. this will be the driving factor in ending the henious and inexcusable murder of innocents.

    for all of their dominance and unlimited weapons, supplied by their vassals, they are no closer to completing their genocide of the semitic people of the levant, than they were on 10/8/23. their economy is shredded and their international reputation forever damaged beyond repair.

    if the russians can work an agreement that will fulfill the european demands of the jcpoa, they could end their sanctions on iran, europe could then have a desperately needed source of energy and all of the trade with iran the would help both the e.u. and iran. what better way than this to stick it to the u.s., that is attempting to destroy both of them?

  78. @anon

    Stop buying corn and soy, stop selling rare earths, tungsten and antimony;
    only the former will hurt, the latter is more a spanner in the works.
    It all hinges on the dollar – if a critical mass get off it, it´s over for the GS.

  79. muh muh says:
    @socratesjr

    For all that Hitler tried to do for his people, when he died, his movement died.

    In its original form and circumstances, yes.

    In its ideological impetus affecting perceptions of Jewish power beyond the confines of Nazism, his ‘movement’ is very much alive and stirring the consciousness of an entirely new generation.

    As for Islam, the ground is being prepared for a generation of warriors driven by persistent memories of the hour’s depredations — whether wrought by Israel or its supine subordinates.

    It is naive to imagine the score could be so simply settled by Israel’s current policy trajectory, even were it to topple Iran. Israel will struggle for security for as long as it exists, which, given current realities, will not be so long after all:

    Can Israel Survive the Rising Forces of Theocratic Populism?
    https://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-israel-survive-rising-forces-theocratic-populism-206423

  80. There are unusual feature to Trump’s fascism. That there is no mass base and Trump’s popularity sinking is one thing. The eruption of mass protests already breaking the hold of the unions and Democrats is also very important. Mussolini and Hitler worked hard to create order and the semblance of prosperity. as well as a national community.

    I wonder about the unity of purpose of a ruling class whose Kennedy Center and pretensions of culture has been undermined and their portfolios ruined with even bankers failing to breach Trump’s nouveau riches hordes. Check out the Wall Street Journal’s daily assault on Trump as a example.

    One of Trotsky’s condition for revolution is that the ruling class loses confidence in itself.

  81. raga10 says:

    The two Asian giants are “forever friends and never enemies”

    I’ve been saying for as long as that slogan exists that it is nothing but propaganda snow job. In reality, historically Russia and China were usually competitors or outright enemies at times and even when they are not openly at war, their relationships is uneasy. Nor are they likely to be “friends” for long. At the moment their goals and needs might align, but they will diverge soon enough.

  82. Anon[332] • Disclaimer says:
    @peterAUS

    You are a STUPID person with Capital S.
    You just hold on to your hat not to go with the wind, don’t tell us about Iranian people and what should they do.
    All Iranians are united behind the Iran’s government and its military forces against the enemies and their stupid propagandists, and will defend their country Iran at any cost. They have done it in 1980s, and in 1988, and in many other COLOR Revolutions that your genocidal and stupid REGIMES foment in Iran and ALL have been FAILED. You will be cut in pieces if you take a wrong step. Haven’t you noticed? You must be one of those “Middle aged/elderly people sitting in their armchairs and typing their belief” The supports by Iranian critics have been circulated around your own propaganda media. Change your classes in order to see.
    I don’t know why I think you are one of those Iranian ‘opposition’ groups who is on the side of the enemies. Use REGIME for your genocidal, rapist, assassin, terrorist criminals, not its victim.

    • Replies: @peterAUS
  83. Anon001 says:
    @Eugene Kusmiak

    The bigger question maybe is, why is Pepe always wrong? Being wrong all the time takes real effort. It doesn’t just happen by accident.

    Not a accident at all – Pepe is a liar for Putin, and spouts Kremlin propaganda constantly, trying to present Putin as some kind of enemy of USA/NATO/NWO. Putin is anything but that.

    Now, mind you, Putin and his Bots/QAnons (like Pepe Escobar, Andrei Martyanov, Simplicius, Duran (Cristoforou, Mercouris), Scott Ritter, Douglas Macgregor, Saker (Andrei Raevsky), Dmitry Orlov, et.al.) do this to fool Russians first and foremost, as Putin is a traitor of Russia.

    Putin has huge Napoleon complex [3] too!

    Re Iran: Iran will not be defended, of course – here’s Moscow actually confirming it [1]. At the same time, Putin likes to sign contracts with NATO targets, like Iran, to present himself as some kind of opponent to NATO and a defender of those targets [2] – it’s all ruse and a lie. Just like with Serbia, Libya, Armenia (member of the CSTO aka Putin’s NATO), Syria, etc., that he betrayed completely and throughly.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    [1] Jason Brodsky on X: “Moscow has said it was not obliged to help #Iran under a potential U.S. attack after President Donald Trump warned Tehran against getting a nuclear weapon. Yes, the new Russia-Iran Strategic Cooperation Agreement does not have a mutual defense clause.
    https://twitter.com/JasonMBrodsky/status/1909928954640715829

    [2] Russian Duma Ratifies 20-Year Defense, Energy Pact With Iran | ZeroHedge
    https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/russian-duma-ratifies-20-year-defense-energy-pact-iran

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    Putinocchio – Putin with Pinocchio Nose
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    [3] Putin wears high heels. Putin’s Napoleon complex … | YouTube
    (<4 min short video, fast forward to the 30-second mark)

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    #russia-globalist-colony #russia-occupied #putin-colonial-administrator #putin-globalist-agent #putin-judas #putin-trojan-horse #putin-pontius-pilate #putin-young-global-leader #putin-pupil-of-klaus-schwab #putin-pupil-of-kissinger #putin-traitor-of-russia #putin-liar #putin-high-treason #putin-backstabber #putin-imported-15-million-muslim-migrants #putin-csto-lie #putin-who-compliant #putin-wef-compliant #putin-accessory-to-nato-crimes #russian-gold-is-gone #russia-banana-republic

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    https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=anon001
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    • Replies: @muh muh
  84. Joe Webb says:
    @elmerfudzie

    Great PALast is a jew and an Israel firster.

    • Replies: @elmerfudzie
  85. @raga10

    Rubbish. Shallow. A dilettante. Suspiciously
    hasbara.

    • Agree: FTB, Avery
    • Replies: @raga10
    , @FTB
  86. AnoN[176] • Disclaimer says:
    @elmerfudzie

    {{{However the second best approach was decided upon with the Iranian purchase of Russian anti ballistic S-400 missiles and system.}}}

    Russia does not sell S-400 to Iran. Putin sold S-400 to Turkey, but does not sell it to Iran. He sold few S-300, but then refused to deliver them, because Israel and US told Russia don’t deliver if you want to have ‘concessions’. Russia refused to deliver few S-300 which is obsolete now, although Iran had paid the full price. Iran had to go to International organization and with a delay of 10 years to force them to deliver to Iran. Russia did not sell RADAR to Iran, although Russians agreed first, and the Iranians paid the down payment. Then Russia told Iran you have to find another country as the destination, where Iranian did that. All these activities cost Iran millions of dollars. But, at the end Russia denied Iran of Radar where cost Iran millions of dollars. The Iranians had to make RADARS themselves endogenously. No one can trust Russia.

    • Replies: @elmerfudzie
  87. anon[215] • Disclaimer says:

    Trump is a war criminal and as such should be arrested, judged, jailed and probably executed for being guilty of exterminating thousands of children in Yemen, Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and the USA (through his ‘warp-speed’ campaign).

    Tel-aviv’sbutcher netanyahu was there these days to give orders to his personal prostitute Trump. Following the vist of his pimp, Trump triple down on attack against civilians in Yemen while the zionist criminals are annexing the West Bank and exterminating Gazans and Lebanese.

    Now the depraved, insane and senile Trump is hiking tariffs against China at 125%! Doing the work of the global cabal whose Epstein files make Trump run like a little prostitute.

    What are China, Russia and Iran doing to stop these crimes?

    The US, UK, the EU and their Jewish masters are pushing for WW3, this is their plan.

    It is time for the US to hit the dust like a fat rotten clay giant. The world is waiting for that and this country has never been so hated since the zionist whore Trump was installed in power.

    This buffoon would make conservatives want to become leftists and even make his supporters regret not to have voted Kamala.

    • Agree: John Trout
  88. Anon[687] • Disclaimer says:

    The saddest thing is the Izzie kikebots drowning clutching at the straw of USAF backing. This USAF.

    https://www.kitklarenberg.com/p/collapsing-empire-the-delusion-of

  89. There’s no question that the Syrian debacle was an extremely serious setback for both Moscow and Tehran, further aggravated by Trump’s non-stop escalation over Iran’s nuclear program and his “maximum pressure” obsession.

    Why would it be a setback for Moscow when Putin only pretended to attack the rebels?

    Is Pepe just going to ignore that Iranian general in favor of some fantasy of Putin being the mass murdering dictator you can trust? Putin betrayed Assad. A pair of Migs could have torn that rebel column apart as it entered from Turkey. The column lacked air support and would have faced hell in the desert had they been strafed by Migs. It also would have given time for Assad’s forces to prepare.

    Putin got what he wanted which is the excuse to bring back his remaining armored vehicles. Russia is running out of tanks and armored vehicles. The ISW correctly predicted that they would run out this year.

    Putin broke his contract with Assad. It was his plan and not a setback. Or are we to believe that the Iranian general is lying and Russia somehow didn’t notice a ragtag slow moving column coming from Turkey?

    Gosh Assad we tried to attack them but they were too strong. Guess I’ll take all this shiny military equipment to Ukraine. Oh darn.

    • Replies: @Yababa
  90. Trump MELTDOWN: Putin, Iran & China Ready for WW3 w/ Larry Johnson, Ray McGovern & Glenn Diesen

    • Thanks: FTB
  91. raga10 says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Suspiciously hasbara.

    Oh, take your blinkers off for once, my point has nothing to do with Israel. Relations between Russia and China would play out exactly the same if there was not a single Jew on the planet.

  92. @SteveK9

    Pepe doesn’t want the Zio’s pissing poison into his soup. He’s part dilitante, part gadfly. “Low Profile”

  93. FTB says:
    @Poupon Marx

    Agree.

    It was the Sino-Russian incursions into the Eurasian steppes to end the threat from the Mongols which brought the two empires into contact.

    In their time as neighbors over the past 380 plus years, China and Russia have had occasional border clashes – about a half dozen; or once every 60 years – but neither side attempted outright conquest. As both sides became nuclear powers, the likelihood of war between them becomes less likely with time.

    Especially, with the volume of cross border trade increasing and China’s need for a friendly neighbor to assist as a stabilizing force in the vast Central Asian Republics that lie along the key routes for China’s BRI ambitions.

    Dialing this back to Iran.

    The column written by a retired SEAL gives a breakdown on why war with Iran will lead to global economic disruptions which will drag in both Russia and China.

    The ironic part is that any disruption in the oil exports from the ME will affect Japan, South Korea and Singapore who rely more on ME oil and gas even more than China.

    https://steelcutter.substack.com/p/if-we-go-to-war-against-iran-the?publication_id=2821180

    Then we have to factor in the massive military disaster we’ll be confronted with.

    To root out hundreds of these mobile anti-ship missiles “the hard way” using infantry troops would require a land invasion greater than Normandy and Okinawa combined.

    The Battle of Okinawa holds some lessons. Okinawa is only 463 square miles is size, a small fraction of the land area controlling the Strait of Hormuz. Yet it took the combined American Navy, Army and Marine Corps three months to subdue Okinawa, at a cost of 12,000 American and 100,000 Japanese lives……

    ….We obviously don’t have the force structure to even contemplate such an action in Iran, so rule that out. Therefore, we must assume that Iran will be capable of attacking shipping in the Strait of Hormuz for an undetermined length of time. To plan otherwise would be incredibly stupid. “Hope is not a plan.”

    Any naval ships or tankers attempting to run the Strait of Hormuz during wartime will face a formidable array of Iranian missiles. During a state of war, insurance will be canceled. Tankers will only attempt to transit the strait if they are reflagged as American ships and escorted by U.S. Navy warships. But will this be successful?………

    ………In my opinion, any military planners who assume we can destroy a wide range of strategic military targets inside Iran, from their nuclear to their ballistic missile programs, without suffering an extreme economic blowback, is a damn fool.

    But then, we have seen a lot of extremely stupid military decision in recent years, such as the assumption that we could weaken Russia by engaging in a proxy war with them using Ukraine as our conduit. Our Pentagon brainiacs also thought the doomed 2023 Ukrainian counter-offensive could reach Crimea, and that the failed 2024 Kursk invasion would force Russia to negotiate an end to the war on terms that were favorable to Ukraine. Wrong, wrong and wrong.

    Not to even mention our utter fiasco in Afghanistan.

    These are the same brainiac politicians, generals and admirals who are now advocating for a shooting war against Iran. Nobody is fooled by our calling this process a “negotiation.” A “negotiation” with a gun held to your temple is simple extortion. Iran’s missile programs are not in violation of any treaty. If we attack Iran, in an attempt to neutralize their external military capabilities on behalf of Israel, the entire world is going to suffer the consequences when the petroleum stops flowing out of the Persian gulf.

    • Replies: @Ed Case
  94. 迪路 says:
    @Commentator Mike

    I agree with you.
    Now the government of Syria is unable to balance the situation and will only kill and rob everywhere.
    If they move beyond the control of the Turks, the Israeli side will not gain.
    The Russians would be the perfect middleman to balance the situation.
    To be honest, if there is a chance, we China would like to find some chance to hit Turkey.
    The Syrian terrorist groups currently actually hold many terrorists from across the Chinese border.
    They used to try to incite separatist forces and terrorist attacks on our borders.
    I really don’t understand the Turks, they really are a bunch of cerebral palsy.
    They were essentially Islamized Greeks, but they wanted to recognize the Turks as their ancestors.
    The problem was that Turkic orthodoxy had long been assimilated by the Chinese. Their Khan was conquered by us in the Tang Dynasty, ordered to dance by our emperor.
    From the point of view of blood, they are not qualified to promote any Turkism.

    • Agree: Yababa
    • Thanks: Commentator Mike
    • Replies: @FTB
  95. Nadim [AKA "Annony"] says:

    War Propaganda by the British media, Reuters, to deceive the gullible people to manipulate.

    These genocidal, assassins, and terrorists who created ISRAEL as PROXY in the occupied land of Palestine, now are engaged in the dirty WAR PROPAGANDA using their MEDIA, that Both Hezbollah and the resistant forces in Iraq, are willing to DISARM, where both resistance forces STRONGLY denied. The genocidal Trump along genocidal UK are trying to deceive the public by spreading war propaganda.

    [MORE]

    Exclusive: Facing calls to disarm, Hezbollah ready to discuss weapons if Israel withdraws, senior official says.
    BEIRUT, April 8 (Reuters) – As calls for Lebanon’s Hezbollah to disarm gain momentum, a senior Hezbollah official told Reuters the group is ready to hold talks with the Lebanese president about its weapons if Israel withdraws from south Lebanon and stops its strikes.The senior Hezbollah official said the group was ready to discuss its arms in the context of a national defence strategy but this hinged on US BACKED Israel pulling out its troops from five hilltops in south Lebanon.

    These baby killers and genocidal assholes never give a name, always ‘a senior official’ tells these lies to British Reuters, that no on can verify. Evil US and UK erected Israel as Proxy with the Russian vote at the UN, thus these evil empires are responsible for the massacre of the Palestinian toddlers and must pay compensations. Here is the other lie by British Reuters:
    Exclusive: The militias in Iraq ready to disarm to avert Trump wrath.
    They say fuck off Reuters. Who wants to talk with these TERRORISTS and baby killers like Trump, Netanyahu or evil UK. Iranian news reported on these lies and said the following:
    Both News by Reuters have been strongly denied by the Islamic Resistance in Iraq and Lebanon. Of course, Reuters has repeatedly attempted to create an environment of fear to blackmail and to spread propaganda of this type in the past. However, this news agency’s recent action against the Resistance Front is accompanied by two important points:
    First, the opposition and hostile movement to the resistance front in the West Asian region is trying to hit this movement in any way possible and is using various methods. Now, Western media such as Reuters, which have carried out extensive maneuvers in recent months about the alleged weakening of the resistance axis, have actually taken this lie to a new level and is announcing the imminent disarmament of the resistance groups in the region. They are trying to inject the FALSE conception of the weakening of the axis of resistance as a reality into the minds of public opinion and the nations of the region and the world,to weaken the morale of the supporters of the axis of resistance as much as possible to provide favorable conditions for their agendas to feed the public.

    Second: in the current situation, the claim of the Western Media that they are independent from the government has been called into question. A truth that has been demonstrated in the recent campaign of this Western media against Iraqi resistance groups and, of course, Hezbollah in Lebanon is the evidence that Reuters is an embedded outlet, and is part of the government war propaganda campaign. Now, such media outlets have practically become agents of Western powers.

  96. Trump says Gaza is just real estate to him. I thought he was a nationalist, one whose sense of homeland transcends dollars and cents. To a nationalist, his homeland is priceless and sacred, not something that could be bought and sold.
    Trump totally ignores the Palestinian bond to their homeland. It’s just ‘real estate’, something to buy and develop casinos and golf courses on and from which Palestinians should be evicted to other countries.

    For the longest time, nationalists opposed mass immigration even if meant higher GDP and more economic growth on grounds that a homeland is about more than economics.

    But that logic doesn’t apply to the Palestinians who are regarded merely as tenants on the very land they’ve been living on for thousands of years.
    For some reason, some Jew in NY has a sacred claim to Palestine/Israel, but Palestinians are merely residents whose lease can be canceled.

    The utter moral bankruptcy of MAGA nationalism.

    • Replies: @Ed Case
    , @anon
  97. Anon[502] • Disclaimer says:
    @peterAUS

    whoever reads the ‘Iran human rights’ biased reports and believe them is nothing but Stupid, Stupid, Stupid beyond reform. Why don’t you look at your genocidal, terrorist, blackmailer and assassin REGIMES before writing another garbage copied from the criminal western propaganda tool, ‘human rights’. Throw it in the toilet and flush.
    It is obvious now that you are on those “Middle aged/elderly people sitting in their armchairs and believing the lies of the genocidal west’s ‘human rights’, a tool like ICC for regime change, but the same tool refuses to arrest and execute terrorists and baby killers like Netanyahu, Biden, Trump and most of the Western fools. The western propaganda tools are directed for the gullible people like YOU.

    • Replies: @muh muh
  98. FTB says:
    @迪路

    The Syrian terrorist groups currently actually hold many terrorists from across the Chinese border.
    They used to try to incite separatist forces and terrorist attacks on our borders.

    PLA Special Forces Units had been active alongside the Russian and Assad forces to gather intel on the Uighur jihadists in Syria. If I’m not mistaken, the Uighur militants do not represent most Uighurs and they even target other other ethnic Muslims in China like the Hui in their terrorist campaigns.

    I really don’t understand the Turks, they really are a bunch of cerebral palsy.
    They were essentially Islamized Greeks, but they wanted to recognize the Turks as their ancestors.

    IIRC, many of the Greeks had converted to Islam following Constantinople’s fall to the Ottomans after the Byzantine Empire has been weakened by the Latin Church’s treacherous Crusades. Personally, I would be extremely gratified if Russia were to eventually repay Turkiye’s treason by making Istanbul Constantinople again.

    The problem was that Turkic orthodoxy had long been assimilated by the Chinese. Their Khan was conquered by us in the Tang Dynasty, ordered to dance by our emperor.
    From the point of view of blood, they are not qualified to promote any Turkism.

    I recall the Tang’s military campaign which expanded it’s borders into the Central Asia stretching to the Tarim Basin. They lost control of the western expanses after losing to an emergent Arab Empire and was unable to launch another campaign to retake the lost territories because rebellion had broken out.

    • Replies: @迪路
  99. @AnoN

    Of course your response begs the question, why didn’t the Russians send the latest S series missiles to Iran? Surely it wasn’t due to Iran’s credit rating, eh? Putin has sufficient political savvy to realize that should the S300/400 systems fail to deter B-2 bombing runs, it would impact on sales promotion of same…In any case, the actual performance and success of S series depends on that word “ambiguity”.
    This maneuver flatters the U.S. s’ rather weak diplomatic strategy we’ve come to know as their “ambiguity” concept, An idea that extends well beyond the actual effectiveness of a new “wonder weapon” but also weakens the definition of what a “war footing” is. If I read Putin right, he does not wish to embarrass western weapons manufacturers or inflict such costs to the American psyche (pride) such that a seven hundred fifty million dollar B-2 can actually undergo detection and consequently be shot down by an anti-ballistic missile made at one fifteenth the manufacturing cost! Putin seems to be a supreme diplomat in this context. That said, the generals on both sides want very much to field test their latest technology. To further this aim, no doubt actual aggressive intentions were clarified (in secret) and relayed to the Iranian government. Something to the effect that, obliterating the country or toppling its government are simply not in the cards, that the sole objective is to placate the “new face” of Zionism by showcasing visible and sever damage to Iran’s underground enrichment facilities. Specifically where 60% U235 is stored. Yes, we are all being gamed-get used to it, the whole damn and abominable thing is a huge FARCE.

    With a bit a head scratching, anyone can visualize a scenario where the warheads atop the Khorramshahr-4 missile systems can each contain a three thousand pound payload of intensely radioactive alpha and gamma emitters, colloquially referred to as a “dirty bomb”. This missile barrage most likely launched against the city of Tel Aviv thus making it uninhabitable for a thousand years. No, attempts to scrub or prayers for torrential rains would not sufficiently remove the hazard from every surface in that city, not to mention downwind airborne contamination from such material over Tel Aviv as well as surface debris lifted up into the atmosphere from airborne bombing, with mini nukes of deep underground enrichment facilities in Iran. The entire Levant and western Asia would suffer from Ground-shine effects. Did someone say, let’s build a fabulous resort on Gaza’s shoreline? it won’t be just warm weather…it will be HOT, so bring your Geiger counter….

    Everyone knows the tune, What’s it all about Alfie?

  100. Ed Case says:
    @Priss Factor

    The Gazans want to leave, but their fellow Arab Countries won’t even let them transit through, let alone settle there. Simple humanitarian concerns mean the must be resettled while the rubble is cleared. It’s not right and it’s not fair, but who is supplying them with weapons?

    • Replies: @Priss Factor
    , @anon
  101. Ed Case says:
    @FTB

    The Okinawans were a simple people brainwashed into fighting to the end. The Iranians know the score, once America shows up in force, the regime will fall and a Civil War will start over the spoils. This happened in Iraq.
    Iran’s best hope is to overthrow their CIA installed regime, sooner is better, while Trump is still President.

    • LOL: Poupon Marx
  102. @Joe Webb

    Joe Webb I accept truth where ever or whom ever it’s origins. Greg Palast’s book titled Armed Madhouse is a virtual treasure trove of facts with accompanying acknowledgments and sources. He has published several other books too, equally important such as The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Bush Family Fortunes and Democracy and Regulation. Believe me, he’s the best, Jew or Not!

  103. Sarita says:

    -The US situation-

    “Two parties were needed. One of them rules, and one of them forms the opposition. When one party is played out, the opposition party comes to power, and the played out party now takes its turn as the opposition”

    -Adolf Hitler-

    • LOL: Yababa
    • Replies: @Yababa
  104. Anon[502] • Disclaimer says:
    @peterAUS

    You are so gullible who does not know all western ‘Human rights’ are FUNDED and promoted by CIA and Western intelligence services including Mossad. Here is one of those CIA funded FAKE ‘Iran human rights’ in the business of regime change who received funding from CIA more than $15,000,000 dollars to fool people like YOU. https://www.iranrights.org/ One of these ‘human rights’ foundations is Boroumand Foundation is run by two kurdish sisters and have received millions of dollars and many ‘awards’ for their propaganda lies from the West and its agents, including Lech Wałęsa Award organized by the genocidal Jews. Recently, Trump cut their funding, since they have failed to topple the Iranian government after 45 years of receiving money.

    • Replies: @muh muh
  105. @Ed Case

    If Gazans want to leave, it’s because they’re being bombed and starved, not because they want to give up their homeland.

    • Thanks: FTB
    • Replies: @Ed Case
  106. muh muh says:
    @Anon

    whoever reads the ‘Iran human rights’ biased reports and believe them is nothing but Stupid, Stupid, Stupid beyond reform.

    One ‘stupid’ would suffice, but you’re correct, of course.

    That said, this doesn’t mean there aren’t executed dissidents, but the ‘information’ disseminated by these outlets hardly demonstrates a groundswell of popular support for domestic revolution.

    Psyoperatives gotta psyop, though.

  107. @Notsofast

    Putin just came out that he won’t necessarily get involved if the US does start bombing Iran. It is looking more like Putin might be cucking yet again. I have always had a deep feeling that he might be “one of them”, since he was part of the WEF young leaders program. I hope that I am wrong, but if the Russians are wavering on supporting Iran, then this whole “axis of resistance” stuff has been a load of crap. Pepe, the Duran, Sputnik, Ritter, Macgregor, etc will need a new source of revenue. These idiots claim the war is effectively over, but hostilities are unbelievably still ongoing. It is like Putin is just buying time for his Western “partners” to get their shit together and do something stupid. Call up the boys and get it over with. I am getting tired of all the lying going on with this thing from both sides.

    • Agree: NobodyImportant
    • Replies: @muh muh
  108. 迪路 says:
    @FTB

    That’s exactly what you said.
    If you watch our anti-terrorism documentaries, you’ll see that those terrorists kill everyone they see, no matter who they are.
    So I don’t think Russia should accept Israel’s invitation to act as a mediator.
    Let these two fanatical lunatics, Israel and Turkey, kill each other.

    There’s a meme called Turkey in a country, Husky in a dog. This metaphor comes from a series of “mistakes” in Turkey’s diplomacy and cultural cognition in recent years.
    For example, they staged an anti-China demonstration and then trashed a Korean restaurant.
    When Turkey mistakenly attacked a Russian plane, the Russians smashed the Turkish consulate
    When the news got back to Turkey, they actually smashed the Dutch consulate because they had mistaken the flag.
    I admire Putin for putting up with the psychotic behavior of these people…

    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  109. muh muh says:
    @Anon001

    So…

    Putin has a Napoleon complex and, yet, we’re led to believe — by the unimpeachable Jason Brodsky, of all people — he’s indicating he won’t come to Iran’s assistance in the event it’s attacked by America.

    ‘Anon001’. Are you by any chance related to that other numerical rudiment, A123?

    Coincidentally, you seem to share a unique affinity for tying yourselves in knots.

    • Replies: @Yababa
    , @Notsofast
  110. I don’t think you understand the US polity. Pres Trump may not realize it. But nearly everyone3 in Washington is aware of the relationship between Russia, Iran and China. And I suspect that the current Pres does as well.

    And I suspect tat plenty of people are using a confrontation with Iran as a three for one.

    1. Force Russia into a position she can ill aford to do — respond militarily.

    2. Deny Russia sorely needed military hardware.

    3. Support Israel’s ambitions

    4. set in placea more US friendly government waiting in the wings.

    5. Support the opposition of the military and royal elitye’s return to power.

    Just because the writing isn’t on the wall does not mean – it’s not read and understood.

  111. Dave Smith is good.

    Dave Smith SLAMS Trump, Tulsi, RFK Jr, Kash Patel For SQUANDERING Mandate

  112. Ed Case says:
    @Priss Factor

    Tres brave of you to fight the Israelis to the last Gazan, pard.

  113. Yababa says:
    @John Johnson

    💩 Teen is our Gremlin in the Kremlin, no doubt. However, without troops on the ground, the Russian air force could not have defeated HTS, but only would have endangered the future of Russian bases in Syria.

    What happened is that Iran withdrew its militias once it became clear that neither Assad nor the Syrian army had the will to fight

    Besides, Iran had to provide loads of free oil to Syria to prop up an Assad who had been sold to the Mossad, reducing its own revenues from oil exports to prop up a Mossad puppet.

    It is well known that to safeguard Assad’s regime, and to undermine Iran in Syria, 💩 Teen established a direct red phone line between Mossad and Syrian Army generals and intelligence to coordinate with Israel its attacks so that Iranian targets alone would be hit.

    What point was there to support a demoralised army whose generals were sold to Qatar and UAE, with direct lines to the Mossad to undermine Iran.

    Assad and 💩 Teen thought they were playing the Iranians, but they ended up playing themselves.

    What is surprising is why Iran did not realise sooner ot was being played by Mossad and Assad earlier? We attribute this to the presence of our agents in the Quds force who cooperate with Mossad. But when the shit hit the fan, it made Mossad’s work impossible to continue

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  114. @raga10

    It is true – the very moment the Great Satan´s ashes are ritually pissed on
    by the LoN UN whatever the fuck they call it this time General Assembly
    China and Russia will rethink their alliance; just you wait.

  115. Yababa says:
    @Sarita

    We control always all sides. It is easier to control a two party system in the seat of Enpire, than having to deal with multiple parties as in EU. That’s why the US is a VISA / Mastercard party system, in fact only one party behind the scenes masquerading as two on the scenes.

    Similarly, God and the Devil are two sides of the same coin: our Lord Yahweh. Most do not understand this as it seems paradoxical to their limited perspective.

    We rock and rule. The goys suck and drool.

  116. muh muh says:
    @Robert Bruce

    I am getting tired of all the lying going on with this thing from both sides.

    The first casualty of war is truth.

    All media is agenda driven.

    Keep these two axioms in mind. It’ll spare you considerable exhaustion.

    • Agree: Notsofast
    • Thanks: Robert Bruce
  117. Yababa says:
    @muh muh

    This is meant as a warning to Iran that Russia is on the same page as Israel and the US when it comes to Iranian nukes. Just in case 💩 Teen’s initial warning through Ritter didn’t quite register with the Iranians. They were played in Syria by Russia and Israel, and so will they be by Trump and 💩 Teen (our gremlins in the Capitol and the Kremlin).

    • Troll: Notsofast
    • Replies: @Anon001
  118. @Notsofast

    Thanks for the link, it is quite illuminating.

    This Von Der Leyen should be in prison, if there is real justice in Europe, for her fraudulent handling of the COVID vaccines in cahoot with her charming friend Albert Burla.

    With such creeps as this neo-Nazi bitch and the incoming new German Chancellor Merz, Germany the locomotive of Europe is circling the drain, and Europe is moving towards irrelevance.

    EU democracy at work putting unelected technocrats in charge looks like the new normal that is spreading throughout the West.

    • Agree: Notsofast
  119. @peterAUS

    Yes we’re having second thoughts about the Resistance because Trump has a secret weapon.

    https://www.rt.com/news/615499-us-secret-weapons-trump/

    But as Trump says Chinese stole everything from America how come they haven’t stolen this weapon?

    • Replies: @peterAUS
  120. @迪路

    The worst of it was when the Turks assassinated Russia’s ambassador. Wasn’t the assassin Erdogan’s personal bodyguard?

    • Replies: @迪路
  121. antibeast says:
    @raga10

    China needs Russia as a buffer State against NATO in Siberia and against the USA in Japan. Without Russia, China (and North Korea) would have to face the USA by itself in East Asia. Thus, it’s not merely in its own strategic interest but a matter of national survival for China to help Russia defend itself against NATO in Europe.

    China and Russia (as well as the USSR) were indeed geopolitical rivals in the past. But that was before NATO expanded to Russia’s neighbors up to its present borders in Eastern Europe after the fall of the USSR. That means Russia’s nuclear arsenal won’t be able to serve its intended purpose which is nuclear deterrence because there are no buffer States anymore between NATO and Russia unlike the Soviet Union with its Warsaw Pact. After all, once NATO armies cross into Russian territory, the Russian military can’t use nukes against its own people inside Russian territory. That’s why NATO expansion to Ukraine and Georgia poses such as existential threat to the national survival of Russia because the end-goal of NATO expansion is to destroy Russia so the USA can grab Siberia in order to surround China while using Japan as its attack dog against China (and North Korea) in East Asia.

    Iran and Russia also used to be geopolitical rivals but times have changed for the worse for both countries. If the USA invades Iran, Russia’s entire Southern border along the Caucasus and across the Caspian Sea would be exposed to the US military. That means Russia would be facing a Second Front from its Southern border while fighting Ukraine in its Western border. That’s why a US invasion of Iran could potentially ignite WWIII because Russia would be dragged into any US-Iran military conflict in the Middle East.

    • Replies: @NobodyImportant
  122. Pepito says:

    Are Russia and China going to protect Iran just as they did with Syria and Palestine? I doubt it!

  123. Aragorn says:

    “Indeed, Why Are There Negotiations at All?”
    A multipolar World are not possible with “US” existing.
    Peace are not possible with “US” existing.

    Its something wrong with humans thinking, since at least the undead Egyptian vampires was supposed to start walking, but Jean M Auel are close to suspect that the shamans fell for the One Ring, the will to power, and started to hoax the tribes 30000 years ago.

    We do not live in “societys”. Its whitout exception grotesq conspiracys.
    And on top of it a alien mathematic system, one room in the university tells that the zero have no value, in another room, where they tells economy, it has unlimited value 😉

  124. Interesting.

    https://www.rt.com/russia/615515-ukrainians-collective-transgenders-dugin/

    Words of wisdom. On the other hand, this is how new nations are created and have been in the past. The age of nation creation and nation building isn’t over.

  125. @antibeast

    The Japanese aren’t about to fight anybody, that nation was neutered so bad the men aren’t even procreating. Not to mention their population is severely aging, they don’t even have enough men to fight a war.

  126. 迪路 says:
    @Commentator Mike

    I don’t know about this, but it is said that after this happened, Putin was kind enough to tell Ardogan that there was a coup in his country

  127. @ghali

    “Iran does not possess any nuclear weapons and is not pursuing their development, ”

    ….and you know that how?

    In LWR’s around the world 5% enrichment of U238 to U235 gets you the grade necessary for nuclear power for peaceful purposes. No one questions that.

    Iran is at 60% enrichment. No one questions that.

    The only reason to go that high is for nuclear weapons. No one questions that.

    Iran has ICBM’s. So according to anyone familiar with Iran, the only question is when they make nuclear bombs and when they make a deliverable warhead. No one questions that.

    Iranian leaders have said for decades they want Israel eliminated. Well, Iran does not remotely have the conventional military means to do that. Their air force and navy are jokes, so they lob missiles at Israel and Israel destroys almost all of the them – sometimes one gets through.

    Let’s assume you don’t hate Israel but understand their predicament. Israel misses one missile on Tel Aviv with a nuke and it’s over. Iran and Israel know that.

    Why don’t you figure out what Israel’s next move is. Then figure out America’s next move when Iran has said over and over that Israel is the Little Satan and America The Great Satan.

    The Iranian people hate their corrupt regime. Knock out Iran’s nuclear program and let the Iranian people push over their evil regime and then the Iranian people are free.

    You must really hate the Iranian people to oppose them.

    Iran gets rid of their nuclear weapons program voluntarily or they lose it kinetically. Simple as that. Once it is gone, the world moves on the next day and in a week all is totally forgotten.

    So, the ball is in Iran’s court. Let’s see how smart they are.

    • Agree: peterAUS
    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
    , @ghali
  128. SteveK9 says:
    @anon

    At these levels, it might as well be infinite, so that is a silly suggestion.

    The US will lose goods and the Chinese will lose jobs … which is more painful? It depends on a lot of factors, which simply cannot be predicted.

  129. anon[312] • Disclaimer says:
    @Ed Case

    Jews wanted to leave. America and other countries offered them resttlements in places including in US . But their leaders of certain striped DNA wont allow them. ( Dont ask for refernece to divert. Ypu can find reference in the histories of dealings of Roosevelt administratiins through Jewish emissaries to the Jewish political leaders).Jews did not want to come to Palestine.But their leaders wanted them come and to come under the threat of forces.

    Egypt Syria Lebanon Jordan have taken millions of refugees in 1948,1967,and again in 1996 .Tgey are still rotting there .
    Israel should get f** out of the face of the earth.

    Recent shock and awe failure of Trump , 2 nd in 22 years point to the path of the Israeli destructions.
    Israeli Zio then have to be killed or forcibly converted to Christianity or Islam or Druidis-Yazdism.

    Hey, Israel has just proved that forcible conversions of masses were absolutely correct decisions .

  130. antibeast says:
    @NobodyImportant

    The Japanese aren’t about to fight anybody, that nation was neutered so bad the men aren’t even procreating. Not to mention their population is severely aging, they don’t even have enough men to fight a war.

    Yes, I know. Same case with Europeans who are now being deputized by the USA to fight against Russia in Ukraine. The Yanks did try to get Japan to re-arm under Shinzo Abe who chickened out after being told by Vladimir Putin that Russia won’t sign any Peace Treaty with Japan until the US military leaves.

  131. anon[312] • Disclaimer says:
    @Priss Factor

    Allow beer ,viagra, opportunity of sex with younger wife or daughter of the neighbor, chest beating in front of TV featuring wrestling,boxing,or football and let them utter racist words against blacks and dont ask them education beyond 10 th grade , the most happy and most convinced person and only one accecpting the deal from that miliue will be a MAGA .

    On other spectrum ,you have Navarro, Bannon, Maj Flinn and Hedge fund managers who want to do what Jewish cabinet of Bush,Obama,and Biden have but want the whites to do it.

  132. Anonymous[266] • Disclaimer says:

    It turns out that China’s vaunted DeepSeek AI was developed for the CCP by Zuckerberg/Meta, according to bombshell testimony from the former global policy director of Meta, Sara Wynn-Williams. Let’s watch the uniparty run cover for Zuckerberg’s straightforward treason on this one, too, with maybe a tiny slap on the wrist. If this one whistleblower’s testimony blows apart the Chinese superiority argument, as it does, imagine what we don’t know given various state governors being in China’s back pocket and Jewish dark money supporting the CCP as a means of finally destroying America to forge a new alliance with China while Congress looks the other way.

  133. RR says:
    @ghali

    I cannot stipulate that In this case “a negative cannot be proven”

  134. All three countries have a vested interest in opposing global American hegemony, especially since Washington will not envision a multipolar world.

  135. @Yababa

    Teen is our Gremlin in the Kremlin, no doubt. However, without troops on the ground, the Russian air force could not have defeated HTS, but only would have endangered the future of Russian bases in Syria.

    It would be the job of the Russian air force to attack the column as it entered from Turkey.

    That would occur before a ground war. Thus excuses involving troops don’t add up. In fact the Syrian troops could have been demoralized due to a lack of response from the Russian air force.

    Russian air bases were not in Syria for show. Putin had a contract with Assad whereby he provides security assistance in exchange for prioritized civil contracts. Russian oligarchs had to flee and leave billion dollar projects. When you hire a bodyguard he is supposed to do his job and not make a last minute decision on if fighting is in his best interest.

    Stop trying to make excuses for Putin. The most probable scenario is that he betrayed Assad to bring back his remaining armored units. In fact Putin most likely knew of the plot before it happened. He probably has informants in Turkey.

    • Agree: Sarita
    • Replies: @Yababa
  136. Notsofast says:
    @muh muh

    anonsense 001, is a self promoting 5th columnist zafo troll, always pushing his rollover slavquat bullshit. he posts the same stupid images over and over. notice who jumps to his defense, yabba dabba doo doo, the mossad caveman.

    i am so tired of all this putin is stabbing the iranians in the back bullshit, the trolls are thick as thieves around here.

    • Replies: @muh muh
    , @John Johnson
  137. peterAUS says:
    @Commentator Mike

    No.

    Some of delusional people, who desperately want to believe that the paradigm is something which is not, are having second thoughts, because they do have at least some modicum of character and intellectual honesty. Miniscule minority, as always, but it’s good to see it.

    Not those who see Russia and/or China for something those two aren’t, not those. They probably never will. Not much obvious loss there. Even the debacle in Ukraine is 5d chess/whatever.

    Those who believed that USA/Israeli power, related to the players in the M.E. is weak.
    Well, it’s, for some of them, hard to put together what’s been happening in Gaza and Lebanon with that picture. Watching this game with Iran doesn’t help either.

    By any measurement used in military art and science before the Clown World Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran have been on a losing streak. The most interesting element of watching all that on the Internet is that religious mental gymnastics of true believers. Watching people, if you will. Confirming, especially after Clovid, what majority of populace is really all about.

    Now, having said the above there IS something in what you’ve written and the regime in Tehran is going to use it for own survival.
    Trump.
    Again, by any measurement used in military art and science his…ahm…method….is the worst way to conduct serious military work. What apparently worked in his business and is showing NOT quite working in diplomacy, economy and politics, DEFINITELY will not work in serious military effort.
    I haven’t seen this chaos coming. Too ridiculous for even the developed Clown World. This is starting to look as Twilight Zone episode.

    There is quite strong possibility, and I am not divulging any state secrets here, that “Trump approach” to armed conflict with Iran will derail USA and Israeli effort there.
    So, you ARE correct. Trump is starting to appear a secret Iranian weapon in all this.

    Now, the plus (or it’s minus) is: Israelis see that too. And Jewish Power in general.

    How they are going to handle Trump to deliver what he’s supposed to do, well, I think that’s starting to be the most interesting thing in all this lunacy.

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  138. Yababa says:
    @John Johnson

    I am not excusing our gremlin, he is behind it all, in some sense. RUSSIA works for Israel first rather than for Iran first, that is for sure.

    He miscalculated if he thought he could sell Assad to the Mossad and at the same time get Iranians to protect Assad forever.

    It just happened that the Iranians pulled the rug under his feet by withdrawing the IRGC and associated militias, when it turned out Assad was indecisive and didn’t have his army fully on-board, besides the fact that their intelligence knew for a while that Syria had been compromised (sold to the Mossad by 💩 Teen).

    💩 Teen probably prepared for such a scenario as well, by coordinating with the turkeys, but was hoping Iranians would stay in Syria to defend Mossad/Assad, which didn’t happen.

  139. muh muh says:
    @Notsofast

    i am so tired of all this putin is stabbing the iranians in the back bullshit, the trolls are thick as thieves around here.

    Yeah, but you know as well as I do that’s how this goes.

    It’s all part of the game. As a practical matter, Yacaca would do well channel his coprophilia toward more beneficial uses, like tanning retzuos. Given a steady diet of slugs and bitumen, his own leavings’ll probably blacken the straps rather nicely.

    Others here like to seed the ground with what they might call ‘subtler’ aspersion. To me, they’re just as transparent a ham-fisted dork as ‘Anon001’, so it’s easy enough to let their trial balloons just float on by. Alternatively, we deliver a little pinprick and observe with amusement how flatulently they fall aground.

    Hehe… I think you… Ahm… Know whadda mean? 🕶️

  140. @NobodyImportant

    The Japanese aren’t about to fight anybody, that nation was neutered so bad the men aren’t even procreating. Not to mention their population is severely aging, they don’t even have enough men to fight a war.

    Don’t forget South Korea. South Korea has an army with 3 million soldiers available to serve. Former impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol tried to impose Martial Law in South Korea in Dec 2024. In South Korea, if a President imposes Martial Law, and declares war, the United States can take over operational control over the entire South Korean army (OPCON):

  141. @peterAUS

    Austfailia is full of creatures like this. Arrogant ‘deputy sheriffs’ to the USA, and EVER ready to kiss any Judeonazi arse proffered. It thinks that slaughtering Gazan children and babies from the air is really ‘cool’ and ‘tough’.

    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  142. @Anonymous

    And you believe that shite, do you, anonymous, moron, troll? Racist scum.

  143. @John Galt III

    A master-class in hasbara shite, with Sabbat Goy arse-kisser, ‘peter’ approving it, to prove the provenance. The racist arrogance is pure Zionazism.

  144. muh muh says:
    @Anon

    From Iran Human Rights . Org’s ‘Who We Are’ page:

    Karen Kramer, Deputy Director

    Karen is deputy director at the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), where she develops the Center’s global policy goals and strategies, leads the planning, research and drafting of reports and policy briefings, and manages multiple programs, including the Center’s UN advocacy. Karen also served as deputy director for the Iran Business Responsibility (IBR) project, where she led the research and analysis of the Iranian business, regulatory, economic and political environment. Previously, Karen taught international relations and Middle East politics and economics at the State University of New York at Purchase. She also worked as a private consultant on the Middle East, producing reports for leading political and business risk consultancies, multinational corporations, think tanks and NGOs, and briefing U.S. government officials on MENA/Gulf foreign policy. She was also executive editor of the MidEast Report, a leading publication on Middle East politics, business and oil. …

    Michael Eisner, General Counsel

    Michael Eisner is General Counsel at the Center for Human Rights in Iran (CHRI), where he oversees legal and financial issues. Mike worked as an Attorney-Adviser at the US State Department where he focused on Middle East issues and the peace process. …

    Looks as if… Ahm… this en-gee-oh is… Ahh… not quite the… Uhm… ‘grass roots’ organization our in-house Balkin’ altruist would have us believe it to be.

    And here I thought he had all our bestest interests at heart. 😢

    • LOL: Cloudwalker
    • Replies: @Anon
    , @Cloudwalker
  145. Anon001 says:
    @Commentator Mike

    Hi Mike, thanks for chiming in.

    Anyway, the ceasefire will end soon …

    The ceasefire never started Mike, that was just Putin’s one-sided West-pleasing mode he dives into every time the West talks to him in some shape or form. He loves the West and wants to be invited into their club. That’s also what oligarchs and Russia’s pseudo elite crave as well. They have an enormous inferiority complex towards the West. Recall that Putin asked US multiple times for Russia’s NATO membership!

    Just read Yuri’s articles about both GloboVlad aka Putin and Stormy Donald [1][2].

    Here are some thoughts about the future from Nikola [3].

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    When are you going to realize, and admit, that Putin is a traitor? Has been since he agreed to become one and attended that Schwab’s course with Angela and Tony. You’ve seen dozens of my comment with references, quotes, etc.

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    [1] American Partners and the Banana Republic of Russia | Iurie Rosca / Yuri Roshka Substack | Feb-2025
    https://iurierosca.substack.com/p/american-partners-and-the-banana

    [2] The pacifist Trump-Putin tandem and the velvet propagandists | Iurie Rosca / Yuri Roshka Substack | Feb-2025
    https://iurierosca.substack.com/p/the-pacifist-trump-putin-tandem-and

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    [3] Will some NATO members invade Russia? by Nikola Mikovic | The Liberum | Apr-2025
    https://theliberum.com/will-some-nato-members-invade-russia/

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  146. @Notsofast

    i am so tired of all this putin is stabbing the iranians in the back bullshit, the trolls are thick as thieves around here.

    Yes we know that as with most Putin defenders you resent dissenting viewpoints.

    You would lock this forum down just like Russian state media if you could, wouldn’t you?

    It was an Iranian general that said Putin only pretended to attack the rebels.

    Of course our Putin defending bloggers like Pepe made no mention of that.

    Few here seem capable of admitting that Putin is just as rotten as any Western leader.

    They want to view him as some rebel of the global order when he is not only a globalist but a mass murderer. He has invaded 3 different countries and ironically gives talks on a “multi-polar world” where the sovereignty of nations is respected. Well unless he is the one invading of course. That’s different.

    Even sadder is that many here want to view Russia as a healthy model when compared to the West.

    Russia has its lowest birth rate on record and Putin imports Muslims to replace the Slavs. A Christian population in decline but with a totalitarian state where you aren’t allowed to criticize the government and its 5’1 tyrant in charge. WOW SO MUCH BETTER AND THE POOR ALSO GET TO DIE IN A WAR. TERRIFIC.

    • LOL: Notsofast
    • Replies: @NobodyImportant
  147. Anon001 says:
    @Yababa

    … 💩 Teen (our gremlins in the Capitol and the Kremlin)

    **** Teen that you came up with as a placeholder for both Putin and Trump is not a very recognizable and very confusing, and people may not know what/who you are referring to. So, think about using, IMHO, a much better fitting references like Stormy Donald [1] and GloboVlad (as Putin is Schwab’s pupil) or Kremlin Judas (as he’s a traitor to Russia) or Putinocchio (as he lies and pretends all the time to be anti USA/USD/NATO/NWO/WHO).

    Just my 2 cents. I hope you don’t mind.

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    [1] Google Search: stormy daniels trump case
    https://www.google.com/search?q=stormy%20daniels%20trump%20case

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    • Replies: @Yababa
  148. Anon[224] • Disclaimer says:
    @muh muh

    And both are zionist Jews who are working for ‘human rights’ in Iran. Why don’t these two genocidal Jews work for the human rights in the occupied land? the gullible people should answer it.
    We have a lot of gullible people like peterAUS.

    • Replies: @muh muh
  149. muh muh says:
    @Anon

    And both are zionist Jews who are working for ‘human rights’ in Iran.

    Do tell. 🕶️

    We have a lot of gullible people like peterAUS.

    Pete’s not gullible. He knows full well what he’s doing.

    But don’t get too upset about it.

    Examine the composure of Israel and America. Now compare it to that of Russia, China and Iran.

    For now, that’s all you really need to see. Let words make the impression they might. When the fire gets hot, they’ll prove no more useful than kindling.

  150. Yababa says:
    @Anon001

    You are taking things too seriously.

    Not everything is as it seems.

    I am an entertainer, trickster, and the Devil’s prime advocate. I am here partly for my amusement, partly to tease, provoke, and insert thorny sticks in rear-ends. It doesn’t always please me to do so.

    She knows.

    Do a DNA test.

  151. @mulga mumblebrain

    You bring the moral and ethical dimension to the debate. But war is immoral and unethical. It is all fine to have right, justice and God on your side, and to be moral and ethical, but if you don’t have the means and resources to win a war what good does it do you?

    Of course “winning” means different things to different people. For some sacrificing hundreds or thousands to kill one Israeli or one American or one Russian (like the Ukrainians are doing) is considered “winning” and heroic.

    peterAUS is trying to be realistic but I’m not sure if his assessment of the forces pitted against each other in this forthcoming war in the Middle East is correct. Only time will tell.

    If going by past experience of the war between US and its allies against Iraq then it looks like the advantage is on the US side. Iran could not even beat Iraq in their war. Also Iraq did quite well against the US and its allies in the first Gulf War, other than losing Kuwait and getting its occupation force obliterated while withdrawing on the road to Basra. Iraq had shot down countless US and allied airplanes so that after 60 were hit by Iraqi air defences the media put out a news blackout and stopped reporting on aircraft losses because they were embarrassing and demoralising. The Iraqis were able to capture those pilots who survived, including women pilots, and used them as human shields by placing them in various installations to prevent US bombings. The Iraqis eliminated a huge formation of French Foreign Legion and SAS troops that was reported as rapidly moving to some critical point in central Iraq where a large formation of Republican Guards were stationed. This formation of special forces just disappeared and was never heard of again. The media reporting triumphantly on this rapid action force suddenly went silent. Iraq rained Scud missiles down on Israel past the ineffective Patriots even though Christian Amanpour lied from the ground in her reports that the Patriots were knocking out the Scuds. Saddam set fires to many oil fields that burned for ages until Red Adair was brought in to put them out. Iraqis also released oil slicks into the Gulf creating an environmental disaster, as did those oil fires. Then one Scud fell on a US base killing many American servicemen and the US stopped the war on Iraq. I think the US had planned to conquer Iraq and bring down Saddam then and there but in view of the fierce resistance they had to wisely change their plans. So they put up sanctions against Iraq and imposed a no fly zone bombing the country for more than a decade. It was only after significantly weakening Iraq that they were able to almost stroll to Baghdad in the second Gulf war in 2003.

    Now Iran has advanced its military technology from that time but US hasn’t been sleeping. During that first Gulf war to liberate Kuwait, the US and its allies were prepared to make many sacrifices, and it stands to reason that they will be prepared to do the same now. We’ll find out soon enough. During that first Gulf war Israelis were even prepared for those raining Scuds to deploy gas and everyone was issued with gas masks although good old Saddam restricted himself to packing the Scuds with explosives only. I guess even he didn’t want to be remembered as carrying out a second holocaust by gas on the Jews. Such is the power of propaganda.

  152. Smith2 says:
    @NobodyImportant

    Despite neutered, the Japanese still have higher birthrate than China, while China suffers massively from low birth rate and high divorce rate.

    So who’s even gonna fight the USA?

    Look like this whole thing is smoke and mirror.

    • Replies: @FTB
  153. FTB says:
    @Smith2

    Despite neutered, the Japanese still have higher birthrate than China, while China suffers massively from low birth rate and high divorce rate.

    Not according to the CIA’s stats.

    China’s birthrate.

    https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/china/#people-and-society

    Population growth rate

    0.23% (2024 est.)

    comparison ranking: 172

    Birth rate

    10.2 births/1,000 population (2024 est.)

    comparison ranking: 183

    Japan’s birthrate.

    https://www.cia.gov/the-world-factbook/countries/japan/#people-and-society

    Population growth rate

    -0.43% (2024 est.)

    comparison ranking: 218

    Birth rate

    6.9 births/1,000 population (2024 est.)

    comparison ranking: 225

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  154. What is most important isn’t the understanding between Russia and Iran but the understanding between Russia and Israel about which we know little. Putin chose to surround himself with some of the world’s most powerful chabad rabbis. None of that is transparent enough to give comfort about Israel’s next move.

    • Agree: Yababa
  155. @FTB

    The world is ALREADY vastly over-populated by humans, who have nearly or completely destroyed all biospheres and DEVASTATED the populations of ALL other living creatures, yet the cancer metastases DEMAND ever more consumers, to keep the cancer capitalist Moloch consuming Life that little much longer. NOT much.

    • Replies: @EliteCommInc.
  156. anon[144] • Disclaimer says:

    Putin betrayed Assad for less.

    Kirill Dmitriev, the ‘negotiator’ they use in the US is a deep state globalist WEF agent. It shows what kind of ‘negotiations’ they are doing.

    However, Iran is already talking with the US who have softened their tone realizing that even heavy bombing (mainly against civilians) in Yemen leads nowhere as Yemenis keep retaliating both the genocidal zionists and their US lackeys, and the port of Eilat is now dead.

    China just responded tit for tat to Trump’s tariffs: 125%

    Even if their alliances wasn’t that sound before, it seems Trump is pushing China, Russia and Iran in each other’s arms.

    But, it remains a fact that Putin did nothing to help Syria last year, on the contrary, he saved netanyahu’s ass by letting him bomb Syria and US/israel/Turkey backed terror groups take power.

    And that is the sign that Putin had already a deal with Trump (or his handlers) last November.

    In case of a war, I hope Iran will be as steady and brave as the Yemenis.

    The first casualty of such a war will be super buffoon, zionist agent orange Trump.

  157. @muh muh

    Karen Kramer,,,

    When you thought the tribe has no humor nor class,

    Read her name again,

    Shocker, you ignorant!

  158. anon[215] • Disclaimer says:

    @John Johnson

    What were the 3 countries Putin invaded? Ukraine doesn’t count because he should have intervened in 2014 already in the DPR.

    Yes Putin is part of the globalists club BUT Russia is not the totalitarian state you pretend it is.

    I have personally been there, you are as free in Russia as anywhere else in the West , as long as you are not important enough to disturb the mafia in power (like Georgescu did in Romania for example).

    Basically, I felt the same freedom in Russia than in the US (they don;t deport you for denouncing the genocide in gaza there).
    The big advantage in Russia is the respect of traditional values and the absence of lgbt/woke insanity.

    As for the birth rates, you are right, 70+ years of communism and anti Russian/Christian propaganda have made their mark.

    Otherwise, Putin sold out Syria to help the zionists who were losing at the time. His Chabad connections are not new and are real. A lot of Russians and former memebrs of the USSR are israeli citizens.

    In the Russian Federation, there is even a ‘Jewish” oblast (in the Far East, before Vladisvostok).

    Alll these people in power are mass murderers, none of them has clean hands.

    • Replies: @John Johnson
  159. @mulga mumblebrain

    The planet is not over populated. All indicators suggest their is a global decline in human population rates that show no signs of reversing anytime soon.

    https://ourworldindata.org/population-growth

    • Replies: @mulga mumblebrain
  160. @EliteCommInc.

    My argument proven-a peerless moron argues, without evidence of course, against it. It is the existence of pernicious cretins like you that has caused human self-destruction. Every major life-supporting biosystem on Earth is collapsing, or on the brink, you pig ignorant fucktard.

  161. @anon

    What were the 3 countries Putin invaded? Ukraine doesn’t count because he should have intervened in 2014 already in the DPR.

    Putin invaded Ukraine before the DPR.

    In both cases the UN decreed the invasion was unjust and that Ukraine’s 1991 borders should be recognized by Russia.

    Here is Putin in 2008 stating that Crimea is part of Ukraine:
    https://www.rferl.org/a/putin-crimea-ukraine/26942862.html

    The other two countries are Georgia and Moldova.

    Yes Putin is part of the globalists club BUT Russia is not the totalitarian state you pretend it is.

    I’m not pretending.

    Russia is a totalitarian state as seen by the fact that they send journalists to Siberian work camps for criticizing the government.

    They even lock away citizens that merely state unacceptable opinions:

    Russian man gets 5 years in labor camp for taking part in “man on the street” interview.
    https://www.kyivpost.com/post/39162\

    What component of a totalitarian state are they missing?

    Former DPR leader Igor Girkin was literally dragged away in the night over a blog post where he criticized Putin.

    He will soon be serving on the frontline to convert his sentence.

    As for the birth rates, you are right, 70+ years of communism and anti Russian/Christian propaganda have made their mark.

    Do explain since they had higher birth rates under Communism than Putin.

    Russian Slavs had more children when Christianity was illegal.

    The blame is with Putin and not a government that ended in 1991.

    Russia for many years had Europe’s highest abortion rate and nothing was stopping Putin from passing restrictions. He only addressed their declining birth rate after their failed invasion of Kiev.

    • Replies: @Commentator Mike
  162. @John Johnson

    Russia would have been quite happy to let Ukraine keep all of its territory if it hadn’t decided to Nazify and militarise so it could genocide and ethnically cleanse the Russian population, religion and culture. Now it’s getting what it deserves.

    • Agree: FTB
    • Replies: @John Johnson
  163. Newseek gives all of Europe to Russia.

    • Thanks: James of Africa
    • Replies: @John Johnson
    , @FTB
  164. @Commentator Mike

    Russia would have been quite happy to let Ukraine keep all of its territory if it hadn’t decided to Nazify and militarise so it could genocide and ethnically cleanse the Russian population, religion and culture. Now it’s getting what it deserves.

    According to the UN the Slavs of Donbas were more likely to accidentally drown than be killed in militia fighting for the years after 2016.

    Do you dispute that report?

    Putin never claimed that he was saving lives or stopping genocide. That’s your own baseless rationalization that is separate from what Putin has actually said.

    He said that he invaded Ukraine to stop the eastward expansion of NATO. That goal has failed now that Finland has joined NATO. When asked about Finland it was Putin that said “it doesn’t matter” which completely contradicts his invasion speech where he described “missiles on the border” with no explanation. Putin most likely forgot his own line of bullshit. He stated he had no choice but to invade due to the expansion of NATO. He decreed DPR/LPR to be their own countries and then less than a year later broke his decree by adding them to Russia.

    Would you like me to pull his invasion speech for you?

    Would there be more or fewer Slavs alive if Putin did not invade? How about answering that for us.

    The little dwarf dictator is just plain full of shit and congrats on being on the short list of Whites to figure that out this late in the war.

  165. @Commentator Mike

    Newseek gives all of Europe to Russia.

    I had no idea that Newsweek owned Europe. What are you talking about? The Newsweek article he sourced describes a Ukrainian F-16 pilot being killed in action.

    What is the source of his Ukrainian losses table? Or do you just enjoy listening to a drunk Russian who makes up his own numbers?

    Here is an interesting Newsweek article:

    Russia birth rate hits record low
    https://www.newsweek.com/russia-birth-rate-record-low-war-2059325

    The Russian birth rate is actually lower than any point in USSR history.

    So they had more kids under godless Communism than the ex-CIA dwarf that pretends to be Orthodox.

    The dwarf you admire out of spite for the West and not because he acts in the best interest of the Russian people. A great leader never would have allowed liberal abortion laws.

    You mind is poisoned by spite. Putin is a mass murdering atheist and not a model for the West. Russia will exit this war as more Muslim and that isn’t debatable.

  166. antibeast says:
    @Anonymous

    It is quite easy to debunk your claim that Meta developed the DeepSeek algorithm which was released as “open-source” software made available to the public for free. Meta doesn’t even have a business presence in China. According to Jensen Huang, half of all AI researchers in the world are Chinese, many of whom work in the USA. So the claim that China needs Meta to help develop DeepSeek is utter nonsense as China leads the world in developing its own AI algorithms by lots of Chinese companies such as Alibaba, Tencent, Bytedance plus other Chinese startups such as DeepSeek which was developed entirely in China albeit using chipsets from NVDIA.

  167. FTB says:

    The dwarf you admire out of spite for the West and not because he acts in the best interest of the Russian people. A great leader never would have allowed liberal abortion laws.

    You mean like the Uniparty here in FUSA who also promotes shit like child trannies, drag queen reading hour, fag pride parades where grown men pee on each other and flash their crab infested nutsacks and semen oozing buttholes at children as well as abortion?

    Guess none of the leaders here are great either according to your metrics.

    Or the Euro-socialist cucks who jail white Europeans who complain about demographic replacement, Paki rape gangs and violent gangs made up of alien invaders?

    • Agree: Cloudwalker
    • Replies: @John Johnson
  168. FTB says:
    @Commentator Mike

    Those gun fearing, big gummint loving, pro taxation, welfare statist Euro-faggots are the largest market for Chinese EVs and Russian LNG.

    How Trumpstein is going to sabotage those arrangements while demanding that the Eurocucks foot the bill for increased military spending on a non-existent Russian threat – much like how D.C. is arm twisting the Taiwanese to buy more weapons against the faux threat of a Chinese invasion – after alienating every nation on earth – except the foreskin munching, baby raping Pissraelis – should make for comedic viewing.

  169. @muh muh

    Another common denominator is a lack of sovereignty amongst Western leaders.
    None appear to act in the interest of their country or themselves. It’s as if there is another layer of command above the national level that most pundits are not aware of.

    “All wars are bankers wars”

  170. @NobodyImportant

    Those tiny japlands has no future,

    their stupid leader piggy back Jewsa hoping the ride will last forever, they gave a zero damn about compensating Chinese, Korean, SE Asians, Dutch, Aussies, and Russians

    Guess what the party ended and a new sheriff is in town,

    Oops japs trashed positive relationship building while they can with Chinese and 2 Koreans, not being able to sign a peace treaty with Russia, fragile and dependent on energy lines, most of their products are either overpriced or downright gimmicks, BlueRay? MD disk? Plasma TV Hello?

    No sympathy for those porn yeilders, they backed themselves to the corner and the fate was sealed ages ago

  171. @FTB

    You mean like the Uniparty here in FUSA who also promotes shit like child trannies, drag queen reading hour, fag pride parades where grown men pee on each other and flash their crab infested nutsacks and semen oozing buttholes at children as well as abortion?

    I’m critical of both parties and also Putin.

    Are you not able to conceive of being critical of abortion as a form of birth control across multiple countries?

    Or the Euro-socialist cucks who jail white Europeans who complain about demographic replacement, Paki rape gangs and violent gangs made up of alien invaders?

    And what does that have to do with criticizing Putin?

    I’ve been critical of Muslim immigration in Europe and that is in my history. You can probably search my history for numerous posts on how I point out that Islam is not compatible with Western culture.

    Take your tribal brain down a notch.

  172. If the US attack Iran, the targets would be the underground missile cities. The only way for the US to destroy a significant proportion of them would be with nuclear Trident missiles but only if Russia does not help Iran intercept these missiles using its satellites, over the horizon radars and his own S-400 systems located at each missile cities. The question is: Will Russia help Iran to do so? It did not help Syria being attacked by only a few thousand Jihadis in spite of its commitment to do so. It did not intercept any Israeli planes attacking Syria in the years previous to this. It never seriously condemn Israel in spite of Israel helping Ukraine. There is a serious doubt wether or nor Putin could be compromised in favor of Israel. The Jewish oligarchs who supported his coming to power may have still some very compromising stuff on him. They may explain this biais towards Israel that Russia has.
    If it is the case then this Jewish Lobby will prevent Russia to intercept this US missiles on the Iranian underground missile cities and thus get rid of the last power resisting the american empire to take full control of the middle east, including the trade corridors: Suez and the future railroad going throw Iran. If this happen then China oil from the middle east will be under US control as well as China trade roads throw the middle east. The US navy could then close the road around Africa and start a sea embargo on China and with a deal with Russia do a land embargo as well. Trump trade war with China is thus the preparation for the coming sea embargo.

  173. ghali says:
    @John Galt III

    The consensus among US intelligence agencies (16 of them) is that Iran does not possess nuclear weapons and is not actively pursuing their development. This stance is supported by various factors, including Iran’s adherence to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and the Supreme Leader’s fatwa against their use.

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