The Many Faces of US Politics...

[johnnycool]

I see Dan Bilzerian not holding back on his opinions anyway on what he thinks of the good people of Israel.

There's something amiss with these types, there's an odious side to them I can't shake off, but on Israel he's right.

Also,
  what has happened to the likes of Tucker Carlson? He's going in big time on Israel and AIPAC as well?

I also believe Piers Morgan invites Pro Israel Zionists onto his show to deliberately demean them as they always get handed their arses on a plate and is now getting sued by some Pro Israel legal type.

[Armagh18]

I see Dan Bilzerian not holding back on his opinions anyway on what he thinks of the good people of Israel.

There's something amiss with these types, there's an odious side to them I can't shake off, but on Israel he's right.

Also,
  what has happened to the likes of Tucker Carlson? He's going in big time on Israel and AIPAC as well?

I also believe Piers Morgan invites Pro Israel Zionists onto his show to deliberately demean them as they always get handed their arses on a plate and is now getting sued by some Pro Israel legal type.

That Dan Bilzerian is over the top and actually probably is anti Semitic, but I'll not be shedding many tears for the c***ts who are backing Israel.

The ones getting their arses handed to them on Morgans show deserve it.

[DaleCooper]

Russian sanctions eased by US because India was gonna be paying $20 billion PER WEEK extra for oil

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy031d1ny7jo

Trump indirectly assisting Irans war effort[via Russians] . Smart!

[gallsman]

I see Dan Bilzerian not holding back on his opinions anyway on what he thinks of the good people of Israel.

There's something amiss with these types, there's an odious side to them I can't shake off, but on Israel he's right.

Also,
  what has happened to the likes of Tucker Carlson? He's going in big time on Israel and AIPAC as well?

I also believe Piers Morgan invites Pro Israel Zionists onto his show to deliberately demean them as they always get handed their arses on a plate and is now getting sued by some Pro Israel legal type.

Good article in the Guardian today about how they're all eating themselves:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/06/conservative-media-open-warfare-over-iran

Tucker, Kelly and all appear to have actually believed Trump that his whole "movement" was about America first. Couple of good clips of Carlson making a twat of Ted Cruz over Iran last summer coming back up recently as well.

Likes of Hegseth are just apes who really get off on blowing shit up, especially if it's brown people on the receiving end. There's no ideology behind it.

[seafoid]

https://x.com/academic_la/status/2029972848341827887
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim@academic_la
Intelligence reports indicate remarkable resilience from the Iranian regime despite devastating bombing: 1) Iran restructured to survive decapitation strikes, decentralizing leadership so replacements step in immediately when someone is killed. It's working. 2) Power is distributed across 31 regional units, one for each province, that are trained to operate independently if central communication is severed.

3) No significant defections, no popular uprisings, security forces still functioning. 4) The more it bombs the population, the more people will be determined to resist. This has improved the position of the regime vis-a-vis the population through what is known as the "rally around the flag" effect." Even populations who despise their leaders tend to close ranks when under foreign bombardment.

5) The involvement of separatist groups in Kurdistan and Baluchistan has united many Iranian nationalists who are opposed to secession. Many Iranians who oppose the clerical government are equally opposed to the fragmentation of the country, allowing the regime to frame all dissent as foreign-backed "treason".

 6) The economy in Iran survives. Iran has refined its use of a "shadow banking" network and a "shadow fleet" of oil tankers to bypass sanctions and maintain essential revenue. It has also increasingly utilized a multibillion-dollar cryptocurrency ecosystem to safeguard economic activity and fund operations in real-time. 7) The oil crisis that the war has sparked has given the regime hope that it can outlast the US and Israel while causing them real economic damage. Iran cannot win this war. But it can outlast the US and Israel. It's betting its population can endure more pain than American allies and the global economy can.

[seafoid]

https://x.com/DanMKervick/status/2029050785829462132
Dan Kervick
@DanMKervick
Hard to imagine the World Cup going forward as planned now.

[DaleCooper]

Two weeks til oil overflow tanks are filled and they literally have to shut oil field pumps down entirely.

Financial times says optimistic price target for oil is $220 a barrel.

Trumps betting he can BS the Iranians with "forever war" etc.

[seafoid]

https://x.com/Jonathan_K_Cook/status/2029610790878150696
Before its attack on Iran, the US had spent years trying to starve its people into an uprising, just as Israel blockaded and starved the people of Gaza for some 16 years on the assumption that they would be encouraged to overthrow Hamas. The strategy failed in both cases.

 Why? Because it ignored the simplest of facts: that the people being abused are human beings, who will always choose freedom and dignity over degradation and subordination.

 Now led by the nose into a humiliating war of attrition with Iran, the US is lashing out like a "mad dog" – just as Israel did in Gaza after it was humiliated by Hamas' one-day breakout from the concentration camp Israel had created for Palestinians there.

Hegseth's "no rules of engagement" means the US is now open about the fact that all of Iran has been turned into a free-fire zone, just as Gaza was. Which explains why one of the first targets of the US and Israeli strikes was a primary school where more than 170 people were killed, most of them children under the age of 12.

 According to reports even in the rightwing Telegraph newspaper, US and Israeli attacks have already created an "apocalypse" in Tehran. Essential civilian infrastructure is being targeted, such as hospitals, schools and police stations. Residential areas are being carpet-bombed, and food and medical supplies are rapidly running out.

 Rubio has vowed that much worse is to come. The US has evidently been captured by the depraved logic of the Dahiya doctrine, which Israel developed in its repeated attacks on Lebanon and further refined over two and a half years in Gaza. The Dahiya doctrine goes much further than simply the idea of asymmetric warfare inherent to attacks by a stronger party on a weaker party.

 Under the doctrine, civilian casualties are no longer unfortunate "collateral damage" from strikes against military assets. Rather, the civilian population are treated as no less legitimate targets of attack than military infrastructure. For Israel, the Dahiya doctrine grew out of an acceptance that there were no meaningful war aims that Israel could achieve in its battles against the Palestinians it ruled over or against Hizbullah's resistance in Lebanon. Israel was unsatisfied simply with pacifying the Palestinians. It knew they could not be pacified indefinitely, given that it had no intention of ever arriving at a political settlement with them. The fabled two-state solution was purely for western consumption; it never had any meaningful constituency of support in Israel. Rather, Israel's goal was to use overwhelming and indiscriminate violence to terrify the Palestinians into ethnically cleansing themselves from the region, as had partially occurred in 1948.


Similarly, in Lebanon, where the Dahiya doctrine was first developed, the goal was not to reach a political accommodation with Hizbullah through a show of force. Hizbullah had made clear it would never resign itself to watching the Palestinians erased from their homeland. The goal was to wreak so much pain on Lebanon that other religious sects would turn on Hizbullah and plunge the country into protracted civil war, leaving Israel free to get on with the expulsion – and now genocide – of the Palestinian people.

 Under the Dahiya doctrine, Israel implicitly acknowledged that it was not fighting simply against militants but against the wider society from which those militants were drawn. It had to accept that there could be no victory, no surrender, assessed in traditional military terms. So what it had to do instead was leave a smouldering ruin.

Time and again, Israel has used massive firepower on civilian infrastructure and residential areas to break the will of a society – to drive it back into "the Stone Age", to use the terminology of Israeli generals – so that the population would expend their energies on survival rather than resistance. This is what Hegseth and Rubio are now declaring as Washington's war aims in Iran. A wilful, savage demonstration of mass destruction to no purpose other than the demonstration itself.

[seafoid]

https://www.ft.com/content/be122b17-e667-478d-be19-89d605e978ea

This will bring down the economies of the world," Kaabi said. "If this war continues for a few weeks, GDP growth around the world will be impacted. Everybody's energy price is going to go higher. There will be shortages of some products and there will be a chain reaction of factories that cannot supply."

[Sportacus]

https://www.ft.com/content/be122b17-e667-478d-be19-89d605e978ea

This will bring down the economies of the world," Kaabi said. "If this war continues for a few weeks, GDP growth around the world will be impacted. Everybody's energy price is going to go higher. There will be shortages of some products and there will be a chain reaction of factories that cannot supply."

Trump will blink when he sees this.  The Iranians are smart targeting economic sites, Trumps weak spot. Trump will bring his bit to an end, but the Israeli's will keep killing for as long as they can get away with it.