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You couldn’t make it up – MAGA influencer who makes pro-ICE vids is….

You know where this is going…

Yep, arrested by ICE and scheduled to be deported.

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something something leopards, faces

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With McSweeny gone they just have to stop pursing RefUK voters who are never going to vote for them.

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Queensland, Australia, wants to make the slogan “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free” illegal, with a maximum two year jail sentence.

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Ben wrote:

You couldn’t make it up – MAGA influencer who makes pro-ICE vids is….

You know where this is going…

Yep, arrested by ICE and scheduled to be deported.

Is this the one?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/02/rightwing-brazilian-influencer-junior-pena-arrested-by-ice

He thought he got “membership” but now he knows. I know about Brazilian right wingers. (They even imitated Jan 6th in their own way in their nation’s capital, Brasilia). But the link is about Boston Mass. There are a lot of Brazilians in Massachusetts and as the link says, they are no longer wearing Brazilian flag gear and speaking Portuguese publicly.

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“That’s a bingo!”

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Ben wrote:

“That’s a bingo!”

And here is another one. She is Ileana Garcia, Florida state senator, co founder for the “Latinas for Trump” organization. She has been upset since the election. Now she is scared for her son because of ICE. Again:”This is not what we voted for”

https://www.complex.com/life/a/jaelaniturnerwilliams/latinas-for-trump-co-founder-ice-raids

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And now these two:

I know about the criticisms of the Dem party, but I also include some sociology and psychology, the mindset of voter behavior and mentality. There is this wanting to differentiate from the rest (“pick me”), catering to MAGA to get some type of acceptance/”membership”, only to find yourself deported, hunted down by ICE, or this crying NOW that you, family, and friends are also the target. (Now that they are the target, they cry as if it never happened before, ignoring centuries of US history of it happening to black and native Americans). When they say “This is not what I voted for” they really mean that they didn’t vote for any of this to happen to them.

Some of them voted during the campaign thinking that they were safe, but if you side with someone who is very abusive to others but “nice” to you, don’t think you’ve been accepted, or are the exception or safe. It might mean that somewhere down the line, you just might be next. But the mental gymnastics ie. all the evidence (not just Jan 6 or 34 counts) you would have to ignore and bypass, to see the action taken against people who are practically kinfolk and to say that it doesn’t apply to you, not seeing how things are connected and only now are you crying. Incredible.

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One thing all politicians tend to be bad at, and should learn how to be better at, is accepting a loss.  Sometimes, you lose, you thought you were right, then others, like a Supreme Court, tell you that you’re not. At that point, it’s over, sure you can huff about appealing, but if the judgment was sound, appealing won’t change it.

Thus Labour, Cooper, Mahmood and Palestine Action. There was nothing then, and now, stopping the government holding individuals responsible for their alleged actions. It was in going further and using that as reason to ban the entire group as terrorists that they went too far.

You wouldn’t know it from the way politicians go on about it, but governments tend to win more than they lose at court. They only tend to lose with weak, crappy policy or cases.

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US economic growth was 2.2 %, not that bad. I keep hearing it’s going to collapse under Trump’s policies, but it seems like it is like the forecast of Russian economy collapsing, when growth there consistently outpaced Europe’s growth. Could still happen of course, but I’m a bit skeptical.

Well, it’s fallen more than one percent compared to Biden, so that’s not great. Especially considering Trump’s policies’ effects would only have been felt the second part of the year.

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I haven’t seen any good article in any medium that gives a good overview of the Epstein files and the worst revelations in it nor any analysis of what Epstein’s function was and why he got away with what he did. It is all superficial stuff, and some details here and there, and some hyperbolic stuff (“Epstein ate babies!”)

 

I wonder if this is on purpose, if the media have been instructed not to dig too deeply. Not sure. But I think it’s weird. Even the Guardian has been very sparse in the information they gave about the files and their meaning. For instance, if you compare it to the abuse scandal in the Catholic church, there were articles I think, that described how the church protected the abusers. I don’t think we’ve seen such an explanation regarding Epstein. He just “got away with it”.

Arjan Dirkse wrote:

I haven’t seen any good article in any medium that gives a good overview of the Epstein files and the worst revelations in it nor any analysis of what Epstein’s function was and why he got away with what he did. It is all superficial stuff, and some details here and there, and some hyperbolic stuff (“Epstein ate babies!”)

 

I wonder if this is on purpose, if the media have been instructed not to dig too deeply. Not sure. But I think it’s weird. Even the Guardian has been very sparse in the information they gave about the files and their meaning. For instance, if you compare it to the abuse scandal in the Catholic church, there were articles I think, that described how the church protected the abusers. I don’t think we’ve seen such an explanation regarding Epstein. He just “got away with it”.

I think because the scandal is so wide and deep, it is really hard to simply and concisely summarize it all.

Here are a few videos that cover some of it and give you some insight:

It’s also likely too nasty for full broadcasting.

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Arjan Dirkse wrote:

I wonder if this is on purpose, if the media have been instructed not to dig too deeply. Not sure. But I think it’s weird. Even the Guardian has been very sparse in the information they gave about the files and their meaning. For instance, if you compare it to the abuse scandal in the Catholic church, there were articles I think, that described how the church protected the abusers. I don’t think we’ve seen such an explanation regarding Epstein. He just “got away with it”.

I think it’s going to just take a bit longer, because everybody is overwhelmed with the amount of files and the chaos of the way they were released. Which was of course the point. But they’ll figure it out, it’s just going to take some time.

As far as getting away with it is concerned though… with the current state of the US justice system, there doesn’t seem to be a lot of hope.

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One bit I saw about Epstein which I did like, argued that people like him are just, very simply, the consequence of a system that doesn’t hold the rich and powerful responsible for their actions. Eventually bad people do bad stuff, if the inequality of wealth and power is so large.

 

While I think that is true, I still think it is important to get some clarity about who did what.

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One bit I saw about Epstein which I did like, argued that people like him are just, very simply, the consequence of a system that doesn’t hold the rich and powerful responsible for their actions. Eventually bad people do bad stuff, if the inequality of wealth and power is so large.

 

While I think that is true, I still think it is important to get some clarity about who did what.

I’ve some charts where Epstein is at the center and all the connections radiate out and how those connections tie together. They look like they were created by a spider on crystal meth.

You can google them but as more files and information comes to light, the bigger it gets. Some people are simply namedropped and haven’t committed any criminal activity. It is going to take a lot to sort through the files and people to determine who can be charged with what based on the evidence.

Honestly, it will take years to go through all of it.

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Arjan Dirkse wrote:

One bit I saw about Epstein which I did like, argued that people like him are just, very simply, the consequence of a system that doesn’t hold the rich and powerful responsible for their actions. Eventually bad people do bad stuff, if the inequality of wealth and power is so large.

 

While I think that is true, I still think it is important to get some clarity about who did what.

Yeah, both of that is true. There has to be clarity as well as accountability – if a shitload of people don’t go to prison over this, it’ll show that there is no justice and no actual rule of law in the US.

On the other hand, yes, I think it’s inevitable that this is what happens when you allow people to become unimagineably rich to the extent that we do. And it doesn’t seem like they’re going to stand for reform where that is concerned, but will rather exacerbate things to the point where we get out the guilloutines.

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So the Greens have won the Gorton and Denton by-election in a landslide, beating Reform, who took second place by 12%.  Labour and the Tories both lost massive amounts of vote share.  I’d been reading over the last few days about hoe Labour spent so much effort attacking the Greens instead of Reform, up to and including hatchet ads, sending out pamphlets claiming that tactical vote advocate groups pushed Labour a the winning choice in the election (the actual group backed the Greens), which is just despicable.  It also shows how insidious the Labour Right are, they’re more than willing to sell out the Left in the UK and enable the Tories or Reform to win if they can’t win themselves. And after the way they admitted to sabotaging Corbyn’s first general election run, and the disaster that Starmer has been, people are turning to a party that has actual left wing ideals in droves.

Let’s just hope that the Greens don’t turn out to be as useless as, say the Irish Greens.

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In the wake of his defeat, Matt Goodwin will now be known as Matt Mardy-Loser.

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Nothing like a pointless war in the middle east to show everyone how well your Presidency is going!

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Isreal will have to reset their it’s “been 5 days since we bombed someone” sign back to zero.

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I wonder how our new government will react to this attack on Iran…VVD is traditionally very supportive of everything the US and Israel do, but D66 is much more critical.

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Martin Smith wrote:

Nothing like a pointless war in the middle east to show everyone how well your Presidency is going!

He will do literally ANYTHING to try to distract the American public from focusing on those Epstein files! If this doesn’t work, Denmark better prepare for the invasion of Greenland.

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US military stunned by Iran attacks on bases, as war is supposed to be one-sided, where they do the bombing and nothing happens.

More seriously, there’s so much potential for this to spiral very, very badly.

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That long-desired Nobel Peace Prize is surely nailed on at this point.

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I don’t even think they have a plan. Except “we bomb them and then they give up and we win”. But I don’t believe they can defeat Iran solely by bombing.

No, they can’t.

Bombing raids have never been a good way to actually defeat a country. ‘s a good way to kill a shitload of civlians, mind you.

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Of course human life is the main concern but I hope Iran’s mosques and other ancient buildings remain unscathed. Destroying culture is also a type of genocide.

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Bombing raids have never been a good way to actually defeat a country. ‘s a good way to kill a shitload of civlians, mind you.

Supposed, a school was hit and a bunch of students and teachers were killed with more injured.

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German firms are firing workers and Merz is saying German workers need to “work harder”. At a certain point with this idiocy the machine just halts.

 

There is this urge in the capitalist establishment to make people into little more than a cog in the economic machine. Honestly I’d rather kill myself than become a good obedient drone to these sick motherfuckers.

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You can’t make this up.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2…-with-iran-as-conflict-deepens-in-middle-east

“Trump open to talks with Iran as conflict deepens in Middle East.”

Now, we’ve yugely bombed you, killed lots and injured more, we’re very happy to do it again, how about you talk to us? We really won’t bomb you if you do.

They did a poll and only something like 23 % of Americans support this attack on Iran. That is actually an encouraging sign.

 

I’ve been watching some podcasts and it’s absolutely stunning how many Dutch morons believe Trump is “bringing democracy to Iran.” Stunning. VVD supporters and PVV supporters now think Trump is just a great chap, and he’ll bomb Iran until they allow gay people to marry or something. It’s a pandemic of stupidity.

 

(Still maybe I’m too criticial of myown countrymen in this regard, most other parties have been to some extent critical of the strikes. )

OK, sure, every country the US has enacted regime change in in the past has turned to shit, including Iran.  But this time if they enact regime change it’ll turn out great.

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OK, sure, every country the US has enacted regime change in in the past has turned to shit, including Iran.  But this time if they enact regime change it’ll turn out great.

I have a good feeling about this one.

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<arrested development open marriage meme>

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Hegseth claiming the US didn’t start it is peak American inability to admit fault / must always lay claim to being the “good guy”.

Meanwhile…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/02/uk-airbases-us-attack-iran-trump-starmer

Here’s a summary:

Trump: Waah, waah, waah, whine, whine, sulk, whine, whine, wah, wah, whine, sulk, whine.

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If China and Russia just supply Iran with a bunch missiles this can just go on forever. There is a real possibility that the defense systems munition runs out at which point Israel is in for a serious beating. Could go nuclear at that point.

 

Iran has a solid governmental system and I think there was very little chance that the regime would collapse with some figure heads gone.

I saw an interesting meme that said that the US might go to war with Iran to get the same deal they had under Obama that 47 tore up.

Nah, a worse deal Al, Trump can’t do a good deal.

Oh yeah, we have Skynet now:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/03/iran-war-heralds-era-of-ai-powered-bombing-quicker-than-speed-of-thought

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This could be the biggest military blunder since Operation Barbarossa. I can’t really oversee it of course, maybe the Iranian regime will suddenly collapse, but the longer this lasts, the more unlikely that will become.

 

And with the US occupied in the Middle East, who’s to say what Russia and China will do.

James Talarico won his primary!

It’s being reported that more people in Texas voted in the Democrat primaries than Republican primaries. That is a very positive sign.

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Merz is a fucking moron. He might not be quite as bad as Trump, but goddamn…what a fucking idiot.

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Merz is a fucking moron. He might not be quite as bad as Trump, but goddamn…what a fucking idiot.

Not sure if he’s a moron/idiot, but I can’t imagine Angela Merkel ever sucking up to Trump the way Merz did this week. Where’s Justin Trudeau when we need him?

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“Where’s Justin Trudeau when we need him?”

Having sex with Katy Perry.

I wouldn’t look back either…

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Golestan palace in Tehran was bombed. This is an amazing building and not at all a legitimate military target.

 

This historic building was bombed.

🇮🇷 Built in the 18th century by the Qajar Turk dynasty, Golestan Palace is known as one of Iran's iconic buildings with its diamonds and mirrors.

This complex was on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Video by Kristina Makeeva pic.twitter.com/E4R11H8WT2

— MENA Visuals (@menavisualss) March 4, 2026

You have to wonder if Israel has some kompromat on Trump, possibly through Epstein. I mean people were saying this about Trump and Russia, but Trump has done more that aligns with Netanyahu’s interests than Putin’s.

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Arjan Dirkse wrote:

You have to wonder if Israel has some kompromat on Trump,

Why not both? The man is a scumbag.

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Uncle Retrospective wrote:

Arjan Dirkse wrote:

You have to wonder if Israel has some kompromat on Trump,

Why not both? The man is a scumbag.

Yes I’m not denying the allegations made about Russia, both can be true.

Kompromat does not work on an individual or system that is without shame.

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Yeah, Trump’s a racist who loves playing the big man.  He’s probably got the biggest erection he’s had in 40 years when he thinks about how many brown children he’s had killed.

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Yeah, Trump’s a racist who loves playing the big man.  He’s probably got the biggest erection he’s had in 40 years when he thinks about how many brown children he’s had killed.

Hopefully that won’t get in the way of him making an AI-generated video of him flying a bomber that’s spraying them all with shit, or whatever he’s planning next

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Q: What’s the difference between Trump and Netanyahu?

A: One is the President of the USA. The other is married to Melania.

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“Ms Noem, there’s a Mr Wick to see you.”

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Not sure if he’s a moron/idiot, but I can’t imagine Angela Merkel ever sucking up to Trump the way Merz did this week. Where’s Justin Trudeau when we need him?

It’s worse, I think Merz actually agrees with the attacks on Iran. Last year he said something along the lines of we should be thankful for Israel and the US doing “our dirty work” for us.

Fun fact about Merz: When Merz pushed him out of politics the first time, he went to work as a lobbyist for BlackRock. Made his millions in the world of financial trading. Which tells you a lot about his world-view.

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Let’s not celebrate. Her replacement is most likely worse.

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Al-x wrote:
You’re fired

https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-privately-expresses-frustration-noem-after-senate-hearing/story?id=130794961

Let’s not celebrate. Her replacement is most likely worse.

He’s a former MMA fighter. What could possibly go wrong?

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lorcan_nagle wrote:

Yeah, Trump’s a racist who loves playing the big man.  He’s probably got the biggest erection he’s had in 40 years when he thinks about how many brown children he’s had killed.

Hopefully that won’t get in the way of him making an AI-generated video of him flying a bomber that’s spraying them all with shit, or whatever he’s planning next

Turns out I wasn’t that far off.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2029741548791853331

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Yeah, I ain’t clicking on that.

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Dave wrote:

Dave wrote:

lorcan_nagle wrote:

Yeah, Trump’s a racist who loves playing the big man.  He’s probably got the biggest erection he’s had in 40 years when he thinks about how many brown children he’s had killed.

Hopefully that won’t get in the way of him making an AI-generated video of him flying a bomber that’s spraying them all with shit, or whatever he’s planning next

Turns out I wasn’t that far off.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2029741548791853331

Jesus fucking fuck. Country’s run by a couple of fucking teenage boys. It’d be embarrassing for you guys if it wasn’t so fucking dangerous.

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The Guardian reports that the Iranian president Pezeshkian has apologized to neighboring countries for the attacks. I think he means countries like Bahrain, Qatar, the UAE…not Israel obviously.

 

I think that is the first significant step of de-escalation.

 

edit: apprently it doesn’t mean much, since all Gulf countries have US bases that are still seen as valid targets

I think at this moment there are 3 main points of contention in this war.

 

-Can the US and Israel destroy the capacity of Iran to enrich uranium

-Can they stop Iran’s ability to bomb Israel and the Gulf

-Can they free the Hormuz strait to resume shipping

Regime change seems out of the question. There is no way Iranians will overthrow the regime, never mind some Kurds or Balochis. And a US ground invasion is very unlikely.

Nope, but the aim isn’t to win enough to end, it is perpetuate a state of crisis to justify government continuance, including suspending elections. A lot of people have died, and more will, for the sake of two walking moral voids.

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Christian wrote:

Dave wrote:

Dave wrote:

lorcan_nagle wrote:

Yeah, Trump’s a racist who loves playing the big man.  He’s probably got the biggest erection he’s had in 40 years when he thinks about how many brown children he’s had killed.

Hopefully that won’t get in the way of him making an AI-generated video of him flying a bomber that’s spraying them all with shit, or whatever he’s planning next

Turns out I wasn’t that far off.

https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2029741548791853331

Jesus fucking fuck. Country’s run by a couple of fucking teenage boys. It’d be embarrassing for you guys if it wasn’t so fucking dangerous.

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Red Dwarf in 2016, we’re now here, a few centuries early:

“At the end of the 23rd century, America attempted to bring peace to the world by asking every nation on earth to sign a peace treaty. A war ensued called the War against War. Those countries who went to war because they were so against war were prepared to go to war to fight in a war against war, called themselves United America.”

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In Europe only Spain has clearly spoken out against the war in Iran. Fucking crazy.

The US has never before cooperated  this closely with Israël, yet the American people have never been as opposed to Israël as they are now. Weird contradiction.

 

If you like to shittalk the US, keep in mind most of the people didn’t want this war.

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If the Hormuz strait stays closed, it could be game over for Europe. I could see a future where European countries  make a deal with Russia and ditch the US and Israel.

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So, Donnie, about those mineral rights in Ukraine, now we’re helping you with drones….

Say, you did thank us for that, right?

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Looks like the “Iran will quickly run out of missiles” is the same lie they told us about Russia running out of munition.

Everyone seems to have forgotten the little matter of the eight year Iran-Iraq war.

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Arjan Dirkse wrote:

Looks like the “Iran will quickly run out of missiles” is the same lie they told us about Russia running out of munition.

Actually, it’s the US who’s running out of missiles.

As to Russia, their military was in bad shape. They are having to use decommissioned equipment because they are losing so much “good” stuff. They are struggling to have enough soldiers for the war.

I think with the current operations, we are seeing the true state of the big militaries and it’s not a great picture. I believe there has been a lot of bluffing and posturing that has been revealed to be complete bullshit.

Good question.

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Most Dutch politicians seem to be lining up behind Israel and the US. Disgusting.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/12/russia-fossil-fuels-revenue-us-israel-war-iran-data

 

Russia gaining huge benefits from the war in Iran. Starting to think they are smarter than we are.

I think Iran’s gameplan right now is, pbviously keeping Hormuz closed, but also driving a wedge between the Gulf States and the US. Iran is saying “we’ll stop bombing you if you kick out the yankees.” It’s not completely unthinkable. Iran has shown US protection doesn’t stop their countries from being bombed, and their economy destroyed.

Going from being at threat of being killed by one government to three isn’t good.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/14/anti-regime-iranians-turn-on-trump-us

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Todd wrote:

we are seeing the true state of the big militaries and it’s not a great picture. I believe there has been a lot of bluffing and posturing that has been revealed to be complete bullshit.

It shows the US to be incompetent but that’s not necessarily an indictment of the military skills and capacities, it’s how they are used by the civilian leadership. In terms of the damage that was done to Iran, the country is severely hurt, but that doesn’t mean the regime is destroyed or the military is eliminated. Those goals just can’t be achieved by aerial bombardment. No matter how competent your airforce is.

 

At this point there is no realistic goal. Trump and Hegseth thought Iran would fold after some airstrikes and assassinations, but the Iranian regime, it may be evil, but they are no cowards.

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Arjan Dirkse wrote:

At this point there is no realistic goal. Trump and Hegseth thought Iran would fold after some airstrikes and assassinations, but the Iranian regime, it may be evil, but they are no cowards.

Iran has been preparing for this for DECADES. They have systems and contingencies in place. They were more ready for the attack than US was. Hell, when they saw the fleet out in the sea, they began activating all their plans.

You can’t beat a country by bombing alone. You have to put troops on the ground. And that’s where the US will really feel it. And just because there is an opposition to the current government, that doesn’t mean they’re taking to the streets. They are also a relatively small group compared to the size of the government’s machine. The government is composed of fanatics. And when the US bombed that girl’s school, how many more fanatics were created?

This has to be the stupidest thing Trump has done so far.

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I don’t believe the Iranian government has a lot of popular support in Iran, if you would look at it democratically; the majority probably loathes their government. But that doesn’t mean they can overthrow the government. There doesn’t seem to be much of an armed resistance.

Nope, it’s far harder said than done, especially when the government both controls communications and has done massacres of its own people.

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Yeah I listened to a Dutch podcast which has had a lot of good episodes on certain subjects, but their take on this conflict in Iran was so atrocious. They said “Trump has taken out the leadership, now it is up to the people of Iran to take over the country…” I mean….my God, how can they be so dumb? Do they think a million protestors can just take over a country, if they’re not well armed? If there is no buy in from regime forces who are willing to turn against government leaders?

 

The regime is not popular but it has a loyal core of followers.

Todd wrote:

This has to be the stupidest thing Trump has done so far.

Chilling thought: he’s still got 2.75 years left in his term.

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njerry wrote:

Todd wrote:

This has to be the stupidest thing Trump has done so far.

Chilling thought: he’s still got 2.75 years left in his term.

I truly doubt he will live that long.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: The satirical comedy about the power vacuum after Trump dies is going to be a classic on The Death of Stalin levels

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Arjan Dirkse wrote:

Yeah I listened to a Dutch podcast which has had a lot of good episodes on certain subjects, but their take on this conflict in Iran was so atrocious. They said “Trump has taken out the leadership, now it is up to the people of Iran to take over the country…” I mean….my God, how can they be so dumb? Do they think a million protestors can just take over a country, if they’re not well armed? If there is no buy in from regime forces who are willing to turn against government leaders?

 

The regime is not popular but it has a loyal core of followers.

More importantly those followers have the weapons and levers of power, and they’re not shy about using them.

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Todd

Starmer to Trump:

Go screw yourself.

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Todd

I think it makes an improvement to not listen to (or read) anything Trump says. At this point it’s just gibberish. He’s said Iran has surrendered a couple of times now. It’s all garbage.

 

Instead pay attention to what is actually happening, what the military is doing etc

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You see a lot of people on social media now claiming that Israel controls the US. (Or they just say Jews.) I think this is mostly wrong. I think you can accuse the Israeli government of having an undue influence on US politics, but it’s not like they can just force the US to go along with everything, the US makes those decisions to go along by themselves. Especially from the evengelical Christian corner there is a lot of willingness to do things that are perceived to be in Israel’s interest, but they’re not forced by Israel to do that, they do it willingly. And Christian zionism predates Jewish zionism.

 

If you say Israel “controls the US” you’re going along with the antisemitic stereotype that Jews have a kind of secret control over everything.

Interesting. After years of outright insulting and alienating them, he asks these same countries for help with Hormuz:

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-donald-trump-strait-of-hormuz-war-iran/

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Uh yeah he’s mad. It’s better to pay no heed to anything he says.

We’ve got a violent anti-refugee group in the Netherlands causing trouble, the so-called “Defend” groups, organized by city where they protest against asylum centres, like Defend Amsterdam, Defend Utrecht, Defend Alkmaar, Defend Lutjebroek etc. Their modus operandi is violent protest and threats to stop the building of new asylum centres.

 

These guys are just full on nazis. Including yelling about “dirty Jews” etc. Absolutely rabid xenophobes.

 

(By the way I don’t understand why a Dutch nationalist would use an English word to name their organization)