Very impressed by Irans strategy and foresight. Very unimpressed by USA s miscalculation of the situation. Israel is like a bull in a china shop and just doesn’t care.
They have relied on US money and weapons and their iron dome. How that working for them?
Agree Israel needs dismantling completely so it can’t continue to attack all the surrounding countries and finish off the Palestinians. Don’t have a clear picture of how that would be achieved but Iran needs to ensure that they can’t use a nuclear weapon. Hopefully thats on their to do list.
Trump, high on his Venezuela "victory," and Netanyahu, high on his Gaza "victory," deluded themselves that assassinations and a show of big bombs would make Iran kneel before them. But they clearly knew nothing of Iran.
Iran-- as is clear from Jeremy's excellent reporting -- is playing a different game. It isn't out to fight the conventional war -- it's weakening the enemy through strategic choking of its energy supply routes, exhausting the enemy's military might with smaller and smarter drones and so on, and will dictate when the war ends.
Let's not forget that Iran also has the higher moral ground, not killing civilians like Israel does, and not assassinating heads of state like the U.S. does. And not lying through it's teeth the way Netanyahu and Trump do.
Just a few reminders: "War cannot be made into Peace " Father Dan Berrigan.
Nobody wins a war- not even the victors and at this time in Earth's evolution, we humans all lose when pollution and warming make it uninhabitable for any humans, anywhere. Compounding the problem with war brings all closer to that end, with time and resources, lives and cooperation lost to war. Opps! We keep doing what we can but need to stop all war as our End Game.
Will Israel let the US stop this war? or force the US to commit further into it? Even if the war stops will US and Israel just start it again under the guise of new negotiations? How can trust actually be built?
Israel can't stop now. Currently, this is a huge geopolitical disaster for Israel. The illusion of US/Israeli dominance is destroyed, and seen to rest mostly on deterring opposition by collective punishment of civilians. Arab states will re-orient themselves away from the US/Israel axis if they end the war like this. The political repercussions in the US will be a downward spiral for Trump and support for Israel. They have to keep going and hope some sort of victory will save them.
I believe Trump will be impeached next year, and for the first time, a president removed. Ostensibly because he started this war, but really because he will have *lost* the war. We all know the Democratic Party leadership removing him will carry on carrying on until the end, just the way Richard Nixon was supposed to end the Vietnam War with his "secret plan" once he took office. This time, however, the war will end as the U.S. itself does, however that plays out.
By that, I meant that, once they become a majority and once Trump is gone, the *Democrats* will find excuses to continue the war(s) -- just as Nixon did. Mark my words.
Their current near-complete opposition is all a big fat lying partisan show, conducted by their captured leadership. I've been watching them since the 70s, and their military-level-formation today is like night-and-day from then. The rank-and-file congresspersons know now they must *behave* where it counts, or bad things will happen to them; they were selected by you-know-who for this very reason. So I give their *leadership* no more faith than I would any from the Republicans (except Massie and maybe Paul).
Washington has spent decades believing it can bomb, sanction, and destabilize countries without consequences. Now that Iran is imposing real economic and military costs, suddenly the talk turns to “ending the war.” This is the predictable result of a policy built on arrogance and permanent war.
Iran has to continue until Israel is controlled. Make peace with US and reopen Strait of Hormuz. Blast Israel into the stone age until they leave Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and give up their nuclear weapons. Yeah, that's the kicker. At some point Israel hauls out it's nukes.
Exactly this David! “”At some point Israel hauls out its nukes.””
Which is why I posed this question in Glen Diesen’s comment section much earlier today, and I wish somebody could provide some logical responses to it.
One of the things I’m wondering about Israel’s nukes is whether they can actually be shot down by Iran’s anti ballistic missiles before they reach Iran… I certainly hope they can but one can only wonder what happens if a few of them slip thru Iran’s defenses… and also what kind of damage can be caused by nuclear warheads exploding in the sky (when hit by an anti-ballistic missile)…
I know absolutely nothing about military weaponry, which is why, I left the following comment in Glenn Diesen’s comment section to his latest interview with Prof. Mohammad Marandi (which was excellent, by the way). The question I posed to Glenn is below…
<< Glenn, I have not yet finished watching your interview but I think many of us would love for you to pose these OBVIOUS "elephant-in-the-room" questions to Prof. Seyed M. Marandi and your other guests...
1) What do you/they think of the high probability that Israel (U.S. too?) will fire off nuclear missiles as things get much worse for them? and 2) What can Iran do to counter these nuclear weapons? >>
...but, of course, BEFORE Israel and/or the U.S. fire off any nukes, they will obviously do what they always do... lie their asses off, using their "conduit", the mainstream/corporate media, who can ALWAYS be dutifully counted on to act as state-dept loudspeakers... at this point in history, they are nothing more than that... the U.S.and Israel will first "manufacture consent" for their firing of nukes by concocting complete and utter bullshit (which no one in the world, no one in their right mind anyway, will believe... except, of course, for the U.S. citizenry... who are now, for the most part, totally-conditioned cheerleaders for one the two corporate teams)... and their manufactured consent will probably go something like this... "We had to preemptively decimate Iran with our nukes because our intelligence services discovered that Iran had not only developed (suddenly... of course) their own nukes but they were about to use them!!!" (exclamations included for emphasis)
Meanwhile, the environmental consequences of this war cannot be overstated. The targeting of Iran’s oil depots, just one of many war crimes, has resulted in massive air and probable water pollution, with thick black smoke clouding the skies and black rain loaded with carcinogens, including benzene and formaldehyde, pouring down on the population. I was happy to see though, that the unpopularity of the war in the U.S. may help shorten its length. I hope we can mount massive antiwar protests to shorten it even further.
As perpetually embarrassing as it is to be an American, there are times when it becomes near-suicide intolerable. These are the times.
The embarrassment begins with the arrogant bloodlusty wannabe ruling-class of America taking orders from the arrogant genocidal nation-state of Israel. At any and all costs. Consequences be damned.
It grows more profound and deeply tragic as America swings its over-budgeted military dick at Iran and murders - **unprovoked** - a whole lot of people. Including children. Including children. Deliberately, including children. These are human beings, just like you, just like me. These are children, just as you once were, just as I once was. Innocent.
America's *elected mascots and well-paid spokespeople, in response to these horrors and strategically fatal miscalculations, then proceed to embarrass us beyond all decency by bragging about it to the world. Bragging about premeditated, serial murder. By bragging about how "massive firepower" is raining down on Iran and its "horrid people" and that they all deserve it because some rotating platter of ambiguous or outrageous "reasons". I could go on.
And this embarrassment: We, the United Sates of America spend more money on our military than the next top-ten countries combined.
And then this embarrassment: We spent so much money on this giant, sprawling, intricate apparatus of intentional destruction - why doesn't it work?
This belief, so deeply-rooted in American culture which believes, despite all evidence and in the absolute absence of any wisdom, that spending should automatically result in winning - anything - is embarrassing to a degree unexplainable.
“i think they are aimless,“ says abbas araghchi. the intercept’s headline on march 5 read: ’sources briefed on iran war say US has no plans for what comes next.’ anything new here? their only g.aim ever: "destroy, devastate, dominate.“
in august 2004, john bellamy foster and robert waterman published a collection of essays the genial title of which said it all, then: POX AMERICANA: exposing the american empire.
I've been watching Youtube videos about damage being done to Israel and I find myself confused about one point. Why is the Knesset not demolished? It seems the Iranians can aim their missiles and drones fairly well. Wouldn't the destruction of the Knesset be an accomplishment the Israelis could not hide?
Israel and the US just want time to repair their radar systems and restock interceptor missiles so they can keep killing and destroying Iranian infrastructure.
I guess it would be inappropriate to think maybe one of the US's tactical nukes could go off course and accidentally hit Tel Aviv. I mean, the US didn't strike that Iranian girl's school by mistake, twice, with a Patriot missile. It was some other country with those same missiles. I mean, everyone makes mistakes, AIR?
Iran shouldnt give up until israel is destroyed. It would be a huge mistake to let israel live
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Very impressed by Irans strategy and foresight. Very unimpressed by USA s miscalculation of the situation. Israel is like a bull in a china shop and just doesn’t care.
They have relied on US money and weapons and their iron dome. How that working for them?
Agree Israel needs dismantling completely so it can’t continue to attack all the surrounding countries and finish off the Palestinians. Don’t have a clear picture of how that would be achieved but Iran needs to ensure that they can’t use a nuclear weapon. Hopefully thats on their to do list.
Trump, high on his Venezuela "victory," and Netanyahu, high on his Gaza "victory," deluded themselves that assassinations and a show of big bombs would make Iran kneel before them. But they clearly knew nothing of Iran.
Iran-- as is clear from Jeremy's excellent reporting -- is playing a different game. It isn't out to fight the conventional war -- it's weakening the enemy through strategic choking of its energy supply routes, exhausting the enemy's military might with smaller and smarter drones and so on, and will dictate when the war ends.
Let's not forget that Iran also has the higher moral ground, not killing civilians like Israel does, and not assassinating heads of state like the U.S. does. And not lying through it's teeth the way Netanyahu and Trump do.
nicely said
Just a few reminders: "War cannot be made into Peace " Father Dan Berrigan.
Nobody wins a war- not even the victors and at this time in Earth's evolution, we humans all lose when pollution and warming make it uninhabitable for any humans, anywhere. Compounding the problem with war brings all closer to that end, with time and resources, lives and cooperation lost to war. Opps! We keep doing what we can but need to stop all war as our End Game.
Will Israel let the US stop this war? or force the US to commit further into it? Even if the war stops will US and Israel just start it again under the guise of new negotiations? How can trust actually be built?
Israel can't stop now. Currently, this is a huge geopolitical disaster for Israel. The illusion of US/Israeli dominance is destroyed, and seen to rest mostly on deterring opposition by collective punishment of civilians. Arab states will re-orient themselves away from the US/Israel axis if they end the war like this. The political repercussions in the US will be a downward spiral for Trump and support for Israel. They have to keep going and hope some sort of victory will save them.
I believe Trump will be impeached next year, and for the first time, a president removed. Ostensibly because he started this war, but really because he will have *lost* the war. We all know the Democratic Party leadership removing him will carry on carrying on until the end, just the way Richard Nixon was supposed to end the Vietnam War with his "secret plan" once he took office. This time, however, the war will end as the U.S. itself does, however that plays out.
maybe you are right, but the D's have been disappointing. I think its more likely his dementia sets in or he gets sick another way
"will carry on carrying on until the end,"
By that, I meant that, once they become a majority and once Trump is gone, the *Democrats* will find excuses to continue the war(s) -- just as Nixon did. Mark my words.
Their current near-complete opposition is all a big fat lying partisan show, conducted by their captured leadership. I've been watching them since the 70s, and their military-level-formation today is like night-and-day from then. The rank-and-file congresspersons know now they must *behave* where it counts, or bad things will happen to them; they were selected by you-know-who for this very reason. So I give their *leadership* no more faith than I would any from the Republicans (except Massie and maybe Paul).
Another example of how Israel uses the US for military cannon fodder for its own selfish ends.
Washington has spent decades believing it can bomb, sanction, and destabilize countries without consequences. Now that Iran is imposing real economic and military costs, suddenly the talk turns to “ending the war.” This is the predictable result of a policy built on arrogance and permanent war.
Iran has to continue until Israel is controlled. Make peace with US and reopen Strait of Hormuz. Blast Israel into the stone age until they leave Gaza, Lebanon, the West Bank and give up their nuclear weapons. Yeah, that's the kicker. At some point Israel hauls out it's nukes.
Exactly this David! “”At some point Israel hauls out its nukes.””
Which is why I posed this question in Glen Diesen’s comment section much earlier today, and I wish somebody could provide some logical responses to it.
One of the things I’m wondering about Israel’s nukes is whether they can actually be shot down by Iran’s anti ballistic missiles before they reach Iran… I certainly hope they can but one can only wonder what happens if a few of them slip thru Iran’s defenses… and also what kind of damage can be caused by nuclear warheads exploding in the sky (when hit by an anti-ballistic missile)…
I know absolutely nothing about military weaponry, which is why, I left the following comment in Glenn Diesen’s comment section to his latest interview with Prof. Mohammad Marandi (which was excellent, by the way). The question I posed to Glenn is below…
<< Glenn, I have not yet finished watching your interview but I think many of us would love for you to pose these OBVIOUS "elephant-in-the-room" questions to Prof. Seyed M. Marandi and your other guests...
1) What do you/they think of the high probability that Israel (U.S. too?) will fire off nuclear missiles as things get much worse for them? and 2) What can Iran do to counter these nuclear weapons? >>
...but, of course, BEFORE Israel and/or the U.S. fire off any nukes, they will obviously do what they always do... lie their asses off, using their "conduit", the mainstream/corporate media, who can ALWAYS be dutifully counted on to act as state-dept loudspeakers... at this point in history, they are nothing more than that... the U.S.and Israel will first "manufacture consent" for their firing of nukes by concocting complete and utter bullshit (which no one in the world, no one in their right mind anyway, will believe... except, of course, for the U.S. citizenry... who are now, for the most part, totally-conditioned cheerleaders for one the two corporate teams)... and their manufactured consent will probably go something like this... "We had to preemptively decimate Iran with our nukes because our intelligence services discovered that Iran had not only developed (suddenly... of course) their own nukes but they were about to use them!!!" (exclamations included for emphasis)
Leading to total destruction and Israel is not beyond becoming nuclear. Something, someone must stop this madness and the monsters must be destroyed.
Meanwhile, the environmental consequences of this war cannot be overstated. The targeting of Iran’s oil depots, just one of many war crimes, has resulted in massive air and probable water pollution, with thick black smoke clouding the skies and black rain loaded with carcinogens, including benzene and formaldehyde, pouring down on the population. I was happy to see though, that the unpopularity of the war in the U.S. may help shorten its length. I hope we can mount massive antiwar protests to shorten it even further.
As perpetually embarrassing as it is to be an American, there are times when it becomes near-suicide intolerable. These are the times.
The embarrassment begins with the arrogant bloodlusty wannabe ruling-class of America taking orders from the arrogant genocidal nation-state of Israel. At any and all costs. Consequences be damned.
It grows more profound and deeply tragic as America swings its over-budgeted military dick at Iran and murders - **unprovoked** - a whole lot of people. Including children. Including children. Deliberately, including children. These are human beings, just like you, just like me. These are children, just as you once were, just as I once was. Innocent.
America's *elected mascots and well-paid spokespeople, in response to these horrors and strategically fatal miscalculations, then proceed to embarrass us beyond all decency by bragging about it to the world. Bragging about premeditated, serial murder. By bragging about how "massive firepower" is raining down on Iran and its "horrid people" and that they all deserve it because some rotating platter of ambiguous or outrageous "reasons". I could go on.
And this embarrassment: We, the United Sates of America spend more money on our military than the next top-ten countries combined.
And then this embarrassment: We spent so much money on this giant, sprawling, intricate apparatus of intentional destruction - why doesn't it work?
This belief, so deeply-rooted in American culture which believes, despite all evidence and in the absolute absence of any wisdom, that spending should automatically result in winning - anything - is embarrassing to a degree unexplainable.
Again, excellent coverage. Thank you.
“i think they are aimless,“ says abbas araghchi. the intercept’s headline on march 5 read: ’sources briefed on iran war say US has no plans for what comes next.’ anything new here? their only g.aim ever: "destroy, devastate, dominate.“
in august 2004, john bellamy foster and robert waterman published a collection of essays the genial title of which said it all, then: POX AMERICANA: exposing the american empire.
I've been watching Youtube videos about damage being done to Israel and I find myself confused about one point. Why is the Knesset not demolished? It seems the Iranians can aim their missiles and drones fairly well. Wouldn't the destruction of the Knesset be an accomplishment the Israelis could not hide?
Imagine if Iran's sole requirement for ceasefire was the full and unredacted release of the Epstein files ...regime change THAT
Israel and the US just want time to repair their radar systems and restock interceptor missiles so they can keep killing and destroying Iranian infrastructure.
I guess it would be inappropriate to think maybe one of the US's tactical nukes could go off course and accidentally hit Tel Aviv. I mean, the US didn't strike that Iranian girl's school by mistake, twice, with a Patriot missile. It was some other country with those same missiles. I mean, everyone makes mistakes, AIR?