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Thanks, John Frahm.

The Financial Express

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Thanks Ginny Garner.

AI Control of the US Military by Greg Reese

Following orders will no longer be a concern

Read on Substack

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Tim McGraw wrote:

Start at the 41:00 minute mark for the salvage operation in Venezuela. LOL! Mikey is so naive. Dealing with the military and governments of South America about an old airplane is risky business, but money changing hands can get you anything. I’ve been there. Hahaha!

At the end, Mikey and his two mechanics think the plane will never fly again. There is no paperwork on the parts! Hahaha. The paperwork will be done, don’t worry, retroactively.

“The engines were open.” Mikey. What is he talking about? The spark plugs were in the engines. The cowlings were on. It was in a hangar. Maybe the magnetos are bad, maybe not. Change the oil. Clean the plugs. Rotate the engine with the starter a few times to see if things are moving. Then fire the engines up and see what happens. See if the propeller governor works on the ground. You can pretty much test everything on the ground. 

Put in some extra gas tanks. Get a ferry permit. Hire a loco ferry pilot. And fly it back to Texas, then north to Canada and the hangar.

Sheesh!

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Tim McGraw wrote:

Re-Entry: J. D. Breen

Traveling in the “shitholes” of the world is a challenge. Bureaucrats with uniforms, guns, and a love of their authority are everywhere. The bureaucrats have to hire all their own relatives and in-laws. It’s expected. So, you end up with four or five layers of “security”. It’s really for job security and keeping peace in the family.

Dress well, smile, make a joke (learn some of the local lingo), and you’ll be fine.

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Writes Saleh Abdullah:

The whole interview was filled with false statements and projections as he tries to drag the United States into a war on Israel’s behalf. He claimed that Iran tried to assassinate Donald Trump twice and made crazy claims about Iran providing nuclear weapons to the Houthis. He even claimed that Iran is developing intercontinental ballistic missiles to strike the east coast of the United States. There’s no proof of any of these things he said.

Bibi looked like a very sick, nervous and desperate man in this interview. He has no real support and people are sick of this evil lunatic. He’s pushing the world towards a third world war and doesn’t care how many people die in the process. This is a man who is obsessed with maintaining political power so he doesn’t get thrown in prison for corruption and war crimes charges.

https://archive.is/2025.06.13-142336/https://fortune.com/2024/08/17/palantir-alex-karp-us-3-front-war-russia-china-iran-autonomous-weapons-drones-military-draft/ 

https://x.com/AFpost/status/1934030494351704266

https://libertarianinstitute.org/news/large-numbers-in-congress-back-attack-on-iran-call-for-us-to-support-israel/

https://x.com/VMcKennapoems/status/1922102323347665221

https://archive.is/ZllHp

https://korybko.substack.com/p/did-trump-really-deceive-iran-with

https://archive.is/BJbO1

https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/1933474262960255112

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13076037/Benjamin-Netanyahu-son-Yair-Florida-apartment-Israel-war-Hamas-Gaza.html

https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1934295359041253422

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Tim McGraw wrote:

I watched “The Hobbit” trilogy again this weekend. In my opinion, it is as good, or maybe better, than the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy. Howard Shore again composes the soundtrack. Again, the credits are made up of excellent charcoal drawings and sketches for the film.

J.R.R. Tolkien wrote the story. The artists made the scenery and costumes. The composer set it all to music. All of it started in the imagination of the human mind.

For me, the charcoal drawings and sketches, the music, and the dialogue in the film are the story. Perhaps, because movies are visual, the charcoal drawings and sketches are the most important part of the triad. Life comes in threes, and so does film. Three acts in life. Music, scenery, and dialogue in film. 

We seem to be living in the world of “The Battle of the Five Armies”. I can’t even keep all the armies straight anymore. Who is on whose side today?

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Writes, Patrick Foy:

We have been propagandized and conned for a very long time by this psychopathic liar and war criminal. Evidently, Washington, especially President Trump, likes Netanyahu. Or pretends to.

See here.

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Thanks, John Frahm.

The Federalist

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Antiwar.com

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Antiwar.com

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Thanks, John Smith. 

Trump’s pretend diplomacy enabled Israel’s war on Iran.

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My wonderfully insightful colleague Ira Katz has written an excellent piece that expresses many perceptive concerns and observations I have noted and shared over the past several months. Please carefully read it in a spirit of recognition and respect that the subject he addresses is an important one.

There are wise and sagacious persons such as populist Robert Barnes who both Katz and I highly esteem on many crucial issues relating to geopolitical and economic public policy, who we believe have very different and often mistaken understandings of libertarianism, Austrian economics (particularly relating international trade/tariffs, Fed creation of monetary inflation, Eurodollars, and deficits), who view the Mises Institute, and persons such as Ron Paul, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, Peter Schiff, and Murray N. Rothbard in a very different light.

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Il manoscritto fornisce un grimaldello al lettore, una chiave di lettura semplificata, del mondo finanziario e non che sembra essere andato "fuori controllo" negli ultimi quattro anni in particolare. Questa è una storia di cartelli, a livello sovrastatale e sovranazionale, la cui pianificazione centrale ha raggiunto un punto in cui deve essere riformata radicalmente e questa riforma radicale non può avvenire senza una dose di dolore economico che potrebbe mettere a repentaglio la loro autorità. Da qui la risposta al Grande Default attraverso il Grande Reset. Questa è la storia di un coyote, che quando non riesce a sfamarsi all'esterno ricorre all'autofagocitazione. Lo stesso è accaduto ai membri del G7, dove i sei membri restanti hanno iniziato a fagocitare il settimo: gli Stati Uniti.

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(Versione audio della traduzione disponibile qui: https://open.substack.com/pub/fsimoncelli/p/lattacco-con-i-droni-ordito-dallo)

Lo Stato profondo sta cercando, ancora una volta, di mettere i bastoni tra le ruote a Trump.

Ci riferiamo all'attacco assolutamente sconsiderato al deterrente nucleare strategico russo, presumibilmente da parte dell'esercito ucraino. Sì, proprio quello, così debole e incompetente da aver finora perso un quinto del suo territorio, nonostante oltre 150.000 soldati morti secondo il colonnello Douglas Macgregor e oltre $200 miliardi in aiuti militari ed economici statunitensi ed europei.

Il recente attacco coi droni, secondo lo stesso Zelensky, è stato pianificato in quasi 20 mesi. Quindi è stato sicuramente concepito, preparato e preposizionato con il supporto delle operazioni segrete statunitensi e poi lanciato e guidato dai servizi segreti statunitensi.

Detto in senso inverso, sembra che forze che sicuramente non erano le malconce forze armate ucraine abbiano attaccato il cuore del deterrente nucleare russo. Ed è probabile anche che Trump non ne sia stato informato in anticipo!

Dopotutto quando Trump ha affermato che “Putin è impazzito” qualche giorno fa, non sapeva nemmeno – per sua stessa ammissione pubblica – che uno sciame di droni ucraini avrebbe attaccato l'elicottero di Putin. E ancora una volta, dati gli ingenti livelli di protezione che lo circondano, non c'è la minima possibilità che l'esercito ucraino sia riuscito a sfiorare il demonizzato dittatore russo senza il supporto dell'intelligence statunitense.

Pertanto siamo fortemente propensi a credere che lo Stato profondo stia ancora una volta sabotando Donald Trump, tenendolo all'oscuro di operazioni cruciali che incidono pesantemente sul rischio di un'escalation e di una guerra contro la Russia.

Inoltre crediamo che Trump stia cercando di fungere da onesto pacificatore sul fronte ucraino e non crediamo nemmeno per un attimo che sarebbe stato talmente tanto sconsiderato, consapevolmente, da mettere a repentaglio quanto fatto finora autorizzando attacchi contro quattro o cinque aeroporti strategici russi.

È quindi necessario comprendere che quanto viene riportato, ovvero la distruzione o il grave danneggiamento di un certo numero di bombardieri strategici intercontinentali pesanti della Russia, in almeno quattro diverse basi russe a migliaia di chilometri dai confini dell'Ucraina e tra loro, costituisce una escalation della guerra per procura contro la Russia, che si sta avvicinando al baratro di uno scontro nucleare.

Questi attacchi ai bombardieri strategici russi tramite sciami di droni nominalmente “ucraini” – circa 120 dispositivi in ​​totale – rappresentano oltre il 20-25% del ramo bombardieri della triade di deterrenza nucleare russa. Ciononostante questi ultimi non hanno avuto quasi alcun ruolo negli attacchi russi all'Ucraina, perché nel teatro di guerra vero e proprio la Russia utilizza principalmente bombardieri a medio raggio per lanciare attacchi missilistici da crociera e, se necessario, potrebbe utilizzare anche rampe di lancio terrestri.

Quindi l'attacco dei droni di domenica non ha avuto alcuna somiglianza con un colpo da KO di rilevanza militare. Si è invece tradotto in un'escalation di un ordine di grandezza verso uno scontro nucleare, progettata per prolungare e intensificare la guerra per procura di Washington contro la Russia e creare nuovi ed enormi ostacoli sul cammino verso un accordo di pace.

In particolare questi attacchi sconsiderati erano irrilevanti alla luce del rapido deterioramento della posizione ucraina sul fronte di battaglia lungo la linea di contatto nell'Ucraina orientale. Infatti solo durante l'ultima settimana di maggio le forze russe hanno conquistato altri 18 insediamenti e villaggi e oltre 200 chilometri quadrati di territorio, il che significa che l'esercito ucraino non è più in grado di mantenere le proprie linee difensive e che la fine è vicina.

Allo stesso tempo questo attacco con droni ha messo in discussione il fondamentale equilibrio strategico nucleare tra le due superpotenze nucleari mondiali. In altre parole l'attacco ha infranto le regole della deterrenza strategica e ciò che resta degli accordi New Start sul controllo degli armamenti del 2010, che nominalmente rimarranno in vigore fino a febbraio 2026.

Sebbene il programma New Start sia stato sospeso dalla Russia in risposta alle sanzioni statunitensi e al sequestro da parte della NATO di $300 miliardi in asset russi nel sistema bancario globale, i limiti e i protocolli di attuazione sono stati ampiamente rispettati da entrambe le parti. Tra questi, il mantenimento del limite di 700 vettori nucleari strategici schierati.

Inoltre il regime di ispezione di New Start aveva garantito una sostanziale trasparenza in merito all'ubicazione e ai dettagli operativi di ciascun veicolo di consegna terrestre, marittimo e aereo dichiarato al di sotto del limite di 700 veicoli schierati. Pertanto utilizzare ora queste informazioni di conformità basate su New Start per attaccare e distruggere unilateralmente sistemi d'arma precedentemente dichiarati costituiva una palese violazione dell'intero regime di rafforzamento della fiducia nel controllo degli armamenti, evolutosi nel corso dei decenni a partire dagli anni '70 e dall'epoca sovietica.

Nel caso della Russia, essa aveva scelto di elencare e far ispezionare 300-400 missili balistici intercontinentali terrestri, 200-300 missili balistici navali e 50-60 bombardieri pesanti. Tra questi ultimi c'erano 40-50 bombardieri Tu-95MS e 15 Tu-160, del tipo distrutto nell'attacco coi droni e di cui gli Stati Uniti hanno una conoscenza approfondita. Questo perché i protocolli di ispezione e applicazione relativi a questi vettori divulgati includevano scambi di dati semestrali, notifiche di cambiamenti di stato (ad esempio, attivazione/disattivazione dei silos) e fino a 18 ispezioni annuali.

Nel caso della Russia, i suoi bombardieri pesanti, sottoposti a questo regime di ispezione completa, erano generalmente visibili su aeroporti aperti, come mostra la foto illustrativa qui sotto.

Quindi, per ripeterci: l'attacco indiscriminato contro le posizioni note e i bombardieri strategici regolarmente ispezionati nel deterrente nucleare russo, come quelli qui raffigurati, è stato una violazione dell'intero regime di controllo degli armamenti.

Altrettanto importante, è dannatamente ovvio che Washington fosse in piena combutta con l'esercito ucraino. I circa 120 droni utilizzati per attaccare i bombardieri russi nelle località disperse mostrate nella mappa sopra sono stati introdotti clandestinamente in Russia in container coperti. Sono stati poi trasportati segretamente nei pressi degli aeroporti russi e preparati per i successivi lanci simultanei.

Ancora una volta, le probabilità che nessuno nell'esercito americano o ai piani alti dello Stato profondo a Washington sia stato coinvolto in questa vasta e audace operazione sono tra scarse, nulle e terribilmente impossibili.

Alla fine, dopo essere state pre-posizionate vicino agli aeroporti bersaglio, le casse sono state aperte, rivelando i droni d'attacco al loro interno. Abbiamo rinunciato da tempo a indossare i nostri cappelli di carta stagnola, ma siamo dannatamente certi che il lancio simultaneo di 120 di questi piccoli velivoli nello stesso momento attraverso migliaia di chilometri di territorio russo sia stato il risultato di un intricato complotto orchestrato da Washington.

Nessun cowboy ucraino avrebbe potuto realizzare tutto questo con le proprie forze.

Nello stesso preciso istante, quindi, i bombardieri russi pesanti, distribuiti sul continente eurasiatico, hanno subito il destino descritto di seguito. E sebbene questa impresa abbia fatto sì che i falchi di Washington e della NATO e i neoconservatori esultassero per la presunta genialità del piano, questa non è nemmeno la metà della storia.

Il vero scopo dell'attacco era distruggere ogni residuo di fiducia tra Donald e Putin, lasciando a quest'ultimo altra scelta se non quella di reagire a tono. Ma un'ulteriore escalation nella zona della MAD (mutua distruzione assicurata), la quale ha mantenuto la pace per 60 anni durante la Guerra fredda, è sicuramente la cosa più pericolosa accaduta dall'ottobre 1962, quando la crisi missilistica cubana portò il mondo sull'orlo dell'annientamento.

Quindi l'ora è davvero tarda. Lo Stato militare e il complesso militare-industriale vogliono ristabilire di nuovo il loro dominio su Donald. Questa volta con implicazioni praticamente esistenziali.

Quindi, si faccia coraggio, Presidente, e tagli i finanziamenti a Zelensky e ai suoi burattinai nello Stato profondo: chiuda il rubinetto di tutti gli aiuti, di tutte le consegne di armi, di tutta l'intelligence e di ogni altro supporto operativo, chieda un cessate il fuoco e inviti sia Zelensky che Putin a Camp David.

Poi li tenga lì finché non accetteranno di smantellare l'opera di Lenin, Stalin e Krusciov. Dopotutto furono proprio questi ultimi i veri e sanguinari artefici degli attuali confini e di uno stato ucraino che non era mai esistito prima del 1922.

Non dovrebbe volerci molto per spartire la mappa e permettere alla Crimea e alle quattro province del Donbass e del sud di tornare alla Madre Russia. E le uniche “garanzie” necessarie sarebbero un impegno russo a non permettere alle province spartite di attaccare ciò che resta dell'Ucraina, e che gli Stati Uniti garantiscano che lo stato ucraino, o ciò che ne rimane, non aderirà alla NATO né attaccherà le province perdute.

Infatti è proprio questo che Putin ha sempre desiderato. E per gli Stati Uniti significherebbe non solo chiudere un altro capitolo orribilmente stupido delle Guerre eterne, ma anche l'opportunità di intraprendere un nuovo percorso verso la pace e il disarmo globali, che potrebbe effettivamente offrire a Donald una reale possibilità di ottenere il Premio Nobel.

Inutile dire che un vertice a Camp David darebbe anche a Donald la possibilità di riprendersi la sua presidenza, che è stata chiaramente usurpata quando i due principali guerrafondai ucraini del Senato, Graham e Blumenthal, si sono presentati a Kiev la scorsa settimana alla vigilia di questa folle escalation.

I falchi ucraini guidati dallo spregevole Lindsay Graham, infatti, sono ormai così fuori di testa che hanno presentato al Senato nuove sanzioni ultraterrene contro la Russia, le quali imporrebbero dazi del 500% ai Paesi che acquistano energia, uranio e altre materie prime russe – misure mirate principalmente a India e Cina. Riuscite a dire: “Siamo alla Terza Guerra Mondiale!”

Infatti rimettere i tre tirapiedi dell'ultimo disastro ucraino nell'angolo degli idioti, dove dovrebbero stare, sarebbe già di per sé un progresso. Evidentemente Graham e Blumenthal sapevano cosa sarebbe successo, ma non Donald, almeno secondo una fuga di notizie fatta a Tanya Noury ​​di NewsNation da un alto funzionario dell'amministrazione: come nel caso dell'attacco all'elicottero di Putin, nemmeno Trump era stato informato dell'attacco con i droni.

Bene, ora Donald sa sicuramente che sono alle sue calcagna, quindi è meglio che si dia da fare a prendere nomi, a spaccare tutto e a fare pulizia, altrimenti la sua seconda amministrazione sarà finita prima ancora di iniziare. E questo per non parlare di tutti noi.

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In the past few days, Los Angeles has been awash in protests, rekindling fond memories of Rodney King, and the long, hot summer of 2020. Well, to be fair, there is a whole lot worth protesting about America 2.0. I mean, what with the overreaching corruption, the taxation without representation, and the crumbling infrastructure.

But those protesting aren’t fed up with the tyranny. Or being taxed to line the pockets of special interests and favored “democracies” like Israel and Ukraine. They aren’t mad at an infrastructure that hasn’t been touched in sixty years. The native Californians aren’t protesting a shortage of water, with the Pacific Ocean right there, and desalination plants having been invented decades ago. They were cool with the way the local authorities mishandled the latest round of endless fires. No, they are protesting about illegal immigration. Well, that makes sense, doesn’t it? After all, we’ve left the southern border wide open for over forty years now. It’s about time! You don’t understand; they are protesting on behalf of our insane open borders policy. They are hopping mad because President Trumpenstein has made some half-hearted efforts to deport a few of them. They love illegals almost as much as they love transgenders.

It’s surrealistic to watch the burning cars and buildings, amid all the Mexican flags waving proudly in the smog, juxtaposed against the smiling multi-millionaire “journalists” assuring us that this is a “mostly peaceful” situation. I’ve seen several mostly peaceful men in masks throwing rocks at passing motorists. What else says “open borders” more clearly than that? Many of these vehicles were police cars. And shockingly enough, not one of the dirty, rotten racist cops stopped their car, turned on the sirens, jumped out waving their guns, and confronted the rock throwers. I don’t know, but I’m pretty sure if I stood on the side of any road in my county, and threw large rocks at a police car, that I’d be extremely lucky to survive to write something witty about it on Substack. And that’s with all my White Privilege and everything. The L.A.P.D. is remarkably patient now, happily enduring any rocks thrown their way.

And then there are the skids of cinder blocks, which were kindly left by some anonymous benefactor, for the protesters to use at their discretion. By an astounding coincidence, the same thing happened during the long, hot summer of 2020, when wheelbarrows full of riot-ready bricks were conveniently deposited in all the right hot spots. Antifa-BLM protesters have all the luck! It’s not like we have security cameras everywhere, that would capture who made the delivery. If the sane forces that still appreciate liberty- you know, the average stiffs getting screwed over royally- ever decided to launch a massive protest, I bet no one would deliver bricks to them. I bet the cops would be really confrontational if those protesters threw rocks at them. Or looted a single store. Looting is pretty much the exclusive province of POC protests. It’s a marginalized persons thing, you wouldn’t understand. Now a patriotic group wouldn’t burn anyone’s car. But if they did…well, police wouldn’t just calmly watch.

This is where we’re at, folks. The people who should have been out in the streets by the millions several years ago, remain scared and prepped behind locked doors. Now, some angry Whites in England tried it last year. It didn’t turn out very well. Some foppish King George III wannabe issued some proper British threats, even suggesting that perhaps he might arrest Elon Musk, over in that one time colony of their empire. And that’s the last that’s been heard of that. As far as I know, England’s immigrants- primarily Muslims who often have “sexual emergencies”- are free to resume their lives of crime, without any fear of being held accountable by the stiff upper lipped authorities. In America 2.0., it’s not Muslims, but Hispanics, who are here illegally and not prosecuted as regularly as U.S. citizens are for violent crimes. And they have been enabled to the extent that they freely wave Mexican flags as they rail against the country that has given them sanctuary. Fancy hotel rooms. Free healthcare.

Speaking of kings, these “spontaneous” uprisings by people who are violently defending the corrupt order will reportedly culminate this coming Saturday, in a “No Kings” series of new protests. They promise to be just as mostly peaceful as all the others. The “Woke” Left is depicting Trumpenstein as someone who sees himself as a king. I’m sure there will be lots of Mexican flags in the air. Mexico has no kings, either. Just a Jewish president. Trumpenstein, meanwhile, had long planned some kind of ridiculous military parade to coincide with his 79th birthday. It’s as if I was right about the Trumpenstein Project, and some director was instructing him, “Just do what people think Hitler would do!” What exactly are we celebrating in any prospective military rally? The fact that we haven’t won a war since WWII? The fact that we are bogged down all over the world in nonsensical occupations? That we’re seemingly on the verge of WWIII, thanks to our “greatest ally” Israel?

That’s the thing about our illegals. They don’t seem very happy here. In fact, they seem pissed off to be here. So then why would you come here? Presumably, you prefer the U.S. to your native land. So why then wave the flag of the country you fled? I don’t have to have a degree in African American Studies to recognize how irrational that is. I’d think that waving the flag of another nation during a protest would be considered an act of war. But not here. We saw lots of Mexican flags being waved during the 2020 riots commemorating the death of lifelong criminal and drug addict George Floyd. The dirty, rotten, racist cops didn’t snatch a single one of them. They were too busy standing down, like our entire defense forces did on September 11, 2001. Some of them even knelt with the protesters. They probably would have serviced them sexually if the Blacks yelled loudly enough. Sometimes, they do protect and serve.

We had a right to expect millions to march in the streets after the 9/11 lie, the creation of Homeland Security, and the passage of the Patriot Act. Nope. Nothing but fired up White people, outraged at former CIA asset Osama Bin Laden, loading up extra American flags to fly from their pickup trucks. For the first and only time in my life, appreciable numbers of patriotic Americans did protest, on January 6, 2021, at the Stop the Steal Rally. I don’t need to remind you how that turned out. All of those patriots, having been assured that the police were on their side- “Backing the Blue.” Met with rubber bullets and tear gas. Beaten relentlessly by the “Blue” they worship. Not a single comrade in uniform. That was a largely organic effort, albeit controlled and manipulated by the undercover agents present at all large demonstrations. I’m not sure if any 2020 Antifa/BLM violent rioter was prosecuted. The J6ers certainly were.

Where are the Catholics and fundamentalist Christians who used to march in pro-life rallies? Shouldn’t they be even madder about the transgender insanity? Why aren’t any pastors, reverends, or priests leading counter protests against all the “pride” and transgender rallies? Aren’t they essentially giving it a nod of approval? How about those Second Amendment advocates? I mean, if they didn’t protest when the world was shut down during the giant COVID Psyop, I don’t think they ever will. Why do they even want their guns, if they aren’t willing to defend themselves against a tyranny greater than the original Sons of Liberty could ever have imagined? Are they on guard against some diabolical skeet force? A sudden onslaught of aggressive deer? The Second Amendment wasn’t established to protect your right to hunt. Or to gather at gun shows. It was to protect you from tyrants. News flash- the tyrants are in charge.

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One of my favorite commentators is the attorney Robert Barnes, who I wrote about Barnes here and here. I have been a member of his Locals channel since its inception. I have also provided monetary support to his 1776 Law Center, which does great work providing legal counsel for “the little guy.” I even pray for his legal success.

Virtually all of the political labels I know of have been misused and abused.

Barnes, a self-described populist, has been criticizing libertarianism (including Austrian economics). My self-described label is reactionary-libertarian. I have learned a tremendous amount from the Mises Institute and have been a contributor to LRC for over twenty years. Thus, I feel compelled to respond to Robert’s critiques of libertarianism, Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, anti-tariffs, the Big Beautiful Bill, and government deficits.

This post is a “bar stool rebuttal,” that is, how I might discuss these topics sitting at the bar with friends (see here). Thus, these are more generally stated positions, few links or references providing evidence to specific points. First I will give a short statement of Robert’s positions (in bold and I hope accurately as I listen to hours of his content every week), and then I will provide my rebuttal as I would make it to him while imbibing our favorite beverages and taking into account his own stated beliefs in smaller government.

Tariffs don’t raise prices, are totally benign, and are necessary to protect American workers.

First and foremost keep in mind that tariffs are taxes. They also give power to the government in picking winners and losers. Perhaps in this instance some of the winners will be some American workers some of the time. Perhaps also there will be cases where the foreign provider will not be able to pass along the cost of the tariff so the price of a particular product would not rise. But if the ultimate goal of the tariff policy is to drive the low cost foreign option out of the market wouldn’t that leave only a higher priced domestic option available to the consumer? This process will eventually hurt all workers as they are all consumers. The basic position of libertarians against tariffs follows their position against taxes and against increases in government power. These are positions consistent with what you have stated for yourself. I would like to add, there is much more that could and should be done for American workers in the opposite sense of removing government interference in the market.

The Big Beautiful Bill is critical for the success of the Trump administration and the country by avoiding tax increases and paying for border control. If it does increase the federal deficit, history shows that deficits don’t matter. Thus, Libertarians fighting for a “perfect” bill are utopian, such that Rand Paul and Thomas Massie are wasting their limited political leverage in voting against it.

After sweeping the elections shouldn’t we at least see an effort to stop the  Congressional logrolling that has been a source of so much mismanagement of the country. At a minimum, call it the Big Ugly Bill! Even though this is redundant because all big bills are ugly. Certainly I agree with you that tax increases should be avoided and I hope the border is now under control.

You have said deficits don’t matter (in agreement with Dick Cheney, which should make you squirm). Why do I think deficits matter? Certainly, you agree that deficits matter for individuals, private enterprises and even for other countries. I take your point that it seems that deficits have not mattered for the US since the explosion of the deficit during the last decades. As you have said, this is because we have the reserve currency that can be created at will with no apparent consequences. There is much that can be said that there will be clear economic consequences eventually. But I think there already have been grave consequences. Deficits allow the government to continue to grow, including the empire, without the clear signal to the people of raising taxes. You better than most have seen the reality that the working and middle classes have become poorer and poorer, while the technocratic managerial class, those in control of those deficits, have grown wealthier and more powerful.

The stance of Senator Paul and Congressman Massie is clearly following their model Ron Paul. He might have always lost but were his votes wasted? Millions of people were with you Robert, on Covid and other topics because they learned from Dr. Paul’s principled stands on so many issues. Perhaps it is not Paul and Massie wasting political capital, it is Trump. He should now be in a full battle against the neocon Rinos. That is where the fate of the country and the world resides. Only in his speech in Saudi Arabia did he exhibit his potential for fighting this crucial battle. Furthermore, you have said that Trump needs feedback. You criticize the administration yourself on several counts when you believe they are taking the wrong direction.

Austrian economics is a poor predictor.

This is a large topic that I can only touch on here. My first reading of Austrian economics was the magnum opus Human Action by Ludwig von Mises. One of the key messages that I perceived from this book is that economics is not a science like physics. Human activity is too complex to model with equations determined by studying quantitative statistical “history.” As an engineer reading economics for the first time in particular to learn about the disastrous record of economic modeling, this was a breath of fresh air. In the Austrian economic approach we always say “all else being equal” (often in latin “Ceteris paribus”) if you do this, then that will happen. But there are no controlled experiments and the real information, not government statistical data, is complex beyond the scope of any mind or computer. Timing is intentionally not part of the analysis. Thus, even if people who call themselves Austrian economists make predictions, it is not using Austrian economics that they do so.

Austrian economics teaches that creating money is not creating real wealth (e.g., houses, cars, food, everything real). Thus, when we do see real wealth accumulation among a select few (i.e., Washington Beltway, Wall Street, Silicon Valley) through these kinds of financial machinations (deficits and money creation) you can know real wealth is being taken from others. For me Austrian economics is a scholarly approach akin to the little boy pointing to the emperor’s new clothes. That is why all powerful entities in society try to discredit it. Austrian economics should be the theoretical economic artillery of populists like you.

We will need several more rounds of drinks to understand how and why Austrian economics has been so important for freedom loving people around the world to understand how and why they are under attack. There is also much to be said about Peter Schiff, Eurodollars, central banking, etc. that you bring up in your online presentations. I am ready and will buy the next round.

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Israel’s unjustified and unprovoked attack on Iran early Friday morning, marks the full-on start of a war that is likely to change the face of the region. I mince no words… this is war. But there is a silver lining of sorts — with Israel having to use its air squadrons to launch repeated attacks on Iran and to scramble fighters into the air to try to stop Iranian drones and missiles, the Palestinians in Gaza will get a respite from daily bombings.

So, what is happening? Israel’s initial strike included the use of trailer-truck drones — the same tactic that “Ukraine” used on June 1 against Russia’s strategic air assets. Israel appears to have had more success than the Ukrainians because the Zionist drones carried out some successful assassinations of senior Iranian military leaders and some prominent nuclear scientists. If you think that Israel came up with this idea on its own, you are deluding yourself.

We still do not have a clear picture of how much damage the Israeli bombs/air-launched missiles inflicted across Iran, but the attack was significant in its scale and scope. That said, it did not cripple Iran’s ability to strike back, which it did late on Friday and early Saturday Jerusalem time. Iran also did some significant damage to Israel, reportedly striking Israel’s military headquarters building in Tel Aviv and successfully hitting three Israeli military airfields.

In the world of the so-called international rules-based order, Israel is guilty of an unprovoked attack and Iran, in accordance with Chapter VII, Article 51 of the UN Charter, is retaliating appropriately. Yet, the West is condemning Iran and gaslighting the public regarding Israel’s claim that this was an act of self-defense. Bollocks!

I believe that Israel’s attack was part of a planned international intelligence and military operation, which included the participation and support of the United States, the United Kingdom, France and Germany. We got the first clue on May 31, when a UN watchdog issued two reports designed to create a narrative that Iran is a rogue nuclear state:

A report issued by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and sent to member states on Saturday said Iran’s stock of uranium enriched to up to 60 percent purity had grown by roughly half to 408.6 kg.

That is enough uranium, if enriched to the 90 percent purity level, for nine nuclear weapons, according to an IAEA estimate.

The second report claims that Iran carried out secret nuclear activities with material not declared to the UN nuclear watchdog at three locations decades ago.

The findings in the “comprehensive” IAEA report “pave the way for a push by the United States, Britain, France and Germany for the board to declare Iran in violation of its non-proliferation obligations,” Reuters wrote.

Using the report’s findings, the four Western powers plan to pressure the IAEA to declare that Iran is in non-compliance with its obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) at its next meeting in June, diplomats told the news agency.

This tactic was employed in 2002/2003 to gin up a justification to attack Iraq, who the US insisted had weapons of mass destruction. We now know it was a lie, but the propaganda was effective in producing support in the US and Europe to invade Iraq. We’re seeing a similar effort today, only this time Iran is being falsely accused of enriching uranium to build a bomb. The Iraq WMD lie, like the current calumny against Iran, only has one purpose… justify military action in order to achieve regime change.

As was the case with Ukraine’s failed attack on Russian strategic air assets on June 1, Israel’s first swipe at Iran was accompanied by AI-generated videos and images, along with breathless reports of massive, profound damage. While it is true that Israel hit a large number of targets in Iran, the attack failed to cripple Iran’s ability to fight back; which is exactly what it did today and will continue to do for the foreseeable future.

I think that Iran has an advantage over Israel when it comes to a sustained military campaign based on air and missile assets. Iran has more drones and more missiles than Israel. Israel, at least for now, is relying on hitting Iran with its squadrons of F-35s and F-16s. Here is the problem: Israel’s air capability will degrade over time as the jet aircraft suffer mechanical failures from extended use and normal maintenance.

As of the most recent data (2024–2025), the F-35 Lightning II requires about 10–14 hours of maintenance for each hour of flight time, depending on the variant and operating conditions. Despite improvements over the past few years, the F-35 still requires significantly more maintenance than legacy fighters like the F-16, which typically needs about 5–6 maintenance hours per flight hour. The total flight time from Israel to Iran’s border, and back, is a little more than three hours. Do the math… every F-35 used to attack Iran will be undergoing maintenance for at least 30 hours. I doubt that Israel will be able to sustain its current operations tempo for more than a week.

Iran, on the other hand, has a clear advantage with ballistic missiles and drones. One tactic that Iran may employ is to fire older missiles and drones in a first or second wave attack in order to deplete Israel’s air-defense system. Iran can then follow up with launches of hypersonic missiles. If Russia, China or North Korea decide to resupply Iran, then Israel’s ability to fend off future attacks will deteriorate.

Russia, according to BORZZIKMAN, has issued a stern warning to the Trump administration. Details of the warning are included in the following video:

The Zionists are in a bind militarily because their defense assets are already stretched to the breaking point. Israel lacks the strategic depth to sustain robust operations in Gaza, the West Bank, southern Lebanon and Syria, while trying to continue launching air assaults on Iran.

This article was originally published on Sonar21.

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Like all opponents of Washington and Israel, Iran proved itself unready.  Muslims never seize the initiative.  They sit on their butts until they are decapitated.  Instead of taking Israel out, Iran suffered a serious attack and then feebly retaliated.  Wars are not won by retaliation.

The mystery is why was Iran unready?  Iran has had years of US hostility dating from the Carter years and decades of observing Washington carry out the Zionist neoconservatives program of eliminating 7 Muslin countries.  Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Lebanon, with the target now on Iran and Saudi Arabia awaiting in the wings.

Why was Putin unready?  Despite the warning of the US using a color revolution in Georgia to invade South Ossetia, Putin was caught off guard by Washington’s overthrow of the Ukrainian government and installation of a Washington puppet.  For eight years Putin watched the buildup of a large Ukrainian army and failed to build one of his own.  The Russians, Muslims, and Chinese seem incapable of understanding the Wolfowitz doctrine of  Washington’s hegemony, or are they simply unable to face reality?

The Fars News Agency says Iran is planning to attack US bases in the Middle East in response to the Israeli attack, preferring to call Israel’s declaration of war an “attack.”  Planning?  So again the pathetic Iranians announce in advance something they are planning to do so that Washington and Israel know in advance and are prepared to frustrate the attack.  If Iran had been ready, the US bases would already have been destroyed.

The American public never learns either. The American people have been fed a constant diet of war propaganda against Iran for many hears going back to the Carter years in the 1970s when Iranians overthrew the American puppet ruler, the Shah of Iran, and established their revolution, thus depriving the US and the British of control over Iran’s oil.  9/11, an inside job that Washington blamed on Muslims in order to launch wars against seven countries, served to legitimize Washington’s 21st century wars in the Middle East. 

Israel has taken advantage of Washington’s alignment of Americans with Israel’s interest and has been for years in the forefront of encouraging war between the US and Iran for Israel’s gain.

Unlike the attack on Russia’s strategic forces, President Trump cannot claim he was uninformed.  The Jerusalem Post reports that an Israeli government official told the Post that “There was full and complete coordination with the Americans.” See here.

In plain language Washington was involved and has jointly with Israel declared war on Iran.

In his effort to protect US bases in the region from Iranian attack, assuming Iran still has the means and has the will to go with the means, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a statement, “Tonight, Israel took unilateral action against Iran. We are not involved in strikes against Iran and our top priority is protecting American forces in the region.”

George Orwell was right in predicting how words would come to mean their opposite.  War is peace.  And now US Secretary of State Rubio has turned “full and complete coordination with the Americans” into America’s non-involvement.

As Washington was fully involved, why did Washington not tell Israel: “NO!  Trump is trying to get out of one war, not be dragged into another by Israel.”

Obviously, Washington or whoever Washington’s master is–in this case it seems to be Israel–wanted war.

This was obvious from the beginning of Trump’s “negotiations” with Iran. Trump’s definition as determined by his use of “negotiations” is another example of words being turned into their opposite.  By negotiation, Trump means “complying with Washington’s demands.”  

Trump says that Iran is responsible for the Israeli/Washington attack, because Iran was recalcitrant and despite Trump giving Iran “chance after chance” to agree with Trump’s demands, failed to sign  Trump’s “deal.” See here.

In this sentence Trump shows the essence of his view of negotiation: “Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire.”  Apparently, Trump means “the Persian Empire.” 

So, failing to comply with Washington or Israel means war and destruction, or surrender after sufficient punishment. 

Despite this obvious fact, Putin is negotiating over Ukraine.  How reckless will the next attack on Putin-the-Unready be?

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America is more polarized than ever. According to a recent poll 34% of Americans believe civil war is “likely” and 13% believe it is “very likely.” Luxury bunker sales are up with customers citing concerns of “civil unrest”. (DiMella, 2024) Could we be headed toward civil war? If so, how can we prepare for it?

When Societies Fracture

From studying and interviewing survivors of civil war, coups and unrest from different countries, all shared one thing in common. When societies fracture, they do so along political, geopolitical, religious, ethnic, tribal, racial or economic lines. People group up along these lines and those who are not in control (usually, but not always the minority), suffer terribly at the hands of those in control (usually, but not always the majority.) People group up and most of them avoid going outside. If you are in an area controlled by the opposing group, I strongly suggest getting to someplace that is controlled by your people before the checkpoints go up.

Those who fail to get to an area controlled by their people before checkpoints go up typically suffer. Their options for survival are often not good. If they want to survive, they often have to find someone who is not an enemy of those in power who is willing to hide them, or E&E to friendly lines, and the latter is extremely difficult to do in occupied cities. Those who do get out usually do so on foot, through rough terrain, with only what they can carry.

Ivory Coast

Some good friends of ours emigrated from Ivory Coast. Both of them came from well-to-do land owning, families that own farming and livestock concerns. Ivory Coast has experienced two civil wars, the first began in 2002 as the result of a military rebellion and ended in 2007. The second Ivorian Civil War began in 2010, ended in 2011 and was fought over election results. Thousand died in each war. 750K civilians were displaced by the fighting. (Wikipedia, 2024)

The husband told me that during the war, around 30 people took shelter in his home. That is a lot of mouths feed! Imagine cramming 30 people in your home.

The wife told me that she “got fat” because she was unable to go outside. Her home was also packed with people, but they had plenty of food because they own a mango large plantation that grows tons of fruits and vegetables all year round and her father ranches hundreds of head of cattle, as well as goats, sheep, chickens, and has other livestock.

The farmers had to be protected, or the people would starve, so they did what they could to help others. Unfortunately, very few American families own farms anymore, even hobby farms.

Civil War I vs Civil War II

Our last civil war killed 2.5 percent of the population of our nation or around 750,000 people. If the same percentage of people die in our next civil war, 7 million Americans will lose our lives. (Staff, 2016) That would be like losing the entire state of Arizona. However, it is possible that many more could die due to urbanization, globalization, the number of weapons in the hands of the people, the efficacy of modern weapons, and the next level zeal with which the hardcore radical left hates conservatives.

During my lifetime, we have gone from being able to sit down at the same table and share meal to liberals disowning family members they suspect might be conservative, openly calling for the death of conservative politicians, chanting “Death to America” (by Americans, in America!), and now the assassination attempt on former President Trump. (Sarah Rahal, 2024) It could be argued that the first shots have already been fired because the assassination attempt was clearly inspired by the incendiary rhetoric of extremists within the political left.

On some level, these events and this behavior are just incomprehensible to me because it’s so far outside the accepted norms of polite society. On another level, it’s not surprising at all to students of history, nature, and survival. We see it over and over. Cruelty, violence, and hatred resulting from incendiary rhetoric and propaganda. It must not be so hard to use these tools to get a certain type of people whipped up into a frenzy because it happens over and over.

How Does One Prepare for a Civil War?

We cannot know, of course, with any certainty, if or when Civil War II will happen. Mankind has a dismal track record when it comes to attempting to predict the future. Therefore, I’ll leave that to the realm of soothsayers, crystal balls, economics and other pseudoscience.

Sometimes Survival is About What You Don’t Do

So, how do we prepare if we can’t predict the future? The answer is to attain a state of general readiness and antifragility. Get ready for volatility and disruption by figuring our where you are fragile, work to become more resilient in those areas, and then don’t do anything stupid. It’s good to do the work and get prepared, but survival isn’t only about what you do. It’s also what you don’t do.

In a civil war, some of us will have to decide whether join up and fight for our side. Volunteering to go fight in a war may not increase your chances of survival, but sometimes the greater good trumps individual safety.

Another decision we may have to make is whether to shelter in place or bugout. One will improve your chances of survival and the other will diminish it.

Be Ready to Shelter in Place or Bug Out as the Situation Demands

The two main survival strategies are the same for a Civil War as they are for nearly everything else. Either you shelter in place or you bugout. Either one could be the only way to survive a particular threat, so the survivalist must be prepared to do both!

How do you know which to do? When society fractures, you will find yourself in the majority or the minority. Either way, you need to get to someplace your people are in control of. We can’t know precisely what we will be facing until it happens, but we know the general lines upon which societies break up and realign themselves, which I identified at the beginning of the article.

You may be able to see it coming or you may be living someplace where you are already a minority on virtually all counts. You are already in the political, economic, racial, ethic, and religious minority. Or you live someplace and it’s just obvious that the place will go to go sideways the moment the SHTF. If any of these are the case, I suggest relocating now. However difficult it is for you to move now; it will probably be easier than moving post-SHTF.

25 years ago, I lived in Arizona in the Phoenix-Metro area. There was no place for the populace of the Valley of the Sun to evacuate to because there was no place with the infrastructure to support millions of people that could be reached on one tank of gas. Emergency planners understood this, so they didn’t bother working on an evacuation plan. There simply wasn’t one and there may never be one.

Phoenix is low on water and has way more people than it can support. It’s basically an island surrounded by desert. Trying to get out would be like a scene from Mad Max. Staying could be worse. Either way, people would have to compete with each other for water and food in the Mecca of competitive shooting. It would be a bloodbath.

Understanding how easily things could all fall apart, I moved to a smaller community in dairy country in the Intermountain West that should be more stable and self-sufficient. Here, I am no longer in the political or religious minority. It should be more somewhat more stable in volatile times as the valley exports food, there is plenty of water (an anomaly in the West, water flows into Cache Valley from three sides), we are not downwind of any nuclear targets or reactors, and my family is part of the institution. In short, I relocated to a good homesteading location in the hope that it is less likely that I will have to bugout, but I have plans for that just in case.

Bugout

Many civilians are displaced during civil war. Entire towns empty ahead of or during fighting. So, be ready to move.

Being prepared to bugout requires more than a bugout bag.

One of the most important factors in a bugout is to bugout before everyone else does. To achieve that obviously takes a certain amount of preparation, planning, and practice. It also requires having predefined triggers. “If such and such happens, then we pack the truck, grab our gear, and leave.”

Another important factor is having someplace to go. “I’m grabbing my pack and my rifle and heading to the mountains.” Is not a bugout plan. You need a specific destination, and during a war, you may not know which direction you will be able to flee, so you should have multiple bugout destinations and routes in all directions, like the Apache had. They resisted the US Army for over 90 years, which makes their guerrilla campaign a good case study, in my opinion.

As a destination, a lifeboat property or retreat is ideal, but that’s not what most people do. That’s what the wealthy do, but of the cases I have studied, I have found that most people cannot afford that. Instead, they go and stay with family or friends. Those who are unable to do this, often become displaced persons, refugees. If possible, this should be avoided.

You might be more welcome when you arrive at your family member’s house if you show up towing a trailer full of food and medicine. It might also go more smoothly if the two of you had a mutual assistance agreement in place before the disruption.

Shelter in Place

I have read accounts of Ukrainians who left the relative safety of their homes to charge a cellphone, only to never return. The point of sheltering in place during a war is to not give anyone any reason to come into your home and hope that they do not. To do that you’ll need to stockpile supplies so you can stay inside.

Caching

My Viking ancestors prepared for battle by hiding their wealth, burying their hacksilver in the ground. Today people assume they did this as a practical consideration so their enemy wouldn’t capture their wealth if they battle didn’t go their way. They could go dig it up afterwards if they escaped or were ransomed.

After studying their religious beliefs and treasure hoards buried in Gotland, I think there is more to it than that. I think they also buried it to take it with them to the next life. The did the same thing on their farms. The father would bury a hoard, but the son wouldn’t dig it up, instead he buried his own, and this sometimes carried on for generations.

I agree that caching wealth and supplies in case of capture is a good idea.

This article was originally published on EarlKing56.family.blog.

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It’s no wonder Washington is all in. This is now the Circus Ringmaster War.

Let’s cut to the chase. The devastating attack on Iran by the psychopathological genocidal “chosen” ethno-supremacist set up in Tel Aviv – a de facto declaration of war – was coordinated in detail with the President of the United States, Circus Ringmaster Donald Trump.

This infantilism-afflicted Narcissus Drowned in the Pool of his Own Image gave away the game, himself, in a rambling post. Selected highlights:

“I gave Iran chance after chance to make a deal”. No “deal”; actually his unilateral demands. After all, he torpedoed the original deal, the JCPOA, because it was not his “deal”.

“I told them it would be much worse than anything they know, anticipated, or were told.” The decision to strike had already been made.

“Certain Iranian hardliners spoke bravely, but (…) they are all DEAD now, and it will only get worse!” Gloating comes with the territory.

“The next already planned attacks being even more brutal.” Total alignment with the trademark Israeli “decapitation” strategy.

“Iran must make a deal, before there is nothing left, and save what was once known as the Iranian Empire”. It was Persian (italics mine) Empire – but after all this is a man who doesn’t read, or study. Notice the Art of Diplomacy: Take my deal, or drop dead.

This – incandescent – decade was launched by an assassination, of Gen. Soleimani in Baghdad, as I emphasized in my 2021 book Raging Twenties. He was on a diplomatic mission. The green light personally came from then President of the United States, Donald Trump.

The mid-Raging Twenties is now hurled to the brink of a devastating war in West Asia, with global repercussions, by the serial assassination of the IRGC leadership, in Tehran, by the psycho-genocidal Zionist entity. After an elaborate kabuki of deception, the green light to Tel Aviv – go ahead and do it – also came from the President of the United States, Trump 2.0 (who claimed he was “aware’’ of the attacks).

A pre-emptive war against the BRICS

The psycho-pathological genocidal masterplan is to force Tehran to capitulate – without even putting up a fight. The preamble kabuki was masterfully executed. The indirect nuclear negotiations in Oman were taken seriously in Tehran, lulling the Iranian leadership, civilian and military, to sleep. They fell into the trap and were caught, literally, in their sleep.

Ayatollah Khamenei – who himself is in physical danger, as Israel is applying the same decapitation model it unleashed on Hezbollah – has a very tough decision to make: capitulation or total war. It will be total war – and with the U.S. as a direct participant.

The Iranian leadership – actually more the Pezeshkian presidency, crammed with proponents of an “accommodation” with the West – was induced into a false sense of security, forgetting that serial killers don’t do diplomacy.

So the price to pay now, for Iran, will be even more unbearable. Tehran will respond – assuming capabilities are still in place. In this case its oil industry runs the risk of being destroyed. It’s an open question whether two other top BRICS members alongside Iran – Russia and China -, for different reasons, will allow that to happen.

And were we about to enter this particular dangerous territory, Iran can play the ultimate card: shut down the Strait of Hormuz and collapse the global economy.

The attack on Iran, fully endorsed by the Empire of Chaos, is above all a pre-emptive attack on the BRICS energy core. It’s part and parcel of the imperial war against BRICS, especially Russia-China. Moscow and Beijing must be drawing the necessary conclusions in real time.

Iran, China and Russia are linked by interlocked strategic partnerships. Last month, I was in Iran tracking the progress of the International North South Transportation Corridor (INSTC), which links Russia, Iran and India. This is only one among a series of key strategic infrastructure projects that will solidify even more Eurasian economic connectivity. A devastating war in West Asia, and a collapsing Iran, will represent a killer blow to increased Eurasia integration.

That’s exactly what suits the Empire’s designs.

So it’s no wonder Washington is all in. This is now the Circus Ringmaster War.

A devastating response; a nuclear weapon; or capitulation

Tehran’s message is, “We did not start the war, but Iran will determine how it ends.”

The burning question is whether they still retain a significant deterrent – and offensive – capacity.

The genocidals are hitting ballistic missile storage systems at will in Iran’s northwest and even civilian Mehrabad airport in Tehran. Air defenses are nowhere to be seen. It’s immensely painful to watch.

IDF spin – nothing verified so far – claims that some missile silos and mobile complexes were destroyed even before they were placed on combat alert. Yet the fact is that the overwhelming majority of Iran’s vast arsenal of ballistic missiles is stored in deep, deep underground silos and tunnels, capable of withstanding massive air strikes and overloaded air defenses.

For the moment, Tehran is eerily silent. That makes sense, because they need, in record time, to re-establish a unified chain of command which was smashed by the attacks; make sure that missile launchers can be deployed and not be neutralized by Israeli air supremacy; reorganize the True Promise 3 operation, which was ready to go, as some of us learned in Tehran last month, but now adapted to the new situation (losses included); and plan how to deliver painful blows to Israel’s economic infrastructure.

There is no evidence that the attacks destroyed Iran’s nuclear infrastructure – which is buried deep underground. As it stands, the leadership in Tehran is learning the hard way that diplomacy – committees, letters to the UN, statements to the IAEA, ministerial meetings – all that is eviscerated when it comes to the law of the jungle.

Iranians were naïve enough to let the IAEA visit their strategic sites, when proverbial spies collected all the info they needed to facilitate Israeli strikes. The DPRK would have never fall into such a trap.

The elimination of a top figure such as Ali Shamkhani, Khamenei’s key advisor, Iran’s lead nuclear negotiator, with decades of influence across the IRGC and intelligence apparatus, is a serious blow.

Systematically erasing Iran’s military and diplomatic leadership in a matter of hours fits the rationale of smashing Khamenei’s close circle. That has started long ago with the Trump-ordered killing of Soleimani and certainly includes the mysterious death of former President Raisi and FM Abdollahian in that dodgy helicopter “accident”. It’s all about creating the conditions for regime change.

On a rare auspicious note, the IRGC let it be known, before the attacks, that they have been developing a secret technology to intensify the impact of its missiles on Israel.

We are all riders on the storm now. Once again, there’s no way out: either a devastating blow to the psycho genocidals, or Iran assembles a nuclear weapon in no time. The third option is capitulation, emasculation, and regime change.

Meanwhile, the whole planet is hostage to a lethal threat. Andrea Zhok is professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Milan, and apart from his brilliant analyses, he wrote the preface of the Italian edition of my book Raging Twenties, published last year.

Prof. Zhok has succinctly pointed out how no political construction in modern history has amassed a toxic combination of messianic ethnic supremacism; supreme disregard for human life (everyone else, not “chosen”, is “amalek” anyway); supreme disregard for international law; and unlimited access to lethal firepower.

So what is to be done with such a voracious, out of control death cult?

The views of individual contributors do not necessarily represent those of the Strategic Culture Foundation.

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