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Feral Finster's avatar

"What the Russians fear is that Trump can be mousetrapped into a nuclear first strike against Russia or some other country that will require a Russian nuclear response—their fear is an existential fear. They don’t fear Trump’s strength. They fear his weakness and his susceptibility to manipulation by fanatics."

About two weeks into Trump's first term, it should have been obvious that Trump is weak, stupid and easily manipulated. In many ways, a Harris or even a Biden-by-committee would have been preferable, as they are slightly smarter and more strategic.

Anyway, WWIII is coming, as a result of Russian dithering and indecision.

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Lantern Dude's avatar

"The State of Israel, thanks to the entire defense establishment, today feels like a different kind of state – a safer, more powerful state, that is ready for the future."

Is that an example of self-gaslighting?

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TomA's avatar

Yes, Trump is a loose cannon on the deck, and yes, the Zionists on Trump's team are steering the ship of state. And there is no one to stop this insanity within the US. But there are levers of power that can make a difference if the courage and will are present to do so. Iran can, and should, inform Trump that if they are attacked again, Iran will utilize its best hypersonic missiles to fully destroy the national energy and supply infrastructure of Israel. No electricity, no fuel, no water, and no operating ports to receive foreign aid. And there will be no ceasefire until that mission is accomplished. Trump can bluster and gaslight all he wants, but these words cannot interdict a tangible missile barrage. And Israel cannot survive a total "obliteration" of its critical infrastructure, and this time for real.

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Sandy Cope's avatar

I watched a very interesting video this morning claiming that Iran switched of the US GPS system and has gone with the Chinese BeiDou system. I don't know if the claims in the video are accurate or correct, but it was interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQb_hQalexY

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Mark Wauck's avatar

I heard that, also, during the last few days, from a different source (forget now).

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Sandy Cope's avatar

I just watched another video from the BRICS website which covers the US GPS vs Beidou system questions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoDLZzupYWs

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Gonna show him how it's done:

Defence Index @Defence_Index

14h

BREAKING:

China is set to invite U.S. President Donald Trump to its September military parade marking World War II victory.

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Nutmeg's avatar

Is this real or a wannabe Babylon Bee headline?

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal

13h

We also reported that White House chief of staff Suzie Wiles had isolated Trump among Mossad stenographers like Ratcliffe, while excluding Tulsi Gabbard from briefings

It turns out Wiles worked on Netanyahu's 2020 re-election campaign https://archive.is/Lai3m#selection-507.179-507.223

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aDoozy's avatar

Very interesting to read about Wiles, Lewandowski, and Fabrizio helping Netanyahu.

I had recently learned that Lewandowski is romantcally entangled with Kristi Noem--both are married to other people. There are a number of sites that report on this, and I am not including the info here for scandal-gossip purposes. Lewandowski is now Noem's Chief Advisor. To me, these political and personal relationships show the many tentacles interwoven between Zionists in power in Israel and Zionists in power in the US.

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Cosmo T Kat's avatar

What it also shows is how these politicians are not really decent people. They are deceitful, corrupt and dishonest. This is the type of person easy to be corrupted by Zionists by throwing money at them, perhaps get them in entanglements, often of a sexual type, then black mail them to do their bidding

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aDoozy's avatar
4dEdited

Just think of all of the blackmailing that must go on in Washington D.C.! That is why the Epstein Files will not come to light...they are a useful tool to keep possibly many in government 'in line'.

It's all about money, power, and control.

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Joe's avatar

""""Did Trump really believe the nonsense that the Iranians, having dug and built so deeply, conveniently provided a straight ventilation shaft right down to the target?""""

Interesting perhaps - but the Trump Timing of PR and Media Releases of Iranian Nuclear Obliteration AND That Netanyahu is a great war hero

---- Were ' coincidentally ' enough to get the Court to once again delay Netanyahu trial and cancel trial hearings this week. ----

---------------->>> So does Netanyahu Control Trump --- and made Trump issue those statements

OR ------->>> Does the US - NEED Netanyahu as their Israeli Proxy Leader and a loss of Netanyahu as the Israeli Government Lead would be detrimental to US desires -

I am leaning toward the latter - No Way US is risking getting someone other than Netanyahu that possibly will not do the US bidding - or may be thinking twice given the damage to Israel

. I opine US has supported Netanyahu as Israeli leader for many years - monetarily and with weapons, with international and national diplomatic cover ----

If Trump really did not like Netanyahu

If Trump was really controlled by Netanyahu

Why would Trump work so hard to Keep Netanyahu in office.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

It worked on the Death Star…

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Mark Wauck's avatar

"Why would Trump work so hard to Keep Netanyahu in office."

Because billionaire Jewish Nationalist campaign donors demand it?

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Joe's avatar

Interesting perhaps - but the Trump Timing of PR and Media Releases of Iranian Nuclear Obliteration AND That Netanyahu is a great war hero

---- Were ' coincidentally ' enough to get the Court to once again delay Netanyahu trial and cancel trial hearings this week. ----

A. Obliteration Claimed - Netanyahu a Hero

B. Trial delayed Netanyahu in office

OR

C. Obliteration acknowledged as a failure - Netanyahu a Zero

D. Netanyahu in trial Netanyahu removal if guilty

------------------- I am going with A & B -

Trump/US desperately needs Netanyahu - willing to lie regardless how embarrasing it may be - the timing just enough to delay trial and sway public opinion.

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Denny Corbin's avatar

It should be obvious to anyone that Israel and the neocons are the ones Trump has been gaslighting. He escaped their trap adroitly by claiming he’d done what they demanded. Meanwhile a wink and nod to Iran… it’s not hard to understand what’s happened. The wars and stupid plans will continue but Trump bought himself some breathing room. Watch what he does, not what he says.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Stop kidding yourself. Any ceasefire was simply to give Israel time to regroup and reload.

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Mark Wauck's avatar

Woohoo! Trump lifts sanctions on al Qaeda/ISIS run genocidal Christian and Alawite killing "Syria". Who was that a wink and a nod to? Should I still be watching what he does?

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ML's avatar

Worrisomely it seems the Israelis are one step ahead of Trump in this gaslighting/lying fest. I think it was Alistair Crooke who said this morning, oh yes, the Israelis will start changing their tune and say, nope, Fordow not destroyed, gotta go back in, even after plastering towns and cities with posters praising Trump and heaping unctuous thanks on him for the “one and done” scenario. My head aches with all these crosses and double crosses. Trump is definitely in the dog house right now, his gaslighting having put him there. Putin is right to be concerned…as are we.

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Mike richards's avatar

Is 5-D chess played by double-crossing triple crossers? Just trying to understand PDJT whom I suspect has done (bomb Iran) what donors required and is now free to refuse more - he can play that ‘if you lied to me then, why should I believe you now’ thing.

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letterwriter's avatar

The Zionists, both as pre- and post-Israelis, have often been one step ahead as gaslighters/liars.

Look for example at the State Dept records for the region, dates approx 1948-05-04 to 1948-05-09, and look back at earlier timeframes if background is needed on the UN debates re Palestine. (From the links below, use the menu or controls in the righthand pane to navigate backwards in time, or just find the entire list of documents and read at will.)

On May 8, the US has become aware of a triple cross involving the Zionists and two factions in the UK -- likely Creech doublecrossing the UK parliament as well as the USA.

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v05p2/d234

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v05p2/d235

https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v05p2/d236

[eta archive links:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250623151247/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v05p2/d234

https://web.archive.org/web/20250623010939/https://history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1948v05p2/d235

https://web.archive.org/web/20250302075938/https://history.state.gov//historicaldocuments/frus1948v05p2/d236]

[Here for example are two examples of Creech in action, and there seems--to me, anyway--to be some indication that his representations to the UN and the USA weren't fully representative of how he had to direct the situation in the UK.

https://www.jta.org/archive/full-text-of-colonial-secretary-creech-jones-speech-to-u-n-committee-on-palestine

https://israeled.org/creech-jones-announces-end-mandate/

[eta archive links

https://web.archive.org/web/20240807122128/https://www.jta.org/archive/full-text-of-colonial-secretary-creech-jones-speech-to-u-n-committee-on-palestine

https://web.archive.org/web/20240715043032/https://israeled.org/creech-jones-announces-end-mandate/ ]]

And yet, on May 8, even with the US State Dept now aware of inconsistencies in stated and actual goals, the people involved missed the bigger tip, and continued to rely on an earlier deception, to wit Shertok had misled John Ross, telling him it's likely the Jews would only establish a provisional state and advised the USA to not make any proposals at this stage--defer distract then attack. The USA seems to continue to operate without reevaluating this.

One point that occurs to me is that when we see the Jewish histories talking about rushing to plant their flag, this is undoubtedly related to their having misled the US and all other parties. There are doubtless other points in history which take on additional meaning, when an understanding of these deceptions is applied to events as they happened then.

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Steghorn21's avatar

Yep. Iran will only get stronger after this, replenishing and updating its AD and forging ever stronger links with Russia and China. Netanyahu can't allow that to continue. He will make sure that the ceasefire is broken. Bondi is already yammering away about "Iranian sleeper cells" in the US, so who knows if that's a pretext for a false flag.

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Joanne C. Wasserman's avatar

Bondi is also the person giving executive leadership support to the DOJ lawyers who are investigating anti-semitism in every university squabble to the degree of cancelling visas to current students and scrutinizing ideological viewpoints of persons seeking to obtain entry visas to US

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4dEdited

Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté had a discussion about "Iranian sleeper cells". More gaslighting the American public.

https://thegrayzone.substack.com/p/whats-behind-the-phony-iranian-sleeper

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Manul's avatar

Bondi is working hard on that E client list right?

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aDoozy's avatar

Is she still appearing on Fox News often? I have not heard anything from or about her lately.

She must be immersed in Epstein research...

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Steghorn21's avatar

24/7

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Manul's avatar

I agree. The Israelis aren’t finished. They want more war and retribution for Iran’s missile attacks. They somehow need to convince everyone that Trump was right about obliterating the nuclear sites but more bombing is still needed.

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Ray-SoCa's avatar

I’m not sure. It sounds like the economic damage to Israel was much more significant than reported.

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Manul's avatar

The economic damage is more significant than reported but Bibi wants more war as most psychopaths do. They don’t care about the people they presumably lead. Israel, like the U.S., is a country almost constantly at war.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Israel need only stretch out its hand and the United States will fill it.

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ML's avatar

I was wondering WHY the gaslighting (WHY insist on total victory, obliteration, etc, digging an ever deeper hole - and your response suggests an answer: it gives the Israelis yet another opportunity to carry on fighting, reigniting the conflict - but this is not the result Trump wanted! Loggerheads???

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ML's avatar

Good word: retribution. It never ends.

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Steghorn21's avatar

They will try to reassert supremacy - and probably fail.

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Manul's avatar

Trump was talked into bombing Iran and claiming total victory in the same way he was talked into shutting down the country because of a bad flu and then proclaiming the wonderful jabs would save everyone.

He lacks wisdom and discernment. We will see a lot more of this before his term is through.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Trump is weak, stupid and motivated solely by vanity, which makes him eminently easily manipulated.

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Manul's avatar

Trump has a new fragrance out that he introduced in his Truth feed. $249 for a bottle. You can’t make this up.

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Feral Finster's avatar

Why does this surprise anyone? The man gave us "Trump Steaks" and "Trump University" for the love of Pete.

And yet his cult still hail a glorified carnival barker as some kind of business genius.

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