There has scarcely been an attempt to pretend any justification in international law for the attack on Iran and murder of its leader. The response of the UK government, focusing almost entirely on condemning Iran for exercising its legitimate right of self-defence, takes the Starmer dishonesty meter further off the scale.
The RAF has been actively involved in genocide in Gaza for two years with its surveillance and logistic support for the IDF. It is now fighting for Israel again; intercepting Iranian missiles is not defensive; it is joining in the attack on an already vastly overmatched opponent.
I am afraid that the truth is the Iranian attempt to defend itself militarily will be less impactful than many anti-imperialists hope. The astonishing amounts of money spent by the US government on military and surveillance technology simply do have real-world effect.
Here in Venezuela, having seen the major sites struck by the US on 3 January, I have concluded that no act of betrayal was needed. Just overwhelming force and precision technology applied against a technologically unequal opponent whose key capabilities were all on open hilltops or in unhardened barracks.
Iran is much more militarily sophisticated, but facing exponentially more force. Khamenei was killed in his own home, not hiding away. He is going to prove a lot more powerful as a martyr than as a ruler with his internal critics.
We are facing not only a period of unapologetic imperialism to which virtually all Western countries are prepared to defer, but a return of medievalism, both in the sheer barbarity and scale of physical abuse, as witnessed in Gaza and in general Israeli brutality, and in use of kidnap and murder as methods of high policy. Legitimising the killing and kidnap of leaders of opposing states is of course a double-edged sword.
Having sanctioned genocide, mass killings and deliberate destruction of medical facilities and staff, the mass murder of children, as well as the kidnapping and murder of Heads of State, it is hard now to imagine almost any atrocity which the Western powers are in any moral position to condemn.
While Iran’s military ability to strike back is limited, the ramifications of this attack will not be. The rulers of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states have reverted to the norm of being not only reliable US and Israeli satraps, but promoters of atavistic hatred of Shia Muslims.
The West is deliberately exploiting the Shia/Sunni divide, as it has for centuries; but this will now destabilise the region for decades. Iraq in particular is going to be convulsed, and so will Pakistan. In Bahrain, the Shia population has been held in check by its Sunni rulers using systematic Western-sponsored murder and torture. Using it as a base to murder the Ayatollah is going to blow back.
It would appear that we are going to witness an aerial campaign to destroy Iran’s civilian infrastructure, as in Iraq where 65% of clean drinking water, 50% of hospitals and clinics and 80% of electrical generation was destroyed by “liberation” by the NATO powers. The object is the destruction of Iran as a viable state.
It is worth recalling that Iran used to be a Western-style state with a reasonable democracy. It was the election of the Socialist Mosaddegh in 1951, and his nationalisation of British Petroleum, which was met by the MI6- and CIA- sponsored coup of 1953. The vicious and vainglorious rule of their puppet Shah was the cause of the theocratic revolution.
Escalating Western sanctions were imposed by the US or EU on Iran in 1979, 1984, 1995, 1996, 2010, 2012, 2015, 2018, 2019 and 2025. There were UN-approved sanctions imposed from 2006 to 2010. These very substantially hampered Iran’s economic development.
The curious thing is that the founding myth of the Western powers is that economic development leads to an expanding, educated middle class which promotes both economic and social liberalism and produces the conditions for democracy. By this reading, if you wished to cement in power an authoritarian government, then limiting economic development is the way to do it. There is something in this reading; I do not doubt that the West’s relentless efforts to strangle Iran – which have had some real success – have hampered its political development.
That is not to accept all the Western myths about Iran. Female education is very strong, and there is extensive female participation throughout economic and governmental institutions. Iran has an extremely good record of tolerating and even supporting minority religious communities, including the Jewish community. There are plenty of women in Tehran without head coverings – Iran is far more tolerant in this regard than Saudi Arabia. While it retains a retrograde intolerance of gay people, it acknowledges gender dysphoria and assists trans people.
I am not prepared to give a moment of countenance to arguments that bombing Iran back to the nineteenth century is going in any way to improve the lives of its people. It did not do so in Iraq, Afghanistan or Libya. It was a disaster which unleashed waves of refugees upon Europe, leading directly to the rise of the far right.
I think it is unlikely to change the form of government in Iran in any significant way. Regime change by bombing is a highly problematic concept.
What it has done is to remove Ayatollah Khamenei, whose fatwa on the creation of a nuclear weapon was the only reason Iran does not have one. It is delusional to believe that Iran, with its excellent scientific base, could not have developed nuclear bombs in secret away from those monitored enrichment programmes, had it chosen to do so. What is likely to result in the medium term from this conflict, if it long continues, is a more primitive, more atavistic and nuclear-armed Iran.
The Iran nuclear deal torpedoed by Trump in 2018 had provided a rare moment of hope. With sanctions easing, there were chances of both smoother economic development and reform in Iran. That is why Israel wanted the agreement scuppered.
The attempted obliteration of Iran is part of a systematic attempt to eliminate by physical force all pockets of resistance to American hegemony. We have seen Rubio’s astonishing assertion of Imperialism as a positive force. Matthew Lynn in the Washington Post exemplified the new Western doctrine. He mocked China for its pacific policy. He argued that for China to build infrastructure for the Global South was futile because the United States might simply seize, blockade or destroy any infrastructure by military force. This he viewed as not shameful, but a great triumph.
What long-term lessons China, Russia and the Global South are learning from the abandonment by the entire West of the principles of international law, we shall see in the decades to come. None of this is going to be good for anyone. It is not just a Trump phenomenon. Biden fully supported the Gaza genocide. Almost all major political parties throughout the West are under firm Zionist control, as is all of the significant major media and the ownership of every significant alternative media platform.
Iran has provided, directly and through proxies, the only military opposition to the creation of Greater Israel. This war is for Greater Israel. But it is also a wider effort to re-establish the failing economic dominance of the United States by military control of key resources. There is no part of the world which will be safe from the fallout.
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Trump has indicated that tankers traversing the strait of Hormuz will be escorted by US warships, more blathering from Caligula.
Since the Iranians have missiles very close to the Strait and missiles all along the shoreline and mines of every description in the waters and the seabed of same it would be suicidal for any tanker/military vessel to attempt the passage.
Iran has a formidable navy and submarine fleet armed with ‘the Hoot’ which is an Iranian super cavitation torpedo claimed to travel at approximately 360 km/h (220 mph), several times faster than a conventional torpedo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoot_(torpedo).
While Iran has no nuclear-powered attack submarines (SSNs) or ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs), its focus on mini-submarines like the Ghadir-class and advancements in torpedo technology such as the Valfajr make it a formidable regional power in maritime security.
The Ghadir-class mini-submarines represent an important part of Iran’s expanding submarine capabilities. With a reported fleet size of 15-23 vessels, the Ghadir-class submarines are small, coastal diesel-electric boats, ideal for operations in shallow waters. These submarines are equipped with two 533mm torpedo tubes and have the ability to launch torpedoes or anti-ship cruise missiles (ASCMs).
You probably don’t need a formidable Navy or lots of missiles to block Hormuz, just sink a few tankers in the shipping lanes, job done !
Excellent and important article. It reminds me that there were many decent Germans who sought to stem the rize of the Nazis, and to curtail them once in power, albeit unsuccesfully. And also others who dared reflect on the reality that the history of the “Allies” in the second world war was not much better with respect to genocide and violation of human rights than was that of the axis powers. International law is not law at all, it is only a toothless aspect of international relations which is a terrible reality and what awaits us, when every power agrees we live in a Hobbesian reality is terrible to contemplate. Thank you George for your courage and for all you do.
Professor Jeffrey Sachs has accused [correctly] the US/Israel of an unprovoked war against Iran…..
“The United States and Israel have launched an unprovoked war against Iran in flagrant violation of Article 2(4) of the Charter, without authorization from the Security Council, and without any legitimate claim of self-defense under Article 51. They are trying to kill the UN Charter and the international rule of law, but they will fail”.
“At the Security Council on February 28, 2026, the US and its allies directed their condemnation not at the American and Israeli aggression, but at Iran. One US ally after the next condemned Iran for its retaliatory attacks yet absurdly failed to condemn the illegal and unprovoked US-Israeli attack on Iran. This performance by these countries was disgraceful and turned reality completely upside down”.
Professor Sachs is here telling everybody what most of us have been aware of for a long time i.e. that International Law is dead, to be replaced by the law of he jungle or might is right. This will not be lost on Russia and China.
Sachs explains the Ukraine war: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiK6DijNLGE
Reports from the West, that Iran fired a ballistic missile at Turkey, we know that Israel/Mossad attacked the Saudi’s Aramco oil refinery – and tried to blame Iran, and that two-Israeli’s were arrested in Kuwait after planning to blow a energy source up.
So its very likely that the US and Israel want to drag Turkey into this illegal war on Iran – of course the US has a huge military base in Turkey the Incirlik Air Base, and maybe Turkey is allowing the US to use it as a staging post to attack Iran, ergo, Iran would be within its right of self-defence, to attack that base.
The unknown is how would Erdogan react to that.
Yes – I wouldn’t assume all the missiles or weapons said to have struck sites or been aimed at sites in the Gulf, Cyprus, or Turkey were launched by Iran or were even launched at all.
It’s not clear at the moment whose forces are said to have downed that missile that was supposedly on its way to Turkey. “NATO forces” destroyed it, according to the Turkish government – probably meaning the USA.
The huge global hubs in Dubai and Doha are shut. It won’t be surprising if the idea is to shut the one in Istanbul soon too.
More interesting stuff Brian.
WATCH: US envoy to the United Nations threatens the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations; “He should be careful with his words, while he is on American soil”
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/2029222415117832518#m
And.
“American B-2 stealth bombers to arrive at British military bases in a matter of days to join strikes on Iran, They will be deployed at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and RAF Fairford in the UK.”
Source the Telegraph newspaper.
Starmer neutral my arse, Iranian subs can get to within missile launch to Diego Garcia BTW, HMS Dragon will take two-weeks to reach Cyprus.
Iran has learnt a lot form Russia, which used the same tactics in 2023 – Iran has painted on runways – and constructed fake military equipment, such as helicopters – and they have been bombed by the US and Israel.
Watch Israeli bombers blow up a fake helicopter.
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/2029164562864365684#m
And I thought the Israeli Zionists were a bunch of religious nutters.
“In a sermon promoting Operation Epic Fury, Christian Zionist Trump ally Pastor John Hagee predicts Russia, Turkey, “what’s left of Iran” and “groups of Islamics” will invade Israel, and be destroyed by God through a combined attack of earthquakes, hailstones and friendly fire”
https://nitter.poast.org/MaxBlumenthal/status/2029070652829786465#m
Donald Trump commented on Keir Starmer that he ain’t Winston Churchill. I completely agree, but need to add that Trump ain’t Roosevelt either.
Thank God Starmer is not Winston Churchill, right now we would be at war with Russia and God only knows who else.
Dare I say it, this week looks more like Starmer’s finest hour, and no doubt with the expertise of Craig’s erstwhile colleagues behind him. Starmer’s quiet, resolute dignity in the Commons showed Trump for what he is and seemed to be channelling not just Wilson but Corbyn.
Are we talking about the same genocide supporting twat?
Lol 🙂
” quiet, resolute dignity ” aka clueless-in-Gaza-and-everywhere/thing else. Impersonating dissent
” Finest hour ” = only backtracked x 9; was ” resolute ” for an entire 30secs; didn’t dissolve like a blancmange under the stress of kiddin’-on he has any kind of real agency ( there’s time yet ). I reckon it’s all just theatre-for-the-lumpen, stale bread & increasingly psychotic circuses. The Clowns have taken over the High Wire act: must the show go on?
I think this is the anti-Starmer, if you remember that episode of Red Dwarf.
@ Robert Hughes:
In other words, as long as Sir Keir Kid Harmer stays absolutely still, says nothing, does nothing, or (as some people might prefer) has concrete poured over him and left to harden, his finest hour will last … eternally.
Quietly resolute Sir Keir, showing his disapproval by allowing them to use British runways and bases to carpet-bomb civilians. By summoning the ambassador of the victim country.
Starmer is showing the quiet resolute dignity of a statue stoically enduring a continual hail of birdshit
This excellent article points out that US boots on the ground in Iran – is for the masses benefit, and its not viable.
“The 100,000 Man Question: US Troop Deployments and the Logistics of Delusion
The White House is currently floating plans for a major troop deployment to the Middle East—figures of up to 100,000 are being discussed. But beneath the bluster lies a logistical nightmare that exposes the hollowness of American war planning.
The Cyprus Problem
Recent reports suggest Cyprus as a potential staging ground. This is militarily absurd. RAF Akrotiri—already struck by Iranian drones—covers just 99 square miles. You cannot fit a corps-sized force there, let alone sustain it. The British government has explicitly barred US forces from using Cypriot bases for offensive operations against Iran, restricting them to “defensive” postures, though the seriousness of that apparent restriction should be doubted. The base is already evacuating dependents after repeated Iranian drone attacks. This is not Desert Storm. There is no Saudi desert sanctuary this time.
The Assembly Dilemma
American assumptions remain frozen in 1991 and 2003, when they assembled vast forces in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia unmolested. Iran is not Iraq. Any attempt to concentrate 100,000 troops in the region would face relentless missile attack. The Iranians have already demonstrated range and accuracy—striking US bases, air and naval assets. Where, exactly, will these men assemble? In what fantasy world does this force avoid detection and destruction?
Trump’s Hormuz Fantasy
Trump’s proposal to “escort” oil tankers through the Strait of Hormuz has been dismissed even by American military experts as “ludicrous.” The Strait is a narrow chokepoint under effective Iranian fire control. US naval forces have not suppressed Iranian missile batteries. The escort plan is strategic theatre, not strategy.
Narrative Over Reality
What we are witnessing is not military planning but confidence-building theatrics for the US domestic audience. The White House projects control while lacking the material conditions to exercise it. The “hardest hits are yet to come,” they promise—yet admit the war could last weeks. They threaten invasion-scale deployments while possessing no viable basing options.
This is imperialism in crisis: the gap between political rhetoric and military capability has never been wider. The successful deployment of a large number of US troops exists in press releases, not in any achievable operational reality. The Iranians know it. The region knows it. Only the American public is being asked to believe otherwise.
The question isn’t whether the US can deploy 100,000 troops. The question is why they’re pretending they can do so without meeting fierce resistance from Iran and its allies. The answer lies in the fact that so much about US imperialism and its supposed power is based on confidence tricks that are never supposed to be challenged. The actions of the Iranians show just how fragile the control of the US really is and this is also why Trump is desperate to rebuild this illusion. He is too late though. The world has already seen that the paper tiger is being worn away by the elements.”
Trump has so much contempt for other world leaders, for instance he criticized Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez after he refused the use of Spanish bases to attack Iran. Trump said “I don’t care that Spain says we cannot use their bases, we will do whatever we want to do, we can just fly in and use it, nobody is going to tell us what to do, I think we should cut off all trade with Spain”. In my opinion Trump has lost his mind, it is for the US Congress to do something about it [impeach] and for World leaders to ignore the idiot, [if they can]..
See also Section 4 of Article 25 of the US constitution. Unlike an impeachment conviction it doesn’t require a supermajority in the Senate. But one reason it isn’t about to happen is because it would depend on J D Vance.
It’s hard to ignore a lunatic who controls some of the world’s most powerful armed forces, and has nuclear weapons at his disposal.
The Russians talk of “the monkey with a grenade”. This is more like an insane gorilla with a thermobaric bomb.
Donald Trump said Spain was part of BRICS on 20–21 January 2025, during a press interaction in the Oval Office shortly after beginning his second term as U.S. president.
A reporter asked him about Spain’s low defence spending in NATO.
While answering, Trump said:
“They’re a BRICS nation, Spain. Do you know what a BRICS nation is? You’ll figure it out.”
He then repeated his warning that the U.S. could impose 100% tariffs on BRICS countries.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-spain-brics-nato-tariffs-defense-spending-9871cf04825c92e073865ca8bede4077
Col Douglas Macgregor talks with the Judge on ‘Judging Freedom’ on the war In Iran, he thinks it will be a disaster because it has not been thought through, and it was done at the behest of Israel i.e. the US should do as much damage to Iran, so that Israels long term future is assured. As usual the Colonel is spot on with his views. A must watch interview. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3v_awsA7bs
If his analysis is as accurate as his ramblings on Ukraine the US will in be Tehran within a week.
Very droll but Ukraine is indeed losing to Russia, albeit in a slow & boring way.
Whereas Operation Extreme Folly clearly went tits up within an hour. When the 3 stage plan of 1) decapitation strike 2) ??? 3) instant victory.
Clearly didn’t work. So we had dunken Pete & lil sweaty Marco etc giving contradictory bollocky non-answers to simple questions whilst Trump rambled about his f*cking curtains.
Urban Fox
March 5, 2026 at 09:42
“Ukraine is indeed losing to Russia, albeit in a slow & boring way.”
Boring is an odd word to use for a 4 year war.
The combatants are unlikely to be bored.
Slow?
The Red Army got from Stalingrad to Berlin in half that time.
Against a far stronger enemy.
Any evidence for your claim that the Russian military is winning?
The Russians won in the first 48-72 hours, all that the US-Ukronazis have done since then is drain Nato of money and equipment. A peripheral strategy on Russia’s doorstep.
So why are they still fighting and civilians still being killed by Russian bombing?
Not odd at all military life in war & peace is boredom punctuated with intense activity, most of the time.
It also doesn’t matter what the Red Army did or the strength of the Axis. Entirely different situation.
As for evidence you’re not truly asking and overall situation is quite clear. To the point where even Western MSM has to obliquely acknowledge it, usually with the “but at what cost” meme.
The number of civilians killed by the Russians in US-UKronaziland is miniscule compared to the number of civilians killed by the US-Ukronazis and by US wars of racial extermination in Palestine and the Middle East in general.
Herr Führer Merz must be one of the worst bootlicker of our time, when Trump blasted Spain, Merz just sat there and went along with the bullying against another EU member! And today I read that Merz said that international law do not apply to Iran. These people are sick to the core. They are true sociopaths.
Funny also how the same EU slammed Belarus, accusing Belarus of aiding Russia in the Ukraine war by letting russian fighter jets take off from belarusian airports when EU let US use bases – in various ways – in their war against Iran!
What is going on now is pure international bullying, Turkey/Nato seems to seek a justification to bomb Iran too by claiming Iran sent missile toward them, yeah right.
One can tell there is no plan whatsoever by the US, just showing off your military force and murder thousands of people. The propaganda itself is pathetic:
NOW – Speaker Johnson: “They [Iran] have declared war on us. I don’t believe in the semantics… We’re not at war right now. We’re four days in to a very specific, clear mission, an operation, Operation Epic Fury.”
https://x.com/disclosetv/status/2029221362716311576
Turkey is the master of playing the field. However, consider some of the issues they face.
“Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett recently made a bold statement regarding Türkiye and its President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, effectively labeling Ankara a new strategic threat to Israeli security. Bennett accused Türkiye of supporting not only Iran but also several groups in the Middle East that Israel classifies as terrorist organizations.”
https://www.rt.com/news/633795-is-turkiye-next-after-iran/
Also, USrael is now arming the kurds in northern Iran to foment revolution. Turkey considers the kurds to be terrorists so this won’t be appreciated. “Neither Iraq nor Turkey will silently sit by while the U.S. and Israel are forming another armed militia that will eventually threaten their states.”
https://www.moonofalabama.org/2026/03/war-on-iran-hormuz-escorts-kurds-time-frame.html
It’s probably a safe bet that Turkey will not get involved in attacking Iran. We’ll see.
“Bennett accused Türkiye of supporting not only Iran but also several groups in the Middle East that Israel classifies as terrorist organizations”
That’s presumably “support” in the sense that they are supporting them by not actually attacking them, “if you are not with us you are against us (and vice versa),
Turkey may well soon get involved. Someone is trying to stir it up between Iran and Azerbaijan, the state that expelled the Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh using weapons suppled by Turkey and the Zionists.
For Zionists, everyone who resists them, or who wants their stuff back that the Zionists have stolen, is a “terrorist”. Which is somewhat rich given that the Zionists are the biggest terrorists out and have been for generations.
Yes, by definition: all anti zionists are terrorists.
Brian.
Reports coming in that Azerbaijan has begun bombing the Northern Iranian province of Mazandaran – Iran did launch a drone at Baku, and it exploded on runway in the capital.
Interestingly Azerbaijan was once part of Iran/Persia in the 19th century – but it became separated from Iran during the Russo-Persian wars.
RoS
Look like a false-flag by the israelis to get other nations to fight Iran. Why would Iran attack a civilian airport in Azerbaijan? Azerbaijan is also of those treasonous muslim nations that collab with israel in various ways:
Azerbaijan supplied Israel with 40% of its oil during Gaza war, report finds
https://oc-media.org/azerbaijan-supplied-israel-with-40-of-its-petrol-during-gaza-war-report-finds/
Jack.
I think you are correct – online reports coming from Iran – have said that they reached out to Azerbaijan and said – that they (Iran) are attacking US bases in the region – and not Azerbaijan infrastructure.
If it’s OK for Azerbaijan to invade and attack Iran, why wouldn’t it be equally OK for Russia to invade Azerbaijan?
Because Azerbaijan wouldn’t be “invading ” or “attacking” Iran, it would be “counterattacking”, “deploying troops to” or simply “moving into” Iran, whereas Russia would be making an “unprovoked invasion”.
A top notch article from Jefferey Sachs, on the illegality of the US/Israel attack on Iran, and the undermining of not just International Law – but the UN itself.
A snippet.
“Somalia’s ambassador, speaking on behalf of several African member states, truthfully portrayed the source of this recent escalation. The U.N. representative of the League of Arab States spoke brilliantly about the root cause of Israel’s mad aggression: the denial of rights to Palestinian people and Israel’s use of mass murder and regional war to prevent the emergence of a State of Palestine.
When Iran retaliates against U.S. military bases in the Gulf, it is exercising its inherent right of self-defense under Article 51 of the Charter.”
https://consortiumnews.com/2026/03/03/jeffrey-sachs-attack-on-iran-also-an-assault-on-un/
Israel and western imperialism (driven by the MIC) are like vampiric twins perpetually feeding off one another. An unimaginably barbarous bureaucracy of blood money that will, in all likelihood, eventually drive the world into global conflict. Rest assured when the ICBM’s start flying, the ownership class responsible for it will, for the most part, be safely ensconced on massive yachts and private islands.
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“Mosaddegh was primarily a liberal nationalist and constitutional democrat. His core commitments were to Iranian sovereignty, parliamentary government, rule of law, and limiting the power of the monarchy. He came from an aristocratic background and was deeply influenced by European liberal constitutionalism.
The oil nationalization: His most famous act — nationalizing the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company (AIOC) in 1951 — is often read as a socialist policy, but Mosaddegh framed it entirely in terms of national sovereignty and anti-colonialism, not class struggle or socialist economics. He wanted Iran to control its own natural resources, not to abolish private property or restructure the economy along socialist lines.
His relationship with the left: The Tudeh Party (Iran’s actual communist/socialist party) initially opposed him as a bourgeois politician, though they later gave him qualified support. Mosaddegh in turn kept his distance from Tudeh and never embraced their ideology. Ironically, the CIA and British intelligence used the specter of communist influence as a key justification for the 1953 coup (Operation Ajax/Boot), even though Mosaddegh himself was not a communist or socialist.
His actual politics: He was closer in spirit to figures like India’s Nehru — a Third World nationalist leader who prioritized decolonization and democratic governance over ideological alignment with either capitalism or socialism.” -ai.claude
Matt Schlapp, the chairman of the American Conservative Union who keeps being accused of sexual assault and arranging for payments to be made to those who have accused him in order to avoid lawsuits, and who is a strong supporter of the Occupation in Palestine, has opined that the young Iranian girls murdered in Minab are better off dead. Because if they were alive, according to him, “They’d be alive in a burka… This is a barbaric society.”
It’s a bit obvious who is the barbaric one here.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/matt-schlapp-suggests-iranian-schoolgirls-041452323.html
And that from an anti-abortion Catholic apparently.
Piers Morgan seems to be misrepresenting things in that clip by referring to ‘reports’ of the school being hit by an Iranian missle, rather than fake tweets about that. Then he refers to not being certain yet that it was an Israeli missile. But an LLM tells me it would have been Americans firing the missiles in that region? Several hits on the navy base within 90 yards of the school, on a Saturday school day..
Can’t see the full clip yet on Morgan’s Youtube but noticed he recently had on the physicist Neil deGrasse Tyson. Who has had multiple accusations of sexual misconduct including drugging a student.
Looks like the little cokehead – is the new favourite minion of the Orange One.
“Trump has privately referred to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer as ‘a loser’ saying ‘Starmer has no future any more’.
France has allowed the US to operate its fighter jets from French bases in the Middle east against Iran”
The English military base in Cyprus, that was hit recently with an Iranian drone, here, two US U2-spy planes can be seen sitting on outside the hangars, apparently one of the hangars has a huge hole in it.
https://nitter.poast.org/pic/orig/media%2FHCpDD00XgAAc0OJ.jpg
RoS. Stop it, it’s a UK Military Base. I’m sure there are plenty of Scots serving there !
Stevie Boy.
There is no UK – Scotland was annexed as a colony of England’s do a bit of research on it.
Scotland top law professor will put you on the right track.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cGi7Q-EcyU
BTW, Holyrood is a child of Westminster – there’s is no Scottish government its a colonial admin, there are no parties at Holyrood that supports Scotland breaking free from its English colonisers, even the Alba party wants to asked permission from the Colonisers at Westminster to hold an indyref, there is no Scottish Labour or Lib/Dem or Tory party in Scotland, they are all branch offices of their London HQs none are registered with the Electoral Commission.
There has been a independence majority at Holyrood for the last ten years (Greens+SNP) but they ultimately work for London, more than 50% of Scots who support breaking free from our colonisers – are disenfranchised as no party at Holyrood supports doing so.
The UN is currently processing Scotland’s decolonisation case, to place us on the C-24 and C-4 lists of colonised people.
The US has been firing missiles from THAADS – that cost millions of dollars each, at 50k Iranian drones, and its taken its toll on limited defensive military hardware.
“The Pentagon and some Gulf countries are considering buying low-cost Ukrainian interceptor drones to counter Iranian Shahed drones, as they are far cheaper than using Patriot missiles and could provide a more sustainable defense against Iran’s large drone stockpiles – Financial Times.”
As if Ukraine’s need isn’t as great or greater.
They should demand more Patriots and/or the right to manufacture in return.
The US must’ve fired off billions of dollars worth of military hardware since this stupid adventure began, stuff which Trump claimed they couldn’t afford to supply to Ukraine.
I’ll stick my neck out and make a prediction on how this war is going to end. The shooting will carry on until both sides run out of fireworks then a treaty will be signed allowing both sides to claim victory and nothing will have changed; except that several thousand people will have been killed and half the ME left in ruins.
Iran won’t run out of weapons, China, NK and Russia if the latter can spare some – will aid Iran, there’s a few ways the illegal war on Iran might end, one economies will crash around the globe, and the pressure on Trump might become too great and he has to back down, two a lack of missiles and serviceable parts for the US and Israel as China holds most of the materials needed to service US/Israeli fighter jets bombers, and to produce modern missiles.
Of course there are other options as well.
China, NK and Russia all have their own problems and might not want to get involved anyway.
We shall see.
They are already involved with tasked satellites, and radomed ships sending back real time data to Tehran, and that’s just the tip of the iceberg that we know about.
NK’s “problems” have just been lessened if the reports that the US is bringing munitions back from South Korea for the Iran war.
Finally.
Intelligence to do what – infiltrate, pinpoint launchers, incite an uprising against the Iranian regime, locate the plethora of Iranian tunnels that holds an abundance of military hardware.
” The US Central Command (CENTCOM) has asked the Pentagon to send more military intelligence officers to its headquarters to support operations against Iran for at least 100 days – POLITICO”
Republicofscotand
In my opinion there are a lot of things missing in the MSM reports.
Is Clive Myrie, erstwhile ‘ Rooftop Reporter of the Year ‘ in Kiev) only coming out after
the bombs have stopped dropping in Tel Aviv or is something else going on?
China’s not doing well – only 4.5% growth predicted but not a word on how all this Trump chaos
is affecting The Good Ol’ US of A.
Keeping things relatively simple:
If the remittances of the Gulf States don’t keep flowing back in Dollars to the US what effect will that
have on the US’s economy?
Bahrain and other countries were deemed ‘ Safe ‘ Financial Havens – they won’t be in the future.
The Gulf States in total due to being protected by carin’ and sharin’ America are surprised that they get
attacked by Iran for facilitating attacks on Iran.
Even the crazy Israelis are moaning about War Crimes.
It looks like Trump’s bright ideas have given the world his Legacy.
That ‘legacy ‘ is massive inflation.
Particularly in Europe.
I hear the US is looking for two things:
Missiles ( requisitioning missiles from elsewhere -including Ukraine) and some proxies
paid or otherwise to try and change the Iranian Regime from within and without.
According to Trump the one’s who he thought would do it are : ‘All dead’
So, much for US boots on the ground.
Trump and Netanyahu in my view are both in deep trouble.
The question is whether Trump will claim a victory ( whether they win or not) and the what will
Netenyahu do?
Maybe reach for the nukes – that has a big cost as other countries may reach for their.
Trump’s Legacy is massive inflation and possible WW3.
The war he warned Zelensky about ironically.
Remember- Yanks don’t do irony.
Of course we do.
But not today.
Yves Smith linked this report this morning. It’s a slog to read–his prose isn’t exactly melodious–and I have some quibbles with details, but it lays out just what’s at stake if the Straits stay closed. The bottom line is that efficient systems are fragile, and we’ve spent the last decades creating a hyperefficient and hyperconnected world system.
https://ctindale.substack.com/p/systemic-risk-a-12-order-cascading
Simultaneous shortages of fuel, fertilizer, plastics, sulfur, copper. Simultaneous famines, grid failures, water-treatment-system failures, medical shortages. People who are sitting around worrying about gasoline rationing like ’73 have no idea what’s coming their way.
The US and Israel aren’t going to be able to reopen the strait by force and they wouldn’t be willing to come anywhere close to an offer that would get the job done through negotiation because they’ve made it clear to the other side that negotiation is pointless. When they (I mean US/Israel) realize that, I think they’ll launch.
All hell’s about to break lose, and I mean “hell” literally.
Yalt
‘ Launch ‘
Launch what exactly?
Hesgeth is mouthing off like a Bully who ( before the fight ) is telling his opponent how
great he is.
Muhammad Ali used to do that a lot before fights and he was the best but, even he said
he mouthed of more when he was scared ,not confident.
It’s no use the US and Israel trying to make Hell Hotter.
Unless they are going to heat it up with nukes.
Iran is as big a Europe and another 2k’s worth of missiles ( I have yet to see a plane
in the Iranian skies dropping these bombs by the way) ‘targeted ‘ ( you think?) will make
very little difference to the overall situation.
How do all the wiseacre journalists know that these missiles are hitting all the targets?
They don’t know – it’s what Israel and the US are telling them.
They really know as much as I do and that’s very little.
Meanwhile back in the real world all the plans are getting out of hand.
It is ‘ ongoing ‘ as they say.
Just waiting for a few more bright ideas from President Trump as he has had
many in his head and not many worked in reality.
Pete left early for a bible reading – no doubt.
Launch what exactly?
Their nukes.
Can anyone see a plausible off ramp that avoids it? I can’t.
When bombs fall on London.
When bombs fall on London ?
For our aggression.
For our aggression ?
Who can blame them.
Who can blame them ?
Who’ll complain then.
Who’ll complain then ?
An itch will send them fleeing.
An itch will send them fleeing ?
Down the fire-escape.
Down the fire-escape ?
Hide in an off-shore paradise.
Hide in an off-shore paradise ?
A realm of no returning.
A realm of no returning ?
Like their martyr Jeffrey Epstein.
Like their martyr Jeffrey Epstein ?
In extremely on-topic news for a thread on the war for Greater Israel, the settler state’s military forces have ordered the immediate evacuation of up to 700,000 people from part of Beirut in the Lebanon.
The terrorists’ finance minister Bezalel Smotrich said “the southern suburbs will become like Khan Younis”, referring to a city in Gaza that the terrorists largely destroyed in 2024-25.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/5/israels-smotrich-threatens-beirut-suburbs-amid-evacuation-orders
The number 700,000 is greater than the number of Arab residents who were expelled by the same supremacist army during the Six Day War in 1967.
Sadly it looks unlikely that Russia will send military forces to defend against the Zionist advance, as the USSR threatened to in Egypt during the 1973-74 war.
Don’t forget that we are now between Purim (2-3 March) and Passover (2-9 April), and political figures in the settler state are openly invoking the destruction of Amalek.
I could easily see them announcing the formal annexation of the West Bank within the next few weeks. These nuclear-armed murderous barbarian settlers are obviously saying “F*** you!” to humanity in general.
They won’t be leaving Lebanon either.
The US Ambassador to Israel basically just said the whole Middle East was theirs to take, and they’ve got to start somewhere.
The same ambassador visited the red heifers on the West Bank last year:
https://medium.com/@nour_alhakk/the-red-heifer-and-the-u-s-ambassador-3cd526aafc69
https://qudsnen.co/public/post?id=58983&slug=trumps-ambassador-to-israel-aligns-u-s-with-illegal-settlers-in-unprecedented-west-bank-settlement-visit
An admiring report by the Jewish News Syndicate:
https://www.jns.org/in-historic-first-huckabee-prays-in-shiloh-as-part-of-official-visit-to-samaria/
For those who don’t already know, the sacrifice of a pure red heifer overlooking the Al-Aqsa compound is supposed to herald the demolition of the mosque there and a start to the building of a Jewish temple on that site. This prospect was cited by Hamas as the reason for the urgency of the camp breakout operation against settler sites in October 2023.
Here’s an article in the Metro that is very much of this short period of time that we’re living in, as it falls off a cliff:
“Why are influencers in Dubai all saying the same thing?”
I already knew that Dubai was home to lots of freelance advertisers known as “influencers” or “content creators”, and also that essentially they all sell exactly the same message of brainless consumerism. “Dubai’s strategy is to become a global capital of the content economy”, in idiot-speak.
What I didn’t know was that
“Dubai’s Creator HQ has 2,500 members reaching 2.5 billion people. It costs £3,000 to get a licence, but punishment for breaching your conditions are severe. Anyone found to be sharing ‘rumours’ that damage the official narrative can be fined £200,000 and face two years in jail.”
Apparently some of these tossers wavered for a while, when the police hadn’t yet told them how to update their output to take account of the fact that war had broken out. Anyway right now they’re all bleating in unison that it’s business as normal in Dubai. Let it not be said that these trolls can’t take orders. Nothing to see here. Glory to Dubai. Consume. Keep watching your smartphone. Influencers love life. Be like them, as they sun themselves in the greatest city in the world. The Makhtoums’ fake city is really resilient and strong.
The truth is the opposite of what they’re saying. When somebody tells them, some of them they may even realise. Dubai is over.
We need an article about Dubai like William Gibson’s famous piece “Disneyland with the Death Penalty” about Singapore. Gibson did a good job with that, even if unfortunately it was marred with what sounded like praise for Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong.
I suppose when your whole business model is selling a lie, it doesn’t really matter what lie you sell.
I was just checking out a vid by George Galloway posted a day or so ago, and apparently the nazi mass-murdering psychopathic scum are saying/claiming that the missile that hit the school and killed 176 young girls was an Iranian missile. What total cnuts these inhuman beings are.
Speaking in tongues, the new US language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjkKGHutQdE (18mins)
“Speaking in tongues, the new US language”. Dunno whether you are alluding to Paula White, but yes. She has been involved with Donald Trump for at least 10 years. She is currently the head of his White House Faith Office and she does indeed speak in tongues. (There are public videos of her doing it.) Trump also connects with Norman Vincent Peale, the evangelist of how to send yourself insane for money. There is certainly a messianism accreting to Trump which never did e.g. to George Bush Sr. At any time, operators such as White could start going on about how Trump’s grandmother’s maiden surname was Christ. White, Huckabee, etc., are also very tied in to prophecies about the “Holy Land”, one of which of course features Armageddon.
Many in Trumps cabinet are “end timers” including Hegseth and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Also, US Military Leaders Tell Troops Trump Is Waging Iran War To Bring Forth Second Coming Of Jesus…https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2026-03-04/us-military-leaders-tell-troops-trump-waging-iran-war-bring-forth-second-coming.
Of extreme concern is this, Trump’s spiritual adviser Paula White calling on Angels from Africa & South America to bring victory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlRueGU1AU&t=5s
Do I take it from the almost immediate slew of stories about Dubai in the British media that the United States were getting jealous about its power and wealth, and want to cut them down to size too?
Dubai is a perfect exemplar of the corruption of western society. Oxygen thieves everyone of them.
It is absurd how the western european poodles always end up criticizing Trump but all for the wrong reasons, when it comes to Ukraine the poodles doing everything to stop short any peaceful outcome by Trump but when it comes to waging a war of aggression, based on lies and breaching of every law, norm available, the murder of a head of state and bombing school girls and civilians in general, then the poodles come out in great support.
The ignorance is really something too, it is like the western political/journalist elite have no basic knowledge about human psychology at all. If a nation get attacked, unprovoked – at that – and get their leader and people killed, this population are only going to unite and strengthen themselves. And if anything of course, the support to actually build a nuclear weapon will soar. The morons in the West thought that iranians would somehow turn against their government and thought the war would end if they only got Khameini.
Another odius class of people are the iranian western expats, especially the Shah-cultists that are so detached from reality and so deluded in their views that they cheer on when israel and the US murder and maim their relatives in Iran. What is this if not pure treachery? And the western media of course love to give these nutcases prime time coverage, meanwhile in reality these people have insignificant support within Iran.
Reza Pahlavi is really the new Ahmed Chalabi.
Trump’s EU minions won’t be happy with this, nor will the little Neo-Nazi dictator in Ukraine
“US media: “The United States has issued a temporary exemption for 30 days, allowing the sale of Russian oil stranded at sea to India, to ease the pressure on the global oil market.”
Source Reuters.
Not surprising, although I thought Trump was rather partial to little girls.
” According to an investigation conducted by New York Times it was the U.S. that struck Minab Girls Elementary School, killing 175 school going children”
Hungarian President Viktor Orban – exposes EU corruption, as the little Neo-Nazi dictator in Ukraine tries to buy them – off. Orban will now be added to the Myrotvorets hit list.
“Hungary has seized certain Ukrainian armored cash-in-transit vehicles.
Claims were made by my sources yesterday that the money was, to put it mildly, not exactly ordinary, and that Orbán knew about it.
I was convinced that the money belonged to Zelensky. Some kind of kickback.
However, today I’m being given information that the money does not belong to Zelensky, but rather to his associates from Europe.
The story is completely fantastic and yesterday it seemed unrealistic to me.
But today a number of sources report that Orbán struck not at Kyiv, but at Brussels.
There is about 80 million euros and around 10 kilograms of gold involved.
In Brussels they know whose money it is.
And therefore now, it seems to me, they will do anything possible to prevent the scandal
from erupting.
Orbán acted very precisely and struck where it hurts”
It was a very ordinary transfer of cash and gold from Austria to Ukraine which has already seen €900 million transit through Hungary. Orbán has obviously seized this shipment, and the seven bank employees travelling with it (whose location is currently unknown), for political reasons.
Yeah right.
“The money and valuables that were in Oschadbank armored vehicles detained in Hungary are Vladimir Zelensky’s kickbacks to corrupt European officials.”
Подробнее: https://eadaily.com/en/news/2026/03/06/orban-intercepted-zelenskys-kickbacks-sent-to-brussels-via-oschadbank
Well, which way was it going? West to Brussels or east to Kiev?
Try reading the link, infact, the answers in the link – and my 9.58am comment also points in the direction of travel – lets see if you can work it out, or not.
I can work it out, but can Pears? Sometimes you have to be a bit more obvious.
Hmm. EADaily is a Russian state propaganda outlet, even Russia’s ally Belarus doesn’t trust it but I’m sure it can be relied upon to report honestly and objectively on matters relating to Ukraine.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ukraine-hungary-viktor-orban-budapest-austria-b2933197.html
Hungarian authorities admit transfer was from Austria to (probably) Ukraine.
https://nav.gov.hu/sajtoszoba/hirek/the-national-tax-and-customs-administration-is-conducting-criminal-proceedings-on-suspicion-of-money-laundering
‘Kick-Backs’ should be heading the other way surely?
Odd that after allowing €900 million to pass through the country unhindered that Hungary gets nervous about this one.
Latest news is that the bank employees have been released without charge, which is odd if they really were engaged in money laundering and that Poland has openly accused Hungary of stealing the cash and gold.
Pears Morgaine
‘ That money was just resting in my account – until it could be moved on……………………..’
Let’s put it this way:
If you tried ‘moving ‘ money and gold in any country in Europe Interpol would quite rightly
demand an answer to what it was for and where it was going?
In fact read a bit about people who try to take out 5k cash from a British Bank.
The banks are legally obliged to inform the ‘authorities ( the police ) when a customer takes cash out above
1k I hear.
But – maybe it was all innocent stuff?
We know el-Sisi is a US puppet.
“Egypt opens its airspace to U.S. cargo and refueling aircraft”
One of the region’s many ‘good’ brutally repressive regimes, propped up by Washington and you know who.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/britain-backs-most-of-the-worlds-repressive-regimes-new-analysis-shows/
Nice one Zoot, thanks for the link.
Yeah, the pathetic arab regimes that for decades let US build bases on their soil that did not create any security or protection in the end as is now, glaring clear. On top of it they look quite pathetic considering how much weapons they bought throughout the years, still when push comes to show they are too afraid or too incompetent to use it against Iran anyway.
I wonder what Edward Said would say about the arab world today, what he said on the eve of the invasion of Iraq still stands true today:
When will we resist?
“The US is preparing to attack the Arab world, while the Arabs whimper in submission
In this entire panorama of desolation, what catches the eye is the utter passivity and helplessness of the Arab world as a whole. The American government and its servants issue statement after statement of purpose, they move troops and material, they transport tanks and destroyers, but the Arabs individually and collectively can barely muster a bland refusal. At most they say no, you cannot use military bases in our territory, only to reverse themselves a few days later.
Why is there such silence and such astounding helplessness? The largest power in history is about to launch a war against a sovereign Arab country now ruled by a dreadful regime, the clear purpose of which is not only to destroy the Ba’ath regime but to redesign the entire region “
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/25/usa.iraq
Jack.
Mohammed Morsi – was Egypt’s only ever democratically elected president, Craig posted a few sentences about him in a previous article – Morsi was overthrown in a Israeli/US backed coup – and his fate was to be tortured to death in secret dungeon.
The Arab world cannot unite – simply because much of it is dictatorships, and the likes of the US knows this and can easily cause and back civil unrest, if the dictators step out of line. Right now the utterly oppressed people in Bahrain are rioting in the streets, whilst the dictators forces and the forces of Saudi Arabia combine to quell their push for freedom.
When David Cameron was PM of England, he sold Bahrain heavy duty police equipment, tasers shields body armour, shotguns and shells, etc – all to be used to suppress the citizens of Bahrain.
Add in the utterly stupid religious divides – and you have a group of nations that religiously won’t unite, along with fearful dictators obeying US/Israeli (and in Jordan’s case England holds sway) demands of them.
https://www.markcurtis.info/2023/05/26/james-cleverly-the-uks-dictatorships-man/
I don’t entirely agree RoS that Morsi being democratically elected was a good thing. It was a one horse race, Saudi funded, election. People voted for the Muslim Brotherhood, thinking it would be locally based. Under Mubarak they had freedom of worship, tourism, and fuel at the petrol pumps. Under Morsi oil was drilled off Alexandria but there was almost no fuel at the pumps. Queues were miles long when a petrol station got a delivery. Women worked in the hotels under Mubarak. There were none visible under Morsi and silent, unsmiling men changed the laundry. Caleche drivers were so thin, coughing with MERS, and with very thin horses. Tourists were scarce and tourist buses were attacked by terrorists on the Sinai Peninsular. Then a plane was blown up after an unchecked suitcase was placed in the hold. Christians were attacked, and people really wished they hadn’t believed the b/s about democracy which fuelled the optimism in the Arab Spring. They realised they had been played by an alliance of US, Israel, and Saudi. At the time such disparate countries were supposed to be opposites, not joined together to exploit Egypt’s resources and oppress the people, especially women who became invisible under Morsi. The people heaved a sad and somber sigh of relief when Sissi took over. He sent the terrorists packing, and ensured there was fuel at the pumps, but the stability under Mubarak was gone and all the tourist shops and hotels were largely closed down in Luxor.
The Neo-Nazi”s are getting in on the act.
“Ukrainian interceptor drone and electronic warfare specialists are heading to the Middle East to help defend U.S. bases.” – A Ukrainian officials to ABC News”
Col Douglas Macgregor is a truthful and experienced historian and geo stratigic analyst, here he says the future of Israel is ominous his only concern is the Israeli leadership realizing this may think of the nuclear option. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkic-yhPIQw