The US-Iran War Has Begun

[Innula Zenovka]

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

LOL, I get it... I often feel like the baby around here too. I suspect I am the youngest regular poster around here by a few years at least.

For my exact age, I was born within like 3 hours of the Challenger exploding.

I was a junior in high school when that happened.

 

[Zaida Gearbox]

I was a junior in high school when that happened.

Me too - I was in 8th grade science class when our principal came in and told us.

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Time for some IDF propaganda.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

I ALMOST feel sorry for Rubio... I don't, but almost do. He often seems to have the burden of being the adult who explains away the stupid, childish moves of Trump and the rest of the administration. I don't envy that job, but obviously he still got himself into this.

He's aware of what level of Hell he's headed to.

 

[Tigger]

US troops are receiving communications from their commanders that

“President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth.”

So.... that's encouraging.

MRFF Inundated with Complaints of Gleeful Commanders Telling Troops Iran War is “Part of God’s Divine Plan” to Usher in the Return of Jesus Christ

“This morning our commander opened up the combat readiness status briefing by urging us to not be “afraid” as to what is happening with our combat operations in Iran right now. He urged us to tell our troops that this was “all part of God’s divine plan” and he specifically referenced numerous...

www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org

 

[Free]

A note of caution on the above.

Before you share that story about how troops were told the Iran War is for "Armageddon," read this

The narrative is dramatic. The sourcing is thin. And skepticism matters, especially on something this serious.

www.friendlyatheist.com

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Cristiano]

This seems bad:

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

reopen the Benghazi thing?

 

[Bartholomew Gallacher]

Putin must be very happy about the accomplishments of his asset Trump.

 

[Sid]

Putin must be very happy about the accomplishments of his asset Trump.

C'mon. A member of parliament is expressing her thoughts here. I'm sure there are a handful of those in almost every European country with more than 2 parties in their parliament. Nobody is leaving any time soon.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

C'mon. A member of parliament is expressing her thoughts here. I'm sure there are a handful of those in almost every European country with more than 2 parties in their parliament. Nobody is leaving any time soon.

Not their parliament, either. She's a member of the European Parliament, not the Cortez, so she has not direct influence on Spanish foreign or military policy.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

But what about international law – continued.

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One problem about international law is that it can often seem one-sided.

Take for example the inability of many (though not all) European countries to say plainly that the attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States were not in accordance with international law, let alone in breach.

When a European territory (like Greenland) and a European country (Ukraine) are threatened or attacked, then European leaders are ready to invoke international law.

But when it is not a European territory or a European country at stake, there is an awkward silence.

Of course, the United Kingdom government know that the attacks on Iran were illegal – it is the necessary implication of the stated position on the validity of “defensive” attacks.

And, of course, we know why as a matter of realpolitik the United Kingdom government thinks it cannot say this aloud.

No sensible person is under any illusion on either point.

 

[GoblinCampFollower]

reopen the Benghazi thing?

We all know attacks on Americans only reflect poorly on the President when they are a democrat or double if they are black.

I even saw a guy in SL who had it in his profile that Biden murdered the marines who died pulling out of Afghanistan. ....I'm sure he didn't feel that way about the thousands of soldiers who died in Bush's wars.

 

[Free]

Let's all forget they've been planning and organizing this for as least the past few weeks.

 

[Free]

The US/Israeli Attack Was to Prevent Peace Not Advance It

Last Friday, the mediator of the U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiations in Oman, that country’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi, pulled the rug out from President Trump’s deceptive pretense, threatening war with Iran because it had refused his demands that it give up what he claimed was its drive...

www.counterpunch.org

Last Friday, the mediator of the U.S. and Iranian nuclear negotiations in Oman, that country’s foreign minister Badr Albusaidi, pulled the rug out from President Trump’s deceptive pretense, threatening war with Iran because it had refused his demands that it give up what he claimed was its drive to build its own atom bomb. The Omani foreign minister explained on CBS’s Face the Nation that the Iranian team had agreed not to accumulate enriched uranium and offered “full and comprehensive verification by the IAEA.”

Pointing out that this breakthrough “has been missed a lot by the media,” he emphasized that by calling for “zero stockpiling,” it went far beyond what had been negotiated during President Obama’s administration, because “if you cannot stockpile material that is enriched, then there is no way you can actually create a bomb.”

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – who already had issued a fatwa against doing any such thing, and had repeated this position year after year – called Iran’s Shi’a leaders and military chief to discuss ratification of the agreement to cede control of its enriched uranium in order to prevent war.

But any such capitulation was precisely what neither the United States nor Israel could accept. A peaceful resolution would have prevented the long-term U.S. plan to consolidate and weaponize its control over Middle Eastern oil, its transportation and the investment of its oil export revenues, and to use Israel and al Qaeda/ISIS as its client armies to block independent oil-producing countries from acting in their own sovereign interests.

It's always about the oil. And who has control over it.

 

[Free]

Parody website calls for Barron Trump to join Iran war

A satirical website urging President Donald Trump's youngest son, Barron, to be drafted into the military appeared online in the wake of a deadly U.S.-Israel strike on Iran, quickly drawing attention for its pointed timing and over‑the‑top praise of the president’s family.

www.spokesman.com

A satirical website urging President Donald Trump’s youngest son, Barron, to be drafted into the military appeared online in the wake of a deadly U.S.-Israel strike on Iran, quickly drawing attention for its pointed timing and over‑the‑top praise of the president’s family.

The site, DraftBarronTrump.com, was created by Toby Morton, a comedy writer who previously worked on South Park and Mad TV, according to his personal website and Variety. ⁠Morton has described himself as a “creator of anti‑fascist websites” and is known for registering domain names that appear ‌official but redirect to parody pages impersonating public figures or institutions.

 

[Cristiano]