Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved a set of targets for Israel to strike inside Iran, ABC News reported on Wednesday, citing an Israeli source.
CNN also reported that Israel’s plans to attack Iran were “ready.” Neither report gave a timeline nor provided any details about what targets Israel plans to hit. Israel is expected to strike before the US presidential election on November 5.
The US has been coordinating with Israel on its plans to strike Iran following the Iranian missile barrage that was fired at Israeli territory on October 1, which was retaliation for a string of Israeli escalations in the region.
The Washington Post reported this week that Netanyahu told President Biden in a phone call last week that Israel would target military sites in Iran, not oil or nuclear facilities. However, in response to the report, Netanyahu’s office said in a statement, “We listen to the opinions of the United States, but we will make our final decisions based on our national interests.”
US and Israeli officials believe an attack on Iran could lead to a full-blown war. Iran has warned that it will launch a “decisive” response if Israel attacks.
“Iran, while making all-out efforts to protect the peace and security of the region, is fully prepared for a decisive and regretful response to any adventures,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told UN chief Antonio Guterres in a phone call on Wednesday.
The US may support the Israeli attack on Iran, either through direct military action of its own or by providing intelligence. The US is vowing to defend Israel from any potential consequences of a strike on Iran and deployed a THAAD missile defense system to Israel, making the battery, and the 100 US troops sent to operate it potential targets of Iranian missiles.
It's like saying that Israel approves its own suicide. Because that will be crossing all Iranian red lines for good (they have been warned) and the USA is pretty much powerless to do anything about it.
iran is pretty weak though
Iran is a very large semi-developed mountainous country with 90 million people. It’s in very good terms with Russia and India especially but also with China, Pakistan, etc. As you may know it leads a very powerful coalition of guerrillas, which have defeated on their own Israel (Hizbollah 2006) and Saudi Arabia (Ansarullah more recently). Together with Russia it is a key backer of Syria, arguably the most adamant anti-Zionist bastion in the region, which they have helped to stay afloat on the face of US-Turkish-Israeli-Islamist aggression for more than a decade already. And it is also extremely influential in Iraqi politics, with the fragile state easily putschable by its local allies at any moment, linking Iran to Syria with only token US military bases in between, that would be no obstacle at all. But all this is just the introduction to what Iran can (and will probably) do.
Iran has a truly massive and not well documented missile force, which has already proven itself very much able to destroy much of the Israeli military and infrastructure twice this year (and these were just “warnings”). We all know (it has been warned very clearly) that the next strike will be much much larger and will all but destroy Israeli industrial and energy infrastructure (as well as military targets), leaving the genocidal colony in tatters and pretty much open for the taking by Hizbollah, Syria and whatever land forces Iran may deploy (I would expect a massive column marching across the desert, through of the already destroyed US illegal base of An Tanf, and reaching Golan Heights in a few days (the distance is less than 1000 miles, it just needs some sort of formal Iraqi permission, which, as I said, can be easily obtained, by force if necessary).
This missile force is conventional but it’s “speculated” (pretty much confirmed) that Iran recently made a nuclear test, what almost certainly means that it has alread some number of nuclear warheads, just in case Israel or the USA decide to test the waters of nuclear war (else they won’t be used nor needed).
The other major threat that Iran has (and they have already warned the USA about it quite explicitly) is the threat to the Persian Gulf vassals and (very importantly) the undeniable and well known ability to totally blockade Hormuz Strait and thus most of the oil that doesn’t just feed the world’s economy but especially backs the tumbling fragility of the US Dollar (which is largely an oil-backed currency thanks to the petrodollar scheme, already more than half a century old). Iran has explicitly threatened to counter any damage to its reffineries, oilfields and energy infrastructure by destroying the oilfields and reffineries of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrein and Azerbaijan (all them allies of Israel and the USA, notice that Qatar was not mentioned but Azerbaijan was).
So not really “weak” at all. Israel is the weak one here: a tiny colony totally reliant on foreign support full of cracks (even Meloni has proclaimed boycott to Israel of some sort, only Germany, Britain and Morocco keep openly supporting Tel Aviv in the wider region). What brings us to the real director of the war and genocide: the USA, which can actually fight against Iran? OK, it surely can, certainly with the nuclear option (which is not any option because Russia and China and even India and Pakistian, both, quite possibly will do their outmost to dissuade from), otherwise it can at most try (and probably fail) bomb some targets in Iran but little more: it can’t protect its own military bases (which are many) in the region, it can’t prevent Iran from destroying the oil economy of its vassals and it can’t probably even prevent subversion in Saudi Arabia, Egypt or tiny and occupied Bahrein, which hosts the most importan US base in the area. Judging on what we have seen in the Red Sea, where USS Einsehower was damaged by Yemen (Ansarullah), the US military presence in the region is just a collection of “sitting ducks” waiting to be destroyed.
And all that’s why the US attempt at “interception” of the last Iranian attack was weak: the Pentagon is trying to avoid the worst scenario, which would be precisely total war with Iran, which Israel (led by US Zio-hawks) is pretty much forcing anyhow.
The USS Eisenhower was never hit. All those social media photos were made up. And they were badly done like the one showing the damage to USS Eisenhower. The problem what that photo is was a photo of a Russian aircraft carrier undergoing an update!
I don't believe what you say.
No-one else should, either.
The USA never acknowledged that the USS Eisenhower was hit. It’s not about “photos” I haven’t seen but rather about Yemen-Sana’a claiming it (they don’t generally lie: they’re a quite trustworthy source even if one-sided, that’s part of theirs and other’s strategy for claiming the upper moral ground, unlike Western endless lies that erode all credibility) and the facts of the ship and the whole fleet around it suddenly retreating to Saudi Arabia (for emergency repairs obviously and then to Italy and finally to the USA). They haven’t replaced that air carrier group, although they have recently deployed another flotilla without carriers, probably much more effective and less risky.
Aircraft carriers and in general “gunboat diplomacy” are clearly becoming obsolete. It’s not just the USA who has problems with naval operations near hostile coasts, Russia also had some of that in Ukraine if you recall (damaging and incapacitating of the Moskva) and France felt just ridiculous deploying their only aircraft carrier against landlocked Niger. Those ships are pretty much “sitting ducks” vs missiles and even to some extent drones: they can barely compete with land based modern “artillery”, which has massive range and accuracy.
If one aircraft is launched to attack Iran, it will be hit by a hypersonic missile. Or two. Five thousand young Navy personnel may die.
I don't want that. Apparently, Joe does. So does Kamala. So does Lindsay Graham.
"You can ALWAYS build more ships (in my home district…)"
A gentleman I have had conversations with when I pass his house while walking out dog, told me of friends of his who visited Iran a decade ago.
They had a wonderful experience.
Yeah the mountains get everyone and especially the guerillas, but if we teleported the Iran and Israel armies to a flat field Iran would probably lose
That is in theory; in practice, they could just go to the mountains and make it impossible to snuff them out
"teleported…to a flat field."
As a former Russian coworker once said, "And if Grandma would be having a d**k, we would call her Grandpa."
got me
Only by numbers Iran would roll over, the Israeli Army is not that good anyhow. If you follow any pro-Palestine news outlets, you should be aware of the endless damage that not just much smaller Hizbollah is causing the IOF but also the Palestinian Resistance (mostly Al Qassam but also other forces) are actually doing. Just yesterday (and again today to get my genocide-caused depression under control) I watched many such ambushes (which are quite variegated and definitely hurtful to the Zio genocidal forces), which the Resistance posts regularly online and are replicated all around.
Israel is the new Ukraine and can resist much less that Ukraine does because it’s tiny. In Ukraine, Russia has some serious problems to force the hand of the enemy because Ukraine, even if clearly losing every single day, has a very significant strategic depth and Russia will probably have to fight all the way to Kiev, Odessa or maybe even Lvov in order to secure their goals. But the colonial-genocidal regime in Palestine doesn’t have any of that, once they tempt fate once more, they will be pretty much razed to the ground (along with probably much of US interests in the region, as everybody knows that the USA is the real head of the genocidal design) and then I believe that Hizbollah, Syria and probably also Iran will invade Gallilee, joining with the West Bank at (go figure!) Armaggedon (Meggido) military base… and then, once the millions of Palestinians in the West Bank (and probably also the East Bank, i.e. Jordan) are communicated and thus armed, it’s the end of the Apartheid regime for good.
I won’t cry for them genociders, that’s for sure.
i was gonna upvote until the israel/ukraine comparison burned my eyelids
WE ARENT ISRAEL! WE ARE THE DEFENDERS, NOT AGGRESSORS
“We are the nazis”, that’s what a US volunteer learned in his few weeks in Ukraine before managing to run away and defect to Russia, where he was granted asylum.
Ukraine was putsched by the NATO (Gladio, CIA) via local nazis (both the explicit ones of Pravy Sektor and the barely cammouflaged ones of Svoboda) and their ultra-nationalist conservative allies in the so called “Euromaidan”, which was a well orchestrated armed rebellion: the legitimate left-leaning neutralist President Yanukovich was deposed in spite of massive electoral support two years earlier and his quite reasonable social-reformist and pluri-ethnic project destroyed overnight; every single key security position was given to the nazis in spite of them having very low electoral support (only in the far west and only Svoboda), soon persecution of dissidents, Romani and Russian speakers was widespread, the decisive moment was surely the burning of the trade unions’ building with dozens trapped inside and not allowed to escape by a nazi mob, which also prevented first responders from reaching the building. Then Crimea democratically broke away, massively winning their independence referendum on an anti-fascist campaign, several other regions also tried to do the same but only Donetsk and Lugansk managed to actually secede.
The Kremlin however played by their own conservative and nationalist book and did not support Donbass nor Yanukovich but instead tried to negotiate with the nazi putchists and their NATO allies, not before re-annexing strategical Crimea, being so despicable as to sign the Minsk Accords (8 year truce that only served to consolidate the nazi regime in Kiev) just when the brave antifascist Donbass militia were totall vanquishing the demoralized Ukrainian conscript army. The following years were of almost systematic genocide against ethnic Russians, aggravated before and after the war reignited in 2022, I’ve followed the conflict since the beginning and I know that much.
Ukraine as nation does not exist since 2014, only a US puppet nazi regime exists, a terrible one that makes Putin shine like a hero and savior by comparison. That despicable ultra-nationalist vassal of the USA is attacking its own citizens systematically, they are the aggressors against their own people.
I would like you to cite reliable evidence to support your "pretty much confirmed that Iran tested a nuke" assertion.
antiwar.com has carried no story on this, leading me to suspect it's not actually A Thing.
It’s been all over the Internet: there was a highly suspicious earthquake in a non-seismic desert area of Iran, not far from a nuclear facility, with exactly the same anomalous characteristics as the Pakistani nuclear test years ago. This happened a week ago or so. Feel free to believe what you wish but I do think that Iran has nukes now.
Scott Ritter, who also thinks they may have nukes, discounted that. The depth is too great.
Maybe it’s a false alarm (the depth and details were contested depending on the source). Also Ritter is too biased in favor of the Eurasian bloc (he’s smart and knowledgeable but too emotionally invested, lacking the necessary eclecticism) and Iran prefers to pretend it has no nukes, so he may have his own reasons to prefer that version of events. Others (similarly or even more knowledgeable) claim the opposite and that even Syria has nukes already (which I don’t believe, mind you). Whatever the case Iran could have nuclear weapons any time they want (their enrichment level and other technical capabilities are all already there) and there is a hint that I consider decisive in my opinion in favor of that quake being a nuclear test: just hours later Iran relaxed all its alerts, days before schedule, and re-allowed regular air traffic. It’s as if they had their test and then called to the White House:
— Wassup, Uncle Sam? Noticed that “tremor”?
— Sure, Ayatollah, we took notice. Hmpf!
Nothing appeared on antiwar.com’s main stories about this – leading me to conclude that wiser minds than me see “no there, there”.
You only have one source of news? Anti War is OK but it clearly doesn’t cover everything, it cannot. MSM could (they used to in the good old days) but they won’t because they’ve become propaganda. That’s why people is flooding to the last places where info is still shared like Telegram, Twitter or even to some extent YT.
One source for dozens of trustworthy sources.
Iran is a highly developed culture and educated nation. It is a big mistake to underestimate Iran just like they underestimated Russia and likely China.
Triple the land mass of Iraq. Not bombed randomly for 20+ years. Not so ethnically fragmented as Iraq. The Islamic Republic of Iran is not "75% Iraq by letter volume".
Also, the IRI population demographics skew significantly young. Something like 35% of the population is under 18. A massive attack on them WILL kill and hurt children.
like they underestimated us, fixed
The Biden neocon USA/NATO overestimated Ukraine and underestimated Russia. To make it clear who did what. Sorry, you fixed nothing, facts are facts on which opinions are based or not.
we were overstimated in our own defense
The USA took advantage of Ukraine to serve their own interests not Ukraine.
The offer of neutrality was a golden opportunity for Ukraine, they turned it down.
One thing, Russians do honor the treaties they sign. Germany purchased energy from Russia for some 5 decades without any problem ever, both sides honored their part of the contract.
The same holds true for NS2.
The USA sabotaged and blew up the pipeline, a declaration of war against Germany a NATO member by the USA and other NATO members. Draw your own conclusion.
He already does. Without facts and IN SPITE OF the facts.
"…underestimated how much weaponry and support NATO would shovel onto (Ukraine) to kill Soviets.", made accurate.
I've been wondering recently if there aren't at least factions in the "west" that are enabling and egging Israel on to its destruction … giving the fascists enough rope to hang themselves, as it were. It's a long shot, but I'm desperate!
I kinda wonder that, too. The faithful support of the USA (and its evangelical Christian oligarchs) for the State of Israel seems to suggest a religious alliance (the fabled 'Judeo-Christian' trope) that is based on both sides secretly thinking the other ally is a "useful idiot" in getting the End Times to happen for the benefit of Christianity (USA) OR Judaism (Israel).
End Times theology for both religions are distinctly different from each other; there comes a break-point in doctrine where each side believes THEIR side will prove "true" after a certain event(s).
Both sides missing or ignoring that "neither side is true" is the likely outcome.
What makes you think that the USA is powerless relative to Iran?
That’s not what he said.
He said the US is powerless to do anything to prevent Iran from destroying Israel.
Which is also incorrect, but a different issue.
Depends on how one defines "destroy".
"Lifeless wasteland" is one outcome of "destruction". "Fascist dystopia" is another. "Economic collapse", yet another.
Caliman may well mean "Israel leads itself to the destruction of its political influence in Western countries by overspending political capital.". It's possible Farsi news agencies mistranslated his Comment.
I don’t think the USA is “powerless”. By no means: it is armed to the teeth and has military bases and “allies” (vassals) all around Eurasia, including the Persian Gulf, which was consolidated in the First Gulf War (James Petras wrote an excellent analysis on that back in the day) and later also in the Second War (conquest of Iraq) and then again (after Iraq expelled the US in 2011) by means of the horrible ISIS unleashing and then “anti-ISIS coalition”.
Atop of that the USA has a massive nuclear arsenal that could raze Iran (or the whole world) to the ground.
The USA is definitely powerful. However, nuclear war is almost certainly off the plans for all actors (there’s rumor that Israel tried it months ago but their bomber was downed by Russia, probably with US acquiescence) because it would mean that everybody loses (and they play to win). No matter what, Russia and China make sure that whatever war there is remains conventional and they won’t abandon Iran, a key ally, in this aspect. So the USA is forced to fight a conventional war against a massive country with massive conventional military might in Iran’s backyard or its own homeland.
Would the USA try to invade Iran (as Zio-hawks seemingly want), it’s not at all like the flat landscape of Iraq, which had been disarmed and bombed for a decade before the 2003 invasion, but rather a massive version of Afghanistan, not just in size but also in weaponry and raw number of troops. Unlike in 2001 and 2003, the USA is weaker and most other powers will object to such actions (back then China and Russia pretty much shrugged off Uncle Sam’s invasions, as they felt themselves weak but now they are much much stronger).
The very fact that the USA failed ultimately in both invasions (Afghanistan and Iraq, which were ultimately directed against Iran, among others), strongly suggests that, while the USA remains a powerful military actor, it’s not at all able to win. Iran can (and probably will) destroy US and vassal assets in the region and blockade Hormuz Strait (causing a massive global oil crisis and weakening the USD overnight), it can (and probably will) take over Iraq with internal support also almost overnight, paving the way for a land invasion of Palestine (“Israel” included), it can (and probably will) activate, arm and support dissidents in Saudi Arabia, Bahrein, Jordan and even Egypt, which would totally unsettle those US satellites, it can (and plausibly will, if the USA directly attacks Iran first) sink whole US fleets without blinking.
The USA is still very powerful but not powerful enough.
They are demented criminals in DC and Tel Aviv, nothing is normal.
Certainly not “normal”, there is some logic behind it anyhow: on one side the Christo-Zionists dream of bringing around “the second coming of Jesus” by means of using the Jews as cannon fodder in their last crusade (that’s mad logic but some sort of “logic” anyhow). The other, more realistic but extremely bellicose logic, pertains to US imperial interests and their “need” to control at least sizable parts of the Old World (Eurasia primarily) in order to remain competitive in terms of global superpower; thus they are actually doing what I call “WW3 by proxy” in three fronts: two are already active (against Russia, with Ukraine as proxy, and against Iran in West Asia, with Israel as proxy) and the third is so far inactive but can ignite at any moment (against China, with Taiwan and Philippines as proxies). IMO the USA is swimming and keeping its clothes safe, as they have no intention of getting themselves directly involved in any of these proxy fronts, although Iran seems determined to make the USA pay dearly for any new attack Israel makes against Iran (at least so they have threatened).
IMO the USA and Israel are disintegrating already, Baby Killers can’t win wars, the losers have reached panic stage. The Americans, the demented Biden destroyed the economies of NATO allies when he blew up the NS pipeline. He broke the back of the German economy and with it the economy of the EU and most of them are NATO members, now that includes Sweden and Finland. They annihilated Ukraine to the last man standing, in short, Biden’s scorched earth policies destroyed Europe, and Israel is destroying itself and takes the US down with it. Now the stupid VP candidate Vance thinks that Germany can fund the rebuilding of Ukraine for the benefit of Blackrock, and Trump’s son-in-law dreams of big deals on the rubble of Gaza? They are idiots, unable to learn from experience.
I may agree that Israel is about to collapse (but not quite yet, not before mass murdering thousands of Palestinians and others more) but the USA will still resist for a while, as it is suckling from all its Empire and it won’t fall before Europe does.
Actually (in my understanding but also in the opinion of others like Hudson) the main goal of the Ukraine war was not so much to weaken Russia but to loot Europe dry and turn us into an underdeveloped colony, maybe so there’s no chance of ever another Atlantic power emerging (unless it’s Brazil maybe) or maybe just because that’s the imperial plan by default: the metropolis must be served by the colonies, and Europe is a colony now.
Germany will fund whatever the USA says unless it has a revolution. The same applies for the rest of Europe because all our economy belongs to Wall Street. We are not sovereign anymore, we don’t own our own lands, homes, industries, banks nor media; it all belongs to Uncle Sam, to BlackRock and the likes.
Yes, the USA is the enemy. After Versailles came Hitler. That too is history.
Satanyahu is dragging the world into a big war and American satanists are helping him.
née hitler
Should you really be making a Hitler reference while displaying the OUN/Bandera flag, Hitler's allies who perpetrated the Holocaust?
If you're new to Christian "Bob" Vila, he's a nice guy, but a Ukrainian ex-pat hiding out on a university deferral who, while definitely not a neo-Nazi himself, absolutely ignores and tacitly encourages the neo-Nazi forces (including but not limited to Bandera abd Azov) to kill Russians, take back "his" country for him to profit by, and expects those same Aryan supremacists to lay down their ideology and vanish into the wind after the war is done, the way NO armed special-interest nationalists ever, EVER have.
i dont support his policies mate I’m socialist..
Maybe you should put it in context? How do you mean it? Ukrainian neo-Nazis are anti-Semitic by nature.
Anti-war is opposed to political Zionist-Israeli war-crimes, the leading Zionist Likud criminal regime, Not anti-Semitic.
Anti-war is opposed to all war, and all war crimes.
I think I used the word ńe wrong.
Anti-War should be opposed to all wars, not wars it thinks are caused by the west
even if america said “f russia” and Russia invaded them in response, then you guys still shouldn’t be remissive about their actions
The West is the aggressor, the military powerhouse at least. Anti-war does oppose both the war in Ukraine caused by the Biden neocons, to be honest about who caused it, and Gaza is not a war it is a genocide massacre of a defenseless nation, Israel/USA are the aggressors, state terrorism is what they do in Gaza, WB, Lebanon and Syria, Iraq and Iran. Wars are about power and resources, always.
so its ok with russian and chinese and iranian wars because they aren’t “empires” but opposes the west because theyre helping us defend against an aggressor
No war is ok, all wars can be avoided if both sides have the will to avoid it. Peace brings prosperity to the people, wars are destructive but profitable for the warmongers, the real profiteers.
When was the last time China invaded another country, there have been border conflicts and they do have an army. The last big war Iran had was the 8 year long slaughter between Iraq and Iran and the Reagan US meddled and stoked that slaughter on the side of Iraq against Iran, as far as I know. Then the Americans attacked and destroyed Iraq, and still refuse to leave Iraq.
Not sure who "you guys" is.
I don't support Vladimir Putin's gang any more than I support Volodomyr Zelenskyy's gang.
I'm not a fan of the declining Russian and US empires, nor am I a fan of the possibly rising Chinese empire.
I'm opposed to war and don't give a pass on that to whatever death cult I happen to like better or fear more or whatever.
Nope. We are utilizing Israel to dominate the ME oil fields, and beyond.
My guess is that the big collision between Israel, Hezbollah and Iran will come prior to the BRICS meeting on 10/22.
We, the indispensable nation, have a great interest in mucking that up.
Dammit, Mikhail's Navy. You'll find that The Satanic Temple and its core Tenets stand opposed to war and murder. The low-hanging fruit you keep swatting at, isn't fruit.
Lloyd Austin is going to waste 100 American servicemen as a casus belli to escalate against Ukraine, Iran, Yemen, Russia, China, and Lebanon.
Austin will give the WEF/Klaus Schwab the perfect mass depopulation scenario.
I think they are in the process to drop Ukraine before the election.
Yeah, that’s why they just announced another $400 million in aid.
Sometimes you make a lot of money in “going out of business” sales.
He did ask for much more, they announced more aid which he may not get before the election. He was not received enthusiastically either, he is being let down slowly but surely.
Democrats are dancing on both sides of the isle. They have to make the Biden administration look good, getting some sort of a medal takes care of that before they drop Zelensky the loser and the Biden war to take the wind out of Trump’s sail, so he can’t tell the voters HE will end the Ukraine debacle, that he is the man of peace. Who knows, we will find out after the election regardless who wins.
Would that Klaus was more like his brother Les, and gave away a freezer full of meat with a purchase of select snow tires instead.
"We listen to the opinions of the United States, but we will make our final decisions based on our national interests.”
Pretty bold talk for a country completely dependent on the weaponry and foreign aid of the same country.But,until the United States tells Israel to stop the genocide, and stops all weapons shipments and foreign aid, they are complicit in every murder committed by the IDF.
The lack of leadership from our elected officials is appalling and shameful.
Good cop, bad cop.
The same goes for everyone who votes for them Harris or Trump. Both are criminal evil opportunists.
One lies. The other reminds me of a mule.
"Try to guess which is which ! I think you'll be pleasantly surprised."
It’s incredible. I’m not even outraged anymore at the morality of what the politicians are doing, but I can’t help but just look at them with contempt for how pathetic they are. The United States is this big superpower supposedly, and yet the government is letting itself get pushed around by the capital and influence of some tiny and significant vassal? I read about kings – real ones, not the cocaine fueled autocrats after the enlightenment, actively leading men into battle! Can you imagine any President in the past 60 years, charging the front lines on their horse? I mean, it’s just pathetic! I don’t know what other word you could use.
President Kennedy was the victim of a coup. By the CIA. By the Pentagon. By the bankers. By the war merchants.
Ben-Gurion was only too happy to see President Kennedy dead. Not long before the coup, President Kennedy exchanged terse letters with Ben-Gurion over Israel developing the bomb. President Kennedy was against it for the very good reason that Israel with the bomb would be more belligerent in the ME.
From then we have had one sad sack after another as President.
Just look what we have now in the WH. Just look what we have in Congress.
“I know what America is,” Netanyahu said. “America is a thing you can move very easily, move it in the right direction. They won’t get in the way.”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2010/7/18/netanyahu-us-easily-manipulated
D.C. monsters are cowards. We control the purse strings and the weapons chute.
Further:
The IMF is an American construct to control other countries. The UN is a farce. The charter was written by U.S. representatives, which allows any one country to have the power of the vote to prevent collective action for the good.
How convenient…!
But only after the ball drops in Ukraine first before the election, to give Harris a chance.
I have read that there are back channel communications with Ukraine agreeing to cede lands to Russia.
All that has happened in Ukraine could have been avoided had Zelenski showed some courage to tell Boris Johnson to pound sand in April, 2022.
I think Zelensky had no choice, he was bought and paid for by the Americans. The Russians knew it and approached Biden for a diplomatic settlement in Dec. 2021 not Zelensky. Biden said no without asking Zelensky, as far as I know.
So true, and some common sense in Washington would have helped.
Will no one rid us of this troublesome nation?
Give them enough rope…
Yes, I think they are doing it to themselves.
They will take all of us down with them. It is scary.
Iran and Hezbollah are also locked and loaded. A simultaneous attack, with precision rocketry would be difficult to defend against.
We do have demented criminal elements in charge in DC and Tel Aviv. Who knows how demented minds work? Anything is possible with them.
Why is Biden in Berlin? What could he accomplish there and now? Why would anyone with any brains want to meet with him? Farewell visit? It's like Europe welcoming the Bubonic Plague again. …Wait!? …Berlin is in Europe!? …Sorry. I answered my own questions.
😏
Last all expense paid luxury vacation?
He is in Berlin to save the Harris election. Ramstein has been cancelled, Zelenky is neglected when he shows up asking for more money and weapons, his victory plane got nowhere, they are dropping Ukraine like a hot potato to take the air out of the Trump campaign. So the demented war criminal Biden gets a medal from the losers in Berlin to impress American voters for Harris. That is the way I see it, the only way it makes sense.
That is how the criminal inmates run the asylum.
💯. I was retorical.
Understood. You do realize that no matter who is the figurehead in America, the decision makers are in the deep state that Alastaire Crooke has spoken of.
There is a bond between American monsters in D.C. and in Israel for American hegemony, including East Asia. Michael Hudson spelled it out in "Super Imperialism" by the same.
Yes, and Wesley Clark.
I thought you hit the nail on the head.
One loser is getting a medal from another loser. Your question makes sense.
Most voters top issues are the border, crime, and inflation. Dropping Ukraine isn't going to help Harris as that hardly registers for the electorate.
On importance, immigration ranks fifth and crime 11th. “The economy,” which would presumably include inflation, does come in first, though, so you’re not entirely wrong.
https://news.gallup.com/poll/651719/economy-important-issue-2024-presidential-vote.aspx
But Trump can’t campaign on ending the debacle in Ukraine if it ends before Nov. 5, the question could be, what next? No time to put domestic issues on the front burner, they go on slandering each other.
Trump really can’t campaign on anything at this point. Any kind of late “October surprise” would have to come from an external source. More than 7 million people have already voted, everyone’s mind is pretty much made up, and he’s clearly bored with it all anyway. He might gain a few votes at the margin if Harris messes up really bad, and he can cost himself a few votes at the margin doing things like going into a 40-minute trance dance in public, but in reality it’s just a matter of whipping turnout and counting votes now.
You are right, but we have to finish the game.
Trump is telling voters he will end the Ukraine war, but continue the Israeli genocide and he is in support of everything Netanyahu wants, that includes finally the war with Iran. He is a business person looking at costs and profit. Ukraine is a failure by now. Iran needs to be controlled, he did break the multilateral treaty with Iran as president. He likes war if he thinks it is profitable.
That is what the donor class likes to hear.
He got bought by the adelsons.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-sends-b-2-stealth-bombers-hit-houthi-underground-bunkers-wars-first
"US warships have also been directly targeted, in what's been called the largest US Navy battle at sea going back to World War II. There's long been speculation that US military ships have actually been struck, but that the Pentagon has concealed it."
I understand US Navy ships enter a nearby port to replenish their ship-to-air and ship-to-ground missiles. The Houthis have recognized this vulnerability and have struck and possibly sunk a few unarmed US ships.
"The US has been coordinating with Israel on its plans"
This is a test. What would each person do in 1939 Germany, as it started its the horrors.
The answer is: exactly what you are doing now.