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Jon Notabot's avatar

Here I am.- wondering from a position of relative luxury in the US - how it is that pedophile in chief Donald and secretary of murder Pete are to be believed by **anyone** - particularly on the current circumstances in Iran and the region. These are serial liars. Proven serial liars. How high are US and Israeli casualty counts, truly? How much of US-Israeli radar capabilities have been destroyed? What is the actual ratio of civilian infrastructure targeted vs Iranian military sites? Neither is legitimate, based on **all** the wildly differing claims for this atrocious killing spree, but the question remains.

I have a learned hunch on all three:

1)"Our" casualty counts are much, much higher than the stated "7" to-date.

2)"Our" early warning and detection systems in the region are severely crippled, if not decimated.

3)"Our" targets are selected not solely on degrading and deterring the Iranian military, but a more systemically inhuman strategy of breaking the very spirit of the Iranian **people**.

After all, nothing says "winning" like scrambling a **third** carrier strike group to the region. Liars and sadists.

Syed's avatar

Thanks for all the work you guys do at DS News

MissAnneThrope's avatar

Iran has a right to defend itself. Period. Full stop. I am deeply grateful for the superb, credible reporting here at DSN. The trusted relationships you've built over the many years have gained you the respect of the resistance leaders across the Middle East. Stay the course. Each day, more people are disgusted by the actions and lies perpetuated by the criminal mob destroying our world.

Ayub Midea's avatar

Given the current conflicts involving nuclear-armed states like the U.S., Israel, and Pakistan, are we closer than we think to a leader actually authorizing the use of a nuclear weapon?

Fran Carbonaro's avatar

Forgive me for injecting my "dream world" into your question: I had a dream (more like a vision) 2 weeks after Trump was elected in November of 2016, that a nuclear bomb was dropped in my vicinity of the US (I have these experiences that feel more real than life). I've carried this within for the last 10 years and then "he" was elected for the second time. Once it starts, where would it end?

Ian Weniger's avatar

Thanks for the roundup from the horses' mouth. And that IRGC troop carrier is so new that the winch grapple hook and chain is still in its wrapper. Ramadan Mubarak, indeed.

Mehrdad's avatar

Congrats to the Americans, they changed Taliban with Taliban in Afghanistan and now they changed Khamenie with Khamenie in Iran. lets hope Iran is now working on building that bomb as they may not get a better opportunity. And I am hoping they are holding on those better missiles for this purpose.

rosinpotatoes's avatar

interview with Joe Lauria and Scott Ritter from Consortiumnews:

"It's frightening how bad this is; greatest destruction to US military outfits since Pearl Harbor"

Q: What's the damage assessment of US Military outfits in ME?

A: They're not talking about it; Pentagon admitting worst damage since Pearl Harbor in terms of destruction ; Iranians are taking out US Military outfits piece by piece.

Q: What happens when Israels back to the wall, they've run out of intercepters; will Israel go nuclear?

A: Iran will have nukes within a month.

Q: Could this stop greater Israel in its tracks?

A: US is defeated in the Middle East; once the Gulf states stop producing oil, their economies collapse and Big Daddy is evicted from ME....Bahrain, SA, UAE, Qatar, Oman are at risk of collapse and their civilians are waking up to the fact that their leaders don't care about them; they're on their own.

Joe Lauria says this will be the last war Israel invokes the Holocaust in order to 'get what it wants' and propel US into war.

Fran Carbonaro's avatar

And then, there's always the "Samson option."

Discount Gentleman's avatar

Is the US military being further mobilized? I hear rumors, but nothing concrete. Does DropSite have any insight?

huey's avatar
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Picture how the Midlle East would be without Israel's constant agression masked as self defense.

Israel seems to be the root cause of all the trouble the US has had with the Arabs and Muslims since its creation. Israel is a country of religious fanatics.

Fran Carbonaro's avatar

Most Zionists are not religious; at least they were not at their inception (late 1800s). Zionism is more ideological than religious (and was funded initially be the wealthy banker, Baron Edmond James de Rothschild). The HUGE exception to this are the Christian Zionists, which number in the millions in the US. Mostly, I agree with you. And even my self-exiled Israeli friend, who left nearly 50 years ago, as well. Whatever its initial vision, Israel is now a lunatic society, for the most part.

Peter Pandle's avatar

Not much in this article makes sense. It is all speculation and very little else.

On the face of it, how can one offer to cease attack on a Gulf country, claiming to reserve the right to continue if the attacks continue, when the attacks on Iran from those countries have never stopped?

How can one argue that the attacks on those countries have achieved their goals and then have an escalation of attacks on Iran with the US using those same countries bases.

This sounds to me like a split in the Iranian regime. Perhaps the religious wing thinks being nice to their fellow Muslim states is the moral high ground.

The more practical military wing seems to have understood that only a closing of the straits and a display of ability to destroy installations in the Gulf States at will is the way to split these states from the US.

Although portrayed in the West as a rabid proponent of war, Khamenei vetoed the bomb, thus weakening Iran's deterance and did not pre-emptively attack US assets when they were massed on those Gulf State sites. Now the new leadership offers an olive branch?

It's very clear that only if you show a country you can smash their patrons defense of it can you get that country to run away from the patron.