White trash, Christo-fascist quarter-wit low life drunks like Hegseth are surprised by Iran's response because they are a bunch of racist jingoists who think everyone else who isn't part of their "master race", is stupid. They think Muslims cannot be strategic, be prepared, plan ahead or in any way capable of doing anything but be knuckle draggers like themselves. They really think their 250 year old corporatist cartel of a nation that's built on bloodshed, racism and theft, is the pinnacle of advancement and morality.
The reality is the only thing America is exceptional at is mass murder and creating the propaganda to manufacture consent for it. That's it. We see it now too with the way they openly broadcast and tweet their war crimes and planned atrocities and open bloodlust.
This. This band of morons in charge currently is not the cause but a symptom. There are millions of others at least as stupid and psychotic urging to take their place. The American system needs to collapse. Sadly, because everyone decided to get deep in bed with the US, when it falls the entire world will go with it.
The world is full of corrupt governments whose ruling classes got rich from neoliberal capitalism ushered in by the Americans and British, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union. To the extent that they got in bed with the US, their economies will collapse if the US economy collapses. I didn't make the stupid fucking rules.
"The reality is the only thing America is exceptional at is mass murder. That's it. We see it now too with the way they openly broadcast and tweet their war crimes and planned atrocities and open bloodlust."
Yes I agree BUT............apart from the 'bloodlust' Amerikka is destroying thousands of years of History. Iran is the Cradle of Civilization.......who knows this in Amerikka?
I suggest everyone watches "Reason to Resist" with Demitri Lascaris.
Not only did he warn us about Cyprus but he has just been in Persia.Iran.
Take a look what these white 'infidels' have done to our History of Earth.
Isfahan, an incredible place 100's of years old. Glass: way before the Venetians in Europe.
Then the US bombs a small town with ancient tombs which we all would like to visit.
What can we bomb in the US which is worth anything?
These people in the US know nothing!
Come on US bomb the old European sites and then see how the European white shit people scream and shout.
They have always been the military arm of the City of London. Keeping the rulers safe and offering the US up, eventually, as a target of world rage. Watch where they have their military replacement.
Crashing the US petrodollar only increases their profits. History provides the precedents.
We only see it now because the mask is off. Amurdicans never heard their victims screaming and others warning.
" We were the heroes of WW2"
Research:
The Rhine meadow Death Camps and the dead from the WW2 promised US back up to the Eastern Europe Uprising in May 1945. US troops were at the border, sending word throughout the resistance, to rise up in the morning and the US would join them that same day. The US never moved in, and warriors were eliminated, easing in the reset of the communist era. A beta test of a population under fear. Implemented on us today.
Try reading the work of Antony B Sutton on Wall Street and the financing of Hitler, also on the Bolsheviks.
That will happen when Amurdicans are literate, politically and financially literate.
There are little wreaths you can find marking the deaths of people who rose up in 1945, who resisted throughout the war. Heroes. Each year, in early May, marking the date of the deaths of loved ones, roses are placed in the wreaths, in the dark of night.
Unnoticed by Amurdican tourists screeching around town looking for hot dogs and french fries, unable to decipher a trisyllabic word.
I wonder if "you are your brothers keeper" means - if you allow individuals the "freedom" to be so ignorant, it affects the group ability to live - your death is on you.
So true of the majority in my experience.They stopped learning after their 13 years of Indoctrination. The Propaganda helped immensely as did the baubles and trinkets bought with the loot of resources and dead from other people's.
Are they the people who live in the Appalachian Mountains and other places like Louisiana down in the swamps/ who fuck their daughters/hide their weapons in caves or are they the ones who support Dump?
I've lived in the back country most of my life. These people are the upstanding Christians. Their image is painted by those who fear them as they are the ones who kicked British ass in their revolution and may yet come down from the hills to do it again with this current dictatorship.
Oh, could you perhaps ask them to hurry the f*ck up? Cos we, the non-US people of the planet are FED UP of having to suffer all the crap brought on by your moronic leader who thinks diplomacy is an alcoholic beverage. Thanks!
I think I can help. Distill the worst imperial European traits you can imagine (sanctimonious hypocrisy, lack of a civilized attitude toward neighbors, greed, supremacy complex, religious delusions of grandeur, etc.) then drop the IQ a solid 25 points.
The Early American elites established racism, much like the British Empire’s elites did, elsewhere, to keep the “peasants” disunited against their masters. The main categories of Early American peasants in the southern plantations and mines were black slaves and their offspring, and white indentured servants and their offspring all of which were kept in a condition of relative poverty and deliberate ignorance.
The geography of Appalachian and the southern states made travel expensive and difficult for the poor working class. So, much of their society consisted of their own families and relatives. That “tradition” has somewhat continued into the 21st Century.
Another applicable term is “trailer trash” referring to people who live in “mobile home trailers” because they cannot afford conventional houses. Of course, some trailers such as “double wides” and “triple wides” are nicer than others but are typically not as durable as conventional houses, and are more easily destroyed by tornadoes and hurricanes.
Their tradition of maintaining firearms was necessitated by their need to hunt wild game for food. They also had the tradition of fermenting and brewing beer and liquor as a means of storing surplus grains from their small farming plots. Access to homemade alcohol also contributed to alcoholism.
So, Whisky Pete Kegsbreath or Hogsbreath may fit the profile.
They remind me of a school bully. The other kid does everything to avoid a fight which unfortunately only encourages the bully However, when he escalates the conflict to the point on no return it is often the bully who ends up with the bloodied nose. If they keep pushing they can expect the same thing with the Russia NATO situation. The U.S. is so busy trying to procure a one shot victory that they are exhausting their weapons reserves at an alarming rate which could prove devastating to them.
He’s continuing to “encourage” early retirement of his opponents. Any one of them could fire him. They have the skills and training to do that, if they live up to their oath.
Agreed! How many innocent people have been killed in Central and South America as narco-terrorist when they were merely fishermen and farmers (147, the last count I've read)?
Well, everything they have done so far displays a huge failure to understand Iran. The very term "failed state", of course, is propaganda of the crudest kind. The assumption is that the goal of every nation should be to become exactly like the USA (although not quite as perfect, it's understood). Any country that doesn't must be a "failed state". But nations can be perfectly happy and successful with far fewer material things than the USA. Actually, Iran has been quite prosperous and will be again - indeed, I suspect that before I die I may see Iranians, like Chinese people, being richer on average than US citizens.
There is an enormous difference that they can't grasp. In the USA, people believe in nothing or in wild fantasies. So they try to compensate with money or drugs. In Iran, most people have firm religious beliefs; and they also trust and feel part of their ancient and noble nation.
Such a people can never be a "failed state", no matter how many things the Americans set on fire.
America is the biggest failed state in the world. A civilization where everyone fends for themselves, nothing is ever done for the people with the people's money. Either party, it's all a grift, a get rich quick lie. Other countries don't live that way nor would we want to live that way. We want to pull our weakest and poorest out of their despair and see them achieve. We do t leave them behind or ridicule them because they have a different colour skin or grew up in another zip code. Seriously the only people who think America is great are those people who have no greater joy than a dollar in their pocket. That's no way to live!
They don't want or need to understand Iran to kill people and smash things up, any more than a virus needs a higher understanding of its host to kill it.
You are right. The power of religion is often under estimated. This is why the Zionist movement has been working for over a century to destroy Christianity in the West and it's working.
Anyone who knows Iran or any Iranians, was not be surprised by their preparedness and their commitment to defending their country. The fact that the so-called “Minister of War” had no idea, is indicative of the stupidity and incompetence of the current government in the usa. They are all idiots!
Brace for impact. With psychotic morons behind the wheel, the crash is coming. It was building all along the decades anyway, in the self-centered American electorate and in the corrupt political class. But now that true bona fide idiots are at the helm, the ship will be directed into an iceberg. And to the extent your country got in bed with America and its neoliberal economics, it too will sink. Just remember who caused this: American whitetrash and Israelis.
One good thing g to come out of this disaster is, the israelis are getting a taste of their own terrorist activities, plus hunger and thirst. Reaping what tge sowed and, of course, winning big time.
Trump and his gang are "know-it-alls" and won't listen to experts or those who may disagree with what they want to do, much like my toddler grandchildren.
When someone like Trump gets to be elected as leader of the most powerful country on the planet, you know that the human race has come to the edge of a precipice deeper than the Grand Canyon.
"Time has a new article out in which unnamed sources assert that the Pentagon was caught totally off-guard by Iran’s aggressive retaliation against the US-Israeli onslaught which began last month..."
Any mention of "unnamed sources" should be met by closing the tab. An unnamed source isn't a source; it's personal knowledge, whose reliability depends on the reliability of the writer. When the writer is a "Time" reporter...
If the Pentagon was caught totally off guard, then the Pentagon did not do their due diligence and plan for every possible scenario. This is absolutely a leadership failure with in the Pentagon. Don't fault the troops, they follow orders, even unlawful ones apparently. The real issue here is when you plan an assault, military leaders build out every scenario and plans for each one. No real military runs into an assault with no plan, but the US military just did, and that nation wants us all to fear their power, power civilian leadership has no idea how to protect. Between Hegseth and his puppet senior military staff, they are going to kill and maim 10's of thousands of troops over these next 3 years! And there are no real military leaders left to try to stop them! Good job MAGA!
In fact Hegseth just fired a whole bunch of top military leaders INCLUDING the actual Joint Chief of Staff. And with them goes all the intelligence, knowledge, and experience that they've gained over the decades.
The failure in the Pentagon was the failure of senior flag officers to refuse to participate in illegal undeclared wars, war crimes and crimes against humanity. They also failed to protect US citizens from being publicly executed by thugs of the US government.
Looked at as a system, the Pentagon promotes precisely those who obey orders and don't rock the boat. Have you noticed how many of the really good commentators online are retired colonels? That's as high as an officer can go without getting "political". Like Generals Peckem and Dreedle in "Catch-22", who I have always assumed were thinly disguised real men.
Much of that also applies to many executives of major corporations, but that’s another topic. However, big corporations support both of the major political parties to hedge their bets.
I have. I am retired Canadian military, I get it. But this US administration doesn't want people who know how things work, they want people who will do what they are told, which will eventually lead to a mutiny in the military where now that the troops have their weapons on base, we can take bets on which one will fall first because piss poor leadership leads to morale issues and morale issues lead to contempt for leadership!
Most people in the USA have been educated by a public school system that promotes propaganda and selective ignorance for the benefit of Capitalist employers.
The adult literacy rate in the USA is pathetic, especially compared to that of most other “advanced” countries.
Yes which is poor leadership. They should have stood their ground and said no to the illegal war, now their troops are at risk of paying the price for leadership failure! It’s a real shame. Bless the two downed air crew and bless their families. I can’t imagine the fear and worry right now for the families. The air crew would be SERE trained, they know what to expect and how to respond!
They did refuse and Hegseth fired them in succession until he found a general who cared more about his career than the men and women serving under his leadership.
They also secured their generous pensions. None were actually “fired” as in being dumped onto the streets with no income and no healthcare insurance coverage. They were all “retired” with full benefits and pensions that greatly exceed the median income of most full-time working class Americans.
Nevertheless, by leaving instead of leading, they did betray their subordinates and the people of the USA.
Perhaps some will have the courage to lead the protests.
Their generous pensions comes directly out of their pay! You think it’s a gift for their service, but it’s not. I have a military pension that is giving me back what I paid in over my 20 years of service.
these generals stood up for their troops and told Hegseth a ground invasion is a suicide mission and they were fired. You blame these generals for abandoning their troops but the reality is the government has abandoned its troops and they are going to be killed in an illegal war. But you keep hanging onto the misinformation you are being fed. You could be more wrong for blaming the generals who have been forced out in this purge! The ones you should blame are the ones who are following the unlawful commands and sending those commands to their troops. I’m very glad you were not someone I served under, you would have got me killed and not given a fuck! Shame on you
The retirement pay/pensions for US military personnel who entered service prior to the year 2018 are “defined benefits” fully covered by the taxpayers. Virtually as of the US career “flag” officers fall under that category.
Military personnel who entered the service after 2018 have the option for “defined contributions” savings plan. Perhaps that’s what you have in Canada.
I agree that the officers who ordered their subordinates to commit crimes and to follow illegal orders are blameworthy.
In my military officer training, I was taught to refuse to obey illegal orders. I was also taught to be prepared for the scenario of when “domestic enemies” seize control of the legislative and/or executive branch of the US government.
These high-ranking officers could have ordered their troops to arrest Hogsbreath and the POTUS as enemies of the country or they could have done that themselves. They have already kidnapped the President of Venezuela and killed the leader of Iran.
I was also taught to never order my subordinates to do anything that I was unwilling to do, personally.
My military peers and I are now officially geriatric. Some of us are retired generals or colonels, some of us transitioned into the Civil Service. Some went into corporate industry.
We are pondering our obligations to uphold and defend the US Constitution as we are also contending with spinal arthritis, digestive disorders, failing hips and knees, hearing loss, poor eyesight, prostate and bladder issues, etc., not unusual for those who have lived as long as we have. Those of us who were exposed to Agent Orange, depleted uranium and burn pit fumes are fairing worse or are now deceased.
Neocons and zionists, not MAGA. The MAGA platform was no new wars, end the wars we were already in, and concentrate on fixing the problems in America. Trump had some credibility in this direction in 2024, but sadly has transmogrified into George Bush 3.0.
The MAGA people have not yet committed themselves to overthrowing the liar who deceived them.
One reason that the leaders in the armed forces have been reluctant to take control of the situation is that they don’t know how the 30-40-million MAGAts will react to military intervention. The flag officers don’t want to initiate a civil war.
MAGA is a broad coalition of people who came together in support of the candidacy of Donald Trump and the platform of issues he stood for when running, one of which was ending these wars. Different people have different values and priorities, and these distribute over a range of other issues on the platform, including freedom of speech and publication, DEI, illegal immigration, tax-funded backchannel support to partisan political initiatives, lawfare, tariffs, election integrity, and medical freedom.
Based on his 2024 platform, I would consider myself staunchly MAGA, and I think that President Trump has stood in a fairly good direction with most of the other issues I care about. But if I were in Congress, based on what he has been doing internationally, from using tariffs as a personal bludgeon for extortion, to blowing civilian boats out of the water in the Caribbean, to the assault on Venezuela, to piracy of oil tankers on the high seas, to the treachery and atrocities against Iran, I would have to vote to impeach him.
As far as I know, MAGA is not a formal organization, so of course it will be divided when the man it formed around betrays one of the core principles he campaigned on. We are just little people with no common voice the same as you, and we have no power to overthrow a President. Nor were we ever necessarily deceived; there is never any certainty that anyone placed in such a powerful, vulnerable, and pressured position will not break his promises. Given the alternative offered in 2024, I do not regret my vote in the slightest.
The second amendment begs to differ. It specifically allows Americas to own guns and built private militias to over throw a tyrannical government. So yes, the people have the right to change this. What I see as the real issue is how Americans hate each other. From the outside looking in, Americans are their own worst enemy, and if owning the Libs is so important to anyone, then those people are getting the pain they deserve and I have zero sympathy for them!
The second amendment allows local communities to maintain well regulated militias, and forbids the federal government to prevent the people from keeping and bearing arms. This keeps the federal government from making such tyrannical demands that the people start shooting back against the agents sent to enforce them. It's a passive check, not a license to overthrow the government.
I have no interest in "owning the Libs." I identified as left myself for almost two decades before it went full-on totalitarian in 2020. I agree with you that we have too much partisan hatred in America, and it doesn't sound to me like there's any less of that in Canada. One difference is that the American first amendment allows you and me to argue in public on level ground, while in the other anglosphere countries like Canada, the UK, and Australia, the side that controls the government gets to jail anyone that speaks against them.
For decades I have heard that in USA/Iran wargames that the USA always lost. W wanted to go to war with Iran and the Joint Chiefs said they'd all resign if he did. Trump replaced all the Joint Chiefs but the Chairman didn't like the war plans so Trump fired him. It was a bloodless decapitation strike.
Hitler wouldn't listen to experts either. Goes with the territory. To avoid disaster the Wehrmacht tried to assassinate him several times but always failed.
The White House thinks they are on a mission from God to chastise the infidel and thusly can't lose. Then Jesus will be so psyched by a huge war he'll return to Earth to guide the perpetrators to Heaven.
Isn’t heggy a former soldier? I thought all soldiers and former soldiers got free or low cost education opportunities. What’s my point? Ummm education isn’t always necessary to do stupid evil demonic sh|t? Rumpty claims to be a genius. I always thought of him as dumber than a box of rocks even though he’s also a scheming, conniving evil demonic piece of sh|t.
As always Johnstone thanks for your brilliant reporting.
I am a veteran, born in the USA to war refugee immigrants. When I entered the military service, I didn’t know that my ancestral homeland was a victim of the British/American Empire.
My parents blamed the Ottomans. The real reason was the British and American quest for petroleum, more than 100 years ago.
Yes the propaganda in our school books (untrue histories for example) is as strong as the propaganda in billionaire news outlets. Now add AI. The €pst€|n files and the very recent g€n0cid€ (cause there have been many by European and u$ empires), should have informed these young men and woman to take a 2nd look before signing up! I’m gonna look on another side of this problem on behalf of the mislead young folks who join: things are so very bad in America, military seemed like the best option for their future and their future families. Birth rates and marriage are down in America! The way things are so unfairly set up for the average person in America—for decades—people can’t afford children. And one parent staying home with the
child/ren is near impossible. The cost of daycare is almost the cost of college FFS! Plus if you live in poverty, a soldier has an income, medical and the possibility of a higher education. Unfortunately, these benefits are no longer good.
But, these folks had months to: conscientious object. I sometimes am very angry about the fact they didn’t figure out they are actually fighting for a foreign regime of pdfiles and r*pists, and the billionaire class. But again strong $$$ propaganda. And they probably still believe as many in U$, in the corrupt 2-party system that allow billionaires. Notice the real bad people aren’t prosecuted in America?
I’m watching a video on YouTube: dialogue works interviewing Col Larry Wilkerson and former cia intel analyst Larry Johnson. They have some thoughts on those hogbreath’s firings. Rumpty is creating a leadership into a partisan political party. So very dangerous!! In that the military will not be protecting America or Americans but rather the party in power!!! So instead of another January 6 mess, it will be the military murdering citizens protesting or doing their duty to remove a dictator type scenario. |c€ killings and severe mistreatment will look like a cakewalk compared to the military and all their apparatuses. Have you heard of pax Judaica? If not, maybe want to check it out. Just in case rumpty is doing exactly what iznotreal wants.
Why is Drumpf even considering his re-election, they only get two terms and this is his second. He has no right to be in the running, it's a takeover, a couple, and illegal unconstitutional. So why are people talking about it? If this was allowed by the Supreme court judges that he put in there, then Americans have the right to sue. They have no legal right to change the constitution to suit one man, a criminal, paedophile and rapist, sue the pants off them, save your country from a rapist...
I’m guessing here: addlehead gave rumpty millions and suggested he run again. Also, lots and lots of $$$ is being spent for pro-iznotreal candidates running.
RE rumpty, I feel rumpty will say something along the lines: we are at war with t€rr0ists I must stay in power to protect America. I do this for America first. I’m your only hope for a maga.
Candidates running both dems and republicans are getting $$$ from pro-Iznotreal organizations and nonprofits. Example: a doctor (democrat) is running against L Graham. She takes $$$ from JAC PAC a pro-iznotreal organization. She talks of ending wars of which most Americans agree with. She doesn’t say one word about America disengaging from iznotreal. How can she? She has to be loyal to donors companies and the foreign regime. Yes yes yes someone should run against warmonger graham. As long as u$ is attached to iznotreal there will always be war and chaos of some kind. Voters are still clueless how to research. How to break the 2-party system and haven’t even figured out it’s a huge fn problem!
TX: 2 dems run: Crockett who lost the primary and the other dem won his primary. Another pro-iznotreal.
You have noticed current dems are doing nothing. The usual excuse: we don’t have the house and senate. We can’t do anything. They have tools but don’t use them because they support the war for iznotreal no matter the cost to our soldiers. The dem leaders are very pro-iznotreal.
If there are enough pro-iznotreal congress members: getting rumpty removed could be a long drawn out process. Or worse. If voters decide to March in Washington, rumpty has the “loyalty” of the military! In rumpty’s first term Milley refused to allow the military to get involved in the January 6 mess.
Remember the executive branch is ignoring the judicial branches. Supreme Court said the use of the Alien Act by rumpty is illegal. Still |c€ on the streets! |c€ is an illegal imo entity that is funded and approved by both “factions” in congress. DHS and |c€ should be de-funded—we no longer need it.
I wonder if the rogue US regime had instead correctly judged their crime of aggression, and had successfully realized whatever their disgustingly vulgar criminal aims were, would the journalists of the rogue US regime - and the wider West for that matter - have even mentioned the fact that this latest criminal act of aggression of the rogue US regime was wholly unprovoked? An unprovoked war of aggression is the ultimate crime - a crime that the rogue US regime continues to commit repeatedly. The world must once and for all come together to put an end to the rogue US regime, before it destroys the whole world.
These guys don't read. They likely haven't seen any of those reports, have fired all the grownups high up in the military who questioned this (they just fired four more generals--no reason given but two were women and the other two wee black men), who restrained Trump in the first administration. Hegseth may also actually believe he's doing the Lord's work in bringing on Armageddon, so Jesus can come back, and problem in the meanwhile won't matter for long. I don't think they are a combination of liars, morons, and lying morons--I think they're all in the third category.
Not in response but I just want to say this--I'm disgusted with the dis course in the US, in which most agree the war was reckless, is unpopular, is raising the price of gas and other things, and is mainly on behalf of Israel. But it's rarely mentioned that it's also a vile crime, a mass murder. Like it would be okay if it lowered the price of gas?
Tens of millions in the US believe that rapture ready stuff. The trouble with Hegseth is he's only six years old, playing with his toy soldiers. He looks good in a suit--unfortunately, that's his only skill.
100% correct. Lying morons. Lying idiots. Lying fuckwads- when it suits them. They wanted to murder innocent unarmed Iranian people as per the orange freak's puppet Master, the ICC indicated isrehelli fascist war mongering coward, instructions. The orange freak' and his repellent pentagon greaser alcoholic mass murderer, PH, played dumb (not too difficult) and started their pathetic war. The Orange freak and his repellent toadies couldn't Care less on the upcoming war casualties on both fucking sides. Both now war mongering cowards and thugs. Like the ICC indicated isrehelli fascist thug. Long live the brave Palestinians under murderous oppression and occupation
Experts have been warning about how a war against Iran would go for years, but now there's a president dumb enough to initiate this war. And all of us will pay the consequences if the USA doesn't get the hell out of the region for good.
Mr Angus, You are far too cautious in your legitimate criticism of " God's chosen people". Understandably so. These Racist Canadian Zionist thin skinned two faced vile hypocritical people apparently love to smear and destroy critic's lives; as the world has seen during the idf's genocide in Palestine, now the idf's fresh slaughters of innocent unarmed civilians in Lebanon and Iran. Screw the fascists Love Live our Right to free factual and unbiased speech in Canada. Long live the brave Palestinians under murderous oppression and occupation. Zionist fanatics and racist fascists out of Lebanon and Iran. We love the Manitoban premier - he's 100% correct. Don't like the facts and the truth, Canadian fascists? F.... Leave this wonderful country! FO! Long live Canadian free speech! Arrest the ICC indicated isrehelli war mongering coward and thug.
Brilliant documentation of stupidity of US Department of War, now to be renamed:
Department of Stupid Wars. Patel is the next to be fired; then Hegseth. We are seeing over and over that those loyal to Trump are the first to be thrown under the tank. This is because being loyal to a stupid man is a recipe for failure, and he will not tolerate failure (his father inculcated in him that losers were worthless shit...so never admit failure, just blame it on those who most loyally followed your orders) and so we see, at the same time, rats rushing off the sinking ship (36 Republicans in House not running again, 7 in Senate, not to mention the resignations of dozens in protest or forced out).
The irony is that it is the most loyal, who stick with Trump come hell or high water, that become his scapegoats, for they more than anyone enabled his most stupid operations.
Noem went down because ICE was too thuggish; Bondi because she failed to hide the Epstein files; Hegseth will (Iater) take the blame for the Iranian failure. I would guess this will happen after the US pulls out of Iran but before the November elections, where Republicans look to be a generic scapegoat for Trump's failures.
His father was talking about Drumpf when he lectured about losers, it didn't work - his son may now have illegally gathered lots of money but won't live to spend it. Either dementia will ensure he's not allowed to get near it - the offspring are a greedy bunch and won't want him losing it all on an other stupid plan. Or the world will sue him for causing so much harm to the planet by starting this war on Iran, for the increased pollution that he has also made happen by throwing out laws that were starting to help save both the planet and the people effected by the pollution. Or, someone decides his usefulness has ended and has him killed, or do it themself.
All respect and admiration for you both. A question - why is there a hesitation to explore the possibility that US military failure and the catastrophic diminishment of our obsolete equipment and our obsolete human soldiers is absolutely on purpose and very useful outcome for certain people and industries?
Or is it Bibi's desire to get US out of the way so the Is___l Empire can be a world power. Look how many countries are already vassals. Hopefully they are totally erased by Iran.
Bibi bighead is having his own problems at home, israelis are out in the streets winning about the stench of their bunkers, and that there is no food or water available.
How good is that, they're getting a taste of their own torturing regime's horro show in Gaza and elsewhere. It's been four, five weeks and they're moaning already, making demands, how weak are they because their bomb-shelter accommodation is not 5 ☆.
White trash, Christo-fascist quarter-wit low life drunks like Hegseth are surprised by Iran's response because they are a bunch of racist jingoists who think everyone else who isn't part of their "master race", is stupid. They think Muslims cannot be strategic, be prepared, plan ahead or in any way capable of doing anything but be knuckle draggers like themselves. They really think their 250 year old corporatist cartel of a nation that's built on bloodshed, racism and theft, is the pinnacle of advancement and morality.
The reality is the only thing America is exceptional at is mass murder and creating the propaganda to manufacture consent for it. That's it. We see it now too with the way they openly broadcast and tweet their war crimes and planned atrocities and open bloodlust.
This. This band of morons in charge currently is not the cause but a symptom. There are millions of others at least as stupid and psychotic urging to take their place. The American system needs to collapse. Sadly, because everyone decided to get deep in bed with the US, when it falls the entire world will go with it.
The 95% of the human population that is not part of the one in the USA still has the collective power to change the game
We're trying.
Bollocks!
Most of us are trying.
Agree - but does it have the belief or the will?
We shall see, if we live long enough.
How can you say this: NO the 'entire world' is stronger than you know.
The world is full of corrupt governments whose ruling classes got rich from neoliberal capitalism ushered in by the Americans and British, especially after the fall of the Soviet Union. To the extent that they got in bed with the US, their economies will collapse if the US economy collapses. I didn't make the stupid fucking rules.
Humans are very good at short-termism, at taking the easy way out.
It’s that consumer ‘comfort’ thing.
Why put an end to poverty when you can invent a button to roll a car window up or down?
"The reality is the only thing America is exceptional at is mass murder. That's it. We see it now too with the way they openly broadcast and tweet their war crimes and planned atrocities and open bloodlust."
It works.
Yes I agree BUT............apart from the 'bloodlust' Amerikka is destroying thousands of years of History. Iran is the Cradle of Civilization.......who knows this in Amerikka?
I suggest everyone watches "Reason to Resist" with Demitri Lascaris.
Not only did he warn us about Cyprus but he has just been in Persia.Iran.
Take a look what these white 'infidels' have done to our History of Earth.
Isfahan, an incredible place 100's of years old. Glass: way before the Venetians in Europe.
Then the US bombs a small town with ancient tombs which we all would like to visit.
What can we bomb in the US which is worth anything?
These people in the US know nothing!
Come on US bomb the old European sites and then see how the European white shit people scream and shout.
Really Had enough.....................
Neither the Americans not the Israelis care.
OF course not Feral but you seem to have just given up and I do not subscribe to this!
I have done no such thing. I am, however, a realist. You have to be, if you want any kind of success at being a feral cat.
In actuality polls show a majority of Americans have opposed this war from the get-go--agreed, it's not the usual case.
Just possibly the Trump junta hope to drag a cobbled voter consensus into supporting the declining Empire's backlashes.
It doesn't look to succeed that way though.
This emperor's new clothes can't hide Caligula.
Nobody said that the war is popular. It's not. The rulers don't care.
Exactly: the rulers don't care.
To conflate that with generalizations such as "Americans"--a whole populace-- oversteps your re-defined bounds.
It's generalizations that lend themselves to, well, wars.
They have always been the military arm of the City of London. Keeping the rulers safe and offering the US up, eventually, as a target of world rage. Watch where they have their military replacement.
Crashing the US petrodollar only increases their profits. History provides the precedents.
We only see it now because the mask is off. Amurdicans never heard their victims screaming and others warning.
" We were the heroes of WW2"
Research:
The Rhine meadow Death Camps and the dead from the WW2 promised US back up to the Eastern Europe Uprising in May 1945. US troops were at the border, sending word throughout the resistance, to rise up in the morning and the US would join them that same day. The US never moved in, and warriors were eliminated, easing in the reset of the communist era. A beta test of a population under fear. Implemented on us today.
Try reading the work of Antony B Sutton on Wall Street and the financing of Hitler, also on the Bolsheviks.
That will happen when Amurdicans are literate, politically and financially literate.
There are little wreaths you can find marking the deaths of people who rose up in 1945, who resisted throughout the war. Heroes. Each year, in early May, marking the date of the deaths of loved ones, roses are placed in the wreaths, in the dark of night.
Unnoticed by Amurdican tourists screeching around town looking for hot dogs and french fries, unable to decipher a trisyllabic word.
I wonder if "you are your brothers keeper" means - if you allow individuals the "freedom" to be so ignorant, it affects the group ability to live - your death is on you.
So true of the majority in my experience.They stopped learning after their 13 years of Indoctrination. The Propaganda helped immensely as did the baubles and trinkets bought with the loot of resources and dead from other people's.
Correct.
dead end, imo.
Sometimes.
Calling Hegseth 'White Trash' is an insult to White Trash.
What is 'white trash.' in the US?
Are they the people who live in the Appalachian Mountains and other places like Louisiana down in the swamps/ who fuck their daughters/hide their weapons in caves or are they the ones who support Dump?
I don't know.
Miserable society founded on nothing but MONEY.
I've lived in the back country most of my life. These people are the upstanding Christians. Their image is painted by those who fear them as they are the ones who kicked British ass in their revolution and may yet come down from the hills to do it again with this current dictatorship.
Oh, could you perhaps ask them to hurry the f*ck up? Cos we, the non-US people of the planet are FED UP of having to suffer all the crap brought on by your moronic leader who thinks diplomacy is an alcoholic beverage. Thanks!
Not my leader friend. I'm Canadian and our government is pretty shameful in its own right.
Apologies, but puhleeze...Canadians are angels in comparison with your neighbours.
I think I can help. Distill the worst imperial European traits you can imagine (sanctimonious hypocrisy, lack of a civilized attitude toward neighbors, greed, supremacy complex, religious delusions of grandeur, etc.) then drop the IQ a solid 25 points.
And add guns.
JennyStokes,
FYI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_trash
The Early American elites established racism, much like the British Empire’s elites did, elsewhere, to keep the “peasants” disunited against their masters. The main categories of Early American peasants in the southern plantations and mines were black slaves and their offspring, and white indentured servants and their offspring all of which were kept in a condition of relative poverty and deliberate ignorance.
The geography of Appalachian and the southern states made travel expensive and difficult for the poor working class. So, much of their society consisted of their own families and relatives. That “tradition” has somewhat continued into the 21st Century.
Another applicable term is “trailer trash” referring to people who live in “mobile home trailers” because they cannot afford conventional houses. Of course, some trailers such as “double wides” and “triple wides” are nicer than others but are typically not as durable as conventional houses, and are more easily destroyed by tornadoes and hurricanes.
Their tradition of maintaining firearms was necessitated by their need to hunt wild game for food. They also had the tradition of fermenting and brewing beer and liquor as a means of storing surplus grains from their small farming plots. Access to homemade alcohol also contributed to alcoholism.
So, Whisky Pete Kegsbreath or Hogsbreath may fit the profile.
They remind me of a school bully. The other kid does everything to avoid a fight which unfortunately only encourages the bully However, when he escalates the conflict to the point on no return it is often the bully who ends up with the bloodied nose. If they keep pushing they can expect the same thing with the Russia NATO situation. The U.S. is so busy trying to procure a one shot victory that they are exhausting their weapons reserves at an alarming rate which could prove devastating to them.
The senior military planners at the Pentagon know this. They are failing to resist their incompetent commander in chief.
He fired everyone who wouldn't go along with the idea.
He’s continuing to “encourage” early retirement of his opponents. Any one of them could fire him. They have the skills and training to do that, if they live up to their oath.
I'm sorry, but in my experience, the bully just gets another win, the victim gets beat up.
Well Feral...........you are wrong here. Eventually the bully meets his/her end.
I'm with Jenny here. And it's about time too, bullies had it easy for far too damn long.
Not always. Some of them die in their beds of old age.
I wish you were right. I suppose all of us die some day.
To quote Arthur Conan Doyle "Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself"
Agreed! How many innocent people have been killed in Central and South America as narco-terrorist when they were merely fishermen and farmers (147, the last count I've read)?
Yes, but Israel gets what it wants, and for his part, Trump continues to live The Good Life and Epstein stays out of the news for a while.
So for them, it's all gravy.
To misquote Scrooge, "more of grave than gravy".
That is precisely what Israel wants.
Israel one big open grave? Really??
Because they can have it if they insist.
Much I may wish for this, the goal is to turn Iran into a failed state.
Well, everything they have done so far displays a huge failure to understand Iran. The very term "failed state", of course, is propaganda of the crudest kind. The assumption is that the goal of every nation should be to become exactly like the USA (although not quite as perfect, it's understood). Any country that doesn't must be a "failed state". But nations can be perfectly happy and successful with far fewer material things than the USA. Actually, Iran has been quite prosperous and will be again - indeed, I suspect that before I die I may see Iranians, like Chinese people, being richer on average than US citizens.
There is an enormous difference that they can't grasp. In the USA, people believe in nothing or in wild fantasies. So they try to compensate with money or drugs. In Iran, most people have firm religious beliefs; and they also trust and feel part of their ancient and noble nation.
Such a people can never be a "failed state", no matter how many things the Americans set on fire.
America is the biggest failed state in the world. A civilization where everyone fends for themselves, nothing is ever done for the people with the people's money. Either party, it's all a grift, a get rich quick lie. Other countries don't live that way nor would we want to live that way. We want to pull our weakest and poorest out of their despair and see them achieve. We do t leave them behind or ridicule them because they have a different colour skin or grew up in another zip code. Seriously the only people who think America is great are those people who have no greater joy than a dollar in their pocket. That's no way to live!
They don't want or need to understand Iran to kill people and smash things up, any more than a virus needs a higher understanding of its host to kill it.
A "failed state" is a place the government has collapsed and been replaced by criminal warlords in endless war. Libya and Syria.
You are right. The power of religion is often under estimated. This is why the Zionist movement has been working for over a century to destroy Christianity in the West and it's working.
I really really want you to be right!
Not going to happen.
Epstein ain't staying out the REAL news. Just the lies they own.
After Pete’s 8th tequila shot the Iranians didn’t look so tough
Arrogance and hubris will make a fatal coctail😱
Cancel Israel & supporters.
Good idea, but doing so is more likely than not to cancel the species.
Anyone who knows Iran or any Iranians, was not be surprised by their preparedness and their commitment to defending their country. The fact that the so-called “Minister of War” had no idea, is indicative of the stupidity and incompetence of the current government in the usa. They are all idiots!
“ they are all idiots”…… and so is everyone who voted for them.
Their president and his Sec of War are braggarts, I should add brainless, arrogant, incompetent and uneducated.
In a word: MALE.
And before you start to throw stones at me, think about it.
When was the last time the world was on fire because a woman declared war?
Exactly.
You have a point. Most zHods are Male, cause who in their right mind would ever think of God as a woman?
Unfortunately, stupidity is not reserved to men, but to the species itself.
I can’t believe the typo. “Zhods”.. I guess my typing skills have really reached the bottom of this barrel , and so has my editing.. Sorry, in spades.
Brace for impact. With psychotic morons behind the wheel, the crash is coming. It was building all along the decades anyway, in the self-centered American electorate and in the corrupt political class. But now that true bona fide idiots are at the helm, the ship will be directed into an iceberg. And to the extent your country got in bed with America and its neoliberal economics, it too will sink. Just remember who caused this: American whitetrash and Israelis.
You nailed it Ennui. It’s not only those in charge, it’s the species itself..
One good thing g to come out of this disaster is, the israelis are getting a taste of their own terrorist activities, plus hunger and thirst. Reaping what tge sowed and, of course, winning big time.
They not tge
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Trump and his gang are "know-it-alls" and won't listen to experts or those who may disagree with what they want to do, much like my toddler grandchildren.
When someone like Trump gets to be elected as leader of the most powerful country on the planet, you know that the human race has come to the edge of a precipice deeper than the Grand Canyon.
More like Marianas Trench deep.
Oh dear.
Moreover, not only is the canyon deep, but the river at the bottom has run dry… which will make our collective landing a bit hard.
"Time has a new article out in which unnamed sources assert that the Pentagon was caught totally off-guard by Iran’s aggressive retaliation against the US-Israeli onslaught which began last month..."
Any mention of "unnamed sources" should be met by closing the tab. An unnamed source isn't a source; it's personal knowledge, whose reliability depends on the reliability of the writer. When the writer is a "Time" reporter...
If the Pentagon was caught totally off guard, then the Pentagon did not do their due diligence and plan for every possible scenario. This is absolutely a leadership failure with in the Pentagon. Don't fault the troops, they follow orders, even unlawful ones apparently. The real issue here is when you plan an assault, military leaders build out every scenario and plans for each one. No real military runs into an assault with no plan, but the US military just did, and that nation wants us all to fear their power, power civilian leadership has no idea how to protect. Between Hegseth and his puppet senior military staff, they are going to kill and maim 10's of thousands of troops over these next 3 years! And there are no real military leaders left to try to stop them! Good job MAGA!
In fact Hegseth just fired a whole bunch of top military leaders INCLUDING the actual Joint Chief of Staff. And with them goes all the intelligence, knowledge, and experience that they've gained over the decades.
So he saved Iran the trouble of a counter decapitation strike.
The failure in the Pentagon was the failure of senior flag officers to refuse to participate in illegal undeclared wars, war crimes and crimes against humanity. They also failed to protect US citizens from being publicly executed by thugs of the US government.
Looked at as a system, the Pentagon promotes precisely those who obey orders and don't rock the boat. Have you noticed how many of the really good commentators online are retired colonels? That's as high as an officer can go without getting "political". Like Generals Peckem and Dreedle in "Catch-22", who I have always assumed were thinly disguised real men.
Much of that also applies to many executives of major corporations, but that’s another topic. However, big corporations support both of the major political parties to hedge their bets.
I have. I am retired Canadian military, I get it. But this US administration doesn't want people who know how things work, they want people who will do what they are told, which will eventually lead to a mutiny in the military where now that the troops have their weapons on base, we can take bets on which one will fall first because piss poor leadership leads to morale issues and morale issues lead to contempt for leadership!
Most people in the USA have been educated by a public school system that promotes propaganda and selective ignorance for the benefit of Capitalist employers.
The adult literacy rate in the USA is pathetic, especially compared to that of most other “advanced” countries.
I’m sure gutting the Dept of Education helps that. It’s like they want to keep people uneducated and manageable!
Yes which is poor leadership. They should have stood their ground and said no to the illegal war, now their troops are at risk of paying the price for leadership failure! It’s a real shame. Bless the two downed air crew and bless their families. I can’t imagine the fear and worry right now for the families. The air crew would be SERE trained, they know what to expect and how to respond!
They did refuse and Hegseth fired them in succession until he found a general who cared more about his career than the men and women serving under his leadership.
They also secured their generous pensions. None were actually “fired” as in being dumped onto the streets with no income and no healthcare insurance coverage. They were all “retired” with full benefits and pensions that greatly exceed the median income of most full-time working class Americans.
Nevertheless, by leaving instead of leading, they did betray their subordinates and the people of the USA.
Perhaps some will have the courage to lead the protests.
Their generous pensions comes directly out of their pay! You think it’s a gift for their service, but it’s not. I have a military pension that is giving me back what I paid in over my 20 years of service.
these generals stood up for their troops and told Hegseth a ground invasion is a suicide mission and they were fired. You blame these generals for abandoning their troops but the reality is the government has abandoned its troops and they are going to be killed in an illegal war. But you keep hanging onto the misinformation you are being fed. You could be more wrong for blaming the generals who have been forced out in this purge! The ones you should blame are the ones who are following the unlawful commands and sending those commands to their troops. I’m very glad you were not someone I served under, you would have got me killed and not given a fuck! Shame on you
Shame on you for your assumptions.
The retirement pay/pensions for US military personnel who entered service prior to the year 2018 are “defined benefits” fully covered by the taxpayers. Virtually as of the US career “flag” officers fall under that category.
Military personnel who entered the service after 2018 have the option for “defined contributions” savings plan. Perhaps that’s what you have in Canada.
I agree that the officers who ordered their subordinates to commit crimes and to follow illegal orders are blameworthy.
In my military officer training, I was taught to refuse to obey illegal orders. I was also taught to be prepared for the scenario of when “domestic enemies” seize control of the legislative and/or executive branch of the US government.
These high-ranking officers could have ordered their troops to arrest Hogsbreath and the POTUS as enemies of the country or they could have done that themselves. They have already kidnapped the President of Venezuela and killed the leader of Iran.
I was also taught to never order my subordinates to do anything that I was unwilling to do, personally.
My military peers and I are now officially geriatric. Some of us are retired generals or colonels, some of us transitioned into the Civil Service. Some went into corporate industry.
We are pondering our obligations to uphold and defend the US Constitution as we are also contending with spinal arthritis, digestive disorders, failing hips and knees, hearing loss, poor eyesight, prostate and bladder issues, etc., not unusual for those who have lived as long as we have. Those of us who were exposed to Agent Orange, depleted uranium and burn pit fumes are fairing worse or are now deceased.
Neocons and zionists, not MAGA. The MAGA platform was no new wars, end the wars we were already in, and concentrate on fixing the problems in America. Trump had some credibility in this direction in 2024, but sadly has transmogrified into George Bush 3.0.
Thank you for the correction. 😊
The MAGA people have not yet committed themselves to overthrowing the liar who deceived them.
One reason that the leaders in the armed forces have been reluctant to take control of the situation is that they don’t know how the 30-40-million MAGAts will react to military intervention. The flag officers don’t want to initiate a civil war.
MAGA is a broad coalition of people who came together in support of the candidacy of Donald Trump and the platform of issues he stood for when running, one of which was ending these wars. Different people have different values and priorities, and these distribute over a range of other issues on the platform, including freedom of speech and publication, DEI, illegal immigration, tax-funded backchannel support to partisan political initiatives, lawfare, tariffs, election integrity, and medical freedom.
Based on his 2024 platform, I would consider myself staunchly MAGA, and I think that President Trump has stood in a fairly good direction with most of the other issues I care about. But if I were in Congress, based on what he has been doing internationally, from using tariffs as a personal bludgeon for extortion, to blowing civilian boats out of the water in the Caribbean, to the assault on Venezuela, to piracy of oil tankers on the high seas, to the treachery and atrocities against Iran, I would have to vote to impeach him.
As far as I know, MAGA is not a formal organization, so of course it will be divided when the man it formed around betrays one of the core principles he campaigned on. We are just little people with no common voice the same as you, and we have no power to overthrow a President. Nor were we ever necessarily deceived; there is never any certainty that anyone placed in such a powerful, vulnerable, and pressured position will not break his promises. Given the alternative offered in 2024, I do not regret my vote in the slightest.
This is not the time for regrets. You weren’t provided with better alternatives.
This is the time to truly make America great. So, get on with that.
Protect innocent people.
I'm with you on that.
The second amendment begs to differ. It specifically allows Americas to own guns and built private militias to over throw a tyrannical government. So yes, the people have the right to change this. What I see as the real issue is how Americans hate each other. From the outside looking in, Americans are their own worst enemy, and if owning the Libs is so important to anyone, then those people are getting the pain they deserve and I have zero sympathy for them!
The second amendment allows local communities to maintain well regulated militias, and forbids the federal government to prevent the people from keeping and bearing arms. This keeps the federal government from making such tyrannical demands that the people start shooting back against the agents sent to enforce them. It's a passive check, not a license to overthrow the government.
I have no interest in "owning the Libs." I identified as left myself for almost two decades before it went full-on totalitarian in 2020. I agree with you that we have too much partisan hatred in America, and it doesn't sound to me like there's any less of that in Canada. One difference is that the American first amendment allows you and me to argue in public on level ground, while in the other anglosphere countries like Canada, the UK, and Australia, the side that controls the government gets to jail anyone that speaks against them.
For decades I have heard that in USA/Iran wargames that the USA always lost. W wanted to go to war with Iran and the Joint Chiefs said they'd all resign if he did. Trump replaced all the Joint Chiefs but the Chairman didn't like the war plans so Trump fired him. It was a bloodless decapitation strike.
Hitler wouldn't listen to experts either. Goes with the territory. To avoid disaster the Wehrmacht tried to assassinate him several times but always failed.
The White House thinks they are on a mission from God to chastise the infidel and thusly can't lose. Then Jesus will be so psyched by a huge war he'll return to Earth to guide the perpetrators to Heaven.
I have said these next few words so many times in the last 10 years I have lost count! "Trump is an idiot"
Isn’t heggy a former soldier? I thought all soldiers and former soldiers got free or low cost education opportunities. What’s my point? Ummm education isn’t always necessary to do stupid evil demonic sh|t? Rumpty claims to be a genius. I always thought of him as dumber than a box of rocks even though he’s also a scheming, conniving evil demonic piece of sh|t.
As always Johnstone thanks for your brilliant reporting.
Hogsbreath is a disgrace to the US armed forces.
Anyone who joins the military is just a mercenary or a pawn for the rich. There's no honor at all in joining the US terror machine
I am a veteran, born in the USA to war refugee immigrants. When I entered the military service, I didn’t know that my ancestral homeland was a victim of the British/American Empire.
My parents blamed the Ottomans. The real reason was the British and American quest for petroleum, more than 100 years ago.
Yes the propaganda in our school books (untrue histories for example) is as strong as the propaganda in billionaire news outlets. Now add AI. The €pst€|n files and the very recent g€n0cid€ (cause there have been many by European and u$ empires), should have informed these young men and woman to take a 2nd look before signing up! I’m gonna look on another side of this problem on behalf of the mislead young folks who join: things are so very bad in America, military seemed like the best option for their future and their future families. Birth rates and marriage are down in America! The way things are so unfairly set up for the average person in America—for decades—people can’t afford children. And one parent staying home with the
child/ren is near impossible. The cost of daycare is almost the cost of college FFS! Plus if you live in poverty, a soldier has an income, medical and the possibility of a higher education. Unfortunately, these benefits are no longer good.
But, these folks had months to: conscientious object. I sometimes am very angry about the fact they didn’t figure out they are actually fighting for a foreign regime of pdfiles and r*pists, and the billionaire class. But again strong $$$ propaganda. And they probably still believe as many in U$, in the corrupt 2-party system that allow billionaires. Notice the real bad people aren’t prosecuted in America?
I’m watching a video on YouTube: dialogue works interviewing Col Larry Wilkerson and former cia intel analyst Larry Johnson. They have some thoughts on those hogbreath’s firings. Rumpty is creating a leadership into a partisan political party. So very dangerous!! In that the military will not be protecting America or Americans but rather the party in power!!! So instead of another January 6 mess, it will be the military murdering citizens protesting or doing their duty to remove a dictator type scenario. |c€ killings and severe mistreatment will look like a cakewalk compared to the military and all their apparatuses. Have you heard of pax Judaica? If not, maybe want to check it out. Just in case rumpty is doing exactly what iznotreal wants.
Why is Drumpf even considering his re-election, they only get two terms and this is his second. He has no right to be in the running, it's a takeover, a couple, and illegal unconstitutional. So why are people talking about it? If this was allowed by the Supreme court judges that he put in there, then Americans have the right to sue. They have no legal right to change the constitution to suit one man, a criminal, paedophile and rapist, sue the pants off them, save your country from a rapist...
I’m guessing here: addlehead gave rumpty millions and suggested he run again. Also, lots and lots of $$$ is being spent for pro-iznotreal candidates running.
RE rumpty, I feel rumpty will say something along the lines: we are at war with t€rr0ists I must stay in power to protect America. I do this for America first. I’m your only hope for a maga.
Candidates running both dems and republicans are getting $$$ from pro-Iznotreal organizations and nonprofits. Example: a doctor (democrat) is running against L Graham. She takes $$$ from JAC PAC a pro-iznotreal organization. She talks of ending wars of which most Americans agree with. She doesn’t say one word about America disengaging from iznotreal. How can she? She has to be loyal to donors companies and the foreign regime. Yes yes yes someone should run against warmonger graham. As long as u$ is attached to iznotreal there will always be war and chaos of some kind. Voters are still clueless how to research. How to break the 2-party system and haven’t even figured out it’s a huge fn problem!
TX: 2 dems run: Crockett who lost the primary and the other dem won his primary. Another pro-iznotreal.
You have noticed current dems are doing nothing. The usual excuse: we don’t have the house and senate. We can’t do anything. They have tools but don’t use them because they support the war for iznotreal no matter the cost to our soldiers. The dem leaders are very pro-iznotreal.
If there are enough pro-iznotreal congress members: getting rumpty removed could be a long drawn out process. Or worse. If voters decide to March in Washington, rumpty has the “loyalty” of the military! In rumpty’s first term Milley refused to allow the military to get involved in the January 6 mess.
Remember the executive branch is ignoring the judicial branches. Supreme Court said the use of the Alien Act by rumpty is illegal. Still |c€ on the streets! |c€ is an illegal imo entity that is funded and approved by both “factions” in congress. DHS and |c€ should be de-funded—we no longer need it.
I wonder if the rogue US regime had instead correctly judged their crime of aggression, and had successfully realized whatever their disgustingly vulgar criminal aims were, would the journalists of the rogue US regime - and the wider West for that matter - have even mentioned the fact that this latest criminal act of aggression of the rogue US regime was wholly unprovoked? An unprovoked war of aggression is the ultimate crime - a crime that the rogue US regime continues to commit repeatedly. The world must once and for all come together to put an end to the rogue US regime, before it destroys the whole world.
Add to that a war crimes tribunal and reparations. We need more rope.
Can't we use piano wire instead?
Yes, in back alleys, but in public on the gallows, the heads pop off shooting blood all over.
Oh, so too messy then. Thanks, now I know.
These guys don't read. They likely haven't seen any of those reports, have fired all the grownups high up in the military who questioned this (they just fired four more generals--no reason given but two were women and the other two wee black men), who restrained Trump in the first administration. Hegseth may also actually believe he's doing the Lord's work in bringing on Armageddon, so Jesus can come back, and problem in the meanwhile won't matter for long. I don't think they are a combination of liars, morons, and lying morons--I think they're all in the third category.
Not in response but I just want to say this--I'm disgusted with the dis course in the US, in which most agree the war was reckless, is unpopular, is raising the price of gas and other things, and is mainly on behalf of Israel. But it's rarely mentioned that it's also a vile crime, a mass murder. Like it would be okay if it lowered the price of gas?
Yeah, alcoholics do get delusional, you can thank Hegseth for proving it.
Tens of millions in the US believe that rapture ready stuff. The trouble with Hegseth is he's only six years old, playing with his toy soldiers. He looks good in a suit--unfortunately, that's his only skill.
100% correct. Lying morons. Lying idiots. Lying fuckwads- when it suits them. They wanted to murder innocent unarmed Iranian people as per the orange freak's puppet Master, the ICC indicated isrehelli fascist war mongering coward, instructions. The orange freak' and his repellent pentagon greaser alcoholic mass murderer, PH, played dumb (not too difficult) and started their pathetic war. The Orange freak and his repellent toadies couldn't Care less on the upcoming war casualties on both fucking sides. Both now war mongering cowards and thugs. Like the ICC indicated isrehelli fascist thug. Long live the brave Palestinians under murderous oppression and occupation
Experts have been warning about how a war against Iran would go for years, but now there's a president dumb enough to initiate this war. And all of us will pay the consequences if the USA doesn't get the hell out of the region for good.
That's the dumb pedo-pres Bibi has been looking for, for 40 years.
Mr Angus, You are far too cautious in your legitimate criticism of " God's chosen people". Understandably so. These Racist Canadian Zionist thin skinned two faced vile hypocritical people apparently love to smear and destroy critic's lives; as the world has seen during the idf's genocide in Palestine, now the idf's fresh slaughters of innocent unarmed civilians in Lebanon and Iran. Screw the fascists Love Live our Right to free factual and unbiased speech in Canada. Long live the brave Palestinians under murderous oppression and occupation. Zionist fanatics and racist fascists out of Lebanon and Iran. We love the Manitoban premier - he's 100% correct. Don't like the facts and the truth, Canadian fascists? F.... Leave this wonderful country! FO! Long live Canadian free speech! Arrest the ICC indicated isrehelli war mongering coward and thug.
Brilliant documentation of stupidity of US Department of War, now to be renamed:
Department of Stupid Wars. Patel is the next to be fired; then Hegseth. We are seeing over and over that those loyal to Trump are the first to be thrown under the tank. This is because being loyal to a stupid man is a recipe for failure, and he will not tolerate failure (his father inculcated in him that losers were worthless shit...so never admit failure, just blame it on those who most loyally followed your orders) and so we see, at the same time, rats rushing off the sinking ship (36 Republicans in House not running again, 7 in Senate, not to mention the resignations of dozens in protest or forced out).
The irony is that it is the most loyal, who stick with Trump come hell or high water, that become his scapegoats, for they more than anyone enabled his most stupid operations.
Noem went down because ICE was too thuggish; Bondi because she failed to hide the Epstein files; Hegseth will (Iater) take the blame for the Iranian failure. I would guess this will happen after the US pulls out of Iran but before the November elections, where Republicans look to be a generic scapegoat for Trump's failures.
Trump chose these useful idiots.
His father was talking about Drumpf when he lectured about losers, it didn't work - his son may now have illegally gathered lots of money but won't live to spend it. Either dementia will ensure he's not allowed to get near it - the offspring are a greedy bunch and won't want him losing it all on an other stupid plan. Or the world will sue him for causing so much harm to the planet by starting this war on Iran, for the increased pollution that he has also made happen by throwing out laws that were starting to help save both the planet and the people effected by the pollution. Or, someone decides his usefulness has ended and has him killed, or do it themself.
All respect and admiration for you both. A question - why is there a hesitation to explore the possibility that US military failure and the catastrophic diminishment of our obsolete equipment and our obsolete human soldiers is absolutely on purpose and very useful outcome for certain people and industries?
Or is it Bibi's desire to get US out of the way so the Is___l Empire can be a world power. Look how many countries are already vassals. Hopefully they are totally erased by Iran.
Bibi bighead is having his own problems at home, israelis are out in the streets winning about the stench of their bunkers, and that there is no food or water available.
How good is that, they're getting a taste of their own torturing regime's horro show in Gaza and elsewhere. It's been four, five weeks and they're moaning already, making demands, how weak are they because their bomb-shelter accommodation is not 5 ☆.
Fine, they can go back to New Jersey, Chicago, or whatever.