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"Wars are not decided by social media posts or gut feelings. They are decided by logistics, strategy, alliances, and political resolve. Right now, the world is watching a conflict expand across multiple regions while the person in charge of the United States is posting fantasies about imaginary naval coalitions and claiming total victory over an enemy that is clearly still fighting."
~ Ben Meiselas
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #strongman
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Important Saturday News Updates — 3/14/26
In my Saturday afternoon update, I break down Trump’s increasingly desperate claims as the war with Iran spreads across the globe.Ben Meiselas (Meidas+)
"The self-described patriots of today’s British right seem giddy at the prospect of outsourcing their political identity to a foreign power and welcome the relegation of British sovereignty to vassal status within Trump’s new world order – just as long as they can personally and financially benefit from being the new comprador class within their own country."
#UK #England #Britain #Trump #MAGA #Tories #Conservatives #CultureWars
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"There are elements of this dynamic apparent elsewhere in the west, in Canada, Australia or Germany. But the extent to which British rightwing commentators have been willing to declare their love and loyalty to Trump’s America has been striking."
#UK #England #Britain #Trump #MAGA #Tories #Conservatives #CultureWars
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Kojo Koram reports on how resistance to US consumerism and its vulgarities "has now almost entirely disappeared, especially within the British right, which, in the age of social media, has been only too happy to embrace the language, the tactics and the grievances of the US culture war."
#UK #England #Britain #Trump #MAGA #Tories #Conservatives #CultureWars
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British conservatives once looked down on the American right. Now they’re riding on Maga’s coat-tails
Self-described UK patriots have spotted an opportunity for advancement and enrichment. That’s why so many outsource their identity to Trump, says author and academic Kojo KoramKojo Koram (The Guardian)
Daily Kos features a sign hanging over a highway in deep-red Eagle River, Alaska — a sign suggesting that Trump's Iran war "excursion" may have something, at least a tiny bit, to do with the Epstein files.
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"Epstein files must be really bad" banner deployed in deep red part of Alaska
This banner was hung over the Glenn Highway (Alaska’s most travelled one) today near Eagle River, one of the reddest parts of the state. (I’ve been on Daily Kos since it's beginning, but I think this is my first post. Hope I did it correctly!)Daily Kos
"a war that will likely bankrupt the country; a war that will cause a global recession and worldwide suffering; a war that most Americans do not support; a war that began with U.S. planes killing scores of girls at a school; a war in which we have ceded the moral high ground to the fucking Ayatollah. ...
In this New World Order, the United States is no longer #1."
"We are just two weeks and a day into the Iran war—a war that has no discernible purpose; a war undertaken at the behest of a genocidal war criminal who as I type this is either dead, infirm, or in hiding like a coward; a war that seems intended to distract from the Epstein Files and forestall the release of proof of our president’s singular depravity;
~ Greg Olear
#Trump #Netanyahu #Epstein #Iran #war
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Sunday Pages: "It's Up To You"
A musical collage by Steinski and Mass MediaGreg Olear (PREVAIL by Greg Olear)
"With nearly one-third of key fertilizer ingredients and a large share of global urea and ammonia exports tied to the region, attacks on ships and halted transit are driving up fertilizer, oil, and diesel prices—raising costs for farmers and potentially leading to higher grocery prices and lower crop yields worldwide."
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #fertilizer #agriculture #food
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"The war with Iran is threatening to raise global food prices as shipping disruptions through the Strait of Hormuz stall fertilizer exports critical for agriculture."
~ Aaron Parnas
#Trump #Iran #war #StraitofHormuz #oil #gas #fertilizer #agriculture #food
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"Kushner holds no official diplomatic title that would normally authorize such talks but titles are beside the point in the Trump era. What matters is proximity to power, and Kushner has that in abundance.
What he also has is a private equity firm called Affinity Partners, which is funded by billions of dollars in foreign governments."
#Trump #Putin #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #JoshGruenbaum #AffinityPartners #Iran #Russia #war
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"The meeting also included Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, another billionaire with vested personal financial interests, whose son runs the Trump family’s shady and opaque crypto fund, World Liberty Financial. The third notable figure at the meeting was Trump administration official Josh Gruenbaum.
The Florida meeting was ostensibly a discussion about ending the war in Ukraine."
#Trump #Putin #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #JoshGruenbaum #AffinityPartners #Iran #Russia #war
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"Kushner recently met in Florida with Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and a longtime financial emissary for Vladimir Putin. Dmitriev is not simply a diplomat; he is effectively Putin’s bag man."
~ Julie Roginsky
#Trump #Putin #JaredKushner #SteveWitkoff #JoshGruenbaum #AffinityPartners #Iran #Russia #war
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How Jared Is Selling Us Out to the Richest Autocrat
Why is Congress not investigating Kushner's massive conflicts of interest?Julie Roginsky (Salty Politics with Julie Roginsky)
Robert Reich asks who’s getting the most out of Trump’s war. His list (it doesn't include the American people, by the way):
Pete Hegseth’s “Department of War”
Top military contractors
Larry Ellison’s Oracle
Elon Musk’s SpaceX
Peter Thiel’s Palantir Technologies
Big Oil
Jared Kushner
Vladimir Putin
#Trump #Putin #Hegseth #JaredKushner #ElonMusk #LarryEllison #PeterThiel #Iran #Israel #Russia #war #oil #gas
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Sunday thought: Who’s Winning from Trump’s War? Follow the Money
Trump, his biggest backers, and Vladimir PutinRobert Reich
"Some of the winners are obvious: Russia and oil producers everywhere except in the Persian Gulf. The losers may come as a surprise: American consumers are being hit hard even though the US produces more oil and natural gas than it consumes, while China, despite its dependence on imported hydrocarbons, is relatively insulated from this shock."
~ Paul Krugman
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Putin #Iran #Israel #Russia #war
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Costs and Benefits from the New Energy Crisis
There are many losers, but also some winnersPaul Krugman
"I was talking to a few friends yesterday. We were talking about how every president, you know, for 46 years, ever since the Islamic Revolution, Democrats and Republicans have not really liked the Velayat-e faqih, the Islamic leaders, but none of them were dumb enough to actually be dog walked by Netanyahu and white Christian nationalists and attack Iran."
~ Wajahat Ali
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #war
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How The United States Loses the Iran War and Our National Security...with Trita Parsi
Donald Trump and the warmonger class have no exit strategy from this disastrous war and severely underestimated Iran's resolve. The longer this chaos lasts, the more America loses.THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"By 2024 and 2025, he was already under immense domestic pressure over his corruption trial, his extremist coalition partners, and his handling of the Gaza war. Commentators and analysts have increasingly argued that he has incentives to keep the region in perpetual crisis, framing himself as the indispensable wartime leader and delaying the electoral reckoning that would likely end his career."
"Netanyahu for years now has sold Israelis the same rubbish. Every crisis can be solved by bombing and strafing. Now that immoral 'strategy' is being manifested again, in Lebanon. ...
What makes this even more indefensible is how entwined this northern brinkmanship is with Netanyahu’s personal political survival."
~ Mark Mansour
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #Lebanon #war
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Benjamin Netanyahu Is Marching Lebanon And The Entire Middle East Toward The Abyss
all for his own self-preservationMark Mansour (America’s Fractured Politics)
"Putin, meanwhile, is watching the Hormuz chokehold deliver the oil price shock that relieves the central strain on his war machine, while American support for Ukraine quietly dries up, and Putin will soon be cashing oil checks from the US again.
Both men got what they needed by feeding one man’s need for a headline that gave him the love his parents never could."
"The reporting from journalist Neri Zilber on March 9 is instructive: they’re now on phase three, systematically working down a target list — air defenses, missile systems, the Iranian Navy, and now essentially all regime infrastructure. Whether there’s a fourth phase, and whether anyone has actually thought through what regime change looks like on the other side — that’s an open question. Netanyahu’s silence on that question is all the answer we need."
"Trump’s narcissism is a Trojan Horse. The men inside it have clearer agendas, fewer domestic constraints, and thirty years more patience. Netanyahu handed Trump a war Israel has wanted since at least 2007, one Netanyahu needed personally to stay out of court and in power — and Netanyahu is a tactical 'genius' who never underestimates what a fourth phase could be worth."
~ Jason Sattler
#Trump #Netanyahu #Bibi #Iran #war
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Man Who Spat on Allies For a Year Demands the World Clean Up His Catastrophe
From Liberation Day to the Escalation Trap to Interdependence Day: How narcissistic delusion became the biggest unforced error of the decade (so far).L O L G O P (The Cause)
'Wow': Observers horrified by 'scary' Trump brag showing he's following 'Putin's playbook' - Raw Story
#americanfascism #usapolitics #censorship #media #trump #resist #news
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'Wow': Observers horrified by 'scary' Trump brag showing he's following 'Putin's playbook'
Donald Trump over the weekend posted a graphic that alarmed numerous political observers.Trump took to his own social media site, Truth Social, to post the graphic, which is called, "President Trump is reshaping the media.David McAfee (Raw Story)
More reasons to ditch US Big Tech:
This is highly worrying from a cyber point of view: President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America
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> This is highly worrying from a cyber point of view: President Trump's Cyber Strategy for America
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> This document reframes cyberspace as a US-dominated military domain. It calls for offensive operations as a standard policy instrument. It boasts openly about destroying foreign critical infrastructure. Not only that, it also pledges to impose American “norms” on the global internet.
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> It calls for deregulation at the very moment when any serious security expert agrees that regulation is essential for setting a baseline security bar.
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> “Adversary” is not defined in this pamphlet, and any foreign organization may now fall easily inside the definition at any time. (akin to disabling all Microsoft infrastructures for the International Criminal Court, ICC, in 2025, or declaring Anthropic to be a “supply chain risk”).
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> If the U.S. treats foreign technology as an adversarial risk, how can any government or organization trust U.S. technology any longer?
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> This is the foundational strategic question now: how long are we willing to build our IT infrastructures on systems that another power, governed by executive orders, has declared to be part of their military arsenal?
Source: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l…
#murica #trump #BigTech #sovereignty #cybersecurity #CloudExit
Washington just published its 2026 Cyber Strategy.
Washington just published its 2026 Cyber Strategy. https://2bst.eu/4y I just read it, and it's highly worrying. Every European CIO, policymaker, and security leader should read this document carefully.Dr. Sybe Izaak Rispens (LinkedIn)
Typical
#KashPatel gutted #FBI counterintelligence team tasked with tracking Iranian threats days before #US strikes, sources say
Just days before the US launched a major military operation in #Iran, Patel fired a dozen agents & staff members from a #counterintelligence unit tasked with monitoring #threats from Iran, acc/to 2 sources….
They were ousted for a simple reason: Each was involved in the investigation of #Trump’s alleged retention of #ClassifiedDocuments.
"The Epstein Class is laughing all the way to the bank, drinking our tears as sugar for their expensive coffee. ... As we die and suffer, they laugh and make money off of AI, Crypto, and war."
~ Wajahat Ali
W. Ali points to recent statements of Palantir CEO (and Peter Thiel best bud) featured in the image below.
#Trump #Iran #war #EconomicElites #EpsteinClass #billionaires #TechBros #broligarchy #Palantir #PeterThiel #AlexKarp #crypto #AI
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The Epstein Class Is Creating World War 3 and Profiting Off Our Misery
A recording from THE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali's live videoTHE LEFT HOOK with Wajahat Ali (The Left Hook with Wajahat Ali)
"According to Gas Buddy, the national average price for a gallon of regular gas is now up to $3.59 a gallon. This is a 62-cent jump from February 28th.
Largest oil disruption ever in history.
Brent is up 12.5% right now. That is up to 104.30. Crude oil is up 12%."
~ David Shuster
#Trump #Iran #war #oil #gas #economy #prices #affordability
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Shuster’s Weekly Wrap-Up: Trump’s Iran War Sends Oil Prices Soaring
Trump’s Iran strikes trigger soaring oil prices, job losses, and rising inflation fears. David Shuster breaks down the economic fallout and political chaos.Blue Amp Media
"'On Thursday, futures for Brent crude oil closed at just above $100 a barrel for the first time since 2022. The move will provide a huge financial boost to Russia, which experts say has already been receiving about $150 million per day from increased oil sales since the US attacked Iran two weeks ago. The lifting of the sanctions positions Putin as one of the biggest beneficiaries Trump’s war on Iran.'”
"WaPo: 'The Trump admin temporarily lifted sanctions on Russian oil shipments in an effort to calm markets and stem the economic fallout from its war on Iran, which has sent crude prices spiraling upward. This allows Russia to begin selling some 128 million barrels of oil that are estimated to have already been loaded onto tankers previously facing restrictions from the US.'”
~ Ron Filipkowski
#Trump #Iran #war #Putin #Russia #oil #gas
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Today in Politics, Bulletin 327. 3/13/26
… CNN: “The Pentagon and NSC significantly underestimated Iran’s willingness to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to US military strikes while planning the ongoing operation, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.Ron Filipkowski (Meidas+)
"During a discussion hosted by Senator Bernie Sanders, Iranian journalist and analyst Negar Mortazavi criticized what she described as uneven coverage of the conflict in the United States media.
'Mainstream media is not covering this objectively enough.'"
~ Brian Karem
#Trump #Iran #war #death #destruction #school #children #Minab #girls #media
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"The picture of the shoes did it for me. Just look at this group of clowns. They’re clowns performing for a ringmaster. Supposedly Trump would just guess their shoe sizes. And if he guessed the wrong size, they didn’t have enough courage to actually get a pair of shoes that fit. They’re wearing shoes because Trump guessed the wrong size. That is a sign of mental illness, I think."
~ Phillips O'Brien
"The confusing answer at a press conference in Doral, Florida this week did not befit a wartime leader armed with stirring rhetoric and a lucid plan. ... as the conflict with Iran enters its third week, impacting nearly every corner of the Middle East and causing economic tremors around the world, Trump has emerged as America’s commander-in-chaos."
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #authoritarianism #strongman
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A history written a hundred years hence would be well to start with this anecdote, "you could say both."
No prosecutor would accept an answer like this. Nevertheless #Trump's base, his party elected, and his Cabinet do. It is an answer completely devoid of useful content.
His policies and excursions are similarly lacking in analysis and forethought. That will be the story of the end of American hegemony.
"'Mr President,' said a reporter. 'You’ve said the war is "very complete" but your defence secretary says, "This is just the beginning". So which is it?' Donald Trump’s eyes darted left and right then down. 'Well, I think you could say both,' he parried."
~ David Smith
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #authoritarianism #strongman
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Trump wages war on Iran his own way: commander-in-chaos
Erratic rhetoric, shifting goals and mixed signals leave allies, foes and voters unsure what the president wants from warDavid Smith (The Guardian)
"Donald Trump is lost in his fog of war. ...
The belief that coherent sense can be made out of Trump’s shuffling words is a weakness of the rational mind that refuses to accept the impulses of the inveterate demagogue for what they are."
~ Sidney Blumenthal
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #authoritarianism #strongman
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Trump faces a ‘personal Vietnam’ in Iran
He is stuck in a quagmire. His goals are elusive. His bombing does not force a surrender. He has no exit strategy. Good morning, VietnamSidney Blumenthal (The Guardian)
"Personalist regimes always suffer from this, but then on top of that we have a personalist regime built on a man who is not just ignorant and malign, he is properly non compos mentis. Pretending he's capable of holding public office and giving orders at all is a kind of mass delusion."
~ Andy Craig
#Trump #Iran #war #madness #dementia #insanity #authoritarianism #strongman
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