Monstrous allies

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On March 5, the Iranian frigate, IRIS Dena, was torpedoed by a US nuclear attack submarine, the USS Charlotte, in the Indian Ocean off Sri Lanka. Appears they took photos to send home to the kids.

FOX”news” called it a “no mercy” strike, sort of like shooting a person on Fifth Avenue. (Sorry, Luigi…)

The Iranian vessel, with a crew of 130 onboard had finished participating in biennial MILAN-26 naval exercises February 16-26 with 26 countries…including the United States. The exercise this year was meant to highlight India’s ‘soft power' in the region. It got really soft after this despicable incident.

The Dena was “a guest of India’s Navy”. India is the net security provider in the Indian Ocean. However, India offered no humanitarian aid, as required under universal maritime law, to the crew of any vessel in danger. Nor has India issued any official statement regarding the incident.

Neutral Sri Lanka immediately organised the rescue effort with both ships and planes. There are only 32 survivors.

MILAN is the largest multinational naval drills in the Indo-Pacific with more than 70 countries participating. Its theme "Camaraderie, Cooperation, Collaboration” included 18 warships from “foreign friendly nations”. WTF, eh!

No ship was allowed to carry ammunition during the exercises. That means a US vessel sunk an unarmed vessel in int’l waters without provocation…in peacetime and nowhere near any conflict zone. If you don’t see this as murder, you’ve got your eyes closed.

The Sea Phase trials were designed to enhance maritime cooperation and interoperability such as coordinated maritime security operations, tactical manoeuvres, communications drills and maritime interdiction (Caribbean?) as well as anti-submarine warfare (guess they failed that one), surface firing air defence and search and rescue (won by Sri Lanka).

Australia, Bangladesh, France, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Malaysia, Mauritius, Myanmar, Russia, Seychelles, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United States and Vietnam participated.

MILAN-26 is a rare effort at global cooperation among countries with very different views about what constitutes security and sovereignty.

Will this ever happen again now that America swung its big dick hard…for no reason…and ended the exercise with a bang.

After this appalling attack, another Iranian warship, IRIS Booshehr, was allowed to dock a Trincomalee and its 208 crew housed at a Sri Lanka naval base. A third warship,  IRIS Lavan, was allowed to dock at Kochi  and its crew 183 crew housed in Indian naval facilities.

It’s a 2,000 mile sea journey from Sri Lanka to Iran. Waters fraught with danger due to US aggression. I hope all these sailors apply for refugee status in India and Sri Lanka.

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Shajarah Tayyebeh primary school

The United States is likely responsible for the 175 civilian deaths at a Tehran girls’ school. The girls were between seven and twelve years old. UNESCO has condemned the bombing as “a grave violation of international law”.

Both the school and the adjacent Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base were bombed at the same time.

Republican funder, Matt Schlapp, of the Conservative PAC said on Piers Morgan Uncensored Iranian schoolgirls are “better dead than in a burqa”. 7 to 12 year olds…

The US must be taking lessons from the Israelis.  Will the US admit it?

What did Israel have against Trump, enabling them to draw in the USA into this war ?

2 hours ago, SingAPorn said:

What did Israel have against Trump, enabling them to draw in the USA into this war ?

Israel is our boss. The war serves Israeli interests in the final steps towards world domination.

59 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

Israel is our boss. The war serves Israeli interests in the final steps towards world domination.

From your Avatar section you say this'

"Gender:Male

Location:A live human and not a bot who enjoys a Peaceful World thanks to Donald Trump, Leader of the Free World and Your Boss"

Make our mind up, if MAGA allows you one, is Trump the Boss or is it Israel

I suggest it is neither an that it is actually Putin!

3 hours ago, SingAPorn said:

What did Israel have against Trump, enabling them to draw in the USA into this war ?

My understanding, and this is one theory, and it's hard to know what's really going on:

Israel was going to attack without the US.

Iran has the power to attack US naval ships in the area and cut off 25% of the oil supply in the region.

So US jumped in pre-emptively. Too much loss of money and possible disruption at stake.

Read this article about scumbags. From their own newspaper. It will put these actions into perspective.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-856407

25 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

From your Avatar section you say this'

"Gender:Male

Location:A live human and not a bot who enjoys a Peaceful World thanks to Donald Trump, Leader of the Free World and Your Boss"

Make our mind up, if MAGA allows you one, is Trump the Boss or is it Israel

I suggest it is neither an that it is actually Putin!

You dont think Israel is the boss?

5 minutes ago, 1tooth said:

Read this article about scumbags. From their own newspaper. It will put these actions into perspective.

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-856407

Least it wasnt homosexual, like Priests. Almost as bad as Thai monks.

8 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

You dont think Israel is the boss?

You are the one making the contradictory statements as usual!

I have told you who I know is the boss!

4 minutes ago, scottiejohn said:

I have told you who I know is the boss!

who?

watch this if you want to really understand what's going on.

3 minutes ago, JAG said:

Both the school and the adjacent Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps naval base were bombed at the same time.

They put the terrorists next to schools on purpose so that if it gets bombed they can appeal to lefties who refuse to even think about it. The terrorists want girls to die.

2 minutes ago, khaosokman said:

They put the terrorists next to schools on purpose so that if it gets bombed they can appeal to lefties who refuse to even think about it. The terrorists want girls to die.

It was actually a medical facility which was bombed.

24 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

You dont think Israel is the boss?

Its about strategic allies.

It could very well be an unjustified war based on the "Greater Israel" project, ie Israel's proposed plan to expand its territory. And Iran was interfering.

So I will stop taking sides and defending the attacks. It's impossible to know what's really going on.

The attacks on Iran could be unjustified.

That's what this guy claims. And he claims the negotiations between Trump and Iran were a sham.

I'm not commenting on the wars anymore. I don't know what's going on.

3 minutes ago, JAG said:

It was actually a medical facility which was bombed.

Lucky Israel does not nuke them after years of terrorism.

Here is a question for intelligent members of ASEAN Now. The Ayatollah was killed because he was a horrible, bad person.

Putin, Xi and Kim Jong Un are horrible bad persons.

Why has Trump not assassinated them yet?

1 minute ago, Purdey said:

Here is a question for intelligent members of ASEAN Now. The Ayatollah was killed because he was a horrible, bad person.

Putin, Xi and Kim Jong Un are horrible bad persons.

Why has Trump not assassinated them yet?

They are much harder to pinpoint and get to. The defence systems are better. They have nukes as well.

11 minutes ago, khaosokman said:

They put the terrorists next to schools on purpose so that if it gets bombed they can appeal to lefties who refuse to even think about it. The terrorists want girls to die.

11 minutes ago, khaosokman said:

They put the terrorists next to schools on purpose so that if it gets bombed they can appeal to lefties who refuse to even think about it. The terrorists want girls to die.

I don't give a tuppeny <deleted> if you think that I am a leftist, your views of that spectrum are completely incoherent, chaotic and warped; your comments on nuking Iran have established you as a psychotic, inhuman buffoon anyway, but I do take grave exception to the suggestion that I wish to see children die.

PS: don't bother me with any more conciliatory PMs either.

1 minute ago, simon43 said:

So take a minute to consider the hundreds of innocent kids and adults murdered just a few hundred km from Thailand - in Myanmar. Thousands killed every year. I don't hear you condemning the Myanmar junta......

The topic is not Myanmar. I have no hesitation in condemning that regime, and have done so.

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24 minutes ago, khaosokman said:

They put the terrorists next to schools on purpose so that if it gets bombed they can appeal to lefties who refuse to even think about it. The terrorists want girls to die.

At least it doesnt hurt when you make up your mind? Simple truths always works best where they fits your narrative!

One thing is to think it, but saying it in public ? C´Mon

4 minutes ago, Hummin said:

At least it doesnt hurt when you make up your mind? Simple truths always works best where they fits your narrative!

One thing is to think it, but saying it in public ? C´Mon

They kill their own people by the thousands.

4 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Republican funder, Matt Schlapp, of the Conservative PAC said on Piers Morgan Uncensored Iranian schoolgirls are “better dead than in a burqa”. 7 to 12 year olds…

Sick thing to say.

19 minutes ago, Purdey said:

Here is a question for intelligent members of ASEAN Now. The Ayatollah was killed because he was a horrible, bad person.

Putin, Xi and Kim Jong Un are horrible bad persons.

Why has Trump not assassinated them yet?

Cuba is next , NK is not on the list.

Seoul is 30-40 km from the border, it will be smoldering when the first US bomb or missile hit NK.

4 minutes ago, JAG said:

Sick thing to say.

He's right though. Their lives are awful.

9 minutes ago, FlorC said:

Cuba is next , NK is not on the list.

Seoul is 30-40 km from the border, it will be smoldering when the first US bomb or missile hit NK.

South Korea has a better military than the north.

26 minutes ago, JAG said:

don't bother me with any more conciliatory PMs either

Sure thing. You are just as bad as the rest. I thought you were normal.

• Accusations: Israel has claimed that Hamas has used human shields, including during the 2008–2009 and 2014 Gaza wars.

• Context: Reports indicate that Hamas operates from and launches rockets from densely populated civilian areas

• Placement of Assets: Reports often highlight Hezbollah positioning missiles and operating centers in residential buildings, schools, and hospitals in Southern Lebanon and the Beirut suburbs.

• Civilian Risk: Using civilian areas as a base for attacks against Israel, such as during the ongoing conflict, places the Lebanese population at significant risk.

• International Criticism: Various international bodies, including the UN, and many countries have condemned the use of human shields as a violation of international law. 

4 hours ago, unblocktheplanet said:

Republican funder, Matt Schlapp, of the Conservative PAC said on Piers Morgan Uncensored Iranian schoolgirls are “better dead than in a burqa”. 7 to 12 year olds…

No , he didn't say that .

This what was actually said .

Quite different to what you claimed and misquoted

"Journalist Peter Beinart, the editor-at-large at Jewish Currents, told Morgan that the U.S. and Israel were to blame even if an Iranian missile was responsible for the attack on the school.

“We know that if the U.S. and Israel had not attacked a country that poses no serious threat to them – Israel has hundreds of nuclear weapons, America has thousands – that those girls would be alive,” Beinart said.

“They’d be alive in a burqa,” Schlapp interjected before he was cut off by Morgan, who spoke over him. “This is…a barbaric society,” Schlapp said, before Morgan told him to “hang on.”"

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