After begging for help, and saying many nations offered help, guess what.
Begging for Help Background
Trump Begs for Military Assistance
Mar 14, 2026, 8:04 AM
Truth Social: Many Countries, especially those who are affected by Iran’s attempted closure of the Hormuz Strait, will be sending War Ships, in conjunction with the United States of America, to keep the Strait open and safe. We have already destroyed 100% of Iran’s Military capability, but it’s easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway, no matter how badly defeated they are. Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send Ships to the area so that the Hormuz Strait will no longer be a threat by a Nation that has been totally decapitated. In the meantime, the United States will be bombing the hell out of the shoreline, and continually shooting Iranian Boats and Ships out of the water. One way or the other, we will soon get the Hormuz Strait OPEN, SAFE, and FREE! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Trump then repeated the claim “many countries will be sending warships”.
Guess what.
Germany “Not Our War and We Didn’t Start It”
Dateline March 16: Germany Rebukes Trump “Not Our War and We Didn’t Start It”
A global revenge by countries that Trump bullied is underway.
Scorecard: Italy, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Australia, Spain, China, Canada, South Korea, and the UK all said “no.”
That leads us to …
WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE!
Mar 17, 2026, 9:18 AM
Truth Social: The United States has been informed by most of our NATO “Allies” that they don’t want to get involved with our Military Operation against the Terrorist Regime of Iran, in the Middle East, this, despite the fact that almost every Country strongly agreed with what we are doing, and that Iran cannot, in any way, shape, or form, be allowed to have a Nuclear Weapon. I am not surprised by their action, however, because I always considered NATO, where we spend Hundreds of Billions of Dollars per year protecting these same Countries, to be a one way street — We will protect them, but they will do nothing for us, in particular, in a time of need. Fortunately, we have decimated Iran’s Military — Their Navy is gone, their Air Force is gone, their Anti-Aircraft and Radar is gone and perhaps, most importantly, their Leaders, at virtually every level, are gone, never to threaten us, our Middle Eastern Allies, or the World, again! Because of the fact that we have had such Military Success, we no longer “need,” or desire, the NATO Countries’ assistance — WE NEVER DID! Likewise, Japan, Australia, or South Korea. In fact, speaking as President of the United States of America, by far the Most Powerful Country Anywhere in the World, WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE! Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
Trump Criticizes NATO Allies for Holding Back Military Aid
The Wall Street Journal reports Trump Criticizes NATO Allies for Holding Back Military Aid
President Trump lashed out at NATO allies over their reluctance to support U.S.
I suppose it’s only fitting to ask for help (when it was never needed), say help was on the way (when it wasn’t), then blast nations for not sending (unneeded) help.
WE DO NOT NEED THE HELP OF ANYONE! WE NEVER DID!
Thank you for your attention to this matter. President DONALD J. TRUMP
It’s been a real hoot paying attention.
In case you missed it, please note The World’s Biggest Liar Accuses the Media of Lies and Treason
“Whatever he does, he accuses everyone else of doing,” said Senator Ted Cruz.
Looks like Cuba will get their oil:
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2026/03/18/russia-sends-oil-and-gas-tankers-to-crisis-hit-cuba-defying-us-blockade-ft-a92264
https://x.com/shanaka86/status/2033918272819638407?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2033918272819638407%7Ctwgr%5E717711d788f320716a07223dd7d36f749f6b6cfe%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nakedcapitalism.com%2F2026%2F03%2Flinks-3-18-2026.html
Offered for comment and not necessarily for truth.
Would be very significant if confirmed to be true
When they’re greeting other soldiers with a hearty “Heil Epstein!”, morale can’t be great.
If they can launch attached against shipping then it’s hardly defeated, decimated, or utterly destroyed.
It’s astounding. He lies so much that he doesn’t even understand the definition of the words falling out of his face.
Today there’s also the debate whether weather and altercation involves building a ballroom that should never be.
Iran seriously needs nuclear weapons. China, Russia and North Korea should consider giving 10 warheads each to Iran. The war on Iran would stop instantly.
The never ending war machine that is Washington will never fight a nuclear state.
Just an underground nuclear test in the Iranian desert would do the trick. If the warheads were supplied from the outside, it would allow Trump to justify even more nonsense.
A side benefit is that it would pretty much end the nuclear nonproliferation treaty which was an attempt to maintain the 5 power nuclear monopoly. It would also unshackle nuclear energy from nonproliferation restraints.
Conservative 2A supporters are always yapping about an armed society being a polite society but that goes out the window when it comes to relations between states.
Agree, AND we should Give Taiwan, Japan and South Korea Nukes as well, to level the Pacific theatre power imbalance.
Hilarious. 10 days ago, he had said – “We don’t need people that join wars after we’ve already won!”, when responding to European allies like UK.
Trump is growing increasingly desperate to avoid being held responsible for an unnecessary war that wrecks the economy
In continuing to watch ship-tracker.org, it has become clear that LNG tankers and oil tankers are returning to port in Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and there is a VLCC sitting just offshore of Kharg Island.
This has strong implications that energy, fertilizers and commodities shipping is returning to the Persian Gulf. Things are in fact, calming down.
The information I observed implies that oil and other products will be shipping through Hormuz soon.
Check it out for yourself.
If things are calming down, why is Brent still above $100? The market generally knows what’s up and until oil drops down to $70 or less, nothing is calming down.
Now having said all that, I’ve sold about another $100k of oil stocks 😉
I find it interesting that prices haven’t spiked much higher. Traders do not seem to expect this to last much longer. Of course, only time will tell.
As long as prices stay below $100, there will not be too much demand destruction. Demand destruction tends to begin when prices go over $120.
This is great for oil companies. They keep selling to satisfy demand, but at prices that are $30/bbl higher than a month ago.
However, if the conflict continues for another month, I expect oil to hit $150 or more. Which will cause some demand destruction.
When this conflict ends and things get back to normal, there might be a severe drop in oil prices. They could even go negative for a few days based on how traders sometimes get caught in bad positions and have to dump at any price. However, I expect oil to settle into the $70-$80 range after the initial moves.
Thank you for the information: Your educated contributions are what I had hoped this observation would stimulate.
I often contemplate what effect the FSO’s and FPSO’s are having on supply and if they are providing some meaningful slack in the supply chain?
How quickly can they (global diverse energy suppliers) ramp up production?
Alternative question: What permanent damage is being dine to shut in gas fields?
Thoughts?
Great questions. No one knows the answers till after the war ends and the damage is assessed.
How many ships get damaged remains to be seen.
Once fields are shut in, there is no guarantee that they can be brought back online with former flow rates. Pressure levels can change. Production can be permanently impaired. In some cases, production can collapse.
What I do know is that future production will be less than today, while demand will keep growing.
You are very optimistic. One LNG tanker transited the strait 11 days ago vs the normal 18-20 per week. One is being loaded with existing LNG. But LNG production is shut and will take months to restart.
From CoPilot
Yes — LNG tankers are beginning to return to Qatar, but only in a limited, early way. After Qatar’s complete LNG shutdown and force majeure, ship‑tracking data now shows the first tankers loading cargo again at Ras Laffan, though full normal operations remain weeks to months away.
Here’s the clearest picture based on the latest reporting:
✅ 1. First LNG cargoes have now been loaded again
• The tanker Lebrethah departed Ras Laffan on March 6 with a loaded draft, signaling Bangladesh as its destination.
• Another vessel, Al Ghashamiya, also loaded at Ras Laffan and is currently waiting in the Persian Gulf.
These are the first confirmed LNG cargoes since Qatar declared force majeure and halted all production.
⚠️ 2. The Strait of Hormuz remains effectively closed
Even though tankers have loaded cargo, their ability to exit the Gulf is uncertain:
• Hostilities in the region have kept the Strait of Hormuz effectively closed to commercial shipping.
This means loaded tankers may not yet be able to resume normal export routes.
🛑 3. Qatar’s production shutdown is still severe
⏳ 4. Full return to normal will take time
And regarding fertilizer:
🚢 Current Status of Fertilizer Shipments from the Persian Gulf
❌ 1. Shipments remain halted — fertilizer is still physically stranded
Conclusion: No meaningful resumption of shipments
Thank you for this update!
Thanks!
it would make sense to load tankers to free more onshore space.
Yes. Qatar normally has enough LNG storage to fill 9-12 tankers. Which is enough for just 3-4 days of normal operation.
They shut production on March 2.
One tanker loaded and left on March 6.
One tanker being loaded.
They can probably load up to 10 more before running out.
However It will take at least 2 months to restart production.
Iran hit Qatar’s Ras Laffan facilities today causing extensive damage. I suspect that will stop any LNG loadings from continuing.
The ending. Trump pushes this till bibi is done in Lebanon etc. claims victory bags out. Every nations ships are allowed through except us. .
Historians are going to be ripping this imbecile 10,000 new assholes per chapter. Billions of new assholes. Hitler is the most interesting person in history; Trump is going to be the least interesting person in history.
Translated:
Mish,
Just a couple of days ago I sent a comment about your followers using the word retard/retarded.
I explained that for people with learning disabilities, that, that word is as rude and offensive as the n-word is to African-Americans.
Then included your own site rules about not being offensive in a number of ways, including names like this.
Yet one of your comments today I see it being used again by “burnitalldown.”
Isn’t there enough stupid crap going on in this world without idiots on your site being allowed to be so crude and uncaring.
I would like to introduce “burnitalldown” to some of these wonderful people, to see if you might change his mind; but I highly doubt it.
This place is as bad as X.
I know that you read all these comments because you often delete them here. So obviously agree with this kind of rhetoric.
Special needs people simply got bad genes. Nothing more. Yet many belittle them and make fun of them.
I thought you were a better person, Mish.
Nope.
Shame on you for using the words “stupid crap” and “idiots”. I am offended. You should be banned by Mish.
Stu hasn’t complained about it so I wouldn’t worry so much.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qALqXrAS9Ug
Thanks for bringing this up. Pejoratives have there time and place but directing them at those who need understanding instead of name calling is uncalled for. There is a lot of love of money types on this forum who’s financial acumem is about all they have going for them. The last shall be first. I see it everyday.
17 lines of whine. Have some cheese with that.
Thanks for Karing, Karen
How did we ever survive without the Karen’s?
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When is somebody of consequence finally going to propose the 25th?
What’s up with all of the weird videos from Bibi?
Probably clinging to life.
I’d love to have control of the IV and respirator.
Maybe trying to fake out Iran that Bibi is dead/incapacitated so they’ll stop bombing his compound.
USA is winning! The US-Israeli strategy against Iran is working. Here is whyEvery aspect of Iran’s ability to project regional power is being successfully degraded.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/3/16/the-us-israeli-strategy-against-iran-is-working-here-is-why
The fact that in the past few days the Trump administration has:
There are all obvious signals that the strategy is working beautifully. “We are in the pipe, 5 by 5.”
Darn shame we can’t shut down Trump’s mouth. In my life, I don’t think I’ve encountered this level of propaganda every time he spews his garbage.
Enough is enough!
One could also say Iran’s strategy is working…all they have to do is survive. And the Straight of Hormuz isn’t going to be reopened any time soon. And the Houthis will do the same on the Red Sea side soon as the UAE bails outta Yemen and the Saudis take over. Iran has mined the Oman side of the straight of hormuz so the ships pass that much closer on the Iranian side. A shooting gallery. This article glosses over these issues…
I know here is the data https://www.reuters.com/graphics/IRAN-CRISIS/OIL-LNG/mopaokxlypa/
You need to lay off the mind-altering substances.
In the real world, Iran will now have defeated the US/Israel 4 times in 2 years, and every one fully deserved. The only thing left to determine is how big the defeat will be, and given Trumps ego, it will be massive, and he’ll still be claiming “victory” while at the same time blaming others, as he can never ever be at fault for the consequences of his own idiotic decisions.
Please consider:
Russia is training Iran how to fight with drones like in Ukraine where there is a 20-mile death zone due to dronesUkraine is training European troops to fight with drones against RussiaUS has declined Ukraine’s offers to helpUS is sending 5000 of its troops to put “boots on the ground” to fight conventionally Iranians using dronesMilitary hospitals in Germany are begging locals in advance for blood donations, and are clearing the hospitals of any non-serious patients.Question: would all this qualify as treason, or not yet?
The Kent resignation is really interesting- the magas are starting to rebel because they know theyve been had by the plutocrats- suckers!!!!
This quote from him during the campaign says it all –
“It speaks to our hubris,” Kent told reporters while campaigning for Congress. “For us not to have learned from all this just shows that there are people making money and making their careers at the other end of it. They’ve been doing it on the backs and dead bodies of U.S. soldiers.”
I feel terrible for the guys who voted and got tricked the guy who claimed that the Haitians were eating cats and dogs and many other falsehoods.
Who could see that coming, right?
It’s possible to revile Trump AND not want to be overrun with Haitians or other illegals.
Back up a bit. Trumpty dumpty said that America is broke and America’s fiscal situation is unsustainable. Okay, so who’s paying for this war again? At this point I think that the rest of the world is more than happy to watch America destroy itself. High probability that this was the plan all along.
I doubt Israel would deliberately want its Uncle Sugar to be unable to continue the checks. The leading candidate for their next host is India, who although no fans of muslims are not nearly as wealthy, also will not be as compliant due to a population of jews and christian wingnuts.
It appears the plan is to expand the asset base of our monetary system via tokenization of precious metals, oil, land, real estate in addition to offloading more treasury crap onto the public. That’s why crypto wasn’t strangled in the crib and why the “Genius Act” was passed and signed by the “Stable Genius”. Though based on blockchain technology, it will be maintained in a single unified ledger allowing centralized control. Think of a CBDC operated by private financial powers without any of the protections against search and seizure. Probably what was meant by owning nothing and being happy.
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the UAE were our allies. So were Canada, Greenland and Mexico. I wonder what would happen if they decided that they have been totally been had by Trump since Russia is now exporting oil and they are not.
I’m hoping NATO will kick us out. Losing all these “Allies” would mean the cost of maintaining an empire would be prohibitive as well as meaningless.
Actually Trump needs all nations to support him, including his own. But he does not even have his own countries people behind him.
He is owned by Fox News and big media. Compromised beyond all reason with his involvement with Epstein. Heck, even Bloomberg is not complaining one little bit as Trump flogs the constitution and disregards the law.
Unfortunately the MAGA cult is too stupid for rational thought…
This will not end well!
He’s actually owned by Israeli interests.
now, the gulf states bought him a nice jet, he can be owned by both.
I wonder how Qatar feels about gifting Trump that 747 now?
Had to the bone as they are not shipping any oil or LNG and it is killing their revenue streams. Iraq is reversing a pipeline to export through Turkey at this point. Qatar is screwed as its LNG compression trains are inside Hormuz.
On the positive side, a few LNG ships have docked in Qatar and we may be seeing some compressor re-starts?
Many of the Gulf states are owned by Israel as well. Dubai is the perfect Israeli model. Population dominated by foreigners using imported labor producing no tangible goods either moving money around or just sitting around.
TRUMP: ‘Not afraid’ of Vietnam-style ground combat
No, Bonespurs wouldn’t be.
As Russell Zisky declares in “Stripes”, “I want you guys to know that if we ever get into some serious combat, I’m going to be right behind you!”
“The Little Red Hen” is a classic fable about hard work, where a diligent hen (US) keeps open water ways and free trade. When she asks for help from lazy friends (Italy, Germany, Belgium, Japan, Australia, Spain, China, Canada, South Korea, and the UK), they refuse, but they all want to use the oil.
Why don’t they just use more Russian oil and stab Ukraine in the back too while they are at it? No More Free Rides!!! We have plenty of oil in our western hemisphere!!!
Trumpstien did remove the sanctions on Russian oil, so why not?
Stu Pid has to think the war as a sports game to make sense of it. You think of a children’s book to make sense of it. I don’t know which is more pathetic. This is why Trump has been successful speaking at a 3rd grade level.
I wonder if the hen kept her friends out of the decision to attack her neighbour, which would affect her friends negatively, and loudly said she didnt need help? And if she insulted her friends by threatening to invade and steal their Green Land? And maybe broke promises about trading with them? And then wonderend why her friends didnt rush immediately to her aid when she made a blunder and did not ask them for help directly but by typing incoherent and passive agressive messages?
hey idiot, if you want USA military to be in Iran for next 20 years like we did in Afghanistan then please start writing checks to USA government to cover it and a lot..
Majority of USA is more interested in spending that money to improve live in America and not in some forgotten place.
If you are really into it you can even join US Army and ask to be deployed there.
Nothing changed in Iran. whatever we destroyed they will rebuild in a year or sooner, unless we basically occupy this country for next x years (provided we can which is still not given).
He needs to enlist pronto! The US Army sure could use a patriot like him to be first on the beach in Iran.
He could enlist in the IDF. It’s been proposed that Americans who volunteer for the IDF be eligible for US military veteran benefits. There is one wingnut congressman who wears an IDF uniform to congress.
Not that the lazy friends are capable of helping in the first place. But when the dust settles; the Red (Orange?) Hen is going to be making a lot of people eat crow.
And none more than our illustrious Carney. The US has bought and paid for Canada a long time ago. By refusing to pitch in, which is the dignified thing to do, Carney is biting the hand that feeds him. (Financially as well as politically because all his wealth is in the US.)
Chickens coming home to roost, moron.
So much winning (in your imagination)
The little red hen is about to get its kin neck strangled.
Well, after a couple of orbits around the man in black’s head and some magic words.
Is this the hen that the chicken twirlers ended up butchering after muttering their magic words?
Best line from Trump yesterday (something like):
“We won the WAR and they are not being fair by fighting back, I mean what is that…”
LOLz
Peak entitlement form a person born with a platinum spoon sticking out of his posterior.
Gridlock? Ayatoilets clogged? Call roto rooter?
Does Roto-Rooter make house calls to aircraft carriers?
No one pays attention to what Trump says anymore. We watch what he does.
He mostly waddles around, says things, and naps.
He just reads from BiBi’s partners at Fox News’s script…
Fox is going to get some tough competition from the Kosher News Network, formerly known as CNN.
Stop being so myopic and look at the big picture.
Iran’s Islamic caliphate lost their ability to attain and deliver nukes and their terror proxies are decimated. Iranian regime change will happen, one way or another. It must, or WW3 is guaranteed. All the UK, EU, Canada reticence is due to their unvetted immigration creating internal threats – which ICE is forcefully addressing here at home.
We have seen Communist dictators taken out of Venezuela and Cuba is next to fall. All without American blood. Persians will freed from Mohammed and his 7th century dogma. People are celebrating in the streets.
WTF are you all complaining about? Trump is the most effective leader since Churchill and FDR. You all are bunch of crybabies.
Trump has “neutralized” Iran’s abilities the same way he “neutralized” DEI, just wait an election cycle or two and history will repeat itself. Once that happens, MAGA will be the cry baby all over again.
If only taxpayers were allowed to vote.
The Gop would win 46 out of 50 states.
That’s a fact.
No lies detected
Only if you don’t count Social Security payroll deductions as taxes. This right wing shell game goes back to the 1930s When SSI was conceived.
That is news to all of us. Haven’t GOPers been campaigning for the lowest minimum taxes for decades? And GOPers get the maximum tax deductions, effectively paying zero or less tax than the combined employed population of the US, plus local flat taxes like sales tax, various levies, Toll tax & fees like tariff, etc…. By that criterion, anti-GOPers should win elections 50 out of 50 states, enacting policies that tax the hell out of GOPers — That is the fact, my friend.
Like every jagoff fleeing to Florida — one rigged election and BOOM, Democratic Governor and all that goes with it
Im sure dems are all about equal rights for whatever group. Dei if you will. The only reason it dominates the head lines is the republican machine makes it an issue because rep policies dont represent their base.
Sure Jan, whatever you say. Iran still has nuclear materials and enough weapons capability to launch a dirty bomb right into the heart of Israel. Diplomacy was the only way to solve this problem, sadly we’re being lead by a deranged pedophile whose cognitive abilities are long gone.
That agreement was only to buy time for regime change in Iran and allow Boobus Americanus to forget about Iraq and Afghanistan. Regime change didn’t happen so Trump pulled the plug. See “The Path to Persia”.
They still have that nuclear material they were offering to hand over when we bombed them. The SMART move would have been to take it BEFORE bombing them, as NOT bombing them doesn’t seem to have been an option.
So now we don’t know where it is, and have given them the utmost urgency to make it into a bomb.
Winning!
Iran was negotiating with Jared and Steve Witikoff, but those morons didn’t understand how nuclear weapons work.
And they’ve murdered everyone who could tell them where it is.
Amazing…care to tell that to the families of the 13 US service personnel who have died.
I want to smoke what you are smoking
Nobody knows what amount or which UF6 the Iranians may have on hand. The assumption that it is all under ruble is a poor one.
These nukes…are they in the room with us now? No one credible believes they were developing them. But kudos to your regime change cheerleading. Ayn Rand wants her characters back from your besmirching.
“Iran’s Islamic caliphate lost their ability to attain and deliver nukes and their terror proxies are decimated.”
Since the director of Counterterrorism said today that Iran was no imminent threat, what do you know that he does not?
You think Trump handled this excursion effectively? Have you seen the price of gasoline? Do you want to see American soldiers in Iran?
Venezuela is still a dictatorship. The silence on that front has been deafening of late.
Cuba has not fallen yet and big deal if it does. It will not rise to the level of Puerto Rico and I can’t Trump taking on that project on humanitarian grounds.
0 people have been prosecuted in the Epstein debacle because if any are, Trumps name will be on their lips.
His attempt at Tariffs? the world is still laughing.
Over $1T in deficits so far this year up to February. Not counting this war and repaying the Tariff money.
Perhaps his theory on immigration was what the American people wanted but his methodology was certainly not another huge failure for the American people.
He rendered congress and the senate totally redundant which basically makes him a dictator or a king. That is not what America is about.
The only dictator that really matters is Putin and he has done nothing about him. In fact he is with him in destroying the Ukraine.
In terms of war, to put Trump anywhere near the level of Churchill is a joke. Try Hitler and you are closer.
in terms of his grasp of simple economics he is close to Pee Wee Herman in terms of intellect.
It’s not just unvetted immigration, but also curried favour with the immigrant voter base. Can someone like the UK’s latest green member Hannah Spencer ever say anything that would support an American cause, let alone Trump?
This is not something talked about enough. A lot of left leaning, open border, politicians are now beholden to immigrant groups and their sectarian issues creating a lot of cross-purpose problems.
It seems today we have some unification of the middle (read no) powers. How much of this is because radicals are steering the political helm? It’s not too bad, yet, in Canada, but the UK is quickly moving towards a Sharia state with how much the Islamist’s are growing in the legislature, and the left kowtowing to them.
Could the left say yes to Trump even if they wanted to?
Say yes to an serial child rapist and trafficker?
Say yes to a 30 time convicted felon?
Say yes to a pig that lies with no remorse, and takes accountability for nothing?
You go ahead and jump right in there. I’ll hold yer beer.
Feel free to read my post at any time.
Crap
Thanks, I really needed a good laugh!!
Another Randian cultist.
The first step on the road to recovery is to admit you have a problem.
Don’t think a recovery is in the plans. That’s why there will be no such admission from the paid goons, no matter where they are.
New world disorder, remember? So destruction of the old system is the big picture which simply being executed. Maximize chaos, destroy traditional cultures and national identities via (Zionist-paid) mass immigration and islamic take over in Europe.
Enforcement of AI digital enslavement dystopia next step – as clearly communicated by the reptilian parasites believing they own everything. Everything already prepared and being implemented day by day. Setting the unwashed – that’s us – up against each other to keep ’em busy, ancient divide & conquer strategy.
A few thousand in control with plans dating back two centuries (Freemasons, Jesuits, Chabbad Lubavich). WW1 – WW3 in Pikes/Mazzini’s Fm plans in the 1850s. Unreal, almost unbelievable.
This is almost sad to watch a megalomaniac sociopath, with advancing senility coming face to face with reality he cannot bullshit his way through. This flailing, erratic meltdown is fascinating to watch in real time. I predict he will continue to deteriorate rapidly in the coming days as the cognitive dissonance of his situation accelerates.
If I did not detest this man and everything he stands for with every fiber of my being, I would probably pity him, but I just cannot muster any empathy for this despicable flotsam of the human race.
Are you talking about Biden?
We were, when he was in office.
Living in the past still Rex, and therefore not able to see what is happening right in front of you? Biden has been out for a while now, making the whole “blame Biden for every Trump screw up” play a bit silly.
oh Rex bless your heart. You really are The Past’s biggest tenant aren’t you?
The one thing I can absolutely guarantee is, he will never take one shred of accountability for anything he has done.
If Trump is in that poor of shape one wonders who is running the show? Kushner? A cabal of cronies?? And yes I asked the same when Biden was all but a stick figure.
Does this mean Ted Cruz will do a GD thing? Just say the word and I’m sure the dems will be happy to draw up impeachment documents.
The D’s and R’s approved the bills that paid for the wars under any administration. Voting for either party is throwing away a vote.
I think what he probably meant is that there’s no way any other countries can help.
Taco is the one who really needs the help.
I listened carefully to Trump’s press conference today. He was gracious but disappointed with decisions by NATO countries. He wanted them to help with mine sweepers.
Trump is correct that the US helps NATO countries. I cannot imagine NATO dealing with a security situation without the US taking the lead. The US got involved with Serbia under Clinton although Serbia was no threat to NATO countries and certainly not the US.
I also listened to the Irish Prime Minister. He was gracious in his remarks noting that Europe wants diplomacy and sanctions. He admitted that Iran had evil leadership with overt threats to other countries and active support for terrorists. For Iran, sanctions and diplomacy do not work. Europe wants appeasement as usual. Trump has made a difficult decision to pursue action, not appeasement.
Funny, as Joe Kent said that Iran is no imminent threat and that the United States attacked Iran at the behest of Israel.
What do you know that director of the National Counterterrorism Center does not?
I would argue that in fact sanctions and diplomacy have worked. Containment is not easy. Takes constant work, the kind of work this administration does not like to do. Rather they like to govern by force and so they are. If in fact, Iran was the threat Israel claims it is, then why aren’t SA, UAE and Qatar taking the lead. It would certainly be in their interest. Why isn’t Europe jumping in? Sorry the facts simply do not add up.
JFK tried diplomacy and bribery (providing Hawk missiles) with Israel to stop their nuclear weapons program but it didn’t work.
Fun Fact:
The Jewish organization that invited President John F. Kennedy to Dallas before his assassination was the Dallas Jewish Community. They organized a luncheon for him on November 22, 1963, which he was scheduled to attend.
It was a setup
Per Gemini, “President John F. Kennedy was scheduled to attend a luncheon at the Dallas Trade Mart at 12:00 noon on November 22, 1963.The event was the annual meeting of the Dallas Citizens Council, which co-hosted the luncheon alongside the Dallas Assembly and the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest (now known as the University of Texas at Dallas).” What is the source of your fun fact?
“However, it is known that Kennedy’s visit to Dallas was sponsored by an organization called the Dallas Citizens Council, a group dominated by Jewish businessmen. The welcoming committee in Dallas was chaired by Sam Bloom, a prominent member of the Texan Jewish community. “
Thank you, Gemini has at least partly confirmed this now:
While the statement highlights real figures and organizations, it presents them through a specific ideological lens:
Dallas Citizens Council: This was a real and powerful group of business leaders in Dallas at the time. While it included Jewish members, it was a broad coalition of the city’s elite, primarily focused on business interests and municipal stability.
Sam Bloom: Samuel “Sam” Bloom was a prominent Dallas advertising executive and a leader in the Jewish community. He did indeed play a major role in organizing the logistics and press relations for President Kennedy’s visit.
Gemini further comments though “The statement you provided is an excerpt from the book “The Controversy of Zion” by Douglas Reed. Douglas Reed (1895–1976) was a British journalist and author known for his controversial and conspiratorial works regarding global politics and Zionism.”
Ultimately, I don’t believe the standard textbook narrative on the killing of JFK, but it is very difficult to know what to truly believe.
Well, he wanted Israel’s nuclear ambitions at Dimona shut-down, and he also pissed off the CIA royally. So probably a team effort — same as 9/11.
Zapruder’s business was located in the Dal-Tex building across the street from the Texas School Book Depository which is a much better candidate for the point of origin of the shot postulated by “single bullet theory”. And if the single bullet theory is NOT correct, they’ve still got a big problem. Just TRY finding a floor plan of the Dal-Tex building and who occupied which floors.
More fun facts (all coincidence,of course):
Early life
Abraham Zapruder was born into a Jewish family in the city of Kovel, the Russian Empire (now Ukraine), the son of Israel Zapruder.[1] He received only four years of formal education in Ukraine. In 1909, his father left for North America. In 1918, Abraham Zapruder left Kovel for Warsaw with his family. His brother Morris was murdered by Polish police in 1918. In 1920, his family emigrated to the United States, settling in Brooklyn, New York, where they were reunited with Israel Zapruder.[2][3]
Early life, family, and education
Jacob Rubenstein (Jack Ruby) was born on or around March 25, 1911,[b] to Joseph Rubenstein, a carpenter, and Fannie Turek Rutkowski (or Rokowsky), both Polish-born Orthodox Jews residing in the Maxwell Street area of Chicago, Illinois. He was the fifth of his parents’ 10 surviving children. During his childhood, the parents often behaved violently towards each other and frequently separated; Ruby’s mother was eventually committed to a psychiatric hospital.[4]
Bringing the receipts!
I think it was a joint Israeli-Cuban operation. Israel provided the set up, inside info via CIA’s James Angleton and the cover up via the Warren Commission initially proposed by Eugene Rostow within an hour of Ruby (identified publicly during announcement of Oswald’s death as Jacob Rubenstein) killing Oswald. Pro-Castro Cubans probably did the wet work as they had pretty thoroughly infiltrated the exile groups and still do.
Israel was obviously motivated by JFK’s efforts to stop their nuclear weapons program while Cuba was thrown under the bus by the Soviets to end the Cuban Missile Crisis yet the Kennedys were still trying to assassinate Castro and foment a coup.
CIA and the Kennedy family wanted it covered up to hide the anti-Castro plots. The Kennedy family also wanted future political viability which would be killed if they publicly suspected Israeli involvement.
Explains why the Kennedys never offered support or encouragement to those that questioned the Warren Report.
A person of interest is the Cuban ambassador to Israel from 1961-1973 Ricardo Wolf. He was a jew from Germany that migrated to Cuba in the 1920s. He became quite wealthy and helped finance Fidel Castro’s rise to power. After he retired, he stayed in Israel, founded the Wolf Prizes and eventually died there. How is someone able to hold on to their wealth under Castro and leave with it as well as all the state secrets he must have known?
How about the thousands of US soldiers that have been killed by Iran and the thousands of Israeli citizens suddenly killed on October 6th.
How about the millions that are about to be killed, because Trumpstien needed a distraction from his violent rape of children?
How about that, my brand new friend Rex River?
Introduce me to the gang you showed up with.
That’s what happens when we invaded Iraq. Iraqis fought back.
Sanctions and diplomacy would not make Israel happy.
Trump chose annihilation against a nation that was basically a toothless, red-headed stepchild. Sure it has some petulant factions, but had fully complied with the nuclear containment treaty that Obama put together ~ that resulted in a period of peace.
Trump broke the treaty and his actions are recognized by the free world as violations of the Geneva convention.
No chance any nation should feel compelled to come to his side.
I love my country but fear its government.
Yes a difficult decision indeed! One with no preparation, no strategy, no planning more than 48 hours ahead, no clear objectives, no vision on what surrender looks like, and, most importantly, the one thing the US has had the most trouble with in recent interventions, how to win the peace.
Holy shit… Nice post, Mr. Goebbles!
Diplomacy/JCPOA was working. Stop believing that ‘the other guy’ is a demon beyond reason. Iran has been very measured in multiple attacks on its country: the coup, Iraq war, killing of Soleimani, attack on its embassy, the war last year. They seem more reasonable than either the US or Israel lately. The US, not Iran, has launched 80 regime change operations since WWII and has 300+ military bases globally. Not Iran.
It must be hard for Trump supporters, having to come with new excuses all the time, even as the Orange Buffoon changes positions more often than he changes his clothes.
It’s rough going for them. But, god bless their little hearts, they’re out here trying.
They alternate between a kind of manic hysteria and depressed whataboutisim. They seem to cope ok.
You’re watching bi-polar illness coupled with dementia and agitation Alzheimer’s in real-time.
And here I thought he is an incoherent, inarticulate, incompetent, incontinent, morbidly obese, hebephrenic, sadistic, psychopath.
Hmmm….You both make good arguments. I will award you more points for more words I possibly understand.
… in charge of a massive nuclear arsenal.
LOL!!!
And a fully complicit congress, DOJ, military establishment and main stream media support for the annihilation of a nation. Regardless of the civilian casualties.
Bombing children in school? No problem, it was an OOPS!
Pretend that Russia or any other country that the Empire doesn’t like were to do anything comparable.
The howls of outrage would be deafening.
Democrats are just hoping they are NOT put in the position of having the power to stop this so they can stay in the good graces of AIPAC and still use t as an issue in the midterms. AIPAC probably granted them a waiver to offer tepid, peripheral criticism of the war without risk of having funds cut off.
Given the outrageous bullshit Trump is perpetrating and his history of criminal and predatory activities? It is shocking that the entire media is not enraged. Something is very wrong in our nation!
Well, who runs the media? The Ellison clam will soon be running CNN in addition to CBS. And those media outlets not directly run by Zionists are afraid of the Israel lobby.
Adam Schiff said on Sunday that no additional funds need be allocated for Trump’s war on Iran – that the Big Ugly Bill (as he called it) already had enough money in it. First time I’ve ever agreed with Schiff.
Schiff has received over $9 million from the Israel Lobby according to TrackAIPAC. That even beats Chuck Tumor’s $6 million.
This war was intended well in advance. I say intended not planned because there is no evidence of planning given how it has turned out. Is that deliberate to give credence to the justification that an attack was “imminent” and there was no time to plan? Even still, there are always war scenarios planned in advance and wargamed out beforehand.