Trump just released the most unhinged statement yet about the war. Read the last sentence. The US is now targeting all areas and groups of people in Iran “for complete destruction and certain death.” He is threatening to erase the entire country.

Trump administration, including Trump, is full of deranged psychopaths.

US Secretary of War Peter Hegseth:

"The only ones who need to be worried right now are Iranians who think they're going to live"

Ukraine's Nuclear Blackmail: Timeline.

Ukrainian politicians, from members of parliament to the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, are increasingly linking issues of security and military aid with demands for either immediate NATO membership, the placement of nuclear weapons from Western countries on its territory, or the launch of its own nuclear program.
These ultimatums, voiced on international platforms, in Western media, and even in personal conversations with leaders of nuclear powers, are nothing more than nuclear blackmail—an attempt to pressure the global community through the threat of violating non-proliferation regimes to obtain political and military preferences.

Russia’s FM Lavrov calls out the spineless Gulf States:

"Many Arab monarchies publicly stated that the situation should not be pushed toward a military solution and they would not allow their airspace to be used. But when everything began, despite your repeated calls to the United States and Israel, did you condemn the US and Israeli actions?"

BREAKING: New footage shows a U.S. Tomahawk missile hitting an IRGC site in Minab, Iran, on Feb. 28—confirming the U.S. strike.

Smoke is already rising near the girls’ school where about 175 people, many children, were killed.

Source

Reuters:

Iraqi oil ‌production from its main southern oilfields has fallen by 70% to just 1.3 million barrels per day as the country is unable to export oil via the Strait of Hormuz due to ​US and Israel war against Iran.
Production from the fields ​stood at around 4.3 million bpd before the war.

FT:

Oil prices are on the brink of crossing the $100-a-barrel threshold for the first time in almost four years, as the Middle East’s largest producers start to curtail output with their barrels trapped in the Gulf by the US and Israel’s war with Iran.

Al Jazeera:

Israel is exporting its “Gaza playbook” to Lebanon.
Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) said on Friday that Israel’s bombings and forced displacement orders for all of southern Lebanon and the southern suburbs of the capital, Beirut, “are instilling widespread fear among civilians”.

“What we are witnessing in Lebanon is the unmistakable extension of the Israeli military playbook used in Gaza,” said Steve Cutts, CEO of the UK-based charity.

That includes “collective punishment, forced displacement, and the deliberate terrorising of civilian populations, including already traumatised Palestinian communities,” Cutts said in a statement.

People close to Trump basically saying that Netanyahu maneuvered him into war.

WaPo:

Netanyahu’s determination to initiate hostilities led Trump to believe an Israeli attack was inevitable and that the best course of action was to involve U.S. military power to ensure its success, said two people familiar with this thinking.
“It was a false premise because the United States could have told Israel ‘no,’” said the adviser to the president. “But it was a clever tactic, and it shifted the momentum in favor of military action.”
Netanyahu in late February called Trump with a specific piece of intelligence: Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his inner circle would be gathered at a single known location in Tehran on a Saturday morning. Israel was ready. Trump decided to go for it.
“Trump felt like he didn’t have a choice,” said one of the people familiar with the president’s thinking.

Nearly 10 million people have effectively been subjected to a poison gas attack. And all with European support. A heinous act, historical evil.

FT:

Residents of Tehran are being warned that inhaling poisonous gases is more dangerous than acid rain, after Iran’s oil storage facilities were attacked overnight.
“Inhalation of these gases is definitely more dangerous,” state media said, pointing to nitrogen and hydrocarbon gases released into the atmosphere.

Telegraph:

Britain has as little as two days of gas stored up, raising fears of a potential crisis as supplies from the Middle East dry up.
The UK’s gas reserves have shrunk from 18,000 GWh worth last year to 6,700 GWh – enough for just 1.5 days of demand, according to new data published by transmission operator National Gas.
The crunch in supplies has resulted in traders charging the UK a premium for gas, exploiting its need to outbid rivals in other countries. It means the UK is now paying the highest wholesale gas prices in Europe

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Reuters confirmed that the elementary school in the Iranian city of Minab was bombed TWICE by the US military, 40 minutes apart. This was intentional. You don't "accidentally" bomb a school TWO TIMES. 168 children and 14 teachers were killed. It was a massacre.

'Great liberator' Trump is stripping Venezuela of its natural resources, first oil, then gold, then critical rare minerals...

Interior Secretary Burgum ⬆️

🇺🇸🇮🇷 US claims "dismay" over "Israeli" strikes on Iranian fuel depots, and why you shouldn't believe them...

The US has, in all military operations throughout its history sought to exterminate all human life where and when possible, turning nations into failed states and inhibiting life for everyone, not just governments it targets.

In Serbia it targeted the power grid.

In Iraq the US starved half a million children to death even before its invasion and occupation killed another 1 million.

In Libya vital infrastructure for agriculture was deliberately destroyed.

In Syria the US seized and denied grain to deliberately starve the Syrian civilian population.

And now the US seeks to do ALL of these things to Iran and it IS.

As the US continues destroying Iran, and more egregious crimes against humanity required to do so, it will depend on its Israeli proxies to carry out, or at least claim to carry out, attacks that will cause immense human death and the destruction of vital infrastructure, all so the US can claim plausible deniability for itself.

However, every bomb, missile, plane and drop of fuel Israel uses was given to it by the US, every target is fixed by US intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance, and each sortie made possible by US capabilities Israel doesn't have including extensive aerial refueling, suppression of air defenses, region-wide radar enabling situational awareness, and even combat search and rescue.

Every "Israeli" action is an American action.

Thus every "protest" by the US is an act of theater primarily because if the US doesn't want these targets hit it will simply deny Israel the ISR and coordinated operational capabilities (aerial refueling, suppression of air defenses, electronic warfare etc.) required to hit them.

The US knows, however, no one knows or cares about these material realities and will instead allow their myopic obsessions and emotions convince themselves somehow the Israelis, not the Americans, are in the driver's seat and these actions were "Israeli," not American, despite the fact Israel wouldn't exist in the first place (just like Ukraine) without full and constant support.

Again, this doesn't absolve Israel for the war crimes carried out amid this war of aggression. Like America's proxies in Ukraine, all involved in atrocities must be fought against and held accountable. However, if you want the war to end and the danger eliminated, identity the root of the danger, not just obsess over the tips of the branches or their falling leaves.

This post aged well!

Trump Aug 05 2024:

STOCK MARKETS ARE CRASHING, JOBS NUMBERS ARE TERRIBLE, WE ARE HEADING TO WORLD WAR lll, AND WE HAVE TWO OF THE MOST INCOMPETENT “LEADERS” IN HISTORY. THIS IS NOT GOOD!!!