Joe Kent - August 2024:
“Most Americans aren’t aware… our troops in Iraq and Syria have been attacked 150+ times by Iranian proxies.”
“These Iranian proxies… are 100% funded by the United States of America.”
“We’re funding the guys that are attacking our troops.”
“Why do we leave our troops there?”
Woooow!
Last night while we snored, Iran 🇮🇷 unleashed hell on Israel 🇮🇱
They promised us that last night was going to be an unforgettable night, but I thought they were bluffing, apparently, they weren’t 😭😭😭😭
Tel Aviv & Haifa were pounded HARD 😭
🇫🇷 Former French Ambassador to the U.S. to an Iranian woman:
"By trusting Trump and Netanyahu, you are making a mistake."
Iranian woman: "Is it a mistake for them to come and hold our hand while we die?"
Ambassador: "They are coming for your oil, not your hand."
🇨🇳 Un estudiante chino programó una web que mapea 5000 objetos del Museo Británico que se robaron de 99 países. Te muestra de dónde los sacaron y cómo quedaría el museo si devolvieran todo lo que "encontraron" por ahí.
David Icke explains Iran. Amazing how much of this history our media is not telling us. The history that is told us is only the propaganda at the service of Empire. Nothing else exists. Real history literally erased as if it never was...
President of Spain Pedro Sanchez:
"Spain doesn't have resources like Oil reserves or Nuclear bombs but that doesn't mean we will not fight against imperialist Israel and try to stop them"
Some wars are fought to be on the right side of History!!
Man with a spine !!
Hegseth: “You can't have a nuclear bomb… we precisely took it away. And then even after that, they didn’t have that. They didn’t come to the table with a willingness to give it away.”
Whaaaaaat?
The US government admitted it deliberately CRASHED Iran's economy to trigger protests.
Then bombed the country while pretending to negotiate peace.
This is the most calculated regime change operation in history.
Let me explain...
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent testified before the Senate on February 5th and said word for word:
"What we have done at Treasury is created a dollar shortage in the country."
He explained how they deliberately crashed Iran's largest bank. Forced the central bank to print money. Sent the rial into freefall.
At Davos he called it "economic statecraft" and said "no shots fired" with a smile on his face.
The results: 40% inflation. 70% food price inflation. The rial went from 700,000 to 1.5 million per dollar in a single year.
Iranians hit the streets in December because they couldn't afford bread.
The regime responded by massacring over 7,000 people. Some estimates say 36,000. Including 150 children.
Khamenei personally ordered forces to "crush the protests by any means necessary." Live ammunition, machine guns, and drones on civilians.
Bessent's response to the thousands killed? Nothing.
Zero acknowledgment. A Treasury spokesperson later said the regime chose to "murder its own people."
Translation: We lit the match. They burned the house. Not our fault.
Meanwhile the US sent Jared Kushner to "negotiate" with Iran in Oman. Three rounds of talks. February 6th, 20th, 26th.
All while a senior Israeli defense official later confirmed the strikes had been PLANNED for months with the exact date set weeks ago.
The negotiations were theater. The economic collapse was engineered. The protests were the predictable result. The massacre was the excuse.
And the bombs were always coming.
February 13: Trump says regime change is "the best thing that could happen."
February 14: Officials tell Reuters they're preparing "weeks-long sustained operations."
February 24: Trump uses the State of the Union to accuse Iran of building nukes.
February 28: "Operation Epic Fury." Strikes across Tehran, Isfahan, Qom, Kermanshah. Khamenei's compound destroyed. Reports say he's dead.
Iran fired back at US bases in Qatar, UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan. The Navy's Fifth Fleet HQ in Bahrain was hit. Dubai airport shut down.
Now here's what this means for your money Monday morning:
Oil closed at $72.87. Analysts expect $80+.
Lombard Odier says $100+ if Iran threatens the Strait of Hormuz. 20 million barrels pass through that strait daily (20% of global supply).
A former White House energy advisor called a prolonged closure "a guaranteed global recession."
J.P. Morgan's research says regime change in oil nations has historically caused price spikes averaging 76%. That would put oil above $120.
Bitcoin already dropped below $63,000. Gold past $5,464. US inflation already trending toward 3%.
But here's the one thing that doesn't make sense...
Trump wanted $50 oil. He campaigned on cheap gas. And he's literally heading into midterms.
So why start a war that could double oil prices?
UNLESS this was always the play.
Crash the economy. Trigger protests. Let the regime massacre civilians. Use it as justification. Bomb the country. Remove the regime...
Then lift sanctions on Iranian oil, flooding the market with 3+ million barrels per day.
Iran has some of the cheapest production costs on Earth. $10 per barrel.
A new regime opens the taps and oil drops below $50.
Short-term chaos. Long-term cheap oil.
The question is whether it works or whether this becomes Iraq 2.0.
This is either the most calculated geopolitical move in modern history or the most expensive miscalculation since the Iraq War.
What do you think?
Why isn't China intervening to stop the US war of aggression against Iran?
Somehow this is still a question people are asking, so I will explain.
1. China's military is built to defend China within and along its borders against a massive and growing US military build-up all along its peripheries ongoing for decades.
Its forces are organized around hardware designed specifically for this purpose - not to project military power around the globe like the US does - and the US has these capabilities because it is an aggressor - not for national defense.
China literally has no ability to project the military power required to confront and successfully stop a full-scale US war of aggression on the other side of the planet with the capabilities it has for national defense;
2. In order to launch this war on Iran - the US spent decades building up a network of global and regional bases, logistical networks, ammunition depots, fuel dumps, regional integrated air defense capabilities etc. to first encircle Iran - then attack it.
China would be required to create an equal or greater network throughout the region to stop this- and this simply isn't possible;
3. The US built its network up through both politically capturing nations in the region (Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait) and invading/occupying them (Iraq & Syria).
China simply doesn't conduct its foreign policy this way - because if it did - it would be just as bad as the US itself;
4. If you think China could simply project military power over the horizon - this is even more difficult and unrealistic. This requires huge amounts of long-range aircraft, immense aerial refueling capabilities, and long-range munitions as well as forward bases at least near the region to do so.
Sending naval vessels would simply place them at the mercy of a better prepared and more extensive military positions the US has established over decades as explained above;
5. What China has likely done is all that it could do - provide economic support against illegal US sanctions, provide technical/material support for Iran's military industrial production, provide military support through the transfer of weapons and equipment.
All of these have their limits especially in terms of the transfer of military equipment to Iran - which takes YEARS to train Iranian personnel on EFFECTIVELY, as well as to integrate it through training in modern combined arms operations.
This last point regarding the amount of time it takes to effectively integrate new military hardware into a military is exactly why Ukraine has failed to absorb and fully utilize floods of Western weapons and equipment in the US proxy war on Russia being waged there.
CONCLUSION
There are real-world limitations on what nations like Russia and China can do against US wars of aggression elsewhere especially considering the fact the US is waging proxy war on both Russia and China at the same time it wages direct war on Iran.
Russia and China are doing what is realistic and within their capabilities - and are constantly expanding their own capabilities in order to do more when possible.
Do not confuse real limitations with a lack of concern or will - and realize blaming Russia or China for a US WAR OF AGGRESSION simply serves Washington's agenda - not Iran's or any of its allies.
They attempted to speak over Joy Reid, but she wouldn't tolerate it; she was ready to state the facts whether they approved or not. The United States has tried this in various countries around the world, but it never ends well.