What if Trump’s apparently chaotic thought processes and intuitive decision making are all a blind, a charade? What if we are really witnessing, in the Middle East and more widely, a carefully constructed plan with very definite objectives? Has Trump in fact “planned each charted course, each careful step along the byway”, while flinging the chaff of apparent chaos? I realise that this is not intuitive, but bear with me…
What kicked off my thinking was the revelation by Lockheed Martin that they had been instructed by Trump, months in advance of the attack on Iran, to massively increase production of interceptor missiles, with a short term goal of quadrupling capacity of THAAD. In January, before the start of the current conflict, Fox News was already reporting on various deals, including a trebling of PAC3 MSE interceptor deliveries, having been finalised between Lockheed and the Department of War.
While obviously there are supply chain and production line constraints on the ability to ramp up production within months, the urgency of this activity – almost entirely focused on interceptor missiles – that started in 2025 is in hindsight a clear indication that early war with Iran was expected. It is plain evidence of premeditation.
The second thing that triggered my thought that this is all carefully planned, is the nature of the breakdown of the nuclear deal talks. It appears there was a broad consensus that Iran offered concessions which made a deal very practical, in particular giving up its stocks of enriched uranium into trust (a proposal Iran had historically rejected when Putin offered to hold the material). Both the hosts, Oman and the British thought a deal was there.
The failure of the talks is being spun as due to the incompetence and lack of technical knowledge of Witkoff and Kushner. But I just don’t buy this. The sending of unqualified negotiators was part of a ploy to use the negotiations as cover for an attack – the second time in a year that the United States had pulled the same trick.
They didn’t need competent negotiators, because they had never intended a good faith negotiation.
The attack on Iran was always planned by Trump. He was not “bounced into it” by Israel. It had been in gestation for months. That fact had been held within a very tight circle to avoid both political opposition and institutional opposition from the US military and intelligence community.
January’s protests in Iran found ordinary people genuinely ready to protest, motivated by economic hardship caused by sanctions. But they were guided and abused by Mossad and CIA agents among the Iranian people, who committed and encouraged violence and initiated pro-Shah chanting.
There was never the slightest possibility the protests would bring regime change, but that was not the intention. The purpose was to incite an over-reaction by the Iranian government that could “justify” the planned attack on Iran. The dead protestors have been great martyrs for Trump’s – and Israel’s – wider cause.
The planting by Western state-sponsored individuals and organisations of ludicrous claims throughout Western state and corporate media of thirty to forty thousand killed, was a deliberate and considered plan to reduce domestic opposition in the West to the forthcoming war against Iran.
Now factor in another apparently random act by Trump – the astonishing kidnapping of President Maduro of Venezuela on 3 January, a month before the attack on Iran.
Trump’s naval blockade of Venezuela’s oil has secured a US monopoly of its sale and distribution. As with Iraq, only US-approved contractors can buy the oil and payments are made to a Trump-controlled account in Qatar, from which revenue is given to the Venezuelan government entirely at Trump’s discretion.
This audacious imperialist grab of the world’s largest oil reserve further insulated the USA against the effects of the forthcoming closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Again, the narrative is being spun that Trump did not foresee the closure of the Strait by Iran. That is plainly a nonsense – every commentary on a potential Iran war for half a century has focused on the Strait of Hormuz. The only possible explanation is that Trump does not mind the closure.
While, as Trump says, the United States does not need the oil that comes through the Strait, the apparent weakness in his case is that higher oil prices are universal and hit Trump’s support, particularly as Americans fill their gas tanks. But to concentrate on this is to make the fundamental error of imagining that Trump cares about what is good for the American people. He does not. He cares about what is good for Donald J. Trump and his immediate circle.
Here is the Chevron share price over the last month:
And here is Lockheed Martin. Note that the start of the 40% leap in share price coincides with those instructions last year on massively ramping up interceptor production.
Not to mention, of course, that the really big fortunes will have been made in oil and derivative commodity futures by those who knew this war was coming (acting through proxies).
The $200 billion Trump is requesting from Congress to continue the war is going to make an awful lot of well-connected people even richer.
So the plan is the making of fortunes, the strengthening of the military-industrial complex and the ratcheting up under cover of national cohesion in war of the authoritarianism that has reduced freedom of speech and outlawed dissent against Israel across the Western world.
To benefit Israel is the other predominant motive.
Trump’s thrashing about to articulate objectives for the war in Iran is performative, a blind to cover his true and steadfast objective – simply the annihilation of Iran as a functioning state, the infliction of the maximum amount of death and infrastructural damage, the reduction of Iran to the condition of Libya.
It goes without saying that the seizure of control of Iran’s hydrocarbons by the US is the ultimate endgame of this destruction, exactly as in Libya and in Iraq. But a linked and crucial objective is the elimination of the source of the only physical resistance to the expansion of Israel. Iran and its allies in Yemen and Lebanon have been the sole support of the Palestinians for years.
The colonial settler state of Israel is central to the projection of imperialist power in the Middle East. Its expansion is an essential part of the plan.
Destruction of Iran on the scale envisaged will take years of hard pounding. Again, it is planned – you don’t ask Congress for an instalment of $200 billion for a war you plan to wrap up in a month. Again, Trump’s taunts about having already won, objectives being achieved and about possibly finishing soon, are all just smoke and mirrors. The scale and horror of what is planned for Iran has to be obfuscated to limit a public revulsion that would be echoed in parts of the state apparatus.
Netanyahu yesterday revealed an interesting part of the endgame – construction of an oil pipeline that brings Iran’s oil out to be shipped from a Mediterranean terminal in Israel. That is a breathtakingly audacious plan, but absolutely aligns with Netanyahu’s and Trump’s actions.
Which brings us to the Greater Israel side of the project. Israel is not going to put any of its ships or soldiers in harm’s way in Iran – that is the American contribution. But while the world is primarily watching Iran, Israel is starting a large-scale invasion of Lebanon with the aim of annexing all of Southern Lebanon permanently, even beyond the Litani River and including the cities of Tyre and Nabatieh, both currently under Israeli evacuation orders.
This land of course adjoins the annexed Golan Heights and the much larger area of Southern Syria that Israel has annexed in the past year with the acquiescence of Zionist puppet “President” al-Jolani.
It is essential not to lose sight of the bipartisan nature of the United States’ long term plan. In a very real sense Trump is continuing – if greatly accelerating – the policy under Biden, who protected and enabled the Genocide in Gaza. The success of this US policy is phenomenal. Just consider that only 18 months ago the Zionist “Presidents” al-Jolani of Syria and Aoun of Lebanon were not in power. Both were brought to power as a result of US-aligned military action, by Israel against Hezbollah and by the CIA- and MI6-sponsored HTS forces. Put in place by Biden, they are now central to Trump’s strategy.
Aoun and al-Jolani are now united in threatening Hezbollah in the rear as it fights a desperate action against the Israeli invasion of Lebanon.
Meanwhile Israel officially occupies over 60% of the Gaza Strip – under cover of Trump’s “Board of Peace”, and continues to murder, blockade and starve the inhabitants of the remnant, while the de facto expansion of Israel into the West Bank and the levels of settler violence are escalating to levels of the utmost barbarity.
Iranian resistance is noble and Iran’s resilience has surprised many. It will be able to make any ground invasion, or even limited incursion, extremely costly for the United States. But as in Gaza or Lebanon, if the US and Israel are content simply to pound from the air for years with devastating force, and with no concern whatsoever for civilian casualties, ultimately all Iran can do is hang on and try to survive.
Given another year of destruction at the current levels of intensity, I do not believe that Iran would effectively be sending many missiles and drones back in self-defence. In a week or two we will hit the period of maximum Iranian effectiveness, where depletion of US-supplied interceptor missiles coincides with Iran retaining significant strike power. Israel’s fragile civilian morale will then be tested severely for a few weeks.
Iran’s capacity to defend against massive, years-sustained aerial bombardment is limited. We should not blind ourselves to that fact out of current joy at the Americans and Israelis getting a bloody nose.
It is comforting to see Trump as a buffoon, to accept the facade he presents of a blustering and ill-educated ignoramus, who swings wildly between policy options, and who does not understand the world of geopolitics.
But that is nonsense.
I have no hesitation in characterising Trump’s genius as evil, focused on personal gain and willing to inflict any amount of death, maiming and deprivation on innocent civilians to attain his goals. But he is indeed attaining his goals on the world stage.
Trump has forced the Security Council to underwrite his Board of Peace. This was a quite astonishing diplomatic triumph over a helpless Russia and China, both of which decided that other negotiations with Trump were more important. Trump has presided over Israel expanding on the ground by the day. Trump has taken Venezuela’s oil, the largest reserves in the world. Trump is currently killing the people of Iran and destroying their infrastructure, while feigning indecision.
You should hate Trump: but he is no clown.
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On first reading of an excellent thought provoking article, just te stuff of this blog, I agreed with the argument that Trump’s apparent deranged and unpredictable mindset is a façade for a highly calculated long term plan to effect regime change in Iran with the aid of course of Iran’s implacable enemies Israel.
Craig was very careful to frame his argument as a “what if”. On reflection I think that although it is highly likely that long term USA policy is to effect regime change in Iran by whatever means available, as it is in relation to Russia and China, Trump has totally miscalculated.
I don’t think Trump is a very good exponent of “strategic ambiguity” which his contradictory statements seem to imply. He is just a leader who is out of his depth and who has people around him like Hesketh who are equally out of their depth. They do not really have a clue and he will have to leave it to his successors to work out a better strategy.
Craig Murray’s assumption that the USAF could conduct a two year long bombing campaign may not be accurate. Consider the following:
1. All or most of the attacks on Iran have been using standoff weapons. That is , planes, ships or launchers have been shooting cruise missiles at Iran. There are a limited number of these. At some point, USAF will have to fall back on glide bombs that have a range of about 40 km. Supposedly the US has an unlimited supply of these. Even so, this means that, to attack anything but the outer borders of Iran, a aircraft will have to overfly the country to release their glide bombs.
2. The F-35 “stealth” aircraft have the reputation of maintenance headaches (see Pierre Sprey.) At some point, if Sprey is right, the entire F-35;fleet will have to be grounded for mechanical breakdowns, even if they aren’t shot down. Russian and Chinese radars can detect supposed “stealth” aircraft, and two F-35s have already been shot down. I’ve heard that the B2 stealth bomber is also a maintenance headache, and in any case, I understand that only about 21 of these were actually built.
Assuming that “stealth” has some advantage, at some point a bombing campaign would likely devolve into a classic type involving overflights of Iran by non-“stealth” aircraft that don’t have that advantage. Surely everybody agrees that non “stealth” aircraft can be detected by ordinary radar.
3. There’s been this general assumption that Iran doesn’t really have an anti-aircraft system or that it’s all been destroyed. But even the western-biased Wikipedia page admits that Iran has a wide variety of anti-aircraft systems including a few Russian Pantsirs, S-300s, and some older “S” systems, and even some legacy American systems that were turned over to or purchased by the Shah. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Republic_of_Iran_Air_Defense_Force , showing 32 different non ManPad anti-aircraft missile systems alone. Some of these are copies of American and Russian anti-aircraft missile systems. They all seem to be mobile systems which means that they could be stored in tunnels along with everything else Iran is using in the war. Given the Iranian ingenuity at developing offensive missile systems, it would seem anomalous that the clever Iranians would have ignored defensive missile systems. That’s not nothing.
While the Iranian anti-aircraft systems haven’t stopped the US-Israel standoff weapons attacks, anti-aircraft systems are typically much better at shooting down aircraft than they are shooting down cruise or ballistic missiles. The Iranians have a pretty good record of shooting down overflying Reaper-type drones, which are by definition more like piloted aircraft than cruise missiles.
This is not like the Vietnam war where the North Vietnamese anti-aircraft systems were limited to artillery (and according to a Vietnamese movie that I saw, giant crossbows.) Nor is it like the assault on Serbia, since Iran is as big as the entire continent of Western Europe. More recently, the Ukrainian Air Force has not been effective against Russian anti-aircraft systems.
Recently, the Russians have been mounting one-shot air to air missiles on cheap drones. I imagine the Russians must have turned this technology over to the Iranians. Especially since the Iranians kindly licensed the Russians to produce the helpful – cheap Shahid / Garan drones in the first place.
And it doesn’t look like the Americans are trying to conduct a two-year bombing campaign. Right now they’re sending a couple of 5,000 man Marine groups to conquer the place. If these 10,000 Ramboes can make short shrift of the million Iranian soldiers, why does the USA need a bombing campaign at all?
Stealth is bought at considerable cost in everything else – speed, endurance, manoeuvrability, even bomb load. (Because external bombs seriously reduce stealth, but only very limited loads can be carried internally).
If a stealth aircraft becomes visible to better radars, its only advantage vanishes (ironically) and it is left with its many drawbacks.
For years now Russian spokesmen have been gently poking fun at “those who believe in invisible aircraft”. I have not noticed the Chinese saying anything of the kind, but then they have a tradition of courtesy.
Spot on. And, as I understand it, the stealth capability works primarily at the RF frequencies used by military radars (X Band ?), which is why the Chinese, Russians, Iranians, N Koreans, et al. have been developing radars at alternate frequencies. Doh !
The F35, for example, becomes visible if it opens its bomb doors and if it uses its afterburners – crap really.
The maximum payload of a B-2 stealth bomber is 28 tonnes, Tom. That’s only 4 tonnes less than that of a B-52. Its maximum speed is also only 20 mph lower. The main drawback with stealth aircraft is that they’re very costly to build and maintain – but the US military has lots of money, so it’s ordered at least 100 more of them:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-21_Raider
It’s one thing to be able to detect stealth aircraft, which can be done using longer-wavelength radar (no one sensible believes in invisible planes). However, it’s another thing to have enough resolution to be able to guide missiles to target them – your radar arrays have to be huge, making them immobile.
“The maximum payload of a B-2 stealth bomber is 28 tonnes, Tom. That’s only 4 tonnes less than that of a B-52. Its maximum speed is also only 20 mph lower…”
The B-2 first flew in 1989 and entered service in 1997. The B-52 first flew in 1952 and entered service in 1955.
That the B-2, the USA’s principal strategic bomber, is only slightly slower and has only a slightly smaller bomb load than an aircraft that is over 70 years old is nothing less than pathetic.
If the B-2’s stealth features allow it to fly over Iran and drop iron bombs, well and good. I expect to see the experiment tried in the near future. The same applies to the F-35, although it seems to have begun having unpleasant experiences already.
Of course, while highly-tuned stealth (as long as it hasn’t been raining) may obscure an aircraft’s radar return from ahead, I suspect it’s not so effective from behind – where interceptor fighters and missiles will be coming from. And the F-35’s single flame-belching jet engine extends a huge “Welcome” sign to infra-red detection.
Thanks for your reply Tom. The B-1 Bone is the US’s principal strategic bomber. It has a maximum payload of 34 tonnes, just 6 more than the B-2 – although it’s a lot faster. Despite being old (though probably younger than you), the B-52H is still in frontline service. At present, the US has no other strategic bombers.
Have you been following the news? B-2’s & F-35’s have been dropping bombs all over Iran*, both in this war and in last year’s Twelve-Day War. Only one has got into any difficulty, probably due to anti-aircraft fire after being spotted visually due to flying too low – as I mentioned above, they’re not invisible. Putting the rights and wrongs of them to one side, these wars against Iran have been a massive advert for stealth technology.
* along, in this current war, with non-stealth B-1’s, and possibly B-52’s – although the latter were probably restricted to launching cruise missiles from Iraqi airspace
I believe that, to date, the F35s have been bombing with stand off munitions, ie. from 600km outside Iran. The USA has now used up most of its stand off bombs, which means flying over Iran where the skies are controlled by Iran.
Thanks for your reply Stevie. US & Israeli F-35’s have mostly been dropping JDAMs, meaning they would have to be in Iranian airspace (except for targets very close to the Iraqi border), as have their non-stealth F-15’s & F-16’s. So too have the US’s massive B-1’s – we even saw them being loaded at RAF Fairford. Iran lost control of its skies some time ago: so far in this war, a single Kuwaiti pilot has managed to (accidentally) shoot down three times more US planes than (what’s left of) the entire Iranian air defence.
If one takes the rumours into consideration of Chinese, Russian, Iranian and Israeli provenance the core effects of stealth have been cracked much earlier than has been openly acknowledged. Of course no side will give a press conference to let the world know “we have cracked stealth technology”. So this is why we mostly address such topics in the hushed tone of backroom chatter. There is no defintive way to prove beyond doubt.
Fwiw Alastair Crooke, and several others who are more military savvy than Crooke (who mainly only relays info he gathers from others) Israel immediately aborted a mission when IDF F-35s realized that Iranian AD had locked on. This was either 2025 or earlier.
I haven´t looked at the map of bombed targets from June, but the one now shows a striking lack of targets in Eastern Iran. I don´t know but this also may well be due to the simple fact that Iranian airspace is mostly forbidden to enemy aircraft. I would guess that Iranian AD capability is much underestimated in the official US/ISR statements.
And launching missiles only from outside Iran seriously limits US/ISR reach.
With the demise of US military myth in Ukraine I have stopped trusting their most affirmative public statements.
Last point: The F-35s coating issues most likely hurt stealth. POGO brought up this point first when seaborne F-35s started to develop rust which has made cleaning and repair a constant hassle. (Confirmed by a former serviceman in the readers´ comments of nakedcapitalism.com last week I think.) POGO back then had no final confirmation but that was 4 years ago and the rumours haven´t disappeared since.
So I wouldn´t be surprised if this is another one of those cases where harsh reality has caught up with fancy US MIC PR as for instance happened to German Leopard tanks and their European and US counterparts or the various NATO missile systems given to the AFU. Up to a point when either AFU stopped using those tanks or US servicemen admitted in such publications as ATLANTIC that their missiles systems failed.
But just like with F-35 problems these tiny news items pop up and then vanish again and get buried under all the other BS which is clogging our information space.
p.s. A comprehensive text about the development/history of “Stealth” by Mike Mihajlovic who hails the development of “Steath” although he was involved in taking down the first F-117 by Serbs during the NATO war.
“Behind the Stealth: Understanding the Theory that made Stealth possible [i]
The scientific background behind the stealth”
Febr. 26th 2026
https://bmanalysis.substack.com/p/behind-the-stealth-understanding
I don’t know which country this news organisation is based in, but I just noticed that at the top of the page it says March 22 (and it’s still the 21st here, and will be for another three hours), but I came across the following article a few days ago, which exposes yet another falsehood the Trump thing disseminated (AND a few others):
US intelligence warned Trump Iran could hit Gulf allies, contradicting ‘surprise’ claim
President Donald Trump was warned that attacking Iran could trigger retaliation against US Gulf allies despite his claims on Monday that Tehran’s reaction came as a surprise, said a US official and two sources familiar with US intelligence reports.
Pre-war intelligence assessments did not say that Iran’s response was “a guarantee, but it certainly was on the list of potential outcomes,” said one source, who, like the other two, requested anonymity to discuss the issue.
The president twice on Monday said that Iran’s retaliatory strikes against Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Kuwait were a surprise, the first time at a Kennedy Centre board meeting in the White House.
“They (Iran) weren’t supposed to go after all these other countries in the Middle East,” he said. “Nobody expected that. We were shocked.”
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2598033/us-intelligence-warned-trump-iran-could-hit-gulf-allies-contradicting-surprise-claim
Well he was hardly gonna say that he was advised Iran may very well attack Gulf allies if the US started bombing Iran, but if they hadn’t concluded that themselves already, they know it NOW! And anyway, surely they’ve all known since a long time ago the Trump lies about every goddam thing.
“I don’t know which country this news organisation is based in … ”
The Express Tribune is published in Pakistan (the URL is a clue). It’s affiliated with the New York Times, although it censors some articles from them.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/the-express-tribune/
Thanks Justin. Funny thing is that I thought it might be Pakistan…. for some inexplicable reason!
“US intelligence warned Trump Iran could hit Gulf allies, contradicting ‘surprise’ claim”
Talk about the bleedin’ obvious! If nation A uses air bases in country X to attack nation B, obviously nation X is a combatant and nation B will do all in its power to destroy the air bases – and anything else it deems advantageous to destroy.
There’s a danger of looking at events with hindsight and concluding, wrongly, that it was planned to turn out the way it did from the beginning. Important not to forget that Trump is possibly the only person ever to have lost money running a casino, his ability to think more than one step ahead appears limited. Comparisons with the Vietnam war are pretty obvious, it’s a war with no clear objective and no clear strategy of how to achieve it.
Agreed.
I think Trump may have had a malevolent plan, it just went off the rails very quickly. Now he’s scrambling because the US expected a quick decapitation victory, now it’s in a bruru slogging match which it simply can’t sustain for years. Despite Mr Murray’s worries on that score.
Also the part about Venezuelan oil is strange, the US doesn’t have it and couldn’t get it at anything like the former scale. Without at least several years & many billions to rebuild Venezuela’s decayed infrastructure.
As for the compradors in Damascus & Beirut, they’ll be lucky if they stay in post. Let alone fight Hezbollah considering Lebanon has no real army and Al-whats-his-nuts is facing the prospect of the Syrian civil war rekindling.
“…Trump is possibly the only person ever to have lost money running a casino…”
Far from the case, as a brief survey of the history of Las Vegas would immediately show.
Well he’s certainly making money being run by a casino.
“There’s a danger of looking at events with hindsight and concluding, wrongly, that it was planned to turn out the way it did from the beginning”.
As systems theorist Stafford Beer observed, “The purpose of a system is what it does” (POSIWID), and… consequently, there’s “no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is to do what it constantly fails to do”.
Or that the purpose of a system is not what it consistently does.
Well said Craig.
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/03/war-on-iran-longer-range-missiles-threats-fake-oil-release-murray-seeing-trump-clearly.html
A nod from Moon of Alabama
Professor Marandi says If the US invades Kharg Island then Iran will target all oil infrastructure in GCC countries, ensuring no oil whatsoever transits the Strait, Ansar Allah [known as the Hoothis] have said Saudi oil by pipeline to Yambu will not transit the Red sea. The Professor said the West do not realize the Iranians are deadly serious and have fulfilled all their promises to date. Some Zionist group has put a bounty on his head, he does not care, realizing that the Shia are known to take their shrouds into battle.
“Mohammad Marandi: ‘BOUNTY on My Head’, Iran WIPES OUT Israel & Gulf Oil if US Invades Kharg Island” (Danny Haiphong, 21 Mar 2026) – video, 35m 21s [ YouTube | Invidious ]
I can’t see Trump dreaming any of this up himself, but I can see him being the useful idiot figurehead for the people who are really behind all this.
Thank you, Craig, for laying this out so clearly. Less than two years ago a large number of commenters here shrieked with joy on the very thought of Trump winning the US election, proclaiming him as some sort of saviour…
Kissinger said that America has no permanent friends or enemies. It has permanent interests. Which don’t change each time a new clown enters or leaves the White House.
Israel allows the US to project its power across the Middle East. I don’t think this is going to change in the next 10-20 years, unfortunately.
Elections are a show for the masses.
“Less than two years ago a large number of commenters here shrieked with joy on the very thought of Trump winning the US election, proclaiming him as some sort of saviour…”
Quite understandable, as the previous administration was abominable in every way. The only mistake that some people made was in believing that Mr Trump would be better.
The US political system has been carefully designed since before 1900 to prevent any outbreak of democracy.
“Kissinger said that America has no permanent friends or enemies. It has permanent interests”.
Dr Kissinger may well have said that. It is a political truism, which historians tend to attribute to Lord Palmerston in 1848.
“Therefore I say that it is a narrow policy to suppose that this country or that is to be marked out as the eternal ally or the perpetual enemy of England. We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow. When we find other countries marching in the same course, and pursuing the same objects as ourselves, we consider them as our friends, and we think for the moment that we are on the most cordial footing; when we find other countries that take a different view, and thwart us in the object we pursue, it is our duty to make allowance for the different manner in which they may follow out the same objects. It is our duty not to pass too harsh a judgment upon others, because they do not exactly see things in the same light as we see; and it is our duty not lightly to engage this country in the frightful responsibilities of war, because from time to time we may find this or that Power disinclined to concur with us in matters where their opinion and ours may fairly differ”.
– Henry John Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston, Speech to the House of Commons (1 March 1848). http://hansard.millbanksystems.com/commons/1848/mar/01/treaty-of-adrianople-charges-against
The plan as CM describes it need not have been Trump’s original idea and vision: it could be the end result of other people’s ideas, visions and ambitions. Trump happens to be the ideal person in the right position at the right time to carry out this plan that so happens to be one of the last goals of the Project for the New American Century that was first presented to President Clinton back in the mid 1990s, before the Lewinsky affair blew up on him. (There are some who suspect Monica Lewinsky was set onto him after he turned down the PNAC offer.) That a 1980 video of Trump saying that the US needs to invade Iran – this was during the hostage crisis in that country which was exploited by the US Republican Party to bring down President Carter in the 1980 Presidential elections – has just surfaced publicly is neither here nor there, since at the time most Americans would have agreed with the young Trump.
At the same time, the outcome of the US / Israeli war on Iran and its allies may be far from certain. US anti-missile defences in the Gulf region and the Iron Dome in Israel have not performed as well as expected, and have been damaged and degraded by cheaper, more basic Iranian technology and Iranian strategic cunning. That the US is now rushing THAAD defences and marines from South Korea to the Gulf is in itself saying something we otherwise are not allowed to know.
In the meantime also, Israel is taking severe hits to Its infrastructure (especially in Haifa). Online rumour has it that thousands of Israelis are trying to flee the country via alternate routes to Ben Gurion International Airport (too damaged, and a military target in itself). Speculation about Benyamin Netanyahu’s whereabouts is rife as well.
So the plan or a plan to destroy Iran exists but how well that plan is executed and whether it achieves its goals and Iran does not survive, is still far from certain.
“The plan as CM describes it need not have been Trump’s original idea and vision…”
I doubt whether Mr Trump would be capable of planning the purchase of one of his favourite hamburgers.
Day 2 of this war we flew out to Sharm El Sheikh for a 10 day holiday. The Sunday Whizz Air flight from Luton was packed with British holidaymakers. Day 12 we flew back midweek expecting the plane to be half empty. In fact it was packed with Israelis. Some orthodox and others less so. They were generally families with young children some military looking types among them. You can’t blame them for wanting to get their families out of the missile blast zones: shame the Gazans don’t have the same opportunity. Couldn’t help but wonder if I was travelling with war criminals. No sign of police presence to arrest them at Luton on landing.
@Philip – Interesting info.
Occupation media is currently reporting that flights out of Ben Gurion airport are to be [sic] cut to one per hour, while Zionazi airline El Al is “reviewing continued operations”. So I think on the whole we can say the enemy has taken a hit here. Incoming flights into Ben Gurion are presumably infrequent and may soon come to a stop if they haven’t already. This won’t go down well among Jewish fascists in North London, say, who love the Occupation even more than usual at times like this.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-march-23-2026/
Talking about London, gotta wonder what the Hatzola service was doing in specific relation to the war – but it won’t be doing it so much any more. Genocide Starmer ought to be careful unless he wants more people to start talking about the Shomrim next now.
In other news, one understands some Ku Klux Klan vehicles have been damaged, and a KKK leader has explained that the KKK’s “sole mission is to protect life, white and non-white alike”. Starmer reckons we all gotta stand together.
According to the British state broadcaster, there were “several explosions” on the Hatzola ambulances, “believed to be linked to gas cannisters [sic] onboard the vehicles”. Yeah right. Linked, huh?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyj1p49gdpo
So Joe Kent resigned on Tuesday, and the MSM were reporting it Wednesday, and also reporting that Trump – in response to his resignation – said that Kent was ‘weak on security’. And then, as I just discovered a few minutes ago, on the Thursday Axios reported that Kent had been under investigation for months by the FBI on suspicion of leaking classified information. Hmm, now why wouldn’t Trump have mentioned THAT the previous day?! Oh, right, cos they hadn’t thought of that one yet, so as to further discredit him and smear him.
Anyway, shortly after coming across the Axios piece I came across an article on MSN (posted Friday) headlined ‘Gabbard unaware of FBI probe into Joe Kent before resignation, official says’. Oh, right, maybe that’s because…..
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/news/gabbard-unaware-of-fbi-probe-into-joe-kent-before-resignation-official-says/ar-AA1Z09Ob
You have to sign up to get access to Axios articles, but the first bit is visible:
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/19/joe-kent-fbi-leak-investigation
What led me to it was the following article, which cites (and links to) the Axios article near the end:
Ex-US counterterrorism chief says late Iranian security chief Ali Larijani was eager to negotiate
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2598460/ex-us-counterterrorism-chief-says-late-iranian-security-chief-ali-larijani-was-eager-to-negotiate
THAT was his big mistake!
Ah, I came across the following article about a week or so ago (posted on Feb 7th) when doing a related search, but I only read the first part of it because it wasn’t the information I was looking for, but I just came across it again (whilst checking out what I had on a few dozen tabs) and read the rest of it, and right near the end (and in relation to what I posted about in an earlier comment) it says the following:
Iran has repeatedly vowed it will hit back at US bases in the region if attacked.
Trump says US talks with Iran ‘very good’, more negotiations expected
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Feb/07/trump-says-us-talks-with-iran-very-good-more-negotiations-expected
Mmm, makes me wonder if the MSM in the West reported this at all, or were they deliberately keeping schtum about it. I’m sure that most of them realised that Trump didn’t send the 9th Fleet or whatever down there for fun, and knew what he – and Netty – were up to.
Came across this CNN vid a few days ago with Marjorie Taylor Greene blasting the Trump thing for starting a war with Iran, and doing so for Israel. And she doesn’t pull any punches. It was posted last Tuesday, and when I retrieved it again from my youtube history just now, the penny dropped that that was the same day Joe Kent resigned (although the media didn’t cover it until the next day), and she is saying what HE said, only in more bombastic terms. Was it just coincidence? I haven’t the faintest idea. Anyway, it’s had 887k views :
MTG on Trump’s Iran war: ‘Why would an American president do that?’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8R2nXfiRDI8 (10 minutes)
And if you can’t handle that, here’s a Short, which I came across a couple of days ago, posted two weeks ago, in which she is saying the same things, and has 2m views:
Marjorie Taylor Greene: ‘America and Israel definitely started this war’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsa7Dw7Bn2w (Middle East Eye 2mins 36secs)
She was obviously addressing those who were gaslit by Hegseth. Anyway, I don’t know much about her, and I’m only familiar with her name because she fell out with Trump, and so I just did a search, and I see she is a somewhat controversial figure:
Fact Check: The Truth Behind the Rumor Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene Blamed ‘Jewish Space Lasers’ for California Wildfires
March 6, 2024
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-check-truth-behind-rumor-172500307.html
Apologies for so many posts in a row, but then again, I’m the only person posting…. But I just came across this BBC article re MTG falling out with the Trump thing, and I recall now that it was primarily about the release of the Epstein files. and this passage from the article is quite amusing:
An activist turned congresswoman who made her name railing against the political establishment had now found that the Maga – “Make America Great Again” – movement she supported had become the establishment.
And as the weight of Trump’s power focused on her ouster – she broke for the exits with a few parting shots.
“I refuse to be a ‘battered wife’ hoping it all goes away and gets better,” she said in her resignation statement.
“If I am cast aside by Maga Inc and replaced by Neocons, Big Pharma, Big Tech, Military Industrial War Complex, foreign leaders, and the elite donor class that can’t even relate to real Americans, then many common Americans have been cast aside and replaced as well.”
How Greene went from Maga loyalist to quitting Congress
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwywjz202r7o
“MTG on Trump’s Iran war: ‘Why would an American president do that?’”
The obvious and instantaneous reply: “Money”.
Hegemoney!
Nice one, Allan! 😎
That happy coinage may turn out to have legs.
Some time ago Professor Marandi made it quite clear that Iran would attack US bases if they themselves were attacked. He also said that ‘the resistance’ would sweep the US out of Iraq, which they seem well on the way to doing. The only reason the US is still there is all the Iraqi cash they are holding but ‘the resistance’ don’t care about that. In fact he predicted more or less everything that has happened.
“Security” is now the biggest political juju, to be invoked whenever anything altogether unjustifiable has to be justified, or – as in this case – whenever anyone’s name and intentions are to be blackened without a shred of evidence.
It’s right up there with “national interests”, which by and large means the sacred and inalienable right of billionaires to enrich themselves further at the expense of the poor.
Hermann Goering was far from the first person to explain the convenience of “security” as a catch-all excuse for almost any action, but his words are still lapidary and canonical. I cite them once again, for the benefit of anyone who may not have seen them before.
‘We got around to the subject of war again and I said that, contrary to his attitude, I did not think that the common people are very thankful for leaders who bring them war and destruction.
‘”Why, of course, the people don’t want war,” Goering shrugged. “Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece. Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship.”
‘”There is one difference,” I pointed out. “In a democracy the people have some say in the matter through their elected representatives, and in the United States only Congress can declare wars.”
‘”Oh, that is all well and good, but, voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.”‘
– Conversation with Hermann Goering in prison, reported by Gustave Gilbert
As we have seen so many times since 1945, the people actually have no voice at all in the USA, the UK, or other “Western” nations. One million, two million may protest, but it makes not the slightest difference.
Oh ye of little faith /S. The US is led by born again Christians and Zionists like Trump who recently had a group of Pastors laying hands on him in the Oval office and has Paula White, [who speaks in tongues] as his spiritual advisor. Trump as a former game show host who has bankrupted many of his own casino’s [how do you bankrupt a casino] and ‘Whiskey Pete’ former Fox news presenter as his war dept ‘strike force’, what could possibly go wrong? Trump is positioning approx 10,000 troops to invade somewhere in Iran, Iran possibly has one million men under arms how many more militia could be raised out of a population of over 90 million who are willing to fight to the death?
Trumps latest threat is that if Iran does not open the Strait of Hormuz within the next 48 hours the US will destroy Iran’s largest power station. The Iranians will do no such thing and have promised to reciprocate, the Orange blowhard is trying to double down but is only succeeding in dragging the whole world into economic disaster.
The threat from Trump to hit Iran’s power stations has Iran threatening to hit power stations and desalination plants across the region, this threat was made by Iran and is documented by a spokesperson for the Iraq armed forces in this video at around 2 mins 30 secs.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVlbm0cXa54
If the war has been well planned in advance then , perhaps, the attack by Hamas [ which means ‘violence’ in Hebrew] on October 7th, was a set-up, to spark the whole operation off.
Thanks Craig. I was referred to you some of my subscribers, and here is my take:
What you’ve written is something that I’ve indeed considered before. But where I think you drop the ball is:
1) ramp up 4x THAAD missiles – that would sustain it a few more weeks, that’s all. We’re scraping the bottom of the barrel as it is already. Our missiles are too expensive, and cannot be ramped up in a decent way. This is the same as the start of the Ukraine conflict. Russia had troubles to ramp up production, but they had the concept of “total war” to start from. Our missiles are too technologically advanced to ramp up indiscriminately.
2) “”In a week or two [..] where depletion of US-supplied interceptor missiles …”” <– we're basically already there for the past week. The pattern from last June holds: hits stay stable, missile launches are reduced. "Better" for psychology to keep hitting consistently. As I said before: this reduction should scare you, as this likely means that this tempo is sustainable.
3) ""Given another year of destruction at the current levels of intensity"" <– I think we've run out of stand-off munitions even, hence the ability for Iran to hit the planes when they're lucky. At current intensity, and with the economic pain right now: I doubt we will last a month.
Mark this post 😉
For decades the USA has gotten away with the fantasy of their weaponry. Weapons that were never tested in real, live situations. Now we find that the success rates of these systems in reality are <5%. The complexity and cost of these systems are really great for the profits of the MIC but don't provide any level of true defence for their purchasers. Iran, Ukraine, China, Russia are demonstrating what ingenuity, a few thousand dollars and beliefs can achieve. The USA military dream is founded on brochure-ware from the arms manufacturers, and any stupid troop invasion is only going to be good for the manufacturer of body bags. Not that Trump and his team care about American deaths.
"It's called the american dream because you have to be asleep to believe it." George Carlin.
I agree. Not only are the US and therefore Israel running out of interceptors but it was known from Ukraine that they don’t work anyway. What they do most effectively is make money for MIC, so the big boost in orders could just be a money transfer from the US taxpayer to MIC. Scaling up for the US is especially difficult because it has a poor industrial base (unlike Russia and China) and because the equipment if virtually hand made. When you are working on cost plus what could be better?
Interesting analysis. Time will tell if the tail is indeed wagging the head, but an equally valid opinion concurrent with the disclosures and conduct around the Epstein/Mossad files, suggests the clown is being blackmailed. Putin may have the ‘golden shower’ tapes, but Netanyahu is exploiting Israel’s treasure.
“Trump CONTROLLED By Israel’s Epstein Button” – Israeli Military Analyst” (Katie Halper, 21 Mar 2026) – video, 14m 13s [ YouTube | Invidious ]
MIT Professor and Pentagon advisor Theodore Postol explains why the missile defence systems are failing in the war against Iran, and why the US and Israel will not win this war.
“All three of these missile defences whether strategic or tactical are all worthless, and all of the money and all of the false claims that we can protect the public, the populations from these ballistic missiles, all these false claims are all shown to be false over 35 years.
Postol claims there are no countermeasures today, this has nothing to do with interceptors, this has to do with sensor systems, a sensor cannot see what is a warhead and what isn’t, they cannot make interceptions because you do not know where to send the interceptors and that is the situation we are in and things are going to go to hell in a hand basket in Israel and the Persian Gulf military bases when radars are defeated and the interceptors disappear because there are non, you are going to be left with nothing but guns”.
Professor Postol reckons the Patriot missile system at best intercepts 5 to 6 percent tops, of missiles and regards it as a total fraud. Taken together the Iron dome and Patriot systems have a success rate of a few percent. Postol did share his research with peers and political leaders who told Postol he was being too negative, [I suppose they did not want to interrupt the money flow to MIC]
A good proportion of this video is taken up with technical issues with many of the important points taken up from approx 48/49 minutes in.
“Ted Postol: Fraud of Missile Defence Exposed in Iran War” (Glen Diesen, 8 Mar 2026) – video, 1h 2m 40s [ YouTube | Invidious ]
Not to be too literal re the title of this post, but is it even possible to see Trump clearly? Not because as his delusional supporters try to assert, that he’s some kind of geopolitical genius playing 5 dimensional chess HA! but the opposite, ie because he’s a fkn imbecile, who would struggle to win a game of tiddlywinks against a blind opponent and the one ” clear ” thing about him is that he’s so much the puppet of the Zionist/MIC/Neocon sickoes, whose currency is death & destruction to anything/one that stands in their way, the strings are almost visible
‘dance stupid goy, dance, or we press the big, radioactive Epstein button that will vaporize you politically, socially, personally. Or we’ll simply vaporise you ourselves: remember that clip on yr ear? that was literally a warning shot, we won’t miss next time.’
Sure, it’s possible the ZioYank necrophiliacs could pound Iran into dust, given enough time and, as currently, free of any restraint domestically and/or internationally; but I suspect they don’t have that amount of time, the damage to the US Economy alone is staggering and ( rationally ) you would think unsustainable over the medium-to-long term – ie several more months – and that damage is impacting on many of his/Republican donors, not to mention the mass of * ordinary * Americans.
Of course it’s equally possible that all rationality has left the building and – as some suspect – the actual intent is to set the planet on fire; motivated either by * religious * fanatical psychosis, or equally psychotic delusion that, somehow, the * victors * will have dominion over the smoking ashes of our ( once ) beautiful planet. Or both
It may always be a mistake to underestimate the strength, resolve and capacity of one’s enemy ( in this instance the ZioYank Death Cult ), but it’s also a mistake to overestimate the latter. The U.S War Dogs may be unhinged enough to actually believe they are unstoppable, invincible, the greatest army/people in the history of the world; but they’re CLEARLY not, they haven’t won a war since WW2, had their arses severely booted-out of most of the countries the started fights with and, like all bullies, pick on targets much smaller less well equipped, then strut about like peacocks on cocaine when they’ve murdered a few hundred/thousand of ” shithole countries’ ” people.
Iran is no Panama/Venezuela/Afghanistan/Libya/Syria/Iraq etc and will defend itself to the last man, woman & child. Whatever we Secularists think of religion-dominated countries, if people are prepared to die, bolstered by their belief in a glorious afterlife for their martyrdom and love for their co-religionists, country & culture, they can withstand much more suffering than opponents who don’t have that kind of faith
After Hubris, Nemesis, this is such a recurring pattern as to be archetypal, a kind of universal law: US/Israel are manifesting every indication that they will, sooner or later ( I reckon the former ) feel the full force & consequence of their actions. The question is whether they will be able to light the fuse that explodes the entire planet before Nemesis reaches them. I don’t believe they will; but it’s certainly possible
But he IS a genius Robert…. he said so himself
Don’t misunderestimate him! He’s no mere genius – he’s an omniscient supergenius (and modest with it)!
https://x.com/CNviolations/status/2033954012790202805
Community Notes & Violations on X: “The most entertaining two minutes I’ve watched today.” / X
Well god would hardly send an idiot to save the world, would he?
Lol, yeah, Allan, nobody knows as much about being a genius as El Trumpeto: that wee German geek wassisname……Ep….no….Einstein, Alex was it? something like that, yeah, he confirmed the genuine genius of the smartest man who ever lived, Don J. It’s only his deep humility that keeps him from displaying his peerless – as Twirlip, says, below – ” omniscient supergenius ” more often. worra guy, huh?
“Whatever we Secularists think of religion-dominated countries, if people are prepared to die, bolstered by their belief in a glorious afterlife for their martyrdom and love for their co-religionists, country & culture, they can withstand much more suffering than opponents who don’t have that kind of faith.”
Absolutely and you only have to look at Britain in May 1940 for a good example complete with Ayatollah like rhetoric from Churchill: —
“Today is Trinity Sunday. Centuries ago words were written to be a call and a spur to the faithful servants of Truth and Justice: “Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valour, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar. As the Will of God is in Heaven, even so let it be.”
Yes Robert, these three comments – Shibboleth, Harry, and yourself, fully encapsulate who Trump is. He was cultivated by Epstein and the former Israeli leaders who made use of Epstein’s real life fantasy island. Trump’s every desire was provided for. Contacts and contracts were his to accept freely. He found agreement to all his plans and desires, and resources able to deliver the Greatest Nation on Earth. But then all the evidence of his human nature, his debased perversions, and the way he was played, is coming to light. One could almost feel sorry for him.
Iran is to provide cover for the expansion of Greater Israel across the ME. Trade collapse, fuel shortages, panopticon control using AI, and digital currency, are to depopulate the rest of us. We have allowed global corporations to gain control of our national assets. Only the Crown Estate stands between national sovereignty and vassal state. Can we defend it? Cameron and Osborne delivered Austerity on steroids as the ploy for selling off our national infrastructure, while private diners paid £10,000 per head to sit at Cameron’s table, and ensure he hosted and promoted Arms Fairs for the privatisation of war, as Bush defined it.
One could almost believe Kissinger was still alive somewhere. The comprehensive plan is so longstanding. The grudge that burns yields no exemptions. Good people still dream of better days. Kindness is still the great majority Default mode. Peace is the desired outcome for ordinary people. Victory is the aim of the aggressors. Iran has essentially said it is holding back. It will return like for like. It has bombed around Dimona. This is a warning. Defeat is unthinkable for either country – yet.
What has Trump achieved, No regime change, Strait of Hormuz closed. Haven’t recovered any nuclear material. No uprising on the streets [quite the opposite] No capitulation. Iran destroying all of our bases and pummeling Israel. Iran on the way to driving the US out of the Middle East and at the same time destroying the petrodollar and driving the rest of the world to economic ruin and starvation, on the other hand they did manage to kill an 86 year old man with his grand daughter. We also killed 170 little girls and set the whole of the Muslim world [billions] against the US/Israel. Hell of a job Caligula you will certainly be remembered in the history books.
Having read some of the latest truth social posts from Trump, including the one where he said the US military are now bombing Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf “for fun”. I am firmly of the opinion that H L Mencken was correct.
“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron”. Mission accomplished.
Depressing story, I don’t want to believe it. Unfortunately it rings true in too many aspects, especially in terms of intent.
But certain technical questions remain in terms of the supposed US capability to perform as required: do they have the armaments? Surely the answer is no? And as to interceptors: if you multiply a small number by 4 you still have a small number, compared to consumption rates. Surely the US/combined west lacks the required industrial capacity, not to mention skilled labour. Then there is the critical question of rare earths (sufficient stockpiles?)
Beyond that, there is the general question of competence. That the US would have the competence to pull off such an ambitious plan seems incompatible with their inability to win any war in the last 70 years … except Grenada … and more recently Venezuela.
Am I clutching at straws?
I am going to keep things simple. What we have here is an Orangutan serving as the President of the United States. This Orangutan has been playing with a metaphorical grenade for a long time. That grenade has finally exploded.
That is completely inaccurate and deeply insulting to orangutans everywhere. It shouldn’t surprise, but these primates have a vastly superior intellect compared to most hairless apes like you, whilst being totally cool about everything that gives you haemarroids and hypertension. A humble apology is required.
Orangeutan.
But bear in mind that when Abraham Lincoln was elected President some of the USA’s leading newspapers wondered why Du Chaillu had bothered to travel Africa in search of the missing link when there was such a perfect specimen in Washington.
If Israel’s interceptor stocks are depleted, what do you think the Israeli regime will do to protect itself, and not necessarily its own people? The Listening Post reports that military censorship in Israel (I think using some draconian laws left over from British colonial rule) is so oppressive now that Israelis are increasingly turning to speculation and conspiracy theories. But as its citizens get clobbered while the regime basks under its private and exclusive iron-domelet, what moods might turn?
I’m undecided if it’s hidden genius or he really is as unhinged as he appears. The fallout is the more pressing issue for us, though.
This from Peter Hitchens today: “In the early moments of Donald Trump’s current spasm, the leaders of Reform UK and the Tory Party instantly piled in to endorse the Trump-Netanyahu assault. They had time to think before they spoke. But they couldn’t be bothered. Like so many modern ‘conservatives’ and ‘patriots’, they have fallen in love with foreign war, quite unaware that war is the enemy of conservatism and the ally of the Left.
For instance, has it still not sunk in that the vast waves of migration from Africa and the Middle East are the direct results of the wars we kept starting or fuelling, in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Syria? Even now, there are people amid the ruins of their former homes, in their demolished cities, all over Iran, preparing for the long trudge westwards that ends with them struggling aboard a rubber dinghy on the French coast, headed for Kent or Sussex.”
Two thoughts on this. Firstly, Venezuelan oil is difficult to process and ramping up production would take several years. Secondly, although Russia and China will not directly intervene on behalf of Iran (although they do provide intelligence and material assistance), China may well take Taiwan while the USA is embroiled in the Middle East, thus gaining control of world microchip production. The taking down of US economic power will ultimately bring down Israel and their vassals in the Middle East. This is why Iran’s resistance is not without hope, in spite of the current odds against them. Trump may not be the fool he pretends to be, but he may still have miscalculated.
re: crude oil/Carlyle
nakedcapitalism.com today linked to a short research paper by Carlyle investment group about crude oil dependency of the world.
The symbolic gesture appears to be paramount since usually these pieces are not circulated in a wider public as is the case with this one. The core message we of course already know. But obviously it´s a first warning.
“A crude awakening”
March 9th 2026
https://www.carlyle.com/global-insights/a-crude-awakening
In the past humanity has progressed through: the stone age, the iron age and the bronze age. We are now in the industrial age or more accurately, IMO, the oil age. There is nowhere else to go, there is no alternative, we have achieved our pinnacle. Without oil and its multiple products we cannot survive as we currently do. We obviously need to conserve our supplies so that we can continue enjoying our current lifestyles. But, all the evidence illustrates that we are using more and more fossil fuels. At some point calamity awaits. I’m no believer in all the environmental clap trap, because the nut zero solutions are all based on creating more environmental damage and using more and more fossil fuels, however it needs to be recognised that our whole way of life is based on a finite commodity which needs intelligent management of its usage.
I think this is very plausible and very likely, but with one major change.
Trump IS a buffoon, but this strategy is not his – it is the careful planning of his surrounding gang, like Stephen Miller, etc. Like in his first term he similarly had no political ideas and they came mostly from the likes of Steve Bannon. Trump’s job is to sell these ideas and to look like a buffoon, something he has no difficulty doing. He is carefully steered and does exactly what they want and doesn’t need to do any hard thinking, but can swan off to his golf courses and await his next instructions, sleeping soundly and in ignorance in the meantime.
Now what is that doing in the region – of course Starmer is full of shit.
” HMS Anson, a nuclear-powered Royal Navy submarine fitted with Tomahawk Block IV land-attack missiles with a range of 1,000 miles and Spearfish heavyweight torpedoes, has arrived in the Arabian Sea, bringing the capability to launch cruise missile strikes on Iran if the conflict escalates — Daily Mail”
2000 lb bombs being loaded on US planes headed for a “defensive” mission.The UK allowing US aggression on Iran at Fairford and Diego Garcia means the UK are co belligerents in the war with Iran, only the Greens are questioning this [and Jeremy Corbyn].
At the outbreak of the war Badenoch and Farage were all in with Trump. With the May local elections in view I have a wonderful meme for Starmer and Badenoch to use in those elections, a sure vote winner. Tell your children to join Trumps illegal war and die for Israel the Genocidal apartheid state. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8mFqH1H1ZU
Harry.
I heard on LBC radio news, James Cleverly saying that Britain was always going to be in this war – he also had a go at Starmer for not getting behind the war against Iran from the start, Starmer has certainly come off the fence now – and his forces are becoming more involved in the illegal war on Iran.
As Prof. Jeremy Sachs said “The Brits never saw a war they didn’t like.”
Iran has said if the below happens – it will put the region into darkness by attacking electricity supplying infrastructure.
“Trump: “If Iran doesn’t fully open, without threat, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 hours from this exact point in time, the US will hit and obliterate their various power plants, starting with the biggest one first””
Trump posted his threat on Truth Social. Was it all in capitals?
I mean, seriously! As if Iran hadn’t foreseen this response from the US government. Unfortunately Iranian organisation Press TV does make reference to scribblings on “social media” in its write-up, but – contrary to most opinion – social media is of little importance in this war. The Iranian military response to an attack on the country’s energy infrastructure must of course be to deliver more powerful strikes on enemy installations outside of its borders. How long, I wonder, until Netanyahu craps his pants?
Brian.
I think Trump doesn’t think about the consequences of his actions, or what he says – the power of the POTUS has gone to his head, he strikes me as the kind of man who is used to getting his way – and isn’t shy about telling everyone what he’ll do – if he doesn’t get his way.
Hopefully Iran will give him a rude awakening.
“How long, I wonder, until Netanyahu craps his pants?”
Oh, has he reappeared, then?
Bayard
I’ve saw a few articles online and on X, that have aid that Israel’s defences are now down – (anti-missile systems) – and Iran is striking Israel at will now.
If the above is true, then Trump will be ordered by Netanyahu to begin a ground invasion of Iran – to seek out Iranian missile launchers and destroy them, I’d imagine at the same time a coalition force US/Britain, and whoever else is up for it – would try to break the blockade on the Straits of Hormuz, on that point, I’ve also read that Iran has 20 small Ghadir subs – that are loitering beneath the straits just waiting for this to happen.
Iran has hit Ben Gurion airport, the Zionazi occupiers’ main international airport and the main point through which Jewish supporters of the Occupation flit in and out of Palestine. Let’s hope they shut the f*cker as shut as they have shut Dubai airport or more so. Making it difficult for supporters of the Jewish occupation to go in and out will be an achievement.
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/03/22/765684/Iran-s-Army-successfully-attacks-Ben-Gurion-airport-using-Arash-2-drones
Make no mistake here. Iran can win this war.
Brian.
Yes I seen that online, Iran also hit with a missile the Zionists nuclear plant at Dimona, in retaliation for the Yanks and the Zionists bombing the Natanz nuclear facility yesterday.
Of course neither side should be bombing any nuclear facilities period – maybe the Zio-Squatters and the Yanks, took a leaf out of the Ukie’s Neo-Nazi’s book, they bombed the (ZNPP) on several occasions.
Sanae Takaichi is Japan’s Prime Minister she met Trump the other day and when taking questions about whether any of US allies were consulted recognizing the Japanese PM’s obsequiousness [as he does with all foreign leaders] replied they [Japan] did not consult us when they bombed Pearl Harbour. The people of Japan are furious, in other circumstances a Japanese leader would be expected to commit Hari-Kari rather than be humiliated by such an orange gob shite.
Harry.
That’s right – I too heard that clip on the radio, there was a collective groan in the background after he blurted it out, the man’s has about as much diplomatic tact as bull in a China shop – there was another clip on the radio LBC James OBrien slot, where some Whitehouse guy (I can’t recall his name) was at work in the Whitehouse even though he had a terminal cancer diagnosis, the guy talkng to Trump – said yeah he’s a patriot coming in here instead of being at home, then Trump blurted out, I heard he had a terminal diagnosis, and he’ll be dead by June, the guy talking to him said yeah but I didn’t want that revealed live on air, again there was a collective groan from others who were in the room at the time.
Did Aristophanes really portray hawkish Athenian demagogue Cleon as an orange ape in his plays?
Of course Mr Trump’s remarks were beside the point, as Japan did make elaborate arrangements to declare war formally a few minutes before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Unfortunately it took longer than expected to decipher the unduly long document, causing them to miss the deadline by an hour or so. But they did intend to declare war. Since 1945 the USA has never declared war once, while attacking scores of countries.
– Trump is a doddering old fool and an old man who should retire ASAP. But there are people behind Trump who are the driving force behind these “policies”.
Trump announced that he would ‘obliterate’ Iran if they did not open the Strait of Hormuz within 48 hours.
So, whey they don’t – what will be his next threat?
To not let them play with his colouring books & crayons
As Tom Hanks’ character in “The Money Pit” replies when refused a loan and asked what he is going to do about it…
“I’ll not like you!”
(He gets the loan).
Trump showing off no sense of smartness or of foresight whatsoever. Trump, regardless of topic seems to act without any real care or understanding of the situation, he just act. Because he have the power to do so. Trump was obviously fooled into this war by the cunning sociopath Netanyahu. There is nothing more to it. And Netanyahu’s plan in turn, seems to be to simply “mow the lawn” as the israelis call their recurrent depraved act of massacring and bringing wanton destruction on their neighbors.
Very troubling how weak the non-western response have been, the other day Iran’s PM called on BRICS become active and stop the war. China, Russia as usually do nothing of substance. Meanwhile Iran helped Russia on Ukraine, sending many Shaheed drones that turned out to be, quite effective. Russia should in turn aid Iran with some effective arms in return (not necessarily offensive arms but defensive arms). Russia foolishly seems to believe that by being close to silent, Trump would become more supportive of Russia’s stance on on Ukraine but the EU are also now increasingly lining up behind Trump on Iran, to get him to become more supportive EU’s stance on Ukraine. Russia could thus “lose” both Iran and Ukraine.
The problem for China and Russia “doing something” is that *they are surrounded by American vassals and proxies* which severely restricts their freedom of movement; as soon as they get involved, the US will activate those neighbors of theirs to new mischief.
There is also the issue of inflaming tensions and inadvertently triggering WWIII…letting America bleed out on its own is preferable.
Finally, Russia and China are helping, as the Iranian Foreign Minister has confirmed — and as longtime observers know, it isn’t China’s style to publicize its actions, especially the covert ones!
This whole comic-book mentality of where-is-Superman has got to stop. Geopolitics is an extremely serious business….
“China, Russia as usually do nothing of substance. ”
O great strategist, perhaps the following figures might put things in perspective:
Civilian casualties in WWII
China, 12,397,000 to 18,191,000 out of a population of 517,568,000
Russia, 12,500,000 to 19,000,000 out of a population of 188,793,000
US, 12,100 out of a population of 131,028,000
UK, 67,200 out of a population of 47,760,000
Is it any surprise that Russia and China don’t want to spice up your favourite TV reality show by rushing into WWIII? Those who remember WWII are not all dead yet. (Comment pinched from Simplicius’s blog)
Trump’s threatening to obliterate civilian power infrastructure now, starting presumably with Bushehr? Attacking civilian infrastructure is a war crime; one that the UK could be seen as facilitating if British bases are used to launch said attacks. Bushehr is completely managed by the Russians too, afaik? Any attack could create significant radioactive contamination to the entire Gulf region and way beyond, dependent on environmental conditions; affecting marine life and food/water contamination for decades. How reckless is this madman?
Without power, for cooling and water treatment, the ME, where summer temperatures regularly top 40°C would become unlivable for millions. Potentially creating refugee flows in the millions. And yet… today, Nato’s Rutte is cheering this on, like some deranged groupie. The Germans are more wary, remembering the million refugees they took in from Syria. The quickest way to get the Strait of Hormuz open, is surely for the US and Israel to end the unjust, senseless bombing campaign they initiated during negotiations.
The legal residents of the ME happily lived there without electrickery for thousands of years. I would suggest that they are better placed to survive a loss of power than their illegal western neighbours in occupied Palestine. Also, from a survival point of view, I believe, daytime temperatures may reach 40C but nighttime temperatures can drop to around zero, which means condensation and thus water. Of course I might be talking bollox !
Whilst traditional buildings in West Asia were designed to make life liveable in conditions of 40C outside, there are very few of those left, compared to the modern population of the various countries in the area, and buildings designed for air conditioning get very hot without it, even hotter than the air outside on the side facing the sun. Large condensation plants are a thing: I remember learning about them at school, many years ago, but Iran would need many small ones as any large ones would be bombed.