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George Washington famously observed, “The nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness is in some degree a slave.” This was in his farewell address where he cautioned that one of the risks to the new nation was from involvement in foreign affairs. When a country aligns with another country, it not only takes on the friends and enemies of that country, it opens the door for that country to influence its leaders and shape its policy.
We see this writ large with Israel. Since the Bush II administration, Israel has been seeking a way to get the United States to go to war with Iran. They claim Iran is the cause of all the problems in the region. Coincidentally, Iran also backs the two primary opponents of the Greater Israel project, Syria and Hezbollah. Therefore, if the United States takes out Iran, then peace will descend on the region and, coincidentally, Israel will face no opposition to its expansion plans.
Bush II probably would have pulled the trigger on a war with Iran if the Iraq war had not been such a debacle. The neocons were boasting in the first term that once Iraq was made into a democracy, it would help “liberate” Iran from its rulers. These plans we shelved once Obama came to power, in part because of Valerie Jarrett, who was in favor of normalizing relations with Iran. The neocons were also busy getting Project Ukraine off the ground.
Depending upon whose narrative you prefer, the United States is either abandoning Project Ukraine in order to deal with the Middle East or the United States is getting sucked into a war with Iran and must abandon Project Ukraine. Either way, it is becoming clear that war with Iran is in the cards. The Israelis keep provoking the Iranians, who have no choice but to respond. The Israelis then claim the response is an unjustified attack so they must respond.
The last turn at this game was a genuine escalation as the Iranians launched waves of ballistic missiles that were able to penetrate Israeli air defenses. This by itself is a huge step in the process. No one thought the Iranians had this ability. Add in the accuracy with which they were able to target Israeli military facilities and the Israel – Iran conflict moved much closer to all-out war. Israel promised massive attacks against Iranian nuclear and energy facilities.
Now we get word that the United States is setting up the THAAD anti-ballistic missile system in Israel. This is the most advanced air defense system in the American arsenal and it is supposed to be capable of defeating the best missiles. Of course, the Iron Dome was supposed to be the best air defense system until it was defeated. The Patriot system was also supposed to be a great system until it was destroyed by the Russians in Ukraine as soon as it was deployed.
Reportedly, the Biden administration opposes attacks on Iranian nuclear and energy facilities, but that could be a cover story. They reportedly promised Iran that Israel would not retaliate to the Iranian drone attack. Then Israel set off a string of targeted assassinations and the famous pager attack. It is a good reminder that everyone involved in Middle East politics is incapable of honesty. Everyone lies about everything to everyone, even about the lies they are telling.
Regardless of intentions, this move now provides Israel with cover for whatever attacks they have planned. This will inevitably mean Iran launches another wave of missiles at Israel, maybe even targeting that THAAD system. This is what happened with the Patriot system in Ukraine. The Russians filled the sky with drones, so when the Patriot system lit up, it became an easy target for Russian missiles. The use of air defense systems makes them vulnerable to attack.
Even if the Iranians avoid striking this system, they have a lot of missiles and the THAAD system is limited. Each battery is about forty interceptors. Iran reportedly has thousands of missiles. Of course, like everything to do with the Military Industrial Complex, the THAAD system is riddled with corruption. It is a big, complicated and expensive system no one expected to use in war, so it is mostly a jobs and patronage program, rather than a weapon of war.
All that aside, it is easy to see that George Washington was correct. Indulging habitual fondness for Israel has made the world’s lone superpower a slave to whatever schemes the Israelis are plotting. The United States is on the brink of war with Iran, solely because Israel desires it. No one in Washington dares question any of this, as the Israeli lobby is too powerful. Even the neocons, who prefer Project Ukraine over Project Iran, are powerless against the Israel lobby.
War with Iran will be a disaster of the United States. The American military can deliver devastating strikes against Iran, but Iran can also close the Strait of Hormuz, sending global oil prices through the roof. They could also attack oil facilities in the region, crippling global supplies and sending the world into a depression. Only a madman would want such a scenario, but this is the price that must be paid when you chain yourself to the lunatic regime that is Israel.
Compounding things is the fact that no one knows who is actually running foreign policy in the Biden administration. We know it is not Biden, due to his declining health, but who is calling the shots is a mystery. It is no doubt a mystery to Iran, as well. The Russians have made this point regarding the Ukraine war. The result is the United States is the Lennie Small to the Israeli George Milton as far the Iranians are concerned, which means the United States no longer has agency.
This is exactly what Washington warned of in his farewell address. The only way out of this degenerate relationship with Israel is a revolution in how Washington deals with the entire region and that is impossible due to the massive Israel lobby. When every Congressman has a minder from Israel and every media outlet has to run their coy past AIPAC and the ADL, there is no room to think about this clearly, much less have a debate about this terrible situation.
This is why the way to bet is war with Iran after the November election. The Biden people have no reason to care at that point and Israel will see it as an opportunity to get what they have wanted for decades. The next administration will have to pay the price for this reckless foreign entanglement. Perhaps it is the price that must be paid for the end of empire. Gas lines and ten-dollar gasoline will surely cause some to question this habitual fondness for Israel, at least.
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In the past year, it seems like the entire system just gave up on the pretense that it works for and represents Americans. It’s more obvious than ever that we are Norman England, in that a hostile foreign group rules over us and uses our resources to enrich themselves and advance their own, alien interests. Netanyahu’s speech in Congress and “our” representatives’ response to it might be a low point in the history of this nation. This is why I can’t get behind Trump, how can I realistically vote for a guy who is pushing for total war with Iran,… Read more »
Wish I could give you more than one “thumbs up” for refusing to support Trump. Trump is a completely faux anti-establishment figure — as evidenced by the fact that he is even more establishment than the establishment itself in regard to the ridiculously beloved Israel. We should end this whole ruse of allowing Americans (rubes, nearly one and all) to vote and permit Israel to choose our elected puppets outright. It would be more honest.
Note: not one senator or congressman even bothered to try to refute Massie’s revelation that each one had an Israeli minder. More telling, the propaganda organs didn’t bother, either.
Excellent point. The masks have come off with regard to how sycophantic the situation is. Nobody bothers to deny the obvious. Hell, AIPAC openly boasts about how it owns practically 100 percent of Congress.
“Chutzpah” ain’t a Hebrew term for nothing!
Yea seems like everyone is ok with being ruled though as long as they have their bread and circuses and the ability to complain online…
Talk about being totally memory holed. His wife s tragic death also warrants scrutiny
Massie is pretty cagey himself. When challenged about his opposition to aid for Israel, he insists he has nothing against Israel, he just does not support financial aid to any foreign country. If he ever denounced Israel outright as a murderous, aggressive ethno-state, the gloves would come off and he might even end up deceased.
Whatever killed his wife, he ain’t saying
Reminds me of an old joke. Why does Israel steadfastly refuse to become our 51st state? Because then they’d have only TWO U.S. Senators!
Savage!
Washington is an Anglo-Norman name, interestingly.
It’s an English name.
He was English.
That’s why he had an English name.
It’s Anglo-Saxon. R. E. Lee was the Anglo-Norman (Leigh).
“de Wessyington” Point being, I don’t know how you separate the Norman from the English. Romano-Britons, Anglo-Saxons, Celts. Mutts in the best sense. And then Americans, of course.
Funny that the hatred of Trump is so twisted and so unreasonable that the boomer left reactively thinks he’s an antisemite, just because he’s been painted as a fascist.
A man can dream…
Establishment Republicans think he’s antisemitic too, because his enthusiasm for the death of Americans is limited. Grudgingly pro-Trump media Republicans—Jewish and culturally Jewish—think he’s secretly antisemitic and dread the moment he drops the not-Hitler mask and unleashes the MAGA nazi horde. Republicans who weren’t in on the plot(s) watching January 6th thought that’s what was happening. That’s the illusory “terrorism” that, e.g., Ted Cruz condemned. Trump may have believed it too. As our guys say, an antisemite is someone Jews hate. Numbers are bullshit, but I’ve seen it claimed that Trump’s share of the Jewish vote has been the lowest… Read more »
Trump will possibly be a disaster. The faceless men of the deep state with their cackling mascot, will be a worse and guaranteed disaster
The choice, as in 2020, is between a disaster and a catastrophe.
Meh. Looks to me more like Armageddon vs. Apocalypse…
May we choose wisely.
Trump’s avowed and appalling love for murderous Zion, however, may not change his general love for peace over war…He’s spouting this nonsense because he needs to appease the Zionists tp get elected, and maybe to stay alive, but I very much doubt that he, or the American public, will go along with WWIII, which would obviously destroy the USA….
Like I said, at some point I have to take him at his word. And if he is saying this because he wants to stay alive, what is going to happen to him if turns his back on them when he gets into office?
I think the simplest explanation – he feels like he needs to get into office to get the blob off his back (lawfare, etc.), and he cut a deal with the Zionists to get it – is the appropriate one, as opposed to this logic about him being secretly based or just lying or whatever.
^This. Records matter. We don’t have to speculate about Trump because we had 4 years of Trump who, among other things, Iraq/Afghanistan drawdownsRefused to enter Syrian civil warDestroyed ISIS (after we were told it couldn’t be done)No new M.E. warsAbraham AccordsSuccessful oil price war against the Saudis/OPECI remember a lot of the same commentary on this blog back when he said he wanted to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. We got a lot of arm waiving and hysteria back then, too. But what did we get in exchange for that symbolic promise? Trump won because a lot of the evangelical… Read more »
I thought Russia did more than anyone to destroy ISIS. And didn’t Soleimani broker the Putin-Assad meeting that brought Russia into the war?
Definitely a team effort. Those unspoken team-ups can do a lot of good when done right. Naturally, we paid them back the way the GAE pays back everyone else – by f&&&ing them over in Ukraine.
It’s a mad mad mad mad mad world.
Did you know that Phil Silvers didn’t need eyeglasses? He only wore the lensless frames to give some character to his rather bland, uninteresting face. Same as the silent film star, Harold Lloyd.
Did not know that. Thank you. I just know he was one of the naturally funniest actors I’ve ever seen. His off-screen persona, OTOH, was apparently rather sombre.
ISIS was a creature of the US like Al Qaeda, to be shipped around where needed and disposed of when done. A bunch of ISIS were also active in Chechnya until Russia sorted it out.
Alas, no Republican can win without the support of the Israel-loving, war-mongering “Christian” Zionists.
Unfortunate, but true. However, I see glimmers of hope in the recent war because the bought-and-paid-for politicians have had a helluva time trying to convince the public go to along with this nonsense.
Did they do it anyway? Yes, but it was hardly the cakewalk of past misadventures. I think the public has gotten wise the the scheme on both sides of the ball.
So the public has wised up. What are they gonna do about it?
I don’t know yet. Maybe nothing. So far people have been willing to hide behind the fig leaf of voting. “Oh well, we lost, the other side gets to do what they want…”
It does make you wonder just how long the fake elections can go on before people either do something or just stop participating in them.
Nothing might be the only thing they can do – but it could help. Doing nothing in the sense of don’t show up for the war, don’t do war bonds (if they even would do such things). Just do nothing.
You can’t co-opt a protest that involves people doing nothing. I’ve been saying this since the Jan 6 Fed-surrection.
soft power – economic sanctions – work.
I’ll be curious to see vote participation numbers–if we can trust them–for the upcoming general. Don’t know about y’all’s neck of the woods, but I’m not seeing as many political yard signs as usual in my burg. Now that may mean absolutely nothing. On the other hand…
I think people are afraid of their neighbors. Of getting reported to the authorities for thinking unapproved thoughts. Or maybe their business gets boycotted or their boss finds out and cans them unexpectedly.
“but I very much doubt that he, or the American public, will go along with WWIII,”
Nobody asked our opinions on the subject. They aren’t in the slightest bit interested in any opinions we may have. We are entirely irrelevant in their decision making and will do what we are told if the decision is made to go to war.
Long as the white man has an ample supply of bourbon, brisket and ball, he won’t object to his little Kayleb getting blown to bits in the Golan Heights on behalf of Omer. That’s a rough take on my part, but I wouldn’t have posted it if I didn’t believe it.
There was a very strong isolationist movement in this country—including Congress—prior to Dec 7, 1941. Indeed, it kept us out of war for two years while the world burned. FDR was flummoxed until he devised a way to provoke first attack. At that point, the country fell into line. As Goring said: “Naturally, the common people don’t want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along,… Read more »
Agreed, except for the nukes part. The leadership can avoid the consequences of war for the most part. It is the common man who is made to sacrifice. While sugar and gasoline and many other things were tightly rationed in WW2, the leadership wanted for nothing. The rations were ridiculous. Everyone was driving on bald tires because you simply couldn’t get them. There were replacement parts shortages for most cars. This did not affect the leadership. The consequences for a nuclear war will not allow this. Consequences will be felt by everyone without exception. Consequences are for the rubes. While… Read more »
One needs to define nuke war. There are tactical nukes and strategic nukes. Small vs large is one way to look at it. Targeting, another. I’m not convinced—short of targeting civilian population centers—that use of nukes in the field comes immediately home as use of nukes against population centers—not in the case of the Middle East. We seem to be taking scenarios out of context from the Cold War, where indeed the two major powers threatened population centers and each belligerent was held “hostage” by the other. The fly in the ointment is Israel with a nuke arsenal who could… Read more »
If it’s just “tactical” then I mostly agree with you. But with Israel, there is no tactical nuclear weapon use. Whether or not you take seriously the “Samson” option, that could easily lead to an exchange of strategic nuclear weapons. Frankly, I really don’t buy the Samson option. We don’t have any examples of tactical nukes ever being used. I’m not sure if a war can go nuclear and remain only tactical uses of nuclear weapons. They largely were not aimed at cities to keep the citizenry under blackmail, but because the cities were where the industrial (and thus military)… Read more »
Who has the tech to send nukes to US soil? Russia, China, maybe North Korea. So how does this escalate to total annihilation? If nukes used in conflict are geared toward military objectives, you still have a stalemate of sorts. Use them against population centers, then retaliation becomes the name of the game.
Nice analogy.
It was the Norman’s in 1080 or so who imported the jews into England because they would collect taxes on the English in ways Christians would not. They stayed until expelled by Longshanks in 1290. Edward I also fucked over Mel Gibson of course.
That is a lie
This the way the world ends, this is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but with an Oy Vey!
(I can’t believe we’re going to blow up the world for these religious nut jobs)
“Compounding things is the fact that no one knows who is actually running foreign policy in the Biden administration.”
Oh, for God’s sake. We know damn well who is controlling foreign policy: Anthony “I come here as a fellow Jew” Blinken, Chuck “guardian of Israel” Schumer, and Bibi “smite Amalek” Netanyahu…
Israel is one of the worst countries on the planet, and I am enjoying watching them become a pariah on the global stage. As recently as five years ago was mostly indifferent to Israel, but now I openly despise that country because of the ways they’ve manipulated and subverted both foreign and domestic policy in the West. While I don’t go as far as supporting Iran, I wouldn’t shed any tears if Iran put Israel in its place. My only fear is that our leaders will drag us into yet another unwinnable war in the Middle East. The tension between… Read more »
I have not seen many spectacles more bizarre than Netanyahu’s address to Congress in July. He got 58 standing ovations. Fifty-eight! That’s probably more than one a paragraph. The next time he does it, they’ll have to do what the Soviets helpfully did during Stalin’s speeches and ring a bell to let everyone know they can stop clapping. Even then, I doubt the commies fawned over Joe as slavishly as all those freaks and cretins did over ole ‘Bibi’. It was genuinely creepy to watch the supposed leaders of America perform like trained seals at the behest of a country… Read more »
To their credit, a fair number of democrats and one republican (Massie, I believe) avoided the whole embarrassing display.
What’s bizarre about it? Pol’s are whores. They were just virtue signaling for their sponsor AIPAC. Perhaps the one, and only one, positive aspect of having mud people take office is this relationship is weakening. However, still not to the benefit of Whites.
Saddam Hussein was a staunch opponent of Iranian expansion of power in the region. It never really made sense that deposing him would be bad for Iran.
They genuinely believed that “democracy” spreads like ink blots, or something. And you couldn’t really argue against that, because you’d be called a racist.
We should start telling people (especially leftists) that democracy is the ultimate example of white supremacy. And if you think about it critically for a minute . . . it truly is. Dumb-ocracy is almost exclusively the white man’s delusion. We really ought to be embarrassed about it, quite frankly.
Democracy is only possible in relatively small, ethnically and religiously homogeneous societies where there is a broad ethical consensus. Otherwise it is a sham, full of preening and posturing to claim the moral high ground for one’s own interests, which are never admitted, except perhaps privately among the oligarchs who really decide matters.
Z had a great tweet this weekend about how even the ancient Greeks used religious drama to reinforce the regime and its moral order.
Not coincidentally, I think he was watching football commercials.
Mass democracy merely allows the economic oligarchs to control the system by financing the campaigns of the politicians. You then get legislation written by lobbyists (a routine practice in Washington). A real democracy (e.g., ancient Athens) would appoint legislators by lot, to prevent the oligarchs from controlling the system. As you point out, such a system only works on a small scale.
Before they adopted the term to mean themselves, that’s exactly what they said about democracy.
And here we are.
Their grand strategy is one giant cluster …. Pushing Russia into the arms of China. These guys could lose a risk game in two rounds. But they have ivy league degrees so….
Yes, and indeed, Saddam was essentially CIA, getting both information and arms from the USA…He was perplexed by the US attacking him, because he was merely retaliating against Kuwait for slant drilling his wells…Any Texas oilman would have done the same!
The biggest claim against Saddam was the threat of him becoming Middle East Mustache Man, with the ghost of Neville Chamberlain haunting the west’s every move at the time. There were still a lot of WWII vets at the time so the marketing plan had serious hooks.
I have lived through SO many Hitler’s…
He also checked with the USA before invading and was given the green light. The CIA double-crossed him.
Saddam was our boy for years. A secular dictator who opposed Islamic extremists and Iran. Getting rid of him was nuts. He was hated by Israel and Saudi Arabia, which I suspect had a lot to do with Bush’s decision to get rid of him.
Isn’t it funny how the Saudis attack us and so we invade Iraq.
I dunno, he was pretty butthurt over Iran Contra (notice he ended the Iran-Iraq war like a month after the story broke) and not without reason.
Yes. This reflects the utter lack of second-order thinking by the MIC. “Oh, let’s depose the secular dictator of a majority-Shiite country right next door to Iran. What could go wrong?” Geeze……..
It had less to do with creating a “democracy” and more to do with creating bases along the Iranian border from which to launch operations inside Iran. The Wizards of Smart just never accepted the fact that half of Iraq was just fine with Iran, about 1/4 of Iraq wanted to go to war with Turkey/Syria, and about 1/4 of Iraq that remained was loyal to the Baath regime. If you dropped a piece of plate glass flat onto concrete and looked at the shattered bits, you’d get a rough approximation of the national borders and tribalism of the Middle… Read more »
Israel’s psychotic behaviour is not surprising when you realise that the country is led by the psychological offspring of the Stern Gang and Irgun, some of the most deranged freaks in a century when there was some competition. In 1942, the only thing that stood between the Germans and Palestine was the British Army, but the Zealots decided that the British were the real enemy. So, they mounted a terrorist campaign against them and made them look over their shoulders when Rommel was at El Alamein. Pure insanity of course, but insanity that has, via Likud and the neocon diaspora,… Read more »
Israeli prime ministers Shamir and Begin were personally part of Stern and Irgun respectively. Israel was born of deceit and murder.
“It is a good reminder that everyone involved in Middle East politics is incapable of honesty.” In the Middle East only the Israelis are incorrigible liars. Not the Iranians, not Hezbollah, not Hamas. And among the Israelis, first and foremost is Netanyahu, who learnt to lie at the same time he learnt to talk. In the West, US and European government officials are liars, lying both to the world at large but also to their domestic populations. The real life consequences of this mendacity are going to be escalation, war, the end of US influence in the Middle East, and… Read more »
Well, Bibi started as a management consultant. So there’s that.
The level of foreign control in DC is beyond anything I’ve ever heard of before in a not technically occupied country
Let’s just say this–Israel controls AINO’s foreign policy and probably has a lot of say-so on economic policy. However, the postmodern maniacs in the Power Structure control domestic policy. Bibi doesn’t give a dam’ if the school nurse slices off little Brayden’s schlong and tells him to embrace his inner lezbo, but the archfiends in the Department of Education sure do.
I dunno Ostei, the perverted degeneracy, both here and now, and in Weimar a century ago, seems to have no shortage of hebrews at its forefront
Yep. OyTube censors the vids with Hitler’s rantings translated into english. When translated, Old Nasty’s message rings so true in the context of our own times. The jewry is worried sick about Mr, Normie and Mr. Griller waking up to the peril they’re currently in…
True. But domestic Hebes ain’t the same thing as Israel. In fact, a very high percentage of Leftist radical Finkels in AINO loathe Israel because they consider it a Western colonial state that oppresses the swarthy saints (Palestinians). And it’s those Finkels, not the Mizrahim, who, along with the deranged Puritans, are at the forefront of perversity and diversity on the homefront.
All I know is that when I found out that the indigenous Christians of the area largely side with the Palestinian cause, that’s all I needed to know. If the Palestinians are good enough for my fellow Christians there, Christian communities dating back to the time of Christ, they’re good enough for me. I’m doing what the Jews do, supporting my own tribe.
My eyes were opened watching a Bourdain show from Lebanon. He was spending time and eating with a Lebanese Christian family. They kept AKs at home in case they were needed against an Israeli invasion. As a group they hated and feared Israel and were supportive of Hezbollah. As far as I know, Hezbollah never has bothered Christians in Lebanon and has defended them as fellow Lebanese. Who’s the enemy here?
At the Latin Mass I attended in the early 90’s, one of the celebrants’s first “posting” for lack of a better word – was at the Church of The Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. He spoke of being ridiculed, screamed at, harassed and spit upon by the Israeli population. He went on to say that the Muslims showed him nothing but kindness and respect.
It’s a classic pincer move. Overseas heebs cry as they strike out at others, my showah, my hollow cost, etc. to get you to do their bidding. The domestic heebs make sure Whites stay outnumbered, dumbed down and demoralized so they don’t turn on the heeb masters. Any concern for anyone not a heeb is simply feigned.
I think that’s about the size of it. However, I don’t see coordination between Netanyahu and Northwestern.
Anyone who has never seen the video in which Congressman Traficant stated outright that Israel controls Congress needs to watch it over and over and spread it far and wide.
And he was talking about Israeli influence thirty years ago…
Hannity and Traficant Get into Shouting Match Over Israel Lobby and U.S. Policy (youtube.com)
In that linked video clip, I especially like the part towards the end where Hannity says, “are you suggesting that Israel controls congress….blah, blah, blah….” Traficant leans in to the camera…”Sean…I’m not suggesting it, I’m telling it…”
And Sean never had Traficant on his show again. A few years later Traficant died in a farm accident involving his tractor. A mysterious accident.
For those interested, Devon Stack did a show about Traficant, a guy who ran afoul of the regime. https://odysee.com/@Blackpilled:b/trafic:8
Based Devon.
I only wish I’d discovered him a lot earlier.
Over the weekend i tried to explain to some christian zionists that war with Iran is not in our interests and would be risking the lives of our children and grandchildren for Israel. They would have none of it, their noses are so far up Netanyahu’s arse they are in total darkness. The only way out is a disaster in my opinion.Which we will probably have due to this relationship with the Israeli lobby.
What was their argument?
Gods chosen people
The real lesson will be to keep hostile foreigners with their own interests and goals out of the monetary system and out of the government. I mean really, we should have kept them out of our countries.
Sweethearts don’t get kicked out of 109 different countries throughout history, or whatever the correct number is.
Better solution. Kill Trump before the selection and blame Iran. All problems solved
Yeah, funny how after both assassination attempts the Regime immediately started issuing obviously fake press releases about how the Iranians were trying to kill Trump…
That does appear to be the plan, but a good chunk of his supporters wouldn’t believe it. Everyone with half a brain knows that it’s not Iran driving this train.
I’m seeing that “Iran trying to assassinate Trump” story being planted everywhere for months. Way too convenient if he is offed by someone called Ali Harvegh Osiwalid.
No Z-Man, with all due respect, both you and Washington are wrong. Washington warned of the attachment or hatred when America was a country. We are not a country. Just a place on the map of the GAE. So our demands and desires and such are radically different as is reflective of our bad situation. We live in a multi-racial, multi-cultural empire where Whites particularly Straight White Males with no power-connections are at the bottom. Even Musk’s money won’t protect him, California is banning his launches over his politics (really) and the Media wants him in jail or deported or… Read more »
Interesting comment.
It’s true, America is not a country in any recognized sense. It’s a border with a mass of free and , somehow, equal individuals indicating their preferences
From what I see of American Jews around my parts is they are firmly behind Biden-Harris. Are they just slow to see what’s happening?
There’s an active debate in alternative media about who really is leading whom in the conduct of American foreign and military policy in the Middle East. On the one side are, partially and in no particular order, John Mearsheimer and Douglas McGregor, Jeffrey Sachs and Z-man. They claim that Israel is calling the shots and that Washington is powerless to refuse. Another view is represented by Gilbert Doctorow, Moon of Alabama, and Brian Berletic. They believe that the real decisions are being made in Washington, with the objective of ensuring American hegemony in the region and that Israel is merely… Read more »
Thank you for the summary of the differing camps. I don’t have the time or intellect to wade through or make sense of this full-spectrum clusterf*ck, even with all the time I waste now.
Whatever hegemony the USA has in the region is in spite of Israel, not because of it. I don’t see any way that the endless, unconditional support of Israel helps the USA with anybody else in the region, especially since it means that the USA has to essentially bribe other countries like Saudi Arabia and Egypt just to play nice with them. The past year, IMO, has shown who is the dog and who is the tail totally and completely. The USA’s continued and baffling support of Israel even as it is turning us into a pariah state alongside them… Read more »
My humble opinion is that it is six (million) of one, half a dozen (million) of the other. Stateside heebs run the US; israel heebs run israel. In theory, there could be diverse opinions among the two sets of heebs running both shows, but when that rarely manifests itself it is usually about tactics or timing, not the ultimate goal of heebs running everything.
who’s to say the iranians don’t have missiles that can reach the continental US? how hard would it be to get help from the Russians in setting up missile batteries in central america (or cuba)? and speaking of the Russians, bet they will love helping iran to destroy US troops in israel (or anywhere, really).
The border is wide open, too. There may not be sleeper cells throughout the mainland United States but that is not the way to bet. Russians and Iranians are not dumb Arabs.
Dropping the grid in AINO would quickly grind things to a halt.
Drive around the AINO countryside and marvel at all the poorly secured infrastructure.
I’m sure all the foreign bad actors that have flooded through out non-existant borders have noticed this situation as well.
With all the imported wogs, I’m surprised there hasn’t already been more cannibalization of grid infrastructure a la South Africa, where they do it just to steal the copper
Foreign bad actors run your government, genius.
That is a different group of foreign bad actors who want the grid up to support the logistics required for their Middle Eastern wars.
No shit, Sherlock. That would’ve been a wryly funny comment, please stop being an ass.
I wonder if “two-legged EMT” is the “nuke” held over our heads.
That or steamtrunk nukes in the cities or in cargo containers, as well.
There are so many “undocumented” people in the US now, people our government knows nothing about, that it’s probably trivial for Russia, Iran, China, etc… to set up sleeper cells just about everywhere who could be mobilized quickly to create all sorts of chaos in the US. Exploiting your enemy’s stupidity and weak points is part of winning any war and this is an easy one to see. Hell, the Mexican cartel soldiers alone would be a devastating force that could probably be mobilized just by paying them. They’ve already got the organization, military explosives, and heavy weapons. Who knows,… Read more »
People say that, but the Ukrainian grid has been under full scale military attack for 2 years and still has like 85% in service. Even that sounds worse than it actually is.
Just last week we supposedly got hit by the worse CME rating possible, IIRC, it was a category 5. I didn’t even notice it. No outages at all. Not internet, not radio, not TV, not phone and definitely not electric.
That’s not to say nothing will ever harm the grid, but I think it is more resilient than most people give it credit.
I know nothing about it, but my guess is the “grid” is extremely segmented. Knocking out a transformer in Winston-Salem doesn’t make the lights go out in Walla-Walla.
I’ve read 70% of Ukraine electric power has been destroyed.
That is exactly why, I think, the Regime rattles sabers but nothing ever happens. It’s why we never formally declared war on Russia, and why there will never be a war with Iran or China. We’ve allowed a multitude of fifth columns into the “Homeland” as we used to call it.
I don’t think we can even declare a war on El Salvador.
If TPTB and their Help ‘n Hos in Congress thought they somehow could escape the carnage of the probable sleeper cells, they wouldn’t hesitate to start such wars. As it is, they probably and likely rightfully think they could get smoked, right along with the rubes. Maybe there is a silver lining to mass migration!
Qanon tier cope from the pair of you.
Muh military! in the house. Go grill.
Declaration of War is a meaningless holdover from antiquity, the absence of which no longer precludes hostilities between us and other belligerents de jour. We simply subvert, perhaps escalate to direct or proxy attack, then get the hell out of “Dodge” when the people at home “catch wise”. Most of the time, we don’t.
During the Bush years, it was floated that Iranian officers were in Venezuela, and that Muslims ran the Tri-Border smugglers’ kingdom inbetween Argentina, Paraguay, y Brasil.
The Neocon tapeworms in the W. Administration indeed had their sights set on both Iraq and Iran:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fZcvgrDcTdw&list=LL&index=8&pp=gAQBiAQB
Israel striking Iran’s oil fields could be almost as disastrous for the region and the rest of the world as striking their nuclear sites.
israel has offshore gas fields that can be hit, as well as that nuke reactor site.
Yup, somebody lobbed a couple ‘messages’ their way last week or so.
I don’t think a war with Iran will happen because if it did, it would end quickly and fatally for Israel. Russia has provided Iran with a real air defense capability and that guarantees that Iran can and will counter-launch a nation-destroying missile attack on Israel (1,000s of precision-guided ballistic missiles in endless waves). Israel’s energy and fresh water supply systems will cease to exist and that will instigate another Jewish exodus and diaspora. And if Netanahoo goes nuclear, a second Holocaust will follow. Is that a bad outcome or a good outcome? Inquiring minds want to know.
Another Jewish exodus will mean Israel moves in with us. 😉
“Israel’s energy and fresh water supply systems will cease to exist…”
What a catch. One of the real reasons behind the Palestinian problem is the draining of the Palestinian aquifer, been going on for years. In large part this is a water war.
I suspect Israel would have little problem with water access as it has 170 miles of coastline. Saudi Arabia has supplied itself through desalination for decades. Israel could do the same at a fraction of the cost it’s spending on endless war.
A desalination plant takes a fraction of a second to destroy and several years to rebuild. Ditto for the municipal pumping stations. Israel could import gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel once their refineries are gone; but loss of potable water becomes an existential crisis within a week.
The reply was to stealing an aquifer and fighting over it. They don’t need the aquifer as a primary source and it ain’t going anywhere as a secondary source.
Iran used to be Persia which was a great civilization, in many ways comparable to the Roman Empire. They had notable innovations and were good at engineering. But they did the same thing that so many whites did, they mixed with non-whites. Maybe I should say Aryan because I’m sure they were never pale white. But they never looked like those guys in the movie 300.
It remains largely unknown because they keep them wrapped in burhkas, but Persian women are among the hottest iyam
crazy af though, and their family will all be grifters
The photographic record of Iran under the modernizing Shah bears this out. Western high fashion was the preference, face coverings were out. The women were beautiful.
This should be the top comment because it pertains to Italy, Greece, and India as well and nearly every other place that ever had a successful empire or civilization. When mud genetics arrive and the skin starts to darken, civilization dies, the wheels come off. Period. End of line. This is not even refutable. Italy today is not Italy of the Roman Empire because why? Mixing with mud genes. Those Northern Italians who were largely Germanic in appearance became a smaller and smaller minority as the dark races started to intermix in the south. Ancient Greece vs. modern Greece. Look… Read more »
One could conclude that Italy and Greece of today, of the last century or so at least, are just as dependent on the rest of the white west to survive as Africa is and would, like Africa, if left to their own devices, implode
It is not that dire because they ARE Europeans at the end of the day. So direct comparisons to the missing links on the dark continent are not valid. –However–, you are correct in that they are definitely a drag on the EU’s economy. Greece being far worse. Italy still has the massive economic engine of the north which is largely just pulling the south along and once again, what is different? Northern Italians are massively mixed with Germanics, French, and Swiss. The farther south you go in Italy the darker the population gets and the economy plummets with it.… Read more »
“I also forgot to throw Spain under the bus.”
The Spaniards are so relieved you rectified the oversight!
Wherever there is conquest by an alien people, there will be miscegenation. This is what happened to Sassanid Persia when it was conquered by the Muzz.
Silly, but is anyone old enough to remember:
I ran.
We ran.
We all ran from Iran?
Mr. Powell can take an axe to rates, but everything either will go sideways or downwards if this pops off or even remains in question. There is absolutely no popular support for such a war outside of American Jewry and diminishing numbers of Chistian Zionists, but when has public opinion ever mattered? The one brake ironically may be the open border, which all but guarantees there will be Allahu Akbar parties in the Clouds’ rat nests if things get hot.
I think public opinion actually does matter. Decades ago it would have been easier to go to war against Iran. Americans were still mad about the hostage crisis. You are right that DC may go to war anyway but it gets tricky if you don’t have any passion from normie Americans.
A super majority oppose mass migration. Has that made any difference? Granted, those warm bodies streaming across the border might make for low quality cannon fodder, but still expect such absurdities as “we have to fight them over there or we will have to fight them over there” to impose a draft. Rioting, if it happens, will be used to improve marksmanship.
I guess one difference is they do not need our cooperation or involvement to perpetrate the crime of immigration. If they need numbers for war with Iran, then it would require more involvement from us. If the plan is to just drone or nuke them, then maybe not.
I don’t think they envisage boots on the ground in Tehran, so they can safely disregard the objections of the common man.
Maybe a 20-year forever war since Ukraine is petering out.
Human Exploitation is the American way. Since we can’t have slaves anymore and globalism seems to be drying up (no more exploiting our de facto slaves overseas), we need these de facto slaves coming in.
This morning one of the main conservative sites quotes Numbers 24:9 as:
“Whoever blesses Israel will be blessed, And whoever curses Israel will be cursed.” https://hotair.com/generalissimo/2024/10/14/things-going-so-bad-for-kamala-harris-shes-trying-to-get-god-on-her-side-n3795770
I looked up the quote and found that most of the translations refer to “the lion,” not Israel. https://biblehub.com/numbers/24-9.htm
I’d be curious about any explanations from Christians. I guess that Ramzpaul would say Jesus made the OT irrelevant.
The Scofield Bible has been an unmitigated disaster for American Christianity and the world in general.
Quoting Numbers 24:9 is like quoting one line of a 300 page contract and claiming it explains everything. There are many ways to look at it, the most plausible being that the Church is Israel, not the collection of pseudo-judaites currently occupying the eastern Mediterranean coast. If you read on in Numbers, you will also see many conditions attached, the main one being “Israel” keeping their side of God’s covenant. With the rejection of the Messiah (Jesus), those who rejected Him forfeited any participation in the covenant (so He does not make the OT irrelevant, rather He fulfills it). Thus,… Read more »
God’s covenant with Isaac (father of Israel) and Ishmael (father of Arabs) was not conditional like the Mosaic covenant with Israel. God said of Ishmael “ I will make him a great nation.” (Genesis 21:18) Are the Arabs not a great nation?
The promises to Isaac were absolutely conditional because the blessings passing from Abraham were conditional. God directly told Moses that He was going to kill all the rest of Israel after they refused to enter the promised land the first time, and in their place, God would turn Moses into a greater nation than they. The only reason that did not happen was because Moses declined. God still issued Faithless Israel her certificate of divorce later on when Judah was in play, and Faithless Israel constitutes branches torn off the tree of greater Israel, children of faith to Abraham. They… Read more »
Reading the Bible as esoteric messaging, that is, as repurposed political propaganda, means that factions will reinterpret it to their own ends. Myself, I see Esau as the dominant Aryan-linked majority, with Jacob as the mischling minority who claimed to be twin, not merely kin (half-breed). Likewise, in the oldest version, Isaac (root word for Scythian, that is, Aryan) was indeed sacrificed, with the changeling ram being accepted in his place. The original self-serving Great Replacement of stolen identity. Their storytelling style was to take swaths of history and compact them into a character, making history a family tale of… Read more »
sorry – got Jacob and Isaac confused (Jacob was the son/brother of Esau, Isaac was their dad).
thanks, I didn’t put it in order
Holy smokes. You mean the Lion and Sun of Magi-era Persia?
(The lion on the Iran’s flag symbolizes the constitutional revolution in 1906.
Persians believe their original Zoroastrian Avesta is far older than the Bible, as Daniel was a student of Zoroaster/Zarathustra.)
Another second-order effect that should be mentioned is that Iran is a major oil-supplier to China.
I would think Xi would take a dim view of AINO messing with that supply. At a minimum they would provide intel to Iran. There would also be weird, “production problems, so sorry!” with aspirin, double-A batteries, etc.
Perhaps, but Russia has just completed a direct pipeline to China, which has a land border with Russia. Here’s what ChatGPT says, including a US citation: “Russia supplies more oil to China than Iran. China has significantly increased its oil imports from both countries due to their discounted crude, but Russian oil consistently accounts for a larger share. In 2023, China imported over 2 million barrels per day (bpd) of Russian oil, compared to about 1.18 million bpd from Iran. Iran’s exports to China have faced challenges, such as price disputes that led to reduced shipments, while Russia remains a… Read more »
Thanks Z. A lovely way to start the week.
Unfortunately, I really can’t find a flaw in this logic. This is a very likely outcome. Trump is generally antiwar but he loves him some Israelies, especially Bibi. Jared will convince him the Saudis and the rest of the Arab world will love him if he takes out Iran.
The deep state may permit Trump back in the White House if he is willing to guarantee them their war with Iran.
This makes sense. Trump has no enthusiasm for the Ukraine war, however his slobbering over Israel lately is worrisome.
Oo. Oo. Oo. That’s it, Geese.
Hold on. Might not be all bad, not at all.
Maybe…good. Or gooder.
They’ve been floating the son of the Shah on air.
If this reverses their fuckup of putting the Ayatollahs in charge- who immediately went rogue- a limited restoration of the Pahlavi throne might be the linchpin to the Shia Crescent (as the Shia version of the Sunni Ikhwan, the Muslim Brotherhood that fought Nasser’s Ba’athists.)
As Nixon said, the Shah was Israel’s only friend in the Mideast at the time. (So, of course he was betrayed.)
Every time I get a small inkling of voting for Trump he mentions Israel and it goes away.
Quite a choice we have. Trump loves Israel, and with a Kamala presidency, perhaps we’re not as likely to go to war with Iran, but more likely to get severe restrictions on speech and never-ending Haitians.
With Kamala we are more likely to get war with Russia.
It’s like a wargame, pick your starting point on the map.
There’s no more surefire a hard-off than Isreal-fellating by AINO’s pols.
If you gave Trump a truth serum and asked him what he thinks of Israel and Bibi, what would he say? Well, I think Trump actually hates Netanyahu. I doubt he is fond of Jared as well. He knows what these people are like as a group, although he is no doubt fond of some on a personal level. That said, he has clearly made a decision to sidle up to these people. He has said what he has said and is empowering the people who advocate for those same things.
I seem to remember that Netanyahoo was the first foreign ruler to call and congratulate Biden after the steal. I would bet that Trump remembers and acts accordingly if he gets a chance.
Hell, he probably helped the steal.
To first order approximation, there are two factions of the International Jews, each with their own system of accompanying goyim allies carefully cultivated over many decades. The first is the ‘genocide’ faction that now runs the Democrat Party, and the second is the ’empire’ faction which continues to run the Republican Party and hope to counterattack and regain control of the Democrat party. The stunning incompetence (from the perspective of the empire faction’s interests) of the genocide faction has left the empire faction in the uncomfortable and unwanted position of now being willing to cut a deal with Pres. Trump.… Read more »
The fact that we have to sit here and talk like this and think like this, just proves my point to be true. We are under hostile occupation and their interests come before our own. You can’t gain power without putting their interests before those of your own people. This is the core, existential problem for Whites and it needs to discuss it openly. Trump’s MAGA/America First eight years ago was the beginning of that, it is why he got into office, but it was also why he was damn near destroyed. This is, I suppose, why we don’t have… Read more »
While I await for approval on my (admittedly) long comment I will note pretty much everyone here is wrong. Trump and the forces around him represent the return to the Carter Doctrine. That is, control/suppression of Iran, keeping cheap oil flowing through the Gulf, using a defacto alliance of Israel and the Saudis in particular. Biden has already failed completely as Iran through the Houthis have shut down the Suez Canal to all intent and purpose. Iran is essentially bankrupting Egypt in financial siege warfare. The US Navy is unable to stop the Houthis. Who outrange them with cheap Iranian… Read more »
Huzzah! American Jew, Kunstler, has broached the JQ, questioning the madness of Big Jew in American government and its effect on Little Jew.
The comment section is in chaos, many Jews and Shabbos posting.
This is good, this is right, this is essential.
The Noticing is going mainstream!
It is greatly underappreciated that Washington used up all his considerable poltical capital to keep America out of the French Revolution. Americans were hot to join. Likely he also read Burke’s short book which single-handedly turned the English public and ruling class away from its eagerness to join in putting heads on pikes. Adams would have tried and failed, and Jefferson would have joined eagerly. With the coming 1865 all the brakes were removed, and with 1913 we learned how to finance it.
“Gas lines and ten-dollar gasoline will surely cause some to question this habitual fondness for Israel,…”
Seems like a wet dream for environmentalists. Fossil fuel bad, Gaia good.
Except now Tesla bad.
uh oh.
The real joke in all this is that the GAE is not capable of defeating Iran militarily (nor is Israel). It could lob some missiles, perhaps some air strikes which would have a good chance of suffering high casualties, some targeted assassinations as we have seen, something else like the stuxnet virus….. and that’s about it. (unless they really can control plate tectonics, and other such wunderwaffen, but even that would seem insufficient to bring down the Iranian regime). Even the WW2 era GAE military would have been challenged by an actual conquest of Persia. Today’s GAE military, absent some… Read more »
The plan is to somehow inflict sufficient hardship on the Iranian people so that they change their regime. I think that’s fantasy, but I think it is the plan.
Because regime change has worked so well against Russia…
Gary Volgler, retired Lt. Colonel, retired Exxon Mobile executive and was for seven years in charge of Iraq’s oil ministry has written a book. The title is: “Israel, Winner of the 2003 Iraq oil war.”
It seems that we went to war in Iraq with the intention, maybe the only intention, of stealing oil from Iraq and giving it to Israel. I knew that we were stealing oil from Syria to give to Israel but I had not heard that we were stealing oil from Iraq and giving it Israel as well.
Ain’t that nice of us.
Would that we actually had politicians and leaders who took America’s and the American people’s interests first and foremost. What a complete shithole Washington DC has become…
Well this is where most Dissidents fail – and our esteemed blog host is no exception. While he has an undisputable expertise on Israel and the US, and a passable understanding of maybe Iran… he has very little understanding of the other arab players mixed up in this. It is forgivable – most North Americans don’t give enough time to the geopolitics, and wheels within wheels going on in arab politics. Arabs are no friends of the white man regardless of nationality. Their alliances are not graved in stone – which ours are in comparison theirs. Treachery and deceit are… Read more »
I agree with all the George Washington stuff. But I doubt Biden, Jill Biden, Sullivan and Austin want a war between Election Day and Inauguration Day. It would be a gigantic mess and oil prices and heating bills would skyrocket around Christmas. I cannot believe they want to go out this way. Biden hates Bibi’s guts too.
The best point about today’s Z is that nobody knows who’s in charge of the US military.
I keep seeing, repeatedly, media reports of “Lloyd Austin” ordering US forces into wherever. Not Biden. Lloyd Austin.
Does anyone else feel like Austin is the reincarnation of Idi Amin?
Just sayin’….
It’s possible the THAAD battery is being sent as a trip wire to trigger direct US involvement. Partial THAAD test results are available on Wikipedia. Make of them what you will. It’s curious the interceptor have no warhead and rely on a, “bullet striking bullet,” kinetic kill method. It is probably possible to overwhelm the system with a 10:1 ratio of decoys to live missiles. Short of going nuclear, it’s hard to imagine the long-term damage that could be inflicted on Iran. Their geography almost seems purposely designed to resist GAE invasion. None of their neighbors are suicidal proxies like… Read more »
OFF TOPIC: can someone explain something to me like a dummy please? Is it true that the oil in the middle east was found and excavated by companies of the british empire? If so, how and when did the UK simply relinquish control and let the arab nations nationalize the oil they never found?
It seems hard to believe, but there was a time 60-70 years ago when the UK voluntarily relinquished control of a whole lot of things
But why? I get the the Empire became no more. But surely someone in the West/USA could’ve seen that control of the oil was everything? Why would Western companies find and excavate the oil and then allow it to be taken over by comparative primitives/hostiles who promptly used that oil to enrich themselves and weaponize it against the people who made it possible? !
On their way out, the British, with American connivance, set up the Gulf State monarchies to parcel out the oil resources to friendly Sunnis who were mostly indifferent to Israel, and would keep the oil flowing. See: ARAMCO. It worked pretty well until the 1973 Yom Kippur War, which shamed the Arab regimes into an oil embargo, which set off inflation in the West and basically ended the post WW2 prosperity. From that point on, access to Middle Eastern oil was considered a vital American interest that would be defended aggressively, and was on several occasions. The irony, 50 years… Read more »
I regret that I have but one up vote for this.
Israel has replaced Britain as the Pied Piper leading us to war.
And “Israel” was the Pied Piper leading Britain to its disastrous (for Britain) wars in the 20th century. Follow the money.
The ME was the ‘British’ Empire’s business, and Israel its child, until the US assumed the region, or the ‘British’ Empire assumed the US. Friendly relations, indeed.
An interesting factoid is Eichmann…I heard reference to the fact that he was the liason between Britain and Germany for the Havarra Transfer program, which was running in both nations before and…even throughout the war… and that this secret was so dire to the Narrative is why they kidnapped and silenced him, with Arendt’s silly “for no reason at all” propaganda as cover. Both nations wanted the irritant gone, or both nations were built up and used to force settlement and reclamation of Jerusalem as a base for Eretz Ysrael and the fulfillment of the Revelations? Two birds with one… Read more »
I was assigned to the THAAD Battalion at Ft. Bliss, TX in the early 2000’s. It was a very impressive system at that time, with accuracy and speed being two of its biggest attributes. But that was 20 years ago…but suspect Iranian technology would be representative of that time. Maybe it will take out 60-75% of engagements but that still leaves them vulnerable to a swarm.
My guess is the THAAD will be integrated into the Israeli Patriot system. In theory, this will provide some defense against the better Iranian ballistic missiles. The trouble is the missiles are getting better and cheaper.
And conservatives wonder why Jews flock to Harris/Walz. And conservatives wonder why they lose. Of course, there couldn’t be a connection, could there?
“The Patriot system was also supposed to be a great system until it was destroyed by the Russians in Ukraine as soon as it was deployed.”
That’s not accurate. Russian missiles or drones may have damaged one Patriot battery, but there is more than one Patriot system battery in Ukraine. Patriot systems in Ukraine have successfully intercepted a number of Russian missiles, including the much hyped Kinzhal missiles.
I don’t think there will be a war with Iran. The Israel lobby is power but not omnipotent
Iran should be a slightly tougher nut to crack than Iraq. It has three times the population and a de facto alliance with Russia. Even China might want to get involved. The problem for the Americans is what to do if and when they win. The first Bush was wise in that he halted a drive on Baghdad during Desert Storm. The complications that would result from reordering Iranian society are astronomical. This isn’t Prince of Persia, the videogame, with simple solutions and a guaranteed way out. Enforced change would have to start in Tehran and spread to the provinces.… Read more »
There is zero reason to believe the United States would win a conventional war against Iran. Nukes would have to be deployed fairly early into the affair.
The U.S. still outspends the next several rankings on its defense budget. With any luck, you get bang for the buck.
Goatherders across the world say “hi.”
The U.S. can print money but it can’t print missiles and tanker fleets.
We could bomb them into the stone age. But then what’s next? How are you going to get 500,000 men into the Middle East and on to Iran?
We have a lot of destructive expensive toys. But it has been shown over and over that dropping bombs does not defeat an enemy. You need boots on the ground.
Sure, the government can authorize huge budgets for the military.
Most of that money is lost to some kind of waste that does not put weapons into battle.
US engineering capacity is so limited a Turkish specialty contractor was needed to commission the production lines in the new artillery shell plant in Texas. This is documented in the NYT of all places.
Talk to the Houthis.
What’s the difference between a $10 cup of coffee and a $2 cup of coffee?
$8
Define “Win” That is the real issue. We could bomb Iran into the stone age. But what we probably cannot do, at least not easily is invade and conquer Iran. Just getting all the troops on the ground would not be easy. The ports that could facilitate it are in range of Iranian missiles. Plus, it might very well draw in Iran’s allies. If China and Russia will not help you if the evil empire attacks you, what is the point of partnering with them?
Of course we “could” win a conventional war, we have an economy and the industry, Iran does not. The problem is two fold: duration and occupation. We can’t gear up as we did in WWII and the US public can’t stand a hot conflict for more than a few months. Occupation will prove as fruitless as it did in the 2nd Gulf War as Muslim sand people are hopeless candidates for democracy—as we know it. There is also a third aspect, total bankruptcy as we saw with Britain after WWII. So if we expand the definition of ”win”, then you’ve… Read more »
The simulations for invading Iran posit the need for a two million man army. Some say you would need more than that. Supposing you could come up with an army of that size in the West, it would probably not be a high IQ army. We just don’t have the social capitol for that anymore. If you have that army where would you stage it? Turkey won’t want to play. The Saudis would be insane to allow that. The Russians may come to the conclusion that it is not in their best interest to allow an army like that to… Read more »
All you’ve stated was related to what I said above. It’s theoretically doable, but not in a time frame we can withstand/undertake. In WWII we started with about 330K active and national guard. At end we had 12M under arms. Casualties are not the issue, except in population’s support of the effort. All wars come down to economy and will. We can out build Iran in the long run, but the will of the populace is another story. Time will never be on our side there. In the case of Iran, they’ve no choice but to defend their country. Finally,… Read more »
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