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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I think Trump himself is incapable of any form of coherence. His secret backers? That’s another matter. I don’t mean Hegseth etc, I mean the billionaires who put Trump in charge. The problem is, no matter how cunning their plans, Trump and his MAGA cohort are perfectly capable of screwing up completely. If Trump just built a wall and hid, few outside the USA would care. But he will bring down bombs on all of us.
Indeed; check out Brian Berletic of The New Atlas on YouTube, in particular his interview with Glenn Diesen; Brian cites the Brookings Institute’s 2009 gameplan “Which Path to Persia?” and points out how what we’re seeing has long been advocated — very specifically advocated!
It even has a section titled “Leave It to Bibi!”
Miko Peled has made a video about Spain’s downgrading diplomatic relations with the apartheid state of Israel, explaining how other governments can be persuaded to do likewise.
Sorry, but with great respect for 99% of your work but you’ve got this completely wrong. Trump doesn’t know what he’s doing. Others around him are too scared to say anything so they intuit what he wants and then rush to do it. As long as he is in office, we are heading for catastrophe. Listen to David Rothkopf:
Why Trump’s ‘Psychosis’ Has Insiders Terrified (The Daily Beast Podcast, 21 Mar 2026 – video. 50m 12s [ YouTube | Invidious ]
Look up Glenn Diesen’s latest interview with Brian Berletic of The New Atlas on YouTube; Brian has the evidence for what Craig could merely surmise here — to wit, the Brookings Institute’s 2009 gameplan “Which Path to Persia?”
It even has a section titled “Leave It to Bibi!”
I don’t agree with Murray’s assessment that this will be a year long war and that Iran will run out of missiles in 2-3 weeks. Israel needs anti-missile defenses in order to continue the war and they will run out of those before Iran runs out of missiles.
So far the U.S. financial markets have barely reacted to any of the inevitable effects of the oil supply problem. That will not last and I expect things to look much different 2-3 weeks from now. Stocks much lower, oil prices much higher.
Due to both of these issues, I see Trump looking for an off ramp soon. It may only be a pause in the war, but the U.S. is no position for it to continue much longer. Things are not going as planned.
dtj.
That pr*ck Trump bitchin about the Straits of Hormuz being blocked by Iran – whilst he blocked Cuba so badly – from getting energy that its now in darkness, and hospitals in Cuba are badly struggling to keep baby incubators – and much needed medical equipment going.
I loathe that Orange Faced B*stard.
Seyed Marandi yesterday with Glenn Diesen too confirmed this succinct position of Iran. People who are unsure of themselves and can´t cope with what may come don´t speak or act this way.
He also points out that Iran has lost much less missile launchers than claimed by the US.
I don´t know if this includes AD. But if the US did already enjoy air supremacy this would look and feel very different, and the entire way their operation is going would be handled very differently.
“Seyed M. Marandi: Total War – Attacking Nuclear Plants, Desalination & Infrastructure”
50 min.
https://glenndiesen.substack.com/p/seyed-m-marandi-total-war-attacking
p.s. fwiw by now Trump has walked back from the 48h deadline
Just spotted this on youtube and, as such, gave it a whirl, and it’s quite interesting:
Pete Hegseth’s MAGA Theology Celebrates Violence
Pete Hegseth isn’t just unqualified — he’s a weak man in the most powerful military position in world history, and his theology is the reason why that’s so dangerous.
In this video, I break down how Hegseth’s Christian nationalist theology — rooted in Doug Wilson’s framework of domination, power, and violence — has nothing to do with the teachings of Jesus and everything to do with control. I examine the White House and Pentagon videos promoting the war in Iran as what they actually are: pornography of violence — content engineered to bypass rational thought, trigger a dopamine response, and manufacture consent for war among people who feel powerless.
We’ll look at:
Why weak men in powerful positions are history’s greatest threat
The theology behind Hegseth’s worldview and why it condones a reprobate in leadership
What “porneia” in Revelation tells us about domineering, corrupt empires
How Hegseth functions as a verbal pornographer — appealing to grievance, hatred, and domination
The documented evidence — including his own mother’s words — that disqualifies him for this role
Why Congress should impeach Pete Hegseth before more damage is done
This isn’t partisan outrage. It’s theological analysis — grounded in scripture, history, and observable reality.
“Pete Hegseth’s MAGA Theology Celebrates Violence” (Culture, Faith & Politics, 13 Mar 2026) – video, 14m 51s [ YouTube | Invidious ]
Hegseth is a complete nutter. And a psychopathic raving end times lunatic.
Oops, forgot to mention that it’s 15 minutes long
It does seem very odd that Iran should target Diego Garcia BEFORE the UK government announced it would allow the US to use some of its bases. The following is from a Times of Israel article, posted on Saturday:
The source said the “unsuccessful targeting of Diego Garcia” took place before the UK government announced Friday that it would allow the United States to use some of its bases to target Iranian sites being used to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz. CNN reported that the attack took place on Friday morning.
I mean what an amazing coincidence, but I guess we’ll just have to take their word for it that it was BEFORE. Or perhaps NOT! I did a search a short while ago re >has Iran acknowledged that it fired two missiles at Diego Garcia<, and the Search Assist responded that it had, and linked to the ToI article (and an LBC article). And in the ToI article it says the following:
Iran has until now said it had a self-imposed limit on its ballistic missile program, limiting their range to 2,000 kilometers (1,240 miles)….
Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency on Saturday also confirmed the attempted strike, saying that targeting the base was a “significant step … that shows that the range of Iran’s missiles is beyond what the enemy previously imagined.”
Iran unsuccessfully targets UK-US Diego Garcia base, shows its missiles can reach Western Europe
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-unsuccessfully-targets-diego-garcia-base-revealing-missiles-that-can-reach-western-europe/
And needless to say Netty and his fascist chums have been making a meal of it, and the WHOLE world is in danger of being attacked by Iran etc, etc, etc ad nauseum.
PS So who is it that now owns CNN (who reported that the attack took place on Friday morning)???
OMW, a minute or two after I posted my comment above I clicked on the LBC News article (which I saved to a new tab, as with ToI article), and the headline was more than enough to bring me back here immediately:
Iran ‘fires ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia’ after Starmer gave green light to US strikes from military base
https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/iran-missiles-diego-garcia-uk-us-trump-starmer-5HjdWgp_2/
I can only assume that LBC wasn’t falling for it, and wasn’t buying such an amazing coincidence. That said, I’ve read a number of articles about it, and every one of them went with the BEFORE spiel.
“The source said the “unsuccessful targeting of Diego Garcia” took place before the UK government announced Friday that it would allow the United States to use some of its bases to target Iranian sites being used to attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz. CNN reported that the attack took place on Friday morning.”
This is from the same propaganda mill that would have us believe that Putin got out of bed one morning in February 2022 and thought “I’ve got nothing on today, so I think I’ll invade Ukraine”. There’s no way that anyone in the UK government decided on Friday morning, when they got into work, that they were going to let the US use Diego Garcia. Of course the decision had been made long before the announcement. Are we supposed to believe that only Western countries have spies?
The USA have been using Diego Garcia without restrictions for decades. The UK giving permission for it to continue doing what it has been doing is a charade. This is all BS.
There is of course an obvious reason for them lying through their nazty teeth about WHEN Iran fired the two missiles, which I’ll come to in a minute. So anyway, I just checked the CNN article (which is linked to in the ToI article), and it was posted at 1.00am EDT on Saturday, and I’m just this second gonna check where CNN is based….. ah, Atlanta, Georgia, and the time difference between Atlanta, Georgia and Iran is 7 hours 30 minutes. So allowing an hour or two for them to get the article together and post it – lets say an hour and a half – then at the time they posted the article, it would have been ten in the morning (on the Saturday) in Iran. And THAT is some 24 hours or so after Iran supposedly fired the missiles (on the Friday morning). And THAT of course would have given the warmongers plenty of time to come up with their falsehood – ie that Iran fired their two missiles BEFORE etc.
Jeeezus wept, I have to stop! I just interacted with a Search Assist, and it got totally TOTALLY confusing, and then it brought up the following article:
UK to allow US to use British bases for ‘limited defensive purpose’, says Starmer
Dated March 2nd!!!
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/uk-us-military-bases-keir-starmer-iran-missile-strikes-diego-garcia-10560204/
Anyway, by claiming that Iran fired the missiles BEFORE Starmer said what he said, they set out to mislead the British public into believing that Iran did so without being provoked.
I suspect that Iran has been testing its own capabilities in preparation for giving Trump his Teutoburg moment, using the best of its ballistic and other missiles (which Iran has kept back and hidden, so far), when the US sends 5,000 of its best soldiers to the Gulf.
I like “Teutoburg moment”. I really do.
Arminius was trained by the Romans themselves, and demonstrated that even their military discipline and technology could not overcome home advantage and (mainly) incompetent commanders.
For how long will Americans be sobbing, “Trump, give us back our bases!”? (And, perhaps, “…our ships” and “…our Marines”).
I don’t think anyone at all cares what the UK government says (or does). The fact is that the USA has a strategic base on Diego Garcia, and is no doubt using it for all it is worth. Sir Keir Starmer can go pound sand (or perform any other activity he fancies).
Just as all the US bases in the region are legitimate targets, regardless of what the host governments say or do.
“Sir Keir Starmer can go pound sand (or perform any other activity he fancies).”
I keep wishing that he would take up wingsuit proximity flying.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/23/iran-denies-targeting-us-uk-diego-garcia-airbase-claims-false-flag-attack. Iran said it didn’t fire those missiles, it’s got no reason to lie given that they announce every attack prior to launch.
MAGA: People with four teeth supporting people with six yachts !
Another bon mot! This thread seems to be sprouting them like daffs in March.
I was intrigued by this essay but couldn’t quite decide one way or the other until I came upon Professor Glenn Diesen’s latest interview with Brian Berletic of The New Atlas on YouTube; *Brian has the actual evidence to back up Craig’s assertion here!*
Brian specifically cites the Brookings Institute 2009 gameplan titled “Which Path to Persia?” that really does appear to map perfectly step-for-step what we see before us!
That document even has a section titled “Leave It to Bibi” which drmonstrates that it is actually actual American policy driving things — and not Israel, in fact (willing participant though it be)!
No doubt Israeli and American interests converge in the Middle East but ultimately, despite seeming to have a mind of its own, Israel remains the “tail” to the American “dog”….
Anyway, Brian has the evidence of what Craig can only surmise here!
Do you mean this video? (I haven’t watched it yet.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rHhRNaH9LI
Brian Berletic: Iran War – A Gateway to War with China & Russia – YouTube
https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=4rHhRNaH9LI
Brian Berletic: Iran War – A Gateway to War with China & Russia – Invidious
[1h01m19s] [Thu 19 Mar 2026]
I noticed the forced evacuation of Lebanese villages, whose houses are now to be destroyed. i.e. Ethnic cleansing. This has gone almost completely under the radar.
The wilful destruction of Iran as a regional superpower is no surprise (nor is our complicity under the pretense of ‘defence’).
But, but, Israel has the right to defend itself don’t you know ? Starmer said …
I am impressed at the quality of debate in this thread. My heart sank when I clicked on page 1 with the expectation that I would wade through a morass of baby talk “Orange Mussolini” and similar. Although it’s clear many commenters do not like Trump on a personal gut level they have clearly made efforts to restrain that impulse, so well done all. In my personal life I am tired of attempting to have sensible discussions with friends and acquaintances which begin and end with them “explaining” to me that they hate Trump because of his haircut or skin or grabbing people by the pussy or “being in the Epstein files” (whatever that means).
Similarly the apparent technical expertise expressed; I am no weapons expert and would struggle to articulate the pros and cons of Tomahawks vs. Shaheds and so on, so it’s good to have that input as well.
I have little to add to the debate but here goes anyway:
– To those claiming that Trump is but a frontman for “his masters behind the scenes”. Well duh – this is the US Government. Of course policy is not decided and everything is not run by a single person.
– Everyone involved is evil/spycho. Hard to disagree because they are all politicians. If they were not at least to some extent evil/psycho then they would not be politicians. The job requires at least a modicum of ruthlessness and willingness to overlook “collateral damage” for the achievement of broader strategic objectives. Yes it’s bad, no I can’t think of a solution.
– Hard to deny that the US has not benefitted hugely from this conflict. In my opinion the current US administration wants return to isolationism and “Monroe doctrine” and they now have a solid platinum excuse/justification to wind down their global military bases in other countries. “We wanted to stay there but they wanted us kicked out”.
– The cost of the closed Strait is astronomic yet the US is not much affected. A thousand tankers are trapped in the Gulf on a day rate of some 350k dollars each. Asia and the EU are watching their energy supply disappear in real time. EU industries such as chemicals are literally disintegrating through lack of feedstock (raw materials based on oil). The EU is clearly in a conflict with the US and are now over a barrel when it comes to negotiations about Ukraine, Greenland, NATO, maritime treaties, and everything else they wish to deny to the US. All Trump has to do is offer to take the yankee boot off the neck if in return the EU and Asia play nice.
tldr; this is not, as suggested by some, a maniac incoherently blundering about with no plan.
I agree with your tldr. IMO, its the narrative being pushed to clear America of any wrongdoing. as if it was all Trumps plan to continue bombing the Middle East. The scapegoat presidency, because if it wasnt for Trump the US would’ve ‘remained’ the bastion of freedom and peace. as if it ever was or planned to be. I like that Trump is president, because I would have to rely on a site as wikileaks to find out we are actually in ww3. too bad wikileaks got rekt. They couldve brought Jesus back from the dead and put him president, the campaign to bomb the ME was always going to keep happeninn. I do hope Trump stays president forever. Not cus I like whoever is at the head of Mordor, but because of the civil war thats happening between the elites and us having a peek at Epsteins world. this would not have happened if not for Trump, as disgusting as he is.
“The cost of the closed Strait is astronomic yet the US is not much affected. A thousand tankers are trapped in the Gulf on a day rate of some 350k dollars each. Asia and the EU are watching their energy supply disappear in real time. EU industries such as chemicals are literally disintegrating through lack of feedstock (raw materials based on oil)”.
Ah yes, the tried and trusted American formula! “Let’s you and him fight, while I scoop up all the wealth”.
Quite similar to Ukraine, where (as seen by Washington) Russians are fighting other Russians to the death, while one lot of Russians expend much money and many lives to kill other Russians and flatten Russian towns. What’s not to like?
I wouldn’t be surprised (and one learns to phrase such thoughts with some care) if a few wicked people somewhere were hoping to see Americans fight each other to the death in the ruins of their own cities.
Human nature being what it is.
It’s why the capitalists always win. Leftists continually gate keep the left, pushing purity tests against others who aren’t quite as “”left” as themselves. Same with religion. Capitalism isn’t an Idiology, it has one purpose, “get the money ” and everything else is just tangential. They will work with the left against the left, with Muslims against Muslims, or the left, with Christians against Muslims. Kill millions. Anything that gets them the money. Fucking sociopaths
Laughable, these people are nuts, first they destroy the Middle east and then they blame the obvious immigration problem on….Putin!
‘It’s always Putin’ behind every EU migration crisis, official says
Russian president is ‘biggest driver’ of immigration due to his role in wars over past decade, says EU commissioner
Source: Financial Times article https://archive.is/rEC6f
Lets see,
War in the balkans in the 90s: Western nations was part of the causation of migration from the area to northern europe
War in Afghanistan 2002: Western nations
Iraq-war 2003: The United States
Libya war 2011: Western nations
Syrian civil war 2011, aided and supported by Western nations
Ukraine: Sure here one could blame Russia but not really, it is the Western nations that keep the war on going = causing continued influx of ukrainian immigrants to europe.
Today, migration from Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, Gulf states etc caused by the US, israel and various western nations
Putin or rather russians have become the “jews” today where every ill and problem in the Western world is somehow the fault and a plot by the evil russians.
Jack
March 23, 2026 at 09:30
Agree with most of your post but your comment “Ukraine: Sure here one could blame Russia but not really, it is the Western nations that keep the war on going” is strange.
What keeps the war ongoing?
Certainly Ukraine’s determined defence – assisted by Western states in varying degrees.
But principally Putin’s obsessive (determined if you prefer) attack on his neighbour.
Of course a Ukrainian surrender would stop the war.
Just as a British surrender in 1941 would have ended the Nazi air war. Should the USA have refused to supply the British military in order to encourage that surrender?
Similarly, a Soviet surrender to the Nazis would have ended Operation Barbarossa. Should the USA and Britain have refused to supply the Soviet military in order to encourage that surrender?
“Of course a Ukrainian surrender would stop the war.”
As would their agreement to the peace treaty in early 2022 have done. You don’t get it, do you? The Ukranian government chose to fight this war, when it could have had the Russians leave with only a handful of people having been killed. Now tell me why they did that.
“Just as a British surrender in 1941 would have ended the Nazi air war. ”
You say that as if it was a bad thing. A British agreement to discontinue fighting and become neutral wrt Germany would have had damn all effect on WWII. Germany would still have invaded the USSR and Japan would still have attacked Pearl Harbour. The US might have had a bit more difficulty invading Europe, but the USSR would have put paid to the Nazis anyway. Also a lot fewer British would have died. Now, please remind me of the many benefits Britain gained from fighting WWII, to offset the loss of life, territory and money.
“Just as a British surrender in 1941 would have ended the Nazi air war”.
There was no question of a British surrender in early 1941. Hitler personally made all sorts of peace offers – all of which Churchill hushed up and ignored. Hitler was baffled, because he couldn’t see why Britain wouldn’t accept his very reasonable overtures.
What he didn’t know was that Churchill had to keep the war going because he had accepted large sums of money from Jews to avoid bankruptcy. When the Jews ordered him to keep the war going, he had no alternative – except to tell the truth and face the music, which he declined to do.
I consulted Google/AI about this allegation. Apparently wealthy Jews like the Austrian Sir Henry Strakosch did indeed help Churchill in the late 1930s when he was in financial difficulties, and the “Focus Group” including Sir Robert Waley Cohen and Victor Rothschild helped finance his political campaigns, but:
(i) his warnings against German expansionism began long before he received this financial support;
(ii) Research into Churchill’s archives, such as that by David Lough in the biography No More Champagne, indicates that Churchill never granted special political favours to his donors in exchange for their help;
(iii) His main motive was the security and preservation of the British Empire ; and
(iv) his eventual financial recovery came from his own activities, including his war memoirs and film rights to his biographies.
Therefore I wouldn’t regard Churchill as a puppet of Jewish financial benefactors.
Incidentally as a visitor to a certain Jewish group in the 80s, I recall hearing that Churchill didn’t do more to stop the holocaust because the “war effort” was his priority.
“(iii) His main motive was the security and preservation of the British Empire”
Well he failed there. If Britain had not gone to war in 1939, something which he had a lot of influence in bringing about, it would have had more resources to defend the empire against the Japanese in the Far East. The loss of empire after the war was a direct result of the war. Yes, it probably would have happened anyway, but not so that so much of the wealth ended up in the USA.
However, I would agree with you on the main point. Having got Britain into an avoidable war, Churchill was not the man to back down and dip out of it once his initial attempts at fighting Germany had met with abject failure. He didn’t need to be forced into doing so.
So, Churchill was our Trump !
Absurd comment followed by an insane Joos did it response.
A British surrender would have been a world catastrophe. It would have had an enormous effect on WWII, which would have been wildly improbable, nearly impossible to end the way it did. The US would have had enormous difficulty invading Europe, to the point of near impossibility.
As it was, FDR had to put up with Churchill’s endless attempts to put off the agreed direct invasion in favor of some stabs through the Mediterranean. As Stalin noted, deprecating these antics, even great Russian military hero Suvorov failed in trying to go north from Italy. The main invasion through that terrain would have been easy to defend. There was no real practical alternative to roughly what happened, which was impossible without Britain. At “best”, it would have been a longer, much bloodier war with German jets fighting US bombers with nukes.
It is an absurd (pseudo)”Left” revisionist fantasy from long after the war that the USSR did it alone, that they would have put paid to the Nazis anyway. It was a very closely run thing as it was. This nonsense seems impervious to any number of statements from Stalin, Khruschchev, Zhukov, Soviet Russia Today in the 40s etc to the contrary about how essential aid was. Interrelations between the two fronts, like the Soviets winning the Battle of Kursk, the largest tank battle of all time, partly because Hitler redirected some forces after the invasion of Sicily are ignored. In reality, as everyone in the world knew and said by 1945-46 or so, before the Cold War – it took all of the Big Three to – barely – put down Hitler.
“A British surrender would have been a world catastrophe.”
What catastrophe? Was the success of Fascism in Spain a catastrophe? If not, why should the success of Fascism in the rest of Europe have been a catastrophe? Even if Germany had not been defeated in Eastern Europe it is very unlikely that it in turn would have defeated the USSR. It was obvious, even at the peak of Germany’s success in Eastern Europe, that their plan for food security was a failure. The main reason why so many died in the concentration camps was not because of some evil inherent in the German people, or even in Nazism, but because there wasn’t enough food for everyone. A large number of people were going to have to die of starvation and the Germans, quite naturally, didn’t want it to be them. That was not a disaster that was ameliorated by Britain staying in the war.
“There was no real practical alternative to roughly what happened, which was impossible without Britain.”
Yes there was: not to fight Germany in the first place, or to have stopped fighting Germany after Dunkirk. Why was it so important to get rid of the Nazi regime? After all the world’s reaction to Israel acting in exactly the same way has been “meh”. If Britain had not gone on fighting, it would have saved very many British lives and huge sums of British money. Since JKR hasn’t answered, perhaps you can tell me the vast benefits Britain accrued for the expenditure of so much “blood and treasure”, not to mention the years of rationing and the destruction of infrastructure? The spoils of victory went almost entirely to the US, who had not seen the need to fight Germany in 1941, when they were busy bankrupting Britain. Why should they, when the foolish British were doing it for them?
Amazing, horrifying that the thesis that “the triumph of Nazism would have been a world catastrophe” needs to be defended. The success of fascism in Spain was a catastrophe for Spain. Franco’s fascism was a relatively traditional, religious-oriented, comparatively cautious & unaggressive one & Spain was not a Great Power. Germany was.
“The main reason why so many died in the concentration camps was …”
Nonsense. Bizarre revisionism. Ignorant or tainted by holocaust revisionism nonsense. Hitler wanted war, wanted to conquer whatever he could and wanted these people dead. Their deaths were inherent to and beneficial according to Nazi ideology. Deaths from starvation were welcome and cheap and a weapon of war. But the death camps were so important to Hitler that they always had higher priority than the military.
Without Britain, German victory against the USSR was not very unlikely, but very close to a sure thing. What would have been very unlikely was the USSR truly holding out against Germany. It barely hung on as it was. Perhaps Stalin could have kept a fragment Vichy USSR for a while, until Germany had digested its acquisitions and decided to move again. Perhaps in concert with Japan in Siberia.
Similarly, far from spending British lives, staying in the war saved them in net, as Hitler in this alternative timeline would have attacked eventually. Or accepted the bloodless surrender – of defeated, doomed, surrender-monkey Britain. Then occupy it, install puppets, murder however many millions he liked. After all, that’s what he did everywhere else. 🙂 That you imagine otherwise – sigh.
” After all the world’s reaction to Israel acting in exactly the same way has been “meh”. ”
Israel is not acting in exactly the same way. It is acting like a limited mini-Germany as the rabid pet of the USA. It acts that way only to its neighbors, not the whole world. And not quite as badly, until Gaza. Hitler felt Germany did not have enough enemies and was ever spoiling for a fight – because he wanted world conquest. Hitler went out of his way to attack Brazilian shipping, giving Brazil its own “Pearl Harbor”, so Brazilian troops fought Germans in Italy. You seem to believe a fool’s paradise of Hitler as a normal leader, against all evidence. You are lucky that enough people put aside such comforting illusions back then, just in time.
One vast benefit that accrued to Britain was a higher standard of living than ever before. The rationing was so well done that even through the war and as it continued afterwards, British health improved because of it. The collapse of empires are sometimes a very good thing for all populations involved. It was with Britain’s. Britain & the rest of Europe enjoyed central spots in the most economically successful era ever. By the 1970s Britain had one of the most equal societies in the world, a NHS for instance considered the best run in the world by important measures – unquestionably it got the best “bang for the buck.” True, by GDP growth etc measures, it lagged the Continent. But Britain as a laggard grew faster than Britain as a leader back in Victorian times, so prosperous was the postwar era.
Finally, FDR did see the necessity of fighting Hitler before Pearl Harbor; when he met with his advisers as President-elect in 1933 after Hitler came to power, he spoke about nothing else. He did as much as he could to arm those fighting, as much as he could to persuade people to defend themselves against a coming danger – one that you close your eyes to, even after it happened!
“Amazing, horrifying that the thesis that “the triumph of Nazism would have been a world catastrophe” needs to be defended. ”
Every proposition needs to be defended. No-one who is not omniscient can know that what they believe is the truth. They only know what they have gathered from other sources, unless they have seen it with their own eyes and I very much doubt you were around the corridors of power during WWII. A wise person realises the possibility that those sources may be wrong, mendacious or mistaken. Only a fool accepts them as the gospel truth. Why would the triumph of a Fascist regime in Europe be a catastrophe for Asia, Africa or the Americas? Europe is not the world, although it has long seemed to think it is. Nor was Franco’s rule a catastrophe for Spain. You need to look up what catastrophe means. The Black Death was a catastrophe, a few decades of Fascist rule in Spain, whilst unpleasant for the Spanish, was not.
“Nonsense. Bizarre revisionism. Ignorant or tainted by holocaust revisionism nonsense.”
I do like a well-reasoned argument.
“Hitler wanted war, wanted to conquer whatever he could and wanted these people dead. Their deaths were inherent to and beneficial according to Nazi ideology. Deaths from starvation were welcome and cheap and a weapon of war. But the death camps were so important to Hitler that they always had higher priority than the military.”
So you say, but why should I believe you? What part of my proposition do you find implausible apart from it not coinciding with what you want to believe?
No-one knows what might have happened. There is no reason to believe that you version of putative events is any more likely than mine, or anyone else’s, for that matter. You don’t seem to feel the need to give any supporting evidence for your scenario, anyway. Just stating things like “Similarly, far from spending British lives, staying in the war saved them in net, as Hitler in this alternative timeline would have attacked eventually.” doesn’t make them true, however much you might think them so.
“Israel is not acting in exactly the same way. It is acting like a limited mini-Germany as the rabid pet of the USA. It acts that way only to its neighbors, not the whole world. ”
How is “acting like a limited mini-Germany” not “acting in the same way”? The difference is only in scale not in intention or principle. Please could you list the theatres of war where Germany fought in the Americas, the Pacific, Africa apart from the extreme north and Asia apart from the extreme west. Once again, Europe is not the world.
“Hitler felt Germany did not have enough enemies and was ever spoiling for a fight – because he wanted world conquest.”
Unless you can give a contemporary source for that, it might as well have come out of a book of fairy stories.
“One vast benefit that accrued to Britain was a higher standard of living than ever before.”
Would that be the same higher standard of living that countries that stayed neutral, like Sweden, also enjoyed?”
“By the 1970s Britain had one of the most equal societies in the world, a NHS for instance considered the best run in the world by important measures ”
Yes, that was the sole benefit Britain gained, seventy years of declining socialism, now almost entirely gone, but what a price to pay! Would it have happened if most of the male population hadn’t been under arms? Probably not.
“Finally, FDR did see the necessity of fighting Hitler before Pearl Harbor; when he met with his advisers as President-elect in 1933 after Hitler came to power, he spoke about nothing else. He did as much as he could to arm those fighting, as much as he could to persuade people to defend themselves against a coming danger”
That wasn’t a necessity, it was a desirability. The two are often confused or conflated. Anyway this is the USA’s MO, “Let’s you and him fight”, now and always.
I don’t have to close my eyes not to see things that aren’t there.
Agreed, Calgacus. Had Churchill’s earlier warnings been taken seriously, and Hitler not allowed to rearm to the extent that he was able to invade neighbouring countries, WW II would not have happened. The Axis powers depended on each other – i.e. Germany, Japan and Italy and a world war without one or the other would not have been feasible, but would have stayed localised had any one of them declared war without the other two. Just as Iran needed its proxies to keep Israel and the West busy while it carried on with its nuclear programme – ergo, why the Israelis wanted them neutralized first before starting on Iran. Why did it want a nuclear programme? To tip the balance of power in the Middle East in its favour and in favour of a Shi’ite caliphate.
Churchill may or may not have wanted to save the Empire, but the Americans entering the war ensured that it would not survive, anyway. When the Battle of Britain was won in the air, that all but finished any chance of a German invasion. Air superiority, even today, is a prerequisite for boots on the ground. Germany might have defeated the Soviet Union in name, but it could never have held on to it. Nobody has, not even the fearsome Mongols who settled parts of it.
There are plenty of books out there. Well supported by massive documentation. Available for free download.
“So you say [about Hitler’s plan for world conquest], but why should I believe you?”
About Hitler’s & the Nazis intent, their words speak volumes and their deeds speak louder. Why don’t you believe them?
I already explained why Britain would be attacked, after Hitler made one of his innumerable pretend peaces:
“After all, that’s what he did everywhere else. 🙂 That you imagine otherwise – sigh.”
Sure, be skeptical, but if you applied the same skepticism to whatever meager sources there are for positions like yours, and were skeptical about this very skepticism – whose doubts are more dubious than what is being doubted – you would believe what everyone saw in 1945, what is still the most standard story.
The story that Frederick Schuman, the only government analyst in Washington DC who thought, based on evidence ( some analysis of railway schedules IIRC) that the USSR had any chance at all of surviving Barbarossa – what he wrote in Soviet Russia Today in 1947 or thereabouts, that everyone knew and saw that it took all three of the UK, US & USSR to defeat Hitler, who otherwise of course would have kept on conquering until he was stopped.
And who else could have, if the Big Three leading most of the rest of the world barely did?
“Unless you can give a contemporary source for that, it might as well have come out of a book of fairy stories.”
There are of course plenty of contemporary ones. On Brazil fighting Germans in Italy and such, see the standard one volume history Gerhard Weinberg’s A World at Arms, which should also have plenty of cites for Hitler’s mania for conquest – as if his deeds did not speak loudly enough! Aside from Mein Kampf ravings & other speeches, like the ones in Adolf Hitler, Raoul de Roussy de Sales, Raymond Gram Swing – My New Order – the book that Ivana Trump said was Donald’s bedside reading – and it shows – there is another work by Gerhard Weinberg: Germany, Hitler & World War II: Essays in Modern German & World History – Cambridge (1995). Chapter 2 is a letter from Rudolf Hess to Walter Hewel from 1927 (!) – with sentences like
“World peace is certainly an ideal worth striving for; in Hitler’s opinion it will be realizable only when one power, the racially best one, has attained complete and uncontested supremacy.”
Weinberg notes that such is the resistance to the idea that Hitler had always planned world conquest – that secondary works quoting it often misdate it to 1937.
The world was lucky that FDR was fluent in German and read Mein Kampf. There is no doubt that he personally felt the “Necessity”, not “desirability” of stopping Hitler somehow. He sometimes called the war “the war of survival.” Against an Old World – all of Europe, Asia & Africa ruled by Germany & Japan, would the USA & the New World not eventually crumble? Not a chance he wanted or I would have wanted to take.
Lorncal:
Thanks for the agreement. Churchill aptly called WWII “The unnecessary war”, because it would have been so easy to avoid had France & Britain not been so internally divided, so weak in opposition, so collusive with Hitler.
“Churchill may or may not have wanted to save the Empire, but the Americans entering the war ensured that it would not survive, anyway. ”
There is no question Churchill wanted to save the Empire – from many statements and actions. FDR differed and was firmly opposed to colonialism and empire. And got Churchill, when Britain was at its neediest to sign on to his vision, as in the Atlantic Charter. Which gave great – and eventually satisfied – hope to hundreds of millions around the world, like the masses of India or the Phillippines. Another president might not have been so anti-colonial.
Churchill, almost alone on the wrong side here against most British politicians, would not let go of India. With the consequence that over 80% of the Indians making up at least half of the defenders of Singapore – went over to the Japanese side, and hence Singapore fell, Britain’s Pearl Harbor was largely caused by Churchill. This was hushed up for decades.
“When the Battle of Britain was won in the air, that all but finished any chance of a German invasion.”
That’s what von Manstein said to a Soviet general after the war, that the Battle of Britain was Germany’s worst defeat. The Soviet was clearly expecting Moscow, Stalingrad or Kursk as the answer.
“Germany might have defeated the Soviet Union in name, but it could never have held on to it.”
I disagree. I think that Germany (especially if it divided it with Japan) – could have conquered the USSR – and held on to it indefinitely. Killing even more millions, coopting or Aryanizing a select proportion, settling and waiting for German population growth to completely digest it.
Nigel Hamilton’s FDR at War trilogy written about ten years back is a good source for some of what I wrote above.
“Just as Iran needed its proxies to keep Israel and the West busy while it carried on with its nuclear programme – ergo, why the Israelis wanted them neutralized first before starting on Iran. Why did it want a nuclear programme? To tip the balance of power in the Middle East in its favour and in favour of a Shi’ite caliphate.”
Unfortunately we differ entirely here, as much as we agree on WWII. Iran is far less aggressive than Israel and far more reasonable. Israel could have had a warm peace with all its neighbors, with the Palestinians, become a normal country, simply by accepting things like the Arab Peace Initiative. The two sides came very close, tragically close at Taba before. Instead, Israel, Netanyahu chooses war and terrorism. Iran & Israel wanted nukes – although Israel has them and Iran didn’t make them yet – for self-defence in some way. Unfortunately Israel has been led by insane war criminals who think of self-defence in an insane way – as attacking and killing everyone else -and the population has been brainwashed, seduced and addicted to such madness.
Instead, as Gideon Levy recently wrote, the whole country has become insane. FDR had a good speech about this mindset in the Nazis – they simply could not conceive of live and let live like neighbors. I sometimes thinking about this conflict as the last, unsettled, horribly twisted battle of WWII. The victims and their descendants acting like the victimizers.
How fortunate that no one pays any attention to what EU “officials” say. Ignorant, uneducated, spiteful, malicious… and impotent.
Trump did not decide this war was going to happen. The first thing Biden said when he came into Office was that he was going to invade Iran. I commented on Bernie’s FB page that Biden needed to talk to Putin, because Russia was maintaining the stability of the region, patrolling national borders and stopping ISIS attacked on civilians. The next day a very red faced and angry Biden announced he had spoken with Putin and the attack on Iran was delayed for now. Victoria Nuland then presented the plan to remove Russia from the Greater Israel region by the coup in Ukraine and funding the shelling of Russian speakers by the Azov battalions, cutting off funding for infrastructure, to ensure Russia felt obliged to defend the Oblasts. Putin did it slowly. Russia provided some support for infrastructure funding, including a democratic vote in which the Oblasts voted to secede and become an autonomous region. Only then did Russia send troops.
Ukrainian long range missile attacks have been on Russian oil and gas terminals. Ukraine is bankrupt and US hedge funds have secured the country’s resources by providing funds and weapons as loans. It was good that women and children were invited to sanctuary in UK and Europe before it started, however Putin surprised everyone by keeping the scale at ground level, to secure the borders of the regions that seceded.
The declared aim of Victoria Nuland in her presentation to the Senate Committee was to deplete Russia of arms and armed forces. When Trump came into power he cancelled financial support to the Neo Nazi Azov Brigades, but pushed for Europe to step up and fund Ukraine, with the promise to Britain of rare earths if they helped push back Russia. Those borders are now secured by Russia. Ukraine demanding the autonomous regions be ‘given back’ to the installed government is part of the official and ongoing narrative.
Putin accepted that the Greater Israel project was not something Russia would be able to hold back, with a few jets patrolling the borders, and so Assad and his government were invited to sanctuary in Russia, and Saudi and Israeli forces partitioned Syria. Biden really really wanted to invade Iran. His children all have Jewish spouses. Clinton’s daughter is Jewish and is married Jewish. Trump has Kushner, and Stephen Miller, holding his hand to the tiller.
The detail is quite phenomenal. Financial constriction is central to its wider execution. The game plan is extensive.
Alyson
March 23, 2026 at 10:09
Hi Alyson.
Do you have a link for that assertion “The first thing Biden said when he came into Office was that he was going to invade Iran. “?
I tried Googling and didn’t find anything.
Thanks.
I couldn’t tell you which of his speeches included that intention, nor can I show you my comment to Bernie saying it was imperative that Biden talk to Putin before actioning anything. Maybe he only declared he was going to invade Syria… Events have overtaken us. Russian jets had closely overseen the occupation of the Golan Heights, but done nothing to stop it. Netanyahu had been visiting Putin to get assurances before each advance of Israel’s agenda. Anyway it was the day before he spoke with Putin on the phone, so maybe you can find the speech following that phone call? It was within the first few days of his presidency.
Ayson, I think your general analysis is spot on, and closely follows that of Brian Berletic, who is now, thankfully (!) being listened to by more people. It’s a mistake to get to hung up on precise details, its the overall picture that is important. Thanks!
Alyson
March 23, 2026 at 15:27
Thank you.
Dunno about Biden but after Trumps 1st Term, a general came forward and said they had to talk Trump down from invading Iran (they settled on murdering Soliemani instead). It’s hard to find given the saturation of Trump/Iran coverage just now but here’s what KIMI says. Based on the search results, the general you’re referring to is General Mark Milley, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff during Trump’s first term.
According to a detailed New Yorker report from July 2021, Milley was deeply concerned that Trump might launch a military strike on Iran in the final months of his presidency, particularly after Trump lost the 2020 election and was pursuing efforts to overturn the results. Milley reportedly viewed this post-election period as extremely dangerous and feared Trump might manufacture a crisis with Iran to remain in power.
“Trump did not decide this war was going to happen.”. Correct, Israel did. As Netanyahu has said, they have been planning this for over 40 years. 911, dancing Jews, Adelson, false flags, antisemitism, the trajectory was quite clear.
The Zionist owned media in Britain are constantly reporting on a fire in a Jewish area of London that saw a couple of vehicles burnt out.
Its all smells of Reichstag fire shit to me, which the Zionist have a long history of doing.
‘”Judea Declares War on Germany! Jews of all the World Unite! Boycott of German Goods!
Mass Demonstrations!” – These were all headlines in the Daily Express on March 24, 1933’.
https://dn720005.ca.archive.org/0/items/jews-declare-war-on-germany-1933/JewsDeclareWarOnGermany1933.pdf
It’s pretty clear today who won that war.
Not saying this is its main purpose, but the ambulance attacks allow the highly organised war support operation among Jews in Britain to be put into the “anyone who criticises it is an enemy of society” category by the host country’s authorities, media, and political parties.
But don’t despair. These b*stards may find it difficult to communicate through Ben Gurion airport now…
Brian.
From what I can tell – they were old ambulances and they needed replaced, so two birds were killed with one stone, in burning them out.
Insurance job, eh? How very stereotypical!
These incidents or tragedies at times of heightened American military action or politics have become increasingly suspect. Possibly the alleged arson attack on the ambulances is exactly what we have been told it was. Possibly the alleged Iranian missile attacks on Diego Garcia were genuine. But even if so they are still blatantly being used as propaganda by people who want war. And we all remember before the Afghanistan War and the Iraq War, the various wicked events that almost certainly weren’t what the media said they were at the time. I can only hope at present that the British security services and police are completely on their mettle to counter such threats.
“The British security services and police ” are part of the problem. They don’t work for ‘us’.
I regard the anti-semitic arson attack against the ambulances of the Jewish charity Hatzola (which would help non-Jewish people as well, accordingly to this report) senseless as well as criminal. How could it help relieve the suffering of Palestinians? I suspected that it was the work of Islamist terrorists not from Palestine. A Guardian report indicates that this may well be the case.
Well of course. The Guardian is a zionist/ security-state-controlled propaganda outlet, notorious for headlining fake ‘antisemitism’. No outlet pushed the ‘Labour antisemitism crisis’ more vigorously and cynically, and they have never stopped through the Gaza Genocide and now the criminal assault on Iran. (Always hiding British involvement).
Sir Keir says it is an ‘utterly horrifying antisemitic attack’.
Interestingly Sir Keir never used the word ‘horrifying’ once throughout the Gaza Genocide, or in relation to the recent massacre of primary-school girls in Iran.
Instead he decided to facilitate Netanyahu and Trump’s carpet bombing of civilians in Gaza and Iran.
Zoot.
He would say that I wouldn’t expect anything else from him – apparently its a new supposed terrorist outfit, that burnt out the ambulances – but the Zionists have a clear cut history on crying wolf.
Here the former MI5 whistleblower Annie Machon, explains one of the Zionists false flag ops in London – of all places.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5RcSwG2UYA
If he didn’t say that it was ‘horrifying’ they would need to provide something more horrifying. Hopefully he can keep them onside even though their agenda is to incite a civil war here. If more people understand this then ‘performative’ actions can hopefully be contained…
The following in from an Independent article, posted on Saturday (March 21st), and as reported by practically the whole of the MSM:
Iran targeted the base before ministers gave the US permission to strike missile sites targeting the Strait of Hormuz, it is understood.
Iran targets Diego Garcia with missiles and warns British lives ‘in danger’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/keir-starmer-iran-diego-garcia-british-chagos-islands-b2943077.html
And the following is the headline to an article posted on March 2nd, courtesy of a Search Assist (who misunderstood my question), which I interacted with getting on for a couple of hours ago:
UK to allow US to use British bases for ‘limited defensive purpose’, says Starmer
https://indianexpress.com/article/world/uk-us-military-bases-keir-starmer-iran-missile-strikes-diego-garcia-10560204/
And then there’s this, at the beginning of a wikipedia entry:
Diego Garcia (/diˈeɪ.ɡoʊ ɡɑːrˈsiːə/[3]) is the largest island of the Chagos Archipelago. It has been used as a joint UK–U.S. military base since the 1970s, following the expulsion of the Chagossians by the UK government. The Chagos Islands are a British overseas territory, though a treaty to transfer sovereignty from the UK to Mauritius was signed on 22 May 2025, with a provision that the military base at the island would remain under British control for at least 99 years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Garcia
So it would appear that it’s a joint UK-US military base (and has been for decades), but because it’s under British control, the US needed permission to use it for its war on Iran, OR, so we’re told, for defensive purposes to strike Strait of Hormuz targets, which, according to the Indian Express article, they were given back at the beginning of March. WtF!
Can anyone get their head round it all?!
But one thing is for certain, Iran fired the two missiles AFTER Starmer agreed that the US could use the base for such purposes, and the BEFORE line is a Big Lie, concocted and contrived to have the population of the UK (and beyond) believing that Iran did so without any provocation and for no reason whatsoever.
“UK to allow US to use British bases for ‘limited defensive purpose’, says Starmer”
There can be no such thing as defensive hostilities. Diego Garcia is primarily an air base; also a naval base. Its only role in the war can be to launch or supply military aircraft and warships against Iran. That is absolutely not “defensive”.
“Defensive? Defensive like Genghis Khan is defensive!” (Basil Fawlty)
Iran didn’t fire any missiles at the Chagos Isles, before or after Starmer rolled over
TACO?
Middle East crisis live: Trump postpones military strikes on Iranian power plants for a five day period https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2026/mar/23/middle-east-crisis-live-iea-chief-says-iran-war-energy-crunch-worse-than-1970s-oil-crises-and-ukraine-war-combined?CMP=share_btn_url
Well now.
Looks to me like a frightened and confused old man is panicking.
But Hoo Nose (TM)?
What is the purpose though? More concretely, what will happen after 5 days? The US and arab nations to mobilize and move in proper defense system around power plants in the Gulf before unleashing the onslaught against iranian power plants?
Resupply of interceptors?
As Iran has said, all Trump is doing is trying to manipulate the markets. It works in the short term, long enough for some to make a killing, but in the long term the impact of this war is going to be felt (by us) for a very long time.
Today’s announcement supports my theory that it’s useless trying to predict, second guess, or make any sense at all about Trump’s sociopathic and unpredictable statements. Craig is on track when he says Trump is only interested in himself, but he’s not even very good at looking after his own interests. I am increasingly convinced that he and some of his team are incompetent.
Trump should be regarded as a dinosaur that is a danger and cannot be negotiated with. We need to disentangle from him completely, concentrate on our own defences and aligning with articulate governments.
So, Iran was provoked into killing thousands of its own people? Wow. I just didn’t realise how easy it could be to make regimes kill their own people. How would ours react, do you think?
If armaments were increased, yes, a bun fight with Iran was certainly in the offing, but it was in the offing, anyway, because of its n unclear programme and because of its proxies causing havoc in the Middle East. Perhaps you didn’t know, but Israel has suffered in-coming missiles from the proxies for decades. It’s just now that the media has decided to pump up the news because most of the missiles are coming now from Iran.
What should Israel do about Hezbollah? About Iran? Just sit tight and do nothing while their people are massacred? The over one thousand Israelis killed would be around ten thousand + of our people if this happened here. Would you expect our government to do nothing? Don’t you understand at all that the October 7th attack was launched against Israel not to help the Palestinians in any way, but to clear the path for Iran to instigate a Middle East conflict? Well, they have it and you still can’t see the wood for the trees because you are incapable of seeing any reality that does not chime with your personal worldview. It is not a question of sides; it is a question of seeing the reality of any situation. Keeping Hezbollah north of the Litani river makes perfect strategic sense for Israel, and has much more to do with that than with Israeli’s annexing more land. The more extreme settlers are as big a thorn in Israel’s side as the Palestinians’ side.
That is the problem with the ‘woke’ and hard left: they never see the wood for the trees. You, Craig, have taken exactly the same tack as regards the existential fight of women in this country, Scotland, and the rest of the UK, to retain our rights. You have seen totalitarianism in action with this ‘trans’ lobby and its activists, but you still try to tell us that it can be solved amicably. That is your answer to all totalitarian overreach, is it? Sit tight and do nothing while you are overrun? Women were being cancelled, threatened with rape and death, yet you, and many, many more, spoke of “both sides”. When did women threaten the men in frocks? When did we attack their meetings?
Sometimes, the playground bully needs a good thrashing to stop him in his tracks. Sometimes, you need to stand up to people who want you dead and want to take all you have because they want to establish their own hegemony. However you feel about women and their rights, however you feel about the actions of the Israelis, you have no right to expect people under siege to do nothing to help themselves. Women have not been violent. Yes, Israel has been violently reactive. Both have done what they had to do. The Israelis killed and captured were women, predominantly. Men declare war on women and children every day, both domestically and internationally. Do we all just sit back and accept our annihilation?
You are not a stupid man, far from it, so you know perfectly well that, on the one hand, women have not attacked men, as a sex class, violently, but have fought back through the courts with precious little help from governments. You also know perfectly well that Israel stands in the way of a Middle East Shi’ite takeover, or, perhaps, you could explain why all the other states being attacked by Iran are predominantly Sunni? No conflict is completely one-sided, but many are more nuanced than some of us would care to admit, and some should be shut down before they escalate. Iran’s nuclear programme had to be neutralised somehow because it would have become a massive threat to the Middle East. The only solution apart from conflict would have been to give Saudi a nuclear programme too, to balance the power in that region. So, proliferation or escalation? The ‘trans’ lobby could have been shut down quickly before it got off the ground, and it certainly could have been emasculated by each government enacting the UKSC ruling. They chose not to, so the fight goes on, then?
Oh fuck off back to Wings Over Tel Aviv and continue kissing the arses of yr sociopath pals and you and the owner can obsess 24/7 365 about the terrifying threat to Humanity posed by stupid men who like dressing-up in women’s clothes and calling themselves Desdemona Lilac or such, whilst you offer not a syllable of criticism of the utter lunatics in Tel Aviv & Washington bringing nothing but pain, suffering & death to their * enemies * AKA anyone who resists their blood lust and imperial ambitions.
To think I used to hold you in high regard and have several times defended you against ( written ) attacks from others. Now you’re just another idiot apologist for mass murderers who has sold her soul to defend the indefensible: your brain you gave away for free for the same cause.
Buying and propagating the demonstrable pish about ” imminent Iranian nuclear weapon capacity/use.
FFS what is wrong with you, Lorna; has your obsession with the whole ” Trans ” issue disabled your capacity for critical thought & observation that you can’t see through the endless lies spewed-out by, eg #1 Humanitarian – Netanyahu and his #1 Gimp – Trump?
Many people have the reason/excuse of not being very bright/interested in world affairs for their ignorance and blind adherence to whatever bullshit narratives they’re being fed: you don’t, which in my book makes you and your ilk more culpable and intellectually dishonest than those others.
I presume you are talking to me, Robert? They are not stupid men. They knew what they were doing and are still doing. The sadism and cruelty knows no bounds, but, hey, it’s all women’s own fault, eh? Stupid bints should just shut up and take it all lying down, eh? If you can’t see the parallels, there is nothing I can do to help you.
I was not speaking for myself, but trying to take an objective view of the Middle East. I suppose you’d be happy to allow Iran to have nuclear weapons? Just as long as they were not aimed at you? I doubt you ever held me in high regard, Robert, or you would not insult me so comprehensively. I am not an idiot. I make no apologies for Israel, but I do see their viewpoint. My brain is quite intact – for the moment, at least, and, no, my soul is where it should be.
I’ll put the question to you? What would you have done if over a thousand of our people had been killed horribly, raped and murdered and taken prisoner – without a glimmer of provocation? Please don’t say it was all their own fault! Remember, 1000+ Israelis would number about 10,000 people in the UK or 10 x 10,0000 if you just take Scotland. You’d just sit back, would you while 100,00 of Scotland’s people were butchered in one day? The Israelis have endured constant rocket firings for decades, from Hezbollah, Hamas and the Houthis, all proxies of Iran. But, hey, poor old Iran is innocent and the big, bad West is at it again – and Israel has no right to exist.
Well, let’s say that Israel falls. You’d be happy to take in nine millions Israelis because they would have to go somewhere, wouldn’t they? They would probably choose the West, and, since we have porous borders already, the UK would be their probable choice, and America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Except, of course, ordinary Jews are being murdered in the West, too, and always were subject to pogroms, so they might actually decide to stay and fight it out for survival. Except you don’t want them to be able to do that either. You appear to want them to march two-by-two into the equivalent of the gas chambers all over again – but they won’t. They will fight.
I did not say that Iran’s nuclear programme was “imminent”; it was, however, on the way. That would have given Shi’ite Iran and its satellites total hegemony in the Middle East and Gulf. What do you imagine would have happened then? A return to hippie-type flower-power and love-ins?
Do you know anything at all about the history and politics of the Middle East? My “obsession” with ‘trans’ is a clear-eyed recognition of totalitarianism sitting right on our own doorstep. It is not the paraphilia and fetishes that really worry me, but who is backing it all. Again, you evidently have not bothered to mug up on that, or what their ultimate aim is – and it ain’t flowers and love, mate, no matter how much you might wish to believe that.
Yes, you’re right: I am interested in world affairs. That is why I can see what is happening and you can’t. I’m not trying to be a bright spark but I am not going to buy into your “the Zionists are taking over the world” narrative either. Israel – and I certainly do not always support its means of dealing a blow – is fighting for its life. Women are fighting for their lives or, perhaps, you think we should all be corralled as they are in Afghanistan because that is the aim of the gender lobbyists and billionaires who want to unleash their latest toys upon the world. Not to put too fine a point on it, their aim is not to create a utopia, but quite the opposite where men like you will not even be able to speak. Yes, not just women.
Anyone with even a modicum of knowledge of the Middle East and the factionalism there – and I was never in favour of arming the militias which morphed into ISIS or of leaving Iraq in the state it is in or of betraying the Kurds – would know that the Iranian regime sees itself as advancing Shi’ite beliefs. It has always, since the Theocracy took over – seen Saudi (Sunni) and, to a lesser extent, Egypt, as its enemy. If you want to make it easier to understand for some over here who take to the streets, it is akin to our Reformation, the burnings, the executions, the warfare, etc. that plagued England, Scotland and Europe for centuries and cost hundreds of thousands, probably into the millions, of lives, if you count in the witch-hunts, which were an off-shoot.
If you want to debate points of politics with me, fine, but please do not insult me just because you have no answers. I’ll leave you with one more thought: had Hitler been stopped in the early 1930s, had German rearmament not been allowed to reach the stage where war became inevitable, ponder on the millions and millions of lives that would not have been lost. Sometimes pre emptive action is absolutely necessary to prevent the world’s psychopaths, sadists and madmen from ever being able to flex their muscles. That oil and gas are involved, there is no denying, but it is much, much more than that.
You think I’m “obsessed” in the face of a very real threat from the ‘trans’ lobby, its activists and its billionaire backers, but how much more obsessed are the Ayatollahs and other religious zealots? Just how far would you allow their tyranny to go before you said: enough is enough? Try to stop being blinded by the oil and gas (because resources will always been fought over unless we learn to share equitably) and see how much worse it could be. We do not live in a perfect world. If it were perfect, there would be no wars, no conflicts, sharing resources and all buddy-buddy.
It just is not like that because there is always some madman who comes along and wants it all, and, to make matters worse, he is willing to murder untold millions to get it and to satisfy his sadistic psychopathy. Wearing the robes of a cleric does not preclude psychopathy and sadism just as the wearing of a suit and tie do not preclude the same in the West.
“If armaments were increased, yes, a bun fight with Iran was certainly in the offing, but it was in the offing, anyway, because of its n unclear programme and because of its proxies causing havoc in the Middle East.”
Would that be “unclear” because it is unclear why so many people keep going on about Iran posessing nuclear weapons when all the intelligence agencies say that they don’t and weren’t going to.
“Perhaps you didn’t know, but Israel has suffered in-coming missiles from the proxies for decades.”
That wouldn’t have anything to do with the huge number of people in the countries these proxies live in being killed by Israel, would it?
I don’t know what “Cet animal est mechant, quand on attaque, il se defend” is in Hebrew, but it really should be the nation’s motto.
The Iranians themselves admitted they had a nuclear programme. The incoming rockets had little to nothing to do with the latest conflict because they have been blasting Israel intermittently for decades. Don’t drag up the past because history is not on your side and neither is truth. Yes, there are usually two sides to every story, so why do you not admit that Israel has a point, too? Lucky I studied French, isn’t it? They are not just naughty, they are ruthless in pursuit of their own security, as we should be, too, but, hey, we can’t virtue signal if we have less porous borders like every other sane country.
The Golan Heights, formerly part of Syria, was used to shell Israel; the south of Lebanon was used by Hezbollah to shell Israel and launch attacks, Hamas shelled Israel from Gaza and launched an entirely unprovoked attack on innocent civilians – which led directly to the occupation of Gaza, the knock-out punch. If you don’t want retaliation ten-fold, don’t throw your weight around the Israelis. The Houthis, another Iranian proxy, shell Israel and lobs shells into the Strait of Hormuz on a regular basis. As yet, Israel has not attacked Yemen to “take over its land” and expand Zionism. Not saying all the killing is right. I am saying, don’t start something you can’t finish. If someone attacked you and yours, would you stand back and do nothing, like Robert Hughes? As a woman, that really fills me with confidence. Then, of course, it’s not you or Robert who will be forced into a burqa, is it?
“The Iranians themselves admitted they had a nuclear programme.”
Yes, a civilian one. Why should they not have one?
“The incoming rockets had little to nothing to do with the latest conflict because they have been blasting Israel intermittently for decades.”
Why did you mention them, then?
“Don’t drag up the past because history is not on your side and neither is truth. ”
Au contraire, it is you for whom history, the specific history of the state of israel and its never-ending aggression against the Palestinians*, is not on your side, nor, does it seem, is truth, well at least not the whole truth, but lying by omission is still lying.
*Don’t come out with this “acting in self defence” bollocks. You only have to see which way the borders of Israel have changed to see that that is rubbish. Every attack on Israel has always been preceded by an attack by Israel.
As to the rest of your comment, TLDR.
The uranium they were producing is used for war-grade weaponry, Bayard. That was the giveaway. The state of Israel was attacked by the Arab nations, not the other way round, when it came into being – and it has been attacked intermittently since then. This history was well know to everyone before Gaza, when everyone appears to forget. I had a great-uncle who was a soldier in Palestine after WW II, and he said that there were atrocities committed by both sides and that both sides also attacked British soldiers. The original state of Israel would have been tiny in comparison to the state offered the Palestinians, who turned it down, as they have turned down every offer of a two-state solution. They want it all, with no Jews. As for Israel occupying parts they have taken in war, they have taken those areas where the attacks upon them have come. What do you expect them to do? Sit back and take it all without a murmur? Like they did during WW II? Those who went to Palestine after the war swore that they would never again die on their knees. Whatever you think of the Israelis, or of Jews, in general, they are not going to be cowed again by anyone. And, by the way, there were Jews in Palestine long, long before WW II.
Lol, you are a belter.
Confused why you would omit any mention of Trump’s close social relationship with Jeffrey Epstein from the late 1980s to mid-2000s.
Besides frequent ‘parties’ in Florida and New York, flight logs from the mid-90s alone show that Trump travelled on the Lolita Express at least seven times.
In 2002 Trump told New York Magazine that Epstein was a ‘terrific guy’ and commented that he liked his women young. Epstein once told a friend that he was ‘Donald’s closest friend for 10 years.’
Jeffrey Epstein was the premier blackmail operative of Israeli intelligence.
Donald Trump is the only US President in half a century that Israel has somehow managed to persuade to attack Iran.
You know, and I do not say that Epstein was not an Israeli agent because I do not know and neither do you, but some people actually won’t lift a finger to help their own people, as we should know very well, in Scotland. Being a Scot does not preclude the ability to turn a blind eye to Scottish welfare. We have a massive diaspora, but when have they stood up and declared themselves en masse in favour of Scottish independence, for example? Why do you imagine that the Jews are any different? Or do you believe that every Jew in the world is hell-bent on world domination? You do know that that is precisely what Hitler and some of his henchmen believed? Are we coming full circle?
I’m speculating as to how and why Israel finally managed to persuade a US President to wage war for them against Iran. Quite suddenly and for no clear reason, fully half a century after the Iranian Revolution.
Anyone seeking to diminish or dismiss the significance of Donald Trump’s close ‘social relationship’ with Jeffrey Epstein over a period of at least 15 years is naive at best.
If they try and divert into some mad poor Jews strawman it’s plain they are a zionist, with everything that entails.
Or maybe Epstein was just a PDfile and power-hungry manipulator like so many others? Is it too facile to see these people as perverted psychopaths rather than awarding them a power and a status they did not have? Epstein may well have been passing info back and forth. Blackmailing, even, although there appears to be no proof of that either. Everyone does that: the Russians, the Chinese, everyone. It is the nature of the business. Ask Craig Murray himself.
Why is it naive to see it for what it is? Whether Donald Trump had any dealings in these areas with Epstein has not been proved. Speculation is not proof. Did Israel persuade Trump? Or vice versa, or neither? Or did Israeli intelligence throw up some very iffy activity in Iran, apart from the butchering of the Iranian people? I suspect this is exactly what happened: that intelligence became available that showed that Iran’s intentions towards Israel and the West were not – shall we say – full of warmth. The fact that Iran is now bombing the Gulf states and Saudi, not to mention Iraq, sort of shows its propensity to try and escalate a war, don’t you think? Or is it only white, Western people who have such warlike propensities? If I’m naive, I don’t know what that makes you.
How do you think the Israelis managed to plant explosive devices on Hezbollah operatives without intelligence? Do you imagine that the British security services do not have plants in the Muslim communities? How do you think they manage to stymie the untold numbers of plots to blow up Brits? Of course there are plants everywhere. The Scottish government will have a number, too, or the security services are not doing their job properly. Perhaps the Troubles in Ireland and the agents of the British state who operated under the radar there, plus all the IRA operatives who were filtering information both ways, passed you by? India spies on Pakistan and vice versa. China spies on everyone and his dog and Russia likewise, and they spy on each other.
Look up the meaning of ‘Zionist”. It means, quite simply, a Jewish person who wants a Jewish homeland. That’s it. Nothing about expansion. I’m not saying that expansion has not happened or will not happen again, but the dictionary definition does not include expansionism, just a homeland. Southern Lebanon has harboured Hezbollah for decades and they have rained rockets down on Israel for decades, but, hey, that’s fine, they’re only Jews, eh? It seems that only the Jews, uniquely, are not allowed to fight back and that nothing that happens to them is either believable or worthy of scrutiny. They alone, in the world’s teeming masses, must just sit still and take it all on the chin. Like women, so not unique in that sense. Women are not supposed to get angry and fight back either.
“… Look up the meaning of ‘Zionist”. It means, quite simply, a Jewish person who wants a Jewish homeland. That’s it. Nothing about expansion …”
I’m sure not just a fair few Jewish individuals would dispute that definition of “Zionist”, wherever you found it (which you are probably not likely to tell us on this comments forum).
The Israelis did not need to plant explosives on Hezbollah operatives; those explosives were already in the mobile phones that Hezbollah members – and most of the rest of the general public in Lebanon – bought in shops and other vendors.
Likewise, when Israeli Defense Forces bombed Syrian military assets in late 2024, they did not need plants to pass on information about the location of these assets to them: Syrian soldiers passed on the information to the operators of an elaborate mobile phone-based scam / phishing operation and this information somehow ended up with the IDF.
How a Spyware App Compromised Assad’s Army
“… The fact that Iran is now bombing the Gulf states and Saudi, not to mention Iraq, sort of shows its propensity to try and escalate a war, don’t you think? …”
Well Iran had plenty of opportunities to attack the Gulf states in the past but didn’t do so, you need to explain that.
Maybe this time Iran is attacking the Gulf states because the Tomahawk missile/s that hit the school in Minab (and killed over 160 people, most of them girls aged 5 – 8 years of age) in Iran came from a US military base in one of those Gulf states. Iran is making a point that nations that ally with the US and allow the US to set up military bases in their territory – military bases that house US soldiers who, among other things, menace the women and girls in the host state – will ultimately end up paying a heavy price for hosting those bases.
Okinawan Women Demand U.S. Forces Out After Another Rape and Murder: Suspect an ex-Marine and U.S. Military Employee
Jen: it isn’t difficult to look up the definition for yourself. Nah, the explosives were planted by Israeli security in walkie-talkies – specifically not phones to which the general public had access because Hezbollah did not use phones to communicate. The Israelis knew that Hezbollah had ordered them as a mass order for their operatives – via intelligence gathering. That is how the Israelis were able to target Hezbollah operatives quite specifically. Those who were injured will no longer be able to kill Israelis, so devastating would their injuries be. Again, I’m not condoning it. I am saying that you don’t mess with Israel and expect mercy. Which is understandable when six million of your people were herded like sheep into the gas chambers in the past.
Of course Iran didn’t attack the Gulf States and Qatar, etc. in the past. Why would it? It wasn’t under bombardment from America and Israel and trying to escalate the conflict to absorb the entire Middle East – which kind of tells you just how they would handle a nuclear weapon. I’m not talking about the Iranian people, but the sadistic psychopaths in power who have murdered hundreds of thousands of their own people, many of them women and girls. Yes, American bases are there, so legitimate targets – but not their capitals and their general populations.
You don’t seem to understand how weapons and strategic facilities are hidden from attack. They are placed under hospitals and schools – quite deliberately. This was seen in Gaza, so why would Iran itself not do the same as its proxy? Yes, it is beyond horrendous that young schoolgirls were killed, but the propaganda power that you have fallen for, makes up for the loss, as they see it, and, unless you are a psychopath, it does nothing to excuse the deliberate and cynical siting of strategic weapons and army bases next to schools and hospitals.
All armies rape women and young girls – the youngest Soviet victim in Berlin was aged eight! Let that sink in: an eight-year-old little girl was gang raped by grown men! Japanese soldiers raped and killed Chinese girls, German soldiers raped and killed Russian women and girls. I’m surprised that you don’t know the level of sexual crime committed by armies everywhere at every time. Big, tough armed men deem it fair play to rape and murder unarmed women and girls with a fraction of their physical strength. They are part of the prize, apparently, like winning a gold medal for brutality! Western armies have never been any exception. Men rape and kill the women of the opposing side to humiliate the men of the opposing side. The women and girls are entirely immaterial because they are not deemed human. I hope you will think critically next time some news outlet tells you only half the truth, or, maybe, no truth at all. Please, don’t be anti Semitic like so many these days. Criticise Israel if you must, without even trying to see their point of view, but ordinary Jews have nothing to do with it.
Hi Lorncal, maybe you would like to give us a break down of the Nahkba when these settlers persuaded Palestinians with lies and violent expansionism, with Balfours expressed aim to a peaceful coexistence, that they have to live in enclaves and ghetto like existences.
And do you want ‘proof’ of what I say here?
nevermind: I know about the Nahkba. I have always felt sorry for the Palestinians because many were driven from their homes and farms. I also know, because I had read about it and because my relative who was there told us all about it. It is not one-sided. Many, many Israelis died during those years, too. So many talk as if the Israelis should have no voice, have no right to exist at all. The same thing happened in Ireland when the Plantations uprooted hundreds of thousands of Catholic Irish. Do you believe that the Irish should be allowed to rise up and slaughter the NI who are there now? Eventually, NI and Eire will reunite, but be prepared for hundreds of thousands of NI immigrants whose ancestors are Scottish. It is to be hoped that when reunification comes, it will be peaceful.
Israel has a large Palestinian population – around 25% of the entire Israeli population – so the Nahkba was never a total eradication of the Palestinian population – most of who, by the by, are, originally, Egyptian or Syrian. Both Syria and Egypt are independent countries today, and from where emigrants went to Palestine in the past.
I agree with the points you make about US pre-consideration of these issues but I don’t agree at all with your imputations of agency to Trump at all. Donald Trump is merely venal, his sole agency is to deny any request made to him until it is restated in a way which shows the advantage that will acrue to him personally. Of course there are people in the US executive who are considering these issues but all Trump does is put a face their positions, his intelligence, or lack of it, is wholly incidental to US policy and actions.
Well, well, well who’d have thought it.
“Byline Times has linked the components used in the Tomahawk missiles which hit a girls’ school in Mibab, to two defence companies with a strong presence in the UK.
The US missiles murdered around 165 school girls on February 28 in a double-tap attack. The second missile killed sheltering survivors, two first responders, and the parent of a murdered child.”
https://www.thecanary.co/global/2026/03/21/uk-parts-in-missile/
And out of interest.
“Police document says being an IDF soldier is not a protected characteristic”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/revealed-the-internal-police-guidance-on-chanting-death-to-the-idf/
A large gang of Jews – wearing skull caps chases away Al-Jazeera reporter, who wanted to report on the Golders Green arson attack.
One wonders if the MSM will report this as Islamaphobia – as zealously as they did about the arson attack being anti-Semitism.
https://nitter.poast.org/BladeoftheS/status/2036111112337232106#m
Onlyfans Owner Leonid Radvinsky had died aged 43 – Radvinsky was AIPAC’s biggest donor.
https://nitter.poast.org/BladeoftheS/status/2036067156828332088#m
Oh dear, do you think some of the money that Radvinsky donated could have been used instead for his cancer treatments?
I’m so sad, boo hoo.
Really reading this again, there is more to it, the links between other criminal plans etc. But it gets it only half right:
“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. [NO IT ISNT]
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.”
A prime delusion, probably the greatest delusion on the Left is mentally building up the opposition, building up capitalists to an extent that the Left opposition is worship more than opposition. Horribly much of the Left finds this self-degrading delusion “comforting” too. That’s what all the debates about “socialism in one country” vs “the revolution can only survive by being worldwide” was about. So most socialist groups rant that the greatly superior socialist system is utterly helpless in the face of the inferior capitalists. Huh?! Hence hordes of socialist surrender-monkeys snatching defeat out of the jaws of victory like Tsipras in Greece 2015.
Craig Murray’s evil genius characterization of Trump partly fits into this. The truth is that he is both, evil genius – his main talents being low political cunning, albeit against an “opposition” that listens to the most politically ignorant and stupid political consultants. Exemplified by his talent for coming up with nasty nicknames and other gross humiliations.
But he very much is a buffoon and clown with negligible real foresight of the kind needed in a real war. The buffoon and clown is the same as the evil genius. There is no facade.
US power let him sorta succeed in Venezuela. He came to power in the US through buffoonery. He can go through long chains of logic – if they involve people responding to his malicious practical jokes in the way he has become accustomed to. That’s what he expected from Iran. It is doubtful that they will respond that way.
This insane war makes it more and more unlikely that he will not be massively defeated in the coming elections. So he will either receive a crippling defeat, or attempt or accomplish an unprecedented auto-golpe in the USA. End a 250+ year tradition of elections and democracy. There is no third alternative. At least I can’t think of one, nor have I seen any presented. Many Republican politicians are retiring now. Rats leaving a sinking ship is a welcome sight and metaphor for anyone who wants that ship sunk, which is anyone sane on the planet.
It’s reported that the U.S. pilot involved in the Maduro kidnapping, apparently took hostile fire and had serious wounds to his legs. But he managed to keep control of the helicopter and fly out. Just how different would things be now in terms of Trump’s appetite for more military adventurism, had that operation failed spectacularly?
On Iran…
I think the extension to his 48hrs to open the Strait deadline, to five days, is likely due to pressure from concerned Middle East Gulf partners – bombing Bushehr nuclear power plant would be reckless in extreme – remember in the early stages of the Ukraine war, the Russians were repeatedly warned by everyone including the CIA chief, in person, not to even consider bombing Zaporizhzhia, due to the likelihood of an environmental catastrophe.
All Trump seems to have left is threats to make life harder for the Iranian civilian population. Do Americans think this honourable or brave behaviour against a country that posed no threat? Some liberation ;.the diaspora must be close to despair too; realising that anyone on the fence in Iran about the regime’s future, is likely moving towards support given the heavy civilian nature of the punishment being dished out by the U.S and Israel.
Trump does not have to be compos mentis, just the hidden elite driving all this. However, I note that Iran is playing hard ball with momentum now and I assume that just as they prepared militarily for such a war, they have also analysed weak points in that elite’s plans. Iran is now doing the shock and awe. Another agenda of the USA is to stall BRICS. Both Russia and China have industrial innovation and capacity to produce anything needed at large scale. Both states would be exposed on the south were Iran to collapse and have a state self-interest in not allowing that. No actor will get everything right but the biggest coalition is most likely to win unless we end up with global nuclear war.
Robert Dyson.
I agree.
Everything that the US and the West is doing in general is to disrupt/interfere and an attempt to halt Chins and the growth of the BRICS countries and their satellite nations.
In my opinion, near enough every action the US and the West is doing is best viewed in reverse.
Start at China and work your way backwards in order to analyse nearly everything.
It makes more sense if you do, in my view.
In actuality, listening to the Western Politicians and the Media Camp that hangs on their every word
they can’t believe that the Iranians have not surrendered by now.
Afterall, the other Western Minor Powers became minor by surrendering to the US after the end of WW2.
The War was over and not a shot past that time had been fired by the US and they surrendered easily.
This is continuing to this very day.
By the way: the only way of stopping the Chinese and the BRICS is by Nuclear war.
Trump maybe crazy but – he’s not that crazy.
I think you’re right. But this particular war happened by accident in my opinion. The Americans will know that the balance of military power is turning against them and that, if it’s possible at all, it would require unacceptable sacrifices to reverse that trend. So they are retreating to Fortress America. It’d be too painful for China to attack the fortress and not enough to gain so the Americans will be left to play Cowboys and Indians unmolested inside it for quite some time to come. But that leaves Israel hung out to dry and their lobby and the Epstein Files were something to contend with. Hence rolling the dice with this war. If the US and Israel happen to win, maybe the trend can be reversed. If they don’t, the lobby gets held responsible for the catastrophe, Israel and its power fades away and construction of the fortress resumes.
They aren’t that hidden. We know who pays him because he continually brags about how much money they gave him.
Behind the curve on this one a bit. Trump tried to invade Iran on his first go at president but was talked down by his generals. They’ve mostly been given the boot and been replaced by strippers and talk show hosts so it was obvious from day 1 that Iran was going to get hit. As to the “carefully planned”, remove the carefully bit and yes. The US appears to have fallen victim to it’s own propaganda, perhaps due to the success of Venezuela. Really it comes down to who has the most missiles. Iran hasn’t spent the last half a decade firing theirs into Ukraine, Gaza, Lebanon and Syria (not to mention all the ones African Comand have been using), so I am going to say that Iran likely has more. Israel will need to annex Lebanon quick because it will be a smoking hole given the rate the Iron dome is failing. Iran have already publicly stated that there will be no peace talks and no ceasefire until the US leaves the bases it has in the Persian gulf. The US attack was clearly planned long before Trump got into office the first time. It has had bipartisan support for decades but previous Empire managers have listened to their security services and decided against it due to the cost, Trump only listens to people who say what he wants to hear and is also a massive narcissist so of course he thinks he’s the man to do it. I think there is a good chance he’s the man who ends Israel and US hegemony though.
Unfortunately I am persuaded by your arguments. There are too many “successes ” and “coincidences” to dismiss the fact that Trump is earning a massive amount of money for himself and for his Jewish Zionist extremist supporters, while simultaneously carrying out their barbaric orders to steal, murder and destroy their opponents. All of it is part of the plan to strengthen the Zionist extremist military and economic position. The question is “how can this agenda be stopped / defeated?”. China and Russia have the power through cooperation and through BRICS to defeat the Americans and their Zionist masters, the Rokefeller and the Rothschild families. But it must be a long term strategic agreement rooted in mutual self-defence and knowing without opposition the Zionists may ultimately achieve their one world government.
Yeah I’ve been saying the same for weeks now. Three out of the last four Republican presidents are described as mental defectives by their own supporters. It is a scam. A way to dodge responsibility for unpopular actions. In this case I think they want to escalate all the way. Once all the oil and gas production in the Gulf is gone the strategic picture looks different. I think these people really want to kill at least half the human race.
Apologies, not had the chance to read the illustrious commentators here. Think Craig makes a very reasonable point.
Cui bono? To whom does it benefit? Military Industrial Complex, USA oil and gas (and associated products). Ukraine Russia ( war or SMO), Venezuela, Nordstream, South Pars gas and the retaliatory strike.
USA puts their hands round LNG, Oil and the associated companies will make a fortune, added bonus for the military industrial complex. They could very well bring the world into recession but that will suit the real estate monoliths and private equity. Who cares about the masses when the elite are making out like bandits, win win for them. 1972 oil crisis, 1990 energy crisis, 2008 financial crisis, 2026 (gas?) crisis………… 🤔
An interesting comment on this morning’s TOADY (Radio 4, before 6.30 am) revealed that just before Trump rolled back the 48 hour ultimatum, certain interested parties acted to make a profit from the anticipated fall in the oil price. Complete coincidence, of course.
A good commentary Craig. I agree he’s no clown but I think Trump is just following what the real power group above him tell him to do. They’re steadily implementing the plan they’ve had for decades.
More likely it is just a way of enriching Trump and his family. There is evidence of insider trading on the betting markets, both predicting the start of the conflict and when there is going to be a ceasefire (by 31 March)
I don’t think that “insider trading” is a concept they have in the US. It’s just “trading”.
The sleazy, corrupt arab regimes seems to drifting towards joining israel’s war on Iran.
“Gulf States Edge Toward Joining Fight Against Iran”
https://www.wsj.com/world/middle-east/iran-gulf-states-offense-decision-b8d98ff9
Good summary from last year on UAE’s treachery: UAE kept mum israel’s Genocide and even urged South Africa to drop their Genocide accuation at the ICJ against Israel! They banned pro-palestinian demonstrations, during the Genocide they let israel transport goods through the UAE when the Houthis targeted israeli sea shipment and they even invited top israeli settlers, on top of it they signed the Abraham Accords with Israel where they did not only recognized Israel as such but moved in high-tech israeli arms and intelligence units.
Isolating the Emirati regime has become an urgent necessity
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250301-isolating-the-emirati-regime-has-become-an-urgent-necessity/
If these pathetic slaves dare to start something against Iran, I really hope Iran really take the “head of” these snakes. After all, let us use the lingo of these cretins:
2010: “Cut off head of snake” Saudis told U.S. on Iran
https://www.reuters.com/article/world/us-politics/cut-off-head-of-snake-saudis-told-us-on-iran-idUSTRE6AS02B/
Israeli’s on Telegram last night talking about hitting a significant target in Texas – one of America’s largest refinery’s in Texas at Port Arthur (Valero oil refinery) was ablaze the last time I looked – the refinery has a capacity for 380,000 barrels – the cause of the incident is under investigation.
Reminds me of the Israeli’s dancing in the street when the towers came down – no doubt this current event will be blamed on Iranian sleeper cells.
The eleventh of September (or the ninth of November, if you’re British) comes earlier every year!