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18 hours ago, snoop1130 said:

Israeli Ambassador to Thailand, Dr. Alona Fisher-Kamm, stated on Tuesday that Iranians are responsible for destabilizing the oil market, impacting countries like Thailand.

If you want to blame a country, blame Israel and the US for launching an unprovoked war of aggression on Iran. Pair that with ^*perfidy as Iran were in negotiations with the US and were expecting to sign treaties regarding their nuclear program along with the IAEA, but the US used those negotiation to lull the Iranians and then attack - for the second time. As long as the US and Israel continue the aggression, Iran doesn't even need to shut down the Straits of Hormuz - INSURANCE COMPANIES DID. That entire area is now a war zone and Force majeure is the rule of the day. No insurance company in their right minds are going to insure a ship traveling the Straits.

The US and Israel are aggressor nations - blame the aggressors.

^*Perfidy:
In the context of war, perfidy is a form of deceptive tactic where one side pretends to act in good faith, such as signaling a truce, but does so with the deliberate intention of breaking that promise. The goal is to trick the enemy into lowering its guard, such as stepping out of cover to accept a supposed surrender, only to exploit its vulnerability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfidy

The Title of this thread should be From Clinton (Lewinsky war on Bosnia) to Trump (Op Epstein Fury)
When American leaders are in deep kimchi, they take you to war.

I'll leave with this.

Russian Oil Stocks as of today thanks to Operation Epic Fury. Congratulations Trump Administration!

Putin thanks you. ❤️ Great Job!!!

You war-lovers can have the thread. I'm outta here.................

4 minutes ago, KhunLA said:

Iran pretty much checks them all off ...

... "the regime kills its own people"

... "the regime is a dictatorship

... "the regime oppresses its own people and puts them in concentration camps." (prison)
... "regime" is on the cusp of using weapons of mass destruction."

🐂💩 Bravo Sierra my friend. Well, pack your kids up to go fight in the US new wars to promote Mom, Ford Trucks, and Apple Pie and "Truth, Justice, and the American Way", and a few Billion Dollars for the dynasty of Trump and Friends. Gotta have cannon fodder to be used in regime change. Sucks when you're damaged in a war and told by the VA Hospital to go "pack sand." Once a US soldiers is no longer of use to the US regime, you're discarded.

Btw KhunLA, when did you become a stenographer for the propaganda arm of the US regime? Good job. If you're too old to fight and die for this new US adventurism and foreign wars (religious war as well it seems), send your kids and your grand-kids off to be cannon-fodder.

What a sad-ass state of affairs. And my fellow Boomers are literally the worse. Didn't you people learn a god-dam thing from the Vietnam War no less the rest of the wars that Team American World Police have drawn us into from the end of WW2 until the present. <Head-Shake> 🙄 Gawd help us.

If the US begins conscription as the did during 'Nam, I'd begin to recommend to members of the Gen-Z cannon-fodder to register as conscientious objectors.

20 minutes ago, Wingate said:

Interesting fact:

Trump's war of choice is already less popular with the American people than the Vietnam War was the day in April 1975 when the last helicopters were leaving the roof of the US embassy in Saigon.

Wars even tend to get less popular with time.

The newest generation don't have the generational memory regarding war, so they are vulnerable to the propaganda. However, Gen-Z doesn't strike me as the types who want to "go to war to defend their countries by engaging in pre-emptive (offensive) military strikes." Can't blame them.

6 hours ago, CharlieH said:

A New War Revives an Old Pattern

And the propaganda used to manufacture the consent of the public to go to war is the exact same pattern that has been used for decades.

Target a country to be overthrown.
Dehumanize them by calling them a regime.
Make outrageous allegation (lies) like "the regime kills its own people" and "the regime is a dictatorship, "the regime oppresses its own people and puts them in concentration camps."
Invoke that the "regime" is on the cusp of using weapons of mass destruction."
Invoke that the "regime" is about to invade their neighbors and plan to take over the region, (country, world).

Endlessly repeat the lie.
Wait for the media and public to begin to parrot the propaganda.
Suggest to the public that they'll benefit from the resources that the US will steal once the country is overthrown.
Go to war.

On 3/7/2026 at 11:22 AM, riclag said:

The Iranian regime has been on a rampage, murdering thousands of its own citizens in brutal crackdowns on protests,

So goes the State Department propaganda machine. Reality is different. Iran was targeted for regime change. It has nothing to do with "nukes," or "women wearing hijabs," or this propaganda pushing the horse excrement that "Iran murdered thousands of its own people." What scares me are people who can't read the propaganda and who therefore propagate it. The US targets resource-rich countries who refuse to hand those resource to the US. The pattern is the same: "The regime kills its own people, the regime uses chemical weapons, the regime is a day away from a weapon of mass destruction." Iraq, Venezuela, Libya, Vietnam, Serbia - find a country who the US wants to control by overthrowing there government, and there you'll find the exact propaganda template. It works so well in convincing the weak-minded in their country that they don't even bother to change it - it's worked for decades. And people are too stupid to see the pattern.
Op - go volunteer to kill people for your country if you have that much blood-lust. You obviously can't cut through the propaganda so instead you spread it like its reality.

On 3/2/2026 at 10:20 AM, spidermike007 said:

Just another example of Don fulfilling his promise to bring prices down for the average American consumer. He gets an F grade so far.

There is nothing like dragging the US population into another Forever War in the ME which closes the Straits of Hormuz and leads to economy-killing energy price increases. Of course, the Orwellian "War is Peace" talk that comes out of the Trump Administration and his Department of War, we are told that "Iran started the war, not us." Nothing like raining Tomahawk missiles on Tehran, killing the country's religious leader who was sitting in his office waiting to be martyred, bomb a girl's school killing 165 Iranian school children - and then blaming it all on Iran.
I'm sorry - this is my definition of Evil. Propgandaize the public to believe that every country that the US/Isreal bombs are "Evil" when the true source of Evil sits in the White House, Congress, and the Senate and the various Orwellian Departments of Death in Washington DC.

"Iran is bombing itself - honest!" Although I've listened to US propaganda for decades, the audacity of it still makes me want to puke.

Lyndsey Graham put ie so succinctly, "When (if) the regime goes down, we're going to make a ton of money."
So does House's National Energy Dominance Council, Jarrod Agen, who has asserted that, "We're gonna get all of Iran's oil." That is what this is about, just like Valenzuela - It's The Oil, Stupid! It always has been, and it always will be.

So really? Who is going to make a ton of money? Trump administration insiders like Graham who will be insider trading, congressional leaders and their staffers who inside trade information from the administration, US oil company execs and stockholders who will get free Iranian oil. Trump Bro's who will inside trade administration info as will his family, friends, and business partners.

Who loses? The US public? We'll all be holding the bill for the war as Trump destroys the economy and monetary system with its out-of-control deficient spending on all things war and transfer payments to the foreign friends like Israel.

Who suffers - the common people on all sides. US, Iran, and Global. The billionaire class makes billions more and the rest of us pay for it.

I gave his administration 100 days to prove itself. It did, unfortunately. It showed he had no plans to honor his campaign pledges.

<Lie Lie Lie> "Vote For Me! We'll Make America Great! <Lie Lie Lie>

Mid-2025: "You peasants believed me. You fools. America's great for me. With my insider trading I've made billions more. Sucks to be you." <Lie Lie Lie>

History will be rating this creature to Hitler and Stalin before his term is finished - if his term finishes. Never know, Trump might like the moniker, "Dictator Don."
Yes - he is truly vile.