Donald Trump:

‘The Iranian people have to have guns and I think they’re getting some guns. As soon as they have guns, they’ll fight like as good as anybody there is.’

This is the repeat of the Syria scenario, but instead of a diverse country of 21 million, Iran has 92 million people.

Through Operation Timber Sycamore, the US unleashed a disastrous dirty war on Syria and over a decade of slaughter. ISIS and Al Qaeda were armed and terrorist attacks were perpetrated around the world.

The Iranian government is even more entrenched and heavily armed than the Assad government was in Syria. Iran is bordered by Afghanistan and Pakistan, meaning a repeat of thousands of foreign radical fighters entering any US-imposed civil war is likely.

A Syria scenario in Iran will lead to an even more nightmarish scenario for the entire region, and the world.

But the goal of Washington and Tel Aviv has been to render Iran a fragmented, neutered, failed state…and the blowback will be even worse than Syria.

On this day in 1818, Karl Marx, the co-author of the Communist Manifesto, was born. Here are some of his most relevant quotes from his writings which reflect the dystopian late-stage capitalism we live in today:

“The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe. It must nestle everywhere, settle everywhere, establish connections everywhere.”

"Accumulation of wealth at one pole is, therefore, at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation at the opposite pole."

“The profound hypocrisy and inherent barbarism of bourgeois civilisation lies unveiled before our eyes… in the colonies, where it goes naked.”

"The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces… the devaluation of the human world grows in direct proportion to the increase in value of the world of things."

"The increase in the value of the world of things is directly proportional to the decrease in the value of the human world."

"The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."

"Capitalist production… develops technology… only by sapping the original sources of all wealth—the soil and the labourer."

"The more the worker spends himself, the more powerful becomes the alien world of objects which he creates over-against himself, the poorer he himself, his inner world, becomes."

"The bourgeoisie… has pitilessly torn asunder the motley feudal ties that bound man to his ‘natural superiors,’ and has left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous ‘cash payment.’”

"The worker becomes all the poorer the more wealth he produces... the devaluation of the human world grows in direct proportion to the increase in value of the world of things."

"The labourer produces not for himself, but for capital... the worker is not paid for the creation of the product, but for his labour-power.”

Here’s Michael Parenti on the impact of Karl Marx’s ideas on the world:

“Communism in Eastern Europe, Russia, China, Mongolia, N. Korea, and Cuba brought land reform and human services, a dramatic bettering of the living conditions of hundreds of millions of people on a scale never before or never since witnessed in human history.”

War Secretary Pete Hegseth DENIES Israel dragged Trump into the war on Iran:

'Trump has led at every step of this based on his view of American interests and America first…here's only one hand on the wheel ultimately directing this.’

Hegseth thinks the world has a short memory span, because Trump’s own Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted that Trump was dragged into the war by Israel:

"The President made the very wise decision, we knew that there was going to be an Israeli action.

We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties."

Trump threatens Iran:

‘They should do the smart thing, because we don’t want to go in and kill people. I don’t want to.’

Like every other American war, somehow the US government will try to make you feel sorry for them because they ‘had to’ commit war crimes and mass slaughter.

The transformation of China🇨🇳:

This is what happens when your politicians prioritise economic development and prosperity instead of visits to Epstein’s Island, concentrating wealth in the hands of an oligarchy, and decades of bombing poor people in the global south.

Marco Rubio: The US’ goal is for the Strait of Hormuz to be opened ‘back to the way it was’ before the war.

The most idiotic moment in US foreign policy history. An admission that the war has been a disaster, and now the goal of the war is to go back to the pre-war status quo.

Marco Rubio declared Operation Epic Fury is over. So what was achieved?

•Ayatollah Khamenei replaced with Ayatollah Khamenei

•Strait of Hormuz closed and now the US wants it open the way it was before the war on Iran

•Iran has not agreed to any nuclear deal

•Iran still has its vast missile and drone capabilities and has not given them up

•Iran has not given up its enriched uranium

•Iran’s government is more hardline and intransigent than the previous government

•Global economic crisis unleashed by oil prices skyrocketing and energy shortages

•US’ Gulf allies destabilised and attacked with Iranian missiles & drones

History will remember this as Operation Epic Failure

As Russia🇷🇺 gets ready to celebrate the 81st Anniversary of the Soviet Union’s victory in World War 2…

Did you know?

During the peak of the Battle of Stalingrad, the average life expectancy for a Red Army soldier was under 24 hours.

Total Soviet casualties: 1.1 million.

Did you know?

After initial shock and paralysis at Nazi Germany’s invasion of the Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin oversaw the relocation of over 1500 factories east of the Ural Mountains, saving Soviet industry and building the foundation of the war effort.

During the Battle of Moscow, when German forces came within 25-30KM of the city, Stalin refused to evacuate the city and relocate his government.

Panic had been building among civilians in Moscow, Stalin’s decision to stay in the Kremlin overwhelmingly boosted morale as it became clear that the Soviet state would not collapse and that the capital would be defended at all costs.

250,000-300,00 Red Army soldiers died defending Moscow and preventing the Nazis from capturing the city.

Trump says ‘if Iran has agrees to what has been agreed to’, the Strait of Hormuz will be open to all, including Iran.

If Iran doesn’t, then the bombing of Iran will begin again at a much higher intensity.

While diplomats, heads of states, and mediators are trying to de-escalate the language and create the conditions for the signing of an agreement, Trump grabs his phone to blast out threats and ultimatums, bludgeoning their work.

Every time Tehran has been threatened or delivered ultimatums, they have only become more hardline, intransigent, and unwilling to compromise.

The biggest threat to the world economy and the war restarting is Trump’s access to Truth Social to send out unhinged threats while the adults pursue actual serious diplomacy.

If Trump would put his phone down for 72 hours and not post on Truth Social, it’s more likely a deal would be reached.

More Israeli barbarism in Lebanon🇱🇧:

An image reportedly from the town of Debel shows an IDF soldier desecrating a statue of the Virgin Mary, mockingly placing a cigarette in its mouth.

This is the army of barbarism your tax dollars, euros, and pounds go towards.

An Israeli soldier in 1985:

‘I’m not dealing with human beings (Lebanese). They are all terrorists and they don't have any human feelings, so l kill them without remorse.’

Reporter: ‘They live here and they’re trying to defend their villages.’

IDF soldier: ‘They know we’re going back to Israel in two months, why do they have to try and kill people?’

Israeli soldiers commit barbarism and mass slaughter, and then play the victim…since 1948.

Trump compares Venezuela war to war on Iran: ‘We’re doing pretty much EQUALLY AS WELL…it’s going very smoothly.’

If smoothly is global economic mayhem & achieving nothing in 67 days, one shudders to think what ‘disastrous’ looks like in Trump’s head.

Barack Obama: ‘I would make a good emissary for first contact with ALIEN LIFE.’

Given Obama’s record, he would probably offer peace and friendship with the aliens, and then order drone strikes on them.

Marco Rubio🇺🇸: ‘It’s other countries’ fertiliser that’s stranded in the Persian Gulf, not our fertiliser.’

Does one single official in this ridiculous administration understand that global supply contractions raises prices in America?

‘No nation in the history of battle ever suffered more than the Soviet Union in the Second World War.’

-US🇺🇸 President John F. Kennedy

Total deaths in World War 2:

Soviet Union ☭: 27 million

China🇨🇳: 20 million

Indonesia🇮🇩: 4 million

Yugoslavia: 1.7 million

France🇫🇷: 600,000

UK🇬🇧: 450,000

USA🇺🇸: 418,000

Up to 3.8 million people died in India🇮🇳 from the British-imposed Bengal famine during WW2.

“The Western powers did everything possible to belittle the decisive role of the Soviet Union in the defeat of fascist Germany.”

-Marshal Georgy Zhukov

Colour footage: Zhukov declares the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany at the Soviet Union’s Victory Day Parade in 1945.

American missiles, fired by Israel, killing children in Lebanon for decades:

Here’s the late, great Robert Fisk documenting how Israel bombed an ambulance in front of him in Lebanon.

He took fragments of the missile to the US to challenge Boeing on their missile being used to kill children.

“Dwight D. Eisenhower was the person who first invented the phrase the military-industrial complex. There it was. I went to the industry that made the missile and traced its military path, and everyone it killed was innocent."

The late, great Robert Fisk dismantles the trap question of ‘do you accept Israel’s right to exist?’

Former Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy told us that after Iran, Israel’s next target is Türkiye🇹🇷

The problem with the question ‘do you accept Israel’s right to exist’ is that Israel’s existence, with its Greater Israel agenda, threatens the existence of states in their internationally-recognised existing borders.

Palestine
Lebanon
Syria
Iraq
Egypt
Türkiye
Saudi Arabia

With the messianic agenda of the dominant faction of the Israeli political establishment, which seeks to eventually establish Greater Israel through expanding its borders through war and conquest, all of the states above, in their internationally-recognised borders are threatened by Israel’s ‘right to exist’…

As that ‘right to exist’ is increasingly the right to colonise, ethnically cleanse, occupy, and annex the territory of other states.

Russia’s🇷🇺 President Vladimir Putin has warned Zelensky that if Ukraine🇺🇦 attempts to disrupt the WW2 Victory Day in Moscow on Saturday, that Russia will launch MASSIVE retaliatory missile strikes on the center of Kiev.

Civilians and employees of foreign diplomatic missions have been warned to evacuate Kiev in case Zelensky decides to do the unthinkable.

The Moscow Victory Day parade on May 9th is a sacred day in Russia and the former Soviet Union, commemorating the heroic collective efforts to defeat Nazi Germany, and the sacrifice of 27 million Soviet citizens.

Should Zelensky be stupid enough to attack Moscow during the Victory Day, there is no doubt Russia will finally take off the gloves, and launch apocalyptic strikes on Kiev.