The world on an Iranian nuclear brink! (Update: Postponed for 'two weeks' apparently)

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20.6.2025: If yet again America goes into psychotic, homicidal bombing mode, on the back of a fabricated pretext, it will prove it is the most evil, destabilizing and anti-human force in the world! It will also prove that Trump's claims to be a 'peace-maker' and 'anti-war President' were nothing more than empty, ego-cetric rhetoric from a dangerous buffoon.

If he decimates Iran, with all its human and military consequences, he will be remembered not for peace and security, but yet again as an American President who plunges the world into chaos and misery. It could also perversely ensure the end of the Israeli state and American world hegemony - morally, economically and militarily, the very opposite of Trump's claims of making America 'great again'.

Of course we were all aware of the fetid nature of the neo-con/zionist conceit and deceit, from 9/11 onwards, although this is still not admitted. Yet the "seven states in five years" has still played out, though it has taken five times as long. Iran is the last to be attacked but may be a far more difficult fruit to fall, this leaving aside the issue as to whether other nuclear powers can allow it to be harvested so seamlessly into the zionist barn.

NATO has failed in Ukraine, despite the largely unpublicised loss of millions of lives, yet here we are again with another wasteful, despicable American killing spree on the cards.

Will Russia, Pakistan, North Korea, China stand idly by as Iran is massively bombed? Will Iran itself feel constrained from attacking American bases and oil producing nations on its doorstep? What has it to loose from an all-out attack on Israel with the possiblity of nuclear destruction and contamination only hairs-breadth away.

Everyone knows the zionist-controlled west's position on Iran is deeply corrupt and perverted. To attack a country for its potential nuclear capabilitities, when the aggressors (Israel, America, Britain and France ) already control a huge stockpile, variously not under, or removed from, international non-proliferation treaties, is the height of hypocrisy. Hopefully everyone in the world can see through the political deception. taking us all to destruction.

Thanks Mr Trump. Thanks the great state of 21st Century America - "The Great Satan" as Iran has described it - which short of a miracle policy turnaround, yet again it is proving itself to be.

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Tim Veater

Why does the international community put up with this outrage? It is shameful that it can be bossed around by that jumped up little hellish state of israel. Why no 'Berlin' air drop? Why no military protection of civilians? The UN is an utter disgrace.

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Jess Lv

Tim Veater absolutely. The number of people shot at aid sites by the IDF and the GHF has risen to 400! and I don't understand how the world is letting this go on even after Netenyahu admitted to arming militias and gangs like Abu Shabab who loot the humanitarian aid.

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Jess Lv I would say, shamefully, it is because in the scheme of things, despite all the rhetoric and claimed outrage, Palestininian lives do not matter, and have not mattered for decades! It is hard not to see this as cultural supremacy and rascist superiority in action, within the context of Western imperialist settlement and invasion, much as what occurred from the 16th C. onwards all around the world. Deprived of independence, Palestinians have had little economic heft. It is no accident. It is why Israel has created refugee dependancy and treats them with such contempt. We all know that western media, through ownership and inveigling, has controlled the narrative in Israel's favour, effectively concealing its disgusting treatment of its Palestinian neighbours. Hopefully the world's view of Israel has irrevocably changed, but still national governments are reticent to folow suit, presumably because trade and security links run so deep within the overarching east/west divide. Israel has cost America billions of dollars but one wonders what it has got in return? Increasingly Americans are asking the same question even if their elected representatives arn't.

The West's moral position has become a hollow drum, a clanging cymbal. It is a tired and bankrupt charade. Even where one might hope to find it - the Christian Church - there is nothing but eirie silence. No codemnation of sin; no rejection of evil; seemingly no ethical adjudication at all, even when it is Christians that are the victims of it. Apparently as far as the West is concerned, Israel can do what it likes, where it likes and when it likes, and no one must intervene or criticise, even when observing untold cruelty, the shelling of the starving or even the threatened mass annihilation of a city of fifteen million people. Lies have replaced truth; aggression has been lauded; risks have been fabricated - and all for what? So that political and military egos can be stroked; fascist uniforms can be polished; phallic weapons can be paraded; Western hegemony claimed? The crooked make money whilst thousands of years of culture is reduced to rubble. The population of the world - billions of people - look on amazed and dumfounded, that a few arrogant fools can bring them to this and that Institutions set up at enormous cost to prevent it have proved themselves to be little more than hot air. The air is likely to get a lot hotter before it cools. The question remains what will be standing when it does?

23.6.2025

We have to somehow free ourselves from Americo/zionist control but no one should under-estimate the difficulty. It's a long time since Harold Wilson tried it and look what happened to him. Does Starmer believe the things he says and does or is it just a pragmatic response to the economic realities? Trump has done more to lessen the ties with European and Commonwealth formations than anyone and this is an opportunity as much as a challenge. Canada has led the way. Australia may follow. If push comes to shove, Europe will probably choose Denmark over the US. So far however, Ukraine and Palestine - and now Iran - have highlighted the paradoxes and contradictions. In backing Ukraine it has cited the illegality whilst ignoring the context. In backing Israel it ignores legality and context but can it prevent a schism with the neo-con/zionist approach to Iran if it is to retain a semblance of respect for international law, its institutions and public opinion that has turned against Israeli barbarism and despotism?

Probably most people appreciate that Trump is a bombastic, arrogant fool, bribed and/or black-mailed to follow a zionist agenda. Unfortunately neither those in his own domestic circle nor those in foreign ones, are prepared to tell him. It is left to a few brave or even reckless individuals to do so, such as the one below - a master-class in critical analysis. Could there ever have been a better oxymoronic example of a slogan than, "Making America Great Again" or of the individual who promised it?

Oregon's Bay Area is feeling shocked.
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In the span of seventy-two hours, the Trump administration has managed to simultaneously bomb Iran, fracture its own political coalition, humiliate itself on the global stage, and vaporize billions of dollars in advanced munitions, all while declaring victory. It takes a certain kind of brilliance to orchestrate a fiasco this comprehensive.

We begin with what Trump insists on calling a “complete and total obliteration” of Iran’s nuclear capabilities. The centerpiece of this spectacle, code-named “Operation Midnight Hammer” (a name that would embarrass even a Michael Bay film), involved seven B-2 Spirit bombers dropping a dozen 30,000-pound bunker-busting Massive Ordnance Penetrators on Iran’s Fordo facility. Each of these bombs reportedly costs upwards of $500 million, and with twelve dropped, we are staring at $6 billion in ordnance expended on just one target. Add in cruise missile salvos, submarine deployments, the logistics of moving B-2s halfway across the world, and the surrounding military build-up of 40,000 American troops now sitting well within Iranian missile range, and you’re easily looking at a multi-billion dollar operation. That’s just for this single round of strikes.

But it gets better. Despite the chest-thumping at the Pentagon press conference, the damage assessment tells a different story. Satellite imagery reviewed by multiple independent experts suggests that while substantial above-ground damage occurred, Fordo’s deeply buried enrichment halls may have survived. Observers saw trucks moving materials out of Fordo and Natanz in the days before the attacks, strongly suggesting that Iran moved its highly enriched uranium, enough for multiple bombs, to a safe location beforehand. In short, Trump may have spent billions of dollars successfully bombing empty tunnels.

Iran, of course, wasted no time signaling that its program remains intact, with foreign ministry officials implying that enrichment could continue elsewhere, including at the much deeper, as-yet-unstruck Pickaxe Mountain site. Even Israel’s own Channel 13 military analysts admit the program could not be destroyed with airstrikes alone, even if this operation continued for another year. The phrase “mission accomplished” hovers over this charade like a ghost from George W. Bush’s deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln.

And yet, while Trump boasts of obliteration, his own Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth were dispatched to Sunday talk shows to offer a far more modest take: no, this was not about regime change; no, Iran’s stockpiles were not fully destroyed; yes, this simply “set back” their program. But then, like clockwork, Trump himself detonates his own talking points by hopping onto Truth Social to declare that regime change is now exactly what he’s after: “Why wouldn’t there be regime change?” he mused, in between bizarre tirades against Thomas Massie and spelling his own name wrong as “DONA KDJ Trump.”

This sudden turn toward regime change prompted some awkward silence within MAGA world. Populist allies who once cheered Trump’s anti-interventionist rhetoric are now visibly squirming. Even Thomas Massie, long a reliable libertarian foot soldier, found himself publicly attacked by Trump for opposing what is clearly an unconstitutional act of war. The anti-war isolationist mask has slipped; what remains is raw imperial hubris wrapped in cheap populist theater.

And yet, the contradictions keep piling up. Trump, who famously promised to disentangle America from Middle East wars, now finds himself on the phone, figuratively, if not literally, begging Xi Jinping to help keep the Strait of Hormuz open as Iran threatens to choke off global oil shipping lanes in retaliation. The great self-proclaimed dealmaker, who once mocked Joe Biden as weak, now stands humiliated, forced to rely on Beijing to prevent his own reckless adventure from igniting an oil price shock that could crater the world economy. In a particularly bitter irony, while Trump rules by tantrum and impulsive fiat, Iran’s leadership, though authoritarian, shares its decision-making through institutional consensus among multiple power centers. The mullahs, the Revolutionary Guard, and the civilian government consult, maneuver, and adapt with remarkable cohesion, while Washington’s policy process resembles little more than Trump’s late-night social media stream-of-consciousness.

Meanwhile, Iran has already begun coordinating with Russia, with its foreign minister flying to Moscow to bolster defense ties. For all of Trump’s bluster about maximum pressure, he has driven Tehran deeper into the very axis he once claimed his deal-making would disrupt.
Of course, no international disaster is complete without the moral voice of the Vatican weighing in, and here Pope Leo delivered what may be the most devastating condemnation of all. In his Sunday address, the Pope linked Trump’s Iran strikes directly to Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza, calling it a cynical diversion from atrocities unfolding there. “War does not solve problems,” Pope Leo declared. “It amplifies them.” He went further, condemning leaders who wage war without risking their own children, a not-so-subtle jab at Trump and his family, none of whom will be dodging Iranian missiles in the days ahead. The irony was almost too on-the-nose when, during Trump’s lavish parade the tiny audience was treated to sounds of “Fortunate Son”, that iconic Vietnam-era anthem railing against draft-dodging elites who send others to die while their own privileged offspring stay safely at home. It was, unintentionally, the most honest soundtrack imaginable for a president who skipped Vietnam, ducked every fight of his life, and now orders young Americans into harm’s way from the comfort of his fortified golf resorts.

And if the moral indictment weren’t enough, there is the strategic blunder to consider. Trita Parsi, one of the sharpest analysts of the Iran file, compared Trump’s strike to Israel’s infamous 1981 Osirak raid, which ultimately accelerated Iraq’s nuclear ambitions rather than quashing them. Parsi predicts the same dynamic now: Trump may have guaranteed that within 5 to 10 years, Iran will go nuclear, both as a deterrent and as a nationalistic response to U.S.-Israeli aggression. Once again, we have bombed our way into proliferation.

Perhaps most damning of all is the complete collapse of process. Trump, increasingly isolated within his own administration, ignored his intelligence agencies (led at one point by Tulsi Gabbard before she was uninvited to the table), disregarded congressional war powers, and conducted military strikes absent any serious National Security Council deliberation. The decision-making process was instead driven by a tight inner circle of Fox News veterans, MAGA loyalists, and Netanyahu emissaries, with John Ratcliffe feeding Trump Israeli intelligence to override his own agencies. The result is less a functional presidency than a rogue operation wrapped in Christian nationalist cosplay.

For all the expensive hardware, the precision-guided bombs, and the absurdly costly stealth bombers circling the skies, what Trump has purchased here is not victory but escalation. The United States now finds itself exposed to retaliation, its credibility weakened, its global alliances further fractured, and its own domestic constitutional order once again shredded under the weight of one man’s boundless ego.

And yet, the grift rolls on. Even as missiles fall, Trump’s surrogates are busy pumping out pro-war merchandise, MAGA influencers are scrambling to update their talking points, and the base is left to awkwardly explain how their anti-war avatar just launched the war they spent eight years promising to prevent. In the end, perhaps Pope Leo said it best: “No armed victory can compensate for the pain of mothers, fear of children, the stolen future.”

What’s most remarkable is not simply that Trump has pushed America into an undeclared war, or that $6 billion in high-tech ordnance may have accomplished little. It’s that, in the wreckage of America’s strategic credibility, we now see the full descent into something cruder and more dangerous: a great power reduced to subcontracted muscle, drunkenly swinging its fists at the behest of smaller client states, while China, Russia, and Iran carefully redraw the maps behind its back.

The United States once led the world. Now it lurches behind Israel’s shadow, like some punch drunk barroom bouncer, throwing billion-dollar tantrums that leave its allies uneasy, its adversaries emboldened, and its citizens staring down another quagmire they never voted for.
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