Rude awakening for Gulf countries in the Iran War.The US bases were not there to protect them. The US bases were not there to protect anyone including Americans. They were for show. The entire US military and its 800 bases around the world are also for show. Thanks to showman Donald Trump, the whole... See More »
US defense contracts should be awarded to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).This would appease the Iranians and sweeten the deal for ending the Iran War. (1)
Why doesn't Trump show some guts and send US Navy ships through the Straits of Hormuz?We have deployed - out of harm's way - two carrier strike groups: the Abraham Lincoln in the Arabian Sea, and the Gerald Ford in the Red Sea. Sending the Gerald Ford thru the Suez Canal from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea was dumb. It is now in... See More »
America's Pete Hegseth is Iraq's Bagdad Bob.Hegseth is trying to win the Iran war with words. He has turned the Stars and Stripes, a newspaper for troops into propaganda. "Baghdad Bob" is the nickname for Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf, the Iraqi Information Minister under Saddam Hussein during the... See More » (1)
Trump may have started the war — but he doesn’t have the power to end it. Iran will determine when the war ends.This crisis will continue to get worse until normal traffic through the Strait resumes. Even if the conflict ended today and tankers ramped back up to 100% Hormuz flow, it would still take months to return to anything resembling normality. Ending... See More »
Which side is Clint Eastwood on?Clint Eastwood would have taken out Trump and the US Military in the Iran War to avenge the killing of the Ayatollah. (1)
Why are the French training the Kurds close to the Iraqi/Iranian border?In a stark development of the escalating Iran war, France announced that a French soldier was killed in an Iranian drone attack on a base in the Erbil region of Iraq on Thursday, and several other service members were injured. The strike targeted a... See More »
Americans withholding federal income tax to protest against Trump's war crimes.US taxpayers are refusing to pay the federal government amid the war with Iran and more. A 31-year-old lawyer in Chicago plans to put the $8,800 she owes the federal government in a high-yield savings account instead. She doesn’t want to fund wars... See More »
Iran war: Who can take the pain the longest?Iran has been enduring a near-constant stream of American and Israeli airstrikes it can’t defend against. Despite that, it continues to launch missiles and drones across the region. Gulf Arab states, while still not combatants in the war, face... See More »
Trump killed Iranian children. He doesn't care for pets either. Neither do Americans supporting his war.Pets rely entirely on their owners. They can’t understand why their family has suddenly disappeared. About 45,000 British nationals have left the Middle East since 1 March. Thousands of pets are being abandoned in Dubai as their owners flee the... See More »
Do you support US politicians using America's military to kill people in other countries?How would you feel if your father, your wife, and your 14 month old daughter were killed by the joint military of the US and Israel in a surprise, unlawful attack while they were in the midst of peace negotiations with your country?
If the US can easily invade Venezuela and threatens Cuba, why can't China take Taiwan?Taking Taiwan would be like taking Long Island. All it takes is a blockade of Taiwan by the Chinese Navy. Why doesn't Xi use Trump's playbook and put an end to the standoff?
G2: The U.S. and China running the world together? China says no thanks.Last fall, Trump repeatedly used the term “G2” to refer to his meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping in South Korea without saying how a “G2” world order would work in practice. He is set to meet with Xi again when he travels to China later this... See More »
Trump says bombing of Iranian girls' school was done by Iran.President Trump told reporters, without citing evidence, that he believes a deadly strike on a girls' primary school in southern Iran last weekend was "done by Iran." "In my opinion, based on what I've seen, that was done by Iran…We think it was... See More »
Zelensky does have cards.Zelenskyy said that the U.S. has now turned to it for help on anti-drone defenses, tapping into Ukraine’s years of experience combating the Iran-designed Shahed drones deployed by Russia. Zelenskyy is “holding a much stronger deck of cards than he... See More »
Spain gives Trump the finger.Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez doubled down on his criticism of the U.S strikes against Iran, describing the escalating Middle East conflict as a “disaster.” He brushes off Trump's threat of a US trade embargo against Spain. Sánchez said:... See More »
Trump dissed Starmer for initially denying permission to launch strikes against Iran from Diego Garcia.Brits who object to staying out of attack on Iran by US and Israel, fail to remember that Margaret Thatcher went much further and imposed an arms embargo on Israel during the Lebanon War in 1982, which lasted for 12 years until 1994. Despite being... See More »
Brace ourselves for yet another false flag operation to goad us like oxen to support war.Americans, other than US politicians, don't want war. We love our country. We have been dragged into foreign wars by one Administration after another since the Vietnam war. We must turn the other cheek no matter how heartlessly our politicians drive... See More »
We killed those children.The Feb. 28 strike that hit an elementary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab is the deadliest known episode of civilian casualties since the United States and Israel attacked Iran — and no side has yet taken responsibility. Minab is 600 m... See More »
Americans View Fellow Citizens as Morally Bad.Americans are more likely, than people in other countries, to question the morality of their fellow countrymen. Most people say that others in their country have somewhat or very good morals. The US is the only place where more adults (ages 18 and... See More »
Iranian Missiles Hit the Gulf With No Warning.Stranded expatriates and trapped travelers in the Gulf States are lining up private jets and scrambling overland in hopes of escaping a widening conflict started by the US and Israel. Trump and Netanyahu knew Iranian retaliation would be immediate... See More »
4 of the 6 who died for Trump were U.S. Army Reserve soldiers age 35, 42, 39, and 20.Army Reserve soldiers are part-time service members who balance civilian careers or education with military duty, typically serving one weekend a month and two weeks annually. They receive the same training as active-duty soldiers, earn military... See More »
Three F15 jets down on top of four US casualties so far.American lives lost are immeasurable in US dollars.. The F15s cost $60 millions each. 3 x 60 = $180 million. And we are just 72 hours into a war we neither understand nor want. We are told that all six pilots ejected safely. Ejections at high level... See More » (1)
The Promised Land stretching from the Euphrates to the Nile. Who taught this? Jesus, or the High Priest of Jerusalem?Evangelical Christians succumb to an unconditional support of the US Administration, despite the fact that its actions are completely antithetical to the teachings of Jesus. Democratic freedoms are being taken away and the gospel is being distorted.... See More »
