According to an informed federal official, in the coming months the Trump administration plans to send a total of 40,000 Mark 84 and Blu-117 bombs to the government of Israel. Each bomb weighs 2,000 pounds. This appears to be the largest transfer of conventional explosive ordnance from the United States in modern history.
How big is this shipment? It amounts to 40,000 tons of bombs. For perspective, the largest American air raid of World War Two was the Eighth Air Force’s attack on Berlin in March of 1945. Combined, the 2,023 Allied aircraft involved dropped about 3,000 tons of bombs. That’s 7.5 percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. That same month, March of 1945, the US Army Air Forces began the single most destructive bombing raid in human history, Operation Meetinghouse over Tokyo. More than 100,000 Japanese civilians were killed. By the end of that operation, the US had dropped 1,600 tons of bombs. That’s four percent of what Trump is sending to Israel. World War Two ended five months later, when the US dropped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. The shipment Trump is sending to Israel amounts to more than three times the destructive power of that nuclear explosion. There is no precedent for what the Trump administration is doing.
Nor is there a justification. The government of Israel is not fighting World War Two, or even a war. It is engaged in periodic skirmishes with a guerrilla force in Lebanon, and it is working to exterminate an unarmed civilian population in Gaza. Neither front requires modern 2,000-pound bombs.
An American-made Mark 84 has a destruction radius of half a mile. It releases a thermal wave the temperature of the surface of the sun. Within 100 feet of the explosion, rock melts and human flesh turns to vapor. The bomb collapses apartment buildings and leaves craters thirty-five feet deep. Until the war with Iran, the US military generally avoided using the Mark 84 in urban areas. It kills too many civilians.
For the Netanyahu government, that’s been the upside. In the weeks after October 7, the IDF dropped nearly six hundred 2,000-pound bombs on densely populated areas in Gaza, including on more than 100 officially designated civilian evacuation zones. The slaughter was so grotesque and embarrassing that for a moment the Biden administration paused a shipment of Mark 84s. Those shipments quickly resumed under Trump. Now they’ve accelerated.
It’s hard to overstate the scale of the crime the Israeli government is committing in Gaza. Over the last three years, more than a quarter-million Palestinians have been killed or wounded by Israeli forces there. The majority of them have been noncombatants: women, the elderly and tens of thousands of children. Many thousands more remain missing, presumably entombed under the rubble of 200,000 collapsed buildings. So far the Israelis have destroyed 92 percent of all homes in Gaza, and 34 of the 36 hospitals. By comparison, the 1945 Allied bombings of Dresden, now acknowledged as a war crime, destroyed about half of the city’s inhabited buildings.
By any definition, what the Netanyahu government has done in Gaza is genocide. The 40,000 new bombs the Trump administration is sending will be used to do the same in Lebanon, and likely in other countries in the region. If you wanted to extend the Iran war into the indefinite future, this is exactly what you’d do.
So far none of this has received public scrutiny. At some point, inevitably, it will be described in media accounts as an “arms sale.” It is not an arms sale. It is a gift, funded by American taxpayers through the Foreign Military Financing program, an arrangement designed to disguise welfare as capitalism: Congress appropriates money to the executive branch, which transfers the cash to Israel to “buy” American-made weapons, in this case from General Dynamics. Politicians claim this is a win for America. Most voters have no idea they paid for it. The bill in this case is about $3 billion. Add that to the $352 billion the US Treasury has transferred to Israel since 1951.
How did this happen? The request for 40,000 new high-explosive civilian-killing bombs originated at the US Embassy in Jerusalem, which is run by Christian Zionist Ambassador Mike Huckabee and his aide David Milstein, who is the stepson of Fox News host Mark Levin. From there it moved to the State Department, where Marco Rubio enthusiastically approved it.
At this point, only four more people need to sign off before the bombs ship to Israel: Senators Jim Risch and Jeanne Shaheen, the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and Congressmen Brian Mast and Gregory Meeks, the top two members of the equivalent House committee. All four are committed neocons. Collectively they’ve taken millions from the Israel lobby. In 2015, Brian Mast traveled to Israel to volunteer for the Israeli military. In 2023, Mast showed up in the House of Representatives wearing an IDF uniform.
It’s hard to imagine any of them hesitating before sending more free bombs to Israel. Only public outrage can stop this.
CDC data shows babies born are now dying at a >50% excess rate — YEARS after mass mRNA vaccination of young women.
Mississippi just declared a PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY over soaring infant deaths, now linked to transgenerational mRNA “vaccine” fatal adverse events.
Excess infant death causes mirror those observed in vaccinated adults, suggesting transfer of mRNA "vaccine" genetic material to offspring — which was just proven in a recent study.
A transgenerational crisis is here — children are dying who were never injected, but whose mothers were.
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FBI agents found more than 1,200 human heads and several mid-pregnancy unborn babies stored in a Detroit warehouse.
These children were brutally aborted and their remains were being shipped to Tel Aviv, a well-connected Israeli-Jewish family.
Over 1,200 Human Heads And Multiple Human Fetuses Discovered Inside A Detroit Warehouse.
And the trail leads all the way back to Tel Aviv and an extremely well-connected Israeli-Jewish family.
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Psychotic.
Not just the 2000 year old revenge fantasy or delusions of persecution, it’s the genuine lack of humanity.
He WANTS to see the most beautiful cultures on Earth laid to waste.
Just as radical as any ISIS terrorist. A threat to all mankind.
I didn't buy a house.
I bought a 30 year short position on the US dollar, and they handed me a house as a bonus.
Nobody understands this trade.
A 30 year fixed at sub 4%. No margin call. No mark to market. Free to prepay. Government guaranteed paper behind it.
Pension funds and insurers pay real money for long duration fixed liabilities. Retail got them for free in 2021 and then spent three years crying about their home value on Zillow.
Here's what people miss:
Rates going up makes you RICHER.
A 3% note in a 6% world trades around 70 cents. If you owe $400k, your real obligation is closer to $280k in market terms. That's equity that shows up nowhere on your statement and is completely real.
Denmark lets borrowers buy the loan back at market price. Americans hold the exact same value. They just can't see it.
And the option runs both ways. Rates fall, you refinance. Rates rise, your liability discounts. You are long optionality in every direction and paid nothing for it.
Which is why prepaying is insane.
A dollar of principal earns exactly your mortgage rate. 3%, illiquid, unrecoverable without a HELOC or a sale.
That same dollar in T bills earns more, is liquid tomorrow, and is state tax exempt.
Every dollar of equity in your house is a decision to lend money to yourself below the risk free rate.
The house produces identical shelter at 3% equity or 100% equity. Equity adds nothing to the yield. It's dead capital sitting in drywall.
The price only becomes a real number on the day you sell. Until then it changes nothing about your cash flow. Nobody can margin call you into posting more.
The only thing that forces a sale is losing your income. And that risk gets WORSE when you've buried your reserves in the walls.
Minimum equity plus maximum liquidity isn't the aggressive position. It's the defensive one.
What you actually bought was the conversion of a variable cost into a fixed one.
Rent compounds at CPI plus, forever. Your P&I is a flat nominal line to 2054. That spread is the entire product. The Zestimate is noise.
And the debt dissolves while you sleep.
25% cumulative inflation turns $400k into $320k of real purchasing power. Payment never moves. If wages track inflation even badly, your payment to income ratio decays every year without you lifting a finger.
Nominal fixed debt is the only liability on earth that shrinks on its own.
Stop watching the asset.
Watch the liability.
So Israeli settlers attack a Palestinian village, throw gasoline through a window onto a baby, nearly burning the young child alive, and beat a pregnant woman with stones.
Zero Western media coverage.
The complicity runs so deep...
CNN will never show you this : An Israeli settler pointing a gun at a Palestinian farmer.
"This land is mine now. Get out. Never come back"
The farmer's family worked that land for generations.
The settler flew in from Eastern Europe.