George Galloway's analysis was: 1. Trump was originally sincere in trying to constrain Israel and negotiate with Iran; 2. When Israel proceeded with the attack, it initially looked successful so Trump decided that he might as well get some credit for it, by claiming US involvement; 3. Once it emerged that the Israeli strike had not been the devastating blow that it had been initially thought to be, and that Iran was capable of a robust response, he reversed himself again.
The US has been preparing to attack Iran for DECADES. "Real men go to Tehran" blah blah.
The POTUS is there to put a stop to the deep state's eternal warmongering, and Trump fell at the first hurdles.
Whatever he SAYS - and no doubt he is being buttered up considerably behind the scenes - as Brian Berletic says, the Empire has decided to attack BRICS through Iran, and Trump simply didn't have the cojones to say no.
I would like to be wrong, but odds are that the US not only instigated this attack (Long standing RAND papers laid out the steps - incl the 'Hesitant bride' theatrics), but is already moving to join in directly.
Trump's regime has now cut off all contact with Russia - the normalisation negotiations have been cancelled; so much for the 'Putin will be our mediator' bollox.
Alex K desperately wants to believe that his support of Trump isn't going to lead to WW3, but he needn't worry - that bimbo airhead sociopath alternative would have succumbed even easier if she'd 'won' instead.
I hope he didn't risk his personal wealth on this bet that Trump would be a 'peacenik', although by the end of this year all Western savings will be toast anyway.
Yes, Berletic has nailed what is going on with great clarity. An excellent analyst, whom I will follow.
Trump is just an actor. I am surprised Krainer has been taken in by the carefully wrought fake image. Trump is a repellent individual. The US has always been open about its desire to destroy Iran.
Probably the last president to try to restrain the US deep state was Kennedy.
Having lived through the fifties and sixties and the McCarthyite paranoia and insanity of those times when the US was convinced the Reds were poised to nuke us all, I am sorry to say I have found myself having flashbacks to those times, which I have not thought about for years. The madness in the US psyche did not go away in the intervening years but they learnt to hide it better. It has re-emerged into full view again.
And the financial system is already bankrupt. There must be a war to account for and hide the true reasons for the coming crash and economic depression. So it's got to be now.
The only part of that I might slightly disagree with is that it's just "US Psyche". Almost the entirety of Europe has that same psychotic flaw - although, naturally, many Americans and Europeans also are horrified by it. We've let the Fascists slide into positions of control again, but we don't have anything like working democracies to be able to clean them out.
We are fucked, with most of the problems of the USSR just before it fell. Highly centralised monopolistic economy, low investment rates, agitated and disenfranchised population, and most tellingly - other large countries with a noticeably better functioning society and economy.
Difference is, the USSR wasn't lead by maniacally greedy psychopaths who will happily destroy the World before giving up their privileges and stolen wealth. Nor did the USSR elites hate the common citizens and workers with an absolute vengeance.
Western populations are locked up in a cell with Hannibal Lectern as the prison warden, and SS as the guards.
I think subconsciously most people are just hoping they will target other groups first.
I am afraid you are wrong. Europe was not at all like that. Because I can remember Britain before it got taken over by the US empire. I was born in the 1950s, and my parents went through WW2. There was a much more enlightened sense in those times, just as there was in the US in the early 1960s with Kennedy,. People believed there was a chance of a better world. And Britain was culturally tolerant and enlightened. We had dispensed with the "empire mentality" and were much more progressive socially than the US. Much of what you hear about the UK/Europe is propaganda about Britain for people who do not remember that period.
Sadly I have seen all that reversed in my lifetime. But the UK that I was born into really was not as it is now. UK diplomats were horrified by the extremism and paranoia of the US representatives they met after WW2. it was quite respectable to be a communist in the UK, no-one freaked out about that, we had a socialist government and it was recognised by parties of left and right that governments should no longer exploit and impoverish the working classes. It was understood that governments should benefit everyone in society. We outlawed racial discrimination in 1965 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Relations_Act_1965
But the media constantly suggests that these progressive measures never existed in the UK
Britain was anything but fascist, and we recognised that the US was wedded to an extreme version of capitalism that viciously exploited without restraint.
This progress was reversed from the 1980s, and it was a concerted action on the part of wealthy interests, probably in the City but certainly backed by with US based corporate interests. The whole of Europe went the same way and the EU was promoted by the US as a means of controlling Europe which became colonised by US interests and politically modified to represent US ideology. The Europe I knew had very different values and opposed much of what it saw the US doing. Our government refused to enter the Vietnam War for example, which pissed off the US mightily..
I am starting to realise that most people are younger than me and do not know how much Europe has been changed and infiltrated - by design. Our politicians were not the puppets you see now. They were faulty, but they had power and fought for their own ideals. The progressive ones were successively taken out - by the US..
Re-reading my long comment has made me realise just how much damage has been done gradually over the years. We were civilised, and now we live in barbarism.
And the corruption did come from the US, I am sorry to say this because I know there are many good Americans, but there is something really wrong with the materialism, violence, and greed of US culture, and it has poisoned all of us now.
Since the 1990s the actions of the UK and Nato in following the US in its forever wars have been utterly rep[rehensible and in some cases war crimes.
But Krainer constantly avoids the reality that the UK and Europe have been vassal states of the US empire through NATO and have been denied self determination as much as any colony. The City of London benefits and this seems to be the entity that controls the British government.
"We do not have an independent foreign policy - we do what the US tells us" - quote from a foreign office diplomat.
I take your points, and frankly you seemed perfectly articulate.
The 'Post-War Settlement' period was BY FAR the best period in Europe's/UK's history since the Celts were invaded and genocided by Rome 2000 years ago.
I totes agree there has been a concerted effort to roll that back, lead by Empire loyalists such as Milk Snatcher, and B'Liar, who is 100% a CIA asset.
I'm just about old enough to recall the tail end of that prosperity, and, while deeply flawed, was also something of a golden age.
Now 30% of the population and higher % of the kids are literally surviving on charity food parcels.
Schools have been privatised, and the results are less than impressive (From an educational POV, I'm sure "Shareholders" are having a banquet).
But the US population has it even worse.
What I was really referring to though was the pre-War European behaviour. That horrificness stretches back 2 millennia, once again the Romans introduced every psychopathic element that became normalised century by century.
Europe was a brutal place to be born.
And now we are rapidly recreating that, under the tutelage of NATO and the CIA, and US corporates.
And for what? So a handful of people can add more 0s to bank-balances they couldn't spend in several lifetimes.
What an idiot then - we don't know much about actual missiles but everyone knows that Israel will claim immediate success, and deny Iran hit them anwhere except civilians, ergo nobody has a clue for 3 days.
Actually I'm pretty sure Trump was insincere, planned not to say anything for a few days, but then couldn't resist celebrating. Still an idiot because he should have sat on his hands for a few days longer.
George Galloway? 😂 that sage analytical brain. Please tell me why Brits and Europeans just cant seem to understand Trumps way of dealing? Too much public school BS indoctrination? Now I understand why the US forefathers left 250 years ago- good god!
Most people cannot contemplate the dark layered deceits of those behind this, nor contemplate how thoroughly evil and cunning they are: high functioning psychopaths who are capable of utter depravity with maximum violence.
Hello they are Neo- cons . You do know that Trump won because their corruption was destroying the US especially all that USAID money to Europe. Rando videos done by people who do t get the huge change Trump ushered in are not current and are lazy analysts. .
"And so the cycle continues. Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran... and eventually, the imperial gaze will turn more fully toward Russia and China themselves". At the least it is interesting that bettbeat studiously leaves out Ukraine every time he lists countries that have been predated upon.
Yes well that certainly makes Trump look very cynical. And that may actually be The Big Key to understanding him at base. How many narcissists do you know that aren't also sociopaths?
Blair was installed. John Smith would have been Labour Prime Minister if he had not conveniently died suddenly. This was the point I believe at which the complete deep state takeover of the UK took place. Blair was a nobody prior to suddenly getting the top job.
The more this shitshow goes on the more I am convinced that the final goal is the end of the failed Apartheid wannabe state of israel.
The illegal wannabe state is an economic nightmare costing trillions to keep alive.
It is the most hated and boycotted entity on the planet and it has lost all credibility and respect of everyone with a bit of brain and moral compass.
For years they have tried to get Iran to finish the job, now that fire is raining down on it, the place can finally cease to exist as the abomination which had always been.
And on this a special note, I also have friends which were born there, and they all have one thing in common, they all moved away from it not because they hate Palestinian or the place in which they were born, but because they did not want to serve a Genocidal entity which indoctrinates them to fear and to hate anyone who is not a member of their insane clan, and did not wanted to be part of a supremacists cabal which treats Palestinians as their donkeys.
The israelis should have revolted to their dictators a long time ago now that damage has done there is not much they can do beside immediately outlaw zionism and arrest all the traitors which have brought them to this obscene war.
I agree with you that the end of Israel maybe a nigh and was forecasted by Kissinger. NY Post: Sept. 18, 2012, I reported — and I quote him exactly: “In 10 years there will be no more Israel.” In 2005 he told me: “We will be going to war with Iran.”
It seems that this whole WWIII has been planned for a long time. Many of the aspects of what is going on in the world seem to be contrived and not organic in nature, and that includes the Ukraine / Russia war.
Yes indeed, the greed and bigotry of the pompous supremacists was clear from the start, just as it was clear that propaganda could not continue to shield and victimize the Genocidaires from the weight of their own insanity and crimes.
Shame to see that so many which wanted to live in peace have to suffer the consequences of their insane dictators, but I guess that is the destiny of those which instead of standing up for their rights to peace and coexistence, bow down to the bullism and thuggery of the insane ones.
The most disturbing thing for me, beside the countless victims of this insane Holocaust, Genocide and war, is anyhow the fact that we are now finding ourselves cheering for the death and destruction of the tools of a Genocidal entity which should have never been allowed to materialize.
Perhaps this was also part of the same plane to dehumanize us and to make us smile to images which we should abborre.
One way or the other, this madness must end.
The Middle East and its inhabitants must be freed from the oppression, horrors and brutality of zionism and those responsible for it must be held account for their viciousness and for their warcrimes and crimes against humanity.
Let's not forget that the Israeli population were coerced and bullied into taking the slow-kill bioweapon popularly known as the C19 "vaccine", probably one of the worst countries in the world in that regard. The ordinary Jew is expendable to their elite. Just pawns in the game. Indoctrinated and manipulated, like the rest of us. Too bad more of them can't see it.
True that, some even mentioned that israel was the country which most jabbed its own people.
No one knows how many have died killed by the deadly shot there, specially after the Genocide now turned into a full blown Holocaust.
About the mass murder of the jews by the zionists, the rabbit hole goes even deeper.
If you study the rise of hitler, beside the evidences which show he was a rothshild, there is tons of evidences showing that he was the one which helped the zionists to move their money and possessions to Palestine.
See the 1933 Haavara, or transfer agreement and while you are at it, see also the 150 thousand jewish soldiers of hitler. “ this is the number of the ones identified till 1990s, Actual figure is actually over half million of them”.
Under the zionist and Nazi agreement only zionists were allowed to go to Palestine “33000 in 1933 alone”.
They were armed by the nazi so that they could kick out the British and establish the zionist wannabe state.
On a personal level I don’t like any religion, and as far as I am concerned they are all the same crap designed to divide people behind insane ideologies constructed to divide the masses and make the believers subdued to the deceivers which in turn, uses them to take advantage over their good nature.
zionist scumbags like freud and his family of inbred psychopaths “see his bastard cousin bernays with his propaganda and mind control shite, along with their other false scientist cousin einstein with his bullshit relativity theory and atomic bomb” and the imbeciles believing in their constructed theories as they are they are the real demons which wants us to believe that humans are essentially evil being which wants to screw their own mothers and which must be controlled by governments.
The reality though is very different.
Two years of terrorism and warcrime committed by the zionists and not by muslims are the final piece of evidence showing the real plot.
I accept the fact that the great majority of them are not extremists and uses religions to try to connect at a spiritual level but again, they are all concepts designed to set the believers on a matrix designed to divide them, so …
Just like the christians have stoped burning witches and muslims “a side from the extremists placed in power by them have stop stoning people to death, also the jews must evolve and declare zionism a crime against their their faith and erase the nonsense of being “chosen people” and above all others. Till then they will continue to suffer for their sickos and supremacists brothers and sisters’s sins.
Another substack writer had this to say: ….”Another aspect of your Israel troubles is the fact that Iran has the second largest Jewish population in the Mideast. There are crypto-Jews, Muslim on the outside while secretly practicing Judaism. So all is not perfect, but you have treated your Jews far better than Israel's government has treated the Israelite descendants, Christian and Muslim, of those who chose Jesus in the first Christian century--called "Palestinians." You provide an alternative to Israel as a home for Jews, and I think they hate that. So become even better, and promote it all over the place. Make lots of Jewish ambassadors”
Oh well yes, agree with not supporting any religion, pure control mechanism…this woman had recently written this in a letter to the Iranian embassy i think it was!
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Alex, I have always had great respect for your analyses in the past, but I don't buy this one that Trump is playing a double game to deliberately bring down the Empire based in the City of London. While in general, I regard what the US is doing, whether under Autopen Biden or Trump, is too stupid to be stupid, I regard Trump's overwhelming (what shrinks would regard as personality disorders) narcissism and psychopathy reduces him to being a true idiot. Never underestimate Trump's stupidity. His only asset is to persuade (up until now) much of the brain dead electorate through his reality show BS, that he is playing 5D chess.
As to whether the proof of your contention is that the US will refrain from a direct military attack on Iran, is not solid. I just listened to Crooke's brilliant analysis this morning at Nap's channel. Trump may be persuaded from attacking Iran, particularly with its MOAB on B2s from Diego Garcia, for two reasons. First, Iran has reconstituted its air defense system amazingly 8 hours after the Israeli cyber attack which brought it down. Crooke claims that (once again) Israeli air attacks are not mainly being done by F-35 bombs but rather missiles from outside the borders of Iran, with far less effectiveness. Also, much of the Israeli bomb damage was actually caused by MEK planted car bombs, but many of the MEK operatives who haven't fled Iran are now being tracked down and double tapped.
Secondly, both Russia and China have invoked Article 51 of the UN Charter which states that when a peaceful country is aggressed against, the rest of the planet has the collective obligation to come to its defense. I strongly suspect that Russians will now man their S-400s, and perhaps even S-500s, which can easily bring down the US B2s. Garcia Diego is tiny and easily put out of action by air. Russia may even bring in its most advanced fighter aircraft to Iranian air bases to help take down any F-35s or B2s. I would bet soon-to-be worthless dollars to diabetes-2 donuts that Putin has informed both Trump and Hegseth of their intentions.
In summary, while I am not claiming that the US will refrain from direct offensive participation, that if this proves to be true, it would not necessarily be due to Trump playing an anti-Zionist double game, but rather the Pentagram's refusal to commit suicide.
I don't think so. Putin is not going to do that. Way too risky. And Putin is risk averse. Besides he has his hands full at the moment.
As for Alex Krainer, no one is perfect. He seems to have a blind spot re: DJT. But he sure is spot on about the nature of the Banksters main long term agenda. He elucidated this very nicely with Nima the other day.
"Trump's overwhelming (what shrinks would regard as personality disorders) narcissism and psychopathy reduces him to being a true idiot".
Once again, someone who doesn't know the difference between psychopathy and sociopathy. In fact usually they don't even mention sociopathy. Most, if not all, narcissists are sociopaths. I've been waiting to see if Trump is truly an exception to that rule. I believe I've been given my answer of late, alas.
My studies indicate that the vast majority, if not 100%, of psychopaths are also narcissists. IMO narcissism cannot be used as a distinction. In the final analysis, the DSM is an illegitimate construction anyway.
Psychopaths are very rare and easy to spot and then deal with (except in movies - Hitchcock's Psycho) . Sociopaths, on the other hands, are much too common and very hard to spot unless you know something about them. Narcissism is always a good clue to follow.
Yeah, something about this whole thing smells off, and not in the tinfoil-hat way, just in the "this doesn’t track strategically" kind of way.
If Trump really colluded with Bibi to bait Iran under the false flag of diplomacy, it wasn’t just risky, it was almost cartoonishly short-sighted. Not because it's immoral, but because it offers such a bad return on risk. You don’t torch your credibility, risk a regional war, and alienate your base just to help out a foreign leader, unless the payoff is massive and guaranteed. And here, it isn’t.
Betting it all on a stunt this risky seems off-brand for a guy who’s obsessed with image management. If the goal was regime change or even just a strategic reset, the execution's been sloppy and high-cost. Maybe he thought he was playing 4D chess, but it’s looking more like he’s a piece on someone else’s board.
The more plausible read? Trump was likely trying to hedge: send friendly signals to Tehran to keep them at the table while still giving Netanyahu enough rope to act. That’s classic power balancing: keep all sides guessing, never fully commit, and always protect your own leverage. But Netanyahu went further than expected, and now Trump’s caught trying to play both sides of the board without looking like he’s lost control of either.
Not denying damage, not denying that people are dying, but there is something that seems very wrong about all of it. I know it's not AI or theater, but it still feels somehow unreal.
It must be painful to realise you have been taken for a ride again. You must feel a real sucker.
In the UK, we have been a US colony since ww2. Our culture has been eroded and hollowed out as a result. Yes, this is a long term result of the Anglo/US empire's designs but no-one in the European or UK population benefits from this. We are fed propaganda to prevent us from seeing what is going on.
I was at a demo against the genocide in Gaza last week. Apparently, there had been 40 thousand people at the previous demo - I had no idea, there was no reporting of this in the media.
The perception of what normal people living in Europe and the UK feel is hugely distorted by the totalitarian silencing that is going on.
And if you believe the US are the "good guys" you are brainwashed.
I think the Hopkins article is the most correct. This is just global capitalism that has infiltrated all societies. As an English person, I remember the time when we had values other than monetary ones. You did not lose status if you followed a career that was of social value, but did not massively remunerate you. In fact, doing a job purely out of financial greed was looked down on.
Social values were balanced against economic ones in a social democratic system, and there was a good welfare safety net. We were citizens not "consumers."
This all changed in the 1980's in the Thatcher/Reagan years and neoliberal capitalism, which was perceived as imposed from the United States.
In the UK there was initially a much dislike of and resistance to this system. It went along with the loss of academic institutions financial independence, the deregulation and destruction of the BBC, the destruction of standards of culture, the open contempt for the poor and their deliberate impoverishment, the perks and benefits solely for the wealthy so no redistribution of wealth, the selling off of state owned utilities and other assets to foreign investors eg - Energy, telecommunications, health care. Fundamentally asset stripping.
I never saw a beggar other than one or two ex-servicemen in my childhood and young adulthood. Now the streets are strewn with drug addicts and homeless people.
It has been imposed now for forty years and many do not understand any other system.
The UK I grew up in was wholly dismantled by US led globocapitalism.
I assume this system is in its last phases because it has become openly unbearable for everyone who is trapped in it.
Anti-Muslim propaganda comes from the CIA and never existed in Britain prior to the US invasion of the middle East and the 9/11 false flag.
Suddenly everyone was talking about "the crusades" What the f..k! That was a thousand years ago. The US needs to learn some history and not come up with a cartoon version of reality to propagandise its vassal states with.
Own your own thoughts and beliefs and do not let your thinking be poisoned by these warmongers. I have lived in Muslim countries, and found them good people. One thing about the British is that we have real contacts with our previous empire because we administered it for years. Knowledge of other cultures was fostered in government. Many UK people have family history and connections with our previous empire - I do.
Unchecked immigration is not natural but deliberate takedown of stable societies by globalism. They need us divided so they can destroy us.
You are wrong. The Britain I grew up in was in the 1960s and seventies. By the nineties, the dismantling of our institutions was pretty complete. So I have the benefit of a long perspective and can clearly see how our society and culture have deteriorated under unchecked neoliberal capitalism.
But you are quite right. I am anti US.
Their Empire is the most immature, ignorant, barren, brutal and murderous one the world has yet seen. However the Empire is collapsing now. Good. The US has no friends left in the world and in its internal instability, is heading for civil war.
Trump is simply carrying out the long term geopolitical aims of the US Empire. He is no "peacemaker" but ruthlessly attacks sovereign states via proxies - in this case, Israel. He does not give a stuff about the Israelis. Israel does not control the US, it is the other way round.
"If Trump really colluded with Bibi to bait Iran under the false flag of diplomacy, it wasn’t just risky, it was almost cartoonishly short-sighted. Not because it's immoral, but because it offers such a bad return on risk. You don’t torch your credibility, risk a regional war, and alienate your base just to help out a foreign leader, unless the payoff is massive and guaranteed. And here, it isn’t".
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” -George Orwell
That would be what the powers that be have manifested upon Israel until this year.
Biden and Obama shipping Iran cash and Biden leaving billions in weapons in the Middle East for export and profit by the Taliban all the while telling Israel to follow extraordinary unprecedented rulemaking when fighting a non Geneva affiliated entity and getting hysterical at the drop of a hat along with deranged with biden's comments about come to Jesus, as if Joe ever used the crucifix for anything but a penetrative device for his naked daughter in the shower or a pejorative against his enemies as most goitards do.
Finally the folly of indulging Iran is coming to an end.
Trump made one single speech in 2017 to the Arab League saying and your barbarian ways and nothing since, there was no hell to be paid by Hamas for not releasing the hostages, no consequences for Egypt for not allowing war refugees and on and on.
I guess Trump will have to hang his credibility on the peg that he threatened Iran and gave them a deadline, and released the dogs of war when it expired.
Even that will not explain the duplicity of scheduling talks in Qatar for the day of the attack.
Based on air force cooperation alone (eg refuelling support) not just the US but also the UK Germany and France were in on the attack plan in advance. The coordinated denials from all parties were a little too slick.
I think you mean the UK Germany and France - can you guys ever take responsibility for your messes. Still even now hiding behind the US? Time to get a therapist
The US State Department issued the same coordinated denials, which were just as false, lying about their pre-planned military support for the Israeli strikes.
While I have sympathy for the people of Iran, the end of Trump & the American empire & Israel, make the world a better place.
Considering the declaration by the countries in the region condemning Israel's attack on Iran- when Trump attacks Iran- near certain America will be told to get out of the Middle East.
‘Destroy his presidency’ oh my the guy is 79, cares for nothing and no one but himself, mentored by Roy Cohn - evil incarnate- a criminal writ large in all of his endeavors - con man, shill for deep state and whoever really runs the world- theater all day every day- Zionist, given right to kill by SCOTUS - no rule of law can control his responses - he is in psychopath heaven with power beyond his wildest dream and we pretend he is a statesman?
Rhetoric drives the con to greater heights, this guy gets off on manipulation, deceipt, duplicitous behavior and the ‘Art of the deal’ ain’t no deal my way or the highway- you are not dealing with a rational man or government- Respect for the idea of the presidency is one thing but respect for a man who is the incarnation of pure evil deserves no respect or consideration in his role as ‘the president’. DJT like all recent presidents is a caricature of an ideal which died a long time ago.
The US empire is collapsing. There will be many threats from Trump and his backers, but ultimately the US will fold. It is bankrupt and utterly corrupt, a failed state now.
Disappointed in your click bait style headline . The article could have been several short paragraphs starting with “I am not sure what is going on here - here are several options. “
Nice analysis re: Blair / deep State UK. It would have been great to see a full column on that.
I agree 100% with all I've read of what you've posted in these comments. The retards are out in especial force in the comments with Alex's most recent articles on Israel/Iran. He takes the notice, I hope. It's an awful obvious hint he's missing the story.
I too find this fighting confusing, especially the muted reactions of so called allies of Iran.
As soon as I saw China and Russia go along with the covid hype, I realized why they did nothing to stop the rape of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Add Russia's useless response in Syria to that list.
Perhaps BRICS is not as it seems. Remember how a single nation, Brazil was able to block Venezuela entering?
I think only 14% of the Russian population took it. (Canny lot)
Yes true about control.
Iran also used an inactivated vaccine. I am wondering how much targeting of individual populations using these medications was planned for. It would take a bit of research to find out. Most commentary focuses on the Pfizer and Moderna used in the developed world. But all other countries used very different formulations with different side-effects.
But Israel suffered from heavy Pfizer adverse effects. So odd. Why? Just to use them as test subjects? they were heavily monitored in conjunction with the US.
I saw a substack today that said …”Within the last few days, I have seen a chart 30 years long of Israel's claims about how soon Iran could develop a nuclear weapon. Always 5 years, occasionally shorter. Iran's leader says nukes are immoral. UN and other sources say Iran is NOT abusing its power plants to make a bomb”.
You're missing the part about make America great again
The borders of Israel reflect 4% of the Middle East and the goitards have been bitching to subdivide that ever since 48 fuck off with that nonsense. The Druse in Syria sought alliance with Israel, deal with it, goitards made the stupid situation by empowering jihadi's against Israel while fighting them everywhere else
How do you suggest Trump should 'Drain the Swamp'? (the GLOBAL Swamp)
IMO, he had to play hot/cold with the Swamp Rats in Israel who have hundreds of nuclear weapons - and the Samson Option!
The world needed to wake up and see the Zealots in Israel.
IMO, Trump has an alliance with Putin and Xi - who have an alliance with Iran. They all have the same agenda: to get rid of the Cabal hegemony, to finally get peace in the world, and respect for national sovereignty. Netanyahu and other zealots will hinder that - if they can.
If Trump had stated his true agenda previously, he would be dead now.
George Galloway's analysis was: 1. Trump was originally sincere in trying to constrain Israel and negotiate with Iran; 2. When Israel proceeded with the attack, it initially looked successful so Trump decided that he might as well get some credit for it, by claiming US involvement; 3. Once it emerged that the Israeli strike had not been the devastating blow that it had been initially thought to be, and that Iran was capable of a robust response, he reversed himself again.
The US has been preparing to attack Iran for DECADES. "Real men go to Tehran" blah blah.
The POTUS is there to put a stop to the deep state's eternal warmongering, and Trump fell at the first hurdles.
Whatever he SAYS - and no doubt he is being buttered up considerably behind the scenes - as Brian Berletic says, the Empire has decided to attack BRICS through Iran, and Trump simply didn't have the cojones to say no.
I would like to be wrong, but odds are that the US not only instigated this attack (Long standing RAND papers laid out the steps - incl the 'Hesitant bride' theatrics), but is already moving to join in directly.
Trump's regime has now cut off all contact with Russia - the normalisation negotiations have been cancelled; so much for the 'Putin will be our mediator' bollox.
Alex K desperately wants to believe that his support of Trump isn't going to lead to WW3, but he needn't worry - that bimbo airhead sociopath alternative would have succumbed even easier if she'd 'won' instead.
I hope he didn't risk his personal wealth on this bet that Trump would be a 'peacenik', although by the end of this year all Western savings will be toast anyway.
Yes, Berletic has nailed what is going on with great clarity. An excellent analyst, whom I will follow.
Trump is just an actor. I am surprised Krainer has been taken in by the carefully wrought fake image. Trump is a repellent individual. The US has always been open about its desire to destroy Iran.
Probably the last president to try to restrain the US deep state was Kennedy.
Having lived through the fifties and sixties and the McCarthyite paranoia and insanity of those times when the US was convinced the Reds were poised to nuke us all, I am sorry to say I have found myself having flashbacks to those times, which I have not thought about for years. The madness in the US psyche did not go away in the intervening years but they learnt to hide it better. It has re-emerged into full view again.
And the financial system is already bankrupt. There must be a war to account for and hide the true reasons for the coming crash and economic depression. So it's got to be now.
The only part of that I might slightly disagree with is that it's just "US Psyche". Almost the entirety of Europe has that same psychotic flaw - although, naturally, many Americans and Europeans also are horrified by it. We've let the Fascists slide into positions of control again, but we don't have anything like working democracies to be able to clean them out.
We are fucked, with most of the problems of the USSR just before it fell. Highly centralised monopolistic economy, low investment rates, agitated and disenfranchised population, and most tellingly - other large countries with a noticeably better functioning society and economy.
Difference is, the USSR wasn't lead by maniacally greedy psychopaths who will happily destroy the World before giving up their privileges and stolen wealth. Nor did the USSR elites hate the common citizens and workers with an absolute vengeance.
Western populations are locked up in a cell with Hannibal Lectern as the prison warden, and SS as the guards.
I think subconsciously most people are just hoping they will target other groups first.
I am afraid you are wrong. Europe was not at all like that. Because I can remember Britain before it got taken over by the US empire. I was born in the 1950s, and my parents went through WW2. There was a much more enlightened sense in those times, just as there was in the US in the early 1960s with Kennedy,. People believed there was a chance of a better world. And Britain was culturally tolerant and enlightened. We had dispensed with the "empire mentality" and were much more progressive socially than the US. Much of what you hear about the UK/Europe is propaganda about Britain for people who do not remember that period.
Sadly I have seen all that reversed in my lifetime. But the UK that I was born into really was not as it is now. UK diplomats were horrified by the extremism and paranoia of the US representatives they met after WW2. it was quite respectable to be a communist in the UK, no-one freaked out about that, we had a socialist government and it was recognised by parties of left and right that governments should no longer exploit and impoverish the working classes. It was understood that governments should benefit everyone in society. We outlawed racial discrimination in 1965 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_Relations_Act_1965
But the media constantly suggests that these progressive measures never existed in the UK
Britain was anything but fascist, and we recognised that the US was wedded to an extreme version of capitalism that viciously exploited without restraint.
This progress was reversed from the 1980s, and it was a concerted action on the part of wealthy interests, probably in the City but certainly backed by with US based corporate interests. The whole of Europe went the same way and the EU was promoted by the US as a means of controlling Europe which became colonised by US interests and politically modified to represent US ideology. The Europe I knew had very different values and opposed much of what it saw the US doing. Our government refused to enter the Vietnam War for example, which pissed off the US mightily..
I am starting to realise that most people are younger than me and do not know how much Europe has been changed and infiltrated - by design. Our politicians were not the puppets you see now. They were faulty, but they had power and fought for their own ideals. The progressive ones were successively taken out - by the US..
Check out what happened to Olaf Palme.https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Olof_Palme
(its 3am here and i am not very articulate, sorry.)
Re-reading my long comment has made me realise just how much damage has been done gradually over the years. We were civilised, and now we live in barbarism.
And the corruption did come from the US, I am sorry to say this because I know there are many good Americans, but there is something really wrong with the materialism, violence, and greed of US culture, and it has poisoned all of us now.
Since the 1990s the actions of the UK and Nato in following the US in its forever wars have been utterly rep[rehensible and in some cases war crimes.
But Krainer constantly avoids the reality that the UK and Europe have been vassal states of the US empire through NATO and have been denied self determination as much as any colony. The City of London benefits and this seems to be the entity that controls the British government.
"We do not have an independent foreign policy - we do what the US tells us" - quote from a foreign office diplomat.
I take your points, and frankly you seemed perfectly articulate.
The 'Post-War Settlement' period was BY FAR the best period in Europe's/UK's history since the Celts were invaded and genocided by Rome 2000 years ago.
I totes agree there has been a concerted effort to roll that back, lead by Empire loyalists such as Milk Snatcher, and B'Liar, who is 100% a CIA asset.
I'm just about old enough to recall the tail end of that prosperity, and, while deeply flawed, was also something of a golden age.
Now 30% of the population and higher % of the kids are literally surviving on charity food parcels.
Schools have been privatised, and the results are less than impressive (From an educational POV, I'm sure "Shareholders" are having a banquet).
But the US population has it even worse.
What I was really referring to though was the pre-War European behaviour. That horrificness stretches back 2 millennia, once again the Romans introduced every psychopathic element that became normalised century by century.
Europe was a brutal place to be born.
And now we are rapidly recreating that, under the tutelage of NATO and the CIA, and US corporates.
And for what? So a handful of people can add more 0s to bank-balances they couldn't spend in several lifetimes.
Lectern? LOL.
Who is Alex K?
Dude. The page's host, Alex Krainer.
Sounds like how an amoral personality would blow with the breeze.
Yep. Like I intimated above. Narcissist = Sociopath.
What an idiot then - we don't know much about actual missiles but everyone knows that Israel will claim immediate success, and deny Iran hit them anwhere except civilians, ergo nobody has a clue for 3 days.
Actually I'm pretty sure Trump was insincere, planned not to say anything for a few days, but then couldn't resist celebrating. Still an idiot because he should have sat on his hands for a few days longer.
George Galloway? 😂 that sage analytical brain. Please tell me why Brits and Europeans just cant seem to understand Trumps way of dealing? Too much public school BS indoctrination? Now I understand why the US forefathers left 250 years ago- good god!
This is the US empire - and what a sight to see.
https://bettbeat.substack.com/p/a-major-false-flag-on-us-soil-and
Yes this piece is spot on. Thanks for sharing.
Most people cannot contemplate the dark layered deceits of those behind this, nor contemplate how thoroughly evil and cunning they are: high functioning psychopaths who are capable of utter depravity with maximum violence.
We are seeing it clearly now. Trump openly boasted last night that he had killed the men he was currently negotiating with. This is what the Mafia do.
This is an outrage in international law and diplomatic procedure. His administration is criminal.
And how ashamed I am that the UK is also involved in this. The regime running my "government" does not represent the interests of the UK people.
Hello they are Neo- cons . You do know that Trump won because their corruption was destroying the US especially all that USAID money to Europe. Rando videos done by people who do t get the huge change Trump ushered in are not current and are lazy analysts. .
"And so the cycle continues. Libya, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran... and eventually, the imperial gaze will turn more fully toward Russia and China themselves". At the least it is interesting that bettbeat studiously leaves out Ukraine every time he lists countries that have been predated upon.
You are correct, of course. Ukraine was destroyed and absorbed into the empire in 2014.
Yes well that certainly makes Trump look very cynical. And that may actually be The Big Key to understanding him at base. How many narcissists do you know that aren't also sociopaths?
I'm sorry, I thought I had a strong stomach, but I had to go and throw up after watching the Blair clip.
After you mentioned the clip, I went back and looked at it and really it makes one puke.
What hypocrites with a WEF background.
Blair was installed. John Smith would have been Labour Prime Minister if he had not conveniently died suddenly. This was the point I believe at which the complete deep state takeover of the UK took place. Blair was a nobody prior to suddenly getting the top job.
Like Starmer.
Corbyn was lucky not to suffer the same fate as J Smith.
Better you than I. I blasted right past it, not even daring a glance.
Thanks for the warning, I won't be watching. I already dislike Blair.
The more this shitshow goes on the more I am convinced that the final goal is the end of the failed Apartheid wannabe state of israel.
The illegal wannabe state is an economic nightmare costing trillions to keep alive.
It is the most hated and boycotted entity on the planet and it has lost all credibility and respect of everyone with a bit of brain and moral compass.
For years they have tried to get Iran to finish the job, now that fire is raining down on it, the place can finally cease to exist as the abomination which had always been.
And on this a special note, I also have friends which were born there, and they all have one thing in common, they all moved away from it not because they hate Palestinian or the place in which they were born, but because they did not want to serve a Genocidal entity which indoctrinates them to fear and to hate anyone who is not a member of their insane clan, and did not wanted to be part of a supremacists cabal which treats Palestinians as their donkeys.
The israelis should have revolted to their dictators a long time ago now that damage has done there is not much they can do beside immediately outlaw zionism and arrest all the traitors which have brought them to this obscene war.
Anyhow thank you for sharing Alex.
I agree with you that the end of Israel maybe a nigh and was forecasted by Kissinger. NY Post: Sept. 18, 2012, I reported — and I quote him exactly: “In 10 years there will be no more Israel.” In 2005 he told me: “We will be going to war with Iran.”
It seems that this whole WWIII has been planned for a long time. Many of the aspects of what is going on in the world seem to be contrived and not organic in nature, and that includes the Ukraine / Russia war.
Yes indeed, the greed and bigotry of the pompous supremacists was clear from the start, just as it was clear that propaganda could not continue to shield and victimize the Genocidaires from the weight of their own insanity and crimes.
Shame to see that so many which wanted to live in peace have to suffer the consequences of their insane dictators, but I guess that is the destiny of those which instead of standing up for their rights to peace and coexistence, bow down to the bullism and thuggery of the insane ones.
The most disturbing thing for me, beside the countless victims of this insane Holocaust, Genocide and war, is anyhow the fact that we are now finding ourselves cheering for the death and destruction of the tools of a Genocidal entity which should have never been allowed to materialize.
Perhaps this was also part of the same plane to dehumanize us and to make us smile to images which we should abborre.
One way or the other, this madness must end.
The Middle East and its inhabitants must be freed from the oppression, horrors and brutality of zionism and those responsible for it must be held account for their viciousness and for their warcrimes and crimes against humanity.
Let's not forget that the Israeli population were coerced and bullied into taking the slow-kill bioweapon popularly known as the C19 "vaccine", probably one of the worst countries in the world in that regard. The ordinary Jew is expendable to their elite. Just pawns in the game. Indoctrinated and manipulated, like the rest of us. Too bad more of them can't see it.
True that, some even mentioned that israel was the country which most jabbed its own people.
No one knows how many have died killed by the deadly shot there, specially after the Genocide now turned into a full blown Holocaust.
About the mass murder of the jews by the zionists, the rabbit hole goes even deeper.
If you study the rise of hitler, beside the evidences which show he was a rothshild, there is tons of evidences showing that he was the one which helped the zionists to move their money and possessions to Palestine.
See the 1933 Haavara, or transfer agreement and while you are at it, see also the 150 thousand jewish soldiers of hitler. “ this is the number of the ones identified till 1990s, Actual figure is actually over half million of them”.
Under the zionist and Nazi agreement only zionists were allowed to go to Palestine “33000 in 1933 alone”.
They were armed by the nazi so that they could kick out the British and establish the zionist wannabe state.
On a personal level I don’t like any religion, and as far as I am concerned they are all the same crap designed to divide people behind insane ideologies constructed to divide the masses and make the believers subdued to the deceivers which in turn, uses them to take advantage over their good nature.
zionist scumbags like freud and his family of inbred psychopaths “see his bastard cousin bernays with his propaganda and mind control shite, along with their other false scientist cousin einstein with his bullshit relativity theory and atomic bomb” and the imbeciles believing in their constructed theories as they are they are the real demons which wants us to believe that humans are essentially evil being which wants to screw their own mothers and which must be controlled by governments.
The reality though is very different.
Two years of terrorism and warcrime committed by the zionists and not by muslims are the final piece of evidence showing the real plot.
I accept the fact that the great majority of them are not extremists and uses religions to try to connect at a spiritual level but again, they are all concepts designed to set the believers on a matrix designed to divide them, so …
Just like the christians have stoped burning witches and muslims “a side from the extremists placed in power by them have stop stoning people to death, also the jews must evolve and declare zionism a crime against their their faith and erase the nonsense of being “chosen people” and above all others. Till then they will continue to suffer for their sickos and supremacists brothers and sisters’s sins.
Another substack writer had this to say: ….”Another aspect of your Israel troubles is the fact that Iran has the second largest Jewish population in the Mideast. There are crypto-Jews, Muslim on the outside while secretly practicing Judaism. So all is not perfect, but you have treated your Jews far better than Israel's government has treated the Israelite descendants, Christian and Muslim, of those who chose Jesus in the first Christian century--called "Palestinians." You provide an alternative to Israel as a home for Jews, and I think they hate that. So become even better, and promote it all over the place. Make lots of Jewish ambassadors”
Sorry, I will never support any religion, even less those mutilating and trauma bonding their believers or better yet, victims.
About Iran and the jewish community there, you are surly right, israel is without any doubts the most antisemitic country in the world.
https://substack.com/@1sol1x/note/c-126672662
Oh well yes, agree with not supporting any religion, pure control mechanism…this woman had recently written this in a letter to the Iranian embassy i think it was!
Hi Sol, well said and well done with your substack.
I haven't a clue about the other comment here to you. 🤢 Some sicko
Clearly a rabid zionist!
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May the skate park that you built between your ears for the 80 generations of the fifth happiest nation in the world to grind away daily rent-free continue to thrive forevermore. 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
Alex, I have always had great respect for your analyses in the past, but I don't buy this one that Trump is playing a double game to deliberately bring down the Empire based in the City of London. While in general, I regard what the US is doing, whether under Autopen Biden or Trump, is too stupid to be stupid, I regard Trump's overwhelming (what shrinks would regard as personality disorders) narcissism and psychopathy reduces him to being a true idiot. Never underestimate Trump's stupidity. His only asset is to persuade (up until now) much of the brain dead electorate through his reality show BS, that he is playing 5D chess.
As to whether the proof of your contention is that the US will refrain from a direct military attack on Iran, is not solid. I just listened to Crooke's brilliant analysis this morning at Nap's channel. Trump may be persuaded from attacking Iran, particularly with its MOAB on B2s from Diego Garcia, for two reasons. First, Iran has reconstituted its air defense system amazingly 8 hours after the Israeli cyber attack which brought it down. Crooke claims that (once again) Israeli air attacks are not mainly being done by F-35 bombs but rather missiles from outside the borders of Iran, with far less effectiveness. Also, much of the Israeli bomb damage was actually caused by MEK planted car bombs, but many of the MEK operatives who haven't fled Iran are now being tracked down and double tapped.
Secondly, both Russia and China have invoked Article 51 of the UN Charter which states that when a peaceful country is aggressed against, the rest of the planet has the collective obligation to come to its defense. I strongly suspect that Russians will now man their S-400s, and perhaps even S-500s, which can easily bring down the US B2s. Garcia Diego is tiny and easily put out of action by air. Russia may even bring in its most advanced fighter aircraft to Iranian air bases to help take down any F-35s or B2s. I would bet soon-to-be worthless dollars to diabetes-2 donuts that Putin has informed both Trump and Hegseth of their intentions.
In summary, while I am not claiming that the US will refrain from direct offensive participation, that if this proves to be true, it would not necessarily be due to Trump playing an anti-Zionist double game, but rather the Pentagram's refusal to commit suicide.
I don't think so. Putin is not going to do that. Way too risky. And Putin is risk averse. Besides he has his hands full at the moment.
As for Alex Krainer, no one is perfect. He seems to have a blind spot re: DJT. But he sure is spot on about the nature of the Banksters main long term agenda. He elucidated this very nicely with Nima the other day.
"Trump's overwhelming (what shrinks would regard as personality disorders) narcissism and psychopathy reduces him to being a true idiot".
Once again, someone who doesn't know the difference between psychopathy and sociopathy. In fact usually they don't even mention sociopathy. Most, if not all, narcissists are sociopaths. I've been waiting to see if Trump is truly an exception to that rule. I believe I've been given my answer of late, alas.
My studies indicate that the vast majority, if not 100%, of psychopaths are also narcissists. IMO narcissism cannot be used as a distinction. In the final analysis, the DSM is an illegitimate construction anyway.
Psychopaths are very rare and easy to spot and then deal with (except in movies - Hitchcock's Psycho) . Sociopaths, on the other hands, are much too common and very hard to spot unless you know something about them. Narcissism is always a good clue to follow.
Concur
Yeah, something about this whole thing smells off, and not in the tinfoil-hat way, just in the "this doesn’t track strategically" kind of way.
If Trump really colluded with Bibi to bait Iran under the false flag of diplomacy, it wasn’t just risky, it was almost cartoonishly short-sighted. Not because it's immoral, but because it offers such a bad return on risk. You don’t torch your credibility, risk a regional war, and alienate your base just to help out a foreign leader, unless the payoff is massive and guaranteed. And here, it isn’t.
Betting it all on a stunt this risky seems off-brand for a guy who’s obsessed with image management. If the goal was regime change or even just a strategic reset, the execution's been sloppy and high-cost. Maybe he thought he was playing 4D chess, but it’s looking more like he’s a piece on someone else’s board.
The more plausible read? Trump was likely trying to hedge: send friendly signals to Tehran to keep them at the table while still giving Netanyahu enough rope to act. That’s classic power balancing: keep all sides guessing, never fully commit, and always protect your own leverage. But Netanyahu went further than expected, and now Trump’s caught trying to play both sides of the board without looking like he’s lost control of either.
As they say, it all seems fake and gay.
Not denying damage, not denying that people are dying, but there is something that seems very wrong about all of it. I know it's not AI or theater, but it still feels somehow unreal.
Hedging or negotiating is Trumps thing. I do wish Europeans would get it.
Hi Carol,
It must be painful to realise you have been taken for a ride again. You must feel a real sucker.
In the UK, we have been a US colony since ww2. Our culture has been eroded and hollowed out as a result. Yes, this is a long term result of the Anglo/US empire's designs but no-one in the European or UK population benefits from this. We are fed propaganda to prevent us from seeing what is going on.
I was at a demo against the genocide in Gaza last week. Apparently, there had been 40 thousand people at the previous demo - I had no idea, there was no reporting of this in the media.
The perception of what normal people living in Europe and the UK feel is hugely distorted by the totalitarian silencing that is going on.
And if you believe the US are the "good guys" you are brainwashed.
You might be a US colony, but it appears that the US is a colony of Israel.
I think the Hopkins article is the most correct. This is just global capitalism that has infiltrated all societies. As an English person, I remember the time when we had values other than monetary ones. You did not lose status if you followed a career that was of social value, but did not massively remunerate you. In fact, doing a job purely out of financial greed was looked down on.
Social values were balanced against economic ones in a social democratic system, and there was a good welfare safety net. We were citizens not "consumers."
This all changed in the 1980's in the Thatcher/Reagan years and neoliberal capitalism, which was perceived as imposed from the United States.
In the UK there was initially a much dislike of and resistance to this system. It went along with the loss of academic institutions financial independence, the deregulation and destruction of the BBC, the destruction of standards of culture, the open contempt for the poor and their deliberate impoverishment, the perks and benefits solely for the wealthy so no redistribution of wealth, the selling off of state owned utilities and other assets to foreign investors eg - Energy, telecommunications, health care. Fundamentally asset stripping.
I never saw a beggar other than one or two ex-servicemen in my childhood and young adulthood. Now the streets are strewn with drug addicts and homeless people.
It has been imposed now for forty years and many do not understand any other system.
The UK I grew up in was wholly dismantled by US led globocapitalism.
I assume this system is in its last phases because it has become openly unbearable for everyone who is trapped in it.
You all were destroyed as soon as I saw those hordes of invaders. All those Muslims.
Anti-Muslim propaganda comes from the CIA and never existed in Britain prior to the US invasion of the middle East and the 9/11 false flag.
Suddenly everyone was talking about "the crusades" What the f..k! That was a thousand years ago. The US needs to learn some history and not come up with a cartoon version of reality to propagandise its vassal states with.
Own your own thoughts and beliefs and do not let your thinking be poisoned by these warmongers. I have lived in Muslim countries, and found them good people. One thing about the British is that we have real contacts with our previous empire because we administered it for years. Knowledge of other cultures was fostered in government. Many UK people have family history and connections with our previous empire - I do.
Unchecked immigration is not natural but deliberate takedown of stable societies by globalism. They need us divided so they can destroy us.
No country is a monolith, & there are no "good guys" & "bad guys." Grow up.
Lol I am British and Canadian. No pain at all just calling out anti- US stuff by Europeans stuck in the 90s . Thanks for replying to my comments 😊
You are wrong. The Britain I grew up in was in the 1960s and seventies. By the nineties, the dismantling of our institutions was pretty complete. So I have the benefit of a long perspective and can clearly see how our society and culture have deteriorated under unchecked neoliberal capitalism.
But you are quite right. I am anti US.
Their Empire is the most immature, ignorant, barren, brutal and murderous one the world has yet seen. However the Empire is collapsing now. Good. The US has no friends left in the world and in its internal instability, is heading for civil war.
Trump is simply carrying out the long term geopolitical aims of the US Empire. He is no "peacemaker" but ruthlessly attacks sovereign states via proxies - in this case, Israel. He does not give a stuff about the Israelis. Israel does not control the US, it is the other way round.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmvxLZ_jkyc&ab_channel=TheDuran
Trump on the brink of Iran war
No. "Trump is simply carrying out the long term geopolitical aims of the US Empire". No. Not the "US" empire, just The Empire.
Thanks Dad! Should get rid of some of that anger😊 try exercise
"If Trump really colluded with Bibi to bait Iran under the false flag of diplomacy, it wasn’t just risky, it was almost cartoonishly short-sighted. Not because it's immoral, but because it offers such a bad return on risk. You don’t torch your credibility, risk a regional war, and alienate your base just to help out a foreign leader, unless the payoff is massive and guaranteed. And here, it isn’t".
YES!
Indeed. He ought to be impeached and imprisoned for this double-play.
Oughta, shoulda, coulda.
Says the Non- American lol
“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact.” -George Orwell
Yep. Half way thru I said "Orwell" then got to the last line.
That would be what the powers that be have manifested upon Israel until this year.
Biden and Obama shipping Iran cash and Biden leaving billions in weapons in the Middle East for export and profit by the Taliban all the while telling Israel to follow extraordinary unprecedented rulemaking when fighting a non Geneva affiliated entity and getting hysterical at the drop of a hat along with deranged with biden's comments about come to Jesus, as if Joe ever used the crucifix for anything but a penetrative device for his naked daughter in the shower or a pejorative against his enemies as most goitards do.
Finally the folly of indulging Iran is coming to an end.
Trump made one single speech in 2017 to the Arab League saying and your barbarian ways and nothing since, there was no hell to be paid by Hamas for not releasing the hostages, no consequences for Egypt for not allowing war refugees and on and on.
I guess Trump will have to hang his credibility on the peg that he threatened Iran and gave them a deadline, and released the dogs of war when it expired.
Even that will not explain the duplicity of scheduling talks in Qatar for the day of the attack.
Based on air force cooperation alone (eg refuelling support) not just the US but also the UK Germany and France were in on the attack plan in advance. The coordinated denials from all parties were a little too slick.
I think you mean the UK Germany and France - can you guys ever take responsibility for your messes. Still even now hiding behind the US? Time to get a therapist
The US State Department issued the same coordinated denials, which were just as false, lying about their pre-planned military support for the Israeli strikes.
Trump boasted that he had killed the men he was negotiating with. Sick Mafiosi. Even the UK never sank so low.
Lol sure tell yourself that. Watch his statement again - there was no boasting. The UK just kills without warning.
Netanyahu just needs to stage a false flag killing US troops in the Middle East and blame Iran for that... and thus he will drag US in his war against Iran, as I explain in my last article: https://open.substack.com/pub/geopolitiq/p/trump-specifies-at-what-conditions
Easy-peasy dot Mossad. They even have past experience with this!
You seem to be wrong Alex.
I thought you were.
Trump is stupid & exceptionally arrogant.
https://t.me/kalibrated/22045
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/131721
https://t.me/Slavyangrad/131707
Trump is completely unhinged.
This is truly a blessing.
While I have sympathy for the people of Iran, the end of Trump & the American empire & Israel, make the world a better place.
Considering the declaration by the countries in the region condemning Israel's attack on Iran- when Trump attacks Iran- near certain America will be told to get out of the Middle East.
It's not the "American Empire" that is at work, it is THE EMPIRE. The U.S.A. is just a tool, albeit a rather large one.
‘Destroy his presidency’ oh my the guy is 79, cares for nothing and no one but himself, mentored by Roy Cohn - evil incarnate- a criminal writ large in all of his endeavors - con man, shill for deep state and whoever really runs the world- theater all day every day- Zionist, given right to kill by SCOTUS - no rule of law can control his responses - he is in psychopath heaven with power beyond his wildest dream and we pretend he is a statesman?
Rhetoric drives the con to greater heights, this guy gets off on manipulation, deceipt, duplicitous behavior and the ‘Art of the deal’ ain’t no deal my way or the highway- you are not dealing with a rational man or government- Respect for the idea of the presidency is one thing but respect for a man who is the incarnation of pure evil deserves no respect or consideration in his role as ‘the president’. DJT like all recent presidents is a caricature of an ideal which died a long time ago.
"...died a long time ago".
The US empire is collapsing. There will be many threats from Trump and his backers, but ultimately the US will fold. It is bankrupt and utterly corrupt, a failed state now.
Disappointed in your click bait style headline . The article could have been several short paragraphs starting with “I am not sure what is going on here - here are several options. “
Nice analysis re: Blair / deep State UK. It would have been great to see a full column on that.
I agree 100% with all I've read of what you've posted in these comments. The retards are out in especial force in the comments with Alex's most recent articles on Israel/Iran. He takes the notice, I hope. It's an awful obvious hint he's missing the story.
I too find this fighting confusing, especially the muted reactions of so called allies of Iran.
As soon as I saw China and Russia go along with the covid hype, I realized why they did nothing to stop the rape of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. Add Russia's useless response in Syria to that list.
Perhaps BRICS is not as it seems. Remember how a single nation, Brazil was able to block Venezuela entering?
https://slavlandchronicles.substack.com/p/the-iranian-government-is-as-toothless
China and Russia did not use Pfizer or Moderna vacines. Their vaccines seem to be inactivated whole virus - much less dangerous.
The injuries from the vaccines are more likely to target western nations. I think Russia and china will win on this one.
The Russian shot was connected to Astra Zeneca and Russians knew it had big issues. The Russian company is still in alliance with AZ.
The point I'm making is that they used COVID to control people all over the world violating their human rights.
I think only 14% of the Russian population took it. (Canny lot)
Yes true about control.
Iran also used an inactivated vaccine. I am wondering how much targeting of individual populations using these medications was planned for. It would take a bit of research to find out. Most commentary focuses on the Pfizer and Moderna used in the developed world. But all other countries used very different formulations with different side-effects.
But Israel suffered from heavy Pfizer adverse effects. So odd. Why? Just to use them as test subjects? they were heavily monitored in conjunction with the US.
I saw a substack today that said …”Within the last few days, I have seen a chart 30 years long of Israel's claims about how soon Iran could develop a nuclear weapon. Always 5 years, occasionally shorter. Iran's leader says nukes are immoral. UN and other sources say Iran is NOT abusing its power plants to make a bomb”.
Trump main, perhaps only, objective is creation of ever Greater Israel….
You're missing the part about make America great again
The borders of Israel reflect 4% of the Middle East and the goitards have been bitching to subdivide that ever since 48 fuck off with that nonsense. The Druse in Syria sought alliance with Israel, deal with it, goitards made the stupid situation by empowering jihadi's against Israel while fighting them everywhere else
How do you suggest Trump should 'Drain the Swamp'? (the GLOBAL Swamp)
IMO, he had to play hot/cold with the Swamp Rats in Israel who have hundreds of nuclear weapons - and the Samson Option!
The world needed to wake up and see the Zealots in Israel.
IMO, Trump has an alliance with Putin and Xi - who have an alliance with Iran. They all have the same agenda: to get rid of the Cabal hegemony, to finally get peace in the world, and respect for national sovereignty. Netanyahu and other zealots will hinder that - if they can.
If Trump had stated his true agenda previously, he would be dead now.
He has to play 5th Generation Warfare
It had to be this way