Naturally we’re all focused on the immediate threat to what’s left of our republic—the threat of a president to unilaterally go to war against a sovereign nation without any vote in Congress.
Do go to Rachel's Substack page to peruse her recent videos. I have listened to the most recent one with Laith Marouf, and also the recent one with Brian Berletic. I highly recommend both.
The first Chinese "Maiden" voyage of the train between China and Iran, connecting the two, officially, as The Belt And Road Initiative of that vital section, was made literally about a week or so before the zionist attacks began on Iran...imagine the cargo hold of THAT line (!)... ;-) ...
Thus, perhaps, even more "urgency" to cause the current mayhem, as the BRI has to be stopped, at all costs : to the ordinary people, of course!
As much as I do agree with the analysis of so many of these folks mentioned above, from around the world, I honestly don't see where any of them *quite understand* what has become of this *FORMER* "United" States in the 21st Century...It really does sadden me to say so, but this is no longer, remotely (!) , the country I grew up in.
The Reagan years are long gone, and our Core, Heritage Population is a MESS ; and ALL Western, and yes, even the Slavic countries, are being over-run by the "army ants" of the turd world.
I only hope the "Diaspora Plague" will finally get to meet some of these New Kids-not the two lost generations we've had-up close and personal!...("where ya gonna go to NOW?!...Mars?"...probably Patagonia, in all honesty, methinks)
‘We are all Amalek’ - well here’s a different view: we are Hobbits, and the real Amalekites are one world government types of whatever nationality (so a Jew can be a Hobbit, or he can be ‘Amalek!’). But these megawealthy One World types, like the denizens of the City of London cesspool, are the enemy. Black nobility - amalek! Or Orc! to untangle.
If I may borrow a few words from Evan Osmos and rephrase them into who this architect of our possible fate is turning out to be "Trump is a creature of the money world" - I would add - steeped in an upbringing without regard for fairness or liberty but , one in which greed and dominance prevail - the very ethos of the Banking system his mega rich donors prevail in , along with the money lenders of the Federal Reserve Board , the pervasive Rothschild family and of course the City of London .
 Washington Post reported that if Iran maintains its current level of missile attacks, Israel's missile defense capability will only last another 10 to 12 days without resupply from the United States.
According to the Washington Post, missile defense costs Israel an estimated $285 million per night.
He added that by the end of this week, Israeli systems may be able to intercept a smaller fraction of missiles due to the need to ration defensive ammunition. The person, who asked not to be named, said:
They have to choose which missiles they want to intercept. This system is already under pressure.
G'day Mark, that seems like an inevitable situation as proffered during Ansar Allah's missile attacks on Isreal, my question is prefaced on the fact that the Zionists never tell the truth about anything particular; what position they are in in any situation as hasbara is No1 criteria and truth cannot exist alongside hasbara. My question is; Is the propaganda about depletion of defensive missiles just a ruse to drag the sucker Trumpelthinskins in as is happening or for altmedia to pick up on as A Cope offering: another Iran is winning whilst the continue killing hardliners and non western leaning officials are dying. What evidence is there of damage in Tel Aviv, why does the Iranian leadership not announce the damage their missiles are causing or show evidence. Evidence I have seen have been refuted as being present situation damage.
I do not wish the Zionists to be victorious but I see a pattern here and in Ukraine's not a war situation. Please put my mind at rest.
All of this done under cover of darkness (metaphorically and literally so given the power outages).
Do Mike Huckabee or Donald Trump really think they are doing God's will by supporting the Gaza massacre and modern political state of Israel? Then may God have mercy on their souls for they are mistaken.
This last Sunday was Pentecost. Some Christians may realize that Pentecost was celebrated originally as the festival commemorating when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments to present to the people of Israel (50 days after the Passover) to make known His laws and expectations for their behavior. In other words this was God presenting His legal requirements to humanity for them to meet after the fall of man. Most Christians will realize that the Pentecost of the New Testament was when God gave the Holy Spirit to write His law on the hearts of men (fifty days after the crucifixion of Christ) for those who believe in Christ, to know that they have been redeemed of their sin by Him but remain expected to do His will.
Do Netanyahu or Trump or Huckabee believe either in the Word of God as given in the Ten Commandments or in the Holy Spirit of God as written on their hearts through the Pentecost of the New Testament? I will leave it to your readers to look at the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament and the message of Peter in Acts of the New Testament to reach your own conclusions.
As I read this to the end, I began to think of the Luke Skywalker and his plucky friends vs the Death Star storm troopers. I'm afraid the collective west, and the US in particular, seems to be the latter.
So we, as Christians, have come to pray for the victory of an Islamic nation — just as, 140 years ago, Konstantin Leontiev argued that Ottoman rule in the Balkans was beneficial for the Christian population there, because it prevented them from being corrupted by the Western way of life
A window has opened between two worldviews, which had been kept strictly apart on all other points before now, and I tentatively agree with Ilhan Omar: it is all about the Benjamins.
I stubbornly persist in thinking of Iran as Zoroastrian -- that is its historical origin and the value set that is still at the core of Iranian culture.
In Persian, "good thoughts, good words, good deeds" is "
پندار نیک (Pendar Nik: "Good thoughts" (in Avestan, Humata)
گفتار نیک (Goftar Nik: "Good words (Hukhta)
کردار نیک (Kerdar Nik): "Good deeds" (Huvarshta)
According to Karen Armstrong in The Great Transformation, Zoroastrianism was the prototype of the great western traditions that emerged in the Axial age.
Armstrong wrote that this Aryan tradition valued honesty above all:
"The Aryans took the spoken word very seriously...Aryan religion was not very visual, instead, the act of listening brought them closer to the sacred...A lie was absolutely evil because it perverted the holy power inherent in the spoken word. The Aryans would never lose this passion for absolute truthfulness."
The revealing has been terrible: to realize that we have become all those empires we so eloquently and passionately rejected, preferring freedom to chart a new and independent course, to enable the flowering of individual liberty and prosperity. Now the uber-rich and other insider types have chosen the path of blood, violence and destruction, joining forces with what we have always stood against: tyranny, fascism and genocide. Don, I don’t get it. MAGA cannot mean destroying the “other” if the cost is the destruction of humanity itself.
 China Sent Cargo Planes to Iran After Israeli Strikes — The Telegraph
Following Israel’s strike on Iran, China dispatched at least three cargo aircraft to the country:
* One plane departed on Friday, the day after the Israeli attack.
* A second flight left the next day from a coastal Chinese city.
* A third aircraft took off Monday from Shanghai.
Flight tracking data shows each plane flew west through northern China, crossed Kazakhstan, then descended through Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan before disappearing from radar near Iranian airspace.
Although flight plans listed Luxembourg as the official destination, the aircraft never entered European airspace.
**Aviation experts note that the Boeing 747s used in these flights are typically configured to transport military equipment and weapons.**
I've long thought (from the seventies) that about this current time period, the US would have to strike out in an attempt to control the whole world, or fracture and disintegrate into several smaller and possibly hostile countries. I always thought if we tried to control the world we would be worse off than breaking up. I still do.
If things start to go badly for Iran and Russia doesn’t step in decisively I don’t see how they will resist when the time comes. We don’t know what’s being said behind closed doors but it’s crazy to me that Russia hasn’t drawn a red line at Iran. What are they afraid of that hasn’t already happened? The US is fake, perfidious, and not agreement capable, and we have thrown the kitchen sink at them in Ukraine. If Iran falls Putin will fall and there will be a world war against hardliners in Russia who won’t hesitate to give us the same treatment we’ve given them. Trump defies gravity somehow maintaining some kind of ambiguity - is he behind all this? Is he being held in the dark? Does he want war? Peace? He’s a cipher at this point but if we enter decisively against Iran his presidency is fubar.
Someone associated with the Russian government stated this past week that Russia would step in to prevent the overthrow of the Iranian government. I wish I could find that statement but I cannot (as it was not reported in the MSM). If someone can find that statement I would greatly appreciate it (along with many others, I am sure). As far as what was reported in the MSM, we have the following:
"Konstantin Kosachev, vice-speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament and head of the Foreign Affairs Committee, per Tass on Friday: "Israel's actions cannot be justified from a legal, political, military or moral point of view. The only hope, albeit illusory, of avoiding a full-scale war is a consolidated condemnation of this operation by the international community."
That is a strong attack against the West from Russia as per past experience and abides with their agreement with Iran, article 3 or 4 if I remember correctly. No where does the agreement reference support militarily no matter the circumstances. It does say intelligence and organisational support but the Russians didn't advise Iran when they knew of the attack prior.It is all sooooo strange.
AI: "China has a long and rich history, with continuous civilization spanning over **4,000 years.** While the concept of "ruling the world" is complex, China has held significant influence in East Asia and beyond for much of that time."
The RT article that Mark linked and excerpted is very good.
What hit me was Taleb Ibrahim's quote:
"To make America great again is to regain American control across the globe. The war in Iran is just a chapter in that plan.”
Wow--We the People have been duped by the man AND his slogan.
It really has been Imperialist America for decades.
Today I listened to a conversation between journalist Rachel Blevins and Scott Ritter.
Well done.
Here is the link:
https://substack.com/home/post/p-166170987
Do go to Rachel's Substack page to peruse her recent videos. I have listened to the most recent one with Laith Marouf, and also the recent one with Brian Berletic. I highly recommend both.
The first Chinese "Maiden" voyage of the train between China and Iran, connecting the two, officially, as The Belt And Road Initiative of that vital section, was made literally about a week or so before the zionist attacks began on Iran...imagine the cargo hold of THAT line (!)... ;-) ...
Thus, perhaps, even more "urgency" to cause the current mayhem, as the BRI has to be stopped, at all costs : to the ordinary people, of course!
As much as I do agree with the analysis of so many of these folks mentioned above, from around the world, I honestly don't see where any of them *quite understand* what has become of this *FORMER* "United" States in the 21st Century...It really does sadden me to say so, but this is no longer, remotely (!) , the country I grew up in.
The Reagan years are long gone, and our Core, Heritage Population is a MESS ; and ALL Western, and yes, even the Slavic countries, are being over-run by the "army ants" of the turd world.
I only hope the "Diaspora Plague" will finally get to meet some of these New Kids-not the two lost generations we've had-up close and personal!...("where ya gonna go to NOW?!...Mars?"...probably Patagonia, in all honesty, methinks)
Great Work, as always, Mark, TY!
‘We are all Amalek’ - well here’s a different view: we are Hobbits, and the real Amalekites are one world government types of whatever nationality (so a Jew can be a Hobbit, or he can be ‘Amalek!’). But these megawealthy One World types, like the denizens of the City of London cesspool, are the enemy. Black nobility - amalek! Or Orc! to untangle.
If I may borrow a few words from Evan Osmos and rephrase them into who this architect of our possible fate is turning out to be "Trump is a creature of the money world" - I would add - steeped in an upbringing without regard for fairness or liberty but , one in which greed and dominance prevail - the very ethos of the Banking system his mega rich donors prevail in , along with the money lenders of the Federal Reserve Board , the pervasive Rothschild family and of course the City of London .
Trump and Isreal has managed to unite the opposition to the New World Odor.
NoctuMind @var_ya_da_yok
2h
 Washington Post reported that if Iran maintains its current level of missile attacks, Israel's missile defense capability will only last another 10 to 12 days without resupply from the United States.
According to the Washington Post, missile defense costs Israel an estimated $285 million per night.
He added that by the end of this week, Israeli systems may be able to intercept a smaller fraction of missiles due to the need to ration defensive ammunition. The person, who asked not to be named, said:
They have to choose which missiles they want to intercept. This system is already under pressure.
G'day Mark, that seems like an inevitable situation as proffered during Ansar Allah's missile attacks on Isreal, my question is prefaced on the fact that the Zionists never tell the truth about anything particular; what position they are in in any situation as hasbara is No1 criteria and truth cannot exist alongside hasbara. My question is; Is the propaganda about depletion of defensive missiles just a ruse to drag the sucker Trumpelthinskins in as is happening or for altmedia to pick up on as A Cope offering: another Iran is winning whilst the continue killing hardliners and non western leaning officials are dying. What evidence is there of damage in Tel Aviv, why does the Iranian leadership not announce the damage their missiles are causing or show evidence. Evidence I have seen have been refuted as being present situation damage.
I do not wish the Zionists to be victorious but I see a pattern here and in Ukraine's not a war situation. Please put my mind at rest.
While we are all enthralled by the hour to hour vicissitudes of the Israeli-Iran conflict (and rightly so) the following still goes on:
https://celiafarber.substack.com/p/massacre-in-khan-younis-dozens-killed
All of this done under cover of darkness (metaphorically and literally so given the power outages).
Do Mike Huckabee or Donald Trump really think they are doing God's will by supporting the Gaza massacre and modern political state of Israel? Then may God have mercy on their souls for they are mistaken.
This last Sunday was Pentecost. Some Christians may realize that Pentecost was celebrated originally as the festival commemorating when Moses came down from Mt. Sinai with the Ten Commandments to present to the people of Israel (50 days after the Passover) to make known His laws and expectations for their behavior. In other words this was God presenting His legal requirements to humanity for them to meet after the fall of man. Most Christians will realize that the Pentecost of the New Testament was when God gave the Holy Spirit to write His law on the hearts of men (fifty days after the crucifixion of Christ) for those who believe in Christ, to know that they have been redeemed of their sin by Him but remain expected to do His will.
Do Netanyahu or Trump or Huckabee believe either in the Word of God as given in the Ten Commandments or in the Holy Spirit of God as written on their hearts through the Pentecost of the New Testament? I will leave it to your readers to look at the Ten Commandments of the Old Testament and the message of Peter in Acts of the New Testament to reach your own conclusions.
Sean Davis lets it rip: https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1934823451346227641
And he went light on 9/11.
Very well put. And not a word that is not true based on the evidence.
Good on Sean.
.
Just read your post now
I had written this earlier on another board - so I agree
YEMEN was Existential to Iran - and should have taught the US a great lesson
Now IRAN is Existential to CHINA and RUSSIA and may well reinforce the YEMEN lesson to US
There is No Reason for Russia and China not to fully back their BRICS member, and every reason to do so
But will they Joe, news that Chinese heavy lift planes landing in Tehran so positive action from them but only verbiage from RF as per usual.
Given Iran has been regime changed multiple times before why would anyone expect otherwise.
After the Syrian debacle Russia would be wary of getting caught with its pant’s down again.
As I read this to the end, I began to think of the Luke Skywalker and his plucky friends vs the Death Star storm troopers. I'm afraid the collective west, and the US in particular, seems to be the latter.
So we, as Christians, have come to pray for the victory of an Islamic nation — just as, 140 years ago, Konstantin Leontiev argued that Ottoman rule in the Balkans was beneficial for the Christian population there, because it prevented them from being corrupted by the Western way of life
Nope. Not me.
A window has opened between two worldviews, which had been kept strictly apart on all other points before now, and I tentatively agree with Ilhan Omar: it is all about the Benjamins.
I stubbornly persist in thinking of Iran as Zoroastrian -- that is its historical origin and the value set that is still at the core of Iranian culture.
In Persian, "good thoughts, good words, good deeds" is "
پندار نیک (Pendar Nik: "Good thoughts" (in Avestan, Humata)
گفتار نیک (Goftar Nik: "Good words (Hukhta)
کردار نیک (Kerdar Nik): "Good deeds" (Huvarshta)
According to Karen Armstrong in The Great Transformation, Zoroastrianism was the prototype of the great western traditions that emerged in the Axial age.
Armstrong wrote that this Aryan tradition valued honesty above all:
"The Aryans took the spoken word very seriously...Aryan religion was not very visual, instead, the act of listening brought them closer to the sacred...A lie was absolutely evil because it perverted the holy power inherent in the spoken word. The Aryans would never lose this passion for absolute truthfulness."
The dominant culture of the West is now implacably hostile to the Christian faith and way of life.
The revealing has been terrible: to realize that we have become all those empires we so eloquently and passionately rejected, preferring freedom to chart a new and independent course, to enable the flowering of individual liberty and prosperity. Now the uber-rich and other insider types have chosen the path of blood, violence and destruction, joining forces with what we have always stood against: tyranny, fascism and genocide. Don, I don’t get it. MAGA cannot mean destroying the “other” if the cost is the destruction of humanity itself.
DD Geopolitics @DD_Geopolitics
9m
 China Sent Cargo Planes to Iran After Israeli Strikes — The Telegraph
Following Israel’s strike on Iran, China dispatched at least three cargo aircraft to the country:
* One plane departed on Friday, the day after the Israeli attack.
* A second flight left the next day from a coastal Chinese city.
* A third aircraft took off Monday from Shanghai.
Flight tracking data shows each plane flew west through northern China, crossed Kazakhstan, then descended through Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan before disappearing from radar near Iranian airspace.
Although flight plans listed Luxembourg as the official destination, the aircraft never entered European airspace.
**Aviation experts note that the Boeing 747s used in these flights are typically configured to transport military equipment and weapons.**
Reality: What nobody tells about the Iran-Israel clash
https://youtu.be/IRA2oQnXsSQ
Incredibly informative. Essential viewing for anyone who is interested in the Iranian weapon systems and the air warfare strategies on both sides.
I've long thought (from the seventies) that about this current time period, the US would have to strike out in an attempt to control the whole world, or fracture and disintegrate into several smaller and possibly hostile countries. I always thought if we tried to control the world we would be worse off than breaking up. I still do.
An image I saw recently of Donald Trump wearing a golden crown came to mind as I read your post.
Many of the "No Kings" rallies/protests set for this past Saturday, the 14th went with this image and theme.
The over 200 groups that planned events were not attractive news stories to Western media.
I can see why, as the crowned PDJT is too much truth.
If things start to go badly for Iran and Russia doesn’t step in decisively I don’t see how they will resist when the time comes. We don’t know what’s being said behind closed doors but it’s crazy to me that Russia hasn’t drawn a red line at Iran. What are they afraid of that hasn’t already happened? The US is fake, perfidious, and not agreement capable, and we have thrown the kitchen sink at them in Ukraine. If Iran falls Putin will fall and there will be a world war against hardliners in Russia who won’t hesitate to give us the same treatment we’ve given them. Trump defies gravity somehow maintaining some kind of ambiguity - is he behind all this? Is he being held in the dark? Does he want war? Peace? He’s a cipher at this point but if we enter decisively against Iran his presidency is fubar.
Someone associated with the Russian government stated this past week that Russia would step in to prevent the overthrow of the Iranian government. I wish I could find that statement but I cannot (as it was not reported in the MSM). If someone can find that statement I would greatly appreciate it (along with many others, I am sure). As far as what was reported in the MSM, we have the following:
"Konstantin Kosachev, vice-speaker of Russia's upper house of parliament and head of the Foreign Affairs Committee, per Tass on Friday: "Israel's actions cannot be justified from a legal, political, military or moral point of view. The only hope, albeit illusory, of avoiding a full-scale war is a consolidated condemnation of this operation by the international community."
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-reacts-netanyahus-remarks-iranian-regime-change-2086173
That is a strong attack against the West from Russia as per past experience and abides with their agreement with Iran, article 3 or 4 if I remember correctly. No where does the agreement reference support militarily no matter the circumstances. It does say intelligence and organisational support but the Russians didn't advise Iran when they knew of the attack prior.It is all sooooo strange.
"Putin 'barley' defends Russia"
Don't knock the courage brought about by beer (barley). 😇
In all seriousness, Russia plays its cards close to its chest; as does China, and Iran. Their cultures are not those of the West.
OMB (Orange Man Bombast) is not their way... thank goodness! 😉
AI: "China has a long and rich history, with continuous civilization spanning over **4,000 years.** While the concept of "ruling the world" is complex, China has held significant influence in East Asia and beyond for much of that time."