Trump is just the front man.

kind of ironic with the BBC being the UK regime mouthpiece

I think you may be overestimating how tethered to our shared reality Trump is here.

exatly

exactly

yeah I expect the negotiations are going to fail over the weekend

i imagine the Gulf states must be rethinking the whole arrangement now. They thought they were untouchable under the American umbrella, but now they see they’re in fact the ones who will be absorbing most of the damage from the war. And if the US can’t protect them, then making peace with Iran is the only way forward.

Absolutely, the whole premise was that nobody would have the audacity to fight the US directly. There is a famous poker saying that you don’t bluff someone who can’t fold. Iran couldn’t fold because their survival as a state depended on it. So Trump’s made the worst possible blunder, trying to bluff against an opponent with no exit and maximum stakes.

Aside from Iran starting to charge a toll and control traffic through Hormuz, this is the other most consequential outcome of the war. All the infrastructure that the US spent decades building is now useless. Iran proved that none of these bases were defensible, and they destroyed billions, if not trillions, worth of radars and other high tech equipment, not to mention the cost of building these bases themselves. The entire US position in the region has now collapsed, and there’s no going back to the way things were before.

https://archive.ph/fjOIs

amazing

There is no better proof of NATO being a terrorist organization than Rutte himself.

I expect we’ll see this start happening outside the US. At the end of the day, energy is a cost for capitalists that are outside fossil fuel industry, and they want to bring their input costs down.

Seems unlikely given that would mean accepting that Iran won the war.

After all the atrocities the west committed against Yemen, they really should follow suit

It’s not a reliable partner, it can’t offer protection, and it has nothing to offer economically.

honestly to be expected from the glowie.world

yeah that really does seem like the most plausible explanation

Look the only people who are allowed to have opinions are propagandists working for mainstream western media. Everybody else better just shut up and listen to them.

Given how far they were from the crash site, it seems very implausible that it was a rescue operation. The pilot would’ve had to walk 172 km in a single day to get to the location from crash site and other pilot. And the video of the jet getting shot down clearly shows they both ejected at the same time.

The two points on that Google Maps screenshot show the crash site of the downed F-15E in central Iran (lower black circle) and the location where the second crew member (weapons systems officer) was supposedly rescued by U.S. special forces (upper red pin near Shahrekord).

It might not have been an attempt to seize uranium, although given where they were that seems likely, but it clearly wasn’t about the pilot. The reason why they’d make it up seems pretty simple. At first, they probably thought they’d use it as misdirection, and then when the whole thing ended up being a debacle, they tried to spin it as a successful rescue. If they managed to achieve whatever it is they were trying then they could tell a story of how they brilliantly tricked the Iranians.