Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 13:07     Subject: War with Iran

Anybody have a good Iran/war-centric BlueSky follow or two? Looking more for just kind of straight news updates though a little commentary is fine.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 13:04     Subject: Re:War with Iran

Israel has irrevocably changed the rules of engagement in diplomacy and war. Sometime, in the near future, when Israel has some downturn because of a natural disaster or economic downturn, don't be surprised if a few Arab countries decide to decapitate and invade. Treaties and agreements are meaningless with Israel and I'm sure this knowledge is being kept in the back pockets of the Arab leaders, along with all their grievances.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:57     Subject: War with Iran

This whole thing is really embarrassing the US military. They tried to flex US muscle and have ended showing how weak and incompetent they are. And US global power continues to erode.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:55     Subject: Re:War with Iran

Why study history when it's ignored??

Norm Finkelstein from 14 years ago talking about Israel and Iran.
"Israel is a crazy country. It's like a junkie, every few years they go to war, they need their fix. They're lunatics. American jews don't want to defend that." In 2012, he was asking "How many countries in the past 10 years has Iran threatened to attack?" Americans need to wake up and educate themselves.


Iranian Threat - Norman Finkelstein
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:51     Subject: Re:War with Iran

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Rogan talking to Michael Shellenberger, who is a journalist, professor, and free speech advocate. Literally no academic has a valid argument in favor of the Iran invasion. Almost all of the American military experts (not associated with Trump admin) also have no valid argument in favor of the Iran invasion. There literally are only two sides to this: The educated side and the Trump side.


Discussing Trump, Iran, Israel’s Influence, and Growing WW3 Fears


Republican cowards are sneaking around to anonymously confess that Trump has no idea what he’s doing. I guess that it’s better than nothing.

https://open.substack.com/pub/demwinsmedia/p/breaking-donald-trump-panics-as-republican-020?r=ac9ay&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true


Why are they sneaking around? What can Trump do to them? Hurl a few nasty tweets?
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:48     Subject: War with Iran

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The Administration is floating a suspension of the Jones Act, which could put the US military on civilian ships...This is the stupidest idea in a sea of stupid ideas.


The US military can’t open the strait of hormuz because of what the Iranians have on shore. The Iranians have been blowing up port facilities at the ports the US use in the gulf. The Iranians can hit any target they choose in the gulf at will.

Iranian missiles and drones are still being launched. The Iranian regime is still functioning at a high level. Oil prices are climbing. LNG prices are sky high with physical shortages not speculators driving the pricing increase. Allied oil facilities are easily hit by Iranian attacks. Now oil tankers are burning.

What’s happening at US airbase in the gulf? Is this where all the US casualties are coming from? How many long distance radar arrays have been taken out? How many do we have left in inventory? Are US planes being hit on the ground?

Everyone is saying the military is doing a great job. Are they really? Has anything changed? Do results count or is it just the number of bombs being dropped? This reminds me of Vietnam and body counts. Does not seem like what they are bombing for billions of dollars a day is accomplishing anything besides hardening resolve.

Why is no one asking these questions? Whats it going to look like in a week? What’s it going to look like in a month?


No one is going to tell us. Trump is too stupid to understand even if he were offered this information in the starkest terms. Hegseth is too stupid to ask any of these questions, probably too stupid to understand half the implications if it was explained very slowly and repeated. Yes, the casualties appear to be from strike in Qatar, but somehow it took a week to acknowledge the severity, and even to evacuate all the injured to Germany.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:48     Subject: Re:War with Iran

Anonymous wrote:Rogan talking to Michael Shellenberger, who is a journalist, professor, and free speech advocate. Literally no academic has a valid argument in favor of the Iran invasion. Almost all of the American military experts (not associated with Trump admin) also have no valid argument in favor of the Iran invasion. There literally are only two sides to this: The educated side and the Trump side.


Discussing Trump, Iran, Israel’s Influence, and Growing WW3 Fears


Republican cowards are sneaking around to anonymously confess that Trump has no idea what he’s doing. I guess that it’s better than nothing.

https://open.substack.com/pub/demwinsmedia/p/breaking-donald-trump-panics-as-republican-020?r=ac9ay&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:39     Subject: Re:War with Iran

Rogan talking to Michael Shellenberger, who is a journalist, professor, and free speech advocate. Literally no academic has a valid argument in favor of the Iran invasion. Almost all of the American military experts (not associated with Trump admin) also have no valid argument in favor of the Iran invasion. There literally are only two sides to this: The educated side and the Trump side.


Discussing Trump, Iran, Israel’s Influence, and Growing WW3 Fears
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:38     Subject: War with Iran

Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:37     Subject: War with Iran

Anonymous wrote:So...trump and the middle east will fund Ukraine's defense. there is a certain amount of karma there


Welfare to Work!
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:15     Subject: War with Iran

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Honest question - are there people out there who believe Trump when he says Iran bombed their own girls primary school and killed 180?


Apparently, yes.

There are also people who believe the earth is flat and that men have never been on the moon.

What are you going to do, there are idiots everywhere.


Unfortunately many of them now run our government
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:13     Subject: Re:War with Iran

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Our founding fathers-revolutionaries would be shocked at our apathy.

This is decades of laziness, too much wealth, poor education, decline of morals that has led to this—-a society that allows itself to be headed by immoral, uninspiring, and idiotic leaders in BOTH parties.

The few diamonds there are out there in leadership roles are unable to rise to the top because our society has chosen to venerate beauty and charisma above all else. No wonder the Kardashians are billionaires. Only in America 🤮


Sorry, no this is not a "BOTH SIDES" issue.

The democrats fund education.
The democrats haven't started never ending wars since Vietnam and that was pre-southern strategy, so really, those were mordern republicans.

There was nothing wrong with Kerry, Clinton, Harris or Biden as presidential candidates. The problem was the mind rot that Fox News creates, coupled with the binary "win/lose" approach that Newt Gingrich embraced. Are there bad democrats? Of course. But nothing on the scale of the NeoCons that got us into Iraq and Afgahanistan or the Tea Party that destroyed our balance of the economy.


The fact of the matter is that we are in this war for Israel. Israel doesn't care what happens to Iran or the world economy or US soldiers. They just want Iran destroyed, no matter the cost to everyone else.

And supporting Israel at the cost of the US is still something both Republicans and Democrats support. At least the Democratic leadership and the bulk of the elected democrats in Congress. So it is a both sides issue. Until the Democrats actually show they will cut Israel off and let them fend for themselves and put the interests of this country first.

I do believe there is truth to that saying that when you dig a grave for your enemy make sure you dig two graves, one for your enemy and the other for yourself. Israel cannot believe that with a destroyed Iran, Israel would also fall.
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:13     Subject: War with Iran

Anonymous wrote:So...trump and the middle east will fund Ukraine's defense. there is a certain amount of karma there


While at the same time also funding Russia. So....
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:09     Subject: War with Iran

So...trump and the middle east will fund Ukraine's defense. there is a certain amount of karma there
Anonymous
Post 03/12/2026 12:08     Subject: War with Iran

Anonymous wrote:Look who has some cards:

* SAUDI ARAMCO IN TALKS TO BUY UKRAINIAN DRONES TO PROTECT OIL FIELDS -- WSJ


Yep Ukraine has spare capacity now. Lot of proven inexpensive weapons systems coming out of Ukraine.