Trump and his Administration wouldn't look out of place stood alongside the Bandera Nazis in Ukraine. The only difference between Zelensky & Trump is Zelensky is a better actor. The same gaggle/cabal of Zionists prop them up.
ZATO are flexible, they work as well with Nazis or Al Qaeda faux Jihadis.
Iran will end Trumplethinskin's Greater Israel Plan for good so get on with it I'm tired of the BS rhetoric about what a bankrupt former Empire can/will do.
Go build your own rotting domestic infrastructure. A freak clown show run by a property mogul who only wants to blow other peoples shit up. It's pitiful.
For Russia, its BRICS partner Iran and the Persian Gulf are just as economically and geostrategically important as Ukraine. The same applies to China. Moreover, the "One Belt" and the "North-South Route" stand or fall with Iran. I find it inconceivable that Russia and China will not offer resistance to the US, Turkey, and Israel. I have no idea in what form.
In terms of his pursuit of hegemony, Trump is merely a continuation of all previous presidents. He is merely undergoing tactical and strategic realignments. I need say nothing more about Israel.
Looks like the Mother of All Shitshows is headed our way, because if the US uses small nukes I think this rapidly goes to hell in a handcart, both regionally and globally.
Even if they don't, I can't imagine Russia and China sitting back. I could be wrong, but any tentative US-Russian rapprochement over Ukraine instantly perishes as it would be totally impossible for Moscow to proceed with talks while the US is levelling parts of Iran at the behest of its masters in Tel Aviv.
Nicely done article. Just today supposedly Ben gvir and Bar got into an actual fist fight. Whether true or not it does appear as if the wheels are coming off
All I'm hearing here in Limey-Land and EU(rot) are factory closures, lay-offs, CUTS to Public Services, including health. Nothing alas about construction. This is the future, now who's going to fight for the political & financial class who got us here? Their levels of idiocy/incompetence are frightening, unfortunately matched only by an apathetic general public who appear willing to oversee the next generation brought up on the soup-kitchens and foodbanks springing up exponentially in every city.
Had this nightmare recently that me, Sir Queer and BoJo were clearing Russian bunkers in the Donbass.
“Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!”
You have admire the Americans mental and moral flexibilty in taking this position when they are the ones happily arming and supporting others where it suits their purposes. Outraged because others allegedly do what they do , and have done for many decades. Are we not supposed to notice the hypocrisy and duplicity?
Related to the JFK papers release, I went looking around a long-trusted website that chronicled info on that topic and a host of others and decided to take a look at an article written about 23 years ago about the MLK assassination and how is was proven to be “An Act of State” in a 1999 trial in Memphis, that all too few know anything about. Here’s a long excerpt from what’s a very long essay,
Martin King, as you know, for many years was a Baptist preacher in the southern part of this country, and he was thrust into leadership of the civil rights movement at a historic moment in the civil rights movement and social change movement in this part of the country. That's where he was. That's where he has been locked in time, locked in a media image, locked as an icon in the brains of the people of this country. But Martin King had moved well beyond that. When he was awarded the Noble Peace Prize he became in the mid-1960's an international figure, a person of serious stature whose voice, his opinions, on other issues than just the plight of black people in the South became very significant world-wide. He commanded world-wide attention as few had before him. As a successor, if you will, to Mahatmas Gandhi in terms of the movement for social change through civil disobedience. So that's where he was moving. Then in 1967, April 4, 1967, one year to the day before he was killed, he delivered the momentous speech at Riverside Church https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKapr67.html in New York where he opposed the war. Now, he thought carefully about this war. . . . I remember vividly, I was a journalist in Vietnam, when I came back he asked to meet with me, and when I opened my files to him, which were devastating in terms of the effects upon the civilian population of that country, he unashamedly wept. I knew at that point really that the die was cast. This was in February of 1967. He was definitely going to oppose that war with every strength, every fiber in his body. And he did so. He opposed it. And from the date of the Riverside speech to the date he was killed, he never wavered in that opposition. Now, what does that mean? Is he an enemy of the State? The State regarded him as an enemy because he opposed it. But what does it really mean, his opposition? I put it to you that his opposition to that war had little to do with ideology, with capitalism, with democracy. It had to do with money. It had to do with huge amounts of money that that war was generating to large multinational corporations that were based in the United States . . . When Martin King opposed the war, when he rallied people to oppose the war, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest defense contractors in this country. This was about money. When he threatened to bring that war to a close through massive popular opposition, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest construction companies, one of which was in the State of Texas, that patronized the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson and had the major construction contracts at Cam Ran Bay in Vietnam. This is what Martin King was challenging. He was challenging the weapons industry, the hardware, the armament industries, that all would lose as a result of the end of the war. . . . Now, he begin to talk about a redistribution of wealth, in this the wealthiest country in the world that had such a large group of poor people, of people living then and now, by the way, in poverty. That problem had to be addressed. And it wasn't a black-and-white problem. This was a problem that dealt with Hispanics, and it dealt with poor whites as well. That is what he was taking on. That's what he was challenging. The powers in this land believed he would not be successful. Why did they believe that? They believed that because they knew that the decision-making processes in the United States had by that point in time, and today it is much worse in my view, but by that point in time had so consolidated power that they were the representatives, the foot soldiers, of the . . . very economic interests who were going to suffer as a result of these times of changes. So the very powerful lobbying forces that put their people in the halls of Congress and indeed in the White House itself and controlled them, paid and bought them and controlled them, were certainly not going to agree to the type of social legislation that Martin King and his mass of humanity were going to require.”
The Outlaw monster the USA has become was long in the making and already mature in the 1960s, and even more so now. David Ratcliffe continues to compile material at his website, not everything, but more than enough. It would take many weeks to explore its contents. The entire essay can be found here, https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKactOstate.html
Trump assistants (they) may think Iran will fall like Syria, maybe parachute in the MEK exile.... after they nuke the Ayatollah. Maybe install a Baluch chieftain.
They may think US boots on the ground can do Tehran like Baghdad in 2003.
They may think Israel took out Iranian defenses. They may think B-2's can get in to drop MAOBs
They may think their targeting intel will do better than killing shepherds.
They may think US can take out enough launch sites to keep the Hormuz open and US sites safe.
Multiple low probability "mays". Hope is not strategy.
Remember it took from Nov 1964 to May 1965 for LBJ to reverse on Vietnam.
This much is fairly clear: team Trump needs Russia to stay out of his upcoming war with Iran.
Trump will promise Putin & Lavrov the moon, ie normalization of relations with the West and denazification and neutrality of Ukraine. But he can't deliver even if he were inclined to do so when the time came. How anyone works with that I don't know.
Russia might oblige the Trump admin for their own cynical reasons (eg let them go fight). That's what China's doing already... though Trump admin being the geniuses they are, they're simultaneously antagonizing Beijing with the ship ban thing. They're starting way too many fires at once and it's just a matter of time before something goes to sh#t.
Trump doesn't want to deliver on Ukraine, he wants to continue extend Russia using the EU. I'm sure Lavrov and Putin know this. They won't oblige Trump but they don't want wider war. Bejing is bending over backwards and sucking up the antagonisation because they don't want war either.
The US hasn't started too many fires. It's started one. Against China, the others are a means to this end.
How much of the business with Greenland or Canada fits into a coherent anti China strategy, I think it's a tiny and indirect element. Denmark already does whatever the US wants, and Canada does too - heck the Canadians kidnapped Huawei founder's daughter for Trump during his last admin. Not every ally would go that far for Uncle Sam.
I honestly do think the current crop of strategists is just incoherent. Like it's that simple. Their main responsibiliy as far as I can tell is to unquestioningly greenlight the Israel lobby's guidance to do with Gaza Lebanon Syria Yemen Iran etc. When it comes to the rest of the world, it's amateur hour, and they're on their own.
" What Trump might now do, which is right out of the Israeli playbook, would be to attack Iran’s command and control, including Iran’s leadership.
Yeah, go ahead and try that and the USSA will have a lot of air assets, ie, B-2s, F35s and a lot of other so called wonder weapons shot out of the sky. Those arrogant jerks have never tried their BS on an adversary like Iran, ever. It won't end well for the hegemon.
What I see reports of are B-52H’s which carry stand-off weapons that are fired several hundred miles away from Iranian airspace and perhaps outside S-400 range. I have confidence in Iranian AD but leakers happen. Hard to judge Iran on its delay of True Promise 3. Perhaps more energy needed to be put toward civil defense and hardening of defensive positions while upping missile and launcher production. I’m rooting for domestic Zionist turmoil to escalate and take over events.
Regardless of all we hear about Trump and the sycophants very little can be taken at face value. Just today we sent 2 b-2 bombers to the Middle East. Also keep in mind that while Trump believes in peace thru strength it’s looking more like peace thru arrogance, he hasn’t taken into account who the other side is in this case, Iran. I personally believe that Iran blew it by blowing off True Promise 3. When Iran hit the base the in Iraq in retaliation for soleimani things quieted down, same after hitting the Israelis’ bases. I don’t think that Trump got that message. Iran isn’t Canada, Panama, Columbia uni president etc etc etc. Trump today placed tariffs on Venezuela oil, who buys it China,should Iran need to go towards who loses out in getting its oil, China. Has Putin told Xi welcome to the fight my friend they 100% can’t 100%be trusted. Karl for whatever reason I can’t respond to your posting on my laptop. It’s hit and miss as to who I can and can’t answer, it scares me that it’s being done on purpose 🤔
The first time I listened to Marco Rubio was after the meeting with Lavrov. He was saying exactly what I wanted to hear, but his eyes were dead as a snake's. That man is a dangerous weapon.
His actual attitude about Hamas is just an extension of current Zionist war policy. Ignoring totally any declarations by Hamas, and forcing Egypt and Jordan (up to now) to toe the Z line to eliminate Hamas and their people who have fled, or are the results of exchanges etc. (Thousands). He had one idea only. ie. He is not a *trumpist* but Zio-firster.
Netanyahu and the rabid IDF dogs want to attack Iran. So the Russian-I ranian agreements have to be subverted/eliminated to allow easy access.
There probably was an earlier attempt by the IAF and the US to attack Iran a couple of months ago, which was thwarted by Russia (It also may have included nukes at that point).
2) He has been described as a Chabad Lubavicher asset on MoA. Which is why I wonder if the largest CH-Lub Center (Building) in Dnipro on the western bank of the Dniepr is one of his hidden motivations as well. If Russia continues it's advances in Ukraine, one possible line of attack to take Odessa would run through Dnipro and the large Dam, that would provide it a dry crossing. (Opens up to he re-attachment of transnistria as well).
My question is; is he working for Trump or is Trump doing Witkoffs bidding?
As the Zionists want to extend all their warring fronts for total domination of (at least) the ME, the US must be inveigled into a stupid attack on Iran for their benefit. US troops to do the dirty work and the IAF are to fly over the top dropping US bombs on civilian populations.
(of note is the bomb that was recorded as having made a 5.4-5.2 earthquake near Homs, or yet another extremely large explosion sometime earlier; conclusion, the IAF have been trying out Nukes) Also of note are the quantities of US refuelling tankers and B--something or other bombers in Diego Garcia or now flying from other bases in The ME.
Basically, Both Gaza and Iran are being set up, but how those pesky Russians will react is the 64 billion dollar question? (billions => Inflation?)
Zionist group think IMO has captured all of Team Trump, but that in itself isn’t unusual given the past 40+ years of US history and West Asia policy. The newly released JFK papers point to Zionist complicity in his murder, a point that was really talked-up by Larry Johnson yesterday. IMO, the deadline threat made by Trump was made with the domestic Zionist situation in mind as it’s close to exploding and the attack on Iran is supposed to mollify that tempest.
There is no desire to wrap things up in Ukraine, otherwise they would. Quite the opposite, they want to use the EU as proxies, now they've run out of Ukrainians, to keep the conflict with Russia going so they can focus on war with Iran to weaken China.
Great stuff from Alastair Crooke et al as always. My two cents: 1)Don't believe either Russia or China can afford to sit back and watch Iran be destroyed. They're going to help Iran, how overtly not sure. 2) Iran can not be taken down with a conventional attack. 3) True Promise 1 & 2 proved Iran doesn't need nukes to take out Israel. 4) US & Israel will try to decapitate Iran. 4) Believe the US & Israel will go nuclear when they fail conventionally, or if Iran blasts Israel. They may even use tactical nukes initially for said decapitation. 5) It's insane but war with Iran will likely happen.
US exceptionalism will continue until the US (and by extension) the combined west is extinguished. TINA.
Trump and his ilk's focus on domestic issues is centres on removal of woke, but also the suppression of speech on the Palestinian genocide. It's the economy and it's a moribund financial mess; the TSMC plant in Arizona is producing how many microprocessors? All these projects will fail because of the grifting. So fortress America is an illusion. He'll just go ahead with the foreign wars, and what, India is going to provide the ammo?
Credit where it's due, the fictional Willard, the bullshit piles up so fast you need wings to keep above it.
My advice would be to skip it but I try to take into an account alternative takes. It is really frustrating to navigate our hopeless times! Thank you for your reply!
The first issue I see is this assertion Doctorow makes: “We will all know in several weeks, because the timeline that Trump has given both for resolution of relations with Iran and for resolution of relations with Russia come within that time frame.” This is incorrect for there’s no timeline for resolution with Russia while there certainly is with Iran. As Doctorow details, there are a great many '“nuances” that must be solved prior to the peace that will bring forth the ceasefire; and at the rate those discussions are moving, we might expect something final sometime in 2026, which is well beyond the deadline Trump set for Iran. Doctorow unwittingly defeated his own argument.
It's in Trumps interests to cause the Ukraine War negotiations to continue. The "man of peace" poseur is a clever 'Nacht und Nebel' ruse for the ongoing U.S./Zionist slaughter targeting the resistance leaders in Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon and Iran.
Iran is the centerpiece of the BRICs Eurasian Landbridge and new Security and Development Architecture.
Trump and his Administration wouldn't look out of place stood alongside the Bandera Nazis in Ukraine. The only difference between Zelensky & Trump is Zelensky is a better actor. The same gaggle/cabal of Zionists prop them up.
ZATO are flexible, they work as well with Nazis or Al Qaeda faux Jihadis.
Iran will end Trumplethinskin's Greater Israel Plan for good so get on with it I'm tired of the BS rhetoric about what a bankrupt former Empire can/will do.
Go build your own rotting domestic infrastructure. A freak clown show run by a property mogul who only wants to blow other peoples shit up. It's pitiful.
For Russia, its BRICS partner Iran and the Persian Gulf are just as economically and geostrategically important as Ukraine. The same applies to China. Moreover, the "One Belt" and the "North-South Route" stand or fall with Iran. I find it inconceivable that Russia and China will not offer resistance to the US, Turkey, and Israel. I have no idea in what form.
In terms of his pursuit of hegemony, Trump is merely a continuation of all previous presidents. He is merely undergoing tactical and strategic realignments. I need say nothing more about Israel.
The Turkish situation is very murky for me since I lack sources and much is happening elsewhere.
Iran and China are patiently bending over backwards to avoid war with the US deep state (BlackRock) which would be devastating for everyone.
Looks like the Mother of All Shitshows is headed our way, because if the US uses small nukes I think this rapidly goes to hell in a handcart, both regionally and globally.
Even if they don't, I can't imagine Russia and China sitting back. I could be wrong, but any tentative US-Russian rapprochement over Ukraine instantly perishes as it would be totally impossible for Moscow to proceed with talks while the US is levelling parts of Iran at the behest of its masters in Tel Aviv.
Let's hope that Israel implodes soon, then! As I wrote in my latest article yesterday, recent developments in the country risk to bring it to collapse: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/is-israel-implosion-drawing-near
Nicely done article. Just today supposedly Ben gvir and Bar got into an actual fist fight. Whether true or not it does appear as if the wheels are coming off
Thank you. Yes, I read about it too. As I wrote yesterday, I do not think they can go on like this for long!
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All I'm hearing here in Limey-Land and EU(rot) are factory closures, lay-offs, CUTS to Public Services, including health. Nothing alas about construction. This is the future, now who's going to fight for the political & financial class who got us here? Their levels of idiocy/incompetence are frightening, unfortunately matched only by an apathetic general public who appear willing to oversee the next generation brought up on the soup-kitchens and foodbanks springing up exponentially in every city.
Had this nightmare recently that me, Sir Queer and BoJo were clearing Russian bunkers in the Donbass.
“Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked upon, from this point forward, as being a shot fired from the weapons and leadership of IRAN, and IRAN will be held responsible, and suffer the consequences, and those consequences will be dire!”
You have admire the Americans mental and moral flexibilty in taking this position when they are the ones happily arming and supporting others where it suits their purposes. Outraged because others allegedly do what they do , and have done for many decades. Are we not supposed to notice the hypocrisy and duplicity?
Related to the JFK papers release, I went looking around a long-trusted website that chronicled info on that topic and a host of others and decided to take a look at an article written about 23 years ago about the MLK assassination and how is was proven to be “An Act of State” in a 1999 trial in Memphis, that all too few know anything about. Here’s a long excerpt from what’s a very long essay,
In his closing remarks on the last day of the trial, http://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKACT/MLKACTvol14.html#p2160, Dr. Pepper touched upon the underlying dynamics of what created the circumstances of Dr. King's execution:
Martin King, as you know, for many years was a Baptist preacher in the southern part of this country, and he was thrust into leadership of the civil rights movement at a historic moment in the civil rights movement and social change movement in this part of the country. That's where he was. That's where he has been locked in time, locked in a media image, locked as an icon in the brains of the people of this country. But Martin King had moved well beyond that. When he was awarded the Noble Peace Prize he became in the mid-1960's an international figure, a person of serious stature whose voice, his opinions, on other issues than just the plight of black people in the South became very significant world-wide. He commanded world-wide attention as few had before him. As a successor, if you will, to Mahatmas Gandhi in terms of the movement for social change through civil disobedience. So that's where he was moving. Then in 1967, April 4, 1967, one year to the day before he was killed, he delivered the momentous speech at Riverside Church https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKapr67.html in New York where he opposed the war. Now, he thought carefully about this war. . . . I remember vividly, I was a journalist in Vietnam, when I came back he asked to meet with me, and when I opened my files to him, which were devastating in terms of the effects upon the civilian population of that country, he unashamedly wept. I knew at that point really that the die was cast. This was in February of 1967. He was definitely going to oppose that war with every strength, every fiber in his body. And he did so. He opposed it. And from the date of the Riverside speech to the date he was killed, he never wavered in that opposition. Now, what does that mean? Is he an enemy of the State? The State regarded him as an enemy because he opposed it. But what does it really mean, his opposition? I put it to you that his opposition to that war had little to do with ideology, with capitalism, with democracy. It had to do with money. It had to do with huge amounts of money that that war was generating to large multinational corporations that were based in the United States . . . When Martin King opposed the war, when he rallied people to oppose the war, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest defense contractors in this country. This was about money. When he threatened to bring that war to a close through massive popular opposition, he was threatening the bottom lines of some of the largest construction companies, one of which was in the State of Texas, that patronized the Presidency of Lyndon Johnson and had the major construction contracts at Cam Ran Bay in Vietnam. This is what Martin King was challenging. He was challenging the weapons industry, the hardware, the armament industries, that all would lose as a result of the end of the war. . . . Now, he begin to talk about a redistribution of wealth, in this the wealthiest country in the world that had such a large group of poor people, of people living then and now, by the way, in poverty. That problem had to be addressed. And it wasn't a black-and-white problem. This was a problem that dealt with Hispanics, and it dealt with poor whites as well. That is what he was taking on. That's what he was challenging. The powers in this land believed he would not be successful. Why did they believe that? They believed that because they knew that the decision-making processes in the United States had by that point in time, and today it is much worse in my view, but by that point in time had so consolidated power that they were the representatives, the foot soldiers, of the . . . very economic interests who were going to suffer as a result of these times of changes. So the very powerful lobbying forces that put their people in the halls of Congress and indeed in the White House itself and controlled them, paid and bought them and controlled them, were certainly not going to agree to the type of social legislation that Martin King and his mass of humanity were going to require.”
The Outlaw monster the USA has become was long in the making and already mature in the 1960s, and even more so now. David Ratcliffe continues to compile material at his website, not everything, but more than enough. It would take many weeks to explore its contents. The entire essay can be found here, https://ratical.org/ratville/JFK/MLKactOstate.html
A lot of people aren't noticing it. They still think Trump wants peace and multipolarity.
Trump assistants (they) may think Iran will fall like Syria, maybe parachute in the MEK exile.... after they nuke the Ayatollah. Maybe install a Baluch chieftain.
They may think US boots on the ground can do Tehran like Baghdad in 2003.
They may think Israel took out Iranian defenses. They may think B-2's can get in to drop MAOBs
They may think their targeting intel will do better than killing shepherds.
They may think US can take out enough launch sites to keep the Hormuz open and US sites safe.
Multiple low probability "mays". Hope is not strategy.
Remember it took from Nov 1964 to May 1965 for LBJ to reverse on Vietnam.
Rhyming!
This much is fairly clear: team Trump needs Russia to stay out of his upcoming war with Iran.
Trump will promise Putin & Lavrov the moon, ie normalization of relations with the West and denazification and neutrality of Ukraine. But he can't deliver even if he were inclined to do so when the time came. How anyone works with that I don't know.
Russia might oblige the Trump admin for their own cynical reasons (eg let them go fight). That's what China's doing already... though Trump admin being the geniuses they are, they're simultaneously antagonizing Beijing with the ship ban thing. They're starting way too many fires at once and it's just a matter of time before something goes to sh#t.
Trump doesn't want to deliver on Ukraine, he wants to continue extend Russia using the EU. I'm sure Lavrov and Putin know this. They won't oblige Trump but they don't want wider war. Bejing is bending over backwards and sucking up the antagonisation because they don't want war either.
The US hasn't started too many fires. It's started one. Against China, the others are a means to this end.
How much of the business with Greenland or Canada fits into a coherent anti China strategy, I think it's a tiny and indirect element. Denmark already does whatever the US wants, and Canada does too - heck the Canadians kidnapped Huawei founder's daughter for Trump during his last admin. Not every ally would go that far for Uncle Sam.
I honestly do think the current crop of strategists is just incoherent. Like it's that simple. Their main responsibiliy as far as I can tell is to unquestioningly greenlight the Israel lobby's guidance to do with Gaza Lebanon Syria Yemen Iran etc. When it comes to the rest of the world, it's amateur hour, and they're on their own.
" What Trump might now do, which is right out of the Israeli playbook, would be to attack Iran’s command and control, including Iran’s leadership.
Yeah, go ahead and try that and the USSA will have a lot of air assets, ie, B-2s, F35s and a lot of other so called wonder weapons shot out of the sky. Those arrogant jerks have never tried their BS on an adversary like Iran, ever. It won't end well for the hegemon.
What I see reports of are B-52H’s which carry stand-off weapons that are fired several hundred miles away from Iranian airspace and perhaps outside S-400 range. I have confidence in Iranian AD but leakers happen. Hard to judge Iran on its delay of True Promise 3. Perhaps more energy needed to be put toward civil defense and hardening of defensive positions while upping missile and launcher production. I’m rooting for domestic Zionist turmoil to escalate and take over events.
Regardless of all we hear about Trump and the sycophants very little can be taken at face value. Just today we sent 2 b-2 bombers to the Middle East. Also keep in mind that while Trump believes in peace thru strength it’s looking more like peace thru arrogance, he hasn’t taken into account who the other side is in this case, Iran. I personally believe that Iran blew it by blowing off True Promise 3. When Iran hit the base the in Iraq in retaliation for soleimani things quieted down, same after hitting the Israelis’ bases. I don’t think that Trump got that message. Iran isn’t Canada, Panama, Columbia uni president etc etc etc. Trump today placed tariffs on Venezuela oil, who buys it China,should Iran need to go towards who loses out in getting its oil, China. Has Putin told Xi welcome to the fight my friend they 100% can’t 100%be trusted. Karl for whatever reason I can’t respond to your posting on my laptop. It’s hit and miss as to who I can and can’t answer, it scares me that it’s being done on purpose 🤔
Agree. See my reply to james. So far I have no burps to report, just lots of typos that take up time to correct.
The first time I listened to Marco Rubio was after the meeting with Lavrov. He was saying exactly what I wanted to hear, but his eyes were dead as a snake's. That man is a dangerous weapon.
A slighly different take:
Witkoff
His actual attitude about Hamas is just an extension of current Zionist war policy. Ignoring totally any declarations by Hamas, and forcing Egypt and Jordan (up to now) to toe the Z line to eliminate Hamas and their people who have fled, or are the results of exchanges etc. (Thousands). He had one idea only. ie. He is not a *trumpist* but Zio-firster.
Netanyahu and the rabid IDF dogs want to attack Iran. So the Russian-I ranian agreements have to be subverted/eliminated to allow easy access.
There probably was an earlier attempt by the IAF and the US to attack Iran a couple of months ago, which was thwarted by Russia (It also may have included nukes at that point).
2) He has been described as a Chabad Lubavicher asset on MoA. Which is why I wonder if the largest CH-Lub Center (Building) in Dnipro on the western bank of the Dniepr is one of his hidden motivations as well. If Russia continues it's advances in Ukraine, one possible line of attack to take Odessa would run through Dnipro and the large Dam, that would provide it a dry crossing. (Opens up to he re-attachment of transnistria as well).
My question is; is he working for Trump or is Trump doing Witkoffs bidding?
As the Zionists want to extend all their warring fronts for total domination of (at least) the ME, the US must be inveigled into a stupid attack on Iran for their benefit. US troops to do the dirty work and the IAF are to fly over the top dropping US bombs on civilian populations.
(of note is the bomb that was recorded as having made a 5.4-5.2 earthquake near Homs, or yet another extremely large explosion sometime earlier; conclusion, the IAF have been trying out Nukes) Also of note are the quantities of US refuelling tankers and B--something or other bombers in Diego Garcia or now flying from other bases in The ME.
Basically, Both Gaza and Iran are being set up, but how those pesky Russians will react is the 64 billion dollar question? (billions => Inflation?)
Zionist group think IMO has captured all of Team Trump, but that in itself isn’t unusual given the past 40+ years of US history and West Asia policy. The newly released JFK papers point to Zionist complicity in his murder, a point that was really talked-up by Larry Johnson yesterday. IMO, the deadline threat made by Trump was made with the domestic Zionist situation in mind as it’s close to exploding and the attack on Iran is supposed to mollify that tempest.
There is no desire to wrap things up in Ukraine, otherwise they would. Quite the opposite, they want to use the EU as proxies, now they've run out of Ukrainians, to keep the conflict with Russia going so they can focus on war with Iran to weaken China.
Great stuff from Alastair Crooke et al as always. My two cents: 1)Don't believe either Russia or China can afford to sit back and watch Iran be destroyed. They're going to help Iran, how overtly not sure. 2) Iran can not be taken down with a conventional attack. 3) True Promise 1 & 2 proved Iran doesn't need nukes to take out Israel. 4) US & Israel will try to decapitate Iran. 4) Believe the US & Israel will go nuclear when they fail conventionally, or if Iran blasts Israel. They may even use tactical nukes initially for said decapitation. 5) It's insane but war with Iran will likely happen.
US exceptionalism will continue until the US (and by extension) the combined west is extinguished. TINA.
Trump and his ilk's focus on domestic issues is centres on removal of woke, but also the suppression of speech on the Palestinian genocide. It's the economy and it's a moribund financial mess; the TSMC plant in Arizona is producing how many microprocessors? All these projects will fail because of the grifting. So fortress America is an illusion. He'll just go ahead with the foreign wars, and what, India is going to provide the ammo?
Credit where it's due, the fictional Willard, the bullshit piles up so fast you need wings to keep above it.
And…then….you have a countepoint by Gilbert Doctorow: https://gilbertdoctorow.com/2025/03/24/the-merits-of-judging-freedom-for-those-who-pay-attention/
I haven’t read Doctorow today yet. The last item I read was “Reset.” I’ll give it a look and add to my reply.
My advice would be to skip it but I try to take into an account alternative takes. It is really frustrating to navigate our hopeless times! Thank you for your reply!
The first issue I see is this assertion Doctorow makes: “We will all know in several weeks, because the timeline that Trump has given both for resolution of relations with Iran and for resolution of relations with Russia come within that time frame.” This is incorrect for there’s no timeline for resolution with Russia while there certainly is with Iran. As Doctorow details, there are a great many '“nuances” that must be solved prior to the peace that will bring forth the ceasefire; and at the rate those discussions are moving, we might expect something final sometime in 2026, which is well beyond the deadline Trump set for Iran. Doctorow unwittingly defeated his own argument.
No timeline for resolution with Russia.
It's in Trumps interests to cause the Ukraine War negotiations to continue. The "man of peace" poseur is a clever 'Nacht und Nebel' ruse for the ongoing U.S./Zionist slaughter targeting the resistance leaders in Gaza, Yemen, Lebanon and Iran.
Iran is the centerpiece of the BRICs Eurasian Landbridge and new Security and Development Architecture.